skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily a scam.

In the prospectus filed with the SEC[1], Goldman disclosed that "...with regard to your notes, from time to time, we and/or our affiliates: (1) expect to acquire, or dispose of positions in listed or over-the-counter options, futures or other instruments linked to the index stock, (2) may take or dispose of positions in the securities of the index stock issuer itself, (3) may take or dispose of positions in listed or over-the-counter options or other instruments based on indices designed to track the performance of the New York Stock Exchange or other components of the U.S. equity market, and/or (4) may take short positions in the index stock or other securities of the kind described above — i.e., we and/or our affiliates may sell securities of the kind that we do not own or that we borrow for delivery to purchaser."

Let me paraphrase Warren Buffett: if you're playing poker with the big boys and you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.[2]

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[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886982/00011046591300...

[2] Buffett's original quote: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/29147-if-you-ve-been-playing...
The way these deals work is simple:

1) For some reason, they have an outsized position that they want to reduce. Circumstances include:

- Proprietary trading group wants to liquidate a position without having to go to the open market

- Firm obtains a large position as part of a block deal.

In this case, I suspect they engaged in a deal with a hedge fund that had a large exposure to AAPL and wanted to get out. GS would have acquired the position at a significant discount (say, 5% below market price).

2) They need to find clients to soak up the exposure.

To do this, they construct investment products that allow them to offset the exposure without having to directly move the inventory. Offering shares directly would have to be essentially free, but products can be sold with some extra fees.

To summarize, they have a long position in AAPL and taking the opposite side of a derivatives trade helps balance the net position.

Note that if the clients made money then you wouldn't hear about the deals. It's only because clients lost that we are hearing about this.
I'm in Atlanta, so the winter doesn't get abnormally cold. But the current gauge goes down to 60 watts and I've seen the limited hover as near as 15 from the cold. The only worse I've seen is when the battery was full from a "Max Range" charge and braking was nearly disabled completely. When it's like that, I simply switch back to the normal brakes.

One thing to point out here is that driving in the Model S is "one foot driving." That is, the regenerative braking force enables as you reduce pressure on the accelerator. If done right, you rarely need to use the mechanical brakes at all. So, there's no actual reduction in braking capacity. The Model S doesn't just careen down the road. This simply affects the regenerative braking system.
>>>Amazon just builds what they need instead of depending on others and then sell it as a service to the larger market

Yes. But I don't recall reading anywhere that Amazon would or even could offer this. It makes me wonder what else there is they will sell. Warehousing software? Shipping logistics? Anyone have a list?
The biggest problem with JS for me is not its quirks, but the way that until you know--and I mean, really know--the language, you WILL make absolutely horrific errors, on every single level of development. It does not matter how good you are at writing C, Java, or Python.

Oh, what, you thought == was for comparison? Wrong.
Oh, you didn't wrap your all your code in an anonymous, self-calling function? You lose.
Oh, what you thought it was okay to leave off semicolons and var statements because they aren't required? Sorry.
Hmm, you didn't know how to manage dependencies between scripts? Should have studied harder.
You tried to iterate over an array? Ridiculous.
Your brain exploded when trying to write a series of asynchronous functions in continuation style? A pity, really.

People who are good at JS like JS because it makes them special. They can lord their knowledge of the quirks over "lesser" developers who come to JS expecting it to act like a sane language. It took an entire industry about a decade just to learn how to tame it. Sure, JS turned out to be really extensible to new paradigms, but hey, so is the lambda calculus.

A good language makes good programming look natural. Like Python. JS is the opposite.
You are absolutely free to share anything you want with whomever you choose. Just make sure you properly define who all that is and use basic crypto to keep out the unintended.

It's not the public sector job so much as the ability to participate in politics to seek change without giving a checkmate to any potential adversary who has police friends that can view any content.
> There's also an element of the cultural perceptions of offices. "Important people have their own offices. I want to be perceived as important. Therefore, I must have my own office."

Unfortunately, there is also the corollary: "You can't have your own room because you aren't important enough." Even though several rooms were completely empty. Glad I quit that job.
Arguably that's just because people aren't used to prototype-based OO, but in any case, it supports these custom pseudo-class-based OO constructs just fine doesn't it?
I hope that some of this increase in price is used to support Package Control from wbond. Certainly Package Control has contributed to the usefulness of Sublime.

