skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No there is no reason to give up on such a tool; the only good reason to support such idea is to get some sort of attention at your person by claiming something crazy
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Why not simplify the syntax to allow textql 'select * from sample-data.csv where i = 0'?

Otherwise - already checking out, that's what I wanted for a while.
It is interesting that with the neodymium magnets being rare earth materials and apparent limits being placed on their mining/import/export etc., the price of them has sky-rocketed. There was a time when all the bass cabinets for bass players were getting smaller and smaller and lighter and lighter thanks to these magnets because it meant you could have a smaller speaker driver (hence less weight) but now they're having to resort to the heavier speakers again.

A shame really! I never did buy any light cabinets but always wish I had! At least Class D amplifiers are doing the rounds and so massive wattage amplifiers are now tiny and lightweight.
Is there empirical evidence of that?
more final projects from the same course:
https://notendur.hi.is/~pk/308G/Projects/group_projects_basi...
fun course and a fine teacher, gratz to Pat
It would be more concerning if these numbers decline, indicating a more efficient 'grey' approach.

Btw: How can I boycott NSA and still use the Internet?
Great Idea, but the initial capital expenditure will be very high and at some time prohibitive enough.

I think the government can help in waiving off taxes for sale of LED lights(This can cause great savings in power consumption), pedal assist bicycles and for things alike.

Either way I don't think big changes will happen until we see great deal of innovation in the energy sector.
Isn't relying so much on AWS like "putting all your eggs in one basket"?
http://help.elance.com/entries/34758-sample-contract-agreeme...

elance has a sample nda and mnda available. There must be some use cases where supplemental agreements are useful.
Here in the UK there is constant copper theft going on. The church up the road here had their roof pinched 3 times in 6 months. But it is good that if you have new heating (with a combi boiler) and your condenser boiler taken out, that massive water tank you had in the loft to hold water now suddenly turns into money!
> Back in 2006 when this article was written

It is frequently and recently updated.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re...

Perhaps you should add your bit?
Wow, I did not know mono supported so many platforms! Thanks!
Even if you aren't familiar with the thousands separator, I don't think there's any ambiguity here.
The 19th century in the US is probably the largest data set when it comes to extremely low regulation markets. Hong Kong is a more recent example. The point being, there is a lot of actual real world data on each side of the fence.
In all fairness, I've mixed Android issues with browser issues in my rant.
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But it would be amusing!

"Watch this!"
....CLINK
This seems more like a matter of opinion. What's hypocritical?

> Refusing to consider the fundamental imbalance of labor relationships is disingenuous at best

What makes it disingenuous? Isn't grandparent just disagreeing with some of your assumptions?
If there's still the expectation that they "[get] plenty of work done", then that's pretty much the opposite of what the parent/article are talking about. You're talking more about a company that has flexible office hours and just focuses on results, but still expects a full-time amount of "results" per person. The article, on the other hand, is talking about delivering fewer results, for less money.
This article is spectacularly good. I wish I had this available when I started doing assembly-level optimizations on x86 chips. This knowledge used to be much more fragmented and difficult to learn.

VLIW could indeed be left out: you are not likely to encounter a VLIW chip, and if you do, it will come with an (excellent) compiler that will do most of the hard work for you.

A good followup article would be a tutorial on how to lay out your structures/arrays in memory given your access patterns and cache architecture.
This piece is close: http://www.amazonsupply.com/dp/B003JU1FBG/ref=sp_dp_g2c_asin

6.5 inch outer, 5.5 inner, 12 inches tall (twice what the video shows) for only $700. So I'd say $300 would be a good estimate of what you can get that piece of copper for.

That magnet is also probably pretty expensive, that's a big one.
Anybody else notice that the water from the washing machine is being discharged, untreated, into the stream near by?
There is an entire Wikipedia page on Unisex names [1]. Most Punjabi Sikh first names are applicable to both genders.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisex_name
Does anyone know how these figures are collated as Windows sales might include PCs running Linux, some people build machines and then pirate Windows and web site statistics are open to a whole slew of problems from selection bias through to easy OS spoofing.

I've not heard of an accurate way to produce these statistics yet cnet are displaying floating points as their percentages and publishing them as fact. So I'd hope they have a reasonably accurate method of collation which I'm unaware of.
Yes. Not much.

Dangerous ports are already turned off with group policy (USB, removable media etc), BIOSes are locked down, hardware is still available that will support XP, the networks aren't directly connected to the Internet so they will either be airgapped or have massive edge content filters and firewalls. There aren't many infection vectors for nasties. In fact most of the machines probably don't even have latest updates on them already. Possible not even SP2.

