skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, it appears we fundamentally disagree, so let's end the discussion here.
From the article, those are jobs that "have no benefit for person working", and "have no benefit for the rest of the society". Why we do work them? Because they benefit the small group that is powerful enough to force society to do net negative thing.
I don't think the argument is that jQuery can do the same things. I think the argument is that you can have two way bindings and a lot of the benefits without a lot of the complexity of Angular.
You are frustrated :)
Very impressive to have bootstrapped this far, I'd imagine their hosting costs are fairly immense. Hopefully this doesn't affect their core value-proposition (simple image upload).

It's interesting that Reddit also made a modest investment. As Imgur's community has grown, I'd imagine that they're increasingly battling for the same audience as Reddit.
I wondered how this technically works, and the answer is over here:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169056-C...

CloudFlare uses CNAME Flattening to present a CNAME as an A record.

The CloudFlare server generating the response follows the CNAME chain
so that the response to the request from the client (for example, the
browser) contains only non-CNAME data -- usually, an IP address. This
effectively creates an A or an AAAA record. Without flattening,
CloudFlare would serve the CNAME record directly to the recursor
(the DNS resolver that translates the domain name to an IP address).

They just resolve the destination and serve it as an A record.
It strikes me that the EU and the USA are really going in different directions in governmental philosophy.

The EU seems to be moving toward regulation to assure QoS (if you will) for consumers and harmonization across jurisdictions, relying on business to make do within centrally established frameworks.

The USA, on the other hand, is moving toward empowerment of established interests and relying on self-organization on the governmental and business levels to hopefully produce ideal outcomes. I see this happening in the rulings on net neutrality, electoral regulation, and IP. It seems to be driven by all three branches of government. I guess we'll see if the upcoming Aereo SCOTUS decision continues this trend.

I'm sure this abstraction is super-leaky...
> So you'd support other governments doing it to America, then?

Yes.
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The article states that the meteorite already slowed down to around 300 km/h because the incident happened at a low altitude and the heavy braking was already over.
Completely disagree with the author, comparing jQuery to Angular is stupid.

It's similar to situation with php few years ago when Symfony2 and other big frameworks were introduced, many people still complain and they use simple non oop php to create websites.

World is changing, php changed and now javascript will change. Some people will stuck to jQuery but most will move to new mvc frameworks because they are much easier to maintain, also many backend developers is moving to REST architecture lately.
Using feature detectors and descriptors is only half of the solution. If you really want robust image recognition you need to use something like the vocabulary tree developed by Nister[1][2].

[1]http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~bagon/CVspring07/files/sca...
[2]http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~phlosoft/files/schindler07cvpr2.pd...
I agree that angular is difficult and docs poor. I think knockout has great docs and is easy to learn. But google trend both and clearly angular is winning and probably has won the mvc js battle. It defies logic but there it is.

50% of your article was about how jquery was superior and simpler than prototype and moo tools. It may have been superior but it's nonsense to say it was simpler. I used prototype alot and it was simpler. To grab a div you simply:

$("mydiv")

not:

$("#mydiv")

So much more elegant than jquery!

Prototype comes from a js perspective whilst jquery seems to come from a css perspective. So I think prototype is better for traditional developers and jquery for web designers.
I know we're not supposed to upvote snark...but...zing!

As revolutionary as the Internet and video streaming has been...yeah, I don't think HBO is soliciting advice on how to survive the current disruption in the content production and distribution business
It's right after his parachute opens, so he hasn't slowed down that much yet.
while its hard to learn , the results angular produces is very good. Just don't give up because its hard. Good things are hard.
So far, they've got the mindshare and a serious head start.

I keep on hearing this, but I really haven't heard of it being in any large projects other than DoubleClick. I don't know if I'd consider being used in a bunch of small hobby projects a 'head start'.
Here is my question for OP. It seems like the image shrinking step coupled with the transformation to +/- values loses so much information that the hash would suffer from big false positive problem. I would have loved to see some data on this based on their own dataset.

To give a concrete example, I noticed recently that a lot of app store icons within a category look pretty similar. See for example this:

https://twitter.com/acslater00/status/450127865682489344/pho...

All of those checkmarks certainly seem to my naked eye like they the binary diff transformation would result in a very identical hash. It seems like the rounded corners in 'Finish' would blur out, and the texture in 'OmniFocus 2' would blur out, and the gradient in 'Clear' would look identical to a flat gradient on the right side of the checkmark.

Anyway, clever algorithm but curious how it works in practice on small icons?
You still lose with Limit Orders. Here is how. I also propose how to actually not get ripped off.

The bid price is $100, the offer price is $101.

You want to buy, but you don't want to cross the spread.

