skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi there. I buy options all the time. I make lots of money doing it. You only need a 1 to 2% change in price to make decent money when working with options[1]. I don't know why you quote 5-7% as that's just not true. Even if it was Stocks regularly move by that amount on a weekly basis. I know it may not be much to some, but I made over 50k doing one or two options purchases per month last year ( 2011, 25k base investment). I had to stop this year due to me needing to liquidate my portfolio to free up some cash, but what your saying is verifiably false.

1. As of 13 November 2012 GOOG dropped by ~1% a $650 put options rose in price by $1.70 had you owned just one contract you would have made $170 your outlay for that would have been $1180 a one day gain of ~15% even subtracting the trading fee of $10.00 to buy and $10.00 to sell you made $150 for a $1180 outlay or 12% in one day on one stock. This particular transaction is very risky as there is no hedge against a decrease in the put price. You can do that, but it will take more time to explain then I have right now. My napkin math tells me you could have placed a less risky trade and make a cool $100 on a 1% change with a 1K investment (i.e. 10%) on one day with minimal risk (risk is if stock isn't volatile enough or trailing stops are set wrong) .
As part of my negotiations for my current job, I negotiated a 4-day (32 hour) work week. I take Fridays off and do my own projects and volunteer work.

I've had a couple jobs where I've done 32 or 36 hour weeks in the past as well.

But I also have a strong reputation in my field so I'm able to leverage a bit of personal branding ("I'll get more done in 32 hours than anyone else you can hire for 40.")

That may be a tough sell for you at this point. But as others have pointed out, contracting may be a good fit for you if you want to work less. My advice if you go this route is to come up with the highest hourly rate you think you can ask for, then ask for at least 25% more (in the US I'd suggest asking for at least $75 per hour even if you don't have much experience).
The problem with this is that both users AND potential advertisers hate it.

Facebook users do not want their news feed to be filtered. That's why the UI keeps automatically flipping "Sort: Most Recent" back to "Sort: Most Relevant", and why so many users keep asking how to STOP it.

So, FB users want to see the content, and the content providers want them to have it. The only problem is an artificial scarcity created by FB. That will eventually drive users away, to other venues where they can get what they want.

By contrast, Google's advertising only adds to users' experience. Users generally accept it, either because it's a mostly harmless distraction, or because it's actually delivering extra content that they would not otherwise have seen.
Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700 Mbps
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Do yourself a favor and don't. From his post I would assume he has been burnt by options in the past and may not have the best insight into them or the possibilities they open up.
Intel, Qualcomm may invest $378 million in Sharp: sources
I always thought it was so none of your neighbors, not just rabbits, could get to the crops.
Although I'll agree that perhaps I needlessly sensationalised the title, this came from said ladies own mouth:

"I was so distressed and afraid. I simply couldn't believe a photo could ruin my whole life."

Even the title on the Beeb is "Neda Soltani: 'The media mix-up that ruined my life'" !!
Not From Bangor
3 Holdin' On
3 Hole Den
Muskrat Falls
Nedloh Morf
Between Three Ponds
Upper Right Corner
From Maine
Davis Fields
Bangor's Three
Somewhere In Maine
By Fields' Pond

I like that last one because of the ambiguity of the apostrophe, a question which can never be resolved because no-one can really be sure whether such a name comes from someone named Fields or from its location near some fields.

Lot's to choose from. Think of a logo to go with the name and choose the one that provides the best combo of name and graphical device.
The fact that many people spend lots of time on Facebook is evidence that there are a lot of people who want to know about Bob's video and Jane's trip.
Software which requires hardware to support Android 4.2
Motivation, and particularly knowing exactly how the work you will do will benefit (yourself, your friends, your company, the industry, society).

