skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for trying it out - can you tell me what issues you came across in the signup form? We're working on making it easier, but wanted to get the site out there and get some feedback.
He even, very ironically, said iOS gives you freedom from porn.
I've heard that line referred to as Box's Razor. It's definitely the right heuristic, but it's interesting to see that even if your model is right, you're still in trouble if it's too complex. This is a sort of bias/variance tradeoff.
https://github.com/locomotivecms/engine/issues/369
If "intellectual property" is patent on software or ideas, it just not had to be a property in first place imho. The other issues are even worst, if Oracle wins, you can not write an API without to be at risk to be sued because someone had a previous work in the area.
the midpoint doesn't matter at all. There is no "price" only a price available for a certain volume.
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What's stopping Instapaper selling you as well as getting you to pay for it?
One benefit of multiple exchanges is that company owners can choose to offer trading of shares of the company they own on whichever exchange they think would do their company best.

Some people in this thread have expressed that they think a discrete-time market (where trades are executed at certain time ticks, instead of continually) would be beneficial. If these people were to IPO their company, they could choose exchanges that use this approach.
Some web devs (like me! :D) are lazy and make the <title> tag always just the website's name.
I guess you've worked your way up from incoherence to confused but apparently baseless allegations.

You appear to suggest that Zynga is typical. It isn't. Indeed, it's gotten so much press because it is very different than the Silicon Valley norms.

From the exits I've seen, early employees generally do well when founders do well. The only financial games I've heard of are ones that VC investors play with founders. E.g., the joy of "participating preferred". But even those aren't games like Hollywood plays: nobody bends the rules or hides profits.

As a counterexample to Zynga, consider Google. The NY Times estimated in 2007 that there were more than 1,000 employees worth $5m or more thanks to stock and options: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12google.html
Why do you say that? How would a basic marketplace work without the same rules?
Do HFTers pay any sort of commission or transaction fee (to the exchange)?
Bookmarklet works fine for me in Chrome.
Jiminy! Chris Stucchio is 'yummyfajitas, one of the oldest contributors on HN. He was a dev for an actual HFT firm for a bunch of years before doing a totally unrelated startup.

Could he just maybe write a post and spark a discussion about how his field actually works so we can learn something about it?

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND this HN mentality that equates "learning more about X" with "joining the death cult of X". And it comes up all the time: no, we can't discuss how SEO works, because that would make us morally black hat SEOs; no, we can't discuss how HFT works, because that would make us morally Goldman Sachs executives; no, we can't discuss how a law is written, but that would mean we want to give the Internet to the MPAA.

The particular mode of argument in your comment and many like it on this thread is directly counter to the whole idea behind this site and every other worthwhile message board on the Internet. Yes, we get it, you don't know who G.H. Hardy is or didn't pick up on the joke in the title --- but it's obvious from the rest of the post that it's trying to explain how things work, not make a case for why it works that way.
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The article says:

>Querying for “Query:Adele” again? 32 milliseconds.

That would suggest that the 0.1 is for a cache miss to disk, and that would be hinted at by the phrase "cold boot" in an earlier paragraph.
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Why don't doctors do that? Shouldn't doctors know what the available drugs are to treat a disease?

And I know for a fact that sometimes pharmacists will give you a different size pill than the doctor requests, if it's substantially cheaper. They tell people to just break them in half, or take 2, or whatever.
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Haven't thought about that yet, but I'd love to have a c# version as well! :) Maybe when the framework is a little more complete, I could start porting it to c#.
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The concept of a market maker? Market makers are not an HFT "innovation"; they're kind of central to the whole concept of a trading exchange.

He hasn't yet explained anything more than what a market maker is or where HFTs fit into them. This post is the first in a series. It's background material. It would be a little weird if anything in this particular post got your hackles up.
Resolution (and image quality) wise - none really

The big reason for using a 5D in house is both it's size compared to a movie camera - you can get in to closer shots. But mainly it has a larger sensor - most movie cameras (film and digital) have a sensor half the size of a 35mm frame so movie lenses are effectively 1.5x as 'long' as you are used to on a SLR camera.

By using a full frame 35mm camera (Canon 5D) the lenses become wider angle than on a movie camera and you get a much smaller depth of field (for the same aperture) which lets you create shots that isolate a persons face in close up.

It's a little surprising that this camera didn't have the APS-C/super35 sensor size used in most movie cameras - that would mean that a lot of standard lenses would work as expected.
This is a pretty well known practice. Astra Zeneca, the maker of Prilosec, which is one of the most prescribed medicines in the world, has done this exact maneuver with Nexium.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1023326369679910840.djm.html
Saving videos only saves the url

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/04/17/read-it-later-rebrands...
>is it being tested against and is the pKey an int or a UUID?

a full-text index with a cold page cache
People will only start worrying when the ratio is closer to 3 women graduating per male?
We did our kickstarter video for #1125. We rented a photography studio for 3 hours for a total of $225, and hired two cinematographers for $900 (Side by Side Cinema).

