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If I may ask, why are you particular about Getting to US?
What do you think you'll get in US, which you won't get in India?

Here are a few points I have.
1. Understand the business of Startups: Startups are usually ideas to 'fill up a gap'. With Logic, you are more likely to find gaps in a less matured market.

2. Why Emerging markets, are better than Matured markets: It is hard to believe that 1.2 billion people will not contribute to be one of the best economies of the world. It's hard to believe that there wont be enough business opportunities in India. (Same goes for China, which is already on top, and other emerging markets like Africa etc.)

3. Who will be winners of future? I would imagine people who are slogging to get the emerging markets better will be at best position in future.

3. If you think there is some kind of lack of opportunity in India. Well create one. If you think there are ways you think things should happen, well you should work to work those things out.

On VISA Issue: With Startup VISA coming, it might make a few things easier, but only time will tell the right story.
"Gareth Rees’ article titled, Standups are Poinonous hit HN" ... I stopped there.
Holy crap, he has 3 hours standups? They're called "STAND UPS" because you stand while giving them so that you're motivated to be quick! I actually try and follow the one-breath rule for what have I done, what am I doing, what are my blockers.
I think support for WebRTC is still only in Firefox Nightlies, not the stable version, or at least not full support.
Thank you for the advice. I appreciate it!
Firefox & Chromium are pretty damn good end-user facing software.
A list on Github (or anywhere else) is an inefficient format for this...why not a google spreadsheet that anyone can edit, so that you can sort by city, category, cost, etc?
I'm genuinely curious, how are standups not status meetings?

From the article:

- Make sure everyone is working on the right thing

- Help out other team members by taking work off their plate or helping them by sharing domain-specific knowledge

- Keeping everyone informed

How is that different from a status meeting? I've heard "standups are not status meetings" over and over from the agile community, but I don't get it. They sure seem to be quick status meetings that allow everyone to get a handle on the current status of the iteration?
A standup is generally what it sounds like - the entire team stands up together and quickly/briefly cover what they have worked on in the last 24 hours. This can be as simple as "still working on x", or "i need x from y to continue".

Some places don't manage standups well at all, and that is one of the big problems with standups in general - they become status meetings and take too long. When done right, they are very useful as you quickly know what everyone is working on and if someone might need your insights on something (which should then be a separate meeting and not covered in the standup).
> [...] probability of 0.01%. One hundred percent

One hundredth percent*

Google translate should work on its spelling!
Without knowing you personally, it's hard to suggest things to do. I would suggest you check out wikitravel.org. I found it a great guide when I was backpacking through Europe.

http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/San_Francisco

Edit: Switched to wikivoyage due to comments below.
Tested it. File send and receive does work.
Blackberry? How do the new models rate? From the couple of reviews that I read, their new products seem good.
Yeah, definitely. I plan to surround myself around people with similar interests. I think I'll have the most fun that way.
Firefox is currently ahead on the data channel, right? They support sending blobs / arrayBuffers directly, while Chrome doesn't yet have a reliable transport or binary data support.

Your example translates the file into a base64 string to send over the unreliable channel, which ends up being a pretty big performance hit compared to a native binary transport.

All of this is to say: WebRTC is getting there, but it's still going to be several months before it's ready for more than demos like this.
Of course, this is also true of your ISP, your cell carrier, your email provider, and every electronic communications system ever (except GPG). Facebook has no more reason to sell your messages and status updates than they do, and ad targeting does not cause your data to leave Facebook's servers.
What do you feel is wrong with it now? It's much easier to implement features/fixes/improvements when you have an idea of what people want, and why they want it; there's not much you can do with "it sucks".
Exactly! Thanks for saying what I was thinking.
yeah, but c'mon. Think of most web users - they are not very savvy. People tend to stick to defaults.
No, he is saying that a 6 person, 30 minute stand up takes 3 hours.
MIT caps the foreign students in a class at about 15%, so you were competing for one out of a bit over 150 slots. You very possibly made the "Can you do the work?" cut; overall, before applications shot up from 13,000 to 18,000, about 1/3 made that cut, but MIT has room for only a bit over 1,000.

It's nothing personal, and the people involved in admissions do not like turning down qualified applicants, but they don't have any choice.
Standups primarily are for making sure everyone knows what's going on.

If you're doing Scrum, the only issues you should really be bringing to standups are those you can't solve within the team that you need the Scrum Master to sort out. Anything the team can fix for itself isn't blocking, it's business as usual.
This is the definitive site if you want to learn guitar.

And it's not another scammy website where you have 2 free videos and then have to pay for everything else, or where you're promised to learn the secret technique that will make you play faster than Satriani in 2 weeks... Just take a look at the lesson index: http://justinguitar.com/en/AA-000-LessonIndex.php (all these are free except the PR category).

