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> I had all of my dreams in life shattered and then I dealt with the Department of Justice for a year. The long-term stress robbed me of any self-confidence.

Perhaps a slightly different perspective than the prevailing "get talked at, take drugs, feel 'normal'" advice here: stay weird, stay upset. The key is turning despair into anger and anger into calm motivation. As with small gestures, there is happiness to be found in doing right by others. Those who experience and recognise the evils of their inherited society (including the corrupt, self-serving legal system) are uniquely suited to motivate change to said system that will help countless others. If running errands feels good, I imagine that exerting tears, sweat, and blood towards reforming an overbearing, abusive legal system will feel even better. Stay weird, stay motivated, and realise that in appreciating how awful things can get for one person, you might be able to act and prevent many future persons from experiencing a like fate.

Write letters, write pamphlets, attend town hall meetings, vote, support non-corrupt officials, devote time and money to defend the truly innocent. No matter what, find a way to turn the emotion of your unique history of experience into a unique motivation to fix the things wrong with the world that put us where we are today. That drive, that knowledge of what is yet to be done to do right by the honest individual: that is what keeps saints, warriors, explorers, and geniuses from giving in to the daemons that plague all brilliant minds.
It's automation. That extra cost you mention will soon become / is amortized by what one can do with the time and energy win, properly reallocated.
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OK, so for me, the only takeaway from this article is that we need radically more transparency and we will not get it from food manufacturers voluntarily.

I'm not sure it will make us any healthier, but at least it may help journalists do something a little more helpful than dumping long lists of suspicious sounding names of chemicals on us.

Ideally, more transparency would enable scientists to identify the few really bad stuffs among artificial AND natural ingredients more quickly.

I doubt it will have any big effect on public health though, as it takes very long term studies to answer even the most basic questions about the main components of our food.
Care to explain?

I'd gather that with the constantly growing mobile percentage of a general site's audience it makes sense to build things future-proof, that is mobile-first. It wouldn't bother me if desktops were an afterthought, would it you?
For me it kind of sound you are more of an employee, less of a founder (or at least you described yourself as that).

Daily meetings are usually toxic; having more than 10-15 minutes for a meeting per day sounds like a lot of wasted time for me (and usually this kind of meetings are good in an agile workflow: the daily standups).

Also, hiring additional people may not always work; adding manpower to a late software project makes it later: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
Too bad that the pure cpp code can't issue C actions which depend on results of previously issued actions. You can't implement cat in cpp+C, while you can in haskell.
The GNU echo is designed to be useable on a variety of systems which had different traditional behaviours - this comment in the source code is instructive:

/* System V machines already have a /bin/sh with a v9 behavior.
Use the identical behavior for these machines so that the
existing system shell scripts won't barf. */

(BSD systems supported suppressing newline with -n; UNIX System V systems supported \ escape sequences; POSIX came later and allowed either unless the XSI option is supported).
Thanks for the advice. I will definitely err on the side of caution and not get caught up with the backtesting and over fitting. Allocating resources (funds) will probably play an important role to manage risk in the system.

At the end of the day, I'm trying to answer the question: can you make money in the stock market with a low-touch (eventually no-touch) approach with the help of advanced software and analytics. Hopefully the answer is yes ;-)
From some of the comments here it sounds like you're using a long code (phone number) rather than a short code for your sms messages.

The FCC has been cracking down on the use of long codes in marketing. Not sure about an app like your's though... But you probably should move to a short code anyway.

There are also very strong requirements for how opting in, opting out, etc works.

http://www.experian.com/blogs/marketing-forward/2013/01/02/s...
Hmmm... I don't find using my phone for legitimate tasks tempts me to waste time with it in other ways. I find I only really "waste time" on my phone during the dead moments of a day or when I've set aside time to do things like read on the internet on my tablet at the end of the day. There's not a lot of draw towards using my phone when I shouldn't.
Meh, if you're going with that argument, then their service covers the globe.

Not to mention that while the service might be Magic, pizza bags aren't, and a pizza that takes over an hour to get to you isn't going to be hot. I don't think "here's a ridiculously expensive, late, cold pizza" answers the spirit of "I'd like a pizza".
Let's assume your strategies work, then you will earn by a magnitude more by doing this for a trading company than you will ever with your own funds.

You can go down that road, but this a whole full time career and it usually takes years to be good enough at it.

I could recommend this book (http://www.amazon.com/Building-Algorithmic-Trading-Systems-W...) to get an understanding for the craft.
we are event driven here, our program help us to find regular pattern drive by event as annual press conference (we buy before and sell just before) , fda approval for biotech, black friday for amazon , or cultural event (chinese new year).

