skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
III. Requirements on Issuers
(A) name, legal status, address, website, etc.
(B) names of directors, officers, and 20% stockholders
(C) “a description of the business of the issuer and the anticipated business plan of the issuer” – the devil is really in the details of this one, and it remains to be seen whether the SEC will require this “description” to be 4 pages or 40 in order to be sufficient
(D) prior year tax returns, plus financials – see below for details
(E) description of intended use of proceeds
(F) target offering amount, deadline, and regular progress updates through the life of the offering
(G) share price and methodology for determining the price
(H) a description of the ownership and capital structure of the issuer, including a lot of detail about the terms of the securities being sold, the terms of any other outstanding securities of the company, a summary of the differences between them, a host of disclosures about how the rights of shareholders can be limited, diluted or negatively impacted, “examples of methods for how such securities may be valued by the issuer in the future, including during subsequent corporate actions”, and a disclosure of various risks to investors

II. Requirements on Intermediaries

The JOBS Act requires crowdfunding intermediaries to register with the SEC, either as a broker (which is an expensive and onerous process), or as a new thing called a “funding portal”. Funding portals will also be required to register with FINRA, the financial industry self-regulatory organization.

A) providing certain disclosures and investor education materials to investors
(B) ensuring that the investor has reviewed educational materials and answers questions indicating that he/she understands the risks involved
(C) performing certain background checks on the issuer
(D) provide a 21 day review period before any crowdfund securities are sold
(E) ensure that an issuer does not receive investment funds until its target investment minimum has been reached, and that investors may cancel their commitments to invest as provided by the SEC (no word yet on how these cancellation provisions are going to look)
(F) ensure that no investor surpasses the investment limits set forth above in a given 12 month period in the aggregate – i.e. the limits described above with respect to investors apply to all crowdfunding investments in a given 12 month period, not just to individual investments, and the burden is on the intermediary to monitor this
(G) take steps to protect the privacy of investors
(H) not pay finders fees to promoters or lead generators with respect to investors (it appears to be okay to pay finders fees for issuer leads)
(I) not allow the intermediary’s directors, officers or partners to have a financial interest in an issuer using its services

There are /plenty/ of disclosure requirements and more coming down the pike when the Commission is through drafting what else is required.

It is not like there is going to be a Kickstarter where people just start throwing money at random ideas with no way to check who and what they are investing in.
> America was the greatest country because it gave each person the freedom to do with their lives and produce what they wanted, which is why it produced the greatest wealth the world has ever seen).

No, America was the greatest person since it had a stable path for people to make it into comfortable middle class lives. The America the rest of the world admires(admired?) is the America of the post-war boom. Subdivisions, cars, and factory jobs for everyone. That's America's greatness.

The freedom to fail and end up destitute with no safety net is something only the perverse admire.
My laptop doesn't have a middle mouse button, and it's a modern Dell. Naturally I use a real mouse when I'm on a desk, but remember that not everyone has a middle mouse button.
>P.S. Obviously, this example setup is full of single points of failure, but that’s completely avoidable. I can go over how to set up distributed MongoDB with zero single points of failure in a follow-up post, if people are interested.

Yes, please do. This was a great article.
rsync has a few quirks. scp is more-convenient for many people because it shares almost identical options to cp.

The most frequent cause of grief with rsync, in my experience, is presence or absence of a trailing / on the source argument. Many users aren't even aware of the difference in meaning, and even those that are aware still get it wrong sometimes, primarily due to tab-completion.

I personally use rsync frequently, but for newer users I recommend scp, unless they're dealing with a very large volume of data where rsync would provide significant benefit.
Early Macs had signatures of team members molded into the plastic inside the case. It's stock :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_128k#Credits
Well, you covered quite a few professions or career paths in your examples.

The easiest way to move into business is to realise that you will need to understand the business. This is not some nebulous Zen crap I'm pulling here, but a fact. If all you've ever done is work for a blue chip software company then it's likely that your only "experience" with "users" are those you sell your software or services to: in most businesses your users are the ones you write internal software for.

Moving into it can be as simple as asking for training and a transfer to another department or business area (if you work in big corp) or simply involving yourself in the day-to-day workings of your users. If you show a genuine interest in learning how they do their work you can use your existing IT skills and your honed, technical mind to making their lives easier.

You'll be surprised by just how utterly inefficient most things are. Fixing these deficiencies range from yanking data from crufty Excel spreadsheets on network drives into a proper database or munging crap data or other sort of automation tasks.

The only real way to learn a business, aside from domain areas like finance where you're as likely to receive in-house training, is to sit next to them and help them do their jobs.

(Sneaky Ninja edit: Your line manager may hate that you're leaving as he's losing a developer, but the business may well end up loving you even more. You're no longer a cost centre but you're actually improving the business.)
Note that it does not appear to have an e-ink display. They called it e-paper which doesn't necessarily mean the same thing.

