skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you expand on what kind of methods they employ, or the barriers they had to overcome with their targets?
Aggregates that have to do full table scans are notoriously slow in Postgres due to how multi-version concurrency control is implemented.

Any time you comment out a WHERE clause on a big table while performing an aggregate report, Postgres chokes.
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Obviously a straight-up Markov Chain generator isn't going to work, but a smarter system that would allow you to basically sketch the article and then have the system automatically babble in English to fill out the word count while not actually needing any additional information strikes me as feasible, though not trivial.

Somebody's doing something similar for sports reporting: http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/04/18/robot-journalist-writ... You'd have to tweak it for a different domain but I'm sure that would be feasible for your average gossip-rag type story.
I wonder if the Hadoop numbers will drop in response to the new LexisNexis database
You should come swing by the foursquare offices sometime if your bored, I'll get you a fresh pack of bacon if you give me a heads up :)
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of course, they would be looking for fine structured mental field waveforms that they would expect us, like any sentient species, to naturally produce ... and i guess they are still waiting for us to generate the waveforms
Almost certain. "Euro rises versus dollar as Greek debt fears ease"... http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/06/17/general-dollar_852...
You usually sign agreements before starting contract work for those companies right? I assume they cover it in there.

Still I wonder what would happen if an AOL writer sued AOL for copyright infringement citing his/her constitutional rights.
Ask HN: For those working on more than one site, how do you manage this?
Hi,

let's say you start a couple of sites and suddenly one of them picks up pace and it looks it is really going somewhere.. but then you also have other smaller sites which are also doing well and may lead to something in future after all (you know the slow and steady money earners).

Do you just orphan those and focus all your energy on the winning project (allocating more and more time in marketing and development of the winner)?

what if you have another idea that you think is brilliant/easy to launch? do you just stop making new sites afraid that your time and energy is better spent improving a product which may be on the cusp of being the next big thing? (though you never know for sure!)

anyone want to share their thoughts on this?
What you do defines who you are and who you are simultaneously effects what you do. They are one in the same thing.
An observation based on mentions of "low quality" in Amit Singhal's blog post at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-guid... -- you mention that you have no-indexed thin content pages, but is it possible that if Google sees that the volume of "noindex" pages is high compared to the overall volume of pages on the site, that Google still views your site as overall of "low-quality" (relative to the other sites it indexes for the same keywords)?

Rather than noindex pages, I am thinking using robots.txt to prevent access to these pages might be better -- Google can't perhaps then tell what to make of these pages you've hidden via robots.txt. Just thinking...not really an expert on this.
I notice it every time I'm linked to a news story that's only in a video format. I'm literate, thanks, I don't need an announcer slowly explaining things to me.
Not to commit thought-crime, but why is this anyone's priority in Washington?
I managed six correct out of seven with mostly a heuristic of: if it looks "bad" (e.g. "childlike", "messy" or "plain") it's probably expensive.

The one I got wrong was the lemon/quince one which I found too close to call.

How did other people fare and on what basis did you make your choices?
Potential inability to understand or communicate with them in a (perceived) kill or be killed situation.
It's amazing how much awesome tech can be traced directly back to Xerox PARC.
I don't understand. The $49 price point has been achieved under govt subsidy. How is that a technology innovation? They can subsidize it down to any price they want. Wasn't the deal to actually develop a tablet which costs $35 to build/sale?
If all of the employees at 22 locations save 5 minutes a day on password entry that's really not required from a security standpoint (not to mention training time for new employees) then your customer will use your program to make a substantial amount of money.
"Yes, if someone is taking works from others without permission and posting it on a website where they make a profit, they should be fined and possibly jailed if they are repeat offenders."

What was wrong with this being a civil matter? We have ways of providing redress that aren't "sticking someone in jail", which is just fantastically expensive in a number of ways.

"Common sense will prevail in the end"

Evidence?
Fair enough - I'll call it a failure of imagination for me, then. I saw a DSL that had a BDD syntax for javascript, and thought it was meant to be some form of testing tool. We all have our cognitive blinders :)
The two factors I see is, can you use the changes as a feature to other customers. If so, I personally would consider doing it at a discounted rate. If it is a total one off then I personally would charge time and materials at the prevailing rate for a freelancer. If he wants a lump sum amount well then you need to master the art of figuring out the maximum amount you can charge for something.
OK, how would you choose to rewrite the law, in order to only target the things that the law is actually trying to target?

