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> Quoting and buying at their published bid/ask is precisely their function

I think he was making a little joke about this. He said:

fill my buy orders at the bid
and sell orders at the ask

I'm with him, I'd give all my business to someone who could do that. I could retire in one trading day if I could find someone to do that for me. This was exactly the downfall of Knight Capital Group. It only took about 45 minutes for them to lose $440 million.[1]

Of course, that wasn't what you originally said, which was

a firm who agrees to buy at the bid
and sell at the ask

hence the smiley at the end of his comment. There's a difference between "buy at the bid" and "fill my buy orders at the bid". :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group#2012_stock...
Oh, but that's the whole idea of fracking.

You inject (not necessarily polluted on purpose from the start, but it will be at some point if reused a few times) water under high pressure into the ground to break up sediment, releasing a mineral resource. Often: Natural gas, or some sludge high in oil content. Sometimes also done for certain metals, then it's called "in situ leach".

Problem is: At some point you'll have accumulated just too much polluted water than what you could reasonably store as barrels stacked up in your parking lot, or just dump into a nearby lake or river.

The amount of waste generated it not really surprising, probably one should have considered this environmental impact before allowing companies to start these operations.
True, I should have said that or multimillion dollar jetpack.
Taking your argument to its extreme, entity should trade with any other entity.

Trade walls hurt everyone in the long term.
> I suspect that both Node and Django will be obsolete in roughly a year or two.

Quite a bold statement about Django, which I can't agree with.

Django has bee around since 2005 - for 9 years. Longer than node.js lifespan. I don't really see any large competitors in the web framework field that would push Django from its current position.

Check careers.stackoverflow.com for jobs tagged with Django - quite a lot. That shows rather strong position of the framework on the jobs market. Those jobs may not be hip or not in startups, but nevertheless - they are there.

Anyway. Certainly framework fading away is not something new, but I would be surprised if that would happen to Django in the next two years. Five - possible. Two - doubt it.
I think the angle might occur earlier in the process. Saying something like this to a crowd containing journalists gives them initial targets when they see who writes about the story. That is, it's not so much that they could, it's that maybe it starts now.
The NASA Hasselblad was, and still is, an impressive piece of photographic machinery. Hasselblads were used for a long time in the US space program, the manual saying "since 1962" and obviously, well beyond 1984.

And indeed having been around in those years, the cameras proved their worth. The images they captured were astonishing, looking like nothing else, in essence a unique art form truly living up to its actual "other-worldliness".

I've often thought the photographs of the early space era are among the most beautiful and haunting images of all time. The fascination with the photos and the camera itself is certainly justified.

It was fun reading the pictorial advice contained in the manual, which stated classic ideas anyone interested in photography has probably encountered many times. Yet the lessons could still be profitably applied in the digital era. I remember "exposing for the highlights" with transparency films, and even in today's world often enough it's still a good idea.
They write the right stuff (1996)
This is a great list for my "while integration tests run" bookmark folder. Thanks!

Quick feature request: It would be great to see the number of comments on the HN page.
Unethical douchebag reports about unethical douchebag.

--Seems to be the cliffs note version
>It's one small step from making threats of physical violence to silence negative reporting.

You gotta be kidding me!

You really think that journalists should be able to write whatever false, defamatory nonsense they please, free from any consequence?

I would guess you have no experience with journalists.
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Does Cosmos have any characteristics that would allow easy JIT speed optimizations? I would love to see language design go green by allowing easy optimizations that help us save both our valuable electricity and our time.

Are there design patterns that would allow us to more easily enable JIT for performance or even multithreading or GPU usage? V8, FTL and SpiderMonkey have all significantly sped up javascript performance making for much more efficient execution and better user experience. Python and PHP seem harder to adapt to JIT compilers as Facebook keeps working on HHVM for PHP and JITs for Python like PyPy lots of compatibility issues with existing libraries.

p.s. I for one really appreciate the entertainment value of exaggerated and opinionated style as long as the author realizes it is partly for entertainment, calls it out in the title and clearly isn't taking themselves too seriously. I already read enough serious and earnest tech articles...
I wish we hadn't come to a point as a society where we try and eliminate any amount of unstructured time for children.

I'm not sure any of us know what the point of all these "activities" are.
I feel like some people could see it as lazy or rushed, despite having spent more time that I'd like to admit wording and rewording my CV. Dress up oneself http://bit.ly/1vkJux4
I wonder if anyone ever considered bootstrapping Project Oberon on a Raspberry Pi module or some other open hardware system?..
> Compare this to say, Japan, where the native social network Mixi has been practically destroyed by foreign competitors.

