skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not aware of any quantopian algorithms that make use of fundamentals, but that doesn't mean they aren't there. There are lots of fundamentals that are available as processed variables (P/E ratios, etc.) which can be used as an indicators of financial health. Now, certainly that doesn't replace roping off an afternoon and diving into the last 5 years of 10K's to get a real understanding of what's happening with that company, but it doesn't mean that algorithmic trading can't include fundamentals. Indeed, considerable effort has been expended trying to intelligently scrape+process 10K's, which are all available from the SEC, in an (semi-)automated way.

Also, as a point aside from the one above, in the ideal world markets would be driven entirely by the real value underlying the securities being traded. But that's not the case. Markets are highly influenced by news, to give one example. So to say that only the fundamentals can be trusted is a little bit narrow minded (in the pure sense of the phrase, not meant as a shot at you). I think that particularly as the time horizons of your positions get longer, it becomes more and more critical to include fundamental data in your analysis.
I disagree. If they want to waste time and money spying on us then that just further proves our point because we are normal patriotic Americans with nothing to hide.

We're not going to play their game and go off and cover our faces in public or not use the most popular sites on the internet because its a stupid game and isn't worth playing when theres real problems this country faces.

I plan on holding a sign at this protest that says "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Once everyday normal Americans realize theres nothing to be afraid of these clear violations of the 4th amendment will stop.
There is already a great deal of language support, and having boards like this will certainly help popularize the parallel programming skill-set. Since it looks like there is an integrated FPGA, I'd like to see Dynamic Method Migration[1] make some progress too.

Given the libraries, mainstream developers will probably have no problem taking advantage of this class of hardware, using whatever language they might deem appropriate. Of course when I see this board, I think more about nonlinear PDE than web apps... so, how are you defining mainstream?

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2004.1303105 (google the title to find the full text)
Great post. Our startup communities need more resources to help them "find product market fit & distribution.", test business models, pivot - if needed... etc.

Our mission is to connect startups with brands to drive innovation and powerful outcomes for all.

We do this through dev challenges where the winners receive test budget and a time commitment to get their product/service in market quickly. I.e., upcoming Sears' challenge: initial $40K test budget and commitment to be in market with startup by holiday 2013.

Not saying this model is perfect, but we need to evolve from where we are today to something more productive for startups and the industries who need them.
Wow, Jim Allchin, that is pretty funny. Who would have thought?

(Here's a shameless plug for my new record, FWIW. http://music.lukehoward.com. I have also worked as a coffee-making intern in a studio. And written some software. Perhaps this isn't that uncommon...)
Einstein moved his hand back and forth on the blackboard.
Mozar moved his fingers back and forth on his piano.
Van Gogh moved his hand back and forth on his canvas.

But well, it is just a hand.

So you can clearly see that the problem is in the value you are adding to something, even if it is intellectual, manual or artistic. How much value can we appreciate with the BART for its current cost?
Sad, sad. I love seeing all the stealth replacements pop up in the last week or so.

Still, it is a sad day for RSS in general.

Google, this will not help me use G+.

Sad.
Right up till the 11th hour I held out hope that Google would give Reader a last minute stay of execution. A sad day indeed.
I didn't want to accept this would happen. So it's kinda hard to believe it actually did.

Oh well, more free time.
If they'd integrated it into G+ I would have been less hesitant to use it.
Alternatively, although this'd be a lot of work (and possibly not practical before the 4th) - how about the page organiser/owner publishes a GPG public key, and everybody posts encrypted content to the wall, and the page owner decrypts and reposts them anonymously (as in, without revealing which decrypted wall post came from which encrypted real-world-identity-connected post)?

We might get a bunch of people to become more familiar with GPG encrypted blobs, possibly encouraging people who haven't yet got around to working out how to use GPG/PGP to do so, all the while giving the big finger to Facebook and the NSA…

(You'd want some guaranteed buy-in first though - launching it and then only getting a handful of encrypted posts would send 100% the wrong message…)
It's not that hard, you just have to convince half the voters the 4th amendment is more important then being afraid of terrorists. No politician wants to support this they just think they have to to appear 'tough' on terrorism for their constituents.
Yep, it's gone now. The reeder update was just in the nick of time. I wonder if someone at google was waiting for it to update ;-)
I'll be at the protests in LA! First at Santa Monica parade at 8am (bring a whistle to support whistleblowers!) then in DTLA at Pershing square at 1pm. Hope to see you there!
In my experience, a share is just a reference to the original post/image/whatever. The share may still exist, but I think anyone trying to access it will get an error saying that post doesn't exist, or they do not permission to view it.
They arguably did do a half-ass integration with G+, removing other sharing options and removing the nascent social network that lived inside Reader.
This is utterly disappointing. I feel sorry for the many Americans that have no other options in their area. Perhaps Google fiber will spike some competition? If people don't avoid them because of their policies concerning one's privacy.
A Sad Day. RIP.
I believe it is normally a separate microcontroller. You generally need something to power up the main phone and to deal with battery charging (thats not usually the main CPU, although my Android phone does display an animated icon on screen when powered off and charging, so unclear whats driving this).

