skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get started on Quantopian, take a look at the FAQ (https://www.quantopian.com/faq) and help documentation (https://www.quantopian.com/help). The platform runs entirely on Python and supports US stocks and equities.

To begin coding, clone the sample algorithm on the front page to get familiarized with the IDE. You can then backtest the strategy, for free, using historical data from 2002 - Now. When you run a full backtest, you can see how your algorithm would have performed in the past - you can see your returns, Sharpe ratio, and other metrics.

Once you're comfortable with the syntax and mechanisms, the community is a great place to look for trading ideas to try on your own. Try cloning an algorithm posted in a thread to begin experimenting. If you get stuck, post to the forums - they're a friendly bunch and will be happy to help out.

Of course, past performance is not indicative of future results. When you're ready, you can paper-trade your algo (trade using fake money) on the live market. It's free on Quantopian and a risk-free method to see how your algo performs in the market. And then, the last step is to connect your account to Interactive Brokers and begin live trading with real money. This blog post was an update of the live trading pilot program.

(Disclaimer: I work for Quantopian. But I'd be happy to help answer any questions! Feel free to reach out to us directly as well, feedback@quantopian.com)
> * window.status = "awesome"

The discovery of window.status was a landmark of human achievement. Scrolling text in the browser's own UI? Sign me up, I'll take 40.
How would pirates gain control of this ship?
Edit: Just read the comment below.. I see that they are taking cargo and not the ship.
Startup sales - the pair negotiation tactic
dont forget geocities :)
We 're kind of lucky to have lived through the internet/web's adolescence. I mean, how often can one live through the birth of a groundbreaking technology?

For me, it was Jon Udell's column on Byte that first got me interested in web technologies. Great guy.

P.S. Am I the only one who wrote all my html in lowercase? (and always used ' instead of " (one keypress less)?)
yep. and they get cheaper over time as the market provides competition and technology advances. there will also be a larger pre-owned market and more supply.
If the presentation is to be believed, there are only 2000 actual coins at Gox, and Gox already controls them. Gox already can transfer them out and sell at a higher price. (The low round number balance suggests they've already been doing that.)

Meanwhile, there are 624K+ phantom coins listed as being in customers' accounts. So you can't (honestly) attract new "long term, high leverage" investor/trader fiat cash with the idea "there are cheap real coins here for you to buy then transfer out at a profit!" No one gets any new real coins by shuffling phantom coins around, and Gox needs all the real coins for themselves. If any real coins go to others at low prices then Gox becomes relatively more insolvent, not less.

And for as long as the arbitrage opportunity exists – phantom Goxcoins are selling for way less than real coins – who would be foolish enough to transfer new real coins in?
The web changes, but the truly ground breaking technology doesn't age (by this I mean animated gifs).
I like how one of the challenges with quantum computing is working out whether any quantum computing is actually happening
Defender Board Game (1983)
It's only the 1933 Double Eagles that get seized, and only because the government's position is those coins were never legally issued, meaning private possession of one could only have come about via theft from the Mint, which makes the coins stolen government property.
http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
Usually more of a labor law dodge than a tax dodge.
I asked for something like this a few weeks ago in #clojure, nobody had a solution. Thanks!
In the short term, yes, it means some fools* will be hurt by some frauds. Keep in mind, however, that no amount of regulation will prevent Madoff's greed, for example, and the foolishness of those who blindly trusted him.

In the long term, we will be training people to be better and more diligent actors.

If you can determine the guilty party in the case of frauds, you can still report them to the police. This is enough protection.

* I mean fools in the larger sense of acting without diligence. Every one of us has been such a fool at one time or another, and learned painfully from the experience.
oh man, the nostalgia.
My dad would use rollover images for his buttons. To get the responsiveness he needed, he preloaded all the images by displaying them 1x1 pixel at the bottom of the page.
It's easier to just write the lexer by hand than deal with those issues.
No colored scrollbars? Or was this past 2000?
Tesla S competes with E Class MB, latter costs ~55-65k.

