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Codecademy hobby
My new hobby is typing the wrong code (different than instructed) into Codecademy that produces a similar or identical result so that it decides you're correct.
You should read past the first post in the thread. It apparently compiled just fine. They just can't get it to boot.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21113848&...
Theoretically, hedge fund managers should make close to 100% of the gains over the market rate in fees. Otherwise, why would anyone invest in anything other than those funds if they're so much better than the market?
There is also Mozilla Chromeless project (possibly dead) and CEF - Chromium Embedded Framework.
Tweaking the test app from CEF should be a good starting point: http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/source/browse/trun...
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J’utilisais Supercard DS TWO plus de trois mois et maintenant je décide d’écrire quelques informations à ce sujet car je pense qu’elle est absolument une grande et redoutable flashcarte.
Oracle Beefs Up Database Firewall With SQL Injection Defenses, MySQL
Yes, but you may have to start it with:

mono --runtime=v4.0 NuGet.exe

You can also create a NuGet.exe.config file (put it in the same directory as NuGet.exe) to the same effect:

<configuration>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" />
</startup>
</configuration>

Whether you need it will depend on which runtime is enabled by default in your Mono installation. This can vary by system.

Also, you may need a fairly recent version of Mono to run NuGet; there was a bug in Mono that prevented NuGet from running, which was fixed only a few months ago.
Valid suggestion, but I don't think a move makes up for the perceived inadequacies in the States. Bugs, after all, are to be fixed, not circumvented.
Facebook in Asia: A Growth Story (2011)
Stacks are small because every thread in the system has to have one, it's that simple.
Git is a decentralized scm. It means there's no concept of a central repository. You can push and pull between any repositories.

A good reading is the online book Pro Git which has been mentioned in the comments.
Nice. I like my lay-down desk which I also sleep in. Churchill used to work in bed for four hours every morning. Hugh Hefner too. Netbooks are good for this.
if you use the Accelerate Framework on OSX or iOS, you have a very easy-to-use interface to vector ops (pass in pointers to your array..)
I wish it weren't true, since any economic collapse has global implications, but they've dug themselves into a serious hole and haven't made any drastic moves to pull themselves out.

Numerous sources (and much better explanations of China's precarious financial situation) are in this post http://chovanec.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/china-data-part-1a-... It's a blog by an American economist who teaches at Tsinghua University, the top ranking school in China.

This sort of news is particularly distressing to hear as the bubble is only beginning to burst:
"A source at a state-owned property firm in one provincial capital told Caixin that local agencies don't have enough money to cover basic healthcare costs or pay teachers."
http://english.caixin.com/2011-12-19/100339928.html
I think the "rise" of the Internet is leading to the rise of the "read/write" culture, where people want to engage and become activists, rather than just watch TV. The Internet also helps people become more informed about their elected politicians, so I definitely think this is a great trend, although I'm not sure if it reached critical mass yet to make real change. But it's coming. The Governments also see this, and they are trying to stop it or restrict it.
any specific companies hiring or good places to check online?
Back in the day, we sometimes called this "shareware". The first episode of Commander Keen was free, but episodes two and three cost money. :)

Or we called it a free trial, or a demo. We included a disc with a crippled version of the game in a video card box, or we glued it to the cover of a gaming magazine. Or we called the extra parts expansion packs. Or sequels. Or DLC. Or, yes, we sell them for real currency in an in-game item store as with Farmville (or League of Legends, World of Tanks, Gunbound, etc.)

All of it boils down to the same thing: Some people pay nothing and consume some amount of free content. Other people pay $X and get some higher amount of content, even while other people pay a higher $Y and get even more content. And still others will pay less, and get the same content, because they waited for a Steam sale.

And so it goes. Pick any six gamers at random who own Portal, and they all probably paid different amounts for it: Some bought it as part of the Orange Box, some individually, some got it for free, some bought it in a store, some got it for free when they bought Portal 2, some bought it on sale, some bought it after the price was cut, some bought it in the US, some bought it in various other countries, some bought it using USD, some bought it using a different currency. There's probably 500 different prices you could have paid for Portal. (Actually a lot more, once you include exchange rate fluctuations for people buying Steam games in USD using a non-USD currency.)

And you know what? Meh. There's not a lot new under the sun. (Especially when it comes to ways of relieving punters from their cash.)
Well, Firefox enables "common" ligatures by default, unlike Chrome. so yes, font rendering does tend to be better in Firefox....
We also have to marry this to the reality that most hedge fund managers have around 2/3 of their net worth in their funds.

