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Ask HN: Examples of DatabaseLess website?
Do you have any example of website/app that is running without a database?
There's always the implicit disclaimer. Bankers who manage risk poorly destroy wealth, just as manufacturers who manufacture defective products destroy wealth.
I'd just leave it to the market. Clearly ubuntu's popularity proves that hacking the kernel is less valuable than cleaning up the UI & novell should have seen this. They're quite free to start selling ubuntu support contracts.
Current extraction from sea water runs over 4 times the current spot price for Uranium. It is currently an UNECONOMICAL way to get Uranium.

Please reread the original article I linked to regarding the 1000 year supply. It actually deals with undiscovered reserves.

In addition to these identified resources, the category of uranium that could be expected to be found based on the geologic characteristics of known resources has grown by 500,000 tonnes to 10.5 million tonnes.

The data comes from Uranium 2007: Resources, Production and Demand - often known as the Red Book - published every two years by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

from: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ENF_Exploration_drives_ura...
Line Rider for stocks?
Just a thought that occurred to me. It would be awesome if you could import stock graphs for any company and let those be the lines the little sled dude rides on. The performance of a company's stock could depend on how long LSD(little sled dude) can hang on. =)
Personal faith is of course important and fine, but I never didn't kind of get the stories, the three desert dogmas and why some of the beliefs should have such a special role and strong impact on our societies.

In Finland the current trend has been that about 20-30k more people resign from tradiotional Lutheran church every year than they get new members (even though it might not tell about their faith). And from the whole population (about 5M), a million say that they don't belong to any religion, myself included.
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Ed Felten & Team Disclose 4 New CSRF Vulnerabilities, Can Transfer Funds From ING
Pumping in a huge amount of government debt and credit is hitting the accelerator, not hitting the brakes. Cheap credit is the fuel that produced the mess.
http://news.ycombinator.com is all in memory I believe
I still type Deja.com when I want to use it, but I can't find a lot of posts. It has become the proverbial piece.of.s__t. If only people took upon it themselves to maintain a proper public archive independent of Deja, some old backup data tapes, and G__gle.
See the Google usenet post on this page.
You can't wave a magic wand and create real reserves to lend. Real credit comes from reserves of savings. This is about stopping a deleveraging process in the financial markets, not about ensuring the flow of credit to businesses. That's just the propaganda.

Credit demand is collapsing as an economic bubble bursts and this is DRIVING the deleveraging. Not the other way around. If the economy were truly starved for credit you'd see 8% rates on CDs as banks scramble to raise reserves to lend out.
Thanks. Other examples?
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CSRF is "Cross-Site Request Forgery"; it's a simple problem: for many HTML forms, you can craft an IMG tag that will "submit" (via GET) to it. For others, XMLHttpRequest Javascript code can do the same thing for POST. In both cases, the exploit is the same: a "drive-by" form submission from malicious HTML rendered off any web page.
I remember reading: "A lack of capital kills you slowly, a lack of liquidity kills you like a slug to the head" - I think the credit crunch is more of the latter (or people claim it is). Who knows...
Apple dropped like 20% in just one day today.
I'm curious how many YC-funded startups are considered to be in the "enterprise" space. Anyone know off hand?
Not the whole stock market. Berkshire Hathaway is holding up well.

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ABRK.A

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ABRK.B
"users should be keen to keep their information in their own hands"

That's Zero Knowledge. Like the recently unfunded fantastic Clipperz library. I can't believe no smart investor found a way to make money with that. It torpedoed my respect for angel investment. Anything "social" gets money, something that can revolutionize the whole Internet experience, zip.
I'm surprised by the vote tallies. Democrats voted 140 yes and 95 no, while Republicans voted 65 yes and 133 no.

So, either Republicans (in the House) have more integrity than I'd given them credit for lately (and more than Democrats, on the whole), or I have less understanding of the bill than I thought I did.

Also, the Washington Post is either a little bit batshit crazy, or they have a strange sense of humor: You can sort the results by astrological sign. If you really wanted to have one more sorting type...the length of time in office would be more interesting to me (and not indicative of being ready for a quiet retirement with fewer disturbances in life).
I disagree. The bailout gives us more time to find out where the brake pedal is, so that we can press it. We're already speeding towards the wall whether we like it or not.
Because of traditional values. The country was settled by religious people fleeing prosecution in England. And now the religion gets passed down the generations, so a son follows the same religion as his mother etc. Which is why you can probably find that there are a lot more people becoming atheist compared to those who switch from one religion to the next. Because in all cases religion is more or less the same you worship some deity w/o any proof they exist.

