niggler

IF that happens. There is still a chicken-egg dynamic at play (businesses don't plan on holding BTC and no one seems to reliably hedge against USDBTC volatility at a scale that justifies using it for business. Expenses are still in dollars so revenue needs to reliably exceed expenses. If that means grossly unfavorable prices, people will just convert BTC to USD first.)

It gets better:

http://devimages.apple.com/

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"the fee associated with delivery from its stores will be higher, clocking in at $9.99 for your collection of items, stiffer than the normal $3.99 rate."

I'm sure Costco is getting a portion of that fee.

Nonzero chance Herndon gets a percentage of the ad revenue.

" didn't want to get drawn into a demarcation debate."

Econ and Psych really do lie in a gray area, and by avoid the demarcation debate you completely miss the relevance of the issue at hand.

If policy makers weren't using this study to justify more austerity, then we probably wouldn't have such a prolonged discussion.

"is not something confined to one partisan side"

True, but I haven't seen a liberal think tank manipulate charts in that specific manner.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575631

"science and related fields "

But we are talking about economics, and republican groups like fox news eat it up.

My favorite example is the 2011 chart distorting the display of the unemployment rate:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/12/12/today-in-dishonest-f...

"journals could start requiring a git link that contains data, code, and paper drafts."

But when the goal is to create a result rather than report it, transparency is the enemy

Someone discussed it here a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828804

"Most platforms slow down when there is an influx of orders into the market. Some are designed to force events during the process (which allows for action while prices move, but the prices may be stale) and others are designed to process all feed messages before forcing an event (which ensure prices are more up-to-date but doesnt allow you to make a trade earlier) Suppose you are betting that this represents a market rally or collapse (directional). Then, you can make money by figuring out the direction of the move (aggressive processing of the first few messages in a burst) and get involved before every other system catches up in the feed."

I imagine there isn't much money to be made in doing that on the equities or futures markets nowadays.

"* owns their own private jet/yacht/other signs of opulence"

What if they got their private jet by tricking others into following the strategy?

It's also possible they have such a low cost basis (remember that it wasn't that long ago when BTC was less than 1 USD) that 30 represents s massive profit

One part that's missing here is that a bunch of people following a suboptimal strategy may have the mass to overwhelm those following an optimal strategy (but who don't have enough capital to move prices in their direction)

The general rule of thumb is that if a trading strategy is successful, you won't find it in a book. Books are useful for understanding the general concepts, but I use books in the negative sense (if I find the idea in a book, I immediately throw it out)

Were they profane comments? Telling someone to fuck themselves isn't exactly the most appropriate thing to say

In the spectrum of inappropriate things to say, this is far from the worst. My point was that 'Fuck you, Jason' is never appropriate. I don't think he would have been hell banned had he said 'screw you' or just omitted the three words, but saying 'Fuck you, Jason' crosses the line (and to be fair, I don't disagree with Sabat's point)

I've asked multiple times about adding subdomains to distinguish repos from blogs, but it appears that this is a workaround that no subdomain reporting would detect

#node.js on freenode is pretty solid and, for such an active channel with many noobs, essentially troll-free.

To be fair, though:

"An additional fee is charged once per hour in which at least one Dedicated Instance of any type is running in a Region."

So it's not like they are charging $10/hr/instance (so it amortizes over all of the dedicated instances)

sadly after 65 commits no one fixed the typo:

https://github.com/sricola/socode/blob/master/socode.py#L5

    #       - Add a funtion with your github name as its name.

that 'funtion' should be 'function'

Is there any scale (like xlarge) where you are effectively the only VM on a particular physical machine (thereby obviating the issue with the small instances)?

The comment that triggered the hellban was:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399303

"I love how Jason Fried, the most self-important man in software (who can't code) is first on the list to diss the security patches. Fuck you, Jason. Learn to code. Then you can diss."

I imagine that telling someone "fuck you" directly is a hellbannable offense (even if the sentiment is genuine)

I'm terribly confused here.

"continue to run Ubuntu in a VM on the MacBook with its relaxed HDD"

Did he try with bootcamp on Ubuntu 12.04 (the LTS version)? I just tested on two macbook pros (mid 2011, early 2013) and both seem fine.

It's easy to blame the tools. It's harder to admit that you don't understand the tools you are working with.

"Another comment asks, why are we seeing so many articles about Excel?"

There's a link next to posts. It's easy to reply to the person asking the question by clicking the link and typing a reply.

I posted this the last time there was a discussion about CSV and excel:

If you are generating the CSV yourself, save yourself some agony and just wrap the text in =""

    $ cat test.csv
    ="12.34567890124312341234123412341234",="1-5"
    $ open -a Microsoft\ Excel test.csv

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5514587

Explanation:

It uses another auto trick: if the leading character is '=', the result is treated as a formula.

Thus, you can actually write formulas in your CSV and excel will interpret appropriately:

    $ cat test.csv
    =1+1,="1-5"
    $ open -a Microsoft\ Excel test.csv

You should see the value '2' (with content `=1+1`)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5514704

"I'll publish the deploy scripts and help you migrate."

This might actually be useful sooner rather than later.

"Have you talked to investors?"

A great many companies are "bootstrapped", which means the founders kick their own money in initially (or scrounge from friends and family). Many big companies, a recent example being GitHub, were started this way.

"Have you quit your day job?"

Many people wait until they see some traction before quitting. Doesn't make it any less of a startup. Consider it a consulting gig while launching the business (unless you don't consider it a startup if people consult on the side)

"Are you seeing startup like weekly growth?"

You are falling into this paradigm trap. Not all companies see hockey stick growth initially nor do they aim to. Most sustainable businesses I can think of started slow and gradually grew up. Nothing wrong with that.

When GitHub is down, the thing I actually miss is the issues. You can't seem to clone them. Are there any public issue trackers that can be easily replicated?

Recent versions of excel do warn you if formulas omit adjacent cells. I agree with your sentiment to some extent but with excel 2011/2013 you have to actively suppress these warnings.