skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I cannot find the original text, I expect the word "move" is not a precise translation because he goes on to say:

> Animals, which move, have limbs and muscles; the earth has no limbs or muscles, therefore it does not move. It is angels who make Saturn, Jupiter, the sun, etc., turn round. If the earth revolves, it must also have an angel in the centre to set it in motion; but only devils live there; it would therefore be a devil who would impart motion to the earth....

> The planets, the sun, the fixed stars, all belong to one species - namely, that of stars. It seems, therefore, to be a grievous wrong to place the earth, which is a sink of impurity, among these heavenly bodies, which are pure and divine things.''

A sink of impurity. There's a data point that has lasted through the ages.
Awesome, this is a great start. I'd love to see how they'd handle multiple definitions of concepts (for example, a "profit" column could be gross or net) and various localization issues with data in other languages.
Thank you for this awesome little script.
However I found out that bashmarks doesn't work with folders which have whitespaces in the name.

For example:

cd /Users/username/Library/Application\ Support
s app_support

works great but if you do this it won't work:

g app_support

I opened an issue on GitHub and after that I tried to fix it on my own. I never wrote a bash script and I'm really proud to have fixed this problem on my own.

Here are changes I made:

# save current directory to bookmarks
touch ~/.sdirs
function s {
cat ~/.sdirs | grep -v "export DIR_$1=" > ~/.sdirs1
mv ~/.sdirs1 ~/.sdirs

escaped_path=${PWD/ /\\ }
echo "export DIR_$1=$escaped_path" >> ~/.sdirs
}

# jump to bookmark
function g {
source ~/.sdirs
path=$(eval $(echo echo $(echo \$DIR_$1)))

# replace whitespaces with "\ " for escaping
escaped_path=${path/ /\\ }
cd_eval="cd $escaped_path"

eval $cd_eval
}

Hope this helps you guys like it helped me.
And if there is a way to do this in an more elegant way, please let me know. This would help me to improve my none existing bash skills :D

Edit: I opened up a fork and commited all my changes to this repo. I also opened a pull request and I hope my fix will get accepted.

GitHub fork:
https://github.com/Oemera/bashmarks

Thanks

Ömer
You have to be careful in how you define speed before answering this question: do you mean group velocity or phase velocity? And faster than the local velocity of light or the value in vacuo?

It is indeed possible for a particle to travel at a speed greater than the local phase velocity of light through a medium. This is what brings about Čerenkov radiation, which is that eerie blue glow associated with the core of nuclear reactors.
Traditionally, the former. More frequently the latter as state universities increasingly strive to attract out of state students as a way to offset price controls set by state legislatures.
Apparently this domain hosts malware: http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/hackerpublicradio.org/comm...

In particular, "251 domains associated with openx malware, zeus, exploits and other nasties you don’t want on your network." [ref: http://www.malwaredomains.com/wordpress/?p=1340]

This may be incorrect though.
This statement is a clear and obvious logical fallacy, and should have appeared as such to contemporary audiences. He is saying that Animals have (limbs => they move) => (the Earth does not have limbs => it does not move). But the latter is the inverse of the former, which must be proven separately and which is not implied by the conditional.
<soapbox>
If you don't have to be (fully) responsible for your survival, why not keep playing? If you know what you want out of life, go for it. However, some things take real effort, which can be a problem if you're not practiced where effort is concerned. Pay attention, though, as there are always those coming behind who ARE paying attention...
</soapbox>
I spent some more time with WeatherSpark this morning, wanted to offer some thoughts on how this would prove to be very useful for me and others like me.

I would like very much to have a trip or travel plotting function. Origin point, traffic, wind, weather and a summary for distinct points in the journey.

For example; departing by car from Richmond, CA at 10:30AM on Saturday and heading to Healdsburg, CA, remaining 5 hours and returning by the fastest route.

