skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That might be the most obnoxious design for a blog I've ever seen. I'm not quite sure what their point is. Google Wave is intended to be a reinvention of the user interface we use to communicate, and I think it introduces features that make a lot of sense:

- Sending all user a thumbnail while the full image is still uploading
- Instantaneous character-by-character update in chat
- Better management of conversations

They're all things that would make for a really nice experience. There are things about the protocol that don't make sense to me, but that hardly reflects on the quality of the product. I would've chosen a more compact format, but then it wouldn't be as customizable. They're designing it more for the user than the developer.

edit: Their other posts are more revealing: http://pwpwp.blogspot.com/2009/08/wave.html
The main method seems to be email, and if they're similarly restricted to DoD mail servers, they can apply censorship on the server side.

Before the time of the internet, letters home were routinely censored and redacted before being sent.
The only solution I've found to past digital data is to keep converting it to whatever current OS, file system and media I'm using, which works with a lot of it. Had I had more foresight, I would have kept a series of virtual machines running intact on an older PC so I could go back and browse stuff I had on Macs, Apple IIs and Commodores.
While all of these are awesome, I wanted to thank you especially for Gangsta's Paradise... now I have to clean the milk off my monitor.
The difference is that .msi doesn't handle dependencies, multiple versions or conflicts in a coherant centralized and useful way.

The current structure of the msi installers leaves them much like their exe counterparts. If this is package management then I'm going back to LFS and using make files.
"Don't you think they have spent a lot of time thinking this through, consulting with experts, and debating internally whether its been a good decsion?"

Having worked at a few large companies, it's more likely that some executive got scared, hired a few toadies to tell him what he wanted to hear, then put in place a "plan" that he'd already decided and that is doomed to failure.

That's the way it works most places.
It is a great boost to the adoption of openCL:
The difference between;

Use this new technology and your app will be faster - but will only work if your customers have one of this range of graphics cards.

Your customers will get a huge speedup if they have a supported card, but it will still work if they don't.

It's like the software floating point emulators back in the 386 days
Whether he chose to follow them automatically or not, he's subscribing to their updates. That's does not fit any definition of "unsolicited" I know of.
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My site's down since about 5 minutes ago. It's on App Engine...

Maybe this is more widespread than Twitter? Global cyberattack?
awk treats input as lines and columns, therefore it would be more accurate than cut that treats input as lines and characters.

You don't want charaters this to that, what you do want is column 2.
Puzzled as to why they left out RSS from their supported data formats. Sure would be neat to be able to plug in an RSS feed and see how often it updates.
What’s The Google Brand Worth These Days? $100 Billion. Probably Less.
Apparently Facebook is seeing intermittent errors as well, down for a bunch of people. Do these people all share a datacenter?
Over the years, I've tried emacs several times. Then I tried VIM, and it clicked with me. I think some people's brains click with VIM and others click with Emacs.
you know, this would be a pretty sneaky way to measure the reach of twitter -- go down for an hour or so in the morning and take a look at the media response metrics.
Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/quotes
Haha Paul was disconnected from Jessica for a bit.

A few more clicks and they were back together. Awww.
How copyright theft by your SEO co's employee can cost you $100K+ on a $1K job
Check out alexa, compete, etc. identi.ca would have to be horribly designed in order to run into scalability issues at the current traffic level. Twitter's traffic is two to three orders of magnitude greater.
You are most welcome. If only I could find some people who could actually put these to music.
"these outages are much more serious. 45 million people worldwide now rely on Twitter as a communication platform"

Riiiight. Rely is a very strong word. How will we do business?! How will we talk to our friends and relatives?!

Let's face it, Twitter solved a problem that never existed.
You are right, there is a continuum of possibilities between pure search and pure recommendation systems.

The difference is in the input data that the search/recommendation engine considers: the input in classic search is only the few words in the query, while a recommendation engine considers some history of your interactions with a site or the internet (and nothing that indicates your intent in this particular instance).

Google, of course, keeps search history for people logged in. But it doesn't seem to affect their relevancy algorithm much, unlike, say, your location and language.

I'd speculate Google Checkout is mostly about gathering data that would allow for meaningful recommendations.
federated protocol.
Many times that I hear about Viper, someone brings up Vimpulse which is supposedly more VIM-like where Viper is vi-like.
> Unlike in Linux, in most unices killall(1) terminates all the processes

Hehe... That reminds me of the day I learned that you shouldn't put . in your path, especially in the front.

