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I usually pipe through a whitespace-to-single-tab command. So

echo '1 2 3 4' | sp2tab | cut -f2

would be equivalent to

echo '1 2 3 4' | awk '{print $2}'

but quicker to write.
Yes: but only when the person getting the karma is not the OP ;)
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I just want to second this recommendation. It's a very thorough collection, quite stable, and helpfully has IE Developer Toolbar preinstalled on IE5 and up.
It was the Carterphone decision in 1968. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone The Carterphone was a device that allowed amateur radio to connect to the phone system, albeit with a Bell interface device. Another decision in 1978 removed the requirement for the Bell interface. Before this decision you had to rent modems from ma bell or use acoustic modems. Those were the good old days when you dialed up your computer and stuffed the phone handset into the side of your teletype for an astounding 300 baud connection. Fortunately teletypes were so clunky that you couldnt type any faster than that any way.
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I don't understand why you feel that using public domain materials is a "pillage and plunder" model, nor why we couldn't abandon life+70 and return to the 14+14 year term endorsed by the Founding Fathers.

I realize that we went to life+70 in order that the artists' children might be supported all their life. I do not understand why a fixed term of similar length applies to corporately owned works, nor why artists' children are somehow more privileged than any others. I do not pay my teacher's children all my life, though I owe my teachers far more for the ideas they passed to me. Nor do I pay the plumber's children for every flush, however grateful I might be for benefiting from their work.

Even if state enforced rent may has a place, but current practice has abandoned the original purpose of promoting the progress of science and useful arts and become distorted into a form of economic protectionism where dollars are more important than innovation.

But at least Sony's kids will be taken care of, right?
The natural structure of patent systems make them very hard to that increases net value - i.e. The costs to make it good enough to create value are greater than the incremental value it would give.

Reasons:
- In terms of brain power / time: The examiners will never have more ability to expose the sub-optimal applications than the people submitting them - i.e. there can't be a 1-to-1 ratio.

- In terms of funding: The outside will always have a 2-6 order of magnitude level of funding greater that the patent office

- many more...
There is a great example of continuos deployment, good tools and methods here: http://vimeo.com/14830327 .
Yeah, starting to see that.
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You deserve all the karma for the quick reply ;)
He was caught because he did stuff like sending photos like the following to members of the poker forum he frequented:

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I'm sure that's how basic math proficiency was viewed in the past. These days almost everyone would benefit from some rudimentary knowledge of programming, but it's not yet viewed as essential. Every day I see people doing repetitive manual tasks on the computer that could be automated with just a tiny amount of basic shell scripting. How long before this is taught to all kids in primary school, and facing many of the same problems as math today?
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I see. You're right.
There is, of course, an Emacs module for this protocol: http://emarsden.chez.com/downloads/coffee.el
More likely, the developer can handle the tech pressure, but having his/her manager FREAKING OUT and over his shoulder asking questions the whole time is what really causes the slowdown.
Appreciate the advice and resources. Really good call on the WWDC sessions; am planning to watch a few of them later on. I've got alot to learn, but it feels good trying.
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I'm transitioning my career from commercial software development to data security research/hacking.

I'm sorry you feel so constrained. To me that signals the current system is not optimum, but that's probably a lucrative decision either way.
I don't even roll out changes really, I edit the live production code, one small change at a time. I always felt this was kind of dumb, and I know it brings my site down for a few seconds to a minute here and there (about 1k visitors are on the site at any given time). But i've always felt this allows to get 5x more work done than I would within structured rollout system with version control, etc.. and has given me a great sense of instant satisfaction that motivates me to keep working.
Why/How are you assuming the reader will read from the cache? The very definition of volatile means that this read will not be read from the cache! I'd check the generated ASM before assuming that's how it'd work. And read this: http://lwn.net/Articles/233479/
"[...] 4.4 machine hours of automated tests to be exact. Over an hour of these tests are [...] Selenium. The rest of the time is [...] unit tests."

