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First day of Uber testing, car runs red light.

http://digg.com/video/self-dri...

You must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot, now go home.

From where I sit it marks people as obviously more intelligent. Both services are little more than negative lottery tickets for most people. They gain nothing on the upside and open themselves up to the wrath of the mob. http://digg.com/2015/shame-and... .

If an employer has trouble with that. Just ask him if he wants to risk the splash damage of outrage directed at his employees, because they had the misfortune to say something that mobs of village idiots were waiting to misconstrue, or people who were looking for things to take offense at happened to find ?

While some might run away in horror at the mention of the name AOL Reader, which has been around for a while now.. is pretty great.

It was recently updated and the ad bar was removed, the software is much quicker and with the fact it is not an independent business project like Feedly, or Inoreader.. there is no upselling!

I tried feedly, it was pushing the upsell too hard and the product didn't feel very useful in its 'free' state... ( https://feedly.com/ )

I tried Inoreader and its free product was much better than the feedly one, but its interface felt slow and clunky compared to what I wanted ( http://www.inoreader.com/ )

I tried DIGG Reader but it was so minimal and featureless that I barely went a week of using it before moving on ( http://digg.com/reader )

I also used TinyTinyRSS locally for a good 6 months and while it is quite good, and the only data I'm revealing to others is that i fetched their feed..maintaining the thing is something of a pain that never comes up with other places. ( http://tt-rss.org/redmine/proj... )

As of right now I am back to using AOL Reader as my main RSS feed reader... It is fast, the design is good enough for me.. no upselling ...the feature set is just enough to allow me to do what I did on google reader, and not overload.. and they seem to be actively working on making it better ( https://reader.aol.com/ )

And go where?

• Digg
• Reddit
• The Register
• Linux Weekly News

I've been here a long time as well.

BTW what's up with digg?

Sorry, we're working on that!
Please try again in a few minutes.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

I had to do some DBA stuff for a MySQL database for a project involving sales tax in the USA, and I support a web site that uses MySQL (I set up my own development environment to test it, from scratch). Performance was not a problem in either, as far as I know.

However, I do find PostgreSQL easier to set up and to write SQL for.

I have also spoken to a senior developer for http://digg.com/ about how they implemented their distributed database using MySQL - he liked PostgreSQL, but at the time it did not support master & multiple slaves (or some such). So I am aware that MySQL can handle really large transaction rates.

Though I would never recommend MySQL for really critical data, at least with my current knowledge of MySQL.

What I am interested in, is finding reliable performance comparisons between MySQL and PostgreSQL. So when you claimed MySQL performed better than PostgreSQL I was interested, as that goes against what I know.

So it is not a case of "I like PostgreSQL, therefore MySQL must be no good!"! I have also experience in Oracle, Sybase, and PROGRESS (plus at least a couple of others that I don't remember), but I find PostgreSQL easier than them. I will use whatever database is appropriate for a project, or accept whatever has been chosen - so I cannot afford to be too dogmatic.

Hence my attempt to obtain more info from you.

See http://digg.com/

Uh-oh. It looks just like Dice.com's site!
We are so fucked!

http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/Richard_Stallman_supports_voluntary_pedophilia "I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing." So does that mean that soon people will be able to have sex with kids who haven't hit puberty yet? It is really messed up when RMS thinks a 11 year old can decide to take a dick up her ass but a 19 year old can't chose to buy closed source software.

Let us not forget Mac OS X Cougar and, of course, Mac OS X Liger, known for its skills and magic.

This is what happens when I dont read my morning "paper" before I post. Looks like sony is still king - http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/sony_music_jacks_price_of_whitney_houston_music_immediately_following_her_death

If you're an outsider, why do you care about an article that essentially only matters to insiders? And while we're explaining the intricacies of the software industry, I will take the opportunity to introduce you to this wonderful invention. It's called a search engine. When you don't know what something means, you can search for it yourself, therefore avoiding looking both ignorant and lazy.

By the by, this is /. Notice the subtitle: "News for nerds". I think you may be lost. You may feel more comfortable here: http://digg.com/ or perhaps here: http://myspace.com./

Is that why a site like the Digg makes you click a link that opens a new window? (Example.) That's usually where I get annoyed by it. I have to right click and hit 'open' to get it to stay in the same tab. Lots of forums do that, too. I don't feel like this is due to a technical reason, it feels like they want their page to stay up longer.

