skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SEC exists mainly to force companies to disclose relevant information about the business in a timely manner. Will this change help or hinder that?
After landing a highly prestigious position at a company with a great reputation, I spent the first months thinking that every person I spoke to, worked with, or passed on my way to lunch knew I didn't belong. I thought I would be found out at every turn. This added to an already stressful transition. Only gradually did evidence from positive interactions with others chip away at my self doubt. I never truly believed that I was as capable as my peers, but then again they were some of the most intelligent people I've ever met.

Truthfully, I'd rather face perpetual self doubt than be overconfident. People who consider themselves exceptional usually turn out to be under delusions of grandeur and the truly gifted are often surprisingly humble. Wanting to catch up to the latter group creates the drive that keeps me learning new skills rather than coasting.
I'm not qualified to answer so I will. Electronics.stackexchange.com, not analog only obviously but good q&a spot like all the se sites, even with the occasional crank. Chat room too.
It is an interesting point, but it does contradict your prior claim.

One problem I see is that an investor may actually be dealing with a lottery-like game without knowing. That is, a particular investment may have actual, calculable odds (would depend on the business model) that are as worse as the lottery model, but are, however, unknown (or even unknowable) to an investor.
ESPN shutting down Grantland
Weekend Hack project, Instagram+Tinder
Thank god. I don't have windows 10 yet so I have to send microsoft all my keystrokes, browser history and dick pics manually and it's wasting a lot of my time.
Jaywalking law, including its ridiculous name , was pushed through by the auto lobby in a power grab for auto manufacturers.
Given that the Voyager probes are pushing the absolute edge of humanity's reach into the cosmos, I'd love to see NASA publish the hardware specs and open up a competition to find the best possible solution.

With open specs, a simulator or emulator could be built, and anyone with interest could give it a try. A core team of NASA engineers might come up with some unit tests and acceptance tests. If these are passed, then the code is eligible for professional review.
I'd date the actual, functional takeover somewhat later than that, but the web really was a lot more fun pre-dotcom-bubble. I'm not sure I would say I want to go back to it, exactly, but there sure is a lot that I miss.
I don't see why "the core issue" is an issue. Suppose someone can only invest $2000 per year. What is preventing them from diversifying that smaller amount across just as many projects as a "professional startup investor" would?
Singapore’s Coolest Startup?
You cannot really separate the two. If you support electronic trading, no matter what artificial restrictions you put on speed, the first person to get his order in will win, they will always compete on latency.
> And what other languages would you support?

It seems like it's utterly language agnostic. Patrick has said a few times that you could play entirely through curl if you really wanted to, or play manually through the trading interface. I'm planning on using this as a first "real[ish]" project for Haskell.
Once you have a list (which you already have if you've automigrated it) just generate a list of rewrite rules with header set to "Moved Permanently".

But I'm curious, usually platform changes go from Wordpress to Drupal because people need features other than a blog and simple CMS system. What made you go the opposite route?
Members of the Roman Imperial Legion were known to engage in serial rapes and murders in the lands they occupied.

There is a calling for this type of skill set, and the exact role is that of a soldier. As there haven't been many wars in recent years, it's only logical that you'd find these types in prison.

Relevant to this discussion is Foucalt's concept of "disciplinary institution". [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary_institution
The rationalization, should one have trouble inventing imaginative justifications out of thin air, is that they've captured a notorious kingpin, and they want to roll up this super villain's covert network of criminal masterminds, who are also coincidentally despicable child pornographers.
A previous post suggested that some challenges would be reasonably solved by replicating a local implementation of the order book.
Right, a (public) API is actually a product, just one that happens to be consumed by programmers. Starting one means implicitly committing to support the people who use it and grow it in a backwards-compatible manner even when your internal data representation goes in another direction.
Great work! what did you use to record the demos?
It's possible that the 2007 DST extension reduced evening crime because sunset was still late enough for the difference to matter. I'm not sure that will remain true all winter. That is, even if DST ran all year, in the depth of winter it might still get dark early enough for the street criminals to come out between 5 and 8 PM.

The link (near the bottom of the article) about how DST causes problems for farmers is baffling. Surely if any enterprise should be run on solar time rather than clock time, it's a farm! Why can't they just adjust their schedules so the DST change is irrelevant??
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10479409
What if something if really good at being a website?
Yes, the long, narrow font Wired now uses for headlines is hard to read and pretty ugly. At least it's not the even-harder to read, even narrower font used for the credits at the bottom of movie posters.
Well, Gobble's meals are "one pot" and generally have fewer ingredients.
Yes, people realize that. Usually people must conform to societal norms which require one to do things at a certain time, which may not be synced with the natural time.
Developed a demo scripting tool ourselves. We plan to make it available for anyone to script their blab demos.

