skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, nothing to do with APIs though.

Another clever new-ish one is .ac, but it's more expensive than the already expensive .io.
If that's not appealing, then Linux works great on Apple laptops.

Yep.

Also, as an aside (relevant because hardware quality is an important factor no matter what OS you have installed): After 15 years of wrestling with non-Apple hardware, I bought a MacBook Pro in 2008, and another one in 2011. I tried using a PC laptop from work a couple of months ago, and I was shocked at how terrible the build quality was. A brand new laptop should not squeak when you use the keyboard or trackpad. Nor should it crash randomly once a day.

After six years of pain-free living with the Mac, I have no sympathy for those that complain about PCs but won't switch.
If you have lots of Steam games, you can, with a SteamOS box, just play those in your living room like a console if you want. You can stream them from your PC (yes you could do this now with a PC - minus the streaming). It also has a pretty cool controller for better FPS gaming on the couch. This is just the beginning of SteamOS and I am excited for another good nix gaming platform. Apple devices were the first really big nix based game system and that took over handheld.

In the end the SteamOS box might put the beginning to the end of DirectX over OpenGL for PC gaming which is good for more games on nix and mac as it is easier porting. I am excited for anything that starts to make console gaming more like PC gaming and nix based gaming systems focused on OpenGL.

This also moves away from the proprietary console hardware and libs that make that more costly to develop, granted XBox and PS are now x86 based to help that more. SteamOS may help standardize across consoles that anything standard OpenGL/CL etc will be more portable rather than locked to console manufacturers with their high devkit prices and selective publishing.
Why was this title renamed? It used to say "train cars where men are not allowed". What was wrong with that title?
Happened to me with one of the Mass Effect games I bought through Steam. Crashed on me too frequently to play. Never had any problems with any other game I'd ever purchased.

I told Steam about it. They said, "no refunds". It's not that I made some kind of vow to never use Steam again, but basically that was the disappointment that pushed me over to using my PS3 for all new games and I haven't bought another Steam game since. That was a few years ago.
Looking at the comments, and the HTTP 503 which i was getting, this seems to be the problem. Worked after a bunch of reloads.
Reading the article, it sounds like it should carry an "Advertising Feature" sub heading. I've long thought Scofield is a hack. This piece confirms it.
Thank you for reporting this. It was an oversight. It should be fixed now.
Some long-term projects may be so complex and involving that they comsume a developer's entire cognitive capacity, leaving too little time and energy for side projects. These are the kinds of niche industry projects that can be incredibly fascinating, but "invisible" to other companies.
>Right. Pressure, though, doesn't invalidate their decision. Cfr. how a purchase is valid even if you saw an ad for the product.

It might not invalidate it legally or procedurally, but it invalidates it in the spirit of democracy (each deciding what he deems best, not what he was pressured to vote in order to get something unrelated to the issue under voting).
Don't forget Google who got lots of media attention:

> The Google Lunar XPRIZE, the largest international incentive based prize of all time, aims to do something we haven’t done as humanity since 1973, safely land on the surface of the Moon.

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/prize-details
Learning how to structure your pages is not a waste of time. It's quite essential, actually.
Just to clarify, I agree with you that any company that is funded by the military is technically a military contracter. But the term has deeply negative connotation.

Anybody who is involved with DARPA funded research. In this case it might be a little easier to the see the parallels between a robot and a war machine.

The Internet itself was a DARPA funded, as was GPS and they can both be seen as tools in war at least as this was there initial intent.

So while that does classify those who worked on them as military contractors, it is important to understand that its not necessarily a negative label and the benefits are sometimes felt years onwards after the military tech trickles down.
tl,dr; brokers don't charge commissions because it costs them anything to execute your trade, the fair price for a retail trade is actually less than $0. When you're paying e-trade $10, you're paying for their marketing.

For those wondering why they can offer $0 commission, it's because retail brokers actually make money on every trade you make. When you send your $10 through etrade or some other brokers, they don't actually send your order to the market, they sell it to getco or some other market maker.

The reasons are complex and linked to NMS regulation. In short, there are two types of traders, informed and uninformed. Market makers do not want to trade with informed traders, because they tend to lose money on those trades. However, reg NMS mandates that every one gets the same best bid and offer. So the spreads you'll see on the market reflect conditions where adverse selection is anticipated, which is why it's very profitable to trade at those prices against uninformed flow.

Now why don't brokers offer to pay rebates (less than $0) to customers? Well they're not legally allowed to do that. The SEC regulates the maximum rebate and it's not that big.

