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Yep, that's the standard answer. But (a) why does the average investor care about short term liquidity? Mutual funds only let you sell once a day and most people are perfectly happy with that. And (b) what good is liquidity that disappears when you need it most?

It's a self-serving argument at best. I sometimes wonder why the whole thing couldn't be replaced with a giant daily auction.
If you can, get the new sigma 50mm 1.4 instead of the Canon. The sigma has USM, better bokeh, is faster, has better build quality and seems a bit sharper. Both go for around the same price (~300 euros).
These slides are from the talk found here: http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/steve-huffman-on-lessons-lea...
More info:

http://www.iolanguage.com/
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I take your point that Alex's tone was sarcastic and may be he could have avoided it. But, hey if someone dismissed me as being less dependable etc, just because I am a programmer (or anything else for that matter), I might also lose my politeness for a minute.

Yeah, I would also be eager to see more information on their plans. I hope they would start talking more about them on their blog. I am sure they could get some good inputs if they can get a good community going. (It could be one place where his programming/OSS experience might come in handy.)
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It's not. When the navigation app is navigating, it has a persistent notification (representing the foreground service). "Exit navigation" exits the foreground service and removes the persistent notification.

This article is talking about apps that don't have a foreground service (and therefore no persistent notification).
I invested in Carwoo. Probably a conflict.
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>UK Banks, hahaha. Don't make me laugh. While it is great to have a bank that actually pays interest, they have only just started to move away from signatures for all transactions, and towards pins

If by "only just" you mean around 5 years ago.

US banks still haven't moved to chip and PIN.
But he did get one for his equally novel explanation of the photoelectric effect, so I wouldn't feel too sorry for him.

Nobel prizes tend not to be given for theoretical work until there is a good deal of supporting experimental evidence. This takes time, and that's why better theories do not usually replace their predecessors immediately.
Lots more convertible debt lately, which I am not thrilled about.

Or do you mean numbers? Every deal is different.
If credit card data is going to pass through the device, anti-virus software is mandated by PCI-DSS.
I must admit i do check hotmail.com every day, but i mainly use it as a dumping ground for all web app signups, newsletters etc that i don't want crowding my inbox on my iPhone.

It would be handy if Microsoft released an iPhone app for hotmail, or provided full IMAP access like GMAIL.
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There is more at stake than this. The danger for Google is that Microsoft controls the experience of most clients. If Microsoft's services become the standard then this cuts off Google's revenue and kills their business.

It's easy to see what Microsoft would like, office online users to use Silverlight "for better rendering" which really means windows and ultimately IE. This matters to Google in the long term, hence their move into software/hardware to provide competition.
I wouldn't mind issuing a 1099 every time I fart if I knew where to mail them.
I think most comments are missing a point. His issue is not on the capture side of his ideas. It's on the execution side.

Read the "4 hour workweek", it give good tips about starting a business on the side. It's a bit over the top sometimes, but it motivate me working on this : http://grownsoftware.com/swiffout (just a project, not really a business, but that book help me anyway )
I think the book is great at convincing you that it's easier than you think.

Beyond that take any idea (ideas are not that important ), work on it everyday for a while and see what happens.
The thing is, local businesses are also involved in fraud on a regular basis. Ever heard of credit card skimming?

Just because your card is in your physical proximation, doesn't mean it's safe.
> After cleaning up the processes and adding several easter eggs, it was time to pilot it at 10 local restaurants.

I admire his sense of humour. Easter eggs in the face of calamity indeed.
Well, it's not really when I call them (I don't call them, I either try to sort out stuff online or if I can't, I just walk into a branch) - it's when they call me. Like when someone is fraudulently trying to use my card details (happens every now and then). It is really annoying when you need to discuss urgent and important matters and you simply don't understand what they're saying.
I'm happy he's happy. I'm also happy he has never talked to me about my opinions on NASA. (Or iPhones, for that matter.)
At first I wasn't sure if this was a rant against Windows because the author kept using POS. Then I realized that POS also meant point-of-sale.
When it comes to experimenting, exploration, "having fun" then Perl's ACME::* modules are prime example of this!

ACME modules range from making your code invisible (ACME::Bleach) to calculating whether you're drunk or not! (ACME::Drunk) :)

ref: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=acme%3A%3A*&mode=all

Perl has a long history of twisting reality. Here is just one example which may blow your mind, Damian Conway's OSCON 2008 keynote. Look out for part about adding "time travelling" positronic variables to Perl: http://blip.tv/file/1145545/
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- Evernote
- iPhone Notes
- Keeping far too many windows open in Chrome and FireFox as a reminder,
- pen and notebook (x 2),
- Things for Mac,
- Things for iPhone.

