skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the paper:

> Now, one may argue that a weaker form of market efficiency as per Fama (1991) and Jensen (1978) is that patterns are exploited until the marginal revenue of further discovery equals the marginal cost of further search. A counterargument to that would be graduate students and other hobbyists and day traders searching for an edge: to them, the marginal cost is zero and at times negative because the value of the search itself, regardless of the outcome, is a positive learning experience for them...

A hobbyist has to spend more computation time for every additional strategy they search, which costs real money. The hobbyist's cost is near-zero for small searches -- those that can be done by one person using the computers they already own. Once the size of the search increases beyond what they can manage with their immediately available resources, they have to hire assistants and/or buy computation time like anybody else.
> a lot of research software in academia is written by grad students with no formal CS education

Are you sure? Because that sounds like an complete oxymoron. You probably may have meant something else. Would you like to clarify on why grad students lack formal CS education?
Yeah, I'm guessing he's left handed - I am, and I write my A's and G's just like that. When I'm sloppy, the A's end up looking like E's, and the G's look like really long S's.
The binaries are still backwards compatible, I hope wherever the python dev team is building the binaries they aren't still running 32 bit or vista.
A lot of the 3D printing as a service sites allow you to choose the material. Obviously it's limited to materials that can be 3D printed, but most support some plastic, ceramic, and metal. [1]

The price per part depends on the material and the size of the part. In this case, the parts were linked in the article [2]. It looks like $2-$5 per part, depending on the material.

It didn't say all of the parts were 3D printable, and from the looks of it, they've only put up STL files for the boring parts. It would take a good CAD person less than 10 minutes to reproduce most of the parts they have listed, generate their own STL, and have it 3D printed anyway.

[1] http://www.shapeways.com/materials

[2] http://www.shapeways.com/search?q=acc+stl
I don't understand why someone needs to be fired just because they had one or two bad products. Why would you throw away the rest of the knowledge that this person has? Demote them, put them on new projects, place them where they are stronger and have them work on another project, but outright removing someone seems like it is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I don't know if it did so in the past, but it doesn't currently.
The Original Social Network: A Wide Economic Moat
YC photo sharing site.
Survivalism
An aircraft which is running out of fuel can generally glide a fair ways before landing. It's rather difficult to gain substantial amounts of altitude that way. Even before that, an aircraft which intends to return to a low-orbit base needs more fuel in reserve, which means that ranges are shorter and aircraft are comparatively heavier than their ground-based brethren.

Nor is getting to "ground" from orbit free. You need to cancel your orbital velocity, or most of it, in order to manage a sustainable atmospheric re-entry. Sure, you can use parachutes later in the process, but they don't work in vacuum.
All I can find is the "TIOBE Programming Community Index."

You might as well not bother. TIOBE is excessively vague about what it measures to the point that no one's been able to reproduce its results. Worse, it's never demonstrated that the number of searches it measures has a strong correlation with usage.

Worst, it confused the Google Chrome browser with an implementation of Pascal for quite a while.
Shutterfly has had this feature for years.
I have been using Slackware for ages. The advantage for me is this: prior knowledge (it's the distro I'm most efficient in), extreme stability, blazing fast, solid/secure as a rock.

Yes, there's no official "apt" but when managing servers, I view apt as the devil. Automatic upgrades and trusting someone else's install recipes are a great way to open security vulnerabilities. I'm of the camp that everything in production is best built from source and packaged internally.

A dependency-resolving package manager is an excellent tool, but I think it's most useful application is in the desktop world. People who want software generally don't want to sit around resolving dependencies all day. People who run production servers might be better off if they knew exactly what was happening under the hood. Not to mention, once you do get your base packages set up along with Puppet, you hardly have to think about dependencies at all. Apt is great for setting a box up initially, but after that the luster wears off in my experience. Either your package manager is on the bleeding edge and unstable/insecure or it only has outdated (although probably stable/secure) packages. Slackware forces you to build and package just about everything from source, but the base system is an incredibly stable foundation.

I know quite a few people disagree with me, and that's fine. I'm not saying my way is right, I'm saying for me, this is the benefit of using Slackware in 2012 (which I do). Also, like I mentioned, once you get your base packages and something like Puppet set up, the package manager you use fades into the background.
Facebook's China problem
BANNED VID IRAN LEADER AND JEWS,SEEMS NICE GUY, LEZLOW'S NEWS
The Flask author's post about issues he has faced with Python 3 might give some insight to that: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/12/7/thoughts-on-python3/
http://www.ripoffreport.com/Search/Enom.aspx

Start here.
Your biology examples raise the idea that it would make sense for the legal system to distinguish between types of computer intruders. As vaccinations used to work on the principle of exposing people to milder strains of a virus, it'd be likely to be beneficial to make restricted forms of hacking legal (largely based on non-sharing of any non-public information from servers). The devil would be in the details of course, but it might be worth considering.
"Perhaps most tellingly, only 26 percent of the 50,000 surveyed say they've actually used Windows 8"

Sounds like a great survey.
Black-body radiation is hard to aim. If you have any active systems on board, I imagine you would have to actually refrigerate your exterior to keep it from lighting up in the infrared range.

