skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinect hack: NAVI (Navigational Aids for the Visually Impaired)
[snip]the client holds all of the information to pick up the transaction where it left off.[/snip]

Have you considered the security implications of this? How do you check to see if your transaction data wasn't maliciously modified by the client?
I agree, and I was a bit surprised at how non-plussed she seemed at apps in general. Honestly, for just facebook and e-mail, a cheaper netbook might be a better solution.
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actually, it will. A good read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing
I attended a workshop about bootstrapping last week. The instructor told us a few stories about business men who applied very simple strategies that led them to success. I found the fruit guy’s story really interesting and thought the HN users will like it too.
Clarium Capital has been performing terribly for years.

However, I agree with your general point (that it is possible for one person to focus on two large projects).
I would say it is mainly because network latency dominates response time. It's really cool that Warp can serve static pages that fast but the frameworks start having the same speed when you use a database. Additionally, static pages should be served by an upstream cache which would be faster than Warp.
How long before we see the dark pattern of an automated script emailing unsubscribers with a "this is a personal message from Founder Name to apologise if you found our emails unhelpful. We had a few people unsubscribe recently and so we're working on improving our tone - feedback is welcome! If you do ever feel like coming back..."
Missing the point of social media
Thanks. I'll keep Convio in mind - I have connections in Austin, so that's definitely something to consider. I've been getting more involved in nonprofit work lately and have several friends ho are, as well, so we can and want to start reaching out more.

I agree about the chicken/egg problem. I had considered adding a sort of nonprofit showcase, or case studies to the site, or even just covering them on an associated blog, something. I think one of the first things I'll add next is a "tell us your story" type page where nonprofits can submit info on what they're up to and I can start building up a database of interested organizations and details about them.

I'm attending a couple of big-ish charity events soon and primarily wanted to get the site up and hopefully get a few people signed on board prior to that, work out a solid plan going forward, add what I can in the mean time, and start doing some serious promotion in about a month.

It's a bit of a catch-22 on the promotion end of things, as well. You don't want to promote an empty site, but you need to get users somehow - which is a problem I'm sure everyone on HN who's ever launched a member-based site has face, and I'd love some tips on dealing with it. Right now, I'm mostly pushing it among friends.
No, its not meaningless -- A lot of good comes from discourse, but its my opinion that HFT takes a disproportionate amount of flak for their real market impact.

The financial sector at large is massive [1], and people seem to think that HFT is proportional in size, but its actually quite small, weighing in at ~2Bn in annual profits [2], which is a blip compared to Google's AdSense revenues. Google does all sorts of good things too though, so I'm not saying that we should reallocate all of Google's engineers to curing cancer, but I think the amount of discourse allocated to vilifying HFT and imagining ways to make "smart people do other things" is out of control.

Edit: Got to read pg's response to @joebadmo about what the dispute is -- No, I don't think its sinister to criticise. I think that's productive and great things start with discourse. I _do_ worry that when issues get blown out of hand people to change the lives of others in ways to coerce them to operate in ways congruent with their moral code. The criticism is fine, but exacting policy to prevent others from doing amoral things is problematic. The (likely bad) analogue for this is European and American cultural imperialism.

Obviously I don't think HFT is "immoral" as others have stated. (I do also think that HFTraders are compensated disproportionately highly w.r.t. their contribution to society, but that isn't unique to HFT's and is far more pronounced in other subfields in finance, and possibly startupdom).

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-f...

[2] http://www.tradeworx.com/TWX-SEC-2010.pdf
So how do we solve this problem in the OSS world?

I've had my share of problems when leading open-source projects, and I remember a few particularly troublesome contributors, who made many others run away and generally decreased the quality as a whole of software, but Drepper seems to be of a considerably greater magnitude.

Is there any proper way to deal with this?
I'm a technical developer currently looking for a non-technical cofounder.

Likewise.

What I'm looking for:

0) Someone with a background doing sales / marketing / business development for a company that sells to large enterprises.

1) Someone with experience doing market research, who understands positioning and how to craft a marketing message.

2) someone who can help with going out, meeting customers, and validating our customer problem hypotheses and product hypotheses.

3) Somebody who's good at the schmoozing / networking stuff who can go out, attend events, connect with people and generate leads and find potential customers, investors and/or partners.

4) Someone who has the connections and knowledge necessary to help our company generate "buzz" when the time is appropriate.

5) Somebody who can sell Bibles to Lucifer or ice-water to Eskimos.
Congratulations for the book, also for using simple and effective publishing tools like markdown and Pandoc.
I think that Bjarne would not throw anything away. He would use the wrapper as writing paper.
If they lie about anything on their resume my company walks away. The last guy I interviewed we talked for my alloted time and it was clear he wasn't quite up to par but I wanted to know how much he knew. The next guy after me sent him home within minutes because there were flat out lies on his resume.

