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We all have a choice not to use them

we, as in the more 'tech'-savvy ones, sure do. But if you don't even know about alternatives or don't realize what happens with your information, and I'm sure there's a ton of people like that, then you don't really have a choice.

That's even one step further then your family and frinds who say they can't be bothered: at least now they know something's rotten because you told them and maybe there's even a couple of them who'll take some action.

I have no idea how this can best improved in practice though. A start could be that schools teach this: incorporating information about privacy, other search engines and whatnot in lessons given to the youngest ones already seems like a good first step.
So? This text is aimed at people who care about the final 10%. People who score zero on every other part of the rubric aren't falling into the partial control fallacy.
Why would the SEC audit you? Just by random chance there are many people outperforming the market. They can't audit you just for outperforming.

If they do audit you, how will they discover how you are generating your trading decisions? Their remit is to make sure you aren't doing something illegal. There's no reason they would understand what you were doing in anything other than a superficial way.

Also, something can be profitable, and obviously so, without being easily reproducible. For instance there are firms that do simple footrace arbitrage on the same security between different exchanges. Not hard to understand, but you still can't do it. There's a whole spectrum of strategies that are on a frontier on the map of easy-to-understand vs easy-to-implement.

Besides all that, I think even if you were to learn about a way to beat the market, the way you found out might lead you to be very skeptical of whatever was proposed. If a guy is selling it on a website, you will probably not believe him, right? And if he showed you backtests that worked, you would suspect they were generated from a random generator of some sort. And if he then shows you the math, you would almost certainly find fault with it. Why did he do this or that transformation on the data? Must be random...
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You have until the end of the year? That is over 1000 hours to put into learning a new skill, building 2-3 projects, and apply for jobs as you build up confidence.

Start today.
Is it really mandated by law?

I have seen this condition as a contractual requirement by Visa&MC - in essence, you either comply and have the same prices for cards as for cash, or you don't get a merchant agreement and cannot take cards at all. And the country-by-country difference was a simply a result of their anti-trust laws, whether the card network is free to impose such a condition or forbid you from accepting cards, or if such restrictions are treated as anti-competitive and the merchant is free to choose.
Isn't Amex the most expensive of all the credit cards? At least that's what I would expect, given that Amex has the best rewards, and most customer-friendly service. I'm surprised Walmart would continue to accept Amex but not Visa.
> That's not the case with your solution either.

It is. A single call to the `read` method of a `reader` object returns either `Success` or `Error`, but never both. It's handled like this:

match my_reader#read my_buffer with
| Success(len) -> (* success logic *)
| Error(len,info) -> (* error-handling logic *)

> You're just packaging the same conceptual ambiguity in a slightly different way.

There's no ambiguity whatsoever. The cases are separate, and you can't use the variables of one case when handling the other. There's still literally no reason to sacrifice conceptual clarity.
They are (at least according to rule 5 here: http://www.fcac-acfc.gc.ca/Eng/forIndustry/publications/Laws...). Not sure why I haven't seen it in practice; maybe the regulation is new like the American equivalent. I'm not a fan of making it a discount vs allowing merchants to charge a surcharge though.
Myth debunking: WebViews suck, everything should be native
That's certainly not the case in New Zealand. A lot of restaurants will charge more for credit card, most computer stores will add ~3% for credit cards as well.

Also, most appliance stores will give you a better discount when haggling if you pay with cash/debit card.
Do what are they? I couldn't easily find out, I've seen various sources quoting NMC and some indicating that they are switching to NCA.
This looks like a very appealing framework, but reminds me of the horrors of using Google Web Toolkit or Meteor. There are different concerns when writing on the client (less controlled) and the server (more controlled) - chvid mentions the security model being different, and this is very true.

The use-case which I think this does seem to solve very well is between dynamic and static rendering of web apps (especially when using react). The ability to bundle up routing and rendering and have it handled by the client if possible and the server if not is a great idea. Apart from this, I am not convinced that this framework solves any major problems, but does introduce a lot more magic (which is why I disliked meteor).
Peer review is done for free yes, but you also need to manage that process and there's a filtering step before you send things to peer review. Then there are checks like someone going through the references and making sure they're all there, that dois are assigned and assigned correctly, etc. There's the software for managing all this process too, and then all the extra cost around hiring people like management, HR, office space, etc.

You can look at all of these and say "yes but that's not hard it's just..." but the fact is someone does work and that'll need to be paid for, so there is some cost.

Often only papers that are accepted actually pay the cost, so they're effectively paying for all the work done on papers that don't make the final cut. Nature, if I remember the figures right, accept about 5% of submissions. So for every paper, there's a certain amount of work that needs to be done on 19 others.

