skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is about quantitative finance, which is much larger than just HFT. In those spaces, the actual language is almost irrelevant. Hell, you can eek out sub-100 microseconds tick-to-trade times using perl, 150 using python and 200 using awk. And when your strategy has a 10-day horizon and predicts returns of 5% on an asset, missing a few cents due to the system is almost negligible.

That being said, the development performance (speed, iterative ability) become more important, and most quants are fluent with C++ or Java.
I found that in the vast majority of cases, just opening in a new tab if I want to be sure not to leave the page will do the right thing. When it doesn't, well.. that's one more broken UI I'm not going to use again.

Thus, I always assume that any link will open in the same window, or do something disruptive, so if I don't want to leave the page, I'll middle click. Can't remember the last time that did not work.

But perhaps I'm just lucky, and all the sites I frequent have decent UIs.
I actually agree to the part where it says that Apple has not been the different change-maker.

A very large part of the world population is still unaffected by Apple Products. MS for that instance has a much larger impact on the world of personal computing.

Apple did produce some incredibly cool gadgets, but that was about it. iPods and iTunes was probably insanely popular in US (and Europe), just like iPhones and iPads are today - but Microsoft has definitely penetrated at much larger depth and positively (and in some ways, negatively) affected a lot of them. And yes, I know the article is about last 10 years - but even in these 10 years Windows XP was (and in a large population, it still is) THE operating system to have; Office (2003 and 2007) are still used in every damn office.

Aesthetics - yes, Apple products has a huge impact and also to the build quality expectations from hand held devices. But it failed miserably in providing a solution that could be used by masses (It actually focused on a niche clientele, like the ones here). Nokia on the other hand provided devices to the masses - affordable and with insanely awesome build quality. They were not popular in US, but in Asia - buying a non-Nokia phone was considered stupid at one time.

And I am not a MS Fanboi; I am a Google Fanboi. Google is a verb now - Gmail is analogous to mail for most of my friends; youtube is the place we go to listen to music. Maps to get directions, Picasa for uploading pictures and Docs for collaborating on content. I am typing this from using Chromium browser and I had downloaded some libraries from Google Code to use in my Course Project. So the Roman analogy goes for Google, not Apple.
Just one possible scenario is pretending to be the access point of your local coffee shop. Some of the coffee shop patrons will connect to your fake access point. Your system can subsequently run their traffic through a proxy that alters web pages to defeat any JS-based crypto, install malware, etc.
Right on.

Comparing Apple to Google is not very interesting to someone who has watched Apple's entire historical arc, not just the past 5 years.
But it was Microsoft that revolutionized it.
That's the first thing I thought when I read this. There's something about the current state of visitors where I'm seeing really good discussion and interesting articles. When Joe Random starts submitting and hanging out there I hope the content quality doesn't drop.
I have a specific requirement that I thought would be obvious. I've been hoping to get a list of existing sites so I can see what they do, and try to work out why they don't do what I want. If it looks like they already have a significant overlap with what I want, I might just give them the idea and ask them to implement it.

But I'd like to see what people have so far thought would be useful, how much they have in common with each other, and whether there is any overlap with my requirement.
I think he was specifically referring to cache. You still take a large performance hit to have to go to main memory, and iirc nehalem has 12MB cache.
Although, important to note that while Xerox invented GUIs, they were about to trash the project before Apple stepped in and nurtured it. Speculation about what would have happened if they didn't do this is mostly meaningless, but disregarding the promulgation and popularization of GUIs in lieu of crediting only their original inventor is totally unfair.
Torrentfreak is also a sensationalist tabloid blog, you won't miss much by not visiting it. Sorry for the negativity.
At least the pro-Apple point about phones seems very US centric. Or perhaps North America since this magazine is from Canada.
Most people in my country do not lease phones. The phone and the data plan are separate.
You can change your sim card to a competitor any day you feel like. Even your number stays the same.

I've been mystified at the "Apple changed the world of X" memes but perhaps many of those things weren't common or even known about in the Apple proponent's world before Apple made such a big number about them.
But to someone else it might seem ludicrous to say that Apple created this or that. A difference of perspective.

I think their secret is that they suck less than the competition. There's that little extra effort in the design and execution that doesn't give you gray hairs quite so often.
If you want to stretch it a bit, Apple could make expensive and yet well selling fine washing machines for example. Most of the time when I do the laundry, I curse the Swedish or Korean ui designers to the lowest hell.
Yes, Web Search was pretty useless before Google, I was there so I can remember (and I guess you probably were there too).
So memory costs grow linearly. Does your memory usage? If not, then any linear reduction of memory usage gained by switching languages can be very significant. It can also be the difference between being able to run a job on your 64GB machines, or needing to petition for more. Memory only increases at $7/GB so long as you can fit it into the rest of your hardware.
I didn't say Apple invented the mouse or the idea of a winding UI, I said Apple invented the GUI and the personal computer.
It would be a much better read without the attitudes declared through statements like "The horrifying existence of abominations like Hulu and the iTunes Music Store..."

