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I have found the term "Straight-through processing" to be quite ambiguous in the way that it is commonly used. It gets used as a synonym for just the post-trade process where messages are send from the trading platform into a customers' RMS whereas - as you say - the term actually means more than that.

Virtually all of my current work is with that goal (logicscope.com). The group took a dirty problem - integrating dispirate banking systems - and wrote a cool abstraction that lets it work as a multiadapter. Plus support, configuration management, etc, etc. By accident, the system also turns out to be a not-entirely-elegant but much cheaper and easier-to-work-with replacement for MQ for many settings.

The idea of queueing and releasing a chain of transactions on the trading side of the transaction may be interesting but I can't see it yet. Are you referring to situations in which you do a single "trade" but with a complex series of legs? If so - this already exists in some organisations but is not widely supported by APIs or major GUI interfaces yet. Or are you thinking more of forming a position across a range of positions and then unleashing it? This could be useful, but I'm not sure who you'd target it at. The banks are likely to have internal software teams doing a mixed job of delivering this sort of fn already, and I'm not sure how you could base a startup on it. I expect there would be some hedge funds that could do this to come up with interesting situations - for example - setting up pricing queues for stocks floated on multiple exchanges and currencies and then doing automatic arbitrage based on this. Algorithmic trading isn't my speciality though, and I'm sure there are smart people doing this already :)
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And I think that can change, for example because of Rapid Prototyping, Build On Demand and so on.
Or Ruby, but given that he lumps Python and Smalltalk together, I'm pretty confident he would have put Ruby there as well.

Is Eiffel used much these days? Honest question - I don't know much about it.
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In Gates' 1996 'The Road Ahead' he was talking about the convergence of devices to what seemed like a mobile, touch screen web browser (within 5 years, a bit optimistic).

He talks about the wallet pc, a sketch of which looks like an iphone in landscape mode.

Why didn't Microsoft try this?
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I need to check this at home. I can't check about games at work, and I am afraid this post will go to oblivion before I arrive home in 12 hours. Is there any way to save posts for later check?
Fine. If noone wants to say it, I will.

In my opinion, Journalism is a less important profession. Why? Because it depends on the movers. Arrington's job would not exist if there weren't people out starting companies. Journalism cannot exist in a vacuum.

Also, I would argue that journalism (as we know it) does not create value. Rather, it is an arbitrageur of information.
What else? Well, Open, Eject, Get Information, Copy, Rename and Format are things which I'm guessing get done more often than running a disk check, and hence may be more suitable as options on a contextual menu.

The Mac almost certainly has a command line tool that is the equivalent of dmesg (I don't know for sure, as I've never had any need, as I just use the graphical interface provided in Disk Utilities, but I'd be astounded if this wasn't the case. How is this done in BSD land?).

As for double clicking on the name in list, normally this launches the file (I've just checked on my Mac). If your system decides that you are trying to rename the file instead, there are two possibilities - you've moved the mouse between clicks, or you're clicking too slow for whatever the setting for double clicks is in mouse preferences.

Even if I would get used to a mac I'd find zero benefits. I don't need easy to use, I need discoverability and verbosity. Give me every single option, and lots of text.