You have annoucement, but don't forget the regular one.

We are still working on this (we are around 2% per month) but i'am open to share.

Visibly i'am not the only one to do this : http://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/2v7fvk/anyone_make_l...

Mail me if you want to discuss or share

bussiere AT gmail.com

regards
This. From OP's blurb it's pretty obvious he's very new to this and most likely hasn't traded much stocks even using the "simplistic human investing" approach. If you're planning on using this exercise to help "mature" your understanding of how you should start tracking/investing stocks then this could be a rewarding effort. If, however, you're planning on jumping straight in to build this to "actually" trade stocks I'm afraid you'll be in a world of hurt before you even know it. If you're serious about the journey, then the choice of programming language or DB is a long long way down the road; start from the basics and work your way up from there.
Wayland sessions are separated from each other.
Right. Before I even read the article my thought was "Nim better be easier or what's the point of the GC".
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I'll elaborate a bit. I'm not concerned with criticizing this service or its users. It triggered my previous comment as it serves as another example of the life of well off westerners becoming one more step abstracted and insulated from reality, which is something that ought to be resisted. The more removed you are from your source of food, water, clothing etc. the more wasteful the process of obtaining it is in terms of resources and damage to the environment. Also, if you read Jared Diamonds book 'Collapse' (wherein he deduces from various examples of collapsed societies a framework of factors that lead to collapse) one common factor in societal collapse is: the elites and decision makers being insulated from the negative consequences of their decisions. A modern example would be, an oil magnate decides to maximise profit by using a dirty refining process, this pollutes the ground water in that area, but of course he can afford to live far away in a gated community and drink bottled water. Thus he is insulated from the negative consequence of his actions. This can lead to the elites and decision makers making a series of decision that eventually lead to the destruction of the entire society (for example cutting down all the trees on Easter island)

I'm aware that this may all seem a bit dramatic when we're talking about pizzas, but the mindset of the elites is important in this case. Services like this encourage not knowing where your food, water, clothing etc. is coming from.
>> At the end of the day, I'm trying to answer the question: can you make money in the stock market with a low-touch (eventually no-touch) approach with the help of advanced software and analytics

The answer to this has been a resounding "hell yes" for decades across IB/HFT/AlgoTrading shops. The only thing this exercise achieves is whether "you" personally can make money with a low-touch approach using software.
Yes. That is a massive handicap that the system will have (it's not going to be co-located and probably won't have access to early information, etc). I'm wondering whether it's possible to develop a system that accommodates these deficiencies while still ending up on top.
ROM chips were not cheap at all. The bigger your game, the more chips you needed and therefore the more your game would cost. The 'big' games on SNES were 16 and 32 megabits which ended up with $69-89 pricetags.
If you look at exogen's example, there was the same back-and-forthing that you get on the phone or with a website. Need to spend $11 more for delivery? exogen made it easier and said "surprise me", but if he didn't, cue a back-and-forth over what would make up enough of an extra order.

Alternatively, what if exogen wasn't willing to increase the order price by 50%? Back to the drawing board for another round at a different shop. It seems like a slow way to get food unless you're particularly laid back about pricing and what arrives, or you know exactly what's available at the shops you want to source from.
I used to do it with bitcoin, but not to get rich, just for curiosity.

The most algorithms is just chart reading, playing around with periods, standard deviations etc. You can achieve something really quickly, but it only works if the market jumps up and down within a short time period and stays on the same level if watching a bigger time frame. What if the market drops by 90% suddenly because some bank decided to do something stupid?

The next time I won't work on HFT, but more of risk reduction and long-term investments:
- Markowitz diversification model
- Multi-Market trading, trade on market differences

Another interesting approach would be to exploit trading algorithms, since 99.9% of all trades are algo trades.

What you theoretically could do is use popular trading algorithms, develop a tool to monitor their decisions, adjust decisions weights and see how a simulated market performs on comparion to the real market. Now that you have something like a "slave" market and can go on to the next step and calculate scenarios e.g. 5min ahead and can 99.9% predict where the market will be in 5min.
This article linked from Wikipedia has a Canadian stating that the Brits asked them to monitor British citizens and US lawmakers worrying that it was being used to spy on US citizens:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/articles/27n...

I guess widespread speculation that avoiding domestic surveillance laws is one of the things done with the system isn't the same as knowing that it is going on, but my point was that the widespread speculation had proceeded Snowden by quite some time.
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Looks like comparing apples and oranges. If Nim has a GC it would be more instructive to compare it with another garbage-collected systems language like OCaml.
gain an advantage over simplistic human investing

What makes you think there are any simplistic humans in the market for you to take advantage of?
I do not understand the internet. This type of service has existed for ages.

