skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be cool if bills appeared in an inbox on your online bank account so you could review and pay it in one click

A lot of banks have some sort of bill pay feature. I have a feature that is exactly like this in my Schwab account including being able to view the bills to see what's on them and pay in one click.
Such as? I am honestly curious. (You will have to agree to exclude the entitlements of their children born in the US, who're are legal American citizens.)
iPod in 2001: physical click wheel, 500 dollars, 5gb and Mac only

iPod in 2010: touch screen, 199, 16gb, and makes calls/high speed Internet

It will get there.
For Mozilla development I use a git mirror of the tree. I do all my development on branches in that and only use mercurial to push patches to mozilla-central.
Beijing takes math seriously
I disagree, there aren't just a couple of nagging issues there are a myriad of issues of which this list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_ph...) just covers the most publicised ones. You ask any specialist in any field if they feel they are running out of problems to tackle and they will just laugh at you. Any discovery we make tomorrow is just going to create more questions than answers.

Though I do agree with your implication that we can't guess what the technologies the study of our universe will bring about, which is the greatest reason for funding basic research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research).
I wonder if Harvard could contact whoever was the first person on the waitlist not to get in that year and inform that person that he/she has grounds to sue the guy for millions of dollars. It seems like a suit that the person could win, and it would be really interesting what a jury determined was the "value" of having a Harvard degree compared to having a degree from some other school.
> Sometime happiness suffers when we are provided everything that we need, and we end up asking ourselves, "Isn't there more?"

Which is why sometimes instead of doing great science or cool projects I wonder if perhaps a more old-fashioned life would be a good choice. Modern medical assistance maybe, but if you have to work to survive every day, I find that does wonders for your happiness.
I'm cautiously optimistic. Bigger, though, is just a side effect of playing a game well, not a goal I really go after for it's own sake. Pick a name out of your Rolodex, any name: I wouldn't trade my life for his for all the tea in China.
Think of all the integrity undermining that doesn't get caught.
great work. nice open source project.
Fierce Invalids is one of my favorite books of all time. I laughed 'til I cried at several points.
If people don't mind friends and people they actually know reading such updates, why would they care about strangers?
The New World of the Anthropocene
Interesting, that's almost a carbon copy of another project that someone showed here a few days ago. That one had more queries than just 'rectal exam' though.
Because friends and family aren't your boss you're bitching about on Facebook.

Please, this argument is getting old.

And if "people" didn't mind, this probably wouldn't be getting so much attention.
Check out http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/reviews/best_canon_eos_...

I have the tokina 12-24 which is a wonderful lens. Any others with similar ratings would be a joy to own. For cheap next step lenses, perhaps a 28-105 for it's size or the 28-135 is for it's sharpness. I think they are f3.5 or so.

I like my f1.8 50 but it's cheap plastic. I would probably look at the older f1.8 or a used f1.4 50 from KEH.com.

Shoot a wide variety of photo experiments. Publish them somewhere to give structure. Ignore the rules and test the edge conditions. Overexpose. Underexpose. Use a flash in daylight. Handhold in darkness. Set timers. Shoot star trails. Shoot from the hip. Find a few favorite photographers and try to duplicate what they have done.
give em some time, guys.
Is that because you won't invest outside the Bay area?
She's a megalomaniac and he's a baby. I'll bet they both had extremely dominant mothers.
Not sure if you know about Perforce's shelving feature, but it might be useful for you. Here's how it looks:

1. Hack on files 'foo' and 'bar', but instead of saying `p4 change`, say `p4 shelve`. Write down the changelist number for later; this changelist is stored on the server now.
2. `p4 revert foo bar`. You don't lose any changes; they're all on the server.
3. Hack on files 'bar' and 'baz'. Submit or shelve those changes.
4. `p4 unshelve -c (changelist number from step 1)`. (You'll probably need to resolve here.) Your original changes are back!

Git certainly breaks down if you're working on one massive branch, but it's designed for lots of branching. Go ahead; we're encouraging you to branch for every new feature, every bug fix, everything. Here's the above workflow in git:

1. `git checkout -b first-change`. Hack on files 'foo' and 'bar' and commit.
2. `git checkout old-branch`, where 'old-branch' is the branch that you were on before step 1, probably 'master'. Now `git checkout -b second-change` and edit files 'bar' and 'baz'. Commit again.
3. Checkout the old branch (master, likely) again. `git merge first-change`. `git merge second-change`. Resolve if required. Test. Push changes to the remote server.

Best of all, you don't need to branch before making your changes. You could actually move the `git checkout -b first-change` to after the edits on that branch, and it would still do what you want.
Yes.

