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The funny part about all this is the stark misconceptions westerners (and perhaps many easterners too) have about meditation in general.

The authority on meditation is long rooted in the subjective scientific (the observation and inference of trends based on data) scriptures of the East, yet most are willing to accept whatever their local practitioner has to say, or whoever is currently recommending meditation to them.

Meditation, whilst extremely easy to teach, is extremely difficult to practise. You will be EXTREMELY hard pressed to find any authority on the subject recommending meditation without specifying its prerequisite, self-control.

A mind that infested with thoughts and desires, constantly fluttering hither and thither is unfit to meditate. To force such a mind into single pointed concentration is dangerous.

Meditation is the final stage of spiritual practice, not the beginning.
I have never made use of reification of actions in real software before. Can anybody weigh in on the costs, methods, tools, or any other aspect of extensive action reification? I'm gonna have to experiment with this.
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Why should our best hackers and mathematical minds be wasted on something so shallow as gaming the market?

If you think they're wasting their time, don't give them your money.
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As I understood it, the transformation happened because people were not just accepting their negative emotions about their country but actually threw rocks and organized rallies.

> "There is genuine suffering in the world that it is important to do something about"

I wonder if I'm in the same now-democratic society. Does it have Daoist influences? :)
The difference is that a crash can happen faster than any human can stop it. It's fine if you trust your high-frequency circuit breakers.
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Since you're unlikely to be sharing memory with your background processor, what you'd really be doing is marshaling the object on enqueue and unmarshaling on decode. In that case, you're no more susceptible to further modifications to the data than you would be with a DB lookup.

There of course may be other issues with marshaling. E.g., marshaling of procs is particularly tricky. But I've been marshaling with sidekiq for the past couple months and really haven't run into any problems. And it cleaned up the code a fair bit because I basically treat it as an RPC without any of the ceremonious DB lookups at the start of every async method.
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If you've done it before, you'll know that getting a high leverage (technology) company profitable, is really, really hard. This does not apply to service companies, but service companies rarely have the big impact you're talking about.

A startup is an iterative process.

If you're incredibly lucky and happen to stumble upon the exact right business model on your first try and start making a ton of money immediately, that's great. Congratulations. But the chances of that happening with a startup are vanishingly small. It's much more likely that you'll launch something, it will fail, and you get to repeat that experience a few times while iterating towards the right business model and burning way more money than you ever thought possible along the way.

If your goal is really to maximize your impact on the world without thinking about an exit strategy, you should be trying to grab as much venture capital as possible. That will help you get big and make a big impact a lot faster than slowly bootstrapping towards profitability.

And what's so bad about making your goal getting rich anyway?
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If you have a 401K or own shares in a mutual share, you should care about it.

The HFT algos siphon off billions every year from the big, slow "dumb money" large institutional investors (e.g. pension funds, index funds, insurance companies).

For example, if an insurance company needs to liquidate its portfolio to pay a claim, the HFT will sense the insurance company placing an order in the market and try to skim 5-10 cents per share by manipulating the share price during the trade. Its a zero-sum game.

The insurance company lost and the algo won. Market markets exist to provide liquidity (match buyers and sellers), not to front-run and bid up orders from customers.
edit: I should be less eager to click buttons

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Where do I begin…

'spelling of conscientious'

This would be covered in the first editing pass when I turn the spell checker on. I don't see what this is meant to demonstrate. Even good writers have trouble remembering how some words are spelled.

'explain oxford comma'

What's the point of this?

'repeating a tongue twister; I like the “Betty Botter bought a bit of butter” one.'

What's the point of this?

'Questions about rules in ‘Elements of Style‘'

Elements of Style is not a rulebook. It's a stylebook.

'A few puzzles to test their creativity.'

A good writer is like a good designer. You either like their style or you don't. If you don't, you'd never ask them in for the interview. A quick writing sample is the only test of creativity you need.

'More spellings and grammar questions.'

A writing sample is all you need to assess grammar and spelling competence. My grammers is fine, but I couldn't recite rules and practices in a test.

'Some domain related question, for e.g. ask sports writer, the dates when the last football world cup was played.'

A good writer knows how to research. If you need an x writer for some cultural reason then you'd ask for that in the ad. This is a poor filter since it doesn't tell you how well a writer can write on the subject.

