skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York and LA share a single central bank and a single set of federal law that is equally valid in both cities. Berlin and Athens have neither of these advantages. The Euro zone - while cool - is probably not quite cool enough to survive (my layman's perspective).
If they barely had 10k in their vault, then it logically follows that they almost never need that much (otherwise they would obviously make it a point to keep more). If they rarely need that much, then it logically follows that somewhere at or less than 10k is a reasonable amount to have. There is no sense in taking the increased liability of having more if they don't need to.

Furthermore, acting as a "proper bank" means they do a lot more than just acting as your personal piggy-bank/mattress. If they have all their money tied up in cash, it means they can't actually be preforming real bank activities (investment).
question: how are you learning to code and building a prototype when you have 25 meetings + 10 meetups to go to + 100 (wildly) repetitive blog posts to read every week? The blatant exaggeration hurts your argument. By trying to make it sound so easy and straightforward you actually make it sound much harder and intimidating than it is. Get one meeting with an influencer in your market. Go from there.
NYC and LA are culturally far closer than Germany and Greece. For a start, NYC and LA speak the same language.
I made the decision to work in small, preferably very small, teams 20 years ago. Why? Because I noticed that the very small teams I worked with were far, far more productive than the bigger teams.

I also learned at that time, empirically, that "flying in" domain experts for certain problems was far, far more effective than having them hang around on the project. And this is how I've liked to work with my clients ever since.

Taking this a stage further, I decided to study individual effectiveness on teams by writing a thesis on it (for my Masters) by studying a small number of projects in quite a large company. (I am very grateful to that company, and a particular individual, whom I still know, for letting me run riot in their IT department for a summer to conduct this study.)

The result I obtained was absolutely clear that productivity is linked to individuals. I used function points as the basis for the study, and while I'm not wedded to them in any way, I've yet to find a better metric. I'm not active in that field any longer, so please enlighten me of progress.

The maxim "hire smart people and get out of their way" is the best way to be productive in IT. Better still, practice servant leadership alongside http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership and you are golden.

It's hellishly difficult getting businesses to adopt this practice, though. When you are all command and control this doesn't tickle your pseudo alpha genes. But when you want to get work done, it's the nuts.
Overall I think this is a decently cohesive and useful bit of advice.

However, I sense a bit of a disconnect between point 5 (Website) and point 7 (Financial Projections); if you don't even have a product out to users, how do you have any grounds on which to make 3-5 year user growth, revenue, or expense predictions? This reminds me of the typical "where do you see yourself in 5 years" interview question.
Dishonesty is great!
I had a really interesting conversation about this with a coworker a few weeks ago. We were talking about URL design. I argued for URLs like this:

/networks/
/networks/girl_talk/
/networks/girl_talk/tracks/
/search?term=bass&sort=artist

He argued for URLs like this (note the pluralization):

/networks/
/network/girl_talk/
/network/girl_talk/tracks/
/search/bass/sort/artist/

My case boiled down to, “A URL represents the path to a resource. You should be able to remove any number of parts from the end of a URL and be left with a different, meaningful URL. In the case of search, the terms are options that describe what you want returned by the search, not resources.”

His case boiled down to, “A URL is a sentence. You should be able to read a URL as English and get a good idea of what it represents. In the case of search, adding more path components adds words to the sentence to make the search more specific.”

He pointed out (paraphrasing) that URLs are a language — and languages evolve. URLs as paths better embodies the RFC, but a new style of URL might be more meaningful on today’s (and tomorrow’s) web.
"The Greeks didn't know the gov was in debt"

Actually, it's been public knowledge since 2004 that Greece has been cooking the books: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/0...
You have to do it by Yahoo contacts. There was something else, I think it was facebook and google contacts that needs yahoo inbetween. I only did it 4 months ago and I've already forgotten my yahoo id twice, I wish there was a simpler way.
"To be is to do" - Socrates

"To do is to be" - Sartre

"Do Be Do Be Do" - Sinatra
For the same reason facebook's "college students only" rule when it first launched wasn't ageism.

It's a hook, catering to a very specific niche of ppl. If it catches on, you can bet that they'll expand with MBA2Startup and others, for more 'seasoned' vets.
No, because it would violate the other person's natural right. Copying a CD wouldn't, since copyright isn't a natural right.
Fair enough. But basically me and a couple of other people on this thread wanted to point out that the banking system is not very sound.

I just chimed in with my anecdote.
Sir Clarke is technically incorrect. It's either Sir Arthur Clarke or Sir Arthur.
I don't see what's the problem. Github is the client, so they POST to you the data, so they should include a 'Content-Type' header with the format of such data. Then you can process it accordingly.
Either way I don't think it matters. Just get it done. Clients do not care about URL structure, they just want their problem solved. I redid an app and prettified the urls (yes I know this is slightly off topic) and no one has commented on it.