We wrote and direct the script ourselves- this saved the MOST money. Most of the video firms we've contacted were lazy and didn't provide any assistance into sharing suggestions or helpful tips on how to make a good demo video. They also were very pushy with the fact that we should hire professional actors so as not to waste their time. While I can understand that professional actors will make your product look better, it really depends on your product. For us, because we were on Kickstarter- it only made sense that we didn't hire anyone so our video seemed more personal.

Kickstarter video (we also did a bonus skit on the bottom of the page, which was included in the prices mentioned above) : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/imjonathanlee/persona-yo...
I wonder, how was this ported to PC? Completely rewritten from scratch? Or was there some AppleII -> x86 translator?
I recently thought about how I started programming and to my dismay I probably held myself back by 6 years or so by lack of confidence:

1. not having the confidence to talk to the 3 or 4 older kids at school who clearly knew about this stuff. 16 & 17-year olds were terrifying to my 10-year-old self. They of course graduated secondary school soon after, so there was a small window and I missed it.

2. I really wish I hadn't believed any adults claiming this stuff was "hard" or "scary". None of them did any real programming, so how would they know? I should have just pestered my parents to find me an x86 instruction and architecture reference - I'm sure I could have worked everything out from there, after all I had enough spare time. I started with BASICA on an 8088 and eventually was given a 486 after my parents got fed up with me hogging their computer; alas, it took years before I picked up C & C++ and assembly language shortly after. As a 10-year old in rural Austria, my possibilities for obtaining this kind of information myself were pretty limited, and everyone (parents, teachers) was constantly encouraging me to focus on science (physics) instead of programming.

Still, I shouldn't harp on too much about #2. I was into electronics before I heard about programming and was obsessed with wanting to build my own computer, and tried to get hold of information on doing so, only to be told it was "impossible". (a 6502 plus some manuals would almost certainly have done the trick, and in 1993 couldn't have been that expensive - but I guess by that point the "kit" computers were long dead) So clearly being more assertive about wanting programming information would not have helped much either.

I hope I don't fuck this part up if I have kids of my own.
Can't access the website, It's saying Database Error...

And the only way to sign up is via Facebook?

I am a Developer, But i am not a Facebook user, Having different/normal way to signup will be good.
Shouldn't Robots Be Doing My Taxes By Now?
How is the price of a stock market plummeting a "disaster"?
For those who own the stock it's of course not advantageous, to those who wish to buy it, it is.

I'd like the HFT traders to get into milk and apples. Maybe they can crash the price of these too so I can get some cheap groceries.
This is a great point.

There will always be people who are jealous that you work harder than them (Take it easy buddy!), or less than them (Must be nice!).

It's veiled resentment. Avoid these vampires full of so much doubt they believe it's insurmountable and look to bring others down to their belief, to justify their own belief that doubts are impossible to overcome.

Innovation and creativity resides in possibility, not doubt. I like having a healthy doubt balanced with healthy dose of possibility.
I don't think Facebook logins are a good way to handle user registration for something like this, perhaps I'm in the minority but I don't even have a Facebook account anymore (on purpose).

I don't think it's a good idea to pull Facebook friends from their API for this purpose either, are you actually processing those or is it client side?
The only problem with not writing tests for getters/setters is that is makes it harder to identify actual code that is untested. If code coverage tools were smarter about not counting getters/setters towards the coverage number it wouldn't be a problem but if they aren't tested your coverage report might say you have 25% coverage in a package and you don't know that's because it has a bunch of DTOs in it or if its because there's bunch of actual untested logic in that package. The way we solved that problem on my team was to write a little utility that used reflection to automatically test the basic getter/setter pairs which made writing the tests for DTOs basically one line of code.
Those three words are composed of Greco-Roman bases. Is English unique in having so many words like that? (And does anyone know the linguistic term for words made by "mixing and matching" existing roots and affixes?)
it will take more time to have their brain evolve to levels that current men's brain is at

Wait, did you actually compare women to cave men or half monkey? Maybe that's why blacks aren't represented well in highly technical or high paying jobs, cause they only came down from the trees recently?</sarcasm>

OK I'll bite: The problem with your 'evolution theory' is that men and women aren't separate species and interbreed, a lot. Half the DNA in each women comes from a man, and half the DNA for a man comes from a woman. If "women DNA" were 'stupider' than "man DNA", then (like lots of genetic traits (e.g. skin colour, height)), you'd see it evening out over the generations. If there was a "dum dum gene" that only lived on the X or Y chromosome, you'd have to explain why it doesn't seem to affect people who don't have XX and XY (some men are XXY, some women are X, etc.)
I like the idea, seems similar to BuildItWithMe.

