skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This process is essential to what the banking industry does. Banks are one of the few institutions authorized by law to do this.

When you deposit money in a bank, they create 9X the loans of what you've deposited.

I'd bet if you read the fine print on the MS offering it would tell you that this is exactly what they were doing. MS & GS are too smart and too big of a target to engage in outright fraud.
do you see parents sticking their 6 year olds on the subway just because they can?

Maybe not 6, but certainly 8 year olds are quite capable of using public transport and happily do so in many parts of the world. I know I was taking the bus to the library when I was 8 or 9 and the train into town when I was 10, and that wasn't strange in the slightest.
AFAICT: they are correct, the colors are related to the @XXX (i.e. tweets directed at the other person) so it seems backwards.
I always found this sort of advertising, the kind where you badmouth a competitor, to be tacky.
I started hitting the Space bar to scroll down (like I always do) and was less than impressed. Only after using the inconvenient and overly subtle nav buttons on the right was I able to see why it was slightly interesting. But finding and using those nav buttons made the site so much less usable.
Thanks you're right. But still bad usability regardless.
Not so sure I agree. When I try to think of the core difference between subways and robotic vehicles, the only one I can think of is the relative lack of stops and the absence of cross-traffic.

With a serious and reliable driverless car system, stops could be integrated in a way which made them minimally impede traffic flow and the cross traffic optimized to maximize the flow over the whole road network.

Keep in mind we are talking about (in the limit at least) a network of driverless cars which can communicate. If traffic signals are in on the deal, I see no reason we shouldn't be able to do far, far better than a subway system.
Have sent it along to a few people. Thanks for taking the time to put it together!
This post and thread make me feel like I'm watching a 50s futurist vision of the world. I like it ;p The driver less cars need to fly too.

I hope google expands and manages to make money from more than just ads. Driverless cars would be awesome if they can pull it off soon. I just drove from Florida to Canada and back and I was thinking all trip I needed a driverless car. Most of the road could have been driven by todays AI no problem. Driving is so mindless.
You could do both - e.g. 5 users for $x, 10 for $y, $z/user thereafter
Gee, I was thinking "Now".

And wondering if we're going to be seeing more of the ooh-shiny marketeer's web sites getting posted, too.

We had a similar street-scene parallax ad site posted a while back, and the parallax HTTP messages from Github just got posted.

And yes, now contemplating writing a browser extension to get these pesky ooh-shiny parallax kids off my lawn, too.
For future reference, any text between two asterisks will be italicized, as you probably already know, but any escaped asterisk will show up as an asterisk ( \* ).

Edit: or maybe not.
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The requested URL / was not found on this server."
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Agree with everything you're saying here. What happened in our situation was someone had been working on a feature branch for a few weeks, merged in to the mainline development branch (with failing tests exposing this issue, grr!), and then began the git bisect dance to find the commit that caused the failure.

One point I was trying to make in the post (maybe made poorly), was that you probably never want to update the entire gem dependency graph in one fell swoop, just for the hell of it.

My read on this is that people tend to do this because they don't fully understand what bundle update is doing when run without any arguments. In the pre-1.0 days, the difference between those commands, at least in my eyes, was extremely ambiguous.

So IMHO, updating all gem dependencies to their latest versions, if only for the purpose of "staying current", usually doesn't make practical sense. Sure, there will be bugfixes included in these updates, but unless they were critical security patches, you can probably live without them, unless those bugs are affecting you directly. Even in that case, I would say the solution would be to run bundle update gem-name, only for that gem.
Its an open platform right? So why not just go in and fix the bug yourself?

I'm really surprised a fix for this hasn't appeared on github that I can patch into my android source.

/snicker
Just have the Gemfile.lock changes in a separate commit. Regreted it many times I didn't.
This is the second post from myself in this thread. The reason I've separated it though is that we are looking for coders for a client who we're involved with on a percentage-share basis. They are looking for people to work on a telecoms/web project and are looking primarily for PHP skills (I know, I know). Normally we're using Python for our own projects, but PHP is required as there is existing code. If you're interested, drop me a line
Ask HN: Web content over the phone?
We are looking for feedback and suggestions on a project we prototyped that won LA Startup Weekend back in October. The service, which we're calling Hinty at the moment, was envisioned as a way to access and navigate your online content audibly, specifically over the phone. The idea came from sitting in terrible LA traffic wishing I had access to HN or Techcrunch.

Since then we've been working to build something more stable and scalable. We have it to the point where you can call into Hinty and choose from 5 curated categories (tech, business, politics, etc.). Each category will play stories from relevant RSS feeds using text-to-speech translation. In addition, we are almost finished with a web interface so users can create their own channels from their favorite RSS feeds and prioritize them.

