skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tar is actually

tar [args] [list of things]

where [args] may contain [-f filename], among other things.

That is, the destination filename is an optional argument; by default tar outputs to a tape device or stdout, depending on the implementation.

At least in GNU tar, the target filename can very well be specified as the last argument:

tar -c foo.txt bar.txt baz.txt -f stuff.tar
when I noticed that I was messing up when using ln, I started thinking this way:
"write what you already know first, so you have time to think about what you'll write next

"what you already know" being the existing file and the second part being the name of the link to the existing file.

I never got it wrong again.
Judging from the sibling responses, it would appear that I live a grammatically sheltered life.
Meebo is hiring sysadmins!

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Telling your counterparty that you're about to get on a plane to meet them is one way to qualify a deal: they may tell you not to.

A bizdev friend of mine taught me another: reschedule a call to a Saturday (make up a reason). If it's a serious deal... like, "you're going to be Powerpoint in our office suite"... they'll bitch, but do it.

Sometimes these things are about followup, but a lot of times they're really about qualification; they may just not be into you. It can be important to know that if you're otherwise going to spin your wheels.
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The ISDC (http://www.isdc.unige.ch/) is looking for two system administrators in Geneva, Switzerland (telecommuting not possible). It's a data centre/research institute with about 50 scientists and exactly two sysadmins, both of whom are leaving very soon. You'll be doing everything from running 150 varied servers to advising on storage/compute architecture to 1st line helpdesk how-to-send-an-email/i-can't-print support. Most people are nice, with one notable and permanently-installed exception. Check out the links on the website for more information, and/or email me (address in profile) for more (honest) details.

Swiss or European candidates preferred (because there's red tape that takes time to cut and they need someone a.s.a.p) but strong candidates of other nationalities will be considered.
There's many reasons why you would use multiple GPS. I'm sure Woz was being Woz and testing which works the best by flat out competing them against each other and his own knowledge.

Plus I remember having a GPS tell me I was at my destination in downtown Manchester when we were actually 5km from the street address. I had another tell me to perform a U-turn on a one way street when I missed a turn that didn't exist.

I don't see it as odd, I'm sure at once one time he was carrying 10 cell phones to see which ones he actually wanted to keep. IIRC he said he usually keeps an iPhone and a Blackberry on him at all times, which I'd imagine would be his main pair, beyond that he'd probably simply be testing newer phones or different styles to see if they're better.
I'm assuming thats a coincidence. I cannot imagine Visa's payment processing infrastructure is coupled to its web infrastructure in any way. That would be monumentally bone headed.
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This is a weird subject because it is totally dual sided.

1) It promotes freedom of speech and taking action as a community to promote change.

2) It is completely illegal which goes against the laws and freedoms they are trying to promote.

Right Idea - Wrong Method
That's a valid opinion, but I can't say I agree (and I imagine you would be surprised if I did).

There are plenty of reasons why Objective-J is a good idea, but the single most important one in terms of readability is the structure it adds.

There are so many different ways to do the most basic things in JavaScript that reading or sharing code between authors (often even within a project) can be a nightmare. There are lots of times where it really doesn't matter, but when you are writing large scale applications, which often run in the tens or hundres of thousands of lines of code, it makes a big difference.
Essentially what you're saying is that WikiLeaks should adopt or would even benefit from a policy of strong-arming people into compliance so that it can further the cause against evil governments that strong-arm people into compliance.
Ask thought problems, how would you do this and why. Even ask real problems that you're facing.

Another really good indicator is whether someone can teach themselves a skill or talent. Did a business major learn programming on his own? Does a programmer read about business and gain a grasp of the subject?

I always value 'doers' far more than 'thinkers' is someone willing to take action to fix a problem, not just think about it and then ask permission out of fear of being wrong. If someone has a highly analytical mind with developed problem solving abilities there are few problems they can't overcome.

Another that I don't think people focus on much is, does this person's personality meld with mine and the rest of the team. In a startup you're going to be spending a ton of time with them, it's far more enjoyable and stress free if everyone gets along.
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The arguments are in order they appear. i.e. alias_method :alias, :method

But yeah, it's weird that it's opposite of ln.
Basically: http://www.amazon.com/Micro-SIM-Cutter-Converter-adapters/dp...

Some cutters actually do a better job, since they create a "holder" that can be used to fit the nub back into an old-type slot. Otherwise, there's pre-made ones.
I feel the same way.

WikiLeaks (truth and openness in general) has the potential to create trust. But breaking trust to protest doesn't help. Illegality is probably less important if the act of protest is "right".

