skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point taken; I see how our resource contraints make us an easier sale, but others may be more able to devote development time to this.
I just bought a RapidSSL wildcard cert through this reseller:

https://www.servertastic.com/rapidssl/

It's a wildcard for $140-ish, which is the cheapest I could find. The wildcard means it works for blah.domain.com, otherblah.domain.com, etc, etc.

Basically there are those "extended verification" certs that give you the green crap in the address bar. Which I don't think users actually care about.

And yeah, the whole SSL business is an insane racket.
They all give you that little padlock icon in the users browser. When a user hovers over the padlock with mine they see "Verified by: GoDaddy.com"

Is a purse from K-Mart as useful as one from Gucci? For holding stuff: yes. For impressing people how cool, important, reliable you are: maybe not.

I only paid $15 for my "K-Mart" certificate which covers both <mydomain>.com and www.<mydomain>.com
Toward an open web standard for 3D graphics
Wildcard certs are more expensive because they cover any and all subdomains. (The perception is that they "do" more, so the price is hiked. I have not the expertise to know whether the issuer actually has to do more, or it's just a bit of a racket.)

The other difference is High-Assurance certs, which involve someone from (for example) GoDaddy calling your business-use land-line phone (which is required) and verifying some information, if I recall correctly.

Other than that, as far as I can tell, you're paying for the opportunity to put some silly seal on your site, bearing the name of whatever company of theoretically good repute, to make your users feel safe from the conniving, thieving, drooling hackers lurking behind each form button.
The Long Demise of Glass-Steagall - CitiGroup Led...
There're three images on the whole site. Is it really making a difference?
Just days after the administration (including the Treasury Department) agrees to support the repeal, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the former co-chairman of a major Wall Street investment bank, Goldman Sachs, raises eyebrows by accepting a top job at Citigroup as Weill's chief lieutenant. The previous year, Weill had called Secretary Rubin to give him advance notice of the upcoming merger announcement. When Weill told Rubin he had some important news, the secretary reportedly quipped, "You're buying the government?"

UGH....
Calacanis' Customer Acquisition Cost Math
I think his point was that twitter-to-sms isn't always as prompt as you want it to be.
Make a lot of images, one for each screen change, and then 'test' the application with your friends as if it where really working. Show, don't tell.

Take their feedback and improve. Convince some friend programmer to join you and also learn to program yourselves
It's unfortunate they want to do this by exposing a library interface --- that suggests there's no way a remote screen could be integrated into the terminal in the same way as a local screen.

I'd love to be able to have remote sub-screens show up as tabs.
the most interesting statement

''Today Congress voted to update the rules that have governed financial services since the Great Depression and replace them with a system for the 21st century,'' Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers said. ''This historic legislation will better enable American companies to compete in the new economy.''

Yep, the same Lawrence H. Summers who is now Pres. Obama's top financial advisor.
My understanding is the prices are high because there's an oligopoly. To have competition, all the major browsers would have to agree to let in more companies, and they're just not doing that.
If the signal gets drowned out by the noise, that's your fault as a user. You either follow too many people or follow the wrong people. Twitter essentially acts as a whitelist-based messaging platform.

Note the word "whitelist"
Why The Stimulus Won’t Fix The Economy
it seem to be a little similar to Ping.fm but that is mostly focused on twitter like services.
Are they still going to teach Scheme in any other course(s)? Why not teach both?

I had the privilege of taking an SICP-based course at the U(C). The brain-stretching is critical, isn't it? Yes, there's a lot of head-slamming that goes into modern development, but that's not really the same thing.
Saying that Bank of America was the only company capable of buying Merrill Lynch is a mistake as is assuming it's sale was a good idea. The goal of regulation is to avoid crisis not to simplify dealing with them once the show up.

PS: Without government intervention BoA buying Merrill Lynch would have destroyed one of the few companies that would otherwise have survived this crisis without any problems.
I particularly agree with this point -- "students need to be exposed to the tools to construct large-scale reliable programs..." The individual technical component is only half the story. Real "software engineering" involves developing software which can be understood by others, expanded and scaled, which I have found to be just as hard as nitty-gritty pointer math.
Yeah, like anyone's ever going to do that...

Oh wait, af.mil... Yeah, those guys are. :)
I am guessing, but there might be high legal liability for SSL issuers so they offset the costs to the customer.
Any databases exist for reverse geocoding? (start with long,lat and finds city, state?)
Interview: Bruce Lewis on Web Develpment with Scheme
I work on the Fighter OS's and believe you me. They are complicated ada code.

