skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a very interesting behavior that happens on the streets of Brazilian cities which your comment on anecdotal evidence made me remember. Due to a seemingly high percentage of men here acting like they've never seen a woman before in their life (ie, doing a quadruple-take when one walks by) and doing lots of cat-calling (generally in groups), women have learned to not make eye contact. Being that I'm not like these kinds of men, I still get treated like them thus women don't make eye contact with me, in passing.
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In the US there's also such a thing called the Fifth Amendment that says you must not be compelled to be a witness against yourself, which is the freedom to not talk to the police or anyone about anything that might incriminate you.

They also can't use your silence as evidence of anything.
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The structure of many markets causes trading to be latency sensitive, full stop. There's no bright line between automated trading and hft afaict.
For something to have meaning, it has to have context. For instance getting a high score in tetris has meaning to me. But for most people it's meaningless. For some people, "the big bang theory" is meaningful. For others, it's completely meaningless.

To truly feel everything is meaningless, sounds like depression.
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> The price is likely to instantly gap down further than -3%

Right, but in a crash due to news, it is likely to go down and stay down, or at least take some time to recover so you can manually make a decision. In a flash crash it can go down 50% and recover within minutes.

They are different scenarios, and they behave differently.
I'm not sure if anyone agrees with me, but I feel like software development will outweigh the need for significantly faster chips over the next 5-10 years. It seems like all the buzz has been about machine learning, signal processing, software defined networking and online education rather than the latest and greatest from AMD/Intel. That's not to say new hardware development isn't necessary, it just seems like there's greater potential for software development in the coming years.
I'm truly baffled by what they were protesting, here. I'm no MS fan, but I haven't heard of any particular ire pointed at them for anything, much less the troubles Greece is going through now. Was this just a wanton act of petulance?
Aye, which I think is reasonable, especially in the context of the GIL-removal approaches that were on the table at the time and the effort needed to implement them in CPython.

I think the PyPy folks want to get to a place where you can run PyPy in modes tuned for either single-threaded or concurrent workloads.
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Although many of us would like to get that feedback, there are reasons not to give specific feedback to job candidates: it prevents you from making any statements that could be held against you (esp. legally); it doesn't take time away from other more valuable work; it discourages people from attempting to hone their interview skills to cover for weak fundamentals; it saves you an awkward moment if the no-go decision was based on personality more than technical chops.

If you really want that kind of feedback, do some mock interviews. What you're asking for just isn't a service that prospective employers have much incentive to offer.
No, that's just business as usual.
"If they are hot, the girls can pick and choose which men they interact with."

There was a video on Youtube on dating and game theory where 5 women and 5 men were given a number which corresponded to their attractiveness. Basically, those who were 5's, when accepted into the 8's group were made more attractive in the eyes of the opposite sex, even if they were still 5's physically. Conversely, those who were 10's got the pick of the litter and had to do the least work to find a mate.
yes. but imagine how dog breeders influence where a certain dog race's evolution is going... I imagine a day when some of the computer systems will be engineered this way, with a good mathematical framework for evolution and all... and I think we're closer to this than it may seem, just look how programming languages "evolved" and were "selected" in the last half a century... everything was very empirical, otherwise we'd all be coding in a Lisp for experimental programming and an ML family language for the rest maybe...

...anyway, it's going very off topic so better leave it and let's get back to ..."work" :|
Well-done. What does this have to do with making a joke license for a work people might want to actually modify? Do they not get to laugh if they choose GPL over the one with the comedy in?
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His assertion is that they are gaming the market, with no net benefit to society (it could be argued that their actions are detrimental). Furthermore, bright minds such as these could be doing things that are a potentially large net benefit to society.
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I am generally opposed to including the batteries for things but in this case I agree. The virtualenvwrapper API and path/folder management is far superior. That being said, maybe that IS the API that's included in this release, I don't actually have any idea.
nonono... this is real!
i've worked over a year with this methodology.
the biggest problem we had: we were a team of 5 developers and the room had only four corners! a real shame...

can anyone suggest a solution for this, pls?
How the heck does one prove they're not doing something anymore? Whether that "something" be beating your wife, cheating on your spouse, or running an illegal website? Can't prove a negative.
A well-reported Rust novice's reaction to Rust would probably be a useful data point for that team at this point.
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No, he is referring to other posts that seriously focus on details rather than values.

