skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also in the Seattle Times[0], an interesting quote, apparently by Clemans:

“Basically, it all went to hell,” said Clemans, describing his
relationship with the department. “The problem is [the department]
wants to use technology, but it wants to have vendors who build
these large systems that cost a lot of money and are hard to implement.

I want things to go fast and I’ve been working with people
who realize government moves slowly.”

It seems Clemans got frustrated by the inefficiencies of bureaucracy, and the department got fed up with his disruptive attitude.

[0]http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/spd-tech-officer-re...
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Lefsetz wrote a pretty good one when this happened: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2015/07/22/b...
Much like Python

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Out of curiosity, what kind of data do you propose searching? Do you mean searching a patient chart? Searching for lab results? Searching doctor notes? Or do you mean more like analytics to see trends? Or for finding patients, in the vein of an national patient ID service?

I ask because there is some amount of chart searching and organization analytics in the big EHR products so I'm curious which part you think is specifically lacking?
Hacker News harbors a bit of anti-police and anti-regulatory bias itself, so the slant certainly doesn't hurt the story's appeal here.
Do you know how expensive surveillance teams are? :-)
> "A level is simply a price. Why not call it a price?
> I have a sneaking suspicion Wall Street invented many of
> these words to give customers the impression “This is
> all really, really difficult — pay us money and the
> complexity goes away.”)"

Its called a level because an order book has many different orders at different prices and quantities. If you funge all the quantites at the same price together you create a 'level', say 1100 shs of VODAFONE @ 107.5 . The next 'level' may then be 17 shares of VODAFONE
@ 108 followed by 5 shares @ 110

--

Another term for 'Level' is a trade term for what 'level' of market data you are paying for.

Level 1 Market Data corresponds to trade and price data... Price, bid, ask, trade price, trade quantity

Level 2 Market Data corresponds to when you want to know much more about what is happening on the exchange. You want to know how many orders are on each book and at what price/qty.

This is also commonly referred to as 'Depth of Book'

Dark Pools do not send out Level 2 data, while primrary exchanges do ( LSE, NYSE )
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I very much doubt that's their job description. How is anyone working on Translate, or Self-driving cars "finding new ways to show people more ads"?
That one struck me as a "wait, what!?" as well, especially considering a few paragraphs down, there's:

We don’t have to go back in time to heed environmental boundaries.

..pretty sure not using sanitary toilet paper in favor of touching feces is "going back in time", and I'd place using more water as a greater environmental issue than using less of a product that can be made from recycled things anyways.
The best engineering analysis I've seen: http://www.root.cz/clanky/windows-10-analyza-probihajici-kom...

It's in Czech, but packet dumps are language-agnostic and comments can be translated using, say, Google Translate, reasonably accurately.
How does flexible mean do it well?

"Do it well" is so vague of a saying that it really could mean any of those things, whether it be flexibility, or simplicity, or etc.
Hey did you know: the people you're talking to are real people, who work really hard on a thing that they really care about, and you are being a real jerk.
You have to wash your hand in both cases. And from experience, I do not think using toilet paper means that I used less water and soap when washing my hand.

Also, if you think it's gross then this is what you're looking for: http://www.amazon.com/Joy-Bidet-D1-Adjustable-Certification/... .
Aside: What's with all the blank newlines at the top of the source of that first link? (http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.02/crypto.rebels_pr...)
Well with this announcement, they just trained me to disable updates - so I guess that's backfiring on them.
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There wouldn't be any "controversy" here even if it was an actual swastika, which it isn't.
In Defense of Monoliths
- extension methods

- property syntax + magic identifier

- reified

- immutable wrappers around mutable collections

- const

- multiple redundant ways of defining generic upper bounds

- companion objects + syntax

- operator/infix rules

- constantly changing nullability rules
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10474717
How could this possibly be practical or sanitary? Did he do this in public restrooms? Why didn't he consider a bidet?
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I am a great fan of the Unix philosophy and can sympathize with the author and his points, but I really don't know how realistic the whole "make the Internet a new Unix"-scheme is.

As others have pointed out, there are great practical difficulties in integrating different web services. Unix has pipes built into the core of the OS - anything analogous would have to be "bolted on" to the Internet, and thus probably turn out to be not as powerful or simple to use. And how about the UI and user friendliness? On Unix, every program has more or less the same UI - a couple of lines of text on a black background. The Internet? Everybody has a different fancy graphic layout. If you can do everything within the same "walled garden", that reduces confusion on this count.

