skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry but you're just wrong here.

This is the first link that comes up on Google when you search for "Small Business Loan": http://www.merchantloans.com/. The first item listed under that heading is "Start/buy a business or franchise"

This About.com article (http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/financing/a/getbusinessloan...) starts by saying...

"Sooner or later most small businesses need to get a small business loan, whether to get the operating capital for business startup or to finance an expansion. "

Small Business Loans are the #1 way that people start businesses in this country (no one Angel invests in a hot dog stand)
The "fence" part has to physically move. What you are describing - no moving parts required - is basically a hologram.
Yeah, I read a solid 2 pages of hyperbolic claims about how "devastating" this will be and how important angels are and how they're great and everything before I gave up on learning any actual facts and clicked back here. Thanks for the summary.

How does the bill define "startups", for one? I'm perfectly capable of believing there will be regulations which have adverse unintended consequences on startups from this bill but that sounds extremely onerous -- is that for IPOs, only? I'd actually agree with that. If it's for raising seed money or anything up through a series C, I'd disagree, very strongly in the case of earlier rounds. The article doesn't tell us which it is, though.
I'm a teacher of mathematics at a community college.

It appears to me that the crux of the problem is that people, including the guy in the video, confuse problem solving with mathematics. The utility of mathematics comes in the remarkable fact that a great deal of phenomena can be adequately modeled mathematically. The focus of an algebra class ought to be in learning the language of algebra. That is, in manipulating numbers in the abstract. The application problems ought to be saved for physics, biology, economics, etc. The result of an emphasis on so called real world problems in high school mathematics is a generation of students who are incapable of correctly manipulating algebraic expressions and equations.

I recently gave my college algebra class an equation. It was a simple equation and all of them could solve it. I then asked them for an example of an equation that had no solution. Not a single person could provide an answer. They can solve the word problems in the textbook but don't have the slightest clue about what these mathematical concepts actually mean.

Perhaps it isn't important that one need to manipulate algebraic objects. I won't argue with this. But let's not call solving word problems mathematics. If you want to learn mathematics then grinding through the minutia and having the patience to understand the symbols is necessary. You can't get around this. If the goal is to solve word problems then....go ahead and change things.
There are parallels here to Twitter's evolution as a service.
I actually do realize that.

(Nitpick: the 747-400, "among the fastest airliners in service", has a cruise speed of 913 km/h or 493 knots, so I'd dispute the "routinely" -- but your point definitely stands.)

That's why I made it a point to include the "created and improved". Right now, it's much easier to barrel through low-resistance air. A ship twice or three times as fast as your average passenger ship will still be an inferior choice to an airplane on most (probably not all, but definitely most) routes. There is therefore little incentive to try to improve ships. In most cases, it's just not going to pay. The situation is similar for rail travel on longer routes: there's little money in making the Trans-Siberian go faster.

If we can no longer barrel through air, whether worldwide or on a selection of routes (European airports to Keflavík, for instance), suddenly making the ship or the train go twice as fast is much, much more appealing. Return on investment is much better, so investment is going to pick up.

The current airplane speeds actually help this argument. Once people are used to trips taking days, not weeks, convincing them to pay premium for something that feeds the speed addiction is easier.

I don't know what the technology will be, or how far it will go. It's very likely that it won't go as fast as airplanes. But already, with the limited reward, we have passengers ships that go over 40 knots (HSC Manannan). If I had to guess, catamarans, hovercraft-like, and ekranoplan-like technologies might play a role, but I really don't know where we'll end up. It will undoubtedly be difficult, but engineers don't roll over just because water is more viscous.

Similarly, conventional high-speed rail exceeded 300 knots in test runs. There's probably room to go up, but little reward for investment because right now you still have to compete with 400-500 knot airplanes. Once you don't, and people are willing to pay for any extra speed... who knows what will happen.

(Can you tell I'm an idealistic engineering student?)
Is "the Street" like Hotel California: "you can check in any time you like, but you can never leave"? If not, you have no one to blame but yourself for not following your dreams. You may find pity here on HN, but that will hardly advance your goals, right?
I want to know who, by name or agency, thinks raising the 'accredited investor' thresholds is a good or necessary step.

Accredited investors aren't asking for this change. The participation of private investors (of any net worth) in regular equities was a non-factor in current financial troubles, or indeed any financial troubles of recent decades.

If lessons from the recent crisis are what's motivating new net worth requirements on investments, how about new rules to block submillionaires from buying homes? That's be more rational as a reaction to the mortgage bubble than blocking millionaires from investing in companies!

(I don't expect even lame-duck Dodd to tell average Americans they're too easily duped to own homes; we should be equally outraged he wants to tell millionaires they're too easily duped to make private equity investments.)
I know that the author says this is a high level overview... but the extra features that DVCS hosting companies add on top of repository hosting is practically the entire value-add of using a repository hosting site vs. setting up your own server or just dropboxing your git projects.

