skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This first random internet page I found puts Stalin at 20M killed and Mao at 40M.

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm

So are you willing to settle for 10's of millions?
Your exactly right. Search for the same product using google shopping and it shows the higher price.
That's not lower resolution, that's lower precision. It's the difference between the number of samples and the accuracy of those samples.

This has nothing to do with luminance range though. Even if the output samples only had 4-bit precision, it wouldn't make black into gray.
I can't help but think that not having Fox News in Google's search results will only improve said results.
It's really awkward to write evened code without a good implementation of futures ( or go's channels ). The problem is that you end up nesting a lot. Look at the example for the posix rename here: http://nodejs.org/api.html#_posix_module

Now imagine implementing a normal http controller. You have to do say 5 MySQL call (or redis, whatever) to get all the data you want. This means that you have to nest together 5 closures. Now if any of the methods fails and there is no global error handler that disconnects the client then that means that the connection will hang forever until the browser user hits the stop button. Spotting these situations becomes really hard with complex code.

Futures ( Go channels ) solve this because they block the thread when someone accesses the data. If you want to do 3 db calls you can just write familiar code:

var a = db.select(...);
var b = db.select(...);
var c = db.select(...);

print c #=> blocks until c has returned
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Relational databases performed a task that didn't need doing (1991)
Very cool thing to do, thank you to the sparkfun team.
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I code in Scala for some time now. Love this language! Though I think that Node.JS is something different and has different purpose(yet to be discovered). Scala as any language that runs on JVM, doesn't completely support Non-Blocking IO(this should be fixed in Java 7 though).
Stripes is also the name of a Java web framework. The world would be a much better place if people did some research before naming their software.

I guess you won't drag and drop elements from one window to the other with such a GUI.
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If you're clever, you find the merchants affiliate scheme, sign up, check it's ok to place orders through your own affiliate links, and place an order.

Then there's no middle man and you get all the discount. Hassle for cheaper items, but worth it for bigger stuff.

I once signed up to get a 0% rate credit card (first 6 months) that gave cash back on purchases. I signed up through my affiliate link that paid out something like £40, had a few K of credit for 6 months, and got cashback on everything I bought using it. Then I cancelled it. I expect they hate customers like that.
It's not that difficult. Turn off your cookies. Manually allow them for the rare cases where they're actually necessary. If that's too much work for you, clear cookies or turn on your browser's "privacy" mode before you buy anything.

This sort of thing has gone on for years. You used to be able to find a good deal on a flight at orbitz.com, leave to go comparison shopping, come back, and see a higher price. Clear the cookies, the original price was back.
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I'm writing an article for DevX as we speak for Heroku deployments.

I think that Heroku is a good alternative for some applications where saving money by managing your own EC2s is offset by decreased development and admin costs. I'm also writing about Heroku deployments that use remote CouchDB or MongoDB services.
Not really, the title was pretty linkbait.
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Its a couple paragraphs down, but these are companies that have been found to sell your credit card numbers to 3rd parties. I have used Fandango for a long time, but never will again.

"The government says the investigation shows that Webloyalty, Affinion, and Vertrue "trick" consumers into entering their e-mail address just before they complete purchases at sites such as Orbitz, Priceline.com, Buy.com, 1-800 Flowers, Continental Airlines, Fandango, and Classmates.com. A Web ad, which many consumers say appears to be from the retailer, offers them cash back or coupon if they key in their e-mail address."
This all depends on whether you have a database shared between different applications of business or whether you have a start-up where the application pretty much is the business.

In the later case, (web start-up), it makes sense to pare down the DB logic as needed and have application logic do everything from archiving to record locking. Of course, if your website does real financial stuff, you are going to have be super serious about writing routines that keep everything in the legally required formats, no small job.

In the former case, (traditional business with multiple apps), a serious database is designed to have what the organization needs. You shouldn't have a particular app trying to maintain either the ACID quality of DB or do archiving etc (unless the app is a script or utility run by the DBA). The database should be doing that for you.

-- And so, a lot of this debate comes because the debaters aren't considering the larger situation they are a part of.
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That picture is looking down from the Valley library at Oregon State University. Spent many a Adderall fueled nights their.

The problem falls apart in Oregon though. Any paths made into grass would be mud right now - so people would take other, less efficient routes.
I agree. This language is not a general-purpose programming language, at least not at the moment. Although, I can see how I can use it to build a small(but customized to my needs) COMET server in a more simpler way.
They will probably see ROI from me. I've bought stuff from them in the past and even if I don't get in on this deal (I'm sure they will hit their 100K limit in minutes) I'll remember the offer and be more likely to shop with them in the future. If I do get in on the deal, I plan on 'rewarding' them with a bunch of repeat business. Not every company can do this but I think it will really work for SF.
So now we know how Classmates.com stays in business.
Yes, but they're planning it.

