skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TomTom is pretty good at directing you to a street address but is just terrible in terms of finding local destinations. I did a ~2000 mile road trip a few months ago and several times that I was looking for something specific I couldn't find it or found the wrong thing using TomTom. It turned out the best workflow was to look something up in Google Maps, get the address from Google, type that address into TomTom, and let TomTom direct me to that address.
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Agreed - and an IQ score is just the result of someone who is able to do well in an IQ test, not a mark of intelligence. I know have fiends who have "very high IQs", and are fully functional adults with full lives - but who would not be able to run a business, manage a team or even remember errands they are sent on.

They hold down great jobs, have phd's and are amazing in their fields, but in many parts of their lives you wouldn't consider them 'bright' or 'smart'.
I don't see how this explanation can be correct given the fact that the code using host_vmxon / host_vmxoff in the revision you point to is guarded by #if VBOX_WITH_HOST_VMX, which the changeset also shows is false. It wasn't turned on until the following revision: <https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/43380/vbox>. I can't see how any change in behavior of host_vmxon / host_vmxoff in 10.8.2 could be the cause if they weren't even being called prior to this.
Many exchanges have limits on the number of order cancellations you can make. You get penalized if you send too many cancels compared to the number of trades you get.

Besides, most retail orders go through brokers, not directly to the exchange, and the brokers can provide their own layer of algorithmic sophistication to help the clients get a better price than if they were to place the orders on the exchange on their own directly. This can be done by internally matching orders on both sides, as well as placing orders at strategic times and prices, also using algorithms.

So, this isn't really about "poor retail investor" against "evil predatory high-frequency trader".
mine is:
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This is called "fake, but accurate", and it's an attitude that troubles me greatly – especially in journalism.
Animated GIF showing, visually, how HFT has impacted the overall flavor of the market:

http://imgur.com/DxWer
Does Bing have a mobile solution for 3rd parties?
Huh, I checked the docs before I commented. It is indistinguishable from require :as, thought, right?
There's a guy on here - mindcrime - who's got a startup that's doing something like that. I think the company name is Fogbeam Labs or something to that effect. I'd look him up.
He has a bullet point that says: "Uses no Appcelerator services such as cloud storage, analytics or push notifications"
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hahah classic
It's < 10k downloads over 2 weeks.

It doesn't appear to be a scam, more a case of an over zealous sales department.

However, even if it is to do with displaying the Apache license as mentioned below, the behavior is pretty aggressive and financially orientated when a simple request could resolve it.

I will post a follow up comment when I know more, but for now the dev relations team has reached out to us...
This really has nothing to do with retail investors. Retail is completely insignificant.

Its about what the bulk of the trading is: robots trading with robots without any regard to the stocks they are trading. The big whales are the mutual funds and they have to execute their buy/sells using special techniques of spacing trades out to try to not show what they are up to. Otherwise the HFT spots it (and they usually do) and then front runs all of the trades, just skimming pennies off. What use are they ?

The majority of the trades are not making markets at all, they are just zipping back and forth to collect pennies. If they were market makers then they would hold inventory, but they never do.

NOBODY believes the "liquidity" story. and what about flooding the market with fake bids to cause opponents to get overloaded ? or running tracer LFOs spitting out strange bid patterns just to see if they can detect another hidden program ? what does that have to with market making ? its just robot games.
The Stack Exchange "Ask Patents" sound a very good idea for such cases. People can be more aware like the OP.
Love Cuban, but his target is program trading, not Wall Street.

It is my understanding that program trading and HFT account for 99+ percent of the trade volume at this point; how shall we even distinguish Wall Street from automated trading then?
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I gather that Mark is upset that HFTs use stocks as pawns and resale merchandise here. Essentially, HFTs buy stocks just because the supply and demand numbers look right. These algorithms most likely don't do research into the background of a company, they don't do character checks on executives, and they don't look at what kind of expertise the staff or board has. They just look at the buy/sell rates historically and take advantage of good opportunities. They're essentially middlemen in between the buy and the sell rates, and feel a lot like retail stores. You could almost compare them to Wal-Mart. Get whatever the hell goods they can, give a better rate than anyone else, sell to people who actually want the goods. However, they are not buying stocks as a sign of faith in the company, which is what I think Mark Cuban believes is the real point of the stock market.
I think the Enterprise Extensions don't come with the SDK, and the analytics starts with a free tier.
As someone who invests in small caps almost exclusively, I can tell you that 99.99% of the companies in existence today don't suffer from wild stock speculation.
"In what way has it changed?"

