skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly unclear on two counts. The site says,
"We will never penalize you for paying your loan off early. By all means, be our guest!"
https://www.zestcash.com/how-it-works/zestcash-loan-fees

The origination fee is 30%, $150. It seems a little high, but if you end up extending the term, it lowers the impact of the interest rate.

What you seem to be missing in your analysis is that payday loans are typically a 14 day term, whereas these can be stretched out to 6 months, which gives people a more reasonable chance of paying it back without having to roll it over and incur new fees. In a typical payday loan scenario, you'd be paying the origination fees every two weeks...
Would you settle for http://www.howtovisitthiswebsite.com ?
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I totally agree. This could then lead itself to an improved likestream which could then take on Digg seriously.
If you cause the fluctuations, yes. It's called "market manipulation" and it has been illegal for a very long time.
I'm using app engine for all my new app idea and here's why.

1. It's great for a one man show. Building an app takes a lot of time. I don't need to speed my time being a sysadmin. I want to spend it coding. I've used EC2 and a lot of my time was just spent tweaking and getting an instance working and making sure you don't lose your data.

2. The api's are great. I have instant access to memcache, mail, image and task queue apis, zero configuration.

3. I can build and test an app idea for free. If it gets traction it's already to be scaled.

4. I like Python. I used to be a php guy but after working with python my tastes have changed.

5. It's fast (most of the time). I do every once in awhile experience latency but no deal breakers.

Possible cons.
1. Technology lock in. Lets face it though, you're locked in with whatever stack you choose. If you get successful who cares, then you can hire so one to re-code your app if you desire.

2. Python and Java only, yep I can see this being a con. I had to learn Python to use app engine, which I don't think is a bad thing.

3. Terms and conditions. You are bound to their T's and C's

I'm sure there are more cons but in my situation I want to build an app quickly and it out the door. If it takes off I'm ready to scale and make some money:)
"A good copywriter will usually charge $10-$15K plus a percentage of sales" -> ok, to be clear, all the copywriters I've worked with in the past (who call themselves professional copywriters) are paid salaries or as contractors. Never do they charge this much, and NEVER a percentage of sales.

I think you're talking about a very specific kind of work, could you define what that is?
Really fair set of comments. At times Facebook can feel like one big bolt on and twitter have done well to avoid that. I just wondered why when a feature as big as Facebook Like could work on Twitter why (if it hasn't already been) it has not been considered.
My last few experiences with technical support staff have been pretty positive. In some instances, I've had to install broadband for extended family members who have misplaced the connection details. Other times it's getting support for an unsupported modem.

It's amazing how much better your experience is if you realize how much it sucks to do phone support. Speak clearly, be polite and friendly (smiling when speaking on a phone helps a lot!) and be patient when repeating yourself. You'll get more from the operator if they get more from you.
There are many, but nothing could match equity in terms of start-up employee motivation and responsibility.
I'd be glad to visit that one as well.
Quote: "It’s a bubble based on too much early stage money throwing itself at too few good ideas."

How bad is it going to have to get before investors discover the other 48 states in the U.S.?
> Loser-Pay makes it easier for companies to screw people over.

And this is not the case now?
Credit unions are one answer.
I don't think your first quote from the article does address the danger that the poor will be prevented from suing

Are you saying that this is worse than the existing system or worse than a theoretical system in which poor people can somehow initiate a suit with no money?
This is the 3rd meetup since June. The goal is to start holding events monthly, mostly happy hours like we've been doing, but with a bigger event thrown in once per quarter. (Find a cofounder, demo day, and technology swap meet are some ideas out there now.)
The stock market is ruthless and zero sum, but there are rules in place.

If you make a "clearly erroneous trade" (e.g., 500 shares of GOOG at price $100 instead of 100 shares at $500) you can have the trade broken. You can say "oops, undo", as long as you do it within 30 minutes.

Market manipulation, specifically deliberately placing orders/trades/news to confuse other participants, is also illegal. It's illegal if you do it by pump up a stock on yahoo message boards, and it's illegal if you do it in a boiler room, and it's illegal if you do it to a bot.

Maybe the rules should be changed, but this is what they are at the moment (at least for US equities [1]). Everyone, besides a few bad actors (Trillium, these norweigans) is playing by these rules.

[1] I know Japan, for example, does not have the "clearly erroneous trade" rule.
Many re-tweets look like unreadable garbage to me, since people are often using URL shorteners in tweets that otherwise contain little else in the way of content. I tend to ignore long streams of such links, but maybe that's just me. Then again, I still don't think that I "get" Twitter.
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http://www.symbyoz.com Clickable.
"intelligent AI systems" don't do HFT
The favorite button in twitter isn't really private. All of your favorites are publicly viewable, by anyone.

http://twitter.com/insert_twitter_name/favorites
For what it's worth, my eyes went directly to the web comic, and I was on panel 2 when the image refreshed. It got to the third strip before it occurred to me that a mouseover might pause the rotation.
Even HN has "like"!

