skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second the notion that making sense of the data is extremely complicated (assuming that your answer is not just "there were more sellers than buyers").

First, the amount of data is extremely large. See the BATS connectivity manual, page 8. They require a MINIMUM connectivity speed of 1Gbps PER FEED. Page 9 shows that the peak rates are higher than this. Note that this is only one exchange of many.
http://batstrading.com/resources/membership/BATS_Connectivit...

Second, even if you could make sense of all the data, there's people on the outside creating the data. A full model of what happened would require knowing what is going through their minds.
Huh the icon is still there for me, but it is no longer clickable. That's really strange...
I've been using Spreeder to read online articles and long blog posts for a few years now. I'm amazed at how much information I retain from reading at 300 words/minute.

http://www.spreeder.com/app.php
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This is exactly why I switch hobbies every few months. You spend so much time learning to do the thing before you actually try it. Like kayaking, or rock climbing, then you figure out that once you know what you are doing it just becomes repetitive. I wish there was a to just jump past the learning curve to experience things before you learn how to do them.
Some of the 'talk radio' conservative pundits are more like cult leaders than talk show hosts. (i.e. they do not hold, nor inspire rationality in their followers/faithful)
I think that all you need to do (for now) is to register. They've said they're going to go to a real paywall system within a year.
I still think you need to be much clearer here. _Nothing_ about Mercurial is unsafe - mq has dangerous edges, and we're aware of that. I'm trying to design something that's more flexible and safer than mq, but these things take time.

Let me state it to be clear: mq is your problem, not Mercurial. Mercurial is perfectly safe.
The lecture sounded really familiar - from here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_pink_on_motivation.htm...
He lost $10.3bn, and I haven't. Therefore, I am more financially savvy than he!

("Think of the money you'd save if you didn't need money" - Lorraine Bowen.)
It's not a question of censoring the internet. It's a question of whether piracy (copyright infringement) is illegal and unethical. The fact that we can't stop murder except by draconian measures (outlawing picking up a rock even...) doesn't somehow mean we shouldn't be opposed to murder.
I really wish they offered a 512MB server for $0.05/hr.
At $0.11, their smallest instance still costs over $80/month.

I find $80 cost-prohibitive when considered in the context of a side project that I'd like to try out.

If AWS had a cheaper, less powerful option, I'd use it in a minute, because I really like their how their pricing scales and the feature set they provide.
Some ultra low voltage processor models get around 10hrs of battery life as well. The Asus UL series get really good battery life, at least under Windows.

I have a UL80vt running Ubuntu 9.10 and get around 5hrs on that with the screen at full brightness (b/c brightness control only works with reboot). It also uses the nvidia dedicated graphics afaik (it has hot-switchable dual graphics under windows).
Long lines and bottom trawling make the ocean small and accessible while causing massive amounts of "bycatch" - species unsuitable for eating.
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You don't need anywhere near 5-10mm. You need about 50k.
Care to elaborate?

% signs are handled fine - they get encoded into %25 which then gets shortened to a single 'x' character - thus counted as a single byte.

Similarly, for example € gets encoded to "%E2%82%AC" which then gets correctly counted as 3 bytes.

I'm not quite sure what value of 'broken' you're thinking of? Did you try this and find it didn't work in some particular circumstance?
Google should host and cache some nice free fonts for everybody to use in their sites, so we can give the web a face lift.
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(I'm Zazu's geek)

Gimme an email if you're interested in beta testing: marc [at] getzazu [.] com
A call is invoking a known method bound to the object. In a call based system, the semantics of the object are defined by its interface.

A message is invoking a universal message receiver method bound to all object. Semantics are determined by message content processing. (c.f. "meta boundaries").

It seems accurate then to say "message passing is a specialized form of method invocation that relies on a universal receiver method and delegates the invocation of object methods to the receiver.
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Even with science, you don't get to interrogate a captured terrorist that 100% for sure knows where the bomb is/how to disable it - i.e. the Jack Bauer non-dilemma.

There will always be a probability.. is there a 70% chance he knows where the bomb is, and maybe only 95% chance that the bomb is actually in place, correctly assembled and activated. NOW how many people would you have to theoretically save to make it OK to torture him?

And then there's the human factor. Who wants to be the guy that didn't torture the 70%-terrorist whose bomb subsequently blew up a mall?

