skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could be seen as a success of chrome, given Google's stated reasons for releasing the code:

Primarily it's because one of the fundamental goals of the Chromium project is to help drive the web forward. Open source projects like Firefox and WebKit have led the way in defining the next generation of web technologies and standards, and we felt the best way we could help was to follow suit, and be as open as we could.

A bit of competition has prevented the market from stagnating again.
Sounds like a great idea - the curated.by team will be around. We're also looking for a backend developer to join our team!
But, of course, it's easy to make your P2P packets look like anything you want, so deep packet inspection is just a way to waste electricity.
Not really, all the cost is in storage and redundancy, the process of reading/writing/restoration is relatively negligible unless people are using it for media hosting like Amazon S3.

If you're really that desperate for cheap backups, you'd actually be best off storing terabyte hard drives / SAN boxes around the country, maybe in colo'd buildings.
Of course you would pay for GMail - if the price was right. If an ad-free version of GMail cost 1¢/year (a lifetime for a dollar!), you would pay for it. In fact, you would probably pay a lot more that that if Google wasn't offering their service for free. And someone could easily still sell a webmail product, if it were better than GMail.
Quantum teleportation achieved over ten miles of free space
But how would you be able to form a cartel if everyone has a strong financial incentive to rat the others out?
US Department of Defense, 2001 – 2006. Donald Rumsfeld's writings show he is clearly quite intelligent, yet he still managed to make numerous disastrous mistakes.
Most people I know say "Eff Aye Queue". I am an American.
Chatroulette uses Stratus and RTMP. RTMP, when Stratus fails because of firewall restrictions.
Great! It will be good to see you there. Are you using Redis on curated.by?
Should Mozilla Fork Firefox?
I see your point. More optimized data flow which could enable them to even use diskless storage servers.
I thought Internet vigilantism was Reddit's thing...
Technically, they are different. In the first example, there's whitespace between <a> and <b> as well </b> and </a>. Most applications ignore whitespace but they're not required to - whitespace is not ignored in XML.
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Another steaming pile of mediocrity to compete with IAC's about.com? yawn
I'd like to know also. Can you start new topic on HN perhaps?
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That's interesting. I've read a paper about it, but I don't remember exactly. Is it implemented in GHC?

Type classes are more powerful in some ways, but much less powerful in other ways. There is some overlap, but type classes dispatch only on the compile time type whereas this dispatches on run time predicates.
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Assuming a dart-throwing monkey does about as well as the S&P, then nearly -30% as well:
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&...
> Except that the default will still be to fall back to flash.

For now. When IE9 comes out it will start to become a viable business solution to develop for H.264 / HTML5 with no Flash. This may be a sweet spot for development effort versus benefit as it may be more costly to ignore legacy IE and Firefox users than to ignore iPhone and iPad.

Users don't care about a proprietary web, they care about web sites working. It's already alarming to try Youtube in experimental mode in Firefox and have it not work at all for most videos. This is supposed to be a modern cutting edge browser, right?
I wonder why that is?
When people actually test these things I think they generally show that Chrome isn't undeniably faster than Firefox.

Chrome wins on Javascript execution and Firefox currently has major startup problems because of a large codebase and poor UI that continually interrupts you and asks for restarts.

But Firefox wins, against stereotype, for memory usage and page load speed (more so with ad blockers installed).

They've clearly lost the faith of many vocal geeks, but I'm really not sure how much of that is based on fact rather than some kind of herd instinct.
More importantly, where were really smart non-psychopathic people in charge? Psychopaths crave power, and intelligence allows them to get it. Smart people in general (and especially the smartest of the smart) tend to dislike any authority in their lives, even the kind wielded by them.

This poor dude is actually a case in point. He could not even allow himself the small bit of authority needed to stand up for himself and not get kicked out of college. I imagine that to him, working with shitkickers is a bit like working with plants.
"Eliminate bandwidth costs" sounds like your ordinary, exaggerated, sensationalistic marketing trick - just air. I also wonder how this will fare in the US and the UK, where internet infrastructure on the upstream side of things is more or less non-existant.
I really hope you're not serious, but on the off-chance that you are, bignum is not exactly a javascript data type and fprintf isn't a standard javascript function either.

It was more of a pseudo code joke.

If you weren't serious, congratulations ;)
Address is UPS Store #1390:

http://www.theupsstorelocal.com/1390/

I believe they rent out mail boxes.
I'm not looking for an angry mob, just advice and information! :)
The important points for me are these:

* Judging just from the story, it does indeed sound like the showing of the article was a bit of a joke, to carry a shock value to the recipient.

* However, the punishment should fit the crime. In this case the university grossly went overboard into a possibly career wrecking punishment. Maybe a private meeting with the professor and a semi-public chastising in the form of a message from the dean would have been more logical.

