skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually liked the expansive, philosophical essays. One of them was about the messages you get from cities and what kind of ambitions they arouse in you, and that probably explains the switch--when he lived in Cambridge (where being really smart was the ambition) he wrote wide ranging philosophical essays about what you can't say and how to predict presidential elections and how awesome dynamic languages are, and now that he lives in Silicon Valley, he only writes about startups.

At one time, PG was just an essayist and hacker who worked on interesting technical problems like writing a better Lisp and filtering spam, who occasionally wrote about startups. Now he's "just" the startup guru.
Agree, it is a controlled environment...
Not a plugin, but related: my .vim directory/.vimrc is a symlink to a directory/file in my Dropbox folder, to keep my plugins and settings in sync on multiple PCs.

Yes, I started doing the exact same thing.
Same for my ~/.bash_profile.

Also if you find yourself editing files in your dropbox folder, it helps to have

set directory=~/tmp/

in your .vimrc so that it doesn't keep creating .swp files in your dropbox folder, which keep getting synced.
Och that Guardian article is getting all in a fluster about "wild camping" being banned in a single location (Loch Lomond) that is near to a major city and is seeing some problems.

Just about everywhere else in the Highlands I've never had any problems wild camping or staying in bothies (http://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/).
Woah, we've had some 'pack 'em in' zoning here in New Zealand but I've never seen anything where they left out footpaths entirely. Has anyone got a representative Google street view link for SW Portland or something similar? (And is this really quite common across the US?)
Yup. Everywhere I've worked can basically be split into two categories, pirate everything you use no matter what the price, or pay for everything you use no matter what the price. A company that will pay $12 will also pay $30, a company that won't pay $30 won't pay $12.

Also consider offering a bundle of all the styles at a small discount over buying them individually. Many people wanting only one or two styles may grab this instead to save them potentially having to go through the hassle of make a second purchase, especially if they're using company money.
My friend, the problem is not that we eat too much fish, but that we are just too many.

If you want to leave a beautiful Earth to your grandchildren you must not have children.
I don't think it makes any sense to call evolutionary theory for true. It's completely missing the point.

If anything evolutionary theory is useful to explain phenomena it is not a true explanation of phenomena. There are no true explanations only consistent explanations branching out from the premise.

Physics is no exception. It's a model to explain phenomena and predict outcomes which are always temporary.
I won't talk about me, but I've seen some friends doing shady things.
Let's just say I had to convince a friend of mine (for his startup) that DDoSing his competitor at peak times wasn't a wise idea...
Another guy I knew (not really a friend) was using xrumer (a tool to spam forums for SEO purposes) directly on his website...
Yeah me too. Whoever created this test has obviously never programmed in C or C++. The question says 'If there is a god...' but after that point you are outside of the Standard! And we all know that when you leave the well-defined territory of the Standard, all behavior is implementation-defined! So there may or may not be square circles, we have no way to tell :(
Yeah, maybe I did read a bit too much into it :-)
Turns out it's easier to let your mind wander if you're busy with a simple activity, like walking:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/science/29tier.html
While I don't know if it is feasible or not, radiology interpretation can be done in units of one scan or a series of scans, and would easily sustain $1 per minute. The high price is caused by a combination of unique skill set, regulatory capture by the Guild Of Right Honoroable Radiologists, and agency issues separating the person who benefits from the interpretation, the person who orders the interpretation, and the person who pays for the interpretation.
Montblanc make mechanical pencils. As do most of the luxury brand manufacturers (there are many who make more expensive pens than Montblanc.)

This is potentially better then lead in that it's permanent after a while. I wonder how permanent, but it's certainly true that pencil notes on paper don't come close to archival quality.
Fugitive has been the most lifechanging one. Takes working with git to the next level:

- view diffs of the current file with vimdiff
- stage from within vim
- commit from within vim
- blame from within vim
- repository-wide grep within vim
> How do you know that squares or circles are outside our world?

