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With the electronification of markets, I think retail investors are always going to be at a disadvantage in volatile markets like Monday's. The speeds at which the markets operate today is far beyond anyone's ability to keep up with, even if they weren't at the end of a retail internet connection, with at least one layer of abstraction (i.e. their broker) between them and the market.

Fast human reaction times are on the order of 200ms, to which you need to add network latency. The HFT firms operate at single-digit millisecond timescales. By the time a retail investor sees a price on the screen, it's probably already gone.

However, there are steps the exchanges could take to reduce volatility, especially when liquidity is thin, which would help prevent the triggering of stop-loss orders. For example, they could switch from continuous CLOB trading to periodic auctions until the market stabilises. I reckon that would go a long way towards reducing instances of wild swings like we saw on Monday.
I am an unashamed OCaml fan, but I think my previously stated analogy is suitable:

"FP communities: like debating which brand of natural spring water to give millions of thirsty people in the desert"

https://twitter.com/jordwalke/status/566719390272335872

Note that I do genuinely appreciate the discussion, while finding the overall scene humorous.
Yes but the ones who figure out how to solve real problems (e.g. by teaming up with the older generation) will be far more successful than those who don't.
Well, it seems that Samsung is implementing an idea from 2009. http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/art-lebedevs-transparenti...

Nevertheless it is cool to see this coming, also a smaller screen means there is less risk of not seeing the truck at all.
If you were a woman however....
Instead of asking questions, why don't you come up with some solutions. You see, reasoning doesn't quite work well with mobs. It is good that the government resorted to cutting the communications rather than resorting to violence.
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The solution is justice, but mobs are not tried against in India.
It is before tax. With 4400e per month, you take home somewhere around 2900 - 3000, depending on country.
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Seriously? That's the biggest problem you had with PHP?
actually it is... berlin senior engineer salary is around 55Keuros before tax
While I don't quite agree with the ban on acid sale, please don't make it sound as if it happened due to a single instance of an acid attack.

This had become a regular occurrence and the government only acted due to increasing number of such cases.
'Microsoft and SunGard Alliance'

'As is demonstrated by the IntelliMatch Operational Control Windows 8, SunGard is innovating utilizing Microsoft technology to build mission-ciriticaal solutions for the global financial services community'

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/partners/sungard.aspx
Ted Cruz also comes across as genuine, but he's missing the Trump brand.
Loads of "false information" which happens to be true is also spread using SMS, other messaging services, and social platforms. This is the excuse of every authoritarian state.
Because Indians have accepted that justice won't be served. If you assume that mob justice is what there is, it's the right thing to do. Very sad to say this.
Average, yes. But that reflects high infant mortality. Generally speaking if you survived to 20 you would probably make it to 60 barring misadventure or war.
What if they succeeded despite their attitude not because of their attitude? Don't confuse correlation and dependencies. I'm too lazy to collect the sources but I think the general conclusion is that these "ass holes" made it because they had a well established family and a resilient personality, not because they treated people poorly.

Also I'm not sure if looking at the top alone is a good way to learn how to improve your own upward mobility. If these people at the top already been their since their birth they might not be able to teach you much about how you can get up from the ground. What I would do is looking at people that are very likely coming from a worse background and how they made it to the top (or even the middle). If you are in an IT company in the US or UK and you have an Indian coworker you might be able to learn more from him then from Steve Jobs. If you look at successful female, black artists (music, movies, etc) you might be able to learn also something, because in general this social group is considered to be at the bottom by many statistics.
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Really impressive. Plenty of real-world applications for this.
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This articule weird because it's holding the anthems to a standard that doesn't make much sense. In traditional music and hymns, tunes and words are semi-independent, and it is completely routine for one tune to have multiple sets of words set to it, or one set of words to have multiple tunes.

If you claimed you wrote the tune when you borrowed it, sure, that's plagiarism. But setting words to an existing tune while acknowledging that you are doing so is perfectly okay.
Even if the majority was doing it, banning it solves nothing. It only serves as a gateway. Specifically about acid, I needed it to clean my toilet so went around asking; I was escorted to a black-market shop in Noida which served other illegal things alongside like gas cylinders and hand-made guns.

