skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never got the impression that most economists think short selling distorts the market's price discovery mechanisms, and it's really dishearting that the GP is being downvoted for, plainly and clearly, stating what is economic orthodoxy.

Anyway, the futures market has functioned for centuries with people buying and selling what they don't own, and the big institutional buyers and sellers commonly use futures prices as their benchmark prices. It looks like the smart money isn't too concerned about negative effects on price discovery.

Also, let's not confuse playing by the clearly established rules of the market with "fraud". Moral objection is no excuse for equivocation.
I think you changed the framework of the discussion.

While within your framework you are of course, correct; at the same time, its framework is at odds with what everyone else in this thread are discussing. As a result you are being downvoted.

Not because of anti intellectualism.
"Systems programming" is a poorly defined term, but it generally refers to building operating systems, databases, event buses, that sort of thing.

Redis <- systems programming

Aggregating your tweets in redis <- application programming
Thats the implication, obviously.
> Why do people care about "visual programming"?

"Although the main purpose of DRAKON Editor is capturing and editing algorithmic knowledge, it can also be used to build programs." (http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/)

> I guess also, if it aids readability, why not just generate the charts from code, rather than the other way around?

Because it works like syntax highlighting. You don't ask "Why don't you write code black on white, and add colors later for reading aid?".
I understand Einsteins use of drugs is speculative. But, the article isn't necessarily just about Einstein, but about all the great people who we have great respect for that also use drugs.
Doubtful that many play the lottery, but they also lead the world with bad luck too, with the world's most accidental deaths. Source: http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/a/accidental_death/stats-count...
Thanks. Nice to see other options. (So they wont pay to an AU account but they will pay out to a paypal account or send a cheque).
Looks like a very useful set of functionality, but the name will need to change.
CSS3 / HTML5 Music Player (with jQuery Version)
'Today,' 'Tomorrow,' and 9 Other Words You Can't Search For In China
I think its a fairly safe bet to say quite a few things will disappear by 2020.
I'm left handed. :)
Really slick interface Renat and friends.... you guys have done a lot of work here in a very short space of time!!
Writing code that utilizes that specific feature of JavaScript is cumbersome.

It's one of the reasons why Prototype.js was created, and one of the reasons that people use CoffeeScript, don't you think?
I had a similar problem - also dismissed Twitter4J etc. as too complicated and wrote a 50 line Java method to send a tweet (signature: tweet(tweet, consumerKey, consumerSecret, accessToken, accessTokenSecret) ).

So presumably it's the culture you don't like, rather than the language.
how about in Edinburgh on top of Arthur's Seat?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthurs_Seat,_Edinburgh
Manned Orbiting Laboratory: 2 men in a Gemini derivative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Orbiting_Laboratory
ASK HN: How could I make a web app payable?
I mean sell a web app without using Apple Store or Google Play. Is there a JS framework that help me with paypal payment or I have to do all by myself?
Hubble is (at the level of) a 70's spy sat at best, we're 40 years later, talking about two 90's spy sats that are decommissioned and you think they're worse than Hubble ?

Sure the electronics in Hubble are adapted to its function but they're still very outdated used-to-be-state-of-the-art crap.
I do not see Valve releasing clients for every distro out there.

I guess that would depend on how the client software is built and if they utilize the shared libraries included in the Linux distribution. If dependencies are compiled into the distributed binaries, it's really not that hard to repackage the artifacts into different packages for different systems.
Thanks Tom! As we switched from Java to JavaScript it gave us incredible boost in productivity. And also staying on the shoulders of giants like node.js, twitter bootstrap speed things up allot.
Chromebox review: business thin-client
The purpose of higher education, which I fear so many young people fail to realize, is that it's there for you to learn how to learn. Most colleges and universities are designed in a way so that everyone can keep up (with some exceptions).

That being said, I dropped out after three years. I'm not saying you should do the same, but at the time my heart was just not in it.

Nothing says you have to major in Computer Science. Some of the best developers I've worked with majored in something else: English, History, Accounting, Psychology, Music, etc. They were great because they were passionate, eager to learn, and put what they had learned into practice. Granted, these developers were building web applications, which typically are written in highly abstracted languages. Depending on what type of development you want to do, a Computer Science degree may not be necessary. Besides, no matter what type of development you choose, you'll be learning for the rest of your life.

My suggestion is for you to talk to you CS advisors and also talk to advisors for other majors you might be interested in and then make a decision.
Firstly there is no doubt that Australia is a great place to start a business. It's a stable, wealthy country with great health care, financial regulations and everything generally works. We also have a great FTTH network being rolled out.

However as a startup it has nothing on other countries.

The biggest problem is that the successful people in Australia simply don't give back like they do in other countries. There is no real sense of philanthropy or altruism nor has there been much pressure from the community to do so.

