skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even getting the data to that machine presents a problem that seems to undermine the value of it entirely: As you mentioned, the real value in this is linear processing of large sets of data, but the storage is ephemeral so your process has to be some variation of firing this instance up, copy TBs of data to the machine, and then do linear processing. Given that you have to get the data there, the value of the high aggregated gross-throughput seems secondary -- just stream process it, etc.

I'm having a tough time seeing where this type of instance fits.
Great, now I'm going to feel guilty for every hour I spend reading HN instead of helping a fellow human.

Your hobbies are your own and investment into your personal concerns is not a zero sum game. Oh ...wait yes it is... I just wanted to say zero sum. But seriously, if you are able to dedicate time and effort into something even remotely positive you should do it. There's no predicting how, when, or to whom it will be of benefit. This guy could've been spending all that time and money into much less useful things - even self destructive things. At very least this is one hell of a grand art piece.

Personally, I find it is an inspiration. Amazing what can be done with sufficient dedication and effort.
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I'm pretty sure that (http://xkcd.com/404) is the actual 404 comic =). It is the only one "missing". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkcd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_404
They fixate on it specifically because it is one of the bibles most conspicuous flaws. If you're going to try and argue that the bible is literally true the first thing someone is likely to throw back at you is this story. So you have to try and make it seem plausible.
I think what was being described might be more akin to management seeking to hire a replacement before you leave and they are caught with their pants down.

If they're at least somewhat clueful, they know that a high performer's position (by virtue of the high performance, if nothing else) is critical. They may not be happy, but they may do their best to cover the anticipated gap. And some people argue that some management sees interviewing or "looking around" as an incontrovertible sign that, sooner or later, that employee is leaving. Or could leave. And they don't want that risk.

P.S. OT, but I'm really tired of LinkedIn and others' heavy-handed Javascript dependencies for blog entries and articles (whichever this one is; I didn't enable scripting) -- essentially for static text.
People have already taken the rights to their creations lightly by posting them on a free service.

I agree, but only in the sense that they probably haven't read or cared much about the terms. Sharing content is different than giving up copyright. People are sure to reuse and redistribute it, but I do believe in fair use regardless of whether the rightsholder is a big company or an individual.
Year in review: Best of 2012
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You mean something like http://www.itelescope.net/ ? Also check for a local amateur astronomy association.

Research telescopes often have live feeds for popular events (such as the Venus transit).

Finally depending on your location you may be no further than a day trip away to an astronomical facility - they often have events open to the public, stargazing etc.

BTW Here's another "christmassy" picture (this time of the Bubble Nebula) from a brand new instrument:

http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1136.html

Disclaimer - Latter link is my employer, but I have nothing to gain from you clicking on it :-)

Oh Edit: you can also go data-mining in public astronomy databases, though sadly most of them are not geared for use by the general public.

Oh Edit2: You can have some fun with this http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ but you need Silverlight
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Actually, it is an open question. Delayed choice entanglement seems to be able to send messages back in time, but the experiment was unable to tell whether it was communication into the past or simply an after-the-fact relabelling of events.
Got it? =D
Polar vortex

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/N001983...
Very interesting. Does anyone know what tech wetransfer uses for uploading? I was prompted to use Flash for download, but what about uploads? They don't use a Java applet. Anyone?
Hate is an intentionally strong word; I don't actually "hate" people that believe in ID. That being said, trying to get ID and other religiously-motivated nonsense into schools is a direct threat to everything those schools stand for.

Edit: type fix.
I don't want to be a hater of something everyone around seems to love, but I really didn't enjoy the experience of Hobbit 3D HFR, it was like seeing a God of War game at times, and I felt no connection to the characters, and no emotion at all.

And I really like the LoTR saga, having seen it several times.
It is advocating the specific 3 proposals (100% NCIC checks on all transfers, criminalizing federally straw purchases, and 10rd magazine restrictions and AWB), actually.

