skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A corporation is composed of people, who are corruptible. There must be many people at Google (just to name one high-profile company) who have access to the email archive and search history of pretty much everyone they know. It seems inevitable that someone will misuse that information if it hasn't happened yet.
Imeem is now part of MySpace Music
This must be how old mainframe programmers felt reading articles about PCs in the early 70s.
The Middleman: A modular, feature-rich static site generator
According to this guy, there are no downsides to a policy that will have the side effect of breaking up all of America's largest financial institutions.

In his closing he says that passing this measure will "usher in a productive explosion in America that we have not seen in the last 50 years."

The last 50 years have already seen the largest sustained economic expansion in all of human history. Is that not good enough somehow?

I want my ten minutes back.
Can you give an example of something I said that you think is false?

It's always helpful in discussions here on HN to have the courage to say something like that. Kudos for that. Thanks to those who have replied with specific answers. That puts lots of food for thought into the thread.
For those installing via aptitude/apt-get, it's called "chromium-browser-inspector".
Cylindrical datacenter
Compare and contrast with this submission to venturehacks.com which lists 10 skills:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982087

Or does it?
Lehman was not destroyed by swaps. They just took a large position in subprime loans and held many of the riskier tranches.

This is exactly what the article advocates forcing commercial banks to do.

Of course, the article doesn't make any distinctions that either matt or karzeem make, such as debt vs equity or CDO vs CDS.
This is a pretty fun project. Nice, lightweight, combines multiple sources. Kind of embarrassing for the news outlets though that google can produce a better version of a full-feed experience than they can.
It was not the hardware manufacturer's choice. It was Boxee's choice. They chose this design. This issue was discussed at the unveiling last night.
Great, they're going the exact opposite direction of what I'm willing to pay for.

I wish my local paper(s) would cancel their Monday through Saturday editions and concentrated on one great Sunday paper. I'd pay ten times as much for clear, concise, complete "dead" stories on dead trees.
For me the "Hacker" part of Hacker News is that I tend to root for the smaller guy, with the clearly unpolished/non-existent PR dept, that actually delivered a product.

For me, the "hacker" part is that I use what works for me, in ways that work for me. Not sticking with worse equipment that doesn't quite work how I want it to, simply because the company that made it isn't big (yet).
First look: Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL server in the cloud
App Engine Request Performance in Java
The author of the bugreport in the link is the author of this here hacker news post.

He didn't have the patience to see what's the problem with this bugreport he posted today -- he just went ahead and posted the inflammatory subject here.

How does one downvote ?
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Cue the avalanche is that a snare drum in your pant, or are you just happy to see me jokes :)

Seriously, though it's a simple idea I agree with some of the blog commenters - this has real commercial potential. You should protect the IP in some way even if your plan is to keep it open source, so someone else doesn't patent troll the idea. Also, seeing as how it's winter, now about a version that goes down your sleeves and plugs in to a pair of gloves or mittens, making everything into a drumkit?

Lots of luck with this - it's a little crazy but in a cool way. Inexplicably, it reminds me of those shoes with rollers in the heels...not exactly useful, but so much fun that that it's irresistible.
If you have something to hide, do so via technical solutions (e.g. tor), not by hoping some other entity will do it for you on their own accord. They've got their own problems to deal with.
Unfortunately, even if I do agree with you that Robert Reich is a racist, that is an ad hominem argument and I don't see how his racism would have a strong influence on his view of the Glass-Steagall Act.
"And lo, Panic Retro Posters and Panic Retro Boxes are now for sale!"

And lo, Panic's sales team around the corner! I guess they got such a 'fanbase' that they will even manage to sell their discarded stuff :)
Is there any better way to phrase this than Bookmark Archiving? I was assuming it was just bookmarks syncing ala Xmarks or Google, which honestly is more my fault than theirs. I'm probably not the only one, though.

Won't sign up--Firefox's Save As Web Page, Complete in a Dropbox folder is good enough for me.

If I were still a student depending on webpages to stay up so I could quote them, though, this would be a no brainer. Hope you guys have some luck.
He's being too specific. Each city/region has relative strengths and weaknesses, and each of these vary in importance over time. To remain competitive, cities must use their current competitive advantage to build the next one. This is more likely to happen if the value created by the current advantage is shared among many agents.

Detroit and Pittsburgh suffer b/c too much of their value was held by a few companies. Cities with a broader base of firms (financial industry in NYC, tech in SV, entertainment in LA, etc) have a better chance to remain competitive over time. Incidentally, this doesn't bode well for Seattle's long term future as a tech center. Incidentally, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, etc were incredibly prosperous in their heyday because their competitive advantage was so important and their firms so efficient at creating value from it. Their fall from that point was therefore that much farther and more poignant.

