skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lokking to Partner with "Social Networking"/CogMap Operation
Hi.

Working on a project dealing with Textbooks/Faculty, and will need to have a "Social Networking"/CogMap/Org-Chart kind of functionality.

So we're looking for other small operations who have the above Tech/Function, and might be interested in licensing/partnering with another small operation. Figured that posting here might help!

Thanks
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I wish he'd picked a different example.

Megaman II was the very first action game that I beat in a single sitting. I went to my friend's house on a Saturday afternoon, plopped down and went on to destroy the thing over the course of a few hours, winning with who knows how many lives left.

I found the argument to be pretty persuasive in general, but every time I saw the name Megaman, I thought come on, what kind of person would need an easy mode for that game!!?

Ninja Gaiden, on the other hand frustrated me for the better part of a summer. It desperately needed an easy mode. That game is to Megaman as Megaman is to You Have to Burn the Rope.
Yes, China. Ensuring Twitter does not go down during times of civil unrest is definitely cyberwarfare. </sarcasm>
There's a whole chapter in Levitt's SuperFreakonomics that covers this and a lot more about the economics of prostitution. Good reading.
Note that this is an article from 2007.
Singular Value Decomposition was held back for 20 years by patents owned by BellCore. I had to scrap large interesting portions of Dowser to avoid potential problems.

As a counterexample, Autonomy has a patent on Bayesian text classification dating from the late 90's. I've always wondered why they didn't say anything after Paul popularized it for spam filtering.
Doctor Professor is wrong. Including Easy Mode is a catastrophic design flaw.

It should be a choice between Normal Mode and Flaming Death Mode.

Marketing, people. Marketing.
And isn't MPEG (or at least mp3) covered in patents, too?
1Password alpha version available for Chrome(ium)
ugh. so it is (sorry). so what happened?

[edit: from http://www.links.org/?p=205

"the Tor folks have known about this attack. It’s really hard to counter. It would be a lot more helpful for people to work on deeper browser integration to break the attack than to distribute attack code to demonstrate that a known, documented attack works."]
Yes, but .jpg is not always what you want. The artifacts can look ugly on schematic drawings.
He wrote 'Marge verses the Monorail' which is one of the best Simpsons episodes ever.
We saw the same sorts of issues when freenet came about. The problem is that if you build a purely anonymous system in an environment that is not oppressed (like the US), mostly people look at child porn, or share photos of people being totured/murdered/whatever. There is little logic to going to all the trouble to anonymize if you are doing something that is perfectly legal.
It looks like there is a bug when using the prefix and suffix fields together.

Entered "ns" in the prefix field and saw a bunch of domains. Added "ing" to the suffix field and nothing showed up. I figured the site was just slow until I realized that it wasn't going to refresh.

Cleared "ing" and typed "g" in the suffix field. Showed results. Then added an "n" just before the "g" to get "ng". Less results than before as expected. Then added an "i" just before the "ng" to get "ing".

That gave me a list of domains starting with "ns" and ending in "ing".

(Using Firefox 3.5.7 if that matters)
Your link is weird for me - it takes me to page 2 of the listings instead of a specific posting.

I think this is what you meant to link to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1073723
I would agree with the core part of what you're saying. There is a difference between the physical medium information is stored in, and the pattern of the medium that is storing the information.

To make this difference clearer, look at a typical cd or dvd. An equivalent article would talk about which chemicals and combination of lasers at certain optical frequencies are used to etch patterns into the surface of the cd/dvd.

An article on encoding would detail how the pattern of microscopic bumps on a cd/dvd represents binary data formats.
I hope it's not as painful as Geordi's visor.
The Neuroscience on Why and How Power Can Corrupt
Firebug Release Notes
So this is where they got the inspiration for the Google homepage.
We have tried them :) And so have several of our customers.
You have a point. I don't really like the idea of thought crimes, however, to create child pornography, real children have to be sexually exploited. Consuming such content encourages its production.

