skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bad banks got to hide behind the good banks, the good banks can't possibly win under such a scenario, since they get lumped in as "the banks" by the masses that don't care about specific behavior but craft their ideas based on "industry".

Ford ticked up after not taking a handout, larger well governed banks had no such opportunity.

Deposits up to $100K (or thereabouts) were insured by the FDIC, so even under a run, the savers in the bad banks were not going to be left high and dry; and perhaps wiser about where they put their money in the future. Perhaps the Federal Government didn't want to see the FDIC invoked.

Instead, a precedent was set; bad behavior was not punished (by way of market action), and good behavior is tainted by association (via political demonizing).
I see your point. He really didn't ever get enough usage on the site to know if the refundable upfront fee would have been a sufficient anti-spam tactic or not. Several sites with the same basic idea all launched around that time. His was bootstrapped, at least one of the others had millions of VC behind it. I don't think any of them made it.
This is why I'm really interested to see where things are headed (co-founder of 9rules here). It is easy to get great people together when the reason for joining is set behind an idea that everyone can share. In this case it was to bring great content back to the web. However, once money starts to enter the equation it changes the mindset of things a bit. Instead of writing because you are passionate to share your thoughts, you begin to start thinking about what you can write about that will get you the most views/money.

I hope this doesn't happen to svbtle because some good content is coming from it, but as you said it is a difficult balance that will need to be achieved moving forward.
Whoa! I was just doing the same thing but with stackoverflow's api and in vim ... instead of making the query from the command line i.e. leave your editor, I'm thinking of writing the query like a comment and highlight it so that I can see the returned search results in a separate buffer. Haven't made much progress due to unfamiliarity with programming vim
Web-accessible archives obviously had to wait for the web to be invented, but I don't recall it taking too long afterwards for such archives to show up. Google Groups is itself a reimplementation of functionality that's been around for a couple of decades.
American GSM carriers lock the phones too.
That is interesting. Pipedrive has definitely done a good job so far!
I've never looked at the code for caching GET requests, but I am going to go out on a limb and say that that code is probably not optimized for keying on 1KB URLs. In fact, caching seems like a really good consideration regarding the original point about 1KB being too big for a GET request in terms of architecture design.
Nothing in what I said pointed toward closed standards, and I wasn't referring to closed standards. In my field (acoustics/noise & vibration control) we generally don't have closed standards and rely on standards to produce results that we have confidence in.
No way to currently contribute answers. Another commenter mentioned cheat.errtheblog.com that uses a wiki system. The downside is that when the wiki fails (like right now) the application breaks.

You may want to just submit a good answer to StackOverflow and make sure it is well written and gets lots of votes.
On flight to NY drunk passenger is bound and gagged
I liked the minimlistic approach of Svbtle, so I created a super simple Git+Markdown-based blog that draws inspiration from Svbtle.

Check it out: http://hveem.no/simple-blogging-with-lua-and-git
If I embed this request onto an HTML form, what would be the name attribute on input element? Is it going to be like name="bank_account[type]" ?
The one chart about oil's future everyone should see
I don't think you take on venture funding if you don't intend to make a profit. Or do you...?
For Europe, I think it was having lots of relatively small countries. That led to lots of national phone companies which had a monopoly in their country. To facilitate international calls, they had to cooperate. When wireless networks started, none of them could build a network covering significant parts of Europe. Again, they (eventually; there were some early networks that were incompatible with each other) had to cooperate.

Next/somewhat in parallel, the EU forced national phone companies to be privatized and allow competition.

The net result is GSM, where companies share their networks, and subscriptions are tied to SIM cards.

For China, I guess they just made the right choice, looking at the USA and Europe as options.
I was gonna type this but then I saw your post. I don't see where Svbtle is going. What benefit can membership get from joing Svbtle network? well there's only 1 thing i can think of right now is link exposure. and how Svbtle is going to make profit is still a huge question. Ads is obviously not an option because I felt like it's against the philosophy how Svbtle was created.
Worries that Matt Damon's New Film may Turn American's against Fracking
. . . and here's an example of an issue with scaling it up: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13770826/poorly-balanced-...
+1 I totally agree. I want to watch any show or available movie whenever I want with no commercials and I am willing to pay a fair amount of money for this.