Well, it's an up-arrow, but it still servers the same point: to allow you to support a comment without requiring a low-signal comment to do so.

OTOH, twitter isn't exactly high-signal in the first place.
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"Like" seems pretty limited on Twitter.

News spreads on Twitter, and most of it you can't really "like" without looking like some kind of sociopath.

Tweets are also short enough to immediately show their relevance. In theory, anything that's retweeted should show its value at a glance, whether it's funny, interesting or tragic.
The hosted market is not failing, it's just that these socalled technical inept people have an entitlement problem.

The options in our society are very easy, either one does it him/her self or one pays another person a fair fee.
Yes, I am well aware of such thing. Bitcoin is decentralized so there is no one company to shut down that will definitely destroy bitcoin. So it may be resilient to such an attack. However, I don't know if it is possible to survive.
Clickable

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aue8w7GPjATXdF9jSW1...
"The two men worked out how the computerised system would react to certain trading patterns – allowing them to influence the price of low-volume stocks."

The key phrase here is "influence the price". Taking the quote at face value, they deliberately tried to manipulate the market.

Also, there seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to HFT in the comments to this story posted anywhere. If you just run an algo, it doesn't automatically mean you manipulate the market.
I'm not saying that they can't do it just because Facebook already has, I'm more saying that they don't have to just because Facebook does. Otherwise, every move they make would be to become more like Facebook. And that isn't the desirable outcome. They are unique pieces of software to provide unique needs. Twitter wants to forge its own identity and create its own features, not point at every Facebook feature and say "Okay, how can we do that?".
For hosts that support git, I simply clone/pull updates from a central repos.

For hosts that don't (i.e. we used to have one project running on a Windows server with nothing but Remote Desktop access and no permission to install any VCS), I use this:

alias gdate=date\ +%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S
gitzip () { zip -ruv "$(gdate).zip" $(git diff $@ --name-only); }

Invoking `gitzip $commit` produces a zip file containing all the changed files since said commit. Unzip archive to wwwroot, check for files that need to be deleted, done.
The time/value calculation doesn't apply like illustrated if you can work on the bus or train. Or even if you can't do a full amount of work, you can discount the hourly rate by how useful the time is to you (reading emails, reading a book, etc).
I was annoyed at my cousin (14) who kept texting the entire time I was visiting - non-stop. knowing him to be a smart kid otherwise, I asked wasn't this going back in technology when you could call and convey the message in a few seconds? He seemed to agree but couldn't kick the habit.

That made me thinking, that when it comes to communication, we as men (or atleast the more introverted among us - language-usage-wise) always prefer lower and lower levels of intimacy while communicating with friends - texting is preferable to email is preferable to calling is preferable to meeting.. I wonder if a semaphore simulation on a cellphone would ever catch up!
Why stop at Twitter?

Why can't Hacker News have a like button for 'Ask HN' posts?

I don't really want to upvote this post, nor write a text-based reply communicating my feelings. Instead, I want to push a 'Like' button.

Conversely, why is there no 'Dislike' or 'Hate' button on Facebook?
Why personal telepresence will fail: it ain't the price
The site is painfully slow. When I clicked on "See A Sample Page" it took around 20 s to load with over 200 requests.
It loads 61 external javascripts and 16 stylesheets (combine and minify). When I tested the page in YSlow it got 54 / 100 performance score.
> (When I write XMonad extensions, I do find the process a little tedious. I have to type my extension, then see if ghci can compile it, then I have to press a key to recompile and reload xmonad, then I can try out my changes. Every. Time. In Emacs, I just press C-M-x and try my change immediately.)

No you don't. You must've gotten use to old versions while this is true. Make your change and then restart right away -- if it won't compile you'll get an error popup but xmonad will continue chugging along merrily by running the last good version of your xmonad.hs.
You seem to have at least four slogans:

1) Share ideas and advices

2) Organize and share ideas with your friends

3) The best place to organize and share your ideas.

4) It's who you know

You should choose one, and show it only once. I would go with the first, but change advices to advice.
I personally don't see Android becoming the king anytime soon. Once Apple releases iPhone for Verizon, they will double their market instantly. I guess the data that would better provide the estimate will be how many android users are on At&T today.
I feel like, now that the magic trick has been explained, my world is slightly less full of wonder and excitement.

Thanks, I think.
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Everything has dynamic scoping.

How the heck do you figure that? The majority of languages after emacs lisp specifically avoid dynamic scoping.
I think "exchange" should be defined more specifically.

