skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That kind of a fuzzy equilibrium is what we're at now. Most people do it. Officially you can't. If you do it to make money, they'll come after you. Some people think it's wrong. Lots of others think its kinda wrong.

What you do get on these sorts of threads everywhere from here to spamblog is people saying something along the lines of: I pirate some things that I want to listen to. If I like it/it's good enough/it's reasonably priced/ I like the artist, I buy a copy.

The power is in the hands of the 'consumer.' They decide if they want to pay or not based on their own criteria. That's not ownership! That's beerware. Consumption is not tied to purchase.

The record companies & friends play up to this trying to increase the moral pressure. This seems to have the effect of increasing the above sentiment.

Anyway we're stuck in this no man's land. How sustainable is it? I don't think it is sustainable at all. We are following the music lives in a cd protocol like a cargo cult. People are going to buy cds of artists they like because they remember that is how they used to do it. That memory will fade, the cd player will disappear & we'll still be buying licences in the form of a cd? I don't think so. What's the alternative? Buy the license online? People will go online & literally make a donation to a millionaire?

Something's gotta give

*If there is a proper recession, maybe we'll see donations to artists in the form of cd purchases go down with donations to normal charities.
The $800 might be wishful thinking. Unless they're planning an all out assault.
On that note: http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2008/10/fear-is-the-min....
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181539
Surely it is the economy and not their lack of revenue.
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I guess my hypothesis is that it's the new people that are upvoting the lame stories due to brand recognition. That's why I want to run an experiment - nothing more, nothing less. Or maybe people are doing it for quick karma. I _don't know_.

What's the problem with banning sources where 95% of the content has sadly become lame? If people want to read said stories they can go to that website. Or submit it to NonHackerNews. It's not like we're banning them from the internet.

You're right, but most people don't have self control, which is the root of the problem. I'm just trying to suggest changes to a system dealing with how things are instead of how we want them to be.
I remember this. I think it's more relevant now than it was half a year ago, however.
My startup (http://www.HubSpot.com) started off self-funded but is now venture-funded ($17 million in two rounds of funding).
All that money you've lost _ where did it go?
I agree, but the solution still isn't banning Techcrunch. They're still the top news source for software entrepreneurship/startups.

Maybe giving their stories a somewhat lighter weighting, since they are easier to vote up.
What's wrong with a good old fashioned stake through the heart? I know commodities are falling, but fuck, lead is still pricey!
To borrow your analogy the patient is not passed out, he is vomiting all over the room due to credit&leverage intoxication. There is hoping he has coughed up all of that and then some, so he will stop doing that and begin being very sick but conscious, which would be a makred improvement over what we have right now.

Ok, allegories are fun but back to business:

we had some serious issues prior to great depression with stock market - people didn't know how to be moderate. With some education and regulation we got over that (e.g. dot com was not that bad). So now we have a similar problem with leverage - people failed to excersize moderation. They will learn and credit and leverage will assume their natural place as instruments of funds management.

Having said that, I think there are more shoes to drop yet. While there might be a short-term rally, there will be even more drops after that. The size of downturn should be equal to size of run-up (minus the productivity gains over the last decade).
OH MY GOD. Are you really gonna have to force me to list some of the largest cap NASDAQ companies that "can be summarized as a server, located in some data-center somewhere, working out the stuff on its own"

Really? I mean christ, I'm trying to boost my chances of getting YC funding here and you're forcing me to sound like a petulant teenager. Let's all get on the same page here.
I really don't want it to last, I just want to get the award for the man and leave it at that (it would make an excellent "I once did..." type story).

I'm quite glad that there is an expiration date on this whole thing to be honest.

I'm still thinking about going to the awards, but it could be pricey for a 1 night thing (going to cost me in the vicinity of $5k AUD)

But thanks, short, sweet and mostly scripted - I can do that.
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I do think that people panicking, while creating lots of problems, also creates really interesting opportunities because of how people give everything incorrect valuations in the near term and hence a sort of long term arbitrage opportunity is possible
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It will see Nathan facing a dilemma between taking the offer as a pro basketball player and his health concern. Nathan is given the opportunity to join a basketball team called Slamball by Owen but he has doubts for it.
10 years is about the length of a business cycle, which is about the smallest accurately-measurable period in economics. The most frustrating thing about politics today is that before 1980, all we hear about history is vague references to things like the Holocaust and the Great Depression.

The thing about our current situation is that it's not something that caught anyone who was paying any sort of attention by surprise. The Federal Government has been making/encouraging bad loans from the moment they had the power to do so. What started out as federal housing assistance during the Great Depression has become Fannie and Freddie and our current crisis. The ideas of easy money and credit extend as far back into human history as we can go; at the very least they played a hand in the economic collapse of the USSR, Germany, Russia. We even suspect they played a large role in destroying one of the only ancient empires we know much about, Rome.

