skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also doesn't support things like positioning except when the app is actually open and on screen so you can't have jogging tracker for instance since it would stop tracking when it locks, which is pretty stupid.

I've no doubt though that Microsoft will fix these issues sooner rather than later and the first version is being rushed out of the door to be able to compete at all
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I'd like to know that position. Because then I could try to invert it (i.e. turn longs into shorts and vice versa).
The problem is that you don't really know which applications do rely on read access times, and because the performance jump between atime<->noatime and atime<->relatime is pretty much the same, I always go for the safer option.
It's also a nice safe opinion to have about something. Let's say Bob McEntrepreneur links to his startup's landing page on HN. If he's using comic sans, that's guarunteed karma for the first person who makes the content-empty comment "Nice site, but lose comic sans". Hence ensuring the survival of the meme.
Ask HN: How can I make atleast 500dollars per month online?
Am a PHP/MySQL developer and I need atleast 500dollars per month to keep me focused while working on my startup ideas.

Any suggestions?
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To me, it does sound amateurish. It's like web designers' sites that have huge text saying "Hi, I'm Fred, and I'm a web designer with a real passion for standards-compliant sites!": maybe it was a clever trick the first time, but now it's just a very dated-looking meme.

If I wanted an original web site, I wouldn't go to a designer whose own page was one big cliché.

If I wanted serious software for my business, I wouldn't go to a site whose first impression is one big cliché. If they can't even come up with a clever/meaningful name for their own brand, it screams "I'm a 20-something wannabe with no real ideas" to me.

YMMV, just my $c, I'm sure there are exceptions, etc.
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I was being aspergery about it.
I think he means by 'grey' that China's situation is not special, nor that it can escape from economic fundamentals, as shown up in other 'miracle growth' economies in the last century (Japan comes to mind, but also smaller, less-known ones like New Zealand or some of the newer members of the EU like Spain and Ireland whose growth turned out to be asymptotic to the wealth level of the older member states, and didn't exceed them like it looked for a while they would). Economic growth is bound by real value fundamentals, macro-economic policy tricks will catch up someday. That's how I interpreted grey - not uncommon, and quite bland, really.
I too don't have a facebook account and the worst issue with Facebook connect is, its login box steals keyboard focus and completely annoys my browsing experience.

I hope he releases this as Firefox extension too.
The main reason for your downvotes is that you are not waving the U.S. flag. Also, you go against the idea that only democracy can deliver prosperity.

Both things will earn you downvotes.
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I don't get it.
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I'm confused, which manifesto did you read? Half of Kaczynski's manifesto is a rant against modern leftism.

What's your reasoning behind him being a subset of the left, when he clearly has argued against them?

edit: also, from paragraph 18 of his manifesto: "18. Modern leftist philosophers tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality and to insist that everything is culturally relative."

I think you haven't read the manifesto, and just wanted to drop Rand into a conversation for no good reason.
It's fascinating that these latencies are an order of magnitude faster than most 'web services'. Can anyone provide more insight into what is specifically involved in executing a single trade? Are they just enqueueing a trade message in this latency or actually executing the trade? Are they including network latency in these numbers? Also, does anyone have any insights into the hardware and customizations?
I think its popularity derives more from the fun of seeing people humiliated and their dreams crushed, unfortunately.
Compare Canada's population to Indonesia's. Now compare their standards of living.

High population does not imply or cause high wealth.
If you call them up and ask for a quote on 694,444,444 chips, I would kind of expect them to offer you a discount. But remember to ask, just in case.
I quit my job for PlayStation three weeks ago and now I'm working for the company I've founded http://codeamplifier.com

I'm going to be creating tools that make game developers happier. First up is a tool to help with localization woes.
WOW! :) Automatic refresh? I can't tell you the number of times I've had to abandon fancy Ajax because of the need to refresh the DOM (checkboxes that were 'deleted' still existed in the form submission... yes I'm sure there's a way to do it, but there's a balance between time and ... oh nevermind)

Also, I really like the way that bindings are done.

data-bind="click: foo();"

is so much nicer than

$(':checked').each(function(bar){/* do foo; */}).bind(this);

or whatever it was I was doing in jQuery the other day. I'm probably mixing up my prototype and jquery syntax there. :)
well heres sumthing new.. I cannot submit to HN via my mobile. Any answers? Tx.
I don't mean to be cynical, but when I go to that site and see the blue color scheme with that logo, I start imagining cold, frigid, freezing, wintry...

It's just not the feelings that make me want to sign up and share memories with friends.

Hopefully I'm more of an outlier though, because competition for Facebook would be great.
Morality: 'We can send religion to the scrap heap'
Or just look at banks.

