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This is just an FYI. The Android issue you pointed out is actually an app issue. In Android, there is a mechanism for saving the state of your app, so that you can get back to the same place when you switch away from and then back to the app. Some apps don't implement that (as a good practice), and it is quite annoying when you run into it. I've seen that issue often, even in apps built by large well-known companies.

I know what you mean regarding copy/paste. Maybe it is due to the touch-based interface, but it is annoying regardless of whether it is on iOS or Android.
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The e-mail seems to suggest that it would improve performance.

>Because XUL and XBL aren’t web technologies, they don’t get the same platform attention that HTML does (for good reason!). Performance problems go unfixed and it creates a lot of unnecessary complexity within Gecko. It’s harder for even experienced web developers to get up to speed. It’s further from the web, and that doesn’t help anybody.
Interesting concept.

Here is why I think it might have problems. Most Hedge funds fall into a few categories, almost all of which won't help the average person invest....

1) guys who have a great understanding of one very niche area. These types of funds tend to work for a couple of years until the niche goes away, ie you might understand how prefered's work better than anyone else but sooner or later the rest of the market will catch up and your alpha goes away.

The average person can't take advantage of this as they won't have the contacts, expertise, legal ability, etc to work in these niches

2) market micro structure, these are your HFT and algorithmic guys, you just can't do this on your own so knowing what they do doesn't help you at all.

3) the warren buffets, knowing buffet's portfolio doesn't do you any good as buffet gets invited to do deals by the companies themselves at discounts to their current values, ie a company that needs cash will offer Buffet a preferred at a discount that pays a generous return.

Again this just doesn't help the average person.

4) Funds that just shouldn't have been started, these are your SELL side guys who leave GS or Morgan Stanley to try it on their own and then find out just how hard it is to trade your own money and how cushy they had it trading someone elses money.

Again not much help to the average investor.

5) Guys who trade esoteric instruments, usually the alphabet soup you have heard of like MBA's, CDO's, etc.

The average person can't trade these so it doesn't help them to know what a hedge fund investor is doing here.

To be honest the biggest thing that has convinced me that the average person shouldn't invest, and more importantly shouldn't listen to others about what to invest is what I glean from economists.

I'm gong to guess that I have access to better economists than 99% of hacker news and if I talk to 100 economists I'll get 50 telling me the market is going down over hte next year and 50 telling me that its gong up. And these are well credentialed people who work for well named companies and government agencies and none of them can agree on anything.

If they can't agree, it should let yo know just how much guessing the average person who has "studied the market" is doing.

TL/DR Just picking stocks is a very small niche in the hedge fund space as its just really hard to do and the ones who do well at it, often do well due to other factors such as getting in at IPO's, getting restricted stock at discounted prices, etc due to their relationship with sell side firms.

Plain old fashioned picking stocks is a crap shoot no matter who you are. Just say no.

I'll certainly agree that there is a current glut of funds chasing the same deals.
Is it just me or does that page have an annoying ad network which AUTOMATICALLY redirects your mobile browser to the app store? I've seen a proliferation of these now.
I learned COBOL in the late 80s but for the life of me can't remember much of it.

Is there anything like an IBM System 36 emulator out there?
The front-end is the new back-end?
Lyft Line and UberPool match 2 passengers going roughly in the same direction, and put them in the same ride-for-hire vehicle. The driver's preferences have no bearing. :)
I've had numerous discussions with folks about projects that all involve LinkedIn data. People always seem to assume they're the first people to have idea X. After digging in about 18 months ago, I saw how limiting the LinkedIn API was, and that basically none of the functionality people wanted to do was possible. technically possible? yes, for a while. Legally? It's outside their terms of use, and you'd either get shut down or sued.
Consider the kind of shop that has large quantities of COBOL; they're unlikely to be excited about a major change that may potentially decrease the stability of their system. And what advantage would transpiling bring over just compiling? The only real reasons to transpile are either 1) if there's an environment you want to target that mandates a particular language, or 2) if you want to interoperate with code in another language that's not capable of speaking or being spoken to via some FFI or other function-call/library/IPC interface.
A group of my friends throw a 150-person mini dance festival every 4th of July weekend. In the past they've used Mackie SRM450s with a couple of subs, but this year we brought a pair of SR1530s, plus the same subs. Both are active systems with 100-watt HF drivers and 300-watt LF, but the SR1530 has an additional 100-watt midrange element.