One of the issues we ran into is that a lot of good RSS feeds truncate their content, which makes them pretty useless for our needs. We are looking at scraping the content of those truncated stories but are concerned about the potential legal issues this will create. Any feedback on the copyright laws this might violate would be really helpful.

Also, since phone calls aren't free, we are looking at charging for the service right away. We are considering somewhere between $1-2/hour of listening. Would this price range be worth it for any HNers?

If anyone is interested in beta testing Hinty please contact us at info@hinty.com. If you think you'd pay for a service like this we'd love to hear your feedback.
The problem of dealing with drivers in outdated cars with drivers could be fixed with dedicated lanes. Most large cities have dedicated lanes for 2+ passengers or buses, it should be doable to have them allow driver less cars too.
You need more than a new reprocessing plant to significantly extend uranium supplies, you also need a new kind of reactor.

The Light Water Reactor (currently in use worldwide) produces a small amount of Plutonium while it operates. With reprocessing of both the U235 and Pu in Uranium fuel, you can get 30% more energy per pound. That's nice, but it's nothing like a fast reactor which can produce more Plutonium than it consumes... With fast reactors, it's possible to burn not only U235, but U238, which gives the 60x fold increase in energy mentioned in the articles.

Note that the nuclear waste that we've currently got cooling in dry cast storage is mostly U238 with a little Pu and U235 in it. Reprocessed, the current stock of spent fuel in the U.S. could power the country for at least a century before we'd need to start mining Uranium again.

Yes, the technology isn't mature, but the price is enormous -- essentially unlimited energy, since uranium can be extracted from seawater at a reasonable price if we can burn the U238.
Sorry. Maybe I should've been more clear in the post to say that you should almost never use bundle update without arguments, which updates the entire gem dependency graph. Running that command with an argument will only resolve dependencies (and perform updates) for the gem passed in as an argument to update command. Apologies for any confusion there :-)
Well, his whole point is that Goldman isn't value investing, but hoping to profit as a market maker. Goldman may believe the stock is basically worthless but still think they can make big profits on the deal.

As for "people can put their money where their mouth is" and shorting:

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -Keynes
I guess it is. Happy new year! About the "About us" you're right. People usually complain that they don't know what's the point of the website ;)
I can't comment on the conversation itself because I don't understand (the subject) well enough. But I found the tool very interesting. This is the kind of thing that twitter should have natively.

I don't know if the bettween guys posted this, but if they did, then I say it's a brilliant promotion.

[edited for typos]
That bettween page doesn't degrade gracefully at all.
kinda like the Python IDE in Python that people have been dreaming about as long as there has been Python?
As Doug McIlroy (inventor of pipes, diff) once said of punched cards, "It's the kind of thing you can be nostalgic about, but it wasn't actually fun."

http://research.swtch.com/2008/04/computing-history-at-bell-...
Just to clarify, you can always run bundle update for a specific gem, instead of for every gem in the Gemfile (this is the behavior if you run the command without any arguments). Recent versions of bundler (>=1.0) are pretty good about telling you exactly which gems have dependency conflicts, so it should be pretty easy to determine which gem to pass to bundle update.
NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT OIL SPILL JOBS???
I HAVE A 40 HR HAZWOPER CERTIFICATION AND NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!!!!

I SERIOUSLY NEED HELP IM 18 GOING ON 19 IN A FEW MONTHS AND I HAVENT HAD A JOB SINCE I GRADUATED I PLAN ON GOING TO SCHOOL BUT FOR NOW I NEED TO GET ON MY HUSTLE

?????
I should have said more.

I wanted this domain, and it points to Google, but it's owned by some other guy. My point is, why does it point to Google? I think that's odd. Maybe it's not very interesting though. ;-)
The reason mortgage debt is better is because the asset borrowed tends to appreciate (although obviously not in the past 5 years) whereas with a car loan or credit card the asset(s) depreciate quite rapidly, on top of the fact that the interest is much higher and not tax deductible.
I tend to run `bundle update` all the time for the hell of it during development, when the code is not deployed/being used live anywhere. The codebase is by definition full of bugs anyway because I haven't finished it. May as well be full of the latest bugs, having other people's already fixed bugs in there seems a shame.

When I am working on code that is already being used by others and the changes are aimed to be pushed out pretty much as soon as they're 'ready,' I am much more careful and selective about dependency updates.
Watch the video, especially the second half. There's a lot about the 6502 that wasn't apparent from the data sheet.
Hopefully they improve this in the future by not showing the short URL at all.
Or, to put it another way: meditation.
I sent email to support@zoneedit.com and expect to hear back within 24 hours. I'll update the parent when I hear back.
Two reasons come to mind about using micro frameworks:

1- You're working on a very customized architecture so having a large but powerful framework is a hindrance rather than an advantage.

2- You're starting to learn web programming on a particular language and you want to be closer to how things work, "inventing" or duct taping extensions on the go.