So it has the left the industry with some noble seed incubators at the low end (<50K), pretty hopeless VCs at the high end (2-5M+) and very little in between. You just don't have access to that 200-500K that most startups need (i.e. 2-3 devs + 1 business) but which isn't that hard to get in UK/US/Europe.

And you see it in the outcomes. We only really have a small handful of internationally successful IT companies despite the huge wealth in the country.
I remember them as being between the weight of a pack of cards and that of a dinner plate. I don't believe they were titanium - I'd guess they were stainless. Again, perhaps 10-12 inches in diameter and nothing in the middle; they were just the two races and the balls in between. For the fine guidance sensor.
Good idea I think! Lock it after 2 account changes for a few hours at the very least, then the original owner will have it back, who is most likely the legitimate owner.
It would be cool if the Wine project could use it for reference. Currently they are working by reverse engineering, AFAIK. I wonder if they are "qualified".
The title of the article is somewhat misleading. Facebook will likely encounter monetization problems as the supremacy of mobile apps over the web continues but it doesn't mean they will just "disappear".

If Facebook disappears like Yahoo is doing, someone is going to have to come up with a disruptive solution (like Google did in search). Right now that option doesn't exist.

There certainly will be web companies that won't make the transition but Facebook seems to be in the best position to do so. The vast amount of information that they have on their users makes it so.
1. As someone else noted, literally years since you ever had to touch config file by hand. Use Ubuntu, you'll love it.

Sure. But that wont cure a fundamental problem with the X11/Xorg infrastructure.

You cannot quickly and switch desktop orientation, resolution and layout (not to mention drivers) seamlessly like on Windows without killing your entire X-session. Killing your entire session. Jeez.

At the root of this problem is an architecture which is lagging on what Microsoft could deliver in Windows 98. You cannot make Windows and reboot-jokes while you have this Achilles-heel dragging your video subsystem. You seriously cannot.

And no new version of Ubuntu can overcome this underlying issue, no matter how much fluff and candy they add elsewhere, as long as they rely on the ancient relic that is X11.

As far as I know, when Google decided to make Android and ChromeOS (a complete failure as far as any metric goes, but still worth mentioning) they decided:

1. to base it on Linux, because that makes sense and

2. not to base it on X11 because they wanted it to be flexible and they wanted their users not be limited by what architects could think of in the 1984.

For end-user Linux to ever become user-friendly Xorg needs a complete architectural overhaul. I cannot see anyone arguing this.

And even if seemingly everyone agrees on this, nobody is pushing forward for it to happen. Make of that what you like.
Normal short selling doesn't distort price discovery. Khan Academy describes this quite well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAkMhEqWFF0.

However, with naked short selling it's a different story. When you're short selling something that you don't own you're in effect making it look like the supply is bigger than it actually is. This distorts the price discovery mechanism.
You must be right then. I'm not much of a scribd user. Legal troubles many times comes as surprise and I might be wrong again here, but usually music/movie industry are quicker when it comes to filing suits against websites.
I agree with all the points you've made but not with your conclusion. Australia is shocking for startups, at least in Brisbane. I definitely do not recommend. Sydney/Melbourne might be a different story.

The sad thing is we have huge technical talent that is being wasted. 50% of my colleagues who are any good have left Brisbane to go to Silicon Valley or New York.

We have these negative points about Brisbane:

- Huge tall poppy syndrome. We tear each other down. Then when someone leaves and makes it big in the US we try to reclaim them.

- The people who get funded are the "ideas" people. Not those with the talent to make it happen. If you have the technical talent then forget about raising funds. You're just a code monkey. This is really bad for the startup community as a whole as we have a continual spiral of crap products coming from funded companies.

- The startup industry is filled with vultures. We have more incubators and companies helping people raise funds than actual startups.

Anyway enough of my rant. I should just be done with it and move to the US, or at least Sydney/Melbourne.
Many Australian universities have a 'Bachelor of Information Technology' instead of of a 'Bachelor of Computer Science'. The one I did was a 3 year degree, it still did most of the CS subjects that I've seen elsewhere, though it didn't have any compulsory Maths (I think an extra semester of Maths should be added).

I did the degree part time whilst working full time and once I was done I started the interview process for a position at Google. I was told that they don't usually hire anyone unless they have a bachelor of computer science, but that they'd make an exception seeing as I've been working (effectively had 4 years experience at that time). I ended up getting a non-grad job elsewhere even before my second phone interview, but it seems to me that if they only hire BSc students, the university system is not setup to suit them.

