skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take this on.

HFT replaces "expensive humans" with specialist computers that try to site right next to the trading servers, so they can take advantage of the speed of light.

So may I suggest a simpler alternative: Run a trading system with three chunks of time: "get orders", "serve orders", "rest". These intervals could he an hour or 15 seconds. But these way a phone on the otherside of the planet could put in a trade along with the speed of light computers, and not be at a disadvantage.

All HFT is doing is licking the cream off the top of the market -- and not providing any value that a more fair computerized trading system would provide.
also, why inflict your "quirkiness" on your kids by naming them random letter combinations
I did literally mean a decade for the compiler (so 2005). While it is not a full IDE by any means, VS Express did include the standard VS compiler. You could compile most standard C programs on windows with that. For some time prior to that you could get a compiler with the DDK as well (but I don't remember since when; it has been a long time). Of course express didn't pack some of the libraries that came with VS; you could get most of them via the SDK and DDK however.

In the 90s though, I used the non-free VS for the most part along with some Cygwin until Mingw's appearence in the late 90s.
Somebody told me it's based on LabVIEW.
Then you probably should not be taking on work that human lives depend on. Placing my bills over someone else's bills is a perfectly human reaction. But placing my bills over someone else's life -- a typical human should not feel this way.
It's a strange thing, with the scales (I presume) are involved (here as well). I worked a bit with refurbishing "small" oil-rigs, now used mostly for search drilling. They "only" stand about 70m above sea level when elevated for refurbishing.

But even these "small" rigs (typically built in the 70s, with a goal of lasting 5-10 years) -- are so huge -- that most people that worked on them had no issues with vertigo/fear of heights. When you stand on top, looking down, all the sizes are so big, that your brain doesn't see a 70m drop down to the ocean as all that far, because the support towers are so huge, that you just cannot fathom their size. Sometimes you can look down, and make out the ant-like forms of people working -- but even then, the brain just can't process the dimensions.

I think I have some illustrative photos on a drive somewhere, but apparently not on hand.

One of the few photography projects I'm aware of that comes close to both capturing the size, and displaying the size, is the series by Edward Burtynsky that I became aware of through the film "Manufactured Landscapes" - scenes like:

http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/site_contents/Photographs/Min...

The magnitude quite literally boggles the mind - the size is just super human. And that usually transfers quite poorly to film.
> But if something like diff.io was in place in your browser, in your content publishing system, in your social networks, having it just in your CI would seem limited. Would you agree?

No, I don't. I have about 0 interest in seeing diffs of social networks or most web pages. It might make sense in a CMS but even there I think most people are better served by traditional textual diffs.

It sounds like you've found a good solution for a medium problem (preventing visual regressions) but want to expand it into a "movement."
How to Manage Your Podcast with Process Street
Punishing kids for having stupid parents seems kind of Jenny McCarthyist.
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> it's considered lower level to be a software engineer than to be a mechanical or electrical engineer, so the smartest kids do not study computer science (this might have changed since).

Which is very interesting, because in US it is completely opposite (and frankly it is not good either). Is it because US deindustrialized itself last 40 years?
Lego launches a Minecraft competitor on Steam
I have windows 8.1 Pro so I guess my conversion will be to 10 Pro. But I feel pity if you can't choose the updates.

Updating windows 8.1 was a pain in the ass for me. Every time I try to update (in cycles of 2~3 months) there is an update that "breaks" the update process and I have to find it, uncheck and try again. A process than could me takes hours (if I'm unlucky). But if you can't update because you are doomed then you are doomed.
Lego Worlds Trailer
When I was a young stock analyst (a more senior role than described here, in a different department) in the 1980s, I was regarded as weird because I pulled the occasional all-nighter. But that was a different role in a different era.

The lives of investment banking analyst types indeed sound pretty awful. It's one of those careers that nobody would possibly pursue except in the hope of making money. I'd say that's a bad characteristic for a job to have, but of course the large majority of the working population does just that, albeit for less money and in most cases fewer hours as well.
Why doesn't the FSF release GPG-signed copies of its licenses?
The site shows an SSL warning message. The certificate details says it was issued by "Avast untrusted CA".
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This. The mobile equivalent of Office is not Office Mobile, but a combination of killer email, to-do and calendar apps. I really like Microsoft's direction under Nadella.
I don't really have that much sympathy. All these Wall Street types knew what they were signing up for: obscene hours and tons of pressure in return for obscene compensation.

If we're going to worry about overworked, stressed out people, let's start by caring about poor people stringing together three or four part-time jobs trying to make ends meet with no benefits.
the worst part about coding audio tools, is getting around the awfull host code for your plugins on things such as protools
Another point not mentioned by the author: A lot of us choose to use an alternative (eg: gitlab), because we prefer to use FLOSS software, rather than a proprietary SaSS.
I'm just hoping someone will create a new Electron (used in Atom), but based on Servo instead of Chromium.
as someone who lost a friend last year to skin cancer and has a work colleague with end-stage breast cancer that has spread to her bones - bring it on.

as someone working in life sciences - years off, even with FDA fast track. the incentive to reap billions is justified, this is far more important than a fucking social sharing app - it better be more profitable. the best minds should work on a cure for cancer not bullshit timewasters.
There's an "ounce of prevention, pound of cure" joke in here somewhere

:P
There's undefined behaviour in the "main" language, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9050999
Your "bootstrap" level should be free. I don't see any bootstrapping startup paying for a service they don't need / can build themselves for free (if they're really desperate for it.)

