skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that was actually happening it would mean that spreads (the difference between where market makers buy and sell stocks) were large. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Spreads are tiny. Much smaller than they used to be!

This is because there's not just one HFT. There are tons. So if one of them tries to do this you won't sell to them, you'll sell to one of the other ones for a better price. Yay competition!
Really don't know who you're arguing with here, or the point.
What I don't understand about the working remote discussion ist, that it only goes half way. It seems to be a discussion like: Lets work remote but keep everything else the same. Lets keep the company, lets keep bosses, lets collegues, lets keep meetings lets keep the chat at the coffee machine.

Working remotely, as I understand it, means, that you have to transform the company employer relationship in a way that it works using rather abstract or technical infrastructure or interface. The company has to know or to learn, and define, what kind of services or deliverable it can expect from its employees. Also the employee has to learn how to present his service or deliverables in a way that they get noticed and impress someone very far away.

It is sort of an bidirectional API that both have to serve and use.

My question now is, what is the reason for a company to have employees if the service they need is so well defined and could be offered by anyone capeable of serving that API? Why have employes if you can have contractors? The same question holds for the employees, if capable of offering that service in such a well defined way, why not turn into a company themselves and offer that service to anyone willing to pay?
Those are programming design principles, not security principles nor natural laws. It does not do to assume that principles in one domain carry over to other domains.
Nobody Writing About HealthCare.gov Has Any Idea What They’re Talking About
I suppose the same question could be asked about all those saddle makers and horse breeders when the age of the automobile arrived.

Online retailing is a great innovation; it makes sense, it's convenient, the selection is 1000x better, the service is excellent (at least at Amazon), and it saves people having to drive somewhere. The reviews and comments are useful, the related items and "what people bought" sidebars are handy.

By contrast, retailers have lost their edge. They hire low wage non-specialists, often high school students or other non-professionals who would rather be doing something else for a living.

So when you go to a store to purchase a gadget or article of clothing or book, your chief human interaction experience is distressingly often with a bored, under-motivated person who hates his job and hates you too.

I treasure the exceptions to the above rule, the dedicated doing-it-for-love guy or gal who really knows their stuff, like the extremely knowledgeable handyman guys and gals at the local hardware store--which is why I still patronize my local Ace whenever I can. Except they sometimes have a teenager who doesn't know where anything is, who doesn't scan my frequent buyer card, who can't offer me any advice whatsoever, who screws up the price. That kind of morbidly useless experience drives me (and millions of others) to redirect my money to smart, helpful businesses like Amazon.

The way of the world, I suppose.
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Honestly, reviews everywhere run the risk of being fake. Amazon, Target, YouTube, App Store, Yelp, Zagat, etc. Caveat emptor.

I do read the negative Amazon reviews, though. I'm also finding myself looking at their customer-submitted photos to get a better sense of size+function, and checking on YouTube for reviews as well. I'd rather get a review of a radiator thermostat from a guy that has reviewed a few of them (and posted videos of them all) than trust a bunch of 50-word reviews anywhere else.
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I will certainly give it a shot - right now we are using pusher and manually pushing updated object both ways. Not very efficient but it works.
Considering how it blew up the company, it's an apt misreading.
I never would have started coding if it weren't for Processing. It's relatively easy to learn, but is also Java-based and super powerful. I still use it today!

Check out http://www.processing.org
They're helpless, squabbling over the terms "boat people" and "illegals" to refer to unannounced immigrants. Actually trying to get something sensible out of our government is pointless.
Lack of innovations and talent in-house
ng-newsletter is seriously going off with content. This topic is super important when dealing with public facing client side apps, make sure to give it a read!
This is a straw man. Nobody says you should implicitly trust Google, the second line in my comment talks about stopping knee-jerk reactions. People here started ranting about Google without even seeing what the actual product is, which is pretty much the definition of knee-jerk.

I wouldn't mind people criticizing it if it's valid criticism, but this is just talking for the sake of talking.
> a market data glitch (which is not at all uncommon)

This is a point that bears amplifying. People who do not work in the financial industry may not appreciate just how bad market data feeds are. Radical jumps with no basis in reality, prices dropping to zero, regular ticks going missing, services going offline altogether with no warning, etc.
Yeah that's the most promising effort yet.
Put an email address in your profile description.
My one year subscription expires in December, so I was really hoping they'd get version 7 out before it runs out.

My favorite feature is the static code analysis that allows for autocomplete but also shows errors in the code, like functions not available in a class, unused variables, etc. When I use PHPStorm I always find problems in my co-workers code that wouldn't be obvious without code analysis.
> I often battle friends on Facebook over issues of politics, economics, and stuff, and I definitely notice that people are generally more interested in winning than learning.

