skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all the radio providers are somehow able to come together and arrange an allocation of channels so that they don't overlap, then they are also able to (a) not allocate any of those channels to newscomers; (b) the channel allocation guarantees marketshare, i.e., if you gain more usage you don't get more capacity, so will rise prices - it's exactly a cartel situation like OPEC.

The entry barrier is capital investment in radios - if you want to use 1800 mhz GSM band, you need to buy many millions (billions for country-wide scale) worth of radios and put them up to towers. If you want to later switch to 1900 mhz band as the first one is "polluted" - tough luck, buy new gear and install it once more. Or, in practice, if you don't get a guarantee that your devices won't work, you just don't buy them and keep out of the market.

And, as soon as you call installing a device on the same spectrum "actively attacking someones broadcasts" - then it's a pure monopoly, first-come first-serve; the first one to put up the investment and put in New York some towers with ALL the frequency channels standard phones support (it's not that much, ~triple what they're normally using) gets an effective monopoly forever, since anyone putting up any GSM tower will be a disruption.
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I've always thought a political news web site that stripped out names/parties would be interesting too. When you don't have a bias for/against the speaker you may find you are more open to ideas.
Little more sensitivity of data would be helpful rather than the large bins - like <5,5-10,10-20,20-30,30-40,40-50,50+ to get a proper picture.
This is why whenever I open an article or blog post, the first thing I do before even trying to read the article is click the "readability" button (or pocket/instapaper/safari reader/whichever one you like). I appreciate what the person above said "take into the account that the Web/Hypertext is about more than just text." That's fine. But unless I'm on my tumblr dashboard, I'm visiting a blog probably to read text.

Branding is important, sure. But you can have great branding and still be readable. You don't need huge style sheets, you don't need a ton of images, you don't need a ton of scripts. Look at Svbtle for example, right? So what's the problem?

"Monetizing content, especially written content, is extremely difficult. I think Svbtle’s biggest innovation will be in this area, but I don’t know what it is yet."[1]

So what's the solution? First of all I love that _most_ of the personal blogs on HN lead by example. Secondly I think adblock and noscript should be encouraged whenever possible (I know there's no way adblock would be rolled in to browsers). Thirdly get native "reader" button in Chrome, FF and IE. Content creators need to make money but until we figure that out, we can't expect users to stare at disgusting web sites for much longer. Or maybe we can, if the state of TV and FM radio advertising teaches us anything... Maybe that's it, most people just deal with it so who cares. Still makes me sad though.

I googled for a list of "top blogs" and found this list[2], amazing how many of them are visually DISGUSTING.

1: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/08/with-funding-for-svbtle-dus...

2: http://technorati.com/blogs/top100/
TSA Detains Man At JFK Over Totally "Bomb" Sandwich
I use "tweet this" button but that's it
Sold. Launches a New Marketplace and Raises Funding
I intend to publish and collaborate on private algos. Even if others have the code they still don't know where I choose to operate and deploy capital. And if they get rich on the code good luck to them - maybe they'll sponsor a dedicated server for 1.0
Can't you see it -- these two technologies are complimentary! Glass will be used to dispatch Mall Security on their Segways, along with giving them real-time updates on how long a group of teenagers were occupying a table at the food court.
...or result in a takedown. The links appeared on the first page of Google searches for the title. And the ACM appears pretty committed to monetizing articles in PDF format.
Thanks for the links. And you're right, she did say "special" and the overall atmosphere was one of competitiveness. I think cheating is a problem at any school, but at TJ it might just be done a little differently. I was so shocked to hear that a student broke into the teachers' computers to change his already high grades to grades that were slightly higher. I think he got caught and ended up not being able to go to some of the schools he got accepted to. I don't think this is indicative of a cheating culture, like I said all schools have some percentage of students who cheat (even if it's small), but it's interesting to hear the degree of pressure on students. Definitely strange when you hear about cheating to have even higher grades rather than cheating "just to get by" as you'd normally be accustomed to at schools.
I'm well aware of how bad many US schools are. But that is besides the point.

If the people coming out of that high school don't know math, economics, spanish or physics, then they have less academic merit than students from a better school who do. It might be unfair that some people get a sucky school/parents/genes, but that doesn't contradict meritocracy.
Yea, it's 683 KB in all for ~800 bytes of text! Looks like, TFA's author makes the same mistake he's complaining about!
Tragedy of the commons. Though that will never happen, so we're more or less free to choose the course of action that suits us best, without it having any overarching effects.
Have you actually used this in a production setting?
How the Internet (and sex) amplifies irrational group behavior
The real problem with that page is that as far as I can tell, the entire article is a lie. Some googling on "Barry Clams" only comes up with the daily mash as sources, and the daily mash doesn't list any sources.

edit:
No relevant results for

"barry clams" -thedailymash

barry clams -thedailymash

bond clams -thedailymash

fleming clams -thedailymash

edit2: oops, apparently the daily mash is satire

by the way, jasoncartwright, your reply is "dead"
I think it's funny that you vote for Obama because you think he's a good guy with a good vision for America, then when he gets into power and makes a decision you think is morally contemptuous, your first though is that 'he wasn't who I thought he was'.

