skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: So, Who's Graduating From School This Spring?
Fellow HN'ers,

Anyone graduating this Spring? What are your plans?

(Extra credit if you can explain in a tweetable, digestable size :-)
As I recall Intel did and maybe still does this. At one point it got over 10% a year....
I think it just went bye-bye.
Code Quarterly (The Hackademic Journal) interviewing Hal Abelson
One lesson I got from this is to follow trends. In this case, Wordpress and commercial themes. It's taken me years to see that most small businesses make money this way, rather than forging entirely new paths or inventing new technologies.. Find something that's already becoming popular, do it a bit better, profit..
Trading Error at Citigroup Blamed For Today's Selloff
Quality and Style with T Mobiles
Whoops, meant to run that script on the dev instance.
The Google design, turned up a notch
"You just saw my apartment," Zuckerberg replied. "I don't really need any money. And anyway, I don't think I'm ever going to have an idea this good again."

Now, that's a lean startup, huh?
Dupe. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320668
Well said. I completely agree with you first point. If you haven't made any money, you have a hobby not a business.
The unsettling fact remains: Facebook is tracking users' activity on third party sites without express permission (though perhaps it's in the TOS; I'm not sure). And evidently, they're somewhat incompetent at hiding that information.
s 10b aapl <RETURN> go for coffee ...
I especially like a Chuck Norris fact:

Chuck Norris [...] can divide by zero.

But also the XKCD "sudo make me a sandwich" one.
A blond walks into a bar and asks the barkeep for a double entendre.
So he gave her one.
Fun things they did:

(1) Tagging the DNA in a clean room.
(2) Digesting CpG sites, which are more prevalent in microbes, to make the rest of their work easier.
(3) Used allele frequencies to determine that all 3 source bones come from different individuals, though 2 likely share the same mother based on mtDNA analysis.
(4) Determined that all bones were from women.
(5) Determined that Neandertals are closer to non-Africans than to Africans.
A Study of Infographics: What makes them helpful, useless or downright deceitful
You probably are Part Neanderthal
We have about 99% overlap with chimpanzees (not counting copy numbers & some types of rearrangements). Neanderthal shares 96% of the 1% Homo sapiens/chimp difference with humans and 4% with monkeys. According to Green's population model, the estimated fraction of Neanderthal ancestry for non-African populations today is between 1 and 4% (I guess these are the numbers Fred Smith refers to as 2 to 5%). By the way, 10% of all Americans can be traced back to the Mayflower.
Wow, wealth is such a fragile thing - one typo can erase billions.
I call B$ on M$
We tend to have this discussion every few days. You will also see the "becoming reddit" thread every once in a while.
any decent trading system. When millsecs mean the difference between millions of dollars, having a trader type in all those zeros, then count them, would be costly time.

Fast traders don't click on icons and enter values, they enter an entire trade on one line.

Buy 1000 shares of Apple computer at 250.05 might be entered as:

buy1000aapl250.05
Looks like this sort of thing is becoming a trend. I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
The point is that companies shouldn't waste a lot of time trying to salvage or put up with people who aren't helping them succeed. If a person is hovering around the bottom 10% and they think the solution is to screw someone else over, they probably should go. I know I wouldn't want to work with them.
For those interested, "The (Mis)Behavior of Markets" by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson examines, among many other things, the 1987 "Black Monday" event. Mandelbrot theorizes that sudden, disproportionate events such as these may be much more common than today's models and distributions predict. It's a great, accessible read even for those not mathematically inclined.
According to an article update, the applications weren't actually authorized and were showing up when they shouldn't have been (aka they weren't actually 'installed'). Not that that restore my faith in Facebook whatsoever.