Of course. If you want to learn something, talk one-on-one or seek out authoritative sources. If you're engaging in a dispute in a public forum in front of millions of spectators, like it or not, the debate exists to convince others, not each other.

And there's nothing wrong with that.
How Playing Hard to Get Can Help Your Product
fun fact: The comments here read like reviews on amazon itself, suspiciously positive ;)
I don't remember the specific setup (or what it's called), but you can have that in Linux. The problem is that then you can't drag windows from one monitor to the other, though that may also be something that can be configured. Because of that I never liked independent desktops in Linux, but I like how they implemented it in Mavericks.
> For the privacy advocates when it comes to public transportation like flying: what do you fear may happen as a result of greater background checks?

False positives, increased harassment/inconveniece of innocent people, chilling effects, driving people away from airlines towards other, less efficient means of long distance travel, even as airlines are struggling to stay in business. TSA becoming more powerful, free citizens becoming desensitized to privacy invasions, increased rape-scans, crotch fondling, etc.

Generally, it makes our country a worse place to travel to/from/within. And what are the benefits, again? Because I'm not seeing any, and that is the question you should be asking, not simply "what's the harm?".
I went from working in an office, to working remotely for the same company.

While there were certainly benefits, I experienced a few downsides that also drove me crazy.

As a product manager, I was in the sticky situation of needing to coordinate with a bunch of different people, and hit certain deadlines that the rest of the company may or may not have aligned with. I felt like I lost much my day-to-day ability to get-shit-done, especially as I was competing for time & resources with other projects.

I also found it easier to stop caring as much, since the emotions & passion weren't as readily communicated remotely.

Definitely some personal shortcoming in there as well, but, there's definitely issues to watch for if working remotely.
feel free to buy from any random seller. if you filter by products sold by amazon their inventory diminishes to the point that you cant choose more than one brand
Aha.

In that case, I'd strongly advise more than one ad per page. 2-3 is good.

If you can, run 'em through Google Adsense: I don't know what you're using at the moment but Adsense has consistently been the highest performer for me, CPM-wise, short of running my own direct-sold ads.

And do test different layouts. I've found that changing ad layout on a page can literally be a 10x multiplier on ad income.
Show HN: Beta List 3.0 (Redesign)
I've never been able to find remote work. A lot of it might have to do with my various roles in engineering. But I think a lot of it is east-coast business culture.

But also, from talking to a lot of Silicon Valley friends, they don't have much work from home either....unless you're a sales rep, sales engineer, or a consultant who likely has to spend most of the time on-sight (away from corp office)...

One thing I'm hoping to accomplish at my new company is a culture of work-hard/play-hard remote workers. Those who want to live in say mountain towns, but who want a real career as they get older...I'd not even have a problem with the idea of a "Powder Day" and they don't login until noon. WIth the right happy workers...
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Yours is the correct viewpoint: it is incompatible with human cognition.

If an alert system is not perceived as highly reliable in directing positive action, then the humans involved will inevitably disable the alert system, either by pulling out a screwdriver or rewriting their mental rubrics to ignore the messages as noise.

Knight Capital is just the finance version of Three Mile Island and Deepwater Horizon -- the means to mitigate or prevent disaster were on hand, but the people in charge just dithered by the kill switch because they were confused. Well, if the people in charge are confused, that is a reason to start the emergency procedures.
php 5.5 support listed as a feature annoys me.

I am a paying user ) and when I reported that php 5.5 was not recognized as php 5.4 or better I felt I was just brushed off. So, for the moment I cannot use the built in server features.

) Technically I bought Idea and downloaded the php plugins.
It's simulating those little ticker tape things that stock prices came on in old movies. I found it made it a rather thrilling read.
Oh they are passing on most of the tax for now, but what
will happen when they really dominate? I saw what happened
to Home Depot. They concored the market on prices. Competition folded. They raised their prices. It's now just an expensive big store with unhappy help.
The best is http://www.imacs.com
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Or, the data is hosted externally, but you can only access it through your company's VPN.
... and they don't actually have to worry about actually making money. It's run as a charity for consumers paid for by investors.
I agree that they should open source it, but I don't think it's finished. There is a mantra with some companies that say "The product will be ready when it's done" and this site is not done, but it is launched. With the amount of code, there are probably hundreds of security issues that could be fixed, but also may inevitably break the live site once people see ways to hack around certain components.