Or, maybe it was that Mixi had been lagging behind for ages and deservingly died off. You might also want to add that Line [1], a domestic company (well, subsidiary of a South Korean company, but still...), is now pretty much dominating the market.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(application)
It's not just the disregard for customer privacy that's at issue here. It's that the situation with Johana flatly contradicts Uber's subsequent remarks that they would never do...exactly what they did to Johana.

Screwing people is bad. Screwing journalists is just stupid. Personally threatening other journalists is borderline insanity. Turning around and lying about the safety of the threatened journalist in a way that involves the abused journalist — who can demonstrate that the lie told to the threatened journalist is a lie — is over-the-moon idiocy.

Buy hey, I'm sure these guys would never lie to their investors, right?
Ordinary users can't downvote articles. However, HN's system will automatically downplay any "flame war" articles, characterized by the upvote-downvote ratios in the comments section. That's my understanding anyway.
This looks pretty great. Will be in Myanmar in a week and would like to try it out.

I'm also the NA operations director for CDO Nepal and think there could be an opportunity to work together. We should connect. Shoot me an email when you get the chance.

Graham
I agree.

Here's a clever promo showing people trying to live with a Rift showing them a lagged version of reality. I laugh so hard when he tries to make a pancake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNp37zFn9Q
Sometimes life is messy. Can't sweep everything under the rug.

If nothing else, this is a good reminder to never trust the press. Too bad the press is the only tool we have to keep an eye on the other people you should never trust (politicians, ceos, etc). Instead, you should trust the anonymous internet commenters ! Oh, shit...what just happened?
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The only point that stuck in my eye was atime modification from attic but I realized that in my environment I would have to mount all the backup clients remotely on the backup server so I can get around this by mounting sshfs with noatime.
So I guess we're left to interpret whether her journalistic credentials is what BuzzFeed is claiming to be targeted here: ...a particular and very specific claim about her personal life

Seems analogous to Evan Spiegel's private emails about his frat bro's sex life.

If you are opposed to anonymity, I take it you would similarly complain if a woman anonymously blogged about douchey behavior at a tech company? Much like Michael, she'd be truthfully reporting facts about another person but hiding her identity to avoid a backlash.

[edit: the reason I interpreted the lack of anonymity as being the source of "abhorrence": ...never have my colleagues nor I did such work under surreptitious means. We made our identities clear... ]
I think that a big part of algorithms knowledge is knowing what exists. So even a though typical curriculum forces the learning of each of these algorithms, I think the value is in knowing the trade offs between each in terms of complexity (space, time) and ordering.
For years developers begged Apple to update gcc, and they did not do it. Mind you, that was at a time when Clang was not nearly where it is today. They dumped Samba and replaced it with a new development of their own that was vastly inferior. They still ship an ancient bash 3.2.51, although developers wanted a new version for years. They even backported the shellshock patch for that. I draw my conclusions from those facts, not from some hearsay. I can't believe you actually think that the GPLv3 is a "cover story". A cover for what? That they think they can do it better? Why would they need a cover story for that? Why would they even care?
It was definitely a joke.
I worked for a company once that only allowed GET/POST, they filtered PUT/DELETE at the proxy level.

You can't win. Do what is right, and then scale back to what the circumstances allow.
Well it is reddit but https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/
This adds no more information than what's at the primary source, at http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0275 . Neither this site, nor PubPeer at https://pubpeer.com/publications/40BDF254870D52E1549E219D05B... have any comments.

If someone is interested in comments, see the HN discussion from 2 days ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8612723 .
What are the remaining obstacles to being able to search search our photos with on text queries? E.g., "photos of me wearing a backpack with wood logs"?
I'll stick my own off-topic comment under yours. I agree. All the emoticons and LOL's and extremely liberal use of the exclamation mark just rubs me the wrong way.

We're probably picking nits. I'm sure Mr. Lee doesn't intend that impression at all, and is probably overcompensating to make sure his tone isn't misread as hostile or argumentative. I've noticed myself doing this at times, seeing how often other commenters infer a different tone than what was intended.
That would be libel and could be handled in court. Most civilizations left Eye-for-an-eye justice behind long ago.
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Since I've been downvoted instead of replied to, I might as well continue...

Perhaps humans will build a silicon-based consciousness on each planet they colonize. Each planet-based consciousness in the galaxy could then communicate with one another to build a one-off galactic consciousness by structuring the gravitons flowing between then star systems, though its light-based speed of thought would be far slower than that of humans. Ditto for each galaxy humans eventually reach in the observable Universe, and then the whole Universe. This Universal Consciousness based on gravity then "begins" to reach back in time (using a theory of physics we haven't yet worked out enabling gravity to transcend time) to ensure fine-tunings so one planet in one galaxy 14 billion yrs after the Big Bang evolves monkeys then humans who then mutate as they colonize the galaxy and build silicon-based AI and eventually a single Universe-wide gravity-based consciousness.

