skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you're just wrong, simple as that. If you can't see the difference, I suggest you try educating yourself.

I'm not going to waste my time with your factually incorrect pedantry.
Other than sharing my name with said farmer, I agree a bit curious to post here on HN...
I would not be surprised to find out that many open source communities would love to switch to a better list software than Mailman. It would need to work well for the main list use case of course - so that switching would cost nothing and people could connect to the waves in their own time.
I get all that, but does that really apply when the time interval is sub-second? It's hard to imagine the discounted value of the trade changing in a sub-second interval, whereas it obviously does selling 11 years later.

In other words, sure, definitionally it's liquidity, but since the trade would have gone through a sub-second later anyway, it's not meaningful liquidity: the liquidity was already there on a reasonable timespan (again, sub-second) for the seller. Thus, nothing has been gained.

What am I missing here? Do sellers really need additional sub-second liquidity beyond what the market would provide without HFT?
SEC might even be part of the ecosystem. According to the book: 1) When the Canadian guy in the book, Brad Katsuyama, went to the SEC for their concern the SEC staffers just shrugged; 2) Since 2007 more than 200 SEC staffers left to work for HFT firms. (Source: Michael Lewis, Flash Boys)
Try both, double down on what works. Why wouldn't you try fb ads? Many companies have success, see if you can be one.
Scott Painter is an underrated guy. TrueCar almost went out of business due to dealer backlash, and now just a couple of years later, they're going public. Kudos.
I was looking at the 'solo' package. The cheapest one. Doesn't look to offer more than the server itself.
Majority of health benefits? It is a midly stressing cardio vascular activity and given the circumstances (delivery) it is probably nothing better than jumping up a few times and letting gravity get hold of you.

I am not saying it is worthless but some people praise this as the second coming of Sparta its legion training sets.
Driving content off the front page may well make the discussion worse.

I doubt that, because some attention-getters only seek high-value targets. But even if you're right, the disadvantage is more than offset by the benefit of marginalizing lunacy. We're not talking careful pursuit of the truth across honest differences of opinion here; we're talking ragefests.

Nor is it story content we're seeking to drive off the front page. The stories in question are all on-topic (or they would already be buried), so the stories aren't the problem. The problem is that, like evil catnip, they drive HN mad.

Newcomers treat the front page—stories and threads—as representative of HN. I don't think they're wrong to do so. But if what's de facto representative routinely flouts HN's values, then our values—intellectual substance and personal civility—are a joke. Our values are not a joke.
The OP is saying something equivalent to "I snort less coke now, because I've also started drinking and smoking pot, and having a commitment to meet the pot dealer each morning helps me wake up" but translated to workaholic lingo.

When the only way for you to disconnect from the work environment and get in contact with the bigger outer world is to get another job and connect to another work environment, something is definitely wrong with you! When you need commitments to other people, like a morning job, to wake up, you have an even bigger problem.

People need to learn to self-motivate and expand their world outside of work!
I can't wait for the 2048 forks!
Assuming for whatever reason that these things need concrete proposals and takeaways, and that criticism and analysis are not sufficient, maybe the idea is to suggest individual corrections in the readers' responses to things like this. Perhaps to not use the politics of an employee to judge a company unless, maybe, they were outspoken about those politics.

The point seems to be that pronouncing judgment for political expression only ends up making everybody more frustrated with the people with whom they disagree.

As someone who moves in circles heavily dominated by conservative evangelicals, I've been thinking about the parallels between this story and that of World Vision, the evangelical aid and development organization. They recently announced an intention to begin hiring married gay and lesbian people, if the marriages of those people were ordained by their congregations. This was described as a 'neutral' position in that they receive (or at least used to receive) support from quite a variety of churches including Episcopal, UCC, and ELCA congregations which support and conduct gay marriages where legal. But WV received a severe blowback from conservative church leaders and members, many who began withdrawing funding and child sponsorships over the desire to include married gay and lesbian people in their organization. Since the majority of their supporters come from more conservative churches, they decided after only two days to reverse course, lest they would no longer be able to support their core mission: to provide clothes, food, and shelter to those who need it around the world. This in turn disappointed and enraged liberals who had only cautiously supported the decision in the first place.

My point is that enforcing litmus tests, as described in the article, tends to divide people who have otherwise mutual goals to make the world a better place.
You need to distinguish between two ways people are affected:

1) Indirectly via mutual funds, pension funds, and so on.

2) Directly through buying individual stocks on E*Trade or the like.