Well, you're a tiny tiny minority that Apple just doesn't care about. Most people don't want verbosity, it annoys them. They don't want lots of options that they don't understand, it stresses them out. Outside of this majority are the power users, who can write scripts and apps to fill in any blanks on their system that they feel that Apple has missed. And then there are people like you - people that know another system, and think that the Mac should act just like it. That will never happen. All of those options that you know from the Linux/Windows world confuse the majority of users. Apple understands this, which is why their market share has been going through the roof in recent years. If you miss them, you have two choices: become a Mac power user (if you know Linux, it won't be such a stretch, all your fave tools are there, from ipconfig and tcpdump, through to bash, perl, ruby and python), or accept that the Mac is not for you, and can never be for you without Apple comprising their main market.
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This kind of game development is the future. Probably not made by just one guy, but the techniques will be similar. Once EA starts getting pummelled by some upstart using better software to create games that are 100 times cheaper, no one will look back.
Great idea, this could work. I wonder if some areas have laws on the books that prohibit commercial sign sales in residential neighborhoods? I suspect there are some road blocks in the law to prevent blatant commercial signage everywhere.
Most Linux distributions, and Blastwave.org packages for Solaris, have already been updated, so "yum update", "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" or the equivalent for your system followed by restarting the DNS server should fix it.
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Okay, cool. In that case I'll take two.
Most mid-price and up neighborhoods do have some types of statues in their bylaws for this and I've often signs are posted at the neighborhood entrance ("No soliciting" or "No handbills").
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If you open your own profile, then click on the number next to "saved", it gives you a list of everything you've ever upvoted. One of HN's cooler features, IMO...
There are some good beginner books on Lisp, and there have been several discussions before. Two books come to my mind, PCL and "Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation", both for the Lisp beginner. I have read most of PCL and really liked it. I have just begun to read Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation and so far, am really liking it. Both are freely available on the net, so you have nothing to lose to try them out.

PCL - http://gigamonkeys.com/book/
Gentle Intro to Sym Comp - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html

Reference links -

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125766

http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/how-to-learn-lisp/

Hope this helps. Good luck!
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I had to reboot my 1.0 once week to maintain browsing stability. Now that I have the 3G I still maintain the same rebooting technique. Only difference I've noticed, is the texting delays.

However, the apps, in my opinion, make up for all the bugs. ;)
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As long as it's only $200, I don't mind...
Cool! Do you have experience in hardware design, managing a hardware project, etc etc?
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I really hope the screen company is Pixel Qi. Here is their prediction for a touchscreen price:

"INTEGRATED TOUCHSCREENS

Touch should just be an incremental cost increase to the screen and embedded directly into it. Pixel Qi is working on low-cost approachs to integrated touch with a target of a $5 -$10 pricetag." (http://pixelqi.com/products)
This guy is a genius, for sure. He's operating on a whole different level of thought from the average lone game developer. His notes on UI development are very good: http://www.quelsolaar.com/technology/seduce.html

I like this summary:

"... your brain computes different things in a specific order: Motion, Color, Shape, Text. This is also how you should order your interface ..."
They aren't selling the touchscreen yet, only the original OLPC XO screen.
I realize that, but hopefully TC is in talks with PQ about trying out prototypes, etc...
Nik

I don't think that my comments above are trolling much compared so don't get so sensitive. Why be on the offensive, just think about it, doesn't that sound possible?

And welcome to HN, although you've been here for 9 hours or so.
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So after being hyped to ridiculous extremes, Giles, in all his omniscience, foretold that some people might not find it quite so rosy?

In other words, he predicted some people...changed their minds?

Quite the savant.
This sounds like the Dead Sea Effect.
I spent a few more minutes poking around and saw the company profiles I missed before (oops). But I still don't see anything that differentiates from other job sites except that you (deliberately) have fewer jobs listed.
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You really think the US gov't is going to let money move around without their being able to track it? Forget terrorism funding - I do that everytime I fill up with gas; but there is no way that the IRS would let people move money around without being traceable.
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interesting take on the extjs aesthetic -- might become a viable alternative, given their (still kind of) new gpl licensing and the widespread adoption of jquery
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Agreed. Journalism in the Watergate sense is extremely important. "Journalism" in the "I blog about Twitter" sense is basically worthless.
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The US census says that the US has a 99% literacy rate but I'm sure they are overestimating. On the other hand, the Wikipedia article says the rate is closer to 80%.

Does anyone have any insight on this? The definition if literacy is pretty subjective but I think we can all come to some agreement.
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Business applications is my thought. It's really great for allowing others to see conferences, presentations, etc.

Perhaps the ease of lifestreaming in comparison to making a video? Or perhaps a societal shift toward narcissism?
I have. It's more of less a minimalistic firefox browser that you can run in its own instance from the desktop. I will call it super bookmarking. But this doesn't solve the problem the poster is writing about. You still have to login to sites and deal with visual inconsistencies. What I think he wants is the equivalent of iPhone apps, where you pay or download for free, that have a consistent UI and are built to be simple, familiar and to the point.