All of the above help me to document and organise ideas as i get them.

Sound like a mess?, well yes it probably is to someone else....but documenting ideas as I get them, in the most timely method possible ensures that I capture everything and i'm not left carrying these crazy ideas in my head every night.

Don't worry about not coming back to every idea, but do force a habit of reviewing your list at least once a month, you'll be surprised by what you find in there after just a few weeks!
TRWTF is that they didn't prepare for a catastophic failure such as this one. If you have your POS getting auto-updates then why haven't you considered the possibility that it will go wrong with "WILL NOT BOOT" as a consequence.

It should simply be a matter of phoning the manager and tell him :

"Don't worry, just insert the disk that says "RESCUE DISK" on it, reboot and it will roll back the machine to last week".
I'm honestly really surprised at the reaction this has gotten out of some people on HN.

Banksimple is only trying to achieve what no other bank thus far has, which is to be genuinely liked by its customers.

Everyone seems to be incredibly worried about the dependability of these guys, yet I don't really see what's so 'dangerous' about this situation. All the deposits are FDIC insured, they clearly have their model laid out; interest margins (and interchange fees) have kept banks running for years, and those are banks with likely 50% more operational costs due to running actual branches.

It's obvious that opening this sort of bank and not selling high-interest rate loans and not charging fees for everything isn't as profitable as it could be if they did, but is it that far fetched that these guys will gladly make less money, but in exchange offer you service that you can actually enjoy?

Zappos could easily save millions every year by shipping UPS ground for everyone, charging for shipping and cutting back on it's customer service, but then it wouldn't be zappos. I, for one, am entirely happy to see a bank that actually took the time to speak with me personally, and offer a banking experience completely unlike what I've had to deal with as long as I have been banking.
Prediction: Social game mechanics are like a disease...
You may want to check out http://porkrind.org/commit-patch/. It doesn't do changelists like you describe but it lets you check in fine grained stuff easier than "git add -i" (IMO). Especially if you are an Emacs user.
I got a personal demo of Tinderbox from Mark Bernstein at LeanCamp - looks very good for rapid brainstorming and documenting multiple streams of thought:

http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/index.html
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> ... it could easily and quite possibly be photos tomorrow ...

Your Facebook photos are not private at all. Anyone who has a URL to your photo can see it. In fact, anybody can access any file on FBCDN[1] as long as they have the URL to said file.

We share lots of Facebook pics on irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#hackers-india. A lot of us don't have FB accounts, but those who do paste FBCDN URLs of interesting pics in the channel. Fun times :)

[1] FBCDN is Facebook's content distribution network
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I think that delicious is really awesome. I still use it pretty much every day, even though if anything the product has almost declined in quality over the past few years.

It feels like Delicious could have been the start of something even larger than a bookmark service, it's my primary resource for finding specific content (eg: rails + tutorial, photo + howto, etc.) I'm aware that that is a fairly large technical barrier in terms of how search works, but I feel it proves the potential for something really, really awesome. A real social search engine if you like.

Ever thought about buying it back off Yahoo?
Good for Hulu. They've always had mismatched ads for their target audience (the ads on the shows I watch are rarely aimed at my demographic, and have sometimes been laughably off-target).

What would be really killer for them is if they integrated Facebook. They should offer something along the lines of additional content or earlier access to episodes for people who become fans of Hulu on facebook or something. Almost zero cost to the user in return for a small bonus, and Hulu gets tons of demographic information.

Most HN readers probably wouldn't go for this, but I think the average person would.
I second gtani's suggestion of clojure. It's a lisp that takes some of the pain out of lisp by using fewer parentheses where possible, and different kinds of parentheses (round, square and squiggly) so it's a little easier to eyeball where groupings start and end. Also, good support and interconversion of highly useful data types: vector, hashmap and set, among other things.

It's very FP but you can mutate state explicitly if you insist. It runs on the JVM so performance is very good (much faster than Ruby and Groovy) and Java interop is excellent, even better than with Scala. So you have access to the whole wealth of Java library code.

A big advantage is the very strong concurrency support. Laziness and FP give you some multi-core goodness with no effort, and the STM functionality gives you cleaner and more foolproof inter-activity synchronization.

In other words, recommended.
Nice article.
If i recall, Java did have anonymous classes. They did require variables to be declared final if they were to be used. It was bothersome at times, iirc.
>Keeping far too many windows open in Chrome and FireFox as a reminder

I do this. At any time I have more than 70 tabs opened. Last week I abused it; took it to 250. Crashed.
What's Schwab? These people: http://www.schwab.com/ ?

