skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It comes with a border, it's blue, it has a title "Google Sidewiki" and it displays your name. I would say it can't be confused with the components of the website itself, although with Web 2.0 sometimes sites get built in a way that components that are parts of the site look like they're not.
Hell, even if you do send just one message and do pad it, but the padding sucks (i.e. is known to the adversary) and e is small, you can use Coppersmith's theorem to break the encryption.

This is really just reason number 242151205 why you shouldn't attempt to build your own crypto system.
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Yes it seems like a great idea! It's the equivalent of the computational challenge approach in antispam. : )

That's good advice. I'll likely give it a shot next time around!
This must be an old prototype that never made it through, since when you click on a video it pops up with the old style controls.
A generalization of the attack (and many more attacks) is given in:
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/RSA-survey.pdf
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Is the fifth commentor representative... hmmm
Solr can serve great for your purposes. As far as domain specific crawl is concerned, maybe you could use our semantic classification API which takes in a URL and tells the DMOZ category it belongs to - http://www.wingify.com/contextsense/
I would like to ask you: How? Microsoft managed to support Unicode in Notepad, starting in Windows 2000; the heuristic used when detecting character sets is fragile and has potential to break what used to work (mostly opening readmes anyway). How would support for Unix style line ending break legacy software?
I've been playing go on and off for over ten years now and _heartily_ recommend anyone remotely interested in learning to sign up for kgs (http://www.gokgs.com/) and download the java client. There is a fantastic community there, including a few beginner rooms. Often, people will stay after and review the game with you, which is basically a free lesson. People are consistently polite and respectful on kgs, which I can't say of other go networks (igs, for example). Additionally, it's really easy to get a quick match whenever you want with someone appropriately ranked, and it figures out your rank as you play people.

If you're going to play in person, try to play smaller boards, like 9x9, so you can get a sense of tactics and local patterns. Mark_h said it already in this thread, but I'll repeat: lose your first fifty (or more) games as quickly as possible. When you're first getting started, the goal is just to get a handle on how play progresses, not to win. Getting comfortable losing makes it easier to learn.

Web resources I can recommend: http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/ and http://senseis.xmp.net/

Please feel free to find me on kgs, username jrothstein. I'd love to help share my love of the game with other hackers. Also feel free to contact me (info in profile) with any questions about the game or for a review (I'll try my best).
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The flu vaccine has been proven effective as well

The article that started this thread denies that. You need to understand that my rejection of the ethics argument in this case relies on this assumption that the efficacy is not proven. If the flu vaccine were proven to be effective I would agree with all your ethics arguments.

What I find puzzling though is that the proof of efficacy should be prevented by the unproven claim of efficacy. Once a sufficient number of experts is convinced, for whatever reason, that something works, we would be prevented forever from finding out whether that's actually the case. I cannot accept that.
I just don't get where all the Joel-bashing comes from. You'd never know it from reading this rant or any of the comments but Joel is giving his software to these students for free:

"FogBugz would work great for tracking this: if you’re doing a capstone project and need access to FogBugz, please let us know and we’ll be happy to set you up for free."

More importantly Joel is paying for students to participate in the program, and providing one of his programmers as a mentor. He's also had well-known, paid internship programs at Fogcreek. To me that says he's taken the initiative to fill this void in academia himself, with his own money no less.
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Twitter is the “Atari Pong” of real-time messaging services?

I remember how exciting it was back in February when I started realizing what it meant to have a real-time messaging protocol.
http://www.thinksketchdesign.com/2009/02/25/design/algorithm...

How magical! Imagine all the strange and wonderful things we could do with it - like water our plants automatically! But I'm going to have to guess that twitter has seen its heyday. Twitter has been fueled by the exciting idea of a real-time protocol - and that idea will truly shape the next generation of the internet. But that idea is here now and it's going to outgrow twitter in a hurry. The idea of a real-time protocol is going to be the backbone of the next internet-merged-with-mobile-cellular-satellite-and-wireless-mesh-network revolution. Every device will talk directly to any other device. The ISPs will be the next media giants of this year - scrambling to hold onto their market models as the internet as we know it dissolves into the fabric of the technological landscape powered by open source network communication software and ad-hoc device-to-device mesh networks. Twitter has been a real inspiration, but I just don't see them growing and adapting to be the driving force to carry this revolution. Thanks, twitter, but I'm looking to google wave now as a protocol that has real potential to be the backbone structure for the next-gen internet. Or hey - prove me wrong. It definitely seems like a good move to reach out for fresh ideas at ycombinator.

