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He wants to be acknowledged. Everybody knows Bill Gates and sees him as the smart and great computer guy, while Mr. Allan is an unknown. It's like 2 brothers where the lesser talented uses all his life to proof he's just as good and therefore never gets to create something.
Traditionally, that is true. But this isn't a Lotus Elise, it's an electric. Many people will buy Hybrids/Eco-cars to make a statement, and if it happens to smoke your gas-guzzler in a drag race, all the better.

The point is that the Tesla Roadster has selling points that aren't invalidated by a negative review on Top Gear and that, even if it were, they did a good job of making it look like a ton of fun, if not entirely practical.

People paying 6 figures for cars are seldom looking for practicality in the same sense that most people do -- they're looking for something special, and there's no denying that the Tesla has that in spades.

Edit: Swapped 'hybrid' for 'electric'.
You need to allow people to resign. Instead of just letting them leave.
There tends to be a lot confusion, with newcomers to any field, over which tools should be used. The truth is that 95% (made-up statistic... I mean a large majority) of the effectiveness of a tool comes from the user's proficiency, not the tool's intrinsic value. If you've heard of the language being used before being experienced and versed in the subject matter, it's probably good enough for your uses.

I touched PHP in some college classes based on web programming, and one of the projects that I made actually got me my current job as a Python programmer at a very small company. The key here is that I was able to demonstrate what I was able to do with given tools; I wasn't given a quiz on the finer details of Python iterators or Tornado (the web server we use). Even if I had told them that I was interested in learning Python, but I wasn't great at it yet, I think they may still have hired me. As it was, I already knew Python.

I really like Python. The syntax is wonderful; it's just a pleasure to work in. I once saw somebody post "If Python were any easier, it'd write itself." It's a general-purpose programming language, while PHP is mostly a domain-specific language (the domain being the web). Does that mean it's more powerful? Maybe. You probably won't get to a place in web programming where a single language will hold you back for a long time. Look at Facebook; it's written in PHP, but it's moderately complicated. Meanwhile, Hipmunk uses Python (with Tornado) on their backend. I can't think of any examples that use Ruby/On Rails because I don't really follow the language, but I know it's also wildly popular.

Your evaluation of PHP hit the nail on the head. It's really popular in the job market, along with ASP.NET. I think Ruby on Rails and Python (Django) are becoming more popular. If the job market aspect is really important to you, maybe you can try looking up local jobs to see what your area offers.
From a top-down perspective the karma vote are less meaningful, as certain topics and sources get up voted ad nauseum. But from the bottom-up perspective, it's still great when you pluck an academic article or technical blog from obscurity and thousands of people read it, sending the karma from 1 to hundreds. And there are other people trying to do the same thing. You can usually avoid the chaff just by reading the title or domain (personally i skip the 'motivational' type blogs and try to resist the 'hot topic' ones and contentious debates, but there's still so much good technical content that crops up, and fairy high maturity among commenters).
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The story is part of a very good publicity campaign for his book, which has been written as a memoir. He wants his legacy to be remembered as 'Paul Allen' rather than 'that other guy'.

(The excerpt in VF is very good: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/05/paul-all...)
I tend to like the idea of keeping the wealth I created.

You should add, "while letting everyone else pay for the benefits I receive," just so it's clear.
Or, if you're like Facebook, just hire someone to write a compiler for your favorite language.
Uhm. No.
Seems to not be iPad Mobile Safari compatible. In a singleplayer match, says it's white's turn, but I can't move pieces (presumably I need to be able to drag them), and the site doesn't warn m that I don't have a compatible browser.
Your argument for PHP isn't really great. Both RoR and Python have a huge community, with more than enough people who are willing to help.

If you want to be future-proof, I would skip PHP. It's getting used less and less, and also, RoR and Python are both much cleaner. Take a look at the 2 and pick one, actually it doesn't really matter, because once you're good at one of em, it'll be a lot easier to learn something else.

RE: your remark about being hireable, I think it doesn't make a big difference either. Clients might be asking for PHP, but unless they want to use Wordpress, try to convince them you can build them the same in another language, in less time and with a better result. If they're still clinging to PHP you might want to ask yourself if it's really gonna be much fun working for them.

Oh and if you want to be really trendy, ignore all of this and look into node.js ;)
I already do this to every form that requires my age - game trailer sites are notorious for this, probably to fulfill an ESRB requirements or something.

Using 4/1 is easy (only have to set month and year), and hopefully tips off the web host that their age request is frankly bogus in the vast number of cases.
It seems reasonable to me.. I vaguely remember the car actually breaking in some way, maybe even a couple times.