By all means though, if you like the lessons, consider buying stuff to support him!
It's tough to know where to begin here. To refute the EMH you don't need a 'surefire winning strategy'. You only need a strategy that is profitable in expectation. And it doesn't need to be laid down in advance - all sources of expected return have a half life, and strategies need to be retired when they stop working. That necessitates continuous research.

Also, you seem to defeat your own argument. The strong form EMH says that excess returns are not possible, even with insider trading - which you admit can lead to outperformance. The weak form EMH would prohibit excess returns from the announcement effect, but you admit that leads to return predictability as well. Which is it - does the EMH hold, or is the announcement effect real?

Your arguments for why momentum, value and equity investing work also don't stand up. There's nothing to be "announced" in those strategies - you could apply them in a vacuum where you didn't know anything except prices and fundamentals. Similarly no insider knowledge is required. So why do you say that they are due to the announcement effect and insider trading?

You also misunderstand the scientific method - the failure of an experiment to refute the null hypothesis does not lend credence to the null hypothesis! At most it tells you that the null is consistent with the observations. Moreover, you talk as if the Null Hypothesis is a particular statement, which it is not. There's a great XKCD comic I'd refer you to if I wasn't on my phone!

If you want such an experiment, I humbly invite you to consider the past and future returns of the fund I work for, which is 100% model-driven. Although obviously we trade based on our predictions - because at the end of the day we're in this to make money, not to write papers or win internet arguments.
Why does Facebook have to share this data to data aggregators? At some point, the creepy corporate use of FB data will scare people from using FB to the point that the bottom line is hurt. FB just has to shut off the firehose of data, if they have any foresight
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In a conversation like this, rhetoric is cheap, and there is no evidence for your position. All evidence suggests that the EMH is true. Prove this wrong -- identify a surefire winning stock picking strategy that is immune to the announcement effect and insider trading, that reliably puts its practitioners ahead of market indices. There is no such thing.

> One need only look to the LBO bubble and the dotcom bubble to see counter-examples of EMH.

Those are not counterexamples, and they bear no relevance to the present topic. Anyone can misbehave in spectacular ways, but those misbehaviors don't falsify the EMH, any more than an airplane crash falsifies theories of aerodynamics.
Yowza  Another tech company looking to spruce up their digs with a new campus
Perhaps you could constructively expand on this?

For the most part, I find managing FreeBSD to be painless, with one glaring exception I'll get to in a minute. I really love that the base system and the 3rd party packages are iterated separately -- I can have a stable base OS, while also running modern software.

The problem is the ports system. Building your own software is a nice option to have, but it's usually just a waste of everyone's time, and it tends to fail in annoying, new, and magical ways.

Fortunately, we have https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng coming down the pipeline, which solves the problem (finally).

On top of the hassle of using ports, writing ports is a huge hassle of battling archaic crap. Rather than using destroot, like every other package manager from the past 15 years, FreeBSD requires the package maintainer to manually list out each file that will be installed on the target system, and will fail to properly clean up ports if those file lists are incorrect.

That said, it's not all that much worse than what's necessary to produce a debian/ubuntu package -- it just could be better.
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"ad targeting does not cause your data to leave Facebook's servers."

What reason is there to believe that facebook wouldn't explicitly allow third parties to pay a fee and see your "private" information"
A DIY Arduino Midi controller with case
Google's main, eponymous business is a service that is monetized via ads.

That business shares some of its technology with two other efforts:

1. Google's efforts to monetize those ads.
2. Google's efforts to monetize other ads.

None of this invalidates a claim that Google typically fits the "users first, dollars second" stereotype.

Android fits that stereotype too; ditto Google Apps.
This sort of seems like a misuse of Github. Github is a place where individuals or organizations can store an actual product and the community can interact with and contribute to said product. It's not a place where one should solicit life advice or ask the community to perform trivial tasks unrelated to development or an actual product of any sort.

It's not that asking for this kind of thing is necessarily bad, but I think that it's inappropriate for Github. Quora or maybe HN itself would be a better forum on which to ask for suggestions about travel to the US.
Quantum interaction: 10,000 times faster than light
actually it didn't ...its successor Spitznagel's Universa made enormous profits in 2008 to the tune that he now manages $6 billion....also: Taleb made his money in the '87 crash...and Empirica made a lot in 2000/2001. Taleb closed it because he suffered from trader fatigue....something quite common btw
"Superfund" is synonymous with "toxic place" but I agree, the problem is that "Superfund" sounds a little too much like "super fun" and not enough like "uncontrolled hazardous waste site that needs federal funds to cleanup"

http://www.epa.gov/superfund/
I was hoping that adding updates to repo in the form of videos, pictures and mini-blogs would accomplish just that.
"People don't actually read newspapers; they get into them every morning like a hot bath." -Marhsall McLuhan (1911-1980)
Just like the others have said, choosing the school that makes you HAPPIEST is best. Culture is so important when it comes down to these long-term commitments.

