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> because in most markets moving the market you will lose money to slippage. The market price will retract after you bump it.

That's not slippage. Slippage is when you get filled at a higher (or lower) price than you were expecting. Prices moving up when an asset is bought is normal on traditional exchanges as well.
Agreed. I was just reacting to the parent's comment that

> Non-differentiable here doesn't mean actually non-differentiable in the mathematical sense, it just means that the function does not expose a derivative that is accessible to you.

I read that as meaning that the loss functions being considered were differentiable in the mathematical sense, it was just hard to calculate the derivative.
The government doesn’t just back student loans, it makes the student loans. The government is the lender. More than 90% of all student debt is carried on the government’s books.
There's an old adage that headquarters is wherever the CEO works. Most major corporate headquarters moves are to be closer to wherever the CEO calls home. Taking that adage to its literal extreme there will only ever be 99% remote companies as effectively the corporate headquarters is still the CEO's home. Though of course the adage isn't meant to be taken solely literally, and its more just a lens into a power relationship, and even a "majority remote" company may still need (or unintentionally build) the power of a headquarters on paper. (Maybe not directly to make the CEO happy, but accountants for tax reasons, shareholders for accountability reasons, or other reasons.)
Personal take: any government that can selectively silence speech is too powerful. Troll farms are a problem, but government is a horrible solution to that problem. What we need is a mechanism for digital proof-of-human. Ideally this would be decentralised, but there's no obvious way to do this well (I consider the web of trust model easily exploitable if used at scale). Estonia has a system for verifying humans that's available to non-citizens, but then we're trusting the Estonian government. The best solution I have to propose would be a series of independant governments/corporations identifying people, and an open source system for checking credentials against the APIs provided by a group of these institutions. If you're verified by Estonia, Russia, Facebook, and WeChat, you're unlikely to be a fake human. If Facebook is refusing to verify humans that seem real and get verified by other sources, we can drop them from the list of verifiers. I want a better solution, but this is the best I have so far.
> If a job was truly an even exchange of value between employer and employee, I would expect to see some people working 7 days a week and making 40% more than me, and some people working 3 day weeks and making 40% less.

Why? There are plenty of concentration effects that go against this; e.g. it's better for everyone to work the same hours for communication reasons.
I think I know why it is susceptible to deadly hugs: "This site is being served to you by a real, live Alpha Micro Eagle 300 running AMOS 2.3a and AlphaTCP!"
It's the usual refrain: "How dare you like this [popular thing] I've never done and have no interest in." Usually followed by: "People like you are the reason [other thing] is gone."

I'm not sure it's tribalism that causes folks to respond this way, per se, but it has some elements of it. I suspect all hobbies and pursuits in life deal with such negative reactions - it's certainly a thing in all the hobbies I've had. (Who knew model railroading was such a warzone?)

Best thing a person can do is shrug and move on from the haters. Be glad you found something you enjoy that doesn't involve tearing other people down.
Being ten or fifty fake personas - pretend people who don't exist - is poisoning the limited capacity information channel that we all have available to interpret the outside world. Bad information drives out good, to paraphrase a classic.
The one that offered an online form requested a copy of a government issued id to confirm identity. How long til someone poses as one of these agencies to collect data too?
Is Microsoft now contributing to Chromium development?
As a Bay Area single-family home owner, I do not see how I am benefiting from increased housing prices. I have lived in my home for almost 10 years and expect to live in it for another 20. I don't rent it out or derive any income from it. My home is not a "money source".

The only visible effect of increasing home prices in my neighborhood is a slight increase in my tax bill every year. It's arguably unfair that Prop 13 means my tax bill doesn't go up more proportionally, and that people who bought 20 years ago pay a tiny fraction of what I pay, but that's a topic for a different thread.

I don't even know how much my house is worth anymore. I don't care. It doesn't affect my life at all. I'd oppose a 100 unit high-rise apartment being built next door to me not because of housing prices, but because there'd be 100 more cars on my street which is made for far fewer. There'd be 100 more noisy neighbors partying at all hours. There'd be 100 more kids in my daughter's already overcrowded school. I'm not a real estate investor. I don't care about supply and demand and market prices and all that crap.
Having never played it, I love Fortnite, Minecraft, CoD, etc. It keeps all the little kids out of games I actually enjoy.
Are the people who actually teach the classes (professors who teach and TAs) getting raises matching the tuition raises in your school? Or, is all of the money diverted to administration?
That's an excellent reason to avoid using apps.
They don't even have big time athletics and facilites, do they?

