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Henning,
If you are going to go some computer optimisation please read Whites reality check, I applaud your effort but I think the trading strategy as described might be too simple unfortunately and historical optimisation can make anything profitable. In an ideal strategy edge would be present do to an extrapolation of platonistic assumptions and optimisation would further tune this rather than produce profits in itself.
Also AAPL is a lousy stock to simulate anything with apart from itself as its basically an complete outlier in terms of statistical factors(std deviation,exposure to news etc)
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People still are unused to the idea of planned digital obsolescence.
My guess would be: yes, that generated slower code, at the time the code was written.

A C compiler from the 1970's was almost little more than a glorified pattern matcher. It easily could emit different code for "i += 1" vs "++i" vs "i++" (and that would not be a problem, as the C programmers used C as a replacement for assembly, and there, "INC R" is different from "ADD #1,R")

To check whether that theory holds water, one would have to check older SPEC benchmarks, to see where this fragments came from.
Logo rip off aside, everyone do yourself a favor and check out the Snowbird site. Beautifully designed and implemented.
(I) could(n't) care less.
Inf. It doesn't matter to me. (The less bears the heaviest stress in both versions. Despite the apparent contradiction, either reading of this—both the affirmative and negative—usually have the same meaning... see:

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/could+care+less

Could care less has been in use since 1955, the way I use it, see:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/10/24/...

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There's no comprehensive list, and it would be impossible to make one. Anything we do might potentially offend somebody, somewhere, and nobody can understand every little nuance of every culture and every individual's life experiences.

Like, what if you're wearing a green sweater, and somebody was once assaulted by a person wearing a green sweater and your sweater really upsets somebody? There's no way we possibly could have known.

It's really complicated sometimes.

Here's the thing though: it's not always complicated!

Sexual comments around women we don't know? Totally an easy one. We should avoid those comments. Some women don't care, some find them hilarious, but a significant portion of women really don't want to hear that kind of talk from men they don't know.

We don't have to be mind readers, or even particularly sensitive to understand this. (In fact, we don't even have to understand it. Just memorize it.)
Thanks for the language tip! I always wondered if there was some kind of local connection which made it work and was completely opaque to everyone back in Mountain View. It seems nobody knows, or if they know, they aren't telling.

Orkut was great stuff. Every time they went down, I'd get paged (if on call that week) because every single person in Brazil would go back to the login page and start submitting the form over, and over, and over...

I wasn't on-call for Orkut, but rather something else it depended on. All of that login load translated through to us. It got to the point where we'd interpret a load spike as "let's check Orkut" and when it got to "yep, it's down", we'd just ignore it.
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None of the testing frameworks I'm aware of alter the Accessibility framework itself - that's not the concern.

The problem is that we're corrupting the data being fed into the framework to further our testing ends. Things like accessibilityLabel and accessibilityValue which are supposed to power screen readers are now instead filled with semantic data to facilitate testing.

UI elements that aren't (and shouldn't) be screen readable now have accessibilityLabels attached to permit testing. UI elements that should have accessibilityLabels have their default values overridden so some test can have visibility into internal state, etc.

You can avoid this - by #ifdef'ing your codebase straight to hell to make sure these don't make it into the shipping app, but I also don't see this being done.

On the plus side it seems like TDD in general isn't a thing in the iOS development scene, though it's picking up, so most apps haven't messed with accessibility yet.
A small png. Download one of those things, they're five times the size of what gets displayed, but you have to download the whole thing anyway. A little responsibility would have been good.
I can't wait to get back to the times where I had to poll all my feeds every few minutes and saturate my bandwidth.
Does anyone think someone extending this to place trades via API would be that horrible of an idea? Seems like it'd be interesting.
Funny you mention this, as I was told by the hiring manager at a wendy's that I worked at that she was hiring me to "do the man work", which meant unloading and putting away truck, working grill,taking out the trash, etc... Never really thought about that until now...
Interesting that no one ever talked about the alternative to Internet sales tax, to solve the competition problem: removing sales tax, and replacing it with use/income/property/head/etc tax.
Ask HN: What's not to like about Marketo/Hubspot/etc?
I am considering marketing automation software for auto-emailing and reporting. What are your thoughts on what each service does well, and perhaps more importantly, can't do as well?
In a way, isn't it good that Google has discontinued Google Reader. It gives chance to other small players to grow and focus solely on improving their RSS reader?