'Question on lexical roots of some words.'

Is this an English class or an interview?

I would show myself the door pretty quickly and advise all my writer friends not to consider your company. Your interview questions display a serious ignorance of the craft of writing. Save yourself some headaches and ask the best writer in your office to hire other writers. The sort questions you ask are easily rehearsed by a bad writer with good memory.
I'm more worried that there are people who think what I just said was hyperbolic or a mischaracterization. Or that either of your comments could be construed as an argument.
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Can you recommend any tutorials or books about this type of meditation? I'm curious.
If you are interested, check out the book below. Good read:

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Pools-High-Speed-Traders-Financia...
Encouraging. It's still a rich person's toy, not a practical car, but can't say I'm disappointed that he's sticking with it.
I think this is a sign of weakness from Dropbox; for example, big strong players like Google don't just erase all the links to ThePirateBay.se just because some big record label says so; they wait until they are actually forced to do so with a legal petition (e.g. DMCA)
I know you know this, but for the benefit of the thread:

Megaupload is commonly understood to have been "complying with the law" based on a misapprehension of what the law actually is.

The misapprehension is that "compliance" with US copyright law means "honoring takedown notices".

The reality of US copyright law is that there are two sides to compliance: first, takedown notices need to be honored, and second, the service can't operate with foreknowledge of infringing use.

You can execute takedown notices within milliseconds of their arrival, but if an opposing lawyer or prosecutor can demonstrate that you repeatedly (a) came into knowledge that your service was used for piracy and (b) took no action, you effectively forfeit the service provider "safe harbor".

It was discovered by prosecutors that Megaupload not only knew about infringing content on their own site (trading links among staff for particular films, for instance), but also ran a promotional/affiliate program that rewarded uploaders for pushing popular copyrighted material to the site.
I currently us a combo because some of our emails are reports that take a bit to compile. So, the async method makes sense there. But every one of our nodes has a local postfix config and transport up to SendGrid. I trust Postfix will do a better job dealing with temporary outages than I will in Ruby.

I'd imagine this is great for those on PaaS where they can't just install local software like an MTA, too.
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Seems like an odd place for the USO to be; are there any troops there that need support?
Did you stop reading halfway? The entire point of the article is that you would never hire a creative writer using these criteria, and yet they are the types of criteria being used for 'creative developers'.
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A writing sample is a great filter. Any good writer will jump at the chance to write out a quick (and good) piece of text if it means they might get paid.
Would work for two years, by then, with funding and you as a co-founder he should lose a controlling stake and your startup would be able to get him an h1b.
No, he was only banned for a few hours, but he (understandably) stopped posting here afterwards.
I don't think you read the last portion, "For the Naysayers" although I think you prove the authors point pretty well (in sort of a good way?)
Apparently I did! I should be less eager to click buttons. I've edited a little note in at the top so I won't get any impulsive downvotes.
Not all problems are technically suitable for a NoSQL database.

You might as well say "I'm a big fan of JSON, but not all problems are technically suitable for a NoXML data format." There's nothing magical about SQL, as proven by the fact that so few apps actually use its abstractions! The reasons to use SQL today are pragmatic; battle-tested engines, tools, etc. Most developers will never write their own ORM or database, but the ones who are up to it are starting to explore the design space quite profitably.
It's at least conceivable that the correct valuation of a company changes from one day to the next due to human-scale events, and that speculators are providing a useful pricing signal. Changes from one millisecond to the next are amplifying pure noise produced by flaws in the mechanics of trades reaching the market and clearing.
What exactly is a flash crash and why should individuals care? Isn't it just bank's computers temporarily offering stock at a severe discount and then the price going back to normal. It doesn't hurt anyone but the people with poorly programmed algorithms. No trades should ever be broken just because someone can't control their trading bots.
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Indeed and yet for someone who has been doing it for years, all of this can be identified in a matter of minutes. In the same vein, most programmers today don't need to know Assembly. It just depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
Think about the optimization.

>>According to Information Week Magazine¹: “A one (1) millisecond advantage in trading applications can be worth $100 million a year to a major brokerage firm”. Currently electronic trading makes between 60% and 70% of daily volume of NYSE¹. Tabb Group, a research firm, estimated that High-frequency traders generated about $21 billion in 2008.²

From a site promoting microwave communication towers for low latency packet transfer.

