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This is awesome, I absolutely adore the idea and implementation. Couple of small points in terms of feedback:

* A new tab with no notes has a height greater than 100% of the browser window, and adds a scrollbar. Small point, but annoying for people like me :)

* There are some issues with links: clicking could be more intuitive, and highlighting is inconsistent with certain characters. (Try pasting a YouTube link.)
Correct. The projection is a projection. If the projection is wrong, the projection will be wrong.

I just give slightly more credence to the UN's projection than Aldring's.
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Depending on how queued orders are served at whatever interval the market coalesces at, there will always be some type of high speed trading, even if the frequency isn't as high. In reality (as in any transaction between two individuals), there's no defined interval at which we wait to complete our transactions, we just do them. Adding arbitrary times at which transactions go through creates edge cases, and edge cases can be gamed. Current markets are limited by either an arbitrary interval upon which orders are fulfilled, or as fast as a system can handle them, which is limited by the technology in use.

For a very simplistic example of this, if you look at some type of transaction that has extra regulatory requirement/burden that kick in on certain criteria (for example, over a certain price), you should see some interesting behavior when looking at transactions immediately above and below this price level. You'll also likely find interesting solutions to circumvent that rule to capitalize on the reduced competition that allows (to my understanding, this is a semi-accurate high level overview of a part of the derivative mess we found ourselves in a few years back).

> As far as I understand HFT, it's not that it's better at predicting the market but rather it's better at taking advantage of micro volatility?

My understanding is that you are correct, but in taking advantage of the volatility, they make it a micro level volatility, and both provide a more accurate value of a stock (by reducing the spread), and at a shorter time interval (which together I guess is liquidity).

Of course that's all armchair theorizing on my part (in case it came across as overly authoritative or knowledgeable). I'm not a trader, don't work in the industry, and am not an economist. This is just the working model in my mind based on the economics as I see them and my knowledge of the markets, which admittedly is mostly from discussion here...
The point the article seems to be making, though, is that pretty much everything is made with slave labor. Phones, computers, tabletops, tombstones, shrimp, fish, steel, sugar - everything. So you'd be slapping the "Produced with slave labor" label on everything, which probably wouldn't change behavior.
Mind share and Market share are the justifications. Once you have a developer comfortable with a platform, it can be hard to impossible to get them to switch.

These are businesses with an interest in making money, not people with an interest in making the world a better place. I'm not saying it's right, just that it makes business sense.
There's always friction, yes, but rarely a lock or you'd simply go into the code and remove it.

Natural complexity, when the domain is simply complex to model, can't be gotten rid of regardless of the product.
Ya well... nothing human is perfect. Doesn't mean it can't be better (and it will be). But regulation generally trumps people behaving ethically on their own. Sadly.

Also, couldn't small bribes also be a problem in things like fair trade certification?
Is it because you knew the right people in SF? I am going to be visiting soon and I would love to get some insight into the startup culture.
Yes using powertop, ive been able to get my last intel laptop (thinkpad t440) to ~8W and my latest amd laptop (a hp 745 g3 carrizo) to ~10W. Initial value on the intel laptop from memory was ~24W and on the amd laptop it was 21W.
This is not accurate. Slave codes in the American South often made outright killing of slaves illegal -- I mean killing in the sense of first degree murder (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_codes#Proper_treatment_o...).

There were allowances made for crimes of passion in some cases, and slave codes differed from place to place. Slave codes were revised over time, depending on the goals and fears of the plantation class at the time.

You're trying to draw a bright line here, but it will be hard to do so, because forms of slavery did differ, even in the heyday of slavery in the Americas.

For example, the Code Noir that controlled slavery in New Orleans was less draconian than the codes used in other parts of the American South (e.g., see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Noir). This is one reason for the unique character of black/white/creole relations in New Orleans to this day.
What good is a set of "rules" (not even laws) if they are deliberated and enforced behind closed doors? Why should the FBI even bother following these "rules" if nobody is transparently ensuring that they do?

Also, I did not realize just how intricately NSA data is shared with the FBI (and who knows how many other agencies). From the article, it sounds like any FBI analyst can run an arbitrary query on the "to" and "from" fields of email addresses, at any time, as many times as desired. So effectively the FBI has one giant inbox with Americans' communications in it?

That inbox will get hacked. It's only a matter of time. If thousands of federal bureaucrats have access to it, I would be very surprised if foreign intelligence agencies do not already have access to it in some capacity.