I never use facebook connect anyway.
UK general election live votes and totals
Actually IVW was down from 50+ to .10 to back up to 55 in a few mins (longer that other stocks) A lot of shares were traded between .01 and 30, I was able to squeeze in a small order of a few shares (<10) at $40 as I didn't have enough cash in hand.
Discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1325126
I too have been e-snubbed by Google. In this day and age I don't really expect a reply after an interview if I flunked it (though it would be nice), but emailing your recruiter a few days after the interview and having that email go into a black hole is not at all professional. Hell, last time this happened I pinged my recruiter twice, both messages disappeared into the ether.
Use sequence numbers, and issue replay requests for sequence gaps.
We are already a multi-creature symbiosis with bacteria. At least 500 species of bacteria, weighing about 3.3 pounds, live inside the human gut. The majority are from one of two phyla, the Firmicutes and the Bacteroides. They break down carbohydrates and make essential nutrients like vitamins K and B12. They also crowd out harmful bacteria. As Cynthia Sears at Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health says, “Just by mere force of numbers, the bad bugs are beat out by the good bugs.” http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/your-body-is-a-planet
I doubt I'm one of those 100 people either, but FWIW...

Greece is in fairly immediate danger because of a combination of three things:

(a) a large quantity of government bonds are up in a few days (19 May IIRC),

(b) they just don't have the money to honour the promises at present, and

(c) they have lost much of the ability to borrow that money from the usual market sources due to the downgrades in their credit rating a few days ago.

Because the Greek economy is tied to the Euro-zone, if Greece goes down it's a very serious problem for the other Euro nations as well. Thus we see some of the more financially powerful nations like Germany stumping up billions of Euros to avoid Greece defaulting, as long as Greece agrees to some pretty heavy "austerity measures" over the coming months and years so the money isn't just being thrown away because they're going to default eventually anyway.

Those measures in turn have already led to fatal riots in the streets, as to the average non-economist citizen, taxes are about to skyrocket, pension/retirement arrangements are getting significantly worse, etc. and no-one really knows why.

The trouble has actually been brewing for several years, since things like the Olympics broke their budget dramatically, but it's only with the recent worldwide economic conditions that it has become really obvious.

That's my understanding of why Greece in particular is in trouble today, but a somewhat similar story could be told about several other European nations, hence the general malaise in the markets.

I suspect this is a bit of a mountains and molehills situation. The odds of the rest of the Euro-zone actually allowing Greece to go bankrupt must be fairly slim, but of course the price of bailing them out is then being carried by those other countries and it's not loose change, so the markets are going to take a substantial hit all the same.
Ask HN: Dedicated hosting?
I definitely see the value in services like Slicehost/Linode but scaling up to larger plans for such services is basically the same cost as renting out a dedicated server. If I'm going to pay $300+/month I want the box to myself.

Does anyone out there know of any good dedicated server providers? After some googling I'm finding so many it's a little hard to sift through all the usual fluff.

Thanks
There was very very little volume at those trade levels - those trades happened on thinly traded electronic exchanges when the NYSE halted most of those stocks for 90 secs, removing liquidity and causing computers to fill market orders.
Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity In Words of Four Letters or Less
Having "scaling issues" would be a nice problem to have. That would be a hell of a lot better than the perpetual organ shortages we have now.
F5 Plays Key Role in Swisscom’s ‘Internet for Schools’ Initiative
Is xkcd not yet standard reading for developers in finance? http://xkcd.com/327/
Why not just assume that most stuff you post on Facebook is probably public? Saves a lot of time.
limit orders typically expire at the end of the day
We're livetweeting the stats behind the election too - @timetric, #electimetric.
Is there a way to hide the left hand column? I actually find it really distracting.

Also in FF 3.6.3 the text is not centered vertically in the search box. It's an FF CSS issue. I've seen it a few times before.
Honestly, if you don't know that CNBC is to the financial markets as what the Hee Haw is to the news, then I can't help you.

CNBC does NOT know what the cause of this was. The exchanges will come out with some "computer glitch" story or the "fat finger" excuse, but neither of those are true. FWIW, the fat finger excuse is, in a nutshell, some trader accidentally pressing the wrong button on the trading desk.

