skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If ad hominem is the best you can do...

I didn't provide anything deeper because this has been rehashed many times, and those claiming that G-S is what allowed the crisis have never offered anything of substance in those previous discussions.

But if you insist on more meat, consider (from the original citation [1]):

the evidence so far shows that Gramm-Leach-Bliley has helped soften the blow to taxpayers by allowing commercial banks to take over trouble investment firms. Just look at which organization’s have failed:

Bear Stearns was an investment bank before it was sold to JP Morgan Chase (which includes a commercial bank).

Fannie Mae were Freddie Mac were government sponsored entities before the government bought them.

Lehman Brothers was an investment bank before it want bankrupt.

Merrill Lynch was an investment bank befor it was sold to Bank of America (which is a commercial bank).

AIG is an insurance company with no commercial banking division.

Remember, Glass-Steagal was passed to protect commercial banks from failure by forbidding them from investment bank practices like trading in securities and underwriting stocks and bonds. As you can see above non of the failed institutions are commercial banks that got in trouble through risky investment banking. Instead, it is the commercial banks that are providing some stability to the system by purchasing troubled investment banks. Without Gramm-Leach-Bliley they would not even be allowed to technically do this.

Or from a respected economist:

Many wise people are now recognizing that the repeal of Glass-Steagall was one of the few saving graces of the current crisis. [2]

Most of all, the Act enabled financial diversification and thus it paved the way for a number of mergers. Citigroup became what it is today, for instance, because of the Act. Add Shearson and Primerica to the list. So far in the crisis times the diversification has done considerably more good than harm. Most importantly, GLB made it possible for JP Morgan to buy Bear Stearns and for Bank of America to buy Merrill Lynch. It’s why Wachovia can consider a bid for Morgan Stanley. Wince all you want, but the reality is that we all owe a big thanks to Phil Gramm and others for pushing this legislation. Brad DeLong recognizes this and hail to him. Megan McArdle also exonerates the repeal of Glass-Steagall. [3]

[1] http://blog.heritage.org/2008/09/22/the-glass-steagall-myth/

[2] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/09/gla...

[3] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/09/did...
This sounds like a broken development community.
At least VUPEN restricts who they sell to. "Step Ahead" sounds like they've dropped even the pretense of being for pen testers.
Java doesn't need to be, but frequently is.

Non-reified generics with their ridiculously verbose syntax are the first thing that came to my mind. God forbid you should try to write your own class which uses them.

Not to mention that since spending almost decade of my career working with Java I have since worked with languages that do not have generics, and have not suffered thereby. Generics are, IMO, largely unnecessary.

Yes, this is a small subset of Java, but it is one that continually annoyed me.
I don't think the design patent covers the software or even the hardware. It's about looks, exclusively.
Please forgive me if I am wrong but JavaScript was not an "open standard" either in the beginning. It took you 1 year to submit it to the ECMA body for consideration. And, oh boy, you are still fixing JS design mistakes with a group of quite smart engineers and computer scientists.

Now lets step back and look into the past: was JavaScript implementation or specification as open to comments and feedback as Dart is now? There are public mailing lists, issue tracker and open repositories that accept patches and suggestions. Did you have that for JavaScript?

I might be utterly wrong but I bet you did not. Yet instead of participating in the language effort or at least stepping back and patiently watching it's birth and growth into something standardizable you criticize and bash it.

May I humbly ask you why?
I would add something that I guess is implicit in karolist's answer: I would not worry much about whether or not they are advertising a job. If they are, great! Apply for it. But if they aren't, poke around the company, find someone's e-mail address, and send them a CV and a letter which tells them that you understand specifically what they do and are interested in their company.

95% chance, they delete your e-mail without taking it seriously. But that's okay. (.95)^100 is small.
Every time an announcement like this is made I get a bunch of angry messages from friends I've convinced to use Google Apps for their personal email who will have to wait an unspecified amount of time for the new features.
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Philosophically that's supposed to be true. In practice, not so much.

For example, in NJ, if you're found in possession of a firearm, you are assumed to be in violation of this state's gun control laws unless you can prove that you acquired the gun in accordance with State laws.
Ask: HN what's your work environment like? (survey)
I recently ran a survey at my office to see what software developers think about their work environment. I'm curious to see how we compare to the readership of HN. Here's the survey, I'll share the results when I have 100 responses.

http://dbasch.polldaddy.com/s/work-conditions-232
Check out Object Shell: http://geophile.com/osh.

It takes the idea of commands and pipes, but is oriented around python objects. Usable from the command line, and also has a python API.

It includes integration with the OS (e.g. commands to get files and processes as python objects), databases, remote nodes, and combinations of these, (E.g. submit a query to all nodes in a cluster, pull back the results and integrate them.)

