skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purposeful or not, it worked out great for Bavaria because of the ensuing Streisand effect.
clojure has a nicer community as compared to other lisps (c.l.l was notorious). That is a major advantage.

clojure's package manager (lein/cake) is as good as bundler+gems which is a big advantage over similar languages.

However, the packaging itself is closely tied in to java/maven way of working - which I personally things needs to go away.
No, the state employee said that the sheet of paper was probably quite literally detached from the rest of my return.

My (former) employer is an extremely reputable organization that has been around for over a century and probably will be for another one. I even checked with their HR department to verify the error wasn't on their end.
This pair of augmented-reality glasses supports Windows 7
This thing should be on Docracy
So I guess Elon truly is Tony Stark.
Pricing in reverse: use a product's price to figure out what you need to build
From what I can see, the "best price" rule basically becomes meaningless in the face of HFT. Alice is pretty much always going to get her min only, right? This prevents Alice from setting her min lower to manage risk. e.g. In a world where matches are executed immediately, but market makers are competing without an advantage, Alice could set her min at $9.50. If Bob comes along and buys at $10.05, great. If Chuck comes along at $9.55, not as great, but okay. But in a world where HFT will pop up and buy at the lowest possible price, setting a low min stops being a reasonable option, because you're basically capping your sales price at that point. So maybe HFT helps Alice get $10 instead of risking $9.55, but it also stops her from getting $10.05.

I know that market making could theoretically do this anyway, but it's a different situation when market makers have such a speed advantage. If you've got to sit on your position as long as the typical eTrade user, leaving a passive buy for $0.10 under market price picks up more risk, because you might not be able to cancel if the market shifts downward by $0.30.
In my experience, someone local you can go to their office and discuss ideas with is always better than any big-name firm off in the horizon. Big firms generally have less time for you than for their bigger clients.

If you do decide to go local, do a bit of research first. Find a designer people say good things about. Look through portfolios. Pick a designer who's work you really connect with, and see if when you talk to them that they have a good understanding of where you are and where you're trying to get.

You may also want to post your location, people on here may be from the same area and could have good recommendations.
They are perfect Role models since their a successful company who employee great talent who use and contribute back to open source. If something doesn't exist they'll build it and open source key parts of their technology platform and are more than open about what they use and how they're able to scale their incredible load:

http://blog.twitter.com /
http://highscalability.com/display/Search?searchQuery=twitte...

Giving away your core-business is corporate suicide, they would be a shadow of themselves if 100 clones surfaced overnight offering the exact same service - and by extension be unable to contribute back to OSS as much as they have.
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Yeah, that's my takeaway, too. Offer up a variety of things to try, but encourage whatever they happen to be passionate about, not what I'm passionate about. (and know when I'm out of my depth)
I actually prefer the first listing. Bullet points are a plus in my book. Feel free to make it a conversation piece during the interview stage.
Apache max workers clamped far too low :-D
I don't know much about the state forms, but look at the IRS withholding form:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f941.pdf

I don't see anything on there where the employer would break down the payroll tax by employee. Does anyone know if there's some other mechanism for this? Do employers send all W-2s to the IRS?
I prefer staying closer to the metal, but nice work anyway.
> if you turn off estimate mode, a flashing light comes on... so an instructor or test proctor would be able to see it.

And somebody will find a way to disable the LED so that students can "cheat".
iDoneThis is one of my favorite services. It's one of the bast parts of my day when I go through the day that just ended in order to reply to their email.
I too am hearing extremely good stuff about Kohana, but I have a lot of people against not fully complete Kohana Documentations.
Also Kohana is said to be quite similar to CI.
Shhh. I have over the limit and have used the service for several years. Surprisingly, their automated error checking doesn't check for this.
LESS CSS is gaining traction
The company still holds the patent, and can even sell it, but the inventor maintains veto control over its offensive use.
I would focus on HTML5 and something like RoR or Node.js; that will be rather feature proof and there is enough work there.
You had me at "The Slow Web Movement". I'm sold!
This community is generally fairly dry and to the point, which is a great way to maintain high quality discussions, but I'm enjoying all these fun comments! :)
Twitter's no-lawsuit pledge: "We will not join the patent wars"
Suicide? Gmail seems to survive fine. I'm glad people didn't think like you back when email was invented, or we'd still be stuck on our old 5 MB Hotmail accounts (or worse!). People who designed and built systems with their users in mind... those are much better role models than companies like Twitter who build proprietary walled gardens. And going as far as to say Twitter is "OSS's best role model" is just absurd.
putting DENT in universe. way to go guys.
I think it's a fine balance between the two. Unless I'm already hooked into reading more, wading through paragraphs of oh-so-stylish writing isn't a pleasant task.