100k S Class is much better car than Tesla S.
yup, my thoughts exactly. super shady.
maybe in 50 years, we will be mining asteroids for precious metals...
Kidding aside, Comic Sans MS is still one of the most easily readable fonts out there.
Why I choose localhost pages:

They work even when the Internet is down.

They are very secure as long as I'm working offline.

They are very responsive. 0ms latency and my SATA bus is 16Gb/s

It is completely free.

I have complete control over the entire environment.

Anyone who sits down at my computer can edit pages. All they need to do is fire up a text editor.
Last week, out of boredom I sent an old website to w3c validator. This was from dreamweaver 4 era, so many inlined styles and dangling elements.
We restored a $300 yacht and put it in the desert.
Famous tech acquisitions’ cost per user
Borders and white space. Funny how much of modern clean design aesthetic was already possible to do with basic HTML back in the day but we were too fascinated with blinky flashy colorful tags to ask ourselves "Doesn't this altogether look like neon hell?"
Two words: surveillance systems + helicopters could probably cover a lot of the most dangerous areas.
Counters, undetconstruction images

I remember we had a clientside script that changed ilayers to those weird div tags so you could drag stuff around in both broswers.

But rarely saw anyone use blink tag at all
> "It's not "just a bug". Yes, everyone makes mistakes, we're all human. But it's completely unacceptable that those mistakes get unnoticed and into production code of such a critical component, and deployed to millions of users."

This is not a reasonable argument. At Pwn2Own each year, how many browsers have vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution? All of them. How many of these vulnerabilities are zero-days? A significant number of those. This happens every single year. Even the advanced protections in e.g. Chrome don't stop new vulnerabilities from being found on a regular basis. And all of these products are deployed to millions of users.

You could complain about Apple's response to this bug, and that might be a reasonable complaint to make. At least Google patches bugs quickly when they surface at Pwn2Own. But that's different from claiming the bugs shouldn't have existed (or should have been caught before making it into production). Bugs are fundamentally hard to find, and it's not really getting any easier.
I used homesite 4 and it made a mess out of design mode too. Mainly i used it for the css editor.
In the good old times quantum computer used to be just a circuitry that processes qbits with gates that perform quantum operations (this is what can run Shor's RSA breaking magic); D-Wave machines have nothing to do with this.

As far as I understand the whole thing, they are just "solving" the minimization of some tunable potential function by just being pushed into such potential and allowed to relax to the lowest energy state -- it is like finding a lowest point of a hole by throwing a ball into it and looking where it stops (and being happy that it runs faster than a numeric code simulating the physics of such ball). The quantum part here is only the fact that quantum effects should help the search to escape local minima, but the speed-up mostly comes from the fact it is basically an analog device.
Candy Crush Makers Don't Want to Trademark 'Candy' Anymore
Interesting point about remote work.

Would you say we're at a tipping point for large numbers of employers starting to offer remote work? It seems like there's more talk of it and it seems more mainstream lately.
More NYC—a Progressive Campaign for Upzoning New York
Invalid Arguments: Samsung Copied Apples Fingerprint Scanner
This is so true, so funny! :D
Come on, that would ruin the user experience
A friend of mine just did a TCO spreadsheet comparing the Model S with various assumptions of depreciation to an Audi, Infiniti, Suburu Outback, and a few other vehicles. Even assuming 70% depreciation the cost per mile was less than most of the other luxury cars at the point you hit 128,000 miles.

