skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, penny auctions sites are neither gambling sites nor scams (unless proven otherwise).

They are merely a variation of the Dollar auction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction

They are not a gambling site because gambling implies that you depend on chance to win. Penny auction sites don't. If you put in one bid and that bid happens to be the last bid, you win. It isn't as if you put in a bid and hope to get randomly selected to win.

They are not a scam as they do tell you what they are doing and people who go in for it know that they pay per bid.

The only time they become a scam is when the site operator gets involved in the bidding. For example, if the site operator finds that the price is too low and put in a bid themselves to force the next closest bidder to up the ante.

Basically, penny auction sites sets people against each other and pick up the spoils. This is the only reason I hope they will all be gone.
HFT = High Frequency Trading for those that don't know from the title.
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If you can go onto Ebay and find more than one or two of the item you are selling it's probably not a "collectible" or at any rate it's not something you are going to get a lot of money for.
Perhaps it's not a problem with finance but a problem with other industries that don't pay their people well. Who is to say that a CDO isn't a valuable economic activity?

If creating a CDO creates more value to the economy than designing an automobile why shouldn't engineers focus on building those?

People forget that prices and money are essentially information about the supply and demand of a good. As we progress in the information age deriving information from price will consume and produce ever more of our GDP. Spending money efficiently and directing it to the right purposes is a VERY valuable thing for a nation to do. Perhaps, dare I say it, more valuable than engineering widgets.

If YC had engineers figuring out algorithms to determine the best startups and they found one that worked it would be a very valuable piece of information. Or more relevantly, what if you had a site that required a lot of bandwidth and you could buy a bandwidth future? If you could buy that sort of thing you could offer 4 year contracts to your customers with out taking on any risk.

How about this instrument, a YC Summer 2014 startup future, it estimates the expected return from S14 and pays you if the return is less than expected. YC could sell them today and gain the advantage of knowing how many startups they could fund in S14. It would allow all sorts of people to pool their knowledge about what the Summer 2014 startup scene is going to be like. You might want to buy one right before the S14 season because you know that some great startup is applying, etc. If you held office space in SOMA you could use this as a hedge against losses incurred due to a poor S14 startup season.

Most complicated financial instruments are actually risk mitigation and/or information pools. The fact that that kind of thing is pricable due to these engineers spreads all sorts of great information to our economy that you can use to make informed decisions about how to conduct your affairs and you don't even need to participate in the market to use it.

Want to know what the best guess as to the price of oil in 6 months? Check the oil futures market. This one number contains the all the information known to man, vetted by experts as to what the supply and demand of oil is going to be in a few months. It also allows anyone with new knowledge to monetize that information and communicate it to all participants almost instantly. Southwest can offer cheaper flights because they use oil and jet fuel futures to buy jet fuel, the brilliant thing is that Exxon also gains knowledge of what Southwest and every other airline expects their passenger load to be in a few months and can make decisions accordingly.
Sorry if I'm missing something, but what would make me use this instead of Evernote? The free version has served me nicely for a while and it also does the nice thumbnailing feature.
The funny thing about sunk cost is that everyone seems to know about it, but nobody seems to actually act on the concept. You see lots of folks with MBAs doing it when it comes to trading, and they've all sat in the econ class and nodded when that topic came up.
Glad you liked it! My daughter has a toy robot that has it's own battle song.
Ask HN: Mechanical Turk the job hunt?
Just had a thought afterthe article regarding zynga, goog and fb hiring like mad:

What would the results be to exploit mechanical turk to hunt for jobs for you and pay based on leads/interviews.

You have your resume and cover letter and have them seek and submit on your behalf.

I am thinking about changing jobs, I might try this approach to see what type of results I can get.
You also don't (yet, at least) pay for "new" content. People sitting through commercials (or paying for cable) get content before it is even available to you.
>HOW on earth did they lose money...

Cocaine is a hell of a drug
It makes the most sense. If you want to do web development and know absolutely nothing, HTML is the starting point. I wouldn't necessarily call it a programming language but it is a markup language in which is heavily used along with everything else and is the easiest to pick up.

From there, everything else is a building block. Think of it like math. You'd take transitional math before pre-algebra, pre-algebra before algebra, etc... Same thing.
Thanks for sharing, UX lesson for me too. I've made it more obvious now. (:
Totally. Trying to get me to leave Austin, TX which is half the cost of living AND has no state income tax is a tough sell to us devs here. Remote work is becoming more and more accepted lately as recruiters and companies are realizing people actually may not want to live in Cali. Granted, monthly in person meetings may be necessary but a flight and a hotel is a reasonable fee, IMO.
>> It is unclear what the advantage is to having a resume on resumatic

>> Can you put a few more sample resumes on the site?
See my link here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373681

I just had a great thought;

Couple your resumatic with my mechanical turk idea - have people submit their resumes and then your service get mechanical turk to job hunt for them!

