skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is hilariously interesting. Data mining can always bring good insights if you have good data.

I wonder, though, (a) if most people search for similar people or for different people, (b) how well does the matching percentage really reflect a "liking probability" (ie, there is always some wishful thinking when designing date profiles, and some of that might be counter-productive, ruling out good matches).
Analyzing your RescueTime Data - Part 2: Hours/Day by Month
When you say that it synchronizes the photos + videos on the iPhone, that includes ones taken using the iPhone's camera? How much latency would there be (minus actual transfer time) between capture and dropbox availability?

Does it use the native push notification API for syncing photos + videos from Dropbox to the device?
Sharepoint is so bad we've had tiny mvc doc repos requested just to deal with it's shortcomings.

Nuff said.
I would be too. As for the ants- they would have to be giant ants in my point of view. Able to sniff if something out of the thousands of somethings is wrong. And if they are all equal detectors, then everything would get a strong trail or no trail. And wouldn't those trails build up bigger and bigger over the years until something not a threat becomes "scented" into a giant one? AND if all of the ants have different strengths, then one and will miss a threat and wont put a very important scent marking on it...

uhg. I guess I am just a pessimist when it comes to this approach of protection. It seems like it will take up space and memory and wont be particularly effective even though real life ants seem to survive a-okay
Can someone explain how this is any weirder than 37signals using Google to serve ads? I'm not expressing an opinion, I just don't know what this post is trying to say.
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Wow,

Having only dabbled at the beginning graduate level in this, it makes me wonder what actually interesting things come out of describing more and more classes of this sort? I know groups in group theory get classified in an organized way. These classifications seem much more arbitrary...
Palm of 2006 and Palm of 2009 have hardly more than the name in common.
Can someone who knows mysql well explain why the entire query cache for a table is thrown out whenever an update/insert/delete is made to the table?

Sounds very "baby with the bathwater"-ish.

The author of the article kind of makes it sound like this issue with mysql is the primary reason to use memcached. I'm sure not every RDBMS has the same issue (and I'm sure there are lots of other reasons to use memcached).
This is my First time of hacking some1
Mohd
Love riding the train. Such efficient transportation. So much more relaxing than driving the car. Personally though, I like the old technology. Steel wheels on steel rails still goes plenty fast, feels smooth, is cheap, and is so terribly simple that it's hard (but of course not impossible) for things to go wrong.
Or any weirder than using Google Analytics...
25 years of GNU - support software freedom
If it isn't a long-term commitment then I think it could be a helpful learning experience even if you never (hopefully?) use the technology again.

In 2004 I had to build a data collection app using MS Access to help a law firm client prepare for a trial. It actually ended up being the best tool for the job because they were operating in a Microsoft environment, the app was a throwaway and Access was a quick means to an end, in this case a self-contained GUI front-end and (in its own way) relational back-end.

It was fun not to care about the technology choice and to instead focus entirely on building a professional-grade application.

And if you're getting paid to learn something new, that's pretty cool too, and provides more perspective when returning to Python or whatever.
It looks like the guy is using it to pitch his product.
I honestly can't tell. The confusing nature of the post leads me to believe it's FUD, especially since the call to action at the end encourages me to use their product to protect me from the supposed evil.
I'm guessing passenger... they've had support for 1.9 for some time now.
> Many of those complexities, say the authors, can be explained by human evolution

Evolutionary psychology: rank post-hoc reasoning dressed up as science.
This is the author of Ghostery. Sorry if it came off that way that is not my intent. I am not pitching my "free" product.

The difference here is that Media6 Degrees collects your behavioral data ties it with your social graph (your friends) data packages it up and resells it to other ad networks to target you.

Google Analytics data doesn't get sold to 3rd parties nor is it used by AdWords/AdSense to target ads at you (at least that is Google's claim).

Sorry if this came off as an ad, its not.
It seems like recently immigrated groups who are not established and similar disadvantaged groups of people do worse than the established.
I do not believe this to be noteworthy because you can clearly choose to open things in IE. Whereas in the chrome frame you get double the security risk and don't get to choose which browser to use. At least with that plugin you get a choice.
To pile on the pedantry: "data" is one of those words that can be used in either a singular or plural construction. The OED has references going as far back as this one, from 1807:

W. IRVING Salmag. xviii. 366 My grandfather..took a data from his own excellent heart.

(Further proof that English is not Latin.)
If you were truly legit you would have first asked them. I flagged this post.
See above for my full comments but in short the difference here is that Media6 Degrees collects your behavioral data ties it with your social graph (your friends) data packages it up and resells it to other ad networks to target you.
I work with similar systems in another domain. You would use different scents to mark different indicators of an attack. To prevent build up you would evaporate the scents over time, possibly at different rates. Each ant is a simple agent that is equal in capability although it is possible to have different specializations for some ants. The real power of swarming systems is their simplicity.
It's also hard to go to a dev workshop if you are rusty because you've spend 2 years studying Judo or 2 years biking around India. Or, for that matter, if you are a man who's been forced by circumstances to work part time.