What the fuck do you know about national security, SoftwareMaven? You're a programmer on Hacker News. You're not privy to the shit that Obama is privy to.

How do you know your idea of what is moral is also what would be good for society as a whole? How do you know that Obama isn't simply responding in a reasonable way to the reality that you have no conception of.

Also, throwaway so I don't get called a fascist nazi or whatever.
This is really nice. I didn't know the notepad trick either.
And even if people don't find the drawing trick as useful as the notepad one, I think they will, at least, have some fun drawing. :-)

Thanks for sharing this.
Even the website that is referenced to count the letters, lettercount.com, is guilty of fluff and bloat.
Stability over Features
1. Deflationary currency encourages extractive businesses, such as property ownership and renting. Inflationary currency encourages people to re-invest their profits in their business, and to grow their business as much as possible. In other words, with a deflationary currency people operating a business are encouraged to keep value in money mostly, with an inflationary currency people are encouraged to keep value in the business. It seems pretty obvious which of these encourage economic growth more.

2. I'm making an argument about deflationary vs. inflationary currencies in the abstract, Bitcoin itself is too complicated to fit into that argument except in so far as people arguing that deflationary behavior is a benefit to bitcoin as a currency. It certainly could encourage purchasing of bitcoins but I'm not convinced it encourages use of bitcoins as currency.

3. This is not a counter-example at all, because goods are not currency, they have an innate value. The cost of waiting for years to purchase some good that you desire (such as a computer or a cellphone) comes at a cost of spending years of your life without the benefit of being able to use those goods. And that cost may be significantly greater than the value of saving money.

4. Bitcoin as an investment only makes sense as a pyramid scheme, in order for it to have value it must be used as a currency. Regardless of the interaction at the edges that means that it must have some core use as a currency, which is currently not the majority use, and that's a bit troubling.

As to downvoting, HN wouldn't let me downvote your reply even if I wanted to so I can't help you there. I suspect someone disagrees strongly with what you've written but doesn't want to take the time to write a rebuttal.
Google Glass: how it works (infographic)
But long term investors don't care about the "clip" that HFTs take, they care about the 80% rise in price over the next 5 years. Rebalancing portfolios again isn't something where getting a few basis points off the HFT best execution price is an issue.
I work for a proper long term investor, and we trade over a period of days for the big trades. HFTs aren't even an issue apart from their occasional spectacular blowups that cause "could this happen to us?" memos from upstairs. Long term investors don't need to evolve from HFTs, they're more than happy making money not involving computers or trying to compete with them.
Not even Beyonce hates meme's as much as you.
the python plugin for intellij adds similar level of code assistance (including django support) as pycharm. the only difference is in releases dates. intellij idea gets all new features with a small delay (and vice versa pycharm gets some new features with a small delay after intellij release).
Depends on what you consider news and how you consume it. I tend to view conventional "news" as limited information/propaganda tool.

In the mornings/afternoons I listen to the local news broadcast for weather and traffic. These affect my daily activities, I live in a commuter region of Tornado Alley and own a house that involves outdoor maintenance.

I skim my local newspaper and local feeds, sometimes there are items that directly impact my community/household that I need to consider/deal with. (Local elections, West Nile, etc...) My spouse keeps up with the more entertaining items, so I've outsourced the fluff consumption. I use a RSS reader to stay current in my work and hobbies. It allows my to filter out the cruft in a timely manner.

If I need to be knowledgable on a political, economic or other topic, I have a wide range of resources available on the web and through the local libraries. I don't often dig deeply into the serious macro-issues, the truth is very disturbing, most people can't handle it or deny it, there's little change I can make, so I limit my "briefings" to a couple of times a year.

Knowing the "true" national/global situation and being powerless, is damn depressing. Maybe I should be a sociopath, but unfortunately I'm not wired that way.
Actually "holistic" admissions means "we're not going to be irrationally obsessed with SAT scores".

What a coincidence - when the supreme court said point-based race discrimination was illegal but discrimination in holistic systems was legal, colleges immediately switched to holistic admissions.
Murder caught on Google Earth
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> Following testimonies, the ad hoc committee deliberates: ... What about the candidate’s teaching? ...

