skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how the real estate market works.

I'm not saying it's your own broker or agent that is biding up the remainder of the lots you are intending to buy. It is "observers" who are manipulating the system in a way to make you reveal to them your intentions and price, so they can "front run" you for the next transaction a millisecond later at the next exchange.

And the reason I quoted observers was becuase in my limited understanding (if i had the book in front of me I would re-read this), the HFT traders would put up some token offers up on all the stocks for the purpose of exposing potential activity that they could abuse. A quick google of this suggests that this is called "Pinging".
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(Sorry. This is possibly my first truly useless comment. I blame my recent forays into Clojure territory.)
Ansible Galaxy 2.0 Launches – The biggest release to date
Exactly. The way I see it is these patent trolls are sandbox bullies.

Newegg's suing back is a genius move. It basically sends the message that if you're going to make a frivolous claim and decide to abandon it, we'll file suit and stop you from making further claims (hopefully setting a case law precedent), and we won't even ask for our time/money back.
Why not HTTP + HTTPS? Let the user decide. HTTPS-only is silly for normal websites. Visitors from cooperate networks or some countries would say, your second sentense doesn't hold in the real world.
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> I think CloudFlare will still hit Tor users with (unsolvable) captchas even with the lowest security settings.

That is correct. I have not been able to get passed a Cloudflare captcha over tor for any website.
I am filing today a privacy complaint in twelve EU regions against Coursera
Lots of info seems to be missing. This seems a bit better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_European_road_si...
Google's neural nets are mastering one of the most complex games in the world
Or, you know...

You could just use immutable.js.

It's not like OOP languages where the built-in data structures are built up from many layers of inheritance that all have to be made immutable. Where access is blocked at the language level (ex private/protected).

Immutabilit is not difficult in JS. It's just not immetiately intuitive unless you understand the value of comparison by reference.

The == vs === always seemed like a strange vestigial appendage of JS. With the recent trends, it's beginning to make a lot more sense.
There really isn't any evidence at all behind the 10x productive myth. check out the book leprechauns of software engineering. Yes some people are more productive than others, some people are smarter than others, but what matters are results and impact. Some folk are better suited to different environments, definitely.

In my twenty years in the software industry I've worked with a lot if people, and I don't think I've ever seen a 10x (and I've worked with some amazing people).

Check out https://leanpub.com/leprechauns
Thank you so much for teaching me the term "proles."
> HFT is responding to information about trades that have already happened (possibily at a different exchange).

And that they were likely a party to. They would place small orders on all the stocks so that they could detect activity that they could exploit at the next exchange a millisecond down the wire.
That's not a fair criticism. At the time they invested, Valeant posted impressive financials with strong growth potential. Investors had no clue about the fraud occurring within the company. It was very rational to invest at that time. I don't think it's fair to say it's his fault for believing someone else's fraud.
I generally agree with you, montary policy dominates (I would argue that you take to narrow of a view calling it "setting interest rates" but thats a different subject).

However I think long term suppy side difficulties do have an impact. Finland is worse of then one would expect purly based on that.
A lot of the things they've claimed to be developing (microfluidic devices, signal amplification strategies, novel assays, etc.) are totally patentable. Maybe they don't want to reveal their secrets to inhibit competition, but in medicine you have to prove the thing works before you actually use the thing.

I don't much care if they want to hide some aspects of how their process works, but under no circumstances should anyone in this space operate without conclusively, publicly and openly proving that the technology works. The standard for that is scientific publication, and the ability of disinterested parties to test the equipment and verify it does what it claims to do.

Plenty of medical/biotech/diagnostics companies have cleared that bar while maintaining trade secrets. Theranos should be submitted to the same standards, and as far as I can tell, whenever they have been tested, they have failed.
Novak Djokovic vs. Roger Federer L.i.v.e S.t.r.e.a.m.i.ng
Ah. Now that's a problem I have no solution for - only the same workaround as you describe (you have taken one more step than I did by having a dedicated host for the SSH connection, instead of just an account - with today's virtualization, this is easier than ever :)).
Ancestry and Long-Run Growth
VMware Fusion, Workstation team culled in company restructure
Well then I guess people should stop relying on their IP address being one of many in a vast space for security and implement proper authentication instead.

It's not like your service has to expose all its secrets to an unauthenticated client sending you a GET / HTTP/1.1.
Take that: https://github.com/divan/blog/tree/master/static/talks/2016/...
How deep learning is used for Malware Detection?
I use vultr, here have an affiliate link: http://www.vultr.com/?ref=6824304
I feel like vultr's $5 VPS is what DigitalOcean should have been...

But you don't need good specs. I used to run prosody off a microcontroller at home; I only moved to a VPS cause my net connection wasn't stable.
As the article days, as index investing becomes more prevalent then the potential profits from price discovery also increases. This should lead to more active investing, correcting the imbalance.

