skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Google's strategy seems to be to get people to spend more time on the web so they can view and click on Google ads."

Only this is an idiotic long term strategy, if Google was to go even more full speed ahead to achieve this. Getting people to spend more time on the web takes a lot more money that can be generated per person via Google ads. Especially when they can spend that time on Facebook or any other Google competitor.

Google, for example, looses tons of money on Android just to "secure" their place among mobile platforms. This will not go well.
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That predates the discovery of oil. A significant portion of the major hydroelectric power plants were built around 1910. We didn't have much coal, but our country looks like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Odda_frå_...

The town on the picture (Odda, Hordaland) was a major center of industry, thanks to the cheap power.
Just read this:

http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Power-Negotiating-Roger-Dawson...

Altucher is describing "The higher authority gambit" and "Nibbling". There are many more great negotiating tactics. Even if you don't use the techniques in Dawson's book, they will help immunize you against them.

Ever notice how salespeople are very quick to try to determine if they're talking to the "decision maker"? It's to avoid the higher authority gambit.

To avoid getting nibbled, define all the parameters when you're at the stage where Altucher was agreeing to the revenue multiple formula. Don't agree to the "formula" until you have the other parameters. Once you've settled on a price, call the other guy's bluff if he tries to nibble you once you appear to have a deal already done.
"""They're selling to businesses"""

RTFA. The whole point is that they are NOT selling. Period.
Probably not that hard. However you'd probably be going down a lot in salary, the top 95th percentile for people with masters in technical subjects is around 800 000 NOK or 138 000 usd, but the average is around 550 000.

Considering a cheap apartment with 2 bedrooms costs minimum 2 000 000 nok.

A bus ticket starts at 28 nok about 5 usd.
We used the Klein textbook on Business Associations, but it should be the same material...

Yes, I agree that in the eyes of the law there is more to the corporate purpose than just maximizing shareholder profit. However, I'd argue that the law is really the last bastion of considerations of fairness and equity in the corporate sphere, and the idea that maximizing shareholder profit is morally right is dominant, both among business people and in our political discourse.
Making of a Paul Graham's essay
I always use "w" instead. It give the same information as uptime plus some more (basically "who"), for much less typing.
Great!
Now I'm waiting for the Compilers class.
ML class is good, but I'm bit disappointed regarding programming assignments - it is just a translation of the given math formulas to the Octave/MATLAB syntax.
You put the quotes in the wrong place.

"python 3" string methods
See the points for every HN comment just with an HN search
I am not sure if it is common knowledge, but since I see people still complaining about that I post my accidental find:

Just search with the name of the user whose comment want to check and there you have the relevant points.
I could see these systems being desired by enterprise the customers. The way that everything is locked down surely must be attractive to IT departments.

My mother had all sorts of problems with Windows ranging from spyware and virii to failed updates. I set her up with Linux years back, and it has suited her needs quite well. Now she has a new machine, an ASUS netbook with Windows 7... and it recently lost wireless ability I some inscrutable way following a Windows update. She spends 98% of her computing time using a browser. As someone who began using modern computers within the past few years, she already has a fuzzy view of the line between a browser and an operating system.

I'm thinking that actually, for her usage profile Chromium OS would be a great fit. I don't think that people should be so quick to declare ChromeOS a failure. It's quite forward thinking in my view and it will be interesting to see if we see significant adoption. As noted by some others here, one thing that is holding back ChromeOS's usefulness is the relative immaturity of the Google browser apps, such as Docs, that are supposed to make up the core of the productivity software for the platform.
However, I believe a large global and unrealistic goal such as space colonization would help people to get along.
I think it's more like a research project than anything else. Google knows the local-storage-as-main-storage idea is dying and wants to test other ideas at some scale.

