skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they are numbered, just like any $1 bill. They are not registered as far as I can tell; they are bearer bonds (just like a $1 bill).

Now say you have several trillion dollars outstanding to many people who are not quite your friends, nor very interested in rummaging through their books to help you, revealing their hands in a very high-stakes game. Then some other government turns up a ridiculous amount of bonds designed to be anonymous (just like a... you get the picture). Also, a third government has some claim because it crossed her border.

That is a classic "international incident". It will take some time to resolve. Lots of favors will be traded. Joe Public may never know the details.
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UI gripe: the temperatures are too big and awkward. I think the fever icon set at different colors (bright red for hot) might have worked better.
For the 'funemployed,' unemployment is welcome
This doesn't bode well for me trying to use self-control to kick my sugar habit.
That they're fake and the Japanese agents seemed almost intent on getting caught indicates a cloak and dagger agenda.

Some entity designed this incident to profit from dollar/treasury short positions, or to sow doubt for political reasons. It's difficult to come to another conclusion.
Sands of Gobi Desert yield new species of nut-cracking dinosaur
The difference between an unregistered bearer bond and other types of bonds is that the bearer bond is not registered to a particular individual, but instead guarantees payment for the bearer of the bond. Other bonds are registered with the social security number of the bond recipient.

However all bonds have serial numbers, regardless of whether they are registered. This is how the government verifies the validity of the outstanding debt guaranteed by the bond. Otherwise, what is to stop some counterfeiter from manufacturing fake bonds and claiming them?
'If it doesn't come in 13 minutes I will kill myself with my own iPhone'
At least it got recognised... Opera is just "that browser". I don't know if that's more insulting or not.
These folks are insane!!
China moved hundreds of millions of people away from the lake formed behind the three gorges dam. That's ultimately what will happen. Either we'll build levies around the whole continent to protect coastal areas or the people will move. It'll probably be a combination of both.
not one comment? nobody knows anyone like this guy? ahh this becomes a dead link.
some may find this to be a bad thing for reasons that i have not yet imagined -- but i linked to a highlighted version.
Does firebug work with it yet? I'd love to start using 3.5, but can't afford to lose that.
Sunlight Labs Community to Bid on Recovery.gov 2.0
I can hardly believe it, but it's free to download! A pleasant surprise.
2500 year old bird's nest found
"Kid" at State Dept Who Figured Out Iranians Should Be Allowed to Keep Tweeting
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/184...
That fact, however, doesn't mean there isn't room for future improvement in exception reporting at the REPL. Once the REPL catches an exception, it can do pretty much anything with it, since java.lang.Throwable objects provide convenient methods for a program to examine the stack trace. It's just a matter of someone writing a function that scratches whatever their itch is.

I found that after a while I just got used to reading them, but I'm certain the initially ugly exceptions do turn off some people who don't start out with a strong enough desire to use Clojure.
True about growth not being infinite, but 'growth' doesn't just need to be traffic.

"Peaking" and plateauing is something unique to about .000001% of online companies with broad appeal.
There was a 3.5b99 being pushed as an RC candidate, anyone know how this "b4" build fits into that progression?
I would imagine that human nature changes much more slowly than that.
Bing gaining momentum?
Totally. Thanks.
Just apply these fixes and all plugins work with 3.5 beta:

http://lifehacker.com/355973/make-your-extensions-work-with-...
Your opinion: TeenBiz Mockup
Hi guys,
could you please give me your feedback on the home page mockup?

TeenBiz is a site where teenagers can meet other business minded teenagers! You can submit your business ideas to get feeback! You can find partners to join you on your journey! You can browse other peoples ideas and see if they interest you!

