skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an investment, but it doesn't have to be an investment to be useful!

Instead of making money by choosing stocks, market makers make money by providing a concrete service to the market: they make it easier to buy and sell for people who are investing. They are more like the merchants or shipping companies of finance, rather than speculators. And there is nothing wrong with this!

In fact, calling it gambling is just wrong: most market makers actually take on very little risk! While their actions are not felt by the company directly, they are felt by people who own the stock and people who either want to buy or sell it. And knowing that it's easy to buy or sell a stock makes people more likely to participate in the markets, which is definitely a good thing.

Also, it's very important to note that even non-trivial investment strategies do not involve buying and holding on to large blobs of stock for months. Instead, you likely want to micro-manage your portfolio following some sort of mathematical model every day to minimize risk and exposure. Again, there is nothing wrong with this! But it does involve quite a bit of buying and selling stock, and the liquidity created by market makers really helps.

Viewing the stock market as solely a means to invest for long periods of time is really missing most of the picture. Your suggestion would actually increase most people's risk, leading to more gambling rather than less--or just significantly less investment over all!
> When I first met Jobs, I had EVERY Dylan album. I was a hardcore fan. I had bootlegs too. Jobs knew a few popular Dylan songs and related to the phrase "when you ain't got nothin' you got nothing to lose." I showed Jobs all my liner notes and lyrics and took him to record stores near San Jose State and Berkeley to buy Dylan bootlegs. I showed him brochures full of Dylan quotes and articles and photos. I brought Jobs into this Dylan world in a big way. I would go to the right post office at midnight, in Oakland, to buy tickets to a Dylan concert and would take Jobs with me. Jobs asked early on in our friendship whether Dylan or the Beatles were better. I had no Beatles album. We both concurred that Dylan was more important because he said important things and thoughtful things. So a Beatles fan was kind of a pop lamb to us. Why would they portray us in the movie as Dylan for Jobs and Beatles for me?

It's sad that besides being underappreciated for engineering feats that are, even today, awe-inspiring, Woz is often thought of as the stereotypical nerd with no interests outside of tech. He was just as passionate about music as Jobs was, and has a great sense of humor besides.
There are a number of posts on this person's blog about the embedded realm. OP_link concerns programs asking for heap space. There are a number of useful explanations about cache, physical memory, and kernel bootloading. Probably worth putting on an embedded or [OS dev](http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page) resource aggregator
Asset derivatives before running water? Do you have a citation?
Yes, I can't stand it when developers want to do things properly, either.
Thats because most startups don't have revenues, so they use that as a heuristics instead of a revenue figure. But since revenues are yearly, the value of a developer is implied to be yearly.
go on... I mean do we know their IPs? they could easily move to amazon and not provide any distinguishable Browser ID, etc..
I did that for my Open Source stuff, I stopped at 164 days streaking. Maybe I should take that up for private projects.
That would be saying Justin Bieber songs should be promoted here because there are enough people find him interesting... but we all know what people they are.
Joe wins the Powerball lottery. Now he's set for life, with his 250 million dollars. Joe's contribution to society was purchasing a lottery ticket. There is a high demand for lottery tickets, so Joe believes that if it weren't for people just like him, the lottery wouldn't exist and that demand would be unfilled, and everyone would be unhappy. Joe concludes, therefore, that he deserves all the money he has, because after all, the system is just what people want and it has decided that he's worth 250 million dollars.

Prior to winning the lottery, Joe worked as a janitor, and provided a valuable and necessary function to society. He made $10 an hour.

Now, certainly there is some qualitative difference in the reasons society valued Joe at $10 an hour before he held the winning lottery ticket and $250 million afterward.

Certainly we can say that there exist a range of reasons that one might benefit from a system, and that "people will pay for it" can be used to justify just about anything.

And the financial industry that people are upset about is not really the banks that provide loans (although there is some blame in the instances when people loan money to others knowing they have no hope of paying the money back). The loans existed already; without the loans there's no CDO to buy and sell.

