skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bubbles they lament are caused by the Federal Reserve's subsidy of debt. All that extra liquidity does not flow evenly through the economy; it flows faster into those areas that have been rising, buoying the returns of earlier investors and creating an even steeper price increases.

And this will continue until everyone that could possibly buy in finds they find no one to sell to.

Granted such a pattern is inevitable to some degree, but all this hot money, which we all pay for indirectly through inflation, blows them all out of proportion.
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Awesome! feature request: please auto-detect the iPad and run it in full-screen mode, without the black border. :)
It really doesn't...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Energy_consumption.p...

And that's ignoring the fact that there were less than 3 billion people in the world in 1965.
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I've tried very hard not to be one of those people on that list. For a while I was the first, feeling completely helpless to change anything. Then someone within the company helped change some of that for me. Now I've matured to the point where I can objectively look at this company and realize it's a mismatch between my professional goals and the role that they would have me play. Quite simply it's not a software company and that's where I need to work.

Thanks for putting this up. Every time I read something like this is helps keep me in check.
At that rate the information you deliver has to be critical and the user demographic has to require the voice conversion. IMO it's just too expensive for casual use and viral growth.

I guess that means either finding a niche which justifies the premium product or lowering the cost of delivery. I'm not sure why it is necessary to deliver via voice rather than the user's data connection via the web.
Rather arrogant and snobbish about "hard core C developers", no?

Also, sets up a strawman version of C developers in order to contextualize the "magic".
That's an odd definition of "inflation" you have, where a quantity that supposedly measures the rate of change in prices is positive even though the rate of change in prices is negative...
In general I have varying levels of confidence in whether I want to stay at the latest version of a gem or not.

I also don't want to have to constantly check to see if the gems for which I've fixed the version are the latest... During development I'd be inclined to keep most gems at the latest version (barring the sort of conflict you describe), but once the app is in production I'd be likely to be more cautious, read the changelog, etc., before updating.

It's just that when there are a lot of gems in use, it becomes time consuming to have to cross-reference the lastest version of each gem whose version I have fixed with the latest released version. It seems that Bundler is the natural place for this functionality to live.
APRS -- Twitter before there was Twitter
Actually, if you really want to learn PHP then CodeIgniter isn't the best place to start IMO. It's great to use as a tool for production. It's probably okay to get going at the very beginning. But if you want to really learn PHP, especially the new additions for PHP 5.3 then I suggest looking the code and using a PHP 5.3 framework. Look for a really small one so that you can see everything in the framework without having to look through a ton of files. Fatfree is one good example. A CodeIgniter based PHP 5.3 framework is fuelphp.
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I saw this earlier today and thought, while it was a less than honorable thing to do, it was a pretty clever bit of social engineering.
High-end Nokia phones have a local-search client that competes with Google Maps. The front end for people using regular browsers is here: http://maps.ovi.com/
I use it all the time. That said, I got my first iOS device after iOS 4 came out, so I've been using it by default from day one. I recently got an iPad, and it really makes the flow from Pages to Safari to a research app nice.
I just ran into APRS today, and though it might be old news, it is probably good for all of us to remember that ubiquitous geolocation and messaging services aren't exactly a new idea...
Registered! Anyone got an idea what to actually do with it?
At the bottom of articles on websites when I see share on digg and delicious icons I think "Oh my."
This is at least the third Django specific hosting provider I've seen recently. All of them are also happen to be in private beta. Do you guys do guys offer anything different from Djangy, at this point?
My Vim is highly customized so it won't be of much use to anyone else. It would be really cool if we could submit our own themes but it's probably be easier to write a plugin that opens web pages directly in Vim.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/6Tm9q.png

Vim color scheme: https://github.com/ElbertF/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/colors/...

Perhaps you can add a simple terminal theme (white monospace text on a black background)?
The multiple pages feature in mobile Safari definitely needs improving; half the time it reloads the page when I go back to it. Actually, improving mobile Safari, especially on iPad, should be Apple's #1 focus right now IMO.
I think it's fairly obvious that there's a bubble in gold right now, and I would gleefully short it if I didn't suspect that the market will stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent...
Things that may be interesting bullet points:

* How load balancing is handled. Load balancing isn't just for ultra high volume sites that need multiple machines. The main use case I have for load balancing has to do with reliability, particularly when it's time to do OS patches. Most of my projects are games that have people from around the world hammering on them. It's become impossible to find a good time of day to bring things down for a couple of minutes while I reboot after an OS patch or upgrade how much memory a machine has.

