skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to know the right people. I have a non-CS degree from a pretty average state school but I somehow fell into the world of HFT algo development. I suppose luck played a large role in my case since I wasn't actively seeking that type of job. One of my clients (who had founded a small "prop" shop) liked my work and wanted to give me a shot at developing algorithms, even though I had no prior experience and scant knowledge of financial markets. Fortunately it turned out to be a great fit and I ended up automating nearly every aspect of his operation.

Wall Street banks aren't the only ones doing HFT. The technology to develop and deploy algorithms has become much more accessible in recent years. It's still not cheap - collocated servers, real time data streams, and Bloomberg terminals can rack up tens thousands per month - but you don't need a Wall St. budget to get started.

There are lots of small proprietary trading shops (prop shops) scattered throughout the major financial hubs (NYC, London, Chicago, etc.). These shops typically have 20 employees or less. In my case we had two traders, one programmer (me), and one IT guy. These shops are more likely to care about your skills as a programmer than where you went to school.
Yep runs 1080p absolutely fine! You need a very lightweight theme without many animations though.

I used one of my many old internal PC hard drives and bought a £10 case to convert it to USB.
Hah sorry about that. I've been open in this thread that I work there, should have mentioned it again. :)
are we talking about SV or SF? there's a difference...
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That sounds bad. Is it what's happening in practice? I'd like to learn more about this. I certainly don't want to be knee-jerk in the opposite direction (that Monsanto is totally O.K.).
yes - want to explore
MIT is an elite school. Is this comment meant to be facetious?
There are extensions that allow you to 'collapse threads' - they appear to work on most browsers.

EDIT: I realise that this doesn't help the problem that you're talking about. It is a bit of a problem when people only respond to the first comment - especially if that comment is only just related to the article.
Java, Flash, and Silverlight were NPAPI plugins that could work in multiple browsers. NaCl uses PPAPI that's only supported in Chrome.
Silverstripe (SilverStripe.org) seems to be a great Framework and a light CMS. Maybe that one could fit your bill?
Use OpenElec it's a dedicated distro for this. If you try setup those things individually as you would on a desktop you are going to have a bad time. And yes SABnzb is slow as hell extracting but all her TV shows download and extract in the middle of the night.
See my comments above, works fine with OpenElec
A lot of the activities that take place on Wall Street are fairly harmless. Some might even be considered socially productive.
They're pretty lenient -- there are all sorts of awful websites that I'm able to visit without issue. They only tend to block sites related to hacking and piracy.
Interesting. Not the api part but the idea itself. What we need is bitcoin like encrypted decentralized personal file with an open spec. This file can be edited only by the owner while can be read by anyone. Then we need exporter applications which can read this data and provide as an api. Now there are two levels of abstraction:data owners and data providers. There can be "data unions", groups which can negotiate with data providers and data consumers for a better deal(money,privacy). Identity verification can now be handled by data unions instead of data providers(as is the case now).
"Take control" anyone?
Can anyone explain how 10 bit color would work for a monitor? Would we even notice it since most image formats are 8-bits-per-channel... and what does the OS do?

Is the monitor able to more accurately show the difference between the sun vs a desk-lamp? (Where today both would appear as RGB 255 in a photo, unless you took 3 exposures and combined them into a 32 bit HDR file... but anyway...)
What? Are you insane.

Consumption drives the economy. Hoarding slows it down. Why as a society would we want to punish consumption!
It's not a small amount relative to bounties from other big sites. These bounties are not representative of what companies like Facebook and Google spend on software security; they're thanking people who would be doing this kind of inspection anyways.

It's also not the case that this vulnerability == celebrity photos.
I suspect he's asking a question, probably for his own benefit, instead of commenting on the education of the person in the article.
This doesn't really make any sense.

If the soap can go in, it can get out. If the soap can go in, it's going to kill the overwhelming majority of the microbes ensconced in whatever matrix the 3d printer material is built from.

This is a non-issue.

Now, if you want to talk about 3d printer material being toxic and leaching out of the material into your digestive system, well...I don't know enough to have an informed opinion.

FWIW, I know a fair amount about microbial adhesion to abiotic surfaces and I've worked with several people who are experts on microbial sensitivity to detergents.
Yeah, I watched Grandma's Boy too.
I'm sorry but you're overlooking that this is already the case with Flash. Our other alternative to Flash is to use a native app. Both ways are not web friendly in that they both completely rely on closed standards. This is one of my gripes with Flash. It is a lock-in tool that is controlled by one company, namely Adobe, who isn't interested in my security and gives me a player for free to collect money from publishers. Native platforms, aka apps, on the other hand create a lock-in that completely ignores the browser.