My network drops off very rapidly outside the Bay/NYC. So 1) I don't see as much stuff that way. 2) I'm less useful/valuable outside that area. 3) The companies will have a much tougher time outside that area.
>Funny thing is I would actually prefer downloading from official (maybe more legal) sources if I would find way to do that in my country

You're not the only one.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/download-culture/internet-...

Title is "Most pirates say they'd pay for legal downloads"
Good point. I certainly shouldn't blame anything on a year-old article, it's just what came to mind re-reading it. Thanks for the kind words, although I can't imagine anyone can imagine what this might be like - at least I sure couldn't. :-/
Perhaps his essays expose flaws in his underlying rationality. He says gay sex is not what the human body is designed for, but isn't evolution defined as being able to do something not according to the original design? Therefore he's saying anything not normal is bad? So I think a valid logical reason for excluding him may be the suspicion that he is prey to his emotions. Do they really want someone who can't be truly objective?
What does this sort of article have to do with entrepreneurship? Not sure it belongs on Hacker News, regardless of any merits of the article.
I can't disagree more. Multi-tasking is inevitable it just so happens that this is one place where Android devices beat the iPhone to the punch. In time both platforms will mature and the task switching will get smoother.

I own a N1 and as for listening to music while I do something else I don't even think about it any more it just seems weird to not be able to do that.

As a device the N1 is very polished and for the most part the apps worth downloading are pretty smooth but every now and again I do have to resort to the task killer.

A good task killer is a must have for development or when testing beta apps.
Ha...investors definitely are the first customers for many capital or research intensive start-ups. Well put.
To whatever extent this article had any advice, it was not to ignore the tantrums, but to ignore the attacks. The author responded to "I don't love you any more" with "what can we do to make this better for you?"

If you took a similar approach, refused to engage in the personal attacks, repeatedly tried to find common ground and ways to fix the problems, and your wife still left... well, you did everything you realistically could. Your focus now should be on maintaining your relationship with your daughter, IMO.
I am an average hacker. The iPad is the BEST research and whitepaper tool I've ever owned. Thank you, Papers. An amazing product.
If $200k is too small to be a worthwhile raise, what do you think of people getting money from Ycombinator?
I love to use my iPad with my computer. When doing work it's a calculator, notepad, every scientific PDF I own, another browser window, email. It goes under paper and notebooks, gets tossed around. In a very real way it's a computer window I've pulled out into meatspace. I kind of want another, though the price is too much for two.

My computer is almost exclusively emacs or maybe Illustrator/Photoshop.

In this sort of setup, the iPad shines for me.
Ads you show on your website are a part of your brand
In general how far along is the startup by the time you invest?
Actually, the article suggests that the firms pulled out of the market, and that their actions amplified the crash.

Without high frequency traders, the market became far less liquid. This was considered a bad thing by almost all involved. It's almost as if high frequency traders are actually providing a valuable service for the rest of the world!

Also, HFT is not very vulnerable to "black swan" events. HFT doesn't usually use leverage, there are very few counterparties, no leverage, and almost no contagion.
What if HFT systems exploit the fact that they have access to the information a few ms before the rest of the market?
Rendering an HTML element to an image isn't inherently slow; Safari does the same to hardware accelerate CSS animations via Core Animation and it's quite fast there. Of course, it's entirely possible IE's implementation is terrible.

I'm curious about the other issues you had as well.
I'm a big fan of the ideals of 37 Signals, such as embrace constraints, bootstrapping, etc. But, I feel that my day job is getting in the way i.e. time. Should I take the plunge and seek angel or continue on my bootstrapping adventures?
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Was the recent stock market plummet your fault? Did you sabotage the investment banking industry on your way out?

Do you do back channel reference checks on founders?
You can't evolve out of the meaning of life.
Click "Guidelines" at the bottom of your browser screen. First two paragraphs.
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What is the essential aspect that distinguishes a message from a call? According to Wikipedia, it's that the arguments are deep-copied, but that is not what happens in Smalltalk, AFAIK. It's also contradicted in another section where it says the arguments are "usually" copied. I would have thought the important part was late binding, which is indeed a requirement but apparently not divisive.

Edit: If this is any indication then I'm prepared to declare "message passing" a heisenterm, with no formal definition across all contexts:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43777/method-vs-message-v...
Gtalk does have a "sign out of talk" button.
The official reason appears to be that his writings are a "distraction" for the effort. But... so what? Dealing with annoying questions seems like a smaller problem than cleaning up a massive oil spill.
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Nice UI element on the search by male / female.
Maybe it's a personality type thing, or a quirk or just me wanting to be fed my beliefs but I feel exactly the same way as Rands. When he says he doesn't have time to figure out the best shaving cream or shaving method, I understand that what he means is "he doesn't have time to find the best shaving cream AND do other things that are really important to him", or at least I interpret that's what he means.

