skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, I completely agree with you that the laws are written in favour of the bankers, and that is something that needs to change. But you cannot lock people up unless they have broken the law. When many people took action, they did so knowing they weren't breaking any laws. You can retrospecitvely lock them up. Change the law, if necessary, but to call people criminal is wrong.
You present a chicken and egg problem, where is he going to get the evidence to cite if the SEC is covering it up for them. If they are burying cases then there is no evidence to be had. The fact that many of these firms have paid fines without admitting guilt is pretty telling. Not to mention the whole house of cards collapsed and it was still big bonuses to go around. It is evident that they play by a different set of rules and ignoring that due to lack of evidence (from an entity that can't be trusted to provide that evidence), Is just inviting more of the same abuses. The fact is all of these firms did bury losses a fact that is not in dispute, and in doing so they committed fraud for that they paid a fine and admitted no guilt and suffered no prosecution, that was the deal and they did break the law. As well the investigator that was poking around was let go and later awarded a large settlement for wrongful termination.
There's no such thing as "knowing" they are bad. Everyone has an opinion, and the price people are willing to pay reflects that. For example, Lehman stock trades now. It has a price. I can sell it to you and feel perfectly fine about it, even if I think it's the biggest piece of crap in the world and I can't wait to sell it. I may end up wrong, because my opinion is just one of many, many.
Lots of money is made by others by disagreeing with people who absolutely "know" something.
Rumor: Jobs in treatment at Palo Alto cancer center
New rule: governments shouldn't ask for advice about what to do in a banking crisis from a company who owns a ton of bonds in those banks. The conflict of interest and lack of accountability is astounding. Politics suck: you're in charge of a system you don't understand and the only people you can ask for advice who do understand it are sitting at the same poker table. When you go bust the public blames you as they suffer through austerity.

I also loved this quote from the story:

And then they saw him and said, Who the fuck was that??? Is that the fucking guy who is in charge of the money??? That’s when everyone panicked.
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http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Tab...
How does Amazon's VOD DRM free you of software/hardware lockin?
With all respect, this is absolutely small fry in the scheme of things. Insider trading goes on all the time, irrespective of market conditions. Insider trading did not cause the financial collapse. This type of story is likely to happen in any decade you care to mention, and is not indicative of the wider culture of taking big bets based on other people's money, and getting richly rewarded for it.
So if my broker has an app, and I use it to buy a million shares of a company in my account, Apple should get 30% of the transaction?

For what, providing networking functionality?
I've put 50 apps into the Android market recently that are direct ports of iOS equivalents. Across the board they make about 40% of the iOS ones. So, it's not as good, but it's a complete myth that there's no money there. And it's still growing tremendously.

I think the perception of Android has been deeply colored by the early experience of developers when Android really was a niche geek market. However after 800% growth last year it just isn't that market any more - it's a market mainly full of real consumers who outnumber the geeks now. When a platform is growing as fast as Android pretty much any benchmark you read from even months ago is going to be misleading.
Could you explain yourself a little better?

The parent comment was overly broad and emotional, sure, but the markets in this case were clearly defined by some kind of political mechanism. Blaming it on the politicians doesn't seem all that outrageous at all to me (as long as we don't start calling out specific parties and politicians, which would then obviously degenerate quickly into asshattery)

Just wondering. I agree it was simplistic and emotional, but I must have missed the baiting or other part that made it bad for HN. (Also, in all fairness, this entire article and comment thread is nothing more than an emotional internet lynch mob, out with their pitchforks and torches, ready to start the inquisitions and begin burning the witches, so compared to the article, the comment seemed rather tame and your response oddly incongruent)
The same app, or the same type of app? Judging from overall revenue reports this would seem to make you the exception, not the rule. I'd read it.
I've always wondered why I only see questions about checking for the exceptional floating point values in a Javascript context, not, for example, a C context, where people probably hit these problems more often. Perhaps C programmers are more prepared, but I think it's more insidious:

This is one of those weird points where Javascript seems like a confused mutant combination of a high-level language and a low-level one. It doesn't give you the power to manipulate the bits of a value, but simultaneously exposes you to all the strange, pointy bits of floating point implementation. It would be a lot nicer if it either gave you the power to fully manipulate the bits, or abstracted away the nastiness of the implementation, but no, they chose wrong in both directions.
At the time it was the only comment that was strictly political.

One sentence of support on each point to give people something to drop in Google would be enough to take it from "emotional drivel" to "bad idea, but not entirely useless."
This is super inspiring. I am still working on finding a co-founder and I have not started looking for funding.

Do your thing my friend. This is great news for you!
You lose money every second
When Watson's language processing abilities are sophisticated enough to understand contextually sensitive ambiguities that humans have no problem with, I'm more inclined to entertain the notion.

