skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of them I haven't read! I have a problem with buying books and not reading them, I need help. I just like buying/collecting books :(
Still the only one remaining? If noone else wants it for a better reason, I am interested.
Seems to be very similar to Jungle Disk's business edition. However, I like that nasuni offers access to the remote data after one stops using their service.
US government rescinds 'leave Internet alone' policy
> real people, using crappy early 2000s desktop apps

I wish more companies would concentrate on these kinds of uses rather than whatever the next social media thing is supposed to be. It basically describes my sys admin life and is something I will cheerfully spend money on.
Basically in the WSGI file (which is just python code) you need to insert the virtual-env site packages in sys.path, with something like this ...

virtenvdir = '/path/to/virtual-env/lib/python2.5/site-packages/'

import sys
if virtenvdir not in sys.path:
sys.path.insert(0, virtenvdir)
Anything in particular?
Bachelor of Theology BTh (applied), at Cambridge
I think its possible its the wide difference in font. Because the madlib text looks very different (as opposed to bold input labels) it looks frail and slapped together. Larger fonts, bolder text, and more space could probably help it more visually.
The books have now all gone, I will try my best to get them all posted next week. Thanks everyone.
The before and after aerial view of Hartford reminded me of Glasgow - which is a rare example of a European city that has had a freeway/motorway driven almost right through the center.
Feed food like hamburger USB flash drive to your PC
So how long did it take for crack to come out? He mentions 2-3 months but he never says the actual time, or have I missed it?

Because he says they bypassed in a different way maybe it was only 2 weeks.
I started using the site and getting back also confused me - but apparently hitting Back button helps :) But some in-page way to go back wouldn't hurt.
Jerry and me: A decade of correspondence with J.D. Salinger
Movie adds to the legend of autistic professor
After the heat death of the universe everything done by anything becomes meaningless. Your actions increased the happiness of other people for some period of time, abstractly that's about all you can do. Granted creating a fun video game or a more effective solar cell are on a larger scale, but it's still the same basic thing.
Wordle In Trademark Trouble, Seeks Legal Advice
Doesn't matter if you start with python or scheme, but the next one makes you understand more and gets closer to mastery.
Why I'm feeling really complimented right now - I'm just a Nasuni employee. Last week at PyCon I did a lightning talk thanking the Python world for everything that helped us along.

But; back to the product - you're spot on. It's a auto-scaling NAS device, with snapshots/versioning, end to end encryption, etc. There's actually no need to "buy more" from the cloud vendor - we do that automatically/seamlessly.

Cloud storage is nice because there is no real "transaction" to buy new storage - you just consume what you need. So your office, secretaries, and CEOs can just write to the shared drive endlessly. The never ending hard drive, so to speak.
Choosing educational thesis topics
There are several ways in which you can approach and write thesis papers. This is the form of essay writing where you will find yourself lost for topics when you are thinking of educational thesis topics.
A lot of applications today end up running on top of at least two layers of virtualization - VMWare ESX/HyperV providing guest operating system instances that then run the application based on something like the JVM or CLR.

I've wondered whether these two virtualization layers could be combined so that you end up with a hardware-abstracton VM sitting right on top of the metal and then you write the bulk of your OS on top of that (which could then be based on something far removed from the hardware, like your CLOSOS).

NB I'm a huge fan of CLOS - but factoring in security to a shared CLOS like environment would presumably be a nightmare. Maybe each OS level application could morph into something more like a guest OS in a virtualized environment...
I think any martial art is beneficial as the very nature forces you to stop thinking about programming. I've personally chosen Muay Thai as it puts special emphasis on physical conditioning, and I tend to work best not stressing (or thinking about) how I'm going to get my day's exercise.
Correct; I am an employee, my boss is one of the founders.
Stock: Understanding a Liquidation Preference
I thought you had typed "Marital Art"…

…my bad. Moving on.
Positive Karma, little things that change the world for the better
There are all kinds of topics on boot optimization over on the Embedded Linux wiki:

http://elinux.org/Boot_Time

So I'm wondering if they just apply a set of these tricks given your circumstances. Notice that they guarantee a 50% speedup on your board, not that you'll boot as their example. The OMAP 3530 shown is a pretty fast chip. You also don't know what else they're skipping to get this speed.
6 Secret Airport Art Museums
But the short answer is that it is preposterous to dismiss technologically mediated achievement as somehow fake

As preposterous as it is to create this strawman of the article and rail against that? It's crystal clear that he's not talking about the incidental advances one may obtain from playing video games and that he's not talking about the special niche of 'video games' where the game is an educational instrument. That dismisses your examples and probably your 'on and on'.