For what it's worth, I don't think things like child pornography that don't involve actual children should be illegal. Stories, cartoons and photoshop jobs don't involve any actual victims.
The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing
Thanks! Actually our software runs in the cloud or in your datacenter. If it's in the cloud, it can be encrypted in trasmission (or stored encrypted if you're willing to take the performance hit).

If it's sensitive data, I'd recommend just spinning up your own cluster and installing the tool.
I disagree with the author's fundamental assumption that games (and mountain climbing) are fundamentally about experience, and that pretty much undercuts everything else in this article. To say that climbing Everest is about experiencing nature is actually absurd. People climb Everest because it is an accomplishment that is as much about personal triumph as it is about experiencing nature. If the trek is modified to require no personal growth, it is no longer the same trek. The author's cool approach to the subject allows him to convincingly deconstruct the hardcore perspective, but when I look at what remains after he's done, I am not convinced that it is gaming.

TL;DR: The logical extension of the article is that someone who watches a real-time movie of people climbing Everest has a similar experience to those actually climbing Everest, and should be allowed to claim that they too have climbed Everest. In my opinion the author does a disservice to us all by making a convincing argument of this.
Because they are selling a lot more than "just sex".
Hi, since you already have lots of country-specific TLDs, I suggest you to add .br, or more specifically, ".com.br". I'm not sure on how you could profit from it, but I bet you can get some traffic from here.
John Martellaro had an interesting point on twitter:

> MacBook = content creation tool. iTablet = content consumption tool. I doubt we'll see any writer's apps. No terminal app, of course.

http://twitter.com/jmartellaro/status/8041600445

I think that's dead-on.
To be honest it was quite a dignified response, I was expecting something with more 'fire' when I clicked the link.
In my opinion, downloading and looking at pictures of naked children shouldn't be a crime. Making child porn also shouldn't be a crime unless it falls under child abuse laws. For example, animated or CGI child porn should be legal because its production and consumption harms no one. (Currently it's illegal and people have gone to jail for it.) We stopped imprisoning and castrating homosexuals sometime ago, but apparently people can't internalize the too-abstract ideas of "victimless crime" and "private business". See that guy? He's a wacko, I tell you. He loves watching movies where people kill other people with guns! One day he'll get a gun and attack our kids, our precious little darlings.

And about that hacker from the article, I wonder if his system can be used to catch copyright infringers? People who download offensive texts? People who visit blacklisted sites, where the blacklist depends on the country? Human inventions are beautiful that way - you never know how other people will repurpose them. I hear the guy who invented dynamite didn't intend it to be used for killing, either.
Yes!! Exactly. Thank you for putting in words something that was too hazy in my mind to even think of expressing it.

Would you mind giving your name if I add this to the article as a quote?
ActiveCollab has built-in daily backup to dump everything to disk in a recoverable form, and then the server itself is backed up. If I wanted to go crazy I could spend another minute adding the files to the cron job that syncs data up to S3.

Of course there's a chance that it'll involve a bit of maintenance at some point, and that'll soak up a bit of my time. My experience with hosted solutions is that they have far more frequent hosting issues resulting in lack of access to data (be that scaling problems, being offline for maintenance, bad deploys etc) which soak up lots of time for everyone on the project.

When I'm in control of the situation I know that at least in a bad case scenario I can spin up another server, grab the last good backup and be up and running again within the hour. That has a lot of value.
This article was explicitly a response to the comments he got on the article about Mirror's Edge, which is perhaps a better example:

http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2010/01/mirrors-edge-what-went-w...
Thanks for providing this valuable perspective. I sort of group grep/Perl scripts/everything else together as manual processes. What I was getting at is the whole "roll your own" scripts is a royal pain in the ass.

