skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conviction: Do You Really Believe In Your Dreams?
Unfortunately, a network API letting you mix and match languages still opens up risk from a rogue employee who uses something different than the status quo and then quits, leaving something unfamiliar that needs to be maintained.
I was hoping this would be about the Northwest Tree Octopus.
Methinks Europe is realizing that a) most of that defense and intelligence is aimed at enemies created by the US in the first place, and b) outsourcing defense to a nation that massively violates the civil rights of European citizens is about as appropriate as outsourcing protection to the mafia.
- All Ubuntu Touch development happens publicly on a mailing list and in IRC.

- All the Ubuntu Touch specs are public and discussed during a public developer summit online.

- Daily images and snapshots for everyone

- Weekly hangouts with community members and status reports.

- Nearly all of the core apps shipping on the image are community contributed.

It's nice that you are excited about Firefox OS (me too), but seriously there's no need to go around making things up about another OSS project.
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Because in SA it's subsidized much more so than in the US or other places. It's a way to keep people 'happy' over there.
I don't know that the conclusion that pre-reform candidates were more moderate and/or effective is as self-evident as he seems to believe. It's hard to brush off the fact that our opinions of them are not only colored through the lens of history books, but also through a vastly different culture.

In addition to the distortion of perception through second-hand accounts versus perception through actively participating in the modern scene, I'd argue that no small part of the perception of modern presidents is affected by the proliferation of media sources and the formation of specialized media outlets with a particular ideological audience that didn't exist as widely in the past.
Russian divers recover half-ton meteor from lake
World likely to have 11 trillionaires within two generations
I couldn't be more underwhelmed by what TypeScript has to offer vs vanilla JavaScript or CoffeeScript.

Reading through the marketing material from MS it seems like the entire value proposition is "statically typed languages make it easier to think about your program, also we added the class keyword so you don't feel lost"

I suppose if you believe those claims or are really interested in using MS development tools, TypeScript is for you.

IMO, ClojureScript is much more interesting and has a far greater value proposition for complex front-end development.
Supply and demand + costs of transportation I assume
Excellent -- I use wireshark probably every other day on my osx laptop and this looks like a pretty good improvement.

Have there been any performance improvements to command line tshark recently?
By 2005 we were approaching the one-millisecond barrier for latency arbitrage

Everything you need to know, in one soundbite.
Re: spreads & fees: Price spreads and fees have come down as a result of electronic trading being open to everyone, and is probably independent of HFT (at least, modern HFT): E.g., The decreased spreads and fees were happening in europe in the early 2000s, when fastest updates were at 1/4 second, and slower updates were at 2 seconds. The nanosecond scale was not the reason for this.

Re liquidity: it depends how you define liquidity. If you define it by "the average size at the bid or offer and next few price levels" or "volume traded", then yes - HFT has helped liquidity tremendously. If you define it as "the probability that a large order can complete", then liquidity has NOT gone up. With HFT, it's the same 100 shares/futures changing hands thousands of times per day, and they disappear often in times of uncertainty. If you need to execute a large order, you observe that you do not have the amazing liquidity everyone in HFT is talking about.

Re insider trading: I wouldn't bet on it. With electronic trading, it's now easier to do insider trading slowly without attracting much attention. Furthermore, HFT has created new forms of fraud, so far unregulated: see e.g. http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4329.html
I disagree. The article itself implies possible malice. It mentions "personal vendetta" (with no supporting evidence or even speculation as to why) as a potential cause of the delay. I would consider a personal vendetta to be malicious.
Number 3 is by far the best title, as it explains exactly who Shamir is and why we should care. I wasn't aware whom he was prior to that title.

I think that in this case the HN renaming policy isn't doing the story a favour.
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I walked around at sharkfest in 2011 and got to chat with a lot of wireshark users during the picnic lunches. What struck me as interesting is that so many people use wireshark that are not network professionals by trade. They are poking through it, trying to just find a clue or two to see what the issue of the day is. I think that's wonderful! That wireshark is accessible enough with the gui to let people who are not diehard packet geeks really take a stab at looking under the hood and having a go at it.
Cows are bred to be fat, and they don't need to outwit prey, so it is hard for them to show the fact that they are conscious intelligent animals as well.
Is this Qt5 or Qt4? If it's Qt4, I have some terrible news. The Qt project in its infinite wisdom has pretty much obsoleted Qt widget stack and moved on to QML. It's a completely different beast and requires a complete rewrite.

Edit: grammar and some bloopers :)
The worst was the first time.

I didn't know what to expect or how long it might take, and I wasn't as prepared as I could be.