I did all of calculus and most of linear so far, and even statistics(yay longhand division!) without one just fine

I had one particular test for Stat I in college where I had utterly failed to study for anything, forgot my calculator, and was utterly doomed to failure. Having filled in the few questions I knew, I found myself having nothing else I could really do. Deciding to not leave early, I picked out a sticky problem involving multiple permutations (N! / (N-k)!) with decently large numbers and simply worked them out by hand. I broke the top and bottom into factors and simplified, then did longhand division on what was left over. I'm fairly sure that the numbers I ended up dividing were still at least 5-6 digits long.

When I got my test back, I found that I had gotten the answer correct to 3 decimal places. I was so proud... well, no, I wasn't, because I got like a 40 on that test. But I figured my gradeschool teachers would have been gobsmacked.

At least this time there wasn't an elephant in the way...

Welcome to the first five minutes of using a column store. Screwey, ain't it?

My understanding is that rows' contents are indexed such that they may be retrieved quickly. Think of a row name as a primary key. It's easy to get the whole row when you know its name. Continuing the census application, it's be like asking for all the birth years of everyone in a geographical region. The requested column family (geographical region) is opened, and each column (person) is quickly checked for the particular row's contents (in case the birth year wasn't provided). Partitioning is done by both row and column family, so only some of the column family's data is actually scanned. That's where the cluster provides a very nice speedup, as well.

locating a value in a specific row can't tell how to retrieve that entire column

Now, I'm not sure if I understand your rage-induced rambling correctly, but if you're trying to make a SQL example, you're starting from the wrong premise, which explains why you're having trouble making sense of it all.

Quick review: The "R" in "RDBMS" stands for "relational", referring to a n-ary relation. SQL is intended to manipulate those relations, isolating the data you want to extract. Something that is not described as an RDBMS should not be expected to have relations.

Cassandra functions (from the application perspective) as a key-value store, with no relation structure. That means you don't work with sets, and you don't need to think about set operations. Pull out a row, and you get a list of columns with defined values, as well as those values. Iterate through each value looking for whatever value you're looking for. When you find it, you already have the column name. Just ask for the whole column next. Since the whole thing is running in a cluster, you can parallelize the iterations (I think... I've used HBase, but not Cassandra personally) to speed up the scan.

If that's not fast enough for you (which is likely), you can use Hadoop's MapReduce framework to scan each cell and create an index, possibly laid over the other table as just more rows & columns (though a different table would be better, from a sanity perspective). Since there's no mandatory structure, that's legit.

Of course, that's only valid for this particular census application, which assumes that the only reason for the database is either basic statistics or something complex enough for a MapReduce program.

It's entirely possible to run Cassandra arranged similar to a normal RDBMS. Use only a few column families with very specific columns (such as a single family for all the "Name, address, etc."). Throw in a bunch of index families, updated with MapReduce. Then, your processing can be a complex MapReduce job, iterating over each row with a particular set of rows meeting all your needed criteria. It'd be just like a normal RDBMS, except you have better scalability, and maintain indexes yourself.

If the trouble of indexing is too much for you, you can follow Google's route with Colossus, which runs MapReduce-like tasks when rows are changed. That's your dynamic indexing.

Here's some links to help your understanding:

• Looking to the future with Cassandra
• Understanding the Cassandra Data Model from a SQL Perspective
• WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model (While reading this, I note some discrepancy of terms I've used due to my familiarity with HBase. Please excuse that.)

Yes, exactly as he does on Digg. With precisely zero followers. How weird is that. When did Slashdot decide to become a Digg mirror for ad-revenue whores?

Yes, exactly as he does on Digg. With precisely zero followers. How weird is that. When did Slashdot decide to become a Digg mirror for ad-revenue whores?

The people I've talked to are not closing their accounts - they are exporting their bookmarks, looking for options, and waiting to see what happens. The fact that Diigo has been completely overwhelmed since the news broke makes me think something like this is happening a lot.