You're worried the $101 isn't actually there - i.e. if you place an order to buy for $102, either the $101 order will get pulled by the HFT trader, or the HFT trader will buy the $101 order and sell it to you at $102.

The article suggests placing a limit order without crossing the spread. i.e. Put a limit order at $100.

So you put the limit order at $100. It sits there, and doesn't move.

10 minutes later, another company in the same industry announces below expected results due to market conditions. As this company is in the same industry, its stock price is negatively affected.

Before you have time to cancel your $100 limit order, the HFT trader has already parsed the negative news and short sold the stock all the way down to $99.5, taking your order with it, you're recorded to have sold at $100.

You lose either way.

The continuous limit order market is where HFT has a lot more edge than you do. You can try to avoid placing market orders that cross the spread, as well as avoid placing limit orders that linger for too long and get taken advantage of.

There's a call auction in the morning before the stock market opens every day. No market orders are allowed. Everyone places limit orders and everyone executes at one price. There is no spread to cross. As long as enough other investors participate in the same call auction, it'll be a lot more difficult for HFT traders to take advantage of your order. (Frequency doesn't even come into play since call auctions are discrete markets, not continuous - there is only 1 open price. This negates the HFT trader's speed advantage, since speed is rendered irrelevant)

Just regurgitating stuff I've learnt with finance at university.
I have already watched the video multiple times! can't help but notice the dumbest clients i have come across asking the silliest things!
And the worse part is they do not and i mean DO NOT EVER understand the tech part
Sure, a firefox extension could do that.
Haha. Test coverage requirements + no code review = just begging for this to happen.
why are people commenting on this nonsense? he obviously didn't do the research to back his logic and made shallow arguments nor did he once address any of the other competing frameworks to AngularJS does he think none of those are complicated either?
Yeah, let's force freedom and democracy down people's throat. It didn't work so well in Irak but I'm sure the next one is going to be a success ! Everyone who doesn't think like us is wrong and needs to be set on the right path anyways.
Usually a small study like this is done as a test of safety and potential benefit as a precursor to a larger more comprehensive study. I think its exciting and dramatic that there were enough initial positive results to move on to a better study.
My understanding is that chutes are packed with great care since they're the only thing stopping one from going "splat!"

I could believe that it's an intentional fake, maybe, but unintentionally packing a good-sized rock seems unlikely... although, I guess it's not as improbable as a meteor sailing past your head while you're skydiving!
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It's the same thing I said in the recent J discussion: J (and probably Q) is meant to be read with a help of computer. Reading and writing J consists of incrementally building/decomposing expressions in a REPL. You have wonderful tools to visualize expressions structure in the REPL and you are expected to use them and to experiment with the expressions. You're not supposed to read it as prose, don't even try.
As crowdfunding grows up in the EU, Spain seems determined not to play ball
A few points:

1) This doesn't address the front-running issue. (Where different exchanges receive the buy/sell order at a different times and HFT can abuse those microsecond differences)

2) It's a universal truth that people who are better informed are harder to rip off. So that's not very persuasive. You can't reasonably expect regular people to know in which situations they'll be paying a premium for a liquidity service they may not even want.

3) It's completely fair to ask ourselves as a society if HFT groups are making a contribution to society that warrants the money they make. And if transparency with regard to HFT trading strategies leads regular people and sophisticated investors to make different decisions, then that means that the lack of transparency worked in favor of HFT. Therefore, it's reasonable to assume much of the HFT profits are just an externality. The decline of HFT is in part because investors are getting wise to the shenanigans.
> Why should we not divert some of our growth into growing our leisure time, rather than growing our physical wealth?

Because not everyone was created equal. Some professions are completely worthless (e.g. ad creators) and add nothing net to the society. Others, e.g. doctors, are so valuable, and so few people can do them, that they simply can't afford to work less (educating more doctors so that they can work fewer hours is not an answer - I'm not a doctor, but I imagine it takes a relatively fixed amount of hours of training to actually "become a doctor" (after finishing your education), so if doctors worked less, they would be worse doctors). The social contract then dictates that everyone must work, since doctors have to work.

Solution: automate medicine, energy, food.
Pretty much this. Angular isn't there to replace jQuery or do simple things that can be done in minutes in jQuery; Angular's for building applications. I like the analogy in the first comment on the page itself.

The article links to another page where the author rants about why Angular sucks; the second paragraph already indicates the author is trying to do direct DOM manipulation, which is exactly what Angular tries to prevent you from doing. It's an abstraction layer (amongst other things).

tl;dr I wonder if the author ever worked on a production-sized single page application.
The author doesn't seem to be building a complex single-page app. If that's the case, then yes, jQuery is easier than Angular.

