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> Next, get rid of "Save", which is an even bigger problem.

No, because you don't know my workflow and you don't know what I want going to long-term storage.

If you think you do, you are wrong.

If you think you know how I want to work better than I do, you are wrong.

(I'm shocked I actually have to say these things, but, from experience, I do.)
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According to NBER, the recession ended in June 2009.

http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html

That's roughly the point where GDP growth became positive again.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line&...

[edit: can't respond to your post, but June 2009 is also the time period when industrial production and retail sales started growing, and when the stock market recovered.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/INDPRO.txt http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/RSAFS?cid=6 http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/SP500?cid=32255 http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ALTSALES?cid=98 http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DGORDER?cid=98

The period Jan 2009-Dec 2009 was bad, but Jun 2009-present was a period of growth for most sectors.
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Not entirely accurate actually. All of Metallica's records came out (at least in North America, not sure about the rest of the world) under the Warner Music Group umbrella, which is what Sean is allegedly bidding on. Going all the way back to Master of Puppets they were signed in NA to Elektra Records, which is owned by WMG, and then more recently Warner Bros. Records (they moved them to WBR when Elektra briefly closed about 10 years ago), which is also owned by WMG.

Technically, if Sean and co. was to successfully purchase Warner Music Group, they would be in control of the company that has negotiated rights to Metallica's records, at least for the time being. So it is actually kind of a (potentially) juicy story.
I'm quite curious about the file reading code. With a simple directory browse from the user couldn't you start to walk the file tree and read whatever you liked? Nothing I see to stop something like this then firing off Ajax calls to send up everything it finds. I think some digging through the code is in order.
>It will make my part-time hobby of sending people completely unsolicited design suggestions even easier :)

Here's one for Github :)
http://www.csspivot.com/8J5J4
Zach, I think it's really cool and definitely has utility/meets some needs.

BTW, if you guys are interested in doing a LocalGo iOS app, I could help out. My email is in my profile.
That's just silly. 2.x, especially 2.6 and newer are still a fantastic choice. 3.x cleans up some ugliness, but isn't so superior that being stuck with 2.x would make ditching the language a viable choice.

You need to strike a balance between the bleeding edge and the pragmatic choice, and Python 2.x provides a _very_ good balance right now, which is why most of the interesting stuff is happening in that environment still.
Is that really HFT though?

It is my understanding that High-frequency trading takes advantage of milliseconds (or less) of latency and extreme closeness to the markets network-wise, and exploits that advantage to the trader's benefit.

It's a subset of algorithmic trading, and one that's contentious and starting to be widely considered an unfair market practice, as it leverages the actual mechanism of the market itself rather than just the market.

Are we really talking about HFT here or just algorithmic trading?
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It's absolutely not true that escape analysis is implicit in tracing: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/raw/63e4617062b2/talk/pe...
All current Macs ship with mice or trackpads that support right clicking.
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It should work worldwide. I've tested 1 Sussex Drive and some other random Canadian addresses and it seems to work.

Email me (zach at localgo.com) the address if you wouldn't mind and I'll check it out.
Not sure I would want all of my engineers who are working on socially engineered spamming exposed to startup culture. They might not be able to resist the urge to move across the hall.
I'd like to see Aol's Beverly Hills space do the same thing. I'd want to use it!
>You can make your point without ass kissing or insulting/being overly aggressive.

That exactly what Linus did.

>you are saying that either you gets things done or you're ass kissing the ego of people. First, that is plainly totally wrong. You can be productive without being an ass.

if you analyze the logic of your statement you'd find what it puts "not ass kissing the ego of people " as equivalent to "being an ass". We're back to square one.
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Thanks, and it's very apropos they would choose that song. The melody has been stuck in my head for years, probably from some old school 8-bit video game, so it's great to match the song with the melody.
I don’t know enough to make an informed statement about that and I didn’t try to.
Why do sites like TechCrunch use "cloud" in place of "internet?" Is it another buzzword to make old things seem new in order to make money?
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I don't think looking for the next facebook.

Doesn't seem like facebook is going to be "killed" anytime soon.
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I'm tempted to create a 1000 fake accounts just so I could upvote you more.
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Huh. So basically, before HFT, the clever institutional trader could use HFT techniques to buy a bunch of shares from less sophisticated retail investors at $20.00 in spite of high demand.