The reason the CDO's existed was that the traditional way to make a loan and get your money back over time with interest was just too damn slow, and people needed a way to pretend the risk of a group of such loans didn't really exist and that they'd make exponentially more money in perpetuity.
FreeBSD targets servers, so after installation you will simply get a text console.

You can install X11 though which by itself is a good experience because it makes you understand how given components interact with each other. They also have great handbook which explains standard administration. Here is section that tells you how to configure X11: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x1...
He actually threw music festivals and was a notorious prankster.
Australia has the equivalent of a "stipend" for poor, unemployed, students, single parents, etc. Plus free healthcare for everyone.

It is a hugely successful program with a very low percentage of exploitation (i.e using the money for drugs, or contributing to unemployment rate). It has been constantly tweaked for the last 20 years.

You don't need to look at obscure tribal examples within America, you can just look at Australia (a very similar society to the U.S) to see this is a good policy with extremely positive outcomes for society.*

* I'll caveat this with, if you can afford it. Australia is in a super good position with regards to it's GDP/Capita and has been for the last 20-30 years, so it's difficult to say whether this is sustainable in the (even) longer term, or in countries without the same advantages.
I've read it twice and still can't find the point.
> I still haven't seen what I think is a viable solution

What about cooperative ownership? When an asset is communally owned, it reduces the temptation for people to destroy it for a payout.
Is there too much competition to be a trader or anyone can become one ? If so, its seems much better idea to toil away to make millions than toil away at a remote chance to make a million in a startup.
I was asking about the plugin in sublime text that doesn't have a equivalent in emacs.

BTW: Evil-mode is awesome!.
There are various ways to be a billionaire without exploiting. Maybe the cleanest is if you make something that people think is worth that eg JK Rowling and the Potter stuff. Although she's given some to charity.
There was a couple things. In no particular order:

- I never got to have The syntax / Auto-complete / Smart-indent working flawlessly. Sometimes pressing enter would just screw all the indent.. at one point I was so tired that I just deactivated everything and had a "notepad" feeling where I preferred to do everything manually then some plugin just magically alter things I didn't want.

- Quick jump between files never really work as I wanted it. Yes there are some ultra-amazing plugins that do ultra-amazing fuzzy-matching and auto-complete things but all I wanted was a very fast fuzzy-matching goto file/symbol like in Vim/Sublime. I just never got that working. By using a couple of very good Emacs plugin, I almost got it.. but it was very funky with dozen of hacks.

- Copy/Pasting was kinda funky between emacs/terminal/chrome (On Archlinux/Stumpwm). I almost got it to work but for some reasons sometimes it just didn't work. Copy/Pasting is such a basic feature.. when this is not working it's really frustrating. Sometimes I had to copy from emacs, paste in chrome url-bar, re-select it, and then paste it in the terminal.. else it wouldn't work and would just erase my buffer.

- The vim plugin was great but it wasn't well integrated with the overall Emacs workflow (Obviously). In sublime, since the Vim-mode is provided by default (mostly), plugin creators pay particular attention.

- Mixing Html / Javascript / Templating never really worked flawlessly.

So, as you probably noticed, I'm saying flawlessly a lot.. I got much things to work good-enough, but I was tired of them not just working as I wanted it and to fight an eternal battle with spaghetti emacs-lisp code. Whereas with Sublime, yes you have less freedom, but things are overall better integrated and "just work" as I expected them to.

Hopefully people don't take this as a rant. I'd recommend every hackers to give a fair try to both Emacs and Vim. I guess also what happened is that I have less and less time to code with the startups I'm involved with.. so the few hours I have really need to be productive, I can't spend 1-2 hours tweaking the configuration because some buggy indenting plugin is screwing with me.
"ChromeOS" Chromebooks look so much nicer than Windows... if you want to browse the web like it's supposed to work, get a Chromebook. /sarcasm

Seriously, this has bugged me for a very long time myself. I don't get why it hasn't been fixed, it's been an issue as long as I can remember, and fortunately, other than at work or my desktop at home, I'm not on windows... My HTPC, which I use for reading more than anything is on Ubuntu, and I recently got a Chromebook as an interim replacement for my stolen MBP.