This draft however helps create a common standard, albeit closed, but standardized in operation which means there will be competition on other many fronts: better encryption extensions, secure, respecting privacy, all of which don't describe Flash or even QuickTime or whatever pops to mind.

To point out the irony of labeling DRM as the ultimate evil: Do you use iOS/Android/Windows Phone/BlackBerry 10/Kindle?
I believe that what you are suggesting is what the first subject of the article is doing.
That movie also features a guy who can raise the dead. Do you find it credible on that matter as well?
Partial application and currying are not the same thing. (That's not a value judgment, they're just different things.) That's partial application.
Here's a great starting point: http://capitalfactory.com/. They are connected.
What Apple Needs to Do
> It's a two step process (IANAL): 1) fail to defend your trademark, 2) broad usage becomes popular, so you lose your mark. Sure, you may not lose your mark without (2), but you don't get to (2) without (1) and your only opportunity to stop the process of losing your mark is at (1).

No, that's not how marks become genericized. Marks become genericized when the consumer's mind uses the mark as a word for the category rather than as a specific product/line/company. Defending your trademark in court doesn't actually help against genericization, there's no step 1 then step 2 there's only step 2. Step 1 is irrelevant.

> Is the idea that it is OK for SEOMoz to do nothing under the assumption that Doz will never become popular?

If "doz" became genericized, Doz would lose its mark, not moz.
I doubt it your 6 months experience in a bank. Keep trying.
If I understand correctly, isn't this the purpose of a good documentation?
aren't you pleasant
Someone needs to inform the Angry Video Game Nerd about this!
Join Wall Street. Attempt to save the world through donations. End up unable to recognize what to solve.

This is a pattern that all these guys do. Even Warren Buffet just gave his money to Gates.

You'd think a guy who spends his life picking out successful businesses would be able to recognize this in non-profit / social ventures, but he's so removed from real problems he can't.

If you want to save the world, save the world first.

Stop. Fucking. Waiting.
Loading into database usually means transforming the data such that the data is stored as database's internal format. For example, using "LOAD DATA ..." in MySQL or "COPY ... FROM ..." in PostgreSQL.

Here, you aren't storing the data in the database. You don't have to take any additional action to sync the file and db when you add rows to the file, so it's not loaded into the database.
Out of curiousity, what if they did the same thing as you, or a very similar thing? If you serve scientists with lasers (how Austin Powers of you), and they serve scientists with lasers, what would you do?
> The golden question then becomes how this study found a 0.15 C rise in temperature from data over the last decade.

In my skimming of the original article I didn't see where that claim was presented. But if I had to guess, there are at least three ways somebody could accidentally reach that wrong conclusion.

(1) Using something like the woodfortrees link, specify a "From date" year but don't specify an "end date", so you plot, say, from 2002 to "today". The leftmost point on your plot is in January; the rightmost point is in the middle of summer because that's when it is now. Boom, you've got some instant extra warming, assuming you picked a temperature trend influenced by surface thermometer readings.

(2) Instead of looking at actual temperatures, look at a heavily smoothed moving average of temperatures. Or average every decade into a single point and then compare those points. This gives you a plausible excuse to ignore much of the most recent data and the most recent trend ("Tamino" aka Grant Foster often pulls this trick on the readers of his blog Open Mind.)

(3) Instead of looking at the most recent data, google up an old study that ended in, say, 2000 and interpret all talk about "the last decade" as referring to the last ten years shown in that study. :-)

UPDATE: I just thought of another:

(4) Timing. The annual temperature trend is pretty noisy, so over any given ten-year period it might increase or decrease. If you're a "warmist", your favored information sources are going to publish new studies and trumpet their findings whenever the most recent decade now seems to show a big jump compared to the trend it seemed to show in prior years, with headlines like "it's worse than we thought!". So any time this issue comes up, those are the studies/stats that you'll remember and cite.

(the original Mac/PC debates had exactly this dynamic - both Mac fanboys and PC fanboys were generally convinced that their platform was better in all the ways that mattered; their certainty was almost entirely a matter of salience bias and the timing of news release events.)
Done. The Austin tweet is in my Buffer queue.

I suggest http://capitalfactory.com/, http://ati.utexas.edu/, http://techranchaustin.com/ for starters. Also consider hitting up http://austinonrails.org/, and any of the Javascript/R/Python meetups. Every one of them seems to be packed every week.

Happy Friday, 'yall.
So.. does that mean megaupload is coming back with data in tact? I got some... hmm... data I wish to retrieve :)
Over 3000 dead is more than enough motivation, no petty political payoffs are needed to support going after suicidal fascists. Occam's razor.
Your definition of open allocation seems to be "work on whatever you want". You don't need a PhD in organizational theory to know that this doesn't scale. I think what you really mean is "I want to work on whatever I want".

