skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory, you are right. So the circuit breaker is uni-directional in NYSE and NASDAQ. It is bi-directional in China, though.

The upside circuit break has very practical implications. China's current stock market was started in 1990. The general public began to paying attention to stock market around 2000. From the historical point of view, both the stock market and the general public's understanding on it are still in early stage. So the attitude on stock market is very speculative. Coincidentally, the economy in China has been undergoing stunning growth during this period, which generates a huge amount of wealth. This furthers the stock market's speculative nature. As a result, the volatility could be very high. It was not uncommon to see some stocks undergo several +/-20% changes during a week, before the upside circuit breaker was established. Its primary purpose is to curb the speculation.
Lots of fascinating insight. Definitely worth a read.

“Grades are increasingly a lousy signal, especially at those elite places that just hand out the A’s. So you don't even have that anymore,”

“This is an elite university and a lot of the people at the university are elitists,” one professor said with a laugh. “So they make a lot of inferences about the quality of someone's work and their ability based on where they come from.”
> the compiler's insistence that you do something with that that returned struct,

But it doesn't. You can write `ok, _ := Foo()` and poof, the error is ignored.

Java's checked exceptions don't let you get away with this kind of sloppy programming.
Perhaps unrealistic, but a brilliant concept.
This headline reminded me of Smartflix [0] -- lets you access the entire Netflix catalogue, regardless of your location. Surprised that Netflix lets something like this exist.

[0]: https://www.smartflix.io
Depends on the airport. Some airports are vicious about enforcing Uber bans (and the drivers quickly figure this out), so drivers will call to confirm your location if the pin is near the airport.

On the other hand, most airports have some sort of public transportation heading in a not-airport direction...
While I'm a Netflix fan and subscriber I find them terrifying. They're clearly the monopoly power in streaming TV and whatever you call the competition that comes from Hulu or traditional cable companies is a joke in comparison. I predict in the future we'll have to break up the Netflix monopoly and require that they sublicense out the content they have license to stream to smaller suppliers much like the way it works for some utilities.
Many mainstream languages like Python don't even have a syntactic notion of types. The best you could really do is say that Idris would get you some typing reification that you might do in those languages at no cost, but it would seriously sell short the power of dependent types like you see in Idris.
for 2), Firefox + Keysnail works great for me. Awesome keybindings everywhere.
Why would they be in better position to disrupt cinema as compared to iTunes, Google Play or YouTube? All of those players have worldwide name recognition and require no immediate upfront membership.

"The Interview" went online directly, and from what I recall the box office results were kinda meh. Of course, we have no access to a parallel Universe where it would've been released through traditional channels, so it could had been a relative success fwiw.
As a side note, a wrong picture is placed in the article. In China's stock market, red indicates positive changes, while green indicates negative changes. It is the opposite to those in USA.
True: the 7% cash in their economy happened months ago, starting years ago, but really picking up steam last September. It didn't drop 7% though, neither the stock market nor the Chinese economy.

Drop in Chinext since peak: (4037-2254)/4037 = 44%

Drop in Chinese economy: nobody really knows, because the published numbers are so obviously fake that nobody in their right mind believes them. But, according to the numbers, it fell 15-20%.

Example reference: http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-exports-imports-fall-agai...

One might keep in mind that a serious fall in US production has likewise happened, though one might say it's a smaller drop than China (and Europe) are experiencing.
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The script is intended to be a copy/paste script, with no imports and just "Fill in the blanks" parameters. There A LOT of other options that are much better, but require more setup:
http://scrapy.org/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/spider.py
This is true in theory but not in practice. For example, NASDAQ OUCH, which is one of the most popular protocols for entering stock orders in the world, has a maximum price of 199,999. A stock trading at one dollar can go up by a factor of 1000, but only once. See http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/technicalsupport/specifi...

A more subtle ceiling is why companies split their stock: a huge price per share distorts the market. Imagine if Costco were the only place you could buy butter, but they sell it in five-pound packs. Individuals might not buy any.
Except passwords aren't even a relevant part of this breach. They're worth absolutely nothing compared to the ridiculous amounts of customer data linode controls.
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Which to clarify further, their stock market is like 15% of their economy.

China is largely state owned... It's not the same as us markets crashing.
Why is HBO a follower here?

They did original content for as long as they existed, and HBO Now has been available globally for a while now.
I agree with what a lot of people have mentioned, though not focused on: Netflix needs to add sports if they want to really dominate at a global level.

As an example, consider Africa (I'm Kenyan): the Barclays Premiere League is watched in virtually every country, but provided by one company, known as MultiChoice. Because almost everyone wants to watch football, and there is only one option, if they can afford it, they pay.