Though some of the comments mention (rightly) that SVG fonts are larger files than WOFF... they don't seem to take into consideration that SVG, being text/xml can be greatly compressed in transit. I also, REALLY don't get why Google's web fonts' css doesn't give the SVG first to chrome+windows users, so things at least look better there until they fix chrome.
glyphosate is one
The "Bitcoin 2.0" phrase is a reference to the "web 2.0" phrase, not to a new protocol version of Bitcoin.

May have been obvious to some, I dunno, but it's worth noting that Bitcoin can do all of these things today, with zero changes to implementation or design.
"You don't need to look at obscure tribal examples within America, you can just look at Australia"

You need to look at all the data you can reasonably get. There are a lot of similarities between the US and Australia, but there are certainly differences. The more unrelated tests of the idea we get, the more confident we can be that our conclusions generalize.
I perceive certain cultivars as being less "natural" than harvested wild varieties. But you're right of course, that the selection process is in no way synthetic.
I've been using and loving FeedHQ.org. $12/yr is cheap, and the (Python) code is on Github if you want to run it yourself.
When you're having this shit shoved down your throat for your entire upbringing come back and tell me it's an opportunity.
Actually if you look at it that way, you're being "paid" to do it - and then you can use that new money for other things that are beneficial for society.
Ah, that's true. If BTC-e.com cooperates with authorities then the gap can be closed. But regular people can't force BTC-e.con to disclose that info. Also worth noting that, at least in my situation, BTC-e.com doesn't have my bank info. All they have on me is a working email address and the IP address I log in from. Only coinbase.com truly _knows_ who I am since they have my bank & e-trade account.

I guess nothing is completely out of the reach of authorities if they really wanna get you, but it's a bit more difficult with crypto-currency than just looking at your bank account history. Now, if every unregulated exchange turns into a bureaucracy-controlled entity then I guess they're no longer much better than a bank.
The article talks about customers who "showroom" -- use the physical store to learn more about a product, then buy it from an online retailer.

I often go to an online store to learn more about a product (pricing, reviews, pictures), then buy it in person from a B&M (brick & mortar). I call this "reverse showroom" [1]. Does anyone else do this?

Benefits include:

- B&M retailers accept cash which is convenient and maximizes my privacy

- I can get the product right away

- I don't have to worry about goods left outside suffering from the elements or theft

- Returning a non-functioning product is usually simple and free

B&M marketing should stress these benefits.

[1] A term I just made up.
I'm not really familiar with this stereotype.

Quite the contrary, it seems to me that a lot of geeks and nerds are very passionate about their musical tastes. Classic example is Patrick Volkerding and Grateful Dead.
Lenovo: Remove the 'adaptive' keyboard & Bring back the Trackpoint buttons
The Misandry of CODE.ORG
Why does "do what you love" have to refer to work? I love playing music. I'm not particularly skilled at it yet, as I'm still learning how, but it's great. I don't make any money doing it, I just do it in my spare time. But when I'm doing it, I'm doing what I love. And I'm not devaluing the work of others who do it better than me or for money. I love listening to the music of others (both for pay and for free, both of which I do frequently). This article makes zero sense to me, and seems like a lot of projection of the author's idea about the subject onto people who mean something different by the phrase.
He's salted the earth though - antivax crowd would denounce his vaccine with as much pique and passion as they have dished on MMR. It just doesn't look like a good business plan...
The client portions are definitely in the library, and as you point out the node-webrtc library is looking really promising for interop with server processes.

If you need any help with the POC that you are currently working on feel free to reach out and I'll see what I can do (I'm the main dev working on rtc.io at the moment). Also, the primary dev on the node-webrtc project (modeswitch) is super helpful so I'm sure he'd be happy to help out also.

