skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How could it be any other way? The Kindle starts with no books. People already own paperbacks. To fill up a Kindle requires buying Kindle books. To fill up a bookshelf requires nothing as most people who read already have full bookshelves.
I don't see how to permalink to comments on his page, but he does reply with the following:

"I ultimately paid for every penny of college through loans I was lucky enough to pay back. I also worked about 40 hours a week in jobs to pay my living expenses and took 6 courses a semester plus summer so I could skip a year and avoid an extra year's tuition."
"Hasn't yet figured out how to tackle" is better than "hasn't yet solved." Philosophy figures out what kind of question to ask, which then spawns a field of science which starts methodically asking and answering them.
This is circulating on twitter right now:

#egypt Anonymous dialup service provided by www.fdn.fr on +33172890150 login toto password toto MASS RT PLZ

There are a number of other numbers being posted.

EDIT: apparently Noor Dialup is still working too: 0777 7770

EDIT2: much more info on getting online in egypt: http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/howto-stay...
A knee-jerk response like this which is immediately defensive clearly shows that Karp has something to hide. Perhaps from this we can ascertain that there is some sort of internal friction with his team – perhaps some dislocation, maybe they’re overworked, or perhaps even some personal insecurity on his part.

Overanalyzing much?

1) It's a response from a 24 year old that build a web business. Considering the manners and attitude of 20-somethings in general, the surprising thing is these kind of responses don't appear more often. Building a web service people use, even a successful one at that, doesn't automatically makes you a savvy businessperson with excellent people skills.

2) Tumblr is down a lot lately (yep, understatement). It is obvious that everyone in the company is burning the midnight oil to fix this, the team is stressed and they work in panic mode. It is also evident that it is not a simple problem (for their skills/resources at least), else they would have fixed it already. So, it's understandable where the defensive tone of mr. Karps response comes from.
I am using it on Ubuntu 10.10, looks amazing, is there any way to add syntax highlighting for other languages (Go in my case)
A suggestion for Anonymous: prepare WiFi and dial-up equipment packaged as one-step setup appliances and packaged for outdoor installation. These could be used to establish some sort of information infrastructure, then abandoned in hidden locations on rooftops. Having such equipment prepared and ready to ship out would make it much harder for regimes to cut their people off from the rest of the world.

Equipment could be shipped DHL to nearby countries and smuggled in. DIY cellular and satellite uplink are also possibilities.

Packet Radio is another good possibility.

DIY cell tower:

http://kb9mwr.blogspot.com/2010/09/diy-emergency-cell-tower....

If this could be used to just support SMS over packet radio, that would still be useful.
Non-EU students pay fees in Scotland, but these are often still cheaper than full fees for top US universities. I think in Scotland the fee is between £10,000-15,000 per year, whereas EU students don't pay anything (in an odd quirk English students still pay fees, but no more than £4,000).

Related article about this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/education/01scotland.html?...
How clever a programmer are you?
Twitter provides an undocumented endpoint that returns true/false depending on your session state.

<script>
function twitterSessionsPresent(state) {
console.log(state);
}
</script>
<script src='https://api.twitter.com/sessions/present.js?callback=twitterSessionsPresent'></script>
High Burn Rates Result in Short Startup Runways
Introduction to Logic in Computing Science [pdf]
v1 supports custom syntax highlighting definitions (or you could use TextMate's since it uses the same format). I'm sure v2 has this feature also.
How does it compare to Kod?
I'm not sure Karp is actively fighting fires though... It doesn't look like he's doing much to anyway. If he's not careful those fires will destroy all he has anyway. Besides, he could have retracted what he said but he didn't - if you read the article he reiterated his point in a second e-mail a day later.
This quote shows up like canon in almost every thread that has anything to do with formally verifiable/verified software :P
Congratulations Jason!
thank you! We're excited to see zferral continue on with an awesome vision.
Yeah, the only 'shame' is that even if they embedded their TFNs, what's the worse that could happen? The laws that protect the use of the TFN would essentially make having it useless anyway.

