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That's not quite right. You can hold a short position for as long as you want. There is no contract saying you have to close the transaction in 30 days. In that sense the otherwise excellent analogy provided isn't accurate (which isn't a problem, it's meant to be a simplification).

What does happen if the stock goes up is that your brokerage company will ask you to put up the delta. In other words, if it goes from $100 to $110 you'll be required to deposit the equivalent of $10, the delta, times the number of shares you shorted. If you shorted 1,000 shares you'll have to deposit $10,000 for every $10 of upwards movement in the stock price. If you have long (traditional stock buying) positions in your account your broker might actually sell those automatically to cover this delta.

The other important point is that this is a loan. Which means you will pay interest on the funds, in this hypothetical $100,000. The interest charged can vary. If, for the sake of an example, we assume 5% simple annual this means $5,000 per year or just over $400 per month.

I used to day trade (about 20 years ago) and would use shorting multiple times per day. I am not sure I would consider shorting for long term (> 1 day) positions. As many have said, the potential for loss is great.
Agreed. I was the engineering lead on our company's integration a couple years back, and we wound up cutting ties and sticking with our own solution.

The biggest pain points during the integration were:

* Zuora is run on a legacy tech stack (SOAP interfaces, inflexible and inextensible WSDL), and will continue to do so b/c a substantial part of the architecture & coding were outsourced overseas (as told to me by an integration consultant)

* Getting data in and out of their platform is very difficult, error-prone, time-consuming, and does not meet the high-volume demands of a digital subscription business

* ZOM (Zuora Object Model) is monolithic and hard to evolve your business around

* You need someone at your company (possibly 1+ engineering resources) to deeply understand and keep up to date with Zuora's platform. For engineers who want to learn and grow, this project is a potential de-motivator.

To be fair, we did this transition back in 2015, when Zuora was in its early stages with their REST api. Not sure how far they've come in that department since then.

Zuora appears best for transitioning brick-and-mortar shops to a digital business via their UI. If you're running an online-subscription-based business, I'd recommend:

* Stripe + keeping your data models in-housed
* checking out a modern / extensible platform like Recurly
* checking out an open-source solution like Killbill and see if it meets your set of needs
I think there is a case for both.

For many small or hobbyist projects it is not feasible to implement and test multiple UIs. If you have the resources and want a polished smooth experience then implement the UI layer natively.

That said we're not quite there with code sharing of non UI code between web, desktop, and mobile platforms. It's a niche that Kotlin is trying to fill but time will tell if it succeeds.
Agreed. If the bomb has been defused then it's only because it has already gone off.
Your comment seems even more curious: allowing more immigration will prevent old Japanese ladies from going to jail because they're lonely? Citations needed.
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Shocker, Noah Smith pens yet another of his "whig history" takes. The reality is just a few short years ago the UN updated its population estimates for the end of the century from less than 9 billion to a more likely 11 billion, and as many as 13 billion people. [1]

Nearly the entirety of that increase is because fertility rates in Africa have not fallen anywhere near what was expected, so the population there is set to quadruple from 1->4 billion people over 100 years. The 4 billion figure assumes fertility will begin to rapidly fall in line with the rest of the developing world - nearly all of the growth is already "baked in the cake" due to the extremely young population, and if TFR doesn't drop the population could well soar significantly higher. The population of Nigeria alone is expected to be more than the entire population of Europe by 2085.

Whether the fertility rate can actually be brought down is very much an unsolved question, with a history of optimistic mistakes Noah Smith is smart enough to be aware of. Combine with climate change, resource depletion, the utterly dysfunctional nation-states where this is occurring and the the meteoric rise of neo-fascists after Europe accepted something like 1/100th of the potential economic migrants/refugees as want to come, and this vapid "forward march of history" perspective looks at best cherry-picked and facile, if not disingenuous in the extreme.

[1] https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/art...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-population-...
I agree with your discomfort on Bannon's agenda, but aren't you conceptually backwards here? If Bannon is evil not because of his agenda but because he wants to bring societal change, isn't the same true for Abraham Lincoln?
"Peak danger for societies ... [is] when there's a bulge in the rates of young, unmarried men"

Could you provide a source for that? There are more unmarried men per capita now than almost any time over the last 100 years [1], yet violent crime has been declining steadily - most people can't seem to agree why, though. [2]

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/23/144-y...

[2] - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/what-ca...
No. This is an absurd victim roleplay. People’s rights to control what happens to their information is not going to make machine learning illegal. It’ll just give all users a little more privacy and make selling their data a little less lucrative.

