skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this comment real? You made this comment on a site that most people use to waste time, and where one of the top posts is an Assembly implementation of Flappy Bird.

Fun fact: HFT has an annual revenue ~1/50th[1][2] of Google's. What's worse: a few hundred people wasting their time moving prices of select stocks a few pennies, or several thousand wasting their time collecting scary amounts of data about you to try and get you to click an ad?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading#Market_s...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
Record screencasts of the applications that you worked on. Keep them under 3 minutes, showing only the major features.
Actually it's not easy money at all. It is very risky money done on razor thin margins.
Hi fellow Oriyan, google has very bad support for Oriya,since IT is not that great as in R&D in odisha, I work in IIIT hyd, which is the leading NLP lab in India and I dont see anything in Oriya.
>> because SJIS has some duplicate mappings for historical reasons

I think that's the problem. Sounds like unicode has some duplicate mapping. Never mind the "historical reasons", it's broken.
There's always an exception somewhere. At a previous job the IT department wouldn't buy Macs for anyone. Except themselves. They took a little too much joy in swapping my Mac for a Dell when I left IT...
No. This car isn't targeted at the luxury market, and is 3yrs away.
Do you have opinions about a third proposal that's occasionally floated, (c) discretize the market's timeline to something smallish but not miniscule? For example, the market maker can move their quotes however often they want, but changes take effect on the next tick, which happens every (say) 1 second. So therefore you can't trade on advance knowledge in the sub-second range, and market makers can't gain a trading advantage vis-a-vis investors solely by having a slightly lower latency connection to the exchange.

It's possible there's some massive downside to that, but afaict the advantages of liquidity that market-makers provide mostly accrue at larger timescales. So it's not clear the millisecond-shaving game is really improving markets (though it provides interesting challenges for technologists).
If you're willing to accept low pay, then I think that definitely helps to find a job that meets your demands. I've also regularly chosen the lowest pay out of a number of job offers I received, because that job was more attractive for other reasons.
With LESS and mixins, you can apply bootstrap features/grid to semantic classes. https://www.ostraining.com/blog/coding/bootstrap-right-way/

Personally, for the types of projects I work on, its more productive to just use the bootstrap classes. It's not "right", but it's more productive for me.
For everyone, by default.

Please give a pair of two EU countries, one of which is better of because it has struck a deal concerning free trade with the United States in the last two decades that was denied to the other country. I'm curious.
"After all, the market is supposed to be useful for organizing long-term investments"

This is a very HN specific way of thinking (and probably obvious given the startup culture here) but it is not a truism. Many, many, many (perhaps most) market participants are not involved in the markets to organize long term investments. They are there to hedge risk (whole classes of exchanges exist nearly solely for this, think commodities markets).

But that is the glory of the markets. You can be a participant who is looking for long term investment, Southwest Airlines can be there to hedge risk, and I can be there to make a dime fast and we can all participate in what seems to be a zero sum game and win.
>The first example is Vattenfall vs. Germany. The former, an energy provider, sued and won against the latter, for the decision to phase out nuclear energy.

Vattenfall suing the German state makes sense considering the business impact the change had. Add to that, Vattenfall is wholly owned by the Swedish state so the TTIP should have no impact what so ever on their dealings.
Can one build a GPS reciever chip that uses the signals from GPS, GLONASS, EU and the Chinese navigation satellites?

Multi-system GPS receivers have been around for some time now, and they're quite cheap:
http://www.mirifica.it/store/mediatek-mt3333-gnss-receiver/5...

mm-level accuracy is more difficult, but even the accuracy specs of those cheap modules is usually rather conservative.
For those wondering what's wrong with TTIP, a while ago Geroge Monibot wrote a well documented piece about it: http://www.monbiot.com/2013/11/04/a-global-ban-on-left-wing-...
Silicon Valley's Plan to Split California into 6 States Just Might Succeed
They support an open internet and the ideals of innovation.

