skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing to remember about Dwolla is they're located in Des Moines. Besides being flyover country, that town's economy is about 80-90% financial services. Insurance. Mortgages. Retirement funds (401(k)/pension). Banking.
Des Moines is the back office for much of the country. I shudder to think of how much money is in, and flows through, that town.

Another thing is Wells Fargo has several businesses HQ'ed there--mostly in their consumer "division". (I'm flying blind with regard to their corporate org chart names.) I'm betting besides the credit union guys, WF is lurking quietly in the background, guiding, protecting, waiting to acquire when the time is right.
The last time I did the numbers on reserved instances, I was initially surprised (and subsequently not surprised at all) to find that the present value cost of reserved vs payg was close to identical assuming a typical A- rated corporate debt rate. Given that my cost of capital is higher than Jeff's but my inherent risk (in demand i.e. workload predictability) low, it made sense to go reserved.
I'm not so sure that it's clearcut that personal/selfish ambition is exactly identical to financial ambition.

It really doesn't matter if they are or not. In order for communism to truly work, you'd need to abolish all rewards. That is, the very act of having hockey players and cosmonauts and musical talent recognized by the state at large - regardless of financial reward - creates the very imbalance that communism is supposed to address. As I said: self defeating.

People may seek different rewards based on their character, but the very nature of man is that we work best when challenged and respond will to the rewards earned when overcoming those challenges, financial or not.

If your economic system essentially requires a man with a gun to ensure and enforce its existence, there is something wrong.
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Looks like a cool utility. I will probably be well received by those who rely on dragging and dropping.

I personally never drag-and-drop unless it is the only way to get something done. Copy and Paste via the keyboard is faster and far easier to use. It also gives you all the time you need to navigate wherever you need to go.

Further to that, because I switch between platforms multiple times per day I just can't deal with the weird keyboard mappings on the Mac. Weird, of course, from the perspective of any other platform. If you are only on Mac it is very likely that everything else feels weird to you. I get it.

For example, I wanted copy and paste to be Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. I wanted the editor in Xcode to behave like most other editors behave in other platforms and IDE's. I'm old school, for me the keyboard can be far faster than going for the mouse/touchpad/trackball all the time.

My solution was to install KeyRemap4Macbook (no affiliation) and make the Mac keyboard mimic Windows/Linux keyboard and mappings as much as possible.

I won't be buying your app, but great job. Like it a lot. Apple should buy it off you and integrate it into the OS. It's that good.
Heh, funny how the bloggers over there seem to be extremely concerned with the $70 million valuation because of the lack of substantial revenue for TC and Engadget but don't seem so worried about every other startup they cover.
Our team uses dokuwiki, which is much more lightweight than mediawiki and serves our purposes quite well.

http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki
Lenovo's good laptops were IBM. IBM sold out the Thinkpad brand and it died.
I have this fantasy of buying them both and making them respectable. Of course, it would involve firing everybody currently involved.
Hello,

a quick question... my Mac cannot be upgraded to Lion. Is there a slight possibility of making it work for Snow Leopard?

And if not - I would like to know - just for general interest :) - what is the blocker.
I'd like to see TFS in there. Mostly out of resentment.
This looks great but it's too hard to 'shake' the cursor using a trackpad.
But IE usage, overall, is shrinking.

Lack of WebGL is only one glaring example you can read about while people forget it also lacks text-shadow and...oh forgetabout it. I'm not going into this list again.

IE is an incompetent browser. Those who know how the web works don't use IE. That should tell you everything anyone needs to know.
>If we take your original statement and change "browser" to "search engine" and "IE" to "Google", we end up with this: "If any single search engine had the marketshare that Google had in its heyday, it would be irresponsible and anticompetitive for them to implement nonstandard features."

If Google made non-standard extensions to robots.txt, that would be an equivalently anticompetitive situation. To my knowledge Google hasn't done anything like that. We are not talking about just any features here, but features that make websites incompatible with other browsers. Search engines, by and large, are not concerned with interoperability in the first place, so your analogy is nonsensical.
I think in this day and age it's best not to ask those types of silly questions.
I'm going to start writing "Why I quit/declined XYZ company". There must be a fortune in it considering all the equivalent articles floating around lately.
Because some people realize that money is just a tool. They may prefer to get paid to work on something they are passionate about than get paid more for something they aren't.

Put another way, if you are going to end up working over a weekend, would you rather do it because you love your work, or because you get paid time-and-a-half?
Heroku sells convenience, and resells EC2 instances to you. Their previous dedicated database option, Ronin, cost $200/month. When you connect the dots that this DB has a 1.7GB cache and that a small instance on EC2 has 1.7GB memory[1], you start to realize what you're really paying for.

