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Being pessimistic... as the European Telecoms becomes "truly European", the carriers will probably start merging. Eventually you'll wind up where we are in the US, with a couple of huge carriers, a moderately sized carrier, and some small carriers that barely count. And then they'll start colluding, and providing poor service because they don't have to compete anymore.

Welcome to the club.
No offense to the author, but he's clearly a junior developer with a blog. Literally every single indicator points to that: overly simplistic, linkbait-y headlines, complete lack of technical examples, no technical anecdotes, overly long articles.

We all go through the "all other software sucks, it's too complex" phase. The difference is how you handle the realization, and how you let that taste influence your own programming. Some software is necessarily complex.
Prices move, so traders add a bit of leeway if they want to be sure the trade will execute. The worry with HFT is that the price will move solely in order to screw over this particular trade, rather than as a reflection of overall market conditions.
Ugh, now I'm all angry. Can you point to _one_ comment where someone gave her kudos based on her gender as opposed to her work? I just went through the entire page to see if you had any leg to stand on.
Stop pretending to be the police of the world.
Also, is not like the imperialists have stuck their nose to HELP totalitarian states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_...
These are great "news" (quotes cause they aren't exactly.. new) which I didn't know before. As an expat living in Amsterdam, it makes me happy, thanks for sharing!
> Makes me wonder about the relation between sleep problems and depression.

There is fairly strong evidence that sleep deprivation can trigger or exasperate depression [1].

As someone who has had chronic cyclical insomnia since my teens (17 years) in my case it has a massive effect.

When I'm coming out of an insomnia phase the first couple of days where I get a proper nights sleep I feel like I'm on drugs, it's a feeling of well-being and euphoria that is hard to describe, I have limitless energy and I'm enthusiastic about all the things I love to do.

When I'm in the middle of the no-sleep cycle, I struggle to do even basic tasks and anything requiring complete focus is basically ruled out, the world is a grey dreary place, summoning the energy to do anything is a major challenge.

I manage my insomnia without drugs (the problem with sleeping pills in my experience is that while they do make you sleep it's not a high quality sleep and that combined with the lag from the pills means I don't feel any better with them than without) by impeccable sleep hygiene, diet and exercise and the knowledge that eventually the cycle will end.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK19961/
About Reddit and Imgur - I think they share a more synergistic relationship. A lot of imgur links make up the content on reddit, and by funding them, they ensure a better experience for their visitors. Meaning more ad revenue for reddit - makes sense to me.
I keep seeing articles on HN that make me say, "Oh, that is just total click-bait fluff".

However, I usually click on them anyway. I'm ashamed of myself. :(
Broken page...
As usual Chris does a good job of explaining in simple terms how the markets actually work. The one thing I would have liked to see in this article is a discussion of the pro's and con's of paying for liquidity vs execution risk.

From my perspective it is almost always better to have sooner execution with a liquidity tax than an order floating in the market but I'm not sure how to quantify that as a retail stock purchaser.
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Well, you can't have free speech without media. Cuba first needs some economical growth, so that people get (physical) access to the internet, TV, mobile phones... Then we can talk about de-censoring their media. Also, I heard that they still have rationed food. Free speech is important, but survival is more important.
I was under impression from reading another article that setting the correct kernel io scheduler to use helps with a related concept, maybe possibly: http://www.cybertec.at/postgresql-linux-kernel-io-tuning/
"It shows that depression is something chemical, that it can be reversed with chemicals, it dispenses for once and for all that you can just pull your socks up."

This is entirely an assumption, and shows nothing conclusively. Just as an experience can trigger a depression (see @JPKab) an experience can cause it to end. There's no reason to look at a human being as a walking slab of meat for the sake of analysis.

This says nothing about "chemicals", and I'll bet you can find many of the same benefits are attained by people who are able to achieve similar experiences using meditation or other techniques.
I think you are drawing way too many conclusions from the rounded square (i.e., the app icon) motif used every year for WWDC since the iPhone.
We're on a road to that. I've read about robot surgeons. Very few mistakes, perfectly clean.

Problem is what do we do with spare doctors? Research?
It is very close. If you used lambda expressions they will be replaced with function syntax and _this references, but other than that it is almost the same.
This. This might seem like a minor nitpick, but plots without axis labels are a big no-no and far from 'publication quality'. In academic publishing the general editorial goal is to aim to make your graphs as readable as possible on their own, without forcing the reader to refer to the article to try make sense of them. Just my two cents.
No, the decline of the HFT industry is because there's so many competitors they're racing to $0...
Since when is "anti-social" and "nit-picky to the point of absurdity" equivalent to "expressing critical thought"?
I am not a smart man. While I have had my struggles with some aspects of Angular, there is no way I could be delivering projects of the complexity I'm working on now without it.

