skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone can respond to emergencies in front of them. It's the great ones that can see ahead to upcoming challenges and take care of them proactively. Unfortunately, it's the emergency-du-jour people that always seem to be saving the day, while the proactive ones get less attention. Good managers need to see responding to constant emergencies as a sign of negligence, not heroism.
I studied in a JNV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawahar_Navodaya_Vidyalaya), from class 6th till class 12th; those were the best days of my life. All that I am today, is because of my stay in the vidyalaya. I guess the article linked above speaks of a similar life in an institute, but for higher education.

Such a model would only work if the students in that place are of such ideological disposition that they do not find all the fancy stuff fun.

I was once asked what I'd do if I had a 100 million, by some sheer luck or something. My answer was that I would anonymously buy a huge stretch of land in a remote area somewhere near the Western Ghats/Himalayas (India) and start a zen monastery type of institute for sciences; frugal(with Internet/infrastructure) in nature but strict in admissions, with no age limit for members. No fee whatsoever for the students, boarding and lodging included. A centre for higher education in science and technology, modeled after JNVs. And I would try joining that institute as a student, taking admission tests.
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The title randomly reminded me of the AK-47 quote from Lord of War (an actually decent Cage film, and definitely a good bit of monologue):

Of all the weapons in the vast soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947. More commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It'll shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars.

Only tangentially related :) but I thought worth sharing. Anyone care to write a redis version?
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What happens to your code after you die? Our mortality is never a comfortable question, but if you are an independent software developer, it's a question that you should answer sooner rather than later.
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It was cool to see them go about challenging the status quo. It is difficult starting something that goes against the established guard, but it provides hope for future startup founders wanting to revolutionize an industry.
Those are for Sublime Text 1, rather than 2, by the way. The API for Sublime Text 2 is very similar, but different enough that plugins won't work without being changed.

Documentation for Sublime Text 2 is extremely thin on the ground at the moment, it's something I'll try to address soon.
Interesting to see one startup acquiring another startup!
I'm pretty sure that Tumblr can certainly afford bad PR like this. Show me an example of a company that was, actually, hurt by something like this. One example, please. Every high school kid in New York uses Tumblr every minute of every day. None of them even know who David is, and those that do, revere him.
Oh joy, another dubious article from physorg.com!

With the science sub-reddit's recent acquisition of real scientist moderators, I think we have finally reached the point where the science submissions on HN are less credible then those on reddit.
What did you think of my point:

'They' could already turn off the internet. So why bother with the effort to make a killswitch? Because the resources it'd take to kill the internet manually matter.

I think of that in terms of 1) simple manpower, 2) cooperation, and 3) perception.
How silly Entrepreneurs like me interpret STRATEGY..
you looking for any particular type of user (company), or are hacker types ok?
As the author of Sublime Text, I'd just like to say thanks for all the kind comments here, it's heartwarming to see so many positive comments.
Very nice. One thing that I always find myself wanting when exploring new editors is a way to import my Textmate theme.

It's tough to evaluate the editor when the colors are all wrong, and I don't want to spend the time to set them up just right only to find out I don't like the editor. I think a feature like that could help increase adoption.
I'm not sure the poster labels them as "worthy", just that they've been systematically excluded, used as puppets in sham elections, and are popular with the lower-classes.
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I occasionally have clients who disappear owing small amounts (usually less than $100). To this point I've just let it go, but lately there have been some particularly egregious cases that I'd like to turn over to collections. Does anyone have experience with this?
Best editor ever.

I have tried literally every single one over the years. Considering it's made by a single developer development speed is breathtaking and he is always open to suggestions on the Forums.

I was a little wary of the new version after using ST1 for so long, but have finally switched and project management is now a breeze where it used to be a little clunky. Go to anything also rocks.

A++++
I agree that this is very important, since I tend to lean heavily towards keyboard-driven interaction. It's not enough of an issue to prevent me from using the editor, though.
State security just entered the building that the video is being sent from. Might not last too long now.
Yeah I was waiting for someone to call me on this. I thought it might not be possible but wasn't sure. Mostly it was cool to see a "unique features of Lisp" blog post which didn't even mention macros.
Zenbe Mail was exactly that: a paid webmail service with great and clean design for $3-10 dollars a month. But they closed the service after the engineers joined Facebook as part of a talent acquisition. Not sure how successful they service was in terms of revenue/subscriptions though.
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There are many elements to consider when writing a literature term paper on Dylan Thomas. Writing a term paper of this type will be a difficult task if students do not know the writer’s work. Therefore, familiarizing themselves with it will be beneficial.
One word: bazooka.

