skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah - thanks for pointing that out. We're pitching in 45 minutes, but will aim to get some posts up describing our experience.

You can check http://blog.pipeapp.co (we need to connect it to the live app still so there's links between, but I've been posting about our experience) for the time being.

Thanks for asking!
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That looks like a nifty product, but personally I'm waiting for the touch-screen device that can recognize changing input in under 10ms. The current touchscreens really aren't responsive enough (or fine enough in terms of digital ink thickness) to take decent notes.
The place for this rebalancing is middle school. By college, as we have seen, it is far, far too late.
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In my experience, a single node web socket server has trouble with 5,000 concurrent connections nonetheless 100,000 connections.
I work in this area and I have seen the best data available on connectedness (rigorous surveys where n=30,000). The old poor are disconnected. But the young poor are overwhelmingly connected. No one in "our" world would ever suspect it, but they are using facebook, sharing videos and photos, texting, using apps, etc etc at a MUCH greater rate than the typical lameass white guy that you think of when you think tech geek.

And in today's US where one out of every two babies born is a minority, a disproportionate number of whom are poor, looking at trends within these demographics is more important than ever.
Syntax is Haselly; but capabilities are more like a mix of OCaml (reference cells, evaluation strict by default) and Scheme (dynamic typing, macros) and an algebraic language like Mathematica (expressions don't need to fully reduce).

Here is a page of sample code, with extensive comments: http://code.google.com/p/pure-lang/source/browse/pure/exampl...
More tests: http://www.strchr.com/hash_functions
It might be late but WP has a massive, engaged user base. They should build what best fits the needs of their audience not what might keep users from leaving for Tumblr.
Answering in inverse order:

Since the name is the discovery criteria, function overloading is not supported in this interface. It's possible to define a different one, but the idea here is that the stored procedures should be discoverable based on name. So we have test cases that raise errors when functions are overloaded that we don't know should be.

So in answer to your last question, behavior is undefined, and such a condition will trigger failures in our database unit tests.

On the other side, the reason to enforce an explicit mapping is because it isn't clear how much you really want to trust the client to execute any function in the database at all. An earlier version used AUTOLOAD to map these methods in directly so no middleware changes would be necessary. We abandoned that approach in part because of concerns it could be abused. So the issue isn't what can you do with my framework that you can't do with your framework but actually the other way around. Do I want to whitelist or blacklist stored procedures? Whitelisting seems safer.

A future version will probably use Module::Compile to build mappings from the database, but we haven't defined interfaces sufficiently to make this happen. However one idea is to tie Perl classes to PostgreSQL complex data types, and grab functions which return those complex types. Since all procedures are supposed to return useful data (even delete operations might return the deleted row), then this might work.

Again that's in the design phase.

Edit: It occurs to me that if the return type and the function name become the discovery criteria, then two functions could have the same name but different args as long as they have different return types.
See if there are some local developer Meetups or user groups. Microsoft does a lot of them, at least in my area. There are things like Barcamp and other things that draw techies. If you dig around on Twitter for local developers you'll eventually find a decent list of upcoming events. The point of all of that is to build local contacts outside of school. A lot of freelance jobs float around local devs I know.
Qatar has its downfalls, but tolerance of women? I think you're thinking of Saudi Arabia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar#Women.27s_rights
"Average" is a term which can be claimed by the arithmetic mean (the word you're confusing it with), the median (midpoint value), or mode (most frequently occurring value).
"We've had the capacity to create ternary computers for a long time - there's just no reason to. We have built decimal computers."

Actually, there was a ternary computer built [1]. And there is sort of a reason to, just not a great one, but one that may come back once we hit the frontier of miniaturization [2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun

[2]: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/issue.aspx?id=3268&#...
Yes, that was one of the points I thought the article was driving at.
The 80s.. hmm how about Jeff Bridges character in the movie Tron? Or the star character in the movie Wargames? If you've seen either of those, the main character being male could have been an influence (the movies certainly were for me). It wasn't until '95 that Angelina Jolie was in Hackers. Besides such movies, the other role models in popular culture would be the archetypical Einstein (Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future), etc. In the west, engineers aren't held in as high esteem as eg China (where the president is an engineer), at least not until recently (with Zuckerberg as the modern archetype).

There are historical female role models: Madame Curie, Grace Hopper, and Ada Lovelace probably the top three (and for a modern one, how about the founder of Adafruit? and so on and so forth). Showing their wiki pages to any young females, if the topic comes up, is a helpful contribution IMO.
Amazing to me that there was enthusiastic applause in that room. wtf.

