skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are also some high-volume sales that are done off the exchanges, mainly by big investors who don't want to disturb the market and buy directly from early adopters.

One company that does that is http://epiphyte.us (which I happened to speak with today, but I'm not affiliated with them):

We provide customers who are looking to enter the digital asset space with
deep, off-market pools of liquidity. Through these liquidity pools,
we operate as broker/dealers for large blocks of digital assets.

Edit: Also, a thread on Reddit about what appears to be a big off-exchange sale of 117,000 BTC that was supposedly related to Fortress's Bitcoin fund:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1u4fc6/record_numbe...
French as well, so I'm only backing my point with the dictionary definition ;)

Given how weirdly they tend to pronounce french word and sometimes transform them -see rouge (but it's only fair since we do the same sometimes) I guess it doesn't hurt to reiterate it.
Increase granularity, decrease risk magnitude.
>Avoid Java, C++, or C#.

Can I ask why? I'll fully admit to being a C# "fanboy", as they say, at this point in my career, but that's because it has so many features and syntactical constructs that are amazing and that I simply NEVER encountered elsewhere in my schooling, internships, or career. I simply feel more able to turn my actual ideas of what I want the computer to do into code with C# than anything else I've used, including Python (distant second) and Ruby.
Am I trying to place a market order or a limit order for Widgets-R-Us in the scenario you describe? Precision is important here.
In Australia, a pack of smokes costs something like $20. No idea where the tax revenue goes, but the cost alone seems like it would be a great disincentive to smoke.
Are they rich in protein? I'm hungry.
Let's dig (Granted: It's a kind of Godwin point for a French entrepreneur post):

- 71% tax above 31k€ per year: VAT 20%, Revenue tax 15%, Taxe Pro/Education 1%, [health, retirement, elderly, unemployment and similar] social mandatory fees 46%, mandatory fees and tax agent 2200€, the total is around 71%.

- Research incentives "CIR" can pay up to 90% of your PhD employees,

- ACCRE, women incentives and some I'm-a-victim incentives can get you 10-80k€ loans that you don't have to reimburse in case of failure.

It looks to me like we're selecting our best start-ups on how well they do at smuggling benefits.

It also looks like we weigh on those who could grow. Make your calculation: Without 71% of tax, how many people do our competitors hire?

Last thing, there is a heavy hate for "those who make money" in France. I'm constantly at fear of talking about money and being bashed on the spot. Not like I try to improve on that anyway, I've seen how rich is the rest of the world and I think we should have a little talk here. Also, we don't incentive successful ones to come back. The retirement and health systems welcome you like someone who is intensely rich, which, in France, isn't good. And intensely rich starts at the programmer wage.

We like to say "Fuite des cerveaux" when talking about our engineers going to [insert any place in the rest of the world]. But we're getting into the range of "Fuite des mains": Two blue collar of my friends have left to Canada. We need to have a little talk in France about money.

That said... I came back from Australia to France to start my company. The competent doctors was a big one for me, as well as a cheaper cost of living.

NB: Thanks heaps to Liam for doing this little research. Looking forward to the list of local startups, e.g. Xavier Niel.
Hello. I'm 28, and currently on the job hunt myself. I have a Bachelor's in Computer Science, and I've done everything from the lowest to highest levels of development.

I got into this tech stuff mainly to develop games, but I later became interested in compilers, language-design, system administration, and security.

If you'd like to see my resume/cv: http://mikebell.in/pub/curriculumvitae.pdf

My advice: ditch the .Net stuff unless you're just in it "for the money". Open source tools are kind of invaluable for our future.

In the interim while looking for work, grind on new stuff as HARD as you can. Make things. You should already be putting all of your "time and passion" into "learning how to develop amazing web apps". That is part of my problem - I'm not building enough in my spare time.

