skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, in fact I very much like the sound of vinyl, but to say it's more "accurate" or of higher fidelity and dynamic range than 16/44 is completely false.
Great idea!!! #COYG
Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532957 for broader discussion
No, the shares change hands between parties via the licensed broker-dealer. However, the trade is reported to the exchange assuming the stock is listed.

The key here is that Big Mutual Fund Inc. doesn't want to announce to the world that it's trying to sell a massive volume of shares; it wants to get the deal arranged quietly so that other people in the market don't trade the stock down in anticipation.

The price of the trade will be continually adjusted until the trade is executed. Usually the firm has an approved range to work within. If the price steps outside this range, many more phone calls will ensue.
In case it wasn't a typo, you might be interested to know that it's actually MI6 rather than M16. The longer form is Military Intelligence, Section 6 you see.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service

Edit: If it was a typo please ignore me and have a great day!
It's grounds for a lawsuit, as I'm fairly sure it violates labor laws. Find the relevant statutes, print them out, highlight them, and watch HR squirm.
Have a portfolio, post free things on Github, write about what you do as a developer. Sometimes you have to pay your dues and do at-cost or volunteer work.
Tales of a Dying Earth by Jack Vance

That was a very good book.

I hadn't even heard of Jack Vance until recently, but it seems like he's been an influence on many modern authors.
I'd short it technically because Confluence is Satan's wiki, but corps eat it up because WYSIWYG and because it costs money. (FOSS is bad, doncha know).
Yes, I do. I go work on site a few times a year, for a couple of weeks each time. That helps rekindling contacts. Frequent webcam and an open chatbox help too.
Well, thew bigger the railgun, the less it squishes the humans.

You'll also need some rockets to get into orbit. But I always wondered how much of the rocket one could replace with a rail.
> Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon meaning a relationship between a man and a woman with the original intention to continue the family by having kids.

So are you saying that when people marry in old age, it's not really marriage?
I lived there for 19 years and saw first-hand the total lack of capital, vision, appetite for risk, and ability to hire and retain top talent.

Unless, of course, your business revolved around digging things up from the ground and selling them to the US. Thankfully (hopefully?) that era is coming to an end too.
Most stock brokerages spend lots of times gathering data from the companies themselves -- the management group, the customers, industry analysts, etc. They are not making investment (BUY/HOLD/SELL) recommendations based on the past fluctuations of the market, rather on their "expert" appraisal of the company's worth versus its current stock price.
I would look for a new job, and as a matter of fact, I did. When they found out I was looking (saw my resume on a job board), they compensated me to the point where I don't mind checking my email at odd hours. I was ready to leave, and I wasn't going to tell them or hold them hostage for an increase, so it worked out well for me, and I didn't feel like a salary blackmailer. It's a cushy job, and I've been here for over a decade, so I was relieved in a way (I don't like change).
IBM's latest reorganization depends on the profitability of their consulting division. This article suggests that IBM may not be so good at managing big, expensive projects.
You might be correct, but the SC2 engine (which also powers Heroes of the Storm) seems to run significantly worse than Overwatch engine on my computer.

The content of each game is so radically different that the comparison might not be appropriate.
I was really curious about that, as I live in southern Marin and have wanted to go up that road before. Are you sure it's a public road though?

I found this: http://sausalito.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_...

On page 2, there's a line that says, "Wolfback Ridge Road is a private road maintained by the Wolfback Ridge Association, a neighborhood homeowner’s association (see Exhibit R for Association information)"

I can't find exhibit R, but the person who sent it appears to be a resident of Wolfback Ridge, leading me to wonder how legit the info is.
> The term "crowdsourcing" isn't really used in Finnish.

Thanks. Now it's clear. It was really "lost in translation" (in the "appearing" sense).
To me, what you have been doing is engineering, regardless of who writes the code. If a group of people were to start writing the code without doing the preparatory analysis that you describe, and instead tried to get to a solution by test-and-fix / trial-and-error, that would not be engineering.
Deciding on Libraries for Functional Reactive Programming (JavaScript)
Bingo! Communist front.
So why didn't people go out, pick up some orphan kid and give him whatever needed to be 'inherited'?
Be more into your kids and less into your own side projects.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree that one can label another as an idiot. It's just that I require a greater deal of proof than "that person disagrees with me" to believe someone's label of another person they don't know.
"Real identity" is a barrier to nudity/trolling, but it's also a barrier to user acquisition. I'm personally very selective about linking FB or LinkedIn to a site, even if it's only for login credentials. I think AngelList is my only link right now.
Logical fallacy alert!
This is pretty cool. Thank you!
From a quick google, it appears I misremembered somewhat. Torture evidence was used to build the case for war with Iraq, but it was about Iraq's relationship with Al Qaida, not the existence of WMDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Shaykh_al-Libi

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/14/iraq.torture/index.ht...
That's a shame. I liked their products.
This is one of those blank areas that unless you do it, you're just in the dark. How much time did you spend on actual work last week?

