jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You have no idea what you are talking about.

FWIW, I work at a risk analytics company. And if you worked on an automated execution desk, please excuse me for suggesting that you may be more inclined to see and emphasize the positives of what you do every day. I fully admit that I'm probably more inclined to see the negatives, but if you're really suggesting they aren't there, you're kidding yourself.

That's a small part of automated trading.

It's a small part of automated trading, but reading the news to pounce on something and holding it for only 20 minutes clearly falls in that small part. We're obviously not talking about filling stop loss orders and the like.

Honestly, if you are buying stocks long-term, you probably aren't focusing on short-term pricing changes.

That's just wrong. Funds are compelled to make transactions for a wide variety of reasons all the time. They are very interested in what happens to prices when they start to move to fulfill those obligations.

Large institutional investors can and do trade off-market entirely via Posit, block desks, other dark pools, etc.

"Can and do" does not mean "always and only".

But yes, you do not make large trades transparently in the marketplace, because people will take advantage of that. There is no way to trade without leaking information as well.

But the point is that automated trading systems are far more sensitive to that information, and can act on it much more quickly, meaning the methods to minimize the transparency of a large trade have to become more and more sophisticated, meaning more investment in those methods == tax.
Ordinarily you would set some sort of budget and back into an offering based on what is actually available.

What carrier(s) currently have service in the building?

Just guessing, you probably want something on the order of a T1 (1.5Mbps) to a business cable type account (2-10Mbps typical), which will be in the area of about $150ish (for cable) to $500+ (for a typical T1 loop+bandwidth).

Unless your Internet access is SUPER critical to your business, redundancies don't make much sense. If you want to cover that contingency moderately cheaply, get a Verizon wireless broadband card ($60/mo) and a router that can do basic failover (Cradlepoint, Linksys, D-Link all have good options). The upside being that if anyone travels, they can take the 3G card with them (obvious risks apparent).
Why stop there? Go all the way and call it the "SUPER 305xmc" - with extra mayo and cheese!

I would totally go to a sandwich shop that used obscure model numbers.
Fracking will end when the oil/gas is gone.

It's inaccurate to group together hydraulic fracturing and traditional oil drilling in terms of environmental damage. The regulations and safety procedures for oil are leaps and bounds beyond those of hydraulic fracturing.

My girlfriend is in charge for assessing the environmental impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline, and she recently spent two weeks rerouting KXL because she and her team discovered beetles in the proposed pipeline corridor.
People waiting for "the breakthrough" that suddenly makes programming easy and available to all are kidding themselves. As others have said there's inherent complexity to programming and solving problems that can't be wished away with paradigm changing strategerized facilitations utilized by flow-optimized programmerators or whatever the secret code knowledge suppressed by scientists was prescribing.

On the broader point - and the comments by folks saying we should have made things better by now: we have. I started out learning to program with zero help, no tools, few manuals on an Apple II in some flavor of BASIC or machine code by trial and error.

Decades later having not coded a lick in more than 15 years I picked up Ruby On Rails quickly and easily (enough to get out MVP) and with the help of Stack Overflow and Google have spent the last three years getting better and better at it. I can do dramatically more today than I could have imagined in my days alone with an Apple II and a poor english translation of a poor chinese translation of a pirated Apple manual.

It's all better. The worst programmers have super powers available to them (they don't always use them admittedly) compared to prior days.

Things are getting better but they're earning it, not because "THEY" don't want you to know "SECRET KNOWLEDGE".
What about pairing more than one computer? I have a couple macs at my desk.
Not really, you can achieve this using a Rails (or rails-like thing like Play) very easily and use in their built CSRF, SSL, etc. but this type of design also makes it easy to build from scratch (which may lead you down the path of reinventing things).

SPA + restful endpoints makes it easy to pick a library centric approach vs. a framework approach but it certainly does not preclude you from using a framework.

I guess people who disable javascript don't get to use your site...but I don't really care about that segment of the population.
The government already tell you what you can and can't watch via the BBFC and other various legal means (e.g. downloading a film to watch because the studio hasn't given it a UK theatre/DVD release would be illegal, I think.)
Well that is an interesting point of view.

My experience so far( early 30's) has been exactly the opposite, most people/bosses I've meet that were successful in business were complete assholes, with several nice people working for them exclusively for the money.