As someone that works in NLP and information extraction research, I've gotta say that unless there's some massive technological upheavals, we're not getting to thinking machines for a good long time.
I hope you've at least sent him a really excellent bottle of champagne now that you've hit on some traction!
The whole point is, they used to be good, it used to serve a purpose... when they have answers low down or tried to hide all together, they were effectively spamming Google and forcing people to sign up /pay for an answer.

It served a purpose in its time, but SO simply does it better now and EE haven't moved on in years.

And as an "expert" I would rather contribute to a free to ask site helping the public.
> our politicians are underwriting irresponsible risk taking

The government is underwriting risk by bailing out various institutions (Fannie, Freddie, Citi, AIG, ...).

> why they believe bubbles are the only way to prosperity

This is over the top by saying that they believe that bubble blowing is the only way to prosperity.

Bubble blowing is part of the agenda. The artificially low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve is one example of bubble blowing.

> why they simply cannot stop spending money we don't have

Politicians from the two major parties talk about the need for spending reductions, but it does not look like they will make a significant dent in the problem.
I'm actually on the side of putting more of the blame on the consumer than the banks, for that reason--but there's still plenty of blame left over for Wall Street.

I don't know why, they are the experts who are supposed to know who to lend to and who not to lend to based on statistics and analysis. If they where incompetent at doing there job then that is on them, not the consumer. Further they are getting bailed out by the consumer so there is really little blame to put on the consumer we are paying the tab.

Blaming the consumer is akin to saying the consumer dressed too much like a hooker.
Will the Female Founders Please Stand Up?
[Note: I am paraphrasing bits below because I'm not sure of my legal right to provide the exact wording of the agreements since those are behind developer log-in pages and I don't want to risk my iOS developer account.]

>> Didn't Apple say basically "if you can sign up in the app, you need to be able to sign up in the app in a way we get a cut". So as long as linode doesn't take on new customers in the app, no problem?

> However, Apple does require that if a publisher chooses to sell a digital subscription separately outside of the app, that same subscription offer must be made available, at the same price or less, to customers who wish to subscribe from within the app.

> So no, any SaaS that can take on new customers on their site has to give their iOS app the same ability at the same price, with the requisite 30% cut to Apple for those subscriptions. They don't get to choose to not offer it at all.

This is more about content than about access. I could certainly be wrong, but Apple's not after SaaS, and probably isn't even after content-rental services (e.g., Netflix or Hulu).

The updated guidelines talk about content that is sold outside of the app. (11.6, 11.9, 11.12, 11.13, 11.14). The developer agreement has attachment/schedule 2 for In App Purchases. IAP can't be used for goods or services that are used outside of your iOS app; the wording is very precise (schedule 2:1.1). I would read that as Linode and similar services being 100% in the clear because they aren't even allowed to use IAP.

Subscriptions are a little more fuzzy; both content and services are allowed for subscription (schedule 2:2.3), but rentals through IAP aren't allowed (same). This suggests to me that services like Netflix and Hulu are pretty safe, but it's not as clear. Services in general are pretty clearly only intended for services that are intended primarily to be accessed through your iOS devices (the example provided is turn-by-turn map services). Schedule 2:2.3 also makes a limited exception to 3.3.9 of the main agreement for content-app data collection.

The official agreement seems to say nothing about equivalent offer practice (what you offer outside the app for purchase or subscription must also be offered inside the app), but that could be that I just don't know the right legalese.
Besides their premature international expansions, its biggest mistake I believe was closing its own online store and use Amazon for over 8 years. I mean maybe they weren't savvy enough to understand online presence at first, but it took them 8+ years to finally figure that out?
The bolt-cutter quote comes from the president of the Author's Guild, not part of the film industry.

That is in the first sentence of the article.
Ask HN: What programming language is Watson written in?
I am very curious about what programming language was used to write the Watson software that IBM used to play Jeopardy. There is a screen of code at 1:49 in this, http://www-943.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/what-is-watson/a-system-designed-for-answers.html video, but I couldn't make out the language and it could just be a filler. Has anybody seen anywhere it was mentioned?
Why do blog posts by Gruber consisting of paltry quotes paired with single lines of text make it onto HN's front page?
See, this is good. Research leads are handy.

I knew what the OP was talking about, but imagine if I didn't. I wouldn't have any context for the points.

Have a karma cookie.
Funny I just downloaded Catch on my android over the weekend and thought it was a great app. Well designed and more straight-forward than Evernote.

Good to see you're HN'ers. Congrats on raising capital.
Thanks.

I know as soon as I looked at the title, I groaned as I clicked the link to the comments. Sometimes you just know how these things are going to go.
No, but it is an indication of the "enforcement" and regulation bodies being cowed and coopted by the bankers, which certainly effects the handling of the recent clusterfuck by the same bodies.

