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Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, And Others Chart The Demise of Mass Marketing
Did Google just offer Pinterest $2B?
A family friend, who happens to be a well known entrepreneur/investor, just mentioned that he heard Google offered to buy Pinterest for $2B (and they turned it down). Anyone have any merit to this "rumor"? Just curious...
If DuckDuckGo and Blekko could team up, then yes. Also, there's Yahoo-Bing relationship on. All these are potentially big threats to Google.
Going off the last example, what difference does it make if there is a trojan or not? Bender might very well have chosen to buy at $10.10 and sell at $10.15 without any evil foreknowledge to narrow the spread and it would have caused the some effect on Prof. Farnsworth.

Yes, it does mean that whoever had a sell order at $10.10 gets their order filled faster. But is that trade off worth it?
Insofar as Nanex is concerned remember they are attempting to sell you a product, so be aware of their motivations before swallowing any unsubstantiated assumptions. With that said from what I have seen their charts are accurate but the interpretation of what they mean is sometimes a bit dramatic :)

I can't speak directly to the BATS IPO debacle but I can say that when the NBBO in a symbol is locked or crossed (market speak for the bid and ask being the same or being inverted) matching engines can ignore the NBBO. This results in trades being executing at prices all over the map and can explain how a stock can go from $15 to $1 almost immediately.
I'm the shirtless guy in the top-left photo. I feel pretty bummed that something we did to parody the ridiculous 'brogrammer' movement was used in this context : (
Heard this during my morning drive. My impressions from hearing the "consultants" speak is that they're just trying to drum up some business via fear-mongering. My spider-sense also tingles a little, which makes me think this is part of some infernal "run-up" to a war with Iran.

Empirically, I just don't buy it. Sure, Iran is a menace, but they have spent the last 50 years (yes, under the Shah as well) trying to stamp out the kind of free-form anarchism that makes the best hackers. I mean, they've got the idea of doing a heavily-snooped and censored "halal internet" for their own purposes. That sort of censorship is just not conducive to producing native black-hat hackers.

Why, just the other day, there was an HN story about some Iranian who found a vuln in all the major Iranian bank's software. He notified them, got ignored, demonstrated the vuln with 30,000 back accounts, got ignored, then dumped all the bank's account info. Then left the country. Does this sound like a culture that can produce "CyberWarriors"? It does not to me.

And before anyone brings it up, yes, Red China has a huge hacker/honker population. They also have a population of 1.3 billion. They have a huge population of X, for any value of X. Iran has a population of 73 million that's roundoff error in China's population. Despite the Sleeping Dragon of censorship in China, the vast population ensures plenty of every type of person. I doubt that's true for Iran.
sexists should be ostracised, and women allowed to hack in peace.
Nintendo Reports $461.2M in Losses, is Selling the 3DS Below Cost
They plugged SafeShepherd which appears to be a monthly-fee service. What happens if I pay $14/mo or $65/yr, get my records scrubbed, and downgrade to the free plan? Do those "difficult records" pop up again?

I went to sign up with Facebook and discovered it wants permission to view my photos and my friends' profile info. That's concerning, so I went with the non-Facebook signup (only requiring a name, zip code, and email). Out of the 15 or so records it showed me, none of them were me, so I didn't go the premium route.

It seems to do a decent job picking up people. The records it did find belonged to people who shared my first and last name and lived in the same state.
Yes 20% now. But think long term. If we get rid of the sexism then there will be more women in tech. There is a shortage of programmers, so we increasing women increases possible workforce, good for companies.
No, they can't; don't be silly. That's not what "promoting" means, and in any case such a use would be a clear copyright violation (note elsewhere in the license where they make it clear that you still own the copyright). It seems clear to me that the intent is things like the Youtube "recommended" list. If you upload a public video, they need permission to repackage it for display in other contexts than direct viewing.