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> Good spellings and knowledge of grammar rules does not indicate a good writer, and there are tools (spelling/grammar check) and (editorial) processes to take care of that.

Good grammar doesn't indicate a good writer, but bad grammar does indicate a bad one[1]. (Good grammar meaning, in this case, an ear for language. Good writers avoid grammatical errors because grammatical errors sound wrong, like an off-pitch note to a musician[2]. Explicit knowledge of grammar isn't particularly important. For example, good writers may not know what the subjunctive mood is, but they know how and when to use it. Conversely, a writer who has the knowledge but lacks the ear is in for a rough ride.)

1. Unless it's for effect, obviously, which can range from Rimbaud's "Je est un autre" to Zora Neal Hurston.

2. Which, of course, may also be done for effect. Which is why listing out rules (about writing, about music, etc.) is so fruitless. Which is true even if the rule is "Don't start three sentences in a row with the word 'which.'"
At many newspapers they ask prospective reporters for

1. Clips (writing samples)
2. A copy editing test (to make sure they write cleanly)
3. Actual stories written from some facts or info provided.

That's not so different from asking a developer to write some code during technical interviews. Good clean copy requires similar precision, but your compiler happens to be a human.
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'Is the market supposed to be a platform for companies to raise money for growth and to create liquidity and opportunity for shareholders as it has been in the past? Or is the stock market a laissez-faire platform that evolves however it evolves? The missing link in all the discussions is: What is the purpose of the stock market?'
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ah, the hacker news comment nazis. Forgot why I left this hellhole. Thanks!
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http://www.meebo.com/jobs/

Meebo.com will be shutting down on July 11, 2012.

Meebo has been acquired by Google!

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So Meebo was a recruiting operation for Google.

It puts that article in a new light.
The real issue is that in order to get an edge, HFT traders are engaging in electronic warfare in order to slow down their opponents.

One of the worst things they are doing is "quote stuffing", which means submitting bids and cancelling them tens of thousands of times per second. They stuff the exchanges with quotes and eventually cause a huge latency with respect to the quotes that are shown by the exchange, such as NYSE, NASDAQ, etc. However, they aren't affected because they can see the prices because they have a raw data feed. This gives them an edge relative to the other traders that don't have their own raw feed straight from the exchanges, and they use that to basically shoot fish in a barrel.

This was one of the main causes for the flash crash in 2010. The excessive quotes

The thing is that they could stop this by implementing a minimum time for a quote to exist, something innocuous like 100 ms, but they don't because this would be a detriment to the HFT shops.

The other thing is that HFT shops behave like market makers, and they claim to provide liquidity, however, they have no obligation to provide liquidity, like real market makers. So just like during the flash crash, they turned off their machines, and the markets went haywire. So they want their cake and eat it too. If they are going to trade like market makers, they need to have the obligation to continue to provide liquidity.
How would they know who to bill if it was anonymous?
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If recruiters actually gave job seekers asserted information about what companies need, this recruiting business would be a desert.
The problem with HFT algorithms in the eyes of most hackers is they are almost entirely a zero sum game. Assuming minimal volatility and free trades the absolutely dumbest algorithm* will make money.

*Buy at X sell at X + 1cent with a simple ratchet of buy orders from 1 cent up to market price + a small number of shares to be sold if the market price increases.

PS: Random walk that averages +/- one cent 10 times a second = 5 cent's profit a second assuming ~2,000 trading hours a year = 360k profit. Cost to make that for a stock worth ~20$ = ~30,000$ of capital + whatever it takes to get on the HFT floor.
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The 10.1 came out almost a year ago. Is Samsung even selling it now? It'll just release a new version soon.
Great post. To add to the usefulness of the protocol, I use the BitTorrent protocol on the WAN to sync files with my own computers and those of family members via my own/our tracker, and also on the LAN when i have to move large files and repositories of information between computers (which i do often).

It is surprising to me, to say the least, that people on HN don't understand this protocol is extremely useful to hack with.
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DBM, I think UFO is the better title choice. Your change is cute but unless you read the link it does not make any sense. Like jejones USO makes me think of the organization that sends Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders to boost morale in the sandbox...
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I've heard a lot of Buddhists talk about mind being separate from body. If you push them on it they get very vague very quickly.
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I think you're being a bit free with the metaphors here.