Spending 2 years engaging in non-development activities (by choice) is not limited to women.
Wow, that's a nice pyramid scheme you've got there.
Science is prediction and explanation.
Huh? I should ask every site on the internet that is tracking your behavioral information why they're doing it?

I think we the users should decide what info gets shared with who. I also think we have the right as their user to publicly call them on questionable practices.

I'm a fan of their products too, just not a fanboy, there's a difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_based_model

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence
Use "has:attachment" in your gmail search - not perfect (no sorting) but it at least shows you only the emails that have attachments.
See below for my full comments but in short this is not an ad for my "free" product. I've updated my post to link to other ad blockers to make this crystal clear.
David is legit (founder of Compete.com). Ghostery has been around since late last year and now David is working on it full-time from what I understand.
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That's fine - no one has a problem with that.

The problem is that some people do, and it's impossible to get the tech out. The vast majority of R1 universities have moronic - utterly moronic - tech transfer offices. I can speak to this better than most as someone who did VC and had to deal with researches fighting against moronic tech transfer officers that insisted on onerous terms, insanely high royalty rates, and copious paperwork to get tech out.
That makes sense- but I guess what I failed to say was that all of the ants need to go over the same information, which is basically just a system scan taking a longer amount of time and not at once, which would just lower available ram- and I can use a LOT of ram at times.
Drea discusses 3.1 here:
http://blog.getdropbox.com/?p=102#comment-17809293
And there is a lab for saved searches
Some bad problems:

* Can you provide a video or something? I don't quite understand what you offer beyond what Mint offers and it's really hard to trust a new site with financial information.

* I get a 500 error whenever I try to confirm my email or try to login. Can't see the site at all that way.

* You're not using https for a financial site-- major red flag for me.
Somehow my reply to a post about gmail gets here. I am not sure why
Users simply don't care about this. They think google is the browser already. Mozilla has this bizarre notion that people will be upset because they don't know which rendering engine they are currently using.
I liked it as an ad, it actually made me interested in your product to see what you found using it.

Much better than a website with an about page :)
Almost certainly not the case, because sites need to opt-in to use Chrome frame. I doubt somewhere in Windows they will be accidentally opting in.

Chrome Frame is using the existing plug in architecture, they aren't being excessively obtrusive.
Well, I don't think it is a bad idea.

I'm implementing a similar idea. But the adv will cost $5,00.
Why is this bad? From anyone other than a browser vendor's perspective.
Excellent job

Quick request re viewable file types - The app correctly recognises .h files as C, and lets me view them, but not .m files. Would it be possible to add .m files as well?
The higher the pagerank, the more people have probably linked to their articles. More links suggests more usefulness. It's preferable to alphabetized, IMO. Plus I doubt the author checked them all out thoroughly enough to rank them with a better metric.
There is a very vibrant startup community here in Vancouver. Check out:

http://launchpartyhq.com/
http://bootup.ca/
http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver
http://www.newmediabc.com/
http://www.techvibes.com/index/vancouver
Arm Chips Make Their Way Into Commercial Laptops
Is girls playing football really the example you want to use? FYI, girls don't play football because most girls are too weak and slow to play (for biological reasons). Regarding ballet, men are actively encouraged to join ballet due to the fact that ballet (unlike coding) has explicit male/female roles and a shortage of men willing to fill those roles.

In any case, I'm not criticizing, just pointing out a bad argument. They can have their little Ruby on Rails "you go girl" event, I have no desire to go. Although I've never attended such an event, I'm told they suck; {Good AND girl} is a much smaller set than simply {good}.
Now if only Palm could figure out how to offer an option to change your default notification sound to something loud enough to actually hear. It's great the Pre can do e-mail, SMS, multi-task, etc but when it's in my pocket and I can't hear any of the notification sounds so it's useless. It might as well be a late 90's style dumb flip phone at that point.
and search "has:attachment filename:mov|mpg|jpg|rar|zip" and similar to find file types that are typically very large.
In that case my comment is ridiculous- so no problem there.
I should ask every site on the internet that is tracking your behavioral information why they're doing it?