When markets crash you see more redemptions from bad funds than good funds; by only observing redemptions the good are ignored and bad are counted. Since those funds are still charging asset fees, the numbers are probably distorted towards 100% the worse the preceding period's equity market performance.

Are hedge fund structures in need of reform? Probably. Do we need to warp and mis-represent statistics to accomplish this? No.

Bottom line is that saying that the ratio of cash out to operators to cash out gross is 84% is meaningless given that it has survival bias built in - in the inverse. Bad funds who dissolve and result in massive outflows are over-represented. Those that succeed and hold capital, e.g. Berlshire Hathaway and Renaissance'a Medallion Fund, are ignored.

I'm just imploring the HN community to remain objective, even when bad evidence seems to agree with our pre-conceived notions.
I tried this with a Google doc on /r/technology before my last trip to DC and it failed miserably, but I'd love to try again. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/meg8w/im_hoping_...
LOL. Thanks. But I'm 100% unelectable.
Of course, at the moment MS is losing the Mac vs. Windows battle: OSX and its bastard stepchild iOS are grabbing market share, and amazingly enough, market share in the enterprise market.
If the text is styled with a font that has common ligatures, then "text-rendering: optimizeLegibility" does enable them for me. Doesn't seem to enable discretionary ligatures, which is what the liga=1 thing does in IE and Firefox (which have common ligatures on by default to start with).
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Anyone here who still believes US isn't turning into a police state? This whole trend needs to be reversed: the Patriot Act, TSA, the militarization of the police, the torture and indefinite detention stuff - everything needs to be reversed before it's too late.
4 Ways to Keep Up With CES If You're Not Attending
This is why I don't believe in remote workers
Let me state the obvious... here is an app for some one to do, 20 -30 questions, you answer them and you get your permanent age. Good weekend project.
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We took our Facebook page down- it was mostly spammed by robotos and advertisements. We saw much more success by having just the tweet button alone.
Zest.js is a selector engine faster than Sizzle
Couldn't you just rent until it's a good time to buy?
I did not promise with you but i will free on my job i difficulty give your article feedback,
Thanks, we do realize now that no matter what, just like our first failed startup- it was a learning experience and will allow us to not make the same mistake in the future.
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This has been intuitively known since the Internet emerged. Hell, more people know me by a pseudonym that I've used since 1992 (not this one) than my real name.

The only people pushing "real names" are Facebook and Google, and they are doing so because it helps them build a better profile of you and make more money. Building community is a secondary concern.
What B&N did was not constructive whatsoever. If the reason they deleted his post was because of lack of details, why not ask him for them?
well, yes

http://www.firefoxwithbing.com/
If you want to demotivate your employees, just ignore them and their efforts
>Many critics have rightly pointed out the shocking failures of the Chinese food safety system — the most famous being the tainted-baby-formula scandal of 2008. But what you may not know is that China meted out swift justice in that case to the perpetrators. That is more than can be said for the handling of many corporations in the United States that have harmed their consumers and remain unpunished.

Wow, what a naive fool. Does he really think justice was meted out through these hurried executions? Quick justice is often a symptom of scapegoating.
People (and actually it's institutions, mostly) who invest in hedge funds are sophisticated investors. They know full well what the managers are being paid and presumably feel they are worth it.
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This isn't a support request. Large companies don't get a special pass for license compliance because they move slowly.

The solution is simple--don't release binaries without source. That's what the GPL requires, and what they signed up for when they used GPLed code.
Is the author trying to imply that the copyright laws are not ridiculous? The perpetual 20 year extensions are not ridiculous?

Most of the copyright laws are already so ridiculous that people aren't even aware they would work a certain way, because it doesn't make sense to them (referring to the many youtube videos here that are posted with the message that the videos aren't owned by them).

I'm not sure yet if copyright needs to be abolished. I do think they are fighting a pointless battle on the Internet, because sharing and copying are fundamental features of the Internet. If you want to remove them, you will break the Internet (if removing them is even possible). Do we really want to break the Internet to protect copyright?

But I also think some of the current copyright legislation is ridiculous, and needs to be overhauled, rethought, and adapted for the Internet age. And by adapted I don't mean the Internet becoming adapted to copyright law. I mean the copyright laws becoming adapted to the Internet.
I didn't realize that color.com had a similar problem. The only thing I remember about them is that they spent 350k purchasing their domain name. We did have features that allowed people to share events but didn't actually offer any incentive to spread virally. It was something we should've done, but we couldn't think of what we could do- there isn't really a incentive we can offer to joining an event. We could give our free drinks- but there's a limit of how much freebies we can provide. The idea was that once they actually try out an event in real life, they would find value and find it worth it to share to their friends then. I admit though, this should be a much bigger priority on our list.
Fair enough: the managers did all the work and had all the brains. Investors in hedge funds were just hoping to get something for nothing.
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Yes, but I wish it were otherwise. I don't want to give a flying f%!# about politics, politicians or that "power mad town" in DC... but unfortunately the dingbat wannabe police-state wielding dictatorial thugs that blight our society under the guise of "leadership" won't stop trying to "lead" long enough for me to relax.