Developers will use either, just do it and provide documentation and be done with it
400k apps out of 500k submitted in total.
You can't, unfortunately. The point is to be cognizant of the fact that expressions will be evaluated for their effects more than once (maybe). So, don't put effectful things inside a macro expansion.
GooglePlus-Scraper - Retrieve data from a Google+ profile with PHP.
ext-js v4 on top of groovy on grails. grails utilizes hibernate so it can sit on top of most databases.
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So blackberry has a stellar expansion in India
> ...and it maybe justified if we're gaining as much or more elsewhere.

Except that, in terms of real security, we aren't. That's the whole point. You're right in describing it in the way you did, but then you get to this point where there's this implicit assumption that JavaScript-based crypto gains you something. Which, maybe, leads into your next point...

> E.g. if we gave the user ability to store secret data without the key ever leaving his possession, he might be more likely to use the service and stop storing his secrets in a notepad file.

OK, but this is a different problem. The correct solution here is a true client-side app or a browser add-on (and even then ... ehhhh). Otherwise -- and this is a point that I don't feel like I can emphasize enough -- you are giving your users a completely false sense of security. You're selling a service by saying that "we'll store your secrets for you and you don't even have to ever give us your key, so it's more secure than keeping them in a notepad file", but that's demonstrably false.

> However if we don't guarantee that the key will not leave the user's possession, the user may decide not to use the service.

Also a different problem. You can't sell security this way. All you're doing is taking advantage of people's ignorance. If everybody understood the security risks of JavaScript-implemented crypto, and you sold the same service -- "we use JS so you never have to share your keys" -- then the users would decide not to use the service!

To reiterate:

1. Server-side encryption is a real protection from accidental or malicious data leaks (db dumps);

2. SSL is a real protection from MITM and eavesdropping (mostly, with caveats);

3. If the server software gets compromised, you're pooched no matter what.

So, again: JavaScript solves none of these problems.

The only thing that JavaScript does, is add more problems.
Currently I have the following services/processes running in the background:

3G watchdog
Bump
Spotify
DRM Content
Software update
Android system
Task manager
Voice commands
Digital Clock
Social Hub
Social Hub (again, different icon)
Accuweather widget
Google services
Maps
IMEITracker
Wi-fi sharing
Email
Vortex Galaxy (live wallpaper)
Samsung keypad

Currently using 217MB ram total.

I have never used/not configured the following things:

Social Hub
Voice commands
Email (besides Gmail but that is not what is running)

I haven't used maps today but I have not rebooted the phone since I did a few days ago so it might be stuck from then.

As for the CPU usage I am not sure since it does not show cpu usage for services as far as I can tell.

As for applications I can think of that would require background services or cpu usage in any other way:

Bump
Notifo (for awesome HN notifications among other things)
Weather widget
Gmail
Dropbox
Facebook
Twitter
Skype

It would probably be nice to find a way to either turn off Social hub (which comes with the phone) or replace the other applications with that. I didn't feel like setting it up so I just went with the normal Facebook/Twitter applications/widgets.

Actually considering removing them both because really they don't really add anything to my life besides making it easier for me to write random thoughts and things on my wall/timeline and there are too many people broadcasting their every move already.

I should probably mention I do use power savings mode all the time but that simply turns off wifi/gps/stuff whenever it's not needed which I think should be default anyway.

Eek! This reply turned out huge :|
iPhone sales don't outpace Android. Android has a 50% market share in new sales last quarter in US, and iPhones have I believe 28-29%. The news was that Android dropped from 53% to 50% when the Verizon iPhone was launched, not about iPhones outpacing Android in market share.

They tried to make a big deal out of it, trying to show that it could be a downward trend, but it's nonsense. Android sales keep growing worldwide, and I'm sure it will rise above 50% in US by the time iPhone 5 launches (and take a hit again for a few months, and then rise again).
With Google+, Android finally gets its killer app
In 2002 he was 17/18 years old.
What a couple said: make the songs go somewhere I can listen to that song you are suggesting. If possible, within the same page so I don't have to come back to the app and play the next you. Kudos for you!
It is a lucky scenario when you actually get a core and one taken at the exactly right time. Unfortunately there are some pointer bugs that are hard to find even with Valgrind.

Buffer overflows do not produce cores, they just sit there until a determined cracker makes use of them. And a dangling pointer might still access memory that looks valid both to OS and memcheck.
What if the decr() fails because of for example a network issue?
What if the process who is holding the lock dies?

:)
"Misguided government regulation is the main problem, but Sorenson's company plans to get around that by selling to the military first."

Sorry but is this subtle irony? My apologies if it's not, I don't know anything about this field. It just seems weird that the military wouldn't be subject to the same regulations that the govt. sets? Or in the US are the military able to ignore some of the regulations around this?
An URL is just a name. /network/girl_talk is just as valid as /uwef9. HATEOAS means that clients shouldn't know a-priori of any URL except for the entry point.

