skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, the Fed would control the amount of inflation by setting the interest rates directly. Essentially, banks would be able to create money when they are able to find a lending opportunity that will pay a greater amount of interest than the federal funds rate. By raising or lowering the rate, the Fed can control the amount of inflation. This is at least my understanding of how it would work, I'm not an expert in banking, but you can follow sites like this one http://reservedplace.blogspot.com/2009/04/easing-understandi... or winterspeak.com to learn more.
The way that graph reads if you inform a partisan audience about an article for deletion, it's considered canvasing and you can be baned as a result. And given that the discussion of deletion for the dwm article was closed because of discussions here and other places, it just appears that that is exactly what happened.
I have an open Chatroulette session and Wireshark running at the same time. A lot of traffic is running by me in Wireshark as users connect and disconnect. What am looking for that tells me the other person's general location? Which, out of all those scrolling IPs, is the one of interest?
Because email can't make YC millions of dollars if it gets popular and makes a big exit.
Programmers are Indicted in Madoff Case
2 minutes. I don't think I've ever changed it, since I added the feature.
I'd love to see some more pics of these warehouses, I've always wanted to live in something like that.
I agree. If algorithms are slow, it doesn't matter as long as they are fast enough.

You should not spend time prematurely optimizing for performance that you don't need, if you can more easily use caching to give you real, experienced performance.

If you want to optimize uncached performance you can turn off cache in a development/staging environment. If you run a website that is in business do not give your visitors bad performance (uncached) on purpose.
I've used it to make my conway's game of life implementation, and make it run really fast with a naive brute force approach.
http://vimeo.com/9516535

So add toy programs to that list :)
I'm in Mountain View. Can I get a demo?
Actually, if you want to make a decent living, going with something with lots of competition is safer - at least you know there is already a market for that.
Notifo just launched today! http://notifo.com/

Other HN launch thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1202941
"I can say with confidence that we do both."

After reading your post, you don't do the "cry-it out" method. You just aren't ignorant to think that every sound a baby makes is a cry for help. You respond to your babies needs, which is not the "cry-it out" method.

The problem is, people on either side of the debate assume the extreme. The people who practice the "cry it out" method assume the other side jumps at every sound, which as you discovered, isn't really crying. The anti-cry it out people assume that letting the baby cry it out means letting them cry, scream, tear up, and cry cry cry all night long.
Should kids be building their online presence already?
The Future of TV
I don't know about damaging the machine but wet wood has a similar capacitance to our fingers and that is why it stops the blade like that.

I wonder if the system can evolve the way airbags did for cars? In the beginning airbags would go off with little provocation; now they are smart enough to realize that they should not go off at all even in a mild crash.
The browser has to take responsibility for its formats. Offloading to the OS is all fine and good if you have a native H.264 decoder installed, but only Windows 7 and OS X only ship with that. Most users out there are still using XP. Most users are not going to understand if Firefox comes up and says "Hey buddy you need to install some codec from OS vendor to watch this, teehee", and they'll just switch to something else, so it's kind of useless in that regard.
I never considered it, actually. It was a moot point till a couple months ago because we couldn't send email from the server. Rtm's strategy for security is to install nothing. Eventually I may expand notifications to have more options for type and delivery method.
You could also try http://upstack.com, Brandstack's new site for custom design. They screen their designers before letting them join a project.
I've seen these sorts of arguments before - what he is really complaining about is that he thinks more people should want the kinds of things he wants.
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I thought el cap took a week to ascend? If he did that twice in one day free that is just absurdly amazing.
We just hired a high school senior for the summer. He was also one of the best candidates we've seen so far.
Karl only came back after we raised money and offered him a salary.

Did you offer him any compensation during that period to stay? I am guessing no. Isn't it unfair to offer him equity only if he works for free without any guarantee of compensation? What if you were stringing him along for free labor?

If we went belly up, Bill and I would have been shit out of luck

Employee compensation should not be related to how much risk the employers have: it should be related to the market value of the employee. As others have said, Karl also took a risk. If your company went under, all he would have on his resume is an unknown company with less money than if he went for a paid internship at Google etc...

If you are paying below market rate for talent, you should compensate through equity.
A web only company might be able to get away with a logo from 99 logos, but a brick and mortar store would likely have some problems.

Isn't it the other way round?
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How Somali pirate crews are financed
My rather unpopular proposal is not necessarily to return to a gold standard, although a fractional gold standard would certainly not hurt.

Rather it is this:

First, to eliminate fractional lending entirely. If money is to be loaned, then only that money may be loaned that has been deposited for the express purpose of loaning it out. In other words - think CD's as the standard mechanism for the funding of loans. Essentially, this would mean that banks have no more lending ability than any private citizen or institution. Currently, only a bank is allowed to lend money that does not exist. When an individual does this, it is a crime.

