skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crisis was fueled by people showing up and doing their jobs. Think about that.

The hunt for the criminals is a waste of time. People were acting aggressive, not criminal--with notable exceptions that could happen in any era. In fact, finding scapegoats will make the problem worse. It leaves the system intact and fools everybody into believing the problem is fixed.

Credit and risk has always been a problem of information. In this era we have more tools than ever to manage them. However the rules require a major rethink to get the right information circulating.

Now, if you believe it is a systems problem, what's the solution? Here's one: Transparency. Not the SEC's version of quarterly accounting quibbles. Just tell me the the end-of-day positions of every "large" participant. 20 years ago that would be too much information to process. Now it would be no problem. Lots of little agencies could process the information.

The impact would be enormous. The informational advantages of large institutions and so-called speculators would simply disappear. Nobody would be able to grow to be too big to fail, simply because they would have a harder time trading. If you are starting to feel sorry for banks having to supply this type of formerly proprietary information, just remember, they have the corresponding information on you and you don't complain.
That's cutting a pretty broad swath there; CSS does not necessarily render more quickly than images--especially on low-end devices. For example, things like drop shadows are incredibly slow to draw in CSS on low-end devices whereas downloading and rendering a properly compressed 1kb png is significantly faster.

It also depends heavily on the complexity of the logo and the painting implications. To say simply that "CSS will be more performant" is categorically incorrect.
3. I'm not so sure about the effectiveness of the tax on financial instruments. I think it might be more effective to require reserves to be held by the issuer, maybe a few percent They are already required in some cases. A bank is required to to hold a percentage of deposits as capital. An insurance company is required to hold reserves against losses.

At the time of the crash there was something like $60 trillion in Credit Default Swaps floating around. A 5% reserve requirement sure would have slowed that down. A reserve requirement would reduce the volatility of the commodities market, which would allow those who needed it a hedge, but reduce the incentive for speculators to churn.
I guess searching for the seeds that would result in a specific string can be interpreted as a hash function? It takes a long time to find the right seed or combination of seeds that generate a certain string. Call that a hash value of the string, then you can reverse the hash by applying it to the randomString() method.

Could it be possible to use something like this for "quantum compression"? If you use a quantum computer to find the combinations of seeds that generate a given string, could that be used for compression?
...and that's where the money went.
People act like there is no downside on hamstringing the federal governments ability to govern. Over-restriction of what the federal government could do is precisely what led to the creation of the Constitution.
Totally fair; and I wasn't intending to pick on this example in particular. However, I see a lot of this "look at this amazing shit we pulled with CSS" that's generally inapplicable beyond their (admittedly cool) example.
I just watched it. It is a new documentary. But I have to say it was not as informative as many of the other bbc documentaries that I have seen. Lorenz, Tutt and company were new for me but there was not a lot of detail after the initial revelations.
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This takes me back. In the early/mid 90s, particularly in Universities, internet was slow as molasses and many of us used these mail interfaces, for web and also for FTP (FTPmail). In many places email was given most of the bandwidth and it was a lot faster like that. Big files would come Uuencoded in several parts. In Uni, usually pics of Cindy Crawford and Erika Eleniak among others.

Now it seems incredibly geeky but back then it wasn't anything remarkable at all.
I think this may actually be genius. Someone call Zuck, Jack, and Larry.
The author is only partially right. The mistake is in defining a closed system that is in fact not closed, and then curve fitting.

For instance a great part of growth in the last 100 years has been from man's ability to harness energy from fossil fuels. If your time line is narrow enough, you can disregard the point that fossil fuels is not unlimited, and project continued rise in extraction.

Another example is the baby boom, and the introduction of women into the paid work force which led to continued rise in property prices.

One more is the introduction of laws which suddenly compel people to invest in the stockmarket. It leads to short term asset inflation but generally makes worse investment all round.

That said, it is fitting that an economy is well modelled using the principles of hydraulics. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer
What was the name of the GCHQ cryptosystem? Any reference links?
The point of the tax is not to regulate the derivatives market. There are valid reasons for derivatives, and arbitrarily imposing a reserve requirement on a class of instruments that is ever changing and by definition, represents different alpha and beta is a bad idea. The point of the tax is to mitigate HFT strategies. In my view they don't add anything to the system when considered from the point of view of 'why' society allows/creates such systems.

Regulating crazy financial instruments will occur when what we call 'investment banks' but you could easily extend to all cooperatives that make money on financial instruments, are required to be partnerships. It's amazing how much self-regulation occurs when an actual person is personally responsible.
Pretty useless without an install link for the normals.
FUSE.

http://osxfuse.github.com/
Nice contrast to Zappos' founder Tony Hsieh's[1]:

Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.

