skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some ideas:

- throttle your orders to the market

- set a threshold for market risk you can take per symbol, per sector, etc.

- take into consideration average daily volume of a symbol for calculating market risk threshold

- implement controls to send cancels for unfilled orders in the event if algo goes haywire

- reject orders priced at some percentage less or more than current market price per share
They'll get right on that when they're barely getting by week by week.

Between the mental exhaustion of crippling poverty combined with physical exhaustion from working incredibly demanding jobs, there's not a lot of time to learn personal finance. Not to mention, there's just not a lot of resources to do so for the poor.

Wheres the disdain for predatory companies who prey on that susceptibility?
Not necessarily, distance between satellites most definitely will be shorter than on ground network.
Not really. Pay day lenders lend money to people who are desperate as they need some money right now.

These people are buying a $1500 sofa when there are used alternatives readily available.
These people...

In my experience, pretty much anything anyone ever has ever said that starts with those two words can be dismissed out of hand.

EDIT: It's called hyperbole. But when you couple a "these people" with some sweeping, judgmental pronouncement about how the people in question are doing something stupid, wrong, immoral, &c, it becomes radically less so, and quickly.
So for corporate America, It's basically open season on the misinformed and undereducated poor?
This sounds a lot like predatory lending - There is a good chance, the retailer is counting on these people to default so that they can sell the couch at 1000$ retail to the next gullible person who walks in.

EDIT: I am not saying this should be illegal. Clearly, Buddy's is offering a useful service to people who are turned away by other establishments. But there needs to be some regulation. You shouldn't be able to charge $4500 for a 1500$ couch.
I love the first issue - Add crypto ron's pubkey hehe:
https://github.com/goshakkk/nsa_panel/issues/15
The obvious solution is to use a Web Worker,

var code = "onmessage = function (evt) {evt.data.sort(); postMessage(evt.data)}";

function asyncSort(data, cb) {
var worker = new Worker(URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([code])));
worker.onmessage = function (evt) { cb(evt.data); };
worker.postMessage(data);
}

Example,

asyncSort([3, 2, 1], function (res) { console.log(res); });

Prints,

"[1, 2, 3]"
My friend, I hope you never get dealt the same hand they got. It's not life, but merely surviving.
I have read the anti-FlashBoys book to try and grasp it (HFT is not bad and has cut spreads in equities by 5/6ths in ten years) but I still do not understand one HFT algorithm (other than the debunked front running idea)

Could someone explain what algo traders / HFT actually do?
Is it all looking for a variation off of a relationship between say OrangeGrowersInc and OrangeJuiceBottlers Inc? And why is speed so important then?
I still don't get it. If they're paying $150 a week to finance the nice couch, why not stick it out for two weeks without a couch and buy the $300 one on craigslist?
Thanks for engaging in the dialogue.

From your answers it would appear that you are on the brink of seeing your idea come to fruition.

If it is any help, try to integrate each technical area one by one into the complete application. The incremental results might give you that extra shot of energy seeing the finish line so close.

Good Luck!
Are there any technical details anywhere? Papers? Patent applications? ...
> Normal families have sofas, she says, and you’ll do what it takes to feel normal.

"Normal" families buy new things too. "Normal" families don't scrimp and save just so they can have chairs to sit on, and beds to sleep in.

Interestingly, I neither have chairs in my apartment nor a bed. Nobody thinks I'm "abnormal" in this respect because I live in Japan. It is a bit strange that I work from home, program on an end table I borrowed from my mother-in-law and I sit on a stool that I bought for about $15 (admittedly new). But I started using that 6 months ago thinking I would upgrade when I needed to. Surprisingly I haven't needed to.

The expectation of "normality" is what is killing the poor. This is based on your culture. You need a bed. You need a sofa. You need a kitchen table. You need an oven. You need a car. You need a sensible desk to work on. You need a special work chair. You need cable television.

None of these things are actually needed in most cases. Possibly a person needs one or two of these things in specific cases, just like I need a computer to do my job. I don't have any of the things listed above and I'm not poor by any stretch of the imagination. My life seems perfectly "normal" to me.

Without trying to sound superior (which is really difficult because probably I am unconsciously feeling that way), the skills you need to live happily on a very, very low income are probably the same skills you need to have to make (and keep) a lot of money.
The business model is aimed squarely at exploitation. It is a cynical way to make money. However perfectly legal and profitable, and they have expenses too so I guess we must say it is OK.
It's two words of extremely basic English. How would you refer to a specific set of humans?
It gets worse:

> They were perpetually behind with their Buddy’s installments and had taken to skipping one week and then catching up, with a $5 late fee rolled in. To make matters worse, those payment trips to Buddy’s put them eye to eye with more temptations. One week, they added a smartphone to their order. Another week, some Samsung speakers. And suddenly, the weekly payments to Buddy’s were $110.

