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"Hadoop futures and enhancements"

http://www.dbms2.com/2011/07/10/hadoop-futures-and-enhanceme...

Monash Research / Hadoop news :

http://www.dbms2.com/category/products-and-vendors/hadoop-pr...
I think this is to score political brownie points, but it still an interesting idea. It comes in the wake of what has been a very eventful year in India against corruption[1] which included fasts by a prominent social activist to pass India's first ombudsman bill[2].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Indian_anti-corruption_mov...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lokpal_Bill
While the name seems like a poor choice given all of the previous technology like telegraphic exchanges, this research project looks interesting. Capable of transferring HD flash video through real-world firewalls in place in China, it looks like a promising alternative to proxy servers and Tor networks. Its reliance on the benevolence of a centralized ISP, however, is a pretty obvious weakness.
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There are many interesting aspects about the Japanese arena.

One of the most unforgiving is that users do not understand that their phones are connected to vast networks or that navigation system in their car is powered by a computer with memory, et cetera.

When I first moved to Japan I asked normal people on the street to tell me what they found interesting about their phones -- I was shocked to learn that many Japanese women and men told me that they believed the popular website Mixi was just a screen (画面) that displays when the press buttons! (In Japanese: ミクシーはあたしの携帯に入っている画面だよ！とよく言われた)

One of the other aspects of software vs. hardware is that hardware is relatively easier to debug than most software environments. You will find that easy to debug environments like consoles have many software developers. This is important because the Japanese are very risk-adverse. Making claims on others and keeping everyone/everything in check is a big part of life in Japan.

Finally, programming is considered more of an engineer's profession than a creative profession. Engineering is seen as directly applying nature's laws into practice and as such, the approach is one of: "if you want to say build a bridge then you may choose from these designs that we already know are best"

Programming in Japan follows this cookie-cutter model and although there are very bright, creative engineers and programmers in Japan, the schooling system is very rigid.
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It's always room for improvement on any service, but it's not really fair to complain that a service costing $10 a month is not suitable for critical classical listening on a stereo that cost $10.000.

Best step IMHO is to push more online music retailers to sell lossless files for critical listening or maybe Spotify could sell it, hopefully for more than $10 a month.
I think he makes the mistake of thinking the RDB-specific definition of those words is the absolutely definition, and that nobody else can use them if they aren't using them in exactly the same way.

You can't go into a new language and assume any words that appear to be the same are exactly the same. This applies to spoken language as well as computer languages. Only heartache lies down that road.
tl;dr: Yes they are indexed separately, and yes it's up to site owner to decide which content may be indexed for Google News -- via proper META tags and robots.txt.

There is an important difference in UI between Google Web Search and Google News: the Web Search presents a very short snippet of text and link, while Google News presents a bit more of the news content. Effectively, Web Search directs viewers straight to the original website, while News lets them just browse Google News, sending less traffic to the original website. [1]

Which means Google News may provide less ad revenue to original website -- probably the crux of the problem here.

To handle that, Google provides two different bots: one with user agent `Googlebot', the other with `Googlebot-News'. If a website wants its content only in Web Search, and not in News, it's supposed to return proper /robots.txt -- and that does the trick. Way quicker and cheaper than any lawsuit!

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-user-...

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[1] but hey, less is more! whoever makes it to the original site via Google News has clearly show elevated interest in the news piece, and thus should be worth more to ad providers.
Maybe in 50 years we can get probes up to 10% light speed.

200-250 years to reach the planet and then another 20 years for the signal to get back (if we can somehow make a signal strong enough).

So 300 years from now our great-great-grandchildren might know (that's 70 years longer than US history).

But we'd actually have to spend some of that war and terrorism industry money on NASA and private investment to accomplish that. Not sure the politicians would ever bother.
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Yeah, I guess the world needs ditch diggers too. Cannot let little things like life circumstances get in the way. Maybe we should require all programming tools to be $1,000, that would make sure we only get the best programmers.

I will bet some child who could have been a better programmer than you or I is out there and never will be because of cost, and I think that is a great loss to us all.
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The Park is mostly to blame here as they link directly to Google Maps despite the error.

Huh? Stateparks.com isn't the "official" site for the park, it's a 3rd-party aggregator of park information from states across the USA.

The official park website (http://www.njparksandforests.org/parks/round.html or http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/round.html) link to MapQuest to generate directions.
The essay was about doing a Porter's Five Forces analysis of the wireless industry, as the new 4G technologies enter the market. The WiMax question was just a "warm up" easy question, so that students that do not know what WiMax is can start learning about the concept, before doing the 5-forces analysis.

