skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that this is appearing only now, even though it happened in 2012.

Reminds me of the recent "news" that terrorists changed their tactics after the leaks, "according to government officials". Greenwald talked about this recently:

http://youtu.be/Uulv4ve6RJ8?t=47m5s
I can't say I have wanted to watch a film yet. If it comes to it, I'll probably go to the cinema.
Using hashtags to organize your bash history
Don't work alone.
So a functional language is somehow 'higher level'? You need to go look up the definition for 'high level language'.

Also, feel free to check out Nitro, a low level functional programming language.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/stg/workshops/TFP/papers/Clark...
How to Eliminate All Your Debts and Live Life in Abundan
> and you had five years to migrate to 1.9

Given that you were at the project right from the start and allowed to spend time necessary. It's funny to hear people moan on the one hand about corporate that use Java EE or even Cobol but on the other hand refuse to accept that in order for their software to be usable, it needs to be stable in some senses.
I was a little upset at your post, until I realized I was pissed AND from Canada...

So are any Americans actually upset about this, or do us foreigners care more about your country than you guys do?
Do you really need to be taught art?

Of course you don't need to be taught art, any more than you need to be taught engineering.

There's no reason an aspiring young engineer couldn't just discover Maxwell's equations for himself, and then continue to derive the rest of physical law. It will just take him a little bit longer, is all.
I'd love to see people try get this going. Call it, the bipartisan party!
Why not just have a social network where you required not to provide any real information about yourself. You must create an anonymous virtual identity.

Another idea I once had was an anti-social network called "strangers". In this network you add people you know as friends, and all of their activity is hidden for you, and all your activity is hidden for them. You can only discover and interact with complete strangers.
I went to art school in Germany and paid a €200 fee per semester. That's about it. Education at art schools here is still very good and free - as in free thinking. When I read articles like this I'm just super happy that our education system hasn't yet been privatized. In order to learn, you'll need time to study. You'll need time without monetary pressure. My advice is to go to art school and challenge yourself, once in your life you shouldn't really care about money but about making the best work possible.
I know, intellectually, that some books simply expire. They simply aren't relevant any more. Such books can't be given to a library and can't be offloaded to a book exchange.

Some even, due to changes in the world they refer to, have taken on a negative value because they can deceive a trusting reader. In good conscience these cannot be given to someone else.

I console myself with these thoughts whenever I dispose of a book. Because I find the disposal of books to be thoroughly traumatic. Giving up my old law books was heart breaking. So too my teenage copies of Learn to Teach Yourself C++ in 21.75 Minutes for Dumb Idiots.

It all hurt.

Beds? Chairs? Clothes? Meh. I would be OK with starting from a scorched earth. But my books are sacred. I do not choose them lightly, because I know that parting will be so painful.
Feedburner is a middleman that caches the real site's RSS feed. The readers (Google, Thunderbird, everyone else) contact feedburner for the RSS not the underlying site. RSS is also the same for every user (but doesn't have to be).

In any event consider whether it is is desirable for readers to automatically know about site updates, and to be able to catch up if they have missed a few, versus expecting them to manually visit.

Unfortunately we can't tell what the reason is behind the Dilbert change. It could range from a pre-emptive removal anticipating feedburner going away through some higher up deciding that the site is so important that people will manually visit instead. The only certain thing is they didn't have to make the change for technical reasons now.

One thing I can be certain of is that anyone in a company defending the provision/use of RSS will have a lot harder time due to Reader going away.
Inspired by this I wrote https://bitbucket.org/sirpengi/php.critic
Some of those files may have been named during the days of DOS 8+3 filename limit. Better keep an old filename than break a lot of links.

Also, some people who first learned computing in the DOS era keep using shortened filenames out of habit, even if it's not always capped at 8 chars. (The site seems to have several files whose names have been abbreviated to 9 chars.)
I firmly believe that any program is exactly what you make of it. For some who take full advantage, art school can lead to great things just as any other school. For others who have no ambition or just want to party and postpone life for 4 years, you'd better live it up. Because the odds greatly favor that you'll be in for tough, disappointing times in your 20's and 30's.
yes, you are right. thank you.
Actually, it's not just the company but rather Lessig's message itself that bothers me. Read my other comment here for details.

Nobody is suggesting any direct link between Lessig and the CIA, but the ties between Palantir and the surveillance program is becoming obvious.

Use Occam's razor.

* Palantir was funded by the CIA
* Palantir is exactly what the NSA PRISM program needs
* Palantir also had a PRISM product
* Palantir had been associated with the surveillance program in recent Anonymous leaks (right? during the HBGary scandal)
* Facebook (which is known to participate with PRISM) & Palantir share Sean Parker
* Facebook/Google/etc have already denied association with PRISM by factually true but evasive statements. Same with Palantir's recent statement.