Here is the image link: http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5941/bizteen.png

What do you think of this? Do you like it? Do you think it's a good idea? Would you use it? if not why not? WHat can I do to improve it? How could it convince you to use it?
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Professor Martin Wiseman, Medical and Scientific Advisor for World Cancer Research Fund, gives his top five tips on How To Maintain Healthy Blood Sugar Levels: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/67006.php
Retrial: Jammie Thomas vs. RIAA Goes Into Its Last Round
"I upgraded Snow Leopard over my existing Leopard setup (instead of a clean installation)"

From my experience upgrading comes with a lot of extra baggage then a clean install. The performance numbers might not be 100% accurate.
Considering that everything I learned in school I learned about 20 years ago, that has "amusing" implications for all the knowledge that most people who went through higher education has received.
Same here. From Venezuelan IP...
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ive done the upgrade myself on a macbook pro. the numbers are extremely accurate as far as time to complete and further, free space after the upgrade. you can watch the log as the install is chugging along. turns out you will end up with more space after the upgrade due to the intel only os deleting all ppc references, i also recall them saying they were using some new file compression.
Clearing Something Up
Firefox 3.5 RC1 Is Here
It appears that all of the download links are still pointing to beta 4. Here is the link to RC 1: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=...
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City's information technology workers to unionize
And they say apple isn't a cult. (I have an iPhone, and am waiting for the update too).
Finder will probably get an update in 10.7, whenever that comes out (2010? 2011?).

Apple has been known to follow the "first make it work" rule with all their software. I guess Finder is no exception.

(As always, I'll continue to use the commandline for most of my file management tasks. I'm a big fan of the Konqueror way of file management (although I don't use KDE any more), so you can probably guess how constrained I feel when I use Finder.)
beta 4 was the previous release. It seems that the download links have not been updated yet.
While I'm not necessarily arguing the accuracy of the story, it surely wouldn't hurt to put in a disclaimer stating that MSN and Bing both owned by the same company.
They are compressing all the system frameworks by default. How this impacts application performance is yet to be seen.
Well considering they're pretty much saturating the airwaves with commercials, it'd be pretty shocking if they weren't.
I don't care about the story as much as I am interested in trying to figure out what Microsoft did differently because Live was launched in a very similar way, minus the Hulu crap.
IPhone 3.0 Software Update Available Now
Downloading as we speak. The notification popped up at 12:12pm Central Time.
I am waiting for the day when these guys say, "Okay, we're done. Now go write some Perl 6 and run it on our VM".
I think it depends on what you want to do with the rating information. If you want to show the most popular sites/books, a simple liked/dislike system is probably sufficient.

I think the 0 to 5 scale is more helpful if you want to be able to recommend similar products. You can do that with the like/dislike system too, but I think you get better results with a more granular scale, Reddit's recommendation system, for example, is famously unhelpful.
NAA Releases 10 Reasons To Support Print Advertising
That is a fair point. I do think this report comes from briefing.com and when msn authors an article they mention that Microsoft owns msn.
The authors of this article were one of the first to challenge the early claims about the effects of file sharing. Years later, many other economists have followed suit (including the study funded by Industry Canada). This latest paper does a nice job of expanding the discussion, by using the data to examine incentives for creativity and the effects on aggregate creator and industry income.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. That bonds have serial numbers, much like dollar bills, has little relevance to the story at hand.
I am downloading the update right now. You should be able to grab it now.(USA West Coast at least.)
This wasn't journalism, if journalism is defined as "a reporter writing for an editor." (That definition was devised to exclude certain bloggers from the category of journalists.) This widely reposted article was blogging. Too bad about easily checkable facts being wrong in the article. Blogs can't be a replacement for conventional journalism if they are no better at getting facts right.
That day was well back last year.
In the Midwest it's downloading now. It has said '4 mins remaining...' for the past 10 mins.
MIT Hopes to Exorcise ‘Phantom’ Traffic Jams
Indeed: Ahmadinejad's supporters have released photoshopped images showing that the rallies supporting the regime are bigger than they are in reality. Trick photography was used for a similar affect by the US in Baghdad.

