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I usually undervalue my work product. Specifically when it comes to pricing a product, or service.

To try and combat this weakness I have started to solicit opinions (pay for professional help) on pricing and market position before making decisions.
I hate to be all "in the old days", but, really, threads on HN didn't used to be full of snark and jokes, which obviated this problem. I miss that.
Jquery is one of the building blocks of modern web upon which, many web pages, plugins, functionality is based.

That said I think it would be better for the community if they went a bit slower on major releases like 1.4/1.8/1.9/2.0, and more on minor releases for bug fixes, compatibility and performance improvements.
Forgive the defensive attitude here but 2 in 1000 venture backed startups will ever achieve $100-million or more in valuation. is a pretty poor example of "success".

If my start-up made a difference to peoples lives and generated enough revenue to allow me to focus on it full-time then I would consider my start-up a categorical success. Chances are that would happen at a point where my start-up was valued at a significantly smaller figure than $100-million.
Has anyone got a theory as to why video and video streaming seem particularly prone to patent trolls? A few years ago people might have accepted the answer that "they're really complicated", but I think we all accept now that patents are pretty much BS. So there must be some other incidental business reason why so many people went and filed patents on these ideas. Because Hollywood has lots of money and a reliance on video but no tech understanding maybe?
Ask HN: All this Press About Apple Maps, Good Launch?
Has Apple launched an MVP and grown large enough to implement Barnum's strategy of all publicity is good publicity?

It looks to me as if they now own the narrative in regards to their mapping service. From here on out every piece of coverage is likely to be about the improvements Apple has made.
My husband loves his job, as a freelance programmer, like most of you out there. He loves it even more when there's no money involved. He can't be bothered marketing the projects he loves spending time on. He's in the right career, all right, but is he making a living?
Relax. The tool lets you create a strategy and back-test it. It is selling the fact that you can do this without coding, it is not trying to sell you 'Long - AAPL' strategy.
Very neat.

Do you guys have plans to add support for Forex trading too?

And, even if one of the strong points is "no coding required". Do you foresee at some point to let advanced users write trading strategies in some type of programming language?
This is a really bad idea. It's not even close to useful right now. For instance, you can't use variables in your shell invocation, so this doesn't work:

(let [x "/usr/local"] (ls -l x))

And it clobbers so many things in the core namespace when 'use'd.

Good luck.
Try this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4553341
The 3quarks.com page is exhaustive in detail about the station clock, with a customizable working clock well worth a look.

At the end the author, Rüdiger Appel, points to his free iOS clock app:
http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/clockmaker/id493255256?mt=8
I've had a lot of problems with Yahoo not having complete historical data, especially on thinly traded or OTC stocks. I wouldn't recommend using their data in a production application.
"working hard to make the customer experience even better"

A fine example of Apple speech.
Better documentation: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/current/javadoc-a...
I feel like I've seen this recently on HN

Eh, cannot find it - I guess we just talk a lot about commit messages.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=commit+mess...

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+commi...

Maybe it was this one, but I swear it was more recent:

http://andrewvos.com/2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-c...

http://geeksta.net/geeklog/exploring-expressions-emotions-gi...
he says "venture backed". your example would not be measured by this standard.
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The submitter name is also the github repo's name ...
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I have an original replicator. With a little practice, you can have much nicer results than the 'lumpy prints' that you describe. Also, ABS is really easily sanded and is quite solid if you want professional looking parts
When I was switched to the New page after posting this question, this story was a few minutes old:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4553560
Navigation has become a platform feature; people buy their phones for the whole package. To find out a depended-upon assumed competency is missing is perceived as betrayal.

Imagine if it couldn't make calls, or got the wrong person when you did call? That would incite a similar emotional response.
Currently it's daily. One of the possible future extensions is into intra-day but it brings a whole load of extra technical problems. Honestly the problems look really fun, things like keeping the backtest running relatively fast, caching the large amounts of extra data and the added complexity of intra-day strategies. However at the moment we need more data on how people want to use it as that's a pretty big outlay on development time.
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At current, I'm going to have to port it to NRefactory.
Maybe that's the key to making a good product in this space. Making a group connect web page for each get-together putting an optional amount of contact info in it after the get together. Also add an IM system.
Hey! This is very cool, very fast. One thing I would suggest is the ability to specify a list of securities rather than a single security. In my experience, if you're going to test a general heuristic for trading, you're going to want to test it across as broad of a spectrum as possible to determine if it really has some predictive abilities. Obviously, this requires a lot more computational power if you're applying your rules to everything in the Russell 3000 rather than just a single security. The results would then be the composite of all trades across the securities.
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I actually found this article to be the first one that didn't just criticize Apple, but actually made suggestions about how they should go about fixing it. It was rather interesting for someone like me who has no experience in map making, to see how much is really involved in digital cartography.