To me it's comparing the > $50K class of vehicles. If you're going to spend $50K you may as well buy a $90K Tesla, because it will be cheaper if you keep it 6 years or more.
The crazy thing is these same patterns come back under new names and for different reasons. Nowadays you have mobile apps cross-promoting other apps, it's practically the webring all over again, except now it's suddenly a new and bold idea worthy of VC money!
You can say the same about artisans who have spent their lives perfecting their craft but don't know how to get the word out about their creations. So many labor in obscurity and their pieces are stunning.
I was frequenting PerlMonks a lot during the time that Not Matt's Scripts were created: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
It's not as if they started as a "family" of languages, each one of those was just one discrete language at one point.
I was also a big fan of Arachnophilia back in the day. The creator is actually a regular HN user too lutusp.
The parent is correct. In 10.9, pressing the power button put the computer to sleep, replacing the dialog prompt shown in your link. As of 10.9.2, simply pressing it does nothing at all.
I once had a conversation with someone about how Incognito Mode doesn't actually provide anonymity, and he said, "No, it's cool dude. I have my DSN [sic] set to 8.8.8.8 -- that makes you totally invisible online. It just makes it look like you're Google. Don't worry."
Remember when VRML was going to be the next big thing and we were all going to be moving through 3d websites?
If it was found on your land, and the deed to that land has been in your name for several years, they wouldn't have legit claim.
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A part of me wished I was in my late 20's in that era, not a 12 year old kid. Oh the riches to be had.
> it's just unclear to me whether it's possible for someone to use a foundation like that as a tax dodge.

Only if burning money in your yard counts as a tax dodge. Setting up a foundation doesn't allow the money to be redirected to the donor in any way, and the donor doesn't even get to specify how the money is spent, except in a broad philosophical sense (i.e. "The goal of my foundation is to help education", things like that).

> I don't know if he represents the average or if he's actually a positive outlier.

Even among well-known philanthropists, Gates is an outlier. His willingness to tackle polio, and his project to redesign condoms to make them more effective, are both wise and daring projects.

Unlike smallpox, polio only exhibits symptoms in a small minority of those infected, so it is very difficult to identify, control and eradicate. It's going to be much harder to eradicate polio than it was to eliminate smallpox, the first dramatic pathogen extinction that was based on simple human effort.
or maybe instead of re-inventing the web browser you include the most obvious, mundane features that other browsers already have like zoom-in/zoom-out dropdown menus. Firefox still has terrible usability
That makes me wonder if, in that case, if the SEC would have to recognize some form of value to the bitcoins lost or is it enough that the victim feels there was value to the bitcoins lost.

Just because the Feds may not recognize any value of an object you possess doesn't mean that another can simple take it on a whim.

Things like bitcoin sure make for interesting legal debates.
Where are those numbers from? Wikipedia[0] states 8.90% in 2002 to 12.22% in 2012. (Edit: I see we're agreed on that.) Again, that's percent of the total electrical energy generation, not the entire energy budget, which is much higher.

I'm fairly optimistic that we'll end up using electrical vehicles down the road. But it's a long way off from becoming a sensible alternative; it'll take a long time to satisfy the current electrical energy requirements by renewables, and adding the transport budget essentially doubles the amount required.

And people are deluding themselves if they think they're being environmentally responsible by driving around a Model S. Maybe if you buy a Model S and don't drive it.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_United_...
I know very few traders who have either gone mechanical or semi with their own money. It's less about the algorithms, but more about discipline, intuition and knowledge. All of the traders that I mention knowing, are actuaries, who still spend a lot of time working on their models, always backtesting and most importantly, spending a lot of time on risk management, because futures are unpredictable like the future. I tried trading.

Reality is that if I have $10'000 to trade, unless I am successful, which is likely a low probability; 10% of that goes to brokers for all the spreads I pay over time, and the other 90% simply goes to another man/woman/company's pockets.

The one thing that I discounted was the adrenaline rush in seeing a certain currency pair or index go up by a few bips in a matter of milliseconds and that translating into gains/losses in my account. If you do it to 'try' it out, stay away. If you don't understand the effect of a certain EMA converging/whatevering with another EMA, stay out. If Bollinger rings of a friend's surname more than a band, stay out. etc. To even be extreme, I would equate high-leverage trading to gambling for us folk who don't have a lot of knowledge, and I'd go further and equate it to drugs for those who have less of a clue.

