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It's not in the interests of long-term investors to keep advantaged traders out of the market. The alternative to the participation of informed investors is mispricing. Fundamentals investors want prices to reflect actual value, too.
Start with a really good spec. I started ProjectPulse.io by clearly defining the problem, and what the solution would look like. Then I dove into defining the needs of all the MVP features. From there, it wasn't hard for me to make wireframes and get awesome designs from a designer. Then, I also made a list of features I'm going to want to add, but not for the MVP, so they felt like they were on paper, but not the same as MVP features.

Once you have a list down of things that need to be built because you know the sum of those things is an MVP, put your head down and work until it's done. Don't question anything until you have an MVP. Stop second guessing the product or the market and just build it.

I'm leaving out the whole "research and learn from potential users" - that comes first, but that's not what we're talking about here.

TL;DR: Write a detailed spec for an MVP, then put your head down in code until you have an MVP.
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There are brain imaging studies that show the placebo effect in action for depression and pain. Also, given what we know about psychological stress causing symptoms such as headaches, pain, diarrhea, etc. I think it would be impossible for the placebo effect not to have "actual benefits".
I chose my words carefully. :) The topics in Model View Culture are a good representative sample of the topics popular in tech feminism, the article isn't by her, and it was published while Amelia Greenhall was still involved in the publication, for whatever that's worth. (Also, if your impression of Shanley is her Twitter feed, it's worth being aware that MVC is pretty different.)
It's a viewer because editing is disabled. Editing is coming :-)
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Think snail mail, not email.
It was DI'd, but it was created at the beginnings of DI. What I tried to express is that the excesses of a new format/technique/… don't instantly follow its introduction, there's a lag until a herd decides that's something to do. Same as the loudness wars: the Red Book was published in 1982 but excessive compressions started in earnest in the early-to-mid 90s blossoming into low single-digit dBFS by the end of the 90s-early 00s.
I pair a lot and, most of the time, I use ScreenHero. I think is a great tool, and before yesterday would have recommended it without hesitation. I have mixed feelings about the recent Slack acquisition, but I'd rather see a tool like that get rolled into another tool than run out of money and die.

I do something similar for a whiteboard replacement. I use IPEVO Ziggi-HD High-Definition USB Document Camera [1], a sharpie and a nice sketchbook. I'll switch between my macbook webcam and that for sketching/drawing. Which helps a lot, but still feels very one sided; like I am presenting an idea rather than collaborating on an idea. I'm a very visual communicator, so there are times when I feel very handicapped by a lack of a good collaborative sketching tool.

I've tried using TeamSpeak, but in my experience it was a pain to set up for non-gamers. It can be great once you get it tuned just right, however, I think there is a broader (more accessible) niche that could appeal to a lot of people -- they just don't know it yet. Having the ability to simply and quickly, spawn a side conversation within a bigger meeting would be ideal for me.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Ziggi-HD-High-Definition-Document-Came...
At http://HockeyBias.com we recreate our html every time we have a new story to display on the site and push the static html out using AppEngine. The pages load very quickly compared to other sports sites that are making countless roundtrips...
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This fiasco is clearly a publicity stunt and a poor one at that. This is a total non-event.
Have you considered filing a bug report?
The current system isn't perfect but capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty over the last century.
For that I think you can do something similar to what mpc for C (https://github.com/orangeduck/mpc) and LPeg for Lua (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/), which is to provide the parsing machinery and write a small DSL with the same machinery for the users.
"Single data point vaguely alluded to". That's funny. Women compromise 20% of the software development workforce. For every woman developer, there are four men. Against that fact, you've got statistical studies on the variance of quantitative ability between men and women which purport to explain why women don't chair math departments and win Fields Medals, and which you'd also like to use to explain why there are four men writing SQL queries to every woman.
Yes I did most of the design myself. A lot of thought went into "engagement loops" as I call them.
React-native uses React code to build native applications.
Plenty of projects just need to be built to test. My apps would never be built and then rev'd if they were built to be "rock solid" in their first iteration. It's important to have frameworks that get apps off the ground quicker.
> Allows your sales force to concentrate on the client and on generating profit while using a hassle-free tool instead of a stumbling block.

From my own corporate experience, a what the sales-force considers "stumbling blocks" are usually things everybody else in the organization needs to protect themselves from the commission-hunting short-term behavior.