How much time did you spend enjoying things that weren't work? It's hard to have concrete numbers unless you're writing them down.

The hardest part about doing this for me, is that there are often levers that I can't move to change reality at any given moment, so it makes it harder to stick to this kind of journaling.
How does one go about finding tech jobs in the MSP area?

I have always been really interested, but never found any actual companies and jobs that I felt would represent a good career move.
Rockoon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockoon
I particularly like the steampunk vibe of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP_Aerospace#Airship_to_Orbit_...
> This is not a free market, BTW. Land is monopoly.

First, a monopoly in which there is a monopoly is still just as free (unregulated) as one that is otherwise similar but without the monopoly.

Monopolies and externalities are among the things that are not inconsistent with a free market that are usually assumed away as preconditions in statements making claims about the efficiency or optimality of free markets.

Also, more importantly, land is not a monopoly; its perhaps more common for land for particular uses being a monopolized good in that any particular parcel for sale will not have perfect substitutes available on the market such that the seller of a particular parcel may have pricing power, which is the usual test for a monopoly. (The presence of such a power indicates that their is a definable market in which that seller is the only seller, and its absence indicates that in the markets in which the good is relevant there are acceptable substitutes which compete on price.)

So, it is probably defensible to claim that land is prone to monopolies, but inaccurate to say that land is a monopoly.
In terms of financial success, technical skills and know-how cannot overcome poor social skills or lack of connections, no matter how good you are technically. Outside of rare exceptions, social skills and networking are thus inescapable requirements for financial success. Money is by-and-large a social construct that has only limited correlation with quantity or quality of work. In my early years, I unfortunately thought that hard work alone equaled financial success.
I find it strange to live in an internet future where there is a canternet and a ponychat and both have more active users than say... 2600net.
I suppose it's hard to argue with you if your point is that their aren't many SV-style mobile/web app companies outside of Silicon Valley. There are, however, a lot of software and other engineering jobs in many southern cities (e.g. Austin, Raleigh) albeit probably fewer than in the Northeast and the West coast.
> Alice and Bob have secret values x and y, respectively. Alice and Bob wish to learn if x = y without allowing either party to learn anything else about the other's secret value.

This is better put as: without allowing either party, in the event that the equality is false, to learn even so much as whether x < y or x > y.

Of course if the equality is true, each party knows everything about the other's value.
This isn't trading though - it's playing middle man. You forgot to mention that the trader offering to buy $20mm of stock is sitting there looking at a screen telling him that real market makers are posting bids of $721 on the Nasdaq, etc. All the trader has to do is take the flow and offload the risk without moving the market such that he takes a loss.

I'm sure it's largely regulation that prevents these hedge funds from going straight to the market themselves and bypassing these "traders".

It's the same thing as exchanging currency in an airport. You see these big signs with large disparities between "Buying at" and "Selling at" for each currency pair. Very easy to make money like that as a currency swapper when you have the nearly-guaranteed hedge that is the massive FX spot market.
You kind of dodged the person's question. What do you use to check that emails are opened?
Democracy isn't necessarily the best way to handle things.

If you asked the people what they want on every bill no country could function. Every tax would get rejected, and every spending bill approved.

Similarly for asking each congressperson about each individual clause in the TPP.
> I absolutely believe <500 low-paid shills with medium-level English can bring down sites like the likes of reddit. Bringing down does not mean putting them out of business -- that's rather incidental -- it means creating fear and terror amongst a large part of the users to convince them that the majority of the internet is against them -- the internet is not the place for them. It is not just threatening women or minorities, obviously -- it could also be pretending to be an extremist feminist, and suggesting men should be hanged, burned etc, provoking the other group, and causing conflicts.

Obviously there are numerous examples of groups of that sort of size which, whilst unpaid, have been extremely zealous in their attempts to "bring down" Reddit. It's questionable how successful they've been. There's been a singular failure to convert the masses into believing that "ethics in game journalism" is a pressing issue. There are still plenty of women, feminists and black people on Reddit, and most of the rest of the internet remains blissfully unaware of "debates" that have taken place there.
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What an amazing idea!
Why is this a shame? Do you think IPOing will affect their products & direction?
Wendy's already tried this. I no longer eat at Wendy's.
This looks like a neat idea. I like it and look forward to trying it out.
Yes, but do we also get the custom IDE and whatnot? I'd really like to play with Dart, but I hope it isn't a dead-end for non-Google projects.
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This will be a great litmus test for relatively new and growing technology companies to determine when it's right to IPO in this market.

