skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programmer wanted
Looking for an entrepreneurial programmer/electronic trader to join us in disrupting the options trading market.<p>Job Description
* Develop and support an in-house built algorithmic trading of stocks, stock options, index future, index futures options, commodities, and commodities futures options
* Develop and support the in-house built FIX connectivity to multiple brokers
* Develop and support C# applications for portfolio management
* Troubleshoot pricing issues with the traders
* Work on the build out of the firm's next generation of a highly robust and algorithmic trading platform
* Work with Traders to enhance the existing algo and develop new ones
* Build various reports for monitoring trading activities, data Analysis, post-trade reconciliations, etc
* Candidate will gain exposure and hands-on experience to trading and operational matters of a hedge fund<p><pre><code> Skills Required:
* Very strong server side C++ on Linux experience
* C#, FIX, Python, php, boost
* Demonstrable experience in building trading platforms in conjunction with the trading desk
* Good knowledge of greeks, pricing, and risk management
* Good knowledge of trading dynamics
</code></pre>
Please submit resume's to justin@lakehillgroup.com
> fine, but I've learned enough languages to know that the absolute worst thing you can do when you start out with language Y is make it act just like your previous language X.

Sure, if you want to learn the idiomatic Go way of doing things, you do things the idiomatic way. Once you've reached the point where you have familiarity with the idiomatic way and have a reasoned analysis of why you believe the idiomatic way is wrong (at least for you doing the things you want to do with the language), that's no longer the case.

If you reached the point where you feel comfortable arguing that the idiom is wrong, you've should also have reached the point where you can use the language constrained by features, not by conventional idiom.
Well it seems their "World" doesn't include Latin America, same as all the other shiny new solutions, so PayPal and BitCoin are still the only game in town down here in Brazil.
Can't believe no one mentioned the best work on 'bullshit jobs' out there - "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut. Back in 1952 he already guessed it all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)
Given access to massive funds though, you might find that your interest in programming now has to compete with ideas like traveling the world, building rockets, flying aircraft or solving malaria.
C# is also having the same issue
nothing special: it went from 3 mentions to 1 mention over the recording period (a "66.67%" decrease), all the while bouncing off the x-axis but possibly evidencing an upward trend:

http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/?comp...
I'm interested to see how Go progresses over time, as they consciously made the design decision to keep the language easily parseable so that API breaking changes can be accounted for programatically rather that requiring manual porting. See gofix -- http://blog.golang.org/introducing-gofix

In theory, this should allow them greater flexibilty to iterate and refine the language over time without the negative backlash that we're seeing here.
"Learn the basics of engineering first then try to change things. Otherwise you will just waste everybodys time."

So what about SpaceX and Tesla? To me those indicate that Musk must be a pretty decent engineer, and perhaps more importantly, must be excellent at leading real hardcore engineers in complex domains.
I wouldn't worry too much about the kids being intimidated or bored. As for intimidation, kids of any age will surprise you with what they can do, and as for boredom, if this is an after-school program hopefully the attendees will be self-selected to be interested in the subject. Just keep providing them interesting, achievable projects, and be very encouraging and enabling.

I can't speak to curriculum, but could you set up each student/team of students with a Wordpress install, and have them build a website for whatever interests them? Start with basic working with software and following instructions, go into configuration and customization, eventually have them write plugins to do basic web-app-like things?
(I work at Stripe, here in London)

Great write-up - I hadn't seen that graphic before but it's great - full credit to the original source http://startingandsustaining.com/.

As a Stripe-r, I can't complain about the OP's conclusion in any way :) As stated they are based in Denmark, and Stripe is not currently available for Danish businesses - that's on us to fix, and we're certainly working on it.

However, re: the title "How to choose a payment provider for your Europe-based SaaS startup" - the situation in Denmark is not representative of Europe as a whole.

Stripe has now launched here in the UK[1], and we now have betas available in Ireland, France, the Netherlands and Belgium - with the latest released in the past few weeks. So if you're based on one of those countries, please do give us a look. And if you're based elsewhere, well - I guess we need to keep up the pace and hurry to your country ;)

[1] https://stripe.com/blog/introducing-stripe-uk

As other commenters have mentioned, it's really easy to make mistakes comparing complex pricing across different providers. With Stripe and PAYMILL, the fees quoted are all you pay. With Braintree's interchange+ pricing, they actually state themselves that "Total costs are typically 1.8% to 2.6% of the transaction. There is a minimum cost of €100 per month"[2]

[2] https://www.braintreepayments.com/faq#pricing-question
Text-only Google cache has it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I'm surprised Icahn is allowed to have a twitter. Regulators used to limit access to certain information sharing outlets for those in positions of influence, e.g. certain high level bank official could not have BBM (I know right) active on their Blackberries because of the risk of insider trading. When a tweet has the power to move the market it should probably be treated the same.
If it were up to those in power to define what is and is not "an oxygen-sucking scandal out of nothing", nothing would get investigated by journalists, ever. That's why, at least until recently, it has been journalists who have decided the proper focus of their work. The First Amendment is not vague on this point: Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...

