skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very possible. I gave more mention of that possibility in the writeup.

There are some weird things, too. I see what might be links between mystery numbers in the spam pages and parts of their URL, and I find it odd that they're the only site listed in those error messages, and there aren't a lot of those errors. Which may indicate that they're not deliberately blocking the spambots. But I will concede that it's weak evidence so far at best.

On another note, who is using your blog as feedstock? Can you give a URL to a spun copy of your stuff?
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Assuming the speech recognition software didn't simply fail, and that it in fact, does not exist.
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I don't make outrageous demands.

It is never too late to start. ;)

Seriously: Don't work for $15 per hour. Learn what you need to learn in order to charge $75 per hour. Some of that may be technical, but I sense that a stumbling block is that you have not learned to ask for $75 per hour -- otherwise you would not be so "happy" with so little. Be less happy! Be pickier about your clients and make higher demands, of them and of yourself.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182369

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880501
If you sit down and try to draw the traffic light situation for that set of roads, this is actually a better solution than anything else I've been able to come up with. All the traffic-light situations I've mentally drawn out deadlock during rush hour with reasonable assumptions about people ending up in the middle of intersections accidentally as the light goes red, and have terrible throughput by comparison at all times of day. Presumably the actual civil engineers came to the same conclusion, only with better numbers and models. I can not imagine that was an easy sell, they must have had a rock-solid case.
Well all you want is Nokia's $billion to spend however you want and at the end of the day if you couldn't make it you'll just stand up dust your hands and move on. if the Plan is so good you can take MeeGo which is open source or heck even Android and make the best phone/OS/EcoSystem out there surely you wouldn't have any problem attracting VC funding would you?
Progress: plodding on despite your neighbors, commentators, pundits, and others disparaging you. Changing directions due to group think and not sticking to plans will kill any project.

Remember that people throw stones only at trees that have mangoes.
I read that Paul Rand said (something to the effect of) a great logo could be drawn in sand with your finger and still be recognizable.
I don't get the hate. I like W3schools it is a great source to lookup something I forgot.
There's no way they would ask that question.
I think a quote by Henry Ford sums up the the whole Plan B and their approach.

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." ~ Henry Ford
"We're young shareholders, and our plan is...get this...young software developers."

Riiiight...
Assuming that you're being serious, I doubt that they would make such a move. While Apple markets their computers as being simple enough for anyone to use, they have a large section of power users that use their laptops heavily for things like Photoshop and video editing. I don't think that either of those will be performant in the near-term on ARM.
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Well is the text "fed" in a word at a time, or the whole question as a block that takes nanoseconds to parse. That's an unfair advantage if so because because the computer is getting the data in a different format than the other contestants, who are handicapped since they have to preprocess the data in a way the computer doesn't because it has been preprocessed in advance for it.
They store lots of data into Watson's memory, including wikipedia, imdb, the bible. They run hundreds of algorithms attacking a question from different angles, and produce a confidence level for each answer.
I added +-hubpages to my keyword search in Firefox. I should probably look into an extension instead, but it works well enough. I like the idea of Google getting lots of searches for <random query> -hubpages
That's bullshit. If a seller finds a buyer on an open market you've, more or less, found a value for the good. If it was too out of wack (either on the high or the low side) the other 98 people in the room wouldn't have stood pat. 2% of a company changing positions in a single day is a very high number.
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As I stated in another post, because the A4 probably won't do as well at high-end tasks like photo/video editing. If Apple were to make such a move they could only attempt it on the low-end (i.e. the MacBook line), but then they would be segmenting their products between two architectures, which wouldn't go over so well with developers.
I read the copy on the site and I have no idea of what they do/it does. I feel that often there is a strong urge to 'talk up' your service by making it grand. The problem with that nobody will use it because everybody thinks its cool but nobody know what it actually is.

Simple copy please? Some examples straight off the home page so that I do not have to look at the Developer'section?
What components though? I think that the reduction in size would be used to make the form-factor even smaller (possibly just thinner/lighter if they wanted to keep the screen size).
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My first official ruby gem. A simple view helper that puts a Joliprint button on your webpage. Good for adding quick printing to your rails projects.
https://github.com/rweald/joliprint
I don't think that's relevant. No one expected Deep Blue to have a mechanical arm that reaches out and moves pieces around a physical chess board.
Any places like this in the portland area?
Didn't take long for someone to suggest using this new exten for crowdsourced censorship...

It's for content farms only. Not unpopular sites, religions, etc. You think Google is going to remove whitehouse.gov from all results if enough of the world votes to block it?

