skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inability to absorb too many details verbally = personal fortitude to insist that others show a modium of discipline and occasionally write down what they want

Inability to multi-task = ability to focus

Inability to manage or even to “see” certain classes of “mundane” details = ability to distinguish the difference between and "issue" and a "detail"

Inability to organize = lack of the need to organize because of intense focus on the most important thing

Capable of working through entire books of information because of the ability to distinguish between "issues" and "details" (see above)

Capable of coming up with pretty good project ideas on his own = creativity

unusual degree of empathy = understands the "big picture"

Faults tend not to show up terribly badly but only to those tuned in to the "superficial", not the "important"

If he can team up with... = understands synergy

Is this guy sick? = a one eyed man in the land of the blind
Functional programming and OCaml koans
OCaml bitstrings: parse , generate binary formats, files and protocols
Larry Wall, google tech talk, June 08
Will crime maps work?
This is one of Mozilla's problems right now: it leaks like crazy so how are you ever going to know if you just added to the problem?

Precisely. You should worry about memory leaks so you don't have web browsers using up 800MiB while doing absolutely nothing and not using any plugins: http://neosmart.net/gallery/v/apps/Firefox/Firefox+Hole.png....

Then again, when you're leaking several hundred MiB per tab in Version 2, you can fix up a memory leak or two, halve the problem, then go around claiming "extraordinary improvements to memory management" come version 3. Oh, wait.....
Concurrency, real-time embedded military apps, Java, Ada
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It's almost like he works a little differently from how the writer is accustomed. Autism! ADD! Medicate 'em!

It's the new witch hunt.
PHP 5.3: namespaces, cyclic garbage collector.
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http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Made-Simple-Third/dp...

...seems to be a good introduction to molecular biology in general, depending on how much background you have.
People can write bad code in any language -- It just seems that alot of the people who write bad code prefer PHP; that's not to say there aren't some amazing PHP coders out there.
I read it and absolutely had no idea if the joke was on PHP or .Net.. (I'm a .Net developer btw - least at my current work)
[Mozilla] leaks like crazy

Disturbing.

unref, free, g_free

One of my professors joked that all non-trivial C and C++ projects begin with hiring a guy who already wrote a garbage collector.
Thanks for all of the comments everyone. To address some of the issues:

You don't have to log in to view posts, only to make them. This is one thing that I think guides the discussion in a more meaningful direction than boredat/juicycampus. We have community moderation, so that if your post is reported a couple times by other users then it is removed and your posting privileges are temporarily suspended. This helps cut down on the excessively slanderous posts that you see on juicycampus.

As for it being a fad... At my school we had a live journal board and it has remained popular for at least 3 years now. I'm pretty convinced that if done right, we will be able to keep the attention of the student body. Not to mention that each year there's a whole new class of freshman who the idea may be completely new to.

PS: My co-founder was on NPR talking about some of these issues. You can check it out here...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9394823...

Click on the "Listen Now" button at the top (next to the red button)
Buzz About Data but Voice Still Rules
I don't think people who write bad code prefer PHP, I think that PHP just has a much lower barrier to entry.

That leads to more inexperienced people landing at PHP and staying there.
Thanks Ian. (bit busy next week so may not see you).

In case anyone wants to attend and does not know where/when it is, hope this helps...

Hacker Meetups London
04 September 2008
Flat 1,
103 Commercial Street,
London
E1 6BG
(Five minutes walk from Liverpool St tube)
(Google map: http://is.gd/4zZ)
Dwm, config.h and mercurial/MQ
That massive sentence that the ".Net" guy spewed off is what turned me off to the .Net community. All of the talks sound exactly like that, and it's depressing.

(disclaimer: I make my money doing .Net work, no matter how hard I try to escape)
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"But I don't want to be a pro writer of trash novels that are read and discarded on the beaches of the world," he retorted.

