skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why someone would think that this would work. The person who hacked into Palin's personal email account didn't even find anything interesting and he was sentenced to a year in prison (some of it was served in a halfway house). A person who attempts to blackmail a politician for $1 million is probably going to prison for a couple of decades.
Thanks, for some reason I thought Spotify was like Pandora, a web app.

I was wrong.
fmt 1 < file seems like it might be handy

i don't understand his first one though. i thought both linux and bsd greps had the -H option (show filename).

here's some more:

1. sed t file instead of cat file

2. echo dir/*|tr '\040' '\012' instead of find dir

3. echo dir/*|tr '\040' '\012' |sed 's/.*/program & |program2 /' > file; . file instead of xargs or find

(of course this assumes you keep filenames with spaces or other dangerous characters off your system.)

4. same as 3. but use split to split file into parts. then execute each part on a different cpu.
Yeah, I'm aware. The problem stems from the fact that you can't type the unambiguous name "ni-channeru" without looking like an insufferable dork/weeaboo. 2ch and 2chan (.net) are the domain names of "ni-channeru" and Futaba Channel, respectively, but it's obviously very confusing to refer to them by their domains. Therefore, in English discussion, we tend to say 2chan or 2channel when we mean "ni-channeru", and Futaba when we mean Futaba Channel.
Hogan was clearly interpreting the question from Gizmodo as asking about whether they considered if the patents were patentable subject matter.
Would you expand on that a little?

[edited for tone/less brevity]
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Surprisingly, the best thing I ever did for my RSI was doing pushups on my fists instead of my palms.

Another thing that seems to help a lot is keeping a natural arm pose on the keyboard despite not having a natural keyboard. My only problems these days are with the thumbs, for some reason they don't like the way they're resting on the keyboard.
I understood what you were trying to say, but I think you discredited yourself by misusing the term "false flag operation" before he said anything.

Edit(ing because I can't reply yet): I think in the context you were using it, "hoax" would have been a more appropriate term. "False flag" would mean the intent is to falsely attribute blame on someone innocent (usually some geopolitical entity), and is more simply referred to as "framing" on a smaller scale.
They could also just release them claiming that someone paid the million bucks. This would harm Romney even more. Ecause them Romney would be sweating bullets wondering who had the money to make him look so stupid.

And to everyone else it would appear that if someone was willing to pay the ransom to release these then there must be good meat in them and it would have an even more negative impact on Romneys credibility.
I'm not exactly sure about that yet. For now, the focus is to ship _something_ that works. Since I'm not exactly sure how migrating to a bigger sd card could work in a user friendly way (apart from getting a card reader and cloning it, which is not feasible for everyone), I have considered implemening a USB storage option, which may still need a USB hub and an external storage, but is much more versatile than using SD cards. It might be faster as well.

As for the case: I'm talking with the great guys at ModMyPi to produce cases for me. As soon as they confirmed that I'm good to go, I'll update the page.
I was under the impression that the whole reason Microsoft was pushing 'the style formally known as Metro' on Windows, Surface and Phones was so that it would be possible to easily port apps across everything. I'm a .Net developer so I'm genuinely interested in this topic. I figured it wouldn't be as easy as just changing the UI dimensions, but I thought the new architecture with WinRT and stuff would provide enough commonality API-wise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_8

Simplified porting of Windows 8 apps to Windows Phone 8 (compatibility with Windows 8 Metro apps)

On June 20, 2012, Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8, a new generation of the operating system for release later in 2012. Windows Phone 8 will replace its previously Windows CE-based architecture with one based off the Windows NT kernel with many components shared with Windows 8, allowing applications to be easily ported between the two platforms.
I have a tendency to use xargs too, but often you can go with find's -exec, especially "command {} +" construct used for spitting many files at once to the given command. E.g.

find . -iname '*.pdf' -exec pdfgrep -i keyword {} +
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It's most common use is to take some stuff on stdin and then use those as arguments to a command. Here is a fancy way to do `ls * `[1] using xargs:

find . -print | xargs ls

`find` dumps the results to stdout, the pipe shuttles `find`'s stdout to `xargs` stdin, `xargs` uses its stdin as arguments for `ls`.

(Don't run this in your home directory)

[1] Pedants will realize this is actually equivalent to `ls .* *` as hidden files are found by `find`.
> It's not like there's a line item on the 1040 for "bribe income"

Amusingly:
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch12.html#d0e33264
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch12.html#d0e34287
From another comment thread, I saw transactions on the two Bitcoin accounts are public, so we would know if the ransom was paid.
I also find this comment noteworthy:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ze9zn/hackers_say_...

