skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're pretty on topic. Airlines...

I have had a very similar with Air France who I flew with once, through a "hacker" booking of a flight provided by Delta but through Air France's site to save hundreds of dollars over Delta's.

They actually subscribed me to four newsletters: "Flying Blue", "Hello from KLM US", "Air France USA", AND "iFly KLM Magazine United States". From those I've received ~75 messages over the past year.

Their unsubscribe links do not actually work. They prompt you to log in, but I can't log in to my account because I don't recall ever making one (and I'm diligent about storing passwords in a manager). Attempting to reset my password leads to a screen that says I'm locked out of my account for 3 unsuccessful attempts, and the only possible option is to call them. It's so broken. </rant>
The point of getting it right on first recorded video is interesting but again what about people using snapchat? do they re-take? Or is it the seriousness and comments require more attention so users may be more picky...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967274
> But he has a history of intentionally withholding instructions on how to run it just to avoid script kiddies from using this not for research.

Interesting approach. Although looking at the Github it seems pretty straight forward (not being a script kiddie I can't speak for if it would be straight forward to them).
I have not read "Flash Boys: Not So Fast", so I can't comment on it. I do however recommend completely skipping Flash Boys - it provides almost no new information and a lot of FUD.

If you want an introduction to HFT, I'll shamelessly plug my blog posts which describe the basic mechanics of it:

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_whats_broken.htm...

I also wrote a few posts later on about controversial HFT topics:
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/flash_crash_flash_in...
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/fervent_defense_of_f...
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/quote_stuffing_is_a_...

My posts probably read more like a "how to program python" tutorial than a compelling Michael Lewis narrative, however.

The book Trading and Exchanges ( http://amzn.to/2f0qtJb ) goes into a lot more detail than my blog, but it costs about $50-$90.
Wonder if this could be a useful device in some other way (e.g. PC not responding)
It's extremely convenient when the major labels that you use to demonize your political opponents cannot apply to you, even when you do the exact same behavior, based on definitions that your side made up. Extremely convenient.
Yup, also traditional perspective is also incredibly non-linear so the distance from button -> back face is in the range where large perspective changes happen compared to where the virtual camera is.

Also depends on what their lighting model is and a whole host of other factors.
It's a museum about the history of black people, not "things that black people like to do"

Have you been to a museum?
We should have hearings to deal with this problem, and then blacklist anyone who might be a racist sympathizer. If only good old Joe Mccarthy was still around.
What percentage would you have been OK with?
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Did you even read the words you quoted? Please do so again, try to not skip any.
> Of the thousands of Pepes that I have unwillingly seen, none were neo-nazi except those in articles accusing Pepe of being a neo-nazi symbol.

YMMV. In the circles I browse, they are frequently used, but they were only used to troll. They are certainly used for more aggressive hate in other places, including on Twitter.
To be fair, those systems have drastically fewer users connected and it's comparatively easy to scope usage and subsequently resources for them.

Whereas with production systems usage and troubleshooting is far more unstable.
I instead read it as "We'll give you buy-in so that next time you'll have a vested interest in not being blamed." This is a PR move and should not be interpreted sincerely.
This would be in the chamber pot era so having the guests do their thing in parallel if you bring in enough pots. For bathing at this social class tubs would be brought in to the bedroom for actual bathing.
They never should have.
Wish I could get my 5-6 digit icq number back... long since lost to the ether...
Yes! That line bothered me, too. I like the overall message, but the brother is not a medical professional and absolutely should not be giving out medical advice like that.
Oh man, that feeling when you're stopped at a traffic light or an accident causes a sudden slowdown, and in your rearview mirror the car behind you is coming in way too fast but the driver isn't even looking because there's something on his or her lap that's more important. Or the people who think they have a heads-up display because they're holding the phone at the top of the steering wheel while typing on it. The thing that makes it extra scary is that you really can't do a dang thing about it once you're on the road next to these people. Like in the sudden-stop scenario, I try to leave a bit of extra space in front of me and have sometimes needed to use it to give extra stopping space to the texter behind me, but sometimes you're really packed in and all you can do is cross your fingers that the person will finish the message and look up in time.
:delayed response:

Both of those are usually "belongs to" relationships. That kind of relationship is easy to model in NoSQL. Many to many becomes difficult but in those scenarios I'd recommend either a relational or a graph database (also NoSQL) like Neo4j or Orient.
I don't want to presume to tell you how to use twitter but to me, it seems to be clearly geared as a one to many broadcast channel. It is much more akin to a protocol that allows people to subscribe to events/ideas/movements/news and get succinct updates about them. It is a terrible place for discussion objectively, but I believe this was by design-- and a feature.
And the tall loud guys exploited inefficiencies in trading pits and human perception. Ask yourself why I explicitly described them as "tall loud guys in brightly colored jackets"? Those are not irrelevant details.