I know it because of my overall education. If I had a different education, I might have believed otherwise. Anyway, I'm pretty darn sure of myself, and I have actual arguments to back it up.

Have you ever seen a circle? A real circle, and not just a clever disposition of graphite on a sheet of paper. Likewise, have you ever seen a number? A real number, not just a decimal representation of it.

Even better, have you ever perceived a circle or a numbers in any way? Do you know of anyone who has? Do you know of any experiment that could assess or falsify the theory that circles or numbers exist in our world?

I don't.

Because they are mathematical concepts. Mathematical concepts aren't meant to describe things that exist in our world, unlike the concepts of "rock", "human", or "electron". Therefore, you can't make a statement about our world using only mathematical concepts. They help, but they are not enough.
But even Popov gives earlier credit to Tesla:

In 1900, Popov stated at the Congress of Russian Electrical Engineers that,

"the emission and reception of signals by Marconi by means
of electric oscillations was nothing new, as in America
Nikola Tesla did the same experiments in 1893."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio
Exactly.

The problem arises not when we say one model is more useful or accurate (for our purpose) than another, but when we start to say that something is true.

As if narratives however abstract (math for instance instead of words) are describing reality.

They are not.
I got tripped up on this question too and I agree with the comment above. Loch Ness is a physical lake and Nessie, though perhaps a musical dinosaur, is allegedly tangible and physically there. It's not possible to get a submarine and go searching through God's lake because he probably doesn't live in one and if he did he may well decide to turn invisible just as you got close.
Fugitive.
Cscope.
taglist

I also have NERDTree but very seldomly use it.
S.C. V.S.A.M.S. Tamas S.R.L.
Is this down or is port 70 being blocked by my firewall? Why not run on the proper port!?
And it continues

in identifying patients with significant memory loss who
are on their way to developing Alzheimer’s disease.

Yeah, well, I don't think that's very exciting. Seems a bit on the late side; I'd rather know far beforehand, so I can take every possible precaution.
I'm happy this exists. I'm disappointed it is so US-centric again. There are other countries, and a 'filter by state, zip code' does not cut it. (Yes, yes, some European company could - and probably should - create a similar site.)
the price differential between server and desktop systems isn't that great, especially if you use AMD systems. were I to go head to head with hetzner, I'd be getting killed on power costs. Does Germany have cheaper power than I have? (and is that right? 8GiB ram with mirrored disk for $65/month? because that is /really cheap/ - even with free power they have less margin than I do) Hm. It's possible that the core i7 stuff is way cheaper than I thought it was... but last time I looked, the core i7 stuff burnt a lot of power. Yup, the i7-920 is approx $230, and has a 130w tdp. Yeah. just the power for that goddamn thing would eat something like thirty bucks a month if it were in my co-lo. Unless I am badly misunderstanding something, they are paying vastly less for power than I am.

so if the cpu is $230, and say $200 for the ram, and, say, $300 for the chassis/motherboard, and say $100 for the two drives... $830 capital expense for the server... uh, they charge you around a $200 setup fee. so uh, at $65/month, if power is free, it'd take them more than nine and a half months to pay off their server... this on a server that only lasts three years. And power isn't free, so yeah, damn, those are some small margins.

Also, network equipment is a pretty tiny portion of your hosting costs, even if you pay for nice switches. you can get a really nice 48 port gigabit switch for two grand, and you can get something that is used but serviceable for 1/4 that. Ooh, they use 100M network, which is cheaper. even good 100M switches these days are essentially free. but even so, the switching infrastructure is not a huge portion of your costs.

Now that said, as far as I can tell, my margins are lower than most American hosting companies, and I plan to pay for my hardware in four months, which seems like silly high margins to me. It's possible that they are just willing to accept margins that are much lower.