Besides, there’s been plenty of work into improving interpretibility. Stop pushing the myth that we don’t understand anything about neural networks and they’re the biggest, blackest box since Schwarzschild.
The consequences could include things like forced mass migrations, wars over water rights, and an increase in territorial disputes among nations as land becomes more scarce than it already is. In addition, the byproducts of coal burning cause cancers and death, regardless of whether the previous stuff I mentioned actually happens (hint: it's already starting to happen).
What's that saying about "The answer to any headline that is posed as a yes-or-no question is 'no'."
As per tradition: No.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419
In what ways were Malthus' predictions rooted in "mysticism"?
Don't worry, it will be solar panels soon enough. Simply because it will be cheaper.
Tesla's bond offerings are routinely oversubscribed. The market is clearly willing to continue to give them more and more money. I therefore find the idea dubious that Tesla needed to be super aggressive with their production targets or else they would run out of cash.
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"Not cool" is telling the long-term maintainers of software what "has no place in their software" and not to fulfill user/customer requests because that'd be helping a company you don't like.

Google's influence in many parts is a problem, but people using an internal protocol they've made up is basically irrelevant IMHO, unless you have a really good argument why it is a problem.
If solar can manage to maintain even 10% of its performance growth per annum it has had in the last decade coal will be obsolete completely everywhere except in the most geographically extreme environments by 2030.

People are very much underestimating the momentum of something cheap and with minimal side effects can have on an economic status quo. Or more particularly, is already having - solar as a percentage of global energy production doubled from 1 to 2% in the last three years, and if we keep adding almost 100GW of solar per year (and cheaper / more efficient panels just accelerate that adoption, and nothing can really slow it down unless the prices regress) the planet will be 10% solar by 2025. And thats the pessimistic status quo figure.
Sure, on downhills I expect you’re getting up to 25 mph or more.
The theory sounds convincing, but if you actually look at countries with the highest rates of young males to females, few, if any, support it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio). China, Portugal, South Korea, Kuwait... these are all countries with far more young men than women, and all are stable.

I know that a country with a high male/female ratio is not necessarily the same thing as a country experiencing a "bulge in the rates of young, unmarried men", but I still couldn't find evidence to backup the claim that it would lead to crime and war. Here is a study which looked at 20 other studies of the number of males and violence and could not find a conclusive trend: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016953471...
The article states the guy says when you have n objects you have n^2 possible collisions, if you're assuming just one on one interaction and an object cannot collide with itself shouldn't it be n*(n-1)? Am I missing something here?
I don't think you can actually have the "unlimited downside" at least as a casual investor.

Nobody trusts you to be able to pay up for the "unlimited downside", so when you short stock, you are required to provide some collateral. For example USD or other stock held in your trading account. When the price of the stock you borrowed rises enough to match your collateral, you need to either provide more, or it gets used to buy the stock and repay the stock debt. You lose your entire collateral but don't get stuck with unlimited debt.

This limits the amount you can lose in total - but actually makes losing some amounts more likely. If you short a stock, but it goes up for a brief while before dropping - then you can still lose your investment at the peak even if you were correct in the long term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)#Profitable_tra...
You'd think that there'd be a low Q/A rate, but apparently it depends significantly by tag, with some tags having low rates (10-20%: http://minimaxir.com/img/stack-overflow-tags/acceptable_answ...) and some having high rates (60%-70%: http://minimaxir.com/img/stack-overflow-tags/acceptable_answ...)

And some pairs do better/worse than others: http://minimaxir.com/img/stack-overflow-tags/so_tag_adjacenc...
Article states that the board needed an incentive to keep the CEO on since he was going to retire at 65 otherwise. Wasn’t this an entirely foreseeable outcome? I mean what will be different next year for example? I looked for some market force or exigency that would force the board’s hand but didn’t see any in the article.
Yeah it’s already oxidized. Silicon dioxide is pretty much at the bottom of the energy well. The only other place to go is for SiO2 to react with fluorine.
Looking up stuff as needed is relatively common for the more free-form podcasts I've listened to in the past. There are also quite a few vlogs out there, a Tesla segment showing site content wouldn't be too surprising.

I assume there are other formats where this comes up too. Podcast-like stuff seems pretty natural tho.
It's just code in a .zip file! It's really that simple!

Hey, unrelated what does "cannot open shared object file" mean?
I mean it's bad but it's not that bad really. Obviously if everyone used the same sequence it would be very terrible.

It's marginally better than pure password reuse.

But compared to Troubador (https://xkcd.com/936/ ) it's not really worse.

It slightly mitigates the 'humans are bad password generators' trap.