Cities like Cincinatti, St Louis, and Buffalo suffer because their original advantage (access to inland waterways in the US) is less important now that more manufacturing and trade is international. Ocean port cities like LA, NYC, Tacoma, New Orleans, Tampa, etc have an advantage here.

Norway is a good example of using one advantage (North Sea oil and gas) to fund future advantages (education, health care, sovereign wealth fund), while the Texas/Houston energy economy is a good example of how having a rich ecosystem of firms is more stable than a few vertically integrated firms.
Speculation: EU already planning to bully Intel out of acquiring nVIDIA
I don't really know how to get around the problem of people placing bets with money they possess probabilistically. Clearly, if enough people are doing it, and enough of them make the same bad, massive bet, we all get screwed.

But at the same, everyone in finance — even the most vanilla, small-town, we-just-take-deposits-and-make-safe-loans banks — works with money that has some nonzero chance of shrinking. The difference is that some correctly account for their worst-case scenario and others don't.

Not sure where I'm going with that except to wonder whether there's some system that allows for speculation (i.e. opportunities to make money by making the right bet where someone else made the wrong one) while not tolerating a nonzero chance of a 2008-style meltdown.
Go to Scroogle and click HTTPS...

https://ssl.scroogle.org

Problem solved!
The argument could be a filename. The filename could have a space in it. So yes, I'd use a shell that has $@ rather than $*, a settable IFS, etc.
Bolivia has Enough Lithium for 4.8 Billion Electric Cars
My wife just finished this game last night. She usually sticks to the usual boring flash games, but got into this and was up late finishing it. It was about 8 hours of play for her (with the usual web browsing and such). She really enjoyed it. I don't think it has much replay value (yet). The difficulty definitely ramped up in the last 12 levels. We really enjoyed the gameplay. To break it down further it combines a 2d-portal element, side scroll elements and puzzle elements in a cohesive way.
EBay Meets Craigslist Meets Facebook: Addoway Launches Free Social Marketplace
Iron works great but has issues with Flash (Ubuntu 9.10 x64).

Can anyone confirm if Linux Chrome plays well with Flash?
Join a good open source project and start helping out. Forget about almost any other way. You'll find mentors, make good friends, help the world and improve your CV.
Purism vs. Pragmatism
The OSX version seems to use KeyChain.
You do already have the webkit inspector at your disposal (right click -> inspect element)
Boom Hok A Monkey Language Is Deciphered
Is this new in Safari 4? I don't remember this ever working before.
I have yet to find a browser with full screen support on OS X - which makes me think it's an OS X limitation.. So odd.. When you have a 13 inch macbook this problem becomes readily apparent.
Startup matches college sports fans with homeowners near the stadium
Given the failure of AMD / ATI this doesn't seem like a smart move. Intel seems smarter than this.
I've been running daily builds of Chrome and Chromium without flash issues. I don't update regularly though. My 'daily builds' are probably 1.5-2 months old. I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit though.
For the past ~2 months or so, Linux Chrome has worked really well with flash -- as good or better than Firefox. They seem to be running a windows version of flash -- or at least the few times flash has run into an endless loop and I have to kill it via top, the process name is "exe".

Update:
Flash still doesn't work perfectly -- as my trip to scribd just proved. For times like this, I just reopen the page in Firefox.
How about just not using the browser to store you passwords?
Thanks for that, looks a little cleaner now.
Ask YC: Merchant account without any credit?
Hi YC, I need some help with finding a merchant account. I just turned 18 and do not have any credit. I've been rejected by PayPal's Website Payments Pro and two of Authorize.net's merchant account affiliates. I don't have anyone to be a co-signer.

Is there any merchant account provider that you guys know of that would have no problem taking my money? It would be very much appreciated.
If you hook into the Google repo, the unstable Chrome builds have "Inspect Element", but the daily PPA builds of Chromium haven't for me. As I stated earlier though, I haven't updated them for a couple of months though.
Javascript like Ruby
Gadget Gifts for Geek Girls: 15 Creative Ideas
Remind me who was the POTUS then?
If it is for a pet project I'd go with rails. It should be quicker to finish the project in that. Don't worry about scaling from the outset as if you get that big you can scale it when you need to.
Then run Chromium instead of Chrome. It's an open-source project. Inspect the code if you like.
The unemployment rate among non-Asian minorities is much higher than that of the rest of the country (e.g. Nov African-American unemployment rate is 15.7%)

Are you suggesting that Reich is a racist because he sees this as a problem and wants to ensure that African Americans and Hispanics get employment opportunities ?
this entire article is just conclusory. why will these things happen? he doesn't give any evidence..
Wait, you can resize the comment field? Quite handy, doesn't work with Gecko-based browsers nor Opera...
I agree that editing the hosts file is by far the best thing for actual adblocking, but I like to have a manual adblocker in the browser, too. Not actually for ads, but so that I can "turn off" parts of pages that I don't want to deal with easily (for example, annoying, gross or animated avatars at forums).
Then run Chromium instead of Chrome. Inspect the code if you are wary about your privacy on the browser.
If you need a robust solution for tracking updates on the pages or sites you bookmark, I highly recommend perpetually.com.
Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup
Not everyone values their relationship with God as much as you appear to. It's called choice.

