skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't we have a fairly decent conversation regarding this idea less than a day ago, "Selling pickaxes during a gold rush"? [1]

I agree, however this is only a short term strategy. Soon, the gold rush will be over and there will be an abundance of pickaxes on the second hand market. Case in point, so called "dark fiber", or the unused infrastructure expansions of the early dot-com bubble.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2183207
Explain further?
If you're that worried about having to camp out because of some larger plan then perhaps try camping on a weekend before that other plan comes into play.

Really, there isn't much to it. You need a place to sleep and a way to cook.

Easiest for sleeping is a tent and a sleeping bag. The tent is mostly for keeping the elements (rain) and bugs out. The rain is the big thing. As for insects, the most problematic is mosquitoes. If there were lots of mosquitoes but no rain then you could just throw a sleeping bag on the ground and get a mosquito net.

For food, you could go as simple as buying a bunch of MRE's and you wouldn't have to worry about cooking at all. You could eat canned goods right out of the can, that also requires no cooking.

Otherwise you need to build a fire and throw some things on the grill. To do that you need to read up on building a campfire. If you want to prepare ahead for this you might have to bring some wood (some places sell campfire bundles) with you. I have always built my fires from wood scavenged in the local area, but you might not always have that option (you might need to bring an axe!)

To store the food you need to grab a cooler (or multiple coolers,) fill it up with ice and food. When the ice melts you need to get more ice, so locate a place nearby which sells ice.

Plan B: Opt out and get a hotel close by. ;)
Looking at how much has changed in 30 years in desktop publishing, imagine what laborious aspects of web development will be automated over the next 30 years.

While some people may say that arranging the layouts of paper publications by hand can allow for some more personal styles, the time saved from software yields a generally superior end product, making it a no-brainer. I too look forward to being freed from the shackles of hand coding CSS. WYSIWYG, you have some catching up to do!
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> Perhaps in a hundred years, the cognitive gap will be so large that there will be little meaningful interaction between the two groups.

Eloi and Morlocks
Even if you believe that China's output is now approaching parity with the US ... is it not reasonable to ask at what point they're going to start buying some of our stuff in return?

They have bought 20% of the US Debt...

Edit: 20% of the US debt owned by foreign countries
This seems like a lot of hand-waving to try to justify outrageous situations like those on Wall Street getting huge bonuses via government handouts; no one begrudges athletes and celebrities their money, they are paid by the market.
Must be more to it than that.

If it was possible to get a good tablet (of any size) to consumers cheaper than Apple, someone would have. Maybe this project started out with your assumptions and ended up with (possibly unsellable) $800 device.
I am! I've been fixing up my side project, www.bookshrink.com, which I recently submitted here and got a bunch of feedback on. What project are you working on?
Quick tip: increase the line-height on the 2nd page header (e.g. "Are the steelers the Super Bowl Champs?")

On latest Chrome on OS X, the text looks too cramped.

http://webdesign.about.com/od/examples/l/bl_css_line_spacing...
Thanks for saying what I wanted to. Everybody who knows nothing about physics always brings up the "humans can't possibly travel faster than 25mph" thing when someone who does know talks about violating causality, but as far as I've seen it was only printed in a newspaper or two, not espoused by physicists. The speed of light limitation is a necessary part of one of the most precise and thoroughly tested theories of all time.
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It also misses a lot of chinese industry. It's somewhat harder to track the business operations of a Chinese army owned construction company than a US NYSE listed engineering firm.

In $ terms there is also a big gap. The Boston big dig costs $22Bn, while a similar project undertaken by chinese army conscripts is likely to cost 1/100 of that, it doesn't mean that the US industry is 100x bigger or better - just 100x as expensive
if you want to use my attorney Joey from Fortis he's very good about controlling fees--especially with first time entrepreneurs.

Tell him I sent you.
http://www.fortisgc.com/joey_m_tran.html

1. In terms of deal structure you should let them make an offer--always. There is no reason to "negotiate against yourself."

2. You would do well to find a second bidder on the project/your services. Nothing like the marketplace to set the best terms for a deal.

3. I'd also select three or four angels or VCs you like and "ask them for advice." You never know, maybe your side project could be something much, much bigger and you're giving away the farm.
I do something similar, but I keep the "central" repository in another location on the server and pull from that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
Yes, sadly our version of "rugby" features lots of standing around, pads, and helmet-induced concussions. Are you gearing up for the Rugby World cup in your backyard this year?
Working on personal projects tonight. Nothing that'll make me money directly but it's enhancing my skill set.

Don't have the game on in the background even, no tv reception. It simplifies life quite a bit.
Agreed. I'm currently running a site over at http://readthedocs.org/ which is meant to be your one-stop shop for Sphinx documentation. It has most of the big python projects on it, and hopefully as sphinx gets more popular, it will attract others as well. For example, we are mirroring the Varnish docs.

