skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth adding: by "cheaper", he means "for every dollar a directional, buy-side, long-term investor spends on a security, fewer pennies are allocated to middlemen than in the era before universal electronic trading".

The implications go past "your broker charges less to execute the trade": the secret tax you paid to specialists and market makers has also been competed to nothing, or in some cases possibly below nothing.
In Ireland, New Grange.
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In its early days, OpenGL benefited in many ways from being a "forward-looking" API that exposed far more functionality than was implemented by graphics hardware. Software that used those features got faster throughout the 90s with no rewriting needed as that functionality became available on GPUs. (Of course, software like games that wanted to be fast now just avoided those features.) When graphics hardware started to include features that hadn't been anticipated in OpenGL, things got messy and stayed messy.

Now that the feature set of graphics hardware is very stable and uniform across different vendors' hardware, the APIs are needed to solve an entirely different problem from what they were invented to do.
Par for the course as far as Google's concerned. This is the one caveat I give all my clients before going ahead with using any google service beyond gmail, since you can easily get the rug yanked out from underneath you. It's not usually the discontinuation of an entire service, but they drop major features from many apps, and give the users as much warning as a Vogon would.
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Jane Street seems to like OCaml - https://www.janestreet.com/technology/
> ideas are worth exactly nothing and execution is worth everything

Unless you make an SMS based concierge service and call it Magic
And what about the drive that went into read-only mode, and then on reboot bricked itself? By design?

I can easily see someone having their computer lock up / etc, restarting, and losing their data. As restarting is often one of the first debugging steps for so many things.
There's gotta be homebrewers here
We're considering setting up a homebrewing equipment buyers club to get some better deals on bigger equipment purchases, e.g. 15 gal boil kettles with ball valve spigot/thermometer installed, stainless steel fermentors, corny kegs, etc. Have your vote, thanks!! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6RSDYPK
I've tried it, and I just think it's interesting that you can see what people local to the area are saying on it, have conversations with people who might be someone you see daily. Local events might get commented on. I don't get the large negativity towards the app.
This is why its always better to sanitize anything before inserting into db or displaying into browser from db!
Dear me. I have binders full of old Revised, Dark, Legends, Ice Age, etc. Maybe I should take them in and get them valued. On the other hand, I'm trying to get my friends to play casually with me using the rather more basic old sets.
Eritrea is the one other one.
It depends on which business you are talking about. The provider, or the customer.
A few family friends have decided to give their children first names that are not be on the popular side of the spectrum, but have also chosen a more standard middle name that might be more favorable to the child once older.

I appreciate this approach because it does give a bit more of an option to the child. I haven't asked, but I expect the parents would be okay with the child changing their name totally as well.
Why shouldn't UIs last a long time?
Does it matter? The fact of the matter he did make that post, and several others, with his personal email clearly visible on Archive.org. Even if they caught on to him some other way, not much work is required to follow those traces right to him.
>trying to calculate if enemy can see you

Send a raytrace from the bot to the player and see if it hits something other than the player, which is just one line

Pathtaking beyond simply moving towards the player is a lot harder, yeah.
This might hold true if you're only looking at the actual design/code side of the lifecycle, but it sounds like a key point of the new APIs is to make new projects more testable, debuggable and optimizable. Given most project spend inordinate amounts of time in the those three activities (and it sounds like games moreso), this should be a win for everyone.
"You'd pay, like, $3 for pack and get a bunch of random cards. But occasionally there would be a rare and powerful something in there - a dragon, an angel."

Heh heh. I think we all know what dragon and what angel he's talking about.
Post up some pictures! It's always great to check out old binders, the feeling of finding a random old card that's worth a bunch now is awesome.
If you enjoyed Discworld, checkout out Discworld MUD. Probably the most indepth and enjoyable game I have every played:

telnet discworld.atuin.net 23
Good luck with that.

Obligatory reference: http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...
Spain and Ireland also have programs where you can buy houses, gain residency (but not work permits), and then become a citizen after 5 years.

I've been living in Ireland for 2.5 years and was really excited to become a citizen, but am returning to the US for family reasons, which is bittersweet. My time spent here still counts towards the residency calculation, should I return in the next four years.
The FAA's definition of "for compensation or hire" as regards to flying is much stricter than that used in any other instances I'm aware of. This story sounds pretty much in line with how it works for aircraft carrying their pilots.

14 CFR 61.113 says "no person who holds a private pilot certificate may act as pilot in command of an aircraft that is carrying passengers or property for compensation or hire; nor may that person, for compensation or hire, act as pilot in command of an aircraft."

