skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to force or trick yourself into changing habits, the problem with habits is that they become automatic responses to some stimuli; enter "habit change Wood" into Google Scholar for some interesting reading, especially a pdf of http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/15/4/198.short , which is the single best article I have found.
I've seen the graphs. But I have yet to see an explanation of how you actually make money that way.

The best I've heard are theories along the line of a DOS attack. I.e.:

1) Eve sends an order, receives an ack, and receives the quote. (The last two steps can be in any order.)

2) Alice receives the quote, and spends more time processing it than Eve spends on the order, ack and quote.

3) ???

4) Eve profits. (Perhaps because Alice and Eve are both HFT's, and this attack lowers Eve's latency relative to Alice?)
$2000 per month is very low. Even when I take the most basic freelance jobs (from elance/odesk etc.) I get paid at least $30 per hour (on more serious projects, the sort where the client came to me, I get paid at least double that). Where are you sourcing the programmers from? Programmers just starting out can get paid more than you are offering.
Good thing I didn't go with WhereMyPeeps.at for my domain name I guess...
It's mocking app.net
Darcs was pretty neat at the time, especially since it was the only open DVCS. And the theory behind it was interesting to read.

The only problem is that it had a feeling of non-robustness when using it, and because of that I was tempted to have multiple copies of my repos, just in case of corruption. And that kinda defeats the purpose of VCS.

Then, git came along. Although a bit strange in the beginning, especially on windows, it felt robust enough from the start. And it supported multiple workflows. I know that, whatever stupid thing I do in my repo, git will never loose any data, and I'll be able to google an answer how to recover from my mistakes.

That being said, I'm glad darcs is still alive and kicking. Guys behind it are really smart, and who knows what new good ideas can come from it.
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He means stupid as in simple, unaware of things it does not need to know. Stupidity and ignorance in software is high praise and it's very difficult to achieve.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hiding

That style is just linus' way. It comes across as a lot more aggressive on screen than in person. To get a better sense of him, I'd recommend watching this talk he gave evangelising git at google back in 2007. It's pretty entertaining, and very educational on the issues facing VCS designers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

To a certain extent, if you can knock git together in a couple of weeks you get a free pass to talk however you want, as long as you don't hurt anyone.
Perhaps "lowpaidinterns.com" might have been a better domain. No adequately skilled coder that I've worked with would work for McJob rates.

$4k might get you some young and hungry coders keen to get some work on the CV, but is the job market really that oversupplied?
I must not be hip either because I don't understand the point of App.net.
don't vote this scam up, please. This seems to be an ad thinly disguised as a "review my idea".
I'd guess any engineer desperate enough to go through a two day interview process is delusionally obsessed, incompetent, or has no experience worthy of reference. Some filter.
So? Good for him. In the big scheme of things, money is the consolation price. This however is a spoof, it hits bullseye, and it's actually intelligent. You cannot buy that with money.

How many posts have you seen on HN in the last days that mentioned "I put my money where my mouth is"? I came across 3 or 4, one poster even quoted their app.net welcome e-mail, haha...

Now this. Priceless. I couldn't stop laughing reading the page, and the fact that they actually refer you to a worthy cause when you try to sign up makes it all the better. 10 million out of 10 possible points for style, to quote Douglas Adams.
This is espionage, not treason. Both are capital offenses, though it's not clear that it's actually legal to execute someone for these crimes in the US due to Kennedy v. Louisiana. (That ruling specifically refuses to comment on crimes against the state, but I'm sure the next person that gets a death sentence for one of these crimes will be quick to ask the court for a review.)
Keep in mind that's what the company is being paid. The developer isn't making this. I would think you would have to make twice what the developer is being paid to cover overhead and make a profit.
"There are people [VERB] in [COUNTRY]" has never been a satisfactory argument to me, and this seems to just be the digital version of that.
Huh? Programming salaries in Australian hotspots are lower than those in US hotspots.

But the rent is higher, the petrol more expensive, the food more expensive, imported electronics more expensive and so on and so forth in spite of the soaring dollar.
You don't like high message rates because it makes your job harder. You guys are a great data provider (I used to be a customer) and you're doing a pretty good job (if not somewhat biased, perhaps unconsciously so) of informing folks about the happenings of the market. However, message rate limits are already managed by exchanges, what more would you ask?

Theories related to quote stuffing to cause ticker plants to stall and other gaming related items just don't jive, to be honest. It's always been the responsibility of the trader to ensure they can manage the data flow. If they can't they can get a vendor who can help them.

Data rates will naturally manage themselves and will always grow towards available bandwidth. It's the nature of our market, especially as we move towards tighter spreads. The markets are becoming more and more continuous and that necessitates the need to quote at high rates.

