skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "fundamental view on the market", I mean those who have done research and know that the price of something is under- or over-valued. These are generally known as informed investors. When they decide some security/commodity/etc is mispriced, they will immediately put a lot of money into that idea, ideally (for them) before the market adapts. With HFT, the market adapts a lot quicker than before, which is better for general investors (who are uninformed investors) as they get a price that's closer to the real value.

Index funds don't have a view on specific securities. They don't perform research to try to get an edge. Instead, they believe that the market is generally efficient, the and they try to lower risk by diversifying across a large portfolio of somewhat related securities, and get a return that closely matches the overall market. As such, HFT helps them by givings them better bid-ask spreads and also providing prices that are closer to the actual value of an asset.

Note that those performing fundamental analysis and buying millions of dollars worth of assets aren't SOL. They just have to be smarter about how they execute.
Our building in downtown San Francisco is limited to 2 options that are both more the $700/month for 20Mbps up/down.

It is insane.
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I wish I had learnt a foreign language, preferably either German, or one with a cool not Latin script, like Russian
I agree that most fundamental (chemistry, biology) research is done in academia. But fundamental research doesn't deliver new drugs, it only supports discovery.

About 24% of new drugs are discovered in academia.[1] The remainder come from industry. I think offloading all discovery to academia, plus the "D" part of R&D would be something academia would struggle with.

[1]http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/11/04/where_drugs_...
Yeah, I realized that after the edit link expired. Let's just disambiguate the expression in whatever way makes me look best :)
Luckily, folks who care about making things accessible for those with disabilities have already won (god forbid something like the ADA getting passed today), so I don't actually need to fight this battle. These videos will be captioned, MIT will not go broke (or stop putting up new things). Set up a tickle file, one year from today, see how it all looks.
one of the best programmers i've ever worked with spent his time teaching himself php. he was a bright kid who made a stupid decision, but didnt let that stop him. we worked together for about 2 years and he ended up getting a couple great offers and now balls way, way harder than me. i have so much respect for him.
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Anything with lossy compression, like JPEG, is probably going to die.
I know how I'd spend the first $100:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms

I don't know about the other $1.9K.
Consider paying someone to tutor you. Consider using Air Pair for that.
Absolutely. I never actually use it on the laptop. (I never got the point of these music players that to organize all your music; I prefer to have it lying around on my file system as just plain files).

I used to be on iPhone and I absolutely loathed iTunes.
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??? Alan Carr, Jimmy Carr, Paul Carr, none of them look similar.
Does that not affect the rent/purchase value of apartments in that building? Or are the prices so high because of the location that it doesn't really have any impact?
Yes there's a huge difference between professionally "pressed" CDs and burnt CDRs.

There are also special archival disks and burners, like M-Disc, which literally "engraves in stone": http://www.mdisc.com/
You put your finger on it. The stakes are really high, and a lot of people and companies benefit from a lack of clarity.
I've been thinking about this too, but I believe that Vint Cerf's solution is not feasible. Or, rather, it's a typical technologist "solution" that only prolongs the problem.

Imagine you're an archaeologist in the year 4500 or so, by our calendar. What we know of as modern Western civilization collapsed thousands of years prior, all you have are physical artifacts dug out of the ground in your attempt to reconstruct the history of this lost civilization. What would you see?

Circa the late 20th century you'll notice a precipitous decline in the volume of any surviving cultural material--meaning printed books, magazines, business papers of various sorts. You'll find fewer sound recordings, ticket stubs, even purchase receipts. The various detritus of daily life will appear to rapidly dry up and virtually disappear, around the world more or less simultaneously.

What conclusion would you make? The population at the time seemed to be stable or growing as measured by ruins of settlements, yet they seemed to be doing less or producing less? Perhaps there was a crisis in education and illiteracy became rampant? Maybe there was an ecological disaster and paper itself became scarce?

You see that a huge proportion of our culture that we take for granted--not just pop culture, cat gifs, etc--but substantial business and scientific research information as well would be completely lost to these future historians. On a more trivial level, when was the last time you saw a comprehensive, printed guide to iOS 8 (for example)? You could consider that a significant cultural/artistic artifact from our time, yet how will it be preserved in any meaningful way for future scholars?

Anybody interested in these questions might peruse http://www.longnow.org
When I lived in Tucson I had a similar problem. IIRC Comcast offered acceptable speeds (15/1?) and Qwest or similar offered maybe 1.5 Mbs down and less up. "Competition" existed only in a theoretical sense.

