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Introducing the DVDFab Media Player Site License Program
A lot of the efficacy of this depends on when you started.

The S&P500 total return last year (2013) was 32.39%. The year before (2012), 16%. [1] The two year annualized: 23.92% which is really near your 24% compounded. Weekly trading sounds like a lot of transaction cost for not much alpha. It sounds like you are doing better this year-to-date, but be careful drawing conclusions on a system when the market is going gangbusters.

Does this strategy involve a lot of covered calls? That would seem to fit better returns in flat/down markets and lesser in raging markets (since you'd be taken out early).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500
Stream Torrents Directly to Apple TV with TorrenTV Cross-platform App
Running 5 Minutes a Day Has Long-Lasting Benefits
> Public transportation was so-so. And getting places wasn't convenient always. Shopping for food involved walking more than we wanted (especially in cold or rain). It wasn't terrible and I can see benefits to it, but it was also not that great either.

Before I was 10 I lived in an urban area. It was pretty much exactly this. After that we moved to an ultra-rural area. When I was old enough I swore I would move back and I did, but within a couple years realized that there are lots of downsides exactly as you describe here. I'd add that close proximity to near constant violence is also a problem in many urban areas.

I finally left when my downstairs neighbor was violently stabbed in his own apartment.

This was in one of the low-crime areas.
It certainly doesn't serve all 350 million people. And we don't really know what kind of peak loads it can handle, so that might not be very impressive. Also, considering what it does (Which it might not even do well; time will tell.), it's not exactly computationally challenging.
From my quick skim checking to see if it was still there, no. He touches on some of the same points, but it's not nearly as in-depth or crazy (in a wonderful, functional way).
> the only real reasonless difference is string functions are haystack / needle, whereas array functions are needle / haystack

There's a trick to this that isn't too hard to remember. Searching for a value in an array is much more akin to searching for a needle in a haystack.

So, for array functions, it's like searching for a needle in a haystack. For string functions, you're searching in a haystack for a needle.

I'm not really commenting on whether one should have to remember this, only that it helps if you need to remember it.
Solving “The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever”
This looks really interesting but very family oriented. Do they have real-estate that would be appropriate for single people?
Can't get past the paywall on my phone, but 350 million people in the country, limited to working age adults, limited to those who didn't use state-level exchanges, limited to those who wanted to use the public option at all, and you're quickly at tens of millions, possibly less, spread over several months. And it sucked at serving that many people.
Is Moore's Law Less Important to the Tech Industry?
Kim Kardashian, an Unlikely Mobile Video Game Hit
After looking at the old chapter again (http://eloquentjavascript.net/1st_edition/chapter6.html), it isn't as intimidating as before. So yeah, maybe it is still mostly all there -- it seems the ES5 syntax makes it way less confusing
Square Plans a New, Chip-Friendly Credit Card Reader
I live in Chiang Mai, which is listed #1 on the list - and yeah I'm here because I love it.

But the picture you included is the White Temple in Chiang Rai. It's not in Chiang Mai. Might as well put a picture of Chiang Mai there, particularly if it's on the #1 spot. Not like Chiang Mai doesn't have any temples, there's hundreds and hundreds of them ;)
Stand Against Spying
I can't tell if she's parodying herself with this bit:

The shots of my farm were breathtaking and showed not only a very good landscape design — thanks to the surveyors and landscapers who worked with me on the overall vision, much as le Notre worked with Louis XIV — they also showed me what more I can do in the future, and revealed unexpected beauty.

I mean really... she's comparing herself to Louis XIV?
Maybe not so drastically as in US but I think it may also happen. If I recall correctly some T-Mobile plan in Poland has something like 'free Facebook'.
Doesn't it have to interface to a whole bunch of other government and commercial sites, which have their own APIs and data formats? I believe I read somewhere (probably earlier HN discussion months ago) that dealing with all that made this a ridiculously more complex project than it might first appear based on what you actually see on the site.
I'm sorry, I'm sure this idea/post is valid, but damnit if this isn't exactly what the recent HBO show "Silicon Valley" lampooned in the finale.

I cannot stop laughing.
The funny thing is, that spoof is basically what Gibson did seriously in the 2000s with the Bigend trilogy, setting stories in the present where he somehow gets iBooks to feel as exotic as Ono-Sendais.
Is there a way to bypass the pay wall to read this?
Ask HN: Automation; Increased consumption or more human redundancy?
Sure, the Luddites broke looms not realizing that the industrial revolution would create more work for them through increasing consumption, but surely there is a tipping point where computers allow us to automate so much that what the luddites feared actually comes true?