In the search case, I think your coworker is wrong, since that would mean you have to construct URLs by 'hand', which violates HATEOAS. GET or POST parameters should be used to avoid that.
This is a little off topic, but do you have any links to more information on the theory of "attention based economy"? It sounds quite interesting.
I think the graying out is a bit harsh for anything that gets negative points, but okay.

The negative points, well, that seems to happen any time the state of the union (it's not so good) ie the state of the US, is mentioned by me. What % of users are American? Probably higher than I realised. In future I'll work on the theory that comments that work from a position of superiority don't get anywhere. They seem to make even leftcoasters and NY-ers leap to the defence of Alabamians' values. Surprising. Or do users just dislike any discussion of politics here?

I was a libertarian uber-capitalist and totally pro-US, until, like most people, I noticed that the entire political class of most rich nations are working for the financial sector, which is not, by the way, the same as working for the technology sector. Now, I'm at least a leveller and pro a quite equal OUTCOME of income in a society. Way to go Dick Fuld (et al.) Who needs fascism when you've got an oligarchy of Wall St.
Looking at the newer spec, we should be able to use "hreftype" for content type or "hreflang" for accept language: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-hyperAttributes.html#s_hyper...

I don't know if any browser will implement this or has implemented it, but in real world scenarios we'll probably have to stick with .csv and en/foo or ?locale=en for a couple of years...
As a side note a 2 year Greek T-bill pays 26%, at that rate Greece would be better off phoning up Capital One for a VISA.
I could understand this post if Zuckerberg had like a 2200 rating, or if he did an SRM last month at 4 in the morning, but what on Earth are we supposed to take away from this?
Slash-divided parts of URLs generally seem to me to describe a hierarchy, both because of the traditional structure of many URLs and slashes' traditional usage as a hierarchical path-delimiter. So I personally prefer your proposal because it makes a to-me clearer distinction between the resource that's being specified and the rendering attributes applied to the presentation of that resource. So it seems more obvious at a glance which parts of your URL could be removed/changed and what would happen and it just "feels" more right.
Good point, never thought about decr failing!
KhanAcademy should immediately try to integrate it with their videos. Kids could learn in groups, and talk about the lesson among themselves in a Hangout while watching the videos. I think it's a nobrainer for KhanAcademy.

But even without the integration, you can still do that with Hangout and using Sal's videos.
I told you how I interpret "free speech organization". If that interpretation is not what you meant, I'm not surprised: that's why I asked to you define what you meant in the first place. I had thought that asking for a clarification would help me understand what you actually mean, but you seem to be fixated on starting an argument about the generality instead. No, thanks.
Of course, but if no one wants to buy it no one is forced to either.
In early years there was SRM each week and prizes were high.
This isn't meant to stand up to scrutiny (as has already been pointed out). What it is meant to do is generate cred for Diesel, the fashion label gunning for a rebellious image that created (or more accurately paid for the creation of) this. It's mashup-as-advertisement.

This may come as a surprise given the lack of a Disel logo anywhere on the site but this is where something odd happened.

This was available via http://www.bestupidatwork.com/
Now it isn't. Something happened, some kind of dispute or question of ownership and now it's gone but turned up at a different URL. Sans branding.

Either that or two people just happened to make exactly the same tool within a week of each other and one got pulled for some utterly unrelated reason but I'm running with Occam's Razor on this one.

See:
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/diesel-makes-facebook-look-exc...
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/hide-y...
Ah, nice to see that my diet of coffee and cigarettes will at least get balanced by low-carbohydrate consumption benefits :)
Where did you get those numbers? Apple claims 96% approval rate, you claim 80%.
Yes, I agree that Shaw didn't apply Hanlon's razor here, and ought to have.
GPL is good, since it's up to the author to chose if he/she want's to license it under the terms of the license. It's the authors role of a copyright owner that makes this possible. Forcing everyone to share their work seems like a bigger violation than copyright. Lastly, a GPL license wouldn't be possible to enforce without copyright, or the concept of a copyright owner.
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A bsd authentication solution for smart phones and web applications
It works well, and it astonished me with some movies, apparently it chooses the recommendations according to the people we follow on twitter (cf. Hunch).

Also, you should make it so that when you hit "Back" it keeps the username in the search field, it's a bit annoying to type it again.
Where do you see the that point? Did I claim Apple started with Safari from zero?
I did not.
hi, I want to create a webapp as well but I dont know much about them, could you explain what technology stack you used and how you did things like deployment ?

great stuff !
I will make a point about financial projections... they are there to let the VC know how you think about money vs. setting concrete goals. As far as "where do you see yourself in five years" interview question... my favorite answer was always "firing you." But, seriously, having a vision of where this thing is going is a plus. And I want to see it from the very beginning.
Your questions were all asked and answered by America's founders, hundreds of years ago. The EU is nothing like the US -- it's more like a collection of barely unified city-states bound more by treaties than a shared constitution.

