skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed the point of Pinterest.

If you like the point of Pinterest, use Pinterest. If you just like the look of Pinterest, you can use Pinry.
> We don't want conferences censoring presenters because of reputation issues.

Consider it done.

As an organizer of PyCon, this Van Horn person and any others who lack basic judgement and decency skills as well as having gained a reputation for that are not welcome to present at our conference.
AnyWall: an iOS geolocation app powered by Parse complete with tutorial
It seems to be faster (starts building faster) and gives progress information make lacks. See http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.h... (for motivation) and https://plus.google.com/108996039294665965197/posts/SfhrFAhR... (for benchmarks). TLDR: Firefox takes 14m to fully build with make and a nop build takes 57.9s, Chrome takes 30m with ninja, but a nop build takes only 0.74s.
HFT is, essentially, automated market making, and only market makers have the opportunity to do front running.
If you're interested in the mentioned The War for Talent conference, just click the link in the article and you'll receive a speaker discount of 25%.

Not sure if this was intentional ;)
It seems to me that giving up less ownership and having more freedom to answer to their own vision and no one else is not some automagical formula for success.

I have had the freedom to do that with my own websites. In spite of audience interest which led to their creation, they have dismal traffic, are not profitable, and have helped only a paltry few people. Having that kind of "fuck you" decision making autonomy was critical to my ability to get well when doctors claim it cannot be done but it has not been a good basis for a business model. I am currently working on getting feedback to change that. It is clear to me I need more connection, not less, to make a viable business model. Yes, I am leery of the type of connection which can be strangulating but I am also leery of being so autonomous as to be isolated.

I remember someone posting here with an anonymous account who expressed similar concerns because he had $400,000 in savings and was thus free to pursue his vision to his heart's content. He worried he would go broke before he got his act together and created a solid business model simply because he didn't have to before that. "Duke Nukem Forever" comes to mind as well.
Be careful conflating Order and Price. The Order book is the current stack of buyers and sellers. Price is the last executed price.

So when you say a price drifting upwards, that means that both buyers and sellers meet at that price. A corollary is that there were buyers and sellers at that price. In addition, this also means that the market could have also moved away from that price without a trade being executed (ie after major announcements -- last trade 10.50, next bid/ask 8.75/8.80)

So given that, "If the price reaches $10.05 without finding a seller" this statement does not make much sense and/or is irrelevant.

>then I will trade at $10.05 with the HFT folks.
Secondly, there is nothing to differentiate, nor should there be, a HFT trader and an individual trader. A trade is a trade. From a buyer's point of view, it doesn't matter if you buy XYZ from MomPop Co vs UltraHFT Co. A trade is a trade.

>But if a seller who is willing to sell at $9.90 comes along before that happens, we will trade with each other at the current price and leave the HFT folks out of the loop.
This is currently true right now. If someone enters a sell order below the bid, the trade is executed at the bid price (or whatever is at the top of the order book). It will knock out all the orders up to the limit price that is set.

Also as I mentioned above, "current price" (ie last executed) has no meaning. In the case of of the major announcement, last executed could be far off from the current order books.

>My suspicion is that, if this were implemented, a large fraction of trades would actually execute in the middle ground between what the HFT traders are willing to offer as a bid/ask.
Nothing you suggest is anything different from the current system.
I'm sure this would be a great result for Google, but it would kick the question of whether APIs were copyrightable into the long grass.
Don't forget that Groklaw is quite slanted in Google's favor just like FOSS Patents is slanted against Google. To get a balance you need to read both (well actually even more sources).
Nexon offers to buy EA
I agree more with Felix than with you. Probably many other people built the same "unsuccessful" companies but can't only sell those companies if they are well connected.
Your association of a dollar amount to morality is unnerving. If Happy Unicorn Widget Inc. upgrades it's production line speed, it experiences some increase in revenue and can thus even make a $100M a day gasp.

I work at a HFT firm and any serious suggestion of frontrunning would probably get you fired. The truth is the majority of HFT is liquidity providing or some form of arbitrage.
I don't know the design goals of premake but ninja is very very fast at deciding what to build (a no-op build of a large project that might take a traditional make system several seconds, is almost instantaneous with ninja, allegedly).

For those already using CMake--ninja will slot right in.

Are there any large projects using premake? Ninja+gyp is used by Chromium.
It's refreshing to see this sort of tactic on the end of the employer because it shows that the process really is a two-way street. The potential employee is as valuable to the company as the company is to the employee (in a good match). It would be nice to see the current hiring paradigm (company holds all the cards) evened out.
Would love to hear any suggestions for how to improve it. Of course, pull requests accepted also. ;)
I have the link, but somehow it's not opening up in iTunes: Here, you can try accessing the app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/finderous/id520384764?ls=1...
The way that I have always tried to explain this to other people is that it's not a matter of "being sexist" or "not being sexist" (or racist, or whatever). It's a matter of what you actually do.

