skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the researcher's website (http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/jay.kennedy/) to be very helpful in understanding what an important discovery this is. Drafts of his papers are also available there.
Yes but there are other important things in life other than simply solving technical problems. And there are plenty of problems to solve that do not involve Microsoft or Windows. And choice of technology mix has a big impact on things like personal productivity and quality of life.
Yes, but if the website is in english, it's more likely to be tolerated... Also a chinese language website has an unofficial grace period of 2 months..

On how to get the ICP, well I can only speak as a foreigner but it's indeed rather difficult, you need to have a chinese WOFE (Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise) setup to be able to ask for the ICP license and this means you have to inject 30 0 000RMB (45,000$ different provinces have different capital requirements, I'm quoting those from shanghai) within 1 year in your business. After that, I'm not sure of the process but I know that you have to agree to censor user generated contents...

Companies that I know here often first test their idea in the taiwanese and hong kong market before going to the chinese market. Other companies I've seen use the ICP license of partner companies but this can be tricky...
I guess the main question when considering Redis is: Does the entire database fit into memory?
Interesting suggestion, but why does Aldiko need my location?
I think we mostly agree and are arguing mainly over interpretation.

There's a large chasm between things that might potentially work, and things that couldn't even work in theory.

Can you characterize this chasm? I think that there’s a fairly continuous range of possibility. When we say that “theory” precludes something, we might mean any of a variety of kinds and strengths of theories. It is a very strong theory that you cannot accelerate at the speed of light. Is there something as strong saying that water categorically cannot preserve information of that kind? I suspect the theories there are more statistical and harder to test.

Mind you, I believe those theories. For one thing, the idea of water memory violates my intuitions about entropy. But it seems incautious to see it as a violation of principle. This kind of thinking tends too far in the direction of thinking that airplanes violate gravity, or that there could be no brown dwarf orbiting the sun because that would “violate our theory of how the solar system works”, etc. – scientism, not science.

Of course, as I said, I have no special knowledge here. Maybe water memory is categorically rather than empirically impossible. If this is so, I’d be interested to learn why.
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The Chinese government could hack their US-based servers?

Oh wait, they already did that.
I'm aware of this, and is actually the reason I included "proportionately" in my post, but I didn't have time to explain what I meant.

I would consider the vast majority of the top 10% to be middle class, however.
Stupid fingers and their substantial size...
If it suits your needs, you don't need trends to use it. And nonetheless, it has a vibrant open-source ecosystem.

That said, in order for it to evolve, I fear a fork is needed (which for mobile apps, has already happened with Android).
That's my problem with PowerShell. No matter how good it may be, I don't really feel like relearning everything just to accomplish the same things, only on Windows instead.
Interesting, you're correct:

http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-news-no-longer-requires-st...
wasted 5 minutes of my life.
While I agree this example is pretty ridiculous, Google is spending a lot more time innovating in web performance than most
I'd be curious to see how much bandwidth they save by cutting this down a hundred lines.
GWT at work?

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
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1. Yes.
2. ...
3. It depends.If the government thinks the site is harmful, you probably won't get the license.
also be aware that data is getting submitted to your domain on every request -- not great for performance
I'm hoping that parts 2 & 3 will explore the other responsibilities of the orbitofrontal cortex, and flesh out the discussion a bit more. It's been a while since I took cognitive neuroscience, but I remember this area also being involved with decision making, and balancing risk and reward. He didn't become a murderer, but from the discussion so far, I'm guessing he also didn't become a drug addict, or a compulsive gambler.
Landing page url is:
http://www.google.cn/landing/cnexp/indexd.html
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$1.5 Billion Market Cap. Will be interesting to see where it is in a week.
and on how many/what sort of hosts would be you spreading those records over?
http://searchyc.com/submissions/secret+powers+time?sort=by_d...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443771

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1426809

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394035
I'm curious what you feel makes NTFS more modern than HFS+. From all the documentation I've read, they seem fairly comparable in terms of feature sets (extents, fine-grained ACLs, etc) and both seem pretty modern, but there may be 'under the hood' implementation details I'm not familiar with.

Edit: Just hit the NTFS article on Wikipedia, and there are a few cool things there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Features

My favourite example is filesystem transactions, so that you can group sets of changes into a transaction, then roll back or commit in the future (e.g. if you overwrite a DLL at the start of an installation, but then you can't overwrite another one later, you roll back the transaction). I've been wanting this in OSes for years.

Single-instance storage - the system inspects two sets of files (e.g. installation images on a network server), and if it finds identical files, it 'consolidates' them on disk. The two files are still different (if you change one, only one changes), but as long as they're identical it conserves disk space.

