skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elevator Speeches
Ok, that makes sense.

Some days my feed is filled with those kinds of status updates. (fans, friends, likes,...)
So yes, a bunch of bullshit that was nice in Phoenix 0.3 back in 2003, but has been useless since the dawn of Firebug and rich web inspectors.

You have a nice interface to the DOM. Use it, not some mediocre bundle of bookmarklets as a browser extension.
When you owe someone 1 trillion dollars and you and your citizens have the fruits of their labor, if you decide not to pay them they are screwed. Since China is politically unpopular it would be fairly easy to orchestrate a politically suitable reason for not paying them.

e.g. We're taking a stand for the citizens of the world and refuse to trade with China until they implement the Kyoto protocol.

e.g. Due to human rights abuses and the refusal to make progress on the issue we are suspending trade with China.

I'm sure there is some more politically suave reason but if we can't pay look for China's human rights / eco record to become an issue, ultimately culminating in our refusal to pay them.
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Yeah, It works for me too with the Python API. But I have to develop some backend app with C++.

Anyway I think I'll try again in the future.
>items with the most reviews are going to rise to the top

Yes and no. Anything with a larger N is going to make for greater confidence in the rating. But that rating still depends on the number of positive and negative reviews. So if a product has a large number of ratings, but they are 50/50 positive and negative, then it's not going to rise to the top simply because it has the most reviews. The algorithm would presumably be very confident about placing it in the middle of the pack.
I would agree that there isn't that much value here but the Virgin Money US loan link was good. I didn't know that kind of loan service existed.
One of those "holier than thou" topics, isn't it?
Okay, thanks. I still find it an odd reason to leave Google Reader. There's just no better alternative out there.
Look up "peter schiff was right" and "peter schiff mortgage bankers speech" on youtube. At the time when "credible" people were predicting no recession and prosperity in perpetuity, Schiff was a contrarian voice predicting recession and a fall in housing prices. For example: see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7879752717244782545# which shows side-by-side prognoses from Schiff and bullish pundits on CNBC and Fox News before the recession.

You can't get to prosperity by devaluing your currency because prosperity depends on savings and investment and a falling currency encourages the opposite.
More importantly, you need to go through the string to determine where the nth character is. You can't jump to a character by index.
My impression is that the "nationalists" (as in blind patriotism, the word has a different meaning in Chinese) are a vocal minority among the priviledged urban youths who grew up during the economic boom. The older generations who lived through Mao's days, the less priviedged middle-class kids, and the rural population tend to have very mixed opinions.

Also, Chinese opinions tend to be very mixed to begin with, which can give off the wrong impression to someone from a society that is used to partisanism.

This artwork portrays "opinions" among German and Chinese very well:

http://www.imgx.org/pfiles/2783/1.jpg
Miguel posted the response/correction to this article - http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Mar-25.html
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forex reserves != US public debt

although China is #1 holder of both, US public debt held by China is 24.3% of total foreign ownership (Japan #2 @ 20%)
That joke was anti-climatic.
We have used this algorithm in our side project http://movieorwhat.com/month/ - it seems to be working very well!
e.g. until the United States implements the Kyoto Protocol :-)
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I wrote about how easy it is to do some form of index and search: http://markwatson.com/blog/2009/11/mongodb-has-good-support-...
Add another dubious item to the list of things that global warming supposedly causes.

I mean, come on, Weather Channel!. If you want people to take AGW seriously, then clean house on your editorial board.

Edit: Looks like this is an AP article, which, of course, explains everything. Sloppy to quote something so obviously wrong.
The rationale is that the UAE and generally the Gulf States at a point decided to invest their money instead of investing them in funds in Europe of the Americas. They had a vision to create a 'Singapore' in the desert and they almost achieved it.

The financial crisis that hit the world - and which did not originate - in that part of the World created most of the mess in Dubai as well as numerous other places. They also saw all our overseas investments devalued which caused problems in restructuring their debt.

There is no comparison with 'Stiltsville'. Trying to save their Companies and investments and paying their creditors cannot be labeled a failure.
I would strongly NOT recommand bloglines. There is no way to suppress your account, I mailed the team twice and never get any answer.

It's stated on the website they will answer in a few business days but they don't. I also found the blog post of someone having the same problem...
Those videos are most likely being served from a CDN.
37 Signals, Fog Creek, Mint, can you even be a successful web company without a blog and an audience?
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Their 404 page is 142KB...not huge, not small. Just sayin'
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A friend recommended a fork of GitX:

http://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads
well yeah but the gains from switching from svn or even cvs to a dvc system are far less than the gains from going from no version control to any.