Ultimately, index investing returns (before fees) should equal or nearly equal aggregate active investing returns (before fees). This makes index investing /always/ being a better option.
Machine Zone and Supercell are not doing $3.6 billion per year on Facebook. That's pretty absurd to claim without backing it up with a lot of proof.
Europe Remotely #11 – EU friendly remote dev jobs
In France, 2 years at 80% of your original salary (unemployment benefits). AND after that, you get the basic income ("RSA" +APL) of 650€/month (which is 60% of minimum salary, or 40% of median income). The amount varies depending on your housing situation and city. Source: I was on RSA for a year when I created my startup.
One of the larger difficulties for publishers is that
many of the 3rd party SSPs aren't ready to go full HTTPs

Right, but Google can motivate or improve the third-party advertisers to update much more effectively than publishers can - just Google hasn't chosen to do that yet.

It would be easy to proxy http-only ads from through a CDN that added encryption. Or to charge a premium to http-only ad networks, and ramp the premium up over time.
"Go professionals"

With me knowing nothing about this particular pocket f the world, how does one live as a "Go professional"? Who pays for this? I don't imagine this is very attractive for sponsors, or do I underestimate how popular this is in Asia?
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One could see it from the other side: code sticks to its design weaknesses (at least for now).
> I never knew that Rosewill was their house brand.

Apparently, neither did troll. ;)
The real-life equivalent is a pizza delivery guy who, after delivering the pizza, goes around your house, checks which doors and windows are locked, unlocked or open, what brand the locks and the burglar alarm are and then proceeds to sell this data.

I hope the NTP pool terms of service will disallow such behaviour in the future, otherwise I'm removing my server from the pool.
Both points are excellent. I think the second one is more important immediately. If you look at the "expert systems" literature, specifically older expert systems based on logic programming, there usually was an "explanation component" in the general architecture.

However I think this area has been under-researched but is obviously important. It would enable very strong learning environments and man/computer hybrid systems. I think there's very direct relevance in safety/security critical systems and there's some literature in operators not understanding what is going on in complex systems and how that can be fatal (think power plants and the like)
That is admirable, although it must feel like fighting the Lernaean Hydra.
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Bringing in an outsider to handle the "business" part of the business, especially when bestowed with a title like "CEO" over top of the original solo founder, is a recipe for a lopsided relationship. And it's somewhat unfair on your part to expect that another person can suddenly leap in with the same passionate drive you have for a product you built yourself for over a year. But honestly the fact that you're in different countries makes it that much worse.

Regardless, my understanding is that we're entering a dry period for capital in the tech business right now and investors are pulling back from tech startups in a big way.

If this is true, VCs are going to raise the bar quite high. A few years ago just the fact that you are in 2 different countries would be an automatic disqualification for many investors. And they can clearly see that not only are you collaborating remotely but you sourced someone and more or less put them in the driver's seat as your bizdev proxy.

I suppose the outlook was a lot more rosy back in Nov but it's frankly surprising that they even let you in the door in the first place. The investor gave you a very clear rational reason for backing out.

Your CEO's passion for your business isn't something you can force either. They see the risk as well. Unless your product is just mind blowing, which maybe it is given the interest, you're not going to raise money easily with this configuration.

You have a high bar in a difficult time, and a limp partner is the last thing you need. So yes you need to address this head on. Hopefully you can regroup, bootstrap a little longer and try again when you're on firmer ground
Though it may seem fallacious, information garnered through the interweb is commonly infallible.

-Abraham Lincoln

Edit: Honestly, downvote this. HN is better than stupid, panderous posts like this.
Nice list.

> What XMPP did right:

> - Any chat protocol must be extendable

That is a theoretically desirable technical property, but there is a strong argument to be made that extensibility, and the interoperability issues that result, is the Achilles heel of XMPP.

Of course, there is risk the other way around too: by over-specifying, you constrain your use cases, which may hurt adoption.

I'm skeptical that there will (or should) ever be "one protocol to rule them all." There is such a diversity of use-cases, anything that delegates its raison d'etre across multiple specs is going to encounter the same flavor of problems that XMPP has.

> - Federation is good

Definitely another desirable property. Unfortunately, the choice whether or not to federate is often a policy decision, not a technical one. And those policy decisions are not always made simply to keep users siloed: there can be a sound technical basis for them. For example, to mitigate abuse, to immediately extend the service with new features, and to have end-to-end control of user experience without concern for interoperability. Interoperability with arbitrary network elements is often the most frustrating and most expensive part of standards implementation.

For federation to be taken as the default, you need critical mass, and no single IM service has ever achieved critical mass. While it would certainly be nice to have IM standardized like E-mail, telephone calls or IPv4, that comes at the cost of glacial progress forward, and you will be stuck supporting the lowest common denominator for a long time. So there will always be operators trying to short-circuit that baggage by introducing new (and often proprietary) services. The problems of standardization (or lack thereof), in their broadest strokes, are never going away.

