skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Will Socialcam and Viddy have more users than Instagram soon ?
http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/125119214225766-viddy
http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/124024574287414-instagram
http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/150768931647055-socialcam

Viddy has already more users connected to facebook than Instagram (14.7 Millions) and Socialcam is on track to do the same.
How come this two apps(Viddy and Socialcam) have added millions of users during the same period ( starting april 24 th)
I'm a little lost as to why this needs to be done with the containers in iOS 5. Couldn't you achieve the same thing using a regular UIView and some UIButtons with fancy images? Or I'm I missing what's going on here?
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I get that $0.10/share is significant, or I wouldn't have bothered posting. Why be annoyed at a process that isn't costing anyone anything significant?

I also know that HFTs are taking money out of the equation, not adding money into the equation. If they weren't, they wouldn't be doing it -- and if the only value they're adding is reducing the time that a trade takes place by minutes or seconds, then I still submit that the value added to the stock market isn't worth the ACTUAL dollar cost.

The OP pointed at the example with Fry and Zoidberg. In that case, Leela either makes $0.05/share on the transaction (which otherwise would have gone to Fry and/or Zoidberg), or takes a hit of $0.50/share. In the latter case Fry (say that's you're mutual fund) makes $0.50/share more than they would have otherwise, but that money doesn't come out of thin air -- it's lost by Leela.

But in order for HFTs to do well, they have to make more money than they lose, so for every case like the above where Fry does better than he would have otherwise there is more money lost by people who would have done better without the interference of HFTs.

So for every $100,000 saved by a mutual fund, much more is being siphoned off by HFTs, for no real added value.
Themis is not 'most market participants.' Do not take their word for anything. They made their names scaring managers about HFT, they have an axe to grind. They offer manual execution of trades. They offer to execute the old and honorable way, not the new sneaky way.

They prey on the fear and ignorance of their audience.
it wouldn't hurt to make the "Filepicker.io" in the banner of your blog go to Filepicker.io, not filepicker.tumblr.com. We already know where that is.
The trick with stereotypes is that you don't have to opt-in for people to apply them to you. Be an individual... and people will still stereotype you.
Yes, I have experience with it and due to the points you raise, we've recently switched from "unlimited vacation" to "mandatory unlimited vacation."

Not taking vacation is grounds for dismissal, http://not-so-secret-sauce.highgroove.com/topics/vacation-po...
You're confusing flash orders on ETNs with paying exchanges for flash orders. Only the DirectEdge exchange has flash orders. That's a pretty minor thing.
Thanks. Any suggestions on what UI element can be improved upon?
House passes CISPA bill - Keith Perine and Jennifer Martinez - POLITICO.com
What dates does the program run?
Thanks for your feedback! I have gotten so little. :)

I was unsure of the etiquette here at HN about pimping one's own site in the body of a post. I saw that others chose to put their site URLs in their profiles, but very few were posting them in comment text.

As 'iamgilesbowkett mentions above, maybe it would be more informative to search over an aggregation of different opinions rather than hash mountains of conflicting reviews into a single byte digest.

For the consumer, our site offers a way to casually discover nearby businesses based on how well they are liked by specific circles of people. All activity is contextualized by location; the target of attention is geo-tagged by lat-long, not the user.

We try to reduce the effort required to browse through large amounts of business listing and business review data. The user should be able to quickly explore a specific area for businesses that match a search term, or are physically close to another (perhaps unrelated) business.

Please feel free to surf around using the business search.

On the site, business search itself is open to the world, but the core social parts require an account to participate. You can enter an object term plus a location. Search URLs can look like this: http://spotlikes.com/discover/places/noisebridge/san-francis...

Due to the founders' interest in Napa and Sonoma counties, we have lots of comments describing San Francisco North Bay Area small businesses. One entry point for browsing might be someplace like: http://spotlikes.com/business/benziger-family-winery-glen-el...

During after-release QA, sometimes I try to do a kind of major metropolitan area hopscotch, visiting all the largest US cities using the fewest clicks.

For the SMB owner, our site offers businesses a place to make a simple listing - a page where they can post their basic details (phone number, URL, logo, etc) - and then sit back and watch the users stream that small referral link out in their activities.

Yes, the site is tightly integrated with Facebook. User comments on business listings can flow automatically into social media sites. If you authorize it, your "likes" will flow onto your FB wall/timeline. We have similar Twitter and Foursquare integration.