WikiLeaks denies engaging in civil disobedience - but there is a contrast between non-violent WikiLeaks and "violent" retaliation. WikiLeaks is the underdog, and they will not win by suppression or coercion. Even if these DDOS attacks are only meant as a protest, there has to be a better way to gain attention for the important issues.

At best, it's a distraction, at worst it plays into being labeled as terrorists.
He can't influence the part that was out of his control, though, while he could indeed have influenced the part that was in his control: Give them a call when you haven't heard from them in a month. Even though that obviously doesn't make the acquisition a certainty (obviously), it's doing the best you could do at the time, so you don't have to kick yourself over it later.

In short, if he had called them, the post would be "Google moved to acquire me, but it fell through. The end."
Hm, how did "for slightly less money" morph into "you don't ask for money for what you do"?
I'm sure it's the US government! Or... not.

Turns out that DDoS is a dime a dozen today, they don't necessarily mean anything.
"to" is an entity that doesn't exist yet.
The attack on MC supposedly took down SecureCode affecting those payments... Seems like Visa's equivalent, Verified by Visa is still up:

https://verified.visa.com/aam/data/default/landing.aam?partn...
That's what I would have intuitively thought. But I swear it worked the other way sometimes!
We use Bitpusher as our vendor for sysadmin/ops at Posterous. They're a great group of people to work with, and they get to see a lot of different environments since they specifically specialize in working with startup ops.

http://bitpusher.com/careers.php

On the engineering/development side we're hiring for dev-ops / infrastructure engineers who love to scale.

http://posterous.com/jobs
(Disclaimer: I work on SimpleGeo Context) Context can pinpoint a lat/lon to the Longhorns' football stadium or the UT campus: https://gist.github.com/11e86c689cca9f65bc3d We have tons of hyper-local boundaries indexed including museums, parks, churches, etc.
This is purely intellectual curiosity, but does anyone have those tarballs?
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Which Skype makes local.
Logic gates made to program bacteria as computers
I wonder how much money Visa and Mastercard have to lose before they regret their decision.

For the attackers, instead of positioning the DDOS attack as revenge, you should give them as an easy-out. Stop blocking wikileaks and we'll stop the DDOS. Since Visa/Mastercard are loosing millions of dollars for each hour they are down, it would turn the issue into a simple business decision and they could change their position without losing face.
I think MasterCard/Visa is just a nail to 4chan's hammer, is all. DDoSing is all they know how to do (except exposure of personal details for public harrassment).

That said, I'm sitting back with my popcorn here. I just imagine guys in some boardroom saying, "4 what now?" Heh.
Given the timing of Air Canada's withdrawal from the project and the Great Recession, which has played merry havoc with air travel, I don't think that's what happened.

Especially since ITA is still working on RES. Which is only "1/3" Common Lisp (web based front end is Java centric, back end is Oracle RAC, stateless middleware is mostly but not entirely Lisp).
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I gotta say hearing about things not going one's way is more informative and educational than hearing about when things all go peachy and a founder walks out with $X million. If you only read TC you'd think every startup in the world is cashing in.
In this case, the key corresponds to the filename containing the migration statements.

Further, consider if your company had three deployments of your product. One for bleeding edge testing, one for staging/QA, and live. You'd want the schema version to be consistent across all three schemas.
If you guys mostly have CS background you should definitely check this out :
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

It's Data Mining from a statistician point of view. You can download the entire book for free on the website and the graphs and computations are done with R.

This book is also one of Hal Varian's favourites:
http://www.dataspora.com/blog/sexy-data-geeks/
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Is that a serious question? They're trying to show Visa that there are quite a lot of people who are very upset with them for booting Wikileaks.

It may be asinine, but many political demonstrations are.
Which is fair enough, no?

Surely organising a DDOS attack is illegal?
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My theory is that we're used to see symlinks as part of the "ls -l" output, which lists the link name first, and then the target. Later, we want to create symlinks as we're used to see them (linkname -> target).
There's another point of view on this story, which is, shortly put, "we don't negotiate with terrorists".
That group would be Anonymous, in all of its gossamer affiliation. The idea of another group using 4chan/Anonymous as a front for its own goals seems needlessly complicated. "Anonymous" does all of this for Scientologists and cat abusers, why not Mastercard?
Indeed, as I remember setting some payment stuff up at my parents business a while back-- you can get a gateway setup that uses their web interface to process transactions.

That was a while back, but maybe they have legacy systems.

