skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to sounds bitter, but I've been a donator for ~8 years, and the one time I asked for help (really: filed a bug report re: an archive they said they had but which didn't acually resolve & which I needed access to) they did not get back to me, ever, despite numerous support requests and additional donations.

I'm not sure whether that means they need more funding or whether they're simply unresponsive, but it definitely didn't help me solve my problems with a trademark troll.
I didn't grow up without a mother. I have an amazing mother who also happened to have a career. She raised me well enough to not turn out like you, and I can only hope to accomplish as much when raising my own children.
It would be nicer if it was on the east side (and not Seattle itself). They are limiting themselves mostly to students from UW...
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Here is a gem I wrote that uses a separate DSL to track indexes (including partial indexes), check constraints, and foreign keys. Rails 4 is starting to make this gem obsolete, but it still offers more than you get from vanilla Rails.

https://github.com/pjungwir/db_leftovers
This is remarkable, as we could conclude that Google News can't or don't want to create content on their own, but only copy from other sources.
> Google can't be allowed to copy the content or parts of it without permission of the creator

Do you also believe Google should remove the excerpts from web sites on search result pages?
I think the resignation of Brendan Eich actually happened, not a conspiracy.
You could e-mail a bill you wrote to your Congressman right now. Congress may be out of touch, but they do have e-mail.

The transparency angle is interesting, but I still don't think anything would change. Pull requests would be ignored like petitions, or receive canned responses like letters.

The primary problem here is not technological.
Got it. So, if I understand what you're saying now, it should be fine if a mother wants to give birth and keep working while the father takes care of the child full-time?

In which case, I am sorry I overreacted. But WTH do gender roles have to say about this other than that some people who don't want to be parents don't have a choice?
I think there's little doubt that mothers are the primary caretakers of children in the early years.
I've donated to the Internet Archive and I'm a big fan of Jason Scott, but the Internet Archive is not an archive. Any site on it can go down without warning, thanks to the fact that they apply current robots.txt rules to past archives. Once a domain squatter or regretful admin forbids archivebot (or crawlers in general), archive.org's copy goes down.

This has ruined many supposedly permanent links. The infamous "She's a Flight Risk" blog from a decade ago is down.[1] My first website is missing. Even public domain stuff like NASA's report on nuclear propulsion is gone.[2]

With just a small rule change (obey robots.txt at the time of crawling), they could eliminate the risk of a page disappearing. Instead, we're stuck with a slower version of the link rot we're used to. It doesn't stop me from supporting them, but it's incredibly frustrating.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aflightrisk.blogspo...

2. http://web.archive.org/web/20121029225832/http://ntrs.nasa.g...
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This reminded me that yesterday the leading newspaper on business news in Norway, Dagens Næringsliv, announced this years "gazelle winner" -- young companies/start-ups that have leapt ahead in terms of valuation/profit in the past (few) year(s).

The winner this time was Skye[1] a small SAP consulting company. The article[2] is sadly pay-walled (and in Norwegian) -- but the title reads "Would prefer to hire pregnant [women]". In the article, the (male) CEO states that mothers of young children are great at getting things done, and at being organized (by virtue of necessity). And that making a "great consultant" takes three years and costs 1MNOK (~140K USD), and that the maternity leave (9 months) pass quickly.

Thought it might be an interesting anecdote, despite the inaccessible sources.

[1] http://skye.no/

[2] http://www.dn.no/gasellene/2014/12/09/2147/IT/vil-helst-anse...
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"censorship" is too strong a word but it would be a barrier to entry to new entrants. Similar situation to the net neutrality debate. News neutrality?
I'm a codementor mentor. I enjoy the work, but don't really get enough that I don't need to look for other work.

Also it's frustrating that many of the "mentees" are students who are desperate to turn in a homework assignment the very next day after they post for codementor.

I enjoy teaching the younguns, but please don't leave it until the very last minute.
Deprioritizing family to pursue a gamble is even less commendable.
A Haskell solution, though I'm sure someone can do better ;)

Perhaps I'll clean it up using printf/format[0] later.

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import Control.Monad (liftM)
import qualified Data.HashMap.Lazy as H
import Data.List (sort)
import Data.Maybe (fromMaybe)
import Data.Monoid ((<>))
import qualified Data.Text as T
import qualified Data.Text.IO as TIO
import Prelude

main :: IO ()
main = do
gradesMap <- liftM
(H.fromList . map ((\(x:y:_) -> (x,y)) . T.splitOn "\t") . T.lines)
(TIO.readFile "example.txt")
let failingNames = H.keys $ H.filter ((== F) . T.take 1) gradesMap
gradeTotals = foldl
(\m k -> H.insertWith (+) (T.take 1 k) 1 m)
H.empty
(H.elems gradesMap)
TIO.putStrLn $ "Zsófia's grades: " <>
fromMaybe "N/A" (H.lookup "Zsófia" gradesMap)
TIO.putStrLn "List of students with a failing grade:"
TIO.putStrLn $ " " <> T.intercalate ", " failingNames
TIO.putStrLn "Distribution of grades by letter:"
mapM_ (\(k,v) -> TIO.putStrLn $ " " <> k <> ": " <> (T.pack . show $ v) <> " students")
(sort . H.toList $ gradeTotals)

0: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/formatting
It does it when the system is otherwise idle.

