skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is not about the fact that you can't survive without a car. However, having a traffic violation send you to jail for several years is an excellent intro for an article about modern debtors' prisons and the whole support apparatus around them.
Tesla to Use North American Material Amid Pollution Worry
It's sad that in some cultures/places/families this is considered as something "unconventional or even quirky. The modern "children should live in a bubble" overprotective approach is not only making the kids useless for some things in the future, but also causes some mental issues or even disorders of varying severity (but of course, on the other hand, diagnosing every kid with ADHD and every teenager with depression is equally unfathomable for me).
There was a TED talk (can't find it, possibly [1]) with some guy describing how he's doing 'dangerous' summer camps for kids. It included fire, sharp tools, etc. That's when I realized the summer camps I went to and I still visit as a supervisor/counsellor/leader would probably be banned and I executed in some places... [1] - http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_...
> total honesty makes life easier to live for yourself

That may all be true, but let's not forget we are talking about a successful life, not an easy one. And I don't expect success to be easy to come by.

The secret to a successful life is to never lie to yourself, to get people to trust you (for example, convincingly claim that you never lie), and then lie them intelligently so that they never figure it out or when they do they can't do anything about it anymore.

This is fiendishly complex trick to pull and requires some sociopathic inclinations, so it should not surprise us that many successful business leaders are indeed sociopaths. We are not talking about famous singers or athletes who succeed based on their talent. In the business world, the talent is convincing people better than the competition and that, unless you have built the perfect company with the perfect product and the perfect employees, requires lying.
Haskell the language is concerned with proving small theorems about the program as specified by the source code. Actually running it is outside the scope of language specification; it's an implementation detail. GHC (the defacto compiler for Haskell) makes a lot of resource tradeoffs to try and achieve better performance.
90% of grandmasters were grandmasters by the age of around 13.

At risk of hijacking this comment tree, I'd love to see some kind of citation is this is true. It'd be striking if it were.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/38722872

http://gawker.com/hedge-funds-are-now-poring-over-satellite-...

wasn't necessarily goldman-sachs, changed the post
This article reeks of immaturity. And I'd rather
have only passionate people in our field.

There's passion and there's passion. When a job advert says "we want people who are passionate" sometimes they mean "there will be lots of unpaid overtime and we want people who won't complain about it".

I'm all for talented, experienced people in our field, but I think we also need a healthy work-life balance. If someone wants to work 60 hours a week then spend 20 hours a week on their open source side project because they're passionate about coding, that's their choice - but if someone else wants to work 40 hours a week then turn off the computer and spend time with their children, I don't see that as a problem or something they should be ashamed of.

And if my boss stopped paying me, you can bet I'd stop coming into work. If that means I'm in it for the money, then I'm in it for the money.
Be mindful, be grateful, and fail forward.

By that, I mean to take a step back and give yourself a 'big picture' view of the world around you to gain some perspective. Some call it meditation; some call it getting some fresh air. You're 23; you need to learn that being an entrepreneur is a marathon (not a sprint) before it kills you—and it will.

Learn to create the time for yourself—to switch off. Your logical mind needs down time to compartmentalize your ideas and arrive at that 'aha!' moment; you can't always be "on." Your body needs to strengthen (work out) and rest (proper sleep). Your social mind needs time to take in the world and discover joy. I can't emphasize the idea of "creating" time enough. It won't fall into your lap. You have to make it.

Then look at how far you've brought yourself to this point and appreciate it. Don't compare yourself to anyone else, just to the person you were yesterday. Appreciate and get inspiration from the little things. Show people you are grateful; hug them, buy them coffee, do them a favor. These acts will make you happier than money or material wealth.

Consider taking a job where your talents help make a team stronger. It's important to be challenged in your area of expertise, but it's more important to take a notepad and to observe your colleagues and learn what makes them good at what they do, because they have the skills that can help your future business(es). Learn what to do and what not to do. It's not about the money, it's about the process.

When you screw up and get yelled at or feel embarrassed, that's a good thing. It's another experience under your belt; another data point to reference. When you don't get yelled at or feel embarrassed, that's very bad; it means no one cares to push you forward—including yourself. Always find something to improve and when you fail, fail forward.

As for your business, it takes $0 to validate an idea. Find three customers to pay for your product or service before building it (just a rule of thumb). You can do this while holding a full-time job. Don't build something you think people want; build something you know they want. As PG says, do things that don't scale. That's how you learn what your customers want. When you run out of time in the day to keep up with the unscalable work, considering what "big wins" will help free your time up to do more unscalable work.
This is a pretty weak defense of HFT:

>Although the latency competition provides little to no value to the end
>consumers, all HFTs must play the game. If they don’t, a faster HFT
>will beat them to market and their order flow will be reduced.

