skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite true, and your compensation will drop to match, and then some.

The question is can you afford to purchase any property in Manhattan, even with the salary most may get? There are quite a few companies in Toronto (startups as well) paying over $120K for well versed engineers. I can't say it's the norm but it's not impossible to find.

But having lived in SF myself, I can tell you it all balances out if you're thinking of settling down in an area. The cost of housing, healthcare (if you're part of a startup that doesn't have full insurance coverage - only my partner who worked at one of those big companies you dislike was offered full coverage comparable to what you'd get in Canada, well slightly better really), etc all add up while that's adjusted for up here.

Depends on how you measure it?

You're right and I don't expect everyone to flock here. It makes sense for certain people, but I always like throwing out stats like these: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/ec...
as BS as they may be.

In the US my "backup" plan is working with more talented, well-funded people on some other thing. In Canada my "backup" plan involves drop ceilings and fluorescent lighting.

I would have agreed with you 2 years ago but more and more I see amazing companies take off here. And again I've lived in SF as well so I know very well what you're talking about and it's the main reason I suggest a lot of new grads to hang out down there for a few years before coming back up. It is a huge reason to still live down the states but there are a ton of cool well funded companies here as well.

Also when there's 300,000 Canadians living in San Francisco, most of that talent you're talking about is Canadian anyways!
This is a good point. I was thinking that a drive rarely turned on would last longer than the usual 2-3 years...but it's a bit of a worry if you don't know if it'll turn on at all after 5 years.
US Navy outfits destroyers with potential $30 million worth of Gigabit Ethernet
I would like to top that. I'm Canadian and have been in SF for less than 3 months and I can see already all the advantages of being here while working the the tech industry. Even more when founding your own startup...

The value to have so many people connected to so many other people, with the culture of helping each other... Just that allows you to get jobs, funding or anything else an infinite time easier than anywhere else.

I really have no idea where in Canada we are supposed to have that; But it's definitely not in Toronto or Montreal :)

And Free Health care? Health Care is paid by any startup you'll work for now, and even if not, I'ld rather pay my own insurance for 300$/month and pay 30% taxes, than having health care and pay 55% of taxes on half the salary I would make :)

I still love Canada, I lived in Montreal for 10 years, don't get me wrong. My only point is that I personally think in that particular industry, we're better of in SF or NYC!
"Then when it's working, hand it off to the designer to make it pretty in the next sprint."

I hate how some engineers think that's the role of a designer. It feels so condescending.
Now we can get into what "bind" means.
This is just glorified gambling. I am not sure what special insight or advantage he had, other than his own model. Every trader has a model.

It could have easily been called "how i lost 500k with machine learning". Like gambling, it's easy to manipulate statistics to show that you did well in some period of time.

I worked for a large investment bank about 10 years ago, writing trading programs for quant traders who were market makers. The quants called guys like him "retail" investors and they gleefully picked off all those trades. It's how they made all their money.

So, everyone else, beware of making this a case study in how to make lots of money really fast. You are more likely to lose money.
2012 Voting Machines Altering Votes
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, and given the amount of high-profile backclash against Windows 8's policies I might, but the 'problem' seems to be that in order to use the Windows 8 tiles you have to sell your program through Windows Store, right?

In what way is it any different than selling an app through the Apple Store? If you want to add the extra functionality, you have to sell it through the Windows store, but no one is forcing you to use it in order for you costumers to use your program (lets face it, your games probably dont need the tiles) and if you do so choose to use their store, it isn't forcing you to remain exclusive to that store, you can sell it anywhere you want.

Right? If so, what is the fuss about?
I certainly could open source it. I may just wait a bit on the off chance that somebody wants to purchase it.
Super fast site architecture
As an example, tapping the keys "tges" with your left hand will output "this". See how the keys correspond spatially on the keyboard? [G -> H] [E -> I]
> So, it is a vicious circle. And not an accidental one. This one was carefully designed to be that way.

It's quite simple...

Metro - for consumers. Mostly for touch-based tablets. Internet, Facebook, Twitter, simple games and apps.

Desktop - for producers. Keyboard and PC (everything from a $600 Dell to a powerful $5000 WorkStation). Large games, VS.NET, Office, etc. And also everthing to do with the non-consumer/enterprise market.

Do you have any idea how many situations, work-flows, and applications NEED the desktop?

Microsoft is not getting rid of the Desktop. The Desktop is here to stay. In Windows 8, in 9, and every other version. Including the Server versions.

Half of their revenues depend on the Desktop situations, work-flows, and applications.

They'll get rid of the Desktop when computers start reading your thoughts or everyone in the world becomes a thoughtless consumer that spends his/her entire time buying useless crap (like in the move Idiocracy).
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Prezi.com Site Outage Analysis and Timeline
In this day and age where things can be so easily (well, it's more feasible to say the least) faked, how can people know if this is legitimate or not?

