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You should proofread your writing. If you are not a native English speaker, pay somebody who is to do your writing. It is really bad.

At first glance it is very unclear exactly what you are selling. It seems to center around "gigs". In the parlance of your site, what is a "gig"? This is not communicated well.

For programmers/designers in the Western World, the biggest problem with these sites is that they quickly get flooded with cheap labor from the developing world. Does this site solve that problem?
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Please don't use the "fixed this for you" meme. It's needlessly snarky. Just explain how you disagree.
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Do we know if there are really 100 attendees to this meeting ? If that's indeed the case, is it unusual to have that many people within a company capable of influencing things ? Any other examples in the corporate world ?
Really cool and well done, slow loading aside.
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"I don't even run a business, I am just a freelancer, but I'd happily pay 600 USD/year for this service if I needed it."

Yes, you do run a business, yourself. But outside that...

The problem with this sort of thinking is that, yes, sure, if you need it, you could happily pay $600/year for this service, and another, and another, and another, and pretty soon you're dropping $5-$10k on services. For a large business, that's probably not an issue (but even then, it's always out of someone's budget, not the entire company's), but for smaller companies, you're approaching a pain threshold.
"A team mostly based in <xyz>" actually does add information that explores part of a story.

If the team was based in San Fransisco, it would be part of the established silicon valley culture, versus if it was based in an emerging tech hub, then the story would be that they are part of an emerging tech hub.

Very little can be written in journalism that isn't relevant in some way.
Yep, this is how the proof works!
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No. But you couldput a demo/crippled version on your Web site for people to evaluate.
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I've been following (sort of) the back and forth on this and find it quite interesting. Here's a question though: what happens when the "whale" is really something like an index fund that, ultimately, is composed mostly of retail investors? Aren't they getting ripped off in that case? This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm curious to know how it plays out.
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The following idea comes from a SciFi role playing game Traveller™:

The maximum sustainable techlevel of an economy equals the logarithm base 10 of the population. Even if a population of 10k-40k people is genetically healthy, they would fall back to to techlevel 4 or 5. They would be just able to sustain a technology of medieval times.
Nice, kind of reminds me of that movie; memento I think it was called :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/
Nice tip.

If anyone here is using DD-WRT, take a look at these instructions before trying to set up your freedns subdomain (needs a token instead of login/password):
extracted from http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DDNS_-_How_to_setup_Cus...

Go to http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/ and login with your normal username and password for the freedns service. Click "Direct URL" on the domain you would like to be set to your WAN IP address. Copy everything from the right of the ? in the address bar.

Router Settings:
DDNS Service: freedns.afraid.org
User Name: USERNAME
Password: PASSWORD
Host Name: yourdomain.com,What_You_Copied_Before
Force Update Interval 10

(Note: Since afraid.org doesn't require a username and password when doing a "wget-style" update, you can also just do the following to keep from exposing your username and password:
User Name: guest
Password: guest)
I hope so, but location is relevant e.g. Bitcoin is not a currency for IRS, so San Francisco has different implications than London.
I really like InDesign's Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!
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You have to start somewhere more specific than no technology.

Like, no steel to find lying around, or no one that knows how to make charcoal and that some dirt has iron in it.

Or does anybody remember anything about agriculture?
Any experience with App Store marketing companies?
Multiple -r's:

gpg -e -r recipient1@example.com -r recipient2@example.com

That products some ciphertext which can be decrypted by either recipient.
In our last test, IE mobile still did not offer a good maps experience with no ability to pan or zoom and perform basic map functionality. As a result, we chose to continue to redirect IE mobile users to Google.com where they could at least make local searches. The Firefox mobile browser did offer a somewhat better user experience and that’s why there is no redirect for those users.

Frankly, a perfectly justifiable reason to perform a redirect.

There is also a debatably bad faith block on Microsoft's well-designed Youtube app on Windows Phone

Isn't this sorted? IIRC, this was down to Microsoft not complying with terms of use wrt. the implementation of ads.

Google isn't the "do not evil" white knight in shining armor it used to be. It is much closer to the old Microsoft these days.

Google are not, and never were, a "white knight" - they're just a better-than-average-at-openness tech company. If those examples are the worth you can highlight, then the comparison to Microsoft—who, if you remember, actively tried to eliminate Linux!—is beyond preposterous.
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Using open-source router-firmware fixes most of these pains and gives you the freedom you want. For everything and not just dynamic DNS.

