Nice clickbait title... I certainly fell for it. The post has nothing to do with HN users but VCs in SV in general.
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When I sourced my desk at IKEA I spent an extra $20 on a bar-height chair that folds up. I can stand when I want and sit when I want. The trick is to alternate actively.
More colors! More environments (you could glide outdoors)! With the ability to create levels you could extend the game play even further. I remember some excellent fan-made levels that provided hours of entertainment.
So get off Facebook already!
Politics are not, however, a system designed to create divisions in society. It debases the idea of critical thinking when you admonish people who stand up for their beliefs. Stating an opinion on Facebook is a completely different beast however, but it feels low to give your chosen headline to what your article argues.
And on your point about religion being a topic where amicable disagreement is possible, I've found much the opposite to be the case. Though many deeply-held political opinions are formulated these days from fiction, religious beliefs are contingent upon faith, a system which prizes, above all else, the continued adherence to what one has been told even in the face of the harshest scrutiny. People may be more willing to let bigons be bigons in a religious debate, but their willingness to drop the subject says more about their faith than it does about your argument.
Did the reporter go door to door and ask if anyone noticed X? There have been many stories in the last year regarding Uber's regulatory woes and how the company is fighting back. Out of all the many recurring clickbait tactics, "hardly anyone noticed" has to be one that immediately raises the most red flags for me, not to mention how insulting it is.
Also last week Joe Biden gave a big address at University of Pennsylvania regarding cancer and how the White House will be embarking on policies to make curing cancer a "moonshot" health project.
I can't account for the rise in interest beginning in 2015 but, at least with how it's displayed on the graph, the change from December 2014 to December 2015 was only 9 points.
While the technical details of the system might be up for debate, Flash Boys paints a broader picture of a broken global financial marketplace, run by institutions struggling to keep up with new technology and unable to craft good regulatory policy. A system gamed by investment firms (or more accurately, investment intermediaries like HFTs) whose advantage comes from exploiting these poor regulations and new technologies, creating market imbalances that affect the entire marketplace and generate incredible profits at the detriment of the investors to whom these firms have a fiduciary responsibility to.
The broader picture of a screwed up financial system, how it got this way, and who it serves was my biggest take away from Flash Boys.
Is this blogger's summary of Kovac's book accurate (http://blog.themistrading.com/2014/12/flash-war/)? Seems like the book refutes the accusation of HFT front-running but:
"Kovac then writes, “In other words, this research, cited by Lewis himself near the conclusion of his book, contradicts everything he has said about front-running in the prior two hundred pages.” Kovac suggests this is some kind of “Aha!” moment. See, he seems to say, there’s no front-running and Lewis’s own sources say so.
Your guess is as good as mine on this, but Kovac seems to be the one who apparently didn’t read the research. Go to the next paragraph in Clark-Joseph’s paper: “[T]he private information about price-impact generated by an HFT’s small aggressive orders enables that HFT to trade ahead of predictable demand [that is, front-run demand] at only those times when it is profitable to do so (i.e., when price-impact is large).”"
1) I think it's 350mcs across the board except in the case of firms which conduct suspect activity (canceling orders frequently for example). Adding the delay institutes a level playing field across anyone trading on the exchange. The basis of HFT is leveraging faster connection speeds to gain insight into other's trading strategies and exploiting those strategies, all before the other firm's trade reach the exchange. This is a HIGHLY simplistic explanation dealing with one form of arbitrage and given for brevity on the subject.
2) EDIT: the other guy explained this better!
To your point about 350mcs being absurd to argue over, HFT firms manage regular trading speeds in NANOSECONDS. Look at 350mcs in those terms (350,000 nanoseconds) and it's not such a small number anymore.
I was disappointed but continued searching for a better solution. I'm in the process of writing an article about this search but I can reveal that so far Half.com has been the most affordable at $1.89 shipping for most books. It seems that shipping cost per book is unavoidable but I'm glad these gigantic sorting operations like Thriftbooks are around to repurpose stuff that'd otherwise be decomposing in a landfill.
