skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then why hasn't a stock exchange that imposes a transaction fee appeared and pulled in all traders, leaving the HFTs behind?

This is what I can't understand about this stories, and makes me doubt the claims against the HFTs.
> The fix for this is to include SVG font files

It never ceases to amaze me how much shit web-tech can pile together without toppling completely over.
Ask HN : How can i politely ask tech community to test my new web project?
I want to invite some early adopter users to test my web project and at the same time i don't want to clutter them or being spammy. What do you think i should do?
It's Quake 1, not 2. And yes, Valve among others licensed it, just like people do today with Unreal Engine or Cry Engine.
This is great. Although books like 'eloquent javascript' or 'JS design patterns' prove themselves as stepping stones for one trying to get hold. However, when it comes to real world issues, blog posts by experienced professionals are ones only companions. Its good to see relevant posts in context, firstly describing problems that developers often face and then suggesting the solutions.
Selling Crafts Online VS shows
- Ayn Rand is right.

- If you want something, the responsibility of getting that lies on you and you alone. You are responsible for both success and failure.

- To get what you want, 'You should do what it takes'. Even if that's not within the moral/ethical/acceptable norms of the society. Or unpleasant or unhelpful to people people around you.

- You will either follow this and rise, or will be used(and then thrown) by those who follow this. Where you want to be, you decide.

- When you get successful and rich, what ever you do becomes right. Even if that was actually wrong per everybody else before.
SMS/MMS are shit and a relic of the past. I don't think it's a good idea to try and build a product based on them, ever. Use the Internet.
My guess is that it is probably not overtly malicious, but that people at Google are just responding to incentives. There are simply more incentives for Google to get things working 100% right in Chrome.

It is not to say that it is ok, though, as it could result in more people switching away from Firefox -- which is not a good thing for the web.

I, an enthusiast Firefox user, had to stop using Hangouts in Firefox because it could get excruciatingly slow (while fine in Chrome). Again, not saying it's Google's fault; it may be the case that with my configuration, Firefox is just generally slower than Chrome for the kind of fancy code that powers Hangouts. But they certainly did not try to make it run well for me, for lack of incentives. Many people (especially lay) would have responded by switching to Chrome. I responded by deactivating gmail chat and switching to Skype.
This article also suggests that you should use a 2048 Bit key, and you really shouldn't. Better to go with 4096 Bit. And I guess every CPU is fast enough.
Testing it out:

> git commit -F message
Try 0/4000000 to get a 1337 commit = 3650e08c9e1ecbbeec83daf7a959e3edcf15bd4f
Try 100000/4000000 to get a 1337 commit = 3952f7d5035f5e88f66aa5c70e5cc11fdd734852
Try 200000/4000000 to get a 1337 commit = 51c910f5d535c515a04796eb7c7a70cbd2325599
Try 300000/4000000 to get a 1337 commit = d70c3e64b1d963461a6ee2f518c613483b979d68
...
commit id = 313378458f8c4fb53c808f4b0bae5bf71ba5e23b
[master 3133784] 1337 Test Commit
1 file changed, 60 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

https://github.com/spence/git/commit/313378458f8c4fb53c808f4...
I have one of those too. It's quite rare that anyone comments on it.
RFC 1 – 45 years ago
I started by running to the store and buying something (juice, food, whatever). It may not have been the most efficient way to exercise, but it created a Pavlovian feedback mechanism.
A transaction tax will increase spreads. That is a really big argument against that such an exchange would be popular.
A veteran geologist explains how the medical industry became "rigged"
Death is inevitable and life is meaningless.

Most people would be depressed with this epiphany but for me, it was liberating.
They did this since the day they released the game, or shortly after. This isn't the source code of the engine, it's just the SDK that people use to make mods.
Been using DMS for over quite a while now. It is an absolute must-have for anybody depending on scheduled tasks, and I haven't found anything like it.

And it's so cheap that there is no reason not to do it.

My only gripe is that I can only get alerted via email, which is the most often overlooked channel. I've hooked those emails up to HipChat, but some direct options for services like HipChat, Pagerduty etcetera would be nice.
cough Opera cough
Moreover, legal protections exist even where technological protections do not; just because the police have the ability to intercept text messages doesn't mean they have the right to do so without a warrant (and somewhat similarly for carriers). Once you voluntarily give the police — or carriers — permission to read your text messages, all bets are off.
Yes, that seems very similar. It's difficult for someone to understand a point of confusion when their own knowledge is so clear. Perhaps great teachers can pass on knowledge so effectively because they are better able to remember and guide people past the troubles they had when learning.
>Clients don't want to read Cucumber specs

Far too broad a generalization I think. I currently work with a non-technical CEO whose first encounter with Cucumber was when we were trying to re-specify a feature that we'd got wrong at the previous attempt. It was a revelation to him, and his initial burst of enthusiasm resulted in his going away and writing - unknown to us - Cucumber Features for about half of the functionality of the app. He's calmed down since then and leaves the actual writing to us, but Cucumber remains our go-to tool for resolving complicated requirements.