We have probably overlooked all kinds of stuff. We move pretty fast. If you would like to call out anything in particular, I am keenly interested in the feedback.
> multiple outputs for a target

I just had to figure out how to do this today with GNU make. It was something like this:

%Parser.c %Parser.h %Lexer.c %Lexer.h %.tokens: %.g
antlr $<

With the object files required by the main project. Worked like a charm and solved the problem of running antlr multiple times for the produced files during a parallel build.
You do know that he was agreeing to have copied 9 lines from one file, Timsort?
And you do know that those 9 lines are just a range check?
I mean:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
if (fromIndex > toIndex)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");
if (fromIndex < 0)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);
if (toIndex > arrayLen)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);
}

Literally a rangeCheck.

And not only that, 9 lines written by the stealer himself ( http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk7/timsort/... ) and given to Sun/Oracle!

Still, i agree with, Sun/Oracle do have the copyrights for that. Google needs to pay up, is ten bucks alright for this?
In your educated opinion on security, what would you say are CISPA's merits and what are its flaws? Is it a threat to the way websites/organizations that have no bearing on national security operate, or to the way people should treat the internet from a freedom of speech perspective? I imagine that many people fear this is similar somehow to SOPA with a fresh coat of paint, so anything you could do to confirm or dispel that would be helpful.
Facebook makes a trademark claim on the word "Wall". While I personally think that's ridiculous, I'm betting they're not going to be happy with that name.
This appears to be a wrapper for PyQt4's QTWebKit.

http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/q...
How do you stay in the zone at work?
After a few hours of programming at work, I start to get feel fatigued and my productivity declines significantly. So my question to HN is: How do you stay in the zone?
If government pressures telcom to give it user data, and the telcom gives it data, it becomes open to lawsuits. Thus, telcom might decide it wants a warrant after all.
(Hi. Woman here.) Well, yes. Like anything, if it was a known, lifelong passion, then I’d/women would already be doing it. However, programming is something that sounds interesting, could be fun and I bet I’d be good at it but having been in tech for a few years, the barrier for entry seems pretty insurmountable. The dev teams I’ve worked with have been exclusively male (I’m in marketing) and the culture of shouting and condescension seems like more of a barrier to me than a lost desire to pursue my passions. That said…this seems like a first step in addressing the situation.
If you're a consumer trading equities, NBBO rules protect you from being sniped at a detriment to you. In fact, flashing over ETNs is sometimes used to fulfill NBBO rules. These rules might be bad for higher-order reasons concerning liquidity and efficiency, but to a first approximation the consumer has nothing to fear from his order being fulfilled via flash.

It honestly isn't clear to me at all what you're griping about. It's like you read an article on the Internet and suddenly you're an expert on flash orders. I am not an expert on flash orders (and someone correct me if I am wrong), but it's pretty clear to me you're very confused.
Simple. Incentivize existing programmers to get a sex change.
A piece, certainly, but employee-sized pieces top out around 2%.
Or just take an equity hit, raise a bigger round and pay people like Dan a rate nicely above what they can make elsewhere. Founders probably end up keeping more equity and the employee takes on less risk.
Beyond 24fps
Appreciate you pointing this out. Yes, we have big aspirations.
By the numbers: in portable gaming, Nintendo's loss is Apple's gain
How would it be open to lawsuits? Under what law?
No claim was made that exchanges discontinued flash order types because of concerns about front running, nor that any kind of liability was the reason behind the retraction.

The practice was stopped because it became unpopular due to the dramatization of HFT in the media. In the presence of a large number of fragmented equity exchanges, flash orders facilitate lower transaction costs and lower latency.
Are your make and ninja configurations 1:1? Note that a null build on the kernel (larger than most "reasonably large" projects) is well under 20 seconds.
Unlike some of the other commenters, I like the vagueness a bit. I would have probably left you my email address until I found out it was a social network. In other words, if you're still not sure exactly what you're going to end up being and are open to the idea of changing your model as you go, I wouldn't limit yourselves/shrink your userbase before you even have a site.

I'd also cut this sentence. It's redundant and adds no value: "Each listening to the same band, you were drawn together over music?"
Wait, so correct me if I'm misunderstanding here, but these two things:

>However, registration is not a condition of copyright protection.

>Before an infringement suit may be filed in court, regis­tration is necessary for works of U.S. origin.

..seem mutually exclusive. If you have copyright protection without registering, but can't sue without registering, what's the point of the pre-registration protection?
CISPA has nothing to do with the objectives of SOPA. It contains no provisions to allow sites to be shut down. It is, in fact, voluntary: private companies that do not want to share attack data with the government are not required to participate.

