skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are dealer-certified used cars, too, available from new-car dealerships. The best are the demo cars that they drive up to around 5,000, then sell. It's much cheaper than new, and you still can be confident it's not a lemon (possibly more so than with a new car).
I couldn't find a neighborhood WITHOUT a McDonald's in Beijing. Or KFC. Or Starbucks.
One thing I wonder about the invariant right is if it changes in countries where people drive and walk on the left side.
Well that's because you visited Beijing. Try visiting a city near Beijing, but not in Beijing.

I think if you visit any major city anywhere in the world, you'll find a huge diverse range of food you'll never have trouble with.
The different Japanese writing systems each have their purpose. It's a bit like asking "Would uppercase-only be accepted?" when translating to English. It depends what you're translating, but in general if you only use a small subset of a language's writing system you're not going to come across as a complete translation.
Or additionally, he could just shutdown the site on xmas day and post a disclaimer for the other 364 days that the site has a 99.997% success rate. (or a 0.003% failure rate)
I think that cloning a website by localizing it for another country only really makes sense when the community around the website is a big part of its value. In this case the new community surronding the localized version is going to provide a significant advantage to the cloner.

For 10MinuteMail, there is not as much value added by localizing it so it's certainly not a good idea to clone it...
Gold will always be valuable

For varying values of valuable. Our bold leader Gordon Brown sold off the UK's gold reserves for about a third of the current market price. He even announced well in advance that he was planning to dump a load of gold on the market, so the price dropped even further. Gold's a great asset but it's not the be-all and end-all.
Excellent. A major interest of mine, thanks for the link!
Why is Katakana easier to work with? I mean, usually my code is either unicode-safe... or it isn't. I've never ran into "kind of unicode-safe as long as the character doesn't have too many lines" ;)
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Seems too simple. If someone visits their site, chances are they are fairly big into the social news thing. If that's the case, digg or reddit will have already linked them to that video.
Wouldn't it be great if such meticulous studies were done on other things, such as education?
now with rss feeds!
I think part of the problem with cloning a website is the motivation. Feeling that you're just cloning a succesful website without adding your own touch is just not as motivating (at least for me).

I'm a bit in this situation currently since I had an idea for a product that I really wanted to do, but by the time I quit my job to work on it, someone else had the same idea and implemented it for the american market... So, I let the idea by the wayside for a while but recently I decided to implement it for another market... So in a way I'm cloning someone's website (same base idea) without cloning since I originally wanted to do exactly such a website...
You can debug Clojure-with-a-J code using JSwat. http://clojure.org/getting_started#toc5
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Get away from here, hippie. Cancer patients need real medicine, not platitudes from morons.
Or profits. They might have had to discount heavily to attract sales at the expense of beloved profit margins.
LOL, this actually wrong pronunciation of Chinese PinYin. The right one is `Bú Shì`. The explaination here: http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E4%B8%8D%E6%98%AF/130...

http://github.com/isit/christmas/tree/master/iic.js

132 "CN": "BÙ SHÌ", // China (Mandarin)
I'm in a similar boat, and as far as I can tell, ability > tires > drive wheels. It isn't that they aren't important, but people tend to place faaaaaaar too high a value on drive layout for winter driving.

Now, on the track, it makes a BIG difference. In the snow, however, your goal is safety... not competitive times.
A wise man once said, "Any man can eat when he's hungry, but a real man eats when he's full..."

:)
I'm not a car person, but I'm a luxury person, and I have an Rx350. I've had it for 2 years, moved cross country twice in it, and I still love it more every time I drive. The attention to every little detail is astounding. What makes you love it are the little things you wouldn't even think matter that much like the backup camera (I laughed at this and let me tell you, I couldn't live without it now), rain sensing wipers, automatic lights that turn on and off themselves and turn with you as you steer, ample cupholders including one by a vent so you can keep your drink warm in the winter, ability to save seat positions and revert to them with one button push, homelink garage door built in, variable temperature seat warmer, phenomenal traction control (I drove 9 hours home in a blizzard once, laughing at all of the cheaper cars swerving uncontrollably off the road), the suspension that makes railroad tracks nearly unnoticeable, seats so comfortable I'm trying to figure out how to get one for my office. I could go on and on.

And their GPS is unbeatable. Now when I rent a car, I get those Garmins and just end up pissed at how unusable they are. I test drove an Accura and the GPS crashed on me.

Despite being an SUV, it's fast enough that anything faster would just get me into trouble. I laugh at douchebags who have racing spoilers on their Civic, since me in my soccer mom car could smoke them off the line.