Impressive. But this not production test, where you tee the actual input from users into the system. Nor is it load test, where you measure whether or not the site is performant under real load. For that matter, there's nothing here that indicates you debug your operations (provision/deploy/backup) at all. My comment about not seeing such an operation stands.
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"Competing platforms have similar user numbers, good technology"

Citation needed.
If it's interesting, who cares? Let them have karma if they want it. It's truly irrelevant.

The only thing that really matters is that people add value to HN.
I worked as a game reviewer, Far Cry was actually one of the games that started making me jaded because we were basically forced to rate it well so that we would keep being supplied review material.

I never touched Crysis, but perhaps I should. I heard much better reviews, but never heard anyone who didn't play Far Cry say it was a great game which is why I avoided it like a plagued corpse.
> I like Amazon's recommendation engine, but I'm surprised when I check out suggested future releases and get no more than a single page. I'm interested in a whole lot of things, and I think my purchase history and such would support that, but for whatever reason Amazon sometimes doesn't show me very much.

My theory is that this is evidence that the engine is using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering - the way I think of it is as a giant Venn diagram. At the beginning, I fit in almost every one of the little circles because the service is so ignorant about me. It will recommend me stuff from just about any overlapping circle. But as I select and anti-select items, more circles become invalid, and I slowly narrow myself down into a cramped little circle of just the items I've decided about, until finally no one else's selections overlap with my own and the service can't find anyone similar to steal recommendations from to give to me.
Apparently the most sued company for patents is Apple, which seems to back up this thesis.
I agree with you. But I have to add that there's a big difference between math anxiety and disinterest in pursuing a graduate degree. There's nothing wrong with someone choosing to pursue something else even when shown the intrigue and beauty of math (or programming). But there's everything wrong with the mind-numbing approach to math taken now.
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Proper polls, no.

Polls like you've done it here, yes.
Based on that assessment, all of Einstein's theories were created using the 'pillage and plunder' method since he didn't invent the mathematics and/or physics that he based his work on. Please don't try to 'smear' the public domain just because you have a twisted view of the way that IP law should work.
Read a bit farther.

> Load average, cpu usage, php errors and dies and more are sampled by the push script, as a basis line. ... A minute later the push script again samples data across the cluster and if there has been a statistically significant regression then the revision is automatically rolled back.
Largely I agree with him, and at times I suspected some such. E.g., just testing some software, I generated some 'random' symmetric, positive definite matrices, found the eigenvalues, and noticed that there was a big one and the sizes went down quickly. So, in linear equations, a few variables constructed from the eigenvectors of the largest few eigenvalues, can make a good approximation to all of many variables. So, factor analysis makes a good data compression technique. Can't find fault with that.

That just a few of the largest eigenvalues/vectors can explain all the data well is curious. So really he might have just used R and some Monte Carlo to show us how variance explained increases with number of factors used. I'm surprised he didn't do this.

Much or all of this has long been clear.

But what I didn't like was his drifting off into old goals of the psychologists. I couldn't figure out if he was a psychologist with an ax to grind or what. Instead, he's a statistical physicist. Curious.

The psychologists looking for 'causality' have a goal that is from tough down to impossible. We should have been concluding that. That he got off into arguing about 'causality' seemed a bit silly. I don't know all what silly stuff the psychos are trying to believe, but arguing with silly psychos is a bit silly.

But it remains: Give a test with some mental puzzle problems, and in just a linear way can explain a lot of the data with just one factor. Curious. Maybe somewhat useful. 'Causality'? Likely not if only because we know that there is a biological and neurological basis and have made no connection with that.

Then I didn't like his use of 'factors': He has some factors correlated. No: The usual approach is that, like all the eigenvectors are orthogonal, the factors are all uncorrelated. Maybe the psychos look for some uncorrelated 'factors' trying to get at some of their guesses about causality, but in this case he should have been more clear.

