skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The webpage you cite does not support your argument that Climate Change caused the Egyptian population to rise up against their oppressive/corrupt dictatorship. It simply states that Russia had fires destroying wheat and Egypt was an importer.

Food price inflation[0] is cited by Wikipedia as one of the causes (with just a single link). There are pages and pages of other much more important reasons[1]

Food price inflation is not necessarily connected to Global Warming/Climate Change.

The 2007/2008 World Food Crisis, which caused violence in Egypt[2], significantly raised food prices (which stayed high after the rapid rise). A major cause, according to the World Bank, was biofuels [2] which raised food prices by up to 75%.

Its easy to claim that X was the spark that made Y happen. All you need to show that X had some minuscule effect and people will readily agree, ignoring the big picture.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_2011#cit...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_2011#cit...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_pr...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_pr...
You may have misunderstood what I mean when I use the term "publicly reachable".

It is not only the static nature of the IP address that make it more suitable for peer-to-peer.

It is the ability to accept unsolicited inbound connections on any port.

The key word is "unsolicited".

Essentially, the user pays extra for the "privilege" of less stringent firewall rules.
So A) there are lots of markets that do pro-rata matching (larger orders get priority). B) there is a very reasonable bias against non-repeatable matching algorithms in current markets.

If you did randomized matching and 1 market participant seemed to have very good "luck", how could you convince the other market participants that the fix wasn't in? You have to understand that modern markets assume the worst case when it comes to collusion, insider trading, etc. Randomized fills is the worst case scenario given those assumptions.
There are already fees attached with canceling large amounts of orders, and most exchanges provide less fees (or even rebates) for providing liquidity (being the order that is taken off the book) vs taking liquidity.
Is the US Stock market rigged? Were you born yesterday? Of course it's rigged. The entire world is rigged.
According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, about 115 children / year are the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. These “stereotypical” kidnappings involved someone the child did not know or was an acquaintance. The child was held overnight, transported 50 miles or more, killed, ransomed or held with the intent to keep the child permanently.

115 children out of ~74 million in the US. I understand it's a highly emotional and tragic experience when it happens, but statistically speaking, the odds of your child being kidnapped are roughly the same as them being struck by lightning. Part of the problem is the amplification effect of modern media. Kidnappings are sensational stories and we have a very human and empathetic reaction to them. Public perception would indicate that the odds of an child abduction are way higher than they really are. The biggest risk to your kids being abducted is one you probably don't want to admit -- around 200,000 children/year are abducted by a family member. Another 58,000 by people they know. Restricting your child from playing outside probably won't do much to help those far larger threats to their safety. I know it's an emotionally charged subject, especially for people who have been directly effected by it, but when you look at it rationally, the numbers speak for themselves.

We're scared of the wrong things.
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Good question. I know it's not that concrete, but Pedro Larroy has quite a lot of GitHub activity https://github.com/larroy, and so does Steven Jewel - https://github.com/jewel

There's a semi-active mailing list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/clearskies-dev

That's all I've got for now.
> The conclusion? "Increased frequency of sharing photographs of the self, regardless of the type of target sharing the photographs, is related to a decrease in intimacy" in personal relationships, wrote the authors.

an example of a study where causality can create misleading conclusions.
Yes. Gods are probably a bunch of mathematicians and programmers. And we are living in their life simulation program. The universe might as well be a projection.
A fair lottery would solve that.
Skype does not require a web browser to do NAT piercing.

Nor does NAT piercing require a web browser.
Timeshare 3d Printer
Uhh ignorant HNer here. What is your tick to trade latency? What are your fill rates like? Are you doing primarily add or take? Which contracts do you trade? :-)
I'd have assumed this was Sipser's book as well, except that I was recently at a university bookstore and saw the third edition of his book priced at over $200. Sipser's a great writer, but that's an outrageous price. When I was in school, it was still expensive at a bit over $100.

I am grateful this free alternative exists, because the subject matter is really fun.
> why not just email someone a copyrighted file? Once the
> file is downloaded to their email client, they are in
> the same position as they would be in if you shared it
> via Turtl.

Not exactly, there have been a couple of ultimately unsuccessful cases which are similar (but not exact) with people getting mailed kiddie porn and the federal agents tried to arrest them when the mailman handed over the letter/package.

The successful prosecutions I've read about involved three things, 1) an opportunity, 2) an awareness of the legality, and 3) the follow through even when there is no reasonable doubt.

