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I'm taking a break in an office environment. I scan various sites for interesting stories which I open in new tabs, then I read the stories of interest.

During the scan-and-open process, I started to hear bizarre enviro-music and was wondering who was being so inconsiderate.

Fortunately, this page was one of the first I'd opened, so it didn't take too long for my obnoxious self to stop bothering everyone.

(Just ranting about sites with autoplay sound, it's only been a bad idea since day one.)
But then we are back to the original question. What value does it provide then?

You claimed that it would be much more expensive if HFT wasn't around. So surely HFT should be able to reap the benefits of what they save no?
I still think that R has more users then Python with Pandas BUT the perception is that Pandas is bigger and better.

I started with Pandas and learned R. I find that R is just better and if R isn't right then Julia or Closure will do the work.

The tools in R are just better and more varied.
I initially was a huge fan of Zidisha because of all the bullshit the microlending providers pull. Which is exactly like this. (fixed fees on small loans would be the main trick; stuff like flat-fee vs. declining balance APR is a bit more subtle.)

I hope they post a response, and this turns out to be some kind of misunderstanding.
I think its a neat idea, but completely outdated. You can order a new book you need and get it within a day. A massive library of textbooks you can, at best, hope to glipse through for a few important bits of information, is a much larger financial investment. At that scale, you actually need an entire room devoted to containing your anti-library, taking dozens of hours to set up and organize.
Maybe it's just the HBO polish but Silicon Valley seemed to be better overall than Betas. At least in the pilot, I had empathy for Richard (the lead in SV) - Tre (the lead in Betas) always seemed like kind of a dick to me. The self-aware parody seemed just a bit too high in Betas; so far, SV as much more restraint.

Once SV fleshes out the supporting characters and the main arc, it will be interesting to see if my opinions are still the same.
Apple makes such huge money off of subsidy, I don't think they can make that money back from app commissions. I've heard the subsidy north of $300/phone. That's a LOT of in app and media purchases to get that back in 2-3 years.

Plus remember that the subsidy is on top of the app purchase dollars they make today, since phones with the subsidy still buy apps. There is no real upside to them on this. Sure they make good money on apps, but its hard to replace effectively free money from the carriers.
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Why isn't HFT front-running? Let me attempt an explanation without relying on legalistic constructs.

Customers pay brokers a commission to execute their orders. This involves a customer trusting a broker with their confidential order information. Until an order goes to the exchanges, only the customer and broker know about it. The order is material non-public information.

Brokers have a fiduciary obligation to look out for their customers' interests. This applies even when the customer's interests conflict with the broker's. For example, suppose a broker holds Tesla stock. A knowledgeable customer calls the broker, seeking to sell 2 million shares. This would depress Tesla's stock price. Front-running would involve the broker selling his shares first, and then the customer's. This violates the broker's fiduciary obligation. That is why it is fraudulent and thus illegal–an explicit trust relationship would be ruptured.

Across the trading floor from the brokers are us market makers. We trade our own capital. We also have no customers and thus no fiduciary obligations. Our income comes from the bid-ask spread (and liquidity-provider rebates from exchanges). For example, here is how a phone call might go:

COUNTERPARTY: "2 million Tesla?"

MARKET MAKER: "209 at 210."

COUNTERPARTY: "Buy 2 million Tesla for 209."

The counterparty is looking to buy or sell 2 million shares of Tesla stock. They do not specify which in advance. The market maker says they will buy at $209 or sell at $210. The customer then confirms that they want to buy, and will buy at $210.

An order, when properly executed, does not betray its owner's intentions. This applies as much in the meat space as in HFT. For example, here is how one would not place an order:

COUNTERPARTY: "I am looking to sell 2 million shares of Tesla stock at whatever price you'll give me. My wife just left me for a Brazillian stripper and I'm halfway through my handle of morning vodka."

This guy won't get 209 at 210. He might not even get 200. This isn't the market maker front-running a customer. It's a liquidity provider protecting his book and bottom line. This adversarial relationship is efficient - it keeps markets from getting too clubby.

There are valid critiques against HFT. (My pet is that HFT has no obligation to continue providing liquidity in adverse market conditions. This means they can pull out when the seas get rough, i.e. precisely when liquidity is needed. Traditional market makers cannot do that.) "Front-running" is not one of them.
Does node even have an x-powered-by response header by default?

I thought you need a framework (like Express.js) and then to not have turned off the header.
That's an excellent idea. I'd be very interested in having this sort of help, and later passing it forward.

The actually app however seems to only run on one make of tablet (that I don't happen to own). I could be wrong, but it seems to me that most people'll be doing SICP exercises on a real computer, rather than a tablet. Why did you decide not to do, say, a webapp - or even to just assign the pairs and let them use whatever communication medium they have in common (skype, hangouts, IRC, whatever)?
Absolutely amazing, and my gut reaction is surprise it lasted so long before inevitably burning up.