I can't say I was in the market for a Tesla, but the range wasn't what sounded bad to me, I was left under the impression that it just didn't have the quality yet.
The quality of HN would be harmed. We'd end up with a very tedious site.

People often behave like sheep - the fact that a lot of articles are voted up isn't a reflection of quality, it's a reflection of familiarity and unthinking, sycophantic behaviour.

A large majority of these articles aren't actually discussing anything interesting - and it seems that their main purpose is to generate buzz and self-promote.
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Business solutions is indeed just a fancy word for trying to make overcomplicated products with too many features and overcharging unknowing businesses. Business solutions is much shorter.
Looking for a job soon, but job fairs seem very counter-productive to me: websites give a much better impression and idea of possibilities and lead to faster filtering of options.
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"Fortunetaly (sic) I don't use crappy windows. I run Gentoo Linux."

A reasonable observation followed by a stupid effectively ad hominem attack. The reason your Linux PC is free from the Samsung keylogger (if it does exist) is only because there's little to no incentive to bother with attacking Linux users. Do you really believe Microsoft has spent billions in research and hiring the brightest minds in technology to create an inherently insecure OS, or is it more likely that the incredibly large userbase creates much greater incentives for security attacks?
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Refers to GeoTrust as "fishing in muddy waters", just after mentioning other RA's owned.
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This is true, but FPGAs can still only handle relatively simple algorithms. FPGAs make certain kinds of tasks nearly trivial (think truly parallel tasks such as decoding market data for different instruments), but there's just not enough gates (in most cases) to do interesting stuff in the application / logic layer.

FPGAs canonical use case is still as very fast codecs. There are exceptions, but they're really only the very simplest of arbitrage strategies. And in order to make those work you need top-of-the-line network gear and engineers as well.
PHP is a C-like language so I'd go with that, even though I personally don't like PHP or ever use it. It will make it easier to learn other mainstream languages. Ruby, as great as it is, won't lead to understanding of other languages, too many abstractions (great for productivity though).
My comment was a direct response to "It's a Lotus Elise that outperforms the Lotus Elise on straightaways. Faults or not, I have a hard time believing that they're aren't going to sell cars based on that fact alone."
Mohamed Hassan, MSIA, CISSP, CISA graduated from the Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) program from Norwich University in 2009

Really bad way to start an article. Who cares about all these qualifications? Did he find a key logger and how did Samsung respond?

Unfortunately, they have decided to make us wait for the response. That seems really lame IMHO.
Maybe I'm missing something, but their web site appears to discuss probabilistic procedures, which is not nondeterminism in the Turing machine sense.
So quitting was partly a PR stunt? ;)
My last interview at the company I'm at now went somewhat like this: "Your CV looks fine, we wouldn't care if you're an axe murderer, now what would you like to do/tackle?". Should have been a warning sign: interesting company to be at.
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So it is more an architecture issue with conventional hardware ? It makes much more sense to me with this explanation - the issue is the same as in most real-time systems then (like in embedded hardware for audio gears, which is more familiar to me than HFT).

Don't things like real time linux or soft real time patches for linux help, though ?
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Same thing for Erlang implementation:
https://github.com/apauley/sudoku-in-erlang

Initially Python was faster, however after some discussion and some performance optimisations Erlang got faster:
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-March/0571...

Of course, it is worth keeping in mind that they didn't also go and try to optimize the Python version. So perhaps after doing that Python would win again.
Would make a good Mac App Store ... app. And, perhaps, web service.

After all, privacy is the new green. On the other hand, you'll need to educate people about the dangers of meta-data, before you can attract them to use your product.
I've said before that the bad PR is by no means a death knell for Color.

After watching this interview, I'm firmly convinced that they're going to find some way to make it work, or find that one little piece of the app that people latch on to and build that out. One of the things Bill said got me really excited, and that was the idea of being able to walk into a room and see something like "you might like to talk to Jason because you both work in the technology field, here's his LinkedIn profile".

$41 million gets you a lot of leeway to experiment and make it work.
That looks great diamondhead.I have web game with mutiplayers.can you tell me please what tools,langauges did you use for MultiplayerChess.com.Thanks in advance
What about storing Bitcoins in "the cloud" (effectively becoming a bank)?

Or even something like Dropbox, especially if the drive becomes password-encrypted without internet and there's a remote-disconnect feature when online.
To add to this comment, I'd recommend taking a look at Learn Python The Hard Way (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index) to get started.

I'm not a Python programmer, but I recommended this to a friend who's in the same boat as you and heading down the PHP path. He worked his way through 1/3 of the exercises his first day.

The important part isn't what you read, but what you put into practice. You learn by doing. Learn Python The Hard Way gets you up and running fairly quickly.

