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There is no fanatism involved. The no deal scenario is optimal for the EU while not so much for the UK. WTO forbids cherry picked tariffs on other WTO members and the EU export to the UK consists mostly of capital goods and final goods (machinery, cars, foods). The UK exports services which Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam lobby to get a slice of. Cross-border financial services are easier to restrict.
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This is my problem with Apple at the moment.

They are doing hard things. However, I suspect they are completely out of touch with the actual goals of their customers.

MBP is an engineering marvel. Fitting that technology, with that battery life, into those size and weight specs is incredible. However, are the sacrifices made to achieve that last 0.2 pounds of weight loss, or fraction of cms size reduction worth it? I don't think Apple is in agreement with their customer base here.

Swift. It's a really nice language, but was there any reason for Apple to invent a completely new language? The problem for Apple was Obj-C, but there are many other languages that could have worked as well. Even if they did need to invent a wholly new language, the marginal benefits just don't seem appealing.

The new keyboard mechanism has only led to a keyboard that at best is considered an improvement by as many people as those who consider it a downgrade.

Metal. Nice, but once again, did Apple really need to invent their own graphics subsystem which cannot be used on non-Apple platforms? How does that help anyone outside of lock in for Apple?

Apple Watch. Nice product, but WatchOS3 was basically what OS 1 should have been.

I think Apple has been doing a lot of things. I get the feeling the percentage of those things which are actually aligned with what customers want, or make life easier for customers, either due to NIH or due to wanting to create lock in, is extremely limited.
> Since the exchange functions as a market maker, do they also make money on the spread ?

Market makers take a spread. They provide liquidity at a cost.
Come to Winnipeg. ;)
We won't sell. We won't give away. We will comply with our requirements under UK law (which is neither selling nor giving away).
On a not so related topic, the European Medecines Agency has its headquarter in London. I am not sure they are planning anything but it would be weird if a regulatory agency was working from outside of the area they are regulating.
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Right. It's like "silently" removing session and non-session cookies when the windows closes. That's the whole point.
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Is that a Ghost issue or a nodejs issue? I understand that it can be made to work on FreeBSD. What's the problem that prevents it from working on OpenBSD?
That's just the teaser. Please visit hellolyra.com for the real thing.
Sorry, I should have made it clearer. I ranted likea personal thought than a definitive statement.
The teams work on different projects. The diversity and experience of its members are different. They are not strictly comparable.

But, looking at both teams from above, it feels like the non agile team is very simple and it works. The agile team is more complicated and works only on paper.
No extra hashes needed for an all caps version or inverted case version of a password, just perform those transformations on the user input, hash, and compare the result to the single stored hash.
If your N samples are independent and distributed with the same error sigma, then the error of the averaged result is sigma/sqrt(N). (And of course, sqrt(4) = 2.)

You can calculate this directly by computing the variance of a sum of independent Gaussian random variables. Can't find a great link for further reading, but someone else might be able to help you out.
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It refers to a respect for language and for the user's concentration and attentional resources.
Try google.com
I agree. I worked for one startup which got bought. The founders made money. All of the employees lost money.

One of the founders reached out to me a few years later, asking me to join his new startup as employee #2. I said "yes", but only if I made 10% of what he made. The answer was "No". OK... maybe 1% of what he makes? "No".

Thanks, but no thanks. If you admit that you're not going to share the benefits, I have no reason to get involved.
It is under active development they just haven't released a new version. The preferred way to deploy it via GCE or Scaleway will use the latest dockerized version. They update it from time to time.
> Is mobile different? Is it easier?

It's easier to get adoption for mobile, I'd think.

Database component designed for use by mobile applications: something you base an app around

Database server: something you base your business around
I find microservices can help in just keep everything small and focused. I know you can do this with a monolith. But having a process boundary really enforces it.
I think it's more accidental fires from squatters.
You appear to be arguing false causes from which you draw irrelevant conclusions.

Firstly, the reality is that other people (lenders), rather than exchanges, are lending out their money, for a certain amount of interest. Exchanges have nothing to lose. Quite the opposite: they earn regardless of whether longs and shorts are successful or not. Take Poloniex as example: they collect a 15% premium on interest earnings. This is of course next to the premium they collect in the form of regular trading fees.

In nearly all cases this means that lenders don't lose money. Borrowers do because they pay interest. This is why you can only borrow after you allocate collateral, which is used to pay for said interest, and to collect profits, cover losses, and for forced liquidation in the case that the borrower's trades are about to lose more value than is covered by their collateral. This applies to shorts and longs.

