skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4) It's still an extension: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find...
Sergey Brin makes a convincing case:

>The agreement limits consumer choice in out-of-print books about as much as it limits consumer choice in unicorns. Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice — fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

I did my PhD thesis pre-web! I wrote to authors to get copies of PhD theses and obscure books. It took months to assemble material that I needed. I am for it although I dislike the current form of Google Books, but as Sergey says, there is opportunity for competition here.
There should be a mandatory licensing rule in copyright. (Like there is for covering music.)

Pay a fee and you have the right to distribute the [modified] games. And they can't say no.

It will break some models that rely on sales areas, but instead of take-down notices when someone violates copyright, you simply send a bill, with reasonable, non-punitive rates.

It needs some details to be worked out - in particular the rates, plus how to determine how many times the work was distributed. But those are solvable, and I think it would transform piracy from a problem, to a revenue source.

It would also help avoid all those messy areas where copyright rules cause real problems for people who just want to do something.
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It doesn't use Mono, it uses GTK+. Monodevelop does too, but they really aren't the same thing.
Personally I think it would be better to only allow upvote, and reserve flagging for inappropriate comments. I don't feel it's necessary to downvote anything except if it's racist, offensive, or in any other ways inappropriate.

I mean I saw a person who was obviously not an English speaker post a hard to understand comment. He was voted down a couple of times but I can't understand why. His comment wasn't offensive. He may have had some misunderstanding and some trouble communicating but I don't think he had any negative intent. It seems in these cases negative voting serves no purpose. If you just want good comments highlighted, upvoting should be enough. Flagging can be used for innapropriate stuff.
The wifi at FOWA London was dreadful this year.
I sometimes have a problem coming up with variable names of the same length so that they would align nicely in a struct declaration :)
I've seen really good programmers(at ThoughtWorks for example) who didn't code at home at all. If you have an interesting job that leads you to code eight hours a day (typically the case at TW, if you find enterprise sw, agile, XP etc interesting), I can understand why you wouldn't want to code at home. If you are coding a solid eight hours a day, you are probbaly exhausted when you get home and don't want to see more code on the weekends. Playing with your kids beats coding any day.

That said, would I be inclined a bit more toward someone who had say Open Source contributions? Of course, it would be foolish not to.

I guess most of the debate is centred around the binary nature of the decision - will hire/ won't hire. Move to a more flexible non-binary judgment and it looks more reasonable.

Personally, I am open to hire both kinds of devs, but I'd prefer someone who had a side project / Open source cred etc.
What would I be surprised about? I know the conversation on the mailing list that spawned it. I've met the guy. It's satire.
Check out Visualizing Data by Ben Fry http://benfry.com/, one of the authors of the Processing language. The book is based on his doctoral dissertation, and has a technical (as opposed to artistic or design) focus, but is easy to understand. The Processing language/environment is Java based.
There's no point at which you could be distracted. You write a test, you make it pass. You don't do anything until it passes. As soon as it passes, you write another test. If I want to take a break, I make a test pass, then write the next one, and take the break.

When I sit back down, I know exactly where I was: making the test pass.
I can do no better than quote Randal himself again, from the same thread:

"Well, there was a very embarassing error for Apple a few years ago for the 10.3 to 10.4 upgrade as I recall. Apparently, if you had a space in your home disk name, all sorts of files got deleted.

So, the moral is, no matter how rare you think something is, that's NO EXCUSE for not doing the right thing for all possible characters."

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/504a75cc7...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/0385fc2d1...
The drop-down next to the "inlinks" button lets you filter out links from the same domain.
Seems like a reasonable and cogent response to some of the anti-Google sentiment that has been floating around.

Although I'm not a huge fan of the Google/Guild arrangement -- I would have preferred a true solution, in the form of orphan works legislation, but I know that's unlikely -- it seems like the best hope for saving orphan works and getting them into a format where they can be preserved and used. I hope that where Google goes, others will follow, as has been the case with some of their other products.
I think Cleveland was the first person to write about DV. Anyway, this book has been recommended to me several times

http://www.amazon.com/Visualizing-Data-William-S-Cleveland/d...
On the contrary side, it is interesting that this opinion is held of hackers, but would be ridiculous to consider for other fields. Imagine expecting an admin assistant to do personal admin assistant projects at home, or a bus driver to drive around just for the heck of it.