I actually tried writing to the head of Qwest Arizona and Qwest nationally to try and convince them to run faster pipes to my area—a lot of students and younger people who like fast Internet access lived there—but didn't get any action.
I was surprised how recognizable OK Go's I Won't Let You Down music video was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/image/108362181481
AOSA (Architecture of Open Source Applications) [1] is one resource that comes to my mind.
However, not all projects are described in equal detail since multiple authors contribute to it. [2][3] are some of the more detailed ones.

[1]: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

[2]: http://aosabook.org/en/freertos.html

[3]: http://aosabook.org/en/bdb.html
Do you mean $700/month for residential internet service?
Tran has always had the zen and art of business administration on lock.

"Hot sauce must be hot. If you don't like it hot, use less," he said. "We don't make mayonnaise here."

He might have capitalized on the market by releasing a blander sauce, but he's doing just fine without it, so why compromise?

This is off-topic, but I caught hung up in the first sentence when the author mentions he has a place in his fridge for hollandaise sauce. Hollandaise sauce is good for 24-48 hours, even refrigerated. Dude must eat eggs benedict for every meal.
It would be very helpful if you could narrow it down geographically a bit.
Tried it on Arch Linux + Firefox v35 works smoother than flash plugin. Used AUR package here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-extension-shumway... Can't wait for this to replace everything flash. Thank You, shumway team :-)
a) there is a pernicious and wide spread myth about the elite status of people working in HFT. My experience is that it is largely the same as any other technical profession. That is to say, it is no more or less likely for people in HFT to know about online estimation than any where else.

b) Given the reactionary view that many HFT participants have to information sharing, widely known/documented algorithms are often thought of as secret sauce and are frequently not talked about.

c) I agree with your sentiment specifically to one-pass algorithms being not terribly novel but am very happy that people with HFT backgrounds are publishing anything at all as it will hopefully help to remove the backwards thinking around secrecy so prevalent in the industry.
Yes, build quality is really good. I've got model SGK-4040-GKCM1 with brown switches.
Exactly. The Bay Area in particular bitches and moans about "lack of talent" but has such hiring myopia that only a few companies can see talent that is more than 50 miles away.
Also there's a lot of duplicated stuff on the CD's.
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Safari online bookshelf membership?
@dang - can we get [2010] in the title
One of my best friends went through a very similar predicament with her startup a few years ago. She and her startup aren't technical, interestingly enough, but she's been very successful, and has raised a fair amount of VC and angel money on the basis of very few a priori connections.

She bootstrapped while on the job. I am not 100% sure how she managed that vis-a-vis her employer, but I'm guessing that she had a conversation with them and put her cards on the table, and that they came to an agreement of some sort. Incidentally, IANAL, but my understanding of those workplace IP agreements is that they only cover inventions and ideas you come up with "in the course of performing your job," or something to that effect. They do not cover nights and weekends. Read your contract's fine print, though, because there have been horror stories here.

Hit me up over email (address in my profile) if you're interested in speaking to my friend about her experience. I'm also happy to help as best I can.
I actually like iTunes - I havnt been able to do what I want from a music player and would be happy to hear of suggestions!

I need ALAC (can be converted if necessary), AIFF, FLAC

I need syncing (eg if I change stars (1-5) on the device, it needs to sync to master)

Need to be able to listen to and rate from either mac, PC or a mobile device

Scenario:
I have my songs on my ipod and take it to work, and listen and rate songs while I'm at work. I sync, then take it home, and it syncs with my home library on my mac.

Or I listen while I am out and about and rate songs.
Why clinicians are frustrated with health IT, and what you can do about it
Interest that after reading the wikipedia article the NY state prosectors messed up by trying to arrest him a second time. In that second arrest the judge ruled that the arrest by the FBI was illegal. Thereby giving him this opportunity for the civil case.

However the law is changed for future source code thefts. Here is an industry perspective

http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/215714/employee+rights+...

The only technicality that freed Aleynikov was that the source code was not sold as a product itself.
Anyone who thinks HFT is something needed should go read Flash Boys. HFT is basically front running with some variations. There is a small amount that is necessary arbitration that will have to be done at some speed, but by and large it is not performing any sort of a service, it is taking advantage of the people trying to buy and trade stock by being a manipulative middle man.
The [Reddit] thread has much more information regarding this article, including the Author and co-founder of the site.

The head of this study is on reddit, as reddit.com/u/NickReese

This study does not take in account the upcoming change of bradband >=25Mbps . The current site uses >=10Mbps .

There's also question regarding their data, as it does seem compromised in certain locations. He was looking into it, after a few redditors that supposedly had multiple broadband providers only had one, and some none at all.