Also quite interesting how they integrated it with the city aesthetics of the time, complete with the flags. When viewed from a distance it doesn't look quite as odd as it otherwise might have done had no consideration to that side of things happened.
Just a heads up, there's already a handful of private staging/demo server URLs @ http://dotheyusenode.herokuapp.com/cache - you may want to reconsider exposing that for the publicly available instance.
It checks x-powered-by and Server in some cases. https://github.com/dotheyusenode/dotheyusenode/blob/master/c...

It also tries to read through the Javascript served up to see if it uses browserify. https://github.com/dotheyusenode/dotheyusenode/blob/master/c...

But yes it is a glorified `curl -I www.foo.com | grep -i 'x-powered-by` UI
Electronics moron here. What are the factors (or equations) involved in determining whether a certain type of joint/wire could take the required power for charging of this nature?

That is to ask, is it theoretically possible with high end materials to actually pull it off, or is there a physical size limit to using that power?
That's for a full colocation - not just a direct feed. The originally posted links are the correct prices for direct feeds.
Interesting how important the length of the loan is. A 5% one-time fee on a 5 year loan may be acceptable. A 5% fee on a 6 week loan is massively higher than the actual interest charged.
In my case, I want a larger screen, but I don't want a huge device that doesn't fit in my pocket, either. If they were to push the usable screen out to the edge of the device, I could have both.
No doubt. They are still doing great things. But, especially in the case of the smart phone market, the competition is catching up. Or at least coming close enough for a lot of consumers. In order for them to maintain the kind of dominance they are now used to, I think new types of products will be necessary. FWIW I'm not giving up my iPhone anytime soon and would be lost with out my Macbook Air.
Of course I never write my own Hash Table implementation, nor should I. But this is fascinating anyway -- and obvious in retrospect. "Reduce the length of the longest probe chains by reorganizing the probe chains to even them out. This improves performance when the table is full enough that the probe chain length matters."
Folks, you don't need proprietary software or an iThing to get help with SICP. Hop on #scheme on freenode and check out http://schemers.org/ for resources.
This is an option that can be enabled on a per-subreddit basis. It's not very popular since people like seeing how popular their posts are.
>If you can convince me that your service will reliably mail me on incidents no matter what catastrophe happens to your data center

You do realize that it would take years to even establish a significant baseline against a simple VPS on any cloud provider in uptime?

It's much more important that you know which cloud provider and data-centers they are using, so you can verify you aren't actually running your servers in the same data-center.

Not that they mention it on their site, but a simple traceroute will tell you their ping-server is just a (bunch of?) Amazon instance(s). And Amazon is never down, right?

If somebody can convince you that their service will never be down, it's just means you gullible.

On the other hand, if your monitoring-service is in a different data-center from a different cloud provider, statistically speaking, chances are low, that your system and their system will be down at the same time. But you can expect a few false positives. With this kind of setup, you could get false positives just because outside-internet is not working.

Again, one would not use something like this for sensitive large scale productions. But very few large scale productions are sensitive, and very few sensitive productions are large scale.

Yet, if its this easy, why not slab it on every system anyway? Oh wait, the price.
More like the learning equivalent of BitTorrent. I hope they have enough seeders!
>Why being insanely profitable is bad for Apple

Microsoft fans have been making this argument for 15 years or more. They said Apple should copy Dell and sell cheap enterprise desktops with low margins because that was where the money was. Then they said Apple should copy Asus and HP and sell cheap netbooks with low margins because that was the future. Then people said Apple should be making a really cheap ebook reader to compete with the Kindle.

People are constantly advising Apple that they should get into low margin markets and compete on price with companies that are barely breaking even. This advice seems to mostly be based on what they want the market to look like, more than how it actually is.
Apple make money by selling hardware. First they sell you iPod, which you like very much and start looking for their mac. Then the iPhone come out and you like them too. Next one is iPad, guess what, you already know how to use them. They drive apps price to 0.99 and make their OS free, what does that tell you about their way to make money? Apple at heart is a hardware company with very good software engineer.
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> I'd also imagine that the kids would not really know better if they haven't tried anything else.

An abused child may consider abuse perfectly normal and even miss it if it ceases, but that does not make abuse tolerable.
Not everyone can afford a meal out for 12, even at what you consider a cheap restaurant.
Great additions there sould be more site like this. Definitely bookmarked.
I guess Apple really is doomed! Based on these three pages of a document.
Samsung's Goal: "Beating Apple is #1 Priority"
If you only meant verifying the email as apart of a keysigning party, agreed. Meaning you are looking at their passport and sending an email at the same time. This is better than nothing but wont protect against many directed attacks. For instance, a journalists has to be more careful. Also, in the end if you are sitting in front of each other might as well just verify key fingerprints. Better privacy and security than a simple email verification.