There have been a number of recent IPO's from companies with great growth but no profits to show for it. The market has mainly rejected these companies and the companies are trading near IPO levels or below. Some of them after taking a down round to go public even, such as HDP.

Atlasssian is showing very good growth and profits, however modest (which they should be for them - reinvesting in the company is the best action right now), which I assume would end up with a pretty decent multiple.

My midline would be a 4 billion market cap based on current growth trajectory, current and potential earnings (and their reinvestment in the business) and cash on hand which should limit and sort of second round any time in the foreseeable future.

This isn't based on PE (it would be extremely high right now) but rather the revenue growth and cash stability to allow sustainable reinvestment in the companies marketing, R&D and sales departments. It's a bit over 10x forward revenue.
Also they give me a headache so bonus points for that.
This is my first attempt to start a business.

The poster design was generated by my own little program. Given a set of text with pre-formatted line endings (like you get with source code) and an area to fit it into, it solves for the font size and number of columns to use. (I'm already wondering what else I could do with this. Poetry posters, maybe?)

Ordering/billing is through Gumroad. I hated their widget, and hacked on it until I got a link to a product page that I could use, and styled it to my taste.

Fulfillment is through Printful. They offered the largest poster size out of all the on-demand print services I looked at.

The landing page uses Bootstrap. I'm not sure that I like the picture I used (yes, that's Yours Truly in the photo). I read all these essays saying that it helps sales to have a person on the landing page, and that it helps to have the person looking at the product, but somehow my smile ended up looking vaguely demonic.

Anyway, feedback is very welcome.
You know all those employees that you gave equity to in order to lure them onboard? Well, you've got a few options at that point. You can go public so they can cash out. Or you can do some kind of revenue-sharing scheme so they can get cash. Or something. Point is, you have to make good on your promise to them (their equity) at some point or they're all going to quit.
Elasticsearch now available for Lua(Lua Workshop 2015) [pdf]
NASA’s New Horizons Yields Wealth of Discovery
What do you think about Jira?
I like face-to-face conversations but I'm not a fan of video conversations. In fact, I prefer audio-only if I have to conference in. Maybe if you made it audio only that might make for better conversations and a reduction in "masterbaters".
I once looked into the personal backgrounds of U.S. presidents. It's about 50% carefully groomed elites like FDR, Kennedy, and Bush (both), and about 50% "rose from nothing" people like Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama.
Is the use of a fixed choice of prime vulnerable to the Weak DH / Logjam attack? (https://weakdh.org/)
Apple TV vs. Roku 4 vs. Fire TV vs. Chromecast
I have emails from the city saying otherwise, I'll try and dig them up. I believe it's publicly maintained as it was resurfaced along with the rest of the town a couple years back when we lived there.

I also doubt the Wolfback Ridge Association paid for the bridge over highway 101 that's exclusive to them. There are radio towers (SFO?) up there but you can access along the fire roads from Tennessee Valley.

Edit:

Found it, response from Director of Public Works:

Not as simple a question as you might think… Short answer is that a portion of Wolfback Ridge Road is publically-maintained. For purposes of hiking, you and anyone else can probably access from the State of California right-of-way (at US 101) to the trails at the top of the pass anytime and not have an issue. Vehicular access is restricted at certain times of the year by Sausalito PD – Fleet Week and the Fourth of July based on lack of parking, lack of adequate circulation and inadequate turn-around. If you want more legal details, let me know – I’m researching the area for a development application anyway…it may take awhile though.

They have a point regarding events but if you park where he suggests you'll run into issues.
How can people still use WP in 2015...
> They don't have to but an employer is probably going to want to know.

... and so they do have to.

It's regrettable, because employment history (gaps or no gaps) does not predict job performance.
This doesn't work if the output of the function you're checking is a noisy black box. For example, if fn() creates a finite element model, analyses it with an external software package, and post-processes the results to get an output value, you're gonna need a pretty high tolerance for your stopping condition.
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You reminded me of this scene from Trading Places:

Randolph Duke: Exactly why do you think the price of pork bellies is going to keep going down, William?

Billy Ray Valentine: Okay, pork belly prices have been dropping all morning, which means that everybody is waiting for it to hit rock bottom, so they can buy low. Which means that the people who own the pork belly contracts are saying, "Hey, we're losing all our damn money, and Christmas is around the corner, and I ain't gonna have no money to buy my son the G.I. Joe with the kung-fu grip! And my wife ain't gonna f... my wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!" So they're panicking right now, they're screaming "SELL! SELL!" to get out before the price keeps dropping. They're panicking out there right now, I can feel it.

