skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The recommendations miss the most obvious fix:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_6,_2010_Flash_Crash#Circuit...

These things have been working fine and dandy across Europe for several years, where such a situation would not happen.

For the Eurex implementation see here: http://is.gd/d2f1Y [link to google quick view of the pdf]
This is a little nitpicky, but "Noows" keeps causing my speech center to blue screen.
The obstacles are not as high as you think. I know many people have a rather poor opinion of affiliate marketing, but if you want to free up your time to work on interesting projects, I'd say it's definitely the fastest way to 1-2k a month, will very little maintenance required. If you'd like examples of folks who are doing it in a respectable, non-spammy way, see the following (and they are definitely doing well over 1-2k):

http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/

http://camelcamelcamel.com/

http://picclick.com/
Some people write positive reviews to reinforce their purchase decision. It helps justify why it was a good idea to spend their money on something.
This is true but the people with the messiest desks seldom are.
86% support for HTML5 on unity3d.com
Today, I was checking the stats for unity3d.com and I saw that Firefox was the leading web browser for our site.

I think this is temporary, as brazilians have been visiting our site a lot lately for a world cup unity game.

If data like this keeps up I would like to move away from IE6/7, and move our doctype to either HTML5, or XHTML 1.x Strict.

86% of our sites visitors this month support HTML5.

1.
Firefox
768,099	37.01%

2.
Internet Explorer
702,254	33.83%
3.
Chrome
319,519	15.39%
4.
Safari
226,040	10.89%
5.
Opera
48,709	2.35%
6.
Mozilla Compatible Agent
3,902	0.19%
7.
Mozilla
3,141	0.15%
8.
Opera Mini
1,472	0.07%
9.
Camino
548	0.03%
10.
SeaMonkey
484	0.02%

Of IE users, only 27% are IE6/7 or ~ 10% of the total.

1.
8.0
518,690	73.86%

2.
7.0
133,876	19.06%
3.
6.0
49,583	7.06%

Firefox adoption is pretty awesome too, with most users having 3.5+

1.
3.6.3
525,776	68.45%

2.
3.5.9
109,110	14.21%
3.
3.0.19
30,162	3.93%
4.
3.6
16,833	2.19%
5.
3.6.4
16,044	2.09%
6.
3.6.2
5,864	0.76%
7.
3.5.5
5,585	0.73%
8.
3.5.7
5,290	0.69%
9.
3.5.3
5,081	0.66%
10.
3.5.6
3,776	0.49%
And what about the multitude of darknets with Petabyte/s of bandwidth?
I believe when Wi-Fi is running that GSM data is automatically disabled. When you turn off Wi-Fi you'll see it takes a few seconds to re-establish the GSM data connection. I know you can turn off the roaming data. You may need a rooted Android ROM to completely disable GSM. Some people on XDA Developers have talked about that.
Am I the only one that really enjoys a simple RSS reader like NewFire? Give me a big view of the current article, and every time I hit space bar, move forward to the next unread article.
How I Graduated from Harvard, Turned Down Google, Got a Job Through Twitter
What's the deal with this? I see that it's a news reader. But I'll be darned if I can find any kind of description of its features, so I can decide if it's worth my time to move off of Google.
It seems like they are. At the moment the only reason people use FCP is because it's the entrenched solution.

But the latest version of Premiere is actually better and is better integrated with the other adobe tools video producers use all the time.
This site may interest you guys: http://www.abtests.com/
Kanban for Video Game Development (video)
nitpick: "then" not "than" as in "Traffic then monetization". I don't mind it, but it is better to correct it as it is quite jarring to many people
It doesn't really matter if the errors were caused by cosmic rays or the ram failing -- it's still dangerous and relatively undetectable.
Wait -- what? You don't get those emails?

I'm a heavy user of Amazon in the UK (Prime membership and all), and I get regular emails asking me to review products I've previously purchased.

..I've never written a review, though.
So the NYSE has been blaming the other exchanges for their behavior, when this was really a NYSE problem.

