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Many 'business' people see all those $0.99 and free apps on the App Store and automatically reason that it must be really easy to make and iOS app (if they required a lot of work, they wouldn't be that cheap. Would they?). I thinks this is what the original article was implying.
You are right, bloomberg is obviously in a different league. I meant there is an opportunity to offer market data to a different set of clients.

However, that is not to say that the size of bloomberg's infrastructure is the biggest obstacle to competing with it. Today there are technologies (nosql, HDFS, virtual clustures, etc.) which make it reasonable for ambitious engineers to think about competing with sections of bloomberg's business.

Bloomberg does have an immense, non-technical, advantage because traders often love their terminals. From the outside, it looks like an ugly, mainframe age technology with weird commands and ancient looking charts. But boy is it ever useful :) Proficient BB users would make vim users proud.
We're so spoiled that now we're complaining about the APIs we do get? I would have died for stuff like this ten years ago when using data from other sites involved scraping, harassment, and trickery. Just like not everyone can produce a beautiful, accessible, standards compliant website, not everyone can produce a perfectly REST API. I give them kudos for opening up their system, or at least attempting to.
As long as we have an uneven distribution of wealth, we will have an uneven distribution of power.

It doesn't matter what laws you try to pass or what government you try to have. The entities who those laws threaten will fight against them.
Also the grand ultimate maneuver: "have friends who are mechanics."
As a society, we need acknowledge that using money to influence voters is simply a way to increase voting power beyond "1 man, 1 vote".

One way to mitigate that is to ban independent advertising on behalf of candidates (SuperPACs), require all donors to donate into a common pot which candidates may draw equally from, and require all media companies to provide equal time to candidates on their networks.

A downside of this approach is that many insincere candidates may exhaust the common campaign financing pool. Requiring failed candidates to pay back a percentage of their spend may be a way to mitigate that (e.g. a "co-pay").
We marveled with wonder at the free and open channel of communication that was the Internet. What unparalleled discussion it would bring. The truly free exchange of ideas, thoughts, and opinion.

Soon some of us soon found that we didn't actually want to hear any of it.
> So the Pirate Bay is now a bastion of freedom that lets users in Syria and North Korea download the latest episode of Glee?

- difference leads to unknown

- unknown leads to fear

- fear leads to hate

This is the most basic, irrational reflex process from which emerges racism, and wars, and lots of purposeless suffering.

Previously we were segregated by geography, long distances, creating islands of culture bound by the propagation times of information. We shattered that barrier. The Internet is the first place in the world since the birth of humanity where there can be a generation of people sharing the same culture all around the world. The fact that Iranians want to watch Glee may sound trivial, but I see it as a sign that people around the world want to unite.

We should be able to watch shows, listen to music or access whatever medium by which culture transits from the other side of the world. I'm not condoning piracy but from artificial limitations like DVD zoning, digital distribution restrictions creating segregated stores (like iTunes Store) or Internet borderizing laws like SOPA really do not help at bringing people together.

tl;dr: global culture sharing prevents wars.
Can you honestly say that the pirate bay isn't dedicated, and almost exclusively used for the distribution of material protected by copyright?

No, but I can't say that about the Internet at-large, either. Practically everything is protected by copyright, including the beloved Linux source.
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Austin, TX, Fulltime, Invodo (http://www.invodo.com/html/about/jobs/)

We are a startup that's growing customer-wise and employee-wise. If you're interested in one, feel free to email me directly at work (mbrace@invodo.com) if you prefer it to be handed off, but we're small enough that you can feel comfortable just sending it to careers@invodo.com.

For developers, the skills listed for each job is pretty long. However, this isn't just a list of buzz-words to catch folks, these are technologies/etc. that we actually use. Some of the systems we're looking to move away from as they're from systems written before we got traction (which means an entirely different business model) that are slowly being replaced.

Software Development Engineer (UI) -- Javascript, Actionscript, working on player framework utilized by our customers. Skills we're looking for:

* Desire to create fast, light, clean, maintainable code that works great, regardless of browser

* Excellent JavaScript development skills, including
JavaScript and CSS optimization and minification techniques

* Experience embedding code in 3rd party sites (HTTP&HTTPS)

* Asynchronous loading techniques

* Experience using RESTful APIs from the browser and Flash runtime JSON/P and XML

* ActionScript 3 development

* Extensive CSS and HTML development experience

* Familiarity with embedding code in e-commerce pages

* Familiarity with web video streaming (FMS, HLS, etc.)