Justice is the solution. Punish the criminals and people will stop doing it.
This probably includes spare parts, training and the electronics package. compared to the $200k armoured humvee, it is not that excessive.
Swift is another new language with it. Its getting to be the norm now.
This also breaks 95% of the web
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I've worked on lots of ad networks and am now building my own. The sad fact is that most ad companies are not built by top engineers. It's an industry that has lots of shady international players with lots of fraud and politics. Even when there is good code, it's all usually focused on the backend with no thought about the end user experience. Add to that both buyers and salespeople who are clueless about technical details and this is what happens.
>> The Best Jobs NOW Require You to Be a People Person

"Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people" - Dale Carnegie 1936
not a lot of people knows this tool in China.
I don't see how this can be a direct replacement. This is a much better vehicle for the HMMWV's combat role, but most of the time you actually use a HMMWV as a pickup truck with 8 soldiers sitting in the back driving around post. Does this mean that units will also get F-150s for driving around in the US?
Is it a passive index though? Seems like ISE specifically maintain the index for this fund and fees of the fund also go to the guys in charge of the index (ISE).
BTNM? I've never heard this abbreviation. Could you expand it :)
True. But probably as good as it can be given the limitations of GPS.

Still looks very cool though.
The old narrative of vigilante justice in the hacker set is getting repetitive. I wish reports weren't so biased to use 'hacker' in their stories because it forever connotes hack with something unsavoury. This is an infosec breach, not a hack. The 'Impact Team' even said they did not have to try that hard. Any good hack has hack value, and the only reason AM was booted offline was because it happened on their clock, and not the clock of any other {random} internet database. This could have been any site. Also I wrote this small piece on hackerdom and what paths we can take if we are inclined to hack: http://blog.higg.im/2015/05/27/hacker-with-lots-of-free-time...
> If women are naturally better at certain things, it is not a stretch to imagine that they would be naturally worse at certain things. This could impede our quest to bring about gender equality.

It's more complex than that. Having natural ability does not mean those without that ability cannot excel in that area with hard work. Also, by the same token, some people with a lot of natural ability for certain things never take advantage of their talent because they never put the effort into realizing their potential.

So, in summary, acknowledging that natural ability is real does not give an automatic debating point to the other side of the argument because it's often the case that what you do with that innate talent will be more important.
Ever notice that some of the nations with the longest prison sentences, also have high crime rates and reoffending rates?

Or the many examples of crime increasing as sentence length increases?

Or the studies that have shown people sent to prison for a crime have higher reoffending rates than people given community sentences?

Study after study, and real life example after example shows that punishment is a very ineffective way of changing behaviour.
Out of curiosity, what's your source for that?
Seems like Amazon are trying to replicate WeChat by creating a platform that people don't leave to use apps. By owning this 'ecosystem', Amazon can (a) collect all sorts of data from what apps people use, how long they use them, when they use them, etc. and (b) can provide ads (as Sigmar states) that are very targetted.

Smart play. It's definitely disruptive...
Also, let's not forget that Apple were not the first phone company to have a touch screen device that used the swipe to unlock process. They were just the first to patent, and the other company went bust...
> For the majority of human existence, most people died before their 30th birthday

The average life expectancy was greatly skewed by tremendous rates of infant mortality: mid-19th century, infant mortality was estimated at 340/1000 for US blacks (216/1000 for US whites). So for the majority of human existence 1/3 to 1/2 died before their 5th birthday, the rest had good chances to live into their 40s or 50s.

That's why life expectancy at birth is not a good measure of the kind of age people could reasonably expect to reach. For instance according to wikipedia Paleolithic LEB was 33, but if an individual reached 15 their life expectancy grew to 54. Same story in classical rome or medieval England, LEB in the high 20s but once an initial gap passed, effective life expectancy grew to 50~60 (total)
Poland seems exceptional in this regard - there are local chains here, but they are heavily outmassed by foreign brands, ranging from German LIDL, through Portuguese Jeronimo Martins to French and British franchises. That's probably because of a skewed tax policy favouring foreign companies over locals, which I have a hard time understanding.
I've been doing that for the last 2.5y - university(Soft. Eng.) + work. For the first 6 months I've been working 40-45h a week + 20h at uni and around 10h-20h (depending on the week) more to do assignments. I just needed to change how I do stuff for uni, instead of always listening on lectures(obligatory), I'd study something else. I've not skipped any classes.
It was very stressful and I'd not recommend that to anyone, after 6 months I've switched to 30h a week and it's very good right now. What came surprising for me it's that while it's 25% less, I didn't do much less than I had before.

