skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of insiders who think that the issues with derivatives market were the cause... In fact the commodity futures trading commission more or less said that their evaluation was that there was a concerted effort to use derivatives to obfuscate risks and for the most part caused the issue.

Again, I'm not arguing that it hasn't been stated, or suggested, or argued that "derivatives were one of the big causes of the crisis". I'm arguing that it hasn't been proven, and that there are other, credible, competing views. And even to the extent that derivatives might have been a significant part of what happened, one can question if they were the cause - or whether there might have been "upstream" causes which pulled the derivatives trading along for the ride.

That is fine that one guy wrote a book about the crisis. And it is very nice that he decided to pass the buck on who was at fault by using the stale "Big Government Is Bad!" and "Any Regulation Is Big Government!" lines.

A lot of people wrote books about the crisis. But from your discussion here it seems to me that your mind is made up regarding what did or didn't happen, so this discussion is probably pointless.

Perhaps everyone should just believe John Allison and his incredibly strong (Ayn) Randian ideological bent though?

Are you suggesting that? Because I'm not. And what, exactly, does Rand have to do with this? Ideology is irrelevant, an argument is sound (or not) regardless of the ideological orientation of the initiator of that argument.

8Also you seem to be missing the point on the Wall St. vs Main St. thing... The bigger issue to most is that somehow Wall St. firms are 'too big to fail' and the little guy (read: everyone else) had to give them a huge bailout because they gambled and lost. In the eyes of most, its as if they had to pay for someone's trip to the casino, out of their own taxes.*

Oh, whoah, whoah, whoah... you seem to be assuming that I approved of the bailouts. Absolutely not. I was as angry as anybody you're going to meet about that bullshit. And yes, that particular aspect of the whole situation, the "why should I bail you out because you made bad choices" line of thinking, I mostly support.

* It's about having to pay for your losses yourself, rather than having everyone else bail your ass out to the tune of billions of dollars. Taking all of the risk out of the system for the big boys, while it still exists for everyone else seems pretty BS (especially if you're part of 'everyone else').*

Absolutely. But I see that as an indictment of the corruption in our government, and the "crony capitalism" we have going on, not as an indictment of just "Wall Street" in and of itself.
The amount of negativity in this thread is amazing. I've watched the video and I'm positively impressed. The demo is building the insight why is my code / unit test computing a certain value with instant feedback and full information of the whole call chain. It's far from perfect, but it's miles better than writing a unit test, having it fail, scratching your head, adding some log statements / breakpoints, re-running the code, doing a little tweak, oops, still broken, lather, rinse, repeat. REPL is poking at the problem through a tiny keyhole and Light Table is opening the door and shining the light on the full behavior of the code. No more playing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant.
You're running out-of-memory, and hitting the `llvm.trap` intrinsic call. It causes an illegal instruction to invoke a core dump. It doesn't currently print an error message.
Bothered me when I realized that maybe mainstream reviews (the ones able influence the average mass market buyer) were using binaries very biased in favor of intel.
Brilliant interview with Woz (1984) - shows how sharp this man is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZrv55B6Js
So why in the world does rent keep jumping through the ceiling in Boston, NYC and SF. Housing prices have gone up despite this 'bust' in real estate. I didn't see a single landlord in those cities drop (or hold) their rent, despite how bad the 'drop' (again, which I didn't really see) was.
The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO
About a billion coins are being added per day. That will change 2 weeks from now when the block reward halves. What's kind of interesting about Dogecoin is that there are so many people mining it. The rapid rate at which coins are being released combined with the large number of miners means that currently the top 100 addresses only hold 36.9% of all coins, the lowest concentration of wealth of any altcoin by a wide margin.
Code is not Literature
Then reword it to fit. As is it's not even close to accurate.
I don't know if I have ADHD, but am similar in many ways to your description.

I've recently tried meditating to attempt to be more focused, though I don't think it is really helping.

