skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've travelled quite a bit around Europe, spent probably a year of my life in Germany, 5 years in Norway and now 5 years in UK. I can only tell you this - if you stay in the country and not speak it's language you will always be a designated "tourist". Speaking the language means that you're serious about investing in that country and that gives you undeniable credibility. So yes, in Berlin not speaking German can definitely be a problem, but I don't think that learning it is a big problem either. Determination of a startup founder goes a long way, eh?
Funny. Also subtle redefining of Linux commands tar -> zip.
I keep expecting Amazon to change their reserved instance policy. Who's going to commit to reserved instances during an ongoing price-war?

Amazon themselves proudly announce it as their 42nd price drop. That's not really a strong selling point for long term contracts.
> If I submit a buy order for 10 shares of GOOG with a limit of $1134 that order is going to show up in the data stream of HFTs only after it has become a valid open order on the exchange, right?

False.

HFTs and other trading firms actually buy up the order flow from brokerages. In fact, retail investors making trades in their brokerage accounts are actually referred to as "dumb flow". Having access to the order flow and controlling the routing of it can allow them to jump in front of your trade.

For example, they could see that your limit order of $1134 came in when the lowest ask price was $1133.90. They could buy that for $1133.90 and sell it back to you at $1134 for a 10 cent profit.

It's not too much different than in the old days when the market makers would delay buy/sells calls to their pits to their own advantage in order to scrape a small profit on the spread.
I wish more subjects/professions were accessible like this.
I'm maybe too naive/optimistic but I think the most likely is that he has been manipulated in co-authoring a document which by itself is innocuous but once coupled with a rigged prng might have disastrous effects.
1. Alcohol is a depressant. Stay away. Drink water. (I am assuming you are not an alcoholic).

2. Define 1 baby step related to your work. (Any easy one that you are sure you can accomplish quickly and easily). Do it. Rinse & repeat. It will get you back on track.

3. Get some air regularly. Walk. It helps.
Ubuntu Users Win Back Privacy
They actually changed the rules! Now I'm even more motivated.
You should probably not knowingly neglect your girlfriend, you'll likely end up regretting it big time if you push her away.

I wish I had more to say that'll be helpful. Maybe start making peace with the possibility that your venture is failing.
Yeah, fuck 'em. If reading Stephen King and Stephen Donaldson as a teenager didn't do me any damage porn certainly wasn't going to.
Here is a great explanation of why setting up a cross compiler is so difficult.

http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/492
My wife experienced this!
> If I submit a buy order for 10 shares of GOOG with a limit of $1134 that order is going to show up in the data stream of HFTs only after it has become a valid open order on the exchange, right?

No. Your broker might send order flow to HFT firms for payment. They have to fill you at the national best offer if they want to take the trade.

The other thing that can happen is that if your order is not marketable at the current exchange you are trading at but is marketable at another exchange then the first exchange can sometimes "flash" the order to selected participants to see if they want to fill the order so you can avoid forwarding the order to another exchange.
If you submit a buy order for 10 shares of GOOG through a conventional retail website like ScottTrade or ETrade your order is going to be sent to an HFT firm that buys flow from from these retail websites.

If it's a limit order the HFT firm is going to immediately decide whether it wants to take the other side of your order (i.e. immediately give you an out that leaves you whole with 10 shares of GOOG at $1134) or whether they don't want the order in which case they might send it directly to a lit venue like NYSE where your order will rest in the open market.

If they take it, from there the firm is going to try to liquidate the position in the market now that they are short 10 shares of GOOG. It is up to their discretion on when they want to even out their portfolio. The idea is that sophisticated traders are able to better time and aggregate retail orders than the retail customer themselves and here is where they make money albeit with a little risk.

For one simple example since you only wanted 10 shares of GOOG typically you would pay a penalty for executing an odd lot (an odd lot is an order that is not an even multiple of 100). If the firm can collect 10 buy orders of 10 then they can avoid the odd lot penalty.
But what happens if you approach your plain vanilla H/C/J writing with these DRY concepts in mind?