Finally, he wants Gaussian to justify being interested in means, variances, and covariances. Well, in the Gaussian case, sample mean and variance are 'sufficient' statistics. But even without Gaussian, means and covariances remain important, e.g., for the inner products in the Hilbert space of L^2 real random variables.
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Good idea but why make thing so complicated? Research papers isn’t code -- they don’t have to "compile". Just write what you want in your blog/site/etc and link. If you want it all in one place, set up a wiki.
The problem of distinguishing when it is decidable and when it is not, is undecidable itself (Rice theorem).
They worked in the centuries before the internet. The internet is not going away. The patent system will have to.
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Okay, it took a bit longer than a weekend. But, this is a quicky project I put together that allows anyone to publish a simple web page. I would love to hear feedback from the HN community.
They can't keep doing that forever - Microsoft makes money selling software, they will have to sell it to do so.
I am a student and I write webapps to learn writing webapps. Imho university fails or even does not even intend to learn real-life web app development: i.e. I haven't heard a thing about automated unit testing, CI or security issues in my E-commerce programming course (sadpanda).
On the other hand I have no public portfolio to show to my prospective employer once I finish my MSc. In my previous workplace I used to build internal web apps and there is nothing visible on public (I could show src code, but it can be illegal i suppose). Therefore I want to have portfolio and build web apps.
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Just yesterday I listened to your story in the pipeline podcast :)

Other people, Forrst story is quite interesting, hear it if you like podcasts http://5by5.tv/pipeline/41 ;)
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Programming is fun! Why else would I be here?
I remember reading an article in Technology Review a few years back that the real problem is inefficient processing of the waste. Most of low hazard that decays to harmlessness in a few years or decades. Much of the dangerous stuff can be recycled as fuel or has other uses. The remaining residue has considerably less volume and can be made into ceramic pellets that can be more easily buried. Or dropped into the Marianas trench.

OTOH those that disturb our sacred burial grounds deserve what they get.
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I think this is highly dependent on what space a person is developing in. I can say from experience that embedded development is far easier on a windows platform. Many of the tools are just not available on OSX. I do embedded as a hobby and I try to use OSX as much as possible but the reality is that it is significantly more hassle to do it on OSX than on windows. If I where doing embedded development professionally I would most certainly use windows.
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Ah, I've never heard of those before. Are these commonly used by webdevs? bbatsell said they now only work on Windows, and considering that a lot of (most?) webdevs use Macs, they're probably not too useful.
Yeah, I do that with my laptop. It does everything, and I can use it for hours without discomfort.
It's a reasonable way (the only way) to develop a skill -- even after you have a conceptual understanding of how to do something, you still have to practice a little bit at it. Practice is required first of all to clarify your understanding, but even then practice is necessary to polish your skill enough that you can use it to accomplish something. (I.e., you have to be able to execute the skill and have enough attention left over to understand something else.)

So many problems in education come from the stigmatization of anything resembling practice as "rote" and "unstimulating." When you stigmatize repetition, you make it very hard to develop skills. In effect, students are expected to develop "understanding" (the fun, easy part) without developing any skills (the boring, repetitive part.) Unfortunately, working without any polished, dependable skills is awful. It's anxiety-inducing. You have a little bit of doubt about every single step, and as you complete step after step, your confidence in getting the right answer goes down and down. Having a set of solid skills gives you base of confidence, a security blanket that reassures you while you tackle new ideas.
You are massively exaggerating for no good reason. There were maybe one or two talks with truly bad english, the rest were ok or great.
I do not care about the downvoting. But I am guessing it is due to my saying that biology is harder than physics [1]. Perhaps I should clarify to say that a broad mathematical understanding of biology is a harder problem than doing so for your typical system studied in physics. In biology, systems can only be modeled and not understood or derived from fundemental principles, as the interactions of the basic entities are too complex. Or consider: Quantum mechanics, it is a straight forward linear theory (just conceptually difficult) while much of biology is analytically and computationally hard, often involving things like non-linear dynamical systems. A further difficulty here is that the behaviour of the whole of the things studied in biology cannot be inferred by studying its constituents - due to feedback-dissipation processes leading to self organization.

While I am clarifying, I might as well point out that while I personally believe that the usefulness for looking for broad general factors is meaningless considering the dimensions in consideration, there might be some use for them in aggregrate. However, these should not be taken for more than they are. Statistics. Furthermore, You, yummyfajitas, argue agianst a strawman. Did you read the article? Because if you did you would have seen:

I don't want to be mis-understood as being on some positivist-behaviorist crusade against inferences to latent mental variables or structures. As I said, my deepest research interest is, exactly, how to reconstruct hidden causal structures from data.

