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Public consultation on UK's Digital Economy Act was a sham
My comment is somewhat off-topic.

Google is also using Aspose[1] for their Google Docs' Documents. You can see it's Aspose.Words for Java, if you read the source of the documents you download from Google Docs.

I've checked only for RTF and DOC formats though.

[1]
http://www.aspose.com/
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> If Rails had been AGPL, every single webapp based on Rails would have to have its source code released.

Platforms are a special case, where it is usually desirable to distinguish between the platform itself and stuff on top of it. That's why we have the classpath exception for Java: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classpath_exception#The_classpa...
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Patents and copyrights are different things. The linked article is about copyrights, not patents.
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This is actually revolutionary, if it works properly. I had never considered the problem as an exploration vs exploitation issue, which it clearly is.

Imagine throwing a few alternatives at the problem, in any way you like, and having an algorithm select the best ones automatically and optimally, without you needing to hand-tune anything.

You wouldn't even need to select the best-performing variation, as the algorithm would converge to it in the end. You could also throw in new ones at any time to have tested, or have new ones produced automatically, e.g. in the context of new items in e-stores (we have these new featured items, select the best one to display on the front page).

I'm sure there's a catch, but I don't remember the algorithm very well (and, from what I remember, it looks like there isn't), and I don't have time to read the paper thoroughly now.
> I then traded the cat for the return of my keys.

Does that settle your obsession with the keys? The tweakers kept them.
They pee'd on the radiators before they left.
Soldiers and politicians. Did you expect works of science from them? Ones kill for a living, the other ones lie for a living. Definitely expected.
Hi, I'm getting a db connection error when trying to view the article so I'm not sure what it's all about yet.

I'm aware of your work with racket (read your paper from a few years ago about deploying the web server in a uni environment).

Is this something I can plug into a racket web app? If it is I'd be interested as I am building web apps with racket. I'm not in a position where I can actually deploy something yet but I'll want to build in statistics collection when I am a little closer.

Edit: OK, I read your article via the cached link another user posted. I'll have a look at your linked papers etc when I get a chance but it definitely looks interesting. Your post wasn't clear on what form this beta will take - is it a commercial venture to compete with optimizely et al or one of your open source projects I could require into my own app and deploy myself?
Looks like shit on Chromium.
Based on a very short look around I can't see this really being interesting att all.

However, here's an idea I would like. The same website, fully moderated to the point that answers are not community-contributed, but sought out by website staff. For examplee, "In one sentence, explain what's great about SF for tech companies" you might reach out for an answer from pg, and a couple of other similar people.

And doesn't have to be all tech, or even all well-known. For example one on there was "Explain why Justin Bieber is popular". The answer "because teenage girls exist" is entirely worthless, however perhaps there is someone in the music industry who could give an actual interesting thought, in one sentence, on that topic.
It actually used to happen more than it is now, the dynamic of HN is definitely changing though, more so due to the change in HN's demographics than anything else.

It used to be the case that an article with more than 100 upvotes was something really special, now half the articles on the front page have that many votes.

Articles have to be much more mainstream in order to have a chance on the front page. Hence the fact we have far more tabaloidy type articles like "Here’s How U.S. Spies Will Find You Through Your Pics", "Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story" and "Getting Bin Laden" on the front page.
Check out "Prediction Learning and Games" for a fairly recent introduction to the fundamental. See the work by Daniel Hsu, John Langford, and Jean-Yves Audibert (to name a few of the more prominent researchers) for interesting recent work. If you want more detail drop me a line.
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Going purely off of your boiled down description, this seems like a more advanced version of Genetify (https://github.com/gregdingle/genetify/wiki).

@noelwelsh - care to comment on now what you're doing at Untyped differs from what Genetify offers?
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"Why the down vote?"

Downvotes are used nowadays as a way to disagree with your standpoint or reasoning.
Have been pondering that myself with a very HOT start-up idea I'm working on. Thanks - gave me some clarity.
Funnily enough, according to wikipedia, Geronimo was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades.

I don't think his assassins had that in mind though.

Don't get me wrong BTW, I'm firmly one the 900 million muslims who are against the killing of innocents.
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No.

Even if she didn't "lawyer up", she wouldn't return to her home for feeling unsafe until everything is cleaned up and restored. Especially since she got friends and family to stay with. Especially since she's probably waiting to see how much AirBnB will reimburse her. And especially cause she's probably going to find a new place to live after all this and I wouldn't blame her. They defiled and shat on her home.

