skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If people legitimately like Google+ posts more than anything else on the internet, how would you have them behave?"

So are you suggesting that might makes right or that if a site is popular it should be able to outrank the original content source just because it is popular?

Using this theory shouldn't Google check to see if Facebook has a similar post & rank that above the Google+ post whenever possible?

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More seriously though, Google allows Google to create "relevancy" signals that are unique to certain pieces of content hosted on Google.com (or, at a minimum, over-represented among nepotistic sources), thus Google should aggressively discount that self-serving bias to error on the side of safety rather than setting up platforms that make it really easy to "accidentally" plagiarize content.

Obviously Google biz dev people realize the above self-serving bias & will do nothing to correct it, but it isn't a fact that should be ignored in public debate. At least not if we want to have an honest debate.
Yep, on my list to get a bulk loader next time some money rolls in.
You are right, and I upvoted you.

On Android, uids are used for apps, not for users. Supporting multiple users on Android is thus not as simple as one might think.
This is not a given, although it is a defensible position. Are you confusing human rights with civil rights?
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In the early days, the FSF sold magtapes with GNU software on them - the charge wasn't for the IP, it was for the material and labor required to copy the tape(s).

See http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/16/gnu_bulletin_28.h...
for a sample FSF order form from June 1993.
You do because for the criminal there is no way to know if you used a duress code or not.So if you cant really get into a better position in the eyes of the criminal by not using it,you might as well use it and get cops to know you are in trouble.

Not to mention that cops will potentially have a live video feed of the crime scene as the crime is being committed!
The book has some discussion that supports this idea, including the suggestion that we survived a famine that Neanderthals / Cro-Magnon / others couldn't.
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Well, aren't human rights meant to be intrinsic to humans, not dependent on the legal jurisdiction like civil rights?

One can argue whether this is realistic, or not, but in principle human rights are distinct from civil rights.
I'm not disputing the fact that the "problem" link landed at the top of [santorum] organically and algorithmically. Of course it did. Google didn't stick it at the top of the SERP.

But Google does police SERPs for shenanigans like this, and is deliberately not touching this one (for any of a variety of reasons, most of them not ideological).

All it takes is for Bing to be a little more lax about policing its SERPs for it to have the same result.
From my experience, renewing the visa is not too difficult if you (or your company) have a decent immigration attorney.
The only annoying thing is that you'll have to go to a US consulate outside the US to get the visa stamp in your passport.
We use repo (from android) to put stuff together. The "manifest" repo will pull down the whole world and give you a single unified build system:

https://github.com/membase/manifest

That also gets you pretty well set up to use our code review system for code submission should you want to contribute: http://review.couchbase.org/

Packaging isn't quite as awesome as I'd like, but all the parts are definitely there.
Your "golden age" also had an overwhelming volume of crap that no one cares about that got published then too. The idea that nothing good gets published now is older than you think. In the 1700s people would say the same thing citing no one has published anything great since the Greeks and Romans. Amazing art is always being produced in all genres, at all times. You may not ever find it but it is out there, somewhere. It is getting harder to find amazing art now because of the volume of humanity's creative output has been going up exponentially with industrialization (for various symptomatic reasons).

Try and find something new. Don't wait for someone else to tell you what you should read because they said it was great. Find your own great works.
Vint Cerf is the perfect advocate. He is one of the "inventors of the internet", dresses respectably, can write and speak articulately, and doesn't have neck beard. I have an enormous amount of respect for him, and I wish he had written something better. Your expectations of him are foolishly low; my expectations are probably unreasonably high.
I think he is trying to mitigate the medium in which the access to information happens (the internet in this case) and make sure that when we think of human rights we think of it in a broader sense of what we should have access to, not how we have access to it.
You think that of all the searches across the country for [santorum], most of them are for the prank? That strains credibility. I get that virtually no HN'ers are naturally interested in ultra-right wing conservative Republican politics, but let me assure you that approximately half the whole country is, and even the most conservative among them have net access.

Meanwhile, Google most assuredly does have signals as to which of the results on that first SERP are the ones users are actually looking for.
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So, "no comment".
though I should note I now mostly use https://github.com/visionmedia/debug because when a noop function invokes millions of times a second who cares :D
Do you know if that was people from Atlassian or a licensed reseller? My understanding was they use 3rd party resellers but don't have a sales team themselves, but could be wrong
The sixth amendment guarantees the right to "a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury" and the "assistance of counsel."