However, it was only a NYSE problem because they were effectively being DOS'd by some of the other exchanges.

On the subject of HFT systems, we were shocked to find
cases where one exchange was sending an extremely high
number of quotes for one stock in a single second --
as high as 5,000 quotes in 1 second!

So the NYSE was right to blame the other exchanges, but they were right for the wrong reasons.
Strongly disagree. Progress has always relied upon those with the messiest desks.
The product is made by people whose profession is internet marketing. I'm inclined to think that "scammy" style is what sells, to judge by how often it pops up.
Reading this, I remember how hard NASA works to get their sattelites and probes secure against cosmic rays, because out there in space, cosmic rays cause your memory to become pretty unpredictable. Error correcting codes and redundancy suddenly become really important, even though you are crammed into this little embedded system which has less processing power than some input devices these days.
That's not the author with the comment, the author is Max Fawcett. That's me, the web editor, with a cheap throw to other content on our site.
Wow, what a great story! It makes some memory cells vaguely stir in the back of my mind, but I can't remember where I might have heard a variant of it. Hope it sticks this time.

Speaking of brilliant managers, one of my favorite anecdotes is of an engineering exec who, his first day at a new job, was doing the rounds meeting people and happened to notice an engineer asleep at his desk. Most managers in this situation, of course, would have one of two reactions: either get mad because the guy was sleeping at work, or try to be quiet because he was obviously working hard and needed it. This exec, instead, immediately grabbed a couple of the other engineers and went out and got a couch.
Puzzled as to why they'd even include it.

Probably got paid to.
Sounds like they are going to challenge the law, not Google.
(You still have to buy your own equipment.)

If a society has regressed as much as the one depicted in the article, it's not inconceivable that the necessary equipment would be made illegal (or at least require a license).
It's GPLv3.

Or are you implying that deploying a website doesn't necessarily comply with the license just because the source is visible?
That's basically it. It's just that the dittoheads think net neutrality = government policing when it's not. The telecoms have done a bangup job of misinforming the free market dogmatists on that matter.
Yeah - but putting an incentive behind the process would remove the obvious self-selection biases. Right now, there are two reasons that people would post a review:

1) They had an exceptional experience with the product and feel the need to react to that.
2) They are the type of person that likes to tell the world about their experiences.

Unfortunately, both of those are a very small subset of total purchases and, most likely, highly overlapping. Which means you won't get the proportionally accurate number of reviews in the middle range. And you won't get reviews from Luddites or online recluses.

If you put an incentive behind the review system, perhaps you'd have people gaming the system, but at least you'd have a better shot at hitting a wider demographic of product reviewers.

You are probably right though. Amazon, like Google, is very, very good at analyzing piles of data to make market decisions. They may well have already piloted review incentives. Regardless, I suspect they've already got numbers that back up their current process.
To give you an idea of density/frequency of this occurring: my wife's CCD for her PhD experiments routinely (roughly 1 in 5) pick up huge spikes from cosmic rays during her 30-second exposures. The CCD is less than an inch square and she's 2 floors down from ground level.
Calling out Jason Fried for bad business advice
I spent most of a Saturday morning picking apart the prototype J interpreter (http://www.nsl.com/papers/origins.htm) with GDB, which convinced me there was something deep there.

I've read most of _J for C Programmers_, and, this week, I also got _APL: An Interactive Approach_. The mindset is starting to make a lot of sense. (I've also looked at A+, but I'd rather stick to the ASCII variants.)
Even if the metric is a direct business metric that it's manaagement's job to optimize (like profitability or number of users)?

I've always thought it would be interesting to see the results if half of everybody's salary (including the CEO and the toner refill guy) was paid by dividends from shares of the company held in trust for this purpose. As in, every year, everyone's pay goes up/down by the same (relative) amount.

What if, in addition, the shares held in trust were a closed pool, requiring employees to give up part of their bonus share to any new employees hired? The expected net outcome of hiring on profitability would then have to outweigh the decreased income from a (very slightly) reduced share of profits.