This also assumes that your enemy doesn't have observation platforms scattered throughout the solar system that can spot you from dozens of different angles.
Pylint is the most comprehensive, even if too noisy by default. After editing ~/.pylintrc to disable some overly strict checks it's pretty decent.
breaking news: software users hate new stuff (until they love it)
It is becoming harder and harder to find backwards compatibility for binary interfaces even in the open source world, where libraries move so fast and finding old versions of libraries is becoming more and more of a pain. If you dynamically linked against something 10 years from now unless you kept all of those libraries around, and their supporting files the program won't run anymore.

Backwards compatibility in Windows definitely made Microsoft a dominant market force, but it has also led to the Win32 API stagnating, and it becoming increasingly more fragile as time goes on. Also in all the old code paths, all those not often taken branches there are various bugs just waiting to be found and to be exploited. Yes it has gotten much better, but still.
This search will also quickly teach you not to use your company's bank account to buy your groceries or pay your rent; mixing finances is a no-no.

The general rule of thumb seems to be: courts want to be sure that the corporation you're operating is bona fide; that is, they want to know that you're not simply using a corporate structure to conduct shady personal business.

This doesn't have much of anything to do with whether you're a SMLLC or not (except to the extent that having multiple members makes it harder to use the LLC as a personal piggy bank).
As a European, that's a seriously depressing chart.

I guess I can try comforting myself by stating that it says "In Europe", not "by Europeans". :)
Why Modern Binaries Are So Much Larger
I wonder why Samsung and LG are doing so much better. They are just the kind of giant do-everything conglomerates that are failing in Japan. South Korean culture is rather similar to Japan, especially in business and education.

Some things I can think of:
1) Korea got started later, and has not had the chance yet to get stale like Japan did in the 90's.

2) The population pyramid is not as inverted.

3) Korea has more PC focus, while Japan is about more gadgets. See how Starcraft, a PC game, is enormous in South Korea but unknown in Japan. That means more software and programming focus early on.

4) Lower labor costs. Not as low as China, but low enough to compete.
Fresh perspectives matter sometimes in product's lifecycle. Working on same stuff for years you run a high chance of developing tunnel vision. If there is a new but capable person with different vision, there is a good chance something new and appealing might come of it.

Case in point - Steven Sinofsky and Windows 7.

I dont know what other project they can put someone like Scott Forstall on without even indirectly becoming related to OS development at Apple.
Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.
This is I think a bogus debunking of a bogus theory.

Try 'Debunking Economics' by Steve Keen for a good breakdown of real problems with many economic theories including EMH. Mostly by showing the logical fallacies in assumptions but also the naive maths and divergence from empirical reality.

http://www.amazon.com/Debunking-Economics-Expanded-Dethroned...

His blog is http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/
Yes, I'm sure. I'm referring to scientific software - that is, software written in fields such as biology, chemistry, physics, and (non-computer) engineering. There are many grad students and professors in these areas who write software for their research that have no formal background in CS.
I had heard of her before, but only because I've watched the Safari videos from Apple's WWDC. This is the only place I've encountered her online, and if you're going to call yourself an "evangelist", then I should be seeing you more often than once a year. Compare that with Google Chrome's Developer Relations people - I see their posts online all the time, plus a ton of articles by them, plus they hold office hours on Google+ all the time. That's how to be an evangelist.
Flagged for pure bullshit... misleading title, bullshit linkbait article, ignoring servey results to the point of making things up.
You have to remember that the incentive is to create a benefit for today's group, whether or not it is sustainable in the long run.

If I were a senior, I could vote in benefits that today would benefit me, but create enough budget pressure that later groups would receive benefits that are worse than what I receive now.
IIRC, a lot of the components in the iPhone are made by Japanese companies.
Ask HN: Side Projects at BigCo (Washington)
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=49.44.140

When I read this, I think that it would be OK for me to start an open source project so long as it is unrelated to my work.

Have people done this? Are you doing this? What are the potential ramifications for doing what I want and making a new open source project and be public about it.
I like the clean design but for some reason by browser hangs up while scrolling through your site.