I developed and used this tool while developing a sharded system running on a cluster of nodes with postgres running on each.

Object Shell is GPL. See the page above for examples, documentation and downloads.
I was thinking about this just today: I assume that the only reason we are better at uniquely identifying humans by their faces than at identifying other animals is that we either learn to do it or are so hard-wired by evolution: not because individual humans are more distinguishable than individuals of other species.

So if that's true ... Google could just as easily introduce automatic face recognition for photos of your cats. Or your goat, or whatever. I see a whole new market here!
Most Nissans have a CVT now, and the ones I've driven seem to shift continuously. BMW tried implementing a discrete-shifting CVT like the one you describe for one of their semihybrids, and though I've never driven it, it got slammed in reviews. Do you have a citation for your claim?
Ask HN: How do you handle boreout? 
I re-factored the spine of my start-up's code base to eliminate a code-smell, and in the process of fixing every test, I bored myself to the point where I don't have motivation to continue. I'm currently resisting taking the day off to play video-games.
How do you cope with this?
I'm just assuming it's a Windowsism.
So SproutCore 2.0 is being renamed Amber.js?
"finally the behavior of the window filesystem is so incredibly broken that well they should really fix it I guess."

Ha. Just allow "prn", I'm sure that won't have any side effects.
indeed, a computer can continue to estimate for a certain amount of time the readings of the lost sensor. You can think of solutions. But its strange to see so many cases of lost planes because of pitot problems.
Killing techies, the Malaysian way
This is a start, but I'd like all my unix utils to input and output structured data instead of walls of text
I haven't managed to get into such a position; I may not be as clever as your coworker.
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For those unfamiliar with boreout: http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreout
(I just learned about it when googling for burnout)
The interesting thing is that the video doesn't show anything which can't be found off the Internet or easily assumed.

I didn't say it was impossible, considering they likely have support from China and possibly Russia. It's just highly, highly unlikely in my opinion. And they're not going to just "jam" GPS and make it think an Iranian airport is it's home base. It doesn't work like that.
EDIT: I gave in
It seems like lawsuits work on about a ~1 year latency scale too, so I don't see how that would improve the situation. The site owner had counsel, and they chose the best mechanism they could see to get the result they wanted. And ultimately they did. The courts don't work quickly, sadly.
No, just that only non-obvious design should be entitled to protection. A thumb-width, neutrally colored bezel, a rectangle screen, and non-lethal corners are obvious. Apple's suggestions are to specifically engineer a device that looks unlike an Apple product, rather than designing a device in the obvious way.

Apple wants to corner the market on simple design. Imagine if your coffee cup couldn't be designed to be round, have a handle that goes from the top to the bottom, or have an opening on the top to drink from.
It's really no wonder why people don't contribute to open source when this is the first response.
Should be a lot of fun - be sure to invite others! If you have any questions, just let me know.
according to OpenBSD man page, head(1) first appeared in 3.0 BSD, so that would be 1979.
In general, yes. For Win32, it is safe.

I would imagine they have activated "Compile as C++" for certain files. VC++ doesn't support C99, and it's probably easier to fix up any C++ incompatibilities than try to C89-ize everything.
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That's what I was saying. It is not justice.
It doesn't matter if this is the definition of a trial.
Invent a word for something better... And invent that something too.
Until then, law is flawed.
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No, that's Groovy. Scala is the equivalent of C++ - trying to be everything to everyone and creating an expansive behemoth that everyone picks their own subset from.
I'm most productive in silence.
Yes, one can write libraries in literate style, and I have done so (http://monday.sourceforge.net/) in the past. However, from reading interviews with Knuth it seems that he does not find reusable software very interesting in itself.
Wow, I'm kind of surprised by the amount of snark ("eww it's 140k lines", "mini git tutorial", "patch file instead of pull request").

It seems it's so big because it contains the libuv. The instructions to compile on Windows don't seem trivial at all and if I cared enough to try this I would appreciate that they wrote it step-by-step.

The guys at MS just sat down and made it work while antirez was throwing out suggestions how to make it work with " the behavior of the window filesystem is so incredibly broken that well they should really fix it I guess"

Sorry for the rant I would just expect better from the community.
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I do this. I sync'd my iPhone's contacts with my Google Apps account and actually got rid of all the contacts on my iPhone itself. Now all the contacts on my phone are my Google Apps contacts accessed through Google's Exchange.

