skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, there are already good alternatives to consumer-hostile banks, such as the fantastic Charles Schwab.

I always recommend them to people because they pay my banking fees, are insured, ethical/reputable, pioneered the discount brokerage, and have great 24/7 customer service. They've helped me out of numerous jams over the years.
They manage to check the tickets for all those passengers.

I've seen it in action.
Well that would explain what the fuss is about: if true, it's just tabloid celebrity nonsense. Not like, oh, the Trafigura superinjunction (where exposing the nasty little nest of maggots behind the story was clearly in the public interest):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/20/trafigura-anatom...
I wrote some notes about the economics of delivering ebooks last year at http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2010-October.... The short version is that yes, you can deliver a million ebooks for seven bucks, so you probably could underwrite the cost of everybody downloading ebooks — if they only downloaded the ones they read, at least.
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You should create a policy that completely prohibits this behavior.
Love it! This could be a really amazing tool.
"Every object obscures another object."

-- Luis Bunuel
You don't. That's what makes this whole deal so annoying -- you can accidentally break the law and be liable for imprisonment (contempt of court) or horrendous damages without knowing why.
Thanks for the feedback @spokey. What would you consider a sweetspot price-point for you at the 5 person test? We discount down the more users you add to the test: 3 at $249 and 5 at $399.

As for your questions:

1) Generally 10-15 minutes depending on the tasks assigned.
2) We facilitate the tests however we try to have the process be as natural as possible. One thing we learned is that it can be incredibly helpful to sit down a new user in front of the app. Things we assume as developers aren't always obvious to the average person. You'll see in the recording the steps a normal user would take so you as a developer can fix the process.
3) For the time being we are picking the demographic for the buyer to keep it simple. We'll be adding the ability to choose specific demographics later as demanded.
32-bit ASLR is going to be weak by definition. It's unavoidable.
That's a tweet that suggests acrimonious split if I've ever seen one.
5.9p per loan aggregated over millions of loaned books a year is a sizable chunk of change

£7.6 million according to the article.

(interesting to note that as the U.S. is not a member of the PLR club, American authors will get none of it)

By comparison the British Library (the UK's biggest public library)'s budget is £142million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library
Ask HN:Whither Tech?
Marking up text, printing, publishing, and distributing used to be their own world. A world with its own advances and efficiencies, but in 1920 one would probably not mistake it for "tech" of its day. That would probably be radio and air travel.
I find it odd that typesetting concerns have become superimposed on hard engineering and the sciences as "tech." The scale of social interaction made possible by the internet revolution has turned some things on their heads. An outside observer of our post-modern information-based economy might be taken aback that large-scale socializing seems to have supplanted what used to pass for tech just 30 years ago in the popular imagination.

Wither tech? Just because 100 million people can give the world status every morning, all of a sudden you can run machine learning algorithms on that great river of output and extract profit from the banality.

I was 8 in 78, and so my 20's were spent twiddling markup and CSS, instead of twiddling programmable ROMs. Does anyone but me regret this? I never imagined that I would spend a lot of my life doing cyber type-setting, or reading the musings of other typesetters.

update - Ten years ago there was a site like HN where someone asked a question like this:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/8/19/54354/3995
I agree that it makes the site more pleasant, I feel the scores were too often distracting from the actual meat of the comments. Today is a better balance between too much information and too vague: better scores still go up and negative scores are grayed out.

That said, I agree some more context would be useful. Maybe the balance could be adjusted by including some more information. A page could include some overall statistics, for example the top and average score for the page, and/or maybe other useful info that is not hidden but complicated to access, like the top and average karma, etc.
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Don't people like Charlie Miller do just that?

Of course, there aren't in it for the profit, where the only rational thing to do is to target Windows.
I do most of my volume through e-book reader sales like kindle. A lot of people do this whole "launch formula" thing with e-books, but I've never tried that, I just pick topics that gets decent google juice and let organic search bring in people to the sales site. I also pick topics that aren't covered, or at least not well cover, on amazon and the like.
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Many of the details Stallman describes in The Right To Read were taken from existing proposals for the "National Information Infrastructure" (proposed by among others, Al Gore).

The basic approach of using "cyberspace" to impose this approach predates the popularity of the Internet. In fact, the popularity of the Internet postponed a lot of plans that were already on the agenda of various powerful forces.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
I don't follow, this is a star-wars pun thread.
Perhaps because (s)he wants to share with the community that at least one person agrees with the comment:

Previously: click up arrow, score of parent shows as 2.

Now: click up arrow... no one knows. Post a comment to make it visible (ideally add some other relevant detail).

Definitely suboptimal.
Agree with the other reply, the "hacker logic" comment.