User-transparent on-disk encryption

Volume shadow copy (which I knew about already)

The USN Journal tracks all changes made to anything on the disk; it's similar, in a way, to OS X's filesystem access hooks, but not quite.
For most of these systems, the answer will depend on how much hardware (disks and RAM) you're throwing at the problem. The RAM-to-disk ratio is a big factor. If your entire data set fits in memory, the latency will be measured in microseconds. If none of your data fits in memory and each request requires a disk seek, the average latency will be closer 10 milliseconds (assuming there are enough disks to keep up with the requests). Take a look at average latency section in the following benchmark comparing Hypertable with HBase: http://www.hypertable.com/pub/perfeval/test1/
Hypertable average latency goes from about 1.5 milliseconds down to about .5 milliseconds. These numbers are average, however, some requests hit disk and were close to 10 milliseconds, but many requests were served out of the cache. The read request pattern also makes a big difference. Read patterns with locality (e.g. Zipfian distribution) will have much a much better cache hit percentage. -Doug
How can Google get away with this? The "Landing page" is basically just an image that you can click on that redirects you to google.com.hk. So, in effect, the only change made is that you must _click_ on the page to go to google.com.hk instead of the automatic redirect. Big LOL. I do hope they get away with this. Whoever thought of this audacious (and simplistic) move is a genius.
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you need to think in terms of reads/sec vs latency, not just latency

in other words 1) what is the throughput (load) you expect your data store to sustain in reads/sec

2) what is the acceptable latency in msec for your application under expected load (see 1)

and 3) how many simultaneous connections your db has to support

to figure out which data store suits you best in terms of capacity/performance you have two choices:

1) run a benchmark on your hardware, ideally with your own client

2) run a benchmark on your hardware, ideally with your own client

i'd recommend starting with this: http://wiki.github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/

dont forget that the tools you mentioned are intended for storing terabytes of data on hundreds/thousands of machines and their key benefit is scaling the bulk throughput rather than optimizing performance

check out MongoDB, Redis, Tokyo Tyrant if you have up to 10-20GB, these are superfast tools but limited to storage/IO/memory capacity of a single box

also look at some of these benchmarks (but running your own test is always better)

http://research.yahoo.com/files/ycsb.pdf

http://www.slideshare.net/schubertzhang/hbase-0200-performan...

http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/Benchmarks

http://capttofu.livejournal.com/23381.html

http://colinhowe.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/redis-vs-mysql/
Seriously? I check all my credit card statements pretty carefully and the only errors I ever found were two double charges in the past 10+ years. I just don't believe errors are that common.
To think that all this is growing out from a single blog post 5 years ago is quite impressive. This is a blog post going on to build a media empire. I think little details like the UI will be sorted out as time goes on.

I am just worried that TCTV might start eating up some of the little spare time I have left :(
They're always needed so the JavaScript can be run through a compressor for production deployment without breaking the code.

Beyond that you're using curly braces when they're not strictly required, which seems inconsistent. I would expect either both all the time or both only when strictly necessary.
Specifics for the auto-defragmentation:

With HFS+ on OS X, whenever the operating system accesses a fragmented file under 20 MB, it checks to see if there is a large enough contiguous block of free space elsewhere on the disk to defragment it to; if there is, it silently moves it.

Thus, you're almost guaranteed to never have fragmented files under 20MB (unless your disk is a complete mess). Above 20MB, you typically don't get significant fragmentation until your drive is nearly full and the system has to pick and choose free space blocks from all over.
I really like Tesla (the company) but I would avoid Tesla (the stock). You're buying an awful lot of risk for that price. In fact I would be surprised if there weren't already significant amount of short sellers interested in this.
Ahh, bloat at it's best. If we could understand machine code as easily, we'd probably see the same sort of thing at the core of a lot of software.
Now consider politics. Suppose you've got a bunch of people with different kinds of opinions. It might be the case that, over time, the objective truth (when there is one) influences their opinions.

Good analysis. How do your observations apply in the case you mention in passing, i.e. the case of much (dare I say most) human conflict (be it political or otherwise) which has little or nothing to do with any objective truth?

You use "answer" and "truth" interchangeably, are they the same in all cases?
How many records? How much uncompressed data in total?

Are lookups always by exact key, or by nearest key to a probe? Are keys consulted essentially at random, or in batches of consecutive ascending/descending accesses?
Yes. Moreover, web performance was one of Google's differentiating features right from the beginning. Arguably the most important, in fact.
NUnit and TypeMock are pretty popular for .NET/C# code.
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it doesn't. it's a fun project of mine. See also my submission to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287874

About paying for itself: The web bandwidth is negligible as all assets are static, transferred compressed and can be cached locally. The mail part is a bit harder to predict, but in theory, most of the time, the daemon would reject delivery due to expired aliases, so I think it's not that much of an issue either.