But there is less opposition than it might seem. It is important to start small, but not stagnate on being small.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2009/10/24/zappos-ceo-tony-hsieh-on-d...
Seriously you are complaining about not having access to a resource that you have not paid taxes to support?

There are other ways to watch it...
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They can also use the VIN that's readable from the windshield.
1. We have something similar in Slovenia - Supervizor (http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/). It's a tool that publicly displays how much government spending and of what sort goes into different corporations.
About a month ago I tried all the commercial Mac Git clients (SourceTree, GitBox, Tower, Gitty) after being frustrated with my old copy of GitX. I just couldn't get into any of them. I was missing the tree views, so I can see where branches diverge, staging of hunks, and overall they were all too "weird" to use in their own way.

I ended up going back to GitX when I found there's a more recently updated fork maintained by German Laullon: http://gitx.laullon.com/ It has a few bugs, but I find it's much more usable than the commercial alternatives.
Some gorgeous work there on making a native code-structure editor rather than a text editor. But it's still text in the end. Baby steps!
Ask HN: What questions do you _wish_ you could ask your co-workers?
Things you just keep to yourself, maybe because you don't want to come across as whiney, confrontational, demoralizing or for some other reason.
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He leased his cars ... didn't own them.
Not so. People spend time on this legislation because the lobbyists encourage them to, and the lobbyists encourage them because that's what the AAs pay them to do. And the AAs don't just want to make sure people don't take content illegally, they want to make new laws so that previously legal uses become illegal (e.g. no ripping DVDs, must buy a new copy for every device).
Regardless of what you think about the 37 Signals folks one bit of their advice has always struck me as being particularly insightful and powerful:

Sell your byproducts.

There are two very strong reasons to do this. First, it can be an excellent business. You've created something to solve some problem or remove some pain that your company is feeling, it's extremely unlikely that your company is so unique that it's pain isn't shared by other companies. And it's unlikely your internal tools would be of no interest or utility to other companies.

Second, internal tools are typically of terrible quality. There are various reasons for this but it's a very common pattern due to fundamental pressures and incentives. By selling internal tools you force them to have owners and you force them to have a quality sufficient to be acceptable to the market. This generally vastly increases their quality, which provides a benefit to everyone who uses them, including you.
Here are some: Am I the only that...

1. is tired of the semi-mandatory Friday afternoon karaoke sessions? If I hear One More Time one more time it’s not going to end well. If you saw Falling Down you know what I mean…

2. thinks there’s no way this product is going to ship on time even if Linus Thorvalds himself descended from the heavens on a white horse to join the dev team?

3. would like the CEO to share more information? I feel like I’m running around blindfolded.

4. is stressed out by the CEO sharing too much information. Sometimes the truth hurts.

5. That thinks we should work harder and more focused? Sometimes this office feels like a f-n day care center! What are we, a bunch of 6-year olds? I wanna change the world.

6. That feels our product decisions are too data-driven? I thought I joined a group of human beings when I took this job, not a bunch of nodes in a datacenter.

7. That feels our product decisions are too gut-driven? It’s like we’re in Las Vegas on the wrong side of the table… “This is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”

(I collected a few more at http://blog.otelic.com/?p=198, but no need to visit that page - I'm just wondering what people out there are curious about)
You absolutely must elaborate, please.
This is really cool. I have often toyed, as a hacker that is, with making a website that tracks all the campaign contributions of every local, state, and federal candidate/delegate. The information is out there. Unfortunately, I haven't had the time, or the energy to divine the correct business model for such an endeavor. (and I don't mean one that works, I mean one that works for me ;-) )
My girlfriend is capable of clicking "yes" when iTunes ask her if she wants to update her phone, but that's about the extent of it. She's not going to go out and find third-party repackages of updated features, and she can't download custom ROMs or anything like that.

Yet, she likes new features and improvements just as much as anyone else. She might not know what a JIT is, but she'd sure notice if her web browsing got more snappy. Apple's update scheme allows everyone to enjoy new features. Google's leaves non-technical with a lesser experience.
Well known. Here are kits for MacBook Pros:

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_...
(Encrypted and then compressed, however, so it's essentially the same as the uncompressed size.)
2. I remember being at a release meeting for a quarterly software update for a mainframe manufacturer. As they went around the room everyone declared their projects were ready. Until they got to me. I said our test suite was way behind schedule. (It was our first release.) Then they went around the room again and it seemed that everyone else was behind also. We actually did make the original schedule, but no one else did. (I make no claim that it always worked out that way. :-)
I'd like to see a live comparison of content available on Amazon Prime (free streaming) versus Netflix, Hulu and any other subscription services. Has anyone built such an interface? Am I just describing something that Boxee/XBMC arleady does?
The sponsors of this bill break down as 16 Democrats to 11 Republicans. How does that work out to "mostly republicans"? It appears that this has support from both parties, and I think casting it as a party issue will weaken opposition.
Ask HN: Which online communities would you recommend for startup founders?
Which other online communities for asking questions/advice would you recommend for startup founders/entrepreneurs?

answers.onstartups.com
reddit.com/r/startups/
linkedin groups
what else?
This could effectively be a programming sketchbook - which is not a new idea (see the Processing IDE), but this integrates within a device that's basically the digital equivalent of a notebook. This is such an amazing and beautiful concept.

