skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say regulation is the same as geography. For one, it's self-imposed. Second, it costs a lot less to build up than to build out. Note that Chicago has a very densely built core, even though it has no real barriers to sprawl to the north, west, or south. That's the result of (lack of) regulation plus good urban planning.
Maybe nodejs won the love of a lot of kids that know how to program in Javascript. Maybe it didn't win the love of seasoned C++, Java, and Erlang programmers. Sometimes blog exposure and cool sites and presentations don't necessarily equal serious real world usage.
Really? The only thing I get when I attempt to install Lein2 on Windows is "This is not available on Windows." Running Windows 7 Home.

I'm not a huge fan of using a bunch of IDEs and just use Emacs. After a year of fighting with Windows, I got fed up with it and installed Linux with a VM and now everything works like a dream.

EDIT TO ADD: I would love to do a project like Learn Clojure the Hard Way, but I'm simply not confident in my abilities to do it correctly. I've written some pretty significant programs in Clojure (see my profile), but I wouldn't be able to solve but a few Project Eulers with it. I'm simply too new at programming in general.
This allows you to share a link to a specific slide. It's a compromise.
>You've not refuted the article

I clearly indicated the issue with the article. If there are 50,001 people at a 50,000 person stadium, you can't point to one guy and say he is the reason it is over capacity. Further, there is no one who doesn't understand that less drivers on the highway = a faster commute. But therein lies the classic unintended consequence: Whatever you do to improve the commute leads to more traffic. Twin that highway and you'll see a massive boom in suburban building, for instance.

Or we can select 1% of the drivers on the highway, call them the problem, and call it a day.
Another possible backup is any host on the internet. Seriously, dump it into a static file directory on any old web server or run a trivial git server. Send deltas with patch files. It's not even harder than github is, just uglier.
It would be even more digestible if I didn't know it existed.
It's not that I had a bad day, is that you used the age-old "REAL PROGRAMMER" argument, which is and remains, annoying since the 70's.

Me? I write in machine code – in 'raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers. Directly.

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html
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That depends on vesting. You own whatever portion of the 35% that has vested based on your contract and have legal rights to it, although your contract could have repurchase clauses that allow the company to buy back shares at a price you may not like. Vesting clauses are common for cofounders as well as employees, and this is usually a good thing to avoid the possibility of a cofounder working for a couple of months and then leaving with full ownership.
The article is comparing fundamentally different things, which serve different purposes.

Charts and gauges display "raw data". The downside of this approach is that a human has to process that data to turn it into useful information. The upside is that humans are _very_ good at this.

The feed displays higher level information extracted from the raw data. On the upside, you don't have to have someone sitting around watching it. The downsides are that it requires a higher up-front investment to program or train the system to extract this information, and the system will never (given current technology) be as good as a human for any substantial correlation.

The correct balance depends on your situation (resources, uptime requirements, implementation details of your system), but dashboards displaying raw or summary data that enable you to see unusual patterns, monitoring (which is very similar to a "feed"), and comprehensive stats gathering (which you won't look at on a day to day basis, but is tremendously powerful when diagnosing issues) are all tools that any team should be looking at using.
Even without reading through the article first, I knew that you were referring to TARP. They might've gotten a "profit" on TARP, but the government gave them a lot more than just TARP, through other programs, and some of the banks even used the money from other programs that they were supposed to use to finance small businesses, to pay back the TARP loan.

Bottomline is, the government may have gotten the money back on TARP, but I think they gave the banks a lot more, and it was a net loss. I mean we didn't even know about the $7.7 trillion the Fed printed to loan to banks in both US and through out the world. Those loans were secret. How do we know they paid them back or not?
>Can they say that Newspapers that are owned by corporations don't have complete freedom to publish what they want? Let's say they passed a law saying no corporate political speech within 1 month of an election - would that mean no New York Times endorsements?

Yes, that's exactly what it means! We do the same thing with unions, and with religious organizations that are tax-exempt. What makes corporations so special?

You are, of course, always free to decline the privileges granted to a corporation. Draw up some contracts between you and your partners and write whatever you want, whenever you want. If your newspaper is guilty of libel, you may be liable for that. If your newspaper goes bankrupt and owes money all over town, you might be on the hook for it personally. Accept that in the course of securing privileges natural persons do not enjoy, your corporation may be asked to give up rights that natural persons possess.

