skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our financialized economy causes bubbles. During many bubbles, the results of a massive, artificial credit infusion reach some sector(s) of the economy. This results in a lot of short-term economic waste, as well as some people getting rich far out of proportion to the wealth they have created. (More specifically, richer than they would've become under similar circumstances in a free market economy without government-backed financialization.)

You can see this when Wall Street traders blow $100,000 on a night of entertainment, and you can also see it on a smaller scale when excessive financing through a VC reaches a company which then sometimes wastes the excess money.

Coming back to this article, Matt seems like a nice, productive guy, so this wasn't really a good example of what I'm talking about. There are some people in the Bay Area, though, who are in the "startup scene" largely to party, socialize, spend lots of money in extravagant ways, and attempt to get rich quick -- this is the "bubble lifestyle" I referred to. I know there are at least a few others here on HN who have seen firsthand what I'm talking about, because it's been mentioned before.

So, when I saw the mention of dual 30" monitors, 2 laptops a year, prime SF real estate, eating out all the time, etc. I was reminded of the bubble lifestyle. Sometimes, for people who are used to being frugal, this kind of thing just jumps out at you. Many hackers are frugal people -- PG seems to be one of them, because I remember him saying something about being impressed that a Yahoo co-founder went poking around Viaweb servers to see if there was any unnecessary use of resources, even though Yahoo was already big and he was already rich.

Before someone downvotes this comment, I want to reiterate that I don't mean to denigrate Matt at all. In Matt's case, it could very well be that the expenditures are worthwhile and even necessary. But I was just reminded of others who are just in it for the lifestyle.
Meantime, we suck...

Thanks to BigTelcos
rylor(dot)com

tobeg(dot)com

dyles(dot)com

5 letter domain names are hard to come by nowadays...
Reading this I couldn't help but think that standardised, easy-to-use, end-to-end crypto could have prevented a lot of these cases. No way for the pictures to be intercepted by the law, no way for a "friend" to steal them out of the recipient's mailbox. Of course, trust only goes so far as a teenage boy's trustworthiness, but it's something.
National Debt as a Roadtrip
Hover Kart and a virtual currency are coming to OMG POP on Monday
Now you know why 78 million COM names are taken. A few here, and a few there. Most doing nothing. I posted an analysis with list of available one-word domains that are left recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480858
"Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we [the FED] did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again."

— Ben Bernanke, in a speech at Milton Friedman's 90's birthday, 2002

“It's almost worth the Great Depression, to learn how little our big men know.”

— Will Rogers
Only a "new technology" expert would write something so unbelievably dumb. And I don't even disagree with him.

Yes, the teacher that sits at a podium and delivers a lecture is worse than a teacher that's interactive with students. That's always been the case. When I went to college they even had names for them. "Good Teacher" and "Bad Teacher" we called them.

There's nothing inherently different about this new generation. It's certainly not going to bring down the University. Heck, as long as tenure exists it won't even bring down the bad teachers.

For better or worse (probably worse) college has become more an experience than a learning institution. Kids go to college to avoid the world for 4 more years and get a credential for their trouble. Anyone interested in learning (like I was with computers) knows most of the curriculum before they walk in the door and is just there to get a diploma.

Honestly, the first 2 years is dedicated to reteaching what you already learned in High School. That should be a hint.
What Does $14 Million Worth of PageRank Look Like?
I'll give you 100 ideas:

Pick the top 100 web business in US and port them to spanish to cater users from Mexico to Argentina, or portuguese for brazil.

There are three huge markets this side of the pond, in english, spanish and portuguese, each one with 300M potential users.
Congrats! How did you manage to get the WSJ to write you guys up?
Well let's not just blame them for this.

Also blame them for the disgusting state of our cell phones!
This is just a traditional legal system struggling because it refuses to recognize changes in culture and technology. I don't think anyone is specifically out to get kids, it's just that these people (lawyers, judges, sheriffs, etc.) simply don't understand what's taking place.
What's your email, I've got plenty and no time.
From my point of view this is a kind of overreaction from the society to an existing problem where we mixing real criminals with kids. Based on that strict rules long generation could be criminalized... The magical figures of legal age are based on traditions but puberty comes way earlier nowadays with all the bad consequences. We are sending police officers after kids but there are no words against the girly image from the media which is far from innocent and a good inspiration for all the illegal behaviour. As a father of three I just hope the best that my kids will survive these years without an incident like that.
Maybe she shouldn't be such a slut. Just my two cents.

On top of it, the distribution wasn't intentional by the boyfriend. Why not go after those that did distribute it ie- his friends? May be hard to prove the computer was left open and "person x" did it.

