skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they have enough signatures to put this on the ballot and present it to the voters.

When it came out earlier, it was because Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State, gave Draper the go-ahead to gather the necessary signatures to put this on the ballot. They had a deadline of this Friday, 18 July. Draper announced on Monday he had enough signatures and would be filing them on Tuesday.
This is a good point, although I submit that the magnetic direction is irrelevant for their purpose.
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It's free if you don't want/need the certificate and personal coaching.
Cool, will definitely do.
I would think it comes down to the number of candidates because you either number one box above the line or every box below.

With the number of candidates doubling last election, Tasmania was probably more like 90%.

http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2013/08/record-number-of...
If you stood in front of all of those carts simultaneously and said "I'll take all of your stock at the advertised price", I'm guessing you'd be a bit peeves if someone else pushed in front of you and started buying some of the stock (the equivalent of the 1,570 shared bought by some random buyer at the exact point this order was put in).
This is more of a tool for thinking about growth rate, startup capital and expenses in general than a model for calculating an estimate of any kind. For that, you need to make your own for your business.

"A good growth rate during YC is 5-7% a week. If you can hit 10% a week you're doing exceptionally well. If you can only manage 1%, it's a sign you haven't yet figured out what you're doing." - http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

This little app can help put those into perspective.
The trader wanted to buy 20 000 shares at 17.38, that's a bit less than 350 000 dollars, certainly not pocket change. In fact, that was more than any individual exchange could provide, and barely enough with all exchanges combined. You would expect the price to go up with such high demand and limited supply. And indeed you see that, when he starts trading on BOST, other market participants update their price in other markets by cancelling their orders and inserting them at a higher price.

From the article:

>Also note how the cancellations rotate through many different exchanges. That's one sure way to throw off, confuse, stall a smart order router.

Or you know, because it's multiple market participants that are updating their prices.

>Someone else shouldn't have the facility to buy it based on my own trade signal and try sell it back to me.

What? If you're the owner of a bakery and you see a guy buying every single bread that your competitor is selling, wouldn't you increase the price of your own bread in case this guy comes to you?
Any plans of adding S3 support. Would be great for uploading a larger library. This paired with something like ArqBackup could auto upload your library to S3.
My question to other android developers and especially people in hiring positions:

Do you think such a certificate would be a deciding factor in the hiring process? (Especially for entry-level positions, but also generally)
I've seen his blog before too. He has a lot of really good articles with clear, concise, and extremely useful writing.

Most of his posts get lots of thoughtful comments, and presumably high powered links. I would assume this level of engagement+backlinking helps quite a bit with his search ranking.
> Web browsers and desktop environments are especially bad

Most web browsers are actually pretty memory efficient these days. Unfortunately, the websites they're viewing aren't because they're designed and coded by people with "pro" hardware too.
after that he gives more details on his design for a vtol supersonic aircraft, which is awesome
Metacasts[1] was good for Ruby/Rails but the author is now focusing on Go.

Ruby Tapas[2] by Avdi Grimm is a good replacement - although it's ruby and not much rails.

[1] - http://www.metacasts.tv/

[2] - http://www.rubytapas.com/
Do you really believe that Google was ready to take charge of the market? Many people have a Gmail account and a YouTube account, but do you see many people using their Docs offering instead of Microsoft Office?

Without trying to sound too harsh, the problem with Google is that they have a faddish focus, and don't appear to maintain some product offerings once they are past the "look! It's NEW!" phase. If you made the recommendation to switch to Google's systems, would your manager be asking "How long is it going to be there for?". It's a pity. Do you see "enterprise" switching to systems like that? Do you see loads of Chromebooks and Chromeboxes (do they even still make them?) on desks instead of PCs? Honestly?

This is different to Microsoft's strategy where you can still run software from 20 years ago, and some businesses like only investing in software once, instead of an ongoing licensing fee. I do not see Microsoft disappearing quickly, despite how popular web apps are in startup circles; Windows still rules the enterprise desktop.

I myself write software on a Mac but everybody else here has never used a Mac and are flummoxed if presented with its desktop, and typically see Apple products are overpriced.

High end customers would involve large corporations where there would be a need for many PCs traditionally. Although iPads have become popular with BYOD, do most people just accept that it's a great consumer (consuming) device and not marvellous for creation of content? If large corporations were to switch their desktops to Apple machines, do you think the profit margin would increase or decrease?