And more:

> By midday that Thursday, $51 of the $230 had already vanished, used for gas and cigarettes

They're already on the edge financially, to the point where even eating healthily is an issue yet they still buy cigarettes and add even more monthly payments for unnecessary technology.

Basic life skills like budgeting, saving money, paying taxes and controlling your debt really need to be taught in schools. Maybe add it to math. Teaching math with practical lessons benefits everyone.
I think most people dont care about how closed apple app ecosystem and is not the reason they call it evil. They call apple evil for introducing features in iOS copied from popular apps then outright ban or put hurdles in the way of that app.
I dont care that apple allows migration from Android to iOS but they should also allow it to go the other way as well.
Apple behaviour with ebook publishers, coders and now the with rumors going on about music shows a consistent. Immoral behaviour if not alway illegal. The Ceo of Apple harps about how people are stealing your data not respecting people privacy but at the same time introduces similar features. They wont be using to sell ad space but they are still getting and collecting the same data.
These companies are despicable, for sure, but they couldn't exist without a long line of poor suckers. Both parties are clearly at fault in different ways, but we can fix the problem without ignoring the poor or inventing significant new and complex laws to clamp down on bad actors: We invest in education.

When we have another sub-prime style meltdown we need to bail the economy out of, we're going to be wishing we invested in our schools and added basic life skills such as personal finance to the lesson plans. It's certainly cheaper to bailout schools than financial institutions.

Anything else will fix a symptom, not cure the disease.
This is a bug in GHC 7.10.1 on OS X: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10322. Until GHC 7.10.2 is released, we recommend building with 7.8.4 on Mac.
Payment history is a large part in determining your credit score.

http://www.myfico.com/crediteducation/whatsinyourscore.aspx
My Mother's Yiddish
You seem to be implying that it's financially feasible to offer better financing options to poor people. Is that the case, given the obvious risks?
I came across this the other day; it may be relevant to this discussion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg#The_Deutsche_Physik_movement
Yes I really need to see something tangible to get the boost to keep going. It's been very hard coming up to speed and now results are needed.
However, the things you love about Stripe - like its ease of integration - likely come from the same dedication to quality and user experience that went into the design. Amazing UIs are often an indication of a well-thought out product in which a lot of time went into all the details, including UI and functionality.

A product that cuts short on presenting a polished product on the outside, may very well have the same ugliness to its internal components.

Or, as sometimes happens, 90% of the effort went into the design, and the product itself is crap. That happens too. ;)
Filters for text from content? Or just meta?
Your last sentence doesn't really make sense. Plenty of rich people buy plenty of frivolous things
My parents just took old couches in off the street, for the cost of dragging it down the street and up the stairs.

But when you're poor, you're more self-conscious about these things. What happens when your six-year-old son/daughter brings over their friends to play? Will they get made fun of for the old couch? What if there are hair lice in it? What if the kid gets hurt from it collapsing, and you have to take them to the doctor (which will cost hundreds out of pocket)? There are all sorts of irrational fears praying on the people in this situation.
The warranty is only one year - not ideal for a $3000 counter top appliance.
1M for a year's worth of work? Even if you actually succeed with the startup, it is highly unlikely that you earn 1M per year in payouts.

Also think of your financial goals - 1M brings you pretty close to FU money.
You exploit peoples interest or addiction to various chemical substances and they devote entire government departments to chase you down, but you exploit peoples interest or addiction to the latest consumer products and you might get some tax breaks.
I'm holding out for a kitchen system that orders and stocks the food, fetches it from the fridge, (at the touch of a button) prepares and plates it and then (most importantly) washes the dishes and puts them away.

This current oven incarnation seems like more bother and expense than it would be worth. More stuff to get in the way and break. Not KISS at all. But then again I'm a good (and fast) cook and simply can't see how the smart oven would do anything to help.

To be charitable, maybe this technological step is necessary to realize the dream of fully automated food preparation. I fully expect one day to see this dream fulfilled. And from this perspective a hearty round of applause for the inventors.
Datazen joins Microsoft
Credit score is indeed an indicator of future repayment. That's the entire point of it. It's an index score indicating the likelihood a lender will see their return.

Anyway, they defaulted because they were underwater on the mortgage. When you owe 50% more than your home is even worth, bankruptcy looks like a viable option for many people. Same reason lots of people sold their 401k/IRA/investments. Fear has a fun way of becoming self-fulfilling.
It sounds like you want a relationship and you're not doing anything about it that works to get one.

There's currently no technology that lessens the fundamental barrier to meeting new people: fear. Online dating, singles events, subculture meetups -- if you see them as a guarantee of some people meeting you, they're snake oil. If you see them as what they are, just opportunities for you to overcome your fear of meeting new people, they'll bear (...) fruit.

