skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not terribly well-versed in stocks and trading, so forgive me if this is an obvious question, but:

My broker (Fidelity) charges me something like $7/day/stock to keep a stop order open. Presumably I could accomplish the same thing for free with Trigger. Is there some major difference between a "sell if below X" Trigger and a stop order, or is Fidelity just bilking me?
They classify players to a market price and alert on those who are currently paid less. Presumably, they then attempt to capture from the difference by recruiting CTF players to market players.
> Still, there are worse container/host interfaces. It could be the full suite of POSIX system calls.

Why would a Java application server provided by the host be better than the full suite of POSIX system calls?
We already get hypervisor statistics from dom0, via cloud watch. Could that include on-demand profiling as well? I don't see why not. And that's not the only way to solve this.

So work needs to be done to make unikernels profileable & debuggable. I wouldn't claim that this was impossible.
The comparison was between 1/8 of an ounce for $25 ($200 per ounce) and $100 per ounce during the harvest season.
Oh, absolutely. Enabling other CAs to use the ACME protocol* for certificate provisioning was an explicit goal during its development. As such, it's incredibly disappointing that Startcom decided to build their own incompatible solution here.

*: Yes, that's really what it's called. Stands for "Automatic Certificate Management Environment".
It's less expensive in harvest season.

"a full ounce for 100 or less" -> 12.5 for an eight
While Buffer's transparency is incredible, the financial calculations in the article fail to account for the possibility of an employee exodus domino effect, especially after both knowing the financial state of the company, and relevant perks being cut.
don't say conmen are "talented", which encourages them. no talent is required, only a blatant disregard for basic human decency.
The 60 bits refers to my passwords generated rather than password storage, where I would use something much stronger. (bcrypt or better!)

So for instance length 10 passwords each character from a list of 64 characters (the usual [a-zA-Z0-9] plus some special characters, minus confusable ones) is generated with 60 bits.

Increasing that to 12 characters gets to 72 bit, beyond that is hard to manage. Rainbow tables is about getting into an account from hashes, and doesn't typically actually resolve the actual password used, but something that instead hashes to the same thing. (In a rainbow attack you would hash H(X) then H(H(X)) then H(H(H(X))) etc, eventually for every hash you have something that hashes to that hash. Obviously this only works for small hash lengths and are what salts were designed to protect against.

But you're not hashing actual passwords, you're hashing the random results. When you're hashing passwords, those are dictionary attacks. If there's no salt or a weak (single-site-salt) salt then you can pre-hash a whole dictionary. Otherwise you have to hash a dictionary for each salt. But 60 random bits are unlikely to appear in any dictionary attack.

I'm not saying 60 bits of entropy in a password is enough to protect against a targeted attack, but it's enough to stop the password being found through a dictionary or cheap attack, which is all you can really protect for (you shouldn't re-use passwords anyway), the rest is up to the site operator to secure your password with hashing, at which point the salt has more entropy than your password anyway.

For a master password I'd obviously recommend going a lot stronger.

Ultimately, if a database has been completely owned, then you can't really protect against someone getting into that account, they could just do an "UPDATE users SET password=null" after all. So eliminate all password re-use, prevent your passwords being dictionary guessable, and secure your password list with a very strong master password.
Not exactly "anyone," you have to demonstrate a need for a /22 without lying.
dunno. if not, go please make it. sounds like a useful public resource. it's one of those classic cross-cutting concerns. it would fit in nicely with a web where any piece of info you'd want, or service, is sitting at a URL, just a tab or curl away.
ha! again saved some of my life with abp!!
I have been thinking about toying with JVM's Graal compiler (JIT and customizeable deopts for the price of an interpreter). But with a language that has few corner cases. I was thinking maybe regexes, or brainfuck, or QBasic.

I'd just looove to try and put Elm on the JVM, but I just can't at the moment.
I rarely want to like a product more than I want to like Stockfighter, because of both the people involved and the underlying concept.

But there are a million other things I want to sink time into improving. Music, my Starcraft MMR, boxing. To finish a day hacking and coding, come home, and - for months, if I want good results - do more hacking and coding feels like an exhausting prospect. Even if the scenario is fun, it feels contrived.

I'm not presenting any solutions. Maybe I'm just not the target market, because I don't have the desire right now to code all day and then code some more. But I wonder how big that target market is?
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To that, I'd suggest MeetUp groups. There's definitely a way get the same discussion and forego the mountain of tuition debt. ;)

I'm much slower to recommend college these days, unless some form of licensure/credentials are required (law, medicine, engineering).