I imagine it's a lot easier being a doctor who is actually helping individual people squeeze in one more patient, vs. spend overtime filling in paperwork. Same difference between working on an awesome product where you have total visibility into the whole process, vs. beng a cog in a much larger wheel.
Linefeeds don't work. Let me say that again with some commas: Not From Bangor, 3 Holdin' On, 3 Hole Den, Muskrat Falls, Nedloh Morf, Between Three Ponds, Upper Right Corner, From Maine, Davis Fields, Bangor's Three, Somewhere In Maine, By Fields' Pond
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What do you use all that space for on a phone? My Android phone (HTC Evo 4G) has 512MB internal storage and the Android version it runs doesn't support moving most apps and their data to an SD card. I still have all the apps I want. I still listen to my entire multi-gigabyte music collection... by streaming it through Amazon MP3 for free. Everything's streaming or in the cloud these days. You don't need to carry duplicate copies in your pocket.

I ordered a Nexus 4 8GB.
Thanks for the support man. I think there's going to be a big shift towards this model since popular crowdfunding sites are shying away from hardware and never really fit with software. Lockitron and app.net have definitely paved the way but we're excited to be at the forefront. It will be interesting to see how the JOBS act fits in to all of this too...
JavaScript Self-Executing Functions
I'll start by saying that I'm a newcomer to JavaScript, just learning the inner working of this great language, so plz try to give a see-through answer to this post. Thank you :) OK, here's the thing: In http://www.jspatterns.com/self-executing-functions/, we learn the way how a JS function can be self-invoked.

Question 1:
Is JS designed this way so that,

(function(){
var a = 1;
var b = 2;
console.log(a + b);
})();

is the same as ?

(function(){
var a = 1;
var b = 2;
console.log(a + b);
}());

Question 2 (main question):
Jacob Thornton (http://www.wordsbyf.at/2011/10/31/i-dont-write-javascript/), which does a great job at Bootstrap, says about this "unfortunate pattern" that it won't work this way, as in http://jsfiddle.net/G8SHx/. But, if you simply add a semi-colon at the end of the first self-executing function, it does work, as in http://jsfiddle.net/G8SHx/96/. Then, how can this statement be real? " ...the javascript interpreter tries to execute them sequentially in a sort of chain-like fashion".

In other words, when trying to have multiple self-executing functions, is this way as the author claims the only way to do it:

!function () {
// code here
}()

Thanks
So true. I'm glad that non-OOP is finally getting mainstream traction (again).
Reading this makes me miss the early days of learning to program. I would reverse engineer games that I enjoyed and write hacks for them. I spent hours and hours every night staring at ASM and network data. Man, how I'd love to somehow be able to get paid to reverse engineer games all days.

Edited to include funny sample. It was literally a hack to make the chat client better. How nerdy was/am I? Hah: https://github.com/ryancole/broodwar-chat-enhancements/blob/...
The "After" Image: Crowdsourcing Cartoon Generation
I think you're out of luck now. It was saying "Coming Soon" until under an hour ago, and that's when people were still picking them up here and there by refreshing all day, myself included. Since it just recently changed to "Sold Out", it's probably actually sold out now.
>"Blurring the lines between advertising and content is one of the most ambitious goals a marketer could have."

Removing it entirely is the holy grail. Instead of injecting ads into the news feed, Facebook could selectively promote organic stories that are commercially desirable.

For example, instead of Coca-Cola telling you about how amazing Coke is, you would simply have the frequency of stories favourably referencing, or photos subtly portraying, good times with a bottle of Coke.

Difficult, but much more powerful and revolutionarily more valuable than old-world advertising.
They want to know about Bob and Jane, not the apps/brands that spam their timelines.

Again, Jane is going on a trip, here's the picture album, all of that I might want to know about. The fact that she specifically used TripAdviser would only (possibly) matter to me by a coincidence of fate if I am also about to plan a trip of my own.

To put it into cruder terms: if my friend is bragging about a massive dump he took that might be content that I find amusing but the brand of toilet paper he used doesn't enter into it.

Or, another way: If Jane was going to post a status update about her forthcoming trip and had such a great experience using TripAdviser that she would mention it of her own accord that is one thing.

