skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using XP at home, I can't register, it gives multiple errors, and using the password recovery page, it gives the following error: A password reset link was not sent, you may have enetered an invalid email address. (typo on original page).
There is loads of great content on MSDN, tutorials, references, magazine articles, etc.
Maybe. However, I haven't really regretted it yet.

I always regret type A. I do a lot of it.

I'd like to think I am pretty good at type C...
You using Linode?
It seems like a neat idea; it's not the normal Javascript way of operating, but sometimes classes do make more sense. I don't really get why you did Singletons, though. Why not just use a normal object?
Balanced by who? Jesus? Greenspan? Paulson? Bush? Obama?
Errors when trying to register:

Invitation is required

Invitation has already been taken

I used the link in the original post. If you want to send me an invite, use my nick/handle at yahoo dot com. I'd also use the same nick/handle as the login name as I post here with.
Maybe for a small bit of code: a method or a simple class.

But once you are talking about a serious system? Your prototype code is guaranteed to be of prototype quality. Starting over from scratch is a strong way to mitigate the risk of it infecting your production code.
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Capitalism and human nature tell us that lobbying and corruption will be a consequence of regulation. Libertarians simply realize that regulations are not just the "grand vision" that they are presented as... they create winners and losers, beneficiaries and those who are made worse off. As such libertarians constantly re-evaluate how effectively regulations accomplish the grand vision in the environment of the perverse incentives that are often created and grow over time.

At a very basic level this is simply a scientific, non-political world view. It's evidence-based. If you read through many of the threads on HN you can feel the deep sentimentality that people feel about things like Social Security, etc. It's an emotional, irrational, unscientific response.

Why are you critical of libertarianism? Do you support some special interest group that stands to lose simply from smaller government? Or are you sentimentally attached to the grand vision presented as the persuasive argument for some piece of historical regulation? Or are you a career burocrat :)
I'd actually like to try that -- maybe the first paragraph or so included.

The value of the clean look (to me) is only it's service in providing easy access to the information, and I think leading comment blurbs might be a big win in that regard.

From the mobile PoV it saves having to click (and suffer a mobile experience http+render round trip) on each interesting sounding link to get more information (wherein I might decide the thread wasn't worth it, or the title was too vague and I've already read the comments before).
Always; in fact I often skip articles entirely and just read HN comments, if I already know the gist of what the article is about.
Yeah, it's amazing the breadth of age in table tennis. Many pro players can still play in their 40s and 50s, which is unheard of in other sports.

This past weekend I played against this kid in the clubs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cws4TzPySdw&feature=chann...

He's 5 years old and can barely reach over the table. But, he's able to back up 10 feet from the table and hit absolutely huge returns. I was able to beat him, but he definitely scored lots of points on me. Given that I'm rated about 750, this is crazy!

Give him a few years and he'll be playing pro in no time.
Did you mean:

self.cats = [new Tiger(), new Tiger(), new Cat()];

Instead of:

this.cats = [new Tiger(), new Tiger(), new Cat()];

?
After seeing this post, I remembered that they gave me a beta account a while ago. With some source I already had, tied to another db on another host, I was able to get http://fuel.dustincurtis.com up and working on Heroku within about 10 minutes. And 5 of those minutes were spent fixing a bug that was my fault.

Heroku is really, really awesome. It automatically detects the hostnames for your db in database.yml and corrects them, loads the schema, and just makes everything work, all automatically. You don't need to make any changes at all. I am still kind of amazed at how easy that was.
Twitter favorites are pretty much hidden and have almost zero social component. On twitter, favorites are tantamount to me printing out my browser's bookmarks list and posting it on my front door.

FF likes communicates that you are interested in an item to the FF system, the poster, and other people who come across it. Activity on things you like reset their freshness (for you) so you don't need to go hunting for things that have had activity. The poster can immediately see if people are tracking activity on something, and get a feel for other's responses to their entries. And as for other people seeing who has liked what, I've found other interesting people to follow more closely based on their name showing up in the like list. When start seeing someone's name pop up often, it's a way to learn what they are interested in (other than from their own posts, of course).
I think you mistook my comment as an argument against Libertarianism - it was not intended to be such. My point was that people oversimplify both the implementation and the analysis of Libertarian principles. A system with many, many free actors can be amazingly complex, and what I'm suggesting is that for people to see the value of the system they need to recognize and embrace that complexity.