edit: on a related note, I always took google maps for granted, but now that I realize how fantastic of an effort it must take to map the world to the degree they do, I have much more respect for it, and I think it is amazing in terms of "cataloging the worlds information".
Super interesting! Could you shed some light on to how much you are spending on the data? Is it in the hundreds, thousands or ten-thousands? Is it feasible for one person to bootstrap a website with Xignite?
Enlighten me: How exactly does having two, or even three controllers make for smoother scrolling? Assume I know nothing about touch screen controllers!
The goal was actually "Get a sticker on your product, for marketing reasons."

It's worse than that, companies save on Federal taxes by making these progressively worse appliances. Whirlpool is infamous for not just paying no taxes but getting "tax benefits" (credits they can carry forward) for 2008-10.

And my GE washer rations hot water quite fiercely. If there was enough commonality in the various model's firmware I'd sure like to join a group that reprograms them in a sane way.
CO2 is not a problem : http://ludovicurbain.blogspot.be/2012/09/co2-is-not-problem....
This /is/ a minor release containing only bug fixes, right?
> In my view, this is the nastiest of all startup sins: failing to involve customers and their feedback from literally the first day of a startup’s life, keeping the most vital opinions silent—those of the eventual customers—for far longer than necessary.

This seems like it may be a lot easier said than done. Steve seems reasonably humble, but perhaps he's forgotten what it's like to be a "nobody". If you don't have friends/connections/contacts, getting potential customers to notice you might be difficult, especially if you have nothing much to show them.

By having a prototype, you're telling people you've invested some time and effort in the problem already - so they're more likely to get something back if they invest some of their own time.
His point is startups suck if they wait too long to get customer feedback to see if people actually want or care about their solutions.

Does this advice apply mainly to startups that aren't particularly new technology? While people like small improvements they often don't imagine changing their lives a tremendous amount. I guess most startups aren't that innovative either- maybe that's another reason most startups might suck.
It is really too bad folks keep pushing technical trading platforms to the public. The promise of quick money to be made in a sea of billions of dollars might seem innocuous, but it's (a) bad for the market and (b) bad for society.

It's bad for the market because collectively, the buying and selling of shares based on anything other than company fundamentals (earnings, cash flow, projected growth, etc) distorts the price of the company. Unfortunately, because of our hunger to make money fast, there are too many of us (including large hedge-funds) playing this game, and the effects on price movement are very real. And when prices no longer reflect the company fundamentals, all sorts of bad things happen: Management is pressured to take extraordinary actions just to mitigate the market situation (stock splits/reverse-splits, stock buy-backs, accounting tricks, etc), employees freak out and quit, long-term investors get nervous, potentially fruitful M&As fail to happen, etc.

(The argument that technical/high-frequency trading improves the liquidity of the market is the biggest bullshit, cop-out answer ever: The only people that benefit from this type of instant liquidity are short-term, short-sighted traders ... such as the very people who advocate this type of trading, and not long-term investors!).

As for the societal cost, technical trading educates and perpetuates the myth that the stock market is a big gambling house, and not a means to become an owner of a company. To paraphrase Warren Buffett, every time you think about buying stock you should think of it the same way as if you were buying a mom-and-pop shop, like a pizza place. Is the price you're paying roughly equivalent to - or better than - how much you'd expect to make by pocketing the profits of the shop over the lifetime of the business?

I hate to leave completely negative feedback, so at least I'll give that this tool looks spiffy.

UPDATE: It seems like I'm getting a lot of responses from traders here. Already answered some, can't answer them all. Please sleep over these comments and think about what you could be doing with your time. Life's short.
You have no idea what Steve Jobs would do
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There's no (use :as), only require. (require [shake.core :as sh])

That's a step in the right direction, but it still triggers tons of warnings replacing vars in clojure.core.
Yes, but not the decision to ship it in its current form.
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Yeah, that would be amusing if it was accurate. Only that's not what it does. It is actually a way of extending the bean creation part of the framework that produces singleton scoped proxy objects.

I'm curious: what would you name that class?
4 days shouldn't. A minority of Android devices, notably the most recent flagships, are getting decent upgrades.

But even a glance at what version of Android is being used: http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html shows that over 2/3 of all Android Users are still on 2.x or before, and it's very likely that many of them will never have an opportunity to upgrade.

