skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I wonder what's going to sit above "services" in the next phase?"

IMO, and I suspect Tim's as well given his "data is the Intel inside" comments, data will be the next major revenue stream. Consider that open source software generally excels at distribution, but is poor at customer conversion.

Open source vendors would be wise to gradually de-emphasize customer conversion mechanisms such as open core or hybrid source in favor of maximizing usage and thus the size of the dataset they may generate. This data can then be analyzed and sold to customers as analytics or to third parties interested in broader trend data.

See Spiceworks, Sonatype Insights etc as indications of where this market will go.
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Is there a reason why deals are finite?

Surely a restaurant (for instance) can run a Groupon deal once every few months?
Finalized service name.
Finishing UI.
Finishing the stories and pitch.
Working on building a network in the bay area to build the team.

Not a bad month considering 8hr workdays including a full weekend release. Land at http://shelfmine.com
Fix SConscript.curl to look in /usr/lib32 for zlib (package name: lib32z1-dev ), and to pass -m32 to your compiler.

/media/d2/sw/doom3.gpl/neo$ git diff
diff --git a/neo/sys/scons/SConscript.curl b/neo/sys/scons/SConscript.curl
index 4d889b9..7271dfc 100644
--- a/neo/sys/scons/SConscript.curl
+++ b/neo/sys/scons/SConscript.curl
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class idBuildCurl( scons_utils.idSetupBase ):

def Compile( self, target = None, source = None, env = None ):
self.TrySimpleCommand( 'cd curl ; make clean' )
- cmd = 'cd curl ; CC=\'' + env['CC'] + '\' ./configure --enable-shared=no --enable-static=yes --enable-http --enable-ftp --disable-gopher --enable-file --disable-lda
+ cmd = 'cd curl ; CC=\'' + env['CC'] + '\' CFLAGS=\'-m32\' ./configure --enable-shared=no --enable-static=yes --enable-http --enable-ftp --disable-gopher -- enable-fi
if ( self.debug ):
cmd += '--enable-debug'
else:
@@ -37,5 +37,5 @@ else:

g_env.Command( target_name, None, Action( build.Compile ) )

-curl_libs = [ target_name, '/usr/lib/libz.a' ]
+curl_libs = [ target_name, '/usr/lib32/libz.a' ]
Return( 'curl_libs' )

Linked for me on Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit.
For the curious, this is what installing RedHat Linux 2.0 looked like cera 1995. Ah, rawrite; I don't miss you at all.

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Here's a (not terrific) picture of this in action:

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/38262.php?from=1992...

Hihger res:

http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Carbon...
If they want to be different then we can just get rid of corporate personhood.

Ok, lets do that. A group of people working in a building with the word "GE" on it just violated a contract with you. Who do you sue?

With corporate personhood, you sue the legal person GE. Your responsibility ends here - it's up to parties within the entity GE to figure out who goes to court, and the court can seize any GE assets if GE refuses to pay (assuming you win).

That's all corporate personhood is - a convenient legal interface. I'm not sure why you believe having this particular interface necessitates double taxation of income earned by corporate owners. Could you explain?
If I see an article split over multiple pages I hit the "Read Later" button which then punts it into ReadItLater, which concatenates them all into one page.
Another one of the core ideas of dwm is "no noobs" which might explain the lack of documentation.
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Actually, no. Back in 2008 when banks were failing but the economic numbers showing that we were in a depression hadn't come in yet the Fed was faced with a problem. They felt like they needed to pump money into failing banks, but they were worried that this might cause inflation. To allow them to inject lots of money into banks without it getting out into the rest of the economy they came up with something called the Interest on Reserves, that is the Fed would pay the banks not to lend the money out.

It totally fulfilled its objective. Despite huge growth in the money supply America was soon actually experiencing deflation in 2009. Sweden, on the other hand, actually charged banks interest on the excess reserves they were holding - and their economy recovered very quickly...
When Andrew Wiles's wife finally thought it was over...
Haven't checked the numbers, but if it's true, shorting began in earnest because the cost to borrow went from 95% to (a still pretty obscene) 30%. At 95%, to make money on a year-long short the stock would have to drop to pennies. At 30%, it still needs to be a massive dog, but it's doable.

The sudden explosion in shorting caused by this drop in cost to borrow is probably seen as a negative signal and making some investors nervous, causing the stock to drop as they sell it off.

But the cost to borrow doesn't normally drop from 95% to 30% in the absence of a lot of newly-issued shares. So why did this happen? Someone must have made a large number of shares available to borrow - so the question here is who was it and why did they do it?

