skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? When buyers push a deal, they design it so it's underpriced. When sellers push a deal, they want it overpriced. In other words, everyone is in this market to profit.

You're acting like the motives are criminal, here. But if two people take opposite sides of the same trade, they will both have the sinister motive of picking the other side's pocket. That's why there's a big, detailed disclosure agreement. You can read it right here: http://tinyurl.com/y7rnyh3 .

The lock/burglar analogy is flawed, because stealing destroys wealth. Inefficient asset allocations destroy wealth, and asset allocations can only be efficient when people with the same data and different interpretations are able to trade.
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The title is good, I was wondering if any of these practices have been successful for others. Alternately, what approaches would you suggest?
Read the complaint again. Goldman Sachs failed to disclose Paulson & Co's role, and then actively lied to investors about Paulson & Co's net position in the deal.

This is material information that was not available to investors in the CDO. Hence the complaint.

Edit Got the players wrong. Fixed.
http://www.rexresearch.com/kahne/kahne.htm

Strand Magazine (October 1925)
An Interview with Harry Kahne, Whose Brain can do Six Things at the Same Time

...
Figure 3: Writing with Both Hands, Both Feet, and Mouth Simultaneously ~ A demosntration of multiple concnetration of both mind and muscle which Mr Kahne frequently gives before doctors and psychologists. Note: the right hand is writing backwards and revesed, whilst the mouth is writing backwards but correctly).
This is a topic that has been studied quite extensively. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market for more.
Yes, they were forced to take bailout money: http://www.businessinsider.com/uncovered-tarp-docs-reveal-ho... and paid it back as soon as they could.
My gut has. But I'm hoping to gain insight about the "nerves" of cofounders and if this is normal or whathaveyou.
The $5 voucher offered for opting out makes that explanation less plausible.
this is pretty instructive:

CARY LEAHEY, SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR, DECISION ECONOMICS, NEW YORK:

"The SEC has come out swinging, going after the biggest, most recognized name on Wall Street with regard to alleged abuses in the credit derivatives market. This will be a difficult case to prove, particularly to the laymen on the jury, as even supposed experts on Wall Street with years of experience in this area are still scratching their heads trying to figure out who did what to whom and when."
The update in PR was from the corresponding jumps I saw on my search keywords in google webmasters as well as actual PR. I saw 0 in december/january, and then noticed a jump of search rankings in feb. In late march my page rank was actually observed as 3 and then in april around the 6th I saw that my PR was reported as 4. Which was accompanied by another jump in my keyword rankings.

Update - I put a note at the bottom of the article to better reflect how I got the numbers.
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It's funny that you compared Mormonism to an AIDS epidemic.

But why wouldn't you say SLC deserves its Mormonism?
"The scandal here is not that Goldman was short the subprime market at the same time as marketing the Abacus deal. The scandal is that Goldman sold the contents of Abacus as being handpicked by managers at ACA when in fact it was handpicked by Paulson; and that it told Abacus that Paulson had a long position in the deal when in fact he was entirely short."

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/04/16/goldmans-ab...
Well, maybe. But, coming across a webcam these days isn't that hard to be quite honest. Of course, you could make it optional, but would be an interesting experiment to see if the interviewee would social engineer to borrow a webcam if necessary; in a way, if your future employee isn't willing enough to make the effort to do this simple thing, would you still hire this person (granted, there will always be introverts in your employee pool, but presumably you will interact with this employee in person once hired)?
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Well-funded startup Thumbtack.com is hiring a Backend Engineer in SF
'Use the right tool for the job'
This is the basis for the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle. Nothing new here really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory
The spectrum of the AIDS infection count. This appears to be a willful reading comprehension problem.
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I've read the ProPublica article. This is even more of a stretch.

Deals exist when there is demand on both sides. There can only be demand for both sides of the deal when there's disagreement about how the deal will perform. Goldman is being sued because one of their customers was right, and one of their customers was wrong. If the mortgage bubble had not collapsed, would credit default swap sellers and CDO buyers be penalized for profiting from the shorts' demise?
You know, I'm as hopeful about free market space flight as anyone, but as of now, there categorically isn't a free market space industry.
1) Create hand-picked collections of assets a favored investor wants to bet large sums against.

2) Sell those packages as investments to other clients, with clear statements that they were chosen by independent parties.

Doesn't sound too difficult to prove to me.
No he should NOT get preferential treatment. A private company should not be acting as self appointed censor in the first place. Whether he won a Pulitzer or not, Apple should be in the technology platform business, not trying to insert themselves into the market for ideas, beliefs and information as a gatekeeper. Just because you sell printing presses doesn't mean you get to set the limits on free speech.
Sorry, you're wrong. Both parties had access to the mortgages in the pool. Paulson & Co. just had a more accurate analysis of what they were actually worth because they had done in depth macroeconomic research on the residential mortgage market.
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Self-confidence tricks
If the process you're piping to never reads stdin and your process writes to stdout with a blocking write, you will eventually be blocked. But just use an event loop for stdout, and all will be well. (That way your program is in control of its own buffering and blocking. select is probably good enough in this case.)