Departure time, travel time, weather summary along the way combined with traffic or potential traffic delays. The ability to set how long I will be at each point and a summary of weather impact at such a location. For me, less about the data and more about whether I need foul weather gear, extra water in the car due to delays, or snow chains.

Another example is planning a business trip, or any other kind of trip. Knowing what to expect within a set range of times is much more useful and practical than knowing when the best weather conditions MAY be to support pleasure or optional travel. I do 90% more business travel on demand than I do pleasure.

Example: departing Richmond, CA to San Francisco International Airport. Depart on UNITED 3474 to Cleveland, OH on a specific date and time. Travel by car from Cleveland airport to Wooster, OH, remain for 4 days, return by car to Cleveland Airport, return on UNITED 6761 flight and time from Cleveland, through Denver on UNITED 423 to San Francisco, then obviously, the drive home.

Being able to enter or, even better, upload or automatically link to an itinerary, and understand weather, wind/chill, rain/snow, delays, in a simple and predictive manner is really helpful. As long as it's fast and incorporates into the other tools I use for travel planning.
For Mobile Apps, It’s 1996 All Over Again
They're shell built-ins, so use "man bash" to read about them.
Example of Credit Card Processing Fees
Wouldn't you be doing the same thing if you were running a scam?
This is why I'm worried about companies like Greplin.
For the FBI, it's 1 convenient place to go if they want all your communications.
The first link you gave lists this as a "good site".

EDIT: sorry, I misread the information. The jury is apparently hotly deliberating yet.
Clarke's law is catchy, but I don't buy it. Unfortunately, elderly scientists are unreliable in both positive and negative predictions, especially outside their specialty: for example, Luc Montagnier's recent hokum or Linus Pauling's vitamin C megadosage scheme.
Three weeks for 40 seconds of video: Adventures in water simulation
Thanks for these links, I'm in a very similar situation at the moment.
Does anyone actually not do this? Do people really just blindly optimize code without first measuring what parts of the code need optimizing?

Also, the article makes the claim that most of the time the bottleneck in web applications is data access time. Yes, that's usually true when you start optimizing. However, the interesting thing about optimization is that it causes bottlenecks to shift, so you may start by optimizing the data access code and then see the hotspot shift into the very string manipulation code that this author claims is rarely the culprit.

I just had this experience recently, actually, optimizing a algorithm in PHP that requires a lot of data to be analyzed quickly. The first pass of optimizations focused on paralellizing the data access from memcache, getting it so the minimal number of queries were sent to memcache and the database, etc. But then the bottleneck shifted into the PHP code to parse and analyze the data itself. Optimization is a process of chasing these bottlenecks across the stack until you're either satisfied with the result or decide that an altogether new approach is necessary to remove algorithmic complexity that is inherent to your design.
Physicists deal with impossible things every day - light is a particle And a wave, far-away objects can be receeding faster than the speed of light.
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Goodbye academia, a supportive post ...
Implementing Full-Page Caching with Nginx and PHP
Django REST framework
Hi all,

Just released a new REST framework for Django.
It's got a couple of really nice features such as the API auto-documentation. (Eg: http://api.django-rest-framework.org) Would really appreciate any thoughts or feedback...
Article delivers a very smart thought also seems to give no facts or real advises. You can always blame stuff and use common sense rules such as don't optimize until you know what to optimize and don't bring too much complexity to your system. Although both of these are applied differently when developing for different systems.

Article is extremely abstract and same though may have been delivered through 140 symbols of Twitter message.

More facts and details please.
I like that construction. The article also emphasizes teaching kids another contributing equation:

smart = sum(previous efforts)

Giving a final equation:

immediate results = immediate effort * sum(previous efforts)
I'd like to get in touch with you sometime. Can you please share your contact info? If you don't want to put it in your profile, you can email it to me kirubakaran@gmail.com
a new NASDAQ... could that even be done today, or is the regulatory barrier to creating a new public trading so great that no one would undertake it? phrased another way: if this opportunity is there and no one is taking it, why?
It's Official: The IPO Market Is Crippled - And It's Hurting Our Country
On Script Loaders
Why an expensive Foundation ? Non profit organisation isn't enough ? Do they the plan to be imitating the MozFo / MozCo or Wikipedia system ? They do look like to money laundry system at times to me. I'm not a huge fan from a FOSS point of view.
In a mixergy interview, reddit's Alexis talks about how the whole team would post links all day until it had enough traction to move on its own.