If the author meant actually sending someone a email to see that it is indeed owned by them remotely: NO WAY. Does not work:

me: "hey, just sending you an email to confirm its really you before sending the secret plans?"

them: "yeah, its me. send the plans."

That is exactly what WoT tries to solve but can't due to misuse.
Seconded. When I was using my Note 2 I found myself not using my laptop as often. (After dropping my Note 2) I am back to using a Moto G nowadays and despite it being an amazing phone for $200 - I find I am going back to using my laptop more, entirely due to screen size.
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I've never had a reason to use Comic Sans in any particular project, but the way people talk about it you'd think it was a mass murderer. It's just a typefont, guys.
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I really like your TL;DR summary. It's spot on.

One of the debates that seems to underlie a lot of these discussions is probably more reflective of the values of the individual than the actual issues at play. It seems like some people value justice above all else and others think that--at least in some arenas--justice is not necessary, and may be detrimental. So that the final question could be:

How do we balance fairness in the market with the need to provide liquidity?
"I don't think the experience of a 5 inch phone is better than a 4 inch phone."

You don't have to. But I am someone who does. There are many, many people like me who love their phones like the Galaxy Note who feel the same way. If I made a list of the top 5 reasons I really like my phone, 1 - 3 would be screen size.

I have been surprised at how many people have gone from, "let me see that phone, it is ridiculous that you carry the around" to "wow, I never realized how hard my screen is to use compared to this." I know three people who have gotten a larger screen phone because of me in the past 9 months and I don't evangelize at all. They just see my phone and want to try it.

I almost didn't get my Note 2 because I was afraid of carrying around a "small book". To honest it is less obtrusive in my pocket than my Motorola Droid 3 was, that thing sat in my pocket like a thick brick. The single time it can be an issue is getting it in and out of my pocket while sitting and wearing jeans.
I think you missed my point. They face a crisis even if their sales do NOT drop. They face a crisis if Verizon says to them, "We are no longer willing to give you a subsidy premium. You will get the same subsidy rates as the Samsung Galaxy Sx." Apple will continue to sell at the same rate, but their revenue will drop substantially.

On top of that is the fear of their sales actually dropping if carriers stop doing subsidies altogether (which is the direction they are going).
Nice dream.

The new crop of developers can push up a full stack app in 3 days, play with it, and iterate the whole process in the following day.

It's a whole new world.
Actually this isn't. As per this wonderful document on the guidelines for a useful 404: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93641?hl=en

Rule #1 - Tell visitors clearly that the page they're looking for can't be found. - I'm not sure what a "dead page is" and, nor why a page "has gone zombie". It then gives me some cool madlib functionality that clearly distracts me from my original goal - which was to find some page that no longer exists, but is now not clear whether it exists or not. This attempt to use the 404 as a marketing page (it clearly is as it tells you to share it at bottom) is extremely confusing to the user and only has one goal in mind, which is to get more people to their site. It neglects the users goal, which is to simply find the page they were looking for.
Yup, kinda! Except in a Ponzi scheme, value only flows down. Explaining something really straightens it out for yourself.

Conversation isn't zero sum.
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GiveWell? Aren't those the guys that astroturfed MetaFilter a few years ago?
> If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Too simplistic of a model.
Generally, in the US, where you see a flat rate is in the loan details, where it's usually, if you take the entire term to repay the loan, the overall interest paid is $X.
I think you are right that things will improve, but for exactly the wrong reason. Truly efficient markets are the toy problems of economic modeling, not typically achievable in real problem domains. Perhaps counter intuitively, I think we will gain efficiency by getting better at modeling the inefficiencies... but the end result of this is no more a "pure" (in your sense) market than a modern particle model consists of Aristotelian atoms.
Yes. Well, programmer.

I found it well after graduation from college, when I needed to get data from point a to point b without re-keying. Eventually, I went back to school and got a master's in computer science.

I would say that the ability to think abstractly, and the experience of having to express yourself clearly, help.
Author of the article is confusing "borrower" facing data with "lender" facing data. Lender interest rate is what lender gets and not what borrower pays. 5% lender interest rate is correct because that is what lender gets. Lender doesn't get service fees and origination fee. It will be very confusing for lender if Zidisha published 25% borrower interest rate as lender may assume that they are getting 25% interest rate which will be incorrect. If Zidisha was telling borrowers that they pay 5% interest rate or telling lenders that they receive 25% interest rate then that will be misleading. Author needs to spend some time understanding the terminology and nuances of lending/debt market from both borrower and lender view. This is the most confusing aspect most people new to lending side face as they are only used to seeing borrower side. Lender side view is very different from borrower side view.
I think microlending is loan sharking by another name, and that's a good thing. I'm not a libertarian but you still need to consider that outlawing something voluntarily or even just singling it out as a pariah has tricky effects. It often harms those who are ostensibly being protected.