Also, do think about the networking aspect. That is, where are some of those alums at those schools heading off to. This may be an important as you think beyond college.

They're all great schools, and if you're confident in your ability and work hard, you'll make the most out of any school you choose.

... and just because I am an avid fan of my undergrad, I'm going to throw in Georgia Tech to the talk. Just cuz...

Good luck and congrats!
I think rail recursion can be handled automatically by the compiler without any support from the jvm (scala does it).

The issue is different for general tail call elimination.
I dunno, man. I just wish they all could be Calfornia girls.
I like your idea though. Lunch is on me! https://github.com/xzyfer/us-travel-checklist/commit/c09178e...
(Replying to myself, since I can't edit the post now...)

More info on F# 3.0 + Mono 3.0 + FreeBSD can be found here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/fsharp-o...

Arch Linux users: the thread I linked also has instructions on how to build/install F# 3.0 and Mono 3.0, if you're interested.
I agree, but i notice that i find it difficult to act on it, and many with me. Any tips for how to get the "look, i did work" urge out of the way?
This advice seems catered for consultants or others who take 1-2 day trips with a fairly high frequency. That being said, I think overpacking is definitely the biggest issue with. Nwbie travellers: I remember bringing a rollerbag for an overnight trip, in addition to a stuffed backpack, and all it led to was me having a clean set of clothes and unworn shoes when I got home, and getting stuck in the T's revolving exit door.
Here's a shot of the Milky Way over Los Angeles, taken over Los Angeles [1]. The first comment explains the technique. There's still cut-n-paste going on, because the exposure lengths for stars and for city lights are so different---and also the stars are moving. But you might consider it slightly more "honest."

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/magneticlobster/5941836830/
> To refute the EMH you don't need a 'surefire winning strategy'. You only need a strategy that is profitable in expectation.

Yes, and, in spite of its tremendous theoretical importance, there is no such thing.

> And it doesn't need to be laid down in advance ...

Is this a scientific conversation? Yes? Then yes, it does. Any number of bogus studies can prove their claims if one can change the study's claims as the evidence comes in.

> The strong form EMH says that excess returns are not possible, even with insider trading ...

Ah, I see -- redefine the EMH, then prove the falsity of the redefinition. The EMH says no such thing.

> The weak form EMH would prohibit excess returns from the announcement effect ...

Also false. You aren't discussing the EMH, you're making it up as you go along.

> There's nothing to be "announced" in those strategies - you could apply them in a vacuum where you didn't know anything except prices and fundamentals. Similarly no insider knowledge is required. So why do you say that they are due to the announcement effect and insider trading?

That's easy to answer -- I never said any such thing, anywhere. You're arguing against a position no one has taken.

I did say that an legitimate test needs to be conducted in private, with no actual investments -- a computer model defined in advance, that cannot be changed as the study proceeds, and that by definition cannot influence the real market being studied. There are no such successful models. The EMH appears to be true.

> If you want such an experiment, I humbly invite you to consider the past and future returns of the fund I work for ...

Ah, so you have a dog in this fight. You're not an impartial participant, striving for objectivity. That means I'm wasting my time talking to you -- you're not a scientist, you're a salesman.
Why? I don't see any reason that Github has to be that just because that's how most people use it. I find this particular project a bit silly, but there's nothing wrong with it as a use of Github.
I read that but it sailed right over my head until your comment because that is an utterly banal observation. Yeah, Microsoft spends 12 man months on bathroom breaks every single day too; I guess that's why they are going down the shitter.
Aside from standups becoming status meetings (which it a mechanism of superficial management used by terrible managers), one of my gripes with them is that they're often redundant -- everyone should know what everyone else is working on, and what everyone else finished, and any blocking issues, via your agile tool (e.g. Rally). Redundancy in information is a terrible, terrible thing, and it leads to a situation where neither becomes canonical because that other thing.
Wow, these are neat pictures. Interesting way of showing the night sky sans artificial light.
To curtail the length, have you tried using the "parking lot" option?

If someone starts to get off on a topic that isn't related to "what i completed yesterday", "what im going to complete today", "any impediments" then raise your hand and call "parking lot". This informs the person to wait until after standup to have the conversation.

The first time I did it people thought I was crazy. I got looks like, "who the heck is this guy to cut me off?" but the next few times I start to raise my hand, the person realizes and ends their talking.

