skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, in the mind of the populist masses that Mr Levine it criticizing it is. I don't work in finance and I'm not going to make any judgments on the industry, just to say that people who are opposed to it would be opposed to HFTs as well.

Also, the people who applaud 'disruption' are not this sort of populist, they don't cheer because of the damage done to incumbents but because the disruption will hopefully mean better products/services/prices for customers. HFT just does the job of the old investment bankers slightly more efficiently. If you think investment bankers are bad, you're not going to think that more efficient investment are an improvement.
gym does not do it for me at all, as it's not really aerobic, and hiking in general requires too much brain power figuring out where to put your feet to allow me to get in the flow state plus in general it's not intense enough for long enough.

For me it really seems like working out at a high enough level that you'd have to stop after 1:30 or so that does it, if I have longer rides (I have ridden up to 5 hours) it does not seem to be hard enough, while if you go shorter it's too hard, there just seems to be something about the hard-but-manageable-effort that does it for some reason

Same deal with running, when I was marathon training and running for 2+ hours it did not happen as often as it did when I was half-marathon training and I was focusing on 1-1:30 workouts
Put it on your cereal for a real delight.
3d printing exploded because the patent expired.
> Lots of things are illegible to the public. Explain to me all the processes involved in building the smart phone in your pocket. You can't. I can't. Probably no single person in the world can. Who cares?

That's not true, not like HFT anyway.

First, you can quickly and succinctly describe the traits and benefits of a smartphone. You can be high-level at first, you don't have to explain how every detail works. There's no question, for example, that a touch screen doesn't actually work as advertised. You can just say that a smartphone is a cellular/wireless computer device with a usefully large touch-screen display.

In contrast, the unknown question with High-Frequency Trading is: is it actually providing value to anyone but the traders themselves? They might say they are "market-making" but are they really market-making (a trading role with proven market value) or are they merely exploiting structural inefficiencies in the trading infrastructure that mostly hurt everybody else? Maybe they are, but they should be able to describe it in a high level terms first (market-making, liquidity, etc.) where their role provides an obvious benefit to the market, and if you don't understand the high-level terms (eg liquidity) you can look them up.

So far as I can tell (and I am willing to be proved wrong here) there is no consensus answer to the question of whether HFT is actually valuable to markets.
Yes, but they aren't the government's children.
Thanks! Definitely look around; that's what it's there for.

If you're interested in the donations stuff, I'd suggest checking out www.givewell.org -- their research is really top-notch.
I assumed they were trying to copy-protect their text?
> HFT has led to a dramatic decrease in the price of market making.

How? It seems like this should not be that hard to explain.
The file formats are extremely well documented https://support.1password.com/opvault-design/ and many 3rd party tools exist for reading the data.
Yes, there are. The storage format is "open", and afaik, the current revision is v5. See on GitHub: https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=1password
I tend to agree with Cyph0n that patents can promote innovation.

They can also inhibit innovation. Something to consider...
I have examined enough human intestines, macroscopically, microscopically, and biochemically, to feel fairly confident this is not in fact something to worry about.
I've been using LastPass for a few years, even convincing $work to purchase/use the Enterprise version. This was my best option as, like you, my primary machine ran Linux and I wanted 2FA (also using a Yubikey).

With today's announcement, I'm not sure what I'll use going forward. In the past month, I've switched back to using a MacBook Pro as my primary machine (along with my iPad and iPhone). I'm not a big fan of LogMeIn, so I'll certainly be looking for alternatives.
Right. Homogenization should not impact fatty acid chain length. Dairy systems are complicated though, and there are protein interactions that help the emulsion by supporting the formation of micelles[1]. It's the same stuff after pasteurization, just distributed differently.

Pasteurization is an entirely different matter though. Heat treatment will convert some fraction of lactose into smaller sugars, including its constituent galactose and glucose[2]. This is why ultra-pasteurized can taste a bit sweeter than untreated milk. Pasteurization also inactivates lipases which would otherwise cleave the fat molecules, reducing the likelihood of rancidity[3].

