skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you trying to grow your audience on Twitter? You have to be consistently active on there. So that means logging in every hour, do some stuff to look active and then doing it again in another hour. It's not rocket science. It just takes a lot of god damn work.

There are tools like bufferapp.com or crowdbooster.com where you can queue up a bunch of articles once. They then tweet out the articles for you throughout the day. That will at least make you look like someone who shares content consistently.

But of course if you have no followers there's nobody there to even read what you're tweeting. So I would argue that building your initial audience is the hardest part.

You mentioned organic growth, but a lot of established businesses do cheat in some way. They'll pay $25 on eBay for 25K followers just to give it a nice kick start. Having that audience really is powerful.

For those of us that want to do it the legit way, you can pay for Twitter Ads to make you a "promoted" follower. Although, the conversion rates on those aren't great.

I'm working on another non-manual legit method of growing your audience that I think your community manager would love. Just check out my profile if you're interested.

Let me know if you have any other questions about social media growth. I'm happy to help.
How come?

DevOps isn't a role (to begin with) and a lot of the practices documented in the text is the opposite of good DevOps practices.
Looking at systems by considering whether they 'create value' in some generalized utilitarian sense is unproductive. Such systems survive by being able to extract energy somehow, in this case by exploiting properties of the stock trading system. I guess you could say that they create a lot of value—for the people doing it. Very few modern economic activities make sense in a broader perspective, they exist purely because they allow some energy to flow towards the people perpetuating them, on a more local level.
@OP - if you're considering such idea - hit me up :)
I really hate to go down this road because it's been rehashed thousands of times on Hacker News, but high frequency traders add value to the market by adding liquidity (and therefore reducing spreads --> cost to you for executing) and price discovery.
He probably isn't. Are you?

Your posts mostly consists of rambling that the established economics definitions of efficiency, market failure and so forth are wrong. You call an entire profession slippery and dishonest.

You are clearly pushing your agenda, in a fashion that IS intellectually dishonest. Try having a conversation where you actually use the jargon of the subject matter. Market failure means one thing when you are discussion economics, don't try to invent your own definition. That is dishonest and poor argumentation technique.
More precisely, I think the scenario is different with type inference. What is the type of "c/d", if c and d are f32? Would it be unreasonable, if the expression had type f64 or even more precise?
I don't understand how I provoked this response, but just for the record, I agree with the entire text of your comment?
Nice idea, I've been looking forward to the 'self-operating-business-in-a-shrinkwrap-box' for quite a while, and this discussion sounds a lot like the kinds of things Charles Stross likes to put in his sci-fi stories.

Still, keeping a private key safe for a distributed corporation will be a challenge. One attack I can think of - set up a fake hosting company that claims to offer cheap hosting, wait for the corporation to move some of its agents there, then bam, you've got the private key. That kind of thing might be difficult to pull off, but if any of these corporations controlled significant assets, then the amount of resources an attacker would be prepared to expend would be very high.

I suppose it suggests a mechanism where spending resources requires the cooperation of a number of agents that must be contracted with different hosting companies, and perhaps a period of warm up, where for the first x months, an agent might do useful things but would not be given power to control money.
Note that I linked directly to the second page of results, as that was where the Google+ profiles were. Google's results certainly are customized, but are you saying that even your first page of results is full of Google+ profiles?
Unless you barter your groceries you are using "fake money" every day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
In theory, HFT should make markets more optimal.

But, you know what they say: In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. ;)
Investment is the act undertaken. Call the outcome what you will.

> True, I meant currency, its new currency taken from the savings of everybody else

New currency is new currency. It comes from nowhere. It devalues all existing currency, not just savings.

> I see no problem in them taking a loan and building some highways.

These projects are typically undertaken with debt. New currency is generally introduced in the bond market.
That's exactly what it is and while all these teams spend time inventing technology that is 98% the same as the existing stuff the people with the technology that is 100% the same as the existing stuff (often proprietary) laugh all the way to the bank.

It's 2013, there are dozens of codecs, many open enough to be used, just flaming pick one.
This will have a pretty bad effect on Firefox's market-share if it goes live.

That said, it's a solution for the current problem and should really be applied to all plugins - I'm not sure why java is singled out here, many of the other browser plugins are just as bad. Java has likely the most widely publicized security vulnerabilities, yet I can guarantee you that many many 0-days are traded daily for practically every single other browser plugin as well.
It's doable. The real question is how much it would cost and does it make sense then.
That is one good looking tablet! I wonder if the keyboard is lap-able? I think its a great idea to put the battery in the keyboard cover so it can counter the weight of the tablet more easily!
> This will have a pretty bad effect on Firefox's market-share if it goes live.