Say what you will about TED and TEDx being elitist and uppity, but I think it's fair to assume that was an educated audience. How was that not perceived as complete absurdity in the moment by the crowd?
Do we know for sure Groupon was offered $6 billion? I doubt Google would be that stupid to offer that much for a startup. Hell, why not just offer VC money and own part of the company for far less money. That story sounds like hype.

Groupon's real problem is their business model is too easily copied. It's also heavy on the service end, where it relies on a person to person business experience, something Google is kind of adverse to.

Around here all I see is advertisements for Living Social. I haven't counted but I am sure there are hundreds of other copy cats out there. It's hard to guess which company is going to have the best business model in a new business type, or really if the business model has staying power at all.

Doesn't this business model attract people that want a great deal for almost nothing? It introduces people to a business they might not know about which is good. But can't people just visit local businesses if they care to get to know them? I don't get the business model at all.
For a 'law' it can be trivially dis-proven. "Is water wet?". I think the article raises some legitimate questions about Windows 8 that can't be as flippantly dismissed as your analysis of the punctuation suggests.
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I own a Ben Nanonote. Note taking isn't one of the things I'd to use it for. Pen and paper will be faster :)
This thing comes with GNU Octave/Gnuplot, Emacs, MPlayer plus a host of script languages: python, lua, guile, tcl gforth, here's a (incomplete) list of applications including screenshots:
http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Applications

It won't compare too favourably to a modern smartphone, but I keep to think of it more as an open hardware platform/devboard than a consumer product. BTW for hardware hacking you can easily connect 6 I/Os (3.3V TTL) via the UBB (http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/UBB).
This doesn't disprove the adage as in practice no one would write a headline or a HN submission link entitled "Is water wet?"
I see why you had to mention that the call center worker was "Indian". If you hadn't, your entire statement wouldn't have made any sense. Right?
I now think there might be a decent chance we really are alone, after reading this interesting timeline of the far future: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

We've only got one sample to generalize from, so let's take a look at this history of life on Earth. Complex single cell life is about 2 billion years old. Multicellular life is about a billion years old. Complex animals are about half a billion years old.

In about 600 million years (assuming no intelligence intervenes) decreasing CO2 levels will make C3 photosynthesis impossible. Almost all plants will then die. That will be bad news for most animal life, too.

By 800 million years from now, C4 photosynthesis will no longer be possible, and all plants go, followed by free oxygen, and we lose all multicellular life.

If that's typical for planets that can bear life, there isn't a big window for intelligence to develop. From complex animals to the end of multicellular life is only about 1.3 billion years.

In that time, you'll have a few super volcanoes and asteroid impacts and irradiations from nearby supernovas and several trips of your solar system around its galactic orbit (each of which can have a period of exposure to the galactic bow shock, which some scientists think causes dangerous levels of cosmic rays)--plenty of opportunities for a major extinction event to shake things up. Note that humans barely made it--the Toba super volcano around 70k years ago is though to have reduced humanity to between 1k and 10k breeding pairs.

It seems quite possible that we got lucky, and developed intelligence much faster than would by typical, and that a species on a more normal pace to intelligence simply doesn't have time to evolve it before their planet becomes incapable of supporting multicellular life.

Of course, it is also possible that we were slow, and that elsewhere the first complex animals to evolve go on to develop intelligence, in which case the galaxy could easily be full of intelligent life.
How the fact about Malaysia might fit into this: In Malaysia, Internet speeds are one third of what they are in the United States.

http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/

In addition, all programming languages you would want to code in are based on English, and almost all programming documentation is in English.

So the barrier to entry for a young male Malaysian nerd who wants to get into computers is much higher. Downloading a Linux iso takes much longer and he has to be fluent in English if he wants to teach himself easily.

The act of democratizing access to hacking resources for less developed countries could result in them developing the same sort of gender gaps in tech that we have.

I think the real lesson from all of this is that programming isn't really that hard and you can learn at any age. Most technical majors people study in college, like nuclear engineering, offer little opportunity to get a head start as a kid, but people do fine. I have two friends who learned to code after college and are now working at Silicon Valley companies. If we just tell students, and women in particular, that they can catch up with enough effort then maybe things can get fixed.
It's fascinating how subtly our environment reflects our livelihoods. For example, I look out of my window and see two, make that three trees. I advance fifteen minutes up to a much more affluent district, lo and behold, many trees and well manicured verges. These same areas are maintained by the same council and the same taxes. I also had never noticed those differences before.
It doesn't work for me. The screen that should be showing my contacts is blank. Tried reloading, skipping. No fez.
Just do your best. I'm sure you will do fine. Your attitude towards the intership is very good. I wish you the best of luck.

