skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So awesome to see that folks are discovering Common Crawl, it's a really great project and the amount of data they've crawled has been tremendous. If you're looking to get into machine learning, it's perhaps the most comprehensive dataset you can get your hands on.
Well I don't think you're completely off the mark. I just moved to Boston recently and have been struck at how people often seem to evaluate your pedigree during introductions.

As negative as that sounds, I think different regions just have different ways individuals brand themselves to show value in their society.
I dont know any you can linkup research with.

If you are looking to explore.

(1) http://www.convflow.com (i worked on an earlier version)

I am a big fan of idea management / collaboration softwares too. More information. Some others I recently started using are
(1) http://www.thoughtback.com (useful alone)
(2) https://app.thoughtplan.com (useful alone)
(3) http://www.hipchat.com (prefer simpler design) or http://www.slack.com (prefer awesome design)
Any site can opt out of Google News. Publishers don't because to do so would be foolish--they'd make even less money without the traffic driven to them.

If anyone is killing newspapers it's craigslist which ate classified ads, and Apple, which invented this cute little device called a smartphone that's snagged a few billion dollars of local advertising. And of course, newspapers, which all when online, which meant that you had 1000 news options, as opposed to the couple of local papers.
Yahoo search is just rebranded Bing search:

http://m.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2329566/marissa-mayer...
I believe the goal/logic is "we want money. Google has lots of money, we should try and get some of that"
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Do you have any info on why Spain passed that law, such as white papers proposing the law or debates given in their version of parliament? Was it specifically to force companies like Google to shut down, or was that an unintended side effect?

It's common for businesses in a supply chain to each pay a proportion of sales tax (e.g. GST in Australia, and in NZ), so it doesn't seem all that ridiculous for a country to do the same with a "copyright levy" in the media/search industry.
I disagree. The simple fact that a business benefits off another's hard work does not nessecary deprive the worker of their income. Economics is not zero-sum. Google News drives traffic to news sites that would otherwise be isolated to local communities. If anything, Google levels the playing field, allowing any nearby local news to catch as much traffic as the BBC or NYT. So to complain that Google is profiteering sounds like you want to kill the golden goose.

If it becomes harder to consume the news, people won't bother. The economic pie for news sites in Spain is about to shrink drastically.
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I think I took this into account, but I admit I didn't see something else, which you pointed me to:

>> This new legislation requires every Spanish publication to charge services like Google News for showing even the smallest snippet from their publications, whether they want to or not.

In Spain it's not possible for publishers to allow Google to post without payment.

So, yeah, in this case I missed the point ...
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Because it will persist between restarts?
Yes, that's definitely true and is a big reason I would have been primed for a negative interpretation of what might have been a simple comment.

Boston is really aristocratic. I think that's the best word. Pedigree, status, and ... Breeding?
There have been a bunch more donations since this has been posted on HN. The easiest way to see this is the subset that is donated via bitcoins: https://blockchain.info/address/1Archive1n2C579dMsAu3iC6tWzu... more disks and bandwidth!
A free API for generating random user data. Like Lorem Ipsum, but for people
I used Nolo Press' How to Form a California Corporation. The book was $40.00, the name reservation was $15.00, the incorporation (that I handled myself) was $100.00.

However, if you don't know what you're doing it's probably a good idea to use a service.

Be careful to get your taxes right - the book Inc. Yourself simply does not discuss taxation. That led to some trouble for me.
Some "visal programming languages" are actually faster to develop, specifically where there are prebuilt components and the real ability to reuse existing work.
Another great advantage is for business people and BAs to be able to easily see and understand how the application works, and even contribute at a meaningful level to what business needs.It's easier for new people on a project to pick up an understand what has been written, rather than getting their head around thousands of lines of code.
While technically not a visual programming language, we're developing an ESB that works inside a visual IDE and uses a lot of flow based and visual programming principles to make it easy to learn and simple to use. It's an open source project, go check it out on GitHub - https://github.com/Warewolf-ESB/Warewolf-ESB or get a compiled version from http://warewolf.io
then it seems strange to call it a cache.
Forgetting for a moment that these notions go against the without rhyme and reason of fair use exception, and the reciprocal nature of arrangement in which these newspapers receive nontrivial amount of potentially magnetizable traffic. What I take most take issue with is the shortsighted top down solution you seem to support and advocate for, maybe if these entities can't sustain themselves they should be let to die instead of having government (which they supposedly keep watch of) create life support for them delaying the inevitable.
Ultimately, it is for conversion of the right person. Conversion may mean anything from giving your existing customer information they need, getting a new customer on board or getting a newsletter sign up.
Something I've noticed is that most online articles about scientific misconduct and invalid results revolve around the medical sciences. Granted, medicine is probably the biggest piece of the scientific pie right now, and other branches of science may have their own problems, but I think it misleads the public to have a title like "scientific peer review is broken," for an article that focuses exclusively on one branch of science.

