skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, if you share your PayPal password with other sites, you are already asking for it pretty badly. I'd say the same thing about your Google password, but if you use two-factor authentication is isn't quite so bad (and in that case Pandora isn't a concern).

The reality is though, what Pandora is doing prevents the password from going over the 'net at all, which arguably protects it from being stolen better. For someone to get access to it, they'd need access to your machine, at which point... just how secure do you think your PayPal and Google accounts (assuming no two-factor auth) will be?

The main increased risk factor if you shared your PayPal and Pandora passwords would be that if someone had read-only access to your filesystem, they could still get your PayPal password (which wouldn't otherwise be the case). This would be a potentially big exposure if you have unencrypted backups (though why backup HTML5 storage or browser data in plaintext to an untrusted target if you want security?) or for whatever reason you let other people read your browser profile directory.

Still doesn't feel like a big deal.
This sounds like liquidity is a bug rather than a feature, because those secondary trades don't send capital to the companies. But that liquidity is part of why the primary capital went into the company, and that liquidity supports a flock of risk management and information signalling functions. So I'm not sure why the focus on liquidity per se.

Given that the rejection of HFT has to be overbroad. If they liquidity they provide is the sort of that supports the functions we like, who cares what their holding periods are?

It certainly seems true that Cuban is right about "hacking" the market insofar as yeah, a good deal of HFT sounds like exploitation of rules and procedures to avoid creating the fair market intended. But that means there is "bad" liquidity, which doesn't serve our purposes. Okay, so let's write rules that better serve our purposes for liquidity. (And if we're worried about market distortions from bad trading liquidity, what about the market distortions from Fed provision of currency liquidity? The wash of cash has lifted all asset prices, it's hard to see economic signals when price correlations are moving to one.)

Cuban seems to think we can do just that by manipulating investor incentives -- give them tax breaks for holding periods, tax transactions, etc. But all of these just make the market more complex, and increase the differential between investment categories -- all of which creates more incentive for financial hacking and further detaches pursuit of financial return from realization of economic return. It makes the rules less comprehensible. And it gives the politicians and regulators more to do in the markets, which makes them more attractive targets for lobbyists. He's increasing the incentives for soft corruption while making it harder to spot, the consequences are easily predicted.

Cuban is a smart and pragmatic guy with billions of reasons to think himself smarter than the average bear. Part of his smarts are an ability to keep it simple, and an instinct when things are out of whack. But here that instinct have lead him through simple on to simplistic.
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What is this guy's deal? He posted almost the exact same blog post over a year ago.
http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/08/what-business-is-wall-str...
Why is Facebook always the first auth system implemented in start up apps, OpenID is so much more simple to get running and will open you up to many different providers with very little coding. Is it just for the data mining?
> We hold these truths to be self-evident

Really? Really guys? We're going to invoke the Declaration if Independence on an impotent campaign page about Twitter?

Just stop using Twitter. Problem solved.
(I work at deployd) Yes, the cycle is funny. We don't usually focus on the GUI when talking about deployd; someone outside the company posted with this headline.

Open source was a no-brainer for us. There are some other key concepts that make it a compelling tool, particularly how easily extensible the platform is.
I wish I had more upvotes for this. Geometric Algebra is both simpler and more general than traditional complex geometry or vector calculus and for most students is a much more intuitive way to approach complex numbers.
I don't think he meant bugs in localStorage, but rather bugs in code that uses localStorage.
When I first got into catch up, I used the list at wikipedia of joint hugo and nebula award winners: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_joint_winners_of_the_Hu...
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Right, which is probably why he said "Mass transit isn't an issue here".

Yes, we (americans, especially those on HN) get it. You have trains.
You should have said something, not only did your experience get ruined, but every passive person behind you will now have their experience ruined.
The site's up now.
"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."

It has always been in the interest of high volume traders to hide their intentions just as it has been in the interest of all other market participants (including other high volume traders) to attempt to discover those intentions. In this sense, trading now is exactly as it has always been, although it occurs at a more rapid pace.

"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?"

Please explain why it is bad/wrong/unlawful/unethical that other traders may act when a large trader does a bad job of hiding his intentions.

"The majority of the trades are not making markets at all, they are just zipping back and forth to collect pennies."

I don't understand. What do you mean by this?

"If they were market makers then they would hold inventory, but they never do."

