skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the worry about HFT is mainly that the value to society of adding liquidity does not outweight the cost of the money being extracted by these companies. It doesn't feel like a good deal- it feels like we're all being cheated.

The hard part about analysing whether is actually is good is in trying to figure out just what value we should place on added liquidity.

Can you explain why the value to society of the additional liquidity from HFT outweighs the cost (large profits to companies doing nothing else)? Not being facetious, actually interested in hearing your thoughts on it.
I saw a button to add products in the footer.
Your comment brings up the old and terrible response "if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to hide"

Is that irony? I never can tell if I use that word right.
For general cases, I agree that 200 MBs isn't enough to consider very important nowadays, but I still don't get how we're automatically talking about language productivity being a trade-off. Is the assumption that Python is a more productive language regardless of what it stands against?
I graphed Google search trends for different platforms [1] a few weeks ago. If Facebook is like the others, it crossed its peak three years ago and is dying ever since, something that matches my personal experience on Facebook. So where does this disparity come from, how can Facebook keep announcing new records while the search trend points downwards for about three years? Did they manage to break free from the correlation? Maybe because of the widespread use of its apps? Does the rise of WhatsApp play a role in the presented numbers?

Don't get mislead by the normalization, Facebook has still more than six times the search volume compared to the peak of Myspace.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/SGci58n.png
Probably best to "scratch your own itch" first. Do your friends have the same problem(s) your solving?
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> I can't hardly imagine that most people posting here would ever consider a job where literally every word or sound that came out of their mouth during their entire working life was recorded.

The working life for most hackers is rather privileged, so perhaps most people reading this would not care for such working conditions.

However, more and more "blue-collar" jobs are conducted under similar conditions. 100% surveillance on video. Audio recording. Recording all the calls you take or make in a call centre. Recording when you take bathroom breaks and when you are at your station.

Nanny-cams for cleaners, health-care providers and (well of course) child care providers in private homes. It goes on and on, but if you step outside of our cozy little tech community, you find that people are treated just like any other cog in a machine, which means they are instrumented and monitored at all times.
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Beautifully said. Probably incomprehensible to singles.
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Relatedly, Martin Porter (of Porter stemmer fame) has a great pair of essays on the famous Burke quote about the triumph of evil (which, of course, he never said), starting with http://tartarus.org/martin/essays/burkequote.html
In the Hall sensor described in post the battery (a coin cell) can last for 20 years (in theory, of course)
ElDewrito 0.5.0.2 Released (Mod of Halo Online Early Build)
> There is no national body that oversees police

We have a national body. It's called the citizenry. But, sadly, few people are rising up because it isn't happening in their back yard, or to their children.

Sure there will be comment threads on HN or some Facebook liking, but these are weak responses, and without more, change will come very slowly, and in the meantime thousands more will be trampled on, abused, violated or murdered.

The majority of people who are rising up are only the marginalized people who are the primary victims of police abuse and injustice. All you have to do is look on Twitter and look at the color of people who do the most tweeting about police injustice.

There is no way this would or could continue if a significant amount of the privileged population rose up.
Halo fans on HN may wish to check this out. It's a mod of Halo Online[1] a free to play game that was only meant for a Russian release.

Modders are incorporating maps from older Halo games, such as Hang em High[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/HaloOnline/wiki/index/faq

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/HaloOnline/comments/42qdvg/collecti...
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Not true about removable memory.
Working on a component / module / piece of functionality and now you're the person to turn when it doesn't work. Even though a dozen other people have worked on it and it's changed completely since you last saw it.
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Would you mind sharing those issues your wife pointed out?
When they can always get away with slap on the wrist, why not destroy camera or turn it off before shooting someone. Some other cop is going to back any and all claims in court. There is no evidence anyway. They make sure of that. I'm still waiting to see what happened with Ian's case. At least some are indicted because of cams now a days. Turning of cam should have some mark on service records and effect their pay/promotions etc. Whats the need of cop is not to obey and enforce law?
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Fake and gay.

Founder of psychiatry drove around in a lobotomobile for 40 years giving lobotomies to haunted people for $25 each.