Whether or not you "are sexist" on some innate level is between you and God, or your psychologist, or whatever. Nobody at work gives a damn, really. What matters are your actions, and in particular the effect they have on others and on the work environment generally. If you do and say sexist things, then there's a problem. Whether you really are or aren't sexist on some sort of deep level is, for the purposes of maintaining office harmony, irrelevant.

It's very rare to find anyone who will actually cop to being racist or sexist, and I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt and believe that they probably really aren't. But if someone quacks like a duck and walks like a duck often enough, they're going to get called a duck.
Inforama | Document Automation
XNEYXKXMAYWL Used. Thanks. Will try it out.
A single song is not a "collective work".

If anyone is tempted to start spinning the English meaning of the term "collected" to point out how in some sense a song is often a collection of a lot of other elements that may be further copyrighted, stop. The English meaning is not the relevant one, the legal meaning is. A single song is not, legally, a collected work, it is a single work.

If anyone is tempted to construct some exceptional song-like thing that is also a collected work, yes, very good, you've got your thesis topic for your copyright class all laid out, but it is an exception, not the rule.
You would be happy with a definition of success that allows for the sidelining of an entire gender?
They now have exactly .5 second (SEC rule)

No, the SEC mandates that the limit be < 500ms, i.e. if it were > 500ms, then the exchange would be required to publish the flash order.

The limit was 30ms at Direct Edge, and I believe everywhere else as well.

There are also mandatory fill rates - i.e., if you don't fill at least 30% (or some such fraction) of the orders that are flashed to you, you get kicked out of the ELP program.

Your timeline is also wrong:

- said company goes and buys up the AAPL on the market, ahead of you
- your order to buy AAPL hits, executing at a slightly higher price than you expected

Your limit order to buy AAPL at $610.00 hits the market and goes unfilled.

In fact, the ELP program was mainly about increasing order flow. It was a way for some HFT's to jump the queue - rather than being faster with public bids on ARCA, you can just flash people on Direct Edge.

The people being flashed chose to be flashed (note: there was a flag you could set to turn flash orders off) because it would reduce their routing fees.

A much more legitimate criticism of flash orders is that they benefit Goldman or Getco to the detriment of Joe's HFT Shop.
Ask HN: Any interest in an HN meetup for Oxford, UK?
For a startup that has minimal chance of ever getting the capital to get off the ground it is black and white. I'm not talking about a company with 200 employees and a Series C.

Playing company can certainly bleed you dry before you ever get a chance to build something that can sell.
If you want international customers, speak English
So I recently ordered a VPS at German hosting provider Hetzner.de and received an email with the subject line "Ihr bestellter VQ 7 Server". Another email from them had the subject "Ihre Robot-Zugangsdaten". Reading the emails I had to scroll down quite a lot to get to the English version, as the first part was in German.

This unfortunately seems to be a trend: If you order a domain at Gandi.net, most of the website is in English, but some of the explanatory screenshots in the help section are in French, and here and there you'll see status messages, etc. that were never translated into English. My order confirmation page contained a single line of copy - in French (even though the rest of the ordering process was in English).

Sure, I know some German and French, but the problem here is that the overall impression I get from both Gandi and Hetzner is that they put their national market first and their international customers second.

That's a shame, given that European IT companies have a lot to offer, especially in terms of privacy, since America seems to be going down the road of less privacy and more government intrusion. (Some) European countries offer an alternative to that, so there are big market shares to grab by European companies that really understand how to cater to an international audience. Both Hetzner and Gandi are often mentioned (positively) on HN, so there's a huge oppurtunity here. Both companies provide an excellent service, so it's a shame if the whole language thing should scare people off.

A couple of practical points for people with multi-language websites:

- Go through the English part of your website and make sure it doesn't contain non-translated content.

- Make sure international customers see the English-language version right away and don't have to click a tiny flag somewhere.

- If possible the TLD should correspond to the language. So Hetzner's English-language version should be on hetzner.com, not on hetzner.de/en/.

- If the customer makes their order on an English-language page, they should receive an English-language order confirmation. Send out different emails according to the user's language.
I haven't used pinboard, but I am considering this strongly if I go back to start keeping all the required and interesting links. This site is a one man show and having read his blog, I find him very honest,open and of course, hardworking! Then, he provides support through twitter plus the pricing's just pay once and use for life time(pay more if you want archival).
"Michael Phelps sucks. He doesn't know shit about swimming."

This criticism should be valid regardless of my identity and credentials?
I have read Google's TOS for drive.

I have read Google's privacy policy.

The fact they are used elsewhere within Google's services does not give me the comfort that it appears to give you.