I get the technical details, but the attitude is obnoxious at best and diluting the point at worst.
This is interesting. At first I thought I would disagree with the crux of the article when I read the title, but after reading it I became really convinced that he's actually right. The iPad really hasn't changed anything. It's convenient, but hardly necessary. Same for the iPhone. I think most of Apple's world-changing actually occurred in its first phase.

I'm going to be very interested in watching Apple's next ten years. One thing that I think Apple has always done better than everyone else is software, and as more and more computing power moves away from the desktop, software will become all the more important. I think Apple is going to become more and more software-centric, and it will be interesting to see whether it can stave off competition from licensed platforms when hardware becomes less relevant and margins start to decrease.
Parent and grandparent, take some deep breadths and relax. Please don't quibble. Then watch this rather insightful video titled 'Everything is a Remix' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq5D43qAsVg

And pardon me, for coming off as arrogant, but I hate to see trivial fights here when you are missing the bigger picture.
"I really don't understand the need to denigrate Apple."

Me either, but I also don't really understand the need to sanctify them, and I don't see how anyone could read this article as a denigration of Apple unless they've already made them sacrosanct in their heads.

Also, I don't think your history of Pixar is really correct. Lucas sold Pixar pretty much solely because he needed the money because of his divorce. It isn't that he thought Pixar making features was not viable, it is that he thought Pixar making features in 1986 was not viable, which clearly it wasn't. What makes you think he would have been opposed to them making features once the world was ready for it? George Lucas, for better or for worse, is one of the biggest proponents of all-digital movie making. One could easily make the case that Pixar features with Lucas as the CEO would have suffered from his meddling in ways they didn't with Jobs as the CEO, but that is purely speculation.
GNU SRC: a package manager for The GNU Project's softwares
Well the question is "is the GUI that people are using today closer to the PARC GUI or closer to the Mac/Lisa GUI?"

The Apple and Lisa groups were unquestionably influenced by PARC, but a lot of the innovations that are used in today's GUIs come from Apple: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
This is a great idea, but when I try to "like" it it prompts me to resubmit the article to HN. :/
GUI: No. [3]
Touch: No. [1][2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch#History
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#History
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i...
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It's the lead position. My lead at work (MS) works more hours than me, too; and, so far as I know, knows what all of us are working on at a pretty considerable level. He does testing for some of the things that we can't, or that need to be done immediately if we're doing higher priority things, and so on.

I'd like to think he still gets at least 6 hours of sleep a night, but I wouldn't know. The synopsis of the lead, I read, was reasonable, especially remembering what sort of lives the people that worked for EA had.

In short, I don't think this was trying to glorify the hours worked, and instead alerting would-be leads to understand what they're committing to.
Actually, Xerox invented some important technologies, such as the mouse and the idea of a windowed interface, but this was not the GUI. That was invented by Apple. The xerox interface was more akin to emacs multi-document mode, there was no desktop metaphor, no file/folders organization, no trash can, the menubar was a very different conceptualization, etc.
Agreed, a good lead would be doing everything within their power to _prevent_ this from happening to themselves and the rest of the team.
I thought you mentioned you were using the HN API? Even without it, can't you use something like `curl` to make the post and perhaps some gross regex to strip away the bits you want and load it into your own domain space?
I don't know how relevant this is to computational finance, but in scientific computing you can use up an arbitrary amount of RAM in dimensionality-cursed fields. For instance, in neutron transport theory, the governing equation is in 7 continuous variables (or 6 in steady state), so that if you want your mesh to be twice as fine, your memory usage increases by 2^7 (or 2^6).

And, just so we're clear, that's multiplicative, not additive. So you're using 2^7 times as much memory as you were using before.
That GUI is a revolution.. I disagree. Yes, GUI is a necessary tool for doing stuff that requires graphics (web browsing, image editing, engineering/CAD, etc.) But do I prefer clicking icons and menus to instruct the computer what to do? Absolutely NOT.
wow i was watching a youtube vid on it, intense. Talk about a learning curve haha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1dKFpGwKZ4
It's more subtle than that. Jobs had a preternatural ability to determine when a technology was sufficiently mature and when people were ready to accept a well-executed solution. Some would argue, for example, that Newton was executed well (but people weren't ready for it).

