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The problem with this attitude is that you have to be sure you actually know what your doing. I used to have this sort of macho attitude where I was sure I could fix any technical problem ever.

I saw it as a personal insult if anybody I knew took any technical problems to anybody other than me.
The problem with this is that you will often end up out of your depth flailing around in the waters of diminishing returns.

I am now a little older and wiser. For example, recently I was asked by someone if I could take a look at their Exchange server problem after I was done fixing something else.
Of course the Exchange Server had not been configured by me but rather by a 3rd party consultant but they assumed I would be able to fix the issue quicker and cheaper.

Now I have a reasonable grasp of email (well I wrote a basic POP3 server in Java as a college project). But I have never used Exchange before or taken any courses on it. And I had no understanding of this particular Exchange setup. I could probably have fixed the issue after a bunch of RTFM, but would it have taken me 10 minutes? 10 hours? 10 days? I have literally no idea.

There is also the risk of bumbling into doing something that seemed right but would have screwed something up and had the guy who originally set it up badmouth me.

In the end, I just did some basic diagnostics on the users computers looking at mail headers etc in outlook when this was fruitless I offered to call their 3rd party consultant and describe the issue to them as I saw it but insisted I could not do anything further than that.
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Hmm, seems like Read It Later is becoming a Flipboard competitor rather than an Instapaper competitor. I'd assume that there's more business sense behind the Flipboard use case (Kindles are terrible ad-serving devices).
I'll believe that Amazon's network engineers (and whoever else is involved in making their page fast) add value when it takes 200ms to ship products to my home.
The point regarding IMEIs was that if carriers get antagonistic enough, it would be possible to change the blacklist that (some) carriers use for stolen phones into a whitelist that disallows any third party phones.
That is also a plausible reading of the paper. It doesn't look like they go into any great detail as to the protocol for administration in the longer term study.

I'm skeptical of significant antioxidant effects in vivo from a naturally occurring compound given that antioxidants in general haven't done much for longevity without being heavily designed substances (like SkQ1, for example). Simply flooding the body with antioxidants is usually slightly worse for longevity or a null effect - they don't get to the mitochondria where they might do some good.

More information from the authors would be good. All things considered, I'm sure we'll be hearing more on this in the years ahead; people will try to replicate it, the researchers will be grilled on their work, etc.
Minor nitpick here, but it's an odd mix of serif and sans-serif fonts attacking my eyes on the home page.
You're probably thinking about George Carlin, see, e.g.,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNLOXJw0aUU
Loved that game when I was a kid.

love the sound code. Having to write your own "tone" routines to tweak a sound out of the speaker...
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Show HN: I'll name your startup for $249 (relaunch)
Last week I launched a naming company (Nomvilla.com - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3822305) and got a lukewarm response. The biggest issue (I think) was the price, which at $899 turned a lot of people off. So, I've lowered it to $249, which is hopefully more reasonable for the average founder.

Each project comes with a detailed report, in which we research and analyze each of the names thoroughly. Considering how important a name is (and how difficult it is to create a good one), there's a lot of value here, especially when compared to other naming firms that charge $10,000+.

I'd really appreciate any questions or feedback. Thanks!
Didn't know the app existed! Now that I know it did, I want it to be available. Not settling for kamasutra+.
My suspicion, not first-hand in this case, is not that Webkit is buggy but that it’s a web browser. Browsers are not designed for embedding into applications. They are designed for wrangling a wild west of code, downloaded from untrustable origin, involving at least 3 languages (HTML, CSS, JS), and parsed at runtime.

It just a different use case than what PhoneGap is trying to do.

I don’t think it’s the wrong thing, I am quite attracted to it honestly. But we might be better off thinking of browsers as “web content displayers” than “runtime-programmable application plugin”.
They could (well, there is an Pirate party, and it may even get above the magic 0.01% threshold...), but the major political players don't change much, and definitely not as rapidly as in Germany.
You might be interested in reading the short story "Learning To Be Me" by Greg Egan, which touches on this type of issue. A quick Google turned up this PDF: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...
They definitely do some amount of PR - in addition to Must going on Jon Stewart he also did a great interview with 60 Minutes earlier this month.

Although they don't directly need consumer support, getting your name out there helps with recruiting the best engineers. I know several people who were tops in their field and heard about SpaceX, dropped what they were doing and applied.

