skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN Angels: Did you register under the California Finance Lenders Law?
I've been watching with interest the trend to do seed financing as debt rather than equity, but a big gotcha on the investor side seems to be the requirement that anyone lending money in California satisfy the licensing requirements of the California Finance Lenders Law[1].

These requirements[2] are somewhat onerous: fees, fingerprints, background check, and a $25,000 bond at registration time, plus annual fees and reporting requirements. Much of the law seems designed to deter mortgage scammers and consumer loan sharks, but a convertible note that's not a "venture capital commercial bridge loan" (term less than one year, made from an LLC/Corp/Partnership that has at least 50% of its assets in venture investments) would almost certainly seem to qualify. The only other exemption seems to be to make no more than one loan in any 12-month period.

Are angel investors using convertible notes actually complying with these provisions? Are they going under the radar and hoping that noone will care? Is there another exemption to this law of which I'm not aware? (I'm not looking for legal advice, I'm just curious as to what investors are actually doing in practice - I'm interested mainly from the company side.) Compared to the relative ease at which one can become an "accredited investor" for equity financing (basically just signing a piece of paper saying you are), it seems like this would actually make equity a lot more attractive to individual investors than convertible notes, especially for those who only do a handful of smaller deals.

[1] http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/FIN/1/d9
[2] http://www.corp.ca.gov/forms/pdf/1422CFLLF.pdf
I have the habits of reading opposing viewpoints but only in once in a while that somebody cause a belief system update. However, I learn much more from views that I don't know that others people have. This cause more belief system update and change beliefs that I hold.

I also find over-the-top viewpoints are more likely to yield belief system update than the regular old bland viewpoints like liberals versus conservatives. I learn much more from statists versus anarchists or copyright abolitionists versus IP defenders who are actually worth their salt.
Bizarre that there are so few REOs. Lots of housing reporting involves the mention of homes owned by banks that aren't on the market, because the banks know if they put them on the market it will just depress prices further. So are the busted properties immediately being bought by investors/homebuyers and avoiding going to the bank?
About Free Persuasive Essays
When receiving anything for free students need to be vary. This is applicable for free essays as well. If students were to receive free persuasive essays, being aware of how to use the essays will enable them to make a wise choice which in turn provides them the knowledge of how to use it the next time.
> I don't buy the idea of hijacking a menu tag to alter browser chrome.

The <title> tag does it with no big issue. Though an external <link>ed file (à la RSS/ATOM) would be much better. Meta tags are not really structured and forces everybody to download a bunch of browser-specific crap they don't carte for.

> As an aside, I can tell you that if they'd implemented it as a menu tag, we wouldn't have put it on Ars for the purposes of that article.

Why not? If you don't already have a menu with these "essential tasks" it becomes a great one, and if you do have one and don't want to bother with reimplementing it as <menu> (yet anyway) display: none on the jumplist menu.
When do these actions become anti-competitive?
... Why was this modded down?

Is the reasoning wrong, or is there some troll going on that I don't know about? It seems quite realistic to me.
This seems like a very nice idea, but it feels rough around the edges even for a MVP...
Very short summary:

- with the iPad you can do interactive books which are basically the new "interactive CDROM" you had some years ago.
- with the Kindle you cannot easily flip through the pages and write notes on them, this is why it does not improve the traditional textbook.

Nothing new, you know that after 15 minutes using the devices. But I must say, to read novels, news and stuff like that, you cannot really be better than the Kindle at the moment.

Disclaimer: I am an avid user of my Kindle combined with Instapaper.
Super-agile development of Aproxymator with HyperTiny
I think Match.com itself needs a tech cofounder. Login and Join us takes lot of time. I gave up after some time.
Amex Blue has the Euro chip.
'Consequences' will never be the same.
(bring the down votes, or just enjoy)
Python internals: Symbol tables, part 1
There's also no check by other users against users posting unreasonable reviews. Amazon at least has a way to comment on another user's review. That and it allows you to traverse across to other reviews from the author. Often a great way to tell if someone's responsible in their reviewing or just just a whinging crank hell-bent on complaining about everything. Apple, however, doesn't give a rats ass about users in their whole app store equation. So you'll never really see a genuine community form around it. Apple simply won't allow it. Users need to wake up to that nonsense.
The thing I love about HN are the comments from domain-experts - e.g. tptacek on security, grellas posts on law or a direct response from a founder/creator. These kind of comments always seem to be very insightful. I don't value general discussions that much and I don't think HN is a very good medium for discussions.
Ah, yes, I forgot SIFT. last.fm does recognition through the algorithm I mentioned, which is why that came to mind, but I think SIFT would work better, thanks for the info!
Meh. Looks like more trouble that it's worth. With the new(ish) RFID chips, I can "swipe" a credit card without taking it out of my wallet. If I wanted a "secure PIN" feature, I could use my ATM card. Maybe I'll change my mind if my credit card were ever stolen, but until this, this seems like an sounds-good-but-is-actually-useless kind of feature.
I agree. I'm biased, but I think phone-based technology is clearly better.