Both OpenWRT and DDWRT are reputable firmwares which supports a wide array of routers.
OculusDrone: open source Oculus Rift + AR Drone 2.0 controller
There is but only for the telecom's telephone wire system, which allows DSL by local loop wholesale.

The cable companies don't have to share their network, and I don't think their network is structured in a way that would make local loop even possible. I don't believe they have a dedicated local loop per customer.

Fiber installations by the telecoms don't either because they are in a competitive market. Also, only Verizon has laid out FTTH.
I wonder what would happen if an electric company or gas company decided to start and ISP. Both businesses are familiar with selling a commodity and have right of way.
I have some questions based on yours:

* What constitutes public data?

* How likely are the types of front-running HFT algos that are discussed in this article to be the old, traditional players?

* What are the ethical (lol) rules against front-running your own customers if you're a market-maker? How could your customers even find out? What happens when the proprietary information is that a customer has just placed a large trade, and you drive up the price before it even hits the market? How is this fundamentally different than the commission these firms already charge?
I would think if your technology is advanced enough to send a spaceship for a 1000 years in space, you should be able to manipulate the human genome to avoid "inbred" diseases.

First let's start by going back to the moon or even Mars ...
I think this is going to be it's main selling point. I'm downloading the font as we speak :)
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If I got an invitation like that, I'd throw it in the trash. It sounds too much like a sales letter, especially when it explicitly denies being one.

Not to mention, I'm suspicious when strangers offer to buy me dinner. Even if it's a "friend of a friend."

Last critique--Networking is great, but it's easy to confuse BSing over pizza with building your network.
Any of the free Dyn users which this affects: move to freedns.
I wonder if the router would resolve dyn.com (or similar hardcoded domains) through the user's resolver/hosts file.. You can see where I'm going.

Personally, I always pick routers I can run a custom firmware on (have run {DD-,Open}WRT). DD-WRT has an additional field for a single url to update IP. I use namecheap's API endpoint there.
There is no reason any site should shut down like this, if it is in fact a very valuable resource. The owner could/should just move the site to a tor hidden service. At very least offer up a dump of the data so someone else could run with it.
Suggest HN: Weighing depth of comments instead of number of comments
I just saw that Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany? was banned from the Front Page to Page 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7545284, because it had double the number of comments than upvotes.

Afaik, this is used to remove flame wars from the front page, however might have had a false positive in this case:

Normally, flame wars have great depth of comments, as in the comments are nested to a great extend.

However, in the above Ask HN thread half of the comments aren´t nested, but simple answers to the question.

For that reason, not sure if this is done already, but I would suggest that flame wars are investigated based on the depth of nesting instead of total number of comments.
Nice job! -- we actually needed this so badly a few years back that I wrote a simple app in a day to do this myself, though it's not very robust. I am actually surprised it's taken so long for someone to offer a SaaS version. Your pricing is so reasonable that I'd switch to your app if you could just flush out one more feature.

I actually don't want another app for reporting. I already use a monitoring service (pingdom) and would prefer to keep all of our "alerts" organized through a single service.

Could you offer a http-based public status page? Our system allowed each snitch to be tagged with a tag like "net.tourbuzz.db.replication.upToDate" and then a url like http://foo.com/deadoralive?filter=net.tourbuzz would allow us to use a single Pingdom monitor to alert us if any of snitches in that namespace failed.

This is a simple tagging structure that makes it easy to organize large numbers of snitches into manageable groups and easily integrate it into existing monitoring/alerting infrastructure.

Feel free to email me directly if you want more info.
I am also a happy user. *.moooo.com is priceless
Alternatively, one could pluralize dog if one is set on using the past tense.
Chrome is the new IE. Javascript is the new Flash. History repeating itself again.
This is the answer to the question of how to move from prototyping to production with the Raspberry Pi. So far the answer had been to either deploy (and pay for) a bunch of peripherals you don't need (applications most certainly don't use everything on a board) or to move to a different/custom board.

With the compute module, that answer is now much more concrete. People will still build own boards, but most of the complexity will live on the SOM.

Very exciting times, can't wait to see if the gambit pays off.
I really know nothing about how android works so excuse me if this is a stupid/impossible idea, but I wonder if someone could make an app-vetting app.

The issue seems to be that you have to give these applications their permissions so they can function, but you really have no way of knowing how those permissions are being used. So you end up just allowing everything and being at the mercy of developers or you act completely suspicious, don't install any app asking for strange permissions and may even fall into these wild accusations that giving Facebook permission to view your SMS messages is like signing over your soul to the devil.

