skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the copyright situation is with these photos of public domain works. I seem to recall that Wikipedia extracted the images from a similar system used by the National Portrait Gallery in the UK and a legal spat ensued.

Crucially, UK copyright law gives you rights in some stuff just because you put effort into it ("sweat of the brow") while US law has a precedent requiring creativity, so a photo of a statue is copyrighted to the photographer, but photograhps of flat objects don't.
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Why would you expect the mean of a set of numbers to be the reciprocal of the mean of reciprocals of those numbers? It seems pretty obvious that those two operations (taking the reciprocal of the numbers, taking the mean) can’t be reordered.

To take a trivial example, the mean of 1 and 2 is 3/2, but the mean of 1 and 1/2 is 3/4. It’s easy to see that 3/2 ≠ 4/3. Now let’s try something that pumps the difference up. The mean of 1/1000 and 1 is 1001/2000, about half. On the other hand, the mean of 1000 and 1 is 1001/2, about 500. Clearly 500 is not the reciprocal of 1/2.

In the case where we have the two sticks, the ratio of small to big is going to have to be somewhere between 0 and 1, because we’re taking the mean of a set of numbers between 0 and 1. On the other hand, in the ratio of big to small, we’re taking the mean of a set of numbers between 1 and ∞.
Oracle's list price for enterprise edition is $47.5K/cpu. These days it is not so easy to find a hardware upgrade that competes with that in price...
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I disagree, not with liberals arts majors not being aliens part, but this being the same as talking to someone from any technical profession you don't know about. In my experience, the thinking process thought and praised in liberals arts fields is in some respects quite different from that in any technical field, as to sometimes be a real impediment in communication.

One example from a topic I worked on: author attribution using stylometry. To a CS (or EE or whatever) the thought that you can take a corpus composed of writings from various authors and train classifiers to differentiate the unique styles of each would be mundane. To some English majors, such a strong structuralist approach would border on sacrilegious (remember Prof. Keating's reaction to such an approach to judge poetry in Dead Port's Society). Each approach has something to be said for it but it has to be done delicately, otherwise polite discussion becomes impossible.
Is it really that big a deal? They do have a short home page URL to advertise that redirects to this page, and everyone else really just uses bookmarks.
Sorry, I confused you with podperson, the parent commenter to the person you replied to. I corrected my comment to address the proper commenter.

Regardless, his use of Window Manager and System are fine within context.
I just reported a problem last week and got a response inside 12 hours. I was amazed. Certainly faster than I've ever gotten a response from Sun.

Average over the last 3 issues is about 48 hours - if accepted as a bug. But if you provide source code that demonstrates the problem turnaround is usually very fast, and that seems to be the case here.
Your problem here is that “typically” and “the mean” are two very different concepts. Taking the mean of a set of ratios is frankly not very meaningful, and so saying that the shorter stick is typically about 2/5 the length of the longer is highly misleading.
Slightly O/t, but at what level do you get downvotes? I'd like to use one here.
That's the first thing I thought of. I understand the urgency to try out new things, but testing each individual change would have been more interesting as data. Perhaps the email change was responsible for the bulk of the improvement. Perhaps the visa and security links were - it's going to be hard to say.
I'm coming off that way, and I apologise. I wasn't clear. I believe the original article was mostly discussing these factors within the confines of web based applications, which is what my comments here have assumed. Obviously their are exceptions to the rule, and a true undo is not trivial. However, a true undo, and an undo that meets the users needs are different things entirely. While it's unfair for me to suggest that implementing undo is trivial, it's also unfair to assume that implementing undo has to be difficult.
Or companies and universities will give up there unused IPv4 addresses so there will be a lot available again. They may even sell them at large prices.
But then again, it's just a matter of time before we are really out of IPv4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#Reclama...
Huh? Really?
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wonder if PG can apply a similar "simple trick" to predict YC applicant success!
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The problem is that consumption inequality is not nearly as large as income inequality. If your desire is to soak the rich, you pick the statistic which gives you the broadest base for doing so - consumption is simply not that statistic. In the US, the rich have iPhones while the poor are stuck with iClones [1].

As for why we want to soak the rich, it's clearly not (a) - most poor people work very little (by choice).

[1] Note: this is not my opinion on Android (I hate Steve Job's walled garden, and am very happy with my N1), but it is the opinion of several lower class people I know.
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> “Fans don’t understand that if they don’t pay for porn, we can’t make a living. They’ll have to watch crazy European porn.”

