skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
submitted the form. hasn't showed up on the homepage yet.
So this is Basecamp + Backpack, modernized and combined?
"vote" is a little weird... Everything about this is pretty intuitive except for that. It's only mentioned once on the summary/info page and in the welcome board after signup there should be a card that explains what voting is supposed to be, exactly. (besides just the ubiquitous like equivalent)

I get the impression this started out with "voting" more prominent than it is now.

But otherwise, this is really pretty neat. One of the first hosted solutions I've been interested in since I got tired of basecamp.
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Microsoft won't have a choice -- Dart targets Javascript as well as a Dart-specific VM.
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execution and portfolio construction are separate things.

you can do both algorithmically, or manually, or a mix.
Maybe you should have "I'm flexible" on the results page, too? Skyscanner does. I would not find it without your hint.
You should read Paul's article first...
http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html

AngelList, connecting startups and investors
http://angel.co/
I keep a portfolio of minor source code for these questions.

Other than that, I'm finishing my Master's in my 'free time'.
Strategies like "release early, release often" and "version 0.1" don't work for massive corporations that can afford to finish a product before actively hyping it.

I'd respect Microsoft more if they'd actually imitate that facet of Apple.
I think Don't be Evil is just easier, since you could make the argument that you could theoretically actually enumerate a list of things that most people would consider truly "evil". Do Good... well, good luck making that list.

So, uh... in hindsight I guess I'm just agreeing with you :-P
> What line? Why else would they do it?

To line their own coffers, of course. By banning apps that the majority of people don't mind (see: Google Voice unbanned), they're able to increase their own profits.

This is much like the difference between the US and PRC governments. The latter is able to optimize its economy to a much greater degree than the former, thanks to its top-down control. But at what price?
Yeah the RTL source/debug dcus still comes with any version from Professional up.
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The thing is that you will have a choice. I'll be able to get a 17" hex core, dual HD power machine while my wife/kids can have a arm powered tablet. Both machines will be able to run the same metro apps.

Personally, I like power tablets. I got an android instead of an iPad (I gave away my iPad) because of the added functionality (usb in, hdni out). If I could have a windows tablet instead, I'd be a very happy camper.
doesn't happen automatically. we have a bunch of work to do to make that happen. just goes to google docs for now.

the implementation is the absolutely simplest we could come up with.
would be nice if you could purchase an installable paid version for internal company use. It looks like a step up from pivotal tracker

playing with an account now, the drop and drop has a nice little effect on it. Promising!
The design seems to be missing attractiveness and simplicity. For example, the Start text on the screen is totally a bad user interface. It's much easier to imagine and remember with images, then to get more help with text. Try to give it to a toddler to see how he/she master the device. This is so fundamental, and I think this is going to be a failure for MS.
I'm not Jeff but perhaps I can provide some insight into the flash crash.

Also, what IS algo trading?

Is a margin call algo trading? Is a stop loss algo trading? What about technical analysis?

(Flash) crashes should be expected anytime you over leverage your entire economy.

See: George Soros and the pound.

Imagine everyone you know has widgets, and you realize that most people like to keep their widgets in a warehouse. You setup a warehouse that stores widgets and people pay you to store their widgets. Everyone loves it, no more widgets around the house cluttering things up.

Now since the widgets are identical and interchangeable you stop tracking whose widgets belong to who and throw them all into a big pile, and when someone asks for their 20 widgets you give them a random 20 widgets.

Now you realize that keeping all these widgets around is a massive waste of time and money since only about 1% of widgets are actually in use before being returned to the warehouse. So you tell your customers, "hey, I'm not going to bother actually keeping all the widgets, and I'm going to stop charging you to store your widget and instead I'll pay you to keep your widgets, if you store your widgets for a year I'll give you an coupon you can bring back to me at the end of the year and I'll give you all your widgets back plus 10% more".

This system works great and everyone is happy, after a few decades the coupons for the widgets outnumber the widgets by a factor of 10,000.

Now some asshole with a basic grasp of mathematics invents a computer program to manage widget coupons and it realizes that if it buys 1/10000th of the widget coupons and redeems them for widgets that no one else can actually redeem any other coupons. So your computer takes delivery of all the widgets in the world and then redeems one more widget coupon and everyone loses faith because the coupons for widgets no longer get you widgets and suddenly widget coupons are only worth 1/10000th of a widget. Suddenly everyone is mad at the guy with the computer and basic grasp of mathematics because their widget coupons only buy 1/10000th of a widget, and he's making bank selling everyone their widgets back.