There's a big difference between me deciding to block a search engine on my sites, and a search engine paying content providers to block another search engine. I mean, I may still be wrong, but there is a big difference in degree, right?
So even without the money, a search engine messing with another search engine's index seems wrong. Me as a content provider, I have all the right in the world to block anyone. But me as a search engine, I shouldn't actively try to mess with the index of another search engine.
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Maybe only sci/fi critics? Also I once tried to read their papers and it reminded me of experiences where I've tried to read lit-crit. There were some superficial stylistic similarities, between the two.
"Copyright law doesn't cover google indexing the page for its search engine anymore than it covers me posting a list of my favorite songs on my blog. Would you argue that someone can't develop a song recommendation engine without acquiring a license for every song in their database? By your argument this very site is infringing the copyrights of all the authors HN ever links to."

This is a straw man. Posting links is different than sending thousands of requests to a server (Googlebot) and archiving the contents. Obviously fair use applies, but Google would not be Google if restricted to fair use.

"Why should [Mark Cuban's] opinion on this be relevant?"

A number of reasons. First that he's been advocating this exact play as the way to beat Google since May 2008 [1].

Second, his experience at the intersection of content and superdistribution (the web) qualifies him to comment on the viability of such a model. He's founded, invested in, and sold more web content companies than any one else I know of (e.g., HDNet, Weblogs Inc, Broadcast.com). And he bankrolled Grokster when MGM took them to the Supreme Court, so he's got a vocal opinion on content usage rights.

All that info is available on Wikipedia of course, but I don't believe you read it and are still asking why his viewpoint is relevant to this discussion.

[1] http://blogmaverick.com/2008/05/14/beating-google/
This is dead-on. Research is not the same as development.
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Yeah, I also think this is the merchant's fault.
(full disclosure, my wife works for a competitor of Bing Cashback)

My wife's company runs into this issue, and they try to stop the merchants from raising prices, but sometimes a few companies slip through the cracks.

However, maybe Bing doesn't make this against their ToS. In which case, that's bad.
CodeProject: Triangulation of Arbitrary Polygons.
Pi calculus
It's great to see node.js starting to support CommonJS (http://commonjs.org/) modules.
An attempt to form a list of what you can't say
Yeah I'm not surprised either about the contact details, however if you are authenticating all users via oAuth that should negate the risk for a big part.

Imaging Google not allowing you to see the email address via their ContactsAPI, that wouldn't make sense...
Nice to see Scoble referred to as journalist rather than blogger.
Prineville is remote. If you had a tech job in Prineville and lost it, it's a guarantee that you'd be moving. Oh, and no Universtiy within a hundred miles so no continuing education either (unless it's online).
The problem with Microsoft's business tactics in the search area is that they're not improving their product - instead, they're literally paying people to use it. While moving your price down into the negatives may be legitimate price competition, paying Murdoch not to index his sites on Google is bordering on antitrust. I welcome competition to Google - even if I will never use Bing it will still force Google to improve its own search engine, but it should be real competition by making a superior product, not this.
I doubt they're giving you more in cashback than they make from transaction fees.
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well that settles it, going to have to do my promotion before the 7th.

$5K worth of prizes just doesn't compare to $100K
Why will people care? We'll just get search aggregator sites as a result. If these do their job right, then the impact to the user experience will be minimal. The only harm will be to Google and Microsoft's pocketbook.

http://duckduckgo.com/
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It also supports JavaScript geolocation, which is (I hope) only the first step towards true device APIs that will give JavaScript developers access to phone functionality such as the camera, text messaging, the address book, and more. I’m assuming Apple is working on all that because it’s the next logical step.

I was sympathetic to Apple's original line about iPhone apps -- that web apps were iPhone apps -- under this same assumption, that over time MobileSafari would get all these capabilities and more.

But those have been slow to materialize, and now Apple is making a bunch of money via the App Store. Why add things to MobileSafari that remove Apple's cut of sales? Or otherwise splinter the billing/in-app-purchasing system? Or confusingly 'duplicate functionality'? The assumption that Apple is a "true believer" in web apps becoming as capable as App Store apps may no longer be safe.

Going strictly by Apple's self-interest, it would be equally valid to predict that Apple may, over time, add various kinds of policy or remote-driven cripple-switches to MobileSafari -- so the web isn't a back-door offering 'inappropriate content' or otherwise competing with the App Store.

Of course Google is a "true believer" in web apps. Any bets on when we'll see a Chrome browser for the iPhone?
Some good ideas and a very well executed prototype are presented.

