skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you checked out Investopedia?

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dilutedeps.asp

They hyperlink to all the related terms too. Probably the easiest way to get around financial terminology.
There's a marketing play here, you see how the slash separates two types of future customers?

"Cloud computing" - for those who believe in it and "web browsing" for the rest of us.

:-)
Blocking criminal phishing sites isn't censorship.
"The splash page is impenetrable. That kind of minimalism worked for Google because you can type in anything and get results."

That's true. I guess I neglected since I've thinking about this a lot, and all my friend that I have spoken to already know what it's supposed to do so they haven't really been able to criticise me properly.
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The app and the manifesto should get together someday to discuss their differences.
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Well, I does seem irrational doesn't it :-) I added a few extra "tags" to some of them. IMDB has 'movies' as tag and twitter has micro-blog. Perhaps I should remove them for the sake of clarity?
nos, thanks. i did see that site and have come across it several times while looking up terms. but as much as wikipedia and investopedia help, its tough to link everything together in the meaningful way a book might.

where to most people learn these terms? econ degrees and mbas?
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What do you mean by Django/Google App Engine? They are two different things.
As for your question, I dont think that there are any Herokus for django right now although MediaTemple.net is working on one- http://mediatemple.net/labs/gsdjango/ .
Here are some more django-friendly webhosts-
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts .
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So you're basically proposing that I can use Zendo to search a few applications without actually visiting those sites' hompeages? A tagline would make the "what you do" piece clearer.

Assuming I'm in the ballpark, it may be easier for me to bookmark Google and use "keywords + service" syntax a la "Web 2.0 Expo + youtube." It's perfect in those cases I want to search Google, and convenient in those fewer instances I want to search "inside" other services.

What's more, a Google search for "site:service + keyword" (e.g. site:youtube.com + Startup School) would do the same inner-site search as the latter even more efficiently. But it's true fewer people know that syntax...

Of course this is all assuming I've got your angle right. Even then it's only my take.

Edit: I just read your comment about not being a programmer. Assuming you made it yourself, hats off. It's a tremendous first go.
Now is the time to patch those unpatched DNS servers. Details have leaked.
Same situation for scientists: to be great, you must be a great communicator as well.

[Or die, wait 50 years and then get understood and explained by someone obsessed with your obscure work.]

Beyond: the ability to communicate properly puts down your bus ticket a lot: your software may survive your interest in it.
"...
My name is Jonas. I'm a Swedish guy and the creator of Zendo - an Application Launcher for the web. I'd be so grateful for any creative criticism the HN community would offer.
..."

Hi Jonas. I've tried using "Zendo" but it really doesn't solve any problem that I have. If I enter the same term ... say "zendo" into each box, hit return on each button the page redirected to "wikipedia" reflecting the fastest query not necessarily the best. I've read the manifesto, blog but nothing really describes what problem it's trying to solve.

So either kill the idea, redefine the idea or move on. Fail fast. Of the 3 maybe re-defining the idea might be better. What is the specific problem you are solving?

"... I created ZENDO to give people quick and easy access to everything they love about the web. ..."

So make it understand the user better.
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Sorry, meant to respond to your question of the larger picture, but it ended up as a follow-up on another comment.

Anyway, thanks for the friendly and constructive tone. It means a lot to me.
Another advantage of OpenDNS is security. It's rather coincidental this got posted on same day a massive DNS vulnerability was leaked: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=252865

I would hope that all the major ISPs have patched their DNS servers by now, but if your not sure it might be a good idea to switch to OpenDNS, at least temporarily.
Goes to show how important design and usability is in an increasingly confusing world.
Probably not an econ degree - I took a couple econ courses and they didn't cover any standard financial terminology. Pretty sure a typical MBA doesn't cover it either. Maybe accounting, but I've never taken an accounting course.

I think most people learn through going to work at a financial firm. My friends in hedge funds actually have classes (with tests, and homework) that they take within their employer, and they cover a lot of the corner cases of financial terminology. I guess I learned most of what I know through osmosis from former I-bankers and quants when I worked at a financial software startup.

If you don't mind a book from the 1930s, you could also try Benjamin Graham's Securities Analysis, widely considered the bible of the field. Warren Buffett learned from that, and from pestering Graham until he hired him for his investment fund. It's really dry reading, but covers almost everything you need to know to understand income statements and balance sheets, including little adjustments you have to make to the company's numbers because they always try to paint things a little better than they are.
I’ve installed but not actually used ... Yelp, Movies.app, Facebook, PayPal, NYTimes...

What?! Those are apps? That's nice, I want off-browser applications for my favorite sites too, on a regular PC desktop: without annoying login screens, without endless "please waits", without ads (yes, I'll pay for it), with look and feel (especially fonts) consistent with the rest of the system.