The iPhone apps I have played with up to this point have done exactly that. No nagging for logins or registration. If you had to do it once, that was it and you never hear about it again. They get you right to what you are looking for and its familiar.
you would need to hire people to go around taking photos of the ads as proof for the advertisers.
You could measure roi by simply asking your customers how they heard about you
The real problem is our culture of entitlement. People have been lead to believe that NOTHING is outside of their grasp, leading them to live well outside of their means by buying expensive houses and cars that they can't afford because they can make the payments now. I have no sympathy for these kinds of people, it's absurd to say it's not their fault. Good financial planning is common sense: Pay yourself first, save for emergencies, live within your means.

Don't pass this off on society, it's an issue of choice. You choose to buy a house you can't afford, or a car. The only person to blame for your debts is yourself.
>The Treasury and the Fed are trying to stabilize the system while still ensuring that those who made mistakes feel the pain.

I'm not clear on how the "ensuring" part is coming about. Can someone fill me in?
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They conflate a few different issues here, the first is interleaving which is ok since you don't really suffer a performance loss or mental setback. The other one is a context switch, for example when a manager interrupts you with something trivial. Theres nothing more effective at stalling a high speed pipeline than that.
I've been reading 'Founders at Work' by YCs own Jessica Livingston. Very good book for insight into the beginnings of startups and the startup process in general.

Definitely a must read!
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As transistors get smaller they use less power per cycle. So a going from a 34.8W, 7.5million transistor PII @233 MHz to a 500million transistor Core 2 Duo at 2400 MHz uses a lot less than 34.8W(500 * 2400) / (7.5*233) = 23,896W or 23KW.
Note: Q6600(Core 2 Quad)@2.40 GHz uses 95 W but a lot of that is L2 cash which is less power hungry than it's computational units.

PS: If you want portable power today a U1400 Intel Core Solo @1.20 GHz uses 5.5 W of power and will crush a PII in the same way I expect a new 5.5W CPU to crush a Core 2 Duo in 10 years.
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The salient point of the article is that between the towers of personal responsibility and social protection, the community determines the culture. In this case, the culture of credit card debt (plus more) became socially acceptable.

This point gave me pause because our startup changes our spending habits depending on the community we're around. Let's take the small example of cooking. When it was just us, we would focus on the product, and then each night, someone would cook (cheapest possible method). Then when we started getting into the tech community and received a little bit of seed funding, our culture shifted toward eating out more and we stopped being as stingy. The more we read Techcrunch, go to SXSW, hang out with designers, the more we get lax. We aren't on fire, we're just in a hurry.
I do think Bill Gates was on to something. From a UI perspective, a pen/touch screen is superior in that it removes one level of indirection in a UI paradigm that is attempting to be "direct manipulation".

However, for this to be the most popular form of PC, I think there will need to be a breakthrough in text input. I've looked at a lot of alternative text input techniques and I don't think any of the current ones will cut it. This includes soft keyboards, crazy dasher-like things, predictive stuff, handwriting recognition, gestures, voice, etc. The huge advantage of keyboard entry is not only the tactile feedback, but that it has a fairly low cognitive cost. In other words, you can think about other things while you type - it's automatic. Pretty much anything aural or visual will take away from thinking about your real tasks.
I hope today is better.
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This is crappy armchair sociology. The number and age of unique references in modern journal papers is a measurable number, and I'm sure these folks have done a great job of measuring it. But where's the evidence for the conclusion that changes in this number represent changes in the nature of scientific thought itself?

Have these people even worked as scientists? Here are some reasons why papers get cited:

- Many journal articles open with one or two Ancient Authorities -- articles from 1899, or a famous article written by the founder of your field in the 1950s. These are there as a kind of mission statement: If you cite Folkman et al from the 1970s, you're saying "This paper is about antiangiogenesis".