(With an icepick) (Check the movie/wikipedia lobotomobile)

the treatments since then have gotten only slightly less barbaric, like being tied down for 20 hours a day, or drugged and locked away.

still none of their bullshit has worked. and 75 - 150,000,000 cases of mental illness today (if you add the un-reported cases estimate) aka 1/4 the population (maybe 1/2).
Trailer homes/parks are already a thing.
This level of polish would be somewhat herculean to pull off in unity, and was not even close to possible when the game's development was started 8 or so years ago.

Unreal maybe, but it also wasn't as viable a choice 8 years ago.

Source: I use unity professionally at my day job.
I have worried about it the past. The more a bad actor has to thrash around the better chance an IDS will trigger. As well some older (read cheaper) firewalls have been known to allow through ACK packets through. This attack is not (IMHO) intended against properly secured sites, but rather than small business with consumer grade routers or something equivalent.
Author here!

Even if you don't intend to purchase the book I would love to hear feedback from you about the first chapter (which is free!)[1]. Really excited about this book and am looking forward to any feedback at all from the HN community.

1 - https://manning-content.s3.amazonaws.com/download/6/df42fc6-...
Let's see.. in the 20 odd years here in Chicago, the sum of my police interactions are:

Hit by a white shirt (supervisor) who came out of an alley on clark st while in a bike lane - somehow my fault, detained.

Hit on foot, by a car with no lights on in a residential neighborhood while crossing at a crosswalk - somehow my fault for being outside while there was "a suspect being hunted"

Watching officers on foot in 7-11's, local shops, etc, just walk in, take what the want, and leave.

Helping a friend move to another city because he ended a relationship with a cop who made his life a living hell after they broke up.

Being accused of trying to "make the neighborhood look bad" when I called the fire department because my neighbor had smoke coming out of the door in his apartment (turns out he was just passed out drunk and left a pizza in the oven, but what else do you do when you bang on a door pouring smoke and no one answers?)

So yeah, once my S/O finishes what she needs to to change jobs, we're out of here I think. The police force here is really the icing on the cake of so much else that's overpriced, corrupt, or just plain sucks about Chicago. All the good things it's supposed to have just seem completely irrelevant to me anymore.
I think a lot of times people tend to over-exaggerate when using terms like 'masterpiece', but in this case it's warranted. The puzzles and gameplay are brilliant, and then when you discover what the story is actually about it really blows you away.
It should be great to give corps and government even more control over us.
>Quit following the political propaganda. The are not being intentionally neglected or damaged by politicians bought out by those who want to privatize them, that is just pure stupid and political tripe designed to feed the ignorant.

Oh, well now that you mention it it seems perfectly reasonable for the post office having to prefund retirement benefits for employees who are not born yet, causing massive not-actually-real accounting losses.

And nobody would use that as an excuse to... you know...

https://www.newsmax.com/Stossel/Privatize-Post-Office-Congre...
run time checks are run time checks, they add overhead. (imho) dangling pointers not worth the crippling the language like rust does.
* If someone has the Facebook app then they're not going to be heading there via Google.

* Instant articles means they get a cut of advertising revenue from external sites such as Daily Mail and New York Times when users click on a shared story

* It is plausible that they have improved their ad targeting algorithms so that those who want to see an ad are more likely to see it.
The whole point of basic income is that you don't have to work for it, just like you don't have to work for access to universal health care.
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> That is one of the better lines to ever be written in a legal letter.

Along with: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/08/arkell-v-pressdram.html
I've been on a ride-along with my suburban, middle-America department. The guy had to put clip the wireless mic to his shirt, make sure the antenna was oriented and power it on at go time to save battery. I don't know if there's newer tech that had more of a promise of being able to be made fool-proof from human error much less willful defeat.
Interesting, if slightly irrelevant: The patent lists Tony Fadell and Steve Perlman as inventors.

https://www.google.com/patents/US5675811
Nothing inherent.

But… Whiteboard schools are older and most of the currently higher reputation institutions are mostly physical. Many online-only schools are lower reputation, newer, or lower tier.

Also, if the school has a cynical business model of serving students interested entirely on the piece of paper saying they attended.

You could come up with similarly derogatory things to say about Pacific Island institutions, nigh schools, etc. It's a correlation not a causation.

