skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a lot of people at major investment firms and not one of them trades HFT. I'd assume HFT is an extremely small percentage of the overall market in terms of average position size.
What about being able to at least preview the service without needing an account? We can do that already on the app version, before we decide to sign up with Pulse.

Signing up is an extra step, and a little too much, for a product that I want to field test before I decide I want to use it.
What are the alternatives? (Don't say PayPal -- they seem to have a habit of locking out these types of accounts too.)
Thoughts on Programming: Racket vs. Clojure
Looks great - like how you've laid it all out. I'm interested in a replacement for ZenDesk but just FYI: for us, if a system doesn't have an iPhone/iPad app, it just won't cut it. Not slagging on you - just telling you some of the feedback you'll likely hear from others.
omg, WinPopUp! That brings me back.
In high school, I became yearbook editor and was entrusted with keys to certain parts of the school (darkroom, computer lab, etc). In the late 90's, yearbooks were all done manually: film was loaded into cameras with heavy lenses, pictures were burned into photo paper and stop bath. Some of the work in putting it together was done on a computer, enough to justify being on the computer after hours. We'd print out pages with blank rectangles and squares for the photos, glue the manually-developed pictures onto the pages that had printed text, bind together the book, and send it off to the printer at the end of the year. Being yearbook editor was great, always an excuse to be working on something creative.

I also had a key to the computer lab. Problem was, the part of the building where the computer lab was located was not accessible after hours -- there was a gate which was locked during off school hours. (Meaning it was designed such that I could get into the room with the computers during regular school hours, out during off-hours, but not back in after hours). This lab had about 20 computers, and live Internet access. More than enough reason to find a way.

While none of my "breaking into" that part of the school during off-hours was done with malicious intent to steal or deface school property, it probably wasn't exactly the most lawful thing a 17 year old could have been doing. My good student status probably helped for those rare occasions when one of the janitors or teachers would "catch" me in that part of the building at times when I shouldn't necessarily have been there. "Research for college", was a good excuse at the time (and actually pretty close to the truth).
SCO was a one trick pony. IV has taken its place.
Then you admit that the content is okay, but that the wording of the last bit is unfortunate. Looks like an understandable mistake of editing and point of view, not a deliberate attack.
Better grids for a responsive world
And nice bite sized, pre chunked world nuggets known as asteroids.
As someone who's been using LibreOffice regularly since it was made the default office suite in Ubuntu, I can attest personally to its ongoing improvement in usability, performance, and looks. As of today, LibreOffice feels smoother, faster, and prettier to me than OpenOffice ever did.

I can't wait to see what the talented LibreOffice developers decide to do once they have finished cleaning up legacy code and can focus almost exclusively on those things that impact user experience the most.

LibreOffice's usability, performance, and looks are likely to improve dramatically over the next couple of years.
Are you still feeling burnt out? Is this a project you want to continue on? Selling the business is not a bad thing if it's not where you want to continue putting your time.

Are cancellations outnumbering new registrations because cancellations are increasing (relative to total customers), or because signups are decreasing? If the former, asking customers why they cancel is certainly something you should do. I'd also take a look at your analytics, and look for usage patterns you can draw insights from. Install mixpanel, and set a 'canceled' super-property on any user that cancels. Then you can retroactively segment their usage vs ongoingly active users.

If you want to let the service go on auto-pilot, you need customer acquisition methods that enable it. AdWords, paying someone to write / promote blog posts, a referral program, etc.
HFT is massive volume over the same capital structure (e.g. same 1% of money being risked at any one time - just many times a day).
I think you're missing the point completely. Patrick's comment wasn't about a
specific for loop and how hard it is to understand.
Knowing what types of problems people have and how to write code to solve them is much harder
than learning the JVM spec and much more valuable.