So again, I'm really out of my game here, but I wonder if you could create an app-vetting app for android that monitors and logs internal requests for data (assuming android uses some sort of internal api to handle this) so you could see what apps are making what requests and how much data they're grabbing. And then monitor outbound network traffic to see what put and post requests are coming from the app, how much data is being transferred and where they're being delivered.

Then you would know how much of your data is actually being used by an app and how much of that data is being sent to Facebook. Granted, I'm sure apps like Facebook's are constantly sending themselves data from your phone but the things to look for are the data being sent when the app isn't active or when the request varies an objectively significant amount from the baseline requests.

If this can be figured out, you could then create a database of the results for every app logged and have a security ratings guide for the android marketplace.

If this is impossible, impractical or just plain stupid, I apologize, but it seems like something that SHOULD be possible, so I just figured I'd throw it out there.
I feel like anything like that has to be predicated on not being able to find any book. Which is certainly possible, but I feel like $DISASTER will probably leave behind some libraries and books somewhere. The people would just have to be dedicated to learning the lost info from books + experimentation.
And the author may consider to keep the "quotes of famous people" part near the end or as an appendix.
Replacement rate is a big factor. Highly advanced technology won't help much if the population doesn't procreate fast enough. Japan is a surprising example: profoundly high-tech, but nowhere near enough offspring to maintain the population (as in the entire country/culture/race is on track to disappear entirely).
Thank you. Does it weaken the encryption strength ?
I'm not buying it. Healthy markets are markets where everyone has access to the same information. HFT by definition means some traders have more access to information than others. This is fundamentally unfair and bad for markets and the economy. I don't see how HFT is any different then insider trading and everyone agrees that should be illegal.
I hadn't used data.table or plyr because the native R functions were giving me good performance even at tens of thousands of rows.

But now that I'm doing analysis on hundreds of thousands of rows, doing aggregation takes awhile. This article convinced me to give those packages a try. If data.table and plyr aggregate functions are indeed paralellizeable, that's a big deal, especially when implementing bootstrap resampling.
Microsoft can give you a VM with a working instance of Dynamics AX 2012 and the underlying SQL 2012 database - it's quite big and needs a fair bit of RAM (I needed 48GB) but it does work pretty well.

Having said that, I think SAP is rather more complex than AX.
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Thank you so much, I love it!
I've got a low traffic project I'm working on at the moment that uses pouchdb as an offline data store for a tablet app. I'm currently playing with implementing the couchdb protocol in rails. It seemed like a crazy idea to start with but with a little redis sprinkled in to handle information that wouldn't normally in active record models it seems to coming together better than expected.
If you are like me and already have nagios and nrpe in use, you can use a simple python script[0] to monitor the output of the cronjob and get an alert by nagios.
[0]https://github.com/rndmh3ro/check_exit-code
The tutorials I linked to address your questions in detail.
Yes, you can. It's even compatible with most mods.
The Tedious Tyranny of Flatland – or why to separate data and UI
We do a dinner like this but everyone pays their own tab. We self-curate a small group of founders and everyone goes around sharing an issue they are working on. Incredibly useful for getting outside views on stuff.
w.r.t (1), it's interesting that you and the other replier thought that I meant LC was good for expressing concurrent processes. What I actually meant was that it was also bad at expressing sequential processes, because it doesn't have a single agreed upon operational semantics and it's too high level.
Also, having a dedicated device for in-depth reading makes it easier for me to switch into that mode.
You should know that dplyr, plyr's replacement is already fairly stable and worth using. For basic tasks, it's as fast or faster than data.table in my experience, with the caveat that it is more likely to copy for some methods than data.table which is very strict about this.
Every time I submit an app to the iOS app store I get a get a few emails marketing services like the one from the attached flier. Are these just scams, or are they any good?
>On top of this, there are some humanities professors the journalist treats as scientific authority.

Well, they are. Their field is how humanity understands itself, and what traditions (historical, literary, etc) and values we have.

The results of the "real" scientists are useless when not valued and judged under a humanist interpretation.

E.g, scientific measurable fact: "We're reading less".

OK, so what? Is that good or bad -- not with regards to mere "evolution" (which might not even be applicable to such timespans and matters), but concerning the kind of society we want to build?

That's where the humanities professors come into to play (as does "the man on the street" -- we're all men on the street, after all).
yes, 1 year of calculus. differentiation and integrals were the only two calculus topics that I recognized from that chapter. at the time when I was trying to get through sicp I wasn't sure whether the pay off was worth the effort of covering all those math topics and I wanted to learn other programming related topics as well with my time.
Smallest Federated Wiki[1] is something you may be interested in.