It makes me curious which fields lend themselves well to having fun time outside work doing the same things. I can imagine car mechanics tinkering with their own cars after work. I can imagine chefs cooking for their friends.

Do sports commentators call out shots at home or at the local sports bar when they are off work? How about journalists? Do they write for fun?
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I suspect the only one who ever could write like Kurt Vonnegut is in fact Rodney^B^B^B Kurt Vonnegut.

The whole deal is that it cant be reduced to a formula - unless you have a lisp script for it, in which case Id accept that as proof I am wrong.
You're almost there -- It doesn't use GTK+, it is GTK+, though they still aren't the same thing :)

GTK == "Gimp Toolkit"
> adoption was hindered by the word "nuclear."

This is exactly why NMR machines are now called MRIs.

"NMR and MRI are essentially the same technique, except
MRI is used to analyze the contents of humans instead of
what is in a test tube. The name change is to alleviate
patient fears associated with `nuclear'in NMR."
-- http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/98/1123/nmr.htm
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Isn't this a bit like preaching to the choir? At this point I would think the only people who oppose this are either the Google-overlord-fearing folk (who can never be appeased anyway), or other companies who are suddenly alarmed that they didn't have the balls to make a first move in this space.

To the latter - tough cookie. To the former I would like to ask this: other than the shadow of the Big G, what do you truly see wrong with Google Books?
"On the contrary side, it is interesting that this opinion is held of hackers, but would be ridiculous to consider for other fields"

Well Imagine a musician who never played except when he was on stage. Or a golfer who only plays at championships.

The key is (more than whether one works at home or not, which I think is a mistaken emphasis) is to be able to see output so you can judge its quality. You could ask a musician auditioning for an orchestra to play a few pieces or a juggler to actually juggle 5 clubs. The problem is that there isn't a coding equivalent.

Most developers who code only at work can't show you any of the resultant code. An interview is too short a time to ask someone to code anything meaningful. Having some independent work he can show makes evaluating a candidate much easier.
Speaking of which just got back from Health 2.0, supposedly spent 100K for the wireless. It worked for a total of 1 hour over the course of two days.
Is Newmogul dead?
Anyone know what happened to newmogul? I'd be willing to take over the site if I knew who to contact/get a site backup from.
somehow related :)
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/speech_synthesis_in...
Advogato's trust metric fleshed out this sort of idea. I wonder why it (and related work) hasn't seen more use.
This was written by one of Brin's staff (probably), and I have to wonder why a semi-reputable institution like the nytimes would publish a public relations piece like this as an op-ed.

Anyway, if google released all of these books in the wild, you could bet your ass that they would sue-to-death anyone who crawled and re-published them.
What about Mr. Fusion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_time_machine#Mr._Fusio...

It's got to be true if it was in the movies.
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice — fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country

That's not true at all. An astonishing number of out-of-print books are available used through Abebooks and Amazon. This "unicorn" canard is an intelligence-insulting flaw in what is otherwise a pretty good piece. He repeats it in another place too:

[Out-of-print books] are found only in a vanishing number of libraries and used book stores.

It's ironic, or rather disingenuous, that Brin would make this argument as if the internet didn't exist. The situation he describes is the one that book-hunters had to deal with pre-web.

Nevertheless, I think Google Books is, without any exaggeration, a great contribution to civilization. I was at Stanford when they first started advocating the project. It was widely regarded as a vain extravagance and/or futuristic pipe-dream. That they went ahead and got it done anyway is one of the things I most respect about Google, or more precisely Brin and Page, because as far as I can tell this was all them. It is an outstanding example of what visionary founders can do.
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Yeah sounds good. We get on well enough (now at least I guess I should say) that I can't imagine us pressing the intention of the document. But I figure it would be reckless to not protect the startup for the future. Thanks!
these type of prices are common in the old world of business.

I know a non-profit, that paid $30,000 for a logo and a tagline, and thought they got an awesome deal, since the going rate is like $150,000.
I suspect that is the duration of the charge and not the amount of power it can put out at any given moment.
No, that says nothing about the current and voltage. It could trickle out a teensy bit of current for a very long time, which wouldn't be useful for e.g. a laptop.
The killer app for these: flexible nuclear battery-powered e-books with color e-ink and 20-year lifespans.
A great teacher understands what will trigger progress in one person and what will trigger progress in another. Some people need a soft touch, some people need a kick in the ass.

