skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A valid opinion, but let's not forget that this is a worst-case scenario from an interested party. I might note in contrast that the SEC has considered this change before and decided against it after public consultation.

Now, asking them to review it again in the wake of a serious financial crisis might result in the effects described, but then again it might not. I don't think that the idea of re-examining the regulatory environment is inherently bad. Capital formation is not being singled out, just reviewed as part of a comprehensive regulatory overhaul.

And yes, I do support a comprehensive regulatory overhaul, which is not the same thing as a general increase in complexity or strictness. It might even result in simplification of regulation by clarifying some of the ambiguity in existing regulation (bear in mind that regulation D was itself written in the wake of a severe recession). Our financial system has been at the epicenter of a truly severe crisis and I think it's quite appropriate to re-examine the rules it operates under.
You are looking at the past through gilded eyes and if you were an adult back in those times you would have a different viewpoint. I suffered the same thing. Romanticizing TV shows from the 80s. They looked larger then life because I was just a kid. But now when I watch them, I hear crappy dialog, poor acting, weak plots, and cheap special effects. Things you couldn't get away with today. Some people see programming the same way. Programmers back then had to rely on tricks because the hardware wasn't up to snuff. Those same tricks also make problems as the software goes.

Also, I just built my kitchen out of IKEA. If anything IKEA kitchens are the closest equivalent to todays software. Different, but interchangeable parts that fit a standard (the API). The cabinets that were replaced were 30 years old. And what you see is what you got. A little bit of rot meant the whole thing had to be torn out. If I needed to replace a door I would have to have one custom made; same for the drawers.

Now, not all IKEA is great. I had a cheap IKEA office cabinet and compared to the kitchen cabinet of the same dimensions it was 1/3 the weight. But the price reflected the quality of the goods and sometimes all you want is a cheap office cabinet, other times you want a sturdy kitchen cabinet with a 25 year warranty.
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Ah, I see! That makes much more sense. Thank you for the explanation.

I'm very reluctant to consider checking baggage again, even seeing the increased level of concern a company might give my bags. I hear so many horror stories, and as an individual traveler, checking baggage is extremely time-consuming.

A few months ago, I waited with my mother at baggage claim for 3 hours before they finally determined that her bags were in a different state. Even when things are running as expected, it takes an order of magnitude more time to get in and out with your bags.
This sounds great. Where is it located?
I've updated the GitHub code to my current again and updated the README
I figured I'd learn more doing a startup than heading into another Wall Street job, where I'd be seen as "below" the people with PhDs and years of trading or programming experience.
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I use this all the time. Its the best way I've found to deal with the hassle of the rails migrations naming scheme.

vim db/migrate

then I can easily find the file I'm looking for and quickly open other migration files for reference.
C is probably better for writing cross-platform (Win, Mac, Linux) code than C++. See Linus Torvalds comments:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

On the other hand, large corporations probably prefer OO programming. Paul Graham has some good quotes:

"Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. Large organizations always tend to develop software this way"

http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html

"At big companies, software tends to be written by large (and frequently changing) teams of mediocre programmers. Object-oriented programming imposes a discipline on these programmers that prevents any one of them from doing too much damage."

http://www.paulgraham.com/noop.html
I'm suprised Geoffrey doesn't mention that you can switch between TextMate tabs without the mouse using ⌘1, ⌘2, ⌘3, etc. I navigate Rails projects through a combination of ⌘t (fuzzy search), ⌘n (move focus to tab n), and the occasional side-menu mouse click, which works well for me.
The fact that C is the most popular programming language is not a good argument for procedural programming, because it is quite common to use OO techniques with C. In fact, most of the C projects that I have worked with use OO techniques in some form. For instance, look at the Linux kernel. There are plenty of structures that include function pointers, which in practice is very similar to inheritance. Also, consider the UNIX concept of a "file"; that's OO design, pure and simple.

I wouldn't say that C++ is "better" than C, but for certain tasks I think it is easier to use. Consider the C++ inheritance model; sure, you can do the same thing in C, but unless you choose a common convention, each new developer will have to learn your way of doing it. With C++, inheritance works in a uniform way, so a new developer doesn't have to guess at how you did it.

With that said, I think that there is something to be said for the simplicity of C, versus more complicated languages like C++. It is a bitch to learn C++, and some of the most unreadable messes I've seen were written in C++. So I think there's certainly an argument for C, but it doesn't have anything to do with whether it is OO or not.
does this remind anyone of assassin's creed II for the iphone? In that, you basically get contracts to kill someone in a crowd, except the guy you're trying to kill is also a human likely out to get you.
Multi-tasking can be OK ... depending on the person. Some people love it, some fall apart.