First, open allocation doesn't mean "work on whatever you want". It means that people work for the company directly rather than having their allowable contributions restricted by an intermediary who will usually use that power for extortionist purposes and force the other person to serve his career goals (rather than the good of the company, or the employee).

Employee and company actually have a common interest that is typically thrown under the bus in a closed-allocation environment.

Second, this sure as hell isn't just about me. Open allocation has second-order cultural effects that are positive for everyone.

You don't get a good environment if one or a few people get to work on whatever they want but the rest are stuck in narrow niches.

So I actually wouldn't be attracted to a job where I got to work on whatever I wanted but everyone else lived under closed allocation.

Under closed allocation you get a culture of internal social climbing. It's no longer about doing things. It's about getting permission. You have a society founded on getting jobs rather than doing work, then.

Also, the quality of projects that exists under closed allocation is inferior because people can't vote with their feet.

open allocation as a panacea to all organizational problems ... You don't need a PhD in organizational theory to know that this doesn't scale.

Open allocation is not a panacea. Far from it. Organizational problems happen because that's how people are. However, open allocation is almost always strictly superior to the alternative, which is closed allocation.

Open allocation is the more natural state. Closed allocation is the bulky add-on that needs to be justified, and only when there are necessary information barriers whose integrity is more important than maximal productivity (this is true in secure government jobs, and in some parts of finance) is there any justification for it.

Please -- moderate yourself, or you'll probably end up hellbanned.

Is that a threat?
That is an interesting concept
In my spare time I am doing something like it. It's called Egont (No Ego OR Ego New Technology).

If you liked this article, you might like:

i) Egont, a web orchestration language: http://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration-...

ii) Egont part II: http://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/

iii) Parsing s-expressions in C# using OMeta: http://blog.databigbang.com/parsing-s-expressions-in-c-using...

Because your stuff is defined as an s-expression and then optimized to a DAG.
@throwaway1979, see above & good luck!
A trivial example from my own recent experience: getting my highlights and notes out of the Amazon Kindle app on my phone.

Amazon could make these available through a simple RSS feed or export feature, but they don't. The only way I can get my hands on them is to scrape their website, which depends on some fragile scripting and is subject to their terms of service.

I really like this idea, but without some kind of positive government regulation, I don't see it happening. At least not in the sort of meaningful ways the OP envisions.
There are a lot of things I like about Food Inc. I can geek out a bit on seasonal and local food. I have a local butcher I work with for most of the protein we cook and he sources his product from a small set of farms within driving distance of here. I have ethical problems with battery farming, both because of animal cruelty issues but more importantly for pragmatic reasons like environmental externalities and antibiotic abuse. I cook, a lot. I'm very sympathetic to Food Inc's viewpoint.

But the Monsanto stuff is a highly technical issue, and neither Michael Pollan nor Eric Schlosser appear to have much expertise in them. There is a lot of GMO FUD. I would not assume that none of it leaked into the movie.
Do you avoid Google, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, and Facebook, who also track outgoing links?
This search has some good links: https://www.google.com/search?q=effect+of+earthquakes+on+tun...

I don't have a structural engineering background so I'm having a tough time imagining how someone could make a train-track or hardened tunnel "flexible" but I'm sure there are many ways.

It doesn't seem too hard to predict the movement of the plates and build in automatic adjustments for the track/tunnel. Have a way to automatically extend track/tunnel and move it laterally to adjust for any minor plate movement.

It seems like it would be cheaper and just as effective to build higher speed rail beside of existing rail lines. Or maybe some sort of independently powered train cars that are private so that there are no unnecessary stops, more automated, and can travel faster. Train tracks likely already have to compensate for the faults somehow, though their probably slightly simpler.

Regenerative breaking would be nifty technology to build into the trains/cars/vehicles and musk has teams with significant experience in these fields.

I imagine that, with all the of top-tier engineers that Musk has on his payroll at tesla, spacex, and solarcity, he can get plenty of suggestions for how to overcome or prevent several feet of movement in the track, humans have done more complicated stuff than that. Then make sure to make redundancy and backup of backups to prevent loss of life and help prevent gridlock in the event of a major disaster (vehicles could go backwards maybe?).
>The gmail web interface has become really annoying of late. I don't think it's an impossible task to do better than them by any means.

Google exposes the mail through IMAP, no? why don't you use your own mail client with the google backend?

