skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a test to make.

Many people think they will get will become millionaires if they follow the style of person X.

Person X is like a trial in which a coin was tossed 10000 times and got 6000 heads.

Since there is no information about the others persons, the others trials, many choose to follow the illogical thinking that they will succeed in the same way.
It's completely the opposite in my experience. Though I've only worked in the European and Australian systems, not the US.
> Linux in the kernel level has removed the need for file polling, replacing it with iwatch

As long as we're comparing who did what first (as if that's relevant today), ReadDirectoryChangesW came in Windows 2000. inotify came in 2005.

> MS to this day hasn't standardized it's own security structure (EX: runas.exe in XP will have the processes pass on administrator rights to all child processes 7 doesn't neither does Vista)

Given that Vista overall has a rather different security structure from XP, I don't see how this is relevant.

> And lets face it on the top of it's game Windows default security could have been over-riden by pressing cancel on the logon screen

Amusingly, this just displays your own naivete. The only way to get security if someone has physical access is through cryptography. Pressing cancel on a local login screen is equivalent to booting into single user mode or just using a boot disk and wiping out the local administrator's password.

> You seem to equate success and innovation with sales and press releases.

Microsoft Research is the most prolific non-university academic CS research lab in the world. The people that work there are all truly brilliant. (disclosure: I did an internship there this summer)
The sine of death by ui test automation
So it's like an iPhone 3G after upgrade to iOS 4?
Yes, communication is key. Eliciting what the customer wants before starting work saves people a lot of headache and wasted time. With the graphic work I have done I can say I have wasted time but hopefully I have learned from it and won't repeat the same mistakes.
Things to do - I find it really hard to find things to go out and do in my spare time, events listings never seem to have something that interests me, same with tourist guides although they can be better. Asking friends is always an order of magnitude better.
I dare say imho the desire to get laid is a power motivator to get out of this situation... cool chicks like status (and it often come with the finance or at least exciting achievements)
Paperwork!
Today's Opportunities are Yesterday's Data
It really depends on what your motivation is, if your motivation is just money and you have reached a comfortable level then why try to push yourself more? Enjoy life!

I know that money is only one of my motivations, the other is to build something great to prove that I can do it. Like climbing a mountain or running a marathon, it's not about making tons of money but proving that I can accomplish one of the more difficult things in life (building a wildly successful business). Even if I had all the money I needed I would keep trying to do what I am doing, and eventually hope to do it over and over again.
Don't forget that these professors have often spent their whole life studying and publishing and working their way through the "machine" to get to their positions. Many of those years they would have been paid a pittance for their work. You don't go into academia for the money, you really don't. It might pay off somewhere down the line but until then you're overworked, severely underpaid, and have massive debts to pay off (if you're American).
He got a genius grant ($240,000) from MacArthur foundation and the grant from Takeda was $830,000.

[1] http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N59/59stallman.59n.html
>I'd actually love to see more jobs that offered the opportunity to work with a small base salary but increased compensation levels based on measurable results.

Many sales positions are like this (eg. Enterprise Software).

The key of such pay model is being easily measured down to the individual (which sales is). It doesn't apply to most cases because it is hard to accurately measure contributions of individual's performance of a product/result that is comprise of a team of peers.

The "body shop" biz model is also easily measured (sit on seat 1 hr = pay for 1 hr).
If you think 'cool chicks that like status' are the ones to desire you still have a lot to learn. I know that sounds paternalistic but really, 'cool chicks that like status' are the ones to avoid if my experience is any guide.

Better find a not-so-cool chick that you really love and that really loves you, or a cool one that doesn't care about status.
That includes the old dogmatic 'access on need to know basis only' and items like that. You really have to wonder how a single individual gained access to 90,000 documents, he couldn't possibly have a 'need to know' the contents of all of those, in fact he couldn't have read that many documents even if he wanted to.

Yep field commanders don't need to know what is going on, guys back home doing intelligence analysis don't need to know what is going on in the field, Generals in charge of the situation don't need to know what is going on. Yep, no need to know there. And no one person isn't expected to sit down and read all 90K documents but they need to be available just in case some one who read the high level report needed more detail. They could go back to the original field reports that went in to the high level report. While wikileaks isn't the only responsible party their hands are not clean in this situation, innocent people are going to be hurt because they don't care.
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I learn a lot already, and it helped until ~5 years ago, when I started seeing familiar patterns in new stuff (especially one having big "hype count"). I can count new interesting ideas with my fingers on one hand.