Second: To allow congress to create a fixed percentage of fiat currency in any given year. This would remove from the banks the ability to expand the money supply, and leave it in the hands of congress, and congress alone. They would accomplish such expansion, essentially, by printing money and spending it.
Harassing virus checkers?

:; gunzip -l tb1.gz ; gunzip tb1.gz; mv tb1 tb1.gz
compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
43863 55982 21.7% tb1

:; gunzip -l tb1.gz ; gunzip tb1.gz; mv tb1 tb1.gz
compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
55982 2568864 97.8% tb1

:; gunzip -l tb1.gz ; gunzip tb1.gz; mv tb1 tb1.gz
compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
2568864 1067044016 99.8% tb1

:; gunzip -l tb1.gz ; gunzip tb1.gz; mv tb1 tb1.gz
compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
1067044016 0 0.0% tb1

This made my little machine unhappy.
Does Murdoch's wife sing opera, by chance?
Palm Sold Only 408,000 Smartphones Last Quarter
Any large bank will exchange dollars for yuan.
the rich already escaped from dollar to tangible goods such as gold/silver/food/water supplies/farm/private island/'protection'

the rest of us have electronic 0s and 1s stuck in 401k and propped up real estate prices
At http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html, pg speculates that ideas 4 (outsourced IT), 18 (the WebOS), and 19 (application and/or data hosting) can be bundled.

I think Newmark's vision may belong in this bundle as well. It somehow feels like part of the same domain. Though as pg says, "the way to find such a grand, overarching solution is probably not to approach it directly, but to start by solving smaller, specific problems, then gradually expand your scope."

So the real problem is how to crack it open? What are the first steps that lead fruitfully into the bigger problem domain?
There is considerably more to this story than first meets the eye. I, too, first thought 'reverse patent troll' but now I am considerably less sure.

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/03/sawstop...

In 2002, Ryobi, which initially signed a contract with SawStop, pulled out. Manufacturers, interested at first, refused to license their device. Gass remembered they told him, "Safety doesn't sell."
[...]
Saws currently on the market can not be retrofitted with SawStop's device. Manufacturers would have to redesign saws, which could cause a price increase of about $150. [...]

This puts quite a different cast on things, and when you look at the whole article it's hard not to wonder if the industry colluded to put up barriers to a new entrant. I can't make up my mind, and am going to read the court transcript before I form a conclusion. As with the lady who got a big award from McDonalds for spilling coffee on herself, what seemed on the surface to be a junk lawsuit was actually much more complex, with the defendants having extensive foreknowledge and choosing not to address the issue for economic reasons.

Edit: court's opinion is not online yet, and the original complaint is too brief to warrant forming a conclusion.
I think what he is trying to say is that the experiment conducted for the documentary was not a robust peer reviewed phenomenon

Was the Holocaust a robust peer reviewed phenomenon?

Sure, selection bias is always going to be a weakness with these types of experiments, but one thing they do prove, no matter how sloppily conducted, is that you can always find people to do this sort of thing if you look for them.

Kids who go outside to stomp worms after it rains, to borrow an image from another poster further down the thread.
That is non sequitur. A tax is not progressive simply because some people pay more takes than others. Inflation lowers the value of any give dollar in a wealthy man's bank account as equally as the same dollar in poor man's account.
Our company gives every employee a 'projected promotion date', from Day 1. If you don't meet your promotion date (and that is adjusted based on how the economy and the company as a whole are doing, etc. - it's not set in stone), then you are asked to leave. Plain and simple. Up, or Out.
There is no settling into a role as a mediocre mid level manager - the only role you can settle into is that of partner (which requires $millions of dollars in sales and revenue per year, so you can't exactly slouch at that either).
It works AMAZINGLY well at keeping/attracting awesome talent. I've yet to meet anybody 'below average' or really even 'average' from a motivation/kick ass perspective. The culture is refreshingly honest and progressive.
Gay men meetup through Grindr iPhone app
Have you taken a look at another Java-based framework www.scooterframework.com? All your experiences in Rails can be found there: ActiveRecord, associations, routes, named sql queries, i18n, ajax, etc. I particularly like the one-click routes link. I think Scooter's routes which is based on Rails is much better. Also I like Scooter's ActiveRecord over Play's JPA. I just cannot tolerate annotations polluting my Java class everywhere.
I'm defining "cheaper" as one of many factors that go into deciding if one thing is better than another, I'm not speaking purely from a technical/feature standpoint.
You can sue and possibly recoup some of your sunk cost from a shitty contractor. You can't really do much more than fire a shitty employee.
Is this IPhone only? Have pity on the rest of us unwashed types not cool enough to own an IPhone(not to mention, not in the USA).
For once, I would love to read economics articles on this site which aren't just goldbug Ronulan screeds.
I'm sorry, this experiment has been reproduced numerous times and the initial study that produced this WAS rigorously tested AND peer reviewed. Milgram performed 19 variations of his experiment before his peer reviewed journal article was ever published, it studied the distance from authority, the distance from the subject and the authority level to measure what percentage of people performed inhumane acts.