More on google wave - and annotated video clips that summarize the google wave demo video:
http://www.thinksketchdesign.com/2009/06/09/web/media/google...
agreed. I didn't even try reading it in it's original formatting before clicking reaching for the Readability bookmarklet. http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
> But if you push significant bandwidth then that's a minor part of your costs anyway.

If you push significant bandwidth, up to the point that you're paying $17,000 per month, you should look at a provider that provides peering arrangements (i.e., lower costs), and moving away from EC2 where bandwidth is terribly overpriced.

For instance, you can get a Cogent 100MB pipe at most US datacentres for as little as $400 per month. That would be 32 terabytes of data right there, so getting up to 150TB of data would be about $1,800, or about 10% of your bandwidth bill with EC2.

There is obviously much, much more that goes into this, but you get the idea.
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The rise of social media has made it easier than ever to keep in touch with friends, relatives and coworkers.
Rackspace is Slicehost. :P
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I must say their earlier robot, big dog, walked suspiciously like a human as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc

;)
Why don't newspapers switch to sw like TimesReader?
It would be cheaper to provide and capture a greater audience. With all the hype about circulation dropping I find it the best option. Someone could even make a brandable reader like this and sell it to multiple papers. I know maybe I am making a stupid point but could you explain it to me?
Just out of curiosity, what problems did you run into specifically? I adopted CakePHP for similar reasons and haven't run into any issues that have made me regret it, although I did leave standard development practice for a few reasons that have made caching a bit more difficult than otherwise.
Oh gawd, I really hate that.
For Amazon to offer it as an option, they must've got a lot of requests for it. I wonder are machines this scary that common?
I swear I saw this before... TestTube maybe?
Real estate and business investments are illiquid, often hard to value, and require constant work. Consider the stock market instead. I like ETFs:

spy dia qqqq uso dba ung tlt jnk slv gld ewa adre fxi

$200k of JNK provides >$2000/mo interest income.

Of course, you should diversify. Follow macro trends, use multi-week or multi-month investments, don't daytrade or try to pick individual companies. Aim for long term capital gains.

Use tight risk control (trailing stops etc). I highly recommend automated trading as it reduces human emotional errors. Run a model real-time (rather than backtesting) before using it on real money. etc.
It is not as if there is something magically american about these robots. Other nations can and do build their own military robots. Also, they are not cheap. They, as of now, require personnel to operate. I wouldn't worry about an army of autonomous robot soldiers. Save that for the movies.
This is a gimped google voice number. Seems like its still better to switch to full service (still requires changing your numbers).
I noticed that one URL shortener is engaging in massive Cookie Dropping, as soon as you click on a link you add 50 affiliate cookies ... nice business modell, not so nice service
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good to see someone moving on this idea. I talked with a few people about this exact service a year ago and the general consensus was that if it got big you'd get slammed for violating EULA's. best of luck.
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Hey, any chance you have raw data to process? I'd like to give it a shot (doing sentiment analysis on your data)
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I just made them an awesome and fun URL shortening service!

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I'm blackthorn on kgs... we should play some time. I'm about 5k, though I haven't played in a while.

People are polite on KGS because politeness and topicality are enforced by the moderators.
Thanks Jacques. Super cool project -- was a pleasure to work with you!
Huh?

(1) Most engineers are NOT "wannabe doctors." The two professions are orthogonal. People who drop out of premed rarely go into engineering -- the classwork is at least as difficult, if not more.