The charts you guys put together are interesting but let's be clear: no human looks at data at these levels, only machines. And machines don't care about visual patterns in data flow. So, as a means to help illustrate how markets are evolving I'm all for the visualization. However, as a means to denigrate the very real needs of important market participants to remain competitive, I think you're doing a disservice to the uninformed reader of your reports.
Of course, judge Koh was just refusing to recognize their design supremacy by not mentioning their inhouse brand, iCrack.
That's why good hotels offer room safes.

The safes in most hotel-rooms are not safe at all. Perhaps Daeken can take a look at those next...
Anyone who trots out the tired old cliche about walled gardens is just spouting rhetoric. Anyone who also advocates open source is can be ignored out of hand.

The issues here are open standards, open protocols and the small matter of who pays for the upkeep of the infrastructure necessary to provide the service. Tired, Maoist-style sloganeering is merely making a noise.
Or, in LiveScript:

map (.remove!),list-items
The picture of the woman is pretty awful, looks like a plastic surgery / barbie doll.
"There are people [VERB]"

better?
> Or just use Unity.

I'm curious how you deploy to the non-smartphone devices with Unity, as it only has iOS and Android target support built in.

Do you use the output of some other target's build with your own glue libs for each supported device? Or are there Unity plugins for this kind of thing? Or is it some other kind of wizardry?
hahahaha oh god all the crying.
How/where/when did you get them?
Just to let you know, while you're 100% right, I downvoted you for unnecessary snark.
I would never pay for something like that, I barely see a use for ad-supported social networks, but those that pay will feel a psychological pressure to make use of their investment, it will also create a feeling of privilege; whereas something like Google+ is seen as free, open and less valued, and therefore needs to vie for the attention.
Did anybody notice the background behind this? https://heello.com/live, from the founder of Twitpic, which actually has a very close goal as App.net.
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It's from Robert A. Heinlein scifi book "Stranger in a Strange Land".

In the novel native martians do exist and they are very smart. "Grok" it's the martian word for "water" and "to drink". Water is a scarce resource there, and, like here, very important for life.

Drinking is putting water inside you but also occurs that this water becomes part of you.

Then, in that society, drinking is used as the metaphor for understand something in a level that becomes part of you.

I'm a native spanish speaker and I don't know if that word sounds bad in english, but for me the metaphor is so powerful and beautiful that I like it very much.
According to Charity Navigator, it seems the Free The Slaves is very accountable, transparent, and financially effective, with a maximum 4 star rating: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...

I'm not sure why the LLC owns the site though.
Sounds really great! I appreciate you put an App out there so we can try it out ourself and not just read a paper or watch a video.
I tried it, but unfortunately my old HTC Wildfire is so slow that it becomes unusable. I was able to take a picture but I can't even place the cursor on the map. Of course I don't expect you to support such an old and crappy phone. I will try to get hold of a faster Android phone.

I also downloaded the SDK. Is it possible to use it on a Laptop, too? Maybe, by emulating Android? I have no clue but I would have a few ideas on how to use it with a Laptop.

As Gee has pointed out, there is also http://www.indooratlas.com/ which uses the magnetic field for indoor SLAM. Do you have any info on how your system compares to theirs?

Anyway, thanks for sharing this!
http://www.bitkeeper.com/Jobs.html
In reality, Ghandi is following the AT rules in a bad way - they are using the easy way out, instead of doing what's right.
I have not really seen this attitude, and I've worked a few shitty jobs post education. (I get a perverse satisfaction from shifting beer barrels)
>First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

It would appear that App.net is now at stage two.
That's wrong information:

On this page[1] nic.at states (under "Cancel a domain") that cancellations can be made by fax or letter.

Also on the "fax confirmation" PDF[2] it says in big letters: "Please send it by fax or scanned by e-mail to: ..."

[1] http://www.nic.at/en/service/

[2] http://www.nic.at/fileadmin/www.nic.at/documents/formulare/C...
It actually comes of as teen angsty and narrow minded. The type of nonsense ignorant people like to spew because they can't grasp that we can focus our collective effort on many things at the same time, that we can spend money on our own interests and still be a positive force in the world.
I am running git on a jailbroken 3G iPad 1 during commute. :)
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Our team has spent the last 9 years building social
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Jesus wept.

Edit 30s later: Oh it's a spoof. My faith in humanity restored.
Cool idea, dislike the stock photo though :P.

Even at South African rates, that's low considering risk and other factors towards the programmer.

Furthermore, freelance is generally by billable hour or fixed rate. By billable hour, I mean something built of worth for that hour - that's usually around 80% of actual time spent.

