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OneNote is available for OSX from Mac App Store. And it's simply the best app in this category for me. It's also free. Much better than Quiver. If Quiver had similar, simple, fast editing capabilities it could be better - by feeling less heavy, lighter plus maybe some extras for programmers.
Pidgin is awful for group chat. So is every other jabber client out there. I want to like it because it's open-source, but it's just unusable for many use cases (e.g. try to participate in a conversation using a home and a work computer, or just try to find a groupchat UI that isn't awful).
People are worried. Nearly all outlooks are trending down.

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J.P. Morgan Builds Loss Reserves for the First Time in Six Years

http://www.wsj.com/articles/turning-point-j-p-morgan-adds-to...

More Banks Take Hits on Energy Loans

http://www.wsj.com/articles/more-banks-take-hits-on-energy-l...

RBS: Sell everything except high quality bonds.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/12093807/RBS-cr...

J.P. Morgan: We believe the regime has transitioned to one of selling any rally.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bearish-jp-morgan-says-sell...

Citi: The cumulative probability of U.S. recession reaches 65 percent [this] year.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-economy-idUSKBN0TL1...

George Soros Sees Crisis in Global Markets That Echoes 2008

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-07/global-mar...
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From some admittedly not very scientific research into this, it seems that different forms of magnesium are absorbed differently by the body. It is claimed that magnesium oxide is poorly absorbed by the body and can lead to more side effects than other forms of magnesium. Magnesium citrate is supposed to be better, but the best forms are supposed to be chelated magnesium compounds. Chelated magnesium is supposed to be most easily absorbed by the body and best tolerated in terms of side effects.

From personal experience, I will say that I feel better after taking chelated magnesium vs magnesium citrate. The specific chelated magnesium compound I take is magnesium glycinate/lysinate. It has helped ease symptoms of anxiety. I had previously taken magnesium citrate, which ended up making me feel nauseous.

A lot of the sites that come up in google are alternative health sites (Mercola, etc.). Here are two links that may be more reliable:

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-998...

http://www.drugs.com/mtm/chelated-magnesium.html

Also, here is a PDF of a class action lawsuit filed against a manufacturer accused of putting magnesium oxide in their chelated magnesium to cut costs. Has a lot of information on the purported benefits of magnesium and on how the magnesium industry is run:

https://www.truthinadvertising.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...
I think getting the news out about this research could be very important as many people could seek more heavy handed treatment for tiredness, depression and anxiety, not knowing the cause was a simple mineral deficiency.

I used to feel tired all the time, with permanent pain in the neck and the retinas, even though I slept 7 hours a night. After I started taking magnesium, I felt 15 years younger. I could finally get a good night's sleep and my energy recovered. There were also other effects: my sex drive increased, dandruff almost disappeared and my bowel movements have improved.

Another useful mineral for me was Calcium. I got rid of a nagging back pain that affected me for the last 10 years. Other treatments such as massage and exercise had no effect.

It feels like doctors had no idea to check for these two minerals in my case. Even though I visited various specialists and went to a sleep lab to test my brain waves, they had no useful recommendations. Could it be true that doctors have no idea about magnesium and calcium?
Whoa. That's pretty rad! Why don't more people know about this guy? Considering he predates the surrealists by literally hundreds of years, you'd think he would get more press. This stuff would be right at home in an issue of Juxtapoz magazine.
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I used leaflet.js and d3 to highlight police zones in Atlanta for a friend:
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> Do we agree on what "growth" means in this instance?

There's a disconnect between how economists use certain terms as well-defined technical jargon and how non-economists adopt them colloquially.[0] This leads to a lot of confusion when people try to discuss economics without understanding the precise meanings of the terms at play.

For the rest of this comment, I'm going to use the economic meaning of these terms, because there is agreement among economists about what "growth" means (though not how to accomplish it).

> Or do we give up the expectancy of a better life for everyone if we give up economic growth as we know it?

Yes, by definition. It would be impossible to have "a better life for everyone" without economic growth. "A better life for everyone" is economic growth, by definition (the creation of more value - whether tangible or not - given access to the same limited input resources).

> Is is possible to have increased leisure/increased standard of living/increased health/decreasing cost of living over time

That is considered "growth" to an economist, yes.

> without having an incerase in GDP and an average positive return on capital?

In theory, yes, but it turns out that an increase in GDP is so highly correlated with economic growth empirically, as well as so intrinsically linked from first principles, that they are usually used interchangeably in most discussions.

