skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it might.

But presumably the authors wants to maximize revenue while conducting experiments. Pricing at the midway point would seem to be the lowest risk way of getting additional data.
You're that good and can't figure out how to read it? :-(
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I'd feel a bit weird pitching them an idea if it were in their wheelhouse. What IP protection would they give?
I'll stop using AdBlock and FlashBlock as soon as advertisers stop using animated GIFs or even flash with sound. Thank you very much.
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From 2004-2010 they had a search engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com#A9.com_Website
I'm fine with it, but only if they reveal the information to the rest of us. We should be able to trade on the same information. Very roughly based on the idea that government information is public domain. <harumph />
Actually it appears he's correct.
Holocaust denying? Really?
Mahout is a great platform, but the real challenge is defining your learning problems, preparing data sets and choosing right algorithms.

Once you are clear as to what you actually want to accomplish chances are you are going to need some kind of significantly modified or hybrid algorithm. Packages like Mahout could help get started, but it is kinda funny that even quite a few examples in this article do not demonstrate actually good algorithm performance, like this one -

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Which are good for low memory?
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I don't see a BOM or anything; maybe that will be released later.
Hi, thanks for the support I'll be in New Zealand for the next month but I'll be at RMIT uni next year and would love to meet for lunch then.

You can email me and I'll stay in touch.
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There is advertising on the Internet? I almost forgot.

Advertising got a really bad reputation with a lot of people, and they are unlikely to turn off their armor for anyone. If you are having a problem with the relatively small community who uses ad blocking software, you are paying the price for years of annoying animated gifs, flash, and ridiculous punch-the-monkey win ipod scams.

I whitelist a few sites I use regularly and that I'd like to "support", after an article on arstechnica awhile ago. But it's a short list.
FWIW, I think you guys did a pretty good job at the maps team (I think I remember your name from your responses on a bunch of issues on the boards?).
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"If you are a software engineer, stop fucking using AdBlock now. We ALL have at least one friend who works at Google, or Yelp, or Facebook, or somebody. Even if the company doesn't rely on advertising as a revenue source, I'm sure they use it as a source of getting new customers."

Commence fucking that static this instant, and do not stop until I put "pad Google's EBITDA" on my todo list somewhere above "have a less bullshit-laden experience on the Internet."

I mean honestly...making it convenient for marketers to monetize my web browsing is about the last thing on Earth for which I feel a shred of personal responsibility.
Yes, exactly caw - thanks. I view LinkedIn as one huge convention center, and the worst that can happen is people decline you connection request. If you present an honest and positive tone, people will be more receptive. Then it is possible to PM select connections to review your idea or beta, etc.
Interesting.

One way or another this is another example of "nobody cares more about your money than you." Google reps for intro clients aren't always the most versed - so double check everything.

$100 doesn't go that far in Adwords anyways. It's always good to start small and scale things up gradually, rather than blast it, run through your budget and be back at square one.

You might have had a bad experience, but I highly doubt Google is actively trying to screw small advertisers out of their free $100 credits by giving them bad advice.
I was planning to get an iPad. I thought Apple would update the iPad 2 for the holidays but they didn't. Then Amazon came out with announcement of the Kindle Fire. For less than the price of an iPad I can get 2 Kindle Fires and 1 Kindle Touch.

I pre-ordered a Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire is the Chromebook Google should have built. People aren't prepared to have absolutely everything on the cloud. People read while on the train or in a plane. There needs to be some local storage.

By utilizing Amazon's cloud infrastructure I'm guessing the Fire doesn't need a large amount of local storage or a large amount of RAM. Amazon is providing a top of the line user experience with less than top of the line hardware. This is my hope.

There is also Amazon's customer service. I bought my first Apple product in June (a Macbook Pro) and the two times I've had to talk to Apple's repair people about an issue they acted as if I'm an apostate. I've had nothing but amazing customer service from Amazon.

I think Bezos has a hit with the Fire. The only tablet that will compete with the Fire this holiday season is the iPad.
I've played with many different mockup applications (I've got a blog post about them I'm working on currently). I got started playing with them due to a free license I got from Peldi in return for blogging about it.