Maybe you consider yourself quite outgoing and "not afraid" of talking to people. Well, the fear that stops you meeting new people who you end up with will get you in other ways: fear of intimacy, fear of believing someone likes you.

I bet, after you get into a relationship and you reflect on all the times you hung out with other people,
you'll gradually realise there were plenty that liked you, and you just didn't see it, or act on it, at that time.

Whenever I break up, and I want someone new, I get out there and talk to people. A lot of people. Start conversation. This trains you into a certain energy level of relating to strangers, which then carries over into your interactions that are going to matter. The barrier of starting a conversation with people will seem less, because you'll be used to it more.

Also, you might be in a city which doesn't work to be gay. Some cities are more anti gay, go to one more permeable.

If you really don't want to take any effort, and you just want someone else to do all the work, then at least you have to give them an opportunity: get out there and do something where you meet a lot of people. Some of them will try to get close to you.

At the end of the day tho, the thing which works best is to be yourself. So maybe that work on yourself you've been delaying, might be time to get to it. The reason is because when you're yourself the people you meet and connect with are right for you, and also what you offer them is truly you. So if you don't even really know who that is supposed to be at this point, work that out. So maybe get the relationship with yourself first.
His briefcase was lying open on a chair near the desk, and the manuscript pages
were protruding from it; someone seemed to have stuffed them into the
briefcase without much care. Hemingway told me that he had been cutting the
manuscript. “The test of a book is how much good stuff you can throw away,”
he said.

“When I’m writing it, I’m just as proud as a goddam lion. I use the oldest words
in the English language. People think I’m an ignorant bastard who doesn’t
know the ten-dollar words. I know the ten-dollar words. There are older
and better words which if you arrange them in the proper combination you make
it stick. Remember, anybody who pulls his erudition or education on you hasn’t any.

Also, daughter, remember that I never carried Teddy bears to bed with me
since I was four. Now, with seventy-eight-year-old grandmothers taking
advantage of loopholes in the G.I. Bill of Rights whereby a gold-star mother can
receive her son’s education, I thought of establishing a scholarship and sending
myself to Harvard, because my Aunt Arabelle has always felt very bad that
I am the only Hemingway boy that never went to college. But I have been so
busy I have not got around to it. I only went to high school and a couple
of military cram courses, and never took French.

I began to learn to read French by reading the A.P. story in the French paper
after reading the American A.P. story, and finally learned to read it by
reading accounts of things I had seen—les événements sportifs—and from
that and les crimes it was only a jump to Dr. de Maupassant, who wrote
about things I had seen or could understand. Dumas, Daudet, Stendhal, who
when I read him I knew that was the way I wanted to be able to write. Mr. Flaubert,
who always threw them perfectly straight, hard, high, and inside. Then Mr. Baudelaire,
that I learned my knuckle ball from, and Mr. Rimbaud, who never threw a fast ball
in his life. Mr. Gide and Mr. Valéry I couldn’t learn from. I think Mr. Valéry
was too smart for me. Like Jack Britton and Benny Leonard.”
Of what importance to a statement is the authorship? What is said speaks for itself or it is appeal to authority.
You wouldn't have to be isolated. You could make connections, just not ones that depend on a centralized ISP.

But "off-the-grid" typically is talking about physical delivery over wires and pipes, not about things like wireless internet.
The power of compound interest works both ways. For the rich, It can mean a spiral upwards, as they can exploit the difference in interest rates of different investments to make profit. For the poor, it often means a spiral downwards into greater debt, more frequent defaults and ever higher interest rates.
Android version of Apple Music not having a free version like the iOS/OS X/Windows versions can be another factor in that probe?
Could be some (inhumane, but not outright evil) reasons for this.

- If you fire all your employees, then a month later have all the same people working for you as contractors, that can (and probably should) be a strong signal to regulators that you are abusing contractor status and ought to be paying for payroll taxes, healthcare, etc.

- Security. If you had just laid someone off, would you hand him root passwords for production infrastructure a week later? Once you've given someone a reason to hurt your company, probably best not to give them the keys back, at least until they've cooled down and found employment elsewhere (this could be the reason for the 1-year waiting period.)
Why Accessing U.S. Netflix Is Not Theft
Title changed from "Smoking marijuana not linked to lung cancer". Please don't editorialize titles when submitting stories to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A month ago, I went into a furniture store, the salesman kept saying the store provide "financing" over and over, even I never asked him about "financing". I knew this is their way to trick stupid people, because many stupid people see a $1000 item (with a $100 payment per week) as a $100 item.
>Doing heavy lifting with JavaScript in IE8 is just not fun.