Given the choice, I'd much rather write the kinds of articles you see in Scientific American or the Economist. By writing for the masses, you must write for the lowest common denominator. No thanks.
See "John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory"

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
Yes but if you start from the assumption "I'll fix it myself" it leads you very quickly to "WTF am I paying Redhat for exactly?"
Persistent(immutable) Vectors in Scala
Not sure why they gave Tom lipstick. Maybe it was drag night at the Herald office or maybe it was his desktop background or maybe they didn't like my fail whale t-shirt or Reddit Alien bobble head that we tried to have in the background.

If you have a chance, please leave a comment (you have to sign up, but it's super quick). Thanks guys!
Give that guy a Klondike bar.
JavaScript 2's new direction -- factional fight has been resolved
What is likely happening is that he's rapidly selecting out of the database immediately after inserting his record. I am guessing that he's trying insert a number of records at once. SQL does something weird with locking when you use an auto-incrementing integer for a primary key - it uses page locking for safety when creating records.

So if he's just inserted record #10, and is now trying to select it while simultaneously inserting record #11, there can be some problems with timing. It's pretty rare, but if he's running a program to blast a bunch of stuff in at once, I've seen it happen.

The other possibility is that he's inserting or updating foreign key requirements at the same time he's trying to select out that data; and he has the option turned on to enforce foreign key constraints. SQL will lock the dependent data while any updates or inserts occur to ensure the FKs are valid through the lifetime of the transaction execution on the foreign table.
1) I know it's probably overplayed, but this is one instance where a facebook app would definitely help your exposure. Having a random rant from your school on your wall every day would be interesting to me at least.

2) Lower your barrier to entry to allow people to post without logging in. Then offer to create an acct to see if anyone replies to your post. Also, there is no "register" button on the front page.

3) The img on top doesn't link back to home. Might want to change that.

Some design comments:

You have extra spacing on your login box. I'm on firefox with ABP.

A random quote at the bottom of the forms would be nice.

And you could have a site-wide feed that transcended schools. That might help eliminate the isolation between colleges.

A description/slogan to the right of your top_text might be helpful. Also, tighten up the copy when your explaining what your site is.

You need an about and a privacy page on your footer.
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It's not the idea, it's the execution.
I'm sure it was an educated guess.
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In particular, most compressors are picky about semicolons. If you use JavaScript's implicit line breaking, they'll break. This includes function definitions: there should be a semicolon after each function definition, something that most JavaScript programmers forget.

I find that using JSMin + GZip (on the webserver level) compresses just as well and tends to break fewer things.
Strangers welcome?
When I moved from Java to Python, I was sure that dynamic typing was the way to go, because the type system in the C/Java family is such a hindrance, while lacking the power of a mature type system as seen in ML or Haskell. When I moved from Python to ML, I was equally adamant about static typing being the way to go, because the ML type system is pretty awesome in terms of compile-time error-checking and documentation. Now that I'm learning Lisp, I'm open to the benefits of dynamic typing, or at least want to keep an open mind about the matter.
I think the EM field properties are somewhat peculiar even before you get to experimental results that force you to quantize the field. Granted, the EM field is not so weird that understanding the general properties of more tangible waves isn't helpful. E.g., I learned a lot from the ripple tank experiments and demonstrations in my high school physics classes, demonstrating properties like diffraction and the tendency not to scatter from too-small obstacles. That kind of stuff applies nicely to EM waves. But that general familiarity with waviness didn't prepare me for things like relativistic invariance. And historically, I'm in good company there: various sharp 19th century physicists were misled about EM by pursuing the analogy with the more tangible waves they were familiar with.
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I suggest you start out with some basic chemistry. There you can find the data on how the amino acid chains line up and fold and twist. There was that game somebody released where you "fold" with the mouse. I think it was an experiment to find out if humans can do the folding faster then computers. That should give you an idea of the problem.

The core problem in protein folding is that all the parts heavily interact with each other. And that means that it is not easily split across nodes. Forget about networked nodes, the latency is way too big.

Some academic groups have proposed a funnel shape to the folding probabilities. That is to say that initially things could go in any direction and the possibility space is HUGE. But as the protein grows the number of possible moves collapse quickly and you are left with very few moves at the end.