I'm not certain that this is the ideal system of incentives (i.e. there might be local minima one could get stuck in), but it would certainly be an exciting experiment...
^This. Hard to read a video, but I wasn't sure people would get TL:DW without actually going to the site, which would have made a TLDR unnecessary.
Not really disagreeing. The guy with the messy desk thinks up the revolution, and maybe even starts on it. Then the people with the clean desks step in and make it actually happen.
Do as we say, not as we do.
Moving to Silicon Valley definitely gets you closer to a pool of tech startup minded people and the venture capitalists that feed them in the same way that moving to Los Angeles helps you start your acting career. But I'm sure that there are quite a few wannabes up north who never moved beyond the dreaming phase, just like there are quite a few waiters here in Los Angeles waiting for their big break.

A tech startup anywhere needs smart founders and lots of determination. You need more than just a zip code to make it in the startup world. I think the location only helps if the other pieces are already in place before you make the move.
If Facebook is a virtual nation, it’s a tyrannical one
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Fixed it. Thanks.

Here's the article I was paraphrasing:

"The secret to success on the internet can be boiled down to one simple accomplishment: building traffic.

That’s it. If you have a site that attracts a lot of visitors, you will be able to make money. On the internet, traffic equals power, which subsequently equals money."

-Arn, MacRumors.com

http://normalkid.com/2008/06/26/traffic-power-money/
I am pretty amazed at your point of concluding test results even at 70% confidence. Do you do it in cases when stakes are not high or is it norm?
Lol. I don't hate Microsoft, just almost all of their software, and some of their past business decisions. But there are plenty of decent folks working there, including a few I know, that I don't hate.
Why Linux-Users are Software Pirates.
Well, talking about web businesses in general. I think there are a lot of these lifestyle web businesses around where people are making enough to support themselves, but are not crazy rich.

So true. Because the barrier of entry for most of these businesses is so low, you're competing against a huge pool for that $1k-$2k a month. You're competing against 3rd worlders to whom $1k-$2k is a TON of money. You've competing against stay at home moms for whom anything close to minimum wage they can do in downtime is perfectly fine, etc. You have to have something that makes your business not worth competing against for these people or they WILL do it for less.
IANAL but extending "eminent domain" to telecommunications infrastructure does not seem straightforward or cut and dry. Eminent domain typically refers to a physical property.

And eminent domain has been affirmed by subsequent supreme courts rulings - it is not explicitly defined in the constitution.
This post misses the mark widely, IMO. Instead of being alarmist about the perennial decline of society, realize that there has been a real cultural shift, and it may be for good reason.

I think the brighter bulbs in my generation noticed that our parents weren't happy. Now, instead of asking "how can I do what's expected of me so that all will praise my sense of duty and commitment to family and community", we're asking "how can we be happy?"

I'm 33. I don't think of myself as an adult in every sense. Rather than shouldering the traditional trappings of adulthood, instead I think about what I want to achieve, and seek the most efficient, least burdensome ways to get there. My bills are on autopay. I clean when it's messy enough to bother me. I'm not married, and I'm not all that interested in having dependents. I date women who are as successful as I am, so I'm never supporting them.

The idea that any of this has anything to do with my work ethic, and my commitment to delivering the highest quality output in whatever I do is ludicrous. Hyperbole indeed. If anything, my mind is greatly freed up to focus on what matters most to me, precisely because I care not for being socially accepted into the mature, responsible adult club. There is precious little in my life that is burdensome, and it's by design.
While lead is a good choice for photon radiation, it is a very bad choice to shield against charged particles. Because lead is very dense (which is why it is good for xrays or gamma rays), it slows down the protons/electrons very quickly, producing brehmsstraulangw. low density materials such as acrylic or wood or concretemight be better.

Although, becuase the protons are such high energy, I can't imagine how much material it would take. This stuff is very bhigh energy, and very nasty to stop. To get an idea of what kind of shielding you'd need, I'd look at the shielding used at the lhc, tevatron, and slac. they all produce particles of comparable energy.

