skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is strong-arming AT&T, IMO. They've basically backed AT&T into a corner by being responsible for pretty much all of AT&Ts growth over the last few years and AT&T must be all too painfully aware of that. The iPhone continues to dominate in spite of AT&T and that has the other carriers' attention and they're trying hard to step up their game with non-iPhone options. That much is good for everyone else, at least.
I think the idea is to look for inspiration, not specifications. (At least, that's how I hope people would go about it)
It's the same basic process though isn't it? Making a bet on the basis of a guess about the future. Of course, it may be a very well educated guess or just a shot in the dark, but unless you can actually correctly predict the future, there is always some element of uncertainty involved.
Do you get much 3G in Minnesota? I'm in Iowa and there's only 3 cities (I think) in the whole state with any 3G coverage. Naturally, of course, I do not live in one of those cities... :)
Probably a data issue. On a data source used by professionals it 'only' when down to 38.5 before going up again.
Most likely, it went "no-bid". At any given time, there're a bunch of people who have long-term $0.01 limit orders for a bunch of stocks. Markets work by matching up buyers and sellers; if there are no buyers at "normal" prices, the computer systems will start eating up those $0.01 bids that are placed and left in the computer systems without any expectation of being filled. The folks who place those orders become fabulously wealthy, the folks who tried to sell at any price get screwed.
It is possible that somebody did, however, it would have been a data entry mistake.
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finance.yahoo.com = down<br />
bloomberg.com = down<br />
cnbc.com = realtime quote problems<br />

This is some serious load...
I support Linux by using the OS (the kernel /and/ open source applications) every day in a business environment, discovering bugs and submitting bug reports and patches to improve the software.

I feel like this article is just a fund-raising advertisement for the "Linux Foundation". I wonder what's more valuable to the community, money I give to one organization or time and skills I use to benefit many different applications.
Jack Welch strongly advocates for this approach, and it's how GE operated when he was CEO (I don't know if they still do or not). NetFlix also does something similar.

Why do you think it would be a morale nightmare? If you're doing well at your job, wouldn't you take comfort in knowing the person down the line who isn't pulling his weight will be cut out of the company at some point? High expectations are motivating.
I see several actions you can take to salvage your work on this startup:

> Address the personnel conflict.
This conflict may be resolved working with a neutral party in a facilitated meeting or a mediation. Bring all co-founders together and deal with the anger and frustration that’s been accumulating, decide upon a fair settlement with the co-founder that addresses his performance and the quality of his work (whether he stays or goes), then work together to plot out an action plan, assign responsibility for the unfinished code, and agree how to get to the finish line. Several other commenters have given opinions about how to salvage the work and get the code out the door.

> Recruit some pilot customers.
Finding some early adopters will give you invaluable insight about your market. Creating a product that fits the market’s needs is more important than making something perfect before it gets a debut. In my experience at other software companies, products significantly improved once we had a small core of users that let us know what their priorities were. We thought we understood the market, but found that it was very challenging to gain insight about rapidly evolving business needs without working directly with customers. You don’t need many, but find two or three companies that will be enthusiastic pilots.

> Reframe your thinking about the experience you’ve gained.
If you do not resolve the conflict and must abandon the business venture, you can work with a neutral person to debrief what you learned over the past two years. I have worked for many different businesses over the course of my career. The size and success of the company was not a deciding factor in my professional development, my work was. However, when I had strong feelings about my experience at a company it was often difficult for me to be objective and capture the points where I developed and grew professionally. Find a neutral coach who can draw the positives out of this experience. It will be a springboard to help you see your current situation in a positive light and that will energize you.

Taking these steps will help you get resolution about the company so you can move on, either as a viable business or as a recruitable talent in the startup community.
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Welcome to the world of High Frequency/Algorithmic trading.

In this case, essentially every person that had a "stop loss" order was just hunted down by a wave of HFT programs and all those stop loss orders were triggered, which send "market orders" which means, fill my order at the current market price.

When everyone does this at the same time, there are more sellers than buyers so prices drop dramatically. However, this presents an opportunity for HFT programs especially when they have similar strategies, meaning they all are doing the same thing, pushing the market in the same direction. Now, the HFT programs forced people to get stopped out, then they bid the market up and buy, which pushes it right back to the prior level.