One may not imply the other (lies !== bad employee) but it's a red flag.
His custom fonts are not loading... potential typekit fail.
Rocking his peers. Putting suckers in fear.
Microsoft, IBM, Cisco all have huge R&D labs in India. And the number of patents coming from them is not insignificant.

Of course, this presumes that patents == innovation, something that is clearly not the case, as demonstrated by the activities of patent trolls.
Service gateway to secure extended enterprise w/bi-directional protocol handling
I think Jack will concentrate on the product, the monetization part will be left to Dick Costolo.
Its like a gamble...if you want to become ubiquitous you have to be ubiquitous. Also, to me, simplicity implies being the original (sometimes...).

Is it worth many thousands of dollars? Probably...if you have the cash.
The only way to improve it is cache it for maybe x minutes, and then update cache. Maybe you should provide the reason why it can't be cached for say maybe 5 minutes. If its a problem where they are reloading, the homepage to see results then you could do incremental updates of each section using comet technique.
Are you looking for a co-founder for an idea you're already working on or open to joining an idea? Its understandable that everyone seems to be attached to their own ideas, but it sounds like the attachment to the idea might actually be the hardest part of partnering up with someone.
Service-agnostic options are best.

Have a lobbyist slip a line item in a bill requiring the government to e-mail you your message or else give you a sizeable tax break. :P
I think you made some great points, esp. re contacts as non-first-class entities. Another obvious one (that maybe you avoided on purpose) is the notification system.

I thought it was interesting that you didn't compare it to any of the other platforms. For example, you could have talked about Android's contact widgets, which are placeable on the home screen and, when pushed, give you a modal dialogue with options for phone, text, email, etc. Did you avoid talking about other platforms on purpose or have you just not had access?

I didn't quite understand your last point about the slide to unlock. You didn't indicate what exactly you don't like about it, and didn't provide a better a solution or a even a direction toward one. Also, I'm not sure about the similarities to the Win95 start button. Is it just the location on the screen (bottom left)? Is it a visual similarity thing? Maybe this is just something I missed because I'm not in your intended target audience ("design community")?
I don't get it. If the flash crash brought down the market drastically for 20 minutes, only to pull it back up, this only points to an opportunity for a more intelligent algorithm to be allowed to correct that and make money in the process. I can understand this as being an example of the state of the art being pretty dumb/gullible to multiplying its own noise, but I don't understand why this would be bad. Didn't the algos selling during the low and buying stocks later lose money?
So, the one guy's only really revenue generating app is an unlicensed Star Wars app that sounds like a ripoff of similar iOS "lightsaber" apps that were first unlicensed then became licensed?

Count me not impressed.
Microsoft VP apologizes for Win Phone missteps
Sure. It's easier to win that way.

I still like to think I'm competing on quality rather than price. The fact that I bill less for my time when I've got sand between my toes is frankly a bit of a gimmick. Some clients see it as a positive that they're contributing to my suntan.
I understand the difference, but let's consider the context of the claim.

Title: Should high-frequency trading be banned?

OP: How about a tax on capital gains that is inversely proportional to the time the financial instrument is held? The biggest cost HFT imposes on the world is the brain drain.

This thread isn't about discussing the best use of talent, it's about whether talent should be forced to not do certain things, and your post reads naturally in that context.

You: Would you call it sinister for example to criticize someone for spending their time murdering people at random?

I read this as an equivocation, as though misuse of talent falls into the same category as murdering people.
I've thought a lot about this "Great Team v. Great idea" and I think what you're saying is partially true. You have great teams failing right this very second, and it's viewed as ok given that they are, well, great teams. But that still leaves them failing.

I think a major problem is that neither the biz nor the tech co-founders are the lynch pin, it's the correct combo of both + an amazing idea + that 'never give up' determination + timing.

I think there are a lot of people getting full of themselves, be it devs, biz people, or VCs. I think it would do us all well to realize that yes, we DO need each other.
It would help to read this Wikipedia article to better understand this post. The post is based on court filings addressing personal jurisdiction in an internet case. It seems California has weighed in on the subject and knowing what they are looking for helps to understand the nature of the arguments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_jurisdiction_in_Intern...
So cool to see who is the best hashtag between apple & windows or bieber & spears ! :D
"give them another year or two"

It's not up to me. The market will decide how much longer RIM has.