My Banks have sort of a bill pay feature though it's not like I described, it's just a pre-populated list of payees like Electric, Gas, Water etc. companies and it's not even that simple because each company often has several accounts so you have to pick the correct one.
Also, it would cool if you could graph a particular bill against time e.g. your phone bill.
Since we know that the machines could PXE boot, they should have just had a server in the back preloaded with a known good image that would clone onto the POS automatically if started via PXE.

Then the fix would have been a matter of simply swapping the dhcp entry for the pos devices on the server with one that had the pxe directive. The pos would have caught that during its next reboot and restored itself.
I liked the article. But whether or not I agree with the author is irrelevant. What strikes me here most is to see things like this discussed in depth and intelligently in Hacker News. That's magnificent and somehow heart-warming. I have to say: I love this site :-)
Nice addition to the product line, but there's still a gap in the market for SaaS MySQL services - need more companies like FathomDB to take away the headache of managing DBs for startups.
It doesn't have to be done. I've worked on POS and smart-weighing systems that were cross-platform (Windows and Linux).

Neither used AV, but they were tightly locked down. My impression was that most customers don't care about the OS. Some prefer Windows, they already have the tech personnel in place. On the other hand, the Linux ports were done because a very big customer said that they had to have Linux... It certainly cost them more than licensing Windows. :)

From a dev point of view, Windows was easier, as it is generally more friendly towards C++ development. The OSes were about equally capable, I didn't see any Linux technical advantages in practice.
The real issue here has nothing to do with Linux or Windows. Rolling out updates to production without testing them first is a fail, not matter what OS you're using.

If they'd tested the McAfee definitions on even one of the POS terminals before rolling them out to all the restaurants everything would have been fine. They could have even automated having one restaurant get the definitions one or two days before all the others so only a single location was affected. Or better, set up staggered updates within each restaurant, so they all stay up and at worst lose a single POS terminal.
you mean figuratively in your hand, right?
Because those are EBook copies. fscking great, O'Reilly...
I'm not bashing Squeak here. I know it's a nice development environment. Problem is, people usually judge applications by their UIs. Look at it this way: a desktop application is supposed to complement the features your OS already ships with. An application that doesn't feel like it's a part of the OS confuses people. Heck, I'd say any app that doesn't follow native UI conventions is disrespecting the user, especially if it's a paid app.

On non-Windows platforms, XUL apps suck. Period. As for webapps, I don't think anyone expects them to look native. The rules don't apply inside that browser window :p
Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/463/
But it's not a social network. Please don't take only one bit out an argument, ignore the other ones, and use that to justify yours.
Blame Microsoft. If FAT weren't such a trojan horse, the SD-card could be used a lot more effectively, but since FAT is a minefield, the SD card can't be used as a reliable and permanent component in the OS base system ..
If you never go back to them, that suggests a failure of motivation and/or structure in your life. After all, if they're exciting ideas, WHY don't you get back to them?

Maybe you should solve that problem first. A tool may help you "go back to them" but it won't help you make them.
Hi,
I'm raising money for my first startup (Business angel round) and I read lots of blogs to be familiar with the process(Dixon,Suster,Wilson,VentureHacks) but I am still eager to learn more about the subject. Do you know other good ressources (blog, book,video) to learn about how to raise money and the mechanisms ?

Thank you
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I'm developing a website and need postal codes for as many countries as possible. All I need is City, State, and zip/postal code. I found zipcodeworld.com but, they're products are a lot more than I need. Wondering if anyone knows of a low cost solution?
Modern software can be fast and efficient (see Google Chrome), but I guess most developers don't consider responsiveness a feature anymore.
I see no contradiction. All you would see is applications the account owner deem appropriate for you. It would be no more associated with porn than it is with, say, books.

Or farting applications.
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Usually people think "best practice" is "everybody does it this way".
I have. But then I'd be the bookmarks guy, and I'd rather go on to do something else.
Those are good resources. You also need a good lawyer. All of the folks you mentioned are good people.
Ugh. This is like reading about someone training a dog not to crap on the floor.
.docx isn't hard to decode. ;) Though it is hard to render across browsers.
FAT may be an incredibly shitty lowest common denominator, but that's completely irrelevant here. The SD card can't be used reliably because upstream never provided a common API for all apps to interface with it. They didn't even have the courtesy to encourage apps to use their bundle identifiers to segregate their shit!