Also, this number can't be right: Google alone probably ordered more than 5000 machines.
LISP is the coolest language ever and maybe forever, in theory. In practice, it also works phenomenal, but just for 1%.
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In the article he links to "Emacs Prelude". From its README:

No arrow navigation in editor buffers

This is not a bug - it's a feature! I firmly believe that the one true way to use Emacs is by using it the way it was intended to be used (as far as navigation is concerned at least). That's why I've disabled all movement commands with arrows - to prevent you from being tempted to use them.

I don't use my arrow keys that much, but do any others see this as a useful feature? How do you typically navigate around code in Emacs?
continued... you got this far so you might as well finish it because I really do get to the point mang!

FLASH IS DEAD!??? Yeah, FLASH is being put-down, murdered, snuffed out...wtf ever... but the REAL reason is because the whole $hit backfired on crApple when people that bought their crAp and complained about not being able to use a product that crApple themselves actually owned...and most of you still don't even know that ADOBE was owned by them and more of you have never even bothered to think about why even if you did... THEY DID IT JUST LIKE THEY ARE NOW KILLING IT SO THAT THEY COULD REMOVE even GOOGLE ANDROID and every other SmartDevice player on the planet would no longer be able to have support for this either because they are all gaining marketshare over crApple and with the late and NOT AS SO PHUKING GREAT AS YOU THOUGHT HE WAS, STEVE JOBLESS having now succumbed (all over his gay boyfriends butt in the afterlife) to his lifestyle of living like a YIPPIE PHREAK and is NOW DEAD!!! crApple is running scared and in a desperate attempt to thward the inevitable overtaking of the planets main portable device users because people started taking their 'anti-rip-van-winkle brainwashing pills' and even the A.A.P.P.L.E. (Against Apple Product Purchasing Lame Endusers) <-----<<< MY GROUP of PhAnAtIcZ!!! people out there are asking me...what kind of phone should I get. The answer is always the same when I say these simple and non-biased words to a lost soul who I don't want to jolt with this type of explaination because they just went through a rough period in their lives and need to be nurtured into the REAL world of technology like carefully training a new puppy as to not make any permanent imprints onto their already completely manipulateable minds because of pure innocent ignorance... I say to them... "Anything but a crApple product braddah!... anything but something with a little 'i' in front of it...and I will help support you on it...)

.............END OF LINE..............

This was brought to you by the very opened minded because it was written in the open sourece coded putity of intelligence and not the glutteness sphincterness of stupidity and dumb@$$ ignorance of listening to their friends who doesn't know jack about krakin a code let alone what kind of nightmare they would be getting themselves into let alone their family and friends by telling them to buy what they already have and have only has in their entire 2 minute career of 'SMART' technology.

My name is KiRbYdOoO...and I just pooped all over you!
I'll leave you with one of my favorite SmartPhone email signatures that I wrote...

"You can't polish a turd, yet I see people rubbing their iPudz and iPhoneyz everyday trying..." -KiRbYdOoO (Sure...you can use it).

Thanks for comin' in and playin' ... have a nice day... or as we used to say when we were done chattin' it up via our PAGE SYSOP button with with one of our logged on users typing away on our 40 column, 16 color, composite video attached monitors... L8r!
Let's stop the Final Cut Pro X was inferior meme.

FCPX was a new codebase. To build upon. There was no "dumbing down" (as some idiots suggest every time the see a redesigned UI), it's still a full professional app. It lacked features, because you can't have everything carried over and ship in a timely manner (ask the TextMate programmer). Those will be added in future releases, until then people can use the old version.

FCP was a tangled mess of a codebase, inherited from a different company, in a different era and OS version, and never rewritten to take advantage of Cocoa frameworks et al. The could have piled some new features to the old bloat and called it a "new release" (Adobe does it all the time, especially with Photoshop and Illustrator). Instead they took time, effort and money to build something they can build upon for the next decade.