Disclaimer: I'm a physicist. I'm sure that physics is not beyond critique, but unless somebody is willing to take enough of an interest in the inner workings of physics research to say something specific about it or credibly include it in a generalization, I'd rather say something like "medical peer review is broken."
I meant the second case - one intermediate is signed by 2 "different" certs. (they have the same key of course) One is a CA, the other is intermediate itself.

These are the valid chains:

my cert
b4c66180c520bad688470ef80bb22beba8391c22 - COMODO SSL CA
02faf3e291435468607857694df5e45b68851868 - AddTrust External CA Root

Another chain. Watch out - different cert with CA in name, that is not actually a CA. It's also got the same name as the one above, but is not self-signed:

my cert
b4c66180c520bad688470ef80bb22beba8391c22 - COMODO SSL CA
53845e9fd070b7aa36976f536ff1441c578c63d2 - AddTrust External CA Root
58119f0e128287ea50fdd987456f4f78dcfad6d4 - UTN - DATACorp SGC

You can see its interesting/messy details at https://ssl-tools.net/certificates/5yf351-addtrust-external-...
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To be fair to New Yorkers, they probably don't get to see the good sides of guns, like the time someone's Aunt Daphne got saved from a bear, or something.

In a city guns are for murder. They serve no other purpose.

But until the US stops celebrating guns like some religious totem that supposedly defends the common folk from a nuclear armed superpower, guns will be in US cities.

edit - I don't think guns should be banned, but I think they should be licensed. And to put it in perspective, I think that a gun license should be harder to get than a car license but easier to get than an explosives license.
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The issue is that archive.org exists in a quasi-legal gray area. Imagine that you decided to selectively archive comic strips that are accessible online and created a "Comics Library" site. I expect you'd get some cease and desist letters.

Archive.org has mostly gotten away with what they do based on the fact that they try to be comprehensive, they don't post ads or charge for access, AND that they won't display your site if you ask them (through robots.txt). Yes it's frustrating but barring some legal ruling that cements their right to archive and offer access to copyrighted works, I don't expect it to change.
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>Journalists value the sensational over the factual, and work hard (true) to tight deadlines.

No, people do. There are tons of highly professional journalists who want to do good work and write important, well-crafted, accurate stories. Who were inspired to get into the field by Watergate. Who are constantly begging their bosses to do labor-intensive features.

The economic reality is that there are not enough people who want this enough to fund it, except barely at a handful of institutions like NYTimes. Good work takes time and manpower and it doesn't sell. If management is doing its job (maximize shareholder value) then it is doing everything it can to turn its paper into Buzzfeed.

There are thousands of journalists who left their dying papers because they couldn't stand it anymore. Thousands more who were simply laid off, or took buyouts because they saw that they were going to be laid off if they didn't. My dad is one of these. They'd want nothing more than to work at a real paper again, but there aren't really real papers anymore.

Being sloppy and fast is absolutely about service to the customer. With a daily publication deadline, you can generally take the time to do it right. But the readership (and therefore management) wants stories on the internet as quickly as possible. Of course they are going to be sloppy.

(I agree with all your complaints about TV news, because that's what it's always been. In print... that's what they were forced to become when the money became tight.)
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We all have times when we're having a bad day and our performance is off. Unfortunately, this happened to you during an interview. I've had the same thing happen to me. Accept that this was just a bad day and not an indication of your skill level.

It's also worth remembering that interviewing well is a skill that most of us don't get a lot of practice at. The stress and unusual circumstances make simple tasks harder than normal. Next time try to find out in advance how the company you're interviewing with conducts their tests and try to simulate it yourself in advance. Do they use a particular screen sharing app? A different IDE? A whiteboard? Being more familiar with the situation can help you focus on the task at hand instead of being distracted by the circumstances.
To be honest, I didn't see who could benefit from this law enforcement. If the government or whoever drive this believe this would force Google to pay for the news, they are wrong in the first place. The reason is simple, if Google pays to Spain, other countries would certainly require it to do the same, otherwise, why not? So if they are not stupid, the shutdown is what they have foreseen.

If that is the case, big local newpaper/portal will be happy. Because right now, there will be more people to buy the real newspaper/visit their site directly. Maybe they will see to a certain increase in their readership. However, the trend of information digitization is inevitable. Fundamentally ,internet is more efficient in collecting, organizing and delivering information than any other media. Eventually everyone will become loser.