Why is logic bad? Logic will be used by both the prosecution and the defense, as well as the judge. They will also employ their individual preferences when selecting their arguments, but logic is not simply ignored.

Also worth noting as a pragmatic matter - throughout pretty much all of recorded history, enterprises with a close working relationship with the government have always gotten favorable legal treatment.

To accept that the State is strong and does whatever powerful interests desire is spineless. We know it to be true, but to accept it is to be either complicit or cowardly.
"Substantial non-infringing use" was the Betamax standard, but now they have to meet the Grokster standard as well.
Banks make ridiculous amounts of money. I'm sure missing out on a few fees in favor of new customers that add to their reserves won't be a big deal.
Yes, it is. Cilantro was originally going to be a "DIY Groupon" that you can embed into your own site and Facebook page and take payment via PayPal. But, after doing some research, I've come to the conclusion that white-label daily deal stuff is the wrong way to go.

So, I've decided to go after the website market and solve the Flash/PDF menu/no mobile/crappy website problem. Plus, I've succeeded in the niche website space already.

The cool thing is, I can still add coupons and daily deals into the website system–and with less friction.

To answer your question, I'm circumventing resistance to change by wrapping it into something every restaurant has to have (a website) and removing as much friction as possible (mainly time by making it so easy to create/update).
by showing that my opinion is not isolated, but shared by others.
Hi guys,

Kristof here, creator of this particular list. First, thanks for the kind words! :)

I'll maybe add more tools when I have some time to make more screenshots. It's surprisingly more time consuming than it seems :)

Also, I'm a bit of two minds with the whole list -- many people think that some of these tools are already not "obscure" enough, while others suggest adding even more trivial ones like ifconfig or grep. I'll have to think about this a bit :)

Once again, thanks for your feedback!

KKovacs
Nope, sorry. I wouldn't be interested in this. And if I needed something like it, I'd just write it myself (probably with aggregate stats in periodic emails rather than icons that pop up on my desktop, but if I wanted that as well for some reason it'd be easy enough to write as well.. probably using dzen, inotify, or kdialog).

I might not be the typical user you're looking for, though. Your app might be more appropriate for people with less coding skills and/or less time or interest to brew their own tools when needed.
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Patrick, if BCC pays you more than your old salary, did you consider giving up consulting and working solely on your startup business (i.e. Appointment Reminder or new product)

It seems like that would accelerate growth of your startup - while BCC revenues ensure that you have enough runway to grow the business.

Of course, it is possible that consulting adds in more value to the business (e.g. new domain knowledge, useful contacts ) besides pulling in revenue.
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The problem is simply one of scale: communities don't scale up easily past a certain point.

Here's a heretical idea: you're only allowed a fixed number of posts per day, and you have to increase that limit by being a member of the site for a period of time, and be in good standing. It isn't a great idea, but I think we need to strike down the Web 2.0 notion that everyone should be allowed to talk at the same time. pg's realized (thankfully) that 'heavy-handed' moderation is necessary - no community can ever police itself, it will always degrade into memes and groupthink.
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Power doesn't come from the gun, but from public legitimacy. In the same manner that it would be considered legitimate for someone to defend themselves with a gun.
I too was confused by their use of the name Hype and the awesome open source Hype Framework. Apparently there's no connection.
Honestly, I think you're being less than objective. If PG wants comment scores off and comment scores are off then I'd say its correct...

Calling it broken is like calling piracy "theft". It's flamebait and it obscures the issue.
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Would love to hear feedback on this idea and what end users opinions are of the product!
Sencha's Animator is an interesting product! Some key differences between Animator and Hype:

- Animator offers more fine-grained control over animation curves, beyond hard coded curves like "Ease-in, Ease-out"

- Animator is entirely focused on CSS3 animations, there's very little opportunity for making interactive content beyond "click to advance to the next scene"

- Hype supports CSS3 animations as well as "heartbeat" Javascript animations, so content can be viewed on a much larger set of browsers

- Hype's Javascript support allows for custom functions to be run in response to user actions

- Hype documents provide a Javascript API for triggering animations and changing scenes which, when combined with custom JS functions, makes it easy to seamlessly integrate a Hype document into an existing page

[Edited for formatting]
Interchange revenue is going to drastically decrease this year anyways, thanks to the Durbin amendment. Depending on it as a core portion of non-interest revenue would be folly.

Interchange fees have been in the news a lot lately, but they're notoriously difficult to put an exact figure on because PIN-based debit incurs a flat per-transaction fee, while signature debit is generally percentage based, and varies with the merchant in question. (eg, Gas stations will pay less interchange than Best Buy or online merchants.)