For analytics, you're right, search is only part of the equation. That's why we make MapReduce easy to use on a cluster. You can write Pig or Hive scr

We also have templates for common data formats (and ways to roll your own) so you can turn unstructured log text into structured data, so that a histogram of hit counts per day-of-week is just a few lines of a script (or maybe even a search).
This is a common problem with Science Daily. They basically copy and paste press releases from universities with all the bullshit hype intact. Every article has the same format:
Scientists discover mind-blowing new theory that will blow your mind and cure cancer, AIDS, and global warming!!!!
Moore is former USAF Intelligence. He already had the 'govt paycheck'.
When I google "the beaver", they do indeed show up as the top spot.
Bill Gates' 2010 Annual Letter
> Currently it's illegal and people have gone to jail for it

Actually it's something of a legal grey area in most places. If that's all your caught with then you could well just get a slap on the wrists - but that's rarely the case.

I see where your coming from with the arguments; but it's, sadly, not in any way a victimless crime.
Indeed, think of what could have been, so much talent just wasted.
Hungry for New Content, Google Tries to Grow Its Own in Africa
If something is legal but not accepted by the society, there is a good reason for going anonymous right there.

Or simply not wanting to be associated with something.
Yes, that’s what I meant. I tried to keep the terminology simple (there were several other places where I avoided jargon) because I consider the article’s target audience to be people who aren’t already deeply familiar with the subject.
Experiences with justhost.com?
Hello! To get started with some decidedly irrelevant projects, I'm looking for some cheap hosts. Now I understand justhost.com is not meant for production environments. However, their Features section sounds too good to be true... Has anyone tried it for static content? Does it really host several ("unlimited") domains? Your general impressions will be welcome.

Thanks!
I don't think that Everest was the best example (though it did get the point across). Part of enjoying the splendor of Everest is having a decent respect for the harshness of nature, and the danger of the climb. If you just put a cable car up there that takes you to the top, then you hardly have the same awe and respect for nature. It just becomes a tourist attraction.

This has nothing to do with status (at least my opinion doesn't). The same thing happens with many of our natural wonders when we turn them into tourist attractions. Even as far back as the 1800s, Europeans were disgusted with the way that Americans had turned Niagara Falls from a natural wonder into a tourist trap.
I think that the overly "I love you man" tone of his response indicates to me that he's thumbing his nose at the situation and just being a bit of an ass.
Don't they realize how dumb they look?

Their standard response to any criticism is to dig through things which have happened in the past as a result of US action, make huge leaps of logic, and then justify whatever it is they did in terms of that.

Never mind the right or the wrong of the issue...

I guess that's the sin/shame culture difference. For them it doesn't matter what they did, it matters that they got caught. And justifying it in terms of what someone else did means they regain "honor" or whatever the fuck it is they're trying to do...
Try loading in SWFs created with Blaze (the artist tool) into your flex app, and you're in for an even more huge world of hurt. You can fume memory (crash the browser within 30 seconds) without even writing a single line of code, just by having an artist placing certain kinds of keyframed animations and fonts. We spent weeks trying to explain this problem to the absolutely idiotic Adobe Support Gold, and after months we got something like "seems like something might be up. we'll have our engineers look into it. Can you send us another test case?"
HN Point of Order: Should I upvote responses to stupid comments?
People regularly post HN comments that clearly indicate that they haven't read the linked article, and are rightly downvoted for it. My question is: should people responding with clarifications receive upvotes?

Often, someone responds to such "didn't RTFA" posts with a brief summary or pithy comment about how the parent needs to RTFA. This is free karma for the responder, who only needs to restate the article and/or insult the parent, both of which are noise to me. Do others disagree?

The guidelines are not explicit about this, so I am explicitly asking the HN hive mind.
Only Facebook Can Match Google's Run
Some thoughts on Google's competition.
2010 Annual Letter from Bill Gates
My high school had a drafting lab, and I and a bunch of other guys would sneak in there during the lunch hour and fire up illicit games of Descent.