But yeah, "Avoid stress and distractions. Do not multitask. Take breaks to eat (healthy foods), exercise, and sleep. Feel free to discuss the problem with friends and colleagues but minimize emotional investment with other people."

I'll add:

Make progress, even if it's not progress. I teach english. If my students are stuck, I tell them to answer the question in their native language. Or just guess. Or say something that isn't even relevant. There are 3 reasons why I say this: 1) you look busy, so your boss will be happy, 2) you feel better and might subconsciously clear the block just by not stressing over it, and 3) you start filling in the jigsaw pieces around the block, which might make the solution easier to reach.
I suppose the main argument was: “So what? Orange is not hard to read on. It sounds like you're complaining because you like to complain about different things.”

Appropriate contrast was maintained, the entire design was not overly luminescent. Since it was the background color it did not create a wicked eye-draw the way the banner at the top of our comment pages here do.

If you don't like unusual designs then you shouldn't read peepcode; a magazine format is one of their boasted mission statements.
This reminds me of an excellent quote I heard a while ago:

"As a programmer, your job is not to write code. Your job is to solve problems."
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Wise quote. If you're open to plans changing, then this is all good. Make a lot of plans, and then don't worry about sticking to them.

A different word could help, though. People feel bad when they don't stick to their plans, and so are often led to the extremes of either not looking ahead at all or not being willing to abandon yesterday's forecasts.

How about business sketch?
Somewhat unrelated, but I help to run an organization that is generally unhappy about the raving media attention OLPC gets repeatedly.
While OLPCs cost many hundreds of dollars (not counting the high volume of volunteer hours/dollars), we ship computers all around the world at a cost of usually around $100/computer.
Plus - from a sustainability perspective, our group is leaps and bounds ahead - instead of 3 year-old computers being sent to china to be 'recycled' (which results in significant waste) they are used and reused by very careful and grateful users in Africa, the middle east, and other parts of the developing world.

http://rso.cornell.edu/ccra/ - Check out our website. We're an undergraduate-run org and to our knowledge are the largest organization of our type in the nation. Our efforts to get programs started at other schools have been underwhelming.
Marketing is making people aware of a product.

Product development is making the best product possible.

This was the latter.
I can ask the group, that is an interesting idea. Shoot me an email (in my profile).
direct link: http://www.mymacnetbook.com/compatibility-chart/
Next steps for Google's experimental fiber network
We just do Skype, meeting up face to face would be great but I chose people I knew over location (we are currently spread across Michigan, Ohio, and North Carolina).
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Does Wikipedia Suck?
I stand corrected. And frightened. fork(), here I come!
Tiananmen Square was a direct result of young well educated people taking a stand. Educated people are behind a lot of the world revolutions and I think the non violent revolution is probably more dangerous to China to the interests of Chinese leadership than a purely military coup.

Anyway, my point is the lack of a language barrier means a site like HN is as dangerous to the Chinese government as better regulated site within their borders. While the government has significant military power, you can’t keep a billion people in check without some control over how they think. So even with the Great Firewall of China popular world opinion is still important because it shapes how people inside China think.

PS: Also you can easily come up with a post that is corrosive to the Chinese government which does not touch any of the current third rail issues in such a way that automated software could detect what is going on. EX: An academic discussion of the economic costs of export oriented monetary policy where china’s is not even mentioned.
The regulation can't specifically delegate certification authority to a single private organization, but it is highly likely that CCHIT will end up being one of the certifying bodies. HHS may include other organizations as certifying bodies but I don't think anyone has really stepped forward yet with a complete proposal.
The princeton study is very poor science.
Here's a good summary of why:
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/hfcs-makes-rats-fat/

And here's a longer article about why at Ars:
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/does-high-fructo...
Regulation D was not created by Congress, FYI. The SEC created it in 1982 under the Reagan administration, when Donald Regan was treasury secretary.
I don't want to enter into the details of the post, but it is impossible for me avoiding a reaction to this: "Do you honestly think that the PhDs at Google, Amazon, Twitter, Digg, and Facebook created Cassandra, BigTable, Dynamo, etc. when they could have just used a RDBMS instead?"

