skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This speaks so much to how the dot-com boom has changed and how young adults are re-re-re-experiencing it.

A complete full circle to the point now where to gain an authentic real world experience means to step outside of the echo chamber to do real work just to feel something real.

When they spoke of hipsters in 2001 this... this is it.
Well you are free to go ask :)
The market exists the benefit for the 'buyside' e.g. people who own stock, not for the benefit of the middlemen like exchanges and HFT marketmakers.

You may not like homeowners and think some of them are or should be convicted, but it's ridiculous to say someone is 'shilling for homeowners' when they point out that real estate brokers are overpaid and skimming.

Some more balanced discussion - http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=8333

http://blogmaverick.com/2014/04/03/the-idiots-guide-to-high-...

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/high-frequency-trading-threat-o...

In a nutshell, people who run big portfolios don't want to give away information about what they're doing, and they don't want HFT types to be able to pay exchanges to get first crack at front-running them.

On the other hand there is a legitimate market-making function, and there's a tradeoff between transparent markets and forcing people to share info that lets other people trade against them.
Yes, things are looking healthy for Microsoft's developer reputation. Now if only they implemented C99 and full POSIX....
Do this stuff on your own time. Can you spare a couple hours a week?

And how can you "not be allowed"? Just ignore that and do it anyway. Worse case, you are fired and have to live off your 401k, right? Best case, nobody notices.

The probable case is somewhere in the middle. You get a warning: a talking to by an "authority figure." Just tell them you "forgot" you were "not allowed."
Deconstructing The Philosophies Of 'RoboCop'
At least some place on their site, they might acknowledge what state they are in.
Interesting- Thanks.
I'm skeptical that this is the primary reason. Everything you say is true but a LOT of people spend loads of money renovating bathrooms in the US. Just go down to a Home Depot and look at all the fancy sink, shower, jacuzzi, etc. hardware. Yet I've never seen a Japanese toilet in an American home. In general, toilets just don't seem to be something that gets any sort of special treatment in bathroom remodels. And none of the companies that make all the aforementioned hardware make anything other than standard sit toilets AFAIK.

I suspect it's just something that most Americans (and Europeans) simply haven't experienced or are even aware of. And it probably doesn't help that the initial reaction is probably negative--which may be why nobody's made a serious attempt to push these in the US.
Machines that can learn could replace 50% of jobs in the next 10-20 years
What is your dream job?
You should look into https://www.hackerschool.com/

Seems perfect for your situation.
An average without context is not useful information.

When I last checked, a sample price for Cloudflare is $3k for 100TB. Cloudflare is far from the cheap option when it comes to serving content.
If you haven't already - try AppCode out, it's superior to XCode in so many ways, and the functionality you've asked for is there (Ctrl+Shift+P).
The harder something is to do the more justifications we come up with to justify what it is we are doing. Employees sometimes works harder when they are paid less. Don't fall into making this same mistake.
You should take a look at Rizzoma. It's faster and more stable than Google Wave was, and it is actively developed.
It was in Leduc actually. I'd like to think that enterprising Albertan tire recycling firm figured out how to make a side business in playgrounds and that these were everywhere.
A library isn't just code that happens to be in a separate file. Someone chose an abstraction layer at which to create a library, wrote the library code, tested it and wrote documentation.

If you went and copy-pasted some code on stack overflow into a file, put it on github and released it as a "library", I might not agree that it was one.
Your understanding of the point of HFT is incorrect. Unfortunately your understanding is a fairly widespread misunderstanding and Michael Lewis book only serves to make things worse.

Maybe start here to better understand things:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-31/michael-lew...
Meet the Brick
I've been using ConEmu just for the tabs. You can even have Powershell open in some tabs and PuTTY open in others (although that's a bit of a pain to set up).

I really don't like the default ConEmu configuration, but it's flexible enough that you can make it do just about anything if you poke at it enough.
Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing? More Competition And Limited Attention
What are the tax implications? Can you work part-time? Do you attend meetups in your area? Have you been applying for jobs?
Yeah, and it's important to remember that programming languages are for humans, after all. So if this paradigm is easier to reason about and makes you more productive (than coding in something imperative like C or Java or Python), then that makes it a great language for you.
While the language definitely has it's problems (I'm not a fan of the syntax at all), I think dropping it for something marginally better like R is a little silly. So many man hours have been put into writing MATLAB/Octave code - redoing it seems like mostly a waste.

I don't know if you have similar experiences, but I often find that I want to use X feature in MATLAB in combination with Y feature in R and there isn't any easy way to do it. The bifurcation of coding efforts is vastly more frustrating than some bad/inconsistent syntax.

The toolboxes are great. I haven't used them much, but I feel like a lot of the time you can get away without using them. If you really need them, then it's not unreasonable to pay a license for the documentation and robustness - which you won't get in open source most of the time.

