skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, most of the people here have no experience in high-end trading. And no, it's not informed by facts. It's very frustrating, but if it's any consolation, it's the same kind of struggle against ignorance that occurs on threads about cryptography (a nerd subject) or language design (another nerd subject).

Personally, I'm not irritated at the nerds (after all, I'm one of them) so much as I am at places like Zero Hedge and Rolling Stone which prey on the ignorance of nerds to drive up pageviews.
That is sooo weird, I would have sworn it was under this article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4556088

I'll move it.
I suspect that VT-x is off by default on many configurations due to poor reliability. I had to manually go in and enable VT-x on my laptop to use Vagrant, and doing so caused machine-wide hard locks every 30 minutes or so (only when the VirtualBox VM was running) that I had never seen before.
That's quite unusual and unfortunate! If you're still willing, give our newest version a tryshoot me an email at yuri@aerofs.com and I'll make sure someone looks at your problems ASAP.

We're actually usually very responsive in our support channels (support@aerofs.com, twitter, and the support.aerofs.com forums), so my sincere apologies.
What exactly makes it so great? I found it rather pedestrian. An entertaining and competent cliché.
Roughly 3-4 months. I was taking classes at the same time, so I worked about an hour a day.
I am always amazed at the ability to manipulate the video feed in real time to put things into it that aren't really here. The billboard ads always amaze me. But what they are planning for the America's cup astonishes me. Back computing the position of a helicopter video feed so that surface features on the water remain stationary [1] its going to be pretty wild.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh3ZB8xNrRg&feature=playe...
Exactly. And we should just stop calling them "Value" investors. This is true for growth investors, any kind of investors, in fact all investors.

Investing is about knowing the difference between value and the price.

When you can do that-- and when I say "knowing" I mean it, and I have a spreadsheet to calculate it-- then you can buy low and sell high.

The problem is wall street is in the business of managing other people's money and most people are ignorant of money, so you have a lot of people who just turn their money over to others to "manage"... and many of those that use other people's money end up gambling with it rather than investing it... this problem is compounded by the moral hazard created by the government bailing these companies out when the gambles turn south (or underwriting the gambling by buying bad securities as helicopter ben is doing right now to the tune of $40B a month.)

The problem with wall street is government regulation which is idiotically designed, and intervention-- in the form of bailouts-- that perverts the entire system incentivizing gambling.

And the people voting for all this, generally don't even know what money is, let alone how to invest it. (If you think the dollars in your pocket are money, then you're one of those people, and I suggest you read http://mises.org/money.asp )
Thanks Skymt. I'll implement that this weekend.

Thanks for the tips.
I meant back in the 90s. I worked at a couple of companies that saw no reason to give their users access to the internet which was seen as a time waster. I haven't come across that attitude in a very long time, even though there's probably more time wasted now than ever.
I'll try 99designs. I don't like the way Elance works, it's feels way too focused on getting me to signed up (and paying) instead of getting my project to work.
Brazil is a third world country?
Current front page ReelSurfer is an excellent example. 29 votes and 3 comments.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4556078
My opinion is that Mark Cuban works hard, but he's opinionated most in the areas where he knows the least. He is not an authority on anything, except maybe sports team management. He got lucky selling a shell of company to Yahoo (a fool of a buyer) in the dotcom boom.... but his performance on shark tank and on his blog tell me that, he's confused his luck with talent.
"At least half of the total time must be from videos on the Orrick TOTAL ACCESS Youtube channel."

...and I'm not excited about participating or viewing the results anymore. If their stuff is great it should make it in on its own merits not because they paid for it.
Couldn't agree more. In my experience leading sales teams the difference between one territory rep versus another territory rep is how well that rep was trained/motivated/coached and mentored by his sales manager. Stellar VP of sales are not only good with customers but also exceptional at grooming people. Aiming high and poaching from a Facebook, Google etc. is the right thing to do as these companies have good sales folks. If you are looking at enterprise sales then Oracle and Salesforce.com have stellar people. But I imagine some kind of inflection point in the startup journey where it makes more sense to hire a VP of sales versus a individual contributor sales rep. Any pointers on what that inflection point would be? Funding?
"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

-- John von Neumann

For what it's worth, I have sometimes manipulated complex numbers as (a, b), usually when using them as 2-D vectors. But I make no claims to being a mathematician.
Nicely done! I noticed it was sold by http://makegameswith.us/ -- can you elaborate on why you chose them? I notice that they take 30% after Apple takes its 30%, leaving you with just under half of the selling cost as your gross revenue in exchange for help and promotion. How widely have they promoted the game? Your game is also translated into tons of languages; did you need to arrange this yourself, or is that something they helped out with?
The Android client is under very active development. If you'd like, feel free to upvote http://support.aerofs.com/forums/67721-feature-requests/sugg... and you'll get notified as soon as it's ready!
1. It's his first venture into a programming project
2. "var wordCount = value.trim().split(/\s+/).length" isn't much of a library. The benefit of a project like this for user's is so they can avoid building the scaffolding and deployment.
Thanks peacemaker. Maybe as I get better I'll get faster at programming.