Randolph Duke: [on the ticker machine, the price keeps dropping] He's right, Mortimer! My God, look at it!
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Ask HN: What's your company's open-source policy?
I work at a company with 10,000+ employees. We make and sell software for banks. Here's our corporate open-source policy (names changed): https://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Mw1BgzfT

What do you make of it? Obviously it's rather enterprisey. I think the "easy removal and replacement" dictum is unrealistic.

Does your company have an open-source policy? What does it say and do you follow it? Does your product include open-source libraries? Do you contribute bug reports and fixes upstream? Have you open-sourced any of the code you write? Do you maintain them?
From discussions online, the average foreigner seems to know more US Senators than the average American citizen. I get most of my US news from my Australian friend. My three top sources for U.S politics are all sourced from the U.K.

I can only name the Prime Minister of Australia because I have an Australian friend. I'd wager the average American isn't even aware Australia has a Prime Minister, let alone what his name is.

I agree that US citizens think we're the "center of the world". They get that idea because we know nothing about other countries yet they know a lot about us. Under the reasoning of "A king doesn't learn a peasants favorite color." people look at their ignorance in a positive light rather than a negative one.

I never gave a damn about US politics until I started travelling internationally and having more international friends than national ones. It was embarrassing to speak about US politics and have someone from Australia know more about my countries internal politics than I did.

Edit:

I think a large part of this is that many countries are bilingual. Learning a second language is especially common and probably the most common language is English. Meaning they can actually read our local news. Meanwhile, few people in the U.S actually speak French/German beyond what they learned in a few years of high school.
Does it make more sense to change Visa laws to allow more flexible relationships? Would you then not need to be 'married' and just use your partnership status?
Catalan assembly votes to start process of breaking from Spain
I don't have a better theory, but that wasn't my point. It may be that there is a setup to read and understand language, but there has never been code presented based on this technology that does it. This is why I'm interested to see how you could set it up to make it work. If you could prove me wrong, then great! I'd love to see it.
In the past four days, the New York Times has published 36 news stories about Europe, plus various multimedia features and opinion pieces. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/europe/index.html
Over my summer interning in NYC I found even weaker vulnerabilities with the the NY Waterway ferry's e-ticketing system. Trivially cost can go from greater than $296/month (for some routes) --> $0. Fortunate for those who instinctually think of weaknesses in systems.
I think you're smart to try to test the validity of the converse of my claims. However, it's also important to acknowledge that there is enormous variation in the freedom of the media to operate across countries. There are highly repressive media domains where a single actor represses others and achieves a near monopoly. Could the US improve freedom of expression domestically? Yes. Do we systematically repress dissenters as is common Russia, Bangladesh, etc? No
Religion makes children less altruistic
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Here's our corporate open-source policy (names changed): https://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Mw1BgzfT

What do you make of it? Obviously it's rather enterprisey. I think the "easy removal and replacement" dictum is unrealistic.
Not a huge fan of Confluence (just give me Markup, dammit), but Jira is simply the best at what it does.
In its historical roots, though often (but far from always) without the "orphan" part, that's exactly what marriage is: the process by which a family chooses some non-family person to share with some member of the family in the inheritance of the family. (Sometimes in a reciprocal, but even when so often not symmetrical, relationship with another family.)
"buying securities high and selling them low" - I assume that's a typo? Usually it's the other way around, unless you're trying to make a joke.
haha. yes! :-) Thanks for catching!
I don't know why your comment annoys me so much, but it does.

What other response could you reasonably expect (or indeed, want)? If there weren't any rational and logical responses to this article, that would be truly saddening.
You don't think most employees are smart enough to realize options in most startups are like lottery tickets? Yeah, you might win, but the probable value is zero or close to it.
> A two-step process first prepares the damaged area of enamel, then uses a tiny electric current to push minerals into the repair site.

Does anyone know how long this process takes compared to the current solution?
I completely agree. I find the sliders to be frustrating and detract from the experience of taking in the changes in their entirety. We aren't doing a pixel by pixel comparison so the UI shouldn't treat it that way.
The non-air bed-and-breakfast industry is quoted in the article:

"Had the hosts of the Texas property opted to become part of a community of more traditional B&Bs, they would have encountered a cumbersome but rigorous process, according to the Texas Bed and Breakfast Association’s executive director Connie Hall. “For new members, they are inspected with an overnight stay, and then every two years, our properties are inspected,” she says, covering everything from cleanliness to decor, and ensuring that individual rooms have a deadbolt, smoke detectors are functioning, and landscaping seems safe. “As far as the safety stuff, it’s mandatory for our members that they meet all these criteria,” adds Hall."