The reason the Greek crisis may be more important than the introduction of the Euro is precisely because it may mean the downfall of the Euro, at least in some commentators' opinions. I don't personally have any insight into what might happen if/when Greece defaults.
What do you expect from a man who advocated for liberty, yet kept hundreds of slaves to maintain his way of life? He lacked the courage of his convictions.
> the latest challenge to the incumbents of ff, ie, safari,
> opera.

To be fair, market share of Safari and Opera (in the west at least) were not and are not something to brag about.
Every time I bring this up I get down-voted, but I cannot resist.

No one argues that the Greek economy was in good shape. It clearly had severe problems with corruption and inefficiencies, which were brutally exposed when the global financial crisis hit. Everyone suffered, but because of the problems in the fundamentals of the economy, Greece suffered disproportionately more. However, the European Central Bank lent the "bailout" money demanding cuts to public spending that, in the current economic situation, would have very likely worsened the Greek economic situation. Greeks realized this and protested, but were (understandably) dismissed as spoiled brats, demanding an unsustainable, comfortable lifestyle.

Now that the likely, predictable outcome is looking even more likely (namely, default), journalists are still omitting that crucial part of the analysis. Many economists warned that in a crisis of demand, which is what we're experiencing now, cutting government spending is a bad idea. In a situation of such great uncertainty in the market, the government is the only source of demand big enough to make a dent. It must, of course, borrow the money and therefore increase its deficit by doing so, but that's a worthwhile thing to do when the alternative is default. After the economy has stabilized, the deficit problem can be overcome by growth. Moreover, even if deficit reduction is your priority, if the economy is shrinking you're always going to be fighting a losing battle no matter how many spending cuts you make.

To summarize my point, the Greek economic turmoils are less of a cautionary tale of the perils of uncontrolled spending (although they clearly are also that), and more an illustration of the negative effect the austerity measures recommended by the ECB are having on the economies they are imposed on. It should give leading European nations pause when considering what to do with the rest of the troubled economies in the eurozone.
Universal DEP/ASLR bypass with msvcr71.dll and mona.py
You have to use Redis' INCR to generate the UUIDs.
I don't think gsk was claiming it was a sufficient condition -- just trying to give some intuition for why the phenomenon happens. (After all, if you only look at very small numbers is seems like most don't have 9s.)
It may not have much meaning today. But, 50+ years from now, it could well be a part of history related to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
I don't think that I can fully agree with the idea that a news article written in English is not different content from the German version.
Antimatter Tevatron mystery gains ground
Shameless plug for PHP devs: https://github.com/SaltwaterC/PasswordHash2 - you may like this as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-...

Think of it this way, all forms of social media are basically measuring attention. Pageviews, average visit, etc. Facebook is worth $70 billion because it can monopolize 15 minutes of the average users' attention per day. When people say that Win Phone 7 is doomed the underlying assumption is that developers will not give it attention and consumers will not give it attention because developers have not.
This is very cool. I looked for this when I bought my MBP, but I didn't find the option. A quick google trip and I found that you do it from the Energy Saver preference pane.

Thanks for the tip.

On a tengential note: Is it possible to turn on the screen backlight programmatically?

Since OS X 10.6.3, the backlight remains off when waking up from hibernation (this is documented in [1]). The proposed solution is to delete the related plist, which resets the hibernate mode to the default settings that are useless for me. My current solution is to close back the lid for a split second in order to trigger the hibernation process, then to fiddle with the arrow keys to abort it. I'd prefer something more elegant.

1. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2384628?start=90&ts...
We could start scaling up research today, which we should, but it's a bit much to say we could start building Thorium power reactors today. Other reactor designs are far, far more developed and generally have had full-scale pilot reactors built and operated, the same is not true for Thorium reactors.
the UK National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) undertook a recent independent assessment, in which it assessed a number of claims made by proponents of thorium fuel. The report can be found at: http://www.nnl.co.uk/positionpapers
This was tried in Sweden/Europe with a company called Letsbuyit.

It all failed miserably. The most epic fail of all was running a campaign to group-buy christmas trees and failing to deliver them before christmas.

A story that's in many ways is just sooo 1999. Here's an article from 2001, after the crash: http://tinyurl.com/6zr3pq8
Your anecdote has more to do with the logistics of running a bank than it does with the soundness of banks though.
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Where has Javascript crypto been done successfully? I'm not aware of any application with a sound use of it. There are a few narrowly-tailored experiments, all of them backed by SSL, that don't have obvious flaws. But the best-known examples, like what Meebo did a few years ago, were deployed despite glaring security flaws.

No, I don't think it can-and-has-been-done.