The only chance this becomes problematic for an exchange, I think, is when a forced liquidation does not cover all of the losses and some debt stays open. In this case either the lender does not receive the right amount of interest, or, what makes more sense to me, is that the exchange will cover the debt and try to claim it back from the liquidated borrower.

Secondly there are a good number of exchanges that do have very decent track records and aren't as scammy as you claim. There were a few scammers out there, I'll grant you that - companies like Cryptsy and of course MtGox just stole incredible sums of money. And yes, this can happen again with other exchanges. Be that as it may, this still does not have anything to do with the possibility of shorting in particular.
MiFiD II says that any country that has regulatory 'equivalence' effectively gets a financial passport, EU membership not required.

The UK would obviously qualify, as it's currently obeying all the same regulations as other EU countries. The problem is that it's Brussels which decides what 'equivalence' means and it's a black box decision. It can be revoked at a months notice.

You'll notice that zero of the EU's leaders are talking about MiFiD II or equivalence. They're all planning on how to carve up people's lives and jobs instead. It's as if these rules do not exist.

That's not surprising. The EU has a long history of ignoring its own rules when they conflict with political priorities. The best example being that the treaties forbid eurozone bailouts as clearly as it's possible for the treaties to do, but they happened anyway.
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I could be wrong but the only other database I've been able to find, with the ability to subscribe to events, is GunDB (http://gun.js.org/).

The only other option is to put something in front of a DB like FeathersJS, or deepstream.io

RethinkDB is a breath of fresh air and I really hope the community will be able to keep it alive.
More than half the population lives on the coasts. Most of them are "regular people", too.

The problem with our tax code is the same as the problem with the rest of our laws: pandering politicians push through complex and expensive trash because it makes either their constituents or their donors happy.

For taxes specifically, normal people have complex taxes because of the dozens of deductions and credits that hide the handouts (to the wealthy and the poor alike) built into the system. In a sane tax code, there would be no standard deduction or mortgage deduction or earned income tax or alternative minimum tax. There would be a set of tax brackets (adjusted to compensate for the loss of all the complexity) and very little else.

Of course in a sane system, the government would just file your taxes and send you a statement along with a refund or a bill. They have all the relevant information with the exception of some itemized stuff they can't know about, but they could just eliminate that and simplify.
I doubt Zuckerberg is that naive. There's a big difference between a kitchen table and a quarter-mile long open room with a thousand people having conversations in it. How many people started[1] a multi-billion dollar company from the latter?

[1] I want to emphasize started not worked at.

To answer your question, Microsoft famously gave developers private offices through much of the 90s and I think early 00s while they were becoming successful enough to be sued under the antitrust laws. So, there's one example for you.
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I really like this concept. I hope to see more on the subject!
the article is about doing this on a dozen chinese exchanges. no currency conversion necessary when it is all CNY
Yes, everyone in there knows that scrum meetings should be short, but somehow those meetings take long, because everyone thinks their questions needs answers and their dependabcies definitely must be resolved.. so, an hour it goes.
Honest question: what percentage of unicorn start-ups are outside of the US?

Being modestly familiar with legal restrictions around closing offices in France I'd be surprised if the scene there was massive.
> $100k isn't much money. If you've taken stock in lieu of $15-$20k/yr salary, $100k is pretty easy to make up (especially considering that many bigger, established companies also pay bonuses and have a better structure for vacation and such).

I'm not sure I follow. If I agree to be underpaid by $20k a year say then I'm not sure how I'd then on reduced salary save up $100k after tax and to the extent I wouldn't "miss it" in exercising the options. If a company is paying bonuses etc I'd rather get the market rate salary to begin with and ignore the stock. I may be heavily misunderstanding your first sentence though :)

The lockup period post IPO is an excellent point - and probably further fuels my cynicism around low percentage stock options as anything but a gamble.
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Seems very reasonable to me. Similarly, I just had a friend comment that they like that Facebook tells them when they try to log in with an old password. But technically that makes it less secure for people who reuse passwords (ie everyone, to a first order approximation).
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Nifty. The microsecond gamers even salami slice run of the mill orders to skim profit from you.
Isn't Paris also cheaper?
This would be true ... but only because people don't understand how to leverage and negotiate using their power. Engineers have historically been unable to organize large movements and work together. The size of most of these unicorns is still under 2000 people, with less than 4-500 engineers. This means that if you really want to you can "lead a revolt"

Think about it -- any engineer at these companies can easily leave... but imagine if half the engineers left. The company would go down in flames. People need to work together to have companies pass policies that allow them to have longer periods to exercise.

