skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's correct. We have always had market makers: people who trade purely for profit. They grab stocks in anticipation that others will want them at a higher price. So, if I own stock, and you own stock, instead of the stock going straight from me to you, it's more likely that there will be a market-maker inbetween us.

The benefit of this is that the chances are small that you and I will be trading at exactly the same time. So, I say "I want to sell this stock," and a market maker buys it. Later, you say "I want to buy that stock", and you buy it from the market maker. The market maker makes money on the profit of the sale. So, I may get a little less, and you may pay a little more. But, it means that when I wanted to sell, someone was there. And when you wanted to buy, someone was there. That's what people mean by liquidity.

So, back to HFT: the losers are the conventional market makers. The guys in the pit who used to shout-out buys and sells.
Cool. Gruber just invented Google Keep.
It will make good addition to Yahoo's mobile application collection. I wonder which company has bought most YC graduates.
Hopscotch - framework for product tours
Doesn't surprise me. I'm a customer and the whole experience feels like this.
Joyce Carol Oates.
I haven't seen anything yet either. All of my accounts have some policy in place where they call us. It actually got annoying when my wife was "couponing" and we hit 5-6 stores in a couple hours. Always got a call. Comforting. Any charge in another country is set to be a flag. When we travel we make a call and let them know so it doesn't get flagged.
That might be because various parts of germany are flooded at the moment. One of Hetzners datacenters is located in Falkenstein near Regensburg and others might me affected too
>The industry doesn't actually create any wealth.

Are you certain about that?
My daughter first read this in high school, and I think she still rereads it every year.
Ask HN: Best beach to work for a week?
I'm leaving my job in August and have been working night and weekends on a prototype for a few months now. I know I'm going to be busy starting a company after I quit, so I'd like to take a week to sit on a beach and code, swim, repeat.

So I'm looking for suggestions on where to go. Anywhere in the world is fine. I just need wifi, sand, and water.

(Or, if you want to tell me what else I should be doing instead, I'm open to that...)
Companies in Silicon Valley seem to approach interviews with the idea that the candidate is a blank slate. There isn't a lot of discussion about things you've done in the past; the general approach is to ask you to design for hypothetical scenarios, or to write code on the whiteboard for algorithmic problems.

The Silicon Valley approach seems to throw out a lot of good information that could indicate a candidate's quality by focusing only on the now, rather than any historical data. One of the reasons given for this is that a lot of people are good at talking about stuff when they haven't actually implemented anything, but it seems to me that an in-depth conversation about someone's background followed by coding exercises would provide a better indication of their quality than abstract questions in a vacuum.

I think another reason why interviewers don't ask a lot of questions about candidates' backgrounds is to avoid potentially hearing something that the candidate's previous employer might consider confidential information. This is a fair concern, but it does lead to what seems to me to be a sub-optimal evaluation process.

There also doesn't seem to be as much urgency to hire someone now as the author indicates -- companies can and do take time to schedule interviews and make up their mind. Perhaps it's different in NY.
Cyber War 1
HTTP Transport Basics for Web Developers
Man I hate the word "coder". It sounds so mechanical. I'm a programmer, hacker, developer, software engineer, but not a "coder".

Maybe the people who are handed down requirements and designs to implement with no room for creativity can be called "coders".
I would also like an invite if possible. Email in profile. Thanks :)
What kind of web development do you want to do? Digging hard into a JS framework might be the way to go.
I think they mean "more efficient" like the cotton gin made the cotton industry more efficient. By reducing the labor involved in processing cotton, the companies that used cotton gins could eek more profit from every acre of production.