I am currently working for a company who's focus is automation of washing heavy vehicles. This has benefits in regards to health and safety, environment and of course the efficiency of companies that own and maintain heavy vehicles. However, am I just automating people out of their jobs or will our capacity to consume increase as we automate more?
Le casting de la saison 5 de Game of Thrones se précise
Cool, that was fun to peruse. Any comments on the Parrot AR drone? Is it worth looking into or just a dud?
It's nothing compared to something like the B2 bomber which cost $40+ billion to develop and each one costs over $700 million. We built 20 of them. (they are still pretty awesome cold war relics though)

edit: Or Nimitz class nuclear aircraft carriers for $4.5 billion each, with 10 of them built.
Wow that is fascinating. Your community has a pretty excellent website. Slick design, lots of high end photography. Which means someone spent a lot of money on it. Meaning someone is raking in big bucks by promoting the town.

Took a look at real estate prices relative to the area, confirmed - wow 4x higher prices than anything else in the area. Pretty amazing feat of real estate marketing to turn a chunk of rural Georgia into the equivalent of California home prices by leveraging sustainable growth. If developers can build a community like that and turn a profit at the same time that's a pretty promising future
Ground Loop or air to air heatpump? What brand and model?

(I ask because we just bought a house in montana and are thinking about a heatpump before winter...we have propane radiant heat now. We'd want one that would work with cold temps though it rarely gets bellow -10 F here.)
Click here: https://www.google.com/search?q=Poorly+Managed+HealthCare.go...

Then click the story.
Tom Murphy has done a couple of blog posts on this exact thing: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/heat-those-feet/ http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/05/burning-desire-f...
But these 10 millions who now got a chance to have insurance save dollars for the rest 340m. So indirectly it indeed served all 350m (or whatever total number of people living on USA territory)
I wrote recently about the option type specifically (called Maybe in Haskell): http://asivitz.com/posts/learn_to_love_maybe_kick_null

Swift has it, but it lets you easily subvert its meaning ('trust me, it's not null'), so I don't think it's as useful as it is in the usual functional languages.
The room being the kitchen, which is not the room you're trying to heat up as you prepare for bed.
WeWork is opening a space in London. Check it out at http://www.wework.com/location/south-bank/
That's probably true, and that's where I'd guess most of the cost came from. I'm just saying that if they only had to serve 350,000 people it probably would have been almost the same cost.
I agree, the refocusing is somewhat gimmicky, but how would you like a 30-250mm f/2 lens that never misses focus. To me, this is where the Lytro shines. It enables you to use a lens that would be unusable with a normal sensor.
Best Swift Tutorials I've Seen So Far
2 beers + 2 hours + fear of earthquakes = this
Yes, this explains why every Silicon Valley web company needs $840,000,000 in funding too before they can serve a small percentage of the US population. Oh wait.
Probably not. They don't want to bring up their own tactics in court for challenge.
The federal site only had 5.5 million people sign up for healthcare.

That's $150 per registered user.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-people-signed-up-for...
Correct, you can't intelligently justify how these Sprint plans could be good for anyone (except for the carrier itself). Well maybe if you are like 12 years old and new to this Internet thing and it's history...
Consulting firms like Deloitte were taking payments of +$70 million[1] to do "analysis" that "informed development and decision making." The associated waste of resources is unfathomable in the startup world but seems to be common with federal contracting.

1. Tipsy Deloitte associate chatting at a Chicago bar
peter - it's pointless to "worry" about the visa situation. There have been numerous "crackdowns" for numerous things over the year in Thailand; the one thing they all have in common is that a month or two later, everyone has forgotten about them.

The visa situation in Thailand is constantly changing - and has been changing every year or so over the last 10 years I've been here. So it's worth to research the current state of affairs, and to get a proper tourist / business visa before arrival.

If there's one downside to living in Thailand, then that's it. But they won't be kicking out digital nomads any time soon, or tax them, or whatever. I imagine if they did this all those nomads would disappear overnight. It's not worth putting in effort.
How To: Certificate Authority
Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms. It is almost biblical book about algorithms. And solve online judge type of tasks. A lot.
Interesting. How would one get into systems CTF? Sure, google returns plenty of hits, but are there any active communities that are better geared towards newbs or better resources, etc...
That last sentence, plain and simple, is what it comes down to. Suburbs are cheap and that's why people live there. Cities like Dallas are built on that idea.
Shaun Abrahamson: Founders Shouldn’t Get Hung Up On Valuations
You must have been to the wrong places, dude. The "sexpat" scene here is very small really - you'd have to go to Pattaya or Phuket for that. And also these people don't exactly follow you around, you find them in certain areas - and you'll never meet them outside those areas.
Buffer overruns are a completely valid reason to dislike C.
Answering to some of your doubts:

There are probably restrictions, but I can't be sure, I have to do some research (that would be just for US right? and in case of developers), from the designer perspective I don't see any issue (I have worked for a NY start up with just and NDA contract signed, worked for a Finish Agency with a long term contract and NDA signed for over a year, my brother worked for a start-up in SF) no problems so far.