I've never met anyone from Queensland (my home state) that has done a BSc, its either called Bachelor of IT or Software Engineering. That doesn't mean they aren't capable of being great employees for Google.
"The audience was split 50-50 on that. If it can accelerate—if it can more than double every 18th months going forward—it would seem like you’d get something like AI in just a few years. Yet most people thought AI was much further away than biotech 2.0. "

Interesting leap - is a large number of transistors on a die enough to enable an acceptable AI? I would have thought that more is necessary, and figuring out when it will happen will not be easily determined by a model like Moore's Law.
You can rather easily see the deltas. It's not perfect, but it's at least possible. That's another line of defense Windows users lack (and, usually, don't care about)
You have to take everything a hedge fund trader says with a grain of salt. These guys are making bets both upwards and downwards on the same day.

For all I know they've got a program that detects when this article hits the web and that triggers a trade, and then an hour later their program triggers another trade.
I swear I typed the e - autocorrect is not my friend (heck, most times I type "the" it keeps changing to "he").
iguazu.js - Under the mist of the Devil's Throat at Iguazu Waterfalls : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguazu_Falls

yeah baby sign me up!
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Most of the ones I knew were from WWII. There was rather less need to 'sex-up' dossiers on the capabilities of Rommel's army.

They explained how you could detect barbed wire in photos with >feet resolution by the patterns of wear animals left on the ground near it, or find underwater tank traps on Normandy beaches by the change in the wave patterns
RJSON: compress JSON to JSON
Ask HN: What do you think of HN article list structure?
I'm doing some research about the optimal way to structure a list of articles for scannability.

Do you think that showing also a description together with the links would hurt scannability? Why? do you think that descriptions are unnecessary design elements?
100,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace
Thanks! It looks like a full-featured solution, and it's even a commonJS module.

Thing is, that CoffeeScript solves the most common pain though (the *.prototype syntax), and the chasm between that and interfaces, singletons, private members, etc., might be too big for the standard use case.
SEEKING WORK
boston. remote ok.

skill set in no particular order:
Rails, JQuery/JS/coffee, html5/haml/sass/css, Phonegap/Sencha, sql, mongo, all major social APIs (fb, tw, 4sq), geolocation, product/ux design

gmail: ian.stanczyk
Social eBooks: Zola Books Launches Private Beta. $1M From Prominent Authors
I just finished up my first book and while it is much shorter than yours will be (18k words) I'll share what helped me:

1. Write how you want to write. In other words write in your own style. If you are funny, that's fantastic, but if you prefer to present things in a straight-forward methodical fashion then do that. You will be spending a ton of time writing and re-writing: It will come much easier if it is in your own voice.

2. Don't be afraid to jump around. You do not need to start writing with chapter 1, then on to chapter 2, etc. Write whatever you are inspired to write at the moment. You can always go back and fill in the hard stuff later. You should do everything you can to make the process enjoyable, so, with that in mind, procrastinating frustrating parts is OK.

3. Write on a schedule and stick to it. If you don't feel like writing but it is the time you've scheduled, do it. I found on a number of occasions that even if I didn't feel like writing, once I started my mood shifted. Although sometimes I just failed to produce anything.

That's just off the top of my head. I'll come back and add more if I can think of worthwhile stuff to add. I will say though that the act of writing and completing a book was tremendously empowering and fun.
I think that the real story is, "Listen to industry gossip". Everyone here thought FB was overhyped. Everyone here think that things needed to come down a bit.

VC is going to get harder to get (thanks to a certain serious longitudinal study, the Kauffman report, not a single bad IPO), but costs are going down as startups get leaner. More value will be created, not less.
IIRC, you can't do this for subscription based services - PayPal won't let non-US account holders store CCVs.

Are you doing recurring billing with PayPal? If so, I'd love to know how!
From Rags to Riches. You can never get bored by it
Bunyip: client-side unit testing through the command line in real browsers
> many systems produced by Apple have had this kind of "FireWire target disk mode" for a while now.

Since 2000.
Solving the Social Intent Problem, or Why Facebook Will Succeed
I've never heard of any regulations. There are plenty of successful online-only retailers across a range of industries. AFAIK you just setup a website, register for GST and off you go.

The only issue I've heard is that some brick/mortar shops have been putting pressure on suppliers not to deal with online companies. But our beloved ACCC (pro-consumer agency) is investigating as we speak and I doubt that will last very long.
ITry
Ok, so basically the very deep and smart analysis consists in one argument: Facebook is a website, so there's no way it's ever going to become a mobile company.

Besides the shallowness of this argument, I think it makes two assumptions that are not justified:

- Since no company has succeeded in transitioning from one era to the other, no company in the future will ever succeed. The premise is debatable (Is Google really a failure?), but I think that the conclusion is flat out wrong.

- The next generation of internet companies will be mobile, and the only way forward for facebook is to go mobile. Well, mobile is obviously one way forward, but is it the only one? Who knows what facebook is going to come up with.

