skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NYSE has always required market makers continuously buy and sell the stocks they specialise in. They must do this in all market conditions, even if it means running a loss. In exchange, they get privileged access to order flow information. This is why those seats are valuable. NASDAQ challenged that model by removing the physical trading floor. Instead of humans standing in a pit there were humans sitting behind screens. But in both cases there is an institution guarding access to the market's nerve centres. Barriers to entry were raised and the incumbents protected.

HFT takes the abstraction one step further. Democratised is that access to privileged order flow - anyone who can pay can get it. Lost is the role of a designated market maker - HFTs can pull out when markets get rough. This is a valid debate.

But don't confuse yourself. The order flow privileges being criticised have always accrued to institutional market makers. It is no surprise that those incumbents are the ones driving the present lobby.
> Also, what if since then he has changed his mind?

Then you'd expect that to be one of the things addressed in the response once the issue is raised.
I love the idea! I just had a hard time removing items from the list that I didn't want, and I couldn't find how to check out/pay for the items. I couldn't scroll over to see the right side of the site. Hope you carry more brands soon too! Best wishes! :)
i once bought a te.vg domain, still lying around not doing anything
I just realized how depressing it is that I live in Chicago instead of SF as a tech professional.

With that said, comprehensive list. Even though I can't use it, I think it highlights some great activities SFBA HN readers would enjoy.
I did an actual double take at 'potato-wog'. The only people I have run into who use that term for the Irish in normal speech are BNP.
George Takei said it so well I'll have to quote him:

"Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. This man donated money to a campaign designed to keep LGBT people from full equality and to deny our families equal rights under the law. He was free to make that choice, but we are free to hold him accountable. If he'd donated money to White Supremacists to help outlaw interracial marriage, there'd be little outcry over his ouster".

It's not conformity, but Mozilla stands for a set of values, among those equality, which is not compatible with the values publicly demonstrated by Eich.
It's curious that gay-rights supporters are being called the "intolerant ones." I keep hearing this. It was a common talking point during the Duck Dynasty fiasco. I wonder if this tactic was used in the past to attack opponents of racism?
>You can replace the letters "HFT" in your comment with "any market maker" and come to exactly the same conclusion.

You may even be able to replace the letters HTF with "any for-profit profession" and come to exactly the same conclusion.

I think it's fair to assume the HFT traders are rapacious capitalists (as someone who is pro-free market, this doesn't exactly offend me). But motivations don't matter here. It reminds me of the Adam Smith quote, which may only make sense if you've read the linked Scott Locklin essay first:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Smith.html
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest..."
>What kinds of devices are you referring to?

Everything from monitors to PDAs to laptops of various form factors. Even as late as 2007, 20% of displays seen in web stats were 800x600 or smaller. There were also plenty of devices that could have accessed the web but people didn't bother because the web was so broken with IE 1024 crapsites. The iphone happened in 2007. There was no period where the number of people getting boned by fixed 960px sites was insignificant.

>Remember, we're talking about the days before mobile was a big enough market to justify making mobile versions of websites.

That is begging the question. You can't assume X as a premise to demonstrate X. 20%+ devices were smaller than 960px. It took (and still takes) no extra effort to design a website correctly rather than with a fixed grid. Just as it took no extra effort to design a website correctly rather than for IE only. It is not a co-incidence that "best viewed in IE 5" and "best viewed in 1024x768" buttons were best buds. Both stem from the same source.
The disruption of cable TV wont happen, at least in the US, until major sports leagues start allowing their content to be viewed online without blackout restrictions. The MLB and NHL are probably the most forward thinking here, but the NFL will never give up on this. They get paid billions every year from just TV deals alone.[1][2] A new network in LA just paid $7BN to be the exclusive provider of Dodgers games. [3]

And this is so obvious when you look at cable packages that put certain sport networks in upper tiers, or charge a premium to get something more specialized like SEC Network.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/nfl-completes-...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/sports/football/espn-exten...

[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/dodgers-tv-deal-tim...
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Though to defend advertisement a little, it does inform people that there is a treatment for their condition and to go to a doctor.
They did fix that fairly soon by giving each person around 10 invites, but I guess you had given up at that point.
I guess not necessarily even a wallet.

A non technical user shouldn't even have to own or even know about name coins.

They simply want a way to register a cheap, non-censorable domain, right?

I'm imagining someone would make a service that offers that.
Really...there are hundreds of apps for those as well. I'd think weather and news would be the last thing you'd look to basic cable for. As a cord cutter for several years now, the only rationale I can find for continuing the Comcast train is sports. Movies are passe on live cable (want some movie with those commercials?) High-demand TV series are another, but many of them show up via on-demand services not long after broadcast (w/o commercials) -- or can be had by "other" means.