I think ECC ram might be cheaper, up to a point, maybe shielding would be better for data centers.
> your logic is non-nonsensical: you attack regulation without offering an alternative or re-defining the problem

Non-sensical?

Do you really believe that the properties of regulation are affected by alternatives? (Hint: the relative merit is, but not the absolute properties.)

It's perfectly appropriate to interrupt a regulation love-fest by pointing out that it does not have the properties that its fans claim.

Do you really want to argue "we must do something, regulation is something, therefore we must regulate"?

And, there's the small matter that regulation can take many forms. For example, torts are a form of regulation.

Yet, question bureaucrats, and folks rise up.

You remember bureaucrats. They're folks with no skin in the game....
As the article points out, the number is an exaggeration, because it includes server closets and rooms under 500 square feet, hardly what we think of data centers. I am skeptical whether this could succeed, because a lot of gov applications are running antiquated software on antiquated hardware, maintained by aged technicians. Moving it would be chaos. Better to have the new data centers to receive new software when it is created.

The article suggests using public data centers like Google or Amazon because they are more secure. I am skeptical because, if someone manages to take out Amazon they can take out the whole government. Perhaps having too many data centers makes us more secure.
The source for version 7 of J is available (circa 1993). I can't seem to find a link to it, but I have a local copy. My contact info is in my profile - I'll try to find the official mirror of it.

I was able to get j7 to build on OpenBSD (with a bit of tweaking), FWIW. K/Q seem to be much more my style, but I haven't had any success there. To be honest, I'm more curious about how they're implemented, though - I may do my own eventually.
Twitter Settles with FTC on Hacked User Accounts (Including Obama’s)
Well, the hippies are for net neutrality, you see.

The rest of it follows from there. Brain need not engage.
Agreed on the Google Voice point. Apple as a carrier might be far-fetched, but a solution to the problem of customer neglect/hostility by the carriers seems like something they'd be interested in fixing. Investing in one of the current carriers to gain a bit of leverage seems like a great way to alienate the rest (but so does investing in a new one now that I think about it).

In the end it's a lot of wishful thinking on my part, but the opportunity to mop the floor with the current competition still lingers.
What? I'm just saying I don't like the spotlight, and beyond $60000/year I'd be inclined to give most of my money away.
Watching entire shows while standing up, holding an antenna: priceless. (Didn't feel like coming up with the first part of the cliche)
J and APL resources:

http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Bibliography
Wow, I am flabberghasted by the fact that not only did the self-deprecating humor and manic drawings go right over the head of the author, but the fact that he thinks that mundane responsibility for completing the niggling chores of modern society is somehow important to the future of our society.

I can think of many likely facts that could lead to our downfall: the inability of free markets to account for environmental costs, the consolidation of wealth and power, nuclear proliferation, overpopulation, etc. Who the fuck cares if someone forgets to pay their electric bill?
> Idea: Use pieces of lead sheeting to shield the RAM chips from cosmic radiation.

It's really difficult to find lead that doesn't emit various particles itself. (Yup, lead has radioactive isotopes.)

IIRC, there have been memory/logic errors traced to radioactive particles from solder, perhaps even the lead. (This was back in the days when solder contained lead.)
The thing that's being missed here is that it's a chemistry total synthesis group. Organic chemistry's pretty bad, but total synthesis is evil.

Total synthesis (designing programs to build molecules from scratch) is a global never-ending footrace - first to make the molecule wins. That's almost uniquely startuppy/pressure-cookery among science; even among chemistry. I was a postdoc in one of the world's leading chemistry departments, but that was in chemoinformatics, which was less crazy. Before that I did my PhD in a prestigious earth sciences department, working on problems in mineral physics, and that was fine.

Total synthesis is unique.
My apologies, and thanks for the exact date. I missed that the github commit date was in 2003. (If you miss that, your reply comes off as really snarky. Mine was a bit blunt, too.)
Do scheduling tools in a web framework protect you from having to write threading code yourself? Or is it for a completely separate kind of side-process than when I would want to write threads in my web app code?