That has in fact made part of my life very miserable because I really don't expect anything from anybody anymore. If been tricked/robbed/scammed so many times by people I trusted that my trust is mostly gone for now, and I only expect bad things from people when I depend on them for something. (If something good happens it's awesome, but I don't count on it)

Maybe I trust people more than I should have done, maybe it's the place I live... I don't know.
Video games aren't routinely justified as the solution to an extinction event on earth.
While I completely agree with your statement --- the Internet filters at my place of employment block access to many of the keywords associated with finding these numbers.
If Napoleon was good at judging people, they are driven by 2 things only: greed and fear. The most successful people career wise have to be greed-driven, confident, and mentally strong. The meanest ones are typically fear-driven, insecure and mentally weak. My life lesson is to stay away from those driven too much by fear, who are usually losers in Darwin's game in the long term.
Sad that this story isn't getting more interest from the HN crowd. I think this is great news and am really interested in checking out what Ubuntu Core is like on some small Linux boards. After learning a lot about CoreOS, I love the idea of total application isolation and transactional OS updates. Having that capability on small Linux boards is awesome.
I've concluded that freedom is an anti-value for many people. They don't want the responsibility that goes with freedom. They want people in government to grant them the cozy feeling of living at home with their parents, carefree, even when it's all theater and illusion. Those in government are happy to oblige because it's a fantastic never-ending jobs program for them. This is why the police state relentlessly ratchets forward, with only a temporary respite to allow the occasional fits of outrage to subside.

http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/tip-of-the-spear/

We are seeing the hybrid of the Nanny State and the Police State, the kindergarten teacher and the prison warden, with everything all soft and fuzzy and nice, but manacles and truncheons for those who step out of line. The rising cost of this state metastasis will fall squarely on the shoulders of the dwindling few suckers who choose to live responsibly.
I’m pretty sure the vowel sounds the same in cog and cock in US English.
That's actually pretty cool and I didn't know that other manufacturers had gotten to the point where it's actually useful. Though I prefer the Tesla all-in-one solution I do appreciate that there are third party apps that provide some extra functionality for other vendors.
I don't know if TSMC stole it, or just bought licensed it but Wikipedia says Chenming Hu was the Chief Technology Officer at TSMC from 2001 till 2004.
Yeah, I wanted to replace my aging Macbook Air with a Linux box but each and every PC laptop trackpad was such a step down that I got hesitant. Additionally, PC manufacturers have been slow to adapt modern IO like Thunderbolt (like Dell had exactly one half-speed TB port for years on their flagship line where Apple had 4 full-speed).

Now I've capitulated and am just waiting for the next iteration of the Apple silicon Macbooks.

It is sad, but due to not generating sales at the same scale as MS or Apple, Linux lacks the development power to keep up.
There's a sporting goods brand called Le Coq Sportif.

There are people with the surname Le Coq.

This Anglo-centrism bothers me as well, because we can find words in English that sound dirty in other languages.
It took a little while for the map data to compute. Looking at the network graph, it had finished downloading the website after a second or so, but it took like 10 seconds for the initial bike theft data layer to show up, and about 50 seconds until the heat-map layer showed.

edit: Looks like it loads the outer level heat map data first, then the next level, etc. However, zooming in at this point breaks the site and turns it white. (This is on FF(87)). National Average widget also fails to load on FF, but works on Chrome, same goes for the zoom-in-page-turns-white-bug.
Looks like AMZN HQ is going to move.
Cannot offer any data on that but I experimented with a SD TV series episode. HEVC and AV1 ended up at the same file size (few kilobytes difference) but encoding AV1 took over 10 times as long using rav1e.
I pronounce it sort of like cog but with a sort of w sound at the end - like the gw sound you get in quiet.
Cashiers that make $10 an hour are under more surveillance and public exposure than cops are. And cashiers can't turn off the cameras like cops are able to.
Recently...

1. On StackOverflow learning more about how C# works under the hood to understand memory/CPU usage (newer to C#, used C++ in a past life)

2. Building/debugging a spreadsheet in Excel (not a software engineer by job description)

3. Debugging software issues on hardware by messing with the hardware

4. Thinking about how to code to solve the problem; drawing/writing things out, etc.; rather than just diving in head-first (need to do this more...)
Sure, but...

Have you seen the size of disks and network bandwidth recently? There is absolutely no reason to bother with lossy audio compression.
If the developer, QA and SRE signed off on it, what more should the team lead do?
Deciding that people who disagree with you must be "big pharma" employees and denying conspiratorial thinking in the same post... Wow
I was using this project for my stock trading bot.

Way nicer to use Swift than python for this, and I have rewritten this bot several times in different languages + frameworks (objc php java python swift tf1.0 theano keras s4tf) since 2012.

Doing authentication for brokerage apis + correctness from pulling from the db is easier to get right in Swift than python bc of the static typing + grand central dispatch for parallel queries.