(2) Regarding the "difference," no difference at all is presented. According to the article, a doctor makes a hypothesis "purely based on his experience and diagnosises [sic] the disease." On the other hand, a computer "correlate[s] ... symptoms with some disease with know symptoms." The two sound pretty similar, don't they?
I think it has more to do with user demand, familiarity, and also the ability to migrate over, as many users already use MySQL.
actually, dont kid.

Lets assume Information propagates according to some diffusion model, forward only in time, and after some delay affects the price of a given stock. Twitter is the perfect feed to match against high frequency stock data to measure each stocks sensitivity to particular kinds of news (location, keyword)

So you build a weighted model of what kind of news affects which stocks, and how strongly.. and do algorithmic trading on that statistical arbitrage, and exploit the market not being perfect [thus improving market efficiency].

The engine you get is quite similar to one which acts as a real-time agent looking for twitter activity on topics of interest to you...
The markets aren't perfect.

But, if an algorithm can find this mispriced asset, and trade to exploit it before a human can, then that should improve the markets efficiency and reduce the arbitrage.. or so it goes.
Usually if someone finds something find, interesting or enlightening they'll up-mod it. I don't care about the karma, I care about things being thought interesting enough to be up-mud.
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they are also bad in that if one goes out of business or loses their database all the links on the web that use the shortener stop working forever
It's an interesting quiz, most of it was pop science stuff that you would pick up if you've been following the news. Pluto/Aspirin/Tsunami's. Questions on these topics were more correctly answered than basic science facts.

It's interesting that most common correct answer was that Asprin prevents heart attacks, while the most common incorrect answer was that electrons are not smaller atoms.

I wonder why that is? It it just short memory, something you saw in a Bayer commercial vs something you learned in school.. Or frequency people talking about aspirin and heart attacks.

Would people remember the aspirin fact because it might be important to their health? Whereas most might not find utility in knowing the Standard Model.
Cool idea, terrible implementation
Meh. There are plenty of open redirects out there anyway, and using one you made yourself has the disadvantage that you'll be visible in the Referrer logs.
I wonder why none of these incubators/schools come to NYC? It is the 2nd largest tech scene in the US. It would seem obvious.
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> Does anybody do memcache-in-the-cloud yet?

You might want to look at what Northscale is up to: http://www.northscale.com/

Related: http://blog.northscale.com/northscale-blog/2009/08/mrroboto-...
Fascinating. Now take a look at this video of sprinter Oscar Pictorious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4B-fNCvSg
and add the two technologies.

Cyborgs, here we come.
Getting them to read the blogs - yes. But getting on the blogs is easier, if anything, because many b2b-writer need content. Consumer stuff is different, but doable. What about giving a limited amount of accounts for free, to the bloggers. Not the high-profile ones that get tons of stuff, but the "middle class" so to speak.
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This is one of the best things that can be done with Social Data.

I remember the day Google got access to Twitter data. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=896297
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The PhD Comics creator was detained in the UK for being a cartoonist?
i don't think developing good software is cheaper than developing one website.
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If he's receiving payment for those lectures, he may need a work visa. They're pretty strict about that stuff at the border.
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV. So was my father. His father started a water well drilling business in 1953, my father joined him in that business (post collage) in 1957.

In 1980, my father decided to build a house. We (meaning I) was sent to the property in order to drill two 800 foot deep 'wells', which were subsequently cased with 8" (ID) steel pipe, but not perforated. (There was a 1/2" plate on the bottom of the casing.)

After this, we filled the casing with water. (A fine test of one's skill at welding.) Then added a 2" galvanized "loop" inside the casing, which was then hooked in to a heat pump.

It was the single-most efficient "single family residence" HVAC system in the state.

We subsequently added hot-water recapture to the indoor AC units, in order to make the most of the heat "pulled" out of the house.

Dad also built the house with R-44 insulation in the walls, R-60 or so in the attic, and a white 'Spanish tile' roof.

The result, a power bill of around $100/mo for a 5000 sq ft home in the desert that was numbingly cold in the summer, and pleasantly warm in the winter. (It does get cold in LV.)

