skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His 'second jury' were comical.

"Most were surprised by how little he had taken in relation to the whole: eight megabytes in a platform that consisted of an estimated one gigabyte of code. "

Really? One gigabyte of code? Or one gigabyte of third party binaries, precompiled libraries, documentation etc.? All you need are the source files, and those language keywords compress nicely. Exactly how much plain text do you think they have?

' "But that’s the secret sauce, if there is one,” said the juror. “If you’re going to take something, take the strats.” '

Rubbish. The strats are the easy (or at least easier) bit in the high frequency space. That's like taking a dump of the html from facebook/twitter and thinking you've stolen their site. It's the scalable, distributed infrastructure that drives large websites, and it's the fastest possible infrastructure that drives HFT. One thing Lewis got right is the Coke/Pepsi analogy, and it really is that simple. A straight up race.

" “It’s way easier to start from scratch.” "

It is, and it isn't. In even the worst codebase there will be nuggets of usefulness that will accelerate the process. Isolated parts of the system that you've perfected. Exchange message decoders for example (ITCH, FIX/FAST, etc.). This is especially true when you, the genius who will be starting from scratch, has worked on it for a few years. I assume he was doing something useful in his time at Goldman.

I'm not buying the innocent act.
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, accpetance
What if, 350 years from now, rising seas levels threaten to destroy most of the Mediterranean coast, so they build a structure to return the level to present height, and it can even allow for the passage of ships... but then, one day, perhaps centuries later... something goes wrong
I think this was a mostly appropriate response. In my opinion (and it wouldn't surprise me if this was the opinion of the law) police are obligated to follow up on more or less ever tip. I think if it had just been a couple of cops instead of the reported multitude, that would have been better.

The problem is people making bad tips to the police; if the intent is malicious, they should be prosecuted.
According to St. Ives "Apricot Oil is known to hydrate and nourish the skin." Using fruit and other essential oils on the skin is a very very old practice. It might or might not have any actual merit to it. There is some science of the benefits of the topical application of at least one essential oil, tea tree oil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_tree_oil
Creation phase vs maintenance phase?
1984 Day, a follow up rally to Restore the Fourth.
Oakland movie theater allowing patrons to pay what they want this month
Winston: multi-transport async logging library for node.js
People aren't protesting because like the article says...they really don't care. NSA spying doesn't directly affect them in any tangible way, so there is no reason for the average person to be upset. If people were being physically yanked from their homes and interrogated related to NSA spying intel, then it might be a different story I believe.
"[...] the ten most searched terms, according to Google Trends, were: iOS7, PS4, Tim Tebow, Mac Pro, Kingdom Hearts, Miami Heat, IGN, Chad Johnson, NBA Playoffs, and the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC)."

Probably the most important cause of this is the fact that the mass media are tightly controlled by a couple of extremely rich people. And they don't like change as they fear the loss of power. The current system works very much in their favor.

Free and unbiased media is the basis for democracy.
I applaud Mark Shuttleworth and his vision.

Sadly we're missing "something else" other than Mark Shuttleworth.

What he does, is what most others are doing in a half-hearted, compromised way: providing a "packaged" system that works without much hassle and which is based in pretty much the same interaction principles of the 70s and 80s.

Being Open Source, Linux could do a lot more than that. But nobody explores these avenues, it just aspires to be Windows/OS2/Mac in the desktop and Unix in the server. Linux could exploit the fact that it doesn't need to hide its workings, that it can allow any level of customisation in the workflow, in the windows manager, in permission management, etc etc because the user owns the software running in his or her computer. This basically has been exploited just for virtualisation.

The problem with that is monetisation. But a lot of development in the Linux community is non-for-profit anyway.
FLOSS speech recognition
"Didn't your parents tell you never to listen to toilets?"
Are you saying the Obama administration set up the Zimmerman trial just to distract people from the NSA stuff?
What is a desktop but a tablet or smartphone with a keyboard and mouse? It wasn't long ago that "Desktop" meant a rarely moved laptop or a tower attached to a big monitor and some peripherals, so we're not used to thinking of it in more abstract terms. This is changing as the traditional desktop--a computer you set on a surface and do work on--becomes something more modular and tablet-like.
OpenGlass: Testing Google Glass with Visually Impaired Users
Nobodys blaming SF for trying to make money.
But for, as you said, THE OS binary distributioner, it is kinda suicide to remove the possibility to verify your download. No more checksums, just trust our "enhanced" installer.

