skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but I'm still a bit confused about how people use their preferred editor as a full blown development environment.

I don't. That's the point. An "IDE" is an "Integrated Development Environment." That implies that everything you need is part of the IDE itself. If you don't use an IDE, then the editor is not a "full blown development environment.*

I use vim, but my "development environment" is Unix. Well, bash on a Linux box to be more specific. But all of the tools I need are available from the command line.
I am a total whore for historical fiction:

'Shogun' by James Clavell was the first book I read that had me glued to it for hours and hours at a time. Tai Pan is also a classic.

I also found the original three Courtney books by Wilbur Smith (starting with 'The Sound of Thunder') were a guilty pleasure. They are pure trash, with thin characters and a predictable plot but epic adventure nonetheless.

More recently I've topped off the 'Emperor' series (chronicling Julius Ceasars life) and have started the 'Conqueror' series (same thing, but its about Genghis Khan). Both by Conn Iggulden.

Not quite at the same literary level as some of the other suggestions here but I was wondering if I was the only one.
I know a lady that is a Personal Assistant. Her website is here (be careful the PA link is messed up): http://www.whyorganizingworks.com/services.php

She knows a little of some languages. Which are you looking for?
That and it means that Windows Live Essentials isn't tied to the Windows OS release schedule so they can update it more often.
In my opinion, those two cases are not similar. I doubt that this type of automatic caching/publishing would have any protection under the DMCA safe-harbor laws unless you're making it clear to users what they're doing (I'm not a user of the service, so maybe you already are).

If I understand correctly, the users of your site are simply bookmarking pages. You are then caching it, storing it, and publishing it with a world-readable URL. There are many ways that you could provide the same experience to the user without making the cached page publicly accessible.

If you were to give users the option to make specific bookmarks world-readable - and you provided a disclaimer explaining that they should not make copyrighted material world-readable - then it might be different. But that's probably something you should discuss with an attorney.
Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University)
Privacy does not exist on the internet -

Usernames, IP addresses, email, and WHOIS information link multiple accounts on the internet up to one identity.

Mentions of people, places, activities, interests help create an accurate profile of a user that can match them up with other online accounts.

Even those who forgo non anonymous online personalities can be found through a subpoena of an access log.

Edit: To add - OP's Name, Picture, Email, Address, Domain Names, Telephone Number, etc can be found through this methodology.
I tried reading this after finishing Shogun but just couldn't get into it. Watched the movies instead with Toshiro Mifune as Musashi, and will agree that its an epic story. The legend of the wandering warrior who lives only to increase his skill is something that occurs a lot in Japanese fiction (e.g. Ryu in SF).
It would surprise me, as on my Macbook, Eclipse with the default .ini is set to run the JVM with a maximum size of 512M by using the -Xmx512m argument. (I am, however running Eclipse "Classic", maybe the other bundles have larger limits). In fact, it might run a little better if I boosted the amount of RAM available to its JVM.

Maybe someone knows otherwise; but I think it is a fact of life that when you set your JVM to use (say) 1GB and keep a java app open and creating objects for long enough, it will tend to grow to 1GB rather than spend time running the GC.
I think those lectures can be summarized a lot if the audience has some advanced background. The authors could put some tag in the content, revealing what type of content is about background and core material. Going directly at the core is great when you know well the background material.
Ideas are a dime a dozen, all you need to do is look at problems and realize they are opportunities, then look at the forces involved to find the idea that helps people.

What you need to do is go out and find developers in person because you will get a completely botched representation online. Go to a meetup, go to a hacker space, put an ad out for building a small website (to have them come to you).
In that case I'd just write a simple shell script :/

But thank god I don't work on large systems like that.
Second that, great historical fiction. Yoshikawa's other book, Taiko, is equally good.
I often use pdb/ipdb.set_trace() in the code to stop the server and inspect stuff during execution. How do you do that with GAE under Emacs?
This is a great book to sit down and read a few articles from (at least if you're into reading encyclopedias ;)), but you aren't going to learn much "actual math" from it.
Eh, William James disagrees with you:

"Sporadic great men come everywhere. But for a community to get vibrating through and through with intensely active life, many geniuses coming together and in rapid succession are required. This is why great epochs are so rare, - why the sudden bloom of a Greece, an early Rome, a Renaissance, is such a mystery. Blow must follow blow so fast that no cooling can occur in the intervals. Then the mass of the nation glows incandescent, and may continue to glow by pure inertia long after the originators of its internal movement have passed away. We often hear surprise expressed that in these high tides of human affairs not only the people should be filled with stronger life, but that individual geniuses should seem so exceptionally abundant. This mystery is just about as deep as the time-honored conundrum as to why great rivers flow by great t owns. It is true that great public fermentations awaken and adopt many geniuses who in more torpid times would have had no chance to work. But over and above this there must be an exceptional concourse of genius about a time, to make the fermentation begin at all. The unlikeliness of the concourse is far greater than the unlikeliness of any particular genius; hence the rarity of these periods and the exceptional aspect which they always wear." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James