Here's an example of a demo script: https://gist.github.com/mvclark/0a248098997a6f95635c
> Indeed, Windows 10 is "Windows as a Service"

Not quite sure precisely what you're trying to describe with the 'as a Service' thing here.

Purchasing options include (though are not limited) methods comparable to previous Win versions, and it runs on hardware I own and am sitting in front of. The aaS appellation is often needlessly overloaded, I find.

> which does exactly that: it provides continuous mostly-small
> updates, so there's never another "big bang" update. Also,
> these free updates mean never having to pay for a big one.

Okay, so make a small adjustment to the parent(s), and think of their complaint/observation more like 'If you're going to transition users to a new golden era where every time you turn your computer on you have fast boot times (and a ten minute wait for updates to process), then don't make the transition such a brutally painfully experience - it reduces our trust in them as a vendor that they can actually deliver on promises of constant update golden eras'.

Or something like that.

> Some of the most vocal seem to resent every change in
> Windows since XP SP2.

For many (perhaps most?) Microsoft platform users, all of what they require of their computer could still be done just fine with Windows XP SP2. As an aside, it's lovely that you mention specifically SP2 - so obviously a part of a previous 'continuous mostly small update' process that you imply we won't have until we embrace Windows 10. Anyway, all the intervening updates have for many people been a combination of frustration, time, and money misspent, with little practical gain.

> People are also bitching about telemetry, even though
> both the success of new upgrades depends on it, and
> even though all this anonymous data is actually driving
> Windows 10's development (in the same way that it drives
> Gmail, Facebook etc).

I am not one such bitchee, but I can understand the concerns. And if an operating system's success depends on knowing where I am, it's doing something wrong (all my other operating systems, current, and historic, have been successfully used by me without access to these data).

And, really, it should not be funding / driving development the same way some service providers acquire personal data and then market it on your behalf.
Automated resume scanner would do that.
This is absolutely awesome.
> I can be more specific if needed.

Please do! Can you give some specific examples, preferably in order of those with the most effect on performance.
Why was he in such a prison? Other white collar offenders seem to end up in much nicer facilities. "Similar to a Holiday Inn" is how I've heard it described.
People are terrible at assessing risk, especially when it's not their day job. Even when it is their job, assessing risk in an adversarial environment is an extremely difficult thing.

Your dad (not really your dad, but for sake of example) is a retail investor. He has no idea what he's doing, but he heard "through the grapevine" that he should invest in this one particular startup. He sends them his IRA balance.

A year later the startup exits, but he hasn't been paying attention and turns out he's been diluted to 10% of what he thought he had. Now he has nothing.
Sure... but Tarsnap is basically Colin, serving a very niche clientele and unlikely to be worth a few billions. Almost every tool discussed in the article is targeting mass market where such considerations become important at some point.
I just need to find the time!
Yeah that's the one.
Ice-Nine
TBM Bertha repair update
Horror background noise generator for Halloween
> Actually since they know your IP address ,it's not anonymous - it's easy to connect to your identity.

Only if they record that information.

When a company is going to lengths to deliberately throw away identifying information, it seems kind of ludicrous to suggest that they're still going to try and track you by using a mechanism that is significantly worse than the information they already had access to and chose not to use.
That gets into the fixed pie fallicy, if I buy your house and you buy my house we can have an economic transaction where both sides benifit and no resources are lost.

In the watch example it's possible to pay with cash and have the money distroyed after the fact etc. As such taking about potential future resources to be spent is irrelevant when taking about the resources consumed to create something.
I recommend _Eagle Dreams_ by Stephen Bodio. Bodio, an American author of books on hunting, fishing, and falconry, documented his fulfillment of a lifelong dream to visit Mongolia, live with the eagle hunters, and hunt with them.

http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Dreams-Searching-Legends-Mongoli...

Steve's blog: http://stephenbodio.blogspot.com/

Full disclosure, he's a friend of mine.
What does that make psychiatrists?
Of course, that's why I said only the style really counts. I don't like the style, but it did inspire a slew of followers so it gets respect for a distinctive new style. You just can't count the budget as a reason to call something a groundbreaking horror movie, style yes, budget, no.
I agree that to do it properly requires driver and hardware support.

However, it's already possible to have fairly granular control over compute resources with CUDA for example, and also to run streams of commands concurrently, so that would solve part of the problem.

The other part of the problem that could be solved by vulkan is the browser taking control of compilation, which allows for more static checking and refusal of possibly unterminated loops.
I can't wake up fully until the sun is up, so I guess I'm one of those people.
Thanks! Appreciate the support.
That is correct. English is not my first language.

Just curious, since you found out from my writing style what particular sentence stood out as odd to you.