I'd say it's for blocking things that are objectively farmed or splogs, not sites with correct information that happens to be subjectively poor quality or out of date. It's for improving the index, not cleansing the internet.
Would McDonalds rat you out?
I love this game :)
It almost sounds like you're saying raising the hiring bar is a bad thing.
Because Android is more mature as a consumer operating system.

(Yeah, I know.. Unix is 30+ years old and Android is 3. But you can't get Angry Birds for Linux, and the power management on Linux isn't great etc etc..)
Also possible in Polynomial function alone.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(x2%2By2-1)^3+-x2y3+%3D...
How many phrases of length 30 could you handle with 1GB of RAM?

Or do you have numbers on the mean length of a phrase you handle currently, the number of such phrases and how much memory it takes?
I wonder how many people bought a Nokia because it comes with free offline turn-by-turn navigation maps for most of the planet. I did then.
It's a bit difficult to implement sync of arbitrary data in a Chrome extension now. The extension developer has to setup their own storage and implement their own sync code. Either that, or some developers just store their data in the bookmark system, which has its own problems (please don't do this Matt!).

We (the extension posse) are working on making this really easy to do [1], but nothing exists yet.

[1] http://crbug.com/47327
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i laughed.

the fact that this exists is terrible news for nokia.
can you share what you learned with these experiments?
Check out w3fools.com for a list of reasons why it's not a good resource.
got cut off on my phone; meant to add: why would you ever need 50 Clojure engineers?
> The fact that Google dominates search, or that Apple dominates mobile
> devices, or that Microsoft dominates desktop computing hardly limits my
> "freedom" in any real sense of that word

Is that really the case? If Microsoft specifically tries to prevent competitors
from coming to market through anti-competitive actions, then they are limiting
my 'freedom' in that they are trying to limit the options that I have when I
have a choice to make on which operating system to use, no?

Limiting freedom doesn't apply solely to the freedom to make a choice, it also
applies to limiting the options one has to choose between. When AT&T lobbies
the government to allow them to refuse access to their last-mile lines to
3rd-party ISPs, then AT&T is limiting my freedom b/c now I have fewer choices
in ISPs in my area.
Shame. Maemo was actually pretty good. I used to have an n770 and it was a nice, usable little device (if underpowered). It had an app store in 2005 (which was an apt repo with a web interface in front of it), and there was a decent app selection since it was so easy to port linux desktop software to it.
wow; that's a blast from the past but that war was middle-asian, wasn't it?
W3schools is known for giving wrong, horribly out-of-date, and Internet Explorer-specific advice. (It has no connection with the W3C.)

It is one of the more complete reference websites, but anything you learn there should be checked elsewhere.
I learned using railstutorial.org (first the free online version, then bought the dead tree version in order to support the author). Also Peepcode's Meet Rails 3 videos, which actually got me up to speed quickly since I had toyed around with Rails 2 in the past.
The real bottleneck in any apache setup is apache.

For those that need hassle-free backwards htaccess compatibility, try litespeed.

But there a few nice alternative to apache these days.
Shouldn't it just be represented as x^2+(y-absolute(x)))^2=1

There is no need for sqrt(x^2)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x^2%2B(y-absolute(x)))^...
I agree that their site is horrible in explaining what they do - but the service is really really cool.

I have had trouble finding info on thier site in the past and mentioned it to them - yet they havent updated it with a more newbie version....

That said, what is really cool about fluid info is that it lets you tag objects arbitrarily. For example you can create an object such as a Server, then you can apply any tags you want to it: hostname, IP, Make, Model, SN, PN etc. Other people can create tags on it as well.

Their are some really interesting applications you can do with this.
Astonishingly few people commenting seemed to have read the whole thing. The reason it will (supposedly/hopefully) be different next time is that management overhead, bureaucracy, and outsourcing are killing their software development. If they actually can cut through the red tape, then I don't see it as very far-fetched to say that they can come back as a mobile software shop. I've got a Maemo device (using it now; very capable, except the keyboard's a little cramped), and prefer it by a wide margin to my employer-issued iPhone or the Android device that I returned after getting this phone.

If I were a Nokia shareholder, I'd be voting for these guys for certain. Windows has consistently been unimpressive, and MeeGo feels a lot like a platform that has a lot of cool potential but is unpolished and has gotten too little love from its progenitor.
I thought i was the only one doesn't want to see "experts exchange" in google search results. No, i'm not alone... :) :)
Looks "experts exchange" is annoyingly very famous...
Back using Racket after a long hiatus. Racket I never should have left you. There are but two languages I'll use. Racket and Scala.
Hah now Wolfram Alpha, I wonder if they're going to bother coming back in to work tomorrow. Watson makes it look pretty primitive.
Plus, how many MeeGo devices has Nokia shipped? AFAIK, MeeGo system images are available for Nokia N900 (Maemo) handset, but not shipped on _any_ device. Betting the company on that track record would be quite a big bet.
Well, no one will see this anymore, but... :-)

The direct quote in the reference was that they'd be sued if they "moved forward to commercialize it". To me, that doesn't imply that they'd sue if the project was kept open source?

