skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An immigrant, cool, which part of Somalia do you come from? I am very impressed that you adapted so well from being an illiterate sheep herder to a highly structured western society, and was even able to start your own company. Good job.

Joking aside. Highly skilled workers like yourself immigrating isn't the problem. People aren't racists, but they are also not blinded by ideology like people on the left (be kind to others) and right (free movement of people) who, for different reasons welcome unlimited immigration.
I also had a reaction when I started using Ruby and being introduced to functional programming concepts. I read blog posts http://notes-on-haskell.blogspot.com/2007/02/whats-wrong-wit... about people saying you don't really need for loops. I thought...well, how do you get anything done?

Ends up that most things you care about can be done with iterators like each, map, and inject (like a fold). On occasion, you'll need to break out the indicies, but for most things you don't need them. Raganwald's talked about unfolding, which is pretty interesting as well. I suggest you go and check it out, if not him making a comment about it here.
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"You mean, like developing something that they think is cool? Are programmers even allowed to do that??"

I think the point is, in the past, developers have been less likely to develop something "cool", if a large installed base for running their app did not exist. The data suggest (with noted caveats) that developers are putting less relevant emphasis on installed base.

The main thing missing from the article is the number of developers developing for the web (exclusively or otherwise). I suspect that number would be greater than the combined numbers developing for specific OS platforms.
Unsurprisingly, bugbear.com is taken. Surprisingly, it features Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston and John McCarthy ( http://www.bugbear.com/roguesgallery.html ).
Did you read the article that stated pi should be 2*pi instead?
How do you infer the happiness level from the development level?
Why panic? AOL tried 'fenced garden' approach in its days and it did not work. Why should Microsoft/Facebook be any different? And AOL then had much larger relative market share than Facebook has today.
Alright. Name one that is a .com
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Related article: http://lostgarden.com/2007/02/rockets-cars-and-gardens-visua...
Want to show you're cool? Put a Trevor icon on your site.
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Start by finding cheap, short-term housing in the area (craigslist, personal connections, or asking on communities such as this one).
but how would that be done.

no matter how you do it there has to be some starting point, initiation. and whatever values you place there wont be neutral right? or can they?
it seems that even if you make it very basic they will still include some interpretation of the world from the designers and thus be more likely to evolve ina certain direction.

to be a perfect simulation would need the game designer to be some sort of a god no?
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anyway i dig Molyneux, he boasts a lot but it comes from loving games.

he has done some remarkable games and always try to be inventive.

a true visionary and one of the great game designers.
Is "Le Web 08" organized solely via Upcoming.org and Facebook, or do they have their own registration service? Many people might have seen the announcement on Upcoming, but might not have added their avatar to the listing.

I think random Google searches are also not the most common way to attract people to such conferences.
Thanks for the tip. I started Googling for open source e-commerce packages. I actually have some background in coding, I wrote a couple of smaller projects over the past 2 years, so I am comfortable with php/html, and I think my illustrator/shop skills are coming together now as well. I actually built a version 1 with the yahoo store editor. It's ok, not totally satisfied with the design, but it works, and is clean as I could make it. As I am starting work on version 2.0, I find this editor to be a little frustrating not letting me customize some of the modules, and I want to make some of this database driven instead of a page for each product. I don't like the idea of their custom tables. Does this help with gauging where I am technically?
Oh. Thanks for posting my blog here. I'm still working on the middle section, but I'm not getting anywhere. There's been lots of speculation that the three symbols above the bottom section refer to an employee number at Fermilab... that's perhaps correct, but I still think the long block of hex in the middle section needs breaking.

I'm speculating at the moment that it's yet another ternary representation like the other two.
http://www.dailymotion.com/

has HD, can deliver everywhere, is fast. we're investors so this is shameless plug but it really is the best video site that no one knows about (except it's tens of millions of users each month).
Not saying it is easy, but as an example I could point out "Conway's Game Of Life". At least it doesn't claim to be anything else than what it is...

What about a simulation of pool? I guess one could argue that the physics can never be 100% correct, but in that case I wouldn't feel so bad about it, somehow.

