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`python -m SimpleHTTPServer` for the local server (or if you prefer the python3 variant, `python3 -m http.server`), aspell for the spell check, and OptiPNG for PNG compression.

I didn't found something (yet) for JPEG.
Eloquently put. I could not agree more. The US has a guilty-until-proven-innocent tax code and parallel court system run by the IRS whose Constitution-defying existence is baffling to me.
They were actually doing it with COM, just decided to go with a VM instead because of that.

Now we have UWP as that idea was brought back to life.
The ESP, especially the esp32, can easily do HTTPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, JSON deserialization, and more with room to spare. All for less than $10 (less than $3 if you use an esp8266)
Flash actually runs on iOS :

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/air_for_ios.html

So iOS do support Flash, just not its browser.
There seems to be some confusion going on about investment bankers and traders in the discussion.

Trading has been changing significantly since the 'big bang' when trading went from pits to electronic. From there on in you see the evolution of algorithm / program trading. This area has been using quants for decades at this point. There are a good few big names brands out there that are known for being 'algorithmic heavy', Man, Citadel, DE Shaw come to mind (I"m a few years out of date). That whole field has been open to introducing automation / algorithms to create a business edge and will probably continue to advance because its good for business. The profile of traders has also changed (Barrow boys versus PhDs)

Then I guess on the other side is investment banking such as m&a, equity and debt capital markets. Generally there its relationship based , juniors work on pitch books which from what I saw / heard were generally overlooked. This is potentially a lot harder to automate away. Then the bank would try to pull in some rain makers or grow them internally to land big deals. Usually these opportunities open up because their clients (Other companies) have learnt to trust the organization or at the least learn to expect a certain behavriour when enlisting their services.
I'm not a ruby person but I use Jekyll for a lot of projects. What I can't do is write plugins, but you should really have strong custom requirements to need a plugin.
Clara.io is a modelling, animation and rendering tool (in the style of Maya/Max/Blender)

PlayCanvas is a game engine (in the style of Unity/Unreal)

To put it another way. You build your 3D assets in Clara and import them into PlayCanvas to add interactivity.
I would advise you to be as experimental as possible, and see what works for you. Each person learns things in their own way. Just picking a particular path (such as using Duolingo, as others have suggested) may work. It may not. I have found that this rings especially true in technical subjects.

My personal suggestions are Duolingo, and "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards. I went from stick men to badly-proportioned but otherwise lifelike still-lifes in a few hours with this book. I have a very strong audio memory so Duolingo works well for me. The most important aspect to getting not-terrible at anything is deliberate practice [1]. Drills, and boring exercises work very well for me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)
The new Precisions are a lot less Desktop workstation replacements and more power efficient. I wonder if they still offer the same kind of performance though.
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this is FUD. reduced battery has nothing to do with a convertible form factor. You are talking about the display resolution perhaps - QHD displays are obviously more power hungry than FHD. But then again, most people want "Retina".

Software has largely matured for hotswap. Fedora 25 with kernel 4.9 is brilliant on a convertible. Windows has had it for decades.

We already use the cheaper yoga and Dell inspiron convertibles in my workplace. They are awesome. Dell and Lenovo have had many years of experience in building convertibles by now. We are talking of 500$ laptops here. The Dell 5368 hinges are well reviewed by now [1] [2]

IMHO the design of Yoga 900 (with its "watchband" hinges are unparalleled).

BTW, we are in non-Apple territory here. Replacing hinges is damn easy. You can buy a ton of them on ebay.

[1] http://www.techarp.com/articles/dell-inspiron-13-5000-laptop...

[2] http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/laptops/1404957/dell-inspiron...
Yeah but now that is all for nothing. They could release the torrent database but they're not gonna are they? There's just too much pride attached to it to let it go.
Knowledge and experience of how the market reacts to other movements. I guess you could call some of that "instinct".

Of course, they did know more than the machine did in certain situations, but not enough to make up the cost.
Some tools you might find useful: https://freedom.to https://selfcontrolapp.com/
> This is a pictorial description of the proof in the sibling comment.

Well, for starters, it was also posted an hour before that one...

But it's not the same. The sibling comment performs a change of basis. I don't.
> Just because you don't remember a time without speed cameras

Sorry... I'm not even from Texas, but I've lived here for 12 years. I do love it. And I find so much of it hilarious. The government here does everything it can to put itself out of business.

Speed cameras, for example, are banned in Texas.

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Another factor is that employee productivity growth has been very low in developed markets since 2008, as the dividends of the computer & internet revolutions have tailed off.
> Since the notion of curved path (maybe aside from circular arcs) is not discussed in basic geometry, the problem would be impossible to state.

