skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were using Eclipse as an interface for task creation and presentation; there's AI in the background ordering the tasks according to, eg, minimal procedure time. While their website is a little sparse, I think an email would prove useful.

Also, as I understand it, you're asking for solutions to the wrong problem. While any sort of project planner would be an improvement over scheduling in Word, the reason you don't use that already is a certain rigidity in how EVAs are planned. If that rigidity were overcome, you'd be able to use a simple project planner, and you'd also be able to use a much more advanced solution that ensures that no tasks collide.
I am amazed that there is an app worse than Facebook for Android.
I've never used Python but looking through the code I think I'm starting to pick it up a little bit.
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It makes a lot of sense for laptops and tablets and console-like PCs (e.g. SteamBox). There may be a market there for AMD.
Quant trading is like anything - time and effort. You read a few sites, play with some data, read a few books, test and continually refine your strategies, learn more and brainstorm of new approaches. It can be pretty fun depending on who you are. But in the end I think enjoyment comes down to a love of problem solving, the difference with quant trading is it's financially self-sustainable and rewarding. Other projects lack the immediate pay-off, but take my word for it, will be more rewarding in the long run. Stick to your programming, your research, your show HN.

Also, the first cited site is Ernie Chan's which provides a similar established perspective
Those are basically the reasons you'd need grants, yes. And yes, it's possible to go another route, and do research alone or with few students, in which case you don't need many grants (perhaps any). In areas where not much grant money is available in the first place (pure mathematics, say), that is what people do by necessity.

The author of this post comes from an area, systems, where large-budget, many-student labs are the norm, partly because of the type of research, and partly just because the (relative to other areas) availability of funds means most of your colleagues are going the large-budget, many-student-lab route.
Funny enough, I've gone to a brick and mortar store to find it was closed, then went back home and bought the item on Amazon. I wanted it right then, but since I would have to wait until the next day anyway I just ordered it online.

Contrast that with going to Amazon and finding their site is down or performing poorly; I have never gone to the store to buy something instead. If I was already going to be ordering it online, I was already resigned to waiting a day or two for it to arrive.
Misleading title.. I was expecting to read something similar to that article on the programmer that completely lost it.
I love this thread - it really encapsulates the debate around the product that was ever-present for us. Turns out it was fairly controversial...

One thing is for sure though - the problem of "user onboarding" and conversion exists, and people are actively trying to solve it.

Hopefully the folks from iridize, tutorialize.me, walkme, taurus, etc etc will be able to take up the reigns and build a scalable business around it.
I lived in the Marina in 1999 and don't remember the Grove either. Spent many weekend mornings eating breakfast at other trendy cafes on Chestnut Street.

The article mentions an annual rent of $246k. Assuming the place is open 360 days per year and 10 hours per day, that amounts to $68 per hour. If there are 20 tables in the restaurant, the rental cost is around $3.40 per table-hour at full utilization. This seems achievable for a popular restaurant.
I ported scrypt to Go (https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/scrypt/scrypt.go?...), so I know how to store passwords ;-)

This has nothing to do with passwords. You can read about brokenness of RC4, MD5, or SHA1 in their respective Wikipedia articles.
Google's primary objective is not money, but information gathering and control. The move to Google+ is a centralisation of the information repository. Google Glass is an attempt at getting more detailed personal information. The autonomous vehicle development is for them to control your vehicle.
I totally agree with your thoughts and concerns. It sounds like my experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5535181
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It's kind of rare for our heroes to refrain from disappointing us, isn't it?
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> People can't sell their bitcoins and cause a devaluation if they aren't able to login

If I have my bitcoins in my own wallet (not in the one at the exchange which might be down) then I could sell them at any exchange which is not down.
Ars hasn't known better in a good long time.
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It might be misleading in this context to say Sage is built on IPython: while the Sage terminal repl is built on the IPython terminal repl, the Sage notebook is not built on the IPythn notebook.
"* owns their own private jet/yacht/other signs of opulence"

What if they got their private jet by tricking others into following the strategy?
Hey Maciek,

Thanks so much for the kind words. I totally get your point about the TO zombies, but on the other hand, companies like Nulayer are actually doing great work and are getting rewarded for hard work with success.

Here's to trying again.
Overlay networks do not fulfill the performance requirement, and your comment completely ignores that aspect. Overlay networks would be perfect if we could. Who here would not use Tor if latency was as good as outside Tor? Who here would complain if Skype-like networks were decentralized? The problem with overlay networks is that you either have to sacrifice latency or decentralizedness to get them, and IPv6 does not - ergo, overlay networks can not solve the problem because they can't incrementally improve without adding critically negative aspects while doing so. Invent an overlay network which is decentralized and adds zero latency, and such network would easily beat IPv6.