If TripAdviser just managed to get permission to post to her timeline, that's quite another. They are not equivalent by any stretch of the imagination. And while the former is much more likely to get a reaction from her friends, neither are relevant beyond idle chatter to anybody who is not currently in the market for what TripAdviser offers.
yes indeed. my next co. will likely be out of state.
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Excellent concept and much needed!
In both cases where people ended up facing such large fines, the RIAA repeatedly offered to settle for much much much smaller amounts, typically around $2-4 per song that the person was sharing.

The defendants decided to reject these offers, even though the MINIMUM POSSIBLE fine if they lost in court would be much larger than the RIAA was asking for.

Typical numbers would look something like this. The person shared a couple thousand songs, and the RIAA asked for maybe $5k. When the person refused, the RIAA would sue over around 20 of the songs, and the RIAA would have an airtight case. The best case realistic outcome for the defendant would be for the jury to award the minimum possible damages: $750/song, so the defendant would end up owing about $15k, which is about 3 times what they could have settled for.

That was their best case outcome. In reality, the jury would generally opt for something between the minimum and maximum, and so they got the big fines.

Then they would appeal. Incredibly, the RIAA would then offer again to settle for a few thousand (total--not per song). And the defendant would refuse, get another trial, and get a jury that opted for even higher up on the damage scale. Oops.

Basically, these defendants were either idiots, or they were taken advantage of by attorneys of questionable ethical judgement who put their desire to argue novel dubious copyright theories in court over the interests of their client.
Create a Banner with Link that Changes Everytime You Load a Page
Yeah, I believe all previous Bullfrog IP are now with EA, right? Nothing is owned by Molyneux anymore, correct?
I don't think they believed or prototypes worked as advertised but I can't be entirely sure...
I have ("Hey, how about you pay me 80% of my salary for 80% time?"), but I work at a university. And 80% is the lowest one can go in HR rules here and still get health insurance.

(If the US acted like EVERY other non-poor country and had nationalized health insurance, this would be a LOT easier).

And they actually probably end up getting quite a bit more out of me than actual 80% time, I end up working longer hours on the days I do work than I used to, but not so long that I'm working as much as I used to, and it's worth it to me to get a 3 day weekend every week.
If they allow it, you could go with them to their workplace and have them explain what they're doing as they do it. This will give you a much better idea of what their workday actually entails and make up for your friends' inability to describe their activities.
Don’t Mawk Awk (2009)
> I use lists and strings and arrays with no concern about how many elements they contain or where the memory comes from.

You should worry. If you don't want your server or your app to run slow, you should worry about these things. Can you imagine going into a programming interview and saying something like this?

It's pretty difficult to implement reliable, readable and proven design patterns if you're just passing around dictionaries of dictionaries and lists. It's more difficult to test. I'm not saying everything needs to be a class, they're a nice tool to have in your toolbox. Use when needed.
I am coming too late into this article (one day old already...), but here's an observation that stood out for me that I wanted to share here.

Whenever there is discussion on Apple and "invention", I am reminded of this (somewhat) contrarian opinion piece by Gladwell:--

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_...

Punchline towards the end: Then Starkweather had a scheme for hooking up a high-resolution display to one of his new company’s computers. “I got it running and brought it into management and said, ‘Why don’t we show this at the tech expo in San Francisco? You’ll be able to rule the world.’ They said, ‘I don’t know. We don’t have room for it.’ It was that sort of thing. It was like me saying I’ve discovered a gold mine and you saying we can’t afford a shovel.”

He shrugged a little wearily. It was ever thus. The innovator says go. The company says stop—and maybe the only lesson of the legend of Xerox PARC is that what happened there happens, in one way or another, everywhere. By the way, the man who hired Gary Starkweather away to the company that couldn’t afford a shovel? His name was Steve Jobs
You are using the very same set of fields that all EMR will be required to use by the government?

So if I understand correctly, you are basically doing what you have been told to do? Good for you - call that corporate software development, but not design, creation, startup of whatever.