However, requiring Facebook for sign up kills it for me. As a dev, I'd rather use email/password.
When I learned Japanese I found I could spit out a lot of words without actually saying anything of substance. "sou sou! sou desu ka... eeto des ne... "
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Youtube restricts pornography not nudity.
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This piece makes hand-wavy claims about liquidity...

The word "liquidity" doesn't appear in my blog post.

All I made were very concrete claims about how a matching engine works (all of which you can verify from the sources I listed) and some explanation of how why being faster helps HFT's to make money.
Significantly more Women graduate with a BS from US collages than Men. Is that yet another gender imbalance that needs to be addressed by schools?

Perhaps. But the majority of the gender imbalances negatively affect women. So let's look at that first.
You might get a better number on bare metal, and you certainly won't get a worse one, so in a sense it's not ideal.

On the other hand, a big chunk of the web is run from AWS. Demonstrating performance there implies performance in many places. It's also an easily reproducible environment, which is helpful for benchmarking.
Yeah, but you'll notice the quote at the top of my post was basically saying that that friction doesn't matter at small enough intervals.

I get that you don't want too much friction in the market, you definitely don't want excessive surpluses or shortages of actual goods and to some extent that applies to securities.

But I see zero reason to care about the price of IBM in even a 1-minute interval. A little friction? Who cares, we're not impeding shipments of goods here, and even if we were, the 1-minute spread on a 6 month lumber future is similarly unimportant, to me at least. That's without even getting into seconds and milliseconds.

Basically, I'm saying that "but, liquidity!" gets less and less convincing as an argument as the time intervals shrink. At a certain point, we're just funding a very expensive and stupid zero-sum game with pennies out of all of our 401k accounts.
Best way to get beta testers
I have done some research, asked some friends and am still trying to figure out the best way to get relevant beta testers to go to our landing page and sign up. Our product is a web based customer support solution...better known as a help desk. But we are not just any ole help desk. We offer features that most don't. If you have a free min check out our landing page and give me feedback on what looks good and what we might can change to get people flocking to our site. Any other tips on where I should be going to find them would also be helpful. The site is SherpaDesk.com Thanks!
Would it be worth doing a poll on what technologies people are using for mobile development? I've done some native Android/iPhone and now I'm jumping into HTML5. From most of the comments, I'm wondering if it's worth it.
HTML5  and KineticsJS
Having given a shout out to faavoriteapp I feel obligated to also mention Eric Rowell's HTML5 Canvas tutorial site. The man has created a tutorial site and JS library that goes a long way to combining the features of Illustrator and Flash into HTML and JavaScript. He's also written a book to go along with it. Awesome project and he deserves some serious recognition for it.
Why wouldn't it be relevant? It emphasizes that SQL Server has been a product longer than Google has been a company. Moreover, there's still Sybase code still in the project.

Is the Sybase code the biggest problem? Hell no. How about the fact that there is no "standard library" and there are no less than four different hash table implementations written by different people at different times -- only one of which you should probably use, although you wouldn't know it from the "documentation"? That's a pretty big one and almost definitely what I'd characterize as "historical baggage."
The first H1 tag might be better (and would also work in this case).
To a startup blog if enough teams are interested.

The idea being that each team can showcase their idea & demo in a public place (other than on their own site)

With regular blog updates, interviews on how each startup is progressing. A community to celebrate your small successes with.

There are 2000+ teams/solo founders that YC missed out on, being part of that alumnus, people can throw problems out and get some awesome answers.
I'm so relieved to hear this from someone else.

About two years ago I read an article by Peter Thiel and it was kind of my "ask what you can do for your country" moment. That was when I realized that I didn't want to be an academic, that I believed people who built technology in the private sector were actually doing more good in the world. So I thought "I want to be an entrepreneur."

I've had to scale back a little as I did a couple of start-ups and learned how ignorant I was. I'm not ready to be CEO of anything. I'm not even sure I want to be; I want to write algorithms more than I want to manage a company. Honestly, right now, I want to work with people smarter than I am, and get better at what I do.