This was the reason that, initially, I did not bother penalizing the copy & paste behavior for these questions. But, unfortunately, this was just a signal of a deeper problem with the student. After going through unharmed in the first assignment, the student cheated again in the second, Excel-based assignment.
Yes, with a lot of vague, generic statements.

"Security measures have been built into the design and setup of our infrastructure." tells you absolutely nothing. Neither does "Disasters are never nice events and we hope they don’t happen. We also expect one will happen and have plans to recover when it does." (although it's not strictly a security issue either).
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"One interesting observation: Almost all cheating happened within groups with cultural ties. Koreans copy from Koreans. Indians from Indians. Greeks from Greeks. Jews from Jews. Chinese from Chinese."

Is he racist? How is he able to determine ethnicity and statistically link it to cheating?
These "micro jobs" are worth only $5. Next time, please crosscheck with http://jobreapr.com/
Most people can tune out things they're not interested in.

Vermont is a tourist trap and as such doesn't allow billboards. Should they allow them and just tell the leaf-peepers to enjoy the scenery around the billboards? Or is the presence of advertizement, willfully ignored or not, still intrusive?

We don't allow advertizement in schools (well, thats eroding, but anyway..), I'm willing to bet your workplace isn't covered in advertizement posters and have an intercom and/or tvs constantly blaring ads all day unless you work a particularity shitty, most likely retail, job. Why not? If you could just decide to tune out the ads once and never worry about it again, why not?

Advertizing is a necessary evil. You can just say that. You don't have to justify it as a practice you (or others) engage in beyond that. No, I don't think its _evil_ evil, I'm just using the phase, but what I don't understand is that you seem to be arguing for it beyond its role as a necessary evil. Why do you? Are you defending it as a practice you have diluted yourself into beveling is good for everyone so that you don't have to feel conflicted about engaging in it? Are you just talking the talk to make a practice you engage in (and yourself as a user) look better in the court of public opinion? Have you just swallowed the "if its profitable, it is therefore good in every metric" ideology hook, line and sinker? I really don't get where you're coming from.
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I can't decide whether I find things like this hilarious or disturbing. They could have fixed it with engineering, but they were either so uninformed or incompetent that they tried to fix it with a lawsuit.
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Nice, but it's not like that can't be done on other networks as well. G+ has everyone's attention, and that's a bonus, but it won't always be that way.
Did you see how terrible that MapQuest link is though? It just points you to the city, not the street address.
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Mono was collateral damage of Novell's purchase by Attachmate. Mono probably didn't rate a mention in the negotiation's around Novell's acquisition.

The idea of a safety net for projects like these is just an illusion. There's never a safety net. You've just got to take things as they come and have a backup plan.
I wonder if the person that was displaced from the list to make way for Mr Gilliam believes that the Internet is the devil
Anyone who disagrees isn't thinking? Please. I've been in interview loops for years at different companies. We discuss every candidate's demonstrated problem-solving and design abilities, and culture fit for the ones we don't rule out quickly. Nobody ever brings up the reputation of any school they went to. We just don't care at all. Allegedly somebody out there does, but I have yet to see it happen.
This could be a pain killer.
Are there a security and usablity problems with having to maintain an ever growing list of TLDs? Browsers need to know what the TLD in a URL is so that they know how to stop cross site cookies being created, as well as for lots of other reasons that affect useability[1]. If the TLD list gets too long could it slow down web browsers?

1. http://publicsuffix.org/learn/
Hadoop : 58 Meetup Groups worldwide

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So if I kill people and say "screw you" to anyone who tell me that this is wrong am I a hacker?

That is nihilism. If it is called a culture, there must be ethics. For instance, information-sharing is an important hacker ethic: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker-ethic.html
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Only the government can stop you from speaking (and competing), as the government is the only entity that has the right to initiate force. A company cannot censor you; it can deny you access to its property, which is the proper right of its owners. A company cannot force you not to speak if you so choose using your own means or the means of any other company that would like to work with you. It has no obligation to support you and give you the tools you need, just because you need them. Do not confuse economic power with political power.
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Its fine if people want to say that ML will take care of the "details" ...let them try to use ML right and they will see you need to spend a long time understanding how to do things right. Most of the time, you can't use linear regressions right out of the box, let alone SVM's.
If the employer is not interested in rewarding him (or even penalizing him) for doing something that not only is stressful but that takes tons of time away from his useful work, why should he?