Diversify your skill set, but stick with learning the basics until you've gotten a solid grasp. Once you can code anything you feel like in one set of tools (personally, I use html5/css/javascript, php, and mysql a lot for webdev), then you can move on.

Programming is more of a way of thinking. Most of it translates into other languages well enough, but certain tools are better for certain jobs. You wouldn't want to bring a sledgehammer where a saw is needed. That analogy might be bad but think of these languages and things more like tools.

Once you learn HOW to learn how to use your tools, you'll be good to go. Formal Computer Science education helps A LOT, so I recommend either going to school or going onto Coursera or Khan Academy and grinding on programming fundamentals.

The biggest thing is whether or not you enjoy what you are doing. If you don't enjoy it, you will never be good. Period.
There are numerous ways:

http://www.stocktrading.com/HFTDennis.ppt

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044403240...

Broker-dealer internalization, queue jumping, flash trading. Regulators are years behind the traders on methods.

Trading center proximity is a big one. The Internet travels at the speed of light (actually, somewhat less than that). Which is finite and within the bounds of algorithmic trading. The HFTs get pricing data before the general public, even if it's just a few thousandths of a second (5000 km is about 0.01 light seconds, 500km is 0.001 ls).

With HFT operating at the 250 microsecond level, 75 km is significant.

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2536492

Or just plain cheating. Remember the Chicago Faster-Than-Light trades?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/3/4798542/whats-faster-than-...
If we're talking about limit orders than HFTs have no effect at all and might as well not exist. I'm talking about market orders.

Also what does it even mean to "Move the price of a stock to your advantage" ?
Surely that's good? The problem with rich people is they don't spend their money. The money has to keep going round and keep being spent.
Summary of Paris Machine Learning Meetup #7
Thanks for mentioning Sous Vide. I found it interesting that a precisely temp controlled waterbath product only costs a little more than the crude kettles mentioned in the article, and the internet is full of folks who put great effort into creating homemade $40 sous vide rigs.

Also despite what the article claims, water doesn't boil at one temperature, if you program a PID or whatever to keep on firing until the water hits 100C you'll be in for a bit of a surprise in Denver or some mountain towns which are much higher than Denver. I know Big Sky MT is about 9000 ft ASL, water boils at 190F or so.
No one becomes super wealthy because of acute business acumen. They become super wealthy because they are lucky that their products/services/investments pan out properly.

Bill Gates, who I have a lot of respect for, didn't become super wealthy because of his business skills (although they obviously had a lot to do with it) but because the industry he happened to be in exploded.

Thats all fine and good. I have no issue with that. But it does point to what I would consider a flaw in the way wealth is distributed. But what that flaw is I am still not sure of.
I have noticed the email/checkbox association at the bottom of the post. After discussing with colleagues about email form to collect interested people emails, I decided to add such a form to the landing page of the small service I am building.

Doing so, because I am afraid of sending emails that people would be angry about, I had the idea of adding checkboxes to let people give me a hint about what they are really interested in. I showed it to a friend, he thought it was a good idea but felt that 4 choices were a bit too much.

Is there some information about best-practices for that kind of email collection ?

Edit: the landing page is https://reesd.com/
Whats in Store for the ZURB Foundation 5.1 Update
Interesting read on giving people free money and the results

"We tend to think that simply giving people money makes them lazy. Yet a wealth of scientific research proves the contrary: free money helps." - https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money...
Except artists voluntarily sign contracts with RIAA.

Doubt Kim's service pays anything to the artists at all.
Wow, html5 has finally reached the point where it's more irritating than flash.
But what does that help if people then are back to having no money.
which half?
I could describe the medieval age same way: "Gee guys, we have stuff made of iron - so sturdy.". This is not to lessen the achievements, I just want my mind to be safely backed up among several planets before I die.

