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This is like gaming Google Suggest. You're going to need a lot of IP's because they're not idiots in Redmond OR Mountain View and it's pretty simple to detect behavior like that coming from a single IP.

If the spammer gets 10,000 IPs then more power to him. But there's probably more cost effective ways of black-hat SEO.
If this existed, I'd buy it on the spot even though I'm far from an early adopter when it comes to electronics.

Too bad it doesn't-the lack of a next page button and actual product pictures (among other things) signals this.

Oh well, back to dreaming about the MS Courier Concept.
there is somewhat fine difference. For example Galileo was allowed to think about how Universe works. The practical law limited what he was allowed to think about Universe.

The DMCA, or like in this article's "engineering" case, outlaws the whole act of thinking. Some areas are just off limit, no matter what you think, Sun rotates around the Earth or Earth around Sun.
At the end of the day, perhaps the developer can at least use the website to show the power of SEO.
I've been waiting for this for thirty years.
Though you're being rather flippant, I agree this is the key.

When there's a mountain of debt before you, the little spending decisions you make today seem to have no consequence on your fate. The cappuccino and Wired magazine that you buy on the way to work are of no consequence compared to all the money you owe.

Clearing debt can feel like digging at that mountain with a dessert spoon.
If the solution already exists, then the market is being addressed. You have to bring something else to the market. How can you make it better than what exists. If you can't then find the next great thing.

Who has made a success by just copying something that is already out there. Particularly when you say you found other good implementations. If the other implementations sucked, then you'd have some opportunity.

There are LOTS of things that haven't been done. Keep looking and maybe you'll find yours.
It's always been my rule. :) If I've had to put groceries (or whatever) on a credit card, I'm not also buying a video game that month.
All he did was describe a rock star ninja, and call it a porn star.

Or did I just hear a "whoosh" go by my head?
I could see myself buying this on one condition: absolutely zero lag. If I move the stylus and then watch it fill in after me, I'm not buying. Otherwise (especially with the possibility of solar power), I might buy.
Well then, someone should take that idea to a patent prosecutor and make some bank.
For handwriting - I'd agree. The world is in need of a good digital sketchpad though.
No reason why you should change it. All Hail G0atbutt!!!!
I would like an internship with a startup. Meanwhile, keeping the projects moving.
Ask HN: learn about quantitative finance? 
Hey,

I was wondering if some people with experience in finance could recommend some (preferably free) resources for a beginner looking to get into finance.

I'm looking to learn about things like options, swaps, futures, interest rate derivatives, currency swaps, etc (basically just listed a bunch of buzz-words I know are related to the field).

I have been trying Wikipedia but it's pretty tough to get into, I really need to start with something "dumbed down" for the layman like me.

Thanks.
This looks great, I hope it's real someday.

one thing was funny: "No superfluous features" then a paragraph later "it's an MP3 player!"
Which traits doom an entrepreneur?
There's a lot out on the web about what traits great entrepreneurs/founders have (for example: www.paulgraham.com/founders.html), but what are some red flags in terms of founder personalities/traits, etc?

I'll throw a few out as possibilities: lazy? arrogant? lack of curiosity? risk averse? what about bad people skills?
Leti's Got Game: Do you?
Doesn't the last part of the article, proposing a system to selectively adjust cost calculations, acknowledge the existence of people like you?
Acer Iconia, a slightly less vaporous version of Microsoft's "Courier" laptop
Apple seems to be on the case as well:

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/02/apple-ta...
In my last C++ program, 5 years ago, I did find it worthwhile to code a custom hashtable. Was a bit surprised. This was g++, probably an older version even then.
I think it's pretty safe to say that the people in debt don't know about this rule :/
Poll: Put five unrelated words
I would like to see if people here can write five words that are unrelated, you should think and write them quickly before looking at what other posters write. There should be a kernel idea, but to flourish there must be enough data.

Let's see what happen:
closest you can get to a courier is a kindle and tab in the same carry case.
I've seen people do equivalent things plenty of times. A group of people at my dorm (guys and girls) conned some poor kid on IRC, got him to reveal embarrassing sexual things about himself, and passed around screen shots. In high school, a girl would go to a guy and say that some other girl wanted her to tell him that she liked him, just so people could be entertained by the consequences. People lose their taste for that as they grow up, but for every kind of growing up there are people who never do. They just become more sophisticated. I've had people reveal private things about other people to me that made my blood run cold at the cruelty required to spread such information, and only for a trivial social advantage.

