skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably won't get much love ( I hated the "landing page" while making it ), but http://paste.click/

It was really just to put something in on the domain root. Only a couple people actually use paste.click, and it was written just for my own use initially, but people asked wtf it was every time I linked to something on it so it got a "landing page". I didn't put all too much thought into it, but after I pushed it live I realized that it's everything I want in a landing page.

It describes what it is, has some examples, and that's about it. No marketing speak or buzzwords. Now, obviously its not a product or anything, and I don't intend to market it or care about who uses it, which gives me some leeway, plus there's not all too much to say about it, but I wish more landing pages had a similar feel.
Agreed but there is no such thing in this case that surpass pure sugar.
http://yathletics.com/ is not working for me.
Right on. I'm just now unpacking the stuff I packed up ten years ago before traveling the world. I wish I had gotten rid of everything but the mementos back then. Few things will have value after a year, three, or ten.
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There's no way that there's a human in the loop. You're talking one second from the newswire hitting the Internet to a trade being executed on the exchange.

More likely, the human prepares a list of scenarios of the form of "If a news story with these keywords appears, it will affect the valuation of this company in this way, perhaps plugging these numbers from the article into some model." News story hits the wire, the program reads it and applies some simple text mining, it compares the current market prices with the expected valuation, and it sends an order to the exchange to execute the trade.

Way back in 2006, I worked at a financial software startup where one of our products (the only one that made money, actually) did exactly this. The company is defunct now - it had a bit too little focus for a small shop of a dozen or so people, and its other products weren't all that succesful - but that was one of the things that actually worked.

If you're trading manually on time-sensitive information these days, you are an idiot. Back in 2006 it was something like 80% of trades on the market are automated bots; the only people who still put a human in the loop are the rubes.
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Some would argue too much access. Contingency payment means a lot attorneys troll for clients to sue anyone with money.
I can't tell if that's a rather passive-aggressive ad hominem or what, but sometimes its hard to know the true inner machinations of some of our "revered" tech giants until you've seen them from the inside. Needless to say that's not somewhere I stay for long.
This title seems kinda weird. Can a mod make it more about the fact that the test method is in question rather than that someone got rich because they invented it?
As a long time Debian user in a professional environment I was really excited to see that Debian 8 finally added proper SELinux policies - however my colleagues and I were very disappointed to see that these (although working without noticeable issue) were dropped at the last minute with no explanation.

Several people in the community have asked what happened to the packages but had no reply from the Debian mailing list. I've asked several times on twitter but I too have had no response from the official Debian twitter account.

Sources:

* http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/selinux-devel/2015-...

* http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/selinux-devel/2015-...

* https://twitter.com/s_mcleod/status/589699467885948928

* https://twitter.com/s_mcleod/status/583172820802281472
>Toyota's software had so many bugs that it was impossible /to/ tell what paths would lead to UA,

your statement sounds kind of contradictory to me. If there many - just choose any path. It may be impossible to say which one actually happened, yet should be possible to show an actual path, at least one, that could plausibly lead to UA.
It's no longer insider trading if the information has been made public. There would be no advantage to doing this either. There are thousands of firms and individuals running keyword based trading bots. You would be competing with all of them.
They could make the spread wider after the first 500 contracts go off in a certain interval. Even the in the S&P outcry pit in Chicago sometimes the bid/ask spread goes wide or even no bid when things move too far or too fast for comfort. Next time a jobs number comes out or other financial data point look at the spread right before the number is released. These marker makers are survivors, if they're nervous about inventory risk they shrink size and you get thinner markets (bid/ask sizes) or wider spreads. Of course, if the options market shows something very out of sync with the underlying that is a signal that something is up or there is a market force that hasn't yet caused the underlying to move. Because an American option can be exercised anytime before expiration both options and the underlying stay pretty closely aligned with each other using the theoretical pricing model of each market maker.

I'm sure this trader has programmers working on this problem and putting in some type of limiting such that he doesn't sell off 3000 contracts in one go for a very cheap option close to expiration. 3000 contracts is nothing in SPY options but for a single name stock (not an ETF) it can be considered a sizable trade compared to the open interest.
Considering

1) how much other components are shared between manufacturers, and having companies like Delphi Automotive doing a lot of work for many manufacturers

2) how often car manufacturers own parts of each other, and how often these ownership structures change (look at Ford and Volvo and Mazda, or Daimler-Chrysler, etc)

I would imagine there are shared platforms and components, also software, between manufacturers.
Seems unlikely. Can't see how that would be possible without creating a support nightmare even just updating Windows with special restrictions.
https://baremetrics.com/ has a very nice LP and the product UI by itself is awesome too https://demo.baremetrics.com/.
If you want to read more about the design process for dropbox's homepage the designer wrote about it here: http://byalicelee.com/dropbox/#homepage

It's cool seeing the initial sketches and the other variants of the page they had considered.
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It might not be insider trading in a legal sense, but in a moral sense it kinda is.
Well, if everybody started doing it, won't the returns fall to zero? Sort of like if arbitrage opportunities are present (in this case its a technological one), this would go away.