The cable + sports networks have people in a headlock, though. Want to sign up for Big 10 football? You must have Comcast. A lot of other sports networks are similar. The minute sports goes to an a la carte or subscription model that doesn't require a cable package, I think it will signal the death knell for big cable.
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how is getting up early an achievement? I really don't get it.
We can split the bill for you! Sign up and you can invite your roommates - and we'll share the cost evenly between you each month. And you can all log in and manage the same dashboard of products.
Why only mobile platforms? This should be in desktop OS-es too.
Seems like a very nice product. However, here is how I felt when I was on your website.

"Damn, that books looks awesome!"
click buy button to purchase on an impulse
"$200 for a book?! Oh, wait, it's for a package..."
scroll down to the book
"Oh, the book is only $30. I could get it... But would I get the full experience? It says I will... but I'm missing 180$ worth of content..."

And there I am right now, not buying it on impulse, but considering buying it. Knowing myself, I'll forget all about it by the time I get home.
The information that the HFT traders pay millions of dollars to acquire before the rest of the market does is not public at the time that they acquire it by any definition of public that does not include having to pay millions of dollars to acquire the information.
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Help me define marketing. Or not – not is fine too.
Thanks a lot Matt! And let us know when you're selling it. We'll give you the friends and family discount :)
> "cd" into a directory or key in registry.

You might be interested in my little project redditps - https://github.com/manojlds/redditps

I wrote it to mainly highlight such cool features of Powershell.
> Maybe our misunderstanding is what we mean my 3rdp party libraries, I'm thinking of the Go repos people put on github or the Gorilla project (http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/), I am not talking about using cgo to call glibc or something similar.

The thing is, there aren't first and second class 3rd party libraries, all are 3rd party.
Some asshole just discovered a whole new reason to wardrive...
Is this a real thing? if you guys are in Chicago you can come by today to take some pictures of my car:)

Was thinking about selling it for 3 months already but just takes so much time.
First they came for Brendan Eich. But I did not speak out, because I disagreed with Brendan Eich's political position and thought it was obnoxious. Jerk had it coming, I say.

cough
So to sum up the article: advertising in an information cesspool renders bad results.

Call me a hater, I am one, and completely revel in the privilege :)
As I recall, I had several invites when I got in. The problem was that those invites went into a queue, they were a lie. With gmail (at least when I got to it), my invites were sent out immediately and the recipient could start using gmail that day. With Wave, my invites were queued and when Google felt it was time they'd send it out. This could be days or, in at least one case for me, weeks later. By the time I got enough people in to give it a shot, only myself and the most recent were interested in trying it.
Comparing a proper gym workout with some mundane cycling is like saying driving a high class Porsche is the same as driving a middle class Volkswagen
For those who haven't seen it, Barack Obama opined on this topic around the same time as Brendan Eich, and over a much bigger megaphone than $1000 will buy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6K9dS9wl7U

tl;dv: "I believe that marriage is the union between a man and woman ... For me as a Christian, it's also a sacred union .. you know, God's in the mix. ... I’m not somebody who promotes same-sex marriage, but I do believe in civil unions.”
Sounds like this may subvert Greenspun's Tenth Rule:

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule
I've used both Netflix and Cable pretty extensively. If I was given the choice between cable and Netflix (for the same price), I'd choose Netflix. I don't want to deal with scheduling shows, commercials, etc, and I'm willing to wait for the newest shows to be available to watch (worst case, I can buy a season of a show I have to have now).
Some people also override site based CSS with their own, which could likely make the link that was intended to be hidden come unbidden. Most browsers I've used have that option.
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That's fundamentally wrong. Direct feeds are available to anyone who wishes to purchase them. Do you have a source for a piece of data purchasable by a firm that isn't on the public side of the information pipe?
The problem isn't that he was pretty much forced to step down as CEO, it's that he was ever given the position without proper vetting in the first place. Being a co-founder does not make one CEO material.

I don't know Mozilla's process, but if I were just making a casual observance, I'd say they were determined to hire the guy without using all the resources available to determine whether he was the best candidate for the job.

The slippery slope argument is bullshit. "Where do we draw the line?" Well, let's see: if he has simply voted Republican, he'd have been fine. If he'd have voted for Prop 8 but contributed no money to it, there wouldn't be a money trail to show that he's a bigot. He'd probably fine until he got himself into the potential HR fiasco that would have damaged Mozilla a great deal more than they've been for not doing a proper executive search. But neither of those happened. Instead, he left a money trail to specifically support a bigoted cause.

