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I've had a play with Fuchsia via qemu on linux and it has web_view so can display webpages, don't know when or if chrome web browser will arrive.
Fuschia book say it has Backwards compatibility, POSIX lite and Web runtime
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/HEAD/book.md
It looks like you're right (for C# at least): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7k989cfy(v=vs.90).a...
If only we analysed actual costs and not just numerical metrics!
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Get a masters in Financial Engineering and work in risk management.
It's because people don't understand that if you make it difficult to pay software developers who may be citizens of a different country $80000 to work in the US, companies can just as easily outsource to those same software developers, in their own countries, but instead pay them $20/hr instead.

Essentially, America was able to use its mythology as a land of opportunity and equality to convert $20/hr being sent elsewhere to getting 20 somethings to move to the US after their home country took up all the burden of paying for them being raised through their childhood and subsidizing their education and pay them to stay in the US and spend money there (and get a good chance of creating a billion dollar startup in the US instead of their home country as well).

Much like most decisions Americans have been making lately, the push to de emphasize immigration is pretty much all downsides for the US, for little to no return, other than "we stuck it to them!"
I've heard similar things about athletic training while mildly overheated. Training while overheated promotes adaptations to increase the cooling efficiency of your body. These adaptations include increasing heart rate, circulation, blood plasma volume, etc. This, in turn, promotes improvements to endurance, ability to perform in both normal and overheated states, etc.
> we're paying a full time salary but not getting full time results.

Ha! If this person isn't meeting expectations then fire them! Posting here like this says more about your dysfunctional org and management than anything.
FYI: You can only test the default videos. Trying any other (Youtube) video URLs leads to them asking for you to sign up in order to see the results.
The Interstate Highway system was also sold as a way for the military to easily move around should there ever be an invasion.
That depends on your degree level. If you have an MSc or a PhD you should be able to more or less walk onto an interview at many hedge funds, including relatively well-known ones. With less than that, it's going to be more difficult (but doable).

Many quantitative funds specifically hire math/stats/comp sci without a background in finance. The interviews will be very math/stats focused with coding (maybe algorithms) thrown in.

Don't expect $300k your first year (or second, honestly). Expect more like $150k. The lucrative compensation will be in bonus, and you (or your team) will eat what you kill. You should research the industry more so you're not walking in blind. "Quant" is an overused term and means different things. That skillset can land you in roles for execution (mostly development), strategy research (much more math/stats), risk management, trading, etc. There are few roles that will start off at $300k+ without any time in the industry, and where it happens those are generally cases of very well-known firms poaching someone from academia.
That was a different time.
Nyt just ran a piece about getting ketchup out of the bottle on page A2 of the print edition: How to Get Ketchup From a Bottle Without the Wait, Watery Goo and Splatter https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/us/ketchup-bottle-pour.ht...
Sorry, my language was vague. There are many F# books, but I find it telling that Microsoft Press doesn't really write books about it. Look at C#, VB.Net, Office, SQL Server, Sharepoint, etc. Almost everything has a new book (or 10) every new edition. F#? Nothing.
I've been using my Fitbit Charge HR as my primary alarm for almost 2 years now and it works great.

I also use it to set alarms as reminders if I have an important meeting or event.
With SQLite it works as a decent alternative to config files for many kinds of applications.
Can always look ahead to programming with entangled qubit-qutrits :-)

https://phys.org/news/2008-02-physicists-qubit-qutrit-entang...
I did not see anything when I started putting it together, but I already had a number of datasets that I put together for illustrating specific points. My favorite is a list of pairs of airport codes and the distances between them. This is a simple table, but students can have a lot of fun with a challenge like "Be the worst possible travel agent you can be. Find an itinerary from NYC to CDG, with a maximum of four stops, that will cover the most miles." Hilarity ensues as we look at the result, but it is challenging enough for beginners learning about joins, etc.

The other great thing about this type of setup is that students can feel free to experiment with deleting records and doing all kinds of things in SQL knowing that they can immediately restore everything to the initial state by hitting refresh.

The last component that I think helped the class was adding an anonymous "share" button that allowed students in the class to submit the contents of their editor so that I could run it for the whole class and we could talk about the trade-offs of different approaches.
But the guy who got the patent was the guy with the notebook who never showed it to anyone. Then when someone else got it to market he showed the patent office his notebook and then got a lot of money.

