skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for the recommendations!
Sorry, I was talking about the huge about-face they did once smartphones became popular and they realized there were much larger profit margins to be had in the wireless industry, so basically started shutting down expansion of fiber internet.
Very cool, though I'm disappointed that it's not interactive. I agree that touch isn't the right choice for a mirror, but that's not the only option.

Adding a camera and a bit of OpenCV code could give you a "light" version of a Kinect interface -- broad gestures or hand signs shouldn't be hard to use to change modes.

Or a microphone and some voice recognition. Not sure what the open-source state of the art is like, but if you were to burn Android on it, Google has some pretty awesome voice recognition APIs you can use.
OP here. vocab is non-linear:

mdaniels.com/vocab/scatter.png

so the average would change as your sample size grows.

35K was the threshold where things didn't get garbled (like the 100 word example that you mention).

The threshold is also impacted by who I include. If I went to 50K, I'd lose out on rappers like Drake.
I'm starting to work on a marketing tool which will be a combination of displaying popups like Bounce Exchange(http://bounceexchange.com/) and Tweetganic(http://www.tweetganic.com/) or http://snip.ly/.

Currently Social Media Management tools like Hootsuite provide a link shortner so it's relatively easier for them to integrate a service like http://snip.ly/ however they don't.

The product I'm thinking to create will allow anyone to manage, split test their pop ups and promote themselves using a service like snip.ly. An analytics module will accompany the product so all the data can be meaningfully used to enhance the campaigns.

Hope I was able to clearly explain my idea. Would detail out some more if anyone is interested.
> (1) How do you secure GlusterFS traffic? Does GlusterFS use some kind of encryption on the wire or do you have to manually setup a VPN?

Although I have not used the feature, there is support for SSL, look it up. I have also heard about people trying it over OpenVPN though not sure how successful they were.

> (2) How well does GlusterFS work if you host bricks on web servers? If data are sharded per user, can you make a web server always have fast access to that user data (can you guarantee a copy of the data is always hosted locally on that web server?) -- or is this something that only happens indirectly through the OS cache?

Don't have first hand experience with this, but I can recommend you Joe Julian's blog, i.e. http://joejulian.name/blog/optimizing-web-performance-with-g...

> (3) Do you need something more from the underlying filesystem to guarantee data integrity, like running GlusterFS on ZFS? Or is GlusterFS enough?

GlusterFS relies on the underlying filesystem to do its job, the recommended one is XFS with 512 bytes inode size.
this is an issue that i was hoping would cancelled out, given the fact that I use the same analysis for every rapper. In short, it's an exact unique word count, but it's relationally accurate.
There's nothing wrong with going to college. College can be great! If you do it right, you'll learn a lot about a diverse set of things including history, literature, the arts, and the sciences. If you're in a good program, you'll also learn the theoretical underpinnings of computer science, which I think is underappreciated by many in the industry.

And really, you do have time. The Silicon Valley myth is that if you haven't had success by 22, you're done. And while there are outliers (including Sam), this is mostly a fiction. Many successful founders are in their late 20s, or even 30s, 40s and 50s. I was at a meet-up a few nights ago and met a team of 40-something founders that are reinventing film for the VR age.

You have a lot of time, and you should be spending it learning. Whether the best place for that is in college or not, I urge you to remember that there are important parts of education that do not involve compilers or databases and which should not be neglected.

But Sam's advice is good: be always learning, and surround yourself with smart people. You can certainly waste college, but it doesn't have to be a waste.

Finally, I was in your position not very long ago, and if you'd like to talk, my email's in my profile.
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OP here. made up vocabulary is basically all of hip hop. look at any lyrics file and very little is "established", yaknowwhatimsayin?
He probably searches for his website, and then copy the link directly from the google page, rather than jumping into his page and copying the URL.
cool! would be great to hook a kinect up
I actually revised the conclusion to address this issue. Check it out on the site.
That's not the norm, as of this year the chips are not commonplace in US-issued cards.

What you have is an imprint machine, where the merchant sticks your card over a paper with a carbon copy, slides over the top to make an imprint, then hands the piece of paper back to you for signature, then rips out the top page for himself while handing you the carbon copy one.