Edit: I see I've missed the point. The important part of the order is where work is placed on it, not where religion is placed. My bad.
That explains a lot! I wondered how Chrome OS got the Linux build of Flash working without X11. I thought they might have a thin X11 lib in their window manager, but I guess they shoe-horned the Windows build into the Linux version of Chrome. Crafty.
Ping times will be high for some sites, but I doubt Google will be one of those. As soon as this Lunar Net goes up Google will have a server on the moon faster than you can say 'light-speed delay', so all your favourite Google services and YouTube videos will be available locally with nice low ping times. It's the rest of the internet you'll have to wait for.
I just installed it. It looks substantially better due to a less cluttered interface, and search seems vastly improved. So far, I'm impressed.
the real problem is not google or schmidt, but things like the patriot act and the ridiculous habit of our government of using "matter of national security" as a catchall for abuse.

the more people who realize how little privacy they have left the better. it's the only way the trend will be reversed.
It works great for me in chrome and I like the design.

edit.. I just opened this in IE 8 and then Firefox.. hahaha

I guess whoever put this together did it in Safari or Chrome or whatever and either didn't bother opening it in IE or Firefox or just decided "screw it" and launched it knowing it wouldn't render in half the browsers out there?
It’s a webkit feature.
I am wondering does anyone get paid for this stuff?
Actually there's no law in the U.S. about data retention (E.U. has one) but companies keep the data for their own engineering and marketing purposes AND to stay in good graces of authorities. (The Patriot Act and ECPA, among other laws, specify what data has to be turned over with a lawful request, but they don't require any entity to actually have that info.)
And for those of us that use xmarks, note that the xmarks alpha support for chrom[e|ium] will NOT work with the 3.0 stable version of iron, but DOES work with the Iron 4.0 beta.
Yes, Google will have servers on the moon, but I doubt they'd have a mirror of all youtube.

Latency wouldn't necessarily affect watching a youtube video -- sure it would start slower, but latency != bandwidth. If you set your TCP window size high enough and could ensure low packet loss you could get some pretty fast transfers going.

I suppose that also assumes gigabit+ radio links to span the distance.
The Escape Travel Info
Six Bulletins in Last Patch Tuesday of 2009
One critical update to review closely, the rest within 60 days if applicable to your environment.
> Right, the problem wasn't as much the home loans as all of the side-wagering.

Not so fast. US banks were basically required to own Fannie and Freddie stock plus if they didn't make "enough" loans to people who realistically couldn't pay them back, they got dinged by regulators. (Wells Fargo was getting hammered over this.)

The stock holding is what pushed many of them into technical insolvency when Fannie and Freddie cratered. Combine that with regulators pushing mortgage-backed securities and you've covered the bulk of the problem.

Throw in some govt officials who decided to pay off Goldman et al with taxpayer money instead of letting them rely on the "insurance" and collateral that they'd arranged, and the rest is a minor blip.
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wish I had this about 4 years ago. great idea.
Awesome links and videos! Thanks!
I have tried a few plugins. One in 4 (flashblock) has worked, the others didn't.
Dear Cloud Providers: Please Make Your Networking Suck Less
There do seem to be some questionable UI pieces. I don't like the look of the reply/reply all buttons. They're especially bad if using the 3 pane (veritical view with message pane).

The tabs are pretty sweet though. I like having everything open in the same window vs a bunch of separate email windows.
It's just a matter of time to find the right auto-fill form and replay the HTTP post data.
Even if you want to search for that - do so without logging into your google account.
Glass-Steagall will definitely prevent what happened in the current housing crisis. The bubble happened because banks were lending money for homes but were not keeping the loans. Instead they were packaging the loans as securities and selling the securities to third party investors. Thus, the banks did not need to worry that the loans were good, they just needed to worry the loans looked ok to the rating agencies at the time of sale of the securities. The third party investors had no idea who the borrowers were or how trustworthy they were, they just trusted the rating agencies. And the rating agencies turned out to be either stupid or corrupt or both.

This would not have been possible with Glass-Steagall in force. Banks can still make loans but they could not securitize or sell the loans. They had to keep the loans on their books. This means the institutions and even individual people that made the loans would be responsible that they got paid back. Furthermore, all loans that are on the books would be regularly examined by banking examiners from the FDIC. When securitizing the loans, banks mostly avoided examination, on the grounds that they got their money for the loans so it does not matter much whether the loans perform or not.