Basically "fake it till you make it".
Haha, wow. That's the first time I've ever heard reference to that film outside Korea. Awesome. And it's totally true. It took me decades to get over my I'm smart syndrome.
You don't think there's a link between dictatorships and repressive regimes? You can see examples of this right now in the news with all these protests going on.

I also fail to see why news-based entertainment shows (as is my understanding of one of the programmes mentioned) are any less valid a target for propaganda analysis. Do you believe people cannot be influenced by an entertainment programme? If not, why would such an analysis hold little 'value for the reader'?

I feel you are taking his points far too literally to be relevant in any real-world situation, even if OP's assertions were overly-emotive hyperbole. Nor are you providing much (relevant) value here, IMO - it's not enough to counter criticism of the US with complaints of "America-bashing" unless you say why the criticism is invalid.

As for the propaganda definition you provided (which is a good one), it states the purpose of the disseminations is to change people's opinions. Now you can do that with just plain releasing facts and information (e.g. Wikileaks cables) but it's disingenuous to downplay the role of delivering information by whatever means necessary to produce a specific effect. Propaganda that is 100% factual and non-misleading is called 'facts'.

You would be far better off reading Chomsky's own take on it Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, or a documentary like Century Of The Self.
Startup Quote: Jake Nickell, co-founder, Threadless
> According to a survey this summer from the National Employment Law Project, only a third of the jobs lost in 2008-2009 were in industries paying less than $15 an hour, but fully three-quarters of the job growth in 2010 came in these same low-wage industries. Among the industries that grew in 2010, the top three occupations were retail sales clerks, cashiers, and food preparers with a median hourly wage of less than $10.

So? It takes longer to hire higher waged staff. Hiring higher waged staff is ceteris paribus more of a risk so you'd expect it to pick up later in the recovery.
Success is defined in units of fun. It’s all about being happy.

- Jake Nickell (@skaw)

http://startupquote.com/post/3384194736
Color me interested. Pragmatism where destructive array updates are concerned is a boon for the numerical stuff I'm interested in.
The Way of the Unreal: UDK Property Tips and Tricks – Part 1
It's almost funny, I guess in a sad way, to watch this and realize that every person you see in the film is planted (including those in the backgrounds), the young actors carefully picked, every shot is framed to make NK not seem like the giant hole it actually is. It's no more real than a hollywood production.
I actually appreciate the up vote comment. Being a redditor and ex digg user, one of the first things I looked for was an upvote/downvote button on here but due to all of the information I've been taking in on this site lately, I've completely disregarded everything else and didn't stop to think that the tiny triangle was the upvote link.

So far HN has been an absolute goldmine
"It's easy"
Even this doesn't fix the fact that I purchased book 2 of a trilogy for my wife for 17.99 in the store and then went out to my car and bought book 2 and 3 on amazon for 16.50 and then took my original purchase back when they came in the mail. They were the same price on the b&n website but they refused to match in store.
All "unreliable predictions" stem from the same general mistakes.

1) Prognosticating outside of one's expertise should raise a red flag.

2) Predictions should not rely only on scientific principles, but also involve economic analysis. (Larry Niven once wrote something to the effect: Anyone can write about teleport booths, but it takes a good author to come up with "flash crowds.")

3) Absolute laws are not always so simple to apply as it would first seem. (Example: the Halting Problem does not preclude useful bug checking software, just perfect bug checking software.)