Then again, drive is no more something that I would allow as an app on my phone than Gmail or Facebook are.
I'm sure this article keeps Anderson up at night thinking could be as amazing as Felix. Perhaps Anderson could have created the next great thing himself, instead he chose to help other people bring their ideas to the market place. Mentors have a greatly under appreciated roll in the success or failure of companies.
I can't find it if there is one, but it'd be great to have an example site.
Naming the best possible cases is not a good defense, I could cite how much money bankers made with CDOs and yet that didn't stop the economy from collapsing.

All those cases could have been just as successful in any other platform, or even raising the money by themselves, because they have a huge fan base.

What I'm talking about is the other 99% of projects at kickstarters, the ones that weren't created by star-devs with decades of experience in the industry. Of this 99% the majority is made by anything from people without enough experience to complete idiots who only know how to make a good presentation. These projects will get the money and deliver nothing, the backers wont get their money back, further undermining the crowdfunding model.

Eventually one of the "big ones" will underdeliver too (like diaspora) and after that NOBODY will trust this system.
Hiring a developer? You're doing it wrong
Python's function decorators in Ruby
"Promote" is perhaps problematic from an IP standpoint.

"To develop other services" is more problematic from a privacy perspective because it's scope is essentially unlimited.
I use tup: http://gittup.org/tup/ but I'd like to hear from the author of Ninja what his opinion is on tup.
Six Super-Scale Hadoop Deployments
From stuartmemo's comment, which you replied to:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms...

> The Verge: "Is Google Drive worse for privacy than iCloud, Skydrive, and Dropbox?"

Short answer: no.
Dear 42 Floors: why exactly do you think you need rockstar software talent? Your execution is obviously phenomenal, but it's not like you need a team of <del>haskell/clojure ninjas</del> grizzled enterprise vets who know how to tackle ridiculous complexity of integrating dozens of services against ever changing requirements.

edit: all i'm trying to say is there are top 90% devs, and 99% devs, and 99.9% devs... not exactly sure that 42Floors needs them. if they did need them, they wouldn't be saying things like

> We can't compete with Google or Facebook on salary. We
> can't compete with being a founder on equity. So the most
> important thing I have left is my ability to commit to an
> individual employee's personal development

99.9ers don't need you for personal development. Sounds like they're trying to get young potential while its cheap. Nothing wrong with that, but when we discuss it, we should say it like it is.

by the way, I quit my 90% job to do hacker/school this summer, I intend to come out a 99er with mad functional programming chops, looking to join a team of 99.9ers so i can someday become one.
Irony seems lost on the whole tech community lately...

Brogrammers are funny for three reasons spanning three groups:

1) The irony that hacker culture has adopted the mores of frat culture.
2) That people think 1 is actually serious and adopt the faux culture.
3) A truly clueless group that thinks the whole gig is for real and "offensive".
Not that this applies to you, but I have seen a female programmer (co worker) invoke the chauvinist card, when in fact she was no good as programmer.

She wanted to be involved, she wanted to do cool stuff. But she didn't have the basics dialed at all and didn't have the work ethic to pick it up at an accelerated pace.

As far as I have seen the guys in hard fields (as AI and Robotics) are pretty selective bunch and will not allow someone with average skills amongst them. You have to be flat out and you have to impress them with your skills. Be a gal or a guy, but if you haven't done you're homework beforehand then you're not welcome in their club.

On the other hand, competent and driven engineers have in my opinion always been accepted as an equal.

But I have only met a handful of women willing to put in the necessary work.
I'd buy it if it were a dollar too /datapoint
Police arrest 6-year-old who threatens, kicks principal
Bravo! Granted, it's yet another make replacement the world really doesn't need. But that said, and unlike all the other attemps, this actually seems to be better than make.

Almost always, these things are junk (Ant, I'm looking at you) which at best implement a subset of make's features in a "pure" way (and thus look good to people who don't understand make but like Java-or-whatever).

This one actually seems to understand what make needs (cleaner variable semantics, multiple outputs for a target) and what parts need to be tossed (all the default rules).

I'm impressed. But I still won't likely use it. The world doesn't need it.
The same guys ranting in here about how feminist they are are also in other threads posting about how unprofessional people are who work 8 hrs and leave at 5 to go to their kid's soccer practice.
Ask HN: Did you switch from Dropbox to Google Drive?
1. Yes or no
2. Do you pay money for this service or are you a free user?
You've provided data for my assertion that the big, establishment players oppose flash orders. Of course the NYSE opposes flash orders. The NYSE is the big, old, fat cat. The ETNs where flash ordering is common are small upstarts that offer lower transaction fees and better technology.

