skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have some really amazing surfing and bouldering right in your back yard. Both easily accessible for after work sessions. It's one of the few places in the country that has both, so you're making me sad by not doing either of them.

Castle Rock is like a mini Fontainebleau, with really nice sandstone in a pleasant setting. Train up at any of the half dozen local climbing gyms, then start heading up the hill every evening once the days get longer.

Santa Cruz has tons of amazing breaks, but Pleasure Point is my particular favorite, with its easy access, fun waves, and good aprez surf tacos a short walk away.

Both those things will fix any back/wrist issues you might try to inflict upon yourself sitting in that felt cube all day. Both will encourage you to get out travelling, which is an added bonus. You'll one day find there are beaches with tropical warm water where you won't need that 4 mm of rubber anymore, and hillsides with more than seven distinct boulders in a half mile radius.

Good luck!
Absolutely not. You will have to pay taxes on withdrawals and a 10% early withdrawal penalty. Depending on the size of the withdrawal, this will immediately set you back 6-7 years of the 13 you contributed. If you have ~30 years to retire, even a small withdrawal will set you back by 10 years at retirement. Run some basic compound interest calculations if you don't agree.

There are many other options: moonlighting, going part-time, reducing your responsibilities at work, taking an unpaid sabbatical, etc.
Super helpful. Thanks for writing.
Stackoverflow has dedicated a portion of their advertising to OSS projects. It is controlled by stack user votes, so it might not be that big a driver at first.

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23899/free-vote-base...
Responsive Email Patterns
I agree with everything, though the idea of least cognitive load I think only runs skin deep (syntax).

This helpful for small scripts which need to be scanned quickly, but anything non-trivial will already have a significant layer of abstraction which takes time to parse.

Lisp people love their macros. Clojure has fancy data structures and control flow. It will take time to understand these things whether its in lisp or sandskrit.
> Sure it might provide liquidity, but so do traders and the market at large.

What do you think traders get paid in, cupcakes?
local thing http://www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/machines-de-l-ile/the-gr...
Alibaba reveals plan for US stock market listing
...in 2008 according to a possibly confusing ballot paper.

You cannot in any way extrapolate from that vote 6 years ago to how things might be now. No sir, you cannot.
Let's talk about WHY, not just HOW
It's resharper. An add-in to Visual Studio that makes refactoring soooo much better.

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
Oh right, I forgot how religious fundamentalists and extremists are universally praised for their ability to accept contradictory views and lifestyles! What a powerful argument!
really cool - but even their website doesn't make it clear why i should choose this over amazon subscriptions
You are avoiding to answer the question.

There isn't pure Go code if it requires to touch the file system, talk to OS using APIs not available in the stdlib.

The moment you depend on libraries outside stdlib, you are opening yourself to dependencies to cgo and/or OS syscalls outside your control.

Even some stdlib packages are UNIX specific, e.g. os.user and log.syslog.
My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job
https://medium.com/p/e32d3955115
>Why do I bother writing decent software when there's so much junk floating around that people BUY?

Assuming it's free software, that question answers itself.
1) Do not cash out of your 401k. The penalty and taxes make this never worth it. Along with you not getting the long term compounded interest it is started as. Instead, work for a few more months to have an "emergency fund" that allows you to live life without an income for a few months.
Probably because there are a ton of people getting started on full stack JS who need a list like this.
How to find the best vacation rental bargains
U.S. wireless carriers finally have something to fear: Google
What part of the US or world are you located? Are you wanting to build your own startup, work for a startup, or something else? Are you looking to learn new languages or technologies?

The reason I ask is because if you already have a decent skillset, you may be able to get a new job at a startup and learn new skills at the same time (and thus not need to cash out your retirement fund). Simply contributing to open source projects IMO is not that valuable unless you want to prove experience in a languages you've never used professionally.
Cython, Psycho, others that I'm forgetting, the "rewritten in C for speed" libraries in the std lib, the huge number of c-ext libs. Are all examples disproving your assumption that Python community doesn't champion "do it in c, for speed".

I know of just three Python (re)implementations attempted at least in part for speed, one abandoned (unladen swallow), one just starting(OP one), and one fairly far along but not yet complete (Pypy). All are niche and relatively small efforts compared to rest of Python communities "do it in C".
Can't get it to connect to the Mac host. Could be my company firewall, but it's not that strict.

I'll try again when I get home.
Can someone explain how HFT would "provide liquidity", which seems to always be the pro-HFT response? To use an analogy, if I want to buy a house and someone is selling a house, how does a third-party buying the house first and selling it to me a slightly higher price provide liquidity?
No, but when they say they're feeling something I'll do my level best believe it and try to understand it before minimizing it.
HFT could easily be a form of arbitrage. If we understand a wide bid-ask spread and/or a market slow to react to a large order as being essentially a rent for the large trader, then HFT narrowing the bid-ask spread and allowing the market to react more quickly to the large order takes that rent and divides a fraction of it to the HFT and another fraction of it to whoever is ultimately trading against the large trader.