The thing that pisses me off is people switching, with virtually no good reason, to the current trendy one. Probably because Joel says it's cool. Just pick one, use it religiously, and get on with writing some code.
Since we have had relatively few wars, war powers provisions are among the most naive and ill-tested of any part of the constitution. In fact the need for the recent supreme court cases on Habeas Corpus (one of the oldest concepts in our common law) shows just how untested they are... and even when there is fairly clear legal doctrine, technologies such as rendition to other jurisdictions often renders the courts powerless to check presidential whims.

I would also not agree that just because something is considered (or found after the fact) to be constitutional that it is necessarily right or just.

To respond to your actual point... consider the sanctity of an individual's private, productive life. If soldiers are going to come through the door and put you in prison, they had better have a pretty good reason. In law, those reasons are very clearly articulated. Most Americans would claim that they consider things like due process to be exceptionally important aspects of our legal system... yet we are shockingly capable of ignoring them when the subgroup being violated is a small minority, and we succumb to the weakest arguments in favor of excesses.

Your argument could easily be used to justify any excessive use of power on the grounds that it's better than being blown up. By that logic, short of blowing up the citizenry, the president should have no checks on wartime powers (and calling something like post-911 a "war" gives rise to the question of what exactly constitutes one).

To zoom back out briefly and conclude, I think the letter of the law and legal justification is largely secondary... we can judge ourselves morally by how we acted in various situations, regardless of whether or not it was currently legal.

War, war propaganda, etc., cloud human judgment. Nobody other than a casualty ever really understands war, and so we are all doomed to reason poorly about it always. I'd argue that the pre-war aspect of much of US behavior on China (from Obama's trade war salvos to Krugman's rants) is one reason why Americans are so willing to embrace propaganda again so soon after the Iraq fiasco.
The Bayesian example given in the Wikipedia article looks like it works best with interval level data. Not sure it would work as well with ordinal data, because ordinals don't suffer to the same degree from outliers.

The second example also isn't ordinal data—it's just nominal "liked" vs "didn't like."

Both examples are interesting, but don't necessarily get at the problem with ordinal data introduced by the article.
Can someone in the know please express their opinion on the raw food lifestyle? If you're going to dismiss it as ridiculous I'd like you to back up your claims with at the very least strong personal anecdotal evidence, e.g., "I feel extremely happy and energetic, yet I eat tons of meat and cheese." I'm reading a book that suggests that cooking food results in the denaturing of proteins, digestive enzymes, and other nutrients, and that makes a lot of sense to me. My primary goal is to improve energy levels.
When you have a set of 1-1 data pairs that you want to be able to look up both ways, and you don't want to maintain two dicts, as described in the article's HTMLEntities example.
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And what about functions in the outer scope? Why should one be forced to place them in a particular order to use them in an inner scope?

I can't speak for Crockford, but I would note that "function foo() = {}" is equivalent to "var foo = function () {}", so it may be for the same reason for declaring global variables up top.

You simply don't document the "private" properties. Pretending JavaScript is more robust than it is helps no one and wastes memory.

I don't think we're talking about the same thing. I'm talking about private variables, the same way they are used in other programming languages: variables that cannot be accessed from outside the object. When you try to access private variables in other languages it throws an error, and you want it to throw an error, that's why you make it private. You don't want it accessed. Crockford shows how you can do that in js. Consider this version of the code you gave:

function Point(x, y){
this._x = parseInt(x,10);
this._y = parseInt(y,10);
var _private = 'foo'
}
Point.prototype = {
get x() this._x,
set x(v) this._x = parseInt(v,10),
get y() this._y,
set y(v) this._y = parseInt(v,10)
}

var myPoint = new Point(100,50);
alert(myPoint._x);
alert(myPoint._private);

The last alert will show 'undefined', that's intentional.

Const is not supported in IE (https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Referen...), and wasn't originally supported in js.

I've already pointed out that there is already a common, testable convention in place: if((a = b))

Avoiding assignments in conditionals is general advice in more than just one language. Besides here's what Mozilla says about it:

assignment in a conditional (Note: you can suppress this warning by including an extra set of parentheses around the assignment) (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/New_in_Rhino_1.6R6)*

Also:

It is advisable to not use simple assignments in a conditional expression, because the assignment can be confused with equality when glancing over the code. For example, do not use the following code:*

If you need to use an assignment in a conditional expression, a common practice is to put additional parentheses around the assignment.

In other words you can put () around the assignment, but that doesn't mean you should or that it's a best practice.

Crockford literally wrote the book on JavaScript, and I've seen his defense of some of his coding conventions in various talks, so I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. If you disagree with some of them, hell, email the guy. He might explain it in better detail.
Facebook, Google, Zynga, yeah I guess you can!