Many arguments about intellectual property get confusing, because the folks making arguments like "this law is aimed at targeting X but theoretically could be used to target Y and hence will result in the entire population being locked up" are folks who don't actually think X should be illegal either.

In this case the real targets are the folks who are quite deliberately making websites that serve copyrighted material for profit. We all know that these exist -- just type "watch [your favourite tv show] online" and about a dozen of 'em will pop up. If we assume that we want to make this illegal (I know I sure as hell wouldn't want somebody else making money off my intellectual property without my permission) then how can we rewrite this law to do that, while protecting the theoretical case where the camera accidentally pans past a television while recording a cat?
I think that makes a lot of sense and worth a shot. Might be worth removing (many) more pages until your rankings come back to see as a test.
They don't care because they haven't heard the other side of the story, nobody's employing lobbyists to defend medium-time bloggers.

Moreover, many senators and congressmen, especially Cornyn, have determined that "capitalism" means "support entrenched business interests through favorable legislation" rather than all that hooplah about competition we learned in school.
I wonder what would happen if you no-followed, no-indexed all of the non content rich pages. Good thing is that you don't have anything to lose :)
Also don't forget to consider the time you will spend supporting it once its installed and put that into the contract. I'm here to tell you, if its not in there very clearly, your customer will forcefully assume free support forever.
Not to commit thought-crime

This kind of rhetoric doesn't really advance the discussion.
the first step it must to make is to step out of the "i'm the top of the God's creation" closet

I want to give you 100 of my own karma points. I just do not know where this believe that we are better comes from. [This is totally hypocritical coming from me since I eat meat. Nevertheless]
Because that's what passes for hard hitting journalistic research these days.
What makes an iframe inelegant? It seems like the correct way to handle advertisements or other third-party content.
Sort of off-topic, but can someone explain the theoretical basis behind class action lawsuits, as applied to this instance? The article says "The Netflix lawsuit was filed on behalf of the 36 million Americans that are either deaf or hard of hearing." Is that just a turn of phrase, or can someone really file a lawsuit on your behalf without your consent? (I'm assuming they didn't contact all these people for permission ahead of time). Is there some central registry of which Americans are deaf/hard of hearing? Will they be paid out from the proceeds if NAD wins?
I was a Comparative Literature major specifically because it allowed me to take the broadest range of courses. I studied everything from critical theory to linguistics (which led me to a ling minor) to art history to epic oral poetic tradition.

I would have loved to have taken more than the intro CS courses, but they were restricted to majors only. Same with many journalism courses, art/photography courses, etc.

I think it's really unfortunate considering many emerging fields consist, as TFA suggests, in the intersections of current fields. HCI, for example, isn't just about engineering. It certainly looks as the the future of journalism is going to be as much about data manipulation as it is about traditional journalistic methods.
Depends on the contract the IC signs with AOL. However, unless the copyright to the work(s) is specifically assigned, it remains with the creator. My guess is that AOL has this covered however.
The clock is also geographically remote (by design). You have to drive hours to get there and then hike a little ways. This should dissuade casual vandals. The long approach was also designed to dissuade casual visitors, making a clock visit something like a pilgrimage.
I guess PG simply didn't want to be bothered with questions regarding his competitors.

I agree with your sentiment. Boulder seems more attractive than the Bay Area, and I'm rather young.
What does "long enough" mean, in that context? I think it's fair to assume that they don't have a cultural heritage, as we do, and thus no perception of time before they were born.

I agree with you, however, that communication is definitely two-way. Anyone with a dog knows that.
Compared to MyISAM? Sure for certain aggregate functions, but it's too easy to point out reasons for avoiding MyISAM: fragmentation, no transactions, table locks on writes, complete table rewrites to change columns or indexes, only scales up to about 8 cores.

Compared to InnoDB? You are incorrect, Postgres is faster, even for a raw count(*), even when comparing against the InnoDB plugin and not the ancient InnoDB builtin.

I have access to tuned TB+ DBs of both types and am happy to disprove any specific examples you can provide.
"Common sense will prevail in the end although some battles will have to be fought out in courts to set precedents"

seriously? first, there's certainly no evidence that common sense will prevail. second, why on earth would you want costly and lengthy legal battles (including very real consequences for whoever is at the center of them) to find common sense when you could write it into law in the first place??
can someone really file a lawsuit on your behalf without your consent?

Apparently so.

Is there some central registry of which Americans are deaf/hard of hearing?

