skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Now here’s what may well set you off about Outsource Force . You might still find it unethical to pay out an individual a number of hundred a month to dedicate yourself you complete time, and honestly in the beginning I guess it's time unethical as well till I spoke using the employees and apparantly 200-300 bucks a month will always be to them and is much more than what there are many make more than there. So it is a win win circumstance.
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More curiously, he also admits several times that he had absolutely no interest in the page and probably would have never visited it again. Besides the lack of mystery, I also see a lack of anybody being hurt.
Why do you feel that raising the bid/ask spread to $0.25 will prevent wildly oscillatory behavior?

If anything, it will probably increase strange behavior. If you want to buy shares, you'll either need to pay a largish premium or else you'll need to wait a while. Fun fact: for the most part, prices have stabilized and spreads have narrowed as HFT has entered the game.
Yes it would mostly dampen, but in certain case the systems might go out of control. Since no one know what are the parts of the systems its very hard to predict.
I live in Brooklyn, on St. John's Place, just off of 8th Avenue. But I work over in Manhattan. Darren Hoyt, who co-developed www.wpquestions.com lives over in Manhattan. We are both looking forward to investing a fair amount of time this summer to building up our site.
A school isn't a place of freedom. The administration is tasked with the safety of the children, not the preservation of the Bill of Rights. This is why most schools have some form of dress code. An enforced dress code is, by nature, a limitation of freedom.

Conservatives are only expressing displeasure at this event because the U.S. flag was involved. If this situation involved gang colors (often already banned according to dress codes), this Possee Incitatus blog post would not exist.
I actually really like this idea. When I was a Geology major, we measured distances on topographic maps using the map's bar scale. I think many people, especially older people, think to measure distances on maps this way. It just seems more natural.
Obviously the two companies are working together on this. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/technology/start-ups/03bet...
I've done the same thing as you and noticed the same effect on the ads shown to me, but when I mentioned my privacy concerns to some friends the other night, most just said "so what, I don't have much of value on Facebook anyway". I think the mass of people (even intelligent people) don't have the same privacy concerns as a lot of the "tech informed" crowd does.

We know how valuable the data is and what can be done with it, that makes us much more sensitive to giving it up.
Just to add to the language-configuration thing on the vim side...

Vim configuration is also not a bag of options and values; by default, it uses vimscript. vimscript is an interesting language (supports a form of OOP) but only really usable in the vim world, so it is up to you if you want to learn it to do things besides assign values to options.

Alternatively, vim allows you to do editor customization in perl, and while I have found very little documentation for it, it also supports mzscheme.

How does this kind of thing help anyone? Why is Notepad just not good enough? You can add entire text-manipulation features to your editor, including Intellisense to your specifications, tools for refactoring, integration with other tools outside the editor, and so forth.

Both editors have large communities and have few real competitors for fast and powerful text editing (I hear TextMate comes close).
I was pointed to an interesting article about that very topic the other day:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/marriage.html

"In particular, in 1967, Polish sprinting champion Ewa Kłobukowska was disqualified (and banned from professional sports!) for being (probably) XXY on the basis of failing the Barr body test, as was Spain's hurdler Maria José Martínez Patino for being XY (CAIS) in the 1980s. Worse, during preparations for the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games, Austrian skier Erika Shinegger was genetically tested, determined to be XY (probably CAIS), and disqualified. This was a great shock to all three women, who were raised female and had no reason to think otherwise. (Erika subsequently did have a sex change, and is now Erik. Maria's competitive eligibility was reinstated in 1988. Ewa retired, married, and gave birth to a son.)"
You realize that, as much or as little sense as this makes, it's roughly what every voter wants to see happen?
You could limit this tax to short term trades so it wouldn't penalize long term buy and hold investors.
This is actually one of the most reasonable proposals for fixing Wal Street that I have seen in a long time.
Being in a start up is a game. We have an idea and we are playing the game to make that idea as successful as possible. We need tools in this game - engineers, lawyers, accountants etc.. are all tools. Some tools are more useful in the beginning than others. Some tools become more important as our startup matures.

Now MBA is this awesome general degree that teaches you a bit of everything - accounting, sales, some business law. This makes you a versatile tool! :D. The question is, do you know how to best serve a startup? What can you do? What do you want to do? How will you make up for your lack of experience in a certain area - can you learn quickly? Adapt?