Microsoft probably won't be paid other than through their select agreements which allow XP use indefinitely. 3rd party consultants will swarm to help any issues for a fee which is still cheaper than upgrading.

The world will still spin and lots of "meh" will be chanted as Windows 7 boxes slowly trickle into production with an old ancient IE9 build on them as and when they feel like it...

This really isn't a big issue for companies and governments despite technology news panic stations and sensationalism.

To be fair, I consider that I'll be using Windows 7 until possibly after EOL as it does what I need. I'm sitting on a second hand 2008 circa Lenovo T400 and have a spare one in the cupboard. It'll do me fine until 2020 - progress hasn't exactly been rapid in IT in the 6 years.
Still interesting where you are. OSM serves the standard style from multiple locations: http://dns.openstreetmap.org/tile.openstreetmap.org.html
PFS doesn't provide any resistance against an active attacker; ie: one that can substitute any message between the client and server.

pFs provides resistance to previously passively recorded cipher texts being decrypted when the static secret key is disclosed. It does this by ensuring the session key exchange is protected by an ephemeral key; it is not possible to derive the session key from any static configuration, ie: rsa private key.

With the PFS ciphers, the static secret key provides server authentication; so you know your talking to the correct server or in this case FBI carnivore device. The mitm appliance can even support PFS between you and it so you wouldn't even know the difference!
I do a great deal of work in DevOps and I have a text file full of scripts which come handy to do work like this during production issues.

Nearly every sysadmin/firefigher I know has command line perl/awk/sed magic text files full of this.

Having said that I would appreciate if something like this was available for XMLs. Having to deal with SQL designs force fully shoe horned into NoSQL databases so often these days. I frequently run into situations where I have to query data from XML dumps. Most of the time, I have to invent a Perl one liner that essentially does the job of a select query.
Yeah cause there's no copyright law in the Netherlands
Move to Amsterdam; we all speak English and 24-hour work weeks are perfectly normal here.

I'm not sure if it's possible if you use the US-NL immigration agreement, but you might even get innovation subsidies in which case you can become an independent consultant, work 4 months of the year and spend the money you earned tax-free in the other 8 months.
Yes, there is a large amount of recorded history of attempted price fixing from 1830 > 1920x or so, and the results of such efforts. Given it wasn't illegal for the most part, companies & individuals didn't work very hard to hide their schemes from the history books (although sometimes from competitors). The efforts tended to be constantly in flux, subject to rapid shifts in loyalty and dedication, and the agreements were typically without any formal contractual requirement. There are numerous excellent economic accounts of the 19th century US market that covers this, and many good books for companies and persons that do so as well (eg covering the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Vanderbilts, Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Carnegie, and on it goes).
>>I assume textql is basically just running a similar SQL query

textql imports your data into SQLite. In other words its a import utility.
2) Encrypts them on the client, has diffs and versioning with git

Minor nitpick, git is actually quite bad at handlying large files. So you shouldn't use git, you should use something git-like
It seems that textql doesn't parse the query at all, it imports the CSV into an sqlite3 db and then runs the query against it. What you ask for would be doable but it would be much more complex (parsing SQL is not that trivial, and people would want to do more complex queries like JOINing multiple CSV files etc., so you can't just look for "from <filename>").
So that article is just phrasing the normative in positive terms? Besides rigour, what's the point?

This confuses more than it clarifies. Economic injustice is a question of moral values; phrasing it as a scientific truth lends it a false air of credibility.
Big Data Startup Expect Lab developed MindMeld – an anticipatory computing app
I would guess his definiton of "doing" has to do with producing instead of consuming. Travelling is basically a very active form of consuming culture. In terms of changing the world, it's no more useful than reading Wikipedia articles all day. (And note, further, that his definition of changing the world was also probably rooted in a military geopolitical sensibility. Travelling doesn't destroy dictatorships, etc.)
Statistics suggest the poor kids will be worse off, and that on average, they're starting with a setback they won't ever recover from.
While you are getting downvoted, I have found your point of view to be applicable.. I've definitely encountered managers who have the point of view "we can just use Azure now, why do we need to pay a sysadmin" .. and as well, "Linux isn't professional - Microsoft is professional" is a standard refrain among the ignorant Executive classes, as well.

So there is some truth to your statement, imho.

I've recently had to port a .Net app to Mono so we can deploy it on Linux - in fact, we're doing everything possible to remove any dependency on Azure, because Azure is an atrocious trap for anyone looking to deploy productively. (e.g. can't clone an instance to .VHD without decomissioning and destroying it first..)