What has helped (during work anyway) is using the Pomodoro Technique. I have the clock in front of me all the time, and you'd be amazed at how quickly 25 minutes counts down. I treat each Pomodoro like a mini-sprint. I am only allowed to work on one feature during a Pomodoro. I am only allowed to write in one language in a Pomodoro. That forces me to write my tests, and my feature and run the tests etc. etc. I'd much rather be doing that than sitting there staring at the screen because I won't allow myself to surf HN or FB.

As far as being forgetful and being more detail oriented, I haven't found a solution for that yet. I am trying herbal supplements like St. John's Wort, and I think it calms me down a bit (I definitely sleep better and don't grind my teeth as much), but sorry, don't have a good answer for you on that part.
Abraham Lincoln’s Top Fundamentals for Creating a Kick-Ass Life
Wait a minute.

This is a notice of publication. It's not a registration.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4804:ziuhzn...

Note the priority date of Feb 1, 2013, but the game was released a year earlier.

Something is fishy.
Thanks for the reply. My comment apparently came off as trite, apologies.

One of the enlightening things for me about CSP and Erlang, in particular, was using channels and messages and a bunch of lightweight tasks for flow control and state management. Reading the reddit comments, and even your reply here, seems to indicate that that type of programming isn't a good fit for rust, and that perfectly reasonable trade offs were made that led the language in a different direction. I should have phrased the comment better, but the recommendations here and in the reddit thread boil down to replying to "it hurts when I do this" with "don't do that".

Obviously no-one is trying to write programs that count to 10001, but the capability of doing it that way efficiently opens up a bunch of different options.

It will be interesting to see what happens to go's performance on things like this if they move away from segmented stacks.
This is hilarious coming from a developer that simply ripped off Bejeweled with D Grade art and sound assets.
If you use emacs, magit apparently also has this functionality (I haven't gotten magit to work yet). I personally use http://porkrind.org/commit-patch/ via its Emacs integration, which has the benefit of working for VCSes other than git (though I personally find that becoming more and more rare as time goes by). Commit patch also has the command line tool "commit-partial" in case you don't use Emacs.

Disclaimer: A friend and I wrote commit-patch.
DTrace and ZFS are both available for Linux as out-of-tree kernel modules. Sun intentionally used a GPL-incompatible license... it has nothing to do with NIH.
Guy who built WhiteHouse.gov is running for Congress
12 Scientifically Proven Methods To Boost Productivity
Well, we’re not talking about taking that magic shot pill here.

But scientifically proven, 100% working, time-tested & proven methods to boost your productivity. Here goes.
OECD drops idea of special tax rules for Internet companies
You're talking about a company whose motto is "only the paranoid survive". Why win when you can utterly dominate?
I couldn't find it on any non-paywalled site. But here are the key paragraphs:

> Proposals for a tax crackdown on digital companies such as Google and Amazon are to be dropped, as governments push ahead with measures affecting the global economy.

> Designing special tax rules for internet companies would not be viable, given the growing digital presence in large parts of the economy, an international task force has concluded.

> Pascal Saint-Amans, the leading tax official at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, said: “The findings are that there is no such thing as digital companies rather than digitalisation of the economy. There may not be therefore a solution for the digital economy, but we will need to draw on features of digital economy when we revise the system. Most of the tax planning by these companies will be addressed by this.”

The context is of course this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7088042
Remeasuring Yahoo’s Alibaba Goldmine
They're just asking for one of their lucky cease-and-desist recipients to countersue and strip them of the right to use their own trademark, forcing them to rename their game.

It's happened before. Seems like a risky and stupid decision on their part.
What kind of legal arrangements are being used here?

Does the person/company who borrows money legally owe this debt to the investors? And which government bodies regulate these transactions?
Your robot helper is on the way, now that it can learn from its friends
Lob (YC S13) is seeking a DevOps Engineer
Lob (YC S13) is creating a suite of cloud APIs for businesses to enhance their operations. First API is a Cloud Printing API - Allows people to integrate printing into a web or mobile application, paid on a per-piece basis and processed on-demand (SaaS model)

We’ve been featured prominently on Angellist and recognized as one of the 10 hottest startups. We’re profitable and growing fast.