One of the reason I would like to use frameworks/libraries is not because of the concepts they introduce, but to basically stop me from going down a rabbit hole and applying the concepts to the extreme. For example, when I am coding something from scratch, and I start to abstract up levels, I just. Keep. Going. I eventually found a soul mate in Knuth with his literate programming, and that has (finally) put an end to the levels of meta abstraction I head into, but I do see (hope) that frameworks will allow me to actually get shit done, instead of traversing the wormhole that is architecture design.
In my experience the people that wants to restore a destroyed instance outnumber the ones that want the instance scrubbed right away by 10-1 or so (if not more), so basically we (at another ISP) would decommission the instance (which could not be allocated to another customer) and leave a grace period after which it would be effectively scrubbed. If a user wanted to scrub immediately they could send a ticket and we would do it right away (this was noted in the "power down" email to the user), we saw very few of those.
Sure, he might be innocent, but he really needs to put out a statement clarifying what his involvement was and what he knew.

Mozilla should probably hire an independent auditor to review all of his code changes. It might be unnecessary but this seems to be a scenario where it's better to play it safe (plus always good to audit security related code).
Somewhat ironic given how the main character is found consistently lying through his teeth.
Nobody wants to use it? Bullshit! You need to make people want to use it, and show them that you have a great product to sell them. I think this product has a lot of potential and I'm interested in trying it out. I'm going to show my supervisor this later because if this could be adapted for more than just invoices (say; medical forms) then this could be a contender for an automatic routing system we and many other hospitals want to set up.
India orders audit of Nokia, could delay Microsoft sale
Grunt vs Gulp vs Make vs Rake vs Jake vs Cake vs Brunch vs Ant vs ...
"The car has no transmission" - as you hear an engine downshifting multiple times
Actually, I think you just suggested the power of more devious lying: If you don't want them to know about the actual poop, tell them about some _lesser_ poop (either real, but lesser; or in fact more or less imaginary), so they won't think "Where's the poop", but will think "Ah, I know where the poop is, and I can handle that poop", eliminating the uneasy feeling when someone's giving you no poop at all but you know there must be some poop, but still not realizing the real poop is still hidden.
don't know if you thought deeply when writing your last line.
did you ever consider to read some marx?
This is a great idea. I'd love to see something like this for other topics such as Data Science, Digital Marketing, Lean Start-Up, Marketing Strategy etc.

I'd love to help/contribute to the marketing related courses if you decide to expand your subject offerings.
Thanks used the search and didn't see it. Thought it might not have been posted.
If you make a limit order at e.g. $1134, it's entirely possible that the best price is below $1134. For instance, if you enter that order right now, you should expect the order to execute at closer to $1130 (assuming a small order size). Your limit price is therefore a worst case.

Lewis is saying that in the absence of HFT front-running, you'd get the best available price at the time, say $1129.82. However, he alleges, HFT traders can front-run you and you'll instead pay e.g. $1129.92, meaning you overpaid for the stock. Note that this happens even though what you paid and the best theoretical price are both below your limit. So you're getting robbed, even though it's not apparent to you.
Apple's underdog shtick stopped being cute a long time ago.
Shitty is comparative. I've seen people pay a lot more for way worse infrastructure in London, Paris, or San Francisco.

Of course, Nordic countries are much better infrastructure-wise. But they provide a lot more expensive, and more restrictive environment.

(Background: a Finn who has in addition to Helsinki lived in St. Petersburg and Istanbul, and has been in Berlin for the past couple of years)
A Rating System for Free Apps
Just to add my 2 cents worth:

Sometimes companies consider a 'junior' to be someone with "at least x years experience".

I've seen this situation play out at least 3-5 times now. I'm not exactly sure where someone who is a 'junior' is meant to get experience for a year (real work) and then apply for a 'junior' position that has shitty pay just so that you can add up more exp.