I guess I feel that it would be more interesting to have emergent behaviour from simple rules than to hardwire the rules on a high level, but of course I can not give a clear cut definition...
Ask YC : do you write your own blog? or you get help from someone else?
I want to know from all those bloggers whose first language is not english or from those who take help (from a pro or family/friend) for some other good reasons. I'm still not able to start my own blog due to various reasons but one of the most is (and may be few of you might have already noticed) that my english grammar is not that good - i make silly mistakes and sometime it is really embarrassing, though that doesn't mean that i dont have good/valid ideas or thoughts to share and sometime it makes me uncomfortable because i know i can write on variety of topics from IT to movies to art to culture & society to current trends in business etc. so PLEASE HELP by sharing your views and experience. thanks.
The full dataset is available as HTML, XML and SQL from http://download.wikipedia.org/ . Some versions are updated weekly. Some versions are updated less frequently. It doesn't occur on a strict schedule because the volume of data increases and sometimes the snapshot process fails.

For general use, the HTML version would be easiest to process. The HTML is compressed at a 14:1 ratio using 7zip, so it vastly reduces Wikipedia's server load and bandwidth utilisation. For diffing edit history, the SQL version would be most appropriate because it mirrors the Wikipedia schema, including previous edits.

We were using the HTML dataset for testing our own search, but we've outgrown it.
a great way to find the job you're looking for is go to the about us page of websites that you really love. If the company is established/funded they will most likely have a list of opportunities.

If there is nothing listed email one of the founders directly and tell them why you want to work and what you can do (keep it short).

You probably won't get a job instantly, but 3 months down the line people will be contacting you before they post the open jobs.
"for many Google queries, the paid results are more interesting to me than the natural results"

Which is kind of ironic, given that Google wants to be the best search engine. Yet their ads engine seems to be better than the search engine?
People aren't racists? You sure about that?

I don't remember saying anything about "unlimited" immigration, by the way...
I wouldn't trust a company that tries to poison me.
"You, I’m sorry to say, don’t have the first clue what your users really want."

And you, I'm sorry to say, don't know the first thing about me. And many like me.

Many of us are "in the pits", developing and implementing for our users every day. Our ideas come from them. We don't have the luxury of sitting in some ivory tower or think tank "wondering" what users would like. They tell us every day.

"there will be many side-steps, jumps and skips along the road. These are all perfectly natural and to be expected."

Only by those who don't know what they're doing. There are a couple of "lost arts" that, when performed properly, prevent the things that OP calls "your fault". They're called Project Management and Systems Analysis.

I would change "perfection does not exist" to "success is elusive". You have to know how to achieve it. The article's conclusions makes me wonder how much the OP actually has.
Switch to an ARM or PPC chip, and it's a completely
different process.

Yup. That's why you should do it for learning purposes - getting your head around how a machine bootstraps itself is, to my mind, one of the harder things to understand about a computing system. Part of that is because someone who doesn't know how it works might look at booting mechanisms as a sort of "black box", or just magic. Once you peer into the black box and understand some of it, suddenly, none of it seems all that mysterious anymore, even if you've only learned the particulars for one specific machine.
Have you seen this: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/05/if-you-are-look.html ?
The paid results are only particularly useful to me when I want to buy something because the ads are always commercial compared to the often non-commercial results.
Your English doesn't read that poorly to me :)

If you are so self conscious about it, why don't you just put a disclaimer at the top of every post, e.g. something short like "Please note: English is not my first language."
Bugbear.com is also not a commercial site, it is a guy's personal web presence. I would think that this would be a factor in the value of the bugbear.net name, especially for something homebrew or community oriented.
If he ever did sell to a corporate body then, of course, that would change the dynamics.

Edit: I just noticed a sibling thread talking about bugbear.com being PG's site. Just random luck on my part. Bugbear just came to mind as a defect tracking product name.
Are you seriously saying you think 'snufflebug' is the only one?

Get a dictionary to generate random words like 'snuffle' and add bug on the end. There will be a few hundred of those .com's not taken for a start.
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Bugbear is pg. He uses that as nick.
Yeah. Just do it, certainly the experience will only improve your written English.
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I've been using this lately. Only takes a few lines of code to upload to S3. I had trouble with larger files (250 MB), but I don't think the problem was with Boto.
Concerns about state of online advertising; growth slowing down...
People who are anti-immigration are not necessarily racists, just like people who criticize Israels actions aren't necessarily anti-Semites. I personally feel that that type of argumentation poisons the discussion.
thumbs up to boto
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And aparently still uses ns5.store.yahoo.com as a DNS server ;)
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ooyala.com has this great product called Backlot. I love how they let you scroll through the video and the quality is pretty good.
Exactly. Random Google searches aren't the way to attract people to such conferences. But an invitation from a friend with similar interests also attending the conference is! facebook 1, Google 0.

