skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Charlie, as a guy who regularly buys and sells large volumes of stock, is just talking his book. It would be great for him if he could make large transactions without the stock price responding quickly to this new information. But it would be bad for everyone he transacted with.

To make this concrete:

Say Charlie & Warren wake up one day and decide Company X is undervalued and that they want to by 5% of it. They start buying stock. In the old pre HFT days it would take a while for the market to notice all this new demand so they could get a lower price. But now HFTs are really good at noticing this so the price rises faster.

But wait you say! This is the "front-running" that Charlie is complaining about and that's bad! He's getting screwed!

But what if you were one of the people selling to Charlie. Before HFTs made the price faster you were the one getting screwed! There was all this new demand and you didn't know about it yet so you weren't getting as good of a price as you otherwise could have.

HFTs aren't front running. They just move the stock to it's true price faster than the humans doing the job before could.
I agree with you, I just don't think it's fair that these assholes on wall street can make 4 million dollar bonuses at age 30 for getting lucky with gambling other people's money.

I think it's great for everyone to have the desire for wealth, as long as you are making your money in an honest, value-producing way. I don't think derivatives hedge fund gamblers are honestly earning their pay.

The only thing that can stop them is financial education of the public. The stats show, year after year, that the vast majority of hedge funds lag the market---and get paid massive fees to do so. Someone has to be paying for these bonuses, and that someone is you--if you buy mutual funds or other high-fee actively managed funds.

That's why I boycott even my 401k as there aren't any passive index funds for me to choose.
I would love if all my software autoupdated itself. Including my editor.
Not to mention if your kettle caused your main breaker to trip you have some serious problems in your wiring, not your kettle.

A kettle might cause a branch circuit to trip - but the whole house??? If that happens you have bigger problems than a kettle.

(Plus in the UK plugs have built in fuses should trip first. So it's pretty doubtful it was the kettle.)
You could do this quickly if you just ran Android with a desktop skin.
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Cached version for those who are getting a database connection error: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S1lWjQ6...
I don't see how the "money should trump everything" argument is less entitled. Of course I'll think this will change if the fortunate side becomes reserved for the very fortunate, like has happened in some other cities.
Do you have any links to the fact that 99% of Mexico City is poor? Most information I can find on the subject say households have a comparable level of expenses to the average household in Germany or Japan which would seem to be pretty middle class to me.

I found some other statistics that said that the average salary in Mexico City is 32K/year which seems like it could easily be middle class there.
Imagine a bunch of people traveling in different directions in the snow. Rather than going directly towards their intended destination, everybody goes first to one particular spot, where there is one pair of boot imprints.

You walk toward the bootprint, step into it, step out of it, and then continue on your merry way.

When lots of people do the same, you see a bunch of tracks going into one bootprint, and a bunch of tracks going out. But because everybody was careful to place their feet into the one bootprint indentation, the person following your tracks won't know which of the many forward paths you took after you stepped out.
When the non-coastal cities have the same job prospects, the same thing will happen to them.
As Australians I think we should acknowledge that life is still pretty grim in many remote aboriginal communities here. Massive rates of preventable disease, low life expectancy, illiteracy, high domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse etc etc.

Lots of reasons for this of course and I don't know how services could ever be made as accessible to remote communities as they are in our cities. But I think it shows that the availability of a "stipend" clearly isn't enough.
I can understand that the Google Places URL link pointing to the non-official site being a problem but I have no issue with a 3rd party site who built a better ranking page for a restaurant. Many restaurants still have flash-intros, PDF menus and other annoyances that make those sites far less useful than a 3rd party site that has translated all that data into something that works consistently on my phone.

The other point I would point out is that ordering online does not require working with a restaurant. Many of these delivery services are "hacking" delivery by becoming the delivery provider. They just order on your behalf, pick up the food, and drive it to your home regardless of whether the restaurant offers that option or not.
"Maybe the same way that you can have a psychopath, you can have the opposite? Someone whose brain is hard-wired to be more empathetic than normal?"

Something like this maybe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_sensitive_person

Even more interesting, is this model that describes how some of the negative stuff (shyness, nervousness) related to having high sensitivity can be overcome by the subset of that population that go on to accomplish great things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Disintegration
Thanks, it seems that even the other Reuters submission was a slightly different article.
You rule. Because I'm lazy.
> why is it so hard to understand that design matters?

Maybe Nissan did understand that, which is how we ended up with the Leaf. You spend $32K on a car that's saving polar bears, you want the world to know it. How am I supposed to feel smug if I'm driving something that looks like a Nissan Versa?

