skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Within minutes of discovering this on HN I needed a cheatsheet for RoboCopy. Didn't find one on your site. For what it's worth here's a pretty good one I dug up http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html
Thanks for the input. The examples you mentioned are more similar to the tags view (http://devcheatsheet.com/?view=tag), which is not currently the default.
Nice! If you win, monitor the Ethernet port and let us know what it does.
Checking git staged files for tabs before committing
Thanks. I will add it now.
Redis - I wrote about why in October ( http://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/22/redis/ ) and it's gained some awesome new features since then, including ordered sets and blocking fetch against queues. It's a very different beast from the other stuff that gets branded as NoSQL.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will add it to the directory now.
I assume once you buy it, it will keep trying to sell itself? So you wouldn't own it for long, and maybe you have to enter your ebay account somewhere so you get the money? Very cool.

That would be interesting if it tracked all the buyers, and slowly raised it's own price
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here is another example of #hashtag "manipulation"

http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/fisting-twitter/
The artist should hook it up to a microblogging service so that it can keep a log of the auction winners. It could be a very exclusive club to be in.
Text of Hillary Clinton speech on Internet Freedom
The actual presentation video is on blip.tv http://velocityconference.blip.tv/file/2284377/
With the follow up sentence being "So far, it seems to happen only when they interact with humans, and I'm working to cut down their need for involvement."
Sure, but why not play out the auction thing and start it at $1 or something and see what the market will bear. I guess I do wonder as well how often it may sell if it's listing itself every week. How much does it relist itself for? The buyer is responsible for all those fees generated by the box as well. I don't know, the more I think of it, the more it seems like a big hassle.
Most likely the technical justification is a lack of manpower and schedule constraints.

I wouldn't be surprised if things that make long term sense but give incremental benefits at the cost of significant increases in verification work look pretty unsavory to a company in sore financial shape, as they've been for a while now.
And down 4.5% in after-hours trading.

I love the market. Every day is like George Costanza's do-the-opposite day.
I'm not a lawyer. Is it the case that because the contract specifies a (financially nebulous) penalty for its breach, there can be no other legal repercussions for breaking it?

Actually adhering to the first clause seems difficult. As I'm sure everyone knows, Internet connections are notoriously unreliable; coping with this is a key distributed systems problem.

On another note, I bet it uses DHCP to get an IP address. What if it's a live Internet connection, but the local network does not have a DHCP server? Seems like that may not be in breach of the contract, but I bet that the box won't be able to get online.
Ouch. I would probably only want the 6" version.
Cool. Bonus points for alliteration.
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+1 for MongoDB. I love in particular the lack of structured schema meaning you can arbitrarily modify records without migrating the DB.

Also there's a growing, awesome community.
South Africa's national language is bad English :)

While I do think that everyone should learn English in SA, research has shown that mother tongue education (especially at primary and secondary levels) are extremely important.

There are a lot of parents doing their children a disservice by sending them to English schools.
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If you know that the earth has been warming since the end of the little ice age, it is also a plausible conclusion that warming would have occurred in the absence of humans.

To differentiate between your plausibility argument and mine, you need vastly more than "simple physics".
Cool idea! Could be something there. Props for getting it out there.

Could be a facebook app?
You're more right than you realize.

I've heard from a number of senior folks in CS who have ties to industry that in many cases decisions by Intel in terms of choice of CPU features have been in large part motivated by making it impossible for competitors to achieve feature parity without risking or perhaps certainly dealing with bankruptcy.
There was an article about Flicker's mentality on "we don't branch" a few weeks ago: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/12/02/flipping-out/

From the outside it sounds like it would be a nightmare to manage. How could you sanely test all the permutations of "Feature X on, Feature Y off, Feature Z = 4"?
This is strikingly obvious - even in modern agriculture - when moving between countries with lots of grain fed beef (USA) and those with paddocks of grass fed beef (Australia, Argentina).
Not classy, but then, that's what pseudonyms are for.... ;-)

(I was sort of relieved to see YouTube take the beta off... brings the conversation down from the clouds and into reality.)
In the art world, perception of value often is value. It is (nearly) guaranteed that it will sell for more since he asked for more.
This doesn't change anything about what companies can do with politicians, e.g. "coordinating" let alone contributions, both of those are still forbidden.
Google search link to access the full article: http://www.google.com/search?q=Googles+Earnings+Soar
Air America Ceases Live Programming, Will File for Bankruptcy
A corporation can be put to death, and with no due process. See e.g. Arthur Anderson, which was eventually exonerated by the Supreme Court. But long after it was dead.