Really it mainly falls down because passwords are terrible and the best industry standard solution is a shit version of OAuth where the OAuth mechanism is 'copy and paste from <InsertPasswordProvider>'.
I don't think they are successors, just different. Protobuf is a sparse wire format, whereas FlatBuffers and Cap'n Proto use a fixed-layout wire format. There are plusses and minuses to both. I wrote a little bit about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6329041#6330426

(Disclosure: I work at Google on the protobuf team)
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Facebook suspended Trump’s data ops team for misusing people’s personal info
Betteridge's law of headlines I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
T-mobile zero rates any legal video streaming service that complies with its guidelines no payments required The whole argument about zero rating is that it hurts competition. But, it puts everyone on a level playing field. The service signs up with t-mobile, t-mobile limits the stream to SD and everyone wins - the customer gets unlimited video from the provider of their choice and gets cheaper data plans, t-mobile gets to manage network congestion, and the providers services are more attractive.
And that's where some people were predicting Tesla would stumble. There are dozens of boutique high-end car manufacturers. Ferrari, etc. Price is not really too important for buyers of those cars -- in fact it can be part of the attraction (a Veblen good).

Making "mainstream" cars targeted at middle-class buyers is an entirely different thing. Sales price is a huge factor, and at that volume saving a dollar or two on any given component is something you spend time trying to do. Optimizing the manufacturing process is also critical. Chevy and Ford and Toyota know how to do all that. Tesla doesn't, yet.
Should add "write me a pseudocode vertex shader and fragment shader", and a question or two about the order of magnitude costs for switching uniforms/buffers/framebuffers/shaders.
So why not log just username or transaction id?
I don't know if I really understand your argument. You're justifying this by comparing it to CCTVs and eyewitnesses, but there isn't really any expectation that CCTVs and eyewitnesses respect the privacy of bystanders or limits on reviewing CCTV data or receiving reports of crimes from eyewitnesses in most areas.

Which isn't to say that I think we should allow limitless collection but rather that, even while justifying it using CCTVs, you're still treating them differently. I'd wager that's because it is different.
Arguably, this leaks everyones data. Anyone who was not in the area will be excluded from the list, therefore letting the police know where I wasn't at the time.

I wonder how Google show that on their transparency report? Hopefully "Accounts searched: 1.5 Billion"
Titles like this imply that there's something wrong with what he or Pfizer is doing. I don't believe that's the case. Congrats to him and to Pfizer.
"Obviously there are some other factors at work like the involvement of a foreign entity and very questionably ethics in the gathering and compiling of these massive data sets."

I think you answered your own question. Those other factors are the crucial factors that make this situation different. Crimes were allegedly committed. This isn't about using social media, it's about the alleged crimes. I don't even see how you can draw a parallel to Obama's campaign. What crimes did Obama's team allegedly commit?
> But then we eventually find that we needed more features after all, so we gradually re-implement them again until the cycle repeats.

If the protocols and standards were designed lock-step with concrete implementation, I'd agree with you.

But too much of SOAP, CORBA, yada-yada was designed _before_ any implementation occurred. So they are nasty and cruft-filled long before even version 1.0.

Protocol Buffers ain't perfect, but they've been vastly deployed and hugely battle tested, so their ratio of cruft/useful remains tolerably low.
GDPR might make certain uses of machine learning more difficult.

A hypothetical insurance company that uses ML to decide who gets offered which rate, might run into trouble when a customer asked for "meaningful information" about the logic behind the decision.

But for the same insurance company, using ML to flag possible fraud cases, and then having a human review them, seems not to pose a problem. All decisions were made by humans, the machines just showed where a decision was needed.

Of course, IANAL.
I think it's really easy to point to things that successful towns have that successful cities don't have. The only hard part about it is somewhere out there, there is of course going to be exceptions to everything. If I say "a good town has this thing that a city doesn't", of course somewhere there will be a city that has that thing. So it's always a bit of a comparison, but that's how most people approach their city selection anyway: they know what general area they want to live in (likely close to work or family) and then they compare towns and cities in that area. It's rare to find someone comparison shopping between Austin, Texas and Lebanon, New Hampshire. I'm just prefacing my answer because of course this being the Internet, someone will find an exception to the rule and use it to say the rule is completely invalid.

The biggest difference between successful towns and successful cities, I think, is the exclusivity. If you're one of five million, you're going to look for smaller groups to align yourself with. You're not connected with New York, you're connected with SoHo. You're connected with the Upper East Side. You're connected with the Village. But in a small town, you tend to identify with basically the entire town. You can feel the pulse, you know the rhythms. It's your "stomping grounds".