Bittorrent is a good example here, and cassette tapes are as well. All of the outward facing material from these folks are focused on legitimate uses of the service, it doesn't keep people like cassette makers from being sued, but it gives them a pretty credible defense. In the linked article you mentioned using Turtl specifically to avoid copyright enforcement, a judge or jury reading that could be persuaded that you intended to facilitate copyright infringement and that intent would make you liable for any copyright infringement that occurred by anyone using the Turtl service. The point I was trying to make is that you are doing the prosecution's job for them when you write

"So how does Turtl deal with copyrighted material?

We don’t. We don’t know what you’re storing. Neither do copyright holders. Neither does the government.

That’s how we like it =]"

It will not be difficult for a prosecutor to use your words to a Jury and show that you like that people can violate copyright with your service and that you made the service so that they could.

And once the prosecution has made the jury understand that, you will be convicted of abetting copyright infringement and either broke for the rest of your life paying off an infringement judgement from hell, or serving time in prison.

All for stuff other people did using your service, because you made it so they could. See how that works?
>My favorite, by the way, of all the things I posted recently that didn't get any attention, is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6713259.

Off topic. So, what's the opinion on RD Laing currently in the scientific community? I remember reading "A divided self" and wondering the whole time, is the whole world mad? Or is the author mad? Or is it both?
perhaps this is what you meant, but isn't the major impact that the stated price is potentially different from the bitcoin price? in other words, buying something for $10 might actually cost $12 because of capital gains. i agree that wallet software can track tax data automatically, but it seems like the true impact is that consumers won't know what price they're paying unless wallets compute a real-time real price. unless bitcoin prices stabilize within a very tight band, it seems like this issue is what would impair consumer adoption the most? i'm new to bitcoin, so please lemme know if i'm missing something.
The IRS's decision, if actually enforced, is going to make legitimate transactions with bitcoin almost impossible. Filling out a 1099 is a pain in the ass, even with relatively light trading, in which you might buy a block of 1000 shares at 55 dollars, and sell two blocks, one of 600 at 57.568 and another 400 at 57.569. Try doing that with the fluctuations in currency markets. If you buy 10,000 dollars worth of bitcoins, you'll need a new entry for every time you spend them, with a different price for each.

And, if they enforce wash sale laws, you could be liable for totally innocent trades. That probably won't happen though.
Reconciling Faith and Science
At 23 I was still at Uni, a nerd failing at all non-nerdy subjects, no girlfriend, no money, no car. I had hardly any ambitions and failure was the norm I set for myself. But I was pretty happy nonetheless.

Don't let all the hype get to you. Life is not about building Instagrams or WhatsApps, you might as well play the lottery.

So say you can't do it and then you can... sounds like you just have a pre-life crisis.

Set yourself up for a tiny win, like, try and run 10km, or get a first-aid diploma. Fist pump, you're not a failure. Then set your next target. Enrol for uni, flip some burgers. Life is the same for everybody, by the way.

The problem is, you are pretty smart; the nice thing for dumb people is that it's easier for them to be happy but you'll get there, too.
I very much like the look and layout of the site.. nice job!
Take it as you will. Whether it's fair to say "Climate Change caused Egypt's revolution," I don't know. But if you accept that Climate Change can destabilize the food supply, and that a destabilized food supply caused the revolution, then the quote claim is not really nonsensical.

And don't get me started on biofuels!
That's an interesting perspective, I hadn't thought of it that way. My concern is that it feeds into the idea that these guys do it all on their own, but then speak to any VC, and they talk about the team.
Thanks for the additional info, great to have someone from RS chime in!
Dare I say it, but...

"To the tune of Ten of Billions" is that sooo material?

That amount's not unheard of for a single company, hedge fund, hell even individual (there was also that guy that loss 8 Billion).

If it's half of all trading volumne, but a tiny fraction of profit, then this is razor thin margins. In these areas, we've always been comfortable allowing the big boys in any industry (with their economies-of-scale) to execute efficiently, and hopefully compete each other out of ripping to rest of us off too bad.
Any pointers on how the diagram for the stack was generated?
More users means more people who feel breaking changes. If you have one user, and someone demands a change that might be breaking, there's a pretty good chance everyone who feels that is willing to go to the effort of fixing up any breakage. If you have ten million users and someone requests a change that might be breaking, you've got to treat it much more carefully.
As a full-stack web developer, I rely heavily on gulp and Bower (as mentioned in the article), as well as a few other small utilities. I know I wouldn't have to give those up by switching to Go, but at that point, if every dev on the project already needs to have Node installed, why not just use Node?
*I'm not going to answer these questions for the system I currently work on as it would violate IP agreements.

Tick to Trade Latency: Are you asking about my average times, my median times, my 2 9s or my 4 9s;)? Basically call it tens of mikes.

Fill rates: I've worked on systems that fill on nearly every order they place and other systems that skirt with getting banned.