Fake...
Unless an employee did it...
because
PWC uses Locklizard electronic document security..
a password is needed to sign on
a password is required to open the document
a password is needed to print a document
no copying or extracting of the file is permitted
document control stops the file from being open after hours (middle of the night...lol)
and the files are encrypted and requires a 48 bit key on the persons pc and server to match...
So if someone steals the file its useless...
my guess about the car industry is it had to do with the interaction between diverse customer preferences (car colors, options) and the realities of car production (large batches, economies of scale).

basically, the economies of scale cause the production of large batches of cars that then all needed to be sold (even that last white one on the lot).
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Except that every single other presidential candidate has released several years of tax returns and no other president has ever has his birth certificate put in question.

But yeah, other than that minor point, the situation is exactly equivalent.
Xargs takes a newline separated list and maps the list to a command.

find ./ -name '*.log' | xargs rm

Finds all log files and map them to 'rm' commands. e.g. if it finds system.log and rails.log it will run the command `rm system.log rails.log`.

xargs will automatically do things like break up very long lists into multiple command calls so that it doesn't exceed the maximum number of arguments a command can have.

Other useful things about xargs are '-P <NUM>' which lets you run the same command in parallel. I use this with curl to do ghetto benchmarks.

The next major flag is `-n <NUM>` which changes the number of arguments per command call. e.g. `-n 1` will run the command per argument passed to xargs.

And the last flag I commonly use is `-I {}`. This sets `{}` as a variable which contains the arguments. (This also forces `-n 1`). This is useful for things like:

find ./ -name '*.log' | xargs -I{} sh -c "if [ -f {}.gz ]; then rm {}; fi"
I don't know how anonymous bitcoin is, but sending a USB key in the mail could be better than allowing for online download

You simply take the envelope to be mailed into a residential area and hand it to any mailman walking around.

There are no surveillance cameras, and the mailman isn't going to remember shit.
1 Million USD = 93,000 BTC at an exchange rate of ~$10.70
Agreed. Intelligent Data seems like a very messy term. In Big Data we use many different processes to figure out what the "intelligent" relationships are, or what variables really express strong relationships. This is one of the biggest challenges in Big Data. A quote from Alex Pentland:

"the data scientists themselves don't have much of intuition either…and that is a problem. I saw an estimate recently that said 70 to 80 percent of the results that are found in the machine learning literature, which is a key Big Data scientific field, are probably wrong because the researchers didn't understand that they were overfitting the data."

http://www.edge.org/conversation/reinventing-society-in-the-...
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@DanielKehoe I think nReduce just needs to figure out how investors can switch quickly between startup windows and get into the right moment of conversation. If there are 8 startups in a bundle, does investor really want to talk/listen to all of them? An ability to skip startups that are not relevant because of their market niche or their stage is actually a great advantage and will help to focus on those that might be more relevant. I think parallel mode is more productive and active. In linear mode some folks may get bored. nReduce needs to play with timing and notification features that will make it rock. E.g. investor submits questions to 3 startups out of 8 and gets notified when startup reached the question in a queue - this will save time and efforts and make the process more interactive
>> PWC uses Locklizard electronic document security

Wow, a lot of assumptions here: was it implemented properly, was the master password stored on file server, was file server configure correctly, is data transferred securely before it is encrypted, etc tec
Today the storage of more data is negligible. There are alternatives to Hadoop. However, to capture new variables that exist in your market place definitely takes time and money.
The ` < file` has to appear at/near the end of the line, right? Using cat has the advantage of being able to read the line from left to right along with the data flow. I often add more piped commands to the end of a line as I refine it, while the source data remains the same. (To be fair, sometimes the opposite is true.)
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Does it really matter that you're starting an extra process?
Hi, author of the post here. I'll admit I kept the premise simple here in order to provide a more introduction on how to "roll your own" effects without too much overhead.

The sort of thing you've described seems to have been implemented pretty well as a zepto plugin: http://blog.kojo.com.au/flickable-zepto-plugin/ (in particular this demo: http://blog.kojo.com.au/demos/flickable/demo2.html ) which works wonderfully on my Galaxy Nexus, but I haven't had much of a chance to play with this yet!
PayPal uses 2048 bit SSL keys
It is not trivial to check the bitcoin block chain to verify that enough money was transferred into the publicly-known release-now account?
Good point. There is a cost/benefit balancing for attaining more data which may turn out to be useless. However, technology is increasingly pushing us in a direction that allows us to capture more data at a cheaper cost.
r00fus, you are a rose among thorns!
I work for an agency, and I always find myself thinking that if we're content to settle for 2nd-rate tools for our own use, are we really in a position to say that what we're offering clients is 1st-rate?

It's easy to go overboard with making something pretty when it's in-house, but at the same time I genuinely find that I'm more productive when using pretty software. It's probably the INFP in me, but when something is slightly off I find it incredibly distracting.