Pretty much the only exception that applies widely is the next part, which says "A private pilot may, for compensation or hire, act as pilot in command of an aircraft in connection with any business or employment if:
(1) The flight is only incidental to that business or employment; and
(2) The aircraft does not carry passengers or property for compensation or hire."

This basically means that if you are a pilot that works for a non-aviation related company, you may fly around as part of your job, for example for you and some coworkers to get to a meeting.

If the company or individual makes money directly off the flight, then I'm pretty sure it will never be considered incidental. See my other posts for some things that the FAA does not allow private pilots to do.

As asinine as these regs are, they are long-standing and I don't really see why having the pilot on the ground should make a fundamental difference to whether they're allowed to stand or not.
If Vulkan solves some of these problems, does it seem likely to you that the tooling and community could grow up around it and shift the momentum?
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You know, the drives have their own CPU and RAM, and execute their own software. The software keeps the copy of some table needed to do the proper reads in RAM and tries to update it to the flash as the response of the normal data write. The flash fails and the software gets the notification about that. The software can provide the reads from the info in RAM as long as the info remains in RAM so it enters the read-only mode. After the reboot there are only the bad bits on the flash, the RAM content is fully wiped away by the reboot.
I don't know the as much as things like cards and other collectibles are worth, sometimes the high end ones are hard to get anywhere near the "full" value for.

I tried to get rid of my copy of X-men #94 a while back and there weren't many options that come close to its theoretical value.
Why is it limited to just FHA
I meant 3.8 for the old pixel, btw. Doh.
I wonder if there will be a feed for the list of projects currently inside Google Code. I would very much like to grab the lot and preserve them inside searchcode.com

Anyone know if this is possible? Last time I checked it didn't have a public API other then the tracker and I was performing some rather ugly crawling/scraping to get a list of projects.
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If you want to narrow a search to a set of pages where factuality is enforced to some degree, there are ways to do that. Off the top of my head, here is one: navigate to the Wikipedia and use its internal search box.
That's dramatic hyperbole.

The event people think of when we talk about electronic liquidity "vaporizing" is the Flash Crash. The Flash Crash was a series of mistakes whose impact was profound enough that nobody could trust market data; the system, in its corrupted state, was in fact untrustworthy, and the idea of providing liquidity across it seems in retrospect pretty dubious.

Unusual things happen all the time in the markets. Many of those unusual events involve bugs and errors in the exchanges. Liquidity does not routinely vanish from the markets in response to those events. How many major "evaporations of liquidity" can you name in the last several years apart from the Flash Crash? 5? 10? How do you think those counts will compare to liquidity during the specialist system?

Warren Buffett's favorite business book, _Business Adventures_, opens with a chapter on a liquidity crisis from the 1960s so profound that the market data technology of the day was backed up several hours --- that's how long you'd have to wait simply to see what the current price of a stock was.
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To me, this neatly explains why in just about every performance comparison of video drivers in Linux shows the proprietary drivers having an edge, even if only a slight one.

I've never actually dived into the source code for the open source video drivers but I'm now curious how much time the devs of the open-source drivers have to spend on anticipating and routing around the brain damage of the programs calling them. Do they similarly try to find a way to correctly do the right thing despite the app crashing if it finds out it didn't get the wrong thing as asked for? Or is the attitude more akin to 'keep your brain damage out of our drivers and go fix your own damned bugs'?
I agree that self-hosting can be cheaper than lawyers. I self-host all my own stuff, but I still understand how it's better for some businesses to pay for cloud services, instead.
I think things have shifted a bit away from that. IIRC, AMD's pretty free with the documentation for everything that isn't part of the DRM-enforcement chain, so their open source drivers are mostly lacking in manpower. NVidia just won't release the docs at all, so the open source drivers for them are reverse-engineered and plagued by problems like an inability to get most GPUs out of power-saving mode. I'm not sure how open Intel's documentation is, but their only Linux driver is the open-source one that they do significant in-house work on and it has often been competitive with the Windows driver.
Not likely. The prices on SR were higher than on the street because of more middlemen, not fewer. Whoever is selling to you on SR is buying from the street.
I recall a story about one of these in Haskell's Cabal, but I can't find it on google now.
Easy enough to include a version number as another arg with the identifier, and include that in the hash. Then all you have to do is keep track of what version each of your passwords is on, which is not sensitive information and could be stored in greppable plaintext.
Thanks for mentioning GitLab this_user. I would be happy to answer any questions about GitLab.
Can you explain in detail how an HFT would use an FPGA to "front-run" a trade? I suspect you're using that term differently than either professionals or the SEC do.
Err no, this was THEIR point not mine. I personally don't care about career success. They argue that I should be proud of how far I've gone instead of feeling like a loser all the time. I don't even parse these thoughts when I try to force myself to think them.
My understanding is that GitHub makes the majority of its revenue by selling on premise versions. So there's another layer/level to the genius of their business model.
Normal people commit felonies doing normal things every day.

