skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That didnt quite happen that way.

Emails from the brokers in wall street clearly show that people from within the bank, not the govt, were asking for low ball rates. It was the bank serving its own interest here.

These are the infamous "when I write a book, I'll mention you" / "I hope this never gets written" lines.

Regarding your statement about instructions from on high -you are alluding to the comments by Bob Diamond, head of Barclays, about Tucker, the deputy governor of the bank of England. The full,emails have been released and they show little compelling evidence of instructions, but more of paying attention to the Barclays high borrowing costs, implying lack of confidence.

The rest is fine.

Source: Bbc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18759479

Trader emails
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/05/barclays-se...
Sounds like your snarky self needs a matter replicator. I think the schematics are available in some book about Star Trek somewhere but you'll probably need to find a dilithium crystal to make it work.
OR...you can do what I did and leave. Score one for individual liberty.

At some point, it makes sense for a person to cut their losses and move somewhere where like minded people have already learned that responsible government starts with a responsible population.

Which brings me to my last point on the subject: all of the entrenched interests in the city of DC are there because they enjoy and support the current system. Nevermind that it's completely dysfunctional and doesn't serve the residents. It serves their perverted needs and they'll fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.

Ever wonder how Marion Barry got re-elected to the city council despite a conviction for smoking crack and YEARS of tax shenanigans that threatened to put him back in jail? At some point, you look around and realize that you're the only one in the room that wants change.
Please don't make the assumption that just because Texas is Republican state, that other Republican / conservatives are in support of this bill!

I'm a conservative, and there is no way that I want to see this bill or any lesser / related version of this bill be passed EVER.
I know. Deciding where to make the boundaries, and actually handling the handoffs between shards is difficult. It would be easier to write a game if you didn't have to worry about sharding.
It works for public television.
I don't mean to be rude but most people wouldn't pay even a dollar for an app that effectively does the same thing as an in-built app does. Just because you relieve the user from the "pain" of dialing to a desired time doesn't mean it automatically becomes worth a dollar or more in the eyes of most users.

With that being said, I am not questioning whether the lack of discoverability affected sales. The price argument above just reflects how my mental utility functions work as I think it does for most people - so the initial sales might have come from appcubby enthusiasts and/or the "early-app-adopters".
Apple's Emoji character set as PNG files
As a Brit who has visited Detroit, the city looks perfect for a tech hub.

Empty homes and offices that need filling. Hip/artistic city that can encourage young people. Close to good universities in Ann Arbor & (East?) Lansing.
How can CDOs be both limited in abuse as well as a meaningful

The problem is that in any realm, commotidization acts as a one-way function, with enough complexity it becomes difficult or impossible to track, thus allowing effective money laundering (or outright theft).

The real problem is lack of oversight, or traceability inherent in these devices. This draws in shady money and, essentially, evil.
The emails are available though, so recollection or not it's clear no pressure is being applied.

At the same time it's clear that the traders were pushing for rates to be fixed, which is why they got fined.
Thanks. Sorry if Andrey gave you any grief over this, he sort of alluded to that when we were chatting on IM.
LOL. I'll tell you what, go visit a DC public school and have a look around. If every single school in DC was razed to the ground and every teacher fired, you might get better test scores from the kids than what we have now.
Right. And, actually, some people who "cheat" might help Dropbox even more. It used to be quite a common "trick" to pay for Google Ads that link to your personal Dropbox referral link.
FCC Punts on Internet Classification (telecommunications or information)
But then what manages the plans? Where is the rake task that checks all the subscriptions daily to look for expirations and take action? Where is the functionality for recurring subscriptions? I don't see that anywhere in here.
I think you're misunderstanding what shards are. Shards in this context aren't pieces that interconnect, but rather completely independent worlds. A 'shard' is the entire world where players exist; players from shard A will never see players from shard B.
Yet again, Dropbox does it in style: charging more for a higher tier, but because the others get doubled in size for free, it's impossible to feel squeezed by it - because it's not squeezing, it's literally all good. Of course, storage prices have probably dropped by more than half since the original prices, but that doesn't make it any less cool (partly because consumer needs typically don't increase as fast as technology prices fall).

I keep expecting Dropbox to announce a cloud service, because I don't understand their high valuation for just data. But maybe it's just that if you host someone's data, you become "their OS" - their central point of interaction with their devices - and that is enough.
How future-safe was the first Harvard blogging site?
This isn't a database table, this is a rendered HTML table.
> including fighting DDOS attacks

Or cheaply launching them. For a mere $100 you get 100,000 machines for an hour, that's more than enough to cause problems for a sad number of websites out there. Edit: Or not, given that all traffic goes through a centralized node.
No, it's not excusable - the MySQL project had a trivial alternative: don't call it UTF8!

