skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simulating the fill rates correctly is tough. But getting the timestamps right is also tough. Exchange timestamps are crap. If these there used - that's a possible future leak right there. Standard PC hardware? Remember, that a standard PC clock gives you something like 50ppm. That means - yes - 50 microseconds per second drift. One need their own boxes with stable clocks, GPS, or otherwise synchronized. I doubt that this professor had access to that kind of infrastructure.
Because driving is framed as a privilege and not a right, and by partaking in that privilege you waive and right to refuse a sobriety test. (For bicyclists with no driver's license? That's an interesting question.)

The issue (at least as I see it here) is more about due process than the right to travel. Even if there were a right to travel, you could legally be denied that right for legitimate cases like parole or bail. But those cases mean you have your day in court.
That said, my being in the wrong place doesn't change the fact that startups and capitalism are both lame and evil and retarded.

I think you should still consider and perhaps respond to the point instead of just discounting it because its out of place.
You'd be surprised. It may be a small country but if us highly populated and also has a rich long history
Human beings do not generally see their enemies as other human beings. And if you really don't care about the morality of it, then it can be an effective strategy of making them fear you or preventing them from ever fighting you again (not to mention not having to deal with prisoners.)
> what the word "random" really means (as opposed to her previous definition for the word, from some Disney channel show)

I am morbidly curious for details.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_defender
You can't aggregate the clearing fee away. It's applied to every trade. And clearing fees are small compared to exchange fees anyway.

There are some fixed fees to be designated as a market maker on some exchanges. Others just charge based on a free-for-all maker/taker model. Another "fee" that market makers incur that retail customer don't is direct market data, which is painfully expensive. But that's fixed, not a function of trades.
...I was literally off by one word. /facepalm

Thanks.
I'm talking about direct support to the revolutionaries

The problem is that the revolutionaries are worse than the Assad regime, which is bad. If the Obama is serious about getting involved, regime change and nation building is the only viable option - and that's a pretty ugly option.
So that's the exchange side, what about the clearing. As I understand it that's where the bulk of the cost comes from.
Example of bombing making it better?
... how would they gag the release of this capability in an open source product that I download and compile on my machine?

boggled
There are also German laws that place restrictions on whether and when your retail business can be open on Sundays. Or what you can say about the Nazis. Plenty of US laws are heatedly discussed here as well, often enough.

Fact is, it's not likely you can arrive at sensible conclusions about them without context or on the basis of some advocacy piece or, for that matter, Plato.
> Do we have a Constitutional right to freedom of movement?

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Unite...
Alcohol is dangerous, cars are dangerous, etc, etc...

This appears to be another double standard...
Yeah but how much fake money is he starting with?
How many times does someone need to explain that enforcing fixed-interval ticks is a bad idea for people to stop bringing it up on HN?

In the current environment, you own shares of MidCap Inc. They release a really bad earnings report, the company looks like it'll just keep sliding for the next few months and you want out. You see what the price as of 5 seconds ago is is (5 seconds since you're only human), put yours in at just below that and 10 milliseconds later you've sold your stock. You got a fair price and you aren't stuck holding a bad stock.

In your proposed 1 hour ticks, you still own MidCap and they still release a bad earnings report. You still want out, but since trades execute once an hour you have no idea what the price is after this earnings report. You put in an ask at a slight loss (you don't care about the loss, you just want out), wait 45 minutes and... Fuck, everyone put their asks lower than yours. Half the book clears and everyone who didn't get their ask thinks "I really don't want to be holding onto this crap stock". You re-list at a 25% loss, because you really just want out and the average trade was a 15% loss anyway, and so does everyone else. You better hope the book gets completely cleared this time, or that stock is gonna hit the floor.

That's all not mentioning the fact that 1 hour ticks wont eliminate HFT and the desire for low-latency (who get's priority when there are 2 $33.55 bids on the book? The first one placed?). And half of HN will be grumbling about how the exchanges take all this profit when the bid/ask spread is negative.
> I think the rulers are trying to improve the laws and the culture

How? As I understand it the actual UAE citizens are getting 'fat' off of the oil money, so all of the menial labour work goes to poor foreigners that are bussed in from SE Asia. It's going to be difficult to change a culture of people that are used to poor Asians doing all of the 'crap jobs' for them while they just bask in money (so to speak).
In light of recent revelations, "all foreign persons" seems unreasonably optimistic. To the NSA, every living human is either a known enemy or a potential enemy, and either way must be watched closely.
Yes, though I think what parent is asking is how much simulated capital he started with.
My American Government put a definition of democracy in a way that I feel is important here:

Democracy is government for the people, by the people, held accountable by the people.