And probably a huge endowment that if properly applied would remove any need of tuition.
Being able to write algorithms is a different thing than being able to do it without any reference or documentation on the state of the art, basically from scratch and from the top of your head, as commonly found in interview situations.

The point is that as an interviewer/employer you risk not getting the information you've asked for. Someone who is able to memorize interview algorithms isn't necessarily a good fit for the role you are trying to fill. Forcing people to memorize the details of these concepts just to comply in an interview is often a waste of time for both parties.

Even as a gamedev/ML guy you don't have to reinvent the wheel everyday. You have to understand what is available, judge about the pros and cons of different solutions, pick the right one and build a good system. Preferably on time.
And it seems unlikely that Ethereum's 100X rise in 2017 had nothing to do with the ICO boom.
I'm all for this kind of FB branding on all of their apps. Will be easy to know what not to use. Google should do the same.
Natural pricing is determined by supply/demand, but prices can be artificially adjusted without regard for economic considerations. Housing is more open to artificial adjustments in price, because of its fixed nature. There is only one given property at a given address and the owner can set any price they want until somebody pays irrespective of currently available demand. Everything in the housing industry is a commission rate based upon property value percentage so everybody in that business will push for the highest price possible. The only motivators to reducing pricing are timeliness and government interference.

As a vaguely related example the 2008 housing crash was the result of artificially adjusted supply without regard for demand or prices.

Pricing is also directly adjusted when the FED changes interest rates.
Meanwhile, mad men fight nuclear because of their own brain bugs.
Show me a definition of startup from a reputable source that claims that scaling up quickly is a requirement. All companies start off by being a startup [0]

[0] - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/startup.asp
Very well put. My current company falls in the category of tribal knowledge. It's chaos :). People work 10 hours a day with more than 4 hours of meetings and nothing gets done. People at all levels delegate work downward and setup meetings to get 'status'.
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But that's not an interpretation of that phrase at all.
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Yeah, I meant that by some thought one should have realized the answer was unexpected/off, but as the article states one does not really think about that when using a calculator.

The parantheses are just how it looks on that model, I tried inputing the exact same sequence on multiple calculators.
Yes because Apply offering housing to their engineers making 20x the average American's salary is just like serfdom...

If McDonalds starts doing it then maybe I'll feel a bit more outraged.
No electron application use private APIs, it's the embedded chromium that do.
Thanks for sharing. I can see how it would be a big tribal knowledge magnet and skillset to add to your payroll early on.
That's also exactly my experience. Thankfully (maybe?) society recognizes that I'm too mentally deficient to do it on my own, so they pump me full of amphetamines so that I can be a good boy at and get my work done.

It would be a worse situation for everyone if I wasn't given the drugs, but there's something awfully dystopian about the whole thing.

I can't wait to be done forever.
yeah, but I'm pretty sure that mess is all Outlook.com underneath. I use gmail but also have an outlook account under the new service.
I've seen the job ads, but never knew that this was what it meant. Thanks.
Can you elaborate on that last part?
Absolutely! I wish those companies would get this more. It's time to move those jobs to places that appreciate growth, places that want growth and deserve growth.
I broadly agree, but with one exception: I think it should be allowed to volunteer for alternate weekend days. Working on Sunday and Saturday should be totally fine for someone who is neither Catholic nor Jewish. My country is in the process of eliminating working Sundays, and it kinda forces people to do giant shoping on Saturday, while limiting leisure options on Sunday (no aquapark etc). That kind of opt-in should be fixed in the contract.
The issue is whether they're using level or edge triggering with epoll.

With level you won't miss events, with edge if you have a process crash you might.

It's a trade off.
Ross is a good school especially if you want to work in marketing, and has a very strong Chicago network.
> This system allows the wordmark to take on the color of our individual brands, creating a clearer relationship between the company and the products we build.

I think they're being disingenuous here (it's Facebook, so I guess that's expected). If their new brand takes on the colors of its environment, it sounds more like camouflage than "creating a clearer relationship."