As for NAT, you are making an Argumentum ad populum fallacy to counter evidential claims. NAT adds complexity to software design when it operates over the network. Proof exists for this fact through RFCs and large design considerations documents. There are also evidental proof that such complexity adds to the cost of developing software, with equal proof that increased developing costs means increased prices. NAT traversal for many services also adds bandwidth costs and increases latency. I have a hard time understanding the argument that increased development costs, higher latency, and more bandwidth would be neutral for the user. The fact that a large number of users, mostly limited to a single ISP, are content with higher costs and higher latency doesn't seem to me to be a good argument in favor of NAT.
They dropped the Microsoft Exchange format for syncing contacts in favor of the open cardDAV format, so that's one piece of data the points in the other direction.

[Edit: originally typed "calendars" instead of "contacts".]
I tried the beta and I had some guy just come up to the desk and do nothing. I wasn't sure what to do so I pulled down the security screen.
Modern hypervisors have an overhead as low as 2%, so yes, they absolutely are. It is often worth virtualizing simply for the flexibility/management that it bring, even if it's a single virtual machine on a very large box.
I'm by no means any sort of designer, but on their comparison picture the Open Sans body is easier for me to read than the Helvetica/Ariel body.
AMD also had a niche in supercomputers, for example the Cray XT/XE series. Not sure the absolute volume really made a difference there though, the number of Cray sales would be dwarfed by ordinary PCs and servers.
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Try using this in a user CSS:

* { -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto !important; }

Why anybody anywhere thought that the behavior for 'none' was appropriate is baffling [1].

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56543
The problem really isn't that the description is too long, though. The problem is that you have to jump back and forth to see what part of the explanation applies to what part of the code. I'm also wary of making code readability too dependent on a specific editor

The other problem with using numeric footnotes is that any time you change the code, you have to laboriously renumber the comments.

That part really could be helped with better editor support. And if the generated documentation were, say, a rich HTML page, you could even have it so that mousing over a line of code would highlight the relevant point in the documentation (and vice versa).

But LP has been around a lot longer than I have been programming at all, and I find it hard to believe that after a month of dabbling, I have better insights into improving it than those who have been using it for decades.

That said, the more I read into LP, the more I feel like part of my problem may simply be that CoffeeScript's implementation of it is rather anæmic. Traditional LP is apparently supposed to have macros that are essentially section headers that double as language constructs. That's a lot more powerful than just stripping everything but the code blocks from a markdown file and executing the result.
Your analogy doesn't work at all. The FSF is about a goal. It is a noble goal, and it has clearly shaped the software world for the better.

I ran Linux and did lots of development under it in the 90s. I quite enjoyed it and preferred it to Windows development at the time. I use Linux every day for work.

That doesn't mean I don't boot up Windows to play BioShock Infinite, even though I disagree with a lot of things Microsoft does.
In other words, how to identify yourself as a market parasite.
Gccgo did use threads for each goroutine for a while, and it was significantly slower than the gc "green thread" style implementation (used by both compilers today). Goroutines weigh in at about 4k each. OS threads are 64k minimum. That allows more than an order of magnitude more goroutines than threads, from a memory perspective. From an execution standpoint, goroutines managed by the Go runtime allow some nice scheduling optimisations, as the runtime is aware of the communication between goroutines. (some of these optimisations are in Go 1.1)

Finally, there is no reason goroutines can't be preemptively scheduled. It is just an implementation detail, and work has already begun on this front.
I think to some extent the problem is that it's very easy -- to a first approximation -- to keep the body running. Keep the blood flowing, keep it oxygenated, keep it clean. It may be expensive, but it's easy to work out.

Quality of life is all in the nerves. Avoiding dementia, Alzheimer's, paralysis, blindness, deafness, ... It's much harder.
I don't care about reader or RSS.

I do care about Google's decision to avoid paying tax. This may be legal, but it's shady. Thus, I'm starting to not use Google provided services.

It's a shame because Google Search (web, at least) really is very good, despite occasional weirdness.

Here's some screenshots (http://imgur.com/a/u1zj6) of my results. (Note that suicidegirls is NSFW)

[suicidegirls dutch doctors want to kill little babies] gives this URL (https://www.google.co.uk/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&#...)

But [suicidegirls dutch doctors] gives this url (https://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy-ab&q=suicidegirls+...)
You can easily abort a goroutine using a channel: http://play.golang.org/p/OYnAdqnDLz
This write-up is outdated.

Better data can be found via a search engine.