With the Groupon float so teeny, it's a lot easier to manipulate pricing. This could be completely straightforward and boring, but this could be an institution with advance notice of some favorable information about Groupon setting naive investors up for a classic short squeeze. (Good news comes out, some shorters panic and buy to cover their shorts, increased demand causes prices to rise, more shorters panic... iterate your way to a massive pop and a whole lot of severely-burned shorters.) This would be a good way to compensate for the inevitable drop when the lock-up period expires.

TL;DR - Don't buy or short individual stocks without fully understanding what's going on, and that goes beyond the fundamentals of the business.
This is a good point. Anyone who starts an open-source project should, from day one, have a vetted Contributor License Agreement and ONLY accept pull requests that include signed CLAs (or from a person who has one on file).
Features don't necessarily translate into more complexity.
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Simple UI, like it.

So only for traders? No chance of regular investors to use the information in some way? Just curious about this only being for such a niche crowd.
The rendering of the font in my machine (Windows 7, Chrome 15) is off. You are using your own web font "Cantarell", but it looks faded and unsharpened. Considering that many securities personnel are in offices and a lot of software is Windows-based, this may be an issue for your audience.
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Anybody have a link to some good screenshots of Xmonad 0.10?
But it's not as simple in my view. Yes banks do lend out a portion but currently the reserve they have to keep have increased a lot in the last few years and the flow is not very well distributed (in my view) to through the whole economy.

I'd like to know if there are some analysis of this somewhere. My hypothesis is that certain sectors have seen drops how much money has been added through lending while others have seen increases.
I like this in principle a lot, but capital gains tend to be more lumpy than normal income so this interacts badly with our current progressive income tax structure. Better to go to a consumption tax if we're going to do this.
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It had a name; it was just called "Mac System Software" or "System [version number]", not Mac OS.

http://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/_english/bs-m...

Edit: Apple also had an official licensing program for Mac system software between 1995 and 1998. I'm not sure if it was before or after the lawsuit, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone#Official_Macint...
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This can be fixed in at least 2 simple ways.

1. Don't tax the essentials. Milk, fruits, vegetables, lean meats, non-luxury cloths. Don't tax the first $50 of a pair of shoes. Don't tax the first $15k of a car.

2. Determine the average monthly sales tax paid for by a person at the poverty line. Have the government send a monthly check for that amount, minus 10%, to every citizen. Everyone should pay some tax.
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One minor nitpick, working closely with developers isn't always an option or necessarily a good idea. Working too closely makes it easier for assumptions and to get transferred over. I really like having testers who can take a completely fresh look at the application and find issues with stuff that I just didn't think to try because I know how the page was meant to be used.

In addition certain industries such as medical require testers to be separate from the development process entirely. On my current project for example we aren't allowed to bring in the test lead to our code reviews, we've discussed it.
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This is politics plain and simple.
No, it's that thousands of sites with good content will only have crappy options.
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If true (and I'm not sure it is), that's a shame, because it essentially means new adoption is discouraged, and that's death to a project.
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This is dangerous bullshit, frankly. The big problem with it is that in serious depression the source of depression is not your immediate circumstances, rather it's something deeper/more pervasive and by running away you are not actually solving anything.

The experience of clinical depression is so unutterably horrible that unless you've experienced it you can't know what it's like. There is a huge gulf between moderate depression and the clinical variety. In the depths of serious depression you barely have the energy to get out of bed let alone help anybody, and suggesting that somebody ought to give up aspirations to help these poor, helpless Africans (which country in Africa I might ask - I think natives of African nations might take offence here) is actually more likely to inspire feelings of guilt and isolation than a sense of hope.

The best solution for somebody experiencing issues is to seek professional guidance and not take romanticised + frankly fanciful advice from a random person on a news site.

Sorry to be harsh, but this could affect somebody out there and I think it needs to be said.
The IPO never made any sense for an unprofitable company like Groupon. Seems like the early investors just wanted any exit they could get before the ship sank, like a ponzi scheme.
Has the Apache Wave project produced anything approaching the normal Wave experience yet? I'd love to run it on my own server.
That software is in high demand and I get paid well for doing something that I love. Also that the internet is mostly open and without govt. interference (at least in the US) for the time being. Let's make sure to keep that way!
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We use the label's songs till we get a 100m uniques, by which time we can tell the labels who is listening to their music where, and then turn around and charge them for the very data we got from them, ensuring that what we pay them in total for streaming is less than what they pay us for data mining.