Elder statesmen scientists aren't the only ones to make these mistakes. I posit that the common perception of reality is riddled with similar misapplication of fundamental knowledge. I also posit that there's huge profit potential hiding behind many such popular misapplications.
Spirit: A set of C++ libraries for parsing and output generation
My problem isn't in people wanting things that are impossible (at first glance), the problem is they want them done in so short an amount of time that they are impossible.
To only display information about a specific command, you can also use

help <command>
Out of the box only with `z -l foo` # list all dirs matching foo (by frequency)
As I commented below, I expect the translation "move" makes it sound worse than it did in the original. If he means "are self-propelled" or "are mobile", it's slight less wrong.
Ruby but no Python. :-(
College is how the older generation exploits the younger generation, in addition to ss and medicare. The demand for work is inelastic (and purchasing a college degree is roughly purchasing a necessary license to work), there is no competitive market in colleges (colleges do not compete for students on price), and basically there is no way the system could NOT financially destroy the upcoming generation. The bastion of hope is that as old people die off and young people take political power, student indebtedness will be erased.
http://spriteme.org/
Do you really think that the city budget is self-funded? I don't live in SF but in NYC a huge portion of the budget comes from state and federal grants. That is true even on the local town level. Almost all of the money sent to the federal and state governments is handed back down the chain with strings and stipulations attached.

Otherwise, what would the state be doing? If the state spends a bunch of money on roads, it spends it on roads in towns. You might be driving down the street in your town seeing construction, but that money came from state taxes not town taxes.

The same goes for programs big and samll. Medicaid is money collected on the federal level, but paid out on the state level.
Programming while listening to Music?
I struggle to be effective in really noisy environments (starbucks), so i will usually listen to music, but that also seems to be a detractor as I will stop what i'm doing to listen to the words. Instrumentals seems to be the solution but I cant find a good source that just has instrumentals.

Does something like Pandora exist with just Instrumentals?
Ah...cool, thanks :)
I'll definitely look into it again then.
Like you pointed thought, it's also a case of analyzing if the datastore is worth the extra effort...
1. Communism is a political system & ideology; not an economic system (See Communism article in Wikipedia). In fact the country can be a communist society and have a fairly open (liberal) economic system (China).

2. The ideology in USSR was exactly the same - the war against evil west. There were a lot of propaganda about decaying western society and how in 10 years we will build communism and win the Cold War.

3. The economic situation in North Korea is very bad. People would starve there if China would cease it's economic help.

4. Don't think that people there have no understanding of the situation inside their country. In USSR there was an Iron Curtain and totally controlled media but still many people understood the situation and discussed it in their kitchens. People feel the situation very well when they see the dramatic difference between the idealistic picture in government controlled media and in real life.
Reminds me of how the Hitchhiker's Guide supposedly gets written -- curious passerby wander into the offices and start writing at desks abandoned by sloshed employees on ridiculously long lunches.

There's a bit more going on there than random bored people. It's random bored people subtly and vaguely herded by a few very smart people. There is no absolute command structure. It's more like starting a process, like starting a fire.
A sink of impurity. There's a data point that has lasted through the ages.

I wonder, then, why he didn't find it plausible that it is devils or fallen angels who move the earth?
Do you like classical music? If so, there are plenty of shoutcast streams out there with classical with no vocals. There's also plenty of electronic music (some techno, some trance, etc.) with no vocals, that you can find to listen to.
You can also compactly visualize an extremely long vector by mapping it onto a space-filling curve: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/huber-srv/hilbert/

I'm using this right now to visualize sequence coverage depth across the human genome (an integer vector of length 3 billion).
Do not be ashamed of asking such a question. It's actually the #1 question that most entrepreneurs face once they are done coding. They suddenly discover that by and large, the world doesn't know and doesn't care about their site.

So allow me a meta question: I was just working on putting together a social media panel on how to gain traction, for the next Founder Conference. Who do you think would contribute most to such a panel?