More debate here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Pal...
Or you could stick the command in a shell script.

#!/bin/sh
find . -iname '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 php -l

Save it to ~/bin/phplint (you do have ~/bin in your PATH, right?), chmod +x it, check it in, and you have a new phplint command. No need to mess about with hashtags in your shell history.

Am I missing something?
Just like our last 4 comments. But here I am, giving you my morning coffee time.

I digress. I think ultimately you have to decide to accept current practises as inevitable, or malleable.

I for one, do not think allies should spy on each other. Being caught so would have punitive repercussions such as increases in trade rates. If perpetrator makes a big deal about it, then find better allies, and then they can spy all they want.
> If you have practically infinite money, life is difficult.

Maybe you meant something other than difficult, maybe you meant "easy" instead.

Having enough money to survive on for the rest of your life doesn't mean a life devoid of challenges, but to claim that such a life is difficult is probably a misunderstanding of what difficulty actually is for the vast majority of humans living on the planet.

For a lazy analysis also see: Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
The article author sees it somehow insightful to sell old things in order to start buying anew (having sold the old clothes, he is glad he can buy the new ones that match). What a discovery!
It's not really as fun as it seems like it should be.
It would be nice if it used real SQL stuff and maybe used SQL injections etc. I would like to be able to type a query and feel like the query actually ran on the database. Instead I just feel like it's a fairly generic text based game with a MySQL theme.
Desire. You want something badly for years. Success never comes and you start to not care anymore. Finally you get some things that you wanted, but the moment is gone and the opportunity seems like just a silly dream. From this new vantage point and understanding of the world, you see that the success you desired was just a quaint, stupid idea. you start to understand that at the top of the hill there is nowhere to go but back down, so why even climb? You start to live a better life and think about the things and people around you. People matter. Entrepreneurship is about people.
I think the author was pretty clear that those lucky enough to have money are not the audience for the article. They're not the ones who will be stuck with a $250k debt.

If you don't have to worry about money then by all means go to art school, or do whatever you want to challenge yourself.
Brilliant iconoclasts are the exception. Less-than-brilliant iconoclasts are generally called "failures", and they are quite common.

When I failed high school art (thanks to the mechanics of the International Baccalaureate, it's a long story), I was surprised and upset. But in fairness, I knew very little about the science and craft that supports art. I was an overgrown doodler.

My art teacher tried to console me by saying that many of history's greatest artists had failed out of art schools. He was unamused when I brought up a Godwinning counterexample of art school dropouts.
I'm getting "ImportError: No module named site"

echo %pythonpath% gives c:\readerisdead

I copied 'base' from the readerisdead zipfile to c:\python27\lib & also copied the base folder into the same folder as reader_archive.py

C:\readerisdead\reader_archive\reader_archive.py --output-directory C:\googlereader gives "ImportError: No module named site"

What am I doing wrong? How can I get this to work?
You're linking to an article on corporate spying. We're discussing spying on government officials on, what I can only assume, is a lot more serious matters, i.e waging wars.

This is a trust/image issue for the states, and it's really taking a beating right now.
FYI, last I remember, Pidgin stored your passwords in plaintext in an ASCII file on disk, unless you jumped through some hoops to integrate it with your desktop environment's keyring. They even have a article up on their site explaining why it's necessary to do this.
Almost definitely not, from the look of it. Even the first few chapters go beyond my old CS387 Intro to AI class in college.

I feel like now that I'm in grad school I should take more and better AI courses, but I just can't find the interest in me, no matter that the field is economically hot right now.
My theory of "rich" is that it is measured not in mere dollars, but in the products or services you will pay for without a second thought.

For example:

I am now nice-dinner rich. I can buy good stuff from a local restaurant and not feel the sting.

But I am not business-class-RTW-ticket rich. I can, in theory, afford it, but I have to think about whether I think it's worth the money.
Honestly, this is a problem much deeper and more complicated than privatization.

In the post-war period the US spent a decent chunk of money via mechanisms like state sponsorship of universities and the GI-bill to ensure that university education was accessible to most Americans.

All of that spending took a downward turn somewhere in the 80s & 90s. As a consequence students must bear the vast majority of the cost of their university education starting somewhere in the 00s.

Universities began looking elsewhere for other sources of funding (since you can't actually run a university solely on the backs of students), and began reaching out for grants from the US government (NIH and NSF being two major funders). Now that gridlock in the Congress has forced the sequester on all of our federal institutions, we're seeing research dollars take a dive now too.