So instead of this rent (amount of money X) getting all captured by a single player who is necessarily a large, wealthy trader, it gets divided up more broadly. That sounds like a textbook case of arbitrage being in the public good.

HFT does that. Does it also do other things which create rents rather than break them up? Hard for me to say. It's a complicated subject.
I was put on literally dozens of medications from age 10-18 to try to treat depression and anxiety. None of it responded the way psychiatrists or doctors claimed it was supposed to, for me. I only started to alleviate symptoms once I forcibly and against my parents' wishes took myself off of them. It was rough at first, but slowly I started to gain the social skills that I had lost over time due to being completely out of whack during the time I was on medication.

I've gone back and tried a few, but the only things that seem to have any positive effect are short-acting anxiety medications which I take maybe once every 2 weeks to help with a flare-up. The long-term depression is nearly gone.

I still would recommend that anyone that is in a deep depression that hasn't tried medication before try them, because it works well for most people. But if you are one of the unlucky ones that it does not work for, keep trying, as coming out the other side is definitely worth all the pain and suffering. You also get a wonderfully nice perspective and can empathize with others who are going through it, something a lot of people can't say.
Just a point if clarification: by "cash out" do you mean all/majority of your 401k? If so it's not a good idea. Some small percentage could be considered, by in general you should only do so in an emergency. There are penalties for early withdrawals.

Can you dedicate an hour a day to OSS? Or perhaps spearhead an project at work to be open sourced?

Have you tried applying for positions that qualify as your dream job? If you haven't, you may want to start and see if those open source contributions are as key as you think.
> Run some basic compound interest calculations if you don't agree.

Make sure to include basic compound inflation because the figures given here seem to be hyperbolic.
In my view, this and the later comment of yours offers nothing positive to the discussion.
Here is the full "disingenuous" quote:

> Nest's own internal testing identified this problem and the company is not aware of any customers who have experienced it, "but the fact that it could even potentially happen is extremely important to me and I want to address it immediately."

Where did they imply that the situation is better because no one has experienced the failure??
How is this true since ETFs were around several years before electronic exchanges came into existence?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_imbalance

Not that wikipedia is the last word, but, "[...] companies such as Pfizer continue to promote drugs like Zoloft with advertisements asserting that mental illness may be due to chemical imbalances in the brain, and that their drugs work to "correct" this imbalance. Most academics believe that the advertisements are oversimplified and don't fully explain what is happening."

Oversimplifications
I write my resume / CV in HTML & CSS and have PhantomJS convert it to PDF. I found this gives great control and lets you style to your hearts content with whatever you can get off the web.

Shameless plug - I build a basic setup with Grunt to do live conversion so I can edit the HTML/CSS and see the result instantly on save.
It's also set up to run simple scripts on rasterising, like creating a citations list or adding a "generated on" date
https://github.com/alistairjcbrown/html-pdf-live-conversion
Dashboard looks broken on mobile: http://i.imgur.com/1oiSjYB.jpg
A recurring complaint in most of the post is the inability to separate desktop users from mobile users. This makes it very difficult to optimize their advertising strategy.

I find it hard to believe that Facebook is not capable of separating mobile (smartphones, wearables and tablets) and desktop traffic in a reliable fashion. I don't know if that's intentional, or why it takes so long to address this problem. But it's hard to deny that right now the only beneficiary of this foggy situation is Facebook.
The goal and practical effect of Prop 8 was to keep gay people from equal treatment under the law. In particular, to strip them of the ability to marry.

We have no idea what Eich's ideas are, because he has refused to say. But I can and will judge him by his actions. And no, I don't believe that's a straw man. I don't believe it's possible to have a rational and consistent view that includes both the 14th amendment (explicitly naming equality before the law as a civil right) and using the power of the law to keep gay couples from marrying like any other couple.
> I guess terrible won out. It is still a scary feature to me in concept, even if it wasn't broken. This is a safety device, it shouldn't be easy to disarm.

The scary feature is my current method of taking the battery out of the smoke detector. I have yet to understand how this "old feature" is better than nest's feature.
Our Ultimate Driverless Car Report Card
Great feedback, thanks! Maybe the easiest way to check it out is to kick the tires in our sandbox - you can see exactly how it differs from Amazon :)

https://www.epantry.com/sandbox/4758/

And we'll strive to make the homepage communicate this more clearly as well.
Pick a Small Market
Happiness and Age
> It's a * WORLD * wide web, folks. Start acting like it.