The state must provide for the defendant in order to ensure those rights are met. Same as the state must incur the cost of sitting an impartial jury, presenting witnesses against him, etc.
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Not only preserve it, but increase it if they can.
Having that built in for every side-effect in the language is pretty amazing, though.

Case by case, the block scoping idiom is a good way to handle it.
Are they stupid? Or has heavy regulation made them afraid to use common sense they in fact possess?
Yeah, I see him as attempting (perhaps unsuccessfully) to articulate some timeless principle that "access to the internet" is the current, 2012-era implementation of.
Thanks.

A tangential question:

Can i still replicate a couchdb database with a couchbase server. Is this documented somewhere?
Before you jump to evolutionary algorithms, note "The Problem with Evolution" section in the OP. This was written by a guy who knows what he's doing with evolution, and it's interesting to see him turning to MCTS given his previous success with evolution.

The gist is that games are fragile with respect to mutations (motivating the need for a search paradigm not based on gradualism). This fragility may not exhibit itself as strongly for the parameter tweaking involved in the balancing problem, but balancing quickly shades into general game design when you start to consider non-trivial tweaks.
A big part of this will be getting solid, up to date documentation in place. Even though CouchDB is fantastic to work with, when the official docs are out of line with how it actually works, you immediately feel like you're walking on eggshells.

That said, I really do like the idea of Everything Restful, and wish them the best!
hammock, blueplastic didn't say to centralize spam filtration. He said to make messages cost money, thus making spamming unprofitable. This is totally different from the machine-learned-model-reads-all-my-mail situation that we have now AND totally different from a centralized Big Brother antispam agency.
Designing experiments to differentiate between possible explanations. It is the key to problem solving in general.

For example - when I debug program, I often fail to apply this concept, and change things randomly to guess what's wrong, or stare at screen guessing. Most often, controlled experiment answers the question faster and more definitely, than guessing, or experimenting without plan.
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The ideas in CouchDB were really great, but I was very disappointed with what was termed a 1.0 release of CouchDB, as it did not feel ready for prime time, and it ended up torpedoing a project I was working on. I'm also disappointed that it did not quickly improve, and that it appears to be abandoned by it's creator. I am therefore going to avoid Couchbase or anything by it's creator, as I do not trust that it's a foundation that I can build upon.
You have it backwards. I'm not chastising people for disagreeing with pro-lifers. I'm not pro-life. I'm saying that 40% of America hold a militant viewpoint in direct conflict with most of HN'ers. So when you say, "well, that's what happens when you offend 10% of the world's population", I'm saying you should bear in mind that much larger factions are much angrier about beliefs you hold.
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There was also a commercial version, Unipress EMACS.
Good demos & demo code will go a long long way. Your liberal arts background may give you a good design and product eye.
>Misguided vs Evil: An evil person tries to do the wrong thing while a misguided person does it on accident. How is that hard to understand? More importantly how is that not relevant. An evil person can't be convinced by their nature while a misguided person can.

uh. I don't want to point you down the road of the misunderstood villain, because I find that sort of thing is insulting to evil. But that's the best I can do. The world is still black and white to you seriously??

> Force vs Conversation: This is only true if the people passionate about SOPA have the power to force someone to do something. They don't. Their goal is to convince enough people to join them so they will have the power to do something.

this is actually just wrong. I don't feel bad crossing decorum since you started off your post with "I don't know how you could be more wrong." At least that's a confession of your ignorance.

In the future when you confess ignorance consider examining your ignorance.

Power is people, dude.

>On companies going down in flames: First, GoDaddy is not going down in flames.

Twenty bucks against. Also, fuck the rest of that paragraph.

>Second, what point does this example make? You're trying to make companies give up support for SOPA but, BY DEFINITION, these are companies that already support it. They can't go back in time and not support it. So how does killing GoDaddy even after they've folded do anything productive?