The window management concept seems very similar to recent mobile operating systems, specifically the "card" concept in Palm's webOS and the tiled window view in Nokia's Maemo 5.

It seems to me that the Stripes menu design presents too much information to be applicable to small mobile devices with low-res screens (e.g. iPhone), but it might be very effective on the new generation of mobile phones with higher screen resolutions (Motorola Droid/Milestone, Nokia N900).
> I'm more in the skeptic camp, but I don't find the comments cited in this article very suspect, especially without further context.

It's another piece of circumstantial evidence. By itself, it wouldn't mean too much. Considering everything else, it doesn't reflect well upon them.

You need to be very, very careful when normalizing or adjusting a complex system, and you need to be extremely clear that you're adjusting and how you're doing it.

A lot of normalizing/adjusting based on a certain factor is to make data fit a predetermined conclusion. There's some that are generally accepted - like adjusting for inflation - but even that can be done many different ways with different goals to serve different agendas. Adjusting data without disclaiming how you did it is a pretty big no-no and casts a lot of doubt on someone's results.
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It's Murdoch's content (so to speak), he can license access to it as he sees fit. Search may be a de facto public utility, but it is not regulated as such. Besides, this hasn't even happened yet, it's just speculated upon. Gizmodo's editorial standards are not very high.
Wow, this is fantastic. If you were thinking about getting into electronics, but haven't made the jump... now's your chance! I'm sure you could pick up a starters arduino kit for < $100.

I'll see you on the 7th!
Turkey, Gravy, and a project? (what's your holiday project?)
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If selling their content to search engines can save the newspapers then maybe it's not such a bad thing. Search engines have always enjoyed a free ride, which was probably a good thing in the beginning. But at this point I don't see how search engines having to pay for their content is going to cause the apocalypse some are predicting. If search engines don't want to pay for the content then then content isn't as valuable as Fox and others think it is. If content producers think they can get away with not being listed in a major search engine then they should be allowed to. More than likely both parties can come to terms.
Cool, working with a company now who is going to use Twilio for some SMS stuff; the API seems very simple and straight forward. But please fix your copy:

...and a *ding* somebody people enter and leave.
It must be mythical, it doesn't include anyone suing over access for disabled people during the year of sludgy grass paths, or slipping and falling, or being late for class because they didn't realise they could walk over the grass.

Wait, anyway, that's not a decision made at the last minute as late as possible, that's a decision made very quickly that no paths would be fine.

An unmade decision would be more like "where shall we put these paths?" "I don't know", week one has arrows stuck to wooden stakes pointing over the grass, week two has mowed paths in a different layout, month two has borrowed festival queue tape things in yet another path, staff are bored of hearing about it at meetings, students are annoyed that it keeps changing, landscapists are annoyed that it's ugly, gardners are annoyed as it's intrusive, it's wasting time, money, brainpower, cognitive space...
This guy sounds like a techno-evangelist. Evil? George Bush used those same words.

The world is much more complex than "good" and "evil".

Notice he doesn't even mention that media companies will greatly benefit? Journalism positions will be preserved. And I'm sorry, blogs for the most part digest and regurgitate news. It's newspapers for the most part that need to cover expensive journalism such as "long form" and stuff like government corruption. So the average citizen will benefit as well.
I interviewed at flickr around 2006 when they were doing a big batch of recruiting post yahoo buyout. Everyone was super nice (I was pretty nervous), but I walked away most impressed by John Allspaw. He was smart, patient and funny during the 30 minutes or so that I spent with him. Since then I've read his blog and come to realize just how valuable to flickr he probably was. Everyone knows who Caterina and Stewart and Cal are, but I imagine Allspaw was every bit as important to their success.

Nice pickup for Etsy.
Every organization I've ever worked at has huge data quality issues. Also, a company's data is one of its most valuable assets, providing financial reporting, forecasting, market analysis, and transactional functions.

The question I pose, then, is the data available within corporations today of a higher consistency and quality than it would be if all organizations used only key-value stores or a document stores or CSV files?

I'm going to venture to say despite the generally abysmal quality of data in large organizations today, it'd be much worse without the tools made available through RDBMS's.
Please re-read your comment and stop and reflect. You're using buzzwords rather than trying to get the scope of the argument - it's like your mind is already made up. If your mind is already made up, then you won't be open to various truth and evidence.
"paying Murdoch not to index his sites on Google is bordering on antitrust"

The Sherman Antitrust Act doesn't really apply here, as I understand it. Antitrust is when a company uses its dominant market position to make competition impossible.