Perhaps the CEO recognized that this would work in this case. For another person, perhaps another technique would have been tried. Regarding the story here, this last paragraph is all speculation, of course. We don't know how the CEO would've handled a different person. I'm really just addressing your point about teaching technique.
Presumably there are things in between the two extremes.

Personally I think yelling and screaming is awfully unprofessional. He still would have been humiliated and embarrassed if the guy had called BS on him in other ways, I think, which is probably what made the lesson stick. He got cut down to size, and he knew he was wrong.

I think screaming can backfire, too. I had a guy yelling and pounding his fists in a meeting the other week, and it reduced my opinion of him further. (He wasn't angry with me nor the 10 or so other people present, who were looking at him like 'what a jerk').

If I want to spend time with someone who has temper tantrums, I'd much prefer the company of my daughter, who I don't see enough as it is.
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Thanks -- and you're more than welcome. I'm always happy to share what I've managed to learn... what Amy, Peter & others have said has made the process so much less daunting.
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I'll expand upon that.

The article claims not many people creatively think of new solutions to existing problems.

But the problem is that of the people who do think creatively fewer have the energy and determination to actually do something with the idea. And of those even fewer are successful.

The only redeeming quality to the article is the mentioning of certain research in creative thinking:
"Theory of Solving Inventor's Problems, the Blue Ocean Strategy, the Theory of Constraints, and in modern works in cognitive psychology."

These may be interesting for people looking to expand their problem solving skills/creativity. But the article claims they are the snake oil to hi-tech startups.
Wow I can't wait for the day I can power my computer for a month on one charge! Actually these nuclear batteries probably won't be rechargeable, but they may outlast the electronic devices they power. Which means we could see computers and electronic devices being sold without the need for chargers. Just buy something and it works magically! That's probably the future.
atomic batteries?
I don't think it does... ...charge is more like the total energy stored in the battery. Amps and Volts will tell you how fast that power can be used. A battery can have a million times the charge but if it can only release that charge over 100 billion years then it isn't going to be able to power small electronics, like cell phones for example.
If these are truly a million times more powerful, and the average computer battery lasts about an hour, that means these batteries could last a million hours, or around 114 years.

I think that's long enough for me!
Oh great so I had radiation blasted at my abdomen. And I thought it was just magnets.
I believe "a million times as much charge" refers to the total energy content in Joules. The parent was referring to voltage. The original press release from missouri.edu:

http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2009/1007-mu-resear...

It references a published paper (likely behind a pay wall), otherwise the content is almost identical to the original link.
As all of us chatters and instant messengers grow up and enter the "real world", we are realizing that those forms of communication and collaboration can be really useful at work.

Unfortunately, the usual reaction is to get everyone in your office on yahoo/aim/gchat/msn messenger, which is far from ideal.

I think this space is bound to see quite a bit of growth in the near future, and it's far from a solved problem. That's why we're building http://shoptalkapp.com :)
It's so that every script in the world doesn't have to duplicate the logic for how to interpret globs. They inevitably won't end up doing it exactly the same way.
looks like a hacky version of prolog.
Yea and think about Apple, who are crazy about making unremovable batteries. No more complaints about unremovable Macbook batteries. They can truly make a disposable self-contained product.
> Suppose you have a file with a name of "aaa\nbbb.c".
(from the article)

To be honest, I wouldn't care about my shell not handling newlines in files, I'd care about my users creating files with newlines in them. Space is natural language, newline is not.
And if the penny size can be 1 million times more, think about a regular laptop sized nuclear battery.
Easier all around. Have you ever used the MySQL Query Browser, or Administrator Client? you can view, edit create and delete all your tables w/o even knowing any SQL so it sounds like you agree.
"Since I default to respecting the experience and ability of everyone who posts here..."

Oh, come on. I wasn't going to bring this up, but since you're playing the role of the civilized martyr, why don't you tell everyone how your first reaction was to send me an email calling me a "dickhead" for what I wrote? You have a funny way of "respecting" people.

No, I don't agree with you, but I had enough respect not to call you names, and I had the guts to say what I said in public.
Indeed - they did an excellent job at RubyConf last year.

