skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My annoyance is that I signed up for "free checking for life", and now I have a checking account that has monthly fees! I signed up for Washington Mutual for that reason. At some point, Chase purchased their banking operations, and retained the legacy free-checking accounts. But some time after that, they decided to no longer continue to honor those terms, and added a monthly fee. Now they'll charge me a $10 fee in any month that I allow my balance to drop below $1500. I did not opt into that. Now I have to opt out by closing my account.
At ILC 2009, Guy Steele asked Rich Hickey how Clojure's STM interacted with I/O. To which, Rich replied that it doesn't. No further discussion continued on the subject.

I have found that this rarely enters discussions regarding Clojure, although the STM is frequently lauded.
GHC's STM also does not work with the IOMonad, which is clear because of the types, and is articulated in books such as such as Real World Haskell.

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/software-transactional...

Are people really getting benefits from transactions which do not involve I/O?
Three years from now, some bank will probably buy them out for their data analysis capabilities.
The title on the site is misleading. The guy reported an issue where a file was shared among several folders and deleting one folder deleted its 'shared object' from the other folder.
Why Apple Should Hang-up On The iPhone, iWear Is Next
I got an invite, went to the sign up page and then found out that I have to have an iPhone to use it.

Cmd-W.
Misleading title.

If you are supposed to share files by putting them in multiple folders at once (in the style of symlinks), then deleting a folder should only delete the file if the folder contains the only reference. This is a real bug.
Aedle, Is the Consumer Electronics Show Startup to Watch
No formal argument there.
> Of course my $50+ in notary fees are lost.

Somewhat ironically, you could go to a bank to have this done for free if you happen to be a customer of the bank (and many times, even if you're not). Wells Fargo has free notary services for their customers, as one example, and this is pretty much the only time I actually have had to step into a physical branch.
Thanks! Rookie mistake. Uploaded a fix.
Microsoft Technologies: Choose Your Adventure (Infographic)
RE: USAA, Charles Schwab, etc., this is a fair point. All of them have solid reputations. Any idea which one provides the highest interest rates?

> Isn't Simple backended by an institutional bank?

This is a good point, the answer to which I'm unsure.
I hosted a similar conference for digital nomads in October and the basic breakdown off the top of my head:

1) 50% Web Services Providers (Owners of firms or freelancers) - Devs., PPC, SEO, Graphic Design and Similar.
2) 20% Owners of Hard Goods or Software Products
3) 20% - people with larger businesses who have "made it" and now pull salary and travel full time (or part time) and invest in new biz or projects.
4) 10% - Consultants or remote work arrangements.

Like attracts like and all, so the fact that nobody at our conference was sketchy might not mean much, but I didn't feel uncomfortable about anyone's biz and there were 80 or so attendees.

Mark isn't representative (in my experience) of this new digital nomadic class because his business model is so difficult: he makes money from his writing. Which is fantastic (I love reading his articles), but it would be a lot easier for him to provide paid for PPC services.

My business, by the way, is selling custom designed products (like cat furniture) from ecommerce stores. I'm now started a new biz throwing these types of conferences for this growing remote-working scene.

I don't share Mark's lament in this article, but I enjoyed reading it.
Linux-based Steam Box 'confirmed' by Valve
Did you look at beanstalk? It has both of the features you're looking for: the ability to set a delay and when a job experiences an error it will be placed in the "buried" queue (which is like your Dead Letter Queue)

http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

It has client libraries in most languages and also definitely won't require the use of polling.
Windows 8 sales woes: are netbooks to blame?
That seems the be the argument:

“By declaring Andrea Hernandez’s objections to be a secular choice and not grounded in her religious beliefs, the district court is placing itself as an arbiter of what is and is not religious. This is simply not permissible under our constitutional scheme, and we plan to appeal this immediately,” the institute said in statement.
I know what you mean, all I really need is a keypunch, a FORTRAN IV compiler, and a beer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
I think a lot of people are missing the core of Simple. It's the "Safe to Spend" Idea. I've used simple for the past 8 months and it's helped me get into an even better mindset about saving/allotting money. I used to bank with PNC and use their budgeting tools but the safe to spend idea is just that; money you are free to use.