HFT doesn't "wring the waste" of inefficiency back into the market, but into the hands of the HF trader. HFT does benefit normal market traders, but I'm not sure to what extent.
you have basically summed up my worldview and outlook for the future in a few paragraphs. i look forward to a time when we automate everyone out of a job, and it will be a better future for all of us. i have to admit there may be industries on the horizon that may be beyond our comprehension, but it will no doubt require a symbiosis between man/machine.

i like your name too!
I'd love to know what the background/reasoning was for another note-taking app. Sounds like a great team but like some other people have said - it doesn't look like a brilliant space to start out in.
I had to try very hard not to (very uncharitably and hopefully incorrectly) assume that this guy could not possibly have the slightest clue what's going on. Shame on me for both ageism and for just dismissing government workers out of hand...

...but... come on.

Aides say the general often scores over 1 million points on the "Bejeweled Blitz" online puzzle game.

Yes, this came second hand (if it was said at all). No, he did not say it himself, and no, playing games is neither a crime nor a failure of character... but come on, guys that is not the way to promote your boss' image as a highly-educated security expert (which his credentials suggest to at least some extent).

Based on the article, I think a very informative perspective could be that of someone who heard him speak at Defcon. Anyone?
Researchers Demo Ubiquitous Gestural Control via Wi-Fi Sensing
Compared to researching fully before reporting, The Atlantic is going to get way more than twice as much traffic for what they actually did.

The shoot-from-the-hip original story ensures far-and-wide forwarding – outrage brings da hits. Then, the separate followup/correction brings nearly as many hits again.

If there are incentives to do something, it'll be done... we just have to factor this in when interpreting forwarded-stories that tickle the sense of righteous indignation.

Other than wasting people's time and energy while they're in the middle, inaccurately-wound-up belief state, many people will only get the 1st story: outrage accelerates a story into more forums faster than calm correction. Also, not having seen both together makes it easier for prior biases to survive. ("Oh, the correction is just later coverup/spin, I still prefer the original moralizing narrative.")

So there's several big negative externalities, on the public's time and knowledge, arising from the way the current online news model works. HN is, unfortunately, part of the problem.
> On one flight, he and his aide-de-camp learned "BackTrack,"

It only took him one flight to learn to use 40+ apps? Impressive, i've been using some of these apps for ~15 years and still don't know them well.

(BackTrack is nothing more than a Linux distro with a bunch of pentest apps - metasploit, nmap, w3af, etc. preinstalled)
Haha, yeah.. But the food poisoning come from some nasty sliced pepper salami I had for dinner. (Can't even think about them..) That was one b a d day..... Luckily a friend of mine did a rescue mission and brought me some coke and salts in the evening.. =)
I deleted my SnapChat because of this.
Mostly they don't. The payment provider stores this and provides that and the truncated PAN (the card number with digits masked by asterisks).

One of the things you pay payment providers for is for taking on the risk of the higher levels of PCI compliance.
Oh, my... this is very, very, very cool. I'm stunned nobody is talking about this. This is probably one of the coolest new projects I've found out about via HN in, like, forever.

I can absolutely see us using this for product tours of two of our projects, which will make our public "demo" servers FAR more useful. The timing is nearly perfect as well, as we're just starting to promote the demos to people a bit.

Our products fall into the "enterprise software" space and are, to be quite honest, a bit complex in some places. Well, it's not so much that they're complex, as some functionality won't be intuitively obvious to people without some guidance and hand-holding. Once you know it's there in the first place, and the basic concept, it isn't hard to use. So for us, this is nearly perfect as a way to let the product itself be the tutorial / guide.

I'd just started recording some screencasts, and we'll probably still want those as well, but this will definitely complement that very well.

All in all, I'd say this is mondo radical!
I believe the point is that this month's news seems to contradict it:

> "The great irony is we're the only ones not spying on the American people," he quipped.
It was sad to see both Fireworks (and Dreamweaver, in a previous life) get progressively less and less attention from Adobe over the years. I wonder what kind of web development tools we would have available today if Adobe never acquired Macromedia and let it keep innovating.

The fact that such a complex workflow (creating static designs, outsourcing coding, manually integrating with a backend, etc) is still being asked of creatives in 2013 boggles my mind.

