skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parts I like best are the pagination and carousel, the two new controls. Really sweet, I'm going to put that on my todo list to try out.
Or you should make it so inputs don't need to be surrounded by square brackets.
Adding Sweeteners, Senate Passes Bailout Plan
Well, I was gloriously uncertain about whether the last bill was a good idea or not, and I'm happy to say that I have no clue whether this one is better or worse.

Sometimes it's really nice to not have strong opinions on difficult subjects.
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Yes. Adobe is an arrogant company and it has a history of attempting to force Apple's hand by ignoring what Apple's going currently. Whether it actually works is another question entirely.
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I wonder if there were (m)any Lisp hackers on the iPhone team...
"Gloriously uncertain" describes how I feel about economics in general, never mind the crazy finance economics around this whole mess, but what I do know is that the specific provisions against oversight in the first bill screamed rank corruption to me. I usually take rank corruption to be a clue pointing in the "bad" direction... does any body know if the new one has provisions like that in it?

Course, I do suspect I would be happier if I were neutral about it all like you though! Terrible shame I get worked up over things... me though? I'd like the chance to vote for this guy:
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2948
Senate Passes Greener Financial Bailout
Just wondering Lux. Is that the number you get from CD Baby or was that from research somewhere?
someone has got to say it...

how many donations will you get calley (ex-model right?) because people think you're hott?
Report: 4.2 Million New 'Green' Jobs Possible
Part of the true cost of these products is their security risk. That cost should ultimately be paid by those who use the product. Otherwise there is no incentive for people to find better, safer chemicals/means to achieve their goals.

Passing the cost on to 'society' provides no incentive and so leads to a continued inefficient overuse of these resources.

As usual Bruce Schneier demonstrates no understanding of market economics when he says

> There's no free lunch, of course. "We", as in society, still pay for it in increased prices

It's not 'we as a society' who would pay for it but those people who chose to use those products or their derivatives. The crucial difference is that one option provide incentive to change and the other doesn't.
In all seriousness how does items like that enter a bill such as this one?

I don't completely understand the process - but it just seems shocking that somehow those line items were on there.
There are several-
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/DotNet/Default.aspx

http://www.bizreef.com/Programming

I'll try to remember the other ones later, good luck!
That's irrelevant to what he's saying. His point is that if you WANT to, you CAN do it.

And frankly, there IS something exhilarating in getting to go where other people can't be. Perhaps it's not the cleanest thrill, but it's stupid to say that you derive no pleasure whatsoever from it.
IANAL, but I agree with her. This should not violate security rules as she's not selling you securities ;). She can easily book the donations as payment for future services in case there are other accounting issues at stake.

Good luck!!! I would LOVE to have access to the product as described in your post. FeedBurner and the like confuse the hell out of a small time blogger such as myself ;).
I made fun, but someone I work with wants to see the entire excise tax on wooden arrows repealed (he participates in the SCA). From an article on bloomberg:

"The arrows provision seeks to reverse an anomaly in a 2004 law that created the 39 cent excise tax on the weapons. Intended the levy more expensive arrows, the tax also applies to arrows used by Boy Scouts and other youth organizations that cost about 30 cents a piece. Ten manufacturers in nine U.S. states stand to benefit from the change, according to a description of the legislation from Wyden's office. "

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aKd0...
Senate passes federal bailout plan, House set for new vote Friday
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when you want to make something really nasty a lot more palatable to joe sixpack or to a politician looking for earmarks

The ugly things being:

1) the financial transactions are still in essence a secret; the public still doesn't have access to what price an asset was bought and sold for. Gee I wonder if the government can keep itself honest?

2) the bailout is still unlimited; the main difference is that now we pay in installments of 100 - 250 billion

3) there is still no mechanism for which the public can get a good ROI on the money we're handing out; according to the bill, it's for the next president to decide

4) there isn't really any reform / bug fixes for the system; it's just a quick and nasty hack for keeping things running in the (flawed) way they were before tanking; which can actually make things a lot worse
I like DropCard better...
I have no idea what this means. But it still had me laughing.
"I will go on the record and say Buffet is WRONG."

You know who says Warren is Buffet is wrong? Poor people :). kingkong, I'm not saying that you are poor, it just sounded like you said Chuck Norris doesn't know how to roundhouse.
"... Bin+Laden... Totally interesting ..."