Besides, its just cheap and crude to close the comments for the SF blog post, just after some people started with some real arguments.
Gandi.net costs 40 bucks for first year!
For being a slightly less useful subset of CRIME, BREACH sure does have a solid marketing plan...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Review
eshvk may not be phrasing it in the most sensitive way, but he/she is right.

If you are not in a major tech hub, your pay is going to be low, and the ability for your employer to abuse you is going to be high given the small market of jobs. This applies to both natives and immigrants alike.

You are also unlikely to be in a market where companies are willing to pull out the stops to find qualified talent. In the Bay Area, Seattle, Austin, NYC, etc, I have found the majority of companies willing to consider visa requirements when hiring. The competition for candidates is fierce enough that this is a non-issue.

As an international in this country also, just get out of that job. If they've violated a non-written promise before, they will do so again. As you mentioned yourself, the natives at your company are treated poorly too - but they have left for greener pastures where you have not. There is no shortage of high-paying tech jobs in this country, even when you limit the search to companies that will sponsor a visa.

You don't need to move to a new city every week. You just need to move once, to a market that has more choice, therefore fewer incentives for abuse.
They wont.
Most Germans are happy with "lets see and wait"-Merkel.
Yep - but in this case it's also something that they would have made very clear upfront and made him sign a document to show that he had understood those terms
Google re-opens CalDAV
I’m sorry, but what exactly is the vision of Mark Shuttleworth? The only one I can think of right now beyond pushing away other distributions would be Ubuntu as a universal operating system that works across mobile phones, tablets, servers and desktop computers, but that’s pretty recent.
Show HN: My Evening Project - Our (Digital) Yard Sale
Hi Hacker News! We live in London, but are moving (to the Bay Area!) and have to sell all of our stuff so I made this last night.

What do you think?

http://bit.ly/amazing-yard-sale (redirects to a static Dropbox site)
Another way to look at it would be to say that people care about things that directly affect them. The NSA stuff isn't something that really affects anyone's day-to-day life, whereas in the US there are just HUGE portions of the country that play PS4, watch sports, buy phones, etc. No conspiracy theory necessary.
Interesting. I've always thrown in with the hacker crowd, but everything about this PR stunt has led me to believe speakeasy.is the type of business I want nothing to do with.

The laws this thread contends they're violating strike me as falling into the category of public safety, e.g. proper labeling of spirits, Department of Health guidelines (http://blog.speakeasy.is/day/2013/07/23), etc. Viscerally, these don't strike me as the type of laws we want to championing start-ups into breaking.

But fuck laws, right? What really kills me about these guys is that they represent the cancer that is killing HN - all hustle, no authenticity. Instead of coordinating with local distilleries for a co-promotion event they fill Ikea bottles with "a cheap, mass-produced Russian vodka" and stick a fake label on the side. This is the definition of "grey-hat SEO 'growth hackers.'"
No, no, doesn't matter. I was just making you aware that your technique also had a name.
if you are interested in rendering, don't miss out John's talk at 5pm dallas time today: "Principles of Lightining and Rendering with John Carmack"
http://www.quakecon.org/event-schedule/
Should also be streamed on the quakecon twitch stream.
according to the keynet video, it is supposed to be a talk he has given internally at id before and was urged to redo it at quakecon.

"John will present a lecture-style presentation on the physics of light transport and rendering. He will discuss how light behaves in the real world, and the approximations and compromises that are involved in simulating the behavior with computers. Note: not for the technically faint at heart."
That's what it sounds like they do just with an added secret. They have some function which maps VINs to key-codes. Just doing that though doesn't prevent someone from uncapping whatever processor is used to do that mapping and then everything is broken. So doing that is still relying on obscurity of the mapping function and isn't any better. Hashes aren't meant to be cryptographically secure, they're meant to protect against corruption.
Have you read the code? What makes you think that they're above inserting subtle bugs?
Some food for thought regarding pricing. If you have a set pricing plan, it's easier for customers to know how much things cost and if you can get things completed quickly, you could benefit from the set pricing plan. However, if things are really difficult to implement, you could be doing a lot of extra work and not being compensated for it.

Quoting based on individual client needs will bring your compensation closer to the work amount but may take time to negotiate and estimate. However, I recall there was a post a week or two back regarding charging based on value-added to the business.