Note: We changed to a first to file in part to avoid this issue. But, now someone else can publish or even sell something, then after reading it you can submit a patent using their idea which is arguably far worse.
If you still have a .edu email address they offer a student license but I get the feeling you're doing non educational/hobbyist work so that might violate the TOS
I never went back to Apple Music after they wiped my playlists.

I used the 3 months trial and spent countless hours finding and adding all my music back. Little did I know that if your subscription is interrupted, Apple Music will wipe all your stuff immediately. I wanted to wait for the iOS10 version but as soon as i re-subscribed I just found all my stuff missing.

Other services like google music and Spotify keep your stuff in place and don't actually delete anything.

I thought this might have been a bug, but no - my girlfriend just last month switched to Spotify because of the same issue. She had to take a month break from the service and when she re-subscribed her beloved playlists have been wiped.
Just finished 3 passes hike in Everest region. Kilimanjaro is a nice effort, not easy by any means, but if you want to dive deep into area, hardships and atmosphere of 8000m peaks and Himalaya, it's far superior experience.

Carrying 15 kilo backpack above 5500m, self reliance (but that's me, feel free to hire porter/guide or even cheat with Diamox) and literally spending 9 days above 4800m is the hardest and one of strongest experience of my life.
I also appreciated the dynamic progression indicator at the top of the page. Some of these journal articles are organized and written such that there is no end in sight -
it's hard to intuitively know where you are in the article, if you are nearly the buried results/conclusion, etc. The simply indicator tracks progress through the article without having to glance at the oft-invisible right-side scrollbar.
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I wrote up a little tutorial on using m4 as a CSS pre-processor:

http://blog.00null.net/post/144763147991/use-the-unix-m4-as-...
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> "As for messengers, what would be revolutionary is if you could actually use all these fragmented messengers in a single app."

http://meetfranz.com/ does this in a maybe user-friendlier way than Pidgin (at the cost of a more shallow "integration" due to most of the supported services being non-standard, basically you're running all the clients in one place). It doesn't "remember which of the messaging apps each of my friends prefers, and routes messages appropriately" as requested below by marcus_holmes, but maybe it can start scratching your itch.
I have slack (via their irc gateway), facebook messanger, and google chat/hangouts unified in pidgin. I could pay pushbullet to get sms in there too!
I rather have my IDEs with their graphical code navigation features, regardless how the information is stored.
I am not sure if the salaries are accurate, but today data is very cheap (just search for stock market data in eBay and you can find 20 years for less than 100 bucks) and with a little python knowledge you can test any trading idea imaginable, passive ETF investing, etc...
The argument one's making is that at some point, the complexity of business rules extends the complexity of the DSL you wrote, at which point people tend to evolve DSLs until they become a crappy general-purpose programming language.

For a good example of that, see the evolution of template engines in web development. They quickly accrued conditionals, function definition, recursion, and at some point they just turned into a crappier version of PHP. The latter is doubly ironic when you see people using template engines in PHP, as if not noticing that PHP is already a better templating language.
This reeks of a transparent attempt to shame Apple into paying up, lest "something happens to that nice reputation you have there".

Apple is well-known to support LGBTQ rights. It's CEO is openly gay[-1], and used an appearance at the UN to speak for gay rights[0]. They (with him personally) do participate in gay pride events[1].

Apple just does things slightly different. They don't participate in CES, either[2], even though everyone else is there.

[-1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-...
[0]: http://fortune.com/2013/12/13/tim-cook-speaks-on-cross-burni...
[1]: http://www.cultofmac.com/327585/tim-cook-leads-8000-apple-em...
[2]: https://www.recode.net/2017/1/7/14195066/apple-ces-2017-abse...
Because the buyers are hapless fools with no means to protect themselves.
Faster pre-processor? What makes you think that is the bottleneck?

tcc can fully compile all 6MB of sqlite in 1/100th of a second.
I worked on a project that replaced an electromechanical Telex switch. Four racks of microcomputer based hardware replaced an entire floor of mechanical relays.

However it was a marvel to see and hear that thing click and clack all day, with technicians with their ear trained to detect issues and replace relays by listening to the switch.

Of course billing was done through a guy on top of a ladder taking large format B&W pictures of the bank of user's (mechanical) counters.
> Both teams played by the same rules
> and then time ran out and the other
> team won and it doesn't matter how they won.

It's more than that even. Both teams played by the same rules and one of them played better through the game. It is not the end of the game (or the result of the late train)that decided the results.

