skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are testing from Europe somewhere by the look of it. Many people have scattered servers now. It would be good to be able to test from non-European locations.
Coghead post mortem: a partner’s perspective
Even after the inode link count is 0, if a process still has the file open, it still remains on disk; that's the root of this trick. However, that is not sufficient; you also need a way to get access to the file so you can copy the data out of it before the process closes it. That is the interesting part of this trick — a way to use the /proc filesystem to get at the file.

cp /proc/322/fd/3 savedfile is a lot easier than fiddling around with fsdb on a mounted filesystem.
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Science Fiction stories in 140 characters each.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=488541
R is essentially an open source S-Plus implementation. S-Plus licensing can be an issue, particularly when you are running on a cluster. I worked at a place that used S-Plus and they had a to limit the number of S-Plus slots to run jobs against because of licensing.
Maybe Joel's "Bionic Office" will give you some inspiration:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html
Extending Your Models Using Custom Plugins, Or, A Brief Introduction to Metaprogramming
R is a different language (which is vectorized and partially functional) and has a more comprehensive stats library and better for "statsy" things, whereas matlab is better for more "mathy" things like linear algebra.
Anyone with Pylot (or any other load testing tool) could do this at any point they wanted to your server from the comfort of their own home. Shall we boycott those next? And this site even seems to have denial-of-service protection of different types that you don't get with those DIY tools.

I love being able to test this out right away, so I'm in favor of keeping it pretty much how it is. I was looking for this exact service two weeks ago and was surprised I couldn't easily find someone who did this with transparent pricing/plans.

Keep the transparency and ease of trying it out-- there are too many companies in this space saying "Call us for a free quote" with "account execs" when this doesn't need to be that complicated of a service.
Would you not consider YC to be a venture capitalist ? Or do you characterize it as an angel operation ?

From the homepage "Y Combinator is a new kind of venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups. We help startups through what is for many the hardest step, from idea to company."

You definitely strike me as a hacker :)
Here's a demo of the app as-is:
http://helpdemo.bigfolio4.com/
USER: helper
PASS: secret
(login link for staff is in the footer)

I'm working on a good list of bugs/features right now (emailing ticket alerts/updates is not in yet), so please be gentle :)

Also, I should probably fork/branch a version that doesn't have the fields/links specific to our company. I'm still wrapping my head around github though.
Hm. Not sure about VCs investing other peoples money. Some companies I work for that definitely position themselves as VCs have all the money brought in by the partners in the company.

I think an angel is a person, just the one guy/girl doing the investment, a VC is a fund that has multiple sources, possibly outsiders but also in some cases the partners themselves. Some funds are simply more 'open' to outsider investors.
Will do, thanks.

Do you think a project like this should have its own site? (aside from what's on github)

I personally don't have a ton of time to implement features beyond what we need at our company. Plus, I really only consider myself an intermediate Rails developer.
There's http://gitcasts.com/posts/railsconf-git-talk

It helped me to actually get git (incidentally that's also the talk's title).

Don't let the "rails" in the URL mislead you, it's mostly about git and you can easily skip the part about Rails.
These always (fail to)address the same old issues. I switched to SVN for some specific features. I've looked and not been able to get definite answers if git supports these. In fact I've mostly gotten "if you don't do it/use it our way you're stupid, go away".

proper directory move/rename history

proper binary handling(that is no merging, newest file wins)

proper line ending handling (that is default to convert to local system's standard but overrideable per file/file pattern)

proper permission handling (track permissions and set them on check out/update/whatever you call it)

git seems focused solely on source code and heavily towards the Linux Kernel development process.

I use svn for website deployments, tracking changes to servers' filesystems(parts thereof), and occasional source code. I don't use anything close to the Linux Kernel dev process.
Thank you very much for the comments guys. Much appreciated.