I wonder if there is some foreign exchange weirdness making them cheaper? the euro was stronger when they bought the hardware, and now it's weaker?

also, how much bandwidth is that? I couldn't see from the website. San Jose (my location) has poor prices for power, but rather good prices for bandwidth.
Hmm, something funky is happening when I zoom in or out using Chrome. Some of the fonts change font-family when zooming and then changes back to the correct font when the zooming animation is finished.
Super MP3 Download PRO 4.5.9.8 WITH PATCHS
Finding my way to your book, nice way to learn Python, thanks!
EDIT: I actually agree with you. Maybe I shouldn't have made an exception of physics in the first place.

That's because fundamental physics seeks to be the ultimate explanation for everything. (A bit like 42 :-) As far as I know, every other theories about our world are meant to be tractable models, instead of the real thing. Evolution theory is an example. Fluid mechanics is another. We could try to explain them in terms of string theory, but that would hardly help us in finding new fossils, or build a safe plane.
No.

a.) Google follows robot.txt. You can disallow Google to index your website. Most of the websites, OTOH, want Google to index websites.

b.) Google does not republish the content. All the traffic is directed to the content owner, ie the other websites.
A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of “accepting it as a proof”.
The problem with these grandiose statements is that they forget the word formal. You have to be searching on a space that's formally defined to make optimization=verification if P=NP. When we do art and creativity, the space is not formally defined a priori. Hell, even theorem-proving isn't. Look at the breakthroughs in mathematics and most of them, a really large majority, came from applying some new ideas or operations (e.g., ricci flows) to problems that all others simply could not see as applicable. There are no "profound philosophical implications" if P=NP (which I doubt) other than our universe lets us have polynomially bounded algorithms for a huge cluster of problems.
interestingly, if you search for a random term,it shows listing "anywhere" randomly:
6 results for asdf
http://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=a...
3 results for asd
http://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=a...

(number of results seems related to input size)
and hoping you can add the extra features

Well, there's a difference between 'hoping' and I'm sure we can get this done. As an example: our product is evolving with the needs of our customers and as such we often promise things that don't exist yet. That doesn't mean we don't have every intention of delivering on our promise.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1588252
The common enemy builds the sales team
Hello none present?
That they seek it doesn't mean it's so.

Kuhn and Popper for instance is in disagreement about what making a model more precise means.

Seeking a model that is without doubt is simply fools gold if you ask me. It's assuming certainty where none really exist.
I have my entire .vim directory on github. You can see my plugins folder here:

http://github.com/ninjagod/etc/tree/master/vim/plugin/

I've been using Vim for three years or so. Apart from the usual bunch of plugins (NERD_tree, snipmate, etc), I have a few scripts I like:

Pretty much everything by Tim Pope - surround.vim, matchit.vim, fugitive, etc.

Fuzzy finder. I don't know how I survived without this until a few months ago. It allows you to enter a search term, and returns fuzzy matches, and you can jump to any of the matches. Things that Fuzzy finder supports include files, buffers, tags, help, etc.

Bufexplorer: One more of my favorites. "\be" brings up a little text file which you can use to manage your buffers. This is similar to Emacs' buffer explorer (C-x C-b). Except since this is also a text buffer, you can use common motions to delete, switch, save buffers, etc. (Another item is minibufexplorer, which shows all the buffers like "tabs". I stopped using this after switching to a more emacs-esque way of keeping buffers open and using only one gvim window").

Bufkill.vim: Is a very useful little tool for me. I use splits a lot, and sometimes killing a buffer closes the split. This small tool has been invaluable. :BD closes the buffer, but keeps the splits in place.

Eclim: You can use Eclim as a frontend for eclipse. I use some fancy eclipse IDEs sometime like CDT, PyDev, Aptana, etc. But eclipse's editor isn't spectacular. Eclim allows me to use vim as the editor and lets eclipse do the heavy lifting - autocomplete, project management etc.

Supertab: Use Tab for all your insert mode completion. Somehow any form of intelligent completion was always very flaky for me with vim. Still, I map this to keyword complete, which is usually pretty helpful.