Sure, I might be missing something (I've been writing stupid error checking code most of the night.)
But all of the infrastructure that those things run on cost money too. The 'cloud' isn't going to eliminate the cost of running fiber. The ISPs/network operators are increasingly going to become the gatekeepers, hell they already are.
I'm pretty sure Groupon has more than 1 employee.
In my experience if I'm her largest influence, then something's gone horribly wrong. I don't mean to be offensive, but this concept sounds more like codependency than a partnership.
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all those domain names completely SUCK.

If you're going to write an article about nabbing domains via instant - jesus christ have some creativity.
I'm not really suggesting censorship. W3Schools is pretty well known for often having just plain wrong information.

I'm simply concerned by the fact that they consistently rank highly on Google, which leads to the spread of incorrect information.
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Did anyone really think this was a surprise? Symbian? Not gonna do it. Nokia clearly bet the future on Meego, decided that it wasn't going to cut it, and hedged with WP7 instead of Android (because they weren't going to be competitive with the rest of the world who had a year's head start on Android devices).
> Saudi Princes and other royalty from the Middle East.

Getting their orders in before their governments fall

We hope
Part of the issue with rail is that it takes to long compared to the alternatives. This is not really a failing of rail as a technology, but a failure of investment in infrastructure. Outside of the Boston-NYC-DC corridor, the trains can't go as fast due to the rails (IIRC they have to slow down to 35mph). If the infrastructure investment had been there, train travel could be a viable alternative to air travel.
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Hi Jayzee

I agree, our website is very poor. We're planning to improve it over the next week. There are quite a few hands-on programming examples and videos on our blog, at http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/ that might be helpful.

For example, http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidinfo/2011/01/14/exploring-fl... There's a programming category at http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidinfo/category/programming/

I hope that helps! Please feel free to mail me (terry fluidinfo com) or drop by #fluidinfo on irc.freenode.org to ask questions or give us a hard time :-)

Thanks,
Terry Jones
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I would prefer if they just make a ARM laptop. Seriously, why aren't there any decent ARM laptops? I know there are a few ARM/MIPS laptops out there but they are all either old(new platforms are much more powerful) or comes locked.
Hi phlux - Thanks. We'll get there soon, I hope. Thanks a lot for persisting & I'm glad you think it's cool :-)

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I've been thinking along similar lines for my project and the issue i'm running into conceptually is tracking WHICH cache records to invalidate upon POST. Say an HTML list, an HTML detail page, and a full composite object all contain references to the particular item you updated. Single items - the detail page and object are fairly easy to know about, but what about a list view and a grid view that also contain that item. What are your thoughts?
if they can also get the rat parts back out of me, that'd be cool.
Sorry, I meant s/and also unlike patents/and also unlike trademarks/.
heh - I tried to get funding for a site with these exact features in 2005. It was called enpyr.com

The messaging was almost identical - but my UI was much more refined...

I, obviously, believe in the idea - but you really need a UI expert.
Hmm, usually shareholders don't run the company. They own it. Stuff like choosing the tools, organization of R&D department and so on should be in the hands of the management. That's why you pay them.
I had created a post here regarding a Varnish plugin we wrote for cPanel over a weekend codeathon (http://www.unixy.net/varnish). Based on benchmarks, Varnish+Apache came out ahead of Litespeed. But benchmarks are not always conclusive since user traffic patterns are difficult to reproduce in a benchmark environments.

The feedback we've gotten so far on the plugin is very positive (google if interested). Nginx can do caching but not with the same flexibility as Varnish.

Regards
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On top of counting the block votes, Google could check if the site is crippled by AdSense links. This could filter some shot-down-my-competitor efforts.
mmmm domain game :-)
This person's entire argument is "I was outside a McDonald's, an employee looked at me oddly, and then I was arrested by police. Obviously McDonald's ratted me out." Uh, what?
Phones need strong app ecosystems and familiar
apps that everyone expects

Both iOS and Android started with zero apps.

MeeGo is based on the Linux ecosystem. Porting games from Android / iOS to MeeGo should be trivial. Building cross-platform apps that run on all of them in C++ is also doable, since you can share the business-logic.