How long did it take you
to become an expert in mathematical optimization, for example? I doubt very much that that's
something you picked up in a few weeks.
Forget Titanic: Women and children rarely first off sinking ships
tl;dr:

Neg: Exhaustive review of individuals showing that nothing of value (except riding on existing trends) can be shown from any applicant, except potentially in the case of the Solar Energy startup, in which money was used to hire PhDs with actual domain knowledge.

Pos: Saying that everything great is under NDA and that the solar energy stuff is cool, that the youngin' in question has impressed PhDs enough that they want to work for him. No real info, expecting you to trust that good stuff is in the works.
Changing standards is meaningless unless you dismantle the current structure of public education. Ever since its founding the Department of Education has not noticeably improved the outcomes of students nationwide. Nor has the many fold increased spending. Yes change will require rethinking having a teachers union

Where we have gone wrong is that school systems are saddled with far too many non-teaching positions and new school buildings tend way too many times to be symbols of the politicians who had them built.
The implication being that they're abusing their market position as a payment service to prevent potential competition against their other business (book sales). Not being able to get to unglue.it here at work I don't know the specifics. However, since Amazon isn't (as far as I know) in anyway a monopoly or majority concern in the payment processing business then this could be abusive, but is likely not illegal.
"Also, I think ocean-borne freight is even more favorable than rail, but I would assume that we would also have the option of creating nuclear-powered ocean-borne freight transportation given that we do this today for military vessels."

I sincerely doubt that the US government would permit nuclear-powered civilian vessels to be constructed at all, much less allow them to travel freely in international waters.
"dont let the door hit you on the way out" - old slashdot unix nerd me.
We've tried to minimize friction to make the signup process simple

Step 1. Sign Up

Step 2. Forward your support email address to an address we provide

Step 3. Invite your team

At this point, you are up and going. You can then customize signatures, tweak your notification preferences, setup your tags, etc..
Back in 1996 I used to maintain a custom device driver for SCO OpenDesktop (which we actually used as a server). The actual userland software was mostly written in Perl 4.036.

I still remember space.c and the "hidden" compiler we used to bootstrap gcc, plus relinking when the IP address had to change. I kept the original documentation around (lots of interesting books) and have a "/u" zfs mountpoint just for memories' sake. We also used an IPX client to access Netware but I can't remember the name[0].

We wrote a stupid daemon that would die each time you pressed DEL on the console, possibly because we had no clues about proper daemons back then. All in all, it was kind of fun :)

EDIT:

[0] Netcon!
Couple things:

1. Monetization does not equal profit. Plenty of businesses monetize at a net loss, they just aren't around long term.

2. How investments work does not need to be spelled out, but maybe sarcasm does ;)

3. How do you see VCs (that weren't liquidated out from subsequent rounds) "pulling out" money? Are they going to ask employees to return paychecks, reverse bill AWS or wherever their infrastructure costs are incurred? There maybe money in the bank for operating costs and runway but from the VC's perspective that money is effectively gone.
I'm sure I'm not the target.
The window is - empty? [1]

Ghostery informed me that it had to block Facebook Connect, but this surely isn't the intended landing page, even if I _do_ hate Facebook crap? I mean - I could at least use the links above and see the about page, but for a landing page this is kind of baad.

1: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1194203/Pulse.png
Size of ancient and modern bureaucracies
It always amounts to: "SCO will be dead in N months where N is a number greater than zero."
Talk to all your customers.

Ask your customers who are leaving. Don't guess their reasons for leaving. Actually ask all of them directly.

Ask the new customers who are signing up, why they are signing up?

Ask the customers who are not leaving, what they use it for, what they like about the service and what they don't. Corroborate with your own metrics.

It's a temporary phase. You'll get over this.
As I understand this, this wouldn't automatically protect you from race conditions. If you have a shared variable x then a statement like

x += 5

may be fine depending on whether it is implemented as a single bytecode instruction or not. However, more complicated updates are still subject to races:

x = somefunction(x)

It is only safe if you use:

with thread.atomic: x = somefunction(x)

Having a serialisation doesn't mean it's the right serialisation.