Also there is an implicit assumption that certain countries are rich based on their merits and not based on geo-political manipulation.
You have put your finger right on it. Inequality is emergent in a functional economy. So if equal opportunity for everybody is desired, redistributive mechanisms are needed.
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The recording industry at least doesn't run an underground BBS and sells out its users to law enforcement to save itself after being raided. Kimble has always been a self-centred scumbag. I really don't understand why anybody ever trust him again with anything.
> "Merry X-mas & a hacky new year by KIMBLE"

> 19 - 21 December 1996

He's horrible!

In all seriousness, I've had a quick read through (with the finest of Google's translations) and I'm not sure what you're drawing exception to. There's stuff that just sounds like satire and other BS, but I can't figure out why you wrote what you wrote.
What about Warren Buffet - I'd have thought pretty much the definition of someone with "business acumen":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett
I've heard the word spliff many times in the U.S. but only used in reference to a joint with just marijuana.
1. Because that's what people will pay for one.

2. Why does anyone need or even want a kettle with a PID controller? Does he know that people used to boil water over a fire?
Part of the reason I'm on Debian for my daily machine is because the Debian team really seems to make an effort to tread carefully around a lot of that. I'm on the testing branch even, with KDE, and for the most part things work well. The stable branch would probably be better.

I can't agree that the desktop experience has gotten worse in recent years. KDE 4 is a huge improvement, and other distributions and window managers are pretty OK too.

But ... yeah. I'm not a big fan of HeisenAudio, and I'm really not looking forward to what seems to be the inevitable switch to systemd. My first experience with systemd, a couple of years ago, was horrible, and I altogether abandoned the distribution I was on at the time and fled to Debian. When Debian switches, I'll try it out again for a little while and then maybe give the BSDs another try for desktop use.

Lennart is really not my favorite character in software, but mostly I think he's just a symptom of a growing trend in modern software development that's only starting to make real inroads into operating systems: as long as you can argue that the thing you're building is somehow technically better, and as long as you release frequent updates (and don't forget to blog about it!), then it's totally acceptable to break early, break often, and just when users think it's working for good, break it again.
Those 9 friends are:

1. In very different locations. Running around the world is going to be quite expensive.

2. Using different security measures. If they find one friend for his mistakes in maintaining privacy or security, same trick isn't going to work with some others.

3. Friends will also lock their stash in X-of-Y transactions with some other people, so finding them won't immediately increase potential gain.

I'd say the cost of running after individuals grows quadratically while the potential revenue only linearly.

4. Not all your funds will be locked with the same 9 people. 10% will be, while other 10% will be locked with some other group. To get 100% of the stash you'd effectively have to kidnap and torture maybe 20 different persons in different countries all over the world.

5. People learn. Once 2 or 3 folks are captured this way, all the rest will reshuffle their funds elsewhere and use better security measures. So you'd have to catch all at once, otherwise money will always leak right through your fingers.

Bitcoin is really, really a leapfrog technology with security incomparable with anything you had before. Previously known 2/3-factor schemes (including Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme - SSSS) always required a single non-compromised machine to bring all secrets together. Bitcoin n-of-m transaction can be securely signed by N potentially compromised machines provided they are not all owned by the same operator.

See also global economical implications of the Bitcoin security:
http://blog.oleganza.com/post/67872772342/bitcoin-and-gold
Google maps? In 2014? For outdoors-y stuff? really?

(the site is beautifully designed though)
:S

EDIT: For a bit of background: He and the CCC were never really friendly with each other. He tried to fit in the german hacker culture, but everyone knew he was a fraud.

For example, he tried to recruit young people on the mailing list into shady jobs with promises of easy money (that he didn't have back then). There are a few other stunts, but generally he behaved like a 14 year old asshole with a big ego and too much time on his hand. Didn't help that he tried to bullshit everyone about how much money he made (DATAPROTECT LOL).

Maybe that didn't get through the translation.
I doubt he was jealous so much as annoyed at the way he was portrayed in the Jobs film. I was annoyed at how he was portrayed myself, and I don't have any particular axe to grind.