Much like patents and copyright, corporations are a legal fiction, invented by society, for the benefit of society. On all three counts, the balance of power has shifted heavily in favor of patent holders, copyright holders, and corporations. This does not indicate some natural law, but rather corruption in our own governments.
And your proposal is? A lot of alternatives have been tried in the past several thousand years and almost all of them suck. Real hard.

Don't think in terms of The Alternative System, just think in terms of the small things that can make life better. Things like reduced working hours to have more time for family, or better economic freedoms for everyone.

Those things do not represent a change in The System. In particular, they are perfectly compatible with allowing private initiative in the market. In fact, they enhance private initiative overall, in areas outside of the market (having more time outside of work can translate to becoming engaged in local community organizations, to give just one example).
>>>Emergent phenomena don't have "objectives", mate.

What makes you say that, mate?

Are intelligence and consciousness emergent phenomena?
How is this better than a credit union?
The only point in the article which made sense to me was:

"it is certainly the case that the world we are now entering is more similar to that of 100 years ago -- a world of competitive multipolarity -- than that of a quarter-century ago."

I didn't really follow the rest of analogies being made; they were all sort of weasel-worded to acknowledge what a stretch they were.
"This is an unofficial API for Y Combinator's HackerNews that was developed for": http://ihackernews.com/.
I'm a Mac person myself, but use windows for work and have leiningen and clojure running fine.

I just used the batch file from the leiningen github to get up and running on windows.

Someone else brought up the point that lein needs wget or curl, and that isn't something that is installed by default on windows. I happened to already have them, so I never thought much about it.

GNU has a version of wget and maybe curl too for win32. And there is always cygwin if you like.

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
What's really bizarre is that they separate the account signin and the commenting privileges, which require separate credentials. No great loss since I don't want to join that discussion, but you're right about the sad state of online commentary.
I wonder if some clever anomaly detection algorithms could help with this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomaly_detection
Even now you still think it's useful to hide information from the "general public" and avoid "extra publicity"?!

The cat is out of the bag. You can no longer negotiate with this reality.

Publicly disclosing a bug is like birthing a baby. Once it's sticking halfway out, just get it all the way out because it's counterproductive to try to hold parts of it back in.
You're quite right :)
I suspect there may be a bit of sensationalism built into this article. That being said, their certainly are plenty of things with current banks to be less than pleased with, including a not so distant past when overdraft fees were not opt in, and even worse, were handled in a devious fashion. (I.E. applying charges to an account in order of the total amount spent as opposed to chronologically).
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No, another thing it does is help people who support web applcation firewalls and intrusion protection sytems to develop rulesets.
It might help to try to understand the target demographic rather than handwaving them as idiots. I have a decent amount of money, and I'm most certainly fed up with my institutional bank. An increasing share of my money is making its way into my Simple account for a number of reasons:

1) Banks do have you opt-in for fees, but typically through opaque changes to terms and conditions. When my bank was acquired, I started getting fees for, e.g. using other ATMs. I'm sure they sent me something in regards to this, but who the hell actually reads legalese? Contrast that with simple. When the new year rolled in, they updated their terms and conditions with an email that explained its effects in plain english (in a manner reminiscent of Creative Commons licenses.)

2) Simple has ATMs everywhere since it's part of Allpoint.

3) Their apps are just beautiful. Dealing with financial matters is probably the thing I dread most in day-to-day endeavors. Simple completely changes that equation; it makes the process actually pleasant.

4) From a political perspective, I just find most banks (including my institutional one) deplorable. Their role in the financial crisis, and their behavior afterward deserves repercussions. Simple has an unsullied history.

Say what you will, but I'm happy to give Simple my money given the experience thus far. And clearly others are too.
RE Learn Clojure the Hard Way

I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to software in general, but I dip my toes in a lot of different languages. I don't think that would be a problem for LCtHW though... I mean, it could be a collaborative effort as a github page or wherever.

Get the framework in place, start with the basics, let the experts fill in the advanced stuff.
Do you think intelligence and consciousness have "an objective"?

They might have a post-hoc discernible function, but that's not the same as a predetermined purpose.
This makes for an interesting read in conjunction with that National Interest article re-evaluating Oswald Spengler's legacy (via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5029200). Perhaps I'm being parochial, but I worry a bit less about a Pacific conflict (at least in the short term) than I do about what would follow a collapse in the Euro and the subsequent zero-sum bitterness that would surely result.
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I recommend you take some time and look at the libuv and node code -- it's a pretty minimal layer sitting atop v8 (a high-performance javascript engine that is used in google chrome) that is reasonably well-designed and suited for (and, incidentally, actually used in) real world applications. Many real companies leverage node; on the other hand, I haven't heard of a company outside of vmware using vert.x.

