skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said "somewhat" for a reason, but I think there are just too many special cases to keep calling them exceptions. I use awk and sed, pipe things into bzip2, but I more often use tar with a z or j option to compress stuff an in a pipeline. We also do not have separate tools for parsing python/ruby/perl and executing it. If code reuse using pipes were successful, wouldn't we have a separate 'exec' tool that is backend to all scripting languages? Looking at gcc with its zillions of options, pipes sometimes look more like an implementation detail than as the primary way to compose tools.

Also, other kinds of reuse of the things mentioned as examples of the Unix philosophy are rare. What languages on your system use lex and yacc? 'but thise tools are outdated' is not a good revuttal; if they are, how has that come about? I think the Unix philosophy is perfect for prototyping, but 'real' stuff tends to need polish that 'the unix philosophy' cannot provide. As a final example, consider git. As I understand , it started life as a set of scripts, but eventually became a C program.
Not such a great idea to post phone numbers like this. I think you should remove it now that some arrangements appear to have been made.
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The use of Mustache is a bit off putting. I'd prefer a template language that lets me put all the gory code I like in my templates.
The difference being, in the US the police are only likely to give you a hard time if they think you are guilty. In India, they are only likely to do so if someone bribed them to.
Do you find that frustrating? For me, days with less than 30% time spent doing coding feel like a waste. I think I value coding and the surrounding activities far more than any other type of work activity. For me that other 75% (I'm guessing spent in meetings) would feel like a time vacuum.
> I am pretty sure, the case is NOT as dramatic as it is being described (or the victim not as innocent)

You are 100% wrong on this, but you're going to have to trust me. I realize that for a 'facts and gory detais' hungry world that is not an easy thing to do but in this particular case I'm going to have to ask you to do just that.
> Back in the early 00's none of that suspend, sleep and restore stuff worked right on Windows laptops.

Bullshit. It worked fine. But only if you bought a proper laptop (mid-high end IBM + HP etc). If you bought a crapfest machine cobbled together by the lowest bidder, you got what you paid for...

Hell we had internal Windows NT machines up for 3-5 years at one point. Windows doesn't go wrong unless you throw crappy hardware at it.

The bad rep by shoddy hardware vendors is why they invested heavily in WHQL and testing and qualification.

And as for laughing at the business folk when their machines won't hibernate, that stinks of typical Linux smugness which in this area is certainly not justified. Linux's ACPI implementation is shitty and has never worked properly. I've have well over 50 Linux based laptops pass through my hands in the last 15 years and like hell hibernate/suspend works on any of them.
Very interesting. The "innovation" during low interest rate periods would still happen, but as you say would be a lesser kind of innovation, and with lasting persistent effects.

This could explain the current divergence in the GDP per capita curve (usually log linear) if we follow the idea that a continuous pace of innovation is necessary.

A quick wolframalpha graphing of the GDP per capita curve and federal funds rate shows in fact that the GDP per capita curve has inflections when interest rate quickly fall or go below 2.5%.

But considering that interest rates are used by the fed to try and fix the economy and thus highly correlated with high and lows, I don't know if there is a good way to check for this hypothesis.

It could also have bad consequences, since it predicts that countries with low interest rate (currently EU, US, JP) will experience a lesser form of innovation with lasting effects - and unfortunately I don't see interest rates going up, not with the current focus on low inflation.

It still is a very interesting concept. I would like to know more. Is there a name for the model you are describing? (or some links)
The end of the world was also predicted numerous times in the past.
Cannot happen? Would we able to detect it if it actually did happen?
Do consumers really win here? If your only indicator is that they save a couple of bucks, then sure. But there is more behind consumers winning.

Imagine a scenario where a company is able to cut costs, never over take the market leader and eventually dump the product, support and all (because they can't afford it due to the low cost). Does the consumer, who is still tied to this device, still considered a winner? The argument can be made that the company can then raise the price to try and offset the low cost previously. Sure, they can do that...and if they get caught, they could be called out for predatory pricing.

There are so many ways to compete with an incumbant, and price could be one of them. The only pitfall is the scenario (which has happened time and time again) of hemorrhaging losses because you are solely competing on price.

Competing solely on cost relies on heavy volume being sold in order for it to even provide razor thin margins. The companies will continually lose here because they aren't able to really recoup their investment put into the device.

In my opinion, the consumer only wins when the company wins because of the intangible benefits a company can afford to provide such as support and customer service. Without these, I don't see the consumer winning with companies competing solely based on price. And I think Apple is the perfect example for this (only because I cant think of others). They charge higher than normal for their devices, but they have great support and are willing to bend over backwards to make sure you as a customer are happy.