I want my stuff to get off the browser, anyone here cares to submit a YC application?
craigslist.org, anybody?
Test your ISP / DNS server with this command:

dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT

If you see "from 1 ports" it's unpatched and you should switch to OpenDNS immediately. If it says "from 26 ports" (approximately) you're fine.
"... Not to sound like an 'asshole', but how is this different from inputting the url into the address bar? ..."

You do, but your summation is accurate and suggestions are good. Yubnub ~ http://yubnub.org allowing users to customise shortcuts to what ever you want. Another idea would be to seed sites that you already visit but what about other sites that you might like? Delicious sort of solves this problem but never really suggests anything.

Maybe working out what users like (keywords) extracting sites from delicious tags might do something useful?
What's the number of accounts that accept OpenID? Or the number of accounts that use OpenID? My company serves a pretty tech-oriented crowd and we get 5% usage of OpenID.
"... A succesion (sic) plan would really freak out shareholders by making them think the plan is necessary ..."

I think it already is. The market is really a perception and expectation what they think/want to happen in the future. The key question is "who in Apple" or externally has the taste and design aesthetics of Steve Jobs?
...and he only wants to pay you with a free tablet!
Good lord, that was insightful. And damn fun to read. Exactly the sort of thing I'd want to see in MIT's Tech Review magazine, or similar venues.
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I've been to both Citizen space and Hat Factory in SF. Hat Factory is too inconvenient for me, and Citizen Space is too expensive ($350/m). You can get a real, private office in a cool space in San Francisco for $400 if you know the right people (artists). Paying money to go to someone's house with a bunch of other people I don't know doesn't appeal to me. It could potentially appeal to me if I lived in Palo Alto and it was really cheap, like $30/m or less. It seems like you'd have to have some additional benefit, because I don't see the advantage over simply going to work at a friend's house, which is free. Maybe it would appeal to people with no friends? If you're trying to make some extra money you might be better off just renting out the garage. If you are trying to meet more nerds, hosting a "super happy dev house" type event once a month might have the same effect. You could make money with that idea too, by charging $5 at the door for beer.
In retrospect a less strange question would be How many logged in visitors who saw your story upmodded it? But, that is a harder question to answer.

Actually that's one of the easier questions to answer. All I have to do is look at people who voted on items created since that time, which is easy to find because items have sequential ids. The number of users who've voted on an item with an id over 250700 (and who presumbably all saw that link and could have voted it up) is 1348.
Cheers for the comment. I'll try to see if I can define my vision for this project

The idea I had in beginning was to merge all the search boxes out there into, to avoid having to go to the main page of every site before I could search it.

But then I realised that are a lot of other things that I'd like to do when at "The Main Searchbox". What if I would like to search for a friend on Facebook, or from my email contacts in GMail. What if I could select a contact and then just send them a quick email? Perhaps I could also update my twitter from this "Main Searchbox". It would also be great if you could access all your files that you store in the cloud from this search, just like you can do with Spotlight on Macs.

And then I found Quicksilver, which indeed does some of these things. But Quicksilver has its limitations. It only works on one OS, and when you switch computer it doesn't "follow" you. Also it's quite hard to write plugins for Quicksilver if you're not a skilled programmer.

So, my vision for this site/project is that you should be able to do basically anything, without having to leave the main menu.
Don't forget Neuros, Chumby, and OGP; I wouldn't call any of them successful.
Here's what I did in the past when I encountered the same situation:

1. Looked up what reports a company has to file. The key one I liked is 10-Q.

10-Q: (from investopedia) A comprehensive report of a company's performance that must be submitted quarterly by all public companies to the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the 10-Q, firms are required to disclose relevant information regarding their financial position. The form must be submitted on time, and the information should be available to all interested parties.

2. Look up your favorite public companies 10-Q. For me: Google's 10-Q filing => http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001193125072...

3. Get a book like Brealey, R., and S. C. Myers. Principles of Corporate Finance. 7th ed. Irvin McGraw-Hill.

4. Using 10-Q, book, and google, go through each line of the financial statement to figure out what it means.

5. For some insight and wisdom, look at Warren Buffet's letters to investors. => http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html

enjoy!
"... b) we've never done this before. what are the downfalls? ..."

Everyone steals your stuff. There is probably a "trust" issue you would want to address. Maybe some reference checks, a bond? What I'd try is finding an existing startup that you can get some "symbiosis" with. It might also be a way to find extra founders? What ever you do write it up and post the results. I'm sure there are some interesting outcomes.