Maybe I'm going to the wrong conferences, but I think it was the first I've been to where the wi-fi actually worked.
Spaces in names are not rare - space is part of natural language, a filename or volume name in considered to be a single line label.
Not sure why you're being downmodded. On the simplest of engineering levels, shells don't adequately separate data from execution. They also lack data structures beyond strings and arrays.

ipython / iruby can and do make much nicer shells out of the box.
What makes this different from Campfire or group chat in Gtalk?
The user making files with newlines is dangerous.
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>An astonishing number of out-of-print books are available used through Abebooks and Amazon.

The are but sometimes, I just want to read them not 'collect' them. Try the following url for some prices!

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?imagefield.x=1...

The Gutenberg organization (http://www.gutenberg.org/) has done some good work in this respect, but is inadequate.

I can't wait for Google to make an agreement with the British Museum and or the British Patent Office!
It is not A by your definition that the person has NO choice in education. In the US we clearly do have choice, and even if we go the public education route, we still have the freedom to pursue spread and pursue information independently.
I'm also really curious how renthop works in that regard.

I've thought about similar businesses, and avoiding being cut out always seems like a hard-to-solve problem.

I would really appreciate if you guys could give an explanation without me having to rent a place to test-drive the process. :)
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Yes they did sometime in the 60's. I was actually involved with research in the early eighties where one option for an artificial heart (not a pace-maker) was to use a tiny Stirling Engine powered by an isotope heat source.

The general public has a revulsion for anything 'radioactive', however radio-active material if handled properly is quite safe. For many years people did not realized it, but all Smoke detectors had radioactive americium 241. If you ever renovate an old home just don't put them in your pockets :)
It's quite a bit different from group chat in Gtalk. The biggest difference is that the rooms are persistent and any time you log in you can scroll back to catch up on missed conversations. With Gtalk (or any IM service) group chats are usually ad-hoc and treated more like meetings: you start one, talk for a while, then close it. The idea here is to have a constant stream and have topic- or team-oriented rooms where people can always go to ask questions or get ideas from their coworkers.

It is, however, very similar to Campfire. Right now, the advantages over Campfire include performance (which is actually quite key for real-time conversations like this), and the ability to sit in multiple rooms at once and receive notifications about messages to you in background rooms (also pretty important, we've found). That said, we're in beta! So, we definitely plan on differentiating ourselves more in the coming months.
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you also got a TC story: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/08/wufoo-launches-integrat...
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The KQII remake (new animation/storyboard, new story, voice over pack) is probably one of my favorite games of all time.
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It's not at all unusual for newspapers to publish op-eds from the people involved in the big stories of the day. This is especially true for political candidates.
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This has to be the 10th link in 3 days asking the same thing. Wouldn't it be best just to register a domain and set up arc 3.1 there and move the community elsewhere and invite nickb as a user ? It seems a little irresponsible to not have a policy in place to deal with outages of an active community.

I host an IRC channel for some friends, they all have my cell, just in case.

Not being a nm user it doesn't really concern me, but I really think if you have had this in the past and you haven't done anything about it that you should make some move to avoid future repetition.
Scheme 9 from Empty Space is both a small Scheme implementation and a book describing the source code.
I read 60% of the book this summer, and wasn't disappointed.

Written in portable C, it implements bignums, garbage collection, (nonhygienic) macros, hashed environments.

http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~nmh/t3x.org/zzz/
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Why not just

find . -name "*.o" -delete

?
The guy who runs a personal blog, and spends a day (off) hunting down a widget that someone else made, that kind of does what he wants, and costs $20 to use, would not be a good fit.

That is probably what the majority of real-world software development consists of, tho'. E.g. is every piece of software you use an absolutely perfect fit for your needs, and if not why haven't you rewritten it? Because that's not a good use of your time.
The problem is, it's far from self-evident that democracy is better.
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You don't have the option of not paying for govt. schools. You don't have the option of avoiding legal credential requirements in many careers. Again the US is obviously not identical to China, but they are both A.
That's an OK number since it likely covers more than just a logo and a tagline, but rather a full brand, positioning and identity definition.

But $15K for a name alone is an overkill.
I found this company, http://www.betabatt.com/index.html BetaBatt that makes nuclear powered batteries. They don't give the amps or volts either but, it does say,

"[beta batteries can be] Paired with chemical batteries for high current, limited duty cycle applications BetaBatteriesTM increase shelf life and ensure readiness by acting as a trickle charger, thus enhancing capability, reliability and useful life."

In other words this dime sized battery probably doesn't have enough current to power electronics continuously w/o some help.
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