If one religion was > another, you'd see a lot more proof one way or another. But there isn't, which is why 100 years from now Scientology will be on the same level as mormonism , a quirky religion that has some quirky beliefs. And 1000 years from now Scientology will be on the same level as Christianity.
the funny thing is, that you'll probably get voted down now for that comment
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And I just love how there's always some supposedly intelligent christian posting anecdotes.
This is precisely the sort of "I know exactly what's going on" comment that I'm suspicious of. Perhaps you do, but I am in a "don't trust anyone" sort of mood, I suppose.
It's not like these newspapers aren't still available somewhere in their dead-tree form. I assume Google isn't the only place where these newspapers are archived. They just made it easier to access and search the papers.
This is a victory for the stingy saver

Not if he has his savings in stocks. In fact, if he followed the conventional wisdom and put (100 - age) percent of his assets in stocks, a 40 y.o. stingy saver just lost 5% of his savings today alone. Which is almost certainly more than his share of the $700 billion.
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It is currently an UNECONOMICAL way to get Uranium.

The word "currently" is important here. It means that the statement containing the word is irrelevant in the long-term. Resource supply-size increases exponentially to linear increase in price. How high of a price increase can the market accept? The current uranium prices contribute about .2 cents per kWh of electricity produced.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf02.html

Multiplying the uranium price by 10 causes it to contribute only 2 cents to the cost of each kWh of electricity produced. That is before further fuel-efficiency advances are applied, which the higher fuel prices would incentivize.

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Do you mean to suggest that at some $1,000/kg, it would not be possible to profitably extract some 60,000 tons or more of uranium per year from seawater? What about at $2000/kg? $3,000? $4,000? $5,000? We can keep going, since fuel-efficiency of the plants can continue to be improved. $6,000? $7,000? $8,000? $9,000? $10,000?

Where is your cutoff for economic seawater uranium mining?

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Current extraction from sea water runs over 4 times the current spot price for Uranium.

That would make it cost less than a penny per kWh. Are you meaning to suggest that the electricity market would not accept a fuel-price of under a penny per kWh?
Good. Now get to work devising a bill that has more oversight and whose tactics are more agreed upon by economists (capital injection a la Sweden in '92: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/business/worldbusiness/23k...). Sweden spent 5% of its GDP but recouped 3% of GDP, for a 2% GDP net cost. Did anyone believe that 60% of the money spent by this defeated bill would have been recouped?
"I wouldn't call DNA source code either."

Well here's the thing. You are completely right. DNA interacts with its surroundings. It forks, splits, mutates. It is not at all like static source code. However, if you take the software analogy to the limits of our current understanding, you might be able to model it as polymorphic code that is also a quine that runs in a massively multithreaded, multiprocessor environment.

Good luck using that analogy for anything useful.
I think it's more like putting on a gorilla mask and hanging our ass out the passenger window while screaming like tarzan, so we can find the choke cable.

The car analogy is stupid. There is no brake and there is no gas pedal. There is a natural balance between savings, loan interest rates, and consumer demand. What's happening now is that demand and savings rates are trying to return to their natural balancing levels after having been knocked out of whack by fake interest rates. The powers that be don't like that rebalancing, but it will happen one way or the other. Government can only exacerbate the process (and make certain insiders rich at public expense).

The simple fact is that thousands of businesses NEED to go under and lots of people NEED to lose their jobs. Many of the businesses and jobs were created to service demand that doesn't really exist. The demand was an illusion created by fake cheap credit. The faster this process is run through the better the ultimate outcome.
This seems like a riff on MTV Cribs, albeit not a very good one. It's the nature of the show to focus on the inconsequential toys and perks while ignoring the hard work that got them there. It's also de rigeur to try to seem cool by using vaguely hip-hop slang, often to hilarious effect.

It's anybody's guess whether the trivial, silly nature of something like Cribs says more about the celebrities or the people who watch them. Taken at face value this video is stupid fluff, but it's meant to be stupid fluff. I don't know what else the author of this article was expecting.
Well, I wouldn't equate a single day's loss to mean much. The DOW is going to get lower and lower, even if it has a few blips here and there.

The key is this: The DOW dropped 500 points because nothing happened. Theoretically, the markets are in the exact same position they were in Friday, yet they fell.

Once more Wachovias start pilling up, that's when you'll see the slide begin.
I forget where I read this (Andrew Sullivan?). Someone predicted that now the Democrats will put out a new bill and it'll be voted through the house along party lines. Bush could veto it in the middle of his financial armageddon, or sign something with real teeth in it...

