skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have to choose between a mature reaction that keeps you in debt and an immature reaction that leads to reversing the bad decisions that have been made at the citizens' expense, I would take the latter. But most Irish seem too concerned about their precious "international reputation" to do that - I hear this refrain all the time. Many people seem more concerned with the effect of the crisis on Ireland's reputation abroad than with the impact on current and future generations. "Taking it like a grown up", as you put it, is not the highest aspiration one can have in this situation - you could simply refuse to accept the situation and create such a stink that nothing can happen in the country until some of these devastating economic decisions have been reversed. If Iceland can get away with it, Ireland can too.
Strange google image search that yields tons of gravestones
Nice looking app. Do you consider yourself competitive with/similar to Chartbeat, or looking for a different segment/concept? Idea seems very nice, will try it out for our startup.
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I sold a 100% bootstrapped site in the low 8 figures recently. Here's my advice: hire a lawyer with many many acquisitions under her belt. Don't hire a banker unless they've sold companies to the other strategic buyers in your space. Get another buyer interested asap (I had good luck doing this via Linkedin). Nothing will motivate the best price and closing like a competitor in the wings. You'd be surprised how many deals fall thru during due diligence, so keep your head... The deal isn't done till you get the wire transfer. Don't take an offer unless you would be truly happy with just the cash. Earnouts and stock are very very risky and not dependent on your actions. Don't reveal anything that could hurt you until they give a term sheet and you "go exclusive" AND I strongly encourage you to have a break up fee. You can tell them revenue and user data before you sign a term sheet, but I'd be careful about naming customers or revealing how your technology works until there is a penalty for them walking away, leaving you with lawyer bills.
Against the many comments/suggestions that were made in previous posts apparently g0atbutt is still g0atbutt.

Regardless, the site looks great and I am excited to see what comes from it.
I think comparisons to Amazon or eBay search are misleading. Amazon only indexes and searches its own site - the same goes for eBay. So of course these companies wouldn't mind if Bing copied some of their search results - after all, this would only end up driving more traffic to their sites - since their search results link back to their own sites.

It's a much different case when Microsoft is copying search results from Google or another whole-web search site. There Microsoft is directly competing with their product, and the bottom-line is that it's fundamentally fishy for Microsoft to be using their own search results against them.
I think Mike's right. I LOVE using pad and paper for sketches, mindmaps, flows, tables. There really is a satisfaction of 'scribbling', which for me, includes the actual feel or pencil touching paper.
In France the corresponding response would be:

"We will just do what we have always done when the government fucks-up - bring the country to a standstill!"
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Speaking just from a personal perspective, while the news may be forgotten in a few days, the next time I go to Macy's to buy clothes, seeing the Kenneth Cole section will probably bring back memory of this tweet, and it may very well affect my purchasing decision. I believe in the idea of shopping consciously, rewarding companies that do good over companies with bad behavior. It's very gray and personal what is good and what is bad of course, but this tweet annoys me enough that I might avoid purchasing one of their items.
It's kind of misleading to say that it's "only" 1% of borrowers file, because the scope of time is focused on one year, but not only do borrowers have a much larger average lifetime, but the impacts of bankruptcy last 10 years. If we say that the borrower pool stays fairly static over a 10 year period, that means really you're talking about AT LEAST 15% of borrowers are filing bankruptcy.
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What he probably meant: It needs to look and feel like a paper drawing, or better. There's not currently anything in the "better" category.
It works with 1924/15, 1924/16, etc too.

Looks like sometimes you get a lot of coins as well.
What happened to "stop buying things you don't need"? I had a friend tell me he was considering a consumer loan because repaying his other loans didn't leave him with enough money.

I swear, it's as if people have never seen money before.
If you have someone on your advisory board who has been through this before, even in an unrelated space, spend quite a while talking to them. Possibly offer them a slice to come in and help you get this done at good terms.

If you don't, consider finding someone as a last minute advisory board member explicitly for this purpose.
Get a Lawyer!!!!
FYI - we provide completely unlimited storage, unthrottled bandwidth, backup all data by default, backup external drives, and can ship you a restore drive as well.

$5/month or $50/year. We can do this based on our unique cloud storage which Hacker News had a long thread about:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797995

We are also offering a 10% off discount for current Mozy switchers: "byemozy"

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This seems really interesting, and the price is right. Some uses close to my heart could be website wireframing, photography lighting diagrams, drawing out complex math in lectures that isn't easy to type. However, I personally don't have enough art skill to make these work on paper, so this probably isn't for me.
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Electrical current to the brain can get people to think different
Haha, yes I am. I've had it for years, doesn't seem right to change it now…
Check this out -

Volly: Texting is great, but it's more fun when you can do it in groups. And if you have a smart phone, texting should be smart too. So we built Volly, a smart group messaging application that runs on your iPhone (and of course uses text if you don't have an iPhone).

http://vol.ly
Ask HN: Moonlighting on a startup? Could you use an incubator like this?
According to this recent poll http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179696, the largest proportion of us here are "working on a project on the side."