Because it is the right and honorable thing to do in his position. If doing the right thing were always easy and profitable, we'd have no need for morals.

There are lots of situations where people are encouraged and rewarded for doing the wrong thing in their line of work.

There are state prosecutors whose compensation depends on how many criminals they successfully prosecute, so they take cases where the law is obviously unjust but they can win (when using their discretion to safeguard justice is supposed to be part of the job).

There are salesmen whose compensation depends entirely on how many units they are able to sell, so they lie to customers.

There are soldiers who are ordered to engage in immoral acts. It is an essential part of their duty to refuse those orders, but that decision certainly does not come without stress and cost.

I worked in defense contracting, and sometimes served as an engineering liason to various national defense organizations. There was occasionally immense social pressure on me to make our products look better than they were . . . but--and never mind that it would have been in my employer's interest--that would have been wrong.

I could go on. The point is this: in most circumstances in life, there are ways to make money or make life less stressful by doing the wrong thing. You can argue that that's the fault of the people at the top of the system -- they've set up the incentives wrong. I agree; having a just society literally means that the incentives point toward right behavior. But that is their problem, not yours. Your duty is to do the right thing, regardless of the circumstances.

Academia has a role in both teaching and certifying knowledge, and is paid by students for the certification, not by industry for its accuracy. There is certainly moral hazard in that, and it deserves a systemic fix. That is no excuse for succumbing to it, for throwing up one's hands, blaming the system, and unleashing remorseless cheaters on fellow faculty and society.
"to see that China's prominence in the world economy is directly tied America's prominence in the world economy."

What makes you think that?

For current Chinese trade the US is important, but not overwhelmingly so (http://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html). In the future -- China is building links with Africa, with South America, with basically everywhere in the world. Whatever happens to the US, China will be a superpower for the next few decades.
Who cares?

Personally, I think search engines beat DNS at its own game a long time ago. Maybe not for some of us but if you ever watch many others, they search and click (or QRcode scan). The URL bar is currently just some magical text to most people and might for that reason, completely go away in future browsers.

Besides, the best way to get people to a site is to get a link planted somewhere they already are. Post a tweet. Post to your Face+ profile. Pay for an ad. Get a well known blog to review something. All of these seem to be much more effective than caring about domains being hard to say or type.
Every problem in computer science can be solved with blaming the programming language.
Looks like he's trying to get his kids fleunt in Mandarin Chinese, so essentially he's betting on China.
If that's the case, then why haven't salaries increased proportionally?
It's more a by-product of the fact that the Kepler mission has produced so many planet candidates (with an estimated ~50% false positive rate) that it would require about 30 years of telescope time on the world's largest telescopes to actually confirm that the stars have planets.
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Should we be concerned that this is so pervasive, or that educators fail to realize deep essays written by one with a professed lack of domain knowledge?
I agree with your point (moreso than with the article itself), and I would add that growing up as a member of a "traditional" ethnic minority in a country also gives you extra perspectives (even besides the automatic learning of two languages).

This is far from obvious, many of my peers as I grew up saw it as a handicap or as a misfortune that they were supposed to learn two languages and cultures. I say, unless you are facing serious discrimination and as long as you have decent opportunities of practicing both languages, it is a great advantage.

Besides language, another thing I see as advantage is a natural skepticism towards nationalism and all sorts of "rallying" behind a flag (unless you find yourself locked into the mini-nationalism of your own group.) Growing up in minority you realize that countries are artificial constructs, not the most important in the greater scheme of things, that ethnic/linguistic identities are not nearly as absolute as they are made to seem, etc. etc.
I agree. It would seem that a corollary to the author's argument is that IP addresses should be just fine at the basis for navigation.
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Chrome's flag for sandboxing plugins dates back to before the code was open-sourced: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/commo... (search for "safe-plugins"). The reason it was never on by default for Flash is that you can't sandbox Flash without breaking Flash functionality. How did Firefox solve this problem?
The second one is just using uncommon unicode symbols. It looks pretty neat in the title bar.
If collaboration is bouncing ideas off each other, would you still give a penalty?
There's a huge difference between writing something targeted at a selected audience, in a given time period, limited range of topics the characters will discuss, etc. and listing out all of the vocabulary words you know personally across all domains of knowledge. Even though HP:MoR Harry has a broad vocabulary, for example, and may use some words not all readers will know, there are still tons of topics (with their own specialized vocabulary...) that will never come up in the written storyline -- even if Harry would know them well.