If the Universe continues expanding and never comes to an end, then such a Universal gravity-based consciousness need never finish being built, it only needs to be continually being built. If a graviton-based consciousness can indeed reach back in time, not only would the Universe increase in entropy over time, but also increase in intelligence. There goes the weak anthropic principle out the window!
I heartily recommend RamNode: https://clientarea.ramnode.com/knowledgebase.php?action=disp...

They're affordable and answer support tickets within minutes.
Plus, as mentioned earlier, this was not an off-the-record conversation.
Looking forward to submitting a project!
Thanks, that makes much more sense. It's really misleading because most pairs of IEMs and earplugs do list the NRR in db. I routinely sleep in my SE535's, which offer 37db NRR (I looked it up after seeing their 70db claim).
The side-effect was definitely not accidental. China has blocked the major company in every internet industry (social networks, search engines, video streaming, etc.), and as a result domestic products are booming. Now these domestic products are starting to expand internationally with the revenue they get from the artificial Chinese market.

Korea did something something similar with its Chaebols' (Hyundai, Samsung, or other large Korean companies in countless industries) in the 80s. It had protectionist policies that let the Korean companies charge outrageous prices domestically, and used that revenue to become very competitive internationally. And it worked.
Hadnt heard of these guys before - pricing is very reasonable. Whats service/response to issues like?
Ah, but which should doczar be compatible with, doxygen or javadoc? A fundamental frustration I have with both of these projects is that their syntax is designed to annotate the results of a syntax scanner in their primary language, not to describe a structure from the ground up. I could potentially have worked from the syntax of an established "generalist" project such as NaturalDocs, but most of these were designed to mimic javadoc syntax.

Regarding performance, I've fed it some nasty directories and generation time is trivial. Doczar generates docs as fast as your hard drive can move them.

Thanks for looking!
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kudos to the "Kim Kardashian On A Newton" team.

...thats some non-trivial archeology to get that running :)
Why we are excited about Elixir
Free means they setup tracking locations to scan your MAC as you roam the city. Bandwith itself is cheap these days.

Someone is paying that "free" stuff, always. Oh, and the 20M in profits must come from somewhere, right?
This calculation is complicated by Bitcoin's handling of change, where (by analogy) spending $10 from a bank account with $10,000 in it can very easily result in $800 "moving across the network" even though $790 is just bouncing around in the same bank account.
I think the first is the OP's implication. However, product development is not the only point of research. How many products are possible from, say, landing a probe on a comet? Or modeling galaxy formation?

Therefore, no, product development is not the whole point of research.
I'm enormously impressed, amazed that this works. I'm reading the papers to understand how they do it.

Phase I is segmenting the image into rectangular regions which contain an "object". That's done using the approach in this paper.

http://koen.me/research/pub/uijlings-ijcv2013-draft.pdf

The regions can overlap, and one region can be completely contained in another. Regions found may turn out to be useless, so the goal is to find too many, rather than too few. That part is reasonably straightforward, and you can see how well it's working visually.

Phase II is described in this paper:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.2524v5.pdf

Each rectangular region is rescaled into a 277 x 277 pixel square.

Then they apply a convolutional neural network to each square:

"We extract a 4096-dimensional feature vector from each region proposal using the Caffe implementation of the CNN described by Krizhevsky et al. Features are computed by forward propagating a mean-subtracted RGB image through five convolutional layers and two fully connected layers."

So now they have a 4K vector of values for each region. I thought CNNs had to be trained, but what would you train this against? The 4K vector has no explicit meaning yet.

Phase III, in the same paper, uses a manually tagged training set and a support vector machine to try to train a model of those 4K feature vectors. The output of this is a set of tags for each region, each with a probability. This seems to be a straightforward machine learning system.

The new Stanford paper takes that data and, using training data from captioned images, turns those tags into sentences. (I'm more interested in the object recognition part than the natural language part, so it's the upstream steps I'm trying to understand.)

I'm amazed that this works, and have no clue how one debugs such a thing. None of this is all that big in terms of lines of code, but it's not at all clear what will work.

There's been a lot of progress in the last few years.
So in a way, thanks Facebook
Loved the "Beer for data" approach. It could work in a lot of other settings. Very novel idea to mine data from otherwise hostile environments. Does he publish this data online?
Not going to hold my breath. More confidence in Elon Musk launching a bunch of low orbit internet satellites. Now THAT would be awesome...
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So it's like a normal hackathon?
This is a genius writeup. My earlier limited experience with logic programming resulted in lots of confusion and "what's the use?". Because of this, I would probably have me not even click the link if the word "logic" had been in the title (and I suspect I'm not alone in that).

