skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, as you illustrate yourself, it is no longer the 13th century and we have a large amount of evidence to suggest the relationships between things extend further than a simple jumble of complicated and unrelated data. I don't think it's dogmatic to point this out at all, I think it's dogmatic to deny it, needing to roll the clock back over six hundred years to posit a situation where the evidence may indicate otherwise.

Even if that were granted, I'm still not so certain that it makes sense. Humans have been finding laws to apply for much of recorded history. I realise it's quite a long way from the elegance of something like general relativity to the simplicity of something like pythagoras' theorem, but the emergence of the former depended upon the epistemological grounding of the latter.

It was not my intent to make allusions to a unifying great spirit or any such nonsense, merely that for the vast majority of recorded history searching for the patterns and relations in material reality has given humanity most of it's most spectacular successes. To cast this all away and try to parcel everything into microscopic localities which are not thematically related at all and thus discard what can be learned by taking a wider view.

That said, I'll check out the dappled universe idea, I've not come across it before. It amuses me more than a little that this particular concept is being pushed by someone neatly straddling the disciplines of philosophy and physics though, isn't that in itself something of a defense of a broader view?
In your response you say that people who are well educated often sympathize with people who are oppressed or powerless. Who are they going to sympathize with in a society where everyone is protected and living free? The horrible plight of people with boring jobs? The evils of waiting in line for free medical care? The injustice of not having enough french cheese to go around?
Given the API they are mirroring, they couldn't have named it anything else.
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yes I'm, and no I haven't :) Can you point me to some links?
Shoebot looks pretty interesting. It's pure Python.

http://tinkerhouse.net/shoebot/Main/HomePage
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That is not the point AT ALL. This isn't about knocking out one-off scripts to do useful things, it's about trying out the language to see if it's worth installing at all.

_why the lucky stiff did a lot for Ruby evangelism. This site combined with the Poignant Guide turned a lot of curious folks into converts.

I know this stuff despite being a Python fanatic. I have great respect for what _why did for the Ruby and programming communities in general.
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"Computer science"? "Rocket science"?
I don't know who downvoted you. You're right.

Perhaps mine is a niche view here — certainly it is — but if your goal is simply to get eyes then writing blog posts is the wrong way to go about it. People react to programs, photographs, and music more than they do to writing.

I've seen my writing consistently hit the front of Hacker News. It provides exciting spikes, yes, but when you launch a single webapp you see a vastly greater traffic from the same sources.

So, which is the goal? Is it popularity, or is it craft? If you want popularity, blogging's the wrong game. If it's craft, posts like this are self-defeating and lose you face in the eyes of the people who might be interested.
Or, we could just go back to the original topic of the article...people in Costa Rica seem to be happy.

Disbanding their military (which I was shocked to read, honestly) and spending the money (presumably) on education, amazingly, seemed to result in a better country? Hell, most countriesd if they disbanded their military and burned the money instead would be better off.

It seems to me, assuming this survey is remotely correct, is people enjoy a life where they are not sticking their noes into other countires business, and having nice weather and a strong social construct is pleasurable.
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Pfft, ancient technology:
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You know, this makes me think. Are there any good 2D libraries for OpenGL? I've seen a few, but they all seemed very special-purpose or were either poorly designed or just didn't work. It'd be interesting to have a nice library like SDL, but sitting on top of real hardware acceleration.
No, I don't think one could. They are the same API's though (with less features, a different implementation behind them, and more bugs)
This looks like a great resource. Sometimes, doing a web search for behaviors or lists of builtins feels too laborious for something I have to look up so often.
Denmark has a culture in which happiness is about the ability to value (worth ship) a cosy break with a nice cup of coffee: i.e. the small things in life.

When your criteria of happiness is a nice cup of coffee, it is way easier to rate your life as happy than if the criteria is to earn a pile of money, a McMansion, a SUV and having both kids to college. It becomes possible to have a mediocre life (even semi-bad) and still think of yourself as happy.
Having used both and worked at companies that make 3d engines as their main product, I've seen that one good way to approach this problem is to simply abstract away the API into a common interface that can be swapped between.

At a high level, the concepts that both APIs provide arent that unsimilar and abstraction is possible even if you are using some of the more esoteric features of each.
I'm late to the party, but I'll provide my two cents as someone who worked at Google and interviewed candidates (most engineers there are trained to do interviews):

1. Your resume looks good and should get the recruiters attention, and

2) that's about all your resume is good for, in my experience. Interviewers will look at what you've done in the past to help decide what questions to ask, but your answers to those questions are far more important than your past experience.