For these (and other reasons, such as the aforementioned capitalism), I do not think that the mainstream Internet is ever going to behave the way the author envisions. What I could imagine, however, is a sort of parallel Internet that displays this property to some extent - a range of services explicitly targeting technical users (who are more likely to value the "do one thing well" approach and less likely to care if the GUI isn't quite as snazzy). These services would never grow big, but they could build up a loyal following. Kind of like HN, really...
Did you consider that some people will just want to solve the challenges for fun not because they want to get a job?
Evernote never even did the one thing well. I would add an item to a list on my computer, and then later add another one on my phone, and the next day both sources would be missing one of the edits.
You are of course joking, because the absurdity of 'trying to use more energy' for something that can be done more efficiently, aka 'wasting' energy to be considered more 'advanced', according to an arbitrary scale, is immediately obvious. : )
Bitnami provides pre-built VMs and installers: https://bitnami.com/stack/reviewboard
Seems dead now though.

"The community has closed this channel due to terms of service violations"
automagic cars by design have tons of cameras, at some point politicians will legislate mandatory reporting of recorded infractions .. for the children, you know
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I don't fully understand what's the main purpose of this "game" (edit: regarding recruiting)?

1. Is it just useful for getting noted by some companies and get invited to interviews? So basically it is equivalent of sending them CV and/or contacting relevant persons.

2. Is it supposed to replace the tech interviews (which suck) completely? In this case, yes, I can see the value of allocating significant time for these games.
Yep, I mention that in the first paragraph :). I loved the book. It was fantastic. Both for explaining stuff, as well as totally smacking down Lewis's nonsense.

It left me wanting to learn more. I'm currently reading Trading and Exchanges, as well as Market Microstructure in Practise (I wanted a newer book as stuff has changed in 2002 and 2010.)
And how does that work in public restrooms where there is no sink next to the toilet?
> I’ve been lamenting the demise of the Unix philosophy: tools should do one thing, and do it well.

1983 was a while ago: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/. That's a long time to lament something.
hey nice trick to reference background tasks!

Thanks for sharing
No, not the same thing. There is a good TechNet article on the telemetry levels: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85...
I use Fortran code which was written before I was born on a daily basis. It works exactly as you expect.

I can't get C code to behave the same from one release of the compiler to the next.

Thank goodness NASA uses Fortran.
Hopefully you wash your hands after using the bathroom, regardless of if you use your hand to physically remove matter from your body. But a quick google gave me 37 gallons, 1.3 kWh, 1.5 lbs of wood per roll of toilet paper. That is a hefty amount of consumption that is flushed down the toilet.
http://www.treehugger.com/bathroom-design/stop-using-toilet-...
One option (for home) would be one of those japanese smart toilet seats.
Here's an important question: was the list of keywords he was using to highlight the calls in any way skewed such that it would, intentionally or not, result in one group of callers being prioritized over others? This could lead to accusations of racial bias.
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Missed an opportunity to buy a bidet.
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Upgrading to 4.2.x will give you LTS.
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You may already have figured this out, but just incase anyone is wondering what the potential problem here is...

If it doesn't wake up and run the date command in a certain timeframe then this while loops will run forever.

The chances of that happening, while greater than zero, are really small though. It'd be something like the loop checks the time at "15:59:59", doesn't match so it goes to sleep just a few milliseconds before "16:00:00" then wakes up and runs the date command again and hopefully the deities of the CPU clock & scheduling will do this before too many milliseconds go by and the time becomes "16:00:01", at which point the while-loop would be infinite since the exact moment in time it's waiting for is now in the past and cannot occur again. I suspect though, CPU clock ticks are measured in nanoseconds or something smaller than a millisecond so this while-loop shouldn't miss its exit criteria on any modern machine.

Also, there's a chance this is just a fancy splash screen or even just a screenshot and a Twitch employee will manually get things started when it's time.
My first reaction was extreme anger at your first statement. Now that I have cooled down a bit,

Would you ever consider rubbing yourself with paper a valid realistic alternative to showering?

Then WHY are you more comfortable with merely rubbing the shit off you, at the dirtiest part of your body (than cleaning it using water, and washing it, like your wash the rest of your body).

Those that use hands at least have clean butts and clean hands (most do wash hands now!) -- you, on the other hand can't be completely confident about one.

: )
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I don't fully understand the purpose either. People just seem to love playing CTF-style programming games, and we happen to really enjoy making them.

It is OK if they are not your cup of tea.
You are correct:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/vi/
Submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480851
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It isn't a value judgement, but I would certainly prefer a system that is structured to reward rational actors and execute the stated mission. The current design seems pretty ironic to me.
Any time I see an article claiming Microsoft's app store and XBox will wipe out Valve, I remind myself that it's not Microsoft's direct counters to Valve, it's Microsoft's sheer size that will create the openings Valve needs.