The market was at a technical support level with various moving averages, timelines, etc. all coming into play. Many people had/have stop losses because the market was/is looking due for a correction. Algo/HFT pounced on this, collectively, and thus the massive drop.

Trust me, if you are buying into what CNBC tells you, you are really missing the truth...
What's a few billion shares among friends?
I don't doubt that this is just one tiny aspect of Ayende's development practices, and in that context it's not necessarily even bad practice.

The problem I have with Ayende's statement is that it can seem like advice, and there are a huge number of inexperienced developers for which that advice is incredibly dangerous outside of the proper context.
IIRC, he ran out of money before the crash hit. If he had more capital, he would have cleaned up.
Literally, you're saying that because he stated a truth about pessimists, you decided to not read further. I think you're probably actually implying that you object to him promoting optimism, even though it is not accurate. Two counters to this:

1. a realist can use these ideas to be more accurate in their thinking. By being aware of when we are generalizing and personalizing, we can reconsider whether that is accurate or not. Although he said that a pessimist is more accurate than an optimist, it seems that a pessimist is not perfectly accurate, because pessimism creates distortions when over generalizing or over personalizing.

2. Your premise here, of insisting on positive knowledge, is a trap, because many things are unknown, and when failure has a low cost, experimentation is the rational strategy. Optimism supports this approach (you don't take failure seriously, and you keep trying.) But when failure has a high cost, being cautious is a more rational strategy. Pessimism supports this.

That is, for acting in the world, one should weight probabilities of success/failure by costs and rewards/dangers (as opposed to only observing, in order to discover probabilities for their own sake, as a scientist might, who isn't concerned about making something happen).

3. a bonus thought from my 101 Philosophy: studies have shown that athletes who believe they will perform better, actually do perform better. That is, an inaccurate estimation becomes accurate. Other Pygmalion effect:

> "Simply put, when teachers expect students to do well and show intellectual growth, they do; when teachers do not have such expectations, performance and growth are not so encouraged and may in fact be discouraged in a variety of ways" http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9902/pygm_1.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
http://chir.ag/wiki/pygmalion

For a literary perspective, there's also "My Fair Lady" (based on a play called Pygmalion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(play)#Adaptations) and this intriguing sequence from Paris Je T'aime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIa0454xfyI
Since this is in terms of "engagement", can anyone define just what that term means?

Working hypothesis: it's the number of times the object is referenced on each of the monitored social networks.
"What are they doing?"

Right now? Layoffs.
They make a ton of money on rebates:

http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/TraderNews.aspx?id=ETA2009-47
Seriously, our zeal to push the DMCA into every other country on the planet is bordering on creepy. Whether or not you think it would be good if that happened, it is not worth the amount of effort it's getting. Is the media industry really that powerful here?
Because this isn't something you posted on Facebook, this is just visiting a site and as a consequence having an application added. As the article points out, though the app doesn't show up on your profile, a friend who looks at the application home page will you see you in a list of "friends who have this application."

I agree it's hypocritical to post something on a Facebook wall and then complain if someone reads it; you post something, it's public to some extent, and you'd better be ready to face consequences of that. But this is an admitted bug that allows friends to see if you've visited a site without you having taken action other than visiting the site. That's just plain wrong.
fair point, not in finance so didn't consider this.

However I find it extremely foolhardy that mistyping one character has an impact one thousand times greater, and that such an action can be performed without some kind of validation (whether explicitly via a confirmation, or implicitly in how the UX is designed).

Then again it is probably because of the typo risk that bankers get paid so much ...
It would help if you provided a concrete example of the type of information you're looking for. If you want to get click-stream tracking, funnel breakdowns, eCommerce conversion, search usage, time-on-site, etc. just install Google Analytics. Takes just a minute and you'll learn more than you could have imagined.
"That wouldn't account for the 10% drop"

Welcome to the world of positive feedback loops, enjoy your stay.
Lol, thanks for the pointer.
I agree with your point of view, and it is the one I hold. I don't like that Facebook et al. ask me to give up my privacy, and I want a better option. In the meantime, if I want to get invited to events with friends, I must have a Facebook account. I don't want to debate privacy implications, I merely wanted to answer your "I still don't get it" remark.

