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"Then we divide all the incoming orders into discrete time chunks called quantums. All the orders in one quantum will be processed independently of the rest of the world and before the next quantum is processed."

Taiwan's stock and futures exchanges have a vaguely similar trading mechanism. This isn't really well-discussed on the internet in English. Best I could find at short notice was these papers (first one free, second one not):
http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/sor/Downloads/SS2009/ExpVerfahren...
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/116327547/abstrac...

Basically, instead of having continuous trading (which could mean huge amounts of market data every second), they just do 30-second auctions all day long. You get an order book update, send in your orders, and they figure out who matched whom 30 seconds later. At which point they send out the next order book update, consisting of all the orders which didn't match in the last auction. Time priority still applies within the 30-second chunks. So if you have a trading algorithm, it only has to wake up once every 30 seconds ... but when it does, it has to be fast.

(However, time priority doesn't apply in the opening auction --- the priority for orders at any given price is randomised and has nothing to do with who got their orders in first.)

Of course the little local brokers loved this mechanism, and the big foreign banks all hated it (and probably lobbied against it behind the scenes). Maybe they lobbied so hard that they don't have this mechanism anymore; I've been out of the industry for a few years now so I'm way behind the times ...
If you're the usual person that economics tries to model, then yes, money has diminish marginal utility that drops off quickly. The value of money drops off for everyone. If you ask me, 170 million doesn't buy a whole lot of votes in Congress. But this is irrelevant.

What's valuable is the ability to create money, not the money itself. Investing is hard. You could probably ask pg about how hard it is. These guys had a really good investment, and these guys, bright as they are, may have very well killed their golden goose.
How Sleep made your coding go faster or enabled you to write expressive code as compared to coding in Java (with code samples drawn from ATD where possible :) - I like real world code comparisons vs toy examples)
If you're against building something that monetizes with ads, then you're against most of the internet, a good chunk of publishing, and most of broadcasting.

The position doesn't seem too principled. Your condescending tone with "sell the brains behind the eyeballs" doesn't aid the argument.

I personally like selling stuff and services too. But I'm not railing* against other business models.

* pun intended
Lets try to rewrite the gp's post as DH5. Also, someone fix the parents score. Ad-hominem posts should be discouraged.

The author thinks start-ups should change the world. She's mistaken. Start-ups are businesses, they're meant to support the owners, provide services or goods, and feed families. If the owners manage to sell for some multiple of what they would have made working during that same time frame, Great. That's all that is needed.

Her call for start-ups to be swinging for the fences is as well founded as I would be in calling for her, as a journalist, to go report on something that really "matters", something that could cause a "positive" change, something with at least as much impact as jgrahamc's petition (edit: just reread this, I am not knocking the petition, just setting a bar. I was impressed.). It's she who chose start-ups, they're just business men, engineers, and programmers, they don't owe TC. And besides, how does the following work exactly? TC chose the attendees, and now they pass the blame.

I don’t say this to knock the conference or the selections we made. But the truth is I heard it too consistently backstage to ignore it. To be fair, we’re at that point in the start-up cycle where this is to be expected.

(I like the idea of labeling posts against Paul's system. I think it would make the only useful meme I have ever known.)
A similar situation almost occurred in my home town of Galway, Ireland. The main square, Eyre square, has historically been shaded by trees - Wikipedia says early ash was planted in 1631 - but the council wanted to remove 80 of 105 of them, "because the landscape levels were to be altered".

There was a lot of opposition, though, and eventually they backed down.
Do you use Intuit software? Have you tried Mint? Everyone I've talked to that has a Mint account and has been forced to use Intuit software in the past is uniformly dismayed and confused by this acquisition.

Banker math surely proves Aaron would have to show real hubris to ignore Intuit's offer, but founders rightly run startups, not bankers. Intuit is a $9B twenty five year old company. Mint could have given them a run for their money. They took the payday instead.
Simply force purchasers to hold stock for at least 6 months, or some other long period, so that fundamentals will have to be carefully looked at. Buying a stock signals confidence in a companies stock price for the duration you expect to hold the stock. If you make people hold it longer, the signal becomes more meaningful. Finally, market manipulation becomes much less rewarding, since you can only flip your money twice a year (profit from manipulation is % gained each time * capital * number of manipulations), and you can't foment at all really.