type of work - Ruby and JavaScript coding in a software house, remotely, with very flexible hours.
The left turn signal? Interesting... In a few countries that I spent time in in West Aftica, I believe the practice was left turn signal = do not pass, right turn signal = safe to pass.
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Automation is a given, more-and-more things are going to be automated. People jobs are going to be the last to be automated too, perhaps these jobs never will be automated, although a lot of low-level traditionally people-facing jobs will, e.g. shop assistants, it's already started.

But notwithstanding the above, there are logical holes in the rest of the article. I won't even mention that slight on high-tech work by equating it to "plugging away at a spreadsheet".

The biggest flaw was the assumption that the automation to make the aforementioned spreadsheet obsolete would be done without those people. In reality, any person highly-paid to "plug away" at a spreadsheet would be paid due to their domain/industry knowledge and skills rather than purely Excel skills and would still be employed operating a new system, or even directly involved in building and maintaining such systems.

This pattern is repeated throughout the article. Technology will obsolete low-tech grunt work first, mainly because contrary to the central premise of that article, technology is a people business. It's not a people business in the same was sales or marketing is, it's not about who's got the biggest set of contacts[0], but you'll never build a successful product without understanding the world it fits in to; building good technology requires a good deal of listening and empathy, both toward the customer, but also to the system as a whole and your fellow engineers.

In the short-to-medium term, any acceleration in automation will also increase demand for engineers in that field. And any such systems will only be as good as those who made them, even knowledge-workers not in the automation business will still be required to operate/design/improve such systems. Maybe in smaller numbers...

What happens after that, no one knows. The effects on the economy would be difficult to predict. And one day in ten, fifty, a hundred, several thousand years from now, fully autonomous AI will be here... and all bets are off. Long-term predictions would be foolish.

[0] - except for the sale and marketing of a technology business, of course, it's not a binary situation.
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Do you know if it is viable to run Windows 8 in a WM for minor Photoshop and Illustrator work if you only have integrated graphics (Intel HD 5500)?

I recently switched from OSX to Linux on the new Dell XPS 13 and I'm not sure if I should stay with my current dual boot setup, use a VM or get rid of window completely and invest time in learning Gimp and Scribus as alternatives.
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The methodology is questionable on several fronts:

- you can't use the load event to compare advert-heavy vs. advert-free load times. The load event does not fire when the page is usable by the viewer, it fires when every last request is done, in particular even requests fired from various advert iframes. However, those requests may not impact page usability. The load event may even never fire - any offscreen 1px spacer gif that times out will cause that! I don't think there is a built-in event for "done-enough", but the load event is certainly misleading.

- opening the developer tools causes various side-effects; those can cause the page to load more slowly than usual. You shouldn't benchmark with developer tools open (unless you're explicitly targeting usage with devtools open...)

- comparing load times across browsers as reported by the browsers themselves may be valid, but it's not obvious. You definitely want to check that carefully.

- Measuring "peak" CPU usage is almost meaningless without considering how long the CPU is used.

- Measuring the chrome extension process CPU usage and memory usage isn't very helpful, because running this kind of extension causes CPU usage and memory usage in every content tab. Both of these statistics for chrome in this use-case are meaningless. You'd need to measure the memory usage and CPU-time of the entire chrome process tree to get meaningful results. Even in Firefox without e10s it's not valid to measure just the main process CPU and memory usage because plugins are in separate processes (and things like flash or h264 decoding can definitely use CPU and memory).

The only thing this page really makes a decent case for is that Chrome loads pages faster than Firefox - but even there, it's not clear we're dealing with an apples-to-apples comparison.
> Such a soviet kind of operating system isn't well regarded in the land of the free

Land of the free? have you been living under a rock? "Land of the free" where everything you do is being spied on by a government agency funded with your tax dollars.
Just 95%?
I'll put in a plug for Fairphone 2 https://www.fairphone.com/

There is so much to love about what these folks are doing.
I get groceries delivered weekly from Ocado in the UK, and they put together the weekly shopping list for us. Automatically.