(I run http://www.facecash.com)
John Gruber is playing both sides. It's veiled in his usual snark, but he has been hitting on Skyhook quite a bit:

http://daringfireball.net/2010/09/the_welcome_to_android

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/09/16/dont-be-evil

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/09/16/skyhook-google

And has also snarked about the "open for carriers" situation quite a bit:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/09/02/skype-android

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/02/att-android

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/07/17/preinstalled

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/08/06/skype-verizon
> the cards are as versatile as they are secure

I highly doubt that. History has proven to me that there's no such thing as secure when it comes to technology.
Do all the hard work while others come in later and benefit for free?

Personally, I wouldn't mind. The problem is most startups will never take down that fence.

Others will always laugh and say you'll never make it... until you do. But then they'll downplay your success as something obvious and trivial.
To really get the most you can out of the article, you might want to check out Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, by Nelson and Cox. It's a wonderful book! Glycolysis is covered in chapter 14.
I've left other communities for many of the same reasons. I think that people get attached to the discourse and mental challenge that they ignore the underlying issues. I don't think any site will ever be good enough and I don't think that sites really change that much. I think the change perceived is more the person coming around to the way things actually are and not the 'new toy' image they had.

One site that I like to look at from time to time is http://forum.objectivismonline.net/index.php?s=7f68f69e2b74a...

From what I can tell, most people that post there do so in a manner that represents intelligence and proper manners. Plus they all agree with each other too. There are some new people that join up because they have a question but from what I have seen, there is a finite community. This also leads to a tremendous stagnation on the forums. When everyone agrees, and everyone is polite, discussions resolve themselves very quickly and there is nothing left to talk about. Granted they are only concerned with one particular philosophy and it's impacts, I think it shows what can happen.
Morgan Stanley: Apple's iPad consuming 25% of PC notebook sales
Best Buy CEO: The Reports Of Microsoft’s Death Are Grossly Exaggerated
Security a Concern as HTML5 Gains Traction
Efene now JSON friendly - introducing structs
I suspect that one of the discussion to which he is referring is this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1549623
The problem is that karma does affect things. Just by existing it affects the way we think. It may be subtle, but we give more respect to posters with higher karma. It's a sign of acceptance from a desirable community. It's also correlated with the age of your account, and we all know that older accounts are respected more than newer accounts.

And we do check the karma of other users even though we have to click through to a profile. All the time. At least I do. It helps to frame a user's comments for instance.

Ultimately I think karma is a big deal. And it comes off as a little disingenuous when someone with a ton of it belittles its importance.
I thought TAX was one of the standard 6502 opcodes?
Though I'll never use IE as a daily browser, I do love the possibilities with this new SSB (Site Specific Browser) and jump list functionality. That said, I like your way of doing it better. It's much cleaner than the "spam the main file" method they're using now.
What would make them so?
I like the idea, but I’m putting my money on NFC integration into mobile phones.

Yes, manufacturers and services providers alike have been trying for years. Last time I checked there are huge issues with the security. This site seems to have good information on the topic: http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/touch-nfc/

Anyhow, I see much more potential when the ability to transfer money quickly is paired with an all-powerful computer in your pocket.

So we need someone to both figure out a secure process and provide apps/APIs to leverage that. Apple, anyone?
I thought you had the wrong guy for a moment, given how tame and deliberate these threads seem. Maybe he had other accounts with which he regularly tread into the lava?
Yes you are correct that strategy depends on context. My contention is that even when you think the context is appropriate for slow-playing, you are probably wrong.
Oh, I'm perfectly fine with advising people not to do it. I just think it's incorrect to say "does not help", unless you have a very specific definition where "help" means "solve", as opposed to "makes it somewhat more difficult for attackers, which may stop some but probably not all or even most". Sort of like saying that changing your ssh port "doesn't help"; botnets can of course portscan too, but changing your ssh port increases the work they have to do, and in practice means that opportunistic attacks skip you (targeted attacks may still portscan you, of course).

The multiples might be quite a bit larger than 100x, I think. For example, if as you suggest an attacker has managed to get themselves on your LAN with very low-noise access, say 1ms stddev, then adding random sleeps with a stddev of 500ms causes a 250,000x increase in the number of samples they need, at the cost of making your site a bit sluggish.
Becoming a Better Developer
The eInk ereaders are woefully inadequate, however, in 1-2 years I could see them being considerably cheaper and offering color as well. I doubt the iPad will drop in price. Until then I've been using Nook Study for 2 of my course.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookstudy/features/index.asp?c...