Most computers have a number of extra microcontrollers. You would have to do a teardown to see how they might be wired up.
NSA-Leaks: Demand in privacy and security start-ups is rising.
Note that Reeder (on iOS) had Feedbin and Feedburner support prior to this update.
Envoy - A new way for visitor registration
I'm so very tired of WikiLeaks. Since when is this their case?
CSS filters, GIFs, and performance
Would be nice if there was an option to delete our profiles from Hacker News too.
Hope Hamper - a food delivery service for desperate times
The Android application still seems to be working, but they'll probably kill it soon enough.
On a related note, I've been reading through the ebook of the essays. When I have finished this where do I need to start reading on the website?
Snowden applied for asylum in Germany
interesting - so there is a business opportunity to collect these overdue amounts in large numbers, and exact the payment along with a "fine"…
They do pay their employees you know ;)
The "numerical facts" as you say are not copyrighted, but every data vendor I've seen does explicitly prohibit you from making their data available to anybody outside of your license. The more inaccessible the data is, the better their corner on the market, the more they can charge. In similar fashion, real-time tick data is far more expensive to come by than EOD daily data. Real-time data requires slightly more computational overhead (transmission, storage, etc.) but really they just charge much more for it because they can.

In any case, I believe the scarcity the parent was referring to was for the fundamental data, i.e. earnings, value/share, dividend yields, cash on hand, etc. This data is harder to come by compared to the standard open-high-low-close pricing data, which is what most algorithms use (although not necessarily the best algorithms ;-)
That's interesting. I went to primary school in Switzerland in the 90ies, and I only had male teachers. In fact, except for sewing classes, I only had male teachers all the way through high school.
I've not enjoyed using any of the new readers so far, so will be spending my "free" time going though my Pocket and Kindle backlogs (The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches is insiprational).
I really don't see why ruby is such a pain for ops.. rvm is dead simple to get up and running, is it not?
New Argument in Forced-Decryption Case: Defendant’s Memory Is Ticking Clock
Exactly my feelings. I actually kept the tab open to see if their API kept working but the feeds stopped loading and I hit F5. Oh, the horror...
BREAKING: In a surprise belated April Fool's joke, Google revives Reader, according to former CEO Eric Schmidt, "just to fuck with everyone who spent money developing a shitty alternative."
Show HN: Angular Pages - mobile-friendly directive for managing rows of pages
♫ Statsi State Is Coming To Town ♫
BERLIN, GERMANY, Waymate https://waymate.de
FRONT END DEVELOPER

// Waymate is a multimodal travel platform. The web app allows you to search for, compare and book trains and flights. //

You:
You are in love with great web experiences. You are passionate with all aspects of front end development and always up-to-date with the latest techniques and optimizations. You want to create an easy to use interface with the perfect look and feel. Design means spirituality to you. As Senior Front End Developer, you will work closely with our designers to bring charming interfaces to life; ones that match people's mental model and present information in new, innovative, and creative ways. You have a strong focus on quality, accessibility and compatibility with everything you produce. You know the fundamentals of interaction and visual design and are able to apply them to create clear, usable layouts that provide a great experience across a range of devices.

What you'll do:

-Produce and maintain awesome interfaces across multiple browsers and devices using javascript (especially backbone.js) and other front end technologies

-Build up our user experiences. You’ll work on the digital spirituality of the platform. You’ll create the face, look and smile of our product

-Create a holistic design approach as part of an overall engineering strategy across the platform

-Translate and generate conceptual ideas with our design team, and experiment with new and unique approaches to how we display information

-You’ll work very closely with our back end, product and design teams

-Run experiments and benchmarks

What we offer:

-Working with a very successful and highly motivated team

-Attractive workplace in the heart of Berlin

-Creating a unique product, changing the world of travelling.

-Flat hierarchies, great career opportunities

-Competitive remuneration package

-Starting immediately
Another way would be to simply calculate hash(prefix + obj) and then choose the object with lowest hash value. You can use a GPU-fast hash like sha2, and you can even paralelize it. It's not guaranteed to be evenly distributed, but I think it would be close enough for most purposes.
That info has been resold 100 times already ;-)
I've found a decent experience using Feedly in Chrome for the desktop and GReader for Android using the Feedly API. Still not as good as EasyRSS, but it will suffice until the dust settles.