In the meantime, it was fun to be able to solve a problem I had by learning something I didn't know before.
fair point (i was actually planning on adding a lisp cond by way of contrast, and then forgot). my contention is that the ml cond looks a lot less cluttered than the lisp one, and is therefore more pleasant to read.

the clojure one is nicer since it lacks the visual clutter of the per-case enclosing parens, but it feels slightly wrong from a lisp perspective since i'm now replacing [(a, b), (c, d)] with [a, b, c, d] which has changed the innate structure of the expression.

i actually like the racket convention of using square brackets to distinguish this the best of all the lispy options:

(defn factorial [n]
(cond
[(<= n 1) 1]
[:else (* n (factorial (dec n)))]))
Yes, we're all constantly struggling with email because mail clients aren't built for triage or tracking. Mail Pilot changes this.

I do everything I can to use dedicated task tools like Asana, Basecamp, Do, etc. yet I still get dozens of emails daily from a wide range of business contacts and I need to manage these. Mail Pilot is great for these because it's lightweight, fast, and works with everyone who emails me.
The gist isn't quite as interactive.
Nah that's absolutely the wrong question, and the very question those in power want you to ask. Putting different people in charge won't fix it either. The problem is fundamental to human nature, we're not accustomed to being free. Kings used to fear democracy because they were worried that we'd become free, instead as soon as we were free we started electing new kings. Even in the good ole' US they wanted to elect George Washington dictator for life.

You should instead ask, how can I setup my environment so that I am not subject to the will of others... Don't ask the government for your freedom, take it from them.
IPhone 5 vs. Canon 5D Mark III
Did you create the sprites yourself, or did you contract an artist?
There is a show run by the government broadcaster in Australia called Mediawatch. It does just that, keeps watch on the news organisations to highlight when they are acting inappropriately.

They did a short segment on the launch of the new iPad this year [0] in which they echoed the sentiments of this article. They were especially critical of the excessive coverage given by the government broadcaster themselves, which is supposed to be particularly careful when it comes to even mentioning brand names in most other contexts (e.g. They never use the sponsors names when referring to sporting stadiums):

"Why on earth, we wondered, did ABC News Breakfast spend nine minutes in all on a bunch of techheads queuing outside a shop with a piece of fruit on it, to buy a marginally updated product that they could have got anywhere?"

[0] www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3464157.htm (the video and transcript are both here).
> "Sure, let the 15 year old have a beer, what's the harm?" is the reaction you may encounter in several places outside the US.

And, in fact, in multiple places inside the US, at least in private gatherings.

(Not to beat on this too hard, but in many ways the whole of the US is more akin to the whole of Europe than any single European country. Lots of cultures, lots of demographics, lots of regional variation.)
Wait, wasn't RSS invented to replace mailing lists (aka news letters)?

But yeah, making a facebook/twitter-style social network app that uses plain email as transport would be really cool.
Then again, banks are not exactly on the cutting edge of security, though they like to seem like they are.

Every bank I've ever dealt with has assumed 100% liability for unauthorized transactions, so a bad password affects them financially, not you. Therefore, I don't understand all the complaining about password length.
I agree it's good to get out and learn things like this, I'm just not sure you needed to post it here?

*Thanks for the downvotes too...
That's the wrong way to look at it. These videos have great sound bites, but our point is that they are lost inside of a long video. We think this contest will help bring those moments to life!
For heaven's sake, extension of copyright terms comes at the behest of the publishing industry. Governments would likely welcome the increased economic activity and lower administrative burden of lower copyright protection, but publishers are going to support whatever politicians promise them the most revenue protection. Your various comparative examples are driven by wildly different factors (not least demographic ones) and don't support your argument.
Have you ever read Nostradamus with an open mind? Surely you build on previous knowledge when you try to make sense of the world?
I don't have time, I wasted too much surfing HN and Reddit.
I got help with the art and with learning Objective C from makegameswith.us
They were awesome in making the whole thing possible.
My opinion of topics you can't talk about in descending order of controversy in 2012 America:

- Racial phenotype/genotype differences

- Differences between the sexes

- Using foreign policy sticks (rather than solely carrots) with Israel

- The Drug War's legitimacy

- IQ and its correlates, causes and effects on both an individual and societal level

- Islamofascism

- Single payer healthcare

- US Gov't crackdowns on secrecy and information

- The many fallacies in organized religion (this one is highly regional)

There are probably lots of others but those examples immediately spring to mind for me.
Speaking as a salesperson this article has a few things that I find difficult to agree with:

1) Sales vs BizDev - As described in the article the sales people he's looking for are great for one off transactions, not for building a real client base that will refer and keep coming back. Remember how you like to be sold, for bigger things most people want to know and trust the person they are buying from.