If I'm honest with myself, I'm probably going to have to accept that everyone has strengths and weaknesses. You have to play to your strengths and find solutions to your weaknesses. My strengths are ideas, passion and a good business sense. My weakness is... well... hacking!

I think I will still give the Ruby a go. I did download "it" a few weeks ago and played with another tutorial. In the meantime, I'll also try to broaden my hackers network!
copying the file from /proc creates a copy. fsdb allows you to map a name to an inode (er.. inode to a name). this is quite handy if the file is being written to. and fsdb is frequently available where proc is not.
That was my first thought -- not that the rumor was untrue, but that it was an exceptionally weak basis for a story, and possibly bordering on irresponsible. A tip from a random person via email that starts off with "I heard from a friend..." is hardly the type of thing you go to press with.
In *BSD you can use fsdb to link an inode to a directory, ala:

-# fsdb /dev/ufs/foo
> inode 424242 # inode number of the target directory
> ln 821339 myimportantfile

You might also need to do "inode 821339" and "uplink" to increment the link count. Alas, you can't do this on a live filesystem, at least not safely, and once deleted the inode will be cleared, so doing this won't get your file back. Maybe if you pull the plug and try it on an unclean filesystem?
Yes and no. I think they're trying to find a single point of responsibility. TPB crew keeps dancing around who was responsible for which aspects of TPB, which makes prosecution extremely difficult.
http://norvig.com/21-days.html (with tongue quite near cheek).
Firm != fund. A fund invests other people's money, in return for management fees and a percentage of the net return. Though of course the partners can have some of their own money in the fund.

We're financially more like angels, but systematic like a fund.
An annual favorite of mine: Lake Superior State University Banished Words List (http://www.lssu.edu/banished/)
Ticketing Startups Launch Multi-Million Dollar Funds To Combat TicketMaster Merger
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/arm/
> I bet you start with "I need to make a note of this phonenumber" and not "I need to create ~/data/contacts/business/suppliers/joans.computers" so I can put this phonenumber in it".

I only save things that think that I'll want to find some time in the future.

As a result, I don't think "I need to make a note of this phone number". Instead, I ask something like "How do I make a note of this phone number so I can find it again?" and then I think "I should put it {some place}".

Yes, hierarchical file systems are merely one of the many ways to implement "{some place}", but that doesn't make "{some place}" unimportant, irrelevant, or unnecessary.
A guy at a conference referred to Loudcloud as 'Loudmouth', referring to Andreessen's self-promotion. Pretty amusing, but unfair.
We’re in an “ask economy.” so how do you ask? — seth godin[video]
A great refactoring tutorial that uses modules to mixin behaviors across multiple models.
Amen. And iTunes is a total nightmare if you don't want it to store the files where it wants to. I'm all for abstracting away the file system, but the fact remains that there are files under there, so don't make it difficult for me to deal at that level when I have to.
I think unlimited undo would solve this situation. If you're autosaving revisions, it's not a huge step to imagine allowing undo across application invocations.
Them missing the shift to software wasn't for lack of trying. They had lots of mainframe software, and then had a huge division making PC applications software in the eighties, which no one much liked. Then they made a major push with OS/2 and forked DOS from Microsoft, and bought Lotus. Unfortunately for them, for some reason IBM didn't seem to be able to make mainstream software that people wanted to buy.
These Toes Were Made for Running
Angels don't take board seats.
You are advocating the position that people will be rational about seeing videos that speak to our animal core selves.

I don't buy it. Even if people intellectually realize that a stupid sexy video made when you are 18 is no big deal, it will still unavoidably color people's opinion of you, and there isn't a damned thing you can do about it except make sure they can't get that video in the first place.
Maybe TechCrunch should have asked first.

If this rumor is false and spreads widely doing appreciable financial harm to last.fm, this could very well be the end of Michael Arrington's TechCrunch. In that event, last.fm will have a very strong libel case and claim to very substantial damages.

