skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free markets are many things, but they are never meritocracies without the assumption that capital is merit. Whoever has the most money always has the best marketing.
You seem to be accepting the premise that HFT algorithms a e acting as market makers.

I reject that premise. HFT algos are majoritarily run in markets with deep liquidity.
> The most blatant of all is that Popcorn Time is not a site, it's an application (which is why it's been so hard to block).

Popcorn time uses a webservice.
If you're looking for that consider opening an issue for GitLab (or better, send a merge request).
The best use-case I can think of is using bash as a REPL for C libraries. Many times in the past, I've made library calls that either misinterpreted the parameters or the result value. I would have loved the ability to prototype those calls in bash until I understood them enough to call them properly.
> Harvard waives fees altogether for families making less than $65,000. More than 60% of US households have income less than that+, yet only 20% of Harvard's undergraduate class pays no fees. From this we reasonably say that Harvard is mostly a school for rich kids, despite its generosity to those non-rich kids it lets in.

This argument is backwards. Harvard has a need-blind admission policy, which means that admissions decisions are judged solely on merits.

The reason that kids from the > 60% of households with incomes below that threshold don't go to Harvard isn't because of Harvard's admission policies, it's because the college preparatory system heavily favors families with higher wealth.
These are 7-inch capacitive touch screens, less than $70 from amazon prime, same resolution (800x480), mount with 4 screws, and use HDMI for video and USB for power/touchscreen. The downside is that the touchscreen drivers are binaries. Somebody online made an open source driver that appears to work perfectly, so if you're not using Raspbian or something else their binaries are made for, you might have some driver hacking to do.

http://www.amazon.com/Waveshare-Capacitive-Interface-Android...
http://www.amazon.com/SainSmart-Touch-Screen-Display-Raspber...

http://www.april1985.com/post/2015-06-28-hack-waveshare-touc...
New DHS card reader can check credit/debit/gift card balances sans warrant
This "autobiography" popped up yesterday in a thread about the general silliness of some consumer-facing IoT devices. The original comment was written by netcan and includes a great Douglas Adams quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182204

CMS' coke machine is the grandfather of today's IoT devices.
This is great. Thanks for sharing! I could definitely see building out something similar on top of private-message once I firm up the scripts with a more secure block mode.
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It's worth devoting a portion of classroom time (in my opinion, a substantial portion) to discussion of the topic, perhaps focusing on particular problems and generalizing from there. For example, you might select random students each day to present problems from homework. If you've ever noticed that you learn something better once you teach it to someone else -- well, it works for your students, too.

Moreover, if you create a non-judgmental environment in which people are free to talk about their approaches to problems and get feedback not only from you but from other students as well, then just by watching carefully, you will learn some of the more common gaps in understanding. (Note that some students will not talk in these situations unless forced, but that does not mean they do not benefit from following the discussion.)

If you're anything like I was when I was first TAing courses like this, you might think that if you do this, you won't have enough time to "cover the material". But I put it to you that a lecture that is not absorbed doesn't cover anything.
Unlocking your phone in the US was actually illegal until August 1st of 2014.

You could be held for circumvention of copy protection schemes.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/unlocking-new-cel...
Banks can only give loans on a portion of their holdings, the rest of the money really does just sit there doing nothing. Arguably, it's a hedge however the FED even manages reserve requirements in terms of monitory policy not as a hedge.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
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What kind of a company would pay me to talk with their recruiter?
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I don't believe people should go to jail unless they are profiting massively from copyright violation -- e.g. someone selling a bootleg subscription streaming service and pocketing the money.

I also agree that the concept of copyright is a 'legal fiction' in the sense that it's a kind of hack. 'People who make intangible things should be able to get paid, so let's pretend they are physical artifacts.' But the purpose of that hack is at least in its purest sense noble. Child labor laws are also a legal fiction. There is no natural reason for them to exist. We made them up because we got tired watching the children of the poor be used up as a consumable good. Nature sucks. Civilization is a conspiracy to escape the brutal amoral Darwinism of nature.

If you want to get rid of copyright, create a better alternative. But your better alternative must do the good things that the original does, otherwise it won't work. So far I don't see such a thing.

The fundamental issue is present here in this sentence:

"Nowadays, film and music are just files, and can be freely copied at will."

Let's say I have two files. One is a music file, the other is the output of /dev/urandom. They could be of equal size, and they are equally easy to copy. But one contains the results of possibly thousands of hours of human labor not to mention the irreplaceable and ethereal quality we call 'creativity', while the other contains no actual information at all.

