skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er, it's a big stretch to say that sort of thing works in the stock market.

When people are going to buy a certain stock, they don't usually look at the whole order book and say "oh, the highest ask is 200, so this best ask at 100 is really good". They look primarily at recent prices and the best ask and bid, and secondarily at the top 5 or so bids and asks. If you put an order that's double of the last price, it will be far away from those top 5. And it's very unlikely that your order is going to be matched any time soon even if the stock moves up (some exchanges actually suspend trading of a symbol before its price can rise by 100% in one day).

Theoretically, it could work for illiquid stocks, but even then it's not trivial to do since 1) people will still look at historical prices, 2) it's risky, since it costs money to setup and you have no guarantee anyone will fall into your trap; because the stock is illiquid, it might cost you money to undo the setup 3) it's considered illegal market manipulation in some (most?) places, and you can easily get caught.
Perfect example of the innovator's dilemma right there. It's not so much that the big incumbents won't innovate, it's that they cannot innovate.
just trolling. The distinction was posed here (http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl). The resemblance: if a superintelligent AI lacks 'conscious experience, qualia, or sentience'.
:) yes i'm very familiar with it...
Of course not, that was not what I meant. So what is the evidence they are actually substituting ads for content?
My biggest question is with the -$95 a month they attribute to the guaranteed resale value. I can't immediately tell how they came up with that.
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This is nice, but Google Alerts is near the top of Gwern's list of "likely to be killed Google products." That gives me pause about relying on it.
Well it did not and does not not work for me. I am talking about images here.
Now you all know how stubborn some older people can be.

Age (as is so often the case) has nothing to do with it. My brother-in-law is a sales associate there. Even the teens/twenty-somethings he deals with we're mad about the lack of sale prices.
This fragmentation issue is always presented when a flaw like this is incorrectly attributed to Google, but somehow that has nothing to do with Android? That seems like a silly thing to say. Yes, iOS suffers some problems but so does Android, as a fragmented beast that is still stuck on jelly bean as the majority version (which IMO is pretty lacking). I do look forward to Android's future though.
I am not sure the issue of “I don’t make sense in this derived class” is solved by decoupling types and inheritance.

For example, given the article's GO code:

type file interface {
Read(b Buffer) bool
Write(b Buffer) bool
Close()
}

my first thought was: wait, not all files are writable, that interface is ill specified.

I do think subtyping and subclassing should be different things, but it's not a panacea against bad specifications.
Ah, got it. I joined in those days to - I still remember the email saying I was in arriving. Bye bye hotmail. For all my gmail complaints, I could do a lot worse.
And [this][1] looks similar to JSON API to you?

[1]: http://www.odata.org/documentation/odata-v2-documentation/js...
So mediocre opportunists who fill the ranks of nearly every outfit in America do not appall you?

The brain trust in most companies doesn't fill a beer boot.
Maps/Earth are cool, but they've stagnated, Barely changed in the last few years.

Android is neat, but its not innovative either. The only reason I use one is because of the wide variety of HW available.
Pink and then Taligent definitely caused Apple to lose traction, but Copland put them in a serious skid that forced them to choose between Be and NeXT.

While Apple saved NeXT, it was a near thing for both companies. Without the 'loan' Jobs was able to secure from Microsoft, it's doubtful Apple would still exist as a separate entity. Whether it was Sun, Oracle, or another company, it would probably remain today as an object framework and not much else.
Week 3 lesson - how to not sell your startup idea
FWIW, from my understanding, I don't think the X-51A is being developed to improve access to space but rather as a proof of concept for an advanced hypersonic transport within the atmosphere.
>Taiwan agrees it is part of China (aka 'One China' [1]).

That is laughably wrong. I say that as someone who's spent half his adult life in Taiwan. Only a very, very slim minority of Taiwanese feel that Taiwan is "part of China". Even the KMT (國民黨）has long given up that stance.

The tension is between those who want to officially (i.e. UN) recognized independence and those accept the status quo of de facto independence in the interests of avoiding a hopeless war with China. Taiwan has never been part of the the PRC. While a significant minority of Taiwanese people hope for a future democratic China, those in favor of unifying with the PRC measure at under 5%.
>If you personally don't use it, or see a use for it, that's fine, but there are many people in the world who are not you.

I wholly agree, but G+ is barely better than tribe.net (for me and my peer group) when you compare it to what Facebook has in terms of content and users. There's also the whole "Nym" issue. I also can't understand why people are excited by giving Google MORE data, the "don't be evil" days are clearly over with.
So it was your intention to get an attention of such a wide audience. I mean, some other posts here try to narrow the potential candidates pool.