My $0.02 - the trick is to capture the attention with a blurb at the beginning about the grander vision, give a few high-level bullets to orient / qualify further reading, and then go nuts with the wall 'o words.
The sad thing is, I'm going to have design clients sending me this now, saying they want it on their sites. Long live the 90s!
Show HN: Sreenshot Bookmarks, a Weekend Project
It's an app for bookmarking webpages you want to remember. Just use bookmarklet to take screenshots whenever you want to bookmark a site.

I made this because I'm sick of text based bookmarking websites like Delicious and Pinboard. I'll always bookmark a site and try and find it later, but because it's all text/tag based I'll have forgotten what the site is about, but I'll remember what it looks like.

There's a laundry list of things I'm going to add to the site, so know it's really minimal right now.
Would appreciate any feedback you have :)
I think the first listing style is much better for the sort of jobs I'd be looking for. Bullet points are great for lists, and I'd want to see a list of technologies I'd be expected to know and how experienced I'd need to be in each of them.
Here, one karma for that. :)
I think DNT+ (http://abine.com/dntdetail.php) also solves this problem...
when will mcdonald stop? when will fast-food level music production stop?

as long as there is demand for crap, there is crap.
I wont say you can't make a living on Web Development. But yeah,certainly something along with it can make life great.

In any case, Web ain't going anywhere but you gotta be aware about anything and everything new happening around.
I'd say defensive patents are pretty useless for a startup. The idea is to build a patent portfolio that's so large and diverse that the day some random company sues you, you just happen to have a patent that they themselves are infringing on. You also need the financial resources to pull off that counter threat. Doesn't sound like lean startup to me...

A much cheaper defensive measure is to publish your "inventions". There are companies that help you with that, e.g. ip.com.
Yep, that's how to do it. You can have certainly have cadences without sprints.

The interesting thing here is that the same problem arises at a larger scale as it does on at the team level: architecture. Not how pieces of the software is put together, but the architecture of the existing and future business environment.

So, for example, a large project might include hardware, software, embedded software, offshore testing, multiple vendors, fixed demo dates, fixed regulatory dates, and so on. You can certainly manage all these cadences separately, but for most folks sprints of a week or two in length give you fixed reference points to then optimize around.

Of course, it's easy to think up a scenario with a pretty simple business environment, say the next version of Google+. In that case, Kanban probably would work a lot better. Do the simplest thing you can, but no simpler.

I find that business architectural issues can be difficult for the teams to grasp. The Scrum guys have preached sliding stories under the door to the team for so long, there's an entrenched mindset that things like that aren't the team's problem. (Not everybody, but many folks think this)

Counter-intuitively, by fixing the planning and delivery times, you can simply the cadence discussion. It all has to fit somehow in this list of dates. It also makes it easier to simplify or add complexity to the business architecture without having to worry so much about impacts.

You might think: why not just go kanban with one fixed planning cadence? Kind of the best of both worlds. Technically this would be awesome. You run into some communication and messaging problems though. If your message is "It's kind of like Scrum only bigger" then you can send out for Scrum training and explain how it all works. People will take the training and then ask questions like "who is the product owner" which aren't perfect but at least they're in the right direction. But if all you have is a bunch of boards and hand-waving, it's very difficult to get everybody to have some kind of mental model on what's happening. It's just too much (unless you already have established some previous Agile practice). Folks have to have some sort of working mental model of how things are supposed to work. Going from something like RUP to full-bore program-level Kanban in a complex business environment is just too far. My opinion only, for what it's worth. Perhaps in the next few years we'll see people tackle this. One of the things we don't talk about enough is that we struggle quite a bit with teams doing Agile, much less programs. It's simple concepts, but application is a bear.
As soon as search engines stop caring. As it stands, they care. See: http://raventools.com/blog/forbes-reports-that-google-plus-w...
Can you say how feasible it is to build an HFT startup - the operating costs of execution/connectivity/colocation(!) aside - do you think regulatory authorities make the barrier-to-entry too high?

SEC/FINRA have Series 7/56 requirements for employees, UK has FSA-related principal investment regulations - both require a company to sponsor a person to trade. Also, the MiFiD regulations in EU require an "adequate capital" of 700k euros - is it really possible to get venture/seed capital covering these bare costs so that you just remain "legal", let alone operate?
Chrome For Android Gets Desktop View, Home Screen Bookmarks, File Downloads
The conversation pieces work very well for filtering - i have had a lot of success with this method at Quid http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=Job&c...
Thanks for the update. It's great to hear that there may be some work done to make these improvements part of Percona or others.
Does this mean; that when I context switch mind sentence; using semi-colons; I'm also programming? Sweet!
It is reasonable to assume that Double Fine and Pebble -- the two Kickstarter projects I know in any detail -- will be able to deliver on their promises. This is probably an important criterion for people to choose to put in their money, and it was certainly an important criterion for me when I chose to back DF.