Yes, it's horrible this happened, and I'd be pissed if I was a dad. I'd also try to be rational. Like Chris Rock said "Youve done a good job if you keep your daughter off the pole". Seems like this Dad is about to fail.
How does our language influence the way we think?
You're essentially saying to follow the herd then; as a nerd, I can not blindly condone such an action. This doesn't mean you should stop fighting though.
I think Flash is running in a virtual machine, similar to JavaScript?
Duck, Duck, Goose: Celebrating deception at the bird carving world championship
New attack class exploits intranet weaknesses
They don't mind:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS317US...
Don't forget that in 1994 Microsoft agreed to buy Intuit, at the time clearly recognizing the value of the company--in particular the annual updates that 70%+ of customers bought. It would have been the largest software company acquisition in history at $1.5 bn in stock but fell apart under DoJ scutiny.

Article comparing failure to buy Intuit to the failure to buy Yahoo!
http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/05/13/what-micros...

Overview of Intuit/Microsoft history
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/01/05/why_microsoft_wanted...
Well, things like calls from languages with variable length arg lists to ones without and vice-versa can be pretty sticky. (They are always doable, but doing it and making it fast is a little harder.)
> It was invented by Disqus, a company whose discussion software handles the threads at 90,000 blogs worldwide (including mine). In this paradigm, if a comment gets a lot of negative ratings, it goes invisible. No one can see it—except, crucially, the person who posted it. "So the troll just thinks that everyone has learned to ignore him, and he gets discouraged and goes away," chuckles Disqus cofounder Daniel Ha.

This is just a lack of fact checking. This technique hsa been in use for many years now.

I've used it on my discussion groups since 2001/2002, I can't remember the exact year. Joel of Joel on software describes a similar technique that he uses.
Scripts?

It's a database table with images with scores that are randomly accessed and presented to the user.

When the user clicks on a photo, + to score, and reload the page with new photos.

All the rest is just candy, really.

Point being either it is trival to create this yourself, or you could google it.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hot+or+not+scripts
Thanks, this I understand.
the comments over at cnet are very ill-informed.

native client allows you to run x86 assembly code (from a c compiler or even handwritten) at native speed. that is: no vmmon, but truly native! this is very different from JIT compilation or other "high performance" runtime environments.

http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/

combining this with o3d (http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/), high performance javascript and the html5 apis, will make this an extremely powerful platform.

only downside: the security model is rather hard to prove.
John Stossel has an interesting dissenting opinion:

http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel.html
We the people strongly oppose such aberration and condemn those involved in heresy to be burned at the stake!

Unless they accept going back to the drawing table...
If they can change the terms whenever they want, you don't really have any protection at all. So you are likely going to be screwed if the big company ever wants to stop you from doing this. The solution is to either make sure the big company is happy with what you are doing, or line up alternative sources for your data. A lawyer won't help you.
Hi, I may be interested in recofriend.com I have emailed the address in the whois, but let me know if you don't get it.
My favourite example of this is the Dunning-Kruger effect, in which people who are incompetent at tasks do not realize they are incompetent -- because they don't know what competence looks like. So they assume they're doing "okay", or even above-average, even when objective tests show otherwise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

I read at the time that the reverse is also true -- the very competent tend to assume similar levels of competence in everyone, so they are unaware how good they are. However, this wikipedia page makes no mention of that part.
Well, that's just how language works. Words gain their cromulence through consensus.
I'm pretty sure any picture that looks like a "nut punch" will not suggest endorsement of the President.
How about this:

<tag type="author|reader|auto" rel="label|means|etc" value="label1,label2"/>

which can be included anywhere in the doc and can be parsed/ignored according to some browser setting, leaving the whole document intact?
>For financial information, I want multi-decade records.

My wife and I have been recording our family finances in MS Money since January 2003. Maybe we hit a sweet spot with Money 2004 but we never saw a compelling reason to upgrade. I have an uncle who similarly is currently using Quicken from something rediculous, like 1999. The value of the records now, the ability to look back at how various changes (births, moves, Katrina, etc) affected our savings and spending has been unbelievably helpful not only in terms of making informed decisions about the future, but also preventing fights about finances.

As an aside, the other major source of friction has historically revolved around schedules, and Google Calendar is awesome for that. A very useful decision, I think, was giving each other write permission to each others schedules.
This seems pretty effective. Giving the trolls what they want (or the illusion thereof). But insulating them from people who don't want to have to hear it.
I was hoping for a pro-blink-tag essay that all blinked using javascript.
Most people also spend very little time watching themself on video -- I imagine this is a learned skill like any other -- learning to know yourself as a 3d object viewed from a perspective other than a mirror!
Scribd on the front page of BusinessWeek.com
Europe to get Windows 7 Without IE8
How do people in Japan use their current 1 Gbps connections today? Are the ISPs making money or are they in some kind of government-subsidized fiber bubble?

