skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One time I printed out all the code--at that time ASP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript--that got executed for one page load of the homepage of my employer's primary website. I taped the pieces of paper end-to-end and hung them on my wall.

It made a great conversation piece with my coworkers. Non-technical folks (most of them) were astounded that so much text was being interpretted and executed every single time they loaded the homepage (in less than a second).

What was the point? It helped set a certain emotional tone to our conversations. Folks found it a lot harder to demand their project be done "right now, it's easy" when directly confronted with the complexity behind a single page load.

Likewise, stories that highlight the immense speed and complexity of high frequency trading help set an emotional tone of alienation and fear. It helps trigger the same reflex Frankenstein and The Terminator played off of: "maybe we're unleashing technological forces that no one can control."

But of course if you are well and truly versed in a technology, that feeling goes away. I knew that our crappy brochure website was not very complicated as websites go.
I mostly fall into second category and I believe failures are part and parcel of life.
Just a side-note, making a name via accomplishing nothing is common, various sub-types such as that you hint at above are perhaps further taxonomy ?

Rebels eventually wish to be kings. Some actually get there. Then the cycle repeats.

My worry here is that individuals are paying more attention to specific actors who as powerful as they appear to be are not as formidable as systems they represent.

Its almost rare to see such wounded attitudes from an equally matched adversary.

The other direction is full scale martyr which was also displayed recently .. I'd rather not take the name to avoid pain for those close to the kid.
Where did you get this information from?

I was curious what algorithm is behind the MySQL PASSWORD() method. According to the MySQL reference manual, "you should not use it in your own applications. For that purpose, consider MD5() or SHA1() instead."[1]

1: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/encryption-functions...
This author answers his own question--why are engineers valued over business people--when he writes:

>> You can fake business knowledge. You can't fake programming knowledge.
Focus On 1% Of Your Customers
Ah, well if you get to make up your own definitions of profitable, then I suppose they weren't.

But if you use the actual definition of profitable, meaning they had more revenue than expenses in this quarter, then they were profitable.
>I wonder the motivations
of the last 6%

People in corporate take pride in IP. The number of patents a team has applied for is a measure of its success.

As a proponent of foss, I believe software patents hinder development, because it makes the work I do difficult.

But people working in 'corporate' IT see it as a reward for their work.

I am sure many of them celebrated the recent World IP day and made plans to apply for more patents.
I believe that part of the actual infrastructure is you send the same message along multiple physical cables; one to each exchange. You also have to account for the delay that the message takes to be received by each exchange. (The speed of light isn't "instant" when you're working on the ms level.)
The nook pretty much is a generic ePub reader. I made sure of that when we decided to go with Adobe's ePub engine. Side-load all of the ePubs you want, hell you can use it to read library ePubs.

It is simple economics - as much as us (engineers, developers, etc) believe we are a large market, we are not. The overhead of creating a different SKU to serve <1% of a market is not enough. Besides, the money is not in hardware, it is in content.
Ask HN: How many of you are "business" guys with idea, no coding skills?
I'm wondering what percentage of Hacker News are idea guys trying to figure out how to launch their site.
Yeah, lets not forget the huge advantage of natural resources in Australia. Just like Russia can survive on its gaz business alone.

ANd thanks for the cliche that poor = robber/criminal, I am sure many honest poor people appreciate your point of view.
For me it's all these things, but most especially the massive difference in battery life. Even on the best tablets you might get around 10 hours of usage. On my old Aztak EZReader Pocket Pro I can easily read 2 Game of Thrones books (~2k pages) on a single charge.
The entire notion of calling a broad class of people whom you seemingly know nothing of beside accusing them of 'running the world' (itself an idea worthy of closer examination) 'scumbags' and 'human garbage' ought to be giving you very, very serious moral pause.
For fuller context don't forget Aaron Greenspan vs Google, Inc.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-i-sued-goo...
Data Shine Light on Hospital Bills
Generation Lost
It's 2013, why aren't you using properties in all of your classes? And you should be prefixing your classes to avoid namespace collisions.
Can you please elaborate how specifically the "design" encourages impersonal spams? Wouldn't it be in the Recruiter's best interest not to do that? That seems like the difference between a good recruiter and a bad one.
Could you send an email to support@trovebox.com?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_my_aunt_had_balls,_shed_be_...
Iterating to Success - How usability testing led to the front page of HN
If there's a difference between "democratic dialog" and just plain "dialog", I would have thought it'd be the former having the involvement of individuals, as it does now, rather than representatives of nation states. That would be "representative dialog". And that's why I agree saying it isn't a "democratic dialog" is all PR talk. "We object to Stephen Hawking using his authority to threaten us in an undemocratic way."
I downloaded latest Nightly for Windows but it still doesn't open. Tells me to download Nightly which I did. :(
wow your reader is beautiful! it's also pretty awesome in the browser (chrome 26) when the content renders to the right of the articles-list. (wrote a similiar client for startup-news once with readability-integration and can confirm that it's reliable for most articles...similiar to when you use Pocket for example)