Just my .02
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And a link to that particular SotW chapter, for the curious: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/juggling_with_packets.txt
I think you have to be able to demonstrate that you can write good code as well. I think the only way I've been able to get the jobs I have has been because of open source work. Without that I'd have a much harder time finding work, as demonstrating my experience would be more difficult. Especially considering my education is in design & painting.
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I agree-- and yet, the most upvoted comments are the sideline comments discussing meta-aspects of the search, while the posts suggesting actual lawyers, or offering specific help, languish at the bottom.

I just went through and upvoted everybody who offered concrete help or advice.
That makes me feel so much better.
> I'd be ashamed of it if I was Indian.

Oh get over yourself. How many abuses of power and privilege do we see in the UK and the USA. Try to keep your racist insinuations out of what might be an admirable attempt to help someone.
Windows 8 is like a queen sacrifice. Windows knows it's burning its bridges, but forcing people to get used to Windows surface. People will hate it on the desktop (because change is bad), but pick a Windows tablet because they've already learnt (unwillingly) how to use it. I'm not saying it's a crap OS, just different. People hate different. Once they get used to it on their PC, it won't be different and they'll buy a Windows tablet.

Then Microsoft can roll back the interface on Windows 9 (making Metro a secondary interface), and corporate buyers will upgrade just to get away from Metro.
Assuming bitcoinstore hasn't ripped off their previous N customers, I'm fairly confident being purchaser N+1, especially if my transaction isn't "special" in any way.

They would have a lot to lose by ripping off customers, vs. a random seller on silkroad, so I'd feel comfortable up to a few thousand dollars.

I think I've actually bought something from Memorydealers before. I'm not sure of the relationship between bitcoinstore and Memorydealers. If they're the same entity, then I'd be fine up to $100k or so -- it's a real business.
The usability of desktop mode Windows 8 is actually worse than Windows 7.
I assumed this was where he lost his status as prodigy.
Since this looks like a case of corruption do consider involving India Against Corruption.

http://www.indiaagainstcorruption.org/
I'm sorry, but does Fox News actually have many journalists? From what I've seen, they mostly run pundits, so the statement is still technically true.
Another classic rant of Windows 8. The desktop mode is there FOR SOMETHING!

If you think Windows 7 sucks, then yes, Windows 8 will suck for you as well, else, there is should be no problem using it.
While there are many "naturals" that do great without a degree it is still a statistically significant differentiator for the average applicant. When I scan resumes I do look what applicants studied but usually only to get an idea of additional questions to ask that might be a bit outside of the recent experience. I would not hesitate to hire someone without a degree, though.
Well, one is always able to find faults with something if that is what he/she desire..
This is remarkably short-sighted and myopic.

Microsoft certainly held a lot of things back by sticking to a status-quo for as long as possible. But how can you blame them? It was a profitable status-quo.

Apple just foresaw the needs and wants of the consumer and created a product that matched them. They innovated on all fronts, without giving excuses or accepting limitations. I'm not saying they're perfect, but their achievement is one that could have been done by any company if they understood the whole picture; including usability, industrial design, aesthetics, software engineering, functionality, customer service, price point, and marketing.

Apple didn't invent the iPad. The iPad isn't what made them successful. Apple invented itself, and the iPad came out of it. It was the natural product of a company designed to create innovative products by taking all aspects of the experience into account.

Samsung, Dell, and others didn't invent the iPad because they weren't good enough companies. They didn't exude quality from every pore, and they didn't understand every aspect required to create true innovation. They can blame Microsoft all they want, but it won't get them anywhere. They won't be inventing iPads anytime soon, and they have to look inside their own culture to see why. But they won't.
Next time you need a lawyer urgently in India urgently, walk upto a court house. There'll be swarms of lawyers coming your way. Talk to a few of them in a group. Pick the one you feel comfortable. Lawyers are under employed in India, except for a select few who graduate to there own offices and staff. The rest ply the court houses looking for work.
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A man shot in the head and on the ground.
Sooo he wanted to write about Windows 8 but didn't really had anything to say.
You have the option of changing the template engine to any one you prefer - https://github.com/laktek/punch/wiki/Adding-a-New-Template-E...

For example, here's a handlebars plugin for Punch - https://github.com/laktek/handlebars
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Thank you for your reply.

I'm after a modern front end language which can used to develop web apps. Seems Ruby is best of a bad bunch.
Just a suggestion, but you might consider trying to get the news media to cover the case: if the general public are aware of the details, its more difficult for the police/judiciary to push through nonsensical judgements on a bogus case (note the case of Aseem Trivedi, for instance). In essence, they can't make a moderately well known person or case 'disappear', as it were.
> How many abuses of power and privilege do we see in the UK and the USA.

