skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
150 used, starting at $0.65 - I don't really think this material is that difficult to acquire.

http://www.amazon.com/Have-Dream-Writings-Speeches-Anniversa...

""I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World," by Martin Luther King, Jr., is a fine collection of texts by this important figure. The book has been edited by James M. Washington. Coming in at less than 300 pages, this is a concise but meaty book.
Washington includes King's most important texts: the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"; the "I Have a Dream" speech; his Nobel Prize acceptance speech; "My Trip to the Land of Gandhi"; "A Time to Break Silence," his 1967 speech criticizing the United States war in Vietnam, and more. These writings and speeches cover King's great themes: nonviolent resistance, the African-American civil rights movement, etc."
You don't know that I didn't read the whole article, and since I did I know their dataset is < 8GB because they are running EC2 medium instances and they said they have a budget of $150 which means they have a max of 2 servers. Also because I read the code I know it doesn't write to disk which means the dataset has to fit in RAM unless they are relying on the pager to swap memory for them.

Since an 8 GB dataset is a fucking joke I made fun of their post in a sarcastic way.

Also databases that lock are a fucking joke too, maybe I'll just repeat webscale a few times and that will make it performant.

Should be titled "Startup throws out Mongo DB, gets decent performance"
Sorry, I didn't see the "much of" qualifier.
I thought this was a joke, but apparently it isn't.

Summary:
Late to a class? You get an F and need to leave.

Late to section? You get an F and leave. By the way, four sections have been dropped. If you have a schedule conflict, report it by September 2nd, or get an F.

Unanticipated absence due to family emergency or medical reasons? Full documentation must be submitted on the same day, or get an F.

Religious absence? Submit it by September 2nd, or get an F.

Cell phone beeps? Any other electronic device makes a noise? Get an F and need to leave.

Use any non-medical electronic device at all? Get an F and need to leave.

Don't have a book yet? Pay $50 and also pay out the nose extra to get it overnighted; there's an exam on Monday. Oh, and the second textbook hasn't been published yet. Too poor? Too bad.

Requesting a re-grade? All of your exams will be re-graded.

Need to use the bathroom during a quiz? No.

Need to use the bathroom during an exam? Your test will be taken from you and photographed, and you will be escorted to the restroom.

Suspect someone is looking at your exam sheet? Stand up and report it immediately during the exam or get an F.
How many colors would I need to replace? We talking 10 minutes or a couple hours?

I'll probably buy just cause I've been looking for something like this, but I'd like the path of least resistance. Great Product, Thanks.
Cameron said only yesterday that he 'would not stand by [and watch chemical weapons be used in Syria]' [0]. Now he will 'respect will of the house [and not perform the air strike]' [1]. While it is a slightly different situation to what I understand of the french position, it is interesting to see how quickly these things change nonetheless. (Note: I am not saying Cameron should ignore the HoC vote!)

What is perhaps more interesting is the potential motivation for Miliband's dissent. If Miliband's had supported action in Syria it would undoubtedly have passed. Only ~10 days ago a number of well respected Labour shadow cabinet members were voicing very strong dissaproval of his leadership [2]. A Yougov poll yesterday showed that 50% of the public don't approve of any UK action in Syria [3]. Could it be that Miliband's duty to act morally in the House could be clouded by his urgent need for a short term popularity bump? Unclear, but a concerning and not-that-unlikely thought. Side note: the difficulty experienced finding any of the news relating the Miliband wobble shows just how well this has played for him! It will be interesting to see just quite how far he does jump in the polls...

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23864016

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23893203

[2] http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/04/16/while-heads-are-tu...

[3] http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/08/28/syria-and-shadow-iraq/

EDIT: Links all got formatted onto a single line.
How has no one mentioned Syria yet? Not saying it's related, but the ramp-up is the only event that fits the time frame.
Now I want to see a painting by Northrop Grumman. It's even a good name for a painter.
Understandable.

Would you be willing to disclose this information in private? I'm not affiliated with any accelerator but do have my share of experience with them and this kind of information is very interesting to me.

If you do - then you know how to reach me (email is in my profile)
This is true for using plugins in any editor/IDE. Where do you draw the line. Should I use my own `.vimrc` file and set textwidth, formatting-options, indenting, etc. according to my preference, or don't tweak anything at all because those tweaks will not be available at another user's machine/ssh server? It is relatively easy to have your configuration files on a USB/dropbox and copy them on a new machine if needed.
As I noted on Reddit, at the very least you nailed your description of Gen Y. I was listening to featured-in-anime German-Japanese metal music just this morning ;-)!
That's why I don't use fixed-width. I break lines up logically, usually at the end of a phrase/sentence, regardless of their length.
The side effect of that level of paranoia is that office politics becomes an extreme sport. If you can make it look like the guy angling for the same promotion as you has a secret; or is actively selling out the country...