If the author IS trying to build a complex single-page app, then I see absolutely no reason why jQuery would be preferable to Angular. Angular does one job and does it well. jQuery is a strong candidate for most reasons you'd ever need javascript in the browser.

Yeah, I do agree that Angular's documentation is lacking, especially compared to jQuery's docs. Also, Angular is not my personal first choice front-end UI framework. However, for CRUD application development, I care much more about Angular's holistic approach rather than being able to procedurally manipulate each DOM node and event handler as I would in jQuery.

I appreciate the author's passion and think the arguments are valid, but I also feel that this is an unconvincing apples-to-oranges comparison. In my completely honest opinion, I'm not incredibly excited about EITHER Angular or jQuery, but I am grateful for both.
The shape of app icons has been dominating WWDC invites for a long time. They were a central design element going back to 2009 (refer to supercoder’s comment for a picture).

First they showed actual icons of apps (2009, 2010, 2011), in the last two years and this year they showed more stylised app icons (2012, 2013, 2014). The goes back to even before Forestall was fired/left. It’s always differently coloured app icons. Last year they were overlaid and angled, the year before that they were also overlaid, angled and in different sizes. This year they are only in different sizes.

All you could glean from last years invite was a slight shift in design aesthetic, but that change has already happened (and this years invite is in the same style as last years) so there is no new information in this invite.

All this tells you is that WWDC will be all about apps. As it has been for at least half a decade now. I don’t think whoever designed this even know about the new iPhone hardware.
Except financial applications what is it good for ?
>"it'd work even better without showdead" //

What's actually wrong with this persons activity here though - they're [presumably] new and haven't had chance to learn all about HN yet. Their questions/comments don't seem so terrible that they should be hellbanned, or do you disagree.

Presumably what you're saying here is that no-one should have the chance to warn those who're hellbanned, we should trust the secret machination of HN to always be right?
If the source is still up one can safely compile from there no?
> Which developed nations have gone to war with each other since WW2?

Yugoslavia on the one side and NATO on the other. Like, twice. (And those may have started as internal Yugoslav conflicts, but then, WW1 started as an internal Austro-Hungarian conflict, too.)
Basic income mean huge changes:

For example, salary may still be partially driven by necessary education / experience, but physical, tiresome or stressfull works would requireask for way higher salaries (because you get up at 4AM to collect garbage when you have no other choice, or when you think it really is worth it, and those jobs would still be necessary)

The same way, some companies will have huge problems filling the ranks (let's say: food industry, waiter, marts cashiers (or the people filling the mart at night), ...

But education industry (and universities) would have to change their methods, because nowadays peoples are willing to commit 100,000's of $ to get a well paying job, this incentive would be gone, the better paying one being the physical labor, with low education requirement.

I also wonder if people would go with their lives the same way they do now. I, for one, would get one of those hard, high-paying job straight out of high school for a few year, enough to buy a house and save a bit, then go to university (or self-studying with internet classes, choosing some classes in common with friends) and study whatever I found get my interest.

TL;DR: I'm all for Basic Income, mainly because I don't see any long-terme viable alterative, and also because the changes it would bring to society would be really interesting to study.
Contrary to building a "twitter" for them?
I just know that I never hear about consumer protection regulation in the US any more. I only hear about it in Europe. I think that in the US consumer protection got thrown under the bus in the general move toward laissez-faire in the 80s and 90s.
Your example doesn't make sense to me. Why would you place an order to buy for $102 if there is an offer for $101 ?
Vietnam and Laos are socialist countries, not communist by any means.
Access doesn’t really have “documents” as such. Its a relational database, with tables full of records.

(Not that I disagree with the general idea: it would be great to have solid tools for migrating old Access databases to something open. I have no idea whether these exist or how good they are.)
Are you using React with anything else at the moment?
Not needing everyone to work doesn't necessarily mean we're post-scarcity, which means someone has to decide how to allocate scarce resources, in coordination with the people or companies that run and maintain the mostly-automated systems, and that's where the extreme pain shows up.
"Follows" in the sense that it is not an axiom - it has a proof of more than one line in the sense of the Hilbert system. Seeing functions as collections of ordered pairs tells us nothing here.

Your definition of ^ doesn't directly tell me that 2^1=2. It does tell me however that 0^0=1.
That account seems to be a throwaway only in name. :)
accelerometer already does this surprisingly well on ipad garageband
Dictatorship is just a lifestyle choice!

I don't know what you mean about "if Cuba tried anything like this". What would be like this? Americans can already communicate freely over the Internet.

I know that my father-in-law used to listen to Radio Havana in the U.S. back in the 1960s, by the way. The U.S. didn't bomb the radio station.
Hip-hop didn't suddenly gain qualitative value when the first Rap Grammy was given, and that value didn't jump when they finally televised the award.