This is not democracy. There is no due process, there is seemingly no way to appeal, and nobody is held accountable for any decisions for this list, right or wrong.
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Having large amounts of collected data on citizens doesn't create a tyrannical government. Nor is it required for a tyrannical government: the Nazis did horrible things with very primitive technology. In the same vein, the U.S. government has had seventy years to become tyrannical with much more advanced technology, but it has not.

The key to foiling a tyrannical government is to prevent a tyrannical government from being created in the first place though the political process--checks and balances, rule of law, preservation of values, citizen involvement, democratic and fair elections. It is not by employing a few lame technological defenses or prohibiting specific practice X, Y, and Z. Those are useless against any sufficiently motivated government, and, if anything, they create a false sense of security. Government is not as it has, but as it does.
"I find it regrettable that Snowden sought asylum. If he had stayed in the united states, faced trial by jury, and won his freedom, it would have set a precedent for other whistleblowers to follow."

The chance of that happening was never one jot above zero.
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>Does that go for "let humans decide for themselves whether to accept homosexuality as normal for some people?" If so, would you agree that the state must remain neutral on that issue? And if so, then would you agree that expressing hostility to gay rights can never be harassment or bullying in the eyes of the state?

The issue is not with taking a position, it's with suppressing opposition to that position. My school encouraged tolerance for the LGBT community in its promotion of diversity, but I could stand up in a school-sponsored Debate extracurricular and oppose gay marriage. I could write a persuasive paper against gay marriage and submit it to my English teacher. I could campaign against gay rights in the Republican club. If I were the editor, I could run a front-page school newspaper article opposing the administration's decision. I'd probably lose a lot of friends that way, but the school couldn't stop or punish me. This is one of the strengths of public education.

Nobody, however, gets to bully or harass individuals for any reason, including their homosexuality. As with parents and children, your rights end and the other person's rights begin.
Well, I thought I did, but I interpreted your point more narrowly: that no proprietary app from some startup would ever be able to revolutionize authoring and reading works, replacing PDFs and their ilk for academics and research. I agreed.

If your point is the much broader contention that capitalism is lame and evil and retarded in general, that's a little beyond the scope of what can be resolved on HN.
Regulation, banks, KYC compliance and security are the bottlenecks right now.
You meant to say "free for < 1000 requests a day"
$30/month

$70 for 3 months

$250 for 12 months.
> no. 'disqualifies you from job interviews' only applies in very few cases. obviously there will be some discrimination overall, but it's not a serious reason to avoid Germany.

Unless you are Arab/Muslim, you are very embedded into the Arab/Muslim community/culture, or you are well-versed in the stats on the subject, it really seems like you're speaking from a place of ignorance.

> It is also true that part of this underperformance may have a genetic cause.

It's highly unlikely that such a general descriptor as "job performance" across all industries would have anything to do with genetic factors. The fact that you even bother to mention it makes me think that you're putting more stock in the idea than it is worth.
Your scenario trades efficiency for fairness. I don't see a problem with this in general.
Paper is here I believe: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/hender/NBBO.pdf. The 377k number is at the bottom of p. 10. Since he believes there's no capital at risk, the starting amount is unimportant.
The button was blasted 2km away from the router.
You'll get a lot more out of a discussion if you don't argue with a caricature of your interlocutor's opinions. I'd love to go on about about libertarian ties to right-wing, Christianist movements, which themselves are inextricable from white supremacy and a hostility towards women, but it's unfair to assume that you, personally, hold any such beliefs.

So let's talk about children, and the state.

The state believes that parents do not own their children. This is relatively uncontroversial, if you want somebody to be able to protect children from the depredations of shitty parents. Kids are fragile and easily influenced, and they can't make adult decisions. They're defenseless, particularly against their parents.

Generally education is considered critical to a child's welfare, and for good reason. Basic literacy and arithmetic are important if you're to have citizenry capable of participating in a democracy.