* Server configuration. Automatically handling the webserver configuration is a great value to the customers. But it's helpful to know if it's deployed in a multi-threaded way like Apache MPM-Worker vs MPM-Prefork.

* Database replication, and/or automated data backup. How it works, and how you can restore.

I'm currently using Rackspace for all my stuff, and liking it. But I'm not really looking forward to getting into HA-Proxy, and figuring out how to get the keep-alives and so on configured properly. Perhaps I should have just used amazon, with their dizzying array of loadbalancing and database options. The thing that has kept me away, though, is the complexity involved in learning all of their product offerings and my complete inability to understand how much it'll cost. (It's like it'll be easy to figure out how much it'll cost after you've been live for a while. With Rackspace, on the other hand, it was comparatively straightforward.) I think there's a sweet spot opportunity available for hosting that is simultaneously easy to understand, load balanced, and backed up/replicated.
A visionary, to say the least.
Anyone else slightly reminded of that scene from A Beautiful Mind reading this?
Acquisitions made primarily with private stock really fall into two buckets:

- Those where the private stock is worth more than cash. It would have been a good bet to get pre-IPO Google stock instead of the same amount in cash.

- Those where the acquiring company stock is equally risky and the acquisition is made as a last-ditch effort (fire sale, consolidate investor portfolio, etc)
Say a company is rejected by YC. Do you want to hear about their future success, like fundraising right afterwards? Being a fan of YC and hoping YC learns from its "mistakes" seem synchronous from where I sit.
Have you found any interesting personal projects to use Q/Kdb for? I've been trying to learn it for years but haven't found anything to use it for that really makes me want to learn.
And yet Stallman's endless ranting was instrumental in getting the Open Source movement started, and developing the GNU tools which brought us Linux, which is used widely in embedded systems and on servers, as well as by small businesses to cheaply bring users applications that solve problems for them. Sometimes solving problems for developers does trickle down.
Lander: "I was supposed to build it eighteen inches high."

Crowd: "This is insane. This isn't a piece of scenery."

Lander: "Look, look, look. This is what I was asked to build. Eighteen inches. Right here, it specified eighteen inches. I was given this napkin, I mean..."
They sell liquidity, Josh. They quote bid and ask price spreads and rejigger them like bookies to keep an order flow. They extract a premium from dumb money that wants to trade now, which offsets the tax that the smart money in turn extracts from them by knowing more than they do. That's the basic idea.

But having established that order flow, isn't part of the point of being a market maker to (carefully) speculate based on information they get from being at the center of the order flow?

Is Goldman a by-the-numbers market maker? Of course not. You're obviously right; a much bigger part of the point of being a market maker is to keep two-sided order flow and not soak up risk. But that doesn't make it totally asinine to compare Goldman's role as the primary facilitator in (what I assume is a) thinly traded market to that of a market maker.

Knowing your background, I'm sure you know this stuff better than I do; don't hand me my head for taking a stab at your question (or, do; >shrug<). I'll go toe-to-toe with you on FIX and order routing any day, though. ;)
Do you mean the narrative itself or the use of it? ("Haha, jocks, I got the girl because I know computers. Ain't that grand, fellow computer nerds.")
Exactly what Goldman Sachs is doing right now? They are taking a nontrivial position in FB, in order to grease the wheels for others.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketmaker.asp

http://www.wordnik.com/words/marketmaker/examples
It's been a long time since I've seen that movie, which scene exactly?
This article seems appallingly Euro-centric for someone claiming to challenge conventional wisdom about the dark ages. He makes passing reference to Baghdad as an important center of learning, but still focuses on the Pope.

To my mind this is less "Everything you think you know about the dark ages is wrong" and more that there were some occasional scientific luminaries in what was otherwise pretty much an intellectual backwater. They're definitely worthy of study, but it would be far better to remind people that the dark ages were mostly dark in Europe, and looking to the Islamic empires as well as out to China you see the centers of human progress, which contrary to the orthodox Western historical narrative did continue unabated.