BTW, update me on how it goes. Email in profile.
Matt has said that Tumblr and WordPress can happily co-exist together. One doesn't have to replace the other.

The simplification he's talking about is just a UI decision, not a technical limitation.
"I can become something on the borderline between human beings and dolls"
Space Quest 4 commentary by creators Scott Murphy & Mark Crowe (Monday, 6/4/12)
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Just a comment about definitions for the uninitiated: the term "luxury good" is a technical term in economics. We use something called "income elasticity" to compare goods which is simply the ratio of (% change in quantity/% change price). If something has an income elasticity > 1 or 2 (depending on the textbook), its sufficient to call something a luxury good, regardless of what other connotations exist about the good. It doesn't mean that its a rich person's good in any particular way(s)--it just means that as income rises, quantity demanded rises disproportionately.

OP isn't doing anything wrong. Just thought I would drop some ECO101 for the interested.
I used to use Psion Series 3 "palmtops". One of the best thumb-typing experiences I've had and it ran for days on 2 AA cells.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3
Movies perhaps. I don't recall when I saw Wargames... but at least a few years after it came out. I didn't get to the theater much so it would have been on VHS. I didn't see Tron until I was an adult. (gasp)
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The Antikythera Mechanism used to be on the top of my list until I read about Gobekli Tepe. That place fills me with awe to near bursting. I plan to visit this year.

The site is a bunch of concentric T shaped monoliths - kind of like Stone Henge. Except the stones are cut more cleanly, covered in beautiful animal reliefs and it is nearly 8000 years older than stone henge. Activity suggest its origins could reach as far back as 20,000 years ago. And the reason the site has survived intact till this day is because whatever culture built the place decided to bury it. There are all sorts of theories as to whether a hunter gatherer society could really build such a place. Whatever the case, this discovery gives the typical timeline of history a very hard erm time.

Until excavations began, a complex on this scale was not thought possible for a community so ancient, and with such primitive quarrying tools. The massive sequence of stratification layers suggests several millennia of activity, perhaps reaching back to the Mesolithic. The oldest occupation layer (Layer III) contains monolithic pillars linked by coarsely built walls to form circular or oval structures. Four such buildings have been uncovered, with diameters between 10–30 meters (33–98 ft). Geophysical surveys indicate the existence of 16 additional structures.
Layer II, dated to Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) (7500–6000 BC), has revealed several adjacent rectangular rooms with floors of polished lime, reminiscent of Roman terrazzo floors. The most recent layer consists of sediment deposited as the result of agricultural activity.

At present, Göbekli Tepe raises more questions for archaeology and prehistory than it answers. We do not know how a force large enough to construct, augment, and maintain such a substantial complex was mobilized and rewarded or fed in the conditions of pre-Neolithic society. We cannot "read" the pictograms, and do not know for certain what meaning the animal reliefs had for visitors to the site; the variety of fauna depicted, from lions and boars to birds and insects, makes any single explanation problematic. As there seems to be little or no evidence of habitation, and the animals depicted on the stones are mainly predators, the stones may have been intended to stave off evils through some form of magic representation; it is also possible that they served as totems.[31] The assumption that the site was strictly cultic in purpose and not inhabited has also been challenged by the suggestion that the structures served as large communal houses, "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/gobekli-tepe/musi-...
You posted to HN before your pitch? Did you need the site live to pitch? Isn't that risky?

...unless you needed HN traffic for that voting link, then it makes sense I guess ;)
there is no error message if I click on "Ok, I'm done!" without pull-in any contacts
@s_kilk: in random order:

Roadmaps:
http://tracker.ardour.org/roadmap_page.php
http://ardour.org/development/post3.0

MIDI: those Atari apps you're thinking of didn't do audio.

General utility: perhaps you need to talk to various people who do, in fact, use Ardour instead of ProTools. As for the comparison with Reaper - Reaper is a very impressive project, but if you try it for pro- usage rather than home-style recording, you will very rapidly discover quite a lot of basic issues that they have not addressed, but were being done correctly by Ardour 8 years ago. I look to Reaper for good ideas and impressive development speed, but they really are focused on the needs of a different type of market segment than I really pay the most attention to.

It is true that there is no single DAW that is to everyone's taste, and Ardour is probably a more "acquired" taste than many others. At this time, I would say that more or less no DAW can easily "replace" any of the others. You can't really replace ProTools with Nuendo either.

jsprinkles: we distribute binary copies of Ardour from ardour.org that run on any Linux distribution (just about - we discovered a wrinkle that interferes with this on a few platforms, and the next release(s) will correct this).

disclaimer: I am the lead author of Ardour.
Ok, so think of an open source community.

