skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew I was not alone, but it's good to hear it just the same.
Maybe others have vaulted ceilings in huge mansions, but a standing on a chair has been enough for me. It's hardly a difficult task, and certainly easier than removing the battery or putting tape over the speaker which appeared to be the alternatives suggested above.
IMHO LaTeX is better than an ASCII resume, but it really isn't very good for the task. Resumes, because of their length and size constraints, really benefit from some careful massaging of layout.

Not that fancy engineer resumes are needed with the market being what it is these days, but you would probably achieve much better results by using a design-oriented tool. Even Word and LibreOffice allow you to arrange things with more precision these days.
So this is like junior astronomers getting credit for finding planets with telescopes designed and funded by senior astronomers?
It's ridiculous to talk about "balance" 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, blast a brain with drugs that aren't well understood and it'll behave differently, maybe "better" than before, relatively speaking-- but that's not a scientific model so much as a pragmatic clinical solution.
The ten-foot interface with a remote to navigate thousands of titles is rather unpleasant. For a better experience, we can talk to describe what we want, and the display system can learn individual preferences of each member in the household.

I assume that's part of what Steve Jobs intended when he said he had "cracked" a simple, integrated TV system -- per Isaacson's biography.

"[Jobs] wanted to do for television sets what he had done for computers, music players, and phones: make them simple and elegant."

http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/21/steve_jobs_told_bi...
An employer is going to see what you look like in an interview anyway.
Beyond the concept of the app which has been touched upon, the thing that jumped out at me as I was flipping through the app site (not the resumes) is that the content is not written all that great. I'm not claiming to be a grammar nazi, but "publiched" isn't a word and I think you're missing at least one letter in "whether your resume look good".

My main assumption is that your first language isn't English, and that's fine, but maybe hire a English speaking copy-editor to help out with such issues?
There was a video released recently talking about fake accounts and clicking on paid like ads. It explained pretty well why they do it. That doesn't really carry over to other paid ads though.

As for the second part probably because it's a huge privacy violation.
The reason you're wrong is that I wasn't talking about C :)

Yes, for any current programming language, humans do have some advantage by being able to utilize both low- and high-level semantic information that simply cannot be communicated to the compiler. The trump card, I believe, is coming up with new languages where this is not the case.
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Fix the spelling mistakes on your landing page.
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Seems like this book is causing quite the ruckus with certain brokerages:
http://pressroom.aboutschwab.com/press-release/corporate-and...

Yet they are more than happy to sell their order flow to market makers who use HFT. (To allow them to trade against it before going to the exchange - as is customary - nothing wrong with that)
http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/nn/legal_compliance/impo...

Seems like they are jumping on the populist bandwagon by claiming "HFT bad!" but I think what they mean is "HFT bad - unless it's from one of the firms we sold our order flow to!"
So I told this story to my wife, because at first I was a little envious (wishing my boy did this)...then her being the devil's advocate made me realize something...if a 5-year-old can bypass Xbox's verification by pressing space keys and enter then it says volumes about Xbox's verification checks.

Who was sleeping at the wheel when Xbox didn't add empty strings to password verification checks?
Can I ask how you saw who liked your page? Was this a feature of the Ad campaign? As a page manager, there is no way I can see who liked my page who isn't a friend. This makes me sad as I believe I'm getting spam likes which lower your "engagement quotient" and make it harder for me to get content to actual people.
If your ISP packet sniffed your network and traded against your positions in advance of them coming to market would you have a problem with it? How about if they put up an MITM to get your credntials and then installed a key-logger to make it more effective and faster? One could argue that once you hit "sell" or "buy" your electrons are public information. But others might consider them NPI. I don't think that the issue is completely cut and dry, at least no just yet.
See my comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7532126
There is a very large backlog of HCV patients out there with many waiting to for the improved therapies to launch. There is also a huge population of undiagnosed patients as well.

You are correct that the patient population will continue to shrink as people are cured, but to give you an idea of the size of the market, if everyone in the US with HCV were treated with this drug this year, it would cost $3 trillion dollars.

Total Lipitor revenues over it's entire lifecycle amounted to a little over $100 billion.
An expression of sorrow is not in fact an apology. It's just an expression of sorrow. What it certainly isn't is an explanation of his helping to strip gay people of a civil right. It isn't a claim that he has changed his apparent view that gay people are second-class citizens. And isn't a promise that he will no longer work against the civil rights of his employees.

I also have never stated that all we need to know is one action of six years ago, and have several times stated the opposite.
It's such a romantic story, the early days of Apple and the creation of the imagery that countless News Hacker readers grew up seeing.