Many startups these days start out with the core team being engineers - they're looking to build something, so it makes sense. That said, some startups may do well with a gritty MBA who can go out there and talk to tons of people to generate / prove ideas and report back to the engineering team; take care of accounting; HR stuff if need be; etc... basically it means being the CEO from day one without worrying about the title.

Is that what you're looking for or do you just want a cusy desk job as a junior manager? ;)
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I never realized you could double-click on the maps. I doubt many non-techie people know this.

Also, there have been several occasions where I've specially wanted to know the air distance between two points on Google Maps. As it is now, there's no good (non-hack) way of doing this.
If everyone, even the huge institutional players, has to deal with non-zero bid/ask spreads, it does reduce incentive to spend a lot of effort exploiting tiny arbitrage opportunities with huge-volume trades, which could stabilize things overall. Admittedly, it's something economists disagree on.
For whatever reason, Mark Cuban seems to feel that the only legitimate form of investment is long term speculation:

If you don’t think the company you are buying is worth at least a quarter more than what you are paying, why are you buying shares?

But markets need more than long term speculators. Suppose you want to sell shares to cash out of your long term speculative investment. Who do you sell to?

If another speculator wishes to buy shares right now, there is no problem. But what if the other speculator wants to buy next week?

Enter market makers. They buy from you right now and sell to the other speculator next week, making money off the spread and taking the risk that prices will move unfavorably in the short term. Everyone gets to execute their trades almost immediately and this makes the speculative activity which Mark Cuban favors much easier. Why is this activity deserving of being taxed into oblivion?
supposedly 2/3 of the market is from automatic trading applications - the ones that try to make a little money here and there. this would proposal would kill that portion of the market. at least market volume would represent something more meaningful than it does now.
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Finally. I've been wondering when all the people on Facebook would start wondering about their privacy. Hopefully facebook will see some backlash and have to stop making it harder and harder to remain private.

I wonder if this is the opening for a new, more private social networking site?
I'm sure you were being cynical, but those are actually great ideas.
It exists, and is easier to find than to find how to comment on his blog post...

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
Indeed. A high cost of investment means no more insurance, retirement funds, or loans.
I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats!
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I was thinking the same thing. Wouldn't a percentage tax make more sense? If you just require a 1% tax on all transactions, it would basically be equivalent to what Cuban was saying (he mentioned a $0.05 tax for shares under $5), and it wouldn't pressure companies to do reverse splits. Even people who trade frequently (e.g. 1-2 times a day) wouldn't likely see much cost associated with this.

This would have to be accompanied by new regulations on derivatives and dark pools, but on the surface it doesn't seem like a bad idea.

Currently, all major banks have:

1) Shadow markets setup (dark pools) to allow big investors to take positions without anyone knowing.

2) Servers sitting beside the exchange that get to see all trades before the public does.

Neither of these things should be legal.

I don't know if I believe that high-frequency traders provide a necessary liquidity. I can see both sides on that, but I think we will never know until we impose a tax like Cuban is suggesting. If we don't like the results, we can always repeal the tax.
Supposedly 2/3 of the packets on the network are sent from one server to another (e.g. webserver to DB) rather than from the server to the end user. Eliminating those packets would make network traffic represent something more meaningful than it does now.

Granted, your web server can't talk to the database anymore. But at least we've killed a portion of the internet which I don't understand, and which is mostly used by a bunch of geeks I don't like!
I left a comment on his blog but it seems to have been deleted FML.
Yes, the simplest solution is a 0.1 % tax on short-term trades. It's actually pretty strange that practically everything else one buys is taxed by the government but not shares. No surprise that we get all this useless and dangerous high frequency trading, and an obscenely large financial sector.
Good point, plus they are well motivated to improve performance and typically are on the cutting edge.

Who else does a lot of tech innovation? Since on the server side this relates to cost / page view I'd guess the super-competitive porn industry will do some of it.

And of course keep an eye on the functional programmers. With parallelized map and filter we can do a lot...
Futures contracts are considered long-term capital gains, even if held for short periods of time.
It will take the people on Wall St. about 2 days to stop trading 'shares' and start trading '1 millisecond options'. Firms like Goldman Sachs make money by skirting the laws and regulations. While the average investor would end up paying this tax.
Ya, but a cup of coffee an hour would have me bouncing off walls by noon.
Right, but the problem is this scenario:

Bit.ly see's your xrl.in and does a request. They find 301 and the location at donationcoder.com. They conclude "this site is ok". Later, the xrl.in url is changed to <malware link>.