In a world where computers can tell you "here's a list of all the papers published this year that cited Folkman et al, 1971", putting an Ancient Authority citation on your paper is an awesome form of SEO, much better than a keyword.

(It's not polite to point this out... but there's a good chance that most of a paper's readers, and even some of the authors, haven't even read the Ancient Authority paper. That's often not a problem, because the first paper in a field is usually an even mix of (a) things everybody knows by now and (b) things that turned out to be wrong, later.)

- You cite work that directly anticipates yours. For this, you look for the most recently published relevant references that you can find, partly because it shows that you're paying attention and partly because if the person reviewing your paper has published on the same topic, and you don't cite their most recent work, they will find a way to make you wish you had.

- You cite works as a shorthand for the ideas contained in them. This is like me citing PG essays here on news.yc, or like the great Star Trek:TNG episode "Darmok" where the alien language is composed entirely of brief references to (alien) classical history. When you're doing this, it is once again important to cite the most recent works that you can -- it's like the difference between commenting on a recent blog post and commenting on a blog post from 2001, or the difference between referencing LOLcats (a stale cliche), referencing ALL YOUR BASE (a painfully stale cliche) and referencing, um, ST:TNG (which makes me sound like I've been trapped in a box since 1990). And you want to name-drop popular articles, because what's the sense in trying to reference things that nobody has read?

This factor alone probably accounts for the observed changes in citation frequency. The Web is good at spreading new memes quickly! And that works for science too! It used to take years for new fads to sweep the nation; now a guy can claim he's Familiar With All Internet Traditions on Tuesday and there'll be T-shirts on sale by Friday night.

Oh, and let me not forget:

- People cite their own recent work to try and encourage others to read it (and to boost their own personal impact factor). I doubt that the rise of technology has changed that.
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This is an excellent article and I'm glad you had the gumption to post it. I started KangarooBox specifically because of #7 and #4, #5, & #27 came along for the ride.

While working at a large restaurant company I realized that our issue tracking solution was very poor and/or expensive and that Corporate America would pay for a simple, effective solution. Hence I had the idea to combine commodity hardware with FOSS and sell it with service (maintenance, disaster recovery, updates, etc.) This allows everyone, large & small, to use "Enterprise" solutions at a reasonable cost by outsourcing part of the IT department (or at least the maintenance part :).

Anyway, my list is topped by something that would help me organize and manage the many things in my life. These are really just different themes on the same idea. There are quite a few websites that do some of these things, but none do it really well. For instance, I still haven't been able to find a decent site that allows me to track my automobile usage, maintenance, & info. Throw in a useful, tightly focused user forum and I think you have a winner.

a) A pet/animal web site
- reminds me to order their medicine/food
- sends birthday notifications
- genealogy builder (for professional breeders)
- stores current info (pictures, ID #, name, etc.)

b) Household things
- Major appliance info (warranty, serial #, model, etc.)
- living room paint color
- types of plants in the front garden
- insurance info
- videos of a home walkthrough

c) Automotive things
- make & model
- info (color, VIN, etc.)
- insurance info
- maintenance notification (time for an oil change)
- mileage, MPG calculator

Later...
Richard
http://www.kangaroobox.com
Hm, I said I found FX 'inspiring', but didn't say 'inspiring for a startup'. As I mentioned elsewhere my interest is more in P2P networks, and those elude classic funding strategies.

The STP I'm referring to relates to automatic roundtrips including request for quote > pricing engine > quote > order > confirmation > TMS but the real interesting part is when banks automatically back their orders with purchases from yet other banks, intra-bank. Exotic currencies add an additional dimension, as no immediate pricing for e.g. Mexican pesos in Norwegian kronors is available and the trade needs to be 'routed' through an intermediate currency, usually USD or EUR.

My view of the system didn't go beyond two banks at the time but in theory there could be a long chain. That way the banks would be forming a financial P2P network. In reality it's a pretty hierarchical network as not all banks are created equal, but it'd be interesting if you could come up with financial routing mechanisms that would find the cheapest route in a hypothetical more dense banking network and what you can learn from that for poor man's P2P networks.
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