I think there's also reality to the task of attaining what we think of as a valid Masters Degree of PHD. A family, and a full-time job are very demanding pursuits. I commend anyone who can achieve that kind of degree with those kinds of commitments. But, I also think it's suspicious when schools see their core offering as something suitable for a full time working family man to get a masters degree in 18 months in his spare time, especially if the area tends to subjectivity.
Extensive previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10982192
Ped doc here. Group B strep can cause severe sepsis in neonates and I would definitely recommend that she get 1-2 doses of an antibiotic while in labor. I have not seen any good evidence that this sort of treatment causes any problems down the road for the baby. Furthermore, if you consider the mechanism that this paper suggests, it involves the manipulation of gut flora. A neonate's GI tract is sterile when it comes into the world, and is colonized over the first months to years of life. So since there are no bacteria to affect, this proposed mechanism should have no relevance. Also, Amp's half-life is just a few hours so no long-lasting presence in your baby. Don't mess with group B strep--before we understood how to deal with it, it made a lot of babies very sick and many died.
it's one the tools they teach you in forensics course, when they speak about "nasty anti-forensics done by criminals".

Source: attended some courses ;)
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After Braid, Blow (rightly or wrongly) took an immense amount of criticism for his views and opinions. Even more admirable is that he shrug all that off to come thru' with another game (unlike Phil Fish who took all his criticism rather badly).
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I'd say a majority of accredited schools also have very high dissertation acceptance rates. That is, you have been counseled by your adviser and other professors (a thesis committee) as to how things are going. They typically give you advice and want you to succeed.

Those that do not heed this advice do not get advised to turn in a dissertation.
Yea, automating social coordination is fine, and technology and automation clearly enables use to increase our level of communication. Which is great.

That's different from automating the content of our relationships. It is dehumanizing to have to navigate an automated phone tree rather than speak to an actual person. Now, sometimes it is more efficient to not deal with people, but when you are talking about real human relationships, then dealing with real human people is the point.

Child care isn't just changing the diapers, it's about talking, interacting, and playing with children. Personal interaction is the only way that infants acquire language and language skills, for example.
There is another way to read this title that creates a way more interesting mental image...
> Ask yourself why they aren't?

The prosecutors and the officers they're charging may be drinking buddies, or at least have collaborated professionally before. Prosecutors may also fear other officers being unhelpful in the future to the person who charged the latters' buddy.

The prosecutor may also fear having to open every case that officer was involved in to retrial. The prosecutor, themselves, may have logged those cases as wins.

In the end, the system will never work unless an independent prosecutor, with the power to investigate and bring charges, exists for police crimes.
It isn't so much that Joe doesn't think that erlang did anything wrong, it just feels like he believes that erlang's way of doing things, and erlang's ideas are the only good way of doing things, and are the only right way of doing things. This makes me suspicious, because that is almost never true of any language or community.
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The difference between citizen and cop surveillance is that a citizen should be protected from bullying, blackmail, etc. by the government or other citizens over private actions. A cop should do his or her job exactly as prescribed.
This is true. I'm consistently amused at how the transaction tax gets advertised with "BANKS HATE THIS," when banks would love it. And when banks love something, you better believe that it's not in anyone else's best interest.
Helping a friend move to another city because he ended a relationship with a cop who made his life a living hell after they broke up.

I was dating this girl a couple of years ago and we were pretty early on, but she wanted to spend the night. And we were cool so it wasn't an awkward thing, but what I figured out as that she didn't necessarily want to stay the night as much as she was afraid to go home at night. Her reasoning, "My mom just broke up with a police officer and they harass us now." Shes from a super small town with a police force with a reputation for having nothing to do, but staying busy. But even when she said it I thought she might be being dramatic. Now I get it. This type of behavior is ridiculously childish and it might not be the norm, but it seems like something someone could stop.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

An open world puzzle game seems exactly like the kind of thing that might gratify one's intellectual curiosity. Plus it does make a nice change from reading the latest thing about React ;)
How will those big payouts happen without the evidence from body cams?
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It would be nice to have something in our arsenal against dengue fever. I will be interested to see how effective this is.
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Unfortunately, where to move? The situation is like that all over the USA. The increasing militarization of the police in the past 20 years (one thing about being "old" is you can see these things happen before your eyes) have produced a very bad scene.

I spent a couple years in Chile. They cops there walk around with machine guns (they're called "carabineros") but are professional, uncorrupt and trustworthy. The difference is palpable.