It also helps them with public support. It's very possible that the majors will come in and try to use lobbying to crush SpaceX. Having the public on your side will help SpaceX beat that back later.
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Thank you for the detailed feedback. Will address each one of them.
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Didn't get in, I will try again this year though! I hope you had better news!
I lol'ed at the iCloud reference :-) sorry, I didn't read the humour, should not have been so abrupt!
I've always used CI. I know a lot of people tend to look down on it, but it's easy to use and suited my needs. Can't you install both Yii and CI and decide which one you like best?
Other people's attempts to answer your question seem to have not done what you're looking for, so I'm going to try to be more specific.

First and foremost, Clojure is a Lisp. Many other people more qualified to describe the benefits of Lisps have done so, so if you're looking to be convinced about why that aspect of the language is valuable, go and read what they've written. Looking at Clojure and ignoring the Lisp-related arguments is a bit silly.

It's dynamically typed, which sets it apart from the ML family of languages (SML, OCaml, Haskell, F#, etc). It has immutable data structures, which sets it apart from some of the elements of ML-like languages. It's eager, which sets it apart from Haskell (although Tyr42 rightly points out that many of its sequence operations are lazy). It has good support for multi-processor concurrency, unlike OCaml, because it has STM, and so doesn't have the problem of a global lock.

It's functional, and its primary programming style is functional, and it has immutable data structures, which sets it apart from Ruby, Python, Go, and to some extent JS. It's higher-level than Go/C++/C. It doesn't rely on callbacks for absolutely everything, like JS does. It's not object-oriented, which sets it apart from Ruby/Python/JS. It's a new language, which means it doesn't have the many accumulated years of cruft that Ruby/Python have, and it's well-designed, which means it doesn't have the many, many problems JS has as a language. It has multi-processor concurrency support that Ruby/Python/JS don't have.

Compared to other Lisps, it's a very practical language. It has native syntax support for vectors and hash tables. It's built on the JVM, which gives access to a lot of existing tools and libraries.
Sure! Personally I think single founders get a tough time of it, no reason why they can't do better than some teams. They accept from the start that all of the work falls to them.

I was part of a UK incubator scheme as a solo founder and was able to fly through decisions that the groups often found tough!
He was a bit late to join, then. :) In other words: my order predates his, by quite the margin.
The Free Software Foundation have been talking about this for years. It's Freedom 0. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
For database testing you'd mock[1] the connection in some way. I've done it before by swapping in an SQLite database with some sample data.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_object
Yep, and in Mountain Lion, it's coming to the desktop too.. I wouldn't be surprised if Safari can only load approved sites by default in 10.9 at this rate.
Can anyone provide a resource for how these types of valuations are actually thought of? I assume it's a per user calculation but how is a per-user value found?
From an evolutionary point of view, there are diminishing returns to helping your descendants, even if your knowledge remains relevant.

That is true in a sense, but it assumes that the only thing that matters are the physical characteristics and basic instincts propagated by DNA. Arguably the thing that makes us the dominant species on the planet today is our ability to propagate our way of thinking, our collective knowledge and wisdom, our goals and aspirations.

These influences also get diluted over time in each individual descendant, of course, but on the other hand to some extent these are more about the culture and the collective group rather than any individual. The number of individuals influenced by a particular ancestor tends to increase with each generation. As a species we actively select our mates based partly on compatibility in these respects. And as the article itself notes, there is a role for older generations in nurturing members of younger generations other than just their own direct offspring, which would tend to include influencing the offspring's mates and further generations.

So I'm not sure it's entirely fair to say that there are diminishing returns with each generation. It is more that the influence becomes more spread out and tends to affect culture rather than any one individual, and those whose ideas are recognised as benefitting the wider group more effectively will tend to retain more influence for longer.
A few notes:

(a) Orders for stocks priced below $1.00 are permitted to display in sub-penny increments. Not that this is really relevant to HFT, but it is often a point of confusion.

(b) Orders may rest on the book and display at a price but execute at a separate price. For example, if a market is 20.01 / 20.02 and I believe true value is 20.017 I can bid 20.01 but tell the matching engine that I'm willing to accept 20.015. That you are willing to trade at the midpoint also places you at a higher priority in the queue, above those only willing to buy at 20.01.
Btw, ikamasutra.com can use a facelift. :/ It's kinda geocities looking right now. You should make it more web 2.0.
Will the following installations address the role of high frequency trading in flash crashes? Although high frequency trading seems like a very good strategy when arrayed against human opponents I have to wonder what happens when all the inputs and outputs are controlled by HFT algorithms trading against each other. How do you debug a HFT algorithm?
the author uses visits as a metric..... Compares Pinterest uniques to Linkedin's uniques....
My previous^2 job was similar. At first everything stayed the same, then slowly the culture started to shift. Outlook was mandated, some perks went away, the best people started leaving. I left around a year later; the work was still mostly the same, but the culture was a lot more "big company", and there were cumbersome procedures around more things (e.g. timesheets).