There are a few degenerate cases in which an increase in GDP does not actually correspond to economic growth, but they're pretty esoteric and not broadly applicable.

[0] As an analogy, imagine a bunch of non-programmers debating a CS paper about 'complexity' of an algorithm, and using the term 'complexity' to mean by their ability to understand how it works. That may be a relevant metric, and it may even be related to the technical use of the term 'complexity' (complexity class), but it's not really comparing apples to apples even though it's using the same word.
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Surely this will give an increased incentive to countries divest from oil completely in order to ensure long term economic stability. Take Singapore for example. Oil is cheap for them now which is good from an import perspective but they are also invested in oil with something like 6% of their sovereign fund which is not so good. They also have an abundance of sunshine. It makes perfect sense for them to use this as a catalyst for transitioning to renewables even though in the short term oil is cheap to import.
CDNs charge per gigabyte. They make more money from larger files.
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That's not necessarily a bad thing as long as the article is open enough for the "This is provably false" information to be attached to it right alongside the data. Information about untrue things is still useful; a lot of human-generated data is fundamentally fantastical in some way (consider the vast swaths of Wikipedia that are the "histories" of completely fictional characters).

The risk comes in when the people who have the time to curate and shape the article are the ones whose beliefs are demonstrably untrue, and the counter-evidence gets stripped from the article.
"If we decide that arbitrary UI representations should stay just because they were historically common, then we will never improve our user interfaces."

Putting aside the assumption that hyperlinks require improvement, you've mistakenly declared that certain visual attributes were chosen arbitrarily and therefor are fair game to change. But it is those very same attributes that provide the visual affordance required for users to determine the function they perform. That is, whilst the selection of those attributes, in the beginning, may have been arbitrary, they no longer are. Consistency in application is one of the best ways to pass on knowledge. Whilst blue underlined text doesn't have anything that intrinsically suggests its action, consistent application of that visual language builds up the affordance in the user: all blue underlined text is a hyperlink.

Look at it this way; at some point in the past someone decided that the highlight on GUI buttons should appear to come from the top-left of the screen. This was a completely arbitrary decision. However, with the rest of the GUI adopting the similar design decision, a cohesive impression is built up. It became obvious to users that this meant that a button was raised and could be clicked with the mouse cursor.

But if you design your GUI with the highlight coming from the bottom-right, no matter home much better you think this will improve the GUI and how much more sense it makes, your button will appear to be inset and selected. That is, whilst the selection of those attributes, in the beginning, may have been arbitrary, they no longer are.

And so it is with hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are underlined blue text because they are. Unless there is some radical, obvious improvement to be made, any changes to these attributes will be to the users detriment. Most often, these changes are attributed to improving integration with the web page design, introducing cohesiveness, but this is mistaking hyperlinks as elements of the design. They are not, they are UI elements and as such should sit outside the style of the web page.

With the politest of respect and IMHO of course :)
>> and the financial markets, to whom any news is bad news.

Assuming this isn't a joke, why is that ?
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I worked at a place that had a "merge instead of rebase" and "all code under review must be against top-of-master" and "code gets reviewed when we feel like it".
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> On the one hand, there is such thing as supply destruction, oil producers that are marginally profitable and that go out of business if price collapses, taking tons of hard capital (not financial, but equipment, personnel know how, etc). The Saudis are pressumably aware of this and very much doing it on purpose.

Doesn't that equipment get sold? If not immediately, then eventually, modulo the odd pipe that gets bent or rusted in storage.

And those people are largely available for the jobs they're experienced at when jobs are available, so they aren't "destroyed" either, they're just idled. Some will move on, some won't.
This is fantastic. I love programming geometry. This must be a lot of fun to work on.

That gif at the bottom is mind bending https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9f83ca714a35fd2a08b85370f...
Great! It's also a nice reminder that it's possible to do automatic image manipulation with tools other than neural networks.
After the responsive web design movement, I wonder if people will move back to designing for desktop+phablet, forgetting about the tablet forms.
Laws vary from state to state covering things like the legal use of telephoto lenses, etc (and some of these laws, themselves, are in violation of federal protections and therefore void). As a general rule you are not violating the law if your camera is aimed at a public place especially if it is located on property you own.