I think last.fm would be forced to sue if this rumor does enough damage. I wonder how long TechCrunch's resources can hold up against a phalanx of CBS attorneys.
About 30 minutes ago this story hit the front page of Digg. Now I can't find it anywhere...

X-Files theme song

The main thing that keeps me from loving Digg is that there's no way to block users and their submissions. If only I could block the small number of spammy accounts making up 60% of the front page - and then see the next most popular stories instead!
It's not just the brightness though. (I'm using a Powerbook G4.)

F.Lux appears to change the tint and other color factors depending on lighting and the brightness outside. Yes, I probably could get the same effect from diddling with the display settings, but this way I click a single button and it sets everything up for me.

And, to my eyes at least, it did make a remarkable difference. I went from the constantly nagging-at-me desire to rub my eyes to an instant feeling of, "Hey, that looks nice. Ahhhhh."

The one catch is, I wonder how this is going to affect graphics work. Does it mean that I'm gonna get colors all wrong when working on graphics at night?

'Course ... I'm all kinds of color-blind anyway, so maybe this'll actually help!
It does, but it is also a dangerous game, the judge could simply order them to give testimony as to who is responsible for any one of those aspects. Somebody has to actually do it, if nobody 'did it' then somebody is lying... and lying to a judge is not very smart.
I don't think discussing a rumor is libel. Techcrunch makes it pretty clear that it is a rumor.
hey alecco - site owners have full access to all the raw data via API or FQL, btw.
I wouldn't call unchecking one preference a "total nightmare".
JQuery 1.3.2 Released.
You're misinterpreting reality with that quote, because labor that produces inherently more valuable goods is inherently more valuable labor than labor which does not. Part of the wealth that goes into the peanuts and book is the extremely valuable labor of finding out who needs what resources.
None of these three items are necessarily true of "having a descriptive title on a Web [sic] site".

Why not? Having a properly worded title could be the difference between having 100 people find your project or 1000 people find it. Those people are then the difference between you getting consulting gigs for whatever you invented or not.

With your criteria you could argue that Ruby on Rails (the original topic a few posts up) could not possibly be "marketed" as the developers did not "gain financially" from people using it, but in an indirect way they certainly did - conferences, prestige (non-financial), consulting gigs, book deals, and so forth.

Take the word "financially" out of your criteria, however, to cover these open source cases and nearly all communications is marketing. After all, when I first met my now-wife, I stood to gain if she liked me, I wanted her to like me, and I certainly played up on my good points.

The thing I want to point out is that item 3 is very much at odds with basic norms of honest discourse

Honest discourse, perhaps, but most day to day discourse is not honest. On the whole, people will play up positive aspects of things they like and downplay negative aspects that work against them or things they have a high opinion of.

I think that's why so many people hate marketing: it creates a constant temptation to dishonesty, most marketers succumb to it at least a little, and that severely damages the quality of discourse in conversations that contain marketers.

I'd say that the majority of conversation has that quality. But most people don't hate conversation, even though it is typically riddled with manipulation and selective truths (usually in a quite non-malicious way.. few husbands are really going to tell the wife their butt does look big in those jeans..).
> Also forget for a second about words like "wealth" and "dollars" and look at basic resources instead: fish, meat, oil, wood and minerals.

The US has more forested land, more wood, than it did 100 years ago. Yes, it has fewer 1000 year-old trees than it did 100 years ago but it's unclear which direction that trend is going.

The US also has more meat than it did 100 years ago.

That's because meat and wood, unlike fish, are both farmed. However, farmed fish will take care of that.

As far as minerals go, there's a pretty obvious place to look for large amounts of them when the current natural caches become expensive. And, in many cases, we don't actually care about the "minerals", we care about what we can get from the mineral, such as iron. We're pretty good and getting better at reclaiming such materials when it makes economic sense (and we shouldn't try when it doesn't, even if we're pretty sure that it will later).
I am going to tell a real story about someone that I know to refute the general conception that "You are too old to learn new tricks".

