skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I could have phrased it better.

When I said "where the market is going to be" I meant that from one second to the next, you knew it wouldn't move that far.

In the past, when you called up your broker to buy a stock, he could give you a quote (say 12.35) and you tell him to buy, you know that the price will be the quoted amount. (Market in finance lingo in this case means current price of the stock)

If you need to sell a large batch of stock, you know the broker can sell it to multiple people and get you the best price.

With HFT, trades are moving so much faster and you can get a quote from the exchange (someone want to buy 500 shares @ 12.35) and by the time your trade gets sent from your computer to the exchange, that offer is now 400 shares at $12.50. The market has moved in milliseconds. In other words, you cannot trust the market (current price) because you don't know where it will be in the milliseconds from viewing the quote to entering the trade.

In Flash Boys, they talked about ghosts in the machines. This is what they were referring to. When they entered their trades, it's as if the market knew beforehand and moved against you.

(For finance savvy people, apologies, I've simplified it in lieu of understanding)
The code that took America to the moon published on GitHub
How is this different from European governments buying Greek bonds held by German banks [1] ? (Banks from French and Italy got similar treatment, but German banks where the biggest lenders)

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-05-23/merkel-sho...
If you take for instance "Champagne" - you might have an equivalent product but it's not "Champagne" unless it comes from the Champagne region of France. Yet alternative sparkling whites such as "Prosecco" (Italy), "Cava" (Spain) and "Cristal" (US) seem to do quite well. If you have a good enough product, you shouldn't have any need to claim equivalence with another regional variety.
It's easy: every one is paying that 16%.

Taxes can be low if everyone (no matter their size, big or small) pay them.
Evolution selected for "likes sex" because that was a good proxy for "wants kids".

Some new proxy will take place of the old, or we'll be more directly selected based on a "wants kids" desire. Given the huge world population, the needed trait likely exists. In time, it will become near-universal.
Tomatoes are something of a passion of mine.

The problems are exactly what you describe, with ensuring that transport will not ruin the fruit. Another facet is not only that the tomatoes are picked unripe, but also that the varieties that are grown are ones which optimize for being able to withstand long transport times as well as for uniformity. Consumers as a group like uniform, smooth, red-colored tomatoes, and they like them year round. Flavor, aroma, and texture are sacrificed.

I can pick unripe tomatoes from my vine just as they are turning light green. They will ripen in the sun and will have a lot of flavor (although maybe less sweetness). Picking them green is not 100% of the picture. The types of tomatoes grown plays a big part.

If you have a chance, buy some heirloom varieties from a local food market or a farmer.
It's exactly like democracy, no one wants democracy when it goes against what they personally want.
> Even without looking it up, I can say with certainty that his arguments have been debunked

Probably. I would love to read the critique.

> Nobody should believe that 97% of scientists are wrong, or be trapped in an echo chamber.

Sorry, but I do not buy that argument. Scientists are, like the rest of us, subject to peer, media and economic pressure. They can make mistakes too. I hope they don't, but I can not religiously accept that science is infallible.

Authority arguments apply to science too.
Maintain a healthy balance in life. Read fiction, listen to podcasts, go on long walks, chat about non-technical things over coffee/lunch everyday. Oh, and get ample sleep. Beyond that, it's creature comforts around your desk: a good coffee machine, a sitting+standing desk, good natural lighting, a whiteboard, a scratchpad, a relatively new iMac.

Habits are easy to create when it's convenient to have them. That's mostly what I'm pitching.
Using paypal and not wallet where?
I think that's what he means
Why would she even approve that? She looks insane...
Because now Euro doesn't let them tank their own economy by devaluating currency to hide the corruption.
Here is a really good example of food differences between USA and Europe. Something as simple as eggs: http://www.thejournal.ie/refrigerate-eggs-usa-europe-1809120...

TLDR: European regulations force more stringent regulations on producers of eggs; therefore eggs are cleaner and you can store them for weeks without refrigeration.