I think the Features in Biotech podcast had at least one show on protein folding, fun to listen to.

Hope this helps, enjoy yourself.
Would it surpise us to realize that most famous figures in fact, were in life, bastards? Abandoning their wives and children to write about dancing girls or daisies, to claim the surf break speaks "nothingness," to drain the vitality of those around them, to kick dogs, snort cocaine, dehumanize their inspiration --- only to be rewarded by their coveted devotees? No, we all have character flaws, if only for exhibiting none apparent.
Seriously, can someone please give this guy some pro bono legal advice? It would be a shame to lose this just because he didn't know for sure that all he needs to do is change the name.
Facebook finally cuts off Scrabulous after legal complaint
an hour , beginning with "what would you do differently now?" (regex cruft)

(No, I don't think Guido was there)
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Nice Gallery of Open Source PHP Apps
I thought it was nice that Tom took the time to get all fancy for the photo...that shade of red is all class.
Hm... after reading this article I will get myself a book by Borges. I've already forgot when I read a book last time except manuals and tutorials...
Anatomy of a malware scam
The author is naive if he thinks that this initiative is going to wipe out all the for-profit ventures in this arena.

I enjoyed counting up the logical fallacies and incidences of circular reasoning throughout the post, though.
IDE for OCaml? long thread:
Thanks, which bio podcast? Googling results in a lot of them.
I wonder how this will effect the organic market for misspellings? Even with Google's spell check (post search) there was still a vibrant market for common misspellings.

I used to know a guy who had top rankings for "Amazom" and it banked him some nice affiliate dollars for years.

I'd love to see stats in a few months that show it's effect (or not).
When I learned J2EE, I spent a while scratching my head and wondering how the word "Enterprise" related database abstraction layers, messaging systems, and Web services to one another. I finally concluded that "Enterprise" was marketing-speak for "costs at least $10K, so the person who decides whether to authorize purchasing the software is at least two levels removed from the people who actually use it".

Not that there's anything wrong with licensing software for at least $10K -- I work for a company that does -- but collecting it all under the "Enterprise" label seems uninformative if not pretentious.
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Yes, I reference them on the help page even. Dict has under 1000 rules in it and style's engine for checking things is pretty simple. When I started writing my engine I definitely looked at the source code for these.
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Indeed, the lesson that should be learned is to take your earnings and put them in the bank and put off buying that new office space in downtown SF and that new Porsche you've had your eye on until you have a sufficient cushion.
the other gcc alternatives are pretty obscure (ok, distcc's not obscure):

pcc
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1168313

clue
http://cluecc.sourceforge.net/

ucc
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ucc
(you got that it is the author, right?)
It is, I don't understand what's going on. Maybe a reflection of the times there.
i believe these casts, or whatever the implicit coercions are called, follow the perl rules, and along with rules for truth and falsehood, behave predictably. The chart is kind of overkill
Similarly, jazz and classical work beautifully as working music. I code most often to Gould, and my favorite music for mental jams is to put my Thelonious Monk collection on shuffle.
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nice job on this!

any intention of supporting music events, or will this site remain strictly sporting? would love to find an ACL ticket for cheap. :)
In my case it was because I didn't realise it would be difficult to contact me without posting my email address.

I like the idea of pre-qualifying people who are willing to put in a bit of effort but some text in the registration form would probably be helpful to any new users.
or Maxfield's on Dolorse, usu pretty mellow at 9:30 ish, plenty of AC outlets.
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Stole the PCLinuxOS logo.
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Hmmm.. barely any similarity
http://www.pclinuxos.com/
Thanks dude, great suggestion
Not infinity. It is undefined. :)
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oh... the height of silliness...
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Maybe I'm just jaded, but this seems like a really basic primer on memory management. Is mozilla failing to meet these standards? Somehow my guess is that the challenges facing the project are a bit more sophisticated. I have absolutely no evidence to support that supposition however.
Only if by "diagnosing" you mean "lucking out and finding a pre-existing bugzilla entry on the problem". Someone earlier had to identify the problem and crawl through the RH patch sets looking for it. The author, who doesn't want to think beyond perl, was stuck without this. Not everyone is so lucky.
In the book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman," he talks about needing a concrete example of any abstract system he was taking a new look at; this would help him intuit problems or inconsistencies faster than he could work them out precisely on paper.