I've also seen a lot of intern positions saying "work for us, slog your guts out for 3 months with no pay, you will compete with at least 5 others and at the end we will use any valuable code/work you've done, not hire you all and give the guy with the most hours/productivity the job and the rest of you can fuck off".

This industry is fucked... For a skill like programming I'd expect even a junior with no exp. to earn at least $5-$10 dollars per hour.
Is that the same idea?
That website is confusing.
Cute anecdata is still anecdata. Congrats, you experienced the internal sensation of parent-child bonding. This is not evidence.
I would also mix in Jeffrey Way's tuts for HTML, CSS, and jQuery. (They say 30 days but you can do them each in less than a week.)

https://courses.tutsplus.com/courses/30-days-to-learn-html-c...

https://courses.tutsplus.com/courses/30-days-to-learn-jquery
> For example, they could see that your limit order of $1134 came in when the lowest ask price was $1133.90. They could buy that for $1133.90 and sell it back to you at $1134 for a 10 cent profit.

They cannot do that. They can't fill you at a worse price than NBBO.
A nice middle ground might be a motorcycle. I had a 600 sportbike for a few years, and it was funny riding an $8k machine (at the time) that could outperform most sports cars on anything other than a straight-line top speed test.

But you only want a motorcycle if you have good restraint. Sportbikes are so capable, it is easy to maim or kill yourself if you don't know how to hold back. They are just really capable bikes in the low rpms, and then they are high-end racing machines in the high rpms.

I got my motorcycle in my late 20's, after spending a lot of my life riding a bicycle. I don't think it would have been good for me to have a motorcycle in my late teens/ early twenties.
This story is on the front page which suggests to me that the current system, whatever it is, can't be that broken. Meanwhile these meta discussions (of which I'm now a part) get tired pretty quickly.
nothing about node.js ?
I want to try it, I just haven't met the 'right' guy yet.

Too many guys wanting to build shitty things out there (uber for food, airbnb for trailer-parks, etc.) ...
It's probably a good thing to do if you're doing a lot of ARM kernel development, but for a oneshot thing? For someone unfamiliar with those tools?

It would be interesting to race someone unfamiliar with that toolchain installing it and cross-compiling versus someone just following the instructions.
Metaphone
The surreal thing for me was that the only people I encountered who didn't speak (great) English, and forced me to rely on my mediocre 20-years-ago High School German, were Turkish (fairly recent immigrants; I was staying in Neukoelln).

You definitely would want to learn German for social reasons but it's absolutely not a prerequisite for moving there and being effective at most companies -- unlike, say, a top Japanese or Chinese company, or (from what I've been told) major French or Italian companies. In those places you might get away without good local language skills briefly if you're a specialist consultant, but it's going to make you pretty useless professionally otherwise, long term.

I suspect a reasonably intelligent English speaker could pick up enough German to be happy socially in months, based on my reasonably intelligent English-speaking friends who moved there without speaking German beforehand.
> Sounds incredibly resource intensive. First, the sheer number of "open-source" projects which grow whenever someone has a new idea or some frustration with an existing solution.

You should totally tell that to TravisCI, I bet they'd like to know. =)
Thinking About Mozilla
Casual gaming is a fad, like the coin-op games were in the 1980's. You just can't tell great stories or get good user engagement when you are nickel-and-diming people.

If you've "had enough" you should (i) get a PlayStation Vita, (ii) get Killzone Mercenary, (iii) play it through, (iv) get a dev kit.

It's time to "think different"
What are your living expenses? Where are you located?

I've scouted for houses in South Spain some time ago and was under the impression you can get a decent house near the beach for around 50k Euro, which isn't a lot.

Also, what about Mallorca? I've heard Martin Varsavsky say there is some sort of a retreat-hackerspace-coworkingspace thing?
Evil.js: A JavaScript library for thwarting hot-linkers
On the flip side, I had a .com domain on backorder (I have the .co.uk), which was actually released.

