skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technology has been disrupting Wall Street for years. Look at the NYSE / Archipelago reverse merger where a young, tech-savvy upstart ECN essentially took over the iconic New York bourse.

"In the old days, short-term liquidity was provided by specialists or floor-traders. In the past 10 years, their role has largely been replaced by sophisticated high-speed computer models. CNBC still reports live from the floor of the NYSE to preserve an outdated illusion for the public - the reality is the vast majority of the trading is now done by computers."

From Tradebot Systems' homepage (http://www.tradebotsystems.com/) - a proprietary trading group out of Kansas City that competes with major investment banks.

I disagree with the author's characterization of market-making as predatory. There are risks involved in providing liquidity, so there should be some cost, and as a purely competitive enterprise with many players, the costs will be very low. All brokerage houses allow you to submit your own limit orders if you don't want to pay the spread. I fail to see how a bunch of computer market-makers competing with one another to offer spreads tight as 1 cent are worse than the old monopolist NYSE specialist quoting in $1/16ths while seeing all order flow.
US states redrawn so as to have equal populations
(Attribution: I found it on Fallows's blog: http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/thought...)
Ask HN: Viability of business models staged on Google Earth?
So are you mostly concerned about organization? Or also in terms of support given?

Looking at the numbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina_disaster_reli...) I would be incredibly surprised if the Haiti relief efforts even come close to 1/10th of what was given to support Katrina (~$52 billion).

As far as organization, from what I've heard from people I know who are there helping, some parts are completely chaotic especially the farther away from the capital. In other areas people have had to step in and assume authority due to the government being non-existent.

There isn't even any clarity as to who controls the relief operations UN or US. And there are definitely various roles that were filled in by the US (air traffic control).

Maybe others can help chip in information?
I'm not concerned about which language right now, anything with a REPL should be able to work in this way. But the context I'm working in is perhaps a bit trickier. The call stack would normally cross between languages multiple times so just inspecting the stack becomes really clumsy. Since both languages have access to the same data structures, a watchpoint set on the C side can break at a fairly arbitrary point in the interpreter, from which you need to gain control on the other side.

And it's important to be able to attach to a running process and move through the inter-language call stack (e.g. when debugging a deadlock under MPI (distributed-memory)). I haven't found a high-level language that offers this sort of interoperability, but I'd love to hear suggestions.
I just love the way he doesn't take any of the questions seriously. I also love the fact that despite this they still left his answers in. :)
Fossil SCM's revision data is clean/accessible SQLite, ripe for hacking with
Agree totally.
Piracetam worked, but made my restless.
Gingko - did not make change.

The most important for me is decent sleep = 7+-1 hours;
wake up at 8, no later.
Not the problem:

$ curl http://_why.usesthis.com/
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host '_why.usesthis.com'
It's definitely the underscore: http://usesthis.com/ is accessible, as are all the other interviews, but http://_why.usesthis.com/ isn't.

And it doesn't seem to be the browser's fault:

$ ping richard.stallman.usesthis.com
PING richard.stallman.usesthis.com (74.207.245.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from waferbaby.com (74.207.245.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=63.6 ms

$ ping _why.usesthis.com
ping: unknown host _why.usesthis.com

So I can't resolve the domain name for some reason. This happens on both my home Gentoo box and my Slicehost Gentoo server.
Does it make sense to build high-quality building models for Google Earth for advertising purposes?
On Linux, neither Chrome nor Firefox are working for me, yet:

$ host _why.usesthis.com
_why.usesthis.com has address 74.207.245.100

odd.

[Edit: Looking at darshan's post below, I understand why: host (part of the BIND distribution) uses its own resolver; everything else goes through the system facility (i.e. glibc). I still don't know how to fix it, though.]
I'd use it as a bluray player and hope Boxee gets ported and can make use of the juice to accelerate media playback.

I haven't bought one mostly because of the restrictions on linux ports.
I'd be interested to know if they did any usability tests and what the results were. Even just the basic cheap usability tests like describe in Don't Make Me Think.

If anyone has any information on their testing process, please share!
People were confused and annoyed. They expressed that to help wakemate.

That said, your rant about money is absurd and misses the point. It's not about money; it's about expectations.
Ok I take it back.. (a bit)

How the hell do you buy songs? I mean this is supposed to be the point right? So I found an artist I like, shouldn't there be a really obvious way to buy the album/track? (or telling me it isn't available for purchase yet?)