When you make an example of something you're looking towards the future. Obviously. In school did you think examples were for the text's benefit?
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I'm in grad school for AI right now as a result of reading about Eurisko as a kid. Though I haven't followed up on the greater vision, my thesis proposal a few years ago pitched the project of building a Eurisko-style discovery system for game design: http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~amsmith/proposal/amsmith-proposal...

Also, the fact that I had a good experience playing an "academic" class character in Traveller during college was also an influence in deciding to go to grad school. I haven't seen this class in any other RPG.
Cerf appears to be arguing semantics. What is one practical consequence of Internet access being seen as a "human right" as opposed to "civil right," or "really good thing to have"?
For the guy with friends that he doesn't trust. Actually, for the guy who thinks he has friends.
You should change your pin to something more difficult. Just saying.
In the 3 companies I've worked at where I worked closely with direct sales teams, the ones who beat their numbers stick around, the ones who don't get fired. Your salary is the base pay you get whether you clear your numbers or not.

It's weird to call that "expert opinion". I'm not an "expert" at managing sales teams, though I've hired salespeople in 2 companies (I've never done sales or managed a sales organization). But we're right now not so much discussing my opinions about direct sales as we are talking about basic facts.
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For those who don't know, if there weren't nonlinearities in the ear you wouldn't hear difference tones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_tone). Those nonlinearities are interactions within the audible range though, not interactions between audible frequencies and ultrasound.

(Difference tones are a convenient way to tune a violin: when two strings are a fifth apart (as they should be), the difference tone is at the octave, and it's easier to get an octave right than a fifth.)
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Yes it is. IIRC, extra points for shooting the parachute, then shooting the guy who was otherwise falling to his death. Simple and classic.
I think he doesn't want the emotional impact of the word "right" to be diminished by applying it to arbitrary technology. What he says makes sense. Freedom is a right. The Internet is a tool that allows people to exercise that right.
(apologies for the double post)

Doing away with `new` in this way also has the added advantage of allowing people to create objects with varargs, which is impossible otherwise.
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It's natural to question how someone can unproblematically pose a metric on the value of game rulesets (particularly without a generous helping of philosophy and psychology to back it up). However, pragmatically, it's not a silly thing to try. If there were game-design IDEs in the future, we'd like them to provide the equivalent of spell/grammar check -- if there was an alternate design with an edit distance of two away from the current design that scored dramatically better on some canned metric, it might be worth putting a human eye on that alternative design.

If you think of the error function as the combined output of a bunch of "obvious flaw" detectors instead of a "theory of fun", then speculative optimization where the initial conditions come from a human's design under consideration becomes a potentially interesting bit of design automation. Think of design rule checks in CAD with a bit of fuzziness and a default bias -- instead of saying just yes/no, it can say "X might be a better alternative according to the metrics you've enabled in the preference window, consider adopting some of its edits".
Sounding good to Congress and looking good for the shallow masses is not the same as having something substantive to say. He generally just parrots the party line, and once in a while you get an article like this, where it looks like he tries to articulate something new, and it either ends up totally inscrutable, or completely banal.

Meanwhile, his non-lobbying activities of the last 30 years include some rather disturbing things, such as a long stint on ICANN's board of directors.

Have all the respect you want for his early contributions, but you've got three decades of evidence that he really has nothing substantive to add.
Real, normal people?

I don't mean my mom, but I do mean to imply (without evidence) ordinary non-Norvig coders who aren't steeped in Unix lore.

Does ports really do what Github does, or does it do what apt/rpm/yum/pacman/etc do?
Seems like they not only defeat computer facial recognition, but human facial recognition as well.
The piece does not address the fundamental point that you cannot with intellectual honesty claim as a right that which, to be satisfied, requires another human being to perform work.
"You cannot replicate between a CouchDB database and Couchbase Server."

It's written here
http://docs.couchbase.org/couchbase-manual-2.0/couchbase-int...

Also,
"Almost all of the HTTP REST API that makes up the interface for communicating with CouchDB does not exist within Couchbase Server. The basic document operations for creating, retrieving, updating and deleting information are entirely supported by the memcached protocol."

Querying views and map/reduce functions in Couchbase server will be similar to CouchDB except the output will be slightly different.
Very cool. I had a flashback this fall after discovering an old book I made for some school project about programming the Apple 2. Code looked horrible (to my 2011 eyes) but with an emulator I was able to get it working. Those few old pages were the only traces left of my childhood programming.