If you're publicly accusing them of doing so, and doing so for monetary gain, then yeah, it does seem like some measure of journalistic integrity would require at least a half-assed attempt at getting the other side of the story. Even TechCrunch shoots out an email so they can say that they asked the company what their side is.

If you're really searching for the truth, you should have approached them and asked, especially since your title is a question and you have this line in your post:

I can’t figure out why 37 Signals would be selling this information to ad networks.

Your post is making an implication that something nefarious is going on, without actually having the guts to come out and say it. Instead, you pretend to be confused, and state that you're really not sure what's going on. If that's actually the case, why not just ask them?

As it is, it appears that you think you do know what's going on, you want to stir the pot and get some publicity for your product, and by keeping it vague, you protect yourself if you're wrong.
For Apple users, how does this compare to MobileMe/iDisk (Apple provides a free iDisk app for iPhone)?
the mysql query cache is mostly useless anyway. The innodb_bufer_pool is what saves you and it does not throw out the whole cache when you update an item.
Cache invalidation is a deceptively difficult problem.

The direct answer is because it's pretty difficult to figure out how an insert/update/delete is going to affect all the various queries stored in the cache... without running them all again. And of course you're not going to rerun all the queries again on the off chance you might need them in the future; you're just going to throw them out of the cache and regenerate them the next time they're needed.

Note that this seems like an unfair comparison. I don't think many people consider MySQL's transparent query cache a substitute for the (not transparent) Memcache. Better would be memcache versus using a regular table in a MySQL DB as a cache (many popular PHP CMSes do this).
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The problem with these is that I have thousands of emails with attachments, and the worst offenders are data dumps that don't have extensions.

I appreciate the advice though :D
It looks like they've (temporarily?) disabled the comments. Do you happen to have a cached copy of what he said?
Only skimmed the article but this sounds a lot like what we did with our two homeschooled kids. They were "unschooled", as in pursuing what interested them without regard to homework or grades. Both only went through 3rd grade in grade school.

One is now a senior and the other a junior in college. One has a 4.0 average while the other a B+. Both are pursuing what they love. Both work harder than their peers and need no pushing from us.
And it couldn't have been easy. I can think of a dozen features I'd like to see added, but most of them would only appeal to all small subset of users and ALL of them would make the service more complicated.
I like what you're doing with openphotovr.org. I've seen too many private research projects and not enough released software in the general arena of putting 2D images into a 3D scene. If you could add the ability to generate a polygon mesh (or at least voxels), that would be sweet...
I agree that it's a tough game to standardize usage, especially when different "experts" don't agree (I would guess that you could find writing by other authors circa 1807 that used "data" as a plural). Currently, you find the use of "gender" confused with the use of "sex." Over time "gender" will probably come be used generally for male/female, and sex for reproductive references. But the first such uses were non-standard.

Perhaps it's best to leave it at, "know your audience."
um ... wtf is your startup about? wtf should I bother to fire up my e-mail client and shoot you my resume?
Multithreaded File I/O:Reflections on Dr. Dobb’s article by Stefan Wörthmüller
As a single male Asian I am praying that the first row isn't me. But odds are it is anyway :( It certainly conforms with stereotypes about Asian girls...
I quite disagree WRT legal fees and what causes them (I am a VC, not a lawyer, believe it or not).

The substantive terms usually get argued about, up-front, by the business people (VC and entrepreneur).

It's true that there are ambiguities left even by a detailed term sheet. However, decent attorneys go with what's "market" for a given type of deal and don't spend a bunch of time on it.

What really kills you is that there are almost always a ton of i's to dot and t's to cross, things that entrepreneurs (and for that matter, VCs) don't and shouldn't care about (so long as they get done, by hook or by crook). For example: do you have your articles filed correctly? Up to date? Foreign corporation authorization in your physical location? Minutes from regular board meetings? Properly issued stock certs and register? Voting agreements / etc. from all cats-and-dogs shareholders (angels, uncle Larry, etc.)? Options properly approved, issued, expensed? Right number of shares authorized for each class and type, and for all options and warrants? blah blah blah blah blah.