Also felt much safer around the Polezi in Germany.

But leaving the country has its own costs.

I'm thinking maybe remote work will become more of a thing and a small town somewhere relatively rural might be better... but then small town cops in Louisiana were pretty bad in my youth.
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Direct personal interaction is how small children acquire language. This is the only way that children can acquire language, and a language-rich environment is crucially important for children. This is something that simply cannot be automated.
thanks man!

$ wget http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/data/convote/convote_v1....

$ python demo.py RY 0.25
[constructing dataset...]
[dataset constructed.]
# Class: RY, Lambda: 0.25 #
__START__ mr. speaker , i yield back the balance of my time , and i want to commend the gentleman from california ( mr. pombo ) and myself were the republicans , and , unfortunately , it took us literally 6 months to finally agree what time to meet and where .
the difficulty with the endangered species act .
i also would like to thank the chairman for supporting the green brook flood control project is saving homes and businesses and lives .
it is equally vital that our senators from new jersey take up the fight for this important project and finish the work that we have asked them to do .
i have heard friends across the aisle say that americans have journeyed freely in the past and that this goes against the very freedoms which this nation was founded on .
but the truth is , try getting on an airplane .
what the motion to recommit does is force the states to do something , or not do something ; and that goes directly against the notion of federalism that is contained in this bill and which was drafted by the committee on government reform .
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If I imagine myself hunting, I can't. I see myself too focused on creating the perfect spear (and never achieving it because I "squirrel" off onto another spear building tangent) to actually bother myself with the act of hunting.

Not to mention, one of the common symptoms of ADHD is bumping into objects when walking around. I can't imagine that going well on a hunting trip.
In this case, charge the police officer with murder and obstruction of justice; the camera footage would exonerate them if they killed legitimately, after all. Disabling a camera means they've got something to hide.
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Is ADHD associated with heredity? How does one go about getting oneself tested - if I am (and I fit a lot of symptoms) I would want to ensure my kids get the right sort of help early.
What are your coping methods?
If you've worked a retail job, or one handling stock or money, you've been surveilled as much as humanly possible while you were working.

I've worked at places where phone calls were retained.

Absolute privacy is at ends with most business requirements. And they usually handle goods.

Police handle livelihoods and lives.
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Ask HN: Settle for current offer or aim higher?
Hi all,

I'm a junior at an average state school with two internships at local companies so far. I was just offered a summer position with Verizon and I have two weeks to decide. I'm interested in other companies, but I have no other offers yet. Since this is my first big internship, should I play it safe and go with Verizon or try to aim for something higher? My eventual goal is to make it into a top tech company in the Bay Area. I also have one more summer after this one before graduation, so there's a chance to get one more internship in.

There's an intern fair at my school tomorrow and I'll be speaking with Capital One, Texas Instruments, and Sabre. Would anyone of these be better choices if they gave me an offer?

Thanks for your help.
Absolutely, but also look at the higher level- The snowden revelations showed a treasonous level of criminal activity at the highest levels of government.

So, of course, Snowden is the bad guy and no charges have been filed against the perpetrators of the crimes.
Data-driven design[0] and formal methods[1].

update

[0] http://dataorienteddesign.com/site.php

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/64638/high-level.pdf
I think a better question is "What would you pay $10,000 per month for?"

I mean, although I would pay $5 a month for a Lower Manhattan penthouse, a late model Dodge Charger, five pounds of ground beef, etc., there aren't many things that I think are both worth about $5 a month and are worth the overhead of paying someone to do it...well maybe Mad Magazine or something else content based.

But that's not an app or service. And anyway, the last thing I would recommend as an MVP is an app because there is no control over customers or sales channel and no way to iterate quickly.

I think this is a reasonable introduction to pricing: http://www.slideshare.net/omohout/lean-pricing-startups

Good luck.
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That's often true, but this action is limited to the patents belonging to Newegg and the troll. It won't create legal precedent that other companies can use to slay trolls.
Fish also stole much of his stuff, so you can't expect him to steal twice as he has eyes on him this time. http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/evidence-that-phil-fish-st...

I actually paid for Fez, apart from its little gimmick and art work, it wasn't really much. Never finished it even, and I finished Assassins Creed 1 ;-)

Blow just seems genuinely good at writing games/software and creating puzzles, but even better at finishing.