skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly it sounds as if the US Attorney doesn't really understand much about how either the software system worked, or how trading in general works:

“The bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways,” Facciponti said, according to a recording of the hearing made public yesterday. “The copy in Germany is still out there, and we at this time do not know who else has access to it.”

...

“Once it is out there, anybody will be able to use this, and their market share will be adversely affected,” he said.

It's not as if the software alone allows someone to make trades up to 28% of the size of the overall market.

Maybe if you had their code, infrastructure, co-location, and oh yeah that's right, tens of billions of dollars to make trades with. It's not as if a script kid in Germany is suddenly going to be able to download the trading code for free, and become a multi-millionaire overnight using their trading algorithms without any seed investment.
Can you please go over the cases when you would choose one over the other (BSD vs Linux that is). Even some bullet points would help. I've never found anything that didn't delve into a flamewar, and I have always been curious about such choices.
if (P(success of startup) * (worth of startup success to you ) > P(success with gf) * (worth of gf to you)) {
goto startup; }
if (P(success of startup) * (worth of startup success to you ) < P(success with gf) * (worth of gf to you)) {
goto gf; }
if (P(success of startup) * (worth of startup success to you ) == P(success with gf) * (worth of gf to you)) {
goto HN_and_ask_question; }
How to decide if you have a good job
Doesn't yahoo.com use sprites? Not trying to be difficult, is the transparency issue the reason you don't like them?

edit: I suppose I could have read the article first
Yep, that spec would be over the top for a storage node, though. A large chunk likely went into the controller and the i7 whereas in a storage-node most cheapo controllers (i.e. 2x8 is cheaper than 1x16) and whatever old xeon/core2 will do.

Wrt cooling, for actual servers (i.e. not storage nodes) we've had good success with Sun XFires, the 4100+ range. They are very well built and the markup over the SuperMicro junk is minimal (around 15% last time I checked).
Among the niceties is a nice array of hot-swap fans - something that SuperMicro still doesn't seem to deliver in their popular chassis.

I'd also consider the xfires for storage nodes if they'd take 3,5" drives, but afaik all their low-end models only have max eight 2,5" slots. That's just no worthwhile density when compared to the larger SuperMicro tins (which go up to 30x3,5" now I think).
First, every single one of these is the same. Why is this interesting?

Second, didn't we just have a post reminding us not to use numbers in the title of submissions?

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

Note that if one follows the guidelines and renames the post to simply "Login Forms", the banality of the title alone serves as warning that this should not be submitted.
Andreessen: "Facebook will be bigger than Apple."

Wow.
This is excellent advice. However, finding that out through the crucible of running a business has the added peril that both your relationship and your business will fail at the same time.
Take couple of days off and take her to Paris. Demonstrate your knowledge of French.... :-)
Thanks, that's one of the funniest things I have read on HN in a long time. Learning French for a few hours a week is probably more useful in the long term than spending a few more hours with his girlfriend or startup.

But, looking at just the long term is horrible idea. I think it’s important to also look at how you want to spend the next 6 months rather than just what the long term benefits might be.
Surely you mean 32-bit RGBA PNG?
Could it have something to do with the fact the U.S. is the biggest champion of the "free market" and thus antithetically opposed to local food?

For more info, check out this essay by Wendell Berry:

http://www.relocalize.net/node/4770
Free business idea - Motivational Infomercials
I used to think that in order for me to accomplish a goal, I had to enjoy the process. For example, in order to have a successful start up, I have to enjoy the work that leads up to a successful start up. Otherwise, I'll never be able to muster the necessary willpower and ultimately fail.

But after watching a few infomercials on TV, I've changed my mind.

Only an infomercial can make my 60 year old mom want to study the stock market. And she has no clue what the hard process of learning would be like. Hell, she probably doesn't even know what stock is!

The secret to infomercial's success in motivating people to incur great costs (time or money) is about emphasizing the rewards. 90% of the stock market infomercial is about the great wealth that can be accumulated by buying their service. They are able to switch on the reward circuits associated with a given task. This is the same feeling we get when dreaming of a juicy bacon cheeseburger. We can feel or even taste the rewards we can reap with every bite of that burger. This is why we can barely control ourselves from eating it.

Infomercials can make stock market research as alluring as a cheese burger.

Which brings me to my business idea - making infomercial-esque motivational videos (motivercials) for everyday tasks. Don't feel like studying? Don't feel like cleaning your room? Click to see a motivercial that will make studying or cleaning irresistible.

You can build a whole online community revolved around motivercials. People can submit their own and have free access to official ones. There can be message boards that discuss other self-help techniques. And premium members can have access to the full database of motivercials!