For example, the basic principles of a free market (e.g., supply and demand) are easy to state but result in complex transactions. When things don't "work out" for someone in the real work and they raise an argument against "free markets" (as in the current housing bubble), we need to be ready to point out all the complex ways that the free market worked correctly but where the non-free parts distorted it (government policies encouraging loans to unqualified applicants).

In complex systems with non-linear behavior, we need to be very careful that we understand the full context of an event or we won’t be able to extrapolate the results. That’s why first-order approximations fail so often in mathematics and in real life.
It seems to be an elegant tool. But as I see it, it deviates from the core value of spreadsheets, which is putting computing power in the hands of non-programmers. Most spreadsheet users will balk at learning Python.
I got through it in a sense. I attempted every problem of the first of the five sections, and solved most of them. Then I worked with a tutor who looked through the rest of it and decided to work on something closer to the state of the art. I wouldn't say what I learned was better than SICP, but it was interesting.
A location aware twitter app, which will filter tweets based on where I am right now. It can figure out the location relevance of a tweet by scanning its content or by its origin(if the senders are using your client which will geo tag it?). In short, if I am in SFO, I want to hear only about tweets relevant to SFO.
One example that is often cited is the so-called "deregulation" of energy markets.

There was not actually deregulation. The markets were still highly regulated, so the act of deregulating part of them threw the whole system out of whack and everyone wanted to reinstate regulation.
Especially things like relaxants, maybe Valium or Vicodin, last about that time frame... and granted, these might as well be prescribed and perfectly legal!
I disagree, while stressful depending on the situations, certainly there a few agencies that do have flexible work schedules... one that I refuse to name, that you can find with a little digging, adheres to the employee's work schedule.. so if you like working at night, they'll provide that schedule for you, granted that you've gone through some reasonable hoops to get there.
I've been using Web Developer's Toolbar "Images | Hide background images" to work around this on sites where my want to read them is greater than the annoyance of background images.
Excellent question and I'd like to see an answer - as I was thinking this too when I saw that post.

Cheers
Wasn't one of the problems with the auction that it was so hastily put together that they didn't bother with the formal checks to see whether or not the potential bidders could actually pay for the leases? This was what allowed him to enter into the bidding in the first place.
Only on systems where there's a distinction, or a serious third-party contender that provides a distinction.
I think, at least what I found from that site as a pointer from this link is, that people confuse the polygraph with being a lie-detector which in truth(again based on the readings), it is not. What it is, is an agent used in an interrogation, simply put. You are being interrogated and judged on how well they think you can actually be trusted with a security clearance(along with other factors in your application). It will have you believe that they are on to you by showing your reactions to certain questions, when in reality, there is really only one person in that room that truly knows if an answer is true or false, and it is proven that it is not the person administering the examination.
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It's probably not a coincidence that there were ping pong tables in the Computer Center and Engineering Center buildings of our University; lots of people played (I never got into it, though; kinda hard to play when you have tunnel vision).
I've run into a number of situations where it's necessary to initialize and maintain some state in the instance. This is easier done when you have a constructor.

Admittedly, others might not run into these situations, but it's happened to me frequently enough to include it.
"Sometimes your app stops responding and you have to dig up one of the founder's e-mails (because the mailing list receives no response), but the technology is sound and the editor is wonderful."

How can the technology be 'sound' if the app sometimes "stops responding" ?
Powering a Google search
Edit: Nevermind. I'd thought you meant it was unreasonable you can compare them - ie, the "if it's crap, it's free" excuse. On a third reading I realized you meant something else.
Well, I have never installed OS X on anything but a Mac to be honest. But when installing Linux on my Mac WIFI did not work and once I got it to work it was destroyed by the next automatic Ubuntu update.
"Configure all client laptops with passwordless ssh logins to the server (i.e. using certificates) "

Short version of this step:

on each client, run
ssh-copy-id user@server
I have not read all the comments since there are too many of them. Here is my wish list(I am an ex- Mgmt consultant) without knowing if its already covered in the comments:
1) Creating a new tab/sheet and choosing if the tab should be a document or spreadsheet type so that I can run my numbers once and reference my table in the document and not worry about cutting and pasting. Really helps reduce word document and report writing. This is a fundamential mind set shift as an excel spreadsheet hardly goes on its own. Its always accompanied by a document and syncing the numbers between the report/tables and the excel is a massive PITA.
2) Importing some functionality of Access (running unique/group by queries, inner join/outer join etc...) in Excel. Helps me run complex data queries while maintaining data integrity.
3) A wiki like online spreadsheet. (dont think Google Docs does this. For e.g. if we are running a valuation for a company and each team mate has different assumptions for each variables, this can help team mates input thier assumptions and track it and see the overall impact on the numbers. Instead of the current model of emailing spreadsheets back and forth or erasing new data over old ones (e.g. like Google Spreadsheets). Btw- I strongly believe just implementing this last point alone and narrowly defining yourself as a model builder (with wiki like enterprise capabilites) would generate strong traction in I-Banks, Buy side firms, sell side research firms, market research companies, mgmt consulting firms, insurance companies etc...