Please force your customers to upgrade their browser. You'll do the better good for yourself, your customers, and mankind in general. :)
One of the things that boggles my mind is the disparity between the following two scenarios:

- when an American wins the lottery: they spend the money, get a temporary increase in happiness, then it drops back down

- GiveDirectly gives an extremely poor person a few hundred dollars: they spend it on things that improve their earnings and reduce their hunger

How can both of these things happen in the same world?
Good credit doesn't mean no risk of defaulting; it means less risk. Fewer of the people with good credit defaulted than of those with bad, which is the only thing a credit rating really claims.

Credit rating is explicitly intended to be an indicator of future repayment. That's the whole point of the system.
Couldn't tell.

See bikeshedding. People just want to feel like they contributed something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_trivialit...
Building on the 'last developable piece of land in San Francisco'
While I agree apple is a significant and big actor, in what way are they a monopoly?
If people don't need the furniture, then furniture rental stores should have no problem being regulated under the same usury laws that govern financial institutions, right?
In my experience, any statement that starts with "It's" can safely be ignored. ;)
I'm also not a Stripe customer, but back when I went to check out how it worked, the most impressive thing was being able to skip the sign up and jump directly into a usable product. Spend some time setting up your account. If you like what you see, and only then, provide your email and password to create the account (of course keeping everything you've set up).

It's such a simple thing to do on the backend, and yet I'd never seen this before. So simple to implement, but gives an amazing first impression.
The police and the government pretty much getting away with anything now days. Their attitude is fuck the constitution. In any case, what exactly is a speedy trial? 10 years sounds speedy to us, what the fuck are you complaining about? The prosecutors are more worried about the conviction rate than whether the right person is jailed. Are you sure you don't want to please guilty and be release for time already served?

There have been several news articles and in fact one discussed here in the last week or so about how if you have too much cash the police can just take it. It qualifies as civil forfeiture. No bother about the 4th amendment. You must be guilty of something if you carry that much cash.

Reference the following from the lawyer Greenwald:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/29/denny-hastert-...

When a country has a higher portion of their population in prison than any other country, then it is obviously the least free country. Crimes should be objective, not subjective. Law Enforcers seem to have free reign to persecute, harass and jail people at will. Does it really matter when some poor black or brown kid is involved? The country was founded on slavery. The way to maintain the slave population is to have subjective laws where they can pretty much lock anybody up that they want. They obviously like locking up black and brown people. It makes it easier to identify the slave laborers.

Think about this. The US has a higher proportion of the population locked up than either Russia or China. Snowden had to ask political asylum in Russia.

What the fuck exactly are you expecting? The US is undoubtedly the land of the jailed.

What can we as tech people do to fix this?

Also, note how one way to keep a government in check is via the guns and the police departments have been stock piling weapons and tons of ammunition to keep them poor people in line.

Voters can't and won't do much about it. For the reason see the ted talk by Lawrence Lessig discussing lesterland. Less than 150 super rich individuals contribute something like 60% of the super pac money. The people that run the in elections have already been screened and approved up by these super rich fucks.

Also, to keep everybody in check, there is super surveillance in place because of the alleged terrorists. While osama burned us on 911 by taking down the twin towers, what US citizens have done to the US government is far, far worse. The only way to truly combat terrorism is to treat every single citizen like a terrorists and they most definitely will not qualify a country as the land of the free.

Read 1984, things today seem worse than portrayed in the book.

So, I ask again, who really gives a fuck about a poor black or brown kid when those rich fucks needs some slave labor working for 10 cents an hour in a private prison?
I thought that as well, if you are going to use setImmediate, it would probably make the most sense to just a web worker which is actually standardized and supported in all browsers (and won't turn your quick sort fn into a mess).

However it looked like he needed to support IE8, so this might be an ok solution (although I would argue a terrible one for anyone who doesn't need to support IE8/9).
How many times can someone make this mistake? It sounds like a good lesson the first time it happens. At some point, you learn to go on Craigslist and get a decent used couch (and fumigate it for bedbugs).

Having classes to teach people this in public schools sounds really condescending. Poor people can't be so stupid that they can't even learn from their own mistakes.
Who named the qubit?
It is only a terrible answer without basic income, which was the other point I was trying to make.
Perhaps few American lottery winners have been nearly as poor as GiveDirectly recipients?

Many of the GiveDirectly recipients I've read about are so poor they spend the money on things like sheet metal roofs for their houses (to replace the thatch) so they don't leak and fall apart in a year. That's a level of poverty much of the American poor don't have to contend with- it's been a hundred years since many Americans had dirt floors, and many more than that since many American houses were thatchtops.
It's got a pretty nice GPU... instead of wasting food, it can just render an image of a double portion of whatever you put in it.
Magnetic Computer Uses Water Droplets
The earlier you see failure, the luckier you are. The haskellverse is jammed packed with popular packages that won't build and run properly on your platform.

Nothing quite works except for small toy projects and Haskell +systems whizzes who can dig into native platform arcana.