skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Craig Zucker says a lot of things that don't correspond with reality. There's a reason that this interview is posted under the Opinion section of the WSJ and not the News section--factually, it wouldn't pass muster.

I saw Buckyballs when they were on sale in stores--at Brookstone and at the Discovery Store. (I own 2 sets, they are great office toys, especially if you have metal desks.) They were definitely marketed to children--they were in the children's toy section of both stores, sold alongside other children's toys. Indeed, up until a few months ago, they were even still on sale at the LA Natural History Museuem's gift shop...in the children's toy section. There was a child playing with Buckyballs on the in-store display. The "13+" warning, assuming it was actually on the box art, was in text small enough that it was not visible without the box right up to your face.
Sounds like yet another flaw in our current legal system.
Yes and between futures, cash, and options exchanges worldwide. A market structure like this would be much more prone to gaming by sophisticated participants.
I don't know how Dissent does it. The only solution I can think of right now is to ask people to perform some time consuming human task before they can create an account. That would limit the scalability of any sock puppet creator and at the same time it could serve as payment for the service if that task is useful.
Hey, this is a tangent, but I have two questions since I like hearing your thoughts on these matters even if I don't always agree. 1) Is it accurate to see international relations today as anarcho-capitalism? 2) What do you think of world federalism?
>In other words, to what extent does this put schools in a circumstance where if they tolerate the t-shirt they get sueed by one group under Title VII and if they don't tolerate it they get sued by another group under Section 1983?

Good question. I don't think that would pass for discrimination in the courts, but avoiding the lawsuit is an excellent reason for a school to disallow political speech in its dress code and enforce that uniformly (no pun intended).

>Moreover suppose the school decides to teach Aristotelian social theory and starts out at the married household level. Is this discrimination? Is this a one-way street?

My English summer reading one year was the first five books of the Tanakh. Lots of slavery, genocide, passing around women like property, etc. We also read the first chapter of Mein Kampf in German, and excerpts from the Communist Manifesto in History. Teaching ideas is not the same as preaching them.

The courts are never going to rule against presenting what Aristotle thought in philosophy class. That's absurd. If the school decided to preach about the proper unit of family, people would be understandably pissed (including Christians who would rather that authority came from God than Aristotle), but teaching what Aristotle wrote about the proper unit of family as "this is what Aristotle wrote" is pretty cut and dried.
And until those new recruits enter the workforce, tech companies like Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft are lobbying to boost the number of H-1B visas—temporary immigration permits for skilled workers—from 65 000 per year to as many as 180 000.

So, assume a $30K salary differential, times 115K jobs = $3.45 Billion dollars in savings.

Well, that will pay for some lobbyists...
I'm a neuroscientist and I'm also not clear on exactly what the anticipated use case for this is. The connection to principles in neuroscience is somewhat loose, it appears to be more grounded in machine learning.
As a user, all I see is a website saying they take security seriously and then pointing me at a demo with a broken SSL cert.

I realize that's probably an unfair characterization, but you have to understand that's what every user is going to think. You'll also have to work on your message if you want to get people using this, because it's very hard to understand what exactly your website does. I had to do a double-take because the website says it's a tool for building a personal library of books, not anonymous group discussion.
Snowden reveals US intelligence’s black budget: $52.6 billion on secret programs
A more practical measure I've heard discussed is destroying or majorly disrupting Syrian air forces, which are concentrated within 6 or so major fixed installations, all of which can be targeted from standoff distance by U.S. ships and aircraft.

In theory it would manage to deliver a firm "ouch" to incentivize more acceptable behavior without risking much in the way of escalation (as Syria has nothing they could strike the U.S. back with), and without meddling too much with the civil war proper (which is increasingly turning sectarian in nature).

Of course there's still the large concern for Israel, but I don't see how pissing off the IDF helps Assad's chances either, and I think he recognizes that as well. But I don't think they are seriously considering targeting chemical stockpiles, as to do that properly would requires at least some ground-based forces.
The article also makes it sound like TI released the first graphing calculator in 1990. In fact, HP did that a full 3 years earlier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-28C

I much preferred programming the HP-28 (and later the HP-48G) to the TI-8x series. An RPN language is a natural extension of the calculator interface, while a BASIC interpreter always felt like a weird bolt-on.
The purpose of the secondary markets is to transfer risk, not to allocate capital. That may be why people take such moral outrage at things like HFT when they're really just making the market more efficient. Nobody acts like 7-11 is an immoral part of the milk and bread market when they only hold inventory for a day, and nobody suggests that we don't really need 24/7 stores so everyone should just buy their bread direct from the manufacturer during a 5 minute window.

