skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope so. There's a serious vacuum when it comes to small, niche investing banks. All the big firms are no longer in that category. Total i-bank market cap has been cut down by billions.
I've been a big fan of Zecco's business model. I'd be more than happy to generate exclusive content for major providers. Any networking you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

My main brokerage is thinkorswim and that's the platform I do screencasts from.

Hopefully (crossing fingers) when I get some good traffic going I can get some advertising contracts with some financial service companies.
I've launched (with Dan Grigsby) a blog for iPhone application developers - http://www.mobileorchard.com/ - or follow us at http://twitter.com/MobileOrchard :)
Don't worry, it's an agile spec. Very loose. Bullet points are amazing things.
Right. I agree on that point. Still, the inclusion of stock for government cash is a clear progressive step along those lines. Government may not know the true value of the banks, and their assets, but the stock market will ensure they get a return based on valuation bidding.
Thanks! Believe it or not, I did try to find a "contact us" link on their site and was stymied. I guess I didn't think to look in the About Us section.
I don't know if the parent is serious, but it is a good idea.

New bank, no risky holdings. Everybody else is in trouble and refusing to lend. It's a great idea.
it's also possible to use twitter to cross-promote a product to a wide userbase. pushing ads for their other products through twitter would be simple. letting other people do it would also be simple.

even failing that, the success of twitter gives the people who are currently working on it a lot of credit for future products. it's not a revenue-generator immediately, but it builds faith. i think the author's focus is a little too short-term.
There seems to be a bug on the YC system.
So I deleted the initial reply for some reason, the button was there, now no reply can be made yet one is still required!
I think there's a pointer that's not reset after deletion.
Well, I hope they fix it soon, like before 17th!
He apparantly had a heart attack a couple days ago.
I think your range of points on security, unverified information etc are all valid.

My viewpoint is about gaining a more rounded understanding for a person's character, i.e. using all available information on a candidate to try and build a more accurate representation of them.

If Spokeo are offering some sort of verification service such as those offered by Experian et al then I find this to be a flawed model.
Probably, but there's always a risk that it might come back. Or it could be something else all together. Either way he won't live forever.
Shadowy government project spins off Siri to help direct your affairs
Are you talking about the fake CNN iReport?
There are plenty of careers that meld creativity and commercial gains, like being an architect or interior designer. Don't you think an architect takes pride in seeing one of their buildings standing against the skyline?

Sure, you might not get rich making splatter paintings, but you can still be creative and make money at the same time. People will pay for things that are aesthetically pleasing.
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I lived in Japan twice for the summer, and once for a whole year.

I was really into Japanese culture and language, and was very excited to immerse myself in the whole experience all 3 times. For the two summers, this was not a problem. I took the same approach for my year long stay.

However, after month 4 or 5, I totally burned out. I was spending all week and all weekend speaking Japanese, which I was improving at a lot, but still required a lot more mental effort than speaking English. Beyond that, there are just lots of little cultural things to always be mindful of and this added a small but constant burden, too.

It was at this time that I started attending an English speaking church, attended by ex-pats. One thing I discovered was that, even if the person was Taiwanese and we were speaking Japanese because that was the one common language between us, we still agreed on the same things that were weird about Japan.

Having this support group made a world of difference. I was still in a Japanese environment, spending most days speaking mostly Japanese, but I had an outlet.

I suspect this is what women get from having female connections in the CS/programming world. As much as our society sometimes tries to ignore the fact, men and women are different enough that it is occasionally necessary to get away from the other culture and retreat into your own, even if only to hear someone agree about how weird the other culture can be.
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"And unlike, say, a Gay Men's Chorus"

Did you see the episode of Will and Grace, where Matt Damon pretends to be gay because that is the only way he can get accepted into the men's chorus group?
Federated Media Unleashes The Conversation As An Ad
I never tried Twitter, and I have a hard time figuring out how that could happen. Does Comcast receive a notification whenever "Comcast" gets entered in a Twitter post?
I describe experiencing this kind of thing in Japan elsewhere in this thread.
The best you can do is search your email for account registrations/passwords resets, or look at your browser's saved passwords.

I keep a copy of all my accounts/passwords in a text file, since I don't want to dig through backups if a web password gets lost by Firefox. But I guess it's also a chronological log of every account I have.
im sorry, but reading that post was a waste of time.

im here to learn, not gossip. how did this get 7 votes?
It's always better to keep the temperature on the low end. People that are cold can wear extra layers. About the only choice when the temperature is too high is to start taking your clothes off and depending on the setting those around you might not appreciate it.
I thought some orchestras started having blind auditions, where the performer is behind some kind of opaque barrier?
You have to also love making money. I love making money. By definition, it is impossible for me to become unhappy if I have to make money doing what I love. /obvious.

