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Agreed, working on it...
It wouldn't surprise me to find out that it is next to impossible to create a new metals exchange due to onerous government regulations that effectively keep out new competitors.

I don't completely understand what is going on in the original story but it also wouldn't surprise to find out that it is only via the existance of various regulations that this scheme is viable.
Great site and app. I made a cheatsheet builder for videos (vidinotes) - thereby taking video stills, adding notes, and exporting as PDF. But I had too many projects so I sold it.
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Hey, this is cool, using awk you can save a minute for every one-liner you write. Writing 2 one-liners per day on average, it's only half a year to make up for a day spent on learning awk!

More seriously, if I wanted to save few minutes per day, I'd rather remove Facebook account.
88 bucks for a file browser still sounds extremely exorbitant though. Explorer++ is free and does at least whatever it is supposed to do decently..
No. Not thinking the same.

File-sharing is more of a usability problem. Invention of email + attachments solved file sharing a long time ago. Its the integration with your everyday life that has been a challenge up till now and this is what Dropbox and iCloud are solving.

Companies like YouSendIt never became as successful as Dropbox because they were before their time; and when the time came, they failed to innovate instead hoping for people to adapt as they adopt. Except I don't think they did it right.

You don't want to pay for file sharing as a feature; but it'll be part of the infrastructure that runs your life. Its synonymous to when Bill Gates' separated the software and hardware and focused on software. No customer wanted to pay for it; but the companies that made the hardware (IBM, Apple) did want to pay for it.

What does it mean to "solving a problem"?? Every attempt at a startup has and solves some kind of problem.
We need to all call our Senators to encourage them to pass this bill and pass this bill fast. Anyone know if the Angel List team is doing any lobbying? Likewise, are the VCs lobbying against it?
Use HTTPS? Or do you mean security against other kinds of attacks besides sniffing and MITMing?
Ask HN: How to find entry-level Ruby projects on GitHub?
Until recently I've used PHP for building my web applications. I'm learning Ruby, and the best way I could think of is to contribute to other projects. I set up a GitHub account and followed the excellent tutorials. My problem is that I can't seem to find any entry-level issues that I can contribute anything meaningful to.

There are tons of tutorials on how to create a simple blog in Ruby, but I'd much rather give something back to the community while learning. Or should I just buy a book, learn more about Ruby and return when my skills are up to par?
> Today, statistical learning is considered to be a better approach to building an AI. Much of the techniques of ML are expressed easily and efficiently using linear algebra for which Matlab (Matrix Labaratory) or Octave is much better suited.

The first statement is true: statistical learning is considered to be the leading edge of current AI research, especially since it attacks combinatorial explosion head-on. However, linear algebra is the baseline of current work, rarely the driving force. While the 'pull eigenvectors out of shitloads of data" method has been very effective and profitable, it is a very shallow approach to AI (especially considering the problems attacked in the 60s). Luckily, more intelligent algorithms are being developed that combine symbolic and probabilistic reasoning in a more direct way: compare LSA to LDA for example; LDA has a more cohesive and explanatory structure. These kind of things demand flexible programming environments (such as Lisp): Matlab is where algorithms go once they've been proven useful for 'normal people;' it is the domain of the analyst who cares about the data instead of the algorithm itself :).
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any chance that you do social features similar to the ones removed from google reader - shared items and comments on them ?
I give it a C, maybe a B if you're entry level.
They seem to be very aware of the problem and focused on solving it as soon as possible. I guess it's just a matter of time. Compared to how long it took MySQL to mature into a stable platform I've been pretty impressed at their responsiveness and quick improvements so far :).
For the first time it appears Google's web search could see a viable and strong competitor in Siri, especially if Apple acquires Quora and integrate Siri with Quora. I wrote about this here:
http://nextgenui.com/user-exerperience/googles-pagerank-algo...
Ask HN: Real-time social network aggregation, correlation, and other analysis?
I recently came up with the idea of a website which would track, and report on, where people, and their friends (across multiple social networks), are, in physical space, in real time. For example, you could post on your Twitter that you are at a particular party and how you feel about it. Then, your friends (on Twitter and Google Plus and Facebook and MySpace and wherever else) would see that and possibly come over to the same party. As they make their own posts, such as yours, their friends would see that this party now involves a number of people which they know, and then they might attend, and so on. I might work on this, but before I start, I want to know if such a web-based service already exists. I ask because I have a faint recollection of reading about something similar, recently, and perhaps even on HN. Thanks, in advance, for any replies.
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> "All of these typically require a graduate degree"

Only the doctor and the lawyer require graduate degrees. There are millions of engineers, accountants, actuaries, and many more professionals who exist solely with an undergrad degree.