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...
Not just a nit. You are right. I wrote my comment in haste. Had to take someone to the airport.

I think the essence of my point still stands in that the example the author provides is very shallow and hardly something that stops you from writing Go or even writing any kind of protocol in Go.
Yes, indeed, I've read it. Unfortunately, I think we should regard the early studies (such as Hudak's) as basically preliminary and mostly not-well-founded. I know that's horribly conservative, but y'know...
i just spotted "GitLab is build to handle very large repositories." there. someone should proof-read it all i guess. :)
totally unrelated, this has been sort of my experience switching to golang as well.
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That was a much clearer explanation that mine. And yes, that's exactly what I meant. :)
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Lack of NTVDM on 64-bit systems is kind of a big issue too (yes, I know long_mode does not support real mode, but they could have provided an emulator).

I could just keep running 32-bit XP, or I could pay money and do a lot of extra work, hmm..
The tech industry has turned into a giant frat party. Sorry folks.
Good to know it's moving towards a more open environment. Also good to know that my memory wasn't playing tricks on me. Thank you for the update.
"4chan is absolutely vital to society"

Really?
How much of your web traffic is mobile? (free tool)
I can only speak to MtG when it first came out, I've been out of the loop since eh since when 4th edition started or so. MtG exploded because it was (and I hate to use this term): hackable. You could build creative exploits into the game, at our local shop there was a no CoP rule (no circle of protection) because they were considered too unfair; in hindsight this was a ridiculous rule.

Very few games embrace the unknown dynamic nature as well as MtG did. They would introduce cards that could be mixed with past-future cards almost on a whim, creating moments of pure frenzy as people managed to build systems that seemed indestructible.

It's crazy to think how much some of these cards are worth now:
http://www.mtgprice.com/sets/Beta/Savannah
And even if it isn't, the video game industry just got revolutionized by most of the major engines becoming free, so indie devs don't have to drop down to a lower level of abstraction in order to have a chance at competitive performance.
You are absolutely correct. To borrow form another's comment, https://play.golang.org/p/VOUJI88PNj

The slice, however, is a small structure to pass to a function in that you are not performing a copy of each individual element in the slice.
I'm seeing a lot of spam by companies that purport to be legit startups.

1. I make an account on their service, or buy something.
2. There is no newsletter signup box.
3. They send me lots of newsletter emails.
4. They often keep coming after unsubscribes.

I consent to transactional emails, but I'm not consenting to newsletter and marketing emails. It's spam. I hope laws like this help deter such behavior.

Meanwhile, I've been marking non-consented emails as "spam" in gmail. If enough people do this, the companies will get blacklisted, which is another form of deterrence.
Given the number of platform PCs (slap together Dell, HP and the like), and the sheer number of drives, motherboards and power supplies that die, and people unwilling to pay someone $90 + materials to replace them vs. getting a new one... I'm surprised XP has as many users as it does.
Hi Chris,

Would it be possible to get a list of all the projects inside Google Code? I would very much like to grab the lot and preserve them inside searchcode.com

Codeplex provides this sort of data and GitHub and Bitbucket have an API. I could write a crawler/scraper to do so but I would probably miss something.

Please don't let this become similar to Geocities and have it all lost forever.
I think Shriram would point out he is one of many people responsible for the development of Racket.
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ah the dreaded "Power Nine" :)

I think the most infuriating thing about MtG was the obsolation of whole sets, I get that's its' smart business from WoT and there are some tournament forms where you can use different sets... but still, felt a little bit like playing a game you never could win :)

Must give credit to MtG for introducing me to a world of cutthroat deal-making that would give UN a run for their money. Trying to saw together swaps with other collectors could be very challenging and rewarding. You learned the hard way the times you were "scammed" and someone got the better of you.
I think corn subsidies have a lot to do with food, and corn-ethanol producers are piggybacking on that subsidy rather than driving it.
the founders have held a hard-earned secret about all the subtle things necessary for people to come together in a car with strangers and enjoy it. For instance, John and Logan realized that women feel much more comfortable getting into a car if there’s a woman.

That's a subtle insight?!?

For my generation, it’s hard to fully understand the sea change of the millennial psyche.

If you are calling people 'millenials' then you've failed from the get go.
uh... it's not dead. it has more points that your ignorance.

ur mum's face is a troll.
I think "auf wiedersehen" is the same as au revoir, no? re-voir is to "re-see". I'm familiar with this contraction from Italian arrivederci - a (to/towards) ri- (again) veder (to see) ci (we) - "till we see eachother again".
That glass is not suitable for it's contents.
Write your whole webapp in WebGL?