I assume this to mean that you believe that the definition of "market maker" should include a reference to the length of time one holds a position. If you demand that to be called a "market maker," one has to hold a position for a minimum amount of time, then you will exclude some market participants from being so designated. I don't understand how the definition of this term is relevant to the discussion; please explain.

"NOBODY believes the "liquidity" story."

I assume that by ""liquidity" story" you mean the idea that HFT firms increase liquidity (more size with which to trade, at a better price) and that this is to be valued. Is this not the case?

"and what about flooding the market with fake bids to cause opponents to get overloaded ?"

Deliberately entering unbalanced (one-sided) orders without the intention of trading so as to manipulate the market is illegal. This vague idea is a serious infraction of SEC rules that carries significant fines and penalties. See: http://www.finra.org/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2010/P121951

"or running tracer LFOs spitting out strange bid patterns just to see if they can detect another hidden program ?"

I'm not familiar with "tracer LFOs," please explain what these are. If they are orders or order submission strategies intended to gauge market interest, do you think that they are bad/wrong/unlawful/unethical? If so, why?
Yeah, AT&T doesn't run the tight ship that Apple does. I'm sure it is easy for them to open it like it is just any other phone.

That's why people buy an iPhone in the first place though. It is the experience, that starts before you even turn on your iPhone.
Do not assume your cultural norms are everyone's cultural norms.

That this guy was spoiling your (and likely other folks') moment is unfortunate. However, this is not screwing up an iPhone launch, this is spoiling your experience. Your experience is not the iPhone 5 launch.

I am sympathetic that this engagement didn't go the way you wanted it to. Complaining on the internet is not the way to address this issue, and if you thought this was actually a big deal (especially for how they were going to treat others), I hope you expressed your feelings to the guy at the store, not just the anonymous internet, because it comes off as a bit entitled.

After all. You got your iPhone didn't you? You now get to spend the rest of its life with your iPhone, one would presume that is actually the important part of your relationship with your phone.

Edit: Nice stealth edit on the title (going from "AT&T Screwed Up the iPhone 5 Launch" to "AT&T Screwed Up the iPhone 5 Launch for me"). *grin

I should say that I really don't want to delegitimize your disappointment (c.f. http://weeklysift.com/2012/09/10/the-distress-of-the-privile... ) because I know exactly how you feel. But I also don't think your post is constructive, or lends any interesting insight or analysis to the topic of a user's relationship with their devices, or Apple and AT&T.
"It has YouTube, but unfortunately no flash"- Mossberg- iPhone 2007.
The simplest solution is to abolish patents, the government has no business going around handing out monopolies.
The tyranny and oppression bit is satire. And disallowing the creation of third party clients is only a minor piece of a much larger puzzle. When good services like IFTTT are forced to stop using the API, there's obviously something wrong.
Guy. WTF?
Buying of a communication device as a religious experience? What's next? Church of The Holy iOS?
I never buy this line of reasoning - I've seen too many instances of this to think otherwise. Every time a "rogue" sales person does something bad, it is in response to tacit encouragement and acknowledgment of management, and have been incentivized to behave badly.

The "rogue employee", in almost every single case I've ever seen, is just an arms-length way for companies to behave badly while keeping plausible deniability. See: Yelp.
I prefer Parenscript http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/
it comes off a bit as entitled

That's an understatement. I'm tempted to think that the original article was a troll, satire, or both.
I think it's just a change in strategy. Everyone I know who is a Groupon repeat user gets the emails and visits Groupon almost daily. The ROI they're getting from online ads is probably becoming marginal.

It wont solve the pathological customer issue, but that's the other weight on Groupon's back.
Then people just have a greater reason to complain if a project with a low risk score fails.
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Isn't that news a bit old?
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I would guess most people want the carrier to do this stuff for them though I agree it should be optional. If you order directly from Apple you can avoid it. AT&T definitely did screw up their iPhone 5 launch in other ways. Lagging behind Verizon in LTE coverage and failing to offer iPhone 4S owners any good option besides paying their ETF and switching carriers.
io9 has some (not too spoiler-y) info about A Topiary from 2010:

http://io9.com/5569986/more-details-about-shane-carruths-nex...
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While ultimately I do agree with you, especially about humans trying to beat HFT in the short term, I don't think HFT and algorithmic trading are _currently_ the panacea you are making them out to be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
> I call everything that is not a truth, that is it's not 100% factually correct and 100% complete, a 'lie'. Are you confident that - outside of very narrow formalisms - you can describe anything 100% accurately?