I suspect you're overly optimistic about their hold on the enterprise market, as well. While the smart phone market has grown dramatically, and thus RIM can continue to grow sales while losing market share at a tremendous clip, the fact is that if they're making phones no one wants, even enterprises will change eventually. CEOs and CTOs want nice phones, too, and they'll make the necessarily decisions to switch infrastructure to nice phones. This has already happened at every major company I know of that used to be Blackberry-only. They're now offering iPhone and Android to their people, alongside Blackberry, and everyone is obviously (and sensibly) choosing iPhone or Android.
Still, Executive Chairman and CEO are two rather "big" titles. If he can juggle both and be successful I will be impressed. We will never really know how much effort he puts into each role.
maybe we should start a Spartacus-like "I am blickmaniac" movement
What good would that do?

Suppose we're looking at a world with one stock.

Suppose I have 100 hypotheses about that stock, each of which is relevant to some time frame. Some are hypotheses about the next few seconds, some are hypotheses about the next few minutes, hours, days, etc.

What is the harm of trying to execute trades to profit from those hypotheses? If there is no counterparty, none of the trades will go through regardless of their timeframe.

If there is a counterparty who decides (for example) to participate in several transactions with me over the span of several minutes (or seconds), we should assume that counterparty is self-interested and is making trades that satisfy its goals.

If on the other hand the counterparty is a firm whose algorithms and trading infrastructure was build in the 1990s and is somehow tripped up by my strategy, how is that any different from a lay investor being tripped up by a misinterpretation of (say) a low end of day closing price?

All market participants are either speculative or based on fundamentals. If you're the latter, you don't care much about the ultra short-term. If you're the former, then you have some strategy for speculation, which may take as input the behavior of other market participants.

In my view, since there is no reason why a rational strategy creator would prefer long term strategies to short term ones (expected risk adjusted returns being equal), there is no reason why HFT should be viewed with disdain. Much as computers replaced rotary phones on the trading floor, HFT is the next iteration of technological improvement in trading.

HFT happens to be a specialty area at present, but there's no reason that any adept speculator would avoid high frequency trades if she had sufficient algorithmic and tech sophistication to make them.
No, the obvious thing to do is to open a second business with the opposite appeal.
does Steve Jobs spends as much time/effort in Apple as in Pixar? Does Steve tell Pixar animators a thousand "no" till the animation is done "right"? I would guess no.

I think Pixar relies heavily (or at least more) on Lasseter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lasseter) than on Steve Jobs

ps. I would add Carmack with Armadillo Aerospace & ID Software, altough I dont think he is the 'CEO' of both
My guess is that he just really loves the product, and now that Ev and Biz are AWOL, he can actually do what he wants with it.

It's also a great PR response to the #dickbar.
I think it depends on what type of marketing you need, e.g. online ad sales? B2b? Where you're trying to go with your startup or business probably should determine what type of help you need.
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He forgot one:

Even if you work hard, have lots of promising ideas, and are very persistent, the odds are still against you (at least in terms having a big payoff that frees you from ever having to work again). But you will probably make a living for yourself and have lots of interesting experiences, and that's worth something.
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Well, if the algos can make money they should also be allowed to lose money. How else would you have efficiency?
csmonitor.com made this digital leap. Would be interesting to see what it did to their finances.
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The big problem with these sorts of blanket statements is that there's no way to measure innovation. Patents and copyrights are laughable as proxies, since many obvious things get patented, while many innovations are either treated as trade secrets or released into the public domain.

I'll be ready to hear arguments talking about India and China out innovating the US after someone comes up with a credible metric for measuring innovation. Until then, all these discussions will go in circles as no one can clearly articulate what exactly constitutes an innovation.
I couldn't find their fees anywhere on their website, so I can only assume they're going to charge the traditional 2+% + $.30 for each transaction.

I'd much rather use Dwolla (http://www.dwolla.com). They charge $.25 flat. That's it. And they have iPhone and Android clients. They don't have a limit on how much you can transfer, either (serve limits to $1000/day and $2500/month).
Steve Jobs spent 99.999% of his time at Apple.
Correct pg, though for the record, I do also avoid murder whenever possible.

A criticising B is not a problem.

A preventing B from doing something is sinister (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness).
There's a difference between respect of copyright and artificial inflation of value. The recording industry would have you believe that the consumer is stupid and has no respect for the value of the artist. This is simply false.

iTunes is a perfect example that given the correct price point, people will pay for music. The big issue is that price point might not be high enough to support the massive marketing and promotion machine that exists. That isn't the consumer's problem though.