You don't get it because your social circle doesn't live and breathe Facebook. For me, refusing to get a Facebook account would be the same as refusing to have an email account to you. Try talking to some middle schoolers or high schoolers - they are even worse than myself.

Again, I want to stress I do not approve of Facebook's stance on privacy and I do not disapprove of your stance on the platform or its usefulness - it is useful to some people, not all.
The turning point that is HTML5; are you ready?
I've heard it has its problems, but I cannot express to you how much worse AT&T is.
Q&A: Ernest Mueller on bringing Agile to operations
Enron did something like that IIRC. It may have even been based on peer reviews.
> I'm really not sure why you're being so argumentative with me.

I'm arguing with the claim that healthcare is an especially big deal. In almost all cases, it's smaller than rent and comparable to transportation and food. It takes less time than transportation and food. (Seriously - compare the amount of time you spend on each.)

As far as pre-existing conditions go, they're only an obstacle for folks who go bare for a while. In other words, the reality doesn't match the fears, again.

> Just that the tax situation is different if you get health insurance via an employer vs an individual plan.

That is a problem (albeit one that isn't as bad as it was - insurance is now deductible in more cases) but if you don't have an income, deductibility isn't worth much.
I never said anything about a "blip" and it is far from it. The equities markets are easy to manipulate; all you need is more $$ than the other guy and if all your friends are on board, that's a lot of $$ to move the market in the direction of your favor.

One of the reasons the forex markets are MUCH more difficult to manipulate is that you have $3.5 trillion traded daily. Not sure who can simply move that market. Equities on the other hand, much easier....
Doesn't that kind of software have annoying dialog boxes saying "Are you sure you want cause financial meltdown?"? Or at least a less intrusive "Did you mean 'm'?"?

It probably should.
A Milano la prima fiera per festeggiare i divorziati
NYSE: no technical problems during plunge
From a lofty level, yes.
First Impressions from Just Two Days in Boulder (Startup Week)
TechCrunch's take: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/06/google-redundant-ui/ (tl;dr side bar + top bar = redundancy)
An Innovator Leaving Japan
I've been saying this about Google for years. When a company makes money of off advertisements and gives away services for free, the people taking the services are not customers, and the free services are bait.
The title does not say or imply that they are joining Jobs. It says they are joining the argument.
quick thoughts as I look at the site
- make the whole discover, share, etc buttons clickable. Not just the bottom text

- i'm not convinced why i want to signup? Give me a reason. Probalby just one reason. Test 3 reasons and see which one gets more signups

- i feel overwhlemed by singup options. which do you care about most? focus on that. why even have such dominance of the "login" call to action? Most people that come to your site don't hvae an account yet. Creat account should be primary action. Sign-in shuld be a little link. people will find that.

-the header is too tall. reduce that and get teh important shit higher up on the page

- i signed in using facebook. why take me to this other page where i have to do other stuff? The location thing is broken. This page doesn't look like your website - therefore a user trusts it less. unify the experience. Is there a "start" button in this page? I can't see one. I don't even know how to submit my email address.

k, that should be some good stuff to work with
It doesn't look like he made it into the top 3. http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/112/
Django 1.2 RC 1 released
Last sentence: "Granted, I haven't been to Austin and haven't spent a significant amount of time in Silicon Valley..."
It's too bad his actual website is broken in FireFox, that seems like a bit of a downer compared to his awesome cover letter.
So what you are saying is they type it in with zeros.

