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Well, we have some decent regulators. The issue was one of regulator-shopping. You've got AIG, the world's largest insurer, under the Office of Thrift Supervision exactly because AIG bent the rules to qualify for OTS oversight.

Reading Felix Salmon et al, the solution is for one large regulator with the sophistication to match the large and diverse financial institutions, to eliminate the turf wars and jurisdiction shopping of the past. Combine the SEC and the CFTC (which, guess what, knows how to regulate derivatives), and give the new SEC sufficient enforcement powers.

Furthermore, the regulation only makes VC shops (as well as PE and hedges, which all have the same GP/LP structure) file the exact same stuff that Vanguard, Fidelity, and other mutual fund companies already file. I love how the VCs never once mention this. Probably because it sounds so reasonable.
Couldn't a threshhold level of debt usage be a line of delineation?

Debt is a complex subject, but FASB has well-defined means to determine whether a security instrument is debt or equity.
>That kind of treatment of homosexuals (and indeed, much

>worse treatments) were sanctioned by every government on

>Earth. In addition, just about every religion, club,

>society, private business and the vast majority of

>individuals. And not just in that era, but from the dawn

>of time until very recently

That's a very strange reading of history. There's been massive variations in the way homosexuality is treated across cultures, just go back to classical Greece and Rome for some examples. Homophobia isn't a natural instinct, it's something we learn.

I don't like historical apologies either, but I hate the implication of your argument against this one. We have to make moral judgments about history, so we can figure out how to do better. Sure it's hard and uncomfortable, but anything else is a cop-out.
20 years of 'collective' experience is the key word that needs to be there to make it (slightly) less of a complete bullshit line.

But that's the least of the problem with false claims ...I recently met the owner of another local web firm who was telling people they've been 'in the business' for 30 years. I don't think I need to point out the error in math there.
Don't know if i will open source it or not. My goal for now is just to release it.

Right now I'm looking for a programming job and this will leverage it.

I do plan to release the ORM part only (without the web apps / services etc).
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Seems like there are still some growing pains with this site. I received a few errors just trying to explore the site. Also, I agree that even though this is a great idea, I think it is going to be difficult being first in this market.
How do you apologize for something you haven't done? Governments are constituted by human beings; so who today is complicit in the persecution of Turing? Answer, no one at all. The past is the past.It happened and there's nothing we can do to change it. Use of the word apology' in this context by people not responsible for that action merely degrades the meaning of the word. By all means express regret that a previous government did such and such but don't let's call it an apology which is rather cheap if you think about it.

If this pseudo-apology-for-past-sins-by-dead-people bandwagon gets going, where's it going to stop? Will we define a year zero prior to which we will not be apologizing for what we now regard as foul behaviour by the elite who ran the country at that time? Or do we form national bureaucracies to deal with the massive inbox of accumulated misdeeds down the ages?
This is quite possibly the coolest application of robotics, ever!
Winpdb supports embedded python and remote debugging, is free and cross platform.
(http://www.winpdb.org/ is down for me right now, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winpdb has some info)
Does this mean that someone will finally get around to making a decent Dr. Strange film?
I am. Please post it.
Anyone know how this works for windows mobile devices?
It is possible to sound professional without sounding boring, and I'd also argue that being honest about the scale and capabilities of your company is a big part of professionalism.

"UberSoft is a leading provider in synergistic data-driven technologies focused on improving ROI through market-driven analytics. The UberSoft Team has over twenty years of experience in delivering proven solutions to our corporate partners." is fluff.

"Spend less time marketing, and more time watching hockey. UberSoft makes marketing easy, because we've got a really great way to link statistics from news feeds into your existing analytics." is honest, and a lot more memorable.
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Good advice when Dale Carnegie put it in his book, still good advice today.
Integrate this with a selection of a few dozen no-programming-required badge templates and a badge/achievement designer, though, and you could have something.

Example: there should be a quick fire-and-forget Javascript method to increment a per-user arbitrarily named variable that you keep track of, and then when you exceed some threshold of that, you get a badge. That allows you to use one system to support everything from "Slay 100,000 orcs" to "Print out 75 bingo cards", with negligible work from your API consumers. The fact that it is negligible work creates value whereas your base offering (show that you've slain 100,000 orcs on your teaching bingo site profile! Booyah!) does not.