But like.. that's just my opinion man =)
Back in 2009/10, we ran our startup primarily on Wave for several months. Several of us found it very useful; I thought it was a promising combination of email, Google Docs, and chat. On the other hand, the usability was horrible and it was ridiculously buggy; several people hated it with a passion.

I can see why Google gave up on it but it's disappointing that they haven't incorporated these ideas into other products. And it doesn't seem like Apache Wave ever gained enough momentum to move forward.

What other projects are looking at similar chat/email/collaborative editing hybrids?
I've actually experimented a fair amount with my sleeping patterns. For the most part, I find that when I wake up in the morning, I feel tired no matter what (up until around ~10 hours of sleep). What I've also found, however, is that this tiredness usually doesn't translate to how I feel for the rest of the day — I feel good all day no matter whether I get 6 or 8 hours.
Maybe leading and/or trailing spaces.

Conjecture here, but maybe the code checks the length as greater than 0, and then trims the string. Depending on how the string comparison is performed, that empty string might pass.

This can't be the Xbox Live account password, because surely that is sending hashes over the wire and not plaintext. Maybe the parental controls don't have the same kind of security, but I don't know that it is needed.
Their code base is written in Python 2.7. In the previous thread, they said that contributions to implement Python 3 compatibility were welcome.
This is WMF 5.0, so the business side at MS could easily decide to drop support for earlier Windows versions that 8.1/2012R2 - I doubt there's any technical limitation though.
Just to nitpick a touch. One of the real problems with discussions about HFT is that there is no generally accepted definition of what the term means. In general it is some mix of "computers make trading decisions without human intervention", a high number of trades throughout the trading day, & low latency requirements.

The reality is that electronic trading systems have different values for all of those variables. I've worked on a trading system that only traded 4 times a week, had no human operator, but extremely tight latency requirements.

I've also worked on a system that did very high volume of trades every day, that was watched like a hawk by a team of human traders, and didn't much care about latency.
> people who run big portfolios don't want to give away information about what they're doing...

Then people shouldn't be investing in these poorly-performing portfolios and use other portfolio managers who are more savvy.

These people act like this stuff is MP (my problem, as an average person) whereas it's obviously YP (your problem, Mr. portfolio manager)
You should try out the Facebook Power Editor for Facebook ads. There you have the option to target just desktop users.

It is a bit more complex but you will get more possibilities with this editor: https://www.facebook.com/ads/manage/powereditor/
This Machine Can Tell Whether You're Liberal or Conservative
I also live in the Bay Area (SF). Here's a small sampling of things I do when I'm not working:

* Write. Every weekday morning, I go to a coffee shop downtown and write for 30-60 minutes. I've written two full-length novels and two novellas so far, though they are all as-of-yet unpublished. Someday...

* Run. I run 3-4 nights per week, either along Embarcadero or through Golden Gate Park. I started off with the Couch to 5K program in January 2012 and I've worked up to four half-marathons in the last 12 months.

* Disc golf. There's a disc golf course in Golden Gate Park. Grab a beginner set (20 bucks from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Innova-Disc-Golf-3-Disc-Colors/dp/B000...), grab a friend, and go play. It's super fun.

* Nerd Nite. http://sf.nerdnite.com - 8 bucks. It's like the Discovery Channel -- with beer! (Side note: it's also where I met my girlfriend, and I go every month.)

* Rock climbing - check out Planet Granite (http://www.planetgranite.com/) or Mission Cliffs (http://www.touchstoneclimbing.com/mission-cliffs)

* Meetups - I've attended a dozen Meetups, including the SF Rust meetup. Very fun way to meet new people.

* Biking - Go to Roaring Mouse bikes in Crissy Field (http://www.roaringmousecycles.com/) and buy a bike. Then bike to work, bike to Golden Gate Park, bike across the GG bridge to Sausalito, to Tiburon, to Marin. There are a million awesome places to bike in the Bay Area, and there are huge communities around it. It's something you can do by yourself or with a group. Super fun.

* Anything from sf.funcheap.com. Like the site says, it's a list of fun, cheap things to do in the Bay Area.

* Take online classes (http://coursera.org). I'm currently taking the Machine Learning course and the Compilers course. It's very fun to learn new things!

* Become a Stormtroooper (http://www.goldengategarrison.com) - I'm not a member, but I know a lot of people who build their own Stormtrooper armor and then do volunteer activities with the 501st (the official Stormtrooper organization). Very cool way to give back to the community, especially if you're a Star Wars geek!

* Volunteer! There's a great organization in the city called One Brick (http://sfbay.onebrick.org/). You basically pick an event and just show up. It's volunteering a la carte! You're not making long term commitments -- just one event at a time. And you meet TONS of good, kind-hearted people. It's a win/win!