It is really impossible to argument something based on the fact that people that are supposed to be very smart are doing it. The only way to support arguments is by showing facts...

shameless plug as I don't want to post a message just to say this, but isn't HN too slow lately? I'm at the point that I visit the site less often than I was used to do as I don't want to experience the delay.
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How many people drive luxury cars, paying $25K more than a two year old non-luxury car?
Ask HN: Running a contest/competition
So I'm working on my little side project, a webapp builder called AppRabbit (http://apprabbit.com) that is similar to Zoho Creator or DabbleDB. It's still missing some key features but I'd love to get people using it and giving me ideas for the direction I should take it. So I decided it might be fun to have a contest to see who can build the coolest or most useful app with it, and I'd give away something small like a gift card or a something as a reward to the winner.

So my question is, has anyone done something like this before? Do I need to worry about laws and regulations with regards to doing a little contest like this, or should I just wing it and try to keep it simple? I figured I'd just judge this round myself, and maybe down the road if I do something like this again have some sort of judging committee or something.

So what do you folks think?
I think imajes is referring to the fact they they did actually consider that idea a while back.
Do you recall when GWB took office and long time
members of the press core were kicked out if they
asked tough questions?

Helen Thomas got the cold shoulder for a while, but GWB started asking her questions again to try and gain credibility. The scale is incomparable, which was the point of the parent.

All this is part of a media whose purpose is to
help Americans feel that they have the moral high
ground so that wars can be waged whenever necessary.

If you really meant what you said here, it would indeed be a conspiracy theory, despite your insistence that it's not.

You would need a lot more evidence than you're supplying to support the sort of assertions that you're making.

What the US government does isn't even particularly relevant to the article.
Actually, that is only one of the criteria for accreditation. There are multiple ways to qualify as such without meeting the specified financial thresholds.
Are Business Plans A Waste Of Time?
I went to college at 15, and didn't go back to high school. My high school peers were dumb and stuck in a cultural rut, and I knew it. And adults had all the social maturity (and all the fun), and I knew it. I could not get out of that system fast enough.

As a college student and an adult, I was free to seek out peers and friends at the level of social and intellectual maturity I was comfortable with. In my late 20's, it's something I still do, and it often means my 'peers' are generally a decade or (sometimes much) more my senior. But I'm of the opinion that there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, for adults or kids.

People your age aren't necessarily your peers. And "universal" high school social experiences are only important if they're important to you. I personally don't regret what I missed at all; I think what I did instead was a lot more fun.
"First, the point of that is to reduce the number of applications"

True, quality over quantity, which I think we will see more of from Apple in the future. The goal at first was to attract as many developers as possible. Now that they have established the store, we will see more discrimination. Hence the removal of the 'cookie-cutter' applications of late. Maybe I'm wrong about that though.

"Second: Apple is much larger then Nintendo, so they have the resources for sure."

True, but they also have many more product lines including a major operating system and much more hardware to support and develop than Nintendo. I was simply pointing out the failures of the comparison.
Pretty sure this is just a one man side project, not something made by a full dev studio. Give him some time!

Anyway, if the guy is anything like me, he's probably hoping someone will waltz in and run the concept ahead of him, so he can play it without having to build it himself.

Really though, he's pretty save. It's too complex for the average indie to motor through, and it's too out there for a big studio to steal. Plus, aside from that, Chris Hecker is enough of a name that if someone tried to rip off the idea, he could probably litigate successfully.
For going to RailsConf 2009 I "hackintoshed" an Eee PC 1000HE. It was the first Eee PC with insane battery life (realistically around 9-10 hours in Windows). I had to dismantle the entire machine to put in a new wifi card (the only stock piece not compatible with OS X) but it ran OS X well and got 6.5 hours of practical battery life with no problems.

That said, after I got back, I bought a 17" MBP and never used the Eee again. The keys on these 9/10" machines make them a nightmare to type on for more than a few minutes (and the Eee's was particularly good) and not being entirely legit just makes them feel a little icky and undependable. I don't know anyone who hackintoshed a machine and stuck with it for more than a few months (not to say there aren't any - I just don't know them!)
Just speculating:

I don't think customers buy "better", they buy "solution". They don't care about elegance or how many features you have. Just, "does it solve my problem?". If two things solve the same problem, it may then come down to "how easy" and "how much money".

On a different note: if you have a plan, stick with it (if you think it is the right plan). Your competitors may have just validated the market for you.
A little background on the problem:

Each type of 3D system has varying amount of cross-eye leak. And the leak varies by color (for some types of systems).

So you need to adjust the color balance to compensate for how much light of each color arrives at each eye. The type of screen, and the size of the screen affects this as well.