I suspect it's only difficult to people who don't make sophisticated things.
If this kind of thing interests you, there are some great resources here about the Gemini and Apollo guidance computer architecture, including recreations of them: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/. I also recommend the book "Digital Apollo" about the role of digital computers in early space flight. I found both fascinating.
http://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/201738527-Gallery-Ru...

Since user-sub lives under imgur.com, I'm assuming it's covered by those guidelines (tl;dr: "no porn, work safe, or hellban")

I'm guessing they'd rather keep the porn under /r/
Actually in this case, you even get your PC from your ISP. So i think it works out like this:

first the OS people update it. Then the manufacturers launch a device with said OS. Then your ISP gets to sell said devices to you. (or maybe you can update on your existing device but the ISP still has to approve it)

In simpler words:

In US, people do not directly buy their phones from the manufacturers. They buy the PHONE from the carrier, who also includes a SIM with said phone. And the cost of the phone is distributed over several months and is combined with your monthly cellular service charges.

Pro: you get to have expensive phones for far less.

Con: The carrier apparently gets a lot of say. In fact you can't even switch carriers easily. They make you sign a contact.

Interesting fact: Originally when the smart phones came out in the pre-iPhone era, the carrier's tried to control app stores by having exclusive, carrier specific app-stores. It was apple who convinced one carrier (can't remember which one) to let Apple control the app store and thus this revolution.
I know of one theatre that has an adults only floor. Same movies and same start times as the general audience floor. No kids allowed, they have a bar, and people dress up to go there. I assume there are others doing the same.
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One of the key words in the article's title was "secret" and further from the article "There will be absolutely no mention of United States government involvement,". If the intention were specifically to cause unrest without drawing attention to the states, then lifting the embargo is far too public.
"July 23, 2009"
Using the Peano axioms, we need to prove that S(0)+S(0)=S(S(0)).

From the definition of +:
S(0)+S(0)=S(S(0)+0)
Again using the definition of +:
S(0)+0=S(0).
And we get: S(0)+S(0)=S(S(0))

Q.E.D.

There is also a famous proof by Whitehead and Russell on page 379 of Principia Mathematica: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=umhist...
To my knowledge I never suffered from depression. When I was a teenager I also experimented with various drugs. At age around 17 me and some friends took a lot of ketamine at a friend's house one night. We went out for a walk at at some point I started k-holing. We were walking along a train line at the time. I collapsed on the line and watched myself lying there. My friends hadn't noticed me fall, they'd carried on. Then I calmly watched myself get hit by a train. I watched my bloody corpse lying there for quite a while.

I came back to my senses lying by the rails in a puddle of my own vomit. I hadn't really been hit by the train, although I had watched it, seen my body crumble and split.

I spent the next several hours vomiting and feeling atrocious. Ever since then, I occasionally see the image of my own dead body again. That was the last time I touched ketamine, though I carried on experimenting with everything else until my early 20s.

Not to detract from your experience, but ketamine can be a disgusting, dangerous drug, and taking it at home is not a sensible approach to depression, drug addiction, or anything.
They are nevertheless buying higher than everyone else and selling lower than everyone else. Otherwise their orders would never get filled.
As beautiful as this story is, I would also like to mention the numerous friends that I have that have unfortunately become extremely addicted to the drug due to this serenity. For many this feeling does not stay and must be chased with more and more K.
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The upside is that you see far fewer people attending who aren't developers or aren't serious about Apple's platforms. Google I/O, for example, has had quality issues (with both the sessions and attendees) due to how inexpensive it was and the expectation of a giveaway to offset the price of admission.
For very weak values of "safely". If, for example, the app has an auto-update feature, like many apps have, then they can simply push malware onto you at some point down the road. Even if they don't have an official one, it wouldn't be too hard to hide one in the code.
Exactly, it's usually only the press invites for Apple Special Events that have a glimpse of what might be unveiled.
Nonsense. For every legitimate example of such a malware-infected program you can think of or find, the community can point you to at least X others that are completely clean.

