skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe if there was some kind of token connected with paying the services the originator would be able to stash a lot of them very cheaply at the very beginning of the network's lifecycle - think Bitcoin/Namecoin again.
Why are you not using https on a page where I'm supposed to enter my password? I see it's submitting to a https URL but it stills feels a bit weird to not run everything with https especially in that field.
I just tested the water with Facebook Ads for my startup AppBlade.com as well, budgeted some $500. Did my best to target mobile application developers, this was my exact experience. Thousands of clicks, not a single sign-up. Also the CPC was higher than Google for our keywords.

Google in the same timeframe has had a measurable ROI and is converting at ~10% for us; even mobile clicks.

This is just data, it's worth experimenting for yourself but I definitely feel that something sketch is going on. Make sure to use utm_ codes and something like MixPanel so you can track the originating source for your paying customers.
>Also, the mature professional can't tell if your newfangled startup is good or bad.

What? I can tell if an early stage startup is good or bad, by talking to the non-technical cofounders for a few minutes, just like a good programmer can evaluate me by talking to me for a few minutes.

Common red flags:

- no technical co-founder

- hiring an outsourcing company for MVP

- a "technical advisor" who is not a full-time cofounder

If you see any of those, forget it. I wonder why angels are still dumb enough to invest in such things.
No, don't.

Wait...what? You want to cash out so you can create a GitHub profile and answer SO questions? Just no.

On first pass I thought you were going to take the money and time to build something. But not this. Here's my advice: don't get a dream job, get one that makes you happier. Not "happy," not "happiest," not "dream job," just a bit better, so you can have a little more time to put stuff on GitHub and answer questions on SO and spend time with your family. It's not just "dream job" and "old-school software company."
You are not alone. I program some more, read HN or some programming books or watch netflix.
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As someone who has built a couple service type products, I'll gain more by building out usable features in a product than building out account deletion.

I'm not say that it isn't important, or that it shouldn't be done, but when launching, there is lower hanging fruit that I want to get done first.
One of the more disingenuous things about Lewis' book (caveat: I'm only halfway through, because I'm listening to the audiobook and, on the advice of another reviewer, switched to the book _Dark Pools_ in midstream) is the rhetorical sleight of hand he plays with the term "front-running".

In Lewis' universe, the price movement that happens when an informed trader tries to piecemeal-fill a 100,000 share order is "front-running".

But in Larry Harris' universe†, not only is price movement during block shopping not "front-running", it is the fundamental reason for the existence of sell-side firms; in other words, the challenge of stealthily shopping 100,000 shares of thinly-traded product XYZ is the reason that Katsuyama made $2MM/yr.

Lewis posits that the natural state of affairs is that there's an NBBO for XYZ, and that Katsuyama should expect his equities desk to collect fat fees simply by accepting a block order from a client, pushing a button, and unloading it at the current best bid, whereupon at the completion of this order the price will change to reflect the altered supply/demand condition of XYZ.

But that is crazy. The presence of a 100,000 order changes the supply/demand conditions for XYZ. For RBC to expect to sell 100,000 shares at the current bid, it must expect to get something for nothing: to take the price hit for the increased demand of XYZ out of the hide of whoever is holding it right now.

Before HFT mania, "front-running" meant something very specific: it was a problem of agency. A client/broker relationship existed, and the broker exploited it by trading in front of their client's order. The client had a right to expect the broker to act in their best interests. But the markets as a whole aren't a positive-sum system; in the absence of a contractual relationship, nobody has an obligation to act in the interests of anyone else. A dollar you make on the market is a dollar someone else didn't make.

† https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7526783
Yes, it was really great for organizing groups of people. My campus ACM chapter used it instead of email when we were setting up a new computer lab, and it was one of the best experiences I've had with a piece of collaboration software.

It's main problem for us was that large waves tended to get slow on our 2007-era entry level laptops, and nobody really wanted to maintain the wave by deleting unimportant chit-chat. Some sort of decay mechanism to hide old, irrelevant blips would have been nice.
I wasn't aware that you could do double dispatch without encoding it yourself with something like the visitor pattern, is that what you meant?
Wow, haven't read the article yet, but that's one beautiful 522 error page Cloudflare are displaying now.
A study of limiting HFT (High Frequency Trading)
1. Need a search text field that is easy to find on this website. That way people can search for the products they want and you can know what products people want

2. Add those refrigerator water filters. they have to be changed every 3 months or the water taste like crap and only like 2 stores (home depot and lowes) sell them

3. Offer "product sampling" service to companies. We have customers using your competitors product we can send them a sample of yours for a fee
You're right, but BARELY:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2013/0508/Dow-hits-15000-b...