Scary stuff. People should continue to assume all systems are compromised and email is public information.
People's brains change as they age. There are definite differences between the way older people and younger people think. This isn't a generalization about old people having bad politics, but rather a comment on the tendency of people's minds to be harder to change over time.

Personally, I think one of the biggest challenges to transitioning to a low-birthrate, ultra-long-lived society is that a constant influx of young blood seems to be a necessary engine for new ideas and progress. There's a combination of not knowing better[1] and not having as much to lose that makes young people more willing to take big risks and push for more egalitarian societies over time. Left to their own devices, accumulation of wealth and status tend to ossify people's belief systems and reduce their incentives to throw everything out and start over.

[1] by this I mean not having the same accumulated beliefs about what is best. Sometimes those beliefs turn out to be unfounded, and you discover that by challenging them.
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The book is excellent, but i have some trouble understanding, Gradient descent (mostly the calculus equations)

Can anyone help me with a rudimentary, simpler explanation for this? (a link may also do)
Scott Adams has a number of opinions that some parts of the internet find unreasonable. I have read a number of his blogs and he makes good and bad points, just like everyone else.

Here's one of his "controversial" posts: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/133406477506/global-gender-war
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Have you tried Riot in production? Maybe a sample app we can see?
I won't cut and paste my comment[1] from the last time the cobalt-from-the-Congo issue made the front page, but I do want to repeat that I think it's a mistake to generalize from a single horrible situation.

Imagine we found a rich vein of cobalt ore in Tim Cook's backyard: The Congo would still be in an unimaginably terrible state, but at least that part of our phones would be humanely supplied. What's next on the list? My guess is that it would be substantially less upsetting, and probably much easier to address.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10930445
Obligatory mention of Fairphone: http://fairphone.com/ who try to get rid of slavery in as much of their supply chain as possible (and detail exactly how far they get there transparently in their blog).
So you're saying they are confused about their legal rights? As in, they are threatened with violent arrest, imprisonment, loss of their children, and torturous prison conditions. You don't see the powerful coercion to perform bonded labor here?

Never mind that the slavemongers are generally incredibly abusive on their own because their victims believe they will have no recourse from the government.

It's slavery.
Imagine a state passing a law requiring stickers like that, but not outright banning items known to be produced by slave labour. The message would basically be that yes, we are fully aware that some products are made with slave labour and we are OK with that (as long as it's clearly marked).
The models in the "Frequent batch auctions as a market design response to HFT" paper by Budish et. al.; i linked the slides in another comment.

Since batch auctions use single-price clearing, market makers can post bids and asks without fear of being sniped (so its less risk, not more). And since you can't snipe, they have to compete on price rather than investing in faster connections, resulting in narrower spreads.
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Typo? It's from Taken.
Yea pretty sure they definitely mean "Add More Libraries" when they say "scaling", it wouldn't make sense otherwise given what CocoaPods does...
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Anyone working to reduce indentured servitude calls it modern slavery.

So I can believe alll those workers in many multinational agencies who all call this modern slavery, or I can believe you.
It still doesn't mean 'slave' in Czech, even if it is related.
> EDIT: the upside is that cocoapods will have to either rethink there architecture in order to eat less resources or move to their own paid infrastructure because their package manager will soon be less than functional given the aggressive rate limiting github is performing.

I'd like to see both happen:

* CocoaPods refactoring to be more efficient

* GitHub providing open source projects the option to buy reserved capacity if they're using excessive resources (versus just saying "No").
Heart disease, obesity, and arthritis are sometimes reversible, partially thanks to better medical care.

Oh, and cancer.
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They are neither up-and-coming struggling young people, nor retiring, in-power older people.

So they don't matter as much regarding this for now... in 10-15 years though, when baby boomers will be gone...
1. Rust warning.

2. If "for hackers" is the new "for dummies" then gentrification is complete.
If you don't leave for fear of being punished, are you being held against your will?
> I see this being used to also outlaw parties becoming too overtly anti-EU

This is hard to understand. The party in power in the UK, the Conservatives, are overtly anti-EU and have called a nationwide referendum on leaving the EU. I don't see anyone talking about banning them or the many leading public figures are coming out for Brexit.

> in case you didnt notice, is conveniently conflated with "populist right wing parties" a la UKIP, FN usw

No, it's may others too, as I pointed out above. The parties you mention are actually populist, right-wing, and often racist and xenophobic nationalists.

> I see ... I see ...