Either twitter or github is a good way to get in touch with me - usename is DamonOehlman in both channels...
raspberry pi's are ARM and amd64 is amd64 (for intel/amd processors)
My impression is that traders mainly have a much easier time quantifying their value. When you can say "look, I literally made $10,000 today and $8,000 yesterday", it's easy to negotiate for a significant chunk of that in compensation. Your leaving would have a very direct effect on the bottom line.

As a software developer, the value you provide is not quantifiable like that. Everyone works on the product, sure, but everyone is insulated from the actual money being made. Who is to make how much? It's a difficult question, and it also lets companies get away with paying quite a lot less--especially to the top performers. This also makes salaries (and, more importantly, bonuses) far less variable in software.
I have a brother high up in a quant lab that accounts for up to 5% of the daily volume on the NYSE. The short answer, from our experience, is definitely a no. The biggest differentiator that we've seen is that "quants" often have PHDs in fields loosely related to finance. However, at the end of the day, it's just about finding useful abstractions over a large set of structured data -- a skill that many programmers have in spades.
To be pedantic, Quorn is not synthetic. It's made by intensive farming of fungi, not by pure abiotic chemical synthesis. But I agree with all your points :)
Correct. In WA state they force the tribes to spend it "within the community," which ends up as huge hotels and other ridiculous expenses that don't help the poor members of the tribe.
This has already been done, and is contained in the USDA nutrient database (http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/), among others.
The Ruby community is very close-minded. I've been a victim of that behavior in #ruby as well. If you asked an equivalent question on #ror (the Rails channel) you'd get more than yelled at - no one would take you seriously from that point on.

To answer your question, because methods aren't first-class in Ruby, you can't pass them around the way you want to. I've decided I don't want my languages telling me what I can or can't do when I know what I want to do is a simple matter of making more types of pointers first-class.
Clojure protocols and type extension
Although it's less applicable to folks not at the university who are talking about it.

Over 10 years ago, I ran a site which collected community anecdotes of the interview process at various universities, mostly focusing on Oxbridge colleges. The aim was to open up information that was often passed down between alumni of private schools where there was a tradition of attending those colleges -- leaving people like me, with no alumni to talk to, in the dark about what the interview process would be like.

I got several threatening letters from deans at the various colleges, and had a long process of trying to decide what to do. I didn't make any money off the site and couldn't afford legal help, so I ended up taking down a couple of the anecdotes when one college was particularly nasty, but for the most part ignored the threats. Ended up handing the site over to someone else as I was focusing on my university work and less involved in the admissions phase of things, and I'm happy to see it's still alive :)
Sterile hybrids are not a new thing nor are they something that only occurs with human intervention. Darwin's finches routinely mated in pairs that produced sterile hybrids. Vegetative reproduction (ie budding or from cuttings) is also quite common in plants -- there are several plants that vegetatively reproduce by only their leaves. Human aided vegetative propagation is no different from herbivore aided propagation caused by a herbivore burying part of a vegetatively reproducing plant
It makes you wonder how wrong other movie biographies are.
The ideal name for a movie about Steve Wozniak, given how often he's misrepresented in the whole Jobs/Apple story: Woz/Not Woz.
iWoz is also a decent recollection of those times. A very interesting read overall though focuses more on Woz than on Jobs.
Stolen from a thread around the corner: Scott Adams on "goals":

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230462610...
And I recommend the reading of iWoz

It goes in much deeper detail in some Apple aspects (until the Apple II, of course) but it's a nicer book in general (I mean, less rushed)

But they are both great reads.
My biggest concern about communal ownership (ignoring tragedy of the commons) is that such an arrangement is simply undesirable for most people. There is something fundamentally unappealing about buying into a communal arrangement, and I can see why - I can easily think of a few past roommates to whom I'm very glad I was not financially bound in a long-term arrangement.