EDIT: Tho, I do work on C# and C++ and the Mil is moving away from C# because it basically has a garbage collector....
I agree. Anything that I can do for free in 5 lines of code or less (email, Twitter) should be sub-one-cent or less. I'd gladly pay for services like phone and SMS, although it seems odd to me that SMS is more expensive than a phone call.
Ironically, it gave us Ubuntu.
I'm going to have to go back and listen to a number of these lectures. The first video I click on the professor says "Computer Science isn't computer programming." so so true.

http://academicearth.org/lectures/life-after-programming-met...
I think there's something else here, implicit in Sussman's comment, that's important. MIT was founded on a philosophy of practicality, and everything else is secondary. If you couple that with the belief that fundamental computer science is the most efficient way to enhance practical software engineering, Scheme was a wonderful choice. Java and C++ may have been more directly practical to software engineers, but they are not good for the field or people pushing the limits of the field - you spent too much time mucking around with their paradigms and idiosyncrasies.

Python (and, frankly, a number of the scripting languages-turned-mainstream) combines this clarity of computer science with a practicality that Scheme never had. If you can convey 95% of the basic ideas in Python, and you can also open the door to learning how to deal with 3rd party code, you'd be a fool not to. It was never about programming purity anyway, so there's no reason to mourn the passing of Scheme. It's progress.
For the record, you're preaching to the choir. I'm a Ruby/Rails developer, and I'm quite happy about it.

I was only intending to comment that titling an article "Rails won" without qualification, or without clearly making a decisive argument, lacks substance, in my opinion. It's an anecdotal piece with which I sympathize, but that perhaps would have been better titled "Rails won again", which would elicit thoughts of Rails being chosen over other frameworks (and CMSs, in this case) in a particular project, as opposed to Rails winning some epic arms race.

I probably just should've kept the last line of that last comment to myself. :-)
I agree. I'm soon to be in the market for exactly this kind of service, and seeing email and twitter don't come for free, was an immediate turn off. If I were to use this service (or one like it) I'd be forced to implement email and twitter myself, and just pass through for text messages.

If it connected with Twitter and Email for free, and SMS, phone and even IM were pay to play, I'd be a lot more interested.
Blog spam. It is a huge quote from this:

http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/03/24/international-lisp-c...
More accurately: just close the browser.
With the amount of time Twitter is down would make this an interesting test.
Meeting a stud hacker proved harder than meeting my wife--Per request, added idea to comments
I am 36 yr. old entreprenuer who bootstrapped and exited a successful non-tech company (from 0 to 50 employees and >$9M in revenue).

I am moving my family to silicon valley to launch my next start-up in the internet space.I have the idea, experience and ability to substantially fund at outset...what I seek is a world-class technologist.

I applied to YC and have been working to meet a hacker to partner with. No match.PG doesn't like one person start-ups so I think I'm a real long-shot as far as YC goes.

I'm still moving to SV in May and will surely have better luck meeting people on the ground than trying to network purely online/phone.YC deadline is tomorrow at 10PST, if there are any studs out there email me at jdileo5348@gmail.com.
> Yes, that's definitely a big part of it - the fact that the same company can both provide a loan and then insure that same loan creates an ethical conflict of interest that calls into question their ability to objectively quantify risk

> So what did the less ethical banks do with these troubled assets, since I'm sure somebody in the top ranks had to know what they were getting into? Bundle them up with a bunch of their other more reputable financial products and resell them to others.

The combination of those two sentences doesn't make any sense.

The inability of an insitution to objectively quantify risk wrt a given entity doesn't matter if said institution doesn't own or insure said entity.

In other words, it doesn't matter how bad Citigroup is at estimating the risk of assets that it sells.
I think the rules can be fairly simple, if you have more than 5 billion a year (inflation adjusted starting now) in revenue and control more than 33% of the market you should be treated like a monopoly. That way small / midsized markets can be dominated by a single company which can be extremely efficient but no single company can become "to big to fail".
Clicktale.com actually let's you watch users on your site. You see what they see and where their mouse moves. This is different than what Omniture offers, it is more supplemental to what you are asking. I do know that Omniture's number one competitor is probably CoreMetrics.
Thanks for your thoughtful feedback. You've raised some great questions.

I strongly believe that these things are not trivial to do well yourself and maintaining such an infrastructure will distract you from your core competency.

You should be convinced after reading our homepage that it is worth your money and maybe the current copy doesn't reflect that well enough. We'll keep iterating on that, gather more data points, analyze it, highlight success stories of integration, etc...

Thx for your suggestions.
OnLive Delivers Gaming Through The Cloud
Bonus points?

Stupid move. If it's irrelevant to the business they should take it down. Only has the potential to turn away customers with no upside.
Automated grading for assignments? That's ridiculous. Well perhaps it would work with mathematics, but does that not just make learning mechanical?

Learning is not about knowing facts, that's the least aspect of it. Learning is about making you able to think.
It answers the question of "how can I re-use the content of this site legally"

The upside is that it means the site creator has put some thought into it, and allows the user to understand their rights clearly.
over IAP I heard they did a bootcamp version of the scheme course.
Note that "mark to market" was reinstituted in 1999 after having been suspended in 1934.