As you can imagine, this does not go well in food truck environment, where the mode of operation at crunch time might be "process as many customers per minute as you can".
I never made the claim that complexity is better/worse. I just wanted to communicate the data point, not imply 2pac>DMX.
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since i use only rap genius data, i'm hoping the garbage all cancels out so that the rappers are still relatively in the right place.
Almost completely. There's a few ISPs that offer unlimited data but they're usually fairly oversubscribed as a result. Quotas have always been the major cost point here, not speed.
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this is brilliant. OP here. We should work together.
> The mere promise of Google Fiber seems to be enough to send rivals scrambling to deliver ultrafast Internet service at a reasonable price.

We have a TWC connection 2000m outside of Google Fiber availability that's been disconnecting up to 10-20 times a day for months that says some rivals just don't give a shit. The disconnections are only mildly more annoying than the constant spiking and pl that had been going on for a year or so..
Big box stores are already moving towards it, with Target (surprise! surprise!) leading the way. Mom-and-Pop shops will probably not be happy about replacement costs, but they're apparently a diminishing market force anyways.
Interesting project. I know for us geeks the short obscure commands are sometimes easier but something like this can ease people into using command line more.

I applaud the author because typically I don't have the courage to even attempt solving problems like this. And I wonder what the author is going to do about this.

Because well ... natural-language processing just isn't there yet, you can kind of "fake" it a bit by looking for keywords and patterns and regex but it only goes so far.

So beyond a certain point, you end up needing to solve the natural-language processing problem first, so that you can then build Betty.
I never made the claim that vocab size was correlated with quality.
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FUSE is overridden more and more with the introduction of gfapi. Qemu and Samba can now both "talk" it, so you don't need FUSE for that any more, for example.

It should be possible to avoid the userspace to kernelspace transition in the client by using LD_PRELOAD with a shim library as well.

The performance hit is disputable, there aren't really better alternatives. Most distributed filesystems out there are using FUSE too (XtreemFS, MooseFS) and I am not touching Lustre.

The Ceph distributed filesystem has an in-kernel client which is upstream. XtreemFS and MooseFS are designed for a different use-case (WAN filesystem) and aren't really directly comparable.

Lustre runs the majority of the world's supercomputers. It seems a little unfair to dismiss them without at least giving a reason why. They have made some progress towards getting their kernel client upstream recently.

I was a Ceph developer for a while. I read about Red Hat's recent acquisition of Inktank with interest. (Inktank was founded by Sage Weil, the creator of Ceph, to commercialize the filesystem.) Since Red Hat previously acquired the main company behind Gluster, this makes things a little-- how shall we say?-- interesting. It's unclear to me whether Red Hat will want to support two distributed filesystems going forward, or whether they will try to streamline things.
I was curious what caused the drop.
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So facebook's mobile login page wouldn't trigger, for example.

It's not as simple as peolpe think of it. It never is.
OP here. Do I really need to provide all of this to satisfy the reader's ability to grasp the basic premise of the site? this isn't a thesis or academic pursuit, just comparing some rappers for fun.

I used plain NLTK token analysis on rap genius lyrics. in terms of several more data slices...I agree that there should be more cuts of the data, but you must understand the amount of time that it took me to put this together.
PacBell installed a bunch of fiber in the Bay Area that suddenly went unused/projects cancelled when SBC bought them.

Competition they call it.
hm. it should be up. try it again.
Those aren't big things outside Linux.
here's what this looks like. ugly as sin as useless for comparing rappers.

http://www.mdaniels.com/vocab/scatter.png

love your other ideas – hopefully can do them later.
Life is suffering regardless of your position in time and space if you haven't attained nibanna. Its not specific to the vedic nomads otherwise there would be no need to walk the eight fold path in the first world. Suffering is the first noble truth.
OP here: the challenge is that most artists' best work is in their earlier years. I'd rather have Jay-z's first album than last, ya know?
Right - I guess the open question at this point is how much weight those mechanisms can bear. Bitcoin has a very easy version of the problem, because all they need to do is time-stamping, where you just have to follow the rules and run your software without hacking it to stay in line with the consensus.

As described the problem TruthCoin is trying to solve puts a lot more stress on the consensus mechanism, because it requires the participants to do more work to stay in line with the consensus.

In practice I think what ends up happening is that somebody publishes a feed and everybody pulls their results from that and "votes" as they're told to by the feed. This may not be too bad in itself as the feed is probably not too bad, and the people publishing it probably have an incentive to keep publishing good data. But I do worry that this system will make it hard to get off the de-facto default data feed if it starts producing bad data, since it's designed to punish people who step outside the consensus...
I used to have a 3Mbit DSL connection from AT&T, I have now switched to a 6Mbit DSL connection from a local provider (who is using same wires). Sure, I'd love more speed, although I've grown to cope with the lack of it. I am just appalled at the prices. And now all of a sudden they are offering 1Gbps connections; if they like tiers so much, why not offer something "slower" for a cheaper price, I'd be more than happy to have a 50Mbit connection, do consumers REALLY need 1Gbps?