HFTs do the exact same thing that pit traders did. They just do it faster and cheaper.

And if you really think they don't provide a useful service, you can very easily NOT buy their services - just change one flag in FIX. The question to ask yourself is why everyone chooses to trade with them.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/how_to_not_get_rippe...
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What about the tens of thousands of accounts belonging to islamists cheering about killing non-muslims and preaching hate all day?
118 points in 1 hour, page 3 of HN? This story is writing itself.

The alt-right is not a small number of people. 50 million went to the polls and voted for Trump. And with things like this, you're giving them ammunition. You just told 50 million people that their views are not accepted in society. You just told the electoral majority that they are not allowed in one of the most common forums for political discourse.

It's not a good thing. The nation is deeply divided, and the actions of the liberals are giving the alt-right more strength. Tactics like this only work if you apply them to small groups, and even then it only works if the vast majority are not sympathetic to the cause.

That's not the situation in America. You are covering your ears and telling the bully he doesn't matter, and that he's not allowed to play with you. Except you're telling that to half the classroom, not just one bully. And you've got control of the soccer field, and most of the balls. You've become the bully. And you've given the rest of the class a lot of ammunition to dislike you.
If you've ever played pictionary you'll see the level of abstraction we can manage is remarkable too.
Describe the user's interaction from the user's perspective. If it's press a button and get a hamburger, that's the right description.

The next level down is to describe the API to developers.

Beyond that, it doesn't matter much to anyone external...e.g. non-technical investors will care about the business model more than the difference between HTTP and UDP.

Good luck.
No thats simply not true. Is a random personal blog as trustworthy as the globe and mail?
These are very good, very well-stated points,

I've been thinking about this recently. Less on the trade union (even if that might make more sense, in the vein of actual leverage), and more on the professional association side. I've been long-enamoured with the Canadian Engineering 'Iron Ring' ceremony. I don't know how much actual leverage that bestows, but something similar in such an infrastructural discipline as software development seems appropriate.
I have been asked to do unethical-but-not-illegal things in the past, and in response I (unwittingly) delivered something ethical under the guise of being the requested item. Still dubious ethics, but just between me and the client, not anybody outside.

The most common request is to knock off another site. You can hit the save button, or copy code, but what I do is code up a better similar design from scratch. The result is a superior product so everybody is happy, but I would never take code that wasn't open source. I don't even peek at their code during this process!
This has been my experience too. I've been baffled at the coverage of Pepe as a hate symbol. I had seen it around on the internet for years. To me it was just another meme. The idea of it being a hate symbol came off to me almost as propaganda.
> There should be no reason that "Black X thing" and "White X thing" should be perceived any differently

But they already are. These things aren't created in a vacuum where we pretend racism is already over. It would be nice if we could all forget about race, but doing so would be ignoring all the racism that has and continues to exist.

When you make an American history museum, you'll find that basically every important figure is white. Is that just random chance? Is it ok to cover your eyes and say "I'm colorblind, this is just an exhibit about the most important historical figures regardless of race"?

I'm sure you're not racist, but you can't ignore the people and institutions that still are, and you can't ignore history. Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.
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A simple interface to see all the metrics that matter for you. (consumer/solo entrepreneur oriented)

For example for me :
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The employment relationship points could also be rolled up into "let honesty govern your work."

The question was why only the employment points were broken out. Why not also break out the most important points regarding user-focused ethics instead of just relying on the catch-all for them?
is that because the mac version is native (vs js), or is the algorithm different enough to matter?
Yiannopoulos was banned months ago. I'm talking about the current article and the views and actions of those who were freshly banned.
I think full name is "Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture"

For some reason it excludes Egypt, big part of South America and other African countries ;-)
Could you analyze a database with coordinates data? For example, querying a geocoded resource in postgres DB given a radius?
None of the things listed will happen by 2076. Unfortunately I will be too dead by 2076 to say I told you so, so I have to say it now.

None of this will happen by 2076. If someone finds this comment then, I told you so.
I bought a Mid-2012 in late 2015 partly for this reason. If the hard drive dies, I should be able to swap it out myself. Apple's maximum storage was 1TB when I bought it, but I'll be able to upgrade this machine to a 2TB SSD if I want.