When you see figures in news stories, there are a lot of assumptions going on behind the scenes; eg, they'll typically assume a $40 transaction, aggregate PIN and signature based debit, are based on broad-industry studies, &c.

There is also variation depending on what debit networks are being used. If you look at the back of your debit card (especially if it's from a smaller regional bank or CU), you'll see many more logos than just Mastercard or Visa.
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Basically zero for me. One question though is at what point do taxes become an issue, in terms of (in the US) the IRS becoming interested and ultimately how much they affect income?
Except that they already do with Picasa Web Albums.
That's ad hominem. (Or "ad companem"?)
Location & Identity
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There really is no "target" audience of this post. :) It just started out as a list of "recommended" tools, then people started suggesting stuff -- some of which I knew, some of which I don't, some of which run on every unix, some only on Linux.

And it was easiest to take the screenshots from my OS X laptop. For some tools, like powertop, I had SSH-d into various Linux or FreeBSD boxes.

Some of these are uncommon enough that they are not ported to every package manager system, too. :(
Dwarf Fortress was already suggested by somebody, and I very much like it, too (haven't had the time to look deeply enough, though), but it's not a terminal game. Yes it uses characters; but one actually needs OpenGL for the game.

Still, a very nice one, that is!
Awesome. This is just what's needed to take the crown from Flash. Flash is really a designer's tool, and if you don't have a designer-friendly IDE you're never going to replace it. I'm pleased to see someone progressing on this front, though of course we'd much prefer to see an open-source IDE.
It wouldn't be difficult for anyone here to make the sites much more difficult to protect but these are government sites which means they likely have incapable people working who are tied down by sixteen layers of bureaucracy.
Yes, clearly it means the opposite of what it says, because Dave is like that. I love drama, don't you?
Anecdotally - I'm from europe and when I was in the US I only ate one meal a day. I simply didn't feel hungry for a whole day after a typical American meal.
I agree actually... It would be nice if there was a visual indication for greater than 1 as well as less.

I don't miss the actual scores though. Just indicating positive/negative/neutral would be enough for me.
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What type of consulting?
Thanks for the well wishes, pavlov! As is often said, shipping a 1.0 will kill you. [1] Being a two person team makes a colossal difference, both for productivity and motivation. At the very least, there's almost always one person who's pushing to stop adding features and finally ship. ;-)

I'm excited to see where you take Radi. We don't touch canvas or do anything vector at all right now, and what you've been able to accomplish by yourself is fantastic.

[1] http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2006/04/20/10.html
I was spurred to write a blog post I've been meaning to get out there after watching:

http://cemerick.com/2011/05/20/stymied-from-within-an-entrep...

As a solo entrepreneur / business owner, I feel like I
face an uncertain, massive void every day, through which
I must find my way, avoiding all sorts of pitfalls.
Sometimes, that void is the outer world, filled with
challenges of all sorts related to technology, business,
customers, and money. However, that void is usually
myself, where far more difficult riddles await: What do I
want to achieve? What should I focus on now in order to
be successful? How can I break out of unproductive habits
and cycles? What do I not know today that would save my
ass tomorrow?
Anyone know the reason why? I'm not asking because the popcorn factor but rather to understand if there's something fundamentally broken about the concept & company.
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Bitcoin's primary use case seems to be generating karma on HN. As a friend put it: "Bitcoin is ruining HN."

As it stands, I'm hoping that Bitcoin is just one of those waves like Erlang was.
Interesting idea. I wish it were 'MortgageSimple' though - the mortgage industry is in serious need of an overhaul even more than banks right now.
So here's my observation of what I think has changed.. I think the hidden scores have made the comment scoring higher in contrast.

By that I mean that I think the standard deviation in scores has gotten much higher, and the top few posts end up with higher scores than they used to.. for better or worse. I've had comments that were useful but far from brilliant end up with 40+ points, and I think the biggest reason is momentum. I think being able to see the scores was probably giving people an opportunity to say "10 points, yep.. that's a 10 point comment" and leave it alone.

So.. if that's true (and it'd be great to see numbers to back up or refute it).. then I'm not sure if it's better or worse.. but I'd tend to think it's not a great thing, since it makes it more likely that early useful comments are voted better than later brilliant ones.

At any rate. That's my take on a flaw that I haven't heard anyone else mention.
Web dev/designer here.

Coding CSS3 based animations is currently a pain in the butt, but its certainly interesting to learn and definitely invaluable to understand how CSS3 keyframing works. Likewise with JavaScript.

Hype looks like a great tool for one-off sites like the provided demos, but integrating animated objects created with Hype looks nearly impossible. WooGrit produces this js:

http://static.tumultco.com/hype/gallery/WooGrit/WooGrit_Reso...