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to build the best cloud printing platform on the planet. You will be one of the first engineers to join and as such will have an unprecedented opportunity to shape the future of Lob.

Please email with your resume, Github, and any personal projects you're proud of to jobs@lob.com

Responsibilities

-Own deployment, CI, and our entire distributed system that is the core of Lob’s business.

-Work directly to define, architect and build out our backend API.

-Drive towards successful deliveries of scalable, maintainable and secure code.

-Create and define engineering best practices.

-Tackle challenging problems in distributed computing, HTTP, API design and more.

Requirements

-Experience building deployments scripts

-Experience working with Node.

-DevOps skills.

-Experience writing integration tests

-Experience building distributed systems

Benefits

-Health benefits for you and your dependent(s).

-Open vacation policy.

-Commuter benefits.

-Free lunch, dinner, and snacks. (Our fridge is always stocked!)

-Ground floor opportunity as an early member of the Lob team; you'll directly shape the direction of our company.
If You Love Her, Let Her Grow
Your project sounds awesome, the NLP part seems to be working nicely, but I'm afraid it depends on the quality of the data source, which right now is empty (I only saw some facts about a few smartphones). I remember your announcement for TheBigDB [1], and thought it had some fundamental structural limitations as a fact database too.

Since ontology is a very very hard problem, and collecting a lot of facts even more so, I think you should look more carefully into using a structured DB like Freebase that has already figured it out.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5493042
If you're interested in file-based tools, Jake [1] has excellent support for the sort of rules Fez of offers, and is quite mature.

I haven't dug deeply into Fez yet, but here's a few things Fez seems to offer that Jake doesn't:

1- Automatic concurrency. Like Gulp, Fez's subtasks run in parallel. It looks like Fez launches them in subprocesses in order to prevent conflicts, which is a good idea. I'm skeptical of parallelism in builds, though, because race conditions lead to nasty, hard-to-detect-and-fix bugs. I don't think the theoretical speed boost is worth the potential of defects getting into released code.

2- Automatic pipelining. Also like Gulp, Fez can pipe the output of one operation to the input of another. This is useful because you can avoid dealing with temporary files. Unlike Gulp, Fez has an extremely simple and non-error-prone way of constructing those pipelines. I like it.

The major advantage of Fez (and Jake) over Grunt and Gulp is that they use file timestamps to tell if a task needs to run. This can lead to major speed benefits. I recently modified my Jakefile to use this sort of dirty checking on my Sass compiler. I don't change my CSS that often, but the css task was doing an expensive "shell to Ruby" command on every build no matter what. Adding dirty checking shaved my typical build time down from 6.5s to 3.5s.

Overall, Fez looks like a really nice tool. It has a strong ideology (rule-based transformation of files) tempered by a nice dose of practicality. For example, although Fez wants every task to define a file-transformation rule, it also supports "imperative mode" for tasks that don't fit that model. It's very promising, and I'm looking forward to learning more.

[1] Jake: https://github.com/mde/jake
Actually, you've found a convenient way to elevate yourself to the role of hero while looking down on an entire gender and other races. Must feel great.
I can understand Apple being a trademark (the one bite apple logo and the capital Apple, Inc) but come on trademark Candy for your game Candy Crush Saga?

This is on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7089879

/joking: And the article mentions CSP. Maybe we should trademark CSP so we don't get Content-Security-Policy confused with Communicating Sequential Processes (or the other way around).

It's just ridiculous.
Relief as Rosetta wakes, but we continue to hold our breath
I can view them as lots of ways. For that matter, I've owned two companies myself, one where the business income was part of my income and one where they were separate.

