skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OLAP isn't just about the underlying cubes and dimensions, in the end it's about how the information is being presented to the user.

You are right. Cubes, dimensions and the logical model abstraction is the very first step: physical data implementation is hidden. Cubes is young, as mentioned in my comment - front-end helpers will be coming later. I will need some help on that part.

I am not quite sure about the "feature-richness". Yes, it might sell - in environments where people barely notice wrong data in 40-page monthly report, still being content about the report exhaustiveness. From my experience, many people want just basic stuff. I am trying to make cubes as small as possible (but not smaller), however extensible. For example, the cubes will not force you to use "cube's" way of drawing charts. It will provide few examples, based on common, accessible visualising backends. Along with the examples will have possibility to plug-in your own visualisation/reporting method.

The intention is not to create competitive product to the "big ones", it is rather to create light-weight, customizable alternative for many smaller projects.

Cubes aims (at this moment) rather for tool for tool creators than tool for end users. But you never know, how the wind will change... :-)
And even then, the entire film is created in storyboard form, and then the voice work is done, and then the final rendering is done. Sure, re-doing parts of the work would be a pain, but they wouldn't have had to get Tim Allen back into the studio.
What do you think about the Kickstarter model for music? That seems to work for recorded music even if artists cannot make money from sales..
New Mockups of the 4-Inch iPhone 5
Issues of the domain name aside, I think the entire project is a bit 'fuzzy' in that the kinds of problems that will be posted here aren't easily lent to this sort of 'spare time' coding.

Working on someone else's project is something that eats a LOT of time. Even small projects inevitably end up taking weeks, months, or years.

If you're getting paid or if it's a personal passion then it tends to get done very quickly. Anything else tends to be regulated to release-date-pushing hell.
For what it's worth, the Huffington Post once did something similar with one of my posts, though it wasn't plagiarism, they basically just took my idea and ran with it. Even then, I'd say my situation was totally fair play. And given the content, it's not entirely inconceivable that they just had the same idea.

All of that said, I tweeted them about my article [1] (nothing accusative, just a sort of "hey, check out my similar article from eight months ago for a little more insight." They tweeted back something equally civil and added a link to their article [2] within a minute.

Anyway, that's a great way to handle such a situation, in my opinion.

[1] http://www.alfajango.com/blog/google-one-letter-suggestions/

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/google-instant-top-...
Perhaps the internet will lead to musicians who are in it only for the music, the self-expression and the ego boost, not for the money.

Maybe the truth is that it has always been this way. Maybe musicians didn't ask to be paid for doing what they love. Maybe record companies just realised they could profit recording and distributing a musician's music. And the musicians were quite happy to be paid.

But once record companies give a musician this "easy money", musicians are unlikely to ever want to sacrafice that benefit. Eventually it becomes viewed as an entitlement.

Digital recording and the internet means we don't need record companies to distribute music anymore.

Will musicians stop making music? Will the quality of music decline?

These are very weak arguments with no evidence to support them.
Except for the market is changing.
Hopefully, because the SEC is doing their job.
we have a strict policy in place to make sure this doesn't happen.

If it does, and it really shouldn't have beyond a year ago (when we really clamped down on it with our authors)... we fix it.

If it ever does happen, I assure you that all it takes is one email to office@thenextweb.com and we'll have it resolved.

But I assure you that this "care free" image you might have of us when it comes to posting other peoples images just isn't reality.
A web developer needs to understand the entire chain of technology, from his text editor or IDE all the way to the browser. You don't need to be able to build a server from scratch (although you probably should be able to), but you need to understand how the pieces fit together (WSGI, mod_php, PHP_FPM, CGI, for example) and that includes which pieces of that chain can cache, might cache, will cache, and how they cache.

The front-end developer needs to be more concerned with browser-related issues, but doesn't need to know anything about the server stack (typically). The back-end developer likewise doesn't need to concern him/herself with browser issues, but needs a solid grasp of everything behind the browser.

A web developer has feet in both worlds and needs to understand much more than the front-end and back-end developers.

As an analogy, a gynecologist might be a front-end developer. He has a basic understanding of the entire human body, but specialized in this one area and everything related to it. People like to hang around him, hoping something will rub off.

A neurosurgeon might be more of a back-end developer (not what you thought, eh?). He's concerned with the code running things and how it will react with everything else. He can be hard to talk to, but always interesting.

The dermatologist is your UX guy. Presentation is his game, and nothing else (but he still understands the pieces that interact with his domain). His home is always awesomely decorated, but not always functional or obvious (the three shells on the toilet).

A general surgeon is the web developer. Solid understanding of everything, great at finding and solving problems, but knows when to leave something to the specialists. He lives in the home you wish you had, and his pool table always has great action.