Do you know any resources to assimilate to American English in verbal and written cases ?
Hi there, Mike! Care to expound on any solutions to make Tech more industry oriented? Are there things you'd rather have been exposed to more in your undergrad education given where you're at now?
Inside the CIA Red Cell
Ask HN: Can you share your blog? What is your best article?
Hi! I would like to read blogs written by people from HN. Can you share your blog, and the best stuff you have written?
Cybercrime Week in Review 31 October 2015 – MailShark
28 USC §1400 (b), the patent venue statute is designed to prevent places like East Texas from running national tech policy and to protect small companies from predation by troll megacorps.

"Any civil action for patent infringement may be brought in the judicial district where the defendant resides, or where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business."

The CAFC (the patent appeals court) judicially abolished the statute in its VE Holdings decision so that patent lawyers would get richer and more powerful. That's the motive behind many CAFC decisions since patents are the root of the judges' power and power -- as is predictable -- has corrupted. Now the new case asks them to revise that decision and follow the law as written.

Let's see if the new Obama judges are more honest than their predecessors. (The verdict so far: maybe.)
For further northwest, Gail Borden in Elgin and the Schaumburg library (forget the name, but it's won a lot of awards) are good as well.
not exactly - they are amphetamine tablets.
It will essentially be a war between stupidity, profiteering, computer science nerds installing cryptographically secure jails, and people in the chat trying to make persuasive arguments that yes, in fact, this is the correct command to move on to the next step.

Hopefully people learn some tactics which might be applied in similar situations in their own lives.
You actually can be prescribed Methamphetamine HCl—under the trade-name "Desoxyn"—as a last resort if the regular amphetamines aren't doing anything for you (some people just have really strong blood-brain barriers, apparently.)

It's not-at-all common, though. Much less than "millions of dollars" of it being sold.
Great project! Is this going to be a web app or android app?
How does that provide value?

I have no personal experience in this, but I've heard that the order book is now very "shallow" due to HFT, such that it's hard to sell/buy a meaningful quantity of stocks at the market price. Does that make sense?
Ha ha, very funny (California native here, been living in Boston for 8 years—it's a fantastic city).
So my current VPS is a non-virtual Kimsufi box for which I'm paying $28 (USD)/month, i.e., $336/year. I'm also paying about $10/month more for a cell phone plan with enough mobile data, which brings that to $456/year. An equivalently-specced laptop that is comfortable enough to use (lightweight, cool, not going to break on me, etc.) would cost me about 2-3 times that amount, and I'd want to replace it at least that often.

(Also if I had a powerful local laptop, I couldn't tell it to do a build, close the lid, and get on the subway without my backpack catching fire. Nor could I have it provide IPv6 to my apartment, host websites behind CloudFlare, provide shells to my friends, etc.)

If I wanted to put some more effort into it, I could certainly do a good fraction of my work (git clone, vi, IRC and email, etc.) on a micro instance. But even a couple of dollars a day would require me to be pretty careful to come out cheaper.
autocompletion is buggy:
I wrote:

var fs = require('fs');

then pressed enter. Result:

var fs = require('fs');fs

(fs in the end).

And autocompletion is too agressive. I declared variable `b`` then in new line I entered:
`b`
and it automatically autocompleted me to `break`.

So I think it's pretty alpha right now, but overall idea is good :) We need better tools :)
Introduction to JSON Web Tokens
http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/wcw-machine.html

William Carlos Williams

On poems as machines made out of words

"To make two bold statements: There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words. When I say there's nothing sentimental about a poem, I mean that there can be no part that is redundant.

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matter like a ship. But poetry is a machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. As in all machines, its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character."
off topic. I am a step behind the OP. I am trying to get into the role that the OP describes he is in for the last 3 years. What would be some ways to move into big data and BI other than quitting my current job that doesn't deal much with Big data. Is the solution to this to contribute to Open Source?
Apps have direct access to the entire kernel system call interface. They don't run as root, and in particular they run as different UIDs (which is, to be clear, fantastic in its own right) and with SELinux policies. But their "Application Sandbox" is nothing more than that. Apps have as much access as, say, a well-run public shell server gives to their users. That's a lot more attack surface than JS in my browser has.
Honestly, I have spoken to and worked with some of these engineers, and if they've been ten years deep on software that has no capacity for errors at all, they can be a bit difficult. Not just "I can't use that tool, it has a garbage collector", but when they are put in front of a frontend, they end up re-inventing basic things constantly, because they have absolutely no context.