I would imagine a lot of startups find themselves in a situation where people simply aren't ready for the solution that is brought to the table.
I've found a screwdriver to be one of my go-to tools for car work. Oftentimes I need to remove a rubber gasket that's been in the car for years. It's usually completely hardened from heat and baked onto a metal surface. A screwdriver is really useful for scraping that off before I install a new one.

When I worked in a restaurant I saw the line cook do the same with food burned into the salamander.
what about Business of Software? Or StackExchange for businesses?

i would love to read your story. if you ever start a blog, link it to HN. thanks.
"Article summary: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Wow, I think your comment is a perfect illustration of one of the author's points and the reason he had to speak up in the face of people going too far in extolling Apple's virtues.

Apple makes fantastic products, but to compare any of them or even the aggregate of them (and I'm including the Apple II and the original Mac in this, both of which I think are actually bigger game changers than anything 1997+) to any single thing in the list you just rattled off is insanity.

Apple has changed the world of industrial design, sure, and they make wonderful products, but none of that is a real sweeping history-altering game changer.

Let's recognize the great 10 year run they've been on, but let's not get crazy about it.
The guy talking about how Apple copied/stole the idea is probably reacting negatively because while 'execution' is important, it's nice to see 'idea' too. It can rankle if someone else is successful purely on the taking of your ideas, without ever generating any truly new ideas of their own.

(which is not to say Apple has never had an original idea in their life)
building the next killing simulator when you have the talent and means to do so much more

Possibly. But can you say that about building the video game equivalent of Citizen Kane, The Battleship Potemkin, or La jetée?
Because some people might not know the movie and/or get the reference, it is from The Life of Brian, a hilarious comedy from Monty Python. The scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
But if things start to go bad, they will probably be the first ones to start staying late.
That makes way more sense :) I just added an imitation to my post below.
Civility is not optional on HN. When you call someone names, you are being uncivil. Stop calling people names.

And, if the entire point of your comment is to inform everyone else on HN that you think another HN user is unworthy of our attention, you should rethink posting the comment at all. Comments of that sort are generally unwelcome.
It's a nice piece of documentation, but what exactly does this make on the front page of HN? What's there to discuss?
Cool button. However, and I am a fairly new member of HN, I think the beauty of HN is partly in the old-school interface and the lack of a 'like' button. Manually copy-pasting a link actually enforces some level of commitment on your part. Having a one-click button would drive too much less interesting content.

That said, it would be nice if this button scouted HN for the page URL and simply notified users that a discussion with X comments was taking place here.

This solution would reduce the amount of gaming that one could do to vote a post up, but would let dedicated readers know where to look. Thoughts?
Hmm, I guess I am. But isn't that how it is now? Does free speech really have any boundaries? Aside from the oh so taboo one about the President, what is it that you can't say without getting into trouble right off the bat?

Say all you want, there may be repercussions, but that is something that will have to be battles out in a court or some other legal manor. At least, that is how I have always looked at it.

Sure, you don;t want to yell "fire" in a crowded building if there is no fire, but telling someone they are an asshole on twitter should be fine. One may take it literally in that you think they are an asshole as in a literal anus body part, which could defame them in some way, which would be something to deal with in the courts.

If you spit out some nonsense about wanting to harm someone on twitter, most would assume it was in jest, or that it was an extreme way of expressions anger or frustration. Most people don't go around making serious claims of causing someone harm in a public forum, they do so in secret so they can get away with it.

Maybe I am overlooking something, but as I see it, we have always been able to have the freedom to say whatever we want, with some very few restrictions that amount to common sense.
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You make an excellent point. I used to read Joel Spolsky and Russinovich's blog quite often. I would actually pay to do this.

The main problem (and difference) I see with Blogs vs traditional journals is the editors. The majority of blogs from technologists, scientists and the like do not have an editor at hand. This reduces the writing quality of their articles.

Now may be a good time to setup a business connecting "editors" with writers.
I imagine a lot of potential attendees (myself included) were dissuaded from attending by the hurricane.
What do you think of my idea?
I’ve been working on a project that is nearly ready and I wanted to get some feedback on it.

The site will allow businesses to post videos of their products or services. Each business will have their own profile page where they can provide info of their business and display their videos. Our site will be for businesses that sell everyday items such as electronics or services like accounting. Visitors will search the product they want or search the name of a business and get a list of results. They will be able to browse through the results and watch product or service demos before they buy. We think of it as a culmination of YouTube, Amazon and Yelp.

I would really like to hear what you think of it and more importantly would you use it?