The short answer is that the tools are efficient. A good mockup tool bridges the gap between providing enough information that you can communicate ideas and being able to do so very quickly. PowerPoint doesn't communicate the ideas as well as other tools; and it is definitely slower than other tools.

Today, Balsamiq is still my tool of choice on my laptop. iMockups is my tool of choice on my iPad. One of the primary reasons is that I can export BMML files back to Balsamiq.
A couple of years ago, I remember Ars Technica ran an experiment for a day or so when they blocked end users who run Ad Blocker. (http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking...)

I recall it generated a lot of negative feedback, but at the same time, I'm surprised it hasn't been copied more widely: If you're the kind of person who's willing to use Ad Block on a site that's providing content financed solely by advertising, I would imagine you're also the kind of "customer" that at least some of those sites would prefer not to have.
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I control my own web experience, and until I don't, well...

I can't control highway advertising but boy would I love an ad free city.

I search for what I want, let the mindless sheep get 'served'
I'm pretty skeptical of alternative payment systems, but just because you need some dollars doesn't mean you have to do all business in dollars. Realistically any successful cyber-currency would have a transition period anyway.
This vaguely reminds me of record labels' arguments against filesharing. The answer to impacted profits isn't to fight trends in technology (easy music copying, easy ad blocking); the answer is to find another way to monetize. People will pay for good stuff. Just look at the dozens of well written OS X apps. You pay for TextMate. You pay for Stay. You pay for Apple products in general. Why? They're good. Good things cost money, and people know that.

I will continue to use AdBlock, and I will continue to entrepreneur.
I'm not patio11, but I have noticed something interesting about QR codes.

All of the interactions with my tech/geek/entrepreneur friends seem to intimate that they think QR codes are kind of a weird thing that will never catch on with normal people so they don't use it. However, I recently saw my mom get out her phone and take a picture of one. Then independently I saw two more of my non-technical friends do it. Interestingly enough, I think QR codes are one thing that, at least anecdotally, are in the process of "skipping" geeks and going straight into the mainstream.
This will probably offend some startup people here (who probably rely on advertisement to run their otherwise unprofitable websites), but advertisement is evil. How can you believe in the power of capitalism and the invisible hand and still think it's ok that people are all the time being led into buying stuff they do not need because marketers study specifically how to psychologically manipulate people into associating good emotions with material crap?

I'm not saying there aren't other factors involved, but do you really think the most popular brands are so due to merit? Don't you think the world would be different if not so many people would just stop consuming products from the very corporations they are protesting against?

This could be a very long rant, I just hope you can see where I'm going with this, that the really unethical thing to do is to allow advertisement to continue to exist.
That's sounds like a pretty cool idea. How far in development are you?
And a calorie is just a calorie, right? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15588283
I did read it; I'll add color to my reply and hope it makes more sense to you. Adwords auction favors the most aggressive marketers some who's successful strategies are considered scams by me and other folks (but maybe not by google for now). What aggressive marketers are doing that allows them to bid the highest price may not be against google's terms of service (or illegal), but those strategies maybe considered unethical by other marketers that then won't compete with the bids. That's why I said google's auction creates an incentive (favors) the most agressive marketers (with the most scammy strategies) to win. That's the logic.
Hey Paul, that's harsh. What gives?
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At 2:50 a patch of light seems to track the space station on the surface of the Earth. Is this light from the sun deflecting off the hull? If so, would this be visible (as a sudden flash of light) from the surface of the Earth?
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I am so saddened to see your post "grey" (downvoted below zero). There is simply NO WAY this article is not "contributing to the discussion" -- so you're getting downvotes because people don't agree with you.

Especially since you're pretty much spot-on correct. Maybe that's why the downvotes? People don't like to have their world view challenged.
Nice one Will.

I've written a couple of lists that might be a good starting point though the first is a bit out of date being from 2009:
http://www.mynameisned.com/awesome-melbourne-tech-startups
http://www.mynameisned.com/australian-innovative-startups-ke...