It may also explain some of the institutional rigidity we see in the IC's response to events. If questioning certain assumptions may get you not just fired, but jailed; and you value your career and your freedom, those assumptions become very hard to question. (e.g. the same assumptions that Mr. Snowden started questioning )
This might be useful for contracts, as well. Editing points and having history, being able to comment on specific parts etc.

Not 100% sure on how to solve the "legally binding" part if the other party declines digital signatures, but it'd be a good way to get the contract written and agreed on.
I graduated from UC Berkeley a year ago, and I remember CS161 being known as one of the easier technical upper divs at Berkeley. Although I never took the course myself, these rules seem like quite a departure from the norm.

I wonder if perhaps the professor is trying to scare people into dropping the class?
It seems like a Joke
Help the USA?
Coverity Finds Python Sets New Level of Quality for Open Source Software
Hi, creator of Seed-DB here. I'd stress that "exit" values are just that... for known exits only. Even if companies have raised money at billion+ valuations, that number is going to be zero for them. Assuming a 2-10 year horizon for most companies between accelerator and exit, most companies still have a long way to go before they'll have a meaningful number hit the 'exit' column.
It might be effective though. An occasional 'Ask PG' is better than an occasional security breach.
Steve Jobs interviewed just before returning to Apple
I'm going to keep telling myself this as I sit on HN...
Looks like budget problems mean they can't support everyone:

"There are currently about 170 students. However, given the current TA staffing, we can only support 75-90 students in the class. Because this class is so challenging, I expect that about 2/3rds of currently enrolled students will drop the course. Those who remain will need to commit to being on-time for every class and discussion section, and willing to devote substantial effort to reading and understanding highly technical material (and being examined on it during every single class section)."
No, the difference is knowing that you're using software that encourages software sharing, rather than software hoarding.
I didn't make it clear in my response, and thats my fault. We actually dont use pg, mondrian, or mysql anymore.

We ended up with a golang solution that we use essentially like you would with a column store. It's very fast and extremely thin.
This is mainly because a) most accelerators are new so the companies haven't developed enough to exit and b) it takes time to build a program that reliably finds/develops companies that can exit.
I wonder what is top secret there? Those things look quite mundane to me and I don't really understand how revealing, for example, that $1 bn is spent on "mission ground stations" would hurt national security. Revealing more deep details - maybe, I can see it, but on this level it doesn't look like it should be secret at the first place.
I don't think it was _terrible_.

It just doesn't give as accurate results as Google in some searches, I assume due to the rafts of information collected about users - a trade off I will make happily.
> I wonder if perhaps the professor is trying to scare people into dropping the class?

This seems likely.

It also appears that the professor is making somewhat of a political statement about the University, the (lack of) teaching assistants, and the shortage of funds available to him. I attended a University of California school several years ago, and there were a plethora of similar issues regarding class sizes, funding, etc.

It's sad, because actions like canceling four of seven planned sections¹ only hurt the students' education.

1: This originally stated that lectures were canceled, but I was mistaken. Thanks to codergirl for correcting me.
Amen

I've been approached by a few startup-ish projects in the past few years, all wanting to 'partner' up and 'join an accelerator' or 'apply for startup program XYZ'.

I proceed to ask "what are you going to do with the $50k you'd get if you get in?"

There's typically a blank stare.

Now, I get that you get more than just money; hopefully you're getting connections and introductions and press you couldn't get on your own. But not always.

But I'm still shocked that typically there's no answer at the top of their minds. And they're asking me to invest the next 6 months or more of my life with them to 'do a startup'. As a tech/dev, I am an investor, investing my time, knowledge, energy and passion in to something. If they can't convince me to invest, they're not going to convince an accelerator.
When you are your own boss, making your boss look good is even more closely aligned with your personal interests.
Not a budget issue; they just couldn't staff enough TA's (not enough students expressed interest in becoming a TA).
Courgette isn't BSDiff, it is Google's replacement for/improvement upon BSDiff. They were using BSDiff for Chrome updates before they switched to Courgette.
The 'agreement' between them is meaningless (in a legal/financial sense) until they both sign the docs to officially transfer money for an equity stake.
Sigh. Because 90s-boom-startup mentality is a really great pedagogical tool on motivated, previously tightly selected students. Or human beings in general. NOT.

Also, this bit: "Grading will be _highly competitive_." Meaning: "I could have used powerful team collaboration tools in this classroom, but instead I've pitted these students against each other." Meaning: "I don't actually understand evaluation of performance, I just like bludgeoning people over whom I have power." Meaning: "I was hazed with this kind of crap as a student, I think it put a few hairs on my chest, and so I return the abuse unto you."