I think it was Mark Twain who said something to the effect of "Don't let schooling interfere with your education."
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So, my co-founder and I have basically been independently building a commercially supported alternative to this excellent open source package. But there are a few differences that make sense when offering this as a paid service:

- We wrote our own terraform testing framework to validate that every change to our modules doesn't break functionality
- We actively update our modules based on feedback from new client engagements
- We provide commercial support for each module
- We combine our modules with consulting and training as needed

And of course, there are many similarities
- We give 100% of the source code to our clients
- Everything runs in the client's AWS account
- Everything is self-documented, modularized, and can be combined/composed as the needs of different teams require

I didn't mean for this to be a shameless plug; more just that I found it interesting to compare the open source vs. commercial approach to solving this same problem. Props to the Segment team for sharing this.
There are other clients available. My personal favorite is acme-tiny:

https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny

The 90 day validity limit is intentional. It's there to encourage users to automate the renewal process.
This is a great, great idea. I can imagine patenting it and building a brokerage off it.

Best of luck in launch.
This is also the reason OS X ships with ancient versions of bash, make, and other common GNU tools: those were the last versions to be available under GPLv2.

(Why they ship many of the more optional ones at all instead of embracing external providers like Homebrew or Macport continues to mystify and frustrate me)
I was really shocked to see how little Buffer paid when they started their "open" thing, so I'm surprised that they're not a lot more profitable.
Where do you draw the line?

The canonical gospel fragments also date from hundreds of years after Christ, and some of the later fragments seem also increasingly bizarre.
It often takes over 500ms to get voice through the cellular network. Worrying about 10ms in applications seems excessive.
Is it possible to stem an employee exodus when fully transparent? I don't think so. It only works when there's a level of information asymmetry.
Scalpers generally own the tickets they're selling.
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Is the server struggling again? None of my input into the UI seems to be having an effect.
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While Canada did take Washington, D.C. in 1814, we had to give it back. These days, advice from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department can probably be considered American.
Indeed. A little Quatermass and the Pit-ish :)
That was the geocities style. Maybe the first generation of conspiracy web sites on the Internet created a cultural anchoring effect? Or maybe it just took a decade to update or replace the first generation of sites?
A better comparison would be someone who steals unused houses and sells them to people.
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> because I don't have the desire right now to code all day and then code some more

Tell me about it. Speaking only for myself, I have near-constant coder's guilt - a term I just made up to describe the nagging voice in my head that keeps telling me I should be coding more in my free time. It sounds something like this :

"somewhere a rockstar wizard ninja is writing a C compiler in Haskell and here you are wasting your time with Overwatch, you miserable slacker"
It will be useful for apps, esp. those targeting musicians. Iphone had sub-10ms latency for a long time.
I wasn't clear, it's vitally important to predict behaviour in practice at a poetic naturalism level, but there seems to be no reason to adopt strong emergence: consciousness doesn't introduce any new explanatory power that couldn't, in principle, be explained by physics, or even chemistry, biology and so forth.

See Dennett's interview with Bob Wright starting at about 30 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss0aCWpNzSM

I'm just not ready to stop there, despite this all being true, I think it seems not parsimonious to believe there is nothing fundamentally mysterious about how I feel like something subjectively.
This is essentially Algo trading for individuals. I doubt you can patent this.
It’s not for phone calls but real-time audio applications, e.g. music creation apps or games.
It's for real-time music/audio apps, like virtual pianos, etc. These can be 100% local, and excessive latency is frustrating to the user.
My favorite git diff extension is the side-by-side diff by cdiff:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdiff

It also features word-level change highlights and other common flares.
This happened to my grandfather. The scammer told him I was accused of manslaughter in Oklahoma and was being held for questioning. The scammer was my "lawyer" and my grandfather needed to post my bail. He saw through the scam but was worried enough to check with my dad to see I had travelled to Oklahoma recently. At that point my mother and father were quite concerned. 30 minutes later I finally answered the phone and confirmed that I was not in Oklahoma. I was in class.
Having to manually inspect the call stack depth as a best practice seems like a design flaw... why doesn't send() itself throw an exception? And does an exception roll back the entire contract or would it leave it half executed?
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I would actually think the opposite: if you're a buffer employee right now, you know a) the company will continue to exist b) that you're a valuable asset to the company and c) that your founders walk the walk when it comes to transparency and information sharing.

I'd assume a few people will leave for better offers in the next few weeks, but this seems to prove that the founders are dedicated to the company and can learn from mistakes - hardly the prompt for a mass exodus.
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I don't follow your thinking at all. You're assuming that the truth is always so horrible that management can never fully reveal it, and your not accounting for the whiff of secrecy and gossip that can be much worse than the actual withheld information.
FWIW, here's their public spreadsheet of salaries and calculations. Not sure if it's been recently updated (on closer look, seems to reflect the founders' stated pay cuts, and new hires as recent as last month):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l3bXAv8JE5RB9siMq36-...

edit: Adding links to their blog posts:

https://open.buffer.com/transparent-salaries/

https://open.buffer.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-...
I'm in the same situation, but I'd say: don't worry too much.