I am giving this as an example how you can completely waste millions sized community in a matter of WEEKS, not even months.

http://www.digg.com/

Trust me the web (lets call web 2.0) has some amazing speed. Couple of mistakes, you are gone. Your company depends on some person removing you from his/her bookmarks and it takes less than a second.

http://digg.com/news/world_news/Calif_man_arrested_after_threatening_Obama_on_message_board

http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=2257&category=12

And maybe older than that:
http://digg.com/news/technology/Linux_kernel_source_--_on_radio_

It was even discussed here (can't find the original submission though).

Basically Intel locked down all I/O on many of their chips to specifically lock out Nvidia and force their lousy GPUs onto you, whether you like it or not. Considering this is the same company that bribed OEMs, rigged their compiler, and paid 1.25 billion to AMD just to keep them from digging all the skeletons in their closet? It really shouldn't be surprising.

I was a life long Intel man, going back to the 486Dx, but after all the dirty underhanded shit they've pulled recently I've gone full AMD for my customers and myself. If you win a market because you are faster/cheaper/better? No problem with me. But rigging the market is a BIG no no in my book, and makes it worse for all of us. Just look at how many power hogging P4s are still in use, thanks partially to the fact that Intel paid off OEMs not to run the better at the time AMD chips. The regulators in the USA may not have any teeth anymore, but I can't wait to see what the EU does to them. Intel has been so nasty lately they make MSFT look like the Care Bears.

I'm not sure if there is a list. it's apparently common in florida. My company does not allow smoking on the premises and 5 years ago would not hire new smokers if they were dumb enough to admit it (or smelled of smoke I guess).

It's common enough tho...

http://digg.com/news/lifestyle/Employees_getting_fired_for_smoking_or_being_obese
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/42755
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/28/60minutes/main990617.shtml
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/9959391/detail.html
http://businessshrink.biz/psychologyofbusiness/2007/09/27/employees-fired-and-fined-for-smoking-obesity-and-blood-test-results/

Just google "fired for smoking".

...that Microsoft's Xbox 360 *still* has not been exploited? PS3 has had a number of exploits over the years, but Xbox 360 is still locked down tight. Too bad desktop Windows still has remote code execution vulnerabilities discovered every month...

Probably an economic issue. Microsoft (and Sony, for that matter) doesn't make money from console hardware sales ... they need game sales to make a profit. So there's a clear incentive to make the Xbox hard to crack. Perhaps Microsoft is just better at that than Sony.

Have either of you actually played a video game before? Where do you get your intel from?

The 360 was the first to have a hypervisor exploit: http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEZkykVkkFmojzapEq.php
The 360 was the first to allow playing burnt games: http://digg.com/news/technology/Modded_Xbox_360_Plays_Burned_Games
The 360 was the first to have homebrew: http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/Xbox_360_King_Kong_Shader_Exploit

Dude you seem to have accidentally posted to the wrong internet site.

You were probably trying to post this to a derogatory nerd story on digg.

Go hang out there with other 15 jocks who wish they were on tech salaries.

All of the tech we actually purchase comes out of tech published in articles like this one. Processor process technologies, bus evolutions, memory architectures, advancements in lithography are printed here and wind up in the products you buy. Not all of the articles are successful technologies but all of the successful technologies have articles and the time reading about the failures are the price we pay to know about such things in advance. Most of us don't mind, because there are lessons in failures too. Did you read the top of the page where it says "News for nerds."? Are you lost?

Digg is over here.

*yawn* That's because it was on digg, posted in a nearly identical fashion, two days ago. Agreed. Bad article is bad. And now it's old.

Thanks for the rhetoric, Mr. Ayers. It's a shame you didn't set off more bombs in your heyday, eh? We could have had the socialist utopia you crave without having to assume this faux image of respectability.

I'm continually surprised by what passes for argumentation among conservatives. Petty snark, affronted whining, thoughtless jingoism, blatant fearmongering: it's no wonder that the majority of citizens find your positions puerile.

We're trying to have a grown up conversation here, if you can't act like a grown up and present your thoughts in a rational manner, you should go back and sit at the kid's table.

If not, that's a bug in their recommendation system.