I finally have a unified contact list! Well, maybe not quite unified: my instant messaging contacts -- on non Jabber-based services (AIM, MSN, Yahoo) -- are still separate.
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

Or more to the point, people remember inaccurate stories - they don't remember the corrections.
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Yep, great concept. You can do this without evernote, and you can do this with apps that do a much better job of allowing you to get stuff out. Evernote did not create the ability to do this. You are very confused.
just wanted to say thanks for your comment, seems like we do share some things, couldn't have expressed it better. great comment. really appreciated. thanks for reading the post.
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I used to feel the same way, but it's really nice to be able to easily plug in a mock for testing. With autowired in spring, it's really not that bad. The way Grails handles it is pretty nice, actually.
The interesting thing with these "freemium" companies is that there's generally a long conversion time. For many, it will take a year or more before free users covert. Each is a bit different, but last time I saw, Evernote fit that profile.

So a good way of projecting future performance here is looking at how many free users they have, and what the conversion rate has been in the past (as well as average time to convert). If they've recently picked up a lot of new free users, we should expect a significant bump in paid accounts in about a year (or whatever their average time to convert is). The freemium businesses just have a significantly different business model, and looking at the current paid accounts is often a poor indicator of future profitability. I don't know that their valuation is justified (personally, I think most valuations are high right now), but the fact that they're only "barely" profitable now probably isn't a good indicator of future profitability.
And in practice copyright owners outsource their enforcement, because it isn't their core competency.
I am no aviation expert, but according to other posts here the stall warning may have been ignored because Bonin didn't register that they were in alternate law. If they weren't in alternate law, the plane would have automatically limited the amount to which he could pull back.

The most obvious solution to me, if all of that information is accurate, is that there should be a distinct audio stall warning for alternate law.

Instead of the plane saying "Stall... Stall... Stall... " when in alternate law it should probably say "Stall... alternate law... Stall.. alternate law...". Doesn't guarantee you the pilot will listen, but it seems like it is pertinent enough information to push it front and center along with the stall warning.
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PC-DOS inherited it from CP/M 80. Windows was built at first on top of it and then replaced it in stages. I have no idea why would this still be present in the current codebase. It would probably be easier just to fix the filesystem.
You can swipe left from Me across the tab bar which flips the view over. Makes perfect sense if you think about it.
Roundabouts are not applicable to dense urban areas or highways, which is where the traffic is.
"For flights, I store all my itinerary information, and also make a note of the parking location in a special note. Never forget that way.
I have a note for all my emergency contact information. I have a notebook for date ideas for my wife and I."

Again, you could do this in simplenote /notational velocity. You're using a sledgehammer to do really simple tasks.
The comments on the blog suggest that the typo is the blog author's, not McIlroy's.
Still not 60 FPS. :)
I'd be surprised if he accepted a patch that added a dep; Salvatore seems allergic to deps (something I like about Redis).
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Spent the time on doing such big patch, and not spend the time on learning (5 min max) how to do a pull request... make me think they were forced to do this kind of thing.

So once the code is in, no maintainer from microsoft will be.
It came from...the HOLD SPACE
I have no idea what options there are for a non-iOS user, but ...

There's an excellent iOS app called TurboScan. It's fantastic. Take a picture of your receipts and it'll convert the image to low file size, but high-quality, PDFs. You can then send those PDFs to your Evernote email and have them stored neatly in a notebook.

It's a fantastic solution for portable document scanning. And with the iPhone 4s camera being so improved over its predecessors, it makes great PDFs of receipts.
No, it's still the same. Ugly, slow, and bloated.
I couldn't be bothered with writing a rant, so I'm glad somebody put the effort in. You're right... it's a bit off. Just a chance for people to feel superior over the Windoze lusers, I guess :)

I trust that the people behind the patch have got from it what they want, and that if the patch is just sent straight to the recycle bin then it will be no skin off their collective noses.
Ok. I got it! They don't want to use git, because git is from Linus ! so they just submit a patch :-P
You might want to check out git tfs. As someone working in a company that relies on tfs I'm going to do the same to keep my sanity..
I too thought it was called the "Advertising Standards Agency", but apparently it's the "... Authority".
Yea, but the Konami! The code my English teacher remembers so many years later. The code songs have been written about. The code that put unicorns on ESPN! Nothing else quite lives up to it.

EDIT: Nice. It just felt kinda dirty without it. I'll be expecting 10% of any donations made for my contributions.
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In theory, I think the idea of analyzing the cost of a new rule is a good idea, but in practice, I doubt it's possible. Since economist can't agree on this sort of thing any more than politicians can, both sides will simply point to the analysis which agree with their position. Which is basically exactly how things work today.
Well, yeah - that's kind of what I was trying to point out earlier - I just was just afraid of coming across as snarky :)

I chalked it up to literary license on behalf of the writer - it doesn't seem like a rational business goal on its face.
take note on a black hat event at Design West next month.
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Bill, you make the internet a nicer place. Thanks for that. Really appreciated.
You could use ipython, which is a python-based shell that doesn't need explicitly calling the subprocess module to launch commands (and a lot more goodies).
> 1. cloned redis
> 2. cloned libuv

Of course you mean "fork", not "clone".
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Effective Web Design is a Product of a Three Phased Process
Is Google+ Trying to Be Like Myspace Music?
No offense, but did you actually read my post? Since I mentioned the exact same issue and presented a solution I guess you didn't.