Either way, they are loosing money one way or another =/
> When the tools to enact change become so large that no one person can build a product (whether that be a vehicle, or a desktop computer), there will be someone warning that our dependence on technology is increasing.

That's not correct, vehicles are regularly made from beginning to end by a single person (the Ferrari Way). I think what you mean is that an average person can no longer be expected to construct 9/10ths of what we believe we use during a day. (I'd argue you use a chair, which is still easily constructed, far more than you use a computer or a television. Our arses basically migrate from chair, to chair, to bed.)
WikiLeaks payment service threatens to sue Visa, MasterCard
Open letter to software pirates: Please review our games.
Let's keep this simple - No.
If you don't need the money, ask for equity. Depending on the school and the code of conduct you might even be able to get course credit as independent study. I did something very similar to that my senior year for a medical startup, just on the hardware side instead of software. I got credit for it by integrating it within a design course as my semester project.
Not absurd. Whatever device you wish to place your “new” MicroSIM card into likely came with a MicroSIM card.
I just tried that link and it timed out. Perhaps its intermittent?
ask for forgiveness, not for permission. If it isn't interesting people will not vote it, and if it is inappropriate the poeple will let you know.
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Well, whilst now a startup only in attitude rather than size, OpenMarket (formerly MX Telecom) is looking specifically for ops folk in the UK at the moment.

If you're based around London and want to get involved in a small but deadly ops team building out the global infrastructure for the UK & US's biggest mobile service provider (everything and anything to do with SMS/MMS/Voice/Video telephony, mobile payments and hosted applications), then please get in touch.

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SurveyMonkey in Palo Alto, CA.

http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=q7X9VfwS&...

Feel free to email me - timc at surveymonkey - if you have any questions about the role.
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But you can also do

cp [args] -t [destination folder] [list of things]

The same is true of mv. This is useful if you are piping filenames to xargs.
I work at beyond full time at a start-up cranking out code and putting out fires (~10am-7pm+). Then I come home and crank out more code on a project I'm working on (~7pm-1am+).

There are just a ton of things to research/play nowadays. I feel like I'm constantly playing catch-up with things I need and want to know.

Do people get to play with new tech at work? Should I be pushing for more hours to try something new at work?
Thats why i quit making colorful pictures for "blind" people with small pockets long time ago.
Time (effort spend) to return (money) equation is terrible.
Its shameful that todays perception on web design is PSD layered file.
Web design is a process of communication of an idea/marketing concept to a consumer.
Web design is UX thinking.
Than:
Web design is UI doing.
Than:
Web design is a illustration.

I don't see how the Client will perceive this low price PSD oriented service with less expectations.
The price is so low that its not serious, it's a joke.

Advice:

Make some sassy layouts, put them online in portfolio section. Than put up your price per hour.
Give a client full service, feedback, comments on their ideas, professional advice etc.

But:
Value in web design is not in pictures. It is in successful conceptualization of your professional view on clients problems.

Years ago i stop offering cool pictures, and start learning more about technology in front-end (html.css.js), UX, marketing, communication with customer and now i perceive the web design process as a whole of many valuable parts.

If you are in desperate position, do some freelancing or get a routine job and invest in your self in your spare time:))
RIM shows PlayBook tablet, will not undercut iPad in price
I did undergrad degrees in both CogSci and CompSci. Both have been virtually irrelevant to me in my software development career so far. Both were valuable to me for reasons of self-actualization. I would advise you to do what you find personally valuable.

I would not say that CompSci "stifles creativity", nor even that it ignores web development entirely (although that's a murkier point, and mobile is too new for most universities to teach it, which is just how it goes). But I would say that the overlap between what universities know how to teach, and what is relevant to working software development (in emerging areas and in well-travelled areas) is very small indeed, perhaps a few percent of each.

When advising my lead on a hire/no-hire decision, I would give absolutely no weight to the degree or lack thereof, and would give weight to a combination of 1) real experience, and 2) my (flawed and subjective) judgement of intelligence and skills.

All that said, apparently some companies still value the piece of paper. I think there are three levels of degree-ness from those companies' perspective: correct degree (cmpt, eng, maybe math), other degree(english lit, archeology), no degree. And I think that those companies will see a CogSci degree as virtually equivalent to a History degree: "Oh, I guess he's got a degree, so that's nice, but the content of the degree is not what we might hire him for".