I also seriously doubt the validity of your statements regarding David Geffen and his clients. That's just pure speculation on your part, unless you have some sort of amazing citation(s) you can dig up to support what you said.

None of us will ever know what Wozniak or Jobs would have achieved if they had never worked together.
How much of that $110tn wealth is actually money? Most of it must be assets, and most of that intangible assets like stock holdings.
Since there's bound to be some discussion about MBTI's validity now that you brought it up, I'd like to point out that there's some interesting research emerging that seems to reliably correlate MBTI type with observed brain activity patterns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGfhQTbcqmA

http://www.slideshare.net/AnnholmMSCCC/identifying-neurocorr...

http://www.keys2cognition.com/papers/EEGandSocialCognition.p...
Sounds to me like he had a difficult chapter coming up in the book he was writing and went looking for a distraction. We've all been there.
Ask HN: Someone liked one of my photos on Facebook. Friends only. but she is not
Someone managed to like a photo I've uploaded.
I checked out her profile, but she is not a friend with me or mutual friend of anyone..
Anyway she liked a funny picture I've uploaded as a photo, and now i'm confused.
The pic is uploaded with privacy setting "Friends except acquaintances".

Is there any FB exploit roaming around that I'm not aware of or is this some funky bug? Maybe some privacy stuff I am unaware of?

http://i.imgur.com/b8LJmO6.png
You're disillusionment is understandable and I think all of us have these feelings to some degree. But yet if you broaden up your perspective a little bit and try to emphasize with VCs you'll probably change your mind and feel better too.
Say investing only in people they know. That's not nonsense in any way. It can be a good strategy, same goes for hiring.

I too thought Snapchat had a crazy valuation but after really using that with a friend and seeing how it's actually being used I don't see it so anymore.
Anyways good luck to you and I'm sure you'll figure out how to get VCs interested in your ideas. Keep trying.
The problem starts when "acute business acumen" involves active participation in political processes in order to gain special advantages or avoid duties which are placed on other members of society. In spite of being a Norwegian, I agree with the capitalistic premise that economic inequality isn't in itself a symptom of a problem. But when the richest minority avoids taxes thanks to legal loopholes, lobbies with politicians to get useful laws enacted or gains special contracts with the government to the detriment of others, there is a very big problem.

In fact, this is corruption, which is in many of these cases endemic. We like to believe that the educated world has a level playing field, but this is far from the case. The tech world isn't representative for the world at large when it comes to being fair in this respect. (And even the tech world is far from innocent in this regard - e.g. Google et.al.'s smart dodging of taxation by keeping assets overseas. This practice is legal, but it is exactly the kind of problem where the richest are given an unfair advantage due to their wealth).
What about Renaud Visage, co-founder of Eventbrite?
Still, this is kind of the epitome of spending money to make money. This pizza was one of the first notable examples of people using bitcoin as a currency. It proved the concept. Its not certain had he not spent those bitcoins on the pizza the rest of his minings would be worth much.
[Draft][RFC] Designing an Unobtrusive Development Process
"The problem with rich people is they don't spend their money"

They don't sit on piles of cash (i.e. literal bits of paper) - they own (purchase) assets of various kinds and even if they do have large quantities of cash sitting in a bank then this is put to work by the bank.
Wealth is not bad, turning it into power is.

It's easy to see how 67% of people would agree with the sentence: "the rich have too much influence over where this country is headed". What's might not be as easy to see is why 2% disagreed with that sentence strongly. It might be related to http://paulgraham.com/inequality.html with its conclusion copied below.