It is also way more productive for me to have the compiler catch issues at the beginning instead of 6 hours into a data generation job where the python interpreter sees a None for something I didn't think of.
Hubris right? Gets you twice, every time.
Sure, that's why I said it had huge negatives instead of saying that it was (all) negative. But nuclear weapons are definitely a huge negative.
Hi all - I appreciate your concern over my methodology. Fact remains that I turned a $156 into a startup which has generated over 30k since launch about a month ago - while you might not understand the niche it serves our customers are schools for which there are no shortage of. All of the UI has been reskinned since the fiverr mockups and if you see the finished product it needs little resembelence. We also have two full time devs working on the software to continue to value add to the solution.

Yes I've launched over 100 products in 4 years many of which are international award winning - you can search Jarrod Robinson on the app stores to see that they are NOT throwaway products and represent hundreds of thousands of investment from me. I'm just blessed to be able to do what I love .
This actually took down editing rights for wikipedia for virtually the whole of the UK a year back or so. For wikipedia the whole of the UK looked like it was coming from 6 IP addresses.

Turns out that they'd blacklisted an album cover for having a naked 14 year girl on it, so everyone going to wikipedia got shunted through the system, which makes it appear as if everyone's coming from a handful of IP addresses. Ironically the 70s album cover wasn't censored in the UK when it originally came out.

I can't remember all the details now, I'm paraphrasing a story told by Glyn Wintle from the Open Rights Group[1]. I saw him at a Notts Tuesday event[2], good speech, a whole lot more insidious things going on than you realise.

In the UK the Open Rights Group are the people you need to support/get involved with to help keep things like this in check!

[1]http://www.openrightsgroup.org/
[2]http://notttuesday.com/2010/07/05/tuesday-13th-july-keeping-...
Count me in as one of the people using Square as a consumer device.

Ever been out to dinner with friends and when you go to split up the check, everyone wants to trump because they don't have cash and only have a credit card? Boom. Now I'll just trump and then have everyone pay me back with Square. The convenience is worth the inexpensive transaction fee.
I agree with a lot of the sentiment here that the presentation is a little overly drawn out and meandering, but the end point in spot on.

I recently took the advice to contact entrepreneurs I was interested in working with on the advice of a friend. The response was overwhelmingly positive and generous.

I emailed the founders of two companies I've been following for a while (one a former YC company) simply introducing myself and asking for advice on what I should do to put myself in a position so that they might want to hire me in the future.

The response I got from both was more than overwhelming. One responded to my first email within an hour with detailed explanations of what I should be doing and what I can do in the future. Furthermore, he responded to each of my follow up questions almost instantly after receiving them.

The second responded offering to set up a skype call in the next couple of weeks to talk over my questions with me more thoroughly.

These are both guys whom I have to assume are insanely busy and get far more important emails than random cold calls every day.

I feel like a lot of people don't take approaches like this and don't reach out to people because they have the same assumptions I did. I guess all I can say is, never underestimate the generosity and outgoingness of the entrepreneurial community.
>I never said it was inherent.

No, you didn't. Forgive my use of the word to describe your position but perhaps you'll see what I had in mind when I did.

>I just said there are clearly cultural differences across races [meaning in the US today.]

So a lower class black participates in the same culture as an upper middle-class black? (anecdotal: I sure as hell don't) A lower-class white shares culturally with middle-class whites? In "attitudes towards education, ambition, work and success" no less (which is what your brought up cultural difference with regard to)? Perhaps the wording of your claim is leading my astray, but as it's written it's not very defensible and can only make sense once your inject it with a vertical register, socio-economic status, good ol' fashioned class relations.

>There are plenty of black people, for example, who will openly talk about this, including Bill Cosby and Thomas Sowell, among others.

Irrelevant.

>Although on a separate point I'd say it's not 100% proven that somehow all failure or imperfection on the part of black Americans, to take one just group, is solely the fault of feeling oppressed, or having suffered from a history of oppression or being a minority or "on the bottom." Some of it may just be due to the results of personal choices and personal behavior and willpower.

Personal choices? Personal behavior and willpower? Sure. Now are you willing to scale that explanation uniformly across an entire sector of the population? Unless you're going to defend something very improbable, you have to explore more comprehensive causalities. The latter don't have to directly do with anything, but can and do mediate every other intersecting relation of cause.
Sorry I can't tell you more. I follow this area of law closely but am not qualified to advise anyone. Employment checks have increased significantly though, especially in STEM, so it pays to have your paperwork straight more than ever.
RoR isn't a language. It's an MVC framework that's good for websites (that is, web applications that have a lot of pages). It's overkill for APIs, transaction-heavy stuff, one-page apps, etc.

It's a baloney-ass straw man to set up Rails as weak when compared to Java. Rails is a limited web framework, and Java is a programming language.