Unlike in the US, for example, where the stories seem to imply having someones SSN means that I could essentially steal their identity. I don't know how far you would get trying to do something like that with a TFN only...
So much college discussion is based off the money you could make extra with a degree vs the amount of head start you can get joining the workforce at 18.

Past providing for my basic needs these minor differences matter very little to me, I was perfectly happy studying and getting by with low income just as I am now doing a startup on low income. Sure I could end up in a job a few years down the track and be x amount of dollars behind the theoretical person who started at 18 and worked their way up but it doesn't worry me one bit.
Without the original e-mail sent to Tumblr, it's hard to judge the appropriateness of Karp's response. Under most circumstances, it's rude to tell your customers to go away. But if a rare customer behaves abusively—particularly towards your employees or other customers—it may be the correct decision to politely decline their business.

Of course, if lots of your customers are behaving abusively, you've got bigger problems, either with the service you provide, or with the customers you've chosen to serve.
Eek. Locking the entire data set to perform transactions? Isn't that so... MyISAM? Does rolling the transaction back work? The optimistic lock is not a great solution either: instead of deadlocking while waiting for a lock to be released, you are now stuck in a while (!saved) loop. Imagine two web pages trying to update the same resource at the same time.

Also this part of the config:

save 900 1
save 300 10
save 60 10000

is not at all obvious. Maybe it's better documented in the sample config.
Yes, it is an honour to have been asked to appear. Haven't started real filming yet so I don't know what my final role will be, but I'm hoping (having talked to the writer) that this will be a good film.
NYC Big Apps Submissions
Background worker and job pricing are probably more interesting to me academically speaking. At the moment, have people been able to test those? I didn't think so, and I would think they will be more variable in their data usage.

Do you know yet what kind of restrictions/capabilities a background worker process may have? External ports/consistent URI, for example?
Huh.. so from Tesla's claim that he could efficiently transmit power thousands of miles and that he already had a remotely powered boat, we can assume that he was not so prophetic after all and maybe even fibbing a bit?
Because they had a very much blank slate after the war, when the old order was not only toppled, but ashamed and humiliated, and the old good-old-boys networks were destroyed or at least weakened.

Furthermore, the nation was hungry, not literally, but hungry for success, so they worked extra hard. The success of post-war Japan is built on the 16-hour workdays of countless salarymen. Those peculiar post-war conditions are long gone.
I'm implying that international news coverage inhibits the powers-that-be from doing super horrible things like keeping thousands of protesters in prison, or even killing thousands.

It would be nice if their neighboring countries helped them directly, but that doesn't seem to happen in the middle-east?

However if the news stops reporting, just like all the multi-national conglomerates have obediently pulled the plug on their cellphones and sms so they can make money after this is over, the people are kinda doomed as there will be no outside pressure.

I cannot remember the last time I heard Iraq mentioned on the mainstream news since we still have 50k troops there, there is zero followup.
That's an interesting point to the attachment of not having things. I might have been on that path until a previous girlfriend brought me back towards balance in the other direction. She convinced me to buy a couch and replace my plastic deck chairs. :)

I was thinking more along the lines of how people act differently with stuff. A personal example would be my dslr camera. I purposely bought the least expensive that I could get away with, but still have the basic features I wanted (used nikon d60 if you're curious). I take it everywhere and use it all the time because I don't worry about it getting broken or banged up. Obviously I'm not going to toss my camera out the window, but I'm also not going to go nuts if bangs on a rock while I'm hiking. Things are just things.

Contrast this with a friend of mine who bought a d3 (~$10k!) and a bunch of lenses that go for over $2k. He rarely ever uses the camera. It's like he's afraid to mess it up. In my mind his camera is owning him rather than him owning a camera.
Great, cudos. They just seemingly discarded the part about peer-review.
Where is the spec and the code? Given that I would believe this claim (which I don't) there has to exist means for independent third parties to verify this. Otherwise it's just a pissing contest in space.
Hence reality television, which for the most part makes viewers feel good by showing other people having a miserable time?
But not in the millions. I'd be surprised if more than 10,000 sales were to people doing "hacking" of the device.