The display appears to be this one: http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/1-26-inch-memory-lcd.html or something like it.

It's transflective so you can read it outside, and inside you can use a backlight (which they list on the tech specs). It's very low power, so you can leave it on all the time. Those two things combined are why they call it e-paper.

Personally I think it is a bit confusing on their part, but I understand them wanting to get across that it's always on and visible outside. However, it does get confused with e-ink.
QArt Codes: Applied Reed-Solomon coding
Testing validity should be pretty easy. Remove insignificant zeroes from both ends, then only accept the conversion when it is precisely correct. This can be done by simply converting to double and then back and seeing if you get the same thing. If there's any difference, it's not sufficiently accurate, bail out.
Here is something ironic. I bet you many of DDG's users are hackers who use it for privacy reasons. The same hackers who rely on Google Analytics in their own websites. If DuckDuckGo grows to become more than a niche search engine, the same hackers who use it will have to reinvent Analytics somehow. This is reason #1 why DDG will stay small. Reason #2 is that if necessary, a DuckDuckGoogle can be created in an afternoon's worth of effort in Mountain View.
Client side parsing won't be as reliable as you expect.

SMTP bounce codes are notorious for changing on a per domain basis whenever someone feels like it.

I work with StrongMail supporting their Email Marketing Platform and their solution is to have a central database that is updated regularly for all major ISPs to basically be able to have a conversion process between the SMTP bounce codes and the 30 classifications for mail failures StrongMail groups failures by (such as User not existing, blocked due to spam complaint, service temporarily offline, etc). This conversion process has to be updated regularly to keep up with changes.

Server side generation of multi-part NDR reports including HTML email could be a solution, i am not sure if it violates the rfc to send NDRs in multi-part, it could perhaps need an amendment.

But if you want to show this then your in luck since all the major SMTP servers besides exchange are open source, go produce a patch set for postfix, sendmail and qmail.
Easy there, the UofF doesn't need Rick Scott's help to completely blunder something.

I left Gainesville in 2010 and that entire freaking town has one of the most ANTI-progress sentiments I've ever seen.

The one shining star on the horizon will be the construction of the University's 40 acre tech hub. Let's hope they don't flub that one.
This is a continuation of the previous article "Finite Field Arithmetic and Reed-Solomon Coding"[1]

[1]: http://research.swtch.com/field
the sony live view is a piece of shit. Trust me or the reviews on Amazon. It loses it's connection every minute, the battery lasts three hours, the wristband is itchy ... The list goes on.
So we then have to learn the shortcuts for all of a browsers right-click menu options?

Not to mention the fact that a lot of add-ons add functionality to that menu.
This. PHP's "==" is yet another trap of incompetent language design and almost all code that ever used it does the wrong thing for some inputs. $x == $y && $y == $z doesn't even tell you that $x == $z, much less that $a[$x] == $a[$y].
I like this idea. Sounds like a "nicer" interaction.
I've been using BBEdit since I had a Mac LC II. Great program and I still use it to this day. Glad it's still around!
I'm not sure about GP, but I don't take my watch off at night. The only time I take mine off is when water is involved (I use a cloth watchband).

However, if it only needs to be recharged every 7 days, I could recharge it along w/ my fitbit each weekend.
Not sure. I'm having a hard time determining exactly what is being offered here.

What I'd like is "published papers filtered for importance" (perhaps in a citation-count pagerank sense) combined with access to the actual content of the papers.

RSS or Atom. PDF or HTML. Ability to set thresholds would be nice too.
It's significantly more trouble than what you would do with most other wristwatches: change the battery once every year or three (or if you have a self winding analog watch, never do anything).
Yes it is. If you could put it on an inductive charging pad that would be fine, but I'm not going to fish around for a micro USB plug that probably has fallen behind my nightstand for the 500th time every few days.
If I hadn't just got a Nike Fuel band, I'd probably get one of those! Don't think I could pull off wearing both.
BBEdit may not be the new cool kid in town (which changes every few years anyway), but it's a solid editor and it keeps pace with change very well. I've been using it since 1999 on an old power mac, and it's still my main editor of choice. Congrats fellas!
What Rolling Stone wrote is that the JOBS act would "exempt them from independent accounting requirements for up to five years."

What the magazine was referring to is that auditors would no longer have to attest to a company's financial controls for financial reporting (mentioned in the Orrick PDF you intended to link http://www.orrick.com/fileupload/4619.pdf).

This means, for example, they would not bother to make sure revenue is being booked correctly, as explained here http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230407200457732...

When Groupon recently had to restate (and slash) previously-reported revenue, this was due to weak internal controls, the same sorts of controls the JOBS act would exempt from being audited. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230402350457731...