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*	Just had a thought afterthe article regarding zynga, goog and fb hiring like mad:

What would the results be to exploit mechanical turk to hunt for jobs for you and pay based on leads/interviews.

You have your resume and cover letter and have them seek and submit on your behalf.

I am thinking about changing jobs, I might try this approach to see what type of results I can get.
To me, the argument to convince oneself that Haskell's = "assigmnent" is not the same beast as C's and Python's is the following: the binding it defines is also valid in code before it.
Thanks for the tip. I'll do that.
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What industries are declining? As far as I know, virtually every sector of the economy has grown. Manufacturing, medicine, education and technology certainly have.

What industries are declining, and why do you believe that finance has failed them?
I don't know, but I think they're desperate for some data mining know how so they can do better targeted advertising. I think it's do or die for them.
He got money to blow. One can't bring money to grave. Why not make it to good use while alive? Not that it's a bad business deal.
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It is quite puzzling why all of a sudden there is a rush to write about hft. Historically, systematic trading has been very secretive and quite understandably so. And now all of a sudden you can read about building hft systems on wordpress blogs. Either returns have virtually diminished from such strategies or in the view of recent popular backlash, there is a concerted drive to talk about it.
Sorry, couldn't find it in searchyc.
Yahoo has a very large research group that publishes a lot of great research. Check out their site.
I was amused for a good few minutes. I think if your really wondering if something is a snack or not, you might want to put actual snacks items instead of full blown dinner options. I think you will be getting answers to more of the question of Is it edible? which a CD is not.

I stopped at this one. Is this a snack: dinner? - No, it's dinner. :)
allow visitors to leave comments (even facebook comments would do)
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I was expecting the video to be some sort of viral joke - they announce "gotcha" at the end, or a really exaggerated figure in a pinstriped suit stands up and hands this girl a $500 million check, but NO - shockingly, it's a real presentation? 2 minutes of my life, lost!
Teaching FP to freshmen
I don't think this argument really applies to TV, where viewers really haven't had any voting power about ads. Until very recently, they either watched TV or didn't, and I doubt people ever stopped watching TV and stopped digesting TV media because of ads.
To me, this is a way better link for local businesses than the usual dumping visitors on a Google Maps page for their address.

They can make their business name prominent, add notes (and a link back to their website), and the content is all controlled by them.
I had a friend who put Rockbox on his hold iPod, then used a hex editor to change all the on screen text to random other stuff. Instead of saying "Now playing ..." it said "Now rocking ..."
Last I heard, Twitter has 200 million users. So that means the top 0.01% of users get 50% of all tweet impressions. Tweet wealth is 100x more concentrated than financial wealth in America.
Seriously? You're saying that it's fine for the financial industry to hold the country hostage when they fail because there's equal opportunity for other industries to do that too if they too can become large enough?
My two sons used to do this kind of thing all the time, minus the printed monsters. They had entire boxes of items that they kept around specifically to help them build mazes and also were very bad about co-opting every video-tape in the house or similar.
Why imitate Apple? Just cause Apple have American executives who can communicate well with the American press, Samsung should too? And somehow they should only report the exact number of devices sold to customers, when not other company in the world (not even Apple) does?

Samsung is a different company than Apple. Even if they were to try and attack Apple through imitation, they'd just come off as a pale copy. Personally I'd say they are doing OK, especially cause they get the enviable position of making money off every iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV made while presenting a competing device of their own. There is no one true way.

And some fact checks:

Galaxy Player is available, just not in America (Samsung has a Korean bias, just like Apple has an American bias): http://en.akihabaranews.com/89201/dap-pmp/samsung%E2%80%99s-...

And the Tab 10.1 does have a ship date: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/22/live-from-samsungs-ctia-e...
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This is not terribly surprising, and illustrates why Facebook and Twitter are completely different (and complementary) social networks.

Facebook for keeping tabs on people you know and who know you, i.e. symmetrical relationships.

Twitter turned out to be well suited for keeping track of people you know, but who have no idea who you are, because they are well-known, not you, i.e. asymetrical relationships.
So true. Which is a both a great thing and a bad thing as Doug Crockford pointed out here - http://www.infoq.com/interviews/doug-crockford-html5

Essentially, he's saying that innovation by browser vendors drives innovation in general to a great degree. However, it hampers the ability of standards to do the work in some areas which need standards (such as Security).

