skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main points are

1) Carried interest is still a fee. It should not be tax advantaged. It should be taxed like any other fee. This is actually a minor point, the author spends 1 paragraph out of 7 on this.

2) Financial services attracts more capable minds than it should because it can pay better. Taxing it at a higher rate would "level the playing field" encourage "more productive activities".
2a) Raising the tax will not reduce investment because its not taxing the sources of capital more, just the managers of capital more.
2b) Raising the tax will encourage managers to invest more of their own money rather than others' money. This will encourage better performance since they have more skin in the game

3) We need to balance the budget. This is a good source of revenue

I totally agree with point 1 with no qualifications. I don't disagree with point 3 but I'd like to hear a good reason why this is one of the better sources of revenue amongst all others.

I generally agree with point 2a, but don't really agree with point 2b. I agree that having more skin in the game makes you more digiligent and cautious, but the author fails to show that managers don't already have all/most/as much of their money invested in their own fund as they can or the mechanism that causes their risk tolerance to change such that they change their asset allocation.

I have serious issues with point 2. Firstly, carried interest only applies to funds/investments that qualify for long term capital gains treatment. I generally disdain those areas because I think its more fluff than science/business sense, but some areas like VC may require science/technology oriented people who can see the possiblities in the business better than someone who's just an MBA. But if you didn't have smart people deploying capital to these risky technologies because they had a better understanding, then these technologies would never get funded.

More fundamentally however, the author fails to qualify what makes one endeavour more productive than another. Is google productive? They harvest information and profit off of it. Does it make people more productive? Maybe, but I have yet to see a study on the ratio of productive to non-productive searches. In the end, google makes money because they're helping connect buyers and sellers. Is marketing a productive activity?

If someone creates scientific breakthroughs in pharma/chemistry is it still productive if the end use is to make cosmetics or cosmetic treatments for people? Or what if its any technology that creates more free time for people by automating some part of their life. Is it still a productive development if all the people do with their free time is entertain themselves?

Full disclosure : I'm an ex-engineer who last worked at a quantitative hedge fund. I think I'm doing more intersting things and potentially creating "more societal benefit" by arbitraging "mispricings" in the market than I would working in most companies/labs. This is partially because most companies/labs are not doing anything that societally productive, so there's a low bar to cross.
Building a Linux cluster with MPI & Oscar
You can't get by on HN with little quips that don't really add to the conversation.
Disassemble them and hang the platters from fishing line to keep the bird from shitting on your boat.
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That's what I've found too. I'm also using something similar to pie menus for my main project.
I'm not at all a web developer (I know the basics of HTML, but have never really touched Javascript), but tablesorter was dead easy for me to use. The one problem I encountered was that, by default, it doesn't know how to sort a column of checkboxes. I was able find the proper tablesorter extension that someone else had written though.
I can't speak for the Linux version, but the rest of what you're saying is a bit like not wanting to use Windows 7 because you didn't like Windows 98. Opera has come a long way...
Bonus: Watch American TV on Hulu and Listen to music on Last.fm / Pandora even if you don't live in the US

From a user point of view, I think that's pretty cool. However, are you sure it's legal? I'd think it's greyish at best (but IANAL), and you might get a lot of unwanted attention from the big media companies for advertising this so openly. Are you sure you have the pockets to stand up to them in court even if you are sure that it's legal?
It has been done before.

In the 1950s, both the US and USSR did some fairly extensive research into nuclear-powered aircraft, culminating in flight tests by a US NB-36H carrying an operational 3 MW air-cooled nuclear reactor and a Soviet Tu-119 with a reactor powering two of its engines. The US had progressed quite far in developing nuclear-powered engines, culminating in Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment-3 (HTRE-3), but the project was cancelled in 1961 before it could go much further, with the Soviet project being cancelled soon afterwards. [1]

The program didn't solve all the problems that nuclear-powered aircraft could case, such as escaped radiation after crashes, but it did prove that crew shielding could be done safely at a low-enough weight that the concept remained feasible.

Scientific American featured an article [2] a couple of years ago about some people's recent calls to resurrect the idea for commercial use. But the inherent safety risks remain a big issue.

It's probably an inevitable development at some point, once the core problems have been solved. And with a new generation of high-temperature reactors emerging, such as South Africa's Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, we may see reactors that are ideally suited to this sort of thing coming through.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_aircraft

[2]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nuclear-pow...
Dude, there's cities with trains running above, below and on the ground. Not much of what we do will make sense in 20 centuries down the line.