On net, the institutional trader is gaining $0.01 at the expense of retail investors.

Now, in a world with professional HFTs, the institutional investor can't do this as easily and must pay the retail investors $20.01. How horrible!

It's hard to see why you are calling the HFT an "unwanted middleman". I mean sure - the institutional investor would love to keep taking money from the retail investors. But the retail investors want to keep their pennies - they certainly want the HFT to be present.

As I said, the only way to become a middleman is to offer a better price than your competitors.
What happens if you copy it to an USB flash drive?
Most of the people who are stuck are folks who either have second mortgages or refi-loans which included a recourse. In order to step away from that you'd have to file personal bankruptcy and that can be really hard.

That being said, I don't doubt for a minute that for the right candidate Google or Facebook would pay the difference on what you owed vs what you sold for if you agreed to pay them back if you left in under 3 years. They aren't stupid and the math works in their favor. ($150K is equivalent to 300 shares of 'restricted stock' @ $500/shr price (they call them GSUs) which vest over 4 years) Top engineers should be getting better than that so its worth a shot.
But is it prior art?
I think it's WWW-2011 (it says so in the PDF).
"TM" means nothing in the U.S - anyone can slap "TM" on any product and claim a "common law" trademark, and it'll be up to them to defend against complaints and suits.

A "circle R", on the other hand, means that you have a federally-registered trademark. Which, after a bit of research at USPTO.gov, it appears they have (no surprise):

Word Mark COLOR, Goods and Services, IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: computer application software for social networking services; computer application software to facilitate social networking services by use of camera firmware in mobile devices; computer application software for sending, receiving, storing and organizing audiovisual, videographic and written data by use of camera firmware in mobile devices; computer application software to facilitate social networking services by use of location based data

IC 045. US 100 101. G & S: online social networking services; providing a web site to facilitate social networking services by use of camera firmware and geolocation software in the mobile devices of others

Serial Number 85222392, Filing Date January 20, 2011, Owner (APPLICANT) Jackson Labs, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 201 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto CALIFORNIA 94301, Attorney of Record Julia Spoor Gard

There are 3 other live trademarks for "Color," in the categories of Hair Color, printed goods, and plastic display racks.
The building is pretty new and iirc larger than the rest of their silicon valley real estate.

Tasty labs actually moved into some of their old space in downtown mountain view.
Well, we don't transfer our pensions, salaries and every bit of capital and risk through startups. If we did, I'd say we need to watch startups a lot more carefully.

The equivalent to today's finance world was the .com boom and crash. When that crashed, the world continued and the S&P500 recovered just fine after a brief hiccup. The .com universe deleveraged and stayed so, but it just didn't affect the rest of the world that much.

During the latest crash, the rest of the world went into a huge recession. House prices and new-house sales have just hit multi-year lows again, two years after the event. The job market only looks better because so many have left it so aren't counted as job-seekers anymore! The non-finance world is still paying the bill for the latest recession, even though the big banks have forgotten about it and are paying bigger bonuses than ever.

New home sales:

http://cr4re.com/charts/charts.html?New-Home#category=New-Ho...

Unofficial problem bank list is still at or near a record. Good to be a big bank that gets government money:

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/03/unofficial-problem...

"The Labor Force Participation Rate declined to 64.3% in December (blue line). This is the lowest level since the early '80s."

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/01/december-employmen...
The most popular question on HN: 'Why did this get upvoted?'
Why is this upvoted?

Err... why is this frontpage news, what the hell?

Why is this on the frontpage of HN?

So why did it get 15 upvotes?

I have no idea why you're getting upvoted so much.

These are just a few of the actual comments posted by users on HN. I'd say I see comments like these a few times a week on average. That's a 'few times a week' too much.

When people ask these rhetorical questions, it's the equivalent of asking: Why was justice not served?

What is the point of asking why something got upvoted? What do you think it is going to achieve? Personally, I think this should trigger an auto-delete of the comment.

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Ask HN: the current state of the empty # in 'a href'
What is your take on the a href='#' in web applications?

It used to be and may still be very well be today the 'good practice' to always have a # at least in the HREF. Empty or no HREF could cause issues with some browsers I was told.

Today it raises other problems. Those # litter web applications making link sharing duplicates in news site (ie. .com/# is different than .com/ but shouldn't), it also makes statistics skewed in some stats services.

