skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with you 100%. There's a saying (watch out, here comes the cheese) and it goes something like "aim for the moon, even if you miss you will end up among the stars".

There's something about karma and hard work we have to believe in I think but also there are some countries (my impression is that America is especially guilty on this) where people are just too obsessed by what the neighbor has and being the number one etc..

At the end of the day people can work hard and aspire to great things, but remember to live, get by with what you have, stay positive, be happy and have fun!
Thanks. I have updated the blog post and the title.
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If you're not really looking to sell then you shouldnt be worried about scaring them away, so just demand all the documents that will protect you and a non-refundable deposit that will hurt if they dont get it back. That'll show you how serious they are.
Er... you seem to be implying that people are using NoSQL solutions like Redis, Toyko Tyrant, Elastic Search, etc. for fun but that's not the case.

Sometimes you just pick the simplest thing that works and that can be a key value store, data structures in memory, or a lucrene interface. It's a better solution and less fragile than trying to force everything into a relational model.
There's HackersAndFounders.com, HackerDojo.com and a few others. Haven't been to that many events actually. I know a lot of startups coming out of Stanford though. Feel free to email me (contact info's in my profile) and I can put in you touch if you want.
Does the point cloud approximate the shape, or does the shape approximate the point cloud? That distinction informed a recent discussion on the origin of the word "regression", which on the surface seems a weird term for curve-fitting, at least from my point of view.
It's also great for figuring out someone's email address. Open up a new draft and start typing iterations (e.g., first.last@domain.com, first@domain, etc.). You'll know you've reached the right email when a profile pops up.
Didn't the lead software engineer for YouPorn just comment recently on the Redis thread?

Maybe he could chime in here and shed some light.
I wouldn't consider NDAs from their lawyers as something that protects you.
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Not necessarily a useful comment but the choice of font/background colour on that site a horrendous. Had to copy out the text to read it for fear of getting a headache.
Are you talking about things like sensor noise and chromatic aberration? It would be interesting to see if downsampling the image beforehand affects the result.

However, it's hard to separate image patterns from camera structure insofar as linear projection is a result of camera structure.
1 pint of beer == 1 slice of bread (ish, in terms of carb content)

But, a quick experiment will show you that

6 pints of beer /= 6 slices of bread
And I guess this is why established brands are so uptight about other companies or services using their names. I had no idea this was a 3rd party until seeing this article.
There is some problem with the title of the article. It could also mean that you dont need 8 hours of sleep. Other point is the need for sleep varies with age. Babies sleep for very long time like 14 hours; old people need only 5 to 6 hours of sleep. The 8 hour sleep is for youth between 25 and 40 i think. Otherwise, very original point, I have never thought sleeping in 4-hour chunks was natural.
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wow. Does anyone know where one could get that tarball?
That blog is quite wrong about partition tolerance. First, the definition is just bizarre:

"Handling a crashed machine counts as partition-tolerance. (Update: I was wrong about this part."

He then goes on to give Stonebraker crap about claiming that "failures" never happen, simply because he doesn't understand the difference between failures and partitions.

Look, the point of "CAP" is this: if you assume nothing about the network, then you can not guarantee CA in the presence of ARBITRARY network partitions. It doesn't say that you can't provide CA under some or even many network partition scenarios. So, the question you should be asking is "what kinds of network partitions happen in practice?". Stonebraker's point was that network partitions are such rare and wholly catastrophic events that worrying about them pulls focus away from much more practical concerns. Hyperdex' point on partition tolerance (admittedly not clearly spelled out) is much more subtle. They offer tolerance of a specific class of partitions. To simply say they are "AP" or "CP" ignores the very important fact that they do in fact tolerate partitions and maintain the CA. This whole "CAP" pick any two is a gross over-simplification that obscures very real distinctions like this.
Punctuation is used to create sense, clarity and stress in sentences.
You use punctuation marks to structure and organise your writing. The most common of these are the period (or full stop in British English), the comma, the exclamation mark, the question mark, the colon and semi-colon, the quote, the apostrophe, the hyphen and dash, and parentheses and brackets. Capital letters are also used to help us organise meaning and to structure the sense of our writing.

You can quickly see why punctuation is important if you try and read this sentence which has no punctuation at all:

perhaps you dont always need to use commas periods colons etc to make sentences clear when i am in a hurry tired cold lazy or angry i sometimes leave out punctuation marks grammar is stupid i can write without it and dont need it my uncle Harry once said he was not very clever and i never understood a word he wrote to me i think ill learn some punctuation not too much enough to write to Uncle Harry he needs some help

Now let’s see if punctuating it makes a difference!