Bandwidth, hosting and connectivity is provided by my employer which honors my (and my coworkers) fun projects and lets them do them.

On the other hand, I am a co-founder, so that shouldn't be surprising (in July, we'll be celebrating our 10th anniversary. Bootstrapped and profitable since day 1)
Change Windows 8's name. Not that big of a deal.
Who cares, if it works? I don't personally consider HTML and CSS either elegant or efficient, so if they've abstracted over it in order to do things, and it works, what's the big deal? HTML by hand seems mostly like a waste of time, to me. Most of the impressive web apps don't do much markup and styling by hand. Cappuccino/Objective-J is an extreme (and good) example of this.
that's a design decision of my designer friend who did the design. If I had to do it, it would look much, much worse.

I'll send him a link to your comment though. Let's hope he can try to accomodate you - I really do believe that the spy is really cute.
I think I haven't explained myself properly. It's not that I think the bad refereeing makes the sport better. I don't, and I wish it were fixed.

What I do think is that, with something so obviously successful, it's pretty hard to know what kind of changes might break it.

To use a simple analogy, assume you're a new programmer going over some very old financial software at a bank. The thing is written in 30-year-old COBOL code (and written badly at that). I'm guessing most programmers would cringe at such a system, not understanding why it isn't being "improved" by rewriting it in a better language (and there are good reasons too, like being able to easily add new features, etc.).

But as you and I both know, it's probably not a good idea to change it. Not because COBOL doesn't suck, not because there are good reasons to rewrite (there are some good reasons), but because it already works, and no one wants to mess with that.

P.S. Having said that, I personally do wish they'll change something to make the refereeing more solid. I don't think it will make Soccer any worse, even though I can't be sure. More importantly, I'm pretty sure that Fifa is going to cave on this issue withing 10-20 years, because of public pressure, and allow some form of instant replay.
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I am really flattered to see this submitted by somebody that's not myself. Tempalias is a fun-project of mine I did to learn a bit about node.js and to scratch an itch I had basically since 2002.

But the service itself is only half of the project. During development, I also created a diary explaining some design decisions along the way and showing how I went from nothing to the completed service in around 44 hours.

A good starting point is my announcment which links to the various diary entries:

http://www.gnegg.ch/2010/04/announcing-tempalias-com/
And did you do all with a couple of small children?
Apple is obligated by its contract to its shareholders to avoid taxes as much as possible; they are just avoiding a lawsuit.

To which contract/obligation are you referring?

Per http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1013744 :

"Among non-experts, conventional wisdom holds that corporate law requires boards of directors to maximize shareholder wealth. This common but mistaken belief is almost invariably supported by reference to the Michigan Supreme Court's 1919 opinion in Dodge v. Ford Motor Co ... U.S. corporate law does not and never has imposed a legal obligation on directors to maximize shareholder wealth."
Were you in the same room? I found mine to do some weird stuff when two phones could hear one another, probably due to the new noise canceling stuff.
It does if you're trying to figure out how many shares you can buy. It's also of note because $17 is higher than the planned $14-16 range.
Heh, it sets language to Simplified rather than Traditional too. I'd guess this'll all be considered a bit too cheeky?
The idea behind tempalias was to work without requiring an account, without encoding validity information into the email (thus providing spammers a way to reach you once they know how the encoding works - and trust me, they will know) and without forcing you to visit a web interface.

Of course this destroyed any credible possible source of revenue I could ever generate, but this was just a fun project and I wanted to create the most useful service, which IMHO is how this works.
Ask HN: Inbound marketing - Publish and they will come?
My startup is in the b2b social commerce space; we are building an onsite widget for retailers to thoroughly socialize their storefronts. Basically, access your social graph while shopping to obtain advice and recommendations and view archives of your friends activities on the website (likes, reviews, comments, purchases, contemplated, etc.).

We are approaching the public Beta phase and would like to create some awareness early on. We have a blog, we published slides, datasheets, white papers, looking into eBooks as well, etc. Then we tweet about them, post on Facebook, Digg, Slideshare.

Would this be sufficient? Is this what inbound marketing is all about? Anyone who has had success with inbound marketing, mind sharing your experiences?

P.S.: We're totally bootstrapped, just a bunch of college kids hacking away at stuff. We just want some highly-qualified leads for Beta testing; paid advertisements are quite beyond our needs right now. Even AdWords makes us think twice.
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You are loosing heaps of visitors by not delivering really good "first 10 seconds" impression.