OP posted a satire version of the commentary based on serious previous discussions.
So. You created an application to blog and to be able to post that on twitter.

I don't get why this is #3 on HN right now.
I remember doing something similar to this after I graduated from college ('09) but a bit backwards.

I was totally frustrated by the lack of responses to resumes that were flying from my outbox like cards from a blackjack shoe -- so I created a help-wanted ad on craigslist for a job that I thought I would qualify for and might have a chance of landing.

The resumes I got were from people with 3-5 years experience, masters degress, laundry list of skillsets, etc. Needless to say, the whole experience was disheartening -- but it taught me to be creative in my approach to the job market and that generally the "resume" based approach to finding a "match" (employer<->employee) is deeply flawed.
This is more thinking out loud - stumbling out loud - than a definitive understanding.

The blogger should blog again when the confusion has cleared.
Where's the target group?

Because the question is: how many people use twitter and don't have a blog or website?
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The language was only officially unveiled in 2010, so I don't think you will have too many problems with impatient rust greybeards pouring scorn on the new fledgling whippersnappers yet.
> A lot of people will say what you say about HFT, but have no qualms about Google and Facebook and Twitter. Why is that?

Because Google and Facebook and Twitter provide legitimate value and services (some more valuable than others), and offer something that wasn't there before.

HFT does none of the above, unless you believe that lack of liquidity was somehow a big problem prior to them entering the market and generating 80% of the trades, and skimming off as much money as possible in the process.
I learned like this from my teacher, a man who claims Supreme Enlightenment.

No offense intended, but where's the evidence? Yes, enlightenment is a personal and subjective experience, but do you have any independent citations or accounts of your teacher's enlightenment.

e.g. his name, other followers, etc.

Extraordinary clams require extraordinary evidence.
So true. I don't get it either.
Heres's the SDK release notes: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNote... (Includes the billing details for SSL.)
It would seem that group selection could be possible, depending upon time constants in the equation. E.g. if the group benefit accrued faster than the individual benefit.
Furthermore look at religeon, not a lot of benefit to the individual but the cohesive group survival is improved. Lots of cultural examples.
Heck, even look at cells cooperating to make an organism - thats group selection at the most basic.
i really like this idea! i do not have a blog but i would love to start one, and i also do not use twitter much. but like this idea. but before i would love to see some posts examples.
This is a fantastic explanation.
We have started to do something similar but your LUA rewrites is a lot more effective. I wasn't even aware that you could do something like that.
HN likes people who ship.
Didn't pay protection perhaps?
That's been going on for a while. Algorithms have advanced even faster than Moore's Law.
Nice idea, and I'm sure it'll be a nice building, and good fun to work in, but the magic ingredient in a "startup factory" is most definitely not office space.
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Go ahead. Do it. What is the worst that can happen ? You learn a lot more while trying to create the book. What is the best that can happen ? You make some money along the way. Win-win situation I would say.
That's what a stop loss order does, it gets you out of your position regardless of the price. When P&G was dropping like a stone there was no way to know if the market was going to go straight back up or straight down. If it hadn't been a 'flash' crash but a straight up crash, if at that moment North Korea had invaded someone those average investors would be thanking their lucky stars they got out at only a 20% loss.

You can't have it both ways, either you set hard limits for your position and take the hit when you guess wrong or you let your position ride and risk losing everything. The crazy prices were busted after the fact anyway so if you had a stop loss further out than 60% of the pre-nonsense price your trade never happened.
The application automatically tweets your blog post to the world, thus giving you more exposure. I don't see why you should put down his work when it actually does what it's supposed to.
Why would a good writer be any more likely to do this than a bad writer? Surely it would depend on market conditions?
AAPL is $600 now. (...) If a large institutional investor wants to manipulate the price, he can place huge buy and sell orders at $700.

To what profit? The investor would lose their shirt. Let's say period A had 20 shares sold and 20 shares bought at around ~$600. Period B the investor enters with 50 shares being sold at min price $700.00 and 50 shares being bid on at max price $700.01. In period B there are also another 20 shares from other people being offered at min price $600.10 and 20 being bid on at $600.00. The auction runs and the most seller advantageous clearing price is $700. The institutional investor gets 20 shares from the $600.10 but at the clearing price of $700. The investor exchanges 30 shares between his right and left hands. So overall, the investor has on net bought 20 shares at a ridiculously inflated price. This was a stupid, money losing strategy for the investor.