So yes, it's essentially useless to the retail or wholesale investor.

Actually, worse than useless, since the HFT has a built in advantage that brings no value to the rest of the market. It's an endless zero sum game where other investors (who do the real work) are losing.

>I’d also like to note that I don’t believe automated market making is useless. It isn’t. Providing liquidity and reducing the spread is valuable.

Which HFT is actually pretty poor at. Spreads were reduced significantly by having electronic trading systems (computers are cheaper than manual labor), NOT through high frequency trading systems (did spreads drop significantly in the last 5 years?).

Liquidity was already maxxed out in the equities market before HFT, too. HOUSES are illiquid -- it takes weeks to close on a sale on one of those at best. THAT market could do with additional liquidity. Would be nice to close on a sale in a day, right?

Being able to buy and sell your share a thousand times in a second is not providing useful liquidity to anybody except HFT traders.

At the end of the day they're levying a tax on the rest of the market - i.e. as the OP points out, the market IS rigged.

>In the Hacker News comments on part 1 of this series, there were several comments suggesting that HFT’s somehow steal pennies from ordinary investors. I don’t agree with this claim, but I’m very interested in hearing well reasoned disagreement.

I'd be interested in hearing this well reasoned disagreement with the OP. I'm not so interested in reading the same old tired defenses of HFT, though.

It's not about liquidity or transaction costs. It's about gaining an information advantage similar to what front running or insider trading gets you.
Here's a little library i've used in different forms on a few different projects. It can cause some pretty heavy hitting of the memcache endpoint so you may want to use another peristance layer for tracking key versions but it does a great job of giving you an semi easy to to manage cache invalidation with a high granularity. Enjoy and I appreciate any feedback you have.
This would be a good way to look at the Dropbox/DMCA issue. http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/30/how-dropbox-knows-when-your...
But you work in a field where there is a demand for those who do understand such things, no matter when they started their training. And you will be asked to work along side those who do not have passion for what they do, but are at least smart enough to learn when its necessary.

It may seem like these impostors are encroaching on your passion, but understand that they are doing a massively difficult task that you may not be able to: to become a master in a field in which they simply choose to be employed.
I am utterly amazed - it's true. I have held myself back in the fear a small lie will get found out. Nothing compared to the expenses of MPs or the affairs of the adulterous.

But we hold back unable to give our all.

A great lesson to give our kids.
writing this down so I can stare at it on my desk, thanks for the inspiration.
Government backed Bitcoin
Actually, I had the feeling that he's specifically recommending not to use Wine.

> A good shim layer should have far less impact on performance than the variability in driver quality.

As he describes in great length, most of the characteristics of games are either identical, or similar. It sounds like he's advocating more of a simple JIT translator than an OS-level compatibility layer.
I say, make hay while the sun shines, and make money while businesses throw them at vague hyped keywords.

Such is the nature of primates: it's about social proofs and herd mentality.

Efficient rationalism would be a dangerous chimera if you're after money.
How's that pessimism been treating your portfolio recently? ;-)
You could hardly expect the people profiting from this to do anything except come out against it.
Selling software doesn't have either of these issues.
ACC is possibly the best thing about NZ, and most surprising. For example, you can go hiking (tramping as they call it here), fall down, break a leg... and ACC will fly out a helicopter to get you, bring you to the hospital, patch you up and send you on your way. All at no cost to you. As OP said, this counts for anyone on NZ soil, regardless of nationality. Keeps lawyers at bay. It's great.

I know of friends in the US who don't go mountain biking etc. because they're between jobs and can't afford the potential hospital bills. That is simply sad.
The goggles I had were head tracking which I found worse than the shutter glasses for the reasons you allude to. In RL when I look to the left I don't just move my head, I move my body, chang emy feet, move the weight of myself around ready to act. I've now to move my control equipment to orientate myself ready for action. It just doesn't work.

It's why Wii games are not FPS shooters, they are stand and slash and they only have control to deal with.
During my studies (conflict resolution), I had the opportunity to ask several mediators and negotiators who had worked on high-profile political cases about lying.

It occurred often, but was by far the least favorite item in the toolbox of a negotiator. Many would rather make emotional / moral appeals to the opposing side than lie.

Not because it wasn't effective (in some cases it could be quite effective), but because the results were very unpredictable. Being called out may undermine the rest of their position... or if they stuck to the lie to avoid this situation they may force themselves into defending a non-ideal positions.