I had a girlfriend like this: she was an excellent photographer, had a degree in fine arts with a photography specialty, but didn't want to make money doing it -- she didn't want it to become her job. This discrepancy made her miserable, not only because she generally didn't get to take pictures, and didn't get to make the money she could be making, but also because she wasn't using her degree.

I went to school for CS, not because I love it (though I do at times) but because the market forecast was good, and I wanted to retire early. What I like about programming is the freedom to innovate, to solve problems. I get to solve problems, solve puzzles with my job. That's great. When I get done working, I'll write a book -- that'll be even better.

I think it's enough to work doing something you like, to support what you love.
She's a senior partner at a law firm, so I can't imagine their financial situation was all that precarious.
Vista is a big part of why I made the switch to a Mac (for my laptop, I'm running Linux on the desktop).
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean.
Yes. It's trivial.
I use an RSS feed to scan for tweets on specific topics of interest. (qv: tweetscan.com)
Various other approaches are available.
It's good to see bankers acting like they've been screwed by the government, for a change.
YDN services subway map now available as a PDF
Two Important Differences between Firefox and IE Caching
I've seen reports that Asian Americans have now replaced Jewish Americans' historic role as having an upper limit quota for how many to admit. Does that fit with your experience?

I think that the University of California system has higher percentages of Asian Americans than other academically comparable institutions since California banned affirmative action.
It's a shame the $800 laptop rumor was wrong, with PC laptop prices dropping and APPL prices rising that OSX tax is getting to be a big differential. As a developer I couldn't use windows because there's no decent shell or vi or any of the tools I've spent the past couple decades using. OSX on the other hand is a UNIX variant that also runs Photoshop, which to me is the best of all worlds. I might consider one of the dell laptop OSX86 hackintosh ideas now that's maturing.

Its better to be wrong with Mac rumors, less chance of getting sued.
I suppose that's a good point.

In thinking about it, however, I haven't noticed when working in an ICU that stronger women are asked to care for the 400+ lb patients more often.

It is a fairly common occurrence, however for men to be asked to care for certain patients because "men are stronger". I've also been told by women that they are glad to have more men in the industry because "men are stronger".

I could be wrong, but I struggle to think of an instance where it would be okay for me to to categorize female coworkers as being inherently better or worse because of a physical attribute, however.
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I would place that responsibility on the person to get better at communicating. People of the opposite sex aren't aliens. It should be possible to get your ideas across if you put effort into understanding their world view.

Now, if your ideas are not received because of existing prejudice, that's a different issue.
Dumb Users VS Busy Users
> Coming up with a way to keep a linux configuration on my laptop so when I do a fresh-install of Fedora 10 next month, I don't have to re-create all of my custom configurations from scratch (again)

Maybe you meant something substantially more complicated but....

...just mount /home/ on a second partition, that way you can wipe and/or upgrade linux and keep all your personal settings.
there is a twitter dude named comcastcares (maybe above that is you).

Regarding this post - HA. Unless all entrepreneurs band together and force consumers to start paying for our wares then the Twitter's and Seesmic's will continue. Maybe not during and somewhat after this economic shake up, but in time things will go back to how they were. Consumers have been weened on free; expect it!
As a white man who loves basketball and would have loved to have been better at it at a younger age, I would be all for a Black Basketballers Mentoring White Basketballer Wannabes Assocation!
You can't cure cancer. He was successfully treated and I believe the cancer went into remission, but to say the prognosis is grim might be the understatement of the millenium. Less than 5% of those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer survive 5 years. Median survival is only 3-6 months from diagnosis. It is an extremely efficient killer.
First "grow the economy" and now "surface your ideas". Ugh.
[.NET] Why are Esxceptions not Checked in C#?
Or you could just use DBpedia: http://dbpedia.org/About
am i the only one getting kind of tired of blog posts that are just links and descriptions to jquery plugins?
Can Microsoft Conquer Cloud Computing?
"That passion you have for art... perhaps making your painting commercial enough to sell will squeeze the joy out of it."

Once you cross the line of doing something to pay the bills, instead of doing it for the joy of doing it, then it becomes work. And, work, ultimately sucks.
Matt Maroon - But Seriously
Best recent example is Social networking. Friendster was a joke before MySpace, er, made it popular before making it a joke again.

Later Facebook may have succeeded in not making it a joke.
http://code.google.com/p/yml2tex/

A little python script to generate a LaTeX beamer presentation with some default theming/styling/etc. added.
I tend to forget the LaTeX syntax because I don't use it very often. However, I really like doing LaTeX beamer presentations so I wrote a little script which basically provides me with something to start with.
Shrug... part ego gratification, part "hey, this system might be better at catching these things".
Technorati Acquires AdEngage Advertising Network
* Porting my chess problem website (http://chesstr.com) from Rails to Django

* Working on a new version of my chess engine. I've had various versions over the years with the strongest playing around ELO 2300 (master level)

* Working on a chess engine that uses non-traditional searching/AI techniques. I'd be absolutely thrilled to get this thing playing as well as a child.