And what's up with San Francisco disliking fiber so much?
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OP here: the shakespeare thing is really just a hook, food for thought rather than an academic/cultural judgement.

I also had several suggestions to use shakespeare's sonnets rather than plays, which I should have done.

and yes, this is all just pinch of salt barbership discussion :)
op here: thanks yo!
I would personally be happy if I had the option to have a convenient liquid meal replacement, but I'm also skeptical Soylent is going to be the solution to it.

There's still too much we don't know about how we get nutrients from food to be able to fully replace fresh unpackaged products with powders. I suspect we're still at least a few decades away from being able to do that safely on the long term.

Nutrition research has been terribly inconclusive for the past century and there's no indication that this is changing anytime soon. It's not the researchers' fault: the domain is incredibly complex when you take in consideration various timespans, all the various human generic permutations etc.
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>Of course consumerism wouldn't probably even exist as a concept if our brains weren't somehow prewired to the "gotta catch'em all" mentality.

Avoid projecting onto human nature the peculiarities of your own society.
OP here: many thanks!
This screams link bait title, similar to "The End of the PC". Who knows what the longterm effects of Soylent are. At best, it's a supplement, and at worst... I don't even want to know. With that said, Soylent has a potential to make a big impact. But you can't scream that this is the end of food just because there is a cheaper and more efficient way of getting your nutrients. Eating food is a staple of our culture and the way we socialize revolves around it.
I think Ivan Seidenberg was fired because of short term returns on FiOS being low.
I only have hip hop data, sadly.

I didn't expect wu-tang to be on the top since it would go across 11 different vocabs. I felt like the law of averages would basically play out.
the code is pretty straightforward, just chapter one of the NLTK book and a txt file.

nltk.org/book
> "be around smart people. "

I couldn't agree more. I'm 20 years old and dropped out of university after my first year. There was a large amount of people I was surrounded by who weren't motivated at all and didn't really seem to take interest in anything we were doing.

I moved to San Francisco ( from New Zealand ) after I dropped out in the beginning of 2013, attended a programming bootcamp and was surrounded by smart people who all shared the same drive and passion as me. It made a world of difference, my core group of friends were all people who breathed code. We all motivated each other to better ourselves and to learn new technologies. Moving to the valley was the best thing I've ever done, I learned so much in such a short amount of time and was even approached by some companies with some great offers. Unfortunately I had to move back to New Zealand as my year was up and US work visas require a degree or an extensive amount of experience. That was probably the biggest downside of dropping out, a degree can definitely open up many doors.
nope. they are in there. if it's on the rap genius lyrics page, I included it.
"It's great for security, therefore we should do it."

One of the most secure places to live in is a prison. Is that really the direction we want software to go in? I can't help but be reminded of that infamous quote: "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

As for this hiding of the URL, I'm not so convinced it'll help the situation any better. From the article itself: "To the average user, the URL is noise." In other words, if you assume that they already can't understand URLs/aren't bothering to, then what's to say they'd be able to notice the difference between a real URL and a phishing URL in those examples? To this average user, one is shorter, the other is a bit little longer. "The page looks real, that bunch of stuff up there I don't normally pay attention to anyway, so I wouldn't mind if it changed length." The one with the EV cert vs regular HTTPS is more obvious to me too since it's a different colour, but once again if you "assume illiteracy", anything could happen.

The other aspect of this is that it's only protecting "cross-domain" phishing; this is probably the majority of cases, but consider the situation where the real login page is at somehost.com/site1 while someone is trying to phish and creates another account at somehost.com/site2 . Now hiding the path to "prevent phishing" has the completely opposite effect! You could argue that this is an edge case, but it still seems to be an awfully discriminatory practice to me; I personally have password-protected accounts on various servers where the login is located at somehost.com/~myusername , and a phisherman with somehost.com/~otheruser could do this quite easily with hidden URL paths.