>> It's still not a basic geometry problem

seems we're in agreement?
Just went on a trip with my recently retired father.

The effect of a total change of routine, new experiences and challenges, emotional experiences (stress, wonder, happiness), was huge.

It was the first time I saw him look alive in months.

In retirement, I think you cam get stuck in am easy, comfortable rut. As in working age life but more so. Travel to novel places, with novel people, doing novel things, can force you out of that rut. Probably worth remembering for younger rutters as well.
The T420 is a 5 year old machine, i highly doubt it can have the same battery life as a modern Haswell/Broadwell/Skylake chip.
Machine learning is "learning from data." It is not the assumption that there are no dynamics, and that the future will simply be a repetition of the past. To the extent that the future is predictable, learning from data is the best that can be done.

The reality is that speech recognition, language translation, face recognition, object classification and detection, semantic segmentation, speech and image synthesis have improved by extraordinary leaps and bounds in recent years. If we used the logic that past failures inform a confident belief that future success in a challenge will inevitably fail, then we should've bet heavily against Alpha Go defeating one of the most accomplished human Go champions in the world. Self driving cars seem like a sci-fi fantasy until they become a mundane reality.

There's an irrational arrogance to human beings in general, and Wall Street types in particular, regarding the specialness / non-reproducibility of their intelligence. It's not unlike the belief that people had that organic molecules were somehow special, "vital," and not synthesizable from base elements.

Certainly, there's a long way to go to replicate the capabilities of a human brain, but I don't think we should exaggerate or fetishisize the human power to estimate and mitigate risk. We've seen many spectacular failures of that in recent years.
Same here, I only dabble in Rust, but still looking forward to get an improved experience.

Every time a new release happens, it takes around one hour to update all VSCode related tooling.
The US govt doesn't take kindly to anyone hiding money to avoid taxes, whether that's setting up a chain of shell companies in the Caribbean or hiding money in the matress.

I disagree with your premise only because any kind of financial secrecy leads to tax evasion, and taxes are how the government exists. It sucks making money over seas and that's because all the fat cats try to stuff their money over there. Nothing against you but a fair law treats everyone the same.

Your argument rings of the "sovereign citizen" movement in the US which is basically a bunch of idiots that chant hail the USA while they simultaneously dodge the IRS.
AOT compilers for Java do exist and are quite fast.
Thanks!

I have tried to reduce the JS & CSS being used on the page. I've only included the grid and navbar components from Bootstrap's CSS framework and there is pretty minimal JS involved.

I have used Turbolinks to replace the <body> tag on each request via ajax.
Well obviously (or maybe not) it was a joke.

In all seriousness four comments:

- I bend my X1 fully around all the time, not problem with the hinges

- all X1's I have ever seen have 3-year ON-SITE warranty, your friend should call support and get it fixed next business day (where s/he is).

- Strength and "flexiness" are not related, often materials are allowed to flex to keep them from breaking. The X1s are made of carbon fibre and have sufficient strength even if our ape-brains prefer something that does not flex...

- and even if not, there is always next-day onsite warranty (mine is upgrade to 5 years - not having the option of onsite for Macs is alone a disqualifying trait for me)
Thanks for replying. When I last contacted Stripe about this. I was told that drop-shipping was against the TOS. As that is what effectively is happening here. We don't own the goods and it's the vendor who does and ships it.

Are you saying that with Connect, it side steps the TOS?

Thanks
I run Jekyll as well. It's alright for developers. Liquid templates are terrible (you can have invalid filters, use tags that aren't defined and it's all arbitrary on which one of those things will cause an error and which won't).

I had to write a plug-in to be able to get it to support multiple sites:

https://github.com/sumdog/jekyll-multisite/

(I'm working on getting tests setup in containers so I can support multiple Jekyll versions and accept pull requests).

If you're starting from scratch, I'm not sure if I'd suggest Jekyll today. I mean it still works for me, but the path has been frustrating and I've found a lot of limitations with it. I wrote a lot of custom ruby plugins to get what I wanted out of it.

I've used Middleman on another project, which was decent, but at the time it lacks some of the more complicated templating Jekyll has. It may have improved since then.

I briefly looked at Hugo. It looks interesting and is worth checking out as well.
The maintainer seems to be doing a stellar job and giving it away for free. It's a bit childish to talk about someone going missing for a month. If he got paid for it, he's be legally entitled to a vacation that's just about that long.

I can't help but think about the open source maintainer burnout that has been featured so many times. Let off your project for a couple of weeks and you have all sorts of people demanding write access to the repository. That must be up to the mainatiner and his or her vision for the project.