Contrast that to the Tesla Model S, which IMO is kind of bland (though I'd still buy one if we didn't have the Leaf). A buddy of mine recently said he hadn't seen a Tesla. In Redmond, WA? I guarantee that he saw at least one or two on his way to work at Microsoft that morning. But if one isn't in to cars much, a Model S isn't really going to stand out.
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Not to mention the 70% of Silicon Valley workers in the linked study (http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/01/15/study-30-percent-tec...) [note: figure comes from self-reports] who would stay and presumably commute by car.
The Special Tactics team of Linode came up with this idea of publishing about a data breach in the most non-obvious manner by embedding it deep inside a totally unrelated post.
> Surely that's the best argument?

As pathetic as it is, "syntax bad" is probably the best argument.
I meant the other 99% of Mexico. From Wikipedia:

From the late 1990s onwards, the majority of the population has been part of the growing middle class.[156] But from 2004 to 2008 the portion of the population who received less than half of the median income has risen from 17% to 21% and the absolute levels of poverty have risen considerably from 2006 to 2010, with a rise in persons living in extreme or moderate poverty rising from 35 to 46% (52 million persons).[95][157] This is also reflected by the fact that infant mortality in Mexico is three times higher than the average among OECD nations, and the literacy levels are in the median range of OECD nations. According to Goldman Sachs, by 2050 Mexico will have the 5th largest economy in the world.
The fundamental problem with HFT is not HFT itself, but rather that there is massive intellectual capital playing tug a war with itself while it could be working on huge problems in genetics, AI, software, physics, etc.
The Value of a 99c Player
He wrote a book called iWoz. It's definitely worth a read if you're interested in him. He was obsessed with building his own computer from a young age.
Thank you @jamesbritt for posting this comment on HN. I've always wanted to hear the truth from Woz.
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If you believe an argument to be unsound, you can point out the error. That is one of many advantages arguments have over rhetorical questions.
My favorite interview of Steve Wozniak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K1uj9VmCzo
Buy a container worth of kettles, register goodcheapkettles.com, sell them for a year, and this question will answer itself. Probably cheaper and more useful than studying business in undergrad.
You're right. Design matters.

People who buy alternative vehicles seem to cue in to "different" designs though. I always think of the 90's Prius vs. the 2000's Prius. The first Prius looked like an ordinary car; footnote in history. Most people don't even know it existed. The second looks distinct and a little weird; smash hit.
I personally think the i3 is hot.
A car is a device that moves my butt from point A to point B safely and comfortably. Design is just a part of the package, and not the most important part either.

Unless, of course, you're buying it to demonstrate prowess.
I just love this:
Education/Experience
Some College at Virginia Commonwealth University, 4 Years Experience as a Full-Time Freelance Writer, 4-Star Author at TextBroker, 10,000+ Articles and Blog Posts on the Internet
Data Mining gone wrong - package addressed 'Daughter Killed in Car Crash'
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Sun, birds, river?
"If you're moving a unique sum of money, then it's not too hard to see X BTC in, Y LTC out, L YTC in X BTC out."

Really? If I were to deposit BTC into BTC-e, send you the blockchain.info link for the deposit, and then in the next hour withdraw it to 5 separate wallets in any of the half-dozen altcoins they trade, how would you identify even one of those altcoin transactions as mine?
I'm not sure I agree. You've missed the 3rd point the author made: Build feedback loops

Sure you can procrastinate or eat that bag of chips - if your system sucks, then your system sucks.

His last sentence: Goals can provide direction and even push you forward in the short-term, but eventually a well-designed system will always win. Having a system is what matters. Committing to the process is what makes the difference.

If you are a procrastinator, how will goals help? Everytime you miss your goal, wouldn't you just push off to next week / month / year?
as in two-photon holography? Unfortunately, there aren't too many good fluorescent compounds in air (oxygen can emit weakly in the deep red, but I'm pretty sure the free radical compound that results is not something you want around).
OK, so:

- they use mean within countries (GNI per capita is GNI divided by population)

- middle-income is GNI per capita from 1036USD to 12615USD

By those definitions, the sentence isn't a very strong one because: (i) 1036USD is pretty low in most places, and (ii) (I'm guessing) the median incomes in those countries are lower than the mean incomes used to classify the countries, the means will be dragged up significantly by outliers like Carlos Slim.
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How, precisely, does an HFT tax a stock transaction that I make?
Am I the only one who thinks the article is just a summary of Scott Adam's book?
You used the word 'important' for 'expensive'. That, in my opinion, is a fallacy.

It is expensive. That's different from important.
3D movies look plain amazing to me. Don't worry though - the rest of my life sucks, so it balances out.
The Humanities and Us
It's always interesting seeing these sorts of discussions. On HN, every now and then you uncover a conversation about what's financially reasonable, between the guy making $450k/year and the guy making $45k/year.
I am working on a browser that uses colored coins for domain name resolution and BitTorrent Sync for content distribution, you can find it here: https://github.com/jminardi/syncnet
That's not true. I have the experiences of having prepared taxes professionally and counting and reporting donations at a church. By combining those I can observe that the majority of donations are proportional to income, not whether the donator can fill out a Schedule A. (The ability to fill out a Schedule A and deduct donations essentially depends on whether the taxpayer has a mortgage, for middle class.)
Uh, I think maybe I'd better just quit while I'm behind.
The "code generation = code bloat" argument really fails when you consider that the code generated for a generic function is code that would be written by hand in the absence of generics.

