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by lsb 15y ago
It's been out for a couple years: justin.tv
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by lsb 15y ago
In SQLite, autocommit is on, so if you weren't explicitly setting your transactions, you might have been commit after each update. Also, the standard disk cache is 2MB, so if you think your DB should have more memory than that, up it with
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by lsb 15y ago
Are the stakes high enough that you'll pay someone who doesn't snitch to screw with your competitor? If you ever get found out, your brand's mostly sunk.
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by lsb 15y ago
As one who's gotten a Master's in Classics, I can say that my timeline for reference is about 3000 years, and more if I think about Egyptian papryri, and Indo-European Poetics. Most technical people have a timeline of only about 50 to 75 y
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by lsb 15y ago
Do you actually want to stay in your town? It sounds like that's hurting your job prospects, with only one job offer there.
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by lsb 15y ago
This is an interesting discussion of HTTP caching, but is not the first step in scaling a web site. Not the second or third even. The first step in scaling a site like that, with various boxes full of information expiring at varying perio
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by lsb 15y ago
Well, I'll be jiggered.
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by lsb 15y ago
Duckduckgo's innovations are pretty cool, especially bang-commands (to search on google maps, add "!m" to your query). But the underlying search is Bing. Perhaps Google is personalized and Bing doesn't, or perhaps DDG doesn't pass a uid tok
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by lsb 15y ago
Yeah, this is why I love Haskell's type system. You'd be able to implement that as a Maybe [WifiResult] , maybe Just a list of wifiresults or maybe Nothing , copying directly, but you'd probably want to have your datatype be Either Str
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by lsb 15y ago
nodictionaries.com/novifex
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by lsb 15y ago
I read Latin and Greek, want to know more French, and am intrigued by Sanskrit and Japanese. I wanted to read more Latin and have more fun reading, and I decided that looking words up in a dictionary was an easy step to circumvent, so I mad
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by lsb 15y ago
At Tufts, the online course registration is open 9am-6pm.
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by lsb 15y ago
I did a study of Wikipedia, and 75% of contributions from registered users came from someone who got a contribution reverted at least once. http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011/05/vandalism-second-cha...
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by lsb 15y ago
Very cool stuff, Brian! It'd be interesting to try to cluster users based on what bits of the page they look at (women 65+ look at navigation breadcrumbs significantly more than average, say).
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by lsb 15y ago
A guy I knew at the Media Lab said that Marvin Minsky tried to correct his Wikipedia article, but someone reverted it. The IP address came from inside the Media Lab, so it might have very well been him. The small-community-far-from-everyth
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by lsb 15y ago
And that's genuinely valuable; it's helpful to know that someone's thought that this has been unclear for 2 days versus 2 years. The compressed diff will be quite small, but Wikipedia incrementally gets better. Have you ever taken too much
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by lsb 15y ago
Autolinking is tedious, but valuable, so it's a perfect thing for bots to do, especially for general topic links at the bottom of pages.
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by lsb 15y ago
I approached that question from a purity standpoint: if you only limited Wikipedia to people who did things "right", where would you be? And the answer turned out to be that you wouldn't be very far. I think urban planners have found that
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by lsb 15y ago
Thanks for your kind words! I was fascinated by that talk. And if you want the code + data, you can just xargs https://github.com/lsb/ugc-contributors/blob/master/mh-diffs... over all of your pages-meta-history.7z files from http://dumps
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by lsb 15y ago
As I was manually going through the top 50 list, "Darius Dhlomo, 920829" seems like someone who was banned, based on significant copyright issues. Also, plagiarism is difficult, because there are a lot of articles based on the kernel of pub
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Half of the top 50 Wikipedia contributors are bots(slightlynew.blogspot.com)
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by lsb 15y ago
On the contrary. My commute is 45 minutes of biking along a river, and I love it. My metabolism is way up, and because of showers at work I can change into something less sweaty when I get in. (Employers: showers are a cheap perk that pay
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by lsb 15y ago
Didn't expect this would get to HN so soon! I'm the author, let me know if you have any questions.
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by lsb 15y ago
If you're in Boston, Maine is pretty close. If you want a good winter hike, the top of the Appalachian Trail is Mt Katahdin, about 100 miles north of Bangor ME.
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by lsb 15y ago
You're in good company with Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 1900s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham
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by lsb 15y ago
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
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by lsb 15y ago
Or give a hundred thousand startups 40K seed funding.
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by lsb 15y ago
Even greater to use hi-res satnav for that! We can assess water health that way, it'd be fascinating to do similarly for forests.
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by lsb 15y ago
Note that the article quotes the retail price of mechanical turk; Amazon bought Zappos last year, so they probably get a better deal.
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by lsb 15y ago
For 17GB of RAM and two 3.25GHz xeons and 400GB local storage, it's 18c/hr for a spot instance. Make your make payment $1/hr and you're set. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing

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