skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
beagle3: you make several great points, all of which, AFAICT, are in agreement with the second view: financial markets are inherently unstable -- and yes, regulatory capture, rampant fraud, and 'wild west casino' behavior are all factors contributing to instability -- speed just magnifies their impact. Many of the people in the second camp have made the same points as you in their calls for increased regulatory supervision and enforcement.

Note that the years preceding the Crash of 1929, commonly referred to as the "Roaring 20's," were also years of 'wild west' behavior. Consider that the CEO of Chase National Bank, one Albert Wiggin, was caught secretly selling short his bank's stock in 1929, at the same time he was committing his bank's money to buying the bank's shares, and he did this through a Canadian shell company to avoid US taxes.[1] Or consider that the Chairman of the NY Stock Exchange, one Richard Whitney, was sent to jail at Sing-Sing for embezzlement in 1938.[2]

The forced separation of commercial and investment banks by Glass-Steagall in 1933, the creation of the SEC in 1934, and the enactment of many investor- and market-protection laws and regulations via the Investment Company act of 1940, were all a response to the Crash of 1929 and the resulting Great Depression. The underlying assumption behind all these efforts was that Wall Street could not be left to its own devices.

The country subsequently had decades of relative financial market stability: there were no crashes like 1929 until the regulatory apparatus was dismantled in the 1980's and 1990's, leading to the crisis of 2008.

--

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Wiggin

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Whitney_%28financier%29
Google to Pay $22.5 Million in FTC Settlement
So... what problem does this solve? The developer doesn't have to build out the authentication herself? This is the same as a "Windows Live ID" only you aren't as well known as Microsoft. And, you're charging money for it.
>I don't think Textmate deserved all that success --it should have happened to a better editor.

This doesn't make much sense. You say it appeared at the right time and was pretty and native on OS X. What better editors deserved the success it had that were available when TextMate was popular? Which editors were available on OS X that weren't giant IDEs or VIM and Emacs style editors that have a ridiculously steep learning curve?

I've never understood when people say something or someone doesn't deserve something they've earned. TextMate is successful because lots of people bought it. Who are you to judge what deserves to be successful and what doesn't, especially when history seems to disagree with you?
You had a lot of work in high school and middle school?
We have been treated respectfully by Amazon's customer service people, FWIW.
I am sorry you feel that way.

I don't agree with you, by the way. And there's loads of research suggesting that males are much more prone to risk-taking than females. And not only in humans.
Why did you add the word "True" to the title?
Wait, they added SEO before database authentication? So very logical.
Awesome! I've been waiting for someone to fix this! Definitely going to try it out this weekend.
Point of information: the world population is currently predicted to peak at 11 billion, due to the rest of the world going through demographic transition. So not ever-growing - though 11 billion is definitely enough to cause problems...

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation#Projections_of_...)
Title is inaccurate. Amazon did not force Unglue.it to suspend crowdfunding; it merely forced Unglue.it to stop using Amazon as the backend for their crowdfunding payment system. Also, the license for the ebooks and the distribution model were irrelevant to Amazon's decision. After all, Amazon sells/gives way plenty of CC'd books.

As other comments have noted, Amazon has decided as a matter of policy not to accept new crowdfunding customers until the legal and regulatory issues (i.e., money laundering, refunds, undelivered goods/failed projects, etc.) are worked out.

You can still use Paypal (takes a long time to get approved) or Stripe (you must set up your own backend). Alternatively, you can go directly to a card processor (but you must then satisfy very stringent and expensive security requirements).
Pulse user here since the first iPad came out. Love your service and use it all the time. Need an intern for next Summer? :)
> Artists do not need to sign with them.

Anymore.

People resent record labels for the past, when signing with them was practically the only option, and the terms of the contract were cryptic and frequently misunderstood by signers. When artists were promised 15% royalties, cryptic "breakage" fees and other deductions brought that number closer to 5%, and forced the artist to incur costs such as tours, concerts and marketing, leaving the record labels only responsible to print records.
Is Pulse.me Stealing Content With Backing And Support From Microsoft?
An ion thruster would probably be the best way, although it still requires matter to shoot out the back. In any method, the solar power will only be used to power whatever method you use to shoot matter out of the back. Because of this, you're still limited by the amount of fuel you can get into space at launch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster
First, thanks for all the effort you've put into this. Sometimes skeptical questioning comes across as negativity, I hope this wasn't the case.

A previous Elnode announcement was what made me actually want to look into Elisp more seriously, but I went straight into the Emacs Elisp manual, and found it rather low-level when it came to list construction. So I asked around:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157512

(incidentally, with "not a real lisp" I meant the admittedly narrow "isn't the same thing at all" in relation to Common Lisp or Scheme)

and gave up because I wasn't interested in Emacs-specific programs.