The difference is astonishing - much more significant than you'd expect if you're used to thinking of volume as a function of power. It was an awesome wall of clear, clear sound, and we had to keep it turned down a fair bit in order to keep from driving people out of the dance area. 100 more watts doesn't seem like much, but separating sound-reproduction responsibilities among three different amps clearly makes a really big difference.

I did notice some of the problems the article describes with stereo, though. There were definitely parts of the field where you could hear one side but not the other, and it was distracting. We clearly have more to learn about this whole business.
It's probably time (past time, actually) for Mozilla to start looking into putting XUL/XBL to pasture for Firefox UI and using HTML/CSS/JS instead, since the Web platform has become sufficiently capable that the arguments for having a separate stack of technologies for building UI don't really hold anymore.

Still makes me a bit sad to see it go, though; I'm old enough to remember when XUL seemed like an exciting potential platform for general-purpose app development. Which never really panned out, alas, but was fascinating at the time.
So that's what that is! I used to notice that a lot when I first started cycling aggressively in college. Once I got into better shape it mostly went away. Thanks for the tip.
Wouldn't all Firefox plugins need to be rewritten?
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai at Motherboard reports evidence that PhineasFisher hacked Hacking Team.[0] It's also possible that someone else hacked both Hacking Team and PhineasFisher, of course.

[0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-claims-responsibilit...
Well, I went full-time shortly after that and been freelancer ever since.
I think it's worth quoting an extract from http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy... 's discussion of Qing Chinese law:

> There are multiple cases where someone commits an offense on orders from a superior member of his extended family; the attitude of the court seems to be that although he must obey the order he is still criminally liable for the act; there appears to be no assumption in the legal system that an individual always has the option of acting in a way that does not violate one rule or another.

When I read this, it was more interesting to me that American society is fairly committed to the fiction that such an option always exists.

I don't believe that the mere fact that a person took some action itself demonstrates that the person believed that action to be morally blameless. Of two paths, both can be wrong. Of many paths, all can be wrong -- or the conseqences of staying on the "right" one might be personally unbearable. I imagine that a mother who opted not to rescue her child from a burning building might be haunted by the thought that this was wrong, regardless of a generally positive message from society.

Also, I've tried really hard to read your comment in a way that allows for the existence of guilt. I can't see it. Do you believe people can feel guilt? Why would C. S. Lewis feel sorrow, in the privacy of his own mind, to discover that he is the kind of person who would do certain things?
> no health miracle at all, and all the weight I lost has been regained and then some

Lifestyle changes that impact health require that one habitual adopt the change to realize their benefits long term. Of course if you followed a fasting program just once and then returned to the same habits you had prior to fasting you should expect to gain weight back.

Really it just means that if you want some health change you need to find something that is appealing so you can form a habit. (I don't find fasting appealing either.)
For me, the important intuition in this regard is that, for any mathematical theory to be useful, you need to create a process where you can prove properties about its objects in a finite number of steps. You can handle infinite objects (like sets), but at some point you need to define a finite process that produces some knowledge about the object (for example, deciding if a particular word is a member of an infinite grammar).

Working with infinite objects is like using lazy computations in a functional language - you only use as many steps as needed, even if the process does not have a termination step. (I'm not sure to what degree constructive logics handle this intuition - as I said, I don't know much about them).

I've seen that some models exist for mathematical proofs containing infinite steps, but those don't seem to be widespread - and the models are themselves defined through a finite description; so I think even this extreme case validates my intuition that in the end, the mathematician needs to include just a limited number of clauses in their day-to-day work to get something done, even if those clauses are used to describe infinite objects.
Yeah, the litho process is largely the same. Thanks for furthing the idea I was trying to get across: The hang up is not in the production process, it's in the environmental controls.

To put it another way, if I manufacture on a smaller die size, I have to control for smaller pieces of junk in the air. If I don't, I will get poor (read, not cost effective) yields, making production in that environment a bad business decision.
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I guess I had my conversion rate a bit wrong, 80,000 is about 124891.20 according to google. That seems about on par from my anecdotal evidence.
>The chair doesn't have supported platforms, new security issues, or the need to be updated so that people keep buying the same chair.

IoT will change all of that ;)
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As far as I know, the heyday of COBOL was long before relational databases, and any VCS is likely to be RCS or CVS.
Why did this apology come out today and not before Pao spoke to news outlets about this topic? Why wouldn't you try to talk to your upset users quickly and directly?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderato...
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/07/05/420...
This almost exacerbated a misunderstanding between some of my family members. I recently worked to get my sister back in touch with her grandfather, took some coaxing on both sides, and then grandpa decided to email my sister, who never responded, so he tried one more time and then concluded that she didn't really want to talk to him.

