skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're mistaken, quants tend to be mathematicians or traders who design algorithms or analyse trading or risk data, some of them may also be writing production trading code but definitely not all of them. The role you're describing is closer to "quant dev" where a developer works closely with quants to implement the algorithms, quant devs may also be involved in algorithm design but it's a distinct role.

It's also not just two roles, there are a huge variety of distinct roles paying different amount, although the closer you are to making money for the bank the more you're likely to get paid. While a developer working in front-office won't make as much as someone of similar seniority on the business side of the front-office, they can certainly make more than those working on the business side of the middle or back office.
As has been pointed out multiple times, there is probably no insurance policy that would cover your apartment if you rent it out with AirBNB. Renter's insurance won't cover it, and individuals can't get the kind of insurance hotels get because they don't own the property. And if you meet the classification of a hotel, then there's a good chance you're breaking the law in some places. You can't get insurance while breaking the law.
Site design is really great, really well done Zarprey!
Most everyone on HN is going to agree with what you are saying: that there is a reasonable narrative in which "EJ" is unable to return to her home due to fear. As a recent victim of a comparatively pathetic "violent" crime: that is absolutely something you are concerned about. And that's before we even get to the topic of "can EJ repair the damage done to her home without diminishing the expected return from a settlement with Airbnb", which might also keep her out of her house.

So yes. Let's all agree: it's not crazy to acknowledge that "EJ" is trapped in a set of circumstances keeping her out of her house.

However. That does not mean the only interpretation of events here is that "EJ" is fundamentally unable to return to her home. Another possible interpretation is, she lawyered up (good for her), and has been advised that the longer this remains an issue for her, the better her negotiating position is.
I'd like to convert to a standing desk, but the prices are ridiculous. I don't need a motor and am not paying $795-1500 for a plank of wood and four metal legs. I'll build the thing myself before I go that route.
In both cases the tweakers were local, which is scary all in itself. I think it's safe to say that having those people in your community and them knowing who you are and where you live and possibly having a key to your home has to be very intimidating.

Which brings up one of my favorite subjects: tweaker behavior. Now that we have a second story we can start to abstract patterns out of what is going on, which to me appears to be either random tweakers needing a place to party discover that Airbnb is easier, cheaper and more anonymous than a hotel room or that a tweaker gang that enjoys identity theft is going about their business in the Bay Area piggybacking off of Airbnb's business model.

If they're just kids looking for the thrilling byproduct of smoking cleaning supplies, Chesky will eventually get off his ass and implement features and controls that curb this activity and squeeze some bucks out of the business model, unfortunately, but Airbnb will continue as a going concern. The second scenario is really a stretch but I'm always surprised with what meth addicts come up with and quite frankly, I'm looking forward to the rest of the story. We are now four days into this shitstorm and nobody over at the Airbnb webmaster office has even attempted to adress any of these concerns by posting, oh you know, like a psa on the homepage.
I think it's safe to say at this point that most "techy" people have moved to Macbooks - by "most" I mean over 50%. And if you happen to browse tech sites there's a good chance a majority of them are using OSX now.
Just because homeowner's insurance doesn't provide this type of coverage doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It may be a good idea for Airbnb to attempt to provide this type of coverage. However, whether they offer insurance or not does not change the fact that the risk is the host's to mitigate.
"There are a number of ways in which this reduces to an insurance problem."

You can't get insurance for an illegal activity.

If you're subletting your own rental apartment, or in a jurisdiction with laws against unlicensed short term rentals (like New York City no doubt one of Airbnb's biggest markets) renting out via Airbnb is most probably illegal and no insurance company on the planet will cover it.
This is a fascinating goldmine of interesting little things for UI or UX people.
With the exception of Keynote, Numbers and Pages have not behaved well for me when given large documents. Numbers in particular struggled with datasets that Excel would handle very easily. I would rather use Google docs than bother with Pages / Numbers.
If you're just starting out, keep your job, shut your mouth, try to learn as much as you can and be nice to everyone you work with.