To be clear, those are one person's predictions; nothing like it has happened. If any group is at risk of oppression, it's the Muslims and other minorities against whom many of the parties you list openly advocate discrimination.
I think this betrays the severity of the issue there. There are plenty of people making ad-hoc roommate arrangements to deal with sharing resources/reducing expenses, but instead of pairs it's threes or more. It's not like being a two-person arrangement reduces expenses by such a magical amount that now the old model of finances works. The amount of people I am seeing being a married couple with a live-in tenant is pretty high, and they are still renting.

I feel strongly that it is generally even more risky nowadays to be in a two-person fixed relationship before you have achieved some sort of stability. A single person can couch surf/live in their car/effectively be homeless and still get back on their feet. It has taken me til 30 to feel like I had gotten to a place where if my partner took a fall at work I could cover both parties modest expenses among student loans and other debt, even though I am not holding any extraneousness debt aside from student loans.

A pooled income of two working and healthy people is still insufficient to mitigate enough risk before they can weather multiple setbacks and still pay student loans and start to form a family. What is the median income? $53,891 (http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/20/news/economy/median-income/)? Even ballpark estimates makes me feel just as safe trying to make do with half that than with that.
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Presumably - otherwise they wouldn't be doing it - but it often doesn't take all that much to flip a volunteer from "Okay, this is cool, I can help other people and learn some stuff as well" to "Fuck this, it's way more trouble than it's worth." Top amongst this is when the people you're helping expect you to give them free work.

Jobs compete with other jobs, and most people expect that they'll have to do some unpleasant things in their job. Open-source & volunteer work competes with hobbies, and there are many hobbies where you never need to deal with demands, unexpected work, and interpersonal drama.
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> ...they are the best, not that they are still very good...

And I agree with you on both counts. :D

Are you thinking about one of the models with the bowl curves for the keys? If you are, have you typed on one? If you did, what did you think of it?
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Wat?

Are people like, forgetting the great Dust Bowl or something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

An entire generation of Americans left the Farms and went for the cities, only to learn that the Cities have entered the Great Depression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

And the cities had no help for the entire generation of farmers who lost everything. This time stands in contrast to the "Roaring Twenties", a time of plenty and a booming economy that the US has almost never seen before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties

Someone here has been drinking too much of that Rubio Kool-aid. Americans have had plenty of generation-defining tough times in our history. We are strong because of surviving through it, learning about the problems, and working to make the country better afterwards. But that "economical reset" button has been pushed several times in our history.

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In "Game of Thrones" terms, the Baby Boomers were born in the "great long spring", and have only known prosperity their whole life. They were born in a great time, a world rebuilt by the Greatest Generation (who grew up through the Dust Bowl AND Great Depression, then left to fight WW2 and then set the economic conditions for the post-war economic miracle).

But now fall is upon us, and the historians are remembering that yes, Winter is coming. And it is the millennials who have to now work through the winter that our parents don't remember ever existing... but our grandparents may remember the tougher times they had.
> They aren't really deriving any benefit out of the work they do on CocoaPods

I don't think working on CocoaPods is an altruistic endeavor. I imagine (know) that some of the cocoapods folks are app developers and ostensibly CocoaPods makes developing applications easier.

Side Note: its not a tragedy of the commons. Github owns the infrastructure and they enforced their private property rights by rate limiting a group of users that were disproportionately using resources. It is a collective action problem for CP users.
I really like Carthage's architecture, but there are two things I don't like about it.

1. You can't edit the frameworks unless you open a separate project, re-edit and recompile. With Pods, you can edit the Pod in your workspace.

2. Carthage doesn't go the last mile to bundle the framework into your project.

If they addressed those two things, I feel like Cocoapods would probably start losing a lot of steam. Although, after watching some videos about what the goals of Carthage were from the creators, I doubt that those two things will be addressed so I'm waiting for Swift's Package Manager.
> If degrees are worth far less, yet cost far more than in the past - why do people pursue them as if they are mandatory?

A degree is the new high school diploma. It's game theory really. If no one has a degree, it's super valuable, so whoever gets one will have a huge advantage. So everyone gets one because it's the best individual decision. Today, since everyone has one, if you're one of the few that don't, you're at a massive disadvantage. So you still get one for fear of being left behind, even if the relative worth is far less.

