skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just ask yourself this question:

If I have $1M and I can decide between two options
a) tomorrow my money is worth $2M
b) tomorrow my money is worth $500k

Which option would you choose? These bankers are human beings. They are naturally and understandably biased. Not only are they making these decisions for themselves, but they are making them for all their friends, family, and business associates -- all of whom are also millionaires and billionaires.

I don't see it as much a conspiracy theory as an understanding of human nature.

Originally, the fed was created by a secret committee of bankers on a remote island. It was rushed through congress quietly -- I know, because I read the decades old NY Times article covering the legislation at the Will Rogers Museum.

Then, if you watch the recent Moore film, you'll see that the current bail out was voted down in congress, then secret meetings led by many of these bankers, GS and the like, prompted a revote and they rushed it through again -- when it passed.

What Aaron said is pretty accurate. The bankers aren't looking out for main street and the jobs won't be back for a while.

I've been trying to sell a house now for almost a year and many people want it and none of them can get a loan -- they've tried. They have jobs. They have income and the ability to repay the loan, but the banks just aren't giving out any money. Contrast that to 4 years ago when you didn't even have to have a job at all or verify income to get a million dollar loan -- I know, because it was my job to build information systems to help the subprime match makers connect home buyers with the banks who wanted to give them the loans.

When I realized how dirty it all was -- I quit and started my own company and I'm very glad I did.
Of course I didn't, I should have written "When I saw that _class_ of scam..."
From an Emacs package maintainers point of view, is that your platforms package manager is just another single-system ghetto. And most likely not the ghetto I live in.

What I need is a package format that only relies on software that is available to every Emacs user, no matter what set of device drivers and associated utilities they have running under their editor. So I can give a single set of instructions, I can actually test out myself.

But a standardized Emacs package format should make life easier for the people maintaining the single-system package managers, making it easier to import Emacs packages into their respective ghettos.
spam, how so?
Because what is now a dead boring normal finance was once a complex financial structure. Almost certainly we've gone too far, but you still get idiocy like people decrying shorting, which is a very old, well understood and totally economically justifiable practice. You need to have people who understand this stuff regulating it, but then you either get regulatory capture or incompetence because if you can understand this stuff well enough to regulate it you can make a lot more in the private market.
Huh, interesting. Seeing all of them there is oddly hypnotic.
The sentence preceding the excerpt you quoted is relevant. Phil wrote, "We did this recently by asking customers to go to Facebook and Yelp and write reviews of East Coast Aero Club." But Yelp frowns upon businesses that do that:

http://www.yelp.com/business/common_questions

Q. "Should I ask customers to write reviews for my business?"

A. "While we understand that there is a temptation to solicit reviews from your customers, it is not something we encourage. [...] If you do ask your customers for reviews, please be prepared for the review number fluctuation that might follow."
Conclusion

"When a nation practices evil, there is no way that it is going to be blessed in the long run."
This will be a failure like anything else the current Irish government has put it's hand to. Who makes the decision on who goes? It won't be anyone with anything revolutionary thats for sure.
The thing that gets me about most of these flash "explore" widgets (including Street View) is that they don't update the URL with the pitch/yaw/zoom/lat/lng information, making the cool stuff you find pretty hard to share around.
Isn't a bit strange that the current time = the 3 first digits of Pi and that there is π next to it?
apt-get moo gets you the cow and the "Have you mooed today?" message. If you try that with aptitude you get:

# aptitude moo
There are no Easter Eggs in this program.
Some possibilities:

Some are lost (you need to print money to replace torn/lost bills).

Some people join the group without new scrip being added (money supply needs to grow with population).

Some people de-facto left the group (kids grew up/they moved away) while holding scrip (people stuffed cash into their mattresses and forgot about it/died).
The Newton Virus
1) Since November 2009, launched this March.

2) Never applied.

3) No, self-funded.

4) http://pdfcrowd.com - html to pdf online API
It would depend how transparent you were to begin with. If you were honest with your co-founder in fully advising that you'd take off to pursue your own project if it started going well, then he could make an informed decision about whether to co-found with you to begin with.

Given the stakes involved, most co-founders would expect more of a solid commitment than that.
I don't understand the whole "well known" idea of a 10x productivity difference between best and worst programmers. It gets even more confusing when he claims that some developers have negative productivity. Maybe the productivity difference is -10x. One really great programmer can overcome the damage done by 10 awful programmers. Or maybe we can just not pretend that programmer productivity can be described with numbers at all.
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Upvoted for publishing a very well-written self-reflection piece on the process. I feel like most people in the same situation would just write a ranting reaction to disappointing news like this, but this was very well thought-out and as such, will help others going through the application process.