Conflating one with the other based on how easy they are to duplicate amounts to a profound devaluation of human labor and human life.

The same sort of argument sounds absurd when applied to physical goods e.g. "a t-shirt is just cotton, so why do we have to pay a premium to a bunch of factory workers?" But it is in fact the same argument, since in reality everything is just information and therefore all labor amounts to the transformation of information. Your t-shirt is just carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, etc. organized in a particular way.

(This argument carried further gets really interesting, but I have work to do. Quick version: in a post-3d-printing future where everything is automated, copyright might well be the only form of property and the only mechanism for compensation available to the non-capitalist class.)
You are angry and lashing which is clouding your ability to comprehend what people saying to you. This is a common trait with people who has strong religious attitude towards licenses, and demonstrate the reason why flame war topics never produce anything productive on HN.
I think kordless has a key insight here: it doesn't say the lawyers visited all of them and only them. The devs may still be fairly anonymous in a big pool of devs that was visited- a dragnet, as it were. We don't know yet.
I was hopeing that it'd be gamified protein folding.
I can't imagine how anyone on HN could possibly spend enough on movies or music to make this trade rational.
Steve Jobs spent 12 years creating, funding, and leading a risky company that built a UNIX implementation that has become one of the most widely used.

I think the creating OS X is in the same league as creating UNIX or Linux. Sure, Jobs wasn't a coder like Ritchie or Torvalds, but it's not like they didn't also have a lot of help.
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Which means for an arbitrary length message, you can rearrange blocks and it will decrypt (and the victim is none the wiser).
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I used to buy those TSA approved locks with the master lock. They would just cut them off anyway.
Lies, damned lies, and A/B testing
In GitLab there is a more granular permission model, reporters can edit the labels but not see the code, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/perm...
That's the kind of suggestion that would get you ahead quickly at a company like that (assuming you were also willing to personally follow through with it).
I fail to see how jq is even close to the functions of App::RecordStream.
https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-lan...
Morals and laws are totally separate issues, and supporting content creation does not require supporting broken distribution methods.
Love it. Just bought and upgraded in 10 seconds.
And that's totally fine, and probably (given current SFBA ethos) healthy. But "too many people were mourning for Jobs" is a weird reason to start that evaluation, and it's the reason the filmmaker gave.

My only objection is to the idea that people need to earn mourning. I'm not trying to defend Jobs beyond that. I didn't know him, or work for Apple.
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I remember RIT having one.. That was the mid 90s and it had been around for a while..

https://www.rit.edu/news/umag/spring2009/03_computer_soda_ma...
I don't know if I would characterize NaCl as "enormous". TweetNaCl is literally two files. Libsodium has a bigger footprint, but it also seems to have bindings for pretty much every language. I would think it's pretty easy to integrate.

I definitely do not think the proliferation of unvetted, anonymous crypto libraries is a good thing. How many people have the expertise to write this kind of thing? How many have the expertise to evaluate its quality?

For example, the documentation for the linked library says: "we've also added integrity checking in the form of a SHA 256 hash." This is a huge red flag: hashes provide integrity, but not authenticity, which is really what you want here. But then you go and look at the source code and find that they are actually using HMAC-SHA256, which does provide authenticity. So the documentation is not an accurate description of what's going on, and you need to go and look at the source to find out that it really is okay (in this particular aspect, though it doesn't inspire confidence for the future).

My point is not to say that this particular library is terrible or anything. Just that we have limited resources, and we're better off consolidating to a very small number of solutions designed, written, and validated by experts.
Using libsodium, there are two routes you can go:

- crypto_box() for authenticated public-key encryption
- crypto_box_seal() for anonymous public-key encryption
(with message authentication)

I know for a fact that there are JS bindings for libsodium.

http://doc.libsodium.org/bindings_for_other_languages/index....

For PHP developers:

https://github.com/paragonie/pecl-libsodium-doc/blob/master/...

https://github.com/paragonie/pecl-libsodium-doc/blob/master/...
Onboarding new employees differently at Bizzabo
Netflix's USP isn't access to movies anymore. It's access to exclusive-to-Netflix content like House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, etc.

The fact that you get some movies along with that original content is just a legacy of their old strategy, which means that (1) their movie library is never going to get much better than it is now, and (2) things like feature film release windows are now more or less irrelevant to Netflix's market appeal, since they have full control over when their original content rolls out.
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You're right, of course. However, the IIoT / Industrie 4.0 is about taking it all to new levels of interoperability and integration.