It just isn't going to happen.
Sometimes the lo-tech approach works the best.

Shades of the 'Windtalkers', who used Native American language during WW2 as a form of unbreakable code.
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That is very true, but nobody is pushing through here. The trader clearly didn't send his orders to all exchanges at the same time since other traders had time to update their prices. The article talks about milliseconds when arbitraging happens in microseconds.
Guess we'll need a hierarchical token bucket with stochastic fairness queueing as well.

We don't just need it to be random. We need there to be no way of ever quite knowing if any given order will beat another order to the exchange (within a given time period, of course). They won't know if they can beat joe ordinary, and they definitely won't know if they can beat the other HFT's. That might be enough to put a lid on it.

Edit: For those playing along, here's the metaphor. Joe goes to market to buy sheep. Bill knows Joe is going so he sends a fast runner ahead of him to buy the cheapest sheep in town first so he can mark them up and sell them to Joe when he arrives. We try making everyone wait at the town gate for a random amount of time to give Joe a chance to arrive and get through. So Bill (being very rich) just sends 10 guys so one is very likely to be let in before Joe anyway. Next we introduce the stochastic filter. We make everyone line up and then shuffle the order every once in a while, but Bill still has more guys so he might still get one in first more often than not. Finally, we add the token bucket. For every one guy that we know employed by Bill admitted, we make the next one wait twice as long to get in, so if Joe and 10 Bills show up, Joe and the first Bill are essentially on even footing again because the 2nd through 10th Bill would have to wait too long to matter.
A bit off topic, but seatgeek seems like a really impressive engineering organization. They pump out some seriously useful code and articles. Examples:

http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/oauth-support-for-nginx-with-l...

https://github.com/seatgeek/sixpack

https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy

https://github.com/seatgeek/djjob

https://github.com/seatgeek/soulmate

http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/spatial-data-structures-for-be...

That's enough ass kissing for me. But they deserve some serious props for all the open source work they're doing.
Yeah, but have you seen the "race to the bottom" manufacturers offering their own brand cornflakes? It's certainly driving those big supermarkets out of business! Tesco Value Cornflakes? It's wrecking them!

(Only kidding; the market is large enough that different devices can cater for different needs and price ranges. There appears to be a trend to see something new in this industry and proclaim the demise of other businesses due to them not making this new product or offering this new service. It's short-sighted.)
Sorry to correct you but IOS with a capital I is Cisco's operating system for their devices.

iOS with a small i is Apple's OS for their devices.

They went to court over the difference, so it is important (to them at least :-)
The highest barrier of entry for Android programming isn't the lack of learning resources but the need to use Eclipse/Android Studio coupled with very bad documentation.
It's not the case. The trader wanted 20 000 shares, there was a combined amount of 24 800 shares, i.e. every exchange had less then 20 000.
I used Informix 11 inside Cisco CM and it seemed alright, although their syntax for returning data from stored procedures seemed odd (they returned data by shoving it into variables and then calling return multiple times in a loop instead of just returning a "set" data type) but that could be my unfamiliarity with it.

Those SPs were pretty massive too, hundreds and hundreds of lines long, calling other hundred lines SPs.
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Yes, this is what a good broker does.
I took 162 a really long time ago and these lectures brought back memories. He's a great lecturer. At some point between what's listed as "The Evolution of Low-Mass Stars" and "Supernovae" he had the class on the edge of their seats while describing how stars use up their fuel and the end results.

I hope he does some videos at some point.
Laracasts by Jeff Way for Laravel comes highly recommend.

https://laracasts.com
That's a good attitude to have when approaching a new language. I should try a new language, if and when I have a need or need to learn some new concepts.
Speaking of compatibility:

Does nobody care to check the mainboards support site for compatibility lists?

This one, for example:
http://uk.pangoly.com/en/build/configure/pro

When you select the asrock mainboard, you are presented with these three choices of RAM:
http://uk.pangoly.com/en/review/corsair-vengeance-16gb-2x8gb...

http://uk.pangoly.com/en/review/patriot-viper-3-16gb-2x8gb-2...

http://uk.pangoly.com/en/review/corsair-vengeance-pro-16gb-2...

And if you venture to that mainboards support site, it shows you a list of compatible RAM:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20Z97%20Professional...

End Result:
Not one of the mentioned RAM options is on that list.