You sit there sweating, wondering what's happening and why there is an issue. And you want to help, and offer information that might smooth the process or speed it up, but they're not interested in your opinion they will take their time to determine whatever it is that they are looking for from other parties.

That first time I was asked for paperwork that I didn't have on me, things stored in email were useless to me (I couldn't turn on the laptop, it wouldn't be trusted as information, etc), and I'd left most details in my laptop except for the hotel details.

It's the sitting there, not knowing, as hours drift by and you wonder whether your bags are still safe as they sit on the baggage collection belt. As you wonder whether the hotel has re-sold your room as you are a no-show now. Whether the public transport still runs or whether you have to get an expensive taxi.

And all the time you know you're held in this interim place and there's definitely no guarantee you'll be let through. So there's a fear that you could be going home and whatever plans you've made will come to nought, and that you'd be humiliated by the process as you'd have to communicate to peers or potential clients that sorry you're unable to meet them.

The isolation is the hardest bit the first time this happens.

I've never had a visa or entry declined, and whilst secondary can take hours (of sitting in silence as the fear touches everyone at some point) it's only taken a few seconds once I'm finally called and the staff are always polite and as friendly as you imagine they could be.

In preparation just print everything you could possibly need: contact details, meeting details, entry tickets to conferences, work schedule, accommodation details, things to prove you have plans to leave. Make sure that people on your contact list know that they may be called (they were my first time, but to my knowledge they no longer are). Take a book or two. And put a few snacks in your bag from the departure airport.

Nowadays I just read as peacefully as I can. Sometimes on a busy flight, if it's a large conference or event there will be someone I know also in the tech industry and attending something. So when that happens I find it can be a good time to have a chat and catch up with someone.

Secondary takes hours, anyone can deal with that. The real problem is the visa takes weeks or months. I've missed conferences, missed meetings, missed a friend's wedding. Real-life events sail merrily by as you wait to hear from the US embassy.

The real problem is what affected Adi Shamir's visit. Visa's shouldn't take an indeterminate amount of time to process, and I've also done it so many times that they know everything there is about me (and probably Adi too) already.
Not only scientists and doctors, but programmers too. Just imagine if somebody invented a new rails plugin that could be used to help build the next wikileaks or something but they weren't able to demonstrate it at a meetup.
While intelligent, octopus are dramatically different from other intelligent species.

They are, somehow, born with their intelligence. Everything else learns it, all the species you mentioned learn from their parents or surrogates.

Octopus are also a K selected species, laying 200,000 eggs on average. Furthermore, they are short lived in comparison to any other intelligent species.

We associate intelligence with individuality and hence with rarity: each human intelligence is rare because it was cultivated, not born. Octopus aren't like that.
Add me to the list of people who know of one, but not the other.
Pira Energy Consulting Group.

Gee, I wonder if they have any interests or agendas.
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First, these models are looking at individuals' behavior on average.

Second, if you want to be an infantryman, fly a jet, work with missiles, etc, most of the jobs are military. And there are subcultures found only in the military that some people find very appealing. The models are smart enough to consider such factors.

But the motivations and cultures of the military and civilian employment writ large are VASTLY different. Lumping the civilians in with the military and declaring it all good is way too simple. There are huge chunks of the government where the work is really no different than similar work in the private sector.

The postal service and UPS is only one example -- there are some unique functions and activities in USPS, out in rural areas, but the vast majority of it is pretty much the same as USPS. Wanna bet that postal workers are paid more than USPS workers? Or on their turnover ratios?

It isn't too hard to see the best parts of the government, they're pretty interesting and do important stuff. But those parts make a surprisingly small fraction of the total activity.
^^^ some
Let me guess. Postgres 9.1, Ruby 1.9.1, PHP 5.3.11, a lot of extremely old packages... Please tell me if I'm wrong!

I'm really tired of the software world moving forward and Ubuntu turning into Debian Woody.
Turn your phone into a remote for any site w/ the open source Mote.io extension
I won't be doing nothing. I'm sure I will do something, but I will not do it for money, just for fun. Read books, learn obscure languages, program non-monetizable projects, ... Also, this means that I will be under absolutely no pressure to stick with it, instead I will be able to switch my hobbies every other week (as soon as I get border).

For me, to relax means to be without obligations, not to be completely idle.
Oh I know how I would react, but that doesn't mean every parent would react that way.
For some strange reason most people in Germany misunderstood Crowdfunding with Crowdinvesting and so we have a lot of Crowdinvesting platforms like Companisto, Seedmatch, Bergfürst...
>You've just described every single Kickstarter.