While Rails is a fantastic framework, don't start there. It may be hard to understand how it helps you if you don't understand the context of the problems it solves. Right now, focus on a specific language.
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Ask HN: Getting into Node.js
Hey Guys,

I'm really trying to get into node.js.

Right now I'm predominantly a rails dev and using JQuery for front end fun.

I've taken classes in javascript/java/c++ etc. but I'm pretty rusty with languages I havent used in forever.

I'm really trying to use node.js with rails apps I'll be creating - any suggestions where I should start?

Thanks!
You have to get the people there. This is something that "organic" cities like London, New York and Paris can do well, because there is a "virtuous circle" in action - people want to be at the centre of culture, culture costs money, these cities can attract the wealth creators who want to spend their wealth, and so it continues. Culture being whatever you're into, art, opera, fashion, publishing, fine dining... Cities like these are dynamos of both productivity and pleasure.

But in a sterile, planned city, that is initially empty... How do you get the ball rolling? How do you initially attract the people who can work anywhere in the world? The three cities I mentioned, and a few others, have solved that.
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If it's true I wonder if Samsung actually does that deliberately or were their production systems hit by some malware.
It looks like you got a few downvotes because people assumed you're being snarky (maybe you are?) -- but I think that most people (even hackers) who work outside of the financial sector are going to wonder why this is on the front page. In short though, it's a 1U blade server with a full-size FPGA in it; implementing your algorithms in hardware makes them extremely fast (thus the mention of the C-to-HDL compiler), which is obviously of critical importance in high-frequency trading.
Having read a plethora of stories about the Google interview process over the years, from interns on up, it seems like it would be easier to build a company and sell it to Google than to get through the application process. Surely someone has done this at least once, given the number of companies Google has purchased.
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Yeah, and your house should have cameras too. Just in case you are up to no good.
Luckily, I'm using OS X, so I don't have anything as gauche as a keylogger to worry about.

I have a much classier Keyboard Concierge.
How much time of your work time you spend for unrelated to your job activities?
For me it's about 40%
No, the reason his computer does not have the keylogger is because he installed an operating system other than the one it came with (assuming the story is accurate). Even if he had reinstalled Windows, he would not have it.
Interesting earnout structure for the founders, considering the company raised so little. I don't know how $14M over three years on top of $326M creates much incentive to hang around.
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Well you have to trust someone. We have an escrow service thats trusted by most bitcoin users. ClearCoin.

It's made and run by one of the main bitcoin developers.
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Even if this product allowed you to have picosecond processing of market data and generation of trading signals, if you don't have exchange co-location, inherent network latency in your market data from providers and order routing to exchanges will make this thing pretty useless. For a hobbyist, throw leased lines out the door, now a Linode box, even a desktop running Windows XP with full-blown Nagle's algorithm, would have good-enough performance unless you can pour serious capital into a project.

They're also very vague on the software architecture or framework "kit". They don't say which feeds they support or if they provide any domain-specific data structures/standard trading algorithms like VWAP (slicing an order up over the day to give you "better" fills). I do see mention of an optional Feed Parser reference design, which I can't ascertain much value from. I am guessing it is mostly a generic kit for writing on their specialized hardware, and not specific to trading. There will be a lot of pain, maybe impossible to take vendor or open source libraries for market feed handling and compile it down using their embedded libraries. You'll be stuck doing tons of TCP/IP work, fun for hacking, but relative to the latency issues in your market data/order routing, it won't help you profit. Most people buy these appliances with included feed support.

With a big budget and co-location, this may be useful in bootstrapping some really low-level processing of market data, although there are a variety of hardware and software messaging solutions that would be a good alternative in driving latency lower if you have some money, Solace (HW), Tibco, 29West, etc to name a few.

I wish there was a hobbyist solution out there, but sorry, my initial impression says this isn't it. I would like more information, but maybe there are better hobbyist efforts out there. Interactive Brokers API isn't bad, and here's a full-blown real open-source trading kit that has a similar business model to MySQL. http://www.marketcetera.com/ Note: I feel that there are a few issues with this as well in some of the technologies they chose (JMS, Eclipse RCP).
Don't you think they'll merge in alot of the functions for social monitoring? Seems inevitable.
> 1.upto 10 do |i| { print i }

My answer would be "bombs with syntax error," assuming this isn't something that just looks like Ruby.
I've had a number of submission woes that mirror yours. Just KNOWING that people would like it if they saw it (right or wrong,) but seeing how quickly things move from newest to gone is the big worry.

The only cure I know for that is to lower the signal to noise ratio, and I don't know a better way to do it than to make submissions harder, or at least, more chancy for the shotgun-submission approach.