Hmm... Execution model of Erlang. Systematical approach to computing in Haskell community. Deployment model of GAE. That's all. The rest is just an rehearsal of old ideas (those mentioned are also rehearsals, but the previous iterations did not get significant traction).
Yeah, I get that FP, OO, Logical etc etc. paradigms just is different ways to model problems around and that you should choose the one best suited for the task.

What I meant was that If I were to work with OO 8hr/day for a longer period of time Im afraid that I would get so "wired up" in the OO way of thinking that I would have a hard time learning and understanding to think in a correct FP-manner.

Oh, This Is Happening is an excellent record!
Since were in on electronic stuff I must recommend Bot'Ox - Blue Steel :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMEUpF7mNb0
An informant is not an innocent but a participant.
Google's Mark Chu-Carroll devastated Chevrolet

I think thats a bit strong. In reality reading the article convinces me more that the Volt is an extremely good idea since it is based on more realistic maths.

But I agree with everything else, if you buy a car with anything like this kind of preformance and actually expect that mileage then your only fooling yourself.

Lets face it, this is so that the actors and footballers can claim to drive a hybrid while having a car that actually reflects their lifestyle.
Scalping provides value on a few levels:

- honest price discovery. consumers don't have to submit to price segmentation.

- the venue are more likely to get rid of risk on the sale of tickets quicker (a bit like forward)
G.M.’s Electric Lemon
15+ Stupid And Serious Reasons To Use Bing
Making User Interface Elements Difficult to Use By Intent
Why Do Employers Use FICO Scores?
'New skills' can mean more than just stuff in programming!

To paraphrase Robert Heinlein, learn to "change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure..."
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No. It's just a crap phone. Accept it.
How do you find the stuff that worth doing? Every time I try to do something I figure out it is already done by somebody else with a great mastership.
Sure I tend to agree. Still cool chicks does not mean she only likes expensive cars, cool chicks can be a violonist, a girl with taste, who want you to bring her to the Opera or to Paris on a date. Not-so-cool chicks maybe what you want for yourself (comfort trust etc.) but most of us have a reproductive bias: we also want children and inconsciously you want (for them) good genetic material hence... "cool chicks". Just trying to help, no judgement in this.
I'm interested in playing with algorithmic (maybe even HF) trading to see if it's fun.

Can anyone recommend a source of data on the cheap so I can papertrade? Clearly realtime data feeds are going to cost... but isn't there some public repository of historical data someplace?
I think I should rest my case.
Care to share or put them on github or something? You don't need to comment them or anything. I find that looking at other people's scripts really helps me learn new ways to use the shell. Thanks.
Bone Black or Bone Chare
Building A Bicycle Wheel
>I don't know what a dipshit company is. I haven't seen one. If you listen to the chatter on the Techcrunch comment threads, you will see that people think Twitter and Foursquare are dipshit companies.

This is insightful because we often overestimate even our own judgment regarding a biz (as a user / as a potential founder) casting doubt. In reality, luck (Shaq gives free marketing) and the markets play a big part in determining success.
It's disturbing to me how p < 0.05 is used somewhat unthinkingly as the test for statistical significance simply because it's ubiquitous in science.

It seems to me if you have even a somewhat popular app, you're gathering enough data that you can afford to use p < 0.001 and avoid a lot of the complexities of statistical analysis that comes from p < 0.05. If you don't have enough data to reach p < 0.001, it's probably better to work more on increasing traffic than getting the piddling gains from A/B testing so early.
No reason to think it's malicious rather than just corrupted, but trying to open the PDF linked there in anything that uses the OSX PDF renderer is taking down my machine by triggering the error:

[0x0-0x29029].net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim[528]: Error (11225): Bad two dim code in JBIG2 MMR stream

many thousands of times per second, even after the application is force-killed.

Be Warned! (also, if anyone has a clue how to go about debugging why this happens, I'd love to know. It seems like a fairly major stability issue)
- Having multiple gadgets, one can connect to a network, the other can't, even though they both have WiFi

- Bureaucrats that could be replaced by web apps
Yeah, that's one of the things I would be most interested in working with.
Can I ask you how this is physically laid out?
Is there just a big centralized computer at the exchange
with two input queues, one for buys and one for sells?
What if I want to place an order at the best price across multiple different exchanges?
My current project competes with Google, AOL, Microsoft, and about 20 other companies... but I think there is a great niche they are under-serving that I am working on targeting.

In existing markets you can almost always improve on the existing technology, target a niche, or offer a lower priced offering. Or go create your own market with a new type of product or service.

I don't think anyone is untouchable nowadays, look at DuckDuckGo taking on Google!
Eh, this has been known since at least the 1960s. See Segal, M., Campbell, D., and Herskovits, M. (1966), The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception, Bobbs-Merrill.