I didn't get it (regardless of the back-order), but it got bought up by a domain squatting company who now want about $4K for it. It is currently parked with a horrendous page that doesn't even render correctly.

Now if my my .co.uk site were to get popular (hah!), I fully expect that price tag to increase.

It's a bizarre system.
My understanding of high speed trading is that this has always been the point. I have to assume there's so much money in it that the obvious move to outlaw it as soon as it was devised was already pre-paid off.
This looks great! It reminds me of this Google Doc I put together a while back, which you are free to copy/draw inspiration from. And I've already added this page to it, so that should already be a good lesson on recursion :p
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jlJCxNG7XyCPpUNRybH1b2Pb...
If I don't need the insurance, then why do I have to pay a fine to opt out of taking it from an insurance company?

One or both of these scenarios probably applies: you are young and healthy, so your purchase is necessary to spread risk over the population as a whole; or you're underestimating the odds of getting a major disease and the cost of paying out-of-pocket.

I'm not saying we shouldn't work to lower health care costs. What I'm saying is that insurance companies pay less than cash customers for health care and they spend a lot of time checking their risk calculations. Over the long term, over the population as a whole, you can't win that game.

Let's work to lower costs and fix that, but realistically, right now, in America, it's not a game you want to play.
Social networks without friends/followers is an upcoming trend
> "Read between the lines" - give me a break. I hope that's not everyone's first perspective when they read positions as such.

He wasn't talking about everyone's first perspective. He was talking about a judge in a copyright infringement lawsuit's final perspective.
If I submit a buy order for 10 shares of GOOG with a limit of $1134 that order is going to show up in the data stream of HFTs only after it has become a valid open order on the exchange, right?
If at that time there is a sufficient volume of open sell orders at or below my limit, does my order go through or is there a way for an HFT to overtake my order?

If there is a resting sell order below the limit price of your buy order, nobody will see your buy order. The cross will happen as soon as your order hits the matching engine. You and your counterparty will get trade confirmations via your order entry port, and market data subscribers will see a trade report (10 shares crossed at $XX.YY) and the size of the resting sell order will change.
I'd like to use the Crashplan Family option to cover everyone but since it's all shared and there's seemingly no way to silo the data per-computer, that's a total non-starter. Which is a shame because I'd love to give them my cash.
The holy grail of type theory is to write propositions as types and have proofs fall out of those propositions naturally. Those proofs comprise your program. So-called dynamic typing throws that all out the window and just says "I'll permit any program you want to write and bail out at the first opportunity". It's a proposition that is trivially true and thus it's not useful at all.
Lets just say I need HTML/CSS/JS, how do I know which components/frameworks/libraries are a must have? They all use the underlying tech (unless, and this could be true as I'm very rusty, they enable something fundamentally different)

The only comparison I can make is the difference between ASM and a high level language. I could literally (physically?) see the improved productivity in my workload as I switched from x86 to C. Is there the same level of shift between JS and coffeescript?
Can anyone explain how IEX is supposed to be a better exchange?
You're taking it too far. One should prefer delegation/composition in most cases, but if you're trying to direct users to a restricted reuse model (inheritance), then it works fine and is often a much clearer approach than "Joe's custom delegation model".

There are plenty of examples of this in practice - someone pointed out NeXT/Apple's UIKit for example elsewhere in this thread (which also uses composition where appropriate). The Java collections hierarchy is also a good one (LinkedHashSet < HashSet < AbstractSet).
Why Hotline Miami is my favourite game of all time
Track your computer open/shutdown times
Oh, and I had the trademark for said site..
Hehe, Israel is certainly a unique place.