And that threat can get them to do crazy things, e.g. that's what wrecked AIG a few years before the financial crisis.
Seconded. If you want ROI, work on an open source project that matches the work you want to do. I'll hire a high-profile civil O/S contributor before I will hire somebody with a PhD - and I work in a science shop. That should tell you something. Not everybody hires like Google does.

By all means do a PhD if that's what you want, but don't do it only because you want a tech sector job.
Awesome, keep us posted!
Some place with less freedom of speech, since that to the best of my knowledge describes every other country in the world.

It makes a certain amount of sense: pmichaud is appalled by an increase in the freedom of speech (really, a return to the pre-1990 normal state of affairs) and wherever he goes, there will be less of it.
The problem is that with software stuff only have to be written once and the marginal price is as close to zero as it will ever get for just about any product.

Which means that the company that pays the highest salary will produce software that is better than the competition and the cross them in the process. In other words, companies will die if they don't hire programmers as least as good as those who can compete with them. And the programmers can start their own companies at any time, if they so choose.
Even if the purchase agreement is actually enforceable, would buying something on ebay even count as entering into that contract?

Also, what does "In order to be recognized as a work of art the contract must be adhered" mean? Is there actually someone out there officially `recognizing` artwork, or is this just a fancy way of saying "follow these terms or I'll get annoyed".
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The FAQ covers DHCP:

Q: What means does it use to connect to the Internet ? Wireless or other ?
A: It specifically connect via wired ethernet, and it automatically obtains is IP through DHCP.

I assume that since the agreement stipulates that the "Collector agrees that the Artwork will remain connected to a live Internet connection at all times", then it is up to the buyer to provide a DHCP connection if none exists.
Very cool Tim!

I will be using this for a ruby reference for sure.
The title seems rather meaningless. Saying 71% of 'top colleges' where 'top colleges' has a rather fluid definition doesn't say very much.

<anal_retentive>

You should probably refer to them as 'universities' since from my experience people outside the US (specifically Canada, but I understand Australians and Europeans are the same) understand 'college' to refer to what Americans view as the 'community college.' When you say college they wouldn't understand you to be including MIT, CalTech, UCLA, etc under that term.

</anal_retentive>
Port 17500 tcp and udp.
This on top of the nonexistence of student rights in grade schools. Why do we think all students are murderers and race/sex/religionists?

This issue also bears similarity to airport security after 9/11. America's becoming an expert on inconveniencing the many based on the actions of a few.
Freakonomics was a fascinating read! I like your book choices.

The gang's corporate structure was fascinating. One could easily draw comparison between entry-level day laborers and the management/entrepreneurs of large businesses.

Kudos!
You have a point, but I suspect the tier of colleges below "the top" are just as bad if not worse. So the statement is probably fundamentally true.
it'd be a lot cooler if the device was entirely self-hosted--the software is hosted elsewhere, according to my reading of the terms and agreement. once you get a machine smart enough to adapt to changes in the ebay API (http://developer.ebay.com/common/api/) i'll be excited enough to consider spending thousands of bucks on it.

i wonder if "hosted elsewhere" doesn't translate out to "mechanical turk" (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome) somehow (i know you can request to see the software...but only after you buy it!)
I'm a tiny bit disappointed that it needs to be plugged in.

3G + a chunky lead acid battery inside, and it could probably keep selling itself for months without even being plugged in. ;)
There's an important distinction to be made here between public and private colleges. Can't private colleges, being private entities, restrict speech however they see fit, in the same way that your company can?
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This is a good point.

I think many people here have at least thought of a startup, and often a startup idea is to solve some problem they are facing, or a way to make something better. So the natural way of thinking about customer service is "what would I like?"

Of course, not everyone is alike (otherwise there would not be such a word as "geek" :) So what actually works in sales may seem counterintuitive.

Which means that being able to see things from a customer's point of view is both hard and a valuable skill.
Will do! I reasoned this way: if I win it won't be the most rash ebay purchase I've ever made (I'm still paying slip fees on THAT one) because a) I'm curious about its workings (as apowell mentioned I'll definitely monitor its traffic) and b) I can actually see significance in it as a work of art - though of course, if I do win it I probably won't get to keep it long and c) if I do win it I can choose the price at which it's next listed; that price is going to be more than $2500. d) this is going to be fun.