That said, the fundamental problem is shared mutable state, and I don't see an easy way around that in Python. In that sense, this is probably easiest to work with.
I converted a car I found in a junkyard to work off propane when I was a student in the 90's with nothing but hand tools.
He's also got a most other things wrong. For instance, he claims that Android doesn't have good support for hardware controls.
No, it's not people complaining about something new and scary. It's the fact that the Metro user experience is fundamentally flawed given what we've seen in the preview releases. The design is bad. It's not a matter of adding new features, but scrapping the entire paradigm. Using it on a daily basis (with a mouse and keyboard), you can't help wondering to yourself, what were they smoking?

As a designer, metro feels like it was designed by bullet points. That there was this company-wide edict to make things Metro and here are the rules, with total disregard to common sense and good intuitive design. MS is not alone in this. Latest Apple software seem to throw out good design sense in favour of sticking to a company-wide mandate to make things skeuomorphic, even if the resulting user experience is a clusterfuck of complexity.
You are never going to "get the fight over" on those subjects.
(Sometimes I despair)

If you crop 2MP out of a 4MP image, you might as well have started out with a 2MP camera in the first place. Except that if your 4MP CCD is the same size as your 2MP CCD, the light gathering area per pixel is significantly less -- you capture fewer photons, hence less information about what you're pointing the camera at! Raw pixel count is not a good measure of the imaging accuracy of a digital camera. In the case of Curiosity, they may only be 2MP CCDs, but they're the best 2MP CCDs that money can buy, and they're being fed by the best optics NASA could source. It's a far cry from your phone camera ...
I was told that crowdfunding presents regulatory and contractual challenges that Amazon Payments is trying to deal with. They don't want new crowdfunding clients at this time.
I think you already have your answer.

> Coincidentally, I have been working less (hacking away at the inessential) by being way more selective in implementing features, experimenting way too much with pricing, and toning down my marketing (which basically consists on participating on forums and publishing blog articles)

Working 100 hours a week isn't sustainable, but neither is working an hour a day when your baby is still trying to find its footing. Experimenting a lot with pricing has its benefits as an educational tool but it's also an expensive one which may result in what's happening to your subscription numbers. Then again you won't really know if that was the real answer unless you survey your customers.
Look, it's your app, you can do what you want with it, but you're losing potential users with this requirement -- end of story.
I wonder if the Oculus Rift will be compatible with it. I'm really excited to see where indie developers go with these two devices.
Doctor Who gets one-off special to mark Time Lord's 50th year on telly
here's why: http://blog.unglue.it/2012/05/03/unglue-it-payment-options-a...
EA, his former employer, is suing Zynga for copying their games and specifically named him in the suit. Surprised the article doesn't mention this.
Build a Canabalt-Style Infinite Runner From Scratch
I don't think so.

It's pretty typical for crass, frank, rudeness applied to on subject to be completely acceptable while speaking freely on another could easily end a friendship.
A front end technology like Angular doesn't have anything to do with backend technologies like Rails or Django. Angular is similar to other front-end framworks like: Backbone, Spine, Ember, JavascriptMVC, etc...
Collision Detection Using the Separating Axis Theorem
cstross has had a bit of a career change since then. I suspect he'll be okay.
Create Custom Binary File Formats for Your Game’s Data
(I work for Gluejar on unglue.it) We've struggled with the issue of finding the right payment processor. We went originally with PayPal, but 7 months after we submitted our application, we still don't have a decision (see http://blog.unglue.it/2012/05/03/unglue-it-payment-options-a...). Amazon FPS was easy to get started with, and we got what seemed to be approval very quickly. So it was a bit surprising to then get shut down by Amazon after running for a while and demonstrating unglue.it works in practice.