The rate of stock ownership (including through mutual funds and retirement accounts) for Americans is around 52%, down from last year. So, while the median American owns some stock, it's probably a minuscule amount. Two percentage points lower, and the median American (Joe Six Pack) owns no stock.

EDIT for more related info:

45% of Americans have no retirement savings [1]

1/4 of Americans have no savings whatsoever [2]

[1] http://www.twincities.com/ci_23505006/americans-retirement-s...

[2] http://www.ibtimes.com/over-fourth-americans-have-no-money-t...
I didn't say it wasn't an oversimplification, I said oversimplification isn't the problem. You seemed to misunderstand the complaint of the first post you replied to.
I'm going to go against the grain here and suggest that if you can invest your 401k wisely, you might as well cash it out.

The reason for this is that you're not going to get that pension anyway, because the Western world's economies are barely holding together even as we speak. No one knows what will happen, but some of us know that something bad is going to happen.

It's fundamentally quite simple. Dozens of trillions of unpaid liabilities are just not going to get paid, and most Western governments are getting even more indebted each year. Using money you don't actually have will have consequences even for governments.

Whether your current plan is a wise investment for that 401k is another matter. I'd consider other plans too.
When I first read this headline I just assumed he'd had a child.

Low paying: check

Early morning: check

Exertion requiring: check

Not that it's not extremely worth it of course.
I agree with you on the general workflow of an interview process. Phone screen or two, programming assignment (not 1 week though), face-to-face, etc.

I need to get better about the salary thing. I've gotten several offers from companies (even YC companies) in the last year, and each time we're just not in the same ballpark. I think a lot of it just has to do with equity. Startup CEOs treat their equity as worth a lot of money, but at the end of the day, I can't use my equity to pay my rent. So unless I really, really, really believe in your company's ability to dominate in that problem domain and/or exit successfully, your equity just isn't worth the pay cut for me...

But that's another discussion entirely.

I, too, am picky about what I want to do. I want to solve real problems. I don't want to reinvent the wheel with yet-another-message-board (sorry Jeff). I want to save the world. I want to do something meaningful. And a lot of these startups I see around here are solving what I consider to be superficial problems. Yet another ephemeral chat service. Yet another Instagram. Yet another subscription clothing service. Zzz.

If Elon Musk called me up and asked me to come "audition" for SpaceX, I'd probably do it. That's an exciting enough field and opportunity that I'd spend a week of my free time to get it. If a company that was building out tools for combating malaria called me up and asked me to audition, I'd probably do it. Or updating farming with 21st century technology. Or engineering a way to purify water for pennies. Or... well, any number of what I consider "epic" problems.

But that's another discussion, too. :)

I totally just went off on two different tangents. Whoops. :)
It would be hard to see a neo-Nazi appointed head of NAACP, too. Or a rabidly fundamentalist Baptist put in charge of Union of Reform Judaism.

But that's not what happened here. Eich is not an extremist. His views were well within the mainstream, at least 4 years ago when this proposition was on the ballot. Heck it passed with 7 million voters in favor. Had he voted yes but not donated that $1000, no one would have even found out. What a stupid thing to pillory someone over, with all the problems in the world.
It looks to be a package manager for mingw packages:

http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS

At a minimum, they should just put a URL to the above.
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This. Work before work, after work, on the weekends, once the kids are in bed, whatever. If you have a dream, stretch for it.
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That's how it was reported, but given the rest of the article, I suspect that isn't a technical term.

Really the whole thing reminds me about how I used to break the parental locks on my TV as a kid. I doubt this kid was the first to discover this, but probably because of the work his father does, they were able to make the right right calls and send the right emails.
It was a comment in a Frontline episode[1]. If my memory serves me correctly, one of the top researchers claimed that they could conquor this problem, but nearly every drug company has cut funding for antibiotics research, as it doesn't result in long-term usage.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmar...
Your definition of a "dream job" sounds like it could be any new job.[1] Why not look for a new job instead (since you should be relatively marketable with thirteen (13) years of software development experience)?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7532138
I prefer this conclusion: "Study Suggests Lower Mortality Risk for People Deemed to Be Overweight" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/health/study-suggests-lowe... .
My company's direct competitor contacts me on a weekly basis to try and poach me. I'm super, super highly qualified for that job, and I could probably leverage a massive raise... but I would feel so, so dirty for doing that.

It's nice to know I still have morals. ;)
I stopped reading at 'potato-wog'.
We started off hoping that customers could "set it and forget it". But it turns out, no matter how good your algorithms are, there's no accounting for in-laws visiting for a week and using twice as much toilet paper. So instead we're focused on dramatically lowering the cognitive overhead of purchasing these products online. We do that through a combination of suggestions/recommendations, curated product selection, and a very different take on ecommerce UX.
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Soundcloud's problem with bots.
They have faster access to exchange data centers because they paid for it. Anyone can pay for this access. They use this privileged access to provide faster and cheaper service to their customers (purchasers of liquidity).

