skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't looked at the proof in any kind of detail.

But comments by Jame S. Gates etc. raise a question in my mind. Any statical argument that a given phenomena is unlikely is based on the space of phenomena behaving very roughly "communatively" - AB and BA equally likely or at least correlated.

How do you apply that kind of reasoning to a totally arbitrary process of computation, a process which wouldn't necessarily have respect any kind of randomness? It seem like any statistical argument for P=/NP has to have a detailed and direct discussion of how you can escape this problem.

Anyway, that's my crude effort to translate the discussion into my mere math MA understanding...
Every search engine is a screen scraper. Google has been making $$$ off of re-published content since day zero.
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Interesting because injecting script tags shows them properly escaped but also seems to be evaluating them. Not sure how both can happen at the same time.
Thanks. Yeah I'll definitely have to work on the spamming.
Leaning towards open sourcing it and maybe run a hosted service.
Thanks for picking that up. I would've never picked it.
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no? I'm not abusing someone's trust or breaking my word. Every other consideration is subordinate to my aim.
Agreed, the User Experience definitely needs a lot more work. Thanks for feedback.
You might try http://www.freesound.org/searchText.php . I couldn't link my searches, but try 'cafe', 'lounge', 'coffeeshop', etc. Longest I saw was ~20 minutes, and was a lounge, so music, but more than nothing. And you can always record your own and share them!

Originally saw the site accredited in the movie 'children of men' [title possibly mangled].
here's another long polling chat, in Python and with source code: http://chat.gevent.org
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I'm American and I take walks all the time. I rather enjoy walking quite a bit. My favorite was when I used to live in Chicago. The never ending expanse of sidewalk and streets meant I could leave my apartment, and just walk ... for hours. I used to walk home from work at the Field Museum, just because I enjoyed it. Although I guess that doesn't fit his definition of "just taking a walk", as about 3 hours later I'd arrive at a destination, my apartment.
Re: spam Well I was half expecting it. I suppose now we sorta know how it holds up to heavyish traffic, even if it's spam...

Thing is twich rooms don't hold any history. it works more like throwaway chatrooms atm.

Persistent rooms - I'm strongly considering implementing down the road.
Definitely needs flood control. Thanks for the ref. I'll read up on it.
From NYTimes:

Jen Howard, a spokeswoman for the F.C.C., said that it would not immediately comment on the proposal, and that the views of commissioners did not reflect those of Julius Genachowski, the F.C.C. chairman.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/technology/10net.html?_r=1...
As a fellow American who takes walks,I disagree with the perceived antagonism.

I think part of the point is that there is something deep-seeded in our culture that punishes idleness. That is the social anxiety he describes. I do have a little anxiety when I'm going for a walk, alone, not particularly doing or thinking anything. Will people think I'm some sort of weirdo? The observation that this worry is itself worrisome is an observation I can identify with.
Color scheme is homage to original nodechat demo which uses the same. http://chat.nodejs.org/
for (i=0;i<=500;i++) {
$('input#entry').val('kjhjkh' + i);
$('input#entry-btn').click();
}
or you could just push it to the url

heaps of people have injected js too
I'm not sure you can describe Zed Shaw as someone who doesn't draw attention to himself.
Walk hacks. Definitely a first.
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This is very important for programmers. You need to take a walk to recharge your batteries. To clear you mind. Well, it works for me anyway.

Do it during lunch, after work, after dinner. On the weekend , for a longer walk. Parks and trails work best. Less crowded streets in the city work as well.

Don't rush, just walk slowly.

Observe things.

If you end up thinking about the problem your are working on, that's fine, if you notice a bird's nest, that's fine too.

Walk like you have no place to be, look around. You will feel weird at first, but that's fine. Try not to care about that.

Think of it as something between meditation, relaxation and exercise. Sort of a all-in-one.

It's easy. There is nothing you have to do to plan for it, no special gear to buy, all you need to do is to say "I want to take a walk" and then ... take a walk.
It is definitely neat that you can take a language like C# and make it dynamic... but it would seem to be a lot more sane to just use the IronPython or IronRuby, or even the plain Python or Ruby runtimes themselves. Use a language for what it's good at?
Learn to use the DOM instead of HTML strings, and you'll almost never run into those XSS problems. You can replace all of your HTML sanitization functions with document.createTextNode(text).
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I went for a walk today. The fact that my car was in the shop being repaired had absolutely nothing to do with this. Nothing. I swear. I should go check out my new tires.
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There's a quote that comes to my mind, on occasion, which I love, and which sums up the attitude I want toward life and that which is expressed here.