The OS group is undoing all the progress the XBox group has won.
And use what in Windows? A closed-source CSPRNG? Has there ever been a serious vulnerability/problem found with OpenSSL's CSPRNG? I'm actually curious as to why this is an issue.
Yeah, let's look to India for inspiration on how to handle sanitary issues...
This is wonderful and I've been trying to drastically reduce my consumption for about a year now. I cannot over-emphasize how difficult it is, and not even from an implementation standpoint.

The problem isn't the person trying to consume less, it's everyone else. Everywhere you go (in NYC) you get bombarded with packaging. Going to get a cup of coffee involves a paper cup, a plastic lid, 5 napkins, and then they throw it all in a brown paper bag. I've seen people buy a soda at the bodega and with it comes napkins, a straw, both in a brown bag and then all of that in a plastic bag! I watch in horror the person pull the can out, throw everything else away, drink the can and then toss that out too.

I start to wonder how far removed we all are from the landfills and production to be completely oblivious to this insane level of waste. The worst part about it is that when you repeatedly say "no bag, thank you" you get looked down upon like some loony toon who can't function in society correctly.
Directly, or indirectly, I'd say that the price of a product does a good job of the value of resources expended in getting it to you.
This includes:
The cost/time of the marketers of the product, the cost/time of its production, the cost/time of whatever services are paid for through taxes on that product, etc.
I just wish taxes did a better job of taxing relatively irreversible destruction (like oxidizing 100m old C-C and C-H bonds).

If you spend less money, you burn up fewer things in the process, which I think your examples exhibit quite well. Though I'd suggest that flying/trucking food thousands of kilometers means expending less energy than preserving it or risking spoilage. The food may be fresher to boot too.
To be honest, the basic telemetry level isn't that invasive. The higher levels are a bit more so.
Because the way you're recommending treating them means they come out with no job skills, atrophied social skills, and otherwise ill-adapted for society. Thus, they'll turn to the only tool they have, and they end up right back in. Your method is far from a deterrent, it'll just encourage recidivism and lead to ever more populated jails. Treating people humanely ends up being a lot cheaper in the long run.
>Doing away with the external capacitor made the 741 extremely popular, either because engineers are lazy[14] or because the reduced part count was beneficial.

Small comment on this, doing away with the external capacitor meant 99% of the time the things just worked. Where the previous designs were a royal pain to tweak so they were stable, not only on the bench, but in production.
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even while being NATted , don't your port remain stable at least for some time ? and that coupled with Apple's other services which do identify and use that port , gives enough info ?
Among other things, there are times in the book where it is very unclear whether he understands execution of an order against the orderbook is atomic. For example, he posits that someone can, on a single exchange, hit a sentinel order placed by a market maker with a larger order and then have the market maker adjust the prices of orders behind the sentinel, in response to the execution of the sentinel order, prior to the original order hitting the orders behind the sentinel.

That can't happen. It might sound plausible, understandably, to someone who has never done concurrent programming and who doesn't understand that e.g. locks are a thing which exists in the world. I am attempting to restrain myself from being too critical here, because that's a higher level of technical knowledge than I would generally expect from a journalist writing for a general audience, but then again this journalist wrote a book-length treatise on how distributed systems and concurrent programming are screwing the American public without successfully demonstrating that he has a handle on either of these topics.

For the better-informed and book-length version of this comment, see http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F... , which is some of the most devastating technical writing I've ever read.
Exactly. Startup or wake-up is the worst possible time to start a bunch of new processes because it is the one time that the user has explicitly told you that they want to start using their device immediately. Virtually any other time -- even a RANDOMLY chosen time -- would be less likely to be in the user's way!

Microsoft is far from the only offender of course (a PlayStation comes to mind, for example) but system designers really need to start using their brains on this.
She can't legally work, that sucks.

She can do many things that are not classified as work, though. And that's the important thing, she can still make/do/think/learn and might even go as far as unofficially trading with people for that (talk to a lawyer first - the trading part might not be such a good idea, but the first part sure is.)

Anyway, just pointing it out for the third time to try to get the point across, I find it a hard thing to do: You very frequently have more choices than those you think you have, and in the cases when you really don't it's because you've chosen a path that's led where you are, so you either get creative or get stuck.
Because they're human beings. Torture is evil.
The internet already has a very simple interoperable protocol, HTTP. There is nothing to bolt on really since the pipe is just a channel for text and sockets on port 80 can just as easily act as those channel.
Yes. But it doesn't play well with "-nw".
I've found Metcalfe, Reid, and Cohen[1] to be a fairly clear refresher on Fortran. Unfortunately, the build tools I use don't support many of the nicer features like user-defined types.