The second amounts to an expensive hobby (in risk adjusted terms). Whether some people who aren't ultra-rich choose to indulge in such an expensive hobby is neither here nor there, the underlying fact remains that there's no good reason to care about or optimize for their benefit. Yet for some reason so many articles on this subject instead of talking about the funds that are broadly and rationally held, analyze the situation for the small retail investor.
You can get bash style completion in PowerShell with https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine.
Ask HN: how should early stage two sided marketplace get its user?
Something similar to airbnb, ebay, where it needs two users, seller and buyer, to work the marketplace.

how should an early startup gain its users? I assume some users would be reluctant unless seeing posts / listings.

do you think it is ethical to post fake/superficial listings just to generate buzz? some early beta users would not want to post listing unless seeing a little start.

just curious about everyone opinion. thanks.
It's ridiculous to talk about "balancing" the flavors of your soup when you can't actually measure any of the quantities you're trying to balance and don't even have a clear picture of what "balance" looks like qualitatively, never mind quantitatively.

Sure, dump in a bunch of spices that aren't measured and it'll taste different, maybe "better" than before, relatively speaking--but that's not a scientific model so much as a pragmatic cooking solution.
I think we're talking about the same thing.

Binding a select-box to an event that makes that request and fills it in is trivial. And that data comes from the server.

If you're saying that you bring back a coarse interface (of school -> (state, city, district)), well that seems like a reasonable way to tackle it to me. But then that's not really what the other poster was suggesting (at least as I understood it), and Angular really does practically nothing for you in this scenario. You still have to specify your endpoint. You're still binding the data. And the two-way aspect of it is at best useless since the selected value is right there in the Form to be serialized, and at worst harmful because you're building and keeping large objects in JS for... no practical advantage I can think of at the moment.

Even stepping into the territory of calling something like this a "pattern", something that's been really common and fairly trivial beginning from the very earliest examples of Prototype.js really serves to add needless complexity to something that's actually very simple IME.

IMO.
Of course it's ridiculous. The book makes no actual mention of what SAC did, to avoid cognitive dissonance. Perhaps SAC was infamous for dwarf tossing - not illegal but in poor taste. I don't think the 60 minutes audience would have SAC's transgressions on instant recall. Lewis declines to specify anywhere in the book that SAC was engaged in criminal violations of established securities laws, while he writes an entire book about the evils of HFT, which in large part is mostly an issue of what types of trading we want to permit and not widespread illegal activity.

And did Brad "figure" SAC would know because he knew that SAC pursued informational advantages to the extreme? Did he think that was unethical, crossed a line, so they would know about other activity that crossed the line? That seems like a really strange line of thinking.

It also seems strange that this super ethical guy would attack activity which is legal, but turn a blind eye towards known unethical or suspected illegal business. Did he know about the rumors of insider trading? Did he knowingly solicit business from a firm which he had reason to suspect was engaged in insider trading?
Solution:

Use red paper.

Draw the straight lines in parallel to one another then fold the paper diagonally so all lines cross all lines.

Draw the transparent lines with transparent ink (e.g. an ink corrector pen).

Using a green pen draw long thin boxes; i.e. outline of the resulting red lines.

Kittens / birds: have it in the shape of a kitten or bird approaching a blackhole (spaghettification) - or draw in a straight line whilst moving the paper to create the shape / do some really creative folding.

Kitten Balloon - put the deflated balloon into a (small) kitten shaped mould and blow it up in there (leaving it in) - or pose as a kitten whilst inflating the balloon (so you're inflating it in the shape of a kitten, rather than the inflated balloon being in the shape of a kitten).

Or...
Based on Randall Munroe's strip http://xkcd.com/1351/﻿, an even better solution to the ink colour problem.
Why is it called Namecoin and not something like Bitname or Bitdomain?
"A great leader has to be tolerant of a wide range of social and cultural POV."

First of all, it was made very clear in all the articles on him that he has never shown any mistreatment of anyone because of their sexual preference. It seems that his intolerance isn't in question. If you want to put that quote on anyone, I'd aim it at the leaders of OKCupid. The hypocrisy is so stupid.
"I do"?
How Rare Are Anti-Gay-Marriage Donations in Silicon Valley?
I used to landscape professionally. Which - in my case - is a fancy way of saying I cut grass, dug ditches, raked leaves and spread mulch. I picked up some useful knowledge along the way.

Thing is, no matter how much satisfaction I get from a problem solved, elegant or just effective code written, etc - it isn't quite the same thing as when I could look back at a yard/park/complex etc at the end of the day and say "Yep, that looks good. I did that." Something that not only I could appreciate, but everyone driving by would notice on some level.

I'd not want to go back to that full-time. Intellectually my work now is far more satisfying (mentally designing algorithms while walking behind a bobcat tends to result in both poor algorithms and a poorly cut lawn). And it's easy to forget the long days, paychecks at the mercy of the weather, being constantly sore and always finding dirt and the damndest of places...

