skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny thing. I'm currently building one right now - disturbingly close to your product idea. It's currently a "generalized feed consumer" that presents a user with "stream of [de-duplicated] links to consume..."

I'm just starting to use it for most of my content consumption, so that I have a nice corpus of data about my preferences. The goal is to eventually develop a predictive model to start filtering content with...
Lazy deletion should not be confused with lazy programming (or lazy implementation). This is just embarrassing.
I just added fltrr to https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Image-manipulation which tracks libraries that do this.

glfx.js does exactly what you suggest, leveraging WebGL shaders to do high performance image manip. It's likely fltrr could use glfx.js under the hood for very low-latency manip.
Of course he's not under any obligation to provide any more info than he has. But given that he already has the test harness setup, and that only he has access to the hardware on which his benchmarks ran, it seems that he could easily enable more people to help him by providing additional data points.
I'm working one of those places right now.

Heck, over the course of five jobs I've never been at a place where it wasn't open-plan with music playing. I've unfortunately needed to acquire a collection of earplugs and headphones to defend against the noise.

I have seen one place with private offices (albeit for higher-ranking management), and that was at Yahoo! Everywhere else had management on the benches with the rest of the team.

Maybe it's a cultural thing around here in Sydney.
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When I first learnt HTML in the late nineties, the book I used contained mailto actions on forms, which I remember worked just fine for me in IE (4 or 5). Some searching suggests that IE interfaced with Outlook Express to do this.
Doesn't happen here; the page doesn't change when I move the mouse over the "next page" corner, other than the folding up of that corner. Everything remains crisp. What browser did you use?
I run 9cloud.us, a photosharing site.

When a user presses the delete button, we...

1. Delete it from the public facing servers that we control.
2. Put a request in the queue so the backups, and thumbnails will be deleted.
3. Pray that the CDN will purge the picture eventually.

#3 is a big deal... we don't control the CDNs cache options, and can't push a 'delete' upstream so the picture might be gone 2 seconds after the deletion is completed on our end, or it might take 2 weeks.

I'd thought Facebook would have been able to engineer or negotiate better options than we do, but apparently not.
Yeah i guess you're right, i too get quiet frustrated by how verbose SOAP is and that's the true reason as to why i've personally avoided.

Having worked fairly extensively with the Facebook API in recent years i've just come used to dealing with REST API's (and honestly while they do a half decent job, it has a lot of shortcomings)

I just find the time to get a REST API up and running is very short, and for that reason it tends to be my choice. Not saying its the right one however :P
Nothing stops you from hiding that person from your news feed, or removing them from your friends list entirely.
omg, so by achieving immortality we would become a sort of cancer in the grand scheme of things?
From what I've heard, that has absolutely nothing to do with anything besides the utter lack of interesting things to do in Russia and Ireland.
There's large scale, there's really large scale and then there's Facebook scale. They operate at a scale that almost no one does, and in fact, if you're thinking of how to operate at that volume when you start your new project, then I'd say you're doing it wrong (I know you didn't actually say that - just pointing out that no one should be thinking of how to operate at that scale when designing their basic architecture).

I don't really know how their photo system works - maybe it is a trivial thing to purge files from CDNs on demand - but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt and say never attribute to malice, what could be explained by earth-population-level scaling problems.

Also unrelated: Facebook has shown many times that they can't really be trusted on privacy issues - I never upload anything there under the illusion that I can freely delete it and it's really gone. But I don't personally believe this thing is a privacy issue they're intentionally balking on
nah, just when a company has started becoming fairly profitable, been through a fair few funding rounds and existed for about 3-4 (or more in some cases) years...its time to accept while you might be cool (not trying to play it down), you /should/ no longer need to reply on calling yourself a start-up to attract hot talent to your "company".
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I think it may also be related to a historical experimental/mathematical difference. Edison (US) admired Lord Kelvin (UK), who believed in constructing physical models of theories. He thought you had to be able to see it. Whereas Laplace and other French (EU) mathematicians favoured a symbolic mathematical approach.