"While moving your price down into the negatives may be legitimate price competition"

That's actually a lot more likely to be deemed antitrust.
Perhaps this isn't the best place to say this, but since Heroku is a YC company, maybe someone is listening:

I want to use Heroku for some upcoming projects, however they require the uploading of high-res images. Every time I've tested things on their free plan:

- Uploads over 5mb cause errors 50% of the time

- Some ImageMagick functions don't seem to be available

Are these limitations that paying plans don't experience? Or are my needs simply out of the scope of Heroku's target market?

I want to give you my money :) ... (BTW, congrats on all the growth)
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You can see this even more obviously if we add a third No-Free-Lunch theorem.

"No compression algorithm can compress data on average."

This is trivially true by a pigeon hole principle argument. There are 2^n strings of n bits, and after compression there is no way to represent them all with the 2^(n-1) strings of n-1 bits. In fact every string you find a way to compress forces another string to have a worse representation.

However the theorem, while true, is very false when you look at the types of data we actually encounter. This is amply demonstrated by the practical utility of things like gzip.

For yet another example of a No-Free-Lunch theorem that is bypassed in practice, there is no way to verify that 2 files on 2 different machines are the same that is faster than copying one file over to the other and comparing bit by bit. This is true. However rsync demonstrates that you can make much faster comparisons if you're willing to accept a very, very small possibility of error. It just compares hash values.

Interestingly in reality you're not giving any reliability up for the performance gain! Sure, in theory you do. But in practice the odds of the algorithm being wrong are lower than the odds of cosmic radiation messing up the theoretically correct way to do it!
I don't know if I'm for or against the Bing/Fox deal, but this is a business model innovation for search engines and content sites. Clearly (some) content creators are unhappy with Google capturing less value than they create (for the content creators). Google is great b/c everything's in it, but if the long term effect is that there's less or lower quality content, does that make us winners? I don't know the answer to that, but I encourage the experimentation.
I think this would be more appropriately titled, "I think RDBMS has set the industry back by 10 years".

Some of the more interesting tidbits:

I can categorically state that relational databases
set the commercial data processing industry back at
least ten years and wasted many of the billions of
dollars

--

Virtually all commercial applications in the 1960's
were based on files of fixed-length records of
multiple fields, which were selected and merged.
Codd's relational theory dressed up these concepts
with the trappings of mathematics (wow, we lowly
Cobol programmers are now mathematicians!) by
calling files relations, records rows, fields
domains, and merges joins.

I would love to hear HN's thoughts on this.
Solid idea. Heading over there now to contribute.
Cloud Servers are essentially just VPSs.

Cloud Sites (which is $100/month) is a clustered, high availability hosting platform. I haven't personally used it, but based on my great experience with Cloud Servers, I'd expect it to be worth every penny.
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I am not an IA expert at all, but I have read the following book and learned a lot.

http://www.amazon.com/Information-Architecture-World-Wide-We...
> - Uploads over 5mb cause errors 50% of the time

the free plan only has 5mb of storage
How can they truly 'de-list'? If the content is still open and accessible, what's to stop a spider from indexing it? I'm not a lawyer, but I have to imagine that falls well within the domain of fair use as long as your not presenting the content back for public consumption.
In a recent Stack Overflow podcast (73?) Joel said that he would helped the world a lot better if he made a robot that you could ask about software pricing, and it spat out the answer "Raise your price by $200"
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Ok so, if we know the 1960+ tree ring data is bad, why do we continue to assume it was good before that point? What changed in 1960 that 'invalidates' the tree ring data?
> What does Western Europe have that makes it instantly capable of supporting any random-ass system?

Europe doesn't have a history of large scale spontaneous massacres, see Rwanda and Darfur for examples. (Yes, the govts occasionally go on sprees, but that's different.) There's even a history of spontaneous organization and cooperation; that isn't universal.

> The fact that socialism works in Europe is because socialism is a potent economic system.

It's not potent enough to match the US' GDP per person, and the US is handicapped by enormous defense spending....

And, socialism hasn't been all that successful in improving the world's hell-holes.

That said, it's good to see the EU decide to have a foreign policy and start developing a military. It's past time for NATO, or at least for the US to take a much smaller role. Whether or not Russia/the USSR is/was a threat, Europe is wealthy enough to take care of itself.

You know, with that "potent economic system" and all.
I wonder if you could use AI pedestrians to predict the paths?
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1) ChromeOS has Google's NaCL baked in -- you can still build native x86 or ARM code to blit to a framebuffer, just with a browser as the window decoration.

2) Your webapp for ChromeOS does not need to be specialized -- you don't have to account for fat-fingered multitouch on a small fixed screen.
You're referring to the dataset that is the basis of enormous de-industrialization projects. Is it too much to ask to have it properly designed with sufficient documentation?

~A Jedi hand wave~

"These are not the smoking guns your are looking for."