If Netflix (or some other company) was to obtain the rights to airing the BPL, all the middle-to-upper-class families in Kenya with decent internet connections would immediately consider switching.
The futures markets have circuit breakers in both directions. They are called "limit up" days or "limit down" days. There are stories of commodity traders that got entirely wiped out when some futures were limit up or limit down for days or weeks, and that they couldn't exit their positions.

When I was trading corn and soy, I've seen a few limit up/down days myself, but thankfully never caught in them.
It's different. On Facebook Notify you subscribe to a channel and then they decide what you get, very similar to rss feed. On Hooks you customize what you want to get exactly and where you want to get it from, like post with 200 points on HN so you get only the content you asked for.
Even more interesting with NUMA: imagine 10K slow/cheap cores, each with their own non-shared bit of NVMe (~10MB would do) for their heaps to live on. Perfect for running Erlang.

There might not even be a point in a "classical" CPU cache hierarchy in such a system, if the NVMe is fast enough, and has its own "internal" writeback cache (e.g. some volatile battery-backed memory) protecting it, so that cycling a bit at 3GHz doesn't burn it out. At that point you may as well say you have a CPU with ten million nonvolatile registers.
This looks like it includes C#, VB.NET, F#, and any other language that targets the CLR (Common Language Runtime, i.e., Microsoft's JVM). edit: Apparently not. Mea culpa!

Also, I don't know how long ago you tried Mono + VB, but especially since MS started collaborating with Mono and offering upstream first-party support (~2 years), support for the IL has been almost production quality. (Now it is production quality - I'm running some of my customer ASP.NET applications which was built around the NHibernate rather than EF/MS SQL on full Linux infrastructure).

Satya is making a ton of bold moves that are basically antithetical compared to the Ballmer-era MS. Visual Studio Code (yet-another-electron-based-editor) and Community, along with the ridiculous amount of open stuff on Github has effectively eliminated the vendor-lock-in stronghold that Microsoft previously had. Residual Office renewals and upgrades on the MS SQL stack will only get them so far. They're going full Docker[1] support on the new Windows Server stack, as well as full .NET support off the Windows stack, which is interesting to say the least. I wonder if we'll start seeing them buying out companies that are traditionally aligned with more-open-sourcey.

A bold move they could make would be buying out Cognitect. Datomic could be a perfect fit for them. Integrate Visual Studio support (e.g. as good as IntelliJ/Cursive) and give CLJS first-party support (let Nolen take a lead spot on the TypeScript team) in VS and it could be a steal at even a few hundred million dollars. The talent (Hickey+Nolen) the developers who they bring over + the perception shift within the dev community + the Datomic itself is likely worth a half a billion to MS.

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BrainstormingDevelopmentWorkfl...
It's unbecoming of a large corporation that "wants to work for connecting people" to make statements like these against net neutrality advocates :

"Facebook has been urging users to sign a petition that claims that “a small, vocal group of critics… demand that people pay equally to access all Internet services, even if that means one billion people can’t afford to access any services,” and that “unless you take action now, India could lose access to free basic Internet services, delaying progress towards digital equality for all Indians."

Facebook has resorted to slander when they can't give transparent answers to the issues raised against Free Basics.

Quote Source : https://www.accessnow.org/open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg-on-...
a "public key" can also just be a secret. "Apple toothpaste monkey piano" is something someone can write down for recovery. they don't need to know; they just need to remember where they put it (which might be a stretch, yes, but it's better than storing things in plain text)
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I've heard that, based on how the ACA was written, the penalty is only weakly enforceable; if you refuse to pay it, the IRS cannot garnish your wages or seize assets for it, etc. They can subtract it from a tax refund if you are owed one, but that's about it. So I imagine more and more people will find ways to not have insurance and also not pay the penalty, as both continue to become more expensive over time.
If free basics get through then telecome operators could potentially come with up Netflix package, Youtube package like TV packages.
There's commute traffic world wide.

Bigger issue is what driving environments could support this. Currently you could never do this in India. The car would not be able to handle such a dynamic environment. How humans do is already beyond my comprehension (as an American). China itself might be a better target but already has some level of dynamism to it.
Hi, we are working on adding this to our API as webhooks, so you can use the content on your app. For now you can check this: https://dev.gethooksapp.com
It's a nice idea, and anything that gives .NET developers more power at the command line is going to get a thumbs up from me. But "one command to rule them all" does feels a little broad. To take a ruby/rails/linux equivalent, this is apt-get, ruby, irb, rails and gem all rolled up together.

Perhaps I'm just overly familiar with the unix small tools philosophy.
From what I know, Idris does not have this constraint: you are free to introduce nontermination wherever.
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I don't get it. Is it just about rediscovering std::array?
I think there's an element of principle to it. I certainly feel that way, and it appears the majority does as well.