It feels like many balls are still up in the air regarding deep learning, and it's likely that the dust will settle at some point. The tried and true will remain and it's essence will emerge, will the rest will sink to the bottom.
Hi there! I'm the founder of Pavlok, a wearable haptic device for changing behavior. We are on IFTTT, and are able to vibrate, beep, and release patterns of electric stimuli.

I had built a chrome extension integration for vibration / beeps / zaps at variable stock prices, and it was quite useful for a few traders I knew.

I am really interested in knowing more about your API, do you have any more info? Also, will you be on Android -- and do you need to have the app installed to use your IFTTT channel?

Thanks!

maneesh@pavlok.com
http://pavlok.com/ifttt
High exponents happen - vide http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/6660/polynomial-... for an example of O(n^79) (sic!).
Are you implying that a non-elected form of government failing to represent the people is unusual?
Containerization on it's own can have benefits even in smaller deployments - separating your different server concerns to the bare minimum can be very useful.

There's also other aspects, like being able to spin up the newest PostgreSQL within minutes, and when you're done you rm the container and image and have no trace and/or side effects.

There's some pretty useful multi-container configurations out there too, like a dockerized gitlab environment: https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab
From the outside looking in, I think I'd stay (if I was not laid off :D) because Buffer is transparent, because they refuse to be unprofitable, and because they aren't beholden to VC's.

In my book, Buffer's doing it "more correctly" than many start ups.
My understanding is that with Qt, you can keep your own Qt source compiled (and not shared) and use the open source license of Qt, but must dynamically link to the runtimes, list the open source license in your application directory, and list a URL where people can download the source of those Qt runtime DLLs that you are linking.

Also, I found the widgets sub-par to modern interfaces you see on the web today. Let me give you a good example. Do you know those "Check All" checkboxes at the top of grids to check all the checkboxes on the left column of a grid? Yeah, to do that with Qt widgets requires subclassing and intercepting paint events. To me, that's a kludge. So then there's QtQuick. When I compared what I could do in QtQuick compared to what I could do with Webkit/jQuery/CSS, I wondered why be hampered by the limitations of QtQuick when I could just get it all in Webkit/jQuery/CSS. So, I opted to build my stuff in Webkit/jQuery/CSS and use the C++/Webkit bridge that adds an object to the DOM that I can interface with jQuery. The other advantage is that I can hire a web designer (cheaper than a C++ coder (who, often have poor interface skills, anyway)) who knows a bit about jQuery/CSS to design the interfaces for me (they appear in the upper left corner of a web page). We make them web server-less -- they load with file:// handles. Then, I still have the option to IFRAME web content as well as use REST-like APIs (JSON or XML) via jQuery to interact with the web server, or let the C++ interact with the web server over REST-like APIs. The other great reason to use Webkit is because it has a vast library of freely explained techniques for great interface widgets.

There was also a mention about charts. I use Chartjs.org inside my Webkit interface.

The only drawback about going with this Webkit technique is that it does increase the size of your project considerably. On Windows, there's no getting around this. However, on the Mac, the way I got around it was to take my Webkit interface and port it to Objective C/C++ (and try to keep most of it in C++ because I find ObjC quite messy and bizarre, and because I can wrap ObjC stuff in C++). I use a Webkit widget on a form, and it uses the native webkit that comes with the Mac. Therefore, the installer download is tremendously smaller. I then ported the Qt/C++ code into ObjC/C++ -- that wasn't easy, but was manageable for any trained C++ coder.
Scalpers would be more like the second example of the hoarders.

*Edit: Auto-correct Correction
Yo dawg, I heard you like gradient descent, so I put optimizers on your optimizer so you can learn while you learn.
I wouldn't imagine new zoning that prevents new buildings in the Somerville model of triple deckers (with flat roofs) and Philadelphia 3 story houses (http://boston.curbed.com/2013/11/25/10170482/defining-philad...) with very little space between them would have much effect, those sorts of density details are grandfathered, and whatever the city council did is most grandstanding, seeing as how there's no space to build new buildings anyway (I was told houses were torn down to make a few parks in the city).

As for code ... heh, I spend a lot of time in Somerville, witnessed a remodeling job in the house I was in back in the late '80s, and am now remodeling a house built in 1910 in my home town (which if memory serves is generally a bit older than most Boston area rental houses). The modern codes are a very different thing and mostly focused on the property itself, although to the extent they decrease the probability of fire they're better for your neighbors (although Somerville's fire department is top notch, which I've witnessed first hand, otherwise not much of it would still be standing, it's one of the few cities in the US that has the fuel density to support a firestorm).
Thank you -- I need to check my reading comprehension. I didn't notice the change in units. :-)
I'm not sure I understand the argument you're trying to make. One comment, though: A simulation isn't the only possible alternative to a purely materialistic universe.

