skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. That paper hasn't been published or peer reviewed.

2. One of the authors used to work for HSBC as a derivatives trader.

3. That study analyzes the impact of a fee-per-order regulatory regime. It is not a study, as you claim, of a world with high frequency traders vs a counter factual world without them.
Slack is IRC expanded, rather.

I actually use Slack via an IRC client sometimes and there are a lot of benefits.
Chicago is great (albeit in the summer)!

* Run along Lake Michigan

* Check out the super awesome theatre scene in the Loop

* Check out awesome off-Loop theatre companies, too!

* Nerd Nite Chicago! http://chicago.nerdnite.com

* ComedySportz Improv contests! http://comedysportzchicago.com/

* See a Cubs game at Wrigley Field

* Volunteer at One Brick Chicago: http://chicago.onebrick.org

There's a bunch, you just have to go out and find it. :) The problem I had with Chicago (I used to live in Uptown) was that it snows for 9 months outta the year, and you're too cold to actually go out and do anything. And once you get home and get dry/warm, you don't wanna go back out again. That suuuuucks.

The trick was to stop and do these things on the way home from work, so you only go home once! ;)
It's sort of a dystopian fantasy that I don't really believe will actually happen, but you can easily picture the natural endgame for this sort of behavior. Much like union & non-union shops, you wind up with conservative & liberal companies. Not just companies that tend one way; companies that say "You want to work here? I'm sorry, I see you voted for Reagan, goodbye," Signs that read, "Liberals need not apply".

(Again, I know this is wild & somewhat exaggerated)
It's not just the tech community. It's a broader issue with Social Media. I'm not sure if this is a minority view, however. It's mob justice.

I'm really bothered by this too. I feel like my freedom of expression is at risk by the internet mob.
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Fantastic post. This is a major problem with Android, when oftenly users are asked to grant permissions that apparently have nothing to do with the app.
As a supporter of gay marriage, and somebody who believes spirituality isn't real, this still strikes me as picking on someone

Same here. To think that you can't even participate in the political process now without the thought police coming in years later to hold you accountable.

And some people wonder why various forms of political groups work so hard to keep their donor lists secret?

You can't have an open society when there are no reasonable limits on how people can judge and prosecute you for your privately held beliefs.
That's one thing I didn't realize. It's only in the Bay Area (makes sense).
>People change.

What did Eich do which made you think he reconsidered his position that same sex marriages should be annulled and banned?
Cable is going the way of dial-up. People are going to keep using it for a long time, but as people migrate to online streaming eventually you'll have a majority of the population who haven't even considered that it was a possibility. ("You mean when I get my own apartment I can get "channels" on TV through Comcast? Is it like a channel on Youtube?")

I feel like a lot of social movement is because of this. Old people (myself included!) hold on to old ways of doing things and we die off to be replaced by the young who embrace new technology, social customs and ideals.
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I was a fan, and worked on a book project with a collaborator using it. The UI was a major obstacle, so slow and clunky, and I could never see what it was doing that required it to be so.

The concept of it, though, was awesome, and we still talk about as something we'd like to see work well. Maybe this version will go somewhere.
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Desktop and iPhone traffic are better converting than Android traffic, so advertisers bid higher to display on these platforms.

For this type of website, he should be bidding desktop - will pay maybe 40% more per click, but much better site engagement.

FB Ads still have a long way before the tools are as robust as Adwords, but learn the platform and run more tests before you trash it. Unless you're going for something ultra-targeted it's rare to nail a CPC platform on the first go.
I'm going to go with (a) lower.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/business/13nyse.html?pagew...
Yes (you are a bad person)
My issue with this is that it is completely political. The National Review isn't against what happened to Eich because of "conformity," but because they happen to agree with his political views.

Want proof? In 2011, a Notre Dame Board of Trustees member was pressured to resign because of her donations to a pro-choice group. Not only did the National Review not have a problem with her resignation, they published a feature criticizubg Notre Dame at length[1] for appointing her to begin with and in general not upholding pro-life only Catholic values.

So you'll forgive me if I think this article is bullshit and its arguments completely specious.

I await your downvotes.

[1]: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/269303/more-cracks-go...
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If I'd do such a study, I'd pick a lower confidence interval, like 0.2. This is not a big scientific break through, or a business critical decision. This is a theorem that we're evaluating to be worthy of deeper investigation.