That's great advice. There is something important to be said about being in an office environment surrounded by people more experienced and better than you. I wouldn't say 'shut your mouth,' but certainly choose your questions carefully - it has a huge impact on the impression you make on people.
I think there is an implicit assumption that you already work for a trading firm.
Experience programming does not necessarily translate to experience working with a team of developers within a business environment.
Great video, liked it enough to share it with a few friends on FB.
They're a design-oriented company so attract people interested in the details.
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Prices become erratic and jump around more, so it's much hard to predict at what price you'll be able to sell. News events related to a stock tend to have an bigger impact on the price as it's riskier to hold on to stock when negative news comes out (and vice versa).
True - for some reason I have this affinity to certain notes being sharp and certain ones being flat (i.e. F# > Gb, but Eb > D#), even though the rule is that it should be consistent based on the key.
What about this requires canvas? Seems like it could be done very simply with just divs (and audio elements, of course).
I almost never share things like this on Facebook, but I shared Monster Coloring Book. I don't even own an iOS device, but the execution/design seems spot on. I see this becoming highly successful - congrats!
Thanks for posting this. I'm still using 960, but the ability to scale down to phones sounds nice. I'll have to check this out.
I'm given to understand that couchsurfing usually occurs when the host is present, which IMO is a risk-mitigating behavior.
I agree a "digital blackwater" can be much more effective than the government for this kind of thing.

However, unlike physical violence, there's not as much "inherent human moral knowledge" about computer crime/war/terrorism. It's pretty obvious to anyone (including Blackwater shooters) that shooting people is wrong, all things being equal; it is necessary in certain situations, but is to be avoided if possible. Some kinds of shooting are worse than others, and there are lines which most people wouldn't cross (shooting obviously unarmed people, children, etc.), even if ordered to do so.

With most computer crime, it's not so obvious who is being hurt and how much; there's also no primate/reptilian brain response to most of the activities themselves, only their consequences.

There's also much more potential to use "able to do digital violence" to influence business and politics within a stable nation state than to use physical violence. Organized crime only really can operate in marginal communities, at least through violent extortion -- in more developed places, it sticks to providing unmet (illegal) needs like drugs, gambling, prostitution, etc., or operates at a sub-organized level.

There's really nothing in "inherent morals" of people, or in cultural values, which will prevent using a "digital blackwater" for political or business ends.

If someone goes down this road (and the Chinese appear to have already, and possibly Russia), everyone else has to, but the world will become worse overall. Better for hackers, perhaps, as a subset, but I'd be fine with having a little less money and living in a less-Gibsonian world.
Interesting. I looked at the RFC and it says it has to be in the format "Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT" (RFC2616/RFC1123).

But even if browsers makers would check the "If-modified-since" against that format then it would still be doable to give each visitor a slightly different date and track them that way.

Combining the date stamps on 2 or 3 jpg or css files present on every page on the site should give you enough entropy for even the highest traffic sites and make it very hard to detect.
Oh don't be melodramatic. If the US financial system fails you'll be screwed no matter your industry if you're being paid in US currency. And angry mobs coming to lynch you? Give me a break, such a thing is unprecedented and the shear number of people in the field will provide protection even if that does happen (as will the amount of money you'd be making).

As for ethics: Perhaps the reason they are paid so much is because they, unlike you, are able to put aside petty issues like that.
I'd bet such Mac-proliferation varies greatly by country.
Summary: webmaster which is #1 in SERP is annoyed by traffic drops due to an AdWords ad that occasionally appears on top of him and might violate the ad guidelines (Google being unresponsive to his reports until now).

Besides a violation of the AdWords policies (landing URL impersonation) by the offending ad I couldn't find any loophole being described.
Not tech related, but about new urbanism, economics and the environment: http://kunstler.com

Check out Howard Kunstler's podcast as well: http://kunstlercast.com
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I think the problem is very general and very bad. Google doesn't make the displayed link match the actual URL in any way (like forcing the displayed link to be a prefix of the actual URL). I commented on this a while ago and I think it is very dangerous to web-surfers: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/07/should-your-mom-use-g...
NYC is a great place to found a startup. It's overtaken Boston as the #2 place for VC funding which means capital is available and more and more west coast VCs are setting up shop here which is good if $$$ is one of the things you are seeking. (see here: http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/new-york-vent...)

And there is a thriving and ever-growing tech community as well and as evidenced by the "made in ny" effort, it is coming together to support one another. Additionally, for certain sectors (fintech, fashion, ad tech, ecommerce, etc), the city is very well positioned given many of the customers/partners are based here.

Of course, the Valley continues to be the leader in VC funding availability and a place where the startup ethos is part of the fabric of the place, but NYC is getting there. Of course, Rome was not built in a day, but NYC has exploded quickly and that progress could accelerate with some of the large potential companies and exits that could come out of NYC...