App GPS, app payment, star ratings... these are not new things. And yet the taxi industry couldn't be bothered to better itself until a higher quality service came through and gutted their profits.

Consumers suffered some universally abhorrent treatment for years because taxis flat out don't give a fuck. And now, what.. all is expected to be forgiven because they're suddenly in the app store?

They made this bed. They can lie in it.
Sounds like this author sold his Google stock early.
Facebook is blatantly violating net neutrality.

I'm surprised this isn't in headlines. Imagine the backlash if Comcast charged you to access Netflix but gave you free NBC.com streaming.
The role of CRM is continuously on the rise for many businesses around the world. Armed with latest analytics, automation and accessibility, [you're right] CRM has become quite a powerful tool for organizations.

According to Gartner, CRM will be at the heart of digital initiatives for years to come. As we move forward, more companies will make the smart choice of using CRM because it helps to build profitable relationships by maximizing the effectiveness of customer interactions. It has already taken the world by storm in 2015 and we'll see [hopefully] a rise in its trend in the coming year as well.

Here are three CRM trends that I think we’ll see in 2016.

1) Mobile CRM will be big. In fact, it will become a must-have.

2) Integration will make all the difference in the coming years.

3) Data protection is more and more important now.

Source: http://www.rolustech.com/blog/3-crm-predictions-for-2016/
I drew a bunch of dots to explain why social media is broken
How can I access HBO globally? I see at the bottom of their website "HBO NOW is only accessible in the U.S. and certain U.S. territories where a high-speed broadband connection is available."
Don't forget commodity futures limits [1]. I remember in 2011 when cotton was limit up for days in a row, with the market opening the next day and locking up immediately (and options showing a "synthetic" price much higher).

Limits are subtly different from circuit breakers in that trading can continue... within the limits.

[1] http://www.cftc.gov/industryoversight/marketsurveillance/spe...
Haskell can actually make a pretty good imperative language (and you can put together little imperative sub-languages as well). That aside...

There's a reasonable perspective that says the type of problem that's best solved in a language is a problem for which there's good library support. For that, I'd probably recommend scanning https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md

But in my experience, where Haskell really shines is sketching out operations on some type that I know I'm going to get wrong - substantially or subtly - my first many tries. When I go to fix it, the compiler helps me find everything I need to change in tandem, and feel ahead to find inconsistencies in my model before I get there in the code. One example of this kind of problem is compilers - where we parse into an AST, transform the AST, and then produce other things from the AST. As development goes on, the AST evolves, and you have a lot of help knowing what needs to change to match and what you can ignore. I've recently been doing this for SQL (though with the goal of analyzing the queries, not producing an executable).
It just shows how they only care about generating money. Don't be sheep and buy this.
I think the author wanted to say biggest by number of downloads or by popularity
Good question, I love both of this tools, while IFTTT is more about automation, on Hooks we are focusing on notifications only. Our value is the content, it's very easy to create alerts about many things with just one click.

Actually we are working on adding Hooks as an IFTTT channel later this month as a trigger so anyone can build their own receipts.
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> would we have missed out on that [revenue] if the books were in the public domain..

Why focus on that, instead of (say) the revenue not made by the Silmarillion movies Peter Jackson can't make because the books aren't in the public domain?
You could look at the argument a bit more charitably, as in, "I don't want to be treated as a digital inferior just because of the country I happened to be born in." If $X/mo is good enough for a certain lineup in the US, it should be good enough for the same lineup anywhere.
Are you living in an area with bad connectivity and very few providers or just a single provider? Even 8Mbps is a great speed for streaming HD videos. If the high speed data cap is your limitation, then you should consider airtel or ACT. For the last few years, they have had plans that provide a whole lot more for the amount you quote and at speeds ranging from 16Mbps to 100Mbps.

Also, the basic Netflix subscription is only for SD quality, which can easily take off (heck, people have been watching crappy quality videos on 2G for many years). As others have pointed out, Netflix does not need a lot of bandwidth. Of course, the quality will vary, but you definitely don't need a 40Mbps or 100Mbps connection.

Pricing, however, is a huge factor. Having people put in 500 or more a month for a limited set of content is going to be a challenge for Netflix.
This is the first I've heard of Pushbullet, and boy is their marketing frustrating. I just spent 5 minutes trying to answer the question "Is this a service which turns an HTTP POST into an iOS push notification?", only to be greeted with answers like "Bring together your devices, friends, and the things you care about". Argh.
>Netflix lets something like this exist

It's not like they can ban Chrome or VPNs
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Sounds like it does most of what ride-share services do.