They do not like the solution proposed (Title II reclassification)

Here's an abbreviated list that they pose at the bottom

> We do not support reclassification of broadband as a telecommunications service under Title II for at least four reasons:

> 1. Title II is unnecessary

> 2. Title II poses significant legal risks

> 3. Title II has proved to be a failure

> 4. reclassification .. will create a huge cloud of uncertainty over the entire broadband industry, thereby retarding investment and innovation.
You have laws that are valid by definition. You do not have laws everyone agrees with and so there is the problem.
"Negotiated in secret" is totally normal in representative democracies. Negotiation involves a lot of give and take, taking positions that you don't actually want in hopes of getting something else, brinkmanship, and trying to come to a meeting of the minds with the other side.

Now, the full text should be understood when it's time for things to actually be ratified or signed into law.
Yes. We have the problem that the 'financial industry' is running some kind of insane MMORPG which excludes and abuses most of the population to make a fast buck.

What markets should do to be efficient is invest in clever, talented people doing clever, talented things.

Every step back from that is economically inefficient, because it makes it harder to create a population with deep reserves of wealth and opportunity.

Games like this one are the equivalent of having someone cut in front of you on the freeway in a semi.

It's not efficient, it's just banal abuse of a system that is supposed to reward good ideas and filter out bad ones.
Time Warner rejects Fox takeover bid
An interesting contradiction appears here. On one hand, this increases market efficiency, or so we're told. On the other, we are also told that if a big pension fund wants to avoid being played like this, they should spend money on their own HFT equipment.

It seems there is only one clear winner here - the IT people making money off developing HFT systems.
This is dupe of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8035956
All the health effects were found in animals at incredibly high doses. California added it to a list, so the soda companies are only changing their formulas to meet CA's regulations, not because of any health effects.

In consideration of tumor occurrence in the NTP rat studies, the NTP concluded that there was equivocal evidence of carcinogenicity in female rats based on the occurrence of mononuclear cell leukemia and no evidence of carcinogenicity in male rats. Section 25703(a)(3) states that “risk analysis shall be based on the most sensitive study deemed to be of sufficient quality.” The NTP studies in male and female rats were not sensitive and thus are not used for the dose response assessment. Thus, while the studies were considered, they were rejected for NSRL development due to lack of sensitivity. http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/law/pdf_zip/100711_4MEIfindin... So California basically ignored some of the evidence.
Flight of the Dragons postulates a four-limbed winged dragon, with wings evolving from ribs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_%28book%2...
This was posted yesterday too, with an article from TechCrunch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8036462
The photo on the BBC article is more interesting but TechCrunch had a good video from the artist.
Breaking Ball – A Father and Son's Pitch for Baseball Glory
Exactly. The poor hardworking people who get to invest in the stock market should have all the benefits of liquidity without paying for it.
I listen to lots of podcasts...

BS Report (Sports), Grantland (Sports & Pop Culture), Adam & Dr. Drew Show, Dr Drew Show, This American Life, Here's The Thing, The Moth, 99% Invisible, Risk!, in addition to a few I listen to only if the subject matter seems interesting.
Cancellations aren't free and they aren't instant. Every (reputable) exchange out there requires you maintain a fill ratio or you will be fined. That is, you have to maintain a minimum number of quotes that get filled before they are cancelled.
Bringing Static Types to Dynamic Languages
As of now, this database contains some strange entries. Probably they have issues with access permissions?

01 | Invalid | This is a test
49 | Invalid | <please do not file bugs here>
50 | Invalid | <please do not file bugs here>
51 | Invalid | Random Guy Has Access To File Bugs
52 | Invalid | Google PR doesn't respond to press inquiries
53 | Invalid | The issue is the blog
54 | Invalid | FR
55 | Invalid | <please do not file bugs here>
56 | Invalid | hello
Angular Fullstack 2.0: Released
I suspect that we aren't far from this type of synchronicity being assisted by technology. Very cool!
"being able to actually run a live version of what you've done in the past"

This is a non-starter. Its not your IP; you can't keep a copy around (even if its just for archival purposes).
How to Get as Many Projects as Possible on Internet
This is an awesome question.

