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If I were Microsoft I would want to be releasing a 'cloud only' device next year, all apps and data on the cloud. That would be pretty big.

Yet more nifty commands http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html

By the way, I made a video for someone and they loved it... their first reaction was that they wanted to make one too.

Probably best to make the default on the homepage somewhat more readable though.

Who's your target market for this product? The styling on the homepage is pretty tech/minimal, but if you're going after the home user maybe something more light-hearted would be appropriate? I can see people using the videos to create custom Christmas or Birthday messages, but style-wise that market probably respond better to something more like: http://www.moonpig.com/uk/

Just a heads up that the grey font on black background is pretty hard to read on my (albeit crappy) monitor.

Probably the first thing to understand about nosql is that there is no standard, there are multiple paradigms to chose from.

Broad differences in storage models:

* Column Oriented Storage (e.g. HBase)

* Document Store (e.g. CouchDB, MongoDB)

* Key-Value (e.g. BerkeleyDB, TokyoCabinet, REDIS)

* Graph DB (Neo4J)

Furthermore each will have their own consistency, replication & availability models, as well as read/write optimisations.

Before choosing one you need to ensure it is adapted to your usage pattern. Here are some links that go into more detail:

A visual comparison, comparing trade-offs of each type of nosql db: http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems

Article on appropriate use-cases for each type of nosql: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/7/20/nosql/

NoSQL - the 'definitive guide' (apparently): http://nosql-berlinbuzzwords2010.heroku.com/#1

Further resources: http://nosql-database.org/

And here's a link on data from the top of HN today: http://www.junauza.com/2010/11/free-data-mining-software.htm...

Thanks.

I think the browns is ugly and the fonts need some work.

Seems like a bit of a waste getting the HN community to review some colours and fonts though. If you told us a little more about the idea maybe we could give you feedback on that instead? I mean, the coming soon page is pretty insignificant with respects to the idea itself, no?

What do you want us to review?

If you are supplying the developer with algorithms that are specific (critical/unique) to your business, then for the avoidance of doubt you should make explicit in the contract that you own the IP for any work the developer does for you.

It's unlikely that anyone would use a developer that they didn't know personally, without a formal contract, for this type of work though.

On the other hand, if you're asking for a vanilla e-commerce site then it's less relevant, the code the developer uses may come from open source libraries, or it may be his that he his re-using, but it probably matters little to you as it's the content on the site not the code behind it that you really care about.

You will always own the copyright on the website, including the design artefacts, unless you are explicitly licensing them.

Ideally you would also somehow get the developer to verify that all the code they are using has a valid licence, as ultimately you're probably liable for infringement. Again, I guess this is trickier to do in a web based developer market, but probably not going to be an issue for a vanilla job like an e-commerce site or marketplace.

The usual rule is to keep in-house anything that gives your business a real competitive advantage, often this will be your IP.

The same trait occurs in Iran & Afghanistan too. Not sure why this link's on HN though?

The UK spends ~£6 Billion/yr on EU. Total UK Budget is £620 Billion.

Sources:

UK Budget: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/may/17/uk-publi...

EU Contributions: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8036096.stm

Afraid I don't have figures for US.

There's one feature I wish Google would add - the ability to manually blacklist sites from the search results.

> Europe is redistributing enormous amount of money from rich to poor countries within EU

Yes, they are, but it's a political hot potato, arguably without mandate, and I doubt that it's on the scale of national regional development funds.

Don't get me wrong, I am pro Europe, but I think politicians have done an abysmal job of explaining the project to voters (esp in the UK).

Agreed, I generally cann't hear the speakers either unless I'm right at the front, but that's sort of by the by. The main reason to is to meet people in the crowd.

>But you could make the same argument against any US state that remains cost competitive due to the currency

True, but, there is a policial union of states in the US that doesn't exist in the EU. The EU is a monetary union without a political union, this means that it's politically unpalatable to explicitly redistribute tax money from the relatively rich to poor regions (Germany/France to Greece/Portugal) in the same way as Washington or London might to W.Virginia or Newcastle.

The MiniBar meetup - last Friday of every month - is for internet professionals and entrepreneurs (nr. Brick Lane / Liverpool St) http://www.meetup.com/minibar/

They are well attended, have guest speakers, and best of all - free beer ;-)

Aha - I am still sane after all. Yes, I'd like to know how it got updated too, is Arc that smart?!

Student fees should not put someone off starting a start-up in the UK because you don't have to pay anything back until you're earning > £21k, so a founder wouldn't have to pay anything until the business could afford to pay them.

However, there are other reasons that deter people from launching start-ups in the UK, 1) it's expensive - London is very expensive, general living costs are higher than the US 2) The City is a disproportionately large draw for UK graduates, finance is a larger percent of the economy, compared to say the US.

And, importantly, in the case of email, companies can host their own mail servers & thus better protect their data. Can you really imagine companies allowing facebook to host sensitive corporate communications?

For serious HFT development you need to have order book data too. This costs.

My bad, sorry.

OK, that's weird, when I first visited the OPs link I could swear it was to a page on the Telegraph newspapers website that had no image (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8109291...) clearly now though it's not. Maybe I got my browser tabs confused.... apologies for starting this pointless thread!

Challenges:

* The need for speed, at every level of the architecture (network, tcp/ip, hardware, app)

* Reducing order (send/ack) round-trip times, this generally means putting your servers in a data cetre as close to the exchange as possible (co-located, if the exchange offers it). If your trading across multiple exchanges simultaneously it gets trickier.

* Sourcing market data - can you source direct from the exchange, rather than through a 3rd party like Reuters? Again, it comes down to how fast you can re-act to the market.

* Back-testing - you need historical data to test a model, then you need a way of testing the model - what are you going to test against? How are you going to simulate the exchange?

* Expense - it's expensive - market data, co-location etc etc all costs, as others suggested. HFT is generally short term positions, with some arbitrage strategies holding positions for less than a few milliseconds. A medium term (intra-day) type strategy requires less intensive (expensive) technology as your not trading to capture market prices that might only be extant for a few milliseconds.

Here it is... http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20101105a1.html

Was anyone else expecting to see the photo on that page?

In his book "ANSI Common Lisp" PG gives an account of designing reusable software from the bottom up i.e. "changing the language to suit the problem. In Lisp, you don't just write your program down toward the language, you also build the language up toward your program." (as opposed to exclusively top down design) http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html

When you install the extension it warns you that it needs access to "Your browsing history". I can understand why it needs your HN data, but why your browsing history? (or is that message simply misleading)

That's exactly what the problem was, the building was an old Victorian printing press, with some desks and an internet connection thrown in. Half the windows weren't flush when closed, and there was a big steel door entrance which conducted away the heat with ease. It was cheap though, if I remember correctly we used to pay 65pounds per week for two desks. Normal rates were probably double that. There was a good crowd of people there too.