And you'll be able to fit luggage for 4 with ease. Buy that car, you won't regret it. The total cost of ownership is surprisingly low for the sticker price given Lexus's value retention and craftsmanship. I'm pretty sure mine was just under $50k fully loaded.
Actually it is patent law that's messed up. US patent law, anyway. It's not that patents shouldn't exist, of course they should in some form. And I disagree that the problem is with the examiners. People always say that more money needs to be invested to have specialists from every field doing the examining, but this is a waste of time. The point of the patent office is to deal with merging new technologies and fields, by definition they will always be behind.

The best thing would be to simply lower the cost of invalidating a patent. For example, in the UK anyone can challenge a patent without having to go to court. Just forward your prior art evidence to the patent office and when it is verified the patent becomes invalid.

I know of cases where individuals have gotten patents invalidated for things didn't compete with their business or affect them in any way. They challenged the patent just on the grounds that it was false (i.e. the owner of the patent didn't invent the idea).

The mistake the US makes is this idea that everything has to be proved/disproved by the court system. That's way to expensive and way too much trouble for things like patents. There are so many laws, patents and so on that shouldn't exist, but do because no one has been willing to challenge it in court to get it thrown out.
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Aww. Congee is frickin' awesome though! I guess I'm lucky... my parents exposed me to all kinds of food growing up, so I never had that "Hamburger Helper 24/7" mentality.
Then step outside the US.
> "When and if we find out a bubble was helpful and better than alternatives, we generally revise our history and no longer call it a bubble. It's sort of a definitional thing--there isn't much way around it. Perhaps the author would have been better changing his thesis into an argument in favor of such a revision for the specific case of Florida and the telecoms."

I don't agree. What do you call a situation where the original investors go bust because most of the benefits accrue not directly from their investments but from spillover effects? Calling it helpful effects of a bubble is not a bad way to describe it, I think.

But even so, this doesn't answer the question of whether the bubble had a positive overall effect. The author of the article isn't mentioning the dampening effect of busts on the willingness to take on risks down the road. It's not just the wasteful use of resources during the bubble that has a negative macro economic effect. On the other hand, the feeling that you can get rich in a bubble if you get out in time increases the hunger for risk. Maybe not for the right kind of risk though.

Anyway, it's very hard to make macro economic calculations like this. There are so many more factors that haven't been mentioned and surely there are some of those unknown unknowns lurking somewhere as well :-)
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This is a great idea that could really help people that don't have the resources to go and get opinions from many different doctors by learning from the experience of those who do. I wish you the best.
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Working at 4 am on the Saturday after Christmas (and not even realizing it until now), this quote was especially meaningful to me:

People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash and eat. When they're really possessed by what they do, they'd rather stop eating and sleeping than give up practicing their arts. - Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Let me know when you get to one hundred. In the meantime, writing the Ruby webserver is a larger contribution than say, git bindings.
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With which parts? I think there's a big void for ultra localized news & content even if I'm not real sure about Cuban's implementation suggestions.
China has a very surface economy. America has a wide number of skilled labourers, not just in the prominent professions like engineers and doctors, but also things like human resources, accounting, etc. There is massive skill value in the U.S, and even if there were a total destruction of the money markets, the skills are not going anywhere, making it very easy to recreate industries. China does not have the same - they have a large quantity of unskilled labour.

Most electronic components are produced in China. If China decides to increase their currency, their electronics will get expensive, and phillipines, malaysia, thailand will be happy to take over this role.

Political unrest is really the least problem we face right now. Since I was born in 1980, I cannot remember a time when the news had so little conflict.

I'm not saying the U.S is perfect, the U.S has big problems. What I think the root cause of the problems is is that a lot of power is given to big companies. It's a sort of self-sustaining monopoly. Americans are now looking upwards - look at big VC companies to give them money, look at corporations for jobs. Small to medium business should be the backbone of any company, not massive shareholder companies.
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But, if you only scrape the frontpage, how can you know the points for all the past stories which are not on the frontpage anymore?
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Time.now.mday == 25 && Time.now.month == 12 ? "YES" : "NO"

This will return the wrong answer if the first expression is evaluated on, say, November 25th and the second half of the expression isn't evaluated until December 1st. Very buggy ;)
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I thought this was interesting because it shows how quickly Rails hurtles forward.
For one ting RDX is actually shorter than Legacy.