IMHO they've also got a much nicer colour.
Except that the text gets cut off on a 4 inch iPhone in portrait mode.
How is MSG an industrial grade additive? There's a lot of it in tomatoes.
I'm not strongly opinionated on what's wrong with the euro currency, but this is a pretty major issue with the EU generally. There isn't a coherent democratic polity, it's being governed like a trade agreement while acting like much more.

I think Brexit highlighted this big hole. Who spoke for the EU? You'd occasionally see a headshot with a "EU President" title attached to it, which would then be dismissed in favour of the opinion of Merkel or Hollande who didn't even notionally represent the Brttish in any way.

If the EU is to govern so much, it needs a polity that Europeans jointly elect, with representatives that genuinely represent the EU, not local interests. The EU needs a face, parties with cross-border support, democracy, mandate... Even the UN has more of this than the EU. At least it has a face representing it.

I'm not sure this leads to better monetary policy (I don't really believe we confidently know what better monetary policy is), but I do think it's necessary if the EU is going to govern so much.
8 Choice Driven Games Like Heavy Rain
It's brand, simply. If you produce Coca Cola in a pepsi factory, does it matter ?

The fact is, for many of these products, formal brand recognition did not exist back when the production tradition started. Therefore, when you buy Gouda, or Roquefort, or Bordeaux wine, you buy with the understanding that you're buying the real deal, but there's no brand per se. With the development of mass consumption and international trade, Europe has started protecting these products with protected origin recognition.

On the other hand, the US has much more brand protection on their strong exports, because they emerged much later. And consequently, they have laws very protective of brands, but don't recognize Europe's protected goods. You see it as natural because you were raised in that culture, but for many european people, US food practices would be considered similar to accepting fake iphones, mcD's or Coca-Cola.

Within the framework of international trade agreements, this becomes a source of problems, ofc ; because accepting one side's or the other's definition would mean culling the opposite industry.
I watched five of my colleagues walk to Town Hall in Sydney's CBD and play the game the whole way... Remarkable!
I haven't looked into that yet, but it is on my list. Thanks for the link.
The current poll shifts don't show an increase in 'positivity', they show a decline in people wanting to leave the EU. That's not quite the same thing.
Friendly reminder that people still aren't using decentralized exchanges in 2016 even though Coinffeine (Crypto / USD), Bitsquare (Crypto / Bank), and Bithalo (Crypto / Crypto) exist which are all quite mature now.

Technically we've had the smart contracts to solve these trust problems since 2013 but still nobody is using them. Mostly the problem is these projects haven't received the funding (or attention) they need so there's no money to build momentum and overcome the initial brutal networking effect. It's also surprisingly hard to bootstrap an exchange, much less a next generation exchange using smart contracts (first hand experience) because of the serious engineering required, especially when you can probably make far more money with a traditional exchange by cutting corners.

I think there will eventually be a legitimate VC backed company who fixes this horrible security mess but for now we're forced to watch history repeat itself. Sorry for the rambling post hacker news, but as a guy who tried to fix these problems myself after Mtgox was hacked and failed for non-technical reasons, it's depressing to keep seeing the same hacks and thefts in the news. Startups in the FinTech space really need to stop being such hypocrites and learn what Bitcoin has to teach us.

Protip: Bitcoin is a lot deeper than a currency or consensus system. It can also be used as a general purpose philosophy for designing high security systems in general.
> Really, the true advantage of a binary format is you generally assume that nobody messed with the data behind your back

I would rephrase that a bit and say the true advantage is flexibility, as you're not subject to the constraints of textual data.

The integrity of the data is a separate matter, and should be carefully verified rather than trusted implicitly. A huge amount of security vulnerabilities, and program crashes in general, come from errantly assuming that user-supplied data is correct.
The thing is, that's impossible. If you try to make Comté in the US, it would not taste the same and thus would be a scam.
From #Rationale (concerning the backup option that most commercial HSMs allow):

>> I do am of the opinion that HSM's should not offer this option (getting access to the private key).