However, it will remain difficult to have multiple corroborating photographs of the same event that all match up. Making the truth match up is easy, but making forged videos and photos consistent when lots of separate people are releasing them is hard because it's hard to keep lies of any kind consistent without the liars being in cahoots.

Which means that reports from random people are probably more reliable than journalists or governments. Governments and news organizations can collaborate on a lie better than mobs.
No.

Says who, msn?
Fusion falters under soaring costs
Agreed. Anybody who has ever been interviewed for an article understands how painfully one can be misinterpreted and marginalized.
OpenNet sheds light on Iran’s state of the art censorship system
I'll confirm this. I'm syncing with iTunes right now.
I just downloaded b4 and ran an update. Whatever works, I guess.
Code for the Rogue CA Attack Released
A peek at a Firefox.next feature: about:me
I like a lot of what google does. Rather, I am addicted to a lot of google services. But its right about time that there is some competition in search space with google. Monopoly of anyone is not good. I am a Bing man now. :) I love a lot of things about bing: interface for video/image search, cashback and the ability to watch previews of video without leaving the page, thus, saving a lot of time.
Google asks Times Square, "What is a browser?" [video]
"Water vapor is responsible for 95% of the greenhouse effect, yet somehow it is never brought up in global warming discussions. Why is this?"

Because the water vapor isn't what's increasing, except as an effect of the warming trend caused by higher CO2 concentration.

"I subscribe to the theory of giant ball of nuclear fire leads to warmer temperatures -> increase in ocean temperatures -> release of dissolved CO2 & increase in water vapor -> greater greenhouse effect"

Care to explain why the sun progressively got hotter in a way that strongly correlates with the release of CO2 since the Industrial Revolution?
The Cost (and Payoff) of Investing in Social Media
Plenty of people are willing to do startups for low base pay with the hope of a high reward. The real issue is you can't really beat the market just change your level of risk. So the real focus in investment banking is hiding risks in ever more creative ways.
If that's true then clearly the author hasn't spent any actual time on the Internet. Compared to the average dose of caustic bile dispensed on usenet or irc, "fail" is downright cheery in comparison.
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So, let me see if I understand this.

more and more, produces of programs are hiding the details, making it easier for people to just get on with things and solve their problems, without having to worry about the details of how it happens, and the machinery underneath.

Then others, no doubt technical people, go and interview the users in order to show just how ignorant they all are.

Did I get that right?

If you want to make computers and services easy to use, you don't want people to be able to answer these questions. You want people to find your service, use it, and remain completely unaware of the technology.

Or am I wrong?
true, and non-traffic growth is also not infinite. or, at least, shouldn't be perceived as such.
Advice: You are building stuff for those people. So make sure your product is foolproof.
1. Lift. Muscle suck up glucose, improve (long term) sensitivity.

2. Eat fat/protein with sugary foods. Helps blunt the effect. [1]

3. Don't eat too many carbs. Even the AHA recommends below 60% because of other negatives. [2]

4. Eat the right carb sources. Starchy tubers are best: potatoes, yam/sweet potatoes, cassava and rice. And fruits like bananas, plantains and grapefruit.

5. Eat high GI foods unless your blood sugar is chronically elevated. The body likes glucose, particularly the brain. If your active and sensitive, you'll quickly use it for energy. When you're insensitive you need to cut back.

[1] Protein/Fat/Fiber and Glucose Sensitivity: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16988118?dopt=Abstract

[2] AHA Recommneds Less that 60% carbs a day: Search "carbs": http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=180
how much did they pay you to say that?

ha hah, just kidding, I actually kind of like bing, and you know why? the nice pictures.

I wish they would show the pictures on the results page as well.

search results ain't bad either ;)
Not surprised given 40% of people surveyed were NOT able to identify the location of their heart.
Yeah - I feel very much the same as you - although since Google 'needs' competition - I would prefer it if it came from someone other than Microsoft. I'm just relieved that Google seems to be very good at not abusing its power. They push a lot of community projects and encourage others - it's nice.