Things to watch out for would be contract details, compensation details, delivery details, expectations, etc. Also look out for customers expectations and behaviours - you'll have to try to spot people to see if it's easy to work with them or not. Compensation isn't the only factor when accepting a contract. How your schooling schedule fits into this is also important. Because you're still in school, I would recommend picking up clients who aren't going to demand your time for every second of the day.

Good luck!
"Libertarian until it hurts me"
Instead of using tricks that rely on parser implementation behaviors, why not just put an actual comment field in the object?

{
"myvalue_comment": "This is a comment",
"myvalue": 42
}
Daniel,

First off, good on you thinking about this! It's great to see entrepreneurial spirit. Just don't lose sight of school :) But, I'll try and answer your questions as best I can.

With regards to consultancy or individual - I think the best thing (to start) is do the work yourself, and make sure that your clients are aware that you're a student, and that you might have a friend pitch in if there's too much work. It's like having the best of both worlds. Always say that "even if X is working on the project, I would never release it without looking it over fully". People really respond to that personal touch - it's like having a consultancy, without having one.

2) Don't ever do a pricing plan, quote clients based on needs. If someone asks me for a price for work - I give a range. It lets you gauge the client based on body language, without being laughed out of the water at the onset. Also, don't be afraid to use the phrase "for you I'll...." while you're starting out. It builds great relationships.

3) GET A CONTRACT. PUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING IN WRITING. I can't emphasize the above enough. I have various clauses with regards to ownership that I use with clients - clauses involving late penalty payments, things like that.

Bonus: Have you read The freelancer's Bible? You should.

If you'd like to chat more - you can always e-mail me. chayim at lyricalsoftware dot com.
The participants in the study were IT professionals that managed servers for a living. Servers and actions regarding servers were definitely within their domain experience. So we did exactly what you were suggesting we did.

I still think that connecting up a hundred little boxes is just as complicated as actually looking at code syntax, but even more so since everything is a black box. How do you suggest people fix errors in the output when the only action they can take is to connect boxes with lines?
[Ask HN] Tell us about your personal resets
We talk about the importance of passion all the time. Way too many people still feel miserable, though.
I think arguing about passion isn't thought provoking anymore and thus has little power to bring about change.

Let's change perspective and talk about life resets. Some people might argue that these are part of "finding your passion" but, again, let's not make this thread about passion and focus on the reset phenomenon instead to perhaps gain some insights.

Feel free to write stories you want to share or answer some of those questions:

How often did you start your life from scratch?

What did it entail (new location? new friends? new lifestyle?)

Were your restarts a worthwhile learning experience or did you rather improve for the worse?

What environments did change you permanently?

Did you really begin anew or do you just keep running away from the same problems?

Consequences?

(The questions above are certainly not very sophisticated but perhaps allow for some interesting answers)
It's hardly preventing me from sleeping at night.
When you can buy a brand new laptop/tablet/device running gentoo, we can talk. Ubuntu got over that chicken/egg problem where OEMs don't want to ship linux on their computers because it's not popular, and it's not popular because OEMs don't ship linux on their computers. That, in and of itself, is a huge feat. Unfortunately, it can only really mean something for maybe a few years before casual desktop computing is "gone".
No, the people who tell the Obama administration what to do, told the media to make a circus out of the case.
I am still outraged but I don't know what to do about it. I don't think the restore the 4th/1984 day stuff is the right way to go about it. That is a great way to spread a message but has about a 0% chance of shutting down the NSA etc...

This stuff has recently caused me to fall into a bit of depression because I feel totally helpless.

Does anyone else feel this way? What could we do?
I don't get this at all.

The regulation is to keep "taxis" "safe"? Then if these are inspected and insured vehicles, the drivers have proper drivers' licenses and passengers are wearing seat belts, then what more can be done to make them "safe"?

They are calling the growing practice a "clear public safety hazard."

How does reducing the number of vehicles on the road (it's basically a carpool) considered a safety hazard?
The meds are not magical at all: they just help you be less distracted.

If you have been procrastinating for years and have a regular routine and numerous personal habits built around procrastination, those don't go away when you take a pill. All the meds do is make you more present, which would understandably make you more conscious of those routines and habits. That might not be fun -- but it is the first step in changing the habits.