Say hello to the future. We don't have hoverboards, but we have codebooks - where sketches come to interactive life within its pages!
Have you considered using stack overflow? It's a great way to have access to mentors and people to help you and if you're working in a particular domain, you will have experts to help you. With one single mentor you're stuck with only what they know.
#2 is crucial - Glass-Steagall should never have been repealed.
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why do you say that solves my issue?
Last time I rummaged around his personal site, he had social and political commentary not focused on libre software issues.
VIN is visible from the outside of the car
Not at the speed you're seeing there. Also, obviously you're not seeing the keyboard come up blocking the environment :-)
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I'm really torn on #5. My pragmatic side says "hell yes", due to the very human nature law of those that most want to govern are the ones we least want doing it.

But... my rights side says all that is doing is taking away my right to vote for whom I want.
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Try in a dark room.

Source Code:
https://github.com/EdwinToh/LightPainter
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Try driving between 1-5AM, cops are looking for absolutely ANY reason to pull you over during those hours (looking for DUIs).
Can I reach you via email?
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Restoring is another 6 lines of bash:

s3cmd --config ~/.s3cfg get s3://BUCKET/database_$1.sql.gz
gunzip database_$1.sql.gz
sudo -u postgres dropdb DBNAME
sudo -u postgres createdb -O DBUSER DBNAME
sudo -u postgres psql DBNAME < database_$1.sql
rm database_$1.sql

But I suppose being database agnostic would be handy - it would make switching from mysql to postgres easier.
Yeah, I get it. It's not a very complicated idea and it's been tried before. Your mistake is that you assume people are going to attribute the bugs to the cracked copy and not to the game itself.

People will look up the game and see that a level fails to load or the game otherwise breaks at some point, but no mention by the person reporting it that they're using a cracked copy. So they decide not to buy the game.

I'm not even going to bother presenting the evidence that DRM tends to increase piracy rates because I'm sure you've seen it and have simply chosen to ignore it. Just as you've ignored the truly best strategy for deal with guerrilla rebels.
Unless you can be more specific about what you think is broken for you as a user, I do think you are being unreasonably biased here.
I am headed to DC tonight and my partner and I and a few other VCs entrepreneurs and folks from Google are going to try to talk some sense into congress on this bill. Wish us luck tomorrow.
Since we're name calling, you're a humorless shitstain and should be sterilized.

In other words, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6cxNR9ML8k.
Can anyone with more experience and knowledge explain the effects of #3. I've read that HFT is actually a good thing because it basically acts as a market maker. This is just a back of the napkin opinion, but it seems that #3 would reduce liquidity in the markets.

We know that markets aren't perfect or else Buffet and other value investors couldn't survive. Does HFT make markets more or less perfect at pricing? Does this matter for making markets more efficient in reality, not some hypothetical perfect market?
Pretty nice, though I am a little annoyed that the number of repositories in the demo went from three to one. Other than that, seems like a nice update!
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There was an interesting comment from the stack overflow guys that they guessed that using AWS could cost them 4x more.
The evernote guys are another high profile team that went their own way.
I wonder what that says about the margins for AWS, or is the AWS architecture not actually a more efficient use of hardware, power etc compared to old school setups at co-lo's.
I like how the content is being layout. I am still waiting for my book to arrive :)
Anonymity? How many plate-less Mercedes are there in CA?
"... We don't really need the money ..."

Then consider, who has the power in the negotiations?
Sites that connect designers and developers (like builditwihtme)
http://builditwith.me/ is the only one i know that brings together designers and developers, who want to leverage each others' services and create start-ups or work on ideas.<p>Do you know of any other similar sites?
How common are Silver SL's without a license plate in that area?
Do you plan to publish the source code anytime soon?
The truth tends to have interesting domino effects :)
Why? The institutions that got in trouble during 2008 had no retail banking arms (Bear, Lehman, Fannie & Freddie, Merrill, etc.). Glass Steagall is a red herring. Proprietary traders were largely not using deposits to finance their bets.
sounds like a Mother Goose tongue twister:
she sells seashells by the seashore,
the shells she sells are seashells I am sure,
so if she sells seashells by the seashore,
I am sure the shells are seashore seashells.
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Wow, this looks pretty awesome. Nice job twolivesleft!
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I haven't seen any thoughtful reasoning behind calls for a Tobin tax. It's mostly populists who are upset that some people make money by trading.
Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly?) enough Twitter proves to be very useful once you find the right people.

