skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This dates from 1937 and is sexist to contemporary eyes. There are a large number of Kindle versions with prices all over the map.
"With one or two successful trades, people tend to extrapolate their returns into future returns, believing that it's possible to repeat these trades over and over again."

Worse, he describes how he has tried trading various times with no success, and still thinks trading is his best bet for meeting his goals.

Sounds more like a compulsion than a well thought out strategy.
As a side-note, the way I came across the problem was that yesterday I was trying to change the location of a date and my text messages were not always getting through (possibly due to my proximity to the G20 cell jamming). I realized that there was no way to know for sure, by text messages, whether we both committed to the change. (fortunately it worked out anyway)
Let's see, how do I put this gently; the data generated by high-throughput sequencing blows the living hell out of GWAS data. One exome requires reading 30-60x of what's read in a standard GWA. (Not to mention that most people get GWA data on their next-gen sequenced stuff anyways.) You're in the most data-intensive part of the field... congrats! As you probably know better than I, we're still in the age of targeted sequencing and exome sequencing. Whole genome is just beginning to dawn.

Where I work, filesystem I/O is the rate-limiting step for most of my (next-gen sequencing) experiments...
Search for [best typefaces 2009], or 2008, or 2007...

Or look at the careers of famous typographers, like Spiekermann or Tobias Frere-Jones or...

It may be "stagnant" as in "nobody's invented a new letter like doublequeue", but there's plenty of innovation within the established forms. Look at HFJ Archer, a slab serif, bound by conventions established almost two centuries ago for 19th-century poster printing, that is something fresh and new in 2007.
I agree, it's actually where they were born -- financial fraud detection. Their finance product is really mature and quite powerful. Not sure how big the market for it is though. They'll probably do well in other types of research areas, think tanks, large news agencies, etc.

They'll definitely have to start to push out into non-US governments though to survive. But from my experience, just due to funding differences, other governments are far more stingy with their purchases.
What was the more interesting work that you did in the past? Can you describe it more and how you got that?
Big Blunders Job Hunters Make
I'd say not only spy movies. There is an obvious affection for Middle Earth as well. Even a corner office is called Rivendell! He should just legally change his name to Saruman and get it over with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#History
Rapidshare hosts a lot of porn. If you're looking to filter the internet for the purity of person X, a random link could lead them through that and to porn. Q.E.D. Similarly, torrents are not always what they're advertised to be.

And I wasn't implying it will change the filtering problem. Merely pointing out that it isn't easy, which you implied quite strongly. Schools have been struggling with it since they started (magazines behind books), and paying companies like those large amounts of money for woefully incomplete solutions.
Its a fairly well documented phenomenon that option volatility increases going into earnings then immediately deflates after the fact.

An at the money "straddle option" is essentially purely a volatility play, but the problem is that once the stock moves, the "straddle option" accumulates various other risk factors that are harder to manage.

This is also why you can't just sell the position knowing that the volatility will go down after earnings, because the change in the risk characteristics other than volatility may be sufficiently costly so as to offset the gains from the decrease in volatility with a short straddle position.

This particular play is fairly common though and many option traders who feel they have insight into the magnitude of the future move relative to its pre-earnings pricing will make plays on it (largely based on historical evidence or earnings predictions).
I was walking around down there yesterday. Most street corners looks like this: http://twitpic.com/1zmuw8
this sounds like the most surefire way to achieve your goals.

seconded.
According to Innocentive, perhaps. But my point stands: how many of these solutions were actually actionable? And even if all thousand of them are - the engineers qualified to evaluate them are all busy working on the problem themselves!

