skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, if you're interested in helping people with algorithmic trading, the startup I'm working on right now would be perfect for you. Although the pay won't be nearly as great as it would be if you were to work in a big firm, the opportunity to use algorithmic trading while not having to submerge your conscious is something I find more important and it's viable.
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Many essentials like food and bus tickets have lowered (or zero) tax rates, and it's printed on every receipt you get. Not really regressive or hidden.

Taxing wealth has big problems with transparency and evasion.

Progressive taxation is not a means to an end, just one mechanism to implement income redistribution. See eg basic income proposals with flat income tax.

But a worrying trend in EU lately has been to cut payroll taxes and raise VAT and other consumption taxes without compensating them in transfers, a combination which does hurt income equality.
Probably because iOS doesn't have a monopoly on phones. Windows had to do this because they had 95% of the desktop market - so bundling IE forced the default browser for 95% of machines as well.
Apple has never had a dominant position in desktop (or any other platform). That is actually part of their genius, because if they did, they would never be allowed to do all of the tight integration scenarios that they do.
I haven't seen the movie, but I have read once that he used to sleep to orange lights as he believed humans would sleep better to it after being accustomed to sleeping by the light of a fire for many many years.

I'll have to look into his early years and see, although I was probably nowhere near. I was a very emotionally unstable and unusual kid after the move to the country. I had zero social skills and a lot of post traumatic stress disorder from events at home. My methods to socializing and living in general were very odd.

I hoarded food and possessions as the cupboards at home were often (but not always) padlocked to keep me from picking my own food out. I would hunt around in bins for discarded food or 5 cent coins to save for canteen food and was referred to as a "scab" quite a bit, but I tended to ignore this, even though I was probably seen as one of "Those oddball kids". I had very little value placed on my reputation.

A lot of my possessions were often confiscated, and anything of special value (ie gifts from my dad) were often smashed and broken in front of me. I had a beautiful Carramar Lava Lamp once that he purchased for me which was destroyed by my stepfather to stop me from staying up at night and using it to read. The trait still sticks with me now; I don't hoard general junk, but I am extremely protective of my current possessions.

Not sure if this ties in with Julian Assanges story. Again I'll have to check it out. He sounds like a very intriguing person.
Store food, medicine a few guns and then enjoy the good life while it last.

As our "leaders" are blind or don't want to see what's coming, I don't have anythin better than this advice.
You can start applying in SF right now, while still in New York.

I have a few San Francisco companies that I will be listing at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/united-states/californ...

(I haven't posted any online yet, but I have them in an OOo spreadsheet. I'll post them today, I promise.)
VAT is pretty dumb, but at least now it's applied fairly.
Hate is love;

War is peace;

and everything is marketing.
My Argument is that you don't need jQuery but you definitely need some kind of library to avoid most common time-consuming tasks.
Obvisly the HN pussy crowd are out today
You completely misinterpreted my comment, and your response is far more over the top than you incorrectly claim mine to be. My point was that private businesses caving to threats that have no possibility of being carried out will embolden countless others to make similar threats. Thus, what Sony did will likely cause similar issues for other businesses, large and small, the thinking being that US companies are so risk averse that they will just give in.
If you use react.js and rcss you will be able to build your whole app with just js. Well organized and modular. No html, no css (not directly, of course. You still have to fix css issues).
I built this in a weekend, and have gone back to it every now and again to improve it.

GameSynch is a modern day - online arcade. Where you can hang with your friends, talk in the lobby and then decide on which game to play together using a voting system. Once a game launches a timer kicks in, which you can extend. After the the timer runs out, a new game is loaded in and you are kept in synch.

I wrote it in nodeJS / Express / Jade and Javascript. I have just updated it again with a new game listing today.

Any feedback is most appreciated and I am happy to answer questions.

Thank you = )
Most wells don't run at full capacity, and absolutely alter draw speeds to maximize the life and economics of a well.

This is correct, but only to a point. Many producers still lease land for limited timeframes (some of them do have "until we are done" clauses, but this is not the norm in Eagle Ford). If your lease has two years left and you don't expect the price to rebound for 18 months, it's still in your interest to produce NOW, since horizontal drilling (far more expensive than the fracking) is a capital cost you've already paid that you need return on.
I agree, there aren't that many problems in IP compared to the www stack. Imagine if we had bytecode instead of Javascript, the web would be years ahead in terms of being able to create games, video editors, etc. and other high performance apps in the browser. Javascript has basically become a poor substitute for an actual assembly language.
Just read that. I'll try to skip Sony movies from now on.
move 2 SF if u r a hardcore dev. NYC is for lawyers and finance guys...
I studied Russian years ago in high school and university, before settling on Chinese language as my university major subject. I know a lot of Russian emigres in my town. Most American people admire the Russian common people, and sympathize with their long history of being ruled by dictators. I think the current dictator of Russia, Putin, is doing badly by his country and reducing the freedom of the common people under his rule. I oppose Putin because I like Russians. The sooner Putin is out of power, the better. Лучше поздно, чем никогда.
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Hello HN,

My main use case at the moment is generating tons of forms for our internal backoffice(s) (for whom the Bootstrap theme is good enough), but with the new customization feature I'm going to use this library for our customer web app as well.