In the case of the github dashboard images in this blog post, they do look a little designed but nothing that would take an experienced interface designer more than an hour or so. Time well spent if it makes the idealists in your team happier.
Apple probably looks at products like Tony Fadell's Nest as homages. It's a ripoff when it's the same product.

When I make a computer that evokes your toaster that's an homage. When I make a laptop that's a complete design clone of your laptop that's a ripoff.
At companies 99% of the time it is former or current coders who hire other coders.

And coders don't care about how old you are. It is all about what you have done and what you can do. So the best thing you can do to get yourself noticed is to build and show something great. It doesn't have to be huge just needs to work, be bug free and polished.
@adrianhoward - you made a great point about one liner pitch for http://rentini.com. We like your recommendation and I already changed the pitch to what you suggested. That's why we need more mentors at nReduce:)!
Thanks a bunch for participation!
One thing that has always bothered me about the "I'm giving up X" or "People aren't doing Y anymore" doom and gloom articles is that they demand a one-size-fits-all approach to technology and culture.

It's not a sign of a "cultural pandemic" (borrowed from the article) that people on the subway don't talk to each other, and instead read emails and play games on their phones. It's a sign that people you meet on the subway are usually weird, and we would rather devote our scarce time to people we care about and liesure activities than interacting with strangers. This is not new, and not a bad thing. Stop acting like technology is a drug so you can write a hacky sensationalist article about how you gave it up.
CloudPlay (http://cloudplay.fm) is a minimal music player for your menu bar. It searches iTunes of course, but also online sites like YouTube, SoundCloud, and bunch of others. Depending on the type of music you listen to, it might be all you need.

Disclaimer: I am the developer of CloudPlay.
The point of the first one is he's abusing grep as cat; what he really wants is a cat that shows filenames, but since there's no such thing he uses "grep ." as a substitute.
> Not be self-promotional, but as a hobby...

I think you meant, "Self-promotion: As a hobby...".

And that's just fine, I for one appreciate it.
How is that not considered entrapment?
Nope,

<file ./command --args

and even

./command <file --args

works fine in Bash and Zsh.
Doesn't exist yet. I'll update the API GitHub page once we add it.
Just giving my honest opinion, but those "so-so" websites look like websites from the mid to late 90s.
> I thought organic food was bringing back an old category of food that just happened to have a new name.

It's an quality standards certification [1]. Part of it is "doing things the old fashioned way" but that's mainly a reaction to the negatives of big-agribusiness over-use of irradiation and pesticides... as new way of meeting organic requirements are found, as long as the quality standard is met, it's still organic.

That's not to say the term "organic" hasn't been co-opted, much like "green", or "hybrid" [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_certification
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing
I don't think its about pride and making it pretty - that is - maybe it's the reason, but it's not what brings success in that area.

I think it's because, when it looks good, it's easier to find the information, and it makes you want to look at it. It makes you want to work with it.

Now then again while I realize github has a huge, huge amount of things running at the same time, I do find github quite a bit slower than my "own" remote repos :P
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I agree, this is fantastic price point and an awesome trend. Try hitting this price point with a COTS Arduno + ethernet shield!
> carrot syntax

Heh. Be careful with this, though: ^ is the caret (note spelling) according to most sources of information about these things.

Random Fun Geekery Time: Back in the Before-Before, the grapheme in ASCII at the codepoint ^ is now was an up-arrow character, which is why BASIC uses ^ for exponentiation even though FORTRAN, which came first and which early BASIC dialects greatly copied, uses .

These days, ↑ is U+2191, or &uarr; in HTML.

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/arrows.html

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2191/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret
I get thousands of hits of people reading my articles. You are perhaps the first who really cared that much over the last 13 years. But I mainly write on my blog for me and those who want to read. I am not mad hungry for visitors - I have plenty - but if people want to read then all the better.

I have read a few lines in the Bible, there for I am an expert.
I have read a few lines of a medical text book, therefore I can perform operations.
I have read a line of a blog post, therefore I know what the blog post says and about the author.

(Also, in response to your earlier criticism about design. What do you think design is? Prettiness? Design is about the simplest answer to the problem. As you would have read - that was a Live Redesign, and since has been changed with yet more fiddling. It was not meant to be.)

The truth is I received hundreds of responses via Twitter and Email (some seemed scared to talk so openly about such a problem for fear of being ostracised.) It is a problem and one I wanted to discuss. I've seen it less so in the Ruby world mainly because front-end is much easier to master and slower moving. The Ruby world is less forgiving - remember Yehuda's heckling earlier this year.