Perhaps you don’t always need to use commas, periods, colons etc. to make sentences clear. When I am in a hurry, tired, cold, lazy, or angry I sometimes leave out punctuation marks.

“Grammar is stupid! I can write without it and don’t need it.” my uncle Harry once said. He was not very clever and I never understood a word he wrote to me. I think I’ll learn some punctuation – not too much, enough to write to Uncle Harry. He needs some help!

Use of punctuation marks makes your English clearer and better organised.
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Looks like opposite of SocialAV http://socialav.com/
He already did : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3623079
Does anyone have a clue as to why GCC's messages have remained so bad for so long?
JP Morgan targeting major mobile payments expansion
Agreed. Seen so many of these initiatives come and go at various companies.

The only thing that worked, and people reverted back to wasn't the "sexiest" of solutions - An email list. Data gets pushed to you, you don't have to be logged into a specific application or site to view it.

Setup some tags in the subject header, and some rules to filter on those tags.
The title was catchy. Misleading in the end. No Harvard grad works in the mailroom, sir! Even if they do, it is for a very brief period of their lives.
What limits the number of spots at the top is the total amount of resources allocated there. If the über-rich got less über, there would be more free spots there. Plus, if the gap between the very rich and the very poor is smaller, with a fairly large middle class in between, a lot of social tensions disappear.
http://browsers.evolt.org/?worldwideweb/NeXT

Lots of other "classic" browsers also mirrored there!
A year ago there would have been no question this was a joke. Now, I'm not so sure.
var obj = new SomeType();
obj = GetSomeType();

You could almost be tempted to write an automatic converter to

var obj = GetSomeType();

but you can't in general, because you don't know whether `new SomeType()' doesn't have side-effects. But if it has some that are relied on, that's probably a bug.

I know that there's a free .net runtime called Mono. What about the compiler side of free C#?
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That's a very good point, I haven't properly used jQuery since 1.4.2 and it would be good to catch up on the new features of the API during "dead time" like this.
Up there with "one small step...", imo.
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I must admit that I picked mongodb (+ node) for my latest project for fun. But I then discovered that being able to dump json straight into a datastore without having to create tables etc. first was a great benefit in quickly building something out.

So something I did for fun turned out to be the simplest thing which worked. Only I didn't know that when I did it. I think developers who don't occasionally pick something new for fun on a side project are doomed not to know when that new thing could actually be applicable on a project that matters.
It doesn't matter who runs it, they're still responsible.

If I hire a company to fix something, and they sub-contract it, the original company is still responsible. Accepting anything else brings only disadvantages.
He's right about the "Plan B" at least where I'm concerned: I wouldn't have started Tarsnap if I hadn't received a job offer from Google to prove to me that I had a safe fallback plan.
Trying to work out how fit mailinator into Redis rather than questioning if Redis fits into mailinator is exactly the cargo-cult cool-kids zombism I was ranting against, though ;)

You really can process mailinator- quantities of email with a simple Java server using a synchronized hash-map and linked list LRU and have some CPUs left over for CPU-intensive opportunistic LZMAing.

Trying to do it with IPC TCP ping-pong for each and every line though; well I'm not sure you could process mailinator quantities of email within any reasonable hardware budget...

Luckily you have a chance to see the error of your ways :)
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Yes. I don't want to claim that rebooting still makes sense. But old habits die hard.
There are chances for misuse also..
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It needs traction and to solve the chicken-and-egg problem. There is not many documents to look at, and to make people look at all these documents you need many people to put up their documents on such a proposed web, and in a special form!
Relatedly I go out of my way to teach my 8 year old that there's no such thing as "being good at" something, only things to which you've applied yourself enough. (Though in adulthood this might sound a little trite -- I'm no good at guitar for example -- in childhood it's absolutely true.)

I think I'm going to steal your bit about failure being a lesson.
A single round of a hash -- salted or not -- is simply broken in 2012. When you can rent time on a bunch of GPUs on EC2 for effectively nothing, breaking the vast majority of hashes takes no work at all. PBKDF2 with a large number of rounds (10000 recommended), bcrypt, or scrypt are a requirement IMO.
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> We'd say Ghostery, AdBlock Plus, and Priv3 are the essentials here.