The NYSE's members are the big market making firms who have the most to lose if there is more competition -- IE more small firms using market making strategies.
I think what he calls "price" is an arbitrary variable the exchange defines (along with some set of rules that price follows), and then imposes the rule that trades occur at it.
Berkeley DB at Yammer
Nope, no switch. Dropbox free user with 12Gb of space.
Awesome!!!!! I almost didn't open it because I though it was just another "change settings to make it suck less" guide!
You don't have to apologize for linking to a Christian website. Last I checked, Hacker News didn't have a ban on religious links.
I came here to comment just this. I downloaded it for fun and was stoked to see manage.py! Interesting indeed to explore others' conventions. I particularly like settings as a module.

One thing I tend to avoid, however (of course this is just my personal taste) is templates in each sub-app. I feel like at that point there are just too many nested directories. I'd rather have one global templates dir for the entire project.
This.

Perusing the comments at Groklaw where everyone is so confident this is the smoking gun that will end Oracle's case reminds me of this bit from Jonathan Chait about people who get their news from hyperpartisan sources:

"It must be like being following the state-controlled media in a totalitarian country. First you read that our brave troops are marching toward the enemy capital and will soon complete a glorious victory. Then, after a while, there's no glorious victory, but you start reading about how our brave troops are inflicting heavy losses on the enemy as they courageously defend the motherland."

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/fred-barnes-again-see...
Same thing happened to me. Downloaded it instead, and tried to install and it still didn't work. OSX Lion, chrome v 19.0.1084.30
I use a custom application engine built from ground up to create beautiful Swing and Java2D powered apps, i also use a very fast DB engine called H2, that's pretty much it honestly, this is the accumulation of around a year's work creating the back-end and front-end all on my own
I went to school with these guys. I don't have a lot of sympathy for them, but I do have a little. They did find a place in the sun. Right now their skills match what the market wants. So, like everyone else, they're going to remake the workplace in their own image. Working there sounds like it would be acutely unpleasant, but from what I understand, it's basically the same as a big chunk of finance culture. When tech stops being faddish, those people will go back to finance (which is so demonized anyway that Mother Jones doesn't report on what it's like to be a woman in finance).
SCSS, being a superset of CSS, is an easier transition. If its valid CSS, it's valid SCSS, so you can upgrade incrementally. LESS is totally out for me, since it sometimes chokes on obscure, but valid CSS declarations (e.g. some browser prefixes and hacks).
Using hidden details in the hiring process up front also helps to filter those candidates that don't pay attention.
Aside from SketchUp, anyone know what other projects/products are being worked on at the Boulder Google office?
Is there something specifically wrong with the concept of password haystacks? I understand it as "force the attacker to search an extremely large potential keyspace." The tool I linked to simply calculates the keyspace that a given candidate password is in.
More capital for startups is no free lunch for the economy
How Twitter’s secret offer for Instagram made Facebook pay $1B
Be very very careful when looking at that graph people!
See, latency is the deciding factor as proven here:
http://www.peterbe.com/plog/are-websockets-faster-than-ajax
The tiers are only necessary bc the establishment players act as gatekeepers and try to charge excessive fees for electronic access. That other tiers exist shows how much ingenuity exists in the rest of the industry. 20 years ago anyone would have laughed if someone had described the tiered structure of ETNs. In my opinion it's an amazing triumph.

Incidentally, the NBBO rules are sold as a way of protecting the interest of the little guy, but they simply concentrate power with the big exchanges. Obviously if you're trading on a peripheral ETN and getting free transactions you are OK with being a few cents off here and there (and if you're too dumb to realize you're overpaying for something, your strategy is not likely to succeed). NBBO imposes a huge network tax on the entire system, which is deplorable.

In a properly decentralized and competitive system, anyone who cares what the NBBO price is willing to pay extra for the information, and those who don't care can take whatever amount of risk they are comfortable with.
A Supposedly Impossible Atari Feat Puts Arcade Classic Onto a 2600 Cartridge
1. No - what with all those folders I'm sharing with other DB users - I'd have to persuade them to switch too; what am I, Google's marketing team? Not. 2. Free user, about 5GB space in total. Also at Google Drive: iPhone app "coming soon", Linux app "nowhere in sight".
I have no problem with making money (even lots of it), but I agree with you that building personality cults is a bad practice by elements within the media. Nothing wrong with deflating personality cults, however, I don't think this article accomplishes that task. This piece smells of a hit piece and typically makes the author looks worse than the intended target.
Then that is a categorically untrue statement.

Perhaps he is thinking of one vendor (or more likely one particular model supplied by one vendor) in particular?

In any event, it is absolutely false that "all of the silicon out there" has feature and performance parity with ipv4.
It's a ridiculous article leaping to ridiculous conclusions. Don't be too bummed.
I went from knowing nothing about game programming to being a game developer
I have a dropbox account but I really rarely use it so no I did not switch or even try Google Drive since it's not really useful for me. I have a lot of stuff in Google Docs though, I don't know if it gets automatically sent to my Drive or something.