It's already live. ff24 is the current stable.
Maybe boys have a higher tendency to join a gang or choose a life of crime than girls?
Very nice :) Maybe this will nudge Oracle a bit (we can always hope, but know it won't do anything...)
No, I'm a freelancer in London. The hiring process was for an organisation I volunteer for who wanted to hire a coder. I didn't want to work there, but I volunteered to help out with interviews and CV screening.
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I think HIgh Frequency Trading will eventually be neutralized through competition. I noticed the their
profits aren't as staggering as they were a few years
ago. I would like to see a law that limits how close an
company(individual) can set up shop next to an exchange
though.

I think Insider Trading is more of a problem than the
public knows?
Will it? I've been browsing without Java for years, and I can only remember problems with one site (some hilarious throwback from the late 90s). For general browsing, I doubt anyone will notice a difference.

Maybe for corporate use, but isn't that mostly IE anyway?
Sorry to be the one to do this, but

Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/
I've been dreaming of a general purpose tool using Excel as a front-end and being able to dynamically manipulate backend data for different presentation.

For example, an asset management database. If I can use this to generate different free form queries, it would be something I would totally throw money at.
I'm with you on the reasoning, but I hate the logic of

1. I don't understand phenomenon X

Therefore,

2. Phenomenon X must be stopped

To your point #1 in particular, it's true that normal people don't have access to HFT equipment, but they also don't own warehouses full of third-party goods (and would find those probably more difficult to obtain), so it's hard to explain in those terms why Amazon's hypothetical maneuver is different from HFT.
Did they also disable Flash? (well I don't have the plugin installed anyway, so I wouldn't know)
You were able to disable java in your browser with one click also before ...in my opinion, this move from FF is a very bad one.

Now what we should use if we need more then HTML5?
A) -> Silverlight ...FF promote a closed technology against the somehow open Java??
B) -> Flash ...which is on a downhill now?
C) -> Java ...users need to be IT experts to enable it

One thing I would like to see:
MS should ban FF because it is insecure :)
> Inflation is the first quality a fiat currency must have, in order make people willing to spend.

If that were true, no-one would have bought an iPhone and Apple would be penniless (USD etc are deflationary relative to technology items).
Yes, not the best example. I should have said paid for ethical and unethical decisions alike!

But indeed, those other examples are also frowned on and may get you blocked. These are not new concepts to the Wikipedia community, I was heavily involved 5 years ago and had to setup the admin's noticeboard to coordinate efforts around areas precisely like this.

It's not even money that's the issue, but it is almost certain that the paid editing that was occuring was to whitewash articles to "correct" the impressions given about certain companies.

I've never seen, and doubt I'll ever see, a company that edits Wikipedia articles for money that does it for an unbiased reason. Otherwise, why would you pay the company?

The best I can see is a consulting firm that does no editing but merely advises on the best way to interact directly with the Wikipedia community.
Experienced or not, if you have a known name, nobody ask you silly questions. Thats all what i want to say.

We life in a world of casting shows, now we (the programmers) are in that shows too. They run only in companies.
I'm not sure you realize how different Daala is from any other video codec in usage. It's ALSO royalty-free with a permissive FOSS license. It will also ideally be significantly better than anything else on the market.
Great, maybe then I can stop checking if the Java updates at work also sneakily re-enables the Firefox plug-in behind my back each time they're installed.
The planet has a whole is... largely autonomous but is still affected by the sun, meteors, the moon.

Oceans are affected by those above as well, and by us. We have managed to affect the oceans quite a lot during our short time on earth, mainly by pollution it and the environment in general.

Nothing is really autonomous in that sense. Yes, the earth will probably be here after we perish and it will probably survive, more or less, intact so in that sense it is probably quite autonomous.
Oh interesting - hard to keep track of which version Firefox is up to these days. They should really swap to a system like Ubuntu's - using the date for the version number.

It was released over a month ago too. Has it had any effect on Firefox's market-share? Especially in enterprise? It's a pretty decent test bed for understanding how users react to these kinds of changes. If they just accept them and adapt when forced it shows that we can be more proactive in moving users to better yet incompatible software?
Oh no, please not ANOTHER codec in the mix. Hell, we don't have a single codec that works OOTB in all popular browsers without external software (I consider IE, FF, Chrome, Safari and their mobile counterparts). For now, it's WebM, Ogg and H264 which one has to transcode and store just for shipping a video to desktop and mobile.

And while we're talking about mobile, I'm sure that SoC decoding support will take not 2015 to arrive, rather than 2016 - give or take a couple more years because some patent troll will always dig up some dirt.
And eugenists are bad mouthed...
Java vulnerabilities are a huge source of drive-by exploits in the browser. I wouldn't recommend anyone leave java on by default.
Relevant yes, but in this case the requirement for a new standard doesn't arise from vanity or "more use cases", but rather from the fact that video compression is a patent minefield.
Why? Java applets are extremely rare these days.
I've used storage for skis, kayaks and other outdoor kit before.
"Deflationary relative to technology items"

Sorry, what?
The sooner Java moves away from Oracle, the better for everyone. That being said, there is rarely a need to run Java from a browser, aside from the odd game.