Private schools are part of the problem, but the real problem is that American politics has abdicated its responsibility to educate its people.
Large-scale quantum chip validated at the University of Southern California
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn cofounder said this
Are we sure it's not really just state propaganda? That argument can be convincingly argued because it seems to hold some truth.
1. Do not stick to your vision. Stick to your users's vision. Even if you disagree with it. Success with some "compromise" is far sweeter than failure without it. That doesn't mean you have to do whatever anyone wants, it just means you cannot afford to have sacred cows. If the vast majority of your users want something then it is right and they should get it. No one was more arrogant than Steve Jobs, and even he allowed himself to be pushed by his users on a regular basis. You should too.

2. Change Your Fucking Idea. You have 6 months to figure out if this is a good idea and there's a very objective test: you are growing rapidly on revenue and/or users. If that is not the case then pull the fucking plug while you have time. Do not worry about what investors will think. Do not worry about what anyone will think. Better to have been the guy that changed his idea and succeeded than the guy who didn't and failed. Sticking with a failed idea is the dumbest thing you can do.

3. Make money. Consumer startups that will make money "later" are for people who are really lucky, happy to fail, or already rich. Creating a business whose primary objective is to earn revenue makes it extremely easy to know if you're succeeding or not. Either you're profitable or you are not. If you are not then you are still failing.

4. Do simple businesses in industries you understand. Stick to what you're good at. Spent 10 years in finance? Create a damn finance product. Used to be a doctor? Do something in medicine. Solve a real problem you had or have in the field you have the most passion and experience for.

5. Keep up development momentum. Do not let more than a day or two go by without improving the product. Don't let anything get in the way of you improving the product. Don't let old decisions block forward momentum. If you have to temporarily make the product worse in order to keep going, then just take the hit. You can't afford to stagnate on product development.

6. If you have money then hire people that are good. When you hire good people you should be saying to yourself "Holy shit, I don't know what we would have done without <person>". Be unapologetic about having people do things you're bad at. Make people work hard. Hold yourself to a high standard and everyone else too. Better to be a hardass that succeeds than a softy that fails.
Sure.

So, when you're deciding between food and rent, that is a different kind of difficulty than whether you have to decide between private and public school for your kids, and all together a different thing compared to whether you have to spend your time flying coach or business class.

As a sidebar, I think it's reprehensible that we (Americans) conflate having sufficient capital to guarantee one's basic needs with having sufficient access to capital to do interesting things (say create a startup) and also with having sufficient personal wealth to slake one's desires/whims.
Good to hear. Sometimes I feel, in the "consume time and divide people" department, the Internet beats TV hands down.

Also it is one of those easy roads to take, as it keeps the kids fully occupied. So it's nice to see what you guys are doing. Keep it up!
What's with the laughtracks? I'm confused.
You can write them in whatever language you like, but the problem is they have to interface to the system. With Linux ultimately you only need the system call interface, and the communication back from the kernel is signals.

A mobile app has a far richer interface, and needs to interact with the system in more deep and meaningful ways. Memory is tight and application lifecycles can be hectic.

Heck on Android there isn't such a thing as an Application in the traditional sense - ie there is no entry point/main function. Instead the "application" is actually a mashup of components such as Activities (screens/ui), services (processing), content providers (data) and broadcast receivers (async updates)[1]. The Android system itself is then a mashup of those. Again there is a lot of scaffolding to make the different parts of the different apps all work together with bidirectional communication.

Using a different language means all that scaffolding has to be duplicated in each language. That is a heck of a lot of work and then requires ongoing maintenance. Dalvik essentially provides all that for Java like bytecode with JNI for calling out to native code. You'd need to duplicate what is in Dalvik to do a good language environment for Android. (Or generate Dalvik bytecode ahead of time.)

[1] That is how a well written app is structured for Android. You can ignore all that and put everything into a single Activity (iOS ports often do this) but it won't interoperate well with the system, and users will notice. With the increasing RAM and CPU these days you are increasingly likely to get away with it. The first Android phone had 192MB of RAM.
Studying Tumors Differently, in Hopes of Outsmarting Them
Tip: don't use dovecot-lda. Let postfix handle it. Dovecot LDA is chroot hell.

I worry about the same things which is why I'm actually migrating my email to outlook.con slowly (in spite of the NSA etc). She knows my passwords already.
I much prefer The Schemaverse. It's a much better game, on a much better SQL platform (my opinion, in both cases).