It turns out that (old?) Red Hat machines had a script 'killall' in their /etc/init.d ...
Someone voted you down. I voted you back up again. At least voting up is useful! (Feels good, too.)

Seriously, while down votes are needed sometimes, I think they are overused. I often see a legitimate comment voted down because someone apparently disagrees with its contents. This is not what down votes are for.
It was the closest thing I could think of - not trying to undermine the work in/value of Snow Leopard (I don't know enough about it to make that judgement call). Apologies if that's how it sounded.

(Esp. as one could call Windows 7 the much needed service pack to Vista! ;) )
Lenders ban old risky practices, only to come up with new ones
I guess I'm not understanding something. How are they reversing a trend?

Apple spent a lot of time and money developing the OpenCL standard and gaining industry support. OpenCL isn't strictly about GPGPU computing, it's about maximally utilizing available resources. AMD is adopting the standard, and they just implemented the CPU portion of it for now and went ahead to release it. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that they'll follow up with supporting GPU target. So if anything, they're embracing the trend, just trying to bring their tools to completion.

So yeah, the current SDK doesn't support GPU targets, but how is this in any way shape or form reversing the trend?
Well, count me in, as far as I'm concerned the mad dash has already begun. I've decided to splurge on the largest CUDA capable card that will fit this machine without blowing up the power supply.

Stuff like this is still cutting edge but will be mainstream soon, the time to gain experience is today. Not to wait.
There is more than one, depending on the problem and what exactly do you want to improve. For example RMSE is the measurement used for the Netflix Prize.
Here's the original press release from the company:

http://www.codenomicon.com/news/press-releases/2009-08-05.sh...

And a CERT-FI advisory:

http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html

Also the expat-bug and expat-discuss mailing lists were very active in January/February with seemly related issues:

http://mail.libexpat.org/pipermail/expat-bugs/2009-January/t...

http://mail.libexpat.org/pipermail/expat-discuss/2009-Februa...
Yup, I keep getting "Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint" intermittently.
You mean examples or metrics?

If you mean examples, you can see our algorithm applied to link structure analysis on the related pages here:

http://pedia.directededge.com/

If you mean metrics, the only one that I find really meaningful is a feedback loop to see what users are in fact interacting with, and we'll have something in place for that shortly. Synthetic metrics on recommendations quality don't really impress me because they ignore that recommendation algorithms are solving an human-computer interaction problem as much as they're solving a k-nearest-neighbors problem. I've got another article in the pipe on some of the interesting problems of ranking on real data, but it keeps getting pushed back since there's you know, a lot to do at the moment. :-)
I think the WSJ and Barrons are currently the only two papers in its portfolio that they already charge for content. The WSJ has at least been quite successful at selling online subscriptions.
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I love how this reads like the syndication of a book.
Twitter says that they are dealing with a DDoS attack. See http://status.twitter.com/
In addition to the advantage that notaddicted mentioned, you can also limit the user(s) to a specific command, set of commands, and so forth. Using sudo in that fashion doesn't give a user root access to the entire system, so it's quite different from "being" the root user.
Well, they're both written in the same language. That ought to be a Big Fat Steaming Clue (TM).

Someday, I'd like to see a nice library written in something like O'Caml or Haskell exposed as a C interface that exists solely to be a library. I know it's technically possible today, but it doesn't seem to have penetrated into the public consciousness that even a C library doesn't actually have to be written in C anymore. (It may not be slick yet, but only because people aren't doing it, chicken and egg. There's no fundamental stopper.) I sure as hell wouldn't write a "C" library in C if I had anything remotely resembling a choice.

(Of course, that only solves string bobbles, not the "infinite memory consumption required" problem, but even then those other languages can have somewhat cleaner, clever solutions than in C.)
What's microsofts core business then ?

You've already ruled out the portable music players, so what else do they have ?

- search ?

- office software ?

- desktop operating systems ? (massive piracy, bad product launches)

- mobile operating systems ? (lost to the iphone, in due time probably lost to android, too early to tell)

- game consoles ? (lost to the wii)

They're still doing well, but they could be doing a whole lot better.

If fence posts were all they were then they would have been better of to never get those products out the door. Once bitten twice shy. When microsoft was the only game in town that strategy worked. Today I think that is no longer a viable way to do business.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7tazcxWUwk
Microsoft skews bing search results
Study Finds Phishing Scams Fool Over 55,000 a Month
A new study says phishing scams make up 7% of all spam sent and that on average, 55,000 people a month fall for them and give up their personal info. Social networks such as Twitter and Facebook are an increasingly popular target for phishers. Twitter has been hit by two phishing attacks lately. One, the Twitter Porn Name scam, claimed to be a seemingly harmless game where Twitter users were told to put the name of their first pet with their mother’s maiden name and/or first street they lived on to get their “porn name” and then tweet it.
I'm sure a demonstration could have been arranged.
All I'm saying is that it's possible with the right data structures. It's not more than what a typical search engine does.
It looks like it's actually Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/06/serious-twitter-outage-...