I personally hate to see those empty domain.com/#

Note I have nothing against anchors actually being used as anchors, ie domain.com/#somesection. That's not what I'm referring to.

It also annoys me off to have those littering # in my browser history (ie. when you type in the url bar).

Is there an alternative? Using <button> everywhere can also cause issues in some browsers I read, with some browser using the content of the button tag as labels while some others use the value attribute.

Is using A with no href still SIN today?

And don't tell me about HTML5. If it's not everywhere it's not on my cards.

Thanks.
I am not usually using IE, but the site looks bad under IE8, I can confirm that.

But you know what..? I would not bother fixing it if I were you. Seriously, I don't think it's worth the trouble.
I am guessing (and apologies if I'm wrong) that you've not worked in finance else I don't think you wouldn't paint the entire industry with such a broad brush. I don't disagree with you that a lot of stupid, ignorant and misguided things happen in the industry, but in general, I find that the "Wall St is bad" rhetoric is easy to get wrapped up into because it is fashionable and easy to do.

But nevertheless, I'll go back to my original point. If the gov't thought that Facebook (or any startup) presented systemic risk, it'd likely get bailed out. I'll leave it at that.
You would think that such a product would in fact be an excellent candidate for high performance but I believe that group strives more toward process scalability than any particular low level optimization.
I think that, the "Facebook Killer" will be something entirely different to what Facebook is today. The reason is based on a few things but look at all these "Google Killers" - Mahalo, Cuil, Blekko, DuckDuckGo etc with the exception of Bing none are really seen as a threat to Google. Cuil has deadpooled, Mahalo has changed business model and we're only really seeing what Blekko can do which goes to prove the idea, that for something to beat Google/Facebook its going to have to be something new. Such as the evolution, of Facebook becoming a threat to Google so much so they are focusing more on social aspects with +1 etc.

However, going back to your question and looking at it with regards to "open source" issue you raised, its important to note that at Facebook they are very open to the idea of opensource having, released many things into the open source community themselves - http://developers.facebook.com/opensource/ and Facebook even provide a public mirror - http://mirror.facebook.net/ of many open source services. This shows that, an "open source" service won't kill Facebook - look at Dispora (the "open source" Facebook) that hasn't worked which goes to show that, if something is going to "kill Facebook" then it won't look like Facebook.

For instance, Facebook doesn't look like Google but as I highlighted earlier Google are noting Facebook is becoming someone considered a competitor - especially if they move into search - which is why they are focusing on +1 etc.

Additionally, there's actually an interesting article about the Facebook Killer not looking like Facebook posted by Mashable's Pete Cashmore on CNN here: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-11-26/tech/cashmore.facebook.ki... which is also worth a read.
Less Linux-savvy Ubuntu users are less likely to try out a non-mainstream distro/variant. It's hard to find the "best ones" without testing these new features on these users.

Sometimes your users are your Guinea pigs. I think Ubuntu will be fine as long as they remain responsive to user feedback and maintain "get me back to what I'm used to" options for experimental features.
I assume you can't read out data without the user clicking on a browser styled "choose" button.
2.5 because of AppEngine.
2.7 when I get the choice.
Actually those ate perfect analogies. And they are illegal most places in the US as well? I thought lotteries needed special exemptions, and gambling is outright not allowed.
The iPhone 4 is a solid device that easily beats the competition on price, performance, quality and ease of use. Apple could probably hold off another year before releasing a new device, but I'll bet they stick to pretty much the same schedule as always.

There will ve plenty of us that would buy whatever they release in June and the new thing released in September.
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On March 4, they also registered "MULTI-LENS", Goods and Services, IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: computer application software for social networking services; computer application software to facilitate social networking services and access to news and media outlets by use of camera firmware in mobile devices; computer application software for sending, receiving, storing and organizing audiovisual, videographic and written data by use of camera firmware in mobile devices; computer application software to facilitate social networking services by use of location based data.

IC 045. US 100 101. G & S: online social networking services; providing a web site to facilitate social networking services by use of camera firmware and geolocation software in the mobile devices of others.