I know you're trolling me here, but fuck it there probably are some halfwits out there nodding along with these power-worshiping redefinitions of old, well-understood law. From 18 U.S.C. § 873, blackmail: "Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned..." There's no money here. What is the "other valuable thing"? The safety of journalists' innocent loved ones? That's monstrous, and that isn't a proper interpretation of law.
> why does class availability matter at all to this discussion?

It matters because that's exactly what this discussion is about: making coding/programming part of our educational system.

It's about teaching kids programming in schools, and providing them with the same time, resources, and instruction they get to learn cursive or algebra or home economics or English.

Of course, we could always get rid of those subjects too, and expect the kids who are interested to learn them from books in their free time.

Also, not to cast aspersions on your upbringing, but how were you introduced to programming? Did you have a computer in the house or at a friend's house? Or did you just imagine sitting at a computer, and imagine typing commands into a computer, and imagine the results? Perhaps home computers are commonplace now, but it wasn't always the case. And it's not always the case in poor households. Is it likely that children from poor families and attending poor schools would have the same exposure to programming that you enjoyed?
Seeing as you are in Berlin, would you mind sharing how many cool tech companies in Germany require you to speak German? Yours doesn't I know that.
Nice. I would add that Selenium performance isn't super awesome but if you only need to use it for a specific set of integration tests it's OK. You can use something like PhantomJS to speed through the rest your tests that don't specifically need exact browser implementations.
Yes I went there and replied to that, too.
The last days of Unix
Signed/unsigned 64-bit integers are on the agenda, but I think they are planned for ES7. They're being prototyped in SpiderMonkey right now.
This is basically cooperation vs. competition, not much more to be said.
High-performance Java framework on top of Netty. No container. No reflection beside of ORM.

Open source? Of course!
License? I plan by-cc.

But initial basis is very bad and not ready for public and I have little spare time for it :(
What are the main payment methods there?
Adapting Git for simple CSV data
The Open Data Institute's @floppy discusses how to modify Git configuration files in order to present better the output from 'git diff' when CSV data changes by, for instance, insertion of a column (thereby changing every line in the data set).
I believe you're correct.

May I add that the air bearings on each capsule will be lined with an alloy of anti-handwavium to achieve the desired fly-height above said airtight fittings.
Nintendo to allow HTML5 based games on the WiiU
Chrome's new rendering engine, forked from Webkit.
Yep. I was able to read it by manually adding the post's URL to http://instapaper.com and then looking at the text version.
10 years. No perceived change.
It's called photosynthesis, and it requires zero human intervention.
that one second power drop also causes my cable modem to forget the IP address it was assigned via DHCP by my ISP.

Does the IP address actually change when this happens? Some ISPs have their DHCP server assign IPs according to the MAC address of the cable modem, which of course won't change if power is shut off and then turned on again.

the guy with the C&D letter can tell the Web site that traffic on the banned IP address was no good evidence that the traffic was from him and, instead, could have been from any customer of the relevant ISP.

If he was a private individual getting internet access from an ISP that did that, sure. But in the particular case referred to in the OP, the "guy with the C&D letter" was a company, not an individual, and as I understand it, the IP addresses that were banned were the ones mapped to that company's domain name based on DNS records. That's a different situation.

the ISP could assign the IP address the Web site banned to just any customer not involved in the C&D letter, etc. Then the Web site would ban that person; I hope that person would not get charged with a crime.

It's not clear how Craigslist found out that 3Taps had changed the IP addresses it was using and resumed scraping the site. However, whatever means it used to find that out was apparently accurate, since 3Taps admitted that it had changed IP addresses and was still scraping the site. The court case was based entirely on Craigslist saying that 3Taps was no longer authorized to access their site; there was no dispute about whether they had actually done so.
A static allocation works perfectly well. If we want a hyperloop analogy, maybe they specifically pointed out that the runtime is 3x faster if you don't have to allocate during it, and that's what they're optimizing for. Nobody cares if it's revolutionary.
The Problem with Delhi's Rich Kids
I don't think we need to worry about the tone upsetting Musk, he'll either respond with vitriol or not care.