I'm included in that group, and as I'm working on my new thing nights and weekends, I'm thinking of also starting up a new kind of incubator that would cater to entrepreneurs like myself.

This "incubator for hackers with day jobs" could provide 1) anonymity, so employers don't find out what you're doing before you're ready to jump ship; 2) hosting and IT infrastructure ready-to-go; 3) accounting systems plus accountant ready to go, including payment systems; 4) legal umbrella ready to go to shield your from personal liability wrt your product; 5) moral support - it's hard to find folks to talk to when you're trying to remain "stealthy" and keep your day job; and 6) a network of like-minded hackers.

Would an incubator like this appeal to you? What might it be worth to you (cash and/or equity)? What other features might be important to you?

If I get enough interest, I could get something started in a few weeks. Interested to hear any and all feedback, even "that's the stupidest idea ever!"
The product demo for Compass is one of the best I've ever seen. I'll have to give it a whirl.

"Compass and SASS won't make you a better CSS ninja if you're still hitting yourself in the face with your curly bracket nunchucks"

Awesome.
Which will be released roughly 6 YEARS after Java 6. The JVM is an excellent platform but any hope Java (the language) had of remaining even remotely modern died before Sun did. So sad...
Try something like: http://www.smartypig.com (online savings accounts goal oriented) or http://www.mint.com (nice goals feature)
Have you considered a wacom? You could pick up a used one for around $150 or less, and it will allow a lot more flexiblilty in what program you wire-frame in.
Have kids.

Surprisingly effective. Also encourages development of other positive character traits.
"will be compensated with tons of really enjoyable work"

From all I've heard, porn-sex is not terribly enjoyable.
Don't remember - got stuck at Dublin airport once and it was the only book not about whiskey, your Irish ancestors or pictures of green fields
Also, it's sad and unfair, but even though I've know some people succeed in getting a permanent position after the second postdoc, it gets harder as the number of postdoc increases...
They didn't say "web search", they said "search". Nearly every website has a search box. Most of my searches in any given day are not on Google - they're on Amazon, Wikipedia, Netflix, StackOverflow, Facebook, etc. Bing's toolbar is watching all of those.
First announced in Strata conference. Here is the link to the presentation- Realtime Analytics at Twitter:

http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/55/Realtime%20Analytics...
You can buy things you don't need, and you can buy things with money you don't have, but doing both at the same time is a really bad idea.
You don't ned the / just use space. Sometimes you will hit a product model, giving more results, than birth and death dates.
Today, RFZ is a do it yourself type of tool. So it is a different option altogether than debt consolidation but we did recently announce a partnership with Lending Club that allows us to consolidate people's high interest debts when and if it makes sense (not always the best option).

Planning tools are definitely in the works. We do help you understand the 'true cost' of items purchased on your credit cards; the interest and fees can be sneaky.
Are you able to share how the partnership was executed? Was it a verbal/email commitment or did you draft up some legal agreements?

Congrats on the launch! The app looks awesome.
I just got a beta code the other day after signing up months ago. Must be another marketing push.
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"Ireland's government was responsible...." absolutely untrue.

"As a small, open economy, Ireland was always going to be vulnerable to global swings," says Ray Kinsella, an economist at University College Dublin. "But this is predominantly a self-inflicted crisis."

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_48/b42050820...

There was an expensive, taxpayer-funded study done (can't seem to find it atm, but if you Google around you may find it) which basically concurs with the above statement - our crisis was largely our own making. The international credit crisis may have accelerated it slightly, but it would have happened eventually anyway.

I attended a great presentation by a guy called Ed Walshe, who is the former president of one of Ireland's biggest colleges (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_M_Walsh) where he laid out in black and white all the idiotic stuff the government got up too when times were good. Things like massively increasing the numbers of civil servants - not in front line services like doctors, nurses and teachers; but useless bureaucrats in offices in Dublin, massively increased civil servant pay - way ahead of inflation (this effectively bought them popularity for the next election), cutting income taxes across the board, 'throwing gasoline on the fire' by giving extra tax breaks to property developers (section 23 and section 50 tax breaks) when things were extremely overheated and the brakes should have been applied etc. etc. I can dig up a copy of the presentation on my hard drive if you are especially interested.