(EDIT: I guess that's Demand a Plan, but they're being promoted by exactly the same set of people in all the same places, and Demand a Plan includes the moment of silence, so it seems fair to consider them the same thing.)
There are lawyers ... and there are lawyers. Nilay's arguments were very eloquently tossed into his shoe for him to eat by other lawyers. Read the comments on the Verge for pretty good online lawyer brawling .. Ok not a brawl, but Patel had it completely wrong and other lawyers weighed in.
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Careful, your lack of tolerance is showing.

There are records in the ancient historical stories of many cultures of a world-wide flood.

Update: the downvotes have started already! Thank you for firmly establishing my point! :-)
We may be small but we are wiry ;)

But honestly, when I read a lot of what the foreign press is saying about us Icelanders it almost seems like they are telling a fairytale. We are being used as an example for some mythological "We should have done that!" type thing. There are no delusions here that what we did would never work for a larger country, and what we did was indeed morally questionable.

But it is fun reading about the miracle of iceland on the net tho :)
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Impressive dedication and effort. Reminds me of that man who built an entire stone castle all by himself. I forget his name.
I continue to hold out this vain hope that Intellectual Ventures is an elaborate satire, an effort by some smart technologists to demonstrate how broken the US patent system is by exploiting it in such a comically villainous fashion.
Links above are broken...or at least for me (using Chrome).
On decoding the Voynich manuscript, http://www.edithsherwood.com/voynich_decoded/
Open Source in a Closed Economy
They should be boycotting instagram after this (or actually, before this). I know full well that any photo I upload to facebook/instagram/etc is no longer mine and the whole world can see it. So I definitely don't store my stuff there, it would be insane.
Or rather, 'explained'.
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wow, smart. looks like I beat you to 10 billion Dr. Evil look http://imgur.com/qXnTn :)
What is a UI Antipattern?
I think they could easily beat GitHub on something like the social experience of coding as well as gists in general. The Gist system is not terrible, but it is far from perfect - after the new update, it no longer saves my log-in, for one.

BitBucket don't have to be the go-to place for projects. GitHub tries to be many things, but doesn't succeed at all of them. Projects and pages is probably where they're the best.
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From the article:

> He said his motivation is ultimately religious, though. He wants to
> make people think what their purpose is on Earth. "I want to make
> people question that so that they go looking for answers," and
> ultimately find salvation through God and eternal life, he said.

If someone is willing to put that much time and dedication into something they believe in without hurting anyone, then who are you to judge what's worthy of their time and money?
I've found that when I was scraping the XKCD comics and get the error. Very clever comic! =D
Seriously is this a phishing site? Amazon page being served off a phx.corporate-ir.net domain?
Technically, "bible fanatics" is only insulting to one religion, Christianity. The Jews observe the Torah, which while being 99'ish percent the same as the OT is technically different because of ordering of the books and the combining of some.
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How do you know they're not one-time pads?
You said you built this because as a freelancer you often needed to share files. What else would help you as a freelancer that you haven't built yet?
As somebody who is learning C++ and decided to go with clang, the error reporting is absolutely phenomenal. It tells me not only what line errors are on but also makes suggestions as to how to fix it. I don't ever recall GCC having very helpful error messages.
In this skeleton book he offers he does seem to imply that anyone can use similar names: https://gitorious.org/learn-x-the-hard-way/learn-x-the-hard-...
I, for one, appreciate unpaginated links, so thank you.
Gangnam Style Hits 1 Billion YouTube Views
it's now over 1 billion, and the logo has indeed changed.
There are waaay too many comments in here stating one way or another "this is a terrible comparison! it's nothing like this!"

A.) it's a webcomic, not a lawyers overview of the situation.
B.) I think yall are missing out on the joke, which is not the metaphor with Instagram, it's the users reaction that is the punch line.
C.) The take from the comic is, if you're not paying for it, don't call it a business, at least not a business where you are the customer.
A company with a page on its site, written by the co-founder, entitled "The Red Herring of Transparency".

Surreal.

He admits patent quality is poor and then at the same time wants you to pay to license IV's low quality patents. He's afraid of DJ's and reexams. Gee, I wonder why.

Maybe it's because many of IV's patents would never survive the scrutiny (that they should have gotten by the USPTO during prosecution).