What do you guys think?
First, it is only a rumour for now.

Second, it would apparently only concerns old versions of OpenSSH. Quoting the link: "It is against an older version of OpenSSH" (OpenSSH_4.3).
Heh, I was just reading about how Japan's government (over a millennium ago) impoverished itself through exemptions from the land tax. The exemptions were originally meant to foster religion and reward special service, but the government left loopholes by which the land tax exemptions spread to a considerable fraction of arable land in Japan. For example, owners of taxed land would sell their land to a tax-exempt lord or monastery, then rent the land back from him. Monasteries exploded in number and size as tax exemption and other government perks turned religion into an attractive career. Since the whole burden of funding the government rested on the shrinking remnant of taxable land, this meant financial ruin for many taxpayers, who could only save themselves by selling their land... often to a tax-exempt landholder.

The concept is entirely different, but there is a surface similarity: a government program aimed at a small group of people (American family farmers, Japanese monks and favored families) was taken over by shrewd businessmen and turned into a thriving welfare business, at great cost to taxpayers and little benefit to anyone except a small number of fat cats who milk the system for all it's worth.
That sucks. I have the opposite problem. I'm in a startup and I find myself with too much free time and my girlfriend with too little.

I think it's all about time management. You can find time to spend with your girlfriend if you are more productive with the time you spend doing your startup work. Or perhaps you can work together at Starbucks or something.
Not Only for Profit - A public stock exchange for social ventures
Haskell 2010
Money and success are transient. A companion will always be there for you.
Good point. I'd still say one can do both, if one properly manages his or her time (I'm not saying that's easy though).
Mobile money seen as chance for world's poorest
The purpose of subsidies is food security for the US. Importing food at a cheaper rate will likely adversely impact local production, which may be important in the future. The US is already dependent on other countries for its energy supplies. Nations go to war over such stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etl9kkIGaHo
On the edit, you're making it sound like the startup is your project that she is "involved" in. That's not right--either you, her, and cofounder #3 (presumably) all have a startup together, or you have a startup and you tried to rope her into working for you. She probably feels resentful that she can't get you involved in her projects.

Also, it sounds like she's gearing up to leave you anyway, so it's probably too late to ask these questions.
She clearly wants to make it work since she actually told you what her problem is.

Don't fall into the trap of believing she means what she says. She could mean plenty of other things. For example:

1.) "I want to leave you, but I have no good excuse. Let me find one." Evidence for this: she is less affectionate when you are available.

2.) "I am unsuccessful, and your hard work reminds me of this fact." Evidence: she gets angry at unrelated things when you have work-related success. (This is truly a disaster. If this is the case, get out now.)

In either of these cases, it's best to dump her immediately.
It would be silly to think the subsidies are "aimed" at the family farmers since there are so few of them; they are just pawn in the game. It's partially about riot control (via cheap food), and probably more about relieving people of their pesky self sufficiency by making farming unprofitable.
If it's fixed in the latest OpenSSH, it's not a 0-day exploit, is it?
For quick notes I use a clean little OSX desktop app called Notational Velocity[1]. The only thing I would want in a dedicated note taker that it doesn't do is sync over the internet.

1- http://notational.net
In univ I started to take a short run if I had no lectures or labs scheduled. Short 3km track and around 20 minutes or so, 30min including showering.

It did wonders for my ability to sit down and focus until late evening.
That's how I read it. If I were a real superhero, with real teleportation abilities, I'd be teleporting everything into something incredibly lethal, too. The NPCs were available in CoH; in real life, I have deep mineshafts. Heck, I'd probably _create_ something incredibly lethal just to have something to teleport things into.

Looking at it from a storyline point of view, it's really cool. The city is overrun by villians, while the nominal "heroes" of the city rest on their laurels, or cower in their mansions. Then, from nowhere, a true hero: Twixt! The villians try everything they can, including banding together en-masse, but are unable to topple the City's Savior! Biff! Pow! Zap!
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

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this comment is false... and absurd. Trade with other nations decreases the chance of war because it creates a fabric of inter-dependency.

Isolationist approaches like talking about "foreign oil" and "dependency on foreign x" are the real cause of war. How many Americans hate some of our biggest trading partners (China, Saudi, Mexico) b/c we are told that it's an "us vs them" issue?

Look at it this way, if you are a president and you want to go to war, it's far easier when nobody in your country knows anyone in the target country (b/c there is no trade) and when nobody in your country stands to lose a job b/c the war will be against a customer!
ORLY? From the original article:

gain access into an area where they should battle each other. The battles are designed to distinguish the most skilled players.

and

Myers [..] quickly learned that players ignored the area's stated purpose. Heroes chatted peacefully with villains in the combat zone.
It is silly because beta/no beta is a binary decision, and the actual beta-ness of a product is a scaler.