Would you like a format where 4 entrepreneurs from the audience get coached, live, by the panelists? I think this would avoid dull presentations with no concrete actions.

Apologies for the plug. Current program is at http://founderconference.eventbrite.com
The best browser ever
My favorite quote like this is from Ed Colligan, who was at the time the CEO of Palm. When asked in late 2006 about the prospect of Apple entering the mobile phone market: "We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in."
No, Libya's Internet Shutdown Won't Kill Bit.ly
I humbly submit this as the best browser ever invented. Now if only grooveshark or other music utilities worked with it. Or even Facebook :-)
It's not ideal, but you can upload a .pdf to google docs, then download it as a .doc.
That's correct.

Nonetheless, we can certainly grant him an implicit "Only living things (animals) can move (by themselves)." Doesn't make it any less wrong, but I doubt that it's just a logical fallacy.
I like to call it being an "Intelligence worker" as opposed to a "Knowledge worker"
Or, why Free Software misses the point of Open Source :)

Open Source is about the developers. Free Software is about the end users (or, it's supposed to be).

In reality, Free Software ends up being useful only for programmers, hackers, technical people, and well, institutions which require programmers, hackers and technical people to run and grow their infrastructure (such as Universities and Governments).

Free Software (as an ideology) offers nothing to the typical end user of, say, the iPhone. It offers a lot to Apple (the iPhone makers).
> Clarke's first law:

> When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong.

Clarke's first law is an unnecessarily complicated version of:

It's probably possible.

kb
Rock, some elctronica, and hip hop would be ideal. I'm more into indie rock, stuff like company of thieves, band of skulls, the hush sound, jack's mannequin, etc. Although I can listen to some electronica like mgmt and can also listen to some hip hop.
It's "chicken-and-egg" problem. You should go read Chris Dixon's post here http://cdixon.org/2009/08/25/six-strategies-for-overcoming-c...
>>I wonder which programming language best embodies the Juche spirit?

COBOL
If I understood the question correctly, how about using 4 recent start-ups that have gained significant traction and have the audience question them on how they did it?
I wrote more on that topic here: http://sahillavingia.com/blog/faking-it/ [1].

[1] - shameless plug.
Try creating a Pandora station for artist Mozart or Bach.
You're right, HTML itself isn't printer friendly, but it's really only a semantic document. It's up to you to style it with a print stylesheet.

And of course, I wouldn't use CSS to colour everything and add gradients and all that junk. The goal is simply to create a nice layout in a format that doesn't depend on MS Word or LaTeX (which, nice though it may be, is alien to most and also not as commonly installed as a web browser).

And naturally, I'd print-to-PDF before sending off to a recruiter. Mac OS X Print-To-PDF is really quite lovely.
This seems to have a copy of the HTTP1.1 ragel parser C from Mongrel https://github.com/fauna/mongrel/tree/master/ext/http11

Would be interesting to see how its performance compares to Ry's HTTP parser from the Node.js library:
https://github.com/ry/http-parser
I'm not a big fan on GPL anymore.

When I create some software I prefer the user of my software to have all freedoms including the freedom to embed it in closed source software.
Pandora has classical stations. I've also setup some channels such as Howard Shore and Nobou Uematsu.
Hum... That's kind of already included because most of the other speakers are succesful entrepreneurs, and they share their stories. But it always sounds easier in hindsight, so I was thinking that by using real testcases of startups that didn't take off yet, you'd understand the challenges better.
A year in college (tuition + room and board) is still cheaper than a year in prison (tuition + room and board).

Both have price pressures that are similar in some respects, including both state-funded and for-profit versions.

Both systems have mediocre performance at their primary missions (rehabilitation, education). There are significant start-up costs in both systems that make starting a new facility difficult.

Decisions are made by leadership in both systems to optimize for things other than customer benefit.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tcp+connection+spoofing
It's super-fast.
Sure a real liberal arts education where you study the classics has intrinsic value.

Job tech training not so much.