Anyway, mono on Linux is distasteful, in my experience - there are too many dependencies and packages and libraries/subassemblies that just are not well described. Its as much about the affront of the language used in the Mono ecosystem as anything else. Unless you have the gumption to invest weeks in understanding the perverted terminology and strange architecture of the mono packages on Linux, you're going to be dissuaded by its complexity - especially if you're used to an open, well-describe taxonomy of the traditional Linux packages' way of doing things.
In my part of the world (Eastern Europe) 25 mbps no-quota costs about $20/mo (~2% avg income) in the urban areas. Outside of cities the price stays the same but usually only (A)DSL is available, with bandwidth ranging from 512kbps to ~15mbps.

Accidentally, an average price of a DVD movie is also around $20. So yes, there are places where fast internet is affordable, yet movies are not. Unless you want to watch only one per month and give up your internet instead.

There is also a matter of TV series, which you have to wait 1-2 years for (poorly dubbed) in TV or on DVD.

Of course we are probably in something like the top 10% of wealthy places to live in. I can only imagine that situation in poorer countries resembles the one we had when internet was just kicking off and hardly anyone had connection. There was (illegal) business model of downloading movies (from Kazaa or weird warez forums), burning them on CDs and selling for the locally acceptable price.

Guess what - unless the price of virtual goods is adjusted to the local standards, and the availability increases, piracy will be there.
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THIS (b) is the comment I was hoping to see. It's a minority in the world that have Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, etc. The rest of the world has no "legal" access to content... and by legal access I mean, access to the same relative conditions as the US (which is the source of the main content being pirated): price, timing, quality, etc.

The rest of the world hasn't got flat fee video rentals, on-demand TV services, has to wait 1-2 years to get a season already aired in the tv series home market, hasn't got the option to watch it without voice-overs, etc. This is a digital breach that decision and law-makers keep pushing for, and the result is "piracy". Later this media lobby points the finger at countries for downloading their "content". Ironic given that studios/distributors were never planning in providing that content in the timely manner and format customers wanted it in.
Ray Kurzweil is wrong: The Singularity is not near
This is great fun, could you embed share options? I could trigger a share-war amongst my friends!
Again with this custom vocabulary. Why is it so important that you appear value-neutral?
I went with using a small truecrypt volume mounted at .password-store.
Yeah, I have. I understand your point, but respectfully disagree.

Analogies to The Trial produce a sense of crushing inevitability, whereas I believe the system can and should be changed.
I could think of several way to fire something, but we are talking about lhc kind of structure. And at the end what will fly away will be close to plasma. But accelerating something in the ground within spiral pipe (or one really long straight one) is viable with charges (or electromagnets - much better idea).
You went to school for two years there to prepare for 1 govt provided test? It must have been rough to remember the history or social science questions of material you have studied two years prior huh?

No rules but the laws of Canada? Well that is very close to the same thing as most schools then right? The only difference was a few rules such as you could be late to class or truant and you could leave campus whenever you wanted to. Funny that one of the laws of Canada prohibits redboxing - one of the very same "rules" that you were kicked out of school to begin with...

So you are telling me that 3 rule changes, only having one test in all of school, people telling everyone that they should study or they will fail at life (something I probably have heard from every teacher I have ever had) and a motto of "we will never give up on you" changed things that much?

What was the name of this miraculous institution???

One could change just one rule in any school in the world and it would make the kind of improvement that you describe. Optional attendance. Of course 1/3 of the school won't show up, but that is the "bad kids" anyway.
How we treat minority groups is important in part because they are so easily ignored. There are real people around the world who yes, have reliable fast internet (something much more common outside the US) and yet are denied legal access to the media they would happily pay for. Now, you can suggest that they should just not consume content that is not available to them, but that is like saying just don't participate in modern society.
Oh, that's really expensive. I guess it's ok for small amounts though but for large amounts 25% is way overkill.

Credit/Debit cards incur a fixed charge of say (max) £1.50 so that would mean that if you're paying more than £6 you're better off with the card.
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UPS will last 3 - 4 hours at best ?
As soon as you want to do 'git pull' with any uncommitted local changes, you're obliged to use the stash.
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Corporations aren't really immoral, just amoral.

If a human bit the head off a live baby seal, we'd probably call that evil. But when a polar bear does it, it's just the nature of the polar bear. It operates on instinct.

Most corporations only care about their bottom line. Even if the individuals within them are moral, the structure tends to cancel that out.

They are built to seek profit. If they obey the law, it is only because obeying the law maximizes profit. If they are moral, it is only because morality maximizes profit. On the other hand, if breaking the law maximizes profit (e.g. because enforcement is lax or penalties are low) then that's what they'll do. Likewise, if immoral acts make the most money, that's what they'll do.