With a bunch of web-focused tools just now starting to get off the ground - like Easel, Divshot, Jetstrap, Webflow (my company), Froont, Jetstrap, Macaw, etc etc - it's exciting to see Adobe get some real competition in the web space. The demise of Fireworks may actually be a blessing in disguise in the long term.
Does someone have a good app that does "Change canvas size" a la Fireworks? I use this function of the app more than any other by an order of magnitude.
ah you see thanks for reminding me of this thing I wanted to try: http://byobu.co
Some of these things (like compilers) are often optional modules on CS courses. I think it's difficult to practice programming for very long without figuring out different data structures and recursion , sorting etc.

You may also run into compiler problems when you need to do anything complicated with text, at this point playing around with a PEG for a while can get you quite far and is reasonably intuitive.

OTOH you are more likely to lack the formal underpinnings and math behind it. Then again, how many people would be able to pass a drilling on Big O/Theta analysis 10 years after completing their degree?
I would use only tmux instead of a wm/de if I could get 256 colors with it in fbterm.
Ah, yes. There is a whitelist. Even though the book website is 'public' it hasn't really been advertised (apart from the initial "Hey, we're writing a book!" announcement [1]). There were already lots of reviewers for the alpha stages so not much need to attract more.

The beta stage might be different as the early 'bugs' will have been squashed so that phase of writing might take a different approach.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3641355
Thanks, thats kind of how I see it too =)
Exactly, and somebody who didn't yet hear the term can easily come to the conclusion that it is an authentification with two "factors" which means basically two things and that would be username and password. In the past there were system with only one factor...
Apple & Google: How Creepy is THAT?
The Court order ordering Verizon to give the NSA its telephone data
Google: Deniable Cryptography and Rubberhose(update: Waterboarding) Cryptanalysis
> So if race is fully based on genetics would it be equally correct to say "Barack Obama is white" as it is to say "Barack Obama is black?"

Yes, of course. He's a mixed race. I don't know why people call him the first black president - he's exactly half and half, with equal claim to either race.

Unless you subscribe to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_drop_rule
Yes, coders are worth it. I've personally seen medicine up close, and have friends in various industries ranging from law to business. Everything is shit compared to the value software engineers create. Anyways, I don't think people should get their egos wrapped up into their careers, life is more than that. But I wouldn't undervalue what you are doing.
This was dedicated servers (root servers they call them) - and I'm from Europe.
Their language training software for missionaries is the envy of many a diplomatic agency, let me tell you.
Maybe, although some much older interfaces were 'flatter' than the more recent UIs of OS X and Windows (pre-8) for example. 'Traditional' attaches too much relation to time-span to it for me.
Ah, very clever to test the GP.

You criticized him seeking to gauge whether or not he would properly ignore your negative feedback.

Well played, sir.
As they say "winter is coming".. Yeah, when winter does come it will be hard using the electronics.. We'll see where I'll go then I guess.
> Looks like you're now making a profit but a really
> small one...

Eric, at what point will you as the sole investor start making a profit, assuming steady growth, etc?
My Clojure Setup
Dissidents.
I know of an interesting company hiring -

Chief Software Architect - San Carlos, CA. Full time.

Burstorm provides a unique solution for any organization that is both focused on reducing the cost of compute, storage, datacenters and networks, while also providing infrastructure that can respond to the ever increasing demands of the business.

Burstorm enables its customers to know how their IT cloud infrastructure compares to the market, what options are available and decide which new cloud services to acquire using a combination of software and people.