It seems like just buying equity in the failing companies is a more direct way to deal with the problem than throwing money at the problem, in exchange for promises that Paulson will write up warrants that benefit the American taxpayer.
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I think a simpler line of reasoning is that the Democrats have a bit more control over the bill, and have been able to get in terms that Democrats favor more than the Republicans have been able to.
From what I heard, Peloisi gave a startlingly bad speech before putting the bill up for a vote. Something along the lines of how this was all the fault of Bush and his policies and then she tried to tie this to the federal deficit. Not sure. I need to find a copy and read it to get a better idea. Even without that speech, there was a lot in this bill to dislike. Namely, giving the sec. of the treasury a check of $700 billion with absolutely not controls is a patently idiotic thing to do.
said another way: you can't lose money you don't have

that might not help, so here's a picture of a pack of corgis on a beach, hope it helps: http://media.tumblr.com/b9vfl4b63eh5j0pmcEfbxxxGo1_500.png
You briefly touch on my favored interpretation: The very religious and the non-religious were the ones who left England for a better life, and both because of religious persecution. Lo and behold, that extreme polarity is still what we have today.
Flirtprints.com: the missing bridge between online and offline dating. 
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How many times did you want to know someone that you saw but were too shy to introduce yourself? This is something that is usual, part of everyone's life. To address such problem Flirtprints.com was conceived, providing you with an intelligent and interesting manner to facilitate your process of knowing people in real life.

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Start flirtprinting right now. Register yourself, create and print some flirt cards (you have the choice of sending flirtprints by email as well) and spread them to those people you always wanted to know but never had opportunity or courage to do so.
Wow, I never expected to see a parody of the Sunscreen Marketing Board sketch. And it's all good advice, no less.
Oh I'm not worried. 95% of my assets are Canadian! :)
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In that case, will you be declaring bankruptcy and putting everyone that much closer to recovery then?

No? Then I don't see how it's seen to be acceptable to demand that action of others. The effects of the crunch will go much further than fat cats on wall street.
As the comments point out, the OP is a parody of the essay and subsequent 1999 hit song "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)". As such, it's filled with a mix of "universal" truths, quirky suggestions, and well-meaning advice -- surely intended to be taken only half-seriously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen

http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/mary-schmich.html
"Credit demand is collapsing as an economic bubble bursts and this is DRIVING the deleveraging."

You're going to have to explain that more. How does lower credit demand force deleveraging? I was under the impression that the deleveraging is being caused my huge losses on heavily levered investments.

"If the economy were truly starved for credit you'd see 8% rates on CDs as banks scramble to raise reserves to lend out."

The markets for debt have just taken a huge beating. I'm guessing the banks aren't meeting the demand for credit because it has just become more difficult to sell debt. If they are having issues with the loans they've already made, it's easy to see why they aren't rushing to issue more.

I can't prove that the economy is starved for credit, but it's clearly the conventional wisdom. If you're going to call that propaganda, you need to prove that the conventional wisdom is wrong.
If feelings of mistrust are your guide then it should be obvious that the bailout is an evil racket. Cui bono?

Outstanding consumer and business debt is something like $40 trillion. Way more than $700 billion of it is at risk. The bailout bill is so small relative to the real credit markets that it can ONLY possibly be a political act for certain well connected individuals. It cannot drive the macroeconomic conditions related to the whole credit market.
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this sounds way too much like an ad. i'm flagging it until you actually are engaging the HN crowd. whats the point of this post except to sell your product?
I find your comment quite offensive...
Most of the comments here seem to be focussed on the supply side. The big change that this article hints at is on the demand side.

Back in the late 50's NASA and ARPA were two of the biggest customers for computer innovation. Now we are (where we is Internet users in general, not HN readers).
I think a cool idea is very compelling. Interesting problems will intruige and whet a good developers appetite. It also doesn't hurt to have a fun, laid back environment. Business casual gets old pretty fast.

Ultimately, I think it comes to down money. Unfortunately, finance pays a great deal, and its hard to turn it down when its in front of you. The more interesting the problem is, and the cooler the environment/people, the less money you'll need to offer to tear them away.
well without bankers we would be carrying coins around in chests. They provide more liquidity then we would otherwise have. Creating wealth can stem from that liquidity, but they also seem to have a role as a type of investor (managing risk) but I am not sure if that is a more recent thing or was always part of banking ?
If those financial institutions fail, they will have to be nationalized. Taxpayers will lose far more than $700 billion. The only way your characterization of the bailout as a net transfer of wealth is tenable is if you're against government intervention in financial crises altogether, which is silly. Unless you also think fractional reserve banking should be illegal, which is also silly.
good question. i also think it should be a little bit looser than "enterprise". PG, what are your thoughts on funding enterprise plays with YC?
Thanks for a very insightful comment.
Sure they have money, but it's not like you'll get any. Larger companies are much harder to sell to than small companies or consumers, and they hate dealing with startups. You might make $1 million on a single enterprise sale, but you'll have to spend 90% of that on your sales and support staff, and that one sale could take a year to close.
No - DNA is not object code; it's much closer to Lisp.