EDIT: For added perspective I'm an early twenties recent college grad.

Just the other day I realized that I had a credit card payment due and it was slightly higher than I expected (Holiday Spending) and I went into a minor panic as I was a little frazzled in paying it. I logged into simple and that's when I realized that I created a goal that was my credit card limit. This meant over the past month I had already slowly been paying down the bill without even realizing it. Everyday a small portion of my safe to spend was put into that goal. I made the payment without even "rebudgeting". That was a great feeling. I'm living well within my means but I feel like I have more money than ever. Simple makes it easy to keep yourself in check. I have a few items I plan on purchasing in the near future and I just created a few goals so that when the time comes I'll already have paid for it.

Lastly, the at a glance view of your finances without much ado is GREAT. I have an automatically generated daily average income/spending for the day/week/month/year averaged over various periods. I have graphs that show me how my funds have fluctuated and I'm starting to see some patterns in my spending habits. I've haven't banked like this before and I'm excited to see where else they can help.
Decent basic points, but superficial and often missing the real underlying trends. For better analysis on the same general ideas, I recommend:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/12/08/acting-dead-trading-up-...
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-...

(ribbonfarm is my favorite blog)
I built a public trello board from this list: not quite sure if that's the best presentation (should it be one card for each heading?), but ideally people would clone it to work on their own sites, and make contributions of new cards/info for existing cards on the main board. https://trello.com/b/hkC4B6HA
The Simple goals[1] feature has helped me save a ton of money FWIW. It basically just hides money from you, and show's you this "safe to spend" balance.

I actually look at this number, because the iPhone app loads quickly and only requires a 4 letter passcode after logging in.

I set really agressive goals and when I notice I'm getting down to the wire on "safe to spend" I make a conscious effort not to buy a coffee, or whatever else.

If I saw my real bank balance, I'd shrug and say, "Oh, what's 3 bucks for coffee?"

[1] https://simple.com/blog/Simple/announcing-goals/
> I recommend you take some time and look at the libuv and node code

Alright I did. Conclusion: I like libuv and I don't like node, maybe because I don't like nested callbacks and I don't like Javascript.

> I haven't heard of a company outside of vmware using vert.x.

Neither have I but it seems most serious back end servers are not written in node either. Is Amazon using node, what about Google?

> even the simplest javascript arithmetic exercises are nearly two orders of magnitude faster in node compared to vert.x

Not sure if arithmetic exercises on v8 show anything. If anything that is the probably the wrong to benchmark unless node is supposed to be used for scientific calculations.
FTC's Google Decision Could Spark Patent War
Zuckerberg faces €20,000 fine over Facebook's anonymous accounts ban
Always glad to see vim usage articles pop up now and then. Here's a similar HN thread from a while ago -
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2870024
I've been exploring the idea of starting up a bank. The big banks here in my country are so inefficient and I'm hoping to simply make a better banking experience for consumers, hopefully via their mobile phones. Can somebody shed some light on a few questions I have?

#1: I have absolutely no business background. Do I need to get an MBA in order to understand how banks work from the back-office, and maybe the legalities? Reading this article, the Simple co-founder apparently had an MBA. I'm a programmer by trade (Java, Android/iOS, a little of web).

#2: Should I consider Simple a competitor or should I think of banking as a very local kind of industry, like e-commerce? I don't want to build just another Simple clone, and considering Simple's success, if they scale up here in southeast Asia, I don't want to be just a copycat.
The online website of most banks is confusing for mostly technical reasons, not because they are trying to screw you by opening the wrong account. Stop by a branch and your local banker will help you find the right account for you, free of charge.
How do you know what data is relevant? Ey did the right thing by not sharing the data.
Does anyone else see a lucrative consulting opportunity in declining languages? I know a LOT of people still writing COBOL for a very good living, so who's to say in 10-15 years you won't be re-factoring enterprise Java in the same way.