Other easy things to measure are stickiness (time since registration), collecting all of a set of API calls, etc (For example, in the hosted badge designer, you could say "A Dragonslayer is anyone who submits any [dropdown: two] of the following events: killed-red-dragon, kill-blue-dragon, and kill-green-dragon. Then customer site only has to fire killed-#{monster.name} as appropriate, and boom, dragonslayers.)
This is the exact opposite of Respect. If you only respect people who are like you, you respect no one. We are all different and have different circumstances. You can't accurately measure team member's output at any given moment, as it fluctuates and depends on so many factors.
Respecting someone means (in the agile context) trusting their good intentions and willingness to do everything they can for the success of the team/business. And guess what, it's not hard at all. Oh, and it's contagious too.
You have to be careful about the false positive rate vs. the incidence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox . It might not be a good idea to do this kind of widespread screening.
Or you could operate more like the credit bureaus do for banks by selling your service directly to websites instead of end users. You connect in the back end with all the sites, they send you users information, and then you parse it all into one solidified reputation.

Doing something like this, you could act as a sort of social network background check, as users would not even need to opt-in to your service, they would automatically be signed up when they join the various sites.
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One of the big things hyped when Chrome came out was its better JavaScript performance. Anecdotally, it seems to run script-heavy sites I use, including the Google apps, more quickly than IE or Firefox.
You can have leverage without debt through the use of options and other derivatives. The leverage is the systemic structural issue, not the notional amount of debt.
Repeating a check sometimes makes sense
It doesn't, it's not meant to (I'm the creator, btw)-
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I've worked with 3-person operations that claimed to have "teams" and double-digit employee counts to clients. Why not just be honest? It's like black-hat SEO for your HR.
"PDF widely misunderstood by non-developers" seems to fit better.
I have been using Evernote for about a year without much success, I just haven't found a good workflow. I like your approach and will try it out myself.
My interest flailed around and died when I tried to read your last paragraph, the 'sanitized' version that you think should have been written.

Your post is simply the Kindergarten Teacher's clarion call for people on the internet to "be nice to each other!" Sorry, dude. That's not how it works. It's not even how it worked pre-internet. Read Martin Luther. Or the good bits of Plato. Effective rhetoric is a twisting knife in your victim's soul.

I made it all the way through the article because of the raw vitriol and clear prose. Not something I usually do with something that long.
Swipe detection works pretty well on iPhone. Good job. I couldn't do a swipe to turn on/off the toggle button. That would be a pretty sweet feature.
Tried this on my android and it was extremely laggy. The work looks good, but the performance was subpar.

I'll definitely keep checking up on this project, though. Looks very promising.
Feel-good bullshit.

Feedback is the most important agile practice.

If you're not respectful, other team members will tell you and you're gone.

If you're not delivering, other team members will tell you and you're gone.

Agile is about conversations, and conversations are about feedback. Respect is a big part of that, but you could have a team of high-performing assholes and they'd do just fine. As long as everybody is providing feedback and acting on it.

I wouldn't want to be on the team, but it'd all work out.

As a counter-example, I've seen extremely respectful teams get zero performance. Everybody was so nice that nobody actually fixed things that were broken -- nobody wanted the conflict. On the other hand, I've seen teams that had low respect and high conflict that did very well.

Good agile teams are like families. That's both a good and bad thing.
> when editors kill accounts here, that person doesn't know that his or her account is dead without going to a lot of trouble to find out.

You've got to be joking I hope ?

So, not only are you dead to the world, you are not even aware of it ?
If you have pdfs that are scans of resumes (as in his example), then PDF Text extraction is the least of your problems. It's actually extremely useful to automatically generate an index of the words in resumes if you have a lot of them, but you'll need OCR to do it.
Pity Chrome doesn't seem to handle link-hovering right.

Very nice, though - it looks like it's finally time to get serious about SVG.
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I think the choice of "we" versus "I" is bicycle shedding for copywriting. I've seen software developers paralyzed by this decision. (No, really. It used to come up with some regularity at the Business of Software boards.) They've both got merits -- pick whichever sounds good to you and get back to stuff which matters.
Right, distinction is important. We use "combined experience" to call out the width of our expertise, not depth, on our publishing services page for mobile development. I think it helps reassure some prospectives that while young, we have a broad range of experience in multiple industries.

