skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key feature of a corporation besides limited liability is the nearly unmanageable principal-agent relationship between shareholders and managers. It's kind of amazing to me that a structure where shareholders lose to managers so consistently is the structure of choice.

Most corporations should be distinguished from banks, since the banks actually managed to acquire a put option for the bank itself, doubling the leverage of management. The really striking thing is witnessing the monetization of that put although it really shouldn't be too surprising, since virtually the same thing happened in the 80's with the S&L industry.

All the hive mind/group think stuff can and does happen in any organization where leaders need to persuade followers. Not as "new" as you might think.
Oh god, recruiters. They will kill your dreams every time. They have zero ability to judge skill. They are basically car salesmen. If your resume doesn't fit their template, you will never, ever get work, and you could be a damned genius with recommendations from others too.
It's not satire?

I was honestly impressed by the nuanced take on the genre that starts with "I HAV GRATE IDEA FOR GAME COMBINYNG WORLD OF WARCRAFT AND MODEN WARFAR PLZ HELP!!1!" and ends with an MBA.
No, actually, i've read dozens of explanations, i went metalinguistic and read discussions about discussions of monads, and this guy is totally correct, the ONE SINGLE most important thing to know about a monad, it would seem, is that you are not required to know what a monad is to use it.
LOL XD
Redline: Smalltalk in “small talks”
"Does anyone else ever feel like this?"

Yes, lots of people to varying degrees. Start by scratching an itch and have laser focus on this singular issue. The market rewards value.

Have a story to tell and work towards positioning yourself as a leader in a field.
Agreed, I recently moved to Columbus, Ohio from Boston. Kept my (decent) salary from Boston. I have 3x the space I had prior, super low expenses and I'm in the top 10% of income here by household.

Am I as happy as I was in Boston? No. There's some perks (garage to park my motorcycle and a room for my office) but that's about it. Oh, and things are just easy here. No traffic, the DMV's 'bad' waits are 30 minutes, not 4 hours. That type of thing.

Meeting cool people happens much less frequently here, and the culture (even around OSU) is simply as not as academically focuses as hanging around Cambridge.

Purchasing power way up. Quality of life? A draw at best, probably a loss. If I had my way, I'd be back in Boston tomorrow.
I was under the impression that the ones that were displayed w/ password were just the ones where the password was reversed from the hash. Does that apply to all accounts, or just to ones with weak passwords (i.e. there may be selection bias in that list).
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Not sure exactly on the usefulness of this, but I was surprised to find out that most of my blog's pagerank comes from Slashdot, HN and Fred Wilson.
In my book, Java is the best reason not to use a JVM. It's things like Jython and Clojure that save it.
Isn't time, somehow, a human abstraction?

I mean, what really exists is movement. Earth spins over itself and we call it a day, Earth circles the Sun and we call it a year, a few quartz electronic pulses are called a second, etc. We use these events to measure time.

Before Big Bang there was no movement, therefore, there was nothing to measure time with. If there's nothing to measure time with, there's no time.
My pet theory is that the mind has never been in the brain, in the same way that computers are only as useful as the software they run, software which originates outside the computer. Language itself is the home of sentience, and people are just processors. Minds are an illusion.
From what readme.txt file?
Megan McArdle is a fourth.
The fact that the text is essentially in a 4pt font doesn't bother you? Or is that an iPhone-only misfeature? Because on my iPhone 3GS, the page is wide enough that I either have to have unreadably small text or I have to zoom in and repeatedly pan from left to right in order to read a comment.
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This is all such bullshit.
Wait a few years, and thanks to Github you'll see what the open source community is really capable of.
I have found an honest man!
I agree the government shouldn't be in the business of controlling investment.

But I would just as much note that most people shouldn't have more than a fairly small percentage of their savings in real, honest-to-god risky investment. The small investor's chances of being wiped-out are too high and their being wiped out would, again, have a cost to society not just themselves.

Thus, the government should supervise a system where most of the average person's savings go into simple, plodding savings accounts and a fairly small amount is invested.

This system worked pretty well 1933 ~ 1980. I think Nicholas Taleb also mentions a similar system.

Oddly enough, a lot of this comes down to the non-Gaussian nature of a market's expected return. The theoretical foundation of all the schemes for interdependent, self-insured investment processes assumes the distribution of market corrections was Gaussian and that thus large corrections would be rare and multiple investment vehicles would support each other through the law of large numbers. But with a non-Gaussian, "L-stable" distribution, you simply can't expect such things.