I wouldn't read into the subtle differences between this application and your last - maybe they didn't have time to check your URL this time because they got a lot more applications and they were on a bigger time crunch. Persistence is key - keep on trucking dude!
So in other words the rejects can now infer its because they suck, and not just their idea.
His command of Russian was not unlike GWB's English, with certain pearls from live party sessions widely enjoyed by the population.
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1) off/on since ~2007

2) not really a fit for my goals

3) nope, see 2

4) Launching April 1st.
Which is not without justification, as Putin is very much a product and reflection of modern Russian society.
Interesting concept... doesn't have the crazy/high-novelty factor that chatroulette has, but using FBConnect opens a whole different set of possibilities - only connect to people with a certain shared interest, gender/age, or "Looking for" ;)
No, the markets are still efficient. It's just that intellectual capital is devoted to playing the market that could be devoted to other more productive things. If you want to borrow money, hedge risk or issue new stock you can do all that but there are fat profits to be had from being the smartest guy on the market or the one who figured out one particular arbitrage opportunity before anyone else.

Finance as waste: There's an arbitrage opportunity somewhere worth 100,000, and it will be picked up within a week of emerging. It is privately profitable to spend up to (100,000 - trading costs) to be the first to notice this, but the social benefits of it being discovered in 2 days rather than seven verge on zero.
but what could money improve there? advertising, and ? Corporations are usually not run by subject matter experts; my experience consulting for corporations has been that the decision is usually a compromise that ends up being... suboptimal. I mean, they usually get the job done, eventually, but they spend a lot more money on it than they need to, and they usually don't solve the problem in the most elegant way.

I guess that's the idea with mass-market software. the marginal cost being nearly zero means that the chance of hitting a few out of the park justifies a whole bunch of expensive flops.
All the YC rejects should pool their money, pick the best rejected idea, and start a company.
I really thought that Heisenberg was talking about the reality and not the measure.
source control, debugging, bug trackers, etc? But they probably don't need the full engineering toolkit..
Super Slo-Mo: What happens when a balloon explodes ...
> I would never have said anything publicly about the matter.

And you shouldn't have, it's unprofessional from someone holding your position.

> I can't stand to hear it described in this misleading way

How is it misleading? He didn't say we in reference to his YC history. He omitted any concept of more than one person, thus the assumption should be that he was speaking about himself. Which is fine.
Algorithm X in 30 lines of Python (variation on Knuth's Dancing Links)

Exact cover problem, with sudoku solver example included.
I had the same idea just last week...

I think it is a great idea given the amount of mail i send and have to deal with. many times i just forget to make sure i received a reply, and sometimes when i do its just too late.
I'd like my dev friends to submit their apps to the Google Apps Marketplace
I think I'm wrong on this one: A deterministic behavior would rule out free will.

Free will would be non-deterministic, by definition.

Revised conclusion: We have as much free will as our particles.

Still no fate, though ;)
That has to be the WORST lower-case 'f' ever. I had to make sure my laptop screen wasn't on the fritz.
"going through countries like North Korea..."

Your geography and politics are slightly incorrect :)
To get from NY to LA in 6 hours would require a train that averages 410mph.

This is exactly the type of route that trains will not take from planes any time soon. The fastest train in the world is China's maglev that does almost 270mph.

But a trip from LA to SF, or St. Louis to Chicago, or NY to DC, or between any major city in Texas and any other one... that is the kind of route that rail would excel at, provided we had the motivation to build it.

All that said, I don't see the motivation to take a two day train trip from China to London when you could fly it in much less time. I understand the comfort factors and all, but when you are talking that length of time, I think the customer demand is going to be very limited (unless it's significantly cheaper than airfare).
I thinks it's combination of technological and social aspects.

Some non-tech people said to me that they couldn't figure out how to RSVP to Google Calendar invitation (link is provided in email).

Social aspect plays when other people see who and how many people have responded. Some people don't want to RSVP first because they don't what to seem like desperate people sitting at computer all the time. Some people don't want to RSVP because everybody else includes some witty comment and they can't invent anything witty enough. Some people don't want to RSVP 'No' and think that no answering at all is less antagonistic.
A lot of the manual labor is taken out though, if my factory is pushing out same 10,000 units of something a day with 25 employees mostly keeping a close eye on the equipment, the other 200 assemblers I would have hired before advances in technology are still out in the cold.
(I don't work for Google or anything. I just think that Google didn't do the clearest job of explaining the opportunity.)
I usually use Google. This will cover blog posts or forum postings, too, which surprisingly often feature announcements of good libraries without any presence on sf.net or similar.
Why is it unprofessional?
how is it different from tumblr?
How are they misleading? The chart on 19 was from the Federal Reserve. Are the number wrong?