[Not that there's much to "hack" -- all you have to do is open up streams on the thing. It just took someone to replay the initialization and grok the stream format.]
I don't understand why a programmer who is prepared to switch editors (a really big thing!) would in anyway be swayed one way or the other by $60.
ST can beat Kod feature-wise anyday
I think it's much easier to impulse buy e-books on the Kindle than it is to buy a paperback. You get instant gratification -- you see a book you want, pay for it, and you get it without having to travel anywhere.

This is especially potent if you're already reading a series; just go buy the next book in the series. Sometimes I'll find out about a book and then just grab my Kindle to get the book before I forget about it.

Instant purchase, instant gratification!
Technical Information on the seL4

Brief details:
http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/sel4/tech.pml

Extensive 187pages:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://ertos.nicta.com.au...

Paper on it:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://ertos.nicta.com.au...
You are correct. Steroids allow the user to work harder and more often.
> The filthily rich throughout history haven't exactly been the harbingers of revolution.

Most of the founding fathers of the United States were rich, you know.
>college is a place to safely transition from childhood into adulthood surrounded by peers doing the same thing

I think the transition happens after college unless one is entirely paying ones own way through college with work.
Bi quyet giup phu nu thanh cong
Các nhà khoa học Mỹ phát hiện, phụ nữ muốn thành công tại nơi làm việc cần phải tránh cư xử như đàn ông.
Peaceful revolutions are possible, and I hope you will succeed with as little bloodshed as possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_revolution_(German)
No. I have noticed a few big stories of late that cross into both business and technology (the two driving passions of the average HN user): eg, LinkedIn IPO, Eric Bergen stepping down from Google, the Goldman Sachs - Facebook - SEC discussions.

Each of these has led to multiple submissions saying, often, very similar things. In addition to some actual duping, perhaps this has added to the feeling of an increase?
The only political force that is sufficiently organized to take power in Egypt is the Muslim Brotherhood, so it's pretty obvious what is going to come out of this.
The supposed "potential problems" are fictitious.

If you wrote public answers on questions of sex, why should they be hidden? --You made your answers public intentionally and also provided the answers intentionally so others would hopefully learn from them. Additionally, you did both while knowing your name is attached to them. In other words, you want to be known both for and by your contributions.

If you did not wish to be known for and by your public contributions, then the only answer is to either not make public contributions, or go to rather extreme lengths to only make public contributions anonymously. The latter fraught with plenty of caveats to maintain anonymity correctly, so the only real answer is to only make public contributions you would want attributed to you.

Back in the 80's when Chico State was the number 1 party school in the US, recruiters would show up in droves looking to get new employees. The unstated reason was very simple; if someone could graduate from Chico, it pretty much proved the person could not only get things done but also have a really fun time doing it.

Who would you rather work with? --A fiercely academic but socially limited graduate, or the guy who can get stuff done and also do keg stands?

If I searched on your name and found your public opinions, I'd think far more of you for having the stones to make your own contributions than I would be concerned about your predilection for midget porn.

Of course, the trouble with trying to be non-judgmental and unbiased is assuming others will do the same.
"One can just as easily get involved in their community doing public service, attending shows..."