If they really wanted to create a clearer relationship between their products, they should draw attention to their brand logo, and the highly-recognizable and visually jarring blue Facebook logo would do that far better than what they're proposing here.
That is a perfectly reasonable sentiment. It is the essence of a specialization economy. Skills that bring more value to the market can take away more resources from it. From each according to ability; to each according to the best deal they could negotiate in exchange for their abilities.

One can state a fact without making it into a brag. Saying, "I get paid more than you" is not the same as saying, "I am a better person than you", despite the culture that the rich prefer to cultivate that equates the two. A person that gets paid $15/hour is the same amount of person as someone paid $100k/year. The latter is "more valuable" only in the economic, marketplace sense, and gets roughly 3x the resources for the same amount of labor, which likely does not involve work that requires separating ass from chair.

If you don't pay people more to acquire the difficult skills, they won't bother, except in rare cases.
I think that's not an unreasonable thing to expect at all. If the libraries you're using make that impossible, then you shouldn't use those libraries. You should know what you're shipping.

As a developer, I'm honestly and utterly stunned to see other developers arguing otherwise.
Memories: I worked at Alpha Microsystems from 1979 to 1985.
Kind of off topic, but I'm very much a fan of the "shrinking their menus" effect. Restaurants have way too many things on their menus. This usually means that they aren't very good at those things leading to lower quality food. Smaller menus generally mean a restaurant is going to be more focused, and able to produce quality food. I'm all for quality food.
With what we know about the likelihood of major data breaches, even if you liked Sift, and thought their purposes were noble, you would have to admit that they are one big sitting duck for a targeted hack that could provide you with massive amounts of aggregated information on an individual.
Oh boy. Considering that the most authentication that happens seems to be based on government IDs (which are well within the capability of any government to fake in such a way that a random startup would be fooled), this could actually be a serious problem for any dissident who is high-profile enough to attract personal attention from a state.

(On that matter though, how hard is it to fake a convincing scan of a government ID? Do any GDPR data controllers actually verify with the authorities that John Example has a passport with number soandso that expires on soandso?)
Tether is starting to look like a Madoff-scale Ponzi scam. What maintains the $1 price of Tether is a continual net inflow of cash. Tether is known not to be backed with sufficient real assets.[1] If there's a period of net outflow from Tether, the whole house of cards comes crashing down.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tether-reverses-claim-of-1...
The "A" and the "K" are fascinating. Almost imperceptibly bent, they round and soften what would otherwise be quite an authoritative logo. The "B" also has a belly. The whole thing is definitely meant to look a little friendly and approachable.
>funroll loops

Reads like it came right from the Gentoo ricing guide.
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If you have an adversarial mindset (which is absolutely healthy) and want to understand it well enough to not immediately come up with counterarguments whose only valid reply is "RTFM", yes, it takes at least 20 minutes. But regardless, I'll bite.

DAI has a couple of intended use-cases. I will focus here on the "stable coin" asset, meaning you should be able to expect it's value to not go up or down over time. It is inherently debt.

The main component of DAI is "CDPs", Collateralized Debt Positions. There is a smart contract on the ETH blockchain. Smart contracts are computer code on the blockchain that are "open trustless execution", meaning you can inspect the source code, verify that it matches the deployed bytecode, and be certain that any transaction follows the rules. In DAI, there is no entity that can even theoretically exit-scam you.

The configuration parameters of this smart contract is set by votes by the holders of the MKR token. This token is traded on public markets and is the speculative token of the ecosystem.

You can deposit assets into this smart contract. The current version of DAI only takes ETH, but the intention is that MKR holders will consider any significant asset representable on the ETH blockchain. This includes other stablecoins (think fiat-backed tokens), tokenized equity or government bonds (which have already been issued on the ETH blockchain), tokens backed by commodities like gold, etc.

When you deposit assets into the smart contract, you get DAI in return, representing a loan backed by the deposited assets. How much DAI you get in return is determined by an oracle (meaning a smart contract providing data external to the blockchain). This oracle is aggregated from several other oracles, similarly public and approved by the MKR governance. In general, the system is over-collateralized at any point in time.