Perhaps it would also be helpful to put a 5 (or more) day delay on any sell orders. I would personally be in favor of a 2 year delay or more. Currently, if you get really bad news (like a companies only drug was not approved, making the company worthless) you can sell the stock immediately via a market sell order, and get whatever the highest offer is. This is no different than collecting pre-signed contracts to buy your house, then signing the best one when you see smoke coming out of the windows. The person offering to buy the stock has obviously not had time to adjust their order based on the news, and so you are selling them something they weren't bidding on. If you give buyers time to adjust, selling on a panic would be completely retarded, since you will either lose all value (selling into a market with buyers who have adjusted their offers way down), or the panic will subside and you will get a fine price, but then could have just held it as you were planning before the panic anyway. Discouraging panic selling makes prices more stable (does anyone honestly think that the best estimate of the value of a large company could possibly vary 50% in a few days??) Also, automated trading triggers would be eliminated, which would be great. If a firm can setup computers to sell a stock if it drops 5% in 1 minute, then they are taking much less risk than someone who has to hear news, find a computer, put in login information, etc. However, the firm's buy order signals the same confidence as the careful stock researcher, while in reality they can buy stock with far less confidence since they are taking less risk.

Both of these measures would reduce market volatility, if not effectively eliminate it over short periods. This would mean that corporations could borrow money on much better terms, since their stock prices would be more stable, meaning that stock is better collateral. It would also mean shareholders would insist on things like dividends and long term profitability and planning, since they are going to be holding the bags if things aren't good in the long term.
The best client to use on a graphical system Firefox with the Overbite extension: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/d?ff3

For console use Lynx is what I prefer and seems to be popular for that.

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As it stands, they’re following the common pattern of delivering the Firefox app on a disk image, which, when mounted, uses a background image and alias to the /Applications/ folder to encourage users to copy the app from the mounted image to their startup drive.

I'd bet this pattern would be a whole lot more effective if there were text prompting the user to take this action. It seems like most implementations of this pattern focus on bling rather than usability.
As long as we're talking science fiction solutions, I'd like to propose a chemical weapon. It would have to be so safe to humans that you could mix powders of it in your drinking water, in quantities sufficient to create iced tea, without any ill effects. It would have to be simple enough that an illiterate peasant could deploy it using technology routinely available in the early 1900s. It would have to be dirt cheap enough to spray into every home in an at-risk region in Africa. It would have to be patent unencumbered, so that anyone could produce it. It would have to be stupidly easy to synthesize in quantity. It would have to have decades of research put into finding a fumigation protocol to defeat those crafty mosquito's pesky tendency to develop immunities. And it would have to be guaranteed to work, for example, by being successfully used to totally eliminate malaria in every continent inhabited primarily by white people.

If only such a magic chemical existed, we wouldn't have to waste time thinking up ways to swat mosquitoes singly with radar-guided laser weaponry. We'd just hire a bunch of folks to go around and spray a bit inside of dwellings, and bam, malaria cases would decrease by 90% within the first season of treatment, saving thousands of lives and removing an enormous economic loadstone from Africa's collective neck.

I know, I know, it sounds like a sucky sci-fi book because if the chemical is so perfect then where is the conflict? Aha, you see, that's where we bring in a group of religious fundamentalists who view it as a totemic embodiment of the devil, and will oppose it automatically, no matter the costs, from the luxury of their malaria-free gardens.
Hm. Tree-lined avenues don't really get into their own until a few hundred years, if you ask me.
Dell & Google would not have seemed revolutionary to the writer of that "memo." Facebook and twitter have had a profound effect on the way people interact with each other. Microsoft & Paypal happened upon revolution or took the opportunity when they saw it, not in their first 6 months.
Then ban cars. Seems like a simple solution to me.

:)
Zero Install attempts to resolve that issue amongst others: http://0install.net/
That's why it's something like a ten-year school. The idea is that given a decade of freedom, kids will more readily find what they really want.
we are still here, aren't we?
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I've seen calorie restriction articles posted a few times on here. Why the fascination? It's a rather challenging approach to longevity, and for most people there are easier ways to improve long term health. Specifically:

Avoid all foods with hydrogenated oils (promotes heart disease.)

Avoid homogenized milk (promotes blood vessel plaque, heart disease.)

Eliminate excess sugar and high fructose corn syrup. Substitute with agave nectar which is just as yummy and very low glycemic. (promotes diabetes and creates inconsistent blood glucose levels which promote obesity.)

Avoid refined carbohydrates, substituting whole grains, vegetables, sweet potatoes, nuts, legumes, berries, greens, etc. Substitute wheat for quinoa and teff. Substitute white rice for brown rice. (Refined carbs deplete B vitamins and promote glucose instability.)

