skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JMAP looks interesting. Is there an implementation yet for any open-source IMAP servers, like Dovecot or Cyrus?
Creating animations sequences on iOS
I'm in the "technical analysis is nonsense" camp but enjoyed your story. You write an entertaining line and I look forward to reading the rest of it.
do you have an idea that you would like to turn into a product? I am in Perth as well.
My first job out of college was building a TA package at a then-small Bloomberg competitor. I knew basically nothing about any of this and just approached it as a technical challenge, and I had a generally ok time just getting paid to write software that was vaguely mathy. This was software that was actually used by people trading, who were paying on the order of tens of thousands of dollars a year per seat.

The first signs that something was amiss arose pretty early. I kept some printouts of what the various metrics were in my desk. Occasionally a support employee would come over and say so-and-so at some bank wants to know how (say) Bollinger Bands are defined. I'd hand them a copy of my definitions sheet covered in capital pi's and sigmas. They'd look at it, their eyes would glaze over, they'd wander away, and I never got a single followup question.

About four years later a client discovered that there'd been a bug in a few of the calculations that made them wildly "incorrect." Many people used the product for years as happy customers without realizing this.

At that point I must have googled "technical analysis wtf" or something, and realized that basically what I had been spending my time on was the financial equivalent of biblical numerology. So it goes.
The best resource thus far may be "The Art of Unix Usability" by Eric S Raymond which can be found at http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/html/ and was coincidentally posted by user diggan at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8591072 shortly before I made this post.

Hopefully including this here will help some future googler.
Just...wow...This is an extremely culture specific suggestion.

Sure maybe in YOUR culture and place of residence that could be good advice but it could be horrible advice for other cultures/places.

People are also different. Situations are different. In some situations being approached by a stranger can be friendly and some situations it can be very very hostile. Depending on a lot of factors. There is a very serious need to understand when your approach might be hostile to the other party.

I find it interesting that I've been reading a lot of "in my culture/city/experience X therefore X is a universal truth" comments lately.
Its actually a much large problem in therapy or nursing, since the patient may be considerably more comfortable with a same-sex service provider. Postgres doesn't care.

But I guess actual consumers don't count.

Further, your talk of power is silly. As obamacare demonstrates ("mental health parity"), therapists and such do have power.
I've created a snapshot of some of the related pages, in case they ever get taken down:

Original GNOME page: https://archive.today/glAva

Groupon Gnome press release: https://archive.today/MQk7o

USPTO page 1: https://archive.today/xWlTk

USPTO page 2: https://archive.today/FpeeU

USPTO page 3: https://archive.today/CpI0s

Groupon Gnome page: https://archive.today/yGhPF
Why? Scheme would be a better choice.
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Light moves at 1 ft per nanosecond... I sure hope you're close to the NASDAQ data center :)
At least Mozilla doesn't have a 'business model' which is strongly dependant on you handing your data over to them, or other opaque/closed activities or software.
I can't believe people are falling for this anti-email propaganda.

Comparing proprietary messaging systems to email is like comparing coke to water. Coke tastes yummy but lets be honest, its has no redeeming value apart from short-term satisfaction of a sugary drink. These proprietary messaging systems are no different.

Email is an open platform owned and ran by nobody. After decades of tech start-ups coming and going its one of the very few things we have been left with that has provided actual value to society.

Reading this is like listening to the CEO of Red Bull tell me to drink less water. Yeah, maybe I would be more productive if I drank Red Bull instead or water but gawdamn, without water we would all die.
I do battery research and even I don't know what happens to most of these things. I suppose the funding ends and no one continues working on it.
> Now you can work your ass off to grow the company, or if manage to convince the right people so you can get those buybacks through, you could go for burning through that cash pile on buybacks, and profit nicely from the resulting rise in share price.

That won't work actually. In an efficient market the share price is unchanged by a share buyback. What will change is earnings per share, as you have the same earnings divided by less shares.

> But it's bad for you if you invest without understanding what is going on. Then again, that's always the case.

If you can get a deal where raising EPS gets you a nice bonus, then sure you can game the system. Those shareholders don't know what they're doing. The shareholders are still the ones that are getting the money from the share buybacks they're just also deciding to give a bonus to management based on flawed metrics.
Even frontend web developers need to know data structures.
How does that new Australian law allowing manipulation of data effect fastmail?
Using the system RAM is how a lot of on-board budget graphics chips used to (still do?) work.
The Tor Browser developers have all of this as an explicit goal:

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

They still have more work to do to get there, of course -- it's a challenging target!
"Most tech companies?" That may be true for SF (idk) but it certainly isn't a universal truth everywhere.
XP is not supported. Why would they make a statement one way or the other?
I recall seeing a graph of a stock index in which all but the 10 (e.g.) best days within a very long time span (~years) were removed - to mock up a trader who removed his money at a few unlucky times. You ended up losing huge.