So as much as I hate politics and politicians and the corruption and cronyism it entails, I find myself participating in the political process out of a sense of self-defense. So much so that I actually ran for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina back in 2008 (I wasn't elected).

I'd love to sit back and ignore it all, but I can't quit caring about stupid things like "principles" and "ideals" and the idea that people are (or should be) inherently free. So I keep muddling on, throwing my support behind Libertarian candidates and the occasional "other" (like Ron Paul) who seem interested in the ideals and principles I care about.

<sigh> I really just want to write code, read books, listen to music, have sex with beautiful women, and work on Fogbeam Labs. </sigh>
Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
Dave Arnold seems to think they shatter regularly.
I added this as a comment in a related thread on XDA, but it seems relevant here:

Brief background - my name is Matthew Garrett. I'm a Linux kernel developer working for Red Hat. I bought an original Nook back in 2009 and was responsible for getting Barnes and Noble to release the full kernel source code. When the Nook Color was released I did the same. I've been active in enforcement of the GPL and have a keen interest in helping (or making) companies comply with their obigaitons.

Having said that.

One of the significant differences between GPLv2 and GPLv3 is that GPLv3 makes explicit the requirement that signing keys be shipped. It has been argued that the GPLv2 implicitly requires the same, in the form of the requirement for the scripts required for installation. I'm sympathetic to that claim, and I will not personally distribute any code that requires a private signing key. But I'm not a lawyer and I'm certainly not a judge. Many people who are active in GPL enforcement will agree that vendors should provide the signing keys - but I don't think you'll find any who will actually make that the basis of a case.

B&N are not the only company to require signed kernel images. Many Android devices have locked bootloaders. I think this is a despicable anti-consumer design choice, but nobody's taking action against it. B&N have provided you with the kernel source code. They've done better than many by also providing you with the configuration file. They have a strong argument that by doing so they've complied with the requirements of GPLv2, and while you (and I) may disagree, that's almost certainly going to be as much as they'll be required to do. Consensus at the moment is that they don't need to do any more.

If it went to court then you may end up finding a judge who would rule that they're in violation, but I wouldn't put money on it. I think it's far too extreme to claim that they're actively violating.
I experimented with having turkers grade elementary school math quizzes. The idea was that teachers would scan in their all their quizzes/tests/homework to be graded along with the answer key, and turkers would grade according to the key. It worked, but the margins weren't there.
Yep! lesson learned. We're already looking into geotargeting advertising but it still seems that it'll be beyond our budgets before we can reach that tipping point where everyone can utilize it fully. We'll continue to think of alternatives, thanks!
Naughty Dog used an internally developed programming language for the whole game (or at least most of it.) A big part of the appeal was apparently the dynamic nature of Lisps, which allowed reloading of code at runtime to simplify debugging. This article is a postmortem about Jak and Daxter; the next page also mentions the drawbacks of using GOAL, as well:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2985/postmortem_naught...
Agreed. But that's 15+ years, N Microsoft missteps and a radical MacOS recode later... I wouldn't bet on that occurring twice (save for the fact that Apple seems bent on trying to repeat it).
Would you happen to have any advice for new CS grads from America looking to get a start in a country like Taiwan?
Great to hear I'm not the only one enamored with Google Wave.
Awww. ;_;
Twitter drives me insane...
So I have this twitter account that is about 4 years old and recently the original domain that we used for email was put to rest. Of course I am a bonehead for not changing the email address in twitter before the domain expired, but frankly I set the account up so long ago, I never considered it would be an issue to let it go and then edit my twitter account when the new email domain was ready to go.

Anyway I went into twitter on New Years to update the address, and changed it. As soon as the screen updated I got an over capacity message. No, problem it happens.

Next day try to login and no luck. Still over capacity.

5 days later, and around a 100 attempts to login later by me, my staff, two friends, and a small dog, still getting the over capacity message.

So that is when the true insanity begins.

I contact twitter and of course they said, reset your password. BUT, the password WORKS. How do I know this? I update twitter from a third party provider who will remain nameless so as not to make this post seem a commercial plug. We send out about 30 messages a day through this provider, and it has a real nice interface that lets us queue up a ton of tweets ahead of time.

I went into that account and reauthorized my twitter account with NO ISSUES using the exact same account name and password I have used for YEARS. No problem.