A blueprint isn't a finished deliverable if you want something that you can actually use. Code, on the other hand, mixes design and building - if you delete the code, what are you left with?
Then I discovered the minimum sunk costs of running a HFT startup and my balls shrank.

Care to elaborate?
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You can't sue the Internet though. This line of argument begins with entitlement. Dropbox is a company with an ass to protect. Anyone using any service's API is never entitled to any guarantees regardless of whether they comply with their TOS or not. The purpose of an API is to simultaneously add value for users and widen use of the produc (both of those fall technically under the banner of "to help the company providing the API make boat loads of money).

The other part of people's defense of Boxupus is this whole idea that just because it could be used to violate copyright doesn't mean it will. Anyone who honestly, deep down, truly believes this and isn't just towing the Pirate Party Line needs to wake up. The majority of people downloading from torrents are downloading copyrighted material which is not legal, like it or not, the legalities of copyright law are irrelevant here. While I'm sure you can pop in and say "but I was using it for legit use case x, y, and z", most people were using it for downloading music and movies. Where's my proof? Fuck my proof. Where's your proof (I'm using the royal "your" here, not aimed at the op here) that it was being used so innocently? It really makes me upset that I just know someone will try to call me out for not having evidence on that one point despite the fact that we all know what was up just like we all knew what was up with MegaUpload. Demanding my evidence on that one point is the last defense of a person who's just grasping at straws, defending some pro-piracy ideology. But piracy isnt even the issue nor is it relevant!

Dropbox is a company here to make money. Just mentioning torrents puts people in a frenzy. So they're protecting themselves from liability by making sure their product is not associated in any way with torrents. It doesn't matter whether they have a legit purpose or not. It's a case of perception trumping all else and you have to remember that even beyond legal issues, Dropbox has a brand to protect. The perception of Dropbox is that of an exceptionally wholesome file storage/sharing service. Why would they even risk being seen as even the teensiest bit shady?
I don't think it's as simple as all that. There are legitimate parties at either end of a stock transaction, and the HFT's are pretty much just siphoning off small amounts of the proceeds. The reason this can occur is that our government ensures that public companies have to do business this way. And all of these rules are in place for good reasons and it works pretty well, but HFT is an aberration.

A good analogy is credit card companies; it's perfectly rational for a customer to use a rewards credit card and pay it off at the end of every month, and it's perfectly rational for a merchant to allow credit card transactions for convenience. Arguably, however, the credit card company is little else but a 3-5% drain on the economy, especially for brick-and-mortar stores.

That said, credit card companies provide some value in the form of convenience, so maybe the transaction fee is worth it. HFT's, however, provide no benefit to anyone but themselves. The transactions would still occur whether or not the HFT existed. The distinction Mark Cuban makes between "investors" and "traders" is an astute one.
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This ignores different realities in how programmers and writers work.

If you're hiring a writer, you cam ask to see his previous work. Unless he worked for CIA, he can point to books he's written, articles he published etc. You can then read them and that's all you need to make a decision if he's competent enough (you might still interview for cultural fit).

If you're hiring a senior engineer that claims he spent last 5 years coding Big Table at Google, you have to take his word for it. It's not that you wouldn't like to see all his past checkins, you just can't in most cases.

Not being able to see past work, we do the next best thing: interviews, coding questions etc.

The simple explanation is: we don't hire programmers like writers because we can't, not because people hiring programmers are inexplicably so much more incompetent than people hiring writers (despite running much more profitable businesses).

This is changing a bit due to open-source in that more and more people are hired like writers i.e. based on their publicly available past work, but it'll never be the case that every programmer will be able to show his past code.
If I recall correctly, wasn't there, like, an extremely fast recovery from the flash crash? Why does the flash crash even matter? (I'm not being snarky at all, BTW.)
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Harnessed was a bad word choice, I meant that it was going to be used 99% of the time for piracy.
That's the product that used to be called "Microsoft Surface", which was a table-sized touchscreen computer, not the new Microsoft Surface.
He was banned for voting from months or perhaps years.

Edit: "for" -> "from"
Why should our best hackers and mathematical minds be wasted on something so shallow as gaming the market?

Your mistaken premise is "our." That implies ownership.

How would you rather allocate those minds, commissar?