I lol'ed. Then I checked the url and it made total sense. Thanks for the hard-hitting reporting, Harvard Crimson.

> ...Harvard’s ad hoc process remains among the most thorough and fair tenure systems in higher education.
Ha!

The 'about' page states "The Daily Mash is a satirical website which publishes spoof articles – i.e. it is all made-up and is not intended, in any way whatsoever, to be taken as factual"

Current headlines on the homepage include...
"Miliband [UK Labour party leader] not even good at masturbating"

"Beliebers wondering if Nazi persecution would change their taste in pop stars"

"Middle class man convinced builders like him"
It sounds like you work for the financial industry too.

> The HFT trader

You say it like it's a person making trades.

> I've benefited because I can buy/sell at a price close to the quoted exchange price, which didn't use to be the case.

What's a "quoted exchange price" if it's not the price you actually pay?

> Short term investing is "bad" because you're not investing in the future success of the company you're trading on the basis of what you think the market is going to do.

Isn't this what HFT is all about?

Trading on insider information is bad, of course. But if you're on a level playing field, I don't see anything wrong with profiting from something you correctly predicted short-term.
At the very least, it will be fun. I can guarantee that =)
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The thing that was really ballsy and bizarre about Segway is that they sort of expected society to reorganize around their cool new invention.

I'm a perfect candidate for a Segway -- I live in a small city, with most of my key destinations 30-60 minutes by foot from my house. The problem is, Segways were like $6k each, so I'm going to have to drop $12k for my wife and I to go to work, still need a car, and not be able to legally operate on the sidewalk.

...Or, I could drop $800 on bikes.
Really? I know quite a bit about von Neumann algebras (unital weak operator topology closed *-subalgebras of the algebra of bounded operators on arbitrary Hilbert space). It takes about 5-8 years of hard study before you can even begin to understand what this definition actually means.

So, come up to speed in a week please.
Here goes my respect for obama, for democracy which he stands for, for the whole nobel peace prize community. Now I know why Gandhi never won it. He would have felt disgraced today.

US is a disgrace to human rights, a hypocritical country who brings democracy to the world
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No. The Internet is fine. It's just some websites that suck.

What next?

- This Monitor Is Why Electricity Sucks.
- This Truck Is Why Roads Suck.
- This Toilet Is Why Water Sucks.
- This Man Is Why Earth Sucks.
> Your argument rests on the flawed premise that the reader is a passive fool waiting to be spoon-fed their morning panic ration.

Is this really so flawed, at least in aggregate? Large parts of our society judge people by their awareness of these wider events over which they have no control, and by the value judgments they make concerning those events. When this is what it takes to be considered a good person, people will line up to do it: passively waiting to be spoon-fed their morning panic ration, just as you describe.
no one i know uses these buttons. haven't clicked one in my life.
I would suggest these for the starters: http://shuklan.com/haskell/
Hacking commercial aircraft with an Android App
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Investing in company stock is much more about investing with a global pool of liquid capital seeking risky asset exposures these days. When global capital changes it's mind (in whatever direction) those watching the market closely will be the first to know and the first to profit from the market signal. You can go broke investing in companies that look like they have a bright future.
Very interesting visualization. It's always hard to wrap in mind what a Brainfuck program does while executing.

While reading the source of the interpreter, I found out that the "[" command is not working properly. It is suppose to jump to the next matching bracket when the value of the current pointer is zero. I'm quite sure the creator is aware of that as he wrote on the demo page what it supposed to do. Good work still !
Somebody has to pay for the electricity to move all these bits and bytes around the infrastructure that someone had to pay for.
Why is it unjust to spend limited FBI resources focusing on high risk groups?

Do you think they should be monitoring bridge games at nursing homes?

Do you think that Arab and Muslim Americans have never been involved in domestic terrorist operations?
Have you tried immigrating to Denmark?
There is another option, keep them in Guantanamo but improve conditions to at least normal prison standards in the US. I can't believe that would be more expensive than maintaining their current regime.
All me/women are created equal but in reality some are more equal than others.

As always history repeats :(

Edit: It truly disappoints me how human rights always run a long second to personal interest.
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Good, I'm not the only person who suspected that.

This is from the paper. "I tried again, and it was a huge breakthrough: Mario jumped up to get all the coins, and then almost immediately jumped back down to continue the level! On his fi rst try he beat 1-2 and then immediately jumped in
the pit at the beginning of 1-3 just as I was starting to
feel suuuuuper smart (Figure 7). On a scale of OMFG
to WTFLOL I was like whaaaaaaat?"
On the other hand, it would be nice indeed if people understood the political process. Obama has attempted action on Gitmo (however long ago that was).