In case you're interested - one of the main reason I didn't apply - I got an impression that this company can't provide a silicon valley level comparable compensations for senior engineers (I fall into "otherwise experienced" group). I might be wrong though...
After talking with my brother-in-law about what has happened on the JCP sales floor, I don't see how they can survive. I think they were probably in death throws before the new CEO and I'm not sure Johnson could have saved them, but now, there's no stopping the death throws.

Johnson was trying to take JCP upmarket (not so much in price/quality as in type of customer) because he knew they were going to be completely squeezed out by the logistics capabilities of stores like Target. Unfortunately, that kind of process takes years and a lot of courage because you will alienate many, if not most, existing customers before new customers come.

But JCP did the worst thing: they stopped right after alienating their existing customers. I think my brother-in-law will be looking for a new job soon. I will have a great deal of respect for the new CEO if they can bring JCP back to their previous level of "glory" and maintain it.
I can't speak for Paul B but there's a great book called Ready Fire Aim by Michael Masterson that focuses on this technique that I'd recommend.
I still credit the NeXTlaser's 400dpi, clay-coated paper, and FrameMaker with half a grade point on every paper I wrote.
That's looking at search queries though, right? Why would any one Google for g+, when there's a link to it on the top left corner of Google's search page?
Yes. I had to double check too, since the pictures were of wide dimensions. I totally agree with the original post, I am also personally annoyed by this change. Another thing i hate is how it hides the "sent from" address, when the text focus is in the body. I use lots of emails aliases, and want to double check the address that I am sending the e-mail from. I have to click on the field, to see the address again. It is just one more click involved, instead of a glance.

This is exactly why, I am moving onto outlook.com or maybe as another poster suggested use it as a spam filter and set up my stuff.
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The answer isn't obvious at all. What if in country B the average woman with breast cancer lives an additional five years? What if breast cancer is simply more prevalent in country B?

You're trying to oversimplify something that isn't simple.

By the way, exactly what country are you talking about here?
You're right, age certainly isn't always the case.

I preferred the 'new', old square pricing. If I actually needed something from JCP, I could just go and get it. I didn't have to worry about having to wait for some stupid coupon sale to bring the price down to what it should have been in the first place. But I guess you could counter that with the fact that if everyone knows they can just pick 'x' up at a later time at the low price, they would have no incentive to buy it in a timely manner.
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In re your #2, it's like the mutant offspring of Amiga and NeXTStep.
When I was a kid/teenager I blew up everything from large condensators, old TV sets, pet-bottles and one time there was even a broken window.

I didn't end up as a criminal or a terrorist .... I got and engineering degree.

Society need to reacquire common sense and a sense of humour.
I had a financial fraud investigation professor who always said that getting rich was easy if that was the only thing you cared about.
The NeXT Bible, 1/3 of which was an ls -R from /, right? I recall the interview with Brad Cox being particularly cringeworthy as well.
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The CDP Pro database is translated to several languages.
Autocom uses Original Data from vehicle manufacturers to guarantee the best quality and functionality.
Wireless communication is included in all of Autocom's diagnostic products.
The user can also add extra options such as repair information, service schedules and electrical diagrams from external suppliers, which can be connected to the program with ready to use links.
The biggest advantage, though, is the same as any reason why you follow a standard: JSON-patch and the PATCH verb are understood by everyone, and so re-using them to take advantage of generality is better than inventing your own special take on updating JSON documents.
Aside from third party licensing for middleware like Bink, Scaleform, Havok, console APIs, etc. I'd guess some if it has to do with the constant competition over graphics technology that's only just started to slow down in the last couple years, and perhaps that will be picking up again with the next-gen consoles.

I completely agree, though. There is a complete lack of solid open-source game software.
>September: all of the interns go back to school.

This isn't true. Internships aren't only during the summer for many schools. I'll be starting a four month internship in September as will thousands of my peers.
The format is not identical! I was looking for a philosophical comparison between the standard (odata) and jsonapi; I am not seeing much more than a simplified response format (a transform really).

Was hopping to see something more substantive in a comparison other than: 'results are returned under "d" instead of directly "posts"'.

Most project need to answer the simple question of 'why?' - 'why do I as a project exist'; jsonapi.org's is full of 'Ember'; hence why my original comment hinted that it should possibly be called 'emberjsonapi'.

If this is intended to be generic; it should ditch references to Ember and instead refer to similar standards; explaining 'why?' it is better than them.