Government aren't always. Certainly the US government has become more corrupt on the level of policy over the last thirty years but private industry has become similarly corrupt (as well as entwined with the state). I'm not sure what to do here. The state creates monopolies and then

Mandlebrot's essays on finance are very important to look at (along with Hyman Minsky's theories, etc).
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Sounds like a job for click-wrap, with logging of who is clicking (and when).

So that person logs in, sees a list of green things, and clicks on all of them. Like marking messages read in gmail.
There is a certain amount of cluelessness that, when concentrated inside a given company, risks starting a runaway chain reaction that ends up destroying the company and the ecosystem around it.
Yes. You're right about that
Every startup company should strive to never show up on a list like this.
The Economist is successful because the content can be useful for professionals. It gives you a great weekly snapshot of geopolitica/global economic events and commentary. So you can expense it to your employer.

I know of a few big global macro hedge fund managers that actually get investment ideas from articles they find in it.
Try to model your pricing strategy based on the financial value of your software for each firm. Make a case that can be sold to c-level execs.
Seems like it includes "nofollow" links.
Sweet. Thanks for the interaction this evening. Truth be told, I had no expectation what so ever for people on HN to even really comment / consider what I'm putting out there (that's why I put it on posterous and not as an Ask HN).

I had no karma and I'm not a programmer. I live 1,836 miles from Palo Alto. This post served two purposes, 1. hail mary that I found someone kick ass who was interested in getting involved for a random reason (they liked sports or bbq maybe) 2. help me figure out how get buy in from developers. By looking at the feedback, "over the top," "not enough information," etc., I can get a sense of how I have to change my pitch to an engineer. It's not that I think all engineers are the same, but that I don't know many engineers, so I wanted to hypo-test.

I'd love nothing more than to learn Python, Ruby, erlang, etc., and crank it out myself, but if I've learned anything in life it's that I should concentrate what I'm best at and learn new things incrementally along the way.

Thanks for not just making fun of me and moving along.
The only problem that I see with this is the same that I see with vanilla RSpec or shoulda: state is accumulated through nested blocks.

This is why I tend to prefer the Given-When-Then style with reusable "macros" (class methods) that provide niceties such as "given_a :user", "when_i_visit root_path", etc.

Assuming that you are writing automated acceptance test, any test of more than trivial length would then be nested several levels deep.
The maginot line failed because they only built it along the border with their enemy (germany) and didn't continue it along the border with their friend (belgium) - so the enemy simply drove around it.

In newspaper terms it's like having a paywall but allowing the full text of the story to appear via Google's cache.
I came across this when I was applying to programs. I thought it was pretty useful, especially the section on recommendation letters. It helped me decide what professors to ask for recommendations and how to do it.

I also liked the "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!" article:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html
I know it's comparing apples to oranges, but I contribute a lot on Stack Overflow so I took a look at the results.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=rl%3A1&...

I was expecting a higher proportion in the "advanced" category.

For comparison:

Math Overflow: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=rl%3A1&...

OnStartups: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=rl%3A1&...

English Language & Usage: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=rl%3A1&...

CS Theory: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=rl%3A1&...

Seasoned Advice (Cooking): https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=rl%3A1&...

Physics: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=rl%3A1&...

It's no surprise really, but it seems like the more technical jargon used on a site, the higher the reading level Google assigns.
Deep burn. No MBA, just a J.D. ;-).
I am sure it was indented as such.
the choice of 100pts is pretty good though it's spread over 2 pages. I tried a quick graph hack to visualise, "Number of points required to fill 1 page of stories (30)?" ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/5256341554/
So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.
Individual households, small business, and the government are all actors in the free market that are within the same ballpark as corporations. And any of these is quite capable of forming hiveminds too - as do individual government departments, charitable organizations, political parties, labor unions, professional associations, and internet discussion forums.
The summary says they are just disputing that concentric rings of uniform temperature in the cosmic background radiation are caused by oscillations of the universe, that is, multiple big bangs.

That's not to say that there aren't oscillations, just that these aren't a reflection of them. At least that's what I got from skimming, didn't bother to read the whole thing.

It'd be a little arrogant to say with certainty what happened before the big bang. I think the headline is misleading, very misleading.
they've done some crazy redesign things that they've had to roll back (writer blogs didn't have permalinks for about a week earlier)

Wild speculation, of course, but perhaps they're doing incremental design and playing with A/B/multivariate testing to see what works? They have the traffic to pull it off.
If you don't think Ruby's is good, what language does have a good object system? I mean, it essentially plagiarized Smalltalk, which has the best fundamental object system I know of — and added mixins, which complement traditional inheritance very well.

