skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the Bloomberg story, which sums it up:

“The company did everything to secure the most cash for itself while leaving some money for the IPO buyers,” said Josef Schuster, the founder of IPOX Schuster LLC, a Chicago-based manager of about $1.9 billion. “You need a pop at the opening to leave a good taste with everyone. They did a pretty good job managing the whole situation.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-07/twitter-raises-1-82...
ChromeOS created a problem that we dont have in the first place; the users have no control of the assets on its own machine.. or at least, have a very limited access to it..

For phones its understandable, they need to be small, so storage space have to go.. but for notebooks, it doesnt make it favorable to the user; its only for the cloud computing religion sake, and to force people to put everything in the could so they can control your life..

Chromebooks/Browserbooks are traps.. we are better with PCS and normal notebooks.. and trying to replace them with this cloud-trap notebook its just silly

So, getting back to the point; You only think the cloud version of this IDE a good thing, because of the chromebook limitations. Limitations it doesnt need to have in the first place.. only for the sake of the corporation behind it, and not for the user..

And this trend was started with the loved-all-around Steve Jobs.. everybody are following.. and if this trend catch on.. we will start to see more and more.. corporation cults.. like new religions; cause our lives will become so dependent on them we are doomed..
The "flat"/minimalist movement generally disregards the usability or usefulness of portraying information (see the NYC taxi door design for where this is frustrating[1])

[1] http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/taxis-lose-thei...
Oh they have power. Union organization improved their lot immensely. Now they've all but given that power away.
Quit blaming the individual and focus on the system dang it.
I'm not particularly invested in BTC either (own like 0.000001 or something), but I find it fascinating for similar reasons.

Imho it represents and inflection point in human history, by virtue of solving a previously unsolvable algorithmic problem (distributed consensus), at least in the context of digital currency.

BTC's solution wasn't even technically possible until two other major innovations - the construction of the internet, and the invention of the Bittorrent protocol. And 'Satoshi's' insight that a simple time delay via proof-of-work finally tied it all together and made possible the first (technically) viable distributed currency.

All the remaining problems are minor by comparison and will eventually get solved, in the same way the modern banking system eventually solved problems of bank robberies and fraud - not so much completely solving them, but by making them extremely difficult to pull off and/or get away with, reducing the odds and risk to levels acceptable for the general public. Same will happen with BTC and its infrastructure over time as well.
People are dumping shares of hot stocks like FB and Netflix to free up capital to buy Twitter.
It will be < $10 per month.
"Homo economicus" is still really important for macroeconomics. The reason for this is pretty simple: designing rich, large models is still hard to do and the practical limitations introduced by basing your assumptions on the idea that people act irrationally instead of rationally can make things too complicated to be of practical use.

So in microeconomics or small models, people can practically accept and implement these (pretty obviously true) ideas that people don't behave rationally. But in large scale macroeconomic models it's hard to do. It would certainly be a lot easier if people just acted like computers...
How quickly can you buy/sell your coin.
Say you buy in at $100 and then sell $110 the end of the day, possible? And really, only USC? What about with SS? And doesn't it defeat purpose if you need to prove you are a USC?
http://rapgenius.com/Pitbull-feel-this-moment-lyrics#note-16...
Some would argue that it's too patriotic.
I can personally attest that it is incredibly hard to land a solid remote based job, even if you're very good at it. I have worked remotely most of my career (with frequent visits to the office) but I still see a constant stream of people who prefer to have someone much less skilled and/or capable on site rather than take the chance and hire remotely.

Time zones, contractual arrangements and/or agreements, distance and track record mean nothing if employers are simply not willing to give you the chance. Worse, some do and require you to keep track of every small thing you do (TPS reports, etc), destroying the employer/employee trust and leaving us with painful processes that no one likes to go through.

The other side of the coin is that remote workers often request US-like salaries to companies in much different economies, which leads to an even smaller rate of success ...

Finally, from my own experience, I would never hire someone who would tell me that they would never be able to come to the office at least a few times per year (3-4, a week at a time). Just one week of in-person collaboration can bring drastic improvements and/or discoveries that lead to better products overall.
I am an expert on stocks, (Wallstreet HF PM for many years), quick explanation is money moving from FB to TWTR. seeing the momentum funds sell FB and put into TWTR as they are correlated plays.
It depends on who holds the stock, and how they're voting. That's pretty clear. When bankers buy a company anticipating a highly profitable return via their models and slam that expectation into the leadership like a floppy do... you know what happens.
Thinking about this more, I don't understand the importance of your fair-weather mining idea. If the parties collaborating on the ES attack are willing to betray each other, then isn't a much simpler form of betrayal to steal the block that someone else in the group found and claim it for yourself?