UPDATE: the only thing that does not work on Chrome-mobile (mobile-Safari also) for iOS is the back-button of your app (comments-button works though)...
Ruchi Sanghvi, Dropbox VP, testifies on immigration reform [video]
If we eventually decide that all of this ridiculously fast bid/offer blitzing by our HFT overlords is a destabilization risk to the economy [1], couldn't we start taxing these transactions, or the bids/offers themselves? This level of high-frequency noise being thrown into the market can't reasonably go on increasing forever, right... at some point we just bury ourselves in a never-ending war of inscrutable, difficult to predict machine trading algorithms, and nobody will be able to translate market movements into anything linkable to reality, right [2]? Shouldn't either market operators or the government at some point in the future start dialing back the traffic with penalties on the sheer number of actions taken?

... or is that just an insane non-starter, since it affects too many rich people in the finance sector and their colleagues rotating through the current regulatory structure?

I think it's an interesting long-term problem faced by society to decide whether we are OK with investment markets becoming completely impossible for "normal", human investors to navigate. It's already rapidly going that way--the capability to profit is already wildly tilted toward firms that act at HFT volume. If a poker site became overrun by bots to the extent that it was no longer fun for humans to play, they would fight back against the bots (as most do to some degree). But with investments... we may be getting to the point where the average day trader needs a 3000U server farm to compete effectively, and then I question whether we've lost sight of why we subsidize and spend money regulating that market at all. It's like a chess league where the grandmasters get to use computers as aids, and the newcomers have to play blindfolded.

[1] Nothing catastrophic has happened yet, but there have been a few flash crashes that have necessitated trading to be shut down, and having to "roll back" trades is never perfectly equitable and only decreases confidence in a market.

[2] Some of those flash crashes were traced back to one overzealous seller that threw HFT's for a loop (read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash -- it is quite interesting). I shudder to think of a day when the market fluctuates wildly and the data is literally too complicated for regulators to trace it back to any identifiable cause. That day is closer than anybody in finance is likely to acknowledge.
I didn't know that, how does it work with interviews then? Do they like disclose all info that will be said in the interview beforehand?
I don't know much about this either, I'm also incredibly curious...
But wouldn't that apply to Xbox too? Most of the money you spend goes to the game developer.
The grey background on posts makes the site harder to read. I'd prefer the color scheme was inverted. It's not quite so bad as those which make me hit "Read Now" (or close tab) reflexively. But it is annoying.
I appreciate your lengthy response, but this is all hand-waving. I don't know why you're trying so hard to prove that there's no difference between someone with a high income and someone with a low one. But here we are.
Take a look at this amazing book by Glenn Greenwald, it has an overwhelming amount of evidence, examples, and very well thought out arguments:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Je_fc_WjF9oC&printsec=f...
The pexforfun thing seemed pretty clever:

// What values of v and i can cause an exception? Ask Pex to find out!
public static void Puzzle(int[] v, int i)
{
if (v[i + 2] + 5 == v.Length + i)
throw new Exception("hidden bug!");
}

and then it automatically finds the breaking input:

{-6}	-2	Exception	hidden bug!
Not strange at all. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Aaron_Gre...

For some perspective, Stripe has only raised $40M to date.
Just how profitable is HFT anyways? What kind of returns do HFT traders get?
Game Dev Tycoon: Less “indie innovation”, more “Zynga appropriation”
>>I can see why you identify with him.

Not sure if this potshot was called for.
Govt attempts to gain powers over the design and operation of all networks in NZ
Are 'Hot Hands' in Sports For Real?
Wow this is awesome, I use this all the time and had wished I could contribute. Can't wait to start!
If you win. And that's a big if.
In my limited understanding jurisdiction is generally determined based on where the act takes place. So if a US citizen kills another US citizen in New Zealand, New Zealand has jurisdiction.

In this case we are talking about the act of copying a document. So if you download a book in Canada from a Canadian server Canadian copyright applies. Imo, that is regardless of where that book was written or if you later take that copy over the border or not.