Have you ever paid repeatedly for some thing only to find out later you did not have to? How did that make you feel? DJ's and reexams might save the present and future licensees of IV's patents a lot of money.

http://www.intellectualventures.com/index.php/insights/archi...
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Need some more beta testers. Any sites where startup founders reciprocate beta testing each others site. Meaning, I use and test his site and he uses and tests mine.
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You mentioned that the company you work for is a government contractor. Is it a product company or a support services company? If it is the latter, then 1)the rate that the company can bill you out at is determined based on years of experience and not what you actually do and 2) the government is clamping down on companies rates and many are in a pay freeze right now. If it is a product company they have more latitude, although not as much as you would think.

100k for 7-10 years seems right for the area, especially if you are in the government contracting realm(contrary to popular belief, government contractors are paid well below market). A company that competed in the private sector could probably pay more. 85K for about 5 years seems a touch low for an average, but no incredibly so. 75k for 2 years is probably a touch above average, although not incredibly so.
Well the Catholics, Protestants, and Mormons use different "bibles" even though they are largely the same content. So I was including the Jews as well.
I think I'm more shocked to see foxnews.com linked from HN.

Also, if you're planning on doing this yourself, start with the Minimum Viable Ark and see if other people and animals are willing to join you before going all in on the full ark yourself.
May I never mistake a child's coffin for a political soapbox.
I totally get that you see it different, and I respect it.

There are lots of things that people claiming to be Christians disagree about. I say "claiming" because it is impossible to say that a single group of people are believers, regardless of what group that is (Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Catholic). So I personally do not believe evolution, based on my reading of the first book of the Bible, but some people claiming Christianity do. Maybe I'm the one that is wrong! I'm ok with that, because in the end my believing creation || evolution isn't what my salvation hinges on. We have certain beliefs that we have to hold with open hands, and some that are closed. That Jesus paid the price for my sins, that is a closed-hand, absolute for me. Creation vs Evolution, I care wayyyy less about. I believe creation, you (presumably) believe evolution. Awesome, let's chat about it.

As far as the creation-is-science point, I believe it to be so only because I believe it to be true, so it's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I understand that you believe differently, and you are 100% welcome to call creation-is-science a fraud. I misunderstood you to be saying "creation is a fraud, practice your religion freely!" which I didn't understand. I understand much better now.
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Steve Jobs superyacht impounded over unpaid Starck designer bill
Will do. Thanks, guys.
The Weekly Hash - December 21, 2012
> Iron is solid, ...

Its nuclei and inner electrons are solid. Its valence electrons are a gas, allowing it to conduct electricity. Different parts of the material can be in different states.
I wouldn't be surprised when it will actually fit. There aren't that much different large animals.

Edit: I agree this was a very unclear post. What I meant: The available space is about 20,000 m2. Lets say the African bush elephant fits in 25 m2. This means you can take 400 different kinds of the largest terrestrial animals on board. But I don't think there are that much different kind of large animals.
semi-offtopic: how could one crack a cyphered text if it was written in a 100% invented/artificial language, with no relation to any natural language, not even good word-to-word mapping (imagine a pictografic language like the assian ones, but unrelated)? where would one start without word-frequency analysis or something similar to begin with?

Maybe the Voynich manuscript has such a completely imagined language, and that's why nothing worked (if it's not a "hoax:, of course).
Agree. Clang vs. GCC is like PostgreSQL vs. MySQL (regarding usefulness of error messages).
Unless they need a hardware accelerated OpenGL implementation to run, because they don't have a software renderer?
Understood. See my comment below re: public schools.

There are schools where creationism is taught, you know what they're called? Private schools! Send your kids there if you don't want them to hear about evolution, simple as that.

tl;dr: I agree
Your post advocates a

( ) technical ( ) legislative (x) market-based ( ) vigilante

approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.

( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (x) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

Specifically, your plan fails to account for

( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems (x) Unpopularity of weird new taxes (x) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually (x) Sending email should be free (x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
The "regulated" market (as opposed to the free market) produces what will be consumed.