Lord Kelvin had a minor win, in that he refuted one of Laplace's mathematical constructs with a model. Edison also had some wins. But of course, Einstein had the biggest win of all, using a symbolic approach (he began with clear visualizations which he later found mathematics for. There were other factors, but once he switched to a purely mathematical approach, he had no more breakthroughs...)

I personally wonder if this US/EU distinction is somehow be related to having all the land already being owned vs. land available.

PS: I'm taking this from biographies of Edison and Einstein, so please correct me if I'm wrong or omitted something relevant.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554556

I was not sure on the appropriateness of cross promoting one's own threads.
1984 all over again. My favorite part of it is the disclaimers in italics that contradict the bulleted text. Anyway, I am sure everyone on HN is suspicious according to that project.
I agree that Sal's videos are very engaging and relatable. He comes across and very genuine, and that's a wonderful thing.
This is the scary part about bills like SOPA. Who cares if they're constitutional, who care if they could stand up in court, who cares if the public supports them? They do their job anyway, even if they don't pass.

Glenn Greenwald was right about this - we didn't win the SOPA battle; we lost it. The very next day after all the hullabaloo and protests, the government went ahead and showed that the powers that SOPA would have been redundant - it already has those powers anyway.
There is actually a HTTP header (Range) that can be used for this. Works well in APIs but you can't do it with browsers, which is unfortunate.
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Javascript is the new bubble sort?
I'm pretty sure AT&T/Cingular was the largest wireless provider before the iPhone.

Nope: http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/verizon-retakes-us-wirele...
I prefer facing one another at a long table. I probably don't need to see your screen to fix your issue and if I do, I'm coming over to sit with you for a few minutes. Most likely, seeing your face and answering your question is enough. Less disruption to my own work as well.
Maybe I mis-represented my argument. I didn't mean that I code small scale projects with large scale back ends just in case a user base boom happens. I meant that I try to code as using a "module" approach as much as possible. When (and if) the opportunity presents itself, the small scale project will be able to integrate a large scale solution much more easily.
Which takes me back to my original point. :-)
Who takes photos of women breastfeeding? If I see a women doing that, I don't stare, as its what she can do and I have no issue with it, but I also certainly don't pull out my DSLR, take a photo, upload to Facebook and tag them.

I'm just scratching my head, why women want photos of themselves breastfeeding on Facebook. Do their friends really want to see it? Yes, its natural and ok in public, but I'm just having a hard time imagining why someone wants photos of that up there?

It must (or probably is) women's friends flagging the photos to begin with. I can't imagine Facebook employees manually look at every photo uploaded.
You generally don't delete files from a CDN. They just get evicted when they are the least recently used, which may never happen if the URL is still in circulation.

Facebook may have set near-infinite Expires/Cache-control headers on their static content, since it never gets overwritten. In that case, the CDN never goes back to the origin to check if the file is still there. The CDN they are using probably does have the ability to explicitly remove files (e.g., to respond to DMCA take-down notices), but probably doesn't have the ability to do this at Facebook picture deletion scale.

In other words, Facebook probably can't do much about it unless they get the CDN provider to make a big investment, build their own CDN, or switch to another provider that does support it (usually a costly decision).
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

-- Phil Karlton

This is a cache invalidation problem. Now, I don't mean to say that this is acceptable, but it is hardly simple. In the general case, it's unsolved.

Sure, deleting a file from a single datacenter is easy. Verifyably deleting it from an infrastructure the size of Facebook's is not.
its great you can smash some data into a d3 example and all, but why is this on hacker news?
Oh, that makes sense. I'll check it out.
The difference is that someday this will also work in Firefox, Opera, and/or Safari -- perhaps even the mobile versions. It requires Chrome today, but it won't require Chrome forever.
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Sorting a bunch of files that mysteriously became 0-bytes and appeared after restoring an off-site backup.
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That's what I do, and it gives you a portable email address, but doesn't address the other concerns. Ultimately, email is a communication medium, not a filesystem. Using IMAP folders for long-term storage is tempting, but it's off-label.
I would definitely use this, and probably (depending on just how much it improved my life) pay to use it.