Think of it like the transition from OS 9 to X. Was 10.1 perfect? Not by far. Did it lack OS 9 features? It did. But it was the foundation to take us where we are today, while OS 9++ would have gotten us nowhere.
Meh, I am an amateur when it comes to programming and still I am loving clojure over python. Truth is that when you are using lists all the time, lisp seems just more natural. All those for and if in object oriented languages feel pretty awkward when you manipulate lists and hashes.

Just an amateur opinion although.
"""So, I have Chromebook, it is really nice laptop for what it is meant to be used. I have friends who are huge fans of it, I installed Ubuntu on mine recently and kind of, improved it quite a bit."""

So you don't have Chromebook, you just have a cheap plastic laptop.

Chromebook is all about running Chrome OS.
Yeah, because in the second month and afterwards sales skyrocketed, right?

It's bad. Period.
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BTW, recent versions of linux don't have a fixed limit on command line length.

The command line can be a large as available memory (for a single processes). (Although the ratio between command line length and allocated memory is not obvious since it depends on the number of words in the command line.)
Does anyone know of an app/tool to detect only the used parts of jQuery and trim the unused?.
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disown is great. However, I don't know if it's possible to start up a new shell, then bring back that process to the foreground. 'jobs' will return no entries, and fg doesn't take a PID parameter. Any ideas? It would be brilliant if that were possible with bash alone.
Not really a command but this:

mv /path/to/some/file.{jpg,png}

Has been a huge timesaver. It's the same as

mv /path/to/some/file.jpg /path/to/some/file.png

But saves you the typing/copy pasting the path for the second argument. Can also be used with cp etc.
I've got tons of Swedish friends, some of who live in Oslo. They basically say that you can speak Swedish in Oslo nowadays because of how many Swedes have immigrated there. Why? Because there are better jobs and they pay more.
Facebook has used my profile picture in the past to advertise their "connect with email to find more friends". I will NEVER give Facebook my credentials for ANY of my email accounts.

It annoys me though that my likeness has been used in an attempt to get "my friends" to also type in their credentials.
pv - very useful to put in the middle of a series of piped commands to provide feedback on what, if anything, is happening.

I could've used this many times to catch cases where the amount of work being performed didn't match my expectations; usually an indication of an incorrect assumption or mistake I had made. Instead I sat there waiting for something way longer than I should've, only because I had a bad feedback loop.
Nobody knows this: the bash extension <(cmd) to pass the output of a command, as if it was a file, to another command. Example to diff the list of files in 2 directories (a and b) without using temporary files:

$ diff -u <(cd a && find . | sort) <(cd b && find . | sort)

Internally, bash creates a pipe and passes /dev/fd/XXX to the main command.
The fact that the system can fail us, while depressing, is neither a conspiracy nor anything as bad as the Nazis managed.
I'll provide few obvious counter examples:

1. As an employee, you will refuse to murder children, even if legally, to maximize corporate profit. You have your own ideas of what's right and wrong, and so do all other employees. Employees have a lot to say about what's going to happen.

2. Corporate management is often criticized for short-sightness and destroying shareholder value for their own benefit. This, and "the shareholder profit is holy" cannot be true at the same time. :)

3. Some corporations give shareholders little or no voice in governance (e.g. Google). The courts historically (per Plamiter's book) give the management benefit of the doubt in any ambiguous situation, and only slap the management down when it's clear they act against shareholder interests. Management has huge leeway. Further, corporate charter can be written such that profit motive is not the primary goal.

To the extent that a corporation behaves exclusively like a profit-seeking device, it does so on the consensus of the stakeholders, not due to its inherent nature.

If I may offer an analogy, American expansionism in the Middle East, is not an inherent property of a republican democracy, but only of this particular one, given to how interests of stakeholders (including foreign stakeholders) have balanced out.
> ... they're based on the self-evident fact that one owns his own will and is responsible for his own actions, and consequently the fruits of his labor.

On the contrary, this is an extremely non obvious, loaded assumption. It is deemed true in many cases, such as in front of a court, but is then well known to be a judicial fiction.