The real solution to preventing phishing? Education. Educate the users. Empower them with the knowledge to understand what URLs are and how they relate to where they are on the Internet. We should not continue to keep them ignorant, as they will become even more so, and that will have negative effects on the future of the Web and continue to propagate the notion that computers are "impossibly difficult to understand". I have worked with people who are otherwise very intelligent and sensible, but whose brains appear to completely leave their skull the moment they need to use a computer; and feel that this attitude may be partly responsible for that.
Woah so awesome!
OP: he's an associate, not a member
Amen. I'm right there with you. It's definitely not the cookie cutter success plan, and in some ways I'm happy about that.

Personally I'm most excited to see where I'll be when my friends start looking for work after university. Not in a "haha, I'm better than you" kind of way - just as validation that what I've done isn't completely crazy.

But who knows, maybe I'll be living out of a cardboard box somewhere in the heart of Silicon Valley in a couple years. :)
I only have rap data, sadly :(
We barely know the long term effect of traditional food items out there.
I kept this focused on vocab so that the data viz was very straightforward and easy to digest/draw insights from. I've had many requests for album sales to be added, and I plan to as soon as possible :)
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Why then do you think people should pursue pleasure (your definition) rather than things they desire?
The article is dated May 12, 2014. Is that because it's going to be in the print edition that will be released that day?
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The article addresses your concerns. First - the author lives almost entirely on Soylent for the past year and half. The reporter wrote that he looked and behaved really healthy. Sure, there could be some side effects that will manifest much later, but to this date it seems that there are none.
Second - he doesn't believe that Soylent will, or should, replace food entirely. He calls everything else "recreational food" and says that Soylent is a replacement for frozen stuff that you eat because its cheap and gives you calories, not for meals in restaurants that are meant to socialize.
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The way I see it is that so many people get by on nutrient-low, unbalanced diets that it's impossible to know exactly what the optimal combinations of food to eat really is. Humans are pretty resilient.

I doubt Soylent will be better or worse for you than the diet of a typical HN user if taken in the long term. Time will also tell: if after 5 years no adverse health effects are reported after a sufficient number of heavy users begin drinking it, then that's probably as best a "green light" as one could ever get.
Launch GDB with the -tui flag.

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/TUI.html
> One of Silicon Valley’s cultural exports in the past ten years has been the concept of “lifehacking”: devising tricks to streamline the obligations of daily life, thereby freeing yourself up for whatever you’d rather be doing

Well, to be frank, I'd rather be eating. What's the point of your life if you don't have time to even eat, let alone enjoy yourself.
I accept that argument if you prove my preceeding argument, that you don't need all of Groovy to use Gradle, to be wrong.
OCFS2 is extremely easy to set up and use with Debian (basically just apt-get install ocfs2-console, launch it and let it guide you). On the other hand, RedHat (and I suppose its clones) makes it easier to use GFS2, while GFS2 is incredibly complex to set up on Debian.
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Well isn't that embarrassing. Thanks.

Errors:

6 * 5 = 30: 六五 三十 (liu wu, san shi)

6 * 8 = 48: 六八 四十八 (liu ba, si shi ba)
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There's a strong aversion of using tools done in Python outside of Python community. It is irrational, but it being an inherently interpreted language puts it into the same perception bucket as Perl and who'd want to use a control system written in Perl?
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I agree with the first point, but it breaks down for me when you suggest that the principle of "internet literacy" is more important than making things easier to use for the user. I would not want the people building my car to have never invented the automatic gear, because they decided somehow that it removes me from understanding how a car works.
In Germany we have a clear path for those last and before last groups: apprenticeships. They are structured, widely accepted and highly respected. It seems like in the US such an alternative path is unfortunately missing (i.e. go to college or you will struggle).
Somehow that title, contrasted with the chart (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/business/economy/changed-l...) showing how the price of food, especially has gone up in recent years while tech prices have fallen, makes me worry about a future reality where real food is so expensive it's only for the elite, and everyone else subsists on supplements like Soylent.
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Agreed. Soylent looks like a cool company with a great product (as long as it's not people) but the title of the article elicited a hearty groan from me. Why these kinds of articles get so much attention around here I'll never know.
hi, you do know that every single word you submit to the evernote service becomes their intellectual property and can be used without your consent, do you?
> No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

That depends on whether these 'smart' people respect you, it is a horrible situation to have to hang around smart people who don't hold the same opinion of yourself.
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Whenever discussions of Soylent come up, I always wonder - would the same people who want to take Soylent also agree to taking a people that made their sex drive disappear? It will definitely save time and money to not have to worry about sex, after all.

NOTE: This is not a pro- or anti- Soylent sentiment, it's a mind experiment.