But I'm not answering your question as you've not answered the ones I posed to you. As it stands, it appears that you don't know much about corporations nor corporate taxation. It seems rather a waste of my time to continue this exchange if I don't think you're making a reasonable effort at it, or tire of weak attacks on my character.
Intel paid $10M into a pool to reimburse customers who purchased the Intel compiler. Intel later paid over $1B to AMD settling a number of cases with AMD and the US DOJ. Intel was also fined by the EU ca 2009.
I imagine a future dominated by the latter kind of corporation - once someone builds the first profitable self-owning entity (I dunno, maybe it engages in high-frequency trading or direct marketing all day long) that can rent its own server space and reproduce itself, it will spawn out of control.
thanks dude! would love to learn more about your company. maybe there are synergies worth exploring? hit me up on twitter @fireoneout and we can exchange info
Damn, what a time capsule. Thanks for digging that up.
Dunno, it seems telling when the argument of harm is "if you somehow get extra pure substance and ingest it way above medicinal levels, you might die".

Spilling nicotine on yourself isn't really in the threat model of chewing nicotine gum at all.
Actual Make article: http://makezine.com/projects/notifying-doorbell-with-pushing...
Goes hand in hand with new government requirements (in NYC, for example) to increase building efficiency!

http://www.nyc.gov/html/gbee/html/home/home.shtml
Oklahoma City had an underground Chinese city
Yeah, Slackware =]. People tend to laugh when you use it ("LOL WHO USES SLACKWARE!?!??!111") but its packages are hand-picked to be stable and rock solid. On top of this, it's very easy to get a bare-bones install that doesn't enable a bunch of useless shit (and open ports) at startup. Beware, all package management is by hand for the most part and doesn't support dependencies. So if you install a package, you have to know what other packages it depends on. Also, be ready to compile some of your favorite services by hand since a lot of them aren't in the distributed packages (think things like NginX, HAProxy, etc). Things like Apache, MariaDB, Python, Ruby, PHP, are included though.

It's one the oldest linux distros and doesn't really hold your hand that much. You'll be editing a lot of config files by hand. However once you get used to it you'll definitely feel a much stronger connection to your box than with a lot of distros that try to make things easier. /r/slackware is a good resource, there are a good amount of lurkers that jump at any chance to help someone out, and linuxquestions.org is a good forum as well.

EDIT: forgot to mention: don't rule out FreeBSD/OpenBSD as well. They are known to be pretty solid for hosting as well.
It's a little bit like asking which color you should like. A lot of main stream programming languages are very similar in capabilities but differ in some of the details on how they express this, i.e. the syntax. The programming languages you end up choosing probably has a lot to do with how appealing the language and the ecosystem around it is to you.

You might want to try a few languages such as Python, Ruby, PHP, Javascript, etc. I would suggest to focus on the language first and then the frameworks.
3 Things Really Successful Usability Experts Do Differently
HN mods also enforce titles being the same as the original to reduce sensationalism and editorializing. Even if OP did reword it to fit, a mod would just change it back.
There are also non-stimulant drugs for ADHD which could maybe work for OP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomoxetine
Good planning and great use of your own tool.

$5k a month is enough in many rural spots in the US to support a small family. However, there's a different issue - it's the inherent risk and unpredictability of a startup. And opportunity cost.

Basically, there's a non-trivial likelihood that the startup revenues could diminish or disappear. There are many reasons for this - churn rate, unsustainable customer acquisition costs, market changes, a new competitor emerging offering a free product, who knows. As a result, if you are counting on the startup as your sole source of income, you need to "pad" this with the expected downside risk.

If there's a 50% chance of income going to zero in two years, then you need to double your $5k to be able to have the "excess" income now to be able to weather the potential zero-income later. In this way, over 2 years, you will still have $5k a month, even if revenue goes to 0 in year 2. Make sense?

The larger the likelihood of failure, the greater this risk-multiplier.