But, given Flash's similar reputation (not to mention it being prone to crash), why not mark Flash as unsafe as well?
I have a whole bunch of car parts sitting around that I wish I had the time to properly photograph, sell and ship. I would totally be for splitting the costs if I can just get them out of my garage.

This is a scenario where I know the parts are worth $$$ but I'm time constrained to get it sold. Plus car parts cost $$ to ship.
I guess, but it's more typical to do something like cap the total trading volume, position, risk limits etc. It's a more fundamental check on what you are doing.
Depends on where you are in the world. Java is required for online banking in Norway, while it's mostly unused in Sweden, the neighbouring country. Both use Java for online verification to government sites.
Move to an apartment in the city, toss what you can't bring. Worked wonders for me.
No. Mozilla's plan for flash is to replace it with a javascript flash runtime, shumway.js, in the same way they discouraged adobe's acrobat plugin by bundling pdf.js. But shumway's not finished yet.

See: https://lwn.net/Articles/569496/
Still, many users [http://geeksbynature.dk/2013/03/28/plugins-usage-distributio...] have only Flash, Java and Windows Media plugins installed, maybe also Reader and Office. With Mozilla's efforts to replace Reader with pdf.js and Flash with Shumway (or HTML5), Java is a reasonable next target.
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All these suggestions would make for a really powerful tool. The issue is how to make it all approachable to non-coders. Almost all the excel users I've talked to don't know how to make macros let alone any more complex code. I think the issue is trying to make these concepts understandable and usable to everyone so users can get started straight away.

Right now companies don't send their employees on VBA courses even though they could work some much more efficiently with a basic knowledge of coding.
How do you share your wisdom?
That would (and probably does, with Ubuntu) annoy people who don't use the Gregorian calendar.
Yes, I thought the same after I saw how it was available in a plethora of languages. Glad they changed the name.
No etc. If 'en' is not 'en' then it's assumed to be 'es_MX'
> It was released over a month ago too. Has it had any effect on Firefox's market-share?

No, the change went live Friday:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=914690#c20
Conversely the name checking worked fine for me as I don't know much of New York past what you see in films, so I wouldn't be able to key to it in the same you would.
Why do so many credit card forms ask for the expiry date using select boxes?
Yes for regular expressions, no for what is now usually called "regex" or "regexp".
Doing a day's contracting elsewhere would violate my current employment contract. (And I think strict adherence to the letter of the rules will be reasonably common among good developers)
I am not sure about Lightroom, but their entire Adobe File Manager thing was garbage and clogged a lot of computers I used to maintain.

I am not sure Lightroom can be any better. The problem is this issue, as he described it, not you, is the abstraction problem moves up. Instead of remembering which file is where, you need to remember which app opens which type of files, which sucks if you have four or five apps that do the same thing (pretty common for me and any audio/video manager on Android device, and browsers to boot, as eash open has different capabilities for certain file types).
yep, their code on how to get the images in sequence from Street View is available on github. Once you have the images, just stitch them together in a panorama (there are a lot of tools to do this). btw, nice idea for a present :)
and they should definitely stop doing that. for me seeing Java on the client side is a sign of bad development.
I doubt it. Apart from the odd algorithm demonstration I haven't found a need to enable Java in my browser for the past 10 years.
One of the competitive advantages the company I work for has is that it dogfoods its own software, which for some odd reason is a bit rare in its space -- we don't just think we know the problems our customers face, we're suffering them every day.

Somewhat relatedly, the managers I respect the most are the ones who continue to hammer out software themselves -- they don't just think they know the problems that software development faces, they're suffering them every day.

In both cases, it shows.

As such, I'm curious how you're planning to keep a healthy business helping other companies if you're not keeping your skills sharp on your own forge. I ask this in the nicest way possible. :)
It's like how they keep the TSA x-ray readers at the airport from becoming too complacent, every once in a while you have to slip a gun through the scanner and see if they catch it. Otherwise you're just looking for (presumably) rare events and you become numb to the never-ending stream.
In theory. The debate is about whether that extra liquidity is actually of any practical use.
Situation: there are 0 free and libre state-of-art video codecs; Xiph is working on one supported by Red Hat and Mozilla.

Mozilla buys Monty Montgomery from Red Hat.

Soon: Situation: there are 0 free and libre state-of-art video codecs; Xiph is working on one supported by Red Hat and Mozilla.

... very relevant.
Two words: job security.