Would love to try out a beta version if available. my email is raonikhilesh "@" gmail
I agree. It's a shame. The gesture should be applauded, but the icons really are not very useable. The Silk icon set is much better.
Quote: Government debt is typically paid back at some point. What makes you think it won't be this time?

Answer: As of November 19, 2008, the total U.S. federal debt was $10.6 trillion.[2], with about $37,316 per capita (that is, per U.S. resident). The October 3rd, 2008 bailout bill (H.R.1424), section 122, raised the U.S. debt ceiling from $10 trillion to $11.3 trillion. Of this amount, debt held by the public was roughly $6.3 trillion.[3] In 2007, the public debt was 36.8 percent of GDP [4], with a total debt of 65.5 percent of GDP.[5] The CIA ranked the total percentage as 27th in the world.[6]

36.8% of our GDP. Okay. How are we paying that off if every year the deficit only grows?

In addition, you said depressions are bad but they happen. And yes they're market failures and natural periods of economic purge.

But bailouts are different - they basically stop that market failure that should have happened to happen. A bailout is a subsidy. Then companies that shouldn't be able to compete continue to do so, and that leaves room for more problems in the future.
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OLE is a joke, if this is a client-side application add embeddable spreadsheet widgets.

Pivot-tables would be nice as a core function to model data (see quantrix.com)

Make 'light databases' part of the architecture and not counter-design.
something like, spreadsheets meets csv with a cli query component or similar.
What else are they supposed to do? The other side has better weapons.

So they use civilians to defend themselves and to attack with their tricky weapons. But there are only weapons because there is a war. And there is only a war because people hate each other. They could start by not hating each other...and trying to talk it out. But with both sides demanding preconditions, it won't work out. Ever.

Alas, peace in the middle east is not to be had.
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Take slicehost or S3. To give you more RAM means that someone else has to need more CPU to make their virtualization strategy work. I think once Amazon got enough volume it could begin offering high CPU and high RAM instances without diminishing overall utilization efficiency.

But Amazon still charges quite a premium for high RAM.. probably b/c due to IO rate limits low RAM also results in less CPU burn for many workloads than would exist if there were plenty of memory available.
I don't think property rights enter the picture when it's a government steward making long term leases available, possibly against the public interest.

And that they're claiming he significantly raised prices for parcels that he didn't end up winning shows that the auction was a sham (basically the companies expected to not have much bidding competition).
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As I say, that seems to be a US phenomenon.
I guess it doesn't hurt to have it, especially if you're writing a lot of singletons, but it just seems strange to me to do it explicitly since singletons are extremely easy to implement in prototype-based languages.

singleton = Object()
singleton.x = 0
singleton.foo = function(){
return x + 1
}

Edit: Also, why not http://www.prototypejs.org/ ? Not that there's anything wrong with playing around with stuff of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons
Ask HC: Suggestions on customers for this algorithm?
A few weeks ago, I posted "How to package this algorithm" at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=389526

By then, I was thinking of building our own customer oriented software/web site. After some in-depth discussions, we decided to focus on what we're good at, ie algorithm design and tweaks, and partner up with others to sell it. So we built it into a paid web service called Purifyr: http://www.purifyr.com/

Please give it a try and let me know what do you think of it.

Here are some usage scenarios:

- Semantic analysis processing: The value of semantic analysis is the ability to 'understand' a web page. Purifyr could help to remove 'noise' contents to make the analysis work much faster and easier.

- Printer friendly web: Never waste paper and inks! By using purifyr to clean up the web pages first, you could print only what your users want. Even better, you could apply customized stylesheets to keep all print-outs in a consistent look-and-feel.

- Mobile ready content: Mostly of today's web pages are for desktop monitors, not mobile devices. Using Purifyr to extract the content, you'd make any urls readable on mobile devices.

Thanks,
Alex
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Yeah, it's easier to browse, but it confounds wget for some reason, making it nearly impossible to save for offline viewing. The SGI reference is available in a tarball, even.
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"Idiot" is a harsh word. But I do agree that his reasoning is pretty hard to understand considering the terrorists only went to Iraq after the US invasion.