I bet since writing this article the opportunities has pretty much slipped. Now anyone living close to the exchanges will do this.
https://sublevel.net is pretty nice.
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When I hear the word "Scrum" I unclip the safety on my Browning Automatic.
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@adamwulf Cool guide! I'm working on a more development oriented guide based on my app Blanqd (http://blanqd.com). I think it will be useful for folks to see all the nitty gritty details you just don't think about dev-wise going into building your first app. My app is pretty straight-forward and it still took quite a bit of effort.

Fyi, I noticed it says "No in app purchases" at the bottom of your app's store description. I thought you said you switched over to IAP in the guide? Maybe a discrepancy.
IIRC, breaking into Maridia early doesn't even let you proceed. You don't have the gravity suit yet, so all you can do at that point is slog around a few rooms and then go back out the way you came. It's mostly just an Easter egg.
Hi, this is really cool.. I'll admit to having never heard of or used Ghost, but I applaud the effort of building this to learn a new language. There is also a hidden value many people underestimate in having a project that is quite similar to others but in a different language.

I'm really curious about your Lua integration. I had also not previously heard of gopher-lua. How has your experience with this been?
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Maybe this: http://blog.sueraisty.com/push-out-founder-prestock/
Reminds me a bit of Google+ and all the effort they sank into that to compete with FB...
Now that you point it out, I agree. We changed the title to make it more neutral.
so saying IANAL is a legal disclaimer? What exactly are the repercussions of this concept?

I thought people were allowed to self-represent at least...
I think the demand is the company itself should be doing those tests and publishing them. I can't say I see a reason they didn't.

I'm not sure how available the tests are yet, but if it's available really anyone could test it. However, it requires a sample of a large diverse population to get statistical significance and that isn't cheap, which is why most academics probably aren't interested in doing it.
"American Fuzzy Lop" - it's named after a breed of rabbit where the ears sag down.
Looking at that page I have no idea what they do. It's taking the 'vague' landing page to the extreme in a very annoying way.
Automatic trading is an automatic occurrence in deed, and many bots are design to respond to news, tweets, and all kinds of things. That said, if you really think you can write a bot that can do really good in the market, why not just make one. For the sake of argument, just assume that you can confirm a trade in 1-5 seconds, make a bot that just does fake trades, give it $10k in fake currency, and let it play.

Come to think about it, such a system, with an API, would be really nice to have. Something that allows anyone to create a trading bot and see how it performs. Any one what to make one? :)
Yeah, I'm a Ting customer for 7 months now, and honestly it's been a dream. I haven't had to interact with their support because everything has just worked, for less than half of Verizon's price.
The composition of the board has always bothered me. It's not at all clear what business value a lot of those people bring. Maybe opening certain doors, but I would've thought in such an area, as the article suggests, you would want more medical expertise.

That should be a little bit of a red flag to anyone - since the history of scientific fraud is full of lone specialists who couldn't brook explaining the technical details to anyone else qualified to understand them.
Google, with their map products used on phones, websites and via their web search, is in a far better position to supplant yelp/trip advisor etc, because they have much more data than someone like foursquare; they have visits, searches, route requests worldwide and also the POI data which they are encouraging people to use and enter for them.
Hey, thanks for sharing! Could you please elaborate on your trip and countries you’ve visited?
For one, it reduces the effects of adverse selection[1]. The idea is that everyone reaps economic benefits through such programs, as an average company will have a pool of workers, some who are "healthy" although others may have medical problems.

Compare this to a individuals wanting health insurance - if they're young and healthy they're less likely to want to pay much for insurance, which leaves older and sicker people to pay higher and higher premiums. Of course this is really only an issue with privatized insurance and is a great argument for having a single-payer solution.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
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I imagine there would be pretty good money in licensing an API. That's probably where the real money is--let the idiots make the trades, and you sell them the software.
I miss when most content was there because someone thought other people might find it interesting/entertaining/useful, as opposed to because they wanted to drive daily pageviews.
Corporations are not allowed to self-represent; they must use a lawyer (at least in some jurisdictions).
These bots don't actually do much analysis. They just weight keywords and sources. "Buys" or "acquisition" in a WSJ headline has a pretty clear cut meaning. Financial headlines also tend to be pretty easy to parse (e.g. "X Buys Y").
> That said, if their attitude is really "if you complain about CVS, you are not worthy", that is bound to turn off many people, and for good reason.