Now if she did "lawyer up", and her lawyer advised her to do pretty much the same thing, then it's all the same, right?

So what's your point? That she's exaggerating the condition she found her home in? Really?
H1B?
It's deleted now, but the comment I replied to asked "Why should I unsubscribe from something I opted in to receive when I can just mark it as spam?"
FFmpeg can also be compiled with an LGPL license so it can be linked in commercial products.

Also executing an external GPL library/binary from a commercial product (no direct linking) is not in direct contradiction with GPL terms (although it's a gray area where most companies would probably not want to go).
I like this idea, but I think you'd have a really hard time making money off of it. People won't be spending enough time on the site to extract enough value from their visit, and the moderators and contributors you talk about would need compensation for their work in making sure the content is spot on.

The fact that this is intentionally microcontent-based makes this both interesting as well as VERY hard to monetize.
The lesson here is to know at least a little bit about the market before you develop for it. The only people surprised here are the developers... and that screams of being green.

After working with musicians for years, I've watched firsthand as they wait anxiously for their albums to appear on what.cd. It's a compliment. It's the best thing you can have happen. Because just like in the app store, you don't make money from selling your product. You make money from the opportunities it provides for you. Sometimes that means ads or getting hired to work for someone else... it doesn't matter. If your product is how you plan to get rich, you must be blind to the market.
It was only 60%-70% accurate, but that is much better than 50/50 random guessing.

Everything like this (there's other attempts at the same thing, with similar results) is more than useless for most practical purposes. More so, it's a great example of machine learning used all too wrong.

You can blindly apply machine learning to almost any corpus and "predict" almost anything with 60% accuracy without gaining any real understanding of the corpus or the correlations you're trying to tease out. Often the only reason you can do better than guessing at all is because your corpus isn't perfectly unbiased itself. And with 60% accuracy, good luck using the results for anything!

This is doubly the case here, where they're actually just using word frequency, not a real analysis of sentence structure. It's the simplest, dumbest form of natural-language-based machine learning, and it shows. I've used the tool derived from their research and it's beyond useless: it classifies every single one of my posts wildly differently.

Because it's solely based on a few dozen words' frequencies, it's more affected by the topic than anything else. Topic might actually account for a large portion of the bias in their corpus. But if we start claiming topic to be a sort of "gender identification" system, all we've done is enforce stereotypes.
Also, I'm surprised this made it to the front page again. I didn't notice any changes since it was posted last month.
As much as I'd like to mention my own/better solution, this isn't the venue for job boards to say "come to my site." We spam enough sites with our links as it is.

"Ask HN: Who is Hiring" is for actual job posts. Plain and simple.
So does this mean that AT&T have changed the terms of the contract, and that anybody who wants to can exit the contract without retribution?
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> Traders want ...

Settlement on share trades is not real time, and no one cares from a liquidity perspective. Settlement risk is a different question.

Who is convinced that these traders actually need to exist?

The share market's function in the broader world is to link long term investors with those who need long term capital for investment in the productive economy. Trading beyond monthly seems superfluous to me.
VLC uses libavcodec from ffmpeg for many of its codecs.
How serious is the Java7 “Solr/Lucene” bug?
Pretty serious according to Lucene developer.
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That would have been Macromedia eating its own children, not Adobe.

Speaking of eating its own children, can anyone explain why Adobe still sells Premier AND AfterEffects? Why hasn't one eaten the other? Who needs two different video editing programs?

The only explanations I've heard from Adobe apologists and marketers is that one is a blah blah blah tool, and the other is a blee blee blee tool. But users need to both blah blah blah and blee blee blee blee, and there's no reason to switch between two different programs, or that one program can't both blah blah blah and blee blee blee.

I think the real reason is that Adobe makes more money with selling two different products instead of one.

Adobe should eat more of their children.
I doubt it, but it's worth investigating.
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I appreciate your serious and well thought out feedback. I truly intended this to be a "meh, go for it" website while I focus on building my startup http://barkles.com.

It has definitely attracted the 'crazy' ones who post random and pointless info, but that is what I was aiming for.

I can lock it down for login only, and do exactly what you suggest and it could actually become a great resource. However the full moderation that is needed will take me away from Barkles, which is not what was intended.

Great to see that people are using it anyway, and having a lot of fun with it.

Although, if you do have a look around you will see some great answers amongst the stupidity, which actually helps the people who posted that (everything links back to their websites).

Again, thanks for the well thought out feedback, really appreciated.

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Interestingly, the app store will still update pirated apps - purchasing them in the process (without warning). If it were my app I would release a few updates and see if snagged you any additional sales. Would make an interesting follow-up article.