So I wrote a post about what I felt was a serious matter and you decided that you had read one sentence and it offended you because of your snap judgement that you knew who I was. You decided that I know nothing about design based on your subjective knowledge (and looking at your Geocities-style abomination of a website - this doesn't help you any further) and the fact that I am dyslexic and perhaps don't always get the words that I want to say out correctly. It was a needless comment that held no value to the thread, to the subject matter or anything.

If you had said "This content is hard to read. I wish the author would rewrite it" then I would have acknowledged that and even perhaps done that. As I have done once before. Instead you tried to act clever (even failing the mark on one of the corrections.)
If you do

less <ESC>.

it will save you even more keystrokes.
I think it's also far too easy to convince oneself into believing that a profitable business is actually creating value, rather than merely moving it around. So there are many pitfalls.
From an economic theory point of view, productivity increases generally increase the demand for labor.

The suggestion that there is some level of "need" for labor suggests that there is a certain "need" for produced goods, and we happen to be at it right now.

But we used to be below this level of output (which suggests our current level isn't a "need"), and consumption is still increasing... rather than leveling off.
I am completely ignorant to bitcoin, so I cannot answer.
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Don't aid in the transportation/distribution of stolen goods and you won't be arrested for it!!!
"... The decision to release an API was partially out of necessity, but also because I'm curious to see how people will use it. ..."

And who. The API just made a group of intelligence hackers very happy indeed.
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Interesting, though I have to wonder if that's necessarily true; it seems that you could designate a button using only rectangles and solid colors in a way that would be clear and unambiguous (e.g. Google+'s buttons). Either way, interesting application of Norman's ideas of 'affordances.' DoET is a perennial favorite of mine.
I just incorporated using Clerky. Superb service.
> more fruits and vegetables and less corn byproducts

Wow. What on earth do you think corn even is? Monsanto didn't invent the stuff, you know.
What name do you suggest for the concept?
Reminds me of the cypherpunk's 'assassination politics' episode.

(I do not condone assassination)
Savage reasoned that cell phone contents are deserving of Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures because people generally keep them on their person at all times. "Text messages are often raw, unvarnished, and immediate; revealing the most intimate of thoughts and emotions to those who are expected to guard them from publication," she wrote, further stating that the court "does not find that the remote possibility that an unintended party will receive a text message due to his or her possession of another person‘s cell phone is sufficient to destroy an objective expectation of privacy in such a message

This seems like one of these decisions that defy reality.

In this case the phone was not being kept on the person, and yet the judge writes that phones are expected to be kept on the person contra reality.

If people expect text messages to be delivered immediately, they are wrong. Their expectation doesn't change reality.

If some people expect text messages to be kept private, they are wrong. Their expectation doesn't change reality.

If the cop found the cell phone, beeping, with a new message and that message was incriminating, I have no problem with it being used against them.

If the cop picked up the phone, beeping, with a new message, and then pressed buttons to get to the messaging functions where he then read the incriminating message, that is much more problematical.

If people think their text messages are private, they are just wrong.
The nice thing about parallel is that it can actually run some of the instances on remote machines using SSH, transparently (as long as they have the commands). You just need a couple of parameters and it takes care of uploading the files the command needs and then downloading the results. It's quite awesome.
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I think this is something we'll just have to wait and see on, AFAIK we don't know what the APIs and such on WP8 are yet.
New startup Ivan? Been a while, should catch up sometime!
Here is a list of Swedish foreign aid amounts dating back some thirty years:

http://www.openaid.se/en/countries
I use a custom function:
function hl() { local R=$1; shift && egrep --color=always "|$R" $@; }
I like this but i can't decide if it's technically abuse or not. The paste command will happily parse - (meaning read from stdin) multiple times, so for transposing a list into a table:

file.txt:
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
line6

$ paste - - - < file.txt

line1 line2 line3
line4 line5 line6

Combine with the column command for pretty printing. I seem to find a use for this pretty frequently.

I like the simplicity of this one but it's not very useful day to day:

$ echo *

As a replacement for "ls".
It's probably the person that recently stole the $250k worth of bitcoins. Just hype up your commodity with a PR stunt before you unload it. It worked well for Facebook!
And the assumption that the PwC US uses Locklizard, and not a PwC firm in any other countries.

You know, considering they're separate partnerships and all.
Sweet! This is great. Almost like betali.st
You can walk up to any mailman/mailwoman in the USA and hand them a stamped, addressed letter and they will throw it in their mailbag and then at the end of their shift they will dump all the outgoing mail into a sorting machine.

There are un-surveiled postal drops all over the USA.

Remember the anthrax letters? Case was never solved.
Now that Github is fast and beautiful, I personally hope they make it fast in Japan.
Here is a historical breakdown of previous Swedish aid to Cambodia (data from 1975 and onwards):

http://www.openaid.se/en/countries/kambodja?year=2011