But plenty of people still consider similar vehicles of industry and academia as important and authoritative, and that kind of institutional value and respect is exactly what RZA is seeking. I think this only reinforces the questionable authority and ability for inward facing groups like NARAS and AMPAS to anoint their own works as respectable.

So, you're right objectively, but in the context of the systems the public supports, perhaps not.
There was simply no way to monetize the service.
But wouldn't it cost other people more money who want to get in touch with you if you did decide to go with a "non-domestic" carrier? For instance, if I have a non-German phone number, while living in Germany, and expecting people around here to call and text me? Or does that too fall under "roaming"? To me I think of roaming as being that I, with my German number, can still call and text other German numbers, and use my data, for the same price as I normally would, even when I am physically in another EU country.
I have heard similar experiences for MDMA treating PTSD. (There are also a number of studies suggesting its effectiveness when used in conjunction with talk therapy to treat PTSD).

If you're interested in learning more, MAPS[0] has a ton of info.

[0] http://www.maps.org/
Dunno, I for one value the service HFTs provide. They're the reason that I, as a small investor, can unload 50,000 dollars worth of shares in a couple seconds.

Have you ever traded a stock market with low liquidity? You can have a market sell order sitting all day... I'd rather pay the small HFT toll, I still make plenty anyhow.
Not the author, but there are undoubtedly plenty of stimulus jobs created by the government that could be cut.

Smart parking meters (that accept credit cards, and that let you reup time with your phone) for example, could dramatically adjust the number of positions available for meter maids / parking enforcement officers.

USPS is probably going to have to shift at some point to... something different.

The federal government spends $25 billion maintaining vacant properties, and owns more than 50,000 vacant homes. That probably doesn't equate to job elimination, but there's got to be some kind of opportunity there.

Toll booths for toll roads have got to be on the way out, right? I mean, not saying EZ Pass is the best, or most ubiquitous, but we've got speed cameras that map to DMV databases such that if I run a toll, I already get a bill in the mail -- add a new question at the DMV for 'email address' and stop sending paper bills and you've got a business model.
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If you're not a pension fund or other large investor, HFT's don't care about your orders.
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See Q5 of http://www.jonathanlynn.com/tv/yes_minister_series/yes_minis...

A hospital with no nurses, doctors or patients only administrative staff.
This is why patents ought to be property in the same sense that land or leases are property, and the govt. ought to be able to use eminent domain on them. Pay Mr. Myne a lot for his contribution to society, but then make sure that even the least-well-off can take advantage of this newfound material wealth without exploitation.
The target audience will be torrenting it anyway.
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In your example, you did not get ripped off by a HFT, you priced your order incorrectly and lost money. That is the nature of investing and has nothing to do with HFT.

Further, what Chris mentions in the article is not a simple limit order, it is a specific order type (ALO) that will not pay the bid ask spread regardless of how slowly it arrives on the market. If you don't want to pay up for liquidity, this order type will do exactly that.

As for the call auction, it provides a similar functionality but worse price discovery. The prices are more acurrate through the day because it is continuous. You as an investor can decide if paying a more incorrect price is better or worse than paying for liquidity, but in neither case is it an HFT ripping you off. That said, HFT systems do participate in the open auctions...
Yeah, Occam's razor tells me that it's much more likely that a stone got stuck somewhere in their skydiving apparatus than having a meteorite fly right past you while you're skydiving.

Maybe I'm underestimating the quantity of meteorites falling on the earth but since the newspapers aren't exactly filled with news of people getting killed by falling rocks I'm not yet ready to believe that was a meteorite.
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Isn't the entire point, that the anti-HFT folks are trying to make, that if HFT is abolished then we will still have liquidity? As in "Liquidity is not created by HFT. HFT are just an intermediary between the actual providers of liquidity and the rest of the market".

This is a sincere question, because I really do not understand how HFT "creates liquidity" when they are just buying low and selling high.
It would be interesting to see if having some level of universal basic income and universal healthcare would be far better than having many federal, state and local departments dealing with distribution of a wide array of various government services.
why are all of the anti-us comments being up voted and the the reverse down voted? I feel like the voting system here on hn does nothing but push one specific agenda/view
An intriguing text. But the whole reason Angular will fail is because its too difficult? Really? Have you tried to develop for your "savior" Steve Jobs? iOS development is difficult, probably way more than it should be. The reason its successful is because you can make A LOT of money with it. Same with web development, especially well-organized and stable systems, which can be achieved with AngularJS by a relatively mediocre developer.
I think it was more of a protest action than any attempt at a viable project/business. They probably did consider the legal responses and are reacting in the best possible way to get and keep people talking about.