* Familiarity with HTML5 and emerging HTML5 video standards

* Understanding of video SEO (sitemaps, Open Graph, etc.)

* Experience using CDN’s

* Basic graphics production (Photoshop)

* Experience programming in and/or working against a Java stack

Senior Software Engineer (Java) -- Senior developer, some Tomcat applications, some embedded Jetty, some applications that aren't web based at all (Netty based, written in Scala), really needs a really good understanding of the JVM. Technologies actively in use (even if we're trying to phase some of them out) and skills needed:

* Grails

* Java EE / Groovy / Scala

* Spring

* Hibernate

* HTML, CSS, Javascript

* Flash video

* Tomcat & Apache

* Linux (Redhat / CentOS)

* Database/MySQL

* Performance modeling and analysis

* REST web services

* High availability Internet applications

* Cloud computing (e.g. Amazon EC2/S3)

* Content Delivery Networks
Can you give an example of a nice REST API? I might have to create one soon and I need some inspiration.

Thanks!
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That's correct. The density of information approaches the theoretical maximum. ;)
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I start working with these guys in a couple weeks and could not be more excited. Awesome product, awesome team.
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Yes, I can see how they got where they did, too... When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
You can compare v8 to vanilla lua on the computer language shootout benchmarks page, and then compare luajit to lua on the luajit page. V8 has definitely made up some ground, and the luajit interpreter isn't generally faster than v8, but the jit is still way faster on almost all tests. The one area where luajit isn't great is on tests that stress garbage collection, since luajit still uses vanilla lua's GC. I think that's luajit's next area of focus.
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I sold my 2006 Audi A4 S-line last year because I was tired of putting it in the shop every quarter. I purchased it used, owned it for about 27 months, and it was covered under the original warranty for the first 12k miles I put on it, then under a powertrain-only warranty offered by the dealership. Ultimately, I came out of pocket twice to get the automatic passenger window functioning again, and had to replace a fuel canister -- total out-of-pocket for me: ~$1000. I also had the coils replaced (under recall), and ultimately ended up in the shop with a major engine problem, totaling ~$2400. Fortunately, the 2nd powertrain warranty covered it.

All said, I was so tired of the "check engine" light coming on that I put it on Craigslist for a reasonable price, and sold it in a week. Incidentally, the day before I was to meet the new owner at her bank -- after all, it had been 3 months since the major engine problem -- the electronic display in the center console started to flicker and dim. The new owner was financing it, and was to hand over $500 in cash, but I told her about the problem and said she could keep the cash -- "You're likely going to need it" -- if she still wanted to proceed with the purchase. She did, and I am so happy to be rid of that car.

I've been driving my wife's '99 Honda Civic since, and while I've had a couple of minor problems with it, I wouldn't hesitate to drive that car anywhere today. So, if you can live without luxury, buy a reliable brand -- e.g., Toyota, Honda -- that is several years old, or if you have more to spend, most 2009 and newer vehicles will be reliable or perhaps still under warranty. If you desire used luxury, pay more for a Lexus or Acura, and stay away from a German car not made in the last couple of years or not under warranty with a dealership (read: repair shop) just down the street.

One last note: that Audi was the best car I've ever owned… when it was running. I'd buy German luxury all day long if I had the inclination to purchase a brand new vehicle.
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This would be an excellent addition to consumer protection law - setting the terms under which the words "sale" or "sell" or "own" could be used when paying for digital goods. Obviously gamers should push for disclosure - only allowing words like "own" to be used if the seller retained no further power to disable or affect your use of the digital content. If the seller did intend to impose further restrictions on your use of the digital content, they would only be allowed to use words like "rent" or "lease" or "license" to describe the transaction. So a transfer of an unencumbered MP3 file would be allowed to be called a "sale", but a transfer of a DRM file which has to contact authorization servers in order to play would be only a rental, lease, or license.

There is plenty of precedent for this - many words have requirements attached when selling items to the public.
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this is the first time I've seen someone even mention 'karma' on HN. It used to be a complete non-issue.