The options are simple: implement UTF-8 correctly and call your implementation UTF-8, or implement just the BMP and name accordingly. They did neither: effectively, they lied to end-users. That's deeply, deeply problematic.
The first sentence of the article clears up the title. It's not talking about DB tables, it's talking about HTML tables.
Crossdressing, Compression, Colliders: First Photo on Web
Crap. I don't know if I'm just blind or lazy or both, but I don't think I noticed the top navigation bar that has the PA Report until now (it's really subtle).

Anyway, I think you're probably right.
Global warming is one of those topics I've always withheld judgement on because it's such a huge topic that, even ignoring politics, it seems very hard to get a solid understanding of the science.
"Let us look at the predictions made in 1990: they predicted an increase in temperature of 0.3C per decade, plus minus 0.1C. Yet less than 0.2C of warming per decade was observed. To be blunt, they got it flat wrong."

How much less than 0.2C was it? 0.3 +/- 0.1 means it can be anywhere from 0.2 to 0.4, so unless it was grossly under 0.2, it wasn't flat wrong.

"there are alternatives to banning oil production: solar radiation management. We might be able to setup space mirrors or otherwise increasing the reflectivity of our atmosphere." ... "But keep in mind that we will soon run out of cheap oil in any case."

In other words, "Fear not, for we might just come up with some miracle technology or something. It might just all work out in the end so just stay the course and don't worry!"

If you're going to call out others for poorly reasoned arguments, at least have well reasoned arguments of your own.
Oh, I've been referring to those as instances. Did I have the wrong term?
Works fine for me. What version of Mac OS X/TextEdit are you using? Are you sure you are saving it (and opening it) as UTF-8?
Ask HN: Anyone intereste in an easy conjoint analysis survey tool?
Searching around the the web, it seems that there is no survey monkey equivalent that can create and analyze survey responses to conduct conjoint analysis. Is this something which product managers would be interested in?
I read this bill earlier today, and it most certainly is NOT an attempt to "revive SOPA." Both BoingBoing and TechDirt sensationalize what this is.

Rep. Smith's new bill is basically an agency shuffle of the already-established IP attache program, which is currently under the US Patent and Trademark office. Smith's bill would move this office to the Department of Commerce, and turn it into a full agency. That likely means beefing up efforts to expand the promotion of US IP laws around the world. But it is not even close to establishing DNS blocking, or any of the other truly problematic parts of SOPA.
It's called svbtle and the theme is part of a blog network.

https://svbtle.com/
Absolutely - I'm sure you've heard of the idea of technical debt [1,2] and sometimes it makes sense to build up technical debt to get a system off the ground, then worry about maintainability, documentation and whatnot in your copious free time later on.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/paying-down-your-te...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
Microsoft has a sordid history with the word 'innovate'. Reading this gave me flashbacks to the days where they were trying to control the narrative regarding to their conflict with the DoJ. If only the verb form 'innovate' had some synonyms. Then they could say "Apple won't out-Garde the Avant on our watch" instead. Or something.
I noticed Disqus was down on a couple of different sites today. Anyone know what gives?
While true, television does drive most of society. Having such strong opinions on how people watch it is rather boring. Watch it how you like and move on. Or, don't watch it.
"they lied to end-users, effectively"

Yeah, that's not exaggeration at all. Because it's not as if they very clearly document exactly what they support:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-unicode.html
It's big news in the very narrow segment of American society that pays attention to hard news. In the sense that we can see the mechanisms by which the general public is being robbed. It is not news in the sense that most anyone who has been paying attention the last 3 decades knows that the both the markets and the regulation of the markets is a rigged game.
I also recommend 'penguin'
I don't feel any sympathy for the taxi cab industry. Many of the regulatory "burdens" they face are consumer protections enacted because the taxi cartels were constantly abusing their customer base. With no outside competition, they could afford to do that. Uber has voluntarily implemented most of the requirements that taxi companies have been forced into compliance with simply because it makes for a better customer experience. Fixed rates to airports? Check. Accepts credit cards? Check. I've gotten into countless arguments with taxi drivers over taking credit cards even when it's written right on their cab that they have to take credit cards.
OUYA kickstarter goal reached in under 12 hours
I think there are a variety of vendor front-end tools that are basically fine. Pentaho, whatever Corda is these days, even the YC start-up chart.io

Then you have all the enterprise-y stuff, Crystal, Oracle's Warehouse Builder, Business Objects, blah, blah, blah.

After a long time, I have kind of come around to the idea that lots of dashboard/BI value is really provided by the implementor, who both intuits what would be valuable to, you know, the business and that it is a "high touch" service. So online providers of just the dashboard designer/data integration are limited in what they can do in a cool, automatic fashion.