Bin Laden is interesting all right. By '99 he was #456 on the FBI's most wanted list ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives,_... and now on the Tango watchlist ~ http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm
You have a very high buzzword per paragraph ratio going there. If we were playing buzzword bingo, you'd win.
I use this - it's non-profit, but that actually eliminates a lot of complications in a way... There are profit-orientated sites around as well.
I worked with some people on a Newton project. This was way before the product was officially released. I was 17 or so and exposed to this crazy highly dynamic programming environment. Unlike anything we youngsters had worked with before.

If I remember correctly we got two kinds of development hardware from Apple. One was a fat Quadra ('040) with an ARM NuBUS card and the MCL development environment. It got us started with code although there was no device to run this on.

Later on we got a Newton prototype. Real hardware. It was very bare. Basically a PCB with the LCD/touch display on top of it and connected to another Quadra with a flat ribbon cable. I remember we could run the real NewtonOS on that. The prototype was called the 'Bunwarmer' I think.

The Newton was awesome. Too bad it was killed.
Will this ever get fixed? I find it really ridiculous that is just returns false all the time. I just voted for it.
You can add as many sweeteners as you want to a bunch of crap; it's still going to taste like a bunch of crap.
Except that unused cycles don't work in production settings. Pharma companies tried doing that for discovery programs back in the day and found that getting a cluster was much more effective. Using spare desktop cycles is great for low-level data collection, but you need to analyze that data and when you have deadlines you need much more control of availability and capacity
If this is really all it's made up to be, I will be using this on a regular basis
Thanks for your response. Sorry if I was sarcastic but honestly that's how it spontaneously came out and certainly it's nothing personal. My point regarding the $25K was that some people may be concerned about your ability to raise capital so perhaps this is something you should address (otherwise put: why crowd-sourcing in the first place?).

If your idea is fully developed then I misinterpreted the following statement on being stealthy: "I don’t want to build up one idea, just to iterate and have it be something totally different."

I am looking forward to the blog post about your entrepreneurial skills. One more thing: you could perhaps say much more about your idea without revealing what it is: eg, how big of a market is it that you are entering? How many competitors? How are you differentiating yourself? How long will it take? What will your sources of revenue be? You get the gist... give potential investors more info so that they can place an educated bet.

Good luck.
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Chances are that you and buffet could both be right. Buffet is right in getting a guaranteed 10% return on $3B dollars with a potential for upside with his preferred stock, even if you are right in that GE common stock performs badly in coming years. So long as GE is still in business/profitable, Buffett is right.

I agree with your last point, I'd actually be curious how many of the vocal "buyers" are actually throwing their money down and buying?
National Retail Federation executive likens online retailers to criminals before Congress
Technically speaking, milk bits.
Microsoft to launch "Windows Cloud" operating system soon
its no dirty secret, google finance makes it pretty clear "Sector: Financial > Industry: Insurance (Prop. & Casualty)". It's possible there's questionable accounting in the history, but 30+ years into it, I'm surprised nothing major's come up seeing how large and public a target he and berkshire are and how many other accounting cheats have been netted.
How come there is no money for health care or getting renewable energy done, but there is a ton of money for this all the sudden?

If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would say it's almost like they are setting the stage so that once Obama won, he can't have any money to do universal health care and renewable power. They should pay for this by repelling all of George Bushes tax cuts to the wealthiest 10,000 people in america.

Privatize the wealth but make the public pay the bill when the bets don't pay off? Fuck this shit. The rich that benefited from the deregulation that led to the mess should pay. There should be riots in the streets.

And idiot americans are going to be glued to their TV's, with their brains working the same way they work watching the Brady bunch, while Joe Biden tries not to look smarter then Sarah Palin and thus appear an asshole to the Voting on American Idol part of Americans Brains, while John McCains people play the game of trying to get enough idiots to vote against their economic interests on the basis of identity politics.
That is my experience as well, but keep in mind that the design of the source language affects this. For instance, writing a parser for C++ would be a nightmare full of bookkeeping, but a basic translation to machine code would be relatively straight forward.
Over the past ten years, I've switched from Microsoft to Linux to OS X as my primary desktop OS. I suspect my course is not atypical in hacker land. I wonder---and I say this as a big fan of ESR (who, among other things, is my blogfather)---what he thinks of that progression; and, in particular, what he thinks of OS X.
Tomorrow on the NY Times:

Bear Shits in Woods

Clay Aiken is Gay

Pope Reveals That He Is Of The Catholic Faith

St. Louis Might Not Win The NFC West

Does anybody think the American government isn't either doing the same thing or trying really hard to get that power?
> against NDA for me to publish any source code to an iphone app that I write

Wow, that's awful.
This should not violate security rules as she's not selling you securities ;).