Remotes: This isn't a plugin, but a native feature. You can use Vim remotes to keep one instance of gvim running and use "gvim --remote" instead of "gvim" to open files inside a single instance, rather than open each file inside a terminal, and close it when you're finished. I found this really helps improve productivity.

I even aliased "vim" and "vi" to map to the remote editor. You can see my tiny workaround for this:
http://github.com/ninjagod/etc/blob/master/zshrc#L31

I would recommend you read Peter Krumin's articles on various vim plugins, etc.
Permutate over the alphabet using a recursive algorithm, that would generate a possible sequence of characters of the specific length of the thesis.
According IDC: Losing 50% of your potential buyers due to your website
Kind of a cross between the infinite monkeys and the P vs NP question. Cute, but not very insightful.
I've thought about this, then decided I probably couldn't live a fulfilling life conforming to the standard of this idea of having a life most people have.
Love the typography; love the article! I gotta ask you: with such a rocking 'stache, you must spend a lot of time at Linda's or Smith. Which is it?
Trials and Tribulations of a start-up from investors to platform issues
Neat! The title made me think it was job positions open at github, this is far more useful. Not that I'm 'available', but I know some people that are and I'll pass it on.

thanks for building this!
When 2 scientist talk about something "true", they never mean "no way this could be even slightly false". They mean either "given our present information, this is very very probably true" or "this is very very accurate". Most of the time they mean both.

Now, if you want to make a practical decision, in a relatively limited amount of time, you will most likely treat "most probably true, and very very accurate" statement as just true.

So OK, there is no "true". But in practical terms, this is only a stretch, an abuse of language. For practical purposes, this is good enough. If you think it's not, go invent a short label that precisely means what you want, and make people use that. Good luck.
Being on the receiving end of one of Zeds emails is not a comparable experience.
Yep, definitely cut contractors. That's the deal isn't it, a great hourly rate when times are good to compensate for zero job security when times are bad. Everyone who changes from permie to contractor understands that, no-one has any business complaining.
Suppose I want to POST something. Do you do any checks of the veracity? Do you check for obscenity? Do you check for insults to deities from minor religions? Do you check for copyright infringements? Do you check for invasions of privacy?

I'd be interested to see how you think this can work, and the controls you would propose.
Every time someone makes one of these I'm just dumbfounded by how much money there is in it. I mean granted, they're sideline businesses for the three I'm most familiar with, but they are sideline businesses which would pay for almost a full engineering team...
I bit exactly the same. However I feel somewhat cheated by the first "bullet", because of the way the question's formulated. I actually don't think that you need "irrevocable proof" to believe in God any more than to believe in something else. However we actually need extremely strong evidence in both cases; evolution has very strong evidence in its favour, while there isn't any evidence that God exists.

Same thing for the second bullet : I stated that God has the freedom to achieve the logically impossible, BUT I don't think that it carries any weight because God doesn't exist and therefore it is all empty chit-chatting anyway. So rational discourse on the subject of God is of course somewhat hard to take seriously anyway, after a certain point.
> That they seek it doesn't mean it's so.

True. I got carried away.

> Seeking a model that is without doubt is simply fools gold

Seeking something doesn't mean we assume that we will find it. The fact that it's unattainable doesn't mean it isn't worth pursuing. Like perfection.
vindect: vim indentation detection. Set the tabs vs spaces settings and shift width to what the file currently uses. Indispensable for hacking code someone else wrote.

a: flip between .c and .h files a bit easier.

snipMate: code snippets. Filling out the shebang line, and C/python main idioms in throwaway experiments are the main reason I use this.

vcscommand: I only really use VCSVimDiff, but it works great for viewing changes in the current file when using git, mercurial and subversion.

emacs: inspired by vimacs[0], I also fixed ex command line editing to work with readline/emacs keys. Mapping Alt in insert mode is really buggy, so I use to ctrl-g instead of esc.

patchreview: like diffpatch, but for multiple files and you can specify a base path.