Hopefully google will be a shift for the better rather than worse, but I'd keep an eye on your options.
No I'm specifically talking about Windows. I do not use Steam on my MacBook.
Ah. Obviously more than one of Steve's folly!

Try this one: http://www.cultofmac.com/125623/the-best-revelations-quotes-...

"Steve Jobs’ obsession with aesthetic details could be taken to ludicrous extents. For example, when they built a state-of-the-arty factory in Fremonth to manufacture the Macintosh, Jobs wanted all the machines repainted in bright colors. Apple’s manufacturing director, Matt Carter, fought him on it, because this was precision equipment, and repainting them could make them not work right. Steve persevered, and one of the most expensive machines broke, being known as Steve’s folly."
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Very cool that you can save videos, and the Android app looks great, too.

If the bookmarklet works as well as the Instapaper one in Google Reader, and if it works well on WebOS, consider myself a convert.
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I completely agree. I am still young, and I am now interning for the first time in my life. I am probably the only employee who works more than 8 hours, sometimes 10. I am always the second to last to leave, and that only because I don't have door-locking privileges.
I do this because I love my work, what can I say, I am being paid to learn. Who would want to leave that?
(Of course once you have kids that's an entirely different story.)
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thought I had an account, turns out I dont. too many connections when I register. woe :(
I thought this was going to be another one of those 'Internet Manifestos.'

I was very pleasantly surprised. This is something I am definitely behind, even though for me it isn't just a job. I love programming, but for years my programming at home has languished because my programming at work is a soul-sucking endeavor that leads me to have a sinking feeling every time I look at the Komodo icon on my home PC.

I think the core problem here is not about an us versus them when it comes to the guys who go home to their wife and kids and the guys that go home to their git and vim. It's more about the fact that both groups probably spend too much time away from their homes, and right now the programming scene is incredibly fractured. Programmers are certainly not a homogenous group. Off the top of my head, I can think of about a dozen different flavors of programmer, all with their own innate perceptions about things both programming related and not.

What we really need is a coming together of the programmers-by-trade and the programmers-at-heart to declare war on all of the silly little stereotypes that have created a workplace unfairness in IT in the last fifteen to twenty years. You need a communion of individuals to create a semi-fraternal organization that looks like a union on the outside but inside is a diverse collective of brilliant minds.

It wont be easy, but many smart people (and a very few ridiculously articulate people) have been passively advocating for it in the last ten years or so, and I think that as the post-dotcom generation starts to move into their 30s we'll see a drastic change in the employee relationship within the next five to ten years.
Unfortunately, it sounds like it might be time for the iKamasutra team to have a lawyer write a letter to Apple. It seems like they have a pretty clear cut case of unfair treatment towards their app. Sometimes, a letter from a lawyer is all it takes to get things moving in the right direction.
Why not a virtual trade show? Let equipment manufacturers sponsor a forum section and require that they participate on the forum to answer questions from users. It's not an in-your-face ad, but gives the mfr exposure and an opportunity to demonstrate their customer service skills (and maybe offer discounts to subscribers?), and you get money. Done right, it would be a fair exchange of value that benefits your users.
Sorry I should preface it with 'if you're building a game to squeeze all resources out of a system'. As obviously there is a (pretty small) overhead with running the interpreter..
Why not just buy an android phone?
What scare me the most about Clojure is collaborate with other devs. I.e. In 2 years, who will maintain the project.
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Not likely, since statistical tests were performed to ensure that the results seen were not due to random chance. The sample size they used is actually pretty large for studies like this.

However, the study is complicated since rats are sensitive to abdominal gavages and it tends to reduce their lifespan. Similarly, there are studies that show chronic administration of olive oil increases life span.

So you have a situation where one control (water only) leads to decreased lifespan and another control (vehicle - olive oil only) tends to increase lifespan. Neither of these are ideal controls since they are known to affect the rat.

That said, they did fancy stats and presumably accounted for this fact.
Id say we definitely disagree about the definition of "feature-rich" if you consider domain join to be a bigger feature than the inclusion of Office.