We do a bit of inhouse product development though I wouldn't call them startups just yet: http://talkbackapp.com, http://fanbomb.com + http://themepivot.com
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Not to mention the fact that the internal combustion engine, while it might not receive a lot of venture capital, probably has more money going into research and eyeballs on it than most other technologies. Between the various big motor R&D departments, F1 teams, and even backyard tinkering, there are probably not many more-studied problems.

A modern engine might only be about 20-30% efficient compared to it's theoretical output but most of the energy loss is not in the engine, it's in the aerodynamic drag. Second is probably driving outside of the optimal power band: exactly what hybrid technology addresses. This was a bad choice by the author to make an otherwise good point.
I was actually just starting to work on something that did the exact same thing. I felt guilty for taking time to build a system that was supposed to save me time. Thanks! Signed up, will surely use this.

Any plans for social features? I want to share my goals with the universe!
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The suggestion is treating the symptoms rather than the cause though.

If, instead of just putting fluoride in the water, there was a serious effort made to reduce the amount of refined sugars in our diets, there would be many more arguably beneficial effects other than just reducing tooth decay.

Similarly, instead of thinking about lithiated water, we should really try to treat some of the causes of suicide.
So why is it that so many of your HN comments have you shrewdly observing the world as seen from the vantage point of non-geeks?

A combination of bloody-minded contrarianism and having my monthly food budget be acutely dependent on my ability to successfully model the thought processes of 48 year old non-technical women.

QR codes

The US will learn what Japan has learned: QR codes are an inferior way to get people to visit a page compared to an interaction like "Google for 'Old Spice guy'", where 'Old Spice guy' is a keyword purposely chosen to uniquely refer to a page under your control.
This is a terrible hit to the team. I lost one of my co-founders at a very young age.. Brandt Cannici was his name, and we really never recovered from the loss. My condolences and best wishes to his family, friends, and the Diaspora team.
hahaha this is brilliant! At the moment that is probably the way it is - "We need to build the forest before putting the animals in." is how I would describe it.
I didn't spend a whole lot of time trying to tune it, but I used a few of the standard options. Trinidad, kirk, etc. I was using a real world app, not a hello world, so there were a number of gems and such outside of vanilla rails.

Edit: This ia a real rails app, so it's a bit of a tangent from my post, but I'm looking at it right now. I spun it up with trinidad, dev mode, and requested the home page. It used over 600MB. It's an admittedly heavy homepage, asset wise, but it will run out of heap if I set the max heap any lower than 500MB.

Edit 2: let me try it with MRI

Edit 3: MRI took about 225MB, about half the memory. In this case JRuby is clearly better because we run it in threadsafe mode.
I cannot understand why JVM sticks to JIT. JIT's advantage is mainly portability of intermediate code. So once intermediate codes are deployed in server, I don't care whether pre-compile takes 30 minutes or not if memory allocation and computation become more efficient. However this might be stupid idea.
My audience is more like 5k to 10k per day per app. I just got 2k visitors from this post.
I'm already pushing 3 times that much.
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It would say how he died if it were anything other than suicide.
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Sorry, but that's not a valid comparison.

Piracy is zero-cost (other than the "lost customer" argument) to the record label. Bandwidth is something SOMEONE pays for. If you're stealing my bandwidth, either by deep-linking a photo to put into a news article or by reading my site while blocking the monetization I've put on it, that's real money you're costing me, not some theoretical "you would have bought it if you didn't pirate it" argument of loss.

And there's no micropayment system that would allow a small blog to charge you the 1/100 of a cent that an ad might earn, so really there's no alternative unless you're a big enough company with a compelling enough product that you can charge a non-trivial subscription fee.
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Sorry, I missed you are talking about "'hello world' web app", anyway there is no such thing a 'hello world' web app, there are very different application/web servers out there and you can't obviously compare jetty vs built-in jdk 6 com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer and WebSphere.
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Hey all,
So I have a question that my friend suggested I pose here, and I'd appreciate your input because I've read so many wonderful responses here before. I'm an undergrad and interested in startups as a way of life, and have this cool idea for a social network, among others. But I've never taken a single programming class and am not techy-- my background is in math and economics. Ultimately I don't hope to do the bulk of the technical work for this idea but I definitely need to know what's going on with the coders I will work with, so I need some technical background if I'm to pursue this idea (which I think is pretty cool, but I'll post that as an idea to evaluate on here as another question!) I'm in Chicago at Northwestern, which costs $13k per quarter. I'm almost done with my majors and can definitely graduate on time; I'd just be taking classes to "round out my education", including an intro programming class taught in Python. So my question is, I'm thinking of either taking courses next quarter, or doing this thing called Code Academy: http://www.codecademy.com/, where I pay $6k for a web development course, or $12k for that and a design course. What would you choose?