I'd love someone with more knowledge in this area to weigh in.
How Halo 4 Got Me to Care About Master Chief
My own take on side projects:

http://sachagreif.com/side-projects-from-idea-to-launch/

I think there's a place for small-scale, non-commercial side projects. I've personally learned a lot from them.
It stated in the article it was C#.

"In 2008 I was “manually” day trading futures using software called T4. I’d been wanting some customized order entry hotkeys, so after discovering T4 had an API, I took on the challenge of learning C# (the programming language required to use the API) and went ahead and built myself some hotkeys."
Proposal: Not shipping prefixed APIs on Firefox stable
Hi,

I used to invest back in the day. Anyway, there are many investing strategies. They all have names such as Value, Growth, Event Driven, etc. I won't list them all. The investing strategy that attempts to exploit movements in stock price after an event (e.g. the type that you are asking about for the earnings announcement in the Tesla example) is called "Event Driven" investing. Another example of an "event" would be after an acquisition is announced to the public. Typically the target (one being acquired) stock will go up and the acquiror (one acquiring) will go down. Investors often try to take advantage of this trend. What is the relationship that investors are betting on if the target price always (usually) goes up, and the acquirer going down? Closing risk. At any point the acquisition, despite being publicly announced, could fall apart because of due diligence issues, etc.

Relating all that back to your question about Tesla: the fundamental value or true value of a company may or may not be reflected in a company's stock price. Think of the stock market as a manifestation of what people (investors) might believe the value is, but the reality is that the fundamentals might be vastly different. The reversion back to norm is something that happens as the market (investors who are imperfect--trust me--think AIG, Bear Stearns, Lehman) attempts to settle on true value.

Side note: Volatility in the stock price could also be attributed to a small float (not that many shares outstanding which leads to a small number of investors causing spikes in the price), but I'd have to look at Tesla's stock info to be certain.

Hope this helps,

Jenny
A team of Googlers could have been working on this in parallel to Tom. I'm guessing that a sudden drop of queries like that would cause people at Google to start digging into what happened. I don't know either way, because network ops and BGP is pretty far from my area (search quality).
Learn programming. Now you're both. Works for me.
(I'm the guy behind Arq) It's also useful as a second-tier backup. If you use Time Machine or SuperDuper you may never need to retrieve your Arq backups, but it's nice to know it's there in case your house burns down or somebody steals your computer + hard drives.
I'm a designer and an engineer. There are some pages where the UX is clearly defined, is simple, and it just needs to be pretty.

I agree that this is a larger problem in the industry, but I meant no offense.
Interesting that nobody puts forth "Because I enjoy learning" as a motivation for learning. It's not a dichotomy: You can enjoy learning and benefit from learning idioms that cross over between languages, or enjoy learning and insure yourself against obsolescence, &c.

But for some people, it's a personal thing, they simply enjoy learning, much as an Architect who designs tract houses might still enjoy reading about new, avant garde office buildings.
That might work for some unused /24's for a large organization's /8 block, but unused IPv4 addresses are so last year!

I suppose the attack will still work for IPv6 for a long time.
Four notable Twitter moments of the 2012 presidential campaign
XTAPI, or did you write something to talk to a FIX gateway?

(former TT employee)
I am supporting this Kickstarter because I see it as a good start point for a personal project to explore some OS ideas I have around a "swarm" of interconnected smart sensors with their own processing capabilities. I see this as a useful basis for an initial prototype that will take me beyond a software simulation.
And just to name a few aside from us (EventMobi), within just Toronto (and surrounding area) there's Wattpad, Shopify, Freshbooks, 500px, Chango, Idee, Upverter, Vidyard, Uken Games, Wave Accounting, etc, etc
Well since you asked... (shameless plug), here is another 'free' one (requires link back or you can pay to remove it) http://portnine.com/bootstrap-themes/preview
Have you ever thought of making a trading system that would buy tons of stock when a flash crash happens? It is going to happen again. If your system is ready and you buy before they shut the market down or roll back orders you could make a hefty profit.
The Canadian neo-con government is based on short-term thinking. They prefer to deny climate science, burn oil as fast as they can, move to pass laws to "increase jobs" without a single thought for the future.

Simply, the Canadian Conservative party is evil. They have been found guilty of cheating in elections (see In and Out in 2006, and voter suppression via robocall allegations in 2011). They cancel long-term science research to focus on profit motives.

They are neocons not due to their social policies but due to their oil/finance focus at the expense of the health of their own people and all life on Earth.
Disappointing to see such FUD in today's landscape. What MS is doing is in almost every way an improvement for the vast majority of the population.
Typically no bootstrapping because IP (and thus TCP) work between hosts in the same subnet without routing.