For example, TICs are declining in numbers in SF, not increasing. If communal ownership were a viable option, we should see the number of TICs increasing.
Woz did things everyone knows they can't do, so he's marginalized as a freak.

Jobs did things everyone thinks they can do, so he's worshipped as a god.

I'm half-kidding. Half not.
Take Javascript, if you want to iterate over a list, you have dozen of ways. One could hardly argue that one is better. Some prefer using built-in foreach, some .map, some underscore, some the native for(). As you say, great code is great code and as long as it's well written and understandable, it's good Javascript.

In python things are a bit different. There are agreed-on ways to do certain patterns. If someone uses a different method, I.e. [1,2,3].foreach(lambda x: something(x)) pythonist will all agree that this is no pep-8 standard and that for readability and maintenability's sake it should be changed to for x in [1,2,3]: something(x).

Another way to say that.. very good pythonists will agree on a "best way to do it", whereas in Lisp, very good lispers will agree that "both ways are very good and clean".

With all that being said, that's why I prefer to jump into a large python project (considering that pep 8 is strictly being used).
Presumably what they want to do is mix the BSD code with their own code and release the whole under a restrictive licence. That's permissible under the BSD licence, but doesn't involve relicencing the BSD code, since that's still available under the BSD licence.
when you've lived a life where you've never had any such opportunity, come back and tell me it's a burden.

EDIT: I just realized this is a classic 'first-world problem', but extended to 'first-world-upper-class problem'.
Someone, put it on the pastebin please!
The problem with your analysis is 'in general'.

There are a lot of kids who fall into the Mariana trench size cracks of 'in general'.
Just want to point out one minor nit to pick.. NEVER specify "Arial" or "Helvetica" as fonts and simply fall back to `sans-serif` On OSX you'll get Helvetica, on Windows you'll get Arial, which display better on their given platforms.. a Helvetica-like font is the default on pretty much every given platform for web browsers.

I would say, that if a fallback font is specified in the font-face rule, then that should be used while the web-font is downloaded.

Also, it would be nice, as you say, if a fallback would be used when a glyph isn't in the specified font (only for that glyph).
I know...but this is not the same as being able to procedurally generate this for arbitrary samples
Goldman Sachs Tech Internship
Will this be as valuable as interning at a startup in Silicon Valley in terms of knowledge and networking?
Because freedom of speech concerns the relationship of the government and its citizens. In this situation, more appropriate terminology could be academic freedom or censorship.
I think Woz is responding the myth that somehow Jobs has taken the aesthetics and free-spiritedness of the 60's counter-culture revolution and infused into Apple and that's what has made it stand out and thrive in comparison to the staid counterparts in computing (e.g., IBM/HP/Microsoft). Also, there was a long-standing rumor that Jobs had a long-time "under-the-table" liason with Joan Baez who was also a long time music collaborator and lover to Bob Dylan.

Tbh, it's sad that Woz comes out of the woodwork once in awhile to carp on his one-time partner. Yes Jobs was an ass-hole but Woz has all of the money in the world to get high, get a young nice-looking woman and play League or Dota2. In terms of the "intellectual man" who got snubbed by the "type-A asshole," Woz should learn from Paul Allen who reinvented himself as a renaissance man who long moved on from computing to owner of the Seattle Seahawks and blues guitar extraordinaire who jams with Clapton. At the very least, try going to the gym to get rid of that atrocious love-handle of his.
Brazil....

With the whole populism thing..
If you liked this you should read The Score Will Take Care Of Itself by Bill Walsh who lead San Francisco 49ers to win three Super Bowls.

Jack Dorsey recommended this book at the recent Startup School

http://www.amazon.com/The-Score-Takes-Care-Itself/dp/1591843...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEQawgkCMOU
The US is #1 in charitable giving because it's so easy to get a tax deduction for doing so. If people had to give out of their after-tax income I suspect you'd see a quite different picture.