If we did not have deposit insurance from the state, banks would probably be much more pro-active in disclosing all their positions (including liabilities), so that people still trust them. Some banks showed their liabilities in the crisis, but this was way too late for people to pick them apart, so it did not help with the trust.
It's true, my college tenancy agreement explicitly says "The student agrees ... not to use the room for any professional trade or business."

Not only businesses, but any jobs are forbidden at Cambridge as well. If you're not allowed to work behind a bar for minimum wage, it's sort of implied that they're hardly going to look kindly upon you running a business are they?
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Thanks for the article. The bit about media-driven scare stories rings true.
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Very nice.

I'm disappointed to see JavaScript back in attributes though. Can the bindings be defined programmatically?
I know a good number of people who would fall for this. Very clever to imitate the warning, I must say.
Google makes money off Android by licensing their closed source applications, mobile advertising, and taking 30% of Android Market sales. Of course it's fine they want to make money off Android but if we're talking about openness that's kind of like having an open source razor with closed razor blades.
Curious to know (and for entirely selfish reasons) what classification of work permit is non-transferable?
Yup. That's why Apple has always sold more computers than IBM compatibles. The fragmentation in the hardware market prevented developers from using MS Windows. And all those versions every couple years... Man, just horrible.

Oh wait, that's exactly the opposite of what happened.

Choice is not bad. Differing hardware doesn't matter.
Related: enthusing about Helvetica.
You should take a look at Perpetually. They presented at TechCrunch 50 in 2009 and have some great technology designed to do something similar to what you've been thinking about, though their focus is enterprise customers, not startups. Worth a look, and their solution may give you some ideas for your own.

http://www.perpetually.com/
To start up discussion I'll drop a quote from Gordon H. Clark:

"I would like to make it clear that sociology, statistics, psychology, or any empirical science can never determine moral norms.

Secular science at best can discover what people do; but it cannot discover what people ought to do.

From observational premises no normative conclusion follows. Any attempt to define morality by observational science is a logical fallacy.

Science can invent new ways of killing people, but science can never determine who should be killed. It cannot determine who should not be killed. It can only invent more effective ways of doing what somebody for some other reason wants to do.

[...] Anyone who begins their arguments with statements about man and the universe -- statements in the indicative mood -- cannot end their arguments with statements in the imperative mood."
Completely true. In the UK there's a lot of emphasis put on what's seen as the normal progression from school to higher education to employment.

Startups are rarely mentioned in the media, and mentioned even less outside it. The only exception I can think of is Dragon's Den on the BBC, where people with little experience and even worse ideas sell half their business for a pittance in order to entertain the country. I guess that about sums it up.

I think another issue may be the different views on business.

In the UK, businesses are seen as entities that must be restrained, otherwise they will do Bad Things. This is reflected in the immense amount of legislation regulating businesses, employment, consumer rights, etc.

There's much less of this in the US - businesses are an integral part of the culture, and you can't really go anywhere without being reminded of that.

In a way it's comparable to the mild distrust of government in the US: just as Americans look to the constitution to protect them from government, Brits look to the government to protect them from businesses.
http://www.openpoll.us

An electronic direct democracy that will allow Americans to vote on state and federals bills and elections. I'm shooting to have my MVP done beginning of next year.
Why would a university incite you to drop out of it? What does the university gain from that?

Why would you go to university with the intention of dropping out as soon as your startup gains traction? Why not just start your startup right out of secondary school and save yourself thousands in tuition fees?

Failing that, what's wrong with finishing your degree and then starting your startup?
Mechanical invention is outdated? So who's going to create all the really neat steampunk?
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Great idea for a study.

I think there's a mistake with the early discussion of the efficient markets hypothesis though.

"There are two problems with EMH. First, numerous studies
show that stock market prices do not follow a random walk
and can indeed to some degree be predicted [5], [6], [7], [8]."

Any bets 5, 6, 7 & 8 have now been factored into financial trading models cancelling out the predictive advantage?

I think it only makes sense to think of EMH as a dynamic rule. With new information (/new ways of understanding old information) disrupting the equilibrium price which then converges to a long term equilibrium; at least until the next shock.

I'd apply this on every level from the technology arms race to new sources of info & analytical models (such as twitter + NLP).
For the lack of a better word: I'm building better forum software. It's something that teams and organizations will find useful for general communication, idea exchange, even light project management.

We're testing the app at the moment in–house, hoping to get to private beta before December.
If you have ever developed for Android or BlackBerry you would quickly realize that having different screen resolutions and sizes, as well as having different OS versions, isn't that big of a deal. A tiny bit of extra work goes a long way when it comes to working with these platforms.

