skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Risk of default on these bonds has never been higher -- hence the yield. The market has plummeted in the past few months, but don't try to catch a falling knife.
What happens when you introduce 29 reindeer to an isolated island?
Single-payer healthcare has some selling points, but allowing workers to finance others' early retirements is not one of them.
Hoarding money isn't actually bad for ordinary Americans. It removes money from circulation, which the Fed can make up for as necessary to regulate inflation.
There are two core reasons why autorun wasn't viewed as a huge security threat:

1) As one other person already pointed out, there was no real vector in which to steal info from the client computer. There was no default email client, web browser, or even TCP/IP stack. Computers were silos where data was moved via floppy.

2) There was a reasonably fair assumption that if you put in a CD you were going to run the application installed on the app. If it had opened up in file explorer and there were files "setup.exe" or "readme.exe" or "runme.exe" -- 99% of the time those files will get run anyways.

To put it another way... using the most secure web browser on the planet today is probably a bigger known security risk in 2011 than autorun was in 1995. With that said, the benefit of a web browser is a fair bit larger than autorun.
Nope leafy chat was/is an entirely separate project (I was one of the devs), I don't doubt some of the UI/whatever for convore was inspired by it though.
This is incorrect. In Safari at least, if you attach a handler to the mousedown event, your handler will fire for both ⌃-click and right click, but the two events will be different.

In the former case, you have event.button = 0, and event.ctrlKey = true. In the second case, you have event.button = 2, and event.ctrlKey = false.

What happens depends on the logic inside the handler.

On the other hand, if you attach a handler to the click event, it doesn't seem to fire for either right click or ⌃-click.
personally, i'm a fan of in slut.
Congrats to the yc crew. It's no easy task to cultivate a community while keeping quality high.

As a side note, does anyone know what kind of hardware setup they are using to serve up HN?
I put exactly what my employer matches into a 401k (which for me is 6% of my pre-tax income, including bonus). In that account I'm 50% in a S&P500 index and 50% in a small cap index. I only have a few other options (cash, the company stock, 3 crappy mutal funds, a bond fund) that I don't like so I skip them.

Anything beyond that I go for a regular IRA, although previously I had gone with a Roth IRA when I had a lower salary. The Roth has the advantage of being more flexible (use it on a house, education, medical expenses), but now that I'm in a higher tax bracket I just use the IRA and hope when I'm retired my tax bracket is lower.

I would NOT convert between an IRA and a Roth. In doing so you are betting that you will be paying higher tax rates in retirement than you are today employed.

This may on the surface look like a good bet considering the deficit, but it probably isn't. Nobody seems to have the stomach to lower taxes on the lower/middle class, and that's where you will be in retirement. Right now a couple options being floated are to eliminate all deductions and lower rates or to add more brackets at the top end and soak the rich, either way you are just as likely to be paying lower taxes in retirement as you are to paying hgiher. But one thing is sure, if you convert, you pay a lot of taxes now.
> "I have yet to hear of a device that it doesn't work on"

Other than those that can't access the store and those that won't be getting an update to 2.1?
I've been hanging out on Convore for a few weeks and they're definitely on to something - it's entirely replaced Twitter as my online water cooler.

In a way it's similar to IRC, but the ability to create new topics which have their own chatroom-style thread (while still being alerted to conversations elsewhere) means you can duck out and come back again a few days later and pick up the same conversation.
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> Judging from the classic view, the stories on the frontpage are not much different from those we'd have had in the first year

I'll repeat (the gist of) my comment in a less crowded context (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157384):

First-year users will only vote on what they see, and if they don't consistently use the classic view - which I expect very few would - then they will most likely only vote on what everyone else has voted on. Thus, classic wouldn't be expected to be significantly different from the regular home page, and thus it cannot measure any decline.
So tell us.. Wouldn't being "that guy with no fingerprints" be a more clear identifier, and draw more attention to yourself, than just having the same boring blurry imperfect fingerprints that the rest of us have?

If the goal is to increase your privacy, walking around with sanded off fingerprints sounds about as contrary to that goal as walking around with one of those fake eyeglass-nose-mustache disguises.
I really support what Astia seems to be trying to do, but like everyone has said it looks like they aren't targeting women who are just getting into entrepreneurship. Their website kind reminds me of enterprise software (big, slow); I think my mom and Carol Bartz would buy into this program.

It's unfortunate because I really support trying to help women get into startups. Just like the whole women in science movement it's probably a good thing for humanity to get diversity in ideas. I wonder if applying to YC with a company that tries to help women wouldn't be a bad idea?
Mark-to-market accounting (Enron-style) is analogous to Groupon booking $3.5b in revenue in Q12011 because their valuation jumped from $2.5B to $6B this year--something they could never realize unless they sold, thus is null. Run rate is speculative, but far more rooted in reality.
That's what I was saying. From what I've seen, pure.js does seem preferable to using Mustache or jQuery templates. I was curious if anyone else had other feedback after using it.