I'd love to hear your feedback.
I like Russia. I despise Putin, who is bringing Russia back to autocracy and aggressive expansionism.
Companies don't pay VAT.
Great! Be sure to do the recurring donation option. I donate $10 per month automatically, which is barely noticeable.
A few feedback points, I suppose...

# Clicking the "no-color" option in the text color-picker doesn't do anything.

# Using the "remove" option on a link inserts a space as well as removing the link, which seems incorrect.

# Using the "remove" option on a link doesn't always remove the entire link. Repro on http://wysihtml.com/ by selecting the word "typewriter", adding a link, then clicking on it again and removing the link. Depending on where you clicked either "type" or "writer" will still be linked.

# Repeatedly toggling tags can get weird. e.g. select a word and keep on clicking the bold/italic/underline button, and note how it'll toggle the tag on, toggle it off, and then just start adding spaces in front of it with every subsequent click.

# Possibly related to the spaces issue, after toggling tags for a bit checking the source generated shows a lot of empty-tags, which is kind of messy.
> What kinds of disasters do you think about?

> Let me take the most likely one: the nuclear winter case.

The nuclear winter is pretty low in my list. Financial meltdown and climate change are at the top.
Women aren't dropping out of labor force just because they are pregnant
I think this article overlooks one teensy weensy tiny little event that may have an effect on conservatives writing in to oppose Net Neutrality:

[President Obama Urges FCC to Implement Stronger Net Neutrality Rules|http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/11/10/president-obama-ur...]

The fact of the matter is most people don't understand a lot of the nuances behind the issue. They don't understand the telcos actually leverage various forms of local, state and federal regulation to reduce competition and they cry to the public about excessive government regulation when anybody threatens their duopoly benefits.
I wish $10/month was barely noticeable for me! But I've send them $25, which I'm sure they will put to good use!
So anyone who is capable of compromising the servers of a corporation, or even a government agency is also capable of blowing up things?

Good to know.
It's because not everyone ... actually the vast majority of users ... is aware of other browsers and even if they would be, they may have then only known about Firefox even though there are many many more browsers.

Think of it this way, it's akin to a car manufacturer selling cars with labels that state that anything other than XYZ branded gasoline will cause damage and void the warranty. Sure, maybe it won't cause damage and sure it may not stand up in court that it voids the warranty, but most people aren't in the position to know that, nor should they need to be in the position to know.

We ... the community of technology savy ... are very frequently remiss to ignore that not everyone can be, nor should have to be well informed about technology. Think of if Martha Stewart claimed that her recipe will only turn out if you use Greenest Pastures Milk when you are trying to hobble together a cake to impress your family. Are you informed enough about the intricacies of milk that you would know that you can use other milk brands?

Sure, you may scoff and say that you know enough about milk to know that it's not true, but do you know that some brands don't have additives or certain types of fat that may collapse your batter?
What if you don't have the option to all of a sudden bust out a new framework? Some of these scenarios are just unrealistic.
Very good point. Just beware that you need to have a minimum of 25k (not including the money you are trading with) to get around the pattern day trader rule. If you don't have the 25k then you must wait for 3 days for your cash to clear after exiting a trade. This greatly reduces the number of trades you can do and your strategy. You may want to exit a trade after gaining 10% in one day but then that money will be tied up for 3 days. If you have a total of 5k you can kind of split it up into 1k trades so you can still make a few trades until those 3 days are up.
Quite likely their accuracy is not tested by the software publisher. To the extent they are tested at all, they are tested using their own servers, in-house, perhaps over a LAN.

It is very important to test code under the same configuration that it will actually be used by real users.

In the case of network I/O, quite commonly the progress bar jumps when some data has been transferred into a kernel buffer, but the actual transmission of the data takes place in the kernel, and is not directly visible to userspace code.
I had access to two programming books; Basic BASIC and Advanced BASIC by James S Coan which I loaned out (and frequently over-loaned) from my high school library. I searched intensely during lunch periods at the library for other books on anything related to computers and programming, but I don't recall any other notable computer books.