The worst problem with some people (particularly libertarians) is that they actually believe that this is the simple, unadulterated truth, which unfortunately isn't nearly as easy as this, and this will bring our civilisation to complete collapse under the oh-so-wonderful pursuit of our own individual self-interest, the same way its huge antlers doomed the gigaceros (for the individual male gigaceros, bigger antlers were always a net advantage against competitors in the "struggle for life", but they assured the species inability to adapt as a whole).

Annoying as it is, this is again best explained with the famous joke: for every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.
48 Hours that reinvented democracy for the world  
48 Hours that reinvented democracy for the world

Riga, Latvia, 20/11/1985 — It took a team of 8 young people from 5 different countries just 48 hours to completely transform the meaning of democracy.

At a programming start-up event known as Garage48.org where teams are formed to deliver finished products within 48 hours, the team managed to create a service that they call Groupocracy.org.

Radical as it may be, they brought to life a product which enables citizens of any country to not only vote on any parliamentary decision, but to also collaborate and successfully draft and revise documents.

Using an interactive voting system they provide an easy to understand overview on the popularity of issues, documents and even segments and clauses within the documents. They also gathered data on every political decision in Latvia from 2009 and can show exactly how each member of parliament votes, coupled with a high number of very interesting statistics.

What is even more fascinating is that the first country of choice – Latvia is already well on the way to making such services legally binding. Should the law pass, any online petition with 10,000 or more votes will have to be discussed in the parliament.

The team consists of Dmitri Dimitrijev, Armands Leimanis, Eriks Remess, Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky, Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos, Kirils Solovjovs, Vitalijs Gaicuks and Andrejs Jurcenoks. With their plan to introduce wiki-like collaboration and to maybe even start a political party, this project is the one to watch in the coming year.

Contact:  Dmitri Dimitrijev
Groupocracy.org
+3725138135
dmitri.dimitrijev@gmail.com
www.groupocracy.org

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RubyLearning.org Seeking Help and Suggestions For New Course
RubyLearning.org is planning a free, online course on topics that hopefully will help those that have some knowledge of Ruby programming but still to start with web programming - call it "Intermediate Ruby Programming". This does not cover Ruby on Rails.

The course material is under preparation at https://github.com/SatishTalim/webruby and I am looking for help from you to help create - add / subtract / modify the topics and material for this course.

The course is scheduled for 7th Jan. 2012 and we would have 3-4 mentors helping out the participants during the course.
FWIW: I'm female and I'm very aware of the chill effect when, say, in an online forum some guy says something hostile about women/a woman and gets a group high five out of it (massively upvoted and that kind of thing). In such cases, it is not uncommon for me to feel like saying something like "there's some truth to that but there's another side to that story as well" only it's obvious that the other side is not welcome information and trying to present it won't accomplish anything constructive. In other words, I am keenly aware that if it were a neutral, not emotionally charged discussion, I have additional information which might cast light on the subject for the guys and might even be helpful to them but there is no hope of being heard, so I keep my mouth shut rather than borrow trouble. And I'm a rather loud mouthed brassy broad, so I'm sure the chill effect has an even stronger ability to keep your typical woman quiet.
coooool!!
I've lived most of my 24 years in Norway, but the lack of a proper startup eco-system (successful entrepreneurs, VCs and companies etc.) motivates me to move to Silicon Valley in a few years. Am I stupid, or just adventurous? :p
You will be pleased to know that there is a site full of little gems like this:

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes

Most of my time savers that I've never thought of were found there.
strace - for looking a bit deeper into what's going on with live processes when things go awry.
A feasible cold-sleep system would solve a lot of these. As it means it matters a lot less how long it takes to get somewhere.