Meta-comment:
The parent is an example of a critical comment that is upvoted and subsequently hurts the community. It diminishes the chance that people will read and learn from the article. The remark about video games is a relatively minor part of the essay (mostly it was the sbject of the post that inspired this one) and the criticism of only that part probably gives a lot of people the wrong impression about the article. Comments touching only remotely on the article, however insightful, should not be voted to the top. (Please note that this meta-comment does not depend on me disagreeing with (part of) the comment)
(im interested where the disagreement lies here? any comments?)
Scribid link not working. Pdf article not working for me once I read it either.
For what it's worth - I'm Jesse :)

Like I've said in previous replies - I'm just a (very happy) employee. On launch day I did post to HN (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112218).

If you're interested in details, take a look at the technology section, FAQ:

http://www.nasuni.com/product/technology/

http://www.nasuni.com/resources/faqs/

It's important to note that an important feature of the Filer is that we have the capability to talk to $N cloud storage providers, see: http://www.nasuni.com/about-nasuni/partners/

Finally, you can take a look at the blog posts the team has been doing since launch. We've been covering various aspects of the Filer, including security, testing the cloud providers, etc.

http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/
Actually, I'm not sure I believe the "pro-Apple" story entirely. It states "During most of our audits, suppliers stated that Apple was the only company that had ever audited their facility for supplier responsibility".

Seriously, who the hell asks their suppliers if they have been audited by other clients?

I think its great Apple audited their supplier, but I'm not convinced we have the full story (in fact, its possible they were tipped off in this case too, and that's why the age audit was initiated). I should also add that we shouldn't praise hardware companies for performing an audit once or twice. Furthermore, they certainly aren't penalising their suppliers for their poor working conditions!

All that will happen is a few underage workers will stop working. The living conditions will still be a joke, workers mistreated, and the dodgy supplier wont suffer in any way (other than needing to find replacements).
Sorry, you'd mentioned 'we're launching this week' during PyCon and I thought that (along with your Internet Celebrity (TM) status) implied you had some level of equity.
So Microsoft is trying to compete, not on the merits of its product, but via the legal system. So sad. But so typical.

Microsoft doesn't care about making a better product. It doesn't care about its users. It simply wants to win, and control. At any cost.

Microsoft seems to believe that the only way it can win is for someone else to lose. It's pitiful.
Would something like uswsusp/tuxonice (software suspend to RAM or disk) be capable of assisting in quick boot times?

Step 1: Build fully functioning embedded system and boot it.
Step 2: Suspend it in the state you want it be in on boot
Step 3: Hack u-boot to directly load the suspended image

Has anyone done something like this? Is it feasible?
Yes, it is tricky to do. The way I pulled it off is that when I moved to Boston, I ditched my car. That way, the places I started going to were all T-accessible. If you already live in Boston you probably have places you go that aren't served well by the T. It ended up working out fabulously for me, and I wish other Americans eventually have the car-free opportunity that I do.
Long-time <yet another thing> use harms.
It's all OK :) I'm glad (ecstatic actually) that you were excited about it enough to post about it!
Slightly off-topic: your upcoming game seems pretty cool; especially the setting. I've had the comic in my RSS feed since months and I was really thrilled to see it come alive the past few weeks.
Mind whopping kinetic sculptor videos
The interesting part of the article is that someone in the audience with a web site gave him a URL that he had not seen before and he did this exercise real-time.
I believe the features speak for themselves. End-to-end encryption, versioning/snapshots (no more backups), the ability to talk to $N cloud providers rather than a single one, simple to use and unified management for an entire company to use.
Thank you very much. I sent the email...
Some thoughts should be kept to one's self. I think.
I think that is a good question, but I assume that as a rails noob you probably had some mentor(s?) who pointed you in the right direction when you did stupid noob stuff. (Even if you learn mostly through books and blogs like I do, your knowledge is still beholden to someone else's instruction).

Maybe the exchange is an understanding that when the person you are teaching is an expert, he will pass on the information to another person.

That is a higher level exchange than the quid pro quo exchange, as it is more of a communal sharing of intellectual resources. Sometimes there is information that is important above and beyond its utility to me. It is important for me to share it.

Which I suppose gives an insight into why I feel the way that I do about intellectual property. Yes, it is important that people are rewarded and compensated for their hard work and effort put into researching new things, but the real reason that you research and learn new things is so that you can pass it on.

We're social animals, and we shouldn't let go of that.
Betaworks: Inside the Much-Buzzed-About New Media Incubator
Looks very interesting! Is there a similar module available for doing something like this locally?
Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Lenny
The article is about latency; if you use its techniques and your dataset is not sparse, you will use more time and space overall. But, you'll have your first item in memory sooner.