"Exchange" for another domain only? Exchange for a reasonable fee? I'd consider $20 or under a reasonable fee. Some registrars might have a transfer fee of some sort - I'm generally willing to cover that cost as well.

"Compensation" is already being called for here - "exchange" - it's just not defined what that is.
I know Japan, for example, does not have the "clearly erroneous trade" rule.

However there are fat-finger protection barriers.
TSE, for example, will limit prices based on previous day's close.

http://www.tse.or.jp/english/rules/regulations/rulesconcerni...
Um... can I install the latest Firefox on it and surf Youtube?
French govt to bankroll music-buying by youth
Ask HN: Are you exposing users real names with FB Connect?
Some of my users want their FB names to be visible only to their FB friends, and to everyone else, they want to appear as an alias. This requires me to do a complicated/expensive friend maintenance, as I have both FB users and non-FB users. Is anyone else dealing with this and if so, how?
"scientific adviser to the Defence Minister said that the OS was needed to protect India's economic framework."

That's very typical of India. If you want to do it, do it - no need to hold press conferences for things like this.
Honestly, it all sounds like a crock. If these predators weren't allowed to treat these people like sharecroppers on their manor, then banks would step in at a lower rate. There is money to be made, even with the risk. It is only because financial predation is not illegal that it happens. The scam is not limited to payday loans, though - look at Rent-a-Center type places also, for a close runner up in sleaze.
Planning on it ... as it's still in development I didn't bother doing that just yet. Thanks for the feedback, yes, it's painfully slow at loading :(. It gets a bit better after.
Sorry I misunderstood your point - you are right they don't have to. We don't want two sites doing the same thing. I think Twitter is doing a good job forging it's own identity, it is Facebook that seems to be borrowing ideas from everywhere else - Foursquare etc. I do think however that 'like' could be useful for Twitter and they could implement it in a different way. I take your point though.
Great idea. I've put one on the list.

Also, it's amazing to watch how multiple users are editing the document at once.
It was only explored in a gross sense. As a measure of this, it's estimated that we only know of between 2/5ths and 1/15th of all species (http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/58.html). The oceans, which comprise 95-99% of the living space on the planet by volume (Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything), are almost completely unknown. There are still places to go to get away from things.
Wow! This reminds me of this story...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1770950
I know what peer review is. And to your point about the demand we make of researchers and the stakes involved, have a read of the Cochrane Collaboration website. Most of their conclusions are "no real evidence, need more studies". It's sobering how much is out there that doesn't stand to really demanding analysis.
why would you take the product of glove and Ice cream, and not sum? just asking.
Someone please implement a cool idea for boringtosser.co.uk that jefffoster is exchanging. There is way too much awesomeness in that name for it to sit idle.
151+ Unregistered .co Domains startuppers/HNers may be interested in: http://www.getr.co
Maybe a second sheet could be added that lists a domain a HNer found to be available but did not want to buy for himself(like the list I created). So any HNer who needs a domain can can get a quick list of awesome names.

Startup Idea: A Hipmunk/SeatGeek for buying and selling of webdomains!!!
http://www.getr.co/startup-ideas/ahipmunkforbuyingandselling...
Where would this go on the list of various things this famously ridiculous newspaper has reported either cause or cure cancer (or mysteriously do both)?

http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/
here're the court proceedings in norwegian: http://multimedia.dn.no/archive/00198/Dom_robotsaken_198967a...

description of what they did from another forum:

- TMB is showing 5k bid @ 9.7 / 5k ask @ 10
- Norwegian viking takes out the ask

- TMB increases the bid to 9.8 and the ask to 10.1
- Viking is a violent heathen so he continues to hit the ask, though with less size

- Iterate this for a couple of steps

- Suddenly the viking feels full and decides to drop his inventory at TMB's bid, and then he repeats the same procedure but by shorting in several steps instead

Looks like incredibly dumb system to me. Albeit that was 2007 when the HFT arms race has just begun.
Great return, thanks. If you are or know a good designer you can recommend, I'm a taker.
Salary is the most obvious constraint for optimization during job hunting. So, it is probably also statistically likely to be the most frequently overweighted.

Constraints that I think are under-weighted by many engineers: Do I believe in what the company is doing? Do I mind working for a military contractor? If you join an institution that you question the validity of, you won't be achieving your peak performance and slowing your long term growth.
This comment makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks for sharing.
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I use Buzz, which does have a like button. Twitter has the people, but it seems so primitive when you look at Buzz instead. Yes, I know its simplicity is part of its charm, but you shouldn't need URL shorteners to share a link and 3rd party clients just to be able to use the website easily (Just try following a conversation on the main site).