Just to nitpick, you have no idea if this is true. They probably do know if it is, because they're looking at the analytics, but you're making an assumption based on your own tastes.

For what it's worth (read: almost nothing), I think the site looks fine. People watch shit on megavideo for crying out loud.
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So is this marketing PR speak for, we're not going to withdraw from China, instead we're going to censor our search results, except in an even more broad and drastic way?
I did know about the express versions, but in 2010
I do not want to track feature matrices for dev tools

That is very well put. Exactly.
Ah, in that case I guess he is either lazy or scared. If you would pay my salary for a year to let me work on any business I want, I would quit today. :)
I don't really think that it's fair to blame Amazon for problems you have running their app on older hardware with a gray market ROM image.

It's hard enough to run tests on the legitimate Android configurations active on the market. Trying to account for homebrew setups like Cyanogen would be a recipe for lots of pain and effort with very little payoff.
I think the case for big vs small governments is instead "not enough information." Big vs. small isn't really as important as are how the gov't is implemented and the culture/attitudes of the governed.

As far as the brain scans go, science isn't nearly at the point to even hazard guesses at random high-level behaviors like "will murder." We've really only had success when behaviors in insects just so happen to be controlled by a single gene. Here, I doubt there even is a single "murderer" gene, especially since "murder" is such a random, infrequently displayed behavior.
I am not a homeopath, studied science in school and college and I was against homeopathy as much as any of you are. But here are my experiences which have made a believer and a lay, part time practitioner for myself, my family and friends. I am also not knowledgeable enough to support basis of homeopathy and related things like water memory.

I am posting my experiences about acute issues where a cure is expected in a matter of hours or days so it is quite clear if the disease has run its course or the medicine has worked.

I have seen many infants and young kids get better immediately with the homeopathy use. I am not sure if the placebo effect can work on them.

For the last 10 years my whole family (and many friends) are exclusively using homeopathy. So I think even if it placebo effect it is worth having.

I know my limited experiences can't be a basis of any scientific proof. But the point I want to make is homeopathy works for me as "advertised" so I don't care what science or other people say about it.

Have a look at these and let me know what it can be? Can placebo effect be so strong?

1. I was travelling and had severe back pain which resulted from sweeting in sun and then immediately going into a chilled place. Pain killers for 3 days could not subside it. My host, a lay practitioner, gave me a single homeopathy medicine, Rhustox 200, which cured me like a miracle. Please note I was a non-believer and I took this medicine in the most desperate conditions (traveling, deadlines etc.)

This experience forced me to give a second thought and I started self-study and help from two homeopaths.

'Rhuxtox 200' is also a medicine for complaints from sprains and strains on body. Since then I have cured countless people for similar conditions.

2. Any pain from injury to soft tissues immediately subsides with 'Arnica 30' 1 or 2 doses in a matter of hour. Have given this medicine to people of all ages.

3. Cantheris 30 for burning in urine.

4. Belladona 30 for fever/head ache due to host sun or any pain/inflammation with redness of the affected part.

5. Cough. Phosphorus 30 cures most cases.

6. Most pains which aggravate with motion. Bryonia 30 helps.

7. General spasms/pains. Colocynthis 30 1 dose works miracle on kids as well as elders. Hardly need to give second dose.
for the replying as the alias to work, I would have to write my own web mail client or you would have to reconfigure your email client per message.

I don't want to do the former (gmail exists. I could never match them in terms of usability and features) and you don't want to do the latter (but certainly could right now)
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Of course you can live on that, but I wouldn't call such a situation middle class.
Another interesting side note is that wavelets (Gabor wavelets in particular) have been shown to look very much like receptive fields in the primary visual cortex. The suggestion is that such receptive fields evolved as an efficient way to encode images of natural scenes. A couple of nice references are

David. J Field. Wavelets, vision, and the statistics of natural scenes. (1999)
http://redwood.psych.cornell.edu/papers/field_wavelets_1999....

David J. Field. What is the goal of sensory coding? (1994)

http://redwood.psych.cornell.edu/courses/psych527fall05/pape...
The record of scientists in examining the links of race and intelligence is not so good. People tend to jump to conclusions even when they think they're being logical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniometry
A board of directors has significant discretion in deciding what course of action truly maximizes the long-term value of a company; see the business judgement rule, for instance ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule ).

The flippant view that a board is obligated to maximize profit (especially short-term profit) is pretty simple-minded. See also http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/24/fiduciary-obligation-vs-... and http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/25/what-obligation-maximise...