What science can answer how many innocents it is OK to accidentally torture to save a number of people?
I'm sure he feels really dumb as he swims around in his Scrooge McDuck style swimming pool of gold coins
This happens often in Obama's speeches. If you watch them whole they're insightful, well thought out, and very meaningful. However, both the visual and printed press have no patience to actually deliver the full content, but rather will always take a soundbite, or quote out of context, thus leaving the rest of the speech meaningless. It's unfortunate that the majority of Americans don't actually read or watch the speeches in whole.

Personally, I think this is part of what he was getting at.
Because just say it out loud. "Ov" is pronounced "Of."
That's where I got my inspiration from, but wanted to see if I could code it myself, with the ability to have it "marquee" across, loading different amounts of words at a time, without removing words I may have (or may not have) already read.
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My relationship with death remains the same as ever. I'm strongly against it.
This is idiotic.

Faced with a serious employee morale problem and options under water, Steve took action to get his employees motivated.

I can't say that said action was essential, but it's hard to see Apple being where they are now if they'd hemorrhaged key staff during bad times.

And in personal terms, there is no difference between having $2Bn and $13Bn in your back pocket. Unless you're convinced you need a third personal Airbus A380 super-jumbo VIP transport, or a dozen extra castles, or something on a similar batshit scale, the diminishing marginal utility of money makes it all moot after the first billion.
Yes, why to be an atheist is debatable, and I wasn't trying to get into reasons to be an atheist, simply observe that some atheists cite this as a reason for losing their faith.

In fact, I have no desire to discuss religion at all. I was trying to make the observation that I believe there are 3 over-reaching concepts that play together in various ways in various cultures -- and such interplay is not just a human construct.

Death is the end of life, and any further meaning anyone might add, is completely arbitrary.

Yes, death exists. We all choose what meaning to assign it. I may decide to become a doctor to prevent it. I may decide to give my life in a war. I may choose to creatively explain what happens after it. The point is that it is a concept that is part of intelligent existence.

Suffering a result of chemicals in the brain? Perhaps as perceived by the person. From an external viewpoint, however, suffering seems to be part of watching things live. I'm not sure what the chemical makeup of an antelope's brain is the minute the cheetah catches it, but it can't be very happy. The process looks like suffering to the external viewer.

The larger point is that metaphysical concepts can allow us to reason about other life forms in the universe. If that's a true statement, then I think that's pretty cool.
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Yes. There's also the possibilities to have open data types in Haskell.

Also type classes, and being able to add instances for any type are closely related to your examples.
There is a song in there, somewhere.
I was gonna say, isn't that the name of the royal major domo from The Lion King? But then I read the article and... I see what ur doin there.
Those are included here (as you would expect with an open licence product but which is a new thing for fonts):

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/foundry/The-League-of-Moveable-T...

and

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/foundry/Barry-Schwartz
"I'd imagine your customer felt more involved in the process and felt she had more ownership of the project because of it."

Either that or he wondered why he needed to tell you what to do every hour.
I can't even see the Icon
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/4002/nobuttons.jpg
And:

http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/index.html
UK has been chip+pin for some years now. Most places won't accept non-chip cards any more.

Also the story with banks isn't the same all over. For example, Barclays, one of the biggest banks in the UK accepted no government bailout, and continues to post big profits.
During that time MD also used SCO Unix widely. I worked for a retail systems company where the SCO sales guys always bragged about it.
> Not everyone who criticizes technology is a luddite.

I think that issue is denouncing something, while at the same time admitting that you know nothing about it. It makes you sound as if you are just resistant to change because it's different and new. Granted, the Obama quote is taken out of context, but leaving the quote out of context, this is the issue that people are arguing over. Not necessarily that any criticism of technology makes someone a Luddite.
I didn't know % gets encoded. So you're right, your code does work : )
Can anyone in algorithmic trading/investment software suggest a good place to start reading and learning about the subject? In particular, I'd like to learn about investment strategies and algorithmic trading. It seems like many of you work in the field and know quite a bit about the subject, whereas some of us are on the outside trying to look in.
You're absolutely right. Those were the two flaws in my statements. But, my main point (however poorly stated) is that the internet should be viewed as a successful reference tool and not a failed enlightenment or educational tool.
This is one of the best books I've read. As an entrepreneur, it will get you to think differently on how you motivate people. Before, I use to think that if I pay a person to do a task that should be sufficient. Now, I encourage purpose and deliver a vision. You would be amazed at how easy it is to 'rally the troops' by doing this.

Read this book now.
Clojure is nice (I have been using it more often for customer work). For me, Clojure still lacks the totally immersive feeling of using (as examples) Gambit-C with Marc Feeley's Emacs support (unbelievably sweet error handling/debugger) or Common Lisp with Slime. Clojure with swank-clojure is nice, but is still running in second place.