Consider for a moment the idea that God exists - that a non-material intelligence exists, and existed before the physical universe. Then there's something more than material that exists, but the material can still be real material - it doesn't have to be a simulation.
Perhaps its because I've been at more failed companies than most? Regardless of transparency vs secrecy, you reach a tipping point where the situation "feels" dire enough that employees leaving accelerates. I'm sure it depends on the demographics of the org, employees with families, mortgages, etc are willing to stick out volatility far less (in my experience) than employees with no obligations.

Anecdotal of course! I'd love to have more data on this to find out what that tipping point is.
That's ridiculous. The same tricks can be played on a pull based system once you have compromised the DB server.
I certainly appreciate their openness, and like to follow their progress, but...

...could anyone explain to this naive commenter how it takes 90 (80 for that matter) people to run essentially a 'cronjob as a service' business?
That being said...
For what it's worth, Robinhood allows free stop orders without any time limit.
This reminds me of Ben Horowitz' The Hard Thing About Hard Things, where he talked about implementing a plan to lay off 90% of his company in complete secrecy, for fear of employee exodus and loss of customer confidence. But that was a very different situation than Buffer is in now, as it happened during the original dot-com era collapse.

Kudos to Buffer for their approach to transparency. I think it will actually serve them well here.
Why does it keep saying criminals?
Sales and account maintenance...I don't think it's a service/value proposition that companies (who aren't satisfied with building their own cron job) will just grok right away.
Why do this? I don't understand ... am I just being too old school / narrow minded about this?
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Not only that, but the founders themselves took a 40% pay cut each for the next year. That says to me that they value their employees enough that they chose that route rather than lay off an additional person. It's a strong gesture.
It's likely also a sign that you're reasonably satisfied with your professional situation. :)
I have to wonder, then: is the marijuana that's grown for research purposes representative of what's commonly grown and smoked today? Or is it essentially a "snapshot" of what was commonplace in 1976?
The user interface is appalling. Whoever designed this has managed to produce worse ergonomics than a single 1970s-style terminal, for essentially a similar set of tasks (editing text+binary files and piping data through commands).

I see some discussion of "files", but seem unable to list them or explore the filesystem. I don't know if this in-game filesystem is supposed to be on the "AVR" device or an imaginary "developer machine". Where do the outputs of running commands like "compile" go? Why can't I inspect the compiler? What actually comprises the state of the system I'm interacting with? If this is notionally to find good developers, why is the UI sandboxed inside a web browser, where building and using tools (which is what good developers and reverse engineers do) is incredibly painful?

Half the commands produce no output and make no visible change to any state, e.g. "load garbage". Almost all commands silently ignore extra parameters. There's no tab completion, no history search, commands don't even show up in the output log...

Links and commands seem to randomly be assigned to either always open in new tabs or load in the current tab of the browser, both in the "debugger" and help pages.

Moving through command history puts the cursor at the left hand side of the prompt. There's noticeable latency when single-stepping the program, which is just astounding.

Did nobody try to use this shit, even a little?
Susie writes great crud apps in Django/RoR/Node/MEAN/ASP/etc ad nauseum, and in order to get a raise, she must write a novel C program off a minified library that compiles to bytecode while using exact memory addresses as a debugger?

How does this solve Susie's problem?
I want my fridge to keep my food cold and cost as little as possible. I want my blender to chop food to a chosen consistency. I want my appliances in general to perform their single function and nothing else.

In Home Depot the other day, I saw a $5000 smart refrigerator that was mechanically similar to $2000 - $3000 fridges. I don't need a $2000 camera+information+entertainment system in my fridge. Maybe I'd like it if it didn't add significant cost and provided a read-only API to monitor the temperature sensors and energy use. Honestly, I don't see myself paying much for smart devices or home automation, and I don't consider mandatory connections to outside services to be a feature.
There's a lot of potential for such a service as a consultancy - advice and in-house customization included along with the software. As cool as the Segment stack is, it doesn't let people off the hook for designing effectively in the first place, or for taking a poor design and re-engineering it.
Mine is even a little more annoying than yours. It doesn't like me doing productive things.

"somewhere a rockstar wizard ninja is building a passive-income side project and here you are wasting your time tending a garden and working in your woodshop, you miserable idiot with stupid priorities."
There's a legal real estate doctine for this, based on the idea that it indeed can be a good thing to bring unused property back into use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession
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