The rule was that the first one to successfully enter the lab would get to use the shiny 486 in there; everyone else had to use the 386s, which put them at a distinct tactical disadvantage.

I graduated in 1997.
Please add Gandi.net as a registrar, they're by far my favourite and I know other people have similar strong views.
It probably will get you points. I rarely submit TC articles anymore, unless they seem worthy of being here/they just appeared in my RSS reader. Spend the time you would making a script (that will probably get banned + do more harm than good), and make smart comments. You'll meet some interesting people, get good feedback, and in the process get Karma.
Anybots Telepresence Robots Go into Mass Production
That’s true, most of the time it doesn’t really matter.

But it’s like properly formatting and indenting your source. Any one particular instance of sloppiness is irrelevant, but in the aggregate, the care you put into it really makes a difference in the feel of your works.
http://mises.org/story/3280
I really like it, really simple to use and fast like other people said. In fact, I found a great name related to my main project that I'm going to snap up.

The first time around though, I didn't notice that I could pick my preferred registrar at the bottom to get you the referral. Maybe that should default to empty and ask your preferred registrar on a domain click if it's blank? Just a thought.
In IE7, the CSS is being completely ignored and the page does not work (Note: I am behind a proxy, it might have something to do with it). It works with Firefox.

Also, I know of a domain, seventypercentwater.com, but it doesn't show up in the list when I search for "seventy". What am I missing?
/i wish the big stories would get removed sooner so that more content could filter in. maybe it could just be personal: stories i've seen already are removed./

I think this is a great idea. As someone who visits multiple times a day and see most of the same content (like a lot of other people I'm sure) it would be awesome to be able to hide stories to create room for others.
Looks like I got cut off in the middle. *You can write Pig or Hive scripts to generate interesting analytics.
I disagree - you're assuming that there's something fundamentally different about the easy mode (different AI, for example), but that simply isn't the case for most games.

Most "easy" modes really just multiply the damage you do to enemies, or nerf the damage they do against you. Look at, say, Call of Duty, a game that can be incredibly challenging on harder difficulties, but has a mass-appeal easy mode - the easy mode really just makes you a cushion for bullets, and there's nothing wrong with that. How enemies respond, how the AI works, everything remains the same.
He looks great!
Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do)
Tor is being used for nefarious purposes? Who could have anticipated that?

Stuff like Tor is made for purposes that at least somebody considers nefarious. The relevance of this is that he apparently found a vulnerability.
Brilliant list.

Stunning that T/C is 2x their closest second, and hugely over the top 10.
>64-bit Intel means more performance as the cpu has more registers

Sometimes. First of all its a bummer Apple only sells Intel. AMD makes quality chips. 64-bit means better performance sometimes. Usually you take a hit because of larger pointers. LLVM can do pointer compression, it'd be interesting to know if Apple uses it widely. 64-bit really is awesome when you want to use lots of memory. Otherwise 32-bit is perfectly fine.

I've been a 64-bit enthusiast for quite sometime and I can pull up plenty of Gentoo posts from back in the day advocating the wonder of registers. Not all algorithms magically improve in performance when they are available unfortunately.

Also, no mention of my GPU argument? I'm sure you won't say there is more performance to be had there.
But if the original work was a collection of facts that is not protected by copyright, then your derivative work might not be protected by copyright either. Lists of facts are not protected by copyright in the US.
You certainly also have a point.

I think it would be nice if child pornography could be produced by computer simulations and pedophiles thus would be able to feed their addiction without causing harm. Being able to focus the available resources on treating actual child abusers would be nice.
"We can't tell whether Jason is misleading us about the proportion of scrape-generated pages on Mahalo without access to any Mahalo page statistics."