This clause might be a problem:

the top 100 donations will receive a lifetime premium membership.

If I donate X amount of money, I do not know if I will receive the lifetime membership. I could ultimately be outbid; or I might ultimately not be outbid. It is a game of chance; and unlike in the case of an auction, I pay whether I win or lose. That might make this an unlicenced gambling enterprise.

IANAL, but I would guess that if you are going to offer for sale specified products or services, you need to guarantee that paying customers will receive those specified products or services.
From the article:

"The UK Food Standards Agency has stated that people would need to drink at least 20 litres per day of a drink containing benzene at 10 μg to equal the amount of benzene you would breathe from city air every day"

...which is why I only breathe canned air.
sigh how i wish what I'm about to say was common knowledge.
the rich didn't benefit from deregulation, they benefit from regulation as the current bail out plan is just the latest in a long series of capitulations to the established pecking order at the expense of a truly free market (free competition). The established players don't like capitalism, because capitalism allows for large shifts in wealth.
since when is "there might be a terrorist attack" a legitimate argument for more government regulati....oh, right. I forgot that after being attacked once we all turned into whiny babies. mission accomplished hijackers.
Weights and connections between neurons and "sensory" inputs.
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I think this is what http://www.vencorps.com/ is doing. In regards of your post to the OP: do it once, then refactor. :)
Dabbleboard releases developer API (plz give feedback)
Encrypted comm channels, tunneling, and anon networks are tools we hackers are good at utilizing. There are many solutions that enable these tools for "joe user". The problem is that any solution I can think of that simplifies privacy for the end user is fairly easily blocked by a government that controls the network.

I think it comes down to the fact that if you're a great tool-smith, you can have some privacy. Others get to be monitored or blocked.

Note: my opinion is based on my experience as an American living in Shanghai for 8 years.
Even disregarding the authentication aspect, there's laziness. People (at least myself, and I presume many/most others) can't be arsed to take the time to add tags that nobody will ever really see. It's a whole lot of work to tag more than the minimum.
You may remember we had launched Dabbleboard on HN a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=202798. For those who haven't checked it out before, it's an online whiteboard with a completely reinvented UI ("a digital whiteboard that doesn't suck").

The feedback was amazing (useful in terms of features and motivating as well), and -if you haven't seen the site in a while- you probably will discover that a lot of your feedback has been incorporated. Thanks again!

One of the obvious features is to have a developer API. Dabbleboard makes more sense when integrated with other communication and collaboration services. As a standalone app, its usefulness is limited.

Please give us feedback (either as a comment here, or by email) regarding anything about Dabbleboard. Though of course I'm hoping you'll evaluate/use the API and have feedback about it in particular :).
I sent in a message to my Senator asking for a provision to fund my startup http://shellshadow.com.

I have scanned the final bill, but don't see ShellShadow mentioned anywhere!!! Don't they understand that people will lose their jobs if my startup becomes illiquid?

Edit: I rescanned the bill looking for language like "funds in support of collaborative server support technologies", still nothing!!! Does anyone have the phone number for the lobbyist that works for the Boy Scouts? I could use some advice.
The 'provisions' are too weak and weasel-wordy for their execution to ever be confirmed or denied.
Hold on to your hats, folks...

Don't blink, you'll miss the $700B getting sucked into the deflation tornado.
Even if GE does poorly, Buffet will still get his dividend. Also bear in mind, dividends paid by most corporations are taxable as long-term capital gains as opposed to income tax.

All in all, a solid bet by Buffet. Perhaps it's time to investigate Berkshire Hathaway stock.
That's (mostly) true if there's no trust model

there isn't one.
An idea can be fully developed but still have to change. There's an iterative process involved in all startups, and it has nothing to do with the development of the idea and has everything to do with limitations, competitive edge and strategy. Startups iterate all the time, and it does not mean the first idea didn't have merit.

If you sit down and really think about what I'm doing, in a purely business (not money) sort of way, you may begin to see why I'm doing it. There are 20 reasons that have nothing to do with money that I can think of off the top of my head.