Does Flywheel allow you to rate individual drivers/cars (and prevent being matched to creepy drivers or dirty cars on future rides)? I think that's actually one of the biggest value-adds of Uber/Lyft/Sidecar--direct feedback about drivers which tends to retain good drivers and reject bad ones.
It was maybe 2 or 3 years ago I poked around in it and failed to get much to run.
In case you missed: "dotnet compile --native" is basically like the Go compiler, it statically links all the DLLs and produces a single PXE/ELF executable.

This is the most exciting thing for me in the new dotnet CLI as a person writing Go full-time at Microsoft. Most developers will be able to take advantage of single-binary shipping, they'll just put that in a Docker container and happily run everywhere.
So they want us to believe that they are malicious, not incompetent?

Weird people...
On one hand I think he knows exactly what he is doing. He mentions phrasing and word choice in some of his posts.

On the other hand, he might just be completely clueless about race and gender issues. He says things like "If women want to avoid catcalling then why don't they just move? I moved to improve my life."

Maybe a little of column A, and a little of column B.
Counterpoint: nobody really cares that much about footy around here. Furthermore sports are quite useless as on-demand content. Netflix isn't synonymous with live TV.

Why waste a lot of money on very expensive content that does not scale and does not fit the Netflix profile?
If I were inclined to be rude, I might make a smartass remark in kind about how you seem to believe that the police should indiscriminately open fire on demonstrators the second they fail to cooperate in any way...

...but I won't, because I know the situations are more complicated than that and if we were speaking in person instead of over the Internet you'd probably agree with me on that, even if we didn't agree on the fundamentals of the issue.
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This is just the start. Also some notifications are time sensitive and you always carry your phone with you so you won't miss it.

We are also working on notifications API for Chrome as the next step for the web interface.
If its the Ancestor of orangutan, then how is it extinct?
Can you append a std::array<int, x> and a std::array<int, y> to get a std::array<int, x+y> with x and y chosen at runtime?
Academics, we need to talk
> viciously increasing cycle of actor demands more -> prices go up -> more gross is made -> actor demands more.

That's not exactly how movie economics works. The script calls for a male character, 30-40 years old, good-looking as he's the subject of romantic story. The casting operation calls a few agents and comes back with data that Tom Cruise will want $3m, Ryan Philippe will want $2m, some known actor who's currently in a TV series wants $500k, or a no-name actor showing promise will do it for $80k.

It's up to the studio heads and producers to circle down on an option they consider reasonable. They are aware that a portion of movie revenues is generated by having a brand-name actor, i.e., there will be 200,000 extra tickets sold if Tom Cruise's name is on it. Tom Cruise is also aware of this dynamics, which explains the premium.

But it's also not that simple. Actors like to pretend they're in this industry for the sake of "art", not "money", which means that if you have an interesting script and an "artistic" director with a potential of making to Sundance or Cannes, you might then get a brand-name actor for essentially free (you'll have to pay some union-mandated salary). Every big name actor has this "artistic" no-budget movie in his belt, to showcase their "range" and to signal to public that it ain't about the money, which leads to more public attention and larger check for the next franchise movie, as the actor is still "hot".
Depends on the country where the card is issued.

Most of the shitty German banks issue a German domestic card with a Maestro cobranding, but don't allow Card-not-present transactions so they can upsell credit cards.

I agree though that not a lot of online shops support payment with Maestro, MasterCard Debit, Visa Debit and to a lesser extend Visa Electron are used a lot more than Maestro.
Not another Newyorker article, sorry I can't take anymore, Dave, my mind is going, I can feel it .. I can feel it .. my mind is going .. there is no question about it :)
Stop calling it "free internet". That's absolutely not what Facebook is offering.

> Do you think donating some money to farmers is going to help in any way? The government has been doing that for a long time (through subsidies and minimum purchase prices)

You're talking about two different things. Subsidies are different than unconditional cash transfers, the latter of which there has been recent promising research on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_cash_transfer

https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/publications/Haushofer_Shapi...
I learn a lot from Hanselman, and as someone bridging multiple languages, platforms, and sdks while at MSFT, this is a new one for me.

I'm adding this to my list for potential 20% time project exploration.

Cross platform and cross language have their interesting aspects...
> OS flushes a lot of data and instructions from the cache

Only if you actually switch contexts. For I/O, this isn't necessary -- you don't need to touch a thing in the TLB.
> Are U&L still ignoring rules designed to provide access to those with disabilities?

In my city one of the options (besides SUV, black car, etc) is for persons with disabilities. The app seems to have some options to switch between requesting a driver with a wheelchair-compatible car and the city's own paratransit service. I've never used it myself, so I can't comment on the implementation.