I'm done with the notion that you should always start a company right away in your early twenties, that you shouldn't have to take any time to pay your dues or build mastery. I don't want to work at a silly, unsuccessful start-up just for the sake of "being an entrepreneur." I want to get as good as I can at what I do. I want to work somewhere where I'm not the only one who's heard of an inner product. I want to do something substantive, and I'd rather do something substantive at 35 than something crappy at 23.
Check out this page: http://www.cray.com/Products/XK6/Technology.aspx The network hardware is connected directly to the HyperTransport bus!
The problem NASA, quasi-govermental entities like the USPS, and our government in-general seem to have is that they are overly bureaucratic and political, and solutions they produce are not nearly of the same caliber as their business-driven cousins. So it seems that we should welcome any attempt to open up things for the purpose of making them better.

But, the sad fact is that open-source projects I've seen that aren't driven by business need do poorly. What ends up happening is that these open-source projects end up being run by people that do get paid for what they do, because the work needs to be done in one way or another, and many people can't afford to work for free. In the end, this hiring of people outside of the fold to manage an open-source project which in turn has its own management overhead to deal with uninitiated developers and project managers wasting their time can cause a lot more time and money spent that does not benefit anyone except the contractors doing the work.

But, I applaud NASA for their efforts and hope they succeed. I love the idea of an open source NASA.
Am I missing something? Those both look like the reading view of every mobile app that has any kind of article reading feature.

Not diss'ing your app btw. The screenshot looks nice. I'm just not sure what the comparison is supposed to be showing
We are in private beta and requested for feedback on the website. The title has been changed by moderator I guess and it doesn't reflect the original intent. Thanks for all the feedback.
How about letting customer's decide? I cannot wait until carriers (and ISPs) are dragged kicking and screaming down to the level of basic utility pipe providers they really are.
How Google Drive will compare to Dropbox
I agree. Seth Godin made Squidoo, which is considered to be a content farm. Guy Kawasaki.. what has he even made lately? AllTop? Both of them are examples of good personal branding, but not entrepreneurs you want to imitate.
Nasa's PDS challenge:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3852833
> What's the benefit of multiple exchanges?

Free open markets, anyone?
Multiple exchanges ensure that the markets are not controlled by any one exchange, which can use its monopolistic advantage to increase costs by levying high fees etc.

Furthermore, if one exchange does something shady like front-running, or preferential information sharing with its "partners", then people can just move to another exchange. Basically, multiple exchanges make the markets more honest.
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1) Major disconnect in the article: he's talking about silicon valley and calls the economy "shaky" while most are wondering if there's a bubble and having a horrendous time filling open positions.

2) There's a lot you can do out of the office and it's probably better to diversify your working environment anyway.
Human dosing is different than animal dosing. It doesn't translate straight mg/kg.
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Sounds a bit like mafiosi conversations where it's mostly context with a few details in order to avoid being overt about what they're discussing. Albeit without the use of codeword substitutes.
Anti-competitive behavior would be literally cheating at golf.

In both cases, it has been observed over time that allowing individuals to do whatever they want has a negative effect on the game. You are not required to believe that the rules are necessary, in either business or golf, for them to exist.
The financial meltdown was just caused by a deviation slightly larger than the one regulators had accounted for.

Regulators were trying to juggle lots of different policies... relaxing underwriting and reserve capital requirements while pumping up mortgages to help make joe sixpack feel rich so he'd support the war on terror. Such widespread regulatory corruption is unprecedented in the first world.

It is/was a horrible mess, but HFT has nothing to do with it. The bizarre indignation people feel about HFT shows just how gullible people can be to "news" stories.
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I think that your experiment will (I hope that you'll keep it up as the concept is interesting) be even more valuable if you: 1. ask escaping visitors why are they leaving the page 2. do some A/B/C testing for other funnels because in my opinion it's not that BreakStreak idea doesn't work but the current implementation. I've used your wizard after reading the blog post (so I knew what should I expect) and still got literally bored on 'choose incentive' screen. And stopped :) Could you try to simplify the process, reduce the number of steps or simply put that all on one page? Anyway thanks a lot for sharing!
I did and in principle it's a great idea but I can't wrap my head around the pricing - as a solo founder earning South African Rands with the requisite technical expertise to manage these things myself, I can't bring myself to pay more than I know I strictly need to until my business is profitable.
Given how much popular press NASA gets, probably not a whole lot.
Lets aggregate the Internet's status.
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Apple sells their devices around the world. They have decided to make the only way to get apps for them their own way, and to apply their american values to all countries. As a non-american I find these two decisions troubling, and they are absolutely, very much Apple's fault indeed.
I wish I would have done this. I started working on Iron Money[1] during my first year of college, and I even took a year off so I could make it profitable. I don’t regret what I’ve done, but I wish that I had worked for other companies to get experience before starting my own venture.

In the same way that new companies should be an improvement to what is already offered by others, I think there is a lot to be said for learning the successes and failures of how other companies run before starting your own.

[1] https://IronMoney.com/
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