But they're not a worldwide news service, they are a local one. Why are they obligated to cater to people who don't live in the area they service?
Makes me wish Android could request some permissions at runtime.

It's painful to have a bunch of permissions in the manifest that aren't used by 100% of users, but 100% of them have to allow them if they want to install the app.
Don't cash out your 401K.

I think you would be better off finding a sub-par non-dream job that lets you work on things that bring you closer to achieving your real dream job. For instance, if you are interested in javascript technologies you could try to find a contract involving node or angular and become more active in the online communities around those tools. After 3-6 months scope out the market with your new skills/network and see what else is available.
Question: If this was a simple fix (disabling Wave) for a convenience feature (waving instead of having to reach and hit a button), then why are they stopping sales? It would seem logical to update all unsold devices to disable Wave and continue on with sales.

Safety concern, slightly. Nest has made note that this feature have never been compromised yet (then again, its the one time when the Wave does fail that caused a huge issue so this point is null). Also, the Wave feature does not affect the detection of smoke, only the resulting alarm.

I think there is something else going on here. Possibly a more serious safety hazard. If a software update can solve the Wave issue, then why the stopped sales? If there are stopped sales, why not a more serious email/note or a recall?
You could even embed the URL as an image in the email, and if images are enabled, it would trigger a GET request.
Ask HN: Have you had a massive bill from the California Franchise Tax Board?
After diligently paying my Delaware taxes for the seven years I've had a company I was surprised to receive a letter (my first) from the California Franchise Tax Board telling me I owed them $64,000.

When I phoned up to check this they said that on recalculating it I owed $1,400 in taxes but another $8,600 in fines. However this was the first time they had contacted me. Seven years after the company was founded and with no prior invoices or notifications.

On speaking to one of the YCombinator founders last night I discovered that I'm not the only person this has happened to. Many businesses have been flipped over by the CFTB and forced to pay these fines with no prior warning.

Has this happened to you? Have you successfully fought it? If not how many of us are there?
There is little doubt that antidepressants can cause new suicidal thoughts in children. In general use antidepressants can cause manic behavior and other psychological issues.
Git is as easy to use as scp or rsync from the commandline for most common tasks. So is Tarsnap.

The Tarsnap -> Patio11's Idea is being approximated as equivalent to Git -> GitHub.

So, in this context, the people I've dealt with that would want Patio11's Idea of Tarsnap are people who don't want to take the effort to understand what they are dealing with.

GitHub has a larger audience that has nothing to do with development. Social features, simplifying things for non-developers, etc. but I do not feel that portion of the 'product' is relevant in this context.

The people I know IRL that prefer a GitHub-type interface over doing things with Git via the command line are the type that need me to fix the issues they run into for them. The fact I'm basically git support for other IT folk leads me to that conclusion.

And frankly, I'm not a Git guru. I'm a very, very average software developer who acts as the sysadmin for Dev at $DAY_JOB.

I fully believe other people have different experiences but I've implemented Git workflows at 2 companies now and I've seen a consistent pattern.

Please do understand, I'm not saying they should or need to learn Git. It is better they focus on the domain expertise they bring to the table [e.g. Web Design, Email Design, Data Science]. I'm just saying it is a different audience than Tarsnap's current one.
Clang does that when you have it emit Asm
Bill O'Brien may not be the best person to quote. http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/04/03/bats-forced-to-cor...

BATS Global Markets Inc., under pressure from the New York Attorney General’s office, corrected statements made by a senior executive during a televised interview this week about how its exchanges work.

BATS President William O’Brien, during a CNBC interview Tuesday, said BATS’s Direct Edge exchanges use high-speed data feeds to price stock trades. Thursday, the exchange operator said two of its exchanges, EDGA and EGX, use a slower feed, known as the Securities Information Processor, to price trades.

The distinction matters because high-speed traders can use powerful computers and superfast links between markets to outpace traders and trading venues that rely on slower market data, such as the SIP.
Pretty good article, and I've definitely noticed that it works better when you ask people at the time of usage vs on first open.
history, movie graphs USA decline into Bread & Circuses. A reference which requires history to fully comprehend.
The post he is responding to explicitly says "I don't even believe homosexual behavior should be legal", so he's not misrepresenting anything.
The median Joe Sixpack has a pension fund, which is the crux of Lewis' argument (I agree it's ridiculous.)
If you are indeed a good engineer you could do all those things on a single weekend:

1.) Sign up for GitHub, fork a project, and improve it

3.) Answer 2-5 hard questions on StackOverflow

4.) Profit

They just want to see your skill. You shouldn't answer "a ton of questions" on StackOverflow. Just answer a couple hard ones. Somehow prove that you've actually got stuff done over the last 13 years. There are programmers that just started to learned the skill a few weeks ago, with tiny, but active projects in their GitHub.

ps. I hate when people say that they don't have something (GitHub account) that takes 30 seconds to signup for, is free, and is very important to solving their current issue. There's usually a deeper issue at that point.
Many of my interviews started with the interviewer reading my printed resume. So while this might be useful, I'd be worried about the link not working or the person using a blackberry or IE or some other previously unknown/untested way of viewing the resume. (Yes, I know you can also print using this service, but then there's no difference between emailing pdfs/docs yourself.. )

Maybe its worth it for some. I don't think its worth $10/month or even a one-time $10 cost.