Now it cannot be guaranteed that Glass-Steagall will prevent bubbles in general, but it is certain that what happened last time could not possibly happen with Glass Steagall in effect.

Regarding your second statement, I think you are confused about it again. When Glass Steagall was in effect regular commercial banks were rather limited as to the securities they could purchase. I believe they were allowed to make only 10 percent of their income from securities. They had to make most of their money by making loans directly to borrowers, instead of trading securities. That is what the article is referring to.
An incredibly well orchestrated combination of information from the leading thought leaders on startups as well as personal tips to help organize a work day to maximize productivity.

10/10 for Ash's quality post.
> The new attachment reminder looks for the word attachment (and other words like file types) in the body of your message and reminds you to add an attachment before hitting send.

I'm embarrassed to admit that this will help me considerably.
Machine learning with quantum computers is so much more than that: quantum computation is provably more efficient at solving a large class of problems than classical computation.
I've recently switched from Ubuntu to a Mac (mainly just to learn wtf everyone says is so great), I'd been running Chromium there for ages, I'd prefer to use Chromium rather than give so much data to Google but I could find a package which will update like Chromium did on Ubuntu. Any suggestions?
I had 3000ms latency on a 1200bps SLIP connection. Damn entitled kids these days. shakes cane
Sprint did.
How to Winterize Power Tools and Machines
Wow, you really want to do this?

2 - I like Frans Hals too!

3 - Yes, that's how painting is taught now, to the kind of people who read 'how to paint' books.

4 - Nice weaseling.

5 - Notice how those carefully fixed errors show fully-drawn hands, feet, etc., rather than a cloud of "rough drafts" like you would see in a painting done in the modern style? Another nice demonstration of the point that oil painting was not a fluid, iterative medium in its first few hundred years.

6. Try one of the numerous image links in the thread.

As for 1, Aaron Swartz sent us both this quote the first time you and I had this argument, and I'm surprised you've forgotten it. It's from Graham Larkin, curator of the National Gallery of Canada, whom he asked to adjudicate your claim:

""By even the most conservative standards (which your buddy seem to be applying), you'd need to go at least a few decades further, into the High Renaissance. Julius II's didn't even start commissioning Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and Raphael's Vatican Stanze (School of Athens &c) didn't start until 1508. These works don't exactly represent a decline, except by Preraphealite standards which would judge them as over-sophisitcated and lacking in primitive simplicity.

(That's IT: your friend's a Preraphaelite! Well history is not on his or her side; such Victorian predilections are a mere blip in the history of Western aesthetics.) The generation after the giant Raphael (and the giant Durer in the North) is a much better candidate for cultural and artistic decline--a story complicated by Michaelangelo's
inconvenient longevity. Historians have often pointed to the 1527 Sack of Rome as a downturn in artistic ferment, or at least in the unparalleled ascendancy of Italy. I would add that Western painting of around 1500 can scarcely be separated from the other visual arts, including the still-young (to the West) technology of print, brought to incredible levels of sophistication by Durer and others in
precisely the post-1500 decades. One wonders whether your friend meant "1500" or "like, 1500.""

Of course, Dr. Larkin gets one thing wrong. You're not a pre-Raphaelite, you're just a big ole weenis.
I know it is such a great thing that we have all these large financial institutions. You know because they are so large they become too large to fail, and then we get to subsidise them with out tax dollars. Who would want to end that?
I hope you're all pleased you jumped on the bandwagon. Here are his actual words from the video:

Judgement matters... If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place... If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines - including Google - do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.

Schmidt's statement is clearly pragmatic. One might even argue there's an implied criticism of laws like the Patriot Act. Could he have phrased it better? Yes. He shouldn't have said the sentence in question. But next time, actually read/watch the primary source so you can get the full picture. His closing remarks completely change the tone of the conversation. Are you really going to let The Register do your thinking for you?
It's cool and all, but I've found attempting to live too sparsely compromises what I get from school. If I eat too frugally, I can't think properly. If I try to save too much on transportation by sleeping on campus, I am not well rested.

As my parents told me when I was hemming and hawing about whether or not I should buy a certain text book for a class, or try to get by without it- I'm already paying thousands and thousands of dollars in tuition and living expenses; I should get the most I can out of it, even if it means buying that $150 book.

Or, to put it more simply- penny wise, pound foolish. I've come to realize I agree; I'd rather go into debt and make the most of college than scrape by as cheap as I can, and not learn anything.
That's great! I must say I really like the Panic team. They make great software, they're responsive to their customers (Me!) and obviously they like to have a bit of fun...

Nice to know that not all the software jobs out there are boring!
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Anyone had a go with this?
maybe instead of explaining the obvious you should read the original comments. the comment i was defending was about converting ac to ac. their conclusion was that it would need to go through dc (which no-one, including me, has disagreed with).
Telling me how to do what I want to do is practical. Telling me what to do or not to do is patronizing.