After my initial comment, I revisited vert.x and found its performance leaving much to be desired: even the simplest javascript arithmetic exercises are nearly two orders of magnitude faster in node compared to vert.x (try it for yourself using something like the gamma function: https://github.com/substack/gamma.js/blob/master/index.js)
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819832
pretty good writeup - miss the days when contrived examples were considered a cop-out though ;)
I tried opening an account with Simple, as I heard all the buzz around the company and it seemed like they had a nice mobile app. A friend got me an invite to their service (it's invite only right now).

So I fill out their online application, and they say they'll get back to me. Cool. A few days later, I get an email saying that they'll need additional verification because I've been a victim of identity theft in the past. What? I've never had such problems, and I checked with my bank/etc. and they didn't find any problems either.

So they want me to get notarized copies of a bunch of documents- I go do that, which costs me $50+ in fees. I send the documents to them.

A week later, they contact me again- there's no way they can open an account for me, for undisclosed reasons, but I can call their support to learn more.
OK, I call their support, and a (very nice) guy tells me that it has to do with me not being a US citizen and my SSN being different in some way (? I've been living here for almost 3 years now, working, being paid, opening bank accounts, etc. without ever having a problem). He apologizes, and that's it.

Of course my $50+ in notary fees are lost.

They've been more problematic to me in 2 weeks without even having an account than all of my banks that I've had accounts with for years combined.

So yeah, so much for "a financial service for people fed up with banks"
The headline is a lie. The NK student had applied for a permit to access the internet, and showed that he could also use Google.

There was no pretence.
I really liked the idea behind a product called Trendly (unfortunately it got shut down because Twitter bought the team).

They had some clever algorithms that simplified time series data from google analytics so that you could see at what points real changes occurred.

Some screenshots here:
http://analytics.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/api-integration-to-...

You can see how it's able to take something noisy like time series data and turn it into a stream of discrete events. It's really quite clever.
Right, I overstated the equivalency, I should've said something like "plays a similar role."

But, does it still cost less to build up than out, in a city with nearby land for the cheap, taking into account that you have to build your upward development in a way to be competitive with 2000+ square foot houses and yards? There's definitely some upwards building being done in the cores of the cities in Texas, but a whole lot more building out. Overcoming the lack of urban planning in the past is where it would get pricey, and need a lot of buy-in.

Would you say the relative cheapness of housing in a lot of Chicago compared to more mountain- or water-locked cities has more to do with the planning/regulatory environment or with the open geography on the non-lake sides?
It "won" in the same way that Facebook "won". Yes, there are other platforms, but node definitely captured a much larger portion of the mindshare of developers.
Well, my wife is an elementary school teacher, and I promise she doesn't spend 200 at BN without blinking. She does spend some money, but not tons.
I'm very particular about how I do my banking -- money in a mix of a huge corporate bank and a small, local credit union; both serve unique purposes for my needs.

By far, the customer service at the credit union is infinitely better than that of the large bank. I call customer service at the big bank with small issues or questions, and I'm extremely irritated by the time I'm even speaking with a real person after a terrible mix of phone mazes and hold music. My credit union is normally on the phone after 2-3 rings and almost immediately takes care of whatever I need.

I'd much prefer to move everything to the credit union, but I just have certain convenience needs that most bigger banks just handle better due to their larger infrastructure.
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Yes, because the concept of an "objective" is very useful when trying to describe emergence.

A semi-related question:

If no emergent systems have "objectives", then what things do have "objectives"?
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I'll take Ruby over C any day of the week.
When you're dealing with your money you're adding a whole other layer of 'switching costs'. Maybe I'm at a point in my life where I care more about net income over getting into the nitty gritty of every transaction, but it's been painless using Chase in NYC, going to ATMs or using a credit card, and taking money in and out for online transactions. Is there a pain point I'm missing here or is this better suited to someone with kids, a mortgage, etc.?
Did Chase very clearly explain that they could, allegedly, shuffle your transactions into a fictitious sequence in order to maximize the amount of fees they could charge you?¹

My bank didn't tell me that in the event the Post Office became confused and stopped delivering my mail (commercial address, only gets the bank stuff), they would make no effort to contact me when the checks and statements started coming back. Though, when they forgot to transfer money into my new accounts they did agree to waive the penalties I had incurred, so that was sort of nice that they didn't pursue a fee which would have lost them a court case.