The reason I am considering it is to be able to use Ruby erb templates on the server to initially populate data on a page, then use pure.js and its directives to treat that same HTML as a javascript template.

With mustache or jquery templates and everything else I've seen, you're tied to rendering at least some basic empty HTML first, then populating it with javascript templates once javascript is ready.

I've messed around with it some and it seems to work fine. I guess my question is why isn't everyone doing it this way? :)
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Link doesn't work.. use this one instead:

https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/Intervention/Submission-Soum...
Yes, Leafy Chat was a totally separate project built by myself, Alex Gaynor, and Chris Wanstrath for the Django Dash a couple years ago. Leafy Chat was a pure web IRC client. Convore is inspired by IRC but not based on the protocol and functions a bit differently. For example, Convore has the concept of topics, which is not in IRC.
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According the article, the main service they are providing to these women is their rolodex, because that's what these women need the most. And yet only a few paragraphs later she is arguing that there need to be more programs that don't emphasize networking, because women don't find that part enjoyable. In other words, seed programs should be based around what women find enjoyable, rather than what entrepreneurs need to be successful.

This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about the other day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2169167
From my results with that search, only 2 of the top 6 are How To articles, and they are the last two of the six.
Looks very cool. Looks like there's a Hacker News group, for those that are interested: https://convore.com/hacker-news/
Maybe, but what is the alternative to transparency? More regulation? The SCOTUS thinks not.

Even if the next guy is no better, with greater awareness/transparency, constituents will have a basis for trying again with someone new.

One hopes that, over time, the quality of the representatives will improve as it becomes clear that voters do not appreciate any undue influence.
Do any of those providers offer you a free choice of operating systems? i.e. install any operating system you like, any version? Or control of the full server?

There is a very big difference between a VPS where the vendor places restrictions on many things and retains full root access and our cloud servers were you have total control over the software running on your server and full root access.

Put it another way, if I gave you two servers, one dedicated, one a cloud server in our cloud. If you SSHed in, you wouldn't be able to tell me which was the cloud server and which was the dedicated server based on your control of the server. That's totally different to VPS.

Essentially you are combining the control of dedicated servers with the flexibility and transparency of cloud architecture.
I think one of my favorite jobs was working on IBM Information Archive, a piece of hardware that I will never use.

On the other hand, I've taken one job with a company whose "product" I found counterproductive to society. I got so depressed I could barely work, and was drummed out in 6 months.

It's almost never worth it.
The end of oil?
Nokia Cancels First MeeGo Phone Before Launch
One consequence is that someone with specific life circumstances preventing her from leaving her job will now be able to do that to pursue something that might be better. Another consequence, and one that is unintended but virtually unpreventable for a government, is that someone with an idea he is less sure of and which is less likely to succeed will be pushed in the direction of quitting his job and pursuing his unproductive idea. My thought is that when a government does something like this, it pushes everyone further in the direction of risk, similar to when the US Government promised to back the banks in the case of impending failure. And like the banking situation, while it is possible that a lot of the risky decisions will pay off quite handsomely, a lot of them will end poorly, possibly enough to swamp the ones that paid off well. In the aggregate this could mean a lot of otherwise productive people working on unproductive projects, leaving less productive people doing the stable, productive work.

That's why I don't think the government is the best tool to encourage or provide incentives for people to quit their jobs and work on startups. The government can't filter well enough to cause more of the good consequence and less of the bad.
thus it cannot measure any decline

That's not true unless those users are somehow compelled to upvote a constant number of stories, which they're not. I upvote a smaller proportion of stories on the frontpage than I used to.
I'm not sure that a single hand picked result shows much. If Matt has 40,000 results, how about opening them so we can get an idea of how things have changed for queries we care about, and letting people do an independent review?
They charge 100 yen for doing a book conversion. That's only about $1.25 US. I would kill for a service like this. I'm preparing to move in about a month, and I've got some 500 books that I need to move. I would love to just digitize the majority of these and get rid of the physical volumes.

This actually sounds like a fantastic service that the publishers could offer if they were progressive enough. They would prepare a digital copy of the books they offer (if they don't have them already). Then customers could ship them their physical volumes for destruction along with a nominal fee ($1-$2) in return for the digital version.
It could also make a difference on the margin anytime someone moved from one place to another. It's generally cheaper to live in a smaller place, so if you can live in less space, you can trade up to a more desirable location.
This seems useful, but there is no way to see what it does different than all of the other chat apps on the front page.