See: http://www.mmsonline.com/articles/7-things-to-know-about-the...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/airbnb-for-refugees-germ...

http://www.france24.com/en/20150908-france-airbnb-migrants-c...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/berlin-group-be...
> Mourning is not a lifetime achievement award.

It certainly is one metric by which you could measure lifetime achievement. I don't really understand the apparent strength of your reaction against it, though.
The AlphaSmart seems to have similar hardware to your MailStation, and has a bit of a cult following as a device for writers. Plus easy text export.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
Awesome, thanks for the support!
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Geeks are secretly wishing this is possible. A medium scale singularity, if you will. BTW have you ever listened to Pussy Riot? and how much they suck?
You're asking for free data with no intent to redistribute it or otherwise provide value back to the user? (And in the case of Mattermark, profit from it.)
Your perspective on this seems skewed. We have never stopped hearing about how "evil" Microsoft was. Microsoft is a company most people love to hate. There are not any movies painting Bill Gates as an inspired, messianic product visionary. Apple used monopolistic practices many times itself, but this is rarely discussed.

There would not be much backlash against Steve Jobs if he had not been beatified by a brand-loyalty cult as the Design Messiah Who Changed Everything. That story was written by Apple, and now nobody can get away from it. There are plenty of other execs who made piles of cash selling widgets that were slightly different from other widgets, but we don't develop strong opinions about those guys because we never have to hear about them.
Any way to find out how many machines had this capability? I don't think the universities were installing the monitoring hardware, just tapping into them. I seem to remember one on the UF campus in the early 90's.
I'm rather surprised an official Go blog post (from 13 March 2014) was posted on HN until now.

Very good blog post. I'm always delighted about the clean way those blogs are written.
Did you hear about how some police departments reject applicants that score too well on their entrance exams? This practice was not only tested in court, but upheld by the 2nd Circuit. You can literally be too smart to get hired as a cop.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/sto...

And we at HN think that the hiring process for software professionals is broken. Imagine if you would be rejected from further consideration if you answered the brainteaser question correctly.
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The true cost dwarfs what any budget says - the time that everyone wastes (getting to the airport needlessly early, waiting in line, being molested, missing flights, obessing over packing the "wrong" thing, and inventorying your luggage immediately after landing). When you add this up, how many human lifespans has the TSA killed?
Ah, very well then, I stand corrected!
Cool, that sounds great! We'll make it more prominent on the website. Thanks again.
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Thankfully I discovered it soon after, since I intended to deposit the checks at an ATM at the airport, and could phone the issuer of the check and have it stopped and reissued. But I was well past the checkpoint by then. I had made sure the checks were in the bag just prior to going through the checkpoint since it occurred to me to use an ATM to deposit them.
Here's a list of recent articles for anyone who is interested but wants to sample before committing:

http://readthisthing.com/archive
In this case, it sounds like they were installing the monitoring hardware.

> They installed micro-switches in the Coke machine to sense how many
bottles were present in each of its six columns of bottles. The
switches were hooked up to CMUA, the PDP-10 that was then the main
departmental computer. A server program was written to keep tabs on
the Coke machine's state, including how long each bottle had been in
the machine.
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I (author of above mentioned post) would certainly be very interested if this is possible.... Feel free to email me at wstein@sagemath.com
Edit: I don't know if google cloud credits at all transferable or what though. They likely have stringent terms of usage??
Harvard does this to maintain it's rankings not because there operating a charity. If the goal is to educate people with tax payer money giving lot's of it to a private group who then goes and spends a tiny fraction of that educating high achieving poor people is a ridiculously inefficient use of public funds.
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Most critics of HFT rely on three major arguments:

1) It is a front running operation.

2) It has no "social benefit".

3) It increases volatility or structural instability.

Items 2 & 3 are not germane to the question of "it is a front running operation".

My response to item 1 is simply, no it's not. If you state it is, then either you have an unclear understanding of how market mechanics work, or a specific natural opposition to HFT systems. When the OP said that HFT "insert themselves into transactions", I really wanted him to clarify if he meant "insert" in the sense that he thinks they can change a standing order based on new orders before they execute, or the more general sense of "inserting themselves" that any middleman does in any commercial transaction. That is, as an expert in sourcing/warehousing/etc items that have varied demand curves.

Your response (and the fed's part in it) seemed to muddle the responses to items 2 and 3. My answer (and the common one) to item 2 is that it provides liquidity cheaper than the prior regime. That is largely not debated, though it is an open question of whether you could provide the same liquidity even cheaper within some other environment (batch auctions etc).