Of course, you might want to just kill yourself first.
Right. Charts should have meaning and this meaning should be easily readable. We tried to make twitter-like comments in charts (http://explainum.com) but it didn't gain any popularity. Perhaps there is a better approach.
Facebook Under Siege: Will It Ever Grow Up?
From the article: Simple is actually not a bank. It has deals with CBW Bank and Bancorp, federally insured banks, to hold its customers’ money.
When Karl Marx wrote Capital in 1867, he said capitalism would never be able to get rid of credit bubbles, financial crises, high unemployment etc. He said that over time the problems would get worse and worse with greater and greater financial crises. Here we are about a century and a half later and you just have to look at the housing bubble, the bank crisis, TARP and the government bailout, unemployment in the US and Europe and the Arab countries which helped cause the Arab spring to see how prophetic he was in this respect.

Marx and Engels wrote that the world has seen five economic systems. Each system collapsed due to internal contradictions. The first system was hunting-gathering, then Babylonian/Greek/etc. style slavery, then feudalism, and then capitalism. They saw the Paris Commune as the harbinger for the next economic system which would replace capitalism.

The central contradiction in capitalism Marx spells out clearly in Capital, although its a little too much to explain in a comment. Basically workers create $240 of wealth every eight hour work day, but are only paid $200 a day. The $40 goes to profit, to get more capital, to make more commodities. But what is happening here - the worker is shorted $40 a day, and what happens with that money is commodities are made. Who are going to buy all these commodities when workers are not getting all the wealth they create? Well credit fixes that in the short term but creates a bigger long term problem.

The communist manifesto says "the commercial crises that by their periodic return put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on trial, each time more threateningly". I certainly feel this way. So apparently does Stratfor. On this point, the left and right are in agreement.
there is no personal information shared with Google, or anyone else. beyond knowing how many people are using the network, there are no metrics gathered. It cost about $115k to create, and about $45k a year to maintain.
Windows RT hacked to run unsigned desktop apps
Transform Your WebCam Into A 3D Gaming System
Dropbox’s new Modern UI Windows 8 app finally arrives in the Windows Store
Please keep writing more around here. We need people like you and comments like this.
I met some ex-Facebook folks who were considering a "newsfeed as a service" startup, and thought that it was a great (albeit challenging) idea. An app developer give a third-party access to a stream of data (with hooks similar to mixpanel), and the third party is responsible for highlighting the best parts of the stream, consolidating similar stories, improving the algorithm, etc...
USAA membership is. You can get a USAA bank account without being a USAA member, but you don't get all the same privileges.
Sprite Packing in Python…
Bit Munkey and the guys rock. Free code training and you get points on CoderBits.
IIRC, Larry Detweiler's sock-puppeting attempts on the cypherpunks mailing list were unmasked by other cypherpunks with this technique in the early 1990s.

Detweiler, natively paranoid and geographically isolated in Colorado, had come to the conclusion that most of the prominent cypherpunks posters were sock-puppets of a single person he called "Medusa" — he invented the word "pseudospoofing" to describe the phenomenon, although "sock-puppet" is the more common current term — and resolved to use the same technique in response.

I never read the actual word-frequency analyses, just Detweiler complaining about having had it used against him, which I assume he didn't imagine.