Put it all together and perhaps you see why a society might be just a wee bit concerned about how parents treat their children, including whether and how they educate them.
When I first posted my reply every time I watched that demo the neural net line was converging on a line perpendicular to the line in the background.

(rereading my original comment I think I described what I was seeing incorrectly but this new reply correctly explains what I was originally seeing)
The rule already exists to ban it... any trade submitted without the intent to actually execute is illegal. HFT is based on creating and with drawing trades continously to discover the best price available. The rule is just not enforced. Regulatory capture is the problem, not lack of regulations.
> The issue is not with taking a position, it's with suppressing opposition to that position.

If that is the case, then allowing parents to teach opposing viewpoints should be a good thing, right? Saying parents can't teach such viewpoints would be suppressing opposition, right?

> I could write a persuasive paper against gay marriage. I could campaign against gay rights in the Republican club.

If you wore a T-shirt that said "Aristotle said the fundamental union of society is between man and woman and he was right" would that get you in trouble I wonder? Would that be seen as bullying? Should it be seen as bullying?

One problem I am seeing today is that there is a trend towards seeing such things as bullying today and therefore schools end up in the position of imposing cultural ideals, and that I think runs right up against the suppression of opposition that I think you are saying is not ok.
Didn't terrorism go away after Clinton sent cruise missiles into terrorist camps?
When something is vague you can infer. "stock price" is too specific.
Example of bombing without iota of legal justification making it better?
You would have to have it synced across all global exchanges, if it wasn't you end up with a similar position that we are in now every n time units.
But if he's making $0.0001 per share and he can only use his capital once every 3 days due to clearing, it is important.
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And, if experience is any guide, QuantumBlrk.org and any other completely unrelated but blindly automate-able "matches"…
Ah, 1 hour ticks. I like it. Imagine the spikes of traffic at the start of every hour. Just beautiful. That would result in the prompt upgrade from 40Gbps to something much faster. And finally all these pesky bugs in the routers and network cards will get sort out. Beautiful :)
Because they can.

Most FX brokers do not "exchange money", that is in the sense that you can withdraw the quote currency. Because of this, they don't have to deal with money laundering.

FX brokers and MtGox also have different business models. Brokers usually make money off their spreads, slightly adjusting their quotes in their favor. Traders on MtGox trade directly with other users, not against the company. This attracts different crowds.

Fiat is also not as volatile as Bitcoin. A .35% fee on Forex would completely devastate profits. Meanwhile, Bitcoin rises and falls 10% on a good weekend.

Bitcoin exchanges would be comparable to stock exchanges like NYSE or NASDAQ, except volume is lower in the tens of magnitudes.
The presentation I think is underlying a more general problem.

The question is, what is a right? I think you have a point that most of the discussion on rights is based on people sitting on their butts thinking "wouldn't it be nice if..." or "I want..." or "I think it would be fair if...." I would then say that most of the discussion on both sides of most of these issues (telephone metadata scooped up in large-scale operations, no-fly lists as violating due process, same-sex marriage, and much more).

I agree that's unhealthy. I was trying to provide an alternative viewpoint that would allow for discussions.
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I joined the EFF a decade or so ago. I fully support almost everything they do with the money I give to them and am happy to be able to contribute to their efforts.

I joined the FSF right about the same time. When it comes time to renew my membership, sadly what comes to mind is not the good things that the FSF works towards.

It is stuff like this that makes me seriously question whether I should continue to give money to the FSF money or if perhaps there is someone else who might make better use of it.
Since at the most base level the use of force is necessary to create laws, bombing is its own legal justification. We're making an international law that says don't use chemical weapons, although the amount of force probably won't be high enough to make it clear how serious an offense it is, meaning that it will probably do not much. Then again it appears slightly better than letting the use of chemical weapons slide.
I found this http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40378347?uid=3739840&u...

>A common misconception is that 'randomness' must involve continual change. Ask a group of early high school students to invent a series of 20 random numbers from the integers 1 to 6 and you will usually find some who deliberately never write the same number twice in a row. If you then draw the analogy to rolling a die 20 times, and point out that this process can give the same number twice in a row, some students may insist that this means the die isn't random!

Though that doesn't sound like what OP meant.
For those interested www.ticalc.org is an incredible archive dedicated to these little computers.