I've written support software for and modified open-source pop3 and IMAP software, and I've gotten partway through writing my own SMTP server, but I never even /considered/ writing a client interface for mail. If I'm providing mail service, I will provide you mail service, and give you smtp and IMAP (encrypted, of course) interfaces to that mail service. Heck, I might support an open-source imap to web interface, too, but the way I see it? running the mailserver and running the mail client are two very different things. If you primarily choose your mail provider based on the provided web interface, you are probably not going to be a good customer for me, because I consider the mail client to be outside of my domain as a SysAdmin. Also, I come from an era where web-gateways to IMAP were considered some kind of cruel joke.

I'm not saying that interfaces are unimportant, but it's a very different product than just managing mail servers. I'm good at managing mail servers. I have a difficult time coming up with someone who would be less qualified to write a custom web interface. (I mean, unless the current open-source imap-to-web interfaces are good enough; I can manage open-source software just fine; I'm just not a UI kind of person.)

Personally, I wouldn't expect the sorts of companies that are best at running mail servers to also be the best at writing mail clients. That, and I wouldn't want to give up control of my client to other people, because a lot of what makes up a user interface is personal preference. That, and there's no real advantage to having the same people run the server and the client; IMAP is well-standardized.
Ah, it's just happened to be my domain, I don't live in Isle of Man.

Yes, it is 80k USD. My rate usually revolves between 50/75$ hour, but I generally try to charge by week. Last year, I think i worked on 3-4 relatively full-size projects including:

- Backend for an iphone app
- Backend/web frontend for a continuous event processor, a commercial offering in par with http://riemann.io/
- Backend/web app for a job board in restaurant industry

It is actually pretty easy to filter out low quality buyers: They will mass advertise the project for nickels and pennies. They will always try to negotiate the rate along the way. They won't answer your questions about the project details or simply have no clue.
Is it really that simple? If your main concern is net "good" to the world, don't you have to balance that against any "bad" generated by your job? Wall Street certainly is capable of damaging people's lives, and HFT does get some of the blame. Also, is net gain the only concern - if an assassin donates his profits to charity and in the process saves more lives than he takes, is does his net "good" make him moral?
So you support the idea of a representative democracy, but you do not think people should be allowed to review what the government is doing. That makes it pretty hard for people to choose who to vote for. If a candidate says they will increase funding for counterterrorism operations, and their opponent says they will decrease that funding, how do you think people will make a decision? How do you think people can vote against an ineffective counterterrorism program if they have no way of knowing that the program is effective?

No, we do not just select people who then learn how the government works. We select people who will carry out our will. If you want more funding for scientific research, you vote for someone who works to expand that funding. We need to know what the government is doing in order to have an effective vote. Your idea of representative democracy is a sham -- the government acting in secret is not compatible with any form of democracy. There are limited exceptions during times of war, but we are not at war (not formally), domestic surveillance is not in this category, and even military secrets are supposed to be declassified after some period of time (so that we can review past decisions).

Of course, you leave no room for ever declassifying details of the counterterrorism program in your argument. You openly admit that the "war on terror" will never end.

When even the criteria for targeting people is a secret, there is no balance being struck. All your talk about representative democracy and striking a balance is meaningless in the context of such secrecy. This is not an "extremist" position, it is just liberalism -- the same political philosophy on which America was based.
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One engineer donating $50k is great.

One teacher-focused engineer doing a decent job at influencing and educating others to do more with their money is... priceless?

It's good that Mr. Trigg is doing what he can, but discounting the ability of an education role to impact even more people is slightly silly.
I would say 70% of my ideas are futuristic, which is why I'm working on the other 30%

That 70% depends on technologies that plain don't exist yet, or are highly experimental at best since some depended on funding that isn't there anymore so the underlying tech needed to move to the next stage is still nowhere to be seen.

Case in point: without CAD we wouldn't have stealth planes. The theory existed on paper and attempts at stealth go all the way back to WWII, but it wasn't workable until we had the computer power to crunch the numbers.
At a similar event on Efficient Charity at the Berkeley Faculty Club, Robin Hanson made some interesting (and unsettling) points about how most charities operate. [1] For example, he claims that most charitable contributions are actually about status signalling and not about maximizing impact. Because if someone truly wanted to do the Most Helpful Thing, they would save all their money and donate a single lump sum to a single charity right before they die. This strategy leverages compound interest while avoiding certain tax pitfalls, but has the downside of making you look selfish for most of your life.

Scott Alexander has a pretty good summary [2] of the event if you don't want to listen to the audio.

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/04/more-now-means-less-la...

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/05/investment-and-ineffici...
Did Steve Jobs Ruin the World?
Agnostic, sorry.
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