We also had a kick-ass designer help us on it, so the site actually looks rather pretty.

I've had a number of people tell me that RTD has been something that has spurred them to write documentation, so I'm really happy with the results thus far.
Then that shows that the US industrial output is bigger. That's why Germany makes $50,000 cars and Mexico makes $15,000 ones
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I could probably get one made... Is there a semi-official logo? I know it would be of limited interest, but it might make sense in the long tail...
See also: Phoenix.
All You Want to Know About a Term Paper Software.
Many tools have been developed to make the writing of term papers easy. These tools are called term paper software. As there is much term paper software available online, students need to know how to define each one so that selecting one suitable for them will be easy.
Well, Ruby has Rake (http://rake.rubyforge.org/), and Python has SCons (http://www.scons.org/) or Waf (http://code.google.com/p/waf/), and as others here have mentioned there is redo (https://github.com/apenwarr/redo or http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201012#14).
The San Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert still do this today. This BBC clip on persistence hunting (narrated by David Attenborough!) is worth a watch; their endurance is absolutely incredible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
Interesting about shingled writes ... I wonder if a hybrid flash/hard drive with 16-48GB of flash on board would solve the issues with the minimum write block size?
$40 is low. $40 x 2,080 hours a year = $83,200

That would be $70k in salary with about $10k+ in benefits.

So, it's sounds like a good deal for the company... but not a horrible deal for you. You could get more, but make your decision on how great the company is to work with.
No, but then I don't understand the imperial incentive, even here on Earth. I'm a fairly self-centered individual, and a lazy one at that... and as far as I can see, running an empire always seems to be more trouble than it's worth. The whole history of the twentieth century can be written in terms of the world's great powers discovering this little tidbit of truth. I believe the first few decades of the twenty-first will see the US experiencing the same global comedown that Russia, Germany, and Britain have already undergone.

Fortunately, the loss of its empire is a process that always seems to leave the nation in question better off, at least in modern times. As I see it the only possible justification for total galactic conquest is self-defense: do unto others before they can do unto you, more or less as you put it. Any advanced civilization that doesn't see that as a self-defeating justification is so different from my way of thinking that I couldn't possibly deal with them on any terms, offensive or otherwise.

Basically, what you're saying is that the only way to survive and prosper in the Universe is to be a murderous, psychopathic douchebag on a galactic scale. Not down with that, sorry.
> I will never understand why people seem so intent and boasting about the number of hours they work each week.

Agreed. And generally the smarter you work, the less time and energy it takes. To wit:

"I worked 80 hours this week hand-rolling a web server from scratch in pure assembly!"

"Yeah, well I did it in C in 50 hours!"

"I did it in Python and only had to work 25 hours."

"I used an existing web server and just wrote a static HTML page. Worked 4 hours."

"I posted an article to a blogging service and then used MailChimp and another SaaS for the other little bits I needed. Worked 2 hour this week."

"I directed somebody else to do it and paid them. Worked 30 minutes. Delegation, baby."

"I'm the owner and am catching rays on the beach. No work this week. Still got paid."
I can't say I'm the coder you are, but I know what it's like to have lackluster design skills.

Accept that you suck at design and start copying. Find sites that you like, and recreate the elements that catch your eye. If your experience is anything like mine, you will wind up with a look that's worse than what you're borrowing from, but it will be better than what you would have done on your own. In the process you get to see why things look good or bad. Note that I don't mean snagging CSS and images, I mean actually recreating the elements from scratch.

Do that lots of times, and eventually you go from sucky to decent. Not sure how to get from decent to good.
No thank you, drop the price $500, then we're talking.
At IO 2009 there was a talk about integrating Mercurial into code.google.com project hosting. As I recall it was referred to as the "first" DVCS to be integrated because its requirements lined up nicely with Google's existing infrastructure. It was implied that other DVCS's would be considered for integration in the future.
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I read it more as being a mistake on Oracle's part and van Zyl expecting some kind of quid pro quo to fix it. I don't think van Zyl actually caused this or anything. It seems to me to be more indicative of van Zyl being an opportunist trying to get something out of fixing a mistake. After all, if this were some kind of diabolical plot, you'd imagine that van Zyl would ask for more than the location of some servers.

UPDATE: According to tweets in another comment, I'm wrong and van Zyl did cause this. I'm still inclined to attribute this to incompetence rather than malice though.
I think that he meant that the Linux tools were faster because the Linux kernel devs also use them and contribute back to those projects in an effort to improve their own build times. (i.e. if make was slowing down the kernel build times, then some kernel devs would either build something else or improve make)
What about using git to backup an entire hard drive? Maybe using bitbucket (or github if you don't mind sharing your data with the world).

Living on the cloud has never been so easy :-D
Exactly. Not to mention that it doesn't even include forked repositories in your profile.