While paying 3.3 times more[2] may be ok for the added simplicity, you have to wonder if your 'dedicated' database is really just a small instance on EC2? If it is a larger instance, then you are sharing it with other users.

However, even a small instance is far from not being shared. EC2 has performance issues, especially small instances. Disk IO is the worst.[3]

Disclaimer: These are all just my observations, and I don't how Heroku actually configure their Ronin databases. I'd love to be proven wrong, and to have someone from Heroku explain. But from personal experience with both EC2 and Heroku's Ronin database, if my conclusions are wrong, the results are not. I've seen very slow performance on the simplest of queries on both configurations.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
[2] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
[3] http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2011/12/27/why-ec2-still-sux...
It's a shame that Apple doesn't open up the App Store to things like preference panes and Automator workflows. Good luck with your project!
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Especially on iOS.
Some of the more complicated merges, e.g. "adjacent lines" scare me. The comment says "They clearly don't conflict since they don't modify the same lines." And while that seems obvious for humans reading the given test case, it seems easy enough to construct a situation where that is not the case due to, for instance, a function call spread out over multiple lines.

Sadly these merges require a fair amount of language-specific knowledge. That doesn't have to be something that we can't ever expect merge tools to do, but one has to be realistic.
Morgan Stanley, Where Money and Tech Meet
For the blog i.e. writing.markchristian.org
I know one of those people that was on the show and re-featured and had done quite well as a result of the publicity. As a baseline I know how they were doing before being on air.

The fact is if you appear on national tv and don't do well your idea sucks. So you have tremendous upside and very little downside.
> There is a strange dip around noon that we are unsure of how to account for as our servers did not report any failures.

Maybe people are away from their computer at lunch.

What do the blue and green line colors indicate? It would also be interesting to track emoticons. :)
That's sad but does it really belong on HN?
This article chooses PROs for PHP that are hardly and issue, especially when developing a non-trivial app.

Hosting, for example, is a breeze with PHP because of the wide support on budget hosts. However, devs typically follow 5-year old workflows and FTP their changes to the site. Heroku and the like did not exist for PHP for some time and perfected the ease of deployment and hosting better than budget hosts could.

I still develop primarily in PHP and JS everyday, and the majority of my code is all about the architecture of the app and domain models. PHP's quirks are never an issue when the bulk of your work is with abstracted objects.

PHP can be elegant with frameworks like Symfony2 and Doctrin, which in my opinion, hold developed and their pull-requests to extremely high standards for th PHP community.

The coder and the architecture have much more to do with the elegance or "suckiness" of a language.
in relation to rails, i feel like it's tending towards perl.

gems are becoming cpan...
Nice blog post but since when Greece belongs to Asia?
http://i.imgur.com/NMYeQ.png
drag, command-tab to switch apps, drop on the relevant window.
> They decide what they value more: equity in your company or making you look silly for the sake of the show.

And they can always just take both.
Darcs - Another open source version control system
You are wrong. National publicity is priceless. I know someone who is on the show and did quite well as a result of the publicity and got into national distribution and is now in chain stores something they simply weren't able to pull off.

And I received publicity from a single syndicated news story (with pictures) about 12 years ago (ran in 20 papers). I can't even tell you how much money that one thing put in my pocket. To this day I have money still coming from customers I picked up 12 years ago. I would agree with those terms in a second.
Was/is Pixar a technology company?

Or were/are they an animation studio?
This is about extending the existing graphical UI design. Direct manipulation of graphical elements is preferred on a Mac. Think about touch on iOS devices to get a sense of how important direct manipulation is to Apple. (And how the iPhone did not have copy/paste at all when it first shipped.)

So, yes, they are equivalent (in certain situations, drag and drop can be a move or whatever else is appropriate). But copy/paste is the alternative. So is cp at a Terminal command line.

See also:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserE...
I did the same thing when cutting over our old system to the new one: I fired an e-mail for every WARN in the system, including 404s that have always existed. 1k+ emails that day plus GMail disabling SMTP from our server was the sign that e-mail is meant for alerts, not logging.

We've since tried out and signed up with NewRelic with an extremely low error threshold of 0.01%. As a result, we have more data than we had in the past for our errors, notifications on when the threshold is crossed (not for each error), and, most importantly, less dev work to manage them.
Arrington won't be able to revive it to it's past glory. The shine is off. The brand has been damaged. The power and mystic is gone.
This is an existing fear.