If the losing team had scored more points, if their defense had been a little better, if you had planned for traffic/delays... these are the deciding factors. The conclusion is the conclusion - but we tend to discount all the factors that made the conclusion happen.
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I am a big AirBnB fan, but I think that Uber is imploding. If Uber imploded while AirBnB was public it would drag AirBnB down as well.
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> I think a lot of people have a problem with the privacy aspect, but for us, I don't see why we would have a problem with my parents seeing the nursery at any given time, esp with the 10sec window to decline.

As someone who is 16 months into being a first-year parent, I'm going to say that if you are about to be first time parents, you are about to discover the answer to a whole lot of "I don't see see why" questions, and "why we wouldn't want to have to actively refuse rather than actively allow anyone, even our parents, to see what is going on in the nursery at will" is pretty likely to feature prominently on that list.
What happens to Steam and similar apps? (Honest question.)
It absolutely isn't. Sense of touch is very important in fretless instruments, but the real kicker is that you have the infallible feedback mechanism of your ears to help you fine tune pitch by rolling and bending your fingers.

It doesn't compare at all to touchscreen keyboards which have no feedback mechanism at all other than sight.
Yes, I mostly do market making.
That's not really how food distribution works, in the US or most other first world countries, so no.
If you enjoyed this I strongly recommend Steven Levy's Hackers [1]. Also Amazon's recent Halt and Catch Fire, which really captures the spirit of the 80s and what we called the micro revolution at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compute...
Are you suggesting the federal government intentionally sabotage our biggest economies in order to try and redistribute people? That sounds like gross federal overreach.
The height limit you're thinking of is higher. The IBC allows for five stories of wood construction over a multi-story concrete podium (often one or two stories).

http://www.structuremag.org/?p=10934

The main height limit is local politics around density, not building codes.
UWP is a locked lock, annoying, walled garden that nobody wants to write programs for,

Nobody wants to write programs for it, and the only people who run UWP programs are those who either have no choice or do so by mistake.

If we can't run WIN32 or freely write win32 programs then windows is dead.
Windows S is still Windows, but with more restriction. I don't see how giving up control over the apps is more secure. It just means you have to trust Microsoft instead of some other org making the app. With the Windows 10 privacy issues, the last thing I want to do is give up control.
You had electronic relays?

Finland had strong import controls directly after the war, so imported electronics was very expensive. Industry automation still used legacy hydraulic logic (fluidic logic) to control complex automation in pulp mill processes in 70's. It was very steampunk.

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

Hydraulic logic control is still a useful thing but nobody builds complex industry automation using them.

http://ph.parker.com/us/17567/en/hydraulic-logic-element-val...

http://www.logichyd.com/
Windows 10S will be a resounding success just like the Windows Phone.
The main driver for innovation and growth of the open web was that it is open. The diversity we got from that was tremendous. Anyone could make a website with whatever content they could think of and people all over the world could access it. There was some kind of "web neutrality" in browsers. They didn't prefer one site over the other. The second big boost came from extendability and customizability of browsers through extensions which gave people even more control over what they would consume. And on top of that, the browers became open source, a big win all around.

Opera is going the other way. They have a closed source browser that directly integrates some specific products into the browser. You can't completely get rid of them, you can't integrate another product in the same way and I'd guess an extension can't mess with these pre-packaged addons. It's nice that you can have a messenger in a sidebar next to your current browsing page. But it's taking control away from users and that's not the way forward in an open web. Why can't this be an extension? Why can't it have a feature that lets me run two tabs side by side so I can choose what products to use there?

In general I think this Opera Reborn is still far behind say Firefox or the official Chrome. Just now you can change the filter lists in their Adblocker something that adblocking extensions could do for years. Now you can change Operas theme, i could make Firefox look like whatever I wanted forever. For all the love that the old Opera deserved, I don't think Opera is the future of web browsing.
C doesn't have destructors or move semantics.
If Bitcoin doesn't have to serve "users", then it will not be able to "disrupt" anything. You'll only "disrupt" banks and credit card companies if you manage to offer "services" to their "users".
As someone who has worked in the industry, I second this. Also, the article does a poor job of delineating what strategy-category he's talking about. From context, it looks like he's talking about more of an algo/quant driven fund, which as a category is a low % of the AUM out there (most of the capital in hedge funds goes to equity long/short); in other words, to the extent the picture he paints is accurate, it's a picture of a pretty small slice of the pie.
This situation exists only because Sunnyvale has been blessed with a soil that is better for growing jobs.
Pretoria was mostly mapped by a single mapper very early in the project. There wasn't high quality aerial imagery available when he literally cycled every street in Pretoria.