Compare:

map f [1, 2, 3]
map g [1.0, 2.0, 3.0]

Versus:

integer_map f [1, 2, 3]
double_map g [1.0, 2.0, 3.0]

In both cases, you wind up with specialized versions of map (one for Integers and one for Doubles). The benefit of the generic version is that the programmer must only implement map once, and the compiler handles specializing it for various types. Without generics, the programmer has to write the specialized version for every type he needs the function for. This creates more tedium for the programmer, and does not reduce bloat in any way.

Caveat lector: Though my examples above are written in Haskell, I don't have enough knowledge of GHC internals to know whether it performs specialization this way. Nonetheless, it could be a reasonable approach for Go.
Fun fact: San Francisco is one of the few places where it's cheaper to live near the ocean, than it is to live inland!

That is, 'coastal' is irrelevant to your point.
Venmo was really big in my unviversity circle, but more recently Google Wallet.
HOV lanes are nominally intended to encourage more ecological use of transit resources, with congestion relief as a coincident effect (fewer cars on the road -> less pollution, lower energy usage, reduced rate of needing new transit infrastructure).

Since electric cars serve many / most of the same purposes, it makes sense to append them to a reward system which has already proven effective at driving adoption and retention of preferred behaviors.
Well, it was never that true to begin with.

Quotes like that are the perennial mottos of cracks and kooks, like the people claiming they invented a "perpetual motion machine" or "cold fusion engine".

It's based on a story-fied version of science (the young rebellious upstart, the established elderly opponent, etc). Science seldom works that way and seldom involved "breakthrou changes". Most of it is incremental work.
Coming from the UK I can't believe that only 80% of households own an electric kettle. The idea of going to someone's house and not finding a kettle seems genuinely ludicrous. Not just houses - almost every break room of every business will have one.

Of course, they cost quite a bit less on average in the UK.
Seattle was one of the few pre-order markets (CA, Phoenix, and Knoxville, TN being the others, IIRC). So they had a bit of a head start. That may lead to a snowball effect. You're less likely to risk it if you don't know anyone who has one. But if your buddy the early adopter raves about his, you might be more likely to buy. For the first year I had ours (the first year they were out), I was frequently stopped in parking lots for 5-10 minute conversations about my experience with it (friends hated driving around with me <g>). But now that they're everywhere in Seattle, I'll bet it's been at least a year since someone has talked to me in a parking lot. My guess is that folks have gathered all of the information they need to decide one way or the other and no longer feel the need to solicit strangers for input. :-)
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The article suggests a simpler explanation:

> ... a result of a mailing list rented through a third-party provider

This is analogous to someone looking at the obituaries in a newspaper and cross-referencing the phone book.
Guys, I was unable to install it with X and GNOME on virtualbox. Can someone share the working virtualbox snapshot of FreeBSD 10 along with X and GNOME on it so that noob linux users like me can try.
http://www.vivesol.biz/mountainview/

And while there's many good places in the area that serve a good burrito or tao lunch, you need to ViVe Sol if you wan the best Mexican cuisine.

Stay away from the things you can get anywhere - the good stuff starts with their incredible mole, home-style casseroles, steaks covered in roasted peppers, etc.

Mmmm... spicy chocolate chicken...
I'm not sure that's the core of the issue so much as disappointment over the tech companies preserving the status quo making it easy for those in power to avoid the issues.
The interfaces of a unix-like OS are better understood now than the interfaces of a second-system mainframe OS ("this time we'll get everything right for sure") in the 1960s.
What I dislike the most about the anti-techie rhetoric is how they seem to think every 22 year old kid who takes an offer from Google is basically a clone of Larry Ellison. This group may have a wage above the average but is still middle class. That guy's boss's boss's boss's boss is who they should be more worried about. (But he probably lives in the south bay.)

Then again, I was walking around SoMa with my family one day not too long ago and found myself stuck on the sidewalk in a large crowd of fratboy types who might as well have been straight out of the caricatures in a bunch of these articles... They were talking about working in the south bay and speculating on real estate. Really annoying kids. I get irritated too.
Marginally? Have you ever heard of IE6? The requirement that nearly everyone, many of whom don't know what a browser is, update theirs before most serious websites can use new features makes the positive impact of autoupdates much more than marginal.
Pop-disc bimetallic thermostats switch at only one temperature, but the property of bimetallic expansion is in no way limited to switching at a single cutoff point.