After about 18 months, I just cancelled Hulu+ because the commercials are too long. Otherwise a nice service and I wanted to support them, but...

Netflix is pretty good. Both my wife and I pay them $8/month and like the content, the recommendations, etc. Good value.

I think that Directv is way too expensive because we don't actually watch much content through Directv. I want to cancel but there there is some resistance from my family.
Chartboost Raises $19 Million From Sequoia
[fun] JsLike\Object - dynamic objects a-la Javascript in PHP. Totally
If you decoded it then you should have the next steps??
No need to apologize at all. Combined with your inner grumbling old man there are still not enough hackers bashing the stupid faulty practices PHP encourages.

Edit: "encourage" as in (a) not discouraging and (b) making them easier to use for novices (without understanding the consequences).
> It's interesting what Dalton is trying, but I find the utter lack of design personality across the sites to be quite off-putting.

Dalton is the guy behind App.net. Svbtle is a Dustin Curtis thing, I believe.
But I do mention that the idea predates me. I mention that I got it from wanting something out of Famspam.
The article is an autobiography with an occasional naked assertion about "my idea," and very little about the supposed copying. I can only assume this is a self-promotional troll for some upcoming launch. "My previous post seemed to cause some confusion, so let me clarify what's going on..."
"Svbtle now has more than 200 writers with expertise spanning at least eight disciplines, including entrepreneurship, business, finance, political science, and literature."

Is there a directory of all blogs in the Svbtle network? The only ones I've seen have been about technology/entrepreneurs, but I'd be interested in finance topics.
If you love this sort of thing, I'd love to suggest you join:

http://www.reddit.com/r/deepseacreatures/

Amazing pictures from a brand new (day old) community. :)
Upvoted. This is the best way to find genuine ideas in my experience. I also want to add that I've found a good way of finding problems is to constantly keep trying new things.
Took a look at the dev board as a way to "demo" the service without signing up. It seems... overly complicated? Maybe I really do just need to sign up.
If you are trying to say I created a puzzle only I can solve you would be wrong. I have someone who solved it but they're into protocol analysis and crypto.
A few differences that come to mind:

1. Chinese carriers are all government-run, basically. There's basically two: China Unicom and China Mobile. Almost everyone used to use the latter, but Unicom is getting better recently (last few years). It takes a lot of effort to follow though, so I'm not 100% on all that (I'm back to China for Chinese new year in a couple of weeks, living in Thailand now!)

2. Nearly everyone uses prepay.

3. Most people aren't living in debt.

4. There is a massive market for cheap and/or stolen phones.

5. A not insignificant number of phones, particularly at the luxury end, are 're-routed' from the Hong Kong 'export' market back in to the mainland.

6. Chinese save a lot of money and don't tend to live beyond their means as much as Americans.

7. The entire mobile infrastructure is generally less than ten years old.

8. The Chinese produce their own infrastructure hardware (chiefly Huawei).

9. The Chinese government wisely sees infrastructure as a political and security tool, and so probably subsidises it in many ways. (This also goes for roads, electricity, etc.)

10. Coverage is far better than the US. You almost never have no coverage, even waaaay out in the hills. And in 10 or so years, I've never had a dropped call.
I jus downloaded his app - I will try doing what he says for 1 month for starters and check the result.
Be nice if you'd make it explicit that it depends on Python 2 (change your hashbang to point to python2, or make it work in either runtime). Arch Linux defaults to Python 3 these days.
>Google did the smart thing and covered, which is why you've never heard of Google+ Games, but it's still an enormous missed opportunity.