I'll just leave this here: http://www.reddit.com/r/gonewild (If you don't notice that this link is NSFW... then you didn't read it.)

(To spell it out a bit more explicitly: there will always be amateur porn. People claim to like it more in the same way that they claim to like unsigned bands. The industry faces more threats than just piracy...)
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I still find the price per text message (my cell carrier still charges 5 cents per) enormous. To send 160GB via 160 char text messages would cost 50 million dollars.
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Direct link: http://www.googleartproject.com/

Fantastic, you can create your own art collections and everything. It says that this was a 20% project at Google. In my company, my manager would ask me what the ROI for this project. What's the return for humanity (well, for Google too through PR)?
Google cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda (Double Irish).
Go build something instead of complaining. Seriously.
This might be a stupid idea, so feel free to roundly berate me, but...

Given that a switch to IPv6 has potential to cause widespread problems, and that we might be facing such a switch before they are ironed out..

Can we not simply update IPv4 and add a new octet to the address space? So 255.255.255.255.255, then call everything distributed so far 000.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and make a start on the 001.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx address space.

I appreciate that we would need to update a lot of software to handle the new octet, but I can't help feeling that would be much easier to do (with the advantage of easier "failing gracefully" / backward support).

But networking ain't my thing :)
Mi falta. No offense intended by the tongue in cheek comment. Perhaps not the place....
Very interesting -- but there is more information in the original blog post:

http://blog.filmaster.com/filmaster-unveils-movie-recommenda...

How rich is their catalog, though? They apparently exist only since 2008; search does not seem to work very well and is very slow.

As an example, this movie:

http://filmaster.com/film/criminal/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362526/ on IMDB

which is a kind of B-movie but great (and I believe sort of well-known), has "no description yet"...

Is anyone using filmaster.com that could comment?
There are tons of sites running on java. Possibly more than php.
It didn’t seem so bad when I tried it. As it stands nothing I would buy instead of an iPad but I couldn’t find any glaring flaws. Using it felt like using a smartphone with a somewhat larger screen, maybe not particularly optimized for its form factor but ok. I would be interested to know why people return it.
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Obama's "Race to the Top" doesn't include humanities
The story would be much different if Ikea's owners were American.

American citizens don't have the same affordances as foreign nationals when it comes to tax minimization. If these foundations for Ikea were majority owned by Americans, they would be subject to taxation by the IRS, regardless of in which country they were created.
As an owner of an original Samsung Galaxy (i7500) I can safely say that I'm not surprised. Samsung's approach to Android has been to quickly release poor-quality phones with broken firmware and little thought in regard to the actual user-experience.

If I'm honest, it shocks me that people still buy Android phones from Samsung. Nearly everything they've released for Android has been of poor quality, yet they sweep their old products under the rug and release something new and shiny for Android fanboys to gawk over. I cannot help but believe that the desire for a platform to come out on top suppresses much of the deserved criticism some Android phones face.
Is it me or is the ISP business getting steadily more anti-customer? Between trying to double charge for bandwidth (charge me a monthly fee and then charge company X for access to me) and attempting to push through lower and lower caps. I understand the increasing costs of infrastructure to provide for users streaming content but would this not be part of their business plans and budgeted for? Or did they expect everybody to continue using the internet like it was 2000? I know the service was always sold on the assumption that the majority of people are low bandwidth users but can ISPs really get this defensive when people start trying to get what they pay for?

Also SMS still takes the cake for most crazily overpriced communication medium, over $1000 per Mb.
Why is the Al Jazeera app not showing up on App store Top 25?
Slightly curious as to why the Al Jazeera app isn't showing up on the App Store top 25. If you haven't checked the app out already, it's great - free live-streaming video of Al Jazeera English.

Before I went to bad last night it had around 1400 reviews, with an average rating of four stars.

Today the review-count has been reset (build status says a new build was pushed out yesterday but I wasn't prompted for an update. weird)

Also, quite a few reviews of the app seem dubious. Try reading the 1 star reviews.

