skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read it. Did you?

It's interesting that you think that the fed isn't part of govt and that repealing Glass-Steagall isn't either. Also, the ratings monopoly is also a govt creation. (Yes, folks could consider other things, but their ratings determine what counts for "assets" for regulated entities.)

Most items in the list in that article have govt's fingerprints all over it, and it's hardly complete. For example, it ignores fannie and freddie, the various efforts to encourage home ownership, and the like.

> What you have is a document outlining a policy, but no data or evidence showing that it actually happened.

Are you really arguing that regulated entities don't follow the rules?

If so, you don't get to argue that different rules would have made a difference.
> Do they actually teach this s--t in business school? What the hell?

"If you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a poor family, you're likely to go to prison. If you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a rich family, you're likely to go to business school." - George Monbiot
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Even if they never give out another share of equity, hiring always involves promises about the future - compensation, bonuses, security, opportunity for advancement - that can't be written into the contract. I'd have to think the discount rate for those promises just jumped significantly.
This is exactly how you sell this kind of services. No fancy web design, no over complex messagin, no geek speak. Just straight to the point communication.
(I say this as a designer)
Possibly also of interest in this context:

* http://www.smlserver.org/smltojs/ - SML to Javascript
* http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/manual/ - OCaml to Javascript
Maybe you're right. But it's not just Pages. It's also stuff like Ripples, +1 integration with web sites, badgets, etc. These rollouts all seem to point to a prioritization of brands over users.

I'm still hopeful, though.
Finally, a judge stands up to Wall Street
This feels like something that belongs in a bug report rather than HN.
You seem to be employing exactly the same line of thinking that is used by people to justify harassment of all sorts. It's fundamentally selfish and entitled. I see that you're going to deploy the "political correctness" strawman, though, so I don't think I'll make any headway here.
Instant-runoff voting would probably be more practical. It's already used in America in some jurisdictions, so promoting it to the more major offices like President isn't as big a leap as Condorcet (since Condorcet's not actually used by any US jurisdictions).
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Don't the same problems apply to voting by mail?
Very nice idea.

What about security, privacy etc? Who else sees the messages going back and forth and who retains the archive?
This is a good suggestion - I believe prefix match should weigh more than partial infix match.

As for "too complicated" - I am not suggesting to extract GDP or population data in Javascript. But in static HTML on server side you may add additional "weight" attribute to each option, the way alternative spellings are added (look at the HTML source). And then you may manage these weights externally.
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Let's give them a taste of their own medicine. They grew off exploiting the Facebook feed and twitter.

I started #boycottZynga on twitter. Please retweet. If we get the message out and convince people to stop playing before IPO, we can hurt their valuation.

Then they'll realize they can't just bully normal people.
Thanks for the down vote. It's good to see that the verifiable information I have presented has upset someone with an opposing viewpoint (ie, a lie predicated on eager technology xenophobia).
How does it work? I'm in the same boat as jsdalton -- I thought it was't possible.
Internet voting is the eventual future, but like has been said, the lack of representational elections and the broken two party system are why people are disinterested, not because they have to go to a local school and fill out a piece of paper.

Introducing online voting should be pursued as an option, just like early voting is. But we should not even think of making it a standard for a long time, because not everyone has internet access. And many people with internet access still wouldn't know how to go to vote.gov and fill in a form.
I feel like this is what would happen if you took every language under the sun and asked people who had never used them to offer commentary. It's just full of strange gaps and claims about differences between languages that just aren't even really true any more, and yet misses issues like "memory safety" from the discussion of C vs. JVM-languages, for example.
Sure!

There were three previous threads on this you might be able to get other interested usernames from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2613176 && http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=897565 && http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236845

Could also maybe co-opt this group: http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Austin/
Yes for sure, try and at least get lunch with someone a few times a week and have a hobby of somekind.

Working from home can absolutely destroy your social skills, especially if you end up working at weird hours. When you do go and meet people you can sometimes realise that you have absolutely nothing interesting to talk about because all you have done for the last month is sit in your house in front of your computer either working or trying to work.
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If you were to give everyone off from work for voting day on the contingency that they voted, most people still wouldn't vote.

Voting in the United States should be compulsory like it is in Australia.

A central location that would let people vote on bills would serve as a check on politicians votes.

As for the problem with not everyone having access to computers/smart phones, why not replace phone booths with electronic voting booths?
True! I'll add it there as well, I thought it was a bit of interest, to avoid upgrading and loosing the functionality of chrome when working. Sorry if a bit OT.
> Without a large and powerful government, it would not be possible for such an agenda to succeed.

s/large and powerful/corrupt/

The problem is not that our government is large (that is a tangential issue). It's that government is now fully captured and co-opted by the wealthy interests (often large corporations).