Is the cause of the devaluation of widget coupons the fault of the algorithm, or the fault of the system that allowed more coupons than there are widgets?
The moment a decent windows 8 tablet comes out, the iPads in our company will be gone.
strings are reference counted

dynamic arrays are reference counted

interfaces are reference counted (mostly for doing com stuff, however I've seen some examples of people trying to use interfaces as a cheap/dirty "i don't have to think about it" memory management tool, badly)

everything else is managed by yours truly

please enlighten us as to what you think Delphi is intended for, and what the standard kit is actually optimised for
Any idea when they expand beyond the US?
I'd argue that there's more good than bad about algorithmic trading. People making decisions based on fear and adrenaline is much more dangerous than setting a pre-determined course and sticking to a mathematical model. Besides, it's not like they just set up these programs and forget about them. If there's some sort of flaw in the algorithm the trader isn't just going to bang his head into the wall while he loses millions; he's going to fix the algorithm.
It's not the first time we've heard this but it's always a little disconcerting especially from some one so closely involved with the security realm

Yeah. This is just "The Commies are coming!" type scare-mongering that we've heard from the US DoD for decades. Missle gaps, bomber gaps, bears in the woods, it's all just a way to create a fog of panic, demonize some group, almost arbitrarily, and then get funding for more classified boondoggles.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've read today.
Out of curiosity, what bug did you encounter?
I never said profit was their only motivation, but it is the reason they are a corporation, and not a charity.

Not necessarily. To parrot one of the other posters here: saying it doesn't make it true.

You could also argue that being a charity would be a very slow and inefficient means to achieving many of the things Google has set out to do. Being a for-profit corp gets them there faster and with fewer distractions not core to their purpose. I'd even venture to guess that it wouldn't be possible for Google to do what it does as a non-profit.

Sure, profit is a motivation, but it's certainly not the only (or even necessarily primary) motivation.
It would be best to do this somewhere that supports MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org/). HN does not, which could make it awkward to discuss math in an HN thread.

There are three reasonable ways to add MathJax support to a site.

1. Get the site owner to do it. The site owner simply has to toss in a script tag that loads MathJax from the MathJax CDN and sets some configuration options. Someone would need to convince PG that this is worthwhile. (I've done some timing tests, and MathJax doesn't seen to cause any noticeable performance problems when used on pages that contain no math. Any decent browser caches the script so load time of the script is not a problem).

2. The user can use a Greasemonkey script to load it, for browses that support Greasemonkey scripts. Here's an example that loads MathJax on Reddit: http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/108770. This could trivially be modified to work on HN instead of Reddit.

3. Safari doesn't support Greasemonkey scripts. There is a Safari plugin to add that functionality, but it does not work very well. I wrote a Safari extension to load MathJax (or Tex The World, discussed below) on Reddit: https://github.com/tzs/Reddit-Math-Display-for-Safari. This could easily be modified to work on HN instead of Reddit.

On Reddit, in /r/math, the convention is to use LaTeX delimited by [; and ;] to mark math, and to use a script called Tex The World to render it (http://thewe.net/tex/). That script finds the math, and sends it off to CodeCogs.com where it is rendered and an image is returned for display. This occasionally causes problems due to the load on CodeCogs.

To work around this, someone has a hacked version of the that script (link available in the sidebar on /r/math) that uses the Google Chart API to render small equations and does some kind of caching.

I'd recommend NOT using either of these. The author of TeX The World stopped work on it quite a while ago. There's no licensing information on the site so it is not clear if anyone else can take it over, and by using an external service to render the math it is fragile.

MathJax seems to be the best approach. That's what they are using at mathoverlow and math.stackexchange.com. Note that if MathJax is loaded by the page itself, rather than by an extension, then it works great on iOS and most other major mobile web devices, in addition to pretty much all major desktop browsers, without the need for the end user to do anything special.
Not really. HFT is a subset of algorithmic trading, where many small orders are placed to take advantage of intraday (or intraminute, or even intrasecond) shifts in the spread. A large strategic order executed through an algorithm is a different creature altogether.

The big problem when you place a huge buy or sell order is that it shifts the price in a direction you don't want it to go. For a large sell order, the price goes down, as the market becomes skittish about the security. For a large buy order, the price goes up, as the market becomes bullish and arbitrageurs quickly buy up securities to resell to you. So, many traders use algorithms to hide their trades. The purpose of these algorithms is to avoid volatility, so they shouldn't be dangerous to the market, as long as they're designed correctly.