You want to capture that potential future business, and hope that you can convert them to paying customers as they become profitable; you don't want them to go "hey, great idea, but I'm not paying for that" and then implement their own solution.
There was an article about this (in New Yorker, I think...) a few years back, t how Japan has this strange relationship with software.

How it is a hardware-first country. Many reasons were given -- cultural, how "real men build real things", infatuation with appliances, which are seen as being "hardware" in a way, perhaps the langauge barrier i.e. existing software tools using English for menus and inputs etc.

And it is kind of interesting, looking back at a country that many in the 80's feared with surpass and leave the Western world in the dust technology-wise, we haven't seen that much software produced there. Can you think of large well known software from Japan (excluding console games). Vine Linux, SoftEther VPN, TrendMicro, anything else?

One wonders if they see Western software companies and if there is any desire to catch up or try to keep up.

Maybe anyone from Japan can provide a better perspective?
This is also an interesting contrast to the (I assume higher quality) kind of work being put out by their other engineering departments- how can they make other sound engineering decisions on the rest of the car and it's manufacture, but fail at the software?

Is it something specific to software vs. traditional engineering in Japanese culture, or is it something inherent to software in general? Given the parent's complaints about workplace culture in general, shouldn't the entire car be badly designed?
In principle I agree with you, however I doubt it was a scrappy startup team of 3-10 scientists who will be reaping the billions, and I bet it will be incumbent pharmaceutical gargantuans who will earn the bulk of profits.
Save half of what you make, diversify your investments, and pay down your debt. Do this for 15 years and you will be rich with your skills.
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Tip: Remove the "plans" page. This thing is too early stage to start talking about $ plans. Nobody even knows what the hell this is or what it is good for.

Your business model should be as follows:

1. Make something new, useful and free.
2. Get people hooked on it, like a drug.
3. Grow a modest user base.
4. Introduce "value added" features, marked as preview or beta, for enterprise customers and integration into other web services.
5. Once features added in step 4 have matured, remove the beta clauses and slap a price tag on them.
> When the news first broke a few years ago, given Toyota's reputation for quality and process, I thought this was an American industry lead witch-hunt of a Japanese competitor. But if this testimony is correct, what Toyota engineers have done is unforgivable.

These two possibilities aren't mutually exclusive.

Software engineering practices aside, was it ever demonstrated that unintended acceleration could actually arise from the behavior of this software?
When I built something like this, I used http://wkhtmltopdf.org and http://pdiff.sourceforge.net.
One solution would be to use an existing GitHub integration to trigger a screenshot on diff.io.

Shameless plug: I'm the founder of https://commando.io, and we have a GitHub service that allows users to run scripts (we call them recipes) on push of a repo on servers. You could write a simple recipe in Commando.io in bash to trigger the screenshot on diff.io:

http://public.recipes/Xr1eCr
I have a Mazda 3, which didn't have the fuel computer display (shows you remaining mileage, current mpg etc). After I bought it I found out that by doing a little dance with the buttons and turning it on and off I could enable it. Now the only difference is that mine has a blank button to cycle through it rather than one that says "Fuel Comp".
Nice idea. But it would have been great if there could have been a trial/free version. I would like to test the service so that I understand what exactly it is about. Watching a video and reading text does not help much until you try it out by yourself.
I'll take you up on that offer. Having comprehensive examples, documentation, and tutorials is something that sets Alt apart and I'd definitely like to have more of it.

You, and anyone else, is free to also contribute to alt itself, check out the issues tagged with "help wanted" https://github.com/goatslacker/alt/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ai...

Patches are super welcome :)
Toyota has a reputation for mechanical engineering quality and process which it probably still deserves.

Software engineering is apparently the opposite.
Scribus 1.5 released, finally a decent open-source alternative to InDesign?
> it was up to you to think about the fact that this was bound to attract regulators' attention

Oh please, these people are what, 22? 25? They are supposed to know the basics of security law off the tops of their heads?

They got an idea and spun it up in a weekend. Yes, on reflection, allowing this sort of thing opens all sorts of loopholes for bad actors. And it had to be shut down. But it isn't as if this was done by a bunch of associates at Sullivan & Cromwell, or the interns at Goldman Sachs. They did something fun, it got afoul of the securities laws, whatever. Explain the legal breech and practical problem and tell them to pack it up, boom, we're done.

But bureaucrats are basically sycophants and / or bullies. They aren't in the job to protect the public. They're in the job to make money by connections, and to push around people without the knowledge or stones to tell them to fuck off.
Check engine light? Passenger without a seatbelt?