Don't misunderstand me. Fork away. Forks are the social contract open source software stands on. But please, for the sake for the health of everyone around us, think of what language you use. Someone hasn't "disappeared" just because they're offline for a while. Make him or her proud or their community and what they did in the meantime instead. That's also a fork, just much less of the "I took my stuff and left!" vibe.

And I realize I'm overreacting to the choice of a few words on a project I've never been involved with and never seen before, it's just that some forks are just hostile for no apparent reason whatever and it's so unnecessary.
Try all of the exotic fruits. Salak, jackfruit, sapodillas, dragonfruit, rambutan, mangosteen, durian, custard apples, and whatever else you find. Any of the familiar fruits are especially good here too (there are many types of bananas and mangoes here, for example, that taste different from any that I had eaten before). There are also fruits that I only know the Khmer names of -- /pɲiev/, /lɔŋkɔŋ/ -- that are very good and also unusual tasting (they both look like longans).

I like a lot of Khmer food but tend toward simple vegetable-heavy stir fries with okra, kale, bamboo, lotus stems, water spinach, etc. Rice porridge is very common here and usually includes bean sprouts and coagulated cow's blood plus added lime / pepper / chili (the cow's blood is great, but chicken blood tastes terrible IMO). I also eat grilled fish and grilled chicken skin on a near daily basis.
As I explained your question is absurd.
U.S. bureaucratic lingo is hilarious (F[U]BAR, FATCA[T]).

Follow the money: The civil "servants" and pension beneficiaries always profit most from such schemes. I'm not even sure that the progressives have much of a say here, though they're certainly useful idiots.
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The bulk of investment bankers are not picking stocks for funds. In the field of fund management, there are some people doing this, and it is a very common trend that passive indexes do better than the active funds - it is true.

In the field of investment banking trading (which is mostly market making) the amount of automation varies by asset class: very automated for some asset classes like fx, equities, much less for more illiquid asset classes like credit, commodities, bespoke products.

As well, senior traders operate as the 'business' making more decisions than pricing of products. They make the business decisions often judging legal, compliance, accounting risks. (and not always correctly.).

e.g.
do you accept to trade with a Dutch counterparty who wants to trade against your German legal entity knowing that you can only hedge the position in London? What is the risk between the two legal setups? What premium should you charge for those risks?

Do you trade the very large size that the counterparty wants, knowing it takes you over your balance sheet position limit - can you get approval for this from your senior management? Can you offset the position in the market without it moving against you? What premium do you charge for this?
That's why my university had a site license of Allegro CL for its SUN SPARC cluster. Thus every student had access to a useful Allegro CL installation.
It had lots of traction in the 80's up to the late 90's, with Turbo Pascal being the most successful compiler in use, up to when Borland decided to go berserk and scare everyone away with their lack of focus on how to do business.
I don't like "avoid running main", I feel like it would undermine "holistic" engineering, since you're missing out on using the feature in the context of the application.

> However, it’s also largely-wasted effort! A manual test only verifies the current state of the code base.

I don't think this is true, at least for GUIs, because manually using the UI validates that it works for a human. An automated GUI test does really only cover a tiny, tiny subset of the interaction between the human and the machine (yes, ideally "someone else would do it", but how many companies did you work for that actually has UX reviews and dedicated UX testers? Not to speak of open source).

Also and especially for larger applications I strive to get to the dogfooding point as fast as possible, because dogfooding provides invaluable feedback, not only for GUI and UX, but also for the sort of issues that tend to get overlooked in tests and reviews, eg. leaks in long-running processes, or structures that don't scale well. Dogfooding also tends to mean that the overall structure becomes relatively stable quickly, which makes writing a comprehensive test suite easier at that point, since you don't have to constantly work on both tests and implementation, but can concentrate on either.

Writing this reply made me think that I'm probably even less of a TDD person than I thought before.
I don't have projects that fits on this, but sounds like a no brainer. Abstracting the specifics and keeping the timeless is a beautiful move!
That's exactly what I am looking for but it's almost two years old and I think I tried it a few months back and got lots of errors. I was hoping to find a more up-to-date tutorial. Unfortunately LLVM people don't pay much attention to documentation and tutorials for their product.
I use https://getgrav.org/ and this is why:

- No DB. Use a flat file layout similar to Jekyll or static site generators.

- Offers dynamic features like redirecting and custom routing when you need it. This isn't possible with a pure static site generator.

- Decent optional panel to write, edit and manage almost all aspects of your site.

- Quite fast once you set it up with good caching.
What do you want to acomplish ?

If you have a community which may generally support your work with money, you should try your luck with Patreon.com

Otherwise BountySource works quite fine if your project has bugs / feature-wishes which catches peoples interest to throw money on it.

However in both perspectives, you need an audiance. Does that project have that and is the community aware of that ?