So today they decide it has passed some arbitrary beta-ness threshold and the label goes away.

This and the fact it took five years with millions of happy users, all you can do is joke about it. Totally meaningless otherwise.
Depends how much older. Does it affect debian/ubuntu/redhat current systems, with fixes backported? It's a pretty big deal if it does.
Lots of people are sure, and sure they're sure, and they still get divorced in droves.
Or put them further apart.
The 1960's and 1970's were the era in which researchers designed new languages in response to the difficulties that they encountered in writing their own advanced applications. Common Lisp is perhaps the culimination of this work.

University subjects divide into those where the students start from scratch and those for which 11 to 16 year olds recieve substantial preparation. For example the teaching of physics depends on children learning arithmetic and algebra so that they are fluent before attempting to study physics at university. The teaching of law starts from scratch.

Computer science is a start from scratch subject, so a major focus is distilling the essence of computer programming to come up with a simple language suitable for bringing undergraduates up to employability in three years. Here is a perspective from which Java can be seen major achievement in programming language design.

However the consensus seems to be that a start-from-scratch degree is too short for meta-programming: you can teach it but not well enough to avoid students shooting themselves in the foot with it. So Common Lisp's defmacro is out. Similarly for customising the syntax of embedded sublanguages, so Common Lisp's read-macros are also out. CLOS is too sophisticated for a 3 year degree, nobody wants to try teaching undergraduates to define their own method combinations. The Common Lisp condition system is wildly over-elaborate. Reading Kent Pitman it is clear that the design was driven by the needs of very large, very sophisticated programs. It is fascinating to read the documentation as a kind of old developers war story in which people believe that the condition system doesn't need to be that elaborate and find out the bitter truth the hard way as the project code base grows.

So new versus old doesn't work as a criterion for programming language choice. It hasn't worked for twenty or thirty years. If you want to do work on Artificial Intelligence you are committing yourself to writing very large, very sophisticated programs. In recent years new languages have been designed with very different goals in mind and newness is not your friend.
I've always liked the approach American Greetings uses for their sign-in. Similiar to the LightBox script except the only way to exit is to click the 'close' icon. Clicking the page beneath does nothing. Feels very intuitive.
Thank you. This is a non-event. At least someone gets that and isn't looking for a 'profound analysis.'

False profundity makes for some of the worst comments.
SSH: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3

The newest releases use 5.1
I had the same problem on GTA4. In multiplayer there's a "GTA Race" mode which is racing but with freedom to walk around, use weapons on other racers, etc. There's also a vanilla "race" mode with no weapons that's just about racing.

So I enjoyed playing GTA Race, blocking up the track and mass killing the other racers - you get points and it's the point of that mode - to either dodge violence or to cause it. Instead people whined about how they "just wanted to race" yet for some reason they wouldn't bother to use the proper Race mode.

Basically, people are idiots.
But then he appointed Harkin to Agriculture. Now, maybe it was the idea of spurring reform from the inside (and helping his re-election). But I was disappointed in that status quo, esp. since Obama reads Pollan. Getting bills through congress really is like herding cats, but what do you expect when they're presented with the same fluffy ball?
That's the excuse that is used by farmers in Britain.
We subsidise growing sugar beet in Germany rather than importing cane sugar because in WWII German U-boats cut off the imports.
Change you shouldn't have believed in...
You're right but it doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. You can have people and things. Sure, there are trade-offs, but it's doable.

I'm 26 and my situation is nearly identical to the OP, with one big exception: My fiance and I share the same values.

And what it really means is just, "do you want the same things out of life." And WRT this subject, we both feel strongly that the surest path to happiness in our careers (and to wealth) is to work for ourselves. It's been 2 years since we made the leap together and it's been successful, if off-the-plan.

Her skills compliment mine (She's a great designer and a true people-person). She's done a lot of design and sales work, plus a lot of administrative stuff.

We both think that in the long run we'd benefit from having pursuits outside our marriage and once we've reached a point where we can pay for what she brings to the table now at no extra charge, she'll lay the foundation for her own ideas, which we'll fund and persue as quickly as is prudent.

There's been snags along the way. There will certainly be more of them. And I lived with a woman for a year and a half prior to meeting my soon-to-be wife and we had none of this shared-values chemistry and that eventually contributed to the hard choice of pursuing our separate paths. Mine led me here, and I couldn't be happier.

People are far more important than money. But if you're young and not yet married, without children, without a mortgage, you should ask "do I want to make this sacrifice. Can I find a way to have both." Your life is short. And you get one shot. Don't settle.
I think this article is quite content free.