Here's a bimetallic adjustable thermostat:
http://catalog.selcoproducts.com/item/adjustable-controls/ad...

I'd be willing to make a large bet that a majority of people who brew both coffee and tea do so using boiling water or close to it. Black tea (breakfast tea) is best made with freshly boiled water, while I find coffee made with anything below 90C to be too weak - I generally use water made shortly off the boil when I'm using an Aeropress.

I have zero doubt digital thermostats are more accurate. That wasn't the point.
Or wait a few more years when Leaf batteries reach their lifetime expiration, and those buyers are back on the market.
The Sandglass, A very underrated invention
How would you recommend becoming familiar with idiomatic Go?

I've read various articles including (but not limited to) tutorials, made a point of exploring a few open source projects and I've written a few thousand lines of Go. I enjoy writing Go, but I have a hard time so far figuring out if what I write is idiomatic.
author wants to "have his cake and eat it too", and argues from a position of untenable entitlement. As a private photographer, I cannot afford it. But you, sir, are not entitled to have someone distribute your work on your behalf.

Perhaps the photographer should consider changing his or her business model wherein he or she gets paid upfront on a commissioned basis to take interesting photographs, and release everything freely (with the concomitant distribution benefits).
Yup. Far better than the Jobs autobiography, though both were fascinating people I think Woz resonates with the average person much better, though his skills and intellect are far above average.
The espresso machine kits traditionally use industrial PID controllers from Fuji and the like, which (did and still do) cost about $200. It looks like there are lots of nice $35 options now... neat.
Add a thermometer to the stovetop kettle and it'd be perfect! :-) I would much rather boil water with gas. It's cheaper and there's no risk that it will overload the circuit breaker.
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Effective lifecycle emails + user feedback
But don't you agree that the reason an area would increase in value (which often converts to the monetary type) to a lot of people is because it holds some sort of importance to them?

Whether it be intellectual importance, industrial importance, creative importance, etc
Here is a repo I posted a django addon that packages and installs plugins. Only supports chrome right now.
https://github.com/jbcurtin/Deployment
Venmo is blowing up in my social circle as well. I'm using it several times a week now to pay people for dinners, etc. and have gotten a few friends to sign up to make it easy to pay me.
Encapsulating instance state us not the point, encapsulating the class behaviour is the point. So, if you can make the prototype itself private and modify the prototype with class methods, you have something that prototypes by themselves do not express.

The analogy is not to a private instance variable in Ruby, the analogy is to a class method in Ruby Dutch as define_method.
"The 99%" is an ultimately meaningless statistic that doesn't describe a real problem or imply a real solution...even in your follow up you acknowledge that "the 99% of Mexico" is actually the 21% (except not really because < half of median income is not definitionally poverty). So what does "99%" have to do with anything except slacktivism?
The car has been on the market, what, 3-4 years? Just how fast do you think the batteries will expire?
Guys, c'mon, it's not that complicated.

The folks at Linode either know or believe that it was the same people behind both the swatting and download of the old server. The server sounds like it belonged to someone on the Linode staff, and had a forgotten backup of some older data. It's lame, but it happens.

This part is nice:

> "We know how important transparency is and how we’ve needed to do a better job with it in the past, and well … this is the story."

It sounds like they might've taken some criticism of their past handling of events to heart. If this post is indicative of how they'll be handling future incidents ... good. It's timely, it gets right to the point of what happened and who was affected and how they responded, and it doesn't seem to be trying to conceal anything.
The .net site even includes a helpful hint to 'Additional Restaurants'. How generous of La Luna Negra to advertise their competitors! /s

http://lalunanegra.net/additional-restaurants/
My house had residual current devices in the main circuit board (like the bathroom socket, only centralised). That meant that when devices such as the toaster, kettle, dishwasher and exterior lights developed ground faults, they would take out half the house.

It would lead to much fun as we reset the RCD and then tried each appliance to figure out which one was faulty.
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An obvious problem with today's Apple hardware
You just described coffee makers in the US. Tea kettles on the other hand... can't recall ever seeing one in real life.
Nashville, TN. Nissan's North American HQ is here, so they are all over the place.
What criterion do you suggest to determine who lives in SF, besides "let people come to mutually beneficial arrangements among themselves"? Keep in mind that the most common alternative policy, rent control, is widely acknowledged (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/opinion/reckonings-a-rent-...) to turn rental markets into basket cases.

There are currently a host of policies that keep people from doing what they would otherwise very much like to do, which is building new higher-density housing and living in it. That would result in net gains, whereas arguing about who gets to live in SF is pretty much zero-sum. Yet people really seem to like to argue over the latter, and are weirdly quiet about the former.
Are you for real? It's a piece adapted from Bill Gates foundation.