With regards to pricing the actual books, I wonder what kind of info is out there when it comes to the same book costing $1 or $.01, which is more likely to sell. For non-trade paperbacks I'd say my upper limit per book is $5, but I feel just as ready to buy a good book for $1 as I would for $.01 (and in some cases having the price so low gives me a second thought that I might want to avoid purchasing said book because it might be in awful condition compared to one at $1). I wouldn't mind if these sellers ended up with 75 cents of my money rather than 7 cents per book.
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Analog toaster and refrigerator technology has been working quite well for us for almost a century.
Running with the Chelsea Manning leak helped start a conversation about the ethics of drone warfare and the culpability of the US military in the deaths of civilians.
What kind of a wider conversation does leaking John Brennan's SF-86 create? Maybe there's some ancillary discussion about those in the security community not using secure channels but it mostly just feels like a cheap shot.
The Cablegate leaks were newsworthy and responsibly handled.
Syrian/Saudi diplomatic emails, Iraq/Afghanistan war documents, Trans-pacific Partnership reporting. These actions bring attention to large groups of people in power and hold governments accountable for their actions.
Publishing the emails from an AOL account of a CIA director doesn't quite fit that mould.
At least I imagined that Wikileaks would want to preserve their reputation as doing something for the public good but a childish move like this focused on a single individual (an enemy in their eyes) makes me question the organization's values going forward.
When I read about Apple designing new screw heads (for example) which can only be unscrewed using a special screwdriver that kind of stuff makes me bristle though.
Yes you can watch a Youtube video and figure out how to take them apart, Apple's devices have to be serviced by someone after all, but a ton of money, thought, time, and effort go into designing methods and hardware for obscuring the typical consumer's ability to dig into an Apple devices.
I've taken my Mac Mini apart multiple times, an impossible task without buying an iFixIt kit first. The reason I took the computer apart was to stuff a second hard drive into the machine. I had to remove every single component of the machine in order to access the hard drive. It was a huge pain in the ass just to add a second hard drive. Good luck doing that to a Macbook.
My Thinkpad features a single screw that lets me access the hard drive caddy. The product doesn't suffer at all from providing this feature and it gives me the ability to upgrade my machine as I see fit.
Unlike a selfie stick or edible gold pills however there is a deeper ethical issue inherent in selling products that transact so much data about your life (and metrics about your family and home) for the purpose of creating marketable data sets about every mundane aspect of living. Not to mention how vulnerable a person or family becomes once these devices are integrated into their house, children, car, BBQ, etc since so little attention is given to making these devices secure.
You know as well as I do that the myth of these strategies succeeding for every business cases and for every brand (and the propagation of that myth by the entire industry) is more of a strategy for bringing in clients than it is for helping them achieve more online success.
404 pages are an opportunity to hide an easter egg but I wonder what presidential 404 page got The Atlantic focused on this trend in the first place.
The author is making a stronger case than that, the article is an examination of a culture being diluted by misappropriation of the term "hacker".
Hacking is subversive at its core, it's an exploration of technology, and in many regards generally pointless, done for ones own curiosity or to change the rules of a system to perturb the owners of that system.
One can't hold onto their own culture for long, thanks to the internet, but the reimagining of hackers from basement dwelling socially awkward nerds to sleek and mysterious agents who can bend the technologies, the world, even their own bodies to their will, has influenced people's perceptions of the culture. Now that it's cool everyone wants a piece, they want to associate themselves with that term like they would a cool brand of clothing. If you can't see that then you're not looking hard enough.
You're correct! Except that this is not the way things work in the professional world, and by refusing to learn or use a new technique or library you're stunting your personal development as a tech professional.
ppk's argument boils down to progress outpacing need. Businesses desire the bleeding edge in their online-facing products and if you want to be attractive as talent you need to keep up with the latest development trends. This can lead to frustration, barely getting the time to build stuff with your new skills before the next big framework comes along. The latest and greatest is hip but might not be entirely necessary. This is where we need to focus our attention and strike a balance.