skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested in a breakdown of the 10 or so most popular source sites on a (say) month-by-month basis. You'd expect to see a lot of articles referencing Google, techcrunch, HN and the like but I'm also surprised by the number of articles from the NY Times, WSJ and such.

Maybe determine "popularity" first by number of articles and then again by score.
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Well, the commissioner can't do that. Congress and the President do that (or don't).
How would you measure 'best' at coding? As I understand it, there are at least several different aspects that you could measure. One persons be the most effective algorithm designer, but another another the quickest at internalizeng large problems. It seems that one ould be the best in one way but not another and there could be no 'best' coder overall.
So yours worked and andrews failed 30% of the time.

That's even weirder.

So maybe once a page has been built recently it then works flawlessly for a bit ?
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Much more importantly than that, I feel, is that "living with it" is a good way to get complacent and not engage in constant self-improvement.
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Well if he was making $300/month would it make sense to sell it for less than $7200 (i.e. 2 years revenue, all profit I assume)?
That has to be the worst analysis of Google's move I have read thus far. Google's move only appears irrational because the very idea of a corporation actually continuously evaluating the morality of it's actions is completely alien to her. It is not as if Google hasn't realised the consequences of it's move, it just chooses to make it irrespectively.
I certainly agree. And domain expertise comes into it too. Too much insulation from the domain can lead to a kind of inverse leaky abstraction problem - where not enough of what's real about the problem is affecting the design, which is too ivory-tower.
The opposite is also true, if you think that you are the best programmer in the world, why improve?
+1 evil.

After spending years telling us not to use eval() to execute raw JSON, now we are suppose to eval() comments? As noted with JSON, theoretically it can be used safely, but it is a wide open window of vulnerability for people "just trying to get it done", i.e. 97% of the web sites out there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#Security_issues

"The eval technique is subject to security vulnerabilities if the data and the entire JavaScript environment is not within the control of a single trusted source. If the data is itself not trusted, for example, it may be subject to malicious JavaScript code injection attacks; unless some additional means is used to validate the data first."

(My emphasis on entire JavaScript environment.)
One falls every week. Just ask the FDIC. But i am sure the us is encumbered by states vs national complications, as well as the need to route through larger banks.
If it wasn't obvious that the banking system has its flaws, the recent crisis made it crystal clear.

But, I'm not quite sure what's the exact problem you want to address. You are confusing local banks problems or their services with international issues.

For example Zopa (http://www.zopa.com) targets the loan issue.
Yes, probably. That's why this sort of performance tests should only be done with an empty cache. Otherwise it isn't a fair comparison.
I'll see if I can do something like that.

I have to do all kinds of tricky date parsing to figure out when an item was posted so this is not as easy as it seems at first glance.
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Yea that sounds like the best bet. Try to find a cheap bank without lots of bad debt and start from there.
I have a different take on the whole China thing and I believe that until the Chinese people bring about change that China has the right as a sovereign nation, to set any rules they want

Does this view extend, say, to the German and Soviet regimes of the mid 20th century?
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I was just wondering, why can't you start an async xmlhttprequest at the onload event? It won't start the parsing until you tell it to, it won't block the loading of the UI and it's not as obscure as using eval on comments.
English is my fist language shamefully :(. Thanks for pointing out my poor writing/spelling, I will make an effort to improve . I would like comments on the points (if any) I raised.

Cheers!
i think you're right to raise the issue of transparency. see, for example, the article here on how snow falls can no longer be so easily mis-reported - information is becoming more freely available, and the costs of being contradictory are probably going to rise.

[seems we're back at the "voting stuff down i don't agree with" rather than "voting stuff down that's not good conversation". i think you made a good point, so i've voted you back up to unity.]
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and very arguably contributed to the Great Depression that happened the year after his term ended.

The Great Depression was triggered by the US Fed (created in 1913), which massively increased the money supply, and the passage of the disastrous Smoot-Hawley trade protection bill in 1929.