If you think about it, what is Google the way to do? Anything involving people, and facebook wins. Flickr is Google-searchable. Facebook Photos is not. But facebook Photos wins, at least among young adults.
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These bogus servers appeared to be providing correct responses, so what do you think the people running these bogus root servers got out of it?

Perphaps redirects of just a handful of sites for some reason?
Don't forget Monsanto. They are a force to be reckoned with.
sure i see your point, i guess in the future there will be middleware.

like molyneux himself points out it is too expensive.
and i mena people kind of keep reinventing the wheel(like in a lot of other areas in programming) so one could imagine people creating worlds both for science and computer games that have evolving populations of something and then game designers can take these when they are at a certain stage of development and build a gameworld on top of them.

uh, kinda :)
http://OPEN-deals.net is a way for entrepreneurs to the access the Angel investors that use http://Angelsoft.net.

Angelsoft.net, which was started in 2004, is the standard platform for the Angel investing industry.
While it is possible to find <foo>bug.com or even snuffle<foo>bug.com you are unlikely to find <foo> which is better than snuffle and is also available. Indeed, I'm becoming quite partial to snuffle because the word is similar to both snafu ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/SNAFU-principle.html ) and muffle; going from a very bad situation to greatly reducing unwanted side-effects.

I suppose you could choose mufflebug.com but would either of us thought of it if we hadn't seen snufflebug.com?
That would explain why bugbear's profile ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bugbear ) says "Okay just had to see if I could register it :-) Feel free to delete/lock/change pw."
The rise of the closed and proprietary Microsoft Windows PC cut off a generation of budding hackers from easy access to programming and software independence in their formative years. It wasn't until I had access to the Internet and DJGPP (the GNU toolchain ported to DOS) that I truly was able to freely pursue my interest in programming.
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This looks extremely impressive. Note, however:

"The Ubigraph server is not yet ported to Windows. We hope to release a Windows version in the future. Note, however, that you can run the server on a Mac or Linux machine, and run the client on a windows machine. You only require a functioning XMLRPC implementation on the Windows machine."

That's too bad; from the looks of it, this is nicer than yEd, my favorite graph drawing program:
http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html

This seems similar to Graphviz, since it has a programmatic interface (and no GUI for creating graphs, apparently):
http://www.graphviz.org/

Here's an example language interface to Graphviz:
https://networkx.lanl.gov/wiki/pygraphviz
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Seems a pretty childish analysis... The question is - why do girls "not want to" by the time they reach age 18?
All debates should be mapped on http://www.debategraph.org/ and Disqus should add a CommentMeme feature to group similar comments together.
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I work with Jangl who was just acquired by LiveUniverse. I don't know much about them, but I would be interested in chatting.

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My general feeling from the articles I have read on the issue is that there seems to be a significant biological factor and a significant cultural factor. That being said, I'm not sure that there is anything "wrong" with a world with few woman engineers, or that we should be doing something to address it outside of fighting concrete instances of negative discrimination.
A suit alleges to have had his identity stolen... I, for one, am not surprised.
Devil's advocate: What's wrong with them not wanting to?

Assuming there is no discrimination or other judgement going on in the workplace causing them to choose a different career, and women simply choose not to enter IT/engineering fields, what's the problem with that?
And Yahoo hosts the stuff too:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/paulgraham_2002_803...

yimg.com
Totally. Although, it's kinda fun to say names like Flickr, Twitter, and Reddit.
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Your written English is better than many British teenagers. I had no idea that English wasn't your first language. You'd be absolutely fine blogging in English.
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For the theory, history, and practical details of the project, don't miss Patri Friedman's exhaustive book on the subject:

http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/book_beta/full_book_beta...
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If that's what people want... Email also isn't searchable, yet people managed to inform each other about conferences via email for years.

No doubt Facebook is a certain power on the internet. I still cling to the "social networks are like nightclubs" theory, though, and expect people to move on. I simply can't imagine Facebook dominating everything, because I personally don't like it.
OLPC has done amazingly well. I can't think of a previous attempt at non-profit hardware, and I believe that going from nothing to half a million units shipped in three years would be considered a success even in the commercial realm.