Connection is an issue indeed, but as was said in previous comments, 'Sometimes people from constrained countries HAVE to develop some skills ...' Finding Internet access is hard but not impossible. the most evident con it has, is that most of communication should be by IM chat, Skype is blocked and even if we could use it, or use a similar service, there is no enough connection speed to support this ... but as I said some my have this possibility as well if their payment is enough to cover a high speed internet access (i mean a faster speed connection, saying high is not quite accurate). But as I said I've been several years working like this.

And I know there might be some cons, but wouldn't save money be a pro?
And not because I am Cuban, but there are very talented people living here, and there are more living outside Cuba that might benefit as well who knows ...

Another thing that happens often is that Cuban freelancers relocate in a country with no need for visa (with high speed internet connection) like Serbia or Ecuador and keep working with the client from there, with no need for higher salary.

... but overall, I think the opportunity to do some work you are proud is invaluable imo.

thanks for your time ... and sorry for my English
That sense of the word "served" has nothing to do with the magnitude of the technical project.
Yea, I'm pretty positive you're both correct--it was a government related project that they needed utmost of security and secrecy while rapidly building it. All of which are very challenging obstacles for developers
Even if you're doing a couple hours of intense exercise every day, you're only going to be adding on the order of 1000 Calories to your daily usage. Resting burn for most adults is around 1500-2000, so that's ~3000. What do you consider "sufficient" exercise?
Which dictator killed the more people?
Usually this is just a sign of a society with no middle class. Lots of poor, a fair number of truly rich, and not much in-between.

Expensive cars are all over Phnom Penh too, even though the country is dirt poor. They belong to the rich elite.
What? No. Cameras are complicated enough.
I dunno... I've literally never used any of those buttons, and the new deeper LinkedIn stuff they expose seems useful.
Wow.quite cheap...
I visited Melbourne for about a month a couple of years ago and was excited to use the train to get around, but people there routinely said I was crazy for doing that. People often offered to give me a ride to the train station (usually a few blocks away). I got the overall impression that Australia has a very similar car culture to the US.
Much more attractive too, if you prefer a redder (more like incandescent) light indoors. Modern LED bulbs are really good.
That looks like an incredibly expensive above ground subway/metro compared to something like a tramway network which seems like it would fit this style of development far more. I would expect you could finance a tramway network for the entire property for far less than $250 million.
How many dollars were saved exactly? Do you have a source? Anecdotally, I know plenty of people who saw an increase in their premiums.
From the subtitle

Because it's a useful tool. And imagine what Louis XIV could have accomplished at Versailles if he'd had one

I think she's just referring back to that.
Sorry, it's not the intended vibe -- people complain when they're voted down w/o explanation, so I'm trying to avoid that.

I mostly want to improve future discussions, not scold/shame people; my own posts aren't always on-topic and informative, though I like the goal.
Do you really think this is in any way comparable to a web company ? The project was never about just the website. It is the huge amounts of behind the scenes integration with legacy systems. Some of which may require specialist development experience which never comes cheap.
So if your trying to point out that this is more then just a custom wordpress site then your correct. If however you perceive this to be some intrinsically complex task requiring extensive technical expertise you are wrong. A majority of that money is most likely overhead and even then the development is done via integrations with enterprise vendors so another large chunk of change goes to pay the IBM's and Oracle's of the world for their databases and webservers along with their "consultants" to get it all tied together.

FWIW the current enrollment is 6mil so if you assume a very poor conversion rate of 1% then that is 600 million page views over the signup period and that comes down to about 38 views per second. At peak load that would only be like 1k concurrent views ( assuming a poisson distribution )
I was part of the "tech surge" brought in to help patch up healthcare.gov in December. The GAO report gives a decent idea of what went wrong in 2010-2013 from a high-level contracting and policy perspective, but it doesn't really give much technical detail or describe what was broken about the organization, software architecture, and culture.

A couple of my colleagues have given talks on healthcare.gov from the perspective of the engineers who worked around the clock to help get the site running again:
http://youtu.be/0albm_hhQzM?t=3m40s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQyj-kBRdo

A small team is also re-writing the site, starting with the most troublesome components for the next open enrollment period. Wired covered some of what is going on here:
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/healthcare-gov-revamp/

If any of you out there want to help, please email jobs@hcgov.us!
Viddme has worked pretty well for me, what makes yours better?
It may not be computationally challenging. But if you are integrating with dozens of legacy systems then getting that right is hardly trivial. Look at Netflix and Twitter and the work they did around resilience between their micro services.