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!

tldr; for a non-techie, Code Academy (www.codeacademy.com) or classes at school to learn tech stuff?
You deserve to monetize your website if you convince me to pay to access it. Else, not.

If you leave 50,000 hot dogs on your porch every day, marked "Free hotdogs! Come early, come often, and tell your friends!" and each has some nasty sauce on it I dislike, I'm going to take a hotdog and make an effort to remove the sauce. If I carry a sauce-removal machine, so much the better for me.

You're claiming a right to follow me down the block screaming "STOP THIEF! I ONLY GET PAID IF YOU EAT THE SAUCE!"

See the problem? If I'm not a party to any of the agreements under which you get paid, you don't get to bitch to me if my behavior fails to generate cash for you.
Sorry man.
I prefer Weka, mostly because it has excellent literature and has academic leanings, unburdened real-world issues of performance or scalability so it can afford to focus on accuracy.
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The real value proposition of Hadoop isn't the algorithms but using Hadoop to massively parallelize the machine learning algorithms. Do you know any port of Weka that can be scaled in such a manner? Just curious.
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Simply by you stepping onto my ground, you're now under my house rules. With a website, it's called a Terms of Service.
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It doesn't offend me, but the concept that all advertising is evil is very, very misguided. Just because big brands often use evil techniques to advertise doesn't mean that it's all bad.

If I'm selling something used on Craigslist, that's advertising. If I'm looking for a product to fill a need, and I don't know what to buy, the paid links on Google have more than once led me to the perfect product. Every single thing on Amazon's site (fill in ANY e-commerce site online here -- even most of Craigslist, with things like apartments for rent), right down to the product page, is, fundamentally, advertising.

You'd pretty much have to restrict the web to a highly edited version of Wikipedia if you were going to outlaw advertising. And if you succeeded in banning all advertising you'd just prevent new entries into any market, or the creations of new markets, because everyone would tend to buy the products at the stores they knew about already.

What's evil is not educating people in logical thinking, and in not inoculating them at a young age against the kinds of psychological tricks you're talking about.
Gnome shell on Ubuntu is really misleading. On Fedora the support for it is first class so it works wonderfully, out of the box, including features like this.

(I like Unity too, but it needs work on things like multiple monitor support)
I haven't seen such ads in 5 years or more. I use NoScript to prevent most Flash from running without my permission, and that's the primary way that such ads blast things without your permission, but the only annoying music/auto-play video I've encountered typically is just a poorly designed web site, not an ad on a site. And 99% of the time, it's a TED talk video that's auto-playing when I restore Firefox...sigh...

I agree with the article. If you don't like a site, don't go there. Don't steal their bandwidth and try to justify it.
That's cool and stuff, but why do I have to write Java?
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>The Kindle Fire is the Chromebook Google should have built. People aren't prepared to have absolutely everything on the cloud. People read while on the train or in a plane. There needs to be some local storage.

> By utilizing Amazon's cloud infrastructure I'm guessing the Fire doesn't need a large amount of local storage or a large amount of RAM. Amazon is providing a top of the line user experience with less than top of the line hardware. This is my hope.

These two statements are at odds with each other. 8GB is paltry for any amount of video or music (on my iPhone, a full 13GB is music/audio - I listen a LOT of books on tape and podcasts).

The cloud for personal media is unreliable for a big chunk of time as many mobile providers either don't provide coverage, bandwidth or quota to fulfill my needs... it's not clear that 8GB+CloudDrive will do this (it would be great if CloudDrive 2.0 would just treat your local available store as a giant cache).

Proof will be in the pudding. However, given that Amazon has yet to tell us how many Kindles it's sold or how much money they have made on them, it's unclear how we'll be able to gauge it's success.