> I've been wondering how I could preserve my work to showcase in the future. I don't think it's always practical, or legal, to assume keeping a copy of the code is a good showcase.

I agree. I see a lot of organizations asking for open source as a litmus test for the candidate.

As a former manager who has hired dozens of programmers, I think that's stupid, because it vastly limits your pool of candidates to people who have time to contribute to open source. I've found that there are lots of very gifted people who have never worked on anything they can share. And "side projects" tend to show you what the candidate wants you to see: well crafted code that didn't have external requirements or hard deadlines. (Note: I'm not suggesting you _don't_ use open sourced code in the interview process, just that you don't use it as a gateway into the larger interview process).

Looking forward to watching this thread!

Edit: fixed a confusing sentence.
I wonder how many implementations of the calculations there are. Do all the commercial GPS and phone manufacturers write this on their own, or is there a tested version they can license?
The Serif looks questionable to me as well. The vertical line on the lowercase 'h' in particular looks like it has artifacts, both too thick and oddly blurred. The Greek serif has a lot of the same artifacts as well. The sans-serif looks fine, but something looks pretty wrong with the serif. I also thought it might be a client-side rendering issue (I'm using a Mac), but the demo page has the text prerendered into an image.

edit: Found a different demo page that renders the webfont client-side instead of showing images, and looks much better to me: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Noto+Serif. Maybe it's just that the pre-rendered specimens are made with a poor rendering engine?
No, this is a very bad idea. If your old employer would ever accuse you of stealing software, it would be extremely bad for your case for a video you made of the application to show up in any documentation.

I don't know where that "3 minute" rule comes from. It smells like the "you are allowed to download these ROMs only for 24 hours" nonsense that emulator sites (used to?) say. That only increases my suspicion of this advice.
Is it only for smart phones? Do you have the usual version of the tool? I am in search of a website monitoring tool and I am ready to listen to any options. At the moment I like a lot Anturis, which is all in one monitoring tool, but they have just developed iOS app and it is still fresh.
I am ready to consider anything else.
That is not at all true. It is perfectly legal and valid to place quotes at a price that you expect is valid and change them once interest is detected. This is a standard market dynamic and one that makes the markets work.

Your analogy is not all how HFT works. A better analogy would be a string of gas stations going down the highway. A tanker truck comes to the first one and buys all it's gas. Then the second one, and then the third. The manager at the third station calls the fourth and tells them to raise their prices. How is it scummy to do that, but not to buy up all the gas at what is clearly a too low price?
as a developer who dealt with zigbee, it sucks.
z-wave is great, but not open enough and not IP-friendly.
6lowpan is a logical choice for IT companies, which is what Thread about here. I hope it becomes more popular over time.
Found this one very recently .

Podcast on PHP, Software Design and Testing, by @mathiasverraes and @everzet

https://soundcloud.com/elephantintheroom-io
Right, because without HFT's there would be no one investing in the markets at all.
...and here's a response from Ken Clarke, a politician, defending the TTIP: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/eu-us-t...

In short, he names the parts of the TTIP that are dangerous to democracy as "one comparatively minor element".
Nice application! Just a note though: The first images you see on the homepage are pretty low resolution so it looks really distorted
The obvious hypothesis is that women sound less competent when talking to men because they are less competent than men, on average.

They don't sound less competent when talking to women because they aren't less competent than other women, on average.

Playing dumb won't help you win this argument. It will just make you look just as dumb as the researchers.
But your analogy is backwards. HFT (of the market making variety) are putting water into the pool, not taking it out.
I'm pretty sure he was asking how that concept applies to financial markets.
Big favorite is Star Talk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, but for some reason of all the Podcasts I listen to the ads on that one seem to pull me out of the conversation the most.
The games are really awful. Look at NBody for example: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/performance.php?.... The fastest C program does it in 10 seconds. Rust is at 21. What's the difference? The C program uses vector intrinsics, while the Rust program is a straightforward implementation. The next four fastest C programs, which don't use vector intrinsics, are only a hair faster than the Rust program (20.x seconds).

