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Technically Flipkart isn't a Indian company as Flipkart is registered in SG. But since all its operations are in India you could say it serves India. Just like amazon.in which serves India.

WS Retail is now a separate entity not run by Flipkart anymore. It was sold last year.

This was mainly to bypass the FDI laws. So WS Retail is like a wholesaler.

So WS Retail is a seller technically. Also you cannot say they run on different models, Flipkart does have more than a one seller so the model is still the same as amazon. Flipkart just eats other sellers at times with the WS Retailer's discounts and stuff. Just like amazon?

If every legal aspect is off the table then Flipkart is running WS Retail and other sellers are at mercy of Flipkart's(WS Retail) listing price.

Also Amazon.in sellers are all Indian (brick and mortar stores)sellers, so theres that.
Congratulations to Mike Perham. Sidekiq is an impressive project, I hope that Inspeqtor will follow its path and serve the needs of thousands of users in the years to come.

Now that the DMCA has been taken down, it's time to kiq some ass!
>I think they managed to get noticed by being truly disruptive.

A company is not "truly disruptive" before it's disrupting something. I'll bet there are thousands of apps and services out there that have ideas that could potentially become disruptive if they gained traction. Many, maybe most of these will never go anywhere.
To me, what's happening in India e-commerce growth is just extension or expansion of Amazon model, on a bigger scale perhaps.

But for Alibaba, it is truly revolutionary if you look at how much of their Tmall sales percentage(relative to taobao) in that $5.78 billion sales, it is truly manufacturer-to-consumer.
I can certainly see how one might think that, given this case. But having looked at some consistently profitable strategies, I am quite convinced that there are people with real, legal edge in the market. You wouldn't believe some of the things people exploit, they can very very small things.

I remember interviewing a guy whose whole thing was to make electronic markets in a product at the price where the price increments changed (think 8-9->10<-12-14). I didn't pursue it. Yet another guy found a small quirk in a niche market related to baskets of securities. Quite often they are things that have a cap on the money that can be extracted. A friend of a friend has an obscure electronic strategy that makes him a few million bucks a year, but can't be sized.

Then there is also a whole class of people with some sort of information privilege. Market makers who hear about a big order first (because their broker has got to call somebody first), or participants who are at a natural information aggregation point (people with a lot of connections).

In the HFT space, there's also a whole load of things related to reg NMS rules that ordinary participants are possibly not aware of.
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Both of mine (https://www.s3stat.com/ and http://www.twiddla.com/) are turning nice profits. There are dozens of other people here running successful single player businesses.

The nice thing about having a single person is that you get to define Profitable as "income minus server expenses" rather than "income minus server expenses and everybody else's fixed salary". You also, if you prefer, may choose to define your own salary as "income minus server expenses", which gets to be a very nice thing after a while.

There are lots of other nice things about running a business by one's self. Dig around for old threads here on the topic for more examples.
Isn't this just a thinly-veiled form of off-shoring? With all related consequences.
Yes, the problem is that many MX servers do not have their spam defences setup in the right order, especially in the case where you reply to someone who has already emailed you:

The recipient's server should always check if your email is authenticated (SPF, DKIM). If so, they should check if their user has emailed you in the past, and if so they should let your email through, to prevent it being marked as a false positive. They should try and do this even if your domain happens to land on a single DNS blacklist (or they should use a quorum of DNS blacklists).
They also have the shit I said about you, which they can treat as fact. Now imagine if we start using this data for job applications, it's a slippery slope of missed opportunities and Scarlet Letter ostracism that we should work to avoid. What is harmless today can set a president in the future, and a liability that we have no reason to accept.
I once spoke to a privacy lawyer who said that normal people are highly offended when their expensive Apple device fails to protect their privacy. It's good that Apple is using pro-privacy rhetoric, independent of any technical or legal facts that may conflict with that rhetoric.
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Does anyone know how to get an X amount of colors that visually are as much different from each other as possible? While setting boundary conditions such as allowed lightness values.
You should assume they will be stored and shared with friendly nations, even if the official line says they aren't.
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Many of you selling over the same period would create a downward pressure on price.
I was the founder of TouristEye, a travel guide app that makes trip planning really easy. We got into 500Startups, we reached 500k registered travelers and then we sold the company to Lonely Planet, the leader of the sector.