I love TI calcs so much that the first app I install on a new phone are the TI calc emulators.
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While you're right - in this case it might be perfectly acceptable to decide "I'll use unreliable user-agent sniffing to handle 80%/90%/99%/99.999% of my traffic, and accept some small cases where a slower option occasionally needs to be used, or possibly accept minor font differences on odd-ball browsers".
Yes, and we saddle driver's licenses with all kinds of other things, at least technically: alimony paid, registered for the draft, etc.

But that just illustrates that making some economically-mandatory action into a privilege make the license to that action into a powerful instrument of control. Hence, the No-Fly List, nominally For Your Safety, but mostly To Control You.
Exactly. Gender-segregated restrooms are held to a lower level of scrutiny than race-segregated restrooms which is why the former is allowed but the latter is not.

Also the court is so inconsistent on what gets what and whether rational basis means "we can imagine a rational basis" or "we have evidence for a rational basis" and whether a right gets strict scrutiny (free speech) or not...

For example, it is very difficult figuring out whether circumcision bans would be held to rational basis or strict scrutiny when it comes to religious liberty (it does with regard to eduction apparently, per Yoder v. Wisconsin, not regarding to drug laws absent the RFRA (see Smith v. Employment Department of Oregon), but it does reach regarding bans on ritual slaughter of animals, (see Lakumu Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah).
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I could be wrong, but I don't think that's how settlement works. Making a market would be impractical from a capital perspective for any players. I would assume DTCC nets out its exposure to each clearing member, at the very least.
I would accept that usage, but not "my pronunciations." The hard part for foreign speakers is that this usage is perfectly comprehensible, so it would rarely get corrected, while sounding bad to native speakers.

Which is, of course, quite harmful to someone who wants to improve. And yes, I know of no simple answer as to when to use 'code' vs. 'codes', but I will say that I think that 'source codes' is probably always wrong. 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.
The point of the reference to Plato is that in his writings Socrates establishes a bare minimum that we should expect from a legal system if we are to respect it. Being able to leave isn't sufficient, however it is necessary.

When states start revoking passports to restrict the movement of people under their jurisdiction, they fall short of something that we should respect.
The American firebombing campaigns over Japan caused massive damage and losses. Some of these attacks were as great or greater than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki with regards to damage and loss of life.

Prime Minister Baron Kantarō Suzuki reported to U.S.
military authorities it "seemed to me unavoidable that
in the long run Japan would be almost destroyed by air
attack so that merely on the basis of the B-29s alone
I was convinced that Japan should sue for peace."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_...
>If that is the case, then allowing parents to teach opposing viewpoints should be a good thing, right? Saying parents can't teach such viewpoints would be suppressing opposition, right?

Earlier in this thread I explicitly supported parents' rights to say whatever the want at home. My objection is to preventing their children from hearing what the school has to say.

>If you wore a T-shirt that said "Aristotle said the fundamental union of society is between man and woman and he was right" would that get you in trouble I wonder? Would that be seen as bullying? Should it be seen as bullying?

No, no, and no. It would lose you the respect of your liberal and/or LGBTQ peers, but the school can't stop you unless it stops all controversial or political speech on clothing (which is a Time, Place, and Manner restriction).

I've not heard of students opposition to gay rights in general getting them in trouble for bullying, although it sounds like something that could happen. That would be an inappropriate restriction of free speech. I have heard assholes defending the right to personally bully specific gay kids with derogatory language directed specifically to them, threats, physical violence, etc. That shouldn't and doesn't fly.
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>I'll get around to quitting soon though.

dont do it, i think is healthy to any community to have people with different perspectives..

also i dont consider HN a reddit for startups.. once in a while there are something about it.. (thanks god) but are not the majority view, unlike the previous post may picture

startup culture its way off its limits.. and some people should get back to sanity again..

the only people making something with this hyped culture are VC´s buying and selling things that dont even have a good business model just for the sake of its own profit..

but this look like a US zombie virus, that every 20 years start to happen all over again.. until the bubbles explode markets blows up.. and really hard working people have to pay for all the damage this greedy people creates..

sometimes i fell just like you..
James Burke is brilliant. I uploaded the full Connections series last year (they had already existed on another channel but were split into 10min vids): http://www.youtube.com/JamesBurkeConnection
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