One tip, to solve the "chicken and egg" problem of getting a good garden going while still consuming current levels of information, allow the user to choose to include some of those "low quality" sources as well.

For example, right now the vast majority of my info comes from HN and Reddit, both from links and comments. Ideally I'd be able to subscribe the service and keep getting all that info, then as I slowly build up my own more personalized, curated sources I could slowly start to remove the low-quality sources. I think if you could make this a pretty frictionless process you'd have a winner.
Wikipedia states that the site was commercial, considering the amount of traffic it had does this mean they were making money from it or was it a volunteer organisation using adverts to cover costs? I've never used the site and Wikipedia doesn't explain any of that.
And so you've realized the paradox-of-uselessness known as the 'QR code'.
You realize that words like 'obscene' and 'disgusting' are judgement calls? So while you may not find it to be either, others do?
I personally think that certain bodily functions are better kept private - this one included. In Asia I've frequently seen women breastfeed while covering themselves with a shawl. Why do western women insist on making it a public display?
> presumed performance is very much the thing that makes the complexity worth it.

Presumed performance/complexity of what? That isn't even a comprehensible English sentence, never mind a well thought out rebuttal to the OP.
Your site is a similar concept, but it seems to (from the little info on the front page) be much more geared toward people looking for content to share with others. I think the OP is describing a system geared toward finding content to consume for personal use.

In addition, your system seems to be more about automatically finding content, whereas the OP's system is much more manual and curated by the user.

I signed up for your beta list because I actually think your idea is interesting, but I think they solve two different problems.
It could always be one of those rebellious things, where they know somebody is going to have a problem with it so they go out of their way to do it.
Good points. I guess my comment was a bit too all-inclusive.
I have a variety of sites that make a not-inconsiderable amount from AdSense and one strategy I considered was to set up two accounts (e.g., one in wife's name, at an address outside of our home) and split my sites between the accounts. Avoid having all the eggs in one basket.

Of course, Google have been known to shut down accounts where two are run from the same address so who knows what they might take issue with if they somehow discovered a transgression.
Yeah I am fine with doing in-class evaluations, but I think if you think that through you would admit that those are biased in a different way. My point is really more about the importance of doing the kind of evaluation and talent management that every successful private sector company does--figure out who is doing well, and reward them, figure out who is doing poorly and try to help.

Basically I think all this "it can't be measured" stuff is a bit dishonest. My wife is a high school teacher, and amongst her department everyone knows who is good and who isn't, same as any job. The only difference is that that knowledge can't possible have any effect on your career.

In any case, the point you are making about standardized testing is completely beside the point. No one who advocates using testing advocates using only testing for teacher evaluation. And no one advocates using the raw scores. Of course teachers with poor students in bad schools will have worse raw scores then teachers with rich students in good schools. The proposed measurement is virtually always some kind of "value added" score that attempts to control for these variables and measure the teachers impact.
May I ask why you find it ok to not have "any consideration for people around" you? I want to make it clear that I really want to understand how you think (ie not trolling).

Why do you not insist on performing other bodily functions in public?
I think it might be cooler if it actually figured out which comments should be replaced with herp derp.
Unless it is affiliated with the government, YES. That is all.
Another one going down makes you think how exactly did we win with SOPA and what we are going to do with ACTA
> the people flagging these pictures are most likely the woman's friends.

Why on earth would you assume that?

Edit: oh, duh, I get it. I read "friends" as "friends", not "Facebook friends". Makes more sense now.
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Who else is likely to see the pictures?
The blurring happens in Firefox 10. It also makes the whole 'page' shift a couple pixels. It's really disruptive and ruins the whole effect.
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I've had a couple of warnings, fixed things, and carried on, but no bans.

I'd be interested to see the average earnings of those banned with limited recourse. e.g., is it under $200/mo or are a lot with $1k/mo+ getting done.

