skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No - Fed loans are not backed by taxpayer money - they are backed by the faith in Fed to replace those dollars with assets of equivalent value. And no, it's not a stealth tax on anyone who holds dollars. The popular view is that ok, the supply of dollars has gone up and hence the money I hold is worth less.

But remember, all the MBSes in the pre-crisis market, they were liquid instruments being used as money by the industry. Suddenly that pool dries up. The Fed's job then was to keep that pool constant (the M0, M1, M2 and M3 supplies go up - but then MBSes and commercial paper are not included in any of those measures).

It's not a bailout in the manner of a Treasury bailout of Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae. First of all, it's not your (ie the taxpayer's) money to begin with. You have no right to be concerned about money that doesn't belong to you. Secondly, say I "bailed" out a company by taking an equity stake and the Fed loaned the same company some money. If the company goes bankrupt - I should have zero expectations of recovering my money. The Fed, on the other hand, would have first dibs on the recovery value of the assets.
This has always bothered me: I'm not the target user, but then who is? Some of the more unprofessional product managers can use this as a mantra when they really have no clue.

On the other hand, when you include a designer in your product, you really have to let them do their job! Yes, feedback (external and internal) will be killer, but if they are good and know what they are doing, they won't let this sway them: they want to deliver a product that you will love, that you didn't know you wanted, and not necessarily what you asked for. Professional UX design with IDEs seems rather new (e.g., Cloud9), and developers are surprisingly a rather conservative lot. But if you want innovation from your IDE vendor, you should give them some room to experiment and possibly make mistakes.

(disclaimer: MS employee, but not working on VS)
Why not raise wages and increase on the job training for Americans? This sounds like a subsidy for the college industry and puts them in control of the visas. Concentrating on and fixing things here should create more jobs and lower unemployment should be the focus of any new legislation. Since we already have generous immigration policies AND there's no real hindrance to capital mobility perhaps venture financiers have no real barriers to investing by exploring alternate markets overseas. Why not do the facebook from Africa or South America?
There are a lot of not-programmers who thrived doing just this, and some of them are still around, getting programming jobs based off of that experience that doesn't translate at all to modern frameworks.
Talking Pens for Others
Talking Pens for Others

Talking pens can be used in various fields besides the education, scenic spots etc…It would be applied for Language Learning, biblical study, exhibition and so on.
We have a group of rich-experienced R&D professionals, and we have experienced in replacing the traditional printing through the use of technology that is on the voice. We would like to make the customized solution for your special request.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I was subconsciously thinking "Matrix multiplication is this weird operation, which happens to be isomorphic to function composition in the space of linear transformations." rather than "Function composition, when functions are represented as matrices, is called matrix multiplication."

It sounds so obvious now...
I've seen it in Javadoc doc comments as well.
Delphi is also still widely deployed in the enterprise world.
Slight tangent, but I searched "free credit report" and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. What should I be taking note of?
One of the screenshots in the blog post shows an ad with a title saying "Meeting Burner" (with a space) with a "MeetingBurner" (no space) keyword. It isn't dynamic keyword insertion; it was an ad they wrote specifically for this keyword.
No worries, makes sense.
I'm a functional programmer I know what immutable is. However if you've programmed a game in a functional programming language you know it also requires the code to become more complex in various situations. You have to introduce reactive programming to do it properly.

No longer can you simply change to coords of an entity to change a position.

In that situation I would recommend introducing mutability, trying avoid mutability would make it more complex.

Date api is one broken things about java. Everyone knows it is broken.

There about ten billion versions of good practise, I could quote them and say you are diverging from good practise?

I also recommend you keep things immutable, but not if it makes things difficult.
For many of us, the top 3 boxes in Maslow's pyramid are resolved through work, belonging to teams at work, self esteem through the paycheck reward system, self-actualization through the building of collaborative relationships and sharing of difficult situations. If work is removed as a requirement for the less hard working, as the article puts it, I suspect they'd become a problem for society, similar to the chronically unemployed today.
T shirt... Business presentable...?

You live in a world that is quite distant from mine and anyone I know.
There is "SUA", but it's only available for the Enterprise & Ultimate Windows editions. (And supposedly going away entirely after Windows 8.) Shame it wasn't better integrated and packaged.

http://www.suacommunity.com/sua.aspx
Well, you shouldn't. So it's a good name!
Ask HN: How do I get a coding job as a recent grad with a non-CS degree?
I have experience coding, and by all accounts I seem to be pretty good at it. I have experience (even startup experience) but not as much as someone who has been in the Valley for a few years. I pick up new things quickly and can stay focused on a problem for hours and even days. The problem is that a lot of this isn't especially impressive to put on a resume.