I highly recommend Buzz as an alternative, if you can convince your friends to switch over too.
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>Those with experience tend to always overvalue it and rarely see their own limitations.

Then they are doing it wrong. The single most valuable thing I've learned from experience is where I'm most likely to fail.
These spreadsheets are always vandalized, abandoned and then forgotten. Usually they go through that entire cycle within a single day.

If you are serious about it then find a better platform, or whip one up in django/rails.
should ask Ali G: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc
>"The only way to protect it is to have a home-grown system, the complete architecture ... source code is with you and then nobody knows what's that."

That is a choice quote. It's amazing that India is the go-to place for outsourcing when they have such backwards ideas about security and software development. Historically, the most secure operating systems on the market have been "open", not closed.
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Seems like the headline is way overstated. From the description in the article, we don't really know whether or not the babies can tell the difference between robots and humans, only that most of them find robots interesting enough to interact with.
Sorry for my ignorance here, but is the connection between EC2 nodes isolated (per account), or is it shared amongst multiple accounts?
I'm on an iPhone and I even can't stop it. After two times I was not able to finish a strip I got pissed and left the page.
> Third, you're locked into Google's cost structure.
I think this http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu/ solves that point ;)
Why not make this idea itself into a crowd-sourced startup idea generator website? It is somewhat ridiculous that so many folks think an idea itself has value apart from circumstance, context and execution. Perhaps by getting everyone to share as many ideas as possible, then everyone can see that there are so many good and similar ideas that they have little individual value.

Just a simple UI. One leader board page where crowds vote up/down ideas just like these. At any given time you can scan the whole list of all the wild and crazy ideas people have come up with. Ideas that have been implemented or which are similar to existings site get pointed out. This could also serve IP prior art discovery purposes. And whatever ideas have the most votes could be products worth making.
It's not zero sum game.
Looks like I've offended some twittards, lol
Nice - Would be cool to create a similar spreadsheet for the opposite - domains wanted - or domain names suitable and available for different types of apps/sites
Indeed - I see that ycombinator.com is up for trade on that spreadsheet.

You might want to send a confirmation to the legitimate contact email address obtained through whois before accepting exchange propositions.

P.S. domainnameexchange.com seems to be available
The problem with boilerplate contracts - who ever reads them?
we are working on that http://www.thinkshot.com , its's exactly what you are describing with some added features, we should be ready in the next 8 weeks
Wait, you want the OS to do memory allocation of individual variables and garbage collection?

And if you are writing X86 code you don't have a choice about register access - and why is that a problem anyway?

Do you want an OS that is actually a virtual machine? I don't. I want an OS that lets me use my CPU.

> If you write your OS in C, you will most likely make C-like APIs,

That's a fundamental misunderstanding. The API are written for the _hardware_. Did you forget there was an actual computer in there? It's nice and all to go high level, but at the end of the day you have a CPU and memory and you need to use it.
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It didn't take long for people to start offering for sale domains, heh, I guess that's just as bad as vandalism.

I wonder if this could work as a dedicated website, I wonder what the overhead associated with functioning as an escrow for trading domains would be, I can imagine it could face some legal troubles when it goes wrong for someone. Hmmm...
Surely they'll need their own CPU, Motherboard Chips, RAM, Ethernet Cards, Graphics Cards, HDD as well.

Why should software be the only attack vector?
> The fact that innovation has marched on and that small-time inventors have invented new and relevant products is evidence for my claim.

The logic of that is not right.

The presence of both patents and innovations does not prove that innovation depends on patents. It only proves the sort-of negative: if both patents and innovation exists, then patents do not imply the absence of innovation -- i.e. patents do not completely destroy innovation.

Various other things help innovation happen. And I expect more detailed evidence shows them to be the important factors -- that is the gist of Boldrin and Levine's work, so that is probably a good source to pursue on the matter.
This seems like a recipe for a failed project - a government agency building an OS. Either that or it will be another linux fork branded as "Government of India."
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I want to know how I can get screencasting gigs and how much people pay for them.
Proper link: http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/6/4/...
I liked it, it points out the problems with some technology and how some developers clearly do not get it. What is needed are ways to make essential things easier, not a costly method of more easily doing something that increasingly is becoming unnecessary
That quotation doesn't say exactly what you seem to be suggesting. After all, it specifically includes the hope "that his soul may be saved on the day of judgment."
Meh, spreadsheet is a mess already :(

If anyone wants to trade something for http://snappyhistory.com drop me a line
I'm interested in yours...email me?
Spoken like a man who has never made a Javascript webapp work in IE6.
Nice magazine cover too bad it's straight rip off of The Cult's 'Electric' album cover.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Cult-Electric_(album...