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lionyo··on Offline Algorithms in Low-Frequency Trading
Where are you writing your options? Only the stablecoin pairs seem to be liquid
lionyo··on Show HN: Hide in Plain Sight, manage secrets alongside your code
I like git-crypt for this: https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt
lionyo··on It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
You can publish to a local instance of PyPi

https://www.linode.com/docs/applications/project-management/...

lionyo··on Versioning Your Home Directory
I use this: https://github.com/holman/dotfiles.git

Dotfiles are stored in git, and run a script that creates symlinks to those dotfiles

lionyo··on Literate Programming: Empower Your Writing with Emacs Org-Mode
I've been using revealjs too! I've been using this: https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal
lionyo··on What of the lowly page number
Useful for copying books before the printing press, you can check your copy by scanning through this word list

They would count the number of each letter for the bible, for example

lionyo··on Paperclips
[spoiler] I chose the reject option, what does "accept" change? [/spoiler]
lionyo··on Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
I use pinboard.in so is there a method to run bookmarklets to bookmark pages?
lionyo··on Show HN: Kubernetes as a back-end for OpenFaaS
I'm in the process of doing this with Rancher -- is it worthwhile to use both to see the difference, or go with Kubernetes?
lionyo··on What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer
Sounds like the Ballmer Peak: https://xkcd.com/323/
lionyo··on The ultimate guide to bike-sharing and the future of “China to Global” exports
Maintenance is not an issue if bike-sharing becomes a non-viable business.

One of the scam bike-sharing business models are to make money on deposits, raise money from investors, and bounce.

So the Chinese government is looking at forcing these companies to place deposits into reserve accounts, instead of letting them declare as revenue to attract investors.

lionyo··on Colorls – A Ruby script that beautifies the terminal's ls command
Thanks! This is great, works with oh-my-zsh
lionyo··on Python For Finance: Algorithmic Trading
And that one day was due to a programming error, not a trading error
lionyo··on Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften German Noun

- insurance company which provides legal protection

lionyo··on Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
Sometimes sandboxes resolve all DNS, so if you point to to a nonsensical URL and it resolves, then you may be in a sandbox.
lionyo··on I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40 per hour
Are you referring to a previous article that says Uber Eats is just to juice up Uber's revenue numbers for their investors?

I recall that Uber ride-share accounting doesn't use top line as revenue (only the cut), but for Uber Eats, they are allowed to use the whole order as revenue.

lionyo··on Show HN: 100M Books – Open a new tab, discover a new book
I like using Wikipedia's Special:Random as a new tab to get a new fact every time

Set as your home page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

lionyo··on The origins of XXX as FIXME
For journalists, the placeholder typically taught is "TK" for fact-checking later, as in "The youngest president was TK years old."
lionyo··on Martin Shkreli launches website to shame pharma greed, sleaze
He raised the price of Daraprim for insurers, and allows patients to receive it for free if they can't afford it
lionyo··on Ask HN: If you use keybase.io regularly, for what do you primarily use it?
Publishing My Private Keys: http://nullprogram.com/blog/2012/06/24/
lionyo··on A Map Showing Every Cargo Ship
Yes, here's a picture & explanation: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/6822/why-is-the-strai...
lionyo··on Spaceplan
Click "System Peeker" in the top middle of the screen, under "Planet Looker"
lionyo··on Slackware 14.2 released
There's a slackware security newsletter that blasts out new patches news
lionyo··on "Payload to Mars" Added to SpaceX Pricelist
If you can defend it, you can keep it
lionyo··on Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go
Here's one in Python, for those who want choices: https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
lionyo··on China Cracks Down on Politically Incorrect Maps
Could she be referring to different map projections?

https://xkcd.com/977/

lionyo··on 23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports
Statistics and risk are meaningless when your name is attached to the report.

To go to the extreme, a 0.001% chance of genetic disease can drive a person to make emotional decisions.

lionyo··on Coders at Work on finding and preventing bugs
Anybody have a debugging workaround for Haskell? Dropping print statements is doable, but not very nice looking.
lionyo··on A game running in your browser's address bar
Is that the reason why the title of the page is named "I'm sorry"?
lionyo··on Why the World Is Too Optimistic About China's Economic Future
Which city are you in? The sailing and food sound great
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