Devolution of power into state and local governments is not going to meaningfully help either... often time these entities are much easier to bribe, to bend the law in the favor of the corrupt.

The issue is the concept that "money == speech"; to consider it thus is inherently crooked unless everyone has the same starting point or opportunities.
Yes, glad to see at least a fragment of multiple naming is recognized. Started entering Deutschland and it settled on Germany. Entering Ivory Coast gave Côte d'Ivoire. The same should happen for all countries where the country's name for itself differs from a popular version.

Endless debate may follow this question: WHICH name should it use? If used in the USA, I'm expecting to settle on Germany and Ivory Coast for the above examples, but would be surprised if residents thereof didn't object. United States is obvious, but much of the world knows it as Les États-Unis (which was NOT recognized), and America is a very popular if unofficial/improper variant (which BTW drives some "hey, we're in America too!" Canadians batty). Methinks the final name used should be what citizens thereof call home, but understand it would confuse much of the general rabble.
Native wins on the points in the post for sure. Native functionality, storage, and background processes are important but not always necessary.

I work in web development with most of my clients needing simple brochure sites with a small minority wanting a web application. From my experience I think that people really underestimate the power of a web app. Even my brochureware clients ask if they need a mobile app and there are tons more who are potentially flooding app stores with unnecessary app like that. My one web app client asked about a mobile app and I said he didn't need one. It's if all you want to do is CRUD it's not worth the time, money or energy. So yeah, the post is right but as usual, I worry about the people who read this who may believe they need a native app when really they need a few media queries.
Congrats to the Apture team.
But to be honest, I never found sites having Apture useful. It kind of distracted me in many ways.

I hate anything that puts underlines / icons into the texts I'm reading. Not to mention, it is borderline spamvertisement and even virus-like.
Here's the thing. If you think of Flash as it is today, you can find how it will find eventually decline. Again, not disagreeing with that. Flash can die as a browser plugin and live on - not as a plugin, but as a programming language (AS3), whereby you code for any device using 1 language, but the compilation is to native code on various devices. This is a much lower hanging fruit than say, making a viable browser plugin for each and every browser/OS. Just an idea.
> it's impossible to tell if my boss was standing behind me telling me what to vote (or lose my job).

Then you just say you already voted and lie who you voted for. What will they do, confiscate your phone? (assuming phone voting). There are so many "outs" to the coercion scenario that it seems implausible that it would ever occur on any significant scale. What scenario can you think of where coercion would be a real issue?
Hello, Movable Ink co-founder here. You raise valid points, in that dynamic emails challenge users' perceptions of what is static and dynamic. It'll take some time to see what resonates well with users.

I'm not aware of anyone else doing actual dynamic content and updates, but our product aims to make it very easy to build the dynamic email content using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS, and javascript. You can just create the dynamic web page, point Movable Ink at it, and whenever someone opens the email we'll load the web page and continually render it, sending down updates to your users' email clients.
Tech all over.

Earlier this year, one such sociopath latched onto my sister and she convinced me to get involved. As soon as the project looked like it was going to get released, the sociopath tried to dilute my sister's and my shares from 1/3 each to 1/20th each. He wanted to bring in partners that he had previously screwed over to make something up to them by screwing us.
I would fault the Startup School organizers for this. They are creating a community that is catering largely to people who are young, talented, but not experienced. They need to be educating people about how to avoid the pitfalls and scams of the startup world as well as about how to succeed.

Instead, they bring scummy fast talkers and put these people up on the stage as ideals. Not only is that teaching the next generation of entrepreneurs to be scummy fast talkers, but it's setting up these kids (and many of them are kids) to look up to and follow people like this. It's setting them up to be taken advantage of, or to become abusers themselves.

Like any guru, pg only pimps the upside. He has a lot of good things to say, but at the end of the day it's basically self-help, water cooler wisdom, and motivational speaking for beginning entrepreneurs. He's not going to tell you about the filthy underbelly.

He's not going to tell you that a good 20% of the people in the startup world have a diagnosable psychosis. Psychopathy, narcissistic personality disorder, and bipolar disorder are the most common. He's not going to tell you that startup stock is basically worthless, and that if you're about to vest you are probably about to be fired unless you are in the "inner circle." He's not going to tell you that the game is rigged hugely in favor of the already-connected.
How about popping up a world map, letting the user tap the country, and if that's unclear give a list of local countries? Or putting a map button next to the field for such augmentation of typed entries?
From my point of view: she insisted on knowing, so I figured by mentioning the bank offer that she would get a sense of my salary range and in-turn value to another company.