Myself having registered less than a year ago, thinks this update is a little premature. Users in the official forums have been worried for months that development had stalled and all of the sudden an announcement of a paid update for seemingly incremental features? Are we to expect a beta period similar to ST2 or will be be expected to pay for what seems should be a minor release? I for one expected at least 2 years of support for my ST2 purchase. Coupled with the increase in price (which now compares to JetBrains IDEs) I see much fewer reasons to upgrade and/or recommend this to others.
You chose a good example showing that JS is not perfect but I think every language has some quirks and needs time and energy to get familiar. Of course such strange behaviour demotivates beginners and yes JS can be hard but it's still a great language and there so many good parts you didn't mention. Besides, teaching a language is also very hard since the best way to learn a language is practise, practise, practise and having problems: sometimes when I am stuck with a problem for hours or even days, googling, asking on IRC, StackOverflow I gain so much knowledge I wouldn't get in a 2h class.
HP Pavilion Chromebook Specs Leaked
Who's the market? Surely crappy upload speeds and download caps stop this being used by 'consumers'.
TheGreatTimeMachineRace
There would be more losses to big casino companies (headed by healthy political donors) than $21mm/yr, if they opened up online gaming.
I totally agree with you except that I still stay with the combination Python and JS (actually like the author). But there's no way to avoid JS so why not better embrace it.

@hackreactor: nice!
@packagemanager Yeoman (http://yeoman.io/) does something like this and a couple of other solutions, too.
>> I see only one pig here

... and I see accounts (with davidpayne11) with just enough comments/karma to be useful for trolling -- and insults from them.

Please get a life or at least take this pathetic shit to some other place than HN. :-(
Intel Launches SSD 525 mSATA Range for Ultrabooks
I agree that the noise alone is enough to ditch the idea (above a certain number of employees), and I get where you're coming from with open-back visibility, but I think that has more to do with culture than the physical layout of the office space. If the company culture is such that taking a 20-minute break to browse HN is going to get you dirty looks or called into a VP's office, having cubicles or offices isn't going to change that.

But what in the world does an open office plan do to make cardiac issues more dangerous?
This is an attitude that employers work hard to cultivate. I don't think it's healthy for workers to 'work his ass off' for a company that isn't willing to reward those efforts. It's a weakness and employers will take advantage.
"anyone with money" that's where your assumption is wrong.

The people dealing with GS are dealing with
"other people's money"

They are people who don't get penalised when a deal goes bad BUT they do get massive bonuses when a deal goes very well. Hence they are willing to deal with GS.
great, detailed read
All those effects are dwarfed by the pernicious effects of sitting all day.

I don't doubt that many people have anxious reactions to the background noise and panopticon level visibility and that long term mild stress is very bad for health. That's nothing compared to the damage done by sitting for 8 hours a day over that same period.

Luckily we've got standing desks at work and I'm getting one put-in at home. We've also recently upgraded our office with natural lighting and natural spectrum artificial lighting which is another thing that has been shown to have huge effects on stress levels.

I'm only working from the office two days or so a week, and most of those days are spent doing inherently social activities so I don't mind our mostly open plan offices. (we do have some small single occupancy offices that we use if we want a few hours of quiet work).

The next thing I want to get is a portable standing desk set-up that I can take with me to client sites.
A Simple Example of Great Twitter Use by a Brand
Goldman may or may not have done something shady, but this post is absolutely devoid of evidence that they did.
Which Hedge Fund Did $1 Billion In Trades Every Working Day In 2012?
Jets to get laser beams
I dont think it is that open plan offices have to be bad. I have worked in environments where they worked reasonably well. Typically there were a couple things that helped including team (a small area dedicated to a team that worked closely together to solve problems), and an environment or workload that did not include multitasking (call centers are good for this most of the time despite the auditory distractions).

The problem though is that in chaotic environments, open plan offices are disasters waiting to happen, or maybe they are disasters constantly happening. You have no insulation from anything else and so no ability to be productive and take real control.

On the whole the fact is that distractions come in different forms and all forms of distractions have pros and cons. A fully isolated environment is productivity-killing. We need some socialization to be productive. On the other hand, open plan offices very often are too social.

On the whole I prefer working from home. Sure there are distractions, but on the whole, my productivity is best there. I can insulate myself often from the distractions and break time with family members is a wonderful perk.
Gun Shoots Criminals With DNA Tags, Marking Them For Later Arrest
Agreed.

My managers think you are lazy if you don't go up to the colleague on the other side of the room and have a face2face, even if they are wearing headphones
A useful and relevant article: "What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic" -- he discusses how to use correction factors to address the problem.

http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse320/Documents/FloatingPoint.pdf
Over 40 Million devices vulnerable to UPNP exploits
I'm not sure how it's anti-competitive, unless in six months Amazon tries to shut down Zencoder's or some other competitor's Amazon account, which I can't really see happening.
Here's my blog post with some additional info:

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/01/amazon-elastic-transcoder...
Apple Increases iPad with Retina Display to 128GB
The article mentions open plan with no partitions. In my book, there is a HUGE difference between completely open like that, and open plan with low partitions. A low partition blocks a huge amount of sound, while still preventing people from being isolated. Completely open with no partition, once you get above 4 people is almost unworkable.
Define "natural". Firstly, == is indeed for comparison, just with an implicit cast beforehand. You don't need to wrap all your code in an anonymous self calling function, but to get the most out of it you need to - given the way it was designed, this makes sense.