In fact we have heard of Google+ Games. This is because you never fail to mention this perceived injustice at every available opportunity.
Online 'Shaming' A New Level Of Cyberbullying For Girls
What about a fully autonomous submersible that surfaces periodically to get its bearings from GPS, upload data, recharge through solar, etc...
It could be programmed with a certain number of goals and priorities and follow the goal with the highest priority given some parameters.
Either TechMeme got it wrong or the story was edited to remove it but the TechMeme quote includes "YCombinator" in that list.
http://www.techmeme.com/130108/p31#a130108p31

Edit: Now says "(including, previously, Y Combinator)"
Hackable Lego Robot Runs Linux
In your dreams. This isn't 2008 Hacker News either.
Well, it's an autonomous robot. You only need to communicate with it on the surface. (Maybe some emergency communication feature is handy?)

You give it some kind of sensor. When it finds something bigger than 3 m at a depth of more than 500 m you start following it. I'm not saying that's easy, but we have self-driving cars and we send robots to Mars (average distance 200 million km). I'm sure we could do it, if there was interest.
The commercials are too long, and they have the same problem Crackle does of showing the same commercials back-to-back-to-back-to-back... It actually really makes me angry when they say "This episode of X presented with limited commercial interruption by Y" because there's nothing limited about it! Especially if it's new. They seem to have some kind of back-off algorithm so it doesn't show as many commercials for old stuff. But old stuff has a way of vanishing randomly.

I'm thinking seriously of getting an old-school DVR and a massive antenna. Problem is, I live out in the sticks where I'll need a huge antenna just to get about half the broadcast TV.
Tough choice: which tablet to get mother
Simple editable CMS content blocks in node.js with Create.js
It took a minute to realize that it requires an internet connection. Maybe you should spell that out?

I thought at first you had compiled a corpus of knowledge, but this is much better, but with the requirement of internet access.
I'm not familiar with the proper way to annotate that. How would I change the hashbang?

#!/usr/bin/env python
"I plan to change education forever with technology."

Just make sure that if the technology you develop could make or break a student's success in school, that the technology cannot be denied to the student. It is hard to prevent a student from using a pen or a sheet of paper; it is not hard to deny a student access to a web app, and there are a lot of web apps that are vital to school (at least higher education) these days. My alma mater switched to Google for its email service; my current university also uses Google, and that means that Google could potentially deny students access to the most important communication system on campus (professors routinely communicate by email with students, and sometimes that is the only way to communicate). My school's libraries subscribe to web apps for reading books and research papers; a student who loses access to those systems could be left at a disadvantage, and that access could be revoked by the service provider.

It is also worth mentioning that technologies that require students to have access to high-end computers will put lower-income students at a disadvantage. If you offer videos, made standard-definition available. If you offer streaming, make downloading the video an option -- some students may have slow or capped connections at home and would benefit from being able to download a video on the school's connection, then bring it home and watch it offline. Don't assume that "everyone" has broadband, nor that "everyone" has a powerful graphics card, nor that "nobody" is using a computer from 2001 as their primary system. Some students only have computer access at school or at public libraries; don't assume that "everyone" has a computer in their home. The counterexamples to those assumptions will be people who are most in need of the technology you are talking about: they already get the shortest end of the stick when it comes to education.
These ideas just keep getting copied and morphed into something else

Why not write about that, then?
Does SO provide data dumps like Wikipedia?
Startup Puts Bounty on Google+ API Team
What in legutierr's post suggested he did not know this?
The iOS app still requires an internet connection to sync anything.
There is explicitly no directory. There is a feed: https://svbtle.com/home But it's only for 'featured' posts.
'Not even Santa could save Microsoft's Windows 8'
Damn man, where do you get lunch for £2.40 a day? Even our subsidised canteen hits £4 no bother (admittedly I'm getting a hot meal)