This just looks like some free publicity for Innocentive. Maybe they're the arrogant ones?
Has anyone tried this? I've been thinking of getting one but am curious to how well it erases or if it succumbs to a "ghosting" effect over time.
That's not what I said. Rather, much is made about how BP is not doing enough, yet what it has already done dwarfs what UC did. And Americans didn't bat an eyelid.
Trading sounds like a very risky way to try to grow the $100k you worked so hard for, esp considering you have a wife and kids. My best non-expert advice would be to try starting a profitable small business that leverages all your strongest skills and passions, and that can evolve into a passive income stream. That stream plus possibly more contract/wage work over the next 5-10 years could take you to $1 million. Take this with grain of salt.
How do you make a small fortune in the x business? ...
Summary: Intel ported Android 2.2 (Froyo) to x86, so they can put it on Atom-using tablets and netbooks. They say it was pretty straightforward, which bodes well for the speedy porting of future releases. They are, of course, making all their changes open-source.
Actually, it's not. Instead of an a tag, it's an iframe where the link is passed in as a parameter.

It took me approximately 90 seconds to implement from looking at the docs to deploy to one of my sites.
In this example the Mercedes also costs the same as a Honda, right?

Look, Apple sets expectations super high, and to a certain extent that's their fault. But they're also innovating like crazy and, unfortunately, there are bound to be some missteps. Would you rather they slow things down a bit? I wouldn't.
Ask HN: How to get a programming job after a year away?
I would like to take a year away from programming to write a book. It's sort of about programming, but not really. Is there a way that I can ensure that I can get another programming job when I'm done?
That's because adobe are assholes. Don't think that avoiding/subverting user intent with respect to cookie management is anything but an intentional feature and selling point.
RaphaelJS playground
Not quite as mind-boggling as Euler's identity, but good.
I am dubious. Another site reporting this story [1] stated that Twitter gets 190m visitors per month. So 86m impressions in 24hr versus 190m visitors/month seems a little odd...

I don't know what they count as an impression, but if they just count page loads it may be skewed by the countless linkbots that scrape twitter links as soon as they are posted. For every retweet these bots scrap the link again and again.

I'm also curious how they measure the 6% engagement.

There is no doubt in my mind that Promoted Tweets will drive a lot of traffic to a site, but this seems a bit exaggerated?

[1] http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/coke-sees-phenomenal-result...
Why bother write a malware that has got an order of magnitude less chances to spread?

Taking that viewpoint means explaining Windows malware like this: http://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2009/09/vb2009...

That's an old school Windows file infector, if I read the article correctly. Win32/Induc.A infects Delphi compilers only. And yet it spread around all over the place.

The author of the link above writes this: "It seems clear that we’ve reached an era where rare dependencies, such as having a compiler on the system, or logic bombs can thrive."

Surely linux desktops are far more prevalent than Windows machines with Delphi compilers. This seems like a perfect counter example to the "Market Share" hypothesis. It would seem that the culture of Windows use has some part in their plight.
I've always been pretty involved in the automotive industry (hobby of mine), so got to write a bunch of neat web apps to do with it. Inventory/parts interchange stuff that connected a bunch of different online retailers together so they'd save time calling between each other to see who had what in stock, and kept track of pricing models to use. The total scope of the projects is really off-topic for the thread :). Got a lot of the people interested in that through a big trade show a few years ago when I was going through a lull in freelancing jobs.

Honestly, money is the least of my concerns. I don't have any interest in working for free, but I'm billing out around $100 to do CMS work. All of which is mindless for me. I'd rather take half as much and do something I enjoy.
We're using Campaign Monitor and its faaaar too expensive. Sending 40k/mo would cost over $400/mo and thats ridiculous for email. Mailchimp and others cost pretty much the same.
This is Bret Taylor, CTO of Facebook. I just wanted to clarify a couple of things because I think people are reading a bit too much into our actions.

First, Open Graph-enabled web pages have been appearing in search since the product launched in April. This is not new and not indicative of a change in strategy.

Likewise, only the pages your friends have liked appear in your personalized search results. While we plan on increasing the pages’ distribution through search in the future, right now, search is not the focus of the team working on product. We are focused on discovery and enabling users to build out their profile by liking things around the web.