I was reading "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge the other day, and his portrayal of that was pretty good. Basically on a long trip the crew cycles being awake and "on watch". So there are always some people awake to deal with problems, but everyone only has to expend a year or two of their lifespan on the trip. (As an aside, great book)
You've got to the Godwin point at impressive speed, kudos.

> If someone doesn't pursue their own interests then by logical necessity they are pursueing interests imposed on them.

You fall for the fallacy that you actually could be free of social influence anyway. This isn't the case; see you've been Ayn-Randed to the bones, for instance. That makes you believe mad things that work against your own interest in the long term. See?

> But what does social obligation mean?

You're born to some family, speaking some language, walking some road, sheltering under some roof someone built, lighten by some power that was brought to you, etc. Are you pretending you don't need anybody else?
What Clayton says about the focus on "learning about your customer" seems very similar to Eric Ries term "Innovation Accounting" in "The Lean Startup".

Have we been steering our companies using the wrong metrics for the last century?
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1723

vimpager. Set vim as your pager. I love reading man pages in syntax-colored vim glory.
That is a really, really nice looking blog. I love the clean simple approach.
Yes, the fatigue of everyday people (including my own) to these types of things is disappointing. Who can keep up with all the funny cat videos out there though...
I can only admire the persistance (free time) of someone coding in Clojure. Everytime someone says to me "I hate Objective-C syntax" I show them Clojure...

If I want fast performance I code in C or other low level language. Sorry Clojure community, I'm not drinking the kool aid this time.
Oh, I agree. It would be better to have .delegate() than .live(). I'm not bothered by the lack of .live()'s presence. I just meant that .delegate() didn't exist, and .live() wasn't there in lieu of it.
It's not just code-base size that affects performance. There's the latency of the extra network hit, parse js time, etc.

$(function()) isn't included because it's generally bad practice over having javascript run immediately at the bottom before the </body> tag.

If you're site doesn't use $.ajax() why include it? many sites don't use ajax.

$.css() isn't included by default because it's implementation is huge. I prefer to addClass/removeClass (which only causes 1 reflow) or set element styles directly.
Many comments seem to be shell- and bash-related. Perhaps the thread exposes how difficult to read the bash manpage is. On my system, the bash 4.1 manpage is 41026 words long, or about 80 pages. Manpages are most useful to me when they are short and to-the-point so I can find what I am looking for before I lose interest in skimming through an 80 page book.
I'd like to know this too. If you guys don't mind sharing of course. Also would you consider doing a report of your progress after the first month?
du -sh ./D*

872K	./Desktop
78M	./Documents
3.2G	./Downloads
Was it MicroEmacs for the Amiga?
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Instead of the first, try "pgrep".
Well, you might have to move.
This seems to depend on the nature of the command --- "move to the word I'm looking at" is often faster with a pointing device (though I haven't regularly used a _mouse_ in years, I use a trackpad on the left and a digitizer tablet on the right). For most other text-related commands one uses often, I'd agree (though I've never used a stopwatch to test it, and "the easiest person to fool" is often one's self in these sorts of "efficiency" contests --- perception can mislead).
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I disabled them in my Emacs for the same reason - to force myself to use C-f, C-b, C-p, C-n and related keys instead. One problem with arrow keys is that they're far away from home row, so you need to move your hand quite much to the right to use them, and then back to the left to continue editing.
Just diff the two directories.

$ ls a b
a:
1 2 3 4

b:
1 2 3

# Yours:
$ diff -u <(cd a && find . | sort) <(cd b && find . | sort)
--- /dev/fd/63	2011-11-20 02:50:21.919072726 -0700
+++ /dev/fd/62	2011-11-20 02:50:21.919072726 -0700
@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@
./1
./2
./3
-./4

# Mine:
$ diff -u a b
diff -u a/1 b/1
--- a/1	2011-11-20 02:43:57.073130007 -0700
+++ b/1	2011-11-20 02:45:14.535912768 -0700
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1
+11
Only in a: 4

Maybe I'm missing something?
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