Android would be a bad choice for them. They are big enough to want to differentiate themselves from the competition. Forking Android would be terrible for everybody; Symbian all over again.

So MeeGo or a new version of Symbian is their best option: they can reuse existing code-bases and they also have enough control.

Either way, the partnership with Microsoft is a disaster.
I think the reason that cache invalidation scheme is not in wider use is that it's not very generalizable, and as data model complexity increases things get out of control. If someone adds a new post, you may end up having to regenerate the post page, the pages before it and after it, an authors page, any number of tags pages, etc. So I think it works sometimes in specific instances, but not as a general caching strategy.

If it worked though, it would seem to be the most beneficial. Is anybody working on it?
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Look at the apple , http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/apple-eats-microsoft/ once reduced to nothing but slowly by persistence , hard work and vision. This is biggest lesson who blame wrong time and other billion excuse for their failures.
I think the previous Microsoft phone efforst have been abysmal. The thinking was along the lines of 'windows is great, let's make a mini version'. That led them up a garden path, at which point iOS came along and blew everyone away.

However, the thinking coming from MS now is 'iOS (& android) are great, lets build one of those with a windows flavor'.

The resulting phone is actually rather good, and brings some genuinely new ideas that make an iPhone look a bit clunky and hard to use for some tasks.

I think the Nokia/Microsoft matchup is about the best both can do in a difficult situation. There are still a lot of Nokia brand loyalty out there, and having an as-good smartphone with MS software on it is going to convince a lot of people. I know I'd be serious about looking at it when it comes time to trade in my iPhone.
If the Department of Homeland Security has its way, this is what America will be like in 10 years.

See: DHS's Walmart campaign to get people to spy on their neighbors http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-06/us/washington.dhs.walmart...
Do you plan to release the list of blocked sites to the public?
MeeGo about 20 thousand miles before needing to be rotated.
Most kanji textbooks suck because learning kanji sucks for westerners. Westerners are generally trying to learn several things at once: the stroke order, the readings, and the meaning. This causes information overload.

For example, looking at the word "knowledge" -- imagine that you've never learned to write the alphabet and you're expected to learn to write the letters, the order of the letters, and the pronunciations of specific combinations of the letters! It's simply overwhelming.

The easiest way to tackle this is to reduce the information given, which is what books like Heisig's Remembering the Kanji try to do. He tries to teach the stroke order and associate it with a meaning through a mnemonic -- no worrying about the various readings. It's an interesting idea and works great for some people, not so great for other.

Kanji in Context is a really good series that focuses on an intermediate learner who already knows enough Japanese to intuit the stroke orders of kanji and can read Japanese sentences. It gives sentences with kanji compounds in them -- you then have a context in which you can focus on learning ONE reading and meaning for that particular kanji in a context.

After all, that's how we learn words in our native language -- in context.

There are a bunch of other noteworthy books and approaches, and they work for different people. Some people are a lot better with brute force memorization, some people are a lot better with a Japanese context, some people want a story in English, some people remember better with some kind of etymological history... all of these preferences have led to a bunch of different books.

I wouldn't really say any of them suck, but the approaches may not work for you or your friends.

That having been said!

I'm always up for looking over a new book, so Kanjidamage looks interesting, even though it's not actually a book. The slang and "hipster" talk is a major turnoff, though. For people like me who don't use or see that kind of slang often, it just makes another interfacing problem that makes learning kanji harder.

Even after reading all of the stuff on the site, I still don't really understand how it's meant to be used, though. It's too long-winded.
Reminds me of Sony in the consumer electronic space. They've lost large leads in television and music player industries due to the same attitude.
You either compared incomparable things to begin with or ended up with a scalar value when you divided them. Units can be divided, too. The slash in m/s is there for a reason.

We'd do better to stick to the original point: that both partners should do their best rather than a half-ass job. A point I happen to agree with. Numbers just get in the way.
Nokia 3310 was my first phone.
It had the best software and user interface of its time.

Nokia 6310, featuring similar software, also dominated the market for business phones for a long time. Even when phones with color screens started to sell, people would still buy Nokia 6310 because it was reliable and easy to use.

Of course it is nothing compared to today's smartphones, but you're overestimating the talent and resources required to build good software, especially when they've got all the resources and talent they need.

Their problem is not that they can't write software. Their problem is the lack of focus, and this latest partnership only makes matters worse.
And it's a bit of a turn-off when I see something like "二日酔い" with an explanation that it literally means "paying for your drink" when it doesn't.
Fundamentally Canada is conservative (risk averse).
I love the follow-up question to engage his audience: "Did you ever have a similar experience with McDonald's?"

If only I had a dollar for every time that has happened!