(Yes, its imitation of Smalltalk has a few seams showing — like the fact that blocks are not normally objects — but overall it's a pretty good if imperfect system. I certainly don't know of any language that gets closer.)
> Before Big Bang there was no movement

Prove it.

It's possible there were other universes.

> there was nothing to measure time with

There was nothing inside the universe to measure time with.
Thought of the same thing. I read Accelerando after the iPhone had been part of my daily life for about three years.

It's absolutely an early flavor of the book's idea of a "metacortex." You never need to say "I wonder..." when something is in doubt. You just look it up. If you're bored, you can keep your brain awash in new data. If you need to communicate with others through virtually any digital medium, it's a tap or two away.
Outside of the US, Monocle - http://www.monocle.com/ - is doing very well and is similarly intellectual. It was founded by Tyler Brule, the guy who founded the similarly successful Wallpaper in the 90s. It's like The Economist meets Vanity Fair and describes itself as "a global briefing covering international affairs, business, culture and design." I love it. New York Magazine ran a feature all about it and its model just a week ago: http://nymag.com/news/media/69921/

An even more successful one is Germany's Der Spiegel - they employ about 380 people and run a pretty intellectual ship. They have entire sections of their building dedicated to things like the "fact checking department" and such. Turning a profit with such a large ship either shows how good they are or how loyal Germans are to their flagship magazines..
I had that exact same thought quite a while ago and have built my startup around it:

http://www.happybuy.com/

This was launched approx 8 weeks ago.

We currently track & graph pricing across Amazon, iTunes and the Apple App Store and have plans to add additional stores in the future.

Would be great to hear what you think or any feedback you may have.
On Android, turn on "auto-fit pages" in settings. This isn't ideal, as there's still some left-to-right scrolling to focus on individual comments as comments become nested, and fixed width text doesn't wrap at all (which is thankfully relatively rare), but it's a vast improvement, as each comment fits horizontally.
I'll be honest and say I only got through about half of this because of the Author's tone. I'm sorry but if you're going to start your piece claiming one of the most respected economists of the last century "didn't quite understand banking" you're already treading on thin ice with me. Also it's hard to argue how deep Hayek was and then call Mises a crank given the tremendous respect both men had for each other (http://mises.org/daily/3511, http://mises.org/misestributes/misesonhayek.asp)

Beyond that I didn't see much insight in this piece. It's not that it's wrong it's just that it's essentially Keynesian talking points represented as facts. I don't mean that pejoratively I simply mean the reason the Austrian and Keynesian theories both exist to this day is because neither can be definitively proven or dis-proven. He presents some valid points against the other side but that's not exactly new insight
Are you really saying that Common Lisp and Scheme are that much more similar to primitive Lisps than C is to Algol-68? That isn't my impression at all. I'd say Clojure is to Scheme as C# is to C, roughly speaking.
Sounds like they probably used social engineering to get initial password(s) and thanks to poor security practices used those to go from there? Not to sound malicious or impersonal, but breaking something so wide open is like a solving a hard puzzle, I'd be really interested to hear more details on how they actually did it.
Try using XAMPP. An easy installer for Apache, MySQL for all platforms.
I would say corporations are a creature of the tax system, at least in part. When individuals trade, every transaction is taxed. When people in a corporation trade, its not taxed until the results are traded with some other entity. There is some incentive to get under an organizational umbrella.

There are other agents in the free market other than corporations. Anyone that is working for one is actually agent in the free market. They trade their labor with the corporation and the cash they get with hundreds of other agents.
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Tell HN: Turing test for citizenship.
An idea that just occurred to me.

All nations should be forced to grant citizenship on the basis of a Turing test. A group of certified-citizens are assigned to interview a person of unspecified citizenship.

If the citizens decide the interviewee shares their citizenship, that interviewee acquires their citizenship.

Only a few interviewee will actually be non-citizens. Citizens acting as interviewees are monetarily rewarded only if they convince the interviewers. Likewise, interviewers are only monetarily rewarded for positive-positives.

The point being, if a person cannot be distinguished from an actual citizen, there is no basis for denying them the right to reside and work in the country.