I still miss the 2006 MacBook design though. That made replacing the hard drive, RAM & battery extremely easy to do yourself.
From someone who spent last night remotely (internationally, and without an ethernet connection available) troubleshooting my partner's laptop's latest Ubuntu v. Broadcom driver troubles, "just works" isn't the wording that comes to mind.
They're referring to this:
https://xkcd.com/1053/
Not to detract from your main message, but much of #killallmen was actually males from 4Chan during "Operation Lollipop" (source is a quick Google away off the quoted words). They also had #BanFathersDay trending
Their 'target market' is whoever uses the site. The program has no preconceived notion of what a "toilet" is so if enough people draw a hole in the ground for a toilet then it will start to recognize that as a toilet.
Wasn't Facebook's whole value proposition is that they knew more than the traditional advertiser/publisher partnerships?

Such a sham.
I've gotten the opposite impression. There was a set of drawings from 1910 predicting Paris in 2010. There were some obvious whiffs, but it broadly predicted automation, remote audio/video communications, and other things.
Can you please update key announcements here as they come, as I can't watch the live stream. Thanks in advance.
It's hard to imagine them doing so, because up until a certain point (advertisers leaving, which we ain't there yet) it's not in their interest.

It brings me back to something I complained about on these boards years ago. I was working with a fairly small social gaming company about 10 years ago, during which time Facebook was boasting about "300m, 400m, 500m users!". Meanwhile, we were learning that almost half the users in our game were "fake" accounts. It was a major issue, but wasn't in the interests of Facebook to disclose during their hyper-growth. In fact, they made a point to state that fake accounts was not an problem.

Clearly Facebook will use the metrics when they are convenient, despite their invalidity.
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> by announcing that a company made the email signup 'opt-out' instead of 'opt-in', in all likeliness, no one will take it seriously.

Nitpick, but what the first comment said was that the signup happens regardless of whether you check/uncheck the box.

On the other hand, whistleblowing for misuse of customer data (which I'm sure is rampant) might be more effective.
The FDA has these funny rules where you only need one successful study to be accepted. So as long as you can pay for study after study you can just wait until chance works out in your favor and you're out on the market. This is known. FDA does not care.
You don't see a White People Museum because, in the US and Europe anyway, that is the default: they are all white people museums unless otherwise stated.
Wow, nice, I'm looking into alternatives to OANDA to do simple ER requests.. And your comment is really in place for me.
The idea that using my iPod to play music results in a completely different response to using my iPhone despite the mechanism being functionally identical is laughable. I don't need to look at the screen to queue up the next song on shuffle, it's also no different from hitting next on the cd player...

I also use google maps on my phone as a sat nav (audio only is plenty effective to get me places). Again, this is somehow dangerous and illegal to be using but the same behaviour with an actual sat nav, which in my experience is far more labourious to set a destination on, is fine.

I am, of course, aware of the law (I'm in the UK). However in this case the law is an ass. "Driving without due care and attention" properly covers every eventuality.

I wonder if this law will sit around ad infinitum whilst we ignore the ever more complicated computers sat on the centre console just as (if not more) distracting than a phone...
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Zing!

Seriously though, if we have to have these political (tech-related if you stretch) discussions on HN, these green accounts should not be allowed to participate.
http://mowatly.herokuapp.com

A list of movies I want to see and streaming options for them.
> You're being intellectually disingenuous to believe that #killallmen is a legitimate threat of violence towards men

Many (not all) of the people who say this really do believe it.

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

http://www.dailywire.com/news/8386/feminist-journalist-all-m...

> Find me some examples of violent feminists lynching and murdering men on the basis of feminist dogma.

How about violence towards men, based on their dogma? See Jordan Peterson in Toronto, among many others.

> Meanwhile, those with racist, bigoted, homophobic, and anti-semitic viewpoints continue to commit actual hate crimes, murders, campaigns of intimidation, and worse.

Which are all bad. And should be stopped.

But you're being intellectually disingenous if you believe that fighting all bigotry is bad, because some bigots are more violent than others.

> So yeah, you're making a typical strawman argument to deflect legitimate criticism and turn the conversation away from the topic at hand.

Only if you ignore all facts and reason.

Sorry.

> Not worth engaging you further on this point, but if you want to discuss the topic at hand, I'm all ears.

i.e. you don't want to admit to the bigotry and hostility I dislike, because you think it's not as bad as the bigotry and hostility you dislike. And, you're so full of yourself, that you're unwilling to learn from people who disagree with you. People who just might have reasons for their opinions.

In this mindset, the good people are (by definition) good, and can do no wrong. The bad people are (by definition) bad, and can do no right. You don't need to engage the bad people as people, because they're evil and despicable. You can just dismiss them out of hand.