Have you talked to anyone besides the school psych? If it is ADHD (and sorry to hear they half-assed your assessment), then meds are only part of the solution. Regular exercise, a more structured routine, eliminating distractions, finding a partner who supports you, etc. are also important.

You can learn more on your own via books or trial-and-error, or by finding a clinician who can be like a coach to help you figure out what works best for you. The book I listed above talks about all the non-med things you could be doing: one of the authors has ADHD but doesn't find meds helpful for him, so he uses a number of lifestyle changes and natural alternatives instead. Also, the authors have a specialized clinic outside of Boston, and there are other centers like this around, with people far more competent than the school psych who can spend the time to help figure this out.
It seems to be available online, I'll check it or at least skim through it.
How would such a thing work?
"We are quite confident that The Old Reader will be available in the future"
White Hat luxury car hacker speaking at USENIX security event despite injunction
> No conspiracy theory necessary.

This is a saddening statement. What I'm saying has nothing to do with conspiracy. (When I say "controlled by a couple of extremely rich people", "a couple" might even be "a few hundred", but that's still "a couple".)
Yeh no managers 20 CEO's but I bet there aren't 20 owners :-)

Even worker coops have a CEO and management its just that all the employes are the share holders which is a bit more manageable at scale.
This entire article is based on an unsubstantiated rumor from Steve Blank, someone who is not a security expert at all.
It's really neat. I've tried scanning myself earlier on a startup event with the Volumental website.
Interesting!

Will's experience is so akin to many people that got into affiliate marketing around the same time as I did. It ended up getting to the point where people slammed into the industry so fast that the only way to stay alive was to seek every competitive advantage you had.
Latvia resists US call to extradite 'virus maker'
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In what ways do the business models of Wipro, Tata, and Infosys resemble what is being described in the blog post, though?

The problem with the H-1B discussion is that H-1Bs are heavily bimodal. You have the highly paid foreign workers that Google, Facebook, et al like to hire. They're paid very handsomely for their work, and generally work in areas where the job market is healthy, giving employers disincentives to abuse their position.

Then you have the barely-paid foreign workers that Wipro and Infosys try to bring in, who are legitimately abused by their shitty employers and have their legal status wielded over them as a weapon.

The main problem is that nearly everyone involved in the discussion has only seen one side, and vehemently deny that the other side even exists. If your industry experience has been with a lot of the Wipro, Infosys type, you will foam at the mouth about the evils of H-1Bs. If your industry experience has been on the Google/Facebook/Microsoft side, you will patently deny anything bad exists, because in your world it really doesn't.

This is also why the H-1B discussions never go anywhere useful. The loudest people in the room are convinced that their reality is the only and complete reality.
> we're more likely to be mislead than enlightened by interpreting the results of small trials

Potentially yes, but when you consider anecdotal evidence to be trials with sample size 1, this is still a large improvement.
I think it's trying to depict the most popular brand that originated in that state. I.e. out of all the brands that started in Pennsylvania, Hershey's Chocolate is the most popular worldwide. It's not saying that people in Pennsylvania are crazier about Hershey's than about any other brand.
This is correct.

Although I was obsessive at the start, once my gf at the time got out of college and we started traveling I really scaled back my efforts and coasted for a while.

There is nothing like waking up and checking your account and seeing you made $200 in your sleep, an by the end of the day there will be $500 more and all you have to do is plan your next move.

It was all quite ephemeral though. I didn't control the product or the medium and was just a middle man. You could develop a similar strategy with something more defensible, with a moat.

You have to think like an entrepreneur, and see market opportunities and use your coding skills to automate and scale your efforts.

That's my hypothesis anyway, I haven't been able to make that much money semi-passively again so take it all with a grain of salt.
Whenever I fly I request a hand screening and it seems that more often than not the person screening me is more uncomfortable than I am. In the past I have literally walked a TSA employee through the procedure because he was to shy to touch me like he was "required" to.

It's not only passengers who struggle with this stuff but also the employees of the companies that require this kind of behavior.
Avatar will get three sequels says James Cameron
You're the winner so far. Recently I had Chrome crash on me several times with 80 tabs. Rebuilding them is slow.... How is a crash with 300+?
It's a lot more fun to imagine it won't be a massive, Segway-level disappointment; plus he has a history of making big promises and delivering. Also, I think humanity is just ready for teleportation technology, now.