Replies much appreciated.
building the next killing simulator when you have the talent and means to do so much more

Such a shame that you claim to have the talent, but obviously don't have the imagination, to build something better.
I was thinking that as well, but if they are not storing the data, that would mean a real time scrape? Seems a little troublesome. All it would take for the site they are scraping from to break the entire site is a single character change probably, then their regex fails.
One might argue that such a course of action will simply get the engineer pointlessly fired.
Optimization and the Standard Deal
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uquast.com (formerly freeiq.com)... both have been failures thus far.
The super computers are strategically taking out problematic groups of humans, staging machine accidents that the humans cannot recover from manually.

I see this as a reoccurring theme in the next 100 years as we get self driving cars, automated food processing, intelligent machines automating everything. We gotta deal with this in a smart way, require by law "Kill computer" switch accessible and known by all operators, to get the computer to stop demanding its own way and just do what the human tells it to do.

Though we can't say we weren't warned, Hal saying he can't jeopardize the mission to Wall-E auto computer demanding it's own way over the will of the captain. Is there even a solution to this problem or are we doomed to be pets one day?
I believe you may be overstating your point, or maybe it's the wording, but I hope you are not implying that sony or hp or samsung, with almost 200 years of total company histories, have not invented much and have survived by sheer luck.
I agree. Someone would've "eventually" improved on Excite, Yahoo, and AltaVista's search. Someone would've "eventually" purchased YouTube. The argue that the author uses against Apple applies equally or more-so to every point he makes about Google.
The answer to your question is a quote from Lucas that I read in a hardback book covering the history of Pixar from around that time. He essentially said as much. Also, at that time, Industrial Light and Magic was a practical shop, they were not doing "digital filmmaking" and Lucas wasn't yet a proponent of digital filmmaking, as this really didn't exist yet. So, Pixar was very much an odd duck there, they didn't have shared backgrounds with the other groups and operate in a way that was difficult for the existing management to manage.

For the past 30 years I've been reading people denigrating Apple based on innumerable falsehoods and misrepresentations. Ever since the Apple II had competition, there have been fans of competing systems who felt the need to attack Apple, at that time, because it was the dominant system. During the windows era, because Windows fans felt vaguely insecure about the computer they were talked into by a salesman, and nowadays, by google fans because they want to believe that it is ok for google to rip off the iPhone and give away a counterfeit operating system. All of these people have both a motivation to denigrate Apple and, since they know that Apple is one of the few genuinely innovative companies in the industry, they end up having to make up stories to try and make Apple's innovations less significant than they are.

One of the ways people denigrate Apple is to pretend like there is really no difference in usability or performance of Apple products, while also claiming that they are more expensive (even when they aren't) and thus that anyone who buys them is obviously a victim of a Reality Distortion Field. For these people they cannot debate the purely pragmatic reasons that people choose Apple products, and so they attempt to portray Apple users as part of a cult, and often speak using religious terminology.

Ironically, it is those who talk about the "Reality Distortion Field" who have actually substituted ideology for pragmatism, otherwise they'd have pragmatic arguments to make.
> context menu that's difficult to access with the keyboard

Hmm, I guess you're right. Without the dedicated context menu key, you have to use SHIFT+F10. That's a pain.
Maybe, but check out the judges page, it's endless.
Apple invented the GUI (using some ideas they licensed from Xerox), as part of a project that Steve Jobs led. The NeXT cube inspired the web to some extent and made the first browser much easier to write. Apple invented the touch UI. Hell, just listing the significant inventions of Apple is almost embarrassing because any list is going to leave so many of them off.

This is why people feel the need to "denigrate" Apple -- people have serious misconceptions about the history of computing, resulting in a new history in which Apple is penciled in as the creator of everything. Their contribution to the history of computing is significant, but claims that they "invented" all these things give too much credit to Apple and too little to the companies and researchers who had the same ideas but lacked the resources, capitalist desire, or business acumen to profit from them.

See raganwald's comment regarding execution: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934813
I love the intro video that is skippable, I'm going to copy that for my project ;). Maybe you could add the ability to put a picture on your profile, and to make a profile page so you can find out about the people you are chatting with.
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Went to bit.ly.

Shortened http://blizzard.warcraft.info-management-review.net/security... to http://bit.ly/e61JJQ.

Went to http://cli.gs/ (which blocked all in the article)
It happily shortened http://bit.ly/e61JJQ to http://cli.gs/qdbui1x

When I clicked on it cli.gs kindly draws me a preview image of the bit.ly warning page that says

"STOP - there might be a problem with the requested link"

I have no idea who wins that round !