Take a look at AAPL, RIMM, GOOG, SPY, etc. and you'll see it is all the same pattern.
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Oh, this is not about the oldest profession
Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1325253
Everything I've seen says that most of the problems come in larger cities, particularly on the coasts (San Francisco, New York, etc.) Anecdotally I'm from Chicago and while I don't have an iPhone I know a few people who regularly have minor problems.
That would be rational behaviour. The market does not exist on rational behaviour. The Austrians just spread that rumor to take advantage of the suckers who believe it.
emotions, algorithms, & unknowns == why I don't invest in the stock market
I could also see this justified if we had completely failed to bring the lenders, lendees, brokers, appraisers and CDS originators who committed massive fraud to justice. So this makes no sense to me either. :D
Completely without purpose. I just picked the keyword to test out the subreddit functionality, and years later it has 2000 subscribers.
I don't think anyone claims the markets are 'perfectly' efficient. Even the people that believe they are efficient and choose to participate argue that they are exploiting the inefficiencies.
I also share genes with bananas and fish.
There are lots of applications, in embedded devices, that are built with Flash and target Gnash instead of the Adobe runtime.

Gnash is reasonably good and supports hardware-acceleration. I agree we should move over to HTML5 as soon as possible (taking encumbered codecs in consideration), but some flash support is a nice to have, even if it's not full support.
It's very likely that trade got busted almost immediately.
Remember, delete != deleting your data from Facebook

They keep that stuff.
This will prevent you from getting apps auto-installed.
Bad quality a while back in NYC (i live downtown), but tho problems are gone for me
I'm about 25 minutes from Midtown. 8 stops on the L, transfer to the 4/5 if going to Grand Central. Luckily, I work just north of Union Square - 20 minutes door to door, give or take 5.
You buy CDS's on greek debt. But this is not available to retail investors.
Does anyone know what kind of revenue they have?
A complaint that many people preface with "the only thing stopping me from using linux is..."
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There are unadvertised SMS-only plans; I don't know how you buy them, though.
Personally, I do not. The data will be there for when (not if) someone - Google or other - decides to use it for worse purposes.

There are several options, so there is no need to subject yourself to those concerns.
I sincerely hope nobody in this forum still have stocks in their 401K portfolio.

Better yet, withdraw your 401K altogether. Take control of your money in this 'interesting' times.
From the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10101581.stm

"This is an electronic market where bids can be cancelled at the flick of a button, and everyone cancelled at the same time," said Joe Saluzzi, of Themis Trading in New Jersey.

Does this make sense? With the time horizons that today's programmed trading operates at, is this really a reasonable explanation?
it wasnt for a few minutes there tho. got a few 500 errors and a few partially loaded pages for 2 or 3 minute stretch
With all this talk of people leaving Facebook, I can't help but wonder how much of a dent this actually makes. We're the techies, we pay attention to things like this. Our friends, the nontechies don't, and they don't care.

We're out numbered 5:1 by nontechies who aren't going to raise a fuss from this.
Life is a mess.
what kind of software product was this? web based / desktop application / etc ?
What I needed next was a way to create simple presentation slides and publish on the web. I found 280slides.com

You can create slides and directly upload to slideshare or get a link to embed on your site. Feel free to share your experiences with others.

Next, I gotta figure out how to create actual compelling videos.
Very interesting, so does that mean all those HFT programs managed to make/lose money or pretty much break even?
2 hits at 1.53 miles???
6 seconds of flight time???
It seems unbelievably unlikely that a stock traded with the volume of accenture could ever have no bids. Wouldn't you have to blow through all the people who put in limit orders for the company first? I don't see how this could possibly be true.
Via longform.org.
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I just did. You're the top result on Google. Mind giving a little more background? :)
whats Qt ? If I google I get a GUI platform from Nokia. I guess Qt being referred here is different ?
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Invest =/ trade
I know people in the financial industry, and a HFT "blip" is not the cause of this.
"We should be down big today, but not 1,000 points. This is an equity market structure issue, there's no major problem going on."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10101581.stm

Doesn't sound like a panic to me.
Bushwick. Granted, not the nicest area, but there are a lot of creative types around, and it's quickly becoming convenient (in terms of shopping and eatery). It's pretty much what Williamsburg was like 10 years ago or so (with a little longer of a commute). If you like loft-style living, there are tons. Most of the two bedrooms in the area are railroad style, so unless you're living with a significant other or alone, they aren't that comfortable.
I would enjoy the site more without ridiculous pictures.
Much more impressive.
If you wrote an app that funneled ambient sound via the microphone to your headphones (handy for in-canal earphones as they block out so much external sound you can't hear people talking to you) would Android's flexibility allow this to be triggered in some simple manner? By simple manner I mean e.g. binding to a physical key or gesture, or adding to the built in audio app.
Ah, but the trucks are the same size and weight. There are just different numbers of trucks delivering different things. UPS, Fedex, and DHL all offer commercial delivery services. DHL is much smaller than the others (and so they have fewer trucks), but all pay the same prices per truck at weigh stations and for vehicle licensing.

If they were data companies, UPS and Fedex would have more and larger servers (sorting and storage facilities) than DHL, but their packets (trucks) are treated the same way on the open road.
I disagree that apps are not being "Authorized". I never use facebook connect for any site and I found Gizmodo listed.

