skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is funny because the proofs had the opposite effect on me. It dawned on me that the math of e.g walrasian price setting is surely correct but the story that this is supposedly how our economy works was much less believable after each supposedly logical assumption (free disposal, no money pump) could be traced back not to psychology or physical realities but conditions for the equations to remain solve able.

Looks to me like a cryptologist predicting what passwords people would choose based on the needed computing power to crack them. I wonder if 'password' made the list.
Perhaps Google will "publicly perform" your private photo album in Times Square for the purpose of "promoting" their Services.
I really hope you're just trolling, I hope no one here is actually this obtuse.

But just in case...

Referring to them as "gang bang interviews":
* implies an equivalence between having several people take it in turns to overpower and rape you, and having several people take it in turns to ask you questions
* brings up the topic of rape in a context where people are expected to laugh
* brings up the topic of rape for no good reason

Can you really not see how this would create an unpleasant experience for someone (ie most women) who's been taught since age 12 to fear the possibility of being raped at any moment? Can you not see how this would create a potentially triggering experience, one which would wipe out any benefit from attending the conference, for an assault survivor?
>It's not "forgotten" wisdom from the golden ages; nobody ever abided by anything like it.

Unless you count Niclaus Wirth as a nobody, this isn't true.

And in general what you wrote is not true --the gist is to be pragmatic about optimizations.

>* but I'll eat my hat if they started out by stating this "principle", rather than just noticing after the fact that it had happened.*

Well, eat your hat then, because Wirth was quite aggressive on following that route and he did state it from the beggining.
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To set up my optimal configuration, I have a bash script that I run right after installing Ubuntu.

Based on the fact that I was able to remove lines and not add new ones to this script, I'd say this release is pretty good.

Gripe: Ubuntu One still takes ages to sync up.

Praise: Sticky edges for multiple monitors; they're really handy when scrolling or otherwise doing something near the edge between the screens (and can be turned off if you don't like them).
Same, just a few days ago. Worked perfectly, no hitches, and 12.04 (even the beta) is noticeably superior to 11.10.

My laptop battery life jumped from 4.5hrs to 7, kernel panics with too many Chrome tabs open and/or Flash playing are a thing of the past, etc.

One of the best upgrades I've ever done.
Where is this? I went to college at a place where while there are 50/50 in the freshmen class, by graduation it's more 75/25 men women (I'm talking the whole school).

I have never seen this sort of behavior and was TA as well as a student. What campus did you see this at?
Wow. This is mindblowing. At the rate at which the WWW is growing, it really needs something like this, some sort of internet-transferred bytecode.

Wonder if anyone thought of that before. And if so, what stopped them?
What makes me uneasy about HFT is the speed in which things happen.

For example, I believe the BATS IPO that happened last month began trading around $15, and was below $1 in about 900ms before trading was halted. (Nanex.net has news postings about these kinds of things, and I wouldn't mind hearing other people's opinion about the site)

I guess my question is, is it possible for traders to make money in the short term (hours/minutes) or is that forever in the land of robots now?
You may be interested in http://inaka.github.com/edis/ .
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These rounds can be called anything you wish. Remember when onswipe raised a 'Series Awesome"?
I saw that Twilio brogramming thing live. While it was intended as a joke, and riotously funny at the time, clearly some attendees (or maybe just Youtubers watching) thought it was something to emulate.
How is this an apology? Have I missed something? It sounds like this guy is giving tips for how to do this shit yourself.
Can you expand on simpleless a bit, and why it is better than using lessc from the lesscss project? I'm not seeing any good resources on the project page and a googling is turning out to be basically useless to find more info.
I thought you wrote mom and prop trader which would be a great way to describe a small fund.
That sounds about right. I'm not intimately familiar with FB's terms of use - I'm not sure if there is some differentiation between how they can use your other content and how they can use your profile / profile photo, etc. I haven't heard of Google doing anything like that though, but then their advertising model is a bit different.
What, if anything, there is to be gained by encouraging women to join men in wasting their lives away in the IT salt mines, is another question entirely.

You make more than your peers and your boss. It takes a couple days to land multiple job offers, in any economy, all you have to do is stop saying no. The work is intellectually gratifying and the results are immediately visible. You are largely immune from corporate politics. The list goes on and on.