He is a friend of mine. He was a jazz drummer when he was young and a professional recording engineer. He only has a GED but he has been self educating himself all his life. He masters logical reasoning more that most C.S. students due to his love for philosophy. And he has two kids to raise.

He wanted to learn computer programming and he went to a tech school like Chubbs institute. His first programming language is Cobol at the beginning in 1998. He was close to his 40th birthday then. But he wrote all exercises and was a responsible student. Then he learned C/C++ and all sorts of Microsoft Windows programming skills. He event wrote programs in his spare time just for fulfilling his curiosity about chaos theory, cellular automata and all sort of things. He is now a very excellent software engineer in his 50s in building Windows applications for his employers. Though he is not as well versed in Algorithms like those fresh out of school Ph.D. in CS. But he is capable of fumbling out pretty good algorithms after he worked through some basic algorithms, operating system concepts textbooks and grasped the essentials.

Back to your question: I think it is never too late to learn programming.

But consider your story, you have some business concern I need to address:

So if you have time to spend, you definitely can learn a skill to materialize your vision. But if you really think your idea is a "if you don't do it now then some else will do it sooner or later". Then you may need help from others. The dilemma is you have no idea what others is doing unless you have done it yourself! So you will have higher overhead in communicating out your ideas to others and vice versa. And because you don't know the skill, it will also be hard for you to evaluate your partners.
Seriously, I love the pop ups. I believe you have to respect the boundaries of different companies (jetblue, southwest, etc). The amount of time that this saves on my flight purchasing is huge. Well done!
I see techcrunch is getting desperate for stories.
I don't think that any of Last.fm's data would hold up in court. As far as I know Last.fm just records the artist and track names.

In this case I could rename a track to say U2 when it is actually some other artist and Last.fm wouldn't know the difference.
I think it is ... it's just harder the more saturated your niche gets. If you have a unique voice/point of view and are willing to put in the work (long hours, lots of hustling), you can still make a living blogging. (Bearing in mind that "make a living" means different things to different people and is variable based on cost of living where you live.)
Arrington is on vacation, Erick Schonfeld wrote that.
We don't need a new 'standard'. My last 3 phones have all had mini USB. Why do we need another standard, as that one clearly already exists AND allows for wired data connections?
I've been surprised by exactly that. What I'm reading into the trial so far -- and I'm only reading the English summaries, so I'm probably missing out on a lot -- is that TPB aren't really completely owning up to, "He wrote the code, he did the graphics, he did this, we did that..." It almost even sounds like every time the prosecution tries to nail down responsibility for anything, the defendant says, "I only did that a little".

IF that's what's going on, then IF I were the judge or a jury member, I would interpret that as people avoiding responsibility for their actions, which to me would imply that they thought they were guilty of a crime.
Arrington owns TechCrunch. Last.fm would sue TechCrunch if they chose to sue anyone.
I don't care for this story as it could potentially cause harm to a site I enjoy. Give a digg to the counter story

http://twitter.com/strutting/statuses/1232835743

If you feel as I do. Above is link to writer at DownloadSquad. I have no affiliation with any party, just enjoy Last.fm and feel this rumor could prove harmful.
Interesting. So, if they were so sure that they were not guilty then they'd have no problem in owning up to who did what. After all, if you are sure it is legal then that would be the cleanest strategy. By being wishy-washy they suggest that they are not so sure it is legal.

Hm...
What I would like is something like that: a hierarchial file system that also have metadata like you describe. So you'd be able to access files in the traditional way, but there would also be an API (and gui and command line tools) that would return all files matching criteria in the metadata.
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Interesting read. Regarding Lucida Grande, read here more: http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/luci...
The author is talking using parser generators for parsing XML. Well duh. That's huge overkill. There are so many decent libraries out there that it makes no sense to roll your own. If a DOM based parser is too cumbersome (say giant files), use SAX and grab what you want on the fly. Even if I were dealing with high volumes, like crawler output, I would still go with SAX until I figured out where my bottlenecks were.
To be fair, he didn't say "Last.fm Just Handed Over Listening Data to the RIAA."