Some of it is code, some of it is data, some of it is macros.

And it's all the self-modifying output of random genetic algorithms.
Given that both the reporter and GoDaddy acted like fools, it's good that things worked out the way they did. A serious problem in Drupal will definitely get some attention now, consequences of ignoring monitoring and administration duties will be made clearer and more people will know to avoid GoDaddy altogether. Definitely a win for everyone not directly involved.
I am in similar boat. But what worries me is if this means much more then that... what if you suddenly don't have cash, or its worth nothing. What does it matter if you own lots of houses and no one can rent them. Well, its unlikely it would ever be as bad as that ;) but heck, hard not to worry about unlikely events.
There's nothing at that link to suggest anything about what bankers in this universe did or didn't do.

Note that some of the slicing and dicing was intended to turn a pile of mortgages into two financial instruments, one with less risk than the original pile and the other with more risk. The two instruments would then sell for different prices.

And, are the buyers actually the financial illiterates that the "buyers didn't know" argument requires? I wouldn't call Merrill Lynch naive about money.
I second that recommendation, I went to last month's event (first time I'd been) and it was very useful.
*There is a lot of Red Tape". Touche. You could not have said it any better.
I think the author may be equivocating on innovation. Anyone would have to agree that the kinds of innovations that NASA was/is responsible for (whether directly or through funding subcontractors) were of a fundamentally different kind and scale than current .com/Web 2.0 innovations. Twitter isn't an X-15; Google is great, but it's no Moon landing.

The kinds of innovations we seem to think we are seeing today are clever tricks compared to the kind of R&D that went into NASA's frankly glorious history of innovation. The resources and incredible intellectual capital that had to be (and still has to be) invested in a new launch vehicle, satellite, or manned craft is just orders of magnitude higher than what is required for innovation of the internet-startup kind.

None of this should be seen to denigrate the innovations that are minting millionaires and billionaires today. Indeed, the truly wondrous thing is that a mere clever trick can make you for life. Unless I'm missing something (and I'm not, at least here), this is the very reason that ycombinator and Hacker News exist at all; You can fund significant innovation that may earn $10^6-$10^9 for $10^4.

For a contemporary example of the difference between these two kinds of innovation, just look at SpaceX. Elon Musk made his money the clever trick way (low initial capital + clever trick + hard work + wonder of the internet) and is now engaged in the "old school" way of making money with innovation (high capital + lots of Ph.Ds + hard work of 100s to 1000s of people + rigorous design, construction, and testing).
And gold ;)

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AGLD
>I've been living in a strange world where every single social conversation eventually converges on property prices

Its really tiring isn't it. well it is good that is over, its just the other crap I don't want. But if we can get back to doing stuff rather then speculating, then great.
You don't seem to understand that this is not a matter of choice. Many, many bankruptcies will be happening one way or the other as the macroeconomic fundamentals of saving and interest rates return to balance. The government is powerless to affect this.

Thousands of nail salons and restaurants were built because cheap credit made them temporarily profitable as future consumption was taken today while debt loads rose. Well, the future arrived. And now consumption must be forgone. The nail salons and restaurants will go bankrupt and the workers will go unemployed. The faster we get it over with the better.

The question becomes: would you rather have $700 billion to ensure unemployed people don't starve? Or would you rather use it to temporarily prop up nominal asset prices owned by rich people?

> In that case, will you be declaring bankruptcy

I have no debt at all, so that's kind of impossible. However, my savings are part of the solution. The problem is we need more savings. The solution to that is dramatically lower consumption, which is what a recession is all about.
"certain well connected individuals"

Sounds like conspiracy theory territory to me, but maybe I'm misconstruing what you're saying. On the surface, your argument regarding 700 billion vs 40 trillion sounds plausible, but then again, it doesn't seem to be convincing guys like Larry Summers, Mark Thoma, or The Economist ( http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm... ), and I don't think they're all in on the plot, yet are pretty smart.

On the other hand, if things don't go to hell without the bailout, it will show that Paulson et al. were indeed quite wrong.