In the end, it's actually a perfect example of my point:

When technology reduces the barrier to entry to next to nothing, industries that were predicated on high barriers need to adapt, or they will die. It's a good rule of thumb that the moment you start to do something other than talking to the customer of your service in an effort to preserve revenue, you have a value disconnect with your market.
With that in mind, are we really advancing society with this?
6 Things Our Kids Just Plain Won't Get (or Moore's law and your kids)
Ask HN: Help Me Beta Test My Mac App
Hey guys,

I’ve finally gotten a project to near completion. Its a little mac app, called Honey, for submitting cases to FogBugz. It sits in your menu bar, and when you hit a hot key, its window pops up and you can tab through the fields and quickly fill out a new case and get back to work.

Here's a beta download link. http://cl.ly/5ZLm

I'd love to hear any feedback you have.

Thanks a lot.
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It makes a lot more sense if you think about it not as talent being wasted, but as some activities being unwisely lucrative. I don't know much about HFT, but if it's not part of the mainstream purpose of the exchange, then it should be throttled.
Certainly the execution _alone_ isn't the only thing that matters. The idea _alone_ also isn't the only thing that matters. Both engineering and product/biz types are needed to turn an idea into a good business. That's execution. Engineers aren't the only ones who can execute and pivot.
"Would you call it sinister for example to criticize someone for spending their time murdering people at random?"

I'm saying it depends on what A is criticizing about B. It is not sinister for A to criticize B's action. I'm not sure if it's sinister for A to criticize B's misallocation of time spent. It's a weird thing to think about. I think it's weird to think about because, as was my point earlier, the judgment of whether the time was misspent is wholly dependent on the judgment of the way the time was spent.
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The Importance of Beginnings
Also, many companies / governments have different procedure for stuff over $X, but $(X - 1) might be easier. Doubt anyone has a break at $1599 vs $1600 though.

It is often easier to order a $4,999 item than a $5,000 item.
I'd find the article more pleasant to read if your "continue reading" link jumped to the same part of the article on the other site. It's annoying having to scroll around looking for the place to start reading
Sounds good but sadly I can only use PHP on my cheap webspace.
Should smartphones be allowed in the courthouse?
Understanding how VCs work and what’s expected
It's called competition. Spec work does, in fact, devalue the design industry. But so what? That's what happens in a free market when competition is introduced. Most of the freelance designers who are complaining about 99designs are responsible for lowering rates from professional design firms, and yet they don't seem to be concerned about that devaluation.
Didn't the algos selling during the low and buying stocks later lose money?

Not necessarily, many trades were broken (mostly trades near the low).

If you sold low and bought halfway to the high, you probably made money since your sale was broken (but not the buy).
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Buffett Cautions Social-Networking Investors
I'm inclined to agree with this: "A boilerplate should be added to, not subtracted from".

I don't use "the" HTML5 boilerplate for that reason. At best I'll fork it, subtract all the extra crap, and use my fork.
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You are confused. Most HFT shops are market makers.
I think it comes down to mutual respect, evidenced in operational practices and compensation.

I also feel like getting the former right is more difficult, but non-tech founders worry mostly about the latter.

Why not use historically successful compensation strategies as a guide? Is your new CTO worth as much as Wozniak was to Jobs? If so, then the terms should be comparable, and if not, maybe you need someone else anyway.

Then everyone can just get to work.
So they should have a very small fee for orders as well, proportional to its actual cost, but not high enough to dissuade people experimenting with pricing as long as they don't cost other people anything.
The sets they sell in this line are really good and pretty well balanced. Depending on what set you play with, it is a very different game each time.
Underground fire that has been burning for 50 years
None of those founders were actually successful with the other project. Steve Jobs bought then sold Pixar, and later sat on its board, owning a bunch of shares but not actually being involved operationally. Peter Thiel is not successful because of FF or CC, he's successful because of Facebook and Paypal (both at different times). With Elon Musk, you may have a case but I haven't read enough details to know.

The main point the gp is making:

Peter Thiel is known for: Paypal and after that Facebook

Elon Musk is known for: Paypal and after that Tesla

Steve Jobs : enough said.
You run jekyll locally and send your compiled site to your website (I'm assuming since you can use php you can also serve a static website.)
Tablet view of Best Buy
I don't follow.

It's galling for the UK government to promote a service to the exact types of businesses that you think that service is fine for?

I mean, didn't they recommend it on a resource dedicated to start-ups?
This is a huge acquisition for eBay. It will bring them much closer to merchants and retailers. I'm a little surprised they didn't try to hold on to more of Rue La La--I'm assuming because they didn't want to cannibalize their own fashion initiatives, but hopefully they can do something with that minority stake.
Technically you're correct, but I was referring to the traditional market making firms who buy seats on exchanges to do business in a handful of stocks.
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I'm not denying that regardless there will be a hefty price point on accomplishing something like this in a major organization such as NYT - but there are still limits on how much seems fiscally responsible. Even at $10 million being a possible reasonable number, it's still a fraction of the $40 million spent.
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