Not everyone is like you.

> "How is spending time during undergrad studying the humanities an issue, so long as you have the appropriate prereq's for grad school?"

The core of this argument is the expense of education. The objection isn't that people are getting liberal arts degrees, it's that they're putting themselves into enormous debt doing so, and coming out without any of the skills that would allow them to pay back said debt.

It isn't helpful that your solution seems to be "get skills to pay back your debt by taking on even more debt for grad school!"

The obvious question at that point is: why not just get said employable skills in undergrad and just skip the six-figure debt load altogether?

Don't get me wrong - I'm a fan of liberal arts education, and I think it's something a lot of engineers could stand to have more of. But the idea that people should be going to into ridiculous, crushing debt to get a purely liberal arts degree, while completely ignoring their employability/financial reality, is hogwash.
I would buy one in a heartbeat.

The multi-user aspect of ChromeOS is the best feature for me. Pick up any Chromebook, sign in to Google and everything is there.
Could you elaborate please? What were you doing and what made it feel frustrating and inflexible exactly?
I majored in math for both my BA and MA. Instead, I get comments like this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177169

This isn't an isolated instance, either. I get a lot of this attitude any time I try to apply for jobs. Because I'm not looking to be an actuary or math teacher, my degrees are perceived as "useless" -- even when it comes to applying to programming jobs. (Yes, I can program. Yes, I have some public code to show. I do Python and C, if anyone's wondering. Shameless plug: I'm looking.)
Is this the video? http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/01/steve-jobs-interview-from-199... it's complete there.
Big thanks to HNers for the encouraging feedback. Based on it I'm going to:

- Put some monitors.txt examples in JSON, YAML, Gherkin and XML up on http://monitorstxt.org to help get the syntax right and satisfy the majority of language preferences. Feedback/contributions welcome, fork on github here: https://github.com/eliotsykes/monitorstxt

- Continue work on prototype monitoring app, with support for the above formats

- Open up the prototype to interested devs
Chrome and Android are different teams. I think it's more likely for Google to sell both Chrome OS and Android tablets than for Android tablets to run Chrome.
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go to thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death because they know they are guilty."
--Steve Jobs

The whole 'Apple vs Google' isn't something that was made up by the press. It is perfectly reasonable to look at actions of either company as potentially strategic moves to stop the other from gaining leverage.
Has anyone emailed them for a coupon? And if so, has anyone heard back from HP yet?
I am really happy that this does not exist in the PostgreSQL community despite many of the core developers being consultants who live off solving their clients' problems with PostgreSQL. Maybe this is because it is a community project with no single company in control of it.
So hypothetically if someone wanted to opt-out of this essentially corrupt system completely, how would they go about it? I mean paying taxes in a country with bailouts certainly ties you up into the system. Even without bailouts, living in a country tied to a dollar that's being printed like mad kind of ties you up into it too right?

So... how exactly would one go about this? Possible?
Your comment about "the future" is interesting, considering how little the Amiga actually resembles what was eventually common or popular by 1995 ;)

For the hardware comparison to be fair, you'd need a 1985 PC, I think.

Let's be generous (to the Amiga) and assume a 1995 PC would probably be a 66MHz 80486DX2 with 8MB RAM, a VLB graphics card, and a Soundblaster of some description. Even at the same clock rate, a 486 of this type would handily beat the Amiga just from having a more efficient CPU and from not having a dirty planar framebuffer layout. But as it is, it is clocked 9x faster.

In practice, for 1995, a Pentium would not be THAT unlikely...
Only until they "parse" the English using regexes. Then they have three problems. Four if you count "there are lots of trivial variations on the correct English phrasing, but none of them work, so you have to refer to the exact grammar anyway, this just made it bulkier."
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Man, the last time I had set foot on Michigan's north campus was about 8 years ago. Hope the attendees enjoy themselves, Ann Arbor is one of the best college towns in the country.
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what do you think of redis? I feel the same way about Mongo for the most part, but have been considering switching.
Dropbox validated the idea that a ton of revenue can get a high valuation.
Except Spotify isn't for discovery and virality. What your talking about is getting people to discover music. Usually done through blogs, social media, youtube. But when your talking about a service like spotify which is really a one dimensional store for storing, putting music on your mobile device that doesn't drive merch sales or concert tickets or even fans then they should be paying there fair share to artists. Granted maybe with FB open graph integration this is changing. And of course this isn't just a Spotify problem this is a label problem (of course now they're one and the same). Anyways the question isn't whether giving your music away for free or not is a good idea -- The question is why isn't Spotify doing what they say there are there to do?... Pay artists.
My fingers started to hurt when I saw this...my first programming environment was flat-keyboard Atari 400 with a BASIC cartridge.
I don't think "We take your property and put it in the cloud" means anything tangible to a property owner. (Making it easier to find tenants and collect payments are tangible benefits.)