I doubt it.

Will they be paid out from the proceeds if NAD wins?

If they win, then there'll be an ad in the paper (hopefully not on the radio) inviting anyone who is deaf to fill out a form in order to claim their share of the winnings (after a very substantial fee to the lawyers). It'll be a few dollars. Hardly anyone will bother to write in, and lawyers will collect the rest.

Everybody wins! And by "everybody" I mean the lawyers.
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I am totally into this idea and I'm looking right now (experienced javascript, python, java + MBA). If anyone is serious about doing this, let me know. I can code and raise cash.
Only if we operate under the assumption that lulzsec is a group of younger people and not older guy(s) also trying to sound 'hip.'
They can't, however, without removing much of the security mechanisms in iOS. Excepting the possibility that they could move WebKit (and Nitro) to a separate process, allowing App Store apps to use Nitro would completely disable their (generally effective) codesigning and W^X protection.
Why is this text the first one from Anonymous et al. that doesn't move me, at all? They sound odd, using a “we” to include all ‘digital natives’ while I never heard anyone under 25 use “we” before; they mention (two girlfriend's) faces on MSN, but I never heard of a webcam on MSN; I never heard of anyone actually enjoying a show call it “we want our shot of entertainment”.
You could just look out the window.
I have been using this all afternoon. Thank you.
The irony of Greenspan worrying about Federal debt when he was pushing to NOT pay it off a decade ago -- tax cuts solved that.

And setting interest rates below inflation really killed off the idea of anybody saving money (cash) in the bank only to watch it evaporate. Cursed Fed. Printing money like mad does help generate inflation, though, which helps keep labor costs (our pay) down by effectively handing workers a little pay cut every year.
While I doubt this would actually explain pi to anyone who didn't already understand it, it is nonetheless kinda neat.
As someone who runs a application design and development business I have yet to receive or sign a contract that doesn't explicitly state the final disposition for the rights to the resulting IP. I would find it hard to believe that there's a publishing outlet that doesn't do the same in their contractor agreements, particularly with writers.
As it is almost half of congressmen (43%) register as lobbyists after leaving government.
And of course if you wrote a program to move the read-write arm in certain ways you could make it walk around the room. Or block the door, requiring that a hole be cut in the wall to get back in there.

An old professor of mine described these as like a `washing machine in heat'.
I imagine ex-bureaucrats are useful to hire because of all the connections they made while in office. If there are term limits and the churn rate is high, that doesn't leave much time to build those connections while in office, or to keep them after they've left.
Getting the machines to DDOS everyone took a while.
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I was taught in journalism school to mention the subject's age when possible. It doesn't take a lot of space and can be valuable information in some cases.
I think it's off base to blame someone that has meager personnel running such a highly trafficked site, especially since Conde Nast is/was reluctant to hire more. Read his blogs on his dedication to putting out fires. He didn't get enough resources to manage the complexity. I think most of HN's readers would hire him in a heartbeat, if they only got the chance.

This is the reason that you're getting downvoted, not because people think it's stable.
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This is news to me. Perhaps the author of the post has gotten some basic facts wrong?
What attack have they performed that wasn't from an OWASP manual? Not counting using a botnet.
There's already a revolving door between K-street and Congress, so hugh3's point is valid. Yours is too, I guess.

I think some setup that turns politician into a job that you do in between real jobs instead of a career in itself would be ideal, I just don't have any ideas that would necessarily work. Term limits do work with Presidents and seem to help with Mayors in a lot of cities (if you think city machines are bad now, non-term-limited mayors would make them worse).
Seems like a simple matter of signal to noise ratio to me. That single comment by itself does no real harm, but if it's not discouraged, the practice will proliferate.

The situations you cite do not include the potential for noise overwhelming the signal, so they are not analogous.

I know that a downvote can seem like a judgment on the person, but it's more a judgment on the action, and it can be instructive if taken that way.

[Edit: Not that I've been here that long, but that's how I understand the phenomenon.]
I don't believe even a bare preponderance of people want society to be in such a shape that government provides no protection to companies who wish to protect their rights.

This is not to say that the government ought to serve as business's proxy in all cases.
iOS devices that come with the VoiceOver screen reader are changing the lives of visually impaired people who were formerly limited to bulky and/or very expensive devices with a limited selection of apps for mobile use. Nowadays, any iPhone or iPad sold in stores works out of the box to do everything from making phone calls to email, browsing, gps, games, productivity apps, facebook, and more spoken in dozens of languages, displayed with different zoom levels and higher contrast, and even in conjunction with bluetooth braille displays.