The only message of this article is in my opinion "if you write your cv you have to keep up with the stupid^Wintelligent cycle of .. currently we only like writing style X so change or your cv lands in the bin".

Writing a good CV is probably impossible. Everybody has different ideas what "good" actually means.

Pity HR people don't understand Geek code ;)
I lived in Nebraska for a few years. One of my coworker's Father, a non-farmer, would buy land that the federal government would pay him not to farm. I hope this type of subsidy loophole goes away.
"your download has just finished" popping up in your iphone when you're on the go (or at the pool), or the latest tweets from friends (using Adium), or even getting notified when your friends log on to Xbox live are examples of some quite interesting general public things that can be done...
But the food isn't cheap!
Everything (except HFCS and beef) is much more expensive than in the EU.
> doesn't have to many drivers for it including the battering saving ones

I know it was a typo, and I know what you meant, but I want a driver that will save me from battering my laptop now.
It does. But you don't get risk without reward. If she sticks with you even if your business failed and you're both broke and need to get day jobs again, she's a keeper ;)

My parents owned and ran two businesses together, but they never got rich. But it wasn't a bad way to live, and they definitely saw more of each other than they would have with day jobs. Though to be fair, they also had my dad's retired pay from the military, which mitigated a lot of risks and meant they'd never be truly broke.
What would be nice is a script that extracts the image urls from the stylesheet(s), creates the sprite image for the used images, then creates another css file with the required offsets for the classes.

I have been putting off spending some time creating a script like this, mostly because I am pretty sure there is already one out there that does it.
No one knows yet. But the versions included on RHEL, Fedora, etc are all old (no one is on 5.3). So we have to wait and see...
Technically it is a 0-day exploit (not published and unknown) but that only works on older versions of SSH.

However, the default version on RHEL, Fedora are vulnerable. So, it is a big issue if there is no patch from your distribution (unless you use ssh from source which is not common).
Principle of least regret. Which will you regret passing up the least? Think about 6 months, 1 year, 5 years, and 10. Assign these number values. Make up a contingency tree, to cover the eventualities as they'd happen if your plans don't work out. Also assign number values to the leaves. Weight the leaves according to rough estimates of probability. Choose the path with the least regret.
I have no idea why I would "surely" mean that. Is "32-bit RGBA PNG" a synonym for "24-bit PNG with Alpha Transparency"? If so, I suppose I could have been more explicit, though I've never once seen such images referred to as that.
"it doesn't have to be an either-or situation."

I agree, which is why I put that part in there :)
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The current debian etch ssh package is 4.3p2
I'm not sure how that article turned into a treatise on how mean Microsoft is, but I stopped reading after the first third of it. Someone let me know if it picked up after that. :)

Not to shill for my employer or anything, but Ryan Paul wrote a really good overview of the whole HTML5 video thing the other day: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/decoding-the...
"1.0 is stable and reliable"?

True of very few, IME.
I know many of my better ideas have been done over a weekend or afterhours for a week. The thing is that when its not a "complete project" these things are very easy to bang out. It's the next 6 months where the polish gets added. (side rant: and over those 6 months the frontend guys get all the oohs, ahhs, and credit, despite your having done the core work).
Ask HN: What are you afraid of?
I'm working on a little project about the logic of fear. I'd say that, on the whole, this is a pretty logical group of people, so I'd be really interested to hear what you're afraid of.

It could be a full-on phobia or just a nagging, uncomfortable feeling that you get when something crosses your mind.

If you don't have it in your profile, a little blurb about what you do would also be appreciated, but not totally necessary.

Thanks.

Edit: Also, what, if any steps have you taken to confront/overcome said fear.
Whatever your opinion on griefing is, it can sure be humorous.

This link was in the comments from on NOLA article, "FANSY THE FAMOUS BARD":

http://www.notacult.com/fansythefamous.htm
If this is real it's a biggie, there are hundreds of thousands of machines running openssh 4.3.

better check those firewall settings.
Dude. Be honest. Its over. You aren't looking for answer on what to do. You already have it. You want to know if your indifference to her is poor form or if you are still a human.

She wanted to know if you thought she was more important than your career. If you would give everything up for her. All women want to know that.

Clearly because you have to think about it, she is not most important. She knows it. You know it. (example: "I really did like my relationship with my girlfriend...")

Be honest. Grow a pair. You aren't a bad person.

Smile this is life and you are participating.
The average American's consumes a lot of corn and beef!
Geek attack :D

Modular Robots? Transformable Robots?

See some real Transformers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akNJ6S2UqsE
.. only Humans though ..