Two examples:

1. High-frequency algorithmic trading.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/08/06/chart-of-th...

3. Repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act, giving government-protected 'too-big-to-fail' commercial banks the ability to incur risks traditionally reserved for investment banks.
The railway company is only licensing the design from another company though.
Great job! Everything is really smooth. As a fellow developer who's interested in finance, I would love to discuss (if you don't mind) about your approach and effort.
> Offering multiple quantities of a reward is prohibited.

The GoldieBlox are in violation of this bizarre rule.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550707

Why not just say "The developer must declare their planned production run, and not accept excess backers"?
When I ran a client facing company I never worked for equity. Working for equity is the same as working for free. It will take valuable time away from your money making projects and your personal "free time" projects.

Money is money. Equity is not.

Edit: I assume you're in business or moonlighting for profit.
I don't know. It seems to me that a lot of Apple decision makers live in a single geographic location. It would be difficult for them to get an overall feel. Perhaps that specific area was focused on and improved drastically recently and they mistook that as an indicator of worldwide quality.
It won't take 7 years to make another mapping solution. Google took that long because they had to blaze a lot of new trails that Apple can conveniently learn from.
Yeah, you can't just take the responses at face value.

Watching five subjects in a row get to one point and then get confused is important, but they might never mention it if you just ask them directly afterwards.

I've also observed talk between users that started out "oh, I hated it" - then they'll go on to praise the functional aspects - and it turns out they just didn't like the color scheme. Which is equally valid if it generates consistent responses.
An interesting company in this space trying to return control to the investor: https://www.secondmarket.com/

A talk by the founder at Stanford: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH-wyaS2Rn0
For all the Gruber haters here, his comment is "What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Apple needs to cough up a licensing fee here."
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Why must we attach "gate" to something every time there's some big story?
Exactly. See: http://gregpiccionelli.com/index.php?option=com_content&...
> How long will there be computer science departments?

Um...isn't that a form of the Halting Problem? ;D
Most startup founders aren't Jobs, Brin or Page.
Saying "limited utility" says "useful" for something, and therefore not "useless".

The measurements are The Truth about their very specific context -- they are not a Prophesy.
If a couple of rounded corners and some UI tweaks are worth $3B then I wonder what the design of a clock is worth.
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>They send in tens of thousands of requests a second, many of which they have no interest in ever being forfilled, in the hope of partly fooling other people, who are sending around similar numbers of requests.

That's called gaming, and is illegal.
Most exchanges that I have experience of have a minimum trade-to-quote ratio, i.e. at least a certain proportion of your quotes have to turn into trades, or you'll be warned and eventually kicked off the exchange.

In any case, to the 'end user' (a regular stock investor like you or me) the continual jockeying for position among HFTs doesn't matter - all we notice is that we pay smaller spreads and get our orders filled more quickly.

Sometimes the trading games spill out into the 'real world' with unpleasant consequences, but those instances appear (so far) to be rare. I think there needs to be tight regulation on HFTs to limit behaviour like quote stuffing, spoofing and other forms of gaming, but I don't agree with the argument that they are a net bad thing.
Not as rare as you might believe.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/07/linkedin_admits_data...
Would you steal from a terrorist?
In my experience, even historical or realtime data from Reuters/Bloomberg/CQG can have serious errors such as that - every trading system should be sanity checking its market data!!
"Fitness is A Fraud" - Creative Director at Equinox Gyms
Yep, I came here to post this exact sentiment.
Sure! There will be no copyright infringements or trademark duress.
Your best answer doesn't hold water. YouTube was started in 2005, which means it was founded after the first round of these lawsuits had started. These patents are about live content, Youtube was about stored content.
I stopped registering when that link didn't work.
Not a BIG story but a BIG story with negative undertones. It probably gets its trends from the Watergate Scandal [0].

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
I have no idea what the point of this article is.
Maybe they just didn't have enough time? Google Maps has been around for 7 years (more than that pre-acquisition).
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Did you read the article?

> Can every startup skyrocket like Facebook or Square or Google? It’s downright impossible. The solution: understand your startup’s “honest trajectory” and align objectives of the founding team and—importantly—its investors to define and agree about what “success” looks like.
I'm given to understand that the reason we have high-frequency traders being as crazy as they are is that there's a (government-mandated) rule where you can't price anything in increments of less than $0.01. 1 penny times hundreds or thousands of shares starts a minute starts to add up.

So instead of being able to compete on price, market-makers compete on latency in order to be the one making all the monies, resulting in the current arms race.

Cf. this blog:
http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/subpenny_rule_respons...
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Why is there such a witch hunt against high frequency traders? I understand the brain-drain argument, but I fail to see a direct negative impact on regular investors.