Obviously trying to force Cucumber on an unwilling/uninterested client is going be difficult and damaging to the relationship. Maybe if their first experience was a positive one in which using Cucumber helped resolve a communications problem rather than a technical ritual that they were forced to repeat for every user story, then attitudes might change?
Your first idea is basically whytheluckystiff's "hoodwink'd".
If you believe the description is wrong, your issue is with the article.

Direct quote from article:

With Reg NMS, it essentially took x amount of available stock at one place, and made it one tenth of that x at ten different places.

If that isn't a regulation forcing large purchases to split up, then it's on you to explain why.
They did not mention anything about MacBook Pro and MacBook Air (not even an update) :/ when they were mentioning about iPad 3
This is a known limitation in Chrome [1], its because it uses GDI for writing type to screen rather than the newer DirectWrite API. They are working on it and there is just one remaining blocking bug to fix [2] before its all sorted.

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692

[2]: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=331115
There seems to be also a windows implementation: http://www.gpg4win.org/ (Wondering why the site doesn't use ssl, though)

On a related note, I have a hard time understanding why a web site talking about digital security also doesn't have a certificate.
should've made it a banana stand, there is always money in the banana stand
Simple SEO Tips: Why You Should Use Hyphens Instead Of Underscores In Site URLs
The exchanges do send the information to the SIP at the same time that they publish it on their own direct feed. NYSE actually got in trouble for not doing this properly. This isn't actually an easy problem, because there is a TCP interconnect with the SIP, and if it gets bogged down, then the SIP packets can be backed up.

The real issue is that since the SIP (CQS/UQDF) are cheap; and big/sophisticated players don't actually use them, no one cares about them. Beyond that the performance is necessarily slower than a direct feed, because if I wanted to learn the price of a NYSE listed-security on NASDAQ the path that the SIP would take is far less direct. Specifically, if I have a machine sitting in Carteret (Nasdaq), listening to the proprietary Nasdaq feed, the data from Nasdaq will be sent to me and the SIP at the same time. But to get it from the SIP it has to go to Mahwah and then back, instead of staying local to the data center.

Nasdaq makes its feed available to everyone, for a cost. Someone who is providing execution services, or market making, needs the direct feeds so they can provide good execution and know when to get out of the way. A small investor looking at a screen doesn't care about the SIP or a direct feed. They are going to submit their order, and their broker is responsible for executing it.
Yet the price to "play the game" does not exactly say "small guy".
network effects work heavily against new exchanges. it's not like starting a SaaS to deliver email.
Last few places I've worked, in London, devs with 10+ years were getting around $70 000.
That's one of the reasons why record types are recommended instead of tuples. They don't cost anything at runtime but make it harder to shoot yourself in the foot.
Create a product that you think people will like. In that way they will play with your app even if you don't ask them to do so. Provided it's good enough, early adopters will provide you feedback, which is what you want in the first place.
In Ethereum, you need to fund a contract in order for it to perform computations, and the amount that gets charged to a contract depends on the amount of work it does. So if someone were to write an infinite loop, for example, eventually the contract would run out of money and die.

The halting problem is not a practical issue with Ethereum, because the system doesn't care, in advance, whether or not a contract will halt. It will just run it to find out.
What has happened in machine learning in the last 5 years?
Internet Ad Spend To Reach $121B In 2014
What Klout Tells Us About Top Social Influencers (Infographic)
Indeed.

With this claim, you really need to figure out why and what. It's http and text, so figuring out what triggers the different behavior is feasible and needs to be done before throwing out allegations.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-661 A talk by Herb Sutter about cache, ram prefetcher, locality/contiguous allocation. Very simple and informative.
No. Mozilla are doing a perfectly good job of that on their own.
Whether or not this was a new take on static + auth, as it sounded like it was the standard client-js apps (which you confirmed it is). Not that it's not a valid approach, I just assumed it was something new.
Oracle wants to push Peoplesoft. I think the bought JDE mostly to have a ready source of new customers. There are two product lines in JDE, World and OneWorld. World is based on minis (IBM i) and OneWorld is more PC/Server oriented (good for smaller customers). Peoplesoft is mostly AIX/Oracle and very people intensive and better yet, consultant friendly and a great revenue stream.

So, yeah, shutting down a site which promotes software not a the top of their list makes sense.
I Give Up: Extroverted Barbarians at the Gates
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read it and get inspired friends
True story:

I was at a Boston startup conference and was talking with Steve Wozniak, which was pretty neat. I asked him about the Swyft Card, because when it was first introduced I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and I think about it once every couple of years.