Yes, it was unfair to their users that they were left out suddenly. But I am sure they will find good alternatives.
The problem with this is the same one that lead to the ADA mandating ramps: The handicapped are too small a population with too little money for businesses to financially justify adding ramps simply to get their business, but without the ramps the handicapped can't shop at all. It's a Nash equilibrium in that the first business to unilaterally add a ramp loses money and becomes less competitive than their rampless competition, so the steady-state strategy (the one chosen by players who all know every other player's strategy) is to not build any ramps at all. Nobody can move unilaterally without losing, so nobody moves at all.

This is why the government does these things: To break Nash equilibria that have harmful externalities. In this case, the harmful externality is handicapped people having shittier lives. Much the same logic applies to what the EPA does.
actually, it's my words[0] :)

I wrote it many years ago, but if you think it's wrong I'd be happy to understand why.

I have never been against Flash nor ActionScript(which I don't know enough to criticize) but my understanding was that ES4 was vastly more complex than even AS ever was, rather than being an incremental change as ES6 is.

And please note I wrote

"""
ECMAScript 4 seems cool, I want to use a lot of those things (yay for multi method dispatch!), but maybe it is changing the language a little bit too much .
"""

And I wish I could influence what the dev world does, but I believe it is unlikely.

[0]
http://www.riffraff.info/2007/10/25/ecmascript-4-the-fourth-...
Pretty neat! One thing though: when the horizontal scroll bar shows, a vertical one shows as well. See this: http://i.imgur.com/ZzqDv0C.png
It's hard to have a global name system with readable/meaningful names unless you have a central organization.

He isn't the first person to make this observation, but Zooko's Triangle is easy to link to, so: https://zooko.com/distnames.html
Ok, I actually just didn't realize you were talking about probabilistic logic, because I'm used to propositional logic. If there is no way to determine S in the absence of A, then yes, A matters. However, we have a reasonable accounting of the facts agreed upon by both sides, at least as far as the dongle joke is concerned. Given that, a post mortem evaluation of the joke by a large group of people is a much better way to determine S, making A irrelevant, and therefore H irrelevant. It's not the case that you had to be there in order to know S directly. Does this make sense, regardless of whether or not you agree?
4 years is not a long time in any career. 4 years might be a long time to hold your breath or take a shower. But so far as working goes 4 years is a pittance. It may seem long since youre 24 and thats fine I suppose. I'm 27, so not much older than you, and I'm really not trying to condescend. Try to think with some perspective. Also, try to be less sensitive.
> "and I don't have resources to add all the voice stuff?"

There is no "voice stuff". A lot of enabling accessibility is fixing your non-compliance with HTML standards - always have alt tags on your images and the such.

We're not talking about supporting a completely new frontend strictly for blind users, the facilities for accessibility are already in our base web technology, the only demand here is to use them correctly.

Compliance isn't free, but to make the argument than this is like overhauling an old building is entirely false.
Actually I spend a lot of time typing documenting my code, so that my though process at the time is clear.
"Everyone is carrying their weight"

So why invent a reason for drama?
Or make a device where the glass front doesn't go all the way out to the edge. Just a few millimeters of plastic, so you don't touch glass first, would absorb the worst of energy already.

The sheer weight of the iphone4 is probably a big factor also. I really don't know what apple engineers were thinking. Hmm let's make a phone harder and more solid than a wrench....because the most common way that phones are destroyed are by the users accidentally crushing them with their bare hands while they are holding them!

I've dropped my htc, with fixed battery, several times into the ground from pocket height and the screen is unharmed, it's not something i would do comfortably like you could with an old school phone but it still feels more reliable than an iphone because it's lightweight and its landing-gear isn't made of glass.

Iphone3 didn't have these issues either to the same extent, for these reasons.
Thanks rafski, yep that was exactly why we created the app -- the appeal of something Gowalla-like, but without the social part.
Oh this is just getting silly now.

"How long before it will kills x?" is becoming the new "What ever happened to 'Don't Be Evil'?".

A lazy incantation trotted out by people who haven't really thought out whether it applies to the situation under discussion in any sensible way.
This rubs me wrong. It would be impossible for small businesses operating websites to comply with these directives unless they're made really simple to implement, which I doubt is realistic.