Edit: Seriously, how feasible is that? Creating a GUI framework on top of WebGL and creating an abstraction layer (which the original article advises against) would be a huge performance boost comparing to current webpages, wouldn't it?
You can upgrade from XP to Vista, and then from Vista to 7. (Although there are some restrictions of which versions of Vista/7 you have to come from and go to, but not insurmountable.)

That said, the VM in which I'm currently testing that process is having some difficulty, for reasons obscured by an always helpful 0x8000000000-type error code.
Author here. For the impatient: this is an IRC network implemented as a distributed system implemented in Go on top of https://raftconsensus.github.io/

If you have any questions/comments, I’m happy to answer them.
No. Drunk driving is much worse. (Yes, people do that -- I mean they actually understand that they are "drunk" and not just "tipsy"... and unfortunately still drive :/.)
This is why http://redecentralize.org/ and other similar efforts are so important - the centralized model is functionally unfit for long term usage or relying upon. How to capitalize these newer decentralized technologies are key for next leap in the web industry.
Oh I remember Eco, it was very exciting to see someone going that path fully.

Ah, and I just realized, it wasn't Parr, but Tratt that wrote the paper "Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't".
If that's true, you should be able to cite a statute, an SEC/FINRA/CFTC rule, a court ruling, or an exchange rule to explain how (allowed and prohibited behavior on markets being defined by all four of those kinds of sources, frustratingly enough).

I suspect you won't be able to find any such source. Malfeasance by trading firms makes career cases for prosecutors.

That's not to say, normatively, that that's how things should be: obviously, prosecutors are not making much of a dent in the trustworthiness of big financial firms.
We have a similar thing in Germany. I think a name rejection happend somewhere in my family a while ago.
Funny thing I noticed: they didn't mention the creation of the "Reserved List."

For those who don't know, Wizards did everything in the NPR segment in the first couple years of magic. Despite this, and the show's tone doesn't really convey this, the secondary market was still there (for the times) and card scarcity was a big, big problem.

Enter Chronicles.

Wizards of the Coast reprinted basically everything they could from the first couple years of magic in one set.

“Released in July 1995, this 125-card set was created in an effort to satisfy players’ demand for out-of-print cards.”

This tanked the secondary market for cards. Investors who had been holding onto certain rare cards and treating them as an investment suddenly had the rug pulled out from under them.

Long story short, a few years after this, Wizards created the Reserved List (tm), essentially a promise to NEVER reprint all cards contained within. Intended to create a safe haven for investors and collectors, this list covers the first ~5 years of Magic cards and almost all of its most expensive prints. It's a source of huge contention within the community as many people would like the reserved list to be abolished so they have access to play with cards they wouldn't be able to afford otherwise.

Feel free to let me know if I missed something critical, was just an thought I had while listening to the show. The reserved list is a huge reason for the bubble's stability.
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Spotted the GitHub fanboy.

GitLab is objectively better. They even list their reasons on the page.

If you disagree you could, you know, refute those points instead of dismissing the whole thing in a petty manner.
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I don't see any evidence that we have "the most efficient machine" and that it's a cow. Evolution is incredibly slow, and humans outpacing it (using their brains) is exactly why we're at the top of the food chain.

Who are we to think we can't do better in the lab, when almost every worthwhile human invention has been precisely that – beating evolution at its own game?

I do agree with your initial premise though, we should be very careful and spend a lot of time considering the environmental impact. It's also very easy to say that as a well-off westerner with abundant access to food, though ;)
Troll Bridge is being produced as a short film...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/snowgumfilms/terry-prat...
I'm a little bit older, so I started at the start with Colour of Magic, and then went back for Truckers etc.

As for Pyramids, for me as someone who's first programming language was an 8-bit BASIC variant, and was amidst calculus and trig etc. in his later high school career
the camel's thought processes were totally mindblowing.

For all I know, Terry Pratchett accidentally rigged reality through writing this book in order to turn me into a software developer...

--

"The silence that followed was by way of being a standing ovation.

The landscape began to distort again. This was clearly not a place to linger. You Bastard looked down at his front legs.

Let legs equal four.

He lumbered into a run. Camels apparently have more knees than any other creature and You Bastard ran like a steam engine, with lots of extraneous movement at right angles to the direction of motion accompanied by a thunderous barrage of digestive noises.

'Bloody stupid animal,' muttered Ptraci, as they jolted away from the palace, 'but it looks like it finally got the idea.'
"