Getting that to work every time with all failure paths handled correctly is definitely architecturally challenging.
"Rich Person Acts Like Bigotted Asshole: World Agape in Awe"
So I can't figure out why this product should exist (as a product, vs. a lab exercise). On the KS page it only mentions "You can finally get the chance to understand whats going on inside those ICs!" Which is worthwhile, I suppose, to a minority of hardware designers, just as learning assembly language is worthwhile to a minority of programmers. But does that translate into a business plan? What is the market for such kits?
Is there a formal relationship between sandboxed processes, add-on extensions and HTML5 DRM? E.g. if DRM was implemented in Flash, then there's no question of other add-ons interacting with the Flash content. If DRM was implemented in a browser process, would this be isolated from all or some add-ons?
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>they needed utmost of security

I can absolutely guarantee you that they do not have the utmost of security. For a project to be really secure, you need extremely talented and meticulous developers. Judging by the clusterfuck that was Healthcare.gov's original launch, that does not describe the people involved. For example, this sentence (lifted from Wikipedia) raises a million red flags in my mind re. data consistency checking and sanitation: "Even for those that did manage to enroll, insurance providers later reported some instances of applications submitted through the site with required information missing.". No project like that can feasibly have the "utmost of security".
Yes feedback is the most important thing. One thing I notice between people who get good at something and people who don't is that the people who don't just keep doing the same thing over and over again and somehow expect different results. However the people who do get good at something, keep making small little tweaks day in and day out based on their performance.
I live in NYC and I didn't know it was illegal until now. It's such a common occurrence that I look three ways every time I cross near an intersection.
This was a much more compelling argument when shared hosting was still cheaper than a VPS with root access. But now you can get a VPS from any slew of providers, like digitalocean, for $5 a month. Root access computing has never been more accessible, and shared hosting is rapidly losing any value proposition it once had. So targeting PHP purely because it's more ubiquitous on shared hosting than Rails, is making less and less sense.
Was there, my favourite talk. Thanks for making the trip down Paul
Spirit Reform in the States
>Getting that to work every time with all failure paths handled correctly is definitely architecturally challenging.

You're right. Good thing they completely failed to handle all failure paths correctly. This is extensively documented at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCare.gov#Launch_and_techn...
"unworkable"? Yes I am totally ready to accept IT advice by a bunch of people who wear wigs to talk.
This is exactly what I've been wishing existed.

If I could even go so far as to prepay for a set amount of time (1 to 6 months) for rent, sim, internet, and co-working space and have it all taken care of when I arrive, that would be even better.
The final product they produce needs security to protect the end users' medical records, but why on Earth would you need secrecy for what is essentially a public works product?
and also she tries to suggest comparison of her farm landscape design to Versailles. I can only laugh at that attempt of even slight metal connection of these rough primitive rectangles ( http://d2dvlr1w1gfn2q.cloudfront.net/-WvojxK_0cwk/U7wxD1i4GD... ) with an idea of a European palace park - while i never been to Versailles, i spent bunch of years in St.Petersburg ( http://www.russiantourguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/P... ) where stuff was built ideologically following Versailles (http://www.versaillespourtous.fr/fr/vuduciel/chateau/diapora... ) and the likes.
Just learn and code in c#.. Really tense... Code work in visual studio but compile output diff.string and array kinda weak to me..I love pup because of string manipulation.(string) (int) casting both in php and c# also..still learning c#.
A similar project is being done by the Senseable Cities Lab at MIT:

Local Warming: http://senseable.mit.edu/local-warming/

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-6i6owLMQk
Check out your local law schools, I've had friends with startups who paid like a $300 flat fee or something cheap to get all their legal startup advice for the year. Just make sure that you're not their first customer.

Just a side note, just register as a LLC in your state of residence, it's cheaper and pretty straightforward to convert to a Delaware C-corp when it comes time to raise funds from VCs.
Saw these guys in London recently - they're exactly that. Equity based crowdfunding with voting rights powered with bitcoin

http://swarmcorp.com/
So less than 2 weeks of health care coverage per user.

While we're on the subject of waste, the USA's ongoing experiment with market-based health care costs ~20 weeks of coverage per user per year compared to its social counterparts.

http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourc...
Why the hell does everything the government do have to go through a contract and outsourced/ bid on?

Why don't they contract someone to come up with a better solution?
Ask HN: Website that Lists All Upcoming Software Development Conferences?
I'm looking for a website that lists most/all of the upcoming software development conferences. Googling turned up lanyrd.com which (on its software dev section at least http://lanyrd.com/topics/software-development/) seems to be missing the obvious ones I'm interested in like PyCon and NSConf. I also get a lot of individual conference pages, or pages specific to particular languages/development methodologies. Is this too broad a query?