Removes the roof as well, so you'd automatically solve all future snow-on-your-roof problems in one go!

I call it an O(0) algorithm.

(for those without a sense of humor, of course I'm joking)
It has most, but not all. Some commands are in the menu, but have no key binding: you can find these via "Preferences/Browse Packages", and then open up "Default/Main.sublime-menu".
And Steve Jobs could kick a puppy as his next "one more thing." It doesn't mean shareholders would be happy about it.

"We can afford it" is a terrible response to bad PR. He needs to act quickly and make this right. Apologize. Give the guy a free account or something. Everything is (mostly) better.

I'm convinced that half of a PR person's work is convincing others to get over themselves.
1. Special variables seems really like a take it or leave it idea. I'm really not convinced that keeping these as explicit arguments of a function are a bad idea. I really like the ability to reason about a function by simply knowing its arguments (including the mplicit self/this).

2. Condition handling seems generally useful. There are definitely cases I could have used this. It's probably pretty straightforward to add to languages that have exceptions. Although I'd be surprisd to see it appear (pleasantly surprised).

3. I'm a little confused about this one... He's talking about just modifying the bound variables? C# and VB do this. And presumably Ruby and Python can too -- although he seems to allude to the fact that Python can't, which doesn't make sense (otherwise it seems odd to call them closures) -- or did I miss what he is really talking about (which I suspect I am)?
Thank you for your answer. I'll look into your software, it seems pretty awesome! You should however consider being more strict about host OS standards in my opinion. It would just makes our life a little bit easier.
Discovered even better ones further on in the magazine.

"Make $3,380 a year with 100 Kirk Machines" (Peanut vending machines)

http://books.google.com/books?id=nN8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA476&...
yeah ok, but if they run you in a chroot environment, you get nothing. They're also under no obligation to add python to your PATH.. a ton of reasons this could not be the case
Zen-coding
Lots of folks on Quora these days too, you should/could create a topic for Sublime Text there too.
$ ./sublime_text
Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
Aborted
$ python --version
Python 2.6.6

Is that my python version? Could the error message be more verbose, or is it not coming from sublime?
How do I go about fixing that? Wanted to give sublime a try...
Small army of these:

http://goo.gl/qQYLv

plus a implementation of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill
Here in the UK, and with Amazon prime, I find the opposite is true. Ordering paper books they turn up by courier at my office the next day, usually before 10am.

Ok, so the cost if £1 more per book but speaking personally it's worth it :)

(I realise I am an outlier, though, maybe not on HN; spending upwards of £1,000/r on books)
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Relevant to this group - happy to see StartupWeekend made the cut!
Hacker types are most welcome. Show us what you can build.
Fred's right. When it comes to your phone (personal communication device) it's not about apps, it's not even about personal data processing in general. It's specifically about your contacts and your communications. This is what Blackberry got right back in their heyday and exactly what Windows Mobile got wrong. Apple is currently getting it wrong with an apps-centric interface. They also threw up roadblocks for 3rd party developers who were doing personal-communications centric things.
.tmTheme files are supported by Sublime Text: Copy your .tmTheme into ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/User (assuming you're on OS X), restart Sublime Text, and you should be able to select it from the Preferences menu.
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The main parachute was dropped from a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft with a 40,600-pound load at an altitude of 17,500 feet. Two U.S. Army Soldiers from the Golden Knights Parachute Team come down underneath their parachute canopy in preparation for the accuracy competition at the 4th Conseil Internationale du Sport Militaireís Military World Games in Hyderabad. It is believed that the first recorded parachute jump took place in 852 A.D. The parachute and all test hardware functioned properly and landed safely on the Yuma Proving Ground test range.

<img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mGkoANc7fi0/TUKf_0PbddI/AAAAAAAABv0/EHOTfISF3os/s1600/parachute.jpg"height=300>
That's a cool idea. My company has significantly fewer groups, I suspect, but I like the idea of not just touching on a problem, but really being able to dig in and fix things.
I think it is also fair to say the kinect is revolutionizing computer vision.

And as someone addicted to Minecraft I have to think that kinect controls forcing you to make swinging full body motions to dig would provide quite a workout.
The outer boroughs are different, not better or worse (except Staten Island, that's worse).