Why would that be important?
Well, for one thing, it it weren't, there wouldn't be the need for the asrock people to maintain such a list, right?
And, speaking from personal experience, I have had brand new builds bluescreen like nobody's business. Was the RAM faulty? Nope, send it back and got replacement of same make/model. Still bluescreens. It was only after I checked the mainboards compatibility lists and chose a RAM from that list when the bluescreens stopped! Nothing else was changed. And both types of RAM were "the same" as far as part pickers like this one is concerned. So, same Type, Speed, Dual Channel etc. The "only" difference here was that the one that caused bluescreens was not on the mainboards compatibility list.
Reading this:
(And in half a year's time, the database will have outgrown whatever hardware we can reasonably throw at it, so then we'll have to start over for real...)

You need a rdbms. Field names won't be repeated for each query and you will push later the time to 'start over'.
You would be peeved. Doubly so, because in the context of finance, that's actually illegal.

But the key word in your example is "simultaneously", and it's the thing that did not happen in this example. This is more like "I bought all the apples at the first cart, and by the time I got to the second card, half the carts had raised their prices, and most of the apples at the remaining parts had been bought by enterprising traders who decided there must be something special about apples all of a sudden".

It's hard to see the problem. Or the solution.
I was pondering that same thought here. Modeling user's intent is one of the more difficult things in end-user development - it would be great to have a more-or-less standard way to infer what abstraction the user had in mind when introducing an example that ought to be generalized into a program.

Yesterday's Program Synthesis Demo [1] with MS TouchDevelop shows that the approach is viable. What I find lacking in such systems is a way to correct the inferred program in those inevitable cases when the learning system guesses wrongly; having a language to model the possible explanations for the example would allow the user to tweak the program or give hints on how to correct it.

*[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8028620
Cannabis really can trigger paranoia
The original reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20735884
the point of spideroak is that you (in theory) shouldn't need to trust "it", because encryption.

depending on your use case this may or may not be the case anymore though, i haven't followed the recent development of their android app or their "hive" feature.
You used the past tense. Does that mean you let the accounts be deleted, rather than spending 30 seconds per domain to log in?
An article about that was on HN just yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8033760
Journalists (and media people in general) are so low down the totem pole in the tech industry that those who want to project any sort of power have to be total assholes. Indeed, the final quote in the piece says as much :-)
"Holy shit, someone is working there way through every broker, buying ever share of Ford stock they have! ...huh, I've got some Ford stock for sale. Maybe if I quickly pull it out of the shop window, and change the price, I can make some extra cash!"

That's what it is: People are seeing the orders pour through the various exchanges, and are reacting to it. If they were seeing the orders before they hit the exchanges, that would be front running, and it would be illegal. But Nanex appears to be showing people responding to orders after they hit the exchanges, and that would seem to be legal and moral.

The moral is that if you want to buy so much of a single stock that you can't even buy it all from a single exchange, you MAY end up paying a bit of a premium, unless you're quite good at hiding what you're doing. And in this example, the purchaser was not. It's a story as old as markets.
The Udacity site has gotten a little aggressive / spammy with trying to force people into paying... but if you click "view courseware" you get the full course for free.
Wouldn't the learning be interesting though?
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I have started with the lessons and the beginning is quite promising.
I'm fairly sure you can use IntelliJ as well. Yep, there you go: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/android.html
Yes it effects everything.

But you got it backwards, they age slower.

Edit: or maybe not, now in am confused.

Traveling fast slows time down, and going closer to heavy object slows down time so if earth is heavy enough time would speed up by being in orbit. You are right, if that is the case.
Here's a short demo of the tmux integration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9j1GvZypq0
There are some good points here about there being a future in the job market for humans doing things that computers can't (the article defines "artisan" in terms of "personal flair"), but I think the Harvard prof being interviewed is trying a bit too hard to justify the applicability of a traditional liberal arts education to those sorts of jobs.
Errr are you running the Yosemite beta? I love the dark menu bars.

How do you find it? Do you find the kindergarten icon colours irritating? What about the blurriness? Do you feel like you've switch to varifocal lenses and are constantly rubbing your eyes?