Or, you can do what Daryl Davis did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis

A black man befriended KKK members, talked to them as people. He used friendliness, along with facts and reason, to convince them that racism was wrong.
Everyone is privileged in some ways. But just because you find one way in which a person is privileged, it doesn't mean that that fact trumps all other person's circumstances. Yes, in the US, a white homeless person might be better off that a black homeless person. But to speak of "white privilege" in general is to disregard or deny all other circumstances, except race.
I built a system at google called Exacycle which used idle cycles for computation. You can think of my system as the user of last resort. We ran MD simulations, drug docking, and ray tracing simulations of the LSST telescope (along with fundamental mathematical problems), then published the results from this for free. The economics of idle cycles in a large production environment aren't trivial to analyze, and anybody outside of Google speculating is likely to make a mistake.
WTF floor lamp?
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The anti-innovation backlash is the most likely thing to happen.

Today, politicians are winning the populace by lamenting on unfair trade deals, globalism and foreigners taking jobs. Those jobs are not coming back, if they are, certainly not to humans.

We will see a growing class of people who are economically useless. (read Professor Yuval Noah Harari new book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Deus:_A_Brief_History_of_... )
And, no, the answer is not basic income. It's intelligence augmentation.

Intelligence is the only valuable currency nowadays and we are not acquiring enough of it fast enough compared to the machines.

Our only tool for intelligence augmentation is still education. Not good enough at all. It's already impossible to keep up; let alone learn something from scratch at a late stage in life and be expected to contribute something significant enough to derive long term economic advantage that can't be taken by a machine or globalists.

I think all other issues will fix themselves or reach a natural equilibrium (overpopulation, climate change etc.). But lack of intelligence is our doom.
Exactly the same here. You wrote my thoughts perfectly.

It's sad actually.
We'll have everything (videos) available on-demand after the event, we're also pushing live over 100 8-12min short videos on topics you guys might be interested in it will all be on http://channel9.msdn.com/events/connect/2016

We'll also have detailed blog posts and a special edition of MSDN magazine that is going live shortly with lots of stuff to read through. ill do what I can to get you folks links.

thanks for your interest.
I appreciate your response. I'm familiar with your blog but I haven't set a time aside to review your posts on HFT. I will certainly do so now. Thanks for linking me the relevant posts.
While I'm an individual, not a company, I'm Texas based and regularly take on LAMP projects on a freelance basis and would be happy to talk to you over the phone, by email, or in person about your needs and whether I'm a good fit for your project. I have several designers that I partner with when the need arises. I do work full time as a full stack developer so any freelance work occurs outside business hours (Central Time)

If that sounds good to you, send me an email - tim at timdavila.com - with a little more detail on your project requirements and deadline, and we can go from there.

I look forward to hearing from you.
It is, as well as prevention of stroke and prevention of colon cancer. While in the same general category of NSAIDs, you should think of it as really being a different animal. It has more of an antiplatelet effect than the other NSAIDs these articles are talking about which lead to decreased clotting.
dang, you must realize by now that you've almost singlehandedly ruined discourse on HN, right?
I've never used Fogbugz, but of all the open source options, my favorite is Redmine: http://www.redmine.org/
It's just picking the closest thing from its limited training set.
Super flappio.
Nah, Comcast screws up my billing regularly, too.
>You are being sarcastic here but (imho) gossip, fake news, and echo chambers are really threatening democracy.

What is threatening democracy is the absence of critical thinking among population (across the political spectrum).

But hey, you know, "math is hard"...
Material design is built out of this "material" that mimics some real world things like shadows for user affordance, but is mostly magical. I'm pretty sure the only real world metaphor they're trying to use for the button is a floating panel of some magical material that floats closer to the screen when you tap it.
A working billing system is a prerequisite - if you can't bill your customers, you can't pay your developers.
For some reason I've become obsessed with our nations decision to elect Donald Trump as president. For that reason my mind drew a connection with US Iraq concrete walls and barriers and all the historic walls humankind has built, and plans to build.

Walls and barriers can offer protection from the "others" but I feel more often then not, they are used to separate territory and control movement. That separation and control comes at a cost. One such cost, is freedom of place.
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We (google) ran numerous theory problems on Google's computing platform via the Exacycle program. Peter Norvig convinced me this was a bad idea, but mainly to say that time was better spent on disproving the conjecture using pure math, not search.
http://norvig.com/beal.html

"But Witold Jarnicki and David Konerding already did that: they wrote a C++ program that built a table of Cz(modp)Cz(modp) up to 5000500050005000 , and, in parallel across thousands of machines, searched for A,BA,B up to 200,000 and x,yx,y up to 5,000, but found no counterexamples. On a smaller scale, Edwin P. Berlin Jr. searched all CzCz up to 10171017 and also found nothing. So I don't think it is worthwhile to continue on that path."