Filming and publishing license plate numbers can get you in trouble in some places and I'm sure there are other rules I'm unaware of related to what you are allowed to publish publicly, but what he's doing is likely very legal and protected by the First Amendment of the US constitution.
As do some organizations now -- my employer blocks access.
This looks pretty great, I'll play with it. Can you explain this from the Readme?

Unfortunately, it's difficult to compute the joint formed at the boundaries of these combined shapes, so sufficient texturing is needed on the original solids for a decent result.

What is hard about computing the joint? Why does texturing help? My question is from a perspective of curious ignorance, not arrogance (i.e. me saying "don't be silly, it's easy.")
Not through regular popularity contests, that's for sure. For all the positives this is the greatest flaw of democracy IMHO. There is a conflict of interest between keeping voters happy in the short term (and voters memories are very very short) and doing the right thing for the long term. This is where planned economies and single party states have the potential to out strategise liberal democracies.
Is that the side of the Atlantic that has serious problems with binge drinking of alcohol?
This would be great to see school zone boundary demarcations, which can sometimes be quite important/contentious when looking for a new home.
I was responding to this claim by jernfrost: "Growth per capita in Japan has been completely normal in the supposed terrible years. It is the population decline which causes the overall GDP growth to look anemic."
> Ok, so the Saudis are acting to stop fracking, oil-shale exploitation

> And when the Saudis have made their point, they'll drop production, prices will go back up, everything will return to normal, more or less.

Something will happen, but I think the cat's out of the bag: Even if prices rise significantly, the US has proven to itself that it is/came become very quickly self supplying in oil. This significantly decreases the Saudi's leverage in world politics which changes some balances in the middle east and beyond quite significantly.

Similar things are true for Europe (especially in the east) with regard to Russia. Russia's medium-sized stick has been the threat to cut off gas to its western neighbours, and it gets really cold there in the winter.
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> So why is everyone worried?

Depends on why oil prices are low. If aggregate demand has dropped then it means another recession may be coming. If it is simply an over supply, then you're right. Everything I have read says over supply, but people are worried that China is really slowing down and the numbers are cooked to hide that fact.

So while high oil prices seem bad, they indicate huge demand and high economic activity.
Problem for tablet producers is they don't follow the 2 year phone contract life cycle.

Neither do watches.
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The most interesting part to me is that the slate-only tablet form factor appears to be dying. This is surprising given that phones have completely adopted touch over physical keys, and yet tablets seem to be headed back to supporting both.
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I recall the big splash that came with the marketing of ZMA as a supplement[1] for testosterone production quite a while ago. It was something OTC that I tried on several occasions and found to have limited merit. Unlike some other products, I didn't feel the ZMA effects in muscles per se, but noticed significantly deeper (better?) sleep and recovery. If ZMA was assisting in recovery and sleep more than anything, then I could definitely buy into the notion magnesium has quite a few physical and mental upsides as a supplement (with further research!).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMA_%28supplement%29
Russia seems to be doing a crash privatisation of government owned assets such as Aeroflot:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35473198
The human race is basically just screwed. Warming is going to happen on a massive scale and there is little anyone can do to stop it. In 50 years, we'll be killing each other over the remaining usable farm land. Until then, we'll keep buying SUVs and burning more oil.
It seems their calculus is:

Growth but at the risk of it not being Japan on its own terms (importing culture)

No growth but at least it's their own no growth (no imported population).

Japan being the nation and a people seeking harmony, I don't think they'd make the deal and risk losing their wa.

And you know what, good on them and good for the test of the world. I'd like to see how a country tackles no growth while maintaining a first world economy, without the subsidy of immigration because one day we'll all be there and we'll need some guidance. Perhaps Japan will offer that guidance if they figure things out.
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Tell that to your VCs.
Can you give a quick "steps taken" to migrate your notes? I'm gettign fed up with Evernote too, particularly the awful syncing (conflicts mainly).
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Apple disrupted several industries and also several areas within the technology industry. All of modern life seems to have started at the moment the iPhone was introduced.

Is Apple going to change mankind in this way again? Will a car, or a home robot, or some magical VR application we can't currently imagine change us all again? Or is it too much to expect a single company to make such sweeping changes to the world more than once?
Maybe supposed to be 9.8 m/s^2 ?
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Yes, it was a part of the social leveling plan. It was a hard challenge from the architects' part in finding ways to infiltrate at least some sorts of aesthetics into the politically highly sought plainness and dullness.
It had some issues with the console_host not dieing on abort?
Killing the process was one of the not so funny memory's of my tutor existence at some university courses.