Honestly, going from that kind of development to web development, "last 10 years" doesn't mean much -- they are essentially junior programmers again. Expect them to break things because they self-closed a script tag. Except them to break things because they forgot to set the button type to button and so some browsers POST. Heaven forbid you use tech where it doesn't default HTML and SQL escape. It's very very easy to forget the amount of extremely specific domain knowledge we all have that keeps things from imploding, and if they don't have it, their code doesn't hit production without a senior dev looking over it.
Scientists design full-scale architecture for quantum computer in silicon
the verdict so far: NFW
Have you tried Julia? Optimized Fortran (esp. on specialized hardware) would still beat it no question, but IMO Julia is a better value proposition for Fortran/C programmers than it is for Python/Matlab programmers at the moment.
That really depends on your perspective. I personally think that using wealth as a proxy for... well, really for anything other than wealth, but in this context risk assessment capability and fiscal planning ability, is terrible public policy. If you're concerned with people making poor financial decisions, then you should focus on providing better financial education, instead of restricting the fiscal agency of everyone else in the same income bracket. But that's another discussion entirely.

What I am definitely arguing here and now is that there is an inherent hypocrisy in the way we legally treat lotteries and the way we treat investment. Both are seen by their "players" as vehicles for potential financial windfall, and the riskier and less responsible of the two is wholly unregulated and even state-encouraged, while the other is tightly controlled and very difficult to get involved in.
Now open source AmigaOS 4 and we will be getting somewhere.
He also wasn't in with any of those people. Rapists and murderers don't tend to be sent to minimum-security prisons.
Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings
The article says that the vote only concerned the salaries of the six directors who are not employed by Facebook in some other capacity, so Zuckerberg wasn't voting on his own salary.
Ultimately everything's being gamed, the question is whether we'd collectively prefer a different equilibrium between the gaming parties.
Who's down for casual sex?
There are many great businesses that would prefer retail money to professional money (or would specifically want retail to take at least part of a round). Specifically, I'm thinking of b2c operations where the crowdfunding would be valuable not just for the funding, but also for the crowd of supporters.
Have you looked into Lending Club and Prosper Marketplace peer to peer lending platforms? The retail investors on these platforms are having good success in assessing and managing risk with consumer lending. There is no reason that the same will not happen with equity crowdfunding.

Equity crowdfunding platforms will be responsible for due diligence and standardizing the equity offerings instead of the individually negotiated deals and preferential deals to different investor groups that is the norm right now.

I run crowd-lending analytics and automation platform, PeerCube https://www.peercube.com, for retail lenders on Lending Club and Prosper. I also consult and advise hedge funds and institutional investors on the same platforms. In my experience, retail investors appear to be much more vigilant, perform much more due diligence and selective than the institutional investors. This is primarily due to "own money" versus "other people's money (OPM)" and the amount of money deployed. When you have your own skin in the game, you are more vigilant.

Your arguments are more about maintaining segregation of certain areas for "privileged" classes. Exact same arguments were made when SEC approved retail investor participation in p2p lending in 2008/2009.

Edit: More details on SEC approved rules in SEC press release http://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-249.html. It appears there are enough safeguards in place to alleviate investor screw ups.
Are you suggesting that soldiers are called up out of a desire to harm others?
18 best places to promote your startup for virtually nothing
It's not even a "curve" really, it's simply an observation that 0% tax and 100% are probably local-minima.
Your model suggests we should get thousands of car pileups if anyone does heavy breaking in bumper to bumper traffic. Clearly that does not happen.

The reason is the buffer between you and the car in front of you is eaten by the difference in your speeds. Going from 80MPH to 70 MPH takes ~0.7 seconds, where starting to break takes ~0.2 seconds. Even if there is just 5 feet between cars the signal propagates plenty fast.
Google slams the breaks on acquisition machine with lowest deal-making since 2009
Metcalfe's law
Crowdfunding 2.0: SEC just made it easier to buy shares in startups
Any positive population growth is necessarily exponential -- the fact that that rate is getting lower is cause for hope, but that doesn't change the mathematical reality.
Ask HN: Real odds of making a living off a web app
My goal is to make a webapp that makes a middle class income. It does not have to be Bay Area middle class, but say 100k a year.

What is the real probability this can happen? Or is it a fool's errand?

I'm from a non-software field in my 30's, but I'm tired of grinding it out with a salary that can barely cover the expenses. I'd like to work remotely and live somewhere more affordable.

I don't expect anything to happen right away, but over the next 5 years. Because I don't see myself saving my way to retirement, owning a business where you control your time is the only end game I can see.

I like building apps and take pride in my work, so it seems like a good avenue for me.

Thanks.
So let me get this straight - if you do business in East Texas, you are more likely to be sued for spurious patent violations, and more likely to lose when this occurs. But if you don't do any business in East Texas, then you will get sued in a less biased court.

So is it feasible to not do any business in East Texas?