… which references resources such as http://static.tumultco.com/hype/gallery/WooGrit/WooGrit_Reso...

Hype will certainly have its place with the coming onslaught of HTML5 ads (/ducks), but from this developer's point of view, its a niche product.
The fridge at work was full of half bottles of pop because people couldn't drink their 600ml beverages in one sitting but gradually over the next month or two people adjusted and now drink the entire 600ml in one sitting almost double. HFCS or not who is to blame for that? The person drinking it.

The person drinking it is "to blame" for what, precisely? Being a creature which can adjust to its environment? Why does any blame need assigning? Who benefits from assigning any blame?
In reading your second paragraph I did a bit of a double-take. You started to summarize almost exactly what Josh wrote to me in an email back when I contacted them with some questions. My point was that while I like the idea of a bank driven by new minds, ultimately I can't think of anything that they will give me that my current bank (Ally, if it's important) isn't giving me right now.

So much of the banking decision for me is based on how well the bank gets out of my way, low fees, and high interest rate. My current bank manages the last two perfectly well, has excellent customer service, and the few issues I have with the web presence are minor.

Josh mentioned that they won't be targeting the absolute rate chasers, but that they will be providing an experience that changes everything (my words, not his). I'm skeptical, but I've been surprised by plenty of other startups. I'm sure there's innovation to be had in the banking industry, I just don't know how much of a draw that innovation will end up being.

Unfortunately every time I look at their site I don't see much that I don't get out of my current bank and my email conversation with Josh was heavy on the criticism of my current bank but light on exactly WHAT they are doing wrong. So for now I'll have to ride the hype with everyone else and just see what comes out.
$0 per month for my one-hand keyboard layout software, blah. Recently switched from a 'branded' domain to a exact-match domain, looking forward to seeing how that improves my results. Blog + regular content is next on the list.

http://www.onehandkeyboard.org

It's based on the same muscle memory as two-hand typing, so any two-hand typist can learn to type with one hand in minutes. Good for a programmer with a broken arm, for example.
Reminds me of the 2001 protests here in Argentina(actually, december of 2000, but it's remembered as 2001). That ended up getting quite ugly. The sentiment was very similar: all political parties were equally hated, and there was a huge desire for a complete reform. The motto was "Qué se vayan todos", roughly translated as "Everybody leave"(targeted at the politicians).
Isn't that what we're trying to avoid? Having some symbol of agreement?
Using HTML Canvas for fancy slideshow. IE9 fast, Chrome slow
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Not really. For the use case you're talking about (getting notified every time a user signs up), we post updates to a protected twitter stream. Then there are plenty of twitter clients that will do desktop notifications.
Ask HN: Resources for CSS templates for DDD (Deverloper with Design Deficiency)
Title pretty much says it all, and given my web app is boot-strapped, free resources would be great. Googling for "free css templates" comes up with a lot of junk and I'm wondering what resources other developers have used.

I have a simple web app with the backend functionality 80% done. I'm using a template right now but just not very happy with it (it's got some hardcoded images to match the colour scheme so changing colours on the header/footer means redoing images too).

I'm looking for a simple and uncluttered design that I can tinker with...one page with simple header, footer with a "Web 2.0" feel to it. Nothing fancy and I can tinker with the CSS to make it work, but i need the basic scaffolding setup.

Any ideas? It's a long weekend in Ontario, Canada and I'd like to use the time firming up the front-end. Thanks!
Moving to a different forum will kill the "stupid Bitcoin articles".
You are correct: there's no connection between Hype.app and the HYPE framework.
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when you lose money, the market is rational. when you make money, you can say it was because of the market's inefficiency or irrationality. or maybe it is irrational to construct a trading strategy that relies so much on luck, with a few large trades that cannot be sufficiently characterized statistically. how can you know what your edge is, in terms of probabilities, on your long-term macro calls on oil or the dollar?
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance quite thoroughly describes the impossibility of ever fully defining what is good.
I'm totally serious. Really. Bitcoin; I love the stuff, I'm using it to build an empire all the way from over here in China. And it was because of the difficulty of getting a bank account in the U.S. to do business there (while not being a resident) and in general dealing with banks that pushed me to bitcoin. I've never had something so convienient regarding internet transfers or payments.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/
The HTML5 export ability in CS5 is rather limited now (can't do ActionScript nor many other features), and we think there will always be a mismatch in capabilities.

We developed Hype from the ground up to support the latest HTML5 features as well as some decent fallbacks and warnings for older browsers. It can be customized with JavaScript and interact with the rest of your page.

Hype was also built to be very easy to use; if you know how to use PowerPoint you can use Hype. It's "heritage" comes from how people make interactive content today, instead of the traditional animation space.