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A long time ago, there was a startup called Digital Island. They were a small(er) exchange (or is the term "market maker"?), but they handled about 20% of NASDAQ's daily volume.

The good thing was, they would let you buy their data post-facto (not realtime). At the end of the day, you could download their entire set of completed orders for the day. The cost was minimal ($30/month, IIRC).

But they were bought out by NASDAQ, and NASDAQ shut down this data-sharing program. Which, to me, reinforces the point that the powers-that-be don't want to lose control of the information; it's a pay-to-play system, and information is one of the privileges to paying the big bucks.

One would assume that being a heavily regulated system, it would be expected that all orders would be open to the public (at least the historical ones), to ensure transparency. But one would be mistaken.....
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Thank you. I kind of agree - honest answers, acceptance of criticism etc. are key, especially when your talking about small companies that can't hide behind their size.
Twitter is not exactly mainstream

You're joking, right?
You are trying to strawman my argument. Aliens are ridiculous; that has nothing to do with what I'm saying. There are rational questions posed by people you are labeling as conspiracy theorists. You are trying to discredit them by exaggerating these claims. Again, there is some evidence of a cover up; there is no evidence of alien involvement. Your arguments are puerile and a distraction from what we are talking about.
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So much better than before...but still not quite where I would like them to be. I feel like a game like that made huge advances by using talented actors and scanning in the faces. They overcame a lot of the uncanny valley that was there before, but the shading still makes the whole scene seem unbelievable.

Still though, the artists and actors did a phenomenal job with this game.
thankfully, I've never told anyone to fuck themselves after buying my tea :)
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I've attended dozens of deaths over the years, and many hours of medical training.

Yes, some folks do appear to die peacefully. And some folks don't sleep through it. And some folks will die through particularly ugly and unpleasant processes.

In some specific cases, we do know that the death did not entail any struggling or other manifestations of discomfort.

And you are quite wrong about your concept of how a heart attack can present itself. Some are quite silent. Some - in older men and particularly in older females and reportedly due to differences in and degradations in the cardiac innervation - can be undiagnosed or misdiagnosed or missed - and sometimes these cardiac problems might only trigger a so-called syncopal episode. The person "zones out" for a little while, or "faints". This due to a transient drop in blood pressure.

In cases I'm very familiar with, the person simply stopped talking to me, and appeared to doze off, and the cardiac monitor went into alert.

In others, I've encountered a number of cases where the only evidence of a heart attack was in the cardiac enzymes test, or due to specific artifacts seen in subsequent cardiac monitoring.
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It seems to be related to whether or not you have a bing cookie in your browser or not. I can turn on private browsing have them fail, then use a session with a bing cookie and have them succeed.
There are many things that may or may not be interesting, but it helps to connect them directly and explicitly to things the HN crowd might - or ought - be interested in. Bare links to motiveless items frequently get ignored or flagged. If you want a successful submission it helps to be absolutely explicit and clear as to why it's related to hacking, related to entrepreneurship, or of "deep interest."

It seems to me that the HN crowd is busy and doesn't take time to make the connections. Unless the connections are explicitly drawn, items will not receive attention.

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ADDED IN EDIT: Judging by the number of points this submission has, its age, and where it is in the "front page" hierarchy (currently 55) I'd say this submission is also getting a good number of flags, despite the clear relevance to social media, abuse of facilities, anonymity issues, etc.)
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No, you're right. However, most of those followers are other tea bloggers, tea companies and tea industry people. It's a small community. I'm new to the business, so an 'established' tea blogger posting lies about my company can have a really negative impact.
> Can you cut the cryptic message and tell me what you're talking about?

Yeah, sorry for that, I know it sounded too reddit-like, but in addition to what arethuza was saying bellow I can tell you how I can still remember reading a The Economist 30+ pages special report on the CDS market around 2007. They were saying how that one time all was different,about how the risks were spread among multiple players, how the market fundamentals had changed etc. And then 2008 happened (and yes, I know that technically the CDS market wasn't the one that blew up, but I think everybody now can see how stupid those assumptions were).

To sum it up, reading this article on Twitter reminded me of that period, and many like it. You cannot just foul the fundamentals.
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I'm not sure "the public" wants access to microsecond trade order data. I mean, I could send it to my mom's laptop, but she'd probably be pissed.