All of that to say, I know the politicians are running for office and thus have to frame things within the lifetimes of their constituents, but can't we, as intelligent people, construct a slightly wider historical lens for this discussion?
Only problem: pockets
Professional Masters, Where?
I'm finishing up my undergrad and probably heading to the west coast to work, but I still want to pursue a masters.
Right now it looks like I'll be in seattle, so uwashington seemed like a fairly obvious choice, but the curriculum seemed a little lacking. Are there any good distance/part-time C.S. masters programs?
Well, if the part they were vacationing in is technically Turkish, then it was a Turkish vacation. That's what I read somewhere, though I have no idea if it is true.
Startup investor John Borthwick: Here's How To Thrive During The Meltdown
I don't know how anyone can read anything Scoble writes with that ridiculous banner at the top. It looks like he's about to high-five me, whether I like it or not.
Meaningful innovation:
We are the technology company that invents the useful and the significant. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/corpobj.html

Less true of HP today, but they arguably started this silicon valley thing, Woz wanted to work for them, etc. The "Built to Last" companies tended to be about something meaningful, not just naked profit (but profit as well).
oo I really like that idea. I believe that's what PG did with XKDC and some others.

Is there really much of a difference in content (NOT quality) between Venturebeat, Killer Startups, Alleyinsider, Centernetworks, GigaOm, RWW, Mashable, et al? I have no idea - what's everyone else think?
Sounds like brightkite...
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Where 2.0: The State Of The Geospatial Web (O'Reilly)
Somebody here who has read the State of the Gespatial Web Document by O'Reilly?

What do you think about the field of the services growing around geodata in the web.

Does the document miss some things?

Is there a way to get the full document - without paying?
Ask HN: Is git/svn right for me?
(Sorry for using HN as a forum... can't think of anywhere else.)

Hi HN,

I never thought I'd need to use a version tracking system, but after having a live site, I'm thinking I do. (Single developer.)

Say I have a feature I need to implement, but would take days or weeks to finish it. In the meantime, I need to fix a bug which could take just a few minutes to fix and deploy. I'm finding myself making whole copies of my site on my local machine, and using the original copy change little things and deploy.

Would git/svn make this easier for me, or am I stuck doing what I'm doing? Thanks!
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I can't wait for the Facebook iPhone framework. The sample code for some of these components sounds interesting too. Great work, Joe!
version control is almost always a good idea. If you're the only developer, then I would recommend svn. git is distributed version control -- its used e.g. for Linux Kernel development, when hundreds of developers are doing independent work on the same codebase.
The actual report is something you have to pay for, right? So, not that interesting of a link.
If you want to point fingers you only have to look at the federal reserve (1913).

Fractional reserve banking - Hey, let's give out invisible money ten fold (more today) than actually exists! Usury? Yeah, let's add more invisible money to it in the form of interest. We are geniuses!
I think you're better off doing a non-distance program, and UW is a solid second-tier school for CS. I would only recommend a professional masters if you can get your employer to pay for it, though.
OOps, I wrote a text below the link, but you have to choose.
So my questions were:

1. What do you think about the report - a 15 page sized can be downloaded for free?

2. Is there a way to get the whole report for free?
"... I'm still thinking about going to the awards, but it could be pricey for a 1 night thing (going to cost me in the vicinity of $5k AUD) ..."

5K would support a lot of development. Don't go, save the money and write a paper on "how" social systems can be hacked. As for appearing on tv, MTV who cares? Rick who?
props to Bebo for cashing out to AOL. $850mm... not bad.
It wouldn't be an "I once did..." story since you didn't create the meme. The history of it is covered in detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickroll
"Most prestigious nation on earth"? Update: (I had to puke.) You are just 'known'. Known as most militant and most dangerous. You are directly or indirectly responsible for every war in the last 60 years. If you sniff oil, or other form of money, you are ready to kill even civilians or children. You are also ready to send your sons to die for smell of money. You have biggest number of homeless in the world, even children and so we can continue whole day... but I still hope there are some people there who understand this and can do something with that. This is how we perceive you here in Europe, my fellow "Americans". :) or :(
MerbCamp slides
If you're correct that a social aversion to debt will develop, then debt will become cheaper as demand decreases, at least after banks have money to lend again. In that case, it seems like swearing off debt as you suggest would be passing up a bargain.

Debt often makes sense.
When did I say I took credit for the rickroll?