Honestly, as someone who has an interest working with large data-sets, I took her remark ("who wants to work at a bank?") as somewhat insulting. This specific interviewer was not a hiring manager, but rather questioning me for "cultural fit". I asked how long she had been with said company and she admitted "less than three months," which surprised me. I really got the sense that her hating on banks was regurgitated water-cooler verbatim, because she definitely had no experience working for one.

As a young professional working in technology, I think banks present interesting big-data challenges.
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Be completely transparent with what you are doing. Let the users know how you are tracking them and what you are going to do with that information. Even get their consent if you want before tracking them.

If you provide enough value, and are honest with your plans, most users will participate.
Double Edged Sword. While many times I am interested in the country I am in, in many cases, I'm getting info for the next country I am going to. It's frustrating to have to change a default box from where I am to where I want to go, or even not notice that it's set wrong. The real question is: how many people do I annoy compared to how many people are helped? If I help most people, and don't annoy my best customers, then that's a great idea. If my site is used by folks to find out info about countries other than their own, then it might turn out to be a bust.

I would say: test it and see.
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CamStudio es una programa para Windows que permite realizar la grabación de todo lo que sucede en tu escritorio, grabando tanto en pantalla completa, como ventanas o zonas definidas, ademas grabar el audio que este activo en ese momento, incluyendo el micrófono, generando un fichero en formato de vídeo AVI y utilizando el generador de SWF en formato Flash con lo cual se puede integrar fácilmente paginas web, generando un fichero de peso reducido y con soporte para Streaming de vídeo sobre flash.
I got myself a magnetic whiteboard and some magnetic A4 sheets that I cut into strips. Each one has a to-do on it so I can change the order / move them around easily.

I like the idea of doing the tasks before 2pm. Might try that.
Not really surprising when you consider that the businesses are Google's customers.
I wasn't discounting web apps, we believe and want to work towards this future. The point I was making is that mobile web apps won't completely replace native apps any time soon.
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Inductive chargers would be awesome for docks, but don't seem very useful for mobile use. Setting an inductive charger down and then placing a laptop on it means that a pulled cord still drags the laptop with it. Unless inductive chargers have gotten a lot better, they need to basically be in contact with the laptop, so having a separate device just sitting near the laptop would be inefficient (unless I'm wrong about this, in which case an inductive charging cube would be awesome).

I agree that it seems PC laptops should have some way of improving the power connection. The status quo is crappy.
it's impossible to tell if my boss was standing behind me telling me what to vote

Or, much more likely and hard to change, a domineering family member making sure everyone votes the same way.
They can just fire non-performers with stock options? Correct?

Meaning you hire somebody and gave him/her a bunch of stock options, latter on you figure out he/she is not so good, so you fire. Simple.

Why this shenanigan?
Perhaps, I do like the quote at the end though about Javascript:

"To make a music analogy, JavaScript is a band that becomes famous for cheesy pop songs, and only later earns indie cred as discerning fans discover the cutting edge artist underneath the cheesy pop exterior."
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That article is Hacker-worthy for putting a TM character in the URL.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221693

This is a very relevant alternative view. Money quote:

At Zynga, however, Mark Pincus apparently likes to do things a bit differently. Rather than simply firing under-performing employees and handing unvested options over to the replacement, Pincus often likes to find another position within Zynga where the employee might still be able to contribute. But because that new position was often lower down the corporate totem poll, Pincus basically wanted to cut the person's compensation by reducing his or her number of unvested options (vested options were not touched).
It seems clear to me that the author meant "always" wrt the inception of G+, not the inception of search. So your snark, while amusing, is misplaced.
That sounds like a pretty hard sell. A tool that's so shoddy as to flag a 30-word sentence beginning with the site's contact URL shouldn't even be cause for a bad-faith belief.
Uhu, way before they had 40M users:
"10 million users and over 50% of them sign in daily."

http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/the_ubiquitous_lib...
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore

I think we need to do some routing work. Attempts at regulation suggests that we haven't made the Internet sufficiently robust.

We can't easily stop countries from regulating the activities of entities which have a legal presence within those countries; anyone who wants to have an online identity tied to their offline identity risks having their online activities regulated through offline coercion. We also can't easily stop infrastructure providers from simply disconnecting all traffic at the infrastructure level, at least not until we have reliable mesh-networking protocols.