Instead, the author starts with the familiar concepts and very gradually and comfortably flows into logic programming concepts, making me go "hey! that's handy!". That's a feeling I've never had with logic programming before, and I didn't even give Cosmos a try yet.

Hats off! I'm definitely going to play around with this.
No one is expecting you to do anything.

They are providing a link to something they feel others might find interesting.

You can choose to feel ungrateful for that, that's your right.

But I disagree with your choice.
Sorry, but why do you think I have something against anonymity? I'm sure you're aware of various investigative stories that have involved anonymous whistleblowers. Are you seriously equating an anonymous gadfly with a company conspiring to secretly ruin a public critic's life?

What's funny to me is that I've just come back from an event at Stanford where Barton Gellman, the Pulitzer-winning journalist who reported on Snowden and the NSA for the Washington Post, was asked if he ever felt threatened subsequent to his reporting on PRISM and the rest of the Snowden leaks. Gellman says no, he's never felt threatened. Certainly, he's worried about surveillance because he's still in communication with Snowden, and it is clearly in the NSA's best interest to know what Snowden is saying, and to someday intercept and stop him...and of course, the NSA and the White House has objected quite angrily (but publicly) to Gellman's work. But apparently, the NSA is at least professional enough to know that a line would be crossed if they messed with Gellman's life.

And now here I am, on HN, having a quasi-serious debate with someone who thinks no biggie if Uber would retaliate against someone like Lacy, even though Lacy's reporting is far less hard-hitting and substantial than what Gellman has done to the NSA.
Bitcoiners strike a balance with on-chain and off-chain transactions because Bitcoin has several properties which make it undesirable for many sorts of transactions. A short list would include 20~60+ minutes for transaction capture, lack of a way for merchants to initiate transactions (the dominant method in B2C commerce in the US), user-unfriendliness of much of the ecosystemic software, etc.
I don't think a brilliant move, even economically, can be called in this case. When the upper class/inner circle saw the money in this field, it's the first thing they were willing to do. If this kind of action can be called that way. We can easily find mountain-high pile of cases that we can call brilliant in the ruling party's history. Yes, economically grabbing people ruled by it. Take any amount when it wants to.
I am from China and SSH tunnelling works perfect for me.
No, in some countries there are transaction costs for EFTPOS, but it's very low compared what is being charged for credit card transactions.
Rosetta Probe Directly Discovers Organic Molecules on Comet
Hard question, which I'm dealing myself too.

Right now I think you should concentrate on Node.js - finish your degree, maybe join some exciting startup or start something yourself. Keep looking at python from time to time. Maybe do some hackathons or tiny projects by yourself.

Node.js is certainly fast moving train. But where would it end up in? I don't really keep my hand on the pulse of the node.js community, but I'm not sure node.js is here to stay in the long run. Node.js will be used for various things for a long time. It has amazing websockets implementation, asyc execution does have some great benefits, but the code. My god is it messy. As mundanevoice points out below - you have to be a very solid and experienced developer to keep it all sane.

About python. I think it'll be around for a while. It is solid, it is readable, it is fast. Python community is large, there's a lot of very high quality tools written for it. It may not be so hip as node, but there's a lot of jobs for python devs out there.

All said, I myself is still torn about this question, though. I know both languages, but I've used node.js in more exciting projects than python. Python is so beautiful, but node.js stuff is interesting. So I'm still on the crossroads - which way I want to go all the way. And should I?

Python is a solid choice in the long run - it'll be around. Node.js? Most likely too, but for what purpose and how many companies would go with it?
I tried some backup software (of the rdiff variety, not the amanda variety) last year when I set up a small backup server for friends and family.

Obnam and bup seemed to work mostly the way I wanted to but obnam was by far the most mature tool, so this is what I chose in the end.

On the plus side, it provides both push and pull modes. Encryption and expiration works. The minus points are no Windows support, and some horror stories about performance. Apparently it can slow to a crawl with many files. I haven't run into that problem despite hundreds of gig in the backup set, but most are large files.

On the whole it's been very stable and unobtrusive during the time I've used it, but I haven't used it in anger yet. So a careful recommendation for obnam from me.
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The problem with your version is that it establishes a degree of equivalency between the players that in no way reflects the actual situation.

Cliff's Notes are distillations, not distortions. Big difference.
There are better VPNs for China: http://www.greycoder.com/openvpn-china/
Except that if someone suggested this to him, he'd wonder why that would be considered enjoyable given he's having so much fun with the command line.