skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While these pictures are beautifully shot, I always find it interesting in similar pictorials of "Earth" that the U.S. is often represented by long tracts of houses in suburbia, or a system of byzantine highways. You'd think the entire U.S. population lives in houses that look the same and we all sit in heavy traffic each day. In fact, the same could be said for other pictures here as well; many just seem to promote existing stereotypes vs. the unique beauty that every one of these countries possesses.
You can't scribble on an E.
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I think that demographic has a quite high chance of missing that this particular implementation (which looked nice, once I understood what it was for) lives on a .org domain. If they fail to realize that though, http://internetbuttons.com/ is there with completely differently designed content on the same topic. I'd say that makes this domain name "weak".
It's not a broken metric when you're selling ad impressions on each page view. It's how you make money.
My (uneducated) guess is that Verizon handled the event, but Apple passed along a blacklist to Verizon.
We don't feel like implementing a secure communication system, we want the government to enforce security for us.

Hey! it's not fair that you're using our insecure system in ways we don't want you to.
If Google think they have other evidence, let's see it. The burden of proof is on the accuser, I think.

BTW, that's not necessarily about whether they are "lying". The other evidence they think they have could be convincing to them (because, e.g., they already have a strong predisposition to believe that they are inherently far better than anyone else, and therefore anyone building a competitive search engine could only possibly be copying them - this is a caricature, but you get the idea) but not necessarily convincing to others.
Hey, I really wish that "subject/predicate/object" was all that RDF was, but I'm afraid it's a good deal more:

RDF Syntax: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-syntax-grammar-20040210/

RDF Schema: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-schema-20040210/

RDF Semantics: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-mt-20040210/

(Those are all current W3C standards)
That's great and works really well! Thank you!

Pair up these three and I think we're all set:
http://impossibility.org/
https://domize.com/
http://nxdom.com/
If Google analytics can scrape this data, so can bing.
Google never answered if they are using clickstream from google toolbar / chrome or not.
Check this simple script if you want same data.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1680579&...
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A way to manage FB from my chosen interface -- another stellar idea from Rapportive. But before pushing the button I would like to know, if, as with most things FB,there is a compromise of my privacy for the convenience? Indicating the level to which FB and Gmail will share my contacts would be helpful to have in the introductory information.It sounds like they will be matched together?

I want to be very selective. Ideally all the client FB accounts I manage could be tabbed through via Rapportive without any chance of the contacts getting comingled.

Would be happy to pay for such business conveniences in a freemium model.
Actually, you can! http://cl.ly/3s010o3p3O0M0M0I473W
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Lastpass has freed me from generating complicated passwords and remembering them. It also syncs between all my browsers and even works in the iPhone.

I couldn't ask for more.
It was the right idea and almost the right implementation, but almost is a big word -- like a rocket that almost has escape velocity.

There's work being done in this space that is really exciting and I think we'll soon see how much potential the semantic web really has.
TechCrunch is pretty awful, blanked it out a long time ago after a few too many articles that had a headline along the lines of "[X] is the real Facebook Killer" or "This Bill Will Be the End of Personal Freedoms on the Internet FOREVERRR!!!!" (I'm just paraphrasing from the top of my head) ...too much hype, too much hyperbole, not enough Journalism.
Since you're quite an eloquent defender of RDF in this thread -- would you mind sharing a bit of RDF from your project? If it's not public or finished yet ... perhaps pasting an excerpt on gist.github.com?
And so far what have you done? You deleted one link and added another. Then wrote a nasty blog explaining to the world your vague reasoning for your actions. It's kinda funny really. You acted and might sway 5-10 people. A drop in the bucket.

How about instead, you compile these articles you claim attack wikileaks releasing data instead of telling people to do the searches. Why don't you act and put forth some real effort and get this guy fired if he is as bad as you say? Or is it now when people say "It was time to act" they really mean they are going to write a nasty gram and post it on HN to get upvoted?
> If so, I'd have flagged this for being GPL software on the app store.

Which is probably why they don't have a flag application button.
Could we save the "awesome pics!!!!" for other sites? Also - I can't find it quickly, but are the originals actually free to be cut and pasted on whichever site so desires?
There is often a huge chasm between what people SAY and what they MEAN.

From a pragmatic viewpoint, I think it is best to not get hung up on word-choice and instead gain an appreciation of what motivates the managers/co-workers you're interacting with.

Geeks have a really hard time with this. I like to think of the scene in film "Annie Hall" where the Woody Allen and Mia Farrow characters have a mundane discussion while on the screen subtitles appear indicating what they're REALLY saying. That's what it is like when you're in the early stages of developing a work relationship with someone.
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And where do people doing this hang out? I've been quietly working on something that's taking off but I'm on my own here.
You often have to rearrange your UI due to varying lengths of words/phrases across languages, so just swapping out strings isn't enough.
Have you had any trouble with PayPal flagging your account yet?
It's not a paradox at all. It's simply not mathematical. The first question, which is completely ignored:

Is x^x^x^... well defined?

