skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the way, the WSJ has already disappeared this article, so you know it is something important. And no it is not on google cache.

I found from the google summary that the boston beer company, maker of sam adams, hit started out at 50, crashed down to 0 and then immediately climbed back up to 50. Google finance has it crashing down to 14 only, probably because their graphs are not very granular.

This is really concerning. Not because it crashed (companies fail all the time), but because it went up and down so quickly without there being any changes to the actual business prospects of the company whatsoever. It really shows something is wrong.
Probably you're the only one at the restaurant who cares that you're eating alone. Certainly your dinner alone is well below Yahweh's interest threshold.

So, relax, slow down, and enjoy your meal. Because you're not busy talking, you can appreciate your food better.
Well, I don't fully agree with this guy (I think I don't, actually I'm not fully sure of where he's going). But I've also thought for some time that user-side scripting in modern AJAX apps is getting ridiculous. If you look at the javascript code generated for a GWT app, for instance, it's quite large and hardly understandable.

I don't know, web app development sometimes feels a lot like trying to turn screws with a hammer. HTML4 wasn't really designed to support dynamic applications, yet we've made it work, more or less, by abusing and patching. Nevertheless it was designed for static content, and it shows.

I'm afraid I'm not too familiar with HTML5 yet, so I don't know if it changes this, but from what little I've read it doesn't seem so.
http://serverbeach.com and http://layeredtech.com are both one I currently use. Like another commenter noted, ServerBeach sometimes takes a while to respond, but the same server is over $100/month cheaper with them than at LayeredTech. On the other hand, the Cedar Falls facility that LayeredTech runs is freakin' awesome.
With regards to default viewmodes, that's working for iPaper and is coming soon for the HTML5 viewer.

Go ahead and upload documents in any formats supported by Scribd ... they'll be added to our conversion queue and appear as HTML 5 documents when ready.
I found this a terrific reading experience. I love the fact that everything just appears in one page.

It's a huge achievement to pull this off, preserving the fidelity with the original text. Many congrats to Scribd for pushing the state of document-sharing forward like this.
I used to do Django development just around when 1.0 came out. Even though the new features section doesn't seem huge, the release docs for 1.2 kind of makes me want to revive some of my old projects again!
I literally just changed this off of that view mode! We have a number of documents that we are launching this with, and we wanted to showcase a number of different view modes.
how to get over failing: move on.
We're aware that there are text-selection inconsistencies (caused by the way browsers handle text above images). We're working hard on improving that.
I just saw the new HTML docs for the first time using Chrome on Linux and it blew my mind. It needs a bit of polish still it seems on some of the font anti-aliasing but overall it's amazing. Lightweight, easy to scroll, fast and oh - look... my CPU usage isn't spiking to 70% because no flash is running :)

Great work guys - you really have upped the ante and I hope given Flash the deathstroke by proving it's doable.

I'd recommend if possible that you provide some of your tools and code to the web as open source - if you can make it easier for other people to dump Flash you could truly start a revolution worth joining.
Try the fullscreen button -- is that what you're looking for?
Does it appear in document lists? Or is knowing the URL the only way in?

The "ethical" concern I have is that it encourages behaviour like that shown on hn - with the scrape link added automatically. There is a distinct difference there compared to people uploading documents themselves (IMO anyway).

Of course if it's stored but not indexed that feels fine.

(thanks for clarifying)
I want to see how it works on mathy latexed pdf documents. I've yet to experience an online reader that handles that robustly.
All up I like what you're doing but it's broken in Opera. After playing in Firefox:

- Text selection is really awkward, drag too far and you select unrelated stuff from nearby elements instead or as well

- The navigation stuff feels really weird down the bottom, probably because most software puts that stuff up the top

- The blue/gray page strip is weird, it feels more like a zoom tool rather than page navigation

- In book/slideshow mode the length of the page and the toolbar being all the way at the bottom makes me think I should still be scrolling

- Zooming in book mode has some of the site components overlaying it, in slideshow mode it adjusts properly
I used to skip scribd search results and I won't anymore.

This is a million times better. Not just the reader (which is awesome) but the site design itself. Obviously a lot of thought has gone into it. I really like the way the footer/toolbar behaves when you reach the end of the page.

Well done!
Awesome upgrade. I've always wanted to read Scribd documents on my phone, but had to do the bass-ackwards method of downloading to PDF then uploading to my phone.

Are my existing docs in HTML5? What happens now to embeds?
i really disliked the way it auto-hid. I'd rather it remain visible.
You could install the proprietary add-on that landyman linked, or you could install this one, assuming you don't already have it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682

Then just go to www.google.com/custom and make that your default firefox search.