How can you be stuck in the salt mines when it's been the programmers' market for so long? I am genuinely interested - I hear this sentiment every once in a while and it always baffles me. I've done web development for 10 years (NYC/Midwest) and it's been nothing but gravy. Some lumps, yes, but gravy nonetheless.
Except we would hit peak uranium pretty soon, and be left with a bunch of new reactors that never got close to pay back the investment it took to deploy them. Not to mention the poisonous, radioactive debris to deal with for a long long time afterwards.

I would be much happier if we committed those resources to maintain the nuclear infrastructure we already have in place, to keep it going safely for as long as possible.
India beats USA’s record to become ‘king of spammers’
In this race India has beaten USA to become the top country in sending Junk or spam messages. And the ratio is one in ten spam emails.
Well, SASS/LESS are just supersets of CSS. They aren't designed to do anything else but what is compilable into actual CSS. I'm not sure how a feature like filters or event triggers would actually work in this language.

We will definetely have a look at those.
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Funny, I just bought this on Kindle a week ago. While not exactly a page turner, it is indeed supremely readable. I'm about halfway through and remain fascinated.
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>> Probably people who are using RSS will switch to some alternative client/reader and learn an important lesson about relying on "free" services.

It is more complicated than that. Google has a RSS history of blogs, this is not easily reproducible.
As phrased, the agreement would let Google publish, for open searchable access by the world, all files from all users. Indeed, methinks Google's whole underlying goal in all their endeavors is to mine data they'd not get thru other means. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd be hard-pressed to believe Google isn't (or just hasn't gotten there but intends to someday) scouring every GMail, every Chrome OS click, every OCRed image (even every snapshot just in case some text may be discerned), etc. to feed back into their grand ads-placed-via-data-mining profit center - it's just what they do; they may not do it (yet) in any way revealing private details, but they're sure not providing all these free services and tools out of sheer good will.

You're thinking in terms of what reasonable uses the terms apply to. The problem is what UNreasonable uses are allowed by those who consent to those terms. Publish the entire private works (at least those docs stored on Google Drive) of yesbabyyes in a collectable volume? you agreed to it...
> Complete FUD.

Care to provide backup to this claim? Privacy issues and property rights on Google services seem very real to me.
Brain chemistry is relevant to logical analysis. Gender has significant effects on brain chemistry.

Law involves a great deal of logical analysis and there doesn't seem to be any shortage of capable women lawyers, despite a good deal of institutional discrimination in the past.
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I don't think Unity is simply different. At least as of 11.10, it was different and objectively worse.
I still think discretizing the exchange (bucketing all orders every N milliseconds) is the best way to go, no one in that thread was able to show why it would be worse than our current method. All we lose is the ability for entities to change prices during the round, and we level the playing field for traders who cannot afford colocation with the exchange.
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I think this extends towards a lot of issues. The "Whoa, don't be so serious, it's just a joke" card gets played time and time again to hide people's insensitivity to others.
While I think there's going to be a place for APIs to use async bidirectional communication (e.g. pretty much anything people use webhooks for) I don't think it makes sense to shoehorn in 'REST' (which in the quick start, is more RPC than REST). REST makes sense for HTTP, and I think something else (I don't know what) will make more sense for websockets. Maybe this is a good bridge to something better though.
> did major markets ever really have a huge problem with lack of liquidity, 20 or 30 years ago before HFT?

Yes. huge problems. 20 years ago (1992) stocks were traded in 1/8ths or 1/4s (minimum spreads of (12.5 or 25 cents) often more than one tick wide. By the turn of the century stocks had all been decimalized (traded in pennies) but spreads were still wide.

This article: page 25 of this paper[1] shows the average stock spread of S&P500 stocks being squished from 8cents in 1997 to less than 2cents in 2010.

[1] www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/...d/murphy_kim_spread.pdf
No, it's more like saying "Paris is some distance from London." Is it a significant distance from London? "Far" is more specific than "has an effect," in that it implies the distance is significant. In this case, though, we don't even know if the effect is on the area under discussion — it might not even be relevant — much less whether its magnitude is great enough to matter.
I'm not a web designer, but to me 400kB sounds like a huge amount of data.
Then you did not understand the suggestion. :-(

The key point of what I suggested is that the price drifts slowly, and orders can only execute at the current price. In today's market the price can move instantaneously.

That's a pretty big difference.
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> Dropbox had the same issue in 2011. Their TOS was very similar to Google Drive's,

Yes but Dropbox doesn't have the reach and amount of data gathering power Google has. Google is actively monitoring hundreds to thousands of personal data gathering systems, whereas Dropbox is only a cloud storage system. There IMO lies the difference.
Thanks for the suggestion, I like this so far. My biggest beef with idonethis is the single check mark to indicate any activity whatsoever, making it less usable for tracking multiple goals.
Google tries to destroy Oracle's case, asks for judgment on Java copyrights
How would you implement class selectors and filter features in this XML based styling language.
That is why strong government regulation for health care is a good idea.