Velocity controls (bank-wide and per customer) should mitigate the prospect of someone issuing "100% withdrawal orders for every customer account."
Well to be fair, in those days pixels were, like, HUGE! ;-)
I dunno, expecting a tenth-of-an-Instagram is stretching it.
Nope, <img> was invented with Mosaic, and <li>, <ul> and <ol> was in Mosaic too.
Um...Veridian is a credit union. As such, it's not open to the general public, one has to meet membership requirements and become a member.

In Veridian's case, one has to live and/or work in certain counties of Iowa to qualify for membership.

http://www.veridiancu.org/about_us/who_can_join.asp
Does that mean we'll get TLS 1.1/1.2 with an upgrade of OpenSSL when Cloudflare gets Spdy?
Did you hear that? That's the sound of the bubble beginning to pop.
What I'd like to see at some point is language-aware merge tools that can both correctly merge stuff like that, and flag conflicting edits even if they don't touch the same source lines.
"I wouldn't have any regrets either" ...... c'mon ...... get real please .... talk is easy .... if you were him i m very sure that you regret very much by banging your head on the wall every morning.
To be more precise, not everything, but yes generally most Win2000-era and later hardware.
Popmoney is pathetic; three days to move money between accounts at the same bank (PNC Bank). I might as well go into a branch, withdrawal cash, and deposit it into the destination account, in which case the transfer is instant.
You're right. I'm from germany and haven't been in a theater for years but I own a beamer. Additionally going to a theater would involve driving about 50 km just to get there as I live in a rural area. Furthermore I prefer to watch movies in their original language (well, as long as it is english).

I wish movie distribution was up to the standards we expect when buying music these days. Ditch DRM, just offer me the files and let me re-download them at any time via my account. Streaming is an option but for me bandwith is limited (speed, not volume) while harddisk space is cheap. Plus XBMC + Apple TV + NAS lets me build up my own film archive.

unfortunately and in contrast to the process of buying music we aren't there yet with movies.
“I don’t know anything. No one tells me anything. I am not in the least bit interested [in buying back TechCrunch]. I was Team Pando all the way until Sarah Lacy fired me. That does not change my position on TechCrunch.”

Can anyone explain? I've got a grasp on the business side of most of this but what role did he play at PandoDaily, and why was he fired by the founder and author of the article?
Our comments seem to be geared towards figuring out the mechanism and not the motive. While this can lead to the greater picture, I wonder if we can make an assumption.

There were ~55k user:passwd leaked.

And while a large subset may come from specific regions, it's hard to say if they all do.

But we already have a connection between all accounts, (obviously) they were all hacked and released together. (Pretty strong connection).

So then the number might allude to an effort of some scale for some unknown reason.

Currently and besides the legitimate users of the accounts, only one entity has "taken damage" from this "leak". Twitter

So anyone care to continue this line of thought?

midstreamEdit: NYtimes is saying it's a retaliation hack.
Values. Tough things to reason out.

People often assume that money will change a person for the better if it does at all... I have learned that that is seldom the case.

I have known people who went from literally not knowing where their next meal would come from to being very comfortable(some would say stinking rich-it depends in where you assign value) and frankly: they were better people before the money. More in touch, greater empathy... I valued those thugs about them.

Morrissey actually put it very well: "...in the day when you were hopelessly poor I just liked you more."
Structures that are kept opaque both enforce encapsulation and give binary/ABI compatibility for free. These are two very large advantages. The documentation of a type should come from the supported operations you can perform on it, not the way it represents its data internally.
If somebody transfers €100k to your account, can you withdraw it as cash 5 minutes later?
~20M dollar exit; in the US, trusts have to pay out 5% per year; he has a ~1M income provided the trust invests well.
I agree.

However, why have you assumed Dwolla isn't cooperating and establishing relationships with existing market participants and regulators? They appear knowledgeable and are treated fairly within the present industry (e.g. they've consistently received favorable and auspicious attention from industry press).
I'm just a dev. I don't actually know what I mean :)
I liked it, but I didn't play SC2 so it had no expectations to live up to. Ship duels were fun.
I don't have 480k, but I'd love to just work on the site and attempt some ideas with perhaps a rev-share agreement.

The site needs some TLC, but I'd hope that it could find some sort of home rather than completely die if no one buys for that price. (Besides, it has already been stated the two major hurdles are loss of the 37signals brand and billing switch)
"Government regulations too keep changing"

Excellent point. This puts some of the comments above about how agile methods could quickly identify these problems and address them by refactoring into doubt. You could build a very big system, understanding the domain well, and then have a regulation change introduce new issues that you could not have anticipated.

Beyond finance, health care would be another setting where this could be important (HIPPA must have caused a lot of hasty alterations).
Yeah. The biggest tech blog in the world changes hands twice in a year for astronomical sums, while the founder starts a VC fund. All being reported on by a blog with VC ties.