It's no different than McDonalds paying a lot of money to buy a prime corner location to build one of their restaurants.
At my school I frequently need to use Windows PCs, and having MobaXTerm on a flashdrive has been incredibly useful (installing Cygwin every time would be impractical).
It is very powerful, and has a plugin system if you need some extra feature.
Microsoft plugs Xbox One security hole discovered by five-year-old
I would say that the SD card itself is not a 'fair coin', since a reasonable requirement of a 'fair coin' would be that the probability of landing on each side is essentially 0.5 each.

However, I think the entire process as a whole of assigning an outcome to each side of the card and then flipping the card is a 'fair coin':

The reason why we need coins to make trivial decisions for us is that we can't just cycle through the 2 options in our head, stop at a random point, and choose the option we were thinking of at that point. Not only is this hard to pull off, but you can't be sure that you didn't subconsciously/consciously want to stop on a particular option.

Since the card decides the final result and we don't know the bias of the card beforehand, there is no way that your conscious/subconscious desires would have any way of manifesting themselves when you label each side of the card, and so you label each side essentially randomly, resulting in a 50/50 probability of your two options.
Great article, short and to the point.

I think it says a lot about your character that you want to try to maintain being a real person rather than another startup founder with his head in the clouds.

As someone who would love to work from home / run a business again someday you've given me an idea on how to instill a little structure. I struggled with it when running my own company before.
And after all that plotting he accepted $50, 4 game a year free Xbox Live? That seems very 'un-ambitious'
You'd think that is true from all the hoopla wouldn't you. But that simple assumption is exactly what large buy side investors want you to think and it is false*

*There are some highly predatory algorithms that try to do this. The problem is that if you are fast enough to do this routinely, you are sophisticated enough to do legitimate market making and make more money.
Great idea. I'm working on a farm a few blocks away this summer (in Boulder).
This is great news (thank you for doing it)! Especially that it doesn't require changes within the CLR which seems to be a death sentence for proposals.

I've been teetering with trying F#, and a proper ML-like module system may tip the balance in its favor for me, I'm sure I'm not alone in that. It just didn't seem like a "real" ML without the module system or at least type classes.
The problem with the article is that the author draws a conclusion with far too little data, akin to signing up for NetFlix and saying it is a terrible service when the first movie doesn't buffer fast enough.

I've spent mid six-figures on Facebook CPC ads over the last several years and can definitively say that they work very, very well - depending on your use case. Mine is not the OP's use case (though I've sold a metric a-ton of SaaS on FB).

I advise everyone here thinking about FB ads to do the following:

- If you try it, dedicate a serious amount of money. Nothing less than $500 will suffice as you need to get statistically significant data across all your targeting sets.

- Focus very narrowly on your target market. Trying women age 22-29? Do that in your metro area only. Keep your targeting sets small so you have fewer variables to contend with.

- Don't lose your nerve. If you give up too quickly you'll know nothing.

Finally, I do understand the OP's frustration with click numbers from FB vs. GA. Don't let it get you down, as this is common on every platform. Optimize for your actual logged data and you'll profit.
This is the info I find after searching a bit:

http://msys2.github.io/

http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/

Seems like a bit of marketing is in order!
The crucial tactical error the Wave project made was not integrating with existing systems like email and chat. This forced people to either jump fully onboard with Wave or ignore it. Predictably, when faced with an ultimatum like that, everyone just kept using email (and IRC and wikis). If the Wave team had instead spent a fraction of their development efforts on seamless integration with email, IRC, and other relevant protocols, even at the cost of some simplification of Wave itself, the project might very well have been a success and more advanced features could have been added later once adoption picked up.
The specific example given in the book is that an existing ask sized at 100,000 is already sitting on the order book when the buy order goes in at the ask price. The ask then disappears before the order executes. This is very different from the market moving in response to an order that has no market fill.
There are many blogging platforms written using rails. Unfortunately rails, being a framework and web server, do not fit into the LAMP stack where you can host tons of blogs on one small shared hosting provider like WordPress/PHP does.
Completely agree. "Where are you?" is basic information when location is at all relevant, and site designers frequently make the false assumption that every visitor is a local who knows exactly what you meant.

And it's not just news sites -- I once made a service reservation at a Toyota dealership in another state because it had the same name as the one I wanted and no indication of where it was in any global assets (it was buried on a "directions" page).
Giving away hundreds of my photo prints in San Francisco
I lift weights. I do weight lifting 6 days a week, Monday through Saturday, as soon as I wake up.

My priories in life are:

- Fitness.