1 Gbps is faster than a hard disk and 10 Gbps is faster than an SSD; this could change app design.
Oh yeah.

Textada.com (Auto-reply business text messaging service - never started)
NaCl is faster than Flash and NaCl can more easily run existing C code. (IMO NaCl >> Alchemy.)
Actually, you can install it just from the tarball. It's pretty easy. (Check the Without RubyGems section of the install page.)
shitcode.com
seebulletin.com
stealyourradio.com
stolenradio.com
A Response to "Create the Filter"
I'm not sure when it was introduced but I understand that reddit does this as well. It's a pretty clever idea, but it really hasn't helped much there so far.
Ask HN: Who created hackernewsbot on Twitter? It rocks.
since at least 2003. i ran a site at 1.8t.org for a number of years but now i'm just hanging on to it because it's a 2-letter domain.
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savethedot{dot}com
I have plenty too and have to prioritize them! Can only follow less than a hand full and see how they grow ...
I only read half the article, but from what I can tell:

- 14 year-old girl sends topless pics to multiple teenage peers.

- One of the recipients leaves his inbox open and his friend posts the images online.

- That same recipient gets arrested.

It seems like of those three people (the girl, the recipient, and the poster), the most-innocent one was the one that got arrested. That's bass-ackwards.
Building nonsuperficial relationships with people is a great way to get uncomfortable opinions/data about your actions.

I have often been criticized/enlightened by my wife (usually in a nice way ;-)) and ended up eventually agreeing. This happens less often with my good friends but it still happens.

I think there are always going to be illusions in the way of this "help" in every nonsuperficial relationship (whether perceived by zero, one, or both parties). But that does not mean it is a fundamentally untrustworthy source of feedback to me.

Regarding "cognitive dissonance", I wonder if there is a way to recognize and welcome it more (not sure how delusional this is, but I have experienced deep contradictions and they do seem to "feel" a certain way).
Reminds me of the Polaroid acquisition:

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/private-equity-...

It was mentioned that Polaroid was one of the most recognized brands in the world and $59 million was a relative bargain.

Update: See corrected link and figure ($89 million) below.
Are you crazy, man? You've got to keep idoh.org .
Tangent: Is two 30" screens really useable? I imagine you end up with neither being front and center, and it gets uncomfortable.

I'm trying to decide between 2x30" and 30" + 2x20"(in landscape) on either side.
youapedia.com - with the thought that it would be nice to have a wiki entry on yourself. everyone loves to talk about themself. :)
This is an excellent idea. I would make just one small addition, which is do it with your co-founder. Make your list. Have them make their own list, and then compare notes over dinner/beer.

Doing it with a friend will cause you to come up with ideas that you wouldn't have alone, and it's good to make sure you're both on the same page.
Maybe you misunderstood the words in my answer because they didn't mean what you think you read...

You are free to redefine the meaning of any word you want. But that's what the article was about -- misusing words.
Shopify App store implementation is awesome
To be fair, also blame the fact that the area of the US is 25x that of Japan (10x if you count just the lower 48).
Opera to reinvent the web june 16th apparently
I'd consider giving it up / a trade for a worthy cause. I like having the trifecta, but what would I put there that I wouldn't put on idoh.com instead?
Thanks! Enjoy :)
In the most recent WIRED (magazine), the errata section acknowledges that the technique wasn't invented by Disqus. Not sure how it slipped past the initial fact check, but they figured it out eventually.

You do have to wonder how that didn't get corrected in the very mutable online version of the story, though...
The size of the pipe going out of your house does not matter if the upstream routers do not have #users x max_bandwidth available as well. Seeing as how state of the art equipment does not have enough bandwidth on the backplane to support even a small neighborhood with connection speeds like this it seems that a better description of this endeavor would "waste of effort."
They'll still be there when she's 35.
Common Tag uses RDFa so I'm confused (bear with me) on your objection to the scheme. The use of Freebase and DBPedia makes sense since all of their data is under relatively open license, unlike IMDB.
On WSJ.com too: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124475525754407679.html#mod=...

It looks like Scribd is building a reader for the iPhone, and this app will also allow searching within Simon & Shuster pbooks. This is interesting because it sounds similar to what you can do with Google Books, though on a much smaller scale.

Also from the WSJ article, Scribd's PDFs can be read on the Sony Reader but not on the Kindle DX - which means they've probably adopted Adobe's DRM. Are we going to see DRM-free paid content from Scribd at some point?
This "social bookmarking" thing is never going to take off.
According to your figures, alaska + hawaii is 15x the size of japan, and thus 1.5x the size of the lower 48 states. that's wrong.
The two technologies are quite different.

Flash is a platform for executing ActionScript code within a VM with a very specific feature set. It's not very fast.

