skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is being argued that these losses aren't just vanilla trading losses. They arose due to technical glitches at NASDAQ which led to quotes being unavailable, delayed processing order cancel requests, missing acks, etc.

Essentially, traders couldn't act in time to react to the market due to NASDAQ's troubles.

Edit: I should also add that Citi, Citadel, etc. were acting as market makers - they don't have the option of holding the stock for recovery as others in this thread suggest.
Most people don't have a clue about cars either. These are not the 80's, where most cars shared a common oil filter, used 10w-40 oil, and where very alike.

Nowdays the complexity of car has turned it into "magic", too. Choosing the wrong oil weight for a modern turbocharged car will wreck the turbo and the engine. Another example is the new style of oil filters. They are cartridge style with very delicate torque specs. an over torqued oil filter housing cover will create a significant drop in oil pressure due to to a leak.

Heck, even changing a tire is now a mess due to the recently implanted tire pressure systems.
Apple quietly rolls out revised iOS 5.1.1 build for iPhone 4
I think even if Yahoo have had terrible direction during last 5 years, this product could be their salute. I'll give it a try to see what they can do now.
600 out of the 12.5 million unemployed people in the US who haven't given up looking for a job doesn't seem like a flood. It seems like a failure to get the word out. Ping me when they reach google levels of applicants.
A colleague and I are building this on nights/weekends. This space has suddenly given rise to several outfits with the same grand vision -- whereas one year ago today, none really existed. We feel confident in how our solution compares to other similar ventures -- in some cases we feel we have a compelling advantage, but we also lack marketing expertise, time and money.

We aim to build this out primarily for ourselves whether we get funded or not (but the funding would definitely help).

Any feedback, positive or negative is welcome. I'm definitely having a lot of fun...more so on this than any other project.
MS hires a third party to police these SERPs. The third party does't send notices to Bing because they'd be threatening their own client! It's that simple.

Anything more would require additional effort and initiative and coordination between the contracting team, the contractor, and the Bing team. Probably someone just hired the third party, turned them loose and didn't put any more thought into it.
Talking Pens for Scenic Spot
Protecting Microsoft's market share and its associated network effect is very important for them - if Windows' share falls below a certain level, writing Word documents, sending PowerPoint presentations, keeping your e-mail in Exchange and your workflows in SharePoint will make much less sense than it does today. As it happens, Microsoft products become less attractive and their share spirals toward an equilibrium point given by their cost/benefit ratio as compared to their competitors.

Even if they lose some sales to piracy, as long as network effect work to their advantage, it's worth to lose it to a free version of their product than to a competitor.

It's unsurprising if they turn a blind eye to piracy when they judge it benefits them.

Having said that, this looks a lot like incompetence, or a contractor that's being paid to issue takedown notices only to Google.
It's not what people inside Silicon Valley think. It's what people outside Silicon Valley think.
Very cool. Although it says it's "created to provide an "easy-to-use" visual interface for Python newcomers." and still requires the command line to install.
Campaign monitor also has some free templates: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/templates/#galleryThumbs

I really like the idea of a "Bootstrap for HTML" emails. :) Maybe you can ding @mdo or @fat on Twitter and see if they'd be willing to throw in some "here's how twitter does email" templates into github, like they did with Twitter Bootstrap?
Mars has life's building blocks
Disable comments! Batten the hatches, skew the mizzenmast, Turing to starboard! Knuth to port! There's a mean storm ahead and I'm not losing any more men. NOT ON MY WATCH.
And a contact at CNET.
Using a file with the same input of the top answer:

/harder<enter>1Gqa''dd''pkJ0jq3@a

Edit: notice that those are each 2 single quotes, not "
Making homemade transistors (or at least trying)
I probably have not used a car in well over 40 days, and by used I mean been in one (as I don't have a license).