There's the line.
Sorry, I meant to submit the new data theft in Germany which happens only 3 months after the one posted:

http://www.dw.de/german-officials-confirm-18-million-emails-...
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If that's true, it only confirms my original point. Yet it still seems that SRV integration is a challenge for many clients.
Oh sure. When he bypasses child locks he gets rewarded by his parents and Microsoft. When I bypassed child locks and parental controls when I was younger, I got in trouble and my computer taken away. :D
This reminds me a little of the show Seaquest DSV.

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

It was a '90's show about futuristic submarines ... think "Star Trek" underwater, complete with aliens, communication with dolphins, and a lot of similar trekk-y plot lines.

One feature of the subs in the shows was something like "whiskers". These were probes extended from the sub providing sensory data about the environment near & far.

A heavy-duty surface ship these days with a flock of drones around it, sending information back, seems pretty similar.
My mistake. I assumed HFT was involved because the timescale of the "layering" orders and subsequent cancellation (following the bona fide order execution) was on the order of several hundred milliseconds.
How fake clicks that don't generate business results would improve Facebook reputation as an effective advertiser ?

Actually every time these posts comes out (once a week lately) Facebook reputation is hurt.
> Wave a real-time communication and collaboration tool.

Serious question: Am I a bad person for closing the tab as soon as I noticed that the first sentence is missing a verb?

Programming is all about details, and I guess I see it as a strong signal if a project can't get details right on their landing page.

On the other hand, maybe this unfairly biases me against projects maintained by non-native English speakers. And even among native speakers, perhaps I shouldn't be biased against people who choose to spend their time on pursuits other than writing perfect English.
Cable companies don't decide on the channel packages they offer. They're sold to the cable companies by the media conglomerates that own the stations in bundles. No ABC without ESPN, etc. It's not their product to unbundle, in other words.
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Hey jsun,

Haha, yes it is a real thing, unfortunately only in the bay area for now. We've already sold a few cars and wanted to get some additional feedback. We'll push for Chicago soon!
I think people just want to know what they're paying for...

I don't think the article in anyways suggest that they have a perfect advertising campaign.

He's just talking about the discrepancy between what FB reports and what he sees. I don't see how any of what you wrote actually relates or is pertinent to the article.

It looks like you just took offense, along with a lot of other commenters, to criticizing Facebook.
The strangest omission from articles like these is the effect that it had on people inside Mozilla, many of whom spoke out. You can exclude every reaction given by people on Twitter, HN, and personal blogs&mdash;and Eich stepping down as CEO still seems like the likely outcome.
The broadband connection usually has latency depending on the protocol. ADSL2+ with data interleaving can be as high as 32ms. DOCSIS has at least 5ms for the first hop too. And that assumes your ISP's (or whichever) DNS server is close from a network perspective and that it has enough power to instantly send a reply down the wire.
Slack is great, but it's not wave. It's an almost feature-for-feature clone of IRC.
> I support his right to be a bigot

According to Google, "bigotry" is defined as "having or revealing an obstinate belief in the superiority of one's own opinions and a prejudiced intolerance of the opinions of others."

I'm getting confused here, since English is not my native language -- but how's Eich a bigot, and the other side of the barricade not? In fact, according to that definition, how are the people who ousted him not the bigger bigots? Just wondering.
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No, you could not register those names. Because they are already registered.

They could ask very nicely for ownership of them, or perhaps send you a court order depending on what country the both of you were located in. But unless you provide them with the private key or fail to renew your registration... nobody should ever gain control of any .bit domain.

A Kraken.com dev looking into the namecoin code found a flaw and declared on the Namecoin blockchain that "Namecoin died October the 15th 2013, coinslayer" by re-writing the DNS values for the very first .bit domain ever registered (which is bitcoin.bit).

The flaw allowed for some people to "steal" domain ownership, but a patch was put through and everything is back to normal now. As far as I know, all domains are back in the hands of the original registrars.

This link shows the entire debacle taking place: http://explorer.namecoin.info/n/1
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Though houses also have the additional complication that they're not (at all) fungible.
Yep that's right.

How much profit does whatasapp make? Even God doesn't have any clue. Would they ever make profit, your guess is as good as mine.

The point you laid out is valid. However it's capitalism at its worst. By the way how many social apps get acquired for $1b or $19 billions ;) Most of them are a trap for VC, it's just few get lucky. It's a musical chair game but in the reverse order. Where your job is to put another VC in your place while you exit.
> Regardless, nobody's votes are being bought

OF COURSE votes are being bought. There's more than enough evidence that shows that he who spends more wins. There's also plenty of evidence showing that he who spends more on a candidate has a sympathetic candidate.