For the record: the bill has few merits. It appears to do very little at all, other than (a) to associate its sponsors with being "serious" about "cybersecurity", and (b) to block the adoption of the far more intrusive intervention the Democratic administration wants. (Note before cackling: I'm a Democrat).
The case for an early exit: Average price increases between rounds
They'd need a 2/3 majority in the Senate as well.
Did you apply to YC? (http://github.com/pcottle/LiquidGraph/commit/8cf735f9a5)
That's the page he linked to for this demo.
Quite a few unshipped. I think there ought to be a difference between unfinished and unshipped. My projects are unshipped by which i mean I finished them but couldn't commit the time to market/sell them.

Eventually you learn: If you build it they will come; If you are lucky.
UTF-8 is just... really good.

The only disadvantage I can really think of is that the implementations must be fairly complex. That and determining character count can no longer be calculated from filesize.
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Ummm...so the only example where an HFT has helped someone out is the one where the HFT screwed up and lost money?

Yes. This isn't all that uncommon - see insurance companies, for example.

Without Leela, the problem is not that the market moved before Fry got his order in. The problem is the market moved before his order was filled.

ALO? How does that differ from a limit order?

It's a limit order which Adds Liquidity Only. But it's not even necessary in this case - if Fry is willing to accept execution risk, he can place a sell order at $10.05 instead of $10.00:

Sell(Fry, $10.05, 100)
Sell(Leela, $10.05, 100)
----------------
Buy(Leela, $10.00, 100)
Buy(Bender, $10.00, 100)

If Zoidberg and Amy each buy 100 shares, Fry's order gets filled. If not, Fry loses money.

Fry could also have placed his sell order at $10.04 and jumped the queue:

Sell(Leela, $10.05, 100)
Sell(Fry, $10.04, 100)
----------------
Buy(Leela, $10.00, 100)
Buy(Bender, $10.00, 100)

In this case Fry gets filled before Leela, so he doesn't need Amy to show up.
They sound true, but are they really true?

It's one thing to dispense advice, it's another to have it grounded in cold hard facts.
Yeah, for some reason our load balancer isn't establishing ssl connections. We're looking into the issue.
I'm a recruiter, and I agree completely that straight copy-paste jobs are very poor. Unfortunately, a lot of the time, there isn't necessarily enough information available about a person to make a truly personalized message -- I can't always look at their code/portfolio or have access to a good self-summary.

I also refuse to spam. As such, I'm still trying to figure out a good strategy for finding quality candidates. Some people in my field think that this is just a numbers game, but I really hope it isn't because if it is, then spams like the one you describe are completely justifiable.

I recently posted about this very problem to HN, and I would love your thoughts.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3771806
Note that this is a 57% margin. If the same holds in the Senate, it won't pass cloture and won't reach the president's desk.
Last I looked, UC is a state funded institution. This is not.

So, no, it is not illegal and I don't see too many "women exclusive" scholarships being mentioned here.
The margin they have isn't even enough to get past the 60% cloture vote to pass it in the first place.
> It's like when someone really likes reddit. Okay, it's not HN. They can tell a complicated story about how they like cats and populist rage politics, but it's a hard negative signal to get past.

I see the parallel but your signalling system is rather poor if it penalizes someone for liking reddit.
Would be more interesting to know how you go to #1. Great headline? Luck? Friends?
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.

When I read about these things it reminds me of when I was working for a gambling site a few years back. Arbitrary rules, designed to maximize profit for the bank.
Yes, doing that now, but as a company not individually. I'm creating it :)
I applaud your commitment to open up the computer industry.

Its not about women or men, but about good engineers. The more the better.
This kind of reminds of those big, public marriage proposals that people make at Sports games. If the answer's a no, it could be... awkward.
Fantastic series, please keep them coming.
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For sure, the demographics weren't in question, I was more trying to find out whether there were any state-imposed reasons. That article points out a lot of great social causes, though.
> Ummm...so the only example where an HFT has helped someone out is the one where the HFT screwed up and lost money?

They haven't lost money until they sell at a lower price. The price could still go back up and the HFT would make money overall. But Fry is still better off in this case because he got to sell right away at a better price than he could have gotten if Leela wasn't around.

In this case, everyone benefited: Fry got to sell when he wanted at a better price than the non-HFT's were offering and Leela made money. Leela made money by taking on risk. Leela makes money overall only if she is smart enough to win more often than she loses.
If Google wins, what's to prevent them from creating a server side JVM that's better than Oracle's? It would be quite cool if they created a server side fork of dalvik that could run thousands of isolated instances at the same time.
Honestly, I think introductory courses are useful. This looks like a good program, and focused on getting you to the point where you can build something simple. At the risk of (gasp!) admitting ignorance, I think I'd probably find a program like that informative. Yes, you can always teach yourself, which is what I usually do, but social reinforcement is great if you can get it.