Adults who act that way are apparently rare and not well-liked, but odds are you know a few. You teach a child to be wary when approached by a stranger offering unsolicited favors, but not to be afraid of approaching strangers when they need help. The same principle applies when you are contacted anonymously over the internet and asked to reveal intimate emotional secrets.

I agree that becoming withdrawn and inhibited is not the best defense (the best defense is simply being someone other people will stick up for) but the site is targeted at people who cope with social fears by being extremely risk-averse. If you have to be comfortable with the risk of exposure and ridicule in order to use the site, then what's the point, except to be a fun flirty thing for cool people for fifteen minutes? The target users need some assurance that the site delivers on its promise of a less-risky way of revealing their feelings about somebody. Perhaps you're right that they shouldn't, but they do, and that's what matters.
You don't need VMs or a fake Google or anything that complex. That said, I will grant that it might be harder to detect or easier than reversing the protocol itself. Even so, take a look at what HN user angusgr posted in another thread:

http://projectgus.com/2011/02/bing-google-finding-some-facts...

I'll save you some reading and point out that this is the important part, the exchange with Bing:

http://projectgus.com/files/googlebing/seaport-trace.txt

I bet I could duplicate that with a few lines of Perl. Then I could feed Bing whatever I want, no VMs or clicking or DNS/hosts files to worry about. You might have to harvest a valid identifier (such as the one linked there) or do some figuring out so that you submit this to the right Microsoft IP.

If I were working for Bing, I'd start looking at hardening this a little, before the SEO people figure it out.
Where are you looking to set this up?

Has anyone ever considered a virtual incubator? I think the biggest con to something like that is the loss of face to face interaction with others. But considering that more and more startups are getting there start in areas where a traditional incubator may not be available. It may be a groups best option to get access to some those resources.
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Four? I see S40, Symbian, and MeeGo.

Or are you counting the touch-based and non-touch-based Symbians separately? There'd be some justice in that.
The most useful way of thinking of CC debt is how much it INCREASES THE PRICE of what you buy.

That nice lunch might cost 20$ if you paid cash, but use your CC and it's really 20$ + the interest you are going to pay. If it's going to take you 4 years to pay off your 20% APR CC debt then that 20$ lunch is really 41$ 50c.

PS: That is not to say paying cash for lunch changes the numbers when you are in debt; CC increases the cost of "everything" you buy without exception.
I completely agree that you should not worry about the NDA, but you should consult a lawyer nonetheless. jsavimbi is correct that the NDA is only going to bind you. As for the second point, I believe that you should not start with an indication of your value if you can help it, but you can provide revenue results. Your revenue now is not going to be your revenue in the future. As long as you are making anything, you are doing well. There is a big difference between $0 and $1. You should not disclose everything, though, until they provide you with more details, and let them make the first bids. As was said, this is the starting point of negotiations.
This is really needed for working with much of the government open data initiatives.
Al Jazeera Launches Twitter & Meetup Campaigns To Bring Broadcast To U.S.
Nokia, Microsoft announcing partnership next week
Marie Claire magazine tags Hrithik as "Sexiest Indian
Glad you like it. Coming up with a bunch of new improvements very soon.
Wow, interesting. I knew about Pavlina only through his writings on polyphasic sleep. His stance on monogamy seems to be really interesting though (and weird for me)[1].

I remember him writing that one reason for quitting polyphasic sleep was that he didn't spend much time in bed with his wife.

It's interesting to note that Facebook seems to me to be a vehicle that can be easily abused to bypass monogamy.

Maybe the pieces fit in the end.

[1] http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/01/polyamory/
Ask HN: Is it just me, or is Mashabe shrinking w/ age (font size)
I've worked at the same startup for 10 yrs
EDIT: ignore this, taken care of. Thanks Ginza staff, lightning fast response...
While you're heaping more things on it with a tablespoon.
Sigh. I feel for web designers who don't get paid, but this is not the appropriate response. It puts you potentially in legal danger and loses you both this customer and anyone they ever talk to.

If you failed to pay a contractor building you a house, they can take a lein against the house or sue you, but it would be quite illegal for them to start tearing the house down. Similarly, unless you have a written contract saying that their website is merely a service you provide, defacing their property is not putting you in a stronger position, morally or legally.
I'm in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco, but was thinking of making this "virtual" since it's catering to moonlighters who already have a desk during the day.
Apart from "cool", is there a tangible advantage to this over a pad of paper? I don't see one. It looks to me like a future expensive thing I forgot on the bus. I'd also for sure lose the pen and end up using it to support real paper to write on.