2) Domain Knowledge - which is easy to teach, sales or what you do? Hire a good salesman and teach them your business

The idea is sound and I've seen a number of startups go the wrong way with it, but those two stood out to me.
I agree with your sentiment on the second point, but a better example would be acetaminophen.
That doesn't mean there is copyright protection for doing so.
Air Force Video Compares Facebook, iPhone to Atom Bombs
Romney Says No to “Net Neutrality”
Agreed, those blogs/publications are horrendous. Just factual stuff that is wrong all over the place. I wouldn't mind if people had concerns, as long as they realize it's a very complicated subject, so maybe they should ask questions, instead of making stupid assertions that are clearly false and try to sound like experts in a subject they've thought about for 10 minutes.
MakeGamesWithUs (http://makegameswith.us) co-founder here - to clarify, Chris wrote the entire game himself. We just taught him Objective C and did the art (that's what we do). Chris is a rockstar.
Spiffy! Could you expand on how makegameswith.us helped you in the development process?
The more Sherman Act claims that are brought against web incumbents, the sooner one is going to stick.

The CL blog stinks of entitlement.

Craigslist "stole" the classifieds business from local newspapers. Now they are accusing others of trying to "steal" the "CL idea" from them.

I am one of (probably) the few who actually prefer a CL type interface. But the way CL is behaving in the face of competition is just embarassing. If someone wants to reshape the data, then you have to let them. The data is not the property of CL. If users do not want their data on some other site, then that's their issue to raise, not CL's.
For a first venture, well done. I'm just questioning why it should be a post on the front page of HN for such a simple (sorry if that offends?!) piece of code.

I'm truly not trying to discourage and probably sound like a grumpy old man but I just don't think the OP needed to post something so simple here.
>"Although I am Canadian I spent my middle school and high school years in Raleigh, NC"

>"After I graduated from McGill in June"

Curious, did you pay out-of-country tuition rates to attend school here? I hope so, considering you didn't live, nor plan to work here.

Keeping in mind that all I have to go on is this little tale, I ask because it seems like you (and your family) have done a lot of walking through the grey area of immigration, skirting rules to take advantage of what both countries offer their citizens. Apparently it caught up to you.

Edit: For the downvoters: I'm Canadian. I don't appreciate that someone who essentially grew up in the US came back here to take advantage of our federal and provincial tax-dollar subsidized resident tuition, only to turn around and leave the country for the US again the instant he graduated. Had he never left the US for school, would this have happened?
I was wondering what a word (in a word count) was, thinking like you that "foo -- bar" was only two words, just like "foo-bar" or "foo/bar". So I started two widely used word processors and got surprising results : "foo -- bar" is actually considered 3 words long in both Microsoft Word 2007 and LibreOffice Writer 3.6.1.2, but "foo-bar" and "foo/bar" are 1 word long.
There seems to be no standard as to what a word is in this context :

Different word counting programs may give varying results,
depending on the definition of "word", on the text segmentation
algorithms, and on whether words outside the main text such as
footnotes or hidden text are counted. [1]

Anyway it seems a consensus to say that "foo -- bar" is 3 words long, so wordcount.is does give a not so wrong answer after all.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_count
Well done. What are your next plans?
I'll just leave this here
http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/papers/hotpets11.pdf
First sentence of the abstract: "This paper proposes Mr. Privacy, a social application framework
built on top of email..."
For sure! They helped guide us through the process of learning Objective C with Cocos2D, and lent a hand if we ever got too stuck. Also, they provided the art to complement our code and published the game out on the app store.
An old guy here: I too was making video games in high school, but mine never nearly looked as good as this, nor did they ever get this kind of an audience. You don't know how good you've got it :)

Good work and good luck with whatever you decide to make next!
Great strawman. He didn't say that every small media company will grow into a large empire. He said that every large empire started as a small media company.
I habitually upvote the GitHub posts; they're always full of great information. I doubt they need much help to stick on HN.
But they haven't copied that clock at all! Its only an image an iPad! The real clock has a silver metal border and can be hung on a wall. An iPad can't be hung on a wall.

Therefore Apple didn't copy.

QED

Wouldn't surprise me if they follow that line in court actually -.-

I'm predicting a payout personally. I also think the second hand looks stupid, but that's just me I guess.
Well that was embarrassing...
Why do people consider it a right to have constant access to a Twitter API? Twitter is a private, for-profit company, not a charity, no?
If you don't care about the web browser, there is absolutely no need for WebRTC and everything is much simpler. Justin Frankel's WASTE (http://waste.sourceforge.net/) did everything you could want in a P2P social network (messaging, chat, file sharing) in 2003 (it obviously lacked a Facebook-like front end). The only thing it didn't have that my proposal does is broadcast encryption for "unfriending" people.