-High frequency traders provide liquidity enabling me to transact with slightly lower spreads. While narrow spreads may only provide a marginal benefit to the markets, how is it harming you or I?

-High frequency traders hardly impact my investing decisions. Has anyone here been burned by a high frequency trader? If so, please share your experience.

-I am unaware of any academic research concluding high frequency trading has caused harm to individual investors.

-The flash crashes that have occured, appear to have been temporary in nature, and therefore have had zero impact on real investors.

-Don't use market orders if you are afraid of getting a trade executed at an irrational price.

-if PG, KO, or similar crashes for a few milliseconds as a result of high frequency trading (which may be a dubious claim) how does that hurt you? You may have the opportunity to temporarily exploit a mispriced security and buy shares of a company at a lower price.
Sam Harris wrote an interesting essay [1] putting the case for the opposite position - that you should just never, ever lie. I don't necessarily agree with him, but its an interesting and thought-provoking read. Its about $3 for the PDF or kindle ebook.

[1] http://www.samharris.org/lying
And how do those changes (especially #2) "have a negative (or positive) impact on that company's share price" ?
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Based on previous comments people have posted on HN in the past:

1)Going from initial meeting to completed sale is a very long, drawn out process with a very large group of shareholders, be it IT, HR etc. Having runway to last this long is problematic and is almost the opposite of the "iterate quickly" model of most startups.

2)Enterprise support levels vary from what most startups can offer, you may need regional reps, on/offsite support, call centre staff etc. a few FAQ pages and a getsatisfaction account aren't going to cut it.

2)Politics can play a large part of the decision making process which is out of your control.
However we need to do it, we need to get the smart money
on Wall Street back to thinking about ways to use their
capital to help start and grow companies.

This is the meat and potatoes quote. Founder Visas, Ycombinator, Disrupt, the death of VCs, the new VCs, all of these do shout that someone has dropped the ball, and a new breed of investors have picked it up.

I still look at Prof. Sadoway and think how will he get the investment he wants from US markets. Its either VCs, Green Funds or soverign funds making all the running - the business of creating new businesses seems to have fallen out of favour.

Proof - none that you can speak of, except for my bones.
Then maybe it wasn't written for you.
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By demanding automation, HFT drives down the operational cost of a particular transaction. However, for trades themselves, it's arguable that it drives up the cost of the overall transaction for long-term traders - especially those who end up needing to break up a larger overall stock transactions into smaller batches.
The iPhone 5 isn't exciting. Or boring. It's just plain better.
My app is slightly different and uses a patch panel style of interface rather than linear blocks. Every time the system is changed, the layout is parsed into code and any invalid paths are coloured red to show

a) where the problem originates
b) which blocks are affected by the problem

Additionally there is a crude type system that prevents the wrong type of signal being passed to a block - e.g. a buy/sell datatype cannot be passed into a block which expects numerical time series data. I would say that you should prevent users from entering rules which make no sense as far as is possible..

I guess it depends how technical your users are. I'm attempting to stay away from terms such as nil or boolean, so I would go for something like your first example, but with more information, perhaps like:

"I don't know how to follow the rule "if moving_avg > buy" because xyz" which sounds friendly and non-technical but hopefully xyz will help them understand why it doesn't work and learn from their mistake.
Is iOS 6 really a disaster (honest question)? Isn't it selling like hot pie? The general layman is really annoyed by theses problems? Does anyone have numbers?
Try reloading. I think g.maps code was already in your browser's cache, while OSM's was not.
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If that is really his point, then he does not understand value investing.

From the point of view of a value investor, the numbers that you care about are the current price, and how successful you think that company will be. If the current price is below that benchmark, you buy and hold. If the current price is above that benchmark then maybe you want to sell short. (The reason for the maybe is that, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.) Either way you're aiming to make a profit off of the difference between long-term returns and the price you bought it at.

Therefore from the point of view of a value investor, everything that helps people lose track of a company's long-term prospects is good for you.
>To put it in very crude way, if you see a beaten-down meth addict telling you "just say no to meth", I'd say DO listen to him, even if he's doing it. //

Practically the problem with this is that unless you know the right thing to do before hand then you can't determine the right thing to do. The hypocrite does one thing and instructs you not to do that thing (or to do another instead) - but by their actions they're showing, rightly or wrongly, that the thing they're counselling against is something they've chosen [to some extent] for themselves.

In the case of the meth addict you assume that they're being helpful because you assume (barring personal wisdom on the matter) that meth is bad, m'kay. But perhaps they just want to keep all the lovely, lovely meth for themselves??