You speak like C syntax is "natural" - I remember grappling with pointers and references, it took some time for me to get it fully. It's not like Python doesn't have it's quirks.

I find it ironic that those who use Python/Ruby/Clojure/etc want to often ridicule those who use JavaScript. They've got their own form of elitism. Get over it, seriously.
I could have made my point more powerfully in a long form essay, I'm sure, but I think it's pretty easy to ascertain that I meant "utility in aggregate" or "value added to their lives in aggregate".
If you do your research then you will find that medium to large public bodies are especially good at getting ripped off buying these bonds.

Usually your local education board or city council (A) has some money to invest or some income to smooth out.
1. They talk to financial advisors (B) who give advice.
2. The advisors get commissions if they sell certain types of products.
3. The inexperienced financial staff in A believe the advice given by B.
4. The taxpayer shoulders the risk.
Yes, and when your article appears on Reddit at the same time, be prepared. This happened two years ago with a (rather simple) article I wrote, http://www.michielovertoom.com/python/pastebin-abused/. I got 35.000 hits that day, almost using up all my quotas at the provider where this was hosted.
Satan likes to do mock executions for me. Retard think I imagine myself like Swartz. That's what I am to him. I wrote an operating system. I see myself as a capitalistic Torvalds. Suppose you took a capitalist and started an operating system. It's a completely different picture than a leftist nigger who steals shit.

God says...
ascended fury counsel infirmity travails

I am not a saint who lets 3-year-old amateurs contribute so they can be proud of having their name. Yuck. nasty.

At age 20 in 1990, I was hired by Ticketmaster to work on the VAX os. I am a professional and I laughed at Pearl Jam when they sued Ticketmaster. Of course we need service charges. Fucken leftist niggers!

I hate reverse engineering -- engineering is for white people; reverse engineering is for niggers.

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God says...
C:\Text\BIBLE.TXT

d, do all in the name of the Lord
Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the
Lord.

3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing
unto the Lord.

3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be
discouraged.

3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not
with eyeservice,
I've spent many projects in an "open" environment, never had bad side-effects. You can divide and conquer projects where people focus on only one task... that's efficient group multitasking. The only inefficiency comes through the time taken to synchronize with people.
That is not a floating point bug. That is a programmer who doesn't grok floating point.

edit: Also, I am only allowed to say this if OP is a guy. If OP is a girl and she gets insulted, I'll be hearing about it on the HN front page for days.
I think that a lot of this depends on the company or where you work as well.

I work in an open plan office ...

> By the time people are in their 40s and 50s [...]

That isn't necessarily true, we've had a couple people we have looked at hiring that were interested in working with us because they were tired of being cooped up in small cubicles. Our execs are all over the age of 50, and part of our programming team is over the age of 40. We all share the same space.

> Also, it's not only the noise that makes open-plan offices hell.

There are days when the noise in an open-plan office bothers me, but a pair of good headphones helps sort that out ... generally.

> It's the social overload of being visible to other people. [...] brain-space to the appearance of productivity, in addition to actual productivity, [...]

And this is where I have to disagree with you. This comes down to culture. At my office you can spend the entire day coding and push 800 new lines of code to out git repositories, but at the same time we also all understand that every so often you need to switch off. If you spend an entire day reading Reddit, Hacker News and Wikipedia it may not even be an entire day wasted (especially if stuff on those sites relates to work), but it can help you get out of the singular mindset of work, and have you thinking of other things, and thus help relax.

When it is expected that you can't work 8 hours a day on the same programming project that fear of being "caught" not being productive goes away. There is a mutual understanding that doing those things for a week on end isn't right, but at the same time we also understand, the execs understand, our boss's understand that everyone needs some down time.
Why haven't they started pushing these jobs down to distributed clients? I'd love to run an Amazon Transcoding app on my PC and earn credit that I can spend toward other Amazon services.
The sliders were a nice touch, actually...
I notice you said all that without explicitly naming a single flaw.
Nothing is deeply wrong with it as long as it stays inside a browser.)
The only option that was worth anything that I've seen that seems to have disappeared for my generation due to technology is the what I call "the meeting place". This is where, due to the lack of constant connectivity, people would designate a place that you just would go, no matter what, at certain times.