Regarding your reply, it's not about the "right" way to represent genetics data, but having any way at all to input that - which seems "absent" in the current model, but maybe I haven't dug deep enough.

Also, $50k for the design that will be used for 6 millions potential clients? Hmm it's like 0.0083 cent per client. If you make a piece of software that successful, it's like selling it for 1 cent apiece on the applestore.

So I guess I'll pass on this one.

BTW there is something funny in the article: "You might even end up working with big EMR startups like Practice Fusion."

Well, yey :-/

I'd rather like to create a new EMR company - the one that'll put the others out of business :-)

Good luck to all entrants anyway.
I enjoy working 80 hours weeks once in while, when I get stoked on creating something new. What I can't stand is daily 10:30am daily scrums when I've been up until 4am coding. If you want to kill-off your employees' passion, I recommend agile methodology.
One success being Search, AdSense, GMail, Maps, Analytics, Chrome, or Android?
When we launched Zite, I (along with several other engineers), were awake for about the same amount of time keeping the servers alive.

Sometimes a heroic emergency effort is required. As long as it is (extraordinarily) rare, it's not in itself sign of a dysfunctional organization.
Brautkleider 2013
Really depends on the kind of programming.
Name idea: Unbeholden
Are there any open source markdown editors like these I can use on my own sites?
> 20 hour work weeks don't usually lead to more life experiences, in my experience. You just have more time to focus on side-projects or hobbies.

Um, right, by focusing on side-projects and hobbies, you get more life experiences is the idea. Certainly you get more diverse life experiences.
I understand that it may be difficult over the phone, but that would be just about the only confusing moment. Although considering they found your phone number, they already know your name. If they find it on the internet your SEO rating is helped by the name a little. If you are talking to them in person, they will have your card in hand or some visual. Also, if they have confusion with the name, you have an excuse to hand it to them. I no issues with this name.
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These questions would get you: recent grads, who have not forgotten all the math; hackernews crowd, who reviewed pg research from years back; developers, who have taken some popular AI/ML class.

And while this is all good, this is certainly not enough.

In reality applied data science is not different from any other area. You get proficiency with experience, as usual.
There already is an energy tax. You have to pay for energy.

A carbon tax on top of that wouldn't effect efficiency.
The speed is just ridiculous. Especially the upstream. So many possibilities. So jealous. I like how he shares his connection though.
Success as in what earns their profits.
It is really not surprising that most of the comments here are made by accounts created in last 24 hours - jamorton74, sicaca, Nolagirl226, frappe, aali1, ccmoberg, danmpark, asmith32, yaakov45. I have no proof but there are enough reasons to believe they are profiles of same person promoting his/her post and they have nothing constructive to say other than "I like this idea", "Great site", etc. They could have just up-voted it.

As far as the website is concerned I fully support the initiative and I really hope it takes of well. In November last year I was providing free technical consultancy to a similar startup because I really wanted to support this idea. I won't name it because I don't want to promote it in someone else's post.

You need to find a decent designer to redesign your website so that it renders properly. Right now I can see problem with your grid and rendering. You are using bootstrap but your navbar and content aren't in same column. You can correct it by using container/container-fluid properly in both navbar and content. What is that gray box at the bottom? Is it supposed to be a footer?

This is how it looks on chrome/ubuntu :

http://i.imgur.com/lnUgA.png

On registration page file upload isn't rendering properly on firefox/ubuntu. Also, is this site only for US citizens?

http://i.imgur.com/hXvoG.png
US Embassies change from country to country so don't read this as gospel, but if you don't have your visa 15 days before the interviews you're probably too late now :(
Speaking of Pizza spam, Domino's in the UK do some sleezy things with their ordering. After entering your order information and proceeding to the delivery page you're asked to input your email, name and phone number (so they can contact you if the driver can't find your address). The form has 2 check boxes, before May 2012 this stated "Tick the boxes below if you want to receive marketing material via SMS and Email" however sometime around May 2012 they changed this to state "Tick the boxes if you do not want to receive marketing material via SMS and Email".

