skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those of you who might want to follow the dude on Twitter, but tried to copy/paste his username and realized it was an image:

http://twitter.com/johnonolan

John makes some great points, which is why I'd like to follow him and see the progression of this. One of us (or a few of us) are going to need to just get down-n-dirty and start building it.

The internet is indeed filled with a lot of sentiment for rebuilding WordPress. Most of us who've worked with WP a long time (since b2) have considered it (myself included).

I'd love to roll out of bed one morning and press a red LAUNCH button that releases a fresh new fork of WordPress to the world that's compatible with most of it's theme/plugin ecosystem.
yeah no, they're explicitly not allowing this and as soon as this thing grew out of weekend-project scale, i have to adhere to any rules they're pushing out. too high a risk to be shut down and locked out completely.
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The author has the saying backwards.

WP is free as in beer (you don't pay for it) but not as in speech (you can't do whatever you want with it because of the GPL).
I'm pretty certain that Herman Cain is not a programmer. I live in Atlanta and he's had an obnoxious talk radio show here for years. I don't think it's the education that is relevant, it's the profession and world view.
I used the sociable plugin (like/tweet/+1 buttons). Out of extremism I tested under elinks, saw some weird empty ul/li hanging around, inspected the plugin config and then went into the code. The latest release at the time was barely beta code, large spans of deadcode, copy/pasted pages-long loops that were 90% similar. Wordpress plugin pages quote millions of download for this plugin. Who needs quality ?
"Recovery" ...if you count the great depression as a recovery! He laid the groundwork for the depression.
Exactly. The key challenges for us now are:

- Expand to more platforms, to increase the total market we can hit.

- Improve the product to make it easier for the general market to understand. We are hitting early adopter types pretty well, but the majority struggle because it's a complex problem/product.

- Figure out how to scale the marketing (the really hard bit ;) )
Don't get too excited. Its cross-browser support is a mess that makes getting HTML 3.2 layers work to on IE4 and Netscape feel like a party.
If you want to use the very fast LuaJIT I wrote an Objective-C bridge (purely in lua) for it: https://github.com/fjolnir/tlc
Even for Welch, as I understand it, he was mostly firing areas that were under performing by the metrics they had. So they did have something: we reach the sales numbers we expect from that division or it gets the ax. I don't think this kind of strategy will work for all kinds of companies.
I'd almost like to see it go the other way. WordPress is a good blog, but a poor CMS choice for anything but the most basic of websites. I reckon the "66%" that use WordPress use it for personal sites or very small business sites (1-10 visitors a day) on shared hosting. There are huge sites using it, but they seem to be the exception that proves the rule.

I cannot see why people use WordPress over the likes of Concrete5 or a full CMS on any other platform outside of WordPress being accessible for entry-level developers. For this reason, a full rewrite of WordPress to be solely a basic CMS would probably have these novice developers flock to the system, allowing WordPress to scale back down to doing what it does best.
Some numbers...

In 2Q 2012, Apple sold 17M out of 25M total (68%).

In 3Q 2012, Apple sold 14M out of 27.8M total (50%).

To not lose market share and maintain that 68%, Apple would have had to sell 30MM out of 43.8MM, more than double what they did sell. If they had just repeated the 2Q numbers, they would have had 55% share.

So the idea that the market share decrease was due to Apple buyers sitting out in anticipation of the mini seems rather misguided. Non-Apple went from 8MM to 13.8MM in one quarter.

(Here's the 2Q2012 numbers: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23632512)
And what? Make it unsuitable for life?

If something happens and they do evolve fast enough to pose a threat, perhaps they will evolve fast enough to realize that two planets with intelligent life are better than one.
Yeah, I generalized it to not makintbe effort to setting up a good system, such as paying $10 a month for better bandwidth, or upgrading old software. XP + IE8
There are numbers from both of them in this data. Estimates, sure, but estimates make the world go round.
I was definitely hoping for that. I mean really, which is more useful.
As someone who makes WordPress sites almost 8 hours a day, what would be the best start is a rewrite of the WordPress core on a popular, modern framework (my vote would be Symfony2). This would bring a breath of fresh air to coding for WordPress. Ideally much of the API would be similar too.
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I used to be in your exact situation a really long time ago and I fixed it by googling a typing online course. For example

http://www.learntyping.org

http://www.typingstudy.com

It literally took me 2-3 days to start using all fingers properly if you follow the interactive tutorials.
Surprising, but, not so surprising. Surprising because the iPad is supposedly a a very good tablet. Not so surprised because Apple has lost its magic, which is expected, since Steve is no longer with us. (Admit it - The iPhone 5 IS a disappointment). I have never been a great fan of Apple nor the iPad. But I do have to admit that the iPad is a really good tablet in all fairness. At the same time, Android is evolving so fast that it's only a matter of time I guess, till they overthrow Apple. So, in a way, it's not so surprising.
One thing is definitely true: a year ago the phrase, "...but it's not really a tablet market, it's an iPad market" was so often used as to become annoying. I haven't heard that phrase in a few months.
If it is okay. Can you tell me which python FFMPEG library did you use?
KDE developer here, still found the link useful (especially for HN).

Even when developing for proprietary platforms, many (though not all) of the concepts transfer over well to FOSS platforms, including for security, SQL, cloud/async programming, etc.

Free/cheap resources for a proprietary compiler (Borland C++ 5.02) were what led to me learning to program (and later learning about Linux) and so I want to explicitly make clear that such things are not inherently bad for Free Software or open source.
This is really the elephant in the room when it comes to any kind of ranking. As humans we always want to make rankings like A is better than B who is better than C... and so on. The reality is much more complex.

If you take K1 kickboxing history, you'll see that pretty much all the top guys have all beaten each other at some point. This makes it pretty clear that "best" is something that varies wildly and may even vary from day to day.

