skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not quite sure if it would be possible to triangulate the position of the events - our sensors only detect relative changes in the magnetic field in the X and Y direction. As it stands we have only a handful of sensors: one that we operate at South Pole Station, and data that is made available to us from Taiwan. We are thinking, however, of placing a new sensor at McMurdo station so that we can see how latitude affects our findings.

Something that we've just found in the past few months shows that the occurrence of events can be limited by the elevation of the sun - we've never seen events happen when the sun was below ten degrees elevation at the south pole, and never below thirty degrees in Taiwan. Additionally, events in Taiwan seem to cut out in the two hour period surrounding local noon, suggesting that these might be highly local. They're also somewhat infrequent - we might only find two hundred such events over an entire year. We could go weeks without seeing one, and then get five events within a few hours. This might also suggest that it has something to do with solar heating of the ionosphere, given the timing of events. Note that all of this stuff is new and isn't discussed in any published literature.

As far as what's been published goes, I think there have been maybe half a dozen papers written since this phenomenon was discovered in the seventies. Here are the ones I've been able to quickly grab:

Heacock 1974 - The first report of ELF whistler-like events
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1974/GL001i002p00077.shtml

Sentman 1994 - The second study of ELF whistlers, and the only study of mid-latitude events
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1994/93JA02103.shtml

Wang 2005 - First report of ELF whistlers in Taiwan
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2005GL022412.shtml

Kim 2006 - First reports of the events at the south pole
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2005GL023638.shtml

Wang 2011 - Reports on new events detected in Taiwan
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011JA016832.shtml
That article appears to have been written in 2004. The state of the art has moved on.

The best quiet computing resource on the web is www.silentpcreview.com. They've been fanatical about noise reduction for a decade. It's not hard, using SPCR's techniques, to build a PC that is simply inaudible at any distance in any environment.
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Yeah, a good datacenter will have SLAs around the root-cause analysis document for any failures. Like a preliminary report within a day and a final report within 7 days.
I wrote out a big comment with extensive hyperbole comparing the retail industry to the movie business and their reluctance to give up their old business model but it got a bit ridiculous. It's not going to get that bad because there is already a good foothold in online retailing and there isn't really an existing law they can use (to my knowledge) to leverage lawsuits onto people.

Still, I don't feel sorry for the businesses getting "showroomed" that's the point of a free market, if someone does it better, they should get the business, go and adapt yourself and stop bitching about it.
My worry is that we'll see a proliferation of models like has happened to mattresses, where each store has their own special line (even if in name only). If you can't be sure it's really the same, it's much harder to comparison shop.

We might also see exclusives (time and chain based), and may even see more vendor showrooms. Sony, Apple, and others successfully operate stores which give users a chance to try things out in person.

I'm very curious to see how this will play out - or if it will matter at all.
In the context of this article, I think you can safely exchange those two words. I'd even say you can exchange company by side-project and the advice is still solid.
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But we also need to understand the struggle of those modern artists. They don't want to do just "composition and light" because they deem that kind of work as designing. And they didn't go to art school to learn to be a designer. I tend to believe that most of them are still failing, but maybe sometime somewhere someone could achieve something beyond just design.
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Right now you can handle this with query hints. The plans are stable, but they are attached to the query text. When you throw a hint in there memsql generates a new plan since the query text changes.
Not sure Flash requirement is appealing...
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This worries me as a customer. As a consumer, having access to other interfaces, even if I'm not using them, seems like better value than however Netflix thinks they can monetize their customers' viewing data. If they do find some other income stream, maybe they can use it to keep pricing flat or buy more content. But after the Qwickster debacle, I'm not too confident in their ability to do this. Discouraging other enterprises from building businesses around them isn't a good signal. If Netflix drives itself out of business, I hope someone else (Amazon perhaps) will pick up the lead. I really have no interest in getting a cable subscription.
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Agree. Perhaps Tracey Emin herself is trolling, who knows. But ∃x⊂A | Sx ↛ ∀x⊆A Sx. (S is for Sucks.)
I'm curious to see how you tested this... the user-agent should only ever emit the browser (product) and a comment after this. It should never show the IP address of your machine!