There was a recent paper (two or three years ago?) that claimed that people could usually defeat this kind of linguistic analysis simply by trying to change their writing style. I'm skeptical that this is applicable in general.

http://33bits.org/ is a pretty good blog on the unreasonable difficulty of anonymity in a computerized world.
Nvidia aims to become the Netflix of gaming with the Grid
I don't think so, a lot of ruby users are good at security
It's (apparently) a remote code execution bug. You can also use it to trigger SQL in the sense of simply executing arbitrary SQL. There's no need to bootstrap or trampoline, the doors are swinging open already.
this is not a parallel network - and the the heaviest use is no where near the Google building (Google has its own wifi network for its employees)
"Europe and the US" were not one pole, they were a collection of large competing trading empires.
LinkedIn is the only one really useful social network for me. I got several times excellent jobs thanks to LinkedIn, my professional blog got good promotion via LinkedIn connections and I get orders for my product because of networking effect in LinkedIn.
Is there new life in C++?
>> 5 POINTS IF YOU CHANGE TO THE FAR RIGHT LANE!

This had me in stitches, I can't help feel something of this nature is a plausible outcome.
Hm. I wonder if anyone has ever attempted to ban billboards under the guise of being worried about distracted driving.
Oh, snap! If I'd have known that I would have blogged like this about every pull request we've gotten! :)
An unethical freemium model for such a site: dispense instructions to ensure an even distribution of traffic to free users, but provide a purely optimal path for paying users, perhaps even making suggestions to free users to move them out of the way.
And how will I know when the "frog boiling" phase begins?

You don't screw the customer while wooing, show some patience!

But I agree on the people. I'm big on using the people in the bank. I find it usually takes longer, but is less frustrating. They also can do many things I can't, like notarize stuff (no fee), or wire money to Indonesian interests of Singaporean firms with Swiss bank accounts.
Much of Marx's critiques of capitalism make some sense. The problem is nobody has come up with a better system for lifting people out of poverty.
Will Windows 8 Bring HTML5 To Enterprise Applications?
It figures that the guy who started this is Australian. Australia has some of the worst banks in the world in terms of customer service. Last week I was in a bank (Commonwealth Bank of Australia) with my wife attempting to negotiate a better deal in terms of her account fees, which I believe are exorbitant at approx $10 per month for a basic savings account w/online banking. She'd been with them for 25+ years and had a reasonably significant account balance. They didn't budge on anything, even after she asked them to close her account. I was totally appalled at their attitude.
do they not enforce a password policy?
U of Chicago Library Digitizes Manuscript of Walt Whitman’s The Bible as Poetry
PDF of digitized manuscript available online
"We're playing with some ideas, but it turns out to be a really hard problem."

Yeah, this is definitely true. But it correctly puts the burden on the developer instead of the user. What's more, generally it makes for a more forgiving environment by which the user can interpret the data. If you say "you had a huge ecommerce day!" and it's Black Friday, the user interpreting it will be able to put that together, even if the app (initially) can't.

Part of my bias here is that this is based on our experiences building ThinkUp, which is open source, and thus we're hoping to iterate on exactly these kinds of improvements when community members find the insights to be insufficiently, well, insightful.
For games, Chris Granger and his team have coded up a prototype game in Clojurescript using the Entity-Component-System architecture, which seems to be a good fit for functional languages. It might be worth checking out: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/12/11/anatomy-of-a-knockou...
The question is why call it an online business when every sign-up request has to go through a manual evaluative process?

I requested an account almost 10 months back. No response yet. I forgot about your service completely.
Banking is definitely a very local industry, because the regulations vary widely by country.
I don't know if this is legit or not, but just do a quick ctrl + F and you will find plenty of users still using "password123" and "qwertypassword." Seems like the government should require employees to use a more secure password rather than trusting them to use their own standards.
It doesn't really matter when you're storing passwords in plaintext...
Internet Explorer still vulnerable despite Microsoft’s Fix-it
> maybe because I don't like nested callbacks and I don't like Javascript.

I'm an assembly hacker, but recently found that JavaScript really improved over the past five years (I suspect, to a great extent, because of v8). The newer ES5 and proposed ES6 standards add a bunch of features geared toward raw data manipulation (like Buffers and Views -- one way to implement contiguous blocks of memory).

As for callback hell, there are tools to help you out. There are node modules implementing fibers, and there are utilities like async.waterfall (https://github.com/caolan/async) that flatten the callback pyramid.