> What could have been better

> - Regular users don't want to run their own server

> - Logging/history is important

Those seem like implementation details and not anything intrinsic to the protocol.
This has been done before and it's called GE.
Samsung remains smartphone leader in 2015
Care to share any templates?
"Apple's major competitive edge right now is supply chain and economies of scale."

This is interesting because it wasn't why people started switching in droves, it was because customers perceived the product to be much better than the competitions.
Not sure if it's equivalent but bleachbit (a portable ccleaner like tool in python) has rules to VACUUM browsers sqlite files.

`bleachbit -c {chromium,firefox}.vacuum`
Tor is a tool for circumventing censorship. HTTPS is an important part of using Tor to surf the web: 1) it protects the user from bad exits that could inject malicious javascript into a page and 2) some exits refuse HTTP connections and only allow HTTPS.

Maybe HTTPS makes it easier to censor in theory, but in practice it helps fight censorship by enabling Tor.
Show HN: Slack2Peach, open-source Slack client for
If they know what software you are running, the minute there is a new vulnerability revealed, they can break into your system. It gives you less time to patch your stuff. You think this is the stuff of fantasy? Read https://www.drupal.org/PSA-2014-003
Scientists developed Graphene Hologram 3D without glasses
The poster claimed the growth was being driven by gaming. This quarter showed a 30% revenue increase over the previous year. If the gaming industry were to be responsible for the entire growth, they would only need to have spent 1.2 billion more than they had the previous year in Q4. If facebook were to see a 30% increase this year overall, they would only need to spend about $6 billion more this year (or about 25% of their profits).

Given that Supercell spends about 50% of their profits on marketing overall (which amounts to $500 million) this is plausible. Especially since you can further reduce the total cost by noting that physcab only stated that most of the growth was being fueled by gaming.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/27/why-king-and-supercell-spe...

EDIT: However, after reflecting on this, this seems entirely backwards. I believe that physcab was claiming that it was games displaying mobile ads. Thus Facebook is paying the gaming industry, not the other way around.
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I agree! There is TCPCrypt, for example: http://www.tcpcrypt.org/
hey guys, developer here. This is a third-party open source Slack client for peach. Built it over the weekend; was super fun! Its still very early and has only a few commands to start with.

Give it a try and let me know what you guys think!

Here is the discussion on Product Hunt (if you are interested).

https://www.producthunt.com/tech/slack2peach#comment-222633
Let me rephrase the title: "What Might Apple's Competitive Edge Be In The Future?"

Abstract: A guy fuels the brand war using a "harvard.edu" domain, some hand wavy anecdotes, and ugly English.
I think that's just a result of technology getting more complex and complicated. A light bulb is pretty reliable for its lifespan, and my Commodore 64 still works fine.

The latest iPhones have curved glass displays, even more accurate color reproduction retina displays, much more advanced baseband and OS, multiple microphones, etc, not to mention it's thinner. These advances come with trade-offs - the more parts there are, the more likely it's to break.
The additional profit from active investing and price discovery will come from timing a market where momentum from index funds has clearly overshot fair value to risk. I think we're over that point, or perhaps I'm rationalising my own active investment.
> that don't work with XMPP: sending pictures, sending voice messages

Any files, pictures, voice, real-time streams (jingle) are all known extensions of xmpp/jabber. I'm not sure what you mean by "don't work".
This will end up costing billions by diluting brand value.
Plainly true, those 'banks' or trusts don't have their own data centers and infrastructure where the money just 'rests' as records in databases they put it into their accounts in other banks, London banks in this case to make more money.
> That is a theoretically desirable technical property, but there is a strong argument to be made that extensibility, and the interoperability issues that result, is the Achilles heel of XMPP.

> Of course, there is risk the other way around too: by over-specifying, you constrain your use cases, which may hurt adoption.

IMO anything that doesn't have extensibility built in, will gain it after the fact whether you want it or not.

Better to have clear deliniation of duties and a standards body than a hodge-podge of uninteroperable things.
When Edison, Ford and Friends Went Road-Tripping in Model Ts
I use Freeagent here in old Blighty, mostly because the accountant likes it and it does an OK job importing from the bank. Would prefer a lightweight FOSS solution though, neither GNUCash nor h/ledger seem to fit the bill, particularly for auto-generating personal and corporation tax amounts due.