So we aren't really declaring war on anyone. But it does make a compelling headline :)
Take almost any established style of typeface. There's a reason it looks like that. Didot-style fonts are the result of innovation in composition and in equipment, which implies that more classical serif typeface forms (which obviously continue to be produced) are flourishes meant to evoke previously-functional aspects of the typeface.

Compare Didot to Garamond.

Same thing happens with Sans Serif fonts. You might argue that all sans-serif italics are just flourishes, since sans faces can be obliqued instead of designing cursive-style slanted type.

Compare Gill Sans Italic to Akzidenz.
I have "Bertha" (4x6) and love it. I'm patiently waiting for 2x3's to get back in stock to buy another smaller one. Oddly, though the process to buy was problematic. I never received an emailed receipt or shipping information, it just showed up one day. No receipt in the box. Also, at one point the SSL on the site was bad.

All of this to say that the product is amazing, but they are still working out the kinks... the kinks mainly (to me, at least) being customer service related. I'm sure that is just a growth issue, though, and will be taken care of in time.
Swedish is a guarantee of quality ;-)
I had an idea today, where you'd take a large heavy Prism and lower it where the pipe would go- the pipe would have to be removed. The pressure of the oil coming out would push the sand around the prism, and allow the prism to sink. The prism would obviously continue to sink, and it could follow with concrete rubble.
>In this example the Mercedes also costs the same as a Honda, right?

Well...I can buy a bare-bones AT&T go phone for $15 outright...so no, not at all.

Howabout this: the BMW that costs the same amount of money not only doesn't have the problem, but doesn't have the restriction where only other people with mercedes are allowed to ride in your car.
What Apple Needs to Do Now
Thanks for the correction. I was just talking about the de facto behavior I have seen on Linux and BSD for very short sleep intervals (way shorter than 1 second), not necessarily about the behavior as specified by the system call. I should have been clearer.
But what about power use and price point? It's not a superior technology until the price and the battery drain are comparable.
What You Can Do Right Now to Make Your Website Kick Butt
Apple's UI is littered with stuff like this, and it's been the cause of some famous criticisms; there's a good one tearing down the old overly-literal Quicktime interface, for example.
Their initial installs are quite expensive. Small orgs <50 have been getting prices from $250k-$750k depending. I've seen larger organizations with $5-6million per install prices, but there are fewer of those. I've heard that their quoted maintenance fees are a bit higher than that.

I think at their last conference they said they had ~200 staff and still growing. So their burn rate is ~$30-$40 million a year.

This latest round will keep them alive for another year or two.
Entrepreneur is a word used to inflate your self-image or ego.

Small business owner is a more matter-of-fact way to describe yourself (if you must).

It makes sense that he got a better response using "entrepreneur" because it sounds exotic and powerful, but I try to avoid using it in polite company.

A related story:

I once saw the CEO of a major insurance company get pulled in front of an audience by an entertainer. When the entertainer asked him to tell the audience what he did for a living, the CEO said:

"I sell insurance."

That's the approach I prefer for social situations...just maybe not when you're trying to make a sale.
I really don't think you've ever seen BSD return in milliseconds after a 1-second sleep. Respectfully, I think you're pretty much just wrong.
The worst and most inappropriate blog post about ruby in recent history
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385181
The Apple User Interface Guidelines for the iPad specifically encourages this sort of thing, which I found interesting. The phonebook app is a prime example.
"I have a massive faith in America, but its irresponsible to not consider that times have changed."

