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I'm aware of the existing in house services, but noticed there are still a bunch of universities without one. Even some big names. Those are pretty good points. Thank you.
Whatever redeeming qualities this comment may have had, it was absolutely certain to lead to a political flame war.
Really surprised none mentioned firefox sync?
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The Content Platform and Post Trade Analytics team, part of Real-Time Pricing and Analytics organization, builds analytics platform capabilities which form a foundation for new breed of Thomson Reuters Eikon applications and APIs.

It is in charge of onboarding text content like real-time news, filings, research and other onto the Platform, making it searchable and integrating it with other Platform-based systems like Alerts.

It is also in charge of building infrastructure and applications for Buy-Side like backtesting and other pricing (and other) time series analysis.

-Minimum Bachelor Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent

-Three to Five years of C++ and or Java (strong working knowledge of it/them)
-Strong problem solving, algorithmic thinking and coding skills
-Experience in development of complex distributed, multi-tier systems

-Experience in stream computing or CEP a strong plus
-In-depth knowledge of Big Data technologies a strong plus
-Experience in working with market data a plus
-Experience with performance tuning and optimization a plus
-Experience in working with modern search platforms like Elastic Search or Solr a plus
-Experience in working with HBase, Impala, Hive, HDFS, MapReduce a plus
-Ability to work in highly agile team environment
-Self-driven, goal-oriented team player with good communication skills

If interested, please email your resume to: Michael.P.Ferguson@thomsonreuters.com
Concerning uTrim, I'd juste like to point out that you shouldn't limit yourself only to .edu.
I'm a Comp. Science student at Concordia Unviersity[1] in Montreal, Canada and I personally hate it when certain services are limited to U.S. university users, when in fact they would be extremly useful for other students in different countries that do not use an .edu domain.

As an example, Concordia uses different email adresses depending on your faculty: @jmsb.concordia.ca, @encs.concordia.ca etc.

I believe it would be a good idea if you could implement a way of submiting "new" universities to the list of accepted schools, which can then be handpicked by youself. I suppose ideally a list of most universities available would be better. Dropbox used an amazing email list for their Space Race challange a few years ago, however I can't seem to find it.

[1] http://www.concordia.ca/
Why didn't Apple just delete your dev account?
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It wasn't "if we listened", but "if we normalized terms". I agree that getting people to normalize terms with the aim of successfully communicating can be difficult...
As smooth and easy to use compared to what?

cough lags-and-stops-responsonding-if-you-sneeze-too-hard-on-a-24GB-ram-machine-visual-studio-2013? cough

cough spazzes-out-randomly-when-you-type-characters-xcode? cough

sublime text? (which to be fair, is pretty amazing)

It's all relative. I've used plenty of really shit 'native graphics' applications (especially cross platform ones); on the other hand, plenty of stuff in the list (https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/List-of-apps-a...) work just great for me.

shrug

I don't think you can discount the entire run time just one the basis of one app.
If you crunch the numbers, it turns out the bad news is a Bussard ramjet won't work as an engine.

The good news is, it will work as a brake. That takes care of the deceleration half of your delta-V requirement, which is better news than it sounds: thanks to the rocket equation, it doesn't just halve your required mass fraction of fuel, it square-roots it.
Once upon a time I was given an account on a host which was publicly accessible over the internet.

I was told "OK your username is 'steve', your password is 'steve'". Between the time it was created and the time I logged in for the first time it had been compromised via a dictionary-attack.

I know these things happen constantly, but I was pretty surprised at the sheer bad luck and timing involved.

Otherwise I worked at a hosting company for many years, and clients would frequently get compromised. Largely as a result of outdated wordpress/magento/drupal installations. (Sometimes dictionary attacks too, but largely it was outdated web applications allowing remote code-execution.)
Implementation wise, it's using WebSockets to send relevant key up/down events. A key is considered pressed if more than 50% of active users are pressing the key (active users must have pressed a key in the last few seconds).
No seed accelerator? No big name co-founder? No funding round? No buzzword-laden bullshit talks at fashionable conferences (ted)? What about 'professional' ex-lawyer CEO paid >$100K with no clue about networking? Saas? Cloud? can this even scale? Where is the growth?

One sys admin? 500 homes? bootstrapping? low prices? What are you? some hippie commie geek man slave? You want to actually work for a living of something?
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Yeah this would be great as well. I would love if it kept the one with the most replies.
http://tuhdo.github.io/emacs-tutor.html#text-7-29 - the excersise:

C-f to the beginning of each character group and add whitespace.