I feel like open source is a decision you need to make at the beginning of the project or spend a lot of work at the end ripping out bad decisions. If you're saying you would hack on this and help fix it, I commend you.
I've working in consulting-type roles for a long time. The biggest problem for solo-operators (or even with a couple employees) is that most clients require you to be in their offices...
How to Find the Right Venture Capitalist for Your Startup
Apple Keynote Bingo
My experience is that a lot of bulky but cheap items cost more than in local stores. They're rolling shipping costs into the product cost.
I'm am always so excited by Typed Clojure. It's very interesting to see what you can do with an optional, add-on-type type system that is allowed to be flexible with runtime behavior.

I'm undoubtedly addicted to the full static assertions that Haskell's type system provides, but some elements of Typed Clojure are expressive enough to remind me of Agda or Idris.
I've never had multiple screens. But I'm in love with teleport. I've got two laptops and an iMac. KVM style screen spanning and input sharing is awesome.
The parts you delete aren't left over. They've been deleted. Do you test the parts of your code left behind after refactoring? Yes, absolutely.

Code is either working correctly, and verified to be such by automatic testing, or it's not there. You don't leave unused code lying around to be removed later!
sorry, i wasn't sure how detailed to be, but by 'acting stupidly' I meant unintentionally selling shorts they couldn't cover in a way that made the action illegal.
On the paper towels I agree, but large electronics like TVs are sourced from local warehouses and hand delivered similarly to how Best Buy would do so.
Its actually easier to teach hardware for kids that age. Maybe you can make a sat solver that checks if a circuit is satisfiable and basics of circuits with "and" "or" and "not" gates is always very interesting. You can even teach them about latches and flip flips and have them program a "soft drink" machine
Disclosure: I am the founder of Beta List.

I launched a redesign of Beta List today. The old design was due for a make-over. The new design is responsive and discovering the close to 3,000 published startups is now easier as you can filter by region (e.g. see all Italian startups) and market (e.g. just education-related startups).

Since I see Beta List is mentioned here every now and then I figured I'd ask for your feedback. What do you think? What do you like? What can be improved?
In my experience remote work, works best when everyone is remote. That way all the remote worker issues have to be sorted out, or atleast thought of by day one.

When remote work starts to fall apart is when there is a dedicated office where 75% of the team works.

In these cases the remote workers miss the critical "Let's grab a room meetings" where decisions are made. I think the reason is that its much easier to make decisions with people when you can see them face to face rather than in group chat.
Does Amazon have a simple way to track when the $75 has paid for itself? Or did you just calculate it yourself?
Note that you don't have to use the classes like "col-lg-4" in Bootstrap either. You can use your own classes and build the grid with .make-row() and .make-lg-column() mixins instead.
(See http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid-less for examples.)

I'm currently using Bootstrap in two very different projects. One is an internal admin site where we have managed to get very far just using Bootstrap components in the HTML without any custom CSS at all. It's an AngularJS project and with Angular directives for Bootstrap (http://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/) you can use Bootstrap like any native UI toolkit and if you don't need a customized look and feel you can get by with the defaults or just add a Bootstrap theme (http://bootswatch.com/) on top.

Another one is a large application with lots of LESS stylesheets and themed for different clients. By building our custom UI components in the same way as Bootstrap components are built we have managed to keep it very easy to customize for different themes. Bootstrap provides whole lot of variables as customization points and we have added a bunch of our own on top. By changing those variables we can create new themes very easily.

For choosing Bootstrap vs Foundation, just pick one you like. More importantly, use the components provided by the framework as much as you can. When you to roll your own components, make them in the same modular fashion as the framework components. Put components in their own files and namespace them with classes. This way you can keep things nice and modular, and your stylesheets don't turn into an entangled monolithic blob that is difficult to maintain.
How multiple monitors interact with Spaces and apps in fullscreen mode sucks and Apple very much screwed that up. No argument there. But to conflate that with “Apple finally brings multiple monitor support with Mavericks” is wildly misleading.

Also, you could give apps the full screen to work with since forever in OS X. You do not need a special mode for that. Apple’s fullscreen mode is most definitely not in any way equal to Windows’ maximize function. I think that’s what many people fail to notice.
37signals is a black swan for a lot of things.

To be noted, but not as the basis for a new world order.

Anecdotal evidence of my own:

- Stop thinking about labor in a capital-intensive business

- I can't do a damn thing with collaboration without a real whiteboard

- I don't work well with too much technology.

- Time zones make things tricky: half of "our" team is in Europe, but deals with a different group of companies. FTSE vs NYSE trading hours make things difficult.

- The one work-from-home person on "our" team was let go due to inconsistent quality of output

- Living in a city is a part of work/life balance for pretty much anyone under age 30

--tslathrow
I really like to rock [Bourbon](http://bourbon.io/) and [Neat](http://neat.bourbon.io/). It's not a complete solution like Bootstrap or Zurb but it has just about everything you need to build off of. It's more of a long term solution than Bootstrap or Zurb.
Join us -- we're a tiny but growing team in Brooklyn, Albany and Buenos Aires, building software for activism: http://www.controlshiftlabs.com/careers/
Google Trends says Bootstrap is ~7x as popular as Foundation:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=twitter+bootstrap#q=...