The script kiddie's takeaway is: "well, C is still twice as fast as Rust!" The real professional's takeaway is: "wow, Rust manages to get within 4% of C while using iterators and higher order functions in the inner loop! Also: "Rust can do inline assembly too if that's what I need." https://gist.github.com/luqmana/5150557
What law? There is no such law.
What kind of consistency do you expect to provide with this future syncing feature? I assume it will be eventually consistent. Is that right? How will conflicts be resolved?
Now Apple has to produce a new spot about IBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
I like Developing Perspective.
It's about iOS Development and occasionally useful tips about running a small business.

http://developingperspective.com/
Because a UI control exists before Windows 95 doesn't mean it's understood by the majority of users. Also, there is a larger amount of users with minimal software exposure now than ever before, due to tablets and smartphones.

If your computing experience is limited to iOS for example, chances are you'll never even have seen a nested tree view control, much less understand the hierarchy behind it.

At least just read a minimum on usability and UX, before being so rude as to "call bullshit" based on your own personal opinion.
I regularly listen to:

* http://www.tropicalmba.com/

* http://www.siliconreal.com/

* http://fourhourworkweek.com/category/the-tim-ferriss-show/

* http://www.londonreal.tv/

* http://mixergy.com/

* http://hanselminutes.com/

* http://shoptalkshow.com/

* No technology, no entrepreneurship. A lot of Terence McKenna: http://psychedelicsalon.us/

More recommendations: http://css-tricks.com/web-podcasts/
Yahoo Ending helps Japanese manage their deaths
Yes, it's a government... it grants and enforces monopolies.
IBM will devour their money, just hope that the resulting product is worth it.
I don't see it as so bad, given how much others have written Microsoft off. I think their stock performance highlights how little they've done to build on their legacy and expectations. Now they have a chance. When I read the following, I don't see it in nearly as negative a light as others.

The reality here that Nadella — to his credit — at least alludes to, is that the playing field is now level, the score is 0-0 (or more likely 0-0-0-0-0) and for Microsoft to win they’ll have to play hard, play fair, and win on their merits. And that’s what leads into the discussion of culture and how the company will do anything it must to succeed. “Nothing is off the table,” Nadella wrote. This is the most important part of the message and, indeed, is probably the only part that really matters.
How do you pick the timeframe? Seconds are still too fast for humans. Minutes would be too fast for people who are not professional traders, hours would be too fast for people who can't be near a computer all day.

There is always a locality advantage in the market, this has been true as long as there have been markets, and it will be true forever. Why do we as market participants care?

The other problem with your scenario is that you make market making more risky. The riskier it is, the higher the profits must be. This means that the market makers must keep the bid/ask spread higher (their means of making a profit). This cascades to all of us in the form of higher execution costs.
Jibo: The World's First Family Robot
Going a bit off-topic here but open source is partly a cultural test. There are great programmers who are 9-5 and there are terrible enthusiasts, but involvement does mean that people are going to be speaking the same language to a large extent - and the biggest overhead in delivery teams is usually communication.
'graystevens beat you to the punch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041215

This is a dupe, so I've flagged it.
I often find railcasts not very useful since most of them dont work in a short period of time due to lots of non-backward compatible updates.
My fiancé was recently in a similar position. His salary was at 105% of his pay grade and he was working a pay grade below his colleagues. He was interviewing for a position that required relocation and was 2 pay grades above his own.

He interviewed and got the job and blew them out of the water. Because they only do pay grade bumps once per year and you can't go above 105% of your grade's max salary, he was offered the position without a raise.

Relocation to a new city with a slightly higher COL, without a raise. Crazy. Needless to say, he turned down the position.