I don't know how this is going to end, because law is not something that could be taken back easily. Hopefully, they will be smart enough to figure out something to bypass it.
Best overview I could find: https://medium.com/@JulioAlonso/the-story-of-spains-google-t...
Even better: keep the Spanish Google News operating but only link to Latin American news sources. Spanish citizens still get news in their preferred language but no traffic goes to domestic media outlets.
Open source! Find a project you are like and contribute. Your skills and experience will increase, and it's great for your CV for future work.
You might even be able to get some freelancing work out of it via an Elance or similar.
Whatever you do, don't sit at home and get into a slump.
Good luck
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You can get your site taken down, if that's your worry. But like generally on the internet, your best recourse is to control your online presence at the source. Don't post regrettable things publicly, and you should be fine. If other people do it to you, your issue really would be with them; fortunately, if something terrible is done, you've the Archive to prove the damage and back you up.

It really is a different beast from your normal panopticon internet tracking. This is more akin to showing up in the newspaper, rather than a surveillance camera.

[0] https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#29
> They are NOT GEO-BLOCKING IT.

FOR NOW.

As we all know, Google's reaction isn't the result the people pushing for the law intended. Do you think they will just give up? They've already gone through several rounds in several countries on this issue, so I don't. Considering that past experience, I'd say there's a substantial chance the law will be amended to be stricter and more far-reaching and/or it will be interpreted that way by the courts.
My understanding is that when you use SSE/AVX instructions to perform floating point operations (and nowadays most compilers do when compiling for x86_64, even for code that isn't vectorizable), then Intel CPUs are what this article "single/double systems" and not "extended-based systems." But I'm not an FP expert, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
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You misread, I made the converse claim.
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You also have to consider that the publishing industry is really hurting because of people moving online and the press has a lot of political power.
I would look at how much they actually cost you. Cost you. If they didn't cost much of anything refund them up to the cost to you to do business, including overhead
There's a forum here:

https://archive.org/post/406632/why-does-the-wayback-machine...

Maybe if it gets enough attention, and/or the Internet Archive people get enough e-mails about this problem (Wayback Machine obeying robots.txt) then they'll change their mind.

https://archive.org/about/bios.php

Here's a link with the director's email:

http://brewster.kahle.org/about/
> Put things on the global internet and lose export value

If they don't feel like sharing, we can find other sources that will, there's no lack of quality content.

It's a pity that BBC sits on a million hours of TV and radio archived shows, that are collecting dust instead of being cited, posted, commented on, tagged, submitted, etc. Their loss. The web keeps growing and the BBC archives are offline. It's a kind of 'Encyclopedia Brittanica thinking' in an age of Wikipedia - trying to monetize at the expense of global accessibility.
I'm so excited that they finally open-sourced this. It's relatively old tech at Yahoo, stuff folks outside never got to see. It was difficult to explain to later colleagues the stuff I knew about shared-memory databases because I couldn't give them a frame of reference.

mdbm performance is even better on FreeBSD than Linux because FreeBSD supports MAP_NOSYNC, which causes the kernel not to flush dirty pages to disk until the region is unmapped. Perhaps mdbm's release will finally get the Linux kernel team to provide support for that flag.
Hmmm I'd think that ChuckMcM would have some interesting views about this.
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I'd consider it an issue. Most companies that are hiring are hiring for immediate needs. Did they explain why they want you but don't want you now? Make sure you understand their reasons so you can assess the risk. Are they counting on funding coming in or an increase in revenue? Funding doesn't always come and business plans change.
Because it's shared between processes on the same server.
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If we do hit process limits on process node limits, we'll start going massively parallel, it which case you still won't be using C to program your 10000 processor machine.
Late reply - sorry that I missed your response.

I've found that RAII classes like std::unique_ptr have really helped. Errors like an uninitialized pointer are often caused by poor ownership semantics in the program design, and I don't think you escape that in reference counted languages. You'll still have a messy class design without clear ownership, and there are types of resources other than memory to manage (file handles, locks, sockets).

I'm not saying that your colleagues are bad engineers, I've had many troubles with ownership design over the years and still do at times. I just don't think C++ is unique in this regard even if it does force you to think about it more regularly since memory interaction is so common.
so, what about hacker news, reddit, etc?
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Looks great, what an innovative concept.
It looks generic and already claims to adopt the freemium model. It almost looks like something Ray Wenderlich (a great blog, by the way) would have made to teach people how to develop a game for iOS.

However, I could be wrong. The gameplay could be completely unique, but there is no demo video to demonstrate that fact; all we have to rely on is the author's word.