This part doesn't quite make sense to me. Besides being news to me that this is their business model, how could it possibly be that UMG is willing to pay more for the data about a song play than they charge for that play?
You can actually fix a lot of the sales tax issues by excluding certain categories (e.g. unprepared food, clothing).

That's what my state historically has done. The last time I bought an expensive business suit, the purchase was free of sales tax, because a business suit is clothing. There is always pressure, however, to broaden the categories of goods and services that are subject to sales tax, especially when a government unit has a shortage of revenue relative to what it is expending to maintain government programs.
> ...create your own session script to start up the parts of Gnome that you want along with XMonad...

On Ubuntu at least I've had success with http://markhansen.co.nz/xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/

(Having the launcher floating around is annoying though, and removing it from the gnome-session file had some unpleasant side-effect that I don't remember.)
It does not seem to me that way at all. In fact, I think that you are exactly the type of person that this program is perfect for. Honing your skills from where you are is going to be loads easier than starting from scratch. Having a rudimentary understanding of programming in this environment can only help you.
It would be nice to hear why people disagree with this enough to vote it down. I'm no fan of advertising and would like to see cleaner sites more often, but that doesn't mean there isn't a conflict.
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Great stuff... I'm working on a similar tool at the moment. Page load speeds were a bit sluggish for me. I'm guessing that's attributable to the large amount of javascript processing happening?
Wow - 3GB of data transfer already this morning - I'm glad the images are on S3!
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I can confirm (at least in my experience + the experience of others I know who suffer from serious clinical depression) this is not how (serious) depression works.

I sincerely doubt it would make any difference, largely because of how you feel about life + yourself (it would require an acceptance of capability of doing such things) + the point of trying to help such a horrid world. I think the more immediate consideration of those people finding your body, etc. will be more effective as that's something undeniable and forces you to consider others in a non-fanciful way.
How about Brand Fatigue? could it be that people are tired of hearing Google this Google that. Why can’t Google build brand from the ground up for some of their products?
I was surprised when I learned that google was launching a project to search for efficient renewable energy sources - doesn't seem like their field at all. That they are closing it now without having produced much (has anyone heard about anything they might have figured out?) makes me wonder if there was ever such a projet or if they did it just for PR.
Do you have a site of any sample work?
Page load speeds and more aggressive caching are big tickets on our todo list.
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Heh yeah that was my response, "what do you think it's going to look like?"
I personally would refrain from getting too far into Haml/SASS without first creating a significant understanding of the underlying HTML and CSS. While these tools are certainly effective, it seems like it would be foolhardy to not start from the ground up as there are more projects built with straight HTML/CSS. Especially given that a junior developer is likely to be maintaining existing projects, not necessarily rolling your own.
Yes, well aware of that and we are currently looking into it. Although, we are not pretending to predict the price movement. Rather, we are reporting on what the news is saying.

We are also working on distinguishing between a news stating a fact that occurred in the past, present or future. With that, we'll be able to present what the market thinks of the future price movements.
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UGH very sad to see RE<C going away. With Google's resources , both technical and people, I thought they would do great things in the renewable energy space.
Older satellites might have crummy encryption like DES and might be hackable... (not a security guy, so talking out of my ass)
They're diverting resources to google x, so expect something big or bigger than the self driving car coming out soon.
That's a very good point. Once again the "headline" about a "huge tax return" distracts information away from the real problem, which is that US nominal corporate rates are too high and the effective rates are too low.

The real problem is not necessarily all the work that goes into filing the tax return, but rather the influence peddling that leads to policies that misallocate* scarce resources to politically favorable projects.

*this is just my bias, but I am willing to bet it's the consensus among economists that firms allocate private resources more effectively than politicians when those politicians are largely influenced by the firms themselves.
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I almost completely disagree. To be fair, I don't doubt that there are companies use simplicity as an excuse for not adding value. At the same time, there are at least as many companies out there that pack feature after feature into their products, then find themselves asking "Why is no one using my product? It can do so many things!"