You would typically have a /30 or /31 subnet containing a pair of routers and have the routers communicate (BGP etc) using those addresses.
Same video, very few comments or upvotes yet:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748736

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748903
Same video, very few comments or upvotes yet:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748783

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748903
Same video, very few comments or upvotes yet:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748783

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748736
Phone companies: Please send me my voice messages via email
Take a look at the VIX from 2009 until today and you'll understand why you stopped making money.
This reminds me of an AMA from a few years ago. Really interesting if you are into stuff like this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9s9d7/iama_100_automat...
Some carriers are lazy.
There may also be politics involved in making national carriers "ask" for permission to advertise routes.
I write a crawler for stats related to instagram profiles. This will make life much easier because soon enough all the other web profiles for Instagram will become less popular.
Well my goal was to determine, when the radical right parties would have a seat in parliament. I detected, that really an unrealistic lot of people would have to stay at home.

I wanted to debunk the popular argument, that the one who does not vote, votes for the extreme parties.
Yes, that's what I was going off of. I was curious about that aspect of it, if it had stayed C# or what.
I don't get that. It would be true if he just made a few trades, but the author claimed to be making 2000 trades a day. Over a period of months winning that wouldn't qualify as blind luck.
>With regard to posting code yes I may do that. We'll see.

What does it depend on?
that is interesting, but it would imply that geonames' data copyright is is also invalid, so there would be no need to scrape wikipedia.
The 25th Hour
At $10 a month to store 1TB on Glacier, you'll surpass that cost in a year.

Does those $10 include the servant which does the backup and drives the hard-disk off-site for you automatically, as would be the equivalent of an automated job with s3cmd/rsync (and whatever you have for arq and glacier)?

If not so, you are missing something crucial in your equation.
"Why doesn't every hacker do this to make extra money? Is it within the grasp of anybody who can program to automate trading like this?"

I have flirted with HFT in a hobby-like manner and it isn't the programming that will get you the money, it is the domain specific knowledge coupled with the programming. On top of that, there are quite a few risks and potential to lose a lot of money.
Linux Foundation Sponsors Now Include Microsoft?
Meet the new Light Table
A common way to notice things like this is to subscribe to a service like Renesys or Cyclops (http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu/) that will alert you if it sees your subnets being announced by a different AS.
This article is missing a crucial piece of data: what was the initial investment.. earning 500k with 10k initial investment is genious, with 10M initial investment it's just another year on the stock market.
If that was true, the mafias do not need to become politician.
HN should detect duplicates on submit.
If you are planning to be a polyglot, I highly recommend learning a language of the APL family (APL, K, J, Kona) and writing a few nontrivial programs.

The benefits of being a polyglot is that it lets you more easily think "outside the box" in any language you are using (especially when you can't use "the right tool for the job").

The facilities in most languages are designed to let you build larger and larger abstractions based on previous abstractions. That's true for C++, Java, C#, Scala, Perl, Ocaml, Ruby, Python, and almost every other language out there.

APL (and to a smaller extent, Erlang) tick differently; on one hand, they do not provide abstraction facilities to build your own "classes" and other "abstract data types" or new kinds of "flow control". On the other hand, they provide simple tools that let you get buy without those.

Only after really grokking K, I realized how much language and library infrastructure do not actually help you achieve your goals of "getting things done". The usual reply to that is "well, but it makes things more readable/maintainable" - which might be true in most cases for e.g. C++ or Java, but that's mostly because they don't provide the right tools for the job.

Take some time to grok APL. The learning curve is not easy, but the payoff in insight and productivity is immense. (And also in pay: K programs command significantly higher salaries than e.g. Java or Scala programmers)
Maniacal need.
It's more a risk management game, not particularly gambling, just look at EUR/AUD: http://stooq.com/q/?s=euraud&c=3y&t=l&a=ln&b...

Would you dare to "predict" the direction of this FX rate movement in the next month? Then it's a matter of calculating potential profit/loss factor and adjusting your trade value. And yes, as with any high risk investment, putting all your eggs in one bucket is not a brilliant idea. Just like taking all your savings to Vegas.
As the OP mentioned, ProPublica has also done an analysis of emails, which they asked readers to send to them:
http://projects.propublica.org/emails/

It's hard to know how sophisticated the actual targeted emails are. The PP analysis likely didn't capture the whole universe of emails received (because it was mostly from their readership)...and the skeptical part of me wonders: how sophisticated are campaigns at this, really?

For one thing, a limiting factor is how much they are willing to spend to tailor a large variance of emails. I guess from the limited knowledge I have of campaign internals and campaign writers, knowing how to work a binary decision tree would be a rare skill. Of course they might have a program that abstracts this process, but you still have the core issue of writing an intelligible email that remains intelligible (and won't be an inadvertent embarrassment) across all variances.

