skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A significant amount of domain knowledge. You need a solid foundation in higher mathematics, statistics, and economics. This industry is extremely competitive and you'll quickly notice the manipulative games that are being played. If it were a simple technology game, a lot more market participants would be successful. That being said, as a retail trader, you have significant advantages, as far as capital allocation and risk tolerance. The best advice I can give you, look for edges were it would be impractical for the big boys to do so. Out of curiosity, what do you think is actually involved in quantitative trading? How do you think models are created and applied?

If you want to chat a bit more, let me know.
Jebus. Some Ubuntu users are just nuts. I didn't think the folks who write YouTube comments were smart enough to know how to install Linux, but I guess they've managed to figure out Ubuntu.

The anger, tin foil hats, and self-righteousness, are kinda disturbing. I've been involved in Open Source software development for 12 years or so, and I've seen this kind of thing in the past, of course, but not very often so much of it in one place, and over a clearly experimental feature in an alpha (e.g. for developers and testers) release, that was previously discussed and documented to be a user workflow data gathering tool. Unless one assumes that Ubuntu/Canonical actually has evil intentions (in which case, why would you use the OS, when there are many other options?), this kind of response is unwarranted, undeserved, and unproductive.

I'd also wager that the people doing the most abusive complaining are the ones who have contributed the least to the community, while the people they are verbally abusing are the folks who actually make the software they are complaining about.
Guitar - jazz and blues. I used to play pro and then "found" computers :)
Is there any company, big or small, that is doing more for the Internet than Google?

In fact, they may have already done more than any other company ever.

This acquisition, plus what's going on with pubsubhubbub over the past few weeks, will really go a long way to putting the network back in our hands.
You don't even need multiple LEDs, but rather multiple emitting areas in one package.

Maybe the result would be too big to be practical. Or too expensive.
I think he just described much of LISP (from my limited knowledge of it)
One additional thing is that the punishments have to be realistic. If your policy is to fire someone who is lax in security, your managers are likely to cover up infractions so that they don't have to fire their employees.

You have to be willing to follow through.
What if the "components" are closed under the method of composition? You could probably get quite a bit of abstraction that way, not that it would be more powerful than what we already have which at least has this tool for creating abstraction...
excellent t-shirt idea
Could hardly agree with you more Bill. I actually go as far as giving different names to the two purposes, and putting them into completely different areas of the business.

1) is 'Marketing' is Operations, it's about revenue today, and sits with Sales, product delivery etc.

2) is 'Positioning' (from the work by Jack Trout) is equity management, is about future revenue and sits with things like vision, culture, new product research etc.
Good product placement opportunity for promoting some health food. 'Stay fit by eating X though you lay on your ass all day'
Well professional investors still have the same amount of time as before, so they'll attend as many pitches as they used to. Wish we could measure the total volume of $'s coming out of these demo days and compare.
The thing I really hate is as an obviously intelligent guy with the influence to prompt a reply from an Apple exec his response is so... pathetic. That was not an encouraging and appropriate response from Apple, it was bullshit.
amichail: You posted a link to this on AskReddit, but not a link to AskReddit on this.

If anyone wants to read the responses over there: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/989zz/should_high...
Harvard architecture is pretty boring since it is strictly less powerful than von Neumann architecture; you can trivially emulate Harvard architecture on a regular computer by just not loading or storing from your text segment.
Within the realm of the baseball playing robotics, this is true. There is a lot of research to be done on human locomotion and automated rapid response. Don't get me wrong, I was very impressed by the reproduction of a two finger fastball and the response by the batter.

But as for the cooking, the robots had to be rotated to their extremes to operate the ladle. The end result there was preparation of food, and the use of the ladle was not the simplest thing to have the robot do. That seemed out of place, and pointed at the ladle being the wrong tool for the job.
The only serious fringe architecture I've seen in a long time is Fleet, which was discussed on HN recently. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723882
Take a look around the site, the guy's a crank. He's been talking about how great COSA is for years, but he's never actually implemented it, or even shown examples of how it's supposed to look beyond a few trivialities.
Wow, if you start reading the rest of this guy's writings the crackpot indicators start lighting up.

http://www.rebelscience.org/Seven/bible.html
http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/notorious.htm

He has a good sense of humor about it though and even links to this Google search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22louis+savain%22+...
"Guitar Hero is a very poor comparison. As far as I'm aware, there's no way to take one of these toys and create any kind of original music with it"

Actually the latest version of Guitar Hero ('World Tour') does include the ability to record, edit & share. It's very limited of course.
I'm not giving any opportunity to anyone. The market will do what it does.