As others have said, review your basic algorithms and data structures. Be prepared to write correct code on the white board (not pseudo-code, at least not as your final product).

Finally, if things don't work out at Google - why not submit your resume to OpenX (http://openx.org/jobs or email me joel at openx dot org)? We're also hiring :)
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Did anyone else not want to click that, just based on the title?
Depends on the neighborhood. Some neighborhoods are always cold. SOMA is pretty sunny and consistent.
I looked at the "computer science" section from the left menu, and the top of the list was The Great Gatsby.

That must be for the future financial engineers?
Of all the places I've gone, there are two places I've visited where I found the people to be remarkably friendly and happy: Costa Rica and Thailand. I'm sure part of it was that I spent time in both places on vacation, but in both, I was on a rented motorcycle with my wife, visiting both touristy areas and places off the beaten path.

My wife and I have a dream of starting an international hacker house someday for companies/individuals that want some isolation and focus during crunch mode but also want some exotic locale, and both Costa Rica and Thailand are on our short list.
>we have a large amount of evidence to suggest the relationships between things extend further than a simple jumble of complicated and unrelated data.

Oh yes, of course. But there's a lot of middle ground between a complete jumble and complete unity. I don't think anyone is suggesting that there are no regularities at all, just that the ones that there are may be relatively local and particular. (They're still pretty damn impressive for all that, though.)

I think this is an aesthetic problem in a way. Everyone seems to have a kind of Platonic aesthetic these days -- everything has to be ultimately simple and unified and abstractly beautiful. If you'll excuse a stupid metaphor, it's sort of a question of how you visualize God's office. Does it just have a plain desk with a couple of pens and two equations written neatly on a notepad, or is it a huge jumble of dusty books and papers covering every conceivable topic at every conceivable level of analysis? I think part of the reason for my "conversion" to the dappled view of things was that I started to find the Platonic aesthetic less and less appealing. (Of course, it might be a really bad idea to let aesthetic considerations have this much influence, but maybe that's another topic.)

>It amuses me more than a little that this particular concept is being pushed by someone neatly straddling the disciplines of philosophy and physics though, isn't that in itself something of a defense of a broader view?

I think it's a bad kind of slippery slope argument to go from "there are some interesting connections between some things" (certainly true) to "everything is deeply connected and unified" (plausible, appealing in some ways, but not something a rational person has to believe).
You could call it without JVM. You are not programming ordinary Processing in Java but ~in~ Processing.

Why is without "Java" a feature. It makes it not run in a browser and I doubt I could speed-wise make something like this with it. It's made in ordinary processing (and it runs in a browser).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aACBSRG5ywM

I don't object the creation of processing in yet another language. I just slightly object this title.
Exactly, that was my feeling.

He is clever though, you have to hand him that.

But by showing his hand and how 'clever' he's been the author has possibly completely undone the effect.

There is an unwritten social contract between content creators and audiences, they don't mind being duped (if it isn't blatantly obvious), but don't rub it in.
Excellent point. Twitter accounts with moderate followers represent real people that are more likely to be engaged with your tweets. The "big boys" are more likely to be using Twitter as a broadcasting marketing tool. The former group are more likely to become your users/readers/customers.
But the robot _might_ be being controlled by some guy in another room who is also controlling the lightbulb (alternatively the person could be following instructions given by an earpiece). Or maybe they're both hooked up to a geiger counter. I admit it seems pretty unlikely that anybody would wire a robot or person up to flip a switch at exactly the same time a lightbulb comes on, but it only seems unlikely because of our pre-existing knowledge about robots and lightbulbs. If we take away that knowledge and simply make it a statement about how variable A changes when variable B does, it's much harder to infer which way, if either, the causal link goes.

(I suppose if you really wanted to be paranoid you could suppose that your _own_ actions in flipping the lightswitch might be subconsciously being controlled by someone else, but this is a whole different level of skepticism)
The server only went down 3 times? I suppose the giant downtime for three hours while everything ran only counts as one.

I realize it's free, but wouldn't an "Oops! Sorry, we are at capacity" message have been better then just letting requests time out?
You´ve not been social engineered - you´ve received a post that was personalised for you. I don´t write to gain twitter followers - I really don´t care - but in order to test my theory, I needed some type of metric, and that seemed like a relevant one.

My further posts are no longer going to be manipulated in that manner -- well, till I think of something interesting to try out again.