Instead, you should compare Ruby or Python to Java for web development. If it's still your position that there aren't enough good open-source tools in Ruby or Python to do what you need, then I believe you're either looking very hard, or you're looking in the wrong places.
Nope. Still inferior to Android 2.2 on this front. Pretty annoying.
http://smutefy.inacho.es/
Yes, web startups are using Java, like mine. What I can't figure out is why the other startups need so many developers. :)
Java tools are often for-enterprise, and the best of them are often for-purchase.

Tweaking a Java library is huge PITA, because Java is soooo code-heavy. I estimate Java leads to ~10x as many lines of code when compared to Ruby or Python for basic libraries like API clients. The IDE-reliance inherent in that culture removes many of the immediate incentives of code minimalism, and as such, you often find insanely convoluted libraries that literally have more classes than pieces of functionality.

Java's great if you're not in a hurry, or if your organization is infected with enough bureaucracy that the added bureaucracy in the code won't even make a dent in your already-dismal efficiency, or if you need to "get fat" (i.e. "hire a bunch of college grads and burn them out") and you don't mind dropping your talent density to near-zero figures.

With all talent being equal, give me a Python or Ruby shop over a Java shop any day, and I'm certain they will be significantly more productive, day in and day out.
Not a question, just some thoughts:

It seems to me that economic rent, far from being an immoral oversight, is the fundamental law of capitalism. In all cases a capitalist seeks to charge more than it cost them to produce an item, or to gain some information, or to acquire a property. The more that item, or information, or property is worth to the market, the greater rent/profit the rentier can extract.

While this function can clearly be abused by those with great means, the basic concept is exactly what makes capitalism so efficient when it comes to growth: any person has the chance (hypothetically) to find and exploit differences in cost and value to increase their personal wealth. I can't find anything immoral with this form of rent-seeking. Which seems to imply it isn't so much the practice that we hate, but who chooses to practice it. When the laborer exploits, he makes a living. When the banks exploit, our whole economy shifts. We applaud the former and fear the latter, and that fear appears to be the motivator behind most criticism along the lines of that in your paper (apt criticism).

But, fear aside, there is no effective way to control inequities of power. If you cap access to power too low, you rob your economy of potential growth. If you cap access to power too high, the cap is meaningless: the powerful will circumvent your laws and do as they wish. And no matter how you cap it, the real effect will be to entrench the current elite and prevent new blood from cycling into the upper echelons (which is to say, you will have institutionalized inequality). Those currently in power will simply find a way to conceal or transform their power and rule in a shrinking market of rivals.

All of this is to say: inequality is an issue of power, not money. And in that context, inequality is a law of nature. If our goal is ending inequality in nature, we are wasting our time. If our goal is unseating those currently in power, we need to be honest with ourselves about that. In the end, questions of fiscal inequality are about power (a real force), not morality (an imagined one). While power can be taken, it can't be destroyed. And if we take fiscal dominance from the powerful, that dominance will just take a different form.

tl;dr What we're really grappling with is fear of nature, inequality being a natural and unavoidable result of differing degrees of individual and collective power.

Really enjoyed the paper, and I'd love to see these principles tested in the coming years. Any plans to develop the blockchain protocol you described anytime soon?
> I have to admit my own goals are absurdly ambitious, but those are the ones that excite me so I'm sticking with it.

Nu, so what are they?
It can describe RPC services as well.

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto#se...
Correct. I posted the original source for this very reason.
> Microsoft didn’t care about developers that was always a talking point.

Microsoft put an insane amount of effort into documentation[1] and sample code. They ran developer training programs around the world and published an actual magazine.

They funded the writing and publishing of countless[2] books for developers. They still run Channel 9, where they produce/publish long and short form technical content.

If you wanted to develop for a platform in the 90s/early 2000s, Microsoft had the best documented platforms with an incredible amount of samples to learn from.

[1] Each product team targeted at developers had a dedicated, non-trivial in size, full time documentation team. On top of that Microsoft would hire 3rd party software companies to start using early versions of new APIs and write large scale sample apps using those APIs. I worked on one of these samples apps, it was a complete end to end ordering system for a furniture store that included everything from a tablet pc app for the sales staff to use inputting customer orders, syncing to a database in the warehouse to get the order loaded on a truck, and the delivery driver had an application running to get a signature on delivery of the order. Since this was pre-cellphones everywhere, the truck driver's laptop stored data offline and when brought back to the warehouse it synchronized itself with SQL server using some features new to SQL server at the time.

That was one of thousands of sample apps Microsoft made to show off its APIs. Compare this to the modern world where the cloud database provider billing you by the hour is going to throw out a couple basic hello world examples and that is about it.

[2] Technically countable but a very large #
It would be interesting to let submitters provide multiple titles and a/b test them from the outset.
I think you cited the wrong source for that. It's actually the page linked in this submission that has that statistic.