Also adding to the problem was non-existent regulation of the banks and construction industry in general. The head of the construction federation was a guy who was former Fianna Fail (the main party in government). The head of the banking lobby was a former member of a party that was in power with Fianna Fail. Basically at the highest levels in Ireland the whole scene operated like a gigantic old boys' network that would put things to shame in most other parts of the world.
as long as there is money in society there always will be dept.
if consumers pay off all their dept on credit cards.
if homeowners pay off all their mortgage dept for property.
if all small businesses pay off their dept.
if all institutions pay off their dept.
if all banks pay off their dept to investors, foundations, etc.
if all states pay off their dept to banks, IMF and other organizations.

in other words, if every single individual or organization pays of their dept there wont be a single dollar bill in circulation which means an end to our current system, which is something most people do not want to happen (no matter how broken and inefficient it is)
Over 60% of Apple's first-wave iPad 2 production to be 3G models
Hey there, thanks for the comment!

You are absolutely right that there were about 1.5M bankruptcy filings
last year [this number is growing (1)]. Note that we haven't
made any claims about the ordering on the graphic, but bankruptcy is
an option which is often under-considered, because people are scared
of it, and driven by FUD to pursue other options which often
have lower success rates.

Rod and I have learned a tremendous amount about debt since founding
this company. We have heard every possible misconception from people
who are not in debt, such as

- "people don't care about paying debt off as much as weight loss because it's not visible"
- "only dumb people get in debt"
- "people should just stop shopping and pay off their cards"

The list goes on. What we have learned from speaking with dozens (now probably hundreds) is that there is no "typical"
debtor. People that have reached out to us vary in age, sex, location,
education level, stress level, income, employment, height, weight,
hacker cred, skin color, and so on. The number of people in this
situation in the US number in the millions. The statement "Don't most of them
just pay it off" trivializes situational problems which are extremely
diverse and complex. And "take a long time" it does - people that are either not
financially educated or unable to pay off their debt can live in a
steady state of repayment, paying a perpetual existence tax to
banks. This should not be the state of the world!

(1) http://www.uscourts.gov/News/NewsView/10-11-08/Bankruptcy_Fi...
> Apple makes zero guarantees about the quality of safety of the applications

An important point, considering "flashlight" apps that managed to sneak in SOCKS proxies. No doubt more nefarious things would be difficult to do as a non-super user, but it does seem a false assumption to trust App Store apps implicitly.
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this is like some were saying 'hotmail has as many users as google has for all of its products' for gmail.

now look where gmail is and where hotmail is.
Sometimes it pays to pay your web designer
I think you could probably get hints into Postgres if you did them right (and volunteered to do the work!). Where "right" means trying to make the hints at least somewhat declarative: not "use index X for query Y", but "the values of these two attributes are not independent" or "this predicate is likely to be highly selective." Basically, look at the most frequent planner failures, figure out why the planner makes a mistake, and let the user specify the information the planner needs to choose the right plan. Postgres has added features in this direction: for example, you can now specify the cost associated with evaluating a function as part of CREATE FUNCTION.

The work required to implement this would be substantial, and most of the people with the necessary skills would rather improve the planner itself (e.g., collect statistics on cross-column correlations to avoid making the attribute independence assumption in the first place). So it isn't too surprising this hasn't got done.
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Great idea, great team and great output
Sure, but I'm hard pressed to think of a technique that the spammers wouldn't attempt to game. Search engines and spammers will probably always be in a perpetual arms race no matter what the methodology.
(after reading through that 340 comments)

So no hope for America! At least not from hackers. Thanks God!

Solving the tax problem by hackers has a probability like RIAA solving the ilegal file sharing problem.

Instead, as engineers and people thinking is systems and infrastructures hackers should reverse-engineer the problem.
That would be a success!

Hint: Ask yourself: "How Rich Are Looking At Taxpayers?"
Copying search results. I love the notion of that.

Somewhere in the world at this moment there's a person with the Bing Toolbar installed searching for something using Google. One of his results is to a website, for the sake of narrative lets suppose it's one of our own: A YC startup.

The searcher clicks to the YC startup, it's exactly what he's looking for, he converts.

Now, another searcher, using Bing by choice, searches that same term. That YC startup is in the results. The click is made, another conversion happens.

The first user consented to his click analysis by installing the toolbar.

The startup will surely agree that yes, we are a very good result for that term! We should show up on Bing, DDG, Google, Whatever! And we don't care how we get there!

The second user gets a result that's maybe ranked higher because of the first users click was noticed by Bing.

Google doesn't lose a customer because the second searcher was already on Bing to begin with.

Bing does nothing but analyze their own users' behavior (users of their toolbar) to deliver better results.

