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Ask HN: Is it feasible to do high-frequency trading as an individual?
My stock broker offers a programming API. The trading fee is close to $10/order. With that price point, it seems pretty expensive to do high-frequency algo trading. Are there any much cheaper options for me to experiment with hi-freq trading? Or is it a dumb idea that I should give up?
A million per month is actually about 23 pageviews per minute on average; a constant 7.5 per second would amount to 7.5 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 30 = 19,440,000 monthly views.

So you're saying you have a current peak of about 20 times your average? Would love to know why this is / how you did it.
My thoughts exactly -- forward planning fail
Cool, I'll shout out "infornography" if I don't spot you.
Unfortunately, there are as*holes even in this community.. Maybe somebody could create Google form that publishes to a read-only spreadsheet?
Well stated. Anyone who suggests that we need to be giving Apple a break for gloating about a new amazing magical antenna design and not calling them on it not working needs to realize this. The same perspective/lens should be used. It's not our fault Apple feels the need to gloat and spew words nearly referencing fairy tale unicorns. They should be prepared for some lash outs if they're going to deliver a phone that fundamentally doesn't even perform as a phone well, when they're boasting so much.
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Interesting. Looks very pretty but also time consuming to draw - 4 lines and not particularly easy transitions between them. I'll hazard a guess that people will naturally evolve a stripped down version of it for common usage.
I think you'll need 250 to be able to downvote.
The Diaspora Team is not talking to anybody. What we do know, is that they are developing this along the lines of "personal server" So I think the best answer to you question is 'True' (watch out for those boolean statements!) They are building a system made only of client/servers. Each "server" is a client to its owner and a server to everybody else.
Perhaps because so many small project owners don't accept and merge in patches after people kindly submit pull requests containing proper patches. Albeit I see this for many areas of open source, not just Rails, such as ObjectiveResource, Three20, and Moonshine. I've had to wait as long as 3 or 4 months before even getting some feedback from some project admins, and that's after an email or two.
We shouldn't have to beg to get our patches committed. Some project owners are just lazy, or have a very narrow view of what they want to accept for patches. And that's fine, it's their project. But that's more the reason why people monkey patch and not continue to submit patches, of which they'd need to monkey patch anyway to have the change effective immediately. After all, the projects are often still active, and do update with bug fixes, etc. And if you've only modified the tree, then you need to reimplement after you update. A monkey patch avoids this requirement, letting you get on to more important work.
True, but you represent probably .1% of their total customer base.

The bigger issue at hand is that the common hardware hacker is such a rare beast these days...
FRTime first please!
time consuming to draw - 4 lines

You can write it in just two strokes.
Weird, I live in London and really don't see the fuss. San Francisco looks much more enjoyable.
Pretty easy for those used to writing in Hindi. Write a 'Ra' and a straight line across the middle.
Standard operation procedure: wait 'till asshole gets tired, revert, add your data.
Something to do with grass being greener over there?
"Disk-operating system" makes much more sense with the hyphen.
Would love to come down from Cambridge but can't make today or August. Damn.
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I just tried a few times and I make it 3 strokes. Also my attempts look crummy compared to the elegant representation on that indianexpress.com website. The euro, yen, sterling and dollar are easier to get sort of right and all look more natural. I could easily just be biased due to prolonged exposure. Interestingly the Chinese yaun (Renminbi?) shares the same currency sign as the Japanese yen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A5

edit: yup, 2! Start from the top right and go left then make the r shape and then the other line across. Nice! Thx!
some friends just moved to SF and insist it's literally x1000 better than the UK for startups.
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Useful web site, added to bookmarks.
But, regarding "Flipping arrows in coBurger King", I saw that entry as first news in Haskell category, submitted probably shortly after your comment :)
Here is link: http://www.hackerblogs.com/post/rsfepzwv
True, but also consider the people who go to their friendly neighborhood hacker to get their device "unlocked".
There's no good reason why Vista shouldn't have been able to run on 1GB ram laptops. It was so slow on my parents (new with vista) laptop that it made me want to scream using it. They upgraded to 2GB, and it was still pathetically slow until SP2 came out and fixed it. It works pretty decently now.

Clearly, there was something wrong with Vista.
So he has to keep 2-4 weeks upstream of trends? I guess that's possible, too.