Mark-to-market says that the value of an asset for regulatory purposes (bank or insurance company assets for example) is 0 on any day when no one offers to buy said asset or something comparable.

Many/most of these loan portfolios are throwing off cash. If anyone actually believes they're truely worth $0, I'll be happy to take as many as I can get for $1 each.

I'll even throw in a free toaster.
The problem is they sold the "good slices of the pie" and nobody would buy the bad slices. So they had a lot high risk assets on the books. Which was fine until the market decline wiped their value out.
Why not just email to yournumber@yourcarrier.net and get it as an sms too?
Intel patches a performance boost to Opensim
Honestly I don't think this question is really about "to table or not to table"

The question is whether you friend would find value spending the time now to learn how to use CSS properly despite its quirks. If he's going to be maintaining this site and others for a long period of time then he should probably eat the learning curve and learn CSS now. If its a one off project with little maintenance then do what's easier.
Memory and string functions can be improved dramatically on x86 and x86-64 glibc
Purchase also starts the clock for determining the difference between long- and short-term capital gains. This is (currently) a big deal for federal income tax.

Taxes on the difference between the purchase price and the "value" on the purchase date is what caused a lot of people problems during the dot-bomb. They exercised in the money options, owed taxes, and couldn't pay them when the stock price dropped. (Many of them were trying to hold out for long-term capital gains rates. Oops.)

Note that CA taxes both long- and short-term capital gains at the same rate. Jim Clark says that's why he no longer lives in CA.
Pulling a meaningful, discretely discussable quote from another place isn't necessarily 'blog spam'.

Sussman's rationale for the change in 6.001's focus and language is more interesting to me than anything else in the 'international lisp conference -- day 2' post, and is hidden near the bottom of that post. So, the pull quote blog item adds finding/filtering value for me, which is the opposite of spam. Neither the blogger nor submitter deserves the implication they are a spammer.
CC Attribution is a well-recognized way to quickly give permission to people to redistribute and remix your work, publicizing it and increasing its value in the process. Bloggers looking for more color for their posts might grab a relevant CC'd photo.

CC Attribution-Share Alike may lead to someone creating something that you can reintegrate with your original work, improving it. If you provide a dataset of 2D time-based points and someone makes a neat visualization of that, everyone is better for it.

This depends on your content. Things like photos or datasets will probably be reused and remixed more than, say, written content (which will probably be quoted and linked to regardless of license).
Okay, thanks for your comments, I appreciate you took time to answer my question. I got really interested about http://Kuro5hin.org (thanks Thorax!) and may try that at some point, they seem to have editorial feedback system too. If I was planning to sell my article, I would have loved ErrantX comment, thanks!
I decided to publish the article at my own blog, even it doesn't fit in 100% there. I will post the link here tomorrow for your comments, the title will be: "IT giants back up open source 3D Web".
This guy has written several articles in recent memory complaining about nobody teaching/using Ada any more.

He runs a company that sells Ada dev tools, so I would take what he says with a grain of salt.
You do realize that the popular catchphrase "Too Big To Fail" is politician-speak for "We know these guys are crooks and we know they committed fraud on a massive scale, but won't indict them because it would bare our own corruption and failure to enforce existing laws because we really wanted our friends to make more money and donate to the campaign!"
Also: http://stakeventures.com/articles/2009/03/24/how-do-go-about...
On the U.N.A
True dat. You're describing what we're looking to work towards. Manual statement uploads are still a lot easier than manual line-by-line transcription. We're able to accept any format (natively digital or scanned), though, which means that very little effort is required on your part.
I won't be subscribing from Norway either. I've heard a few good artists that I didn't know about before, but the benefits aren't great enough to warrant paying €3/month, especially not if we only get the same features we could get for free from the US.
To bad the SMS is US only. I have for the longest time been looking for a way to send SMS from a computer.
I think GLB is irrelevant at this point, if only because regulators were negligent in failing to enforce other existing laws which could have prevented and/or mitigated the implosion. Would the executive branch have behaved differently if Glass-Steagall were still in place?
Python may not be a scheme, but it does have what they used to call functional programming, low-grade continuations with the generators, and some other stuff like that.

Python may not stuff its academic credentials in your face, but I think it has one of the better balances between what you can use it to teach, and what you must teach to use it. (Referencing the common and IMHO justified complaint that the simplest possible Java program requires rather a lot of stuff to be taught before you fully comprehend it.)

Teach Scheme later... or perhaps, fully distinguish between academic and practical by starting with Python to get you going then transitioning to an ML or Haskell later. (That approach has a lot of appeal to me personally, and has the benefit of the student coming out with at least one useful-in-the-industry language (Python) without compromising academic utility very much.)
Is the product already sold to a client/validated or are you still testing the market?
I kind of agree with that, but it's also oversimplifying.