If a person espouses a universal good - avoiding meth is good for everyone. Or if that person espouses a personal good without explaining why it doesn't apply to them - avoiding meth is good for you. But still that person acts opposite to that they espouse - eg take meth. Then they're acting contrary to what they state will be to their benefit.

You can't trust such a person. Either they act in ways that they know are detrimental or they are lying to you about the benefits available by following their actions.

So you can't trust a hypocrites testimony nor can you - without outside knowledge - learn what actions are best to take solely from their testimony.

Coming back to the case in hand. Is it wrong to copy someone's design? We can't tell if Apple Corp consider it wrong or right. All we know is that they're untrustworthy. Then they use legal process to punish someone for allegedly copying a design whilst on the other hand copying a design and show that they're willing to act to the detriment of others who follow their lead. It's kinda hypocrisy+plus: not only do we say not to do that which we do but we'll punish you for doing that which we do.

>narrow minded logic explained in the article, that cares not what is good for them to do, but if the guy that advocates it is "consistent" //

Whatever a hypocrite advocates is basically irrelevant. One should discard their testimony about the good of an action and use outside sources/testimony to establish independently the nature of any good that can be derived by following their instruction. A hypocrite though, as you appear to contend, would be a valid source of ideas just not a sound source of wisdom (ie take their idea but don't follow it without independently examining it).

E&OE

tl;dr don't trust a hypocrite
> It's just that we are incapable of not lying ...

You seem to be removing our ability to choose from the equation. Clearly, perceived short-term self-interest has its lure, but please don't frame this as if we must lie, or that the ends justify the means.
The way that snarky comments can hurt the community is by hurting people's feelings and making people feel reluctant to show off what they're up to. "Show HN" posts in particular are one of the coolest things about HN, and if people feel like they're going to get torn open just for putting themselves out there, they are unlikely to do so.

So there's nothing intrinsically wrong about snarky comments. It's when the snarky comments are targeted at individuals undeserving of such harshness that there's a problem.

If someone makes a "Show HN" post, and you think their work is incompetent, or that the problem they're solving isn't important, that doesn't excuse being snarky at them.

If, on the other hand, they have blatantly ripped off someone else's work, snarkiness would be fine (assuming you have damned good reason to believe that they did so intentionally, and that they did not ask permission).

We should be happy to make people worry about unethical behavior here before posting, because the ethics of your behavior can usually be assessed by introspection. We should not make people think twice about their work being incompetent before posting, because competence cannot easily be judged through introspection. Only by actually posting and seeing constructive feedback will someone be able to know how they can improve.

Of course, this applies to more than Show HN posts; people who read HN can also have their work posted by other people. The point is that we don't really need to worry about hurting Apple's feelings over blatantly ripping off someone else's work.
It's interesting to me to see things once deemed futuristic (in, say, movies, books, cartoons etc.) become reality years or decades later. I guess if you can think it, eventually someone can and will actually make it.
Sounds like a rogue / poorly trained sales person trying to earn their commissions.
It's not just maps there seems to be bits of iOS6 that just haven't be designed e.g. the sharing options in Safari - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A3QbcieCYAEvN7D.jpg:large

In iPhoto the print icon is actually in color.
Well neither does Apple. That's still kind of irritating for those that have a PPC Mac though.
Ups… I read the wrong thing then. I thought the guy was referring to the sample gifsockets app that now supports only one connection at a time. Cheerio!
It's to sell a $950 class in community building. The sales pitch starts about half way down.
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Ask HN: Cloning for fun and Profit
Hi,

I'm a fairly skilled professional Software Engineer. I'm curious about clone scripts and if it's possible to make money building and selling them.

I would quite like to build a few good scripts and sell them online although I'm not sure if there is any real profit to be made. Obviously they would be of high quality and I would keep them updated.

Is there really any money in writing and selling clone scripts / sites / software?

Thanks
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Hit f5 when that happens. I get it to come up eventually.
There's no need to dump Google's maps, these are wonderful in many respects.

They could complement their maps with OSM's data where it is better, and there are cases when it is. How such data would be licensed and what OSM should ask in return is an interesting question.
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If you're into this sort of thing you'll probably like my side project, BestSFBooks:

http://bestsfbooks.com

It's basically a Ketchup list of award winners. I'm partially to the PKD award myself.
I've been saying this for a while, and I'm glad they are working on clarification. Yes, this will lower some of the astronomical numbers that some projects are seeing- but I'm not sure if hitting 10mm is to anyone's benefit really.

It needs to be understood that there is risk associated with this, no guarantees, and that it isn't a straight up purchase transaction like going to the store or preordering an iPhone.