It gets worse! There are now a lot more variables for you to consider, as the hitherto rational party on the other side of the table has been forced to question all of your statements. He is now much more likely to miscalculate true statements and positions as being false. You've now turned your negotiation partner into an (effectively) irrational actor.
I'm burying this as not intellectually interesting. If it developed the point in a thoughtful way, it might be ok, but it doesn't.
Hmm, why not simply always use the recovery system but just not store the energy in the battery if it's full already (or capacity reached or whatever)?
>I don't understand why HFT has to be blamed for a difference in prices across multiple markets.

Because it isn't.
Is it me or they accelerated the pace of Linux kernel releases ?
Anyone has a copy of the article that isn't behind a paywall?
This seems very likely given that I now see "100% fiber-backed" advertisements for the same ol' DSL that has existed in areas for a decade.
I read the blog quickly and didn't understand that you restored the snapshot either. I think that's something you should highlight better, because it completely diminish the level of the issue.
Yes, definitely. And we can see that 1,000+ apps per week, maybe even growing, can quickly result in 47,000 apps here as well.
A stop loss is not a limit order, at least in finance terms.
great quote, writing this down thanks for sharing
Patents and trademarks are absolutely intellectual property.
This post grossly broke the guidelines against editorializing titles. HN doesn't do "TIL".
I applaud their commitment to privacy, and this is definitely a step in the right direction. However, their pledge to publish the client app's source code seems pretty meaningless for proving privacy unless all their users plan on compiling from source. How do their users know a pre-compiled binary doesn't have a backdoor?
I read your link and found it to be very educational, but I don't believe it supports avoiding named function declarations, but rather named function expressions, since those are the source of inconsistencies between browsers.

My takeaway is that it is wise to avoid using named expressions, but fine to stick with anonymous function assignments, or declared functions. To add a third example to your list:

var funcName = function(){};
function funcName(){}
var funcName = function funcName(){}; // <-- Danger!
You don't need more ideas, you've had plenty of those. You need to learn how to get a customer and solve their problems.

Money is abundant if you are solving people's problems so you need to start doing that. Read lean startup as well but most importantly start talking to potential customers every single day and STOP generating ideas, lets customers do that.

Watch this video to see why an idea is worthless http://thefoundation.com/

If you want to take your GF travelling then do it. Sounds like you need the break as well. Read http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/ and leave next month, get a job overseas, do freelancing etc. Stop worrying about money and live.

The job route is also good but only if it will be directly teaching you skills that will further your goals, if your not learning then don't waste time on it.
So how is this like Reddit? Do you allow users to create their own sub-groups where they can submit images visible only within that domain? What about user driven moderation?
Sort of, because I'm sure he/she knew exactly what the title was referring to ;) Anyway, that's not really important. By the way, it affects Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry -- what platform are you using then?
This discussion is about the patent system in the United States.
where do you suggest this energy should go? it's not like there's room for a bird burner on an f1 car.
No mistake allowed
Rougly speaking, an electric motor acts as a generator when you turn it.
I haven't met many coders who haven't been coding since they saw a computer that I would like to work with long term. Like you say; they have a hard time talking at the same level of understanding and they always have big gaps in knowledge which I learned from years and years of playful tinkering with the internals (hardware and software) of computers. There is a large amount of catch-up for which life is generally too short. When you are young (I was 8 starting) you can explore 24/7; you don't really notice getting tired, going to bed etc; you are just 'doing things', you have to go to bed for some reason, you cannot wait till the morning and there you continue. When you get older, you don't really have time/money to do that; there is obligations, family, whatever. So most people never reach that kind of 'full control feeling' and that's rather annoying to work with I have found.
>> "And why the hell did they set a maximum amount of recoverable energy"

One reason is that the energy is used for KERS, a boost system (press a button for increased speed). Each driver is limited to a certain amount of this boost per lap.

It's also possibly for safety reasons. Before a car pits or anyone can safely touch it all recovered energy must be discharged. If the car is in an accident and this isn't possible the less energy stored in the car the better.
It's called quote stuffing:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/its-not-market-its-hft-crop...
May I ask why you think that is?
In Scheme, tail-call optimization is part of the standard. Without this requirement the generated code would probably be much more similar to what you'd write by hand.

On top of this, the generated code is said to be portable C.

I've skimmed through the papers mentioned in the article years ago, but gave up understanding them. This article is golden if I really want to understand what's going on in a real-world use of the techniques described in those papers.
The source code is in Python. Any user who is really concerned about the privacy of their data, should install directly from source. Or, use a trusted distributor: for example, if the client is distributed as part of a Linux distribution.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Longaccess.
Yes, but what the parent poster described is moronic for an HFT to do. If they see a limit order come in, there is no incentive to push the price beyond the limit order. Why would that help them in any way? There is no implication that the person issuing the limit order will suddenly decide to pay more.