It's definitely nice to see some study of European science in the dark ages, but I'd much rather hear more English-language writing about the Arabic scientific community.
I thought this was pretty cool at first, then I checked the useragent of the Safari browser on the simulated iPad:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10

Now I'm seriously impressed.
There's the anecdote that some portion of casual Windows users don't know what an "Internet browser" is, they just click the little blue "e" on the desktop. Google is a brand name they'll associate with searching. Was it wrong for Firefox to target IE when there were other browsers which potentially had security concerns?
John Nash and some guys see a blonde at a bar, which inspires his theory of governing dynamics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5jrNoNNtrE

It's a great scene.
Also: recipients of social security & medicare, various federal grants in the arts & sciences, and employees of federal government agencies.
All I'll say in direct response to this is that Chicago is not a trading backwater, especially at the small-scale entrepreneurial level. I'd put money on him passing the Joshua Schacter Trading 101 exam. (Seriously, it sounds like a fun bet.)
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Learning the low-level basics of GAE was important to me too, that's why I went with Flask, but having created the app structure and written 50 lines of code I think I know all the low-level stuff now (they aren't really that many).

With transactions not working, there might be one reason to go native, but there are a million others to use Django (all its batteries). I'm more worried about the lack of migrations et al, but you have to do those by hand anyway, so it's not that big a difference. One of the reasons I heard against Django is the slow startup, which can kill you if your app isn't very popular. I wonder how valid that is.
This seems like a great answer in response to the YC application's "hack" question.
Goldman is apparently maintaining a position in Facebook, not just trading them back and forth between buyers and sellers. That's, I think, what Josh is getting at. I think you may only have read the first part of that description.
In his talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW9AWBFH1sA#t=3m01s Michael Steil claimed that the 6502 had 60% fewer transistors than the Z80 but was twice as fast (in clock terms, I presume), while the Z80 had more registers and allowed slighly denser code.
In my experience, it's already hard to get a good read of a candidate within 45-60mn without adding external entities.

Monopoly is not just an external entity, it's a pretty big one with tight cultural ties. If the candidates you interview were not born in the same country as you, the best case scenario is that they played Monopoly in a different language and the worst case scenario is they never played it.

I prefer to focus my interviewing on questions that rotate around pure coding (if that's what the candidate is interviewing for) and even then, I hardly find the time to dig as deep as I'd like.
MRU order works fairly well, although it's definitely not ideal. With the iPhone I feel that it lacks even more than it does with the computer. That's because of the fewer apps you can see on the screen at a given time when you're using fast app-switching. And since we usually have more apps open on our iPhones than our computers (because one has a "Quit" feature while the other doesn't), it becomes increasingly frustrating. MRU works great until your workflow starts to become more complicated and when the number of apps in the tray start to build up.
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I didn't read it like that at all. In fact there really weren't any computer skills involved. It seems just good old fashioned ingenuity and elbow grease.

As a commenter further down notes he knew a guy that employed a similar strategy with newspaper personal ads to get people to come to his bands gigs.
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One of the number one industries to be involved with in our generation is the wellness industry and you will have to go a long way to find a better business opportunity which offers such cutting edge wellness and nutritional products than Nutronix Revolution.
a company I recently left ran up against this same 500 shareholder rule. To get back down comfortably below 500, they performed a substantial reverse split, which caused many former employees to be taken down below 1 share. Apparently at that level, the company can cash them out as you can't hold only a fraction of 1 share.

Once those former employees were rounded into nothingness, they performed a forward split to restore everything to their previous levels.

I thought that was a rather clever workaround.
Sensationalist headlines are often a sign of poor writing/thinking.

There's no way _everything_ I think I know about the Dark Ages is wrong. Don't insult my intelligence just because a smug title has a bit of snap to it.

Good thing it seems like the actual book has a more scholarly title.
> This article seems appallingly Euro-centric...

This is a silly criticism. The Dark Ages are by definition about Europe. If you'd like to see more books about what was going on in Islamic empires and China during the European Dark Ages, great, but that's not what this author's imagination was captured by.
http://xkcd.com/182/
Survival of the fittest in 2011.
After some deliberation, we decided on a JVM-oriented stack. The JVM is not without its quirks and challenges, but it’s a mature platform with well-known performance characteristics and a vast archive of libraries, particularly in the financial services world we find ourselves in.

We use the JVM in a non-traditional way. Our backend services are written in Scala, Clojure, or a mix of the both (making use of a thin compatibility layer we’re developing). Our web frontend is written in Ruby, and can be run on JRuby in production. This polyglot programming approach allows us to leverage the strengths of each language while still operating on a common platform. One could argue that it would be simpler to pick one language and stick with it, but that presumes that all problems are equally well solved in any one language.