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I have not really been following any of this all that closely (though it's been impossible to miss entirely on HN), but my general understanding is that AirBnB originally was going to do a paid version of that and then, for some reason, decided it would be okay for people to not be present.
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So then why isn't she going to accept one of the offers of help, which might have included a place to stay for a while? It's perfectly understandable that she doesn't want to be in her apartment, but she seems to want us to believe that she has to choose between being there and being homeless. That's just silly - at the very least, there are hotels, and I suspect that if she put up a donation button on her blog she would get more than enough for that.

I'm not saying that it's sketchy, just that it makes her seem like a very irrational actor. Which could be completely believable - maybe she's gotten a bit paranoid, or is having issues trusting people, both of which would be perfectly understandable - but when combined with the conflicting stories and lack of definite information (and all the conflicting information out there), it seems odd.
You do need to file the Federal 941/940 Payroll/FUTA - quarterly withholding forms - will all zeros if you have no employees and no payroll. You should be able to download all the forms and instructions from the IRS website. You may also need to do the same with local NY payroll forms (once a month/quarter) - check on their website.
Really fun! I quite enjoyed going back to my childhood and colouring in :D Only one small problem - the app regularly crashed after attempting to "buy" patterns.

eta: it was patterns, not stickers.
This is most certainly what they're not doing. Airbnb has promoted the idea that you can rent out your primary residence to make money.

A quote from http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/new - "Airbnb lets you make money renting out your place. Your apartment will pay for itself!"

That is the antithesis of a 'unused low marginal cost asset'.
It sounds like you had a bad experience at a single team in a single bank and are trying to extrapolate those experience to a sector that employs hundreds of thousands of developers.

Yes, there are plenty of shitty programmers at investment bank, there are also lots of top-tier ones.

And yes how much money your code makes is more important than how well factored it is. It doesn't matter if your code is the most beautiful code in the world if it doesn't work, shitty code that gets the job done is better. Regardless of whether you're working in finance or on a web app.
Actually didn't realise how many things I like in Lion...

"When you do things right, no one will notice you've done anything at all"
Given that most apartments already have no subletting clauses, I don't think additional regulation would help anything. I'm hoping this dies down before some politician tries to make some knee-jerk law, much like that state AG did with craigslist awhile back.
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If she hasn't had the locks changed by now, everyone in her locale that has spoken to her about the incident has done her a disservice. Changing the locks after a breakin is pro forma. She might even be required to do so by her homeowner's insurance.
Argh thanks, updated links
treadmill desk:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/17/treadmilldesk.jpg/

homedesk setup:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/838/standingdesk1.jpg/

makeshift desk: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/standingdesk2.jpg/
As if spending 5 minutes picking up some tips is a big outlay?
I think if Windows shipped with the ability mount an ISO, open a tar file, ssh client, virtual desktops, usable notepad, "Open with" doesn't make you hunt for an exe, drag to resize command windows, dialog boxes you can clip error messages off of, ctrl-a consistently selects all of the text in a field, that might be a start to getting positive support.

2c..
Sort of reminds me of Asimov's Psycohistory
I spent 5 minutes (and $4) yesterday doing the same thing for http://jsocial.io <- click here and be disgusted vantran.

It's (a) a placeholder, (b) incentive for me to stick to a launch date, and (c) it might, just maybe, collect a couple of email addresses.

I'm under no illusions that it's going to generate any sort of buzz, become vital, etc. It' just better than a 404 or something like http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch... :-)
Craigslist is a classified site, and it's had it's share or rapes and killings:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=craigslist%20killing
Aww, I wish you guys had posted this a few weeks ago, I would have loved to live with borski. But alas, I just signed a lease.
Yea it is only 105 cm... However, you can place a couple books under your monitor and you should be good to go! Keyboard height is fine.
It's all relative. Our family was considered poor when we lived in the US (as opposed to when we lived in Mexico). The first time I got a construction job that paid $8/hr I thought I had it made. This was low pay for construction workers but more money than almost anyone else I knew was making.

A couple of years later I dated a student nurse that told me her first job would pay her $16/hr. I was blown away and thought she was lying or exaggerating about the pay. People I knew just didn't make that kind of money.

Anyways, I eventually discovered programming and got a job with a relatively small developer's salary. It certainly was real money to me. It was life changing.