I think this kind of concrete example is qualitatively different from an analogy or other way of visualizing the full system. The former helps more in specific circumstances, while the latter gives a warm, happy, and likely incorrect feeling of understanding.
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Does anyone actually do that? Buy the porsche I mean. Before having their finances solidly cemented in place. Maybe it's just my Midwestern sensibility (or, less generously, my being a cheapskate), but that is just unfathomable to me.
There is technoport/luxinnovation/123-gonetworking in Luxembourg, but it's not focused on web startups (they accept startups from all fields).
You won't get any money, but they will help you with your business plan, give you access to coaches (lawyers, sale guys, financial people, technical people...), help you create the company or to get european subsidaries, 4 months office location/servers offered for free (internet + work computers included), and much more help. (like funding, business angel connections, etc.)
All startups have offices next to each other, allthough the industrial ones are located on another site.

The url is http://www.technoport.lu/. You can email me if you want more information. We started there like a month ago, and it has been great so far.

One startup that started here was jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/en/).
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Even so, you grow your talents and experience in the very doing of the act. I always thought Hacking was for your personal gratification rather than the accolades of others.
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Mmm, new platform, same old pyramid schemes. I'm surprised they haven't hit the iPhone yet...
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It would be nice to see all the open source php projects out there once this site picks up. Nothing like good ol' free software to stick it to the man!
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Oh come on, does everybody here have to bash .Net? You do get an enormous performance boost from actually using a compiled language. The libraries are vast, and CLR lets you access other languages; and C# 3.0, with closures and linq and type inference, has become significantly more concise and elegant than Java.

And DAL's do matter for big apps. Ironically I advocate NHibernate as the ORM basis for a DAL, which is a port of a Java technology, so that doesn't make me much of a .Net-ist. And, sure, Doctrine ORM is coming for PHP.

I can understand mocking .Net in favor of the Java EE stack, or Python, or Ruby with RoR. But PHP? Really? PHP has a community supporting it - but is it really a language any of us would deliberately choose to write in, if not for its market share and ease of use for tiny starter projects?

A limited interpreted language that's unfriendly to serious architectural patterns, but that's just got so much market share because it's supported by a lot of infrastructure and because newbies can build toy projects in it easily - doesn't that sound like a typical anti-VB 6.0 rant from a few years back? It's just that now Microsoft happens to be on the other side of the argument.
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LabVIEW .. or it's quite powerful and nice RAD language.
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ironically, the site is using ruby on rails
I really wonder, if MySQL had better write performance, would sharding be as much in vogue?
> Harmony could feature classes as a stronger way of making objects

As opposed to what? The current prototypical object model?
How can class based OOP be 'stronger'?
I'm also quite skeptical about Disqus from a number of aspects, but this is a very interesting feature, with the potential to do for commenting what github is doing for code hosting - i.e. explode it to a new level.
Well it appears that they didn't copy it, so if they stole it, they did it well, as I only recognize the similarity of a blue circle, which is pretty generic.

I'd say the logo looks more like the Nissan Motor Company logo.
So I'd guess the conclusion is that olympic medals have nothing to do with population size or money.
Instead it has everything to do with if the country cares or not. India clearly doesn't.

I partly agree your views that performance at global events depends a lot on how much priority and importance a particular society (and hence it's government) gives to sports.

But money does matter a lot. Countries who are doing well in global sports arena, either have a very strong government sponsored program (e.g. China) or solid private backing (USA?). It does take a lot of investment to churn out superstar sport-persons.

Till now sports was not on the highest priority list here, and add to that pains of a huge developing nation, the state sponsored program is just for namesake. Interestingly the first individual gold medal winner (in shooting) for India, comes from a very affluent family, and even has his own private shooting range.

Once more money, and more 'focus' comes in, things would definitely change.
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