> And it guarantees that when a process goes to use the pages they will not be in the cache.

There isn't much point in caching a page full of zeros. Let the cache fill when there is actual data.
For sure.

Point 3, I think they already have covered. I think it's pretty safe to say that the BBC is a well known and established brand, and also a producer of high quality content.

The best way to look at it now is that they're stuck in a local maxima, they could definitely gain by broadcasting online to the world but it might take some time and will most definitely hit them financially in the short run.

There's also a political aspect wrt the BBC too. They are, as per their mandate, completely politically neutral†. But generally the left side of politics supports continuing the license fee we pay where the right side doesn't. If they should suddenly take a significant drop in revenue and it subsequently does affect what they produce then it also puts them at risk. And the last thing us Brits want to see is our BBC channels filling up with adverts.

Now is an interesting time. For a long time they were a plain old tv broadcaster. Now they're on the internet and broadcasting things there there are people questioning whether they should even be doing that. Eventually I think things will stabilize into some condition, I don't know what but I don't think we are there yet.

† of course, with politics, there are many debates about this
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The way I read it, Google didn't say they were blocking IP addresses from Spain, so users in Spain will still be able to access news.google.com, the change is that Google is forced to no longer aggregate news content from Spanish media sites due to the law forcing said media to charge Google for aggregating their content. And Google is taking down their Google News Spain site which specifically aggregates Spanish news.

In other words, it's a completely orthogonal concern to what you are talking about.
> Downvote me to hell

Well, you told me to...
Yahoo $250,000 daily fine over NSA data refusal was set to double 'every week'
What one has to do with the other is that the entire system is broken, here's my explanation for why the system is fundamentally messed up, and my explanation for how it should be. Simply trying to change refeering by itself is treating the symptom, not the disease.

> Unless you're proposing to eliminate the concept of publishing research at all...

I think putting my research on my website would be just as good as publishing it in a conference proceeding. I'm not against sharing research and having it be public, but I think conference proceeidngs and journals in CS are of very little value. If people want my research, they can find it on my website. And I think this generalizes... if I want your research, I can (presumably) find it on your website.

Ultimately, it may be useful to have some kind of aggregation of what research is coming out in various subfields. Internet fora and the like would serve the purpose fine. But sure, having a group of referees and some way to screen research and highlight what is good could certainly be useful. All that stuff should develop organically as it is needed, though.

The model we have now, with peer review, journals made out of dead trees, etc. is a hold-over from a pre-Internet time when a few people in every sphere of life controlled the information that was disseminated, because it wasn't possible for things to be open, since we lacked the technology. That is no longer an issue. Of course, academics will hold onto their little racket as long as they can (probably indefinitely).
Considering both Mozilla and Yahoo [1] value privacy rights so much this can only be a good thing.
It is a long long time ago when Google could be considered innocent (acting ethically). Actually, they're acting the opposite way for ages by ignoring copyright, privacy and by manipulating.

Generally I agree, however. The ethic mostly seems to be gone. And it has to be taken care of by enforcing copyright and privacy protection laws. I had my wake-up moment when Facebook started copying whole Wikipedia articles instead of linking.
For those old timers who did distributed systems work there's not that much new under the sun. I look at something like this and say "ah, a quirky and somewhat dangerous cache layer." What's different is bloggers promoting it as a "database."

While I'm sure someone out there will see this and say "wow, that's exactly what I need!" chances are that if you have these sorts of scale issues you're going to have to figure it out on your own.

I'd rather see a write-up of how they arrived at this particular conclusion than another non-database.
why even pay the cost of memory mapping if its a transient embedded cache not shared between servers?

just use a std::unordered_map, or better yet a tbb::concurrent_unordered_map or whatever the equivalent is for your language
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My point is that the second gun possession clearly indicates that his involvement ran deeper than the article leads you to believe.
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> archive.org's copy goes down.

