skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why didn't you try VirtualBox, its made by Sun.. Yes, ZFS excedes expectations for server setups. Tapes ( still use them for archiving+reports), HDDs ( mid level to 'slowflow' data), SSDs for www/xml-rpc)

Sun is one the best at shuffling data handsdown; yet they always play with licensing like a mean poker player..
Looks somewhat similar to Ian Bicking's Silver Lining (née Toppcloud): http://cloudsilverlining.org/
I wonder how much of this crap we would see if the term was something less inflammatory than "NoSQL".
Has anyone outside the US had any luck running an ad yet? The T&Cs say you have to be in the US but I've signed up OK.. just not run an ad as I have nothing to promote yet.
> gpg --sign file.jpg

Cute, but since it's outside the camera, useless. (They're smart enough to figure out that alteration can occur before the image is signed.)

> But actually, isn't potentially inauthentic video better than nothing at all? At least it can be analyzed by experts. No video at all means there is nothing to analyze.

Experts aren't (necessarily) cheap and even then it's a crapshoot.

I don't know that they've analysed the costs vs benefits of taking unsigned video correctly, but I'm pretty sure that they at least know some of the costs, so I suspect that they're closer than folks who think that there are no costs.
H.264 is OPEN. It's just not FREE. There's a big difference in the two.
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I have an indian edition of this book - http://www.amazon.com/Trachtenberg-Speed-System-Basic-Mathem.... I highly recommend exploring this method - its quite easy and the rules are simple to remember.
I would attribute this result more to "substantially all corpora of human languages will exhibit a zipf distribution in word frequency" than to "kids these days."

For example, off the top of my head I know you can do about 90% of jpop songs with 200 words, and I say without fear of contradiction that Wikipedia, the Bible, the contents of the Gutenberg free library, or any other substantial corpora will also evidence a zipf distribution.

Bonus points: the zipf distribution for the King James version of the Bible and the zipf distribution for text messages would be virtually indistinguishable if you rank ordered them and then swapped n% of the words across the two lists. I think n is likely to be about 10. A fun project for after Easter if they've published their dataset anywhere...

Sorry -- natural language processing is my first love.
I considered that, but since we don't have the pre-voucher numbers, how do we know if it increased or not?

It all seem to rest on there being a discontinuity between those that are nearly the same level of income but some get a voucher and some don't but, strangely, the ownership level decreases as you approach the line, then increases again.

The very poorest, with the highest computer ownership, appear to have the highest computer study time too.
> If we have a court system built on potentially inauthentic memory with people that have strong incentives to lie, and it mostly works

For some definitions of "mostly"...

> I realize there are human factors to consider, though.

Yup.

In some ways, we demand more of technology. While that may be irrational, assuming otherwise doesn't work.
That's a good thing. If you can say the same thing using simpler, or fewer terms you should. It's not hard to make something simple seem complicated, it's hard to make something complex seem simple. Look at lisp.
Why NoSQL will not die
I don't like the idea of flash not being available on the iPhoneOS platform. But I do think that Apple has done more to advance the adoption of HTML5 than any other company except, possibly, Google. You young whippersnappers probably don't remember that it took 3-4 years before HTML 4 was widely adopted.
As someone who had an Apple II+ in the living room when he was 11 years old, I can attest that getting a computer strongly motivates a kid to play games and acquire games. I can also attest that this often leads to tinkering with computers and seeking to write your own computer games.

The OLPC folks had this right. Kids are going to chat and play games on their new machines, but if you make it easy to stumble on the programming environment and source code, you're also going to enable a lot of tinkering and genuine learning.

The Apple II seemed to be exquisitely designed for this. Its command line was pretty much a prompt to the Basic interpreter.
Yes, I was confused there for a minute, thinking it was about a new type of IP-based online ad provider.
> It's really a condemnation of computers in education.

I've never understood this whole computers-in-classrooms push. I can't see how it would help kids learn reading, 'riting, or 'rithmatic better than the traditional methods. Like you say, it's a great reference tool. But if my school library didn't have any reference books (the World Book Encyclopedia, back in my day), the only impact to my learning would have been that research papers were harder to write. (Man, I hated those things. And those stupid note cards)
Just saw this: "While there once was a historic purpose to such legislation, 47 states (including the two states our community most directly competes with, California and Massachusetts) recognize that such a requirement is no longer in the public’s interest."
I should have been clearer: spam wasn't the problem, it was abusive users, including abuse against our members on other websites (which is very hard to manage). I won't reopen because I don't think I can reduce the abuse, and I won't run a forum that causes this kind of abuse. I guess my question is pretty vague, just hoping that perhaps someone has a good idea of what to do next, apart from just keeping the site closed with archives up...? Maybe that's all there is to do..
I think the more accurate headline would be "iPad tracking numbers are being sent out, UPS to hold delivery until 4/3."
Some of my ideas from 2008 were quite popular here :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138

I would still recommend Twitter, Reddit, Delicious, and the like, but would also focus heavily on guest blogging nowadays - its effectiveness has been proven a lot in the last couple of years.
Many NoSQL proponents are endlessly gunning for the RDBMS, always counterpointing NoSQL solutions with the RDBMS, but then when confronted with specifics they throw their hands up and say "Different tools, man! Horses for courses!"