That kind of makes my head explode.. I want to support the artist but it isn't letting me.. arr!
By the way Ginkgo biloba is an interesting planto -
a living fossil (270*10^6 years old specie). Worth looking in wikipedia.
The problem, of course, is that we who read this sort of thing via HN are the people who least need to read this sort of thing.
If you charge a reasonable rate, not really, unless you always ask for payment before you complete work. Let's say you charge 100$/hr. That means you are going to demand payment before you complete a full week of work. Say you charge $50/hr. Now you are demanding payment (in hand/check cashed) before two full weeks of work. Good luck finding a company/client who will pay you on that schedule.
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Remove the underscore:

$ ping _why.usesthis.com
ping: unknown host _why.usesthis.com
$ ping why.usesthis.com
PING why.usesthis.com (74.207.245.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from waferbaby.com (74.207.245.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=178 ms
64 bytes from waferbaby.com (74.207.245.100): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=178 ms
The 'S' in SILLIAC stands for 'Sydney'.
Here is some material (some a bit old, last one is a video):

http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/11/29/ruby.html

http://www.artima.com/intv/ruby.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEkJvvGEtB4
misleading title. i have clicked thinking it was referring to a spying activity carried by yahoo in a invisible fashion. Actually it just plain spam.It should be downvoted.
That doesn't help much, as the web server just serves the root document in that case.
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Ideas aren't worth much. Waiting is the only sane option.

It might be painful, sure. But most of the time, you'll give it a few weeks and realize it wasn't that great of an idea to begin with.
Remember that the grass is always greener on the other side. In your situation this probably means that there's a new shiny idea that looks like low hanging fruit ripe for the taking. The thing is that, like every idea out there, once you get up close and look at the implementation, business model, etc. you will see all the ugliness that can't be spotted from afar.

If you've already launched something, or are close to it, then I would keep working on it. Ideas don't have much value in themselves. It's the implementation that counts.
This is they guy, btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
Born 1989
Activist ejected from "public" meeting on secret copyright treaty for tweeting
Correct URL: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_3_facebook_settings...

Link jacking by the nytimes is still link jacking.
Regular people overvalue houses, with the encouragement of the government. Banks cash in and some buy into the hype. Who to blame? I know, blame those geeks who crunched some numbers.

But whatever you do, don't blame the women who caused this problem in the first place:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubsd-tWYmZw
So, what should you do if someone keeps calling you a crypto-nazi in a televised debate? I'm pretty sure that if Buckley and Vidal had been having a debate about civil rights, and Buckley repeatedly called Vidal a "crypto-faggot", under the pretense that doing so was vaguely related to civil rights, and then if Vidal had made a rejoinder similar to the one quoted, you'd be applauding it.

Remember, it was Vidal's essay about Buckley that twice inspired libel suits and forced Esquire to print an apology.

(Note: Not a Republican and not a fan of Buckley, but a fan of the truth.)
Do both.

Most of the time you can spare an hour or two every day to work on your 'big' idea. Spend it on research, try to find out if it has already been done and if someone else is executing right now.

99% of the time your 'oh shit, this could be huge!" of today will turn to, "oh right, that's why they failed" or "oh, great I'll never match that" or "hm, this is a lot harder than I thought", or maybe even "wow, that was really stupid".

If after three months of trying to shoot holes in it it still looks like a winner then it's time to start worrying about priorities.
Your six person, six month, $200,000. budget game is reviewed THE SAME as a three year, three hundred person studio game

Why wouldn't it be? The point of a review is to tell me how good the game is, not to reward you for effort.
What does it do? Displays the "Follows in Common" and the "Follow Rank" for a given users profile page, and lets you discover how important they are in your (Twitter) Social Network. Requires FireFox, GreaseMonkey extension(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748), and use of http://www.Twitter.com
As an aside, what makes you call Coke Zero "poisonous"? I've never read anything that convinces me aspartame has significant negative health effects, in fact, "the most recent medical review on the subject concluded that 'the weight of existing scientific evidence indicates that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a non-nutritive sweetener.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame
I like to think that somewhere in some obscure part of the open source world, he's back. Under a new name, probably, but he's still back, quietly working by himself and churning out some awesome code.
Seeking Alpha has been in love with Google for some time now. They positively gush about all things Android, even when Android = Fail (like their horrible multitasking - trust me, my phone is a G1, and the multitasking sucks), repeatedly predicting how Android is the obvious winner in the mobile OS wars.

So it doesn't exactly surprise me that they would put out tripe like this about Apple. I have to think that their editors are heavily invested in GOOG, and are prepared to sell short on AAPL. Not exactly an unbiased source.
I second that. I am a business marketer and I have seen my clients increase paying for marketing campaigns during this recession, so some industries benefited from the recession.
The underscore makes it an invalid hostname. :-(

It is accessible in google cache, except _why's answers are images, which are not cached. Aaargh! So close.
http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:QtwetYZV3HgJ:_why.usest...