And does he mean x^(x^(x^...)) or ((x^x)^x)^x...

Because of his second statement, I guess he means x^(x^(x^...)). So he is looking at the limit of the sequence (x, x^x, x^(x^x), ...). So you have the function f

x |-> limit of (x, x^x, x^(x^x), ...)

This function is not defined for all x (e.g. it diverges for x>=2) and (thus) its target set is clearly not R.

You can see that it does converge for x=sqrt(2), because 0 < sqrt(2)^a <= a for all a in 0..2) and thus it is correct that f(sqrt(2)) = 2 (by using his statements).

You can also see that 4 is not contained in the target set, because a^4 > 4 for all a>sqrt(2) and because f is monotone for x>0 and because f(sqrt(2))=2.

Thus, the set {x | f(x)=4} is empty.

I.e., his assumption that there exists such an x results in the wrong conclusion.
so maybe you should stop using all search engines, because they by definition do not create any data and just copy it from other people.
I find the inability to check on my own threads and comments a big enough lacking to keep me from actually using it.

It's http://ihackernews.com for me, even though I have to manually bookmark my profile page to lookup my own threads.
Saying that an area the 120% size of Central Park is deforested yearly to create business cards doesn't at all follow from what they claim. There may well be 24,000 trees in NYC's Central Park, but the last time I was there it was far from covered in trees. 30,000 could grow in a far smaller space.

That kind of reasoning doesn't inspire confidence!
wordoids.com appears to be a parked seo page. Don't go there.
I use a traditional fat client application, keepassx: http://www.keepassx.org/

Runs equally well on OSX, Windows, Linux/X11. It supports "autotype" so that you don't have to fool with copy/paste.
There's a typo when under "How do we fix this?", it says "inculding" rather than "including".
But presumably, they don't need to know it. You'll set it as their home button and launch page for all their browsers.
also known as ctrl+T

;-)
By "act", I meant write my opinion down.
you still didn't get it, they are using clickstream from every possible source from amazon to ebay to google. and there is nothing unethical about it, as it just gives them annonymous data about which site people are clicking to. Google gets the same data from google toolbar and other products.
It depends on how you look at it. With a more contained and 'gathered' approach, I would think that it would foster a tighter 'community feel' between the neighbors than in a more spread out model. That doesn't seem devoid of human interaction to me.
The absence of force doesn't mean neglect. When I say children should be free to explore and learn what they want, I don't mean that parents have no role to play in their children's education, or that every (or any) child would flourish if left alone on an island. Parents have roles to play as facilitators, mentors, etc. I think parents should introduce their children to lots of things, but I think they should force them to do little or nothing. Depending on your definition of "prodding," we might be in agreement here.

I agree different things work for different people, and there's probably a spectrum of how "naturally" disciplined people are.

That said, I think people are naturally curious and don't, at least at the beginning of their lives, gravitate towards sitting around and doing nothing. Toddlers are naturally motivated to learn to walk and talk and are almost endlessly inquisitive.

Over time, this curiosity seems to diminish. I think formal schooling, which emphasizes external motivation over internal motivation, is largely to blame.

I might be more naturally disciplined than most, but I think a big part of that comes from not having the first decades of my life mapped out for me.
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I went through an extremely bad breakup about seven years ago, and I was amazed at how quickly I was able to get out of my own head once I started going on casual dates.
maybe you meant 4=x^x^x^x^x^x... cannot be solved because there exists no x that solves the equation y=x^x^x^x^x... for a maximum value of y which is a positive real solution of the equation y = x^y. Thus, x = y^(1/y). The limit defining the infinite tetration of x fails to converge for x > e^(1/e) because the maximum of y^(1/y) is e^(1/e). The maximum value is smaller than 4 and thus no solution exists.
This is only true in a very technical sense. The last free /8 was allocated to a regional authority.

The regional authorities (RIRs) still have many, many smaller blocks to allocate to individual organizations. The first RIR isn't expected to run out of ipv4 space until October.

That's when the shit really hits the fan.
yeah, I saw the vid.... it's not really the same though, is it?
This part doesn't ring true....

But the part in brackets is the same as the whole, and hence is equal to 2. Thus we have 2=x2
'Guesstimates'.
You could write a similar article called 'The CEO Is Not Your Friend' or 'Your Boss Is Not Your Friend' -- whatever your relationship with someone, when they've got a job to do they're going to have to do it.

A couple of my angels are invite-to-the-wedding friends, but I still expect them to make rational decisions when it comes to their pro rata in later rounds, and I don't automatically expect them to invest in whatever I decide to do in the future.
>But the part in brackets is the same as the whole, and hence is equal to 2. Thus we have 2=x^2

The bug is in the third line, the statement is invalid.