Bitcoin attempts to create a protocol that doesn't require trust between parties, but needs to robust against large groups (e.g. blocks of Chinese) who trust each other. So I don't think it's ironic that the ES attack is not incentive compatible, nor do I think it's really a flaw.
And even if it were, in what world does high-quality code imply state actor?
The Patriot Act was all about fighting terrorists, right? Right?
There's no guarantee that all the IPO shares would have been placed at $46 (I'd doubt it).
I feel like we're not getting the whole story. For example, what do you do when you follow all these best practices, but end up with a product that no one wants?
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LiveFyre Forgets We Already Use LiveFyre
Sorry, here's the link: https://www.philantro.com
Thanks for posting the original s-expr based, tab bashing article!

It has always been my own argument in favour of tabs:

- The original argument against tabs was based on Lisp indentation rules.

- Languages with very complex indentation rules like Lisp should use spaces. There's no exception to this rule.

- Languages from the C family should use Tabs, as Lisp indentation rules don't apply to them.

- Nowadays almost all popular languages can be considered to be part of the C syntax family. Python and Lua are notable exceptions. PHP and Objective C files should use tabs.
You can open an E*Trade account and then apply for whatever options level (1-3) you desire. You'll be asked questions about whether you understand the options market and assume the risks. There are then specific requirements for how much cash or marketable securities you need to have in account if you want to buy puts or sell calls.
Now if I could only get Mongoid to work with Postgres instead of Mongo I would be happy.
https://blockchain.info/address/17gN64BPHtxi4mEM3qWrxdwhieUv...

Apparently they currently have 52BTC in that address, about 15000USD. Not bad. Hope the private key wasn't in this building :)
I can't refer to the legislation by its name because I consider its name disingenuous. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but calling dung a rose doesn't make it smell any better. Words mean things; "affordable" the act isn't. The legislation itself raises all sorts of issues that have nothing to do with health care.

ETA: "Obamacare" is used because it's a catchy name which is both quite descriptive (Obama pushed this healthcare law thru, so he owns it) and is not inherently insulting (like "Bushoppression" or "Obamasux" mentioned elsewhere in this thread). Use of this popular nickname causes a frenzy because of its subject, not its inherent phrasing - it is not an ad-hominem attack.
I would think Twitter would be able to better target ads to me based on who I follow and what I tweet. Based on the ads I've seen so far on Twitter, it seems like it's in its infancy. I don't "like" any businesses on FB because I only use FB for friends and family.

Also FB ads are so much more invasive. I am not the average user though.
Does it support WebRTC yet? IE always seems to be roughly ~2 years late in supporting some of the most important and future-forward HTML5 features.

Maybe they'll push WebRTC in IE12 (not guaranteed), but then it will be some key encryption standard that everyone else has decided on and they're supporting, but IE12 will be lacking. They need to keep IE more up to date with the implementation of the standards.

This seems to show the same thing (not a perfect test, but gives a rough idea about how far behind the IE team is in supporting new HTML5 standards):

http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html
No difference on HN :)
This is putting lipstick on a pig. The act makes purchasing a plan mandatory, and constrains the buying options.

Unsurprisingly, the ensuing decrease of supply and increase in demand is making health plans more expensive for a lot of people.

So, "Obamacare" might be more accurate.
According to webmd, plan rates will only depend on age:

""
Q: Will there be a limit as to how high a premium insurance companies can charge if you have a pre-existing condition?

A: Yes. As of 2014, insurers cannot charge consumers different rates for health insurance because of health status or gender.

You can be charged more for your age, however, with older people paying a higher premium than young people. But that increased charge is capped at no more than three times the standard rate"[1]

Edit: Actually "The law allows for differences of premiums based only on four criteria: age, location, family size, and smoking."[2], which seems like a good way to do racial profiling and increasing premiums on poor people(since they're probably less healthy), as expected in the u.s, but at least pre existing conditions couldn't be a basis for a rate difference.

I wonder thought how legal would be doing data mining with this information (an other free datatbases) , and how much deanonimization could be practically achieved ?

[1]http://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/health-reform-insuranc...

[2]http://ahip.org/Issues/January-1-2014-Provisions.aspx
[1]http://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/health-reform-insuranc...
Cosine can be approximated by rotating the sine phase 90 degrees.
A five 9's website is much easier to achieve using multiple, redundant, data centers.