@pg - can we just remove the karma score? People should contribute because they feel they have something to add to the community, not to get points.
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Yes, I misspoke. What I meant was that GB seemed to be tasked more with longer-term missions (leading guerilla warfare, long term reconnaissance) and less of the kind that have the level of tactical teamwork that the SEALs seem to focus more on. Obviously, the GB work in teams for their work as well.
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So we've got two things at hand here:

1) Consumers don't understand the license vs own thing, just like they don't understand really basic copyright issues. This isn't about to change any time soon.

2) I can't think of any better way to handle licensing, unless there's a government-standard 'digital license' (which would probably be a terrible idea/implementation anyway). Consumers say they want to "own" something, but what do they want to own? If you own all the IP to the digital item, then others don't own it, or suddenly you're entitled to a share of the revenue from it? That doesn't make sense. A non-revokable license? Maybe that's what consumers are more asking for, but it has its problems too.

Since consumers often don't know what they want, and don't have the language to describe what they want, it would seem a conversation that isn't going to go far.
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We're looking for:

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* Technical sales

More information at http://www.kaggle.com/pages/jobs

Kaggle has just closed a large Series A ($11.25m). Our early employees will help shape Kaggle's direction and grow along with the company. Regardless of the position, you should have a strong interest in data science and the intellectual curiosity to engage with competition clients from a wide variety of fields.

Kaggle is aiming to build a meritocratic marketplace that will change the way data science gets done. Read more at: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/kaggles-contests-crunch...
Except there are no customers. It's a new product, and if you want to use it then you'll need an up to date browser. No-one is being cut off.
KVM/IP is common for remote windows server admins. Sounds crazy, I know, but they are out there.
Equity may be tricky but cross-border contracts are nothing new. I think you just need to find the right kind of lawyer.
I don't know why people wouldn't sue Valve in small claims for actions like that. Seems like an easy win.
1. I think the yellow highlighting is overkill.

2. I don't know how the mobile loyalty program works. Need some information on the front page describing it.

3. Small businesses who need a presence on the mobile web.

4. Pricing is too low, have you experimented with different price points?

5. Images are fuzzy on retina display (need @2x images).
For discussions sake, here are the constraints on REST from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST#Constraints
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I was first disappointed ... then amazed!

Disapointed because the author's link to the benchmark website lead me to the wrong impression that Lua would be almost 30 times slower than Java 7. Then I googled around and discovered the awesome LuaJit which seems to be able to compete even with C++ in performance.

What I really like is Lua's code density (see samples in the Shootout's benchmarks). Very impressive!

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

As an old LISPer and Schemer I would like to know if Lua Macros are really as expressive and powerful as Lisp macros. Some people claim this but I am not convinced (I would like to be convinced). The expressive power may be theoretically equivalent but this is also true for C and Assembler :-) The question is: Are Lua macros as easy to handle as Lisp and Scheme macros?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/323346/what-can-lisp-do-t...
Haven't seen anyone post this yet (seemed helpful last month) so will jump in with a summary of startup/developer job boards from around the world, most of them are broadly recruiter free:

NB: Max Masnick has a big round up of developer jobs boards here:

http://www.maxmasnick.com/guides/jobs/

======================

World wide:

Github http://jobs.github.com

Jobs Tractor (Developer Jobs - run by me) http://jobstractor.com/

======================

US:

Crunchboard http://www.crunchboard.com/jobs/

Startuply http://www.startuply.com/

YC Company Jobs: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

======================

UK:

CoderStack http://www.coderstack.co.uk/startup-jobs

Mind The Product (Product Management Jobs) http://mindtheproduct.com/jobs/

Work in Startups http://www.workinstartups.com/

Enternships - (Startup Internships) http://www.enternships.com/en/enternships

======================

Germany:

Berlin Startup Jobs http://berlinstartupjobs.com/

======================

Canada:

StartupNorth http://jobs.startupnorth.ca/
Very nice...but what about IE8?
I'm so sick of websites not even attempting to render in a browser not in their whitelist. Please give me a button that says "I understand the risks, but I want to try anyway."
>>>By moving to IE9 he's discounting all corporate customers who haven't moved to Windows 7 yet.

Nonsense.