This is a systemic issue that is one step away from being full on bribery without impunity.
> The NYSE requires designated market makers to buy and sell the securities they specialise in. They must do this even in violent market conditions

This "mandate" tended to break down when tested by actual market panics. Bids dried up in 1987, and histories of the 1929 crash often mention clerks and floor runners who entered stink bids at $0.01 for stocks that had recently traded at $30 or $40, and got filled because the specialists had abandoned their posts.

Whether human or computer, market makers know better than to stand in front of a freight train.
Eich is far from the first. The mob's appetite for blood is greater than you think:

* http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donglegate-adria-richar...

* http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/pr-executive-j...

* http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/09/10/busines...

* http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/30/paul-graham-responds-to-cri...
Christ, thank you, I thought Ghostery was blocking something important or something.
19% vs 0.6% makes the two not really comparable.

Not to say you don't have a point (net profit isn't the only factor), just that your example is weak.
If they get reactions to their "pings" then by definition the data is not privileged; they're just faster at seeing and reacting to it than other market participants

Insider trading allows someone to plan a course of action prior to other market participants having the opportunity to react.
Yet the off-the-shelf bots that are just let loose on the web in general will likely fall for it, as long as the "spider trap" is not off-the-shelf itself; and the ones actually targetted at just you you likely can't defeat anyway.
You know, the flagging here on HN is starting to get annoying. 30 min ago this was on the front page, now it's at position #91:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7533055

Probably because there are 22 comments for 26 points, which is triggering something (or people are flagging it). Everyone clearly wants to talk about this -- it's getting really annoying that it has to keep jumping threads because of whatever HN's algorithms are doing.

Edit: And, now THIS thread has been censored too, currently with 50 points and suddenly banished from front-page to #94. C'mon guys... the anti-Eich articles were upvoted all over the place, but now articles critical of it shouldn't be seen? I'm sorry, but that's just wrong.
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Utter bullocks. Would we entertain this idea that the tolerant must tolerate intolerance if Prop 8 was about race, rather than gender? Of course not. Nobody pretends that we must not speak ill of racists; certainly nobody pretends that speaking ill of racists makes you just as bad as racists.

It is apparent to me that we as a society still have a lot of ground to cover when it comes to the appreciation of the importance of gender and sexuality equality.
Here's one thing I've been unable to understand throughout this whole controversy:

What are we supposed to do about it?

As far as I can tell, this was a completely grassroots thing with no organization, no central control, nothing. It just spontaneously happened.

Now, I don't know how important this whole thing is. To me, it looks like an awful lot of fuss over a very little thing. But let's say that it is, in fact, the worst thing ever to happen in the history of the universe. Even then, what should we do? Writing long articles about how terrible it is doesn't help at all unless we have something we could actually do to change things.

What actual concrete proposal is being made? Is there one? Or are people just wringing their hands?
For me it's about not paying for ads and being able to watch an episode on my schedule.
I'd rather pay the same for the 20 shows I actually watch and see them without commercial interruption after I've put the kids to bed, than pay for 200 I don't care to watch while being sprayed by advertisements hoping that a show doesn't air while the family is eating dinner or tucking the kids into bed.
HFT does not front-run trades. This is an apparently common misconception.

Mark Cuban misunderstands a lot of things, including Dennis Rodman and High Frequency Trading.
I guess he still feels that way. But the board may have decided that even an apology may still not quiet the mob in this instance.
The interesting thing to notice is that us 'old people' will be on the losing side of another human-rights issue if the demographics are correct.

It looks like the younger generations are much more likely to be pro-life, and it will be interesting to see if pro-choice people will be haunted for their views going forward.

If denying denying civil marriage to gay partners incurs such wrath - I dearly hope that the our pro-life children will find it possible to forgive us.
> For those who haven't seen it, Barack Obama opined on this topic around the same time as Brendan Eich, and over a much bigger megaphone than $1000 will buy:

If you mean the topic actually at issue -- California's Prop. 8 -- that's true, but not on the side you suggest:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Obama-opposes-proposed-ba...

--[quote]--

John Wildermuth, Chronicle Staff Writer

Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Gay rights moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Tuesday after Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's announcement that he opposes a November ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriage in California.

In a letter to San Francisco's Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club, the presumptive presidential nominee said he opposed "the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution" and similar efforts in other states.

--[end quote]--