Adding/Taking liquidity: Mostly adding liquidity in my experience, but I have worked on strategies that only take.

Contracts: All the ones that make money, none of the ones that don't.
Apparently your idea of "better" means "comments that I agree with"?
Yeah - Why does it have to be FIFO? Wouldn't random be just as fair?
> Make it easier to find prior art

How, exactly?
There is a pretty serious bias in the markets against non-repeatable matching algorithms. Explaining to the rest of the market participants why a given trader (or group) had better than average luck is not something that most exchanges are interested in doing.
Charles Kindelberger's "Manias, Panics & Crashes." Should be mandatory reading in HS. Starts with Minsky's theory of how economic bubbles occur and progress, then applies the theory beginning with the Tulip mania among the Dutch through to the modern era.
You have the technical skills, don't push to startup. I had say things work better when you get a 9-5 job and learn the field you are in, and once you know enough about the domain you are working in, you can startup in the same.
We rarely here of vague startup ideas without domain knowledge succeeding.
I'm pretty sure a company like Coinkite or Coinbase could track and automate this and give you something you can print off each year.

It might discourage users from using their own wallets for transactions, but that's all.
there is always one...
Certainly. It's an important point, it was just simply to make it a more correct point so I did.
There was a time when HN was less political and more interested in fact.

Can you imagine any other context where a political editorial would be accepted as fact in a discussion on science? Some people have such little shame.
10 startup funding rounds in Asia last week
I read this article [1] just a few days ago about how kids are over protected now. It also includes the Swanson Primary School story too. An excerpt "...I’ve mostly met children who take it for granted that they are always being watched..." struck me, it definitely was not like that while I was growing up.

Besides, is there a time line for the Swanson Primary School story? The article I linked to mentions this as an experiment conducted in 2011. If this is true, I would love to know how it has progressed since.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-pare...
"But I also remember reading somewhere that the ADA was pushing for electric cars to emit noise for deaf and hard hearing pedestrians."

I read a similar one except it was regarding blind pedestrians.

I'm not sure how a silent vehicle would affect deaf person.
Yeah, I think we've lost touch with the whole scientific method on climate change. Propose a theory. Test the theory. Revise the theory. Repeat and repeat as we gain a more accurate understanding of our world.

Climate is so complicated. Of we're going to get things wrong. The trick is revising our theories in light of recent discoveries. Unfortunately, many people have a lot of money and clout invested in The One True Theory that they don't want to admit any mistakes at all. That is closer to religion than science.
Perhaps publicise the random numbers used at the same time as the order is executed, together with the identifier for the particular trades in the queue.
Tesla cars are already compliant with J1772 (a small adapter that comes with every car) and CHAdeMO ($1,000 adapter, coming soon.)
I spoke too soon, seems pretty bad ass in that case. gotta love _changes
Just get a damn job that pays well. Relax, work 9-5 and earn pretty darn good money.

Accept that you will not be the next Mark Zuckerberg because 99.99999% of everyone will not.
I agree with this, probably because it fits my situation so well. I work a mind numbing pharmacist job, save 85% of my income and am working in side projects. One project is medical software because everything out there is currently very shitty. The savings are invested cash flowing securities. In five years you will have built up decent cash reserves.

Now, you won't necessarily be living like a pauper. Just stop buying stupid shit and buy bare necessities.
Third-party domain delegation considered harmful
Or run on an encrypted volume that you scrub prior to killing off the instance.
I don't understand how HFT can make me pay more than I want to for a stock. I set a limit order--the limit is how much I'm willing to pay. If some HFT firm pushes the price past my limit, then I don't buy.
Sorry about that, we're working on back-dating browsers as we speak! The site is very browser-intensive and we found locking it down to only the latest browsers was the fastest way to get a product to market. It will be completely compatible by the time we launch
On the contrary, what if George Carlin was right and mother nature just needed human to make plastic?
Why do we believe climate scientists when they can't even predict the weather 10 days out? Yes, weather doesn't equal climate, but climate is weather in aggregate. That means we should be able to predict short-term, local weather events more accurately before we even begin to start predicting long-term, global weather phenomenons. If our short-term weather models are so pitifully inaccurate, what on earth makes us believe our climate models predicting what will happen 5, 10, 20, 50 years from now are anywhere close to being correct?
This is true, but I believe if you don't set a limit order, then the market value will go up. Then if the price keeps going up, you'll have missed your chance to buy the rest.
Thankyou! It was designed and developed by two 17 year olds straight out of school and they really appreciate the feedback.
It can make you pay more than you otherwise would, not more than your limit.
I don't know about Al Gore's prediction or the basis of it. He is not an expert but perhaps his prediction was based off of the opinion of experts. The opinion piece you linked to hardly qualifies as a valid counter to alarmism.