Think the Pool Hall in "Dazed and Confused" or the bar in "Cheers" for a couple pop culture examples. From both pop culture references and anecdotal evidence I've collected, it seems the "if nothing else is going on we always meet at x place" used to be more common than it is now. Now everyone wants to know who's going to be there, when, etc. before they decide whether to go.
I just checked to be sure, but as far as I can tell he was transferred to a regular prison on the 7th of December to serve the rest of his TPB sentence (1 year minus the time he has been detained)

The actual court case for the Logica hack is probably going to start in February.

source: http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/svartholm-warg-fors-till-f...
Estonia's capital's public transport displayed live on a map
Each bus, trolley and tram has a gps device. The data seems to be refreshed after ~10 second intervals. Not sure if an API exists to create other apps based on the data.
It did slow down, and now he's charging everyone for a point release. It's not in your head.
I guess your generic is my minimalist elegance ;-).
I read somewhere (Can't remember) but a Torque developer said that they are looking to open-source Torque2D.
I also find same-project talks really distracting. And the most complicated thing is that those talks are needed. It is easy to request someone to use headphones instead of speakers but, how could I request other people not to work on their assigned tasks?
If the company culture is such that taking a 20-minute break to browse HN is going to get you dirty looks or called into a VP's office, having cubicles or offices isn't going to change that.

Well, I would flat-out walk away from a company where a 20-minute break led to that. It's not the explicit rules that are the issue. It's the stuck-up subtle shit people never tell you about. If you are passed over for a promotion or a good project because you wear headphones too much or don't appear productive, no one will tell you this because (a) it's subconscious and, (b) even if it were conscious, they wouldn't. In an open-plan office, irrelevant stupid shit can raise or lower your social status over the long term, not immediately but minute by minute. You're not aware of the up-and-down drift when it is happening, but you're always being watched.

One thing I used to hate that I now think is good (if done properly) is the daily status meeting (standup). Why good? Because it concentrates the Brownian motion of an employee's social status into a small part of the day and allows him to focus on impression management during 10 minutes instead of the full 9-10 hours.

Having an office doesn't compensate for shitty culture, but it means you only have to manage impressions during some parts of the day instead of all day, so it's less load overall.
That kind of content is televised precisely because it is a controversial spectacle that "normal" people aren't engaging in.

They post photos they take at interesting parties. Pretty standard for college but enough to twist any of them into grossly irresponsible, bad people if they ever decide to try to change something controlled by a powerful entity that chooses to fight back.

Yeah, Obama can say he's done cocaine and other things, but to my knowledge he told of those things to diffuse any potential ammo the other side could use against him in the presidential election - long after he had already become a very powerful man. It is my fear that many people will simply be denied entry at the gate. And I'm not expecting them to be running for office, but I am expecting a lot of them to join NGO's where they will need to take part in some level of political struggle.
Interesting. Is there any scientific research about these cardiac issues, anxiety disorders, digestive problems, vertigo, neurological problems, social overload and productivity reductions?
Intensive Decompression: Brain Reset by Sleeping in Nature
Would you care to give some examples? I am genuinely curious!
This was my little experiment to battle stress and pressure at work. How do you manage stress?
Yeah, the MBP keyboard is not really a fair comparison, but I definitely think the little D4 keyboard is far superior to most PC laptop keyboards, especially the compact ones.
I still can't see how on purely financial terms, open sourcing ST becomes a better outcome than keeping it closed source.

The open source avenue (awesome as it would be) is effectively stopping any future income for releases.

That means finding an alternative business model for the developer to sustain himself. Sounds like a lot of risk and hassle, if i were the developer, why should i expose myself to that?

The flip side is, for long term adoption, it pretty much has to open source itself.
That would be very interesting given how JEE and Spring are so similar now. I would love Oracle to converge the both of them!

I think the sale of SpringSource to Oracle is unlikely though.
You're assuming everyone is like you. I have worked in every type of office environment and open plan with 50 people was the worst. I couldn't get used to it. It was distracting and anxiety inducing every day. I worked at the company for five years and quit six months after they switched us to open plan.
I couldn't figure out if it was about the typeface or if somebody slapped two Asus touchscreen panels together with a RaspberryPI.
See also this HN thread from 12 days ago asking for “reasons why I should switch to Sublime Text 2”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5070076. I have an answer in it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5070920.
frommel is one of teh wizzardz
Revolt == old people leave.
Open source quantum simulator celebrates 10th anniversary with new release
I found this article quite informative: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&...

edit: changed to non-paywall link (thanks "mef")
EA's Frostbite engine coming to Mac, says DICE job listing
One thing I wonder is whether the idea of super-large offices with one team per office might be a good compromise. You get the team cohesion and collaboration but also some isolation, and the team can figure out how to be productive.