The ability to have 2 simultaneous books open and displaying on a laptop is nice. It also allows split screen views of the same book so that you can view non-contiguous pages. This comes in extremely handy when doing problem sets that have the answers in the back of the book. Wish my math book was offered this way. Would save a lot of page flipping between problems and examples. It's also much easier to compose annotations than with an iPad. In hindsight, this will probably always be a shortfall of the tablets/ereaders. You could put a wireless keyboard on them, but at that point you might as well just have a laptop.

One thing I don't like at this point is the limitation of only being able to open the book on 2 devices that have my account registered (sort of like registering your iPhone with iTunes on up to 5 devices). From what I understand this is a restriction imposed by the publishers, not the distributors.
Apple Introduce new LED Cinema with 27-inch display
In search of macbook cover
Accent the sleek look of your MacBook notebook with a Macbook Cover. The Macbook Cover offers great hard case protection, a hint of color and a massive
Couldn't think of a decent example off the top of my head.

Also, proper term is 'undocumented opcodes' for further searching.

Try

"AXS * (SAX)
AXS ANDs the contents of the A and X registers (without changing the
contents of either register) and stores the result in memory.
AXS does not affect any flags in the processor status register."

http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/docs/6502-NMOS.extra.opcodes
Sounds like you could have something, then! There are a lot of possibilities for how it could be used, and that combined with the output formats would equal quite a wide range of users.
I would ask this question in the profile page:

As a founder, you would take the time to fill out all those following questions?

[yes no]
> I get a lot more information about new techniques, languages, etc etc here at HN than anywhere else at the moment.

I find much more useful content on reddit these days. HN tends to be full of opinion pieces with very little technical content. These sometimes start interesting discussions but I don't feel that I actually learn anything useful either from the original article or the comments.
I thought that as well, and posted a similar comment on a different thread that provoked an interesting response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1677715
One of the exploited bugs is a default admin password in Siemens SCADA equipment. Siemens released a statement shortly after Stuxnet was discovered, urging admins not to change the default password because it might have unexpected consequences.

Of course this attack was targeted in the sense that it went after SCADA equipment, but there was far more than a single target. Like I said, this is malware and malware is multi-purpose and reusable, and in this case it was used many, many times. These guys are looking for a story about how a single target was THE target, but they're missing the big picture.
A Distributed Denial of Service attack can be made up of a bunch of people innocently viewing a page on an underpowered server though. The people clicking on a link don't have to know they are part of an attack, even if the link was made expressly to bring a site down. A link on 4chan or any large website can easily bring down a site, especially if it's to a resource heavy page.
That's one possible fix for timing attacks in general cited in this paper (section 6), though not their preferred one: http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/tech/brumley/brumley_html...
This article is specifically about building OTP releases that can be deployed in the "proper" way for live updates.

"Live-upgrades to IRCCloud.com with Erlang/OTP" would be a better title :)
I don't understand how your comment is opposed to mine. We're both saying that the GPL (and AGPL) is inconsistent. The only difference is you deem it an acceptable compromise, while I'm still a bit skeptical.

Specifically, I'm skeptical of the claim that if a client uses code, he or she deserves access to the source code. Sure, it's probably better to provide access to it, just like it's probably better to donate to charity, but I don't think either should be enforced by threat of violence (while it may sound silly initially, software license litigation boils down to a threat of violence).

To me, code in the public domain (or all code in a society with no legal protection for code) is perfect. That seems to me like purer freedom.

Lastly, when did I say "property" about software? I'm against legal protection for intellectual property when it comes to software. I agree that software is pure knowledge, every piece of software (that compiles/runs) is an algorithm (in fact, a number), and that writing a piece of software or coming up with an algorithm should give you no inherent ownership of it.
There's no way to filter by location. It's showing me all these folks from North Carolina and I'm probably not interested if someone's on the other side of the country.
sigh This again? Okay, Apple does the same thing with meta tags and links. I don't see the issue here. MS is using the standards. I mean, this guy is basically asking for MS to break with convention and do something people might not have intended. Rather, this way is explicit.
If semantic debates are really starting to be a problem here, http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/.

Seriously, that's what I wrote it for.
Very nice article, thanks for posting it. It helps that it comes from first hand experience.

It gives a good picture of some of the challenges I may be facing in the future. I guess I should get cracking on some planning for these issues.

Checked out fotoblur: many of the black and whites are plain dead gorgeous - I am partial to black and whites :).