So I guess I will skip signing up for now.
Targeted Search for Cloud Servers Launched by Data Center Map
I definitely agree that search results in '11 are better than in '00, although it would be cool if more search results from '00 were given since 1/40000 isn't the most representative of examples.
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There's a Notifo script for irssi, too: https://github.com/donnex/notifonotify
HN became my favorite site when it launched, it's my favorite site now, and I expect it will be my favorite site four years from now.

Thanks for keeping it good.
I have the same issue with Mandarin. I'm a conversational Cantonese (actually Taishan) speaker but Mandarin continues to elude me.

It really is 50% confidence and 50% practice. Two weeks in Taiwan did more for me than months studying it on my own. Unfortunately, I've since reverted back due to lack of practice (and subsequently confidence).
It multiplexes rooms over groups. So, you join a group, and then people within that group create a "topic". Basically, it is like a realtime BBS with "starring", @replies, and "unread" tracking.
It would seem best to sand your fingerprints to the point where they still produce an image, but one that is too low quality to stand up in court, yet is still within the 'normal' bounds and won't arouse suspicion.
> Read trashy literature - People, In Touch, Celebrity Rags... these are all written so 10 years olds can read it.

Had to laugh in agreement when I read this. I never thought of this before but I guess it's directly related to my little "trick": I never watch TV except when it's in whatever language I am trying to learn. Same principle there. Indeed, TV is for 10-year-old equivalent brains, otherwise it wouldn't work.
Retirement savings is the longest-term of all long-term investments.

My 401K got torn to pieces during this recession. My first reaction was "How can I buy more?". That's when I started maxing out the 401K and buying additional stock in the form of index funds. Those actions have made my personal recovery from the market plummet much quicker with the upside that I now own stock with a lower dollar-cost-average.
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While a touching parable, this is not a story about resources so much as the size of herd you need for a species to survive a disaster that kills off most of them, and perhaps also the value of predators.
Right, but they're not really allowed. They're breaking the TOS and they haven't been reported yet.
a million pageviews isn't cool. you know what's cool? a billion pageviews

edit: can't help but presume my intention was lost on the downvoters. not all jokes are purposeless.
Yeah there are ways to bridge Javascript and Objective-C, like PhoneGap does, but it's not "automatic", you'd have to code each method by method etc ... blegh I hate this, this should be transparent! :P
Unless they also have a rule "at least some men" they are discriminating against men.

It's their money so they can do as they want but they shouldn't complain about descrimination by ycombinator at the same time.
Great work. Looks really nice.
Norway to probe Sony's PS3 Linux 'downgrade'
I guess I still don't understand why I wouldn't just use emacs, etc. I edit files in my Dropbox folder with emacs all the time.
Is an "Internet Kill Switch" Technically Feasible in the US?
Do you mean believe in the product or use the product? Your post says both and they're not the same thing.

I work for a company that builds machinery that costs close to $1M. I'm not likely to ever use one of them (but I wholeheartedly believe in the product: medical instrumentation).

If you only look for jobs where you would have used the end product, you're likely to spend a lot of time unemployed.
The discussion forums of the Scratch online community (http://scratch.mit.edu/forums) have turned, unintentionally, into some kind of a tween Reddit. Example: http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewforum.php?id=46

We're still trying to figure out how to balance between this interest to engage in interesting discussions while still trying to maintain a focus on the core of community which is learning programming. We've spun off some other discussion forums in the past such as those involving role-playing games (http://scratch.mit.edu/tbgforums/viewforum.php?id=49)
These dial-up BBS's were populated by tween-aged kids? If so, I'll change my tune and become encouraged. I wasn't engaged in anything similar at that age.
Ceramists and brick layers often have vague or worn-off fingerprints. Just say you do a lot of ceramics.
If you tell your lawyer or doctor that you're planning on committing a crime, they have to report it. Attorney-client privilege ends once you're breaking the law in the present tense with the attorney's knowledge.

Similarly, here we have people who were allegedly breaking the law. Not telling the authorities would have made this guy complicit in the crime.
I'm 17 and grew up on Halo CE with xchat back around 2001 to 2003. A large portion of my teenage years (and most of my friends') was spent on Halo 2 as well...4chan was all the rage 2005-2008. Early 2008 until now it's been supplanted by HN and Reddit.

When I wasn't playing Halo, I spent a lot of time reading and editing Wikipedia, which might be something for kids to try out now. But Wikipedia's barrier to entry has risen significantly...one of the reasons I've quit the community there.

Eventually, it'll turn into a war between time spent on "productive" sites and activities, and time masturbating to porn, in my experience.
No, because they produce bad writing and are passing on things which are not true (ycombinator doesn't descriminate).

