skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Take any circle made with a piece of string and declare it to be your reference unit circle.

Blammo! Its diameter is 1 and its length is now pi ;).
So basically I need to program everything twice in order to do anything? And changing anything means going to three different places in the program?

No thanks.
So if i make a $2500 profit from accidentally embedding a copyrighted youtube video on my blog, the government (taxpayers) will need to pay $150,000 to jail me for 5 years. Seems logical.
He may be making extreme claims, but his accomplishments are truly amazing. This video is about one of his future plans; ignore the claims if you want, but listen what he is working on and why.
I doubt SSE2 would help much, at most 2x on arithmetic performance. Much time is spent fiddling with arrays, and the newer version of firefox the better that performance is. In addition there are many optimizations to do.

A Pentium 1 can decode MP3s in assembly, so in Javascript we probably need a few times more power, but not insanely much more.
This really doesn't solve the DDOS problem though. It's throwing more CPU time and bandwidth at a scenario that already requires both of those. It can slow a small group of script kiddies making a thousand requests to your server per second, but it doesn't stop an actual distributed attack using a botnet or large numbers of machines.

If you're adding the signatures, you presumably need to spend CPU time to authenticate it, and bandwidth to send the data, plus the actual content. Why not just have the middle-man soak up the extra requests, cache the data, and fan it out that way?
Seems like such a bad idea and ICANN seems to be far more motivated by revenue than they should be.

The ICANN CEO is getting around $1 million/year in compensation.

I bet there is a line of smart internet people willing to run ICANN who are far more altruistic.
It's a good problem to have. :)

Having multiple projects that pick up and start competing for your time is much better than the more likely outcome that none of them takes off.

If you start to have too many successful websites that you feel overwhelmed, feel free to give a couple to me.

(I'm only partly joking here. You could use a service like Flippa.com to sell your websites if you start feeling like you're not the best person to be maintaining them.)
I can see this as a useful tool in prototyping. You can create these short DSL phrases to describe the behaviour you want, then implement as much as you need.

The other benefit is the documentation (in DSL form) you get. It's always nice to have concise descriptions of your application's behaviour.
Side note: Lady Gaga is pantless everywhere. So, a good and safe choice of words.
Whatever happened to stability analysis?
Funny you say that, 'cause people tell me the same thing about startups.

But as Bezos once said: "You don't choose your passions. Your passions choose you."
"He was employee number one and I think the last remaining link to the founding team"
During normal times you'd be correct. But bear in mind that inflation is (or was) near 0% during the recession. A certain amount of inflation is necessary for the economy and is much less scary than getting stuck in a deflationary cycle like what we saw during the Great Depression.
they could simply use a glyph to indicate that this letter and the next are to be joined. not the prettiest, but eminently usable.
The important distinction is that being poor or disliking Lost are not considered disabilities per the Americans with Disabilities Act. That law attempts to guarantee that anyone who is disabled has equal access to, among other things, the entertainment available to those without.

I think your point is that it is a somewhat arbitrary to grant this group of people this right of equal access compared to the two other groups you mentioned, which certainly has some merit. But, that's the law, and Netflix should have to follow it the same way the entire television industry does.
Society, school, parents, teachers and also friends.
"The hard drive pictured weighed over 1 ton, and was capable of storing 5 Mb or data."

Considering that personal computers in the early 80's often sported a whopping 4k of RAM, 5 Mb in 1956 was quite a respectable amount of storage.

I'm frankly surprised they managed to get 5 Mb on any type of media back in 1956. It's a wonder they had enough data to fill it.
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Another diagram that gets the number for pi wrong: http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=452917
> There's nothing unique to AOL here.

Except perhaps the scale.
Hopefully this implodes the absurdity that is .com squatting.
Nice slides! Thanks for spreading the word about Rails at HEC ;-)
Stream (at least one movie) on the Netflix iPad app gave me captions. I was really shocked to see it but pleased.

I think it was "Sabah" if anyone is checking.
On what parameters? Both have hundreds of languages, ethnic groups and religions. Both are huge and somewhat federated.