No, don't! Use C-s or even better iy-goto-char (https://github.com/doitian/iy-go-to-char). This scales much better.

You can also set mark at first 'b' in the first line, go to first 'b' in the last line and use C-x r t to insert a string across all the lines.

You can of course use regex-replace, too: \(a+\|b+\|c+\|d+\) -> \1 <- space here

And so on and on. It's good to see well written "introductory courses", like this one, but what about "Emacs for black belts"? "Advanced Emacsology"? There is one book about writing Emacs extensions (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565922617.do), but that's all there is. Does anyone know about another source of knowledge about the most advanced Emacs techniques?
Do you expect paypal to keep trying that IPN indefinitely?

They retry up to 15 times or 4 days[1].

[1] https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/...
I'm not sure, I think because we only got caught with 8 puzzles I guess they just decided to give us a chance. They're very hit and miss
> This is not a language for clever people, although there are clever things that can be done in this language. It is a language for simple things and clever things alike, and sometimes we want to be simple, and sometimes we want to be clever. But we don’t give bonus points for being clever.

I'm reminded of the adage about mathematics: think deeply of simple things.
Around 20 years ago when I was taking my computer education, low-level programming was all there was.

OS programming from absolute scratch is nothing special by the standards of what was done that day (some years later you had OS toolkits and a huge amount of tools to make that far easier, like virtualization; 20 years we could maybe beep to debug our programs). Many in the programme grew up on Commodore or Spectrum which also meant a lot of low level tricks.

So Linux 0.1 didn't really have any amazing contributions to computer science (on the contrary, you may recall the famous Tanenbaum-Torvalds thread on microkernels vs monolithic kernels). It was pragmatic and, quite quickly, useful.

I think where Linus did extremely well was a) successfully managing a huge number of contributions while being highly technically involved and b) relentlessly changing the internal design to improve it. If Linux had been a commercial product, there'd be lot of senior people greatly invested in their own designs that'd be unwilling to modify them.

For comparison, here's another famous kernel programmer who has the technical skills, but not the collaboration skills: http://www.templeos.org/
Joke's over.
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They pointed to two explanations:

>Google allows sites that collect personally identifiable information from users as long as this is not the primary purpose of the site.

>Google doesn't allow the promotion of sites that offer incentives in order to collect users' personal information (such as free quiz/survey results, horoscopes, etc.) where collecting this information is the primary purpose of the site.

If offering updates on the project is an "incentive", well, I have no idea how anyone does this. The adwords+landing page concept is so ubiquitous on HN. I've asked here before and gotten no explanation.
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You are supposing he stops for gas when his tank is full?
That would actually be pretty funny
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I live in Russia and in the past have been running a website that criticizes Russian elites and Putin in particular for years, the one that fails under this law, BTW.

But why do I get outraged by the unsourced comments as yours even more than by this stupid law?

I personally challenge you: I will provide you with information that I'm a real person and my claim about running website criticizing Russian elites is real if you take time to explain why is it OK for the West to support regime that kills Ukrainian civilians en masse.

You keep churning unsourced "Russian shills everywhere" message, while ignoring two simple possibilities:

1. While there are Russian Government shills on the Internet, as well as Western ones, real Russian people can also be genuinely outraged by actions of the West.

2. The West may be in reality backing puppet regime that commits horrific crimes.

P.S.
It is ironic that I'm probably the single person in this thread that is really affected by this law and at the same time I am being modded down.
Hype is awesome.

I do wonder though, how many people do you get asking for you to support Windows?
I know alot of Adobe shops that adopted Windows in previous years so I am just curious what the numbers are like.
I've seen this page before but couldn't get anything to work in Windows.
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Please tell me you made that up.

Honestly, it's hard to tell.
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This seems like another symptom of the widening income gap. You need money to start a new venture and the average worker no longer has much to spare. Meanwhile large corporations have increased power and influence acquire/stifle competition.
For every person that died in NYC, ~10 died in Afghanistan and ~30 died in Iraq. I suspect their families and the people around them feel much the same way. It's fortunate for both of us that they can't effectively fight back.
You're doing it wrong. No, seriously. Don't try to 'dream up cool ideas'. Go talk to people, companies. Find out what really frustrates them, see if you share their view of their frustration and/or if you can find a solution that is not entirely obvious and that gives you a way to monetize.