She uses gmail and his messages were dropping into her junk folder. She almost exclusively uses her phone for her gmail access, so she never saw the messages.

Since gmail doesn't give anything like SpamAssassin headers for messages, there's nothing I can do to troubleshoot this aside from trial-and-error.
I wish when I worked on a System 36 that it was programming COBOL. Instead I was doing RPG II.
Does this bring us closer to having native docker support on OSX?
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If you attacked that formulation with the normal assumptions for logic problems, the answer would be the same. If you break the assumption that you can trust all logical statements in the problem, regardless of their origin, then you could get a solution like "John is a dick and tells a mixture of truth and lies as he sees fit just to mess with you". But you could get that solution with any problem where the source of information is an entity in the problem itself, which is why we tend to assume that isn't the case.
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IIRC they had the double microphone configuration in The Grateful Dead Movie (it's been a while since I have seen it). If I remember correctly, it sounds a bit different indeed.

It's probably on Youtube, so you can listen and judge yourself ;).
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Just a quick note... the icon in use for "Segment Your Queries" is the Bitbucket logo. https://bitbucket.org/ Might want to change that? Maybe the cubes icon would work well for that item: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/cubes/
But did he ever apologize to the Coke machine?
It's even in the same company. My team has very few common problems with our product teams. In fact, some of our experiences are just contrary to the product teams experiences.

Overall, software development is looking more and more like a journey to me. And a journey in the polar sea is different from the journey in the sahara. Just don't leave jenkins at home in either case.
I was told many times that Qihoo360 is crapware. Anyway I hope this brings our cultures together as technology should be apolitical.
My mom programmed COBOL back in the early 70s while she was doing the hippie thing back out in Berkeley. After that she learned basic and taught me that on my Apple IIc. All as a six week college dropout.

I always have wondered what it would've been like if she had stuck with that instead of going off to live in the woods of New Hampshire.
True, but Unnecessary Variables is also a code smell, and a worse one to me, because it increases cognitive load in larger functions.

In the toy function given, it doesn't really matter, but in general, I think that people should aim to code for clarity, not ease of debugging.
I have been thinking about this more and more lately. It is a security problem, not a social one.

>So let's fix it.

I posted a thread earlier today trying to solicit advise about solving this and posted some of my own advise. I realized that there is a lot that can be done but I was focusing on the attacker. This is much more about defense than it is about offense.
Lead for MDL here. Glad you like the idea, spoiler :) Thanks for catching the low contrast issue with the dashboard navigation - is it the same as https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/issues/739?. If not, would you mind filing an issue on the repo and we'll try to get that fixed up soon?

https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/blob/master/C...

Alternatively, we can file a bug for you if you share details about the browser/os/device you were testing on.
I love the design, but I'm finding a lot of the animations aren't smooth. I'm on Chrome 43.
I like Reddit, a lot, but the community is shit. I read this apology and then Ellen's reply and that has negative 55 hundred votes. They have no real reason to dislike her. They have no real reason to be mad at the one woman being fired. They're just coming off as a bunch of upset kids with some "authority" in the form of votes or moderation.

As a casual user I have no need to dislike Ellen or feel slighted by the woman being fired. But the hive have decided those are the things that the community should do (and dislike Justin Beiber and Kanye West and whatever else), and the community does it. I can't even get a straight answer as to why they're upset.

Children are emotional.
He's apparently talking about Clojure's thread macro specifically. If you're not familiar it can be a way to organize code in a straightforward, human-readable, easily debuggable syntax. Ex:

(~> (sha1 in)
(bytes->hex-string)
(bytes-append #".")
(displayln))

In pseudo-Python this would be:

displayln(bytes-append(bytes->hex-string(sha1(in)), #"."))

http://www.greghendershott.com/2013/05/the-threading-macro.h...
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Just assigned that issue. We'll try to get it fixed up soon.
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You brought me back to the 90's there for a second. The Game God flamewars of old were so entertaining. :-)
Modernization has happened. I recall a reference to "Object-oriented COBOL on JAVA VM".
From the title, I expected this to be the filesystem used by Youtube.
Actually he isn't saying he is going to tank it at all.

He said that the current project is impossible and the only way to complete anything is to fix the scope.