All that said, given a free choice, I use Ruby for most tasks.
> Emmm, Socrates was right

Consider the following statement:

It's a good thing that the Library of Alexandria
was destroyed, because now all of that information
was handed down the *right* way, through oral
tradition...
An iframe is an implementation detail, when I'm wearing my 'user' hat I see stuff on CNN that shouldn't be there. Whether it is technically hosted elsewhere is of interest but to a user it probably does not matter much.
This is a cool idea. I suppose it would need some rudimentary analytics over time to work as an actual training tool?

One suggestion: For me, at least, my reading relies on the shape of the sentence. And I think for everyone they would be looking at the right edge of the sentence as more words are coming in. So it's really jarring to have the right edge jumping around, and it might make more sense to right-align the marquee.
I seemed to get the optimum reading speed and fluidity at 300 wpm, 10 words at a time, reading in 1 word at a time.

Edit: I also second mahipal's recommendation to right-align the text.
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If the "low fruit" species are fished out, then the more remote, less desirable species are likely to be targeted. There is also the danger of damaging the eco system, or at least destabilizing it in unpredictable ways.
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Well, that's a matter of perspective. In any event if this were to be implemented in the Django template language it would be implemented as a tag like this, just as {% for %}, {% if %} and everything else are. Everything is a first class citizen :)
Success vs Achievement
She couldn't put in the two hours to watch the movie?
No I can't say that. But neither can you with any certainty proclaim the opposite.

I admit that the particular use of "not just a vocal minority" wasn't accurate, if you interpret it to mean that the majority of Facebook users are concerned. You could also interpret my statement as "there are more people than just a vocal minority who are concerned." My point is that this is a pretty big deal, not just something that HN readers are up in arms about.
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The motives and moral decay historically attributed to Jews by anti-semites is the same as that currently attributed to speculators. Yes, finance is one area where Jews have historically had significant power and influence, and so the "anti-speculation" rhetoric is often wielded against them.
Bird in the hand, old chap--bird in the hand.
Cool

1) It would be cool if the up and down arrow keys would make it faster and slower, or have some kind of gradual slider or something.

2) Doesn't speed reading have less to do with actual linear speed and more to do with effective and efficient scanning of the page? (I've heard people talk about moving from top left to bottom right)
300 words/minute looks awfully slow to me. I can speak faster than that. Reading speed can be much faster than speech, especially if you get rid of subvocalization ("speaking" words in your head as you read).

I don't see the advantage of flashing a word at a time. Reading works best when the eye can scan a bunch of words simultaneously. If anything, I'd try flashing a line of text at a time.
Depends on the startup. Apple was two guys. Google started as two guys. Same with Microsoft. Then as things grow they often hire rapidly.
> No, global warming is not a government plan.

The proposed solutions to GW are. Politicians will play a significant part in distributing carbon credits. And you said it yourself:

> (even the alternative energy technologies that are being heavily subsidized in R&D and production).

Subsidized by whom? Private companies that only exist because of government money really aren't private.

I disagree with the OP that it's a scheme to control capital, I don't think it's a scheme of any kind. I just think politicians happen to absolutely love an issue with an absolute evil and a very difficult and expensive solution. No matter how much, the other guy will never be able to do enough.

My main beef with GW isn't the science. I think it's highly entertaining to follow stuff like ClimateGate, but my beef is with the politics. "Solutions" to GW invariably includes hugely expensive government programs.
I MAED U A TRNSLATION, AN I DINT EATED IT!

As you might have read or noticed, people are once again trying to shut us down. This will not succeed. Our really nice web host was threatened with a really huge fine, so we decided to move the site so that they wouldn't get into trouble. The decision to move was made by us, The Pirate Bay.

TPB, only in it for the laughs since 2003.
Sweet! Let me pull this up on my iPhone.
Yeah, when is Obama going to realize that actions or theatrics will be a much more effective means of communicating his points than long thoughtful speeches? All he had to do, was wait for the opportunity to drop the bomb, preferably in a short sentence that leaves people jaws dropping, that he doesn't spend a bunch of time on games and media diversions, and (gasp!) he thinks they make people stupid.
I've got a Desire and it renders pages about 30/40% faster than a 3GS.