The bigger question is, did anyone do something like this in the past and seriously fuck with the archaeological time line?
Wait, so you're just gonna keep this free service going? Or is this product going to turn out to be "hey our API is still free but only for N requests a month"?
You know that there is E-Texteditor for Windows and supposedly Linux? It is completely compatible with Textmate Bundles… It also adds a few really nice things that Textmate can not do (revision history graph, incremential search…)
Would love to see the text displayed inversely - whether in traditional terminal style (green text on black background) or something similar to arc90's readability style.
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Is it fair then to say that "Art is what I like" would be a good definition?
HTML5 Canvas & GWT for games. What do you think?
Building a company on top of an existing platform - yes, no, maybe?
Gus Mueller from Flying Meat is looking for a Mac developer who's willing to work in downtown Everett.

If I lived in Everett, I'd jump at the opportunity to skip the I-5/405 commutes. Of course, since I live in Capitol Hill I won't consider applying for his open position.
Cleve Moller on Parallel Matlab
IE8 is over a year old. You wouldn't drink year-old milk would you?
Can we keep this sensationalist tripe out? (That's rhetorical.)

Having read Alexis' letter I'd hardly call it "slamming," and undeserving of this melodramatic bullshit.
On your features page you say "Know that while connected to StyxVPN your privacy is foremost in our minds. We don't keep records of what you do or where you go or what you do and prevent your ISP and anyone else who is curious from doing the same."

How do you plan on withstanding network provider (and their upstream) pressure in response to DMCA notices related to file sharing activity?

As you are operating network equipment (a VPN concentrator) in the US, how are you complying with CALEA and still preserving the privacy of your users?

You operate on a monthly recurring billing model.
What prevents a LEA from subpoenaing billing records to determine who is using your service and then comparing traffic patterns with CALEA captures from your network provider and your customer's network providers?
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Awesome pictures of cities at night.
i had to take an intro calc class recently, my professor put this problem on the final exam.
I've done very large rewrites from scratch successfully and I've done very large rewrites incrementally successfully. I think it can happen just fine.

Of course, doing that as a one-man team with a closed-source commercial product that you have promised to give away for free doesn't seem like the kind of thing that can get done.
Three Necessities for Start-up Success (Marc Andreessen)
Yes but from there it's a short hop to duchamps toilet and warhols "art is what you can get away with". You still have to do the work of discovering why you do or don't like a piece.
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Top kill fails to plug leak
Others have pointed out that WebObjects is an actual Apple framework for making web applications. If I'm not mistaken, Dell used to use it for their online ordering site in the late 1990s. Apple used it also for the first iTunes Store iterations (not sure what they use today). I only have a superficial understanding of WebObjects but it looked a lot like a Rails/Django style framework with Objective-C Script or Java, and about 10 years too soon.
I'm curious - how many at this point (if any) have been funded which were submitted late?
That should be doable with just CSS. I put on a "settings" page on my TODO list to do just that.
They won't stop because it gets them clicks. People won't stop submitting because it gets them karma. It will never end.
I'd rather be ridiculed for what I've done than what I've promised to do, but refused to share.

That said, I'm no longer an interested party. I stopped using TM over a year ago after at least a year of using it and seeing where it was going.
"
Bonus: Watch American TV on Hulu and Listen to music on Last.fm / Pandora even if you don't live in the US"

I almost left the site, then it clicked features. Meh. Then I saw those lines and thought WOW, s/he's got something going here.

Take away: Stop listing features and start listing benefits. Otherwise lot of users will miss out on a great app, and you may miss out on your opportunity.
Some info on the pentile matrix:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile
How do you infer he sees no connection between the two?
"One of the founders of Reddit, a Digg-clone"

Harsh. Digg might have done it first by a short margin but while digg fights just to remain relevant reddit and its community are doing massive actual good for the world - Haiti, Kiva, etc.
I was in a startup where that first rule was violated. One of the other founders wasn't listening to me. It drove me insane pretty quickly so I left.
I mean, what Alexis said was pretty silly for sure. And this does make some reasonable points r.e. that.

But why the vitriol? Smacks of trolling to me...
I think PG has some valuable things to say about that: http://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html
I think some of these download sites will pay you to get their traffic back. Several lose users due to content sites blocking users. Either that or they can push your app to their users and you do not have to share revenue since users need your app. Great potential, IMHO.
An unwelcome reminder of the nature of URL shortening services
http://redcareditor.com is an open source, cross platform clone of Textmate currently in development. It supports Textmate themes and bundles, and for the split pane guys in here: yes, it does that too.

Last time I checked (a few months ago) it was pretty slow and unstable, but I guess the project is worth watching if you're not on OS X.
I liked your comment better when it called TechCrunch a tabloid clone.
I think the True Prisoner's Dilemma played itself out in the Portugese and Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica. Some natives were said to ask, "Do they eat gold?" They couldn't comprehend why someone would want a shiny decorative material so badly, they'd kill for it. The Spanish were Shiny Decorative Material maximizers.
The reddit founder letter was basically OK and interesting, but the Techcrunch critique sort-of irritated me.