I see myself on this post. Several years ago we decided to build an amazing trip planning, that allowed you to plan your trip day-by-day. You can see some screenshots on the Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/touristeye-planner...) (not working now). We got over 100k users using it on their trips (not daily users obviously). It was gorgeous, people really loved it, Google really loved it, but the usage was pretty low. Just 5% of our users used it.

So because we were a startup we decided to kill it and we focused on capturing user wishes, and recommending those things for their trips (kind of Google Now for trips and offline). That's what gave us more usage, more income and finally it was one of the reasons of our exit.

So, yes. Trip planning sucks as a business. But all our team remembers it proudly. It was just fucking amazing :)
totally agree, this makes the site readable :)
And a reply from Tom Igoe (mentioned in the original post as being opinionated and informed): https://ello.co/tigoe/post/dxGk7ID3kcO0cF95U2so6w

> US makers have the luxury of being able to be makers because we outsourced manufacturing. And as China's manufacturing wages rise, that middle class has less romanticism about making things, because the skills are not two generations in the past, as they are for us. The kids there who wanna be makers most likely (based on a handful of conversations at MF Shenzen, not systematic) romanticize the part of a US Maker life that we now find tiring: the part where we hold down a high-wage job designing things to be made in offshore factories.

> I'm wondering if Maker culture is just genx's mid-life crisis. Instead of getting Porsches, we get 3D printers.
One commenter on the article confirmed some logging and used the hosts file to stop it.

If vendors keep up this behavior, they will find their apps confined to third-party sandboxes that permit network access under very controlled circumstances.
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I can find you a job, 100% guaranteed, if you are serious, I have helped 100s of other Indians find jobs. Email me at zq@nemcv.com. Even better let us blog publicly about my quest to find you a job so people can see that NemCV is 100% effective!
Atleast the fact that this was written and its currently at the top of Hacker news says that this pain exists. The author of the post is saying that no solution has been found yet. You should consider this a blessing in disguise and not get disheartened. There are perhaps atleast two things to take away from this.

1. The problem exists ( and is a genuine problem that quite a few people care about! ).
2. A good solution has not been found yet. ( also kind of good for you! ).

Apart from this, it also gives you a lot of information about the industry. Especially the discussions that are happening here. So, why dont you consider this a loooot of great feedback and go back to the drawing boards and go disrupt this industry ?
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SpaceChem is included in the current Humble Bundle, with still 10 hours remaining, FWIW.
A good travel agent makes things so much smoother. Large chains get economies of scale so you don't pay much more than online/manually, but having all the bits and bobs sorted (courtesy calls if anything changes, transfers, etc.)
Hmm, perhaps it is just Canada then. I thought there was stricter regulation around commodities trading in the US as well. In Canada we do have some regulation around this though (at least in some provinces: http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_stat...) The manager from BP was very adamant about the fact that little communication was allowed between the traders and anyone else at BP.

Part of the issue is that BP also sells futures, and they have the ability to influence the futures price. (That is relating to your comment about economies of scale, storage capacity, etc).

I wasn't arguing about whether what BP is doing is legal or not. I was commenting on the initial post which implied that some traders are capable of making commodities trades based on some form of "skill". I was saying that they outperform the market because they have non-public information that gives them an advantage. (i.e. I was trying to dissuade laymen from thinking that they can make a quick buck off of commodities).

Thank you for those articles though. The second one in particular seems very interesting.
There are tons of travel affiliate programs, but none of them pay squat because the root problem is that "leads" are common, but paying customers are rare. It's a bit of an overgeneralization, but it isn't totally absurd to view the entire travel industry as a massive lead-gen operation for hotels and (to a lesser extent) airlines.

About the only thing you can do in travel is find some way to make something essential (housing, transportation) cheaper than it already is. If you can't do that, you're a middleman, and the game of the middleman is competitive and well-defined.
All the negative stories and tweets in the world won't make a difference. Their prices(that only they can offer at the scale they operate at) and marketing budget will nullify it as Walmart and Amazon have already proven in the past.
You know the founder of Amazon India is not an Indian but Flipkart's founders are Indians (born and living in India).
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Exactly same thoughts.
I was too very happy flipkart customer untill now and always recommended flipkart as one of the most reliable e-commerce site to others but not now.

When they cancelled my LED TV order in just 2 hours (it was my only order) and instantly increased the price, even then i didn't mind it much. But today in morning when i found out that the same thing happened with many many customers, i am sure it was not unintentional.

This happened to me
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4697507053002&set=a....