So why does Ameritrade for instance will charge you for trades? They don't execute anything after all... Well, they're just the middle men. What you're paying for is their advertising campaign that got you to open an account in the first place.
This is the second article I have read written by this author and I've found both of them to be mildly informative and wildly entertaining. Sort of like a Dave Berry of computer science writing.
Social Media For Startups: A Practical Guide
Avoid the disco ball trap in technology implementation projects
From the FAQ it would appear that they are backed by Andreesen Horowitz and Google (Ventures?) amongst others so cash burn may be ok for a while.

Its spot on that High Frequency traders pay nothing beyond regulatory fees (or get money back) to trade as they provide (theoretically) market liquidity. Not sure you can extend that argument to individual investors unless they scale massively, but the technology for trading isn't terribly complex.

One wrinkle is in less liquid names, where their algorithms will likely lag those of larger brokers for a while.
What about options? People who do enough trades where costs start to matter are usually trading options. If you are just adding ETFs to your portfolio every month Schwab already has commission-free ETFs, etc.
Seems statistically unlikely given the hypothesized number of life-supporting planets + our planet's age versus the age of the universe.
From the terminal sessions, it seems like they're basically describing an IP management interface for a unit that is presumed to be doing modem only (have no IP), and characterizing things in the most sensationalist way possible.

Of course the default gateway is close - it's the next IP hop. If it's indeed being used as a NSA/GCHQ backdoor, the actual attacker is at a different address.

Traffic snooping is surely much easier to implement upstream, and your ISP is indeed upstream of everywhere, despite what this paper alludes to.

As far as a branching off point for attacks on your network - given that this seems to be a modem-only unit, there's still your router between it and your local network. It seems that its attack surface remains the same as for a dumb PPPoE translator.

edit: Actually they could be describing an entire modem+router combo, but an error in saying the lan PC initiates its own "PPPoE" request threw me off. The interfaces look like a multi-port router (in the one's I've seen, the CPU usually has one ethernet interface which goes into the port of a vlan-capable switch). Really, the lack of showing what the complete config looks like when the user's PC is online makes it hard to see what they're actually getting at.

The only actual suspicious thing presented here is the specific 30/8 IP address, and perhaps that has another explanation (address reuse?). Independent verification is needed, but definitely not using their flawed "Method 2" which clearly changes your modem's complete setup :P.
Retail traders are, generally speaking, uninformed traders (relative to the rest of the market). As a result, retail order flow is extremely lucrative for market makers. There is little risk they'll get run over by a large informed trader if they know they are only trading against retail orders. For that reason market makers are willing to pay retail brokerages for their order flow. That's what happens at many of the retail shops (ameritrade, etrade, etc).

I guess what I'm saying is that if you are a retail trader you are the product regardless of commissions.
Quote from The Slow Winter

>> Unfortunately for John, the branches made a pact with Satan and quantum mechanics during a midnight screening of "Weekend at Bernie’s II." In exchange for their last remaining bits of entropy, the branches cast evil spells on future generations of processors. Those evil spells had names like "scaling induced voltage leaks" and "increasing levels of waste heat" and "Pauly Shore, who is only loosely connected to computer architecture, but who will continue to produce a new movie every three years until he sublimates into an empty bag of Cheetos and a pair of those running shoes that have individual toes and that make you look like you received a foot transplant from a Hobbit, Sasquatch, or an infertile Hobbit/Sasquatch hybrid." Once again, I digress. The point is that the branches, those vanquished foes from long ago, would have the last laugh.<<

This guy is going for the HST approach. Funny but opaque as well.
The layout for "Allow others to add photos to this album?" option doesn't seem very natural. Personally, I first tried to click Yes to toggle it on/off took me about 10s or so to see that it actually was 1 yes and 1 no button, naturally I thought it was 2 different settings.

But yeah might just be because I'm so used to iOS but who knows.

When I try to get a full-size version of my picture after uploading it I get an error message:

"We're sorry, but something went wrong.

If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.
Works great with many Dell laptops as well.
Off-topic, but: Why "back" of a napkin? What's wrong with the front and did we run out of envelopes?
"China lands a rover on the moon. Iran sends monkeys into space." - previous century's achievements.

"Google buys robotics companies." - no result yet, they still have to figure out how to add ads to robotics.

No, future has not arrived.
Do they have strong foreign accents?
https://brokerage-static.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/robinhood/l...
Ahh, amateur spacecraft design time.

In real-time perhaps not, but yapcguy didn't say that. You can bet they'll be recording major events in high resolution/framerate (deployment, first drive, etc) and transmitting them back later, if only for engineering purposes. Rad-hard nonvolatile memory is relatively cheap when you're sending probes to other planets — even old Spirit/Opportunity had 256 MB.