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=1OhFPZ7tFz8C&pg=PA864&lpg=...

2. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=6Q8mX8DsDe4C&oi=...

3. https://books.google.com/books?id=gJ6jA7LG-bsC&pg=PA276&lpg=...
Oh wow. Thanks for posting this. It's such an improvement.
First to the Table
Thanks! I'm glad you like the design.

It's a slow evolution of doing the minimum necessary to keep raw html readable as things change. It started out as completely unstyled, then gained a max-width as screens got wider, and eventually a little bit of media-querying to make things look better on phones, but it's still really basic.
I use keepassx, it will allow you to keep a local repository of all of your passwords and sensitive information encrypted and accessible to all of your team members.

Commonkey is another great program and is free for teams of three.
Good demo. The benefits are indeed attractive, but you still have not sold me on why this is a better approach than ... well, everything that's been suggested in this thread. This stuff is possible without what you're proposing, as you yourself admit. What I see amp giving is a framework in which it is impossible to "mess up", which can be beneficial but I agree with the general sentiment here: New tech has a cost to it. Learning it has a cost. Implementing it in browsers has a massive cost (because I'm sure this will eventually find its way in Chrome, which means Firefox will follow suit, which means a larger potential for technical debt and a higher bar to developing a web browser from scratch).

Like someone else said: If Google wants performance, Google can start aggressively penalizing article-type websites which make unnecessary requests etc. I know you guys already penalize slow sites, so what's wrong with that approach? Especially since such an approach has a much higher chance of actually working.
This is really amazing. They first looked into what the problem was (lack of proper-length screws for surgical procedures) and checked to see what caused it. It turned out that the problem wasn't a lack of screws in general, there was actually a surplus of screws shipped from developed countries. The problem was inventory management and knowing what size screws needed to be stocked at any given time, because there was no inventory feedback loop. Inventory management and a feedback loop are reasons why we don't have the need for on-site screw cutters in the developed world.

The solution was to engineer portable, high-quality screw cutters to cut-to-length screws they had on hand.

Would another (maybe better/easier/less complex/quicker?) way to solve this problem be to use software/internet to create the necessary feedback loop to enable proper inventory management so that they had the proper screws on hand versus having to cut down long screws?
For those who don't know: "18F is a digital services agency built on the lean startup model based within the United States federal government." (wikipedia)
What a hit (coup) it would be if Musk could poach Ive, but it seems the latter is waiting for his turn at the helm. Or maybe he's had enough of demanding bosses, nice as Musk is, maybe Jobs burnt him out on "macho" bosses.

The engineering of the Tesla team combined with the design taste of Mr Ive could be quite a sight to behold and experience.
What part? I'm almost sure the part about being mentally active to delay dementia is true.

Does that only work on Alzheimer's disease, and not dementia in general?
Would be better to analyse other factors over the top of these. Income I guess is obvious, however transport probably is significant.
Can you cycle/walk/get good public transport?

What about topography?
AWS Snowball is a play on AWS Glacier. Glacier is the slow moving practically frozen storage system. Snowball takes the same stuff and hurls it rapidly to a destination. Pretty slick.
Is it possible to use ECS with something like Dogestry, rather than ECR or Docker Hub?
It's usable with their javascript-based version, but someone has also written a 1Password-compatible clone that works quite nicely:
http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/1pass/
I think you mean publishers built a slow site and are bemused by why they don't have any traffic.

Its a lack of repsect for techies and quality and not understanding that the web is not a glossy brochure that you can't optimize by shouting at a printer over the phone.
I see someone watched Hasan Minhaj's report on this topic on The Daily Show last night.