Note that the money supply increase gave birth to the Roaring 20's, not unlike what we've had for the last seven years (up till early 2008). Note that the current US administration is also increasing trade protection as well (Chinese tires, etc.)
I liked the joke about the UK. I'm English and well..... it's funny to see a formerly massive power be.... well... a bit crap. Especially since that's where I live :D
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Well I think the problem I want to solve is a bank that the common tech-savvy (wo)man can use. My sister in college, my girlfriends freelancing mom, my defense contractor dad... anyone who is comfortable with online banking and smartphones, anyone who is open to new technology and using it to make their lives more efficient. The USAA scan-your-check-instant-fund-availability concept is fantastic! Paying bills with my phone like the new Square concept is amazing as well. This is the future and I want a bank that is pioneering in these ways too. Combine all of that with a bank that doesn't wanna nickel and dime me.. and I think we have a winner.
I'd never heard of FACS before. The Wikipedia page he links to doesn't contain much info. Wikipedia says nothing about which AUs correspond to which emotions. Does anyone know any good articles on this? It's interesting.
Corporations have always seemed less ethical than governments in the past, so it's a very exciting possibility.

Yes, and that's why corporations have killed far more people and blighted far more lives in the past X years than governments.
Here's my guess. Google initially detected an attack coming from Chinese IP ranges and subsequently checked what other requests the IPs had made.

This is what led to the accounts that were accessed not "through any security breach at Google, but most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on the users' computers".

Although they mention gmail in the statement, the expansion to other industries is made on the Google Enterprise blog (mainly aimed at promoting Google Apps to large companies), so it seems likely the same Chinese IPs accessed users of Google Apps.

So this isn't the Chinese government targeting other industries so much as dissidents that might work there. Google's statement still seems consistent to me, although they have shied away from mentioning Google Apps.
Malcolm Gladwell's article for the New Yorker is a great start:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/08/05/020805fa_fact_gl...
Cheers, appreciate it :)

(sorry for the off-topic to the rest)
He showed signs of stress, but I interpreted it as pressure not to say something he is not allowed to. Also he showed a lot of contempt for the Chinese government and some towards the journalist (after "I'm glad to be here"). Also he was happy to hear the last part about Google taking highly moral position - I think he believes it.
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I've had the same experience with broadband in the UK - unlimited is the norm. The international link costs probably do have an effect with this, but I don't think it is for mobile data. If international links were the limiting factor we'd see ADSL suppliers selling usage at similar rates, but $15 for a GB seems much higher.

I think it's actually the capacity of the mobile network. To support more throughput they'll need to install more cell towers, which is a capital expense. The telcos probably find it more profitable to restrict usage and just charge the higher users as much as possible for as long as the network will sustain it.
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The critical issue here is the presence of a national vs. state charter. National charters alone add substantial acquisition value to a bank.

Keep in mind that anyone buying a bank right now is competing with an unprecedented amount of highly sophisticated Private Equity buyers with access to plenty of cash.
I'm not saying banks are perfect, but it seems like 90% of your complaint is about overdrafts. If you don't want to worry about overdrafts, check your balance in the morning, write down the amount, and don't spend more than that. Or pay for everything in cash from an ATM and use the ATM to double-check the balance first.

As for the $26 overdraft charge, do you know how much it costs the bank? Do you know that it makes a difference if it's only a $1 overdraft? If you don't know the industry, how can you propose to change it? Sure, it might be nice for me to say I think all banks should give 10% interest on accounts, but they can't. Maybe there's nothing they can do about the overdraft fee.
Paul Ekman is the guy who popularized it. Here is a good overview of his life/work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8nYZg4VnI

Regarding reading expressions in particular, good start is "Emotions Revealed" [1], which was pretty comprehensive, but not as comprehensive (or as expensive) as his METT system: http://face.paulekman.com/products.aspx The half-smirk when talking about the other companies is contempt. The raised chin is shame. A lot of fear and sadness in the beginning, with exceptions of talking about the technical details of the attack and Google's desire to stay in China towards the end - lots of confidence there. If you watching him carefully with the sound off, I think you can pick up on the emotions intuitively.

In a more cynical light, this is good to keep in mind as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facecrime

1. http://www.amazon.com/Emotions-Revealed-Recognizing-Communic...
This is cute. I like the tenacity of what you're doing here.

Thing is, it's entirely impossible. To start a bank you need capital to leverage your deposits. That's anything from 10-30%, so to have a liability of $1000 you'll need $300 in capital reserves just to keep within the rules. Then there's the insurance you'll need to buy on the risk you take, and the other ways you'll need to turn profit - otherwise, why will i invest in you (with retail deposits?)