Somebody doesn't like social networks it seems :/
I was in Hiroshima a few years back and it's completely livable. If someone left you downtown and never told you where you are, you wouldn't imagine that a nuclear bomb exploded there a few decades ago.

BTW, all the information you are looking for is readily available on Wikipedia. I'm sure that if you are savvy enough to post this question on HN, you can find all the answers yourself through Google.
It is not necessarily a "humane" thing to do (kind of difficult to discuss weapons of mass destruction in these terms) but it may have been a right thing to do. In hindsight, perhaps a less civilian target would be more proper; in a way, more "humane".

I grew up in the Soviet Union which was thick with propaganda, of course. On the topic of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they claimed that the US used it simply to show the world and especially the USSR who the boss is. Even now many people in Russia think so (if "think" is the word).

You say you went through American public schools; my understanding is that, first, not all teachers force students to adhere to a specific line of thought; second, that many, perhaps a majority of, teachers do not approve of the bombings; and third, that graduates (above a certain level; say, those who go to college) are able to separate what they read in textbooks from their own thoughts. Am I correct here, or is it more of a wishful thinking?
To Fix or Not To Fix? Another good question
I was about to post this too. Surely all the possible nodes include all possible search terms, as well as all web pages. Then search and relations are synonymous. Any thoughts on how your system would be different from a search engine in that sense Wheels?
That's how new markets are born.

Back in the day e-mail solved a problem that didn't exist too.
I really hope there is nobody that is really surprised at this.

Google does the same thing by the way.
I am a researcher in parallel computing. All of these papers represent good work and are contributions to the field, but they still obey the limited model I was referring to: ship a large amount of data to the GPU, do data parallel computations on that data, and ship the results back. As I pointed out in a post below, this model does not work well when you only have small quantities of data at a time, yet there is parallelism to exploit.
Yes. You can find gossip everywhere online.

And news that requires no actual research/journalism can_be/is replicated everywhere - and without Murdoch's overhead.
Decent numbers, what to do (call for suggestions)
My site has PR 4-6, 122,000 inbound links (all from media properties), 32K uniques/month, and 275K pageviews/month. What strategies would the HN community suggest to generate revenue given these stats?
it seems like if he did that, he'd be biting off WAY more than he can chew at the present time.

If you want to learn statistics, it's probably better to start at the beginning (_Cartoon Guide to Statistics_, O'Reilly's new _Head First Statistics_, or Huff's _How to Lie With Statistics_) than to leap headlong into a huge, mostly intractable problem and pagefault in knowledge at each point you come across something you don't know how to do.
Two people have called me in the last few minutes to ask if I'm having internet problems - on in Nashville on AT&T and the other in Memphis - not sure what carrier.

My Comcast connection just went down for about five minutes while I was typing that... but my open ssh connections, one to a server in Nashville, one to one in Fremont at Hurricane Electric, and one to Rackspace in Dallas - still worked.
"Quality journalism is not cheap,"

Fox News must be the cheapest news show to produce then ;)
summize has been working all along ... you can see some tweets occasionally going through during the attack.
No, it's not possible. That is what flagging is for.
It's just really hard pinning down "which atrocities are worse" in a conflict the scale of World War II. "Estimates of total dead range from 50 million to over 70 million." sayeth Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

There is a lot of horror to go around, endured and attributable to pretty much every party in the war. I still believe that the U.S. and it's allies were morally superior to Germany, Japan and the Axis. But it is certainly a question of degree when there is that much killing involved, and impossible to say that the U.S. was without fault in any of its decisions.
Something needs to be done to stop banks from taking advantage of people who don't do their research or people who are going through a crisis and need money.
s/free//
The basic metric for this kind of comparison is how long can you get your 'compute' node to work on a part of a problem without any new input data and without any intermediate results that need posting for other parts of the code to continue (rendez-vous I believe these are called).

The longer that time the better suited the problem is for a massive parallel solution.