Maybe you should have had an example not contrary to what you said.
Don't cry for Wall Street
this recent mq hype is really about the unification of a directory server, a wire protocol and a reliable (or not) message transfer scheme just like the good old smtp. once one sets up a proper directory solution (ldap) and uses thrift for serialization, the need for a messaging daemon goes away -- every publisher can keep an (optionally) persistent queue however they want.. so the mq becomes just a library.

it seems to me that imatix guys have been there, done that and saw that mq-as-library was the way to go for a more efficient and reliable distributed transaction processing system. http://www.zeromq.org/whitepapers:brokerless is an interesting read in this regard.
set up a twitter account and encourage people to follow it with mobile updates during the event.

Use it to announce interesting things people might want to know while they're at the event.

Example: "Don't forget to check out the Green-Energy Table in the Lobby"
Disneyfication.
The investors I know want to match their risk profile with the risk profile of the founders.

That means that if they are risking 1% of their net wealth, they would like the founders to also risk ~1% of their net wealth - even if that means $4m or $40.

This is because they don't want founders to have incentives that don't align with theirs. You are right that no one wants a founder who is under-invested as they may end up not pushing hard enough.

But a founder who is over-invested might cause even more problems because if a 2x return means they get to keep their house they might not go all out for a 50x return if it puts that 2x return at risk.
> but "senior officials" from Washington should be saving their political clout for legitimate international issues.

How about not?

Think of it as taking one for the team. The time that they spend screwing up Canada is time that they can't spend screwing up something else.
Sounds like a "Black Swan".
>If an object cannot change it follows that it can be shared freely between different threads of execution without fear of concurrent modification.

Ok, but then is there a reason to have immutability with collections that aren't shared by multiple threads? I love that Clojure is trying to address these big problems, but I'm not convinced they're on the right track.
Business plan pitch tips
This is complete horseshit. The "trader" was a "computer".
The pdf link doesnt work for me, anyone else have a copy?
I'm graduating with a BA in Economics.

Plans: I'll be writing software... like I have for the past 2 years ;)
""Will customers buy my product, and if so, at what price?" is an enormously non-trivial question, and the entire discipline of marketing revolves around trying to answer it."

Very true. However, if you have sites on the Internet that are more popular than yours giving the same thing out for free, eventually you won't have to even ask the question. It will be answered for you: $0. Most people take the path of least resistance. If they are given the choice of downloading something for free or buying it for $50, many will always find a reason to justify not paying for it.

If the pirates were actually coming out with something innovative and competing (an example would be creating independent labels to compete with recording industry) the industry would truly have to worry. Instead, content is just copied for free and spread around. The only real defense to is to add more protection. Since the demand is just as strong, the industry doesn't really know if a loss of sales is because they are putting out shit or because of freeloaders.

It actually may prevent good movies, music, and software from coming out and hurt consumers in the long-run. But, most people don't care. They just want free stuff and will go to great lengths to justify it.
"See Randomness" by Paul Graham fits here. Yes, you didn't get the job, but the person never meant to make you mull and wait. You just weren't their first priority, put e-mailing you back on the back burner, then went off to do something else and forgot.

It's unfortunate and inconsiderate, but it's part of life. After a week, give up and move on to the next one.
"Dependant"?
Just another day on Wall Street.
You need to understand that with this sort of product, there is always somebody betting against you, and if your models aren't good enough to make you indifferent to the fact that the guy on the other side got to choose some of the securities in the pool, given that you get to see what's in it before you place your bet, then you shouldn't be dealing in instruments that are this complex in the first place.
I remember a similar situation a couple years back, when I was thinking of working in EE. Many calls with the recruiter, two in-persons, and then crickets. Nothing.

It frustrated me at the time, at least until I came to my senses and got two Perl jobs within a week.

But I admit, it felt pretty good when a few months later, I accidentally dialed the recruiter and interrupted her sleep. I still keep her in my address book, just in case. Treat people fairly and they might forget it; treat them poorly and they'll remember for sure.
Does anyone know how to submit a bug with Google Chrome?