skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I just assume I have no idea what I am talking about or what is going on. In the past that has proved to be true.

Yes it kinda is heresy - but he says you have to make stuff - which I think is (long term) really an optimistic thing to say. You can tell he really wants the US to return to a country that makes stuff, that produces things that make it wealthy, not meta-stuff (which I guess it is now).
He specifically mentions manufacturing.
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Bad idea!!
That only applies to the description of the typical person with that type indicator, which is different than the type indicator itself. I.e., it may be possible that the categories (E/I)(N/S)(T/F)(P/J) have some validity, without the descriptions being accurate.
Some real-life Wall St. guy has been saying that second life is just a pyramid scheme for some time now.
Because you no longer have to think much before committing. You don't have to spend hours reviewing the code and having others look over the patch before you push it to the main tree: you can just commit it locally and go work on something else.

Then, later, you might get an idea on how to improve your previous change. You go and amend it. And so forth. Eventually, you have a set of changes that's ready to be committed and which you have used locally for long enough that you can tell it doesn't break anything obvious. Then, you go through the code review, and finally push the changes.

With a completely centralized system, you have one of the following going on:

A. You don't actually do code reviews before pushing changes, and trunk is broken half the time.

B. You wait all the time on your changes being reviewed, and you can't commit them until they have been.

C. You revert to tarballs and diffs for dealing with different changesets.

I was forcibly pushed into using git from svn, but now I'd never go back: its simply so much easier to say "OK, I'm done with this change, I'll commit it!" and not have to wait for everyone else to be in the office/online/available to look at the changes before I do so.

This is especially important when dealing with separate changesets that necessary depend on each other, where you can't merely make a new branch for the new change because it requires the old changes.
Good program; this is rather similar to LyX. I suggest people try both and just go with whichever one they like better.
In a "collaborative" environment, if you are working among retards for a PHB, I recommend picking a revision control system that no one else knows how to use or install clients for (darcs may be a good idea)
Git isn't very good for large files, unfortunately. In my experience large is quite over >100MB, though.

I'd love to convince everyone to switch to git, but I want to note that SVN's branching/merging capabilities are at par with p4's, since at least 1.4 using svnmerge and probably in 1.5 standalone. (My current employer uses p4, and I switched my last workplace over to SVN from CVS.)

It does suck to go back to centralized SCM after using a DVCS though (I clone my work p4 checkout into git for minute-to-minute use). A possible solution: if your build artifacts are most of the large-file problem, consider storing them out of band and having workstations fetch them using Ant/Ivy or something similar?
Another vote for Mercurial. Whenever a project gets that "KoolAid" feel (Git, Rails, even Haskell at times) I tend to gravitate towards its competitors, so take that with a grain of salt, but I can say that Mercurial's been great for the small teams I've used it with. On larger projects, I've unfortunately only used Subversion, but I can say that it works, at least.
does anyone else feel like this is a stupid idea? they spent all that money building up the live brandname...only to throw it away for something completely random
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People are judging each other left, right and centre on much more biased criteria every day whether you like it or not.

Don't have an instrument to judge someone with? They'll judge you based on their preconceptions, their life experience, and a number of other factors that are quite likely more unsound than an external instrument.

People are going to judge you anyway, buddy. Just hope the guy calling the shots isn't an arsehole and has your best interests in mind. Which leads me to believe that your problem isn't with the MBTI itself but the human tendency to judge one another on any basis of criteria. That's life.

Those looking to apply MBTI for any particular reason to any particular person (including themselves) isn't any worse or wrong or ill-meaning than the next fellow. It just depends on whether they're an arsehole or not. Please, don't confuse the two.
I use darcs for personal use and it is very easy to use.
Pages.app. We paid a couple hundred bucks for a (well-regarded) local graphic designer to build a print template for us that included typography, they delivered it in Quark, and I ported it over to Pages.

For what it's worth, I edit text in a text editor (Emacs), then use Markdown to get it into something that's easy to paste into Pages.app. I've done long-form editing in Pages.app, and I don't love it, but it's far less painful than LaTeX.
For writing school assignments, I looked for a system that would meet two requirements:

1. The text can be edited using vim, or at least vi-like keybindings.

2. The storage format is plain text, so any version-control system can efficiently store, diff and merge it.

OpenOffice can work on top of a single XML file, but XML diffing is not like diffing lines of code, and every accidental ^W is still interpreted as "close document". HTML kind of works, but lacks too many typesetting and document-creation features and fixing it with CSS becomes tedious. I played with Texmacs and Lyx for a little while, but eventually bit the bullet and learned LaTeX and vim-latex.

