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Man I really hope other people get this one, because it is awesome.

Huh? What do you mean unavailable? I see it just fine.

Is there a sane web Notification Center yet? Nope. Sigh.

All GitLab notifications are via email unless someone explicitly @s you. Furthermore, there is no api to notification. Basically, unless you monitor email, you don’t get notifications. It’s horrible.

Can we just get a decent unified Notification Center, please? Notifications in GitLab are painful, just copy how GitHub does it and stop trying to make it so complicated.

Ran a business that started on stitch. What a painful piece of software that is. We had a heavily custom integration to their api and very high order volume. Moved to NetSuite, built many a customization and integration. NetSuite is great, but expensive and you will find the developer experience painful. As an ERP without investing heavily in customization it does a great job.

Blosc is an outstanding project. I have used it with great success in finance and general data science in production with very large total datasets (one custom binary format and one leveraging protobufs).

It really shines first and foremost as a meta compressor, giving the developer a clean block based API. Once integrated (which really is quite easy) you can experiment easy with different compressors and preconditioners to see what works best with your dataset. These things can be changed at runtime and give you great flexibility.

Francesc has been advancing blosc consistently with a steady vision for years and years. It is one of the most underrated tools around IMO.

Here’s an idea: don’t project your values or idea of worth on what other people choose to do with their life. You’re not as righteous as you may think you are, I guarantee it.

For soccer it’s trivial to remove the aerial aspect from the youth game, in fact they’ve already done it. No headers, no throw ins, etc. Doing so doesn’t do much to change the game at a youth level.

Football on the other hand... it’s pretty much impossible to take the CTE risk away without ending up with another sport (rugby, Aussie rules, whatever).

IMO the long term viability of US football is not good.

This is how any reasonable institution not 100% focused on cryptocurrencies will gain cryptocurrency exposure. The big reason is they are backed by CME clearing and settlement. It helps to significantly reduce the counter-party risk associated with other venues.

No, they aren't. There are all sorts of futures contracts, and they are all derivatives and none are indexes themselves. There are equity index futures, single stock futures, foreign exchange futures, treasury futures, etc. Cash settlement vs the ability to take settlement in the physical underlying is where you might be getting confused, but they're all futures nonetheless.

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This is a pretty cool company. Even though we are a manufacturing company our executive team is comprised of leaders who have built and sold software startups in the past We are a profitable company growing at an enormous rate. This is a great opportunity to get on board with a company that gives you a fast paced startup environment with the benefits of a stable, profitable company.

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The underlying assets were stable. Are you sure about that? Go check some intraday prices. Have a gander at AAPL or GE or COST.

It makes a ton of sense, actually. Intense fear drove large demands for liquidity thus spiking volatility. Thinly traded stocks and ETFs were hit harder than thick ones. ETFs, in particular, had additional demands placed on them as their underlyings were thrashed about at the open as many rushed to sell. The halts were from both limit up/down price band violations and volatility pauses and they did exactly what they were designed to do. In short: liquidity costs money and it isn't an infinite resource.

We did 13 billion shares yesterday, which is nearly 2x the 10 day average. The market was far from broken. In fact, I'd say it performed remarkably well.

Probably nothing? OnStar is an optional service. It's not required for your car to run.

OnStar provides all sorts of nifty things. Lock your keys in the car? OnStar can unlock your doors.

Franklin uses pink butcher paper, not foil. While the cook will be shortened with the crutch it is done at the expense of the bark. Crutching makes for a softer less "barky" bark. This is, supposdaly, one of the benefits to using butcher paper as it permits the meat to continue to breath and therefore has less of an impact on the bark formation.

Oak is the traditional wood, not mesquite.

I don't know how far along you and the parent are in your bachelors, but there are BS completion programs that you might consider. I'm now 35 and I left my undergrad EE BS in my senior year to start a software company. Thankfully it worked out, but I have at times wished to be able to get a masters degree and have found the bachelors requirement troublesome.

Last year I enrolled at UT Arlington to get a BS in University Studies via the Finish@UT program (http://www.finishatut.org/). I am specifically planning on finishing a CS masters via the Georgia Tech program. To finish my bachelors I will need to finish 4 semesters of part-time coursework, essentially picking up where I left off in my undergrad EE at UT Austin, but of course not getting a EE degree, but still getting a BS degree.

Anyway, as a means to an end, I can stomach 4 semesters of undergrad online coursework to (a) finish my degree as an example for my daughters and fulfil a promise to my father; and, (b) enable for me the option to get a masters in CS for personal fulfilment reasons.

Python has urwid.

When JIRA started it was beautiful when compared to other available options (bugzilla, for example). JIRA's UI was a major competitive advantage in the beginning. These days, it looks and feels terrible, IMHO.

This really has nothing to do with it at all. In fact, an LLC can elect different forms of tax treatment, including being taxed as a C or S corporation.

Never, ever exercise options unless you have a market to immediately sell into OR otherwise have means to cover the potentially significant tax bill. This bit so many people in the dot-com boom. Options should be exercised and a portion of the received stock immediately sold to cover the tax which will be due on the exercised vs strike price. This is one reason that restricted stock in the US is MUCH better tax wise. In the US you can file an 83-b election and receive tax treatment on the basis at time of purchase, which for most startups is effectively 0.

NEVER EVER exercise options unless there is a real market in which you can realize value from the received stock directly UNLESS you REALLY know what you're doing (read: have money and a good accountant/lawyer).

Wow, Socedo looks very neat. Had not seen that before.

Middlemen have always existed in markets. The middlemen have changed, but as you rightly point out, they now take SIGNIFICANTLY LESS than they used to because competition has forced spreads down to next to nothing. You pick: pay a 0.30 spread on a NYSE listed stock or a 0.01. It's sort of a no-brainer.

The thing that most people seem to be upset about is that now market makers generally have few to no obligations to provide liquidity and they are drastically smarter than they used to be.

Ultimately, unless you are slinging enormous blocks, if you send a marketable order through a retail broker these days you are almost always going to get a better fill than the displayed market. Likewise, if you are a large trader you have to be more sophisticated about how you fill your orders, you can't just lift 100k shares even when 300k are displayed unless you do so with a semi-intelligent execution algo (note: these are everywhere these days, and not using one brings into question the trader/brokers abilities and whether they are even qualified to be in the market).

You might also google stories about market makers not answering their phones during times of high volatility. There is this strange obsession over "how it used to be", as if it was better having people in the mix matching orders and providing that liquidity. The fact of the matter is, those people were as deeply flawed as any algorithm. The major difference today is that there is significant competition to provide liquidity in US equities markets and that liquidity can be extracted ON DEMAND by any trader.

Did you know, in the past it was NOT POSSIBLE for you to post a limit order and have it displayed in the order book unless you were an anointed market maker on an exchange?

[edit: this was meant as a reply to gdl not tptacek]

Index funds, or really anyone with long horizon investment objectives, are major benefactors of HFT. Note, "HFT" really means nothing in modern context, but regardless, what most mean are "Electronic Market Makers". Long horizon investors benefit directly from being able to access cheap and plentiful liquidity pretty much whenever they want to. Spreads are tighter because there is now significant competition to provide that liquidity.

Suggest you read this rebuttal. Lewis' book is deeply flawed. http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F...

I admin the cluster, so you're gonna need to try again.