Of course, once in that environment it doesn't take long to take a good look at those around you and feel undervalued/underpaid. Funny how that works.
$10 at homedepot, works like a champ: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/838/standingdesk1.jpg/
It's a lot easier to hold a host accountable for a crime, since their address is on record.
You are, of course, correct. Notice in my post that you replied to I was careful to use the word terminate, not stop, when referring to what I assume he did to his instance.

edit: After re-reading my post it probably wasn't clear to people who don't use EC2; so your reply is probably for the best. :)
Stay or rent, you have a choice to do either.

(Can't think of anything else to add, sorry.)
My favourite part of the story is they stole the computer...and left a cat!!
No, it's possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
Creatives also include illustrators, typographers, motionographers, musicians... they are mostly in Brooklyn. Physical media artists are still around, just further pushed to east in Bushwick and East Williamsburg, though I think quite a number have moved to Philly, Seattle, or as you mentioned, LA.
Possibly because to the extent that she isn't running afoul of any duty to mitigate damages, the longer she goes without accepting help, the greater her basis to claim damages.

That doesn't make her sketchy or dishonest. That makes her rational, following the advice of her lawyer or whoever else is advising her.
Seconded: may I hereby propose a new standard for email, the "bite me" button? Something to throw the entire company in question down the memory hole.
If you send me an email then I'll send you some research. I had something very similar to what you have.
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Wow, good to know. I confirmed it with archive.org. I don't need to know if Michael Arrington or EJ are telling the truth or not. This is enough for me to not trust AirBnb. With that kind of popularity they should educate potential guests/hosts about safety issues. I'm glad they're doing it now but it's too late for me. (I used AirBnb three times last year but each time I tried to get to know the hosts through a phone call beforehand and was ready to cancel if it didn't feel right.)
We can go on forever about possible interpretations, but all those quotations are making you look bad. What proof do you have that EJ is "EJ", and that Troy is "Troy" and that this is a "conspiracy" and were an "angry mob of white knights"?
Or perhaps, as in the case of the person in this story, the only help they offered was free nights in airbnb locations.

It's easy to imagine she wouldn't accept more of a product she no longer trusts when what she's looking for is security.

In the end, the only guideline we have for what they may have offered her is what they offered this person in a similar case.
It depends on the bank, at some banks front-office developer bonuses are pay out of the desk bonus pool rather than a tech bonus pool.
The whole concept is a disaster waiting to happen. What is going to happen when criminals start exploiting this system of casual rentals? Imagine all the different things people can do with control of your home and address, not least of which is using it as a base to receive stolen merchandise or dangerous/blatantly illegal goods.

When will the first swat team need to be called to one of these locations?

I can't recall ever being to a hotel that didn't require ID... why would anyone rent out their home/apartment without meeting the people in person and checking their ID?
Here's another question I'm curious about. Given that you've decided to start an automated trading firm, how much better off are you going for microsecond timescales rather than, say, seconds or minutes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Cable_Products#Trademar...

I wouldn't change the name of your product based on these lawsuits, though.
Angry mob of white knights? Are you sure you're replying to the right comment?
> If she hasn't had the locks changed by now,

She did. I don't see why you need to speculate on that point; in her first blog post that brought this whole mess to our attention, she said "Although I had the locks changed" ...
"costly one-time background checks" and "all benefit from scale" sound like an oxymoron to me. Implementing all the suggestions you listed would significantly cut into their revenues and make their business model obsolete.
When an email tries to be sneaky with the old "Manage my Preferences" trick, I flag it as spam. They should know better.

BONUS: if anywhere in the email they mention the word "webinar", they're gone.
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i don't understand what else to her story really needs to be said, unless it was orchestrated (if thats what you're implying). All that matters is she used the service and her house got trashed. Airbnb never had a safety page until her story and never made people aware of the dangers. People need to be educated of what can happen when you let strangers into your house, when using a service like this.
The host was physically present at both of my Airbnb stays.
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He's referring to the relentless issues... Mt. Gox, now this.

It will probably continue...
http://www.otherinbox.com/ comes handy for part of this problem. One of the default folders that OtherInBox creates in your Gmail account is an OIB/Unsubscribe folder/label. Then you can label messages from meetup.com as OIB/Unsubscribe, then all future messages from meetup.com will go there.

Unsubscribing from Meetup groups isn't an option if you want to subscribe to their Google Calendar. And you might want to get some messages from Meetup but not others (maybe you just want reminders for meetups), so labeling as spam is not an option.