I'd expect it to be the same with app side of things, especially with so many vendors trying to get their slice of the pie.

eg: HP's WebOS is supposedly a sort of hybrid web-native combo, RIM now has QNX, Qualcomm has Alljoyn for P2P and is pushing some fancy LTE frameworks. And let's not even get into Near-Field Communications (pretty hardware dependent) and the future of mobile payments =p.
Man, I always get the same observation with historio.us as well. How are they similar? Instapaper saves links for later, historious saves the full content of bookmarks and allows you to perform full text search on it. They're nothing alike.
It is a joke function. I really wish that the supplied documentation let potential users in on the joke. :)

(Oh, pardon. I didn't catch that you might have thought that I thought that strfry was anything but a joke. My take on the situation is that the documentation needs patched, rather than the strfry code. :) )
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To be "honest", "different" here means "almost identical to historious, diigo, evernote", etc. There already are plenty of players in the space, but delicious has spoilt users enough that they don't want to pay for these services.
For me, as a power user, "quit" means "stop doing anything!!", for an IM app, it means: stop showing me as available, stop using my yahoo login because I want this other program to use it! Just stop everything! Don't assume "oh you just want to be offline!", NO! I want to stop you in your tracks and prevent you from doing anything what-so-ever.

I quit an application when I feel it's not doing what I want. I quit an application when I feel the application is being presumptuous and making false assumptions about what I want to do.

I hardly ever quit an application because I need the memory .. it's not about process/memory management. I often close application to reduce clutter on my desktop, and clutter can be reduced without actually quitting applications, so they have a point there, but I'd still hate it if applications assume that I don't really want to quit.

It really annoys me that closing Banshee doesn't stop it from playing music.

It's about setting rules and drawing lines; it's about having control over one's out computer.

I quit a movie/music player to stop from emitting sounds. No, the sound menu is not enough replacement. It might be a good alternative, but not good enough to warrant "never quitting the media application".

I open a browser in private mode then quit it, because .. well it's private mode; if you can't quit it it kinda defeats the point.

I quit a download application (e.g. a torrent client) to stop it from downloading/uploading (to free up bandwidth).

You could try to rethink every use case, and you can provide other ways to achieve the same goals. But, in the end, this is not a good reason to make applications non-quit-able.
If brain tumors are so unnecessary, why do people die from having them removed?
No, I think HFT is a natural progression. HFT was popular among Hedge Funds at least starting in 2004. An acquaintance who ended up working as a tech-related VP at a smaller fund would tell me that the number one problem they had was mitigating (spending or finding an outlet for) the massive amounts of money they generated on around $30 billion of daily trading (buys+sells). Honestly, hyper liquidity has its problems too when you generate too much excess cash and can't spend it due to tax implications, so they would invest massive amounts of capital in their servers (buying the best), in their software (hiring the best programmers), etc. In that hyper-liquid cash-rich work environment, it seems to me that investing in your infrastructure (enabling HFT) was a natural progression. Where else do you spend the money? PS - wish I had these problems too! (I don't) haha
See also Collin's comment on the post: http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospect...
Google Doing Some Profile Unification Leading Up To… Well, Something.
Some of it, but not the majority of it. Industrial production is up and retail sales are up, for example.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/RSFSXMV

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/INDPRO
I don't think this will be very effective and could potentially hurt your chances if not done well by your "agents".

Rather than a spray and pray approach, I'd recommend a rather old fashioned approach: List out the companies you'd like to work at, tailor your resume and highlight relevant experiences, find someone you know who works there (or linkedin to find common connections)

I find that I need to change my cover letter a little bit for every company and expecting to pay 10 cents an hour to someone who can do this on my behalf is not going to cut it.

OR you could try this : http://technology.newsplurk.com/2010/05/how-to-land-job-with...
That is a great article, even aside from the anecdote about the bingo cards. Analysing what makes a good teacher is so important yet so difficult in reality because of the influence of teachers’ unions. There’s also is a huge reluctance to use any information that is discovered to improve our education systems.
Are you serious? People love music, record label is set in its ancient ways, 21st century music business guru wants to buy label.

This is a fantastic opportunity for him to make money, in my opinion.
And some of us would love to work for company X, but bought houses during the bubble and are now effectively stuck where we're at.

I'd would be great to telecommute, but most aren't up for that as jedberg illustrates.
I had that idea a month ago, it seemed very promising. Good luck with it!
if they were to try and attack Apple through imitation, they'd just come off as a pale copy.

That's the path Samsung is on. Sure, it'd be nice if they'd try something new, but apparently that's not the kind of company they are. If your product isn't novel, you better be a good salesman.
"Standards are [just] paper."

He misunderstands how the world works. Standard is not just paper; standard is the thing. From this site: http://science1.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/matter-does-not-exi...

For physicists Newton’s atomic materialism is blinding.
It will take many generations of humans to perceive that
standard is the thing. There is no “physical” world
other than standards and density differentials.
There are some differences though like copyto lets you save selected parts of a page which is kind of the whole purpose behind
> There's no direct way to do this (...)