Why does this one attract so much attention?
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I work for a Non-Profit - one thing that inspires me at the moment is that I am confident we are heading in the 'right' direction and that I am part of that.

Another, related to my work - is that I'm inspired by thinking outside the box to create and deliver quality systems with the challenge of not being backed by bucketloads of cash.
Rust is trying to do something far more complicated. Memory-safety enforced by the compiler is a big deal, but it remains to be seen if it's practical. I am really looking forward if rust can make it work, zero-cost memory-safety would really be something amazing to have in a language.

Nim seems to be a nice, low-level, gc-ed and practical language. It doesn't do anything radical, it's pretty small and it does what's already there right. It could become big.

This kinda reminds of linux vs minix. Doesn't mean it will play out the same way, but still.

Rust feels a bit difficult to get into right now, but if they smooth over the impractical bits, it could become the systems language in 10 years. Nimrod feels like a faster version of python or ruby, something a lot of people would like to have.
I started doing this after reading one of the Motley Fools' investment books (Rule Breakers - Rule Makers) ... fortunately I never asked it to trade real money. A few years later and MF has completely disavowed the techniques in that book (and I would have lost whatever I put it).

Now I just throw darts ... unless you can get some insider knowledge like the big boys, you'll never be the early mover.
The only thing you're going to automate is the emptying of your account.

> I'm planning to host this on AWS and use a combination of Python and R.

Yeah, great idea. NOT. Unless you're doing something like tens of trades per day, or less.
>bottlenecked by humans

I saw a profile (probably on HN) about how the Siri technology was developed. This service sounds nearly ideal for Siri. In the short term I'd bet 50% of requests could be handled with total automation. Seeing how they add functionality to the system I'd bet they can get that up into the 70+% range over time. Many things still require a human touch, but you can throttle demand with pricing.

I'd expect it to come from Amazon first though. Seems more up their alley.
Bad idea: Giving legal advice without a license.

Worse idea: giving incorrect legal advice without a license.

Jurisdiction is complex. With the Internet, you do not need to have a physical location somewhere to do business there.
I hope their business model is to provide sane-cost concierge.
If this happened in real life it would be frikkin awesome. The interviewer would be flabbergasted. There are a couple of other blog posts in this genre :

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/02/14/what-...

http://vk.com/note736369_9773341
Oh there are a lot.

They're the first to be taken advantage of
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Let's start with invasion of your privacy; from gnu.org [1]: "As of October 2012, Ubuntu sends personal data about users' searches [2] to a server belonging to Canonical, which sends back ads to buy things from Amazon."

More at [3].

I don't know if this problem persists, but it's enough for me to choose a distro that never did something like this to begin with.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html

[2] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/does-ubuntus-amazon-lens-...

[3] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html
Frankly, that sounds like a good way to kill open source IoT projects (which can't afford to hire Matasano) while helping TLAs by centralizing the information on just a few companies.

I'd much rather have strong penalties to companies selling unreasonably insecure devices, with reimbursements to clients and rewards to the reporters of security flaws.
Looking at the list 5 out of 12 (42%) of the women speaking were not white.

They were free to speak about whatever they wanted it seemed?
ThinkPads rock(ed). The current generations (post 20, i.e. W520) have started to deteriorate in what I'd call developer friendliness (still need to pass a special boot line parameter to the kernel to get the system to boot up properly with the dedicated nvidia GPU) as they've changed the keyboard and mouse buttons (no longer 3 above the trackpad and 2 below, only 3 above) and trackpad itself. + quality issues with the modern models and the build feels weak compared to, e.g., the T61.

So, to be honest, I'm not sure.
How much did they surcharge?
> “C programmers” really program not in C, but in the purely functional language cpp (the “C Preprocessor”).

Well ...
This is spot on.

Like the parent commenter, I was also on the same path and stopped. Despite diving into the topic for over a year, I came to the sobering realization that I had insufficient starting capital to properly manage risk.

Standard commission fees will eat you for breakfast trying to exercise a 1% (position) risk model on an insufficient amount of capital. Things like Robinhood[0] unfortunately didn't exist back then.

As far as books, Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom cannot be praised enough. Though I usually refrain from mentioning it because the title has this get-rich-quick vibe, it's nothing of the sort. Van Tharp was (and for all I know, still may be) the world's premier trading psychologist. The book drives home the concept of risk management in automated trading systems like no other, especially remarkable considering when it was written.