The lesson was exactly what you're saying -- you also have to count that one huge loss. You can't fence it off as an exception and remove it from the accounting.
It's 1ft/ns in a vacuum, but my understanding is that it's closer to 0.5ft/ns in a wire, so what you say is doubly true. But I think HFTs are running on servers close to the NASDAQ datacenter, and that people pay buckets of money for such privileges.
I'd like to think i'm a relatively successful 20 year old.

I left high-school and jump straight into a front-end dev role at a branding agency.

Two years on I'm not building a creative agency, hireable anywhere and I have a business network that most people would kill for.

I think that what you're doing is great but you'll do better by getting some business cards made, going to events and networking with every single person you can. That relaxed environment usually yields for more exciting and organic business relationships. Simultaneously, work hard in places that are versatile in their offering. You'll get broader and ultimately more valuable experience rather than taking a higher paying job somewhere where you're not growing properly.

Also I recommend you jump into some fast-paced, crazy work at an agency before you move into a product focused team.
Yes, I'm fully aware of that as well. Both of them basically learned from the same teacher. However, even given the approaches are 100% identical, different bodies get different outcomes. They have different metabolisms.
In both cases the money transferred to shareholders is the same. There is only a distinction when management has options.

Think of it this way. Consider a company has NPV of 10 dollars with 10 outstanding shares priced at $1 and 5 dollars in the bank. If it pays out 5 dollars in dividends the NPV is now $5 and there are still 10 outstanding shares worth 50 cents each.

If the same company buys stock back with that 5 dollars the NPV also falls to $5. However there are only 5 outstanding shares now so each share is still worth 1 dollar.

Now if management doesn't have options, story over no one is any better or worse off assuming market efficiency.

However if management has options to buy 5 shares at say, 25 cents, they gain significantly more because the total number of shares has been diluted but the NPV is still the same.

In the first scenario total shares increase to 15 and their value decreases to ~33 cents. Transferring 1.6 dollars to management.

In the second scenario total shares increases to 10 and their value decreases to 50 cents. Transferring 2.5 dollars to management.
You're not out of the game. You can apply through all the normal ways - recruiters, ads, networking, etc.
Origin story? Maybe. The coverage up through 2008 was good, but then the author pretty much shortcut the rest of the article. They made no mention of the immense financial difficulties Tesla faced in the 2007-2008 era, which is of significant historical importance. The article completely omitted the actual shipment and reception of the Roadster, and the subsequent development of the Model S.

Nonetheless, it was nice to read about the very early history of the company, some of which was unknown to me. I note the parallels to Steve Jobs in this story, and how effective Tesla's PR machine is -- Musk really likes being portrayed as the founder.
There are no new laws (yet). But lets not get into this discussion here. Contact privacy@fastmail.com with your questions and we'll be happy to respond to them.
This is a canard frequently thrown out by MRAs. It's not true. Nursing and childcare specifically seek more men, as does teaching in general and primary school teaching in particular. It's an utter myth that the gender imbalance in those fields are ignored.
How often do startups actually claw back equity?

The handful of stock plans I've seen only interrupt vesting when the employee maintains the absence of any interruption or termination of service as an employee. Do companies take the legal position that a demotion is an "interruption"? Or are there other status termination clauses that are more strict in wide use?

I would not be surprised if the frequency of such stricter clauses inversely correlates with startup quality. At a good startup, you're trying to hire great people away from a lot of other amazing options. You need to foster trust that you're going to support them. And that means making an organizational commitment to them as a person, not just a title. I'm not sure why other employees wouldn't understand that.

Not trying to be critical of Ben here, he obviously knows way more and has seen much more than me.
I think it is important to remember, while this is instructive and has good pointers to the usability literature, it represents a particular point of view, not THE UNIX point of view of simplicity. In fact there is no one Unix point of view.

Some of original Unix authors are of a particular opinion, that Unix itself has gone wrong by becoming too complex. (see http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf, see also Rob Pike's critique of BSD sockets, etc.) If I were to summarize their apparent position on simplicity, it might be that the design should be structurally simple throughout, not just on the surface.

For contrast, note that ESR uses the X window system in his discussion of GUI interfaces. The X system was famously heavyweight and complex (at the time.) If I were to summarize ESR's apparent view of simplicity, it might be that simplicity is something you present to the user.
But to the best of my knowledge, DDR3 is limited to 8 banks/DIMM, so there could not possibly be more than 8 concurrent read I/O at any one time.

