skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here.

Still, I bought a 3G ipad only because of the GPS chip in it. Even without the data plan it's quite valuable if you hook your ipad to your phone's hotspot or another wi-fi network.
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Pinterest has built a service around sharing much like Reddit but instead of using links it appropriates the content and tries to 'pin' that on the user. I fully expect Pinterest to have to change the way they operate to make it more inline with a google images style of caching, where they assume the responsibility for reproducing the images. I think Pinterest just needs some smarter lawyers.
IME the interviews have been more like "build this Escher painting with balsa... You have 2 hours".
Yuck to OsX hosting
Seems messed up
Did this last year. Great fun!
There are a few reasons that design resists commodification - one of them is that it's like peacock feathers. A well-designed site or app signals that the creator invested resources into it. Generic design looks untrustworthy to a potential customer or user - not because it's ugly or bad, but because it says to users, "I slapped this together over the weekend - it might not be here tomorrow." That might not be true, but that's the message that is received.
I think there's a golden opportunity that's less about "social circles" and more about "revealed common preferences".

If there's somebody on your review site, who ranks highly several of my highly ranked coffee shops, and ranks low a subset of my lowly ranked coffee shops, I'd be much more prepared to consider their other coffee shop reviews as relevant to me. Even better, location based services like 4Square of Facebook checkins could expose their "revealed preferences" to the algorithm as well, someone who rates Fourbarrel and Ritual highly, but checks in to Starbucks four times a day is less likely to be someone who's reviews I'd want to read than someone who perhaps rates Fourbarrel and Ritual lower on an absolute scale, but checks into both regularly as well as, say Sightglass and BlueBottle.

I'd really like a time and event aware as well as just venue aware review function. Zeitgeist on a Thursday night, or after a critical mass ride - is a _vastly_ different experience than Zeitgeist on a sunny Saturday afternoon when it's full of slumming sunset and marina crowds. DNA Lounge really needs separate review categories for Death Guild nights, Bootie nights, and out-of-town dubstep artist nights - people who love (and hence rate highly) one of those events are significantly less likely to enjoy the other two as much - which makes a Yelp-style single rating for DNA Lounge not particularly useful.
Awesome!

I just found a place to work from tomorrow here in Rio de Janeiro. Thanks!
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You're assuming a correlation between price and quality. But price has at least two aspects: the base cost of that type of food; and the supply / demand for the quality of preparation.

You could have cheap sushi that's very good; similarly, you could have excellent sushi that's quite expensive compared to other types of food, but is still cheap for that level of quality. And a third place could have the same price as the second, but much lower quality. Which should get $ vs $$$?

Furthermore, not all cheap restaurants are cheap because they are competing on price. Sometimes they are even run at a loss to sell something else. For example, El Bulli, when it was still in operation, was an expensive restaurant on an absolute basis; but relative to the quality of the food, it was very cheap - because it was not even profitable, the restaurant was run at a loss. Instead, it built a brand around Ferran Adrià that sold books and other things.

Similarly, a local restaurant to me is called Corner Room in Bethnal Green, London. It's cheap food selected from a set menu - and rather than controlling demand with prices, it does it with timing and willingness to wait, since bookings are not taken. The same chef runs a much more expensive restaurant, Viajante.

The value of ratings is only as good as the preference function of the raters. If the raters are drawn randomly, then sure, you can probably rely on the rough consensus. But raters are seldom drawn randomly; for one thing, people are much likely to rate bad experiences than good; people with iPhones and who are generally more plugged in are more likely to rate, and there are demographic and geographic patterns to the popularity of various different rating systems.

Using Yelp in an area where all the locals use a different system, you'll end up with ratings from tourists, who may be bowled over by the novelty of sub-par local food. If your own preference function has a primarily foodie basis, but the website you take reviews from has a more balanced function of location, service and price, then it stands to reason that many places will get much higher ratings than you would rate it yourself, because you assign lower weights to those other factors.

If, as you state, you find ratings are a good match to your own preferences, all that means is that you have a preference function somewhere in the middle of the rating sample. But not everyone is like that.
Would the downvoters kindly explain themselves? I intended to pose an honest question about how they're doing autocomplete. Apparently I'm the only one who hasn't seen that particular behavior on a search engine before. I don't recall that specific set of suggestions show up in any other search box I've used, probably because I don't pay attention.

Edit: I see now that I misinterpreted the parent. I thought he meant those just happened to be the top Lycos search terms, but he meant that the name of the form element was shared with other sites that have search fields I use.
You pay maintenance (presumably); so...