But I won't argue for or against that. Will give it another go starting from your site.
>I'm not sure that must or will happen. Maybe the US will decline as a German customer, but India will step up, for example. Germany might be able to go on relying on exports for ever.

The thing is, money can't really be created or destroyed, because it's just a marker for wealth. If country X is paying Germany money for its exports, that money is "really" a promise of future goods/labour from country X or someone they trade with; it only really works if it's "redeemed" from the same country in the end. If the trades were denominated in some scarce resource like gold, sooner or later all the gold would end up in Germany; likewise trading in euros within the eurozone.

(Obviously with fiat money if country X is paying in their own currency (let's say shillings) then they can continue to print more, but that devalues everyone's shillings (including the ones that have now made their way into German pension funds), German companies start charging more and more for their exports so the shilling inflates faster and faster and it all ends very badly for country X.)

((In reality, of course, neither of these extreme scenarios usually comes to pass. What would tend to happen is that as more of the international money supply is concentrated in Germany, other countries can't afford to pay as much for German exports, while Germany has more money available to spend on imports, and the market adjusts so imports and exports balance out))

>And a wise shopkeeper brings in more than they earn for decades, saving up for when their is no income (hard times or retirement).

True, but I think the analogy breaks down here. Thought if Germany were to "go into retirement" as a country the effects on the global financial system would be... interesting to say the least.
Where are they now?

Darl McBride (CEO of SCO): "Me, Inc"
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/darl-mcbride/0/889/95b

Chris Sonntag (Sr. VP @ SCO): AWOL
(There's a Sonntag at Franklin Templeton, and a few others elsewhere).

Blake Stowell (PR at SCO): Analyst Relations at Adobe Systems
http://www.linkedin.com/in/blakestowell

(Way to keep it classy, Adobe).

Maureen O'Gara (very SCO-friendly "analyst") Sys-Con Media: http://maureenogara.sys-con.com/

David Politis (columnist, Utah Tech Watch, and marketing/communications consultant): CMO ISYS Technologies and Xi3 Corporation (subsidiary of ISYS), as well as CEO of his own consultancy Politis Communications.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-politis/0/36/a59

Ralph Yarro (Chairman @ SCO): CEO/Chairman, ThinkAtomic
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ralphyarro

Jeff Hunsacker (President & COO, Sr. VP/GM, Sr VP WW Sales, VP Sales/Marketing, @ SCO): President, US Operations, UK2 Group
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeff-hunsaker/1/70/7a8

Joe Barr, LinuxWorld columnist (heavily critical/skeptical of SCO) passed away in 2008: http://archive09.linux.com/feature/141548
You can charge the customer as long as you give them the ability to cancel for a full refund if you can't ship within the promised timeframe. The FTC enforces this rule, see "Mail or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule"[1].

I think the legal gray area comes from customers believing that they are buying a product from the crowdfunders. This is covered by an advisory by the FTC; to be covered by dry-testing exception, the following conditions need to be met:

* In promoting the merchandise, the merchant can make no suggestion that the merchandise will be shipped or that customers expressing an interest in it will receive it.

* In all promotional materials, the merchant must disclose all material aspects of the promotion, including the fact that the merchandise is only planned and may not be shipped.

* If any part of the promotion is later dropped, the merchant must notify subscribers of the fact within a reasonable time after soliciting their subscriptions.

* If, within a reasonable time after soliciting their subscriptions, the merchant has made no decision to ship the merchandise, it must notify subscribers of this fact and give them the opportunity to cancel and, where payment has been made, make a prompt refund.

* The merchant can make no substitutions of any merchandise for that ordered.

It seems obvious that crowdfunding efforts don't meet these criteria.

[1] http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus02-business-guide-mail-...
Requiring an account might be okay if you can delete your account later.
Pulse.me doesn't provide such functionality. At least I didn't find it.
I've signed up and then I don't want to use it anymore, why can't I just remove my account?
I downvoted your original response, but your point became better articulated as you went.

The value is in replaceability. It comes down to the question, "if I take this away from you, what will you do then?".

Textmate was valuable because it was a piece of software that its users could not easily replace to their satisfaction.

If I take your $10 keyboard away, your next move would be to pick up some other $10 keyboard. Hence why the value is $10.

Some pieces of software are valuable even if you barely ever use them. It may be something you use once a year to complete a project, but if it's not easily swapped out for some other replacement, and completing that project is something of high value to you, then that piece of software is valuable - much more so than the small amount of time you spend using it would indicate.
when not forgetting that #megapixels isn't everything, this is not so strange.. There's also pixel quality, dynamic range, ADC quality, lenses etc. High-end 10 year old cameras using 'only' 10 megapixels still take much, much better quality images than any brand new 40 MP smartphone camera.
Campbell River sounds right. Google Maps updated their imagery, splatting a big bunch of cloud over CR so that I missed it, initially, while refreshing my memory.