But I agree, I think it's a bad example, pretty hard to compare the usage of porn with the usage of the car (or any other form of transport).
Also, it sounds a lot better than "lying."
Not all cron daemons. Vixie cron can do this, but Dillon's cron, which is a lightweight cron daemon with extra features, can't.
Why not just call it "mod_depeche"? Sexier, more pronouncable name, and punful as well.
I didn't get that from the article, really. They could have registered with the S.E.C. without listing on a major exchange.
Building Backbone.js/PHP based stack
I am. It's pretty amazing. All performance benefits of C, none of the language drawbacks. (No offense to C.)

I have a few apps in production already and I'm only doing new stuff in Go.
> It is stupid/silly, like not eating meat for 40 days. Sure you can do it, but why?

You say you can do it, but really, could you? No porn for 40 days, as an exercise in self control. I think the majority of porn using men could not. There is an entire subreddit(/r/nofap) dedicated to this one task, and if you read you will see how difficult it really is.
Oh, as johngalt said don't neglect your spouse. My wife and I had our first real night out in months last week. It's amazing when you get to go out and be husband and wife instead of mom and dad.
You could try a more complicated approach: sell consumers a device which records their calls locally, and sign them up to the do-not-call list. The device would have a spam button; when pressed it would send the caller id + recording of call to your company's servers. The company would use this to help the customer threaten or sue telemarketers, splitting settlement/lawsuit revenue.
You're just on one end of the bell curve, most guys with internet access look at porn (if they can), but that still leaves a small percentage that don't, for whatever reason.
More than two thousand gTLD applications have been submitted?
We seem to be going around in circles here... You say 10 layers of if error return error is not a time sink, and I say it is. I spent about a decade doing C and C++ programming before Java, and IMHO exception handling is second only to garbage collection as life-changing language improvements.

There is a key difference here: When a lazy C or Go programmer fails to check an error value, execution continues - possibly many lines or stack frames ahead before some sort of failure symptom is observable. In perverse cases this can produce silent data corruption. I spent far too much of the 90s chasing down these kinds of problems.

When a lazy programmer uses a catch-all exception handler, the error is still caught - immediately - with the full stack trace of the original problem. This is golden. Furthermore, a catch-all exception handler that prints an error message to the user/http request/whatever is often exactly the right approach.

There's a lot of stupidity in the Java standard libraries, but your examples (file failure, bad hostname, broken connection) are exactly the kinds of things that should be exceptions, and are usually best caught at a high level where meaningful errors can be reported to the user.
What sort of project?

Are you the type of person who like to take things apart and put them back together? Do you like to figure out how things work?
A rising tide of literacy lifts all boats, that's why I care. I still don't get why Atwood does, though.
The investment bankers made more money by the price being high - MS made around $100 million. HF guys similarly - high frequency will have access to multiple venues and shouldn't get pinned to a single faulty system. Plus, few HFs would take on IPO stock.

The losers were traditional market makers and the pensions, hedge funds, etc. that bought the IPO stock. And Facebook employees.
I'm curious why this was down voted into being grayed out, within 20 minutes of being posted and with no replies to it.

edit: seems it got better.
There's a difference between an X programmer and a developer with programming experience in language X. The former is either incapable, unwilling or not expected to program in anything other than X. The latter has no implied limitations.

In the specific case where X is Go, requiring previous experience is a signal that the company might not be hiring skilled developers. Skilled developers can learn Go quickly because of the language's small size and consistency.
Why won't they be interfering anymore? because they don't like UI?
I had that problem constantly with the auto warranty calls that were so common a few years ago (until the FTC or FCC finally got them).

They couldn't tell me which of my cars the warranty was up on, and would get nervous and hang up.

Of course, since I don't technically own a car, it was a trick question any way.
Review manipulation is rampant on the iOS App Store. The rating system is basically useless because of it.

http://www.freelancer.com/job-search/buy-app-store-positive-...
you make it sound like it has to be one or the other.
The iPhone version of Axis is fantastic. I love the visual search. The horizontal scrolling took a minute to figure out and get used to, but being able to flick back and forth between the search results & the open page instantly is fantastic.