Avoid all meat packed with sodium nitrate (promotes colon cancer). Look for "uncured" meats.

Avoid artificial sugars, flavors, colors. (Nearly all of them have unfortunate side effects.)

Try to get 90% of your protein from plant sources. (excess animal protein is associated with disease)

Go outside! (Sunshine promotes vitamin D which is critical for immune function, and vitamin D strongly prevents cancer.) While you're there, exercise! :)

Read: The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Cancer-Gate by Dr. Samuel Epstein
What's wrong with a monopoly? The common iPhone user has no problems with the App Store...
Yes, when a task consists of mostly waiting it makes sense to do more than one of that task at the same time!

I'm glad someone cared enough to give back to the community and post this wonderful result.
Firefox _never_ crashes for me because of Flash since I started always using nspluginwrapper. All that happens at most is the Flash plugin process dies (npviewer.bin). I can also just killall npviewer.bin anytime I want to killall Flash processes. I'm telling everyone!

My sleep timer (for long running Flash streams)

# wait 1 hour kill flash turn off LCD
sleep 3600; killall npviewer.bin; xset dpms force standby
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what else do they expect? they got what VCs wanted in down economy, safe bets that will likely to bring some steady(not crazy) returns. How many start ups do you know that pitched to make greater improvement and change the world right at their first launch day? how many of them have changed the world? how many of them were looked at as serious candidates to do that? you see where I am getting. It is a nature of the beast, you do not know something is going to change the world until it did because the world evolved along with the idea.
The Wall Street Journal article ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123680870885500701.html ) that the physorg article is based on makes it clearer that the technology is still in the lab phase and not near commercial release. It explicitly states that the scientists involved are not sure how strong the laser needs to be to kill mosquitoes without harming anything else, and describes the laser in their lab as being focused on mosquitoes flying around a aquarium - not the same as the hypothetical laser barriers discussed in both articles.
It prevents you from repeatedly patching your system rather than redesigning it, which is a big problem I see in a lot of programmers.

Uh, this is the norm in the industry. There is rarely ever a chance to do a complete redesign. From the micro to the macro, there's always some hacky solution hanging around.
Water drop tutorial on findtut.com
I keep hearing that the problem with the approval process is that there are too many apps submitted for the testers to handle. What I don't get though is why Apple can't just hire more testers and be done with it. The fact that they won't do this would seem to indicate that lack of testers isn't really the problem.
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That's one benefit to having a short nickname that's a mispelled word. Although, it's tougher to snag the name than it used to be.
Facebook had to take money because they have server costs; Facebook has server costs because they are the largest photo webapp. But sure, you make a point. Facebook should have instead stayed small. Charged its customers money. Had a popular internet blog. Facebook should've built something people love.
Link: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/

Seems to work on my machine, for the most part.
Facebook sells highly targeted ad inventory. They may become the most effective advertising platform on the planet.
the article starts saying that if 3dfx didn't start the 3d revolution, someone else would - and ends up saying that if IBM didn't introduce the Personal Computer, no one else would...?
Some, I think Adium is one, already do this. It's really nice, very use-friendly.
Most of your blog posts strike me as you rationalizing why you aren't a hugely profitable company.
It's the same thing as Yodlee.com (literally - Yodlee powers its backend) with a prettier user interface and waaaay better marketing.
>But again, additional research suggests that not all exercise is equal. Interestingly, some researchers found that exercise considered drudgery was not beneficial in neuronal regeneration, but physical activity that was engaged in purely for fun, even if equal time was spent and equal calories were burned, resulted in neuronal regeneration.

D'oh.
I'm against flash trading but 6 months (or even 6 days) is throwing the baby out withthe bathwater. Look, I'm broke - lend me $10/ thanks. OK, I paid my rent and got paid, here's $11, thanks a lot. That's what liquidity is, and it's important - with your suggestion everything would become glacially slow and tiny credit hiccups would become hugely amplified. You should be able to buy when you see an opportunity and sell when you need cash, even if your need of cash is to finance another buy.

The problem with flash trading is that its practitioners are in effect paying the exchanges for the right to join in on a trade after it's been proposed and they can see whether it has profit potential or not. Sure, they are making tiny margins of a fraction of 1%, so they say it's not greedy. Good point. But you can only afford to do that if you've got fat money to participate and to make up for those tiny margins they're putting up big money on every deal that does show profit potential.

I find it hard to believe it's been legal up to now. Every time I study it, I'm reminded of some old movie where a gangster has paid out money for a private telegraph line to get the results of the horse race while the betting is still open at a remote location.