Verdict: If you were willing to invest your time in emacs or vim, learning LaTeX feel similar but easier; spending a little extra time to learn a helper package like vim-latex or AUCTeX really makes it worthwhile.
Some talking head complaining, "But they don't have rules or regulations... It's a completely different scenario!"
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I would love to have the build artifacts stored in a system for managing build artifacts, but I don't really know of any.

We could (theoretically) store the build artifacts in Subversion and the source in Git, but that would be very unpopular. No one in the company is interested in having multiple revision control systems to maintain.

Our main product is built in Visual Studio, but we use ant for the surrounding build tasks. I think of ant as being a 'better make', what does it have to do with grabbing remotely stored build artifacts?
I agree - Gladwell has the facts right, but his theories on the reason for the facts are quite off from reality, imo.

Even if it is hard to count numbers in english, it is still easy to see the pattern in numerical symbols. Either way it is certainly not a momentous task for a 4 year old to form relations words to numerical symbols, with their abundance of ability in memory. This is why Gladwell's theory falls apart - a much more likely theory is that math ability is more readily determined by HARD work or innate genius.

And concerning his rice farming theory, I wouldn't know whether to laugh or take it as an insult, because to me it is that ridiculous. His claiming effectively, that farmers in China work the hardest, because they farmed rice. On how many levels does this seem inconsistent?
I have yet to see a popular forum or social news site or blog whose readers didn't all complain about the quality going down as it grew. Everyone seems to think that they're the last good member to join every community they're involved in.
I'll third the recommendation for Mercurial. There is no question that git has more community momentum--something which I hope will begin to change--but Mercurial is nevertheless an outstanding distributed version control system.

Mercurial's default mode of operation has the benefit of being extremely Subversion-like--in a good way. Indeed, if you never interact with anyone else, most of the normal Subversion commands--ci, mv, rm, add, log--"just work." There is no git-style index to worry about, no rebasing, and the command set is small and regular. That means that the learning curve is far, far shallower than git. Yet it still provides the same distributed branching and merging as git, and, though it is slightly slower, the difference is truly negligible in my experience--maybe a couple percent difference at most.

What about the incredible power of git, though? What if you actually want to be rebasing and rewriting your history all the time? When you want unfettered power in Mercurial, you've still got it. The `mq` extension, which can be enabled by adding a single line to your configuration file, allows you to do all the crazy patch rewriting, merging, splitting, and rebasing that git does.[1] But you can ignore that functionality if you want, and still have a very powerful and fast distributed change system.

When Fog Creek looked at going to a distributed source control system last year, I advocated Mercurial over the competitors. Though the transition wasn't seamless, I've been extremely happy with the result. The Unix experience is extremely pleasant, and TortoiseHg (http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/) provides a surprisingly solid Windows experience out-of-the-box.

If you can look past the fanboyism, I'd strongly encourage you to give Mercurial a try. I think it strikes a much better power-vs.-usability balance than git does.

[1] Except microbranching. Mercurial doesn't currently support local named branches. You can achieve similar things by using mq with qguards, if you really need them, but in practice, I find it's usually easier to just clone a second repository. In practice, although I do miss microbranches sometimes, I've found I greatly prefer the streamlined workflow of Mercurial.
None of the distributed VCS handle large files well because they load the whole file into memory when they diff. Only Subversion seems to do well currently.
That occurred on Digg for a while, where a group of 'power users' submitted basically all of the content, which turned into a self-reinforcing cycle.

The problem lies when normal people stop thinking that they can submit and get content to the top, the submissions tend to become rote, and you lose community interest.

(As an aside some of the power users on Digg started taking bribes and were banned en-masse IIRC, but I don't see that happening here.)
typealyzer gave me SF on the two instances of my writings online. I don't think that those blogs are particularly representative of my personality though - more of the persona I inhabit when I write them.
Out of the three leading free DSCMs -- Git, Mercurial, Bazaar -- none seem in danger of going extinct any time soon. Bazaar is the foundation for Launchpad and Ubuntu, almost irrevocably. Mercurial has less buzz than Git for open-source projects, but I suspect it's even more popular in the business world, and its Windows support is solid. Mozilla uses it, anyway. So you might want to give the other distributed systems, particularly Mercurial, another look.
what Live brand name?
And this page (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373814) is ISTP
By "handle large files" all I really want is for it to think of it as a blob that can't be diffed and store it.
they spent millions getting people to use the search from live.com
and it didn't work.
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To me, it sounds like a bunch of guys who wrote a grant proposal general enough that they can do almost whatever they want after they get the money and still be within the scope of the proposal.
I'm suggesting that it's silly to think 20 years into the future when you can barely see 5 years.