If they aren't going to let an investigator bring John Mack in to talk about a little insider trading case, they certainly aren't going to bring him and his peers in to talk about melting down the financial system, unless their message is "can we throw any more free money at you?"
The original post is here: http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/02/16/rim-needs-to-shut-up-a...

Is HN so enamored with Gruber that we'll upvote what is essentially a retweet onto the frontpage without any mention of the original?
In reality for the case study -- I'll likely just leave it as a web app. I'm more comfortable with the web anyway. Or if it did go IOS native -- It would just be a free service.

re: 3. I worked on the worst-case assumption of SaaS Issues..
Isn't that seperate pricing though?
If you have person A paying $200 for Bootcamp + App and person B paying $200 for App, isn't there a problem?

I'm wouldn't be concerned about new customers.. But if my existing customers have the app -- then they would have to have the ability to pay via iTunes for next month.. And that means a 30% cut to apple.

I'm not sure it's something they would enforce.. But I'm concerned regardless.
But they are required by law to provide full disclosure. Something they where negligent to do with the mortgage backed securities.
Looks like some variant of C?
Um, the fine minds of the Fed, Congress, and the Clinton and Bush administrations declared some of the instruments off limits from regulation.

Then they went off to Wall Street and collected their millions of dollars.
It's impressive to me how much paper vs. digital matters.

This isn't true for everyone, but for me:

Paper (or a whiteboard) = thinking

Digital = consuming or gathering info
I suppose you've missed the title OpenGL in "Java". You point to a nice website that teaches you how to use OpenGL in ... C++.

Anyway I doubt JOGL does not let you to use buffers, so you can draw in memory and after that draw on screen. Even the Red Book starts with drawing directly on the screen; the double buffer technique is useful for animations ...
Well done :)
I agree this is a reasonable although surprising interpretation, as I posted yesterday:

http://zachbaker.com/apple-releases-new-rules-for-subscripti...

Apple has really confused myself and a lot of folks with this ambiguity.
I do both design and development so I'm not really sure what side of the fence I fall under, but in the last year or so I've actually transitioned to writing the HTML first and then designing in photoshop as well. I actually find this method to be far superior to skin first, but then again I am a good enough developer that it makes sense to me to think in this way easily. I'm surprised that this method comes as such a surprise to HN, I thought it was a much more common practice.

The best part is that this leads to very clean and well structured HTML, and a better design because you know exactly what your content is.
For better or worse, Gruber posts usually have lively discussion threads on HN. Hard to avoid the inevitable flame wars though...
I wish HN would enable links in self posts.

http://catch.com (yes it was easier to type it out here, than in the browser)
Thailand official foreign affairs / embassy web sites hacked
Hard to tell if this person didn't simply walk into the event completely hyped up on a female gathering walked in and saw men and put up a wall immediately. From there did she simply see everything from a biased view because she was disappointed in not attending her hopeful venue?
Auto theft goes on all the time, but if a car that was reported stolen on Monday showed up in my driveway on Tuesday, and a cop showed up to ask me a few questions, I wouldn’t be able to get him fired.
No /thread
Wall Street owns the jails.
"... But these tales of high-rolling nerds mask a greater truth, one that actually threatens to hurt the tech industry over the long term: Software engineers in the Bay Area are underpaid when you consider the billions in wealth their work creates. ..."

This observation isn't new, cf: "Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists" ~ http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/
The screen where the guy is coding on his laptop looks like Java, to me.
Not every idea is a good one.
well, you make the laws. that's the beauty. personal responsibility - I would have guessed that an entrepreneurial community would expect people to look out for themselves. sure, don't cheat people, but also don't expect that a system totally eliminates cheating. no free lunch.
http://www.quora.com/What-language-is-IBM-Watson-programmed-...

Current guess is Java, at least in part.
WordPress: From Beginner to Expert [Ebook]
Watson on Jeopardy (Youtube Playlist)
No. For many reasons, but one in particular:

Your broker cannot offer an app with IAP that does purchases of goods or services that cannot be used in the app itself. (iOS Developer Agreement, schedule 2:1.1)

This is all about IAP. If you aren't allowed to offer IAP for your particular item, these rules don't apply. If, however, you could theoretically use IAP for your content, you cannot offer such a service solely through external purchases.
this is something that happened in the aftermath of the crisis

Not quite. The fraud that is happening today is part of the attempt to cover up the fraud that happened during the crisis. (That's the thing about crime, as all the good dime novels say: Once you do the first one it just leads to another.)