No bubble here.
Actually, the programmatic ability to spawn EC2 hosts is great in-the-small, for testing - you want to do an upgrade right? Spin up a fresh instance (or five), do your chef/puppet scripted deploy, load balance five percent of your users to the new one... watch for problems, don't see any? crank up the knob... once you're 100% on the new one, hold on to your rollback option for a bit, once you are confident in the new one - poof turn off the old one. Depending on how often you do releases, you can have an awesome safety net for maybe 10% more than your baseline instance cost... get a new developer? "here, run this script, now you have your own copy of the product to screw around with - when you get something working, push your changes"... basically there's a lot more value to that automation than just autoscaling.
Flashback: Discussion of merging

2009: Git: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=505876

which refers to

2007: A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds
http://www.wincent.com/a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/...

which refers to

2005: Re: Merge with git-pasky II.
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/2153.html

Where Linus says:

For example, it seems like most SCM people think that merging is about
getting the end result of two conflicting patches right.

In my opinion, that's the _least_ important part of a merge. Maybe the
kernel is very unusual in this, but basically true _conflicts_ are not
only rare, but they tend to be things you want a human to look at
regardless.

The important part of a merge is not how it handles conflicts (which need
to be verified by a human anyway if they are at all interesting), but that
it should meld the history together right so that you have a new solid
base for future merges.

In other words, the important part is the _trivial_ part: the naming of
the parents, and keeping track of their relationship. Not the clashes.

For example, CVS gets this part totally wrong. Sure, it can merge the
contents, but it totally ignores the important part, so once you've done a
merge, you're pretty much up shit creek wrt any subsequent merges in any
other direction. All the other CVS problems pale in comparison. Renames?
Just a detail.

And it looks like 99% of SCM people seem to think that the solution to
that is to be more clever about content merges. Which misses the point
entirely.

Don't get me wrong: content merges are nice, but they are _gravy_. They
are not important. You can do them manually if you have to. What's
important is that once you _have_ done them (manually or automatically),
the system had better be able to go on, knowing that they've been done.
Bought it. Very good first impressions.

Nice work and congrats on the Daring Fireball mention.
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I'm assuming the problem is questions like this:

Recall the Master Method and its three parameters a,b,d. Which of the following is the best interpretation of b^d, in the context of divide-and-conquer algorithms?

Alternatively, the problem might be questions that ask for the state of an algorithm at some point, when the algorithm can be correctly implemented in different ways and one is expected to recall/go back and check the exact implementation used.
For one thing, nursing homes used to be unthinkable. You wouldn't kick elders out of the family home.
You realize that even the cheapest tickets on Southwest can be rescheduled, right? There is no need to book refundable seats unless you think you might actually want the cash back.
warning, slight plug but very relevant:

I am starting a project pitching platform, http://picocrew.com/presents/picocrew
one of the problems that I am facing is to decide what kind of business model to take, and one of proposed business models is to take 1-2% equity from the project. After a lot of going back and forth with several people, there is one glaring flaw in the model. The success rate of business is very low, especially from unproven teams.

The success of the proposed business is imperative and considering the statistics, over 90% failure, this makes it a really unattractive proposal. I realize Shark Tank offers 2 things: exposure and seed money, what I wonder is the actual success rate of the projects that have been funded by them.
"I'm my own app's #1 user."

That is always a good sign.
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Here's a question for those in the banking world:

How would near-real-time payments impact a bank's reserve requirements?
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>> How much did luck play in your success?

I'd say in my case, as with most anyone's I was very lucky and we all have to be to have a story like mine, but I am still a firm believer in great people making their own luck.

Call me crazy if you like, its just how I feel. I didn't grow up with money, I didn't go to the nicest schools or have the best teachers but I had a ton of drive and the will to succeed.
Well maybe I'm blind, but I honestly don't see the benefit of CSS compilation. Client side is the only use case I'd even consider, I've been using php to augment styles for years.

Yet, js compiled CSS seems like it breaks tools like Firebug or the Chrome inspector. And version control systems.

What am I missing?
See http://www.guiffy.com/SureMergeWP.html for another merge test suite with some background material. A year ago i tried a few of them in various diff-tools, none passed all of the tests, including guiffy even though they claim to in the article. Some of the tests can also be considered objective or non-resolvable but it still an eye opener to see how poor the merge tools really are.

Btw, i thought merge conflict handling was a feature of the diff tool, not the scm?
Who gives a flying f---?
Microsoft provides free Virtual Machine images for testing Internet Explorer.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1157...
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