In other news: EasyRSS has been open sourced: https://github.com/davidsun/EasyRSS
i like the business model of USAA, where it isn't a corporation, but that everyone who becomes a member gets some sort of benefit. its almost like voluntary communism. I wonder if this model would work for other sorts of institutions.
Should be a fun next couple of weeks as all the Reader replacements get a big spike in traffic and deal with inevitable scaling problems.
Not only nice guys finish last
Some politicians probably didn't get their children to visit them, so they turned it into a law.
If you still haven't found a replacement, here's our list of alternatives that was on the front page of HN on Friday: https://starthq.com/apps/?q=reader

It now includes the additions mentioned in the comments and the countries where the service is hosted for those that are concerned by Prism.
And they actually, truly pulled the plug, with almost no warning. Now I have no idea what I'll do.
In Defense of Gawker's internship
Which is totally unlike everyone else, who troll and use free speech as an excuse for lulz.
* might be an idea to have a feedback link (why I'm posting this here)
* scrolling becomes tedious very quickly. Needs a better overview mechanism. Eg only show the first N lines of a story unless I'm interested.
* Without some notion of how you're going to define relevance, I quickly became way of disliking something.
* You could have a way to like/dislike the author, as well as the post. Ie a way to say "I always/never want to read stuff written by this person".
I hear a lot of people talk about needing more than 10yr of data for backtesting, and this is something that is often overlooked. The driving forces behind market data are unobserved and extremely complex, so you simply can't control for all the variables. If you can control for at least most of them, then you are in a situation where more data is NOT always better.

The one elephant that jumps to mind is liquidity. The mechanisms by which liquidity in the markets affect the end results are absolutely key to how your algorithm's interactions with the data will pan out. With that in mind, the methods by which we come by liquidity have dramatically transformed over the years, and market makers from >10 years ago operated in an entirely different way. That's my $0.02, anyhow.

Anecdotal evidence: I have first-hard experience implementing algorithms that chugged along just fine with 10 years of data for backtesting.
I like your landing page. It's immediately clear to me what is the value proposition is of your product: it helps me, the developer, to engage with my users, and catch negative feedback before it hits the apps store.

But how do I integrate it with my existing apps? Is it an SDK or a code snippet that I need to drop into my code? As a developer I want to see how easy it actually is.

Finally, feature request :) Google maps prompts the user for feedback if you shake your phone. Having something like that would be sweet!
Google To Launch Flight Search in India? OTAs Cry Scroogled
> a restaurant that had over priced wine and cheap ingredients would fail miserably in short order, regardless of how many Google ad auctions they won.

unless if there's so many restraurants, and the quality of wine is so subjective that most customers cannot really differentiate it. Then exposure is really the only thing a (time poor) customer can rely on, and thus, by massively spending on advertising, and not on ingredients, they can convert more paying customers than the small, but quality restaurant who nobody knows exists.

I want some way to have word of mouth recommendations work over the net, without it being game-able. perhaps a system where you must pay (a very small token amount) to review?
RIP Reader. For those looking for a replacement, especially those with an Android phone, check out Newsblur. It's all open source, the developer is accessible, and most importantly it works insanely well. I honestly like it better than Reader.
I looked around a bit, but I couldn't find any information about why they preferred to start a separate Wikileaks Party, rather than joining the already extant Pirate Party Australia. http://pirateparty.org.au/ Anyone know?
Waiting for the onion to write "Edward Snowden issues statement confirming he wrote earlier statement from Edward Snowden"
You are missing the big picture. The issue is not with your own personal history, but with the power to have access to key people private life.

Let's imagine the presidential election, in the next 10 or 20 years, if the incumbent misuses the tools to find out that his/her pro-life opponent had an abortion (or in its close family), it could change the turn of the election.

You can apply the same kind of reasoning to any whistle-blower reporting corruption, pollution, or a toxic drug. It will become much easier to silence and blackmail them.

Democracy is funded in part on the equilibrium of powers, a dragnet collecting everyone's life, is breaking this fragile thing.
A call for a timeless way of building software (video)
the main problem was that german politicans refused to help him in a timely fashion. The german interior minister was informed about his abduction.
ANCIENT COMPUTER - Ancient Discoveries
I found this immensely interesting, but don't know what to do with what I just learned.
V2: Google Reader reads you.
Now we're talking! This is exciting. People take charge. Way to go, America!
Good point. Especially the "make it look like you're doing it wrong". You don't want to look like a data kraken in the eyes of customers.
As annoyed as I am with Reader's demise, you can't really say they gave no warning. Four months heads up, and for the last few weeks daily reminders when you logged in should have gotten the message across.
Go to the websites manually?
Supposedly I don't have a Yahoo account, deleted it several years ago. It was very difficult to delete. They make you talk to the fraud/abuse dept, ask you personal questions to prove who you are, ask you over and over again are you absolutely sure, it's a long process. Same with Amazon, it's a long, frustrating process. Then I get an Amazon gift card. To claim the money I signed up for an account (used a different email address) and surprise, surprise, they had all my data saved, old purchases, etc.