The Market Wizards books, at least the first two, are pretty much required reading.

The only book I might add to the list would be Reminiscences of a Stock Operator[1]. While admittedly I didn't find it as useful as the other books, it's still a good read and widely considered to be the seminal book on trading.

[0] https://www.robinhood.com/

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Reminiscences-Stock-Operator-Edwin-Lef...
Language maturity takes time. When Go and Rust went public, there were already languages in the very same niche, aiming to be a C++ replacement, and developped in the open.
Great. Please translate more wiki pages to English, that would definitely help to increase the audience.
A service like this simply isn't economical for the overwhelming majority of people.

If you perceive your time to be so valuable that you can't bear the five minutes it takes to order a pizza online or by phone, you probably should re-examine that valuation.

Especially when five minutes ordering exactly what you want directly from your preferred supplier is replaced by a fifteen minute exchange with a stranger who has to interprets vague inputs, has misaligned incentives, doesn't know any of your preferences beyond those you expressly state, etc. all of which you then pay a premium for...
I don't like 'nflag'. Something like noecho reads much more nicely.
You should seriously consider switching banks in that case, what bank doesn't let you do wire transfers online?
> You can't implement cat in cpp+C

Yes you can.

I think that you missed the point of the article.

Just write a cpp macro that outputs a cat implementation in C.
Europe should hamstring their tech companies even more with feel good but useless regulations like the cookie law?
> not if you symlink/alias 'ls' to 'exa', which I don't see as relevant. 'fish' is a replacement for bash, but I don't remove bash because of having it and I still have plenty of scripts using bash.

You're not using fish as a replacement for bash.

You're using them both alongside each other. There is, of course, nothing wrong with this, but it is important to know that that's what you're doing.

Because many of the scripts on your computer depend on bash (or another shell with sh-like syntax) it would be difficult or impossible to use fish as a replacement for bash.

Similarly, it would be difficult or impossible to use exa as a replacement for ls, because ls has options that exa doesn't.
There is fairly length set of rules and case law governing all of this. The short version is that if your company is engaged in business with Californians, there's a decent chance that California law applies to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_contacts

This isn't entirely unique to California by the way (although California is notable for reaching further than other U.S. states). For instance, there's a famous case (or series of cases) concerning the application of French law to Yahoo with respect to activity taking place on U.S. servers but accessible to French users. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICRA_v._Yahoo!

On a practical level, if you're worried about California law, you should consider if you have any people or resources located in California. Or in the U.S. generally. Or if you plan to expand to California at some point. It's one thing to break California law. It's another to have any assets that California can go after.
Nimrod feels like a faster version of python or ruby, something a lot of people would like to have.

Hell yes!

Nim really looks like it might have the potential to become the "faster Ruby" (or faster Python) that many of us are waiting for.

For all the progress in academic (Rust, Haskell) and special purpose (Go, Dart) languages, a new iteration on the "general purpose workhorse" is more than overdue.
It will overflow to filler[3]. ie the 4th byte.
see the struct sockaddr:

* first 2 bytes: Address Family,

* next 2 bytes: port,

* next 2 bytes: ipaddr,

* next 8 bytes: zeroes.

so filler[2] and filler[3] will form a short which will contain the port number.
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Don't get discouraged by the negative comments. It's completely possible to make a profit (with low risk) without resorting to HFT.

I'd recommend you read Quantitative Trading by EP Chan for a great overview of the basic methods and some example implementations.

Disclaimer: I've done exactly this successfully for >2yrs now.
Someone can please give me some trustworthy, scientific reading material to give people asking me to proof the point 'systematically beating index performance on the stock market, using only public available data, is not possible'? Intuitively i understand this is true, so no need for holywar. Same also applies to commodities trading.
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I think it's because the value/cost ratio is still really bad.

Knowing the state of a garage door and being able to twiddle it from your phone? A nice feature. Worth $100? Probably not.

Night and away modes for lighting are also nice features, but for most people they aren't worth the hundreds of dollars it will take to set up (never mind the time it will take to make it work reasonably well).

There are of course lots of examples where the value provided beats the cost, and automation is being used for many of them.
Security certification doesn't work and can't guarantee products to be free from security holes.

What we need is an obligation for the manufacturers to provide an automatic update mechanism and updates fixing security critical bugs for several years.
It's not really an issue, if the library is buggy and leaks or keeps reference to things it's not supposed to, it will be the same whether it's RC or just plain memory management.

It's just better documented and easier to spot the bugs if you're doing RC.
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