I'm no lawyer, let alone a real estate lawyer, so I can't refute this to the extent that it probably deserves. But some things even I understand: If Bank A lent money to a customer, and then Bank A sold the mortgage to Bank B without properly transferring the paperwork (according to the very well established law concerning such things), and then Bank B sold that mortgage upstream to Bank C, and then Bank C sold Investor D a security that is "backed by actual mortgages"... someone committed fraud. Either Bank B lied to Bank C by selling something that they did not own, or Bank C happily paid Bank B for a thing that was not, legally speaking, a properly transferred mortgage ("Bank B hereby sells this IOU, written on a Post-It note, to Bank C") but then claimed to its investors that it actually owned mortgages. Post-It notes are not mortgages.

What is happening today is that the Bank Cs of the world, who are on the hook to their investors to pay off those supposedly "mortgage-backed" securities, are foreclosing on houses to try and recoup some money. But Bank C doesn't actually own the houses because someone messed up the paperwork. So they wave the Post-It notes around with great energy, committing more fraud and perjury (and stupid mistakes) in the process, and hope that nobody gets prosecuted.

EDIT: Note: these are not just alleged crimes, they seem like seriously embarrassing alleged crimes. They lost the papers! What a rookie mistake! If only they'd been a little less sloppy this wouldn't have happened!

But, once again: Where there is one crime there may well be others. It's quite possible that this level of sloppiness and fraud was not allowed to go on just by accident. It may well have served to disguise other frauds, like (e.g.) effectively selling a mortgage more than once as part of different securities.
“It’s not the crime; it’s the coverup.”

If the people who may have been complicit in the last meltdown are conspicuously not being punished for covering their tracks, then the people who have the power to trigger the next meltdown will not fear prosecution for “the greater causes”, either.
Congratulations! That's a very inspiring story... thanks for sharing.
Not everyone agrees on what makes a good entrepreneurial environment.
It sounds like whomever controls your your Google Apps Mail account has disabled 3rd party apps - once that is enabled you will be able to dl Taskforce. If you like I'm happy to explain the benefits to them, you can email me on nic@taskforceapp - thx!
Nokia has been trying "innovation and overwhelmingly superior products" for years? could have fooled me..
Biologists and dolphins have created a new inter-species language
I've gotten to see a bunch of people switching from iOS to Android, plus a bunch of people upgrading from a feature phone to Android. If Android is the first smartphone you see, it seems natural to you. If you're used to iOS, it's harder to switch. It took me 3-4 weeks before Android felt natural and the iPhone felt alien to me.
I recall those getting described as: Y Combinator is trying something new to encourage female startup founders. We're organizing a series of informal dinners at which women interested in starting startups can learn more about it from YC alumni.

Looks like it did what it said on the tin.

Not a fan of this choice of thread title, by the way. [Edit for context: it was "Is YC Sexist?"] Racist and sexist are up there with kiddie porn these days, particularly in the bluer parts of the country. (Not that the redder parts of the country don't care, but that sort of accusation is a career ender at e.g. a university campus.) The question mark does not excuse all insinuations.
I wonder what Google will do in the future to curb this from happening as they seem to crack down on everything and anything they think inflates ratings..
Summary: A restaurant that doesn't exist will use iPads thereby replacing menus which don't exist and staff that hasn't been hired thereby establishing a trend which does not exist. I am not sure that a touch screen on the table really such a great idea when serving greasy foods hand held foods such as burgers,fries and pizza.
I use emacs for everything except to quickly jump around a file and edit it. Vim is super fast for this.

Emacs will also help you when your in weird situation because it is so powerful. One very simple example: we had some new machines installed recently but they didn't have our home directories nfs-ed onto them because the San was in a different network. With e-shell In emacs I could copy over my files without even opening a window to my home directories because emacs's tramp mode is built into the shell. It meant that I had autocomplete in my shell while working on a remote machine. Guys were ftping files clumsily over while I just had to use "cp" and the tab key.
The world changes, there isn't enough market in high street bookstores wedged between small local bookshops that also sell used and Amazon or supermarkets on the other.

If bookshops can't make enough $/sq ft then another type of store will move in.
Congrats to those here who were skeptical of the initial announcement due to the lack of details.

Put me in the camp that says it didn't entirely start out as a hoax, but that a hoax looked increasingly like a good way of backing out gracefully after someone pointed out the rules.
"... nice job. I'm surprised however that people are willing to pay for this type of service. ..."

It appears to be a toy product but if you consider:

* As a twitter subscriber, reading multiple posts are a pain to read. This is a real problem for users and their subscribers.

* Twitter has a lot of potential users/businesses looking for ways to automate etiquette.

* Twitter has a lot of users

The real problem for any developer here if I get a product with a lot of users, will Twitter just roll out the same product or will they pay enough?
Well, assuming the story's accurate, the event's pitched with Mrs Livingston's name, billed as a meetup for female founders, then she gets there and it's 4 dudes telling them how to be successful in business? I'd be pissed, too. I wouldn't go as far as "sexist" but maybe "put on a really crappy Female Founders event".