For another your claim about smaller size being safer is just a guess, which I can counter with another guess "larger size makes your easier to see and so less likey to get hit".
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You're off by a few factors of 10
False choice fallacy: either "no hyperinflation" or "rampaging mobs".

In fact several countries have survived hyperinflation without the mobs. Once again, Russia 1998, Argentina 2001, Icelad 2008.

On the other hand USA 1930 and Nazi Germany saw confiscation of gold by the government and it might make sense to prepare for that as well by storing your gold abroad.
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I'm never sure what to make of posts like this.

Sure, it is a short code snippet that works some of the time, but the original was trying to solve a more difficult problem. This code doesn't even try.

What good is pretty code if it only runs on localhost?

Oh, and if you really do only care about localhost, there isn't much difference between the Sinatra/Ruby code and PHP:

<?php $date = getdate(); ?>
<html><body>
<h1><?php echo $date[mday] == 25 && $date[mon] == 12 ? "YES" : "NO" ?></h1>
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I noticed that I'd already seen many of the videos posted on there. That kind of confirms what you're saying.
The costs are absurd because of insurance. People are too isolated from prices and all the money the government pumps into the system inflates prices.

The whole healthcare cost problem would disappear almost immediately if people paid medical bills directly and were reimbursed for only the truly unforeseen medical expenses. If doctors and hospitals were forced to compete on price like normal businesses, costs would plummet. It's the lack of a real market that's the problem. What other business has no prices out on display or in advertisements? Try calling up a hospital and asking the cash price for a procedure. It typically doesn't even exist; they're only set up to bill insurance companies and the government at different rates.

"Healthcare in the US is socialism without a central plan and capitalism without markets or prices."
Key phrase, "as a non-Japanese speaker".
It has something to do with economics of punditry. Basically, for pundits incentives are against voicing dissent. If you go against the conventional wisdom and your predictions turn out to be right, you'll still have hard time getting your voice heard, since it will probably drown in a cacophony of "nobody could have seen this coming" type mainstream media flood. On the other hand, if you dissent from the crowd and turn out to be wrong, you'll be labeled a lunatic and sent to oblivion. So the punishment and the risk you're taking by far outweighs any possible rewards. Thus we get herding; pundits' predictions will always be closer to each other than they are to the real value of the thing being predicted.
Ah, yes, "Six Degrees of Hacker News"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242293
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i have a 2000 infiniti Q45 anniversary edition - insurance group coilovers, peak performance multilink, work euroline N in 19x9.5 ET8 19x10 ET-11. it's almost 6" lower than stock, and i'm running -7* camber. most car guys think i'm crazy for doing it, and i'm inclined to agree but it looks so cool! too bad it's so impractical: i got stuck on the driveway at in-n-out a few days ago, and i can't carry more than about 500lb in the car with me at any time (that includes passengers), otherwise i'll rub. the entire trip. or worse, pop the bead on the tires. oh well.

i'm thinking of selling it though and building a porsche 964, rauh-welt style:

http://ll.speedhunters.com/u/f/eagames/NFS/speedhunters.com/...

forgive me though, i just enjoy blathering on aimlessly about cars :)
US debt is nominated in US dollars. An easy way to pay up all debt is to devalue dollar 1,000,000,000 times and then repay all debt with a week worth of McJob salary.

Since you borrowed dollars backs when they were expensive and returned them now when they are cheap you win. Of course the lender will not be too pleased and likely will not want to lend you again.
Yeah, even without doing the computation or just noting that 365 < 1000, it would be pretty absurd to be able to do far better than any Amazon S3 guarantee (to give one example) while still being able to be "down" for an entire day!
Before leaving to go YC SFP 2008, I was working at Volkswagen, so I have a slight bias towards VWs and Audis. They're fun cars. I might be able to still get some discounts, so PM me if you want, and I'll see if I can help you out.
You made a claim that changing your lifestyle cannot possibly cure cancer. Surely the burden of proof is on the claimant? How do you reconcile the growing body of evidence to the contrar?
Wait, why? (the part in parentheses)
thanks for the pointers.. will work on it :)
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This is crap.

5 paragraphs of how mathematics has higher standards of rigour. Completed by a muddled argument supported only by a quote and apocryphal reports.

Also, "snow" falling over text makes it hard to read, as would be obvious.
I would personally recommend a Honda Fit (Jazz in other parts of the world). Incredibly reliable, very good fuel economy, it's pretty cheap and has loads of storage space.