This position is a great opportunity to join a profitable and mature Cloud Startup (we know that seems like a contradiction but when you meet us you will understand) and have a major impact. We are looking to grow our team with the following position:

Responsibilities:
As the main developer the Chief Software Architect will:
Be a key member of the office of the CTO helping shape the future of Burstorm application services.
Drive the software architecture design and deployment of our next generation services.
Create mock-ups, prototypes and other tools to present new concepts and ideas.
Create the Software Infrastructure foundation for our next generation platform.
Lead integration efforts with 3rd parties as needed.
Be flexible and able to adjust to rapidly changing environments and learn quickly

Skills/Qualifications:

The successful candidate has the following characteristics:
Broad and deep exposure to several development platforms and technologies, preferably in context of cloud services.
Capable in building an end to end application from UI to database, in the cloud but no need to be an artist.
Proven experience with Ruby On Rails 3.2, PostgreSQL 9.2, Elastic Search, Chef, Capistrano and Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS
Familiarity with RabbitMQ, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, CoffeeScript, nginx, Puma and Google apps highly desired.
Familiar with compute and storage, datacenter and network technologies.
Familiar with the math of modeling and optimization.
Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly

Send email to edward .at. burstorm.com
That alone can't explain how 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, and 100 were all achievable scores. Also each of the numbers from 0 to 32.
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If you're going to start lobbing moral accusations on the worthlessness of work that doesn't have any direct moral implications, you have a lot of posts on HN to go through. ;)
What NTP configuration option is being referred to?
He understands you. He just disagrees and thinks your metaphor is wrong.

First of all, let him speak for himself. Or do you claim to read his thoughts?

Secondly, no he doesn't seem to understand. The statement he disagreed with was:
We cannot put software on the kind of assembly line/stamping process
which is obviously a point about the fact that we have no assembly line process for writing new software.

He replied with:
Stamping out software is what your Windows/OSX/linux installation CD/DVD is
which is obviously missing the entire point. We are talking about writing the software, not putting the software on the disk. It's a distinction you've clearly also missed.
You mean the weighting apples vs melons? If so, the box was a dead giveaway.
I use the Robot to access a VNC console of my leased server. I can even do a CTRL-ALT-DELETE and boot the OS in single user mode from it, if I only have access to the Robot.

Doesn't this imply that my server is potentially compromised as well?
If I have a $10,000 credit limit and $0 balance, my debt is $10,000? At any moment I can be liable for up to $10,000? How does that work?
Chris Dixon on His First Six Months as a West Coast VC
Can anyone name some of the actual uses of this equation in solving real world problems?
E.CO Appears to Have Been Sold
O'Reilly offers 50% off on usability & user-centered design ebooks, videos
Startups: How do you offer phone support?
3 question survey for startups that offer a phone number for inbound customer support. Will publish the results for the community. Thanks!
Your available credit line is not debt, and I can't recall ever hearing of anyone being held accountable for fraudulent purchases made against their account. Does this happen?
Nice catch. My cynic alarm was squawking but its simmered down now.
Also, there is nothing illogical about saying "this person or source of information has a reputation for being wrong or deceitful, therefore I will not be spending my time examining their claims." This is not really an ad hominem, just saying that due to the unlikelihood of an individual having anything to contribute, you are choosing to not engage their argument. I suppose this falls under "running away from the argument".
That's a good point too, I'll have to think about that.

The sorts of examples I was thinking of though, would be:

* Someone who wants/says they want everyone to be paid a living wage and are willing to pay somewhat more for products made by people earning such -- but still consistently buy the cheapest products, made in sweatshops.

(That one might be, in part, about a lack of trustworthy information?).

* Someone who wants/says they'd rather there be fewer McDonalds around and more healthy restaurants, but still spends lot of money at mccdonalds, and maybe not at an available healthy restaurant.

(lack of willpower?)

I think you are right about the, er, epistemilogical problems, but I think there are still some examples that make it pretty obvious that what people actually want is not always represented by their actions.