...

Similarly, pointing out that factor analysis and related techniques are unreliable guides to causal structure does not establish the non-existence of a one-dimensional latent variable driving the success of almost all human mental performance. It's possible that there is such a thing. But the major supposed evidence for it is irrelevant, and it accords very badly with what we actually know about the functioning of the brain and the mind.

Which leads me to the fact that Shalizi has no qualm against dimensionality reduction. Instead he is against the methodologies used and how the conclusions are drawn:

1) g is almost a tautology. It is due to the correlations in the tests which are made to correlate. When performing such factor analysis on these variables a dominating factor which most explains their variance must appear due to algebraic reasons.

2) No one has tried to explained g directly, experimentally or otherwise. Instead they still argue in terms of correlations.

3) They still use simple correlation matrices - linear models from yestercentury. Other more appropriate or robust methods such as non-parametric statistics have since been refined or developed.

[1] http://metabolism.math.duke.edu/docs/04whyams.pdf
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Nogwater nails it below.

Specifically, I'm think of things like http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/491.html and http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/656.html
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Coupled with slow tests is the fact that unless you have something like the try server it ties up your machine while the tests are running. Being able to just kick it off and continue working on the next feature or bug goes a long way to reducing the pain.
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We chose it to reflect a group of people coming together to collectively reach a common objective. In this case, a deal. What implications does it have for you?
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From the customer's side: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/shopping_cart

(If you've never read The Oatmeal, there's coarse language afoot.)
I'm ... really not sure I buy that. I'll have to think about it.
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Patches welcome.

Also, keep in mind that Apple themselves adopt existing open source projects for their own use. There's no reason a similar relationship couldn't exist here. And the hobbyist crowd they're currently targeting are unlikely to give a shit.
There was not necessarily disregard of intellectual property at least when Americans were the owners. Many things like the creation of the commercial sewing machine in the mid 1800s were strongly encouraged by patent and intellectual property protection, despite the fact that patent thickets arose -- i.e. many competing individuals held patents covering individual components necessary to a good sewing machine. How these issues were resolved actually has great relevance for so-called modern issues of "patent trolls," since they existed back then too.

Source: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1354849
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I've had a web site since 1995 and a blog since 2005. I never really thought of it as marketing, but of course it is. Online presence has some importance in terms of finding out who your peer group are and acting as a starting point for discussions. Probably most of the jobs I've held though have had no connection to what I've published online, although in many (but by no means all) cases employers tend to view personal open source projects positively.
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I spend a wee bit too much time on the Internet, and much of that is sort of dual use for my personal enjoyment and marketing. I have participated in HN and a few other forums for about fivish years now, and that has been a great opportunity to meet people. I try to get out to conferences and meet ups to meet folks outside of the massive Ogaki tech mafia. I also have a blog which has been fairly popular.

The most important thing I do for marketing is helping people, frequently. It opens a lot of doors. It also means there are a couple of... thousand, maybe? (crikey) ... people who will say nice things about me even when I'm not in the room. That has lead directly to consulting work (and business opportunities) in the past.

Can I say one heretical thing? Contribution to OSS is not by itself marketing. It is a fairly low ROI way to reach decision makers unless you are identified with a popular project. (You can easily spend many hours on a commit that no one but you or the mainainer will ever know you wrote. Spend the same amount of time directly solving a problem for someone and you have a fan for life.)

P.S. I truly love Github, but would not host my OSS on it, because it encourages use patterns which are extraordinarily suboptimal for marketing oneself. YMMV.
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Well yes, but the questions could be trivially decidable. Not that this would make them good questions.
"In other words he did not say that you had told him the company should stay put, you had told him you would not fund him, now that the company had split up in trying to fulfil YC's requirement for SV location."

You have misinterpreted what he wrote. Specifically the phrase "now that the company had split up" is false. The company had not yet split up. He had (at most) a verbal agreement with his cofounders that they would split up the company in the future, but they had not acted on it yet. Our advice was not to.
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