Too bad: I really enjoyed the Techcrunch web site last week because my customer CompassLabs was presenting at Techcrunch and it was a lot of fun following along remotely. I don't understand the negativity of the linked article though.

The more positive energy and kindness you give, generally the more good stuff comes back your way. Such a simple principle and it is strange that some people just don't get it.
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please just make sure you have not a food intolerance of some kind if you haven't already - for example (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease).
I have a 1024x768 screen, and the monitor logo on the right side of the page is extending up and partially blocking 'Sign Up', 'Affiliates', and 'Contact Us'.

Have you tested the website thoroughly on smaller screens?
Yeah I was going to roll with that then a readwriteweb clone since they beat techcrunch by years, thought it was a bit petty though.
We are almost done fixing the SSL problem. Bear in mind that it does not affect the security of your VPN connection.
Thank you for pointing it out!
I think the author is right that the main pleasure of Tolkien is to revel in the vast world he created, both strange and yet archetypally familar. Where I disagree is that this is necessarily a bad thing.

I think we lack the vocabulary to describe this art form of building convincing universes. We can only conceive of it as a subordinate to narrative, with words like 'mise-en-scene'. But that doesn't quite cover what Star Wars or Tolkien or Dungeons and Dragons or Grand Theft Auto really are. World-building is arguably the dominant art form of the late 20th century and early 21st.
git-grep mode works pretty nicely too.
What is wrong with TextMate? Why the big deal about a version 2?

TextMate is an extensible platform like Emacs, and so it is constantly evolving thanks to people's generosity in writing and giving away plugins.

I do a lot of Lisp work in Emacs but often keep TextMate open in parallel. Neat tool, and worth the money. If the author never brings out version 2, that is his call.
There is a need here that is huge and unmet.

There are also sociological and psychological issues that come into play. It's not simply a matter of who makes the best argument.
The minimap plugin is cool looking, but it totally chokes on large files and I never really used it anyway. It also kind of bugs me that it's in a drawer instead of a pane (which is why I use Missing Drawer for the project pane http://code.google.com/p/textmate-missingdrawer/ )
Well at least you decided to take the high road.
After navigating to any other page the navigation buttons no longer work. I viewed it on an iPad. Also there are quite a few spelling mistakes on the 'Features' page.
Sorry that I could only up-vote your comment by one point. You have it exactly right: TextMate is light weight, starts instantly (but don't open directory trees with huge data files) and is handy to have. It nicely complements work flow with Emacs and IntelliJ.
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Design is nice. SSL certificate is fine for me (chrome). On the signup page the 'Sign up now' button is off center (http://www.pastethat.com/CemUT). Although you hint at it with Hulu and Pandora, you may want to add that the servers are located in the USA. In the future you could think about adding a server in the UK, BBC iPlayer has very good content.
I once started to think about a big and distributed database that would contain all the shortened urls. It would collect them using browser plugins, but there would be confidentialty problems and all so I didn't go further.
I'm certainly not the only one who had thought about this.
Wait, I'm seeing a connection here. I can just hear it...

"Some say... that he invented a tiny shower suited for pigeons. All we know, is he's called The Stig!"
My grandmother read The Hobbit to me when I was 8. I read it to my stepdaughter when she was 8. Awesome book that we all enjoyed. Why the question?
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A correction: the article refers to Kevin Kelly as the "founder" of Wired, when actually it's Louis Rossetto. (I wonder what else they got wrong?)
Thank you for the feedback!

We are planning to expand in Europe (UK, Sweden, Switzerland and possibly Germany) and Asia (HK).

I have added our servers' location to the main page too.

Thanks again!
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Actually Reddit didn't copy Digg. It copied del.icio.us/popular. This will be clear if you
look at screenshots of the two sites in summer 2005. Reddit was
del.icio.us/popular with votes instead of
bookmarks, in the same way that Digg was Slashdot with votes
instead of human editors.

The differences between Reddit's and Digg's origins are visible
even today. When a story gets enough votes on Digg it becomes the
new top story, as on Slashdot. Whereas on Reddit stories bubble
up from the bottom then sink back down again. This is a significant
difference because it makes Reddit harder to game.

Originally the Reddits thought they'd have to motivate people
to upvote stories by using the votes to train a filter. But it
turned out users were willing to vote out of a form of altruism,
so the idea of training a filter died out after a couple months.

As for the names, what they originally wanted to call Reddit was
Snoo, as in "what's new?" But the name was owned by a squatter
who wouldn't sell, so as a temporary expedient Alexis chose Reddit,
which Steve and I both hated initially. (They had to settle for
calling the Reddit alien Snoo.)