By all means if your intent is to make a more elegant standard (again comparing to odata) then that's a worthy goal. Stating _that_ will help your 'consumers' understand what they are getting

edit: clean up
I believe both you and parent are correct.
What about 1 off situations that remove the standard options for gauging value. The situations I have in mind are IPOs and one-off strange happenings. The particular instances I have in mind are the Facebook IPO and the situations where the markets wake up in the AM to a so-called new world. Situations such as when something big has happened. Companies hit by natural disaster, countries governments disintegrating or wars starting etc. These result in sudden big changes in company fortunes that are reflected in stock markets.
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This is the first time I heard about changes to Voice and I really really hope they just leave Voice alone. This is the one Google product that is deeply integrated into my life and I rely on it continuing to work (it's also the only Google product I pay for). Sure it could become better, but lately when Google makes things better they usually get worse (at first, or forever).
> What about hypermedia instead of rels?

... can you elaborate a bit more on what this means? I don't understand what you're trying to say.

> I feel like `ids` param is a hack, clearly the system has a group of objects, should that not be it's own collection?

I'm not 100% sure what you mean here either, but I'm reading it as "Why not use a comma rather than passing a list of GET parameters?"

The answer is "I don't think that's particularly important either." Constructing your own URIs is against the very spirit of REST. Let the server do that for you.
I'm sorry, I'm very confused here. Why does hypermedia let you get rid of link relations?

How is a 'resource template' different than a <form> hypermedia control in HTML?

Why does the URI format matter? It's hypermedia, that's basically irrelevant.

It seems you want a "REST"ful API, and that's great. Build that. But then why the first sentence being seemingly upset with some sort of lack of imagined hypermedia support?
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> I'd love to see a spec for how to search a collection against an API that is jsonapi compliant.

I would imagine they'd use OpenSearch in some form. Not 100% sure yet.

> The base URL for search is different for different API producers.

You've hit upon the reason why this needs to not be ad-hoc anymore; a few dozen ways of searching isn't good!
Oops, I thought he saw a gay wedding.
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Well, no going back now. With upcoming Google Glass this behavior will become even more prevalent.
I liked where Johnson was going, but it's unfortunate we didn't get to see if his plan would have played out.

Any idea how Kohls is doing? They're essentially the same as JCP.
Currently, we don't say anything about searching. That's really an application-level concern, not something that needs to be in this spec.

(So you'd define your own rels and use them, doesn't affect this level of abstraction.)
1) I'm assuming this is Poe's Law trolling about SOAP. If not, then I apologize, but I'm not sure I can assume good faith on this one.

If you're not, then this is significantly different than SOAP, so no, this isn't what you're looking for.

This is not an RFC. It may eventually become an internet-draft and then (hopefully) an RFC.
The implementation detail of "SQL or NoSQL" should not bubble up to your API. The data store you use is totally irrelevant, that's the entire point of encapsulation.
That interface isn't great, but that interface isn't coming from Go. I realize you aren't claiming it is, and you're absolutely right that Go's interfaces don't automatically "solve" issues of bad design. Programmers are free to come up with bad interface designs in Go just as easily as they came up with bad class designs in Java or C++. This is just to avoid confusion for people who aren't generally familiar with Go but read this article.

The Go standard io library has a Reader interface:

type Reader interface {
Read(p []byte) (n int, err error)
}

a Writer interface:

type Writer interface {
Write(p []byte) (n int, err error)
}

and a ReadWriter interface which uses type embedding to combine both:

type ReadWriter interface {
Reader
Writer
}

Idiomatic Go will break interfaces up into pretty discrete bits of functionality and use type embedding to build up more complex interfaces. The article does show this a little bit with its seekable interface but fails in some other areas and I kind of wish it just used the real io package interfaces or else examples of something not covered better by the actual Go standard library.
This is the common response. What chance would civilians have against a tank or a modern attack aircraft? What isn't mentioned is the fuel truck supplying that tank. How easily one bad bearing can cause a jet to crash.

There are 1.5million active duty military personnel. 80 million civilian gun owners. That is a non-trivial difference in numbers. I doubt a boomer captain would follow an order to nuke Seattle. Regardless of the situation.
Transportation. The bulk of the economy is still on the west side of the Bay, and crossing the Bay can be a huge pain in the ass. BART is frequently unreliable, expensive, infrequent, and stops early.

On top of that the transportation on the Oakland side is also highly lacking, further increasing the friction for people working in SF but living in the East Bay.

On top of that the transportation on the SF side is also highly lacking. If you work within walking distance of a BART stop, power to you. For everyone else it means catching a transfer to the worst transit agency I've ever seen: MUNI.

In other words, the only commute that really competes with living in the city proper is one where you're living walking distance to a BART stop, and you work within walking distance to a BART stop at the other end. Any other use case becomes an irredeemable mess, substantially limiting the attractiveness for residents.