If there's an 80% (also known as 'a significant') chance that the conversion rate is significantly lower than that of Google hits then I'd say that warrants deeper investigation.

That's why it's important to always begin research with a hypothesis, not just randomly throw a confidence interval of a something in there :)
I have strong emotional investment in Mozilla, because they fight to do the right thing, not just do whatever's mainstream and normal. Prop 8 was emphatically not the right thing. Eich has fought some of the battles I sympathize with, and I certainly hope he keeps doing that, but I'm not comfortable seeing him as head of the company.
"In other words, no one had any reason to worry that Eich, a longtime executive at the company, would do anything that would negatively affect gay Mozilla employees."

You know, except for contribute to Prop-8?
Without commenting on this specific services (maybe it is this or maybe it's not) I HATE the monthly curated business model.

It can't go away fast enough.
Brendan Eich was not fired because he made a political donation. He was fired because the particular political donation he made is evidence that he is a bigot, that he has a broken moral code. There is not, and never has been, any justification for denying gays the right to marry except prejudice and bigotry. Every single non-religious argument against gay marriage has been definitively debunked. Therefore, discrimination against opponents of gay marriage is morally justified, just as discrimination against other kinds of bigotry is.

In fact, even if discrimination against opponents of gay marriage were not morally justified on its own merits, it would be at least as morally justified as the discrimination against gays that Brendan Eich once wanted to see enshrined into law.
That's a difficult but worthwhile topic to discuss as we need to be mindful of those kinds of disconnects as privileged tech workers. Would it still be un-ethical if there'd be no one willing to do it? Can we ever know?
Your definition is probably better but I wouldn't expect more than 20% of people in the industry to define it correctly that way. (and the buy side is selling financial services to someone too...the buy side holds portfolios of securities, sell side makes money generating transactions...distinction can get quite arbitrary when you have buy side strategies that involve lots of transactions and selling liquidity)

bottom line is... greasing the wheels of commerce good, making wonky wheels so some goofball can sell more grease services bad.
No longer available on lit US equities. A failed experiment by exchanges to compete with internalizers by providing the opportunity for price improvement to those orders who elect to be shown to participants prior to posting or taking.

Can you think of one active in today's market?
Its a 2 mile bike ride from the look of things. I (and I'm sure others) ride to work in the morning and go at least 2 miles off the shortest route (perhaps, like me, to go on a trail). So the $35 and free coffee would be a bonus.
What evidence, besides the popular vote (52%? Wow, that's a big majority /sarcasm), that Prop8 was popular? How about factoring in the ton of money the Utah Mormons threw behind Proposition 8?
I quit reading after seeing the glowing comments about stealing stuff that others have to work for.
Hmm, how do I mention this to my accountant without sounding paranoid? Does a SaaS company in another state need to worry about this? What about consulting from another state?
I didn't do anything illegal, either. Yet you seem to have some unspoken set of rules beyond mere law that govern what is acceptable behavior. I've got some of those, too.

I don't want him to not have a job. I want him to not have this job.

I'm curious why it's okay for him to pay money in an attempt to enforce his opinions on others via law, but I'm a bigot and a pox upon civilization for talking on Twitter.
You're right, people change. And when people change, they can be forgiven.

Frankly all it would have taken to squash this controversy is an apology. I am confident that a quick "People change, I've changed. I understand now that people deserve the same rights and equal protection of the law, regardless of what gender they fancy." would have put this all to rest.

An apology is what we would expect from a CEO that was found to have been racist in the past. It is not unreasonable to expect it now. If he hasn't actually changed, therefore making an honest apology possible, then your "People change." is rather irrelevant, isn't it?

Edit: And downvotes are not censoring. Everyone can see and read your post even when you are downvoted, so quit your bellyaching.
I submitted Linus's e-mail as a story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7532258

I am starting to think, changing the title is probably a good idea.
Ballot strategy is a different topic; I was specifically addressing how a grassroots movement (e.g. the online lynch of Eich) would have to be tackled.

Ballot strategy is more about the organized manipulation of swing voters, which is almost certainly what Utah did, so values & beliefs become less important than FUD & counter-FUD.
I think it has also but for a different reason.