But I am thinking about finding some part-time work in landscaping this year for just that reason. I enjoyed it, I was reasonably good at it, and it felt good to be doing. With my hands.
Maybe that's what he meant under Steam, as all the others are correctly named engines :)
I would agree. Plus a lot of organizations are tying your ability to watch something on your phone / tablet to your login with your cable company. I couldn't watch March Madness without logging in through xfinity. Additionally, the SEC network won't let you watch unless you are already a subscriber to Dish.
Seems like a really cool service!

Do you guys have a geographic limit that you are restricting service to?
You mean expecting a guman?
The normal approximation is notoriously [1][2] bad when the binomial proportion you're trying to estimate is small and you don't have a big n. If one still wants a closed-form out-of-the-box formula (to avoid the exact resolution you suggested), one can use the Wilson approximation for instance.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence_...

[2]: http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/1009213286
Failed drugs are part of the cost of getting working drugs. And it's not indefinitely - it's until the patent expires, or in this case until other treatments start getting on the market in a few years.
For dedicated roleplaying, I really like Roll20. It's specifically designed for that, and I've used it for several different groups, both from the DM side and the player side.
Tech Stocks Getting Hammered
Would love to try this out in VR!
Should the Dalai Lama be the next Pope? Should the Roman Church accept an Anglican instead? Should we ask Steve Ballmer to be the next president of the Linux Foundation?

If your job is to lead a group of people, you have to share values cherished by them. You cannot have values they despise.
One point - take a look at the copy on your pricing slider. 'You Earn' makes it sound like that's all I'm going to get out of this deal. It took me a second to realize it was the difference between the dealership and instamotor.
How Mercedes' turbo gives them an edge in F1
No, you "checked" these by moving the goalposts.

Obtaining funding is incredibly hard. Each individual term sheet is also incredibly hard.

Shopping a block is hard. Posting a limit order is incredibly cheap, cheaper than it has ever been in human history. Failing to execute also doesn't make posting a next limit order more expensive.
Exactly. There's something about water, the universal solvent and universal lubricant. It's probably the same reason that same doctor recommended sitz baths, and a big secret to most bulk forming fiber is that it absorbs a lot of water.
The solution is very simple: a Tobin Tax.
Two thumbs up! (wha wha wha)
Anyone know what this is and why it's blurred out?
http://imgur.com/yi0sCEC

Also, videos are not playing right for me on firefox (audio only).
It looked like whoever was in charge of the bot was debugging a bit earlier. He/she might be tweaking things between games.
> For some folks it can cause a psychotic episode; this happened, for instance, to an acquaintance who was also bipolar.

I believe I've also met a bipolar person who had a psychotic episode from pot, though the dude apparently was doing an insane amount; claimed to be having THC flashbacks, which I'd never heard of.
IIR it all written in Java then compiled to Javascript, I think using an old version of GWT. I was not a good showpiece for the technology. It was like stepping back in time to the early Java days with a pre-JIT JVM and slow computers.
No big deal. Just become an expert then. It is not that hard. Just have a look at Ian Piumarta's work [1,2]. Future systems will probably facilitate programming on every level from the bare metal to the highest abstraction. I.e. no strict boundaries between the implementation of the application and the implementation of the compiler/interpreter.

[1] http://piumarta.com/software/maru/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn7kTPbW6QQ

EDIT: There are other reasons to write machine code than performance.
You should really move the "Now Serving The Bay Area" message above the fold. I would have signed-up and used you right away (want to sell my Honda Element).
On the slider which compares selling with Instamotor vs. trading with a dealership, I think you should consider changing "You earn" with "You save." It was confusing to me exactly what it represented.

Also, not sure if it matters too much, but generally framing things as "not-losing" is better than framing something as a gain.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
http://comebackwithawarrant.com
This strikes me as completely wrong. Who is to say there is an upper limit on how big the computer running the universe can be, or that it has to be Turing complete?

And why on Earth would that imply the laws of physics would work differently at different scales. "Scale" is just an abstraction we use to make sense of things, not a fundamental property of the universe (so far as I know.) If you zoom out of Conway's game of life enough, everything looks completely different as if it was operating by a different set of rules.
It's a good company with a good service (I used them last year when I was buying a car--walked in with their piece of paper and said 'if you give me this price I will buy this car now, in cash.' That was the end of the negotiation. Drove out of the dealer a couple of hours later (yes, it still took a couple of hours to get the transaction complete.)