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc952:
"A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus sign (-), and period (.)."

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname#Restrictions_on_valid_...
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Why would you want to disrupt prop trading? Prop trading is about allocating resources to their most productive use. High frequency trading is a particularly stupid target; high frequency traders provide liquidity. Without them, you might place an order that goes unfilled. Is that a good thing?

Regarding mutual funds, you can get better (and more volatile) returns with an index fund. No one disputes this. But what if you want a tuned investment strategy? A mutual fund I'm invested in tries to make large profits right now (while I'm young) from high risk investments, and over time transitions into low risk investments (to protect my retirement). It won't beat the market, and it isn't meant to.
mark me down as saying its ugly: the colors are inharmonious and impact is a terrible typeface choice.

while technically usable, its not necessarily something i want to use.
Ideas are cheap as well - properly implementing one good idea is better than the joy of exploring 500 great ones that are just out of feasibility.
I don't think you understand that this is not a link jacking in the traditional sense of linkjacking with partial information.

This is the exact copy and paste of the article - word by word - to NYtimes obviously with permission from RWW. Same author. They even say it right on top. NYT do similar cross posting partnership with other bloggers.
No, it's like saying the architect who built the house that collapsed in an earth quake must take some blame, not just the company that funded the building.

And I agree with that. The models were brittle and the math/CS people who created them will have to take responsibility for that. Obviously there are others who must share that responsibility.
A way to access the content no matter the underscore problem:

Who are you and what do you do?
http://usesthis.com/images/interviews/_why.1.jpg

What hardware are you using?
http://usesthis.com/images/interviews/_why.2.jpg

And what software?
http://usesthis.com/images/interviews/_why.3.jpg

What would be your dream setup?
http://usesthis.com/images/interviews/_why.4.jpg
Great stuff. I've been fascinated by the potential of async CPUs ever since I studied under Steve Furber, who was working on the clockless version of the ARM processor, Amulet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMULET_microprocessor
I'd like to add to this -- in my opinion this goes in cycles, and it's important to ride out a couple of cycles. The cycles are ideating -- dreaming and researching how big a change the idea encompasses, and critiquing -- brutally throwing every criticism you can up against the idea.

So most of the time I'm not a huge believer in ideas -- it's execution that matters, and great teams can make money starting with mediocre ideas. But then every now and then one comes along that makes me pay attention.

So I go through the research, digging through competitors and looking at market-entry obstacles, partnership-leverage opportunities, and technical difficulties. If this is done correctly, at the end it's kind of like whittling away wood to make a whistle: At the end I have smaller piece of something that still looks cool and might work.

Then, if I want a whistle, I execute on that some, taking it to market or otherwise throwing as many rocks at it as I can. As I execute, it makes the idea more powerful -- only to go through another cycle of adjustment and pairing as the product meets the marketplace and you take another hard look at it.

In my opinion, after a couple of cycles you begin to either understand all the reasons why it won't work (and are executing anyway) or you understand all the awesomely cool things it might be (and have decided that it's not worth the effort).

Hope I explained myself. Tough concept to cover in a few words.
Ignore: Sony hasn't done anything with hacked PSPs that accessed the PlayStation Network, so that's a good sign.

I just remembered that they restricted access to the Store (and possibly the whole Network). That was solved by a change in the version string, if I recall correctly.
I cracked the code

Who are you and what do you do?
http://why.usesthis.com/images/interviews/_why.1.jpg

What hardware are you using?
http://why.usesthis.com/images/interviews/_why.2.jpg

And what software?
http://why.usesthis.com/images/interviews/_why.3.jpg

What would be your dream setup?
http://why.usesthis.com/images/interviews/_why.4.jpg
Talking of ActiveX, apparently Mozilla had code to support that and made the ideological decision not to. That worked out well for everyone.
"This is not how the world makes its copyright laws."

Apparently it is.
If in couple of years all web clients support only patented video codecs (which will happen if Mozilla doesn't succed here). Imagine doing a video startup or anything related to video that isn't irrelevant then.
The professor I TA'ed for last semester said he's had a student turn in a clockless CPU for the final project in the introductory architecture class.
In revenue. About 50% of that go to operating costs. Developers need to eat too and they need to have a buffer for the near future. It's not wise to spend it all on giving unlimited H.264 licenses to the world.
As a twenty something male techie who had no idea about the controversy on Hacker News, I was quite happy with the email I got from Wakemate and I thought they handled the entire situation quite well.
I don't think you can really hide a personality like that. I think he's doing something else entirely, something AFK like just being a father or some such.
s/states/cities/
Thanks got it.
Still the name is funny.
I'm guessing the number that saw this in the NYT outnumber those that saw it on HN...I could be wrong. Otherwise, its useful in two ways:

1 - I can go through this article and make changes quickly trusting the NYT is giving me better settings than Facebook defaults.