I suspect that low level sites are more or less ignored and put in the too-hard basket. Imagine how many smallfry sites they'd be reviewing out of less-developed countries where the cost to investigate deeper would just outweigh the early advantages of having them in the program. Easier and cheaper to just ban, piss off that kid abroad with his brand new motor bike forum, and keep raking it in from more established sites.
Reminds me of Sikuli: http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/ If you check out their blog, they have a script which plays Angry Birds.

I've done similar things myself, with boring online/Facebook games. If you can script it, it's not a very interesting game.

edit: Here's my take on the ethics of bots: http://blog.oarsum.com/post/255516489/cheating-and-game-desi...
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As a point of reference, Amazon CloudFront charges $0.005 per file to invalidate, after the first 1000/month.

No additional charge for the first 1,000 files that you request for invalidation each month. $0.005 per file listed in your invalidation requests thereafter.

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing
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Because unless she has made them public the only people who would see them are her friends.
Surprised that Ars didn't jump to the most obvious conclusion: a legal compliance issue.

Presumably, five or six years ago, someone from the DOJ or FBI told Facebook it would be really handy if they stored user images indefinitely, and Facebook, not being a company that insists on seeing warrants or subpoenas, said "Sure, why not."
> Who takes photos of women breastfeeding?

The same people who take photos of women doing anything else with their children. If you don't start from the (very loaded) assumption that breastfeeding is shameful, you're not likely to treat photos of breastfeeding all that differently from any other photo of a mother holding her infant.
Shame the person doing the AMA doesn't express himself better, he loses a bit of credibility.

I can't tell if his answers are given out of anger against Zynga or if they are a reflection of reality.
I have this same issue with my site, but in case anyone is looking for a solution---I have a tentative one: NetDNA (or MaxCDN if you're not looking at their enterprise options) has a XML-RPC API that lets you purge individual files. So you can delete something on your server, then push the purge to them.

So while things have been bad in the past--they're getting better. Having everyone try to use s3 as a CDN has really forced the industry to evolve.
Some background: BT = Bit Torrent (search engine)

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I think the problem is consuming through addiction, gamification, procrastination, etc. If I spend a day or evening in the garden creating something, designing a new side project or similar, I never find myself regretting that expense of time later. But after any night of trawling crappy news sites, or flicking channels, I head to bed defeated and annoyed at myself for not being able to overcome those things.
I agree. Seems like he has a lot of hate built up inside him:

"Google and Apple teams are total cunts. Fuck em, and their hipster bullshit."

Followed by:

"I like Google as a whole, but they hire too many wanna-be-devs.
And their SC2 team can suck a big herpes-infested cock. FUCK THEM."

Hard to take this AMA seriously.
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This kind of cache (mapping a url to a constant image) seems to have little to do with that kind of cache (mapping a memory address to likely changing memory contents.)

Can you clarify why you think the problems are similar?
Wow. Btjunkie was in the Alexa top 500 too (#390) - it wasn't exactly a small site.

Here's a screenshot of the Alexa ranking, for posterity:

http://imgur.com/U7dex
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Doesn't Facebook run their own CDN, though? (At least that's what the URL's would suggest).

And in the case of major CDN providers like Level 3, removing assets is dead simple. They provide an API for you to pass assets to expire immediately. Or barring that, having a person spend 5 seconds on the keyboard to log into the control panel and paste in the URL to kill.

It is possible - the author of the Ars article had his pictures erased after writing the article.
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My funny youtube comments story:

I taught myself how to whistle loudly with two fingers a few years back and in the process annoyed my friends for a few days. When I finally learned how I posted a quick video on youtube to send to my friends and rub it in their faces. The thing is, I had also intended on posting a how-to video, but I accidentally put the title "How to Two-Finger Whistle" on the short clip for my friends. I forgot about it and then the comments started rolling in..

The video now has over 100,000 views, is one of the highest ranking how to links on google for learning to whistle loudly, and I get about one comment a week filled with the kind of hate and vitriol only youtube users can generate, and it always makes my day when they come in. Read through the comments, it's a riot:

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Android already has a higher market share (flooding the market with cheap phones) for a couple of years now.