We also know the rover has some real-time transmission capability (at unspecified resolution):

>The rover will be capable of real time video transmission, while it will be able to dig and perform simple analysis of soil samples. For the real time video transmissions Yutu will use the PanCam. These cameras will provide stereo images in high-resolution and will eventually give three-dimensional imaging for the scientists on Earth.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/12/china-jade-rabbit-lun...
>If I say Marxism, I can skip the explanation. People know what Marxism is. It enhances communication.

You missed my whole point, which is that by your own standards, "marxism" shouldn't have entered the language in the first place, since in 1880 you couldn't "skip the explanation" and people didn't know what marxism was.

In short: that some terms are established and widespread is no argument against creating and using newer terms. The establised terms also began as fringe and unknown themselves. That's how language is enriched.

>Based on that, Wikipedia should not be the second step after an author invents a word. Marxism didn't end up in the Encyclopaedia as soon as Marx published.

Well the 11th edition of Britannica (1910) has an entry, a mere 23 years before the first use of the term. We are 10 year from Wolin's work (2003), which makes it quite comparable, if not sluggish compated to Britannica, given that they didn't have as fast tranfer of information as we have today, nor as easy a process of making new edition as online publishing offers.

>Useful -isms are not established by authors, but by people who discuss them.

Nope, that's a populist argument. Usually nobody discusses most -isms and philosophical terms but a small percentage of scholars, authors and intellectuals. Still they appear in dictionaries, encyclopaedias, wikipedia, and elsewhere.
What is a "PC laptop"? There are numerous companies that make laptops; what sense does it make to write them all off because some of them make junk?
TradeKing has no minimum balance, $4.95/trades, and it was fairly painless to sign up http://bit.ly/19JPLlS

Sharebuilder is ok too, but more expensive. I think bitcoins are actually more complicated to trade.
Really liking Loyal3. The ability to buy into an IPO at the same price as institutional investors is actually pretty cool. As a data point, IPOs priced in the last couple months closed their first day of trading 34% higher[1] than underwriter pricing.

1. http://www.renaissancecapital.com/ipohome/pricings/priced.as...
Yeah, I found several arguments against my own statement - even in the Bitcoin context such as CampBX.
It's still broken for me.
I've had experience with IB in a quant fund setting. I was impressed with it. Significantly further ahead of the curve in regards to their API offering compared to other brokerages.

At my last check it was mostly geared towards C++/Java with less than ideal documentation. However there are some good open source wrappers available (Python):
https://github.com/blampe/IbPy

As stated in the parent comment, the minimum account balance is $10k.
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My understanding was he doesn't have the files at this point - they're all in possession of the journalists. Snowden can't put the genie back in the bottle, and the NSA wouldn't ever trust that all copies had been destroyed.

I'd be pretty dubious about taking amnesty if I were him, too. Contracts under duress aren't legitimate. Chances are decent they'd get him here, claim duress, and throw him in Guantanamo.
White House To Keep NSA, Cyber Oversight Together
> Exchange fees

According to their site, they claim that you'll "buy and sell at the best possible price"; I'm not sure how they are able to make this claim if they cannot route your orders directly to the exchanges.

On their mockup on their site, the orders screen has an "Estimated Price" which is a strange field as typical order types should be either "Limit" or "Market" and should show the bid/ask spread on the current security; so I'm guessing that the best "possible" price is the "market price" and they are doing a combination of

1) Internal matching; orders aren't being routed to exchanges but if are internally matchable, just reconcile the books internally and they collect the bid/ask spread on both side of the trade.

2) Payment for order flow: they route your orders first to Citadel and Timberhill where marketmakers love to take the other side of retail order flow.

3) Internal marketmaking: they'll take the other side of your trades themselves and try to immediately close their negative positions by routing the order to an exchange for rebates and a better price.
... or all the other people who have taken data from the NSA, that we don't know about (yet).
Thank you for that feedback. I'll play around with some different ways of showing the collaboration option.

I was just making some changes to the site to fix a bug and introduced another bug :) It should be fixed now.
government seems to pretty much stay out of their way.

Not exactly - it's a low regulation environment, but there are huge centrally planned real estate developments and far less planning regulation or due process to stop the government building a road or a mall through your house.

Not to mention the capital controls, and the restrictions on foreign-owned businesses, the lack of free speech or free internet ..
I think a plain old "getter" would be fun. I'm on a chair and I want something to get that thing on the out of reach coffee table and bring it to me. Like a roomba with a camera and an arm.
I see you haven't used a ThinkPad.

This is the same bullshit logical fallacy that keeps me firmly opposed to modern Macs. You think, that somehow, a $300 PC will be WORSE than a $1299 MacBook, and that ALL PCs are somehow terrible in build quality.