However, I also think this is just a "rule of thumb" and can be overwritten by any country as it pleases, e.g. US tax law applies to all income of US citizen around the world, subject only to international treaties.
Please just answer all of those questions above for us on the form, sir.

If you answer correctly, we will grant you access to the internet.

-SOPA/CISPA/ETC
Probably isn't joking. That is also the claim I initially thought was being made.
No, he's biased because, by his own admission, he's basing his opinions on anecdotal evidence, i.e. those VCs he has met are very ethical people. Whereas we have a ton more data points to prove that power = corruption. Considering the amount of power VCs yield in Silicon Valley, it's pretty much a given that they break the law and get away with it.
Why is this app called News/YC? It seems uncomfortably close to chpwn's news:yc.
http://digitalocean.com costs $5/month for 512/1TB transfer/20G SSD.
People in Silicon Valley are making cat picture apps, haha right. You fucking idiot, gtfo people like you are shitting up the forums. America is more intelligent and wealthy than any nation in the history of the universe, stop crying on the internet and go be a part of it.
Your product is pretty cool and useful, although I haven't had much of a use case for it yet, since I mainly deal with debugging AOSP builds.
Uh-oh: was the company site hacked?
I'm not using it wrong, but it seems that everyone else is, and LinkedIn's more than happy to encourage that usage in the interest of a larger, more interact-y userbase.

Are you telling me that you only get "meaningful" add requests? My friends don't often bother (the feeling is mutual), but the more desperate acquaintances seem to seek me out nonstop.
+1 on this app. I've been using it and am stoked :) Good stuff, airlocksoftware!
It's incredible how ideology can completely make you blind to facts. In most European nations hospitals are actually taken away from the free-market - they are State-run - and, guess what, health care is much less expensive and yet very effective by all metrics.
> And we had to go to a psychologist or psychiatrist, pretend that we have the disease and the task was to be convincing enough to get diagnosis.

That sounds like very interesting homework, and the results were certainly informative. Such experiments are not without risk though. IIRC there was a researcher that conducted a similar experiment -- got some volunteers with no history of mental illness go into some psychiatric institutions and fake some symptoms. The majority of them were able to get admitted with just that. The problem was getting them out afterwards. Apparently some institutions were reactant to discharge the "patients" even after they have been informed of the experiment. (I can't recall the name of the researcher unfortunately, but this experiment is described in Jon Ronson's "The Psychopath Test"). Once you're labeled as "crazy", proving that you're not can be difficult, even if your behavior does not differ from that of "normal" people.

> That's the problem with psychology or psychiatry [...] It's a complete and total joke.

Please don't group psychology and psychiatry together. The former is a legitimate field of study (whether psychology technically qualifies as a "science" is debatable), the latter, is, as you say, largely a joke (at least, in the US). Please also note that the appalling state of psychiatry today should not be taken to mean that all mental disorders are bull -- there definitely are very serious mental disorders, and people do need to seek help if they are suffering from them.

EDIT: Found the book.

The researcher was talking about is David Rosenham:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

Also, I was wrong when I said that the hospitals were told about the experiment -- it was a condition of the experiment that the patients needed to get out "on their own", though they didn't exhibit any of the symptoms after the initial interview, and were acting completely "normal" during their stay.
I'm not so sure; people keep adding stuff to emacs, and performance doesn't really seem to be a priority. To give a couple examples off the top of my head:

- A recent version of emacs changed the default shell history command to show live search results (like bash does), but the emacs implementation was ungodly slow if your bash history was longer than a few dozen items (waaay slower than a real terminal interactive bash search). Moreover, it completely locked up emacs while doing the search (since emacs is single-threaded and synchronous). After the suffering got high enough, I finally tracked down how to revert to the old behavior.

- The latest emacs python mode for some unknown reason would freeze for like 10 seconds when opening certain python files. Rather than track it down, I went back to using the latest python-people python mode (for some reason, the emacs people insist on writing their own python mode, rather than using the one the python people wrote). The python-people python mode doesn't lock up, but narrow-to-defun takes maybe 300ms (not terrible, but clunky feeling; way worse than instant), for some reason.

- Or check out this awesome, high-performance code from the function comint-exec:

;; Feed it the startfile.
(cond (startfile
;;This is guaranteed to wait long enough
;;but has bad results if the comint does not prompt at all
;;	(while (= size (buffer-size))
;;	(sleep-for 1))
;;I hope 1 second is enough!
(sleep-for 1)
(goto-char (point-max))
(insert-file-contents startfile)

See that sleep-for? That's an awesome built 1-second pause while waiting, for example, for an emacs shell to startup if you have a custom .emacs_bash defined.