That gets me frothy. iPhones get 3 to 3.5 years of updates, and Android devices averaged on whole are getting what, 1.5 to 2 years? Maybe less, considering how many aren't being updated?

The answer of "only buy a flagship" is bunk. If Google supported that answer, they should cut out the cruft. But Android is more than flagships.
A TCP connection costs nothing if it's merely open and waiting. OK, it costs a few bytes of space in some tables somewhere, but no actual bandwidth.
I was musing on our 'future people' too! It's easy to see how kids back in 1962 and the context of the space race could imagine a Jetsons-esque future. (I'm still waiting for my jetpack). The concept of futurism is so fascinating - I'm picturing plenty of artificial intelligence, the dominance of nanotechnology, clean energy and finding new intelligent life in the universe.
"and as Maps is a cloud-based solution, the more people use it, the better it will get"

Based on what I've read about the problems and their causes so far, usage volume doesn't seem to addresses any of the problems except for increasing the likelihood errors will be spotted.

The fundamental problems seem to be around the way multiple data sources have been combined and in its current form I can't see how usage volume would improve this in any way??

It may well contribute to POI data and so make it 'better' but that isn't really what the complaints are about.
Looks like you need to have Facebook to sign up, which I assume is how they screen people. Unfortunate, as I dropped my account a few years ago and I would have tried this, looks like fun.
That makes me wonder.

What if there was a law that any "company" whose incorporation cannot be demonstrated to actually satisfy certain legal guidelines could automatically lose any legal suit that it was involved in? How many of these shells would disappear?
Seriously? Nine out of ten companies will turn "make it suck less" into "make it even better". Apple dropped the ball, Apple does some very questionable things, but please stop this idiotic bashing, whether it's targeting Apple, Microsoft, Google or even RIM. Just stop it.
"as Maps is a cloud-based solution, the more people use it, the better it will get."

That's a nice non sequitur, but doesn't really answer how they're going to solve this problem. They say they're working hard on it, but the scale of the data here means that you can have people working hard for months and not fix even 1% of the errors. "The cloud" isn't going to magically solve them itself.
> Loadable modules like the way Apache/nginx do, or
> Nagios or quite a few other basic infrastructure
> applications.

I agree this style of composition is not currently possible in Go, but I do not agree that it is necessarily a good (in the engineering sense) solution to the requirement(s) it solves. There are lots of other ways to communicate between dynamically dispatched blocks of code, and dynamic code loading is by any account fragile.

Or, to put it another way,

> you can't expose your Go code through any kind of
> native interface

I'm not convinced this restriction is anything but good.
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Could someone define "venture backed"? Do angel/seed rounds count? If so, I'd say 2% or even 0.2% seems pretty decent.
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My first reaction when I saw this campaign was to roll my eyes a bit, to be honest. My own daughter loves the gender neutral and even "boyish" construction toys, and even though she loves ponies and princesses and pink frilly things, she'd probably cast something like this aside.

On reflection though, I think anything that helps get girls interested in the concepts is fantastic. This simply wouldn't be of value to my own daughter (or my nieces for that matter), but I can see how it would be really helpful in getting girls like your niece interested, and that can only be a good thing.
In the review they say Antennas are sized to be fractions of full wavelengths. I thought I read a year ago that the reason the 4 and 4s didn't have LTE was because the physical size of the phone wasn't large enough for the radio antenna needed for LTE. Is it true that they needed to extend the size of the phone to get the right fractional size for an LTE antenna?
That's exactly his point:

Thousands of entrepreneurs would be a lot happier if their focus was a solid, growable, defensible niche business that might never go public or be worth $100-million.
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hahaha, I'm sure every company loves to have a good double-edged sword. Honestly, I think it's different enough, but in the same way I think Samsung products are different enough. Take you pick which way you want it Apple...
Are there any public transport companies that sell tickets as in-app purchases?
If I can't clean up all the coffee, you are paying for my new keyboard!
The weirder section of the Apple blogosphere was pretty tragic reading even when Apple was regularly knocking them out of the park, the response to this map debacle really sorts the sheep from the goats.

It sounds awfully like Apple would like a chance to prove themselves and iterate their beta product. But we wouldn't want to be grading on a curve* now would we?

* http://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Adaringfireball.net+grading+o...