One thing that's annoying -- when you're scrolled down a page and you're reaching for the page titlebar handle it's a little too small. I keep swiping the the iPhone status bar down instead.

Edit: Looks like the desktop version of the "browser" is actually an add-on. For Safari, it's only 24KB (awesome!). If only it did a little prefetching to make the next & previous search results a little faster.

The image search on the desktop is insanely fast. It preloads so well. Kudos to Yahoo.
Rough-And-Tumble Play Is Important
What IPO isn't about making money for the company? Only the VC pump-and-dump scams, not anything you want to be part of
Ask HN: Your interesting story related to startups and customer service?
AVG Anti-Virus 8 Pro
I think this could definitely help with some of the bulk testing which would be fantastic. It seems like it might be difficult to test really complex CSS (which is the stuff that probably needs the most testing) like drop-down menus, interactive hover effects, etc.

I've definitely had those times where we've tweaked a stylesheet only to find out later that some page deep in the site now caused a floated div to move to the next line and mess up the layout. It would be so great to have unit testing to keep an eye on these kinds of things.
A) What Jeff thinks we're saying: "Everyone should be programmers so the world would be a better place"

B) What Jeff thinks is the right: "Everyone should be technically literate for their own good"

C) What we're actually saying: "Everyone should be technically literate for their own good"

You can observe that B and C are the same. So we actually agree, but some haven't noticed it yet. Only because the sentence "learn to code" can be very ambiguous. After having studied natural language programming, I've come to realize that 90% of disagreements between human beings derive from semantic misunderstanding of ambiguities. This is just yet another example. Kinda funny to be honest. Watching the blogs argue with each other is similar to watching Abbot and Costello arguing who is on first [1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M
Go with MySQL or PostgreSQL. Most of the programmers are savvy with them. This will give time to put your MVP in place and then you can work out a more scalable solution when time comes.

Early optimization is the root of all evil.
A flag for the Earth
There is no internationally agreed upon flag to represent the whole planet so I decided to create a new Github collaborative project where anyone could help create a flag of the Earth.

I've made a first attempt, based on the Pioneer plaque sent to the space 40 years ago. Feel free to fork it!
I worked at AOL after a startup I worked at was acquired. After a brief stint in Beverly Hills, they stuck us in an office in Santa Monica with the Ad.com team. Then Ad.com moved out. We were the only employees there (5 people total). For the longest time, I don't even think AOL knew we existed, as they kept handing us paychecks and never assigned work. Would have probably been a good place to squat. :)
That means the IPO was priced right. Investment bankers used to deliberately priced IPO low to let their favorite clients profited with the popup right off the gate. The companies lost lots of money when their IPO priced low.

Looks like Facebook avoided the problem and got the right price.
Afaik both encoding and decoding require a license. However there is a mutual agreement from patent holders that there is no license required for FOSS decoders, allowing things like VLC to function without a license.
I appreciate your response very much.

I enjoyed that video a lot as well. Thank you for your thoughts, I don't think you came across as didactic, as you might have feared, just trying to show me what's really important, and I do take that to heart.

I lost my father at a very young age, and I always told myself that I would be there for my kids, and I'm going to stick to that, no matter what. I love my boy, and my soon-to-be-here boy or girl, and I truly want the best for them.

I realize that, after reading all the responses, I probably framed the question poorly. Here's some better context, I hope:

I work full-time during the day, my wife watches the boy during the day, and then when I get home, we have ~30 minutes together, and then she goes to work till about 11pm (3 - 5 days/week depending on her schedule), as I take care of our son in the evening, so I focus on that, until he goes to sleep between 8:30 - 9:30pm. Money is tight for us, and I'm bring to get additional freelance work to supplement our income to better make ends meet, and hopefully allow my wife to tapper off of work (as she gets further in her pregnancy).