We'd love to hear of alternative payment systems. I'm looking at using subscriptions in https://www.braintreepayments.com/docs/python/subscriptions/ to simulate conditional payments. http://www.quora.com/Online-and-Mobile-Payments/What-payment... leads to https://www.wepay.com/ and https://www.balancedpayments.com/ I'd love to hear of people's experiences with these payment systems and any others we should look at for unglue.it
A service like this really needs rock-solid UX and this just isn't there yet. But this has enormous potential, and I'll definitely keep an eye on it.
I remember using Qik[1] on my Nokia N97 a few years ago and thinking the idea was awesome. Without wifi or bundled data packages it was kind of expensive, obviously not an issue anymore.

http://qik.com/
Well, the NS Savannah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah) was a nuclear powered civilian vessel, the first and perhaps last of its kind.

There are also a number of nuclear-powered icebreakers but most of these are non-military Russian vessels that are used for civilian tours of the arctic.
Note please that despite asking a question that, as other commenters here have pointed out, brazenly goes against the guidelines for "the kind of question that Stack Overflow is good for," you still got an answer that gave you what you wanted.

I am definitely surprised that you're still whining after that. If you want the reputation points instead of the answer to your question, you are the problem!
Yeah, franzus is certainly taking it a bit too personal. SO is interested in the preservation of knowledge for future visitors. I don't know why this isn't in your best interest, but it is certainly what SO focuses on and gets, to a good degree.

SO is mostly information-based. They are not so interested in friendly civilities, greeting each other, asking "how do you do", and so on. Neither is SO a substitute for regular conversation, where topics meander, talk goes in all directions, and new ideas spark, among so many other qualities/possibilities. It is question, answer, and building up respect. So I don't see the problem with removing the personal component. If you really wanted to, you can just contact another SO-er for thanking them.

Now that you've stopped using SO, what do you use instead, franzus? SO is a really impressive site, pedantic mods be damned. Same with Wikipedia. You'll be hard-pressed to find alternatives that try to maintain the same level of quality across as wide a berth of topics (anything, really) as SO.
The Market's Facebook Freakout
Yeah, I arrived at the tail end of that culture, just before the first big axe-swinging in late 1991/early 1992, and the subsequent IPO.

Some memoirs: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/06/how_i_go...
Every few years these photos cross my path and every time I'm just as captivated as when I saw them as a kid. The further we get from that era, the more remarkable the accomplishment feels.
Food Trucks Battle Restaurants Over Street Space
For all the trashing e-mail gets on HN, it is a successful, and ubiquitous, decentralized peer to peer communications medium. It seems like that kind of thing stands little chance of taking off today where single-entity walled gardens are the norm.
Tech Entrepreneurs Get a Hand Pairing Up
WSJ talks to startup founders finding each other through FounderDating and it's gaining popularity.
Contrary anecdote: I've several times had the experience of Googling for a question and finding my own Stack Overflow question as a result, and using the answer to solve my problem (again).
Providing payment services to structural crowdfunding efforts is a legal grey area when it comes to financial regulations.

Amazon is not the first to suspend taking on such accounts until they have better grip on the regulatory implications.
Bitcoin Update - Fred Wilson
Hutchison offers free 3G service in Austria (Google-translated German source)
SublimeText2 plugin helps for documenting in yardoc format
Judges Posner and Alsup Charge Forward On Software Patents
Banks' market making desks (I worked at one) are getting beaten up by the nimbler newbies. No points for guessing which one can make more noise.
That's great. You should put that step 2 text somewhere either on the homepage or on the sign up page.

You might also want to put a sign up button on the homepage. Right now, there's no direct link to sign up on that page and it's not obvious that it must be on the pricing page.
I recorded a user test for SupportFu on BetaPunch: http://www.betapunch.com/startups/view/267.

I set up the email forwarding and tested by sending an email to that account so it would appear as a ticket. But I never got the email into my supportfu account... Also i agree that there is no clear call to action on where / how to sign up.

Good luck to you!
Right...