From asking around they do retain the original data, but exclude it from public results following a robots.txt exclusion. It's something I do wish they would re-consider though as it limits the purpose.
The time and space complexity aren't different. That's the whole point I have been arguing, i.e. that you can support the paths as an arbitrary string semantics without losing efficiency for a directory rename operation.
Dress to impress will be a more appropriate title. I can see how this guy does so well in marketing.
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A "deuce" was a two-seater hot rod (cf. "Little Deuce Coupe" by the Beach Boys). I suppose it's now archaic slang. But I'm still puzzled, because Springsteen's original lyric is "cut loose like a deuce" and I have no idea what that means.
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Just for the record, we are an archive, just one with some policies (that I myself have been working to have tuned) that you might not like. I understand that you don't like the policy.
Thanks. That was an explicit goal of mine, so I am glad that it worked out that way for you.
You won't stay envious for long if you get my paycheck :P .

I'm currently considering a move to the U.S. (the grass is always greener on the other side).
I hope your claim about them keeping the data is correct, but... If a tree falls in the woods and robots.txt later excludes it, does archive.org make a sound?

While the distinction may be useful to someone with access to the data, it doesn't matter to me. From my point of view, the URL goes from available to unavailable. It's indistinguishable from typical link rot.

The Internet Archive has kept their robots.txt policy for over a decade now, despite constant requests to change it. I doubt they'll change it any time soon.
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From what I can tell, that seems to sum up the law pretty well.
You should read the last link in the article. The whole thing is a great read actually. But take a look especially at the results section that starts on page 22. It proves very convincingly that "for each of the 28 image-issues... evaluated,
strong evidence supports the conclusion that the images are not authentic or contain other
irregularities symptomatic of tampering": https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/krueger_affi...
time for me to dress nice while coding in the storeroom
Thanks so much! Here's the funny thing ... I had no idea there was a kindle version until just now (your comment prompted me to go look). I am pretty sure that it's new because -- while I don't follow the sales closely -- I also like to look at the breakdown of sales every year and I can't recall there ever being a kindle or digital category. So, yes, that's my guess.

I am going to go buy a copy now just, well, because I can.
Is it a good gun or a bad gun?

edit - Also, we all read the same article. You cannot claim the same article we all read as an extra source of information revealing knowledge that the article itself would have you believe otherwise. Well, you can. But it is bullshit.
I haven't seen any articles where Google News published the full text. Could you give an example?
Natural law, like the survival of the fittest?
Google News does not 'republish the full text of basically every article of basically every newspaper' it actually accommodates paywalls just fine:

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en

also it ain't the reason newspapers aren't making as much money as they'd like to, it's just the most convenient target for the blame.
Serious question: how do you get Google News to display the full article text? All I ever see is a short snippet, and if an article looks interesting I click the title which takes me directly to the news site. As a result, I end up visiting news sites that I've never heard of or never would have otherwise found directly.
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Google should remove all deep links from the search database. Teach them a hard lesson.
Right, like revenge porn and Celebgate! Once someone has seen it online, everyone has the RIGHT to see it until the end of time.
Spanish people can, of course, still visit any other country's Google News page, though. There is no reason to keep a single country's Google News page open if there are no news sources from that country.
Nor can DNA evidence reveal intent. What if one handles a gun merely to get a feel for it (no different from ogling someone's phone or slipping into the driver's seat of a friend's new car)? That said, the fact that a defendant touched a gun, plus an eyewitness account putting that defendant at a crime scene, plus recovery of the gun from the crime scene, etc. all work together to make the case that a defendant committed a crime with a particular weapon. Just because evidence is circumstantial doesn't make it any less powerful in legal proceedings.
Any newspaper that has a paywall and doesn't want their articles on Google News, can trivially prevent that from happening with a well-known two-line robots.txt.

Google News doesn't even republish full text. Just intro paragraph.

But newspaper sites seem to not be willing to pull their articles from Google News. They seem to be afraid that if they do, they'll lose all their traffic to the newspaper sites that are still in Google News. I don't know one way or the other., but I don't care that much.
see it's crazy. I don't know how to relate and I see it's the same for you. To me there's nothing easier than building UI in HTML with CSS and JavaScript. Using code to tweak padding and positioning in native code with a compile step is much slower IMO then

10.times { alt+tab, edit, cmd+r } -> perfect

[edit] - i should mention I spent a lot of time building desktop apps but haven't put much time into the newer mobile apps ios or android maybe it's improved a lot in ten years?

[edit] - last edit, I know it's improved and I suspect it's a matter of taste and proficiency that makes the difference.
Of course they don't want to create their own content. They're a search company! Their entire business is aggregating and linking to other sources.
LOL.

Spanish news is irrelevant now. Google will just show Spanish users broader Euro news they can continue to serve freely. Spanish newspapers just accelerated their demise.