(I provided the reference, as this phrase, much like "race to the bottom", seems to be used in a sense about 180 degrees removed from it's actual meaning in the Apple blogs)
All these efforts to provide pretty & convenient interfaces to arbitrary executables strike me as being useful only for people who want a powerful REPL as their command-line prompt and/or would rather use Clojure or Python (or whatever other language) for mundane tasks that would otherwise normally be done with throwaway shell scripts. Outside of these limited use cases, I'm not sure this sort of thing is a good idea.
There was some discussion about this on an earlier jQuery-update-thread: There's no urgent need to update your sites to the most recent version. Other than with server side software, you have close to no security issues when using an older version.
I should definitely add that, thanks for the feedback.
Apple deletes your OLD SMS messages with new bugfix
I think it's interesting to note (as the article does), that Apple has attacked other parties for "paying homage" to the looks of the Apple clocks. I personally think these two clocks are different enough, but if I'm the owner of that Swiss trademark, you can bet I'm suing, before Apple comes after me for using their design!
The Era of Beta Maps
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Yes, although there are some performance tweaks as well. But it is quite a small release this time.
This stood out to me:

> In my view, this is the nastiest of all startup sins: failing to involve customers and their feedback from literally the first day of a startup’s life, keeping the most vital opinions silent—those of the eventual customers—for far longer than necessary.

There are two ways to interpret it:

1. Get something in front of customers ASAP as how customers use (or don't use) something will tell you far more than anything else; or

2. Ask potential customers what they want.

If Steve means (1) I strongly agree. If he means (2) I strongly disagree. As anyone who has had to work on software specifications and documenting user "requirements" can attest: people have absolutely no clue what they want other than "everything".

Look at Apple. They don't use focus groups or surveys [1]. IIRC I'm pretty sure the size of the first iPad was determined by Steve Jobs picking up several differently sized prototypes until he found one that felt right. If this is urban myth, I bet it's actually not that far from the truth.

Sadly I think Steve (Blank) means (2) since he says "eventual customers". But perhaps he means give away something you'll eventually turn into a revenue-generating product, at which point your users became customers.

[1]: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apples-Phil-Schiller-We-dont-...
I'm not sure if something similar exists for FF, but if you go to the github you'll see that all you need is jQuery and my hnreply.js file, so maybe one of those user theming extensions will let you insert them.
I agree with you. That said, it is a possible vector they should patch up, so it shouldn't be ignored by any means. Its just minor enough I dont see why any of us should care.
Yes, but that doesn't stop people from adding more slots than they can realistically handle.

The skills, knowledge, and resources to produce 1k widgets is totally different than producing 1MM widgets. I might be able to brute-force manufacture 1k widgets from my garage and that would kickstart the business if that's my skill and scale estimate. I need staff, facilities and a different type of supplier if I need to make millions, and I may not have what it takes to deliver on that.
If you can call selling millions of iPhones in the blink of an eye magic, then I'd say Apple still has plenty, no?
What is most amusing to me about this whole thing is that two weeks ago The Atlantic published[0] an article offering incredible insight into just how much effort goes into making Google's maps so good. Was it already too late at that point for Apple to see this and think that maybe they hadn't thought this thing through? The only alternatives I can think of are blindingly foolish. Either they thought they engineered their way out of a problem at which Google throws literally hundreds of people or they didn't bother to read the article in the first place.

0 - http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-go...
Is the Swiss railway clock a protected trademark at all?

Judging from the Swiss trademark registry, the protection as a trademark ended a few days ago on September 3, 2012:

https://www.swissreg.ch/srclient/de/tm/512830

In addition, the trademark is only protected for class 14 as clocks and its parts but not for other classes and in particular not for software.
ADDITION TO ARTICLE: If you in your history have SMS messages from what now is classified as an "untrusted source", as soon as you click on them they will disappear!

I have tested it myself, and several big services in Sweden seems affected.

SJ (Swedish Trailway's) are affected amongst others.
What about statistical arbitrage?
Thanks! I recognize your username as one of the BuddyHack guys. I sat right next to you for much of PennApps.
I'd agree with the "How do we see future people" is "ourselves" statement. Look at the popular SciFi shows of the last few years. Namely Firefly and Battlestar Galactica. Both presented a future that was lived in, almost dirty. The content was about the characters and how they lived, not the shiny buttons they got to push.

This, I think, mirrors our own expectations of the future. We have more immediate access to amazing technology every day. We also realistically manage our expectations of future technology, making it harder to present the "future" with insanely advanced tech.

The creative content that does show "future" tech usually uses it as a MacGuffin. Namely, Terra Nova, Stargate, even Quantum Leap.
Oddly enough, I let my kids watch this for the first time (on demand on TW) this morning. The only thing they really thought was interesting was how the kids dropped out of the car to go to school. My oldest said it looked really old, but I guess he was talking about the animation more than anything. For me, it was great to hear that theme song again and the cars bubbling around.