Without delving into some kind of pointless comparison of national judicial/police systems, I would much prefer to be arrested by a US policeman than by an Indian one, and that's saying a lot, considering my rather low opinion of the US legal system.

I don't think I'm being racist by making an observation on a system based on a number of reports by people who live there and have interacted with that system. Quit throwing names about.
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What you see here on HN is a shadow of what is happening to my inbox and phone, it's been ringing off the hook with people offering financial support and legal advice as well as lawyers offering their services. Incredible.
We are not in India. Daniel is in the UK and I'm in the Netherlands. We are trying to do this by remote control which is quite challenging. If we could have walked to the courthouse I'm fairly sure we would have done that.
The war will never end because of how profitable it is. Only if the 'fight' comes here to the states will they ever begin to think about legalizing anything.
The final quote is telling:

"If I knew [why we weren't first to market with a touch tablet] I might be retired in a tiki hut on a beach somewhere." (paraphrased)

Steve Jobs was first to market, and he made all those hundreds of billions of dollars and he was still working on the next thing until his last week on this earth.
Because you have to shy away from the desktop to launch anything. "Metro" is the new start menu.
And I'm 100% happy with that. I don't like change.

My desktop, which still aims to be as NT4 like as possible: http://i.imgur.com/4fFLq.png

Added Excel 97 vs Excel 2010 for an interesting discussion point as well...
Perfect example of why to opensource your work; I never could have made this awesome design. Great work!
An iPad - seriously?
In any other case I would happily follow this advice, in this particular case we will use that only as a means of last resort and let's hope that it will never come to that.
As everyone has, I built my own static site generator called Fairytale (https://github.com/46Bit/fairytale). Unlike a lot of them, it wasn't intended as a simple magic-incantation tool: I reimplemented the relevant parts of Sinatra for static-site compilation. You program everything and in development can just use the sinatra gem instead of the fairytale one to get a server.

I've been using it on https://46bit.com for something like a year now, and the thing I've realised is that it's largely a luddite thing. The movement is a rebellion against POS software like Wordpress, but ignores the fact that building a nice, Markdown-driven app with caching and a lovely interface is actually quite easy & friendlier in the long run.

It might be great for people afraid of servers, but I'm not. I don't want to be - I'm still serving a bunch of dynamic apps off the same two servers I use for a few static sites, and I enjoy learning how to tune them.

I'm planning to transition away from static sites. Initially to just serving a Sinatra app, then later to a custom Padrino or Rails blog engine. Would love to hear if anyone's got any suggestions for something off-the-shelf and hacker friendly in Ruby though.
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Though I agree with your point that the confrontation is different , your wrong when it comes to passive surveillance.

It's not 1980 anymore, surveillance is often stored and put through pattern recognition analysis (in real-time), heavily staffed, and backed up by a network.

Also this is a very advancing field in terms of behavior analysis, prediction and cohesion metrics. Because this is all done behind the scenes you somehow feel safer, but you should not be, that is the point of the video.

A current advanced systems can use flag algorithms to elevate "scenarios".

Example 1:

You walk into a place for breakfast and you have an angry face (your flagged as upset/angry +1).
You then rent a large white truck which does not suit your previous daily/monthly patterns (+1 this is suspicious activity).
You start driving towards a gardening center (+10 suddenly the fbi show up)

Example 2:

You have an argument in the mall with someone (+1 emotional comprised)
Your walking 10 minutes later and an ad targets your emotional state to buy something (regret).

Cookies cannot do that.
Idk, we can definitely talk about marijuana but cocaine and eroine are very different... Legalize them would be at least very risky. Anyhow we need to move in a different direction than kill/arrest everybody, it simply not gonna work.
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Very interesting!
I still believe that bonus/equity of some sort is very attractive to high-level/lead developers.
Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.

See http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

PS: workingdriver: strangely, your account seems to be hell banned.
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Lawyers certainly help. However you could also have someone contact a local women's rights group. Also put the word out to some of her Indian friends. May be someone could get some "political" help to get things going. That's how it works in India. If you know someone really rich in Delhi, they could also help. Most likely they know a M.L.A or an M.P or someone high up in the police. I hope fellow HN'rs with political contacts in Delhi would reach out to you.
When people say "it's profitable" I think what they really should say is that it's profitable for one group of individuals, when at the same time very unprofitable for the other group(s) of individuals (namely, consumers and victims). Moreover, unprofitability for the latter greatly exceeds the profitability for the former and it is only by coercing and power is it possible to preserve the status quo.
Be careful with Client Side Validation, because you can't trust the client. So this will help in displaying error messages faster for users, but you cannot assume that anything submitted to the server has actually been validated.
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What if your phone could detect the lens of nearby cameras (because those cameras are detecting you), and flood it with directed light to render it useless?