Side rant: Its seems that everyone is trying to build a subscription based business these days. What happened to just selling a product for a fixed price and be done with it.. why do people want to hook the customer onto some metaphorical treadmill. I hate that MS has started doing that with Office, adobe with Photoshop etc..
Ah, a man after my own heart.

The number of times I stopped myself from "yelling" at people that they weren't even disagreeing or that they had simply misunderstood each other in the last two days....
What an interesting thought experiment. Thanks for sharing.
Great. Another service that automatically ships stuff to me that I already have en-masse because some heuristics have poorly analysed my requirements or rule in favour of the seller who wrote them.

Also, have people forgotten how to do literally everything themselves suddenly?

I like automation but automation shouldn't deprive us of basic choices and "keep us". We should be keeping the machines, not the other way around.

And no this isn't some neo-luddite rant. I said to my wife about 10 years ago that at some point in the future people will run out of things to invent. Then we'll invent services that people need. Then we'll invent services that people think they need. Then we'll invent services that people don't need and develop a dependency on them.

And it's perfectly fine to run out of something. If all our needs are instantly catered for, what are we?
The interesting thing to note is that he has different results for people that come from Google - maybe people have different expectations about the website depending on whether they're looking for it on Google or just sitting in an app like Facebook?
Visit Angkor Wat From Your Current Location, Thanks To Google Street View
People ITT are not making a distinction between different types of HFT. Katsuyama and Lewis do not criticize all forms of computerized trading, but specifically computerized scalping that is aided and abetted by exchanges. Their chief complaint is that HFT uses more current prices than the exchanges themselves and they use this to scalp other traders.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-03/bats-admits-ceo-lie...

This is actually very simple. Natural buyers and sellers do not need intermediaries, but intermediaries do need the natural traders. So if the natural traders can coordinate, they should be able to set rules that favor themselves and disfavor intermediaries. I won't say that what HFT does is "unfair" (capitalism does not contemplate fairness), but I think it's highly ironic that HFT and their supporters are complaining how "unfair" it is that natural traders are working together, and yes, marketing their new exchange.
I would disagree that this would be considered jumping on the populous band wagon, if you've read the article, you'll see that Schwab originally released an Op-Ed in the summer of 2103 echoing similar concerns.

He took a public stance on HFT a full year before the book was released.

Taken directly from the release you linked->
As we noted in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal last summer.

http://blog.themistrading.com/talk-to-chuck-about-hft/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732358290457848...
For my travel startup DealScoopr, we saw similar similar results from Facebook CPC Ads - low conversion rates, mostly Android traffic. Google Adwords turned out to be much more effective.
Intolerant of people who seek to use our government to oppress minorities due to their own ignorance and hatred? Definitely.
This is the flip side of the brokenness of the patent system - even when it ends up working correctly to facilitate research, the results are still a horribly broken game that pits the drug maker directly against the general public interest.

Gilead needs some way to fund themselves, but long-shot lottery-like reimbursement based on a monopoly followed by the inevitable politicking to stop Gilead's "gouging" (of which this article is a part of) is not a good system for doing this.

Not that I think pure publicly-funded research is the way forward either, especially if we'd like to increase incentives for science. That current system works in spite of its brokenness only because the people who are there truly care about their work - scaling it up would be disastrous.

But, especially in this case where the boundaries of ownership arise out of no natural phenomenon, we really need to be smoothing out discontinuities, rather than exacerbating them with simplistic approaches and pretending that the betting wisdom of investors (who by construction are abstracted and out of touch from what's actually going on) will achieve the desired result.
I did not see a single post from someone who would be led by Brendan saying they did not want to be lead by him. In fact, the opposite.

Please do look up the difference between the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation. He was picked as CEO of the _Corporation_ but the Mozilla employees who called for his resignation were employees of the _Foundation_, and hence wouldn't be led by him at all. The Corporation employees who spoke out in public were saying things like https://twitter.com/Jason_Duell/status/449265719474008064 and http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZFsNqrZ... (since deleted, apparently) and http://subfictional.com/2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of...

It's hard to tell from the outside, of course, since everyone involved just claimed to be working from "Mozilla", so it's easy to make the mistake you made.