Woz thought I was talking about RFID and proceeded to tell me why all this personal tracking was an invasion of privacy, which I was forced to agree with, and it was interesting to hear his take on it.

At the same time, I was a little bummed we didn't talk about the Swyft Card, because I like it, I like Forth, I like Raskin, and I like Woz.
I can confirm same behaviour on fedora 20. No HTML5 with flash installed, have to remove it to get Firefox to access the HTML5 player
well, OK. I guess I should cease and desist from complimenting the Oracle DB. it is a great product, though it did always seem that they deliberately obfuscate documentation and make friendly tools and resources unavailable just to feed their army of dependent consultants.

BTW, I suppose Postgres is a perfectly adequate replacement?
It just bugs me when an employee has the mindset that they are doing the employee a favor. It's an exchange of value. if anything, the employer is often exploiting a desperate employee in order to put even more money in their own pocket.
If someone was already willing to sell 50 shares of Acme Corp. at $20.00, having an HFT bot get advance knowledge of an order, buy those shares and then re-offer them at $20.01 is not market-making and is not providing liquidity -- it is injecting an artificial middleman, with the cost of a middleman, for no other reason than "we can make money off injecting a middleman".
Comparision of different concurrency models
>This is sadly true for most proprietary IT. What would be the solution?

Not a solution, but I think this is in the right direction:

A business model in which IT execs with purchasing power have a vested interest in seeing the business succeed -- either financially or from an purely-engineering perspective. I believe the first point speaks to itself. The second, while it aligns with my bias that engineers make better tech execs (the engineer that 'works his way up' comes with perspective, knowledge, and wisdom), I still believe that engineers look after each other and at least know when they're fucking over the next guy for some wine or a couple days in a different city.

Unfortunately, this is my only suggestion because it's hard to do an ethics-test that's relevant and it's reasonably difficult to fire execs that you know aren't honor-bound.

>A rigid code of ethics that would prevent IT executives from meeting their vendors outside the office?

I've been taken out for drinks by vendors trying to close a deal. None have yet. When I grow a personal business to the point of free trips, there's a chance I'll take those if they don't interfere with my performance or come with a moral price-tag.

Which is to say, there's nothing inherently wrong with meeting salespeople outside of the office -- it's a just a conversation and "practice business." If the vendor is selling something interesting, who knows, maybe it's worth comparing against your current solution.

This is somewhat of a cherry-picked hypothetical anecdote, but I wouldn't choose any solution that makes for pissed-off engineers or burns money.

>I once worked for a company that had its CTO fired because he accepted a trip to Paris (so he could speak at a vendor-sponsored event), but only after buying a couple million dollars of inadequate and overly expensive hardware.

That's just corruption and lack of oversight. I realize that at some point, you have to trust the decisions of your CTO, but if he doesn't have significant skin in the game (and a couple million dollars isn't chump change to the company), this purchase order should have triggered a review of the proposal.
Perfect for dogescript (https://github.com/remixz/dogescript).
This page just underlines my complete mathematical illiteracy. I don't really understand any of it. I would like to get a basic grounding in math, but it seems like so wide a field I have no idea where to start.
Have you ever read about the "Scrum methodology"? I think it is a good place to start...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28software_development%2...

https://www.scrum.org/Portals/0/Documents/Scrum%20Guides/Scr...
Git Bisect: Your Bug Hunting Best Friend
The correct reading is 1. The vagueness is most definitely not intentional; I'll get in touch with the authors.

There's a difference between "want him to resign" and "agree with his decision to resign once he makes it". My understanding is that Brendan had to actually get pretty angry with the board to get them to agree, fwiw.
I'm not American and I haven't watched a baseball game in my life, but I still understand the analogy, even if I don't know what the positions referred to mean.
Agreed - it also fails teach how one should create a revocation certificate.
>"Your coworkers spent a total of 36.4 hours reading your message. It cost the company $1458 in employee time. "

This in itself could be a nice plugin for your mail. You need 3 values to be able to calculate it:

* Number of employees the mail will be sent to (hard with aliases, easier with Outlook PDLs)

* Average fully burdened cost of employees (managers should know this, or you can default to something like $120K)

* Estimated time to read (based on wordcount and an average reading speed)

From there you can get the "hours wasted reading this mail" and "cost of this email".