Anyways, my point is that you're not alone here. It seems to happen more than I had realized.
Logitech Launches Big Bang, Ultrathin Keyboard Folio Tablet Cases in India
It's amazing how much the markets has moved that this is no longer significant. Once upon a time, the PowerPC and Kaleida were considered groundbreaking. In the end they mattered very little in market impact, except perhaps for introducing smart engineers to each other.
* JavaScript Jabber

* Shop Talk (HTML/CSS)

* The Changelog (Open Source)

* ModernWeb Podcast (front end)

* NodeUp

The Truth - Mini Radio shows. Highly underrated. http://thetruthpodcast.com/Archives.html
Oh gosh, don't give me any ideas. I'd like to sleep more ;-)
If they compared PNG with lossless WebP the difference would be small (lossless WebP is still using gzip, just with smarter preprocessing).

When you compare with lossy WebP, then the right thing is to use lossy PNG as well.

I can make lossy PNG 4 times smaller than what you get from Photoshop (http://pngmini.com), so that'd make the comparison more fair, and the difference less dramatic.
Visualizing High-Dimensional Data in the Browser with SVD, t-SNE and Three.js
If you're in to the history of Apple's software or Apple development in general, I can't recommend debug[0] enough.

[0] http://www.imore.com/debug/
And all of that, in 24 lines of javascript.
Title II is not "the solution proposed," it is one possible way to implement net neutrality.
http://99percentinvisible.org/ - Design focused, but interesting for anyone

http://atp.fm/ - Mac/iOS focused, but again, interesting for anyone

http://www.radiolab.org/ - General interest

http://autocomplete.fm/ - Android focused
* Cooking Issues

* EconTalk

* Sound Opinions

* Planet Money

* The Nerdist, when the guest outweighs how annoying I find Chris Hardwick

* Slate Political Gabfest

* This American Life

* NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour

* Marc Maron, for guests I'm interested in

I have ATP in my podcast client, but any time I find myself listening to it, that's my cue to go buy an audiobook because I've run out of reasonable podcast.
It might cause water retention issues before leaching anything out.
> The other problem with your scenario is that you make market making more risky.

The problem with the current scenario is that it makes market making more expensive, as it requires a lot of technological investment into the microsecond arms race. This means the market makers must pull in more revenue from their trading to cover these expenses, before they even get to thinking about making a profit. This cascades to all of us in the form of higher execution costs. The huge amount of money being spent on HFT infrastructure, software development, etc. is ultimately being paid by market participants. It's worth considering if this is an arms race worth funding to the max, or if 99% of the benefits could be had much more cheaply just by putting a floor on execution latency, thereby rendering this whole millisecond-shaving industry unnecessary.

At the very least, I'd be interested in seeing rigorous models that show a benefit to, say, markets that can trade at 1-microsecond granularity vs. 1-millisecond vs. 1-second.
Oh, forgot http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ - economics for people who don't care about economics.
For design related stuff I really only think Iterate has value http://www.imore.com/iterate

For startup related stuff a number of podcasts comes to mind.

"Startups for the rest of us"
http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

Probably still most valuable podcast about bootstrapping I have ever listened too.

"Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders" From Stanford
Often has some very interesting speakers.

"From Scratch"
http://www.fromscratchradio.org/show/

Really good podcast about a wide variety of entrepreneurs (From etzy to atari, Thomas Keller, the guy who made Highline in Manhatten a reality etc) very inspiring.

"New Books in Big Ideas"
http://newbooksinbigideas.com/
Sometimes really good but far between the gold nuggets.

What I haven't been able to find is a good podcast about Game design and good podcasts about Bitcoin/CryptoCurrency.

Most stuff in those two areas is either unbearable to listen to or filled with buzzwords.

If any has any indicator about the last two that would be greatly appreciated.
CHERI: A RISC Processor with Hardware-Integrated Memory Protection
Entrepreneur On Fire

NPR Planet Money

Ted Radio Hour

Ted Talks Audio

All are informative, inspiring and great to listen to over a cup of coffee.
Can't remember them winning popular approval anywhere at any time.