(Also: lots of folks really don't enjoy learning new stuff. Or new ways of working. No, they really don't. Even if the new techniques are vastly better and more efficient. Put this down to a human cognitive bias favouring the tried-and-trusted over new-and-untested. There's a lot to be said for that when you're a neolithic hunter-gatherer or an iron-age peasant -- if you try something new and it fails, you maybe get to watch your family starve next spring -- but it's a bit less useful as a rule of thumb in the data centre.)
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If I go there it takes me to cuidadodesalud.gov/es.
If I go to cuidadodesalud.gov/en it takes me to cuidadodesalud.gov/es/en which gives an error 404 saying it cannot find the page 'https://cuidadodesalud.gov/es/en' in HealthCare.gov.
It doesn't make much sense to redirect to a different domain name and append the '/es'
Personally, I like the inverse: everything is a file in Plan9/Unix/Linux world. Programming is ironically simple, and you pipe around input and output from pipes and files at the ends or in between. Trying doing the same with Windows, and it is damn near impossible to write one-liner anything unless your learn protocols like WMI and how to play with the Registry, which is not fun when querying and writing keys with simple .reg files you import and export.

What I wanted to be the future, especially after that Oberon OS article here not so long ago, is the best of both world. This paired, with better OS level analysis of files and dedup (hardware or software) is cool. I think we should just move towards the OS X model (and I am very, very anti-Mac, so you should know it must be pretty good for me to conceed any wisdom in their approaches): power users I know, including yours truly, will dump all their files in one or two places and Cmd + Space their way to search files and apps through the Sherlock utility all damn day. Now moving towards filesystems with version controlling UIs built into apps and files is a great improvment (a la the Nextstep cum Etoile Linux revolution).

Pair that with better OS level tools, and I will continue to see Unix toolchains with more refined GUIs as the answer when we move away from file and into search. That is why Gmail and other tails continue to be popular, most of us are tool lazy to organize or screw up our own organization systems, and search allows quick impromptu sort methods to help us with the basic stuff.
PCRE is what the library is called and it claims to offer full support for what perl5 does, both syntax and feature-wise: http://www.pcre.org/
Sure, and I haven't used Internet Explorer in years. That doesn't mean that suddenly disabling Internet Explorer is going to have no effect even if I (and probably most of us here on HN) would not even notice.

A lot of corporates and financial applications require Java.
Should I stop refreshing this page hoping for more?

http://www.xiph.org/video/
out of curiosity, who isn't on Gregorian calendar for everyday usage nowadays? The only thing I can think of is that for official documents Japan uses the emperor-year, but the months stay the same
Interoperable means that things operate together and they undoubtably do in the MPEG4 ecosystem. Anyone can legally interoperate with MPEG4 with some limitations (equally anyone can use GPL code but some requirements come with distribution). That some choose not to join in and operate together does not make a thing lack interoperability. Note that I am not saying Mozilla are wrong to stay out, they have that right. For a long time they chose not to use even existing licensed codecs provided by the OS. They have a valid manifesto and a valid point of view and I am a Firefox and Thunderbird user when on a proper computer but it was a choice. That doesn't oblige other companies or groups to bend or change to support their ideologically based position.

On the interoperability scale (it isn't a binary yes/no) MPEG4 almost certainly wins by the pure range of devices supporting it from blu-ray players, mobile devices, RaspPi etc.

It is you that want to control other organisations to bend them to your ideological position via the W3C.

If you want open codecs to become ubiquitous the next generation is where the fight is now. I don't know of an HEVC beater out there but if there isn't one getting into silicon roadmaps right now you may have lost the next generation already.

A royalty free codec would be nice but for me a ubiquitous one is better. That is a valid disagreement that we have but it shows how Apple (and others) opposition to standardising on codecs doesn't need to be seen as an evil plot but a difference in prioties between different "good" choices.
Confirmed. It broke my SO's ability to do online banking yesterday and I was (as usual) called in as tech support.

I just assumed Java was out of date (again) and was surprised to see it still blacklisted after updating to latest version.

There's no part of the UI saying "We've permanently blocked all of Java by default". Even if you agree with the developer's ideological stance here (which you very well may not), the UX part of the job is completely botched.
Wow, this is really irresponsible behavior, I would've expected something better from Mozilla.. Until now they've first offered an alternative (e.g. pdf.js) before trying to move away from a tech.

Marking a current version as unsafe, even when there are no known exploits is simply ridiculous. I'd love to see the reaction of Mozilla if Microsoft decided to mark all Firefox releases as unsafe, and give a big security warning whenever you installed FF.

Especially if the UI for unblocking it in FF is as obtuse as the discussion implies..
They will. It was announced earlier this year that the Norwegian banks will move over to a HTML5/js authentication. The government identification has been the same as the banks, so that too will disappear.
Seeing browser-developers ignore the real world and just go ahead with their agendas unconcerned about how it affects the actual users of their browser is also a sign of bad development.
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