Also, there's the Opportunity Cost trade off. If you can work for someone else with minimal risk and get the same $5k versus work your butt off carrying all the same risk for the same $5k, which would you choose? The "safer" $5k will always win. In such case, comparing $5k in startup revenues to $5k in salary is not a direct comparison. If you are working twice as hard for the same $5k with twice as much risk, you should be earning twice as much. Otherwise, just do the "easier" job. This is not as much a financial calculation as a Real Opportunity Cost calculation.

This is why I often say - if you want to replace your salaried job with startup revenue as a sole source of income, take your monthly salary, multiply it by three, and this is what your monthly SaaS revenue should be to weather future potential downside and account for greater risk for the same reward.
It's very similar? ... Let's be honest here ...
It'd depend on the volumes involved. I don't think it's out of the question to look for any grouping of outbound transfers around the amount in question and follow them as possibilities. This assumes you eventually want to do something with the mass of money. If you've got 10000 BTC and only want to cash out 100, yeah I suppose that's nearly untraceable.
Ask HN: Should I switch from PHP to NodeJS?
Yes, certainly. But it's still the most popular filter subscription. I think this suggests that most people using AdBlock want to block all ads, not just network ads.
Many people use something like denyhosts or fail2ban to help with brute force attacks. PF has built-in support for building rules with options which will throw potential attackers into a 'penalty box' based on certain factors like connection rate.
Search the linked page for "CPUID manipulation program for AMD" -- there is some info about this.

Apparently when run under virtualization, the CPUID instruction is intercepted and can thus be manipulated. There's also a github project for patching binaries generated from ICC to run the optimal code-paths even for AMD. But there doesn't seem to be a way to manipulate the hardware itself to change its vendor string.
I'm still not entirely sure why is Intel forced to do this? Is it only because they advertise that it optimizes equally well for any CPU? If not, then I don't really see why they can force them to provide another AMD-friendly version.
If it isn't obvious: sounds like "So Sue Me". This is not a coincidence.

From the creator: http://boingboing.net/2005/03/24/early-apple-sound-de.html
Why is the personal relationship "fake" just because it's made with a database instead of human memory? Because the company doesn't really care about the daughter? Would it be creepy if employees at a smaller store remembered a customer's daughter dying, and were sensitive to that fact, but didn't actually personally care about it?
>web application process had write access to a location it was able to execute code from

Like many CMSes seem intent on doing?
Brainwave entrainment while you are working. Piracetam. Acetyl L-Carnitine.
Alright, now where's the Snowden leak describing how the NSA is tracking my meals?
That doesn't bother me so much, because if Sherlock were a modern figure, he'd carry some kind of mobile device and use it the way he does in the show. There isn't a lot of pomp and cirucmstance made about him unlocking his phone and carefully navigating the nanometer-engineered laser-etched icon menus, isn't this device amazing, you should buy one. You near a text message notification (which many of us hear, from our own devices, or our neighbors', on a daily basis), he looks at the phone, the shot shows the phone, and highlights the contents of the message as a storytelling device, rather than as an advertisement for how pretty Apple's software is.

I'd like to clarify that I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means - my mobile devices are all Android, and I primarily work on Windows machines. I don't have any issue with characters using modern technologies as part of a story, but when the storytelling detours for the sole purpose of advertising a product, it gets wonky.

Some more of my favorite examples:

Nissan/Fringe - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4fY1_NSxF0

Windows Phone/Castle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFPcvcTzdYY

Hyundai/Burn Notice - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4xlSN9_XT0

Subway/Hawaii-50 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQYwFND7rHE

On the flip side, Chuck did Subway's product placement very well - they just leaned into it and played it for laughs, rather than trying to oh-so-cleverly have Serious Characters eat Serious Lunch with Serious Nutritional Value. The show just owned the fact that Subway had shoved a crackload of cash at them and went overboard with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdaHx0_PmC0
Ask HN: What should the full software stack look like in 2029?
What should these things look like in 15 years? From the kernel to OS to userland utils to the low-level and high-level programming languages to the "web" and "browsers" (or whatever replaces them).