We've come to an age where it's not just mathematicians and scientists who stand on the shoulders of giants. We all have the ability to do that in vast arenas of our lives while still contributing to our own chosen arenas. It's fabulous if you ask me.

It's not about the fact that I can't make a decision, it's that I have the opportunity to make the very best decision based on the experiences and work of others on subjects as mundane as desks and shaving. If I spent as much time figuring out shaving as the guy who wrote the shaving article did, that would be hours of time I didn't spend on doing something I appreciate. It's not better salesmanship, it's better living. I know that there are people out there who just don't want to have someone else tell them what the best thing is and that's fine. But for me, I want to have the best desk or the best keyboard or the best shave but I'd prefer not to have to spend the time of my own figuring out what that is when there are people out there who know and who I can find out from. A good shave is really more than a average shave. A good desk really is better than a average desk. Having people who can tell me which is which is both fulfilling and efficient.

We live in a time when information is easily discovered and contributes to a better life. Why keep figuring out the same things? If the journey intrigues you, great. But if you have other journeys to travel, why not short cut those that don't intrigue you?
For a typical advisory board member, usually .1 to .2% of company for a year's service, typically fully vested on grant (e.g., on a 10M share model, 10K or 20K shares/yr).

This can vary widely, of course, for special cases, but something along these lines is probably the norm in the Valley. As you note, not much.
Key grafs:

Capital gains have long been taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income because investors risk their own money when they make their bets.

Under their current partnership structure, however, general partners — like executives at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts or TPG — receive 20 percent of any profits and they have been treating that as a capital gain even though their own money is not at risk. A lot of people, including me, have been arguing for years that their cut of the winnings is really income, not capital gains.

(Of course, profits that executives make by investing their own money in the deals should be considered capital gains.)
Let's say you invest 25k in a company. What's your expectation on when you will receive money, and how much are you expecting to receive?
What terrifies you about b2b (besides not understanding it)?
Not enough info. I switched to fulltime when my day job felt less important. Your attention and time are the scarce resource.
This seems like a lot of fuss over a negligible amount of money going to the government. Who knows how many man-hours of highly-skilled labor are going to be wasted trying to get around these new tax laws? And what does the government get out of this? "$25 billion over the next decade." That's ~0.07% of the US Federal budget per year. That doesn't even come close to the amount that the Office of Budget and Management acknowledges as being "improper payments" (i.e. fraud, waste, or abuse) of $98 billion.
Call me crazy, but I dislike piracy. Back when I was at my first startup, we found that people pirated our own software, and it stunk.

So I don't want to pirate other intellectual property.
I really want to see a working prototype first. Rarely do i invest without that.
When will you do something outside of tech? ie- food type of establishment (I see you mention this desire here a lot).
I don't really think that way. Instead: will this be an enterprise worth being involved with? For example, are they going to change the world and make people's lives slightly better? Or do they, I dunno, write boring iPhone apps?
1.5 to 2 months to give you the God honest realistic timeframe.
You can't prove anything. I have an alibi.
I think he'd been emasculated for quite some time. As others have mentioned, she views and treats him as a child having a tantrum.
So you're doing it to improve the world and not for the money?
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When I have a big enough purse that I can invest in things that will almost certainly lose money (unlike startups, where it's just probable.)
Why We're All Shy Sometimes
Sales. Seems very hard. Not that that route is bad but I understand b2c better,
> despite the fact my apartment has won AWARDS

Okay, seriously, how do you win awards for an apartment? That's got to be an impressively flexible come-back for an awful lot of relationship-related comments.
Thank you for this perspective. I was recently thinking about how hard we strive to become the best at what we do, and how hard it is to actually know if/when you have gotten there (let alone how long you will be there if you get there) and thus it is a horrible thing to hang our sense of significance and worth on. I don't know the specifics of how you define your sense of contentment, but it seems pretty clear that you do.
PS: Still I can't help but wonder what would have happened if he had showed up to that "disciplinary action".

He would have been kicked out, but would probably not be facing charges. Universities really don't like to make things like this public.
This is why you hire a venture lawyer and not your uncle's friend's brother.

Hi grellas, I am a fan.
IMO, the response was right on the money (no pun intended).

My first thought when I read maxklein's comment was that he is perhaps saying it half in jest. But in case he was serious, I don't think one can just deride a person/organization based on stereotypes. (Hey you programmer of some web application, what do you know about banking, where's your suit and your MBA, you'll do a shoddy job for sure ... etc)

Let's see what they come up with and critique/praise them on what they actually do, rather than carrying prejudices.
>Without high frequency traders, the market became far less liquid.