I know I'm biased, but for me I could care less about features like price per GB. Features like GitHub's Branch List page, Compare View, Commit Comments, and Web UI are the entire reason I push private repositories.
Looks like whoever reposted John Mauldin's weekly newsletter chopped off the section that needs to be included to be allowed to repost it. Jerk move. Because John's newsletter is awesome - he's best when discussing the implications of skyrocketing sovereign debt - and because you might want to subscribe to it, here's what the article omitted:

You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print as long as the following is included:

John Mauldin, Best-Selling author and recognized financial expert, is also editor of the free Thoughts From the Frontline that goes to over 1 million readers each week. For more information on John or his FREE weekly economic letter go to: http://www.frontlinethoughts.com/learnmore
I forgot to mention it in the blog post, but there are well defined measures of code coverage for software development. I'm not sure if the same concepts have made there way into legal analysis. I would like to see that any financial portfolio 'stress tests' require complete code coverage.

However, I seriously doubt whether the proposal will ever be enacted. There is just too much going against it. I do like that agent simulation is becoming wider known in the broader financial community as it finally gets us closer to acknowledging that financial instruments _are_ computation. And along with that association comes the tacit recognition that not everything is easily computable.

For a good introduction to the intersection of computability and economics, check out http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economic...
But they would probably see abc.foo.com as different from xyz.foo.com
I just updated the 41609 with one more way of how it does not work on Linux.
This doesnt make any sense: sqrt(2x+1) = sqrt(x) + 1

EDIT: Ahh I thought he was saying that he had factorized/simplified the left side into the right and it wasnt making any sense.
Well that's not really up to the browser maker to remove. The domain owner makes choices about subdomains and dns records. So if the domain owner deems www as the location for something, that can't be abstracted away.
Beanstalk was left off as well, they support Git as of a month and change ago.

I like them because of FTP/SFTP deployment, and they hook into all of the other info management and communication tools I use.
I'd be happier with a system that got to the bottom of the original crime, rather than trying to entrap them into new crimes trying to defend their public image.
How idealistic. The problem is that when you start working in a very high paying job, as finance jobs tend to be, there is a catch. All of that money. By the time you have a mortgage, a care, and a vacation home, it's very hard to get away and you get stuck on the treadmill.

The other side of it is that you could live frugally and save up a massive war chest to fund a startup but most people don't go that route. It's not weakness, it's human nature.
Here's what I've read recently:

* The Pragmatic Programmer
* Coders at Work
* Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

The Pragmatic Programmer is quite old (published 1999). It provides a lot of useful (generalised) information on how to build a scalable, useable and easy-to-maintain application. The small handout that comes in the back of the book is also a great reference to keep next to your desk!

Coders at Work takes a slightly different approach. Odds are you've heard about it from other users of HN, but in short: It's a selection of interviews with some of the most accomplished programmers around; Knuth, Simon Peyton Jones etc. I'd still recommend this book, but I would probably cut out around 15% of it.

C++ was never given enough time at my University (it was a Java school) and so I wasn't too tied to it when starting out with Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X. If you can understand basic pointer use in C, then this book will hold your hand through Objective-C and into using Interface Builder and XCode to build native Mac applications. It's not going to teach you how to build iPhone apps, but it will give you the correct core knowledge to go on and do so using the Apple docs should you wish.

I'm currently in the process of reading K&R (The C Programming Language book) and Thinking in Java, both of which are regarded quite highly. Although K&R is definitely seen as THE technical book to read.
Looks like an awkward riding position.

E.g. when you approach a pothole or curb on a regular bicycle or motorcycle you can easily stand on the pegs/pedals. But it looks like if you tried that with this thing you'd have to thrust your pelvis forward, lean back, and put your weight on the handle bars behind you.
what evidence do you have that this is used for reCAPTCHA?
Condensation happens when the article is reintroduced to a warm, damp environment -- ask anyone who wears glasses in winter. Photographers will often put cold-soaked bodies and lenses into ziploc bags before going indoors after an outdoor shoot in winter, maintaining the low-humidity environment until the equipment has reached room temperature.

[EDIT: spelling and capitalisation]
My girlfriend is using my ~4 year old Macbook Pro, and it's getting warmer and warmer. It's too hot for direct contact with skin. Also, it's starting to drop the Wifi at high temps. The battery has been replaced once already.

As a result, we're looking at one of those unibody 13" Macbooks, those are reported to be cooler. Temperature is the only reason we're getting rid of this one.
But we're not talking about removing http:// from actual urls, just from the display in the address bar. I guess you're saying that seeing it in the address bar highlights that it's an important part of an actual url, which is useful for education?
Flash exported as native app, distributed via app store 21:22
Duh, big banks would win. Think about it, if they remove competition from the private equity market, then they monopolize capital financing.