Transportation has, and is, and will continue to be, the Achille's Heel of San Francisco and its surroundings. The continuing utter failure to invest in transit infrastructure will be the city's undoing.
Ask HN: How to build a resilient, scalable REST api that is open to the web?
I'm thinking about the recent url-based api created by someone on here called mebe.co

How would you go about building somthing like this? Where would you host them?

I was thinking appfog for node.js to handle incoming http request and rabbitmq to queue asynchronous requests, reddis to support data.
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vancouver is actually doing a really good job with this. when the new rapid transit line from downtown to richmond opened land near the rail stations was immediately filled with medium and high density mixed retail/residential. prior to that it was a suburban wasteland. the corridor from new westminster to commercial/broadway went from run down and undesirable to filled with condos and townhouses. the cambie corridor is undergoing a similar transformation. even central surrey and brentwood are somewhat liveable now. neighborhoods i never would have considered living in 10 years ago are suddenly desirable.

i think the key is that outside of a couple of key stations in industrial areas (bridgeport, scott road and a few of the north burnaby stations) there is almost no street parking. the rail stations aren't sited and designed as collection points to funnel people downtown or to the airport. they were placed to encourage development of neighborhoods
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At some companies, signing bonuses are starting to become standard.
Freshwater is not abundant in USA. Southern California has to import water from Sierras and as far north as Oregon. Colorado River does not reach the sea. Rio Grande does not reach the sea. Plains states have negative water balance and agriculture only survives by depleting the Ogallala Aquifer. Everything west of the Mississippi-Missouri and south of the Columbia and Platte rivers is at or beyond long term sustainable water consumption. Just add some global warming and see what happens. Read 'Cadillac Desert'.

Now if you said Canada has the largest freshwater supply, I might have agreed.
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No. The average person is, by definition, average. If mediocre opportunists didn't fill the ranks of nearly every outfit in America, they'd all be unemployed.

Typically if smart people have difficulty finding or keeping a job, it's either because a.) they don't want one or b.) they have mental or emotional problems that make them difficult to work with. The latter is a real problem, but not really an injustice (or rather, it's an injustice that people are born with or develop these problems, but not that they aren't hired if they have them). In that case, one's mental energy is often better spent dealing with those problems or enlisting help to deal with those problems than on becoming smarter, because you get a much higher payoff from the former.
Do they affect page performance / drain battery faster?

I'd like to see some comparison between static and animated icons, but not sure how to profile it.
Measure FPS, or cpu time for rendering a page, perhaps?
"21x8.5 inches +40mm" on the wheels. Gotta love the auto industry's ambivalent relationship with the metric system! Too bad they didn't try a little harder, they probably could have expressed one of the dimensions in micro-furlongs.
Might be better to just animate them on click. Hover animations/color changes had some use for links, but a button shape already conveys "clickability". On the other hand, animating on click gives a nice feedback (how many times have I clicked a slow-responding link and wondered if I really did).
Do you surround the word "writes" in quotes because they aren't truly writes in the durable sense?
> Gmail, of course, essentially sets the bar for online mail, and is still leaps and bounds better than any of its competitors.

If Gmail keeps lowering the bar instead of raising it, that's not going to be true for much longer.
I think it's great that we're talking about standardising how we build RESTful JSON APIS. However I don't think this has got it quite right yet.

What's the reason for the top level rel? It seems like it's just there to stop the urls from being repeated and to save space, but isn't that what gzip is for? Why complicate the data format and require all that extra logic and gzip would remove most of the redundancy before transmission anyway?

Also the name is a bit of an annoying land grab. It'll make it hard to talk about JSON APIs without getting them confused with JSON APIs that specifically use "JSON API".

Lastly, it really seems based on a rails active record style data store, it's assuming ids are the most important thing and that links are all relations that point to other objects within the system. Proper hyperlinks and point anywhere and can link together disperate systems which don't necessarily all use the exact same formats.
Metcalfe's Law.
"If you think of a type as a set of possible values"

You can't do that! You fall foul of Russell's paradox - sets as types simply don't work!
Why? I think it's lovely. Is there any way to interpret this other than a tribute to Gwern and his work?
I agree. I really dislike the fact that copyrights can be "transferred" to another person or entity. The music labels especially have been abusing this the most, and are basically coercing any many artists into giving them the full rights of their music, and then become their employees. The labels should be partners in promoting a song or an album, and nothing more. They shouldn't be entitled to the artists work, and then expect royalties for a century from it, while keeping extending the copyrigh term to infinity.
visiting the outskirts of houston is surreal. planned neighborhoods float like islands amidst prisons, industrial plants, farms and just plain undeveloped land. it's totally alien to someone like me who grew up in areas with relatively high density