That's it for their trademarks, at least under the company name Jackson Labs, Inc. Which leads me to believe that's the only product they've currently got cooking.
Mike said he'll be working on escape analysis to decrease the garbage collection if I remember correctly...
>With his family accounted for, Akaiwa hasn't rested on his laurels. Rather, he's spent the past two weeks heading into Ishinomaki in search of other trapped survivors. Armed with a backpack, a flashlight, a Swiss Army knife, and some water, he rides his bike around the wreckage and makes his own destiny.

This!

That sounds like the making of a MacGuyver movie.

Kudos to him, but this could have EASILY turned out the opposite way - which would be very tragic, although would make the story even more compelling and increase the likelihood this turns into a movie.

I hope it has a happy ending though.
Is it a reaction to a form of mass social dislocation? Everyone finding acceptable ways to yell and scream for attention, not because they have something useful to share, but just because they are desperate to be part of the meta-conversation.
Honestly, isn't it more for the former? I mean, nobody pays for Fedora. AFAIK people work on it for fun and/or because they personally like to use the distro and see it improved.

I know in some ways Fedora is a testing ground for Red Hat, and if that's the "purpose" of Fedora, then the reason for doing anything shouldn't be "user experience" but "being a testing ground for Red Hat." Which may lead to the same thing, but is not the same thing.

I mean, there really is no 11th Commandment that says "Software is all about the user." No, it's about whatever the programmer(s) making the software want it to be about.
For a more minimal system, one might want to check out SliTaz: http://slitaz.org/en

Under 30mb (compressed, in RAM — just over 100mb uncompressed), and quite fast. No Ubuntu distribution, but packages available for it should be at least adequate for most users.
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Right, Chrome is basically the only program that auto-updates correctly. But in the context of the myriad other programs that try to auto-update and fail miserably, or worse, I think my point stands.
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Oh, I just thought this was named after Patrick Swayzes' character from Point Break.
That's it exactly. Its more than just a slipped phrase that may get misinterpreted. Its a PR trainwreck, a veritable goldmine of things to misquote, take out of context, and just plain spin the wheels of PC busybodies everywhere.

Admas is a professional at managing exactly this type of situation. A flurry of overexcited, hysterical comments and some extra publicity are usually considered the win scenario for a blogger like him. I think he let this one get way out of hand without (I guess immediately) considering the effect it would have on his extended audience. Upon reflection he realized he'd overdone it. He's not Zed Shaw, after all.
Here's the writing-on-window video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFmrlIEpJOE

This is a video of him talking Physics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2A7BlKbZlM

He appears to understand what he's talking about as well as any typical math/physics teacher. Whether he can come up with his own theories is not something I can tell just from these videos.
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Thank you. All I could come up with was "Hot For Teacher," which doesn't make for much of a business model.
Whether or not WMG is Metallica's record label, if he does pull this off, that would be pretty Epic.

Come to think of it, why has someone else from Silicon Valley not done this ?

Why has Steve Jobs not bought a major record label ? I think the music business needs a good old fashioned changing of the guard and some techifying.

If Bill G. or Jobs or Zuck or anyone that has a ton of money bought one (or some) of those large labels, that could be pretty momentous.
There are quite a few .to domains available still. For example, right.to is available and would work for this application (although it's not terribly short). They're $50/yr, but you have to buy 2 years up front. I used it for Yak because it makes sense to yak.to/stanford, yak.to/chicago, etc.

See http://tonic.to
Thanks Miller. That was exactly my point. Also to point out that pay alone may not always be the main reason to choose a job.
TheAmazingIdiot meant that there is no way for a man to unilaterally give up parental rights and also not pay child support. Assume, for instance, that there's no husband in the picture, and that the woman wishes to keep the child and would be happy to receive child support payments.

Then the man has no option other than to pay child support. A woman cannot be forced into this situation, because she can abandon the child without penalty.
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But there is no moral commandment that "the user is more important." The goal of software is the goal of its developers; it's up to them. Someone very well could say, "this software is an exercise in intellectual purity." Or, "this software is to scratch the developers' particular itches, which may or may not be the same thing as satisfying most users."

Maybe Fedora in particular has a mission statement that says, "The user is most important," but I'm not aware of it. I'm certain that's not the case for the distro I use (Arch Linux) :-)
What's the problem with swastika emblems?

Do you live in Germany?
No success on my Cr-48 running latest ChromeOS.

Nice work though, antimatter15, keep it up!
This is pretty much what I expected- Pareto distribution of tweets is only natural.