Also, the sheer volume of Android phones means that supporting 2.1+-only is not that big of a loss (You still hit 60-70% of Android users), and dropping support for older BlackBerry devices (pre-4.5) isn't a big deal either.
I don't know which Alanis Morrisette song the author is referring to.
Good old regular expressions
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The doctoral programme he has embarked on involves field trips, interviews and finally writing a thesis.

It doesn't sound like he's necessarily taking the place of anyone. I don't smell a lot of grant money in this kind of research, nor do I see a lot of equipment or lab space being required.

And, yes, research has value. If this fellow writes down what he knows, and what he finds out, people in the future will be able to read it. That's creating something of value. Would it be better if this hundred-year-old smart guy took all his knowledge to the grave?

Nowadays it's fashionable to think of all education, right up to the Ph.D. level, as a kind of jobs training program, but in fact the traditional point of the Ph.D. isn't to make yourself smarter. It's to make the world smarter by doing some original research and then publishing it.
Even when they do invest, it seems the valuations tend to be awfully low (and the equity stake of the investors far too high). Plus, you'd think that with TV budgets they could get participants some coaching on how to pitch.

Sorry to get carried away, I find the whole programme extremely disrespectful. :-/
The next step is to ironically embrace Comic Sans. If anyone has typography skills, I'd love to see a stab at Comic Mono for use in IDEs. Ironic Sans, perhaps?
Refutation - British Y Combinator startups by university:

Cambridge: Immad Ahkund (Heyzap), Jude Gomila (Heyzap), Rahul Vohra (Rapportive), Martin Kleppman (Rapportive), Sam Stokes (Rapportive), Ian Hogarth (SongKick), Pete Smith (SongKick), Michelle You (SongKick)

Imperial: Tim Davey (SnapTalent), Sumon Sadhu (SnapTalent), Niall Smart (Echodio), Nathan Chong (NewsLabs)

Oxford: Peter Nixey (Clickpass), Harjeet Tagger (Auctomatic), Kulveer Taggar (Auctomatic)

Bristol: Tom Riley (Fabricly)

Kent: Mike Laming (Propable)

(Apologies if I've missed anyone/misspelt any names as I'm writing from memory)
Python2 is also still around, if you need it.
It's whimsical to see it in a programming context. I bought a book on Data Structures from Lulu and the source code listings are in it. I also think Simon Peyton Jones of Haskell fame uses it for his presentations.
But on the other hand, I think the name of the brand matters less then everything else.

And if you want a good name, *.com is already saturated, you have to get really creative and you most likely cannot find domains from single words unless you're lucky.

Speaking for myself, it was painful for me to waist time on finding a good .com when the implementation was far from ready and I didn't have a marketing plan.
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The latencies are typically quoted as round trip through the matching engine. This does not include transit latency to the matching engine but will include any internal transit latency once the matching engine has the order. So you can assume it is from when the order message reaches the network interface on the order processor to when the response leaves the network interface towards the market participant.

The amount of work the matching engine has to do is non-trivial but straightforward. Take order, look at type, if market order look for a match on the limit order book, if not handle appropriately (this bit is not included in the latency as it might involve routing to other venues, etc). If it is a limit order it must find the right place to position that order within the order book. Building an order book data structure that is cache friendly and thus very fast is not rocket science but it certainly isn't easy.
This web app is seriously awesome. I already see myself creating ad hoc social networks for all kinds of events. (first time I try it out, no affiliation)
Its very simple. People have more chance of remembering a shorter domain name, which is your brand in the online world.
Its very hard to find a 6 or 5 letter .com, whereas a domain such as live.ly is 6 chars including the ltd.
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It would also occupy a plane with the area of 12500 m^2. According to wolfram|alpha equivalent to 1.7 times the area of a FIFA-sanctioned international match soccer field.
Schweet! I love declarative bindings, it is hard for me to think in any other fashion after working in WPF/Silverlight for the past 3 years.

I'm excited to play around with this
It sounds like the complaints against Android are [1]

"Steering" discussions do not take place on a public mailing list (or community input is generally disregarded).

Depending on the involvement of the community (in actually doing instead of bikeshedding) compared to the company, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. I like open development, but if the community really has enough motivation, they are welcome to fork the project. Git makes it as easy as possible to migrate patches [2].

Some new development does not go into the public repo right away, instead residing in a private repo until some merge window prior to a major release.

Keeping it in a separate repo is probably a good idea if the changes are likely to cause occasional breakage. Again, visible branches (and/or RFC patchsets on mailing lists, a la LKML), but they do have a rapid release cycle and the full history is available after it is merged.