For the curious:
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fh76l0/the-daily-show-with-tre...
You+will+love+this+selfie+stick+made+by+drone+maker+DJI
Which is named after their physical location in Washington DC, 18th and F Street.
A Pepsi representative commented that people are so confused about healthy food, they'll avoid orange juice because of the high sugar and avoid diet sodas because they don't trust the artificial sweeteners.
Is that in the US? In CA whole milk is much more expensive.
Serious question - apart from a desktop app and support for emails other than Gmail, is there any difference between Inbox and Mailbox?
First of all this is not a Google-only project. There are many partners. See e.g. https://blog.twitter.com/2015/introducing-accelerated-mobile...

<amp-pixel> supports all kinds of tracking. You just give it a URL. Ironically it does not work with Google Analytics but we'll fix that eventually. Most others should work.

<amp-ad> currently supports these ad networks https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/builtins/a... We are super happy to add more. We want to support all networks.

You suggest elsewhere there is revenue sharing involved, but that is not true. amp-ad just loads an ad. This is controlled by the publishers and and their agreement with the advertiser. Google only plays a role if it happens to be the ad network (or the advertiser) involved.
US corporations don't have freedom of contract on privacy
They're also critical for the work the US Digital Service is doing to revamp how technology services are delivered in the federal government.

EDIT: USDS/18F folks, you're doing phenomenal work. Thank you.
For the secure storage of hundreds of passwords that sit in front of insane amounts of personal information, with support for auto-filling on desktop and mobile, easy syncing, archive sharing, and more...

It's really not that expensive for what you're trusting it with.

Edit: not affiliated, but it has to be my #1 favorite application on any platform.
* $50k is less than the down payment.

* We didn't know how much it would cost as it went; it was pay-as-you-go.

* That would make it hard to buy a house in the future.

* I don't like the idea of walking away and making it their problem.
A simple puzzle to tell whether you know what people are thinking
That I can agree with wholeheartedly.

But I'd add, HFT is like kids playing soccer on the freeway. They don't create value for anybody but themselves, and they screw up things for everybody else. I wish they would go away.
The link, I believe, seems weaker than once imagined. Here's a handful more papers/discussion adding to the complexity:
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-we-retire-60000-yea...

Simple answer is I don't think there's any consensus, but a radically novel view is beginning to emerge, being aided hugely by our newfound ability to genetically sequence ancient fossils.
> Have you actually been in a PhD program before

Yes. The experienced discussed at the link you posted is atypical and abusive.
> But what interests me more about this case is that the article expects an Australian court decision to be taken as global jurisprudence. What's the logic behind that?

I wondered that, too. But in a parallel comment, ihodes pointed out that this was already ruled unpatentable by the US court system. Courts do keep an eye on decisions from other nations; if they find the logic convincing, they're likely to adopt it. So if the US and Australia are following the same logic, it's likely to be adopted pretty much universally.
Just don't give honey to baby people.

Totally not what you were saying, I get that, but I think it's always a good public service type message to spread.

http://www.benefits-of-honey.com/honey-and-infant.html
Every batch someone from YC does a Q&A. Additionally YC partners give a lot of good startup advise at events, twitter etc.

We wanted to create a wiki of all YC related Q&A. You can submit any more by emailing askmeanything.me@gmail.com and we will have it posted with due credit to you and the original source. Also please share any feedback.

We loved reading all of them. Hope you like it too!
They're adopted.

Or are you trying to suggest that your genetics have a role in determining what rights you have or who has power over you?
I was surprised to see their share price listed prominently at the top of their home page. Is it just me or is that considered outdated and gauche?
I only started running regularly a year back, and I certainly feel something like a long-drawn low-ebbing pleasant kinda 'high' after a run. I also have double the energy now-a-days and am twice as productive since I started running. Concentration has improved along with temperament.

I am in my mid-thirties though and I can't recollect having run more than a mile before in my life. Maybe I will get used to this high and stop feeling the difference. Maybe I am feeling the kick because it is novel to me. But yes, it is nothing like the high you get from smoking marijuana :)
This is some good stuff. Good job!!
So its Google they cant even implement the sitemaps.org standard fully to spec or handle robots.txt files with BOM markers.