Perhaps their goal isn't reaching those people.
While I did learn something new from your comment, I can't imagine any enterprise shop that's not running Oracle DB or MSSQL. Maybe it's just the bias I have from my job history, but for standard enterprise shops and their OLTP data, is there any competitor to Oracle DB & MSSQL? I know that at my employer they use berekleydb/teradata/hadoop/mainframe systems for different workloads, but the bread and butter is Oracle RAC clusters.

Not saying that I think Oracle DB & MSSQL is unbeatable, I'm asking because I am trying to see what exists outside my little biased view.
No the problem is no one can get their hands on a sufficient quantity of the tests in order to run such an analysis. This is not a cheap or easy exercise to do rigorously, and would require a fair amount of staffing to carry out properly.

The company being non-cooperative is it's right - it's just not good science.
Is the point of negative interest rates to remove money from the system? Is it any different than printing more money?
Or is it simply to encourage people to spend more often?
They can send the bots to jail.
So the CEO dropped out of Standford at 19, started this company, and now she's a billionaire? I can see dropping out to found Facebook, but a biotech company?

What skills did she have that allowed her to do this, and where did she get the money to hire all the needed PhDs and get through FDA testing? How would she have even gotten access to the equipment and test subjects to prove that her idea was worth investing in outside of an academic setting? The whole thing sounds crazy.

Edit:

I read Elizabeth Holmes Wikipedia page and it says that when she was a sophomore at Stanford, her Chemical Engineering professor encouraged her to found the company. But I can't find anything about about any breakthroughs she made that warrant the millions in early investments. No one seems to want to talk about what exactly it is they're doing, and they're board of directors has a former Secretary of State, a former Secretary of Defense, and a former Senator. The fact that she's also been able to maintain 51% of this company is also astounding.
Foursquare has a substantial amount of 3 of those 4 data sources - and with Swarm, the potential to continuously improve those data sources quicker than Google has been able to.

Route requests probably aren't that interesting to someone trying to supplant Yelp - if you were trying to supplant TripAdvisor you might want travel bookings, but that's a case of connecting to the users email account (with their permission) and grabbing the lovely JSON encoded tickets and booking details.
They are in that position, yet Maps is still unusable without the mandatory two clicks every time to "Return to classic" and Google Reviews is but a stunted afterthought. Plenty of time for competitors to grow while waiting for Google's interface design to come out of that coma.
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I'm kind of perplexed why Apple needs FDA approval for their watch to measure blood oxygen, yet Theranos can develop a completely novel blood testing technique whose results could impact major medical decisions without having to conduct a single study.

(note that I'm not saying that Theranos hasn't conducted studies, rather the FDA doesn't require any)
Fascinating document. I always wondered if these well-worded explanations and positionings in historical context serve to get the logo accepted by biasing the reader, or if they genuinely add something. In other words, I wonder if the same logo, supported by a different document, will lead to a different answer by the client. Given all the work that's obviously been put into this document, I suspect it does matter.

As an entrepreneur, I will endeavour to be presented the logo of my project in the same light and context that my customers will see it, and not with a heavy serving of storytelling, as that can only make things worse for my poor brain when it comes to choosing.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to read the context and process that led to the design, but only after I've made a choice.
I'm quite suspect on how is 'cross-platform' feat is achieved. Non-UI code shares well. As for the other: "Windows, iOS, and Android app development" ... "Free Microsoft extensions available for download for iOS and Android development" may not as positive as it's spun to be.
About 3 years ago I traveled for 13 months with my wife (then girlfriend). Mostly traveled in Asia then the transiberian to Europe, some Africa and the middle east then a road trip across the US. Lots of awesome advice here. One thing I'd add is to not be afraid to do something just because western travelers rarely do it. There seems to be a lot of "common wisdom" about what is a safe/reasonable thing that is just off. As for money, I programmed 10 hours/week (mostly on overnight bus trips and the like) and our costs were approx $50/day/person in less expensive countries then $100/day/person in more expensive countries.
I was under the impression that OpenBSD's unit testing files reside in the src/regress directory.

Here is the relevant directory for file: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/regress/usr.bin...