You know you would sell AAPL if it spikes to $700 today, but you won't place an order until that happens.

Why not? Under my system, at every interval you could simply put a limit order in for selling at a minimum $700. In fact, I suspect a few hedge funds would pop up that specialize in figuring out a true and accurate price of a stock according to the fund's analysis, and then placing, constant, across the board limit orders that would automatically snap up shares in the case of irrationality. If the market was as jump and irrational as you think it would be hedge funds would make a killing by being smart and rational, until enough entered the market with standing limit orders that the price smoothed out.

Without a visible order book, it's much more risky to provide liquidity without any actual demand or supply for the shares.

And yeah, under my system market making actually requires work/risk, not just riskless front running. The free lunch is gone. That is the point. There would be less volume. Buyers and sellers would trade slightly slower trade execution (waiting for the auction interval) for the benefit of not paying any tax to market makers.
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a lot? i think it's kind of different using twitter than a blog or a website. usually this last two require mantainance, or at least, a little time spent on them. which not everyone wants to give or even cares.
I just started using it after I moved to a new city. I have had some great dates, and even met some friends who introduced me to their friends so I’m certainly not complaining about the site, but I have two observations I would love to have the understanding behind.

1st, what is the purpose of the green/yellow/red dot? To me, if I see a women with a yellow or green dot I rarely if ever contact them. Also, the percentage of women with red dots is ridiculous compared with the other colors. It basically seems like a worthless indicator of anything and may even be harmful since it causes people to select the red over the yellow etc.

As a guy, if I get messages from women and they are someone I may or may not have contacted, I never respond to get my color back up to yellow. I can’t keep it there long, and have to check using a fake profile, but feel like the gamesmanship is worth it.

2nd, why say exactly when someone was online last? This encourages me to not login random times since I don’t want people seeing that I am always checking in. Even if I am bored somewhere, have nothing else to look at, I purposely don’t go to the site to let it sit. You would generate more ad revenue, at least from me if the site said, visited in last 48 hours or whatever.

FYI, for those trying the site, 2 things really surprised me. 1, the photo selection tool, I can’t remember the name, was really useful as it let me pick better photos of myself. 2, focusing on having a profile that was more about stuff I was doing was better than a profile about who I am. (that may be me specific).
I'm sure there's lots, but it also depends on your definition of success. Here in Chicago we've got groupon, threadless, braintree, thinkorswim, 37 signals, orbitz, and then, of course, a number of places which have cashed out to acquisitions (like feedburner).
TBH the only person I built it for is me. I had an itch and scratched it.
He's replying to an imaginary strawman. OP never suggested that the details matter, or in fact said anything about details. Seems to me like edw519 is having his own separate discussion that's only vaguely related to the topic :-)
You're probably right. The last time I touched Java was about 4 years ago. Even then I was using a basic text editor (Eclipse was a monster at the time that took forever to launch and hemorrhaged memory), but it wasn't so bad in the Spring (and Guice) world because you were mostly working with POJOs and didn't need any of the Eclipse autocomplete and refactoring tools.

I think the trend will actually go the other way though and there'll be less gigantic IDE usage in the future, but I'm not going to put money on it.
same here. I found only one app that provided search (which I need), and that one had a poor UI.

Chrome on the other hand works great. The only problem I have is that voting is not convenient.
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Times have definitely changed. Along with each application (at least most of them), since they were mailed in (yes, physical form), I got an acknowledgment letter back along with an equal opportunity employment demographic postcard to fill out.

My wife went through this same process last year. Not one single rejection letter.

Times have changed.
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Wooga, Soundcloud, Spreadshirt and maybe Amen come to mind (all Berlin based).
Not to name the hugely successful Samwer clones like Zalando (biggest online shoe e-commerce business in Europe, Zappos clone).
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The writing style is scarily close to Bret Easton Ellis in American psycho. This could be the main character Patrick Bateman describing his morning routine.

Scary indeed..
JavaScript makes my head hurt.

1) JSON is what is used to init the table code right?
2) If it is JSON, JSON can contain logic? As in the match logic?
3) What is the function name? Is it match? Where does it get called from? How many paths are there to call it?
4) CSS style is hard coded into the (I think) JSON string, is mixing data (JSON), programming logic (if expressions) and CSS styling really the best new way to do UI development? So back in the day before MVC when we used to mix this stuff; we were doing it 'right'?