This route gets harder when all of your smart friends are gone to college.
Apologies, and it's not like I didn't know that, very sloppy of me.

edited.
As an American who worked in Australia, I can vouch that you guys (luckily) don't share our same crazy work ethic. I was practically alone in the office of a large corporation once the clock struck 4pm on a Friday. I think you'd fit in well in New York though because they have the same teasing sense of humor that I found everywhere down under.
In my experience as someone who has paid to appear in Tumblr's Directory a half-dozen times, all downtime has been pro-rated/refunded. Customer support has always been prompt and kind.
I have heard the somewhat crude expression, "If it fucks, flies, or floats, rent it."
Compressify: drag & drop JavaScript and CSS minifier/obfuscator for OS X.
The Confessions Of A Former Adolescent Puck Tease
Duplicates, but with no discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014181

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007700

Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1916943

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1607832
Egyptian Protests: Live Streams -  Al Jazeera English
Threats are most effective when you don't actually execute them but you show that you have the ability and the will to execute them.
well, I pay like only 1.5x times more for my room. just to compare our costs of living
I've been wanting something like this for ages - particularly to print ebooks and latex stuff with their huge side-margins.
The basic aim is to trim all margins and print 2 pages side-by-side (landscape).

While Briss trims the margins just fine, printing the (trimmed) document as pdf(or ps) restores the margins. (Tried on okular/evince). What gives?
It'd be better to just send a canned response. This is going to get picked up here and there and not only highlight that they aren't very nice, but also that they are having stability problems.

People are comparing this to a Jobs response? No way, this is a Tony Hayward territory (and by that, I'm not comparing the oil spill to tumblr's downtime!!)
Let's go with: nobody's a Cartesian dualist.
Sorry, "committed to peace" came from elsewhere; your words were "active in working towards regional peace". I'm not sure how these differ, but given your opposition to my previous characterization, I would be interested in hearing your views on the matter. As for "good", you implied that a propagation of Mubaraks would be a good thing. If I'm reading that wrong, again, feel free to correct me.

"I explained what offended me, but you charged through again."

I'm not sure where your offense comes from. I specified which part of your claim I was attempting to refute; I took no stance on the "Mubarak is better than the alternative" side. Certainly, there are much worse options out there. I took issue, however, with your claim that a middle east of Mubaraks would be better than the current situation. While this may or may not be true, it should not be a goal of any thinking, compassionate individual.

Feel free to contradict that, as well.
According to the first comment, the part about locking the whole data set for MULTI is not accurate. Only the connection calling that is stalled, which makes perfect sense.
Agreed 100%. You either go to school and use that money to gain knowledge, friends and life experience or you never see the money in the first place. At age 29 I STILL don't have that kind of money sitting around to invest. How would an 18 year old kid get access to it?

Also, that $10,000 for living expenses is a static cost whether you go to school or not. So the number is really somewhere closer to $64k.
A quite interesting perspective: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/2011128...
This is the NYC Contest for writing apps that use the open data that NYC provides.

Some cool entries in there, many (including mine) dealing with the health inspection reports for restaurants.
Those who do not understand Emacs are doomed to repeat it.
Google Censoring Torrent Search Suggestions: 7 Terrible Things They Don’t Censor
I hadn't considered people living in countries with much lower costs of living/wages, my apologies for making assumptions.
Tuition fees for all European countries [pdf]

http://www.cesifo.de/pls/guestci/download/CESifo%20DICE%20Re...
$60 can be, depending on where you live, a lot of money. Not everyone lives in USA where $60 is his hourly rate ...

Now I know that a text editor is programmer's basic tool, but if $60 represents one week of your salary and you are already on a tight budget, then I can see how one could not afford that.
CEO's who aren't responsible enough to use email and represent their team appropriately are easily replaced with a board vote.
Anyone qualified (high school equivalent or better) who has good enough grades to get accepted into a study program can study at Norwegian universities. Tuition is 170 USD a year.
Quite arguably one of the best text editors that I've used, It's my primary code/ text editor when i work on a windows machine. I just wish the OSX version was just as good. Looking forward to trying out this version.
This would frustrate me no-end. I'm not always at my own computer, and I change my password regularly to one to complex to remember. I don't always want to use my phone browser to login to sites I need access to.
The 'feeble humor' tag is appropriate.
Yeah damn them for giving the world an awesome free email service and then having the audacity to try and make some revenue from advertising. They should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Scratch that, they should be done for fraud.