OP was saying that democracy doesn't stand a chance in highly populated countries. According to the Democracy Index [1], it's working better in India than in 15 European countries.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_index
Anyone seeking an intelligent speculation of how such clocks might work in human society should read Stephenson's "Anathem". Outstanding, if challenging stuff.
FYI: If you think everyone on the west coast is an asshole you'll probably not be very productive living here and doing YC.
That's a good idea. I think some of the graphs are still on the depo (in experiments/node/ or something).
It would be hilarious but I'm not so sure it would work that well. I think one of the big reasons the scigen papers passed for real was because a lot of people will assume that if they can't understand a paper, it's just gone over their heads. There's enough real jargon in them to reinforce that assumption. Entertainment news is a lot more accessible so it would be pretty obvious.
Interesting. I wish this article went into some of the history with Netflix and ADA compliance for people who know nothing about their past (like myself). Thanks for that insight.
That would have potentially have been a valid point to bring up in 1990 when George H. W. Bush signed the ADA into federal law, but it's not appropriate anymore that it's the law of the land. Should businesses be allowed to ignore physical mobility impairments, and not install ramps?
No it's not just you. It just seems the majority of the people have lost sight of the fact that Freedom is not free.
Let's face it, AMD, nVidia and Intel have >99% of the PC GPU market, and 100% of the Mac market. The drivers only change from one chip generation to the next, and the Mac has had chips from all recent generations from all 3 manufacturers. The total number of drivers is therefore identical. I really don't think there's much in it. See also: Silverlight's XNA.
What happens at 4am?
They are a bit cheesy in visual style, but these videos http://www.ada.gov/videogallery.htm communicate a lot of great information about what is required by the federal Americans with Disabilities act, signed by George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Morally? Isn't privacy important to you? Leaving the moral judgement up to what the intruder does with the data he finds seems a bit delayed to me. He is immoral from the get-go, by trespassing in the personal property of others. It does not matter if I forget to lock my door. People often do. It does not make it OK to open my door.

You probably have this opinion because you think it's the cool way to think, that these 'hackers' have a great function in society, but lets shift the analogy: do you think your government should be able to do the same? If there was a story about the US government doing this stuff, HN would go insane with tirades about how the government is out to get us.

But no, not if it's lulzsec, not if it's some cracker kid. It's the romantic fantasy of the teenage computer hacker, rebelling against the world and saving the day... I mean posting your nudes on facebook. Everyone here emphasizes with it so much that they're blind to the reality that it's just wrong to invade the privacy of others, under any circumstance.

The only exception I could think of would be to invade the privacy of an oppressive government.
Not what it said when I commented ;-)
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An animation is worth a thousand incantations.
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Not just local papers.

I worked for The (London) Times on a student scholarship back in the mid-90s.

I heard editors telling senior journalists to lie about anti-government movements, and asked to phone up a sister 'paper and lie about calling from another news organisation to find out whether a story was going to be run that weekend.

They offered me a job, but I turned it down. I'd had enough being a machine to generate words at university. I then had to chase them up for payment for my three weeks' work. A measly 150GBP (total) and they tried to screw me out of that.

Ironically I ended up working for Rupert Murdoch in IT again (in a completely separate non-media company - not MySpace) for 10 more years.
That is disturbingly brilliant.
In the first bubble, there was a lot of enthusiasm for digital strategies generally. There was also a lot more acquisition interest in tech start-ups by non-technology companies which saw the potential for disruption of their industries. So if a team managed to bootstrap a company that covered its costs and earned revenue they could easily engineer a sale or take investment and de-risk.

I don't think that is the case these days, when the reality is that most entrepreneurs are working inexpensively for themselves and headed for failure. A few are growing businesses organically and slowly displacing rather than being acquired by their competition. If the tech economy were even close to a bubble, entrepreneurs would be de-risking much sooner.
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The statement you're trying to refute remains true. There's no application on the Mac that has an implementation of Operational Transformations (OT) nearly as powerful as the Google Docs / Google Wave OT.

SubEthaEdit (while incredibly impressive and producer of a big technical feat at the time), is a _plain text_ collaborative editor.

Similarly, but higher up the scale, is Etherpad, which has the concepts of annotations for rich text.

On Google Docs and Google Wave, I can collaborate on rich text of arbitrary markup. For example, I can import any Word document and collaborate on it in real time. This is not a huge challenge from just the convergence / intention preservation algorithms perspective, but because they run on a browser. Wave went to the extent of normalizing the HTML representation of the `contenteditable` divs across all browsers to enable converging document results. Google Docs ditched `contenteditable` and rewrote an editor on top of plain HTML, with range selection logic and caret simulation built from scratch.

The fact that software like iWork Pages / MS Word[1] don't offer similar functionality (even with native, hand-made rendering engines and no browser support challenges) in 2011 speaks of Google's clear superiority in the office suite cloud offerings, which is the point the original article was trying to make.

[1] There's a plugin for Word http://www.codoxware.com/ that enables OT written by one of the most well-known OT researchers, who spoke at Google in '08 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zqbXUQIHc)
Heh :) I've also noticed that many of these "conspiracies" are based on an expectation that A) just because Apple hasn't done something right away, they're never going to do it, and B) if Apple files a patent for something, they're absolutely going to do it.