Or at least not always by their _purchase actions_. Maybe the larger point is that, contrary to certain religions, the market is not in fact a perfect aggregator of people's true desires. What is successful in the market is NOT always representative of people's true desires, for all sorts of reasons (including the obvious one that some people have more market power than others, so are better represented in 'the market' -- but that's just the very beginning of reasons).
Maybe someone who works in disease prevention will use this application for taking notes.
Amazon's RDS Finally Hits General Availability, Gets SLA
I've got an account with Bank of America and they have that feature as well.

Downside, none of their service reps even know it exists, even worse they are slowly phasing it out (making it more and more difficult to find) even-though it is a feature I absolutely love.
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Someone should create something like ListServe, where there were that many subscribers, but I had a higher chance of getting selected :-)
I'm with you.

This post strikes me as nothing more than fear groundless fear mongering.
Call for action: more posts like this on HN please!

This is exactly the kind of information that is valuable, pertinent, and helpful to star-uppers. Not only that, but I love how the article foregoes mumbo-jumbo and goes straight to the stats and numbers. +1 to you, sir.

Coming from a recent failed bootstrapped start-up, this is both encouraging and motivating! It's hard out there, but it's good to see people achieve even a moderate level of success.
3 Mistakes Non-Technical PMs Make (Part 2)
Thinking that sync is optional is a really weird thing that seems to linger in the Apple world.

You know the old William Gibson line that cyberspace is the place where telephone conversations happen? Not in the hardware at either end, but in the "space between"? Computing has moved there too.

Work used to happen on a device and then was transferred to other devices, either manually (floppies, email) or later automatically (sync, dropbox). Thanks to the web, mobile devices and lots of data, that's changed: Google Apps led the way, but Evernote etc all let you do your work in the space between devices.

Nowadays, putting the device first over the data (or ignoring other devices entirely, like this app does) is like putting the phone first over the call: beautiful, elegant hardware, refined way to dial, custom typeface for the numbers ... but you can't call anyone with it.

Apple in particular makes this mistake repeatedly. Photostream is device-first, so you have to work out what the hell is where and work out what you want to download to which machine. iTunes Match is device-first, so you're forever downloading and deleting tracks to make space on a particular device. Me.com tries to keep the sync truth on one of your devices, so conflicts abound. Notifications appear on all devices and often have to be dismissed individually on each of them. They see the world through the device first.

I suppose it's obvious why it happens -- they're a hardware company, and they grew up in a pre-networked world -- but I think misunderstanding this is one key reason they're seen as "bad at services" in comparison to Google, which is instinctively and entirely in "the space between devices".

As for this app, why would I ever want to be trapped in a single place again? They might as well have made it for an SE/30.
You can't build a system that only lets a user view something in the way you claim on untrusted hardware, such as a cell phone: it is an hour of work and a few lines of code to entirely defeat your security. Snapchat really could not claim they can provide that, as they can't. While Snapchat somewhat relies on some confusion regarding this, their description is at least honest that this is an impossible problem, and their wording is largely based on the idea that they can't even keep the user from performing a very simple screenshot.
Senator's speech RE: Immigration Reform (H1B)
Sphere by Michael Crichton. I was quite young at the time, but I remember being completely engrossed. Please don't relate it to the movie version :)
In rhetoric, winning an argument is bringing people to your side. Personally I'd rather not have a bunch of illogical idiots on my side.
Review: Lumia 928 is screentastic, camerarific
Show HN: Let your friends choose a song for your Instagram pics
twbrownaw is exactly right. If the private key is already in a secure location then there is no need to move it to a secure location. So, any report that the public keys were stored with the private keys means nothing by itself.
The demo is already removing the green-screen, I don't think that's the most expensive part.
Removing the Google from that probably gets a few sales. Especially with his audience.
I'm stuck at WiFi,

I think it might be better to just get a portable hotspot or tether your phone as most places offer cheap top up unlimited plans nowadays (Although they don't usually offer tethering)
If you're relying solely on an undergraduate degree in CSE to cover these topics then you're probably also lacking these skills, at least in a truly meaningful way.