If the time is low relative to the IO that needs to be done then you'll find very soon that the bus that carries data between the host CPU and the number cruncher is the bottle-neck.
Corporate America is just trying to get some productivity back. Hard economic times, dontchaknow.
if the only information you can share is traffic stats, my response will be "post ads". you can get into a better quality ad network with higher traffic.

all other options depend too much on what the site itself to be able to make a suggestion based purely on traffic stats.
Remember: winners never quit, but quitters never lose.
Future of open Web video may change with Google acquisition of On2
Family tech battles can have lots of byte
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inbound links are a mix of from major metro area newspaper sites.

what else would you like to know? not opposed to a straight sale to allow someone to make best use of the site. Thanks.
I think it also depends on if it is a niche market or not. If the site is on the top of its topic, it will be much easier to get ads versus a site that simply just has decent traffic.
I'm a CS PhD student doing high performance systems research. My dissertation work has focused on Cell, and this summer I'm working with GPUs in an internship. (My profile has a link to my academic page where you can find my Cell related work.)

Personally, I think that GPUs as we know them won't be around long enough for 1) or 2). Moving the GPU (or a GPU-like computation accelerator) onto the chip itself changes everything.

I think it's also worth keeping in mind that GPUs are, essentially, tiny computers unto themselves. Putting a GPU in a system now is like installing a computer in a computer.
"If someone left you downtown and never told you where you are, you wouldn't imagine that a nuclear bomb exploded there a few decades ago."

Though the remains of the "the domed Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall" tip you off that something bad happened that people don't want to forget.

The millions of origami cranes lying around in the park are also quite striking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki
Can anyone comment on whether the issues with Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal are related? Nobody seems to be saying it, but it doesn't seem to be a coincidence?
I know Twitter has had downtime before but this is of long duration, early in the morning and coinciding with issues with the other sites.
Is this an anti-socialnetworking hacker attack???
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Twitter is back for me at 11:07 EST
Well, I wanted to buy an iPhone to read copyright infringing books.
Is that in fact how that happens though? Complete and flawless the first time around? I'm not that familiar with embedded sort of software, but my assumption was that they try to do a good job, but then use simulators to get the software ship-shape. At least that's what I would do, given my presumption of errors in any human endeavor. I'm much more in favor in building processes that accept failure gracefully, rather than presuming error-free production.
What was the alternative? Perhaps a military target. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen because of the massive civilian casualties.

Full disclosure - My dad is Japanese and lived through the war.
This has been known and discussed for 50years.

Country first becomes developed, birth rates drop as women get a chance at education and careers. A generation or two later they get enough social care, maternity rights etc and birth rates rise again.

If you ignore the effects of immigration you can plot countries especially in europe by birth-rate to years since they became 'developed' very accurately
That is indeed the solution. If a Twitter type service is to become a real communications platform it must be federated (decentralized) and immune to DOS attacks, government intervention, etc.
Twitter suffering DOS attack
Cupertino, CA - In a startling turn of events, Apple today announced that it has decided to stop selling the iPhone, effective immediately. When asked for more details, a spokesperson stated: "The iPhone might be used by people who buy it. This use could lead to complaints, and in the age of the Internet, these complaints could lead to bad PR for Apple. Therefore, Apple has decided that selling the iPhone is just too risky."
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WSJ and FT are specialized news and analysis that cannot be obtained elsewhere. Unless everyone in the newspaper industry starts charging all at once, the pay walls for other news sites will effectively go away.

IMO, this sort of thing is ultimately inevitable, and I don't think that the Internet is the ultimate cause (it's an accelerant, at best) -- I think that it's been getting harder for newspapers to compete with the depth of coverage provided "for free"* by television news organizations.

* When's the last time you paid a bill to CNBC or CNN? I don't pay an explicit bill for CBC Newsworld -- it's included in my cable package.
I still believe that the U.S. and it's allies were morally superior to Germany, Japan and the Axis

But only just, and probably not when you consider the Soviet Union.
That'll be happening really soon - in fact, it works under the covers, and we're using it on some data (like http://timetric.com/series/DMrAf_pQRj6jeItUKxpXGQ/). It's just not in the UI yet. (You can import data from URLs already; it's the periodic updating we've not publicised.

(I'm one of the team behind Timetric.)
How long before someone in <insert non-EU or US country> creates a company, pays the $99 fee (or whatever he wants to charge), and then just re-publishes the articles for free on an AdSense-supported WordPress site? You can cry "copyright!" all day long but people/countries who don't care, don't care. And good luck convincing China to shut down a blog that is re-posting content.
My understanding is it's not a single flaw. Virtually every XML library available is flawed, but each in their own way.