All in all, trying to work when he's asleep in the evening, or in the morning is tough, as it's tiring. :) But perhaps I just need to suck it up. :)
I bet there are left-wing politicians that do the same thing...but we won't ever see them here because republicans are the only ones that are bad.
This is great! However, I had problems installing. After install via pip I ran this command: python -m stallion.main

and I got a no module error: /usr/bin/python: No module named stallion
Thanks for the article, sorry for piling on just for one point :)
Where do you see the UI? I only see a damn LaunchRock page.
At Carbon Games we're using Go for backend servers, including game sessions server. If you go and play AirMech multiplayer game right now, you'll be playing it on server written in Go.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hdahlabpinmfcemhcb...

There is also Windows build if you prefer that over Chrome: https://www.carbongames.com/download.html
Why Not Just Let Them Learn On Their Own
So what you're proposing it tracking security updates manually and update your libraries?

As much as it's hackish, it's possible to update virtualenv's libs. But tracking the security update is another story.

If not tracking hundred of libs manually is bad sysadmining, well, I'd like you to be my sysadmin and track them.

There's even a bigger issue here: many of those libs have zero tracking. That means even if their author fixes a security bug in the source, he probably won't mark it.

And you, not being a sloppy sysadmin, how will you deal with that? It's pretty obvious to me that you just don't deal with it.
Then one day one of those libs will be widely used, have a bad bug and everyone will scour their systems to update.. but of course the damage will already have been done.
s/score/scope.. o.O
The Monk and the Riddle - Randy Komisar
Love your answer. So nice to hear someone in the same boat, taking it all in, and making it work.

I'm trying to keep everything in perspective, and realize I'll have more time for things down the road, but at the moment, it'd be nice to have one solid freelance gig, that could make ends meet better, and I guess that's the real driver now. My ambitions of being my own boss completely and all that jazz, are probably down the road, or have passed me by, and that's ok.

Just trying to live and learn, and take care of my family first, and foremost.

Thanks so much.
Exactly the same note, submitted a few hous ago directly from cnet

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4019482

403 points, 192 comments
I'm using Go with Google AppEngine. Seems to be about an order of magnitude less resource intensive than the Python versions of the apps. Not exactly surprising, considering that Google developed the language. And of course the team has leveraged the learnings from C / Unix and Inferno.

Don't forget that the Go suite contains C compiler and assembler as well for multiple platforms. In the Inferno version it was very easy to do cross-platform compilations.
Noted. Me and the wife-y have a date night coming up. :)

Grandma gets to watch the boy, and spend some quality time with him, while Mommy and Daddy get some one-on-one time.

I love my wife very much, she's great, and a great mother. I try to show her I appreciate her as often as I can.
Empirical results are ambiguous, mostly pointing in the direction that there is no difference in readability between serif and sans serif fonts – and those are often very old studies, done on very old hardware with very low resolutions.

As should be obvious from the Website, iA are also huge fans of and advocates for large font sizes, in this case their body text is over 20 pixels in size. Any aesthetic issues (smushed and blurry serifs) are not really a problem at that size. 10 pixel Times might look ugly (even though it might be as readable as 10 pixel Arial) – its details a blurry mess – but if there are more pixels to work with that’s no problem – especially not with that many more pixels.

Looking at the font, it’s also obvious that it’s supposed to work at the still relatively common low resolutions of, say, laptop screens. Its shapes are relatively simple, the amount of detail is relatively low. It’s only a small step up from the very simple (and also gorgeous) Georgia.

Because of the aforementioned aesthetic problems with serif fonts (blurry serifs at small sizes on low resolution displays) not using a serif font might be a good rule of thumb if you are clueless about typography, but it doesn’t make any sense to adhere to that if you actually know your way around.