Not at all. There have been numerous campaigns that released their product to the community upon reaching their goal, like Cards Against Humanity, The Pirate Bay - AFK documentary, the Open Goldberg Variations, and many more projects.

http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/creativecommons
That octopus has been at Cove 2 on Alki for years. I got my SCUBA certification there nearly 8 years ago and every greybeard diver raved about this particular octupus. One of the stops on the certification dive was this old, broken sewer line that exposed a cornucopia of marine life, including this huge octopus.

May he/she rest in peace.

Edit: Probably not the same octopus [1] but it made me nostalgic.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteroctopus_dofleini#Lifespan_...
That's not quite true - along with self-censorship, there are huge areas (for example surveillance) which cannot be discussed in an open way in the UK because of government pressure (D-Notices, threats of legal action etc).

Sorry are you suggesting that we in the UK can't have an open discussion on surveillance?
IMHO these operational details are very important but insufficient. Especially in case of startup where they will change anyway.
Just to be clear, HFT these days mean microsecond round trip times between trading algorithms and exchanges.

The situation you describe is thanks to electronic trading, and is also available in financial markets that are not dominated (not to say "infested") by HFT, such as currencies and CFDs.
That's not entirely true. While TypeScript is closely aligning itself with the proposed ES6 syntax for classes and modules, there is no expectation that ECMAScript will add optional static type checking. If you want statically typed JavaScript you are always going to need something like TypeScript.

With that said, as ES6 evolves and becomes more widely supported there will be aspects of the TypeScript compiler that will no longer be needed (e.g. classes, modules, fat arrow functions, etc.).
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Last time I was using Ubuntu+Unity as my main desktop (11.xx), I used `xmodmap` to swap my keys, and found that every so often it'd be reverted. Have you experienced similar problems with this technique?
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Surely if we are changing the law to require districts be chosen by shortest line method we would change the law so that it was legal to do so.
> I'm wondering if someone here can explain to me the value in HFT for anyone other than the people doing the trading.

Well I guess I'm very biased but here's my stab at it.

High Frequency trading is at the for front of alot of technology such as ASIC's, Infiniband networking gear,and low latency OS and networking stacks.

You could argue that they help push these technologies forward by providing the first customer for these areas.

Liquidity has gone up with the advent of High Frequency trading but like someone else has said its hard to disentangle all market factors to say this is due to HF Trading.

> Something about it just doesn't ring true to me. If it is in fact true I'd love to hear an explanation.

To be fair, this statement is the equivalent of "I've heard evolution is a well followed theory but something about it doesn't ring true to me."

What sort of explanation would you like that hasn't already been said 100's of times by people more qualified than me?

You haven't said what you don't like or disagree with about the many existing explanations:)
It is no news that substance abuse has environmental and social factors much more powerful that physiological.

Not just rats will avoid poison when there is an alternative and will consume it if nothing else to do.)
Riding my local streets, I always need to have my rims trued. Were I to buy one of these, I'd want the beefy model, or some assurance that I could find someone who could true it.
I'm Israeli, not sure why this should be offensive :) AFAIK most foreigners need a visa, except for EU and few other nations.
Hey - founder from Kite here.

We've included as much cross-platform code as possible in the client so we can start supporting Windows ASAP. I can't give an exact date but we're working hard on it.
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That's what I meant - when you are not connected, it appears in the place where it always been in Windows 8. Bad wording perhaps, sorry.
Looks really good. I started skeptical, but I really like what you did there.

It would be helpful if there was some pricing page so I know what I am getting myself into.
Except that for nearly every -webkit property there's a non-vendor version as well. There's the occasional -moz in there so it doesn't seem that would be the problem.

It now redirects to famou.us/c/ in Firefox for me.
Alexis Ohanian - "I don't regret selling Reddit."
By definition, Europeans do not have civil rights in the United States.
Is there a solution better than implementing OS-specific GUI to provide native look and feel? I was thinking about that and came to the conclusion that the best thing we can do is to separate the business logic from the GUI. We can then equip the application with a CLI, a GTK GUI, a Qt GUI, etc.
Who actually uses the microsoft account login?
While I agree with your "leave them alone" sentiment, why can't that apply to all animals/sentient beings?

I'm not sure how to answer that question myself... but a lot of comments thus far say something like "they are intelligent so leave them alone."

On the other hand, if an animal is ugly or stupid or abundant, like spiders or cockroaches or deer or (I can't think of an example of a stupid animal) then it's okay to exterminate/hunt/harvest/kill them.

I'm just curious what line of reasoning or criteria that lead to
"dog: awesome, do not abuse! Michael Vick is a monster", "pig: edible",
"spider: kill on sight",
etc.