I want my money back!!! Oh wait...
It's generally just a matter of getting your hands on a .tmLanguage file (the same format as TextMate), and putting it somewhere in your packages directory (~/.Sublime Text 2/Packages/ on Linux).

The top Go.tmLanguage reported by Google appears to be a work in progress though, I'll see if I can get something sorted for the next version - I'd like to have Go support out of the box.
I make this at my website [ http://www.tanlup.com/users/login ], but you have a password as well. In general, people will use this method if they can't remember their password. I already thought about making this the default sing on method to a website (it works great for e-commerce sites without user registration), but e-mail issues (delays, spam) and the fact that not everyone lives on their inbos (like me) changed my mind.
I thought Briss was the client app, and Mohel was server side.
* User numbers will continue to grow
* CTR for ads will jump up
* Revenue will jump up
* This'll be old news by next week and no one
will care anymore about the change

WD Google.
Just got in touch with William to ask if I could post up the original e-mail in its entirety - and he said that was fine. I've added the original email to the bottom of the article. http://postdesk.com/debates/should-tumblr-care/
Are we talking about the nominal regulations, or the way things actually ran? Cf. Chaucer, Rabelais, and the Goliardic poems for some information on the latter. Gutenberg's version of Rabelais is a very old translation, but I append a sample anyway:

Going from Bourges, he came to Orleans, where he found store of swaggering
scholars that made him great entertainment at his coming, and with whom he
learned to play at tennis so well that he was a master at that game. For
the students of the said place make a prime exercise of it; and sometimes
they carried him unto Cupid's houses of commerce (in that city termed
islands, because of their being most ordinarily environed with other
houses, and not contiguous to any), there to recreate his person at the
sport of poussavant, which the wenches of London call the ferkers in and
in. As for breaking his head with over-much study, he had an especial care
not to do it in any case, for fear of spoiling his eyes. Which he the
rather observed, for that it was told him by one of his teachers, there
called regents, that the pain of the eyes was the most hurtful thing of any
to the sight. For this cause, when he one day was made a licentiate, or
graduate in law, one of the scholars of his acquaintance, who of learning
had not much more than his burden, though instead of that he could dance
very well and play at tennis, made the blazon and device of the licentiates
in the said university, saying,

So you have in your hand a racket,
A tennis-ball in your cod-placket,
A Pandect law in your cap's tippet,
And that you have the skill to trip it
In a low dance, you will b' allowed
The grant of the licentiate's hood.
What Happens when Eighty Million Egyptians Disappear?
Angel level IQ:

Q. "Bush wants NCLB money to go to schools, not prisons."

A. Bush does not want money diverted.

B. Bush does not want to pay for babysitting.

C. Bush hopes schooling will keep people out of prison.

D. All of the above.
It looks Great. Could this be emacs's missing editor?[1]

[1] "Don't get me wrong: Emacs is a great operating system – it lacks a good editor, though."
--Thomer M. Gil
As far as I know, only the courses tought in the local language are free.
This is awesome, I too hadn't heard of it before.

Killer features beyond just being so good:

1) Available for every platform (learn once, use everywhere)

2) Licensed per user (buy once, use everywhere)

Loving it already and will purchase imminently.

Edit: Would love it even more if I had a basic vim keymap at hand and could always grab. Looking for most of the basic navigation, editing (yank, delete, paste, etc), search/replace and stuff like that.
I am growing a little more encouraged that the Tunisian and Egyptian 'revolutions' are true revolutions, and not just western media events (Tehran's "Twitter Revolution"). Here's hoping that with the revolution comes actual governmental change, too, instead of just new faces on the same structure. That doesn't happen as often as people would hope.
It appears that the original e-mail has just been posted
It should be just a matter of dragging a folder onto the side bar (or using the Project/Add Folder to Project menu item) - drop me an email (jps@sublimetext.com) if this isn't working for you.