Anyway, if you want to see freakin' echo block because of this, try:

$ mkfifo foo
$ echo "OH HAI" > foo
<blocks>

In another xterm:

$ cat foo

<echo unblocks and exits>.
I think a direct link would be more appropriate: http://www.quirksmode.org/compatibility.html
Interesting, and from the mailing list, he has said he wants to targtet the CLI or JVM, too. Very cool.

But I am concerned, why is he leaving Microsoft? Was it only a temporary position? I would just think that doing something inside of MS would offer a much larger potential for impact (see, for instance, F#).
Yahoo to buy FourSquare for $100M?
What an odd sentiment - you seem triumphal ("please enjoy") that the population of (part of) Africa may decline.
The TeXBook by Knuth is also good if you want to really get to know TeX (and by extension LaTeX). The writing is engaging and well-paced:

ISBN: 0201134470
Goldman was in a similar role to UBS, Merrill, Citi, etc., and Magnetar was in a similar role to Paulson & Co. I think that's probably what you meant, but just wanted to clarify.
The potential problem comes when stdout and stderr are going to different places. For instance stdout is going to the next stage in a pipeline while stderr is going to the console. Then the error message winds up waiting for the buffering program.
Most people don't seem to realize that PageRank is per page, not a site wide value. So it makes sense that the front page of your blog has a different PR than your homepage.

See Matt Cutts for more about subdomain versus subdirectory: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/
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http://www.businessinsider.com/uncovered-tarp-docs-reveal-ho...
will it be about Dwarf Fortress?
how so? if I may ask.

Living in the US, I accept the claim that not many get together to say "No". Compare to Asian/European countries where the slightest rift creates huge protests.
To cite UK as an example, we always hear British Airways going on strikes(not saying it's a good/bad thing); When was the last time we heard such a thing in the US? I often bring this up in conversations and a common argument thrown at me is that US is an individualistic society - neighbors are strangers to each other. Not all are interested in the big picture to change things. The common man in the US, lured by the media is content in accepting stories on the face value. I have this friend who listens to the radio archives of 60s/70s and often cites "Weather Underground" as an example of changing face of US.

could you provide some cases where in the last 20 years you see "US as a great example of society which dares to stand up and say "No!""
But it provides info at short distances, which is where the monitors are.
Brandon, are you free for a phone call to talk about what you think I should improve in my interviews?

Since you don't reveal your identity in your HN bio, we could use a disposable skype name to maintain your anonymity.

http://mixergy.com/contact
Also, GS would have been in a world of hurt if AIG wasn't bailed out.
Lawyers who don't understand technology are trying to convince a judge who doesn't understand technology that technology works in impossible ways. News at 11.
I searched the BugTraq archives and found not one single entry for MovieOS vulnerabilities. Where's the disclosure??
I think there is a case that blocks exist to bridge the bap between the imperative and functional code. If you picked just one paradigm or the other you wouldn't need blocks, but when you try to pick-and-choose which you use where you find that you need blocks over lambdas.

Is there a significant benefit to writing this sort of in-between code, or do you think we should pick one or the other whenever possible?
Yeah, it's normal, telling someone that you've worked with closely that they aren't working out sucks; but you have to do it. If you don't it's a drain on you and your company when you can least afford it.
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If the government didn't bail out AIG, GS would've gone down. And Hank Paulson is the former CEO of GS. So yes, GS needed the bailout desperately and got it.

http://www.capital-chronicle.com/2008/09/nyt-report-on-goldm...
@btilly (won't let me reply directly to your comment) I realize what you're saying is true, but most of the arguments being made are about being made about whether the trade itself (under normal circumstances) were unethical, I'm trying to counter those.
I would prefer to use blog.mydomain.com and then do a 301 redirect to bring all Google juice into the main domain.
Go over to Digg with drivel like this. You obviously dislike his policies but even when I disliked President Bush I still was respectful. Hacker News is a place for intelligent discussion and part of that is civilized discourse.

Your second sentence shows the depths of your ignorance of American politics. "this lame duck president" just passed a bill that liberals have been trying to pass for 30 years. Not exactly "in office but not in power". If you want to see what that looks like, see 2006-2008 of the Bush administration and their inability to pass ANYTHING.
Why should Latin be part of the standard curriculum?
But what if someone used the printing press to write about the weaknesses of printing presses!? The whole system would collapse.