I often think to myself "what a time that must have been!". But then I think to myself "I am living in that time right now!". We are always able to start our own romantic story that will be told in the years to come.

Let's go design!
I'm sure if MS hired you as a security researcher they would pay you better.
Huh? Google has multiple billion dollar REVENUE businesses.
For anyone who happens across this — I went ahead and took down the repo because I didn't want to encourage copyright violation.
Bah!

I'm not sure what bothers me more the slight chance that CR is real enough that I will need to do it or how excited and evangelical people get about their puritanical eating cults.

Intermittent fasting! Just the sound of it is evil.
It is a huge mistake to ignore people who are in the wrong. If their ideas gain traction because they are given an unchallenged platform that could lead to bad policy that is hard to reverse. Gently explaining they are wrong is only slightly better than sticking our head in the sand...sometimes worse because it is seen as a legitimate debate.

We absolutely do not have to protect all viewpoints. We need to allow people to have them and their freedom to express them but, in the same motion, we must protect others freedom to express disgust.

We cannot allow the behemoth of government acting as referee and thus control the conversation. But the conversation must be allowed to take its natural course.
What's interesting about human all-cause mortality trends is that human beings in the developed countries have been gaining three months of lifespan for every year that they live (sometimes described as "six hours each day").[1] Girls born since 2000 in the developed world are more likely than not to reach the age of 100, with boys likely to enjoy lifespans almost as long. The article "The Biodemography of Human Ageing" by James Vaupel,[2] originally published in the journal Nature in 2010, is a good current reference on the subject. Vaupel is one of the leading scholars on the demography of aging and how to adjust for time trends in life expectancy. A lot incremental improvements in both public health and in medical practice, as well as much better nutrition than in the old days, are steadily increasing life expectancy.[3] This is happening for people of all ages; life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising, and all-cause mortality and morbidity declining, throughout the developed countries of the world.[4]

So the monkey research needs to be meshed in with human research that shows that mildly "overweight" (if fit) human beings have better mortality outcomes than human beings of normal weight[5] to tease out what the causation is for health outcomes of different patterns of nutrition. The example of Rimonabant[6] shows that sometimes an animal model doesn't adequately predict treatment effects in human subjects.

[1] http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2010/humanlongevity....

[2] http://www.demographic-challenge.com/files/downloads/2eb51e2...

[3] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...

[4] http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v307/n3/box...

[5] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23280227

[6] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19578688
I could see this kind of a business working. I don't like the yearly subscription since I would only want one that I really like, not 50 meh styles. All the examples on the front page scream "21 year old hipster designer" and those actually seem to be all the templates right now.
Egypt wouldn't be my first choice for medical tourism, even for cheap pharms. The primary source of Egypt's incredibly high HCV infection rate was through medical treatment -- inadequate sterilization of glass syringes and inadequate surveillance of stored blood for transfusions. As a result, HCV spread like wildfire through the population, and secondary infection routes like tattoo parlors keep the virus circulating.
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You should perhaps submit it to r/C_Programming/ since you looked there for beta readers.
Unions are very political in the UK don't forget. They have direct, open ties to the Labour party (eg. funding, getting to pick candidates, etc). This may not bother someone who is already a Labour voter, but if you were a Conservative/Lib Dem/Other, you might be very upset that your membership of the union is directly aiding a party that you oppose. Even if the other benefits of unions are actually quite good for you.

It's sad that the 70's/80's miners strikes and such have divided the country in this way. It was before my time, but looking at the history, I look at the behaviour of certain unions from back then and agree with why they had to be reined in (even if I don't necessarily agree with the how). But on the other hand, it's turned the political landscape into a false dichotomy of Pro-union/Anti-union, whereas really it's a mixed bag depending on which union you are talking about.

I'd love to be pro-IT union whilst also anti-RMT (eg. London Underground...), but it's not possible in the current political climate.
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That is true. If you only evaluate the effectiveness of advertising based on the number of clicks you get then you will be unable to set bids to take fraud into account.
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HFT seems cancerous regardless of who it helps and who it hurts. Sure it might provide liquidity, but so do traders and the market at large. HFT making money doesn't really service anyone except the people making money, and more importantly it doesn't create anything or provide a service to society at large.
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I guess it really depends on the companies, but from my experience with an HR system targeting larger hiring organizations (think several hundreds to thousands of hires per year), "better batch printout" functionality is a common feature request.