I think this sentence from the article sums up the motivation…

“Banks make money by keeping customers confused,” Mr. Reich said. “There’s no incentives to make the experience better.”

Your bank no doubt has dozens of different kinds of accounts with various byzantine rules applied to each. Is there a button on your online banking page that says "Recommend the optimum account plans for me."? They know your history, they pretty much know your future. They know their own plans. They have computers… what is stopping them?

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¹ http://www.topclassactions.com/open/2603-chase-overdraft-fee...
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I was not saying there is such a thing as a "real programmer." I am not sure where you're getting that from. I was merely attempting to spur some debate surrounding the recent trends towards very superficial "innovations" being put forth by many on Hacker News. I am not saying I have the answers to any of these questions. And, I don't think I am better than anyone for thinking a particular way. I just want to learn and try to understand the world around me. That's it.
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Overdraft fees are shit. The best banks just give you a line of credit that's hooked up to your checking account that it automatically draws on in case of overdraft, leaving you with nothing to pay but a few cents interest. Or at least let you automatically hook your savings account up so it automatically throws a chunk of money into your checking account when you overdraft.

Fees in general are shit. Another example: ATM fees. Decent banks don't charge ATM fees. The best banks not only don't charge ATM fees, but if the ATM itself charges a fee, the bank refunds you the money themselves.

Also shit: minimum balances. Chase waives the minimum balance if you have a direct deposit, except I don't want to direct deposit into my checking account. I want to direct deposit into my savings account to use as a buffer. Then, every month, I can withdraw only that month's budgeted amount into my checking accounts. And since I only withdraw the budgeted amount every month, the balance should be 0 at the end of the month, which is why I don't want to worry about overdrafts.

Maybe your use case is different from mine, but the fact is, all the terms I'm asking for are available on the market already and I don't have time or patience for banks that don't accommodate me when they have competitors who will.
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Although I'm happy to see someone attempt to do what Simple is attempting to do, I don't think any sizable amount of people will be willing to drop their bank and move to an alternative that doesn't allow cash deposits. I have two bank accounts I regularly use: one is a regional bank based in Texas and the other is Wells Fargo.

I hate my Wells Fargo account but I keep it open so I can deposit money and I can receive account transfers easily from other people. Even with this setup I sometimes find it difficult to get the money where I need it (specifically out of my Wells Fargo account into my regional bank account) without hassle (and fees).

Anyways, the MVP if you will for a bank that I would switch over to would be one that allows me to deposit from anywhere (checks from home, cash from any ATM anywhere that accepts deposits), withdraw from anywhere, and transfer to any other account in a timely fashion.
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The district offered to let her wear a badge that didn't have an rfid tag but she still refused. This case had nothing to do with rfid tags. The district said she had to wear an id badge and she refused saying that the badge represented the mark of the beast. If anything this is a freedom of religion case not an rfid case.
I'm not sure I understand the comparison being made in that sentence. Europe and the US dominated the world at that point, Japan although a force in asia had a minuscule economy compared to the west. The world is far more multipolar now than it was a hundred years ago and it will continue to be so.
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Wells Fargo did their best (and eventually succeeded) to drive me away from having a checking account with them. I wanted to use it as a secondary checking account (my main one is with a local credit union) with a wider reach ATM/deposit-acceptance wise, and they wanted me to first jump through hoops to avoid a monthly fee if I wasn't receiving direct deposits on that account, and then eventually even those hoops weren't enough and they put a fee on it.
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I tried to post it on Reddit but it didn't work out because my account is new.

Anyway this is only the 3 star list. The 2 star and 1 star are not ready yet.

Enjoy!
> Simple has ATMs everywhere since it's part of Allpoint

To be frank with you, Allpoint is pretty shit wherever I've lived. I don't want to have to go to some dilapidated 7-11 to use their ATM. I want to use any ATM I see on the street with no fee. It turns out I could get that with either USAA or, apparently, Charles Schwab.

> Their apps are just beautiful. Dealing with financial matters is probably the thing I dread most in day-to-day endeavors. Simple completely changes that equation; it makes the process actually pleasant.

Can't really comment, except USAA and ING Direct (soon to become Capital One 360) both have perfectly usable web sites, and USAA's web site is even an acceptable Mint, if that's what you want. (Personally, I use spreadsheets.)

> From a political perspective, I just find most banks (including my institutional one) deplorable. Their role in the financial crisis, and their behavior afterward deserves repercussions.

Isn't Simple backended by an institutional bank?
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Nice! Should add a 'replay' button or something :)

Edit: Also, the link to Midi.js is borked.