I thought it might have been spitfire who commented to that effect. But that was some months ago; I guess I could wade back through history.

I liked Victoria's ambiance when I visited, but the friend I was visiting there (already half a decade ago) commented repeatedly to the effect of it being/becoming a retirement community. With lots of well-off retirees to bid up prices.

Does the island really have enough going on elsewhere to create a general buzz?
I must disagree with you. I have used TextMate 1 for many years. Lighter weight than Emacs for quick edits and rapid file browsing. My usual use case is working in a shell and using the mate command line alias to quickly view/edit files. BTW, I use IDEs for serious development: I don't open TextMate and stay in it for an hour, rather using it for fast little tasks. I have received huge value for a low price.
Your gut is wrong: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/os-x-10-8/15/
Blocking payments to them, including ones already set up, sure sounds like forcing them to suspend to me.
I tried to figure out something about the security (main point) of the service... and can't find anything.

- how do you hash it? (you do, right?)

- how is it replicated? (zones? geo?)

- how is it backed up?

- who can access the data?

- which providers hold the data?

- what are your disaster recovery plans and guarantees?

- what's your backups retention policies?

... and similar things. There are either no technical details about the storage itself, or they're not easily available (couldn't find those answers)
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Fantastic. Do you have more examples of apps built on Trigger by chance? Would love to see em.
Ahh cool, i see the attraction. I went through a phase of using the google chart API instead of GNUplot (you just wget a URL piping your data). Coupled with a big bash history it works fairly well.

I've learned enough R to be dangerous. Ggplot2 looks gorgeous without trying. It's my current favourite torch for shining on perf and capacity issues (I dream of one day identifying a perf issues root cause with nothing more than the correlation function!)
Lessons learned from Fortress
Anyone know what the real number is? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Other core devs are working furiously on auth (getting pretty close). This feature was just releasable first.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/397229/reaching-up-to-hit...
It would be ace if you could add jamendo.com and archive.org as sources for free music. Also maybe http://be.electrobel.org/
> It is, nonetheless, billed as a solution for all sorts of problems for which it is not

I have never had that impression from Thiel himself, though others have certainly spun it that way. He seems very much in favour of traditional formal education, unless your life goals are to have a career; in which case he promotes focusing on that instead.

The problem, as you describe, is that many people enter college for four years of their life and come out having gained nothing. Four years of being in the working world would have put them in the same standing, plus they'd have valuable experience to propel them into better jobs. They aren't there for the positive reasons to be in college, they are there because they don't know anything else and that is unfortunate.

There really is no one solution for everyone, and Thiel seems to be promoting that by showing there are other options. The only effective way to do push that on the masses is to attack the idea that college is the "one true way."
Those reasons are terrible, and are easily refuted. From reading the discussion as a whole, theLet's go over them one by one.

>>It will leave even less room in the question preview so that we have more difficulty gauging what a question consists of by reading the preview.<<

Sounds like it can be easily solved by changing the preview algorithm to filter out words like "Hello" and "Thanks".

>>It takes time to read and parse through those questions when I am trying to spend my time more efficiently reading through the actual question and figuring out how to appropriately answer it. If I have to start reading all the little side comments and snarky humor inserted in there it detracts from the overall message.<<

I can understand about the side comments and snarky humor. But how long does it take to read the word "thanks," exactly?

>>If this is supposed to be a website which is servicing more than just the primary author, we need to think about how we construct messages so that they appear more clearly to those searching on google for questions that match their own. If I am looking for a solution for question X, I want to find someone who had the same problem, not their short autobiography and formalities before getting to that actual question.<<

Again, editing autobiographies and pitiful attempts at rumor is totally fine. Editing out "thanks" however changes the tone of the post, and the tone of the site in general. When reading a question, it is important to keep in mind that there is a human on the other hand. Having salutations and thanks in there helps convey this.
I think a lot of it is the shifting demographics of TV watchers; in the '90s, everyone watched TV. Now, I think it's mostly the old and the average-to-poor, so it makes sense you want to advertise medical stuff, as that's probably the most you can squeeze out of both of those groups.

But yeah; I'm looking at ridiculous meatspace advertising opportunities for my own company (which targets technically skilled customers) and TV isn't even on the radar.

Now, if Netflix could figure out how to advertise things other than movies without pissing off their customer base? that'd be pretty great. I'd buy space on the inside of the DVD envelopes where they push other movies, if I could geographically target tightly enough, and if I could afford it.