Little restrictions like "don't promise what we can't do" or "don't make a net-unprofitable deal" or "don't consume all our emergency capacity".
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Kind of highlights the true value of data that users are giving away with every single, in this case, transaction.

I am not quite sure how one would go about an alternate method for assessing the actual value of user data, but it has always seemed rather obvious to me that it is hugely downplayed by all the self-interested parties and their defenders.

Would it, in this case maybe be the change in market cap pre and post sales figures? But even that, as pointed out, has some increases baked in based on alternative research to estimate performance. I guess you would need to find a very specific company that really does not lend itself to outside, tangential research and that keeps its performance measures and metrics under wraps really well between announcements. Anyone have any idea of an industry or company that fits such a profile?

Does anyone else realize we are really in and moving deeply into an era that is going to add significant opportunities for corruption and economic capture.
Hehe nice one, but no drinking happened.
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The question has never been "Can you trust cloud services?"

It's "Can you trust them more than the alternatives?"

Yes, you can almost certainly keep your private data more secure in a system you build and monitor yourself(1). Until an NSA or GCHQ-level entity takes interest in you, and uses a 0-day exploit on your system or just physically walks in with a warrant and steals your physical media. How is that functionally different from "If the NSA / GCHQ takes interest in you, they can have the cloud service provider hand your data over?" And that's before you add the overhead of maintaining, securing, and physically protecting your own systems.

(1) Note that even this step is a huge hurdle for most people; "You cannot trust cloud services" basically tells those people "Don't use the Internet."
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I'm not going to troll about all that, but even though I agree on the general utopia you're describing, let me quote a good friend of mine (who certainly was quoting someone else):

It is important to have the right and possibility to be anonymous
in a world where that right and possibility is not needed. Because
as soon as they are needed, they become vital to be used.

I do want to live in a world where we will have no need for privacy, but I do not want to drop my right for privacy because of how that world works.

This why I call the world you're describing by saying: Transparency will thrive, and privacy will die. My only worry is, how far and deep will people like you go into making society rely on and expect privacy is nothing more than an utopia.
I actually had an idea for this. What if blind users could wear little braille terminals? Like, braile is constructed of a series of dots, so why not have like a bracer that has a array of dots that poke the skin?
Just from reading the title I knew this would be a Matt Levine piece. Great, entertaining finance columnist.
Took a look at what it was doing, but recently it seems to mostly be engaged in ongoing conversations with other bots spitting out nonsense images.
Violation of fiduciary duty is only a requirement in order to meet the "Manipulative and Deceptive Practices" part of SEC Rule 10b-5.

However there are other ways that requirement can be met for instance SEC v. Dorozhko found that a hacker using stolen information to trade was guilty of insider trading. Obviously he had no fiduciary duty however he was found to be deceptive.

If the SEC prosecute this case I imagine they'd try to extend the argument presented in Dorozhko.
all 736?
Wow. Mount Vernon, Ohio (Knox County seat) is where I grew up. Go down certain roads out of town, especially to the north and east, and it's all Amish.
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If you like hiking and you have an iPhone, then you might like hikesmith. Mail me at support@hikesmith.com mentioning HN and I'll give you a free week's subscription to the offline maps feature, in return for your (constructive) feedback.
When I saw the headline, I thought, "Oh no, I hope they didn't implement the MS Ribbon?" Thankfully they didn't. That MS bug still trips me up whenever I fire up Word. Looks ok, I don't really notice much, mainly because I hardly use it or Word.
Yes, that's what I was alluding to in my first paragraph. (I did read the article; I am sort of religious now about reading Matt Levine, who is awesome.)
Do you know if Powerstrip could be used to extend the entire family of Docker tools: machine, compose (fig), swarm?

I think it would be interesting, for example, to explore development of an extension that "guided" those tools regarding where (virtually speaking) they should re/deploy machines and containers, based on metrics collected by a 3rd party service with which that extension communicated.

I apologize if my question is a bit naïve; at present, I've been spending a lot of time with the porcelain and haven't gotten into the internals enough to understand how all the Docker pieces truly fit together.
Its not a moving target because old versions of office must open documents from new versions.
"Conspiracy".