But if you insist on reading the license that uncharitably, you have to accept that Dropbox too can find plenty of wiggle room to be evil. Seriously, you're granting "all needed permissions" without enumeration -- you don't find that scary? What if Dropbox decides that "providing the service" requires revenue gained from scraping credit card numbers from stored files? See? I can come up with equally silly scenarios.
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Media Manager Pro Component is a very powerful .Net tool for video encoding and video publishing. It can convert videos and audios from one format to another format such as c#, vb, ffmpeg, flv, avi, wmv etc in real time. It supports almost all the known formats which mean you can convert any type of video or audio into any type of video or audio using .Net applications including ASP.Net.
Why hasn't Google acquired this company yet? They've been doing such great work and they obviously have the right passion to make email/calendar better for the world.
@Jon That's awesome! Shoot me an email, I'd love to hear more about it: evan[at]uservoice[dot]com
I'm glad I can help.

3. It might be good to keep the tilted pics in the slideshow, and straight pictures (or actual text) elsewhere. Or maybe tilted everywhere! I can tell you what bothers me, but what really matters is how many clickthroughs you get, right?

7. IMO, it shouldn't be social (how would it be?) so no usernames are necessary, but I'm probably not your average user. Nor have I ever created an online service/business, so keep that in mind when following my advice.

9. I don't know about bothered, since I have cookies enabled for everything else. It'd be less weird if you made it clear the cookie didn't track me across other sites,

10. No, just want to make sure you're thinking about it before possibly getting attached to a service that might not survive (e.g. you get bought and the buyer shuts it down). If I found the service useful (and especially if I were a CEO/executive, I think), I would love to pay for it, either a 1-time fee (like I did with Pinboard.in), or yearly subscription. Crazy idea: maybe you could license the software to news sites so they can have built-in highlighting with the click of a link (similar to 'print-friendly' links every article has)

My RSS reader has few enough feeds that I've been able to read them all, but I've been careful to only add feeds that I could keep up with (with keenskim, that might change). Other than that, I stick to the top of HN.
If holding power over others and perpetuating inequitable power balance in capitalistic structures is your ultimate goal, I certainly would never admit to it as you just did.

As a programmer I mega-cringed when I read this and would certainly never work for you or any company you worked for if I read this.

So please, be more dismissive.

(Re: Downvotes - So I guess we should just treat programmers with derision and those with rolodexes as the bosses, case settled!)
I use Boomerang every day with Gmail and I think I would lose a lot of hair without it. Very excited to try this out.
I found Unity awkward at first, but I put in a few days' honest effort to learn to shortcuts and try to work as the designers intended me to, and it improved my desktop efficiency quite a bit, and removed a fair bit of clutter compared to Gnome 2. I like Gnome Shell too for the same reasons.

That said, Unity was buggy in 11.04, and only somewhat less so in 11.10, and I still find myself having to occasionally escape to a terminal and restart Unity after it freezes up. I'm hoping 12.04 is better.
There is one other one that you missed for IPv6. ULA addresses are unique local addresses that are not automatically assigned and are assigned by the administrator. They can be routed, but not on the public internet (only on your internal network (in an office, in multiple offices, datacenter, etc)).

Those are not just for automatic peer-to-peer they are for assigning addresses on your network that can stay the same no matter if you change ISP's and they hand out a new /64 prefix to your network...
I think we are talking about two different things. Here is the scenario I imagine. Two market makers, Speedy and Big. They both decide to shave a penny off the spread, but Speedy is faster.

The order book now looks like:

SELL BIG - 1000 $600

SELL SPEEDY - 200 $600

-----

Buy SPEEDY - 200 $599

BUY BIG - 1000 $599

A buy and sell order comes in for 200 shares at market, and SPEEDY makes $200. BIG makes nothing. The problem is that BIG is offering more liquidity to the market (1000 shares vs 200), but all the rewards go to SPEEDY. With a pro-rata, BIG would make $166 and SPEEDY would make $33.

Pro-rata rewards volume, FIFO rewards speed. It is debatable which is better.
Will your proposal be along the lines of "only allow trades every x (milli) seconds, and randomize among the bids/asks submitted in the most recent time interval"? This seems like the most natural, simple solution one might suggest. How does it sound to you?