2 - I can post this link to my friends and family on Facebook. This enables less tech savvy and non-HN readers to know about it and follow the simple instructions.
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It's a DNS resolution issue. Underscores in domain names are invalid, but some DNS host software still resolves them, while others stick to the spec.
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Ask HN: How to sell/auction a domain name?
Around 5-6 years ago I purchased a janedoe.com domain name for my sister and have held the registration ever since. She recently changed her surname after she married so no longer has any interest in the domain and is happy to let it expire next month.

However, I've noticed that over the years most of the other janedoe TLDs have been registered, with the .net variation being held by a somewhat popular author.

I'm loath to let what seems to be a somewhat valuable domain just expire, or worse, let it fall into the shadowy world of registrar after-market auctions.

How would HN readers recommend selling this domain without falling foul of looking like a squatter/speculator?
GNU is a lot more likely to be around in 500 years than Microsoft or Windows.
working link http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/thought...
My only complaint is that they still left the UP as part of Michigan... it would look much cleaner to throw that into another piece. If you ever wondered why it became part of Michigan read up on the "War of Toledo" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War
My problem is that I was thinking only of big ideas, which was a mistake because in the meantime my finances suffered while waiting for a larger payoff. I have a list now up to 50 ideas accumulated over years, and many with great potential I believe. However, I've realized now what I should have known before, which is the need to focus on becoming "ramen profitable" first. I'm close to that now, and then I'll be able to not only better execute my current project, but also give attention to my idea list as well.
This is a better choice than they realize. As a writer, Isidore of Seville is known for large and unreliable compilations.
Having Chesapeake split by Baltimore-Washington is unfortunate too.
Can anyone tell how he did this? Was it through trial/error?
Interesting to see that Missouri hardly changes at all.
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I worked around it by adding the following to my host file:
"74.207.245.100 _why.usesthis.com"
I'm not a "real" facebook user, except for a fake account to try out some features. It's been interesting looking around recently at people I know, because many of them haven't locked down their profiles yet. It's like the old myspace days. (I never had a real account there either.)
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I actually got a tingly feeling in my spine when I watched this lecture. I'm having Terminator's Skynet flashes.
Probably looking at county populations
Only change I would make: Include Santa Cruz in SF Bay state
Be careful, ginkgo biloba can cause cerebral hemorrhage.

It's supposed to increase "brain oxygenation" / blood flow, but in some individuals who already have good blood flow it may cause bleeding. It feels like your brain is melting, quite peculiar and alarming. Can also happen in conjunction with e.g. ibuprofen or aspirin.

"Herbal" doesn't mean "safe". Many are toxic.

Also, you may be allergic to or sensitive to a particular plant component which is innocuous to other people who recommend it. When trying out ANY new supplement, try only a very small amount at first, to see how you react to it. Then slowly increase the dosage. First priority is NOT going for effect, but seeing if something will hurt you before you try to imbibe enough to gain some positive effect.

Note that capsules typically contain quite a high dosage, because they are trying to appeal to regular users by packing the most mg per dollar. Never assume that ONE cap is "LOW". Research the low end of the dosage scale, and then have EVEN LESS. E.g. if substance X is sold in caps from 10mg to 100mg, get a 10, and then OPEN THE CAP and have a small amount, NOT the whole cap.

Even something as innocuous as melatonin can be a real drag; it's often sold in 3mg pills, when 0.3mg is effective, and for many people it has a delayed effect where it doesn't help you sleep that night but kicks in the next day and you can barely function because your body thinks it's time to sleep!

First priority is always to protect yourself and limit the side-effects if something doesn't agree with you.
name two?
"ACTA -- a secret treaty that contains provisions requiring nations to wiretap the Internet, force ISPs to spy on users, search laptops at the border, and disconnect whole households from the net on the basis of mere accusation of copyright infringement"

Is there any historical precedent for worldwide corruption on this scale? Not to be overly dramatic, but this feels vaguely like the end of the free world.
add this line to your /etc/hosts

74.207.245.100 _why.usesthis.com

and it will work
1. Bonus500 ( Learn You A Haskell For Great Good: http://learnyouahaskell.com/ ) ( http://twitter.com/bonus500 )

2. Mononcqc (Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/) ( http://twitter.com/mononcqc )

I can name some more, if you want.
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