Get onto Atlassian and get them to help you (at least with your slowness and crash issues) - their support is good once you get them engaged.

I've had all the problems you describe (large instance - 100k issues, internet facing) - sometimes it's as simple as a resetting a bad VTL template. They will get to the bottom of it.
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Much of it is a conceit, yes, and I'm not qualified to comment on the legal precedents surrounding such licenses.

I'm sure Pinterest makes you check a box saying you agree to the Terms of Use before they let you create an account.

Whether that's sufficient is up to a court to decide, and an attorney could tell you the likelihood of a successful suit given a specific fact pattern.

I'm not an attorney, though.

As I said below, people -- engineers, especially -- get caught up in contractual technicalities. The fundamental question is: do you trust Pinterest to do right by you?

Flickr has a similar clause that every photographer who has uploaded their photos has agreed to, but they do right by their users and so nobody believes one day Flickr is going to undo all that work. It would alienate their customers.

If you think Pinterest is untrustworthy, why do you think some text on a screen that they wrote themselves is going to impact their behavior one way or another?
Google and Amazon are the companies that aim for the US first every single time. At least it would be unusual if Apple did the same here.
Legally [...] Pinterest only needs to comply with DMCA takedown requests.

That didn't work out so well for MegaUpload.

But then again, pinterest probably doesn't have a strong lobby working against it.
I don't know why how a button looks should be a commodity. However, how a button looks by default clearly is.

In general, for example, I might want a certain set of buttons to look different from another set of buttons because this provides useful information to the user of the system.

I haven't worked with bootstrap yet, however it looks very promising. The key to a good framework is how much it makes what you want to do easy when the tasks align, and how it stays out of your way when the tasks do not.

I actually look forward to playing with Bootstrap to see what it's capable of doing. It looks like the alignment handling might be worth it by itself. However, the article here made me somewhat less enthusiastic. One of our goals is to produce something easily themable. If bootstrap helps, great. If it gets in the way, that would be a bad thing.
You're right, I completely misread the grandparent.
Or at least add a little time delay, so the colors don't give information about each letter, only information of the final password typed.
https://lists.immunityinc.com/pipermail/canvas/2012-February...

http://securityevaluators.com/files/papers/0daymarket.pdf
Is this phone network caps, or landline cable/DSL caps?
Gen-3 Apple TV released today... yawn
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i actually think their interface makes it terrible as a discovery , but helps when finding a place and seeing pictures of items from a venue.
Is this decompressing a single stream on multiple processors? My knowledge of gzip is very limited, but I would have thought sequential processing was required. What's the trick here? (TFA doesn't explain anything, and e.g. pigz homepage doesn't either).
The one example you provide (Sol Food) is not good. Sol Food gets very good reviews from just about everywhere (TripAdvisor, UrbanSpoon, Google, Zagats, OpenTable etc). Which 4.5 and 5 star taquerias are you referring to?
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Because not everyone has one. Some of us have Bitbucket. Some have Google Code and Sourceforge.
As it is at least partially a recruiting event, the closer the invites go out to the event, the better they can match the invitees to the jobs they're trying to fill.
The first one of these I saw have much success was Soosiz on the iPhone. It's a fun concept for a platformer.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soosiz/id331891505?mt=8
Sort of like how the Rails default settings only caused problems for the careless....

I bet a lot of people would have verified their keys with instructions but didn't bother without.
You might as well say there was a lot of talk about flight in the centuries before it was actually invented. Historical data can only take you so far.

>Now what exactly do the bioterrorism criers think is going to happen if they start being taken seriously enough to influence policy? It's only too obvious what's going to happen, because it's the same thing that always does: more regulation on biotech research, more red tape, more of the sort of field day for the paranoid and bureaucracy gone mad that we already see in the security theater at airports. It's hard enough to fly to Disneyland in those conditions, let alone do cutting-edge research.

Are you in favor of government regulation for people researching new designs for nuclear bombs?

It's all about cost benefit analysis. The TSA is a waste of time not only because hijacking is rare, but because the average hijacking kills fewer than 1000 people. If there was a strong theoretical argument for how a hijacked plane could permanently end the human race, it would not be a waste of time.