I think the long-term quantities you propose like 6 months and 2 years are absurd, but I agree with your basic premise that too much speed trading undermines the market's price discovery function and evaluates arbitrage over considerations of fundamental value. It would be interesting to model this behavior with an agent-based simulation of a virtual market.
lots of homeless people break free all the time and many of them are way happier than those receiving big exits for startups. That is not hyperbole.

Do you personally know some? Tell us about them. They must be remarkable people.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but your claim sure sounds like hyperbole. I know a few startup-exit-receivers who seem pretty happy. Of course it's hard to tell these things (http://robinson.bokardo.com/poem/richardcory and all that).

The only modern case that comes to my mind is the homeless guy who recently left $4 million to NPR. I seem to recall hearing information about him that made me think he might have been happy.
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I think what Jason's getting at is to look beyond the offer/fiduciary responsibility mindset and to think bigger, to be motivated by passion and have grander ambitions than looking at one's business as "company + product + customer = offer/price".

There are many successful business that truly don't have a number they'd HAVE to take. It's a choice, and that choice doesn't appear to be actively made by this generation's poster-child business leaders.

I do disagree with Jason, I think that there are a lot of unspoken young businsses, not in the spotlight, that do have the passion to take the baton from the previous generation; it's just that they don't seek out the attention, nor does the attention seek them out.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Many lottery winners are actually less happier a year after winning the lottery than before. Many also wish they had never won.

Of course, this could be psychological due to them not having done anything to earn the money.
If I've got 99 things that need to be done, and I can get 98 of those things done by other people instead, am I truly free?

- the issue is need, not freedom
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It is sort of fuck you money, but honestly I'm more pissed off that a shitty company now owns one of my favorite webapps. Mint is now going to die.

I also think something must have been going terribly wrong. The exit was tiny considering the huge amount of money that was invested.
giant plus one to this - mint was brilliant to make a warm and fuzzy credit card lead gen site and then parlay that into this size of sale.
pg is there any chance that you could get On Lisp printed this way? I know its not out of copyright, but you have freely put the pdf up on your site.
I loved that essay! Thanks for sharing it.
>It can also be a residual flow of payments for SaaS or royalties or dividends.

None of those are guaranteed - especially compared to a lump sum.

>I've said FU to the man lots of times

They're saying it to him permanently. Almost all of your examples are temporary.

>Even with lots of money in the bank, you get bored. You end up wanting to go back into the system, to be part of a team, to do something productive.

No one said they would do nothing. The whole point is they can do whatever they want without worrying about it being monetizable.
Let's combine this with the zip file approach. Your app is distributed as a zip file containing only the app folder. Safari unzips it automatically, then the user double-clicks your app icon. Your app notices it's in the "Downloads" directory and asks "Would you like to install me to the Applications folder?" If so, the move is done visually by opening two finder windows and literally moving the app icon as if it was being dragged. Afterward the Applications folder remains open displaying the app icon in case the user wants to drag it to the dock.
Reminds me of something my uncle told me: "The rich are different from you and me: they have money...and you don't!"

Seriously though - you can never have too much money, but this doesn't change the fact that it is way better to have, say $10M in net worth vs. $100,000. Of course if you have $10M you're still going to want to be a billionaire, but now you can choose to either work hard to become a billionaire or do something entirely different. You're still going to have to find your place in the world---everyone deals with this---but now you have a huge amount of freedom you didn't have before.
Any maybe. Not every. I haven't never gotten a call and I have problems with every other update.
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Just use yodlee.com (they power Mint's backend anyway). I've been a happy user for years.

I agree with your second statement: to the uninformed observer (me and everyone else in this thread) something does seem off. Bank and credit card leads pay from $50-$200 per pop let alone the riches that mortgage leads bring in.

I was in fits of laughter during the initial Mint acquisition HN thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=821615) when people accused Mint of being unable to make money. To some, advertising and subscription payments are the only way to monetize.
If the object is now to graduate to subject -- a fine idea -- then we should remember that sentient modality of being includes repose, as well as action.

Now there's a sentence that gives me a grad school flashback! What on earth (if not the fuck) is the "sentient modality of being"?
Can you cite any studies that demonstrate this? This is often stated as fact, and I'm sure 'many' lottery winners are less happy, but I would still assume the vast majority would see massive gains in their quality of life and would report increase in their overall happiness.

I'd love to read up on any actual data gathered on the topic if you know of any.
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