(Edit: sorry, this doesn't really relate particularly to this sub-topic.)
http://thedanplan.com/ where there's a blog, regularly posted videos, etc.

Current status (I just looked): 2 years in, 2700 hours done, and he just shot his first sub-80 round of golf.
Novo SL65 AMG da Mercedes chega em setembro por 303 mil euros
A nova «bomba» da AMG e o mais potente dos Mercedes da atualidade (mais potente que o SLS AMG), o SL65 AMG chega no próximo mês de Setembro por 303.500 euros. Na nova geração SL, o recurso à utilização de alumínio na carroçaria contribui para uma redução significativa. Neste caso, 170 kg a menos que a versão anterior. Conheça mais sobre a performance deste espetáculo de automóvel em www.autoportal.iol.pt
I predict Grand Rapids will be a software powerhouse in the next 10 years.
Boomerang for Gmail is already amazing, and this seems like an even more incredible addition to streamline email + calendar scheduling.

Awesome job guys! Keep up the good work.
> Anyone who is worried about waiting a few minutes for a trade to complete is Doing It Wrong.

Why do you get to decide that? I could think of several examples where I would be concerned about a trade happening quickly (hedging bets made elsewhere, breaking news affecting the underlying value of a product, etc.)
But what about WebSockets in non-browser contexts. I have to wonder if Square does this with its SocketRocket http://corner.squareup.com/2012/02/socketrocket-websockets.h...

Think of desktop apps that keep a connection to the server and are awaiting messages from it. I think it might get interesting, maybe not the best application of WebSockets, but interesting. Your Email client wouldn't have to poll every X seconds to see if new mail has arrived.
Or maybe this post says more about the merits of writing a book vs. writing software than it does about the author's awesomeness.
Even fractions of a penny in some cases.
I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to as "class selectors". If it's the ability to select elements based on the value of the 'style' attribute, then it would be something along the lines of:

//book[@style='someclass']

If that's the case, then that's not what I'd want to do, if I could improve things (even though it would still be possible to do so). Here, the model is coupled with the style, because your model refers to a 'class'. Why would it refer to a class in the presentation? It's essentially saying: "render me this way". Your model should worry about the data, not the style. Why not decouple them, by letting the stylesheet select elements in the model, not the other way around?

//book[filter by some property or id]

Presumably, if there's a class for a <book>, then there's something that makes that <book> different from other elements, which warranted a different style class. In that case, instead of assigning a 'class', just assign an ID or use some other attributes (or child elements) to figure out the uniqueness.

If by 'class selectors' you're referring to the collection of styling attributes and the way those would be filtered and overridden, then you could define something like:

<axr:style id='style1'>
<color>#ff0</color>
<background color="purple"/>
</axr:style>

<axr:style>
<axr:include ref='style1'/>
<color>#000</color> <!-- override the color -->
</axr:style>

Filtering/overriding qualities are similar to XSL's xsl:import / xsl:include. The @ref could be @href instead, and could refer to elements in other documents (a-la XPointer/XInclude):

<axr:include href="../foo.axr#style1"/>

Clearly, this requires more thought than I've given it while writing the comment, but I hope this is what you were asking about.
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You're creating a new notion that doesn't currently exist: that there is "a price" in a stable equilibrium condition, when in fact, there is a spread. (I think if you draw out an order book of bids and asks, and then try to overlay your notion of a "single price" on it, you will find that your system is not an improvement, at least not for people who value certainty.)

Part of the problem that others are having understanding you (assuming your system is, in fact, better) is that you don't seem to be giving a full explanation that relates to the actual order book initial conditions and new incoming order flow. I'm not an expert by any means, but I can't understand, concretely, EXACTLY how your proposal is intended to work. It feels hand-wavy to me, which usually means that an idea isn't fully-formed. (I mean no disrespect here; just stating my perception.)

I WANT the price to move instantaneously, even though my only interface is via Etrade's retail and mobile site, and I probably execute 400 trades a year. I strongly prefer instant over a few pennies here and there, even though I'm at a (at least theoretical) disadvantage in terms of market access as compared to the HFTs.
I keep trying Unity every once in a while, but I always find it difficult to bring up exactly the right window I want. So I go back to Gnome, which has the task bar where I can simply click something to maximize it, and click it again to minimize it.