That said I know they have blogs now, largely targeted at developers and early adopters, but in the early days they didn't. However, I'm a big fan of blogs, think every professional/company should have one. Great way to spread ideas, make contacts, etc.
A related problem is the tariff on sugar, which artificially keeps the price of sugar high. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Sugar_Program

So you have a subsidy on corn, a tariff on sugar, and the double imbalance causes companies to use HFCS.

If we got rid of the tariff on sugar we could import sugar from brazil, and make ethanol out of it. (Which actually works, unlike ethanol from corn.)

It's politically impractical to just leave the corn farmers out to dry, so instead we choose some other food and give them subsidies on that if they agree to switch from corn.
The C++ API should work well as it is what we use in the database. The only issues is that it depends on boost, and any binary copy of the library depends on a specific version of boost. You may want to try compiling libmongoclient for your computer. If you still have issues, please post to our user list or ping us on irc.
No, this switch wouldn't affect that. That is a cron that updates the latest commits and graphs.
It's possible 37Signals is deliberately repeating its message to those who have just "discovered" their popular blog.

Writing original blog content is hard. I don't know how http://waxy.org did it. A lot of popular blogs (Jon Gruber et al.) have turned into aggregators of a sort (people send them items of interest). Dooce.com is an exception - that's her crazy life.
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It has been a very long time since I have seen a news article on the browser vs. browser security wars. That is a good thing. Competitions like this do the world a service by demonstrating that there is not, and in all probability never will be any such thing as a browser that is truly secure. Well - maybe "telnet {$addr} 80".
But sucrose is 50% fructose as well, the 5% difference in Fructose content between Sucrose and HFCS does not appear to be sufficient to explain the difference in weight gain, especially since overall HFCS calories consumed were lower. There is something weird going on here beyond just the fructose content of HFCS.
My office mate and I were talking about old boxen yesterday. This morning, he gave me his old Commodore 64, in the box.

<Stimpy>Joy!</Stimpy>
I guess it's the same enhanced SRTM data that Google uses?
the problem with this attitude is you build a list of ideas and then don't end up working on any because none of them feel like they're the best you can come up with. Or you switch from idea to idea without really finishing any of them to the standard required to make them successful because each idea seems better than the last, and there is a never ending stream of "good ideas".

Just pick something and work on it until it's successful or dead. Forget about "best".
Is all that HTML? Spiders generally only care about HTML -- they're not going to download the js and css and images and flash and whatever.
How did this article ever make the front page?
from an article "The American Gulag" at http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo79.html

Lincoln certainly did unconstitutionally suspend habeas corpus. But the tens of thousands of Northern citizens who were imprisoned without due process by the Lincoln administration (as many as 38,000 by one estimate in the Columbia Law Journal) were overwhelmingly plain citizens from all walks of life who simply expressed doubt over the administration’s unconstitutional and despotic policies, including the shutting down of more than 300 opposition newspapers and the mass arrest of political dissenters by the military. Tens of thousands of Northern political prisoners spent months in a series of gulags, such as Fort Lafayette in New York Harbor, which came to be known as "the American Bastille."
I've lost quite a bit of weight over the last two months by following a very low-carb diet (Under 20G / day), and I've never felt more energetic.

I've been eating lots of heavily processed meats and cheeses every day- Keilbasa, Havarti, Cheddar, and Summer Sausages.

Even during the first week, I felt more awake and alert than I had eating a carb-heavy diet. A carb-heavy lunch left me dragging a bit in the afternoon, but the low-carb diet, while very much not a raw-food lifestyle, is working well for me.
You are right of course, which is why I talked about USD reserves, not debt. Speaking about debt, China also holds ~400 billion of Fannie/Freddie bonds, which is not included in the official figure, neither for debt calculation, nor for foreign ownership, I guess.
A bit off topic, but double underscores don't actually make members in Python truly private, but mangles the attribute name to prevent you from accessing it unless you really need to: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html#private-variabl...

>>> class Foo(object):
... def __do_something(self):
... print 'something was done'
...
>>> f = Foo()
>>> f.__do_something()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'Foo' object has no attribute '__do_something'
>>> f._Foo__do_something()
something was done
Right, but they're not threatening to sell their treasury notes, they're continuing to hoard them, which keeps Chinese exports artificially competitive, which is a problem for the US. China would have a problem if they wanted to sell, but they don't; they're content to hold our debt, collect interest payments, and use the leverage to manipulate their currency.

See also:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/opinion/15krugman.html
I've been eating mostly raw food for about a year, and I love it.