My own testing (https://gist.github.com/TimZehta/5435216) reveals:

Loops: 1,000,000

method1, 0.297 seconds, 11296 KB
method3, 0.568 seconds, 17084 KB
method4, 0.366 seconds, 66732 KB
method5, 0.483 seconds, 20840 KB
method6, 0.251 seconds, 15600 KB

Sorry for the enigmatic names (started with code form linked article), but I've run out of time.
Cray's next generation is going Intel BTW.
What about the products advertisers/publishers use? Adsense and Adwords.
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Amazing,

I have same feeling with Webmatrix.

I have reported many bugs on uservoice webmatrix site. When they come with v2 prev 1 I write 175 bugs in a text file and send them through MSDN contact page.

Later through their site their is hard to tell them every single bugs. When I tried to tell them more bugs the answer is write every bugs per thread.

I have write more then 500 bugs and the result is The application crash even today.

The same way When I report my bugs to Firefox or Chrome discussion people solve it better & FAST.
To be fair, the slow growth might partly be explained by their restricting it to a few devices in the US only.
I think you need to rethink your terms.

Native performance is wrong, javascript (unless it's like asm.js or something) will never be "native performance".

All CocoonJS is, is just a OpenGL layer with html/css/javascript support. And while it is faster then just flat out using JSC. It is not faster then c/objective c + opengl.

There have also been several reports of CocoonJS actually being slower then UIWebView. A simple google search for "cocoonjs performance" returned several issues.
For someone focusing on what is being written, you really didin't. I made no accusation, I asked if you would say you were a shill, were that to be the case. And I admitted that if I were a shill, I would preface my statements with "I am not a shill". And the issue being discussed is about shills in technology comments, so even if I were to accuse you of being a shill, ad hominem this is not.
Biolab Disaster (http://playbiolab.com/) has a great iOS port which has excellent performance on my iphone 4S. Its only a prototype though but people really seemed to like it. The engine they developed also has some clever appstore bundling tech which improves JS performance alot as it looks.
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Ask HN: What's the average age of your development team?
I'm curious simply because I'm convinced that HN has an older demographic than most forums and I often wonder if that translates to real life.

It would be interesting to return to a thread like this in 5 years time to see if the demographic has changed.

I work with a team of 24 developers and our average age is around 29 which I assume is higher than most averages in the UK at least.

So enlighten me. Posting your location would be a useful factor for comparison too.
I'm not saying I can't do this. Or that you can't. I certainly do everything on my own when I'm starting something new as I'm sure many builders do. My point is that I don't think it's a sustainable assignment. When the sys admin job becomes big enough, admins will spend a ton of time doing simple repetitive tasks. I can't imagine a person with the neural architecture of a visionary/builder-of-things being willing to do this type of work for very long.

Perhaps the fact that there are tools out there which automate repetitive sys admin tasks is a sign that these types of people have been placed in these jobs before and they did what they do best. Perhaps that's even reason enough to place them in these jobs to begin with. I may have just talked myself out of thinking this is a bad idea...
I expected them to bigger at video, but I guess there is a pretty long tail of smaller providers such as Vimeo and Liveleak and what not?

Also, porn.
(Disclaimer: I am the author of the article.)

Consider the case of finding a set of strategies governed by a particular set of parameters in a book. For instance, the Moving Average lookback period. You will see authors posting certain strategies, albeit without revealing the market/time series with which they're carrying them out on or which exact parameters they use. This is the critical information, but it is also relatively straightforward to trial/test, assuming you have the available data.

Also - the same strategy, implemented identically, can be both successful AND a failure for two different traders with identical starting capital. Why? Because one may not have the stomach for a 50% drawdown in the equity curve, despite the fact that had they waited, a "big swing" would have been around the corner. It is as much about preferences/tolerances as it is about the actual rule set.
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Both are fine and if you're unsure, go for hosted because it will be easier
I also would be very interested in seeing what could be done with IPython + Light Table.

I currently do most of my exploratory work (which is in turn most of my total work) in the IPython Notebook and it will be interesting to see what Light Table can do beyond what the notebook does (for starters, I imagine it will have a more refined approach to Javascript hooks for visualization and the like).

I will point out though that the only thing that gets posted to the browser in the IPython Notebook is an objects __repr__. So, unless you are looking at raw dumps of tens of gigabytes of data, you shouldn't have to worry about browser memory limitations. The IPython backend of the Notebook can handle just about anything that your standard python interpreter can handle. It could even be an EC2 instance or cluster resource (here is one example: http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/v7/n3/full/ismej2012123a...).
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Ways to make money in the stock market

- Own a trading floor

- Become a stockbroker

- Become a market maker

- Sell books on the subject

- Work for a financial institution
Stop Stealing My Freakin’ Blog Posts
nice, although i'm still sticking with sublime text for now it's good to have a wide range of options
Have you checked out Continuum's Wakari project.[1] It is essentially IPython with an online ide.

http://continuum.io/wakari.html
One might say it more closely played to the greed of their "consumers" (publishers in the article), letting them use the company's product without any real risk or even competence.