But I don't think the tech community should be all excited about this company. It's not a 'tech' startup per se, it's just a normal marketing (lead-gen, specifically) company that happens to use the Internet--and using the Internet to do business has not been something to get excited about for at least ten years now. It's not like Oculus or WhatsApp or Airbnb or even Uber. There's no technical innovation at play here, there's no business model innovation at play here, there's no new market segment being addressed, it's not disruptive or even radical innovation. It's not innovation driven, it's just a good company delivering a good product. It's not a 'startup' the way we use startup in the tech community, it's just a plain old business.
Since when is randomly mashing on a keyboard considered hacking? What's next? Cat discovered denial of service attack by setting browser to full screen mode?
Orphaned Entrepreneurs
I think it's safe to say that he/she probably is, at facebook.
That's actually a really interesting use-case for Trello. Can you describe a bit more the workflow?
I'll plug BitShares DNS--a Namecoin competitor I am working on--here: http://nmushegian.github.io/dns/

Whitepaper and FAQ are not quite up to date but you get the idea. From: https://github.com/nmushegian/dns/blob/master/whitepaper.md#...

- Namecoin issues new coins to miners as a reward for performing merged mining with the Bitcoin network. The namecoin supply is being inflated at nearly 30% per year for several more months, then over 10% for the next several years. Domainshares only ever shrink in supply, when fees are destroyed as implicit dividends.

- Namecoin attempts to service multiple namespaces at once. .p2p is highly specialized for servicing the .p2p TLD namespace. The use case is the same as Namecoin's "d/" namespace, which is used for the .bit TLD.

- Namecoin's name registration price is fixed at any given time and is independent of the name itself. Domainshares utilizes an auction-like mechanic to incentivize price discovery for names, making sure the final owner pays what it is actually worth. The majority of the final cost will have gone to the network as dividends by the time the auction is over, with a small fraction having gone to bidders as a reward for price discovery.

- As a result of the fact that domains are expensive and there are dividends on shares but not domains, there is a high opportunity cost to squatting: holding a domain without making good use of it.
Good to hear Xtend got better... but too late for me, I'm afraid. I learnt to like Scala, but I'm working with node.js now (coffee-script)...

I think Scala is a good language, but maybe it has too many features for me.
Xtend did not leave me a bad impression anyway :)
Except that in his real job, he creates jobs. So if by taking a low paying, high exertion job, his burnout rate is lowered or his stress level is lower which allows him to expand his company and hire more people, the world is largely a better place. This isn't a zero sum game. Yes, if he didn't take this job, someone else probably would but there is other context and other considerations to keep in mind.
I'm a big fan of "idiot" guides to ops/stack-setups, partially because it's interesting -- and helpful -- to see what authors' assume about the "idiot"...and it's a real art to write something that can appeal to such a wide-variance of non-expert.

That said, let me ask the first idiot-question: is this a precursor to a more complicated stack? Because what's the use-case for setting up Django with an asset-pipeline to S3? I mean, what is the Django instance itself running on? (as I imagine setting up Django on EC@ is generally the harder thing to do)
You non-Germans don't know how mind-boggeling insane this whole story is. There is a governmental agency, the BSI, whose job is to be on top of everything regarding security in information systems.

They tell us that millions of email accounts are compromised.

What they don't tell us is _which_ accounts are compromised or even what service provider these accounts are with. Maybe the key information here is that the info was leaked in a database hack at a big consumer software company.

Who knows?

Nobody! That's who. Because they refuse to give any details that would actually be useful to end-users. Now _everybody_ who has an email account is scared that their account is compromised.

Do you know what the punchline here is?

They said they would give more details, but not before Monday. It might not be obvious to non-Germans, but this little detail reeks of a kind of bureaucratic weirdness that is as German as Beer: I bet they will only release more info on Monday because the person in charge doesen't come into the office before Monday.

Sorry if this was a bit ranty, but the whole thing is just so stupid.
Leslie Lamport: Thinking for Programmers [video]
It doesn't even have to be the majority to be a mainstream point of view.

I wonder, at what point does someone become a "bad person"?

When they agree with the 50%? 30%? 10%? 5%?

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I have haters. Yay!

Nothing brings out the haters like the truth ;-)

So I'm going to limit my exposure by using the wonderful edit feature.

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I agree that oppressive points of view is bad, no matter how overwhelming the majority.

Obviously, a 100% majority won't judge themselves as bad people for taking a position. History is a different judge.

It is also bad to demonize a minority point of view, no matter how small the minority. We should respect people who take a "bad" position.

> It's irrelevant how many people agree with it. 100% can agree with something that is still oppressive.

With a rational discourse, we become more intelligent and can progress further as a civilization. By shaming & other negative actions toward the "bad" people, we become oppressive.
Windows Phone's goal: Be the go-to OS for the budget-conscious
http://www.carmax.com/ does that in the US, they have a business model of no haggling and give some gaurantees on the cars they sell.
Exactly. We are simply molecular machines, and we can and will become masters of our molecular destiny, and I would be happy to make a Simon–Ehrlich type wager with anyone, executed by smart crypto-contract, that the average lifespan of a Female born in 2000 will be > than 100.

I would say that my heir(s) will collect the winnings, but I fully expect medical progress will let me outpace death for quite some time.

"And what do we say to death?"

"Not today!"