Unfortunately at that rate, the only programmers I can see that will find this offer attractive is:
1. Those who did crash courses and have no real world experience.
2. Programmers who lost their jobs and need something for the interim.
3. Freelancers trying to get into the market (or get clients).

My standard freelance rate at the moment is about $40/hour and I consider myself a pretty good developer with 4 years commercial development experience and have done quite a few freelance gigs (I have been coding for 6 years prior as a hobbyist). I consider this money as my 'spending' money.
That's really amazing. He makes it sound so easy that a startup could do something like this.

I don't understand why it didn't take the normal 10+ years for the FDA to approve it and go through millions of dollars of clinical trials? Everyone always says that's why startups can't do medical stuff.
Exactly. Nanex does not like high message rates because it increases the cost of running their service. like yummyfajitas and yourself no one can explain to me why high-rate quoting is bad. Producing pretty graphs showing quotes at regular intervals doing interesting things is not indicative of bad behavior, especially when many of those charts include after market data when the depth is extremely thin. And remember, every venue enforces message rate limits already.
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I think you might be missing the point. If early adopters move on, they will likely be moving on to another service, in which case they will start the chain of movement away from Twitter and towards other platforms.

This will inevitably decrease the amount of "normal people" as active users.
Thanks for the suggestion, I am looking into boilerplate now.

I like that build.sh in dojo boilerplate "minifies" the html file too!

I checked your todo.sh project, I see the html page, and java loads, but nothing happens when I type something and press enter in text field. May be you just started and its not implemented yet, or may be I am doing something wrong.

My suggestion to you would be to do a hosted version, that syncs to dropbox. That is my plan for iKog. Parse is good if you do not want to have a dependency on dropbox, as a storage. Both of these allow me to access todo list from anywhere, the applet solution does not allow that.

It all depends on what you want to do, for me it is a playing ground to work with different libraries/services.
Minimum wage is also twice what it is in the US
The website is a little obtuse. I think it's a pay-for Twitter without ads.
Go to facebook page and try it. It is almost like Manhattan in 3d
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If you are looking for new Holden Volt cars. There are many websites that give you a lot of information about Holden Volt cars.
>> That's because they bought the cool third party apps like the TweetDeck and Tweetie

>Tweetie was bought by Twitter

That's what they said. I think you misread that post.
I think that's part of it, and another part is that GNU failed to pick up the Linux kernel early on. I think if they had quickly recognized, "hey this is a great way to complete a releasable version of GNU OS, at least for an initial release" and put out a preliminary package of some sort, labeled as the GNU operating system with Linux kernel, people would've called it that. The fact that the distro packaging went the other way—people from the Linux community, not the GNU project, plugged together parts of the unfinished GNU OS and the Linux kernel—meant that it got more associated with the name Linux.
+1, count me unimpressed.

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> Commenters seem to be missing the point of this.

Probably because it's the most poorly presented social statement... ever. Requiring users to go as far as to try and sign up (with no indication it's anything other than a developers idea of a dumb joke) is... silly.
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Close :) That was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 (or the Unix equivalent I guess). I used the Unicode symbols that roryokane mentioned above, because it has more options for the height of a block (not just half-blocks). You can get Unicode versions of the older drawing symbols from this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Latin_character_sets_%2...
Alright, I read the damned post and I still have no idea what it's about. Is it supposed to be satire, or some other wink and nod approach to...something?

Either I'm just not all that bright, or they took a swing and missed on their message.
When one of those things occur in isolation, that doesn't automatically mean you're fighting for truth.

For example, app.net was never in the being ignored phase, it's got plenty of hype and it doesn't even exist yet.

Also, there's plenty of things that get mocked and nothing more. Sometimes laughter results from fear, sometimes it just results from genuinely finding something hilarious.

But thanks for comparing app.net with Gandhi, that just made it funnier :P
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As much as I love the idea of the Raspberry Pi, until it has open video drivers it can't really be considered an open platform.

Anyone knows what is the status of that?
https://join.app.net/

It's making fun of the idea of paying $50 to sign up for a years membership to this service.
We whine and bitch about not having control of our data, about some corp having central authority over everything and yet we decide to ignore status.net and pay $50/year to something that doesn't even exist yet. Go figure.
> "It actually comes of as teen angsty and narrow minded."

The site? Or some of the reactions to it?

> "The type of nonsense ignorant people like to spew because they can't grasp that we can focus our collective effort on many things at the same time, that we can spend money on our own interests and still be a positive force in the world."