I wonder what the average Googler would make of OSI standards like x.400 and x.500.
We could ask, though, which R&D gets protected by patents but not by copyright or trade secrets? Which R&D would not produce a return on investment if patents didn't exist?

Drug research, perhaps, though we might be able to find other solutions there, or produce a much more limited form of patent for that industry alone. What else currently depends fundamentally on patents for its business model?

Looking at the many groups working on FOSS media codecs past and present (VP8, VP9, AoM, Opus, Vorbis), I'd say the media situation would actually get better in the absence of patents.
I really like the concept and the mobile app is great, but I have to agree. The desktop version seems like it doesn't even get tested before it gets released. After every new version I open it up and immediately find obvious issues.

Most recently swiping an email would leaves a 'ghost' unclickable email in the inbox. Did no one test the main focus of the app? Prior to that they pushed out a release that crashed every time I opened it until I figured out how to delete my existing settings database.

Yesterday I tried to open it and it just told me "The app has been disabled" and refused to log me in.
TABB group estimated HFT income to be $21 billion in 2009. That's about $65 for every man, woman and child in the US.

Ballpark figure, of course.
Encryptr is an alternative that I've had my eye on:

https://encryptr.org/

They don't plan to ever do auto-fill for security reasons, which I'll admit disappoints me.
If you click through to the "SYNTHPOPVIEWER," you can see other factors on a similar map, but not overlaid. http://synthpopviewer.rti.org
Assuming your passwords are in a "stable" state (i.e. you're not constantly adding new logins to your vault), it would probably be a good idea at this point to make a backup of LastPass's database via the Export feature and hold onto that backup. I know I'm on the paranoid end, but I have this sneaking suspicion that the Export feature might "disappear" in the coming months to try to curtail a mass exodus of users.
Wonder if this will have long term impact on the likes of amazon's gov cloud. Looks like their tools facilitate their adoption.
In a documentary, I saw lately (in Europe), one person did not kill himself, but did loss weight and was sent to hospital for inquiry, but nobody did find out what was wrong ... after he died, they found out, that he simply did not have the money to buy food and was so ashamed, that he did not tell anybody.

It was a different scam, where the victims where enrolled in regular lottery gambling (with a monthly rate) and the twist was, that when they found a victim, it was enrolled in more and more games (every game costing maybe $50-100) which where just automatically drawn from his bank account. Even when the victims objected ... the letters where simply not read by anybody.
A message from the DraftKings Co-Founders
Big investments (today it's things like the Internet, Space Exploration; long ago it was the Roman naval assault bridge, the Library of Alexandria) always require state-led investment for sustainability. Copying protection have almost nothing to do with them.
I had Tony Hodgson (who runs the BMEG program) as my senior design project supervisor last year - he's an excellent instructor in engineering (particularly biomedical) design.

I'd expect big things from the engineers coming out of this program as a result.
I dont see a contradiction in this.
Public letter from the founders of Draft Kings
There is a large amount of research, including some hedge fund models, that are exclusively using Clojure, on the JVM, for machine learning. Just because public libraries might often be in Python doesn't mean it is the language of choice for the big guys (it often isn't). You'd be surprised how much in-house ML stuff is done on the JVM.
Facebook listening to conversations through microphone?
Does anyone know how the medical test at the heart of this legal issue compares to something like the raw data from 23andme? 23andme v4 gives you 25 SNPs for BRCA1 and BRCA2.
> that also happens all the time in the US. Not every knife incident in the U.S. results in a shooting death of the attacker.

US police shoot and kill about 1,000 people per year. That's far more than any other country. Some people claim it's because of US gun laws meaning more people have guns, but US police shoot and kill people with small knives. Those same people are not shot and killed in other countries - what are those countries doing differently?