On that basis, I'd go with Bootstrap.
Not to mention that the term "startup" in general usage doesn't even have to mean a technology company. In general terms it could mean a small , new business with low revenue.

On HN you will often see companies with multi million $ valuations referred to as startups.
> After the 10,000/25,000/50,000 insertions, do I just need to buy a new phone?

I don't know about the new connector's durability, but if it breaks, just put in a new one.

I had to replace the dock connector in my iphone 4 and it cost me $30 and an hour of time.

Ifixit shows you how to do it for a 5: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+5+Lightning+Connector+Rep...
Indeed it is, my bad for not RTFM
Sorry, didn't mean to be arguing, I was just surprised that you eat more than three apple's worth of fruit a day. I apologize if my tone came out argumentative.

My only point is that most Americans don't eat more than that amount in fruit, but rather that they go over that amount mostly due to sweetened beverages and baked goods.
Well, congrats on finding product market fit then! The blog is high quality, so I'm not surprised it led you to it.
They make it difficult to return inexpensive items. It's
happened two times when I have been a Prime Member. Once, they sent me the wrong model radio. It was only 10 dollars,
but it's the principal of the blah. When I tried to return
it was not just a click--I had to call, and the number was actually busy.

Plus--that two day shipping--works great for their items, but it's hit, or miss with resellers.
My guess is 3rd party logistics. If you follow amazon, you see 3pl logistics's share of the company revenue growing. And they ordered a place at 2015 in an important supply chain convention.

They will probably be announcing some sort of global supply chain and fulfillment service.

And the building blocks look interesting: robots, amazon level customer service and fulfillment, better supplier financing(enabled by sales data), global handling services(customs ,etc), offering better IT tools(for example demand prediction, A/B testing globally), Advertising deals on the amazon platform, etc. Almost like telling the manufacturer: you just build stuff, we'll do the rest for you.

If this guess is true, seeing all this packaged would be very interesting.
Agree. Remote works well for teams of developers that can be heads-down for days working on one product or one component with few external dependencies to coordinate, but for teams that have many different responsilities and need to stay in pace with other teams then you can't beat being all in same physical location.
Sales taxes are going to bite into their business. My state (Massachusetts) has forced them to charge sales tax starting some time later this year, and that's bound to affect sales.

Tax-free New Hampshire is 45 minutes away from Boston, and I suspect that once the sales tax kicks in, all those malls and outlets up north are going to see an uptick in business.

In fact, probably that's why they're squeezing the shipping now, because of this impending hit that they know they're going to take, until people become resigned to the tax.
Here's one reason we recently experienced:

Many people in our company like the flexibility of choosing to work remotely or in the office. However, when we on-boarded a new hire recently, he struggled with this level of flexibility. He took advantage of it in unprofessional ways. When confronted, he indicated that he might do better if he was always working in the office with the rest of the team.

Management suddenly made it a requirement for everyone to come into the office. This had severe and immediate impacts on morale and on employees' focus on the mission.

Some people need to work in an office. Some people need to work remotely. Some people can be flexible. The reason it's so contentious is because it is hard to accommodate all 3 of those types. So far, the solution is to alienate at least 1 of those 3 types. Hopefully the contention will result in progress.
It might be worth noting that this particular 9 year old is really good at math, but struggles a bit with reading. Thanks for all the suggestions so far!
http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/13pijbdfvpi... works for me using VLC on Win2012.
I completely agree.

Global warming debates are well-suited for this: first get the "denier" to agree that the physical mechanism is valid. If you can't agree on physics, then there's no point in continuing. If you can, great, at least he/she can't question the physical mechanism when they're back into a political/economic corner.
I work remotely on the west coast for my employer on the east coast. I've used screenhero frequently and it works awesome. Great product. The recent addition of voice is awesome as well. Previously we would run google hangout at the same time. I'm interested in finding out what the price will be.
Tim's voice shakes a lot. I wonder what makes him so nervous.
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http://gumbyframework.com is fantastic
As I said in the original comment, I didn't find Two Scoops to be effective. It's woefully indirect and is itself riddled with digressions about third party libraries. I just want a list of what to install and why so that I don't have to constantly backtrack.
Although its not everyone's cup of tea, you can watch the event with TWiT commentary: http://live.twit.tv/
They are system-design principles, and one can consider that the TSA folks are Turing Complete, therefore the laws apply. Q.E.D.

Don't assume that they don't carry.