There are a ton of other elements we're still working on feeling out. People in towns are more likely to own their own transportation than people in cities, so any activity or business that depends on that factor will thrive more. People in towns seem more likely to stay put longer term. They're more likely to own a home. They're more likely to be connected with nature, and those towns are more likely to be centered around recreational activities like recreational (as opposed to commercial) rivers or lakes. You're less likely to have to pay for parking, which makes getting in and out of town easier.

Sure you may not be able to walk to a Starbucks. You might not have fiber Internet. You can't find a Uber, and good luck with Postmates. Amazon doesn't have same-day delivery and UPS comes later in the day, and you might have to drive a bit to get to the city. But by far the biggest thing I've found about people who live in "boom towns"? They don't care about that, because they never go to the city. They have everything they need right in their own backyard, only cheaper and easier.
Also order-of-magnitude questions about cpu vs gpu perf (arithmetic, special functions, memory bandwidth and latency)
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> It seems a sizeable chunk of most people you'll meet when you live abroad will be constitutionally unable to let go of the fact that you didn't grow up within the same national borders as each other.

So what’s the problem with that? I’m an European, currently living in Singapore. I am a foreigner (Angmoh). People know that. I know that. Cultures clash here and there but there is no problem with it.
I know it's not your intent, but that comes across like one of those "blaming the victim" questions. But as one example, the host of a podcast could be scanning for relevant discussion material during an interview. Or the user could be capturing the audio from a conference call.
The board values him enough to give him this raise. If they do not find a suitable replacement, they will be forced to do this song and dance again next year.
Perhaps the board is made up of other extremely high paid CEOs who have a hard time believing other people could do their jobs, for far less?
> Now, the Trump administration may roll back a rule that requires airlines to give passengers such as Hill the option of getting off a flight that is delayed too long on an airport tarmac. And that's not the only regulation that might be weakened or scrapped.

With or without this rule, I could never quite grasp how it wasn't tantamount to kidnapping? At least within a "reasonableness test."

Obviously if you're at 10K feet, and ask to get out, reasonably the airline cannot comply. But if you're sitting on the tarmac of an airport, there's no reasonable argument for why they cannot de-board people after a two or three hour delay. It fails the reasonableness test.

Before this rule was introduced airlines did this a lot. Several people literally set off the escape slides trying to get out, called 911, or got arrested for asserting their rights. Is that really something we want to return to?

I get that this administration is anti-regulation, but this was a hugely dehumanising situation before that isn't legal in other countries for just that reason. I'd hope if they do remove it individual states step in to re-instate it immediately.
An it still gets some of it wrong. A lot of time
Additionally, it could point to active malfeasance if they start to selectively not rollout in CA.

I don't think it would be too hard for a lawyer to pick apart any argument that the rules are that onerous that they can't upgrade in one populated state/city compared to another in another state. If anything it would make it easier to prove they're being disingenuous about upgrades I would think.
Google guarantees to actually delete your emails 30 days after you delete them from your account.

The GDPR law in europe requires them to do this for european citizens.
It sounds like your main concern is preserving the native look and feel of the OS.

I understand the argument, but I don't really understand the reasoning behind it. This is probably me being naive, but (assuming any performance problems are solved) the only reasoning I see to prefer native OS widgets would be to preserve compatibility with adaptive technologies (i.e. screen readers, OS keyboard shortcuts, high scale displays, etc), and to allow for automation of the UI.

Maintaining compatibility with adaptive technologies and allowing for automation both seem like good arguments to me. I think it would be challenging to solve those problems, but I think it could be done. Html already has mechanisms to deal with this, so I think another tool kit could take a similar approach.

Preserving the native look and feel however, doesn't seem nearly as important to me. I usually customize the look and feel of most desktop applications anyway. For example, changing the color scheme of my terminal, text editor, and IDE. I would hate it if I was forced to use the OS defaults. For example, on osx it's not possible to customize the look and feel of the iterm window, where as with hyper (an electron based terminal emulator) it is possible, and I find that I strongly prefer the later's UI (despite the electron performance issues). Even chrome allows me the ability to customize its UI. Of all the desktop applications I regularly use, there's very few these days that exclusively use the native OS widgets - at the moment evernote is the only one that actually comes to mind.

With some exceptions, users seem to manage pretty well on the web where every website already implements a different style of UI. For simple widgets like windows, buttons, textboxes, checkboxes, etc minor differences in style just don't seem like an issue to me. I think users will be able to visually identify a button even if it looks slightly different, and the advantage of allowing customization feels like a worthwhile tradeoff. For more complex UIs (like 3d renders, music editors, video editors, or games) most seem to already implement customized UI elements anyway.

What you're suggesting actually feels like a step backwards to me, so I'm genuinely interested to understand why you would want to maintain the same look and feel between applications? How do you currently customize the look and feel of your own environment?