* Teaching Intro to Computer Science at the local university - a tremendous experience.

* Learning Doc Watson's version of Deep River Blues on my guitar
So... do you like the browser or not? Forget whether it is "innovative", the question is are you happy as a user.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=316769

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=312260

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283813 <- answering why he is a programmer

:-)
Richard Dawkins's Guilty Pleasure (no anchor link, scroll down ~3 screens)
DE as in Deutschland = Germany.
Maybe.
VC confidence drops to new low, but there may be a silver lining
Flock packages for Mint / Ubuntu / Debian can be found at getdeb.net
The Future of mobile is not about mobile (Video of Keynote at FOWA - London)
This is another example of Seth's cookiecutter gurudom. I don't think it applies to startups at all, though.

Also, stop rehashing the same old, 'If you commercialize your art, it stops being satisfying' BS. We knew that forever ago. I think in the connected universe it is easy to to do something you love on the side AND make money from it AND be happy doing it. Like that guy who makes $2k/yr because he sold some photos to iStockphoto 10 years ago.

Not to bring ad hominem into this, but why has Seth become so un-original?
I've been using it for a month. I blog, but most of my content is original, so I don't need the 'blog this' facility. The sidebar with Facebook status updates is nice, but nothing that couldn't be in a separate window.
OK, I'll bite. In college my minor was archaeology, a field completely dominated (at least at my school) by women. I've been the one guy in otherwise all-women classes.

Compared to my CS classes, it was like a breath of fresh air. (I actually double-booked my afternoons, and walked out of Operating Systems halfway through class to go study ancient Peruvian pottery. It was therapeutic.) I felt like a curiosity at first, but never trivialized or resented. As always, I gravitated towards a couple other people in the department as friends, but they didn't happen to be men.

The pattern I saw was not that men (or the dominant sex) are trivializing and resentment-laden, but that specific departments were. Even the women in the CS department were into the macho-geek BS, and a lot of us men hated it.

That's why we're offended by the suggestion that there should be special anything for women in CS. A lot of us men want computing to grow up, too, and we feel excluded by these women-only programs. There's your sex discrimination.
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The revolution of paperless paper
What the Financial Crisis Means to Entrepreneurs
This is common practice when the URL is meant to correlate with a printed version of a magazine, sometimes one that either hasn't been released yet, or releases a month earlier than the posted dates.
Your second paragraph is why attempts like this author's exist. The assumption is that the gender imbalance in our field is cultural, not biological. She's trying to fix that imbalance.
Web app that uses the new Flash 10
A very vivid presentation, definitely worth checking out
In order to correct for a demographic imbalance, you have to put extra attention on minority recruitment and retention in the group.

She is clearly discriminating based on gender, but she's doing it because of an observed gender imbalance.
And it's good to keep in mind that a downmod can mean anything from "I disagree with this." to "This whole line of discussion pro or con is stupid.".
Federated login is a good idea. That's why 95% of people already use the same login details for every site.
A developer using Photoshop, now that's scary.
I thought so too myself. I also have a text file backup. Thing is, I started filling it up not long ago. I'm trying to find all those obscure forums and things in which I signed up, that I can't remember anymore.
Thank you for the reply, mate!
Note that this only happens in humanities classes. It says something about a class when a passable term paper can be produced in the space of 4 hours. Imagine asking someone to complete your engineering term project in a similar fashion.
I have a feeling Seth Godin loves what he does for money.
"And they don't get spam filtered, nor do I get phishing Tweets from people pretending to be my hosting company."

...yet.
> Diversity is good because when members have different experiences, and thus point of views.

Wrong. Diversity that brings in useful points of view is good. Diversity that brings in other points of view is bad.

> "Point of view is worth 80 IQ points"

My cat has a different point of view but I'm pretty sure that she doesn't have anything useful to say about Google App Engine.
I actually want people to see my LinkedIn page. It's designed to get me hired. I don't have a MySpace page.
Can I point out again how stupid single-arrow voting is?
I thought I agreed with you, but then I got a MacBook Air, and I haven't noticed the gloss at all.
Patience--they are planned but delayed by component problems. In the grand scheme of things, 2-3 months doesn't really matter.
Can I remind you that from where I sit, the title of the original post translated into something like "Famous left-leaning columnist awarded prize by committee slammed as being too political lately"?

So I was hunting the articles down and driving them away. The problem is that it didn't look like that for the majority.