* Which makes you think: Why do the universities behave in this manner (this incident is by no means unique). Answer is they want to send a "clear message that sexual (or other kinds of) harassment is not tolerated". Problem is, due to recent surge of political correctness, this has been a blanket term to mean anything that may offend your audience. You say Socrates was not black in your lecture? You've offended the Afrocentric crowd (see Mary Lefkowitz's experiences at http://www.wellesley.edu/CS/Mary/contents.html). You suggest men and women may have innate cognitive differences, you, of course, offend everyone (see Steven Pinker). I could go on but the margin is too small to hold the full list.

This is sad for two reasons:
i) The lesser reason is that, well, increasing levels of PC is stifling for all society.
ii) But the main worry point is that these things happened in academia, the bastion of free thinking. For one thing, I think the threshold of academics to handle PC-sensitive topics should be higher than the general public. That's why they're academics.
It's "debian for data" i.e. a centralised repository of free data with some housekeeping and rules of thumb to help the individual databases be used together.

CKAN is also a play on CPAN (P is for Perl).
Well, perhaps they have some corporate spies saying that Google will only store things twice to compete with S3 on cost. Probably not though.
I think it might have been taken down (for whatever reason).
More optimized dataflow would include a router that blackholes packets, or, even better to use the quantum entangled /dev/null scheme outlined below (my licensing terms are reasonable, there is no reason why they shouldn't do that).
Did you know they used Goog-411 to collect spoken phonemes to improve their auto-captioning of YouTube videos (so they can search them)?

Source?
Actually, there are a lot of businesses with that address:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
The line breaks are classed as nodes (as is all whitepsace) unless you tell XML parsers to ignore them usually.
VCs see Android gaining on iPhone
great analysis
And their model is pretty clear. They are exchanging goods (posting space for job listings) for money.

The critique of free isn't that you can't give away a piece of candy to smooth over business, but that free isn't a business model.
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Awesome news, Basti - I haven't seen you in ages! It'll be great to catch up. :-)
I bet his parents are proud.
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That would be Dutch researcher Kees Moeliker.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/mar/08/highereducat...
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Support costs vary with respect to number of customers, and so are a true, and often overlooked, variable cost for shrinkwrap software companies. While many companies generate revenue with support, the basic level of support that customers reasonably expect (e.g., a web forum where people will make some effort to address bugs) is non-trivial to provide.
Is your memory letting you down? And what about your memory? Is it letting you down?
Stratus is non commercial. If you want to use p2p for a commercial project (show ads/charge for something), you need to pay adobe based on the minutes of usage (Seriously).

Its called adobe lifecycle afaicr.
I'm not at all sure that you're right about that. The dominant cost of keeping data on-line at the moment is the cost of the electricity to run the server and the air conditioning. If the number of drives in active use is a small proportion of the total number of drives then you might be able to achieve real savings by only having active drives actually on-line. There would be a lot of tricky issues (Where and how do you store the inactive drives? How do you swap them back in when needed? How do you insure data integrity for off-line drives?) but if you could solve those I think there might actually be a business there.
I tought DSP to juniors for eight years and the results were mixed. Most do not understand the use of the (to them) complex mathematical machinery, the typical response was "why do we need this stuff".

I think teaching Fourier series is a better start than the FT, since FT more advanced. The article indeed proceeds like that so the title is a bit of a misnomer. Similar to the article I used the example of recipes, but rather than cooking I used the example of mixing drinks. It's uprising how many cocktails share the same ingredients.
Could you provide a link to the initial complaint, then, by any chance? Unless I'm completely missing it, it doesn't appear to be in the article. Unless what you mean by this not being "a one-off" is that he showed it to several other people over the course of the day who were not offended.
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Not in proportion to body mass.
I disagree. There may be plenty of things to complain about with facebook, but I still find it plenty useful to stay in touch with friends, family and acquaintances. We plan events, share photos, keep current with what's happening in each others lives and occasionally have long discussions on specific topics. For me it works exactly the way it's supposed to and it's easy to ignore the ads on the side of the page.

I worry that the real "hype" right now is buying into the recent anti-facebook trend.
I won't use anything that doesn't have 5-nines uptime guaranteed by an SLA.

Until there's an enterprise-level solution for /dev/null, I think I'm going to have to stick with S4.
The full list, for reference, is here: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/
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Actually, as someone who used to help run a mico-ISP, the problem with P2P for ISP's has little to do with piracy.

The major problem is it can absolutely rape networks - and it only takes one or two abusers to clog it up for everyone else.