Put the book and code up on github if anyone is interested: https://github.com/markstewart/ProgrammingIsFun
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I think plinkplonk was saying that it's fine (not necessarily bad) to come full circle in general, not that it will work out in this particular case.
I made a REST/HTTP/JSON API for accessing IMAP mailboxes: http://imappr.com. The idea is to make email, as a messaging platform, as easy to work with as the Twitter or Facebook APIs.
Here's my restatement of the statistical approach (correct me if I'm wrong):

Instead of proposing some metric for fun that is valid a-priori, we are going to look for the very grounded game-specific correlates of fun and optimize with respect to those. Satisfactorily capturing the entire fuzzy sense of human fun in a finite piece of code is silly, but cataloging the observed feedback for every popular combination of level elements (e.g. "goomba two blocks to the right of a coin block while the player has a fire flower") is both practical and useful for automating level design.
There seem to be some technologies, like telephones and indoor pluming that aren't really "rights" but when treated in a rights-ish manner, make everyone's lives much better. If a rich 1% decided that they'd rather have the money it took to build the sewer system for their town than the sewer, their lives would become worse, not better despite having the extra money(1). If only the super rich had phones, they'd be nearly useless(2).

Internet access is certainly looking like its shaping up to be one of those things.

1) And everyone else would be much much worse off.

2) The phones, not the rich, but both come to think of it.
> if I had it all to do again, I'd do many things different

> now, as it turns out, I have a chance to do it all again

> throwing out what didn't work, and strengthening what does

> not feel like you're running a dirty hack

Second-system syndrome [1] ahoy!

[1] See http://www.the-wabe.com/notebook/second-system.html, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SecondSystemEffect, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect, http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html, et al
If only there was some legislation put into place long ago, that would have banned the usage of digital photography, so Kodak wouldn't be in this situation today.
The headline says "Slick", but in my opinion this goes even further than that. Every part of it that I've seen so far is beautiful. That includes the homepage, too. This is the kind of really well-made apps that made me switch to OS X in the first place. Would love to see (much) more of this :)
Google 2012 is not Google 2002. Results which would get mentioned on the nightly news get fixed, period.

I disagree. We certainly like to fix bad results, but not manually. There's a very narrow range of things Google is willing to do manually in search. One of them is taking action on sites that are found to have violated the webmaster guidelines, but banning a result from a query just because it's embarrassing isn't something we do.

For instance, in that example you cite, jewwatch.com is still at number 2 for [jew].
Assuming they were already running Ruby 1.9.x, they probably saw a smallish increase in response times moving from 2.3 to 3.0. I've seen that on two separate, large projects.

There is a drastic decrease in response times with switching from 1.8.7 MRI or 1.8.7 REE to 1.9.x MRI.
Out of curiosity, do you know what happened if the pin number was a palindrome? Did they restrict your selection to prevent that?
Quite the same here for me in India. 15$/hr is considered good for a web developer (atleast on oDesk). I have worked with a US based client and a Belgium client. They both say that I am the best they have worked with, in terms of technical skills and communication.(They are both developers) But maybe thats because of their limited price range to begin with. But looking at the rates over here I think we both need to learn to market ourselves better. Or maybe we need to find better source for getting work. From where do you get your work by the way?
Given the effort the play a game and the inter-subject noise in a numerical judgement, I think a better use of Mechanical Turk would be to ask the player to do some blame assignment. That is, instead of rating a game as 4-stars, they could perhaps give a thumbs up/down to particular rules or sets of rules in abstracted representation of the game.

This kind of feedback extracts several more bits of information from the player than a single rating (making better use of them). However, it breaks the applicability of an evolutionary algorithm which treats both artifacts and fitness evaluation as black boxes. If you use a search algorithm that was aware of how the game was built from components, I'm guessing that component-level feedback (being both more objective and more specific) could provide more informative pressure to drive the algorithm than the standard interactive genetic algorithm setup gets.
Unfortunately the RESTful api of couchdb is not used, instead memcached protocol is used for inserting docs
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Kind of makes you want to give the internet a great big hug, doesn't it?
Oops, I fat fingered a downvote, but this deserves upvotes.
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