They do so entirely based on past shopping history.

Currently the only annoyance is logging in once a week to check if there's any adjustments we'd like to make. But it's good enough that if I don't feel like it, I'll just take my chances (you can also add "always include X" and "never automatically add Y" rules, which is part of the reason why that works...) and most of the time I get what we need.

I never want to go back to putting together my own shopping list from scratch.

This is how I want these type of services to work. I don't want to have to talk to them. 99% of the time, I'd prefer them to be invisible to me, and make things that used to be an annoyance just disappear.

But the one way it could be better would be to make that one last interaction disappear more often: Not having to log in to make changes. Being able to just say out in the air that I want to add eggs, would be great, and in that case I'd want it added based on past preferences: If I've bought eggs before, and I'm not specifying, just add the quantity and brand I usually order. If an alternative I've also ordered is cheaper or on offer, ask for confirmation if I'd be happy with that instead. If I haven't bought eggs before, pick a brand based on my past overall purchase history, and ask for confirmation, or simply add some - if I'm asking to "add eggs" rather than "please recommend me some eggs for my grocery shopping", I probably don't care.
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> by hidden biases which translate to social pressure

There are two kinds of biases here. Those which are just accidents of history and those which arise from the observable biological differences between sexes. If you deny the existence of the second group, you also have to deny that there are biological differences between sexes (apart from reproductive organs), at which point I'd suggest going outside and taking a look around.

Conversely, if you accept that different sexes have different strengths and weaknesses, you should expect nonequal representation of genders in various occupations even in the most perfect, utopian, egalitarian and meritocratic society.

My issue with the way gender equality is currently discussed is that people deny the existence of biological differences and their consequences, treating everything as baseless cultural bias that needs to be conquered.

(Actually, my real issue is with people who are being assholes about promoting their side. Which happens equally on both sides of the issue, and that makes the whole topic toxic.)

And whatever results are of those "decades of research" (I've never personally seen being invoked, by either side), they have to agree with observable reality - otherwise, they're just results of crap research. Given the state of psychology and social sciences, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest (and no, I don't approve or criticize research based on wich side it supports, I view all soft science research with very strong suspicion).
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> it's usually a combination of longstanding grievance and trigger event

That's because riots and such protests are rare in the US; and Ferguson brought new issues to light, not the same old issues.

That's not the case in India. The concept of a "bandh" (close the city and shops, if your shop doesn't comply, you might get beaten up by party thugs) is a common one used by political parties for various reasons. If someone told me that there was a bandh in Mumbai tomorrow, I'd not be surprised, not even really annoyed. One gets used to this stuff.

Riots are a few steps above this, but aren't too uncommon either. Many of them have legit motivations. India is a country of many, many communities and many, many views and it's common for some community to feel aggrieved by something; often rightly so.

This one, I don't think it has a legit motivation either, but I'm not so sure. The reservation system is a rather broken one -- not that I'm saying it should be removed (affirmative action can be quite effective) -- but that it could be improved quite a bit, checking against income and with more safety nets for students/etc who are boosted by this but don't do well. This case seems to be one of people from a non-suppressed community clamoring for reservation, motivated by other non-suppressed communities who got reservation due to a political move (ICBW here).

Thing is, fixing the overall reservation system is a really, really hard problem in practice. There's a lot of politics involved -- anything perceived to weaken it will severely affect your image, and besides, most of these laws need a majority of folks from the relevant minority group to approve them, and due to the way folks vote here, politicians from a minority group depend on that minority group for votes, and if they were portrayed as weakening the reservation system, their political career would be doomed. So the reservation system is something that can only monotonically get worse. Most folks have resigned themselves to this fact.

On the other hand, in Ferguson, the issue is something which the minority group was very aware of, but not the majority group. Many people are now realizing that African Americans look at the police very differently due to the way the police treats them. There's a lot of new information in the system, and there are many proposed solutions, most of which do not qualify as political suicide. It's not the case here, everyone already knows about the issues here, and most if not all solutions are political suicide.
I downvoted you because while what you say has some truth in it, your point is almost entirely unrelated to the issue at hand.