Because the map "looks complete" Pretoria hasn't really attracted many mappers since his departure.

Cape Town has a much more vibrant community of mappers. I've also been able to get crazy high resolution aerial imagery for CT from the municipality which helps: http://coct.aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/
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Where does Windows Subsystem for Linux fit for the future?
Is there any economical (we'll say sub-$2K) method that an individual can produce 3D scans of typical interior residential spaces? I've taken a lot of 2D photos of various places that are sentimental to me, but I'd love to make even low-quality 3D scans if an economical option existed.

The Matterport product mentioned elsewhere in the comments seems interesting, but they specifically disclaim that they don't offer a local hosting option. Since this is for personal use I really just want the data from the scans, not a recurring service model.

Edit: I'll clarify. Is there a "packaged" scanning hardware product in the sub-$2K range? I don't follow this technology closely and I'm really just sticking my head in to see where things are right now? I'm all for cobbling together software to deal with the resulting output, but I'm not in a position where I can cobble together hardware.

I don't know enough of the associated terminology, so I sound wholly uninformed here. What I see in the linked article are point clouds, which are definitely interesting, but I'm wondering if something exists to allow an individual to capture textured scans and store/view them on their own hardware. The Matterport product looks like what I'd want (at a $3.6K price-point for the camera, and arguably with higher quality output than I desire) but it sounds like it's really a service offering and doesn't just give you the resulting data for your own use w/o their recurring service.
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TLDR: Another recent ZDnet article explains that it's a rule for desktop browsers not being allowed by the centennial packaging process. Chrome, others are win32, and would be "packaged" if it weren't for this rule.
"Isn't it wrong for a company to lie about things like remuneration and money too ?"

Yes it is wrong.

"Is it okay for companies to pay people they claim internally have the same pay (for the same work), but pay them differently based on things like location ?"

It is ok to pay different amount of money to workers living in different states (if that is what you mean). Assuming the company did not mislead the worker before accepting the job at lower paid location.
That's not true at all. Condo prices rise just like single family homes. And when you own a condo, you own a fraction of the land it sits on.

I would agree that condos tend to be more volatile than single family homes. More of them can be built quickly and when real estate prices start to drop it often starts with the condos.
You've mentioned that before. Buying financial data from Ebay sounds insane. There's all sorts of issues with that recommendation...just for one, what kind of data is it? OHLC? 1m? 1s? Tick data?

Real historical tick data costs five to six figures per year from a well-regarded source. There's a price signaling issue here - if you have legitimately identified alpha, the cost of the data is not unreasonable (just as a colocated server is not unreasonable expensive if you can capitalize on it). If someone has high quality data, why would they sell it on Ebay for that price? It signals several things:

1) They don't care about selling where their customers are,

2) They don't care about leaving (ridiculous amounts of) money on the table,

3) They are probably not going to provide any verification or due diligence for the data, let alone any support for it afterwards.

What are these people doing, scraping Yahoo Finance, throwing it in a CSV and selling it? I find it exceptionally difficult to believe that "with a little Python" you'll be testing anything close to "any strategy imaginable" using this data. Vendors that sell real data do not share many of the characteristics of a fly by night operation.
There are other privacy concerns with messaging apps: e.g. harvesting of contacts, access to media and photos and camera on your device etc. Perhaps he/she means those.
I think most people who either own or work at businesses hopefully would be smart/careful enough to not take this risk (for business purposes I personally would only use open-source software whenever possible, and at least try and encrypt sensitive emails or just use something with E2E like Whatsapp), but people using internet/email for non-commercial purposes (i.e. the majority of users) would probably not care what state actors did.
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Isn't it just as allowed as it is on iOS for example?
so, there's no reason why chrome couldn't be included in the store.

They should also get Opera and Firefox onboard.
> Is the constant-diameter property actually relevant to vending machines? It seems to me that unless you're trying to fit the coin down a "tunnel" of absolutely minimal size

A lot of cheap coin-op mechanisms put coins through an exactly sized tunnel as first step, so while it's probably not critical, it would be nice to have the coins be constant diameter as now you either need to configure your coin acceptor to be more slack or install a new one altogether.
Is there a list of apps that are missing from the Windows Store that cause friction for Windows S? I see it often called a chicken and egg problem. But I never see anyone suggest a list of what they think the eggs are.

(I don't think the problem is missing apps. My guess is that most UWP apps in the Windows Store use a tablet-ey, metro, modern ui, and nobody seems to like it much.)