Just like the last time you encountered body odor or anything else annoying in public and immediately, openly confronted the person about it, exactly as you would have if they had approached and questioned you with a "doing an experiment disclaimer".
Robot, An Amazing Anamorphic Optical Illusion Mural by TSF Crew
A New Way To Solve Linear Equations
Hands-on: RelayRides makes peer-to-peer car rental cheap, easy
I wish the question was:

Any traction yet?

rather than:

Any revenue yet?
Given a desperate enough energy situation, it would be simple enough to operate a government or quasi-government fleet of such ships.
Good point well made. As to referrals, I didn't realize they needed defending - that is how the Internet, and business in general works, and either Amazon would be keeping that money or it would be in someone else's pocket. The product was absolutely relevant to the audience here, or it never would have made it to the front page and remained for 10+ hours

Since this is my link personally and we have a donate to charity program and fundraising drive going for Room to Read, I am happy to donate. I am more interested in the data than the money in this case and getting $50 in unexpected referrals isn't the key to our business model.

I'm primarily offering the donation to placate the community so the mods won't remove the referral link (in which case I couldn't get the data I need). HN could use our API and a few lines of Javascript to turn every Amazon link into a referral link if they wanted to, and donate to charity. I'll ask PG if he'd be interested
If you look at the bios of the kids, a bunch of them already had degrees and were in higher level university programs before they entered Thiel's program.
Can you not get a traditional merchant account provider to approve your business? If you accept credit cards yourself instead of through a 3rd party, just about every payment gateway supports storing customers' info to charge at a later time. You can also use something like SpreedlyCore to store the payment info and have the ability to switch to different payment gateways without losing the info.
Textmate2 Goes Open Source
> Something coming from China to the Western US and then onto New York by rail would likely use less fuel than something coming from the Western US to New York by fright truck.

Fine, but it still would use more fuel than something coming from, as an example, Philadelphia to new York!
If the fuel is going to be scarcer and scarcer, than we will be forced to switch back to a proximity-based economy.
Would you be surprised if in Stockholm more people can write decent JavaScript compared to the people who can write decent Erlang?
Super high information density for browsing followed by a clean and simple reading experience.

Well executed, congrats to the Pulse team.
ok... I can understand why you went with Amazon over PayPal in that situation. But are PayPal and Amazon really the only ones that will handle this sort of payment processing?
Facebook Turns to its Army of Users to Report Phishing Attacks
Shuffling a collection - an analysis
Very nice. I only have one question for you - what do you think is more reasonable - or are you reserving your judgement? Pos/Neg/Neutral?
The term "concentration camp" actually describes exactly what Guantanamo Bay is.

I'm linking to wikipedia because it nicely gathers all the dictionary entries alongside the genesis of term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camps#Concentrat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_inte...
When we were initially investigating the space Amazon and PayPal looked to be the only payment processors who supported pledges (as opposed to instantaneous transfers). PayPal actually had some advantages, but they were outweighed by the disadvantage that they have never actually processed our paperwork: http://blog.unglue.it/2012/05/03/unglue-it-payment-options-a...

If there are other processors that support pledges, we aren't aware of them (though we welcome suggestions!).

We're working on an alternative funding model that lets us deal with this, but that's a question of business logic as well as software. Mind you, we have a fair amount of both in place already, but there are a lot of moving pieces. We'll keep people posted via our blog, newsletter, Twitter, & Facebook page.
The lack of an on-board microphone could/should do that, too. :-) Pictures are a great, but a full-30fps video (with audio!) would greatly enhance our feeling of what it's like to be on the surface there.
"I'm willing to throw some money at serious research into what's so hard about making tiny $99 consoles"

Generally, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
Thanks - mobile support is definitely on our list but there are a "few" things that we need to get done first :)
What is "a bunch" ? 30% ? I still don't think it makes sense to refer to them as dropouts unless over 50% were enrolled in a college at the time of application and left a higher-degree program in order to do the program.