It helped that 40% of the square footage was basement (something else nobody in Las Vegas has, because it turns hard about 4 feet down.)
Well, there's also JRuby, and YARV is a lot better than MRI, although the libraries haven't quite caught up yet.
I bought the Palm version of Supermemo a while back; nice program, but I found the process of creating new cards and onto the device too painful to make much use of.

(I would be surprised if this problem wasn't solved in the up-to-date, PC versions.)

I still like the idea, though; I've been using Mnemosyne (http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/) recently to practice my Spanish vocabulary to good effect.
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What twitter NEEDS is a web service that allows you separate the real humans from the bots and not-real accounts. Various applications can then be built on top of that information.
Almost. Music playing engine is flash, controlled by JS.
This is pretty cool, but for a startup at scale it still makes way more sense to own / operate on your own. For instance for a quadruple extra large instance (68GB) it would cost about $27k a year. Considering you'll want to do master-master for uptime, that's $60k out the door every year for two of these bad boys.

Vs owning it... can get a decent dual master setup for a fraction of that.
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Use Firefox's extension LongURLPlease http://www.longurlplease.com/ and bring some sense into all these tweets
How are they scary? I had a pair of 64gb quad hexacores in my last role...
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There seems to be more about the typeface used for the logo rather than the framework. Nice.
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that's a really impressive future especially when u have nothing to do
http://prgmr.com and http://linode.com is sitting in that window.
Apparently it was (is?) a legal requirement to use ActiveX

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/07/activex-law-in-kor...
I am really impressed by all those nifty moves Amazon has made in the last three years to become the major cloud infrastructure provider (I would have expected it from Google). Every step makes completely sense.
They were able to reinvent themselves, something very rare for economic giants...
Idea: What if Spotify drop free access to its catalog/app after a 30-day-trial and start charging 5€/month (instead of 10€) for premium access?
So he earns a living as a cartoonist. Because of that he's invited to give talks. He gets money for these talks. How is this not working?

I can just imagine doing the same in the USA. Not.

Not so long ago when my wife (British) and I (Australian) went to Melbourne she was invited to give a lecture related to her work. The advice we were given was - accept no money at all, even for expenses.

If he didn't bother to check on these things then I have very little sympathy. The other countries almost certainly have similar conditions, and mostly things are fine if you check in advance.
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I think that describes Jacques pretty well; he's a substantial team unto himself.
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This sounds like what could have happened everywhere had AJAX and web 2.0 not happened. I remember the early 2000s when ActiveX seemed like one of few options to deliver functionality that wasn't thought possible with just HTML and Javascript - and it was even reasonable to go ahead and use it because everyone was on IE6 anyway.

Dark days.

Edit: Oh, it's actually law! Oh my...
What I find most interesting about this article is the following irony: All of the security software in use causes users to habitually click Yes on any dialog any that comes up.
Notepad is really simple from a programmer's point of view. It's a window, with an edit box and a menu on it. Ok, so the added complexity is that there's a second window for the find/replace dialog. I suspect that the command-line edit has more lines of code in it, because less is given in the libraries.
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Maybe they were afraid he would draw a cartoon of Muhammad and cause an international incident. No, on second thought the work visa theory makes more sense.
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Well, may be a lot of people that currently uses if because it is free would stop using it.
A lot of that does look very similar to the degree I did (it was a Electronic and Embedded Systems and Engineering so had a little more focus on the digital). In fact the only huge difference was more "electronics" work and little less pure maths (but more physics and chemistry).

I guess my degree was pushing into the CS arena and CE is pushing the other way.

The first of your link looks like a perfect course for me :D
I certainly hope not.

I do, however, love the 6th and 7th. The exchange between Peter and Phillip is very insightful. Huge optimism still reigns at Google, and they still want to do great things. This is encouraging.
I dislike URL shorteners because they increase the chance of link rot. mug.gd doesn't prove they are evil though - it proves that links are evil.
Some other helpful books:

- Data Mining, by Witten and Franke; describes basics , how to use Weka, which they wrote

a couple java-based books from Manning:

- Collective Intelligence in Action (by Satnam Alag) and

- Algorithms of the Intelligent Web (Marmanis, Babenko)