Make sure there is a large enough market before you put much more time in. Then, once you've got a concept that is workable and has a large enough potential market, try to convince your complainer-soon-to-be-customer to become your pilot partner. Then execute on the idea you have, make your first happy customer and then branch out to other people/companies with the same problem.
This reminds me of the Flappy Bird says!
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The sobriety of Or's emails to his "competition" makes him seem completely delusional to the absurdity of his application's popularity and existence.
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Ask HN: Where is the who is hiring thread?
Usually it's at 9AM no?
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But isn't it also a mistake trying to portray Haskell as just-another-langauge? It clearly is not, it is more difficult to learn. Like with most things in life, the benefits appear after putting a lot of effort into it. I don't get the impulse to portray Haskell as "easy". The perceived arrogance of Haskellers may also come from that.

You don't defuse arrogance by saying "Look, I'm not smarter than you. This is easy. Now let's talk about Monads, they're just like Tacos. I'm patient."

Better be honest and say "Look, I'm not smarter than you. This is hard. We need to start with data types, and the benefits won't be obvious until long down the road."
It looks like it's dead, for whatever reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119683
My point is that even if you agree with the intentions of the law it will not prevent Europeans from finding the truth if they want it.
trademark infringement, that is if they have one for "Yo"
Well, there is some value. For example, the value from having some popcorn and watching these things implode.
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I certainly don't its a "pious" law written by people with zero grasp of reality - the same ones that gave us the cookie law.
I recommend working in reverse and picking a target market/niche that you want to serve, and then finding and interviewing people from that industry/market. Ask them what problems they face on a day to day basis. Find out how painful those problems are and find out how they're solving them now. If the problem is painful enough and you can solve it better than how people are already solving it, people might very well pay for it. (Patio says every time you find a problem being solved with passing excel sheets around, a SaaS angel gets its wings).

Then brainstorm a solution to the most painful problem or two that you can solve with software, double back to your interviewees and see if they would pay for it. If a decent percentage are willing to pre-pay for it, you've already got your early adopters waiting for you and you didn't have to write a line of code. If nobody is interested, you may have saved yourself a ton of time and effort and now you can easily move on to researching the next problem/target market.

More info: http://www.smoothconversion.com/blog/why-you-don-t-validate-...
Ask HN: Where is the hiring thread?
Why did it get deleted?
I was going to upload A list movies and tv shows. It was going to be a Syfy channel alternative. Just saying.
That one wasn't posted by whoishiring. Someone saw that and killed it, but didn't feel the need to make sure the whoishiring one was posted
It seems the bot did not create it automatically so I took on myself to create one, but for some reason it's out of the front page.
Quick someone code Groot!
The answer to each of those questions is rather a lot. The lack of knowledge of other belief systems here is utterly stunning. Did you really just put all your faith in the very first religion that you randomly happened to be exposed to, and not consider any others at all?
> the NSA is busy de-anonymizing any blogger or any other internet user they wish bypassing the systems of law and democracy entirely.

Western governments routinely de-anonymize citizens. E.g. when a serial killer finally gets tracked down despite taking pains to remain anonymous, we normally consider that upholding justice, not subverting law and democracy.

So while the NSA has certainly done some horrible things, merely trying to de-anonymize reasonably suspicious actors isn't necessarily one of them.

And even if we assume the NSA were unreasonably de-anonymizing people as a matter of course, their job would certainly be a hell of a lot easier there if the U.S. could force bloggers to register after 3,000 hits!
Wow, so many truths and core principles about life and social interaction in such a concise post. I have started 'fiddling' with Haskell recently but after reading this I realize I have some serious work to do with my interpersonal skills and communication and being more considerate to others.
Enlightening on all fronts..
Next month on TechCrunch - "New app called Tr3s raises $20MM"
Everyone agrees that YO was an easy to make and good for nothing application.Generating a huge amount of funding was a marketing gimmic and ofcource it attracts compitition give that its so "easy to develop".
A bit of both :)

For the latter my intentions were strictly prank, and I was young and stupid. Basically it was just messing around in the highschool computer lab. We changed what time the bell rang, and put some nonsense meals on the lunch menu. I was Banned from the lab for my senior year :)

For the former, my static homepage was hacked last year, because the root of the VPS was hacked. I had been using the provider for about 12 years, and they had some old IIS and classic asp still running on the box! They injected some classic asp into my page to point to a fake rolex sales site.

That was fun.
A third of people driving are speeding.

"The government usually sets the speed limit at slightly lower than the average speed people actually drive."