I'm not sure you're really paying attention to the real debate here.
thanks! perhaps you could also post this on the blog post.... have you actually tried this?
"being able to be outside one hour longer in summer"

How does the shifting of time by one hour control your ability to simply be outside?

I think the concept is interesting, but the payoff does not warrant the drawbacks. Here at 43deg N, we're still getting sunsets before 5PM in the middle of winter.
The best educational boost a computer can give is in the area of using computers and programming computers.

Measuring the effect of computers on homework presented primarily on dead-tree media makes no sense.

Alan Kay and also the OLPC folks had this right: the biggest opportunity computers give to expand a young person's mind lies in tinkering with computers.
Where are the best places to guest blog?

Edit: for something for consumers that is broad-based, like a search engine.
It's somewhat annoying when articles of the format "Part N on this topic" do not begin with links to parts 1 -> N-1.
A password can usually be changed if compromised, and a password system usually contains measures to prevent brute-forcing; like cooldown times and a lockout after three guesses for example.

If you build those same measures into your URL then they have the same level of security; plus you can make your URL key a lot longer than would be comfortable for a password.
The test-tube shaped stage is a 'preform'.

The shape might not be a huge problem, but it might not be trivial either. To blow the preform into the bottle's final shape, it is reheated, and then air is forced into the preform, causing it to expand to fill the mold containing it. The issue you would see with a bottle like this is that when the preform is reheated, the plastic in the wall tends to flow depending on the final shape.

When you have sharp corners, like those displayed, it is difficult to maintain an even wall thickness on the final bottle. So you either have to use more plastic than you want to ensure a minimum wall thickness is kept, or risk having thin spots, which hurts the structural integrity of the bottle.

There is a reason that you don't see many square bottles. The ones you do see, like Fiji, are really thick to account for this. You can get away with thick bottles when you are charging $4 for a bottle of water. Less so when charging a quarter that price for soda.
Very simply, it develops your imagination, which is required for various somewhat useful activities such as creative and lateral thinking or, in fact, most forms of problem solving.

Why do you feel it was harmful? Also, what kind of fiction do you read? Would you be willing to give it another try if I suggested something that's actually good?
Ask HN: Interesting (Non software) books?
I was wondering what books people could recommend that would be relevant to the HN community and aren't related to software?
It seems like we should be careful here - depending on the age of those involved (which we cannot determine for sure) these photos might legally be child pornography.
It's not an "open standard" according to most definitions, just a "standard":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard
Well, I realize it's probably going to have to stop soon, but I've earned lots of karma for posting more widely agreed upon comments, and so I think spending a bit of karma on an important issue is worthwhile.

A few others have since started to pick up on the idea, so I think I can retire from this particular thing.
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I don't think the number of people doing data entry or accessing a system matters nearly as much as how much data one has to be tracked. WalMart's data needs exceed that of Twitter, they exceed the needs of Facebook. I don't know if they meet or exceed Google, but I'd imagine it's up there.
Nope, they are in transit. UPS could hold them when they get to the US, but currently they are on trucks and planes.
Note that lots of governments besides the US government are angry at Wikileaks.
I think MongoDB is a contender to compete with MySQL as the default platform for new Web apps. So yea, some of them are starting to battle it out.
Plato was certainly smarter than both of us put together, but he also lived in a very different cultural landscape than we do. What books were available to young people then? Not many, I'd wager. The lack of suitable mass publication mechanisms certainly reduced the importance of literature. And the vast majority of the authors that I would think of as "great" had not been born yet. It is debatable whether a landscape devoid of mass publication means would still produce a healthy supply of great literature.

Since the printing press, we've had an explosion of amazing literature produced and distributed throughout the world. Many of the greatest thinkers of the last three centuries left their thoughts behind for us to build on. As an added bonus, many of them left those thoughts in highly entertaining forms that entertain and delight as much as they instruct.