Bing does have a nice video/image search. I've never been terribly impressed by Google's algorithm for image search. I don't know how either algorithm works, but I get much better results from Bing, and the interface is very nice. I've always appreciate Google's very simple, informational interfaces, but I can't help but love the user-friendliness of Bing. It seems like they actually put a lot of thought into it.
> This wasn't journalism, if journalism is defined as "a reporter writing for an editor."

harvardbusiness.org (the article's source) sure looks like an organization that has editors and the like.

> Blogs can't be a replacement for conventional journalism if they are no better at getting facts right.

Sure they can. A successful competitor doesn't have to be better on every dimension. It just has to be the right combination of good enough and better on the important ones.
Just Another Scrappy Startup
Upgraded: http://img.skitch.com/20090617-fej7bk9pt71s4mmy7qw9akxg3e.jp...

Took about 20 minutes total. Not bad at all.
Good little introduction in terms of general use, but I think a solid example is in order, as it's a very useful technique.

A while back, I created a Struct class, which allows the creation of C-like structs, but you had to create a subclass of Struct, specify the endianness as a class attribute, and create a __format__ method that built the struct members. A little while ago, I had the thought to wrap it into a decorator, defStruct/defStructLE/defStructBE, that automagickly calls 'type' to build the appropriate Struct class for you, given a method.

So what once was:

class Foo(Struct):
__endian__ = Struct.LE
def __format__(self):
self.foo = Struct.uint32
self.bar = Struct.string(self.foo)

Became:

@defStructLE
def Foo(self):
self.foo = Struct.uint32
self.bar = Struct.string(self.foo)

Much, much cleaner, all thanks to the magic of 'type'.
First he was very famous, now he's very rich. But Nassim Taleb is still wrong.
so are the twitter image hosts. or arbitrary S3 file hosts. or a wordpress mu blog network. or any number of other smaller alternatives for services that we deem useful.

i suppose the root of my problem with this line of thought is that it basically is saying that if you want to start a value-added service, go big or go home. no room for little guys, because if you fail you might somehow be destroying some of the fabric of the web.

i find this disagreeable. seems not very hacker-like.
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Everyone wants to be the next search engine but no one seems to be able to do it, even for a niche.

Microsoft has the 500M to market it, and the who knows how many billions to build, and they already having paying advertisers. They know how to contact companies with big ad budgets... Not many other tech firms have all that in place, I don't think a startup could handle it. But then again, Google did it as a start up.
> You can link a traders pay to

whatever the trader is willing to have her pay linked to.

The more risk you ask someone to take, the more reward they're going to demand.

People take jobs (in part) to reduce their volatility.
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yes, it's easier for people to say and spell the word Bing than it is to say and spell Google. And it is good to give Microsoft some business what with the economy and all. I just wonder what the family of Bing Crosby thinks about all this. "Bing it and find out" is a new catchphrase circulating around.
Oh, I wasn't aware that the betas would upgrade into the RCs - good to hear. Downloading the RC directly will save an update step though.
Is that really true? I don't recall the product rolled out at the Live launch as having much of a distinguishing value proposition. Bing, on the other hand, is notably different than Google in several respects, so first-time visitors have a "take away" from the experience. If the purpose of the rollout ad blitz is to "induce trial", it's up to the quality of the match between the product and the product positioning to get people back for subsequent visits.
Kinda odd how lame that is compared to a list of top VC blogs. I guess the average angel investor tends to keep a low profile, whereas VCs (who have to raise money) tend to be more visible. Not really surprising.
WWDC 2009 Wrap-Up
What's kind of a catch 22 is when you are too tired (glucose levels are low) to prepare a healthy meal and end up eating out.
I measure how serious someone is about CO2 and global warming by their enthusiasm for nuclear power.