They aren't going to do a request to every url they're linking to on every click, obviously. So they'd only get the one chance.

Now, I'm not actually sure that xrl.in lets you change links after shortening. The point is that bit.ly doesn't know either.
What about bonds, options, futures, etc.?

But anyway, it seems like the volatility that automated trading causes is the tax on the automatic traders. Anyone who bought, say, Accenture the day before this happened and sold it the next day just took losses similar to the wider market. (And the market is on a downtrend for good reasons, not "some computer program fucked up".)

Only the algorithms that were trading as it fell to zero lost money. It's unlikely a real person or long-term investor would have noticed it at all. So people that have their retirement savings in an S&P500 index fund have nothing to worry about, and the people that trade every millisecond have the same concerns as always.
I wouldn't use it personally (no boss) but I like the overall spirit of the site. I'm kinda sick of sites presenting themselves like they're going to change my life and/or make my brain explode. I also applaud the no-accounts design.

One thing I would suggest is pre-formatting an email in a mailto link. Being able to click and bring up my mail client with the link and a short note would be cool.
The curious thing about the article is that he fails to mention Apple's sales of the iPad so far are only really US based sales.

I'm more curious to see if there's going to be an upswing when the rest of the world is able to purchase them.
This thread is dangerous. You're making me want to smoke!
But the culture of doing so has gone away. No company or school would make their own social networking forum; everyone just uses Facebook or Twitter. Things were not always like that, though.
I read this book last year. Even after more than two decades, it's still a must read. Highly recommended.
What's more natural of a cause than a heart attack or cancer? Aren't they essentially assured given enough time?
I also recommend checking out Eric Drexler's blog:

http://metamodern.com/
Hover doesn't work well with touch based interaction, which is all the rave these days, I hear. I like the idea of showing them separately somehow, though.
No offense, but you are repeating exactly what I said. It's likely that gender and occupation are not independent variables.
I solve this problem by not clicking on shortened URLs. At all. If you want me to click on something, send me the full link. If it's too long for Twitter, find me on GChat or send me an email.
The people that are hurt are future organizations that could benefit from an unofficial fanpage. If users fear for losing their accounts (and therefore friends), they are not going to bother advertising that organization by setting up a fanpage. It's bad when people are afraid to create.

(But like I say in another comment below -- Facebook wants to make Facebook like television. Consume, purchase, act. Creating and thinking is not good for their advertisers.)
Depends. In an office job, you're right. In many jobs, 15 minutes lost is 15 minutes lost.
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I cannot agree more with this. Perhaps this might apply to almost all discussion-based sites, but often at HN (especially Ask HN posts), it's sometimes frustrating seeing how new conversations regarding a specific topic - most likely as a result of a frequently asked question - keep popping up.

It's not that I find presence of FAQs frustrating, but has more to do with how useful information contained in different discussions tend to get increasingly decentralized. Furthermore, depending on the topic, the nature of discussions might change as time progresses, and those who might want more "classic" advices on that topic could really benefit from this proposed style of wiki.

For example, "recommend materials for learning higher maths" type of questions keep appearing consistently. Each time there's a new discussion that contains unique advices. If I were to refer a newcomer to past discussions right at this moment, I could come up with at least 5 of them (which I have done in one of my comments few weeks ago). A HN Wiki that centralizes gems from different discussions in this situation would be highly beneficial, a time-saver for many.

I suppose alternatives are tagging and improved search functions which are common elsewhere, but a somewhat-active wiki community (whether official or unofficial) where people are willing to organize useful information would be just fantastic.
A 1% tax would still be huge. Traders measure trading cost in basis points (100ths of 1%). Such a tax would affect not only high-frequency traders, but also all market makers and even long-term investors like pension funds and mutual funds.

To operate an index fund, for instance, you have to buy and sell millions of shares everyday. A 1% tax would make impossible to operate an index fund cheaply.

Cuban's proposal is not serious. Yeah, I know he's rich and all, but he doesn't understand how the stock market works.
The paper actually brings this up.

"The use of UV ink may be of less consolation to those patients who associate tattoos with their use as involuntary identifiers. In the holocaust, identification tattoos reminded prisoners no longer controlled their own bodies. Giving the patient a choice of whether or not to use micropigmentation, the type of encoding to use, and some control over the process that generates the encoding should help to address these concerns."
Remember Geocities? And Usenet before that? And Prodigy or Compuserve before that?