As jacques said, credit unions are a simpler step- but even simpler are lending groups where everyone pitches in money and then everyone takes a turn in being able to borrow from the pool. I can't quite recall the name of these structures, but they are on wikipedia- NPR's Planet Money podcast covered them a few months ago. (which, if you are in any way interested in this stuff, you should listen to back-to-front).

But i don't think it's the banking that's the problem.

If you have a bunch of money - liquidity - then it's easy to move it around to ensure you're covered. Then you don't get hit by charges. In fact, most systems (wells fargo included) do this by default now, and you don't even have to care. You can realize then that cashflow is the lifeblood of small biz, and if you have it, everything is great. If you don't, you're screwed.

The bottom line might seem to be that it's hard to be financially stable when you're starting out/contracting/consulting/low paycheck, whatever. There are two ways of dealing with this: making a strict budget and keeping to it (boring) or deferring your care till you make enough money to just buy that debt off - in which you risk bankruptcy and other nasty things.
Perhaps this was Google's strategy from the beginning. Introduce useful services into the Chinese market while accepting government restrictions, then when enough Chinese have become dependent on these services, try to negotiate the restrictions from a position of strength, knowing that China would not want to be responsible for leaving Google's Chinese customers without service.
Not to mention that the OCC has to approve your business plan! "Lean startup" proponents need not apply. This is a long, slow, paper-driven process.
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Please examine the complexity of the above statement.
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even simpler are lending groups where everyone pitches in money and then everyone takes a turn in being able to borrow from the pool. I can't quite recall the name of these structures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_Savings_and_Credit_Ass...
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I would have liked to have seen marketing dollars per units sold. How long will it take for TMobile to get back the 100M they spent on marketing? This is Google's first offering in a new market and the limited marketing will buy them time to ramp up operations in a controlled manner.
Actually, fees can drive as much as half a bank's revenue, and overdraft fees are typically the largest component of that income. These fees are almost entirely driven from checking behavior of Americans earning less than $50K a year. You would be shocked at how frequently overdrafts occur for a customer with a low balance. These fees can add up to hundreds of dollars a year on average for low balance customers. In fact, they are among the primary reasons why "Free Checking" is an attractive offer for big banks. (Hint: it ain't really free.)

There is serious congressional concern about the inherently predatory nature of overdraft fees. However, with Dodd's impending departure from the Senate it appears that the banking lobby will prevail in avoiding legislative restrictions.
I read an interesting article yesterday about the news coverage of North Korea's drive towards nuclear weapons. Looking back on it now, it's obvious that the North started a nuclearization program in 1996 and pursued it each year no matter what was going on at the negotiating table. (Both political parties and the Clinton and Bush administration were taken to task in this article)

Looking at the press coverage, however, was even more interesting. There were some quite prominent columnists who insisted that the North was misunderstood, that they weren't committed to continuing to develop weapons, and that the various tactics used by both administrations were really what was at the root of the North's belligerence.

Sometimes pleas for perspective can be good, and sometimes they can all be so much noise. I'm not going to characterize this piece, but I'll note that there is a great similarity between how NK was covered with nukes and how China is being covered with CyberWarfare.

I find it disconcerting.
> and subsequently checked what other requests the IPs had made.

By how?
Because it looks like the attack is a government-based attack. As presented in the media, IP theft is par-for-the-course in China, but the only benefactors from reading the personal information of activists are those in the government, or those with strong government ties. This wasn't just a mere theft of intellectual property, this was a case of biting the hand that feeds China.

China needs money flowing into the country in order to sustain it's big growth rate. They've traditionally gotten it through dirt-cheap manufacturing costs and exports. Google's marketshare is small, but they're very well connected in the US and are probably the US company most likely to start a "China-free" product trend. If it takes hold, the US would get a little bit of extra leverage (something we've sorely been lacking lately)
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> also don’t have their permission to disclose the amount of the sale

Why did you agree to this provision?
Even if this is true, I imagine the video quality will be less than spectacular. Back when I was trying to finagle the Wii into a media center, I could never get videos to playback above a certain bitrate/resolution. My guess would be 480p at best.