Edit: and the penny drops. That's the difference between buying and bringing from home, still got to factor in the supplies
I think it's very difficult to estimate what something is worth to you unless you're actually on the spot for the buy/no-buy choice. As an example, I was looking for some good software to help me write Chinese characters. Before I went looking, I would have thought it was a $10 product, but the leading product is actually $10 a MONTH. Way more than I'd estimated, but there are good business reasons for this. When you're faced with that choice of buying it at $10 a month, it becomes more real. I didn't buy it yet, but it's a very popular product, so for many people it's obviously worth it.
Was there ever an actual statement from Valve on this? All I see is a company called Xi3 showing of their computer, while making some vague remarks about having received an investment from Valve - whatever that means. Not to doubt it, but if this is really "the thing", I'd like to hear some actual conformation.
> This is called moving the goalposts.

No. "Moving the Goalposts" is a dishonest technique for arguments by which criterion for sufficiency are continually redefined.

Google has never said, "G+ is Google's Facebook" or anything of the sort. Quite the contrary, they've been clear it's something different from the outset. It's the endless parade of journalists eager to write linkbait stories that have made such comparisons, struggling to put together coherent thoughts on subjects they don't fully understand.

> If you're redefining Google+ as Google, there's no prediction here. Google already has a staggering number of users.

Google's Plus feature is an extension of existing Google services with social aspects. It has always been Google, and G+'s information is indeed provided to a staggering number of users.

But no one has redefined anything, as far as I can see.

What people want to do is paint Google as failing at something because they're simultaneously a very popular and unpopular company right now. Western civilization cherishes novelty, lionizes success, and hates the successful. A perfect storm for making up bullshit about how Google is failing, or stealing your information, or spying on your house.

> I have a couple dozen friends on Google+. There literally hasn't been a single post from one of them in over 4 months. Sometimes companies just fail.

Perhaps you should consider socializing with people on Google Plus before complaining you haven't socialized with people on G+. And maybe for you, G+ just isn't the place to correspond with your immediate friends. That's fine, most of the people I talk to on G+ I only know professionally or remotely, and I find it to be a much richer and less noisy channel than any other option.
I'm in Europe. No, not satisfied by either of them.
I'm not sure if I'd consider that 'more dangerous'. Sure, euthanasia is a topic best not brought up at parties, but if I ignore the legal and moral aspect for a second:

The stuff you order from the guy in the article is supposed to be interesting/entertaining, but might kill you when you build it/if you are not careful.

The 'suicide kit' you describe says what it does (if it works, if it's not a scam) on the box. You won't buy it and .. die by accident.
New fitness social network-Facebook for CrossFit?
That's two different generations of consoles: the Megadrive was competing against the SNES, while the Master System was Sega's previous generation console competing against the NES.

There wasn't a meaningfully successful third console in either of those generations, at least none that I recall me or my friends ever playing!
DropBox's idea (your idea, or whoever) is a genius idea. The ability to use your phone or tablet to take pictures and not worry about backing it up (because the app does it all for you) is a priceless experience.
Come in Tokyo. Giant squid spotted. We have it in our wholly Yakuza-run scientific and diplomatically supported squidding sights. Target confirmed. We have T minus five to wok... T minus four...
Anecdotal evidence: I had never messed with Instragram until I got a girlfriend whose peer group used that exclusively over Facebook. These are all in the 28-32 age range. It seems they were all eager to use a system that just focused on sharing photos and didn't want all the 'bloat' associated with Facebook. In addition to preferring the focus on photosharing, there was a sense of just wanting to be back on a network where they just dealt with the few people they cared about.

Obviously Instagram falls under the Facebook umbrella, but it did serve as a wake up call to me about there possibly being a group of young professionals that is more than willing to completely ditch Facebook proper for something that better fits their social networking goals.
Sure, there are issues with certain GS3 models. That doesn't mean that, as a consumer, you can't get one that works with CM. Plus, I have no special loyalty to Samsung or the Galaxy brand. It could be an LG, or HTC, or Sony, for all I care.