The fact of the matter is that simplicity is a value. I suppose one could argue that it's a somewhat overrated value. But for startups, it's the most important value. Startups simply don't have the time or resources to create complex products, at least starting out.
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What attracted my attention was the comment which said:

"""
But what have I discovered along the time!? I only use, mainly 7 to 10 functions and these ones covering about 99% of my needs.But you can do the experience too and ask youself the question: The last year did I use this function? How many times? You'll see, in average, only 9 are frequently used:the blade, the scissor, corksrew, the reamer sometimes, the tweezer if gardening and the other 4 functions remaining, please, choose at your own taste.You'll see...
"""

it reminds me of some softwares/libraries/framework we are using in programming.
Not necessarily. It's completely normal for borrow rates to be ~100% shortly after IPO, it takes a few days for the stock borrow market to settle on a more realistic rate. I wouldn't read much into the drop, and remember that rates different based on your account status and broker, so it's not 30% for everyone.
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Actually no, these things pretty much fly in the open, chiefly out of necessity (recovering from bit transmission errors is much more complicated when encrypted, and uses up valuable power as well). Usually you have to know a prefix code to get the probe to listen, a la Dr. Strangelove.
I think the data helps determine terrestrial radio playlists - it's what made last.fm an attractive acquisition. It may also help with targeting certain demographics and geographics with music in advertising, tv and film.
Well, one thing is that at least here in the U.S., its common to work on an hourly rate, so you set your rate and then maybe give an estimate of time but you aren't tied down to a monthly salary (which is especially important for a freelance project where the client may change the scope), have you tried this approach? That said, working remotely as a freelancer doesn't always provide a whole lot of stability, if you could move somewhere else in Europe where software development is more appreciated that may help your career, although you could try some of the freelancing websites to make some quick money, I know the average rate on some of those for a developer can be as much as $15, I think, so that may be more than what you can make locally
Most embarrassing moment of the day was realizing I had (1) already seen all of those photos on Reddit and (2) already forgotten the context to half of them.
> the cash yield of Groupon was lower than US 10y govt bond, blue chip dividends plays, etc

What do you mean by their "cash yield"?

I thought people investing in Groupon were doing so because they thought it might continue to grow as it had been, and potentially be absolutely massive.
Sure, but the masses are not listening to the unknown bands. They are listening to the best talent in the world which the labels find, cultivate, market and create icons out of - ones that the MASSES follow, love and adore.

Further the majority (Grooveshark's users/visitors) are there to listen to the label's music not the unknowns. Now if the unknowns are really good then they'll get a record deal because they want to be heard by as many as possible (become famous).

Just like us entrepreneurs wisely seek out investment to grow our businesses artist do the same with the labels. Some artists could say "I hate the labels they will never sign me!" Though once that artist gets a following and a taste for money/fame they'll change their mind! They'd be foolish not to!
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> Doc Complete dropped from 3.63 seconds to 1.14 seconds (-214%).

This is a pet peeve of mine. Percentage changes should be measured using the original value as the denominator, not the new value.
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This is a great tip. Actually, I was kind of hoping that Ng's course would be focused more on implementation and less on the why, not that the theory is not important, it's just that I have found a lot of other great places on the web to get the theory for free (like the lectures you mentioned).
This would be much more immediately interesting and useful if you included charts of price and volume right above the sentiment chart.
While there isn't enough trading history to say with confidence, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that GRPN has a pretty high beta to the broader market, so I would expect it to rise (or fall) several times the % of (most of) the rest of the market.
Not only for professional traders but for anyone interested in commodities. We want this tool to become the place to go to get information about the commodity market.
There certainly are hackable things flying over your head. However, with your 15m dish men in black suits will zero-in on your location in a flash, and you'll be behind bars before you know it - probably before you can focus on the target out on space. So I'd suggest palling around with the chinese and russians and see if they'll provide you with some AA if you plan on doing that. Like anything else these days, you use cut-and-dried old fashion hacking techniques to gain access to the computer systems. There was just an article on this site about the russians hacking into some sewage plant. They didn't hack the valves and equipment directly, they guessed a password and got into the computers controlling the whole thing.
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Just like the people that design SCADA systems in fact
I'm curious about the backend technology that is extracting the price option from the news articles.

I believe I met a developer in Montreal working on this. The backend tech is using python?

Also, is there a subscription or pricing planned?
I actually work in commodities and I think this is a cracking tool from a quick glance over. I love the extracts you get when you click on a particular news story.

The design could be tweaked a little, but the content is great.

Do you place any emphasis or weighting news sources, or is it all a flat weighting?
This is what I took away:

> Agencies don’t hire writers just because they know the rules of grammar. We hire them because they’re eloquent, lucid, imaginative wordsmiths. We hire them because of their practised ability to lovingly craft words into things that work. Things that make people feel.

EDIT: removed snark
possibly one of the best hacks of 2011