Additionally, to push the price up in the first place, it means the HFTs have to buy all of the stock being sold below the target price, which is taking on major risk. There is no guarantee that there isn't someone simultaneously dumping big chunks of shares at given price targets.
Given that working only for the paycheck is probably about 99% of the workforce I don't find this article particularly shocking.
The quote is from a twitter user on our launch, really its not overly like reddit aside from the fact that users vote on content. That content is then ordered based on the score. You can view the front page by hot (score vs. time) best (score) or new (time). In the next few days we're launching a category feature that will allow users to select hashtags and fill in a scroll with content tagged with those hashtags, which is similar to how redditors subscribe to certain subs!

So the content is definitely user moderated, and there will be an aspect of sub-domains built in to the existing hashtag functionality.
How does that crisis compare to Jobs' crisis with NeXT? My understanding is that he had a reality check that took about a decade, during which he and the people who worked with him pushed extremely hard, nearly failed, and were saved by the Apple buyout.

Musk has also accumulated tales of his immaturity as a business leader -- trying to switch PayPal to Windows, for example -- but if 2008 was a turning point for him, then he went through it a lot faster than Jobs.

Of course plenty of other people who have gone through crises and come out the other side much more fit. The entrepreneur's hero's journey?
The key difference is, as you say, the fact that physical property is rivalrous. The "government-granted" point is bogus. Protection of both physical property and intellectual property are currently provided by governments, but both could conceivably be provided by societies without government.
> That aside, I feel it's unfortunate that he chose to illustrate his point by way of analogy, as it seems some of the arguments here are refuting the analogy and not his original point.

I disagree. I think it's extremely fortunate. You are acting as if you know all the answers - and you may even think you know all the answers - but I think refusing to consider that biology went through something similar (and I bet there were numerous biologists who wanted to destroy the classification system as it was 'wrong') and found an answer that differs with yours does not mean there is no link. You could be wrong too. Maybe we are missing tools to allow us to alter our classifications later and that classifications are the best solution when given the correct tools.
Mongoose adds a bit to the table. It actually adds schema validation, which mongo doesn't inherently have, and should be part of the application anyhow. I feel that's the biggest reason to use mongoose over the straight mongo driver in many cases.

I've used Mongo in a couple projects where it was a great fit. The scale wasn't huge, but having pre-shaped data for a mostly read scenario was great. I've found that it works really nicely for a lot of situations, and would definitely be a consideration.

I find that document databases work best when your data is read far more than written to, and when you can shape your data structures for simple key reads in most cases combined with indexed searches. I would consider the use of ElasticSearch or RethinkDB in most cases where you might look at MongoDB. It really depends on your needs here.

Riak and Couch offer other advantages, and like anything it really depends. Cassandra is another nice option for larger scalability, but everything has a cost.

Mongo is very reasonable, and to be honest, if you don't need more than a single server for your needs, it's really easy to get up and running quickly, and development tooling is decent enough, and the concepts are pretty easy to get up to speed with.
That depends. If we talk about high-quality apps, innovative applications, products used by millions of users, I'm sure you're right. And I guess most HN users (if involved at all), will probably doing these things. But for smaller apps, smaller companies/clients, I definitely disagree. Those companies will start to think that every business should have its own app, just as everybody needs their own website, and so they turn to "chayns" (or competitors) to get a free mass-produced app. That does harm to the overall quality of apps as well, of course.
Who knows if it is true, but the article is useless given it says things like:

The coordinates in the picture indicate that the photo was taken within 3 miles of what Google officially gives for Diego Garcia. It is NOT EXACTLY what comes up on Google. It is off a couple miles, so NO ONE GOOGLED THIS, thus helping to confirm it’s authenticity.

and

If anything was used to re-tag this image, it would say so in the software tag of the image. Any time software modifies any aspect of the image, the last thing to touch the image gets put in the software tag. The Iphone’s standard software is in the image tag and nothing else. That means this image has NOT been re-tagged and that is the FIRST THING I checked before posting this story. And NO, YOU CANNOT MODIFY IT WITH A PROGRAMMING EDITOR UNLESS YOU ARE A MACHINE LANGUAGE GENIUS.

the former doesn't confirm anything, and the latter is stupid, since it should be obvious that anyone can edit EXIF tags to say whatever they want.
Thanking the free users would be dishonest. They don't deserve any thanks, because they're mooching off of the work that he's doing. Saying that they could attract paying users is a weak argument, akin to arguments people use to justify stealing music.