I've used django-nonrel on GAE, which has an ORM that works with GAE but now I'm reading Programming on Google App Engine and realized that learning the low level basics is a must as App Engine differs a lot from a regular database.

PS: Transactions does not work on django-nonrel, one more reason to go native python.
Something that would be a valuable addition to this idea would be a way of starting out by making purchases on demand, and then being able to easily automate them if they are regularly occurring. For example, I don't pay attention to how often I actually need toothpaste, so right now I wouldn't want your service because I don't know how much toothpaste to buy, and how often I need to buy it. But I might want it if it tracked the toothpaste usage for me, and then I could automate it if it turned out to be a very regular need.
Army of Awesome: Crowdsourced Firefox support on Twitter
I'd specifically track down 40 bloggers that weren't necessarily the largest in their space. And make it as easy as possible for them to participate. Plus, try to make your email as unformulaic as possible (sound like an underdog smallfry trying your amateur best to make an honest living).

I get emails to one of my sites offering deals and the reasons I ignore most of them are:

- email reads like bulk spam
- email is TL;DR
- running the promo would require more than a few minutes work
2010 - Good venture backed IPO year
http://whois.domaintools.com/sanfransis.co

Abhishek Sood

A-5, Akshay

Mumbai Maharashtra

400053

India

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Perhaps during the transition we would have automated-car lanes, like we have carpool lanes today.
Yeah, why is everybody taking the mickey out of google lately?
I don't know what's wrong with people google is great and gives me more than any other corporation I know. I hope they maintain their foothold and expand even further.
Sure better than facebook owning everything
I can talk a bit about why we didn't launch with "click here to switch to SSL search" links. When SSL search launched, web search was supported, but not every type of search was supported. For example, Google Image Search wasn't easily supported for some esoteric reasons (some browsers have a limit of 2 simultaneous connections, and that can interact badly with SSL + fetching bunches of thumbnail images).

The concern was that people might click into SSL mode, forget they were in SSL mode, and complain because they didn't see Images or Maps or whatever search mode they wanted.

For smaller websites, switching on SSL mode can be pretty easy, but we've still got changes going in to improve various rough edges on SSL search.
Depends. Precisely you need a histogram of customer/company. So you will know how many companies have <5 customers, how many 5-10 etc. Using this info you can build a quick model to decide how you want to go.

There are other factors though like how fast the companies are to adopt new software. The big ones are slow.
Article is from 2002, updated 2006.

Doesn't HIPHOP use this approach though?
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No, for using x-small for display text.
I looked at doing this using Javascript in a browser extension a while ago, and it's actually not possible to do for a couple of reasons:

1) XHR cross domain policy prohibits requests to domains other than the domain the page loaded from
2) the XHR GET method always follows a 301 redirect and returns the content at the URL. The full URL is not made available.
Atlas Shrugged is not about a "strike" meaning the thing unions do. When a union strikes they are saying, "We aren't going to work, and you can't replace us either, just shut down until you give in to our demands." In Atlas Shrugged, people quit and leave and make no specific demands at all. They do not care if they are replaced and they aren't using it as a negotiating tactic.
Cool site. You need more content about the site and what it is (as mentioned already). Also the email link on the bottom right is broken. Perhaps you can expand the detail on the dog's profile - favorite treats, likes/dislikes etc. I think dog-owners would enjoy this information.
C-- isn't a strict subset of C; it changes a lot, but it takes the idea of a C subset as its starting point and then makes a wide swath of changes as needed. It's also designed to be non-portable (apparently to make sure that architecture-dependent optimizations can be performed if necessary), although from my limited experience with the specification I doubt it'd be hard to write semi-portable C-- and modify it as necessary at the loss of some optimizations.
Which "Chrome"? Chromium 10.0.627.0 on Ubuntu works fine.
Not only will children be traveling by robotic car without the need for parent or bus driver, so will that quart of milk you need from the store, that dry cleaning and your grandmother.

Oh, and cab fare from the airport will cost less than the tolls. In fact, cabs will be so cheap and numerous that most people won't bother owning a car for anything other than recreational purposes.
Ask HN: How do you know when to walk away?
Throw away account

The company:

Pros: 8 years old. $8m revenue, $1.5m earnings. Solid fundamentals. Decent barrier to entry, so not many competitors. High customer switching costs, so our customer base is stable.

Cons: High human touch (think professional services), so very unlikely to see software style "hockey stick" growth. In a highly regulated industry, so lots of bureaucracy hindering everything. Financials are plateuing due to complexity of scaling.

My deal: Founders want out, so I was brought in two years ago to operate, "professionalize" and prepare for sale. I get 15% of profits. In the event of sale, I get 15% of proceeds (somewhere between 500k-1m). If I walk, I get nothing.