When I am doing interviews I like having a paper copy of the resume to that I can get inspiration for the "discussion" part of the meeting.
I am still reading the book, but it seems like Lewis' main criticism in the book (vs. interviews) is against the so-called HFT front-running of orders that get routed to multiple exchanges. He is careful to distinguish market-making/liquidity providing functions from the multi-market latency arbitrage and spends a good part of Chapter 4 exploring this distinction.

Perhaps his public statements in interviews haven't been so nuanced.

Also, these rebuttals to the book don't really address the front-running issue. Is it simply an unavoidable consequence of the physical reality of separate markets? Should anything be done about it? Is it even still occurring or has competition among HFTs and savvier buy-side order routing eliminated it? I would like to read a rebuttal that discusses this.
Oh, thanks. Where is it?
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Running an ad on mobile for a site that's not optimized for mobile is a HUGE red flag, not some afterthought that should be mentioned in the conclusion. I'd wager anything most of Facebook's traffic comes from smartphones and tablets nowadays.
Interesting, I had the exact opposite reaction to that line. There is no "subsidizing their own distribution" here, making the drug is dead cheap and distribution isn't even an item on their budget.

No, what this means is they are setting their prices to extract the maximum possible amount of money out of each country. Obviously, the price that will yield the largest profit is not always the highest; if you can get four times as many customers at half the price, you doubled your profit while reducing your price.
Considering homosexuality to be wrong is not the problem here. If Eich doesn't like gay sex, or thinks his god would disapprove, then he doesn't have to have gay sex. Problem solved!

It's his helping to strip a civil right from gay people. It is reasonable for Mozilla's gay employees and partners to fear that he hasn't entirely stopped trying to treat gay people as second-class citizens.
But de Niro's character is using it mockingly. Which, I think, is the proper usage of slogans in general.
I don't think anyone would want a placeholder in their resume, but I agree that this being an online version, not having a picture is mostly an annoyance (you can easily find someones picture online).
And just in case it isn't entirely clear, one example of 'algo' trading (algo != HFT) is developing an algorithm to sell smaller blocks of shares over a period of time to "hide" the fact that one participant is unloading 100,000 shares so the the price is not driven down too hard, thereby reducing the overall return from selling the shares.
I welcome your comments on the tool as well as the python code. It will help me improve both the tool as well as my programming skills in python.

Please note I have tested this only on xfce4 on ubuntu. However I think it will work on other Linuxen too.
Namecoin, Ethereum and Open Transactions come to mind.

Maybe the future is much more evenly distributed and we all make a living by offering energy and computing power to those services? Why did PGP never take off? I would love to set up my own "miner" for it to play its part in a truly decentralized and secure Email service. Open source as the "business model" is key in that scenario.

I don't have enough energy nor am I smart enough to actually create those kinds of services but I do feel stuff like that is the way out of this mess.

Interesting articles on topic:

"Enter The Blockchain: How Bitcoin Can Turn The Cloud Inside Out"

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/22/enter-the-blockchain-how-bi...

"Can Namecoin Obsolete ICANN (and More)?"

http://theumlaut.com/2014/02/05/namecoin-icann/
Thanks. But it's not a hint. He helped strip gay Californians of a civil right. An action which he has neither repudiated nor apologized for.
Yes, english is not our main language. We hire some english experts to fix all grammar issuess. It will be fixed very soon :)
Cocorico !
My worst nightmare is when a friend tells me how she wanted to kill her 2yo son and husband in terrifying detail. Despite her physician's assurances, she stopped taking the happy pills. They are all alive & well and the dark thoughts dissipated within a week of cessation. YMMV.
Actually, if you read back through the comments, you were the person who used the term "homophobic bigot", and nowhere did I equate Eich to being a white supremacist or part of the KKK. I used it as an example for how people would react given the KKK's stance on human rights.

Our first amendment rights in this county give us the freedom of speech, but they also give us the freedom of religion. And, by extension, the freedom from religion. Eich's personal views on gay marriage shouldn't trump the rights of anyone else, and him donating to a cause which denies people their rights seriously calls into question his judgement and whether he is fit to be the leader of an organization which espouses liberal ideals.