And I don't know how anyone could describe their business that way without saying what it is. How can I say what differentiates Dashbuzz without saying exactly what it is I'm doing?

And no offense taken, I appreciate your input :)
his performance is measured on decades

who cares? who owns a single equity for decades? some fictional granny investor in pasadena? look at your own trading history...i bet you never held a single equity more than four years. note that i am distinguishing index funds and etfs here. berkA is a single equity
I was so intrigued by this update that I've decided to use it for an entire app (ramamia)!

Previously, I only used certain elements (like animation), only spending the minimal amount of time and code to make something work.

I like the update so far...
They provide a link supposedly showing that mootools is faster than jQuery. However, on my browser (Safari 3.1) jQuery is faster on most of the benchmarks, at times significantly.
interesting point, i had not thought of that. will talk to my lawyer.

thanks!
You sir, have obviously never had a chocolate glazed donut.

They taste great!
I'm tempted to think that a Chinese national using encryption would be subjected to stronger, maybe even in person surveillance.
Fun to: guess what the map was representing, then scroll down to see if I was even close.
bullshit bullshit. average "long term" investor is in and out of single stocks in two years or less. you're at the far end of the bell curve for people who hold for four years. the myth of the "long term" investor is just that. the reality is most people hold equities for less than a year.

and "long term" is not a definitively superior investment strategy. look at the dow chart for the 20th century, you can see at least two ten-year stretches of zero gains. guess what, we're in another one now. buy-and-hold only makes sense in secular bull markets, like 1982-2000.
almost no useful docs, for starters. the single elisp gnu docs are so limited as to be useless
Your idea is never exactly what you first thought it would be. pretty sure reddit was something entirely different when they started. same with auctomatic. justin.tv is now kiko.
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Yeah -- nasty stuff, and it keeps accumulating for years. My brother had a '91 Dodge Colt that would always get that film on the windshield.
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It is okay to diversify on napkins (concept stage) or after series A/B/C... but stick to the plan in the middle path.
Interesting post, but he seems to stop halfway through -- he never answers the question implied in the title.
If you liked that, you will REALLY like http://www.gapminder.org
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I have worked in Pune. This city is full of colleges and institutes, which means good supply of work force and consumer.

Fact: Most FMCG products in India are first launched in Pune and Ahmadabad!
It has been mentioned again and again that some of the best companies were born out of economic slowdown! Perhaps difficult times makes you wise spender (True).
Great piece of software, Jon.
I'm using Ubuntu, Firefox 3.0.3. MooTools is faster than jQuery by 52 ms. But strange enough, Dojo beats MooTools by 144 ms!
Knowing that most software are always 85% ready! Rapid Prototyping and Multiple Iterations is the way to go (I do).
Same here. Dojo is faster in my Firefox: Moo:265, jQ:261, Prototype:295, YUI:571, Dojo:190. jQuery is the fastest in my Safari: Moo:141, jQ:132, Prototype:270, YUI:425, Dojo:146
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Disagree Completely.

Heart of superpower lies in its Research and Entrepreneurial environment. I don't see anyone coming close to it in near future.
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jQuery is much faster in Chrome too, MooTools is third after Dojo.
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There's no support for that.
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I'm liking this! have to take a look...
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Speed benchmarks aside. I feel his points are valid granted you're coming from a Java/C++ background (where most CS graduates come from anyways). But frankly MooTools feels like it's applying classical OOP to javascript. Whereareas jQuery feels more functional and natural. There is no right and wrong approach (although given the choice I would have js be a statically typed language) it's just that both libs are the love child of their respective creators to work in something they enjoy doing. And have healthy communities to support their endeavors!

Now I'm starting to see one of the posters gripe about jQuery plugins. And for me I think that is by design. jQuery I believe was designed to be a lightweight as possible. Practicing modularity at it's finest. Had jQuery been baked with all the bells and whistles, I do not think it would have attracted a large number of devs. Thinking about it what would SQlite be had it had all the bells and whistles of MySQL?!?!

Now I do not know which JS lib fares better when working with a team. I suspect MooTools (due to it's classical OOP behavior) might win out.
Thankyou for that!

I had been imagining giant arrows made of plywood like you might see in an ad campaign (maybe like this one - http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1295/1250681839_5317382df8.jp... ) - and couldn't work it out. It all makes sense now.