If you honestly think a citation is needed, you have probably never used Digg much and place way too much weight on a story from some media outlet that probably understands Digg less than an active user.

I would say this should suffice:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Does_Digg_Have_a_Liberal_Bias_Share_Your_Thoughts

http://www.digg.com

There's a big shitstorm over political news submission skewing over at Digg, but the related bit is the online actions of one of the alleged co-conspirators-- namely, falsely accusing those involved in a Youtube youth group of being pedophiles.

There's a big shitstorm over political news submission skewing over at Digg, but the related bit is the online actions of one of the alleged co-conspirators-- namely, falsely accusing those involved in a Youtube youth group of being pedophiles.

You seem lost. Here, let me help you:

http://digg.com/

Human synthesis of Vitamin D precursors is highly insufficient unless you want to sunbathe enough to get a serious risk of skin cancer. You can read all about it at GRC's website.

For a typical office dweller, you should shelve photosynthesis of Vit. D precursors as an impractical-to-exploit curiosity. Make sure you get Vit. D in your diet, or take supplements. And get tested for serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D.

Here's the fine citation from Holick's NEJM article

[...] it has been estimated that 1 billion people worldwide have vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency. According to several studies, 40 to 100% of U.S. and European elderly men and women still living in the community (not in nursing homes) are deficient in vitamin D. More than 50% of postmenopausal women taking medication for osteoporosis had suboptimal levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D — below 30 ng per milliliter (75 nmol per liter).

Children and young adults are also potentially at high risk for vitamin D deficiency. For example, 52% of Hispanic and black adolescents in a study in Boston and 48% of white preadolescent girls in a study in Maine had 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels below 20 ng per milliliter. In other studies, at the end of the winter, 42% of 15- to 49-year-old black girls and women throughout the United States had 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels below 20 ng per milliliter, and 32% of healthy students, physicians, and residents at a Boston hospital were found to be vitamin D–deficient, despite drinking a glass of milk and taking a multivitamin daily and eating salmon at least once a week.

In all likelihood, you are vitamin D deficient, your health may be suffering for it. This includes mental health!

Yeah, hold like this http://www.xayni.com/iphone-4-holding-problem-finally-fixed.html/ from http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_4_holding_problem_finally_fixed_PIC ... :D

Looks like the future is coming. Fast. See this post that appeared in digg TODAY http://digg.com/tech_news/How_to_Access_the_Internet_A_Guide_from_2025

So this is what the future is going to be like. First step, make this voluntarily. Then a lot of services will use this. I live in Spain, and I see this coming. Here Franco's dictatorship stablished what you're fighting against in many countries right now: a national identity card (called DNI). Our DNI is already an electronic, comes with a chip with all the information and can be read with a card reader, and contains some legally valid certificates with which you can authenticate and sign anything.

For us, this is a normal thing because we've been living having DNI for decades, and if you ask just about ANYONE, it's good. The police have our fingerprints, photos, and all data, and this way they can identify anyone, they can use the fingerprint for crime-scene-techniques like in CSI, etc.

Now the government of Spain is spending a lot of money and time trying to make people use the electronic DNI. They have a nice web page with info for developers (https://zonatic.usatudni.es/). An increasing number of websites are using https (SSL) for authentication via e-DNI (like banks), and Java Applets for signing all kind of things. For example there's a webpage (tractis) in which you can sign electronic and legally valid contracts.

You might be an optimist and think you have two choices: you can either fight against it, or use it. But really, read all above. This is not something you can easily fight against. I am an advocator for liberties, but I'm also used to having DNI, and I've surrendered. I'm helping a new political party called "Partido de Internet" (Internet Party) whose aim is to be able to have a liquid democracy in which our representatives will vote what people vote over the Internet.... using DNI-e. So yes, I'm helping the governmental machinery trying to spread the usage of electronic national identity cards. Welcome our 1984 overlords!

This is the first step. Next step will be to make its usage mandatory for every login. They're requiring everyone to secure their wifi in Germany to prevent unauthorized people from using their Web access to illegally download data. And then, probably much earlier than 2025, we'll be as bad as in the first digg link in this post. We're already living in a distopy worse than 1984 in many ways, but we see it normal because it can always get worse - and it certainly will.