Listen up, instructor: Berkeley probably has some excellent instructor training resources. You've missed the past half-century, esp. the past fifteen-or-so years, of vast improvements in educational methods. Maybe your security chops are great, but your syllabus says something radically different about your teaching skills.
This should be done automatically if you submit a link with an encodable character.
How Changes in Hardware will Disrupt Computer Science
Given that the automobile industry was a major source of wealth for most of the past century; it's safe to say that it's cultural primacy is part and parcel of the corruption of our elites. Automobile deaths in this country are predictably higher than in Germany an equally wealthy country. And they are so because we have a number of entrenched interests (construction, auto sales and manufacturing, lawyers, trauma surgeons; etc. ) that get and stay rich because the status quo is car oriented.

You want bikes, light rail and walkable cities? You adorable little euro-commie wannabe!
EC2 medium instances come with 480GB space. Our database currently takes roughly 60GB.

Ferret isn't running on this entire database, though - it's for auto-complete searches over our artist names, roughly 4MB.

EDIT: Since I can't seem to reply to fleitz' below comment, I'll post a response here:

1. Boyer-Moore takes linear time. Ferret takes logarithmic time. Also, it's intended for searching over a single string, so using it on a dictionary would require some sort of hack like a termination character, taking slightly more memory and time.

2. A trie was one of the original iterations of Ferret. The reason it lost out was memory usage, requiring quadratic memory from every word (because this is a suffix search, not just a prefix search).
My view is, we have to wait for after the 2014 elections to see which way he will go. Sadly, changing the number of or length of terms a President can serve won't affect this situation of being bound up by upcoming elections as each side uses them to great effect.
Benefits Of Squats
Universal ARM/x86 COM standard gets a boost
Details are here: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=95003
I guess this goes on to prove that PG is yet another normal programmer like anyone else.

Do you know how often HN reacts negatively to someone (or some company (except Apple)) for flouting some standardization/programming/design rule?

Gives some perspective.
For those unfamiliar with our curriculum: CS161 is given as a "choose-two of these required courses" choice in order to complete the CS major. Many students are enrolled out of necessity.
Google's co-founder Sergey Brin, wife Anne Wojcocki, split up
Not really. Quantum annealing, D-wave's quantum method, cannot solve these kinds problems any more efficiently than a normal computer.
In what universe would changing a URL to something that doesn't work be a feature?
Optimizing their search results globally based on user clicks is not personalization or filter bubbling.
lol. I highly doubt that that he was thinking that. You're spouting a lot of nonsense in that post.

The consensus here at Berkeley is that this is simply a ploy to get students to drop the class because there isn't enough space for everybody.
Really? Wow that's rough! L&S CS, EECS, or both?

When I graduated the only requirement was enough units and at least one lab class.

btw, what's the other class?
Are browsers exempt? Because there are a few of them there, and they download and execute external JavaScript.
It's really the same argument, and response: not being explicitly included isn't really the same as being excluded and certainly not maliciously excluded.
There is a saying in Argentina that we have forty million soccer coaches because everyone talks like an expert while watching a soccer match.
I see... that makes sense... I will have to check with some of my user base and see how they feel about this
>And let's face it, the subject matter is really cool. There's a reason that mathematicians throughout history have been interested in coding. Now imagine someone paying them to do it.

lets not forget that having friends in government intelligence (people in the shadow with strong soft powers) may be just helpful ...
Pretend you're buying a product the contractor is providing. They can provide invoices. Pay via PayPal and make sure they're withdrawing funds so the account situation isn't painful if it's locked.

(That may or may not have worked for me...)
Plagiarism of something under copyright is copyright infringement. So, at least plagiarism is protected against in that instance. You could plagiarize Shakespeare though, and it would simply be a moral offense.

When you write code for a company, the company usually owns the copyright, not you. You've assigned copyright to them. Do you release all of your personal code into the public domain? Why not? If you use a free software or open source license, you're relying on copyright protections.

To reiterate, I'm not claiming that IP laws are a perfect match for longstanding morals about invention, branding, authorship, and secrecy, I'm claiming that they are better than a 0% match.

I'm not even disagreeing that IP laws as they stand grossly favor big businesses instead of creators. I'm just disagreeing with the claim that IP laws are 100% made up by the government and have nothing to do with our morals about wanting to protect creative work. I think we need better IP laws that correspond more closely to our morals about creation and less closely to our morals about capitalism.
Well, he admitted to as much. I think the only reason they don't call him a 'mole' in the U.S. is that he isn't still there and that is identity is known.
Stupid? Effectively intercepting telecommunications from not only within and with the consent of the 'big players' networks, but also assuring they achieve total surveillance through compromising undersea cables is quite the feat. Storing data until they have the machine power to break encryption strikes me as clever and prudent, not stupid.