I love Brooklyn and Queens, but I am very happy living in Manhattan. It doesn't have to be a pissing contest, NYC is a big place with a whole fuckload of awesome going on; it'd be silly to limit yourself either way.
I would argue that mathematics itself does not have a subject matter. It started with counting and geometry, then became applied to physics, and slowly developed applications to probability, then computing. It seems to me that if we can reason in a rigorous and general way about any subject, the study of that reasoning is a discipline within mathematics. Philosophy, on the other hand, seems to me to in fact have a subject matter, or rather many subjects. Philosophical conversations always center on something, be it the existence of abstract ideas or the foundation of moral choices. (If you think that having a multitude of subjects constitutes having no subject, then one might make the same charge that science has no subject since it investigates sounds as well as heat flow, as well as cancer...) What I think separates philosophy from other disciplines is not the kinds of subjects it investigates, but the kinds of answers to them that it seeks: completely precise, general, and unquestionably true.
You would be wrong. Here in Uruguay, cars are considered "luxury" items, so they carry more than 100% tax.

Example: Nissan Tiida - US price $9900, Uruguay Price $22000.

That makes even old clunkers very valuable. And there's a ban on importing used cars, or doing your own imports (I have campaigned against it, but I'm in the smallest political party in the country, Partido Independiente).
It is entirely possible that should the Egyptian police escalate (as it appears they have done), actual physical violence against them, even to the point of killing some of them, may be necessary.

Dictators only lose when their underlings no longer do the dirty work for them.
“…we have no interest in customers that will go out of their way to discourage our entire team”

Something about that response tells me this wasn't the first email sent by this user.
Or you can time machine to a linux machine that does remote backups. That's my strategy.
Make a grid of ropes running horizontally and vertically across the roof. They form a mesh across the roof, and split the snow into smaller sub-units. Loop the ropes around pulleys on each side and stack some weight to keep them taut. After a snow storm, use the pulleys to slice upwards with the ropes through the snow (using edge pulleys), splitting them into square chunks. The ropes that were on the roof have to unwind to form a linked network, so they can push against the snow. Starting from the chunks nearest the edge of the roof, move them downwards off the roof, and iterate upwards. Reverse and do the same for the other side.
> I have tried literally every single one over the years.

You have obviously never tried the Zeus editor.
It may be unavoidable, but to start off from the premise that that's how it should be done is simply wrong.

The more people that are fighting the bigger the chance that instead of changing the regime you end up with civil war.

The best bet in situations like this is on the regime having lost control over enough of their armed forces that they lay down their weapons, if it comes to violent confrontations between protesters and police/army then the loss of life on the civilian side will be considerable and it will actually increase the chance of further escalations. Don't forget that the 'regular' police and military have family too, that's the trump card of organized resistance anywhere.

That's also the reason that in countries like China and the former USSR (and others besides) the military is heavily rotated away from their place of birth.
My point exactly. MyISAM supports locking the entire table, performing the actions you want to perform and releasing the lock. And there is no rollback, if something goes wrong. The only thing this guarantees is that you have exclusive access to the data. Seems to me that this is what MULTI does as well.

EDIT: looks like there is rollback support: http://redis.io/commands/discard
Great idea, and good execution, but to me more of a good indication of where things are going than a complete idea.

It also highlights the need for more semantic knowledge within resources like Wikipedia. Grabbing the first paragraph (as the site seems to do) is a reasonable guess at a key summary of a topic, but that may not always be the case..

Speed wise, it still seems easier to just read the start of the article on the wiki (or use your own reading software if visually impaired), although this is a nicer experience :)
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>I still not decided. I want someone secular, capitalist and liberal.

Good luck with finding someone like that. Contact me if you want some help.
Yeah, definitely not the case. Looking at that now. (I know the numbers.)
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I would be sold on the Kindle if I could read technical books easily. Over the past few years I have built quiet a collection of (legal) books in PDF format, only for them to be unreadable on my Kindle and impossible to convert to another format without damaging code, graphs, equations, etc.

For novels, it's a fantastic bit of kit, but outside of that the dead tree format isn't so dead.
It's computable enough.
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My opinion: the crucial distinction between the revolution in Tunisia and the non-revolution in Egypt is that the Tunisian revolution was kicked off by a self-immolation. Burning yourself alive is perhaps the most powerful human form of expression against repression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation
> You break a bad regime by doing better, not by becoming like them.

In theory, you're of course correct. In practice, think about the regicide of Charles I or about the French "Reign of Terror" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror), they were both meant to break bad regimes. How well they've succeeded in doing that it's debatable, the undecidable question is if terror/violence was really necessary.
Here is the documentation I was thinking of:

Choosing a method:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch6-3.html
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch6-4.html

Details on the crawler:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch13-1.htm...
One very important point that William fails to mention about his email to us - he spent the time to track down every Tumblr employees email and sent it to the entire team. It was way over-the-top, and yes, discouraging to the team.