You might try Pentaho, particularly if you have db servers in-house. They have a free, community open source edition.
It's like P = x^n where n is how much a bit of code is pissing me off, n is how many people are working on it, and P is how much I am actually pissed off.
I had it happen to me, and an email to their support solved the problem. They gave me a few additional GB's for the inconvenience too.
Is it just me or are all the examples slow as balls. I thought there was a js rendering error or something, but no, the kitchen sink took 30 seconds to load!?!
"Financial innovation" seems to in large part consist of creating private information asymmetries, where the large banks are the only ones with enough data to accurately price the securities they engineer and then make a market for.

Thus it's not at all clear here that financial innovation is a net win, and, further, any comparison with innovation in the tech world is fatuous.
That's a great idea. My preference is to have the comments always expanded so I can skim them quickly, but an expand / collapse feature would increase the app's appeal to people who like the regular HN front page and want quicker access to comments.

Normally collapsed comments with individual expand buttons and an "expand all" button would handle both of our use cases pretty well.
You can actually run essentially the same thing over your own code with http://code.google.com/p/codesearch (written by the author of the article codesear.ch is based off).
The story of Thomas Becket is relevant here http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/becket_01.s...

"Who will rid me of this turbulent rate?"
Uber's Rapid Crowdsourced Lobbying Overwhelmed the D.C. Council
Only running when the local grid machine is 16c weather? Well, looks like all of USA is off the map then.

http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/currentweatherusnational...

Looks like Russia is off the map as well. As is most of Europe, save for parts of the UK.

You're good in Sydney though!
what about accessibility?
Twitter for iOS 4.3 released
You don't even want to know the hack I had to implement to get non-BMP characters stored in MySQL 5.1 'utf8' column.
MedStartr: Crowdfunding for healthcare IT projects
Project Euler has some interesting puzzles.
The purpose is to have a dialogue about what we are building - admittedly it makes more sense with a voice over explanation.

Yes, "now" is a niche filled by doingtonight. It also highlights trends in the market that doingtonight builds on (blogs > twitter, kodak gallery > instagram, etc).

Similarly, "then" portrays the problems we are trying to solve (or markets we are trying to make more efficient) all within the context of "life at night".
The Chicken and Egg Problem finally solved
"The whole Droplr stack runs on HTTPS" ...except content
This seems too good to be true, but it's working great for me!

With no credit card, I got an instance with 3 GB RAM running in less than 60 seconds. It costs $0.002 per hour.

One glitch: Both the UI and the API say there are 2 instances running, but they both have the same IP address and port. If there really are 2 instances, how do I ssh to the second one?
The release notes:

Twitter for iPhone 4.3
- Expanded Tweets: when you view Tweet details containing links to partner websites, you can now see content previews, view images, play videos and more [please note: this feature is rolling out gradually]
- Enhanced experience around selected events with the best Tweets and photos from those involved
- Push notifications for Tweets: choose to receive notifications from people you follow anytime they tweet or retweet
- Ambient notifications: enables you to see brief non-interruptive notifications in the status bar while you are using the app
- Improvements to search autocomplete for users
- Discover: now indicates when new stories are available for you to view
- Tappable avatars that take you directly to user profiles
- Performance improvements
- Support for password entry in app when experiencing authentication issues
- Hungarian language support
- Updated with new Twitter bird
- Many other tweaks, polish, and bug and crasher fixes
You can add Public folder functionality to any file or folder. See http://www.dropbox.com/help/167
How is possible to fight a DDOS attack with lots of IP addresses?
Conspiracy theories are bunk. That fact that US citizens stand for SMS double billing is the best proof that we're sheeple.
> Fixing the LIBOR is one of the (if not the) biggest thefts in history.

Except they've basically stolen from themselves. The vast majority of libor fixing was downwards. Loans they've made that pay libor-linked rates thus pay lower - so the bank earns less interest. The lowballing of libor doesn't (or didn't) affect the actual rate at which banks could fund/borrow, so net the banks lose.

Libor was low-balled to paint a better picture of the health of the market. It was a survival tactic, not an attempt to deliberately rip people off. It's quite possible that if real rates had been posted the markets would have got spooked and banks would have gone bust. I'm not saying it's right, just let's have a little perspective here. Banks haven't "stolen" from anyone. And frankly if you were out trading eurodollar futures or something then you should have known something about the libor market.
The always interesting Matt tabibi -
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-is-n...

The always good ft/alphaville

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/07/09/1075161/almost-ev...

You can read the trader emails which were part of the initial explosion
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/05/barclays-se...

I thought this was a great line "One trader had a few choice words of advice for another: “This is the way you pull off deals like this chicken, don’t talk about it too much … the trick is you must not do this alone … this is between you and me but really don’t tell ANYBODY.” "

I'll dig up more if I can. Do note that the big picture blog would also probably be talking about this, and there was an economist article on hacker news a day or two ago.
Open source it!