EDIT: You could go above and beyond and use an open rate percentage to more accurately determine the cost, but that's not something an email client could record, it'd be server side.
What do you think would happen if direct feeds were prohibited and participants had to listen to the consolidated feeds only? This could even include getting one's own fills, if there were a consolidated feed with order IDs included (i.e. you would not know your fills any earlier than anyone else).
Spoken like someone who has never lived or worked abroad, and n ever met anyone who has. You can't just move to another country and expect people to let you in.
While I respect what the author is trying to do, it is a pretty huge leap to make such conclusions. This is the kind of thing you file a bug report for and get a response from a Google dev about the issue.... not start a potential browser flamewar without enough fact.... [especially if you say you saw a JS error but don't say what it was....]
HFT did not reduce spreads. electronic trading did. actually sometimes hft can be a liquidity taker and thus increase spreads.
Yes, he lost me completely there. I was expecting he would at least provide his data (the diff'ed portion) so more knowledgeable people could pitch in. Instead I got no data and a sweeping conclusion.
Nice branding. Most monitoring tools are overly complicated, both in their features as well the use-cases they try to cover. I like the clear focus of this; the product itself doesn't require one to invest a lot of time, which is a good thing.

Just some questions:

- how do you prevent unauthorized snitches from screwing with your data? Wouldn't it be wise to limit a snitch to a certain server ip?

- why only an iOS app? This excludes lots of potential customers (including me).

- why not offer an API, so we can securely fetch the status of our snitches?

I like the singular focus. Some people don't want very complicated feature rich monitor systems. I can imagine using a solution like this, esspecially in those cases, where more feature rich monitor systems are not being considered.

Yet, you offer a pricing model that suggests something completely different. That you are a very complicated feature-rich monitor system. The value you provide at each price point is simply not warranted.

I doubt this will have a large uptake, but if it does, i'm the first one tempted to compete. The required architecture is not complicated enough to warrant such high margins on such low costs. Cloud providers, even the budget ones like DigitalOcean, could easily offer something like this for free to their customers.

Now, you could argue that the price includes high quality support. But that's the not the audience of such a singular focus tool. If i need support, i'm obviously spending enough time interacting with it, that i would be better off with a more feature-rich monitor system. (which are available at similar price points)

Who's going to pay 600 dollars a year for 300 snitches? To build this at scale may take more effort, but from the perspective of your customer .. wouldn't most of them be able to build something like this for internal use in a single day? There are open source solutions with more features you can install with a single command.

I'm just wondering: but wouldn't you have much more customers, and hence, more profit, if you would provide 500 snitches at 100 dollars a year? Or alternatively, offer the service for free, but just charge for the apps yearly? In the end, a single snitch will do at most 24 empty GET requests a day, where you store a timestamp. A single VPS should be able to handle 10k snitches easily. (less than 3 requests per second)
I'm curious what you think about 'Relish', software for turning cucumber steps into developer documentation. Ruby projects vcr[1] and rspec[2] use it as their exclusive/preferred/canonical developer API documentation.

As a developer-user (not maintainer/creator) of these projects, I've always found their relish-produced api docs to be fairly insufficient, confusing, and frustrating for me as a developer needing API docs.

[1] https://www.relishapp.com/vcr/vcr/docs

[2] https://relishapp.com/rspec/docs
Am I missing something? I think that "I observe the same problem in Windows as in Linux" DOES allow rejection of the hypothesis "The problem is with Linux only".
Actually, that should be anthropology major, come to think of it.
Ormr – Non-Destructive, Procedural Graphics Editor
I'd say there are at least 2 morals.

First: You don't get what you don't ask for. the other person might really only want a quarter of the cake, but by asking for more than your "fair share" you open the door to allowing them to give you what you want.

Second: By asking for the whole thing, you have placed yourself in a position of power and privilege. The mere act of asking for more implies that you think you deserve it. Someone mentioned posturing in another comment.
Those Washington Post articles are a pain to read on mobile. I will avoid them like the plague.
List Beats Grid: Linear Feeds Perform Two to Three Times Better Than Grids
No, I missed something. Reading fail on my behalf.
What about www.google.com on Firefox for Android? It has been crippled for quite some time.
Can anyone explain to me what wouldn't be possible without HFT? Is HFT allowing for some useful types of investments/capital?
Raspberry Pi Compute Module
Can you tell us what you mean technically by "privileged" access? Is there a threshold in dollars you have in mind for what is an acceptable fee for connectivity, or is it something else?
That's because the kerning tables in this font are woefully incomplete. The only pairs defined are "//", "Ke", "To", "We", "Ze", "Zo", "iz", "oz", "yp", "'r", and "'s".

Then again, Comic Sans from MS has no kerning at all.
Javascript Allonge is a great read and a must for newcomers and experienced devs. https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/read
What is your point? That is definitely not a scientific model.
True, but I don't believe there's a more dyslexia friendly font in standard fonts which are available on more platforms.

Just a little gripe of mine, to be honest, but it's really one of the only positive things to the font, and having it removed in the process of attempting to improve the font is a bit funny to me.