There's a decent chance I shall be outbid, though.
mongodb, mongoengine, redis, node, tornado, neo4j, django

want to play with openframeworks and cvtypes, but haven't had time
It's a fair point (too late for me to change it) although as an Aussie I did understand what it meant. I felt the original title ("PC Never Died") was either vague or misleading, so went with a paraphrased quote from within the article ("71 percent of the 375 top colleges still have policies that severely restrict speech") that I thought summed up the content and relevance to HN.
It says in the FAQ at the bottom of the sale page that it uses DHCP to get an IP address. I'd think that that would count as a requirement for sale.

Q: What means does it use to connect to the Internet ? Wireless or other ?
A: It specifically connect via wired ethernet, and it automatically obtains is IP through DHCP.
This is pretty shocking as a Stanford grad student. Apparently several students sued the university 15 years ago (Corry v. Stanford University) and won. You can read response of the university president at: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeches...
Yep. http://fusion.amd.com
That would be a plugin, the name of which escapes me, that turns the scrollbar for the code editor into a thumbnail image of the full length of code.
leadership and management are orthogonal.
Boxee http://www.boxee.tv/
No worries. The entire comment is a little anal (the last part being even moreso).
Not sure, but "Why would we stray from our core principles?" sure is a terrible pun if it was intentional.
The student desperately explained that it was an ordinary history book, not a racist tract, and that it in fact celebrated the defeat of the Klan in a 1924 street fight.

Just so you guys understand: This is the point of the speech codes (and similar laws in Europe [1]). It is very difficult to get people to make strident affirmations of their political allegiance...unless you start making threats, even if they are crazy threats. This pattern is common.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1241994/Businessman-...
Hmm, it didn't strike me that the title would come off as a RIP. I suck. I can no longer fix the title, but would if I could.
> This on top of the nonexistence of student rights in grade schools.

I think this is mostly because in grade schools students aren't legally considered adults. If I was being really cynical, I could say that the only reason there aren't 'student rights' in grade schools is because grade-schoolers don't vote.
This is because Google had write downs in previous years that kept profits small.

This is mostly a boon for the IRS.
Agreed; however, that's what editing is for: to make it look like you never got lost.
If the artist feels a certain aspect of the work is integral, that can be important. There are probably a lot of people who would be influenced by an artist's threat to declare a work "not art," especially if it is his own work. I think that's all he's saying: "I can't stop you from breaking the terms of this contract, but if you do the work is dead to me."
I think the money making bit is part of the witty name, "to deceive and slaughter." :)

Otherwise, it would be "a tool to auction and ship around."
Yes, that has been my main problem with acceleration, I have never been able to set it to be able to move consistently across the screen in both wide swaths and with precision. Partial work around: using a trackball. The ball has momentum, so I can give it a spin and it will continue to roll. However, this brings up a new issue. Trackballs make mousing in relatively straight lines much more difficult, make image editing a real PITA.

Really, most of the screen real estate is completely uninteresting from the perspective of the mouse. Contextual gestures, where sliding the mouse changes the selected control point, I think has potential.
According to the artist:

Combining Robert Morris' Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard's writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay.

Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.

If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.

Link: http://www.caleblarsen.com/projects/a-tool-to-deceive-and-sl...

What I found curious about it is that it's listed under 2008. Has it been selling itself before or did it just take two years for it to convince the artist to plug it in?

...and the Box has not published its source code under the link on that page either :(
I think the author may also like a faster horse
The idea of Earth having rings is proposed by some Creationists who call it a "canopy":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_geology#Vapor.2Fwater_can...
Yes. And the article addresses that distinction. Public institutions are legally obligated and private colleges are morally obligated as well as presumably also motivated by a desire to not appear hypocritical.
and you can play with both at the same time with redis-clojure: http://github.com/ragnard/redis-clojure that is, Clojure library for Redis.
Not a form letter, eh? I recall a persuasion course that intoned (as one of its 3 main tenets), "People sometimes believe what they are told, but never doubt what they conclude."
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I don't know about hot and trendy, but these are a few open source projects that come to mind that make my life and work much, much easier:

Drupal
jQuery (included in Drupal)
Xdebug
EtherPad
Adium
Miro
Quicksilver
Clyppan
To say, "now on every clock tick we only take one step, not three," seems to imply that the optimized version takes 1/3 as many steps. The mammal still doesn't catch the reptile without doing two full laps while the reptile does one.

For an n-entry loop: The original version has the tortoise take n steps and the hare take 2n steps. The optimized version has the rabbit take 2n steps and the turtle take lg(n) steps.

For an n-entry line: The original version has the tortoise take n/2 steps and the hare take n steps. The optimized version has the rabbit take n steps and the turtle take lg(n) steps.