However, we can stop countries from regulating the activities of any individual entity which doesn't have a presence in those countries, or which avoids tying their online identity to their offline identity.
I like the clear, easy to understand site. Sounds like a useful product.

Are you marketing this to teachers or the schools?
"I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwF7n8WyOoU
The person sending the emails creates a dynamic web page. It can use all of the latest and greatest web technologies. (AJAX, WebSockets, CSS3, SVG, etc) Then they create a Web Crop in our dashboard, and we give them an HTML embed code.

When a user opens the email, it points to an image on our servers. At that point, we load the dynamic web page, take a screenshot, crop it, and render it in your browser. But at that point instead of closing the connection, we leave it open. Every second, we repeat the process, replacing the old image with the new one.
Nice site. Since I'm currently viewing this on IE7 (shoot me now), I can see that you have an error in you conditional IE comment so I can see it at the top of the page:

<!--[if IE lt 9 ]> <![endif]-->

should be:

<!--[if lt IE 9]> css <![endif]-->
Some people prefer a world with sharp edges.
If the people you want to invite are in your Gmail address book, it already works like this.
Nils are a very bad code smell. They come from C's null, which is a billion dollar mistake[1], according to its creator: Tonny Hoare. Specially now that we have monads[2, 3].

Do you have a source for this? I was under the impression nil was directly taken from Smalltalk, which derived it from Lisp.
The art of the five-paragraph essay.
Wow, I think this autocomplete is too smart for its own good.
On the contrary, I think HN would respond pretty well to stories of IPOs that went well, and employees who succeeded. They would likely have a lot of good advice.

Personally, I can think of three people I've met who did well at startups. One was at Google, one was at Amazon, and the third was at a company I don't remember. But I can think of an awful lot of stories of public and pre-IPO companies screwing over their employees, including myself being shafted at least three times by employers.
Why would we want to make it any easier to vote?

It's always going to be true that it's far more expensive to educate oneself to choose the most correct choice in an election, than to actually cast that vote. It seems to me that as the difference in cost between these two things increases, we risk an increase in reckless, uninformed voting.

Perhaps we should make it even more difficult to vote. People who are voting on a whim would be less likely to make a frivolous vote. But people who had already invested significant time in understanding the issues would still feel motivated to use their knowledge. I'm not sure I'd really advocate a measure like this, but I think it's an interesting thought experiment.

After pondering it a bit, I'm coming to the same old libertarian conclusion that the apparent dichotomy is caused by giving the government too much power. We only need to be experts when voting because the government is dictating so much of our own lives. If we didn't try to achieve Plato's ideal of experts running everything, but limited the government's power to policing right and wrong, the only expertise necessary for voting would be introspection into one's own value system.
HN: Let's #boycottZynga
Let's give Zynga management a taste of their own medicine. They grew off exploiting the Facebook feed and twitter.

I started #boycottZynga on twitter. Please retweet. If we get the message out and convince people to stop playing before IPO, we can hurt their valuation.

Then they'll realize they can't just bully normal people.
And...how is any of this a problem?

The "argument" seems to be:

- payday loan companies are a liberal bugaboo that prey on consumers with limited options available for securing the cash they need to feed their children

- zomg our competition is like them somehow, except the prey are...companies with lots of flexibility in how (and whether) they market at any particular time
openssl s_client isn't capable of IPv6 last time I checked.
(Destination IP address is stored in a 4 byte data structure.)

gnutls-cli is. Plus, much cleaner code in that library.
Through versions 2.x, there were assert()s peppered throughout the code that could be triggered if malformed data was sent over the wire, making it unsuitable for internet exposure. There was also behavior in durable sockets where messages delivered to an identity that had disappeared would accumulate in memory, effectively manifesting as a memory leak.

3.x removes the asserts so you can't segfault remotely. 3.x also transparently drops messages on the floor destined for unroutable identities. This silent dropping sounds annoying, but you can work around it via a well-designed application protocol. Remember, 0MQ is effectively a transport layer, not a full-blown messaging system.
It specifically says "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."

So, if you're not the copyright owner...
You pay too much attention to what your mother told you.
BTW, Berlin's startup scene is amazing---if you can't stomach the costs of San Fran, Berlin is the place to be.
The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

The bureaucrats are coming to realize this. That's why part of the bill is to make such routing illegal. So, unsatisfied with just chilling our right to free speech, they also want to break the robustness of Internet itself.
This is a technical case study on what drove wordnik non-relational. Wordnik has one of the largest deployments of MongoDB.
Hence why I said "To the extent society has any opinion on that whatsoever". I meant that society either doesn't know about the issue or tends to agree; very few people would disagree with you.