If you don't want to see dissent and downmod it, then how can minority opinions ever sway the majority that they are wrong? Sure, in this case I'm probably smoking crack, but there's something really bad here.
Just to add, the guys have it far worse in this situation.
Do "naked chef" Jamie Oliver's recipes actually work? We find out.
I hope Dvorak starts picking up traction.
does user=visit for small user sets? We get about 15k visits/mo but only 300 users.
The second curve is wrong -- because it was stretched graphically, it has more total area beneath the curve. That's important, because if you assume that the mean is the same, but the std. dev. is larger, the probability for the most expected outcomes are actually lower (i.e. the peak of the second bell curve should be below the first one).

This is more than just a pedantic observation -- it's an illustration that the VC way leads to a lower probability of success at the most common valuations, but a small chance at a much higher valuation.
Gruber was a bit harsh on the rumor sites. They're just driving page views, much like he wants and is probably trolling for with his analysis. The new macbooks were a long time coming and I'm glad they're finally here. My aging powerbook is in need of replacement and I never really like the current macbooks that much. My student budget can't quite afford the macbook pro, so new macbooks was an exciting announcement.

The first thing I'm going to do over x-mas break is install XP on my mac, but the Orange Box and play through half life 2 and the 2nd installment. I've been wanting to, but lacking the computer to do so.
Ask YC: Usability tools?
Full-blown eyetracking studies are often too expensive for startups, aren't they? So what kind of UX tools are you using? What would you suggest to people who are on a budget?
Founders, on the other hand, have the competing interest of reducing variation. They’d generally be happy to make a $30m mean return with zero variance. In fact, they’d often be happy with a much lower return and a much lower variance.

Ding Ding Ding. Somebody gets it.
Yeah Battery bussed ~70 us an hour away for an all day paintball/beer drinking/BBQ. It was awesome. They even gave us custom masks to keep.
Just imagine this comment thread for a moment as a series of videos you have to click on and listen to the author slowly waffle.

Scary isn't it.

Edit: Also, funny comment from their crunchbase profile: "The twitter killer as I have blogged few minutes ago. It has video, video is web2.0, it will kill twitter."

(Sorry for being slightly offtopic from the main points of matts post which seem to make a lot of sense)
Facebook now the largest photo sharing site
Email Is Fucking Evil
But not too low. The limiting case is an employee, who gets maybe $100k return with close to zero variance. Most of us are entrepreneurs because we wanted to take on more risks than employees in exchange for greater rewards.
To me it looked like you were more irritated with his political orientation rather than the fact that the article was here at all. I don't want to see Krugman, or mises.org or Cato or Denis Kucinich or Nader or Brad DeLong, Tyler Cowen, or any of them here, even though I happen to enjoy reading some of the above some of the time (I'm not saying who), and in the right forum (over a bottle of good wine) would enjoy discussing them a great deal.
Outsourcing CS projects and homework actually seems to be a pretty big business on most rentacoder and freelancer sites.
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Vint Cerf endorses Obama
I applied for the same job and was told after all it would come out to 115k , something like 80k tax free.
Facebook stores 40 billion image files
I would recommend www.useit.com combined with common sense and hallway usability testing.
I remember a comment a long time ago that paper would never die because it is too "user friendly." That was back in the late 1980's when that phrase was thrown around a lot, but it looks like it is true.
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Using SQL to generate SQL
davidw endorses keeping politics off of this site.
When Do Solid State Drives Make Economic Sense?
Anecdotally, it seems to have gotten a big boost when Microsoft (and Linux!) started including the Dvorak layout in system software and providing an easy way to switch between layouts on a per-program basis.

The first time I tried out Dvorak, I had to hack around in ResEdit, make a new keyboard layout, and then glue labels to a keyboard cover. If I weren't 12 years old, I would never have had time to bother. And even then, I gave up after a few days because I had homework due that I needed to type up fast, and couldn't afford to put up with hunt-and-peck.

When I tried again in college, everything was all preinstalled, and I just had to change a Keyboard setting. And I could alt-shift to go back to Qwerty, so if something urgent came in - say, I had to respond to an instant message - I could do that and then go back to learning.
Online video-sharing as well. This was a joke in the first dot-com boom: everybody tried including RealAudio on their pages, but too many people were on dialup, the player was unreliable, and quality was too grainy. Then YouTube came along in 2005, after everyone had gone to broadband, and suddenly succeeded.
The dawn of a new Cloudera
VCs are "frozen with uncertainty"
We're at least two.
It would be nice if the FF crew grew some balls and gave the US software patents the finger.

Support for H264 would be much nicer than support for the nieché format that Ogg Theora is. It might be open source, but it has also been lacking in technololgical advancement compared to the "standard" scene formats.

H264 has better decoding performance, better bitrate utilization and much wider general support. Patents be damned: I personally think that a web-standard for video format and technology-wise taking three steps back is a bad thing.
I own a copy of your first book, it's awesome.