As for not including an x86 emulator, that would be a wasted nonfeature. Emulating x86 on ARM would be painfully slow, to the point that it's inclusion would likely be worse than its exclusion. Can you imagine how many people would complain about Windows RT if it promised x86 compatibility, yet was unable to run any modern games, or Photoshop, or anything, really, that demands a powerful processor?

I still disagree that Starter was aimed at the same market as tablets. Netbooks are just crappy laptops. Tablets are a different experience altogether. The key selling feature of the netbook was low price, with portability being next. Tablets aren't really in the low price competition. The iPad starts at the same price as a reasonable laptop, and goes up in price to match pretty good laptops.
That's really the magic of being a single founder. Its true, being a single founder is tough, I am one, I should know. No one to share the downs with you? It doesn't matter because I'm strong enough to handle that. No one to throw around ideas for brainstorm? Ain't that what your social network is for (aka potentially users).

No, I don't choose to be a single founder, I have my eyes out for a great co-founder, but I don't wanna get one for the sake of getting one. And it doesn't help that I'm a technical founder, this really mean I can do everything myself (at the start).

Oh well.
Yes. I mean less syntax (you call it "syntactic forms", sure). I can think in this language because it's only the semantics that I have to remember, because there is no syntax to also remember. Any syntax you come up with will be inferior to data. But I think it could be a worthy challenge to teach kids Lisp. For instance, you know, you can make named parameters in your functions to help kids really easily in Lisp. It's, what, at most a 15 minute task to add that to any function.
Ask HN: Why did my post disappear from the front page?
Last night I submitted a blog post* to HN. It got a dozen upvotes, sat on the front page for a couple minutes, and then promptly disappeared. It wasn't on the front page, or the second page, or the third or the fourth or the fifth. It was just GONE, from everywhere except "new."

Why did this happen? I've speculated that, because a few friends upvoted me, it got caught in the spam filter. (But seriously, it was only two.) Is that it? Or was there something else?

At first I was upset--it was something that I genuinely wanted the HN community to see--but now I'm mostly just curious.

*This question isn't a ploy to share the post, but for the curious here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3851373
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On the one hand, there's nothing new about the phenomenon you're talking about. Books, symphonies, paintings: Most of the famous ones are by people who are dead. We treasure these things, in part, because they are ways of connecting with such people across time.

The Tupac thing isn't so creepy either, once you get used to it. We in the audience know it's not really Tupac - after, all, if we thought it were a hologram of a living person it wouldn't have the same dramatic effect. We know it's a movie made by other people in honor of Tupac. It's only incrementally creepier than watching Tupac videos on YouTube or listening to his recordings, which are also the ghosts of someone who is dead.

In theory, one could be creeped out by the Mona Lisa because, geez, this four-hundred-years-dead woman is sitting there in front of you. But we got used to paintings years ago.

In the future, will people think it creepy to decorate their worlds with bots that can emulate long-dead people? It's hard to know in advance, but I think we might just get used to it. Van Gogh is dead, but reproductions of Van Gogh paintings are everywhere. Elvis is dead, but entire restaurants are full of Elvis memorabilia. We won't be consciously fooled - Elvis's biggest fans do know that Elvis is dead. And we might eventually get bored and tune out: Once you've heard the same tune a hundred times it just becomes part of the landscape, and similarly I think a Facebook bot that emulates a dead person will be just as pleasant as a Facebook bot that emulates a living person. ("Not very.") But maybe it will prove soothing to periodically have the words of dead people piped at you. People read Pepys's diaries. People read Mark Twain. People read the Bible.
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An expected and uneducated statement. It's simple really: any participant who rests an order on the book is adding liquidity. Period. Many HFT strategies are largely passive (market making, for example) and therefore entirely rely on resting orders (as Chris' article points out). Therefore, they add liquidity.

Now, if you want to get into a discussion as to the quality of that liquidity then you have to go educate yourself a bit more. Once you do you'll find that the liquidity being added is not toxic nor fleeting. However, what you and most others don't understand is that it is also significantly more informed passive liquidity than it used to be.

This may lead folks to believe that the liquidity is fleeting because they can cancel away before you can execute. However, that simply means they are better and faster than you, not that they are doing anything wrong.

Why, then, don't we simply require them to rest their orders for a longer period of time? Simple: you want tight spreads. As spreads shrink market making becomes less profitable. When market making is less profitable market makers have to be more risk averse to avoid getting adversely selected and losing money. More intelligent models (they become more informed) and less latency (they can leverage that informedness to avoid being selected) is how market makers stay profitable in a market where the average spread is 1 penny.