I mean, it's an embedded system, resources are scarce. There are more elegant solutions, yes. But a pattern of setting an error condition from a bunch of different sensors, that's checked from a bunch of locations seems reasonable. At least, not insane.
Unless you're living without luxuries then you are prioritizing your access to luxuries over the lives of others. That's unconscionable, even if you word it as "bills to pay and mouths to feed".

If you're working as an engineer for Toyota's firmware it's unlikely that you won't be able to find sufficiently well paying work to keep the kids in clothes and food and keep a roof over your head.
If pluto was a planet we'd have to memorize way more than nine planets

http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/dps.html
>mumbo jumbo...cult...terrible marketing

Meh, I don't think it's that big a deal, nor do I think the marketing is bad. You clearly understood that there was some "cool technology" there, right? And, CI is just one use case, right? Still, while the creator doesn't appear to have designed it so narrowly, you are nevertheless seeing the potential application and inquiring. I'd say that's a marketing win.

Of course, with more interest and feedback, the product and message can be honed.

So, maybe your feedback will help the creator, but there are better ways to communicate your opinion. Don't want to be "harsh"? Then, don't be. No need for the side commentary about cults, mumbo-jumbo, and terrible marketing. Those phrases contributed nothing to your otherwise potentially useful feedback. But, they may be discouraging early words for someone who's just poured a lot into a project.
The Business Imperative Behind the Ethereum Vision
people who quit often take a massive pay cut,
are forced into contract work with no safety

Is this due to the salaryman culture in Japan? I'd probably have a heart attack if I had to work under that kind of work culture.
Including enforcing their own challenges. Hey, there are people playing Mario 64 without using the A button (the jump button).
I always thought that the way to ensure zero failures at a level is to ensure accuracy at the next level.

For example, if all trains runs with a minute accuracy at every points, then there won't be any collision by mistake.
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We're looking to expand our engineering teams to help build the next generation of real-time IT analytics products. We're looking for great frontend engineers, data pipeline engineers, designers, etc. We're a modern shop that practices chatops and continuous delivery using tools like Slack, Github, Asana, AWS, Salt, etc

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For simple configurations that have global affects, global variables might be easier than some other methods of keeping track of settings. It's a bit more frequent in embedded software than other software though.
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I guess Go is a real language now that it has a TRS-80 emulator. Seriously though, great accomplishment. This is really neat esp after I just got done watching "halt and catch fire" tonight
Hi! Do you sponsor work visas?
i use one program with frequent updates which distributes from sourceforge.

the installer is a piece of work.

first, it is a fake-installer (that installs nothing) with the actual installer inside. that program first offers you "standard" and "advanced" fake-install options (remember, it install nothing)... when you click "advanced" it now shows 3 checkboxes, checked, that will 1. install a browser toolbar, 2. set your default homepage, 3. set your default search engine. You uncheck them all and click accept (it is also showing a terms and conditions). now it will show something like "also install this tracking or browser or i don't even know what it was?" and there is only the same buttons as before on the fake-installer: "decline" and "accept". Now you have to remember to go against all your knowledge of install wizards and click the left button "decline" to proceed with your desired program only. now you click accept or finish, don't remember, one last time, and the fake-installer forks to the actual installer that you wanted from the beginning.
"Ruinous" is a strong word. It seems like a lot of money, plus the legal bills, right? But you'll be ok.

I definitely agree that it's unfair. But life goes like that. Don't focus on the assholes. Pay your bills and move. Ten years from now, this just a really good story.

You'll be fine.
Sleep consultants cost hundreds of dollars an hour. If this works people will pay.
Did you mean "Deindustrialization or deindustrialisation is a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, especially heavy industry or manufacturing industry."

?

That doesn't sound applicable to the USA, which currently produces more goods than ever before, and more than any other nation except China.
I was looking around and I found https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.l... which comes from Facebook itself. Strangely it is incompatible with all my devices and I think this is due to a play store location based restriction (I am based in India).
Take a look at https://chains.cc/
let me know if you can find that New Yorker article, I'd be interested in reading it.
It's bad if your synth is aiming to be a virtual analog. The correct behavior of extreme resonance, at least in a Moog-type filter, is self-oscillation [0], but actually achieving that through digital subtractive techniques remains CPU-intensive and a cutting-edge filter design challenge, because all the action is taking place at the top of the spectrum, where sampling rates start to matter.

A generic "clean digital" filter sound that can do typical resonant sweeps would be acceptable for a web synth, and a purely additive emulation like that of IL Harmless would be good enough for almost everything. There's no such thing as a totally worthless sound, but some sounds are more immediately useful for musical purposes, and letting the filter break usually indicates a low attention to detail. Low-quality digital resonance tends to have a "dentist's drill" timbre to it, even when it's not broken.

A last thought: I don't know how your envelopes are made right now, but they matter a great deal to the timbre. The curvature matters, as does the speed. You can use a generic filter with poor resonance performance, but the overall result will still sound pretty good with quality oscillators and well-tuned envelopes.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVgIf71uWB4