Government has the power to protect anyone from anyone else. Ideally, it should use that power to protect weak people from the powerful corporations, as you propose. Practically, it tends to use that power to protect powerful corporations from slightly less powerful competitors.
Additional evidence that HFTers are not stealing from speculative investors:

Anyone can start a market. If HFTers were stealing pennies someone would have come along and started a market that banned HFTers (or changed the rules to otherwise get rid of them). Then all of the speculative investors would use this market instead since they could be assured that no one was siphoning off pennies on every trade. Eventually markets with HFTers would shut down due to a lack of customers.

The fact that this hasn't happened has to be considered evidence that the HFTers are, in fact, providing value to speculative investors not the other way around.
What is sexist about 'responsible enjoyment of beer'? For the record, I agree that sexism is a huge problem in tech but plenty of women enjoy beer and it's pretty ridiculous to suggest that any mention of beer is an automatic appeal to men.
I know you're trying to be sarcastic, but yes, please, let's ostracize him. Our culture will be better off without him. Sometimes not pissing in the pool isn't enough, sometimes asking people nicely to stop isn't enough, sometimes you have to force people out of the pool if you want to swim somewhere that doesn't have piss in it.
As of today we have native support for SVN, Git, and Hg.

We've also open sourced the Ruby API we wrote for Mercuiral:
https://github.com/isabanin/mercurial-ruby

Enjoy!
Startup = Punk Band.

The worse they behave the more publicity they will get, the more people will know about their product. Plus the Techcrunch/Pando Daily's/Motherjones... of this world need something to talk about.

Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to the age of the Punk Startup.
Matt arrived at digg in 2007 if I recall correctly. At that point the culture was being reshaped into what is described in the article. Also lots of women were hired - young, attractive women.

And we all know how that worked out.

The reason why this culture persists is because people are rewarded for promulgating it. Matt is a VP at Path.
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True. But you're focusing on the chain for the chain's sake. Remember the chain is a hack - a method of altering your behavior to produce a result - and that result should be the focus. Of course, I'm not going to lie and deny that the chain has its own intrinsic value, which only intensifies as it gets longer. But consider-

a.) The longer the chain, the less willing you are to break it, the more you learn not to let superficial things (like the futility of starting a new 3000-day chain) get in the way.

b.) The longer the chain, the more you've achieved your result, and the less you need the chain. If that result didn't happen, then you should reconsider the chain in the first place (as per my point above.)

Example of a.) As of today I have not missed a day of running in 485 days. After finishing a 100-mile ultramarathon 3.5 weeks ago, I got out and hacked together a 1-mile run the day after. Super painful, and took me 15 minutes, but it was an honest jog, and it counts. If my streak was much less than 460 days (at the time), I would not have continued the chain.

example of b.) The result of the chain? It helped me to finish a 100-mile ultramarathon, even at 6'6" 285lbs. If I have to break the chain tomorrow, and its length keeps me from ever starting a new chain, well - look at what I accomplished. I'd say it was worth it. And I suspect Seinfeld would agree regarding his chain.
I can see that in retrospect, but if you don't know anything about the person ahead of time, it's possible that a talk with that title could turn out to be a serious talk that just starts from a self-deprecating hook. It's a clear Office Space reference I think, so I would've taken it to be a non-technical management type person admitting there's a large scope for Office-Space-style failure in their role, and then segueing into how they managed to avoid that and actually add value.
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When you read this comment, keep in the front of your mind that the "width of the spread" is marketspeak for "the fee paid by normal people who want to buy and sell long-term positions to have market professionals execute their trades for them". You want spreads as thin as possible.
Keep in mind that serving already properly minimized png, jpg and gif images with gzip can actually increase their size.
I can appreciate your reasoning. I know you aren't suggesting this, but the popular blanket conclusion that HFT is bad because anomalies like "flash-crashes" sometimes occur is misguided. It's equivalent to saying we should outlaw highways because of an occasional traffic-jam or 12-car-pileup. On the whole, the benefits to the economy (and therefore, individuals) resulting from HFT far outweigh the costs. It's never a good idea to throw out the baby with the bath water and I've yet to encounter a nuanced mathematical argument (backed by concrete data) to demonstrate how the economy is harmed by more efficient markets.
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Zerohedge can be entertaining but the objectivity of it' conclusions is dubious at best. As already stated in the OP, HFT firms place and cancel orders quickly. These charts show this. How exactly is that defrauding anyone? Aside from stating that it does, the article does not explain how. Let's also keep in mind that pretty charts insinuating wrongdoing with a catchy title on a highly trafficked website like ZH is pretty sweet marketing for a company who sells market data products.
Yet, with those rights, Google are able to (worldwide) ; create derivative works, communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.