I'm gonna try Unity again, because I want to like it, but I always find myself getting angry at the "application-centric" grouping of my open windows, and how when it zooms out and I click the window I want, all sorts of other things I'm using become obscured.
9 Things Businesses Need to Know About Web Security
25% of Users Abandon Pages that take Longer than 4 seconds to Load [Infographic]
Should have put the code in the post title. Sorry about that! Use the invite code 'showhn' (no quotes) to skip the line :)
I definitely misunderstood what you proposed.

Your idea is definitely interesting. It certainly slows down price discovery, though probably not enough to matter.

I'd need to think more carefully about whether it's a good idea or not, but it's definitely the best suggested tweak to market mechanics I've heard in this thread (or the last one).
Congratulations! Are you sure people can use promo codes before it's ready for sale? You might want to include a link too.
ULA addresses in IPv6 allow unique local addresses that can be used by a large enterprise to build their own network, so that they have specific IPv6 endpoints always available, and then when their ISP hands them a different /64 or /56 they can continue to function as normal without renumbering.
Heads-up, 3D modelers: Google's SketchUp sold to Trimble
I would argue that with developers, the cost of a false negative is higher. It is just that most companies don't understand the loss walking out the door. Interviews are fraught with 1001 ways to get a negative from a top 10 developer. The cost of hiring a bad one and figuring out they are bad is about 2 weeks pay, the cost of passing over a quality developer is the loss of a rare find and probably that developers social circle. Do not underestimate the cost of false negatives in relation to developers.
Good on you, dude - thought you were looking rather more trim the last time I spied you in town. Did the same, and dropped from 18.5 stone to 13 over 9 months. Eat food, not too much, mostly leaves. Run. Done. Oh, and withings scales. Can't be without them.

That said, I still need to lose the final, irksome bit of gut. pulls finger out, decides to get some new running shoes
On the other hand, pg is clearly "talking his book" with his response.

I'm not saying he's wrong, but as a matter of principle, people should take his position with at least a grain of salt.

Same with VCs who are opposed to incubators like YC (in favor of VCs).
No, my proposal is much simpler.
It's very interesting an well designed, but I'm not sure how many business would be willing to drop the prices of their products everyday!
How many of these people have donated money to women in computing groups on college campuses? How many have mentored high school girls? How many have taught elementary school girls how to program? Did they send recruiters to and women in computing conferences?
You could probably take a second look at Trimble. They've been pivoting recently to do more software.
It looks to me that in either case, 1200 "shares worth of liquidity" are being offered to the market. If 2000 shares of "buy" comes in, it will soak up their whole "sell".

It also looks like "Speed" and "Bigness" are orthogonal issues; you're just irritated that "Speed" got to the book first. But "Speed" is getting compensated for soaking up more risk; because "Speed"'s order fills first, "Big" has more time to react to negative market changes.

Note that in any case, traders are penalized in a variety of other ways for laying large block orders onto the book.
Power (Dis)Play? Teams In Black Draw More Penalties
5 years to get a computer winner of a Pulitzer prize is ridiculously optimistic.
Is Twitter ruining journalism or are journalists ruining Twitter?
Only if you use the phone. Calling directly from Gmail or Google Voice is free (for domestic calls in the US and Canada).
I use Boomerang for Gmail all the time, excited to see how the app can make my calendar scheduling simpler as well.
Small businesses face outsourcing dilemma
Great product by a smart team. Watch out for those guys!
Quick Tutorial: Asynchronous tasks with Django and Celery
“Something” is Wrong with Google
WOW! Just downloaded, watched the video and tried it out. Simply brilliant. Only one extra feature request/tweak - instead of defaulting for a meeting location when using the "suggest times to meet button" could it also have an option for my conference call number as a lot of my meetings are by phone.
Benchmarking the new Kepler (GTX 680)
For larger enterprise, this may mean building their own private internet.