A few years ago Australian politicians started targeting 'payday loans' and other "predatory lenders." The upshot was that these weasels target vulnerable borrowers with 100%+ APR loans, who are ultimately harmed. 'Vulnerable' is hard to define or measure. Harm is virtually impossible. 'Predatory terms' (interest rates) were the only easy of defining and singling out these guys. Legally it seems to have been hard to target predatory lending so name-and-shame was the main tactic .

A typical loan is a few hundred dollars payable in a few weeks. The ideal borrower goes down a revolving credit hole. For a class-minded political activist this screams evil. It's like the middle class debt trap, beefed up and tailored for the poor and/or dysfunctional. The marketing targets addicts, gamblers, welfare recipients, etc. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.

The first thing that happened when all this negative attention came about is that banks got out of anything even similar to payday loans. No point in tarnishing their brand for a tiny unattractive business. The guys who stayed in business were the scummiest, the ones who didn't care about brand and didn't care about their business. It became like running a brothel, legal but unsavory. The industry boomed as more legitimate businesses ceded market share to the shadier players.

Realistically, there are two facts that can't be wished away. High risk, low value loans are expensive to provide. People want/need payday loans and they will get them from whoever is giving them. It can't be done at non "predatory" APRs and it can't be shut down. If they had outright outlawed payday loans, then shady businesses would have given way to outright criminals, the leg breaking loanshark cliche.

In comes micro-finance. Nobel peace prize winning, poverty alleviating, enlightened, woman emancipating microfinance. These ran with a lot of support. They attracted great people at far under-market salaries. Motivated employees with a mission and received outright donations from the public. Major banks created microfinance programs as a part of their corporate responsibility, goodwill project.

These amount to a real and substantial summary. Annualized interest rates are still very high. Lower than payday loans and much lower than village lenders and loan sharks they displace but higher than the worst credit card.

Two ends of the spectrum. One on the border region of legality below the decent folk morality threshold. The other, literally a charitable activity.

Interesting to think about. Make something illegal and it runs as a criminal enterprise. Treat it as a predatory pariah and it behaves like a predatory pariah. Treat it as a charitable act, and it behaves that way. In no case does it go away.
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Great idea! I think bloc.io, AirPair follow a similar concept. Now I have some questions.

1. Are you planning to offer this online? Not everyone can afford to take time off to attend a hacker retreat.

2. How much does this cost?
Do you deny the article's claim that the predatory trading is part of what enables them to keep the spread low? Or do you think it would be worth the bigger spread (and the associated costs to retail investors) to better reward the big investors?
is this now viable for cluster? I mean simple backbone for 20+ for these with combined network and power unit? is there still any point at all?
Ah so much cringe!
"I don't think the experience of a 5 inch phone is better than a 4 inch phone. But it is a bigger number and thus easy to market."

It's all good that your personal preference is for smaller sized phones. But it's really false to say that bigger screens are just about marketing. Having gone up from a 3.7 to a 4 inch to 4.7 inch device, each of them has been a progressively better experience because of screen real estate. My next phone might be 6 inches, so far bigger is better to me.

If Apple really does pick their phone size based on user experience alone, I think they're doing it wrong. However, I think they got stuck on dimensions set in 2007 and an operating system that isn't flexible enough. (FYI all my devices except my phone are made by Apple.)
I recall one processor upgrade for a 1990-era Mac that slotted into the L2 cache slot, back when L2 cache was on the motherboard and used a similar DIMM format.

It was extremely unusual, but apparently worked.
> And things that are easy to market are the playground of boring companies.

Apple is already playing in that field with the Retina display.

> I don't think the experience of a 5 inch phone is better than a 4 inch phone.

I'm a pretty tall and well-built man with rather large fingers; even a slightly larger on-screen keyboard is a huge improvement for me.
I don't agree with the thesis here. As somebody whose day job involves tracking "hacker groups" in the adversarial sense and whose hobbies largely involve belonging to "hacker groups" in the doing-cool-shit sense, I feel like there's an assertion with precisely no evidence to support it.

Also, statements like "We live in days of limited creativity" strike me as extreme nostalgia and conservatism. We live in days of INCREDIBLE creativity, in my view.
> The reality is Comic Sans is awful to look at.

Honest question: Why? What does this even mean? What makes a font "awful"? Surely this is a matter of personal taste and/or collective fashions?

I guess I'm an outlier since it's become cool to be a font nerd, but I really do not give a shit about typefaces. Except for difficult-to-read cursive scripts, pretty much everything looks fine. I find it difficult to conceive of how so many people get so worked up over this stuff.