BTW anyone that understands corporate law needs to understand that the fact that you "must" exercise your options by exorbitant amounts is simply a (very dirty) retention tactic. The company can choose not to buy back your unexercised options at par-value for as long as it wants. The fact that it is "policy" to buy un-exercised options is complete bullshit.
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Thanks! I'll give it a shot
I read it to mean "on HN".
Do you think it would survive a legal challenge?
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It wouldn't have to be the US. It could also be Russia or China (perhaps less likely).
No you can't.
Great idea!
However installation instructions are a little misleading. It says I only need Python 3, while in reality I need a whole bunch of things to be installed already. Is there a list of all requirements?

Also, does it work on Windows? "DL for dummies" code should run on Windows :)
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You're proving my point. From my post:

You can always tell when there's a true fanatic in the room because the reasonable people start blaming each other for the "inevitable" consequences

From your post:

The UK voted for Brexit, you just cannot ignore its consequences. Deal with it

London handles transactions for nations and currencies around the world. If other countries had the same attitude the EU does, there would be no such thing as a "financial capital" because dollar transactions could only be processed in the USA, Yen could only be traded in Japan, etc. Nowhere would get critical mass and London wouldn't have any real financial services industry. It doesn't work like that.
The documents are here https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/
This is correct. To put some concrete numbers on it, I'm in my 6th year at a startup. In 2016, I spent $6,400 to exercise ~50,000 options that had a total FMV of ~$60,000. This is going to add over $7,000 to my 2016 taxes due to AMT.

If you're single and your income is over $115K, or if you're married and your total income is over $150K, there will be tax implications for exercising your options, unless you exercise them when the spread is $0.
I'd say just the opposite. Probably a lot of people think they need deep learning and complex neural networks, when they could create value with just linear / logistic regression. Note that I'm talking about simply delivering business value here, not doing ML research per-se.
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Taxes on income (share value - option strike price) become owing on option exercise.

If the company is not a CCPC and the value of the options at grant-time were less than the share value, you may qualify for a 50% deduction (bringing it in line with capital gains), subject to some conditions (arms-length dealing, etc).

If the company is a CCPC, you can defer the taxes until the shares are sold. If sold within 2 years, you pay full income tax. If sold after 2 years of holding, a 50% deduction applies bringing it in line with capital gains. CCPC status of options are grandfathered in so if the company loses CCPC status, your options continue to qualify.

Keep in mind that going bankrupt/company sale are forced sales of your shares, which could hit you with a big tax bill and since that tax bill is income (not cap gains), the capital losses of the sale cannot be used to offset it!

CCPC employees should also look at the lifetime capital gains exemption (LCGE) of $750000 to reduce taxes on the capital gains following exercise, and the allowable business investment loss (ABIL) which can be used to halve the tax owing in the downside case. In theory, the 50% deductions mentioned above and the ABIL stack to reduce the tax owed to 0.

The problem with all of this stuff is that when you exercise, there is no way to know what deductions you will qualify for under various hypothetical scenarios.

It feels like tax laws just aren't set up to deal with the notion of illiquid shares and fairy tale valuations.
It's a verb now. When it happens to you, you've been zuckerburged.
One doing Agile and the other basing on wikis and Adhoc in-person whiteboard discussions.

The ad-hoc approach also sounds quite agile (at least with a small 'a'). It's certainly closer to Agile than to Waterfall, assuming they didn't do a big design up front before writing any code.

I think the ad-hoc agile approach can work very well with a good team. But Scrum fans always seem to warn against cherry-picking just the bits of Scrum you like and not using the whole process.
> advantages like being able to optimize for the exact machine you are executing on or even recompiling at run-time after profiling the running application and determining useful optimizations based on the actual work load

Do you have examples (incl. measurements) for optimizations actually performed by a Java JIT compiler, which an ahead-of-time compiler can't perform due to a lack of runtime info? It is my understanding that those analyses and transformations which eke out the last few percentage points are so expensive that they're infeasible to do at runtime.
Some segregation is inevitable. It's a result of complexity. At a certain point, the company becomes too big and complex for everyone to be doing everything, and you need to specialize, not just distribute the work.

The Product/Customer divide makes sense to me, because what you do about them is different. Sure, customer steers product and vice versa, but the "Customer" machine is about sales funnels, marketing language, customer service, etc. The "Product" machine is about specs, coding, release schedules, etc. Implementing a new feature and selling a new feature are different tasks, requiring different skillsets.
In the “Graphic” section, the use of polar charts colored by the temperature anomaly makes for a nice visualization.
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> This is the established course for Apple. Take it or leave it.