Instead of taking money from their customers, they gave money to their customers.

Now if I could only make Lamborghini do the same ...
Think this maybe the first repo I've seen with more forks (224) than stars (132)
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The obligatory reference for a thread about trading strategies is the collected works of Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Nassim-Nicholas-Taleb/e/B000APVZ7W

Structuring the trades to reduce your exposure to downside risk while increasing your exposure to upside from unanticipated random events is the hard strategy to implement, but it is the sole strategy for avoiding a gambler's ruin.
I tried it out but I found it too suffocating -- Facebook, like Google, wants their "feed" to be your main IV-line of info-tainment but in practice the vapid updates of friends mixed in with poorly constructed advertisements isn't very engaging.

If someone makes Facebook Home for aggregated RSS feeds, than they've invented mobile crack and I will never be able to put it down. So maybe don't do that.

Also, Chat Heads is the best SMS implementation I've used on Android, so kudos to Facebook for that.
That does certainly help in terms of making the documentation readable, but it doesn't help the readability of the source code.
It reminds me of this I read earlier today from http://www.theactuary.com/features/2013/04/the-mild-mannered... "The other experience that led to his change of mind was carrying out some research on London casinos. He found that the typical gambler was a successful, entrepreneurial businessman. Far from being there for the thrill of winning, or losing, money, “these people actually believed that they could win”.

He realised he was observing the upper tail of a distribution of people who were aggressive risk takers, yet naïve about the risks they were taking – the businessmen one sees in the casinos are the ones successful enough to have enough money to lose.

These same people provide the underlying dynamics of capitalism. They are not rational, they do not understand risk and are therefore prepared to take risks that a rational agent would not take. And it is these people who drive the growth of the economy.
Not to mention the absurdity of "spreading bogus AP press releases"
Is there any real benefit over IPython + SymPy?
This reminds me of a kid, lying flat in the middle of a super market, revolting with his parents because they didn't buy a toy he liked..
Kito Corp - Zynga's Gambling Ambitions.
Previous Hacker News submission with lots of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448364

The article "How Doctors Die" from a different publication has also prompted a lot of discussion about related issues in previous submissions to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5104430

AFTER EDIT: I see a lot of other HN participants here are sharing personal stories of caring for dying parents, so I will briefly mention mine. Just more than eleven years ago, an April with a late arrival of spring like this year meant that we had a winter storm in early April. My dad was out on a shopping errand in the morning, and slipped and fell on an icy store parking lot while walking back to his car. He was just days before his seventy-second birthday then, and the slip and fall left him paralyzed from the neck down, as he injured a cervical vertebra in the fall.

He originally thought he would fully recover from that injury. He had fully recovered from a similar injury (from a car crash while his mother was driving him to college) when he was still a teenager, back well before I was born. He had surgery after his later injury, but the surgery only made his condition worse--not only could he not move any of his limbs, but he also couldn't clear his throat or swallow, and he could speak only with difficulty. He spent the last six years of his life that disabled, sometimes making a bit of progress in recovering motion through physical therapy, but never making enough progress to regain the ability to walk or to eat without a gastric tube.

So, yeah, end of life care issues are tough. My dad thought beforehand that he had written down careful instructions in a personal care directive prepared years before his injury. But even though that document listed many different possible conditions, with directives for his care in each case, what actually happened to him was an edge case compared to everything on the list. It absorbed a lot of my time and attention while my children were young and I had just moved back to the United States from overseas to check how my dad was doing and keep him company when his other family caregivers were exhausted. For six years, our weekends were visits to grandpa--never much of anything else.

In the end, his transition from eventual intensive care as health issues piled up from his long-term immobility turned into a very brief stay in hospice before my dad died. (My dad died at a considerably younger age than his father before him.) I'm sure he didn't want to die that way. He wanted to walk again before he died, but that was never possible. Slow decline in health is hard to face and hard to make satisfying decisions about.
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Another early adopter here, sad to see you go.

We got a little worried when you pivoted as we felt that it would be just as much work to embed the Kera solution as it would to roll your own goal tracking solution with much tighter integration with the base website.

We would Would love to see you open source the v1 product though, really felt that solved a much harder problem.