There is an incentive and liquidation system around the whole things that goes a bit further to ensure that the price remains stable despite fluctuations - and so far the DAI/USD price has remained really close to 1 throughout the ETH/USD long bleed of 2018, including short periods of high volatility.

There is some degree of risk involved of course, most notably including the oracle price feeds. There is a road map to both increase transparency and decrease the possibility of collusion between oracle providers.

There is also the "emergency shutdown", which involves freezing and instant liquidation, but this comes at a big cost to the MKR holders who have to approve it.

Despite having been running for several years and having dozens of people (I think over 100 now?) it is, of course, still to a large part an experiment that is still evolving. But so far it has been performing better than I thought. And there is no way you could call it a scam.
They should spend $2.5B on lobbyists to remove the restrictive apartment & house building laws in the first place.
Let's keep these generation bait articles off HN. They're just vehicles for projection, leading to angry arguments about—literally—generic identity. We don't need that here; we need not-that.
It doesn't. What makes it corrupt is that banks are not in fact strictly regulated, it only appears that way. But there is no way I can prove that to you in an HN comment. I would have to write a book. I can point you to a lot of circumstantial evidence but there is nothing probative in the public record (see below). The only definitive evidence I have of the corruption in the system is my personal experience, some accounts of which I have published on my blog. But if you don't put credence in my conclusion, then you will likely not put credence in my evidence either, because I can't prove any of it. The only way I can prove it is to invite you to undertake the same journey I did. If you do that, I predict you will learn first-hand the same thing I did: the system is corrupt, and whether or not you succeed in penetrating it will ultimately depend entirely on whether you have the right connections and whether they decide that you can be trusted to toe the line on the unwritten rules, the first of which is that you never talk about the unwritten rules to anyone who is not a member of the club.

Note that I never joined the club, so my theory of the unwritten rules is pure speculation. No one ever sat me down and said, "Look, son, this is how it is..." But I did spend ten years of my life on this, and during that time I accumulated a lot of evidence that I have a very hard time explaining in any other way. It eventually led me to a serious existential crisis.

BTW, it's not just the financial system. Academia is corrupt in much the same way, and in that case I did join the club so I can speak to that with some authority. That experience is one of the things that allowed me to recognize what I was seeing in the financial industry. But both academia and finance are centuries-old industries. They have become very skilled at hiding their corruption from prying eyes, and a big part of the strategy is making it appear that anyone who accuses them of corruption is a crackpot. (Which is, of course, exactly what a crackpot would say, and that, too, is part of the strategy. It's a horrible catch-22.)

So you have to decide whether to believe me or not, whether you think I'm a crackpot or not. Before you jump to a conclusion I invite you to look up my record. My life is pretty well documented on the web.
Thanks! So if I understand correctly I still need an azure account for self hosting, although nothing will be billed?
Hi! We don't have a public road map with content updates, but I think about creating one (you are not the first person who asks about it).

We try to balance between editor updates and content creation. Of course, with more resources, there are more possibilities ;)
I think bubble sort is used in beginner CS classes because it's easy to understand the operation and the complexity. It makes a good prologue before moving on to more efficient sorting algorithms.

I only remember it because a machine language book for the Motorola 6809 used it as an introductory program.
The solution is not regulate it. The solution is to stop pretending like social media have anything to do with reality.
Yeah, I would be more fine with employer provided healthcare if people had to pay taxes on it.

I work at a small company and around the ACA times they told us they were weighing their options: removing healthcare benefits with a corresponding bump in pay (including tax ramifications), or keeping healthcare. At the time they let us know what they were paying, and it was a shitload - something like $18k/year for my family of 3.

They ended up keeping healthcare. And now I have a family of 5. No clue what they pay, but I'm sure it's a ton.
Isn't this against most brand consistency standards? I've seen so many branding guidelines be very strict about changing colors/backgrounds.
Wonderful news! For an article and radio show about the change, see [1]. One important purpose for the Tribune is as voice for the non-Mormon (or progressive Mormon) community in Utah; I'm glad they are able to stay alive.

I wonder if this change will allow the Tribune to more easily accept articles written for free by people in the community. Or otherwise accept work for free.

[1] https://radiowest.kuer.org/post/salt-lake-tribunes-nonprofit...