Wouldn't be surprised if Apple's invisible hand is somehow involved with this.
Looks cool and all, but can someone smarter than me describe an example of a safe environment in which this might be useful?
It says right in the article that Google's effective tax rate is 22.2%. It pays 2.4% only on a small part of its income.
In Japan, consumptions taxes are very low (at least compared to Europe, I am not too familiar with comsuption tax rate in the US). If you don't have a family, you often don't need a car thanks to a great public transportation system (never driven a car in 7 years since I am in Japan), which is a lot of spared money as well. Food is expensive, but restaurants are cheap (you can find a lot of restaurants with good, healthy meals, for a price not higher than Mc Donalds).

As for the - of Japan (compared to western Europe): the health system which is borderline scary in terms of service and quality, and the housing. Unless you can afford the expensive stuff, most housing is really low quality (no acoustic/heat isolation, etc...), without mentioning the obvious size issue.
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We pay 0.15/msg in Canada unless you pay for the unlimited plan which is generally $15/mo.

The CRTC must be really bought by the telecommunications industry :(
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As it turns out, a history of IBM is basically the history of computers. Ever hear the phrase "everything thats worth inventing already has been at IBM?" They created RISC and out-of-order, superscalar processing, relational databases, TCM, magnetic hard discs, DRAM, etc. You can bet there's a lot that didn't make it into that video.
> In studies of expert performance admissions people are less good at predicting UG[undergrad] GPA than a simple algorithm. (The "algorithm" is simply a weighted sum of SAT and HS GPA!)

If you replace the admissions people with a simple algorithm (or even a complex one), you get a machine that can be gamed very efficiently. In a couple of years, the algorithm is going to suck unless you have a team of experts constantly changing it. (Hi, Google!)
And So Begins The Last Dance of IPv4...
I've been using backblaze for a couple of months on my laptop. Works fine and it has already saved my ass twice.
They've published the audio and transcript from the Samsung official that apparently said sell-through was "quite small" and in reality they said "quite smooth".
I can connect my Kindle to any Mac, Windows or Linux computer using a USB cable, the OS sees the Kindle as an external drive ... You can transfer as many documents as you want to your Kindle this way (actually as many as your Kindle can store, about 3GB for a Kindle 3).
As I understand it, the problem for IPv6 is with existing routing hardware and with testing. So if you're going to go through all the effort to add a new octet (which requires changing the IP packet format to allow for the extra space, for example), then you might as well go all the way to IPv6 and solve the problem once and for all.
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Well said. Frankly I can't figure out why anybody would want to jump onto the 80-hour week insanity mill that is the Silicon Vally definition of "Startup". It just doesn't seem like a good use of your time. Either you burn yourself out with nothing to show, or you oversucceed to the point where you have to figure out how to work your life around owning a private jet. There's got to be some middle ground.

How about instead I work 20 hour weeks building something that will pay my rent initially, pay for my winter house on that nice point break in Oz after 5 years, then spoil my kids rotten in 20. That's a payoff more in line with my lifestyle, and I get to keep living my life in the meantime.
Fish's main point is that in our craze to catch up with China in technology, not only are we shortchanging college humanities but we are embracing the "Tiger Mom", test-oriented approach to learning in colleges.

So, rather than trying to emphasize the differences that makes US education unique, to drive competition, they are trying to out-do China in its own game.
The interesting thing here is that Google now has the smarts and power to play games with Bing, and were I MS, that fact would scare me more than any lawsuit.
This used to be a strong distinguishing feature, but postgresql has it too as of 8.4, albeit in a somewhat different form (SQL standard "with recursive"; if you want the Oracle "start with ... connect by" syntax, you have to get the EnterpriseDB commercial postgresql fork).

Oracle still has features that I don't know where to find in the mainstream open-source competition: among others, support for encrypted on-disk storage, and multi-master write support (as opposed to write-on-master, read-from-mirrors). But a lot of those require an "Enterprise" license, which costs significantly more than the already high license fees for the "standard" edition.

(Besides which, if you're building a cluster, you probably want enough control over the physical I/O hardware, for performance reasons, that it doesn't make sense to build it on AWS.)
Ah, the IP packet format - hadn't considered that aspect, cheers. As you say - wouldn't make sense.
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I can buy most of these points, but it seems to ignore that people have subjective preferences for some cultural environments over others, so the Q/A answer citing Australia's education and secularity doesn't necessarily answer that question. Presumably not every intelligent person will subjectively find Australia's culture versus the US's culture either a win for Australia or a tossup; some may prefer American culture. Some people may also place utility on things like "living in my home country, where I don't feel like a foreigner"; though of course other people may consider living in another country to be an inherently positive experience.