The only difference between what I did and what lifehacker or any such site does is that I explained afterwards.

(Sorry about the weird apostrophe, I got a new macbook and it has a strange keyboard).
You´ve not been social engineered - you´ve received a post that was personalised for you.

It was personalized for us? So you're saying: In the process of creating the post, you designed it in ways that would appeal to the sorts of individuals that frequent Hacker News?

That sounds... a little like... social... engineering.

Wikipedia:

Social engineering is the act of manipulating people into performing actions.

We can get pedantic, but Jacques accused you of doing exactly what you're doing.
The first is essentially a branch of mathematics, and do they really have degrees in something called "rocket science"? I don't think that's its formal name, which would be aerospace engineering.
These folks give WAY too much information out.

I liked the "I am a VC" IAMA, but it was too easy to figure out who that was, too.
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The reality in china - there is a huge underemployed class of people. But real estate is still cheap. In Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and some other countries, housing is expensive, but the rest of china is still cheap, even for locals. So I dont really see a bubble there.

Also, the government is pumping money into infrastructure - dams, roads, tollgates, hospitals. No matter what crashes, the infrastructure remains.

China will hit crisis like all economies do - but I do not think it will be in real estate.
> You´ve not been social engineered - you´ve received a post that was personalised for you.

That's your interpretation, mine is different. You've used your reputation to get me to visit your site, specifically not the text of those links. You've written interesting stuff in the past and I wondered what this was about. (edit: reputation+title = click, reputation alone or title alone would probably not have been a click, but that's after the fact).

> My further posts are no longer going to be manipulated in that manner

So you say.

> well, till I think of something interesting to try out again.

See, that's what I mean. You've abused your reputation in order to do your experiment, and you've succeeded in your goal. Now I'm going to be more wary, and will think twice before I click, no matter how enticing the title. In fact, the more enticing the title the less chance that I'll click because that will make it more likely that you are pulling another stunt.

> The only difference between what I did and what lifehacker or any such site does is that I explained afterwards.

A good magician never explains his tricks to the audience.

I know that that is a fine line here, but even though I'm sure you have good intentions and you are in a way making up for tricking people by explaining it I can't help the feelings that it creates.

Trust is a fragile thing, and in some sense you have broken that trust.

You've taken 'link bait' or 'title bait' one step further and created 'article bait'. That's an achievement in its own right, and I find it quite impressive that you managed to pull this off but at the same time you've shown yourself more than willing and capable of doing this with intent.

> I don´t write to gain twitter followers

No, but you write "My aim in both cases was to increase my name recognition. I wanted the right people to be aware of "Max Klein". "

If twitter followers are a measure of that then we can use that to gauge your success and effectively you were trying to gain a following.

That's what social engineering is all about. It's a hacker term for getting people to do what they otherwise would not do by outsmarting them. That's not limited to getting passwords over the phone by pretending to be the sysadmin.
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Ok, now I'm totally sure I will never in my life try Vim - I'm not Rainman.
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Uhh...does OpenOffice not have COUNTIF? COUNTIF is pretty bread and butter when you're using Excel...

[/me decides not to be lazy, Googles]

Yup, it's there: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_T...

Get to know your spreadsheet functions, it will save you a lot of time and effort in the long run, half the stuff that you need is built in. The other half, you won't believe that it's not, but at least you'll know when you actually need to waste your time implementing simple counting hacks.
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A Vietnamese calligraphy exhibition featuring works from Buddhist monks from HCMC and Central Highlands provinces closed on January 4 at the Dalat Flower Festival 2010.

The show with more than 200 thu phap (calligraphy pieces) on paper, stone, canvas and bamboo at Quan The Am Pagoda near Xuan Huong Lake opened on January 2 as a part of the festival.

The exhibition, Sac Mau Hoa But (The Colour of Flowers and Brushes) displayed pieces by 15 Buddhist monks from HCM City and Central Highlands provinces and five other artists who are falling in love with the art.

Many of the artists are from a calligraphy group in HCMC’s Tan Binh District. The show was unique as it presented pieces of calligraphy on stone using oil paints instead of the traditional Chinese ink.

Thich Quang Man, of Quan The Am Pagoda said it was difficult and time consuming to do calligraphy with oils on stone, sometimes taking a full day for one piece.

The group spent three months to prepare the artworks after being invited by the flower festival’s organising board. A sculpture of the late poet Bui Giang, BodhiTsattva and Gautama Buddha are also displayed in the pagoda.