I'll give you another analogy. If Prop 8 were to deny the rights of black people getting married, and Eich had donated $1,000 to support it, would you still feel the same way?
To clarify a few things regarding that "debug" mess
Wouldn't you prefer this for a forum instead of phpBB?
OCaml works great for systems programming (its runtime is orders of magnitude simpler than F# and the CLR). See http://openmirage.org for a bunch of libraries that may be of use to you, such as TCP/IP in OCaml (or https://github.com/mirage)
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You are correct that how any of the drugs work is currently poorly understood. Presumably, there are individual biochemical differences in either drug receptor sites on nerve cells or in metabolism of the drug after ingestion that make some kind of treatment difference, but there are not convenient medical tests yet to predict which kind of patient will respond to which drug. When I advise friends about pondering different medical treatments for most disease, my pickling in the research on human behavior genetics in the weekly journal club I attend suggests that you look to what works for your close relatives. If a particular medicine seems to be helpful with few side effects for a first-degree relative (parent, sibling, or child), give it a try. If a particular drug has been useless for someone closely related to you, for whatever condition you are concerned about, start your search with some other drug. And so on. Eventually we MAY get to a deeper genetic understanding of individual differences in response to prescribed medicines, but we are a long way from that so far.
The fraudulent clicks are a fact now, and they were in 2009 too, but if your earnings per click margin is high enough FB ads can definitely be worth it.

I did really well running dating ads in every English speaking market, and a lot of Spanish speaking markets as well.

FB ads were the second step in my post-college process of bootstrapping myself as a viable economic entity amidst the fallout and financial devastation of the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

So thank you Mark Zuckerberg, if it wasn't for your creation I might have had to get a real job.
> Infinite Scalability

You come across as a little overconfident
In the section "We want you to be a happy developer", infrastructure is misspelled, as well as 'enough' in the "Smart and Industrialized Cloud" section.
"Joe Sixpack" is a terrible name for the average US stock investor. The median number of shares owned by the adult US public is exactly zero. Most people who own (publicly traded) stocks are already wealthy. "Joe Chateau Lafite" would be a better name.

Source: some Matt Levine article.
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I'm a huge fan of only using FB for retargeting. You know you aren't targeting spammers, and there's some sort of legitimate interest there. The only risk here is some cannibalization and duplication, but if you use some higher end analytics and pay attention to it that shouldn't be too much of an issue.
I'm sure it's quite cheap to produce, but the true cost is in the research. Having the US shoulder that cost while offering a much cheaper rate is a commendable model in my book.

If they are charging an excessive amount in the states I'm not defending that policy, but varying by national wealth is surely a step in the direction of fairness.
No, but surely it had something to do with the way the vulnerability was reported rather than merely shrugged off.
I've heard some absurd stories coming from South Korea. Some people have gotten plastic surgery done just so the head-shot on their CV looks better.
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When on the page as an admin at the top it tells you the most recent activity for the page. Example: John Doe and 10 others liked your page and you can click John Doe or the 10 others and it will show you a page of those people.
Find an area in your city where there's a bunch of businesses. Pop your head in. Ask questions.

Look up patio11's story of how he created Appointment Reminder. Pretty much what he did.
I don't think its that surprising, kids have all the time in the world. When I was a kid I worked on cracking the Fridge lock.. Perhaps my time was poorly spent.
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I agree with what you say about the estimation of costs.

The benefits to site owners normally take place outside of Facebook and so should be measurable regardless of what Facebook do.

In the case where the benefit is within Facebook then the buyer is purchasing likes or similar and then they are in for a world of hurt (in my experience) because of the difficulty in valuing what is being bought.

In this case the advertiser presumably knows the value of what is bought. Then valuing a click involves working back from that towards a CPC bid based on the conversion rate of the traffic source.

As you say, things get interesting when value is not evenly distributed and are complicated further when incrementality is taken into account. But who said it was meant to be easy?
Oh, agreed. HBO has no need to rush; they're doing fine financially, and cable companies still have a lot of power. And I've been impressed by their attitude toward the piracy of their content. Right now I watch Game of Thrones via torrent and then buy the DVDs when I can just to support them.
You don't have to use power editor, you just have to update the Targeting to desktop only.
can you explain how ETF's require HFT? Why is it not possible to maintain an ETF's basket of assets using conventional trading?
what is it with the elephant?
> Did you actually read the article? The stone/object they filmed was within the atmosphere

OH! They were parachuting inside the atmosphere!

I read the article, watched the video, and read other content related to it, so the answer is yes. Somewhere i ran into that crazy speed estimate.
Is an SD card a fair coin... to me?
everybody as limits ;-)
always runs at like a trillion FPS on my machines though, don't seem to be able to slow it down :|

Has anybody solved this? I always read that it was due to cpu scaling but none of the recommended "fixes" ever worked.
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This guy runs/ran a business that did just that - personalized infographic resumes:

http://haganblount.com/infographic-resume/

I'm not sure if he's still creating them or not.
Something the author doesn't mention is how intel tunes their architecture to be faster on code output by popular compilers. This means that it is likely that N generations of x86 from now, the C code will run even faster relative to the hand-written code.