I'll be moving to San Francisco before the end of the month and I need a job so that I can pay rent but I'm having trouble convincing companies that I'm a good hire. Most seem to look at my resume and write me off right away.

tl;dr: How can I prove that I'm worth hiring?
Fund-raising is only a means to an end. And sometimes it's an excellent way to scale a business after the business has been figured out. But taking VC money just because it makes you feel cool and high-status is a terrible risk-reward decision. You're trading the next 4+ years of your life and a huge chunk of your company's value for bullshit short-term prestige.

I think entrepreneurs should always maintain a tunnel-visioned focus on hard results and performance, if you absolutely kill it and dominate your market, everything else will follow. Fame, recognition, and status are for tech scenesters and bloggers - not startup founders.

Startups are the ultimate test of your inner scorecard - http://therealfoxyroxy.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/an-inner-sco...
> Yes the official Nintendo magazine is impartial so this probably isn’t a deliberate strategy by the brand.

Impartial? Not unless things have changed a great deal from when I was reading _Nintendo Power_ in the early 2000s...
My biggest problem with the whole entrepreneurial Visa mess is that it gets lumped in with other Visa categories as well. Even the definition of Startup 2.0 crosses a line for me.

I believe, if someone has the the capital (or guarantee of capital) backing for starting a company and they want to do so in the US, the process should be very simple (beyond requisite background checks, etc). If you want to build, please come.

Visas for "higher education", I would willingly grant extended stay Visas for those completing PhDs but would put a slightly higher barrier on those getting Masters. Why? Two-fold (the second I will address below). My biggest issue is, especially here in California (for what I know), the UC system is hurting and embracing out of state (and out of country) applicants for the added tuition. And, for CS related degrees a Masters really generally just a one year degree. I would like to see more than just the one-year degree before granting an extended visa more easily than the existing visa paths.

My second problem with granting Visas to Master's students and this applies in general to my problem with visas for technical jobs, is the currently large unemployed base. My problem is not with those wishing to come here and contribute, but with the system itself. And, on some level, I am complicit in this.

The US has a very large un/underemployed base, even within tech. Companies argue that they can't hire enough qualified people, but the reality in a lot of cases is either: 1) the companies aren't willing to pay for the qualifications (the controversial path); or 2) companies aren't willing to train to fill in a potentially qualified candidate's gaps.

There are people out there that would be decent DevOps, SysAdmins, or even developers...but when a company posts for a position, they want the closest fit to that position. If someone might be an Ok fit over time, but would require investment in terms of training and time, the company will bypass them (in most cases).

For me, there is this gaping hole that this country needs to address -- we need to provide the ability to retool those seeking jobs to better fit current openings. The US and it's approach to "private enterprise" sucks at this. I know people that have gone to these fly by night "learn new skills" areas only to end up more in debt, still un/underemployed and not contributing to society as well as they might. Even in the case where people are trying (and not giving up).

I am probably rambling here, but I think Startup 2.0 is a step in the right direction, but I wish the US would do more to encourage the development and reeducation of local talent. Our current system of falling into the cracks or mortgaging ourselves further to sketchy private "learn X" institutions is doing us no good.
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> if you've programmed a game in a functional programming language you know it also requires the code to become more complex in various situations

Irrelevant. A game is not a web application. A game has a claim to require mutability for performance concerns, but mutable state is generally safer in such a use case. A game is likely to have a few threads, each with a dedicated task or set of tasks, whereas a web application is not so constrained and any request may effectively duplicate another. Web applications that are cavalier about mutable state literally-literally invariably decompose to "synchronized blocks for all the things!" and, seriously, who wants to have anything to do with that?

> I can also find lots literature about following java bean convention as good practise. Your just cherry picking literature.

I'm not "cherry-picking" a Goddamned thing: I'm referring to one of the major, canonical sources of Java convention. You may find shitty Apress books that say "sure, use JavaBeans everywhere!", but that's why they're shitty Apress books. Effective Java is the book that literally-literally every competent Java programmer I have ever met has read and fully digested. There are areas of style where not everyone I've met agrees with Bloch, but immutable-by-default is very widely accepted except in areas (such as game development, though that is, again, irrelevant to the topic at hand) where performance becomes a legitimate concern.

But, except for those edge cases (and they really are edge cases, they certainly don't apply to web development) you are not going to find someone of significant credibility and stature in the Java community who is going to say "follow JavaBean convention". You just aren't.

(If you were, you already would have.)
The best lightweight cygwin alternative I could suggest to Windows users is... uhh... VirtualBox and Ubuntu!!!
Sorry, but consciously imitating Cayce Pollard -- pure hipsterism in literary character form -- is not really not giving a fuck. It's giving a fuck that people think you don't give a fuck, which isn't quite the same thing.

I'm a guy, I'm single, and I live (more or less) alone. This is a domain in which I have some expertise. That said, it really is quite simple not to give a fuck about what you wear:

1) Go to your closet, or armoire, or laundry pile, whatever.