Oh wait, no.
"Goldman Sachs released its 2009 annual report today. In its shareholder letter, Goldman says it repaid TARP money, but did not mention the massive new taxpayer subsidies it continues to enjoy."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-tavakoli/goldman-sachs-s...
No, it doesn't solve all the deep-seated problems in our financial/political system. But it's still good news, because:

- Court cases tend to make public previously secret information. Witness the recent publicity of banks under-reporting their debt levels. That pretty much came out of the Lehman bankruptcy proceedings. Lehman's accounting tricks came out in court, and people started wondering if other banks were still doing it.

- It keeps the issue in the spotlight so that politicians feel pressure to do something about it. Perhaps this will help strengthen the Senate's reform bill.

- The SEC is finally doing its job again! It's a small step, yes, but it's a start. Go Schapiro!
Am I the only one bugged by the incorrect use of "year 2010 Anno Domini"? Anno Domini means Year of Our Lord, so the proper usage is 'AD 2010', as in "The Year of Our Lord 2010".
The Pleo is convincing enough to at least attract the attention of dolphins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i_HN_Twdds#t=1m46s
@startuprule (won't let me reply directly to you). That article talks about counterparty risk, has nothing to do with whether GS themselves needed a bailout. In fact it speaks to the fact that they probably didn't see this crisis coming, as the biggest trading partner of AIG they would have known their counterparty exposure and tried to reduce it ahead of time.
It's interesting how the article doesn't mention Google's purchase of his last location service, Dodgeball, which it eventually ran into the ground after letting it flounder for a couple of years.

I know it's just speculation but I'd hate to see this project get run into the ground just as his last one (and other Yahoo! acquisitions).
I think it would be interesting if the podcast is about the stories shared on Hacker News (ala Diggnation). (e.g. Discuss the most upvoted stories and comments)
In one of the articles I read while following links from here ( http://www.tarpityoga.com/how.html ) they say:

You also have to completely believe in the TMS diagnosis.
That means that you have to completely accept the fact
that your symptoms are emotionally induced. If you still
believe that there may be something physically or
structurally "wrong" with you, you're not yet "cured."
You're not paying attention to the underlying emotions,
which means that the symptoms can still work as a
distraction, and it's likely that they will return.

Sounds like a self-imposed placebo to me. If it works it's still good, of course; it'd be very useful for "standard" medicine to learn how to use the placebo efficiently and ethically.

It also sounds like a good excuse to explain the people who aren't helped by the therapy - if they don't get better they don't believe in it enough and have themselves to blame (or they have the wrong diagnosis).
He has a very unique style, it can be off-putting at times. But, it seems to work. Often, when I think he's going one question too far, the guest will come back with a really interesting reply, something you probably wouldn't get in another interview.

The Chris MacAskill interview is a good example:

http://mixergy.com/smugmug-chris-macaskill-interview/
It's largely a matter of supply and demand, with the recognition that "dollars" (and other forms of currency) are just another product.

Since about 1995, it's been easy to get dollars. Interest rates have been low, so present dollars have been easy to get for the promise of future dollars. With an oversupply of dollars, their value drops in relation to other products, particularly whatever the investment vehicle of chioce is (tech stocks, real estate, minerals, etc.)

Combine this with a herd mentality -- people wanting to invest in whatever's "hot" -- and dollars keep flowing into one particular sector long after it's no longer a fundamentally good investment. The bubble inflates, and then eventually bursts. For a short period of time, dollars are hard to come by (and those who have dollars can often pick up assets on the cheap) as everyone who just got burned hoards whatever they have left... until they go chasing the next hot investment.

The housing bubble was particularly nasty because, not only were interest rates low, but banks were loose with their lending standards because they weren't directly on the hook for the loans they gave out. This allowed people to get a lot more dollars than they should've been able to pick up -- big housing loans with no down payment and no proof of income. Unsurprisingly, this led to housing prices rising well beyond sustainable levels, and then to a lot of people not being able to pay off their loans. All because people had easy access to money.
301 redirects don't pass 100% link juice so why waste backlinks to a subdomain that you don't plan on actually using? Are you just saying have it available as a convenience thing in case someone tries to guess your blog URL?
As an American living in Europe, I can tell you your impression is sadly mistaken.

I've never seen so many people exercising their right to free speech as in Vienna and Berlin, for example.

And I used to live 15 minutes from the Capitol Building.
Do you dislike long form video in general, or Mixergy specifically?

I don't like watching long videos, so I usually read Andrew's transcription instead. I've found some really great advice in there, its worth another look.
It's still the only movie my 3-yr-old daughter will sit through. The first 30 minutes is some of the best storytelling ever put to film, IMHO. So much told with so little.

Other Pixar movies like Monsters, Inc. or Cars are either too scary or too talky. Wall-E is the perfect balance, and such a well told story that I never tire of it, either.
Nine-to-five day jobs suck, news at eleven.

Not everyone on earth is busy working on their awesome successfull fulfilling startup, you know.