The variation of the extent of arctic ice is much less during winter than it is during summer. Since 2007 there have been three years where the minimum ice extent has been below 2 standard deviations of the 1981-2010 mean according to the National Snow and Ice Center. Since the 80s the volume of arctic sea ice has been halved.

Al Gore's predication was wrong. Arctic sea ice continues to decline and the arctic experienced an unusually warm winter. This is according to the National Snow and Ice Center. Here is a quote from their blog,

"While the eastern half of the United States has dealt with a cold and snowy winter, temperatures in the Arctic have been distinctly higher than average."

Everything will be fine for the planet as it is an inanimate object. Not everything will be fine for humans.
Just because you have a limit order doesn't mean you aren't getting fleeced, as you could've bought it for less otherwise (assuming some level of fixing as is suggested)
Pretty much the same as buzzfeed...
Windows Exec Antoine Leblond Leaving Microsoft After Almost 25 Years
Publishing the number would not in any way, alleviate the concern that the system was not fair. You are thinking about this problem from a mathematics stand point when the issue is a social one.
Dot-con job: How InfoSpace took its investors for a ride (2005)
Thanks! Welcome on board.

p.s. your shop has some fantastic stuff! Do you ship to New Zealand by any chance?
If we use reflection, we might know about error only in runtime. What haskell does is guaranteed to work at compile time. That's why it's so cool.
This is fascinating investigative journalism by the Seattle Times on InfoSpace and stock market fraud. It epitomizes everything that was wrong with the dot-com bubble. The manipulation of information on the value of the website/product/company is horrifying.

Check out the rest of the series: http://seattletimes.com/news/business/infospace/
In the abstract I like the notion of someone who's been City Auditor at the helm, but don't have strong feelings about Ruby in particular. Probably weakly prefer Seigel to Quan but that's not saying much. Schaaf doesn't seem awful. In general I need to dig deeper.
Hello.

You make a lot of assumptions about me.

I'm not trying to whine, I saw a problem and I'm asking for help fixing that problem in return for my time and money. Also, I have a job.

Me and my girlfriend have a great relationship and I do everything I can to make sure she's happy.

I have a lot more than $5000 to show for it. That's is just what I have for a side project.

I don't fail at everything. I'm only 23, and I think I've achieved quite a lot for my age. I wouldn't say all of my ideas have failed, but I aim high and I feel like I'm failing overall.
I suppose by repeatable you mean that if you replayed the sequence of orders - both buy and sell - the matching algorithm would match them the exact same way as it did originally?

I understand the desire to have deterministic trading algorithms, but they're already in the unenviable position of having to explain why some traders get information faster than others, which seems like it's even harder to explain.

Plus, the algorithm could be repeatable if you just replay the sequence of random numbers that led to that order - i.e. if the sequence of numbers were made public along with the executed transactions.

You can measure the randomness of a random number generator, so it would be easy to demonstrate the the orders were picked in a perfectly or near-perfectly random way. You could even hook the random generator up to a quantum event like a decaying atom to get even more evenly distributed randomness. I'm sure for something as important as fair market conditions the institutions in question would spare no expense - neither to have the trades executed randomly but to prove to the public that they are generated randomly.
Don't senators and congressperson's portfolios do a whole lot better than the S&P 500?
I wonder how fast everyone forgets the real founders of Tesla: Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, and all credit is put on Elon. I am sure he deserves a lot of credit for his foresight, strategic decisions and also his execution... Bottom line he bought himself into the electric car game, which was itself a very good strategic move.
Netflix users on Verizon and AT&T get raw deal, have little reason for hope
Meh, has Tadhg actually tried the Valve VR room demo? If he has't tried that demo, I question his credibility in claiming that VR doesn't work.

I'm as skeptical as any about the Oculus acquisition, but having experienced the Valve VR room demo (now owned by Oculus), I think we're a lot closer to the Matrix than anyone would have thought after looking at DK1. My first thoughts after taking the demo rig off was "wow, I'm going to have to reconsider what the next 10 years looks like for humanity."
FWIW, Simon Peyton Jones agrees laziness isn't the boon it's made out to be.

While not universal, I feel confident stating that the opinion is shared by the majority of long-time Haskell programmers.
I've personally found that static typing is an aid to comprehension and thought. I spend more time fiddling with untyped code than typed code. I also disagree that static typing prioritizes a particular mode of failure—the notion of failing to typecheck is a rather general one.
You have RockThePost as well https://rockthepost.com where they connect investors with early stage tech startups