I would also have more detail on what exactly the product does without requiring the user to sign up. Some screenshots of use cases of how you can help me would be beneficial.
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Unfortunately I don't have a source to cite but I believe the LISP/AI connection started in the 1960s and peaked in the 1980s.
Well far from a small problem in terms of all yc startups thus far I think Dropbox is easily been one of the best problems solved. Sure that was varying method of file backup before it but nothing as straight forward and painless. Many people using Dropbox have never backed up files before and would have been unlikely to invest in previous solutions but Dropbox is just so intuitive that pretty much everyone gets it.
On the other hand, if you abstract your interaction with data enough, you can change the whole backend later once it's stable and not care about it up-front.

This is a conception of data that is more true in theory than it is in practice. In practice, if you want to query your data and efficiently, you'll need to worry about how it's stored. You'll have to worry about the failure cases.

Of course, it is definitely application dependent. If you're just writing a Wordpress-replacement, you can probably choose whatever data store you want and just write an abstraction layer on top of it (especially if you don't care about performance). On the other hand, if you're looking at querying and indexing terabytes (or more) of data, you'll have to work very closely with your data store to extract maximum performance.
Fair enough. But the "personal development" justification is stupid; "well rounded person" is only a little better.

One man's opinion: The purpose of a good liberal arts education is to provide the tools to learn about yourself, your place among other men, and your place in the world (qua God, Nature, Not-God, Tao, whatever).

Such studies have the practical, if somewhat removed, benefit of equipping you to understand what you value, and what you should value, and prepare you to explore how to live well. They also have the more obviously and immediately practical benefit of helping you understand how _other_ people think. Done properly, these studies require great rigor and imagination, which is excellent training for all sorts of things.

Those are the Big Questions, and there is so much crap out there speaking to them that you can easily wonder if there is any hope of getting anywhere on them. The liberal arts schools have made the problem worse by their allergic reaction to "judgment" and "objectivity" -- the conceit that all viewpoints are equally valid makes the whole enterprise impossible. All I can tell you is that, just as we shouldn't judge the great programmers by the 98% of the software crap swimming around us, neither should we judge the great liberal teachers by the swamp of babble hiding them.

I have enormous respect for engineers and technical types -- I'm teaching myself to program, and my graduate studies focused on building my quantitative skills. Your complaint that the "broadening" motivation rarely reaches to the mathy stuff is spot-on. I wish I'd studied more math in college. But my studies in philosophy and political science are foundational to everything I think and do.

So, yeah, I share your suspicion of the diffuse and difficult to value. The shame is that the schools themselves haven't better dedicated themselves to something that would be a lot easier to value.

tldr; "those who do not study the workings of their own minds must necessarily be unhappy" -- Aurelius. But the liberal arts schools chickened out of teaching him, so we're left with "well rounded".
As a startup, change of minds is pretty normal to the point that it's far more better to have the tools to quickly implement it rather than plan/document it well. The only documentation is the general gist behind the database.

If it prototypes well, then further refine it with ER diagrams for future maintenance.

Why is planning everything without validation better than above?
Actually I'd say 90% of the file sharing problem is not yet solved. It won't be until I can attach a 1 GB file to an email message, hit 'send', and have the recipient(s) be able to retrieve it as easily as they could if I'd sent a 1 KB file.

Dropbox does absolutely nothing to solve this problem. They've made a good stab at solving the in-cloud backup problem, but their one-way, account-centric nature makes them nearly useless at the core business of sharing files. There is still plenty of room for innovation in this space. Make large email attachments Just Work(tm) somehow, and you will own the planet.
That transcript should, you know, get cleaned up. You know, to remove filler words:

And Making, you know, delivering on that at a much bigger
scale. Working with, you know, great partners like HTC. And
other folks and developers to help, you know, put Dropbox,
you know, help, you know, where Dropbox can help make, you
know, all these other products better.
It looks like the absolute minimum you're going to spend on a 2 year contract is about $1300. You get tremendous bang for your buck for the extra 15% (or much less) a new iPhone 4S will cost you.

