skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well said, yet completely wrong. People are thinking this stuff, so why should they not say it? The internet is different from real life - everyone with an opinion lands here, and can give their honest opinion. Let them give it, for those of us who grew up in the old polite days, this may be strange, but it's the new world! We are entering a time of REAL freedom of speech, and now that you are confronted with it, do not run away.

Look at YouTube comments, that's how the world really is like. You want to regulate this away? You think you actually can? Welcome to the new world, it's not worse, it's just different. Insulting people is the rock 'n' roll of 2009, if you can't deal with it, well, there's a cable plugged into your wall that you can simply pull out.

Times are changing, folks. Profanity, insults have become way cheaper, because anonymity also has. Arrington may complain, and all the people in this little community of ours make shake their heads and nod sorrowly and agree that something has to be done, but do you realise exactly how small your community is? You are reaching nobody, and nobody can hear your voice.

What we have is a herd of elephants thundering down a slope, heading towards a world of extremely democratic and free speech, and a bunch of rabbits form a council on the side and decide that they choose that the elephants should all start walking the other way.

Pointless, I say! Change sometimes goes your way, but sometimes change goes the way you don't like. This time it is that way, and very frankly, all these beard stroking and discussion about this will have little effect.

So, we can't just all grow up, because the internet is young. It will stay young, so if you want a place where everyone is grown up and civil, build a gate and hide behind the walls.

And don't forget to tap hard on the walls when the rock 'n' roll music of the neighbours gets too loud.
Check out Tom Clancy's non fiction books.

Very well written and I believe exactly what you are looking for.
It's not a web app, but I highly recommend OmniFocus for mac and iphone. The desktop app and iphone app can sync with each other, which is nice. I use it all the time, and it's great for doing brain dumps, then organizing projects and todos.
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"Money is created through forms of credit and debt, i.e., when banks make loans and debtors accept them, the money instantly exists. Only a fiat system can allow this form of money creation."
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4611
"You get somebody towards whom "everyone" feels warmly disposed (like Kathy), and the people on the fringes -- who feel their own brilliance is being ignored -- hate this interloper, who adds no value, who isn't even one of us for fuck's sake! And people like him/her! Act as if they are god's gift to whatever!"

You understand!

You're right that the attacks come from insecurity -- but the insecurity is not rooted in "I'm being ignored", it's "the emperor has no clothes!". They can't see a way to make an honest non-anon criticism: the target wouldn't accept it, and the fawning crowd would lynch him. "How the hell is this person ever going to find out that not everyone thinks they're hot shit?" races through their feverish mind. Taking a few seconds to send them some anonymous vitriol will sure alert them to the fact that they are pissing someone off!
It's because secretly I hate you. :-)
haha I think that would work and the best thing is you don't need funding, just put up some flyers at your local university cs department.

I remember back when I had the dreaded 0 years of professional experience I would have done anything to have a programming job on my resume.

Getting that first programming job is the most frustrating thing.
If you're on a Mac, you could try OmniFocus. It's a pretty decent implementation of Getting Things Done (the core of which is what you're describing). I've been using it since it was in beta and I'm really happy with it.

It lets you make folders, projects, and actions. Actions can have start/end dates, repetitions, and contexts. The idea of contexts is that you should be able to see what actions are available to you at any time in any place. Actions can have sub-actions and you can specify whether the sub-actions have to be done in sequence or can be done concurrently. You can also set up a global quick-entry hotkey which will let you enter an action and have it placed in your Inbox so you can organize it later.

There's also an iphone app, but I haven't found it teribly useful. OmniFocus has the ability to grab tasks from Mail.app in a special (user-defined) format and I found that works as well for adding new tasks as anything.

The downside is that it's $80. I got it for $40 when it was in beta, and I think it's a much harder sell at $80. If you aren't interested in this, or aren't on a mac, just google "getting things done" or "GTD"
I think the point was that this was in 1996, long before Python entered mainstream use.
I know this is off-topic, but every time I see a post like this, I feel like I'm back on /. during the 90's, why does this site feel the need to make the page wider than screen whenever pre-formatted text has long lines. (Other sites solve this by inserting scroll bars or forcing line wraps, but not this one.)
A quick read is Wikipedia's summary of Miyamoto Musashi's "Book of Five Rings" - it's about Japanese swordsmanship in the early 1600's in a variety of situations: Full-on combat, a duel, outnumbered, with high/low ground, etc. It's strategic more than tactical, and if you like Sun Tzu you might dig it.