I don't really think there is much difference between republicans and democrats, so I don't really care which party is to blame, they are all the ruling class and make decisions to benefit those by whom they are surrounded -- I don't blame them for it. All human beings make decisions the same way.

But still I don't see how they are misleading. Is there something factually wrong with them?
There is one here http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2010/03/09/china-promotes...
They are actually all doing very badly now.
> the marginal cost being nearly zero means that the chance of hitting a few out of the park justifies a whole bunch of expensive flops.

Yep. If you're interested in the economics of our field, I can't help but recommending 'Information Rules' ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/087584863X?tag=dedasys-20 ). One of the co-authors is now the chief economist at Google.
I think semantic arguments are getting old. You took one sentence off one slide out of 21 and have devalued the conversation to a complaint about the use of a word.

Do you have something substantive to say or some facts to dispute what the article said?
I'm not sure how to rename a one-hour flight lesson

Borrow Mark Pilgrim's "Dive into X" line. Well, perhaps using "jump" instead of "dive" ...
An interesting atlantic article on a similar topic:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/04/my-infla...

This writer also comes to the conclusion that inflation might be the way out.
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Except in Slum Dog they actually glued the seal back on.
Hmmm, now I might be completely ignorant, but care to explain why? As far as I understood, the train splits in China with a connection to Pyongyang.
There was also a picture of Bush on one of the slides. I'd say the reps and dems got equal bashing.
That's one of the things that etacts (http://www.etacts.com) does. Though when this was discussed here a few weeks ago in
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144560 a lot of people seemed unhappy about it being an external service that needed to permanently store your gmail password.
Maybe it's petty, but some of the phrases annoy me:

Twitter 2.0

...what industry researchers call, 'The Network Effect' (that phrase in this usage is 50+ years old and commonplace, not some sort of discovery by "industry researchers")

...a place for brands, links and affiliates (if that were true, there would be no reason to use Twitter at all)
The stability of the financial system as a whole is predicated upon the fact that money that I earn today will be worth something tomorrow.

The main purpose of currency is not the eternal accumulation of wealth. It is for liquidity: making bartering easier. If you want long-term stability, you can invest in gold or bonds.

The reason why the US has planned inflation is to maintain liquidity when productivity rises or currency becomes horded. Economists such as Bernanke have learned from the Great Depression that rising deflation with the same productivity results in spiraling unemployment:

...a town full of shoe factories that closed during the Depression, leaving the community so poor that its children went barefoot. "I kept asking, Why didn't they just open the factories and make the kids shoes?"

The reason is because companies know that consumers do not have money to spend so they fire people to preserve their appreciating currency. By doing nothing, these companies gain wealth while children walk without shoes.

From a purely capitalist view, these companies have the right to do so. But would you really still hold that belief if all the farms shut down in this manner?
I've mined Mutopia for the majority of music, but there are maybe 30 songs I've done by hand just because they were obvious holes in the selection. I'm a little unsure about offering CC-licensed stuff in the app, but my Etude-converted songs are also offered under CC and I'm going to be linking to the licenses, so I think it should be fine.

I'm going to try to write a post to show HN about the tech behind it. I wrote my own .ly parser/preprocessor in Python as part of the song conversion. To help the forked version of Lilypond correlate the screen position and time offset of notes in the piece, I ended up having it do things like unroll macros and loops and do all the layout changes I needed to make em work in the app.
Painful? I read only the ones that interest me (quickly judged from elevator pitches) and it's exciting!
Apps4nsw - public application development competition
In an efficient, transparent labour market where a person's productivity was obvious to buyers, I would expect you would be right.

Personally, I believe the market is so opaque; the water so turbid that the cost of living difference is almost noise compared to the value I can get by finding good people who other companies don't notice.

I think the thing is that nearly everyone trains to send false signals in this market. It's extremely difficult to measure a persons ability at an interview. (hell, it's no cakewalk to measure a persons ability at all, but I have a hard time imagining a worse way to evaluate non-sales candidates than an interview.)

I'm spending a lot more effort finding the person than most companies do, and that's a lot easier for me to do in America. Almost everyone I've hired that worked out well was a friend or a friend of a friend. I've tried many foreigners; the only one that was really good was someone who I knew personally (she worked with me in the US at my dayjob, then worked for me remotely after she went back home.)