This is an unworkable definition.

A lie is defined as a 'deliberate untruth', not an 'incidental untruth'. To tell an untruth deliberately requires the preexistence of knowledge of what is true.

If someone knows nothing, they are incapable of telling a lie.
100K customers != 100K users

I wonder how many people create multiple free accounts for each of their websites, so it might be like 5K PAYING customers right?
This person would have been better served going to an Apple Store. I've bought (many) phones from an AT&T store, and I don't ever recall them not opening the boxes for me, tracking down various pieces of cable, throwing out crap. Indeed, on a few occasions, I just walked out with the receipt, phone and charger - nothing else. And, when it wasn't an apple phone - that's exactly what I wanted.

If you want the pristine "Apple" experience, then the Apple store is absolutely where you went.

I really, really feel for the author - wish that his day one iPhone 5 experience had been all he had been looking for - I know precisely what that moment of expectation is like, where you actually sit and marvel at the fit-and-finish of the cardboard box, and how the packaging all fits together as you slowly unbox it - but, AT&T was not the place to do that.
What surprises me is that Chrome is still supported on Windows XP. I'm further surprised that you can run Chrome on a Pentium 3 if you're running Linux. The first Pentium 3 computers were introduced in 1999.
I am humbled by the clarity of this answer!

The problem with textbook for all levels (other than them being outrageously expensive) is that they contain many level of abstraction, or what one may call self-censure, presumably in order not to scare kids off. One level is the general consensus of how should a topic should be taught, another layer is the author's view of how it should be taught In practice there's the third layer, where the teacher presents them in a certain way. This results in a long chain of Simon Says where the final, safe stuff that's taught, for the benefit of the students, mind you, may become very detached from the reality and excitement of the topic. Unfortunately, students always sense this and they tune it out, leading to so many people not liking math, physics, signal processing, you name it.

The joy of access to a person who is infinitely (compared to you) knowledgeable in atopic and is willing to interface you on multiple levels and telling you as it is is enormous. Best known such example, of course, is Feynman but physics SE and some other boards come close.
I've coded a significant amount of lisp, and I agree the parentheses are completely an asset.
Isn't this at odds against the Chrome OS motivation/aim?
Totally agree with the sense of entitlement, the author sounds like a spoiled brat.

It's a phone, grow up.
From a random observer: thanks for the tactful response. I think that HN is best represented by this kind of thoughtful, deliberate post on a subject that could instead generate inflammatory or derisive remarks.

Though HN may be even better represented when the iPhone reax subside and real content dominates the front page again :)
Great article explaining high frequency trading:

http://www.economist.com/node/21547988
For example, downloading Chrome v10 may work on 10.5 now, but downloading Chrome v10 will not work in the future. That's not how software versioning works. I could be wrong (and I hope I am) but I remember fighting with this a few years ago on a windows machine.
This is only true if you're "investing" on unreasonably short time horizons. And this has always been the case:

"In the short run the market is a voting machine. In the long run it's a weighing machine."
- Warren Buffet, quoting Benjamin Graham
> The environment just needs to support Node and Mongo.

Shouldn't this be displayed on the homepage somewhere?
>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 ?

They can do the trade slightly faster, and according to the rules of the market, if you place an order to sell with a limit of $50 then someone willing to buy now for $50 beats someone willing to buy a second later for $51. If that's not what you wanted, you should have made the limit $51.

Maybe we need new order types, but that would set off a slew of complaints about additional complexity. And note that eliminating the sub-penny rule would put a lot of the front-runners out of business, since they'd only be making $.001 per share rather than $.01.
Hey all. This is my first post to HN and also my first contribution to the Startup Weekend blog as an employee.

I think the subject matter would be interesting here and would love to hear if there is anything you think I missed. Startup Weekend gets to be in a cool place to lead among tech entrepreneurs and I'm always to happy to advocate for those in our field.

Thanks for reading :)
Perhaps we should all start assuming that any blunt, snarky comment is really meant as a piss-take. E.g., if you read "Apple is a bunch of blatant design thieves", assume that no one could intend that at face value, so it's really facetious joking meant to express the opposite.

We'll all feel a lot better, and the blunt and snarky will realize that their posts are having the reverse effect expected.