As the parent post said, stick to value investing.

Disclaimer: I've spent about 6 years trading in my spare time, learnt lots etc. but called it quits 3 years back to focus on something better with my time. I'm currently 10e10/4-.5 years old.
People will complain about anything. I, for example, am going to complain about this slight decline in my browser humor.
Didn't realize Aardvark only had 90,000 users. Huge win for the Aardvark team with that sale.
No mention of the dancing baby?
Uh, I ran this thinking it would just update my project, but not only did it do that, but it committed to the git repo and automatically pushed the changes upstream. Very bad behavior
Absolutely, but MtGox probably still knew more about keeping bitcoins secure than most individual owners. The decision to leave it at that and entrust them with large amounts of money wasn't rational, but the belief by many people that they were out of their depth managing the coins themselves was probably correct. (How many coins have been lost in hard drive crashes without backups for instance?) Yes, most people could educate themselves on these things, but most people won't. Nor should everyone have to be educated on everything; that's what civilization is all about. But if you aren't willing to do so, you probably shouldn't be an early adopter, before safeguards are in place.
maybe in 50 years, we will be mining precious metals for asteroids
Steli and team are amazing thought leaders in sales.
RequestBin – Inspect HTTP Requests
Back in the days when SEO meant keyword spam the shit out of Altavista.
Actually I did, here are the relevant parts[1]:

uers should be made aware that, different than end-to-end HTTPS, the achievable security level is now also dependent on the security features/capabilities of the proxy as to what cipher suites it supports, which root CA certificates it trusts, how it checks certificate revocation status, etc. Users should also be made aware that the proxy has visibility to the actual content they exchange with Web servers, including personal and sensitive information.

Now the question is, did you???

I've seen the link[2] you posted and I didn't find ANYWHERE the part where it specifically talks about HTTP and not HTTPS. There's even the above part explaining making things even more complicated...

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-loreto-httpbis-trusted-prox...

[2] http://hillbrad.typepad.com/blog/2014/02/trusted-proxies-and...
When you can legally consider anything moving on board to be a target, the stigma of unmanned drones mostly disappear. You can use a bunch of heavily armed drones circling around a ship on the high seas.
Funny. The term is still in use; I think it's usually meant to imply a deeper level of ownership, a la sysadmin. A few times a year people contact me saying they need a webmaster, and the way they describe their needs, I wouldn't say that "developer" really covers it.
Really? I learned about NCSA httpd from the online documentation at hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu and talking to one of the authors. Granted, I was at UIUC at the time, and knew some of the Mosaic developers as well. ;)
I was looking for exactly this about two weeks ago. Awesome!
Agreed, although you're usually trying to avoid paying your portion of payroll and unemployment taxes.
How high is your cable bill? I don't see the Volt leasing for anything under $200. My cable bill is $80. What am I doing wrong, or what are you doing right?
The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)
It was gonna be just like in Neuromancer. Cyberspace.
I feel old now.. in 1998, I was 24 and had been working as a web developer for a couple of years. I'd moved on from any thoughts of Netscape server-side dev, and was doing VBScript and JScript in classic ASP. JS was my favorite language back then, though dealing with MS COM collections was a pain.

I remember using the 1x1 graphic a lot, combined with complex tables, and even other stuff. Of course, even before CSS, you could do a lot and at first I really didn't get the point of CSS... I think that IE6, not IE4 was the first good browser. Yeah, it was despised a half a decade later, but at the time it was the best available. IMHO the Netscape 4.0.x-4.2.x was probably the most horrible ever in terms of bugginess and imho solely responsible for IE's dominance.

What we have today, even without the likes of jQuery is SO much better than the mid-late 90's.
All so true.

I still have my copy of "HTML: The Definitive Guide" [0].