You may have the following layers (analogies to layers in a food forest):

Core committee (canopy)
Committers (understory)
Non-commiter developers (vine layer)
non-developer consultants (undergrowth)
end users (groundcover)

A food forest is productive when all these layers are providing support to all the other layers.

Similarly that open source community will be productive when the core committee is serving the community by providing infrastructure and governance, the committers are writing code that benefits everyone else, etc. The goal is shared economic support and interdependence between the layers, and in this regard open source communities thrive when this works well.

So what does this mean about intellectual entertainment sites like Slashdot or Reddit, or to a lesser extent HN?

I guess the first thing you have to do is to have a group of people (Pg and others here) who decide what the goals of the site are (they are the canopy), but the next step is to ensure that there are different tiers with overlapping responsibilities to the community as a whole. HN for example seems to have officially a three tier system but unofficially a four tier system at least as far as I have seen. Maybe there are 5 or more tiers, if we count YC hopefuls, those who found firms funded by YC, etc.

I actually think this sort of stratification can be a good thing even though it cuts against modern notions of perfect democracy or egalitarianism. The fact that you have more strata here also means I find it is a more supportive community than a place like Slashdot with fewer strata.
I have ADHD, so maybe this is one of the ways ADHD folks are different from attention surplus folks, but I gotta say prioritization is a big factor of success for me.

It's common and easy for me to sit down and work on one thing for two hours (or more), but if I'm not careful about what that thing is suddenly six hours have gone by and I've done a lot of (or learned a lot about) something, but I'm not much closer to getting anything that needs doing done.

E.g., a few examples of the kind of rabbit hole that I've run down, or at least started to run down, recently:

- exploring speedwords-style typewritten shorthand systems, and developing custom concordance/frequency analysis scripts to analyze samples of both my prose and my code

- hacking emacs org-mode to allow markdown style syntax, and to allow org-babel syntax within markdown-mode

- creating a JavaScript semi-DSL for a declarative-syntax layout of impress.js "slides"

These are fun to do and I learn a bit and they are even semi-productive in the "sharpening the saw" sense, but literally "just keep doing something" doesn't necessarily lead to "success" anymore than "just keep swimming" necessarily leads you to 42 Wallaby Way.

Focused effort, in and of itself, isn't so much the problem from me. From where I sit, it matters which shit is being done. Does that just happen automatically for you/others?
It seems to be quite a bit more stable.... found and fixed the main bug that was causing it to crash.
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I'm a GTD adherant, but the idea of just plugging away at next actions never clicked with me either. I do two things that seem to help:

1. I pick a couple of things each week that I need to focus on each week, and put them in a list I review every day. Generally, these are projects that I have on my project list, but that need some attention in a given week.

2. I maintain a daily todo list that is culled each morning from my master todo list. Each day I pre-pick a handful of things to do and put them on my list of tasks for the day. This act of preselecting my work isn't canonical GTD, but it works for me.

IMO GTD is a great starting point, but most people need to adapt it to their personal circumstances and working style.
They keep doing these while I'm at work! Oh well at least I get to listen to the recordings of them. :)
>There are many reasons to have a paging file even if you have plenty of ram:

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One of my reasons for not accepting Google's offer of a research position in Mountain View: "There aren't enough trees".

I'm pretty sure the per-capita income of Mountain View is considerably higher than the per-capita income of Vancouver, but being surrounded by and infused with trees certainly makes Vancouver feel wealthier.
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Totally agree. To expand on this idea, perhaps you could select a couple of sample problems, and work through their solutions. Example being a simple canvas game, explaining the various elements as they are introduced, concluding with a working game.
I think you might be conflating the current issue of anthropogenic climate change with the historic fact that many different cultures' success or failure has been almost entirely subject to the whims of climatic variation.
These are very interesting as Scott and Mark go behind the scenes of each Space Quest game and explain their design decisions, with the usual healthy dose of comedy. Really interesting for game developers or fans of the genre.

You can also all commentaries so far for Space Quest here if you can't make it to the live recording: http://www.twitch.tv/andromedaguys

Questions are encouraged during the chat. Last time Ken and Roberta Williams, original founders of Sierra, dropped by to chat as well.
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OK, let's do that. How long do you lock it for? What if it's a common email address? How can the real owner unlock it?
Lets get a link to the scientific article https://fp.auburn.edu/sfws/YaoqiZhang/demand%20for%20urban%2.... This looks like very well researched. It would be neat to see research it in other european countries or even Canada.
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