In any case, if you want to trade in a single price auction, you can do it right now. Every primary exchange has an opening and closing auction. People are already given the option to trade like that and prefer to trade in a continuous market. Why would that be?
I'm not in the US, but from what I've seen here and in other boards, the whole STEM Crisis is actually a HR Crisis.

No wonder you can't hire anyone if you want rocket scientists to build your world-changing photo sharing app.
Examples, which have been widely discussed in Syria decision talk, include Libya (2011) and Kosovo (1999). Bosnia (1995) would seem to qualify. 90's Gulf war and subsequent events have some relevance.

I'm not saying I'm unquestionably in favor of bombing Syria. But I am in favor of intellectual honesty and to claim that Syria (2013) would be Iraq/Afghanistan seems outrageous. Jonathan Chait put it best: Syria Isn’t Iraq. Everything Isn’t Iraq.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/syria-isnt-iraq...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2...
Grade inflation (related to political pressure about the STEM shortage narrative) is such that a larger proportion of STEM graduates than ever before are mostly useless.
For a good examination of what kind of society you might get when scarcity is gone and humans can create stuff at the drop of a hat, read Michael Moorcock's 'The Dancers at the End of Time". He doesn't go into details of how they got there or how it all works, but very interesting nonetheless. The main characters seem to settle into some kind of permanent battle to outdo each other with lavish parties and collect people from passing civilisations and time travellers just so they can have someone to talk to.
I would accept that usage, but not "my pronunciations."

My filter might be a bit more lenient because I imagine an implied 'my pronunciations of some particular words" after it. I still wouldn't say it or write it but it doesn't poke me in the eye as much, especially in the middle of otherwise idiomatic-sounding casual English. So context counts as well - as do the tastes of the person reading your stuff. Someone might think you an illiterate clod for a misused "it's" or "your" or "whomever".

Anyway, I think we're actually in violent agreement, my only point is the nuances are tough and not subject to easy rules.

Oh, and you were saying

At least, I am unable to find a sentence using that which sounds right, though it might be possible for it to be correct if you were talking about something other than the source code of a computer program.

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/%22source+codes...
If my orders get random priority I will just spray a bunch of smaller orders onto each level. Look at the Eurodollar markets. You get execution priority based on size there and traders just send massively oversized orders.

Why is the goal to remove HFT?
Be average
Agreed. Will put a signed certificate for the demo. Thanks for the input.
nice design. been looking for something like this for a while - always end up listening to the same tracks on spotify even though they have some decent discovery apps. seems like a good idea to completely separate out indie music, eliminating the chance of users like myself always going back to their starred spotify playlists.
In the example, people are outside the bar loitering or waiting to get in. How can you soundproof a sidewalk?
Right. I stand corrected.
I'm a bit confused by the keyboard navigation. I open the sample document and hit the down arrow. It scrolls. I hit the down arrow again and the background color changes and it scrolls in the opposite direction. If I keep hitting the down arrow it scrolls up and down and up and down with a color change each time. And of course if I hold down the down arrow it starts flickering as it jumps back and forth between the two directions and colors.

Is that a bug or is that how it's supposed to work? I often scroll to the end of a short document by holding down the down arrow until things stop moving.
Traditional brokerages face all of these issues as well and actually comply with them, all while offering lower fees.

There are a handful of startups that are looking to have offerings that are appealing to funds and other non-retail investors, so things do seem to be going in that direction. For the time being though, it is more profitable to cater to the retail investors than pursue a low margin [potentially high volume] clientele.
That's right, PayPal has always worked this way. In fact, it's only fairly recently that it let me switch to a credit card without putting up a warning page about all the benefits I'd get by using my checking account instead of a credit card.
I would be delighted to get filled on every order I send. HFTs usually flicker quotes due to fast changes in their valuation model or software bugs combined with insufficient risk controls.

Smart HFTs actually try their best to avoid sending orders. It's incredibly expensive latency-wise compared to leaving your quotes alone and you give up queue position.
I've studied Numenta's CLA's, previously HTM's, as well as established ML approaches fairly in-depth over the past couple of years. Hawkins definitely takes a new approach to neural networks and focuses more on modeling the brain's biology rather than building on known artificial neural network concepts. HTM's did incorporate bayesian nets, but have been abandoned, probably with the departure of Dileep George, who now runs http://vicarious.com/.

However, Hawkins work is similar to Deep Neural Nets in that both are unsupervised neural nets (unlike perceptrons and back-prop) and both aim to represent data as sparse representations. Also, here's a similar question I answered on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Machine-Learning/Does-Numenta-build-on-...