Or Paul Graham:

"Which is an uncomfortable thought. If they were just like us, then they had to work very hard to do what they did. And that's one reason we like to believe in genius. It gives us an excuse for being lazy. If these guys were able to do what they did only because of some magic Shakespeareness or Einsteinness, then it's not our fault if we can't do something as good. ... I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right." - http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

Seems like a worthy topic to think about to me, and lots of people doing meaningful work might take time to think about. Now, I keep meaning to go out for dinner, if I could just find where I placed my rocket shoes...
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I think Lookout was a talent acquisition. The current implementation of Outlook search is much worse than Lookout was.
mech turk is best at yes/no questions.
Yeah.
I'm building analytics that let you track who invited whom, and you'll be able to actually use this to offer discounts.

It's actually part of my site, which I can't really talk about yet :)

But the analytics will be a spin-off, so if you can wait 2 weeks you will get it. gregory at gregory dotnet
When I first started with vim, I immediately downloaded every possible plugin I ever thought I'd ever use, along with a bunch of complicated scripts that I added to my .vimrc, with hundreds of different options I copied from others' .vimrc files.

As I learned vim, I learned to appreciate its simplicity and now keep my config at the minimum possible deviation from default as I can tolerate. My .vimrc is fairly spartan (http://github.com/tomhsx/homedir/blob/master/.vimrc) and the only plugins I use are ctags, pyflakes, and shortcuts for F6/F7/F8 to debug/execute python scripts.
You should post in the new October who's hiring thread. I browsed a lot of it last night and would have remembered your job posting.
My understanding is that under EU treaties, EU countries are obliged to treat companies formed in other countries the same as local companies, i.e. the government can't discriminate against you for having a company registered somewhere else.

Indeed many EU startups are officially headquartered in the UK even if they're based elsewhere in Europe for the favourable legal and tax implications.
In your case I think you are should learn what are your strengths and weakness. So you should ask yourself what type of idea can I develop that can give me some feedback about my capacity to built something valuable. Once you know something about yourself you should look for a good team. A good team is the one that gives you the best opportunity to built the valuable idea that you have.
What about genius quality work that's unrecognized? It seems to me that focusing on some big important question that is sure to get a lot of attention is a luxury afforded to people in the right fields of academia. A lot of the things that drive progress are smaller more mundane issues and battles that are fought, won and forgotten. Is the quality of the work ascribed by its notoriety?
This is one reason why Mint would never work in the UK. We have real security on our banking websites - hardware security (You get sent a hardware device to generate codes, or to put your card into etc).

(As an aside, our banks are simply crazy fast now. I logged into HSBC the other day, issued a bank transfer to a Barclays account. Logged out, logged into Barclays less than a minute later, and the money was there. Impressed I was).

Any banking website that simply accepts a username and password would scare the hell out of me.

I still don't quite understand what the value-add of mint is though. I'm guessing that banking websites in the US aren't very useful, or that some users value being able to collect all their financial data into one place (How many banks accounts from different banks do people need?)
You obviously haven't read the post.
Britain recognizes Druidry as religion for first time - CNN
Can anyone suggest a good probability or statistics book?
Demand Media (and other ad-focused sites, but most remarkably their operation) understand this deep in their bones, which is why their content is to writing what chicken McNuggets are to chicken.
Your interpretation is not the only possible one, and fails to consider the significance of the fraud involved. If it was a story of two business guys who stole a pile of code and built a business I suspect you'd be demanding jail time.
Inaccurate title. This is Fred Wilson's opinion about Marc Hedlund's postmortem blog post.
The real point of this article is not Marc Cuban, or Tech Crunch's valuation.

Mainly he's saying that Google wants to buy a media company. Personally, I don't see that happening.
1) Something to take notes. It's like a lecture hall, so you'll have room if you really want a laptop. Don't get distracted though.

2) Many of the speakers hang out after their talks, so be sure to get some quality time and have a few questions for them.

3) Have questions ready.

4) If you can arrange tours of the major company HQs (Google, Facebook, etc.), do it.

5) Come find me at startup school. ;)
The author points that programming projects are driven by or looking for venture capital, so there are few computer science projects.

What is the solution? You can't pay creative people to build computer science. The only think that society can do is to increase the respect and consideration for those that strive to widen the frontiers of knowledge. The great work will be done when those men reflect a flame in their eyes.