With Ghostery and ABP installed, why is Priv3 also required?
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Faster than light neutrinos? More like faulty wiring
Did you try it on Chrome?

What Firefox addons are you using?

Are you in Windows or Linux or Mac?

Firefox is slow as hell for me on Ubuntu (like a lot of things) but fast on Windows.

Also try turning off adblock and firebug.
I use Ghostery and Https-Everywhere add-ons, plus startpage.com when I want to use Google search engine.
The paper notes that the vertical lines are gravity aligned, not camera aligned.

The paper desperately needs a accompanying translation from extreme mathematician to mortal PhD level.
Yes, good point - I can't think of any reason, let alone a good reason, to remove the '+'. Fortunately, when using the keyboard, Ctrl+T or Cmd+T tends to work the same cross-browser.
"I'd like to see how they pull that off when a node goes down. I guess in "well-administered" data centers, nodes don't go down."

They offer f-fault tolerance. They can have f nodes go down in a single "zone" and keep chugging as long as no more nodes in the same zone go down before the master reconfigures. Note that the f faults are per-zone, not per-system, so in fact many more than f nodes can be down in a single system without a problem.

But, more importantly, you seem to be confusing partition tolerance and fault tolerance. CAP is about partition tolerance: offering "CA" in the presence of arbitrary partitions. They offer a specific form of fault tolerance: "CA" in the presence of any failure or partition that affects less than f nodes.
wait, can anyone please tell me the story behind this post? i understand it is about some primitive text browser for web but why (and how) is it on google groups? google wasn't even there at that time. and how can one add a post and date it in the past?
We already had a sitdown, we had a feeling that they are a serious buyer and also believe they have enough cash for the transaction but its just our feeling. We had offers in the past via email but they were probably fishing expeditions, this time its probably not but since we are not looking to sell we thought to get some additional protection using the deposit. However, I have not found any advise how to structure it. What do you mean by "sell exclusive rights" ?
I'd try to focus the initial conversations on understanding why they view your company as a strategic fit for their plans, their view of how the market may develop, etc. From there, you can get into what the integration of the two companies might look like (do they want you and your team to stick around, are they more interested in technology than customers, etc., etc.) There are a ton of things you can engage them with to get a better sense of whether or not you can do a deal at the price you've got in mind. And if it turns out you can't, just say so. Something like "Listen, I think you are really just interested in our patents, and I think we've got a lot more value in our organization - I don't think its likely that we'll be able to bridge the gap between how you'd value our patents and how I value the entire business. If you really want to talk about an acquisition, it would have to be on the basis of your interest in the entire business otherwise I can't sell it to my investors, board and team. It really is your call, what do you think?" etc…

Put another way, price should be one of the last things you talk to them about and there are plenty of real things to talk about before you have to indulge them with a fishing trip. Usually all the real stuff doesn't come out until a letter of intent has been inked and due diligence starts. Its perfectly okay to keep a few cards tight to your chest until you get to that phase… assuming you manage the conversation well up until that point…

I think the deposit requirement might be a little too passive-aggressive for my liking. I'd personally want to take the stance that they are approaching you in good faith and do everything I could to make a transaction - unless I firmly was opposed to any sale. It really comes down to what you are trying to achieve. If you think you'll end up selling in the end, it might not be helpful trying to pick the buyer - stay focused on making a sale happen instead.
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Good question. I tried Priv3 today, but it seems to be the subset of Ghostery.

BTW, it is necessary to use ABP, when I have Ghostery installed? (I don't intent to block ads, unless they actively track me, like Adsense, etc.)
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3623110

I also never make mistakes. All mistakes are the work of a third party former element of myself that I no longer affiliate with, or plan to disaffiliate from at some point in the future. It's not me at all.
Back in 2001, Google bought the DejaNews archives which contained old Usenet posts and imported them into Google Groups (using the original dates).
I'm also stuck at this point. Have the python exploit working on my localhost, now just need to run it live.
I suppose the idea is that there is an underlying shape which the point cloud approximates. The fitted shape is then a statistical guess at the underlying shape. In which case it would be nice to see a proof that as more points are added the fitted shape eventually converges to the underlying shape.
You can get these answers by reading the mailinator blog as the article encourages you to ;)
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'also remote indexes to be interrogated for lists of useful
documents'