Doonesbury has a 10 day lead time, which is still challenging for Trudeau to remain topical: http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/faqs/faq_cs.html
Depends on your company. I am alternating going barefooted and using the Vibram Fivefingers where I work.
Free bumpers seems unlikely to me: wouldn't it make iPhone 4 owners a laughing stock? Here you are with a super-sleek 800$ device, and then you are forced to deface it with an ugly rubber case. I think that solution would contradict Apple's supposed dedication to perfection.
Not true. The music industry used to rely on the fact that only a large conglomeration like themselves could afford to print vinyls, cassettes, and compact discs as well as distribute them nationally and internationally. The Information Age has changed that, and their only hope for remaining solvent (other than actually adapting their business model like most other businesses) is to lobby governments and harass downloaders.

Also, you should really read up on copyright infringement legislation—it's absolutely nothing like theft. It's a completely separate legal notion.
That's interesting. I saw the contest they were having a week or two back, and don't remember this as one of the entries. I'm not calling shenanigans or anything, but I am curious about it. Of course, I could have just seen it and forgotten it, as I have the memory of a goldfish. Also, I have the memory of a goldfish.
Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=650437
It can be a long buffer, but maybe not a FIFO but a priority-queue. :)
I can't believe the rupee didn't have a symbol, and I can't believe I never noticed!
for instance you can filter by country/city, which is something I'm really happy to have here :)
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You should have somebody give you a blind test the appropriate way: By giving you 3 cups, 2 with drink A, 1 with drink B.

There is a scientific way to measure the delta of 2 flavors and Coke and Pepsi are quite similar. So similar that in a proper test like I'd laid out above, only a fraction of participants can tell the oddball from the group.
Perhaps we need a Cambridge HN meetup at some point.
In my compaq laptop I'm still running Windows 98
Why does it need a second horizontal line cutting across?
I don't know... all these things seem to end up a bit by the wayside though unless they are actively promoted/ and maintained, which I'm not sure pg is willing to do in terms of linking to it, and I'm not sure I'm willing to do: I have way too many places with information about me on the internet, and adding another one seems redundant, let alone maintaining it.

There's got to be a better way...

Also, honestly, IRC can be pretty good for this sort of thing if you don't happen upon a really lame channel.
"When I need new programs, I try to write them myself"

Good times...
We'd use Re for singular (ie, Re. 1) and Rs for plural (Rs. 2000)
> Javascript is something else you'll eventually want to learn, but Rails is once again, a reasonable starting point.

How about JavaScript for both the client and the server?
To distinguish from 'ra': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari#Consonants
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An iPhone recall would never be a non-event, especially in stock price.
Ruby is actually more conservative on this issue, it isn't possible to make fields public. The attr_accessor macro is actually adding getters and setters. The implementions used for the getters and setters are equivalent to those that you would write in java. As mentioned elsewhere you can switch in custom implementations as required but, as in java, the majority of the time the default implementations are sufficient. The difference is that it in ruby you don't need to write the getters and setters until you need the customisation.
If it didn't, it would just be the devanagari character र (Ra), which would be incorrect since in devanagari, the currently used symbol for the Rupee is रु (Ru). Now the reason they don't use the current devanagari symbol is because that's not representative of the entire country since there are many official languages, and few of them use the devanagari script.
So how do they about getting a unicode code-point for this, and the keyboard mapping etc, for something like this?
I guess so, but it would be easier to just use a dot or more natural just to use the Ru (in devanagari script).
Indian Rupee Symbol
I think that node.js is still likely a bit immature for that. Rails, at this point in time, is just going to give you a much larger array of possibilities.
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Ha! So they come up with a symbol which is basically a distorted version of the devanagari one.
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If it isn't obvious from the actual content: this was suggested by a Redditor and the official TheGuyOnTheHorse Reddit account posted a YouTube video as a submission.