I've been with Fios for a number of years. I just received an offer from them to lock in my current rate with a $10 monthly discount if I agree to a two year contract. That smells like fear to me.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531030
Yes, I've used LaTex as well. It gets the job done. But the resumes look too academic. I wouldn't use it for a technology job, unless there is an emphasis on research. However, I do think it is appropriate for more traditional workplaces as well. LaTex is good for a very professional yet formal resume. I got a job using LaTex before.
Brendan Eich has the freedom to support what he wants to support. The public (and Mozilla employees) have the freedom to respond how they wish to respond. It is up to Mozilla to choose what to do with that public response and now they've chosen.

Too often this "what about freedom of speech?" argument fails to apply the same logic to both parties. People were unhappy that someone with this controversial belief was elevated to a leadership role – why should Mozilla employees have stayed quiet?
Btw, exDM69 has a project on github written in this style (I'm almost sure he was in fact referring to this in his earlier posts): https://github.com/rikusalminen/threedee-simd
I wonder what people will use instead of javascript now?
Mis-quoting Churchill: R is the worst numerics software, except for all those others I've tried from time to time.

I've used R extensively for analyzing network simulation results databases that run in the tens or hundreds of MB. One can find well-documented libraries that work for interfacing with nearly everything. In my case, it's pulling data from MySQL or SQLite databases, performing graph-theory analysis using Boost Graph Library, and generating output with Graphviz and other plotting tools. It's a solid toolchain, and R's inherent slowness is somewhat manageable via the parallel flavors of apply.

The main problem for me has been the lack of a clean analog to namespaces or utility classes. Environments sort of do the same thing but are ugly syntactically.

I'm hopeful about Julia, but there are a couple showstoppers for me presently. Maybe in a few years.
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Business brand can be developed rapidly, but it isn’t easy. On paper, everything from typeset and color theory must be taken into account. Brand identity development can primarily take place on the web, but when it is established, it seeps out into the real world. If you have questions about how or why your customers view your company in a certain light, brand development services may give your company a unique edge.
It seems that for half the people on HN the conversation immediately stops with "this is about civil rights, therefore we should not tolerate Eich's intolerance".

But marriage itself is not a civil right. It is a pact between two people, a type of contract that we have inherited through a long series of civilizations, to which the modern state associates a number of privileges.

Right off the bat, if we consider any of these privileges a matter of equality before the law, then it is the institution of marriage itself that is discriminatory. Why should an unmarried person pay more taxes than a married person for the same income? Why cannot they name a friend instead of a spouse as a dependent for health insurance? And so on. How is it acceptable to discriminate against people who are not in a romantic relationship? Why are we tolerating this obvious injustice?

The answer is that, traditionally, these have not been seen as rights, but as privileges. The state grants these privileges to married people, at a cost for the community, because these is believed to be a public interest in the promotion of marriage. If that is the case, it is entirely legitimate to debate whether this public interest exists both in the case of heterosexual and homosexual couples, and furthermore, whether it still applies to anyone at all in modern society. A lot of the traditional justifications for public support of marriage were based on strongly differentiated gender roles, and it should be clear that they are no longer applicable.

As for new rationales of public interest, none have been advanced, other than "discrimination" - which, again, would be an argument for abolishing marriage, not for extending it.

In any case, this is a matter on which there is ample room for debate amongst well-intentioned and rational people. It is not right to nip the discussion in the bud by framing anyone who holds a different opinion as a bigot.
Perhaps. A more realistic view is that "if something is paining or inconveniencing you to the point of discomfort, then you should talk to your doctor".

In amongst all the specific ads (which actually, to my mind, are not necessarily a bad thing - think of the 'is drug X not helping with your condition? Recent studies have shown that adding drug B to your existing regime may improve efficiency'), you get oh-so-generic ads. "Feeling 'low energy'? X may be able to help. Ask your doctor if X is right for you!"

These days, you can largely assume that most conditions are manageable, if not treatable and that your quality of life should be the driver, not advertising incentivizing you to go to the doctor (and giving you a helpful laundry list of other symptoms that you may or may not have to "aid" the "diagnosis" most convenient to the manufacturer).
Seems that a significant part of HN about dealing with depression?
It's great!