Maybe he went to Iraq only later when the terrorists were already there, thinking whatever the reason for them being there I want them out (which is a worthy goal in my opinion).
I was always a billiards guy.

Not as physical, but it does wonders for eye strain.
Those laser-guided JDAMs require the target to be "illuminated" by laser until it is hit, right? If so, LJDAMs are not "fire & forget" kind of bombs, which is OK, since the IAF owns the sky over Gaza anyways.

Since the IAF wants to minimize the collateral damage (at least that's what they say), then LJDAMs would indeed make sense. I stand corrected.
Blocking commercial GPS would make a lot of sense if there are palestinian forward observers watching the maneuvers of the IDF on the ground and communicating the coordinates of the IDF units so they could be shelled by (precise) mortar fire.
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I agree, that's what I do now. Adding them is purely for consistency in syntax (sugar, if you will). Using this library, there is a syntactic consistency between declaring types and singletons that you don't have normally.

I use prototype on a day to day basis and I'm not a huge fan. Mootools has captured my attention as being a better alternative, and some of the code was taken from mootools. This is just classes though, not a full JS library.
Tina Fey, non-constructive negativity, and the age of the Internet
Last night Tina Fey won at least one Golden Globe award, and in one speech said this,
"If you ever feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet and there you can find a lot of people who don’t like you..."
She proceeded to lovingly call out some real-life forum haters who could "suck it."

But seriously, how do you folks deal with the energy-suck that are negative non-participants/non-customers, who still want attention from you?

What about when it is a customer/participant, but they're just being a troll whose care and feeding can't scale?
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Well, Using Test Driven Development is a new thing. I find that using it, I now can clean-up code as I go along. I have one cycle for implementing new features and one cycle for clean-up currently. But it took learning TDD to be able to do that. And it took extreme programming for SOME shops to see the value in this. The trick is finding those shops.
I've always thought an exclusive, invite only beta testing site where the company throws up 500$ or so, and everyone who tests and nitpicks gets a share would be awesome.
What terrorists went there after the invasion? How do you define a terrorist? As someone who shoots at an American?
You could compromise and just add an expander to each story. If a user is suspicious of the story, they can expand the first couple comments and see what people are saying without going to a new page.
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This intermittent issue is an edge case affecting a very small percentage of apps, and has been eliminated in the new version to be released shortly.
You should run a spell checker on your website: instaniously, algorihtm, even your pricing @ $299.00 (!!) a month all look unprofessional.

Will people doing serious semantic analysis be okay with using your service in a black box manner, not knowing how your algorithm works?
At the very least, it would be nice if the "n comments" link were a little bigger and easier to click. I think that would greatly improve the comment-reading, without cluttering up the display too much.
Have a look the library I posted to github just yesterday. It maintains javascript's prototypal inheritance but gets rid of the BS:

http://github.com/richcollins/crux/tree/master/Crux.js
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=430145
More on this, here:

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf65.html
Interesting to hear the mailing list was unhelpful; we try to respond to it as soon as we can. More importantly though, we are in the process of setting up a proper and reliable support channel, which will be launched very soon.
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thanks. i have looked on msdn from time to time when i'm looking for a specific thing. i must say i don't find the msdn layout and presentation style very exciting. but i will try and ignore that and use what's good. Thanks for reminding me about it.
And that they're claiming he significantly raised prices for parcels that he didn't end up winning shows that the auction was a sham

Not necessarily. It's entirely rational for bidders to say "hey, there's more competition bidding on this parcel than I expected, maybe this parcel is worth more than I thought". Bidders don't have perfect knowledge, and they are well aware of this fact.
Nowadays, RAM is getting cheaper by the month.

Not any more.

http://news.google.com/news?q=dram+prices
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Multiplayerchess.org is an open source project written in Python and Javascript.
Cheers. That looks really useful.
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I think this press release is a response to the research mentioned in this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7823387.stm. Whether or not this type of statistic is relevant, it probably pales in comparison to the increase in global GDP as a result of this powerful search tool. Besides... a further question, would the internet be as usable without it?
>> a shortcut way of doing ClassName.prototype.functionName = function(args).

A single line assignment already seems quite shortcutish to me...
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From 1994 by the looks of it; I don't think that's apparent on the (print-friendly) link, but it's all the more interesting with that in perspective!

Related topic: who would you consider the Kay, Hillis, etc of today? (apart from Kay, Hillis, etc) Or can we only tell that sort of foresight in hindsight?