Also, is that like Quarts in the Spring Framework?
You don't have to search hard to find that everything Apple makes, he will assert that it is the best in the world.
Actually, lying on the floor, holding up the antenna with my feet. Didn't think anyone would be interested in the details.
The US has anti trust laws, too, you know. And they were introduced for a reason.

You're not allowed to collude or leverage dominance in one market (infrastructure) into an unfair advantage in another market (content).

This is why free markets work -- if we refused to regulate anything, ever, it'd be oligarchy, and there'd be precious little "free" about it.
I attempted to install Ontime but it relies on a 32 bit dll to run.
Yes. And this thing is called a "tabellarischer Lebenslauf" (resume in table form). Earlier a resume ("Lebenslauf") was meant to be a prose text written by hand. I guess it's progress of a sort? Or is it?
How did you overcome the visa barrier? "Just do it" is sound enough advice if you're American but you seem to be Canadian (and I'm Australian), you might as well be saying Just do it: Flap your arms and fly.
The author obviously missed out on the Humble Indie Bundle (http://www.wolfire.com/humble) just recently.

There was another game from a year or two ago that found that more people bought Linux versions than Windows. I can't remember what that game was though.
Note that a crash of similar magnitude and duration happened in the 60s, well before computerized trading.
Is it that far out of context? My reading of it was that he feels that SVG fonts is an unnecessary solution to a problem that is solved better by other options. Thus, he thinks that just because it's in the standard doesn't mean it's actually important.
Derek Sivers wrote good article on this topic few days ago: http://sivers.org/how2hire
Short conclusion: "In summary, quotes from NYSE began to queue, but because they were time stamped after exiting the queue, the delay was undetectable to systems processing those quotes. On 05/06/2010 the delay was enough to cause the NYSE bid to be just slightly higher than the lowest offer price from competing exchanges, but small enough that is was difficult to detect. This caused sell order flow to route to NYSE -- thus removing any buying power that existed on other exchanges. When these sell orders arrived at NYSE, the actual bid price was lower because new lower quotes were still waiting to exit a queue for dissemination."

"This situation led to orders executing against whatever buy orders existed in the NYSE designated market maker (DMM) order book."

This is actually the most cogent explanation I've yet heard.
"You can do a startup from anywhere.

And it's true. Except that it's mainly bullshit."

Doing perfectly well in New York City. Thank you very much.

Can we stop this silly banter?
Does this mean real.com crawled from it's grave? Millions of people tricked into buying RealIdentity Plus?
Great talk by Chris Wanstrath about building GitHub
Actually, I got the impression that no public link was available at all unless you chose to create it.
reminded me of brain jail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JILWKaQgUC0
and also, ever so slightly before that one :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1456414
Rails 3 for Mobile Applications by Yehuda Katz
The tablet did fail. They've been trying since the year 2000.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/nov00/11-13...

I don't think the iPad's niche is for reading books. I'm sure Apple has all kinds of cool stuff in their labs that they don't announce because most will never see the light of day. Apple built their "tablet" first then decided that there was a possible market with smart phones. Three years later they did the natural thing and built a big iPhone. I use mine for apps and to browse the web. It's a great little device!

Personally, I would like to see a real tablet (with optional stylus), but at least Apple kickstarted the market in the public's eyes.
One small correction: Bremsstrahlung.
Amazon and Newegg both email me after I make a purchase requesting that I review the product. They do this a little after the product is delivered--to give me a chance to use it.

I almost always respond to these requests, because I find the reviews helpful in my buying process and that motivates me to contribute back.
Wow, it's been a long time since I've seen that word. It was a favorite spelling challenge between my office mate and I: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung
Wouldn't this already be an issue with the Public folder?
I don't think anyone would disagree that it's more difficult to find startup-oriented folks in Toronto, but you'll get better results if you look in the right places.

http://democamp.com, http://unspace.ca/innovation/pubnite, to name a few.
On the same computer... at the same time? That seems a little unfair if one browser is choking up the disk access (as Firefox seems to do on me every few seconds).