Maybe you can submit more than 8 queued requests to the controller and have them stream back at the full DDR3 data rate. Maybe it's not actually addressable as RAM, it just uses the DDR3 interface as a communication bus.
I worked at a prop shop where my teams worst 2-day losses totaled more than $2MM. The worst period for any team on the firm was a $30MM loss with an additional $60MM of risk over the course of 5 days.

No one was happy about it, but it was part of the job and considered reasonable volatility for a portfolio of our (middle) size. While I wasn't a fan of Consz's tone, his numbers check out from my personal experience at a trading firm. Not HFT, but in the end it's all about return on capital and the P&L's should be similar.
Many older consumer products had both schematics and PCB diagrams in their manuals, if not in the operation manual, then the service manual.
I have the opposite complaint, Fastmail marks my bank receipts as Spam, but I don't mind at all.

My bank probably is dumb enough to send newsletters, promotions and other spam-like mails next to notifications, statements and other not-spam-like mails from the same sever, also, Spanish is like a third-class citizen over the Internet, so I got accustomed to the language barrier.
Nothing conceptually. Just taxes. Buybacks and dividends accomplish essentially the same thing - returning wealth to the shareholders. They just have different tax implications. This article needlessly muddies the concepts by attaching stock compensation to buybacks, which are two entirely separate things.
Whatever it Miss Taylor has it in spades based on his admiration.
I'm a techie for life and work for Bigco (probably for life) and I see this sort of thing weekly. A decision comes down that is derided as stupid because "management is clueless" is often not because the people that made the decision understand this basic principle.
It's anecdotal, but none of the old people (>age 70) that I know have ever exercised in any significant, systematic way.
> I think even among progressives the resistance to accepting the veracity of both points is halfhearted.

That's because when it comes to society, data can sometimes be dangerous. Data tells us how the world looks, but whereas in nature the laws are fixed (or so we hope), society is very fluid. This can confuse people. Any data about society is a snapshot of current conditions: it doesn't mean that things have never been different or won't be different, and it most certainly does not tell us that this is how things should be (the latter is the biggest difference between the natural and the social sciences -- in nature there's only "is" while in society there's "is" and "ought" and the two are rarely the same; also, we have at least some power over the structure of our society, while changing nature can be tricky).

This is why data means very different things in physics and sociology, and why -- at least by default, or until proven otherwise -- any sociological data should be understood as: this is how things currently are; should we try to change them?
Ah ha! It didn't update until I got a new email.

Let me know if you need beta testers!
I'll note that you can also go to http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/taouu.html for the full book at once, which makes it more feasible to add these styles via console without going nuts and without needing an add-on (or if you're in Safari...).
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I'm not sure that's completely true.

1) Are there places / markets that ST Arb and HFT won't go because it's too illiquid or too idiosyncratically volatile?

2) Are there edges so small that you won't chase?

3) Are there one-off opportunities (2010 flash crash, UST flash crash recently, etc.)?

4) Is there a set of strategies that manual traders know (which they should probably transfer to HFT strategies) that the HFT/ST arb shops don't know?

I think the answer to all of those questions is "yes". They probably take on a lot more risk per trade. They would also be better served by automating their strategies. But I think it's not as cut and dry as you state.

Each individual trader might be "amateur" -- but the firm as a whole might end up with a decent return / risk.
i dont think i claimed their morals would allow them to not comply with the law. but a company's past conduct is pretty important to evaluate in the context of how such situations will be handled. i'm unaware of a law that requires companies to continue providing compromised services to their users, for example.
Agree, this is super strange. No one wants to use DHE because of the performance impact.

Windows 7 and later do already support ECDHE + GCM, but only when combined with ECDSA. In practice, nobody can use ECDSA because old clients still need RSA certificates.

So we continue to wait for TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, which is clearly the cipher suite that everyone wants. Years later, still not available for Windows Server.
How people feel about the "going to college" question is usually just a reflection of their own experiences and nothing more. You can't live life twice.

IF you want to be a doctor/lawyer/etc where a degree is required, then by all means you must go to school.

For anything where only results matter (for example, the open source software world) no one will care one way or the other what you do.

A lot of things will fall in between. Some doors will open, some will close. It's impossible for anyone to say which is a better choice.

Certainly, no matter what, there is no pressing need to go to school NOW. School will still be there in a year. Or two. Or even 20 if you find a reason to go later in your life.

The only thing you should avoid at all costs is wasting time. If you're skipping school to get high and play video games (doesn't sound like you!) then you are going to pay a heavy price as the years slip by. Be sure to make use of the time you "save"!