I can't say I'm thrilled with the direction that Negroponte has chosen, but it at least provides some competition to the open-source solution -- system and activity startup times have always been weak points for Sugar.
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Where's the "conflict"?
Enrollment by young Americans, both boys and girls, is dropping in all fields of engineering. The nation doesn't need that many hedge fund managers does it?
We can work out a deal for sites like that that just have lots of sub-domains. Just contact us via email if you sign up and need something special like that.
All the proceeds are going to OLPC with the request that they stop shipping with Windows :)

On a more serious note and in case you're wondering, yes, I'm [feeling rather conflicted](http://breadpig.com/blog/?p=32) with all the recent charges against OLPC.

I'm chatting with [Ivan](http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi) about a potential alternative organization, but I also don't feel great about changing the recipient after folks had already started bidding... (thoughts?)
Definitely, the way there are tools like Poser today for creating animated 3d people, there might be behaviour design tools in the future.
See http://jimmyg.org/2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefe... for a cool Boto related tutorial.
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'The question is - why do girls "not want to" by the time they reach age 18?'

For the same reason not many men become maternity nurses or kindergarten teachers?

Frankly, you couldn't have kept me away from IT if you'd tried. Despite low wages (when I started, at least), poor conditions, working on short-term contracts, being required to educate myself, putting up with being treated like some kind of idiot savant, etc, etc -- still, I wanted it very, very badly.

Now, for people who don't feel that way, we're supposed to engage in this collective hand-wringing exercise: "Oh dear! Not enough wimmin in IT!" If they don't want it, I would seriously question the morality of (so to speak) tricking them into joining the profession on the basis of a collection of half-truths. Either you want to play with the shiny toys or you don't. And if you don't, good luck, because 90% of the time it's not exactly what you'd call fun anyway.

Incidentally, I've been around a bit and I have never, ever witnessed any indication of prejudice against women in IT. Where I've worked with female engineers, they've always been welcomed and treated with respect. Maybe we should just accept what any parent can tell you: there are gender differences, and we need to accept those rather than pretend we're all the same.

/rant. calming down now ;) talk amongst yourselves...
And what about pirates? =)
Do not worry, the free market will take care of it.
I disagree strongly...

(Mostly to be ironic)

So if these debate teams form to do battle, are there things like team leaders and private team-only discussion channels for planning the debate strategy?
'Paternity leave is the thing that made the difference for women's equality in this country.'

this makes such a huge difference, this is a not socialist vs. capitalist comparison - it is simply a matter of putting peoples needs before corporations.
I'm not so sure a simple drop in enrollment is such a bad thing. I recently taught a couple of graduate level courses in a nearby CS department, and I can tell you that they should "un-enroll" about half of their graduate students, and it would vastly improve the quality of the department almost overnight. (I can only speak to the graduate program - I haven't been in much contact with undergrads). The U.S. will never graduate as many "engineers" as China and India, and we shouldn't try.

We should graduate the best engineers and scientists.
Some of the activity could be entirely innocent. For example, if you're an ISP, answering queries on the old address would reduce traffic. Other sites may do it to increase reliability and with no intention of the route becoming public.

10 years ago, there were a few parties offering your own TLD for US$500 per year or more. (This is trivial to configure within BIND.) Unfortunately, it only worked if you used specific name servers. For a site wanting its own intranet TLD, it would be trivial to configure if they used the default name server addresses and therefore any change of root server address could cause any number of sites to inadvertently broadcast routes.

Highlighting these "rogue" servers could be a ploy to discourage the use of autonomous root servers. ICANN is keen to note that any fragmentation of DNS threatens the stability of teh iNterweb, or somesuch tosh. However, in this case, ICANN's decision to move the address of a root server was very badly publicised and will cause ongoing problems for decades.
That is probably the biggest problem. One thing we take for granted in our nation states is a military defense.
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Not enough women in science? Good for them!
I've kind of wondered about a related question ... do developers get sick of working on certain types of games, and want to switch, or do their skill sets limit them to just sports or just FPS, etc.?
He really does love his work. I admire his enthusiasm and dedication to ideals. It's infectious and he tends to bring out the best in otherwise jaded gamers. His Achilles' heel is that nobody can completely live up to those ideals. His audience feels disappointed when they see the flaws in the final product.

We need someone like him to keep pushing us forward. Bright futures don't come, they are made.
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IMHO, the biggest issue here is, that Microsoft and Yahoo do not possess search technology which can compete with Google. They may "explore the possibilities" as much as they want, but their technology is just lacking. I don't know how they will make up for it.

IMHO, what they need to do is to just invest crazily into search and try harder to compete with Google. Everything Google is doing is copy-able, they just need to throw more money and brains into it.
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