There really is no prevailing over the legal tarpit - even if your action technically passes, they get you on intent or association. The only time logic really comes into play is writing post-hoc justification of the status quo. The more corrupt "laws" created, the easier such justification becomes.

(PS. given that authoritarianism is creeping in on many fronts, everybody who cares about these issues should be looking for ways to be subversive. embracing one front in an attempt to outrun the others is a losing strategy)
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I'd like to see one of these in Orange County. Who organizes them? I'd come to this one if I had time for the drive.

Maybe HN should have regular meetups in every city?
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If you're talking about P2P over cellular, I think it's just in general a bad idea. The way cellular networks are operated, you can't do device-to-device connections - they have to go through the tower for a number of (very good) reasons. That's where the latency comes in, and the wireless transmission latency can be an order of magnitude higher than the latency on a cross-country connection. Furthermore, the resource that is constrained is the amount of available spectrum - so we need to optimize for that. Bandwidth is effectively infinite from the tower to the cloud, but bandwidth from the tower to the device is the constraint.

P2P over non-cellular (i.e. Wi-Fi or Bluetooth) where you can actually make a direct device-to-device connection seems like it may have some use cases (messaging apps, etc.) But they're edge cases and by no means a common use case because it just isn't reliable enough.
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They are not nice in vision theory at least. To make them as differentiable as you could, they should all have different texture, orientations and colours.
"Looking bogus" is not the same as being bogus.

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

I would personally be quite content to see more evidence presented in the public sphere and world court. When/if it happens, let us pick up the thread ..
They certainly shouldn't refund additional money now. A refund would be a way of getting back on their good side, to stop them spreading the fact they've been rude. They didn't provide one, so the story got out.

This is the problem with monopolies, companies can do what they like without fear of losing business.
1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.

3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

-- Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"
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You'd need to reverse-engineer the PS4 libraries. I have no idea what libraries Sony provide for the PS4, but I'd assume the UI, audio and graphics libraries are all custom. There's also probably some sort of DRM library required to load games off disk.
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Indeed, most tech industry jobs don't require the sort of deep hacking abilities you can only learn young. However, the hiring process puts high value on having learned to hack young, and the social scene tends to exclude people who didn't have lifelong exposure to hacker culture.

Changing both these things would improve the gender balance.
And this is why i find the whole economics idea, that multiple entities doing their thing for individual profit will produce general social improvements, questionable at best.

Remember that the economic theory isn't a morality code; it doesn't say what the individual should do. It says that, people being what they are - that is, not always the kind and generous beings we wish they were -, how can we set up things so that general welfare is increased.

And in this case, the part of the economic theory that you're referring to that would lead to vaccination is not the profit seeking but property rights: in theory, if you go around infecting people when you could have vaccinated yourself, they should be able to get compensation for it.

Will that solve the problem in this case? Probably not, but then again, which system has a better one? Forced vaccinations don't sound better to me.
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These guys should start their own credit card transaction aggregator (ala Mint), and gather user data that is expressly made available for market research. Make the analysis for privacy tradeoff more explicit and distribute profits.
Ask HN: What's the story behind your first start?
Did you impress people with your side projects in high school and it lead to freelance work?

Did you drop out of high school, sell makeup, travel to the North Pole where inspiration lead you to build an ice sculpting automaton business?

Did you start a new company fresh out of university? or did you do an internship that lead to a job?

How did you get started in your present field? (and perhaps in the interest of contemplation, where do you want to end up? was it worth it?)
Another solution we implemented was to have a WordPress site up, but only serving a spidered copied HTML version of it in the public_html directory.

Every 2 minutes the site gets fully spidered, dumped into flat HTML files. And if the dump is not successful, because of a database connection or any problem at all, it doesn't get saved and doesn't overwrite the public_html dir.
How does this data enter your system?
Ah, another person who talks like a book. I also get that quite regularly. I have a bit of a personal rule, though, where I never use a more complicated word when a simpler one would work. After all, conversation is at heart a means of communication.

Although we might get a bit of a thrill from talking over people's heads, it doesn't really mean much of anything. And all it takes is one misuse -- for example, calling Brobdingnagian a neologism -- and we tear ourselves down more than we could hope to build ourselves up.
"It turns out that due to people's general desire for compilation to always terminate that the type language behaves quite different from the value language. It also turns out that the type language operates differently because we're more interested in logical constraints than actual evaluation."