Check out: https://schemaverse.com/
Reliability doesn't matter that much. SMTP is store and forward so if you Bork something, it'll still get to you eventually.
I'll think about it. How come you have no personal information on that launch website? I wonder who the guy behind this thing is and wether or not I'll receive spam for the next 500 years if I enter my email, which is not solved by saying "we won't send you spam" but by giving the site credibility, a proper name and address etc. even if it is just a testpage to check for demand.
The EU has no NSA.
Those "mere dollars" are the difference between a life of unfortunate circumstance and of fortunate privilege which should not be thrown aside. The theory of which you stated is a life of luxury to live in.
The idea of rights as creations of man begs the question of how any of our present rights came to exist in the first place, especially considering the sentiments expressed elsewhere in this thread--that is, "might makes right" and that states are just more powerful criminal gangs. On the other hand, the idea of man's rights being endowed by their Creator implies that these self-evident rights are based on the nature of an all-loving creator God and are bestowed on mankind by God. Although such a view may be residue of the influence of Christendom on society and law, it's hard to find a more cogent argument for human rights. At least I haven't heard any compelling secular arguments for their existence.
That's where I'm coming from, too -- which is why I prefer to just hear the author's own story. But let's not quibble...
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>Does it demand support for offensive wars
It did so with Libya and now talking about arming terrorists in Syria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_L...
I went to art school to do Games and Art Design. I dropped out, and 6 years later I am a python/c dev and DBA.

I am so very very very thankful of publications such as the following listed at Stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-m...
You're demonstrating my point. Wealth is measured by what isn't thought about. I don't think about the life-and-death decisions. I've reached that level of rich.

I guess I notice this because I can still remember planning how to make a $20 note last until payday while not being hungry at bedtime. It mostly involved thinly-spread peanut butter on slices of bread.
It's worth mentioning that Rand Paul isn't a member of Wyden's bipartisan group of 26 senators.
It's easy to get rid of your stuff when you're moving. You're being forced to do either the chore of moving it or selling it.

I haven't figured out a way to get myself to go through the pain of sorting things, throwing them away, and selling them when I'm not moving. So, things pile up.

It really bothers me too. Someone could profit by helping me with this problem. Maybe a company that comes to your house and takes away everything you don't want for a base small fee, then make a profit by selling your old stuff? Maybe they take 50%?
This is fabulously ironic:

President Rafael Correa responding to the leak [of the Snowden asylum document] by the newspapers has accused the media of spying on Ecuadorean officials. He also stressed that the corrupted media power is the worst weapon that mankind has invented.
There's a line between the provider and the FBI. That linesis explained as pull, rather than push. That nuance notwithstanding, how is this not direct access?
> There is going to be a huge market in replacing essentially any/all of these services with ones physically and legally outside of the USA, with companies that vow to never voluntarily cooperate with the American surveillance state.

No. This shows the opposite. It shows that we can't place trust in jurisdiction anymore, and it shows that we can't trust companies who "vow" not to be evil.

If there is a "huge market" it is in replacing services with ones that provide cryptographic assurance that my data and communications are secure from any third party, and ideally, from the hosting company itself.
I'm in the weird valley between the mountain of basic needs and the undulating peaks of interesting ventures.
About the brain drain problem, I think yes. They would have accomplished more if they stayed in India. Just have a look at Narayan Murthy, founder of Infosys. Just imagine if people like Sundar Pichai, Vic Gundotra etc stayed in India, they might have done something even bigger than what they had done at Google. Android or something similar would have been created in India or India would have a social network like Google Plus! Who knows!
Honestly, no.

Small minded thinking is being unable to step out from behind the 'protection' offered by authority figures because the world just seems too scary to you.

If the cost of belief in the rights of humanity to freedom, dignity and self determination is high, that is because the rewards are great.

Stop being cynical, and stop being scared. Look up. The sun is shining :)
Ruby on Rails stopped supporting 1.8.x after Rails 3.2.
Companies do go bankrupt or get bought....
Long shadow design
India’s new surveillance network will make the NSA green with envy
Use OfflineIMAP to sync to a local disk.
The list of resources in this post is great.

I'll add in that you can find all the Loomis books on PDF floating around the internet, and certain instructors at the Art Student's League in NY are amazing.

On the flip side, continuing ed courses at SVA are AWFUL.
It's not a laugh track, it's an actual audience. He's speaking at the Socialism 2013 conference. He originally planned to be there but was unable to make it due to all the stuff that's gone down these last few weeks.
This.

Yet we need a good protocol for experimenting with different models in order to arrive at a good system.

A balancing act. We certainly need more fluid borders in the world, like between the borders of our states.
Be a PR superhero
I've been running my own mail server since 2006 and have never had a problem with being rejected. I've run a fairly tight ship:

1. Only allow email locally (i.e., via webmail and ssh) - which many would regard as a real pain, but I and the few people who use my server have been OK with. IMAP is very useful with this policy, for batch move/send from outbox folders.

2. Set up TLS to only deliver via SSL

3. Advertise both these facts via SPF (I haven't bothered with DKIM)
This looks like a pretty broad coverage book. I wonder if the book has same issues as other broad books - they do good in telling you what topics exist but fail to go in depth.
Good point - its the problem that's simple and while the solution appears simple too, getting someone to cut into the correct side isn't easy.