I'm in favor of unregulated biotech research if the expected benefit from additional disease cures exceeds the expected risk from potential engineered viruses. Frankly, I'm more concerned about the engineered viruses because it seems like an engineered virus has a better chance of killing off everyone (as opposed to not everyone, which is an extremely important distinction in my view; I'm playing for team humanity) just because engineered things tend to work better than things that assemble by chance.
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John Gruber of Daring Fireball just confirmed that it is in fact using data from Google Maps: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/03/07/iphoto-maps
No, it's not possible... how do you delete a key with a mass-assignment hack?
Hah, they mentioned the Firebase guys. They're awesome - been using them for a while now doing 'live' things. Good to hear hackathons are digging firebase.
In one sense, that seems kinda inevitable. Way more people check in to FourSquare (and possibly leave a comment/tip) than check in to, say, Fat Duck or Noma.

I suspect your local Starbucks has two orders of magnitude more checkins that the local specialty coffee roaster/espresso bar…
Why is that so shocking? It logs both.
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Not surprised to see it's Sergey Glazunov - he's been awarded seemingly dozens of Chrome bug bounties already.
Visually interesting, but functionally leaves a lot of be desired. Seems more style over substance.

e.g., Zoomed over the entirety of the US - San Jose appears over San Francisco. Entirety of Midwest is empty even though there's plenty of room for some city names. Boston and New York make the cut, but evidently Baltimore is more important than DC :P Jacksonville FL makes the map before Miami or Orlando?

Hell, when zoomed into North Dakota not a single name is drawn.

This is pretty sloppy for Apple standards.
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A terrible recruiter from flex-associates.com found me on linkedin, I came "highly recommended", from a super secret sauce. Next day they tried it on with my junior. Same person, same conversation tactic, same lack of knowledge about the industries I work in and the systems I work with and develop for.
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Having collections hound you daily and damaging your credit rating for the next 7 years doesn't sound bad to you?
Uh this link:

http://www.lowendbox.com/

redirects me to

https://twitter.com/#!/LebAlerts

From their twitter stuff, LEB has been getting DDOS'd for the last day?

They also make a few references to Linode - how are are/were they using their service?
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I once had a job that depressed the hell out of me. I had thought the company would be good because the job ad said they'd never, ever lost an engineer in more than 10 years of operation.

2 months after I'd left, the same job ad was on the recruiter's website.
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No doubt books are very useful learning tools. However, depending on the code, source code can be equally if not more useful. For example, years ago I learned a lot about C by reading (and later writing) Linux kernel source code.

It's also true that code being open source doesn't mean the code is useful, but a book being published doesn't mean the material is presented well, either.

Maybe it's just my pro-open source bias, but it feels like you've got an axe to grind against open source. If so, would you mind sharing why (maybe you know something I don't)?
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It definitely does. I watched Netflix on my phone for hours during a power outage.
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Even Tumblr explicitly states that you own your content, and that you only license Tumblr the right to cache, republish, etc., "in order to provide the Services".
I thought the limit was 20mb?
Hopefully constructive criticism here:

I've looked around your site, and I'm still not sure what you offer. I've figured out that you offer APIs, but APIs that do what? Push messages (urban airship)? Search (indextank, searchify)? Geostuff? Video encoding (zencoder)?

I could probably dig into the example libraries and figure it out, but if people don't figure out what you offer pretty quick, many will bail.
I was making a single postcard per image, and needed a total of 30 separate images. These were going to a family member (30 postcards from 30 locations for her 30th birthday).

Having to wait a week for each image, and pay $100 each, wasn't going to work.

For personal use such as this it'd be nice if there were an easier way. Maybe Flickr could even be the middle man and take a 30% cut.
You are right. The .pdf version of the user manual of pigz (at http://zlib.net/pigz/pigz.pdf ) has a few details (the bottom of this answers your question):

"Pigz compresses using threads to make use of multiple processors and cores. The input is broken up into 128 KB chunks with each compressed in parallel. The individual check value for each chunk is also calculated in parallel. The compressed data is written in order to the output, and a
combined check value is calculated from the individual check values.

The compressed data format generated is in the gzip, zlib, or single-entry zip format using the deflate compression method. The compression produces partial raw deflate treams which are concatenated by a single write thread and wrapped with the appropriate header and trailer, where the trailer contains the combined check value.

Each partial raw deflate stream is terminated by an empty stored block (using the Z_SYNC_FLUSH option of zlib), in order to end that partial bit stream at a byte boundary. That allows the partial streams to be concatenated simply as sequences of bytes. This adds a very small four to five byte overhead to the output for each input chunk. The default input block size is 128K, but can be changed with the -b option. The number of compress threads is set by default to the number of online processors, which can be changed using the -p option. Specifying -p 1 avoids the use of threads entirely. The input blocks, while compressed independently, have the last 32K of the previous block loaded as a preset dictionary to preserve the compression effectiveness of deflating in a single thread. This can be turned off using the -i or --independent option, so that the blocks can be decompressed independently for partial error recovery or for random access.