I feel like this every friday, as I'm sure almost everyone else does, and I'm not in a position to change much about it any time soon.
Please read the complaint (relevant part starts on p.9). This has nothing to do with Paulson's superior research. This is Paulson telling ACA which RMBS to put into the portfolio, ACA signing off on it, and GS telling investors that ACA selected the portfolio, which it did not.

GS structured this whole deal from the beginning because Paulson wanted to short specific RMBS portfolios; ACA was just engaged in order to have a "brand-name" signing off on it.
An emphatic yes and the sooner the better. I was in the same situation and it cost us dearly because we let it drag on for way too long (a co-founder systematically not completing work and talking often of short term sell/profits).
I'm not sure this is true. If the packagers of the non-synthetic CDOs realized no benefit from Synthetic CDOs being made off of theirs why would they have incentive to cater to the Synthetic CDO creators.
That's a pretty cool spin to the story you did there, I hadn't seen that perspective yet. Enjoying downtime doesn't have to mean loathing uptime!
If so, the only relevant question is what they will name the third independent incarnation of this service after Yahoo runs FourSquare into the ground, as Google did with Dodgeball.

Destroying value with ill-conceived M&A is one area where Yahoo can beat Google!
Why should everyone be limited to the subset of designs/techs that are accessible? Choice is a good thing, we can have both unaccessible and accessible designs at the market, and let the people choose what they want and can use.
FYI this was featured on This American Life last week:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/405/i...
It isn't about survival. It is about procreation. If you survive to 100 years old and have no kids, you "failed to survive" in an evolutionary sense compared to a guy who died at 30 but has 3 kids.

So if the tall, muscular, lean, brave, intelligent guys can have more kids than the short, fat, hairy guys, those guys will have a greater influence on the future species than the survival in the face of catastrophy.
I've noticed that folks commonly neglect the fact that the 1st amendment is specifically talking about the prevention of the -government- from restricting free speech, not individuals, not private entities.

While I don't like Apple's current policies regarding the App store (3.3.1, seemingly arbitrary approvals, etc.) it is their store (printing press) and they can control it however they want within the law.
I re-read my answer to your question and wanted to clarify; the fact that funding wasn't secure was clear before I moved to Van. It was included as a contingency on the (simple and short) term sheets.
I'm an SEO newbie. Mind explaining how you get the Pagerank for a given site? I tried http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php, but it never seems to have any information about my sites.

My sites (all appspot apps) do appear to be indexed by google, and usually show up on the 1st or 2nd page of Google results (even after clearing my Google web history).

Thanks!

edit: to answer my own question: install the google toolbar.
Actually, that's all you need to do all kinds of interesting sub-orbital work. They've been flying to much higher altitudes, recently.

There are a lot of subtleties in liquid-fuel rocket engines.

Simply getting them to ignite reliably and to re-start were seen as a Big Deal, only a few years ago.
Do you really need him? If not, ditch the guy: it's already hard enough making good decisions with the two of you. It sounds like there's quite a lot of negative energy going on: I would focus that energy on building your product, not on dealing with partners who are only in it as a no-risk sideproject.
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see[Mike]code was written for exactly this problem. I haven't used it for remote interviews yet, but we tested it out at the office and it seems perfect for what your describing.

http://i.seemikecode.com/
very cool. I like it.
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I can walk into any McDonals in america, order a grilled chicken sandwich with no mayo, a bottle of water, and have a legitametly healthy meal any time I want.

You couldn't do that in in previous decades because they only had fried chicken.

So the tools are out there, people just choose to continue ordering the triple quarter pounder.
'it wasn’t “Apple” that rejected his app initially — it was some nameless individual App Store reviewer.'

Speechless!
raganwald, you answered "can we do away with blocks". What about "can we do away with lambdas"? Going by return semantics, Smalltalk has only blocks, not lambdas. I find that constraint bites me far less frequently than Javascript's opposite one.

Of course, there's also "can we do away with explicit returns". This is what Clamato does to be able to compile a Smalltalk-and-Ruby-like language efficiently into Javascript. You can always abuse exceptions to return early from however far up the stack when you really need to.
@dsplittgerber (won't let me directly reply) I'm not sure that who picked the bonds necessarily qualifies as "privileged information". The underlying assets were the same so if they were analyzed properly why would it matter who picked them?
http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/04/12/apples-ipad-brings...

http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/accessibility.html

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-accessibility-fe...

http://developer.apple.com/technologies/iphone/accessibility...

This is a very important issue, and touch screen devices present new challenges to making applications accessible, but it does not appear that the problem is being ignored.
I've also seen this attitude in discussions of new user interfaces for computers. Whenever some new GUI show up here (or yet another post shows up about that awful 10/GUI system), many people get defensive or dismissive about the idea that some thought should be spared for those without 20/20 full-color eyesight and normal dexterity.