See also: Stories regarding Apple disabling camera at concerts, etc.
What has your experience been with application search?
This is why there are devices that help caption public performances like the opera and scheduled sign language interpreters.

The Boston Opera provides a great specific example.
http://www.bostonoperahouseonline.com/Accessibility.htm

It's not an overly broad requirement it's an appropriately just one.
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:( Those poor old regular words. RIP.
What's the stdev for that time period? Are you sure it's not just a few outliers pulling down the average?
Not just local papers.

I worked for The (London) Times on a student scholarship back in the mid-90s.

I heard editors telling senior journalists to lie about anti-government movements, and asked to phone up a sister 'paper and lie about calling from another news organisation to find out whether a story was going to be run that weekend.

They offered me a job, but I turned it down. I'd had enough being a machine to generate words at university. I then had to chase them up for payment for my three weeks' work. A measly 150GBP (total) and they tried to screw me out of that.

Ironically I ended up working for Rupert Murdoch in IT again (in a completely separate non-media company - not MySpace) for 10 more years.

I have to say I read this article and thought: isn't this what journos are paid to do?
It seems like captions are something that could so easily be crowd sourced.

How many times does each video on Netflix get watched? More than 1000? If just 1/1000 watchers is willing to transcribe the video, it's done. Hell, even starting bootstrapping the initial transcription with a speech recognition system would probably go a pretty long way.

You just need some clean UI and an easy way to have Wikipedia style edit logs/discussion pages.
Pays for stales and I got double paid!!
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Apple's market cap is 300 billion. Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble are both at 180 billion. Pfizer is 160 billion and Pepsi is 110 billion. So why exactly is Apple a silly example?
Would be nice, but for-profit entities would love to claim .free.

beer.free, shoes.free, porn.free...
It seems like this is a war whose outcome rest solely in the minds of the readers.
And, code listings that are not printed out are not backed up. Lets see you accidentally delete toner from paper.
> The DNSSEC stapled data is embedded in an X.509 certificate (as opposed to extending TLS or using a different certificate format) because every HTTPS server will take an X.509 certificate as an opaque blob and it Just Works. All the other possiblilies introduce significant barriers to adoption.

It's not in the CERT record. The DNSSEC signature chain is carried in the SSL cert.
In principle, I agree with you. On the other hand, what is the difference between "We don't want to offer captions" and "We don't want to build wheelchair ramps"? How about "We don't want to serve or hire [ethnicity]"?
When are the internet tough guys of the world going to tighten up their prose? This third-rate Patrick Bateman routine is so fucking old at this point. There is no easier way to mark yourself as a barely socialized child barely capable of any critical thought than to try out that ridiculous, outdated, unconvincing pose at being this cynical, wise, best-informed übermensch above all morals. It's not a good look.
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What are those crazy characters under your comment?
Acct created 3 min ago, totally not spam.
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I imagine all the conspiracy theorists will now go "oh, okay then", like the birthers did.
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Any wall can be broken, but it doesnt mean that anyone who breaks a wall is a hero. What wonders me more why did China infiltrate the group ?
talk about missing the boat.
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Spam because a user was happy with it? Happy enough to go to some new forum and proclaim it? I don't understand. Or was your sarcasm not sarcasm?
I take a slightly less pessimistic view. Its an economic process that is in the process of balancing itself.

There are a lot of people who only want "free" information (which is to say free news, free reviews, free self help advice, etc) and of course providing information is not 'free' as it costs real dollars to host it, to maintain it, to fix it up after the web site gets hacked etc.

To enable it to stay 'free' people put advertisements on the page which the advertiser pays the costs of hosting the content.

That creates an incentive to monetize the difference between the cost of the content and the revenue from the ads. Given the incentive all sorts of suppliers have arisen, from domain squatters at the low end, to businesses like Demand Media and AOL apparently.

If you look at content creation you will see that this is creating 'content' at an unsustainable rate. At some point, a small population at first, and then growing larger, of people will say "I'll pay you for information that is 'better' rather than pay the cost of wading through the free crap to get to the good stuff."

When that switch reaches a large enough number of readers, I believe it will 'spontaneously' create the actual market for purely digital information sources. The blend of subscriber revenue and modest ad revenue will create a better reader experience and quality companies will emerge to take advantage of that.
did any body start to lose respect for this guys about half way through the article?

I suppose we all need money, but there is a limit, by god, there is a limit.
US problems have nothing to do with Greece. What an absurd scapegoat from Greenspan, the incompetent loser that got us into this mess.
Netflix doesn't seem to like to act unless they get in legal trouble. Such as their misrepresentation on how their customer DVD priority system works, the possibility of private information being leaked via the Netflix Prize & now this.