> most serious back end servers are not written in node either.

Define "serious back end servers". Most architectures involve a plethora of software servers (we have passed the age of a single apache server hosting requests years ago), and many companies use node in their stack (I remember seeing an HN post about how LinkedIn saw node.js performance far exceed their older ruby-on-rails platform)

As for google and amazon, at that scale I'm sure they are using some custom server code (possibly in a proprietary language) on custom hardware.

> Not sure if arithmetic exercises on v8 show anything.

You can run a similar test using `ab` on custom servers, but the results are fairly inconclusive due to the fact that the dominating factor is the network stack (and not the event reactor model or implementation). Arithmetic benchmarks are a proxy to measure the distance to bare metal.
Hah, even though I wrote the original article here, got a genuine LOL at this one.
I was waiting for someone to say something like this. After the 2008 debacle, I went credit union. My wife has Wells and while she likes them, there's all kinds of account fees hand waving for things she was supposed to get for free when she signed up. Banks suck.
And for context:

2011:

http://www.drdobbs.com/mobile/the-rise-and-fall-of-programmi...

2010:

http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/the-rise-and-fall-of-languages-...
I don't really get it, there's some server information followed by a long list of passwords. Since at least one of the passwords is 18 characters long, I guess they haven't been brute forced. So does it mean that the FBI is storing some passwords in plain text?
The Voice Of 'Schoolhouse Rock' On The Series At 40
Try NAB. I used them while in Australia and I was very happy with them.
Report: Valve’s Steam PC Getting 2013 Reveal, Runs On Linux
i think this is an old hack again .....
I believe this is a repost.
Anyone who thinks that the recent financial crisis is due to a fundamental failing of the free market just has not been paying attention, or has an ideological ax to grind. The latest economic crises are mostly the result of bad government policies and excessive government debt.
Chinese AirBnb Clones Get Millions In Funding - From American Investors
no bandwith limits in Chelsea.There is no time limit. and the reason for the strong signal vs usability is the weak signal put out by the mobile devices compounded by competing rf signals in the area. the solution in Chelsea? - Hi-gain 2.4 antennas.
> But most importantly, now that I have no income, [my girlfriend] has been a huge help.

Ah, you must play bass...
Wow, some of those passwords are unbelievably shocking. Is this a real leak? By the looks of it, those passwords weren't brute forced they were stored in plaintext... The complexity of some of these passwords is pretty high and some not so high, "Diego@ic.fbi.gov - opjwpoejt9U)(hfodkl"
you are a very traditional human/alien and stubborn as well who doesn't accept new technology.
Indeed! Most of the pics show ugly aggressive-looking species, but the Hatchetfish (http://i.imgur.com/hd53Y.jpg, http://i.imgur.com/lZuFS.jpg) are the creepiest by themselves.

Hatchetfish: ghost-dead-floating fish-heads from hell!
Wait, what? What if the app does not parse ANY user provided XML or YAML at all?
same fucking question asked by IBM fucker to Apple Steve Bozniak.
Reminds me of the the giant squid from Michael Crichton's Sphere.
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Wow, a handful of people had their exact names as their password.
Bit of a sloppy analysis... The $40 that the worker is "shorted" doesn't disappear into some magic portal that leads to another dimension where rich people secret it away from the economy. It goes to the workers at the bank, or to other businesses that get capital to pay their workers, or perhaps the owners of the company so they an buy a few commodities themselves.
It's not. Credit Unions are the real alternative to banks.
i guess phone number even more sensitive than email, dude !
Government policies, perhaps, though mostly in the sense that it creates the regulatory environment that finance works in. But government debt? Hardly. It may have been a headwind due to issues in Europe, but the core cause was overleveraged financial firms.
I hate to say it, but if you're running a public facing Rails application, it's near imperative that you know what Action Pack is and why it's significant.
Please, I'm too old for running down teleological rabbit holes.
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