Also, when your CEO says one thing and you say another, there's a communications problem. Their PR department should be keeping a close watch on what the executives say...
Why does Git choke on large files?
Reminds me of the TOP model: Talent - Organizational Needs - Passion.

While growth - cash - love model helps decide self picked projects, TOP advises employer - employee equilibrium in assigning resources to projects.

At any point of time an employer has to ensure that at least 2 of these are valid in a resource assignment for any task/project.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu

From a linguistic perspective, the phenomenon that a word after frequent repetition seems to lose its meaning is connected with the very nature of words. A word as a unit of language has three characteristics:

* It has form, i.e. it is shaped out of sounds or, in the case of written language, out of letters (characters).

* It has function, which (among other things) means that it operates in a meaningful sentence.

* It has meaning, which implies that it refers to a certain unit of thought (a concept or an idea) within a context.

However, when a word is repeated over and over again, it is in fact only the form which is repeated. There is no sentence, so the function of the word is eliminated. Its meaning, too, is effectively eliminated, because there is no context. A few repetitions will leave the language user's memory and expectation intact: he remembers the meaning and expects a meaningful reference. Continued repetition, however, will more and more foreground the word form to the exclusion of function and meaning, until the word literally "makes no sense". It is not the word that is being repeated, but only one of its aspects: the word form.
"It begins when you visit a malicious site while logged into Gmail. "

Hoping tools like his will avoid the problem:

Just started using fluid (OS X; free) http://fluidapp.com/
There is also http://mailplaneapp.com/ (OS X; trial ware) which looks promising.
Graphics are orthogonal to a Latex document. You specify where to find the graphic, what format it's in and how to orient it. Making the graphic is outside of the Latex process, which I am fine with.

All papers I make for publication have data graphs and figures aplenty, and it would still take me longer with Word.
Heard of the auction/gambling website Swoopo? It runs what are called "dollar auctions"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction

As a website, this opens up the possibility for malicious bidding by the website owners, in which case it not only does not ship out out the auctioned product, but also pushes up the second-highest price.

Wikipedia says they have 20 million dollars in revenue. Also seems like there is no real reason that competition should drive down the bid prices until it becomes a raffle of sorts. Popularity doesn't really help that much in their case does it?
We have AI smarter than a single ant and we know enough about ant brains to be able to tell. One of the branches of AI research focuses on modeling neurons and building systems which demonstrate identical behaviors to tapeworms or ant's etc. The next step seems to be modeling rat brains, but the gap between human and rat is a lot smaller than the gap between rat and ant.
How exactly will burying gigatons of CO2 from growing gigatons of trees after pulling up gigatons of CO2 from the same earth not constitute massive control over the economy? One billion hectares?!! That's 10,000,000 km^2. That is more half the 19,824,000 km^2 of total arable land! There isn't enough arable land for food! You'd have to take it from lands far less fertile. And where?

What you are suggesting is a massive 'carbon cycling' economy, digging up CO2 from fossil fuels, burning it, recovering that CO2 from trees, and then burying it. Over long, long timescales, this is the same process by which the fossil fuels were synthesized. It should be least plausible that this is not the most efficient thing we can come up with!
There has not been any official proof that a security hole in Gmail is still the weak link here. The proof of concept I saw about how one would inject filters into Gmail after they patched up the previous security hole was pretty flimsy.
Linus Torvalds: "The git architecture simply sucks for big objects": http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2006/2/8/200591/thread
Mercurial is marginally less powerful (it's maybe 6 months behind git in features, perpetually). This is not a deal-breaker (except that I don't like Mercurial's equivalent of cheap local branches, these patch queues are just an awkward model for thinking about it), but then there is the speed issue. Git is incredibly fast, so fast that you almost never notice it working even for massive amounts of data.
Check out zong.com - I met the CEO not too long ago and they seemed to really have a clue.
I tell you what else you will provide, after you've gotten going - a relationship with the Turks. They'll know what you pay for (and that you will pay), and you should know how to get good results out of them.
well it sort of did...i.e. for me if I can't find something on Google, as a last resort I'd do a quick search on MSN live. Of course at that point I'm desperate so I'd also look on cuil(just to see if they'll finally give me a good result), ask.com and yahoo

before that I'd skip msn stuff all together
Taiwan is also mostly urban, whereas the literacy rate in China is reduced by those from rural, far flung provinces.
Really like that guy's blog design. The yellow up at the top is slick.
My blog about my outdoor adventures gives me ESFP and my political blog gives me ISTP. Am I normal?