It boils down to your opinion then. Within the industry "HSM" is pretty much synonimous of compliance to FIPS 140, which allows key extraction even at its highest level (Level 4), provided that the risk is mitigated appropriately (E.g. by means of a split secret policy and more in general by means of all the security measures that go beyond the technologic ones provided by the HSM itself).

You are free to keep your opinion but the statement that such possibility "still beats the purpose of the HSM though" is not shared by many people.

Also (again concerning the backups):

>> Since it requires so many steps and so much access, I don't think this is a huge risk, but a rather nice convinience.

No, it is not a convenience. It is a manner to mitigate the risk of denial of service one may cause by purposedly destroying or stealing your HSM.

>> I've seen multiple big-name HSM's where their support was able to decrypt the key and transfer it to another HSM model, but since I've signed an NDA I cannot tell which ones that were.

I challenge this statement: I deal with most big-name HSMs (and there are not that many) and none of them can do this.
I do know because that is a risk we explicitly check for when evaluating one.

In certain cases you may manipulate their API to extract some keys if they were generated internally in a certain way, but that is a known, public problem in the industry.
Looks great! Today after work I plan to try out version with PMI and https://github.com/graphistry/pygraphistry .
I'd say, with no evidence to back me up whatsoever, that yes, tea is distinguished by its terroir.

Basically any agricultural product, especially more delicate products, have a terroir. Hops are a very good example. NZ cascade is completely different from American cascade, despite being literally the same cultivar.
I wonder what the intersection of the sets of gamers and people that wonder how they can improve their productivity is.
South Korea also modernized on the terms of its dictatorship. It did so very quickly, though.

Rate of modernization has little to do with the form of government.
The rich people will be less rich in that situation. They are in a similar situation now with the current inflation, but growth of money has to be tied to economic growth or otherwise the rich will feel screwed.

I'm not saying it's good, but you cannot screw the rich. The current situation is a compromise and a very sensible at that I might add, despite all the noise from tin-foil hatters.

There are also other, practical consideration which will make what you are proposing impossible to put in practice for a prolong period of time.
38% is the marginal rate; that is, if you earn less than 55k you aren't paying 38%, you pay 38% on income between 28k and 55k. If you do the math, you are paying somewhere between 25% and 31%, probably less because of various returns that you get ("detrazioni").

In fact the actual % is around 35% on 75k euro income, and it doesn't reach 41% until around 200k euro (where the marginal rate is 43%).

In the US, if you earned $50k you'd have a federal income tax around 15%, plus a state income tax (around 5% for California), plus possibly a municipal income tax (around 3% for New York City for example). We're already at 23% and you're getting much worse healthcare than in Italy (even assuming your employer is paying for it, which is not a given) and hardly any retirement plan.

If you're employed the problem is that Italian wages are low (especially in IT), not that taxes are high. Really, taxes in Italy are only high for self-employed people.
I travel by bus, but mainly because the BART is so =loud=. The screechy breaks and rumbling is almost painful, especially when going in the tunnel from East Bay into the city.

It seems much louder than other subways in cities where I have lived. Have others experienced this?
Welcome to Raspberry Pi Model B+ chat server
I don't know how much tea flavor is from terroir. With wine, studies have debunked that concept, much to the chagrin of the French. However, naming food and drink after the region from which it originates is not monopolism, but proper labeling.

Calling sparkling wine from California Champagne is false advertising, as is calling tea from Sri Lanka Darjeeling. The name is describes where the product came from. No one is saying you can not make an identical product elsewhere, but don't claim it comes from the place it does not come from.

What if people in Romania started producing "California Zinfandel", the Chinese were selling "Texas Black Angus", or a poplar brand of "Milwaukee Cheddar" was made in southern Mexico. I think it would be at best plain weird, and at worst grossly misleading.
This sort of argument is merely playing with words and has no intellectual merit.

The EU's directives MUST be passed into law due to the treaties involved. A country cannot simply refuse to implement directives it does not agree with, without also leaving the EU. Failure to obey the rules is met with fines and other forms of punishment.