It's kind of ugly for established members of a profession to react badly when somebody tries to teach novices the basics of that profession.
Ok, i would like to see a more even ratio of men to women in software. However, making things that are "only for women" will likely increase the resentment between the sexes.

I do think we have a system problem in our education, but it's not that STEM favors men, it's that the REST of education heavily favors women. The recent college attendance numbers are a pretty good indication. STEM is just harder to discriminate, so more men are drawn to it.
I also know that HFTs are taking money out of the equation, not adding money into the equation. If they weren't, they wouldn't be doing it

This assumption is questionable. There are a vast number of market participants who do loose money.

The best start up example is the bias toward reporting companies who just got funding and not reporting all the companies that hit the dead pool.

We don't really have a good idea on the net of HFT strategies and it is just as safe to assume they net zero.

Lets just say HFT firms did net to zero, would you still have the same argument?
> But saying "we employ old people; we have a 32 year old" made me laugh. And then feel old.

But again, he didn't say anything like that.
there is not however, guaranteed immunity from civil/criminal prosecution for sharing data under the auspices of "national security", thats whats important about CISPA, it is carte blanc for the government to collect whatever data it wants, with zero oversight or accountability.

tptacek seems to be pushing the line that "this bill does nothing, everything it establishes is already legal". But i caution HN users to be aware of his own vested interests in this bill.
Whether or not it's legal does not inform whether or not it is a positive step as far as privacy advocacy is concerned.

Laws such as this embolden those parties that seek to undermine privacy. It is one thing for someone to be able to say "According to a set of disparate laws, X action is legal" and quite another when "According to CISPA, X action is legal."
Why? It just sounds like they are looking for Hacker Babes.
It sounds like you have only worked with arseholes. We need less arseholes in the industry, and more civil, caring, and talented engineers.

I've worked with very good engineers, of both sexes.
Looks pretty useful. Def. going to play around with this a bit.
@lucky_gambler: What have You expected from "Rails hackers framework for hipsters" conference. The real tech events aren't surrounded by such stuff, because of higher lvl topics which require some tranquility. But anyway RailsConf seems to be more serious.
The cost is quite hard to measure. An asset that can decline 10% in 5 minutes without any changes in it's fundamentals is likely to trade lower than one that can't, and that volatility (or perception of volatility) has a cost.

The most substantial costs were probably borne by unlucky individuals who had stop-losses that executed solely due to the downward spike, and afterwards found themselves facing a loss, and possibly a tax bills, but I have no idea how common that situation was. I do know that one of my close friends booked his career best day that day, so surely there were also some people who took substantial losses because they didn't expect the problem that occurred.
Could someone describe the key differences to Phantomjs (indirectly referred to in credits via Casper.js)

Phantomjs has just recently stopped their Python support.
Thanks!

Also: "A state report noted the frequency with which parents coming to retrieve their own children from reform school were met by news their children had been given away to others".

I had no idea....
To me, "easier to hold in your head" is "easier to reason about". I can also imagine someone describing functional style (the thing Carmack says makes state presented to your code explicit) as "more mathematical".
Why do we use C still?
Why do we use C still when there are other languages like Go or C++ or even D? BCPL and B were done away with so quickly, so why do we still use C in our modern society with languages that can do things a lot more efficiently?
That's exactly how the system was designed to work-- a feature, not a bug, to let hot issues simmer down before passage.
...the culture of shouting and condescension seems like more of a barrier...

You seem to be confusing a barrier (something that impedes your movement, regardless of your choices) from a preference (something that makes you more likely to make a certain choice).
You're right that it shouldn't ever have to be the main reason, my point merely is that the punishment is a critical threat to your business, which is something that I think would strike home even among the most misogynistic members of the tech crowd.

You're wrong about it requiring repeated events [1]

[1] http://www.connellfoley.com/seminar/employharass.html - Search in the page for 'Taylor v. Metzger'. (IANAL, but it's usually better to be safe than sorry when it comes to not being an idiot.)
can I encrypt it first...
Ah it's going to be a quite out of date version of Webkit then. Anyone know which version exactly? We're using PyQt and this has been a huge issue.
Good or bad, I'd be surprised if he ever has the chance to sign it. It has to make its way through the quagmire that is the senate first.
That paragraph you quoted caused me to flag the article. Who are we 'told' by? It's just outrageous linkbait. Pulling in the title of Andy Grove's book (which the writer has probably never read) only makes it even more egregious.