It would really be looking the gift horse in the mouth to the extreme, to demand that impractical scientific studies be conducted to "prove" that humanity's great books make your life better.

Of course, we may have a difference of definition here. By "escapist fiction" I assume you included most fictional works, including such masters as Gabriel Garcia Marques, Herman Hesse and Jorge Luis Borghes, who definitely have the ability to transport one outside of the real world into that of imagination.
Im confused by your logic :) are you seriously suggesting that you think Google hosting a Wikileaks server is a good idea (for anyone)? Or are you just "trolling" anti-google sentiment?

Regardless of karma you have to "spend" neither of those are appropriate behavior (on these threads).
The Tao of Pooh, a book I read 10 years ago and just recently picked up again. Fantastic read.

http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Pooh-Benjamin-Hoff/dp/0140067477

Taoism in general is something I'm going to dive more into.
That depends on what you're trying to promote. Your best bet is to find blogs ready by people who would use your service.

For example if you wanted to launch a site that listed the best places to rock climb, then you'd want to do some guest posts on popular rock climbing blogs.
I remember typing in the code for SpeedScript (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedScript) to be able to write papers.
Closing permanently seems like an extreme thing to do. If you've done all that you can do, then I don't see why you would feel bad about abuse on sites that you can't control.

Another slightly less extreme option could be to start over clean. Delete all user accounts and ban any IPs from users who have ever accessed your site from creating a new account. That way you don't have to close it down permanently.

Overall, I'm getting the impression that you feel personally guilty and responsible for the abuse against your users on other sites and are looking for validation from HN that it's okay to shut it down and move on. Maybe you should freeze new accounts and freeze forum posting for a month and see if you feel differently after some time has passed. That would also give your users time to cool off.

If it's time-consuming to run the site, then tell your users that you need a few select people to step up and act as moderators, otherwise the community will be shut down. If no one cares enough to moderate, then go ahead and shut it down. If they do care enough to moderate then write some basic tools to give them control to monitor abusive behavior.
The CIA has three main responsibilities:

1. On the ground intelligence gathering (ie - Bribing a reluctant member of a militant group for information on their operations and physical location).
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)

2. Analysis of gathered intelligence and policy recommendation (how trustful is the information from the above described asset, does it mesh with what is already known, and if it is what course of action should be taken).
Example: Philip Seymour Hoffman's character in Charlie Wilson's War, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War

3. Clandestine operations (carrying out of policy recommendations in #2 that can't be performed by traditional military forces, say the group in question is determined to present a credible threat and needs to be neutralized but is headquartered in Iran). Example: Bay of pigs invasion, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
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A Short History of Progress.

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey/massey2004.html
Exactly. If you hire someone at bargain salary, they will probably work the minimum amount necessary while still looking for other jobs. When they get the next offer they will jump ship.

If you give less, you will get less.
Between the affiliate peeps and reddit, I'd def give more trust to reddit and reserve suspicion for the affiliate program.
I love the logo. I'm going to use your duck. (the site, I mean).

Interesting info. We sell advertising and based on my experience, the Reddit offerings seem to be well priced and attractive.
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great concept, especially for developers who tend to focus on content over process, and otherwise miss "the big picture."

"emotional" currency is more complex than actual money, since the two parties may disagree about what constitutes actual money (let alone disagree on valuation). this seems more problematic for personal rather than work relationships.
I know this is just a single data point, but they've already instituted a law like this within King County. It has certainly changed the way I order when I'm out. Accuracy of the numbers notwithstanding, you can clearly see huge differences in calorie counts between different menu items, and I've personally steered clear of some of the more daunting ones that I might have otherwise ordered.

Once again, that's just me, and it doesn't really speak to the accuracy of the figures.
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Too much focus on "creating jobs" just like politicians. It's easy to create make-work for everyone. The key is creating value. If the government allocates the resources you end up with starvation, as history shows.

The soccer example is a good example of what is the real problem. Regulation and legislation that stands in the way of private business. Instead of fixing the problems created by government, more government involvement is proposed.

If the soccer games is really something people want, anyone, including Scott Adams, can start it and charge 5 dollars. Why would the government need to be involved? If litigation is a problem, that should be solved instead of giving government sponsored activities preferential treatment to avoid the law.

Adams acknowledges that "government screws up everything it touches." But then later writes "Suppose the initial investor is the government". Why wouldn't the government screw up the investing too?
I've run a couple of ads from the UK with no problems.
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is "NoSQL" really that inflammatory?