Safari 5.1.7 on Snow Leopard
I think he's done an incredible job making a stable, secure, fast operating system that makes sense. I've tried really hard to use Debian/Ubuntu/others but always come back to Slackware after scratching my head for hours wondering "which file do I edit to this?" when the answer is actually "which distro-specific script do I run to do this?"

I'm extremely biased because I've only ever used Slackware seriously (for servers and desktop) but trying my best to put that aside, I think it's a masterpiece.

There's a cred to it too, which is no reason to use something, but it's the icing on the cake. In some of my support jobs, I had to interact with other techs, and once in a while you get a BSD snob who says "Oh pff, you're into linux? What distro do you use?" and after hearing "Slackware" the tune usually changes: "Oh! You probably know what you're doing then." I think it's true, though: if you can manage a Slack server, you can probably manage any server. The reverse is probably not so true.
Ever been fired? ;)
Clickable: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=49.44.140
> Or the problem with digital goods say. That these are exploitable is what leads to excess returns and monopolies.

Copyright and network effects are the main reasons monopolies exist in digital goods.
Q: Why is a book news/review site publishing AOL-quality fluff pieces on tech news?

A: Oh they hired a huffpo author.
"Windows 9 a disappointment, users prefer Windows 8" says survey – 1 year from now
Warhead!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhead_(video_game)
What's unsettling is that the failure is in the inherently reliable component (shaft).
Few core developers (mainly, one, Armin) that couldn't be bothered enough. It's a volunteer project after all.

He did write about the unicode problems with the Python 3 changes and the need for an improved WSGI spec (heck, he even co-wrote the unicode literal change PEP).

But after the new WSGI spec was out, and the u thing was already implemented in 3.3 pre-release, there was no much motion in Flask, whereas Pyramid, Django and others have already started work.

Even the "When will Flask support Python 3" document has not updated and is 2 years out of date in it's contents.
Can we please not make programming with your shirt off in the workplace a trend? I've heard of brogrammers but this takes it to another level.
> 20 years of no growth

And people are already talking about the 「失われた30年] - lost 3 decades - as a very real possibility.
Google Field Trip shows the most interesting things around
Would there be a way to combine guides like that in OpenStreetMap? That might be a better option than Google Maps.
Confront and Conceal is an odd choice given the other three titles. There is only one or two chapters in C&C that are relevant and they add very little to the debate other than providing some "ripped from the headlines" context. The reviewer should have gone with "This Machine Kills Secrets."
"So what's so wrong with Windows 8 it's already turning off users? According to the survey, price is at the top of the list with 35 percent saying it's Windows 8's most glaring weakness. The downloaded Windows 8 upgrade has been given a promotional price of $39 until January 2013"

Really, people, the price is what you're going to complain about the most? I am truly baffled.
More than two years later, I still don't go a full day without feeling the sting of being suddenly removed from my co-workers and group identity.

I have learned to pour a little less of my soul into work, to guard against this happening again.
Probably, except it'll be more like 4 years
Exactly! The definition of an efficient market makes no claim to the market's computational power whatsoever. Computation and efficiency are unrelated. All it means is that the market would make the best use of whatever computations it can carry out. The paper's author, however, quite funnily understands efficiency to imply magical computation, and then "proves" that this would require solving NP-hard problems.

He first understands efficient to mean godlike, and then shows that for God to work, He would need to solve NP-hard problems quickly. Well, duh.
Sure, but it's lazy either way. Cries of 'bloat' without some supporting reasoning = alarms bells suggesting willful ignorance to me.

Personally gets my goat a lot at work. It's so easy to allude to bloat, or (for example) some framework containing 'stuff you don't need' instead of doing your homework and making an effort to understand why that stuff exists.
He also gives me that impression when I see him on Keynotes, one of a power grabbing, back-stabbing kind of guy. Which could or could not be true, I'm talking purely from a "face-reading" standpoint.

The exact opposite of that would be Bob Mansfield.
Hacker are not heroes as a rule, no sterotype is. A hacker and were talking non-tabloid version of the term I presume are people who question the anwears as much as the initial question and have the tenacity to seek out those answears to the questions nobody else bothers to ask.

A hero is somebody who goes further than others even imagined, it is always a label bestowed upon somebody by others. Hacker is a mindset and when it is bestowed by others is generaly refering to some electronic vandalism.

Using a bic pen to perform a trachyotomy so somebody can breath, that would be a hero hacker if such a definition was needed.
The ebooks really are frustrating aren't they - I blame this mostly on apples iBooks though which is best for novels really.