It's the market makers who are fulfilling these orders and the strike prices are already set once the HFT algos get in on the action (right?). I'm assuming that if the MMs had a problem with it, they'd have the clout to do something.
Absolutely true. Novelty of tweets and the structure of the social graph (public facing/searchable) only gives it 2 years anyway before Facebook gets it 70% right, Goog has a start but no veritable base to contend from.

I've got Twitter's most successful shot at a business model physically next to me. Unfortunately, because the realities of a team moving quickly enough, in the right steps, and with enough disruption to become viable is a near impossibility, they'll probably wither (I don't see IPO and save for MS or another hungry to innovate by acquisition, I don't see another round coming).

What we'll do is build up our bootstrapped MVP, get traction and users the old fashioned way and likely eat some scraps mistakenly left on the veritable opportunity table.
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True. I think I've done enough to embarass the guy and expose the way he does business. I always believe you should leave a door open for people to 'save' themselves, and that might mean that long term, he proves to be a valuable member of the tea community. Who knows.
Great job my friend, I do all my editing work on vim, both in Linux and Mac.
Now I can't wait to arrive home and try this on my Mac, unfortunately I can't have iTunes running in Slackware :(.
I don't understand why our community has so much adulation for TechCrunch. Arrington is a Yellow Journalist all the way. Why give TC the clout and role as a spokesman for our industry? Seems like we could do a lot better.
I registered just to suggest giving XKCD credit for the comic they made (and are still hosting for you to use without bothering to rehost yourself)

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I'd made the mistake on Twitter originally - I didn't see the tweet in my "Mentions" page, but it was still there on his feed.
Recent submissions of this item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2826345 : 2 days ago - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825759 : 3 days ago - no comments

That latter item has the exact same URL except for a "#" at the end - I wonder if it was added deliberately to thwart the HN duplicate detector.
I find it good practice to hand write, what at the time I deem very important, emails I'm not 100% certain I should send. Sleep on it and then read it the next day. If I still want to send it then I type it up and press Send.
I like the format of a blog that does code reviews. Is there any outlets in other languages besides JS that do this?
I haven't looked into ViTunes, but most Apple applications are very able to be scripted via AppleScript. If I had to guess, I would think that this is how this is being accomplished.
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Honestly, that line betrays my own apathy towards the feature. I hardly ever use them. They probably should be dead.

However! There is currently a plan (with associated scary-looking diagrams) to change how tabs behave[1].

Essentially, you'd be able to use a tab for each logical grouping of open files.

For example, in a django project, you might create a tab for each separate app you're working on. Or maybe a tab for your views, and another for your templates.

I understand that, even with that change, tabs won't fit many people's workflow. So they will always remain out of the way, unless you actually create more than one.

[1]: https://github.com/fileability/chocolat-public/issues/159
This may just be me, but I find it difficult to see how your comparison of a 103 year old vehicle manufacturer can be even remotely useful in this example.
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Yep - I will be shipping to the US very soon, but we're a new business. I've been testing supply chain, quality and bedding in the business before I take on the world :)
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Some things just click better for others and some of them require more of an explanation? I don't see what's so baffling about this or why people are complaining about an explanation. Proofs are definitive but they don't really help you understand what's going on a lot of the time.

0.999... confused me when I first encountered it but when I thought about what an infinite number of 9s would mean it clicked better. Something else I didn't initially believe despite proofs was the Monty Hall problem, but imagining it with 1,000 or more doors instead of 3 made it clear why the odds weren't 50/50.
Is it somehow hip to misspell "class" as "klass", or is there a deeper meaning behind it?
This also supports threading. w00t.
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The problem with not having passwords is that it usually requires an authority to distribute keys (and not retain the initialization parameters for that key, cough RSA cough). And that could potentially require a third party having access to information a lot of people don't want. Or trusting the government to generate them -- which opens up another can of worms.

Things like OAuth and/or federated login still rely on a password at some level.

Pick your poison (personally, I wouldn't mind using an RSA Soft Token type technology with federated access requiring token + pin, but that's just me).
iTunes can be controlled via AppleScript. This plugin appears to talk to iTunes via a CLI the author wrote in Objective-C which uses Scripting Bridge to talk to iTunes. Scripting Bridge is a cocoa interface to scriptable applications.

Many OS X applications expose part or all of their functionality via AppleScript. To get some idea of what an application offers you can fire up AppleScript Editor, then open the dictionary for a given application. (Rarely, an application will expose more than is shown in its dictionary.)