I got carried away with that, but the tl;dr is: the web developer needs to understand the entire chain of his/her domain. There is no piece too small that you don't need to know something about it - like how it works, or how to fix common problems with it. From editor to browser, you need to understand how it all fits together.
What you just posted is completely fallacious. You've just redefined what "consumer acquisition" is based on a narrow exclusion you've arbitrarily chosen, especially when it is blatantly obvious what point the original article was trying to make. And you talk down merchandising profits as if that has any impact on your argument.

Do you not recognize the train of logic that has led this far down a thread?
http://drawsomethingnaughty.com/100262
I would assume this would be standard forensics. Might not be tools for their particular file format, but it would be possible to carve the data.
Show HN: My life tracking (QS) system
Apple was hope . now its the new MS ...

comes with the territory . if you the one and in bed with CIA who's to say open up ...
American Express App to Blast Daily Deals Based on Your Payment History
Yes! Here you are:

http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/
Again proving that when you do something that is not in your companies nature or DNA but rather for money or reflexive response towards your competitors you will fail.

It's one of the reasons why tablet=iPad. For Apple, it's technology intertwined with their corporate DNA. For others, it's a reflexive product to make money because they see a profit opportunity.
1 pixel = 1 km, according to the article.
Let's Go Further: Build Concurrent Software using the Go Programming Language
> This isn't plagiarism. It's laughable to say that it was, they cited him

Yes, it is. What you see now is not how this started, there has been a lot of editing to change the situation to look different than it was initially.
A taste of bayesian truth serum
I don't understand. Both BitTorrent and the Radio drove an equivalent amount of concert/merch revenue. But BitTorrent saps recording revenue. Therefore: BitTorrent is worse for artists than the radio.

How does "but BitTorrent still drives merch revenue" even logically address that point?
Have you considered not personally flaming the original authors in public?
Foursquare check-ins are now integrated into your Facebook Timeline map
The description of the video the example was taken from (http://vimeo.com/8569257) notes that the tests are done using his (Gary Bernhardt) own Mote framework (https://github.com/garybernhardt/mote)

From a quick look, it does indeed use some very black and rather... funky magic to locate and call the inner functions.
I mean the language itself, not the performance of the individual implementations. For example, I can't imagine prototype based OO being used for large scale projects.
I'd say getting SQLAlchemy instead of the terrible Django ORM is enough of an advantage.

However, I have also found the tools around Django's ORM to be quite useful (admin, south).
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On a live-audience episode of Diggnation, Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose asked a large audience, "How many of you pirate music and movies over bittorrent?" They weren't expecting anyone to seriously admit it. But about half the audience cheered and waved their hands! Then they asked "Well how many of you suckers actually buy music and movies online, like from iTunes?" and about half the audience (mostly the same people) cheered again. They were pretty confused about this (as you seem to be), but the reaction made it clear that it's pretty common behavior.

They followed up by asking why people pay for stuff when they have no problem downloading it. The two main answers were: "If I like it, it buy it" and "I expand my collection any way I can."
Probability is temporal. You need to specify timeframe.

If you are talking about before the coins were flipped to decide whether a marble was to be placed into the box, then at that time BEFORE the coin was flipped, the probability would be 0.5 per box.

If you are talking about AFTER the coin has been flipped, the probability for each box goes to either 0 or 1. This is regardless of whether an outside observer is aware of the state or not.

If you were to now enter the room, having no knowledge of what boxes (if any) have had a marble placed in them, the probability of a marble being in a particular box has not changed. It is STILL either 1 or 0. There are only two ways to induce probability at this point: Pick a single, random box to open, in which case you are measuring the probability that you will choose a box with a marble in it (you are measuring yourself, not the marbles). The other is to guess whether a particular box has a marble in it, and then open it, in which case you are measuring whether your guess is correct or not (once again, measuring yourself, not the marble).

Most people go wrong here because they think they are measuring one thing but are actually measuring something else.
You really don't get it do you?

> If it ever does happen, I assure you that all it takes is one email to office@thenextweb.com and we'll have it resolved.

I'm sure it does. But the point is that you should ensure through process and not through policy that you do not end up with other people's stuff on your site without attribution or compensation.

The fact that you'll take it down to avoid further damage is not enough to put you in the clear, this is not 'user generated content', these are people with who you have a relationship where you have them create works on your behalf.

You're responsible.

One way in which you could do this - consult your local legal eagle - is to ask your authors to sign a release stating that they are the original creators of all the content they submit, and that they are within their rights to re-sell this content to you.
You might want to look at OSS options like Pentaho, Jasper and Palo.