I mean "publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content", how on earth can you formulate that so broadly for a service intended to store private files??? And how after reading that can you qualify it as "Complete FUD"?

In depth analysis are interesting and everybody here understand that google is not going to be THAT evil in the short term, but the fact this _is_ formulated like that is very interesting and not fud at all.
> As phrased, the agreement would let Google publish, for open searchable access by the world, all files from all users.

This would be corporate suicide and Google won't do this unless they fall to the current status of the like of AOL. At which point we will all have moved on to the next shiny object.
They might be "extremely new technologies", but how do they fit into existing picture?

This is akin to a layman writing a book on International Klein Blue, but having no idea of what other colors are out there. It's a form of a "blind leading the blind" situation.
completely agree with you and anichan.
So, not a myth, but an exaggeration?

It goes on to say that having more muscle helps burn calories when active even more so. I agree with your assertion that extra muscle burns off extra calories 'at rest' may be imply more than its actual results, but I don't see that it makes it a flat out myth.

More muscular people who exercise burn more calories than less muscular people who exercise the same amount, and burn more calories at rest than less muscular people at rest. That statement evaluates to True. That it isn't to the degree you like doesn't make it False.
If I understand Google's ToS right, you are giving them a license to do pretty much anything with the data you upload to Drive. For instance, if you backup your git repo to Drive, Google's engineers have a license to take your source code and incorporate it into their own products. Now of course Google's not actually going to do that. So why not make the license say that?

Google is using a generic ToS for all their products, but it's not appropriate to products that host valuable intellectual property.
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It depends very much on the topic. Something that can be approached with analytical rigor or determined completely through a few tests can probably be written by diving in and learning everything while you write. Personally, I write technical articles mostly to cement things I just found out in my own mind and I have often found that in my testing and writing I learn things creating my articles that I hadn't known.

But more ephemeral topics benefit greatly from experience. When I was in the military, I benefitted greatly from the experience of my NCOs and much of what they passed on to me where things that would have been very hard to put into a book or discover through any process other than experience.

But I suspect most technical topics fall into the former category rather than the later.
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"orders" contain the price and the number of shares. Let's not split hairs here. No one cares about the absolute number of orders, but rather the total number of shares/contracts/etc available at each price.

By spoils, I mean the returns to market making. Right now market makers are largely rewarded for being the fastest and beating out other market makers rather than for providing the most liquidity to speculators/investors.
Here's the secret sauce:
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What does it mean to have "too much liquidity"? Liquidity is the cost of buying or selling. You're saying that it would be better if it cost more to sell out of a position, or to buy into a new one?
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I noticed this book: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13693/13693-pdf.pdf, perhaps others, are missing a table of contents but compiling the tex source does give me one; it has probably only been compiled in one pass.
Wow this is great stuff. Some of this I knew, but some is new to me. Thanks!

On [2] the map pins are noticeably poorer - but this could probably be addressed.
Maybe you can point to the part where it makes clear that the clause applies to only things made explicitly public instead of some handwaving about people with an agenda?

These are matters of law and when it comes to a court, what is clearly written down matters more than what your assumptions are.

Lets take a (very unlikely) hypothetical case of you uploading a movie script to Google Drive, and as you're shopping it around to studios, Google makes a new service called Google Studios and uses the script for free. You sue them and they point to that clause.

Which part of the agreement can you point to, to prove to the judge that Google violated your rights?
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When they get to z the next standard is aa, then ab, ac, ad, etc. IEEE has never cared about human-readable names, so why start now.
Internet bill could allow DHS to spy on Congress, Supreme Court
As a subprotocol, it leverages the readability of REST into something much more efficient. Maybe pseudo-REST is a better term
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I feel the same way, and have instructed people to "be as edgy and offensive as you want on your own time".

This isn't really a culture/society thing. This is a workplace/professionalism thing.
I'm not sure reg NMS allows this. Registered exchanges publish protected quotes that other venues are not allowed to trade through.