Inspiration is the force of gravity for discovery, but not everyone lives in the same planet here. Allow people to grow and make research and you should find inspiration and the force to discover and innovate.
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Actually Windows NT was a completely new kernel that had nothing to do with the old Windows 3.1/95/98/ME stuff.
> Hardware can be expected to work on Windows. If they don't, it's the hardware manufacturer's fault.

Sorry, this is an unreasonable expectation, and one that should be corrected, not reinforced. The "average user" has no right to expect that an operating system should work with any and all hardware, simply because one operating system has a monopoly position with respect to users and a monopsony-ish position with respect to hardware makers. It hurts all computer users, and Free software users in particular, when we allow such companies to set our expectations.
Iranians are banned from khanacademy.org by google
Like many other websites hosted on Google's server, this one also gives us in Iran a 403 Forbidden error.
Server errors also distract from ads.
Seconding the stability of the Internet. The speed is indeed not that fast, but when I lived there it was very stable and there were never any problems accessing the American and European parts of the Internet.
Google is not like the current wave of VC web apps: it was built on an idea that couldn't exist without the proper technology. For most VCs, that technology is merely "the internet," and their ideas simply leverage web connectivity to get up and running so they can see how they do in the marketplace. If a stronger technological backbone is needed later, they can always hire computer science grads.

For example, Facebook didn't need computer scientists to start out, but it needed them to grow. For VCs looking to make a buck, the business idea comes first, and innovation in technology can follow if it needs to.
Baby Rudin is a great choice, especially for self study, since there are a number of study guides for it that go through solutions, additional explanation of material, etc. I'd recommend against the chapters on differential forms, though, just because the treatment is outdated. Marsden and Hoffman's approach is to focus on explanations for why theorems are true before giving proofs, which some people find useful.

Axler is a good choice for linear algebra. Dummit and Foote is the standard choice for algebra generally. I'm of the opinion that we should teach algebra before linear algebra in general, but this seems like a minority view.
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"But genius quality work? Large, permanent impact on important fields? I think we’re in the easiest era of history to do that. There’s so much low hanging fruit to do – just cross-reference two important disciplines that haven’t talked to each other enough yet, BAM, genius quality work."

I'm not sure how this logic works. If you have low-hanging fruit, you don't need genius-quality work. But then again, I'm skeptical of anyone that claims that genius is easy. Plus, I do believe that there's more to it than hard work. Anyone can work hard, and I know plenty of hard workers who definitely don't do genius quality work.
Some people would rather be famous, be the toast of the town, be adored by who they perceive as their peer group, leave who they perceive as their peer group, be on the front cover of Newsweek, get a movie written about them, etc... than have life, or health, money, or a successful business.

It is basically the Achilles question, right? Durable since the classics: would you like to live long or die gloriously?

(Like most dichotomies, there are almost certainly options in the solution set not mentioned.)
http://whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com/
Let's not forget Lisp OSes like Genera or Xerox's. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
The "idea man" is possibly the worst position in any startup or business adventure. The idea man is the least helpful person and the easiest to take out of the picture. For prime examples see the Crunchpad and Harvard Connection. Not knowing how to code well may set you up for failure.
Adventures of developing an MP3 decoder in Python
Why are these books from Dover Publications so cheap?
The modern IDE is chock full of features. So many that many less common edits are automated if you know the right keystrokes. It takes years to master all of the features and those features are constantly expanding month on month.

An IDE like Eclipse can take 1 GB of RAM to run on a decent sized project. Not only that but it will happily consume 4 CPUs as it verifies the code, and it'll only reach its full potential of resource usage on an SSD. But 1GB of RAM is less than £20, a quad core around £80 and a decent dev SSD for less than £200. Compared to the time cost of learning another tool this is absolutely nothing. Those tools in your IDE are there to save you time and a bit of hardware to be able to use those features quickly is worth every penny for the hours they save you.

Learning your IDE well matters, the resource constraints are easily fixed with minimal cash outlay. The difference between a MB and a GB for your editor is irrelevant when the difference is such a vast array of features and plugins which can save a lot of time.

Emacs and vim have a place in the world but an IDE is a vital part of a modern development set-up because of the productivity it brings. If you are going to develop software seriously make sure you buy hardware capable of doing it so you can use the best tools at hand.
This is sometimes the case in computer search algorithms as well -- sometimes trying to minimize error or some heuristic of distance to the goal performs worse than just searching for things that are 'different' from previous things you've found. My PhD work is on 'novelty search' which is an evolutionary search without a goal.
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This seems like a noble effort, but Khan seems like the type of guy who likes to be left alone, contributing to the world as best he can. Spending time at TED would just slow him down.
The knowledge that there are a great group of Ladies in some place can attract a powerful group of men, so we end with a crowded place, the next day everyone is looking for some more relaxed place to contact with someone interesting.
Yeah, I quite like Taiko as well. It's more dry and expansive - it covers a few leaders throughout an era, as opposed to Musashi that has one main character and 2-3 important supporting characters.