Also, I think just the fact that Yelp, Pandora, etc. had access to my details without permission is also "Authorizing Apps" without my permission.
"Recently Used" != "Authorized"
I interviewed at a HFT once - and one of the things that stuck out to me was that one of the guys there said "its doesn't matter which direction the market moves, just that it moves."

HFT computers identify "direct arbitrage," and make a profit off of someone else's loss.
"All three are Arabic script domains, and will enable domain names written fully right-to-left,"

The URL itself will still read left-to-right, so this doesn't seem like a big win.
CNBC now reporting on air that a human error by a trader at a major firm triggered the interday low.

Breaking News of cnbc.com reads:

Trading Error at Major Firm Blamed for Market Plunge: Sources (Story Developing)
"Panic" gives this image of people running around and pulling their hair, but it's probably just a combination of computer algorithms hitting their threshold, and people adapting to fresh news to maximize their gain. I don't think people are genuinely panicked.
For very large companies with hundreds of projects, figuring out the "bottom 10%" can be challenging. An average developer on a poor team will look like a rockstar to his/her manager, while a really good developer on a stellar teams will look average at best.
If I understand what you're suggesting, it is that they generate a list of slight variations to the new password, has it, then compare it to the old password, right?

I think many people are misunderstanding what you're saying i.e., they think you're saying that similarities between hashes correspond to similarities between passwords.
The one site I'm getting reliably is WSJ.com (I'm a subscriber). May be the paywall-deterrent-effect. Some of their data got pretty stale (30min+), but that's probably because things are down across the entire market foodchain.
It's the same Qt. It also provides lots of stuff besides GUI Libraries.
Facebook's response (via pokesperson David Swain, FTA):

In this case, there was a bug that was showing applications on a user’s Application Settings page that the user hadn’t authorized. No information was shared with those applications and the user’s list of applications was not shown to anyone but the user. This bug has been fixed.
So what is it then?
Is there anywhere we can see the amount of stop-loss orders that were executed over the course of the day (and maybe who filled them)?
You're not exactly getting out in front of that one, eh?

Ok, so you find a way to bet on Greece failing... don't you think the people on the other end of that deal are also watching CNN and have priced the deal accordingly?
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Conservative estimates suggest more than half. They are "market makers" which allow liquidity on demand. At least that's what these HFTs are selling.

Look at market trading volume over the last 15 years.
Wow. 28 minutes from comment to live on Google.
Romania isn't exactly a surprise either. A lot of Eastern Europe is in pretty bad shape. With Romania, their GDP dropped by approximately 20%, or $40 billion in in 2008/2009. Its only expected to go up by about $7 billion or so in 2009/2010[1].

I wouldn't consider myself an expert on this, but, my understanding is that a lot of the economic decline is due to a decline in tourism to Romania (well, to Eastern Europe in general, not just Romania) in the past year or two. And hotels/restaurants/etc account for ~20% of Romania's GDP, IIRC.

And the US is in a much better position than most of the world. We had what? Two quarters of negative growth of -2 or -3% at most before we're back in the plus? Compare that to countries that have been in double digit negatives for multiple quarters in a row.

The primary country that I'm really worried about in Eastern Europe is Bosnia-Herzegovina. Three ethnic groups that have distinct political parties and two of the three don't recognize the third. New government every few months and very little is done. Low GDP to start with, and its gone down even more in the past year or two. Its not too far fetched to imagine a situation like Kosovo in the 90's breaking out again..

[1] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2010/01/weodata/weor...
Typically the exchanges break these trades after the fact (i.e., over the next 24 hours).
Many of my friends handle social planning exclusively through Facebook/Twitter/FourSquare/Buzz/etc. Not having accounts on these sites would be akin to not having email/phone w.r.t. social life.

In fact, my use of all these technology is probably equivalent to email or SMS for a group of friends that is email-based. What is your opinion of people who refuse to get an email?
Qt's a pretty general toolkit for C++ applications – a pretty huge chunk of it has nothing to do with GUI programming (and what, for instance, the KDE desktop and associated tools are built on):

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/classes.html

It was fairly recent that Nokia bought them; before that Trolltech was an independant company.
Well you could be pushing people to only be about themselves and their team and not the company as a whole. Why would I want to work with and help another team if it means I may move them above the 10% line and me below?

So while you're right that it would push people to do their job well it could also push them to submarine others.
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/05/06/procter-gamble-so...
Here you go. The letters are too long to include here without screwing up the thread, so I've moved them to a Google doc:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AWzXPiQen09oZGRoeno4Z2pfMz...
That's nice.