JavaScript is good for some things but WebGL and Excel-like spreadsheets are too much if not just for performance then also for maintainability, IMO.
Ok, this seems plausible, however, I am skeptical. Do you have any data or studies proving out these theories, including data that would give credence to the idea that the $ taken out of the market now due to HFT is less than that taken out by old fashioned liquidity providers?
I find it hard to believe that any decade will be more innovative than the 1960s, which had massive structural changes across the board: to both hard and soft sciences; international politics and the routine appearance of new countries; explosion of mass communication; major shifts in art and music; widespread experimentation with wildly different religions; huge increases in foreign travel; significant strides forward in civil rights and self determination across the globe... it's hard to think of a field that didn't have strong if not fundamental changes in the 1960s. I guess we have another eight years before we'll really know...
I think it'll be hard to guess unless more evidence surfaces. With a machine gun, gas canisters, etc., it sounds pretty organized, not a random splinter group of angry students or anything. The "mass" left movements (KKE, Antarsya, various squat-based anarchist groups, etc.) tend not to carry out military-style armed actions like that, and are more into the mass marches with Molotovs and rocks. There could be a smaller group that chose MS as a convenient target (probably it was less well protected than banks or government building are). But even those, when they do something "big", tend to try to make a PR stunt out of it, e.g. unfurl a big banner on the front of the building and spraypaint slogans. This looks more clinical in a way, which makes it look more like a pointed threat than a protest.

With the current high unemployment and general anger, there are a lot of questionable groups in weird webs of entanglement in Athens, so could be other things as well. There are some violent right-wing groups who might be coming from nationalist rather than leftist reasons (out with the foreigners/etc.), or it could be something apolitical like organized crime. The latter is getting bigger as groups of desperate people are looking for any way to make a living; in particular, many people suspect that some football-hooligan "ultra" groups have morphed into criminal syndicates. They're also sometimes associated with the Golden Dawn neo-Nazi group, though it's never quite clear how much of that is politics versus money versus general not-very-precisely-directed anger.

(As a side note, Athens vs. everywhere else in Greece are almost completely different places these days. Even as half-Greek I would be careful where I went in Athens right now, but the rest of Greece is much different.)
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I'm amused that it seems that at any period of time the men who lived it believed it was the most innovative or golden.

Is there a term for this perception?
Eh, sort of.

I'd be interested to know your race and your height.

At the end of the day, women still have deal breakers regardless of your personality, boldness, income, skills, etc.

The reason why I think women have it easier is that they can both wait for someone to approach AND take the initiative and go up to a guy if they so choose. Whereas guys not named Ryan Gosling almost always must take the initiative.
This is scary to me:

> I think it is important that these libraries get rewritten in Rust over time, starting with the most Web-facing code --- Harfbuzz and stb_image.

Text shaping is _hard_ and not something you want to NIH on.
The Cloudflare blog post about how they tried to work-around it is a pretty good explainer on the underlying issue. http://blog.cloudflare.com/ssl-on-custom-domains-for-appengi...

>>>Here's a bit of detail on the core problem. SSL is tied to a particular domain and, usually, an IP address. Managing SSL certificates in an elastic cloud environment is non-trivial. As a result, many cloud providers don't support SSL at all or, like AppEngine, create a wildcard SSL cert for their domain and force everyone who wants SSL to send requests to that. Unfortunately, if you try and make a request to AppEngine from your own domain then the SSL certificate won't validate. We initially thought we could solve this as a proxy just by ignoring SSL errors from the origin, but AppEngine also routes based on the host header. If the host header isn't a subdomain off appspot.org then traffic gets rerouted to the Google home page.
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You are making excuses. It should require neither new hardware nor Herculean effort to realize acceptable multicore performance on CPU-bound tasks. And your badgering and down voting people here who disagree with you position doesn't make your argument any more persuasive.
I'm an English major and I sweat bullets before I read to the "For the naysayers" part. I wouldn't have gotten past the phone screen.
I suspect Level 4 is to read Distributed Algorithms by Nancy Lynch, who won the Knuth Prize for this stuff. A shorter book that looks good is Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach, by Sukumar Ghosh. I recently bought them both but haven't tackled them yet.