The story is more like how I helped co-ordinate a large group of people (it will be several hundred thousand people by the time this is done given we're now at 150k) getting an 80's pop star the best act ever award (an award I might add that they probably weren't going to nominate him for given they announced it days before without his name), completely frustrating a major media organisation by getting Astley the vast majority of the votes in the process.... in my spare time.

That's a pretty cool story IMO.
you make some good points, although given the way the aussie dollar is crashing, $5k might be like $10.50 USD in a couple weeks..
I wonder how two-way communication would work - flashing your laptop screen?
Buying albums doesn't support the talent - it supports the suits. Margin wise, artists make jack shit from albums. They make significantly higher cuts from touring, but even that isn't enough.

I wish there was an easy way to donate to the bands directly. No TPS and no big labels taking 90%. Clean, easy, and direct. Tipjoy are you listening? :)
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My partner and I were discussing this exact thing earlier, albeit in more harsh terms.

Our consensus was that companies need to form around a business model rather than a business model form around a community. Communities suffer form group-think and tons of start ups show this to be true. This isn't how we should be doing business. Keyword there: Business. Not "projects" or "apps" or "widgets".
I'm really sorry about my capitalization & font choices. I really had no idea. I mean, i've been writing that way intentionally for about 3-4 years, but now after readig your comments i'm so sorry and I've seen the light.

Jesus H Christ.

you want spell checkers & times roman font?

read the fucking Economist.

(and I do, but not for inspiriation & entrepreneurship).
1. World wide? What source are you referencing? The States sure, but I have no idea about the rest of the world and have never read anything talking about world wide debt rates.

2. See number 1.

3. The saving rate statistics are misleading because they don't include 401k and IRAs, which were not nearly as popular 10-20 years ago as they are today.
I'm surprised speed benchmarks are left out. There are a number of posts that do some simple tests. I like cjson because it's so fast -- it performed about 50x faster than simplejson for the strings I was decoding.
It's cool - have fun with it. Not to steal any of the fun from it, but it's been done before. Look up "hank the angry drunken dwarf".
I hate to burst your bubble but this has been on 4chan since the original MTV vote for nominations was out.
yes, I know... and on reddit (which is where I picked up on it) and it originated on the UG forums, this wasn't a question on the origins of the nomination idea, it was on how to deal with the media attention as a result of spearheading the voting effort.

I'm not saying, nor have I ever said it was my idea, I've just helped focus the chaos.

By the way, I actually know the vote totals so far (from someone at MTV who reached out to me) and can quite comfortably say that the tool on our site has contributed to a significant amount to that number (which I can't disclose), given I know how many we've also done.
Not sure why you're asking how to deal with the media when you already have? It's okay to just be blatant that you really want to relish your success. It obviously created a bit of a stir.
From this slideshow, (http://businessjive.com) these are other things that also may have caused this:

1) Naked short selling: selling stocks you don't own or haven't even borrowed.

2) SEC not releasing information concerning hedge funds when they should have under the FOI act, because that may have revealed funds' "proprietary trading strategies", which may have been illegal due to their naked shorting.

3) The failure of large derivatives broker Refco in 2005, where in its failure, a significant amount of stock was scattered through the market that wasn't actually capitalizable due to naked shorting.

Since the failure of Lehman, the domino effect has been caused by a lack of trust in the positions of would-be lenders and borrowers: no one believes or can accurately determine another party's viability for a transaction to occur: a lack of commercial grease.

With the US being a central pillar in the global economy, other countries have failed too partly due to their connection to it.

Solutions: greater transparency, perhaps a business organization that companies can join if they reveal more about their actual balance sheets. Members can opt-in to view one another's positions before doing business: like befriending someone on Facebook or Friendfeed.

Also, perhaps from this pillar of transparency, it may be possible to cancel net debt positions computationally rather than let markets gradually build again. Many people may lose out, but others should be held accountable and people can move on.
Perl for Equity Analysis?
Off late, I have grown really mathematical in my equity and financial analytic decisions. Being a trader, I am trying to develop risk management strategies,my own trading setups, testing them, measuring the analytics etc.

In light of this, does anybody have suggestions, if Perl is a good choice of language for such work. If so, then why do you think so? If no, what would you suggest?
What are your experiences? What is your modus operandi?
Basically, I am looking for some neat tool to run my own analysis, quick development etc.So what suggestions do you have for me?

Thanks :)
No I'm just finding it overwhelming given I started it as a hobby I guess.

One of the commenter's above mentioned short and scripted - seems obvious unless you've got so much going on.
I've never really used git, but it seems to be the future, so you might as well start with that, no?
To paraphrase, just because a lot of people are panicking doesn't mean we shouldn't be really afraid!

To paraphrase, when a lot of people are panicking it's the ideal time to find some fucking spine and not panic.