Getting sign off on a ~5-6+ digit services project takes a fair amount of work, and more so without a thick portfolio. Vertical software sales benefit from tech diligence and product demo as part of the buying decision.
I would agree with some of this - as a potential partner site, I would sign up (and maybe pay?) if you were providing me with a complete reputation system, as this would save me coding my own, ala Steam and XBLA Achievements. Is this in the game plan?
I definitely need to test more on Android and Pre - hence the beta. With Android, I'm aiming primarily at "cupcake" release, as it's a newer version of WebKit. Hopefully, as they all get updated with newer and newer versions of WebKit, we'll see more ubiquity in general.
Definitely will add. Feel free to post suggestions here:
http://code.google.com/p/jqtouch/issues/list
Who would have thought? Drugs help you forget life's troubles. If only I had known.

Now if this article contained anything new about brain chemistry or some sort of study I wouldn't be flagging it.
Somethingawful forums do something similar, called "hellbanning". It's a great way to combat trolls because they think they're still active, just no one is biting.
that's correct. to the person who's logged in with a dead account, it looks like their submissions and comments are just fine. i've personally observed people going on and on for a year or more, not aware that their account is dead.

here's another point. having your account [dead]ed is not a death sentence. if you write pg a sincere note and say you're sorry, 98 times out of 100, he'll let you back in. i've also seen this happen many times. but if you're so oblivious to the people around you that you're supposedly interacting with, that you don't even notice that your account is dead ... well, those people deserve to be off in the weeds talking to themselves, if you ask me.
I tried in on my second gen iPod Touch, and although it doeen't lag, I got a lot of flicker, as well as UI elements getting stuck in the "on" position.

I like the idea, though, and would love to have a framework that just works on devices that I can't test on.
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Which firmware version is it on, just so I know — 2.2 or 3.0? Thanks-
For a persistent troll I can see the point, but for a regular and active user that makes an offcolour remark seems to be a little bit over the top.

To get shot in the neck without any kind of reason why is one thing, to not even know that you've been shot is a different matter.

So, effectively the only way that you 'defen' know that you're still and active user is because I answered your comment ?
Ah, cool, thanks. I didn't notice that the date was the same as the date of "I steal the book report."
I do not conflate "being nice" with "respect." I'm absolutely fine with someone swearing and hurling any quantity of invectives, as long as they are LISTENING before they speak. This guy completely missed the point of Mr. Manjoo's article. Mr. Manjoo himself missed the point of his own article, which was not "IT are such jerks," but in fact, "IT does not adequately explain their decisions, and this feeling of powerlessness, and being ignored, is making me unhappy."
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While meanness and name-calling make for some fun drama, it really gets in the way of communication.

Or, to rephrase this comment in a more interesting way for you: while meanness and name-calling make for some fun drama, it really gets in the way of communication, you stupid prick.
> if you write pg a sincere note and say you're sorry, 98 times out of 100, he'll let you back in.

But for that to be possible you first have to know that you are dead right ? And since the system seems to be engineered in such a way that you can not find out this is a bit of a weak point I think.

Maybe you wonder why you are 'impopular', maybe you are not aware that your account even could be dead.
View which badges you have already earned.

Very clever. Almost irresistable.

Of course, once you get to the next page and see that you haven't already earned anything, "curious" is replaced by "disappointed".
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It's always odd to me when a company spends more time trying to market the people behind the product rather than the product itself. The marketing of the product should be in the forefront across all pages and any mention of yourselves should be short and to the point. You don't even need to mention the people behind it (although, we do, but only our names and links to our websites/blogs).
i didn't know that about nitrous oxide; thus, upvoted. drugs are fascinating; as long as there's new facts involved.
Did it occur to you that perhaps he doesn't want to live in Central or South America?

For this situation, we have the aphorism "beggars can't be choosers," which I find particularly apt for someone who became the former through being the latter.
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Hey NICE work!! I've been looking for something like this for a while... iUI is great, but fails horribly on certain clients.
Good comment.

Saying that algorithms are the secret to the success of Google and the like is like saying that tunnelling machines are what made the London Underground popular - not quite true. Obviously, once they'd had the idea for the Underground, designing and building the machines for its construction became an absolute necessity which allowed them to create a far more wide-reaching network than previously thought possible - but this ignores the fact that people would still have used it if it had remained a hand-dug tunnel between King's Cross and Paddington.

In short, one could say that insight makes things popular while implementation makes them excellent - and that you should really be aiming for both.
Aaaaaannddd... this site takes a turn for the Reddit. :(
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Yes, it's amateurish speculation, but it does contain a useful point which you have missed. Perhaps pathological, clinical depression should be seen as the pathological manifestation of a valuable adaptation. Depression might be kind of like the immune system: a valuable mechanism that sometimes goes crazy and causes harm. By defining depression as "unproductive behaviors, and patterns of thought that go in circles," you reserve the term depression for pathological forms of depression, which might not be the best way of looking at it.
I don't really disagree with you; I just know that it was the sort of behavior that causes accounts to get [dead]ed.