In the end we simply kicked anyone who consistently ate up bandwidth with P2P - and network reliability improved no end.
If we follow Winer's advice and use just a simple subset of XML, what does XML buy us that JSON doesn't also provide with less overhead and better readability? (Yes, I know JSON doesn't have namespaces, but I'm not persuaded that namespaces belong in any subset of a data format that can be called "simple".)
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He fails to mention that in the long run, ALL COSTS ARE VARIABLE! So his whole premise is just an explanation of a very brief moment in time. Also software does wear out. As Technology increases it eventually becomes obsolete.
I have to say, the Air applications I use regularly (Hulu and Pandora One) both work very well on Linux and Windows. They are kind of resource hogs, but then so is iTunes, so it's really a case of the pot calling the kettle black on the performance front too. When Apple does cross-platform, they're not really that good at it. Google and the FOSS community is fantastic at it, and Adobe is middling.

Really, the primary thing that bothers me about Flash is the way it locks in my content. However, it's clear that I'm not getting the content served via Adobe Air without kill strings attached, so it's a symptom of a larger problem in the market, and not itself the source.
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LMGTFY:

http://www.google.com/search?q=goog-411%20phoneme
chatroulette uses stratus, or at least used it.
When it became famous, it completely killed stratus server which was still in beta and not ready for massive usage.
Everyone who happens to use stratus at this time complained.

So stratus is using p2p, but it still rely on Adobe servers and as far as I know there is no way to deploy your own stratus server yet.
Anyone have a link to more info on "refusing to allow high quality technologies"? Seems like the author left out Adobe's reasoning.
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I've become a JSON and YAML fan as I think they have higher signal to noise ratios (they each have their own issues with white space though).

JSON:
{"a":{"b":"hi"}}

YAML:
---
a:
b: hi
Which is a play on CTAN, T is for TeX
Tried both. Heroku is way better, hands down. All the problems I encounter with heroku are fixed(thanks to the awesome support team) in a matter of hours.
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I've always avoided being the grammar Nazi, but it still bugs me to see lazy writing, especially from people I know. Far too often, family members ignore glaring rules of grammar without a care in the world. I fully realize I'm not a paragon of English grammar myself, but I learn when corrected.

The problem is that for many people, it does't matter as much. If you have bad grammar, or write poorly, it won't matter because so many other people have bad grammar and write poorly as well. You don't see anything wrong with it.

It's usually simple things to: capitalization, punctuation, proper tense, and spelling. I understand typos occur, and sometimes people just don't know better. Fine. The biggest problems are the use of chat words, like "u" for "you" and other problems. People use these in a casual atmosphere, and I feel it becomes normal for them. They see proper writing as work.

Meh, I dunno, mybe i be tinkin 2 much abot tis.
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Sorry bout that, should be fine now.
Pushed changes before heading to day job.
If you wrote code to crawl the tree generated from that XML, you'd have text nodes (of whitespace) in one, but not the other.
HP wants Palm OS for Web-connected printers
Yahoo Inc. is buying freelance news site Associated Content in a deal that will add a more folksy touch to one of the world's biggest Web sites.

So Associated Content, which is a content mill a la Demand Media/AOL Seed based on SEOing the hell out of trending news items is now owned by a search engine. That sounds like the worst/greatest idea Yahoo has come up with yet depending on your perspective.
There was an article on here about building a home raid system of loads of 640gb drives and a linux distributed FS.

Restores were pretty slow compared to a fancy NAS but in $/Gb it was insanely cheap. There was aso an interesting post by a SUN employee saying how much slower and less reliable it was than their $$$$ NAS solution - which rather missed the point
Well, it's actually impossible to write if as a function in Clojure.
> It's usually simple things to:

Some people! :P
VC = TC-FC FC is always in the long run equal to zero, so VC = TC Marginal cost Which is what is seems like you are talking about is MC= d VC/d q where q equals quantity output. So in this case q would be the number of copies of the software produced or sold. Not necessarily the number of customers.
I think it's the idea behind it that's overrated, overhyped etc, stemming from a fundamental lack of appreciation between theory and practice. If you post it on the internet, it's public. It might not be supposed to be public, and it may not be public for quite a while, or indeed ever, but it's a naive expectation, IMHO.
I agree. About more powerful: The static approach allows you to dispatch not only on argument types, but also on return type.

A quick search reveals that there is some support for open data types in GHC, but I am not sure if it's more than an experimental feature.
I didn't know they also hosted the themes, awesome!
There are plenty of complicated things that aren't complicated anymore if you ignore the complicated parts. (For example, the global financial system.) I don't think that line is a valid argument.
You managed to earn a living from something I both don't understand and despise :-)
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Making "if" a special form means that it can short-circuit, and I'd rather write

(if x big_expensive_expression y)

than

(funcall (if x (lambda () big_expensive_expression) (lambda () y)))
Get a spam filter. I know that's not the answer you were looking for, but the effort it would require to figure out who is actually behind this spam would be vastly more than it would be worth. Life is short.
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This happens to be my specialty. There are some legal recourses that you can take, from the CAN-SPAM act http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/ecommerce/bus61.sht... it is illegal for companies to not honor opt-out requests. Unfortunately it is not illegal to sell your email address( hasn't been tried in a court of law ). Though if it is true that SpamHero is using deceptive practices they may be held accountable for their practices.