The idea that David Karp, who I've work closely for eight years over two startups, is arrogant and doesn't care about the community, is completely off base. And anyone who knows David will agree. He's a exceptional guy and huge talent.

"Go away" was reactionary, and there was probably a better way to message, but David was defending our team who are working incredibly hard to rectify the performance issues/challenges.

And we as a company are taking extraordinary measures to rectify them. We care immensely.

Mr. England - calling out the age of an employee, help me understand why that was necessary and honorable? Seriously.

Lastly, our Creative Community team focusing on Fashion Week is clearly a very different group then our Engineering/Ops team focusing on performance and infrastructure.
"It will soon be possible, for instance, for a business man in New York to dictate instructions and have the appear instantly in type in London or elsewhere. He will be able to cal up from his desk and talk with any telephone subscriber in the world. It will only be necessary to carry an inexpensive instrument not bigger than a watch, which will enable its bearer to hear anywhere on sea or land for distances of thousands of miles."

The passage you quoted predicted broadcast radio, but the passage before that sounds more like a telephone to me. As with many others it underestimated the difficulty of transcribing voice into print, but otherwise....
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If someone -- or any company for the matter -- can afford or not bad PR is way beyond the point.

The thing is : you usersy might be wrong,or might be right ; but the point is more that users are your even more than your whole business, giving them a good experience is your ultimate goal ; not just selling them a microblogging app.

In my opinion, comparison to steve jobs / apple here are extremely irrelevant ; yes, steve jobs might have earned the right to be obnoxious to bad clients, but the point is that apple as a company doesn't.

For one thing, its because their marketing goes hand in hand with their excellent customer service that this company is successful. Not because one compensate for the other. Its really a shame that somebody can treat its user base like that.
Interestingly enough, F. Paul Wilson used something along those lines as a big part of the plot of his latest novel Fatal Error. The "bad guys" need to take down the Internet as part of the story, and he lays out a pretty elaborate scheme that they use to do it. http://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Error-Repairman-Jack-Wilson/dp/0...

Unfortunately this is the most recent of a pretty long series, so it probably would't be much fun to read unless you had read the series up to this point. But if anyone wants an interesting fictional scenario where the 'Net is knocked entirely (or almost entirely) offline, there ya go...
This makes me think of the university buildings in Wisconsin with flat roofs that need snow removal periodically to prevent structural collapse. I still can't believe they spend millions on buildings and can't be bothered to find an architect who knows what snow is.
If this is William, what relationship do you have with PostDesk? It seems peculiar to take an exchange like this and forward it to a total unknown rather than one of the larger sites. I'm not saying I don't believe this happened, but I'm rather skeptical by nature.
Seeing these ads, I'm genuinely curious, did we manage in the course of a hundred years to go from "we sell the product to you" into "you come to us to buy the product"?
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Whats wrong with wanting something reliable, look what happened to sourceforge!
You're right that it's not a "real" undo, but it is better than a warning with timeout; on a warning, it demands that you click (habitual action) after which there's no going back, but with this system it demands nothing, the message stays up, and you click (non-habitual action) only when you want to cancel.
Check the Nov.2007 blog post comments (
http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/anatomy-of-a-next-g..., comment by 'drewp' ) for a tool that may help.
I have no knowledge on whether they correctly implemented the spec or not, but it is virtually certain that it starts with "Assume this code is not actually implemented on atoms and electrons" because as soon as you get physics involved all bets are off. Side channel attacks are some scary voodoo.

It's like there is a malicious and perfectly informed mathematician standing over the proof with a pen and a bottle of whiteout and the proof going "Meh, I'm not worried." What is it going to do? Prove that no matter how the malicious mathematician edits the proof it will stay correct?!
None of those are really unique, per se: Haskell has the first two, and several languages have all or almost all the benefits of the third by way of fully dynamic typing.

The first two are certainly very rare, though, and Clojure certainly has a different approach to the third than I'm used to seeing.
Ah: http://redis.io/commands/multi. So the problem with this approach is that there are no consistent reads. If I say:

MULTI
get foo # Returns 'abc'
set foo 'abcd' # (as in application code said foo += 'd')
EXEC

while another process sets foo to 'xyz' between my get and set, I just overwrote that value. No serializable transactions.