It's also been rated in the top 5 for several years in Top Gear's Car Survey, (I can't seem to find the other years).

http://www.topgear.com/content/carsurvey/2006/features/01/1....

http://www.honda.co.za/main.aspx?ID=128
> it's very hard to make macro economic calculations like this. There are so many more factors that haven't been mentioned and surely there are some of those unknown unknowns lurking somewhere as well :-)

Right, in which case we should evaluate it some other way. I think a good analogy can be illuminating.

Say we have an island population which consumes umbrellas (for shade) and coconuts (for food). If there's a bubble in umbrellas, that means the island society built too many of them, falsely thinking it would be worthwhile to do so. Since there's a glut of umbrellas, all the builder takes a loss, and probably lays off some or all of his newly-hired umbrella-building workforce.

But the umbrellas don't disappear, so it's not all bad, right? Over time, the umbrellas will wear out and those in storage can be used. That seems to be the gist of the article.

But this argument falls apart if you realize that the goal of any economic system, and particularly the free market system, is the efficient allocation of capital. The most efficient arrangement on our hypothetical island would have been to make only umbrellas as are needed, when they're needed, built by a consistent, maintainable workforce, and leaving others free to do as they will.

This is true of infrastructure as well; businesses and societies flourish when the find the most efficient ways of doing things, and businesses found out a long time ago that holding excess stock is wasteful (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_in_time_manufacturing). We should accept this and not try to paint a pretty face on waste.

They say that:

> Luxury riverside developments that now dot the banks of the Thames in London may be empty for the moment but will find occupiers eventually

but they fail to mention that by over-allocating goods and labor to large, luxury apartments they've reduced access to other things. For example, more modest, economically sustainable apartments could have been built in the place of these, which would have meant more efficient, denser land-use.

Anyway, IMO this is all hogwash. Of course it's not all for naught, but that doesn't means it's any good.
If you discard the important finance decisions to do with not only the allocation of resources, but also protecting your country from outside financial 'wars' then you could be creating so much value but not able to retain that value, just look what happened during the Asian financial crisis.
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Women are socially (and, perhaps, otherwise) conditioned to avoid those society perceives as loser-types.

Unfortunately, mathematicians still fit this mold, as much as I wish it weren't so.

This alone largely explains the absence of women in math, much as it explains the absence of women in my field, IT.
I've heard the "Good" version too. On Google it wins 35,000 against 2,660, which is closer than I'd expect. The Wikipedia page has it as "Good", but Unsourced.
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My knowledge of Japanese is poor, but I know the romanization of many of the sounds used. For example, "kaze wo atsumete". If I type that on a Japanese keyboard, I get the katakana to match. Working out what the equivalent kanji are (if any in this case?) would be impossible to me.
If you stuck to just UTC, you could run it anywhere and it'd be logically (though not pragmatically) correct.

In any case, I was being flippant because I thought the original was a joke of sorts. It was amusingly overengineered, so I thought I'd go too far in the opposite direction to play devil's advocate, as it were.
He really is starting to lose it. I don't think he practices what he preaches anymore. Yes, he'll answer an email, but ask for more than that and I can guarantee what the answer will be.... Maybe he should just be "Authentic" about it and do a blog post which says: "Look people, I am flattered at all the requests and X, Y and Z's I get. But you probably don't know that it amounts to many thousands of these a week and i just can't be now, what I was then. The good news for you is that my authentic method works.... up to a point... and that space is now open for you to take... Coz I'm just too big to do it now, to be authentic that is.... it was fun while it lasted..."

How about that Seth?

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Well, HN is just a clone of Reddit. And Reddit is just an improved Digg. When someone makes a clone of yours, then you'll know you've hit it big!
It's so easy to make people naturally that it would be pointless to make more than a few clones, just to prove it can be done. The same applies to apps. If you are looking for a programming or design exercise and can't think of anything original, rewrite an app you like.
Definitely. This is like Bollywood/Hindi movies making rip-offs of English movies. It still adds value because it brings the idea (the story) to a number of people who wouldn't have been able to use it otherwise (language barrier).
I've done a bit of desk research into ecommerce userbility studies, the journal Electronic Consumer Research is the most focussed, although 80% of the articles seem to be refuting the previous one published. The remaining 20% can be insightful (and provide useful terms with which to impress clients).
America's Hollywood also does this to foreign films, though it's rarely anything close to what you'd call an improvement.
Maybe the deal between the UK government and ISPs goes like this:

We don't intefere with you harvesting personal data to target advertising without users' consent (e.g. Phorm). In exchange you help us censor the web.
UK government is getting ready to horrible economic times ahead when they will need all possible means to avert organized riots etc.