So I says to Twitter, Account Name and Password WORK FINE. I am AFRAID to reset it because the original email address is no longer available, and besides I tried to change it 9 days ago anyway, to the NEW Address when something went terribly wrong.

And now every stinking time I login I get a frigging OVER CAPACITY SCREEN.

So of course the next message from the twitter help bot is "your browser is outta date, update it". I use CHROME.

And so I login again with THE LATEST GOOGLE CHROME UPDATE WHICH OF COURSE IS ALWAYS THE LATEST FRIGGING UPDATE CUZ GOOGLE UPDATES IT WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT and...

AND,

wait for it....

Twitter is OVER CAPACITY.

So then I send twitter a request that says, "Hey! How about you take this UN/PW of mine and login in with it and see what you get. I know its good because I am able to connect through this third party service, where I just tweeted about this entire episode, (included the tweets) and the LOGIN WORKS JUST FINE...

And guess what they sent back.

"Please request a NEW PASSWORD"

OMG someone please shoot me now...

This account has about 6000 followers. At least 50% are not hookers, or MLM sales freaks, or how to get a million twitter follower liars, and I would still like to "OWN" the account. It has a real nice name that I like. But for some damn reason that escapes me, Twitter is:

OVER CAPACITY....

Ugh....

INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE...
IMHO shocking documentation, very poor developer support via their Q&A stackoverflow clone and a somewhat flaky / buggy implementation (which could be mitigated by better documentation + developer support) or (open sourcing the framework) or (hiring someone to foster a developer community - none exists right now).

Maybe their paid support is better, but based on what is publicly available, I doubt it.

Incidentally, Titanium Developer (The build tool that compliments the framework) has been deprecated in favour of Titanium Studio, which is based on Aptana.

Many Titanium devs don't like Studio, and so have forked (the recently open sourced) Titanium Developer to remove some annoying anti-features put there by Titanium.

It's a shame; the Titanium tools are fundamentally good and are nearly there, but IMHO are frustrating to work with due to inadequate testing and an ineffective user feedback loop.
That really has nothing to do with remote workers. It's just about brainstorming ideas.

I agree that it's difficult to match the creativity that comes from a face to face meeting. It's by no means impossible. Living outside Silicon Valley has forced me to learn how to generate that creativity over the internet. I do get a different kind of excitement when brainstorming face to face, but I have been forced to brainstorm my best ideas over the phone or on Skype.
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We didn't have prior experience with any programming or design experience prior to this app. While we are considering eventually learning Android, it won't be for a while because we'd have to start from scratch again and it would be better to find a way to the app to work for iphone for now.
Before you use the F-word, I recommend a cursory googling. Here's one of the first articles that came up for me, containing some of the info you seek:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/314696-debunking-the-chinese...
There are better ways of working remotely than email and chat. Always-on video screens and telepresence robots allow a good deal of spontaneity and bumping into people.
I used this site a few times in college - http://www.notehall.com/ . The downside is you have to pay for notes, study guides etc. but they let you preview the notes and then leave reviews after you've purchased.
As a bit of further clarification, I've downloaded the source tarball and checked it out. The kernel source appears as complete as I'd expect it to be. I don't have a Nook Tablet to check the filesystem, but the userspace code at least roughly matches what ought to be there. The bootloader source seems to match the hardware. As far as I can tell the only argument is that the NT will only boot with a signed bootloader and kernel, and the signing keys aren't included. There's no broad consensus that GPLv2 requires those keys.
This to me doesn't disqualify working remotely. One can still engage with peers, it does take a bit more effort. A great example of this is simply attending Meetups. Most of the time, however, working involves sitting down by yourself and getting stuff done, even when implementing that great idea that just came to you from talking to someone else during your lunch break.
Source Code and SDK preview of Tizen
And the response was:

"Yes we are working in partnership with Microsoft to offer you these prices. This deal will stop for new customers at some point."

No idea when that might be though.
When it comes to hedge funds, the managers typically are heavily invested in the funds themselves.
wow, was it just me, or was that really awkward?
>Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

Does Creativity have to be a collaborative process?
Agreed. The tech scene here grows every day, there seems to be some sort of start up event every other weekend.
yep, I was bitten by that when trying to port a (fortunately rather small) ocaml program to windows. needed a bit of rewriting to replace dependencies that simply didn't work under windows. of course, the rewritten code was perfectly cross-platform.
Tried to build and test, the app should mention it requires >= OSX 10.7
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All hedge funds are investment vehicles. All hedge funds hedge in someway. Many hedge funds hedge different types of risk. Most risk they hedge is market risk.