This is brilliant marketing. They saw and seized an opportunity to let the internet hive mind further their own campaign. All they had to do was film him standing in a bathroom and multiple fan made voicemail generator sites sprung up within minutes. That is super cheap, super effective marketing, for sure... they let someone else do all the hard work! Absolutely incredible.
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They could either repurpose the old U+20A8 RUPEE SIGN or (less stupid) try to get one of the unallocated Slots U+20B6 to U+20CF following the allocated currency signs.
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The java ecosystem is optimised for maturity, ruby the cutting edge. That is to say that the cutting edge java libraries are considerably more painful to use than the cutting edge ruby libraries. If you're the kind of team that gravitates towards newer libraries than ruby is going to be a better experience. If you prefer to plod along with good ol' faithful than java is the way to go.
Well, imagine you're on the either side of a life-saving call which gets dropped.
Mike's rebuttal buried deep in the comments is worth reading: http://delimiter.com.au/2010/07/15/how-long-can-atlassian-st...
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The main reason Verizon would want something like this is to prevent un-paid for tethering. But this doesn't stop that. You can still get root on a Moto ROM and still install a tethering app.
I agree with this entirely. Chris is making his decisions based on what he thinks the rules should be rather than what the rules are
defining program boundaries is tricky. here's what the FSF say:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins

it's not nitpicking: someone has given a license to certain rights, and not to others. it's important to honour what has been actually given.
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May be there. Probably not as successful or techy as some of you but oh well! :P
I just love the idea. I will try to ping you later to find out if i can help somehow with this movement!
The original Droid was developed in partnership with Google. Chances are this had something to do with the openness of the original.
Right! ;)

I started working on something today that finally DOES NOT have to support IE6...
I'm a New Zealander working in London and there are far more opportunities here than elsewhere in the world (bar the US).
I've managed to find funding here for my startup, something that I sincerely doubt I would have found south of the equator.

So the UK is a great opportunity for commonwealth countries that can't get visas for the US.
"... a free fix takes care of the only minor issue that it had." [emphasis mine]

Now if they could just fix the other major issue with the proximity sensor.
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I thought that by definition being a perfectionist means being cognizant of your mistakes. . . At the moment not owning up is making that asset a little toxic: "Apple think they're perfectionists but that's just because they don't acknowledge their mistakes" seems to be floating around right now
Also on the same night as the Cyanide and Happiness london meetup which probably attracts a fair amount of the HN audience.
I was planning on getting the Droid X until I learned of this. It's a slap in the face and unfortunately most people won't even realize it. Slowly innovation and growth in smart phones will slow and no one will realize why. They won't realize they were cutting of their own noses. How popular was Moto's Linux phone before android? Not as popular as they are, that's for sure. They need the hackers and tinkers to push the platform forward. Moto and Verizion sure has heck won't do it.
Might pop along to the next one - I'm moving down to London in a few weeks time
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If the code changes are relatively simple, shouldn't the junior programmer be able to do them without dictation?

And, if you have a large number of routine and repetitive code changes to make, doesn't that point to a bigger problem in your code in the first place?

Finally: wouldn't it be more productive to address your motivation problems head-on?
Not quite as evil, but T-Mobile Germany is preventing me from flashing my HTC Hero and at the same time delay official updates by months. Suffice to say, I won't ever buy a phone from a mobile phone company again - they suck at software!
Very little of what you said is specific to the web. The only difference is that if you build on top of the browser, the distribution system and distributed services layer is done for you. But you can do all of this in desktop apps too and more efficiently - but at a higher development cost.

it's on the web, they can collect (and sell) statistics much more easily

Nothing is stopping you from connecting your desktop software back to a central server in order to store statistics.

And stream ads.

I can stream adds too - I open a socket to my add streaming server and it sends me the next one. Or whatever. Nothing novel about the web here.

And perform proprietary operations without exposing their algorithm.

Again, I can do this too by following a browser/server model - I simply connect to my server and do it there. Desktop apps can use the internet too, you know.

There's no way to make a "no-cd" crack for web-based software; there's no instruction you can short-cut to get the premium version for free.

Once again, this is in no way specific to the web.

The advantage that web apps have is that everybody already has browsers installed and these browsers already contain a lot of what applications need: a way to display an interface, a means of scripting client-side in order to perform local tasks without having to cross the network and a standardised communications protocol. On the server side, there are a set of frameworks to make use of this. You could do this with other apps too, if you really wanted. The only thing web apps have over other kinds of apps is ease of distribution - because everyone already has web browsers.

On the flipside, desktop apps have advantages too. Maily performance and fine grained control over the computer and interface. In theory all of this will become available in browsers eventually, but honestly, as long as javascript is the only reasonable choice i have for client-side programming, I'm not going to be much of a fan (though NativeClient could fix this!).