Palo (a competitor to Cognos TM1), in particular, is really nice. The other two leave a little to be desired on the UI side.
For everyone like me that has to look up the "Popsicle Index" here you go:
http://solari.com/blog/the-popsicle-index-rant/

It's a succinct and catchy concept, the rant seems oversimplified IMO, but I do like the concept.
The goal of the exam is not to determine what knowledge you have assimilated, but how likely you are to generate new knowledge. Hence the very open nature of the question.
So basically, Lifeshield are paying someone to do really dodgy SEO and twitEO. They did their Google SEO then got fu*ked by it, so they started a dmca take down of all the left over sites that had fake link backs.

Now they just need their twitter follower network shutdown.
Untethered iOS 5.1.1 Jailbreak Coming in Just Two Weeks
The first thing I thought of was CamSpace: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/control-any-game-with-your-webc...

I remember using it a few years ago and it seemed pretty buggy (though maybe it was just my low quality webcam). This seems like it has a lot more potential.
I cannot believe how stupid this guy is!! is he for real?? does anyone know his history at RWW? How did he get there?
The recently-released Blue Marble image was from several different overpasses (six to be exact) but only one instrument on one spacecraft.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_21...
I guess they don't teach this in the CEO school you went to, but it's not about crediting him more, it's about stealing from him less. There's a difference.
> they cited him

Only after he called them out for it. The screenshot was taken after they silently changed it.
Unfortunately its not about the desire for the SEC todo their job, its ability.

New top-grads in finance (and highly sought after performers) go to work at large banks simply based on incentive structures. The SEC is out gunned from the get-go.
I think I'm suggesting not very subtly that people are cheering for what they want to be true, but not for what they actually do. Ask any 10 of those people anonymous what the last 3 things they torrented (and, sure, liked) were and what the last 3 things they bought were, and the sets will be disjoint.

David Lowery would say that recorded music sales stats, especially when deconfabulated, bear out that assumption. I'd also suggest that common sense does the same: much of the mainstream market for music can't afford to buy every single track they want to listen to, and yet the suggestion seems to be that they have a monklike devotion to doing that when there is no practical benefit to doing so.
I love to imagine how the phrase "But since this system was introduced system" was coined by TNW's journalist :-)
Actually most companies and ALL analysts use non-GAAP numbers (search for your favorite company + non-gaap https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...)... it reflects the true nature of the business. They are also referred to as pro-forma numbers. There isn't any funny business going on here. It is good that we have GAAP so you can compare apples to apples in different industries but for a further breakdown non-GAAP numbers are very useful to an analyst.
That was a warning light for me, yet I still thought it was coming from github. Well, it seems it does not come from github. Bad behavior.

Edit: Now, that I think of it, copy was a second red light, yet I still thought it was coming from github. It only shows how good a perception github as a company has.
At the momenent, Apple is even worse than Microsoft.
Scott Thompson Walks With $7 Million, But No Severance
What java service?
Seems odd that he could become CEO of a publishing company without knowing what plagiarism is.
Kinesis.io Build gesture driven web apps with JS & Kinect
This looks awesome.

That said, it seems like they already have production figured out, all the research done, etc. Why not just sell the product, instead of running a Kickstarter campaign? Is this just functioning as a pre-order, so they can make a big batch of them?
Quora raises $50m at a $400m valuation
These are two separate issues. They have only become confused because the MPAA/RIAA insists on referring to piracy as 'copyright theft' when it is not. Plagiarism and copyright theft (in the real, classic, sense) has always been a criminal offense.
The Dragon in my Dreams (video)
Agree with that too!
We do have processes AND policy in place to make sure this doesn't happen. But it can still happen unintentionally and when it does, we react activity and proactively.
How much does it cost? If it says on the site, it isn't prominent.
1. You didn't answer the question. Can you point to any example in history of this EVER happening? I'll take any example.

2. This is patently false. Even if there were 0 jobs, wages would not be zero. People simply won't work without some incentive. If I want you to go out and dig a hole in the ground, I either need to reward you for doing so, or find a way to convince you that you want to dig that hole of your own free will.
Not to mention that the "fix" for this "problem" is simply to guess high.

Don't have a scale to weigh a package that feels about the same as a pound of butter? Enter the weight as 5 lbs. They'll happily charge you more and deliver it.
Thanks for posting this. I'd read it years ago but had lost it. It's excellent and sums up everything that's wrong with SW.

I'd love to ask him to respond to that article. He won't.
If they found bugs in TeX, they should have reported them to Knuth. If they didn't want to "bankrupt" him, there could have turned down Knuth's check or just not cashed it, like the vast majority of people who have received Knuth's checks for bug reports. I'm sure Knuth would have greatly appreciated receiving the bug reports (and in fact would still appreciate receiving them now, if in fact those bugs exist).
I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming language [RESULTS]
Will their former "top tier" universities allow them to return, or give that spot to someone who values it a bit more?

The former. I know people who finished their undergrad degrees after stopping out for years, and it wasn't much of a problem at all.