2) Pick out something that fits, doesn't look or smell dirty, and is temperature appropriate.

3) Put it on.

That's it. That's bloody all. I've gotten by like this for the past... ohhhh, six years ago? You've still got this costumery with all these pieces and gewgaws going on. For me it's: shirt, pants, bob's your uncle. I can be up and going in about 20 minutes, including shower.

I really wonder why more women don't do this. It'd be a sign of independence, and it'd shave precious minutes (or hours) off their "getting ready to go to work" time, leaving them more time to... sleep in, or hack, or whatever.
"butt-retarded"
Yeah, I've actually got an Nlite-ed copy of XP I've burned that I could use, and I almost pulled it out when I first installed XP on VirtualBox, but I've been so happy with vanilla XP on Virtualbox on Linux Mint that I've not felt the need to dig it out. But if you have less than 4 GB of RAM or so, and you plan to run something like Photoshop on XP via Virtualbox on a Linux host, it would probably be a good idea to use Nlite.
You misinterpret the word 'stylish'.

Hoodies and band shirts are not stylish and never will be.

...unless you mean to say something like: in the style of a young urbanite.

The word 'stylish' in terms of fashion refers to more than just clothing though, it's meaning is closer to 'swagger' and it has connotations to 'classical style' or 'classy', which is where band shirts and hoodies fall out.
Could change your handle?

Seriously, it's one of the most insulting Internet-names I know-of and I automatically vote down everything I see by you.

If you do good stuff, I suggest you don't begin every single post sneering at us. If you really need reminding, your name is a clever way of saying "I'm smart, you're dumb".

Maybe I'm really just a crank but in a perhaps illusory fashion I think I'm a moderately serious hn commentator.

And oddly enough, an adult.

And sure, I'm happy to be voted down to oblivion for this but hey, just keep this in mind.

Please, tweak your presentation. It would make totally anonymous and irrelevant me happy. I'm sure that doesn't mean anything.
Forbes! Congrats to Blake. Only spotted the notes on his blog via HN. Now guest blogger on Forbes. One good motivation for writing notes in class!
By the rich for the rich then? Sounds about right.

Seriously though, you want 3 privileged, white men to decide the fate of your entire country? I'm all for smart people coming up with solutions, and I know your comment wasn't mean't to be taken too seriously, but this is just ridiculous. Technocracy is not the answer, no matter how much technologists would love it to be.
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Kaspersky runs a security news operation, competing with trade press operations like "Dark Reading", staffed with former writers from places like ZDNet. It is from what I can tell an extraordinarily effective marketing tool.
Thank you. This needs to be said now on HN, unfortunately.
The Perpetual Challenge of Infectious Diseases
“… try to generate a table of how likely it was to get various dice rolls when you rolled 4 6-sided dice and took the top 3.”

I felt the urge to code this. Here is the result: https://gist.github.com/2899137. It doesn’t tell you “likelihood of various dice rolls”; it can either print out the rolls for each trial or tell you how common each of the 6 numbers were in all the rolls.
You're right that creating a training video has a larger up-front cost than simply recording a meeting. However when the long-term effects are taken into account the trade off is probably favorable. Something like a training video that in theory helps the employees and makes them feel supported will probably pay off more for the business in terms of increased employee satisfaction than something shockingly negative and dissonant like video-taping an employee being fired.
Polymorphism with objects implies an indirection to data with variable size, and also usually an object graph involving pointer chasing; lots of indirection is bad for performance. Also, cache-efficient manipulation favours non-indirected, tightly-packed data.

So instead of:

class Entity { Vector location; Foo foo; Vector velocity; }; // etc.
Entities[] entities;

One prefers:

Vector[] locations;
Vector[] velocities;
Foo[] foos;

A physics engine updating locations and velocities won't waste cache on redundant information (like foo) in this case.

There was an excellent presentation (from some games conference) on this topic posted here on HN a few years ago, but I can't find it easily.
Neither of which is very difficult. Most likely they didn't write the malware - most malware distributors don't. And narrow spectrum GPS jamming is pretty straightforward (and not very useful unless your goal is to annoy civilians).

On to more complex things... how many medium range ballistic missile tests have they failed? They've been trying to extend seventy year old German technology (by way of Russia and China) for decades now without much success. That's not very impressive, IMO.
This seems pretty cool but I think you might have been banned...the player won't play. Which basically inevitably happens to every app I've seen that grabs songs off YouTube and repurposes it. The one that most sticks out to me is the old Songza.
Hi jules, send me an email (see profile), and I’ll hook you up with some PDFs of books/papers.
Ok, but the blog post was clearly referring to Greenspan's actions/statements during his tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve by which time his credibility as an advocate of laissez-faire was out the window.
Slightly off topic.. There was one day here in Tokyo where the feed for the JR signs had somehow broken, and the "train approaching" LED banners here and there were showing a lovely mess of mangled XML.
Yes, it's been 10+ years since I last seriously looked at UnrealScript; I must have misremembered that feature, virtual classes.
Users told us they would rather have tactile buttons as on a PC keyboard or Blackberry. We're working on a small "smartphone keyboard" for fast "two thumbs" typing like on a Blackberry. The user can plug it into the smartphone when the user wants to type quickly and detach it when they are done and want to store the device.
This exists at the Lacoste store in Shibuya.