Putting banks into receivership doesn't just happen magically, there's laws for it. There are no equivalent laws for international behemoth insurers like AIG. The government can't just make up laws as it goes along.

As to a disorderly unwinding like Lehman, well that basically caused a run on the banks.
I think your pricing model is not good at all. It's expensive, there is no level service, and you are using a 'credit' system instead of simply pricing in known currencies.

Also, how are you going to contact users on IM services? Don't the users have to add you as a friend first?
It pisses me off when I am being treated differently on the internet based on where I am in the real word. It is one of the reasons Hulu won't get my patronage even if they extend to other countries outside the us.

In this case it didn't matter much, I won't sign up (or pay) just to _hear_ music that I can't even choose my self.
There is, you just need to know where to look. GoDaddy has them for $30/year and Namecheap has them for $15/year. I know that the Namecheap RapidSSL cert is single root and at that price, you can't go wrong.

One of the things to note about SSL certificates: don't think you can renew them like you can a domain name. When you renew, you get a new cert that you have to install on your server. So buying multiple years at a time can save you a lot of hassle (and drive the cost per year down).

Many certificate companies have bilked their customers into paying too much, but there is competition. It's just that people change slowly. Plus, if you're, say, Citibank, what are the odds that you're going to quibble over $1,000/year? For many businesses, it just isn't worth the hassle of switching. Even a company that I used to work for used to pay nearly my salary to an outside firm for content management (and they didn't even have a good CMS). So, many companies will just keep paying and it's one of those situations where the markup is more valuable than pushing additional units.
Thanks - I was going to point out the same thing. The linked blog has no ads, so I don't think he's going to gain much from hits.
its 500 month or 2% of revs. so whichever is more.
I don't get why a service that makes money on percentages also has the need to charge monthly access fees. This will slow growth significantly.
That's still 1/5th the cost of the prices he's getting.

And to be fair, his specific question referred to "SSL Certificates", not "Wildcard SSL Certificates".
some ca's do more labor-intensive verification before issuing certs which may cost them some money, but nowhere near what most are charging these days. since nobody realistically checks who issued a certificate before trusting a website with one, paying more for stricter verification nets you nothing.

while i probably wouldn't use them for a public-facing certificate on a shopping site that needs 100% browser coverage, startcom issues certificates for free that are supported by default in at least safari and firefox. very useful for encrypting communications to your backend admin interfaces and such where you just need to protect yourself rather than your customers. http://www.startssl.com/
Lenovo steals Apple's iPhone Design for New Android Device?
I think they are referring to the fact that students new to programming learn to "always" rely on stringing together pre-existing libraries (namely in Java) rather than gaining experience by creating some functionality, algorithms, etc. from scratch.

FWIW, I took a class taught by Shonberg (about OOP) when I attended NYU. Ironically NYU CS majors are required to take several classes that use Java, so I guess he wasn't able to convince the administration of his views. However, I learned a tremendous amount from the algorithms and OS courses there, and there were some great classes still using C and C++.
Programming Language for Old Timers
As a long time C++ programmer, I'm not sure C++ matters for the reasons given. C matters, Lips matters, Smalltalk matters, C++ only matters in the if you can grok this you can grok anything way.

Also I strongly suspect the number of good software engineers is pretty much fixed, and no amount of fudging with this or that will change it.

Now the number of bad or at best average engineers, I suspect that is very responsive to all kinds of things.
2% based on the Techcrunch post

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/20/zuora-the-salesforce-fo...

"Naturally, Zuora has opted for a utility-like pricing model. The company will take 2% of all invoiced amounts, with that percentage increasing decreasing as payments get bigger and eventually getting capped completely for particularly expensive items."
1962 was a good year for discount store startups. In addition to Walmart and Target, K-Mart was also founded in 1962.

Like Target, Kmart was founded by someone who had founded a previous chain, namely Kresge dime stores. (Ben Franklin, Walton's previous employer, was/is "dime stores".)
I like this one: http://www.haskell.org/logos/logos/Haskell0.png
On Schooling, Part 1
You know that there are all sorts of articles that tell you that cofounding a company with someone is like marrying them - lesson: don't rush in to it. Make sure you are both on the same page and that you can work with them in stressful circumstances.

I'm not saying that it can't be done, but that it might be best to wait until the next cycle to try YC (after you've met a good cofounder that you are sure will be compatible with you). Good luck though! If you're planning on going through with it, then please prove me wrong!

Also: Do you have any hacker skills, or just the idea, experience, and assets? You may find that people here are not receptive to "I've got the business mind and all I need is a hacker to throw my idea together" approach. You might be better off going into angel funding (you could even fund YC companies!) if you have the experience and resources, but not the technical skills.