Umm no, share holders and the board definitely has a voice and I think we are not too far away from Tim leaving as CEO. Normally they'd give a guy like this a year maybe 18 months to right the ship, the only reason why it would be longer at Apple is because their development and release cycle is absurdly long. If it takes 3+ years to upgrade each product line, he might get 3 more years at the helm before they politely oust him.
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I don't see why being a non-profit means being also a no-revenue.

Add a paid layer, with premium features. Make premium features a gift option to other accounts, so that it could be a token of appreciation.

Add a paid layer with the only paid feature being a "proud supporter" badge. Surprisingly many people take pride in that when it costs them a $5.

Add a donation button, run donation campaigns. It works for Wikipedia :)

There's no need to avoid being paid.
Thanks! Case inverted makes sense. They can invert the case before hashing and submitting. If any of the four hashes match the stored hash, they get in.
1) The best tool is useless if people can't avail of its power

2) True. Microservices are usually premature optimization

3) True

4) CI is a good idea regardless of using microservices or not

5) You might elaborate this item
highly recommend checking this site out: https://osmihelp.org/

and there's a forum devpressed.com I think is the address, the corporate firewall won't let me go to it for some reason though.
because it is only used for what this article describe and to smuggle money out of china.

both uses can be crushed very easily and then you will end up with a highly devalued good.
I helped an ex of mine work through the negotiations of an executive pay package. Everyone that's been around upper-management is fully aware of this and works clauses into their contracts to prevent it. It's such crap.
>This is the established course for Apple. Take it or leave it.

Heh. No. That's not how publicly traded companies work. Tim Cook is not an Autocrat.
Cashless exercies aren't really an option pre-IPO.

This ends up creating a regressive tax on people that don't have cash laying around for early exercising.

People with more cash on hand can exercise before the stock goes up, so they pay much lower taxes, but they pay them earlier, and lose more if the company tanks.
Can you share the expected results? I don't have 5 random adults with me right now. ;) And Google does not turn up anything useful (only paywalled papers).
Credit card accounts with Bank of Montreal (one of Canada's largest banks) allows for a password of exactly 6 characters. No more, no less.
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Thanks! Mr Norrell here from the Lyra team.

A subscription to Lyra costs £2.99 (about $3.70) per year. That's cheaper than a shit coffee. (Member of the team here)
Financial independence is when time != money.
> [Consumer and worker protections] restrict their rights and forces them to follow government preferences over their own.

The problem is this adorable libertarian dedication to freedom and voluntary interactions naturally ends the second any employer or commercial neighbor says it ends. Such an arrangement produces freedom for the boardroom and nobody else.

No thanks - we can all see through this horseshit by now.

>How delusional you are. There are a ton of statist and/or left wing think tanks and public policy research institutions.

And on the basis of influence over public policy, your argument is that these think tanks you name are somehow responsible for the really existing world under late capitalism: its skyrocketing levels of privatization, plummeting protections for workers, employees and neighbors, all-time lows in union membership, increasing latitude for business interests, monumental struggles to merely obtain wages that match the heightened productivity of modern workers, etc.

That's a, uh, novel argument you've got there. Might even be delusional.
In this, as in so many other ways of life, anybody saying 'political correctness' in seriousness can be ignored.
A "1 hour daily standup" is not agile. The point of a stand-up is just that... everyone can stand because the meeting is so short. Ideally 15 minutes max.
You're also proving my point.

There is no actual, fundamental requirement for anyone to move anything anywhere in the wake of Brexit. The reason people have described this as "inevitable" is because the EU can be assured to mandate it, even though they don't have to, even though other regions don't mind having financial services provided by the UK.

You're treating the EU's behaviour as if it's the laws of physics. That's how you know that there are fanatics in the room: people stop treating their behaviour as something that can be reasoned with, and start treating it as if they were some artifact of natural laws.
I haven't seen many start-ups that didn't break the law in some way or another. Sometimes out of sheer ignorance and other times out of expedience. Hell, Airbnb and Uber are built on breaking the law.
Thanks for your comments!

We simply charge £2.99 per year. We won't block any features from unpaid users unless we're running at a loss.
So don't worry about the 1,000 HSBC (and other bank's) traders that will have to move if we lose Passporting. It's OK because we're getting 60 from the Netherlands.

I don't think London's status as a financial hub is seriously under threat. Most of the business we do doesn't rely on EU financial services passporting rights. But that part which does will have to move, if we lose those rights. For example clearing trades for exchanges on the continent is another area where London has hoovered up most of the business from across Europe, but those gains will have to be unwound if we lose Passporting.
Are any of them doing multicast market data yet?