Lofty, unrealistic promises will not likely attract the same kind of backing.
The agreement would likely be private, so as long as both parties keep their mouth shut about it (which they're incentivized to do), there is little risk for them.

Personally, I see this as a great potential bonus source of revenue for the inventor down the road, selling the right to use their patent offensively.

Most companies won't do it though, since it restricts the potential market for their patent IP, which decreases the value of their assets on their balance sheet.
IKEA announces UPPLEVA: an integrated smart TV and entertainment center
It's an app for bookmarking webpages you want to remember. Just use bookmarklet to take screenshots whenever you want to bookmark a site.

I made this because I'm sick of text based bookmarking websites like Delicious and Pinboard. I'll always bookmark a site and try and find it later, but because it's all text/tag based I'll have forgotten what the site is about, but I'll remember what it looks like.

There's a laundry list of things I'm going to add to the site, so know it's really minimal right now.
Would appreciate any feedback you have.
Skybox Imaging Raises $70M To Launch Two High-Res Imaging Microsatellites
This looks great -- I applied with my co-founder with a social list site as well and didn't get an interview either.

Are you all in the Bay area? We'd love to grab coffee if you're interested -- it sounds like we have a slightly different twist on lists than you do and would love to meet if you're up for it. My email is trippp at gmail.
The flawed assumption being that tithes are solely financial. The government would be content to burn your "money" in a pit; your submission and mental buy-in are what it's really after.
who downvoted this? hn is becoming a failure.
Minor point, but actual market makers are required by law to make markets. In fact, the market makers basically are the exchange.

This is different from hedge funds which act as market makers by earning rebates by providing liquidity. These guys (and gals) are have no regulatory requirements to make markets.
We used to run routing on commodity computers - then came hardware routers because you could do things faster when you specialized. Now we are back to writing new software routers to run on commodity hardware because hardware is now fast enough. Is that right? Looks like http://blog.gardeviance.org/2012/03/tens-graphs-on-organisat...
I have a real hard time taking advice seriously from a company that doesn't have a career page on their own website. It feels like taking stock-market advice from somebody that only buys bonds.
Mal, Inara, Jayne, Kaylee, River, Simon and Wash are all characters from the television series "FireFly." Jubal Early (Richard Brooks) is the bounty hunter in the last episode who ultimately ends up as an object in space.

Throughout the episode, his hypothetical situations always end with the rhetorical question, "Does that seem right to you?"

My comment was a tip of the hat back to Chris Stucchio. I enjoyed the article and also look forward to more.
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and means that the phrase "offence is the best form of defence" is still applicable.
Yeah, but how in the world can you debug it?
Happy Birthday, Apple II (35 years old today)
Thanks for this! One question -- is " " still global by default or do I still have to declare " " to make " " local?
Being Pedantic: Who built this site??? All of overuse of the "<section/>" tags, and the XHTML Transitional doctype. Yeesh!
Currently I am working on blink.js. It's a travesty that the blink tag is no longer supported.
Why Every Ruby Developer Should Learn Smalltalk
The need to trade instantly is very important for risk mitigation. If unexpected news comes out today that a company is the target of an adverse event like a DOJ lawsuit many market participants will want to react as fast as possible to the news. Say it takes 30 seconds for the price to fall by $10. If you could trade at the 15 second mark you would only lose $5.

This type of risk mitigation is important to whom, exactly? When the type of unexpected news you mention comes in, somebody is going to take a hit, yes. Who should take that hit? What are the criteria according to which you make that decision in the first place?

In the scenario you outline, say the price falls by $10, somebody is going to take that loss no matter what. Without rapid trade, the original holder of the paper is probably going to take the full loss. In your scenario with rapid trade, they found some "fool" who was prepared to buy the paper at an intermediate price, and so the original owner lost less. So from the perspective of the original owner that is certainly a benefit. But is it a benefit for society? That is an entirely different question.

One could argue that the only reason they lost less is that they were faster in reacting to a certain piece of news, on a timescale of minutes, which is entirely irrelevant to the real economy.

Your point about HFT replacing floor trading is a valid point, but all it really proves is that barriers to entry into the market must be low. There is nothing inherent requiring high frequency trading. The job could just as well be done by lower frequency algorithmic trading, with a matching algorithm that runs on e.g. a 5 minute heartbeat.

