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Where did you get the TD Ameritrade data from?

For me personally, it comes down to cost and acceptability. I would like to pursue nanodegrees but the cost is much higher than Coursera - which has a monthly subscription model. Also, Coursera has an expanding offering of Master's degrees from world renowned Univerities which employers will accept (my employer - a Canadian Bank will even pay for online masters degrees) but nanodegrees seem like vaporware, if Udacity goes under how do I get my nanodegrees verified? If the cost were lower, i could take the risk.

What blogs/news do you follow for commodity trading? Got any favorite book/papers for algorithmic commodities trading?

The Fraser institute, which published this study, has a right wing bias and is funded by the Koch Brothers. It seeks to displace the public system in Canada with private healthcare modelled after the US. While they claim independence and give their research away freely, one should be aware of their interests.

It is astounding that someone with the resources to pay for the best medical care was unable to arrive at the correct diagnosis. As we move towards AI assisted diagnoses, hopefully such suffering can be mitigated.

Do neurologists follow checklists when diagnosing symptoms? Will this case change their procedures going forward?

What are the other 5 bookmarks?

@davj: What resources did you use to learn javascript and to make this site?

What are the exceptions? Any legal source for your claims that this will work?

I doubt any of the developers being sued by Lodsys knew they were infringing on these patents.

And there is no sure way to know which small thing is under patent than to spend hours going through the patent archives or hiring expensive patent lawyers.

Where are you getting the shirts printed from? Whats the total cost for printing and shipping?

How are they accessing my laptop mic? Is it the Google voice plugin?

Shouldn't the browser ask for permission before allowing access?

Denali... or Denial?

This website has a huge list: http://www.startupshiring.com/

There is an another firesheep-backend at /firesheep-backend.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF inside the Darwin folder. However this one wont run using ./

Any ideas?

Same error for me. No idea where to run though.

On Mac OS X, it gives an error saying: Run --fix-permissions first.

Run with which command? and how?

Great, I just signed up for a new account yesterday. Are secondary accounts not allowed?

So then will a self-signed certificate work or do I have to use one from a vendor such as godaddy?

Would it work on a PS3 running ubuntu?

Fantastic Answer. Heres a few more what-ifs.

When I said tech startup, i meant companies developing web applications that people pay for. So for example, if people use DropBox or Basecamp, and there is no guy making a commission, then you can only tax the company in which ever state it is in?

Also, what about incorporating abroad but having your customers in the US?

They do mention: "We are pragmatic enough to not choose a tool simply because it is written in Python, but we do see the usefulness in promoting tools that do use it when it is reasonable to do so as it is in this case."

There is a lighting talk of some of the reasons at PyCon 2009. http://pycon.blip.tv/file/1947231/

The talk starts at 3:45.

You need to read this essay by Peter Norvig: http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Its very easy to learn the syntax of any language, you can probably do 5-10 a day. But to really learn a language, you must use it. Try to solve problems and try reinventing the wheel a couple of times.

gitref.org is great. Its concise enough to get you and your team started. You can then move on to progit.org if you want advanced info

if you care about mercurial (I do), hginit.com is great. It even provides a intro specifically for users coming from Subversion. you can then move on to http://hgbook.red-bean.com/.

Did you design the site layout or did you buy it from somewhere?

Most banks dont really have apis. The way to get information is then to screen scrape but this would require your clients to give you information. Services like Yodlee.com simplify the process but are quite expensive to use unless you are funded.

While I personally use Django/python, going with Rails in quite beneficial as opposed to Scala.

Firstly, there is a huge established community to help you out and you can readily find programmers to hire.

Second, rails (or django) will allow you to get up and running quickly and will let you figure out whether your app is viable or not. If it works out, you can then start thinking about scaling and such. For now, use an established web framework(Django, Rails, Cakephp) and get it done.

I wouldn't be surprised if Swipely and Blippy use them too.

learn R.

You can use Amazon's Mechanical Turk Service to hire people to take surveys. Read this earlier post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668588