I'm not justifying any particular cost, but it'd be worth looking at PLOS and their fees as they're a non-profit.

> SciHub is $5,000/mo to operate if all one does is provide a collection of papers.

Is it reasonable to put the cost of running a publication at near or under one FTE? You'd at least have to do more if you had search and weren't just piggybacking on google scholar.
" no one is forcing me to do that"

Strictly speaking they are not, but they are forcing your hand when it's not practical to do different. Concretely Google have elevated that to an art.

"Facebook, Google, Twitter and <insert other big co.> will not be around forever: Even tech giants fall - Look at Nokia!"

All true. Sadly, you can be sure that their databases are going to be around forever..
I have the feeling this could be trivially solved by adding reset lines to the RAM design, and triggering them on shutdown (perhaps powered by some capacitor).
Am I the only one not liking the slides having both vertical and horizonzal navigation? Going through the whole presentation requires going in the right direction (down unless last slide in section, in which case it is right...)
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I doubt that this model is sustainable. In Denmark, the tax exemption on electric vehicles is now being phased out because it got too popular and the resulting decrease in tax revenue would be to heavy.
What is the purpose of the scrape?
I wonder what's the reason for laws like that. It's only natural that the customer pays the fee. If we had laws like that that would actually allow for competing methods of payments as there would be pressure from customers on their card/other method providers.
I see it mostly at smaller gas stations these days and it usually looks like "Regular" and "Paying with Cash" price.

Frankly I wish more places would offer a cash discount. The rewards program schemes have always bothered me.
What ATMs and bank tellers reveal about the 'rise of the robots' and jobs
Specs Liquor in Houston (a pretty large operation) offers a flat 5% discount off your total for not using a credit card. Everything in the store has a "cash price" and a "regular price."
Except its still a debit card, with all of the problems of debit cards, and none of the additional protections you get from using a credit card.

Somebody steals your credit card and goes on a spree? Call your bank, dispute the charges, and life goes on.

Somebody steals your debit card? Good luck, money is gone from your bank account, and BTW, your mortgage and auto payments just bounced, so we're going to tack on some overdraft fees too. Have a nice day.
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You could be right. Maybe the optimal policy would be for politicians to rattle their sabre in Uber's general direction while doing nothing.
One command static website setup on AWS S3
Pythagoras by Incircle
Great and easy to follow article!

> For simplicity of computation, all standard dithering formulas push the error forward, never backward. If you loop through an image one pixel at a time, starting at the top-left and moving right, you never want to push errors backward (e.g. left and/or up).

Would the image look a lot different if you dithered it backwards from the bottom right pixel?

Are there dithering algorithms that consider the error in all directions instead of pushing the errors forward only?
The point is not that it is trivial, but that the system is set up so you can do it. This describes why that is important: http:/www.ams.org/notices/200710/tx071001279p.pdf.
> Somebody steals your debit card? Good luck, money is gone from your bank account

I had $4000 stolen from my bank account via a compromised debit card. The charges were reversed the same day. The bank is still liable for fraudulent transactions if you didn't authorize them.
Agreed. I owned a Land Rover Discovery 3 for 9 years. It was disastrously expensive to run. Power steering, suspension compressor, park brake, turbo cross pipes; all failed multiple times. I'm now happily driving a leased Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. Also got an old '99 Merc which is very reliable.
And this country is better off for it or am I also oversimplifying?
The cards have Visa or Mastercard on them but can fall back to use the debit card network by asking you which account to pay with.

The merchant can also disable you from selecting 'credit' while paying to force it to use the debit network.

Its also like this in Australia.

Very few banks still issue debit only cards (Switch/Maestro), they do if you ask for them, but they mostly only work at the ATM.
Only because surveillance at a higher level works well. But if you do something that the powers-that-be can't accept (although it's within the laws), depending on the powers-that-be, you can have a tap placed on your ISP or your domain revoked or taken over. Again an instance of centralization being exploited. But other than illegal wireless broadcast I wonder if there is any remedy for censorship/control at this level.
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Yes, I am talking about HTTP requests. We're just exploring moving over to web sockets, the original implementations were done before that was practical on mobile networks.
You are still describing a social problem.
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> If you are a touch typist what do you need to see?

What line did it segfault on, did the tests pass or fail, what state is the program in when it hits this breakpoint?

I suppose I could detect test pass failure with "echo \a" but it's just so terribly simple to view the results.