I don't think you've ever driven on a US interstate.
Ultimately, the lifespan of a cow is unimportant. What matters is beef consumption per year, and water consumption per beef. It doesn't matter if any given chunk of beef requires its water over a month or a year or a decade, the long-term rate of use will be the same for any given amount of beef consumption.
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Oh. That thing. Thanks for digging it up. My brain seems to actively suppress some things. Can't judge the product though. May or may not be helpful for some people who need help or guidance with certain things and I wouldn't go as far as calling it a scam (as people in this thread pointed out). It just may not be the right product for a certain group of people.
I hope Apple's response to this wasting of their time is to decide that none of these apps meet the basic requirements of usefulness and pull all of them, including Yo, from the App Store.

It was funny for a while but let's not start a trend of worthless trademark trolling becoming the new software patents.
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I found the link to bootstrapped forums very helpful, thanks.
When you say "I don't think it's worth the effort for everybody", that's exclusionary, and totally counter the tone of the article, so I don't think your comment belongs in the thread about this article.
Far more important than ideas is learning to validate them quickly; unfortunately HN is a bad place for validation since few here are your target market.

If you're looking for more ideas, here is some additional reading:

Passive income ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5903868

Startup ideas spreadsheet 2010: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ag-R_ZlGO21NdE9HSWRk...

2012 re-discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190974

Further HN discussions of ideas: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/startup%20ideas
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For those looking for book recommendations, I personally found Aluffi's "Algebra: Chapter 0" quite wonderful. It's available online.
Interesting! I just spent the better part of today reading up on all this because I found it hard to accept that I'd remember something so terribly wrong. Turns out that the names have changed over time to denote various packages and gel/liquid/solid combinations. Wikipedia has a whole page on the subject and it almost seems as if they made the naming of these battery classes confusing on purpose:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_polymer_battery

Enjoy the read, I certainly did and it turns out the situation is a lot more complex (also historically) than I remembered it, but my memory wasn't quite as faulty as you made me feel initially (fortunately!).
Thomson Reuters: Analytics Platform Senior (C++ or Java) Developer
The Content Platform and Post Trade Analytics team, part of Real-Time Pricing and Analytics organization, builds analytics platform capabilities which form a foundation for new breed of Thomson Reuters Eikon applications and APIs.

It is in charge of onboarding text content like real-time news, filings, research and other onto the Platform, making it searchable and integrating it with other Platform-based systems like Alerts.

It is also in charge of building infrastructure and applications for Buy-Side like backtesting and other pricing (and other) time series analysis.

-Minimum Bachelor Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent

-Three to Five years of C++ and or Java (strong working knowledge of it/them) -Strong problem solving, algorithmic thinking and coding skills -Experience in development of complex distributed, multi-tier systems

-Experience in stream computing or CEP a strong plus -In-depth knowledge of Big Data technologies a strong plus -Experience in working with market data a plus -Experience with performance tuning and optimization a plus -Experience in working with modern search platforms like Elastic Search or Solr a plus -Experience in working with HBase, Impala, Hive, HDFS, MapReduce a plus -Ability to work in highly agile team environment -Self-driven, goal-oriented team player with good communication skills

If interested, please email your resume to: Michael.P.Ferguson@thomsonreuters.com
Time to Say Farewell
To be fair this is HackerNews.

It's a sales site, deep down we understand why you did what you did and why you say what you say. We have all done it in the past. But there is always that dick that wants to pick a bone.

Don't worry about it. Though I would probably try be abit more upfront about the beta and the limitations of the beta at the download phase. After you have collected email addresses etc just let the user know this is indeed beta software and it's missing x, y and z.

Considering your early adopters are going to be more adventurous.. then it might make sense to post detailed release notes.
This serves a double purpose. It means you are upfront with your current users (likely to be your first paid customers) and it sets the tone for open communication.

Said tone is awfully important. It's the difference between "I'll report this bug and it will probably be fixed 2 weeks from now" and "F$#k it, these guys don't give a sh*t". Not to say the latter will necessarily happen but only that tone counts for alot when you are selling a tool that peoples livelihood may very well depend upon.

Best of luck anyways. I love working with graphics on the Mac and think your product is a welcome addition.
Have you used Popcorn Time? I would say the interface is very slick and easy to use.
I think the GP is talking about speed limits on controlled-access highways, not on residential or commercial streets.
Property taxes are not significantly different between the city and suburbs so that reasoning doesn't fly. Besides in my state (Michigan) a portion of school funding comes from the state coffers. This funding comes with strings attached as it is tied to standardized test scores. This is a devious and destructive technique to funnel more money to affluent schools and away from the inner city.
there goes the weekend!
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