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

The story of his life, "Musashi," is one of my favorite books of all time and has good strategic and philosophical discussion mixed in with some really riveting action and social commentary. Musashi had a lot of potential at a young age, but was extremely undisciplined and constantly had it out with the law, society, and people whose motivations he couldn't understand. The book chronicles him becoming the greatest swordsman in Japanese history. An incredible read, especially for anyone who was bright at young age but questioned a hell of a lot of society's rules.

Amazon (no affiliate B.S., just a great book):
http://www.amazon.com/Musashi-Eiji-Yoshikawa/dp/4770019572
worth a read, i say. good post.
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Highlights: http://www.aimgroup.com/index.php/article/highlights-from-jp...
getting the first job period is. Doesn't matter if you are in business, math, biology etc. Noone will hire a person with no experience...if they have the option
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>Mark to market is why the institutions that went under already went under. They were cash positive, but couldn't meet their reserve requirements when the markets for their assets disappeared.

Yes, and more will have to disappear to resolve this situation. The sooner the better.

>Mark to market is absurd for illiquid assets. The fact that I can't sell my house today doesn't mean that it's worth $0.

Unfortunately it means precisely that. The home is worth $0 (or less) when offered for sale on the market.

Don't confuse the market's valuation with some other personal valuation of "worth".

Long-term investors holding cash may justify their purchases by using time-averaging, but they are very rare and getting their attention is difficult unless you have 100s if not 1000s of homes to sell in blocks.
http://butyoureagirl.com/2009/01/28/did-norm-coleman-fake-hi...

Apparently the 'crash' left rather a lot of data sitting out in the open.
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It's up to the employers to pay their interns. Why? Because they are the ones who demand that their new hires have that internship experience. If you're not going to get hired unless you coughed up the bucks to get "industry experience," that is a horrible deal that sets a bad precedent for the future. This is one step away from unpaid entry-level jobs, where you don't get paid until you're making the company enough profit.
Depends on your game plan I think.
If you want to look all big and important so you'll hopefully get acquired, you need to spend tons of money on things that impress potential acquirers.

If however you just want to make money, profit, things like that, you don't need to spend much money for a web based startup at all.
How about Tracks? http://getontracks.org/

It's also based on the GTD philosophy, it's very easy to use and has some nice features. You can find an online version here, try the demo first to see if you like it: https://tracks.tra.in
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So what's the point of AIR? Why do we need it.
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I can't think of any books, but you can find good descriptions of strategy used in famous battles on wikipedia. Some interesting battles.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia
I agree it might be possible to learn a lot from experienced people, but getting such an internship might be really hard? What do you think are major things one can't learn by oneself, by jumping into the cold water?

In any case, it seems to me if one pays to get an internship, it is unlikely that the internship will be any good. The company probably doesn't really need anybody and doesn't care, otherwise they would look for the best person available, not for the highest bidder.
"The Art Of War" is great, I read this version when I was 13 but I would still recommend it as a good place to start before getting another translation or other books:

"Sunzi Speaks: The Art of War"

Tsai Chih Chung

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385472587

Some online reading that you might find interesting:

http://www.ingber.com/combat97_cmi.ps.gz

http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Symposia/joint2008/papers/Hoffman%20...

http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Symposia/joint2008/papers/Warden%20P...

http://www.dodccrp.org/files/Smith_Complexity.pdf
"Do not drive a school bus blindfolded, as Bernanke did."
"Warfighting", hands down:

http://www.amazon.com/Warfighting-U-Marine-Corps-Staff/dp/96...

It won't teach you how to drive tanks and lob grenades, but it is one of the best military strategy books I've read.

If you just want the PDF, it's freely available here:

http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/service_pubs/mcdp1.pdf
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You sound like you're looking for something like Jones' The Art of War in the Western World:

http://www.amazon.com/Art-War-Western-World/dp/0252069668

Or just go there and follow Amazon "related" links.

Jones is of the "very broad" school of military history. It can be a little bit dry, but it certainly tries to be comprehensive: It's like Civilization in that it starts with phalanx and then moves slowly forward through the history of strategy and tactics.

You might like the works of John Keegan, another famous military historian who takes a general approach. He's got a History of Warfare that's like a lighter-weight version of Jones -- I might recommend starting with that, actually. His one-volume histories of WWI and WWII are probably decent.