Article on cancelling of orders on DNA
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-flipkart-cancels-order-...
And do you know they worked for Amazon.com for few years to bring that model back to Indian market?
I don't understand the grammar problem here.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/200161/you-still-...
Keep in mind LambdaNative appears to be very opinionated about things like project structure (your code goes in this folder and is named like this), files (your images must be in this format and must be copied to this folder) or UI (your code must implement this kind of view, always, in this way). At first it looked really nice to see somebody already did all the grunt work to prepare Gambit-C for all those platforms (specially mobile), but the constraints were too much for me. Impressive project but not for every app.
Indeed, getting Indians to move from buying gold for no good reason to buying garbage for no good reason = progress to first world status.
> a "topology" in Storm is a directed acyclical graph. The nodes are called "bolts" and the edges are called spouts"

Not really. Edges are streams and nodes are either spouts or bolts. Spouts have no predecessors and inject external data into the system. Bolts gather one or more input streams and produce zero or more output streams.

These names are a bit confusing, but only during the very first steps of a project. Quickly every developers grasp the concepts.

I have nevertheless a concern regarding spouts and bolts. In practice, when a topology is refactored, bolts have frequently to be transformed into spouts. This occurs when a topology is split in two to ease deployment; and when a persistent queue is added along a stream. This highlights that the distinction between spouts and bolts is bit artificial.
TripIt isn't a planning site, it's more of an organizational tool.
I've been a 11 year customer of Amazon US and a 2 year customer at Amazon.in. They certainly do get Indian culture. Amazon India isn't a bunch of white people from Seattle arriving en masse and setting up shop. They hired locally (including from Indian incumbents) and localized their operations to include stuff like COD, local language support etc. Amazon is well on its way to becoming as 'local' as McDonalds or Honda have already. Their capability to deliver in Tier II and III cities is already ahead of Flipkart for example. GMV is currently about 35% of Flipkart and I wouldn't be surprised if they overtook them in two years.
Personal: transactions can be followed, and, given enough data, associations with people can be made.

To the network/blockchain: people will probably send you dust with a note begging for money[1].

[1] - https://blockchain.info/address/17qq5A3XKfrxpJRSC5LH6APjvTDb...
It's the page <title> published by The New Yorker (line 9)
Not really... Counterexample: http://www.haproxy.org/ :)

I think most of the people don't care about the fab wrap, as long as the product works properly.
Concur on that assumption. Real estate sites in general have a huge amount of passive traffic that can generate advertising revenue. Women in particular have a huge affinity to just browsing listings for fun and aspirational purposes. Whilst Zillow isn't ad driven, know a fair number of sites that rely on that. Source. Work in the space.
Sales of each individual phone model are a tiny fraction of iPhone model lifetime sales though, so I suspect they don't get anywhere near the same economies of scale. Then of course there are Apple's revenues from licensed accessories, which are highly profitable and sell well.
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It's still not the biggest ever scandal.

And the title on HN is still against the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

The current title here "Inside the Biggest-Ever Hedge-Fund Scandal" is not the original content title (even if it is inside of the title tag in the HTML, as karkarlawawa noted) and is as linkbait as linkbait can be.
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Yes the Griptape is an essential part to make high ollies consistently. However ollie's are possible to do without griptape as well. Just a lot harder because you'll have a lot less control.

The harder you slam down the tail of the board the more friction you get, the easier it is to pull the board up/forward.
That's definitely good news, but seems like it's far from what was planned for Go support for Android (there was a document on Google Docs about it this summer).

They seem to fixed the linker, leaving the networking issues open so far. And I'm not really sure about the *.so generation for Dalvik/ART, Java bindings generator tool and other planned tasks. I saw some mentions in the go.mobile repo a while ago, but this issue still doesn't have a release assigned: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=6342
Obviously the < title > on the page was used exactly as the meta tags even more than a decade ago: as a SEO content. The title of the article is different and appropriate to the New Yorker.
I couldnt read this. The design of the site hurts my brain. The font is painful and hard to read.
I thought the guide would start off with erasing osx and installing Linux lolz, but honestly its a really good guide :)
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The OP used the <title> tag of a widely-read publication, regardless of the intent of The New Yorker. Madoff didn't run a hedge fund, and though I haven't done the research this may be the largest insider trading conviction related to a hedge fund.
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How does LuaRocks implement the cross-compilation? Lua is widely used on embedded platforms, so I wonder how easy it will be to just take a random module from the LuaRocks and build/deploy it for some MIPS or ARM board?
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Thanks! If it would allow that the modules locally exist inside of a single ZIP file instead of the single directory, it would be almost exactly what I want.