The files in that directory sure look like tests to me. Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks for the guide. I appreciate the reading list.
Those systems exist, Metatrader, TradeStation, NinjaTrader, and people do exactly that and have been for years.
That's a good talk. Very slow start, and many long pauses, though. The important part starts around 00:31:00:

"You cannot have speed without quality. ... You cannot have speed while you are carrying technical debt."
Hey YC, clean out these biased bad cops you guys have working at HN
And, fix the downvoting problem. The downvoting problem is going to be the downfalling problem of HN. I've been following the discussion on this here:	Ask HN: Is it fair game to downvote someone's comments indiscriminately? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9438440 and it really hits home. It's a huge problem. This is a new account I had to make just to submit this without being auto downvoted. Lets not pretend this kind of crap is not happening in one way or another. It's very detracting to what we are all trying to accomplish here.
Timehop is pretty limited in its scope, I'd do a fullblown diary & life tracker
I had the same experience with grad school after extended traveling. The rules and administration were suffocating after having so much freedom. I also had a hard time relating to classmates and their concerns seemed so trivial compared to the rest of the world. However, this might have been the same if I'd gone back to work.
FDA testing regulations loophole.
I think the comparison to third culture kids is quite relevant.

My dad was in the military for my first 15 years, which meant we lived in a lot of random places. My parents wanted to expose me to other cultures, so they typically lived off-base and sent me to local schools. The whole experience made my childhood more stressful than most, but looking back I'm very thankful. I admit I'm missing out on some things. I don't have a home town. I don't remember the names of childhood friends, let alone keep in touch with them. I find it hard to care about local sports teams. But the benefits far outweigh the downsides. My view of culture is much less parochial than most. I've seen the same mental algorithms running on different data sets. It's almost like cultures are using one Mad Libs template, but substituting different words. And unlike a lot of people in my demographic, I've been on the receiving end of racism (both explicit and unconscious). I find this helps me empathize with victims of current discrimination.[1]

It's fascinating to hear from someone who first experienced other cultures later in life. The realizations seem similar, but more unpleasant. While reading the grandparent's post, a strange thought popped into my head: "It's as if an adult just discovered the truth about Santa Claus." Writing this, I can still see the resemblance. GP: Please don't take that as an insult. Most people never realize how provincial their worldview is.

1. It also helps me see the perpetrators as victims of their own culture. Obviously, this doesn't excuse their behavior, but it does help one understand it. Had I spent my whole childhood in Alabama, there's a decent chance I'd be an unpleasant bigot. Instead, I see such people and think, "There but for fortune go I."
I am sorry, I'm not following your extended analogy.

Could you please elaborate on what "bloodletting" and "modern medicine" represent here?
Exactly. This is what I was hoping for from an investigative piece on Theranos. Even an n=1 sample where the author had his or her blood tests done with Theranos and a competitor would be worth more than all the speculation in this article.
> Norton Secured

Ruuuun!
Seriously? Just because you can't imagine it, it must be a scam?
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The New Yorker had a good article that covers her background. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler
They don't need to prove it works, they only need to prove that it doesn't. That's related to how defenders need to close all the holes but hackers only need to find one to get in, proving that it doesn't work for a subset of the tests is enough to put a substantial hole in the boat.

Proving that it works is a much harder problem that probably only Theranos is willing to finance.
Most financial news feeds are distributed in a standard format. [1]

https://iptc.org/standards/
Especially if such a test gave different results than the accepted competitors test.
But okay with them in Utah or some other state far away? You can just got to Columbia once a year as you fly once a year to Utah. Plus the whether is better.
they probably excluded all the boring and reasonable parts of the story

>When she was 9, her family moved to Houston, where her father had taken up a job with Tenneco (Oil Company). Intrigued by their father's work in China, Elizabeth and her brother learned Mandarin Chinese at a young age.[5] She spent her teenage years in China, and while still in school, started a business selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities.[8][5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes
I once wrote a special-purpose database kernel - not SQL, the database engine itself - for a Bahamian hedge fund.

It is because of my experience with that hedge fund that I won't take quantitative investment work anymore. I came to regard it as unethical.

I would not be in any way surprised if it were my former clients that pulled this off. There were some smart people there.
I've been trying to use Swarm because I have friends who do, but the interface is so atrociously bad, they should fire that designer and sue for damages. Months later I still have no fucking idea which icon does what, I just tap random things until something happens. And it doesn't allow private check-ins, so it discourages me from checking-in somewhere unless I want to broadcast it to all of my friends. Do they want my data or not?
I Don't think the bitcoin one gives the audience enough control over what they are seeing. It's nice to be able to scroll up and down the page to get a feel of the features. That one you have to sit through an animated sequence. I almost instinctively closed the page.