If you really want to take legal action, first prove that the email originated from SpamHero. I would suggest you generate a disposable email address from my spam tracking service http://whyspam.me and give it to SpamHero only, if you receive emails at that address from discokenny.com or any other mass mailer, you will know in-fact that it originated from SpamHero.

If you do this, I'll be happy to supply the you with your server-log entries or other documents you may need in a court of law.

Once you've got the info you would need to contact a lawyer because i'm not one, and you need someone who can give you official legal advice.
I have always disliked this type of graph. But some people think they are the coolest thing. Like this baby name website is really popular and it is based on a graph like that:
http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

(A couple years ago I made a competing baby names website, so that's why I bring it up. This type a graph is a little pet peeve of mine.)
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Risky. A strategy based on low-quality content is bad for any brand, but because this product is tied so closely to SEO, it is really putting itself at the mercy of Google. A fundamental change in the search algorithm or SERP design could really screw Associated Content.
Another B2B guy. Shoot me an email, will ya? I am alone here :-/
Facebook advances the new unit of reporting?
Mystery solved: Sending html emails with web2py on AppEngine
Thank you!

So far I've contacted their domain registrar (moniker.com) and reported them to their service provider (abuse@cogentco.com). Hopefully that will work. I'm going to try your fake email suggestion now.
I was just waiting for the first grammar or usage mistake to be made and pointed out in this thread. :-)

It's ironic that now, when anyone can publish their writing to the world in a blog, so many people don't have the writing skills to communicate effectively.
Fun job, looks technically interesting, great benefits, growing fast (used to have 8 openings, now 20), I wish I was done with college so I could apply. Looks like a no brainer.
It's not a mirror, it's supposed to be an image of a webcam.
It all really depends on the implementation.

None of the big players will want tech that doesn't give them enough control over minimum bandwidth/streaming performance.

For small players, putting some h264/ogg files up on Amazon cloudfront may cost some money, but it's extremely easy to set up right and offers extremely good and consistent performance for the money. P2P doesn't add much for distributors that don't get massive amounts of viewers.

Not saying it can't be a game changer somehow; a similar P2P strategy worked out pretty well for Skype. But given that it's all talk right now, I don't think it'll do much to slow down HTML5 adoption for a while.
Omegle and chatroulette, both use Adobe Stratus . Both sites depend on advertising revenue.

I dont think Adobe actively bans commercial projects/products from using Straus. Stratus is in beta, and Adobe doesnt provide any official support. So if you want to run a business that uses RTMFP with Adobe support, then LCCS (LiveCycle Collaboration Services) is the way to go.
I also think you would save costs on customer support. You would have less features after all. Once a drive / tape / whatever is full you take it offline or power it down.

If you can get the entire operation costing less, then it's fine if restores take longer and cost more... because you pass that fee on to the customer. I for one would be happy to pay less for writes and more for reads, since I read backups far less than I write them.

And it's not about being desperate for savings. It's about reducing the overall cost of a commodity... storage.
I just died a little inside. Knowing that there are people out there that would inflict this kind of nonsense as a standard for others to use makes one really lose faith in humanity.
If you mean the recent losses, then that is not the point: the boards must have a reason for hiring highly-paid money managers. Besides, the long-term returns for the Harvard/Yale/etc. endowments are very impressive, and the rumour is that they've made up much of their recent losses in the past year.
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I think it's impossible to write if as a function in anything, I'm pretty sure that at some point you need a branching primitive, but the if the VM uses and the if exposed to the user don't have to be the same thing. Like I said though, it's not a Clojure specific question, CL and Scheme both use a special form for if as well. Even if it can't be done in a JVM language it can be done. I'm just curious if there's any particular reason it isn't done, like being way easier for a compiler/interpreter to optimize or something or if it's mostly historical.
>Apple does not deny developers to use high quality technologies for its platforms, apart of the private API, but that's another matter.

No, I'm pretty sure that's exactly the matter. Only Apple apps can multitask.

It's an understandable design decision, but it's certainly a parallel. (And to be completely fair it's changing, but you're being intellectually dishonest.)
Thanks! Interesting answer.

With respect to (1), wouldn't a mutual fund have access to the same sorts of low liquidity opportunities? That seems like a possible reason to prefer a managed fund over an index fund, despite the higher fees.