"Some people walk in the rain, and some people just get wet."

Be someone who walks in the rain.
I've never once used the dynamic keyword in a C# program, but I do ponder on it a lot. The new dynamic features in C# being able to provide a "method_missing" along with the emphasis on "what it does" over "what it is" is really intriguing to me. Can this be leveraged in any meaningful way in C#? Has anyone given it a real try yet? If so, should we even bother? Why not just stick with a language like Ruby then? It feels awkward to say the least to start doing this in a language like C#. Although most C# apps dive into reflection quite a bit to pull off similar functionality.

I am currently working on a Silverlight app using RIA Services. Here on the server side you have to have each CRUD method for each type you are surfacing. You can't do

public IQueryable<T> Get<T>() { }

It has to be

public IQueryable<Foo> GetFoos() { }
public IQueryable<Bar> GetBars() { }

Same with all update, insert and delete methods. It drives me insane that I literally have several thousand lines of CRUD methods. Can some kind of dynamic solution jump in here and help? I doubt it, but I can dream. (Generics don't work here because RIA services can't support sending generic arguments across the wire).
Do not want.

To my mind this does not address the issues honestly. The basic issue: Laying cable is expensive, but the marginal cost of fiber over bandwidth can be driven down in a variety of ways, and we have abundant fiber and rapid progress in photonics improving it at least as fast as Moore's law.

Wireless spectrum, by contrast, is horrifically expensive. These two companies own a lot of both, and would like to trade the uncertainty of the auction model for a set of agreed industrial targets.

Some parts are a joke, like the FCC having the authority to fine companies up to $2m after investigating bandwidth abuses on a case-by-case basis. Verizon has annual revenues of about $27 billion; a $2m cap is about as imposing as a nerf gun.
my bootstrapped company wasn't profitable for the first three years.

Amazon stomped on me not once, but twice, first with storage, then with compute nodes. The thing is, amazon didn't follow up with a kill. They have let up on the price pressure to the point where I can field compute nodes at a significantly lower price point... and I'm eying the storage market.

The s3 service was the first time they trounced me. My initial idea was to sell storage, rsync.net style, before rsync.net. s3 killed any possibility of price competition at the time. But, while if you can afford five petabytes of data, their prices are still really, really competitive, I'm considering heading back into the market because they've left the couple hundred gigabyte market wide open.
I dug through the guidelines and associated texts and couldn't find it, but I see it stated often enough that I don't mind sharing it:

_Resubmissions are allowed after a year or so._

[beyond paraphrasing, completely reconstituting the thought, still meaningful however.]

This solves all the problems in your first paragraph. Automatic re-posting is almost a guarantee if it's that good, so that's paragraph two handled.
Immersing yourself in a problem for a long time often establishes a number of assumptions in your brain about how said problem should be solved. When stuck, withdrawal from the direct effort of work can free up some of these assumptions, letting your mind entertain other possible approaches.
This sense of needing a purpose, a direction, a reason for doing something is certainly not unique to taking a walk. In a diner I frequent I was recently asked if I were a student by one of the servers who has often waited on me while I was reading. I'm not. And his reaction to my answer conveyed a sort of disbelief or at least a hint that I am wasting something, that I am throwing away a chance to convert this time into something tangible, beneficial.
> I think part of the point is that there is something deep-seeded in our culture that punishes idleness.

I observed the same thing. I have lived half my life here, half in Eastern Europe. I remember we used to take walks with my family after dinner growing up. Here in US it is harder because it is so unusual. I guess life is faster paced, but I think at some point it becomes counter-productive.

Being fast-paced works very well for manual labor, not for problem solving. Hard problems can only be solved on a clear, rested mind, sometime a walk does just that.
But surly the whole point of commenting on a post is to share our collective wisdom about whether or not code (or advice) is good.

The function of a HTML reset file is to ensure browsers on all systems behave the same way, but in this instance it appears to me that the author hasn't tested his own page on windows or perhaps just in Chrome, which would suggest that it might not good advice to use his reset file.
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I don't understand this obsessions with calling things "hacks."

This isn't a hack. It's an activity. I can't think of any conceivable definition of "hack" that this article would also fit.
i often take walks, especially in SF. as strange as it may sound i can't think of another activity that gives me as much of a sense of pure freedom as purposeless walking (and thinking) in a city
I think you're looking for a different thread...
"You will not sweat."