Is it attractiveness? Perceived benefit to our own species?
I'm still not sure that it's ethical to kill human clones, just because they were born fully formed and with pre-programmed intelligence, and die anyway after a few years.
Data is a combination from Bitsnoop API (http://bitsnoop.com/info/api.html), KickAss Torrents API (http://kickass.to/api/), and originally sourced.
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Cool — I've been meaning to try Meteor for a while, will check it out.
> ...also we added the class keyword so you don't feel lost

I believe EcmaScript 6 plans on adding the class keyword and TypeScript's implementation reflects the current draft of how classes in ES6 will work.

> ...statically typed languages make it easier to think about your program...

Out of curiosity, do you normally program using statically typed languages?

If not, I can see why you would be underwhelmed. Then again, I shouldn't be surprised by your reaction. This is Hacker News and TypeScript is by Microsoft.
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I think that's because the Java Control Panel updates the JRE, but that just updates the plugins and stuff. The manually downloaded JDK pkg definitely will update the java you invoke in the shell.
PlayStation 4 to cost more than 1,800 USD in Brazil
""It's legalized front-running. I think it is basically evil and I don't think it should have ever been allowed to reach the size that it did," he said. "Why should all of us pay a little group of people to engage in legalized front-running of our orders?""

Charlie Munger, http://www.cnbc.com/id/100705820
Wow some of those are a mouthful ;-)

But your right a startup with say 5 developers trying to develop a product in a short time scale is probably not suitable for trainees.

How how do the apprenticeships is it day release or block? 1 day a week at college and working 4 days a week is not that to much to ask from an employer? especially as apprentice's probably are paid less.

I am assuming there is a system of training levies so that the cost is born across the whole of industry - when I did mine (in mech eng) we joked that the government gave the employer more in grant subsidy for us than our actual salary.
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A simple learning management system
Yeah, unfortunately they didn't implement any strong understanding of marketing into their video. I was excited to see what the creators of Myst were up to - and the video introduction was "neat" - but it dragged on. Their $25 price point, they need to convince 40,000 people to pledge to make their minimum - and sure that video will make general gamers super excited to share this video/campaign page.
Nvidia presents its debugger (?) for Linux
Your "equity" takes the form of the experience of a product you wanted that otherwise never would have existed. It may not be liquid, but it has value.
Downvoter, care to explain? This information is 100% correct.
And as always, there is no accountability for the mod who destroyed the very useful information in the submitted title.

The title wasn't editorializing or linkbaiting. It helped inform those of us who didn't recognize Dr. Shamir's name at first glance.

Shame on the mod who did this.

Shame on HN for encouraging this destruction of value.
The release notes actually say Apache 2.4 and PHP 5.5[1], no mention of Ruby or Postgres though. Postgres runs its own Debian repo[2], by the way :)

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseNotes

[2] http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/debian/
That's "MSDN Magazine Camp". MSDN Magazine was a rag of a publication that was mostly just advertisements for 3rd party tools than it was anything interesting about programming. MSDN is the Microsoft Developer's Network, which houses basically all of their documentation, tutorials, articles, and support for developers.
>Using branches heavily in your development can make you a better programmer like few other habits can.

It was really hard to keep reading after this line. It's like saying painting your bedroom red will make you better at sex. It's like saying getting a gas-powered golf cart will make you better at golf. It's like saying changing your mouse to be inverted on the Y-axis will make you better at computer games. All of these things change the experience, but they don't make you inherently better at anything. Just like branching during development.
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After upgrading to 8.1 some weeks ago I decided to really give the new UI a change.

And it is not actually that bad. The idea in modern UI is nice. I like the way you arrange windows and how you can easily split the screen for example 20-40-40 among three apps without having to manually resize the windows (just start dragging a modern UI app from top of the screen to arrange them). This also works smoothly with multiple screens.

I also think the start menu is ok, I just had to get rid of the default apps. I don't really see point on those tiles that are showing photos or news feed. Start with empty screen and then add applications which you really need.

In multim onitor configuration the start button is handy, since it allows you to open the Start screen in any monitor.

The major problem is that Microsoft decided to split the world into two. You have the modern apps. And you have the desktop apps. IMHO this was a mistake. They should have definitely figured out a way to run existing apps as modern UI apps. Now my most important apps are destined to live inside the desktop view.

Even Microsoft seems to have difficulties getting their apps to the modern side. Outlook is perfect example of app you would expect to exist on the modern side, but nope. Just on desktop. The Modern UI apps seem to usually simple apps. I'm wondering if they will ever manage to convert the complicated Office apps to modern UI.