You are so arrogant. "Google News needs to be stopped". Like you think an idea can be stopped. Please. The journalism profession exists because for a time it was profitable to package the changelog for reality in a convenient form and add a price tag. It's not profitable anymore. Like the candle-making industry, journalism is dead (as we know it). It is foolish to try to change the habits of billions of people.
Your statement "Google can't be allowed to copy the content or parts of it without permission of the creator" doesn't take into account that "Publishers can choose whether or not they want their articles to appear in Google News" (from the post).
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He was in Rikers, a jail used to hold people pending trial, because he was charged with attempted murder on the basis of the eye-witness identification. The article doesn't even say he was charged with a conspiracy or that the Facebook posts were used as evidence to charge him with a conspiracy. It appears the prosecutor uses the Facebook posts to show gang affiliation, which is a factor in deciding whether someone is a dangerous criminal who shouldn't be granted bail (i.e. being set free pending trial).
It is mainstream in certain domains. At my work we use a visual programming tool (an Eclipse plugin) for mapping data elements between one format to another. So if we have a customer who sends us something like a CSV file that they want us to upload to our system, but we need to transform it to XML first, we do that transformation mapping using the visual tool.
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It's remarkable that someone today tries to insult Google by claiming they aren't creating content. EVERYONE knows this. People use Google because they are great at organization information, not making it.
Can you clarify your claim that Google News "republishes the full text of basically every article", because I'm browsing right now and all I see are headlines with brief snippets and related news.

I wouldn't consider myself an expert on Google News, but I can't remember reading full-text articles on the service. I keep a tab open every day and click through the Top Stories every couple of hours. If it weren't for Google News, I might never have visited many news sites. Indeed, if Google News did not exist, I would probably use the New York Times almost exclusively, denying hundreds of ad impressions to smaller news outlets.
But the law itself does not seem reasonable. It's a violation of fair use.

Lest we forget, Google News links to the articles themselves. It provides a service to news organisations, for—as far as I'm aware—free.
"No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to [code in the storeroom]."
Who gets to decide what is and isn't of historical value?
Oh, yes, reversing : and :: makes it soooooo much easier for beginners to approach.

The elm community is full of inane bikeshedding like this. I bet they spent days and even weeks arguing the merits of reversing these vs not reversing them.
PLLs are fascinating. Software PLLs are less fun than messing with the hardware, in my experience!

I started working on a software PLL recently -- not analog like this one, digital. Specifically, I was trying to work out the math on a fully event driven type-II PLL -- i.e. instead of updating at a fixed sampling rate, it'd wake only when an edge happened on the input or VCO. I was starting to get curious whether there's a solution for that somewhere on the web.

This is a good intro to (hardware) PLLs in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jzLDe950AY followed by http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~spalermo/ecen620.html
To New Yorkers, all guns are bad guns:

> "Nobody wants to see 14- and 15-year-old kids getting locked up," says Chris Watler, Project Director at the Harlem Community Justice Center. "But if a kid is picking up a gun, or shooting other kids, we need to stop them from doing that. If you have a kids posing online with a gun, what is the obligation of law enforcement? There is a legitimate public safety concern."

And that's a freaking community-justice type talking.
This is something I am happy to donate for. These guys have been plugging away quietly for a long time to give us a record that would otherwise literally disappear into thin air.
Astro-know-nothing question: why wouldn't it be more directly 'tracking' to forget the constant clock drive (which we know will always be off by some amount) and set up a suitably long sight tube on some bright star with a photo sensor at the bottom of it. When the star's light moves out of the tube, a fine-stepped stepper tracks west until it re-appears ..?
If it's the substantial part of the content, yes. But in the case of most of the web search results it is not, so no.

However, you've asked the tricky question. Is it necessary to go to the website or to the original news article or not?

That's just my moral based evaluation, I guess from the perspective of a lawyer it's seen differently, much more strictly.
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You've misinterpreted the story as, "Google News won't be accessible to browsers in Spain."

The actual story is, "The 'Spain' version of Google News won't be accessible to anyone."
"Nonetheless, I have a closet full of nice clothes that I try to wear whenever I leave the house. I receive compliments from random strangers almost every time I walk out of my door. And some of those people ask me what I do for work."

That's an apt description of me. I'd be mildly surprised if I'd spent more than $10k on clothing over the past 10 years.
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Even worse, this might affect Facebook, Twitter and Spanish Reddit-like site Menéame (very popular there):

http://boingboing.net/2014/07/28/spain-pushes-for-google-tax...

Just like we have the term 'patent troll', maybe we need the term 'tax troll' for some Governments.
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Wow, the Jason Scott! While you're here, can you please answer two questions:

Does the Wayback Machine retain data excluded by new robots.txt rules? (In other words: If you change your policy in the future, can the change be retroactive?)

Why does archive.org keep this policy? It drastically limits what The Wayback Machine could be. I've searched quite a bit, but I haven't found a satisfying answer.[1]

1. https://archive.org/post/1019415/retroactive-robotstxt-remov... contains links to previous discussion on archive.org.