And I wouldn't call it an example of visual perception being "hugely" affected by cultural. It's a highly peripheral effect, in my opinion. I am definitely on the anti-nativist side of almost everything in psychology, but the rest of this paper is equally hyperbolic.
Or work on a trading desk as a quant developer, at a big bank, hedge fund or wherever. Only a foolish trader will fail to understand the value of the quants working for him.
I run a lot and have tried out many of these tools and have settled on DailyMile with Garmin GPS integration for a few reasons.

1. I got bored running the same thing over and over, but re-entering a route is a pain

2. I like DailyMile so I wanted integration with it (otherwise I have to enter the route again)

That being said, your UI is nicer than most that I used except you don't follow roads. If I didn't use Garmin's GPS, I'd consider it if it exported to DailyMile.

To make it easier for those who have lots of routes, let me edit a past route -- would love if I could just drag/drop like Google's driving route editor lets me do.
Do you feel that your programming skills have increased due to your mathematics studies(I make a difference between programming and problem solving, this is maybe the wrong way to see it?)?

Why is it that you would have majored in another area if you where to do it all again?

My plan is to use logical reasoning, problem solving and mathematical knowledge in lots of different fields outside computer science hence the main interest in mathematical studies.

Computers have been my Nr. 1 interest for as long as I can remember but I don´t think that I want to WORK with them for more than about 15-20 years, there Is so much more to do, music, building stuff, working with people on a non technical level etc.

Anyways, thanks for the reply!
I'm starting a software company, primarily focusing on SMS based data collection systems.

See this blog post for the whole story of how I got here:
http://blog.nyaruka.com/18178694
I'm not a crossfitter, but PLEASE don't make your links the same color as the rest of the text, with no underline. In a wall of text that looks the same, how do you know which are links?
I was quite surprised to find that the linked website designed to showcase A/B tests doesn't even hint at things like statistical significance or confidence intervals for the improvements
A mid-range consumer phone that costs $1000? I don't think so.
Actually, I did, but the H1B quota thwarted that... When the next quota period started it was 2009 and they weren't hiring, so I ended up staying in academia and moving to Boston. (I just married an American, so the whole visa deal should soon be over.)
Like I said, the only added freedom you enjoy by having MIT/BSD-ish rather than GPL is the freedom to remove freedoms downstream. And the ones that are not GPL are so precisely because the vendor wants to be able to remove freedoms downstream should the need or opportunity arise.

Are you aware of any other freedom I don't know about?
WiFi "Hole196": major exploit or much ado about little?
New reporting features: test summary and cumulative charts
''Men are very sensitive to women's attractiveness. Women seem to be sensitive to men's height and salary''

if this is true women are more scientific thinking in this respect - they are looking at 2 well-defined measurable quantities -height and -salary -- men look for -attractiveness that cannot be defined or measured
But that sounds to me like it should be called low-latency trading, not high frequency?
Specifically for Python I use the ActiveState DBGP Client. You can find that here: http://docs.activestate.com/komodo/4.4/debugpython.html

I use Geben as the emacs plugin to connect to the debug client. http://code.google.com/p/geben-on-emacs/

The benefit of this is that I can debug remotely, or when I have my development setup in a chroot or virtual environment, I can still debug from outside.
Philippe Starck: Why design?
I've been a fan of soma fm for a while http://soma.fm - particularly the Secret Agent channel. If you haven't checked them out already do so!

Bought a t-shirt from them a while back, $50, is great quality, wash robust, looks good. If they're still selling merchandise it's a great way of supporting them.
I'm somewhat involved in the development of Node. It's a fast-moving project, with the occasional bug and an API that is still in flux. You might not want to build your billion dollar enterprise on it and one could hardly blame you.

That being said, Node has a strong community and a lot of momentum. There are some big name companies like Yahoo and Plurk that use Node today to build stuff that matters.
I've coded to Soma (mostly the awesome Secret Agent channel: http://somafm.com/play/secretagent) for years. I'll gladly donate...it's phenomenally good.
NASDAQ has some sample data here: ftp://emi.nasdaq.com/ITCH/

Their website also has a description of the format: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/technicalSupport/specifi...
I am eagerly waiting for the N8. It will ship for 470€. But I am a bit reluctant to buy it, when I think that the Galaxy S (420€) has tethering, better screen, better processor, better CPU, DivX support out of the box and the Nokia does not.
I really hope they get it nailed down with the N8. I don't like Big Brother Google, and the closeness of Apple. A nice, working Symbian Phone would be great. Let's see.
Mechanics of flash trading: say the best ask price on INET is 100, the best ask price on ARCA is 99. If you place an order buy at 99 on INET, INET is legally obligated to route your order to ARCA (since ARCA has the NBBO). You will pay 99/share + commission + routing fee, with the fees paid to ARCA.