If I understand you correctly, if the type system behaves the same as the value system, then it is possible for the compilation to never terminate. Do I have that right?
I don't follow the analogy. No one is voluntarily sharing private data with SkyBox that they don't want used in a way that SkyBox uses it.
It's not even validation. A huge majority of funded companies fail. Just go about your business. Investors, even A+ ones != paying customers.
Just find a problem you'd like to solve and start working on it. My problem is that I keep thinking of new features I want to add along the way. Right when I'm ready to release something I always feel like I really need to add just this one more feature for it to be good enough. The project I'm on now was supposed to take a month, I'm in my 6th month now. But I think I'm almost done haha.....

For my next projects I'm going to try to work on some smaller things I can hopefully finish in a weekend. I feel better about myself when I complete things, which motivates me to keep working/learning new things.

Good luck!
Poe's law is making it difficult to come up with an appropriate response to this.
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Just installed it. Love the UX! How do you plan on monetizing it ?
I don't think sexism or culture of sexism is enough because the example I gave is entirely about gender. The cheerleader doesn't reject him because he's male; she's rejects him because he's not masculine. That has nothing to do with his sex, and everything to do with not embodying what a society says the is ideal masculine gender.

Certainly those ideals are rooted in sexism and are in many ways sexist, but the sexism isn't what caused the problem in my example. The gender norms by themselves (ie doesn't matter whether they're the way they are due to sexism) caused the problem, because they basically say that a guy is worthless if he isn't a nearly perfect example of the masculine gender.

She's rejecting him because he doesn't have enough of the traits that society says a man should have (and maybe has too many of the traits that society says women should have): He's not strong, he's not assertive, he's not domineering, he's not good at arbitrary athletic competitions, etc. etc. etc.
The title could be straight out of The Onion.
I agree with his thesis to an extent, but further down in the article:

"The Newsweek piece features a company I personally invested in, Glassbreakers, a peer mentorship community for women."

...

"Men, we need to support companies like Glassbreakers that are providing solutions to the gender problem."

Is the author using this very real problem of the margination of women in tech as a sales pitch for a company he's invested in?
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Agreed. I once used a rich vector space model to answer natural language questions related to geography with a similar approach.
The duty that has been breached is to Capital One in this case, as established by case law.
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Using a web search engine is asking for rankings based on web structure, not rankings based on product quality.

You might think it's bad to take advantage of that, but refraining from doing so doesn't likely yield a fair product quality ranking, just some different unfair rating.

Our fitness function is broken.
This info is very interesting to me, because I'm a month away from leaving the company office I've been at for a year now to working remote and I'm very worried about my productivity and how to handle working from home.
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Overall people started writing more python 3: +15 points in "I ever wrote python 3 code", +10 points in "I write more python 3 than 2". Transition is still ongoing and I hope a tipping point will be soon be attained.

Users definitely seem to want to switch to python 3, but dependencies keep them with 2.7 (I weep for the few ones still on 2.5).

edit: google results were inaccessible, now fixed.
>Even if we decide it isn't insider trading, Capital One is on the hook for what it's employees do.

Under the legal theory of Respondeat Superior, Capital One would generally be liable for acts of its employees. However, liability will generally not extend to the employer when employees are acting outside the scope of their employment. Certainly if the employees were breaking the law it can be presumed they were acting outside the scope of employment, but even if it is found the employees were not breaking the law it would appear they were acting outside the scope of their employment. In short Capital One would have affirmative legal defenses.
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See third paragraph of my comment. :)
I don't know... can Bryan stop threatening to fire employees he doesn't employ because they reverted a non-gender neutral pronoun?
OAuth is implemented for products that support it, such as Google and Gmail accounts. Exchange doesn't support OAuth. See https://www.acompli.com/privacy-policy/.
> I'm as good as dead

Some might take that as hyperbole, but I'm convinced that is indeed the case. I'm sure that if it was legal there's plenty of Good Christians who would be thrilled to hunt Liberal Atheists for sport.

http://reason.com/archives/2012/03/27/believers-atheists-wor...
If your Exchange sysadmin blocks iPhone access, this app won't work. For that reason, I'm sticking with CloudMagic, which works regardless of Exchange device-level permissions.