I'm currently an American living in Denmark, so clearly I don't think it's impossible for the utility functions to work out that way. =] But it's not just a matter of weighing the income, the expenses, the commute times, etc.; living in Copenhagen is subjectively fairly different from living in, say, Boston or Los Angeles, and I could imagine some people putting very large positive or negative utility scores on that difference.
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If anyone is looking for more datasets, see:

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and

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for some good lists of available stuff.
This is Bell.

While I'm not claiming Canadian rates are cheap, this is what Videotron charges:

Download speed: 60 Mbps
Upload speed: 3 Mbps
Total data transfer
combined: 150 GB	$82.95*

Which is 0.55$

You can also get additional data in 30 Gig blocks for 12.50$ (up to 3 a month), which is 0.44$, if you need it. And there are additional services as well.

I've been a subscriber to Videotron since 2002, and while they aren't the cheapest, I've found their support fairly good, never having a major problems.

Edit: I should note, I'm just providing these prices as a perspective to what's being presented other places. My wife and I also never go over the cap, so we haven't worried about overage charges. However, if we did exceed the cap, apparently it's $4.50/G!
I recently switched to iTerm2 from Terminal.app. The main reason for switching for me was that iTerm2 has great full-screen support. Just hit Cmd-Enter and you're immediately greeted with a full-screen terminal.
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how does this compare to a system like https://github.com/erlware/faxien ?
So in an effort to be as good as a competitor MS is watching what you do when you interact with that competitors website and sending that information home. Seems like a really big reason to suggest to anybody you know that they uninstall the Bing toolbar.
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> It strongly suggests that Bing was copying Google’s results, by watching what some people do at Google via Internet Explorer.

Wow, it almost seems that is exactly what they are doing, which is some pretty dirty stuff. Now MS always had a shady track record, but I thought recently the company got a lot better.
"Is it illegal? Is it cheating? Is it unfair?" Who cares? Google already got everything it needed out of this situation: a gigantic PR win, and a morale boost for their own team. Well played.
What's wrong with the standard way of doing it? ::127.0.0.1
Shipping data is common, both to save money and for greater speed.

AWS has their import/export tool that does just this:
http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

There's also the story of the carrier pigeon which was faster than broadband in South Africa
http://www.physorg.com/news171883994.html

Fill a 737 with bluray, fly it from NY to LA, and you'll reach 37,000 Gbit/s.

It's called Sneakernet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
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Looks like Microsoft is "innovating" again...
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Congratulations on your startup!

In my opinion, you could check out what kind of courses they typically offer in their curriculum at MIT/etc and check out their corresponding courses on OCW. Since you're doing this out of sheer fun, don't be bothered getting too caught up with the structure of it. If you see anything you like, just read up on it.

Usually the ones you've mentioned are a good stepping stone towards more advanced ones though you mentioned you don't want advanced ones. Here are some you can look into:

1. user interface designs (helpful with any startup I think)
2. software engineering (teaches you a little bit of structure in a development process)
3. courses about testing, testing methods
4. operating systems (not crucial but it's fun to read, kinda helps with ideas about distributed computing)

Good luck!
Apple doesn't have the time for any of that, and besides, the company's execs lean pretty liberal.

Al Jazeera's app isn't in the top 25 because because consumption of news applications is dwarfed by things like games. In the US App Store, it's #3 in the free news applications category right now, below CNN and FOX News but ahead of the New York Times, NPR, & the BBC. That's a lot better than I thought it'd be doing - what more do you want?

By the way, you can use AppAnnie to look at how applications are doing worldwide. Looks like it's doing fine for a news app:

http://www.appannie.com/al-jazeera-english-live/ranking/#vie...
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I'm not sure about this. It almost sounds like Google is posturing. The reason I say this is that while Google was getting bombed up until last week with scraper sites, Bing wasn't.

If Bing was really copying results, they would have reflected the spam sites, because people click on those when they are highly ranked just as often as they click on the originator site. After all, the problem is that the content is identical.
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Because you don't think it can happen?
Nope, there's always NAT64+DNS64 to rescue.

Well, when ISP hits a cap they either have to get more IPv4 addresses (which they won't be able to do soon) or use some NAT. Except for legacy systems support, NAT64 is clearly a winner here.
Doesn't the Google toolbar do essentially the same thing they are saying IE is doing?