I thought I was hot stuff when I figured out how to pre-cache images by making invisible references to them on my landing page.

I really enjoyed trying to make things look good and appear fast in the dial-up era.

0: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565921757.do
I think like people software should have character and history as long as they do not interfere with functionality. I am always a bit sad seeing either one go.
Casetext (YC S13) seeking a front-end engineer
Help us take on an $8 billion industry and rewrite the way people interact with text.

ABOUT CASETEXT

Casetext's mission is to make all the world's laws free and understandable. To do this, we have amassed an enormous database of legal texts, starting with over a million U.S. judicial opinions. A community of law professors, lawyers, law students, and citizens interested in the law are annotating these cases, adding insight and explanations.

Casetext is disrupting an $8 billion legal research market currently controlled by a duopoly (Westlaw and LexisNexis) that has barricaded quality legal information behind a paywall.

YOU

We are looking for a front-end engineer with design talent to help us rethink the way that people read, understand, and annotate texts.

Casetext is a place for lawyers and lay readers to read the law and augment it with their expertise and insight. We want you to take responsibility for its look and feel, iterating quickly on feedback and relying on your own acumen to make our user experience more lightweight, responsive, and beautiful.

Your mission will be to iterate quickly on Casetext's client side. We are constantly parsing feedback from our users about how to improve their experience, and you'll be working with us to answer their needs. Your watchwords will be lightweight, responsive, and beautiful. Your work will be featured not only on Casetext’s site but in publications like the Wall Street Journal through the Casetext embed tool.

We aren't looking for experience with a particular set of languages. Instead, you should be comfortable collaborating with other engineers on a diverse software architecture. Our stack includes technologies like AngularJS, LESS, Jade, Python, and Django. You should be able to learn new languages relatively quickly and improve the quality of your code as you go, and giving and receiving feedback constantly shouldn't bother you at all.

You’ll be working with engineers from Google and IBM, the president of the Stanford Law Review, and former practicing attorneys. We are a Y Combinator company (Summer 2013) and have raised a seed round of over $1.5 million from amazing investors, including SV Angel, Crosslink Capital, BoxGroup, Susa Ventures, Ashton Kutcher, Paul Buchheit (YC partner and creator of Gmail), and Charlie Cheever (co-founder of Quora).

This is an opportunity to be employee #5 at a rising start-up, take on a lot of responsibility, and play a substantial role in the future of the company. We are extremely selective with who we hire, but we make sure that our early team-members are well compensated in equity, salary, benefits, and quality of work.

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The position is located in Sunnyvale, right next to the Caltrain. We may move to (Caltrain accessible) space in Sunnyvale, Mountain View, or Palo Alto as we expand the team.

HOW TO APPLY

E-mail us at jobs@casetext.com. Send a resume and links to examples of projects you’ve worked on. Code examples are helpful.
Women prefer Apple, gentlemen prefer Samsung
The big kahuna with the Mt Gox is whether 745,000 bitcoins have in fact gone missing, because whether that's true or not I suspect will change long-term institutional support for the coin. Having large swathes of currency held by unknown or malicious parties will sway investors.
Interpreting Haskell Inside PostgreSQL With Singleton Types
Classify will be released with Mathematica 10, which is officially coming soon...

http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica-10-coming-soon.html

You can tell from looking at the bottom of the documentation page:

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Classify.html?q=Cl...

It has links to

Summary of New Features in Mathematica 10
New in 10.0: Data Manipulation
Trying to resist the urge to write a 99 bottles of beer example with that.
I remember the Cosmo VRML Viewer.

Now, I think WebGL is the new VRML.
This even works in IE8:
http://jsfiddle.net/QVQLN/

jsfiddle itself doesn't work in IE8, so hier is a direct link:
http://fiddle.jshell.net/QVQLN/show/
If your java applet just said hello it consumed so many resources. It took minute just to load java, what a stupid idea that was.