Obviously (x^x infinitum) is not the same as (x^x infinitum-1). For the same reason that x^x^x^x != x^x^x.

Sadly, I'm not math savvy. In fact the highest math level I passed in college was calc 3 and that was after taking calc 1 and calc 2 twice. So, my answer is based on logical reasoning rather than mathematical proof. Spock would likely indicate my logic is flawed, and only co-incidentally leads to the correct conclusion. Either way, this doesn't seem like a very interesting "math paradox".
Seems fairly unlikely. I'm gonna go with Occam's Razor on this one.
This seems like it would be a bit of a faff. With physical business cards, exchanging them is as simple as moving a card from your pocket into the hand of the person you are giving it to. You can even collect a whole bunch at once and arrange them in front of you to remember everybody’s name at the meeting table. Who really struggles to keep track of physical cards? Insert into holder in alphabetical order when you get back. O(n)

With this there would be at least a couple buttons to mash on the phone, something will almost certainly go wrong with it in the middle of the Big Sales Meeting (sods law), you have to fiddle with your phone instead of looking your new contact in the eye etc etc.

If you are the sort of person that enjoys meticulously tagging mp3 files and has to add every single person they meet to FaceTweetMyspaceLinkedBook then maybe this seems great, but to me this is a solution to a nonexistent problem, that just makes life more difficult.
I did say "development-related".
"Fame-Hungry, Media-Manipulating Hypocrite" is a quote from Paul Carr in the TC article itself. The title of this post is a play on that quote and IMHO a very clever one.
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My mistake, I was not aware of those configuration options. Thanks for the correction.
Proof of concept - feedback appreciated
Given how inexpensive it is now to start a software company, and how costs can scale linearly with capacity as managed cloud-based capacity comes online and goes down in price, I'm not sure we (that is us software guys) need VC in a significant number of cases.

The recent blanket offer by Yuri, I think, adds credence to this line of thinking: money is getting cheaper for software startups as demand for it falls. (An alternative theory, which I am also sympathetic to, is that we are at the tail end of a reflationary credit bubble, set to burst Real Soon Now.)

But, regardless, why sleep with the enemy if you don't have to? You can build a POC on heroku or EC2 for peanuts...
bing only sees, what google's customer are seeing. so Google can't do it without screwing its own search results, and even worse it won't affect top 1 million query strings, as for them bing is getting much stronger signals from other sources.
Hashima, AKA Gunkanjima or "Battleship Island". The kind of place that exists in dreams.

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/1974/1974-html/07-...

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/7/hashima.php

http://gakuranman.com/gunkanjima-ruins-of-a-forbidden-island...
I like their little cartoon example... "Nice meeting you, got E?"

Just be careful who you ask.
So anyone that attacks Wikileaks is a media whore?
> In all honesty I'm a bit wrong as they did say they used the google box on the page.

Thanks - that's what I've been getting at. This isn't data entry into the Bing toolbar, it's into a non-Bing page when one has the toolbar installed.
Great article but the modern oil industry did not grow out of whale hunting. In fact it bankrupted whale hunters because it provided cheaper oil.

Also we would only end up as "the Ottoman empire of the 21st century" if someone else creates a radically superior technology which we spectacularly fail to copy, reproduce, or simply license form them.

I think the sad truth is, there just isn't much to do in space if all you have is a cheap and easy way to escape earth's gravity.

Sure space tourism would be fun for a while. But at some point we need to either terraform something or decide to live in city sized spaceships, THEN you'd have a real incentive to innovate launch vehicles.
That's a great point, bigian. FWIW that's not a PayPal-specific policy - Visa and MasterCard's TOS explicitly state that you cannot bill the credit card until the merchandise has shipped.
[I have a client who sells RDF tools. Here's the latest version of what I've been saying to them.]

Let's look at RDF like a startup: The old RDF marketing from, say, 2003 was hopelessly out-of-touch with reality. Users were never going publish their metadata as RDF, and even if they did, you'd need strong AI to use it. Here are two classic articles spelling out why classic RDF wouldn't work:

http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm
http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html

But things have been looking up in the RDF market lately. The complicated RDF XML serialization is mostly ignored in favor of simple n-triples. Google is making heavy use of RDFa metadata when searching for products, and something like 3.5% of web pages now contain RDFa. The RDF conferences are booming. There are cool projects like dbpedia that are organizing publicly-available information as RDF.

So if the RDF tool vendors are going to succeed, they need to pivot (and many of them are). They need to drop the AI hype, and focus on what their early users are telling them. Some possible sales pitches:

1) RDF is useful as a distributed, schema-free graph database. Competition: Neo4J, other NoSQL databases. There's a couple of very good sales pitches here, including the fact that RDF databases are available from multiple vendors, and that RDF inference can be used to normalize schemas between different data sources.