WebRTC is cool because it will be in web browsers everywhere, and you'll have the "log in from the library computer" ability even for P2P networks, as long as there is a status web server you can bootstrap off of.
Thats awesome.Now if only the players on the field could actually see it so they could make sure to get the first down. Hate those QB's who throw 5 yard slants when they need 10 yards for a First Down.
Are you sure that the finance industry is tanking because of too much government regulations? I am not sure if the housing crisis (leading to a poor economy) came about as a result of over-the-top government regulations and interference as per your argument.

Would you also say that lack of government regulations/interference (Affordable Care Act) would have improved the healthcare scenario in the long term?
Thanks! The app store really is an awesome marketplace for creations that might otherwise go unnoticed.
I did not pay out-of-country tuition rates. I did have to pay out-of-province tuition rates though. (McGill is located in Quebec, Canada). I also applied to various NC universities and I would have had to pay out-of-country tuition rates.
Conrey-I agree with your point about things not being black and white between sales vs biz dev . It boils down to how many resources do you have to invest in go-to-market initiatives. For most startups, customers decide to trust and buy based on their interactions with the founding team and the CEO. In fact if the founding team isnt actively involved in the deal closure process that is a red flag. Given this assumption what you need is a person on the team who is obsessively focused in generating prospects. Once a prospect has been engaged then the founding team will have to wing into action in closing the deal.

On domain knowledge-certainly its easy to teach what you do than teach how to sell. Always better to get a strong sales guy than the other way round. In the article I was reference the difference between one with industry knowledge and product knowledge.
That's a pretty damn naive statement. Yes, in the end, customers are financially protected. But that doesn't make up for the hours, days or even weeks of phone calls, emails, letters, in-person visits, credit-reporting agency fixes, etc which are necessary to rectify fraud in the banking/finance industry.
Learning Android Development - Day 21
touche, thanks for the comments
Quote "robots trading with robots without any regard to the stocks they are trading." end quote.

The problem with the competition between HFTs is that it's turned into a ridiculous arms race to shave microseconds off the response time - how is that in any way productive?
MGWU co-founder here, to clarify we take 20c of 99c (30% of the 70c post Apple) so the developer keeps majority :). The localization on iTunes showed up by accident due to the Appirater library (https://github.com/arashpayan/appirater) being localized, will be fixed in an update
So rather than clarify the new Twitter Policies, it would be more interesting to be told why they are making these changes.

Everyone is assuming it's because they want to lock down their platform... & lock it down along what seem pretty moveable and arbitrary lines. Why else would they do it? I'm a casual observer, but I have been following pretty carefully, and it's completely unclear to me.

So -- If it's not, they should just say. If it is, the Twitter developer ecosystem has plenty of reason to be worried about their homework.
Had a similar experience. I came from Toronto and I am working in the states right now. I was hired as a computer engineer. I got rejected the first time for my TN visa simply because the officer asked me, does your job involve writing code? And I answered yes. Then he proceeds, so you are basically a programmer. We don't allow programmers into our country. He wouldn't listen to my explanation and further claim that I was not qualified and I was only hired because I was cheap. (which is not true, I am well compensated)

Then the second time around, I had to lie and claim that I do zero programming for my job, and only "design" and "engineer" stuff. Lol....
Degrees granted to me in the US: B.A., M.Eng, and soon, Ph.D.

Estimated cost of educating me paid for in entirety by American individuals (Private+Government): $600,000.

Chances of me getting to stay in the US:

Scenario 1: I get a tenure track job at an R-1 University, and I am exempt from the H1-B cap. The subsequent waiting time for my green card application is not long as I will be able to apply under the EB-1 track. Probability: Low to very low. The academic market is a crapshoot, and I need to churn out some serious publications over the next 3-4 years.

Scenario 2: I get employed at a Google/Microsoft class firm and they sponsor an H1-B. I wait the estimated 5 years for an EB-2 green card application to go through. Probability: very low to almost nil, as I don't want to be locked in for 5 years in such a job unless I get a researcher position (i.e. at MSR).

Scenario 3: I start a company. So I have a runway of about 29 months (which is how long the US allows a graduate to stay and work under OPT rules) to either make millions of dollars and reapply under O-1/H1-B. Otherwise, I am definitely out of the country as there is no way for me to stay in the US. Probability of success: low to very low.

Scenario 4: I marry an American girl and get a Green Card as a spouse of a citizen. Probability: low. I won't compromise my current/future relationships and/or hasten my life goals in order to stay in this country. Not when Canada is such an attractive option (with my degrees and partial French speaking ability I earn enough points under their system to get permanent residency on arrival).

Political status of this bullshit: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/why-cong...

Return on investment for American interests: Likely zero.