These things tend to move in waves. Somebody comes up with a great new communications platform, and everyone abandons their custom solutions for it. Then the technology behind that platform becomes commoditized, the knowledge becomes widespread, and people start coming up with small scale custom solutions again. Then one of those custom solutions decides it wants to be big, generalizes it's platform, people flock to it, and the cycle starts over again.

Give it a couple years. I bet we'll see people creating their own social networks again, in some nearly unrecognizable form.
My understanding is that IE9 does have a new JS runtime, but it doesn't use the CLR/DLR at all.
I really like the idea of "Tantalization." The theory of put a carrot out there, and the horse will run faster.

If more smart people had the carrot and being told it could be done with work, where we be today? Just think where are we because of that.
That's an interesting read. Some conclusions about US-born tech startup founders include: (1) they tend to be 30+ years old, (2) they tend to have advanced degrees, especially from ivy-league schools, and (3) those with advanced degrees tend to create bigger companies, especially if they went to ivy-league schools.

I didn't see any commentary on whether someone who is older or has a degree is more likely to succeed in their venture at all. This study couldn't address that question because the survey sample was composed entirely of people who had already reached a certain threshold of success. I find the study interesting mainly because it hints at the answer to this related question, and would love to see some data that addresses this issue more directly.
Also, just about everything Google does is highly parallelizable.
It "must reassure the Rapture crowd that his pet rescuers are wicked enough to be left behind but good enough to take proper care of the abandoned pets. Rescuers must sign an affidavit to affirm their disbelief in God—and they must also clear a criminal background check."
Capital gains on shares are taxed. Short term capital gains are taxed at a higher rate.
Well, I was going to comment on the attention-whoringly inflammatory title, but I note it was written in 1969 when the word you-know-what was several orders of magnitude less inflammatory than it is now, so I hope we can move past that.

The main problem with the rest of the article is that it's so exaggerated that it's hardly worth engaging with.
No amount of Internet fame would motivate me to intentionally break a glass next to my desk. Glass is pain to clean up, and when you miss a tiny shard, you will know it... someday.

Also, how does this compare to a BB gun?
I hope!
It also reduces the incentive to engage in market making. This makes it more difficult to buy/sell stocks when you want to, and generally makes all trading (even the long term speculation which Cuban favors) more difficult.
Todd from bit.ly here.

From day one, we've prized security, transparency, reliability, and openness at bit.ly. Along the way, we've made a number of product decisions based on those tenets. Among those are link permanence (link destinations don't change once created), the avoidance of anything that interferes with user experience (we've never framed, nor will we), and a dedicated focus on spam and malware detection, so that our users can click on bit.ly links with a high degree of confidence.

We take our responsibility as internet citizens seriously, and you'll see this exhibited even in the small details of the ways in which we manage flagged links (you'll notice we never actually disable a redirect, and at most simply insert an interstitial which retains the end destination link).

In the course of analyzing content for spam, malware, and phishing attacks, we rely on a number of systems, both internal and external. Over the course of the past year, a number of spammers have attempted to use various levels of indirection through redirectors (some of which are reconfigurable), in order to obfuscate and cloak their efforts. In fact, the bulk of shortens to bit.ly coming through other URL shorteners have tended to be attempts to spam the system. While our crawlers do of course follow links through redirections, the inclusion of modifiable redirects in the stream, and our analysis of the preponderance of spam attempts via these vectors have made it necessary and appropriate in some cases to block the URL shorteners.

Just to reiterate, the only goal is and always has been to protect the end user clicking on bit.ly links, regardless of the link source. Given that multiple layer wrapping of URL redirectors tends to be an edge case based on inappropriate API usage, confused users, or in the preponderance of cases, attempts to spam, we think this has been a fair approach. As such, you'll note that we did in fact update our interstitial warning pages with language better reflecting the reasoning behind the status. We're happy to see a healthy, vibrant, shortening ecosystem, and have no intention whatsoever to put a damper on other sites in the space.

Some have suggested we simply not shorten URLs already pointing to 3rd party short URLs. While this is a potential possibility, our API responses and the innumerable clients and scripts that use these methods aren't currently designed with this state in mind. Consequently, any changes would have to be carefully considered.

As with any product, bit.ly is a work in progress, and we're always interested in finding ways to best serve our users, while maintaining the integrity and openness
of the product.