Did you know any Japanese history before reading Taiko? I did, and enjoyed it a lot. I wonder if it'd be too much for someone with no historical background before reading it though? It covers a lot of ground.
As a British Citizen Hong Kong is perhaps an idea, six month entry stamp no hassle. Perhaps buying a shelf company there, I think personal income tax is 15%? I know most taxes there are fairly low. If you do check out Lamma Island as a potential place to stay.

Otherwise, Cambodia is a pretty good shout, 1 year business visa costs about $300 (multientry) (no paperwork). That's the best visa I know of in Asia.
I'm a fifth generation Detroiter and have lived in MI my entire life. The people are like nowhere else. In my many travels, despite the state's troubles, I haven't met anyone who has left who doesn't want to come back if they could.

I think there is hope for converting large swaths of Detroit to farmland and reinventing the city. As I am fond of saying any idea that has among its supporters both Barack Obama and Rush Limbaugh just has to happen ;<).
Python `select` module - well explained step by step
I read many of Hesse's books. I liked his "Journey to the East" - a really interesting statement on leadership through service.
I'm not a coder/hacker/tech person and largely ignorant of the issues that are being discussed in this post. But, I'm curious: is some of this similar to the (mostly light-hearted) tension I've seen in my personal life between physicists and engineers?
+1 for Shogun and Tai Pan.
Not necessarily. Timeless implies that time has no effect on it - it remains as important as it was when it was first invented. For instance, I'd say Euclid's work was timeless. Freud's work is permanent. It had a permanent impact on the field of psychology, but had to be built upon by other people to be effective.
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We used to do that, when I was a comp sci grad student in the 1970s.

And that still happens... in grad school.

I am confused by this essay - I'm not sure what his main point is. I'm going to guess it's "we're not doing enough computer science." But his example for this being the case is a conference focused on startups, which is a complete non-sequitur to me. It's like sitting in a biology lecture and wondering why these people aren't doing more physics.
i've been using filcan (http://www.filcancommunications.biz/) for the last three years. they've done everything from data entry to data collection to telephone research for me. they're based in the philippines. pricing is around $6/hour.
If he wants to decline the offer, we should give him the opportunity to do so, not do it for him.

Edit: sorry if that sounded crabby. I haven't eaten lunch yet.
Don't try working from Brazil; I tried doing it, but I just spend the whole year going out, partying and the beach. Never got any work done, but was the best year of my life.
How is it sustainable if it has to be redefined every few years? How is it sustainable if it will need to be turned into a welfare program resulting in all the money many of us have put into it not being returned at all?
I haven't read the fictional works of Musashi, but his own warrior manual "The Book of Five Rings" is quite good, like "The Art of War". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Five_Rings
Not really.

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Graphic/2008/03/29/...

http://www.lesjones.com/www/images/posts/singles2ql8.jpg
Because the copyright has expired, or the copyright owner has put the work in the public domain due to bankruptcy, or similar.
> you could be sitting on an IP subnet where someone else has been scraping Google

Unlikely, I'm in the sticks, most people here are old and wouldn't know a mouse from a keyboard

> or a worm has been sending automated queries to Google.

That would have to be a linux based worm then. Unless that suspected worm is sitting on another IP of course.

Do you want me to try to make it reproducible ? I'd happily spend the time if it would help to make this problem go away. I understand how hard it is to differentiate between bots and regular users, but you should be able to pick up the difference between your own toolbar in normal use situations and a bot.

And if that's not the case then either the battle is 'lost' or it might be better to simply only let the toolbar query the google servers when explicitly asked to do so.
Summarizing the post is nine lines long, at the core is this quote from Eleanor Roosevelt:

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Now my question is: the value of this quote is in the person who wrote it or in its content?

Great mind are great in a narrow sense. When you examine the lives of people with great minds you discover that the greatness is not so great. For example Newton did some experiments by diving a hole in his eyes, Fisher was in jail and a never ending story of miserable lifes for great people.
This is one of the two (IIRC) recommended in 4 hr workweek.

I've just signed up, I'll let you if they're good in a month.
And I wouldn't call it dysfunctional to not make it easy for people to be downloading all kinds of software for production systems.

If only we felt the same way about letting people write their own software for production systems...