If you want to know how Israel became the technology capital it is today, I thoroughly recommend Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
3D Printed Kidney Seeks Funding on Indiegogo
Why not, but can you have 2 Dropboxes on one device ?
16 weirdest places you can find Linux (Slideshow)
Money rains on Microsoft from Office from iPad – more is yet to come
Which tax is it adding? You enter a limit order at a price, and you get filled at that price: that is true with or without HFT. With HFT, the spread is tighter, so either crossing or stepping inside makes your trade more efficient.
People with PHDs are necessarily smarter than other people. Of course, getting a PHD takes some level of intelligence and many people with PHDs are extremely smart, but like many things in life getting a PHD is largely about dedication and hard work. Additionally, people with PHDs are generally trained to be extremely knowledgeable in a very specific sub-set of a particular field. This is why companies like Google hire people with PHDs. They have specialized knowledge which it would take others years to learn.

My advice, go to college for a CS degree. Many companies won't hire someone who doesn't have a degree even if they have "real-world experience". In addition a CS degree will give you a good, solid foundation on which to build your skills. Some of the things you learn in a CS degree aren't well documented elsewhere and are difficult to learn otherwise. If you really are as smart as you think you are then you can take a very heavy course-load to complete your degree faster.
That file is a bit old, it hasn't been updated since 2009 - While it might not be production-ready, it's not as bad as it does sound (for example, the disk format is finalized, and shouldn't get any changes in the future).

Something a bit more up to date (but still a bit old) can be found on the btrfs wiki: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Is_btrfs_stable.... and https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page#Stability_...

As for the distros, I think none of the big ones default to it yet, but it's definitely a first-class citizen in OpenSUSE (and should be the default fs in OpenSUSE 13.2, according to the official plains).
>HFTs and other trading firms actually buy up the order flow from brokerages.

That's interesting. This sounds like blatent front-running though. I wouldn't have thought this to be legal.
Mobile game is a massive parade of shit with a very occasional gem. It's been this way at least since shortly after the iPhone App Store happened. It got vastly worse with the introduction of in-app purchases.

2048 is one of those gems. I have no idea how it compares to Threes, because I never played the latter. I did hear of it when it was first making the rounds, but couldn't be bothered to try it out. I certainly enjoyed 2048 though.

You're going to have to try a lot harder than this if you want to convince me that one of the gems in the sea of shit that is mobile gaming is actually somehow at fault for that sea.
"Ethical debt."
Indeed. Apparently it's all about natural selection: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_are_Western_colder-climate_cou...
I use crosstool-ng to do the heavy lifting for me. [0] But lately I've been trying out musl-cross to get nice, self-contained static binaries. [1]

[0]: http://crosstool-ng.org/

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/GregorR/musl-cross
Calculate total time you’ve spent watching TV shows
Sounds a bit like apples and oranges. If in your test GCC happened to stall because of a bug in some shared library in user mode, would you blame the scheduler?

Maybe this isn't exactly a great argument since I know Linus has been known to take the side of not ever breaking user mode wrt kernel changes (probably rightfully so) but it is possible to write buggy code, including hangs, that runs on Linux. That would be the analogous scenario.
Cloud-Based Circuit Board Assembly
Nope .org is for things that didn't fit into the big 5 one of the other bidders for .org tried to run this line and restrict .org to US style non profits freezing out charities an NGOs like Oxfam and the Red Cross - they got shot down in flames.

You going to tell JWZ (one of the early netscape developers) that hes going to have to give up jwz.org good luck with that .
HFT implies computers but computers do not imply HFT. You could automate the trading platform and give everyone equal access without it becoming a hardware arms race.
Reminds me of a script I wrote when a site based in China cloned our entire domain and put it up at a new URL, complete with clumsily photoshopped logos. They left a single stray call to our ad server, though, and I was able to "hack in" and randomly flash a "This site is stolen!" message or insert an auto-playing Youtube clip of my choice.
People started protesting increasingly violent police force (finally)
Probably something like OATH (as used by google authenticator and similar software) or a yubikey. With yubikey you can even get your own HSM for the authentication server.
Meh. Threes has almost certainly gotten more publicity and sales through 2048 than it's lost. (I was one of those sales.) Cry me a river.
I see, so the best strategy in terms of game theory might be to always set a limit below the latest offering price known to me.
Can we get a demo?
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