[1] https://books.google.ca/books/about/Modern_Fortran_Explained...
My understanding of the phrase 'do it well' isn't as an injunction but as a way of saying that if you restrict your program to one thing, you'll have the ability to do it very well. It's to contrast it to a program that does multiple things, not so well.
What are you going on about? You do understand that most people use toilet paper to wipe themselves and also wash their hands afterwards?
> Solving arbitrary puzzles someone else has set in front of you, in order to get a job, is not a fun programming challenge.

Except this is how actual jobs work. Real business value-creating requirements tend to resemble an arbitrary puzzle much more than something fun to scratch your own itches.

You may be right that Stockfighter won't attract the best programmers. It's not trying to. Those programmers don't need and aren't hired via any sort of challenge system anyway. What Stockfighter is trying to attract and identify are programmers capable of being plugged in to a real-world business application to create value.
His examples are just flat-out wonky. For instance, his key opener is a trader that is shocked to find out that when he buys tens of thousands of shares, the price, gasp, moves.

Or another one, where the price moves before the guy hits enter. So either he's saying HFT's have trojan'd traders' workstations or ...? Instead of investigating this, he just writes more "ooh spooky" lines.

At one point, he spins regulations requiring customer orders use the best price as a bad thing. Basically, you get the feeling from his book that he'd feel better if we went back to specialists on the floor with quotes in 1/8th, doing stuff you can understand as a human. That somehow, all this tech is bad. Hell he even makes fun of colocation - not adding multiple third-party providers of fibre to a connection to make it faster and less likely to break is obviously evil because... well he says it so ominously it must be true!

He doesn't say HFT provides no value. He says everything's a huge conspiracy (involving, apparently, everyone) and HFT is stealing money. He fails to realise there's risk. Instead he makes it out like HFTs can just buy so fast that money falls out (that if they buy at one price, the only possible outcome is a sale at a higher price, that the market can never move in the other direction). He even gives them magical capabilities, implying that they can determine total order sizes from a single trade.
It makes me giggle to see HTML5 and ECMAScript 3.1 being bragged about contemporaneously. I know the ES versioning is fucked up because of the events that led to Harmony, but considering that HTML5 was the big tech buzzword until ES6, seeing HTML5 alongside ES3 makes it seem surprisingly old.
What a surveillance-state dystopia that sounds like. Do not want!
Wow, you all are really biting off quite a hell of a project. You've just described some pretty complex game development, as well as the entire financial sub-game and the entire infrastructure for it all and with an eye towards helping programmers get better jobs.

I think I get what you mean by "tech tree", it's a phrase borrowed from real-time strategy games, yeah? Some of your other descriptions sound a little bit like what someone might find on a Steam game. If I hadn't played Sins of a Solar Empire (very occasionally, I don't have much time for it anymore), I think I'd be pretty lost.

Your current terminology is probably fine, it just needs some graphics to go along with it -- a basic chart or something. I bet you've already got such a thing in progress and it'll all make sense on launch.

> How do I explain this succinctly such that I don't turn-off anyone who is less interested in a particular tech tree?

Any chance you can partition your newsletter subscribers into "low level programmers" and "wannabe market hackers"? I think the misunderstanding is that you only talked about stock market concepts to an audience that included people that are only interested in low level programming.
> How We Moved 34,000 WIRED Pages to One Site in 9 Hours

> Starting in April, Cyphon quickly consumed most of my working hours.

This juxtaposition either emphasizes the fantastically few hours worked (9 hours since April!) or the slight exaggeration about moving 34k pages in 9 hours.
At which point they'll be disabled and not be capable of making it outside of an institutional environment. As such, they will be costing society much more money for a much, much longer time. What you're talking about is torture, ripping someone's mind apart for your sick, demented sense of justice.
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What a beautiful circuit. Recalling my first encounter with op amps as a struggling undergrad, faced with seemingly incomprehensible analog electronics, it was not pretty. I graduated but must note the significance and beauty of these circuits was lost on me.

Not surprising university was my last serious encounter with analog electronics. I do slightly regret not using the opportunity to explore and appreciate the elegance of it all. Working with software now, elegance and beauty are seldom the first thoughts that come to mind while debugging code.

Maybe Shaw was right, youth is wasted on the young :)
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I meant with regard to recruiting, which is what your (new) company is about (again, if I understand correctly :)).