As a technology solution, XMPP is far better than a polling based Twitter/Identi.ca client.
Piano - I really like how versatile and consistent it is. If I were to learn another instrument, it'd definitely be guitar.
Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user
Maybe people will stop using gaming as an excuse to run Windows. Yeah, I know, they won't, but still, one can dream.
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BusinessObjects service pack woes anger customers
How happy is the internet?
I don't see what the big deal is. If Canonical can make a little more money with this to keep funding the distro then good for them, it's a barely profitable company that offer its main product for free. As for the extension, it gives the same results as regular google, don't like it? Remove it, it's just a firefox extension. Or install your own firefox.
> DNS is so trivial to distribute that it's not normally a worthwhile attack vector. F5 knows that.

Really? So what do you say for the evidence they provide in the article, from Arbor and from Twitter's DNS provider?
I guess he wants to combine DSLs with Gnome-Do, then?
Aside: When I used to ride a motorbike, I found the combination exhilarating of the more severe consequences of an accident, with greater ability to be aware of it and greater ability to deal with it. Unlike a car, a motorbike has a full field of vision, and you can also see over cars because you are higher. It's also more agile: you can turn, brake and accelerate more quickly, it being lighter; and of course you can pass through smaller gaps to get out of trouble.

It's incredible fun.

But I limited my riding to a year, because you can't avoid some accidents, and the consequences are severe: a friend worked in prosthetics, and half of the recipients are motorcycle riders.
So who is this Cyxymu and what are his (or her) political goals? That seems to be the key to finding out who might be behind it.
Then maybe we need a nice bijection between a nice language (a Lisp, perhaps?) and a nice graphical language (maybe a Lispier version of LabView or this COSA nonsense).
I've upgraded 2 cars stock radios. An MP3 CD Desk is a lot better for me than a Tape Deck.

(Maybe the link should read "See what the site would look like in a modern browser" - and show screenshots)
It wouldn't necessarily make me a non-customer, but it would give me some pause. The campy look of the web page puts me in a better frame of mind than just the tiny pairing of 'hammer & sickle + free books'.

I was also wondering if in your home cultural context, it was more clearly ironic, because no one could possibly take the symbol seriously.

I wouldn't expect you to change it if -- as your article indicates -- the icon seems a strong net sales boost.

But I would also hope that many other clean, colorful, distinctive icons would have the same effect -- because if App Store customers have uniquely warm feelings towards totalitarian graphic design, I have deeper worries. :)

If you needed to have it both ways, you could work in a dissident 'samizdat' angle and put the symbol upside-down -- retaining the motif (including mock-Cyяillic) without any connotations of endorsement.

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Getting rid of compulsory education after the age of 14 or so would be great.

I'll agree with that policy proposal, but I would still fund provision of voluntary-attendance schools for highly able learners after that age (as indeed I do, by paying taxes that support universities).
Nice! I am currently learning Clojure, and I will be sure to follow along. Thanks, and good job. FWIW, the site looks fine in FF3.5 and Safari on the Mac. Looking forward to future posts.
This used to work wonders when CC companies actually used to offer good rewards. Not so much these days.
"Everyone needs Windows 7 to be a huge success."

Well... I sure don't. In fact, I wish it fails big and drives the market towards greater diversity.

But that's me.
Differences in the Windows and Unix cultures
Memorizing v. Understanding
If we are living in a computer simulation, that may be true.
MATLAB's Simulink[1] is a graphical programming environment that allows you to create, name and reuse abstractions. Look at the picture[2] on their site for a simple example.

[1]: http://www.mathworks.com/products/simulink/

[2]: http://www.mathworks.com/cmsimages/sl_fig1_wl_15362.gif
Chinese Twitter users who viewed as dissents also experienced false complaint and attacks similar to this lately, possibly by Chinese crackers hired by the gov.
As of July 26th, it looks likes promo codes have been allowed again for 17+ apps.

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/07/26/update-promo-codes-are-now-al...
I've broken three ipods in the last two years. All in the course of doing what I'd consider normal things to do with a portable music player. One from getting too much sweat on it, one from a waist level drop, and one from condensation from a water bottle. I won't buy another iPod again. I'm not sure if they're much more vulnerable than other brands, but they're sure more expensive, and too expensive to break that easily.
Wait a sec, this is a Dvorak article. Oh, you got me; clever.
Violin. I could have gone professional, but decided that I'd enjoy it more if I kept music as a hobby, and that computing/mathematics paid better for less work anyway.
I'm afraid I'm not at fault for your lack of clarity, poor grasp of the context of the discussion, or anti-social need to put words in someone's else's mouth to make a cheap shot.
My PhD supervisor and I talked about this, as the creation of a new category of IT worker: a component assembler .