But, Congress has not only not supported closing down Gitmo and sending the prisoners "home" (to whatever home means), they have explicitly forbidden it in their defense appropriation bills going back for years.

And people here say that Obama should break the law he was elected to enforce this time, just not all the other times that the law is in their favor.

And either way, the first person he gives the direct order to break the law to will refuse to carry it out (since it's an unlawful order), and then that breakdown in command & control will be the end of Obama's Presidency. It must be nice being an HN commenter, there's a reason Obama's hair is rapidly turning gray.
Neither metric really captures proficiency accurately. Not sure if that's possible.

Years of experience is difficult to measure. If I have a node.js build script that I update occasionally, do I have one year of node.js experience after working on the project for a year?

A pure front-end developer will know Javascript much better than a back-end dev who started using it at the same time.

I also spent 3 years working with MySQL before actually learning to use joins or grouping.

Doing several independent project instead of a large one only makes it more impressive, but doesn't indicate greater skill.

Sometimes I wonder if I should add small half-baked projects to my portfolio. I may only have worked on them for two days, but they would make me look super prolific. Do you think that's a good idea?
"Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time." — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs

I believe, one can replace "security" with "correctness", "compactness", "simplicity", "low signal-to-noise ratio", "openness", "freedom" or many other terms, and the statement will still remain true.
Perhaps the salt could be strengthened to include an additional midstep..."find the 3rd word in the definition five words behind the given word"...not exactly exponential, but it doesn't add a huge burden of work in the implementation
Bitcoin Isn't the Only Cryptocurrency in Town
Ummm I'm not sure a parody site is the best example to be using.

A 400 byte joke is kinda boring without all the pics and ads around it. Still not really funny at all.....
One thing that you can truthfully write (and that I have seen many others write) is "Have completed projects using ..."

It is accurate and conveys a certain flexibility and curiosity to the reader, assuming they are putting any thought into reading it.
100% this. I spent the first 12 years of my career not writing a single line of production JavaScript or CSS. I did it on the side for my own purposes, but never professionally. Why? I didn't want to. (I still don't really want to, but I like the job I'm at more than I like writing JUST server side code.)

So am I a front end developer? No. Will I be in a week, month, year? No. Why, I DON'T WANT TO BE. Can I use js to manipulate the DOM? Yes. Have I used Backbone.js and Angular and others? Yes. But I will only mention that technology in passing, to show "Hey look, I learn new things"
Two of our friends just bought starter homes in Westchester NY (for around 400k). If I were to buy a house like that for cash, it would take me quite a while to save up that much lucre. That said, I think low interest rates were a big motivator to my friends. When interest rates are so low, keeping liquid savings doesn't seem to make sense.
Anti-Mastery
I'd say, yes. Whenever I have a somewhat read post on my blog, many of the tweets have the template content excerpt
Lot's of bravery on HN today. Pretty disgusting to see.
Interesting you mentioned it. I posted this article after reading http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Science+and+Tech/Sto... and recalled this lesson about going big. I wonder with the iPhone and iPad, if a smaller and quieter launch would have caused more problems. Would they have been able to survive Antennagate [1], for example?

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57406331-17/iphone-4-anten...

PS: Singapore is nothing like what they mentioned in the article, even 10 years ago.
I like how an undergraduate neuroscientist takes the same approach I would to learning about the brain. Throw that fucker in Google.
How would a virus in an ADS get executed?
Today Is Human Genome Day at the US Supreme Court
If anyone would like to see both the custom URLs and password protection in action without submitting a link, I've set one up here:

http://fry.io/@google

which goes to Google. The password is just 'hackernews'
Packery released
Have you considered python for the research/algo side of things?

I work in a hedge fund in London at the moment and there's a massive shift away from R towards python in the algorithmic shops that I know about here. There's also the great work that quantopian are doing on their backtesting framework zipline [1]

[1] https://github.com/quantopian/zipline
Sounds like you are proposing that we ignore the fact that they never faced a legal proceeding, and just give them fluffier pillows while we hold them indefinitely.
There are many other interesting multi-disciplinary problems that are not as contentious as HFT and probably more publically acceptable and worthwhile. But if HFT is the domain you care about, go for it.
It's cloud software for running a full IaaS service of your own, on your own machines, with Ganeti at the backend. There is a client, called kamaki, see http://www.synnefo.org/docs/kamaki/latest/index.html, but it's true we should have a separate page for it.

About the "trial" option, we have it as "Try it out" on the first page of http://www.synnefo.org. If you saw it on okeanos.io, we'll change it there accordingly.

Anyway, have you had a chance to try out? :)
I don't think it's about being close-minded, if you name a word suggestively close to something negative then you'll get negative associations with it. It's not rocket science.

Imagine a condom brand named "Leakys".