> and if YOU were U.S. police you would use your gun against a knife attacker if you could.

If I was incompetent and had almost zero training then yes, I probably would shoot people. Maybe this is the thing that other countries are doing differently - providing adequate training?

> what do you think is on the mind of somebody with a knife?

We know that lots of people who are shot and killed by US police have no history of violence against other people, but do have a history of self-harm. We know that some people are attempting suicide, their families call the police for help, and the police shoot the person.

That is clearly sub-optimal. I'm not sure how you could defend such useless policing.

And you keep saying that people with knives are murderous villains - but you ignore the fact that these same murderous villains are not shot and killed in other countries. Why do English police manage to subdue then capture a violent man wielding a machette? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX5CPx4RKWw This man would be dead in the US.

> Bottom line, you don't know it until you're in the shit or you're close to somebody in it. Ever been on a ride along? I'm guessing you haven't and you sit at home complaining about police without learning anything about it.

Why do you feel the need to defend incompetence and brutality?
Link in the posted article:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-31/michael-lew....

Quote from the posted article:

" it should be said that market makers have existed in the stock market for a long time and that electronic market makers do the job waaaaaaaaaay cheaper than their human predecessors."
Yes, quite unusable on El Capitan. Controls and screens don't refresh, frequent lock ups ... It's been quite a mess for while now. I switched to Airmail 2.
Works fine in Wine.
> A dramatic drop in violent crime since the 1970s because the "self-appointed masterminds" restricted lead

There are many possible factors that went into this reduction in crime, but it's not entirely settled. For example, a substantial portion is attributable to a decrease in unwanted pregnancies [1].

1. http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUndersta...
There's a delightful website that showcases the work of so-called "scam baiters" who aim to waste the time of scammers and lead them into compromising situations -- http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm
I specifically mentioned Twilio because anyone can build a custom solution to address this problem.

Someone already has done this (with Twilio) to win the FTCs RoboCall Challenge: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/04/twilio-powered-nomorobo-...

I also like Twilio ;)
Thanks! We will soon categorize them into 'co-founder Q&A' , 'fund-raising Q&A' etc.

Please upvote and help us get some visibility :)
The problem, IMHO, is that dietary science makes recommendations based on gross over-simplifications. Creating guidelines based on such overly simplistic grouping of information leads to sub-optimal results because it glosses over important nuances.

The saturated v. unsaturated distinction is one that we are finally realizing is not an important to overall health. However, this has been replaced by another is the trans fat v. cis fat distinction.

The government is pushing for the removal of trans fats from foods without consideration to the fact that vaccenic acid is a trans fat that is extremely good for mammals (it's found in high quantities in breast milk, for instance) while elaidic acid is what has been linked to low HDL and heart disease.

Of course, the population as a whole is no better. They also cherry-pick things they want to be healthy with little consideration of the science behind it. So I'm not sure this is an issue that needs addressing.
This map follows the income distribution in my area very closely. Neat, but sad.
I'm not astrophysicist, but I would think they're all as real they just give different information about the underlying structure and events of the universe.

Perhaps a the question should be, "which wavelength is more useful?"?
First off, congrats to the LastPass team! You guys have built an awsrome product and company.

My hope now is that LastPass won't go down the same path as Meldium, after they were acquired by logmein; the product went downhill very quickly.

In the case of Meldium, it seems they were trying to improve the UI by improving the design at the expense of functionality. It feels like LastPass is in a similar position now.
I guarantee Jonny Ive has enough unvested stock that Tesla couldn't afford him. Maybe he has enough money that'd he do it just to do something different though.
This is cool, but,...18F are consultants, who pop in, wave a magic wand, and pop out. Many of its employees are.bound by law to a max 2 or 4 year term. Will cloud.gov support its users for 5, 10, 15 years?
Final version of TPP's Intellectual Property chapter leaked [pdf]