Give it a shot. Google "stand up parking lot" for more info.
Rewording of http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_22886654/facebook-ge...
The article is talking about removing hard links, not soft links.
I guess you're right. I was thinking along the lines of "a less common pattern is less likely to be noticed and tried correctly the first time around and by then the traces left of it are ruined" but now that I've looked at the photo again I see this is probably wrong. On a phone like that any grease pattern should be pretty obvious.
*stalk
> Markets are unpredictable, but people (read: rational, utility-maximizing investors) aren't. Generally there is a level of herd behavior that can be modeled.

You're overlooking the fact that some of those modeled people are analysts who are also trying to model, and act on, the behavior of the mob. In fact, analysts constitute their own mob. :) That restores the EMH to its rightful place.
The tech scene in Greece is booming—thanks to desperation
Are you joking? I travel to India frequently for business. I can assure you corruption is rampant at all levels I've had the misfortune of being in contact with (which is not very high level at all). You need to bribe everyone in Indian govt. to get them to do their jobs, for which they already get a salary.
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That's the downside of keeping your data in a service. This is a conceptual problem due to the lack of agreed upon data protocols. Google Reader has highlighted the issue well, and more services are to follow I'm sure. This is an issue that never existed for files since they by definition conform to a specific format.

RSS and CalDAV are examples of web data formats which do work. I'd like to see more formats like that, or perhaps an ability to fall back to export data as files from web services.
Though isn't the idea of state violence a workable one because there are situations in which violence and compliance are in people's best interest - such as shooting a home invader, and secondly because (ideally, and this is where it has broken down) the state is an accountable facilitator of the people's will.
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"Stopping at the First Sentence Considered Harmful"
Also, don't be afraid to change your major (though this might be harder to do in the UC system than I'm used to). Just because you think you love programming doesn't mean you can't be a great linguist, or chemist, or etc. Especially if you get through the first year or two of CS classes, you'll be capable of being an incredibly sought-after commodity in pretty much any field (including history or anthropology), because you'll be able to attack problems others don't have the same tools for. And absolutely, unless you want to get a Ph.D, a BA vs a BS doesn't really matter (and I'd argue research matters more): one just means the top part of your T-shaped knowledge is wider.
+ 1 for Yamaha . For amplification have a look at Roland Cube series. Cheap but good quality for beginners.
Well, the thing about noise, from a topological point of view, is that persistent homology simply cannot decide whether something is noise or not --- at least not right away.

To be more precise: A lot of what PH does is actually some sort of multi-scale Betti number calculation. The Betti numbers count the number of k-dimensional "holes" in a data set. Their calculation is usually done by something that is called "simplicial homology" in algebraic topology. Topologists like simplicial homology because it "only" requires that your input data is given in the form of a simplicial complex. A simplicial complex is a sort of generalized graph. Think of your input data is being described by vertices, edges, triangles, tetrahedra, and their higher-dimensional counterparts. Got it? Good.

Now, the problem about real-world data is that it does not come in the form of a simplicial complex. So, this sort of structure needs to be approximated somehow. And it is precisely through this approximation that the noise begins to creep in. PH tries to deal with the noise by assigning a weight to each feature it detects, sort of like a "scale" on which the feature "lives" (note that I am talking about a feature in the sense of a "hole" here). Features that live "long" are considered important. Features that don't live long, are not considered important.

So, coming finally back to your comment: You, as a user of PH, have to (sort of) decide what to consider as noise and what not. If you take a look at the seminal applications in PH, you will find that the extraction of features works quite well, although some sort of preprocessing might be required.

Anyway, if you are interested about using PH to analyse some data, I would be happy to discuss some stuff with you :)

Disclaimer: I am working with PH from the point of visualization. I try to make the topological structure of a data set visible.
> I realize that doesn't sound like a ton of money

That's a fucking shitload of money.
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Disclaimer: I'm not an "agile guru". I've worked for years in an old-school corporate environment and just recently switched job and joined a small agile team. My views on agile don't come from reading or theory, they come from my one month experience so far.

The only difference between standups and status meeting is that you're not there to fill a report card. You're not there to show your manager you did something. You're just there because it's the only 10 minutes in the whole day where the whole team comes together to discuss. It's (at least in my place of work) highly informal, very chilled and very genuine. What we do is say what we're working on and ask for help and/or ideas.

We have a private IRC channel for this, but the fact that we meet face to face for 10 mins a day really does bring up interesting fast conversations.

The whole point of standups is not to take notes, not to keep track and just have a quick break to talk (not type) about work.
Well, it is a good way to tell computers and humans apart. Computers can read it, while humans can't.

They should reject corectly filled in captchas.