If everything is moving to the browser, why are we still using fancy operating systems? Really, all we need is some local storage (for caching things, mainly), some ethernet and wifi drivers, usb drivers (for reading external drives, cameras etc), memory card reader drivers, some kind of video driver and.. well, a browser. No need for fancy GUI systems (outside of the browser), no need for other apps. No need for media players (outside of the browser) and so on. I suppose things are slowly moving this direction. Unless native client or something similar takes off, though, I'm not terribly interested - Javascript is a terrible hack of a language.

Ignoring whatever the servers will run on, of course.
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Working in finance the definition of FU money isn't when you can retire, but when you get to say FU before you hang-up the phone and not afterwards.

Nicholas Taleb has a similar explanation in one of his books (probably Black Swan).
Apple to Address iPhone 4 Reception Issues on Friday?
According to an email from Apple, the first beta of the iPhone’s iOS 4.1 mobile operating system is now available from the iPhone Dev Center along with the 4.1 SDK.
Combine that with news that Apple is holding a special press conference this Friday regarding the iPhone 4 and we just might be looking at that expected software fix for the now infamous reception issues plaguing the device.
The only person likely to get rich off that is the broker...
Or INR in some cases.
I think you may be correct. The reason I say this is that Bell Canada and Telus upgraded their entire network across the country this past year just to be compatible with the iPhone and other GSM phones (but primarily they were motivated by the iPhone). I can't help but think they would be privy to information on any sort of CDMA compatible iPhone before they made this decision. Certainly I don't think their upgrade would have been worth it just to get the iPhone a year ahead of time.
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We found our intern with the intention to hire if we found a good fit. (And he found us by my comments here on HN!) I described somebody who was interested in wearing many hats from admin to programmer, with at least some programming/Ruby experience, and voila!

We lucked out on the first try and we will be employing him as soon as we can get the paperwork together.

I highly recommend this type of approach for junior devs, do-it-all peeps, and even admins.

Also, from my hiring days in corporations, my more general recommendations:

* hire on attitude, passion and team fit, not current skill set (unless you are totally crunched)

* ask them what they read on their own time

* figure out why they do what they do (or do what the job description says)

A smart, motivated, passionate, conscientious person with not-quite-enough experience will quickly bring herself/himself up to speed. On the other hand, a person with the exact skillset you need may be unbearable.

As for the money, well, we're a 2-person company. We have not just our SaaS product, but live training courses, etc. Yes, it's kind of scary to employ somebody, but we figured out that, worst case, we can just do one training course a month to cover the monthly salary of our new addiction. That's a good trade.
Since I've yet to encounter the problem, that would make me pretty happy. But for the same reason, I struggle to believe they'd be that generous.
No mention of the MetaLab redesign?

For those who are interested: http://www.metalabdesign.com/zappos/
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The two horizontal lines and the whitespace in the middle signify the tricolours of the Indian flag. http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jul/15/slide-show...
It's not a dumb idea, but you certainly should give up. The high frequency game is one you will lose, because many of the large investment banks have relationships with the stock exchanges allowing them to get information faster - and respond to that information faster - than other traders.

See this NYT article (including the graphic) for more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/business/24trading.html
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Noone else put anything in there... I feel lonely :(
I totally agree with you. I think most people are just trying to find another avenue to market themselves. And these posts half the time, are attempts at a little karma.

I was trying to consolidate all such lists into one directory, so that we don't keep repeating and duplicating such content. I've linked it above. I would prefer one place for this sort of stuff, HN/IRC, where i can find it if needed. I'm fine with anything that works
Making the transition from JavaScript to Actionscript 2.0, an vice versa, is incredibly easy. Once you have your head wrapped around any form of ECMAScript, it's really not too difficult at all. The help files have provided more assistance than Kirupa or FlashDen or any of those sites ever have.

AS3.0? That's another kettle of fish entirely.
One sentence that struck me was "Notation is an intricate symbolic diagramming language for visualizing an often much simpler musical concept."

Now if you remove the word "musical", it's true of notation in general. Any notation should reflect the structure of the thing it is notating; if music notation is typically more complex than the "often much simpler musical concept" then I would say musical notation is broken and should be changed.

Is musical notation broken? I've no idea, I don't know enough about it to say.
Attempting to do this through (presumably) a retail brokers public API is doomed and dumb. The only serious way to do this is with sponsored access via a tier 1 participant. This is quite obviously not something for dabblers