Now I know why the home page of most web sites is named index.html
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you're kidding right ?
I worked in the mailroom as a Harvard undergrad. It paid overtime for 7am shift and paid a 3 hour shift even if we finished work in 90 minutes. Best workstudy gig ever, if you don't mind crossing the bridge over the Charles River at 6:45am. I apologize for sending Chauncy mail to Quincy, I didn't know Chauncy was real.
Advantages And Disadvantages Of Cloud Computing To Accounting Firms
Advantages And Disadvantages Of Cloud Computing To Accounting Firms
The second (expository) paper is pretty readable. I have only the barest grasp of algebraic topology but I believe I have a rough high-level understanding of what it is doing. It would be interesting to implement their barcode program independently to test whether or not I really understand.
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This was the start of the web.
Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web system of hyper-linked pages of information.
He then wrote the first tools to help browse this collection of pages. This newsgroup post is the original announcement for the tools he had developed.
Google Groups include archives of old newsgroup postings and this story is linking to the original announcement in 1991.
See Wikipedia page on History of the WWW for more info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web
Amazon Broadens Its Computing Reach
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When I was a youngster skiing, we used to say, "If you're not wiping out, you're not trying hard enough."

Fear of failure limits your potential. How many of us have raised our hand and asked a "stupid" question about something we didn't understand in class or a company meeting only to find that most everyone else in the class/meeting was wondering the same thing - but was afraid to ask because they were afraid to look stupid?
Its a Usenet post from 1991. In 2001 Google bought [1] the usenet archive built by Deja.com, which included that post, and added the archive's contents to Google groups to enable searching Usenet using Google.

[1] http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html
Onit Joins Legal Cloud Computing Association (LCCA)
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Amazon Cloud Service Automates Business Processes
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Initially Tim Berners-Lee wanted to call it 'The Information Mine' - abbreviated to 'TIM'
We can learn so much from watching children: creativity, determination, love, honesty, etc.. A lot of people look at having kids as an obstacle to their careers. I found the opposite to be true. I've learned so much from playing with them. That combined with the desire to set a good example for them makes me push harder in everything I do.
Gopher is already too well established.
from the article

"The full data set
consists of roughly 8,000,000 points in E9. By normalizing with respect to mean
intensity and restricting attention to high-contrast images (those away from the
origin), the data set is projected to a set of points M a topological seven-sphere
S7 ⊂ E8"

http://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints/barcodes.pdf
What? SQL is virtually plain English and is efficient across a range of database architectures for moderate-to-complex join situations. Its just an implementation of Boolean Algebra with a thin abstraction layer that uses words like SELECT, JOIN, FROM, WHERE, etc.

If you have performance issues, its invariably because the structure of your data is less than optimal or you have many linked external tables. Or -- you are really bad at efficient query design. Even highly experienced SQL-ers always look at old queries and realise that they could be three times faster and half as big, and if there is a performance issue then that's the first thing they'll review.

Humans have been 'understanding' SQL very well for nearly forty years -- without modern refinements like graphical query designers, either.

Not all data is a suitable candidate for an RDBMS solution, I am the first to agree, but there's not actually much wrong with SQL when what you need is a relational table store.

There are a few bad implementations of it, though, it is true, and a lot of people who can't seem to grasp SQL for what it is.

Edit: I am myself a huge fan of NoSQL solutions and always seek to rationally justify a non-relational datastore solution where practical or possible. NoSQL isn't a replacement for SQL (with all its imperfections) for the kind of slicing and dicing where it is needed.
But don't confuse money (which can be inflated an has no inherent unit of conversion to the material world or labor) with material wealth. If everyone had, say, a Star Trek 3-D printer and power/atom supply, we'd all be pretty well off.
There already is an anonymous internet and it's called Tor. Which is great under regimes where the internet is heavily monitored like china or iran/iraq etc. journalists use it all the time :)
> How many of us have raised our hand and asked a "stupid" question about something we didn't understand in class or a company meeting only to find that most everyone else in the class/meeting was wondering the same thing - but was afraid to ask because they were afraid to look stupid?

The fear isn't without cause, though. If you do ask these legitimate and useful questions all the time, some people will start thinking of you as "that guy who doesn't know anything". If these people are responsible for pay raise, promotions or other benefits, you will be left out.

It's not a good or acceptable scenario, by any means, but it pays to try to understand the nature of the otherwise irrational fear.
I wonder if the graphic is normalized for inflation