Stupid is disparaging an entity that has engineered around entire industry and international infrastructure to accomplish their goals.

But yea, botnet sounds like its right on the money. When does the NSA's Utah data center go online?
The gesture is noteworthy not because of market share but because of who the user base is. It's exciting to see folks in the technology field (often the same ones who were educating others about Google in the early days) promoting DDG now. A browser that ships with DDG as its default, adds immediate cred to its brand image, IMO.

Sometimes we need to be the ones willing to sacrifice a little bit of "convenience" to stand up for products and services that are at least attempting to travel a better road for users. Maybe I'm being a bit naive, but I believe that lines are being drawn and those products on the side of users, have a renewed opportunity to shine.

DDG is right there - in a great position. I get the results I want from DuckDuckGo without bloat and "personalized" crud. If I really want to massage the DDG query results, I can add !sp and get a "Google" perspective with privacy.

The !bang syntax just makes DDG more powerful.

All in all, I think that Gnome's decision is more than just a gesture. It's the beginning of a shift and the big players can either read the message that's being sent or ignore it to their data loss.
No apologies necessary, thanks for this!
True, I've got a 4k x 12bit core store in mine, and it's been there over 30 years :-)
>>> I could certainly imagine people objecting to having the speech presented in a secular school.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

I wonder how they deal with that religious imagery. Or they neglect to mention that unimportant document altogether?

I can understand when people object to school propagandizing religion or requiring some religious rites or observances from non-religious people. But completely removing a part of history because religion is mentioned there or certain figure was, in fact, a religious man? That's just insane, and anti-religious bigot would be as bad as a religious one.
Spot on, but worth it!
Not while one third of my income is being taken from me by force.
4MB? Wouldn't boyer-moore, or a trie be very efficient for this?
It's not even that they're less accurate, I think for a lot of searches we expect certain results.
I'd just like to say that the reason I created Seed-DB (http://www.seed-db.com) is because the world of seed accelerators should be more transparent. I've currently got a list of 170+ accelerators around the world, and the list makes it pretty clear which ones get results and which don't. (Or don't care enough about publicizing results).

If you have any feedback for me as to what would be useful to you when choosing between accelerators, please let me know. Email is in profile.
I assume you refer to taxation?
Sure, but how is degrading people to disgust them out of taking your class any less reprehensible? It's pretty clear the rules are nigh-unenforcable, but the misery it threatens students with is awful and treats students like children and criminals.
I didn't read the "you" as the group but just as the OP. In which case is it so much about sexism in IT or more about the lack of consideration that OP might be gay?
Google is a great search engine because what it knows about the web.

Google is a great advertising business because of what it knows about you.
I spent a summer at Berkley coming from as liberal an institution as there is. The biggest difference that really affected me was the professor stood up during exams and shouted out every five minutes that five minutes had gone by. Where I went to school, professors weren't allowed in the room during exams. Even timed exams. I don't know, but the whole shouting out the time and stuff really sucked and did not help me learn calculus. It just distracted me and made me play games with time rather than with equations. Different environments suit different students.
AFAICS we just have different priorities in what we want the terminology to do. You're prioritising the impression that the term "intellectual property" creates in a layman, i.e. that it calls to mind an analogy (with tangible property) that is in many ways misleading. I'm prioritising the technical accuracy of it as a legal term per common law definitions of proprietary right.

So I think we'll just have to agree to disagree here, based on our different sets of priorities.

(As for debts, in English law they are choses in action, and so intangible moveables. See e.g. Lord Goff's comments in Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale [1991] 2 AC 548, p. 574 at [A]. So a debt isn't quite a purely contractual right: the difference is between a claim in debt, e.g. an action for the price, and a claim for damages. The former will often allow some kind of proprietary remedy - e.g. a lien over goods if the debt is from a sale of those goods, the ability to trace your title to the debt into other people's pockets (as in Lipkin, which was a purely personal action for unjust enrichment), or in some circumstances even a full-blown constructive trust (e.g. in a Chase Manhattan v Israel-British Bank type situation). The latter never will.

That said, I did perhaps choose a bad example, as the line can be a thin one. A better example of a property right that doesn't give you a monopoly might've been be an easement. (Freehold covenants are another interesting example, as starting in the mid-19th century, they've sortof morphed from purely being personal, contractual rights into being property rights)).
To be clear, I wasn't making any comment on whether IP rights are 'natural rights' or not, only on whether they're property rights (which ISTM is a much more concrete question). Apologies if I wasn't clear about that. (On the main point, see my reply to your other post).