Also there's a cool facebook group if you're in Europe: https://www.facebook.com/groups/205823522802657/
Transmit - http://www.panic.com/transmit/

It will allow multiple sessions via tabs or windows. Each tab will allow you to view different local and remote directories.
I find myself seconding #1. I think in order for a democracy (or a republic) to work it needs to have transparency at all times. The effect that a lack of transparency has on a voters ability to pick the right candidate is too immense to continue to ignore it. Especially a candidates donors though, seeing as to how they're usually the real constituents of the elected officials.

Edit: typo
Sunlight is one of the least reliable forms of power out there. If the grid goes down then... well, you're screwed unless it just happens to be daytime and sunny.
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Any candidates that actually pushed for these things would instantly get my vote. Too bad pretty much every candidate is a politician, which by definition means they oppose #1.
Before that, he and Woz used the Blue box[1] the latter had built to make free calls.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box
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You are very confused. Randomdata is describing the certification of banking deposits. In the US, this is done by the FDIC, a government corporation.
If you are Steve you probably ask yourself "Why must I do this?" about 20 times per day.
Yeah. Sorry to be a nitpicker, but these aren't logos designed entirely in CSS, they're logos designed in CSS and vendor-specific CSS extensions.
> he would have got it through

Huh? You realize it's law, right?
Steve Jobs driving a car for 6 months actually might increase it's value. I may be exaggerating slightly but I bet it didn't cost all that much.
No. On average the size of the seeds will be no less than the size of the original strings.
the key here is a supposed right for secure piracy-free distribution. Providing for such a right seems to place a heavy burden on society in exchange for which the society is supposed to get some benefits. About benefits - does it mean that the human race would be less creative and inventive (or even stop to create and invent) without the copyright protection?
Reminds me of Klick & Play back in the early 90's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klik

This app looks like the perfect thing for prospective obj-c devs to get that "I gotta make something cool now" monkey off my back.
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Market liquidity is not the same as creating value. If you aren't investing on the same timeframe that it takes to create a business (3-5 years), you are simply exchanging money for money, not creating value. There is some minimum amount of liquidity needed for things to work at all, but massive amounts of liquidity is not good in and of itself. After a point market liquidity is a force for creating bubbles, not sustainable businesses.
I am trying to understand why.

Why do you have such high respect for the knowledge these therapists have? Isn't it a bit like cargo cult science?

If this sounds provocative, it is because I am trying to get a response and more info. Why is it that the various psychology schools are SO respected that any layman's advice or armchair theory is instantly considered "harmful" even though it is HELPFUL to people I know who aren't clinically depressed? I am just trying to understand why someone offering normal and rational advice is told that they are causing harm. There's some unsaid extra assumption here about the depressed people, and I would like to know what it is, and where is the evidence for it.
end loopholes that allow companies like exxon to pay no federal taxes

Corporate taxes are idiotic. They should tax them at zero and replace the lost revenue with a new upper-margin tax. Reasons:

1. Corporate taxes are effectively a sales tax.

2. Corporations, unlike individuals, can hire armies of lawyers, accountants, and lobbyists to get around the taxes.

3. Those same professionals are more often deployed by large, rather than small, companies.

4. Those same professionals are intelligent people wasting their intelligence on tax avoidance. They could just as easily be useful to society. Engineers, doctors, teachers, etc.
It appears that it supports most of the plugins that IntelliJ Idea have. I bought AppCode just yesterday and absolutely love it.
There is the possibility that despite the populist rancor, no actual laws were broken.
The standard response to claiming HFT as a market maker is that it provides minute amounts of additional liquidity and its costs and drawbacks, or potential costs and drawbacks, outweigh the benefits. Of course some amount of market making is necessary, but you could claim that without HFT you'd just settle your trades in 0.1 s rather than 0.02 s and with 0.5% spread rather than 0.49% spread.

I don't know enough to form a proper opinion whether or not this is the case.

Of course part of the problem is defining HFT or algorithmic trading. If you build a robot to press an appropriate button at a trading terminal really fast, is that algorithmic, HFT, and should that be banned? Do you fix the tax at 10 cents, and if so how do you react if companies just create massive securities worth millions of dollars and trade those?
I'd highly recommend Blekko. It is by far the best alternative out there and they support tons of ways to get exactly what you need.

Additionally, they run their own crawler so it's not just rehashing Bing results, etc.