I rarely go more than 20 minutes worth of coding without recompiling/re-running tests.
Eh no. It got phased out because we got a government who don't believe in subsidising things that are good for the environment.

One of the support parties don't even believe that global warming is caused by human activity.
Some (most?) gas stations make more money on the convenience store than on the gas itself. So setting up a scheme to encourage the customer to come in the store is in their interest. They make it super easy to toss in a side item with the gas purchase.
Really successful traders spend their obtaining insider information, not massaging public data. It stands to reason that an ensemble of technical trading methods would regress towards the mean.
The few times I've had debit card fraud the bank detected it before things went crazy and the sole symptom was not being able to use my card.

The one time a charge went through my bank reversed it that day.
> As of August 2014, nine states prohibit retailers from passing credit card surcharges onto consumers.

In Massachusetts at least there's a loophole for gas stations. In fact that's always been the case...

http://www.mass.gov/ago/consumer-resources/consumer-informat...
You don't need to use their services to be tracked by them. Especially Google tracks people all over the internet, whether those people want to use their services or not.
I've heard estimates that Google Analytics is deployed on about 70% of webpages. And their doubleclick-ads, Google+-buttons, JavaScript-APIs, CAPTCHAs, Custom Search Engines etc. are all over the web as well, and you'll have a hard time finding a webpage which does not use a Google service without asking you about it.
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...spend their time and resources...
Thank you for taking the time to find a good answer.

> Staying on the right side of state laws. As of August 2014, nine states prohibit retailers from passing credit card surcharges onto consumers. They are: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Texas.

Do you know the rationale for these laws?
> We all have a choice not to use them and I think this is the point he's missing (or the article is omitting).

Moxie Marlinspike has a great talk on this subject (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aom3JonbcZU). The problem isn't the choice -- but the constantly widening scope of the choice, back when Facebook was a brand-new thing, the choice to not have a Facebook had no impact on my life whatsoever.

Today all of the photos albums my friends have taken are in one place: Facebook. All of activities people plan together are posted in one place: Facebook. When you meet someone new the nearly first thing they do is: check your Facebook. Facebook has broadened to assimilate the scope of activities and actions which were formerly independent aspects of life and to not have Facebook now - one pays a significantly higher social cost.
Cash isn't free for people either the vast majority of banks either charge you withdrawal fees or bake them into your flat account fees.

If you are a large business then cash handling companies that securely transfer, count, and deposit / clear it for you charge the same and even more than many credit card companies.

Cash is only "cheaper" for really small businesses that handle the count and the deposit themselves.

And even then there are some fees because banks can also charge a deposit fee when you bring in unsorted cash.
> The saved search history is incredibly useful for shaping and filtering search results to make them more targeted and helpful.

Google gets my approx location from my IP whether I like it or not, which is really all the targeted results I need.

What else is there? There is so little remaining of the actual web search engine that Google used to be 10-15 years ago, I only ever use it for the typical "local" queries that indeed benefit from knowing what city I'm in.

All the other stuff I need to find on the web, if I were to trust Google it might as well not exist. It used to be that any keyword-combination you could imagine that would (reasonably) appear on some website somewhere, would get you that website, some others and a bunch of spam. Google was good at sorting the spam downwards, but if you wanted, you could browse it (then about 10 years ago they limited this to max 1000 results even if they reported millions).

Today, you get nothing. You get a bunch of results that vaguely match the topic of your keywords. Your search keywords that happen to appear are bolded, but that's just a visual effect now, suggesting they tried looking for all your keywords and this was just the best they could find. Except bullshit because I remember the old web, it was smaller, but it was still incomprehensibly gigantic, and already everything was there, and Google could find it under half a second, with their old tech. (where did all the web go?)

So let's be honest, they're not really looking. It's like an annoying salesman, you enter a shop, ask for a specific thing (which they may or may not have), and the salesman tries to convince you that the thing they want to sell you is the thing you were really looking for.

This is what your "targeted" "suggestions" are doing to you. They're targeted to suggest you that you want that something which they want to show you.