Although most real-life cases that I'm familiar with also include an average basket, even repeated purchases. Explaining that the anecdotal big purchase on version A is actually anecdotic, and that you need to consider the distribution, escalation slope, rhythm of purchases… all that is very difficult, especially with simple tools around like this one that make it sound like such tests are actually simple and can work for any level of audience. Having a decent separation of expected LTV on a four-pronged A/B/C/D test, especially when your conversion rate is around 1% and your re-purchase well under 20%… that’s a challenge that requires millions of users for months.
Let me know if you guys ever come to Canada.
> It's because we don't have laws against that sort of naked price discrimination, that's why.

Laws against price discrimination makes sense only under the assumption that they (the company) would set the common price to the lowest among all prices, or at least a reasonable average. What happens if they run the numbers and realize that, even under a price discrimination law, their profit would be maximized by dropping all poor countries, and then selling to everyone else at the highest price ($84K/year in this case)?

When discussing laws, you have to take into account unintended consequences, and how the affected parties will react to the law you're proposing.
Stop working 12 hour days, don't work on the weekends, and see what happens.
It might also be the controversy filter - the 'Eich stepping down' article also moved quickly from the front page.
Recent articles defending Eich are being flagged from the front page, sending them to the fourth page, effectively censoring people from expressing one side of the issue here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7533362 (56 pts)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7533055 (26 pts)

It will be curious to see if this thread gets censored as well, since it seems to take the "approved" side.

(Wow, that's impressive -- I've been downvoted within seconds!)

(2nd edit: this is the first time I've ever seen an HN thread where all of the root-level comments have been downvoted. This is just getting bizarre, really.)
So then, it is basically a bait trap to exploit those without the wherewithal. That's a quite different proposition than the standard claim that HFT benefits everybody (even the mediocre participants) by lowering spreads and making the market more "efficient."

"Scammy" might be a loaded word. In any case, I'd like to hear a sensible purpose to the inverted fee structure.
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If a bike ride could replace your gym membership then you are not making very good use of the gym.
https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/

He put forth a good-faith effort to promote a position of equality within Mozilla.
I'm convinced this is the best way to do it. I was testing one of those apps that repeats what you say and they did something like this. They popped up a dialog that said, "We are going to ask for access to the Microphone. We need this so we can make the animal repeat after you." When you tapped "OK" the permission dialog popped up. Apple should really let the developer put some information like that on their permission dialog.
Well, people will exploit only to the point where you'll let them. You have the power to say no, to talk back (it's not a bad thing), to express your opinion. I've been in situation like this quite a number of times and I just tell myself: I'm a very talented developer and I can always get another job or work for myself if it comes to it, so I will not accept any exploitation. To do this you need confidence. As a developer, my way of getting confidence is being so good they can't ignore you (check out that book). Do your very best, learn every moment you get a chance. BTW, sometimes you can just talk directly to your manager and let him know how you're feeling. Tell him you feel like you're being singled out and you think it's unfair. It's the truth. If he can't handle that, and keep pushing you, just leave at the time you feel you should leave and tell him you have errands on the weekends. But use the weekends to your advantage by learning new skills. He/She can't physically force you to do anything.
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The confidence region appears symmetric around the mean. This indicates they are using the normal approximation.

Exact confidence regions can be found, if you do it using Binomial instead.

The question to be asked, if m out of n is the frequency, is for which values of p do you have P(m>=M) = 0.975 and for which value of p do you have P(m<=M) = 0.975, where M ~ Binimial(n,p).

It can be solved easily too.
I'd have to agree with this too. I have seen a few book packages presented in this way and once I get to the sales page I have been put off.

I think like you, I don't mind paying $30 for a book. I was actually considering buying this before clicking through. It's just very off putting seeing that I'm missing out.
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It is cool and fun, but I really wanted to see his AI code. :/
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It's awfully convenient that his discrimination is immoral, while your discrimination is not only moral but a moral imperative, isn't it?
Try out http://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/chi-squared.html. That's what we use at SimplePrints all the time. Great library of functions.
In which case the original comment should stay as on so anyone can see what happened, but use strike-through formatting
Awesome, thanks! We'd have to port it to rails to use it at work. Right now we're using much more primitive AB testing.
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That's a pretty good question, and (as noted elsewhere) it's amazing that nobody saw this coming. It took them a while to settle on him, too.
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Imagine there is a channel - BlubTV - that NOONE would subscribe to if it were unbundled. Yet the cost of producing it is not zero. Unbundling eliminates the tax we pay to support useless TV that people only watch out of pure desperation.
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