IV is the symptom. The disease is the current implementation of patent law. I'm not claiming that they are guiltless. But they are filling a space created by the "regulated" market.
World-wide flood? There has never been a worldwide flood during the brief time that we have been on earth. There are a few potential periods where the earth might have been covered in snow, the last of which might have been around 650 million years ago during the Marinoan period. There have also been plenty of big floods, but nothing remotely resembling what the bible describes.
Reminds me very much of a Seth Roberts article earlier this year which actually references a PG article:

>Here’s what I want: A price per email. A service that charges people for each email they send me (e.g., $1/email). I get most of the price, the company providing the service gets a small percentage (1%?).

Even the comments seem like they're describing the exact features here:

>A great feature would be allowing people to pay more and being able to see that in the inbox. The $40,000 email gets answered first! Seth: Yes, rank them in your inbox by how much was paid. More paid, closer to the top.

http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/03/27/the-future-of-email-m...
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I was reading your website and all I thought was, this is the convenience of CloudApp(http://getcloudapp.com/) but for a one time payment that plugs into your dropbox and hence you don't have to pay a subscription.

Anyhow, I agree with having a free version of some sort,e.g. less features. And it would be definitely awesome if this was the equivalent of CyberDuck but for file sharing, in the sense that plugs into dropbox, s3, whatever other file sharing system out there, hosted or self-hosted.

Good stuff.
I think the big problem is that social sites create value with a network effect (metcalfe's law). The only reason they are "free" is to drive the network to a size where it can be monetized.
I upvoted you, even though you misunderstood what I was saying ;)
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Don't be so sensitive. Us 'non-Bible fanatics' are always very accepting of religious people in general. You should do the same.
There is some scientific evidence for a large flood in the Black Sea [1] which may easily have been the basis for a Noah's Ark type story, but not a world-wide flood.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
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You can find a PDF version here: http://archive.org/details/TheVoynichManuscript
"that's quite a jab at something that these people are dedicating much of their working lives to"

A deserved one, these people want all the respect physical scientists are granted without a single bit of science. It's 100% god of the gaps arguments.

"Disclaimer: Bible-believing Christian, but still a rational thinker"

Apparently not, if you claim to be aware of what ID is and make this defense against lazy apologism.
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Does he think he's writing a editorial cartoon now?
Had the same concerns, however it is a press release service (apparently Thompson Reuters).
Yes, it may be the end of the world after all.
Why does Native not support Android?
"To me, intelligent design is part of my religion"

Not the way they use it. Apparently you don't understand what "intelligent design" is. Christians who believe God guided our development but are rational beings are evolutionary biologists, not "creationists" or "intelligent design believers".
I made a bowl of spaghetti last night. Where was fox news on that one?
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How much all this quality reporting and presentation cost? I have a feeling that in-depth journalism doesn't pay for itself.
Most of my friends are in tech, my family however is not, but they weren't big users of Instagram in the first place. Just every so often.
They are still developing the Android version
The company you are thinking of is keen.com. It degenerated into a service for getting psychic readings: http://www.keen.com
It's a potential point of conflict, but it's a pretty generic naming convention in my view and I'd be dissapointed to see that Zed has slapped a trademark on it. Even if he is building a brand around the name I don't see why he wouldn't be open to letting some other technical authors in under the same umbrella.
LLVM has a BSD-license. This might be a big deal for some people from a philosophical perspective, but at a more practical level it's great when you need to embed a compiler in your product.
You're absolutely welcome to think what you like, but I'd be a bit wary of thinking your view of firearms is just 'common sense'.

You know, during some of my family members' lifetimes, my own people were subjected to a genocide by a government who first deprived us of the right to own any weapons.

Just a generation before, the country that perpetrated this genocide was considered one of the best places for our people to live on earth.

Given this, I'm certainly not inclined to trust any particular nation-state, and letting a government disarm me seems a bit on the foolish side.
"First let me suggest that there might not be a contradiction between Christianity and Evolution"

It's not a suggestion, it's a fact!
That was my first thought as well. He's built himself a hotel on water. They're nearly below sea-level over there! =)
I think that was what put me off at first. I think git was just more popular around the time I looked into using a VCS.
And my car's GPS navigation system is 10 times more likely than both Apple and Google to take me on unexpected detours. Frankly the level of accuracy and the sheer amount of data for mapping software boggles the mind if you think about it.