It is less hardcore than a "real" programmer, but we are now at the point that you a person can create great value by assembling pre-existing components and create genuinely new things. The components amount to an abstraction, and the key questions are whether you can make an abstraction layer that is simple, and yet also powerful enough to accomplish worthwhile tasks without needing to break the abstraction. As examples, consider components in fields of engineering: nuts, screws, nails, resistors, capacitors, chips etc

The difficult part seems that putting these components together itself becomes a complex and difficult task. However, if we are prepared to limit the power, it is possible to make it simpler: consider audio components that plug together; or bicycle and car components. Maybe this is limited to "customization", but for some purposes, that's all you need to do. And with components that are sufficiently powerful, perhaps you really can build really useful new things.

Glue languages, like Python, already facilitate this to some extent, although the process of assembly is more complex than the blogger wishes, and of course people can and do real programming in Python.
yes, but the end result would be a cooler artifact
They paid for the patents, not the codecs, much less the terrible implementations.

Each generation of codec implementations uses a lot of the same techniques, most of which are patented by somebody. Google can take On2's patents and license them freely under the condition that licensees must not bring patent infringement suits against anyone else.

They could suck a lot of air out of the debate, on both the freetard and patent-troll sides.
It's his site. If he says downvoting is appropriate for expressing disagreement, then there's no basis for saying that isn't "what down votes are for".
Just a clarification: It's not 'mandatory', it just gets installed by default with the Firefox package. Put clearly this means "you can just disable it".

Still, what a crappy 'extension' to Firefox :/, this is why I build mine from source.
piano and saxophone(not at the same time :) )
Though recently I have been thinking of taking up bass guitar.
FT joins rush to charge for online articles
Has anyone tried SendGrid, or have any suggestions for other outbound transactional email providers?
"It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard,"

I never would have heard of this guy were it not for this DDoS attack that attempted to silence him. Streisand effect strikes again. When will people learn.
You can't uninstall it without removing Firefox though. It's enabled by default, too, so all users of your Ubuntu machine will get it enabled no matter what.
Did you read the article? It's an edictionary! That means you are only going to see curse words if you actually search for them. So what if you don't know what cunt or faggot mean (eg as a non native English speaker)? You shouldn't be able to find out? That's crazy.
It doesn't give the same results. The interface is terrible compared to the default Google interface.
Researcher: Twitter attack targeted anti-Russian blogger
I think the practical barriers are very high, as there would be no commercial incentive for someone to devote the enormous amounts of time it would take to do this for any field.

In law, there is also the huge problem of licensing barriers that prevent lawyers from practicing outside of specific jurisdictions in which they are authorized. This heavily tends to balkanize the field and also puts up high barriers to entry and to the sharing of knowledge and expertise.

Specific services like Lexis and Westlaw are given commercial incentives to organize legal data (case law, statutory law, etc.) and put out high-priced, proprietary search services that give subscribers access to many key legal authorities. Since they do this based on very lucrative contracts, I doubt that we will see any opening up of this information for free or easy access.

As a practical matter, the barriers will be around for a long time to come.

Unlicensed fields, in contrast, face only the practical barriers, but these are huge. Over a lengthy period of time, though, these will gradually lessen, as more and more significant information is brought into public accessibility via the web - at some point, it might become practical to start and sustain a project - maybe through volunteer efforts ala wikis or open source - that begins to realize such a vision. But it is a long way off.
Verbs in URIs smell. show == GET

Thanks for sharing your experience.
From this article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/07/twitter_attack_theor...

"a single user who vocally supports the Republic of Georgia."

I just submitted the article which also has a possible explanation as to ow the attack was carried out.
GV is a VOIP application. Maybe I've read too much TechCrunch but it seemed to imply that it would use the data network and not use minutes.

Are you sure it used your minutes and SMS instead of VOIP and SMS through google's accounts?
Exactly. This attack aims to promote the guy and the falthy stuff he posts on this blog, but definitely not to silence him!
I don't think the data structure behind the registry is what he was referring to.

I think he was referring to things like the right click menu registry entry that accumulate so many entries over time that it takes 30 seconds to show the right click menu.
Have you tried using it? PowerShell is more like Applescript than anything else, with all the pejoratives that implies.

Hilariously, I have managed to do productive things with Applescript (as annoying as it can be), but I can't say the same for PowerShell.
Microsoft's Azure moving out of Washington
Does anyone else have any thoughts on the best outbound email provider to use for automatically-generated emails?
Imho he doesn't make a lot of sense. First, he is claiming that Windows 7 breaks more backward compatibility than previous Windowses. I find it very hard to believe that Vista->7 upgrade would break more applications than XP->Vista, especially at the time when Vista was released.

Secondly, he is saying that registry hinders portability of applications. Well, that's kinda true, but on the next paragraph he is already promoting Linux-based systems as alternative.