Good luck!
This reminds me of Alan Kay's thesis of similarities between biological systems and object systems. Robustness is gained by dividing things into large amounts of small cells communicating in an unrestricted graph topology. This is basically how networks of REST speaking nodes work as well. All three of these systems share more similarities than one might immediately realise. The big idea is messaging.
I really wish that Mailbox would accept any IMAP provider - I use Mail.app solely for my FastMail at the moment.
you forgot to add: "and from a wealthy enough background to never have to worry about taking risks"
I'm 39 now, but I started this path late. Most of my life was spent going from country to country, with all of my possessions able to fit in two bags. I was also reduced to the shirt on my back a couple of times in business ventures gone wrong.
What I've discovered is that there aren't actually that many things to get. A bed, a dresser, a kitchen table and chairs, a couch, a coffee table, a TV, stand, amp and some speakers, living room chairs, a desk + chair, a bookshelf.
After that it's outfitting the kitchen and bathroom, clothing, and some art for the walls.
That covers the necessities. Beyond that it's just supporting your hobbies & things you do for fun.
The other 2% are things like a car (I just use Zipcar for now), some of the more high tech gizmos for the kitchen, more camping gear, good pots & pans once I get better at cooking - Stuff I can live without, so I'm content to wait for a really great deal before buying. The best part is finding something you know you'll need eventually (because it's on your list), but it's available now at a deep discount because some shopkeeper is desperate to be rid of it.

That's actually the key: having the ability to be patient. For about a year, I kept a list of everything I wanted to buy, including links to what were the best in each area. Then I'd keep an eye out for sales, check out garage sales & flea markets, go to second hand stores, surplus stores, etc. I tried to not buy unless I could get it for 70-80% off the new price or better, while still of acceptable quality. For brand new stuff over $50, I'd usually only buy at 40% off or better. To completely furnish my place with stuff I'll never replace, I spent about $2000 over the course of a year. Some stuff was free. Some stuff was damn near free (my solid oak desk was $20) Some stuff I ended up paying a fair price for, because I would accept no substitute. My biggest purchase was a 50" TV for $500, which I'll keep for the next 10 years or so unless it actually breaks. My older, 8 year old 32" TV I now use as an external monitor. It still works like the day I bought it, but then again I also researched the shit out of it before buying (Sharp Aquos, on sale 40% off).

The best part about buy-it-for-life stuff is that a used item is just as good as a new.

The research is slow and tedious. The key is to not be in a hurry. There is a finite amount of stuff to get, and you can probably survive without it for awhile.
How does it compare speed-wise with git? That was the reason I switched from darcs 8 years ago. Some of my repos go back over a decade, and darcs had problems with them when there was just two years of history.
I was tired of seeing job title inflation at my last job, so as a joke I changed my position title on my email sig from 'System Administrator' to 'Grand Duke of Information Infrastructure'. I didn't have customer contact - most of my emails were internal, with a couple of vendor contacts. Nevertheless, people liked it, to the point that they changed my job title on the website.

I reverted it a few months later when I felt the joke was tired, but people can do pretty whimsical things with their company channels if you let them.
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I'm wondering if this dataset exclusively covers the US, and if so, how much of any decrease in occupational accidents can be attributed to the loss in manufacturing jobs to overseas. Whether that represents progress is a matter of perspective.
The goal is to be faster than the other guy - HFT is a race, thanks to the subpenny rule. So if network latency is 2ms, you still care about making your trades happen in 2,050us vs 2,100us.

Tl;dr even if trades happen in ms, you still care about us.
Serious question: Do you hold options from investment/ employment or percentage of common stock if you don't mind me asking.
I tried to offer a constructive critique for a "Show HN". I sincerely apologize to the offended party. :/
Accidental deaths are also increasing, ironically, due to the increase in "healthy" activities like bicycling

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-californa-lea...

And compare the accident rate on stair falls vs. injuries in elevators. Then think about it next time your workplace "healthy living" person nags you to take the stairs.
While I don't like Windows much and dual boot it mainly out of necessity, it was pretty easy to whip up a trigger (in the GUI task scheduler) for a script to trigger alarm music even when the computer was sleeping.

The procedure goes something along the lines of "RTC trigger wakes up sleeping computer, computer waits to connect to network, opens spotify url of playlist." It lets me turn off the LED and fan nightmare that is my desktop and still use it as an alarm.
I wonder if this means that health reports and crash logs are no longer submitted by default.
What a tease! I want part 2
> However if management has options to buy 5 shares at say, 25 cents, they gain significantly more because the total number of shares has been diluted but the NPV is still the same.

Yeah, that has been discussed in a few other comments. There's nothing stopping you from doing the same deal with dividends by giving out the dividend as well as adjusting the outstanding options, or adding clauses to the options to fix this case by changing the strike price or number of options in case of share buybacks.

The article doesn't argue that though, it's saying that since not all shares are retired and some are used as compensation that the value of the buyback isn't all given to shareholders. In reality those two transactions (buyback and issuing shares as compensation) are completely separate transactions that don't depend on each other.