Your suggestion is not a practical one, but rather an opinionated one.
Wow. I just found out that this (and, by extension, LibreOffice) can read all my old MacWrite Pro files that I'd given up hope of ever reviving. There goes the rest of the day digging through them all...
So helping people communicate freely = death squads? I don't really understand what you're trying to say here.
To be fair to the Cuban regime, during the period from the 1960s through at least the 1980s, Cuba did better (in terms of health, education, political stability, lack of large-scale violence, (relatively) responsive government, etc.) than most other countries in Latin America or the Caribbean, arguably largely because the US wasn’t able to replace the government with a right-wing dictatorship like the ones that dominated most of the rest of the region.

Obviously Castro is no saint, and had no qualms about repressing political dissidents (and I think those on the left in the US and Europe who hold up Cuba or Venezuela as some kind of bastions of freedom are delusional), but on the whole, Cuba actually did reasonably well for itself, especially considering the economic difficulties caused by the U.S. embargo.
Honest question: why do voting shares get traded at all? In most cases, several specific people will have majority control and will either retain it over time or deliberately give it to someone else. Sure, I can buy up a large portion of the stock, but for the most part, never a majority. So why bother trading voting stock at all? Or am I missing some power that a minority stakeholder can have with, say, 10% ownership?
Bringing internet to oppressed people, great! Trying to push those people to dissent in the light of recent events seems dangerous and irresponsible, and gathering their data for "political purposes" is pretty lame. As usual I'm on the fence.
I don't know why you are being downvoted. My understanding is that yes, that's more or less how it works. Speaking from experience, whatever it is you are obsessing about, a ketamine trip makes you forget about it for about an hour. I think the main feeling you get when coming down from the trip is that you were just shown a world where your obsession doesn't make any sense, and it's a very good time to question your obsessions.
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Anyone else notice this?

> and AngularJS has only been around for a few years, while jQuery, almost a couple of decades.

jQuery was released in 2006. Unless my math fails me, that is less than a couple of decades.

Opinion is valid and he wrote an article, which is more than most have done, but some factual discrepancies. The whole # of google results factoid is off as well - http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=angular%20sucks%2C%20...
The author points out that it's possible in some sense to have a world with less work, OK material standards, more leisure and less unhappiness. People would still work, social/technological advancement would still occur, but people would be more content and maybe many would move to jobs that would make more of their talents.

This, however, is looking only at big numbers on a macro level. It ignores all the things which have prevented this outcome from actually happening. These include (1) incentives (2) ideology.

1. If employer A allows less than 40 hour work weeks, or more vacation, he can be beaten out in the market by employer B which mandates longer hours and produces more per time period. Employees might prefer A over B, but they have so little bargaining power that this will not stop B. If the same requirements are imposed on all employers, then the country will be out-competed by others.

2. Conservatives criticize any such proposal with an argument like this: "You should be free to use your property as you wish, including by having people work as long as you can get them to agree to. And everything is already owned, so the only way to provide more for one person is to take away from another, and it's wrong to take money or other values from people who have earned them, to give to others who have not earned them."

Regardless of the merits of the argument, it is effective with the public, and politicians use it effectively to protect the owners. This can never change unless someone can present a contrary view that can be stated in equally pithy sound-bites and which is equally convincing for large numbers of voters (in democratic countries, basically W. Europe and parts of S. America) or unless a large enough segment commit to a revolution (in the rest of the countries which are not democratic).
"I don't like it because it's hard" is not necessarily a good way to evaluate a technology.

JQuery does things in a very standard way, and has been the go-to tool for developers for years. Devs grow up on it, get used to it and find it difficult to fit new ways of working into their mental model. It's like shifting from procedural to functional: the concepts are a alien and because they don't fit & there's a psychological block to learning it.

Not sure that dooms it to failure... maybe to adoption by the masses.
I would have agreed up to the past September, when Mavericks was released for free. Some big leaps in IE updates are tied to Windows upgrades, which are not free for users.

This has a direct reflect on Safari adoption. NetMarketShare gives these numbers for OSX adoption (which is the same of Safari version adoption):

10.9: 3.75%
10.6: 1.29%
10.8: 1.18%
10.7: 1.05%

So roughly half of OSX users are already using the last Safari version (which was released only 7 months ago), which is absolutely different from the situation you have with IE version adoption.

What would be the situation of IE version adoption, were Win7 a free upgrade for all WinXP/Vista users? I think we can agree that free operating system upgrade does have a measurable impact.

Nonetheless, I agree with the general point that Safari now sits in the middle between IE and Firefox/Chrome, and that's why I have not mentioned it in my original post.
I fail to understand what makes AngularJS difficult. I believe AngularJS is a very intuitive framework.