Otherwise solid little IDE though. Works always out of the box. On almost any system you throw at it. And where there is complaints there is at least usage.
Norway is notable for not fixing their budget to their oil exports, they've been squirreling it away.
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Speed limits might not fit that 'moral legitimacy' model very well. We don't even think much about speed limits. We just drive. So morals don't enter into it.

I'd say the street must not be posted right, or maybe its got an unusual speed limit for the type of road. That fools people. We have a local road on the West side that should be a thoroughfare. But its zoned residential, so 30MPH. Everybody speeds - there are no driveways, no slow traffic, no pedestrian traffic, no risk. I'd argue they just got the signs wrong.
Sometimes the mods take things they think were unfairly missed and put them on the bottom of the front page to see if that generates interest.
I do the same, bitbucket allows you to group repo's by project or team (or both) so I always create a default docs repo.

For actual notes I just use org-mode since it can be read easily in nearly anything, supports all the bits I want and has nice html/pdf export if I need to send a todo/completed list out to anyone.

What's nice is I can keep my own meta-docs project which just links to each repo for each set of projects so I can jump around different projects transparently as well.
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Alas, nope. It's already too complex. There is no way to "simply drop this image in", you have to drag it to the right type of cell (only text notes support images), and if you don't have a text cell ready, tough.

Similarly to append text to a note (think of a log), you first have to click somewhere, choose a cell type…

Overall, it seems to be a nice app, but for people who enjoy spending time organizing their notes. I don't, I just want a simple way to keep my notes — so I guess it's back to writing my own app after all.
uBO blocks access, and I say a silent prayer of thanks each time I accidentally go there. Particularly at work, because my employer doesn't block sf.
No, but you can buy oil options and play them just like stock options.
A pity Jolla tablet project failed (I'm waiting for the refund). I doubt I'll be buying any tablet soon, until may be 10nm Intel SoCs will come out and there will be a tablet with such Intel GPU to run it with open drivers.
Yeah was wondering what it was doing on HN, used this as a tute 2 years ago! :)
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Interesting how smartphone, tablet as well as PC/laptop markets have stopped their growth trajectory or even gone into decline. We seem to have reached some form of market saturation (at least in developed countries) in conjunction with a decline in technical innovation. Producers will need to adapt to the different market dynamics and pressures.

Particularly Apple has not been used to these kind of pressures for a while. Personally, I hope prices will come down a bit. Unsure what else may happen?! A focus on services such as longer warranties or cloud services instead of hardware?

Having said that, my 2+ year old iPhone, 3 year old iPad as well as 2+ year old nexus tablet are still working perfectly fine. Why would I buy a new one if the "old guard" is still more than adequate?
GRRM does love his unreliable narrators. Jon and Sam have an interesting conversation about how many Lord Commanders there were before him, and there's a few fan theories spun off out of that. And A World of Ice and Fire is a "historical" document written by an in-universe character who presents the history through his own biases.
That's true for commercial CDNs. However, these Javascript libraries are hosted on free (!) CDNs, such as those kindly provided by Google, Microsoft, etc.
Wow. They had one job, which was to let parents (and only parents) know where their kids were.
This shouldn't be a massive surprise: it is pretty obvious the market hit saturation point where most people who want/need tablet have at least one. The remaining sales are upgrades, replacements due to damage/loss, people buying second/third ones (maybe getting a 7" or 8" as the 10+" is to big to take everywhere in a pocket, or a 10+" because while the 7" is practical carrying-wise a bigger screen is required) and just the occasional fresh person joining the ownership club. With upgrades being the biggest chunk of sales ATM and there not being much revolutionary coming out I'm not surprised sales overall have slumped over the period.

The article doesn't say whether they included phones or hybrids in those figures. Larger phones are replacing small tablet purchases for many (why carry a 7" tablet when you've got a 6" phone screen everywhere you go already?). It does explicitly count hybrids though which some articles I've seen don't, so the decline isn't being exaggerated by people switching from just tablet (or tablet plus bluetooth keyboard) to a hybrid laptop/tablet device.
We need to change our economic thinking from a growth perspective to a circulation perspective. Global negative interest rates and land taxes would be a good place to start.
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He's an "assistant instructor" at at least one school/program, and others. This isn't a "kid" if he's teaching other people.

We can't and shouldn't blame potential fraud on simple "youth" for someone who is obviously of an age that he is teaching other people to do these things.
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