Harry also presumably does some practical limiting of his vocabulary in conversation, because only shared vocabulary is useful if you're trying to actually communicate and don't want to stop to give definitions all the time.

It might be more interesting to compare the unique word count of HP:MoR against some of the "real" Harry Potter books, if you can get your hands on the text.
I think the idea is that some of the new TLDs will be created as registrars who sell individual domains to third parties. So, for example, someone might register .camera and then try to sell .camera domains to other people and companies.

If, like .biz or others, .camera domains never catch on (i.e., if people who buy domains don't buy those specific domains), other potential TLD creators will be less likely to do so in the future.
Let's keep asking this same question and maybe someone will come up with a good answer.
Too many old people and the Chinese are not wealthy enough to sustain them as they age. Demographic collapse is all but inevitable in the 2020's.
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Ask HN: Ten step, hands-on Ruby programming course
I have absolutely no programming knowledge, and have been wanting to learn RoR to hack at a couple person projects.

There have been some threads on here on learning ruby for the non-programmer, but I haven't been able to get a lot out of them since they seem to require a basic understanding of programming which I don't have.

Wondering if the above appsumo deal would be useful for an absolutely beginner. Any tips would be helpful, thanks guys.
> I'd be moving my family to Brazil or Turkey.

I can see Brazil and heard others mention it as well. But why Turkey? Just curious.
Guess I should have included the link, sorry:

http://www.appsumo.com/huw-collingbourne-ruby-course/
Hi Panos, another NYU Stern student here.

All I have to say is THANK YOU. The sense of entitlement in Stern classes at the undergraduate level is ridiculous. I'm glad to see someone cracking down on cheating at my university. Even though I know how prevalent cheating at Stern is, it was still shocking to hear some of the numbers (1 in 5 being admitted cheaters).

I'd like to add that as a student who genuinely enjoys learning (in certain topics that I'm interested in, of course), those "creative" or "open ended" assignments that you mentioned are way more fun as a student than the typical stuff you get in an intro Info Tech class.

I took Info Tech last year with another professor and absolutely hated it. The professor was clearly "checked out" and working on other projects. It certainly does nothing to help the atmosphere of Stern (if you don't go to work at a big financial firm, you're worthless) if the IT intro class is so boring and bland (when there's so much interesting shit going on right now in IT!).

Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The new TLDs are a scam by the domain name registrars. If you are a company that owns trademarks, you have to defend them or lose them. That means buying the domain name - in every TLD - and now a whole TLD for a 6-figure sum! And what does it cost the registrar, a few bytes of storage? It's a license to print money, is the charitable way to look at it, I would say it's a protection racket.
> Shipping a standard cargo container from Asia to the US costs less than US$2.00

That's amazing, can you point me to a source for that?
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would you rather be taught by a hard-assed jerk who cracked down on the cheats, or a nice guy who turned a blind eye?

The guy who turns a blind eye will probably be an effective teacher to those willing and wanting to learn.

Removing a cheater from the class does not help them learn more effectively, nor does it help the non-cheaters learn more effectively.

Why waste on policing, what can be spent on teaching.

It is not like the cheaters, when confronted, realized they were losing all sorts of knowledge they could otherwise obtain.

Ethically, I have a bigger problem with a student submitting his creative works to be used in a private corporations database AND charge the student and school for the "service".

It is not only the cheating students that are undermining the credibility of the University and its degrees.

If you want to teach morality, once somebody gets to college age, it may be a bit late for reformation.
Still waiting for your alternative.

As for the bankruptcy situation, that's one of those cases where there is absolutely no loss for the start-up, after all, the people that found the start-up have nothing to gain once they go bankrupt, but users have everything to gain because if their data gets sold the buyer will be able to do just about anything he wants with the data if the conditions have not been created ahead of time in such a way that they survive the transition.

So, from the point of view of the start-up owner and the users that's a win-win, it may reduce the value of the assets during a bankruptcy liquidation but that's an acceptable trade-off in my opinion.
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It is inevitable that hardware development cost is much higher compared to software especially at chip-level, in which the fabrication cost is getting higher and higher as the process node shrinks. Even the EDA tools used to design and develop the chip already cost a bomb. So, it is not surprising that the electronics firms struggle to reach 5% profit margin...
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