My diet so far has consisted of blue-rare steak (all you need to do to be safe is to sear the edges and sides to kill E. coli that has gotten onto the meat during butchering. I learned this in my microbiology class!) [You have to watch out about things like steak sauce - read the labels, and you'll find out that almost all of them have sugar in them. So I never use steak sauce, ketchup, or any of that shit - just salt+pepper.]

Salads are great, as long as you make your own dressing (so that you can keep it low-sugar.) Just a little salt, vinegar, and a nice lettuce mix, and just a little feta cheese...

Berries can be great if you need something sweet; they have enough fiber to keep you from getting an insulin spike if you're on my diet. [Be careful to not do this too much - they're expensive, and you can overdo it by gorging on several boxes every day! Many of your needs for vitamins are met with meat and leafy greens.]

At any rate, what I've described is probably called a paleo diet (maybe?) Meat is such an essential part of my life! I'm pretty healthy, and I've lost a lot of fat eating this way. (I used to be 215 lbs, now I'm at 171; I'm 6'1".)

One more thing - I used to drink sugary soda and fruit juices - these are both terrible things to put into your body. Cut that out alone, and you'll be doing yourself a huge favor.
One of those, "I want people to find my website usable" things.
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Your book sounds like BS to me. Yes, cooking does denature proteins. Think of an egg before and after you boil it.

On the other hand, it seems unlikely to me that the hydrochloric acid in your stomach doesn't also denature the hell out of proteins. In fact, your body probably has to denature proteins to get at the amino acids in them so it can build the precise proteins it needs.
George W. Bush suspended Habeas Corpus simply by putting detainees on a plane and "renditioning" them to a jurisdiction where the constitution didn't apply.

Do you think it's a coincidence that they decided to build a prison at Gitmo (conveniently close to the US but outside of US constitutional jurisdiction).

Detainees were taken renditioned to yet another jurisdiction when their captors wished to do things to them that were forbidden by laws that do apply to Gitmo.
Blog is not enough. What Mint did (and is still doing) is selling their byproduct - in their case is statistics they can dig from their user data.

Statistics are always very popular among the press crowd - this can be easily sold and drives additional traffic.
I also get that message. That's kind of lame. My ISP has said they are considering Webwise but are not currently using it, otherwise I'd be on a different ISP. But that's none of that website's business, what a bunch of dicks.
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I find these individual blogs more valuable than a company blog.

I want to hear the success story from the designers perspective, another from the technical lead, and another from an engineering point-of-view and so on.
From further down in the Guidelines:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link."
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Why don't the vendors (Apple and Microsoft) respond by offering their own bounties and fixing the problem?
I dunno. I'd be more tempted to put a useful page behind the URLs that are already being requested, or redirect them to some relevant content.
I received a similar notice for a few userscripts I wrote and published in 2006-07.

I framed the letter from their lawyer and hung it on my dorm wall.

I tried to support and update my scripts as long as I could, but they would continuously change class names, layout, and data structures to thwart userscripts.
I was running 10.4 alpha 3 and then the beta in order to get better support for the hardware on a new laptop. I agree with the author of this article that 10.4 just feels well put together visually. BTW, I have had zero problems with the beta and now just use it rather than 9.10.
I don't have any opinion on raw foods, apart from the fact that any diet which excludes french fries is not a diet for me.

However, I'd suggest that the book you are reading is probably junk science. A protein is a long chain of amino acids folded into a certain structure. Denaturation is the process of unfolding it, and will be performed by stomach acid if not by heat. A protein is digested by separating it into it's component amino acids. Denaturation is a necessary step in this process.
Here's a good article on young nationalists in China: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/28/080728fa_fact_...

It's not clear that nationalism in China equates with blind support for the Party.
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> The biggest performance problem I have with django is the ORM

ORM is not the database access layer you are looking for.
Or self-interest. If I were a beancounter, and they told me that they didn't bother serving new ads with old content, because it was too much hassle to map the URLs, I'd be asking for cost/benefit figures ...
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I wanted to contact you guys but I'm running out of time this week.

I'll build the production version when I have some free time and then I could tell you. (I was working with v1.3.4)
Really? There are that many 54 year old overweight women who read HN?

My apologies.
FYI, here's a write up on the IE8 exploit: http://vreugdenhilresearch.nl/Pwn2Own-2010-Windows7-Internet...
You're quoting the statement that a large share of the population is not much better off from a decade ago.
The Economist provides facts that a very large part of the population is much better of (not in poverty anymore), as per the statistic I quoted. Also, it's rather unconvincing to argue that the Chinese government is effectively anti-poor, given the same statistic.

Sure, there is widespread corruption and they are stiffling private enterprises. That's not the same as being anti-poor, IMHO.