They really shouldn't be exposing a shared RW traditional filesystem to apps at all, no matter where it's located. Unfortunately that's the only API they exposed!

They really should be forcing manufacturers to ship with at least 8gb of flash to get the "Google Experience", but instead even their Nexus One ships with as little storage as possible to save a couple dollars!

My whole point is that the SD card SHOULD NOT be used as a permanent component in the OS base system at all. It should be removable storage, but the way apps are forced to use it makes it anything but!

The whole thing is completely incompetent. It would have been hard/impossible for them to implement removable storage to Apple's standards of usability, but they could have at least done better than WinMo! Really they should have just shipped the original devices with a healthy amount of flash and no SD card slot at all, and added removable storage support in a later iteration (which is exactly what Apple did).
I must admit that, like sdh, I am very curious as to whether you have your own kids.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/140336/where-can-i-find-a... has a few, but mostly duplicates of emacswiki's.
At what point did you decide to sell Delicious to Yahoo? Did you sell because of the money offered, because the initial idea was more or less finished or something else?
Totally disagree. If anything, our voyage of discovery/understanding has just begun.
The most interesting line was this:

> If I had not flirted with Linux during college, where would we be right now?

I wonder how much in support just relies on good luck. Someone happily trying out stuff several years back on his own. Curiosity saved the system.
The N1 is not one of the underpowered phones; the Dream and Magic are. The fact that you need to kill "processes" (which is not what the task killer does, btw) means that there is a bug in some app you use regularly; narrow it down and fix it, and your phone will be fine.
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Yes, I concur. There's all sorts of recovery methods available. Though it's nice to share war stories, I'd be a bit embarrassed to reveal the failure.
It's surprised me this hasn't come up much before now (in the recent debates)... it is one of the oldest issues and by far one of the most important!

It's sometimes even possible to turn knowing a random FB Photo URL into viewing a whole (or part of) an Album.
They follow this up by saying: Help us spread the word - Retweet. If I retweet this and anyone follows them as a consequence of doing so, the odds of me winning a copy drops. Don't think that part was particularly well thought out.
OOXML is no easier to decode than the old memory-dump and COM-based DOC formats which were comprehensively documented first by third parties and then Microsoft. It's just like how SWF was trivial to decode long before it was 'opened'. Container formats are fucking easy.

What's always been insanely difficult is duplicating the API that the content interfaces with, bug for bug.
The poster you're defending said FB is a SOCIAL NETWORK, for sharing with people you know.

Problem is, I don't know 'the public'.
Hmm, this is interesting.

My Facebook profile is "open" by default [1] ( particularly my status updates) but I can't get my statuses to show no matter what queries I try.

Has anyone been able to nail down:

- what exactly gets pushed into this feed

- what privacy settings remove you from or ad you to the feed

(kmavm, anything you can add in here?)

1. http://www.facebook.com/errantx
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I use what came with freeside, my billing system. http://www.freeside.biz/freeside/ but it's not complete, so a better solution, if someone has one, would be great.
Using Firebug, FireQuery, jQuery no conflict as $jq, from inside a photo page (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=xxx&id=y) :

var loc = window.location.href.match(/pid=(\d+)&id=(\d+)/);

var args = {
pid: loc[1], // photo ID
id: loc[2], // request sender id? photo owner id? not sure, haven't tested, but my user ID worked when trying to remove someone from a photo in my album
subject: loc[2], // user ID to remove
name: '', // not checked
action: 'remove',
__a: 1,
fb_dtsg: $jq('input[name="fb_dtsg"]').val(),
post_form_id: $jq('#post_form_id').val(),
post_form_id_source: 'AsyncRequest'
};

$jq.post('/ajax/photo_tagging_ajax.php', args);

It doesn't update the UI. The fb_dtsg and post_form_id are required and seem to be anti-CSRF tokens. Haven't experimented enough to know if they can be reused multiple times.
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Two reasons: The second round was more difficult than expected, and I thought that search engine integration made a lot of sense.
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It's still wrong. Anti virus software in general are not very far from virii themselves in what they do to your computer. This whole macafee story just proves the point, but it's not the first time such a thing happens. AVG had that happen to them too a year back.
I had never thought of this before.

HFT provide liquidity. With enough of them, you really don't need a NYSE any more. After all, they're doing the same thing the exchange does.

Now all the attention to HFT makes a lot more sense. The logic never added up, but the politics obviously do.

Thank you.
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I hope this is OK.. I'll delete it if you want. I just have such low Stack Overflow karma and you didn't seem to care.
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