So diversify with foreign assets.
This isn't a new kind of science, since this is the kind of science that we've been doing since ~2007-2008. They are basically describing GWAS.
I've noticed it in myself. I'm 22, started using the internet when I was 12. I've noticed in my lecture classes that my focus-level and memory retention is discernibly poorer than my peers'. I'm at least hoping that this can be rectified in some way. And, I know, I'm just offering another personal anecdote, but my intuition tells me very strongly that the internet has been the sole cause of this.
Can't you write a CMS installer/themer/configurator tool? You already have the domain knowledge and potential clients.
Mine has not really had any issues with erasing, though I just purchased it. Thus far a quick rub down with an eraser and everything disappears. Not sure about long term (like leaving something on the board over a couple days/weeks.)
Fred Wilson: Why I Don't Like Stock Buybacks
Bear Stearns loved to hire autodidact college dropouts.

"Under Greenberg’s control, Bear’s profits grew quickly. At its peak it employed almost 15,000 people. While most Wall Street firms preferred to hire Ivy Leaguers, Greenberg looked for people with “PSD” degrees, by which he meant “poor, smart and a deep desire to become rich.”"
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School can be a lotto if you get a degree in aboriginal affairs or something similarly obscure.

Becoming a md/lawyer/dentist is a pretty sure thing. At least where I live (Canada) these professions are in demand. You can always move to smaller communities if needed.

I think the parent comment was pretty good advice.
you could get 10 of them in detroit.
Start an open source project related to the book.
Ah yes, good point. A Honda that shut down if you touched the steering wheel would of course be met with relaxed shrugs from owners.
Yeah, I do hope they add conditions and restarts to C#5 (or any language that people will pay me to use).
I was just pointing out the amusing headline that Wired chose. On purpose I'm sure.
I think the cheapest way to get a desirable .xxx domain would be to register a nonsensical domain like "dumptrucking.xxx" and then make it a new term for some sex act. What is "dump trucking"? I don't know, and neither does anybody else -- yet. It's brand-building writ sleazy.
"Nonfunctional" is relative when the main goal is recognizability/differentiation of individual letter forms. Serifs make the difference between, say, 1 and l much more apparent.
Like my idol, Léon Theremin, I will use this "defect" to develop a special app that allows the user to play music by stroking and caressing his/her iPhone on its various "sensitive" radio receptors.

Then we can sit back and wait for our very own Clara Rockmore to emerge...
You may be right, but I'm unconvinced.

Roark lumps classicalism/skeuomorphs in with design by committee and the collectivist modernism [1] as forms of collectivism: design not based on your vision, but based on the vision of others. That's just objectivism applied to architecture. Why do you feel I shouldn't take this as her literal opinion?

[1] Later in the book, the mainstream architects embrace a collectivist version of modernism.
Problem this solves; making search more relevant & personal....

Further whose advice and opinion holds more weight for you in regards to where to stay in Hawaii, best restaurant, etc? Your network of friends/family/contacts or a search engine? Who holds more influence over you for vacation spots, restaurants, experiences with businesses? Some examples I can think of now of how this is a better form of search. Though Google wins for me when needing directions, queries on pieces of history and the like; things your friends do not know but would tell you to search Google.

Overall i don't get the whole business mantra "What problem does this solve," when creating a start-up. SOme of the biggest sites on the web (Facebook or Twitter) were not solving any problem - rather they created new ways for us humans to communicate.
great idea. that's exactly what you should do if you're insisting on an intelligent investor style value portfolio, and thats what Buffet does.

But the real point is that trading isn't a chump game and the entire notion of "long term holding is the best strategy" is premised on a lot of old notions that predate the current market environment.
Hopefully they are not playing civilization then.

They might actually have a shot at winning.
Think goals, not functions — giffconstable.com
This is the same value of NP-Reductions. They let you know that you should not try to solve the problem directly (because you can solve the problem without showing P=NP). Thus you know your approach should rather use techniques like approximations or high speed SAT solvers.
Wow, that link was absolutely useless. No information, no comparisons, nothing. It read more like a hit piece for samsung
Could non-blocking filesystem I/O (a la node.js: http://blog.kodekabuki.com/post/267934877/how-node-js-expose... ) improve that?
Also known as kitsch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsch
There are also phases of hyper-focus. I use those to find devious bugs, design tricky parts of code, architect. The rest of the time I fill in code, test, document, package etc.
How Custom Javascript Events Will Save the Universe
"But I feel that Flash is still going to keep it's hold on Browser based games for a long time, since hardware acceleration is going to be a must for games that need more power then JavaScript can provide."