Keegan is British, so it wouldn't surprise me if his histories were heavy on the Western front. If you want the actual history of WWII you need a history that's more about the Eastern Front, which is pretty much where the war in Europe was actually decided. Unfortunately, the history on that subject lags decades behind, because the surviving Germans didn't exactly want to dwell on it and the Soviets weren't exactly forthcoming. (Many of the key Soviet figures either got disappeared by Stalin or lived under the constant fear of being disappeared by Stalin.) I'm not sure what the best current general history of the Eastern Front is, but I do know that the big Western expert on the subject is David Glantz, who has spent the last twenty years digging through formerly-sealed Soviet records of enormous battles that were covered up for years. I'd probably start with:

http://www.amazon.com/Slaughterhouse-Handbook-Eastern-David-...

because I don't know any better and it comes up first on Amazon.

If you want something written by a gamer try the works of James Dunnigan, founder of SPI and author of a whole pile of famous simulation board games. I read most of his Dirty Little Secrets of World War II and it was interesting. A much breezier style than the heavy-duty military historians. And he's got books that cover contemporary military stuff as well as history.

Nobody should read about war at the 10,000 foot level without also reading about what it's actually like on the ground. Obviously, the great modern literary works on the subject are Slaughterhouse Five and, even more so, Catch-22. In the realm of nonfiction, Fussell's Wartime was interesting, but it led me to Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, which is even better: a very good book by a guy from the front lines in the Pacific who is not shy about telling you exactly what went on. Comes with an endorsement by PG! (from the last time I mentioned it on HN.)Don't read it over lunch if you're squeamish.

(I haven't actually read some of these, but my dad is a military boardgamer and military history buff. He's got several bookshelves packed with books like these.)
I've tried this before with a VirtualBox image of XP. Even the base install of XP, without any updates or added software, is too large for Git to handle, or at least too large on my machine with 2GB of RAM.
I read it. Years ago. And at the time, it was one of the most influential books I had read. But it has its pluses and minuses like any book.

One plus that I remember: They apply Heidegger's notion of "Readiness at Hand" to software (Simple non-software example: A hammer does not exist when you're using it. At that moment, it's an extension of your body. A hammer only exists during a fail -- hammering your thumb, for example). That had a big influence on the way I design user experiences.

One minus: The book is sort-of building a case for a workflow system the authors were building that ultimately crashed and burned in a pretty big way. They odd thing to me was that, in reading their description of the workflow system, it seemed anything but ready-at-hand. It was very strict and regimental in the way it operated and required people to actively think about process flow (which isn't a bad thing, but I think it takes you off the court and puts your in the stands, so to speak). But, learning what doesn't work is, in and of itself, a form of learning, as we all know. And, sometimes things fail due to timing and it is likely the case that, back in 1987, it was way too early to approach businesses with such a radical approach to workflow.

I recommended it to people for many years and I still would.
This is a silly rant. All he really says is that too many C++ programmers have bad taste, in his opinion.

C++ is objectively a far more powerful and expressive language than C.
Thank you. I completely agree. People get pissed because Apple introduced MobileMe before it was ready and then they get pissed because Apple is taking their time to get the push service implemented properly.
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Interesting... I wonder if there's a bias here? I know that Ohloh is not very popular in the Ruby community. What would you get if you used Github instead?
"But in their eyes, it was a valuable use of their time to harrass a 20yo girl"

Ah, out comes the "girl card". I instantly understand why you were trolled, then. Demanding special treatment because of gender or race is an excellent way to inspire animosity and often leads to attacks back along the same lines by which you claim exceptionality.
I used to have a lot more time for non CS reading and actually made an Amazon list on this topic back in 2005:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2INJSM38...

1. On War (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Carl Von Clausewitz

2. Leadership: The Warrior's Art by Barry R. McCaffrey

3. Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach by Dandridge M. Malone

4. The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat by James R. McDonough

5. The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory and AirLand Battle by Robert Leonhard

6. Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian) by B. H. Liddell Hart

7. The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli

8. Hagakure: The Book of the Samauri by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

9. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

10. The Art of War (Shambhala classics) by Sun Tzu

11. The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli

12. Evolutionary Game Theory by Jörgen W. Weibull

13. On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse-tung

14. The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides

15. The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus

16. The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon

17. Plutarch: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series, Vol. 1) by Plutarch

18. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch

19. Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 1-5) by Titus Livy

20. The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy
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Have you read Clausewitz On War? That was one of my favorite books last year.

This is more general than you are looking for and it stops a bit short of air war but it helped me to put historical events into a global context.

The outline of history; being a plain history of life and mankind. Rev. and brought up to date by Raymond Postgate and G.P. Wells. With maps and plans by J.F. Horrabin.