The other interesting thing, I think, is that to a non-tv watcher, viagra, is inexorably linked to poorly-done scams and obviously-fake drugs. Because of how this product was marketed to me, I associate it with illegitimate and dangerous products. It seems there is an advertising lesson in that, as well, though I'm not sure what the lesson would be.
This is a serious lack of vision for such an iconic company. Good science and technical ability, doubtless. But someone skimped on a real public relations goldmine here.
(Not affiliated)

- how do you hash it? (you do, right?)

In the frontpage: "Credentials are stored as salted hashes using bcrypt"

- which providers hold the data?

"DailyCred is securely hosted by Amazon AWS."
I took two years of physics classes. Virtually none of it applied to life. For example what good did it do me to calculate the trajectory of a projectile (multiple times, for homework, pop quiz, test, semi-final, and final)? We could've spent a fraction of the time on the concept and then been shown the equation for possible future reference, never to actually do a calculation. It would've served me much better to spend most of that time learning programming. I could've grasped fundamental limits to Moore's Law without ever doing a calculation of a projectile.

Nowadays physics is a hobby of mine, having entertainment value only. I can fully appreciate that "[physics] runs the shit..." but that doesn't pay the bills or get me to retirement.
Of course Amazon doesn't support it-- they, like the C&Ding authors, subscribe to the kool-aid of "everyone that was lending these books would have been a sale".
Back when my high school switched from Win 98 to one of the NTs, and Ctrl-Alt-Del started being used to log in, I thought about making an application that looked like the login UI itself, as if someone else had pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del but then got distracted before actually logging in. But I didn't have the skills to do it.

The best I got was finding out how to launch cmd.exe on NT, when the system had been locked down to disallow right clicks on the desktop, no desktop icons, and only approved programs in the start menu. I think it involved navigating the help system to a certain page that had a link to Explorer. Then I explored the network until I found an unused share somewhere, where I put gcc and started teaching myself C.

The command prompt also let me use the "net send" command to send messages to other computers, which was fun.
Their technique for generating the HTML representation of deep-link into a Meteor app is to run the entire client app in a headless browser and serialize the generated DOM?!

This is an area of vital importance to public, JS-based RIAs, and needs some real innovation. Why even bother delivering this half-baked solution? The processing cost makes it untenable for all but the tiniest of URL-spaces.
US warning: Big uptick in Reveton malware impersonating the FBI
Is there a list of authors who worked to shut the site down?

I doubt I read books by anybody so clueless, but just in case, I'd like to know which authors not to buy.
How can these two clueless authors be informed? Should we form a similar mob and boycott them? Send an explanatory email to each? How?
> plus we now have the almost-guaranteed support and speedier development because of it's Open Source nature

I am more pessimistic. I think the project died and open sourcing will just reanimate it to undead Zombie status.
> the up-and-coming Sublime Text 2

Sublime Text 2 has been released since later this June[0]

[0] http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-0-re...
In that case, what do you mean by "the inside" ? Presumably you have some sort of privileged access to information, including that which is currently under NDA. If you aren't receiving funding from the organization, what exactly is your relationship?
I would really love to know what he did to tune that Rackspace VM. I had a terrible time trying to get node.js and others to get past 5,000 concurrent websocket connections on a m1.large EC2 instance or on Rackspace.
it's the damn weekend that screws up these good routines though (curse you leisure!). one thing that could help is to give up drinking, then you wouldn't have to sleep in as much.
Relax. It's 0.39 Preview. C'mon...
Missed the bcrypt part. Regarding providers - I've seen AWS, but that may mean a lot of things and a lot of ways to execute. If I want to evaluate how stable will this service be, it doesn't mean anything really (it could be one instance with the whole storage going away if it crashes). Geographical location may matter too depending on what kind of users you handle.
When technology inventors have to explain themselves to content producers in order to not have their product killed, something has gone horribly wrong with the world.

I certainly agree with your second statement, that getting content producers on your side can give you strong supporters and users, but that should only represent a marketing/growth issue, not an existential threat.
Show HN: Choose Photo. Make Ascii
Pulse is gorgeous but, it is just Tiles.js with a readability scraper.
finally! someone needed to write this, if only to have something to point junior devs to. :)
Does launch of Schoolzilla show that schools are the best innovators in edtech?
Are schools themselves the best innovators in edtech? With the recent launch of Schoolzilla (a tool for visualizing test data), it seems like schools (especially charter schools) are on the right track.
My friend just learned how to code last week and was already able to make this. I'm impressed by the quality of codecademy
The end of the road for OEMs
If we further assume that the two companies who produce the two products only produce those products, then for those two companies it's zero sum for them to contribute in good faith to open source bloom filters. Any gain that one company gets in the quality of their bloom filter is likely to translate directly into fewer customers for the other.

It isn't globally zero-sum, notably the users of these companies' products are presumably better off, as are other software projects and their users who might benefit from any improvements made to open source bloom filters.
Did all that. It didn't stop sweating and at didn't stop body odour.