The author has clearly never lived in Texas during the summer. (A decent-length leisurely walk around Austin at midnight during this time of the year will inevitably result in more than enough sweat.)
An acquaintance of mine (Irish like me) visited the US some time in the mid 90s. He took a walk in a suburban area, and was surprised to find himself being followed by a police car before long. When they stopped and asked him what he was doing, it dawned on him that because he wasn't jogging, or walking a dog etc., someone had actually called the police when they saw a stranger walking aimlessly down their road.

Needless to say, all of us back home were appalled by this apparently fearful and paranoid US cultural trait.
Good points, and I agree.

The Netflix prize is interesting. According to a summary post on the Netflix forum

the early results were mainly by individuals...
the team members began to coalesce and combine, and
in the end, entire teams coalesced and recombined.

http://www.netflixprize.com//community/viewtopic.php?pid=961...

I can only speculate that the combination of a deadline, a problem that was too hard for any individual and a common forum for exchanging ideas helped encourage team formation. (I.e when you realize that you can't do this alone, teaming up is a rational thing to do.)

I assume that the problems we (as in society, humanity) want to tackle will grow ever more complex in the future, and may easily outgrow the capacity of individuals.

So yes, perhaps we could/should learn from how the Netflix prize played out...
That's a pretty measly definition of ethics. Under your definition, murder is ethical so long as you don't lie about it.
"Is starting programming only for the young?"

It seems like it to me in this society. After you are 40 your mind seems to be in a different mode.
A super early startup I worked for years ago got a really amazing deal on our first two servers. We paid like some minimal price for some PC hardware that was essentially out of the back of a van.
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Thanks! This is exactly what I'm after. I assume I can use those things in the demo account? :)
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Absolutely. Let your kids make mistakes. Let them do things wrong. Let them make odd decisions.

The best thing you can do for your children is help them to become good decision makers and the best way to do that is to let them make lots of decisions.

You can still make your values known and prevent damage and injury but let them do as much as possible and learn what works.

A great introduction to this type of thinking is Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn.
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mahmud, so you can accept that someone steals a lot of money from a lot of people (bank shareholders) by killing or threatening to kill civilians on the way, but mere electronic vandalism is out of bounds? That's some amazing flexibility. Unless by bank robbery you mean "only" electronic fraud?
The last sentence of this comment makes no sense. Do his neighbors have such acute auditory ability that they can hear the music from his headphones -- the ones he takes on those walks -- through their walls?
Minute differences in genomes lead to large differences in phenotype. Ever heard of databases of SNP's or CNVs? A single base change can make a world of difference.

Actually, I'm not basing this on anecdote, as there is a ton of literature to back me up here.
The first thing I searched for is quite remarkable for a single generation: http://www.springerlink.com/content/r44140388u23t768/

But, without going to the extensive literature, are you seriously claiming that the rate of learning is EXACTLY the same for every human, or that the variance is so tiny that differences are negligible? Both claims are provably false if you have a quick look at the literature.
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I found the article interesting, but I thought it was somewhat overly argumentative. In particular, the claim that immigrants take walks and Americans don't struck me as an implausible over-generalization. I liked his points about the right attire for walking, but the "your walk doesn't count if..." part bothered me.
It's a hack because it is an unusual or counter-intuitive way of solving a problem. Or meta-solve a problem -- recharge your mental batteries so when you get back you solve your real problem better, if you wish.

This is just as much a hack as articles about exercise or nutrition are a hack. They hack the hackers, who ... hack.
This guy here knows what it's all about:
http://imjustwalkin.com/
I took a stand-up comedy course a couple of years ago. I found out that it takes a long time to come up with material. You can't just sit down and start writing jokes. They come when they are ready and you'd better be ready to write them down.

When I had some time in the evenings to come up with material I would sit at home without much inspiration. However, I found that when I walked to the convenience store to get a snack, I would inevitably return with at least one new joke idea, maybe more.

Walking was such a predictably good way to loosen up my creativity that when I got stuck I would head for the door and tell my wife, "I'm going to the convenience store to buy a joke."
An algorithm that could find the optimal solution in practice. For instance, in 0.36s, as in the article. A theoretical algorithm that finds the optimal solution is trivial; you don't need to be a programmer to come up with that one.
Although the effort from Sharpie is great and will ultimately purchase a few, I think a lot can be said about a geek by their pencil. My fave at the moment is Pentel Kerry. Amazing mechanical pencil that feels phenomenal in hand, what is everyone else rocking?
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No, given how cryptic the original post looked to me, the comment looks absolutely spot on!
YES! More evidence!