If INET were to flash your order, they give some HFT firm the opportunity to sell you shares at 99. The HFT firm can accept or reject - if they accept, you pay 99/share + commission and INET gets the commission.

That's a completely different game than front running. It has other issues, like being potentially unfair to ARCA and traders who can't afford flash orders, but it isn't front running.
This kind of design (task oriented vs process oriented) is appealing but incredibly hard to get right. The problem is that any time the user goes "off the rails", the experience can become incredibly frustrating since you start fighting what the device thinks you should be doing.

For most items we interact with in the world, while it turns out the majority of interactions we do with them might fall into neat little buckets, the inherent human messiness means that we all end up needing to bounce off the rails at some point and what once was wonderful now becomes a nightmare.
oh apologies, I thought they both derive from the Old English "hneaw". But I see that I am corrected!

I still wouldn't use it though, definitely archaic. It would be like inserting "yonder" and "thee" into my speech.
The N8 will cost about $500 before taxes (and without operator subsidies, i.e. unlocked). Where do you get $1000?
You'd save the time needed to switch between environments if you want to examine the candidate in different languages.
Okay, this is just a counter-anecdote, but I know tons of people that are using Dropbox. It's really big and getting rapidly bigger in academia, which is how I first found out about it.

Last week I had to send a PDF to one of my students (an undergrad philosophy major) and suggested dropbox, and she already had a public folder set up.
Most proprietary software strongly encourage you to stick
with them, and make switching difficult. The best examples
I have in mind are operating systems and office suites.

I don't have such experience. There was a time I was juggling Windows and Linux at work using OS X at home. Now I mostly deal with OS X and Linux on servers.
Neither did I have a problem with office suites. I am MS Office free, OpenOffice free. If someone sends me some .doc or .xls occasionally I can usually view them on OS X without any problems.
How exactly Windows are supposed to make switching to say Linux more difficult than from Linux to OS X?
I give away no freedoms by using whatever software I want.
It's basically what you think; a computer system keeps a queue of buy and sell orders, sorted by price/time (i.e., best price wins, if prices is equal, earliest order wins). It then matches trades by popping the top of the queue. If you place an order on INET which can be filled at a better price on ARCA, then INET routes your order to ARCA and you are charged a small routing fee. This is required by RegNMS.

(There is a "don't route me" flag if you don't want to be routed. In that case, your order will simply go unfilled - exchanges can't match you at a price worse than the best price available on all exchanges.)
IBM research scientists go their own way
A hot startup doesn't need a lead because they are oversubscribed the second they mention fundraising. Yet there are many, many others, especially first-timers outside the valley, that face a much more uphill battle. In these cases, I think a good lead can really benefit the startup. I've twice now led deals where I essentially helped quickly line everything up such that we closed in perhaps in 1/4 of the time that it would have otherwise taken.
In light of the WEIRD study, medicating children for anything deemed by this society to be 'un-normal' is a tragedy.
We run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on most everything. The Schooner MySQL appliances run a customized CentOS. Our Isilon storage arrays are based on a modified FreeBSD.
People forget Nokia doesn't sell phones to their users. They sell phones to telcos. Telcos really don't care whether your phone takes 5 minutes to start or crashes frequently, as long as you pay your monthly bills and buy another subsidized phone down the line extending your contract before you move to a competitor.

Telcos profit from crappy phones.

And that's why it's important to support a market for unlocked phones and standards like GSM.
Getting rid of folks who claim sovereignty over a nation without the expressed and open consent of its people is

This actually happened with the French Revolution (1789 - 1799). Life before that was very different to what we have today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
Soma is a great station, and has been for years. They've also done a great job of helping fight for the rights of Internet broadcasters over the years, against the RIAA and ASCAP.

I listen to Groove Salad almost all day at work so I'll definitely be supporting them.
How to Support 5,000 Customers with No Support Staff
It's not that Nokia doesn't get it, they just have some catching up to do. Just from understanding what you need to do you can not launch a high tech product over night.
>Too bad people will stick with their stereotypical nonsense regardless.

Doubleplusgood, brother. Non-pharma though-proc, rectified!
Porn industry exploits iPhone 4 feature
Not sure if I like funding drives on HN. If it is 'listener supported' then why post here ?
Spend the money, or get children. Or I guess invest the money in something where you can't get to it on short notice, so that again you have to earn something to cover immediate living expenses.

Of course there should be better ways to overcome the motivation problem, but at least for me, I also have experienced it several times that I only kicked into productive mode when my bank account was nearing zero.