The books I had loaned out however were dated 1977 - 1978 according to a recent google search. Very obsolete for the time. I'm tempted to call the high school library and see if I can buy them, since they'd be even more so useless for any student who wants to get into programming now.

Better yet, it's just given me an idea, if they still haven't updated their books on programming, I might even see if I can buy a few good modern books on C / Python etc and donate them to the library, along with software. Who knows, it might stop someone else from ending up the same way I did.
They don't go after Apple, because bundling by itself is not prohibited, only if you have an overwhelming control of the market, which Windows had but iOS doesn't. And I wouldn't be surprised at all if the EU started pressuring Google on the Android front in the near future - they're already talking about splitting up the company.

(Again, not advocating, just explaining)
thanks! will be counting on it.

>> You can start applying in SF right now, while still in New York.

Won't they prefer local candidates?
If I send a copy of a music record by email and the NSA keeps a copy of it, can they be sued for copyright infringement ?
We already have "client" and "server" addresses, courtesy of NATs. NATs are a huge pain from an architectural point of view, but all the same, many people like them because they provide some measure of security as a side effect. That paper was all about trying to capture this within the architecture, and providing the same effect in depth, rather than just at the NAT itself. It was a thought experiment more than a serious proposal, but that's the way new ideas come about - someone proposes a radical-but-flawed idea, and others see some merit in the principle, but find ways to avoid the flaws. I wasn't trying to push this solution on you - just responding to the over-general per-flow state point.
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Because Microsoft was found to be a monopoly that abused its power over the marketplace to extend to other markets. Apple hasn't been in such a lawsuit, yet.

I don't necessarily agree with such policies. For example the EU is thinking of breaking up Google because supposedly local players cannot compete, with inferior products in a market that Google created, but that's not mentioned.

Of course, iOS does suck because of its restrictions and I sold my iPhone 6 that I received as a gift. So I just exercised my right to vote with my wallet, which imho is more effective.
this is actually great advice. what would you recommend reading?
Yeah, I added a comment about that. It's true that web frameworks essentially work like this, but I still think it's massively backwards that we're building web apps by using JS to manipulate a text rendering engine and not the other way around. In my opinion, this is one of the primary reasons why web apps never feel as good as native.

To look at it another way, this means that HTML and CSS are sort of the web's "layout and appearance bytecode", and they're pretty mismatched for that purpose.
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> To be honest Putin is correct, it are outside factors that are contributing to the decline.

Sure, but the proximate cause of the ruble collapse is the state-backed Rosneft bond offering expanding the money supply to avoid a bankruptcy. (It's a bailout tactic for one of Putin's top cronies).
If you're worried about regressive taxation, offset it with standard deductions, minimum income, or earned income tax credits. Distorting tax codes to accommodate social goals creates information disparities and, indirectly, justice issues.

It's like the discussions people have around here about how keeping salaries secret only helps employers. Keeping tax codes byzantine is good for corrupt politicians and special interest groups.
Russian Ruble Woes ‘Not Impacting’ Bitcoin Price Amid 250% Trading Increase
Saudi Arabia hasn't increased production, but they also haven't decreased production. Within OPEC, the Saudis are supposed to be the swing producer, adjusting their output up and down to maintain price targets. That arrangement has largely broken down as it relied on the other members to respect their quotas. OPEC has found (many times) that when prices drop too far, their members ignore the quotas and feud for marketshare instead.

The Saudis used to keep to their role as swing producer but this time they're letting the rest of OPEC sweat. They've got currency reserves to weather this storm but most of the other OPEC members do not (save for the rich Gulf emirates). The Saudis are trying to teach the rest of OPEC a lesson and bring them back in line.

Couple that with the phenomenal increase in American oil and gas output due to fracking and horizontal drilling and you've got a situation in which two major producers, the US and Saudi Arabia, are flooding the market. Since there's no central authority over American producers, they'll drill whenever the market price will sustain their project. America is unique in that mineral resources are privately held rather than owned by the state, giving private enterprise the incentive to drill as much as possible until the price renders a given well uneconomical.

The end result is that the Saudis have abdicated their role (not for the first time, but this may be the last) and the Americans have picked up.

America is now the world's swing producer. No one saw that coming.
I don't get why this was downvoted. Blocking trade is a way to ruin people's lives.

If goods don't cross borders, soldiers will.
That's not really how it works. Tax rate and tax evasion aren't really linked. It's about culture and enforcement.