The variables ranged from the authority being virtually over the subjects shoulder to being on a telephone. The proximity to the victim ranged from a one-way mirror to only being able to hear the person over a speaker. The level of authority went from a white coat to blue collar.

The subjects were initially polled to see how many believed they would administer the lethal voltage (1.2%), and also polled his colleagues (who came up with a similar percentage on how many people they expected would go all the way).

A later meta-analysis performed on multiple repeats of the study found the percentages to remain steady at 61-66%.

Zimbardo (who performed the Stanford Prison Experiment) made an excellent point: none of the participants who refused to administer the final shocks insisted that the experiment itself be terminated, nor left the room to check the health of the victim without requesting permission to leave.

Despite disobeying authority not to hurt someone, they still required permission of the authority to help someone, which is quite possibly the more worrying aspect that is never highlighted.
I think there's a reason this model doesn't work for 'software developers'. There isn't really an 'up' - most developers don't WANT to manage other developers, they want to write kick ass code.
That's fairly unique in the business world - in most other departments, there is a trend of 'hoping for promotion', etc. So there is an 'up'.
Count Gridspy in. Might be some time until we get around to it though :)
Not exactly. The magnifying glass for search is an allusion to the Sherlock Holmes-ian private detective, who "searches" for clues and almost always carries a magnifying glass, which often is used in the detection of clues. The fact that there are two completely different functions which use the same common iconography is inconvenient.
He didn't actually have any offers. The WePay people just made that up to make it seem like they snatched someone from Google or Facebook for no pay. Pretty pathetic.
The definition of a progressive tax is that as one's income goes up, the percentage of one's income that one pays in that tax goes up.

This tax isn't perfectly progressive because it depends on people's exact behavior and by investing rather than just having it in a savings account, the rich can sort of have their wealth increase in value with inflation, but it is the case that extremely poor people with no savings barely feel it, while rich people will see some of their money (money in checking accounts, savings accounts, etc) lose its value.
I think Zimbardo's biggest contribution ever has been grossly overlooked. He made the point after Milgrams experiment that everyone who disobeyed authority and stopped injuring the victim still required permission (from the authority that just had them injuring someone) to help their victim.

It's not only that you can create little lucifers, but it's that you wholly prevent the good Samaritan ever appearing.
I wonder how long it will take before someone manages to slap linux on it.

X seems to be pretty dependent on its pointer though, there would be quite a bit of work in there to make a platform that you can develop applications for.
Actually binocular vision doesn't help - I almost always close one eye when threading needles. I need to wear reading glasses now though, getting too old to see small stuff clearly enough. (I cheat - I got some extra strong reading glasses for close work like threading needles and removing splinters (3 diopter, normally use 1.0 to 1.5 for reading) - they are a big help.)
That's the iNothing to you. Mine's already pre-ordered, with a spare battery and hose attachment.
It's an interesting idea and I was with him until he said the government should be involved to enforce this. The government doesn't regulate any meaningful relationships in my life so why should it regulate who I decide to trust? Seems like a fantasy to even suggest that it could do so.
"Do you expect to change homes as much as you change jobs? If not, the fact that your home is walking distance from your old job just doesn't seem like a bonus."

Good point, but I don't think it invalidates my argument. Most people relocate to within 50 miles when switching jobs. They also don't need extensive commutes when they live within 4 miles. The only time when a segregated work-home plan is as efficient as a mixed-use plan is when someone switches jobs, is over 4 miles away, less than 50 miles away, and chooses not to relocate locally. I suspect (without evidence) that it is still more efficient to plan for livable distributed cities instead of commuting an hour and a half per day.

(I'm making a lot of approximations and estimates here with the absence of quantitative data... hope it sounds reasonable still.)

I live in SF, and the number of people who live here because San Jose or Palo Alto suck, but still commute eighty miles per day, is staggering.

"That's still possible; the world we live in is just one where people are effectively wealthier, so it's no big deal to go to a better library that's 10 miles away, or to be able to stay in touch with friends who've moved across town. It's hard for me to see the expanded possibilities as a bad thing. The kind of world we live in now is better than the world in which kids were limited to whatever was nearby."

Agreed. Expanded possibilities are great! What concerns me is that kids (and adults, perhaps) lead increasingly isolated lives. I view walking around, biking, public spaces, parks, and woodlands as good experiences that cost very little. That's purely a moral stance; nobody has to agree.