* And being Hacker News, I would be remiss if I didn't mention: start your own business. Find a problem domain you know something about, and solve that problem. Get out there, meet some co-founders, crank out some code, save the world, and get the cheerleader. Or maybe it was save the cheerleader? Whatever.

* And so much more. I do all of the above things regularly (sometimes daily, sometimes weekly, sometimes monthly), but there are a huge list of things I just don't have the time or memory to mention. There's a whole world out there. Get outside and explore!

Good luck!
Oh, that's definitely a good bit. But that was in the context of a court, and a woman accused of adultery (with, of course, the guy not around).

If I were to apply that chapter to this situation, I think it would more be about Eich, a sinner like the rest of us, not using a court to punish people he things have transgressed his god's law.

I'd also note that story ends with, "Go and sin no more." Suggesting to me that forgiveness is bound up with a recognition of error and an attempt to reform. Which is something Eich hasn't yet done.

And indeed, I think that was Eich's way out of this. He could have declared, like a lot of Christians have, that hating on gay people is a sin, one he wanted no further part of. If he had actually apologized for injuring gay people, I think a lot of people could have, like the Pharisees, recognized that they too had made mistakes.
Do you have Liberation Sans or Arimo installed? Or are you on XP with ClearType off?
There is an undeniable bot problem. I have posted nothing and only listen, but I've been followed by bots at least twice.

Comparing twitter numbers to Soundcloud numbers seems completely nonsensical, though. Following on Soundcloud means you only get updates when the music producer, well, produces music. Twitter could be anything. Twitter followers will naturally be a more hardcore group of fans.
You can pay for a lot of things, but that doesn't mean it's in the interest of society or the market as a whole. You don't require faster access to provide liquidity, but it sure helps with arbitraging trading activity.
Great article. I've been thinking in this lately. We, which work on tech, spend all of our work time thinking in how to resolve a problem. It doesn't matter if it is backend or frontend, but we have to approach a problem and resolve it.
I think I am a little tired of doing this all the time. Sometimes, I wonder how it would be to have a mechanical job where I have to think less and do much more, mainly physical tasks. Your experience seems a good example of this, and I think I am going to try if I find the time.
Marriage has been declared a basic civil right in more than one Supreme Court case, including but not limited to Loving v. Virginia and Turner v. Safley. The first one being about interracial marriage.
This is specific, believable and (most importantly) falsifiable advice. Hopefully Apache Wave developers will consider this seriously and, after implementing email & chat integration, review post-implementation adoption rates
It's really refreshing to see a company that sets their security bar so low that even a small kid can get a kick out of discovering a security vulnerability. This could be the start of a long and rewarding career, ;-)
So should you be blaming the software, or your social circle?
If it were a single order in the book, I'm not sure I see the advantage HFTs would have conceptually had. They're not sniffing individual orders and then outrunning them before the original order hits the exchange; they're exploiting the individual piecemeal orders that are stealthily trying to move the block.

They're hunting down the orders of informed traders who are trying to exploit their own knowledge of the true price of products, and correcting the price on the market before those informed traders can take their knowledge out of everyone else's hide.
A bit on ElasticSearch + Logstash + Kibana (The ELK stack)
Thanks Patrick. I guess I'll try some sweet talking.
I liked the post because it shows the other side of a couple living with depression. I suffer from chronic depression and it is not easy to depend on medication every day with no prospect of "cure". The hardest part is dealing with the stigma associated with it, with people insisting that you are not doing the right thing and finding a way to get over it and free your self from medication.

I know that the "chemical imbalance" explanation is a poor excuse for "we don't know exactly how it works". But there are so many progresses done in our quality of living that were done because someone had a hunch and some practical, reproducible results showing that it worked. Think about the practice of washing hands when going from one patient to another in a hospital? When it was suggested, people couldn't see a connection with dirty hands and spreading diseases.

I lost a son that suffered from a mood disorder to suicide. It is heartbreaking and it happened when he was apparently getting over the hump of his darkest moments... I have other two children that also struggled with depression and what I found that worked the best for us so far is communication. Being opened about our struggles, talk therapy in conjunction with medication.
It's interesting that you refer to the Bible "you will know them by their fruits" meaning it is reasonable to judge people by what they do. Isn't that what we do when we oppose queer rights? You think it's OK to punish Eich for what he does. Bottom line is you justify your actions whenever you think you're right on an issue so what makes you think you're above someone who opposes queer rights.
i am a walking testimony of a case where the much professed "ideal" solution never worked out.
> great culture

There is no objective measure of great culture or interesting work. I mean, what is "great culture" to you may not be the same to me. For me, I would rather work in an environment where there is a good measure of self-motivated individuals (who get shit done) with a good balance of thinking towards the future (don't experiment too much with a bunch of hipster frameworks that generate a lot of technical debt). And. I like a place that has a great work life balance. On the other hand, there are people who think that great culture means being able to write code in any language, like to work 100 hours a week and who think free food = great culture. Now, I have no problem with that attitude. It is just not my thing.