(Although, to be fair, algorithms may automatically stop trading when the market becomes too volatile, which contributes to flash crashes by reducing liquidity.)
Any coding problem that could feasibly be completed in an acceptable amount of time would be too small to actually tell me what I want to know. I mostly don't want to know what algorithms you're aware of or how quickly you can type. I want to know how you structure and modularize code. I want to know how you debug things. I want to know if you can refactor well. In short, I want to know about how you handle building and maintaining real software. If I hired people to do coding problems all day, that would be another thing, but I don't.
This is wrong. Algorithmic trading can be fully automatic as well. It just doesn't need to operate on short time windows as HFT does.
I think they will integrate this with google maps and give around the world directions. Pretty cool.
So I guess with the top navigation bar of Fogcreek.com having lots of available space, we can expect to see a lot of new offerings from Joel and company?
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Looking for ANTIQUE WATCHES? Yes, ANTIQUE WATCHES . It's all here
Win Phone 7 Mango (should be released later this month, can get it now if you know where to look) has an IE9 based browser that supports html 5 etc
Psychrometric charts where an important part of my thermodynamic lectures last semester. In engineering they are pretty useful, both because their accuracy is sufficient in many real-life situations and they give you a very good understanding and guessability for the complex formulas you are using.
Yeah unfortunately the actual Delphi compiler is stuck in stasis, and has received no love in terms of targeting newer cpu instructions like SSE etc, which is why C++ can achieve better performance these days, back in the day Delphi was as fast as C++ for general performance, and Delphi absolutely killed it in terms of productivity.

We started out as a TP shop, so there is code dating back to the 1980s that is still used today (=\)

The rumor is Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero lost the source code to the delphi compiler, which is the reason there had been no additions to the compiler, but who knows if that is legitimate, or should be an entry on snopes
I'm in. Does it matter which edition we use?

As for notation and sharing images, this is a great tool... provided you know LaTeX (which is worth learning anyway):

http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php
15.2 Apps that depict violence or abuse of children will be rejected

16.1 Apps that present excessively objectionable or crude content will be rejected

Seems fairynuff to me.
Legally, intent matters.
Again, what about it is better?
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Voting is actually a kind of "test of concept" of the idea of Trello Plugins which enhance Trello boards in interesting ways that not everyone necessarily uses
Why would a user care about these things?
And even more simple and powerful than nanoc:

http://stasis.me
I'm not suggesting that they should operate for free; I'm suggesting that they should not operate at all. They're basically monetizing piracy.
"...It’s just a list of lists, really."

Almost like Workflowy on steroids.
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I'm really excited by the new things that are being tried for desktop OSes. They really haven't changed much since I started using computers.

I wonder how long it will take for touch become mainstream in the laptop market.
hipmunk, hold on to your 'nackers :)
Approx 99% of what is written about algo and high-freq trading is written by people who don't have a clue, have never worked in a trading environment (let alone actually traded) and think they're some kind of expert because they've read an article or two. Just remeber that the next time you read an article (or a comment about an article) on algo/high-freq trading.
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Hmm, I hope none of your users ever have login issues.
Does this integrate with fogbugz and/or kiln?
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Agreed -- couldn't find it in the first 30 seconds, which is sort of a red flag...
tl; dr: Is Windows 8 vaporware? Meanwhile iPad is surrendering all the way to the bank.

I lost a few brain cells on this one.
At least Gruber is rightfully giving props to Microsoft for the very original UI. Every time I see anything Metro based I'm struck at what a breath of fresh air it is in mobile.
Alright, issue should be solved now. Try yourself! Thanks.
Anything that reduces the likelihood that I'll have to work on a project with Mingle is good news to me.
understood :) just putting it out there in an attempt to avoid dupes.

thanks joshua!
The $550 Acer Iconia W500 tablet (which comes with an attachable keyboard base) got 4:06 on a Cnet video playback battery drain test.

http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3...

Acer isn't exactly known for brilliant power engineering, so a better vendor could likely do better. But this also wasn't exactly a high-powered chip, either. So this is probably a plausible baseline for battery usage in Win 7.

They need to beat this by quite a bit in Win 8, or the tablets will be a tough sell.
It's the "iPad Killer" syndrome all over again. How many times has the iPad's or iPhone's death (and preceding that, Apple's) been predicted? And how many times has it actually happened?

I feel like every journalist who expresses this sentiment is hoping beyond hope that this time, this article, is the one that turns out to be timely and correct. But it's been a stupid bet thus far.
his server seems to get overwhelmed...
Looks pretty awesome in my 5 min trial. Back of the card is very well done.

This will could go way beyond the software crowd to a general organization app..I just hope this thing scales well and they clarify their upload limits and such.