Other than the vast archive of libraries, which are not necessarily going to be straightforward or similar to use across the languages on the JVM, one could still leverage the strengths of individual languages while still operating on a common platform, such as x86_64. Does the addition of another abstraction layer that provides the same interface (the languages) but that you don't really interface with directly really have that many (significant or otherwise) advantages?
Hmm, if you're offering Solr and redis, you could be a good host for hosting historious. How do you handle scaling, and where's my server (where do I store files, how do I access things)?
IE6 still has more market share than Chrome. Some mainstream advertising is needed for Google to eat into IE's market share.
Perhaps the most influential book on my thinking. It's not a bad metaphor for how we develop as children, either. The difference though is dinosaur scientists must die for radical change to occur in their fields. We have to change how we think by acquiring new knowledge. We go from being Neo-Platonists to Newtonians within our childhood with the proper education.
This seems to be merely a web app that changes a photo when you press different areas of it. It's cool, but no where near as interactive as the alexw.me one IMO.
Heh, quite. I console myself with the thought that good storytelling owes has no obligation to reality.
Do you really want equity, or would you rather have cash now?If you forgo equity in favor of salary then dilution, etc. are not issues.

If you are considering equity, what is a realistic sales scenario - $50m, $100m, $1b or $30b ... or $0? PE can swing for the fences because they get lots of at bats. You get one.

Is it time to learn or time to earn?
http://www.cloudave.com/1246/is-it-time-for-you-to-earn-or-t...

Finally, unless the offer of equity is in writing the cart is before the horse. It may just be happy talk to keep you from jumping ship before the deal goes through [I'm not saying it is, but such things happen].
We are productizing an existing hosting infrastructure that is already used for production sites. I don't know if the other offerings are coming out of established infrastructure or not.
Ask HN: Good blog or publication that covers startups (both tech and non-tech)?
One(s) that primarily just cover new products, companies, etc.

Not general industry news, etc.
This is a bit too revisionist. There were a handful of men in dark age Europe with a deep interest in scholarship: Alcuin, Bede, Gerbert. But they were isolated individuals who imported ideas from the past and/or neighboring territories.

In fact, I suspect the average person's mental picture of dark age Europe is probably wrong in the direction of being too advanced rather than too backward, because we take so much of present culture for granted.
Why would you want to do that? They have no state. You're almost never going to do anything with them except invoke them from specific places. This sounds like complexity for its own sake.
Some work that way, others do PKI-ish things and so are more secure.
There was another pretty interesting post a while back along similar lines. The guy set up a fake profile with a very attractive guy, a great job, and an exciting persona. Basically every woman's dream guy.

He then used this fake profile to message the girls he was interested in. Pretty much every woman opened up their souls, dreams, and wishes to this fake Cassanova. He then uses this inside information to make his real self more interesting and the conversation more engaging when he messages them and goes on dates.
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Isn't it obvious? ;)

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I did not call anything inferior - I don't know anything about nuclear technologies, so I could not make any judgement of that nature. My argument was that fast breeder is nothing new in principle, and the claims as stated in the article are the same as the ones we heard in france when speaking about super phenix.

I don't think super phenix can be considered as a prototype: as a target production power of > 1000 MW, it is closer to conventional, commercial reactors (those are theoretical numbers, which were never reached, let alone sustained).

Thorium-based reactors are more mature than FBR as far as I understand, and my argument about thorium was against conventional reactors as stated, not fast breeders. As for supply, besides amount, the location also matters a lot. There is thorium in Europe, but little uranium as far I understand, which matters quite a bit.
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We started with the phone because it was easier to get a working prototype out the door and its truly a ubiquitous solution.

We are looking at building an iphone and android app. Its starting to seem like a more viable way to make the service profitable.
Yes, definitely. We say so explicitly in the email we send to the groups we don't invite to interviews.

When a startup we rejected does well, we usually know about it without them telling us though. And when one does we go back and try to figure out how we missed them. We've already made several changes in the application process because of good startups we missed.
I think it definitely has potential, at least from my curiosity, I want to know what my friends want to buy. Though my only concern is the lack of content at the beginning, we can't really get much information about different products if not that many people are participating.

By the way, fantastic video. Might to share what you used to create it?
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WOW, gorgeous ui, great idea. Im lovin' it so far!
This scenario will itself soon become a scene in another movie or TV show, mark my words. Stuff like this is gold for screenwriters.
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Then don't select such a government. Last time I checked USA was a democracy.
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