Were you doing the test on all browsers, or was it only Chrome? I'm curious as to what's going on here, because if Google have worked out how to get your IP address even when going through an SSL-capable proxy (not something I'd normally recommend, btw...) then I'd suggest they are sending something else over the wire.

Mind you, if you have not disabled the X-Forward-For header on your proxy, then this may be how Google knows your originating IP address. You should be able to tell by running a packet trace between the proxy and the Google site you are accessing.
you're absolutely correct, I can only go by what you say.
> We might also see exclusives (time and chain based), and may even see more vendor showrooms. Sony, Apple, and others successfully operate stores which give users a chance to try things out in person.

This is already fairly similar to how high-end retail for clothing works; each boutique will have an item or two that is unique to their store, or done in a special colourway that can only be found there. The largest brands also operate their own stores already, go to any high street in a major city and you'll find LVMH and PPR brand flagship stores
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I actually think a spin on this idea could work, we're going to be working with Google on adding a tag library to their JS libraries CDN (that is tentative btw) and the spec already calls for multi-tag definition inclusion via link tag.
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My condolences, Ed. She sounded wonderful, and I'm very sorry for your loss.
I've also had a few cases where providers either outright lied or only gave details if you persisted in requesting them. Having to play that game gets old…
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I'm constantly amazed at the entitlement attitude so many have when it comes to APIs and other people's data. Netflix wishes to change the rules on their API so that it fits in with some broader strategy no one knows about, so what? They wish to restrict the flow of data that they collect for their own uses, so what? They no longer wish to allow third-parties to monetize data accessed from a public API, so what? Regardless of what the article states, it is their data and they can do with it as they please. A person's viewing history on Netflix is not that person's data, it is Netflix's data as they are the people who spent the money to collect it. No amount of whining or complaining will change that.

I can understand people thinking this might be a bad idea for them and I agree that it's possibly a PR mistake. But there is a difference between complaining about access and demanding access to a company's data.
No worries :). MemSQL does very well for OLTP like workloads, but it's not an "all size fits all" database.

Recovery goes at the speed of disk.

The compile time for memsql is mostly code generation time. Once the code is generated/compiled MemSQL is doing a very good job matching the queries against the existing plan by removing parameters from the query text.
A store local to me (Blackbird in Ballard) has a branch in Portland now and will often requisition items from the other branch for you to try or buy. The same happens on a larger scale at large department stores such as Barneys, where SAs will often call around to other branches to see if they have the particular piece you're looking for in the proper size (the inventory systems often are slow to update)
I have no problem with Origin. They have been good about providing nice deals.

However, I do not want to manage and run multiple clients, multiple accounts across multiple websites, etc...

Thus, I have chosen Steam as my choice and have stubbornly stuck to that.

I want Mass Effect 3 quite badly. Maybe someday there will be a Steam version. I have hopes.
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idiotic piece.

Zuckerberg for better or worse is Facebook for the time being. Just because Facebook is behind in mobile today (and that's a rather stupid statement considering the mobile usage of its platform) doesn't mean they can't dominate soon.

In fact, Facebook more than most platforms could handle geo-fenced mobile ads and possibly even alerts. Trust me if I was investing in an advertising company today it would be Facebook.
Sony has been closing their stores pretty rapidly :). I think a store still has value if there is good customer support, like the Apple Genius bar.
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One thing that makes managing .NET easier compared to Java, is that there is always executable produced (.exe). So the transition between C/C++ to .NET or (vice-versa) is transparent to the user (or a more complicated process launching the executables).

With Java, it seems wrapping (at least on Windows) is done only through batch files, which among other thing have terrible Ctrl+C handling (asking for prompt and such).

Maybe I'm naive, but if I was to solve this, I would've done it the way many self-extracting tools work - a small .exe with your stuff at the end (or look at the same directory at the wrapped executable, same name, different extension), and run it like this. And then java itself would've be a dll itself, loaded by this process.

This way migration between languges/runtimes would be easier if Java is to play some part of it.
The whole table has to fit in memory. RAM is getting very cheap, you can buy 1Tb for 12K today.
More accurately: “don't trust any single data center”. All of the people who complained were directly ignoring Amazon's own advice, not to mention decades of engineering experience.