So you really need an independent audit not just of the numbers but of the controls behind the numbers if your goal is to make sure investors get accurate financial information about a company.

Thus audits of financial controls are a key part of independent accounting.

The only change I'd make to Rolling Stone's original piece would be to revise to "exempt them from CERTAIN KEY independent accounting requirements for up to five years." But that's for clarity, not technical accuracy.

Taibbi is communicating an accurate idea - the JOBS act seriously weakens independent oversight of accounting for affected companies.
Yes, I did :). As mentioned below, it's not a comparable product. Custom Search is site-specific. It's an API for the "search this page using Google" forms you sometimes see on blogs and the like. It's not an API for "capital S" Google Search, while Bing's API really is their Search API.
Here's the proof, all the single ladies, all the single ladies, are on the East Coast: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/03/30/...
Linus Torvalds on "Linux is evolution, not intelligent design" (2008)
Anyone else find it odd that Votizen wants you to share your political views with your social network friends? Political views, for me at least, have always been an inherently private subject matter. Sure, I have my friends who I'll talk politics with, but I don't espouse candidates on my Facebook profile.

I have a feeling that other people might feel the same way: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Social-networking-an...
i check ebay a lot for interesting old stuff to put on the Shelf of Dreams here at work.

wish this wasn't $100k.
You're thinking of preventing the default action, not stopping propagation. (Event.preventDefault() vs. Event.stopPropagation() in modern browsers.) But you're right, if they handled the right-click and did not explicitly prevent the default action it would do both.
I think DDG uses this as one of its primary sources for search data.
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript (mainly JQuery). I'm just beginning to learn HAML and SASS, but for now it's been ERB and straight CSS.
Cinema floating on water
We run our writer's material through spell checkers and grammar editing. We run it through fact checking processes. In theory, a good writer would never need any of these, but in the real world it is a useful step. If we do THESE things, then why not a step that requires nearly no effort (just use an automated tool) and which WOULD catch some cases that have affected even major publications with excellent reputations?
* Maybe.
It uses a variety of techniques, depending on what is available on the client. When possible we use web sockets in the browser, but have other methods we can use when they're not available.
When Facebook says it has over 800 million active users, it really seems to mean people who came into Facebook and used the service in some way in a given month. They seem to be logged in and somehow actively using their accounts.

As I understand it, Facebook counts anyone who clicks a like button on any website as being an active user for the month too.

It wouldn't shock me if, as non-Facebook user, if they counted my visit to a public event page as me becoming active too.
Scalagist: a pair of "simplify me" glasses for Scala code [via Clojure]
Try clicking both right and left touchpad-button on your laptop. At most (all?) laptops it will open the link just as if you had middle-mouse-clicked it.
The US Has the Highest Share of Employees in Low Wage Work
but eBay is a de-centralized model, that's why it worked, no? Or am i missing something?
I love the idea that the product can be embedded anywhere, and that's certainly going to help, but i'm not sure specifically if that helps me enough regards finding the right exposure for my product? What if my online presence is limited?

Also, i noticed there was no option to embed in an email? Or would i not even need that?
Computer Science programs have many different roots. I think the most common is for them to grow out of Electrical Engineering departments where they end up tightly coupled with Computer Engineering, lots of hardware emphasis, etc. But they can also grow out of departments like math or information / library science. Then they may end up fairly far from the engineering departments.
And there's also LucidWorks Cloud. http://www.lucidimagination.com/products/lucidworks-search-p...

Lucid Imagination is run by some of the most experienced Solr and Lucene devs. Specifically Yonik Seeley, who created Solr.
I have been using BBEdit forever. I try out new editors when they come across my radar, I have not had one strike me as any better.

It is possible that I'm just more used to BBEdit. Would anyone like to make the case for TextMate or Sublime or whatever over BBEdit? How are they any better?
30 Years Later: an Unfair Comparison between an IBM PC and a Apple iPhone4
Yup, I agreed with that already, I think, though it's a special case. If you're switching major/minor, for example, it's about equal... for some pieces slightly easier on piano because the scales are horizontally laid out more obviously, whereas some guitar fingerings won't easily convert by just shifting over a few notes of the scale -- you're limited by the way your fingers can bend.
(A) Name, legal status, address, website

(B) Names of directors, officers, and 20% stock holders

(C) Description of the business of the issuer and business plan of the issuer

(D) Prior year tax returns & financials

(E) Use of proceeds

(F) Target offering amount, deadline, and progress updates

(G) Share price and methodology for determining price

(H) Cap structure

A, B, E, F, and G are trivially generated (note that the sharks will have fronts to avoid having to put up the same names constantly). F and G are trivial to the point of boilerplating.

C and D may look like serious requirements, but if we're talking about early stage company investments here, how stringent do you think these requirements could be? What do you think the tax returns for a 1-year-old pre-VC tech company look like?