Any customer that has previously used Domino's pizza (probably most people that order?) has gotten so used to their form that they don't think to re-read every input. I got caught out by it and it's really really lame that they did that. Not only are they going against the conventions we all expect (tick to include, not tick to exclude) they switched it to trick customers!

I wonder if they're breaking similar laws.
> I'm not saying everything needs to be a class, they're a nice tool to have in your toolbox. Use when needed.

That's exactly what he said.
What makes red meat unhealthy?
Can I just say that this is an incredibly good comment?

Seriously, between the finite time that one has to live and the decisions you have to make everyday, I think any notion of "satbility" is at best, an illusion. Only change is constant.
I disagree with abandoning one statement var declarations. This will bite you. A variable declared with var is in scope for the entire function because of hoisting.

It's also just bad form because of how people write Javascript, for example if you have an unfortunately long nested function with a variable declaration toward the bottom with a common name, say 'width' and later add that variable name a level up in scope and then think to use it in your function because you forgot or didn't know you had a var statement declaring width somewhere in that function you'll have fun staring into the abyss when this runtime error eventually presents itself.
Take it down a notch. This is a blog post about modern programming, not a tech interview.
There's also UBCD4Win that you can make from your original Windows Disk (or from the /i386 folder on those PCs that don't come with the OS on removable media (in Windows XP last time I tried it))

http://www.ubcd4win.com/
Actually, 2013 will bring the 29-hour work week because if you work more than that, by law your employer has to pay half of your health-insurance which can be a few thousand dollars on their part.

So expect two shifts of people working 20-29 hours a week. At least unemployment numbers should go down in theory but this is a heck of a loophole.
Not at all surprised the VA is involved in something like this -- they are one of the best large EMR/EHR deployments in government and a great system by commercial standards too. They seem to be a decade or two ahead of the active duty military medical system on this. (VistA vs. AHLTA).

There's a new effort to merge both systems onto a new one called OSEHRA (Open Source ...), which should be interesting, but I hope it looks more like VistA and less like AHLTA. I suspect MEDCOM is more powerful politically than the VA, though.
> But Nokia’s Lumia smartphones haven’t sold very well. So why give away its secret sauce to rivals?

Providing SDKs for multiple platforms is not 'giving away secret sauce', it's just selling proprietary stuff in a different way.

Offline support was announced by Google months ago in their 'afraid of Apple' media event.

3D maps are already done by Apple and everyone has already discovered that they are no silver bullet, and need more explanation for why they're useful. As one friend put it, they're the MacGuffin of maps: everyone feels motivation to have them, but for no big reason.
Depending on the angle of my laptop screen, I can't always see the yellow. Over the years they've kept making the color lighter and lighter.
To some extent it's true that "deep learning" is a buzzword, though it is less arbitrary that "data scientist" (which makes no sense whatsoever). In a nutshell, what people mean by "deep learning" is the collection of tips and tricks that make it possible to efficiently train multiple layers of non-linear hidden units (or feature extractors).

Sometimes these are multi-layer neural nets, but they don't have to be.
It sounds like they would differ on which circumstances would justify OOP.

FWIW, I agree with both. Use when needed but you need to understand the abstraction layers that high level languages bring you and when to not use them. And why.
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I've gotten a few emails from people who wanna meet and hangout, and I'll repost this tomorrow night when all the YC prospects are stalking HN :)
The problem with cloud access is that you need to have a reliable Internet connection to benefit from it.

I live in a 3rd-world country where 3G connections are either expensive or unreliable. Also, we don't have access to all the excellent streaming sites like Spotify or Hulu.

So yes, I need all that space for my music collection :)
Pretty pimp. I'd love to see this hit more and more people, and not just KC.
Trial by (Facebook) Timeline
as one of two 'server coders' that scaled Draw Something from 0 to 35 million DAU, a 36 hour day sounds nice.
To be clear, you're not arguing against the thesis of the argument, correct?