Just try to install an application on usual Linux OS and then move it to another system, with all configuration data. Just for extra fun, install it originally with classic configure-make-make install-method, lose the source tree and move it another distro (or different version of same distro).

Registry may not be perfect, but it isn't that bad either. Worst part is that many applications abuse it a lot, causing all kinds of problems, but would flat configuration files really solve the problem of misbehaving apps?

If registry would be bit more organized, and had some inline documentation it actually would be much better.
There are words for proper "bigger Lego bricks": HLLs and libraries. There's also a word for the kind he wants: Duplo.

Also, you haven't known pain until you've tried to actually accomplish something by stringing together pretty boxes in a data-flow language like Max/MSP or Pure Data. Imagine operating an early AT&T switchboard with a pool cue, then crank up the suck.
I don't play any instrument, but wish I could/intend to try to learn something.

I do however do custom guitar pedal effects and mods, and have done some various bits of studio hacking/engineering work (when I still lived in Detroit I helped a well known artist get his first PC-based/digital mixing board up and running).
HN has had several slicehost vs. linode threads. Comments seems they were an even match (different but even). So why are there no linode users in this list?

I'm asking as a new startup eyeing both as potential host.
"This was not like a botnet-style DDoS," Woodcock told The Register. "This was a joejob where people were just clicking on links in email and the people clicking on the links were not malefactors. They were just the sort of idiots that click on links in email without knowing what they are." Joejobs are spam messages that are designed not to push Viagra but to induce someone to click on a link in the hopes of harming the site being linked to.

Seriously, people following links in spam messages could cause enough traffic to flood Facebook and/or Twitter? That sounds a little hard to believe that THAT much traffic could be generated by people suckered by spam, let alone that the level of traffic would be sustainable.
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Those were very desperate times for Mac.
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Cody Brown - MySpace is to Facebook as Twitter is to ______
A great personal story.

It seems like you had both a push and a pull. Circumstances finally got you to leap off a cliff, so to speak.
Maybe Cyxymu orchestrated it him- or herself to gain some notoriety. :)
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No, TechCrunch somehow misunderstood what was going on. It's the same company, and the same project.
This is the same project and we are still YC '08. The TC article is erroneous due to some confusion with the re-branding.
I would think that the amount of effort to send out enough spam messages to generate that traffic could have been redirected into just generating that traffic in the first place.
4chan and other popular social sites sometimes manage to organize such 'manual' DDOS attacks
It doesn't have to be spam. Ever heard of the Slashdot or Digg effect?
Now that you point it out I also consider a "coffee shop" to be like a starbucks or something and might not be as affected by this.

Eateries like Panera Bread and Cosi (who offer free wifi) should be more worried about non-paying users taking up seats during afternoon lunch hours. Also, good point about someone reading the paper. The problem is nonpaying customers spending hours on end, taking up seats that paying customers could use, regardless of what they are doing.

Maybe they could charge you like a coffee an hour or something.
As with Locke1689, I have only good things to say about DynDNS's services.

Coming from GoDaddy, UI-wise, DynDNS are a bit nicer, but it's their support which really makes a difference.
Yeah I thought it was the patents that were the issue here - not the implementations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan#Internet_attacks
piano, guitar...not well
I'd be absolutely amazed if any of the constant appstore whining has any effect on sales.

It won't in the immediate future. But the message Apple is sending loud and clear is that if you have an idea for an interesting app, you're better off developing for Android or Pre, because Apple and/or AT&T will arbitrarily kill it whenever they feel like it. That can easily have a noticeable effect a year or two down the line.
You should look into using emacsclient. Multiple sessions aren't really necessary unless you're on different hosts or having stability issues. I personally have never had stability issues with the latest official release.
The Gravest Pain of an iPhone Developer (Musings on Customer Communication)
How is that a mistake? Should he screen every word that he ever tries to communicate to ensure that nobody could possibly misinterpret or distort his statements into something offensive? Or is it reasonable for a person to assume that their audience will not brand them a racist for using a term that in isolation has very little to do with race?

Do you honestly believe that Schiller was referring to race? If not, do you honestly believe that a substantial portion of other readers would have interpreted it that way? If not, do you honestly belive that it was unreasonable to use the term?
Most countries do something like that, either as direct cash or more commonly as some sort of income tax discount. Plus free health care and education for the kid of course, so parents don't have to pay for that.

The problem is that this amount is usually very tiny compared to cost of having the child, so it won't really make that much difference.
Who would you recommend that does not see DMCA take-down notices as "their job"?
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This is an argument that gets rolled out every time Microsoft releases a new OS or version of Office. But Apple seems to get a free pass. Why bother updating to Snow Leopard? Arguably OS X did everything on your list adequately five years ago.

Just curious.