Also, this is pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_tkYCtIMOc
It's easy. My employee handbook, should I ever get to that stage, shall read:

1) Be honest.
2) Don't be a dipshit.
3) If you have a problem with something, ask.
All Incoming Stanford Freshmen To Get Free iPhones
No bs. It's real. It's happening. All incoming freshmen are getting an iPhone courtesy of Apple. Those who cannot afford the monthly plan are getting a free iPod Touch instead. Maybe that explains why the traditional pre-orientation "three books" selection this year includes an iOS app (Smule, source: http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/05/25/three-books-inspired-by-opening-of-bing-concert-hall/). All Right Now!
An anecdote from my father who helped 'slow' kids learn.
One time he dealt with a kid who struggled with maths. But he happened to know that this same child went to the horse races with his Dad and could calculate the pay-off from fairly complicated trifecta bets in his head.

Over and over my father found it was only motivation that was missing, not brain-power.
Very cool, every think about using Grooveshark players for this?
I'm not sure what you're saying. All of his ideas, even "rewritten without pollyannaish nonsense", seem to me like essential components of firing someone the right way. Could you contrast these steps with how you believe people should be fired?

Summary: Cover your ass.

Certainly doing the right thing is one way to cover your ass.

Step 1: Have a gigantic book of employee guidelines. At any point in time, you should be able to pick an employee and find something you can write them up for. Have the employee sign a piece of paper on day 1 that they are aware of the book.

Are you saying it's better not to have clear employee guidelines or not to make sure they know them?

Step 2: Before you fire the employee, make sure you've written him up more than once. Lay your groundwork a week or two in advance. Find something else, and do the paperwork from step one. You don't fire an employee for walking in on the VP banging a secretary, it's because he wasn't filing his TPS reports properly.

Are you saying it's better not to wait for repeat offenses, or better not to have clear reasons for firing?

I have no idea where you got this "VP banging a secretary" interpretation. He's talking about his furniture company of 6 carpenters, for goodness sake.

Step 3: When actually firing somebody, have a witness + a recording device in the room. This protects you from sexual harassment lawsuits.

It only protects you from sexual harassment lawsuits if you don't sexually harass them. It also only protects you from any other kind of lawsuit for wrongful behavior if you don't behave wrongfully. Isn't it a good thing for them to not sexually harass employees?

Step 4: Explanations: Blame the economy. If that doesn't work, blame the phases of the moon. Anything you want, but not something that is grounds for a wrongful termination suit.

Is it better to have no reason, or not to explain to the employee that there were external factors in the decision, or to lie that there were no external factors? Or are you saying external factors never dominate and blaming them is always lying?

Of course you shouldn't fire some one for reasons that would be grounds for a wrongful termination suit. Because those would be wrongful terminations!

You seem to be narrowly interpreting his attempts to do the right thing as just attempting to cover his ass. I don't see where you got this, he repeatedly agonizes over doing firing the right way. Could you explain what you think he'd do differently if he were actually a good boss, as opposed to just trying to cover his ass?
Why would you use XHR for this instead of just bootstrapping with all the DOM nodes in place. This sounds like it would slow the page down.

Twitter is just going through a complete re-arch of their front end to stop loading via XHR and says they're getting a 5x speed improvement

http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/twitter-kills-the-...
As a New Zealander, it probably means whose company is willing to provide the minister with corporate box passes.
League of Legends database compromised, passwords hashed without salt
Posner is a drama queen, as usual. "I don't like what you're doing, so I'm going to ignore law and binding precedent to come to a decision that feels right and will get me some more publicity."

Puke.
I think this proves that young geeky men have finally learned how to please women... by making smartphones.
Where does the US L visa (for setting up a US subsidiary of a foreign company) sit with all this? I've got a friend going through the process at the moment, it seems like the closest thing to an "entrepreneur" visa, but is that not the intent?
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> We'll be charging for it down the line

Implement billing. Now. No excuses.
What do you know, a judge from an appeals court that never hears patent cases doesn't know anything about how the patent system works.

Why we let circuit judges sit by designation on cases that are literally outside their jurisdiction escapes me.
Random fun fact: Sanford Wallace once crashed AOL's mail server by sending mail that was allegedly from "howmuchwoodcouldawoodchuckchuckifawoodchuckcouldchuckwood.com".