Have considered making a spreadsheet, as amir6 uses in this thread, but it would be missing many features. A collective effort to build out the templates might eventually get there though...
I'm not sure what you mean about Gandi charging $20 to move the DNS to Cloudflare? I'm using Cloudflare to add HTTPS to a website on a domain registered with Gandi, and it hasn't cost me anything above the usual domain registration fee.
There's a book that only includes researched and vetted quotations: Respectfully quoted: A dictionary of quotations requested from the Congressional Research Service
Very interesting. The Western Anatolia cities suffered turmoil until the arrival of the Roman empire in 2nd century BC (the usual low profile wars, Persian invasion, then Alexander the great...). Additionally there's not a site in this area which wasn't shaken to the ground by one or several earthquakes in the same period.

It's amazing to find surviving structures, and luckily archaeologists are still excavating and re-erecting many amazing sites.
A few weeks ago I replaced a XMPP chat architecture with socketio. It's so much better for my needs (website with realtime chat).

There were 2 main reasons in the end:

- No way to log all messages sent to a database so that users could retrieve them on subsequent logins
- No way to edit/delete messages, especially in multi-user chats.

Maybe these things are possible, but I couldn't find how to do it. Now, with socket IO on nodejs, I have a < 400 line chat server with DB integration that is much more suitable for my needs.

I guess XMPP's focus was too narrow.
"Scripting" and "platform" sounds like you're planning to do active day-trading.

Don't do that. It's as simple as that.
You will be very likely forced to sell your shares in their current model much more faster :). The rules of economics detects that fat margins are not protectable over long run. Eventually competitors will meet minimum bar and start eating away your market share. That is exactly what's happening. The iPhone sales are on declining trajectory and iPad sales are already 25% down. Tablet market is actually booming but people are just buying cheaper ones that are good enough instead of twice expensive and better than good enough. The market for luxury goods have never been large and often ends up becoming niche.

Your assertion about brand dilution and attention to detail are incorrect. Good brands have been able to scale historically. GE - in their heydays - was worshipped for its ability to deliver countless appliances designed with very high quality, innovations and care. HP in its heyday had 100s of products known for its innovation and quality. Microsoft in its heyday had dozens of products that were either in top or close second in their category. Pepsi Co currently produces 100s of products under different brand names, many of them huge market leaders. Google has dozens of products (Email, maps, news, book search, scholar, docs etc etc) - all of which are pretty high quality and either in top or close.

Eventually companies don't sell product, they sell their philosophy and culture. Only anti-fragile way for long term survival is ability to scale and embed this philosophy without single braking point and by creating a long tail.

Apple's strength is to apply design to make superior products. They need to scale this strength to work on every aspect of life instead of just 3 devices. You should also read Talib's book on anti-fragility. Apple's (and Jobs) strategy is anti-thesis of that philosophy. Businesses are rewarded because others can't copy them easily. Apple will be rewarded if they can scale their design philosophy and process precisely because others have failed to do so.

PS: it's pretty bad form to down-vote because you don't agree with opinion.
He doubled down on Valeant when the fraud came to light.
> They consider HTTPS and HTTP links the same. When switching a site to HTTPS you lose all your incoming links.

Do you mean that they don't consider HTTPS and HTTP the same? Otherwise, I don't understand your point here.
> applying technology to building denser housing [...]

The technology for this isn't anything new, the first underground carparks opened in 1930s [0][1]. It's not so much a technology problem as it is a people problem. People (NIMBYs, the middle classes) don't want massive blocks of housing in the middle of their cities, and what is being built 'affordably' is tiny and/or poor quality (in the UK at least). [2]

[0] http://www.1066online.co.uk/hastings-history/hastings-town/c...

[1] http://www.nailhed.com/2015/05/the-worlds-first-underground-...

[2] http://www.propertywire.com/news/europe/new-homes-uk-poll-20...
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I think the problem with xml namespaces enters in a few ways:

- Non XML namespace supporting parsers: these are xml parsers people throw together without paying attention to the fact that attributes starting with "xml" are special and *must* be rejected.
- This results in people trying to shim namespaces in after the fact; which rarely goes well.
- There are two syntaxes: `<foo xmlns="urn:example"/>` vs `<myns:foo xmlns:myns="urn:example"/>`. Most people get caught up in the latter without understanding it, and you end up with *lots* of implementations that depend on `myns`, which is meant to be arbitary and can change between serialisation/deserialisation
- The W3C style for namespace inheritence forces each element to keep a reference to it's parent: a nightmare for simple data structures.
Supply chain was one of Nokia's competitive edges when they were big and it didn't do much good to them in the end.
Of course, it is after all the number one desktop platform, regardless of several "Year of desktop on" attempts.

Also Chrome installs on the user $HOME, thus avoiding some of the security mechanisms that would be place, if Google would do it properly.
If the rights holders do not want to enforce take-downs on their content (eg because they're getting promotional value from it or otherwise), then it's not in any way wrong to benefit from said copyrighted content. In fact it's smart and appropriate to use copyrighted content in that case.

Just because something is copyrighted doesn't mean it's inherently or by default illegal or improper to use without permission - it means it may be.