2) RDF is useful for embedding small amounts of data in web pages. Competition: Microformats.
Startup Quote: Marissa Mayer, vice president, Google
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Wow, I can't even imagine some of the filtering that needs to go on within that system to find the legitimate tickets to address.
I've missed similar functionality since I switched from Chrome to Firefox (although for Firefox it was actually looking up user-scripts, which I guess is largely the same as Chrome extensions).

Good job. Checking it out.
Even at that, the opportinity to significantly lower launch costs should be embraced.

But didn't you read the article? It explains clearly why even halving launch costs would not make much of a difference.
Agreed on that. Plus, i noticed a mistake made by a lot of people, Redis is NOT memcached. That's just as easy as that. You can use Redis the same way as you would use memcached, but that would be a waste.
The power of Redis resides in its data structures and the usage you make of it. You can make some pretty powerful stuff, easily and with performance.
Nested Comment system (https://gist.github.com/803251), autocomplete (http://pastebin.com/E5h1TLWz), all of that with high performance over large dataset, and much more, stuff that is not doable with Memcached. Also, the role of Redis is not to replace SQL databases, i personally view it, and use it, as a complement to it, and it works just perfectly. (I am fully aware that the examples given are possible with SQL solution, but experience in production/development as shown me that Redis is easier and faster when it comes to not too complex operations like these ones)
If you need the user to tell you what you’re selling, then you don’t know what you’re selling, and it’s probably not going to be a good experience.

- Marissa Mayer (@marissamayer)

http://startupquote.com/post/3087317670
... can also be wrong?
Plenty of people (including myself) in biomedical fields (especially in bioinformatics, although I know of numerous medically-oriented users) use RDF for a variety of purposes- it's a fabulously flexible way to express and encode complex data models. With a little bit of coordination regarding semantics (OWL, etc.), it's also a great way for people in related but distinct fields to share their data with one another.

That said, RDF has historically had three main problems, IMHO. The first is that its proponents have, historically speaking, done a crappy job of explaining what it actually is, and a worse job of demonstrating what it can do.

The second problem is that it's not really the most human-readable format around, especially in its XML serialization format. This is largely because it wasn't designed for human-readability, but in the age of the Web (where human-readable formats have shown to have major advantages over non-human-readable ones), this is a liability. They've added some more readable serialization formats over the years, but a lot of the documentation and tutorials assume that you'll be working in XML.

When I first tried to learn about RDF, years ago, all I found were tutorials full of really gnarly-looking XML with minimal explanation of what was going on. I spent so much time getting bogged down by the syntax that I missed the point entirely.

The third, and bigger, problem with RDF, is that it's a little hard to "grok" if you don't have a good grounding in predicate logic, description logics, and some of its other theoretical underpinnings. Actually, wait, maybe I said that wrong- I should say instead that most of the old-school RDF people do have solid theoretical backgrounds in description and predicate logic, and have a hard time talking about RDF and other semweb technologies with people who people who don't have that background. So they use lots of jargon that, while useful, isn't very helpful to somebody just trying to get their feet wet.
i understand that's how ads are sold, but it does doesn't work.

the numbers are inaccurate, varying wildly depending on how you measure it (web server logs, analytics, etc), and its a horrible way for advertiser to measure ROI.
Probably should create a throwaway for this :) but way back in college I did a bit of contract front-end web work for some guys in that area, email me (in profile) and I can send you the URL of the message board they were all on.
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Most were actually legit. I asked one of the support guys how he and his team handles the volume. He responded with his secret: http://twitter.com/#!/Charles/status/32971715290210304

"@Charles Your team does a great job. 100-200 tickets per hour. How do you do it?"

"@Wayne My secret is keyboard macros and Text Expander. Some days can be pretty overwhelming though!"
I love the green boxes. Last time I moved my roommate spent almost $50 on cardboard boxes. After unpacking we immediately threw them away (with the additional hassel of disassembling them). This is a far better solution.

I hope they become available in my state next time I have to move.
Can anyone recommend a good intro to machine learning and NLP?
Valid arguments, we're working to make everything easier each day. Thanks for the lengthy response!
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Very much so - the graphic is very much tongue in cheek though, can be taken lightly.
They could not come out against it before the ruling was made. They are the gov't, and the CRTC is an arms length agency. It's not the government's place to interfere with an arms length agency, at least before they've announced a decision.
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Nope. Notes on E get pushed back into the cloud. Notes on cards get stained. ;)
I've read an article about the physical fruit machines doing a similar thing. The outcome of the "guess whether the next number will be bigger or smaller than current one" is pre-determined. The game knows how many positive guesses it allows and adjusts the numbers accordingly.
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