We've been sitting in deal stagnation for about 18 months. Niche industry, so not many buyers (we know all of them and have shopped to all of them). Highly regulated, so everything is over-scrutinzed.

We've tried throwing money at the problem (lowering valuation, hiring bankers/lawyers to assist), but nothing seems to "unstick" us.

Founders are all-or-nothing kind of guys. I've floated the idea of dialing down to part time, but they're not interested.

I'm not sure how much longer to stay. I just want to move on with my life. How stupid would it be to walk? Would I regret it? Will I regret staying? Will it be a black mark on my career if I don't get this thing sold? Will it be a black mark on my career if I stick with it for too long?

Any help/advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
and when any other corporation tries to make a linux distro a household name, I will give them some credit.
I'm curious, if you don't think it's related to DuckDuckGo.com, what do you think the point of their buying the domain for 100 million and pointing it at their search page was?

Is duck slang for search in some areas, or languages, or something?
I do not want myself distracted from material that has no bearing on what I am looking at.

Just to play devil's advocate, but wouldn't targetted ads be more preferable then, since they WOULD have a bearing on what you're looking at?
True. China did build a new fast test reactor last year:

http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?sectionCode=132&sto...
Could you explain what you mean by a hot-key to select the barks? I think, regarding the barks, there's a huge setback. People don't have the sound of the bark and don't know how to record it. But you gave me an idea. I could have some types of barks predefined and people could choose the one that is most likely to be their dog's. What do you think?
Wait till they bring the economy down again and the smart talented people at GS ask for a bailout.

Besides how would you short shares in a privately held company?
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Sure, that's more or less what I was thinking; UPS or FedEx, but local. Obviously, that would save a lot of time and energy. It's non-trivial, though, since the stores would suddenly need EDI systems that could communicate orders and shipments and statuses to these delivery guys. Big chains do this sort of thing all the time, but some local businesses would probably have a hard time making this suddenly happen out of the blue.
Huh? I don't remember any such thing and doubt he would do that.
Looking at http://www.wuala.com/en/ - looks great so far.
I'd love to see some more details about that.

I get the impression that sodium cooled reactors with water as a working fluid in the turbines are a non-starter today. There's not only the reactivity problem, but also the fact that the steam turbines are H-U-G-E. I think commercially workable sodium cooled reactors will use something like supercritical CO2 as the working fluid, which can produce something that's simultaneously safer and much much cheaper.
The On2 purchase was about video codec technology as I understand it. On2 used to be known as The Duck Corporation so that is why they owned duck.com. The domain just came with the deal.
Twitter vs Olark vs Email whats better?
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You're right. The site lacks information and the dog profile lacks other info too. Thank you. The e-mail at the bottom of the page links to a php file that redirects to a "mailto:" link. I did it that way to prevent spam. Maybe I did it wrong but I don't know other way to protect me from spam .
Where is Ray Chen when you need him? (The oldnewthing guy)
Ah, that makes sense.

Also, to those down-voting: that was an honest question. I was not aware of the naming history of On2. Please familiarize yourself with the voting etiquette here.
This was exactly my immediate reaction, but mostly because I never really found Monopoly to be all that fun in the first place. Instead, my friend and I pooled together our monopoly dollars and made a monopoly casino.

There's not really a good digital equilvalent to this, but that's the tricky thing about monopoly: the things that set it apart from other games are the hardest to transfer to a digital analogue.

This reminds me of the ongoing quest to make a popular online version of Cosmic Encounter. I grew up playing the paper version with every expansion. There were so many aliens to be (and we frequently played with two/person) that the dynamic was different every game. But to add a new power to the digital version can require a whole new set of rules, and so they always fall startlingly short. [as a brief example, the Filch power, when coupled with it's power card, allowed you to cheat by secretly taking cards from the discard pile and whatnot until you were caught - this is nearly impossible to accurately mimic digitally]
Clearly I like big bold design. There's no doubt about that. That said, I see your point and I think it's a really hard balance to strike. I don't think I've gotten it right yet and actually I've found the front-end design the hardest part of building the whole site. I think certainly there's elements where I could make it more compact but still look good but I do like the big bold list format I currently have. I'm going to keep working on it and eventually hopefully I'll find a layout that pleases everyone :)
CES 2011: Internet-connected, "appified" everything & a Google/Apple TV killer?
This has been posted before, with extensive discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2063092

;-)
Was I the only one a little disappointed to see Dorsey/Twitter? Since I heard about the project many months ago, I was really hoping that the content would be more geared towards smaller upstarts. Small SAAS companies, bootstrapped companies, single-founder hackers, etc...

I'm tired of hearing from all the "stars". I want to listen to interviews with normal hackers like myself who are either struggling to find themselves online or starting to experience a bit of success.

I want to hear from people who are building small online businesses - charging money. I'm so burnt out on social/advertising/big exit plays.
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A similar one, it compiles down to C++.