Well, when doing a site search in Google for
site:mahalo.com "Links Powered by Google"
there are 553,000 pages indexed in Google which are using scraped search result content (with optimized page titles) to help pull in traffic.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amahalo.com+Links++Powe...

and keep in mind that is just links from Google...there are also chunks of content from Google blog search, Twitter, and other sources (images, videos, news) on those pages

he is full of ____ if he is trying to get anyone to buy that doing the above is responsible for less than 1% of their traffic when Compete.com shows their search referral traffic as being ~ 60% of their referrals

It is not just a few (thousand) 100% auto-generated (experiment/stub/zebra/spam) pages that have scraped content on them...the above search shows Google estimates over a half million pages in their index contain content from their own search index...total regurgitation of 3rd party content :D

And lets not forget that 1.) he is using people's optimized page titles as content on his pages 2.) search traffic monetizes better via ads than other traffic forms...especially the search traffic that lands on a page for some random longtail keyword made up by arbitrarily combining chunks of 3rd party content mixed together and re-aggregated. 3.) in addition, there is a $0 editorial cost to scraping these millions and millions of content snippets and re-displaying them. 4.) he is making at least 5 figures a day from that content scraping...with 100% certainty.

his 1% remark is just another form of misinformation. nothing new there!
Oh, and as far as scale-wise: we run on the "web scale", which means a dozen to hundreds or more of computers, each generating tons of logs. It's why we're built on Hadoop. It's the main complaint our customer research indicated people have with tools like Splunk.
Let me see if I can add average points per submission.

edit: I just made another version that shows the distribution for the users posting, but I'm not sure if I should post that.

It proves the OPs point in a pretty dramatic way though.

edit2: I've posted the list but anonymized: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076237
HAML and SASS have made web design enjoyable again. The time dealing with the learning curve is quickly paid back in increased productivity.

Using Rails and Sinatra for web app development or StaticMatic for static page development handles all of this for me, but the auto compiling will make it easier for prototyping.
I am thinking the opposite. If HTML5 can draw the attention of more non-programming crowd, like gamers, artists, stylists, etc. it might have a shot.

Currently the HTML5 canvas is just, well, a plain canvas.
That's reading the activity of visual cortex, though, not extracting stored memories. The former is pretty well understood, and works mostly the same across vertebrates. The latter is still mostly a mystery, thus the linked article is major news.
"we accidentally took that off when we moved to Mahalo 3.0 i think." Jason is the last person who would accidentally make a move like that. Its all planed.
Great app, found it from your first go-round here and obviously is much cleaner visually.

Would be nice to be able to only check certain extensions without losing too many points (.ly or .us only)

So useful, thank you.
In that case the copyright belongs to Dublin Bus, doesn't it? In which case the author of this post may be the original violator.
I have tried Splunk. It's a great concept and I commend the Splunk team for building such an easy to use, polished product. However we found the query performance to be... ahem... not well geared towards large data sets. This combined with the licensing model meant it wasn't an option for us.

I just wish Yahoo would open source Everest (their multi-PB column store DB based on PostgreSQL) -- this would be ideal for building an open source Splunk competitor.
Unjust laws, identity theft, embarassing but perfectly legal activities... there's plenty of logic to going anonymous.
Cool. It looks like it would be a big strain on the neck, having to hold your head up like that, but on the other hand, it's only for short flights...

But the real questions is: how do you see the ground while you're landing, if you're facing up?
Not sure why I was downvoted and get these replies.

I wasn’t being sarcastic, I do spend lots of time making my commits (and everything else for that matter) ready for inspection by her royal queen — I know others with this same behavior, and my comment was merely meant to say “don’t rationalize it” — I do it to feel good, well, to not feel bad (about “leaving a mess”) is probably closer to the truth.
the response was condescending...he made it sound like it was my SEO tips he followed to create that site...trying to cast blame onto me.

you can also tell how insincere he was in that his recommendation never hit the homepage of his site...he didn't want certain people to see it
Duly noted. The cost/benefit is clear and this seems like the optimal solution.

Thanks to everyone for your thoughtful responses; your comments cleared quite a few things up.