I have a whole bunch of my own silly plugins that I've created over the years, mostly unreleased, that do lots of great stuff. The :make and :grep quickfix highlighting I lifted from eclim is particularly useful.

I miss emacs.vim and vindect the most when I use vim on some other machine that doesn't have them.

[0]: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=300
Nice one Patrick. Having authority under some regulation certainly seems like it would be the best way to keep the price up.
http://scholar.google.com.br/scholar?q=%2B%22np+complete%22+...
Ah ok, yes it did show me an ad just that it wasn't relevant. (PHP Job Ad when I don't have a single PHP repo)

But it was a telecommute job so maybe it took into account the fact that I'm located in Singapore.
Here's mine:
* project - configurable file lists
* NERDTree - directory browsing
* autocomplpop - autocomplete pop ups
* markdown - syntax highlighter
* pathogen - sane plugin management
* Molokai - nice colour scheme
Run, Forrest! Run!
“Some will claim this [Google/Verizon] announcement moves the discussion forward. That’s one of its many problems. It is time to move a decision forward—a decision to reassert FCC authority over broadband telecommunications, to guarantee an open Internet now and forever, and to put the interests of consumers in front of the interests of giant corporations.” - Michael Copps, FCC

I've basically become a two-issue voter, on Net Neutrality and Lessig's campaign Change/Fix Congress by reducing the influence and access of money. With people like Copps above at the FCC, that leans me strongly Dem, which is interesting b/c I've never been strongly Dem before.

Were the Dems to also team up with Lessig and implement his plans, that would probably win me over for life, or at least until the party's character changed significantly for the worse.
High-tech parking meters premiere in S.F.
It might just be a matter of semantics or taste, but what about just seeking better predictability. How is that leaving us worse of?

Truth, objective, rational etc. is covered with all sorts of baggage.
More on the side of infinite monkeys and the question of intelligence.
The Free Java Jigsaw Puzzle
I personally would use the $1 coin if retailers would give them to me. I'm not going to the bank to make a special purchase of coins, but if they come back in change I'm happy to take them.
Sounds like someone should fork the job-board and fix this.
Google and Verizon's net neutrality proposal explained
I had exactly the same hit, and thought the same as you.

Perhaps I am naïve, but short of manipulating my neurons directly there is no way a god could reconfigure the universe around me such that 1+1=72. And if a god were to manipulate my neurons directly, it would say nothing about the truthfulness of the statement.
Aamir Khan's Peepli Live Movie Reviews, Wallpapers, Story
Peepli Live is an upcoming Hindi film which is produced by Aamir Khan. The movie has been directed and written by first-time filmmaker, Anusha Rizvi, a former journalist herself. The film is presented under the banner Aamir Khan Productions and UTV Motion Pictures. The movie has been tagged as a savage attack on the media and politicians’ response to farmers’ suicide.
No one made them fight but themselves.
Auto Generate your PhD: http://chegra.posterous.com/auto-generate-your-phd-thesis

I wrote this code as a laugh when I was doing my Master Dissertation.
There are two separate issues at play - urban planning and neighborhood development. Portland prides itself on being at the forefront of urban planning, but when many of the roads were created in the perimeter of the city, there wasn't much thought put into it. The city has looked at retrofitting sidewalks into some of these areas, but it's prohibitively expensive.

Oddly enough, a lot of the neighborhoods weren't tightly packed. The lot sizes were decent and the house-to-house spacing was ample. I'm guessing it was more of an issue where, if the builders didn't have to spend money on sidewalks, they didn't.
"about a third of people with normal memories [who were tested] had spinal fluid indicating Alzheimer’s. Researchers suspect that those people will develop memory problems."

Give it time - this may well be able to tell you beforehand, but we don't know because the study isn't old enough yet.
you say European... are there other providers in Europe that are priced competitively with hetzner.de?
What are your opinions on Muro?