:)
Ivy is an addon of sorts for ant that does dependency management (e.g. libraries, etc.) It sort of jacks the Maven dependency resolution bits and leaves the rest. It's definitely not a 'system for managing build artifacts' (and it's pretty java-focused) but you can set up your own repository and have a build target fetch them, put them in the right place, etc.

I wouldn't necessarily advocate this since you'd inevitably end up having to build some system around it, but conceptually it seems like what you'd want. YMMV, I've only used it for pretty straightfoward Java stuff.
I have similar results.

I think its because I tend to write about what I'm not used to, good at, or what needs to improve either in a form of a complaint or a resolve to do better.
The BBC article left out a critical constraint from DARPA. The final deliverable (with the "complexity of a cat's brain") isn't just a model or a simulation. It has to be a physical artifact which requires no more than two liters of volume and consumes no more than two kilowatts of power (this information comes from the DARPA BAA). So yes, prototyping will be done in software, but to reach that kind of efficiency, drastically new hardware is called for.

I'm not intimately familiar with IBM's plans, but this is one of the applications HP has lined up for the memristor technology they've been working on (HP is another one of the three prime contractors on the original DARPA grant). The benefit to the HP approach is that data and computation are both local to the applicable memristor, which is much closer to a neural system. That means no time or energy is wasted shuttling data around and the entire system state can be updated in parallel.

For an idea of why this is so exciting, keep in mind that HP plans build memristors at about a density of a trillion per square centimeter, clocked at about a kilohertz. You get the rough equivalent of one floating point operation per memristor per cycle. At this estimated manufacturing density, the expected performance of these things is on the order of a petaflop per square centimeter, drawing on the order of tens of watts. It isn't really fair to make a comparison to Von Neumann machines since the architecture is so dramatically different and so application-specific, but for certain kinds of computations these new chips will be vastly faster and more efficient.

(for the sake of disclosure, I'm working on the DARPA SyNAPSE project, but not with IBM)
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wow that sounds great :)
No, but I'd like to see a method of users banding themselves together a bit. When I read a particularly genius or stupid comment, I'd like to be able to not just rate the comment, but perhaps add in a personal rating for that username, either favored or disavored. Who knows if it'd work out, but it might make things better.
yepp! how could i forget codegolf :)
How can I apply for a job working on this project?
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Just out of curiousity: Is there any relationship between your project and the Blue Brain Project out of EPFL?
GREAT idea from AWS... so many young startups are based around crunching/organizing public data. This is perfect for a site like Swivel.
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Sorry. I meant logical about equal to english. Just takes longer to say in german.
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Wow. There's a lot of negativity and criticism on here, don't be disillusioned, you got something up and out in 2 weeks that says more about you than most other people spending time "commenting" on here :-)

Best of luck, and get on that usability thing these people are talking about...
Thanks. Guess I'm getting a bit sloppy in my phrasing.

Or maybe it was my subconscious? If so, I'm not sure I want to know / learn what is the ultimate house of cards. The current one is already proving challenging enough for me. ;-)
Heh. I remember, four months ago, looking at the GM financials, and telling my cofounder; you know, this Volt business, it's all moot. It doesn't even look like they'll make it.

I definitely didn't put my money where mouth was on that one...
I'm a big mercurial fan. After using it, I hate using SVN.
There are five universities across many disciplines that are working on this very challenging project. To me, it sounds like you didn't read the article.
As scott_s suggested, LyX is a prominent LaTeX WYSIWYG editor. I use TeXmacs (http://texmacs.org) on Linux because I input a lot of Greek characters and do a lot of Maxima computations while taking class notes, and the ease of Ctrl-Enter makes it like Mathematica notebooks but much faster for writing. It doesn't save natively in LaTeX format like LyX does, and doesn't implement all of LaTeX, but it's an option worth considering if you're in a similar situation.
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It's possible, but requires a massive supercomputer to do any reasonable calculations.

Neuromorphic chips provide a way to minimize both the time and energy used in calculation by having physical chips act as synapses.
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I've long wondered if classifieds may lead the path to profitability since Facebook inherently solves the difficult problem of trust - something that Craigslist and eBay have long struggled with.
Here's a terrible brainfuck interpreter:
http://python.pastebin.com/f3d434dd2

I wrote it as an exercise in functional style, and so it has no mutation (other than the tuple assignment in the main loop, which I couldn't devise a functional equivalent for). It is incredibly inefficient as a result. But it all fits in a single Python statement, save initialization!
Branching/merging on Subversion has been absolutely trivial since the version 1.5 release. Prior to that it was a nightmare, but now it's ridiculously easy.

Can we finally put this to rest now?