Chrome and Firefox will both run on XP.
Wow. Freedombox is exactly what im looking for. You could put a secondary dns system on it which can't be fiddled with by ISP's and oppressive governments. My freedom box could reach out to nearby freedom boxes to find the quickest route in, around and through oppressive firewalls through encrypted tunnels and what not. Where do I buy?
Anyone with access to your computer can see your website passwords stored in Google Chrome in CLEAR TEXT. Seriously this is redic. Yes, there is a responsibility for a user to adequately protect their computer, but this is just sets people up for identity theft and bunch of other bad stuff. My 60 year old parents use Chrome, your grandparents probably use Chrome. Help them out, at least have a master Chrome pw to protect viewing things in clear text...
Sounds like they simply want to remove as much legacy as possible in the new product. The old product will still work. They are "skating to where the the puck is going to be..." in a year or so.
The entire article was all worth the read only because of the last line...

"And hey, startup opportunity! You now have somebody with a real problem looking for a real solution! Hooray."

:)
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That is completely dependent on whether or not each person is consuming more than they are providing.
I'd like to know the same thing. Aside from everyone complaining that they used the term RESTful wrong, is there anything really wrong? It authenticates securely over HTTPS so I am confused what is wrong. Saying it's not complaint I don't really follow either. Thanks for any help.
Interesting. The internet finally held its promise of effortless, direct communication. And suddenly, some people realize thats not what they want. And yet, when it comes to person-to-person-communication, putting some effort into it (by writing an email and waiting for a reply, etc.) seems to improve affairs for some people...

Well, just a train of thought.
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You'll notice the second sentence there, which talks about Firefox ESR as the only option if they want a long-term supported browser. Many large corporations will not switch to a browser which updates itself more often than they can easily test it against all of their internal apps.
Fair enough. Perhaps I should clarify, and say "the illegal distribution of material protected by copyright".

Its incredible how obtuse people become when discussing this issue.
Custom headers do not REQUIRE a prefix. So the lack of prefix does not make it non-compliant. In fact, the HTTP RFC doesn't even say they SHOULD have a prefix. And RFC822 which defines headers only says that protocol mandated headers MUST NOT be prefixed with "X-". Also, there's a draft proposal to deprecate the "X-" header prefix as it does more harm than good: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-02

Second, absolute URIs are perfectly valid, all HTTP/1.1 servers MUST accept them:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html#sec5.1
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Some technical roles we're currently hiring for:

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* Mobile Developers

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I don't claim to know the details, and I'm certainly not trying to defend them or something. But even if they're not as effective as they could be, every "bit" helps.
Reminds me of Christopher Alexander's book 'A Pattern Language' where he explains exactly this.

I even think the programmers of 'The Sims' and others used it.
Sometimes it's also called Object-Oriented Design.
What exactly is RESTful programming?
That.. hmm.. still doesn't really help me. How do you use it to prototype?

Is there a tutorial somewhere, or someone developing something?
I agree with your concerns. But my comment was talking about "typical server logs" and HTTPS-POST vs HTTP-GET, while yours is addressing different issues.
Next the article claims that there is a "curious lack of concrete examples" of purely functional programs. This is patently untrue: there are plenty of great Haskell programs about on the internet. The canonical example is XMonad, which is particularly apt because it is short enough to read (< 3000 lines).

He probably means USEFUL examples, of what one is likely to build. No one will write an XMonad.

And XMonad is not a product -- something users want and that solves a business need. It's a language's innards, a developer tool at the most basic.
A marked change of stance from the following?

"Mike, you do realize that we get about 2 million Firefox downloads per day from regular user types, right? Your “big numbers” here are really just a drop in the bucket, fractions of fractions of a percent of our user base.

Enterprise has never been (and I’ll argue, shouldn’t be) a focus of ours. Until we run out of people who don’t have sysadmins and enterprise deployment teams looking out for them, I can’t imagine why we’d focus at all on the kinds of environments you care so much about."

http://mike.kaply.com/2011/06/23/understanding-the-corporate...
And Google's Cache will contain the full information of the site itself. Think about that.
this sort of stuff is hard. .. Good on people for having a go

I see what you did there :-P
We don't do that. We only discriminate against browsers we know will have problems. Like IE6-8. So what we're running is actually a blacklist.

If you show up with a browser that's not one of the big four, we're just letting you in on your own accord.

I completely agree that whitelisting for browsers is bullshit.