Or did I misread the algorithm?
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Since most private colleges receive large amounts of public funding, this distinction is blurred considerably.
It would need power then as well.
Is this just a side project .. or can you share your vision and plan for this?

I like it, but I have to say that I've been using Shelfari for a while and it appears to pretty much do the same thing.
That was part of my point. Rails got massive attention, but it wasn't unique.
Is the dropbox protocol specified anywhere?

Edit: My google-fu isn't finding anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v._Des_Moines

Students in public schools have the right to free speech, so long as it doesn't interfere with the operations of the school.
Django & jQuery - These two tools have made web development fun for me, again.

Clojure/Lisp - I've had a Lisp like language on my languages-to-learn to-do list for long

Redis - Looks like an excellent NoSQL DB to begin learning this new concept with.
Does the above idea bear similarity to internet sales in that they both try to sell to more people for a lower price? I'm not sure I completely understood the excerpt.
It's hard to be objective about these things as someone who only speaks one language natively (like me), but I suspect that English does have more advantages as an international language than simply being the tongue of the world's biggest economic power.

There are many things about English that are difficult, if not infuriating for those learning it (spellings, irregular declinations, phrasal verbs, etc), but it is also a language that is quite easy to gain a basic grasp of. It has much more simplified grammar than most other European languages, for example, and even if spoken badly it is quite often intelligible.

I had a friend who taught English in Greece, and she used to say that learning English was like trying to hold sand in your hand: cup it lightly and it's easy; try to hold it tightly and it's apt to slip through your fingers.

I'm sure many East Asians would disagree with me on how easy English is though, so maybe I'm being parochial.
But he _did_ actually write the email. His technique was not convincing people of something that wasn't true.
Did Google have a statement that said anything different than the original statement?

The WSJ said "it would like to continue doing business in China, a week after it said it may pull out of the country due to a sweeping cyber attack"

Google originally said: "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."

They never said they didn't want to be in China, they just said weren't going to keep censoring and this might lead to them being ejected. They can be perfectly consistent and say they want to continue working in China. The question is whether they expressed any willingness to change their policy.

So what's up? Is Google spinning things or is the WSJ spinning things or what?
Even better: stop storing photo ids as numbers entirely. From Flickr's API docs: "These IDs should always be treated as opaque strings, rather than integers of any specific type."

http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.overview.html
Having just done a word search in the article after reading the article, I don't think the article claims that there is any such distinction. The author of the article, of course, advocates that students generally enjoy broad free speech rights on campus, and gives examples from many different colleges and universities (state-operated and privately operated) where those rights have been severely restricted. I don't think the article gives any comfort on a LEGAL basis that private universities can be substantially more restrictive than public universities in this regard. "And of the 13 legal challenges launched since 2003 against codes that FIRE has deemed unconstitutional, each and every one has been successful. Given the vast differences across judges and jurisdictions, a 13-0 winning streak is, to say the least, an accomplishment."
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That's an interesting question, and I'd be curious as to an answer.

However, such a comparison should bear in mind all factors, including the death toll of both events. The loss of human life has been in my opinion one of the greatest forces behind all the aid efforts in Haiti.

I'm sure the economical impact of Katrina was greater, but I think the Haiti's death toll will significantly overshadow Katrina.
Yes, but French is arguably fading much more quickly. It's easy to overlook where the words lingua franca originally came from.
i thought my saved songs were gone too. they're not, they're just in "history."

and if you use your keyboard to tap next, it should persist on that window and not switch album covers. at least it was for me.
I was under the impression that if it re-lists itself then it will always list at the same price - $2500.
Any chance of getting a MongoDB cheat sheet?
This was inevitable. Talk radio makes its money off of firing people up which works best when the other party is in power. That's why Rush Limbaugh rose to prominence during the Clinton administration. Since Air America was already faltering under Bush it was a given that they'd fail after Obama was elected.
I don't think I've ever heard of top employees being 10x as productive as the average employee. I usually hear 10x quoted as the difference between top and bottom.
I think the part you're missing here is how low the bottom is, not how high the top is.
on a positive note, i tend to discover more music with the new layout. and i take time to enjoy the discovery process a bit more, rather than rush through it.
I just had an insight about Python's GIL. Python depends on the OS scheduler to allocate computing resources to tasks. But if multiple threads of Python are contending for the GIL, to the OS scheduler, this is Python doing "work".

HLL's could benefit from better support from the OS for scheduling and dealing with multiple cores.