P.S. How do you do quotes? I'm totally stymied!
Ok, nice.

Everything and their brother supports email, there are so many gateways that once you are at the 'email' stage you can pretty much reach any device.
Sure they are. I know because I worked for one last year.

If I tried to apply to a big company for a programming internship, my resume would never even make it to someone who actually has the authority to hire me. HR would trash it.

Startups don't work like that. I've only ever applied to startups small enough that my email was read directly by the founders. So at least I had a chance.

I actually had several offers last summer, though I got all of them because I know a guy who knows lots of startup types.

Now, though, I just cold-emailed a very early-stage startup and they've expressed some interest. Between "I have experience working for a startup" and "I got into Stanford", potential employers who see my resume at least know I'm not totally worthless. But most HR departments would still take me out of the running immediately.
Can you show empathy in 160 chars?
I know someone hiring for a QA position, but somehow I suspect you're not interested.
I'd really love to see something that gives recommendations for bets in a local pool based on your region.

Assume that geographically concentrated bettors will have similar biases because there is a strong preference of fans to bet for their team, even if its the underdog. By being contrarian, even if you aren't picking the best overall bracket, you can maximize your chance of winning a particular pool.

If you could mine the data provided by TweetBracket, you could even get a good estimate of local biases to make good contrarian brackets.
> Is this IPhone only?

Yep.

> Have pity on the rest of us unwashed types not cool enough to own an IPhone.

My thoughts exactly. There are a lot of mobiles out there that are not iphones, in spite of the iphones popularity.
PG,

Under what conditions will this notify you? I know it will notify you when you are a direct parent to the comment but is there a limit on how deep the nesting is before it stops notifying you? Is every comment below you counted as a response worthy of a notification?
"But why couldn't Mozilla use an extension that supports H264? Similar to Ubuntu's nonfree packages?"

That might not be an unreasonable approach concerning some other aspect of video on the Web, but has only bad consequences in this particular debate.

As you can see, this debate involves Mozilla and co. versus detractors over the following two non-exclusive decision problems:

Support Theora?
Support h.264?

But it's incredibly important to keep in mind the greater issue here motivating these questions, which is the desire for a baseline video format. As soon as anyone suggests delegating video decoding to the operating system, they're clearly divorcing themselves from this particular debate. Perhaps that kind of delegation is a solution to a problem concerning another aspect of video on the Web, but not this one, because it gains nothing in the pursuit for a baseline video format.
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This is a very misleading explanation. Reserve requirements are how much cash (or equivalents) the banks must hold in comparison to certain types of liabilities. The liabilities are usually customer deposits, or other liabilities that can be called on a moment notice. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement

This is not just some arcane rule, it is actually a very important requirement that prevents bank failures. That is it prevents a bank from running out of cash to pay its depositors. If a bank runs out of cash, even for a short time and even if it has large amount of long term illiquid assets, the bank will probably fail as people will panic, there will be a run on the bank, etc.

It is true that banks usually use something called federal funds to satisfy the reserve requirement. Federal funds are money held on account at the federal reserve. Thus, each banks has an account at the Fed, that has money in it, and that money is called the federal funds. The federal funds are considered to be the equivalent of cash for the reserve requirement, so most banks satisfy the reserve requirement using their federal funds (as holding large amounts of cash in their vaults is expensive and inconvenient).

Nevertheless, the reserve requirement is not some unimportant technical rule that emerged from the Fed lending system as your post suggests, but an important requirement needed to ensure banks stay solvent and are actually able to give your money when you go to an ATM machine.
Transfer music from iTunes to Spotify (Mac & Win)
Narrow vision?

The scale of a software business can be anything from "Hello World" to Microsoft. The little one-day "startups" that we see here every day exist in a tiny sliver all the way to the left of that spectrum, near zero. The "Real Business" part is everything to the right, on out to infinity.
In the Notifo settings, you can set notifications to "Silent" (no audible alert) or "Stealth" (no notification event, just loads in your timeline) on a per-service basis. That could be one way to solve it?
> The number of people who register and never come back is depressing

I think that says something about the content as well as about the user.

> many of them might be enticed to come back, if you only had a way of getting in touch.

Or you might push them away even further.

I try to keep notifications down to an absolute minimum on my sites, and to give people genuine reasons to come back in the future.

My feeling is that you need to get a user to invest a bit of time in to your site on the first visit, that's the best predictor they'll be back, especially if you leave them 'wanting more'.
Not what I was expecting. But upon reflection, that page is exactly as advertised.
It just uses push notifications. But each site you're getting notifications from doesn't have to make you install their app. You just have to have Notifo installed. You also can actually see a list of all of the notifications you've gotten.