Even the full SEC disclosure policy for IPOs was insufficient to keep clowns out of the public market in '99.
Virtual Currency Exchange First Meta Closes $466,000 Funding Round
Love these posts, please keep them coming!
Excellent point. But I think it's not just dogma that drives this.

There's also tendency toward convenient over-simplification that's common among we nerds. It's a valuable tool; classical mechanics is a lot easier to learn and reason about if you ignore things like air resistance. One of the most important skills for a software developer is willfully ignoring 99% of the complexity to extract the 1% it's worth teaching the computer about.

But it's also dangerous. The simplifying assumptions of economics are things like perfect information, perfect rationality, unlimited mental processing power, unyielding will, and entirely unbiased cognition. That's useful in theory, but misleading in practice. Misleading twice over, because that's how people would like to see themselves. "I don't need regulation! I'm too smart to ever be fooled!"
I actually thought algorithmic summaries would be worse than useless but they seem surprisingly good. Here's the one from Caine's Arcade:

"9 year old Caine sets up an arcade in his father’s used car parts store in East L.A., using only cardboard boxes his dad had lying around and a ton of ingenuity. Watch his dreams come true when this filmmaker sets up a flash mob to come and play. Just watching this may make you a better person. $82,000 has already been raised for Caine’s scholarship fund! little behind on the bandwagon, but...film just had me in tears."
I think the problem here is that you can't presume to know what the user is trying to do. For many, the right-click has become the gateway to pretty much any functionality besides a normal click. It's probably safe to say that a majority of the users are trying to perform this functionality, but as mentioned above, if they aren't it would be nice to have the option to disable this "feature".
> C++ will not complain

Every half-decent compiler will spit warnings at you, though.

> Now you want to add === to the mix?

It's been this way forever. PHP does all these conversions intentionally and trusts that you want them done. If you don't, go write C++ with FastCGI yourself. The difference between == and === is something you should pick up within your first few days of using PHP - what kind of industry has an economy measured above the "MILLIONS of $$$", but can't afford a dedicated PHP programmer?

I'm almost glad there isn't an official first-party public bug tracker, mailing list, etc. for Javascript - it would be ten times worse than this.
Citation count wouldn't be useful for recent papers. Beambot mentioned university-granted access - I think ACM can be expensive for individuals (depending what kind of access you buy). http://papersincomputerscience.org/ was doing something closer to what you wanted, but it seems to be dead now. It only had abstracts and discussion though. It's hard to find full text due to publishing agreements and copyrights.
Sounds like a free market version of a SEC regulated exchange. Not sure what the free market theory is for why it would be less susceptible to regulatory capture.
I sure wouldn't say fertile, but there's a growing bit of support there for tech startups. UF is generally the big engineering school in Florida, though USF (Tampa) and UCF (Orlando) have gained on it. They're big state schools grinding out undergrads, but it gets a lot harder if you lose all your grad students.

http://innovationgainesville.com
Behold, the Octodex:

http://octodex.github.com/
There are two main problems with that thought. First is that, more often than not, lack of interest is used as an excuse to imply lack of skill. Which is why I used to wording "aiming towards". And second, falsely attributing lack of interest in itself can be considered offensive to many people. Maybe you wouldn't think it's offensive yourself, but it's clear many people do. On the very least, it's discriminating.

To make both points a bit more clear. Imagine that if I told you, that "it's not that I think you're bad at coding. But I just think that you're not interested in hard problems. You rather solve easy ones instead." I'm not (directly) attacking your skills, I'm just falsely discriminating your interests. But hopefully you can understand why this sentence would sound offensive to many people.
ctrl+click (or mouse middle click)

[Edit]: Accidentally replied to the wrong comment :(
That's odd that the signatures on the panels don't match up. Were they rearranged between proto and production?

http://photos.appleinsider.com/ebay-120412-2.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Apple_Ma...
I just picked up the TI EZ430 dev kit, and then this hits the web. I tried for days not to back it, and then it hits HN. Oops. There goes the money, and my pride. ;) Hopefully its as awesome as it looks!
This is reductive summarization so it's selecting key sentences and phrases from the text (rather than generating any new phrasing) so occasionally it will seem brilliant, and other times...
Why Microsoft? Do you really need that $2 per 1000 or whatever when you could gain adoption?
Disappointing, but I understand. I use the Bing APIs, probably only 4K to 5K calls per year, but useful. I don't think it is worth $40/month to me.
If you switch off bluetooth connectivity is it not "just" a watch with a few more features (Accelerometer)? Am I missing something?

Alternatively create an app that switches Bluetooth off at night automatically.
Intel Ultrabook battery standards upgrade the industry - SlashGear
http://om.co/2012/04/12/linkedin/
Everything You REALLY Need to Know: Learn to code