And even if you are clueless there is nothing wrong with using something simple and very optimized (also beautiful) like Georgia.
sigh , i read HN all day long and have no time left for books.

seriously though, i use books as a reference and just hack along, i mean technical books, for non-tech books, i have not read them for years.
Yahoo isnt the type of company to make its employees rate its apps. Maybe you should be more open-minded. 900 is pretty big for 2 days after launch.
Thank you. I'll keep this in mind, but I probably need one good freelancing gig for now.

> On top that you're facing turning 30. Take a step back and tell yourself that you are a good parent and provider. A good job and a healthy family is plenty to ask for.

Great advice.

I definitely have a Moleskine "idea book" (or three), and constantly fill them, as I have "idea-rrhea". :)
Awesome.

Yeah, I've fallen into the trap many months ago, thinking I could go with less sleep. Doesn't work. Zombie daddy is not a good thing for anyone. Now, I make sure I get my rest.
Highly recommend this free 5 week Coursera course out of UC Berkeley. All development is in Ruby and Rails. There is some introductory Ruby material - you don't need to have any prior knowledge. It started last week, but you can join late without a problem.

https://www.coursera.org/course/saas

Oh yeah the optional textbook that goes with it is available on kindle for $10.
Do you want to be a forgotten entrepreneur?
If you have previous programming experience, I don't think that it matters much. You can always look stuff up as you go if you already know enough to know what you're looking for.
Being a hacker has nothing to do with poor ethics. In fact, I'd say many of the best hackers I've had the privilege to work with have a strong sense of morals and ethics.
The whole CAPTHCA concept (while it is certainly clever) just seems backwards. Why are we trying to stop automation? It seems like we should be designing systems that accomodate automation, not try to stop it. If "automation is the problem", then something is wrong with the larger system. It would mean, e.g., that Googlebot is a problem because it is an automaton and not human.

We cannot just assume that everything that is automated is something we need to stop simply because it is automated.

Maybe the design of email is the problem?

Maybe the design of blog comment systems are the problem?

CAPTCHA's are aimed at stopping automation. That appears to be the only criteria they filter on. It just seems strange.

Of course CAPTCHA's will eventually be useless. Because most of us are working our tails off trying to push automation forward, not find ways to block it simply because it is automation.
Honestly, if you're planning on focusing on Rails eventually, I'd start with the Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl (http://ruby.railstutorial.org). It's easy to get lost as a total beginner with all the various things Ruby itself is capable of, when you might have better results focusing on a smaller subset of the whole, at least to start. Rails tutorial also has a chapter early on (one of the first five) that contains an intro to ruby and can point you in the right direction from there.

Book-wise, you can't go wrong with The Well-Grounded Rubyist (http://www.amazon.com/The-Well-Grounded-Rubyist-David-Black/...) to begin with. I found it a lot more approachable than the Pickaxe book early on.

Good luck, Ruby was my first language and I learned a lot about learning programming languages from that experience.
Yup, I also tried that for a while.

> Then I wake up early, like 4am early. The benefit is you're fresh and hopefully have 2-3 hours before your oldest wakes up.

I may try 5am. Once upon a time, I'd wake up early and go running, and such. Now maybe I can get back into the habit, and get some freelancing done.

Yes. I realize this, and as far as I can tell, there is no way around this, unless you have a stay-in nanny, which is probably reserved for the reality TV stars. :) I will not fall into the trap of thinking, "yeah, I'll still be able to get side work done.", I know this go-around that's not possible, and the kids are only this tiny once. :)

Thanks! I will enjoy it. :)
" calling yourself a "programmer" can be a career-limiting move" yeah...I want to be an Inventor. Programming is just the chair i am sitting on.
Are there any software companies that treat Software Developers as Partners?
There are many companies in Finance that make finance professionals as partners and share profit with them, rather than just an employee.

What about software companies? Do they exist ?
Exception that proves the rule of the quality of Yahoo Answers:
Craig Newmark answering a question about how craigslist makes money.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060720194938AA...
RIP webOS: Again and for good this time
Thanks for the advice.

I may have to try the "early bird" thing. That may end up what happens for now, before numero two is born. :)