What about the lack of Maximise/Zoom button? I don't want everything fullscreen - the menubar has MenuMeters running in it and a clock which you can't see in Fullscreen mode. I use ShiftIt to maximise the window when Zoom is being dumb and fear for my future with this insane "maximise" button removal.
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Astronauts on the ISS age slower, a couple of miliseconds per year. They age slower because they are moving faster and they are also aging faster because they are in a shallower gravity well than earthlings. When you add both together the first effect prevails.
You could use "perf record -e cache-misses <process>" then "perf report" to see which functions are responsible.
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Apparently, it's a major service outage [1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/489336842861686784
Read the doc - the suggested x5 improvement is compared to PNG, which is the only other way to currently solve the problem of an icon with transparent edges (let's leave GIF aside), not compared to JPEG. The gain compared to JPEG was about 50%.
GitHub investigating a major service outage
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Funny to see stack allocation mentioned as C++ strong feature, when so many languages offer it.

Maybe this is a side effect of scripting languages and VM implementations going mainstream.
Maybe I'm accessing the cache, but I'm able to see it (in Taiwan).
We have one, it's "they", and it's been in use for centuries. It's just not something we're quite used to with modern usage, but it's fine (we don't shirk from adding plenty of other words), and its far better than 'zhe' - for a start, people already know how to pronounce 'they'. Your own link reports it in usage since the 15th C.
GitHub is down – Major service outage
From Spain its ok. I can use github as well
2.5% isn't a terribly high growth rate. There's plenty of B2B companies whose revenue grow at this rate until they are bringing in tens of millions of revenue.
It seems to be up again [1].

[1]: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/github.com
I'll be following up with this a lot because I would like to cover it on MotionInMotion
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What do you guys/gals consider essential podcasts? Be it tech, or webdev, or just generally 'interesting'?
Seems like their background workers were down too. My colleague sent a pull request before the went down and got the notification just a few minutes ago.
But do you even trust the compiler they use?

Computers you don't totally control are inherently untrustworthy: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

For most things it doesn't matter enough, but for deciding who gets to run the country, I think we need a higher standard.
1. Try git push -> timed out

2. Check website -> No response

3. Head to HN to check Github status

4. Downtime confirmed.

5. Head for coffee break :D
Then you don't want to know about Telefonica in Spain or BT in the UK. It's the same thing with every ex-monopoly.
It's fine in London as well. By the looks of it, the downloads are broken.

I rarely comment on the hyperbole of downtimes and how it ruins lives etc etc. However when a hosting company goes down its a big issue as we cant serve our product / sites but we can launch another server and away we go minus the costs. But when Github goes down we can no longer collaborate it feels like a much bigger issue. I really love Github but I'm glad we use Gitlab as then the onus is completely on us.
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> Does this mean that the people living on the space station age faster than people on earth, or does this only affect the atomic clocks?

Relativity affects people as well as clocks.

It's not really valid to say simply that one is aging faster than the other as if one is doing something ordinary and one is doing something extraordinary. In this case, it really is relative. The people flying around in space are wondering what the hell you and your clock's problem is, too.
Slightly off-topic (maybe) but can this or another readily available tool be used to track counters during startup/shutdown and provide a log of it which can then be imported in some viewer? (think something like windows Performance Monitor/Event Tracer and the likes)
It all comes together: no more Software Compliation but more KDE
yep I'll acknowledge that, yet iCloud is still sluggish and unreliable. That won't cut it with big business for whom IBM's availability guarantees and service level agreements are much more rigorous. I don't think anybody has ever taken apple seriously at enterprise level robustness, is my point, and pointing to itunes and imessage is not going to persuade anybody who's running a multinational bank (or other mission critical application) that they can bet their terminals on IOS, without a partnership with a player which has proved for over 50 years that it is capable of delivering said reliability. Let's be honest. Imessage and iTunes are not mission critical to anybody in any way and thus do not do much to persuade any responsible corporate IT director, which is the target audience of this agreement.
Very minor nitpicky grammar point: "... the Swarm satellites — three separate satellites floating in tandem."

Can three things operate in tandem?
VentureBeat raises $2.6 million to launch 'App Store' for research
Neither Self nor Pharo have live programming features. The IDEs are live, the code is dead. You can manipulate objects directly at run-time, but none of that goes back into code.

It is time to move beyond Smalltalk and Self-style reduced liveness.
Its the start of internship seasons, interns are starting to break everything. ^_^
Just in case anyone has time to help me out:

What's the difference between trades and quotes here in this chart?
And how are the trader's order and purchases indicated?