This revision is nothing more than a monopoly bid.
At 21:22 the guy says you can export flash as a native app and have it distributed via the app store. Is Adobe not backing down on this claim?
Math major here: I think actually he is arguing for a cure to the apathy. The reason people are apathetic about mathematics is it is presented like a dry and idiotic subject. A common complaint about word problems is "this is contrived, why does the water tank have exactly that parabolic curve, pfft math sucks, I quit" whereas the common complaint about questions that are pure symbol manipulation is "this doesn't matter to me, I quit."

By introducing questions more open endedly (Could you kick a door down?) you avoid making the question sound contrived. Open ended questions also lead to generalization. (Side note, I've worked as a tutor and coach, so yes, I have classroom experience). The students get to saying, "well, we can't solve this question until you give us numbers." They get several sets of numbers, and they begin to realize that the method for solving the problem is generalizable. They develop the formulas from the examples, and learn they could have answered the open ended question all along.

That's in stark contrast to the current model, where the formula is taught, and then specific examples of close ended questions are presented. The key to teaching mathematics is fostering exploration.

The very best illustration of this idea is the Ross Mathematics Program in Columbus, Ohio. It is a two month long ground up rigorous exploration of number theory and abstract algebra. And here's the best part, there is no background necessary. If you know arithmetic, you have enough to begin, because all you start with the axioms of the natural numbers. And yet, the students exit the program having proved that groups of order p are cyclic, the Quadratic Reciprocity Law, etc. Everything is learned through problem sets, which the students do at their own pace. Every theorem used is proved, and every new proposition is discovered.

Yes, it is a great deal of work, but nobody ever said teaching was easy work. Passion should be the #1 hiring criterion.
Much like Japan and earthquakes, the fact that there is a well-functioning post-industrial economy on the island should suggest to you that the environmental problems are perhaps less pressing than you might assume from two minutes of reading this week's newspaper headlines.
If ever there was a strawman. He says: "Planes emit CO2 - but they emit almost completely clean CO2 (note that bar global warming, CO2 isn’t considered harmful). Volcanoes blast tons and tons of all kinds of nasty and not so nasty stuff into the air. Some of the ash contains nutrients that will fertilize soil, other will, as mentioned, cause acid rain. It’s much more complex than CO2."

Well... no, the question raised is clearly about CO2 and nothing but CO2. How much do volcanic ash clouds affect the planet's albedo? How much precious fossil fuel do the planes collectively consume? Not relevant.
I rather ride an electric skateboard than this.
This is a Latitude defect (in my opinion). The fan gets clogged really easily and really quickly. If you open your laptop and clean the vent it will run correctly. Your CPU will go from 60C down to 35C instantly. I'm predicting a class action lawsuit at some point.

http://vidmar.net/weblog/archive/2008/06/29/my-dell-laptop-i...
Step 1 is figuring out why someone would want, or need, to solve that equation. He's by no means saying that students don't have to learn how to do algebraic manipulations. He's saying that without motivating the process and letting students understand the process that leads to the algorithm, they aren't really going to learn how to use math in a way that will be helpful to them.

I suspect that he'd also argue that an hour spent slowly and carefully exploring 1 problem like this is better than having them do 30 examples with no context and no motivation.
Accredited investors aren't asking for this change. The participation of private investors (of any net worth) in regular equities was a non-factor in current financial troubles, or indeed any financial troubles of recent decades.

Are you sure about that? Pre-IPO investment is a competition. There are hot startups and investors compete to invest in them. Beyond that everyone knows the early investors are the ones who make the most.

If I'm someone with a net worth of several million dollars and I'm viciously competitive I'd probably like these new rules because it forces people to come to me rather than to their Aunt Sally who has $100,000 stuffed away in a savings account somewhere.
Tout integrates with Highrise
Solve for x: sqrt(2x + 1) = sqrt(x) + 1

2x + 1 = x + 2sqrt(x) + 1
x = 2sqrt(x)
x^2 = 4x
x^2 - 4x = 0
x(x - 4) = 0
x = 0 or 4
"You're implying "commercialization" means "closed source". GPL'd as well as AGPL'd software can be sold. Others can download it, modify it, sell it as well, and make a lot of money off it. There's nothing wrong with that. As long as you make the source available under the same license it was made available for you."

Right. So legally, the person you sold it to can

1) re-package it and re-sell it
2) copy it and send it off to all of their friends (and you can't do anything to stop them)
3) Most people in the community detest commercialism.