Man said they had expected to sell more than half of the work. A similar exhibition had been held at the pagoda in April and July last year, the art-loving monks had an exhibition at a pagoda in Dak Nong Province.

He said he was happy to see large interest in the calligraphy with 20 potential buyers inquiring about one piece. He added that through the art of painting words the monks could introduce the beauty of the Vietnamese alphabet and Buddhist philosophy to Vietnamese and foreign tourists.

The centerpiece of the show is a giant prayer book, an initiative of the pagoda’s Vulnerable Thich Tinh Tue and Thich Quang Man, which is awaiting Vietnam Record Book recognition.

The 103-page book features 100 excerpts of sacred text, written in calligraphy by Buddhist monks. The 53-kg book, which is 90cm by 60cm, took three months to make at Hoa Khai Pagoda in Dak Nong Province.
There are a lot of blogs there talking about tech and talking about money. I could join their ranks and just write the same stuff I write here.

But I choose not to. What I want to write is a meta blog. A blog where the things I write to pull people to my site are further explained and analysed. Like getting traffic by writing an article about how to get traffic and in that article analysing the traffic the article itself would get. That is the experiment I want to do.

Yes, unfortunately, you are my test subject, and it is your choice if you choose to participate or not, but I think it will be interesting.

So I am the magician explaining and analysing my tricks. Not everyone likes that - some just want to see the magic.
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Alright, you are technically right. Which is the right kind of right.
I wasn't aware the government was going to ban healthcare, forcing us to see a mob doctor. I know politics isn't OT on HN but sure we can have a discussion that doesn't involve hyperbole.

edit: Also, was his reference to eugenicists some sort of passive-aggressive dig against people who are pro-choice and want abortions covered in the health bill? If so, all the more reason this is an awful article.
I think the most valuable twitter user is he who followers 100 people but is followed by 10.000 people. Do you disagree?
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Random, non-thought provoking, press release in the shape of a blog.

The only semi-interesting (imo) tid-bit relayed is charging for services prevent spam, but that isn't new or uncommon.
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The basic mistake you make is that as both the audience and the test subject you lose perspective, it's one thing to stand on the sidelines and see you do great stuff with text in order to really achieve something.

If you had a specific goal other than 'increasing the name recognition of Max Klein' then that would be cool with me.

Say you invent a gadget and you apply this technique and you sell a million of them and document it. That's the exact same thing but with one major difference, there is a concrete goal.

The audience itself is not the goal, and neither is simply increasing your name visibility. It's like a branded box with nothing in it. Other than your 'cleverness'.

By closing the loop and making the whole thing about how to attract visitors you are like a spammer that mails you a guide on how to get traffic, the guide tells you to spam people and send them guides.

There is no real goal here.

That's a harsh analogy, but that is the way it appears to me.

So, what do you really intend to do with the audience that you have got ?

Are you going to get to some kind of conversion goal or is it just a numbers game ?
Processing is a subset of Java.

For starters, Java and thus by extension processing doesn't allow funargs and is constrained by it's verbosity. For anything other than basic Sketches, this is a huge disadvantage for something that claims to be an educational tool.
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The message now being "upgrade your damn hardware('s firmware)". Security / stability upgrades are made for a reason. Use them, or possibly suffer the consequences.
The phrase "technically right" implies you think I'm wrong in some other way. Yet here you've said specifically that your goal is to manipulate people and then reveal how they're being manipulated. So, you're socially engineering people.

Thanks to this one article, everything you attempt to write from now on will be hounded by people criticizing you and calling out manipulation. You're Max Klein the con man. If you're sincere about your goal that won't deter you, but don't kid yourself into thinking the locals here will be a fan.

I'm ambivalent, myself; what you purport to do is what a thousand marketers have written about before you. What do you have to say that has not been said and critiqued before? If you're really committed to writing something interesting, that's a question you need to answer. If your goal is just fameballing, then expect fame, but fame's not as fun as it looks.
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That depends on the 10,000 people. If they're all outside the demographic that I'm interested in or if the person that follows me never retweets stuff that interests my demographic then it's useless.

In general though, assuming there is some bond between you and the person that follows 100 people and the 10,000 people that follow him in turn contain some real live bodies that are in the right demographic he/she will be a useful follower.

Personally I have not seen much action on twitter from people with 10's of thousands of followers, they are usually fairly reluctant to re-tweet unless it suits them perfectly, exactly because of their large following, and also because people with that many followers usually have those for their own glorification and not specifically as a tool to communicate with people with who they have a strong (2 way) bond.