Of course maybe you are an optimist. What are do you have to offer? Broadband, wifi, couches, smart hackers? Startup rentals by hackers is a new idea, wonder if it takes off?
Thanks!!! I didn't know that existed!
c. If it was free!
"MySpace to exploit OpenID" would be a better headline. SSO won't be achieved if everyone wants to own your identity.
Have you tried Prism?
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism
I haven't, so I can't tell you that it'll do what you need, but it sounds like the right idea.
Well, I shouldn't claim that to have done the coding myself. It's "borrowed" code from Newcars.com, but I since I probably will have to redo most of it, I hope they will not disagree too much if I use it for demonstration for a couple of weeks.

Though I have to say, just tweaking the javascipt was quite an experience.
i will do just this, thank you for the pointer.

also, i scanned through one of buffet's letters, and wow, what a wealth of information.
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"... So what happened? Matasano had an article ready with some more details on the DNS vulnerability for after Blackhat and posted it in error. They removed it as soon as they noticed it. ..."

Hey tptacek ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek hangs around HN whats the beef Thomas?
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Or at least make it plain somehow why the site is being matched. Perhaps have the matching keywords show up in a third line of text under the two that are already there.

Also, like others have said, you really need to do a better job of answering the "what the hell is this" question that will inevitably pop up the first time people see the site.
I stared at the site for a minute. Then I tried typing in something and it said "sorry mate, we don't do that kind of advertising here". Then I left...
Kindle was designed to do a completely different job. It uses a specialized screen -- I think it's ePaper, or something similar, based on some work from MIT a few years back -- that's designed to make the text as easy to read as a printed book.

AFAIK, there's no color support on that kind of screen technology yet, or if there is, it's prohibitively expensive.
Is there consensus among experts about self-signed certificates? What about the new Firefox 3 UI?
http://www.matasano.com/log/1105/regarding-the-post-on-charg...
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#7 - Data driven web apps (who doesn't have one these days?) can do a million things (probably an understatement) but the key is to do a few things really well.

Write down the features you want (what you want your app to do) and then cut it in half - than cut it in half again - than identify the three hardest features left and cut one of those - and than you probably have a lightweight app that will get off the ground so you can work to stay off the ground.
And also how there are fewer and fewer killer desktop applications out there - doesn't matter what OS you have when everything new and exciting is on the web, so you may as well choose the one that gives you the nicest experience.
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According to stuff I just googled up, Nokia was founded in 1865. The current CEO was appointed in 2006. Accounting for many years of hard times, that means the company did okay without the current CEO for 100 years, at least.

Meanwhile, Apple has never had a good year unless Jobs was at the helm. He's not just the CEO appointed 100 years after the company got started, he is the founder. Given the track record of the multiple CEOs the company had during his absence, it's easy to make the case that nobody can run Apple but Jobs. Apple is made from Steve Jobs' DNA.

So, sorry, but I think it's you who don't seem to know the facts correctly.
I once knew this girl named "Perl". She really blew my mind... Apparently, there's more than one way to do it! ;)
Tell me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the parts alone cost around $200. I am not saying that this is impossible, but reliable batteries alone have got to be pretty expensive.
Vintage CLOS
just clarifying, since it sounded like he thought open source = non-profit
This is why coordinated advisories are generally kept to as small a group as possible. It's one thing to trust that people won't leak things deliberately -- it's quite another to trust that mistakes won't happen.

With all due respect, this isn't Thomas's fault -- it's Dan's fault for telling more people what was going on than was absolutely necessary.
I wasn't really talking about the screen, more about the exterior of it
Thank you, Colin, but this is entirely my fault. People need to be able to tell us things and trust that they won't hit Slashdot. We made a terrible error in judgement, and we deserve the hits.
I think it makes as much sense as the original.
People need to be able to tell us things

Why? I'm sure that telling you all the details was the easiest way for Dan to convince you that this issue was real -- but there are other approaches he could have taken... starting with "look, ISC and $LONGLISTOFVENDORS have issued security advisories, and they're not idiots".

It seems to me that what happened is that Dan's ego was stung by having you publicly mock his work, and he didn't stop to think about how the situation could best be handled. And really, that sort of thin skin is unforgivable in this business.
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That is a pretty elegant solution. I am almost embarrassed I didn't consider it.

To save everyone else the math, 378/1348 = .28.
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iPhone 3G has its problems too http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=252923
30% of us upmodded 'Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund'
searchme.com has an amazing UI. Not only thats cool, but very useful.
i believe the next gen of search engines will be directly answering your search query, rather than simply finding appropriate links.
Correct. That screen utilizes eInk (ePaper, whatever currently the hype word is for it). The main idea behind this technology is readability and minimal energy consumption. Next generation of this technology will probably be OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) with which it will be possible to have thin and colorful displays. Sony has developed interesting prototypes which you can see e.g. here. (http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=NcAm3KihFho)
Not to sound like an asshole, but it is hard to not sound like an asshole when you begin a sentience with "Not to sound like an asshole."
The world hasn't seen Capitalism proper. Too much regulation, too little laissez faire to argue from experience that it's lacking in any area.