Otherwise you end up with unforeseen events, like a tornado taking out power, or a backhoe incident, or internet outages.
"No data was lost, a spokesman said"

:D
Twitter Surges 73% in Opening Trade on NYSE.
You can also tune the fsync option to get mongo-like performance and reliability.
ICow
Now we all need to vow to stop supporting anything below IE10 so that we can starve this legacy support animal. Google already did......
Twitter still hasn't provided any guidance on profitability. My biggest fear is that over the next few quarters, Twitter will undo much of the goodwill for tech stocks generated by Facebook by not being able to match the bar set by Facebook for profitability, revenue and user growth.
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As someone who doesn't live in the States, can anyone explain the opposition to Obamacare other than the recent technical problems (which seem to happen anytime governments go near a computer)?
To be fair, the way Obamacare is implemented is crazy.

They should have just gone with full-on socialized health care like the rest of the civilized world... Would have been better for every party involved (except perhaps the insurance companies).
I am going to approach this a bit from the other side. And I'll make it personal, rather than asking a series of indirect questions.

More than once, I've ended up in a position where I've put considerable effort into fixing what are often frankly the shortcomings of other co-workers. Co-workers who sometimes may be observed to be very busy discussing their weekends, or the latest movie, etc.

I've fixed conditions that come about as the employees responsible continue to be rewarded, promoted, etc. -- in short, considered "acceptable".

I tried to do what I felt and what I had been taught was "the right thing".

IN HINDSIGHT: When you find yourself persistently in such conditions, when the problem is not a one-off, GET THE FUCK OUT. Unless you can very demonstratively take control of the situation -- of the conditions -- and steer it in a better direction, you are caught in a system that will chew you up at the least and most likely, sooner or later, spit you out.

As a relatively unempowered employee, the single solution to bad management and counter-productive compensation, is to GET THE FUCK OUT.

Anything that prevents your mobility, e.g. employer-provided health insurance, a non-liquid mortgage -- I won't, I refuse to, add "a family" to this list. But otherwise, any such thing becomes an anti-pattern.

One perspective on what is wrong with U.S. society these days: So many people locked into anti-patterns.
Yeah, I'm familiar with that. Since committing suicide is against the law, then does my analogy hold?

Now using encryption or not using encryption does not matter in the context of being monitored by the NSA.
That's the problem: people DO want healthcare, but the legislation blocks them from buying the form of healthcare they want. Seriously ill people with perfectly good health insurance are getting their plans cancelled for want of irrelevant requirements; yes, many of us DO consider those causing such cancellations "pretty low criminals", hence the consternation unto DDOS.
While I personally am OK with the Affordable Care Act, and do not doubt for a second that many conservatives and libertarians are reveling in the troubles the federal healthcare exchange website has been facing, I do not for a second believe that it is due to a DDoS from people running this tool. I would be very surprised if this tool even existed before the exchange site was launched. It seems to be someone seeking attention after the fact, and here we are giving it to them.
Time is far more critical with an ambulance.
Whatever. But it isn't called Bushoppression by anyone, it is referred to by its actual name.
I'm guessing parent's talking about Eugene Fama, who shared the prize with Robert Shiller.

He doesn't actually claim the markets have perfect information, just that the price always reflects all available information. In essence, you can't "beat the market" consistently, assuming you have the same information.
But the name is a joke. I take offense to it labeling "health care" as being "affordable." It does nothing to change the cost of health care. It still costs the same. But for a lot of people, someone else will be paying for it.
Also they need to support XP. XP usage is still mind-boggling-high:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....

~1/3 of windows users are still forced to run IE8 at best. If Chrome, Firefox and Opera can run on XP why can't IE11?
Haskell SDL - Boxxle (GameBoy version)
Flat design works for hardware and static stuff, as you said.

When I open up an app such as Mail, I want visual cues as to where the content is and where the controls are. I don't need the cognitive overhead of keeping the interface layouts in my head all the time. Sadly that's what iOS 7 introduced. It removed the cues that tied computers to the real world, and in the process copied Android and Microsoft's interfaces. Shocking - I don't think Steve Jobs would have allowed that.

And also, the lack of textures makes it hard to see controls on some backgrounds, such as video controls on a white video. In short the designers seemed more like kids in a candy store than someone who really thought through usability.
Primarily because she is hired to write a blog which is intended to improve SEO and market their product to the right audience.
What do you call the PATRIOT act?
I wouldn't do anything reckless until I see the codebase, the system architecture, and pretty much everything.