When you write in AngularJS, you forget the nitty-gritty DOM manipulation, you just care about your data. AngularJS changes DOM for you. A Controller holds the data. AngularJS keeps the view updated with the data in the controller. You need to fetch data from somewhere such as REST API? Just ask for it, AngularJS gives you $resource. Just like that. No initialization, handling dependencies. Feeling there's code bloat in your controller? Extract a service and AngularJS will make it singleton for you and pass it whenever you need! Need to filter data before displaying it? Write a filter! Directives are bit difficult, I understand, but all the rest of stuff is easy and very intuitive.

Microsoft folks have been writing MVVM apps in WPF and Silverlight for nearly a decade now, writing their own DelegateCommand, using an IoC container, using an ORM and plugging all these things together. AngularJS gives you all of these as one framework! (considering $resource as the ORM). AngularJS got SPA right and IMO, is the way to build apps. I don't think it'll fail.
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The number of teaching spots for doctors is not necessarily well exposed to the market (various regulations). It's unlikely that all the interested and capable people are able to become doctors.

It's also possible to imagine a social contract that gives working people more, I'm not sure we have to stick with the one you see.
I did some quick googling and found this interesting research from Oberlin, with a history of meteorite injuries and deaths:

1420 BC Israel - Fatal meteorite impact.
588 AD China - 10 deaths; siege towers destroyed.
1321-68 China - People & animals killed; homes ruined.
1369 Ho-t'ao China - Soldier injured; fire.
02/03/1490 Shansi, China - 10,000 deaths.
09/14/1511 Cremona, Italy - Monk, birds, & sheep killed.
1633-64 Milono, Italy - Monk killed.
1639 China - Tens of deaths; 10 homes destroyed.
1647-54 Indian Ocean - 2 sailors killed aboard a ship.
07/24/1790 France - Farmer killed; home destroyed; cattle killed.
01/16/1825 Oriang, India - Man killed; woman injured.
02/27/1827 Mhow, India - Man injured.
12/11/1836 Macao, Brazil - Oxen killed; homes damaged.
07/14/1847 Braunau, Bohemia - Home struck by 371 lb meteorite.
01/23/1870 Nedagolla, India - Man stunned by meteorite.
06/30/1874 Ming Tung li, China - Cottage crushed, child killed.
01/14/1879 Newtown, Indiana, USA - Man killed in bed.
01/31/1879 Dun-Lepoelier, France - Farmer killed by meteorite.
11/19/1881 Grossliebenthal, Russia - Man injured.
03/11/1897 West Virginia, USA - Walls pierced, horse killed, man injured.
09/05/1907 Weng-li, China - Whole family crushed to death.
06/30/1908 Tunguska, Siberia - Fire, 2 people killed. (referenced throughout paper)
04/28/1927 Aba, Japan - Girl injured by meteorite.
12/08/1929 Zvezvan, Yugoslavia - Meteorite hit bridal party, 1 killed.
05/16/1946 Santa Ana, Mexico - Houses destroyed, 28 injured.
11/30/1946 Colford, UK - Telephones knocked out, boy injured.
11/28/1954 Sylacauga, Alabama, USA - 4 kg meteorite struck home, lady injured.
08/14/1992 Mbole, Uganda - 48 stones fell, roofs damaged, boy injured.

http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/bsimonso/group9.htm
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The database has a better understanding of the workload and therefore can make more intelligent caching decisions. The file system caching system does a good job however, it's not as effective in predicting what should be cached.
Those look more like double-quotes than parens.
I'm french, and I feel the same way.
The US Government strikes yet another blow to undermine the credibility and trustworthiness of American Internet Industry. Mission Accomplished.
And I have to disagree with one of your statements a little bit:

"The classic core Windows libraries and interfaces like GDI are plain old C."

__cdecl: this is the native C calling convention
Calling function pops the arguments from the stack.

__stdcall: this is the standard Win32 library interface
Called function pops its own arguments from the stack.

Calling conventions explained here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k2b2ssfy.aspx
What kind of internet censorship is there in the US?
HFTs aren't really helping your situation at all. Other forms of liquidity generators might be, but HFTs are exploiting microsecond-level arbitrage opportunities. I've never heard of a small investor with sub-second execution requirements. In fact, I'd be curious why you needed to execute 50,000 shares in a few seconds at all. From my perspective, I'd be thrilled if I could sell a few shares over several minutes as long as I were confident I was getting a good price.