I would never want to base a business off of a license like this. It's just asking for trouble.
I'm from Russia originally, and current political system doesn't look democratic to me - elections are forged, all TV is state owned/controlled, very few independent newspapers, government is corrupted, one political party is in charge with no alternatives etc. - but your mileage may vary of course.
I don't think the IIB post is partisan.

This author says, "they emit almost completely clean CO2 (note that bar global warming, CO2 isn’t considered harmful)" ... To my ears, that's a major understatement ("bar global warming"). I'm almost inclined to think it's more partisan than the original post, to be so dismissive of climate change.

But beyond that, the point that seems most incongruous is the suggestion that because volcanos emit a more explicitly toxic gas (S02) that we shouldn't have an awareness of our own emissions and their effect on the environment. By comparing it to a volcano's emissions, I am simply impressed by the scale.

I think you really have to read into this to derive a moral/political statement. Nobody is trying to hide the effects of S02.
Yes, but hot dog stands are not the kind of things that we're talking about in this context. High tech, high risk start ups typically do not walk in to their bank managers office to get a few tens of thousands up to 100K loan to start their business, they're lucky enough to get an appointment in the first place.

Banks like to borrow where there is collateral, a typical tech start up will invest in people and a little bit of hardware. Typically that hardware will be worth 0 if the company should fold. A hot dog stand can at least be sold to the next guy that wants to try his luck.

Angels not investing in hot dog stands prove my point, they don't detract from it.

Banks will gain if they get more business because of this, since angels do not invest in to that kind of business the banks already have it, and the kind of investment that angels do will not be touched by banks.

Do you personally know of a high tech business that got its first capital from a bank ? Do you know of a high tech business that got its first capital from an angle or more than one angel investor ?

For me the score is exactly 0 for the first and 20+ for the second. (where I know one or more of the founders personally)
I solved it numerically.
x=4 or x=0
Wh@z that? WebOS? oWwww
also here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41467
Yes it does: x=4,0
Sometimes I like to form my own conclusions.
"With GPL software, you get the right to modify and distribute under certain conditions. With proprietary software you do not have those rights at all."

With proprietary license, you are given a strict set of restrictions. The same goes for GPL/AGPL licensed software. There really is no difference. They are both licenses used to restrict usage not to give you freedom.

True freedom means tolerating things you don't agree with..such as commercialism.
Elton john
how much for tickets on may 1 at youngstown ohio?
Great lesson:

Probably the strongest character trait of Steve Jobs is his absolute lack of fear. While every other CEO in America, it seems, shakes in his boots at the very thought of not having a good next quarter, my experience in knowing Steve Jobs is that, frankly, he could care less about the next quarter. He’s much more focused on the next five years, rather than the next 90 days. But even more than that, it is his quest to change the world, and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish that end even if he risks failure in the process.
I'd recommend "The Mythical Man-Month" by Fred Brooks.
How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud
I've already been bitten from this change a half-dozen times. Every time I want to share with someone an url I have open in chromium now, I have to manually type "http://.

Hopefully they will eventually fix it so copying from the location bar will include the full url. (Complicated of course by the fact that a user may only copy part of the url, leaving off eg "?foo")
Indeed. The company I work for does our own git hosting, but we mirror all repositories to github for features like these.
Re Will power: I've stopped buying crap food (with some rare allowances). If I do not have it in the house, I cannot eat it. The willpower issue comes up once a week while shopping, and I'm not in the mood for junk food while shopping, so it's easier to not buy it than it would be to not eat it were it in the house.

Exercise, though, requires much more deliberate action, and more than once a week. Once I'm out running it's OK, and keeping going is not a problem. It's the initial choice of go running or sit on my ass and drink coffee in the morning. Dicking around seems to have a a magical sway over me. :(

Despite having almost completely slagged off on exercise over the last few months I'm still just below 180lbs (down from 210 last summer), and I'm sure this is because of my diet. I still need to exercise least my body turn to complete goo, but for weight loss I find it much easier to just not have bad food in the house.
Same here... (Wash DC area). Really wish there were though.

I might try to start one with a few of my friends, if that's possible.
The "http:// has been replaced by an icon. I suspect it's supposed to be a small planet earth icon, but the color choice makes it look like the moon, and the continent placement makes it look like a squinty smiley face when viewed from a few feet away.

Icons.. feh.
The example documentation @ http://touch.sproutcore.com/hedwig is quite fun (On Safari, desktop)...

Screengrab: http://imgur.com/V4z3R.png

What's with the RTL text?
Notifo (YC W10) adds Google Voice SMS notifications
Violin hack to play all four strings at once
And AppKit is almost 18 years old; it was started by NeXT and Sun in 1993 or so. UIKit removed a lot of cruft and fixed some pretty big design decisions in AppKit. It was a rewrite that was needed, not because an intern had too much time on his hands.