In addition, Numenta does use CLA's to solve real problems for customers: https://www.groksolutions.com/solutions.html

Finally, Hawkins' book, On Intelligence, has at least inspired researchers like Stanford's Andrew Ng at a philosophical level which he talks about IIRC in his online ML course. https://class.coursera.org/ml/class
Meh. This is the attitude that has neutered our chemistry sets and fireworks ordinances. Too much nanny in this state for my taste.
You had me excited there for a minute!

But nothing as thin or light as my F3 (though they are prettier).
Don't you need a warrant to intercept mail? Not just a subopena?
If I'm reading the slides correctly (and there's a good chance I'm not) you have to have a preselected group. From the problem statement:

"A group of N>2 parties wish to communicate anonymously, either with each other or with someone outside of the group. They have persistent, real world identities and are known, by themselves and the recipients of their communications, to be a group."

That of course leaves me with a lot of, "But how would you do X?" questions. I'd love to see a FAQ for the project, and a list of things you can and can't do with it.
> "basically" - it's totally superfluous

Totally.
Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack
I hadn't realised you'd need to compile it from source. Oh, well, there goes the accessibility.
>The undergraduate student body president, Connor Diemand-Yauman, a senior from Chesterland, Ohio, said: “I had complaints from students who said that their professors handed back exams and told them, ‘I wanted to give 10 of you A’s, but because of the policy, I could only give five A’s.’ When students hear that, an alarm goes off.”

This exact thing happened to my friend in our 2nd year intro circuits course. The prof (awesome guy) wanted to give him an A but couldn't because of the quota and told him this in person. Said friend, as fate would have it, is thriving at MSFT and is currently a Senior Program Manager there.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vboddeti/papers/icb_2012.pdf

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vboddeti/papers/ijcb_2011.pdf

I have two more in the pipe (one still awaiting acceptance, and the other is accepted but yet to be added to IEEEXplore)
Look up neoliberalism and neorealism.
While general spirit of your reply (OP can present himself better) is helpful, I have to rant about the "red flags" you've mentioned. The criticism isn't aimed directly at you, but against recruiters who base their decisions on such factors. You see the red flags 2-8 are nothing more than just heuristics, mental shortcuts which have nothing (or very, very little) to do with competences (and that's what the recruiters should look for, right?).Actually from your list only the point no 9 could be considered as a red flag, in terms of a warning sign, not reason to filter the candidate out.
It's also true in the US. We've gone through several transitions from mainframes all the way to smartphones, bringing technology to more people each time, and my anecdotal experience is this the average HR worker understanding of computing has actually decreased (in that I face forms of ignorance now that I had not in the past).
>The use of chemical weapons has been considered a particularly heinous war crime since before WW2.

By whom? Certainly not by the US. America bombarded Vietnam with millions of gallons of Agent Orange. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of its use. It was the most massive use of chemical weapons in human history. Here is the US stance on chemical weapons in pictures:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agent-Orange-dioxin-skin-d...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agent-orange-dead-deformed...

(Warning NSFL)

Next large scale use of chemical weapons? Iran-Iraq war, with America again being responsible, only in a support role this time though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War#Use_of_ch...

So, when did the US suddenly decide that the use of chemical weapons is intolerable? The hypocrisy is so thick you can cut it with a knife!
Fair enough! I'd probably still do it, mostly as a CYA matter. There's little downside and it takes too much time / attention to discern between the cases. If my attorney told me it was a waste of time I probably wouldn't.

Maybe I'm just a jerk. :P

This makes the OP's response all the more unproductive, though. Find an IP lawyer and pay him for an hour or two of his time to draft this response.

It's also unclear what Tumblr's precise complaint was. I'm just assuming it was the domain and only the domain.
"4 weeks of standby" means 4 weeks if left to do nothing, not even receiving cell tower signals.

> "They don't actually last that long."

Actual mileage depends on your usage. The talktime rating is meaningful for such comparisons.
Disruptor: High perf. alt. to bounded queues for data between concurrent threads
I'm not quite in tune enough with my inner PoliSci to give a good compare/contrast argument between anarcho-capitalism and international politics, at least not without re-reading the Wikipedia.

However it's an insightful argument. Certainly there are the similarities that in both systems there is no central force-monopolizer that adjudicates disagreements, there is only whoever has the bigger stick in a given area.

Likewise countries can choose their own economic adventure in many ways by choosing which currency to use, what fiscal policies to set, and what major ideological alignment they will fall in with (which has large implications for things like trade). Here though the U.S. has been fairly successful in trying to standardize a lot of the economic interplay amongst the nations (e.g. the Bretton Woods accords), but again other nations could do something different if they wished.

As far as world federalism, I'm assuming you mean some type of world-wide central government that has specific delegated responsibilities and authorities and that would operate "on top" of the existing national governments.