There's lots more stuff like this. Emacs is a giant ball of elisp mud that's perpetually half-broken, half-implemented, or slow...but it's still the best thing going, by more flexible and more useful than any other editor out there (AFAIK).

But I'm not convinced it isn't possible to do something as flexible as emacs without all the random breakage and general lack of concern for performance. Think maybe replace elisp with LuaJIT, and take cultural inspiration from the make-it-fast ethos of git and the make-it-correct ethos of sqlite. Something like that.

Oh, and also, unlike every modern day attempt at an editor, it should still support running in a terminal, because terminals are still damn useful.

So yeah, could someone get on that please? Thanks :)
> they may think they're both trollin

I can understand wanting to avoid the homophobic slur in the original, but trollin'? Bit of a stretch.
80 FFTs Per Second To Detect Whistles and Switch On Lights
Yes, that jurisdiction's law applies, although NZ companies can apply for US patents too. Further, I would presume that web software hosted outside the US could avoid having the server component covered by the US jurisdiction. It could be just patents on client-side tech.
Two things I take away from this

1) Cool use of infographic :)

2) The little dots represent price changes, not trades.

FWIW, some more context around this would be-

All the major exchanges stream their best prices to all the other exchanges.

This is required because US exchanges must execute trades at the National Best Bid or Offer, or NBBO [1].

So how do you track the NBBO. In theory, by having all the exchanges send their best bids and offers to a central Securities Information Processor, or SIP (the 12:00 box) which then disseminates them (which you can see by the waves of stuff it sends out)

In practice, it's slow to go through the SIP on every price movement and the exchanges want to have the best possible information, so the exchanges mostly stream prices directly from the other exchanges (hence the fanout effect on every price movement)

Most of these prices movements don't result in trades, they just represent somebody entering or leaving the market at the BBO.

This feels like a distinction that could have been made better, rather than just saying "yeah, this stuff's complicated."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_NMS

edit: formatting / citing
Travelling Salesman – Official Movie Site
For all the midlife crises, it doesn't really help someone who's not already confident/sexy/rich, though. It's an expensive accessory, like a watch. Makeup is a fair analogy, in that men like to impress other men with their cars and (most) women don't bother being made-up everyday for men.
Silicon Valley Group's Political Effort Causes Uproar
Isn't that what different countries are?
As for 3, Apple sell currency-denominated cards for the iTunes store without any problems.
If you need ideas for things to build, you can look at http://firespotting.com - Hacker News for Ideas.
It's particularly fun when you have people's pagers in your gmail contacts.
In large part because they chose to flout the law, and California chose not to prosecute them (yet). Be careful before you celebrate people who succeed because they choose to break the law. It's a very slippery slope.
I would rather have judges, in a court case where parties get to represent themselves, applying common law, with a jury of my peers deciding the verdict... than random idiots elected by a bunch of other random idiots I don't know make laws without my input.
Legal. No copies were made in a jurisdiction in which it was illegal. Selling it may be another matter though
http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/robustness.txt
This inspired a submission to /r/firstworldanarchists on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldanarchists/comments/1dzhw4...
Same here. After closing my account I was still receiving reminders of invites I got. I had to use a web form to ask them to stop sending me emails. It was quite disturbing to see how hard they tried to cling on my data.
It's my understanding that The Great Gatsby is already in the public domain in some countries (Canada, Australia), hence legal to distribute (and obtain for free), if one is subject to their copyright laws. Unless there's something that I missed, the author is not wrong.
The point of Linkedin is leveraging extended networks. It isn't a collection pen for people you think you can use at some point in the future. The dad likely has professionals in his network who have professionals in their network who have ... and so on, all of whom you can connect with through the dad. It would be really dumb to _not_ take advantage of that.
One of the most important questions you can ask of a doctor is "what happens if we do nothing?"
>There's probably some interesting commentary in there somewhere about the complexity of financial markets and how it is probably bad for society to have a vast portion of our economic growth riding on something most people don't get.

Not really. Financial markets day-to-day operations don't really affect peoples real-lives. Every industry is full of terminology and jargon that describes the inner workings but that isn't necessary to understand for the outsider.

The average person with a retirement fund just wants to see it keep and increase in value over time. They don't particularly care if the traders of that fund were losers/beneficiaries of a short squeeze on a segment of their portfolio, as long as the overall value keeps going up.

Kind of like how the average web visitor doesn't care what OS and database a site runs as long as it is fast and bug-free.