If every submission is something that people care about, then I believe (again, right or wrong) that more people are going to be willing to hit the 'newest' page instead of waiting for things to hit the home page, and there should be far fewer submissions.

Of course, this is all predicated on the assumption that auto-post bots are dumb, and that they'll lose you more karma if it's penalized than you gain, but that's an assumption I can't really stand behind, not having seen the numbers.
VBS made a piece on this a while ago:
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/motherboard/colombian-narcosubs
Windows is not a man (or person), and therefore cannot possibly be the target of an "ad hominem" attack.
It's certainly not a sure thing, but given the poor track record for OEMs, the fact that this guy has a master's in an IT field, that it happened on 2 different model laptops, and that Network World chose to publish it, I'm inclined to believe him. After all, if he's done this "initial setup" on other laptops in the past and not detected this keylogger, Samsung probably has a part to play in this.
Especially with all the potentially karma-lucrative HFP arbitrage opportunities with up-trending submissions on different tech aggregators.
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That's your opinion (that you can JFDI any business). I think most businesses are not suitable to this approach.

More importantly, you set this opinion in opposition, not as a complement - it's clearly presented as an opposing reaction to StartupBritain. So yes, it's a negative reaction, one that fits under the "StartupBritain is not good enough advice" stream of thought.
The time aspect is pretty huge - the examples they were using were pretty much time dependent.

However, I could see this being useful for groups of friends who decide to split up during a group outing. Traversing a huge outlet mall or large park or something. Imagine walking past a playground and you find a note from a friend "Hey guys, we're meeting at this playground at 5pm." That would be pretty neat.

However, outside of that, I'd love to hear more examples from the creators as to what else it would be good for!
The findings are false-positive proof since I have used the tool that discovered it for six years now and I am yet to see it misidentify an item throughout the years.

Thus, it is false-positive proof? Why wouldn't he test it against other tools? Why wouldn't he try to find out as much about this as you can before writing an accusatory article?

Further, why is he running a full-system security scan on a fresh installation of Windows? Is that normal? If this is a genuine accusation of wrongdoing, then I think that the actual sequence of events and his entire methodology should be disclosed.
some gems from the TC comment thread:

"SCRM comes of age in a big way by connecting inbound social media activity to customer acquisition and retention strategies... Congrats!"

"sf.com validates and values that businesses need to deploy a "listening platform" to monitor all forms of customer conversation."

marketing people are so cute
From the domain name, I was under the impression that there would be an option to join a "team" and vote on moves or something like they did for Kasparov vs world
My argument for PHP may not be great, which is why I am asking the knowledgeable folks here on HN such as yourself. Thanks for taking the time to answer.
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It could be that successful startups succeed in spite of overtime not because of it. Also a lot of successful startups are done by (young) people who haven't had their asses handed to them because of their insane work ethics.

There indeed are stretches when one gets carried by passion and can work (almost) 24/7. One should use that wave. But when you find yourself disliking what you're doing you better stop and not write posts as in the OP.

OP is just making up excuses for feeling of guilt one feels divided between family and promise they made to themselves/somebody else. To me it seems like excuses fat people have about losing weight - or drunks about stopping drinking (when catch yourself saying - shit x is wrong and I dislike shit y in my life, but I'm still doing great - some red lights should start spinning).

To OP if you're reading this - look into mirror take a deep breath and admit that you're a workaholic. There are some "mommy" and "daddy" issues in your soul you need to resolve. You're using your work to punish yourself for something you're not even guilty of.
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The question that comes to mind - are they building a new NYC every 12 days or are they putting up a whole lot of building every 12 days? To borrow a cliche, NYC was not built in a day (or even 12 days) - it's an accretion and a culture. How does that change the question 'will NYC cease to be relevant'?
I guess you are using HN-Proxy (https://github.com/matthusby/HN-Proxy). Be careful with Google -- proxying sites might flag your site as spam (although I guess you're not going to drive a lot of traffic from Google anyway).
Set it up, trade 'virtually' (i.e., just simulate), prove your algos, get bankrolled by someone who is convinced of the algos worth. Quite straightforward. I'm highly skeptical of a hobbyist beating the competition though (maybe in micro niches, where one would add domain specific knowledge to get an edge - that's my pet idea on this topic :) )
Ah yeah forgot about that. Maybe they should buy Apple Records :) Clear up all sorts of confusion in the process
The argument against bots would be that it makes it more difficult to go through the 'new' section and find quality posts to up vote if everyone did this.

In fact, I seem to recall Digg is going to/already has pulled back it's feature where you can register an RSS feed to post all your content for this very reason.
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try this here:
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