As I said - clutter in the timeline wouldn't be an issue like it is on Google+, since the extra "embedded text" would be hidden by default, just like on Reddit.
Drones have no self-destruct mechanism. In the case of an unrecoverable malfunction we let them crash or shoot them down ourselves.

I highly suspect the drone was either operating inside Iran, or close enough to its borders that the US didn't want to risk sending an F-16 after it.
Done: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/12/08/eric-schmidt-rea...
Ask HN:OOP inheritance and virtual functions
I'm studying programming practices using C++ and currently reading a chapter on OOP which covers inheritance and virtual functions I'm new to programming, but am determined to understand standard practices not just remembering a language syntax, the reason for this question is while reading about OOP in C++ i've also read submissions from these two threads

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1993129,

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/12/oop.md#readme,

and while most of the read is good information I also often read bashing on this method of programming which I don't understand because it's only a tool a method to get the job done, if it doesn't work for the task your working to accomplish try a different programming method is what I've gathered from my studies so far, so my question to HN is

1.What are alternative approaches to OOP which may allow wider flexibility ?

2.What are the benefits of said method ?

3.When is OOP a good method to use ?

the book I'm using: is Principle and Practices using C++ by: Bjaurne Stroustoup

great read for a beginner depending on the person I like low level programming linux and the command line so using bash,terminal,emacs,gcc are all things you have to consider.

the last was a rant but just little about me
What Is Happening To The jQuery Plugins Site?
Jsonpipe is excellent for this. It makes json greppable by putting every piece if data on a new line with its key.

$ echo '{"a": 1, "b": 2}' | jsonpipe
/ {}
/a 1
/b 2
$ echo '["foo", "bar", "baz"]' | jsonpipe
/ []
/0 "foo"
/1 "bar"
/2 "baz"

https://github.com/dvxhouse/jsonpipe
The simulated test is always in a more relaxed environment. But anyway, if your instincts are good they you are OK. The problem is when your instincts tell you to do the opposite of what needs to be done. Probably the pilots need more training to break their instincts?
If it hasn't already been discussed, could someone explain the rationale for not making the control sticks mirror each other? I know it's an artifact of old, mechanical linkages, but when two people need to be aware of the control inputs at any given time, why not relay that information by manipulating the controls to match the inputs?
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> Not to mention that since spending almost decade of my career working with Java I have since worked with languages that do not have generics, and have not suffered thereby. Generics are, IMO, largely unnecessary.

This needs to be drilled into the heads of all the people complaining that Go has no generics before they have even tried to use it. (Also Go's interfaces overlap with many common uses of generics, and Go's useful builtin containers take care of most of the rest).
Show HN: How I Bling -- A millionaire simulation game
Hi all, we built this prototype web app at the recent Startup Weekend in NYC and I would love to get your feedback. It's a simulation on what you can buy and do when you win the lottery (or sell your startup, etc.). I personally have had great fun as a user and learned loads about my - at first impulsive/intuitive - spending behaviour which gradually changed into more thoughtful spending/buying.

Anyways, check out

http://howibling.com

and let me know what you think!
When the primary asset of the company is its team, the investors lose both their moral and practical claim on the value of those "assets".

Morally, it is wrong (and without foundation in contract law) to prevent an employee of a company from finding more gainful employment somewhere else simply to maximize the value of your investment. While it's true that every retention policy of every company is designed precisely to keep employees from finding better offers, those are carrot policies, never sticks (the sticks tend to get shot down in court).

Practically, there's no effective way to compensate investors for the value of the team, because every dollar you don't give the team decreases the likelihood of retaining team members, which is the whole point of making a talent acquisition.

All of this is a long way of making a simple point.

Gowalla lost. Its investors knew it might lose when they made their investment. Trying to claw ROI back from the value of the individual employees on the market is simply not a reasonable investor goal.
They buy 3 since virtually all can convert between two levels (any two adjacent levels). A rare (and expensive and heavy) few can do 3 levels in one.

But converting the seat requires rethreading the straps and other adjustments - it can take an hour to install some types if you are not familiar with it.
I once saw some interesting behavior on a Windows 95 machine - my brother printed a drawing for a convention to a file. The printer was a HP LaserJet with plug in module that enabled Postscript. He named the file "con" and when he hit OK on the print dialog the entire screen buffer (over the windowing interface) started filling with Postscript.