Several times he says things like "supposedly" and "assuming."

While this might be a little weak to go to press with, he at least did not present it as fact but as a possibly-true rumor.
They've always been all about scandalous headlines and very little substance.
What if a box were provided near the top of the document with the document's current name? To rename the file you simply type the new name in the box.

Users should never really have to worry about saving. Google Docs does a good job of keeping documents saved without any need for user intervention.
+1. You could make the default "X" button mean "save and close", and have a separate button (perhaps in the drop-down menus, since this action is rare) mean "save and close".
That seems like it could be the case, but it is not.

I am drawing from this annual talk the lawyer gave at a small paper I worked at...

TechCrunch published a potentially false statement of fact: last.fm recently provided the RIAA with a giant dump of user data to track down people who are scrobbling unreleased tracks. It doesn't really matter that they are just quoting someone else or even quoting someone who is quoting someone.

You will not be able to find libelous quotes in newspapers. Everyone in the business is very careful about this.
I hope population does indeed plateau. But one twist is that the population subgroups that reproduce the most will over time become a larger portion of the population. As these subgroups grow, fertility trends may start to reverse.
I would love to solve this problem. I've commented before about the limitations of current file system management (e.g. top comment on http://www.woobius.com/scribbles/posts/0007-document-control...), and I've worked out most of the UI and algorithmic structure for a replacement system.

Soon. Real soon now, I'll get sick enough of dealing with file "management" systems, and this will start to roll out.
This guy is a known spammer (to pretty much everyone who runs a social news site), so take what he's saying with several large grains of salt.
No offense, but it's fairly amusing that you're so confident about this statement, when other people in the same thread are equally confidently arguing that Adam Smith isn't saying that at all.

I've got to defer to the guy who said that internet geeks don't know what they're talking about when it comes to economics.
If porn speaks to your "animal core self", I envy you. It stopped doing that to me around age 15.
Such file systems already exist. Take a look at HFS+ and Spotlight in OS X Leopard. It is not the only example.
People who surf with NoScript will see a remarkably fugly site. Unusable.

Avoid gratuitous scripting; use it to improve a good experience, not as a requirement for any experience at all.
Starbucks instant coffee reviewed, almost nauseating
Flickr, Django, PostGIS: Mashing up a world of photos
With a title like that, I thought it was going to be a Matt Maroon article.
"I’ve found that while I’ve moved on from the Rails scene, the scene has not moved on from me. It’s time to do something else with your lives."

I see the, uh, "elevated self-esteem" remains. As a member of the "Rails scene" myself I don't feel particularly stuck on Zed, and I don't get the impression many others are either, if they ever were. Maybe a couple of curmudgeons whose nose he tweaked or something, but on the whole the scene is much too large for any one attention-seeker to disrupt for long.

Note to Zed: Reddit users != "the Rails scene". Anyone who got bent out of shape by your rant != "the Rails scene". The real Rails scene is too busy, you know, working.

Not that I don't like Zed, I do. As our gentle host PG once put it, he "offends the right people", and I respect anyone who gets things done. But his antics have been a drop in the ocean. Zed's work on Mongrel affected the Rails scene far more than his rants ever did, so on balance his influence has actually been pretty positive.
Abstracting away the filesystem works great if all the software you use does provide you a way to get to it anyway (like iTunes does) if you really want it. However a lot of software doesn't provide that.

For example, on my S60 phone, the file system is pretty much hidden from the user. You just save your notes\contacts\pdfs\mp3s and the programs know where to put them and how to retrieve them. But try saving a python script as a note and then trying to get Python to execute it on your phone. Oops, no way to find out where that damn file is saved.
His example also won't work in Python 3.0.