For example, I've got commit rights to repositories living on other people's profiles, I use my company's Organization profile to publish open-source software and I use my personal profile only when I'm working on patches for others (fork -> push -> pull request -> delete)...

...and my resume generated using this tool is just rubbish.
Mostly watching the commercials...
Some of us just weren't born with the sports-watching gene. You'd have to pay me, and pay me well, to watch the SuperBowl or any other TV sports (they're all equally tedious, in my eyes). And, in answer to your probable question, no I'm not female or gay.
These ads seem to have been engineered from the start to stir up controversy, which in turn will generate more mentions of Groupon in the news cycle and on the web. While I can appreciate the perspective that any press is good press, marginalizing these very real issues in the world to hock your product is just wrong and soulless. They could have easily invented hilarious fictitious issues and achieved a far less offensive message.
Definitely working on my blog.
Ok, so I would love to find something like Yard but focused around web service APIs. Anyone know of anything like that?
Ah, sarcasm on the Internet: got me again.
I'm working on setting a new layout for thingist (the current one [http://thingist.com] looks terrible).

The new layout is here: http://dev.thingist.com/index.html nothing here will work properly, though, and it will probably blip in and out of actually working (it's a staging server [well, a virtual one]).
AFAIK, Apple's supply chain is not only legendary, but they'll commit huge amounts of capital to new hardware products in advance. This allows them to more or less own the output of a given supplier's factory, forcing other companies to pay spot prices for their follow-on products.
In philosophy this is called the problem of identity over time. A ship is taken apart, piece by piece. Then the pieces are used to build two separate ships. One ship has the original nameplate; the other has the original sailors. Which is the original ship?
I am pretty sur iSuppli's numbers are not accurate. Apple has the money to buy in quantity that Mortorola cannot match. I also think that Apple's COO has overseen the building of a world-class supply chain. Plus having a successful retail chain that can feature your product is a huge advantage. The iPod experience shoul show that price is not going to be an easy thing to beat Apple in for consumer electronics.
Mint.com consolidates ones financial accounts and information from several websites. These websites, of course, belong to banks and other financial institutions. Naturally, Mint.com needs the login credentials for those sites. Therefore, a hashed & salted password is useless; Mint needs to store the username & password in plaintext.

Here's some more information: http://fourthcheckraise.blogspot.com/2011/01/might-cost-you-...
A Feather in Google's Hat! Maybe Google should honour him in some way.
That puts things in perspective, doesn't it? There are buzzworthy languages and there are languages the rest of the world uses to get things done.
Super What now?

Oh, you mean that new-commercial showcase everybody talks about? Most of them were on YouTube yesterday.
http://themeforest.net
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No. If he had started something about Oracle, what would have happened to Oracle? Some redditors and HNers would seize the opportunity to complain about how horrible Oracle is and then everyone would forget about it a few days later. On the other hand, what would have happened to Kawaguchi? Some potential employer could see him complaining publicly about one of his former employers and decide that it's a bad idea to hire him.

In all, there's little good that would come out of it and a ton of risk for Kawaguchi.
I'm hacking my pantry. Right now, making chicken stock by using leftover carcasses from whole chickens that I cut-up myself in the last few months. Will freeze the stock to keep it up to 3 - 4 months and during that time can cut-up some more chickens to use in the next cycle. The stock is very simple to make and involves mostly inactive cook time (3-4 hrs simmering) and it teaches you to work with whole chicken rather than cut-up parts, making it more economical. And, it makes your house smell wonderfully delicious :)
It's a good point. Their end-to-end supply chain assumes carriers are the end customer. I'm guessing some of the price inflation assumes some kind of subsidy from the carrier.
I think the Pepsi Max commercials are a bit tacky too.
As someone who originally came from python and recently learned rails (well, still in the process) using the official docs and the railsbook I have to say: Sorry but yes, the Rails docs (at least the ones I have found) are poor in comparison.

And it gets only worse when you look beyond Rails; documentation in the ruby realm (gems et al) is almost always lacking in quantity and underwhelming in quality to a former pythonista.

Admittedly it's a bit of an unfair comparison, considering python docs are - on average - the best I've ever seen. And considering python is a bit easier to document formally due to less magic in the language.

But it's also a mindset thing.
Python has doc-strings and doc-test baked right into the language. Sphinx and epydoc are so ridiculously good, it's not funny.

On the ruby side documentation seems more like an afterthought. RDoc itself is poorly documented (oh the irony!), and the only tool to bake readable output from it (YARD) is a fairly recent invention. I haven't found an equivalent to sphinx, yet.