It doesn't look like something I would pay for, especially given that it is still in the design stage. It might work as a paid-tutorial if all the code is released (gameplay code, assets, detailed tutorials, IAP code, etc.), but in its current state it looks like a Chinese-developed clone.
That it does, but you cannot dismiss the addictive qualities of ketamine with such a statement, because it is an addictive drug. What part of tolerance build up and withdrawals makes you think it isn't physically addictive? Both are physical documented phenomena.
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Fair use is an american thing. Spain cannot violate US copyright law
Yes, multiple times to multiple companies. It is not about the cost of the drug itself, it is the cost of administration. This isn't just a bottle of ketamine pills, it is an IV infusion in a hospital setting.
I agree with all sides of this so far. :)

It's empirically checkable how close Carlsen is to Kasparov in skill. If Kasparov was significantly better than Carlsen in some ways, then Carlsen had to be his superior in others.

I'm reminded of a quote by one New England Patriots linebacker about another, when early in his career Jerod Mayo said (and this is approximate, although I'm sure the first three words are precise) "I'm pretty sure I can run faster than Tedy Bruschi, but he's still faster getting to a ball carrier than I am." That was a pretty big complement to Bruschi, about his quick instincts in judging a play.
I don't find his disclaimers about his intelligence persuasive. He's obviously a pretty smart guy; at least, he was quite the smart kid.

That said, I had monumentally high IQ scores as a little kid, and they are surely vastly lower in adulthood. So I'm not very eager to be retested either. ;)
>What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful as those used by coders?

Not much would change, except more fluff.

What journalists need is a money making, sustainable outlet.
I believe that is correct, as the SSE/AVX instructions specify double arguments, and it's the not-quite deprecated x87 extension that supports 80-bit extended-precision floats.
Seriously. I like the example of bears, since it allows us to remain in the realm of biology. I mean, does any reputable biologist posit meaningful differences between polar bears & black bears? It's absurd. One bear is black and the other is white. What else does that possibly tell us about their behavior or other attributes?
What if I post a Spanish story to HN (or Reddit) and use the title of the article as the submission title?

Will the company hosting the site have to pay up?
>Forget about editors, use this kind of mark-up for your readers. Imagine changing an in-depth article into a truncated, 200-word summary with the click of a button.

I imagine it, and most users would still not care. They skim articles anyway.
Well, we have access to letters written by Thomas Jefferson and letters written by Emily Dickinson they probably didn't think we should have. (They were private letters, after all.) But we have a more comprehensive view of these people because of it.
There's a difference between Google Search and Google News.

It is already an achievement to write the headlines of the news and to rank the importance of a piece of news. I consider this and all the editorial also as content.

With Google Search, Google does the ranking etc. and provides a substantial own service on demand to a specific search. People always go to the original site if it fits their search request. All good here. But with Google News they just copy the headlines and parts of the articles. They present it, kind of republish it in opposite to creating a search service.

Personally, I'm a bit pissed by the Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. because of their sneaky busines concepts. So my post is hostile (which it shouldn't be, but happens ...), but not insulting towards Google.
This is a business decision. BBC executives have already (probably) thought about whether they want to charge now or make it free now (and charge later). Its the age old question every company and startup faces -- shall I increase my reputation now and charge later or should I charge now. As its been already pointed out, BBC already has a great reputation.

Different business models result in different pricing decisions. Maybe BBC has determined that keeping things free globally is just not smart business sense for it because of real revenue foregone.

I believe that BBC sells a lot of its programs to channels around the world. I also believe it also markets various DVDs of its programs. BBC entertainment is also available as a paid channel in many countries. If it made these programs free on the web globally that business might be in doubt.

BBC is currently in a binary model which is to be free in UK and then sell its programs globally. The unintended consequence of that it ends up denying global internet users its programs.

What would be best, I believe, would be to provide all choices. For people who are willing to pay outside the UK -- bring them into a subscriber model of some sort. This way BBC can continue selling its programs to companies/channels/customers around the world and let internet users watch BBC programs, for a small cost.

Who knows? BBC might actually be working on subscriber pays model on the internet. Here other considerations come into play: bureaucratic sloth in an organization as big as the BBC and the time it takes to role out a subscription oriented video website.
Ok then, end of thread.
"Of the 119 individuals found to have been detained by the CIA during the life of the program, the committee found that at least 26 were wrongfully held."[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm3Cr1dAnco
The problem for women is that they also have to deal with their biological clock. Unless they start a company in their 20s and then have kids in their 30s, it becomes difficult to make this decision.
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