Its a great site, giving exposure to talented artists from around the world. I hope you will keep taking it higher and higher.
A standard double-size bed is 4 ft 6 in by 6 ft 3 in (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed#Bed_sizes). A standard cotton sheet is 150 thread count, which means 75 threads per inch of warp and 75 threads per inch of weft (usually) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_count#Thread_count). That gives about 4050 threads by about 5625 threads, omitting the part of the sheet that tucks down around the edge of the mattress, for a total of about 23 million thread crossings.

The Intel Core i7 has about 781 million transistors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_cpus#Core_i7), which is about the number of warp/weft crossings in 34 standard bedsheets, omitting the stuff around the edge of the mattress. I thought maybe ARM chips would be smaller, but http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/arm-introduces-cortex-a8... says the Cortex-A8 has over a billion transistors. (Although there are certainly low-end microcontroller ARMs that are much smaller. And of course the C18 is smaller still; is it "modern"?)

If you're talking about bigger beds and finer sheets, you might get the number down to less than 10 bedsheets per CPU.

But that doesn't mean you could make a diagram of a modern CPU that was only the size of ten to forty bedsheets, with the transistors the size of warp/weft crossings in a bedsheet. If I remember correctly, only a minority of the chip area typically consists of transistors and other active devices.
The conversation on reddit wasn't that interesting because the post itself isn't that interesting, or insightful, or worth anyones time.
"Forgive the length of this letter; I did not have the time to make it shorter." -- Blaise Pascal, at the end of a 10-page letter to a friend
Banks seem to be backing away from the RFID cards. My new card came without one. I called and asked them why and they said they were less secure. Personally, I love the new cards. Unfortunately, NYC cabs and CVS are the only place where you can find the readers.
I think the other thing that they will say (if they have any guts) is that this is a beta, and that the point of a beta is to get technical feedback and respond to it. Therefore, it is entirely unnecessary to take such a strongly negative tone in making this relatively minor and mostly incorrect criticism.
The problem you're describing applies to marriage (or other long-term relationships) as well.

It seems to me that the best way around this problem isn't to create a site which aims at getting people "married", but at getting them to go out on a few "dates" together. In other words, doing some short-term projects together before committing for the long haul.
How many photographers, and which famous scientists in particular?

edit: I'm not just being a dick, I'm just not aware of significant numbers of casualties from nuclear tests, and certainly not among famous scientists. Here's what seems to be a complete list of known casualties from nuclear testing:

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/tests/index.html

The death rate from US nuclear tests appears to be one dude who died due to fallout at Bikini Atoll (eighteen years after the actual test) and one dude who fell into a collapsing pit at a test site in Nevada.
Thanks for the suggestion, posting an article with a small kid in arm is not the best for good editing.
But following the tutorial of the OP demonstrates with some certainty intent to cause damage.
Imagine bitstream rips of audio from exclusive Guitar Hero DLC.

Would they be much better than the audio recording I'd get by plugging my recorder into the headphone output port of my TV?
You only have to double-click once. Then you can TAB to the other fields. That's roughly equivalent to having a clear button.
What carrier is going to carry an Android phone without the proprietary "Google Experience" apps?

You don't get the app store or any of the better apps that people expect now (maps, youtube, contact/mail sync) without the Experience bundle. And Google controls that.
> basically the new "interactive CDROM" you had some years ago.

And I still kind of think that was a solution in search of a problem. Are there any evidence that stuff like that helps learning?
Zod approves: http://www.dropmocks.com/mpUa

Seriously, what a great project. If this is just a weekend project and a start for HTML5, I can't wait to see (and build) what's next.
IBM Looks to Africa for Next Era of Growth; Margins
Here's the original article/abstract:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/329/5998/1492
I'm not really sure what you mean by "their industry," but the fact that carriers feel that their industry is anything other than delivering data is an annoyance that we all have to suffer (at least in the US). So let's hope Google can prevent full-blown carrier-specific forks of Android and keep trying to reduce them to the commodity providers they should be.
Honestly, I'd like to see Google use this lever against carriers and manufacturers a bit more to ban any or all of the following:

* Locked bootloaders

* Disabled or substituted major features (e.g. wifi tethering)

* Apps that can't be uninstalled

* Skins that can't be disabled

* Proprietary drivers

* SIM locking

I'm aware that Google does not yet have the clout to pull off most of the above yet, but maybe someday.
Visa/MasterCard, which create those regulations, are basically owned by their member banks. It's banks that issue credit cards. So if banks want to issue a new kind of credit card with technology like this, they'll rewrite their own regulations to allow it.
64 as in 64 bit I guess? ;-)
Is there any evidence cited here beyond opinion? Or, strangely, does Steve Jobs' alma mater prefer a more expensive and colorful device?

I think this is a difference horses for different courses. If you study English or Political Science (like I did), you'll probably find a Kindle easier to deal with. If you study biology, chemistry, or topics like that, the animations and rendering of diagrams on an iPad will be superior.