Blame the government (or, dare I say, its unfettered expansion).
That blog has some of the most interesting content I've read, along with some of the worst spelling I've seen (at least in any blog worth reading). And, for some reason, I feel slightly ashamed at myself for being bothered by it.
1865: The birth of Nokia
Fredrik Idestam establishes a paper mill at the Tammerkoski Rapids in south-western Finland, where the Nokia story begins.

1937: Verner Weckman, industry heavyweight
Former Olympic wrestler Verner Weckman becomes President of Finnish Cable Works.

1967: The merger
Nokia Ab, Finnish Rubber Works and Finnish Cable works formally merge to create Nokia Corporation

1979: Mobira Oy, early phone maker
Radio telephone company Mobira Oy begins life as a joint venture between Nokia and leading Finnish television maker Salora

1992: Jorma Ollila becomes President and CEO
Jorma Ollila becomes President and CEO of Nokia, focusing the company on telecommunications.

2006: A new President and CEO – Nokia today
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo becomes Nokia’s President and CEO; Jorma Ollila becomes Chairman of Nokia’s board. Nokia and Siemens announce plans for Nokia Siemens Networks.

I think you should double check your sources. These are from Nokia.
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Incrementing a pointer is an op. Doing it in a loop takes O(N) time, doing it in a nested loop takes O(N^2) time. These are the timings the author of the article considered terrible for heap allocation. If you have to trace through some tables, then allocating objects in a loop is not O(N), but rather some much more complex big-O, which would have to take into account things like how many objects have been allocated elsewhere and the time complexity of traversing the tables or whatever. Granted, he was wrong about the complexity here, but that is my entire point, he makes up all sorts of wrong facts.
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Ok, you're confused here. Something can be an outrage, and something can cause outrage. The question "where's the outrage?" isn't "Where's waldo, see if you can spot an outrage", rather "why aren't people outraged!?".

Also, when the FDIC takes control of a bank, the shareholders of the bank are basically fucked. They lose their money, it isn't a bailout. The FDIC insures YOU against the fatcats, preventing them from blowing your money and leaving you destitute.

Finally, everyone knows that 100k is how much is ensured, and you should also know that that limit is per institution, so you can put money in 80 different banks and have 8M effectively insured.

There are all sorts of issues with the banking system, but it is fairly decent. It is certainly not some dystopia dreamed up by left wing conspiracy theorists (nor right wing, like ron paul).
Nevermind -- I understand the severity of it now. Seems like a novel angle to an old problem .. collidable QID's used to verify sender.
I wrote something here but for once I think I'm just going to shut up about something.
Ive seen the space, I like it. Very nice, it's relatively big (~ 15 ppl max) its within walking distance (across the street) of one of the best places for breakfast in the area, and on the route of 2 frequent bus lines.

About security (of the owner): It's not like you would not know who everyone there is (think LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter), plus you could set in place some basic common sense safeguards (lock doors to your rooms, add those nifty security cables to laptops)

Security of tenants: Same as above, lock door(s) to office entrance, perhaps some CCTV at the door (cheap remote hosted)

Overall, I think it's a good idea, and I think you should do it.
If anyone is interested in these, take a look at Anchor Stone Blocks. I remember playing with them when I was younger and greatly enjoyed them. I think they can potentially be a lot more creative since they do not interlock at all and let you create whatever you want.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_Stone_Blocks
we will manage that. the dev community will be live tonight and it has already been split up into sub-projects with leads on each one.
nothing to do with profit - they will retail at cost. it will be cheaper than the Nokia because of what the device doesn't have in it (eg. bluetooth, GPS, being browser only etc.)
there are people within TC and within the companies we are working with who are working on this fulltime
not a profit incentive. we just want cool hardware and want it to be open
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yes Gates was onto something. nobody has done it right though
great point and something we have looked into. nothing like an Apple v Open Source patent war
like saying wait for peace in the middle east (both UN initiatives)
the price point we are at in our spec already is at $150 so we have left $50 or more to add cooler shit
hey I just found this thread! (read the site every day though)
Where are you getting the screen?
great comment and very true - although the Kindle serves a different purpose (ie. selling ebooks from Amazon)
I didn't see anywhere that the early prototypes would be free to developers: just that they would get first dibs.