Which is, admittedly, all sorts of useful for "local" searches, which is truly the only thing I use Google "web" search for nowadays. Otherwise it's DuckDuckGo which can send me straight to the websearch that has my answer (discogs, wikipedia, various image search engines..). It's not as good as Google used to be (although back then I had my own tools for the meta searches), but it's also not worse than what Google is now.

oh and I didn't even touch on the part where you said that better targeted relevant ads are less annoying. The idea that ads can be "relevant" comes from the ad networks, but there's no such thing. If it was relevant it'd be a search result. If it requires payment to appear between your results, then either it is less relevant than its paid position would suggest (at the cost of another, by definition more relevant, result), or it actually is relevant and the fact that you seen it only because it was paid for means the engine is not actually doing every simple thing to show you the most relevant results, but actively hiding some. Sure this is a business model, what gets me about it is that Google one day used to be so much better than this and used that credit to build something trashy like this. If they were a new search engine nobody would give it a second look.
What would be the point? Either the open source could be built, in which case you could have ad- and tracking-free windows, or you couldn't build it, making it impossible to develop.
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the right/down/up/left is for the presentator to easily skip to preset positions.

as a viewer you can just press space for the traditional progression.
> Meanwhile, most people I've spoken with are happy with the system, because they feel like they're getting money back through cashback/reward programs

I am not happy with the system since I categorize the money back programs essentially a corruption of the buyers in order to keep them on the card.

I want to pay safe, fast and easy. No higher prices and no cashback incentivation program needed for me.
You can use Space, which should take you to the correct next slide, without thinking about directions. I found it a neat format to structure a talk into segments. Also, you can press Esc and get a "map" of the slides.
"No major retailer can afford to stop taking Visa."

That remembers me Steve Jobs, the iPad and flash, when he decided to remove flash video. I recall so many people saying "nobody could tell that to the people, people will demand flash, Apple is screwed".

Turns out they could. Your website needs flash? fine, my millions of high income iPad users wont be able to see it.

Wallmark is not a major retailer, it is THE BIGGEST RETAILER in the world!!

By the way, if Wallmark wants they could "help" people transition to Apple or Google pay. Everybody has a smartphone and the only thing is needed for people to use it for paying is getting used to it.

Wallmark knows now alternatives exist so they can exert some negotiation power.
In the European Union the fee a bank can charge the merchant for a transaction is now capped to 0.3% (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/credit-and-debit-card-fee...) and that seems to work fine.

Interestingly just around the time when this was introduced in mid-2015 all major German supermarket chains suddenly started to accept Visa/MasterCard; before they only supported the German Girocard system. The fees Visa and MasterCard demanded before were probably way too high.

Compared to that the 2-3% fees in the USA really seem to be very high as well.
I think it's a bit more nuanced than "we all have a choice to not use them". I don't have WhatsApp because I refuse to create a new account on a closed system. This means I'm not in groups where plans are made between my friends and family. If I did not have Facebook or Google+ either, I wouldn't have been invited to parties etc ...
The problem isn't coming up with an algorithm that works (i.e. more wins than losses).

The difficulty is gaining confidence in your algo and determining when to move from paper trading to actual trading.

You run into counter-intuitive things while training a neural net, for example. You'd think more training data would be good, but when training neural nets, you actually want to use as little data as possible while still creating an ideal ROC curve.
Before the Metro ceased to exist.
As you wish, a substantial explanation: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/26/10570.abstract It's referred at the bottom of the "piece"
There is another interesting application for dithering that I've read about in the recent Uncharted 4 Brain Dump (Ctrl-F for "Dithering") here https://redd.it/4itbxq: Use dithering instead of alpha blending to fade out close objects. Alpha blending can be quite expensive while dithering just omits pixels. The result looks like this: http://allenchou.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/dithering-1-... (best visible at the top left corner).
When I was in Harlem the last time, there were a lot of greetings thrown around. Mostly, it was the older guys. The younger guys didn't seem to expect a greeting. I grew up in NYC and in my neighborhood, you saw people greeting each other through the 80's, but when the 90's rolled around, it changed and people stopped trying to know each other in any meaningful way.
Do you know where debit cards stand? I have a cost for using debit, but does the merchant pay a significant one too?
> Thus the total cost to consumers is completely hidden.

Just like the cost of paying by any other mean is. Cash or cheque payments are not free.
Amex up until recently has charged an annual fee to consumers, which probably eliminates the bottom 10-20% of the market.

Probably, Walmart and other retailers just eat the cost of the Amex retailer fee because it's a relatively small fraction of transactions; plus, there's a competitive advantage to accepting a wider range of plastic.
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This was on Jan 20th, 2016: Audacity 2.1.2 Released, but I just found out.
Back in the 90s, this was done using Type 3 fonts (which have full access to the postscript language). This 1995 paper, for example, describes a technique for generative, random handwriting from samples.
http://luc.devroye.org/mcdougallpaper.pdf
Using insider information is illegal. If you mean insider information then this is total nonsense. Sure, there are a few that do illegal things (and inevitably get caught since there is so much monitoring going on).
Canadian here, had my debit card compromised and $1200 stolen, bank reversed the charges the same day I called them.