- Family.

- Work.

It sounds a bit rough, but fitness is what keeps me grounded. I'm by no means at my goal, but bodybuilding is something that is incredibly fun and relaxing to do. It requires a ton of energy, but the discipline gives me a great feeling through the rest of the day, and makes me feel -- powerful.

It's been a huge confidence booster, and it's been fun to focus on physical development as well as personal development -- it helps balance out my life.
"Optimizing for 6 hours of sleep"

"every day, getting out of bed is one of the hardest things I do"

"Every night, when I crawl into bed, I’m exhausted by all I’ve done that day."

Your body may be telling you that you need seven hours of sleep. Or eight.

How would your life change if you went to sleep an hour earlier, but you woke up feeling good?
I am one of the committers for Wave.

Sorry about the downloads page, you saw the page as prepared for an actual release - I have rolled it back to showing the last release candidate presented on the mailing list.

Feel free to ask me any other questions...
Slippery slope. No one should ever be "forced out" for having an opinion. If there are employees who feel he doesn't properly manage them or "represent" them or they feel he is "oppressing" them, well maybe they are the ones with the problem and should go work some place else, or just work harder to defend their rights during their off hours without bringing it into the workplace. There's no evidence that Eich was bringing it into the workplace. This whole thing is based on a contribution to a successful ballot question several years ago.
I created one of widgets that launched with Wave to use VOIP services to make a conference call from inside the gadget.

Part of me wished it stayed because I had a single letter user id.

Anyways, meeting minutes were something that it did well in my observation. Liveblogging was also interesting with it especially if you had maybe 2-3 editors and everyone else was view-only. Live tweeting events is rather feeble compared to what could have been done with Wave.
This is the only way that permissions should be implemented by any mobile platform. Without it, users are forced to decide at install time whether the payoff of having the app installed is worth the associated risk of granting ALL permissions the app requests. It's a hard choice to make before you've even installed the app.

Jeff Atwood describes the app-installation-headaches nicely here: http://blog.codinghorror.com/app-pocalypse-now/
The 100,000 shares are sitting on the order book at different exchanges. It's not a single block being traded with a single order. That's a critical distinction.
The goal being the free press, not a few bucks worth of recognition from Microsoft.
I really like this - keeping perspective is something I feel a lot of people in the tech industry has lost after (partly) lucking into a great career.
The person you're responding to has a history of hating on C around here. I wouldn't take what he wrote personally (easier said than done, I know). That said, I offer the following:

Almost any language can be (ab)used in an "unsafe" manner. Conversely, it is entirely possible to create elegant, efficient, and safe code using C, and there is no particular reason to not use C for this project. In fact, C is marvelous in its simplicity and is an excellent candidate for it.

On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd put my skill with C++ around a 6 or 7. For C I'd go lower, around 3 or 4. I appreciate the work you put into this, and I intend to read your book to help me improve my skills with C.

So thanks for your effort.
I disagree. Unless you have some trivial C++ project (<100KLOC) you have to buy the plugin from whole tomato for a 1000$ for VS to be at all usable (at least last time I had to use VS - has this changed?). Power tools and a couple of other plugins and you just about get the functionality that other IDEs have built in. As nice as various specialised things like remote debugging on xbox, compile on the fly etc. are - overall it's pretty sluggish and limited when it comes to customisation.

Opinions, opinions, opinions...
Ask HN: Companies using C++11 in production
Know of companies that use C+11 with g++ in production? If yes, which ones?
The argument from IEX is that the exchanges intentionally price trades using slower data than what they (the exchanges) have access to. We can call it whatever we want, but natural traders would prefer an exchange that doesn't price match in this way, and have every right to move to such an exchange.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-03/bats-admits-ceo-lie...
I cannot find any information about where they run their infrastructure. It might be important for legal reasons and might be a differentiator.

It looks very similar to heroku.

It's not clear how the load is computed and how the scaling decisions are made.
#1 - We are approaching a SKU count where search is becoming inevitable. I'm actually (perversely?) proud that we haven't needed search to date. Users haven't requested it (but they'll start soon, I'm sure) and our on-boarding process doesn't necessitate it. And thanks for the reminder to use search data to measure demand!

#2 - Water filters are coming eventually! But we're a startup and need to be judicious with our purchasing decisions.
Err, Eich wasn't fired for his views. He was hired, and chose to step down. How much pressure came from the board, versus how much was it Eich himself deciding to make the decision.
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You are correct that we have been incubating since 2010 - the community around it has changed quite a lot since then though...

There is no roadmap, as we do not (yet) have a large enough consistent amount of developer power to benefit from one. Most of the patches we receive are fixes/improvements that benefit the submitter (e.g. full text search, monogodb backend, etc.)