That is not the kind of thing we should have here.
Some states are not pure guarantors of justice and peace. Some are downright kleptocracies. Many deposits in Swiss bank accounts are from people who need to secure their wealth from corrupt local officials.

The US is not a kleptocracy, but Olenicoff (the American who Birkenfeld smuggled diamonds for) has ample experience with them. A bio reads: Having escaped Stalin’s forced repatriation campaign [from Iran], the Olenicoffs sewed what little money they had into their coat linings and sailed for America. In that situation, a banker who helped them might be called a hero.
Ask HN: What do you think of Eben Pagan?
I've stumbled upon his stuff and really enjoyed his David D stuff. So what do you guys think of his marketing info?
is there a cost for taking these courses?
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To be clear, every business is a customer-facing business. You just probably aren't the customer for most of those. Perhaps you're meaning 'consumer' ?
I tried something similar recently. I am learning Japanese and so I dumped audio track from anime to my mp3 player. It seems to help with understanding the language. And it was fun to guess what is going if I haven't seen the series for long time.
a great discovery! what startup will move first on this?
I almost never vote on anything that's not already on the front page; mind you, I seldom vote up more than two or three stories per day.

Assuming that the number of first-year users' votes is noise compared to votes from newer users, and that first-year users vote mostly on items on the front page, then looking their votes alone should just give a different sort order to that front page. That's my intuition, without taking into account ranking algorithms using quadratic decay etc., but I'm not sure there's a good reason to think that would change things.
blender is used a lot more in the industry than you probably know. As one already mentioned it was used to do the animatics for spiderman 2 and it's used in a number of small admination shops for the smaller illustration and animation markets (adverts, short films, stills)

Studios usually don't advertise the tool used in a production to the general public. The trend is shifting in favour of tools like blender though. Blender is also doing a lot of heavy marketing to those segments through their open movie and game projects. I can see a day in the future where studios contribute significant developer time to a project like blender in lieu of expensive licenses for something like Maya or 3DS.
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HTML is the UI, and it's hardly "non-standard". If anything, HTML is the most widely used interface style in the world.

I do agree that HTML 5 apps should not be trying to emulate native desktop or mobile apps. Instead, they should be what they really are: native browser apps.
People would be better of putting their bountiful tin-foil-hat energies to use campaigning against the governments that introduce these laws. Writing a letter to your MP is far more meaningful than grinding off the ends of your fingers.
Other than being able to click on parts of the transcription another way you could use this service is to just read the transcription and not bother with the video. I think this is a great service for this very reason. When I was doing A/V at PyCon someone requested audio transcriptions of the talks and this would be a great tool to perform that very task.
Yes -- we typically announcing pricing after we announce the course, but pricing for this course will be in line with the other courses that are on the site now.

You can sign up for the course today and we'll follow up via email with more info.
FCC seeks to shift phone subsidies to high-speed Internet
If I didn't lose my job things would have been different - I possibly would have bought more.

But remove that cashflow and the options start to dwindle.
For what it's worth, I talked to a yoga studio owner who had a horrible experience (with Living Social, not Groupon). It turns out that people looking for a cheap deal on yoga classes aren't good long-term customers so the loss never paid off. I agree that we've only heard horror stories, but I'd be curious if there are small business success stories or is the service only good for big companies who can take the loss?
The Smartphone Wars: Elop’s Burning Platform
Present Day Software is Unimaginative and Staid
The abuse of statistics about half way through this blew my mind when I saw it last night.
Well, we do have an API and we're trying to pimp it out more. If you're interested, ping info@speakertext.com and we'll hook you up.
3.5% is insanely high right now.

I'm 100% sure that is a promotional rate.
HP Announces The Veer, A Credit Card Sized webOS Device
Aren't we supposed to work hard, LOL?
FTA: "At this point, do you try to explain that your master branch has features that aren’t ready to go live yet? Do you create a new branch based on the previous stable branch, change your text, deploy that, and then back port the change to master? Do you tell him he’ll just have to wait until the next deploy?"

If you often have cause to think like that, something is terribly wrong with the way you work.
Could it be that people who are having a hard time finding things on Google now are searching the same way they did in 2000? Google might (and arguably should) be attempting to cater to the way people are searching now, not the way they searched 10 years ago. Don’t forget that people using a search engine need to evolve as well.
They'll also be a perfect match to the last nutjob who filed off his own fingerprints before mailing letterbombs to the IRS.

It probably only increases your chance of being detained, probed and investigated. Unless you file off your face, they can still tell who you are.

Rather than adapting your body to quietly live within the 'instruments of control', why not actively campaign against them?
TokBox Shutters Consumer-Facing Live Video Chat To Focus On API