Ghostbusting is similar - some light leaks to the other eye, so you reduce the intensity of one side to balance them out.
Do entrepreneurs have high inherent risk tolerance?
By the way, this site used to be written in php (Code Igniter), but I just rewrote it in Python (Django), which took about 2 weeks. I also automatically pull top photos from Flickr's interestingness api, so there's always fresh content on the site.

Please offer any feedback you might have.
I think the author's 'rant' contains an answer to your post:

"I’m obviously not in favor of replacing anyone’s daily fluid intake with soft drinks, but I can already see a number of straw man arguments headed my way. This is because people have a tendency to think in either-or terms that strictly involve extremes."

I think the main point of his post is that fructose is being demonized. He points out that we're taking in more calories while spending less. If anything is to be taken from the article is that moderation is the way.
I imagine the release of the iPad has put a damper on the enthusiasm for hackintosh netbooks. Which isn't to say no one wants one anymore ever, but this hacky solution to Apple's unfilled niche is less necessary now that Apple produces a product closer to this area.
Given your comment, what a smile it brought to my face when I read your HN profile and learned you created a URL shortening service of sorts :)

Apologies if I breached HN Etiquette. I'll post full URLs in the future.
And to think that would require that you've done the "dropping something heavy vs something light and noticing they take the same time to fall" test. I admit, I don't consider that to be really "knowing" physics, it's just a day to day observation.
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Research has repeatedly shown that virtually no one can multitask effectively (http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/03/6417.ars has a laymen's summary of some for one place).

The closest thing to an exception I know of is listening to music. I will listen to music while working on hard problems, but then I tend to choose music I know well and I use it to block out more distracting sounds rather than pay much attention to it.
I am not sure that your worry is warranted. If your sales cycle takes 3 months, it will be at least one month before anyone even decides that they want to "go". That should buy you some time.

I don't know about your product, but enterprises take a VERY long time to decide these things. And you can always stretch out the deal to buy some time.
I'm not sure if I'm unique in this regard, but I seem to have the ability to fully visualize complex systems and problems. The key for me is understanding the problem fully, as I have to pull all of the pieces together. I find it difficult sometimes because other people aren't used to working this way, so they try to feed you bite-sized pieces, where what I really want is the entire problem.
State Government RFP opportunities can be frustratingly bureaucratic at first, but there are real opportunities for IT staff augmentation and IT project proposals, but there is a ton of competition for these limited opportunities. For instance: State of Texas has 400+ approved vendors on their roll, S. Carolina has 200+ vendors. Some states are more progressive and permit electronic proposal submissions. Others still require submitting 6 identical binders for each proposal plus a CD or USB drive will all documents in electronic form. Because they can.
In fairness every kid I know (about 6 or 7 I guess) who has been pushed up several years in school is generally either completely anti-social or officious and unfriendly (I am being nice here unfortunately). Obviously that is not a complete metric; but all of them, I am sure, are that way due to a lack of social proof/interaction at a crucial point in their lives (early teens).

In this case Colin seems well adjusted and "not a prick" - but there could be all manner of exterior reasons for that.

It's also wrong, I think, to consider high school as training for adult social structure; it clearly is nothing like that. But it does teach you some important things - you face the same issues at the same time as everyone else (example: all of the kids I saw bumped up several levels were either incredibly sexist or had serious issues with women. Typical of the kind of insecurities you face at that age - but when everyone around you has already dealt with that it is hard to sort out).

> all of use who have been out of it for at least five years can probably name a group of people who are "still in high school", to their social and professional detriment.

Agreed; however I don't agree that a different way would have produced any different results. They are stuck there for a variety of reasons - none of them directly because of the high school culture.
One consequence of the CIA making him think he's being spied on at every turn is making him think he's on to something big.

This allows the CIA -- or other intelligence agencies -- to feed him doctored or fake information, thereby destroying his credibility. I think it's highly likely the upcoming video of civilians being killed is actually a setup to discredit the wikileaks guys.
Software for Optical Systems Spells the End of Blur
That's a winner:-)

Made me think of Risky, but Ponzi is better.
Learn from their mistakes. Look at the reactions from their customers, and make sure that you ship with their #1 wishlist feature and make sure that feature is emphasized.

Also ... "They do not have all the pieces we have so our platform is far better" This is dangerous thinking. People generally prefer the most minimal product that actually solves their problem -- only established users want more features.

If you can't cut (or postpone) features, can you ship an early closed beta to some "early adopters"? If people anywhere are using your software it will give the impression that it's right around the corner and people may delay purchasing. If you just say "coming soon" people will not believe that unless you have a track record.