Now, AppleScript is a truly detestable language, so avoid using it directly at all costs. :-) http://appscript.sourceforge.net/ is much more friendly.
read the judge fine print..he states that since it is not communication to be redacted and cannot be used in trial than it cannot be not made public..quite a bit different than Mr Mueller's spin..
Right - it's extremely unlikely. The fact is, as a small business, I make it a point of communicating with my first treasured customers, so I know almost all of them by name. In almost all cases, I know how they've arrived at my business via friends, recommendations, family etc. And given the situation, I made a very confident guess.
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I think perlgeek was referring to the use of user_klass and log_klass.
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crap....I lost enough sleep last night over this :)
Not in the way its used in his samples.
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I'm not sure who your intended audience is, but the UI is very hard to use for little kids. You have lots of text based UI elements, and they have to click to a page to change the brush, then click on 'color' to go back to their drawing, etc. You pop up text dialogs asking them if they want to save their drawing before they can change monsters, and there is some kind of 'balance' which I have figured out yet.

Maybe your intended audience isn't little kids, but if it is you should make the UI simpler and not require reading skills.
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What OS are you on? Comparing my FF5 install on OSX to the mockups, the mockups use less space due to the tab / titlebar merging. I don't recall if FF5 is already doing that merging on Windows or not. Looking at screenshots online, it also looks like the mockup is smaller than stock FF5 on Windows, but I haven't confirmed myself.
I've been waiting for this to happen for so long. Glad a dignified organization like Bloomberg picked this up, I wonder if there were any bids from MTV or Bravo for that matter.
Are you using age to define startup then? You've clearly demarcated GM as not-sartup based on age.
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> A common and frustrating use-case was mobile Twitter: Someone would share a new favorite or upload on Twitter, you tap on it, and it tried to load the regular site on your tiny smartphone screen. Pushing the whole desktop site over a mobile connection would be a waste of precious bandwidth, if you only want to check out a track. Alternatively we could try to redirect to our native apps, but there’s no guarantee that the user has it installed and the mobile vendors don’t offer any APIs for verifying that in advance.

Somewhat off-topic, but for any devs interested: Android allows you to do that. From your native app, you can essentially hook into whenever the user tries to open a URL that looks like your site (soundcloud.com, etc), and through the Intent system the OS will offer the user the option of opening that URL through your application. From there you can parse the URL, see what they were trying to look at, and dive deep into the app to whatever screen (Activity) makes sense for that content.

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In my experience, most universities forbid the monetization of sites that they host.

I'm going with hacked.
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Where are you based? How much funding did you get? Was it angel funds or VC funds? Did you go after funding yourself, or were you approached about it.

Just curious.
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Twitter is most definitely mainstream. When Presidential candidates and major news orgs are using your service, I think we can assume it's "mainstream".
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Absolutely - good and bad is subjective, and I'm happy to accept that. My real anger came from the fact that these people were masquerading as professional tea reviewers, but then don't even have the decency to back up a negative review. If they'd written a long blog post slating my tea after ordering it, trying it fairly etc., then I would have been much more concerned with their opinions...
The word doesn't seem to be used by itself however - the code in the article contains "user_klass" and "log_klass", which can presumably be spelled correctly without causing an issue?
Thanks. I promise I did search for a permalink for the article itself. I blame the tumblr theme :)
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Pretty slick--have to say I enjoyed the big mouse cursor coming up and editing the top paragraph, that was rather clever.

In trying the demos, it behaved rather unobtrusively and flexibly, and despite looking a little like Word's contextual ribbon it didn't make me want to set anything on fire after a few minutes. That's a first for an in-browser rich text editor.

I think it's interesting that "old" rich text editors like TinyMCE/FCKEditor tried to copy Word 2003 right down to the massive toolbars, and then barely anybody needed all that crud so it fell out of fashion in newer, slim designs (e.g., StackOverflow, Quora). Nowadays, it appears that Word 2007/2010 has finally gotten enough mindshare for the ribbon/contextual palette model that it's finally being comfortably re-implemented as a web UI widget.
The worst part was May 6 2010 (the flash crash). The exchanges and SEC arbitrarily threw out a number 60%, and people who managed to buy at 59% discount got to keep their (very) profitable trade and people who managed to buy at 61% discount lost only one leg of the trade. The process was not transparent, at all :/

I know some people who made a boatload (all trades cleared), and others who lost a boatload (one part of their trade was cleared, but the other part was broken, and they had to go back and buy back at a very disadvantageous price)