I found this solution more elegant, as I already used the add-on.
We have some ideas about hooking the slider in with thumbnails. What we think the slider affords us is a nice way to give more context to moving around a document. Currently, it gives page numbers as you move and snaps to pages. These are outside the scope of the native scroll (to some extent) and we would like to take this part of the UX even further.
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Thanks yes.

Also the "readcast" popup is pretty annoying IMHO, popping up each time, obscuring the document.
how is mockingbird on it?
The only pattern that I can recognize is that it's impossible to select an entire line character-by-character with the mouse- I can do it by triple-clicking the line, though.
Isn't this backward? From what I can tell the HFTs may have pushed down the price quickly, only to buy in and take part in the correction.

Similar to Magnatar, this is the "lose a little money to make a lot more" strategy.
Health care law's hidden tax change to launch 1099 avalanche
SEO+++++++++
This is something we are quite proud of. You will get to read more about how it all came together when some of our engineers like matthiaskramm publish their blog posts.
Previously people had asked for a more ... mainstream source about this onerous change.

Note that collecting the info necessary to send out these 1099s is going to cost a lot (e.g. you need the recipients Tax Identification Number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_identification_number).

Lots of commentary at the TaxProf Blog http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2010/05/cnn-health.h...
Facebook is disturbingly anti-user. Such hypocrisy! With one hand they build their platform on open-source tools that thrived on data sharing, and with the other they take away the basic rights of online users.

I'm very close to saying forget it. I can see all the pictures anyways. (At the rate their privacy is decreasing.)
You should see some of my generics code...

Of course in Objective-C I would use casting so, indeed, it might be more verbose overall.
I'm super hopeful this becomes standard in browsers. It'll open up more creativity ways to have fun with users. Only recently did Flash include this functionality.

Essentially, you could build apps like Ableton Live type apps in the browser.
That's helpful, thanks!
and was later cancelled
We live in a world full of cattle. Go to school, get a job, retire, etc... Fill out a boring resume, get promoted, get promoted again, have kids, GOTO 10.

Even if someone is good at their job, I'd never hire some run-of-the-mill joe who has zero creativity over someone like this, who thinks outside the box a bit and gives something like this a shot.

It's certainly not a trend, we're just seeing a lot of these unique approaches to being employed recently on HN.
This is a pet peeve of mine.

I don't blanket email my resume places. If I send it to your company, I've done at least a couple hours of research on your company (home page, crunchbase, glassdoor, first page of G results, etc) and written a custom cover letter explaining why I'm interested, where I think I fit, what I can do for this company in particular, and how I think that matches its needs. Good companies, in particular, send an email saying yes, no, or maybe inside two days (to an interview, obviously, not to a job). And if the answer is no, it's not personal; just not the right fit / right time etc.

Companies that don't email me back? I keep a spreadsheet with their names. Companies that don't give me a quick no thanks email after a phone screen or test or in person interview? I actively share that blacklist with friends.

Edit: Also, companies that email me back promptly -- even if the answer is no -- go on my spreadsheet of companies to look at first next time I'm thinking about a new job. What I want is an employer that treats people with respect, even when they can't be forced to do so or have no investment in that person.
HN is using the "slurp" API we make available at scribd.com/developers. Documents uploaded via the slurping system are marked as private and uploaded to a fixed "slurp" account for which no one (outside of Scribd) has the password.
I beg to differ. The article did a good job of blending physiological fact, psychological data and accident statistics in a coherent narrative.

As for the stuff making you relate to the guy - well, the whole point is that everybody believes it can't happen to them. The idea is - every fatal crash has a backstory, and yours doesn't protect you from it.

[Edit: the last link in that article might be of more interest to HN too: http://www.zoomsafer.com, which on quick perusal seems to be a service that automatically detects you are driving (presumably my monitoring your speed) and automatically autoresponds to calls by telling them where you are]
Check it out on this baby:

http://www.scribd.com/documents/5/Paper-5

That's a LaTeX paper by one of the guys who built the reader.
I'd have to agree with what Mike Arrington said: "I would summarize the best parts for you but, really, the whole thing is the best part."
Can't reply to you directly axod, so I'll put it here. To better support fullscreen viewing and other setups, we still have some behaviors to figure out with those pop-out dialogs.
Looks gorgeous. I'd make the tool tray fall down a bit faster, but it's awesome. And I love the subtle blue lights across the bottom.
Beautiful! Great app, guys.

The things that stands out to me right now, both good and bad, are

1) how much faster it loads compared to Google's reader

2) how much laggier it is when scrolling compared to Google's reader

3) When I land on the page, I look to the right and see half the page taken up with meta-content (ratings etc) – it's pretty dominant. Perhaps there's a way to tone it down a bit?

4) The selection issues other have brought up

5) It's beautiful!

6) I'll be using you guys a lot more (reading, and eventual publishing) now that you've done this :)

(Used the link axod provided: http://tinyurl.com/33339j8)
Don't talk to me in terms of features, talk to me in terms of benefits. Why would whatever this guy is suggesting benefit anyone ie- the normal person?