Whilst a handful of lawyers may pretend this is not a transfer of sovereignty, nobody else does, not even Juncker.
This is a great insight, but a shame you wrapped it in to so much cynicism.
Did Japan have incidences of Mad Cow disease? I thought it was a British thing.
For better or for worse, you're so right.

Shift-work during university. Hiring was a cattle call; just a long line of people my age.

Sat down. Interviewer told me I was hired because I was the only person wearing a tie. Wrote down first shift, stood up, left. Sixty seconds.
Do you actually pay 38% or is that the marginal tax bands?

Because according to this [1] HSBC advice, these were the tax bands in force from 2013:

2013 National Income Tax Rates
Taxable Income Band € National Income Tax Rates

1 – 15,000 23%
15,001 – 28,000 27%
28,001 – 55,000 38%
55,001 – 75,000 41%
75,001 + 43%

... and they do not mean you pay 38% if you're below 55,000. With the tax bands above, you'd pay ~32% if you earn 55,000

That does in fact place Italy quite high, but OECD ranks Italy below Belgium, Austria, Germany and Hungary in overall tax wedge amongst OECD countries [2] (note that if the numbers look surprising, it is because the OECD is ranking based on total tax wedge including employers social security payments, which often seems weird if you're used to comparing based on the contracted salary - these tax rates are not the percentage paid on the salary in your employment contract, but by the sum of your salary and the employers contributions). Looking only at the actual income tax, it'd rank much lower - it's not a particularly high income tax level relative to the average income.

Switzerland is low in proportion in large part because its overall income levels are very high, and it's income from other sources is very high.

The bigger problem in Italy seems to me to be that you have on of the least progressive income systems I've seen, so low earners gets hit particularly hard.

[1] http://www.expat.hsbc.com/1/PA_ES_Content_Mgmt/content/hsbc_...

[2] http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/taxatio...
Universal Basic Education is what we need.

It should be possible for everyone at any age to aquire every skill.
I will try out the http://graphistry.com/ today after work. Zooming and mouse over will help extract information. In the second section of the post I posted some information I extracted.

It was hard to balance number of nodes well:

- Too few: Interesting clusters like robotics, numpy and openstack start to disappear, as they get dominated by massive clusters like django

- Too many: It's hard to see things.
I bet they disagree with that statement. Jokes aside, interesting to hear.
Now me being mean: what did you expect from people who can't work with a binary tree? Technical prowess?
"Present Shock" by Douglas Rushkoff

"Super Forecasting" by Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner

"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins

"The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control" by Walter Mischel

"Precision: Statistical and Mathematical Methods in Horse Racing" by C X Wong

"Functional Swift" by Chris Eidhof, Florian Kugler, and Wouter Swierstra

__ DIDN'T FINISH __

"Thinking in Forth" by Leo Brodie

"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" by Philip K. Dick

__ QUEUED FOR READING __

"Porcelain" by Moby

"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari
Thanks! I will join this data with pypi stats.
I think that's a very short-sighted judgement to say that the game is nearing anywhere close to the level of games like Wow and CoD, and sadly -- it will never get there.

There isn't very much flexibility that the game offers, and even it if will offer it in the future, the initial moon phase will be over by then.

It's a nice example of launching a product and getting people to use it, but within a few weeks Pokemon Go will be history, unless of course, people find more dead bodies or other surreal stuff while playing the game, though I wonder if that's the reputation that the developers are going for.
Best thing is to commit yourself with other people and through those commitments you will feel forced to do whatever you need to do.
I've experienced the same thing. As far as I can tell, Uber's policy is when you sign up you don't have to opt in and don't get to opt out of their marketing mailing list, and when you close your account you don't get removed either, because fuck you.
It still doesn't matter much (it helps with price discovery, as HFT participants provide smaller spreads than traditional market makers, which helps with liquidity, and the volatility they add in case they withdraw from the market doesn't seem problematic, because when they withdraw they do so in order to prevent trading in very non-understood regimes, so they don't trade in chaos, wow, blame them, and/or ban them, but you lose the much greater benefit too).