If you try to attack wealth, you end up nailing risk as well, and with it growth. If we want a fairer world, I think we're better off attacking one step downstream, where wealth turns into power.
This is quite exciting. The fact that we are able to hit a moving target that far away from 10 years ago is incredible. Congrats to the ESA and good luck.
There is no "collision" here whatsoever. Some people might like to distribute a photographers work under a Creative Commons licence. The photographer does not want to permit this. That's the whole thing. The fact that fair use exists has nothing to do with this.
"Better" is a matter of defining your goals and parameters. $0.99 seems like a pretty good solution to me.
Because much of what the government does it solely for corporations. Take the agency US AID. They are not a charity. I had lunch with a high level official and asked him what he did and he said mostly it was to help drum up business abroad for US corporations. They should pay for this service. I could go on about the DoD...
Great summaries, thanks! I love when kernel news is made as accessible as this (thanks also to LWN).

Looks like a pretty major release. I only wish I had a rackfull of cutting-edge SSDs to try out the new block layer on!
Holocaust denial is illegal in many EU countries, and swastika/Nazi flags are illegal in a few as well. So, obviously, freedom of speech isn't the highest priority.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." (attributed to Aristotle)
And why decide that after one trip - is it the kettle or the outlet you have plugged it into thats causing the problem?
Yes, most Russian oligarch billionaires got their wealth purely through acute business acumen...
The problem is that "social responsibility" has come to mean "subsidized egalitarianism."

Thus most people with any life-experience want nothing to do with it.
Done. Here are the videos of the 30C3:

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/

Lots of hacking. Startups, not so much.
Warren Buffet strikes me as the exception that proves the rule that most wealth is inherited or gained through illicit means. He's brought up so often as a model for the American dream, but he's typically the only one.
This is about the 3rd line of the truth table of the implication:

| A | B | A -> B |
| T | T | T |
| T | F | F |
| F | T | T |
| F | F | T |

If A is false and B is true, then A => B is true. Which essentially means: you can get to the truth from a false premise.

For instance, supposing that 1=2, it is possible to multiply both sides by zero to prove that 0=0.
Hi, thanks for the answer! The truth it's interesting for me, and i enjoy it, not like i enjoy it when i'm riding a bike or walking around in a park, but i get immensely happy once i get something to work, ofcourse when something does not work, i get frustrated, yet i hate when something gets the best of me and continue trying.
I think it's both, by the way. I'm not too impressed by the pg's and billg's of this world as thinkers but I think they know how to aggressively pursue opportunity.

However, if we want a system based on something other than free enterprise, you're heading either toward Communism or royalism. The former scares most of us half to death, if we've been attentive to history.
Yeah, I found that last sentence you quoted somewhat baffling. At the current exchange rate and inflation levels, $10M is about an order of magnitude more than I'm likely to make in my entire working career.
1) A year with money and the rest without is better than always being without. You might as well argue "we all die eventually so why do anything".

2) For a year they did have money. There is a lot you can do with a year of having money to radically improve your future chances.

3) The money will not have all been sucked back into the hands of a few people. There will still be billions of people with money, and that money will continue being spent and going round. If you have no money and everyone around you has no money, you've got a big problem. If you have no money and all around you are people with money to spend, you can now get money, because that's what creates jobs; demand for goods and services and the ability to pay for them. The redistribution wouldn't vanish back to the original situation for a long, long time, and quite possibly never given the precedent set.
I happen to know that Sphinx (the de-facto standard format for Python) can be converted to Info.
+1 for the Django REST Framework. However, I'm not a huge fan of Django's ORM.
Brewfile: a Ruby Gemfile, but for Homebrew
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A limit order only specifies your price. Nothing keeps the HFT from getting between you and another long-term trader in that case. Which can have a few effects.

One is that the seller loses on additional value. The other is that the HFT has bought from a seller who would have sold to you, but sees a higher buy price and sells to that instead, so you miss your trade.

For low-volume traders these aren't huge issues, but for institutionals or others looking to make or exit a large position the costs can mount. Again: HFT wouldn't be undertaken if there wasn't value to be extracted in doing it, and that value is coming directly from other buyers and sellers, just as when you introduce a middleman to any other transaction.