We're exploring digital travel guides over at coolplaces.co.uk and are busy building out content (uk only for now). So it's interesting to read your ideas on this as they are close to ours. It's early days yet for us, and we have a lot of ground to cover before we get to custom travel guides created by users, but it is on the roadmap, and these are exciting times to explore travel info. Would be interested in your comments on our site.
I think part of the problem is that job security is still drilled into everyone's heads: older, educated European parents are quasi-unfireable at this point (having been hired on old-style contracts with ridiculously favourable terms), and even young teachers are typically state employees with exceptionally high job security and exceptionally low competition - my sister is studying to be a teacher in Austria, and she already knows what her salary will be when she starts work in 3 years' time. And these are the only adults with whom young people spend any significant amount of time.

Meanwhile, in industry, there are jobs available, but often not as actual employees. Companies will bend over backwards to hire young people on a "permanently temporary" basis, i.e. perpetual, full-time, single-client freelancers. Legally, this tends to be a very grey area, but if you complain they'll obviously just not renew your contract. So nobody does.

The decrease in job security is probably also contributing to the "brain drain": if salaries are higher elsewhere, and there's no longer a security advantage to staying at home, then why not move?
Always. But especially after Google Now.
Well maybe europeans make good midsize companies?
If 20% people are still voting for Windows XP, I am not sure if all of them have used Windows 7 and 8. I would take the results with a pinch of salt.
Same as with videojs, you should compare at what Flowplayer can actually do: http://flowplayer.org/demos/ . There is a difference.
That's what I was wondering. It's not perfect, but what it does it does well for me. Setting timers, alarms, etc... all work pretty well.
This is great! I've been telling my father to try something similar for Geology since textbooks are incredibly expensive in Fiji.
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As long as you do it on your own free time and doesn't result in a product that directly competes with your employer makes/sells, none.
This talk gets into how the protocol works without getting too much into the crypto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZBTc7iEkQY
> It seems strange to me that they use Visual Studio rather than mingw/msys. Do any HN readers know why that is?

More widespread, easier to handle, more accepted among windows developers.
>Someone once renewed a hotmail domain after Microsoft forgot

http://www.doublewide.net/

This is what ck2 is referring to. Its was an interesting incident.

Slashdot discusssion around it: http://slashdot.org/story/03/11/06/1540257/microsoft-forgets...
Austrailian Filmaker auctioning off Virginity
Two big issues so far: it still uses email for password resets (without alternatives that I know of) and it doesn't work without JavaScript. I hope both of them get addressed.
Even if they are only "work friends", it can still hurt to be suddenly detached from people whose company you enjoy.
That chart is dramatic, but I'm not convinced that I know what it implies. There are few large young European companies right now; but this doesn't necessarily mean that European companies are less successful, or fewer of them are founded. It just means that they grow more slowly.

I'm sure the US has more people who decide to "roll the dice" and rapildly end up either spectacularly successful or spectacularly flaming out; I've seen far less evidence that there's anything wrong with a culture where slower but more consistent growth is rewarded.

The graph we really need is not "number of big companies founded at given dates" but rather "number of companies which will ultimately become big founded at given dates".
Authentication mechanisms and they way they are implemented can have bleedover into the ability of a user to maintain control of their anonymity and privacy.

Has there been any writeup that explains the potential impact of Persona on privacy? Not just the impact when used as intended, but also any unintended effects?
OK - I think I'm surprised to know that those fields do write software more than anything. Thanks for the clarification.
>"Every mechanical compass I've used has two points."

And the pedantic-bs-to-save-some-face-of-the-day award, goes to...
The reason from Jobs:

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-05-07/tech/30043798...

Makes sense to some extent at a company like apple. Maybe you get two chances but if you don't have the foresight to see how important maps are to people you might not be the best fit for the job.
@markdotto, thank you for your response @chiefinstigator's comments. Great to hear your perspective. I don't think you needed to be on the defensive as much as you are. All one needs to do is look at the Bootstrap Github page: all your code, its documentation, issue tracking, the sheer number of commits, etc. to know that you and Jacob worked your absolute fucking assess off with/for an absolute fucking shit ton of developers over the last few years. I understand both the ZURB and Bootstrap teams' feelings are raw considering how much time you all put in, and I'm just writing to hope that things will smooth over as time goes on. Both groups contributed so much to the web community for them not to. Again, great work guys, you've changed the world for the better.
No, EMH is mostly a set of conjectures and very rough approximations. Newtonian physics is in a different universe of precision to the point where the two shouldn't even be in the same sentence.
Divvy is amazing for a dumb window manager. I look forward to trying out slate.