I also remember back when Apple introduced easy to use videochat in iChat with the iSight in ~2003 and again with FaceTime in iOS devices, and my deaf/hard of hearing friends thought this was an awesome alternative way to communicate.

They are cool to develop for, and I feel incredibly lucky to be working on an iPad app for visually impaired people right now and to help said people learn how to use the screenreader. It's amazing how I've watched some people go from technophobia caused by progressive vision loss to being inseparable from their newly purchased iPad/iPhone and doing more than they ever learned to do on traditional computers.

The Apple Accessibility team is made up of incredibly cool people that always seem to be open to suggestions to better improve their products. Your friend should shoot them an email at accessibility@apple.com instead of just grumbling about how iOS devices are out of his reach. I remember a lot of blind folks I knew that grumbled a lot when the iPhone first came out, because they thought an all-touch interface meant that the device was doomed for use for the blind. That turned out to be very, very wrong. You never know what they might have in mind, and maybe your friend has some cool ideas to pass on.
So, am I allowed to sue Netflix if I can't afford to be a subscriber? What if I only like a genre of movies that isn't available on Netflix? I understand the need to have subtitles and in an ideal world, everything would come with them, but this seems a bit too much.
The deaf community has been nothing short of begging Netflix to add captions for over 5 years now, and have essentially been ignored the entire time. The usual excuse was that it was technically impossible to add the captions (bs, really).

In the last year or so they've made slight motions towards implementing ~some~ captions, but have done a very bad job of it. Most shows would just have random episodes captioned. So you start a new show, then a few episodes into the season realize you couldn't keep watching them in order because the next few episodes were uncaptioned. To say that this is frustrating, especially for an arc based show like Lost (which was their flagship example of "we are captioning for you!" for the longest time) is an understatement.

This lawsuit is essentially the deaf community having reached a boiling point. These were patient people who tried for the longest time to get Netflix to act like a decent company, and it just didn't happen. It's rather sad that without this lawsuit, they probably never would.
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Lockers of your own music are completely orthogonal to what Spotify is great at: social music.

I have lots of shared playlists with friends, and when one adds a song to a playlist we all instantly get it. It's like live, endless mixtapes, and transforms discovering and sharing music.

Spotify may need to market this more, but cloud storage and iTunes match don't come close to its killer app.
It could help someone who's just learning about pi to grok it more easily.
The issue is that the agreement may not be valid because of the business relationship between the two entities.

A "work made for hire" is anything an employee makes in the scope of his or her employment OR as a contractor "...a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire."

If he was treated by AOL as a contractor, but was determined by the IRS to be an employee, he would be entitled to a refund for the excessive taxes he paid as a contractor and AOL would then be liable for those taxes. However, he would lose all IP rights to the content (because he was an employee).

However, if he were an employee, and the IRS determined he was a contractor, and there was no written "work made for hire" agreement (because the company assumed he was an employee and a signed agreement was unnecessary), he would retain all rights to his works.

In his specific case, if is is determined by the IRS to be a contractor, the agreement he signed would have to be specifically for a "work made for hire" and his works were "...specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas."

I'm not sure if writing search engine spam constitutes any of those.
How about some animations relating that to calculation of pi via assorted algorithms? esp. the "pick a digit" one?
Based on the majority (since the title is going for "everybody") of people who drop into #mysql on any given day to ask about slow queries, I'd argue that the majority of people who thinks MySQL joins are slow still don't have proper indexes and are still using their un-tuned, distro-provided my.cnf
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What should be impressive at this point is that we're still not past SQL injections and XSS. Or URL tweaking. In banking. (Good God!...)
LOL https://dnssec.imperialviolet.org/ is self-signed
This guy lost me when he said, "I know it sounds pretty faggy".

Not really interested in someone who's supposedly lecturing LulzSec from a position of vastly greater maturity and life experience, but still hasn't outgrown 12-year-old homophobe-speak. At all.
That seems like a really terrible reason to exclude it due to a really terrible formula (the Dow is calculated only by share price without reference to how much of the company each share represents? Well, at least the Dow knows how to fix any falls in the index - just include Berkshire Hathaway. -_-).
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Anyone else notice that the slug in the URL doesn't contain the word "finally?" I guess the original headline wasn't snarky or sexy enough.
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