Decompression can’t be parallelized, at least not without specially prepared deflate streams for that purpose. As a result, pigz uses a single thread (the main thread) for decompression, but will create three other threads for reading, writing, and check calculation, which can speed up decompression under some circumstances. Parallel decompression can be turned off by specifying one process ( -dp 1 or -tp 1 )."

I also just updated the article with this info.
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I doubt anything technical prevents instant updating. Showmanship is a big part of the corporate DNA.
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I doubt the reason is technical. Showmanship is a big part of Apple's corporate DNA.
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Those two claims are totally false.
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"This may make sense for images which are to be used in a commercial context, but for personal use like how I wanted to use the images, it's way too expensive and much too much friction."

That's why Flickr lets you search for Creative Commons images, for which the photographer gives you that personal use permission in advance.
4) There just aren't very many posthuman civilizations yet.

The other three assume a crowded universe.
It very well could be, but according to other it's polling Apple servers.
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I found this response elsewhere in the thread so interesting that I had to say something.

PS - The best taqueria IMO is in the outer mission, most the menu is in spanish, and I'm trying to keep it a secret, but yelpers seem to be catching on :(

If you're trying to keep a taqueria to yourself, do you have incentive to leave a bad review? After all, your interests are not aligned with the rest of Yelp's customers. Or even, necessarily aligned with the taqueria's success. Maybe it's to your codependent advantage that they always stay small and delicious and hidden and yours...

preciouss.

This is the problem Yelp hasn't solved yet: how to align the interests of Yelp, Yelp reviewers, Yelp readers, and restaurants. Yelp succeeds if reviewers leave bad reviews because they are upselling bad review protection (they say they aren't several times in the FAQ, but they protesteth too much for me), or if restaurants buy ads. Yelp readers succeed if reviewers are honest and they can use reviews to optimize their personal quality/dollar equation. Restaurants succeed if Yelp drives Yelp readers to them, if reviewers leave good reviews.

Reviewers have many incentives to game reviews. One of the Yelp FAQs is about payola. If they review enough they gain community prominence through badges/titles. If they review too much, their reviews look suspicious (because they could be making them up instead of actually attending). If they become untrustworthy due to a secret Yelp algorithm, their reviews are obscured from prominent view. If they have a bad experience at a place everyone thinks is great, they run a risk writing a contrarian review and being labeled untrustworthy. And on and on.
Wow, time would be a big problem when designing something like that. You'd either have to decouple or market the different games to different types of players - for example a slow 20 minute a day empire-building game layered on top of an addictive grinding World of Warcrack type thing. Something to think about.

Thanks for the slicecity link.
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Haha. Well, to be completely honest, I was recruited as a moderator for /r/programming because of a novelty account I ran that essentially bitched about any submission that could remotely be construed as not being related to programming, so I, and the mod who added me, are pretty strict about what belongs in the sub and what doesn't.

Looking over your blog though, it seems like most of the stuff you write about is fine. We'll only have a huge problem with it if you start indiscriminately submitting every post on your blog, relevant to programming or not. If you're not sure, just submit anyway. One of the admins just added a feature yesterday that allows us to remove posts that are off topic without training the spam filter (long overdue), so if we do decide that something isn't right for the subreddit, it won't harm your standing with the filter.
Not just a little strong, its bullshit... 2.2 sigma still leads to about a 4-5% chance of random error, and in particle physics that is an absolutely MASSIVE margin of error.

As people have been saying, Physicists probably won't get truly excited about this discovery until 5 sigma, or a 99.9999% confidence interval.

Articles with titles like this mislead the public and in my opinion do more harm than good because they stop people from thinking critically about whether there are flaws in the process, instead leading them to take things for given.
I found this Wikipedia article helpful in explaining the roles of the DSPs in the games that used them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_c...
Look at them. They are the most beautiful tiles I've ever used.
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Oh... I do love everyone's opinion about this topic. It's interesting, but I think everyone can agree that "human evolution is a train with no tracks". Thinking there is a formula to solve it's equation by humans is pretty amusing.
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They upped it to 50mb today.
You also get to run your servers off volcanic activity, which is pretty cool and ideal for any aspiring Blofeld, although it does sound potentially risky.