Good luck
This is not true. Some professions are based on screwing the current client and moving on to the next one. How many times do you get to buy a house? This is why most people use an agent to sell their house. They can lie without seeming they're lying (sorry was unaware of xyz...that's what the owner told me)

The incentive for the agent is actually highest cash in down payment because they don't want to deal with the bank to get their money plus they get to keep the down payment if the buyer pulls out.
As in the previous thread, I'll just cautiously mention OctoberCMS. I don't know if they will do the job, I'm evaluating it for my client projects for project briefs starting with "we'd like a CMS... "

It is just as Open Source. However, it's newer, but has just hit stable recently. A strong plugin system. Purposed built for CMS from the ground up, built on Laravel with all the nice things.
Well, an equally good question is why do programmers feel their jobs are immune from AI, etc.?
Would Alpha go beat the same human on 17x17 or 21x21? Or even 13x13?
Let's not get started about self-driving cars…
I can reasonably say that you make this comment because you know nothing about the business logic of trading desks.

A trader is not necessarily a sales or a broker, though. Nor is he a quant, or a dev. People rarely imagine how many different jobs are involved in the trading job, and how rich the business logic is. At my shop, traders are the piece that connects all of the jobs in the value chain.

I believe, currently, the business logic can be improved locally by learning systems (and it is), but there is no public example of an industrial learning application encompassing a scope comparable to what the usual trading desk handles. Sure, there are many inefficiencies ; traders work on heuristics, afterall. But I don't believe we have the necessary horizon to aptly predict the end of traders, because I don't see how we could make AIs with a better efficiency.
Rational buyer is almost an oxymoron.
I see your point, but I my feeling is that the "unknown unknowns" of the New York situation might make up a 50% difference? But we're looking at a >200% difference.

As far as I'm aware, the biggest issues with building deep tunnels like this is everything that gets in the way - other tunnels, utilities, old buildings that might fall down, and rivers. The Crossrail project in the UK has a high pice tag (£15bn) but is also much larger, and given how old London and its infrastructure is, I would imagine has had to cope with a similar number of obstacles, if not more. I imagine Paris is in a similar place given its age.
Be careful what you wish for. Enforceability is something that keeps our tax rates low relative to other countries (we have one of the lowest tax burdens among developed countries, not that you'd know it if you pay attention to our politics).

If you want to see what happens when enforceability becomes uncertain, look at countries like Greece, which are the convergence point of the process that starts with the very wealthy being trivially able to escape taxation and proceeds, normalizing tax evasion by successively less wealthy cohorts of society, until virtually nobody pays their stated tax obligations, the government raises rates to make up for it, and the entire system becomes a joke.
I'm amazed how well it works on my tablet.
I have a Lenovo laptop at home that is quite old now (A dual-core machine that I used throughout university). I am not sure which one it is, but I have been running Ubuntu on it for quite some time now, and it is actually the only of my devices that has always worked perfectly with a vanilla ubuntu installation.

Recently running 16.04 on it as well, once again an update without any issues.

Whilst on my other machines (An HP laptop and custom destkop) I always had _some_ problems with Ubuntu or other flavours of Linux. The HP laptop had the movie player problem mentioned here in the post, and had some issues with running Skype webcam/voice-chat.

The desktop had an issue of freezing up randomly, and some audio issues at first.

Currently Ubuntu is running on all these machines, but the old Lenovo laptop was the only one that in all these years worked without any issues.
The difference is that chess, go, etc are all essentially rules based. Finance has very few rules that do not break over time. Just look at QE. Arguably the financial market represents the collective intelligence of a huge amount of very clever people. Machines are only just starting to challenge a single human at a rules-based activity. We're very far from beating a brutally darwinian, impressively adaptive, human hive-mind whose main skill is figuring out when rules are about to get broken.
How do you find out / when is the right time of day to post to HN?
Though one of the new big players in FX doesn't have any traders [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-13/this-bank...
They do not ship Intel/Broadcom anymore, the current gen has Atheros ("Killer") wifi.
Agree. But even the trading you are referring to is the trading of liquid products (essentially equity). A lot of OTC trading is still very illiquid and will likely not move to electronic platforms for the foreseeable future.
1. Photo sharing platform

2. An Investment portfolio management platform.
I don't think you've actually done your research. I can see lower than average GDP growth which is what the OP said. [0]

In addition it's undeniable that the RBA has been cutting the cash rate and that just like the OP said a rise in the cash rate might pop the bubble. [1]

I don't know the sources of your opinions/information but you should consider whether they are slightly biased for some reason.

[0] - http://www.tradingeconomics.com/australia/gdp-growth-annual
[1] - http://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/cash-rate/
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> I didn't found something (yet) for JPEG.

jpegoptim --strip-all
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