They don't hand out commit access to the community.

Is there just no email address to git send-email your patch sets or to send pull requests? Or do they ignore patches that show up? That's just bad administration and it's easy enough to create a community fork. The specific complaint about outright commit privileges is silly, Linus does not hand out commit access to anyone (including Ingo, Alan Cox, Andrew Morton), instead he pulls from them when they are ready.

I'm not trying to defend Google, they certainly have a history of being a poor to mediocre open source citizen. But "no different than iOS" is a gross exaggeration. Note that the carriers and hardware vendors may be far more to blame for the privacy, it's likely that they require limited-time NDAs so that branches cannot be made public until a release.

[1] I don't have specific experience working with the Android git repository or trying to send patches upstream, so I don't know if the complaints are entirely factual.

[2] It's not so rare for Open Source (adhering to the strict definition, but not open development, obviously) projects to only publish release tarballs. In contrast, Android publishes their repository with daily activity: http://android.git.kernel.org/?o=age
Come on, we already have a perfectly good protocol for this, OpenID. It's unfortunate how big companies try to lock users in their own authentication services rather than educate them about OpenID (although I think the new JanRain widgets turn OpenID into a "Connect with X" service, which is great).
I've been using (and loving) JsAnywhere [1] (iTunes link[2])

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[1]: http://jsany.org/

[2]: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/javascript-anywhere/id3634522...
Not my favorite personally, but its being compared to Scott Harrison of Charity Water, Gary V, and Tony Hseih of Zappos, so that's not really a negative.

Still a great video.
Comments from a stranger probably can't offer much comfort when coping with a dying family member, but I just wanted to reply to thank you for sharing your experience.
I'm working for a robotic toy startup and on the side designing an efficient & flexible radiant floor heating distribution & control system.
Correct, I did not say that high population causes high wealth.

What is behind my reasoning is that the lower the standard of living, the more opportunity for economic growth. China's living standard is very low, compared to the US, therefore over the next few decades, because per capita it will still not be as wealthy as the US, it will continue to grow and become much richer than it currently is.

A quick google search reveals that this is indeed true for Canada and Indonesia.
Indonesia GDP growth, ~2-3% per annum.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/Economics/GDP-Growth.aspx?Sy...
Canada GDP growth, ~0-2% per annum.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/Economics/GDP-Growth.aspx?Sy...

Moreover, many say (including the author of the article), that because China's growth for the past 30 years has relied on exports and now that developed consumer countries like the US, Canada and Japan can no longer consume as much, China's growth opportunities become further restricted.

I do not believe this is the case and here is what I was really trying to say in my previous comment. China has 1200 million people and I believe that over the next few decades China will be able to grow, precisely because its consumer demand will grow, too. After all, US did it with only 200-300 million people, why can China not do it, too?

The fact that its government maybe inefficient is only a small effect on the scale of growth we are talking about. From wikipedia, China gdp per capita is ~6600 and US's is ~46000. Even if an inefficient government like China's reduces the potential productivity of the average citizen by three or four or even five times, China still has a lot of room to grow.

For more information, look at the Solow-Swan Model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exogenous_growth_model

EDIT: The article talks about previous bubbles like Japan's. Yes, Japan was a bubble, but China isn't; At least not yet. I believe Japan's economic growth stalled because it's GDP per capital caught up with the most industrialised countries. This has not happened in China, yet, and when it does, my prediction will be fulfilled.

Converging economies leading to equality, all powered by the capitalist machine that is the global economy.
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For me it's simple, I like to keep Facebook strictly for personal life. I think this fills a niche for "ad hoc" social networks where you don't want to reveal too much about yourself.
This is something I've wanted to do, so let me share the random ideas I had:

- Horizontal space is at a premium, so don't show line numbers. When scrolling, show the line numbers hovering over the lines (so I can find my spot in a long file if I need to), but I don't need to see them while actually editing a line.

- The big win on the iPhone is not so much writing as reading. Make it easy to download a GitHub repo of source I might want to read on my commute. And make it easy for a project to link to that. Then I can get familiar with the coding style and abilities of, say, backbone.js or some other new javascript thing, while standing on the Metro.
I tried it on my iPod Touch, OS version 3.1.2 and could not get the keyboard to come up or see any code from the samples appear in the textarea. Seems pretty cool in the iPhone Simulator though.
That does look pretty neat. I dug this up:

div.content {
...
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #bbb;
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I'm working on a logicless & valueless templating system in ruby that also has work going on for java and eventually python. In the process of using it to see how the idea shakes out and getting examples that people can learn from in the process.

Also working on a version of Smalltalk that runs on the jvm.