And then again more bullshit about Windows crashing twice a day. Yeah, maybe, if you have some crappy third-party wireless card with a driver written by some corporate intern in Pascal 18 years ago.

People like you are why my Air is sitting in my closet and why I'm still using a PowerBook G4 in 2013.
Not to mention PDT requirement is $25K and more like $30K if you want to get a good buffer zone. You can also trade it via FIX. They open sourced their API here:
https://github.com/InteractiveBrokers/tws-api
It seems this is turning into a more serious project. They're implementing more code samples, refining their macro list, have a joke IDE and an IRC channel.

I look forward to more reactions. There's already at least one emotionally charged feminist blog entry I'm aware of which criticizes this.
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Sure. As I said, there is many good points on your business.

However I would be way less critical if you marketed your product as a futon/mat instead of a mattress, i.e. as what it is. And although I really like how you've done your website, your positioning and the whole simplistic approach I really think there is quite a bit deceptive advertising on your website. Like for example comparing a 5" futon with a $3K mattress in the infography, or the whole treatment of the mattress industry as like all mattresses out there are comparable to yours because as explained already in several posts.

But heck, if your customers are happy.... I probably would not change it at all. But I cannot avoid being critical with it.
I think I know what bitcoins are. So what is a better image to use then?
which one from .hr? :)
Boston Dynamics Now Belongs to Google
> Its been tuned over years for use in competitions. So it probably runs faster than the author's, even though it has more features.

For OP's use case, which appears to have a max depth of maybe 3, invoking a shell program is going to be a LOT slower than just running the search. No matter how slowly it is implemented.
It looks like Java, classes, super, static, the editor shows the little red error decorations so you can quickly resolve a new edit and test. This looks like Java? Maybe DART is worth giving a try.
Compete for starvation wages, ye masses!
In the past you've said that investors need to be able to see startup founders face to face (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850199), so how will arrangements work out with this batch? Are the founders going to be traveling back and forth to see you guys? Are you going to encourage them to try to relocate here? (but obviously that'll be difficult, you're one of the voices in the FWD.us initiative so you know that, will you encourage them to try to relocate in spite of that?).
If your aim is to make websites, yes. If your aim is to make a website for your startup, no.
Jon Clark is a professor at FSU now, and he's still collaborating with some ex-RiSE folks like Mark Cutkosky (my PhD advisor) and Dan Koditschek.

The robotics expertise that Google is assembling is quite varied, which is really interesting. They already have stellar computer vision and machine learning people on the self-driving car team, and their earlier acquisitions cover other software disciplines like whole-arm kinematics (Bot & Dolly) and vision (Industrial Perception) as well as hardware like manipulation/grippers (Meka and Redwood) and actuator design (Schaft).

The Boston Dynamics team is probably the best concentrations of specialists in dynamic legged locomotion, especially by studying animals for inspiration. Marc Raibert, who started BDI, did stuff in the 80s that still seems incredible today.

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/old-leglab/robots/robo...

I'm excited to see what they can do with the flexibility and funding they'll get at Google. I believe their previous funding was primarily grants from DARPA, which means lots of grant proposal writing, narrowly focused research goals, quarterly progress reports, etc.
Thanks for the Github link. I hadn't realised they had become open source!

Although (I had a 404), I think it's actually:
https://github.com/InteractiveBrokers/tws-api-public

Indeed the PDT requirement is a pain...
Since people have been asking about this on Twitter too: I can't name individual founders or companies. Since there is some news value in the fact that a startup is funded by YC, we leave it to the companies to disclose when it's most useful to them, e.g. when they launch, or launch something new.
I found this line interesting: "Six months since the investigation began, officials said Mr. Snowden had further covered his tracks by logging into classified systems using the passwords of other security agency employees, as well as by hacking firewalls installed to limit access to certain parts of the system."

On its face, this sounds unethical for someone who made his decision on morality. Has anything more been published about this aspect anywhere (rationales, details, etc.)?
Focusing on allegations is the issue. It seems clear that whether or not he was a spy, politics weren't important to him, science was his first master.

But people get focused on whether people are "with us or against us". He was with science. In the end, that's all that matters. Nations are not important.
7 Lean Startup Lessons Learned
I always took it as a warning that "this will be a hassle to access".
I know when I decided to buy a cheapish laptop 4 years ago to run Linux I chose Lenovo, it's still running decently well and I have never had problems. However, after reviewing the specs new laptops (since it's about time to get a new one) I am leaning towards a Macbook air or pro. They seem to give more bang for the buck and the OS has everything I need, along with excellent hardware (and outstanding battery life). I could also ssh into my linux tower when ever I need.

That being said, I know I would suggest that the person in this article probably should go with a macbook air. It is better than windows in most respects and also has much of the capabilities of most linus distros.