Edit 1: I tried their iPhone app and it's very far from their web interface - took me 6-7 clicks just to get to a checklist for one of the items. It's commendable that they have a app on launch though so I am sure they will work out the app interface with time - currently it's an order of magnitude less usable than their webapp.
I don't understand why anyone would use a federated flight search when looking for a domestic flight in the US. None of the major airlines come close to Southwest in terms of price or hassle free travel and none of the flight search engines include price information for Southwest.
First, the age thing is just a number - let's get that out of the way. I'm up there too (I'm 'cough' 30+, too), wife, 3 kids, mortgage, etc. There is something to be said about wisdom - calculated risk vs 'reckless abandoment-type risk (this is not to imply that all 20+ startups are like this). I believe that added responsibilities in your 30's make you better at assessing risk in your personal life. Take that knowledge and intuition into your startup. How to make it work? Good question. Start with an understanding wife and kids.and finding a balance between your personal, work, and startup. It'd be nice to have longer days or not have to sleep so much. But, that's life...startups are never easy. But if your startup is worth it...go for it. It really boils down to time management. And, when you get to that stage where the startup has achieved momentum (cusp of getting funding, going public, or whatever that requires more of your time) re-assess your situation again because it's going to get harder not easier. If your startup has potential and you believe in it, fall back on that to drive yourself forward during those 'downtimes' when you question yourself about why you're doing this. In my case, I plug away at my startup for 3 reasons - my kids. Did I mention you have to have an understanding wife? Good luck.
Feature request: reorder boards. I'd like to use this to manage our software project, and I can imagine a ltr task progression, but then boards have to be features.
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There are some straightforward solutions to many of these problems that have been made more complex (unnecessarily) because they cross precious lines of ideology and religion, among other things.

For example, there are homosexual couples in the world who want children. Many are wealthy enough to adopt more than one child. In any sane debate it should be unquestionable that a child is better off being child #1 in a middle-class family, with better opportunities for economic and social stability than they would have as child #5 in a poor household. But there are people who would shout until they're blue in the face to prevent this from happening, simply because the parents are gay.

Another extremely unpopular but practical solution is contraceptives and even abortion. Why are parents shamed into birthing a child that they cannot afford to raise, in a world whose population is greater than at any point in history? Unquestionably if the average size of families decreased, incomes would be less strained and poverty levels would have a fighting chance to go down as well.

A third unpopular solution is grouped housing. For some reason it's been hammered into everyone's heads that they should have a house and a yard and a dog, and that a single family should live in it. But the reality is that a large structure could hold 2 families or more, if people were willing to live like that. It would not only decrease costs, but it would improve nutrition: it's much more practical to cook a decent meal for many people than for a few people (it's easier to acquire good food in quantities that won't go to waste, etc.).
> I'm also not creating any copies of their work.

To listen to the content they are streaming on their website, you need to make a copy of it. Now, you could argue that, by creating a URL which will stream that content to any program that asks for it, they have implicitly given everyone permission to copy it in order to listen to it, but I'm not sure that's legally sound, particularly given that AFAICS, the only way in which they publish that URL is in the context of the specific player on their website.

(Now, as a publicly-owned broadcaster, the CBC should be streaming its content in a way that allows anyone - or anyone in Canada, anyway - to access it how they choose; but that's a somewhat separate question.)
So doing things other than thinking about work is "wasting time", huh? I guess as an employer you want to hire people that will grind themselves into dust making you rich, but as an employee I work to live, not the other way around.
We have the hosted versions of both and I've heard more than once "I can't believe they(fogcreek) doesn't do something in project management because most of the current solutions suck."
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Huh?

I think Stasis is great in theory, but a few things are preventing me from using it full time. Namely that I can't pass simple options to a template engine (of which I do a lot).

It appears that you're the author. Can you offer any information on how Stasis is, in some ways, better than nanoc?
This is just sad. I'm sure someone was using the extra information for debugging purposes at one point and never thought to remove it from the json interface.
So the underlying server is getting hammered with traffic right now, but this really illustrates why you should always be encrypting this kind of thing.

Because not only did the developers of the app expose public data, they also managed to post their own source code online by using Pastie (check it out here: http://pastie.org/pastes/1789181), and exposed their entire web service documentation here: http://120.151.59.193/v2/help (although it will probably be down by now).
Not sure about #4. Single parenthood can sometimes be a choice (e.g. mother with donor), but it's much more likely not to be (e.g. unwilling divorce, death of a partner, teenagers who aren't ready).
I couldn't log in with my Google Account (approval with G worked fine though).

Anyway, I created a regular account and my initial impression is very positive. I feel a little disoriented and the "See all boards" could be a lot better (make the boards and their relationships easier to figure out visually). Will use this for a while to see if it will grow on me.
Now that's an interesting teaser. Looking forward to reading more as plugins develop.
Very interesting. I wish they'd factor in gender: are they guys ordering or are the girls ordering?
Shouldn't some % of your procedes be going to some cause? If not even you use your product, why should I?
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And many sites specifically state that you're signing over the copyright as part of posting.