However, the work required to stay on top of Facebook's never-ending privacy snafu has become far greater than the small aggregation/old friend contact benefit. I'm out.
Dead Man Driving
per mschwar99 below

CNBC: Trading Error at Major Firm Blamed for Market Plunge: Sources (Story Developing)
Hacker develops multi-platform rootkit for ATMs for Black Hat
It's not about the uncertainty. But about aggregating information about that uncertainty through prices (in markets) or using that information to up your chances in, say, Poker.

In `pure' gambling, like betting on a coin flip, everyone already has all information. So it's less interesting, and warrants a different category of game.
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I wonder whether a large enough entity could actually deliberately hold and then suddenly sell enough of an instrument they believed to be undervalued, just to ensure their competitors stop losses executed, then immediately buy back the entire market for the instrument.
The rumor is that the Citi e-mini desk sold $16B of futures ($SPY) by mistake and meant to do $16M.

(I don't buy it. CNBC is propaganda.)
Old laptops are more energy efficient than old desktops. I use a few 10+ year old machines for various dedicated purposes. While most have no internal batteries, I plug them into a small $25 UPS and get the same brief power outage resilience that an internal battery would provide.
Once you get past a certain # of core staff (programmers and a few designers), you start to have overhead. Its almost unavoidable.

HR, legal, finance, PR, business dev, management, senior management, QA, tech support
For comparison, reddit has four people (I think).
I can't say that I disagree with you. If you notice, these sites use ready to go platforms or forums without much attention to mobile users. Shame.
There have been riots in Greece for at least several days though - photos of them have been showing up in my Facebook feed from a friend who is in Athens right now. I'm still not sure that explains today's sudden loss.
What is your opinion of people who refuse to get an email?

Not the same thing. Having an email address does not require any privacy tradeoffs.

I don't know anyone who "refuses" to get email, but I know a lot of people (believe it or not) who don't have computers. But they have phone numbers. I have to remember to leave them a voicemail when I email everyone else. In those cases, consideration > inconvenience.
Not that simple. You visit FB, then visit some other site. Your visit to that other website causes FB to subscribe you to an app of the site that has access to your data. How much profiling and tracking is reasonable to expect? Are other services doing this?
From cnbc.com:

Trading Error at Major Firm Blamed for Market Plunge: Sources (Story Developing)
The real reason why the stock market plunged
Ask HN: Non-profit organization doing a big event. Need tech ideas.
I work for a non-profit organization that promotes citizen involvement in public issues. We are doing a big event in Washington DC in a couple of months.

I was wondering if I could get some advice from fellow hackers about technology to use during this event such webcasting, getting people to participate online (your personal experience would be even better).

Our main goal is to get a lot of people (young and old) excited about this event. What I am looking for is technology ideas that can be used via website and social media outlets to promote/generate interest.

Thanks.
This is from Slashdot[1]. Also I would recommend giving a look at the (in my opinion) interesting briefings of Black Hat USA 2010 conference[2].

[1] http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/06/1229258/Hacker-Devel...

[2] https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-10/bh-us-10-briefings.ht...
Don't more people on earth write in non-Latin script?
And sometimes, you have to make that tool yourself.
Looks like its a glitch. money.cnn.com says "Faulty Proctor & Gamble quotes" were the cause.
It wouldn't be a morale nightmare for me, but for those people who aren't as motivated and are just sitting at the poverty line in terms of their progression in the workplace, knowing about stuff like this can loom over their head and create a plague of gossip and backtalk in the workplace.
>presumably works on non-keyboard phones

Yes , it does work on my Google Ion.
Update published on the article:

Facebook's Response
After this story was published, Facebook spokesperson David Swain contacted us and
confirmed that the appearance of unauthorized apps was a bug:

"In this case, there was a bug that was showing applications on a user’s
Application Settings page that the user hadn’t authorized.

No information was shared with those applications and the user’s list of
applications was not shown to anyone but the user. This bug has been fixed."

It does appear that unauthorized apps are no longer being added to users' pages,
however any unwanted applications that were previously added will still need to be
removed manually.
Isn't that backwards? Wouldn't a Greek default hurt German banks? Is there something I'm not seeing about how that would affect the issuers of German bonds?
ACN fell from about $40 to $0.01 and came back. 4000x or 400000%

Buying a few thousand $ worth at a penny wouldn't have been a bad trade.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ACN

EDIT: Such as trade would most likely be cancelled though.
Here's the short version:

"A possible culprit for the drop was a trader error in which someone entered a "b" for billion instead of an "m" for million in a trade."
"A possible culprit for the drop was a trader error in which someone entered a "b" for billion instead of an "m" for million in a trade. Multiple sources confirmed the report to CNBC and CNBC.com"

http://www.cnbc.com/id/36998463

That sounds hard for me to believe, but thats one rumor. That wouldn't account for the 10% drop but it might have put initiated the drop and then caused other people (and computers) to panic and sell.
I downvoted not because of your opinion, but for its lack of a substantive argument.
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