Also... AT&T gave ALL previous iPhone owners an early upgrade option. Why? To lock people into a 2 year contract... a 2 year contract that would prevent people from jumping ship to a better carrier come January :)

Can't wait for my VZW iPhone 4!
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"And how can you compare beauty to potential to learn?"

There's a big difference between potential to learn and actually learning. Yeah, everyone probably could, if they spent enough time at it, attain Ph.D levels of intellectual achievement. But they won't. At some point, they'll say "This is stupid. I have better things to do with my life," and go do those.

"Even in races the difference between the top world runner and his peers is not by much."

There's not much difference between the top world runner and his peers. There's a huge difference between the top world runner and you or me. The people at the top of the field are already putting in as much effort as is humanly possible. On top of that, they have talent. There're lots more people who also put in as much effort as is humanly possible, but find they're still nowhere close to the top. Usually, they get discouraged by this and choose a passion where their effort gives them a bit more reward.

"Genetically speaking we humans are pretty much identical."

That all depends on how broadly you define "identical". We share about 99.9% of our genes with other humans. We share about 98% with chimpanzees. Most people would say that there's a fairly large difference between a human and a chimpanzee.

In a broad sense, yeah, virtually everything alive is practically identical. A human and an ebola virus are made of the same elemental building blocks, and the roughly million-fold difference in their size and complexity is peanuts compared to the breadth of the universe or the minisculeness of the Planck length.

But most of what makes us human is the ability to discriminate, the ability to look at details and pick out tiny differences. So yeah, there's probably a few milliseconds separating the top two sprinters in the world. But those few milliseconds might as well be an eternity for them. The difference is probably irrelevant for a layperson, but it matters a lot for someone in the sport.

There's a distinction between "everyone is equal" and "everyone is equal at everything they do". The former is a way of defining equality - I find it a pretty useful way, but I recognize that this says more about me than it does about the world. The latter is just factually incorrect.
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The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot. ~J.B. Yeats
I was wondering about this as well.
In my (Japanese) office, all of us use erasable pens. They come in a variety of colors, erase cleanly and easily and as far as I can tell do exactly what this new sharpie pencil does.

Or am I missing something amazingly obvious?
Reminds me of Bob Dylan being questioned by the police due to walking around in New Jersey.

The incident began at 5 p.m. when a resident reported a man wandering around a low-income, predominantly minority neighbourhood several blocks from the oceanfront, looking at houses.

(...)

"What is your name, sir?" the officer asked.

"Bob Dylan," Dylan said.

"OK, what are you doing here?" the officer asked.

"I'm on tour," the singer replied.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/08/15/dylan-police.h...
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Amorphous, highly elastic materials (glass comes to mind) are often not great for long-wearing designs like bicycles. At least to present, amorphous metals wear more like glass or carbon fibre than steel: invisible structural damage leads to quick catastrophic failure. Rather than dings you get severed seat tubes and exploding wheels. For the time being, no one's invented anything better than cro-moly steel for the good old bicycle.

It does sound like an utterly fascinating material, however. The slow, glass-like viscosity curve would be an amazing property to play with.
I've long kept an eye on github as a potential source for http://langpop.com stats, but it still seems way too tilted towards languages that, by all other measures, are not that popular.

(And that's no knock on Ruby - lanpgop.com is built with Ruby!)
Thanks! You're absolutely right about reading the paper. I should have looked at it before posting; casualty of the constant battle to minimize online distractions. I appreciate your digging that information up.
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I grew up in a SW Portland neighborhood with no sidewalks. The road shoulders were narrow, unsafe, and often muddy. I never saw people out for leisure walks. It just wasn't enjoyable.

Now I live in the outskirts of Portland, in a place with modern suburbs grown up around a quaint old town. Sidewalks are everywhere. I take walks all the time, and I see other people out for walks daily.

It's seems like common sense that urban and neighborhood design can have a huge impact on the livability of an area, but a lot of the suburbs created in the US abandoned the sidewalk to save a few bucks and cram more houses per acre. I don't know if the tide has turned, but I'd never live in a neighborhood without sidewalks again.

Home buying tip: Look for a neighborhood with a strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street. It's a small detail that has a big impact on "neighborhood" feel.
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I'd agree that everyone has potential to master anything, but that potential isn't equal. That is, I don't see everyone having the ability to master something in the same time frame. This might be due to differences in aptitude, and or the lack of the ability to practice efficiently, and possibly other variables.