Now, if you could do things like zoom, copy/paste, and connect (wifi) with a computer/projector, I could see buying one.
Round and round the speculation wheel goes!
Where it stops, no one knows!
believing that a list of traits - either positive or negative - is a substitute for your own judgement
Sent! Let me know if I can help in any way.
Scala Code for reading Large files
Different view and option are available for reading file in scala language. Please find the two of those options. Talkbacks are welcome..
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I can handwrite math lecture notes much more quickly than I can type the same notation in LaTeX, etc. For me, this makes a tablet better for coursework than a keyboard.
CrunchBase has all this data from 2009 including the size of the round and the other investors.
http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/sv-angel

Does knowing of deals more than 3 years old really make much of a difference?
I remember in the late 90s (when I was just out of the single digits) Dutch computer hobby magazines would regularly feature articles about the "alternet" or the "dark net", where they'd explain how you could visit so many more sites beyond the "normal" internet that were secret, "illegal" and exciting.

I'll never forget the screenshot they printed of a website with a photo of a sea and "Welcome to the atlantic ocean" on it: http://atlantic.ocean.
This may be of interest to you. I think this was recently on HN but don't have the link.

DIY Masters in Financial Engineering -
http://blog.hiremebecauseimsmart.com/post/2860511335/design-...

Edit: Here it is - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130508
The spammers already control botnets of that size. They could duplicate the clickstream data with a few lines of code (it's a simple HTTP request feeding Bing the clicks; the only sticky parts are deciding which Bing IP to send them to and harvesting the per-computer ID it sends to Bing).

In short, this gives them a new service to sell when they rent out their existing botnet.
Show HN: Joypad turns your iPhone into a game controller
Windows is in production all over the place.

Cobol is in production all over the place.

Autocracy... okay, there was that whole Egypt thing, but you get the idea.
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This product is almost a year old now. I never submitted it here because I felt weird asking for feedback on a product that you had to buy. Now there's a free version, so give it a shot. I would love to hear feedback and suggestions. Sales have not been stellar, but the conversion rate is good. This site has seen a grand total of 36,000 unique visitors, and I've sold over 5k copies of the paid version. To me that means I need to get it in front of a lot more people. Marketing is not my forte, so lay any ideas you have on me!
Attend events, or stay in and work hard?
For a site that -- at least on the Web site -- does not wish to be compared to TechCrunch (as evidenced by the footer text), why even include the footer reference to TechCrunch?

I get that was the stated goal here, but that footer is confusing without the context of the Hacker News announcement.
You can't take enough maths and statistics classes. Machine Learning - these days at least - is very maths and statistics oriented. Linear Algebra is big, so make sure you have that covered.

If you want to get your toes in the water a bit with ML, there are some great ML libraries that encapsulate some of the popular algorithms. Mahout[1], Weka[2] and Mallet[3] are popular in the Java world,

A lot of folks use Python for ML as well, and there are some good libraries there.

The R language is also popular in ML circles; as is C++. If you learn some combination of Java, Python, C++ and/or R, you'll be in good shape from a programming language standpoint.

Check out http://mloss.org/software/ also.

Some good books to get started with include:

Algorithms of the Intelligent Web[4]

Programming Collective Intelligence[5]

Collective Intelligence In Action[6]

Stanford make a great series of lectures[7] available online that you might find useful.

[1]: http://mahout.apache.org/

[2]: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/

[3]: http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/

[4]: http://www.manning.com/marmanis/

[5]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596529325

[6]: http://www.amazon.com/Collective-Intelligence-Action-Satnam-...

[7]: http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3...
There is no graduation, just start!
I've been using Connected for a few months (lucky enough to get a private beta early on). It's amazing.

The daily engage emails are the most underrated feature.
If I recall correctly, your site had a couple of special cases that I thought I had worked around but if it's still an issue, please contact me at support@ginzametrics.com.
I see you there, little smile in the bottom left.

What theme are you using? Do you plan on having an About page?
you can't judge by some pictures how great it works. Does anyone have a hands-on video?
In my opinion this sort of leaderless organisation based upon rapid electronic communication is an early precursor to automated governance. Recent tax evasion protests in the UK have also drawn similar complaints about being leaderless, but as software mediated collective organisation becomes more sophisticated this may be the direction of the future.
I agree. The day I learned to hide (apps spam etc and people) the day I started using Facebook without any issue.
So my question is what about people that aren't in debt, but need help improving their credit score? I had a lot of debt from about 5-10 years ago and it killed my credit score. The debt has all been paid off for a few years, I haven't had credit cards in years, and I still have a few notices from closed accounts that won't fall off for a few years.