P.S No doubt this is a deliberate move by Apple.
I think you can use ffmpeg to decode to a buffer (memory or disk as needed), and the re-encode from that buffer into various sizes/formats. don't think you actually need a different encoder/decoder to do that. I may be horribly wrong though :)
Does it exist a single long period during human evolution when people stand in place for 40 hours a week

What about period when people sat 40 hours a week at the desk? It didn't happen either.
MEncoder
I'm happy to let the HN-ers looking for jobs decide by upvoting/downvoting the link as they see fit.

I've been posting my link in the monthly thread for maybe 4-5 months and it's been regularly upvoted, hence I'm assuming the users of the thread have found it useful. Especially as many of the people here are looking for startup jobs in the UK and relatively few UK startups tend to post in this thread.

Note how my post had three people upvote it before you posted your comment.
I'd argue that ffmpeg belongs to the platform in a YouTube like usage scenario. Compare with ActiveRecord in Rails: Everything single thing your apps does depends heavily on it, yet, it's still just a piece of infrastructure.
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> She chose to be homeless.

>Any rational person would have changed the locks and moved on by now.

Wow. You're an idiot.

Another person that has apparently never have their house broken into and ransacked.

Add to that her home is in no state to live in.

Add to that the restorations can't start until first the police were done, and second AirBnb has stated how much they will reimburse.
We Live In An "And" World... It's Quantum Not Binary
> They just said if they could not unsubscribe in one or two clicks they'd mark it as spam, regardless if it was spam.

While I'm not limiting spam to this definition, spam is any email that cannot be unsubscribed to in one or two reasonable clicks. If I discover email I was getting is spam, I will mark it as spam.
I like the concept. Has the potential to be very addictive! Needs some moderation though, I see spams.
Well, Troy provided pictures but probably EJ's nearly-identical story must be false.

Right?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/02/verizon-quietly-...

http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/13/sprints-virgin-mobile-bra...

Verizon already started throttling for its top 5% of users and, as the article notes, T-Mobile similarly has started throttling. Sprint hasn't announced plans to throttle on their brand, but has announced that they're going to start testing throttling on their Virgin Mobile brand.

It's unfortunate, but not really unexpected given that two of AT&T's three main competitors already throttle (Verizon and T-Mobile) and the third competitor (Sprint) is testing the waters this fall with one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries (Virgin).
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Maybe some people falsely believe they are doing God's work when, in fact, they aren't.
I think H1B is okay, but I will double check. I'll post the definitive answer later today.
You're right, my comment was based more on a "I'd love to read this site" than "here's a good business plan". Who knows, maybe it would be possible to either extract enough revenue from it to at least compensate moderators, or perhaps just become an interesting enough place that clever people are willing to pitch in and help out for free.
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I'm not sure I entirely agree with this article.

Obviously having a well thought through idea of the "end game" in terms of monetisation / business model is a powerful thing, but given the tendency of start-ups to adapt and pivot, this can overly dominate thinking early on.

The simplest case studies are the ideas whose value is linked to the size of the community / user base. eBay were able to get round this by only charging the community once it was large enough (ie I imagine they already had the monetisation "end game" in mind) - but twitter, facebook? Not so much.
What the hell, HN? Downvoting people so you can be on top? Downvoting & upvoting needs to be disabled in these threads.
"But then I would just resort to using something like quilt to manage patches onto of SVN, which is ridiculous."

This is exactly the way Mercurial patch queues work:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqExtension
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I agree that that one is an interesting angle. I think the quantum-computing angle is unnecessary buzzword intrusion, though; most (all?) of the same difficulties can be posed with procedural-generation systems using classical computation.
Was your aim just to see how people respond, or are you hoping that in 3 months, a year's time it's being actively used? And, if the latter, still as a random "look what I made in a weekend" way, or a "woah, check out how much money this brings me"?
Another great point - monetization. It is not impossible to monetize this website via ad words etc, however for proper moderation you would definitely need real funding/cashflow.

I didn't clarify this anywhere, however I would like to now: I never intended to make money off this website - at all.

It is just a fun challenge and a problem I wanted to solve for myself: How can I find an explanation of something in only one sentence (currently, it's all over the internet and not in one central location). So 1Sentence was my quick attempt to fulfil this need.
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That looks like it uses genetic algorithms, which is much less optimal and more exploratory than bandit algorithms. What noelwelsh is proposing would lead to better results much more quickly and without random permutations of elements.