My father was blind for 30 years until he died but never tried to impose on society in any way in that period - I can't imagine him ever agreeing in the slightest with the proponents of these ideas.
On reflection, you are right. I am actually in an online community that does do this, and even has a Metatalk section intended for talking about such things. I suppose I was engaging in hyperbole, born out of a sense of frustration. Thank you for pointing that out, and if you want to tell me (perhaps privately) about your communities, I'd be interested.
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Cute, but as someone who presents at conferences many times a year, I would never rely on a network connection.
After toasting the iPhone, its electronics should no longer be in working order, so only the butter should be exerting its orientation preference.
"if we are able to accept a sketch on tv mentioning a
dongle in good humour, why is it a sackable offence
within earshot of someone?"

I don't have an opinion on whether or not it should be sackable/firable, but there's a big difference between something on television and something in real life.

Would you really see no difference between your mother hearing a penis joke on television and a stranger telling her one on a train?

If you hear a joke you don't like on television, you change the channel and maybe don't watch that show again. Somebody's making sexualized conversation you don't want to hear in public, it's not always fair/convenient/possible for you to leave. In the case of the PyCon thing, perhaps Adria could have handled it better, but why should she have to give up her seat and leave the presentation (or even go to a worse seat) because she doesn't want to hear the guys behind her making sexual jokes?
Orkut was something like 5 years old before G+ was built. It has such a different social/sharing/privacy model, so it would be hard to convert, and it is only a major player in one country.
> Most [alternative users interfaces] would be used
> for phishing.

That's a legitimate concern, but one that I'm sure could be overcome with a little thinking and work. After all, how do companies prevent phishing now?
Thanks, it seems happen to very deep folders.

i will fix that. And i found IE * will not show up at all.
This is misleading: A score of Internet lobbies, such as Netchoice, representing Facebook, Yahoo, and (TechCrunch’s parent company) Aol, argue that the senate’s bill “does nothing to address what the Supreme Court says was an unreasonable burden on interstate commerce,” explains Steve Delbianco of Netchoice.

"Undue burden on interstate commerce" comes from the negative implications of the Commerce Clause, which gives Congress power over interstate commerce and prevents states from putting an undue burden on interstate commerce in an area where Congress has not legislated. If states impose sales tax pursuant to an act of Congress, then there is no Commerce Clause concern since Congress does have the authority to regulate interstate commerce.
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I know I'm repeating here, but have you met the people living on the street? They aren't starving, thanks to charity, but they aren't that employable. A lot of them lack limbs, or have serious mental health problems that are probably exacerbated by living on the street, and would probably be exacerbated by working in a rough job.

I've tried thinking of jobs they could do, but I have had a hard time coming up with anything except recycling - something like sorting through residential trash picking out the recyclables. As it turns out, that industry is employing a lot of homeless people. And, you have to consider that recycling is subsidized by fees on bottles and cans.

I've also worked at a place were we hired a guy with some mental disability to clean up the cafe. He did OK, but not a really good job. If they offered $2 more an hour, they could have hired someone who'd clean AND fix things, easily saving more than the $4000 extra a year he'd cost.
One counter-point is that the accessibility of Reader due to its presence Google ecosystem also grew the global user base of RSS aggregators. Which is to say its not a given that those using RSS through Google Reader would be using RSS at all if it never existed.

It's also not a given that the sync back-ends built in this Never-Reader parallel universe would've matched what would got with Reader in terms of reliability and speed, since regardless of how you feel about them Google infrastructure is best in class.
According to some founder stories we've heard, uneven workload is one of the major causes of drama. Colour us pre-emptive.
Whenever I hear of an amateur built trading system, the first question that always comes to mind is: What's your risk and money management like?

It's easy to come up with an algorithm, but where the real pro's win is with risk management.

EDIT: This isn't meant to be negative at all. Keep up the good work, but know that you're just starting down the rabbit hole now.
I have no idea how, but I previously had read your post. Likely a Google search but at this time I could not tell you the search query.

Your story is both inspirational and practical. Inspirational because you continued to pursue your YC goal after most people would have given up or lost hope, and it was not just some eventuality, you took control of your circumstances by working for a YC company, moving to SV, and finding a co-founder in SV. Similarly, after my first rejection (W12) I applied to work for a YC start-up in SF, unfortunately I have not even received a form rejection much less an interview.

>it wasn’t filling out the application all those times that gave me an idea of what YC is looking for, but rather, it really clicked for me after meeting the YC founders in the dinners of summer 2008.

Along the same lines, this is why I posted my S13 Application to Ask YC alumni, thank you for taking the time to link your post, because I gained more from reading it this second time around - having been rejected since the first time I read it.
True, I'm losing to the market, since January. But 'the market' is unpredictable, unrealized gains on paper. Unless you sell your index tracking positions, you will, in the next couple years, see some nice unrealized losses on paper.