I haven't worked out details like the medium for interviews, off-limit questions, etc.

update: Please note, I am NOT suggesting this program replace other vectors for citizenship. This idea is strongly inspired by the experience of going to a US university and not being able to recognize some international-students as such beyond superficial qualities like an accent.
Web app access should be agnostic
Well either way, I wish you the very best of luck.
No, all hell broke loose: http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2010/02/for-the-...
I've made an spreadsheet with the following -
Name, Email, Company, Introduced By/At, Status

In status, write down stuff like "Give Beta," or "Reconnect in one month."
The ironic thing is that you were doing it during the 90s, which is possibly the worst time to be a Lisp programmer ever and Lisp's "lost decade." Everything that came out of Symbolics got thrown away (RMS turned out to have been 100% right about that), no one was doing free software libraries except for Haible and Steingold (ok, huge exaggeration), and aside from CL-HTTP everyone completely dropped the ball on the whole web thing (AllegroServe only came out in 2000!).

What are you doing right now with Ruby? I remember a couple of years ago at a CRACL meeting the conversation turned to Naughty Dog, and someone (I think it was Chris Baker) was like "Oh yeah, Andy lives in LA. He's writing books now."
That sounds like an iPhone-only misfeature. On Android, you can turn on "auto-fit pages" and your chosen font size is locked and the width of elements is horizontally limited with no panning left-to-right to read a single comment (unless they contain unwrappable pre-text, which I find the hacker news text formatter to be kind of bogus on (indenting always makes preformatted text))
I don't think I have ever read an issue of The Atlantic. This article alone is fantastic press for them.
Defining things in a way that is both adequately specific and adequately broad is pretty challenging. Several really large companies have changed their names after achieving a certain level of success. I kind of think this is a little like those discussions about worrying about how to produce will scale: If you get that successful, that's a good problem to have. Right now, not necessarily so important. I mean, yeah, put some thought into it. But don't get too hung up on it.

My .015 cents worth.
Because those 10% of unemployed folks are definitely highly-skilled programmers. Right.
Can't get past the login page :/
thanks kls.

That was my exact thinking when I posted. Most of the people I interact respond to enthusiasm and bullishness. Of course that works much better in person. It's clear that in this sort of forum with really bright and capable people that reads as naivety. That's ok, learn something new every day.

I'm going to try to get in front of some local engineers and see what I can do. It just takes one who's crazy enough and smart enough to get started.
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Psychohistory never made sense either.
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I'm so biased that it's almost ludicrous to read my comment, but I'm an editor at an international medical journal, I get paid for it, and I work hard to make it a great publication. Among my responsibilities are that I take care of manuscript workflow and make international (non-english) submissions readable.

I am a dedicated open access fanatic, which is why I'm here (pointed by an oa source), but I think that people like me, in the medicine field, can be easily supported by advertising and medical societies.

I think your analysis is largely right apart from the question of editing, especially considering that clarity is absolutely among the most important values in scientific communication.
^ is comparing Reddit with Wikipedia. Results are not shocking.
According to Google a HN thread about vomiting is "advanced".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315490
Yeah, but walmart people will soon be replaced by robots. More and more automation will create more and more unemployment among uneducated.

It's pretty fucking hard to automate programming. Heck, we can't even solve voice and character recognition.
You know who should read this post.... Recruiters

When I was looking for a gig last year, a recruiter thought that if he re wrote my resume, that I would have a better chance of getting the job. I doubt he realized that in this industry, the interviewee is interviewing the company as well.
It seems to me that all their sites are run off one complicated db schema. I just confirmed that my Lifehacker user name is in there.
I wouldn't. You're not creating your script "from bare metal", since a script isn't made from bare metal. Rather, the bare metal part is the PC or virtual machine. Think of "building from the ground up".
Its not amazing that those creating an enterprise would use the structure most advantageous to them. Or that investors would pick investments run by people capable of seeking advantage.
So what your saying is that countries should be forced to only accept new citizens who are already 'just like us', and keep out 'different' people?
In short, none of this was intentional. It was all intuitive.

It's a shame, but it's easy to see why they're starting to succeed merely through how open, honest, and downright charming this apology is.
Agreed - it would be really great to be able to have a currency that gets issued to the solver of protein folding problems or something, but unfortunately I don't think those solutions have as nice mathematical properties as spinning and computing SHA hashes all day.. : )
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But if you can't hire the senior engineers at all, then you have nobody to turn your novices into senior engineers. You're just screwed.
This is serious. I just checked out the torrent with the text file of the 200,000 cracked passwords. I searched for @me.com account and logged into someone's apple account. It was possible for me to order stuff via their account. I quickly emailed the guy to let him know to change his password. Gawker needs to take responsibility of this situation and email everyone in their database.