And that's before the Froyo update which is alleged to have 2 to 3x speed increase due to JIT goodness...
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Very sweet idea, and something I've been wanting for ages. No android here though so I guess I'll wait for the iPhone/iPad version? Good luck!!
> "we're destroying the planet"

I've always taken that definition of 'planet' to mean, "the way it is now," or, "the parts that we like about it." No one truly believes that humans will cause the planet to cease to exist (at least in the non-SciFi near-future).

> The Earth, life, will go on with or without us.

That doesn't necessarily excuse the destruction that we leave in our path...
Yes, in my opinion, that would be a privacy violation.
I'm looking in my timeline, not at the user's page. On the user's own page I don't see it either.
Nice to see some competition http://sleep.fm . Though your marketing copy/value proposition seems very familiar :)

good luck
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Seems a little more usable for me using text-align right so that if I'm keeping up I don't have to track the next word jumping all over the place.
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Are you saying that you're not a fan of convertible debt?
My bank, one of the 3 biggest in the country, has offered me nothing but excellent phone support. Quick to pick up the phone, knowledgeable staff, and quick and correct answers to my problems. So obviously quality phone support is far from impossible.
> No, global warming is not a government plan. It is an area of scientific consensus

Science and govt are inseparable now. Federal grants fund huge amounts of research. This distorts science to a degree not widely recognized.

A good example is nutrition. Start with the modern consensus of what constitutes a healthy diet and trace it back to the research that supports it. Gary Taubes did that in "Good Calories, Bad Calories". What he found was a load of shit. Shit that was supported and popularized by (well-meaning) federal entities. A handful of limited observation studies with ambiguous results were blown way out of proportion.
Added text alignment prefs, just refresh :D
Now has text alignment preferences :D
> No, global warming is not a government plan. It is an area of scientific consensus that has emerged from the work of thousands of individuals in many countries.

"global warming" may not be a govt plan, but the responses all involve greater govt control and the sum total has almost no predicted effect on global warming.

Since the predictions that show no effect come from the same models that are being used to predict global warming....
That's still a fact-based argument. You're saying (and I agree) that data show that the supposition that torture is useful is nonsense. It's only useful as a deterrent tool in morally bankrupt regimes. (But again we come to the moral question of how many innocent people we're willing to harm for deterrence's sake.)
300 wpm is average reading. Speaking at 300 wpm with clarity takes a lot of practice, and most listeners require practice to comprehend that rate of speech. Research shows that with compression (i.e. articulate speech sped up, 'contentless' gaps removed), people without training lose comprehension of spoken word at about 210 wpm.

Unless you're talking with former debaters, I'd slow down that speech a little. Even if you live in New York!
I made this just to help me practice, which is why you can set how many words show at once, and how many new words come in at a time :)
At a certain point economics would dictate that fish farms would be cheaper than commercial fishing due to scarcity. Plus you could probably charge a premium to gouge the hippies for their compassion, desire for 'clean-water' fish, saving the planet rhetoric, and whatnot.
Now right aligned by default, with a setting to change it.
Cool how sample text comes from the opening pages of 1984 that cover Winston's absolute lack of privacy, describing how the Thought Police can "plug in your wire whenever they wanted to". A topical choice. If only there had been a big social website that would allow him organise a privacy protest group.

+1 for right-aligned text.
I think if we did cause our own extinction we would take most species with us beforehand.
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Hehehe :D
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The way you're calculating words per minute is wrong. You're calculating the page change without taking into account how many words at a time are being presented. So for instance, the refresh for show 30 / read 1 is the same as the refresh for show 30 / read 30. Yet clearly, if 'read 30' is set, the refresh should be substantially slower than if 'read 1' is set. Refresh in seconds should be (words at a time / words per minute) * 60. Right now you're just doing (60/wpm) and ignoring words at a time.
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See also the DPAC: http://egaertner.com/dpac/

"This will check your Google Calendar, schedule an alarm for the next event while factoring in driving distance, traffic, and weather conditions. It’s got an audio system for radio and iPod operation, but also includes some home automation options. Using the X10 communication protocol it can turn on lights, start the coffee maker, and open the blinds as part of a gentle wake-up cycle. All of this is configurable through the clock itself, or via the web interface." (via Hackaday)

Should be pretty easy to port to a Chumby.

For other JARVIS implementations see: http://projectjarvis.com/ and Stephanie http://absolutemaximumratings.com/projects_stephanie.php
Agreed. Appropriately enough:

Socrates...feared that relying on written texts, rather than the oral tradition, would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls…they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.”
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I agree that it appears that Facebook may be sharing data without users' approval. I was just pointing out that they aren't in this case.

I wonder how normal people respond when they see that.