Going multi-AZ, multi-region or multi-cloud will help, each step up that list being significantly more work for increasingly small returns.
While I certainly use stores as showrooms quite a bit, mostly book stores since I usually just look for books to buy used or for my Kindle, but if they can manage to impress me with their service and they have reasonable prices, I will buy from them.

Years ago a 15 year old version of myself ventured into a few stores looking for an HD TV to go with my PS3. I was already pretty knowledgable about the TVs and I had found a few online for $600-700 (At the time, this was pretty much as cheap as they came) that seemed decent and I wanted to take a look at them in person before buying one. I think I went to Walmart, Best Buy, Target, ABC Warehouse, and finally Circuit City. At almost every store the "salespeople" knew almost nothing about what they were selling and there products were way too expensive for what they were. The only store that stood out to me was Circuit City. Not only did they have a good selection of quality TVs but the salesman I spoke with impressed the hell out me as he was the first that knew more about the TVs than I did. After I told him I was going to use the TV with my PS3, he grabbed an open PS3 from their storage room and hooked it up to a few of the TVs so I could try them out. I was so impressed by the level of service that I went back to the store the next day and bought an $800 TV (I think it was available online for $750 at the time) and I have never regreted the price difference.

As long as brick & mortar retailers can offer service beyond what an online retailer can do, they will do fine.
Nokia get rid this problem by doing some encouragement to develop in their old J2ME/Symbian platform in such country that still have good market share like Indonesia. In Indonesia, Nokia encourage developer to develop games in their platform in a contest named "Developer War", and now it has 4 episode/chapter.
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I couldn't agree with you more!

Can't tell you how many times I've walked into a store in the US lately and have come out citing to my wife the same old saying that obviously that store 'is not in the business of selling'. No service, ridiculing you, venting their frustrations at you. It's just a horrible experience all around.
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Jokes such as those are really bad for a good discussion. They serve to prove to people on your "side" (an idiotic notion, but I digress), how stupid the people on the other side are. I would downvote if I could.
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> But these are just non-arguments when the finding is "In 9 out of 10 cases, ...". The anecdote is the 1 out of 10 case.

The whole point of the article is that people won't judge that anecdote as only 0.1 relevant, but much much more (I'd say close to 0.9 if they personally prefer what anecdote says to what research says). It's a general human flaw that's very visible in day-to-day interactions with people.
What's even more bizarre is that they've been heavily discounting their iOS catalogue on a routine basis. For example, the last two holidays they've lowered nearly every app to 99 cents in order to take over the majority of the top 25 best selling games. Some factions within the company must have already understood the effects of volume pricing long ago.

Actually.. I think what EA really needs to start doing is using Origin to fund games ala Kickstarter. I think that's what their fans really want.
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So, MemSQL is a ColumnStore now? The docs didn't make that clear for me.

Anyway, why is there not a single benchmark available to support the sales-pitch?

(In your favor I'll just pretend you didn't mention kdb here...)
Memsql is a database that does some things incredibly well: deliver on high throughput for on small transactions and some things not as well (surface area).

Of course a new product will have certain limitation which will be removed as the product matures.
Spot on.

When you build your house on someone else's foundation, your house is at the mercy of the foundation's owner's plans.

Publically available APIs are great, but at times I am troubled by how many people develop entire products and applications around other's data, and then scream bloody murder when their business model goes up in smoke because the parent decided to evolve and innovate their own business.
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How many times will this be submitted?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4121698

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4123480

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4124097

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4124645

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125890

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4126185
When M Duchamp put a urinal on display in an art museum it made a novel point that we perceive quotidian things differently just because they're in an art gallery.

When [help me here] "installed" a live donkey "to symbolise his inability to come up with a good idea" that's piss.

That said there is plenty of excellent modern art. If you live in/near a wealthy city, this is easily verified.
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Not even a large sample will help against systematic errors.
Seems to me this yet another example of a guy at the top of a company going out into the wild to say things about which he has no clue as to what's being said.

How does a game franchise show value? By making money, not by being full price for the life cycle of the product.