What is panicking going to accomplish? What will being afraid gain you? NOT A DAMN THING! What does not panicking get you? Ask the people who aren't. It gets you lots of money and opportunity. Many people have already made hundreds of thousands of dollars by shorting pretty much any stock possible. Many companies are waiting for their competition to start laying off tons of staff and making deep cuts to spending so they can speed ahead by making smart choices and spending money where it can put them ahead.

From: Economy is booming! Credit is free! Leverage everything! Next quarter will be awesome!

To: Economy is destroyed! Take all your money and put it under your pillow! Sell the house! Expect to be poor!

Just two different forms of compulsory reactions that have a complete lack of foresight.

The act of making good financial decisions has not changed. Minimizing both debt and overspending has always been the right thing to do. I have zero debt and as close to zero excess possessions as is possible without living in a log cabin in the woods. I'm not going to change a damn thing except possibly spend more money because stupid fear-mongering like this will create all sorts of opportunity for people who can see the forest for the trees.

Why something like a recession would inspire fear in anyone is a complete mystery to me. There's nothing you can do about it so stop being afraid and stop spreading fear as a viable option. Instead, sit down, take a deep breath, realize that this isn't the "end of the world as we know it," and move on with your life. Jesus, you people sound like a whining, crying broken fucking record. All this recession has caused me to "feel" is pissed off constantly.

This argument sounds like this, except not hilarious because you're serious: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2184997/6808646
Graphing: Matlab and others
Ever noticed the amazingly brilliant graphs and visualisations Matlab offers? For students and technical people its a sure manna. But along with it comes a heavy price tag.So do you have any suggestions for having such 'high fidelity'[if I am allowed to use this expression] images through other programming languages?Do you know of any such good graphic libraries? How does Matlab do it, can we get any hints from that?
Having such a library and incorporating in standard C,C++ or Perl programs will save the money yet will be a good bargain.

Suggestions...

Thank You
Oh, you're talking about the American government. America has nothing to do with its government; they're two separate entities, with separate (and perhaps mutually exclusive) interests ;)
Only if you want anyone to take you seriously.

If not, don't bother. It's your blog - you can do whatever the heck you want :). Economist is great.
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Whatever language you choose, you probably want to bea ble to access the linear alg and statistics/prob. libs mentioned here:

http://quantlib.org/index.shtml
sigh amateurs! We're talking Zombies here, not Vampires. Vampire Judgement Day isn't for another 287 days.
I hate many things about America, but this:

"You have biggest number of homeless in the world, even children and so we can continue whole day... but I still hope there are some people there who understand this and can do something with that."

is patently false. If America minded it's own fucking business, things would be much better.
This isn't Reddit. A sweeping statement like "[The U.S.] is directly or indirectly responsible for every war in the last 60 years" doesn't even relate to this particular topic. I don't understand what mental state you're in where you feel a strong urge to lash out at "America", but those comments are detrimental to the quality of this discussion, regardless of whether they're true.
From what city of angels do you reside? Do you think America is without enemies, no matter how 'civilized' it behaves or votes? When does a country fall from grace in your eyes?
Sorry, I guess my comment was a bit snarky. However, it's evident that 1) people thought your idea was good, but 2) the cRaZEE f0N+ S+ylz bug them. Overall, that's good: fonts are easy to fix, good writing is harder to come by.

Agreed on The Economist, it's a great read.
What if we do away with the leaderboard?
not "could have," "did" get a lot cheaper. Most of El Mariachi's costs were actual film and processing; nowadays you can rent a camera for a week for $500 which will give you film quality.
democracy?
Europe is in the grips of Jihad, so you have to expect that sort of lunacy.
It's morning here, I'm sitting at the desk, drinking coffee and I can assure you I'm OK mentally :) Also I can assure you that short facts in my comment ARE strongly related to current state of the market.
That's right, and the chart doesn't even show the whole problem because it shows just the federal dept. Consumer dept and dept of financial institutions is where the biggest growth has been:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a09b317e-898d-11dd-8371-0000779fd1...
(scroll down for the charts)

Another interesting question is of course who owns this dept and how much of it is owed to foreigners, because that points to possible ways of silent default ;-)
"The root cause of this crisis is fractional reserve lending, and micromanagement of interest rates by the Fed in particular and Central Banks in general. The Fed started the party by slashing interest rates to 1%, but Central Banks everywhere drank the same punch to varying degrees." -- http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/10/global-co...
Hm, the prices might eventually rise again. On the other hand, they might continue to fall even lower.

Information gained: zero
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Many people in countries with corrupt governments and crappy politicians state that, but in most cases, a government simply does, what the people allow it to do.