However his prediction is that once they try and fix the scope the backlash will be terrible.
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And things I learn today will be just as relevant years from now. So no need to keep up with stuff on my spare time.

Isn't that such a weird feeling when you're in tech? :)

I am not a COBOL programmer, but I imagine taking a COBOL gig is like stepping back in time to the days of IBM, mainframes and suits at the office.
Are you saying that's a good thing mainly for performance reasons?

I ask mainly because I vaguely remember someone running the numbers and finding out that js animations surprisingly beat CSS animations in a number of not-unrealistic scenarios.

(I know there's other reasons for favouring CSS animations)
I'm not sure why there won't just be a gradual shift to businesses offering services on a quasi-modern technology stack, and able to offer the same capabilities in a more-competitive fashion. Certainly in some industries like banking, certifying it and appeasing the auditors will be a huge deal, which is presumably why COBOL and RPG are still a big deal there today - but hey, maybe there will be other advantages when you move away from storing your records in EBCDIC, too. :P

(EBCDIC - you know, the un-ASCII, designed after ASCII specifically to be backwards-compatible with the integers punched on punch cards.)
When they delivered her first Porsche, instead of being happy and high, my sister had a soul crushing rumination.

"Do I really deserve it ? What about all the others who are just like me ?" and so on. She was feeling guilty and concerned, but she knew that she had to accept it otherwise the "gift" from life will be taken away. Then there was the penthouse, then another one, then other cars and each time it was easier and easier, because she's managed to work it out, she's managed to convince herself that yes she deserves it, yes she's better and that's why she has to have all this stuff. People are looking up to her, she must be an example for them to follow.

But then oftentimes we'd sit at the table and she gets all existential and feels guilty again. And afraid that she'll loose it all some day.
The only way to get over that is to convince herself that she's worth it. And you do it by earning even more, by being even more exclusive.

"Do not pursue what is illusionary - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night." - Soljenitsyn.
I'm curious, what are the quantum effects at that size?
I worked with COBOL during the Y2K thing. Forget for a minute about the (very valid) downsides of startups: COBOL development in institutions such as banks is utterly boring. If, like me, you got into computers because you were fascinated by programming, run like hell from COBOL and forget the money argument. Run like hell whenever someone tells you "it's not that bad", like in the article. Nothing good can come from something introduced as not being "that bad".

If you're in this mostly for the money, then sure, learn COBOL.
Glad you like it! I thought about the pricing for a long time and since my costs are low I figure I could offer low priced plans and undercut any competition but maybe that thinking is wrong. The free plan is designed to give people a good taste of the product but it's missing key things like email alerts that make it really useful, I could see mom and pop shops upgrading just to get that feature. I like to keep the free version to give business owners a good incentive to sign up where I can hopefully upgrade them but maybe that is more trouble then it's worth. $99/month is a bit much but $40/month might be a better price.
Awesome ! I thought that growing coffee was impossible out of equator belt. I'd like to drink a cup of this coffe.
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Thanks for your thoughtful comment. Agreed that there are some bad apples in the HF space and I think that many of them will die in the next few years. Unfortunately, many emerging managers can't start their own hedge fund because it takes a minimum of $250 million just to get the ball rolling. At Instavest, we hope to be a launching platform for these folks while delivering value to other investors.
It would depend on the license.

You can't rip the copyright notices or license text off anything under the MIT license, for example.
Note: We have built a marketplace to connect drivers and passengers, so we understand some of the challenges in scaling a business like this.

Like all marketplaces, you are faced with the chicken and egg problem. The market place is supply constrained. There is demand for rides but not enough matching supply. People with cars much prefer to travel alone due the inconvenience of picking up others.

So, in order to get the drivers you need to give them a VERY convenient option. Someone that is along their route, that would not add more than 5-10 mins of extra commute time, this is also dependent on how long the total commute is. You also need to reach these drivers, without them searching for a solution. Which is insanely expensive since the cheap acquisition strategies do not work.

The best way to solve this IMHO is seeding the market with drivers (supply side). Once you have the scale to guarantee a ride in a specific area you open up ride-sharing.

* Uber is doing this by incentivizing drivers who want to make a profit.

* Google is uniquely positioned to do this as well, since they have the treasure trove of Wayze data
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That was actually a decent apology not the typical corporate "We are sorry you feel this way non-apology apology".

Yeah it came late. But better late than never.
Unlikely. It appears that this is dependent on BSD's jails.

https://github.com/kvasdopil/docker/blob/freebsd-compat/FREE...