So I'm currently doing what I can to remove the closed notices and have had some minor success. But a lot of people don't know the right things to do to improve their scores.

Having a service that tracks the 3 credit bureaus and provides guidance on steps to take to bring your score up would be mighty useful.
I think this trend is disturbing. I've seen a few "revenge revisions" here over the past few days, and though I understand the frustration of not getting paid (I've been freelancing for 8+ years), this is not the way to deal with the problem.

I'm a big fan of using a staging server that I'm in control of for changes to sites. We'll agree on a scope for an individual project or revisions, then I'll make the changes on my server and send you a link. If the changes are to your liking and the scope has been met, I'll bill you. Upon receipt of payment, I'll upload the changes to your live site, and we'll start again ad infinitum.
Am I the only one that finds Asymco to be transparent and unsubtle pandering?

Nokia's got higher R&D than Apple, but Apple's got higher profits, so Nokia are stupid and Apple are smart.

If Nokia had lower R&D than Apple, then Apple would still have higher profits, so Nokia would still be stupid and Apple smart.

So how is this any different from his other 900 posts pointing out that Apple have high profits? What analysis or insight does it add?
Github cofounder Tom Preston-Werner on culture and entrepreneurship
>I just want a very long-life note-taking tablet with a decent keyboard.

I think you would like the Alphasmart NEO.
http://www.neo-direct.com/NEO/default.aspx

It's got a full-sized keyboard with a built-in 6 line LCD screen. It runs on 3 AA batteries or a rechargeable pack and it honestly runs forever. I got one originally 5 years ago when I did Nanowrimo for the first time. I use it all the time when I'm in the mood to just write, because there's no distraction. The only real downside is the need to hook it up to USB to transfer files off of it.
From the article:
"Meanwhile, I’m on my third day of waiting to hear back from Google about just what exactly it does with its own toolbar. Now that the company has fired off accusations against Bing about data collection, Google loses the right to stay as tight-lipped as it has been in the past about how the toolbar may be used in search results."

And Google's sudden silence you don't find suspicious. This is the same company that invited the author of the original article to their headquarters the day after he wrote it.
Yes, 5-10x faster. As to the reason, I can only speculate. I doubt it's template-imposed abstraction penalty per se, though it could be a result of having to write the algorithm in a generic way. In other words, if you did a sort of "manual instantiation" of the hash_map template, where you made the types specific but didn't change a thing besides that, I think you'd get the same performance as the templated algorithm.

I can't say for sure the reason for the difference. Previously I thought that hash_map might have been wasting time calculating a hash of the integer key (whereas I just use the key as the hash), but I just added another test that uses hash_map with an identity hash function and the performance was unchanged.

I bet that hash_map is using external chaining, whereas I'm using internal chaining which has better caching behavior. Besides that it's hard to say for sure why mine is so much faster.
In the context of getting out of debt: Is anyone a Dave Ramsey listener here? I've been an avid listener for a few years now. I recommend his podcast to everyone -- not only for the financial advice, but also for the cultural education about what America really is.
Good luck. I hope it turns into another time sink for me...
Facebook groups/privacy control
U.S. tech salaries flat 2 years running, but Silicon Valley pay rises
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The infographic reads that 1/3 of Americans have credit card debt and further below that over 100 MM Americans carry a balance from month to month.

1. Isn't carrying a balance from month to month the definition of "credit card debt"?

2. As of July 2009, the US population is about 307 million people.

That would mean that virtually everybody with a credit card carries a balance from month to month. That's simply not true.
And it's an investor/partner/employer to avoid
I'm not quite sure why copyright infringement should make me concerned about the applications as a user. Though it's notable that there have been several noted cases of gross copyright infringement on the AppStore.

However I actually think there is a perfect medium somewhere in the middle: Granular permissions that allow for curation by an optional third party. That would be an ideal situation for the market, where Grandma or Joe User can select from a number of curation sources (or punching it in directly) where reviewers rate by quality, assess if the permissions are appropriate, etc.
You definitely have to strike a balance. If you spend all your time networking, you won't get anything done... but networking (or just going out to "detune" a little bit from time to time) has it's own value. I think each individual has to find that balance for him/her self though.

I organize the RTP Hackers & Founders group, and I think we're going to start to gravitate to about once per month for "formal" meetings. I figure if I go to that meetup, plus one or two random techie meetups through the month (Hadoop User's Group, Lucene/Solr User's Group, Java User's Group, Linux User's Group, whatever), and spend most of the rest of the "outside of the $DAYJOB" time working, I'll be OK. That's subjective and apt to change, but right now it feels about right.