Ah, but you can access anything in iPhoto in the "open file" dialog that opens up when you go to attach a file in gmail. It's in the left sidebar under "media", from there you can get to anything in iPhoto organized in the same way they are in iPhoto (here is a screenshot: http://civicit.com/~tvon/files/osx-open-file.png).

Obviously though, you didn't find this, and I can see how that could be a bit obtuse if you expect to browse "Pictures" and find a bunch of image files.
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Does anyone know if they support exporting bookmarks just in case I don't feel like paying them $24/year for bookmarks anymore?
Hmm, I thought Evernote lets you do that as well. Regardless, though, competition is always good!
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Should edit the title; apostrophe goes after the s.

"Scott Adams' Controversial..."
I think it's possible. They'd be facing a very uphill battle to get enough market penetration on a one-to-many level; meaning: it's not enough to get someone to sign up to your new social network. You need to get their friends too.
Plus the latest release of XCode, which MacRuby is preferred to use, supports Git natively.
I like the idea a lot. Things like the photo, the importing from linkedin, the simplicity are nice. One thing that would be cool is to add collapsible sections where someone lists an experience (like welding) and if you open the section it tells much more about this experience (talking at length about the welding job for example). That way people could go over it quickly and if interested read more.

I'd make the link to the example page a little more obvious, I didn't intuitively think I could click on the image for whatever reason.
Yes and no. They do use a thread pool of OS threads, but they don't map 1-to-1 to goroutines.
...they're exploiting flaws in the way trades clear to front-run them and become unwanted middlemen.

Could you explain the mechanics of how this works?

Near as I can tell, the only way to become a "middleman" is to offer a better price than your competitors or to offer the same price at an earlier time. Is there a "front-run my competitors" FIX command I'm not aware of?
Buzzwords might earn you venture capital, but they won’t make a good product.
Actually, that's what I like about Linus. I find it humorous, but I also appreciate a "no bullshit", direct approach. He has it in spades, and he backed up his assertions with hard data.
This is a really cool idea, Zach. Props for making + launching it.

I can see it's value - I do consulting work (web design / marketing) with small businesses and I often spend too much time getting Google Maps to embed just right into the site. I'll try this out on my next project.

It seems to fit perfectly for Craiglist ads. For anyone wondering, here's what the output on Craigslist looks like: http://ka1.us/ZlzK

# Comments / Suggestions / Thoughts

First off, serious props for launching this. It's a wonderful application and I can't wait to see where it grows to. As far as this feedback goes, I'm not you, so take these ideas with a grain of salt.

Custom URL

It would be neat if I could set a custom URL for a location. Linking to http://lg.cx/YRDYhVuq is fine, but it'd be a lot more user friendly for me in my use case (including a link to my house in a party-invite email) if I could set that as http://lg.cx/kaishouse

Registering / Owning / Locking Locations

Can I lock a location or are they always open to editing by anyone? I'd hesitate to use this for a client's website if someone can go in and change the listing description and name. Not a biggie, but something that might come up for business customers.

Copy to Clipboard

Including a copy to clipboard for the embed codes (pic: http://ka1.us/Lfo5) would be great. I'm not sure if it's a bug on my end, but when I clicked into the embed code boxes, they'd flash for a second like they were being highlighted to copy, but would immediately reset to normal. Nothing was copied to my clipboard.

Copying the Craigslist ad was a bit awkward. Half the time my mouse cursor would end up outside of the box and cmd+a would select the entire page. Adding a 'copy this embed code' button for both boxes would be nifty keen.

Sharing

Minor, but an 'email this' button could be nice. Click the button, enter an email address (or multiples) and an email is sent with the table output of the address.

Maybe have the share menu expanded by default? I'm used to 'share' displaying twitter / facebook widgets, so the link code in there came as a bit of a surprise.

Again, congratulations for making + launching this. I think it's really awesome.
The nice comparison chart there shows that, for the purposes of signage, the difference is academic. The sign for the G train set in Arial or Helvetica will make no difference for riders. Or "Exit" in Arial or Helvetica... no perceptible difference.
you're right. my opinion of whether i see any value in the app in my life is directly attributable to what i may or may not have built.

thank you.
Yes, I think you're probably right there.

(IANALAA)
Looks like an awfully familiar approach to bookmarking from where I sit. But hey, welcome!
What? This is generating random-ish terrain on a regular grid, not creating a triangulation from an arbitrary set of points in a plane. In what way do they seem similar?
$15 x 13 = $195. How do you get $500/yr?
I get the impression that it's mostly the arrangement with the electronic exchange and the kickbacks that can be negotiated in exchange for providing liquidity.
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