Anyway, if your business can't pay tax it should close and you should find something more profitable to do. I guess you can argue that some businesses of cultural or otherwise non-monetary worth should have some subsidies, but as long as the company goal is to "bring in the dough", then that's the dumbest excuse I've heard. On par with "just because".
Successful people always attribute luck because they usually underestimate their own special qualities or don't acknowledge it. This is the reverse Dunning-Kruger. While non-so-successful people will attribute other's success as luck because they think they also possess such qualities but didn't have the "luck". Creating a great product has less to do with luck than product/market fit. That is extremely difficult.
Why are the market making algorithms so easily exploited?
Yet it's forced to implement most of the EUs rulings whilst having no say on said rulings. Same for Norway and Iceland.
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Having written a wysiwyg editor myself, the bulk of the work in such a project doesn't really touch on what jQuery does.

Assuming you're using contenteditable, a lot of it is about resolving cross-browser differences in the implementation. Probably also reimplementing most of the execCommands since they're wildly inconsistent -- which does involve some DOM manipulation, but is more about using the selection API.
How does pay work in this field? It is commission or salery?

Salaries in finance are low compared to comparable jobs. Bonuses can be very high. A senior programmer who'd make $150k in tech will probably get $130k in a hedge fund, but the bonuses... can be anywhere from 0 to 1000%. Median is probably 30%. Market conditions play a role.

Sadly, compensation has been getting worse for quants over the years. It used to be that you could take a $500k all-in for granted just for knowing college-level math and programming. That's no longer true.

Do these programmers have a short career span. (lose x amount of dollars and you need to leave.)

No worse than startups. It's probably better, to be honest. The age discrimination isn't nearly as bad as in the VC-funded world, people are less-often fired for stupid reasons in hedge funds, and the ethics are generally better in finance than in the VC-funded world. Finally, the lower status of programmers may be more visible in finance (i.e. you're clearly second-rate compared to traders) but less onerous. Engineers are third-class citizens in the Valley, with their 0.01% equity slices of post-A startups, and because the VC-funded startups aren't very selective and a third of the programmers are incompetent, they feel a need to use "Agile" micromanagement that you wouldn't see at a hedge fund.

If you lose serious money (meaning hundreds of thousands) doing something stupid, you'll get fired. If you're unluckym good funds won't fire you. A lot of statistical arbitrage is taking "51/49" bets.

How much could someone make in this field.

The upside is very high. That said, typically it's not going to be more than 25-50% more than you'd make elsewhere. You need to manage your career aggressively and become someone's protege if you want to get above $300k... but it can be done, and some people make 10-50 times that.
I would say it's something different yet:

EU wants to hinder rascal states that make money at the expense of the rest of the union taking advantage of their small size: they won't be able to collect VAT for business made in the whole EU just because they offer a lower rate. (I mention the size because the deal is convenient for the state only if its economy would be otherwise very small).

It does not matter if the company is American or European, I could have made a Luxembourg subsidiary of an Italian company and paid Luxembourg VAT rates.

Of course, this is a very stupid way of doing it: it works only for VAT, while the countries can still be fiscal havens for any other tax, and moreover it makes life hell for small B2C business.

The proper way would just agree on a uniform tax policy. Never going to happen.
I thought you were going to say "Supposedly because one of us leaked expendables 3, despite none of us having any desire see it"
The terrorists(or fake terrorists) won here, plain and simple. I honestly cant believe we are even having this conversation, or that pulling the plug was even an option here. However, to play devils advocate, I wonder what would happen if say, China were to make a movie about assassinating the president of the US, what sort of reaction our government would have. Just because North Korea is a small country with few means to really get at us doesn't make it a good idea to write a film with a plot about killing their leader.

That said knowing Seth Rogen movies, Im sure it ended up with them smoking weed with KJU and having a party out of it, so he shouldn't be that upset...
> it's an astronomical 24%

That's lower than the income tax rate for a middle class American. Why is this rate astronomical? Are there also high property and income taxes?

EDIT: It's an honest question. I know what a VAT is, but I have no frame of reference for how the overall tax scheme is especially egregious for the individual taxpayer. Some other tax rates (income, property, etc.) are surely relevant. A 24% VAT with absolutely no other taxes sounds nice, for example.
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Now that would've been more interesting. I never got to experiment with printing or connecting anything to my own system, but it would've been fun to make something like what you've described.

Indeed C was a bit intimidating to me at first. I took up a TAFE games programming course in 2008 to learn it, but our teacher was an ex-banker and didn't seem to really have any enthusiasm for games, and there wasn't really any "games programming" in the course. I left after getting mugged in broad daylight on a busy road (Mount Druitt is absolutely atrocious, never going back there again!)
It cost 1.7 cents to make a penny this year, and 8 cents to make a nickel