Then the "getting started" would be

"download luajit

choose/download wanted packages along with their listed dependencies

unzip all over the same directory

(optional) rebuild binaries

(optional) zip all modules to modules.zip. <== new

run a demo: luajit ..._demo.lua

This will give you an instantly portable luajit distro with only a few small files!"

Java also has JAR files which are actually ZIPs.
I've reached the same conclusion for our suite of UI tests (which are based on Cucumber + Capybara + SitePrism) - Phantom has random issues that don't occur with any other browser/driver (e.g. elements not being found even if you add a long wait - our app is rich client side Angular so I suspect some JS issue is happening) and it's too hard to debug what is going on compared to Firefox + Xvfb (where you can just redirect the display to a real X display and see what is going on).
> your code must implement this kind of view, always, in this way

Could you elaborate on this? It seemed the opposite to me: I implemented my own view/activity stack, calculated button positions in pixels (no layouts), explicitly specified which keyboard to draw where and when, and so on. Did I miss all the structure?
What's this? Someone disagreeing with me? On HN? THIS WILL NOT STAND!
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"Legally speaking" a five second clip can be copyright infringement while a 20 second clip is "fine". length of time, in terms of fair use, has to do with the overall length of the copyrighted subject. I haven't seen the video but based on the description it seems to fall squarely under the fair use terms.
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It is the part of the CEO that really gets me. Was the employee in the wrong? Certainly. But the way the CEO handled this is just god awful.

When you see a pissed of shopper going off on a sales person, the sales person knows they have to stay calm and must not reply with the same kind of attitude that they are met with. Because whatever they say may reflect negatively on the company.
You would think a CEO would also know how to do that. So now I know that the CEO of reddit is a bad example of a CEO. No professionalism to speak of and has no problem getting petty in public just cause he is personally pissed of. With all that money he recently received he should think about taking some PR or general management classes in order to learn how to handle things like this cause he is clearly as incompetent in that area as he accuses this ex employee to be in the area he was hired in.
Let's make it clear: do you really claim that what's inside of the < title > there is not a linkbait and SEO?

And that the words appear anywhere else except in the < title > tag there?

Note that the policy of HN is otherwise to even not use the title even when it appears in the real content of the page if it is a linkbait and I, personally and subjectively, like and support that approach. The current title doesn't follow it.

I'm not trying to diminish the topic itself, it's obvious that the S.A.C. Capital Advisors, L.P. used insider info for their trading often, and that it was probably the major way they had an "edge."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point72_Asset_Management

"In November 2013, the firm itself pled guilty to insider trading charges and paid $1.2 billion in penalties."

Still the article actually focuses almost exclusively on Martoma and his source and their backgrounds for a single insider trading case.
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" a perfectly reasonable way to distinguish "

Well no, not really. After all, the blackhat isn't telling you that they're also busy selling your data to someone. And even if you are aware that the data is being sold, the blackhat can claim that it must be another intruder using the same flaw, and geez, you really should fix that!
Ah understood. Thanks!
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Everyone seems to have a different understanding of what a "travel planner" is / should do. I was thinking of rome2rio when I read this headline (which is very nice and doing great apparently), but from the comments here I gather many people want to solve the "social" (i.e. what to see etc.) aspect rather than the pure technical one (how to get there, how to save money) of it.

Considering how much money goes into travel (and related mergers/acquisitions - these are real acquisitions and not inflated valuations from 7-8 figure investments), it's definitely not a bad idea though.
The other bad idea, local travel experiences, there were hundreds of them, but it's really hard to get critical mass, because you need to have enough experience hosts, experiences and then also visitors. The only ones that made it work were www.getyourguide.com who raised $14M.
That will be the sticking point. Up to Monit to prove that it it isn't, which should not be too hard if it isn't.
True, it will.

I'm not sure it will win, I have a pretty good/cheap service I used for this in the past already. But I'll at least look at it I guess.
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Microsoft and Intel, not Apple, ended up eating almost all of the profits in the PC market.

Comparing Apple only to the manufacturers who had to deal with those two giant monopsonies who supplied the two basic requirements for a "Wintel" PC is missing the point massively.

It also makes things interesting for this time around as Google and ARM have very different business strategies than Windows and Intel did at that time.
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