Sure HTML5 has some cool features (offline, canvas, location,etc.), but the benefit is simple: get fast beautiful desktop class applications inside of your browser so that you can use them anywhere without any IT headaches.
Holy shit that's awesome. I've longed for the day that latex2html dies a well deserved death and there aren't ugly little rasterized images where every mathematical symbol goes.
If you have a Scribd account, visit http://www.scribd.com/account/edit#sharing and turn off all the Readcast options. The popup will be suppressed.
So you basically want to make scribd.com some sort of PDF aggregator?
Weird to see a "tl;dr" text in the original article.

But, why put it at the end ? And, actually, why not replace this with a proper abstract after the title. It's old-school, but would be much better.
Hrm. I wonder why Omni decided it was?
I'd kill for $1.00 / click on any traffic. $0.05 is still pretty good.
We're in the process of back-converting existing documents to HTML5. Most of your recent public documents should be converted now or soon, with private docs to come later.
about 3: there is a way to tone that down- click on "fullscreen" (the square with the arrow) on the bottom toolbar.
Don't they enter the number itself, i.e. 1000000 instead of 1000000000. Doesn't seem so easy to get wrong.
That'd be some mighty fat finger to hit the b and not the m... without hitting the n.
I live in japan now since a couple of years and can agree with the article to some extent but get the impression that this is not the full picture and there is a lot missing.

Recently, I also attended a presentation from a "The Economist Intelligence Unit [2]" which painted a similar picture. In a nutshell, japan has now a strong position but will decline economically if the current government doesn't take serious steps to reduce and avoid, e.g. bureaucracy overhead.

Some interesting points from my notes:

- The case of Apple vs. Sony is for instance only a software issue not hardware. Sony doesn't encourage collaboration.

- Apple iPod production is a very interesting case anyway in respect that it is partly made in japan [1]

- Growth in regional differences (e.g. fukoaka prefecture has invested heavily in education and infrastructure. Has now strong ties with Busan area in Korea.) will be strong drivers for future markets.

- Too many "big basket" companies in japan

- Very competitive market (e.g. accepted ROI in japan is 4-5% while internationally it is more like 10-15%)

- Privatisation in japan started in 2005 (!). It takes very long to get products into the market

- Successful companies managed to roll their own efficient distribution chain (e.g. Uniqlo, Ikea, 7eleven)

- It takes at least twice as long to get the ROI than anywhere else. International companies are too short sighted

- Japanese consumers are very demanding and less forgiving. To get it right here is very difficult.

Startup wise there is also a growing environment, especially in seed funding for new ideas University wise. I attended another presentation from UTEC [3] where the growth rates they had were very impressive.

Current outlook for japan is not good, but that is mostly because they are too immobile and have too much bureaucracy. We are going back to 1840 standards where the global economy is dominated by China and India anyway.

Reference:

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/business/worldbusiness/28s...

[2] http://www.eiu.com/

[3] http://www.ut-ec.co.jp

EDIT: Formatting
Um, google was already indexing all documents on scribd. And while it's possible this will result in better SEO, I think it's more likely that all the html necessary to build documents with layout will confuse google's crawler/parser rather than help it. So on balance, I'd bet this is at best neutral for SEO and at worst pretty hard on it. I think Scribd really is doing this for the reading experience.
No need to pay for the API, just the trades you make with it -- which could get expensive.

Interactive brokers has an API for their software. It's fairly easy to use.

http://interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=programInterface...

They say it right on the web page and I'll repeat it here: Try it with paper trading first! Bugs in these kinds of algorithms are costly.
As for #3. Try our fullscreen mode. It's awesome.
LOL, your usernames are different from the original poster, but I'm guessing a few fellows from scribd HQ are monitoring this thread. =)

Thanks for the responses! I'm assuming then that the default viewmode will change depending on the document (ex. an e-book will default to 'book', and a pptx doc will default to slideshow)?

I will also 2nd the request for keyboard shortcuts as suggested below. Maybe activate page-up & page-down in full screen mode.

As also mentioned already, page thumbnails would be great.
But to the extent that judgement and algorithms inform and are informed by our anticipation, it is very much that.
This is normal procedure. In the US, if a trade is an obvious rip-off to one party, the exchange usually cancels it. It's better to be horribly incompetent and off by 50% than marginally incompetent and make a trade that's 0.5% bad.

In Japan, on the other hand...
Nowadays I'm afraid to surf the net whilst logged onto facebook. That's how bad it's gotten.
We'll consider making that a preference, so you can prevent it from hiding.
It would be nice to see Patrick / patio11's thoughts on this...
I don't think we are doing millisecond-resolution trades by hand.
I agree the bureaucracy overhead is significant. They love paperwork here.
Apple explicitly claims the trademark in their press releases.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/05/03ipad.html
It's right here: http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/05/06/four-mega-drops-of-the...