What Hollywood gets wrong is that corporations aren't intentionally evil. There's no CEO sitting in his office laughing maniacally about how his new project is going to kill widows and orphans. Hollywood always wants a villain, but in this case there isn't one. Villainy falls out of the corporate structure and lots of employees just doing their jobs to keep bread on the table.

This is far from an isolated example, of course. Discrediting or destroying whistleblowers is what just about any corporation will do and has done, as long as they think the positives outweigh the negatives on next quarter's earnings statement.
On the GAC: Never use the GAC -- except for platform libraries (System.*, etc.).

Always deploy your dependency DLLs side-by-side with your code.
Straight from 1998! Perl's CPAN Module DBD::CSV http://search.cpan.org/~hmbrand/DBD-CSV-0.41/lib/DBD/CSV.pm
I end up parsing a lot of excels at work (not my choice). I saw this and thought it looked interesting - export Execl to a CSV and run a query there.

At the end of the day the problem is that non technical users don't fill in things properly. They have a space before a number so it gets treated as text. Or in the same column Excel spits out an integer as a float. Basically the things that a real database keeps in order for you, so unfortunately I don't see it solving my problems. Shame.
Yes. Always. Computers are the core tool of the job, and expecting professionals to provide their own tools is like saying "hey guy, build your own business, but then give it to me when you're done".

Plus, the hassles are reduced when we (the company) own the equipment - we can set policies for how these machines are to be used, which are productive policies. We have far more control over time being wasted in the toolings phase of things - all our machines are configured the same way, so anyone can sit anywhere on these laptops, and still be functionally productive.

That said, we've had some real success with providing VM's to be used by our staff - and this means we can reduce the power-requirements on the desktop, immensely. There's something very satisfying in watching 8 people work on the same Linux Server, albeit remotely, each with their own VM ..
Media consumption costs are closer to 3-5% of after tax income by my reckoning. Not sure what they are of disposable income, since I haven't calculated exactly what that is for me - I also like to eat well, you could argue much of my food is overpriced or non-essential. It wouldn't be less than 10% as rent is a large fixed cost.

And my media consumption isn't enormous. A few packaged DVD purchases, Netflix account, and the movies - which is very expensive these days.
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Wouldn't it be simpler to script `netcat` in shell? Or abuse the output of `lsof`?
You got my point, climate deniers are doing the same as the 'healers'.
When is spoken "consensus" on this issue, means it is the best hypothesis so far, and not just an opinion without foundation among a bunch of cientists.
Einstein was not just saying that other physicists were wrong because he did not believe in something, he presented a verifiable hypothesis. (read more about his graduations).
Someone who wants to discuss climate, should do the same as Einstein, he must study hard all the science and provide verifiable hypothesis before questioning who does.
Questioning the researchers' work, people are acting as the 'healer' who says that doctors don't know anything about his own fields.
Ugh. 10 years of privacy invasion.
A few cases come to mind.

1. The government froze wages in WW2, and companies got around that by offering free health insurance.

2. Unions often got the government to force workers to join the union, because otherwise workers would undercut the union.

3. There were numerous attempts to fix wages of black laborers artificially low after the Civil War, they would constantly fall apart because individual farmers would pay more under the table to attract better workers. See "The Strange Career of Jim Crow".

4. Government "price supports" are there because of the consistent failure of farmers to voluntarily comply with price fixing agreements.
> Is everyone really cool with the premier organizer of information being so easily bribed(through a fucking API) to essentially lie to it's users.

I'm not, and it's part of why I'm willing to put up with the occasional lack of relevance ordering in DuckDuckGo/Bing's results.

A search engine that narrows the range of its results through the slit of advertising is not only useless for research, it's actually counterproductive to anything but bias reinforcement.
Bebo was 9 in January. I wonder who will win between them?
I love this notion that Silicon Valley billionaires can all be painted with the same brush. Truly, if there was ever a group of individuals known to celebrate conforming to the thought processes of others, this is it.
"Perhaps the question should not be why is Git so hard compared to SVN. A better question.."

.. might be: why are programmers so unwilling to learn to use powerful tools? Git is no less complex than your average C++ feature .. yet it gets not as much love when it comes time to learn to use it properly.
That's terrible advice in my opinion.

Non-IE browsers still have vulnerabilities. And that's without taking exploits in third party plugins into account (Flash and Java being two popular vectors for attack)

Most antivirus solutions are notoriously bad at new threats and while firewalls might highlight malware trying to phone home, by that point you're already infected.

Security is only as strong as your weakest link and thus OS security updates are as vital as updates on any other part of the software stack.

And don't think common sense will save you as ad banners are sometimes known to be boobytrapped; legitimate sites get hacked to serve malware too.