[Reddit] http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2vk1xx/after_33b...
The problem with the FDA is it usurps liability from the manufacturer and responsibility from the consumer. Most Americans will grant more time to a free app review, than to a nutrition label. We have a false sense of security that food and drugs are FDA "approved." This same problem exists in banking because of the FDIC. How many people know what's on their bank's balance sheets?
As of January, minimum broadband speed is 25Mbps: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7932653/fcc-changed-defini...
My general conclusion is more like, if it relates to food or drink, there's both positives and negatives that can be spun either way.

Take eggs, an easy example. The protein is good for muscles, but the cholesterol is bad for arteries. A scientific study will balance these variables in depth. But the clickbait headlines that filter up to public internet visibility will polarize on one or the other because that's what gets the clicks and attention.

Moderate drinking: good for stress, bad for the liver. Easy to frame a headline to highlight either aspect.

Agreed that the real problem is 90% of diet "wisdom" coming from clickbait headlines rather than seriously considered science.
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I disagree. Just like my printer, I want my display to be mostly dumb. Fewer things to break, first of all. Also, "smart" devices are usually pretty badly designed. I'll plug in my own choice of brain, thank you.
The justice system in the US isn't really in play with people after they've done their time; when you're done you're done. However, the US civilian culture is different and the catch is that few US states' laws put any limit on discriminating against people with felony convictions, whether it be for a home today, a loan tomorrow, or a job fifty years later.

Over the past twenty years, I've been told by many folks in the US tech industry holding unskilled positions that non-white-collar convicts should never be given jobs again, should do all their time in solitary, shouldn't have books or access to entertainment, or should be beaten with stones or bats (and a few variations on this theme of torture-as-penance, always by women oddly.) Regardless of whether those attitudes are right or wrong, it's important to understand they are there and seem to be commonly held by the folks standing at the gates. And, for people who've committed felonies and done their time to understand they can either get very creative in how they adapt, or reoffend.

To bring this rambling back to the topic at hand: can "felons" get a tech job? Sure, but it's unlikely where those attitudes have had time to become invisibly entrenched, e.g., in human resources' workflow. So, as another poster said, startups are a real possibility. But really, any company where paperwork or blind-policy isn't in play--especially as a first step, e.g., a cookie-cutter job application--is a possibility. Another approach is to create the job, something almost uniquely possible in tech.

In short, it's tough, doable, and I think great because people can use it to walk far from the scenery of recidivism, figuratively and literally.
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There is one path for HackReactor to make money on this, they can act as recruiters between prisoners and companies.

I know as an employer of developers, that I would hire someone with a felony because I know their introductory salary will be lower but their skill set should be the same. Which may sound over opportunistic, but it's just economics, fewer offers mean lower initial pay. The downside is if they become excellent developers it'll be hard to keep them at the lower salary, even if they do have a felony.
What "wealth" HFT has transferred flowed from a specialist system that was crooked as a garden hose full of fish hooks, through the big investment bank system that consolidated them, all of it taken out of the hides of retail and value investors.

Because automated market making is intensely competitive, the vast majority of that "wealth" was transferred... wait for it... to retail and value investors.
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So-called "smart home" devices are certainly new and imperfect but the story told at the beginning of the article is also not necessarily representative.

He describes months of setup, unlocking his phone, scrolling through apps, finding the right screen, drilling through menus, and then not having it work. In my limited experience with similar setups (a few Philips Hue bulbs, IP camera, and a Nest thermostat) I haven't really run into anything that obnoxious.

When I want to kick on the "mood lighting" for a movie or a party or whatever, I just wake my phone and tap one of several presets on the homescreen widget. Setting up those presets took maybe 10 minutes and I can always mess with the lamps manually or create more if I feel like it. Otherwise the handful of IFTTT recipes I set up and geofencing keeps the lights under control the majority of the time without any input from me.

Nest is similar. It's reasonably good at learning my patterns and if I want to tweak the temp or change something, I just open an app and the image on the screen matches the display of the physical thermostat.

These are certainly early implementations of connected/smart devices but compared to the state of "professional" integrated systems, they're just fine with me. Just read up on Crestron programming if you want to learn how complicated the enterprise solutions can be. And if you don't want to spend months learning their wacky programming tools and procedures you can spend thousands on hiring certified techs to do it for you.

The thing I'm most excited about is for more standardized and interoperable devices to start overtaking the pricey "pro" options for at least the lower level stuff in enterprise and education. As it stands now, a lot of the Crestron stuff is not much more than a glorified universal remote. The faster the consumer/DIY stuff improves, the sooner it will be able to replace the ridiculous "pro" stuff that's been the only option for years.
If you want to work at those companies, your time is better spent with something like Cracking the Coding Interview and reviewing it on the weekend. If you actually go through the entire book, you'd stand a pretty good chance at doing really well on all of your interviews as far as stuff you don't use on the job frequently questions go.