Please don't invent shadowy conspiracy theories where they don't exist.
Yes we will do some detection based on document type for the default view mode.
1. Your domain is, in my opinion, terrible. We spent three minutes trying to pronounce it.

2. "We have >7,000 users, and lots of them are still super active in the community." That's actually great start! Why aren't you trying to expand?
Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor
It's entirely computers. The only thing that real people do is continually optimize the algorithms.

The way that bid prices and baskets and whatnot turn into financial transactions of X stocks for Y dollars on the stock exchange is deterministic and publicly known. If you can look at these data as they come into the stock exchange, and calculate it faster than the stock exchange, you can effectively see about 5-10 milliseconds into the future. Using this information, you can put in a bid yourself and insert an additional transaction with you as a middleman between two parties that would have been paired up and traded, and skim a penny per stock by narrowing the spread between the bid price and the ask price.

Since the concept relies on predicting and performing a transaction while another nearly-instant transaction is being processed, it's not possible for this to function with human intervention. Even computers aren't fast enough unless the data centers are physically located very close to the stock exchange.

Previous HN story, now paywalled: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007726
The options on the left change depending on your query. It’s not entirely redundant.

Searching for facebook privacy shows Blogs first, then News, searching for new york shows Maps, News, Blogs, Images and Videos. Different options in a different order.

That has advantages (displaying Maps first when searching for places seems like a great idea) but also disadvantages: options switch places and are not always immediately accessible. Keeping the top bar (where services have a fixed location and are always displayed) seems like a good compromise. Admittedly not the most elegant thing.
A good use of the narrative fallacy goes a long way in fulfilling the objective of stuffing people full of actionable safety information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_fallacy#The_narrative...
The font in that document is really hard to read at times. Pixelated and blurry. And the little tool bar at the bottom popping up all the the time is annoying.

That said, I applaud the effort and see it as a HUGE step forward from the old flash version.
C's "types" are just interchangeable methods of interpreting a pile of bits. That's not a strong type system, that's types on the honor system.
I honestly can't stand it. I want my 100% screenspace back.

Why can't I hide this fucking left panel?
Every web browser now has a search box as an extension of, or complement to, the address bar. I think, more and more, people are only going "to Google" when they want something more complicated than a click and a jump.
Vulnerability databases and pie charts don't mix
in my browser (ff 3.5.9) fonts are very small $(
That's true, and if you think about it, that's what the employer is doing as well. Simultaneously moving forward with many people, and choosing the best match. Nothing wrong with it on either side, as long as everyone is courteous. A reasonable employer should have no problem with this.
BS in Mechanical Engineering here, with 10 days to graduation. Then I'm going to trying out everything: applying for jobs, trying to get a research assistantship for grad school (hopefully RoMeLa), starting freelancing, and working on a web app which will hopefully be startup material. Let's just see what sticks.
Cynicism is cheaper than empathy, so I guess I deserve that.
Traded at $0.00 a share? Or the consumer-level database that this guy is looking at says "zero"?

(Sadly, I work in currency trading, so I don't have any better data about this. But I know when I see a 0 in the database, I take that to mean "computer error", not "someone bought a billion euros for zero dollars". Because even buggy computer programs aren't that stupid.)
Of course HFT is not the root cause, it might have burned the fuel(stops) when acceleration approached terminal speed. However last tuesday and even before that VIX was on record heights and it pushed even higher today. No fat fingers then. Market is trying to tell us something, obviously. Cumulation was there, this was just a first in a series of explosions triggered by one reason or the other (greece/eu/trichet inaction today).
It does look really great, but more than that I wanted to thank you for a really classy post. I certainly thought I was in a timewarp when I saw the submission title.
But the big players do the safety checks at compile time, so at runtime, it's simply not possible to make one of these mistakes. Theorem proving might not be necessary for your "hello world" rails app, but it is something that the finance industry likely applies.

(Disclaimer: I do not work with any algorithmic trading systems. Humans do a pretty good job of trading, too.)
The best commentary I have read so far is from Phil's stock world:

This is everything that is wrong with program trading in a nutshell and I am telling you that this was a multi-billion dollar crime. Someone "fat-fingered" Billions of shares instead of millions and that’s all it takes to send the markets down 10% in one day and the only reason trading didn’t shut down was because Mr. Fat Finger just so happened to make his mistake minutes after the usual trading brakes come off at 2:30. What a friggin coincidence, right? Well, bad luck to all who got wiped out and what a funny stroke of luck for those with multi-billion dollar shorts (including us fortunately so we shouldn’t complain too loudly). It’s amazing what "THEY" get away with right in front of us, in broad daylight….