Of course they would have sales like this, a game cannot stay full price forever. Especially since Valve can prove with sales numbers that you make more money in the long run with these type of sales. The guy at the top may say we won't have steep sales because he thinks it cheapens the franchise but the guys who count the money will eventually slap him down, tell him to shut up, and slash the price of that game to make more money.
How many times will this be submitted?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4121698

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4123480

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4124097

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4124645

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125890

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4126272
Please read the above comment again. And again.

It captures the essence of the struggling artist, and their perhaps seemingly mediocre output, better than anything else I've ever read before.

Also keep in mind that when people look at art, they're often placing the artist somewhere along this path into the uncharted; appreciating their struggle and being curious about where they will move next.
How many times will this be submitted?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4121698

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4123480

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4124097

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4124645

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4126185

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4126272
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I don't think it's really fair to Netflix to say they're throwing anything away. They exist totally at the pleasure of big content, and big content has decided that they want people to use cable. There's not really anything you can do when your distributors buy out one of your competitors and start to cut out the middle man (you.)
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Search for Netflix in the App Store or the Android play market.... There are a bunch of third party apps.. Especially on android (but none of them actually stream Netflix, they just allow you to manage your queue etc)
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Duke Ellington: "If it sounds good, it is good."

Sculpture professor whose class I modelled for: "Most people are going to completely ignore your work [that you spent weeks on, had your ego destroyed by peer criticism, fixed, put your soul into, etc] -- or look at it for about three seconds before moving on. If you can hold their attention longer -- if you can make them pause for an extra five seconds, and notice, or feel something, then you've succeeded." (He said this to students, not pre-acclaimed people whose work you're supposed to like because it has their name attached.)

Relatedly: If you can enrol in an art class (eg basic figurative drawing) it's a great growth experience. You'll also see what I saw: many levels of skill, an array of typical growth-paths, how artists are trained to conceive of their compositions (or of the human body), how very skilled kids can create something accurate-in-detail but totally uninteresting, and so on.

What's the difference between hearing a bunch of squealing and noise and ugly chords (=jazz) as a kid versus knowing how to play horn and wondering how jazz greats composed the atoms they did? (eg "abrupt, dramatic use of silence" by Thelonious Monk -- "how can you abruptly PAUSE?" you say) -- how a human might develop to the point (other than pure trolling) that they conceive of that composition. Not to mention a lot of technical details like what's easy/hard to do with a brush/chalk/charcoal/yarn/limestone/camera.

Certainly some people play games with an open-minded (=gullible), trusting audience (of potential buyers). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0NIs1fOkQg There's still plenty of great, subtle modern art that a 10-year-old would not appreciate but a 40-year-old could.
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Perhaps they're just probabilistically getting your IP address by clustering your user agent+browsing habits+etc against the set of IPs it's seen that cluster come from via AdSense embedding on other sites?
A good motivational post and it works when you apply it at a personal level. However when you have employees and they are constantly jumping from one of your experiments to another, without your project achieving much traction among users, it can become horribly demotivating.
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Only 37%? I think I read somewhere else that it's 100%+.

Edit:

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/06/18/google-government-ta...
What are you telling me? Our servers are hosted by a book store? You must be joking!
From article: It appears Netflix considers what films you’ve watched and what you thought of them as their data, not yours.

What you've watched & thought of it is, of course, your data.

However, Netflix is in no way obligated to act as your memory in when & whatever manner you demand.
It's actually Motorola Solutions. It's a different company from the one Google bought now.
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It actually is in the case I'm talking about. I'm talking about illegal websites where the only money generated is by advertisements on human eyeballs. They go way out of their way to make sure no scrapers/robots can see the videos on the page since it costs them money for bandwidth. In addition to referrer checking and captcha, they also have inline javascript that evals itself to un-obfuscate itself and load the video on the page so that if someone somehow beats the first two methods and loads it by a command line interface, they still don't get the URL to the video.
What do you mean? Who in your scenario here doesn't actually work in web development?
Only in metro areas and suburbs. In most other places, it's a single provider and you're lucky if that provider decides to offer service to your house.
>asking brands not to allow online sales

The suppliers aren't stupid, they see where this is going. Any wholesaler who agrees to that clause deserves what happens next – being overtaken by their more forward-thinking competitors.
Without knowing the testing methodology of the original poster, it's hard to say for certain :-)