Big Data is when you outgrow Excel.
Readit NewsDarkLinkXXXX commented on Being a Data Scientist: My Experience and Toolset jeffersonheard.github.io/... · Posted by u/jeffheard
DarkLinkXXXX commented on Ask HN: What is the best low-risk, passive way to invest 150,000 euros? · Posted by u/valueprop
I have to agree with Brian Bain on this one: Perhaps energy is a good place for you to look. Many solar companies should offer great returns for years to come and many oil and gas companies will likely be great buys this year as prices decline more.
DarkLinkXXXX commented on Venezuela’s currency is dying washingtonpost.com/news/w... · Posted by u/davidklemke
Maybe they're not grayed out because people are socialists, but because socialism has no relevance here, therefore any use of the word is just flamebait. Have you considered that?
But maybe I'm wrong. You can convince me otherwise if Venezuela's current government has in it's lifetime attempted to put the means of production under control of the working class, and if they have, how it has led to this current crisis.
Is there a link that does not require logging in? Right now this is a walled garden article.
Yeah, tell that to the millions of dead left in its wake.
If deaths caused by leaders purporting to advance communist ideals can be attributed to communism, then how many have died at the hands of those purporting to advance capitalist ideals? Would it be reasonable to attribute these deaths to capitalism as well? I really don't these type of conclusions are a positive contribution to economic discourse.
That's also true of 4chan. And the internet in general.
True, but /pol/lacks tend to ruin derail discussions outside of their space. This is not only true of 4chan, but a metaphor for the internet in general.
I was going to say that I doubt the original inventor thought it would "make him rich", that it was just an idea that he wanted to realize and perhaps make some money off it. That would be the reasonable way to look at it.
Unfortunately, the guy seems to have gotten busy "enforcing" the IP on copycats in China. The only people who will get any enjoyment out of that is lawyers. Sounds like he's embarking on a miserable never-ending game of wack-a-mole. And for what? A forgettable bauble-store item for impulse buyers on vacation?
Umm, couldn't he just see which manufacturer made the best quality product, and work with them, and make a good profit margin? It may even be in that manufacturers interest to stop the other copycats.
/g/ makes useful software on occasion for example. after 4chan pioneered webm as looping gif replacement (long before imgur doing the gifv thing) they made webmcam and webm4retards for example. The latter by its mere existence also highlighted github's overzealous application of community policies.
A bunch of indie games started their life there too.
And then there are derivative and mashup works like fanart, translations.
I only visit a few boards, so i'm probably missing a lot.
Actually, 8chan had webm embeds before 4chan (and with a higher size limit). They were first AFAIK, but maybe some smaller chan did it sooner.
On one hand, I can see the popularity of sites like these since they require no additional software beyond a browser. On the other hand, since they have to themselves download the video and then you download it from them, there is quite a lot of bandwidth waste and they're centralised easily targeted single-points-of-failure.
Cary Sherman, chairman and CEO of the RIAA
I wonder if people like him live in constant fear of being targeted by pranksters, or worse...
It depends. There are some sites that simply provide a direct link to a file on Google's CDN. That still wouldn't get rid of most of the charges against YouTube-MP3 though, such as circumvention and the like.
DarkLinkXXXX commented on Introducing the Open Images Dataset research.googleblog.com/2... · Posted by u/hurrycane
This is the tactic used by the CNN / Dailymail dataset[1] released by Google Deepmind. In that situation you want everyone to have the same and original file. The contents of the URL may be updated and/or disappear. The original URLs are recorded but they're retrieved from the Wayback Machine.
Even with that a few of the pages are still essentially lost however - or at least I was never able to retrieve them. Kyunghyun Cho hosts a copy of the processed data on his site at NYU - who may be less likely to receive legal requests compared to Google or a similar commercial company hosting them.
Distribution of datasets is going to be a continued painpoint for machine learning in the future. No-one wants to be the legal guinea pig for exactly what entails fair use in ML.
Agreed. Do you think maybe these datasets should include checksums so that they might be recovered with more certainty, from less obvious sources?
P.S.: Also, archive.org retroactively removes (or delists?) site content when blocked by robots.txt, as domain parkers often do, so I could see that causing trouble down the line. https://archive.org/post/1019415/retroactive-robotstxt-remov...