I've never thought cable was worth the money so I can't say if a similar logic applies there.
I don't care that I'm going to hell, because I know hell doesn't exist. Indeed, no matter how pious I act, by some religion's definition I'm damned anyways.

But yet I'm not out there destroying livelihoods for personal profit. Way to pander to the stereotype that fear of the hereafter/almighty is the only way to get people to act morally/curb antisocial behavior.

I police my own behavior because, by some lucky stroke of evolutionary development, I have been granted the ability for high-level thought. Many people have been able to use this tremendously powerful ability to better us all collectively. Some seem only interested in using theirs for self-interest, even at the (grave) expense of everyone else.

This really is the core of it though: many people I've met in finance do believe wholeheartedly in "might makes right" - that morality and what the system allows them to do are one and the same.

I fear these people greatly.
Well here's a fuck you back from a dev: my time is finite and everyone wants a piece of it; If I can save an hour a day by never having to think about my database? If I can shave a week or two of labor off a project?

It's really easy to work with. This is why people keep using it.
I am not sure we will. On a question in a video I once saw, it was asked from Eric Schmidt how Google sees the difference between Android and Chrome OS. And his answer was that they see Android for the kind of tasks that don't need a keyboard, and Chrome OS more for devices that have keybord ("traditional" computing tasks). I don't remember the actual wording, but something to that effect.
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This is pretty awful, but it seems like one of these problems that could and should be solved by the free market.

If prices rise due to increased demand, the free market usually solves it by increasing supply. In this case, Goldman doesn't actually use the aluminium. I guess that suppliers don't ramp up production because Goldman slowly sells the aluminium back to the market. The purpose is probably to influence the price at specific times, and to make it more volatile in general. Which counters the purpose of exchanges and futures contracts.

Somebody should just start a new metals exchange that caters to the needs of its clients rather than trying to squeeze them.

The clients of the exchange are aluminium consumers and suppliers, and they have different needs: while the consumers prefer low prices, suppliers want them high, to get a better margin. If prices were lower at one exchange (good for consumers), two things would happen:

1: Suppliers would sell their products at another exchange for a better price. Lower supply at the cheap exchange means that prices rise.

2: Arbitrageurs would buy at the cheap exchange and sell at other exchanges. Increased demand also leads to rising prices.

There is no reason why America has to do its metals trading in some ancient London exchange.

True, but "America" chose to trade in Olde Europe: aluminium was available at the New York Mercantile Exchange until 2009.
Considering my use of NoScript and RequestPolicy I bet I won't.
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monitoring just isn't that difficult of a problem.

Monitoring is a very difficult problem when you consider false positives, notifications (repetition, escalation etc), and reporting.

Monitoring isn't just about whether a service is up or down. It's about the quality of that service right now and over time.
I did some Java, C++ and a bit of Python during my CS degree, but I haven't done any in about 3 years.

Out of the 3 I much preferred Python, but I haven't done any Ruby or PHP so I don't know if I'll prefer them to Python. I also don't know if the job market for Python in the UK is very big, when I did a search it seemed PHP had many more jobs listed.
I'm a believer in reading someone else's code to improve your own skills, and in Ruby more than in other languages it's easy to get started.

I don't know how much you know right now, but the simplest way I've found ways to contribute is by taking a Rails application, looking through the Gemfile and seeing how complex those are (an easy heuristic to do this is just to take a the number of files that the gem has). Keep in mind that the gems I'm talking about are not the default ones in Rails (most of those will be complicated enough for an experience developer). I'm talking about the stuff you use everyday like Devise, Mustache or Fabrication.

If you haven't written any semi-complex applications using Rails you can always find open source Rails or Sinatra projects and see what their dependancies are.
They recommended to various customers to invest in all sorts of CDOs while at the same time betting against them having internally decided they were going to fail.

This is caused by legally mandated chinese walls, designed to give banking customers confidence that the bank is behaving in their best interest.

The sales/structuring desk is legally obligated to structure/sell CDO's after agreeing to do so. They are also obligated to maintain a fair bit of internal secrecy. They structure the CDO, write the contracts, package and sell it. That's all they do, and they do this because the loan originators paid them to do so.

Meanwhile, probably in a different building, the prop desk is shorting the CDO because they think it's a bad bet. The prop desk knows nothing about the CDO except what is contained in the sales prospectus sent out by the sales desk (which is usually quite a lot).

It's highly illegal for either of these groups of people to talk to one another. Their computer systems don't talk to each other and compliance will fire people if they send each other email. By law, the left hand can't know what the right hand is doing.