There are few operations faster than writing a 0 to a memory address.
If it's within three miles or so on each end, you could also try riding a folding bike to and from the train station.
Howto Dual Boot Hyper-V using VHD Native Boot
I just saw the link posted by joezydeco (above). It has good links to information on this particular avenue of optimization, particularly: http://elinux.org/Suspend_To_Disk_For_ARM
Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics
As a woman who gave away lots of advice/information for free for many years and didn't get much back, I can sympathize with part of her point about "Pay me". I am still trying to figure out how to monetize what I have to offer. It's clear that I do some things very well that other people usually don't do so well and that there is a "market" for what I know. But, yes, I feel like I've been used and I don't like it. I feel that way in part because I have had people give me flak for having ads on my websites. There does seem to be more expectation that women are supposed to just give away their time, energy and knowledge than there is for men. I'm a person with a generous nature but I'm becoming rather burned out and cynical. So far, being kind-hearted and generous hasn't done anything to solve my financial problems or further my career goals, at least not that I can tell. I sometimes wish I could grab someone by the collar and go "What is the goddam SECRET???!!!" Of course, that wouldn't get me anywhere.

In short, I can understand why a woman would post this point of view. Men frequently complain about having to pay child support in a divorce. In such discussions, both men and women seem to largely overlook the fact that it costs women a great deal more financially than it does men when kids come in to the picture. Women have lowered salaries, take more time off to care for the kids, lose out on career opportunities, and it is generally assumed that if she has a kid and gets a job, the child-care expenses are part of "her" costs of having a job (not "their" cost or "his" costs). I think this underlying assumption probably influences a lot of social transactions, from both sides: Other people assume "she" is supposed to give out of goodness and not expect anything in return, and "she" assumes she can't ask for anything in return either and/or doesn't know how to do so effectively. I think women are probably going to continue to struggle with this thorny issue for many years to come. We definitely don't have gender equality yet.
Though not entirely an answer to the question: I've never found any aspect of my martial art of choice (jiu-jitsu) particularly beneficial to my life as a software developer. At most, I think practicing sports helps to keep a healthy body as the counterpart to a healthy mind. In general, I think there are principles of martial arts that can serve as adequate analogies to principles in software engineering (know your tools, be aware of your enemies, use the path of the least resistance, practice makes perfect, it pays to broaden your skills, ...) but knowledge and understanding of those principles is not bound to actually practicing them.
Actually, science is characterized largely by an absence of black and white thinking. Speaking as a theoretical physicist, I can assure you that those of us in science will argue ad naseum about whatever detail of a theory you want. It is this precise mechanism that allows us to produce theories which are incredibly well-tested.

Where science tends not to see shades of gray is in defending its work from politically-motivated attacks. One might as well accuse biologists of being "black/white" on evolution when defending against entirely insubstantial attacks from creationists. Creationists aren't interested, say, in whether it's genes or species that are evolving, but only in whether they can sow enough distrust of science to get into the public discourse. Similarly, climate denialists don't really care about specific problems with climate models as much as they do with undermining how science is perceived.

Thus, denialists don't see the actual teeming debate within science over the specifics over how AGW takes form, where real climate skeptics point out problems that are then addressed by the rest of the community. To a denialist, it probably seems as if the world is simply screaming "no" at them over and over again, but that doesn't mean there's not a rich world within the science that they denigrate.
Too late for me, as who wants to learn a bunch of obscure keyboard shortcuts? has already happened for me, and as a result, the keyboard shortcuts shown here are obscure to me as a result.

I approach this with emacs by turning off the menu bar and the icon bar.

I am not fond of the green on black.
Mind Whopping Amazing Kinetic Sculptor ones
Fascinating piece. Betting the entire company on the real-time web market is an interesting idea.

Betaworks is definitely an interesting company, considering the whole VC-funded-incubator model mostly failed in the late 90s, the most famous one, of course, being Idealab! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealab).

As opposed to YC which aims to provide advice, more than anything else, they're "incubating" ideas and then seeing what sticks. So I guess they're more involved than the incubators of yore.

They're definitely doing something right, first with the summize acquisition and then with bit.ly so perhaps it will work this time around.

Now will it work? Shrug.
Me too. However people like me and you aren't always the target audience.
Climate change denialists = climate change liars : Pharyngula
Yeah, when I read that, I couldn't help but think of a crowd of people marching from an office building pumping the goat's head sign above their heads with Twisted Sister's "We're not gonna take it!" blaring in the background.