Yes, the spreads are going to be bigger. Then again, intraday movements dominate spreads by orders of magnitude anyway, so from the perspective of the real economy, why should I care about how small the spreads are?
Are robotic guards the answer to controlling prison costs?
I started a company in the recruiting space which we raised $1.6M for and I worked on for 2.5 years.
Imposing one form of pain (tax complexity) in the hope of reducing a different form of pain (higher taxation) seems to miss the point. That's like imposing a tax on education to prevent private schools from raising their fees (parents won't be able to afford higher fees plus taxes!!)
It would be easier to just sit at home and listen to an old Tupac album also.
How do i catch interest and make cash?
hi. i have artmeme (artme.me) which empowers and educates visual artists by providing real business help to enhance job security and advance careers. i am finding my offerings are eye catching but nobody is paying for them like "sell and market artwork more effectively" offer. my pricing is very reasonable with discounts yet nobody is purchasing. Thoughts? I have yet to make decent cash money yet i am starting to make a little bit through advertising. what do you think is missing from the website? I AM updating the site soon but, any other thoughts?
The first paragraph of the article notes that this is spread by SQL injection, which is something that happens on the server. Noscript works on the browser.
> Those buttons do serve a very important purpose, which is to make it simple for visitors to share information.

Isn't it simple enough already? I mean, can you see a case where a visitor is like, "Man I'd love to share this post on Facebook, but opening up Facebook itself is just too much trouble."?
> ...but don't obscure the fact that someone is taking your money, all the time, without giving you a choice in the matter.

I've always been curious about this point of view. While it is true that you are paying money in taxes throughout your life, it is also true that at the same time you are receiving the benefits, to some degree, of that taxation in the form of public infrastructure and spending. How you experience life from your moment of birth depends on how those in the past have spent and dealt with issues like taxation and public spending and how you take advantage of those things, knowingly or not.

If you could choose to not pay some or all of the taxes you pay now, would you? Would you ever spend that extra income to benefit people who you will never meet or interact with? Would you ever spend that extra income to benefit people you actively disagree with or find repulsive?
Great article, but it's a pity Nate Weiner doesn't explain which business model Pocket will have...
Seems like Jamie Quint is following the Simon Sinek Why-How-What strategy. Why you should look at this job, how you'll do the job and what you'll get out of it.

I agree that the ideal mix is a combo of the two, highlights at the top and Why-How-What at the bottom
I believe Web Intents (http://webintents.org/) are designed to address this problem. Specifically: http://examples.webintents.org/intents/share/share.html
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Thanks for the article. It seems to me like a missing piece is a discussion of volatility. That is, I get it that HFT drives spreads lower, but spreads are the wrong direction to make money, even in volume. That is, if pre-HFT spread is that the best buy price is $10.00 and best sell price is $10.05, and post-HFT best buy = $10.03 and best sell = $10.04, you still lose a penny on every trade instead of a nickel -- you can't make that up on volume! :-)

It seems to me that volatility is required for any market maker to make money, and that's a fundamental conflict, isn't it? That is, "outside" traders would prefer the market to be smooth, whereas "inside" traders want it to fluctuate.

I can see the argument that, in actuality, HFT on the whole needs less fluctuation to extract enough profit to provide liquidity, so in theory, it would be expected to be a more stable market maker than human operators. Is that basically equivalent to what you're saying in the article? (And is there any data on that hypothesis?)
Propellerheads unveils Music Making App
Since you have feature vectors, have you looked at using LSH to reduce the number of comparisons/memory consumption?
Re: Gmail.

I can see now that you're conceptually challenged unable to grasp key differences. Gmail operates very similar to Twitter, Google Open Sources their JavaScript platform which Gmail (and other core properties) are built on (https://developers.google.com/closure/library/) but they're not stupid enough to Give away the entire Gmail source code - which you seem to imply.
I'm not familiar with that strategy but it sounds about right. I'm not actually claiming that I'm laying out the optimal strategy here, the right mix is probably somewhere in the middle. This is mostly a reaction to the glut of bullet-point list job posts I've seen lately. I think people need to think broader about how to optimize here.
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I think the important thing here is the change: 100 -> 95. A 5% decrease should be noticed, in some fashion. You don't need to be at 100% coverage to do that.
Exactly. I hate to drag Minecraft into this, but thanks to its multiplayer nature, the release strategy was perfect. The open alpha basically said “I know this game isn’t the greatest, but hey, it’s fun, and you guys can help me make it better”. Not to mention the classic “get a discount if you buy now” manoeuvre. But most games, especially with any kind of narrative, are easier and safer to release as a whole.

Still, I’d like to make a game with new levels released weekly as episodes in an ongoing narrative. Maybe after I gain some ground with my current project…stupid reality.