LOL? Now you're really reaching for it.
How does the yin yang puzzle work? (call/cc in Scheme)
"Dojo does not provide significant benefit over jQuery or similar tools to warrant switching frameworks."

This is not correct at all. Compared to jquery, dojo is significantly better option for large projects. Dojo has a very rich unified set of widgets, jQuery has plugins, but they do not play well with each other. Each jQuery plugin is unique, with no standard way to extend them. I can extend any dojo class and in a very uniform fashion.

It is possible to do write good code in jQuery, but a vast majority of them are not, jQuery is like PHP, a haphazard mix of functions that do something. Dojo is like Django etc, with everything thought out from start to end, everything gels together.

Or at least that is my initial impression, would love to know why you believe the class system, the AMD modules, the rich widget library, storage framework, MVC framework, i18n, etc offered by dojo is no benefit to you?
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> Darcs was pretty neat at the time, especially since it was the only open DVCS.

You are forgetting Tom Lord's arch, which had a really bizarre interface (even more so than Darcs), but was conceptually very nice.
Not an ad. Really starting to source in the Philippines, have a team here already. Add your email to the site if your interested. Still working out the details.
This: http://defyent.com/#profile (via footer link) might answer your question:

"...Design, out sourced coding to india."
It'll probably never happen, from what I've gathered, even Broadcom doesn't have all the specs for the GPU.
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The team is currently located in the Philippines. I've done projects with them before.

They are quality programmers, but you have to understand that the cost of living is much lower here, looking at 2 dollars a meal, and an apartment for $100 USD a month.

LOL you are the 3rd person who said the stock photo needs to go. Too busy trying to get logistics down atm to redo the site. Done is better then perfect as I have to keep reminding myself.
I should have said "sales quotas" rather than targets. Your target to sell £x million in June reflects a real revenue need for the business, but the deadline of 30 June this implies is artificial, and the business would (in most cases) do just as well if you delivered the feature and took the revenue on 1st or 10th July.
It's an internal name not used in commerce so it is not subject to the same liability. Not an expert beyond that, but you can nickname your sister Kleenex without violating a trademark.
It's true the programmer isn't getting the full amount, as there are cost for keeping the developers at a desk with electricity and high speed internet. As well as managing to make sure they are working on your project and not slacking off :D
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That's over here http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html (runnable http://bellard.org/jslinux/)
I've basically dropped everything I was doing in Canada, flew over to Asia for the next few months to try to get this going. Currently the first set of programmers will be in the Philippines. Be sure to signup as we will be contacting people who are interested in giving this a go.
Bitcoin reached 23,000 transactions yesterday.
B2B customer segmentation in CRM systems based on customer homepage.
I agree with you. Google's model is pretty good with most of their 25+ APIs having free tiers. Free is nice but being in a real business relationship feels better to me because it is more likely to be sustainable. Microsoft's API marketplace has the same solid sustainable feeling.

If a business idea requires free use of other people's services then think of another idea.
I'm super excited about App.net and pretty much ditching Twitter in favor of App.net, but I'm quite sure everything you said is false.
I'm kind of disappointed. None of the comments so far have pointed out the fundamental logic flaw in this.

Buying the membership doesn't prove you HAVE 50 dollars, it proves you HAD it.
Was more a rhetorical question. ;)
We have an established team in the Philippine that do projects for around this much a month. I created this concept as I was getting tired of sharing my coders with other companies.
There's a huge difference between founding a company on a vision of being a utility for developers and attempting to fulfill all the promise that Twitter had in the early days, versus the actual Twitter where they never really figured out what they were doing and scaled out to require such levels of investment that the grown ups inevitably moved in and started cannibalizing it for cash.
Thanks for the tip, cool information!
LOL that was one project as a pilot... but the team will currently be in the Philippines.
And they will never get past that. I wouldn't mind it being stuck in stage one though. All the App.net spam has seriously degraded the HN quality overnight.
I am not really interested in all the twitter/app.net hoo-haa but I find it intriguing that we are at a stage that one guy develops a product and charges $50 for it. And the rest of the world mocks him for not making it free.
The pilot program will be located in Philippines.
I think this is the problem with the "product first, business later" approach that's dogma in Silicon Valley. People get used to such an extreme user/developer-centric experience that when the time comes for making some profit, it seems absurd to many people. What's so wrong with building the business and the product at the same time?
In my opinion it is brilliant, because the site holds a mirror up to yourself. When you read the message, you were actually willing to spend $50 for a some virtual sh*t (compared to wiping out slavery).

That's the best position to get someone in to give a few bucks for something good. Even if it's not the full amount of $50.
This bookmarklet should prompt for a title so you can clean it from excess capitalization, remove the site name, etc.

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