(probably shows that I am a little old and immature at the same time...)
I'd recommend Eskrima/Kali (Philipino martial arts) if you can find a teacher near you. Eskrima builds strong and flexible wrists in a way that most other arts don't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rckWVZl_GsA

Another reason I prefer Philipino martial arts to Japanese arts is that the latter tends to be rigid and emphasize gatekeeping. When I studied Kendo, the attitude was "level up before we let you spar". In contrast, I got my ass whooped one month into Eskrima. (Obviously this is also highly dependent on the teacher.)
Are you giving away only your books, or are you also giving up programming? Did you recently find your faith, or why did you decide to go for theology?
This is marvelous, and I like how each step is backed by hard experience.

Wonder if you have ever seen http://www.tinaja.com/ismm01.asp which has a similar tone. However, his web site is such that it would be good for him to read your stuff and a/b test his, er, interesting web page design.
I found this article to irritate me

Amen to that. The problem is that this article makes us feel like suckers, because we do do things for free. However her entire argument hinges upon the assertion that

As [compassionate people] we like to
help and can get trapped in giving our time and ideas away
for free because we’re afraid to ask for compensation.

which, for us, is plain false. It's not that we're affraid to ask for compensation: we're not even considering that option. We don't want compensation. We love to help think through complex situations and puzzles.
The thing that struck me was that there was not a word about sales figures in this article. Yes, it seems they gave the pirates a hard time with their DRM. However, I think it is fairly obvious that those pirates had little to no interest in actually playing the game. They just like breaking DRM, that part is the fun for them.

I think it is also obvious that people who got the game from these DRM-crackers, and actually did want to play it, would not have ever paid for it. Even if the DRM was perfect, would sales have gone up? In all that time people were waiting for a successful crack, how many people gave up on pirating and bought the game? I'm betting the numbers were ludicrously small.

The developers would have been better off not spending any money whatsoever developing this copy protection. Unless they can provide evidence of a large increase in sales, I call BS. All they did was spend money developing a free game of "crack the DRM" to a bunch of nerds.
Karate(shotokan) made me more disciplined and taught me to endure pain. That comes in handy in dealing with a dumb boss, a nagging client, or any of the overall suck-y conditions we work with everyday.

Also, sparring amazingly taught me to control my thoughts to achieve a certain goal. So it helps when chasing bugs to clear your mind and organize your thoughts.

Sadly, i don't practice anymore.
Taekwondo. Lacks mystical energy crap, and is practical.
I will still program as a hobby, just not full-time, as I have the past twelve years.

I am a Christian and I am applying to study Theology both for personal and professional reasons. I wish to deepen my understanding of God and my relationship with Him. Professionally, I have recently begun work on a new Christian Community Interest (CIC) start-up designed for social enterprise that will use profits and assets for ministry, community service and outreach, on both a local and global scale. A better grounding in theology will therefore not only be personally fulfilling but essential for developing this new ministry.
I agree. The idea that a martial art can help with programming is a bit of a carryover from when they were considered 'mystical' or 'dangerous' in the mid-late 1970s/early 1980s. Having studied a few and wrestled in HS, I would agree that the real benefit they have is taking your mind off of work, getting exercise, and beating people up/getting beat up. It's fun , and that's what exercise should be.

So, do what you want and work hard at it. Don't try to think there's any mystical connection between the body and mind that a martial art can help cultivate.
I wouldn't have made it through grad school without Shotokan Karate (http://www.ska.org/). It helps that they're non-profit, so you know you're learning and not just paying for belts. Plus, they have very intense "Special trainings" around the country at different points in the year. They're a great organization.

While it's easy for some to dismiss "mystical" aspects, look at the real world applications. If you suffer from "pressure" that could be a moderate form of anxiety. A great combat to the parasympathetic response? Breathing.

Watch what happens when you get punched in the gut. Your immediate, initially uncontrollable desire is to blindly fight like hell or turn and run. Keeping a calm head takes practice to overcome the rush of hormones. Breathing slows the heart and tempers the response. It's the same reason elite athletes, especially runners, know the power of proper breathing.

I tend to think many mystical aspects had some physiological root that then got adulterated over time. Breathing as the route to relaxation is first on my list.
Oil is THE resource right now. The author is saying that when that ceases to be true, all bets are off, and we won't even recognize civilization.

Plus, you don't think healthcare depends on oil?
Something like Wikileaks has advantages and disadvantages, the former it being unbiased, unlike the free press, which, at least in my country, is ripe with political affiliation and business interests. And yes, the need for Wikileaks signals bigger problems. What bothers me about the loss of anonymity is the inherent loss of ways to fix those problems, but that may just be the necessary tradeoff for the evolution of the web.