Does anyone take academic HCI seriously in industry?
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Who's the terrorist in this situation? Its wrong to immediately put Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and other related parties into the "right" side and to put the people behind the DDoS attacks into the "wrong" side. They are not victims, but instead are attacking Wikileaks by cutting off their ability to get funds. Who's right in this situation?
Am I the only one for whom this seems like a case of mass fail in reading comprehenson? Did anyone actually read the letter?

Nowhere in the letter does the State Department say that what Wikileaks is doing is illegal. They use ambiguous and misleading language to imply that but in effect they just keep stating that the original leaker broke the law. If anything, by omission of a direct claim of illegality, this letter is confirmation by the State Department that what Wikileaks did was in fact, TOTALLY LEGAL.

Of course, given that PayPal routinely suspends accounts for absolutely no reason at all we can hardly be surprised if they suspend this one. They've always done this and nobody expects more of them.
4chaners do it because: a) They can b) It correlates with their vision of justice
These companies have already indicated their policy can be strong-armed (ie. "The Justice Department threatened us."). This does show, at the very least symbolically, that their willingest to cave will bring an arm coming the other way.
Not a real group so much as whoever wants in, is in, on a per-effort basis; a movement is spearheaded by an individual or two and each so-called member spontaneously decides whether to participate or not. “Anonymous” is hardly a group or organization, any more than the IRC channel for your favorite framework. A weak analogy is whenever Redditors decide to contribute to a certain cause or user. No one decided for the group, and there was no real vote, but nevertheless without the community most individuals would not have contributed.

Economist / Babbage: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/more_wikileak...
(I think he gets the definition of OP wrong, but everything else seems to jive with my non-firsthand understanding.)
This phrasing confused me more.

`$ ln -s link_from link_to` would imply the reverse behavior. How does a symlink point from the actual file to the thing-that-looks-like-a-file-but-is-really-a-symlink? The file doesn't even know whether there are symlinks pointing to it.

Applying your definitions of "link from" and "link to", this:

<a href="http://google.com/>Google</a>;

creates a link from google.com to the hyperlink on your site.

I find the top reddit comment:

cp existing new
ln -s existing new

much, much more useful. You want to create a new link pointing to an existing file, which has the same ordering as when you use cp to create a new file with the content of an existing file.
No, what it does is make companies refuse to do business with such customers in the first place.

You do anything not mainstream? Sorry, we won't accept your business.
It's not uncommon to hear "Can I bum a fag?", which translates to "Please could I have one of your cigarettes?"
reminds me of 7 minute abs... I'll release a new website called designfor14bucks.com and take all your customers!
Damn you! I avoid piano bars so that I can pretend that song doesn’t exist! ;)
No source. I just found that shampooing every day caused my hair to get really oily if I missed a single day of shampoo. After not shampooing for an entire week I went down to doing it twice a week and excess oil is no longer an issue.

I have semi-curly hair as well. Going to give no shampoo at all a shot next.
That link is down for me, actually.
It's the same as with any uprising really. You can't expect people to follow laws when they are made by the "enemy".

That so many people are willing to break the law when taking action shows how important the issue is to them. It also suggests that there is no other effective way to take action.
Copyright troll lawsuit blows up in face of Righthaven
Reminds me of a Frank Herbert story called "Committee of the Whole". It concerns an engineer who makes public the plans and method to build a super-weapon from everyday household materials - and this makes government oppression a thing of the past and forces human beings to get along.
That statement seems simultaneously accurate and unfair.

It's true that the "fault" lies with the crappy proxies, and it's true that the fault is exposed by things other than WebSockets.

But it's also true that for more companies, the Java applet plugin and the Flash plugin are the only two components that give attackers enough control over a victim's computer to coerce it into confusing the proxy. Think of them as having been grandfathered in; security teams already watch them closely (they also happen to be security nightmares).
> Andy, what I'm objecting to is the binary notion of living an absurdly pared down lifestyle versus starting a company. It's not a tradeoff.

In some cases, that is the decision that folks have to make. In others, it isn't.

It depends on lots of things, including, but not limited to what the funders are willing to do and the founders' resources.

More power to the folks for whom this isn't an issue. I think that other folks shouldn't make the decision thinking that you can't live on less than $50k in SV. I'm not saying that anyone should make that decision, I'm just pointing out that it's an option for a lot of folks who might think otherwise.
Very interesting -- I work at a very similar site in Canada as a systems administrator. We do storage/compute/processing on a vast array of archives. Reading the job description (http://www.isdc.unige.ch/documents/jobs/201010_sys_admin.txt) it looks like we are using very similar configurations. If you ever want to collaborate please drop me a note.