Please.
Yes. I had a critical initial reaction to OnLive (video games streamed from the cloud) because of latency; also, it has such lovely benefits for publishers that they'd wish it to be true... but when better networks and more local servers arrive, they will be placed to own it. They might even overtake "consoles". They just need to survive - which they can do, because for some use-cases, for some people, the present service is useful.

Similarly, the next generation of SoC GPUs (e.g. PowerVR G6200) has approximately the power of an xbox360's xenos GPU (which seems to have been enough for players, despite x10 better GPUs on PCs). When that arrives (next year), these guys will be there - they just need to survive. Another relevant quote:

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
They also announced twemproxy (a fast, light-weight proxy for memcached) which was quietly open sourced before: https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy
In the case of MMO architecture here are the relevant terms:

- Shard: Encompasses all parts of a single game world
- Zone: Area of the game which can't be further broken down; the players in this area are all connected to the same node and performing actions there.
- Instance: Area of the game which is unique for a player or group of players. This is done so that players can be together and not be interrupted by others, e.g. someone killing a boss before the group gets to it and having to wait for it to respawn. These are created on demand by players and go away after the players leave.
- Node: Single machine that runs parts of a shard. This could be one zone with a high average player count, or a bunch of zones with fairly low player counts (e.g. large open areas) and maybe some instances thrown in.

Some details here can change from game to game, but most of it's pretty general.
Another headline needlessly Betteridge'd for clickbait.
That would have been much quicker with Time Machine (been there, done that).
Television advertising has a large effect on society. Television viewing trends have a large effect on society. Specific television content doesn't (or shouldn't) have a large effect on individuals. Their preferred schedule for viewing television content has even less effect.

I am not a fan of tv. I think the current television offerings make the world a worse place, and I really only watch baseball and Breaking Bad. (I did like The Wire too.)
I'm not going to take design advice from a website that thinks it knows better than I do how wide my browser window should be.
Google organizes the worlds information. Facebook does something that lots of people like (I guess). There is a vast difference between those and the banks in question. Banks should be run by accountants, doing boring accounting things, and being paid a fair wage for it. It should not be a license to extract trillions of dollars from taxpayers, without their consent or knowledge.

"Regardless, if banks are "concentrating wealth" they must be doing something right since after all, the ultimate purpose of a business is to make money. If they do so through illegal means (fraud, deception, etc.), we already have a legal system in place to deal with that."

You're not grasping the situation or what actions have been taken in this example, and with the crisis and bailouts in the US. These are banks setting the rates at which governments borrow money, and the rates at which banks receive money to lend. Manipulation of those rates is illegal, unethical, and highly profitable. It's been abused on a monumental scale, so much so that it has begun to appear "normal" to the people participating in it. But, despite being the norm, it's fraud on a massive scale, and it destroys wealth and robs taxpayers.

I'm not at all arguing that more government/bank interaction is the solution. But, as long as banks have access to all the levers in our economy, and the ability to borrow money at rates they control and lend it out to governments at market rates (a free money funnel for taxpayer dollars), there needs to be regulation of those banks. If you can convince our government to remove that intimate connection between creating money (not wealth; we're taking about the currency that represents debts) and lending money and the rates at which banks borrow money being introduced into the economy (i.e. end or dramatically rethink the Federal Reserve in the US, and figure out a way to resolve the fraud in LIBOR in the UK, and whatever equivalent there is for the Euro), I'll sign right on for your cause. Independent currencies, like Bitcoin, are something I have high hopes for, but the Bitcoin economy is measured in millions...it'll be decades before we have an alternative economy and an ability to opt out of the horribly broken state currency markets and into a free market currency.

In the short term, laws need to be upheld, in London, in the US, in the world markets. People who have committed fraud worth billions or trillions of dollars need to go to jail. Just because someone is rich, well-educated, and doing what everybody else in their industry is doing, doesn't mean they should get a pass.
If we're using PostgreSQL is everything going to be pretty much dandy?
I used it as an example of what people who just modify an existing code base would use. Not Wordpress, the product, itself. I'm sure that's nicely done.
Title shamelessly stolen from http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/ouya-gaming-console-meets... and old post[0] still on first page, so might not have needed a repost, but I thought it was noteworthy.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4223627
Rates were low-balled by the majority of banks. Barclays was high in comparison because for much of the time they were posting accurate rates. This was the reason for calls from the Bank of England (why are you guys so high?).

The fact is anyone with a libor-linked mortgage will have benefitted from this.
When I email someone, software automatically routes it to the destination so I don't have to. Why should this not be abstracted across channels.

There seems to be a whole world or metadata involving communications preferences which we've just barely started to scratch.