That's where WebGL comes into play. Just give it a year or so.

It will take a while till kinks are ironed out (it's rather painful to use now), but already in its current state it looks quite promising.

With GLSL shaders you can achieve look and performance of desktop games from just few years ago:

http://alteredqualia.com/glearth/

If you dare to try Firefox / Chrome / Webkit nightlies (#), here is current state-of-the art of plugin-less browser graphics:

http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/

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(#) http://khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Getting_a_WebGL_Implementation
There is a link at the top that says "copy to my dropbox"
It's understandable if one covers the microphone that it will not work properly. In this case people are just holding the device like they do naturally.

Both are instances of bad user design.
Super AMOLED consumes 30% less power because it doesn't need back light. It's also thinner. Samsung Galaxy S has 4'' screen and is cheaper than iPhone 4 (with 3.5''). Also LG is unable to produce enough IPS screens for iPad and soon part of the devices will use inferior MVA screens from Samsung. Same can happen with iPhone 4.
wow, what do you do?
I looked into that and was very surprised at how small the payout is. I could buy 500k or 1mm of life insurance in the US from what I remember. Here in Spain it's 50k or 100k or a similarly small amount.
Hire "the situation" to run the joint!
Not quite the same. They're overlapping sets.
I suppose. Particularly the config/install part. Just not so exciting to me anymore.
Aaaaaahhh, my mistake. I read it wrong, I see it now. Though that doesn't counter the amount of attention the spill has had, nor the damages (it's direcly affected more than 20k people, certainly, though yes it's not the same). Americans have a decent isolationist bent to them, I think that's part of the reason. It happens when you're the biggest fish in the pond - you get to thinking you're untouchable, so others matter less.
How Soccer Changed the Economic World. Or Vice-Versa
Technically 90 seconds is an order of magnitude more difficult than making a regular link. Not a huge hurdle, but I don't need to read any docs or go fetch embed code to make a link.
Same stuff with Google's remote application killing, had Apple done it it'd be all over the web and would be the first link on HN. Google did it, the HN link has already fallen off the front page.

Ironically, when I Googled it, the top story was titled "Google pulls an Apple". Apparently, Apple doesn't get a free pass even when Google pulls applications for their app store ;)

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Google-Pulls-an-Apple-Yank...
Go deeper with Java.Super extensive Java libraries will assist you much in constructing complex algorithm.
That and if my friends likes are valuable to me. Considering my having to ban Farmville and the like I'm pretty sure I don't want my social graph having anything to do with my search results.
http://www.useit.com/papers/anti-mac.html is a 1996 paper by Jakob Nielsen & Don Gentner that criticizes too-literal visual metaphors in the Macintosh user interface. Good read.
It definitely seems dimmer to me, especially when it autodims, compared to my 3G
Yeah, kitsch especially is quite fuzzy, but the way I understand it most of this "form imitating function" falls under it.
It's almost 4 years old.
If Google is too easy to game, you'd be doing it and not telling a soul until the well was dry. In reality you see some people having success and automatically assume it's easy. It is easy to game Google (a little), but not at all if you want to make legitimate money.
How about '180 degree viewing angle', 'Quadrupling the resolution on the screen would only increase the clarity at most only three to five percent' and 'the Retina Display is too power-hungry, which drains the battery up to 30% faster than you’d find on their Super AMOLED screens'

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=...
I find it very hard to believe that Apple would start using something other than IPS screens on their iPads, considering they advertise it as a feature.

AMOLED has inferior color performance, daytime viewing performance, and angle viewing performance to IPS.
The demographics and spending patterns in social gaming