The question of whether HFT contributes to high volatility vs acts as a response to it is much more nuanced and I suspect unanswered/unanswerable, but the problem with the Fed specifically speaking to it, is that the Feds own actions are at the heart of the question as well. A given bank or investment fund service is unlikely to have the systematic impact of the Fed.

Finally, notice that the Fed did not speak to whether HFT lowers the cost of trading (ie item 2) they only spoke to the volatility question. So using the Feds statements as a counter to the argument that HFT lowers the cost of trading does not work.
Having a need blind admission policy doesn't mean that admission decisions are judged solely on the merits. For example, what is meritorious about having a parent that went to Harvard?
I miss my E30 328i cab. It felt like the pinnacle of what a car should be. With the manual transmission I've never felt more part of the car. I loved every second of driving it, even though the clutch felt like pushing two cinder blocks.

I forgot to change the timing belt and blew the engine. I "upgraded" to an E36 cab. It's nice, but feels too soft and comfortable. The body shape is all bloated -- when you sit in an E30 there's your shoulder, the door and 1.5 inches later the outside. In an E36 it feels like there's a foot between you and the outside of the car.
Hi all! I'm from Quire. We teamed up with Mattermark to conduct the 2015 Startup Investing Survey in anticipation of the SEC finalizing Title III of the JOBS Act. Title III has the potential to allow anyone—not just accredited investors—to invest in startups. We hope the survey helps demonstrate demand for Title III, and provides us with insight into what the investing landscape would look like if anyone can invest in startups.

Check out our Medium post which provides a bit more background. https://medium.com/by-quire/the-2015-startup-investing-surve...

And stay tuned to see the results of the Survey.
I don't use LinkedIn, does it tell you who visited your profile? Have other developers been visited by the WB lawyer? Maybe they're just checking all LinkedIn profiles of developers with certain skills.
My advisor Peteris posted this on here. I am the CEO, and to answer your question, the first customer who signed up (before we even launched) was Amazon. We have had hundreds of companies interested in paying qualified people to pitch them a job.

I owned a staffing company and found that it was less expensive to pay candidates for their time than it was to pay someone to try and get them on a phone to pitch them a job.
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I'm not 100% sure, but I believe those are only spots that have been reviewed by WHA users. The app itself still has tons and tons of spots (I think from Foursquare data?) that are pinned on the map but needing some feedback from users. It looks like the creators are watching these comments, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Software licenses in France are still under this law which was designed for records. In IP transfer contracts, we must write which countries and supports are covered by the IP transfer. Everything else is excluded by default.
Hey Minimaxir! We'll definitely be sharing the results in the coming weeks.
Not really. Popcorntime doesn't provide copyrighted material, it just helps access and consume it, same as your laptop, TV, Chromecast or cellphone. Besides, the technology behind Popcorn could be used to access open content, therefore, the Berne Convention doesn't explicitly apply here.
Does Bizzabo help others onboard employees? Or just employees hired by Bizzabo?
There are a couple of weird APIs like unshare(2) where it matters that you do things in the shell itself, not in a process spawned by a shell. (chdir(2) might be an even better example, come to think of it.) I once wrote a bash plugin for playing with unshare(2) specifically.

That said, unshare(1) now supports `-r` with `-U`, which was the thing I needed.
We all want legal privileges, nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't mean society should grant them. "I want" is not an argument. If people can't live off of doing some activity, they have to choose whether they can afford to keep doing it or not.

Student loans, and obligations in general that people have contracted with certain expectations, only justify that we take a "softer" approach, it doesn't change the argument.
Doesn't even factor in the cost of healthcare, limited choices in housing and jobs, and the lost opportunity costs...
Hello all - I'm Victoria, the author of this 3-year old stepwell story, but the one on ThisIsColossal last week went viral and spawned all his miraculous hoopla. Barely anyone even read that article and I couldn't get anything published, anywhere, until last week.

I've been working in total obscurity for years, so please, if anyone wants to know more or I can answer questions, I'm so happy to. Though honestly, there a whole bunch I don't know, and no-one does.

If I'm using your site incorrectly, forgive this poor newb. My crazed-geek-genius-artist-brother frequents it and is impressed by me, finally. Btw if you're interested (since I owe him) here's his most recent Kickstarter campaign:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/780943604/fizzbuzz?ref=...

Thank you so very much for your interest -