I'm not sharp enough with physics to understand how much of it is accurate but Dr. Drang certainly seems to have nailed it down pretty quickly, but Musk does have a team of aerospace engineers he can forward these concerns to and see if they go "Well, you just jiggle that over there, and use that material, and change that and done".
Check out this. Tested by GregBowyer:
https://gist.github.com/GregBowyer/6265715
Proof: We have regular, non-violent, non-coercive elections where the results are typically very close to aggregated pre-election polling. Now you can talk about the influence of money and corruption and people blinded by the media and disenfranchised demographics or whatever, but if we had nothing like a democracy, we wouldn't even have that. Also: see snowwrestler's sibling comment on the mere existence of progressive taxes and a public school system.
Wow goread.io is much more responsive then when I first tried it around a month ago .. definitely will start contributing on Github.
Before Leaks, Obama Fired Nearly All Members On Intelligence Advisory Board
6 on the left is more symmetrical. There's 7 keys on the left side of the top row: ~0123456. There's also 7 keys on the right: 7890-= and backspace.

Also, the standard staggered layout is not quite symmetrical. 6 is slightly to the left of the midline between the two index finger home keys of F and J, closer to the left hand.

If you're an accountant touch-typing lots of numbers, breaking it to 12345 and 67890 would make sense. But for anything that involves more of the keyboard, certainly including programming with frequent use of the - and = keys in the top row, breaking 123456 and 7890-= makes more sense.
While I agree with OP on the frustration of SV not aiming its efforts at Big Problems, I'm differing on the why (which is the standard allotment of "it's not economically viable in the short term).

I think there simply isn't the talent or guts to take on these projects. It's one thing to "disrupt" easy targets like paying for something or getting a ride from here to there. They're heavily regulated industries, full of bullshit, and ripe for the taking. All the "innovators" did was ignore the laws that made those industries suck. It seems to be a winning strategy.

But to actually build something huge. To try to churn it through a state's government. Get funding. Get permits. Hire competent engineers that won't kill people. Deal with suppliers and construction. These are massive, massive undertakings.

Indeed, building the proverbial hyperloop is not a "startup" endeavor. It's not something spry, spanky groups of new college graduates can jump into with reckless abandon.

The reason investors don't invest in a hyperloop is because there isn't a competent body heading the effort. If Musk were to say, "I, Elon Musk, am going to create the first hyperloop, with my new company Hyperloop Inc." he would get so much funding, he could stuff it in his ass and fly to the moon. Same with Boeing, Airbus or Lockheed Martin. The common denominator is the capability.

But I have a feeling even Musk himself is too afraid of the kind of effort it takes to build a transport between 350 miles of California.
Trail of Stuxnet leak leads to White House
Although I agree not a direct creation of "the ruling class" in the sense of the 1% wealthy, it's interesting to think about the Sociopaths in the classic RibbonFarm posts:

The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
>Inter alia the following conditions must be met:

-Initial capital of 730.000 Euros

-Management must be professionally qualified

-A detailed business plan must be submitted

-Capital adequacy standards must be met

-AML mechanisms must be implemented

-Reports must be submitted to BaFin regularly

Well...are there any bitcoin exchanges that meet those requirements in Germany?
I know what you mean, have seen the same thing - I just wonder if it is a culture that started in govt? It surprises me for a country that is supposedly struggling to gather the resources to meet the needs of its less fortunate people that there is obviously a mountain of resources being supplied to those that are contributing very little economically but could actually contribute a lot given the motivation/opportunity/incentive
It's quite simple, actually:

- The capital investment required for Instagram is well under a million dollars
- The capital investment required for Hyperloop is well over a billion dollars (R&D, Materials/Prototypes, Insurance, Land, Construction)

The best-case returns are:

- 1 billion for Instagram
- 20 billion for Hyperloop

Thus, the best-case ROI for both are:

- 1000x for Instagram
- 20x for Hyperloop

The timelines to get to production are:

- less than 1 year for Instagram
- minimum 5 years for Hyperloop

The only way Hyperloop will happen is if there is a way to incrementally get there. In other words, if you can make a 1/1000-size scaled-down prototype, iterate and improve upon the design, and then scale up to a full-sized model.
The reason is simple: cost + risk. It's easier to come up with the much smaller amount required to fund Instagram than to come up with enough to fund the Hyperloop. Less money is at risk. It's that simple. There may be other factors at play, but this is by far the most important.
i agree with everyone here, even if i had millions i would still program, i just wouldn't be programming what my managers and higher ups tell me to program. I would work on projects that I like to work on and thought might go somewhere if i could put in 40 hours a week on them. I sadly need focus/direction on my side projects so i have trouble finishing them or sticking with a single project for long enough.. I've been building a multiplayer mobile version of Acquire for months now...
Credit cards for sure, I suppose many are international too so americans can easily get our money. It's the other way around that's tricky, setting up a SaaS from here and getting a payout. PayPal is here so they work with Brazilian banks. As for all the other payment processors, no luck. Though someone here linked to Intel's solution[1], which proxies through PayPal and seems like the way I'll go.

[1] http://software.intel.com/cloudservicesplatform/service/comm...
Hipay comes in handy for the card + digpass combo
http://archive.is/gXy2n

Archived version in the event that blog page disappears.
The only thing I don't understand about this otherwise awesome project is that it being tied to the Google app engine.
He created a masterpiece for today's younger generation - what the c64, 2e and trs80 did for others. An engine for building creative thinkers in today's locked down digital architectures.

It's the experiencing exploring that's important not the artifact. That's not on ice.
Basic medicine (how the body operates) and basic law (how the government operates) is usually taught in elementary school.

Basic computer understanding is not, or at least is being taught extremely poorly. Children don't need to learn the intricacies of Word. What they should be taught is how to code (so they understand basics of computers/filesystems/text editors) & use Google (so they know how to find more information) - everything else they can teach themselves.
How to Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer
What's your point? Because you're good at something doesn't mean you're good at everything.

That being said, I agree that the tone of the article is a bit too harsh for my taste, but then again Linux Torvalds is revered here for this kind of tone. It's always good to think outside of the box and bring new ideas to the table. Even if they're dead ends, they keep the brains working, if only to form counter proposals.

N.B.: american friends, pretty please, consider including metric values alongside imperial, I have no idea what 1030feet means. Fortunately we have google for unit conversion...
I'm disappointed with the tone here; not in a "you should be nicer" kind of way, but because he seems to assume that Musk is acting insultingly in his proposal.

This seems to me to be the way all startup ideas start: there's a hypothesis about X, so far I've found documentation to support that it is likely feasible to do (there are no immediate show stoppers), here's why, and so therefore I'll go off and build it and deal with things as they come up. I imagine this is how Musk works and that this is how SpaceX and Tesla started. The only difference is that this time Musk can't take it the rest of the way so he wants the community to take over the next phase if there's ample interest.

This article reads to me as coming from someone who wouldn't take on this endeavour themselves, and that's perfectly fine, but he instead comes across as entirely destructive, condescending and insulted (somehow?) when he may very well be able to contribute something.
I would highly recommend the first three books he wrote in the Culture Series. Consider Phlebas, A Player of Games, and Use of Weapons.

I enjoyed all of the series, but these three really made me realize how amazing the author and the concept of his universe really was. Consider Phlebas is told from the point of view of someone who despises the Culture, which, as an introduction to the series, provides a really unique viewpoint both within the book, and is also generally an interesting literary tool.

A Player of Games is my absolute favorite. I've given copies of this to several friends. It addresses the human problem of what does one do with themselves in a post scarcity existence, especially when advanced AI can just run and do everything.

Outside of the Culture series, I also highly recommend the Algebraist and Feersum Endjinn (sp?).

edit: I forgot to include "Against a Dark Background" in the outside Culture series recommendations. I've read that one a few times, it's quite good. At one point there was talk about making it into a movie, but I haven't heard anything about that in awhile.
It's pretty clear even from the quoted portions that what you describe is what Musk proposed, coupled with dampers per pylon to control smaller movements.
Where are you getting this from? If you own a site, you own it; it's your property, and you have a right to decide who can use it and who can't, and you have the right to change your mind whenever you please. Just as,if you let someone into your house, but then their behavior becomes intolerable, you can kick them out; they can't argue that, since you let them in once, they now have irrevocable permission to stay there forever.

3Taps made a similar argument in the court case: they argued that if Craigslist allows the world to access craigslist.org, it can't then turn around and revoke access for a specific person or entity. But that conclusion is obviously too strong: it would not only prevent people from selectively banning, it would also prevent sites from fighting denial of service attacks, since fighting those often involves banning suspect IP addresses.