And yes, it's different, because when HN was new its comments were a lot more precise and fact-based, now it's full of dogmatic luddites.
There is no intellectual dishonesty. Fixing the Eurozone's banking problems (assuming you believe those regulations would do the trick) is not the UK's problem and it's not the UK that blindly insists on a one-track, one-speed Europe: it's Germany and France that are wedded to that concept. They could easily have introduced new rules only in the countries that wanted them.

But regardless, the problem in Italy is simply that not enough people are paying back their loans. That's not something bank regulation is going to fix. Banks make loans, that's kind of what they do, and if a country collectively gets too bad at paying back those loans then it's gonna have a banking crisis.
In the US, you also forgot federal social security tax, (7.65% * 2), Medicare tax (~3%)... And hey, looks like your tax bill just hit 35%. Oh, and feel free to drop another ~$3-10,000 on healthcare.
You CIA niggers need to watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRoj3jK37Vc

CIA posts comments after the story is old for the archives.

Do you know how this ends?

CIA surrenders to IRA and you suck my cock.

Here are my Demands, Part 1: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Demands.html

Here are my Demands, Part 2: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/StdTempleOSPC.html
Trust me, there's even more than the OP listed. This post gives a good history to some of the older thefts:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0
> EU laws aren't being enforced.

Sorry, to be blunt, but this is bullshit. There are scams (olive extra-virgin was a big problem), but in general the rules do work and problems are being addressed, e.g. in Italy every olive tree is now digitalized [1].

If you want 'extra protection/certainty' then please buy labeled 'bio-food' with strict condition. Sure also there, you might find cheaters, but it is rare.

[1] (sorry, german) http://www.nzz.ch/nzzas/nzz-am-sonntag/ein-schmieriges-gesch...
So... do I eat the chocolate cookies, or not?
This is so difficult!
It can get even more subtle than that. Speaking with a restaurant owner in a tiny village on the Pyrenees, I told him he would make a killing if he opened in a restaurant in Barcelona.

"It wouldn't work. The animals would have to be transported. They would sweat and that affects the taste".
Will you though? What's the cost of the extra development and maintenance you'll need to do to cater for such a tiny sliver of the population, many of whom will just whitelist your site if they're interested in your content?
Open all hackernews stories in new tabs
Negligible W/R/T transfer time. While using native capabilities of ZFS is awesome, you're now locked into a particular FS at both sides of the transfer (this may or may not be an issue).

(Also, there's a patch for rsync that allows you to force computing the checksum in batch, not on each invocation; but that's getting into hairy territory that's rarely needed - I used it in exactly one case so far)
More realistically it is because average income in Switzerland is about 2.5 times as high as in Italy. A 16% tax rate across the board in Switzerland is comparable to an across the board 40% tax rate in Italy, which is relatively in line with the actual tax rates in Italy, especially when considering that an overall poorer population may also result in substantially higher welfare costs.
That's a bit of a lazy analogy. Loads of people want democracy, even when it doesn't achieve their goals.
Maybe. When it came out, everybody was talking about the two in an almost identical light. That probably didn't help, either :)
Two different solutions; RescueTime is good at analysing how your time is spent after the fact. A chess clock is a great real time stopwatch
"oh man i've been googling rhubarb crumble recipes for 14 minutes..."
I attempted to prototype what it would be like loading the space in the full viewport so you can have an accurate scroll bar. It uses lazy loading with a deliberate 1 second delay server side.

http://www.meda.co.uk/sandbox/infinitescroll/list.php

Fun project, but very challenging to make it work it fast on a mobile device.

Basically it adds placeholder elements and adds the items when they get close to the viewport.

It did have the advantage that you can link to a specific product in the list.

http://www.meda.co.uk/sandbox/infinitescroll/list.php?produc...
The suit that couldn't be copied
Me too. Mine has Lua-based scripting.

https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/