The basis of this article seems to be that it's impossible for an unknown such as Alvin Greene to get voted in.

Here's the thing. Alvin Greene isn't unknown! I'm not an American and i know who he is. He posts on a ton of internet forums. He is well known on Digg, reddit etc.

There have been threads about him with 1000+ Diggs.
http://digg.com/search?s=Alvin+Greene
If you consider any publicity to be good publicity Alvin Greene is the most well known politician after Obama. It seems to me this is a case of a politician discovering an entirely new way to promote themselves- Log into social media sites and start posting.

All of the threads that have on the social news sites you point out have been created since he won the nomination. He did not post or promote himself on any of the popular social media sites.

The basis of this article seems to be that it's impossible for an unknown such as Alvin Greene to get voted in.

Here's the thing. Alvin Greene isn't unknown! I'm not an American and i know who he is. He posts on a ton of internet forums. He is well known on Digg, reddit etc.

There have been threads about him with 1000+ Diggs.
http://digg.com/search?s=Alvin+Greene
If you consider any publicity to be good publicity Alvin Greene is the most well known politician after Obama. It seems to me this is a case of a politician discovering an entirely new way to promote themselves- Log into social media sites and start posting.

I guess if you can't plug your spill, the least you can do is try to clog the flow of information.

Related: http://digg.com/comedy/Massive_Flow_Of_Bull****_Continues_To_Gush_From_BP

Here is a link to an English article about this:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/03/quebec-microsoft-lawsuit.html

ASnd please digg it:
http://digg.com/business_finance/Quebec_broke_law_in_buying_Microsoft_Software :D

I wouldn't have mentioned it if it wasn't pure shit that. 1.5 seconds for a query that should be 3-4 disk blocks at max?

• digg's blog with their schema
• criticism
• more criticism
• and some more criticism

It was on their blog just the other day, coincidentally: clusto@digg

Oops, wrong link. Ah, here it is, most digged comment. http://digg.com/apple/Linux_on_the_iPhone_Android_running_on_iPhone

Original? Or were you just on Digg? http://digg.com/apple/Steve_Jobs_Folks_who_want_porn_can_buy_an_Android_phone

Best Buy is the worst of all the computer/tv/tech stores I've purchased from. They charge for ridiculous 'products' and 'services' that are little more than outright scams. They have been indicted for some of them. Their prices are terrible, and they outright lie about matching others prices. This IS NOT your usual non-techy "I bought the wrong part" or techy "I know better than you" complaint. The complaints against Best Buy have to do with their criminal behavior.

http://consumerist.com/2007/05/best-buy-employee-confesses-to-scams-similar-to-ones-outlined-in-racketeering-lawsuit.html

http://bestbuyscam.blogspot.com/

http://digg.com/tech_news/Yet_just_another_Best_Buy_scam

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/11/04/best-buy-scams-hdtv.html

http://gizmodo.com/241220/best-buy-admits-they-scam-in+store-customers-with-secret-website

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-bar-tender/2009/10/lawsuit-best-buy-lies.html

http://www.gpsmagazine.com/2007/03/buyer_beware_best_buy_caught_t.php

Seriously, Best Buy is evil. Do not shop at Best Buy.

Maybe they just prefer the competition's product. The problem with MS is that they're less like a normal company, and more like a cult. At any normal company, you just come in and do your work, and no one worries about what you do at home or what products you buy. At MS, however, you'll get fired if you're not brainwashed enough to say "Bing!" correctly.

From the Digg blog - http://about.digg.com/node/564

"And if that doesn't sound like a big enough challenge, we're replacing most of our infrastructure components and moving away from LAMP."

Cassandra Linux Apache PHP?

http://digg.com/tech_news/Bill_Gates_Piracy_Confession

More citations:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7177230/New-errors-in-IPCC-climate-change-report.html

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/international/the-hottest-hoax-in-the-world

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009081.ece

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245636/Glacier-scientists-says-knew-data-verified.html

http://digg.com/environment/Scientist_Admits_IPCC_Used_Faked_Data

I don't want to tweet, I don't want to poke, I just want to digg!!! WHERE IS THE FUCKING DIGG BUTTON?!?!!!??

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