This former googler who's interviewed a lot agrees with me:
"For instance, if you read Cracking the Coding Interview and were diligent about it (i.e., actually worked through the problems and practiced at them), you'd stand a good chance of doing really well during Google's interview process."
http://piaw.blogspot.com/2014/10/gaming-coding-interview.htm...

If you have never studied any of these topics, keeping this book in mind as you study for your algorithms course will be definitely helpful for your grade and your future interviews!
"we" as in "he" was part of this community...

Stop being so pedantic, you already have a login, again, somebody like Linus Torvals that changed the world doesn't need to comply to your entitlements, in other words is his survey not yours.
There are three sentences in this comment. The first two are wrong, and the third is hard to understand, but if I understand it correctly, it too is false.

1. _Flash Boys_ has been panned by technical experts and makes very little sense to people with a basic understanding of how the markets work. I can link to technical reviews if you'd like to see them. I'd be interested in any technical reviews of the book that defend it; I haven't seen any. As a fan of Michael Lewis: this book was surprisingly bad.

2. Front-running is an agency problem. It's what happens when your broker knows you're about to move a lot of stock and, acting on that insider knowledge, jumps in front of your trade. Market-making isn't front running. To make a colorable argument that HFTs are frunt-runners, describe a hypothetical sequence of trades in which that happens ("BOB BUY 10 @ $10, CAROL SELL 10 @ $10.01, &c"). If HN history is any guide, that exercise will quickly deflate the notion that there's front-running (or even any unfairness) happening.

3. HFTs were preceded in the markets by the human specialist system, in which people deliberately increased the spreads to scalp money from trades. HFTs fight over pennies. Human specialists rigged the stock markets so that every share included a premium denominated in dimes and quarters paid directly to the specialists.
I'm not sure I agree with your hypothetical archeologist's assessment. We haven't seen any kind of real drop in the amount of garbage being produced[1] (it's barely leveled off in the last decade, and that doesn't include commercial waste). Sure, the kind of garbage is changing, but that happened in the past as well (from bronze garbage to iron garbage), and it indicated a change in technology, not a failure of the civilization. And an indicated change in technology is the pointer our future archeologist will need to start looking for something else.

1. http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/municipal/
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>More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to 1 Wired Broadband Provider

And those who have more than 1 are served by an oligopoly who overcharge for mediocre (at best) service.

Are the few cities with municipal broadband or Google Fiber seeing better service and prices?
That might be a good pull-request for something like No Flash to test it on a larger scale:

https://github.com/hfiguiere/no-flash
RIP Dave Carr. An original.
They don't as much if you use LTS, you might be used to regular releases, and to be honest Apple updates as frequent too.
>No one is arguing that content should not be released, just that content, produced in institutions which are recipients of federal grants, should be made available to the widest possible audience.

Take a step back and look at the potential side effects of what the plaintiff is asking. If a university, with all their money already earmarked, is told that if they want to keep distributing free educational materials then they must pay to transcribe them, what are they going to do? A very likely outcome is that they're going to scrap their free educational materials program. It doesn't take a lot of foresight to see this.

Also, how do you define "widest possible audience"? Should the universities be legally compelled to translate all videos into Chinese as well? There are a lot more Chinese speakers than deaf people.
But a 10 year life span on CDRs. My personal experience is much different with both CDs and floppy disk (I still have some of those that work).
Pluralsight, Safari Books Online, and MeetUps +1
I wonder if we'll start to see "Start TV Lobotomy" guides.
Don't forget that you can stretch $2k a lot further on something like half.com instead of buying new books: http://product.half.ebay.com/Introduction-to-Algorithms-by-C...
I live in Virginia and have access to ZERO wired providers and zero wireless -- all we have is satellite. That's because the state allowed Verizon and others to chomp up the lucrative northern Virginia market with FIOS without requiring that they upgrade the rest of their wired switching equipment in less-populated areas. So Verizon makes money on the nicest part of the market -- and the rest of us get nothing. And this is from a company using eminent domain to provide their service.

I thought it was a bad situation ten years ago. Now I think it's a scandal. Especially for poorer areas on the Mid-Atlantic, the tobacco deal was specifically supposed to provide broadband. The idea was that over time we would trade off tobacco farming for some kind of technology work. Instead we were sold out.

Just last week, a neighbor came to me asking about doing internet work for a call center from their house. I told them it was impossible, short of leasing a T-1 or T-3 from Verizon. I cannot tell you how whacked it is to say that in 2015.
What they should really trademark (if they haven't) is the bottle.
I don't know about that; not only have I worked for companies in other cities that refused to consider remote work, I've worked for several NYC companies that were happy to give workers a day or two per week of work-from-home time.