NaCl is a means of executing binary code in a sandboxed environment. This means you can write an app in whatever language you like, and take full advantage of the host CPU's power. It has the potential to bring the power and functionality of desktop apps to the web, literally.
On a forum I help run, we tried the method of hiding a person comments from everybody but themselves (we only did it once for a particularly troublesome member). It was completely effective. After a couple of weeks you could tell from their comments that they really felt left out, but didn't realize what was going on. They kept trying anything for attention and eventually went away.
Bleh, just read my comment from before. It's "would be _willing_ to trade." Love typos.
People are killing themselves because they can't get on Twitter? Or is it because of post-traumatic stress disorder and a lack of support or understanding once they get home?

@GI_Joe Don't do it, man!
(Hawaii: 28,311 km²)

Alaska: 1,717,854 km²

Other 48 states: 8,080,464.25 km²

Japan: 377,873 km²

Now we calculate:

(28,311+1,717,854+8,080,464.25)/377,873 = 26.0051108

8,080,464.25 / 377,873 = 21.3840741

So, the whole US is 25x, but "contiguous 48", as wikipedia calls them, are only 20x.
And "sexting" is closer to this crowd's focus? shrug Who knew.

I was going to head to New Mogul anyway to see what comments there are about this story, but it's not nearly as populated as HN yet.
And it will. I signed up for the speedier FIOS (20/20) just so that future comes to my house a little quicker than others. This should give me a better shot at inventing the next bandwidth hog like YouTube.

Right now I'm thinking if it's worth it to buy a home server or just put everything into S3/JungleDisk. We're not quite there yet, but it's getting awfully close.

EDIT: read here on the emerging application paradigm http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2009/05/quick-history-...
... or "crazy fast neighborhood network", for some interesting definition of "neighborhood".
If you have a domain with something to do with giving recommendations (sharing/favourites/popular), even loosely related (or even so far removed it works) then let me know. I've been struggling with this one.
Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class
Malware steals atm accounts and pin codes
This whole article made sense to me until the last couple grafs, when I thought about "censorship" and first amendment lawsuits about whitehouse.gov and asked myself, "why is it good for us to be able to comment on whitehouse.gov"? Don't we already have enough forums for this discussion?
To be fair, network latency is both much higher and much more variable than hard disk latency, even if the bandwidth is higher. Design can change, but it's hard to get away from needing enough local smarts and storage to make an interface feel snappy.

Edit - To back up my otherwise unsupported assertion:

--- ycombinator.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4105ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 80.985/112.433/163.591/29.114 ms

So a little over 100ms with significant variance for the open internet, results fairly typical. (Edited to add: I can't reproduce these results; later attempts give closer to 450ms, so this is biased in the network's favor.) Hard drives (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE..., for lack of a better source) have latency around 5 ms.

You can solve bandwidth problems by buying more lines, but latency, once introduced by a slow network hop, can never be recouped by any amount of hardware.
I clicked around a bit and couldn't see where their servers are located. I assume they don't (yet) offer multiple locations like Linode and Slicehost.
Unrelated, but I think Knight's Bridge actually got them -- and for a lot more: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS174749+17-Ap...
Even better: you can potentially take a desktop application that you've already written, and run it via NaCl.

No need to rewrite into Flash.
ElkHider.com (say that out loud)
MoreInterviews.com
BlueTu.be
BlogTu.be
BitsOfHope.com
MessageRecord.com
ModernError.com
Overclass.org
AreaMates.com
An oldy but a goodie: http://sylloge.com/personal/2004/09/flickr-and-del.html
XML is the thing where you have angle brackets, right?
Fast but bursty Internet connections are still worth having since a lot of Internet usage is bursty.
I bought a domain name (actually, the big three) for a phrase that would be instantly recognizable on HN, with the intention of using it for a weekend project. Halfway through the weekend, before it was publicly accessible, I got an email from a chap in Italy saying it was his heart's desire to use that name for his software company, and could I please give him the domain name.

I'll mention to you what I mentioned to him : if you have hearts desire, you can afford $10 for a reg fee the SECOND you think of that domain name. (This is why I routinely buy them for weekend projects.)

But I am a softie for small software companies, so I made him a deal: I'd keep the domain pointed at his DNS servers for a year, meaning he gets 100% practical use out of the domain. If, at the end of the year, he had a software company active on the site, I'd transfer it to him gratis. If not, I'd keep it.

I think that everyone wins for that, except my weekend project. (Sure, I could technically screw him over, but I value my reputation far more than my domain names, even a pretty nice one.)
uncover(dot)com (Yes, there's a website there, but I've recently been trying to sell the domain.)
You're absolutely right. I couldn't remember the PE group and CNN and NY Times both showed Patriarch Partners for the acquirer when I googled it.
Result

We've made some checks on http://news.ycombinator.com/
We think that http://news.ycombinator.com/ is

maybe
a Ruby on Rails driven site (85 points).