And getting a Nexus isn't an option for me, not anymore. I have a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon (a great phone) at the moment, and none of the other carriers have as good coverage where I live. They definitely don't have 4G, which Verizon does. Plus, I have grandfathered unlimited data, which I'm never giving up.

I'd love to get another Nexus, but that's not an option for me. After the fiasco with the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon, I don't see Google releasing another Verizon Nexus, not for a long time.

So I'll probably buy a phone that's 6-8 months old, has been unlocked/rooted, is quite popular, and was a premium model when it was released. Then I'll install CM on it and go on my merry way.
I really like trello. Something about it feels so natural. I like it a heap better than jira + agile plugin. I do like pivitol tracker too, but trello can do more.
Um, MySpace isn't dead. Not anymore, anyway. From what I've seen inside, it seems very promising.[0]

[0]: http://new.myspace.com
I'm not an expert, but I believe just s/python/python2/. Also put it in the documentation as a requirement.

Edit: Hee hee

[aeikum@aeikum howdoi]$ howdoi use python2 on default python3

/usr/bin/env python2.7
|Things get dicey when the people with "founder" in their title start getting big egos, start getting cocky, and think that they have the sole authority to go around getting rid of people they don't "like" in order to intentionally screw them out of their equity and thus keep their positions of power intact|This is spot on. This sort of behavior can be seen in any type of business setting where somebody gains new powers over others. That said, not everybody is as susceptible to the lure of the "title" and the power that comes with it. So, my advice to anybody starting a business is to think long and carefully about the type of personalities you are partnering with.

As you mention, almost everyone at the outset is essentially a "co-founder", therefore you must think carefully about each of their personalities, what motivates them etc as well as what their skill sets are.

So many crucial mistakes can be avoided up front by taking an unbiased and critical look at the people you are planning to surround yourself with.

I enjoyed your comment. Thanks.
They did monthly or bi-monthly data dumps. Not sure whether they still do. A few gibibytes of zipped XML would be a bit hard to ship, though :P
I personally like the lack of design. It puts the focus on the text and the ideas in the text, not the design of the page.
Unless you're on Verizon (unlimted LTE) and can't get Tmo, or won't deal with greater of all evils (ATT).

Plus most of CM gripes with the S3 are related to Exynos SoC and not the Qualcomm SoC.
Nokia is still selling them in the Asha series. They have been popular too, in India, China, and elsewhere.
I seem to recall gabeN posting to the effect that the average Mac running Steam was better-equipped than the average PC running Steam. If that's true, the non-upgradability might not have entered into it.

As to this "piston" thing here - I don't think upgradability will be an anchor. The whole project isn't remotely feasible unless a distro for build-your-own boxes is also launched. In which case the specifics of this box are more a blueprint for builders and a performance baseline for developers.

Sales probably wouldn't even track net adoption until the enthusiasts build out their custom rigs and start convincing their less-technical friends they can have almost all the same awesome without getting any thermal paste on their hands.
I suspect his repeatability problem with the scale is balance related. At 260 I haven't had that problem with the scale yet. Though if I don't dry my feet I can affect the fat % reading
Twitter has 181,000 social media "Gurus", "Ninjas", "Masters", and "Mavens"
I mentioned this earlier when this story showed up at HN and I would say this again. There could be plethora of such services out there but until and unless they provide a seamless migration utility (to move stuff out of Yahoogroups/Googlegroups) none of them would be of any help. Yahoo/Googlegroups are huge because people have been using them for a very long time and nobody in the right mind would attempt to use any unknown service for listserv and archiving.
Techmeme is correct. The post originally said, "investors like CrunchFund, Betaworks, Y Combinator, and more, including some fantastic angels".
One of the most important things that's about to happen for PHP security, is deprecating the 'mysql' extension[1], which doesn't support prepared statements.

Forcing cheapo web hosts to enable mysqli or PDO will hopefully help a great deal.

I just think they should have added E_DEPRECATED warnings in 5.4 - but I see why they didn't.

[1]: http://news.php.net/php.internals/53799