A govt that claims to be concerned about CO2 that isn't pouring concrete for dozens of reactors isn't worried about CO2, it's worried about something else.

It's porkulus II, bigger and badder.
I'm wondering why Google would make and post this video. Doesn't it just prove that they are entering a market that not only is completely misunderstood, but also shouldn't matter to the average person?

I use and like Chrome, but understand that the average person doesn't and shouldn't have to care about what browser they use.
Jared Cohen seems to be up to pretty incredible things. Not a story about start ups or twitter but about a new way to approach politics.
At least someone gets it ;-)
another question for you -- how do you deal with currency issues, if there are any?
I believe ask.com also used the same strategy, but with markedly different results.
Why post an almost-exact copy of the blog's closing paragraph?
Even a reduction in base pay is still not going to solve the true problem, though, which is a combination of the following:

a) A trader's downside risk is limited at zero (worst case: trader loses his job because he screwed up, moves on to the next sucke...I mean, bank)

b) His upside risk is limited only by the amount of risk he is able to swindle the risk metrics into allowing him to take on

c) VaR is a really freaking easy metric to game. It's trivial to make it look like a set of risky positions are a lot less risky than they are when viewed through the distorted lens of VaR, thanks to the magic of financial engineering, which lets you create derivatives with risk profiles that match pretty much any curve you can think of.

IMO the only reasonable solution is to stop pretending that VaR is a meaningful metric when applied to "sure thing" bets. If a bet is overwhelmingly likely to make a small amount of money, then you can be damn sure that it's got a tiny chance of losing a large amount of money, and VaR ignores this altogether. Traders engaging in this kind of bet either need to be watched by a person that understands what's going on or subjected to a different risk metric that adds a significant uncertainty factor to deal with the fact that we don't really know whether the risk of global financial meltdown tomorrow is .001% or .01% (fake numbers, obviously).

Or (perish the thought!) maybe we should start asking ourselves whether it's really such a great idea to pay people enormous base salaries to gamble while simultaneously giving them a cut of the profits, given the fact that as a profession they really haven't proven themselves able to do anything but break even in the long run, which I could easily achieve at a far lower cost by giving a thousand monkeys "buy" and "sell" buttons to push...
I really like the tip regarding living in a retirement village since it sounds like a cheap and safe way to live. It sure beats my current choice of living in the ghetto because rent is cheap here. After doing a little research, I found that many of these retirement homes and communities have an age floor of 55-60 years. It'll be great if someone can share their experience regarding gaining entry into these communities.
China doesn't have the same level of infrastructure as we do. Imagine trying to move large chunks of Los Angeles. That's a completely different animal isn't it? Doesn't it seem easier and cheaper to reduce our energy use than to move multiple cities like Los Angeles?

I personally think it's a better idea to avoid serious problems than to accept the enormous pain that will come with ideas like "hey, change is normal".
In case you didn't catch it, that Colbert Report video was taken in January, 2008. Even back then, he totally nails what is happening in Iran right now.
Agreed, Technology should be like a sewage treatment facility. In that, you know it treats your water supply. But you don't have to be aware of the interact refinement process and engineering splendour that has gone into it.
I think 'ramen profitable' is a great pithy phrase, but to work long hours effectively (and stay healthy) it always struck me as a false economy to live on rice & beans. Good to see some data on the topic.
Why does everyone have to be a 'citizen journalist?' Just because you're sharing information with the world, it doesn't make you a journalist. Self-publishing is great and all, but the best journalists don't rely only on their personal impressions of the world (i.e. "I heard Mousavi is under house arrest TWEET"). They check up on things and publish things they didn't believe that turn out to be true. Most 'citizen journalists' are just citizens with a piece of a megaphone.
The First Videogame GPL violation case
This is the first case I've ever heard of where a GPL violation has been found in a videogame.
I wish there was an American city where I could get fed off of a little boat.