Also, I wonder if open-rates have a stronger effect on the email format than any other kind of personal information, other than gender, age, geography, and donation history.

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I have no doubt that campaigns think they are very sophisticated, especially compared to what they had in the last cycle four years ago. I'm talking about sophistication as it compares to what Facebook and Google have. That's an unfair bar here but c'mon, that's what we should be comparing against in the big picture.
to become rich, so you can stop worrying about how to put bread on the table
> "The question is can you afford to purchase any property in Manhattan"

Nope, but I can't afford to buy in Vancouver on a Vancouver salary either, so that's rather besides the point. Toronto is possible, though one has to question the angle of "come to Toronto! You can own your own home in a city with a limited tech job market!" - I'll keep renting, thanks.

Now that I think of it, I don't think I can afford to buy downtown (Manhattan-equivalent) on a Torontonian software salary. I'd have to live further afield - and I can afford to buy in Brooklyn or Queens. So really the affordability argument is a wash.

> "I can't say it's the norm but it's not impossible to find."

I hear this refrain a lot from Canadians - everyone's "heard of" these magical fairy dust jobs but nobody can point at one.

Not to mention in NYC (and especially the Bay Area) $120K for even moderately experienced engineers is a matter of course. So why do I want to go back to Canada and claw my way at the incredibly rare $120K job with thousands of other hopefuls, when I can interview for most startups in NYC/SF/SV and get that kind of offer as a matter of course?

> "Also when there's 300,000 Canadians living in San Francisco, most of that talent you're talking about is Canadian anyways!"

And that's exactly why I can't move back. Not only would I be fighting a severely uphill battle in a substantially worse job market, for worse compensation, but the bulk of your local talent has already fled.

I'm not doubting the prowess of Canadian engineers (lest I doubt my own skills, I suppose), I'm doubting the realism for a software employee to move back to Canada. Even accounting for cost of living differences I'd be making less, my purchasing power substantially decreases, my job options narrow dramatically (two orders of magnitude? probably), and there are very few institutional employers worth working for as a backup. In SF/NYC I have Google, Facebook, Amazon, among many others. In Toronto I have TD, Royal, and Scotia.

> "And just to name a few aside from us"

I also hear this line of argument a lot. You know why people in SF/NYC don't list their local startups? Because it's impossible. It would take literally days just to recite the names from a list. Hell, in my building in Brooklyn there are more VC-funded startups than the list you just gave.

Which isn't to say that these startups aren't worthwhile - not at all. What I am saying is that the scale difference is so ridiculous wide that comparisons seem silly. "We have a handful of well-known successes" is a long, long, long, LONG way from "We have a sea of well-known successes and an order of magnitude more funded startups ready to hire".

I don't doubt that there are some very worthwhile startups in Toronto/Canada, and that they are good places to work. What I doubt is my place in that job market, where the number of good places to work (that can afford to pay me) can be exhaustively enumerated in my head.
In my opinion, it all goes back to your tool belt. If you only have a hammer, you can only hammer nails. You can use a hammer to cut wood if you beat the wood with the claw long and hard enough, but you would be much better off if you had a saw.

The more tools in your belt will definitely allow you to build better things more efficiently
They probably want Metro apps to be available on RT.
I'm sceptical that HFT is good for the public. What did you do to ensure your system wouldn't make a flash crash worse?
It's not as clear cut as that. With suitable salt and suitable (long) hashing function, you can delay

From a security / data privacy angle, things are rarely 100% perfect or 100% broken. Just because an approach is not 100% perfect, doesn't mean that it is worthless. It can still offer protection of sensitive data.

Storing IPs in the clear in a DB means that if anyone gets any access to it (e.g. SQL injection type attack), they can have the whole lot. With salted IPs it's harder and much longer before they have any decent data.

If you tweaked a hashing algorithm to take circa 100 milliseconds to hash an IP, then "brute forcing" would be much less of a problem because it would take about 13 years to hash the whole lot.
The charts show he was trading between Jun 2009 and Oct 2010. How much of his gains could be attributed to the market recovery in general? The Dow went from about 7000 to 11000, the Russell from about 600 to 800.
I disagree. The point of the article was the show the steps required to develop a statistical advantage in the market place. If you develop a robust model and are very diligent in how it executes and learns, you can be successful. However, what you say about market structure is true. It goes through periods of stability, followed by abrupt changes. Any model that a trader has developed has been developed on such a short time-scale of market activity, that it can turn out to be a bad sample size. Depends on the scale of time and trades.
Does this mean that in the future we should ignore all routes comming from PCCW (since they rebroadcast all rules without filtering)?
The trouble with me and the future of business
> A single revision may not pass a set of unit tests, but the entire feature branch will before being merged into the release line

I really don't care a whit about your feature branch when your broken commits mean I can't bisect an issue.