This should have been an important priority from the get-go. If the DVD or BR has subtitles, then there really isn't much reason the online streaming version shouldn't have this option. They gave numerous excuses on why they couldn't do it & they just kept giving out new ones. So now they have a lawsuit on their hands.

Truthfully, I don't think Netflix cares about the deaf people who use their service & those who complained they'd rather have them drop the service & get off their backs. I think they had their lawyers look over the law, feel it doesn't apply to them & they've put it on the back burner allotting very little resources to it because they truly don't care & were essentially waiting for the deaf community to put their money where their mouth is.
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We checked the raw data and it all clusters around $75 during that time period for some reason. Items on Fab.com range from $10 to $5000, with thousands of purchases captured in that data.
Transcription isn't the hold up for Netflix.

The issue for Netflix is either embedding the transcript directly into the video (open captions) where you can't turn them off, or dynamically displaying a text stream via your device software, as a layer over the video.
Some MySQL vs PG tests done by Domas (of Facebook & Wikipedia fame) show some interesting differences between MySQL and PG for an in-memory read only test. I don't think there are any 50x differences though.

http://dom.as/2010/11/08/random-poking/
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This is getting ridiculous. So it looks like eventually the internet will be colonized and taken over by the government soon enough. Where is our next frontier for freedom of speech, open data, and endless cat videos? The internet is supposed to be free and unhinged.
I suspect the squatting will just continue on the new TLDs.
On the consumer end - what needs to be done is a massive education campaign, kept reasonably simple. It was done in 2000-2003 for anti-virus and it (roughly) worked for the 80% or so of the Windows world that did what they were told (by the mainstream press).

The mainstream press has (so far) done a terrible job on password education. You see long lists of rules that nobody but a security professional or hacker would follow. It needs to be boiled down to something simple, like:

Use a password manager to assign unique, random 15 character passwords for all accounts, protecting them with a strong master password.

I put together a guide based on this concept here:

http://www.filterjoe.com/2011/04/14/passwords-guide-without-...

Unfortunately, this (and probably other) good password guide(s) get far less attention than the latest Sony exploit.
Here is the sentence that immediately precedes the quoted text: “It’s not just that many of the applications we use are actually intimately tied to the web (even Apple’s own products are able to make quick changes like the switch to iCloud services in iOS 4.3 thanks to markup being used in place of native code), it’s that the web provides something native applications cannot.”

Topolsky seems to claim that collaborative editing with native apps is categorically not possible. That seems like a very odd claim given the history of collaborative editing.

Maybe he wanted to say that currently no native collaborative rich text editors exist (which is true), but he certainly failed to express that.
"If you want a truly righteous hack..."

I was so hoping for a "you should score one of those Gibsons."
What? No volume snapshot first?
newfag, oldfag, moralfag; it's all just 4chan lingo. The author's just trying to sound hip, IMO.
Just an observation: people on HN who complain about being downvoted rarely see their comments get out of the "grey" zone.
I think companies will just register these and re-direct to their .com

More and more adverts as well are now carrying facebook URLs rather than traditional URLs, so it will be interesting to see how marketing departments respond to this and what they do.
As I mentioned below it does very much show psychopathic tendencies. These people clearly have no empathy for those they are harming. This includes far more than just the Sony executives that everyone hates (despite not knowing).

Online security is poor for the same reason airport security is. Good security would take enough time and money to make the whole thing economically unviable.
Wow. Techcrunch defended journalistic integrity, and i actually believe them. They're right, this is a problem, and it's being highlighted in the correct manner.

The other broader issue that has to be dealt with is that this is the face of the new media landscape. Where do you think journalists and writers have left to go in the collapse of the news media? PR flacks often times have journalism degrees, and the only people left paying for flacks are big corporates and their pr departments.
Excellent post scythe, I fully agree with you. The comparison of numbers between gthub and 4chan is a nice indicator that there are more than these sociopaths, When you have lulzsec waving their arms in front of the internet it's sometimes easy to forget they're are millions of great people producing software, for others, for the betterment of humanity.
I'm doing this with cookrn - we're trying to make this easier for people and we'd love your input!
The comment seemed like nothing more then thinly veiled boosterism and reminded me of hundreds of spam emails.

I rarely click on usernames of random people but I did for his and again the timing seemed suspicious. The odds that "he" found your article and created the account in the 2 min that your article was posted seemed low.

I'm willing to believe he's a legitimate user and just happy about it but the whole subject reeks of penny stock juicing.