In every movie and show I have seen, surveillance cameras have always been a joke to bypass. What is the actual state of anti-camera technology right now? Duct tape? Laser pointer? Ski mask?

What consumer grade cloaking technology is on the horizon?
You have to read the Google post in its entirety and the context; in this case, the Engadget article was about the different business models of Amazon/Google as compared to Apple, and how they hope to profit not from the hardware but from complementary services. Thus the implicit meaning is that Android is "open", which we all know not to be true.

Getting "carrier lock-in" is more symptomatic of American carriers' way of doing business rather than a universal once, since, as pointed out by many others, Apple sells unlocked iOS devices in many parts of the world.
"Vortex uses network-analysis algorithms to construct diagrams for court cases that show the interactions between cartel members, governors and law enforcers. These reveal links that are not otherwise visible, what Salcedo-Albaran calls "betweeners" - people who are not well-connected, but serve as a bridge linking two groups."

Has anyone done any work on using this kind of network analysis in legal and productive organisations to see who has the most impact on innovation or changes in practice?
The gem uses an obscured API endpoint that feeds http://apps.coned.com/stormcenter_external/. ConEd's version of the app makes 2 ajax calls, one to an xml file that gets regenerated every 15 minutes and shows the timestamp of the report json feed. The second call gets the json that gets parsed in the app.

I've done a rudimentary version of jpetterson's at http://stormpox.com (much less pretty). I'm running a rake task that gets called via cron job. The rake task fetches and parses the feed (via the sandy gem) and posts it to a google spreadsheet via the google_drive API. stormpox.com is running as a static site on heroku with an embedded google timeline chart that auto-updates when the spreadsheet changes, and voila, insta-outage-chart (albeit google branded).

The code for the stormpox.com backend is at https://github.com/ckundo/coned_charts.

The sandy gem (previously the coned gem) is on rubygems and here: https://github.com/ckundo/sandy

Again great work jpetterson!
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I think calling it "a Luddite thing" is perhaps a little overkill.

Sure, it's easy enough to scale Wordpress, but I literally won't use 99% of the features that Wordpress offers, and all those features are potential attack vectors. On top of that, with every blog engine / CMS I've ever used (including the ones I'd custom-written), at some point I end up needing to use an iframe with static content because a CMS is only so flexible.

Instead of all that, I can put up a static page that is infinitely flexible, use Disqus for comments, and be pretty much free of risk. No database to hack into, no patches to apply, etc. On top of all that, it's even easier than using Wordpress.

So, while I don't disagree that there are people using Jekyll and ilk to rebel against Wordpress, an equally valid wonderment would be in trying to figure out how Wordpress got so carried away.

Editing to add that your approach is pretty much the same thing I did, but in Django instead of Ruby. I kept using the "CMS"-like methods of Django, but then completely render them out as static pages to be published to S3.
UK resident personal view: we have this Imperialist
thing going where it is ok to show dead foreigners from hot countries but not ok to show dead people in UK. It is a known issue, one commented on a lot in relation to tabloids. I'm surprised to see New Scientist going in for this.
Oh I see, 62 K/W junction-to-ambient for an SO-8. Whereas the D2PAKs I've had desolder themselves are 1.5 K/W junction-to-case.
For notepad and calculator, you can do Win+r then "notepad" or "calc".

For applications not the path, I find the metro experience is essentially the same as having a start menu. Hit Windows, type application name, find it from the search results and hit enter.
I've written something similar in 150 lines of code, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/olegp/mcms
I think that's a coder's view. I'm an IT guy in a small office and it's pretty much assumed I can do anything, from installing RAM to building a web site to coding mobile apps.

However, I have at one time done all those thing and more. To me, pure IT is great fun but it's way too easy and not challenging. It's not until I move up a step to building web servers and coding that I really get that feeling of accomplishment.
That makes escrow less likely to be useful, but the chance doesn't go to zero, so it hardly has "no point at all".
You could always use AutoHotkey to set up shortcuts for launching different apps. There's a great Lifehacker howto post on the subject I'd link you to, but their regular site's down right now thanks to Sandy.
In my opinion the only way to win this war is to start from the bottom.

There are tons of farmer in Colombia who can only survive by growing those drugs, but they would like, in most of the case, to be able to grow crop or bananas or whatever is legal.

However they can't because a mere economic reason, they won't get enough money to survive from traditional culture.

If we invested the money we are actually using to violently fight against the cartel to develop the infrastructure and the education in those country we all be better off; we would have way less drugs in our world and we would have launch a new economy (more market for American brands like apple, google, IBM)