You could very reasonably drop out, start a company, have it fail, finish school, then work for the hedge fund. There's no problem here.
A fatal lack of accountability
Pretty obvious: 1) if you're going to copy a story, try to re-word it a bit and 2) when you get caught, apologize, make the changes, provide some credit to the original author and don't be a jerk.
I haven't encountered a lot of BI nerds who are Pythonistas, but this is a great contribution nonetheless.

The more open source tools we can get that can begin displacing products like Cognos and BO, the better.
First indication I've seen of what Amex intends to do with its vast database about their members' habits.
The Schrödinger's cat experiment is flawed, as pointed out by Niels Bohr and explained here: http://web.archive.org/web/20061130173850/http://www.ensmp.f...

The wave function collapses as you induce probabilistic action. And once again, to speak of probability one must speak temporally. Lack of observation of the change does not negate the change in probability.
Where is this true?

It was most likely "sudo rm -rf .*" which will actually go BACKWARDS up the tree as well.

Edit: At the very least, this doesn't work on OS X 10.5, Ubuntu 10.04 (server edition), and CentOS 5.8. For example:

$ mkdir -p foo/bar
$ cd foo/bar
$ rm -rf ..
rm: "." and ".." may not be removed
Why Agile Needs Domain Driven Design
Very creative indeed. I have been using Picoboard (http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html) for teaching with Scratch. This gives so many ideas for the resistance sensors. Awesome job guys. Will back you up.
We will be discussing Fat Free CRM and other exciting open source projects at our SF meetup this Thursday.

http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-New-Wave-Open-Source-App...

Big thanks to our friends at singly.com for hosting.
That isn't my point. My point is that when someone is upset with you, attention to such details matter. He appears to not even be trying. It looks very likely that he is either a social nitwit who should appoint someone else to handle his PR or guilty of the degree of disrepect of which he is accused.
That's what businesses like PostNet and FedEx Kinko's are for. Take your package there to ship it if you don't want the hassle, or use their address to receive stuff. They will happily sign for your package and call you when it gets there.

Why is any of this a problem? Don't businesses like this exist in the UK?
Stephen Wolfram's AMA from March 5, 2012.

http://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/im_stephen_wolfram_m...
I suspect -- and I may be wrong -- that the advantages of using Node differ between large teams and small teams. For my first startup, I had the budget to hire a single full-time developer. The was a substantial amount of work to do on both the frontend and backend -- with the backend development needing to get underway first, but the frontend work being much more experimental and needing to go through many more iterations as part of the development process (we understood this upfront).

My developer did his homework, and came to exactly the same conclusions about Node that this article highlights. So he began developing the backend in Python/flask. I'm sure that was a good choice for the backend, on general principle.

However, we began hitting problems when it came time to start developing and iterating the frontend in parallel with the backend: it proved to be almost impossible for a single person to handle the task-switching between two completely different languages, testing frameworks, etc. So backend development lagged a little, and frontend development lagged a lot. I'm fairly sure this set the project back by 3-4 months. It wasn't until we brought on a dedicated front-end programmer that development was able to pick up pace a bit.

So I can see how for larger companies, it is probably best to optimise the backend with something other than Node -- you will have enough people working for you that backend and frontend programmers can specialise. But for companies with two (or fewer) developers -- which know that they also have to be doing a quite substantial amount of javascript on the front-end -- then I suspect that Node's comparative small task-switching penalty is probably hugely valuable.

That's just my hunch, but it's lasted a long while. So as I get ready to hire a couple of developers for my second startup, I'm leaning towards using Node. It's a frontend-intensive application which is unlikely to ever have to deal with "web-scale" issues that more mature backends are needed to handle. And if it does ever approach "web-scale", then it'll certainly have the budget to hire additional programmers to re-implement the backend in something else -- or maybe, by then, Node will have evolved into something sufficiently robust. Either way, it seems better than causing ourselves a bunch of task-switching pain upfront.

I'd be really curious to see a critique/comparison of Node which addresses the relative merit (or lack thereof) of its low task-switching barrier -- particularly for small teams.
Yes, having seen both sides of the process. The minimum requirements tend to be a lot more flexible than people think.
The Popsicle Index
Because some people still trust Apple.
When you start to ask "What is it all for?" you stop competing and working hard, because you realize it's an old man's game.

It's 2012. You can get HD pornography on a phone. Are we still expected to worry about all of this menial shit from the 60s?
Time clicking around is just dead time.
"keep your mouth shut until you know all the facts"

I think you learned a hard lesson here, but it's one that many of us had to learn the hard way. It's good to see an apology.
"Someone had ran RM * on their shared storage, deleting the file system."

Doesn't this command, like any other delete-command, require top privileges (admin/root) that are unavailable in normal situations?