Anyway, I'm not sure that the article brings anything interesting..
The article may make some good points, but I refuse to give page views to arrogant link-bait "Contrarian Event X will Happen By Year Y" titles.
If the main problem with the mobile browsers is the lack of a reload button, then you could just write a tiny little javascript reload button and have that as the first thing that loads on your page...
Could somebody tell me what is Facebook's intrinsic value?
The Underground Economy of Twitter Followers
Brisbane/Queensland has suddenly seen a large increase in the local startup community. Groups like Silicon Beach and The Lean Startup have been a big part of it, especially with getting the word out on Microsoft's offering via its newly opened Innovation Centre initiative.

Steve Baxter (Founder of PIPE networks) has also come forward as a big player, opening up River City Labs, a co-working space for startups passing their application criteria. He has committed a large sum of money to all this and there is even talk of a Y-Combinator style seed investment strategy coming out of it all.

It is still early days but there has been A LOT of movement in this space locally and I personally am excited about what is ahead.
Investors will become more conservative and seek better deals for themselves. I don't think it's anything to do with Facebook. Facebook might just be the excuse they're looking for.

My unsolicited advice to all startups is to put your energy into the things which matter. Debating 3-6% more/less dilution with investors is not a good place to be investing your time and energy.

I suspect the companies who go into this bubble focusing on convertible notes and caps will be the companies who suffer most.
Same on iPad 2.
Now I understand, Because you say it doesn't exist then I shouldn't talk about it.
buying the entire block

You can only buy what is for sale. If it's not for sale, at any price, you can't buy it no matter how much money you have.
Google X Lab  -  Artificial intelligence and robotics
From what I understand, Facebook's main problem is a lack of a stable income source. It's becoming more and more apparent that advertising is not going to be the panacea that it was thought to be, what with numerous studies showing poor facebook ad performance and companies like GM pulling their facebook ad campaigns altogether. Sure, they booked $1B last quarter, but annualizing that number requires some confidence that they can pull that off regularly, and I don't think people have that confidence. As an investor, I'd be worried.
I don't disagree with Fred Wilson, but I'm closer to pg's perspective on this. The bubble, to the extent that there was one, burst while we weren't looking.

Facebook's IPO is not really a huge issue in and of itself, and as Wilson points out the numbers they have are staggering. Other IPOs, like GroupOn's, have had similar issues and FB will probably look pretty awful by the time they reach the end of their lock-up period too. But this stuff is largely all indicative of market sentiment, and that's the issue.

People aren't necessarily disappointed with the performance of any of these companies, but they are getting very twitchy as investors. When people stop investing, and sentiment becomes increasingly bearish, it's like the tide going out and inevitably some boats will end up getting beached.

I know from companies attempting to raise capital in London right now that things have been difficult for a while now, and look set to get even more difficult (not that London is necessarily the greatest place for doing this, or a good barometer) - so those companies that have done decent rounds recently (HailO, BagThat, etc) will probably need to baton down the hatches somewhat, and those who were expecting to raise later this year / early next are probably in for a shock - a nasty one, if they can't operate without a raise (I know at least a couple of companies in that exact position).
Show HN: d3.js boilerplate
I expected something bigger as well. From the release mail of Linus:

It's a pretty normal release - roughly 60% drivers, 20% arch updates,
and 20% "all over" - filesystems, documentation, tools, you name it.

Nothing hugely special springs to mind - there's some memory
compaction issue that is still being discussed, but I don't think
there's anything particularly scary or special that stands out over
everything else in the -rc1.
See Bryan Cantrill's talk from LISA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=playe... , where he has a good comparison of not anthromorpizing Larry Ellison and Oracle. Paraphrased, "Think of him of as a lawnmower. The lawnmower doesn't care about opensourcing Solaris. The lawnmower _can't_ care about it, it's a lawnmower".

Oracle cares about making money and protecting their revenue stream. Getting Lodsys of the backs of their customers is one way of doing that.
People love to focus on the money aspect, but I'm interested in the content of this damages claim that was apparently accepted by the court. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find anything about the specifics of those claims.
Fox News Ties Flame Malware To Angry Birds Because Both Use LUA
It's a massive hurdle to charge your customers without using third party payment processors in Australia (PayPal). To get around it you can either use third parties (PayPal) or what every startup I've come across in Australia has done so far that want a professional checkout system, charged in AUD, set up US subsidiary or gone down the route impossible for a smaller start up, set up with NAB.

Aside from this Australia is a good place to run a startup, there's a good community in most of the major cities.
I tried to figure out when to see this where I am, and found the easiest way was to install Stellarium and then fast forward in time to see how the pass happens.
Markov-generated Quora questions
Why and How a national news outlet coded financial information into a map
We do recurring billing with them, you just have to use their interface - https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_pdn_subscr_techvi...
In the next few months Facebook will create over 1000 new millionaires. Is it to much too assume that many of them will get into inventing, which could actually cause the opposite affect of what you're suggesting where there is even more money available?