I don't think this is due to a dearth of good people overseas; I believe this is just because the hard part is figuring out who is good and who is not, and really without working with someone for a while, that's an extremely difficult thing to do.
Really? One of the forbes links says this:

based on credit default swap spreads there is a 3.1%
chance of a U.S. default in the next five years,
according to CMA, a London credit information specialist

http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/20/united-states-debt-10-busin...

That's pretty bad. Also, I didn't notice any contradictions. Maybe your hyperbolic remarks are true. Maybe Corporations are greedy -- they do have a fiduciary responsibility to increase shareholder wealth. Maybe Globalism is bad -- think global act local right? Globalization is the opposite of that! Also, I think the article said it was pretty much the leaders fault, what with a pic of GWB on one of the pages, or did you read that one?

it seems pretty plain that it's the investment equivalent of a supermarket tabloid

Is that ad hominem? Which statements the article includes aren't true?
I'd be curious to know what her husband's reaction was when he read this.
> ... he doesn't support the idea that the bankers are motivated by selfishness. ...

Isn't that assumption always taken by default when considering nearly all market actions? That actors in the market are primarily motivated by selfish goals?
1) 2007, maybe earlier

2) No plans to apply to YC

3) Bootstrapped

4) MissedConnections.com
2 year cadence for major releases: some progress
Well, that's probably why there's Pi next to to the time.
Given that he was a Reverend, probably resounding endorsement. With few exceptions, women - and yea, ones married to Protestant church authorities - didn't write things of which their husbands would disapprove in 1894. At least, certainly not tractates of this nature.
In my country equivalent of FED has only one goal: Keep inflation moderate and manageable. It works out pretty well.
If it was 9 in the morning that would be strange, yes. It's just a little joke to grab your attention, it's not the only animation on that panel.
Here's a whole bunch of them: http://images.google.be/images?q=led+pharmacy+cross

The little cocktail glass above and below 3:14 is actually supposed to be the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_of_Hygieia
Seth's Blog: But it's better than TV
The "Higher-Order Perl" book by Mark Jason Dominus can be found here: http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/

Highly recommend to Perl & non-Perl programmers.
This reads like a parody - can anyone verify the source?
Time is the major factor for me. The issues I have with air travel are nothing more than minor inconveniences. It's really not that bad. Sure, the comfort of a train is nice but in no way comes close to the convenience of an airplane.

The exceptions are for short distances and when I actually want to take in the sights that a train affords.
It would be interesting to see where Soviet central planning might have gone if it were possible to solve massive sets of thousands or even millions of simultaneous equations digitally during the heyday of the whole affair.
It is also flawed for you to conclude that dropping the gold standard was the reason behind the unemployment. There were many things happening that could also have contributed to it.

Here is a more complete graph of unemployment during the Great Depression where you will notice the unemployment levels never reaching the peak, and dropping back down with Roosevelt enacting even more policies and spending bills.

http://www.inewscatcher.com/timages/50154f373744ae8603a61449...
For the same reason he claimed he would normally never make this statement public to begin with.
I already do this with five labels, one for each day of the week. A plugin would be far sexier and save me 10 seconds for each sent email, but the overhead I have right now is more than worth it.
I'm advocating keeping inflation under control, not deflation. These are two entirely different things.
> you are going to spend your money as soon as you get it - this has more ill effects than I can enumerate

You are referring to hyperinflation? When money can loose significant value overnight?

Or maybe you know what bad things are caused by high (but reasonable) inflation?

Most US citizens not only spend all the money they have just earned but they spend money they are yet to earn, and their economy was rolling just fine.
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Cookware created from forged iron has been around for a very, very long time. It's probably the first kind of real cookware invented. It will be around for a heap longer too.
Well, considering it's course material for PSY210 at a University of Washington psychology department (though page is dated about 12 years), parody wouldn't be my _first_ thought... but perhaps I lack the gift of cynicism.
http://www.snopes.com/weddings/newlywed/advice.asp

Doesn't look it.
If you don't inflate the currency to a certain level when productivity increases due to technology or population growth (such as right now), it may result in a deflationary spiral.

As Aaron said, it is a personal opinion of how much inflation you prefer.

Do you prefer a relatively high inflation because you want to be employed? Or do you want a relatively low one so your assets appreciate or keep their value?
> using media creation/editing tools involves programming

I know that the Digital Animation classes at my school involve (ActionScript) programming, for one anecdote.
A man who ruined a one whole world still "has so many ideas".
Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job
Now A No-Evil Zone
If what he says is true, then the U.S. can print lots of money, pay off the national debt, and create jobs.

Sounds like a win win.

Probably it isn't though.
Patrick's (patio11) advice in dealing with such frustrations from long back:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666171