Personally, I'm drawn to Mongo, etc. because I can develop in my language of choice, and not have to write/debug SQL of any dialect to store and retrieve my data.
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That doesn't sound right. Every significant NoSQL deployment I've heard of was either a replacement for a relational DB or is a task that can be solved by a relational DB with some work. This includes Google's usage of BigTable, Facebook's usage of Cassandra, Digg's usage of Cassandra as well as reddit's.

Which deployments are you thinking of when you say NoSQL DBs are not competitive with relational ones?
We (reddit) are not currently able to take credit cards with addresses outside the United States. Hopefully soon we will be able to do so.
Ditto in NYC. You'd be surprised ( or at least I was ) to find out that certain salads are quite the calorie bombs while other dishes ( ex. pasta bolognese ) have far fewer calories than you'd think.
I'm saying there isn't intelligent debate.

Most of the people using non-relational data stores (for actual work) are employing it in tandem with traditional RDBMS solutions. And those that are feeding on a strictly NoSQL diet are usually just toying around or using Fisher-Price wrappered versions of NoSQL like App Engine's Datastore or Amazon's SimpleDB.
I came across the site http://fiverr.com a few days ago. Under advertising there are several people selling tweets to however many followers they have for 5 bucks. There are also some other "creative" methods of advertisment available as well.

I have not used them yet but I'm planning on it. I'm not sure I have found the down side at 5 bucks.
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

The ability to put writing in one of the standard forms, novel, story, etc, seems important too.
When starting a technology startup a massive amount of the company's value is in the heads of the employees. If you're going to go the route of underpaying over-qualified employees you'd better make sure you have them document their systems thoroughly and be fully prepared for when (not if, when) they leave.

If you only have a dozen employees and you lose a couple or a few key employees that can horribly impact your future. It's risky and hopefully there's a plan set up to mitigate that risk.
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Nice writeup. I use something similar for my Django deployments.

Although I still don't like the way you have to write commands in fabric. I mean, the multiple commands in the single run call. Its not quite readable and thus too error prone.
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A lot of people drive cars with manual transmissions because they enjoy driving them, not necessarily because they can gain any tangible benefit beyond enjoyment.

I think the same may be true in many cases with NoSQL. I want to try something different, and it's going to perform better for what I'm doing anyway, so why not.

In some experiments at work we got SQL server to do a bulk import of around 1 million rows (with quite a few interspersed reads) in around 5m 30s. We got the same inserts to happen in Mongo in less than a minute. So, we went with Mongo. Do we need that speed? Maybe, maybe not. It sure has been fun to try something new, though.
You are completely and totally right in terms of technology. They target related, but separate and distinct, use cases. One company can quite reasonably and consistently use both for different purposes, even within the same project.

However, many people, even ones that should know better, do not see it that way. A lot of Relational DBAs, especially the ones that just see it as a way to make a living and have no real passion for it, see NoSQL as a threat to their jobs and want it to die. On the flip side, many NoSQL advocates really are championing it as replacements for a relational database for almost all use cases.

There should not be a debate, but there really is one going on.
Right, it's certainly not as clear cut as some people have been making it out to be. I think that by and large, though, Wikileaks has not released anything that would come in conflict with the "clear and present danger" criterion pioneered by Schenck v. United States. Otherwise they wouldn't have such a clean legal slate.

So I agree that there are limitations to be placed on free speech, as the Supreme Court agrees, but in Wikileak's case people are trying to silence information that is legal by the court's judgment. And I don't think the CIA should be above the law, although it seems to disagree.
This isn't HTML5 marketing, and proprietary and open are not polar opposites.

HTML5 offers a new "video" tag syntax that doesn't specify what file container (think .flv or .mp4) or codec (think VP6 or H.264) must be able to be played by that video tag.

Flash Player, Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, and the like, are multimedia playback technologies that can be embedded in a web page using an object or embed tag, each with its own complicated syntax the web browser can try to support. The HTML5 video tag is intended to replace that generic object embed syntax with something more rationally video-specific.

Meanwhile, H.264 is a compression algorithm specification, like MPEG4, VC-1, or VP6.

Flash Player used to decode and playback On2's proprietary VP6 codec, which only a couple vendors were licensed to support. That was not "open" at all.

At present, Microsoft's IE9, Google's Chrome, and Apple's Safari play back H.264-encoded video through the video tag, and Adobe plays back H.264 encoded video in its recent Flash Players. These companies famously compete, yet all are supporting the same video compression specification, suggesting it's documented enough and licensed enough to freely support.

Having to generate an Ogg file containing Theora encoded video to make the HTML5 video tag work across the major browsers is a throwback to the days of having to generate a RealMedia, Windows Media, and QuickTime file. Web video needs to pick a format so the whole ecosystem can optimize around it.
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