This should be illegal and I bet there are some countries that don't tolerate it. Germany?
Ha. Very smooth. Upvote for you :)
Depends what you are after and what city.

Having mistakenly bought a house in a hipster infested area of London a few years ago, I wouldn't recommend your approach unless your idea of a good night out is doing copious amounts of coke in front of children out with their parents, getting pissed and vomiting over the pavement (sidewalk), getting your iPhone nicked and then wading through broken glass until you get to your hotel.

Nathan Barley just about sums it up.
RIP
By the way, I quite like the Digg Reader but it doesn't display the unread count regardless of the settings. Is it only me?
If senate candidates are not members of a party, they are listed below the line. This is somewhat of a disadvantage as only a small number of voters vote below the line.

For this reason the incumbent independent senator Nick Xenophon has registered his own 'party'[1] -- the Nick Xenophon Group -- and will now appear above the line as well.

[1]: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-02/nick-xenophon-has-poli...
They already take extreme measure by regularly executing persons (including high ranked officials and bankers) that commited crimes such as fraud and corruption.

(Note: I am against the death penalty)
"... we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience."

Yeah, Reader held back the development of the robot car, glasses, floating balloon internet and the brazilian social site...
You either die a hero or live long enough to became the villain. At least we have duck duck go.
Daily data from 10+ years is still relevant,intraday I have found less so,probably due to algo trading/market making reducing the time horizon of momentum based strats and the change to the one cent minimum tick size ( if we are talking about US markets)
Soho pretty much is both at once. Expensive cocktail bars next to old men's pubs, fancy restaurants next to fish & chip shops, exclusive members' clubs next to dirty downstairs speakeasies.
IOS 7 Redesigns
Every time I read that claim I feel like sharing this article: "Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’" https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/12...
Sadly, many "geeks" turn a blind eye whenever Google does something like this. Google has them and it doesn't seem like either party truly cares about the other's interest.
It's the Story you Tell not the Product you Sell
Well ... seems the ante will go up once again if this takes traction. A person should keep its encryption keys on a separate server in a separate jurisdiction with dead man's switch. Also stuff your PC full of thermite to melt the thing when the feds knock on your door.
I wish there was a decent alternative out there. They all seem to be a bit unpolished.

The most polished alternative I've seen is Feedly. I wrote to the founder about this many moons ago explaining that in trying to be 'innovative' with the UI, for me the whole user experience detracts so badly from the functionality I want from the app that I don't want to use it.

Where is the alternative, with the polish, without the 'innovation'. Perhaps I should build one...

I'll get my coat.
Organizing the World's Information... and setting it on fire 8 years later.
Opera 15 released
FreeBSD gets new virtualization with Virtual Private System initial commit
It's really unclear, but I think it's a loose reference to an older hack that involves patching javascript's Array to steal data when parsing JSON. The references to 'old array' and 'new array' in the screenshot seem to be the tipoff. This is my best guess at least.

See http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/security/#json-security for info. Most modern browsers don't let you patch Array like this anymore.

Also, that's more a csrf issue so, I could be totally wrong.
Rubidium or cesium possibly?

I'm wondering if the U.S. had any hand in sabotaging this launch.
Samsung must be rubbing their hands with glee :-)
I've been wondering if there's any reason to actually keep the original OEM modified operating system instead of replacing it with a vanilla Android installation. I haven't found any but it seems that there are now compelling reasons to not keep it in any case.
True, although once a credible news source made a post with similar, it hit the front page of /r/games quickly.
Well that's great, -3 downvotes just because I expressed a contrary opinion. Shameful.
I'm not sure about that. I'll follow up with some of my colleagues to see why typed arrays are in such an state.

Am I correct in assuming that if JavaScriptCore starts successfully executing the tests, it'll automatically start showing up on the relevant part of arewefastyet.com?
Google Reader kept the content of RSS feeds cached forever, meaning it was the last surviving record of a huge number of dead and deleted blogs. The Archive Team have spent the last month or so fetching those blogs out of Reader to serve as a permanent archive. They posted a few days ago on HN asking for some last minute help, and managed to archive 46.23M feeds.

Check out their efforts here: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Reader
US military blocks entire Guardian website for troops stationed abroad
EFF Launches Full-Court Press To Bust Podcasting Patent
Signal to noise ratio is very high,50x in some cases which makes this a very hard (though interesting ) problem.
thank god it added feedly just in time :)
Are head transplants possible?
I'm trying it, but it has a few things that bug me.

They messed with the arrow keys - they no longer scroll the page. I'm always accidentally going to the next or previous article. ARGH!

I miss the smart sorting order that Reader had - it was really good about bubbling stuff I cared about up to the top and letting me whip through the rest.
100-or-so books that shaped a century of science (1999)