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by jamii 16y ago
Hilariously touch.facebook.com still seems to work.
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by jamii 16y ago
> just execute anyone who begins to look like a net cost Plenty of cultures have done that at some point. In medieval England there was no welfare net and hanging was the punishment for most crimes. There were still criminals and beggar
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by jamii 16y ago
The feedback cycle in software is much shorter. A bad coder will be obvious after a couple of weeks because his code doesn't perform its function correctly. With a teacher it might be years beofre they have noticeable effect on their studen
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by jamii 16y ago
I've been doing freelance work for enterprisey companies from the domain name scattered-thoughts and noone has batted an eyelid. I think for a personal website you're fine as long as its a name you would be comfortable explaining to a clien
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by jamii 16y ago
Specialization is more efficient. If we all grew our own food, made our own clothes and built our own houses thee would be no time left over to train surgeons or invent computers.
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by jamii 16y ago
> I think smarkets is also a possibility if you are located in the EU. Anywhere except the US or Turkey, due to their anti-gambling laws. I believe smarkets is still looking for market makers too. http://smarkets.com/api/documentation/
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by jamii 16y ago
I see a lot of weird graphs but no actual data. I can imagine this kind of stuff going on but I'd like to see some actual evidence attached before people start railing against HFT again. It reads more like an advert for Nanex than anything
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by jamii 16y ago
> I get a lot more information about new techniques, languages, etc etc here at HN than anywhere else at the moment. I find much more useful content on reddit these days. HN tends to be full of opinion pieces with very little technical
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by jamii 16y ago
If you're employed your national insurance also includes a large contribution to your state pension. Since I'm self-employed I only pay for healthcare at £32 per month. That's pretty cheap compared to the US.
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by jamii 16y ago
In many countries political dissidence is a crime. If you want to allow only the 'good guys' to be anonymous you need a perfectly trustworthy party to decide who the good guys are. Various governments have demonstrated that they cannot be t
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by jamii 16y ago
'Save the world' is a bit over the top but cheap cellular infrastructure is a big deal for the developing world.
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by jamii 16y ago
> Something such as a unified desktop (OS X, Haiku, Gnome, KDE) will make you more productive ... Its not an either-or thing. XMonad works perfectly well Gnome, panels and all. It only replaces metacity/compiz, not the whole environment
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by jamii 16y ago
On an entirely unrelated note, a suspected british spy was killed this week. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/08/20108258200...
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by jamii 16y ago
I imagine this will be the official app store for chrome os when it launchs.
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by jamii 16y ago
I don't know about OS research specifically but there are a few systems startups about. RethinkDB and Acunu are the first to come to mind.
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by jamii 16y ago
Note that both F# and Ocaml have object systems and have excellent support for imperative style programming. http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/u3-ocaml/ocaml-objects.html#ad...
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by jamii 16y ago
> food, housing and transportation Dole money, food vouchers, council houses, roads and subsidized public transport. They pretty much already do and I have no problem with my taxes paying for that. Think of it from an entrepreneur's per
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by jamii 16y ago
This is what the USA looks like from socialist-land (aka Britain): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfghLQE3F4 Whilst the idea of the government paying for healthcare may seem ridiculous to you it seems just as ridiculous to us that you mi
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by jamii 16y ago
> why not just run compiled binaries in the browser Indeed, this is the whole point of NaCl. http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
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by jamii 16y ago
I found this guide incredibly useful: http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/ It gives step by step instructions on building and refining a design.
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by jamii 16y ago
PFP uses monads to represent probability distributions. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~erwig/pfp/
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by jamii 16y ago
> it's forms (interfaces for getting data into databases) and reports (interfaces for getting data out of databases) Well, with formlets and takusen you're pretty much sorted. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Formlets http://blog.code
953.
by jamii 16y ago
Yes, I was calling runsv and trying to bring it down again with sv. I suppose I should have been specific.
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by jamii 16y ago
I was trying to get runit to work last week and it consistently broke my terminal. After calling runit nothing I typed would show up, including newline.
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by jamii 16y ago
Since we launched in February: 6085.51 | 2010-2 6375.40 | 2010-3 51072.15 | 2010-4 194208.93 | 2010-5 111775.68 | 2010-6 65577.25 | 2010-7 The spike is from the world cup. We will probably see a similar spike in August when the premier leag
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by jamii 16y ago
We currently run an in-house market maker but we don't really want to. The reason for releasing a public API is to bring in outside market makers to provide liquidity so we can focus on running the exchange.
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by jamii 16y ago
We are actively looking for market makers for smarkets.com . No fees and very little competition, it may be worth checking out if you want somewhere easy to get started. We just released a public API: http://apidocs.s3-external-3.amazonaws
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by jamii 16y ago
Yes, apparently. I don't know much about our licensing myself.
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by jamii 16y ago
At the moment all our markets are closed, price-time priority markets and users can only place limit orders. So your order will be matched against the best odds available, unless those odds are worse than the limit on your order. A pair of
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Test-drive the public API for our real-time prediction market
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