There wasn't enough comment history there to know whether or not it was about to become a troll account. A large part of the reason this community has been successful is that the editors are willing to ghost accounts if it looks like someone can't play nice.
This person was an idiot. First, would you ask the CEO of GE the same question? No. Why? Because you wouldn’t expect the CEO to be familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of this browser vs. that browser. Yet somehow, the secretary of state is expected to know this. Really. This wasn’t someone striking a blow for freedom, this was someone who couldn’t get his way, and didn’t understand that the State Department and the NGI are two different things, so decided to pull a fast one, in the hopes of getting the ‘CEO’ to start something for him. Fail.

What does this passage even mean? Manjoo wasn't implying that Clinton would know what Firefox was. He was demonstrating that concerns over browsers were top-of-mind for workers. He's working from exactly the premise that the author of this blog post is working from: that it is crazy for a CEO to get questioned about browsers. Unlike this blogger, instead of shutting his brain off, Manjoo interprets it as a sign that something is amiss in IT.
There is a trio of people claiming marine batteries are good for this use. It would be unfair to reply to just one.

Marine batteries are fine for this use. A typical marine battery might be good for 350 cycles. That should be more than enough for a UPS. (It isn't clear from the battery literature what they consider a "complete cycle", it seems like a high number for a full discharge, but even if overstated it is still plenty for a UPS).

Marine batteries do have a higher cost per stored energy compared to deep cycle batteries. I don't know if that is from the higher available discharge rate or having the word "marine" in front of them.

Renewable energy folks shun marine batteries because the real deep cycle batteries are good for 3000+ cycles, but you just don't need that for a UPS.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Why on earth is this relevant here?
I just noticed the "Costco" label on his batteries, and that raised my suspicion. For me, specialized suppliers have been cheaper for this purpose.

The important bit in my comment is unfortunately in the second part: Don't use consumer trash when you can get the really good equipment for cheap.
"There is a productive emotion that causes both reflectiveness and social isolation; it's called "sadness". People often describe a period of mourning as a necessary downtime, a reconfiguration, to get ready for the rest of one's life. I have never heard anyone describe depression as anything other than a waste of time."

What the article is trying to describe is the theory that the neural mechanisms that enable reflectiveness are also responsible for depression; the theory argues that the former trait presents a selective advantage, but that defects in the process result in depression.

Neither the theory nor the article (in my reading) are arguing that depression is a beneficial outcome -- only that depression may be an inevitable, occasional result of having the capacity for reflectivity and sadness. It's a hypothesis for why depression isn't more rare than it is.
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Though I don't know of an effortless way to disable debug prints, you can easily redirect to a file.

import sys
print >>sys.stderr, "STDERR is fun."

There's not too much that suggests using this instead of logging.
Don't worry; that kind of behavior gets corrected in minutes.
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The important point that Wikileaks is making is that Google has created infrastructure to keep detailed and long-lasting records of their users, but are severely constrained by California laws. Something worth considering by all of us who use "cloud services".

Btw, I think Wikileaks accurately reported on Google's actions. YMMV.
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We created a digital archive of about 80 years worth of magazine issues that were in all sorts of formats. The ocr worked pretty well in most cases, but we found that the older stuff worked better due there being limited typography and simpler layouts 80 years ago.

The more modern issues were only available in PDF and were the biggest challenge, but the ocr still did a reasonably good job, even with the complex layouts and fonts. The tricky bit was preserving the flow of the document i.e. where to go when a column ends.
Ok, so you want to force existing VC's to adopt a different legal structure (probably a less efficient one) and kill the smaller players in the market (the "crappy $20-50MM funds").

What's the benefit of all of this? Getting a bunch of legalese reports from surviving VC's that say "we have no leverage?"
i'm not an editor on this site. i haven't interacted closely with anybody who is. i haven't read the arc source code. yet i know all this stuff about the history, values, mores, and rules of news.yc that i just explained to you. all i did was observe. anyone else here is also free to observe, just like i did, and could figure out all the rules and nuances.

really, jacquesm, this is an impedance mismatch. i've read a lot of your comments by now. you are a big loud personality type, you like everything spelled out in big bright letters. you're probably an extrovert in real life. pg is not like that. he's far more subtle than you are.