OK, well, we'll at least all feel better.
When Steve Blank writes about how to run a startup, he's really writing about how to search for a viable business model, so he defines "startup" to refer to an organization that does that. The definition has mostly to do with the internal coherency of Steve Blank's writings; it's not especially useful to reapply that definition to somebody else's writings since you don't know what they mean by "startup".

Once you get past the semantics, I fail to see what substantive point you're making here.
Thank you for linking to that very informative page. The support matrix is interesting enough but even more interesting is that I didn't know about most of those APIs.
Even if the installer could handle older versions, Google has chosen to not even archive older versions of Chrome and only makes the latest version
available.

Third-party sources such as filehippo and others have archived every version of Google Chrome produced since 2009(?) and that's the only option.

Google's stance is that they only support the latest version. Needless to say, this policy hasn't been popular with web developers who need to test older versions.
Many people conflate their possessions with their self-worth. Pity them.
I agree 100% that textbooks have too many levels of abstraction added over time. There's a really interesting answer given on this exact same subject by Bill Gates at the Aspen Festival - check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqf3rvg742g
My new iPhone is now a piece of poo :-D
I wish I had even 10% the design talent you (or whoever did the site design) had.
I fail to see how software versioning is related here.

Google simply doesn't archive older versions of Chrome and doesn't offer them for download.

This is covered in their support FAQ. They only support and offer the latest version.
Whether or not his cultural norms were mine, isn't it common sense to let the owner open up his own product? He was sloppy. I've had wonderful first experiences with Apple products before, namely the 3rd Generation iPod. I think that's part of what has drawn me to the company ever since.

These emotional highs create some very strong connections. I think it's one of the reasons Apple has such high brand loyalty. And AT&T is messing this up for new customers. They didn't get to experience opening their new product, sure they might think it's great like I do, and spend the rest of their life happy with it.. But I think there's a key component to the Apple experience missing.
Agree, really man, I felt stupid even reading an article about how some guys experience was ruined. So many topics you can talk about to create interesting internet content, and people are writing about this?. What's happening, are we becoming this spoiled?
Even in the UK I still find Google has gaps where OSM does not.

In a recent trip to Bristol I was staying at a guest house on Exchange Avenue:

Google: https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en...

OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.454096&lon=-2.59397...

The truth lies somewhere between the various maps out there. In some places Google rules, in others OSM rules. Occasionally, neither rules and usually some local mapping does.

I like that there's competition to keep all of them on their toes, and I very much like that one of the contenders is a community project.
Don't buy Apple kit from AT&T. They aren't invested in Apple's brand and frequently discourage purchasing Apple devices.
I find it hard to believe the overhead of doing that comes to more than $.24/share.

It does mean the market demands more knowledge; it's more sensitive now, so you can no longer do a buy or sell "at market" and expect a good price. But even if you don't know how to play the market you can go through a broker and still pay far less than you would've in the "good old days".
Officials see Iran, not outrage over film, behind cyber attacks on US banks
The obligatory, if you're still scratching your head thinking about complex numbers: http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guide...
My AT&T rep was very considerate of my strong desire to get my hands on my new device. He also mentioned a survey to review his performance, and how likely I would recommend AT&T strictly on how he handled me. OP should use that survey. My guy was delightful.
> Being a member of Mensa isn't a bad thing, it's just not that big of a deal.

I argue that it kind of is, in that only 2% of the population qualifies for it. And the idea is that it's not something just anyone can change about themselves and achieve.

I agree that success is very dependent on many factors, and intelligence is not a required one. But it is correlated with success in many areas (such as intellectually or mentally-oriented fields) and it gives a good base line of potential. Like in your case, you say you are currently working short of your potential. I wonder if your clone, minus, say, 30 IQ points, would be able to say that.

It's kind of like being a fast runner (not a perfect analogy, but I don't need it to be perfect here). That will help a lot in some sports, it will help a little in some, and it won't in others. But if you can run the 100-meter dash in a top 2% time, that's a useful bit of information, especially for a prospective coach.
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There is little productivity created in the wall st business. As the author states little of what Wall St does is raise capital for companies. Mostly it facilitates trading stock which is basically people trying to make money off of other people who have enough money to buy stocks. You buy your 'chips' and trade them and hope to make a profit. As far as the rest of the economy is concerned, little productivity is created from this action. It's as productive as gambling is, which would be analogous to Wall St's true business.
I think you might be right, that the Apple store would have better served this purpose, definitely. I guess that I just assumed that to sell Apple products on launch day, there are certain procedures that Apple would make AT&T follow.
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