The obsession that the python community applies to documentation seems to be spent on testing-tools in the ruby camp. This is, however, a rather unfortunate choice of priorities when you look at the (lack of) documentation for even the most popular testing tools (e.g. RSpec)...
Leerooooooy Jenkins!
Too funny. I could see a recruiter asking him how many years of professional C programming experience he has:

Ken: "Uh... 37 years?"

Recruiter: "Liar!"
Hmm, I have never noticed that big of a discrepancy. It seems fairly accurate for my sites. Even when my web app got 8000 hits in a few hours I was able to see them in near realtime. In my experience if the count is off, it can't be off by much.
Yep, same here. I wonder why more people don't do it, my fabric scripts basically push to production and then fabric logs in and updates, restarts services, etc.
It's worth noting that part of the wage of lawyers and accountants is monopoly rent extracted by strict licensing requirements that put hurdles in the way of potential competitors. It doesn't matter if you can pass the bar or the accountancy exams, most states will require that you also get a college (or post-college) degree.

Credentialism keeps competitors and innovation out of fields like medicine, accounting, law, and taxi services, maintaining high prices and high wages.
There's degrees of launches. If you're going for a limited soft launch, just tell your friends, prevent indexing via robots.txt and limit expectations on the site. And don't post it here ;)
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One Australian political blog targeted by activists -- but several suffer
I think it's not the tradeperson; it's assembly line worker. Skilled tradesmen like carpenters, welders, plumbers, electricians, etc are doing great. Those who worked on an assembly line are being phased out - those who welded, assembled, pushed the button, snapped together, etc are being replaced by improved technology.
Disclosure: I run the Ozblogistan network which hosts several of the blogs affected by this spat.

Related links:

http://clubtroppo.com.au/2011/02/06/troppo-bullied-by-corpor...

http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2011/02/05/of-secondary-boycotts...

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=11583&p...
Fidonet did depend on some dialup connnections, though. These connections were controlled by the phone company.
I'll second the suggestion to take a look at tup -- it is based on some really good, clear-headed foundational thinking about how to make incremental builds fast, plus the implementation looks good (though I have only tried it out on experimental toy setups, and it is still pretty new, so who knows).

Regarded the specifically cited point of including dependencies on compilation flags, unless I am confused, I believe it can be done much more quickly in standard make, in one of two ways:

First way: make the build path of the object file dependent on the build flags. This has zero performance penalty, and also has the nice side-effect that when changing flags (e.g., from release to debug build and back again), you don't have to recompile everything, because you still have the previous build sitting around.

Second way: store the build flags in a separate makefile snippet (which you can either include or get the value of using $(shell)), and add that as a dependency of the object files. This has minimal performance impact since it's just another normal dependency for the object files. (This second trick is from one of the articles linked to about redo posted a few days ago; sadly I don't recall exactly which.)
...Are you stalking me?
One more point... You seem to be at the same point as me with my 'project' (I loathe calling everything a startup) and keep coming up with more ideas. Resist temptation! Have the core idea out there as a site that at least _some_ people can try out, so that you're getting outside feedback to validate your concept. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for function.

Now if only I could listen to my own advice.
I'm sure stuff like that play a part.

But, iphones have been out for a while. Long enough for new factories to be set up, old factories to increase capacity, contracts to run out... Should be long enough for things to catch up. Why are iphone's best competitors still about the same price or more?
Never have - never will ... The second commercial was equally bad.
I use it, and is wonderful
I have zero interest in football (and its not really football anyways ;)
Or, maybe it's happening and you're just not seeing it.
I noticed that there seems to be no easy way for Haskell programmers to use bcrypt, so I made something similar, with the goal of making good security trivial. It's just a slick API around PBKDF1, with painless support for increasing the number of iterations:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pwstore-fast

Now I've just got to persuade a few people to switch away from insecure methods.
Engineers do fine.

It's the line workers in factories and people in service jobs that have gotten screwed. It used to be that you could make a steady middle-class income as a factory worker, airline stewardess, or retail clerk. Not so much now. Tradespeople and professionals have done okay because they have marketable skills that accrue to their person, but people whose only assets are owned by their employers haven't done so well.
thanks for the advice guys. Good thing my site is already designed around a lot of the questions asked on the app. I'm working on a project that i believe will bring e-learning to the next level. If anyone's interested in working together please feel free to contact me:)
Already boycotting, and recommending other alternatives to my friends. Nice of them to remind me that it's the the right thing to do.
Sometimes it's hard to cheer for sports teams when you see the havoc their fans wreak. I used to think Chicago had it bad, but I have since learned that we're actually pretty tame when it comes to sports riots (at least until the Cubs finally win).

Reference: Montreal.
Considering the person is of some renown, She could have hired an attorney and had a nice amount of money from Facebook.

I'm thinking of $1 million damages, with $100 million putative for not having an access to challenge and dispute these kinds of identity theft and character assassination.

So my question... Why wasn't "Lawyer Up" the first thing she thought of?
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