Wells, H. G. 1866-1946. (Herbert George),
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday 1971,
Book. 1103p., D21 .W4 1971

I'd say definitely search for books written about Iraq and Afghanistan, that should give you some information about current strategies.
"attracting the attention of a google PM" I am sure I'm missing some cultural nuance here((Though I've lived in the USA, I've been in INdia for the last 6 years). Are Google PMs very attractive in general?
"The technical need to store IP addresses for 48 hours – blocking automated use of Ixquick's servers – has been overcome by recent technological developments,"

Umm what? recent? You've been able to hash the IP for quite a while now, to protect against abuse, etc but to protect anonymity.

I believe that's pretty standard if you want a unique ID for a users IP, but don't want to store IPs.

Maybe I'm missing something...
This is brilliant. Things like these are why I love science.
The book of 5 rings is a nice book. Here's another: Arthashastra by Chāṇakya has some chapters on war - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthashastra
It's tricky; plenty of T'ai Chi schools focus on the chi gung applications and ignore fighting. Some schools that do focus on practical applications go so far in debunking the mysticism that they throw the baby out with the bathwater. Googling here in Tampa Bay for the less popular internal martial arts* found me my school, which is called Clear Silat. Its nominal focus is Pentjak Silat; but after learning the basics, Xingyi, Systema, and eventually Bagua find their way in.

*Xingyi(quan)|Hsing-I Chuan, Bagua(zhang)|Pa Kua Chang, Liu He Ba Fa, and Meihuazhuang are Chinese internal arts. Systema is a Russian art that shares a lot with Tai Chi, but substitutes specialized calisthenics for chi gung, and guarantees you learn how to get punched. Pentjak Silat is an Indonesian art--actually a large group of arts, like Kung Fu--with a lot of fun knife and machete work.
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God Bless Australia. I love that country, and I really liked how tax is already included in all prices and payment is rounded to 5c since there are no 1c pieces. It makes payments so much simpler.
For many different reasons a few of them being, that it's easy and yet powerful and let you create powerful professional apps with any degree of usability and UX you require.

It allows for you to blur the line between of and online in a much more smooth way.
I suggest Germanium. (ducks)
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You can bypass the registration and view the article directly here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.h...
Aside: Happy Birthday, tdavis ;)
http://www.amazon.com/War-Nerd-Soft-Skull-Press/dp/097966368...

Certainly not dry. I can't vouch for his accuracy, but he knows a lot and could point you to some interesting battles/periods to study.
If you really want to know what the dollar is backed by, you should read Confessions of an Economic Hitman.Yes, some may take what was said in the book for hyperbole, but i firmly believe that the dollar is backed by the power of the U.S. Military.But what the dollar is backed by is irrelevant. Currency values will rise and fall with the general prevailing theories of economists;in the end all modern monetary systems are simply backed by the belief in the system.For the US dollar, that belief stems largely from the network effects of the dollar, as well as the relative ease of doing business and fair regulation in the U.S.

Pearls to swine, people will continue to lose money shorting the dollar. Its like Microsoft...you can love it or hate it, but its not going away.
the test for assault is that a reasonable person would fear for their safety or life

the test for battery is that you harmfully or offensively touched someone or something on them

i think spitting would fall under both for most juries..
Military strategy? I'd like to hear your startup pitch :)
Amen. The worst aspect is that the system rewards mediocrity. Real brilliance is often punished as (or along with) out of bounds behaviour. To add insult to injury, the education systems of the world have also proven to be very resilient against change so far. School and college have seen almost zero change over the last century in large parts of the world - no wonder they're not a good fit for the internet world anymore.

Real progress has only been made in a few countries, Scandinavia comes to mind. The success in these countries shows that the rest of the world could greatly benefit from opening up...
Indeed. So paying for the consultant to help you style your CV might be better.
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Huh? Hashing an IP address protects anonymity? Against who?

You do realise an IP address is 4 bytes? You could brute force guess the thing in a few minutes, and generate a rainbow table for the whole possible set in an hour or two, much less if you had a lot of memory. It's no protection whatsoever.
How can wanting someone dead ever be logical? I understand not liking someone, or disagreeing with their policies, but wanting them dead seems a bit extreme.
Martin van Creveld writes some serious analysis. Consider...

Supplying War -- on logistics (as in "professionals study...")

Command in War -- on communication, information, and the importance of local autonomy leading to quick action

The Transformation of War -- has strategy's biggest buzzword right there in the title, but this was written back in 1991. On the growing role of low-intensity and asymmetric conflicts.

His books tend to be short, but very dense.