And that's even before you get to stuff like reps and warranties. Screwups on any one of these things, conceivably, could allow someone or some government to screw up the deal later on, even if the business takes off.

Don't think of the definitive documentation of a round solely as a hangup en route to getting the wire. Think of it as a cleansing ritual where you pay the high priests to go back, expurgate your sins and omissions by papering over them, and make sure you don't end up going to jail or getting sued by the SEC later. Having your round definitively documented by non-dipshit attorneys basically gives all sides a reasonable comfort that the legal risk in the deal is low.

It's a PITA, yes, but it does good for all parties involved.

The "make deals more standardized" trope is oversimplified. It could work, yes, but only if the deal used a precise template for the ENTIRE history of the company, from ideation to handshakes to incorporation to seed money to A round. Since that can't be so, removing the legal risk is just going to require tens of hours of smart people slogging through paper and data.

Now -- should the VCs pay for this out of our piece or not? Look, frankly, we want to get our 20% for $2 M (or whatever). If you insist, I suppose we could reduce the premoney a tiny bit, get our 20% for $1.95 M, and pay the $50k out of pocket. You get the same net cash for a lower putative valuation, I'm still out $2 M.

Frankly: it's not worth the brain damage, just do it the way every other deal has been done. (I'm only replying because I'm in an ornery mood and too caffeinated to resist the bait right now...)
An intriguing line of thought. I think, however, the number of references to historical events is much greater now than in the past. There are 1.3M results for "nuclear bomb" on Google; 120M for "nuclear". More are being added daily. Ones that die off are being replaced.
I got one thing to say to Google regarding Wave: Child please. Just because you've come up with a new protocol that mimics e-mail, and incorporates chat, does not make you a game changer. Stop drinking your cool-aid and get back to working on search before Bing eats your lunch.
Really? You can't find one to steal from another company? E-mail me at sachinag (at) google's mail service and I'll send you ours.
Right, so compare that with the message reply rate chart at the bottom of the article. Assuming the axes haven't changed from other charts on the page (which IMHO is a pretty good assumption)...

It suggests that certain races have good matches with other races, but horrible reply rates. Reply rate may be the best metric okcupid has as to "success rate". It also suggests strong racial biases on the part of its users.
You might want to make that more clear, "There is a Google Labs option in Gmail for saved searches." My initial impression was that 'lab' was typo of 'label' before I realized what you meant.
You should talk more about what your company does and get to the point faster. I made it about two sentences in before I gave up. Good luck...
Previous HN coverage of Vanish:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=815026 (Schneier on Security post)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=762631 (BBC article on Vanish)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717736 (physorg article)
Depends on how long it is. If it will tie up substantial amounts of time (months, years) that you would rather put towards your future projects, then no.

If it's shorter term - then yes. Learning something new is always valuable (it teaches you to think better) and working on interesting projects is what this is all about.
I addressed those concerns in a comment on my website.
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I'm glad that GNU led the way on software freedom, but I cannot help but feel like the GPL is going the way of old blue collar unions.

Useful, nay, necessary at one time, but have now outgrown their original mandate and now exist unto themselves.
To elaborate more on your point:

Many people claim they aren't racist when they refuse to date other races. They always say they haven't found the right <insert minority race here> guy/girl.

What I've found from personal experience, is that the bar is set much higher for those minority races.
You can't say "above" or "below" on a site like Hacker News :-)
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I definitely do not have the firehose. I get the data with already available API methods.
Its bad because you would have maybe a dozen different "browser" plugins to visit several different websites.

You as a web designer wouldn't know which ones to design for especially if people can't install plugins, and as a result, would have to add on even more testing than the usual IE6/7/FF/Opera/Chrome/Safari.

Your website will also include the special hashtag thingie cruft at the top to support multiple browsers.

Overall, its a bad bad idea.
The CMU machine learning protesters at G20
One doesn't have to be a strong Singulatarian to recognize that projecting 4000 years into the future is not the best idea. There is a non-trivial probability that sophonts of the future will perfectly well believe that Man had the atomic bomb in 1950, what with that being a standard part of the ambient personality/memory matrix available for free for all pet paleohumans, post-human-based personality megaliths, retro-humans, poingtarees, and all others of sophont class H1C except the tridilons.

I know this isn't really meant as a projection into the future, and I suppose I'm just riffing off that point to observe it really isn't the best jump off point for an essay, since it distracts you with a lot of other things like the temptation to observe how this is the worst time in the history of Man to try to predict the future.