Tech (rather programming) is kind of an exception because it's easier to show what you're capable of, which allows you to bypass the requirement. There are plenty of trades and 'artistic' fields which allow for this as well. But for most fields, a degree is a sort of 'guarantee' of a minimum level of knowledge, dedication and even financial means. There's no Github for business people.
It's stupid
Toy languages are fun, and nothing new. Making your own language is a great exercise.
Very interesting. I would like to understand governance models for open source projects, standards committees, etc.

I took a job working on an open source product / stack precisely to get experience with how a consortia (kuali.org) manages to do things.

TL;DR: it doesn't.

I'm told the Apache Foundation is also like a tarpit. Would love to hear stories from people with direct experience.

My utopian view is that all government software should be citizen owned. That dream took a hit by my recent experience. I'm still searching for projects, efforts, teams, whatever that cracked this nut.
That makes sense to me. If we accept that the market isn't perfect, and that all participants do not have perfect information (or even as a corollary market participants will not always recall or connect known information to the transaction they are considering), then increasing awareness of market information allows the market to perform better. In this case, people want free range eggs for whatever reason (there could be many, but I'm sure we can all think of the obvious ones), and making them aware of that helps them make that decision.
It's also problematic since it seems like many people only read the title and not the article itself, and then assumed that the article is about iPhone production in Foxconn factories (which it isn't).
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Who said we'll create anything to succeed us? (I mean besides Kurzweil and his ilk)?

I find much more probable that we'll wipe ourselves out in one way or another. We had some means to do so since the 40s, but since we added a lot more sick ways to our arsenal...
The war will come when the US either refuses or cannot pay back that $1.8 trillion.
> Everything you've said throughout this thread is a series of highly opinionated, subjective rationalizations.

They are, but they are opinions based on a decade and a half of working with these technologies, and being currently employed as a specialist in responsive CSS. I'm not just giving you my opinions, I've been linking directly to open-source solutions I get paid to provide for clients. No pitch, I've done the opposite—I've given you the jewels. You won't need to hire me to fix these things now if you use my code for free ;)

> Yet you continue to deliver these rationalizations as if they're incontrovertible facts.

Based on hundreds of hours of testing across different browsers and devices, you're going to have to trust me that what I have left is thoroughly tested and proven to work.

I have nothing to gain or lose from what I've said here, but some of the insight and code samples I've provided might help people avoid or fix a whole class of common website bugs - the kind that are hard to reproduce, and hard to test because they usually pop up on exotic hardware or software configurations.

I Hope my opinions, tested code, and experience have helped some professionals in this thread :)

I'm curious how you would approach building a website that isn't broken when viewed on dozens of devices and browsers. Do you have any opinions, code, or suggestions to contribute to the discussion?
Well, your phone probably wasn't actually built by slaves. However it probably uses the element tantalum some of which come from ore mined in Congo and some of that is probably mined by slaves.

The reason slavery goes on there is armed thugs from neighbouring counties (Rwanda and Zaire) have invaded and are forcing the locals to hand over the ore which is not a good thing. Though the solution is not to feel guilty about using phones, it's to kick the thugs out.
I'll bite: What happens to the poor when the inhumane supply chain that has sustained them (albeit poorly) goes away?

Also, a googler complaining about slave-labor prices is rich with irony.
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Drone delivery may be somewhat more challenging in Norway.
The context is this: France has become one of Saudia Arabia's biggest trading partners. SA is probably moving away from the US as main arms dealer, who are deemed as having betrayed SA, e.g. by ending hostilities with Iran. Just recently SA bought a huge chunk of weapons from France [1]. SA also wants to buy French nuclear reactors ...

[1] http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature/france-saudi-arabias...
> Is growth really necessary?

I actually agree with you. I think Microsoft's evolution is mostly done. The XBox is their consumer device and everything else is all about enterprise and small business users.

Microsoft is a boring, mature, very profitable company. It isn't such a bad thing to be.

Their hardware is in an interesting place though. They are really the only company making decent Windows hardware (and I say that as a longtime ThinkPad fan). I would be so happy if they took the Surface Book and simplified it into a traditional laptop with battery life as good as or better than similar Apple machines.
Not necessarily home internet access. There are many places that offer free wifi, and AFAIK most public libraries in the US offer computer access to members.
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I 100% agree. Which is why I've gone with Emacs (hehe).
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Why does college take so long? I didn't do anything special and got out in 4.
This is nice, but you can lose notes if you write in multiple Papier tabs. One has to be careful that they don't have another open Papier tab before they start note-taking.
Not really. In Europe we use common sense. Old technology but still effective.
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