Smallest Federated Wiki is a distributed wiki. It allows anyone to fork a page by clicking the fork button; this copies the page to their own wiki and they can edit it. The original wiki owner(s) can then decide whether to merge the change into the original page.

Ward Cunningham has a few short videos about it at http://wardcunningham.github.io/.

[1] http://fed.wiki.org/ and https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki
For me, it's mostly performance features: Last time I checked, Postgres' query planning was based only on the rather configurable, yet completely static stats tables and a few config parameters, and it didn't care very much about its experience running queries. So if for some reason I can't add quite enough stats gathering, and I know a often used query is still slow, my only choice to fix it is to do some really terrifying things to the code so that the join order is dictated by the query.

In Oracle, not only is the DB going to actually look at the query's real performance by itself, but i can just tell it to change the way it runs at runtime, if all else fails.

There's also data warehousing tricks that, AFAIK, Postgres does not support. In Oracle, if I have a star pattern, I can make the queries run without actually touching the fact table, only querying indices.

That said, exadata is voodoo, compared to how much more predictable Postgres' behavior is. But there really is a case for it if you really are building the DB equivalent of the Titanic.
Best practice is to send an encrypted message to that address in order to confirm the owner controls it.
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I wonder if this has any effect the number of cycles the battery can handle. If this is real, the implications for electric cars are most intriguing. Fill up with electricity becomes as fast as a fill up with liquid hydrocarbon.
Where do you draw the line? Some retail investors still rely on reading stock quotes in the financial section of their daily newspaper - should we force everyone to only change prices once a day?
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This is what I meant, but I didn't knew the particulars.
HFT does not have more information. They have access to the same public information as everybody else, but they have invested in better technology and are therefore able to parse and utilize that information more efficiently.

Insider trading, by its definition, is insiders trading on non-public information, that outsiders simply do not have access to for any amount of money.
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a great sci-fi thought experiment on the subject. Having survived (barely) world nuclear war, a monastery seeks to aggregate whatever fragments of information they can (notably they mysterious note "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels—bring home for Emma"), and try to rebuild society without inevitably repeating the great conflagration.
The problem is more-daunting than stated. The mechanics of applying the energy it takes to accellerate, and decellerate, a plausible generation-ship to two orders of magnitude higher speeds than currently possible is multiple technology horizons away. Bio-engineering ourselves into forms required for millennia or tens of millennia of travel is probably much closer than acquiring that amount of energy. Indeed by the time such a ship could be built, the "human" form may be more distantly related to us than chimpanzees are.
I suspect there is a tipping point. If there is sufficient automation and information available, a very small number of people could potentially reproduce/rebuild a full high-tech society in a short amount of time. Vinge's "Marooned in Realtime" engages in similar speculation. IIRC his requirement for preventing inbreeding was something on the order of 20 people -- much lower than the parent article's 150 bare minimum, with 10K being more realistic.
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For years Comic Sans has been recognized as being one of the most readable fonts. It even is considered to be a preferred font for those dealing with dyslexia (http://www.luzrello.com/Publications_files/assets2013.pdf).

This seems to be a classic case of form vs. function.
People have to have different information or views on a market, otherwise no trade would take place except between gamblers.

HFTs have no unfair advantage. Everything that they use is available publicly for a cost. It's like saying running a retail store in New York is unfair because rents are high.

Is it wrong that some hedge funds or mutual funds are able to build a superior valuation of a stock through hiring more researchers? What about guys counting cars going into walmart parking lots? Everyone can do those things, but most opt not to and are at a disadvantage.
It seems to me that there's a bit of historical precedent for 'Help You Help Me', namely Benjamin Franklin's Junto [1].

Two questions, from a much larger universe, put for discussion at the Junto's weekly meetings:

In what manner can the Junto, or any of them, assist you in any of your honourable designs?

Have you any weighty affair in hand, in which you think the advice of the Junto may be of service?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junto_(club)
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We have the technology now to get a long ways towards manipulating the genome to avoid disease, just combine an extensive screening program with in vitro fertilization.

It would be massively expensive (and of course would only work for genetic diseases that we understand). I guess it would also be a controversial endeavor.
As I recall, these are indeed the hand picked "top 100", movers and shakers within the company that go on this company retreat.
There are several efforts to make it run under Linux, you can find them on Github. I don't know if any of them are functional yet.
I can confirm that this extension works perfectly. I haven't had any issues watching YT videos in Firefox (without flash) ever since installing this.
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