My gains are realized. And fairly predictable.

Also, I only have about $55k in capital. But my rapid buy/sell cycle (not HFT) allows me to keep 'reusing' it.
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flatdesignshowcase.com ?

BAM! half as hipster. Now get rid of the flat design and we might have something here ^^
The moment you start becoming inaccessible, then that's your starting point. Various statistics point to 1 to 2% of the population being blind. So using that example, 50-100 is where you need to become concerned about accessibility.
Why no curl 8
Saturate your bandwidth by polling RSS feeds? What do you use to connect to the Internet, a 300 baud modem?
This may be true, but I think you are turning the discussion in another direction.

The talk here is of Google's current/primary business model. It is, in fact, based on the open Web as was stated previously.

Sure, they could buy other properties. But that just implies a changing business model (ex: content destinations). For that matter you could extend the argument and say that they might buy Facebook or Twitter.

But the need for them to buy such destinations in order to continue their advertising business actually itself speaks to the closing of the Web.
same for me!
You opine without reason or justification.
Immutability in Ruby Part 1: Data Structures
Nice write up about immutable data from a Ruby programmer’s perspective.
AP wins big: Why a court said clipping content is not fair use
You're misinterpreting the title. Put "Evil Google" in scare quotes and it makes more sense.
The sore point for me was mostly that the article takes it for granted that Reader had this huge positive externality, because a lot of people are complaining. It's theoretically interesting to say that such a service might be worth publicly subsidizing. It's just annoying that he happened to use Reader as an example, because there has been a glut of news about Reader lately, and I think it's overblown.
Avent's article is about Google in its entirety, not about Reader alone.
Yes, but the images are much larger than the size they are shown on the site. They are being downloaded full size and resized by the browser to fit.

The 'thumbnail' would be the size the site is showing them at right now. Clicking it would bring you to the full size.
I2P manages human-readable domain names, but not necessarily reliably (the equivalent of DNS is just as distributed and unreliable as the rest of the I2P network).
Sensationalist headlines aside, I received my degree online from the University of Phoenix in 2004 and I had to worked freakin' hard for it. Way harder than I had to work when I attended a 4 year California State University brick-and-mortar college.

So I can't help how others feel about my online degree, but I'm proud of it.
Is there something notable about this? Fixes for a severe security bug? Performance improvements? New features of broad relevance?

The Linux kernel is released all the time. Windows updates aren't usually notable either.
This. People confuse education with accreditation. Online courses (should) provide education very cheaply. I hope the US accreditation system gets fixed so that it is cheap too or not so important for employment.
And that's why businesses don't have to comply with any security or privacy laws on the Internets. Innovation! Disruption!
The code in question comes from the reference implementation of the H.264 video codec. What scraps of code this was cobbled together from is anyone's guess.
I don't think any new tax will pass in the House.
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As a sighted individual i totally agree with you regarding APIs as the best course. Screenreaders are always going to be, at best, a kludge to let those with visual disabilities use a system expressly designed around the ability to see it. Different means of interaction can provide a much better experience.

However, in my interactions with people with visual disabilities, I've come to understand that for many of them, the ability to use the same technology as everyone else is actually quite important. Everybody else uses Windows, why shouldn't they be able to? Everybody else shops on the Amazon website, why not them? To say they should use a separate interface is tantamount to telling them to go to the special grocery store for the blind people.

I don't really know that this is a constructive way of thinking, but it's important to consider.
If I were King: eliminate sales and employment taxes, replace them with carbon taxes.
From TFA:

"even in a plain-vanilla market, a monopolist with high fixed costs and limited ability to price-discriminate may not be able to make a profit supplying a good even when the potential consumer gains from that good exceed the costs of production"

The whole blog post is an analysis explaining why that's true. "Evil Google" may have set people off (but it's pretty clear from TFA that Krugman's not calling Google "Evil"), but "monopolist" is pretty central to the article.
Well, California, for example, has a use tax on items bought out of state, but it's unenforceable and compliance is pretty much nil.

There are states with no sales tax, but I think you'd have trouble persuading those that have one to give it up.
I am totally with you on this. I would have chuckled along with you. I also would have made my own comments too. I worked in the male-dominated worlds of turbine enginrs for 5 years and trucking industry for 7. In those 12 years so many inappropriate things were heard and said but not one was ever directed at anyone specific. I was one to partake in makung those comments and also egged on my co*workers. It was fun and funny.
This woman has totally blown an innocent comment way out of proportion.