That said, I will be very happy if/when this happens. A macbook does not a media center make.
Oops, is "plea for perspective" not the right phrase? I meant to say that a coordinated attack on a variety (probably all) major US corporations might be more significant than what Google does with their .cn properties...
Pretty negative. I prefer to believe there are many areas where things could be improved and there's nothing wrong with wanting to explore that.
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Nice list. Here's mine (off the top of my head in no particular order):

1. Start with the answer, then work back.
2. Name your variables so that anyone will know what they are.
3. Name your functions so that anyone will know what they do.
4. Never write the same line of code twice. Use functions.
5. Assume the user doesn't know what they want.
6. Even if the user knows what they want, assume they can't verbalize it.
7. The user always knows what they don't like. Prototype often.
8. Be prepared to dig down as many levels of detail as needed to understand.
9. When you're stuck, turn off your computer.
10. Don't turn your computer on until you have a specific task.
11. Beauty is important, but delivery is more important.
12. No variable should be fully contained within another variable.
13. All variables should be at least 3 characters long.
14. Use the right tool for the right job.
15. Almost any tool can do the job. Some are better than others.
16. Benchmark often in order to learn what happens under the hood.
17. Try something that's never been done. It may be easier than you thought.
18. Remember the patterns you've used before. You'll use them again.
19. Keep it extremely simple at first. Complexify as you go.
20. Code every day.
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For what it's worth, I'd like to see your response. I've always felt uneasy about that essay.
What is this, an episode of Lie To Me? :-)

Government spies in the Shanghai office stealing Google's source tree seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back. I guess China will just build their own Google now...
In this sense I believe it is more beneficial to change the spending habits of people than fixing the banking system :)
Yea I think the author completely misses the point when he writes "I expected at least another digit on that number due to the buzz surrounding the device." All I can say is "what buzz?" Outside of some small geek communities, most people haven't heard of this phone. No one is talking about it and as you say no one pushing it, there simply is no 'buzz', and never really has been. That's the problem with extrapolating from a tiny circle of homogeneous friends to the general population, you end up with a very skewed image of reality
That's pretty cool, but I recently got a HDTV and the Wii is the worst-looking input into it at 480p. The $99 Roku player looks fantastic at 720p, even when the video you're playing isn't specifically in HD.
Because the second best programmer is right behind you!

But seriously, I would continue to improve out of dedication to the art, science, or craft (whichever you consider programming to truly be).
Learn to learn more...there is a lot of technology out there and keeping up with it is a fulltime job, but if you have a smart way of receiving your news, you'll learn about new technology every single day.

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does the xbox already have this?
When cars were simpler, maintenance was considered part of the requisite skill to own a car - it was considered part of normal usage. Now that they have become a lot more complex and specialized, cars can do a lot more - but the trade-off is that it's no longer practical to maintain your car yourself. It makes more sense to outsource that activity to specialists.
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You could do like cperciva and use picodollars. It would look much more impressive that way.
They've used the same method for other phones, where the manufacturers have eventually released sales numbers. If their numbers are accurate for those phones then they can make assumptions about the accuracy in this case.
If you're interested, I'd be willing to give you a clone of the http://Newsley.com codebase. It's a bit bare bones right now, and since I'm the sole developer, I haven't worked on the documentation much. But, it's Python/Django, which might be a little more familiar to you if you're a Ruby/Rails guy. I've thought about open sourcing the code, but some parts are a little ugly right now, so I haven't done it. But if you're interested, ping me and we can talk.

Another thought is Slinkset: http://slinkset.com/ It looks like they still have some active sites, and it looks like they've added features since I last looked a few months back. Anyone know if they're still up?
Using Sage for everything now (I've got the Instant Accounts Plus).

Not the prettiest, or easiest to use, but once you get used to it and over the learning curve, its actually plenty useful and powerful.

In a nutshell, the user thinks in terms of invoices, customers, suppliers, payments, etc.. and Sage takes care of the rest and produces a full set of accounts.

You'd want to get some accountant to help out initially (I did), as some of the concepts in the accounting world can be a little unintuitive and then you end up with unbalanced accounts.
It would be MUCH easier with people on the inside.
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