How does IPv6 change this? Either way, you have to use IP addresses assigned to you (public IPv6 addresses, or private IPv4 addresses) if you want to interface it to the public internet. Your physical firewall and router setup isn't going to change much, if at all.

If your private network will never be connected to the internet, you can use any old addressees and routing schemes you want. Nobody will care what you do because there is no risk of collision with anyone else.
Sittercity.com made mom a millionaire
Google's is worse because it takes all rights to use your work however it likes, and then states in its privacy policy that it won't use it for anything other than to provide the service. But if it likes, it can amend the privacy policy in the future to remove or modify that limitation. So you have to trust Google, which may be fine now, but what about in 20 years? They have rights to your work forever.

Other providers clearly state that they are only taking rights to your work for the purpose of providing the service, right in the ToS. IANAL, but this seems important.
This looks pretty awesome - if only because of the slick design and UI elements. :)
If one major browser started supporting AXR, others would follow.

If Webkit started supporting AXR, it would become the new standard.

Who has the most to gain by supporting a genuinely good web standard? Could be Microsoft actually.

Microsoft -> Mozilla -> Webkit -> Everywhere

Have you tried reaching out to the IE team, or had interactions with other browser companies?
Is CISPA SOPA 2.0? We Explain the Cybersecurity Bill
I think you're missing the point. Have you met geeks before? (And I say that tongue-in-cheek!) They thrive on stuff like this. I love it! I think there are some who would say that, if you don't particularly like this type of article, that you may not really enjoy HN overall.
Firefox Failing localStorage Due to Cookie Policy
This seems like it is probably the case. Due to the incentives that drive hiring decisions, individuals and companies may all be making (short-term) rational decisions, with the net result that women are excluded.

The consequences of hiring someone that doesn't fit into a particular company's culture are quite severe -- not to mention potentially expensive. There can be a lot of reluctance, some of it understandable, to hiring anyone who is different in any significant way from current employees. That most obviously includes women, but (at companies where most employees are young and single) also older workers, people with children, etc.

The lack of women is the most glaring, but I suspect if you ran the numbers that there are a lot of other groups underrepresented in software development. It's not so much that women are being specifically excluded, as it is that a certain type of person (male geek, to be blunt) is being specifically sought.
A rebuttal was expected from M.G.Seigler
> Well then they shouldn't have a problem amending the TOS, right? If they know what's okay and what's going too far, they must have some idea where the line is.

Being extremely specific in TOSes tends to lead to lots and lots of revisions as you discover unexpected cases. As a user, I'd prefer a TOS that's a little more broad instead of having to monitor it every five minutes for tweaks.

> Dropbox's TOS seems pretty clear on the matter.

Dropbox's TOS for years was similar to Drive's. I'd expect Google to eventually make the same clarifications in the TOS Dropbox did in 2011.

That said, while we're being paranoid about TOSes, Dropbox's says they can change the terms at any point, and not notify you beyond updating them on their site. They could change the terms to "we will publicly share everything you've ever put on Dropbox with your worst enemies" tomorrow, and the next time you sync you're theoretically subject to the new terms.
K-Nearest Neighbour Classifier
This post shows how to perform a KNN classification in Python.
Looks interesting. I recently read about how to be happier on Less Wrong, it has quite few more tips:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/bq0/be_happier/
Excellent article. I particularly liked this observation regarding verbiage in the Dropbox TOS: "That language is definitely friendlier than Google's, but it's actually more expansive, since it's more vague."

As laypersons, we may feel more comfortable when companies avoid legalese and use straight talk, but that doesn't mean we are any more safer or protected.
Oracle releases Java 7 JDK for Mac OS X
Path... Uninstalled.

If this is how there "executives" think, I'm sure they could care less about the ethical use and protection of user data.
Fire.app - Sass and Compass, CoffeeScript, Auto Refresh, Static Builds and more
This is very exciting. First, Gutenberg gets some basic typography. Second, it's one hell of a showcase for LaTeX. Third, I nearly cried when I saw GH Hardy's book in its new LaTeX form. The diagrams alone.

Oh, and there's LaTeX source for each one! Glorious!