The Reddits learned of the existence of Digg a week or two after
launching. They were pretty bummed. We still use their story as
one of the canonical examples to encourage new YC funded startups
to launch quickly.

If Michael wasn't sure whether Reddit copied Digg, he could have
just asked me. But saturdays are slow days for traffic, especially
on Memorial Day weekend. Arguably he genuinely thinks he's giving
Alexis a gift of pageviews, which to an online publication must
seem valuable almost regardless of context.
Absolutely. I'm still waiting for a good, affordable IPS and LED backlit desktop LCD to replace my aging Dell 20", and my hope is that Apple will help push this technology back into the mainstream consciousness as a "thing to have", and that companies will start mass producing them to have a competitive edge.
Skype app finally delivers on 3G voice calling
Are you talking about Hulu / Pandora / Last.fm etc?
Looks nice! You should steal my favorite iCombinator feature, though: the Instapaper links. Also, the Article text links all return errors, but I'll take it on faith they produce or will produce in the future some easy to read version of article text.
Why Creators Shouldn't Fear File Sharing
Sorry to hear it. We had some of that at first as well, which is why we all sat down and basically came up with that one. Luckily, it turns out we work pretty well together, so over time we got good at listening and arguing without marginalizing. At first though, it was really hard.
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If it is any consolation it doesn't look very nice on the iPhone in landscape either.
I haven't tried it, but now I'm curious too...
this issue and the 'var' keyword are two of the reasons I feel Python is mostly a superior language. (Not necessarily completely, just overall.)
I love TextMate and use it daily. But there are many features I am still missing. I am sad there were no updates for such a long time.

I really wish there would be some competition to heat things up. I am not talking about emacs or vi, but another great visual editor for OS X. Maybe Open Source... or maybe a startup could do this. There should be quite some money to be earned.

Or is there something comparable to TextMate that I don't know about?
Yes, I used ViewLikeUS ( http://viewlike.us/?url=www.styxvpn.com&button.x=0&b... )..didn't see any problems. Strange, what browser are you using?
I love my Nexus One's screen (AMOLED.) Android 2.2 corrected a lot of color calibration problems present when it was released, so the red/warm caste is mostly gone. The colors seem 'cartoonish' at first, since the contrast ratio is so ridiculously high compared to a normal screen.

You'll use it for a few days, then look at your iPhone (well, if you're a dork like me, you'll have both) and the iPhone will look washed out and crappy. The dark areas on an AMOLED are especially dark -- it looks like the screen when it's off. In other words, the screen on a Nexus One (and HTC HD2, etc.) looks pretty much the same with a full black screen as it does when it's powered off. Very cool.

Here's the downside: it's garbage in daylight. Even if you aren't in direct sun, as soon as you're outside, that vibrant screen turns into an indecipherable grey rectangle. Far worse than a TN or IPS display.

Apparently there are upcoming 'Super AMOLED'-type panels that should work better in daylight, but it's not what you'll get on a device right now, so oh well.

I spend most of my time in the dark, so the daylight thing doesn't bug me too much. The viewing angle is also very good on an AMOLED screen, better even than IPS.

It makes sense that Apple would choose IPS over AMOLED. IPS works in a broader range of conditions. Imagine the howls of anguish if people couldn't use it in daylight. There are lots of Android phones to choose from, so you could always get one without an AMOLED display. But there's only one iPhone.

The condescending tone in this article ("made this way to save money" repeated over and over) is retarded. They come off sounding like fanboys. At 250+ dots per inch, you can't see the difference between an irregular grid or a regular grid. Seriously.
The fact that we started allowing late applications proves we believe we might. I don't know of any specific examples though.
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Ask HN: Does having "and" in a domain name not recommended?
any penalty on the branding, SEO or word-of-mouth effect?
Love the domain name. Like the site's visual style.
Maybe they will get money from developers of the APIs opting into their service. As in, give us $X a month, and we will handle all your embedding needs and get your content out there to a ton of different services.

Like, think if Embedly was used for some music recommendation application that pulled together results from Last.fm, Pandora, Grooveshark, and Mog. If I was a developer of an up and coming music playing/recommendation site, I would definitely pay some dough to get included in that group for the web application. It's a win-win, the developer of the mashup gets access to a greater variety of content, I, as the developer of the new music service site, get my website's name out there, and Embedly gets money in the process.
Hmm.. Sounds like an form auto-filler might be filling the field that I use to detect bots. I'll have a look into it...
Along the same topic I use a tilling window manager and will often have my screen squashed with terminals to the side. This http://imgur.com/SJVZW.png is what I see.