I find controversy over this beyond absurd.
Easy to circumvent. Spend 5 minutes thinking of how to do it. I suspect you'll think of at least a couple of ways.

The battle against spammers will continue to be cat and mouse game. And when one of your signals gets exposed, of course it will be a target.

There's nothing new here. In fact, I think most spammers already assumed that the toolbar clickthroughs fed into both Bing and Google toolbars. I did.
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If it would display a background of my choice, grid or typical notebook lines then it would very quickly replace several of my 'must have' travel items--- where travel is a variation of 'don't leave home without it'...
From this article:

"We’re not going to stop using that signal, unless it messes up relevancy. It doesn’t make sense to exclude that large amount of traffic from our usage set," Weitz said.

From the TechCrunch article a few days back [1]:

"Google had employees log onto ms customer feedback system and send results to Microsoft."

(to which Matt Cutts replied: normal people call that "IE8")

Unlike many others, I do not think this is a cut-and-dry issue, but the squirrelly responses from the MS folks on this have really made me think they are just up to no good, true to the form of so much of their corporate history. Arguing with vague technical terms and ad-hominem attacks are not a good way to convince a highly technical crowd of your virtues.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/01/bing-google-fight/
Pick something like Erlang and the problem never exists in the first place. You don't have to paper over the deficiencies in the lower levels, because the levels below the code you're writing aren't deficient for concurrency in the first place.

Now, be fair: Erlang papers over the deficiencies of the lower layers (namely, the kernel) with significant manual effort. It's just that someone else has already gone to this effort. BEAM is an event-based server behind the scenes, with lots of syntactic sugar to make it look multithreaded. The PLT Scheme webserver is another example of this.

I also didn't mean to suggest that the code itself is necessarily simpler. It can be, but (as the node.js example proves) it is certainly not always. The scheduling algorithm, on the other hand, is typically much simpler. Namely, it's typically "round-robin cooperative multitasking." No serious operating system since Windows for Workgroups has actually tried to use round-robin cooperative multitasking.

All the other "thread stuff" is typically simplified as well: smaller stacks (if any at all), simpler context-switching code, that sort of thing. The actual encoding of the business logic? That depends on the problem.
I read in an article that I cannot track down right now that Steve Jobs has gathered some of the world's leading experts in aluminum, process engineering, glass - the creative power of Apple lies in its breadth and astonishing depth.
Granularity is good -- but as far as I know people ignore the security permissions warnings, because they are hard to understand, and its difficult to understand why would an app need them, and most people generally just click yes. So practically, it does not really help (thats the impression i got from reading online)
For anti-virus apps, its not about why people buy (customer ignorance), but their existence and feasibility implies apps have the power to monitor the system closely.
App store review helps ... when android store lists apps like these: http://photos.appleinsider.com/android.market.ios.002.jpg how can you trust the android store more or equal to the apple app store?
The N900 certainly wasn't cheap. In fact, the fact that I'd have to shell out another few hundred for a replacement smartphone is the only reason I haven't thrown it against a wall. I have it overclocked, and it's still dog slow. :(
Ah, yes. That's what I meant, good catch.
If you have a library class or function that is not explicitly marked as thread safe, do not assume it is, regardless of whether or not it "should" be under any system of logic or reason.

Why not?

Because you have no idea what it might be doing behind the scenes. Even "immutable" objects might have mutable state under the covers of encapsulation (e.g. caching).

And even if you somehow manage to prove that the current version IS safe, perhaps the next version won't be. After the code has been running perfectly for years and the library has been upgraded dozens of times, good luck every finding your subtle, intermittent threading disaster.

Thread safety is an implementation detail unless you are explicitly told otherwise.
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Would be cool if you could have something like "crayon physics" on this.
This should be a nice alternative to pop journalism about the incestuous topics (Foursquare's gonna make it, AT&T sucks, Apple is awesome but we still like to call their shit, Foursquare is still awesome, MG Siegler cut himself on the edge of his Macbook Air...)

It's amazing how much crap those guys produce and how little they do stir up interesting startups. Arrington's "no embargo" policy - supposedly principled - is at odds with their extortionate methods of promising coverage in exchange for perks for their readers and exclusives.
It's unfortunate that internal wifi is not an option as plugging a cable in or swapping a card out is a hassle. Bluetooth with a syncing server on your computer would be great. think about it press button on pad and have it show you a list of computer to send the file to.
Well, Google should do nothing less than encourage people to use those spammy methods either stop the practice all together or force Microsoft to lessen the weight is uses for that particular signal.
Except R+D at nokia means anyone not actually bolting phones together.

Having 4 competing operating systems, each with their own layers of management and their own VPs all fighting each other - counts as R+D spend.