There's a lot to be said for the idea... you'd finally actually have "international law", ways of resolving conflicts amongst nations (since there will be actual "world police" of some sort), etc.

Certainly the normal example in the U.S. is the slightly wiser Federal government sometimes have to lead state and local governments to Do the Right Thing by the nose if necessary (e.g. voting rights for minorities).

But on the other hand such as system tends to accrete power towards the top over time, and you would thus tend to end up with the needs of the many (i.e. China, India) outweighing the needs of the rest, or (more likely) the needs of the already rich (U.S., E.U., etc.) outweighing the needs of the rest of the developing nations.

Either way I can see that going poorly for nations like the Philippines or Malaysia, who could over time be gerrymandered right out of resources that would otherwise contribute to their economies.

I used to be real idealistic about such Star Trek-style world governments but at this point the idea would probably introduce more worries for me than potential benefits.
> Tumblr isn't being a dick. They're being prudent.

I strongly disagree. With any product where you're building a community, you must consider community action with every single action. Randomly threatening your fans is the opposite of prudent.

Further, sending a legal threat letter here is definitely dickish. The guy was trying to be helpful. When people are trying to be nice to you, you have to start out by being nice back.

They could have sent him an equally cheap form letter saying, "Hey, we love you, but we have to protect our trademark. We think your tool is great, and we want you to keep running it. But to do that, we just need you to sign this attached document that says that you agree that Tumblr is our name, and that you agree to be cool when using it. Please sign it and return it to us via email by $date." If the person doesn't reply, then the can send the threat letter.

The reason the guy didn't reply to Tumblr to try to work it out is already linked on the page: he's had enough of them.
Ask HN: My customers asked me for a contract. What to include?
I agreed to build a software product for a university (one that will be sold to their students), and they asked to review our license agreement. I've secured some legal resources, but I'm not sure what all should be included. It's to aid with job placement and recruiting.
Chemistry sets sold today are much better equipped and supplied than the ones sold when I was young, they simply cost more because they're no longer as popular.

Also, fireworks ordinances are not nanny state rules. They're fundamental safety regulations. Much of the West is subject to significantly elevated fire risks, due to a combination of ecology and a decade-long drought. I don't mean piddly little fires like you see in a bbq grill. I mean raging infernos hot and wild enough to burn an entire neighborhood to ash in under an hour.

The two primary choices for minimizing with this type of risk are: (1) force people to move out of the areas at risk, or (2) prohibit high-risk activities (such as fireworks) in areas of heightened risk. Prohibiting fireworks in high-risk areas is by far the least restrictive option available.
Thanks for the feedback! I will do my best to get these things fixed asap. And i will checkout your site as well!
Ironically, US citizens on the no fly list could still get a pilot's license http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tsa-us-citizen-who-no-fly-li...
100% just a stepping stone ! one that i hope all can appreciate! there will be more features to come.
One of his points was that it is extremely hard to predict where the next boom in the greater STEM field will be. Several years ago, internet boomed, then bust, then boomed again. Meanwhile, petro rose while aerospace fell... It's precisely the point that, because STEM skills cannot cross fields (you try getting a rocket scientist to build you a photo-sharing app) that leads to moments of massive oversupply, then terrible shortage, and then massive oversupply again.
If security is a concern then it's not really different than servers in any other country. Who'd put anything of importance online at all? Cat GIFs is about right. It'd be fine as second-string backup I suppose. I couldn't work out the point of mobile app being involved in the sign-up process though.
It almost feels like VCs are putting together teams of people overqualified+tempting enough for MicroFaceGoogHoo! to want to pay millions to acquihire them, and then telling them to do various money-burning attention-grabbing "peacocking" things until it happens.

Sometimes the illusion wavers for a moment, when the product part fails to happen (e.g. Color) but everything else still does.
Customers, customers, customers, customers (with cartoon!)
Calca is also a nice take on the "modern calculator"

http://calca.io/
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This is definitely a place for an attorney with expertise in software law (which I am not). But I can offer this practical advice -- don't sell the software to the university, sell it to their students. Retain the rights to the software, and offer a reasonable retail price to each student. If you instead sell the software to the university once, they will sell it to the students over and over and make the money you should have made.
> Nobody is abdicating their humanity and the only "dehumanizing" thing I see is the implication that some people are.

Your taking a human relationships issue and deciding it based on narrow cost-benefit analysis is definitely dehumanizing. And that's exactly what you're doing by comparing attorney salaries against the cost of resentment.

Hint: if you have to say, "hey, it's nothing personal, it's just business" after somebody is badly treated, then dehumanization is exactly what's happening. It's obviously personal to the person you're saying that to. What that phrase says is that you've decided to treat them impersonally.