> , interesting work,

Interesting work: This is a hard problem. Again, this is dependent on you. If you are fresh out of school, everything may seem interesting to you. On the other hand, maybe you have worked on specific frameworks for a while (say building CRUD apps for a BigCo) and now feel like interesting is working on iOS stuff. Maybe you want to be a full stack engineer. Maybe you want to specialize?

> is making money

Be wary, if you are at all looking at a startup. Very few of them are profitable. Most will quote numbers about funding, IPOs etc. It makes it hard to understand what 40 million in funding actually means. Does it mean that the startup is going to succeed? What does a 100 billion valuation mean? Does it mean the company is making money?

> remote friendly.

I think every place in theory is remote friendly for the right candidates. As to whether their culture has ways of workings that make it productive for remote candidates, that is a different issue. If you are a person who is so amazing that you can do your own stuff without face time, almost every tech company will be okay with you being remote. On the other hand, if you are a person who needs to work in a team and work collaboratively, there has to be a culture where the idea that the other person may not be geographically in the same place as you is firmly fixed. E.g. there are small startups in SF where people all come into work at 11 AM and leave at 11 PM. It is a system that works well for them because they all work in sync, talk to each other in person if something needs to be resolved. I like to come to work insanely early, get stuff done, go out and switch off. Some times, I like to get quite time and work from home because I can get a tremendous amount of work done without having to deal with meetings. Again, I wouldn't fit well in the environment that I just listed.
I'd much rather do that than pay to join a gym. Feels more productive and helpful.
>support a gun lobby and keep his job; or support abortion and keep his job

you just cannot compare those to gay rights. Neither of those perpetuate inequality or hate. In fact they are in support of individuals rights.

being against gay marriage is wanting to strip people of their rights and promote inequality. It is like saying only white people can get married, and if that was the case how would you feel about it then?
If teaching were as competitive as market making major cities might graduate more than half their students from high school while simultaneously driving down costs. Non profit is not a badge of honor.
Don't do it, it will not end up being worth it. Instead make some time on the weekends to learn and build what you want. Maybe wake up earlier and spend an hour each morning on something you want to do. Experiment with your productivity outside of work and try to get things done that way instead of cashing out your 401k and setting your finances back several years.
tptacek -- Not to nitpick but isn't this comment is like someone accusing you of having a "drive by" understanding of computer security? He knows what a block trade is, and how to quote a market. Lewis worked on a bond trading desk, and coined the phrase "equities in dallas". So it's not CFA 1 here for him.

To your point: what's missing is the hedging costs. The reason block trades trade out of the market is not just that they are "bespoke", but that there is the inventory hedge risk. It may take some time to build up a position (during which prices can move adversely). And this may or may not need a hedge to protect the holding period (which someone needs to pay for).

Various types of trading strategies have very different risk profiles when compared to required inventory hold/periods etc. And this is a hidden source of economics or cost. Hedging doesn't always scale well, either.

So its very hard (especially as a lay-person) to make inferences about many things unless you are taking into account both profits and risk. As I'm sure you know.
> No matter how right or wrong the belief in question is, such policing creates a hostile environment where people are afraid to argue, debate, and say what they really think.

What if his belief was the blacks should not be allowed to get married? would you have the same opinion on this then? Would there even be a discussion?
His job would only help your cardio and leg muscles, for the most part. You could just go running or biking on your every morning and get the same effect. I'd save the gym membership for those looking to maximize gains elsewhere as well.
Github and OSS contributions only seem like they're important because of disproportionate mentions among the monoculture of bloggers, HN commenters, etc. They're not. A good company will hire you if you can demonstrate one way or another that you're worth hiring. A bad company will value mediocre code coming in from those venues and discount other types of substantive achievements.
I wonder then how this reconciles with the theories that the universe is in fact being simulated in a computer.

It sounds like a crazy theory, and quite possibly is, but it's a thought experiment, or at least an idea that I've seen physicists come back to time and time again. Apparently it's a distinct possibility, and would actually fit very well with a few recent discoveries about the nature of fundamental laws. (Note I'm writing this from a layman's point of view, I know very little about this subject.)

This discovery, if true, might imply that, if the universe is being simulated in a computer, it might be a P≠NP might be a fundamental law of the meta-universe, or a property of the computer itself, maybe even an optimisation, and that over a certain size of object, it stops calculating quantum states.

This link might not exist, I might just be failing to understand the theories involved, but I find it an interesting thing to think about nonetheless.