If it's just a front-end of the actual processing then meh.
Actual, a lot of economic activity comes from small businesses: about half the US GDP is generated from companies with less than 500 employees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_business#Contribution_to_...
This may not be obvious to some people (like my boss), but code reviews alone is insufficient; having a good technical design early on is more important.

I've sat through several "code reviews" and they're always conducted at the end of small-ish projects and when I look at the code, I would very much want the guy to rewrite it but by then it would have been too late.
Driverless pods coming to a town in the UK by 2017
But we know that would never have passed.

I've always thought of ObamaCare as the first step in the right direction. Hopefully many more steps follow shortly.
A Google IPO was always going to do well, which is part of the reason they felt they could take a gamble like that. But the stock doubled in 60 days [1], so "eBay for IPOs" didn't create anything like a perfect supply-demand scenario. Maybe it would be different now.

1. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-ipo-has-doubled-afte...
>universal affordable health care

I'm not so sure about the affordable part. Maybe all I see is people posting letters about their rates going up though. What is the argument against that from people who still support this legislation? Is it denied that prices have gone up in general or accepted and justified because of increased benefits on the plans?
How are "In drunk driving, you can place the cause relatively easily." and "only reason for being hit/killed was that they were in the same geographic area as this bomb. There was no reason for this tragedy." incompatible in any way?

You can also place the cause of the bombing extremely easily - the person with the bomb. In drunk driving accident, people get hit/killed just because they were in the same geographic area as the drunk driver. They will also get sometimes extremely traumatised (enough to avoid any road travel).

Both cases are completely out of control for the affected people. What's the big difference?
Not the grocery store, the guy at some factory somewhere that peas into the soup that eventually makes it way to your shelf.

Point is there is a huge web of people everybody trusts to not be evil. They are trusted for no good reason (other than as stated most people aren't sociopaths). But some are. Protecting against them isn't worth the tiny risk of exposure.

Likewise fretting over being "defrauded" by anonymous (but reputed) persons whom you buy illicit goods from is not worth worrying about. Same with ebay, kickstarter etc.
E*trade allows shorting stocks and writing covered puts at Level 2. The default (Level-1) allows only covered calls. They have an online application process. Usually chances are higher if you are trading over $100k.
Visiting SF in Jan looking for interesting companies to meet
So I work for The Lab inside the UK mobile company O2 and we are looking for interesting companies to come visit. Our general mission is to build things to make our customers life's better. Next year we are doing a lot of work on retail experiences.

Find out more about us at http://thelab.o2.com/ and if we can come by we might bring some nasty british snacks.
Perhaps it's because, as the the book notes, that overlap in working schedules (which timezone overlap facilitates) is important to collaboration.
Facebook's iOS Infrastructure - Mobile  Scale
I don't think I fit your description of those who don't like the ACA, but I don't like it none the less.

I believe we could fix health care costs by removing just one law.

Stop making health insurance a tax deductible employee benefit.

Think critically about the effect that small change would have and you'll see why our system is broken.
Plus, I was under the impression that in most cases of a thwarted terrorist attack, the criminal responsible simply fucked up or the person was caught by good old fashioned detective work.
Surely the price is only half the equation, and you have to consider the volume too?

Could it not be the case that while they could find buyers for some of the shares at $46, they could only guarantee selling all of the shares at $26?
Scary - books
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/nocera-rigg...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2011/11/04/groupon-soa...

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/11/15/this-is-why...
I definitely agree with all of the sentiments in the blog post. With the exception of daily scrum (we do twice weekly), we try to follow all of these habits. There always seem to be two things which we run into though; superficial code reviews and haphazard integration.

On the code review side, I find that most engineers look for trivial crap that could normally be picked up by running lint. It's nice to have similar lint-y style, but for me, the most important things to look for are whether the code is going to break with unexpected input (ie. is the logic sound and are the unit tests good enough), and did the engineer write in an idiomatic style which would be easy for other engineers to understand. I don't mind comments like "maybe use this other variable name", however using recognizable patterns which allow other engineers to easily follow the logic is much more important. Often it seems like people get lazy during reviews and write really superficial comments instead of taking the time to really get down and dirty in another person's code.
And why would they? They've got their own code to write.

The other thing I feel like I'm always up against, particularly with younger engineers (sorry younger engineers!) is not thinking through all of the integration points when your code needs to work with other code which is being developed concurrently. One engineer will say something like "Oh, just call function X", which when you do, doesn't provide the functionality which the other engineer was claiming it had. That, or there was some additional step which one engineer wasn't being explicit about and there was an assumption that you were going to take care of it. There's nothing worse than finding this out on the last day of the sprint when you're trying to button everything up.