I totally agree.

>This was considered a bad thing by almost all involved.

What I'm trying to propose is that the regulators involved in overseeing markets are becoming more and more out of touch with the techniques being used to improve their efficiency. What's important for long term economic health does not align with what is important for short term market efficiency. And as a result of this, the long term economic policy cannot keep up with the increasing degree to which short term regulation can affect markets.

Yet long term economic health has an impact on other metrics of "utility" beyond itself, and we're in trouble if the power of the people in charge of making the rules can't address the needs of the people who depend on them.

In other words, our regulators actions are predicated on the assumption that we knew how to improve the efficiency of the equity market. Lately, the influence they have on the markets has been increasing, but the amount of oversight they have been subjected to is decreasing. The skills that are relevant to getting politician into office are diverging from the skills and attention that are required to selecting these regulator in the first place. The politicians wind up screwing the people who both elected and depend on them.

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Let's consider the current, using arbitrage to improve the market's liquidity case, as an example. The most effective arbitrage techniques are made possible in part by simultaneously exploiting developments in computer science theory with those financial theory, and combining our improved ability to process this newly discovered information with our improved ability to implement our improved knowledge. In other words, in this case our increasingly sophisticated understanding of finance and computer science is what allowed us to more efficiently implement and test our hypotheses in the first place.

Previously we used CDO's to improve our ability to assess risk. We did this because we assumed that assessing risk was important to the efficiency of the markets. However, CDOs were made possible by developments in financial theory and implementation, as well as statistics, and the politicians in charge of influencing our dependance on ability to improve this sophistication were out of touch with the long term effects that their decisions have.
Ask HN: Languages in the "spirit of Ruby"?
Hi,

The recent thread here about the _why article made me wonder: Are there other programming languages (and/or language communities) that have a similar approach to hacking as Ruby / the Ruby community?

By this I mean that it encourages experimenting, exploration, "having fun", offering possibly many ways to do something, shaping the language, maybe programming as art, etc. And less of an emphasis on, e.g., doing things "the right way", programming language theory, strict enforcement of rules, etc.

For example, Python's power and flexibility is roughly equivalent to Ruby's, but the design philosophy (and the community's) is very different.

Some languages that I can think of that come closer to "the Ruby spirit", at least in some ways, are Perl, Logo and Io. Anybody know of other languages out there that fit the bill as well or better than these?
With that in mind, how do you feel about all of the people who rushed to send money to the NYU kids with the 'Facebook killer' in mind?
Er... nothing makes any difference. We die, and then everything we have done gets washed away by Alzheimer's, worms, and the rain. However, if we care about things—other people, for instance, but shaving cream's as good a thing to care about as any—then we can spend our lives happier for the choices we have made. Rands wants people to give him reasons to care about more things, so he can make more choices and therefore define himself more clearly. He's not asking for someone to pick the best shaving cream, and then just say "here, use this one, it has 10^23 utilons subjective to your experiential context"—he's asking for reasons to care about liking particular shaving creams at all. It turns out the best way to solicit those reasons—the dimensional parameters that define the space of shaving cream quality, so to speak—is to get someone to sell you a few particular creams, and explain why their "earning five stars on the Bugnatti face-feel scale" or "resisting incursive facial bacteria" facts are important. Those lessons learned, you can then pick your own shaving cream, "like a normal person"—but you'll know why, not just how, to choose.

The best analogy I can think of is to music. Have you ever met someone who just didn't care about music, at all? Didn't you feel like something was missing from their lives? Do you think you could get them to care about music by showing them a bunch of music-theoretical math and physics? Or would you just say "this is my favorite band; they do X and Y really well", and expect them to explore outward from there, now listening for other bands' Xs and Ys, and eventually forming their own opinions of what makes a good band?

Now, for "music", replace with every single possible other interesting thing in this world.
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Do you ever invest outside of SV? Outside of the US?
Honestly, what's getting old is a small, vocal, paranoid, patronizing minority blowing things way out of perspective while hundreds of millions of people go about their lives in the same world that not long ago had both water-coolers and telephone directories.
What attributes of twilio/weatherbill made you overcome this fear?
> Where you see "refusing to engage with him emotionally", I see her simply declining to respond to his drama with counter-drama of her own.

Here's another view: he never wanted to leave her, he simply wanted some excitement and passion back in his life. Maybe he wanted to simply see that his wife really still had deep, romantic feelings for him. If it takes a loud, screaming argument to bring that about, then so be it. She came across to me as hyper-controlling and robotic.

Her descriptions of there life seem like it's all really dull, but satisfactory to her. I didn't see anything about him expressing what he wants and her responding to that.