It's no different in software. I can tell you I've had times in my career where I was on fire, out producing any teams I knew about. And I've had times where the burn out was so bad I was producing nothing at all for weeks. How good someone is just isn't static.
No such option, though I did copy it, popped it into write and hit F7 to much bemusement (thank you) and edited it as above.
This proposal makes many good points. If I were rewriting Wordpress, here's what I'd think of:

- Seriously consider redesigning the logical layout of the software. Some sort of rough MVC-ish pattern would be a huge improvement over the 'loop' in Wordpress which is almost impossible to deal with.

- I personally dislike PHP, but I do see its benefits in deployment.

- Make it easy to make beautiful typographic layouts. There's a reason this 1-page wasn't done in Wordpress itself; it is almost impossible to make 'hand-crafted-web' looks in Wordpress without deep CSS and HTML diving. Great blog post layouts shouldn't be that hard. Not all content is the same.
The slide design is unreadable. Is this intentional?
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I M A ..........
If true, that's a pity.
Show HN: NameTerrific - Domain names for geeks
With the current users (product) not being worth enough they are trying to flip the table and turn their users into customers too.

I would suspect a subscription model to follow shortly in order to be able to have your posts distributed in news feeds as before and no longer carry the 'promoted badge'. If you like the service pay, is that too much too ask? Well, I think Facebook thought it was too much to ask right away, but if they offer more expensive option, like promoted personal posts, a subscription seems like a fair deal.

I think this is one of the more transparent moves Facebook has made. This would not have happened pre IPO (the transparency or begging for money).
Will this work in terms of accessibility?
Hi HN,

I have been working on NameTerrific for almost 8 months. Now it's time to launch. If you are interested in some background information about NameTerrific, please read my blog post about this launch: http://blog.nameterrific.com/2012/11/the-fix/

Otherwise please leave your comments here or email me at ryan@nameterrific.com。

Your feedback is greatly appreciated!
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This is what I thought (and wished) the article would be about. I think a software developer would make a good president in that we understand how to structure different "modules" to get to an overall end goal or solve a problem.

I suppose there's a lot more involved with being a president, but if one didn't have to deal with all of the politics I would feel very comfortable having a software engineer as president.
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What do you mean by 'joke language'?

It is used professionally for far longer than some 'enterprisey' languages are around.
thanks very much, this makes a whole lot more sense now
> Variable-scoping-level highlighting—variables in the same scope highlighted the same color.

I played with this idea in the syntax highlighting of the code samples in this article:
http://david.rothlis.net/c/compilation_model/#chapter005

but would you want all variables at the same scope in the same colour?
Different colours for each variable, with the darkness/lightness indicating the scope?

> grep-only highlighting—define a set of things to grep for quickly and highlight them.

Emacs has this with the "highlight-regexp" command. To be honest I don't use it
that much. What I do like is highlighting all matches whenever you're doing a
"find in file" (though unlike highlight-regexp, the highlighting
disappears as soon as you exit the search). I probably use this more because
I use search all the time (who doesn't), whereas I tend to forget that
"highlight-regexp" even exists.

> block-focused—highlight code blocks so you get an idea of the overall structure of your program.

A few examples of how this might look:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080723220126/http://lemonodor.c...

> No-highlighting

In Emacs the "font-lock-mode" command will toggle all highlighting; and you can
specify the "level" of highlighting you want by setting the
"font-lock-maximum-decoration" variable (you could set up a specific key to toggle this variable). I think these levels were originally
intended for performance reasons, so they're cumulative
(enabling level 3 also brings in all the highlighting from levels 1 & 2) rather
than individually-toggleable features.

I only bring up Emacs because that's what I'm familiar with, and because I'd
like more people to experiment with these types of things in Emacs. But perhaps
Sublime Text would be a better platform for such experiments, for some people;
I don't know.
This is already happening, in a sense. Elite colleges face extreme pressure to keep their 4 and 6y graduation rate up, in part because successful parents are turned off by sending their kids to schools for outrageous tuition only for them to leave without a degree.

Caltech is perhaps most known for this problem, with graduation rates that were <85%, but changes were made to stop people from "flaming out". Harvard has a 98% 6y rate -- University of Oklahoma is 64%
I've heard a formula for the sub-genre of "founder story" is: founder is doing some activity that is cool to the target audience; encounters a problem; has a flash of insight; and quickly builds the product.

Note it requires knowing your audience and their problem. It's not about the founder.
Note to the author: if you throw those images into ImageOptim, you can save at least 15%.

Probably convenient when you get hit by HN - and don't seem to be hosting images on S3.

http://imageoptim.com/
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I'm as big a fan of taking shots at Apple as anyone, but only when it's on topic. This is about mobile. Apple's inability to gain traction on the desktop for decades didn't affect the popularity of their take on the smartphone and tablet.
I'm relatively new to the WP scene, and already its totally clear that WordPress is tolerated because it has a vibrant ecosystem. Getting to keep that is way bigger factor in uptake over the next five years than anything a rewrite could deliver.
And yet, you cannot use a remote REPL with Objective-C, making experimentation (crucial when developing games) slow and tedious.
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What is needed is a rewrite and not a fork.

But why Open Source? Such a proper rewrite is a big undertaking and I don't see how that could be pulled off without financial compensation. Why not offer it for let's say $19 per domain? I would easily pay for it and I am sure many others. This way you could at least pay salaries to developers working on it.
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Rhode Island startup, TouchVu is preparing to launch private beta for their new app which converts Facebook business pages into responsive websites. Launch will take place Thursday, Nov. 8th, 2012.<p>TouchVu offers the quickest and easiest way to create and maintain beautiful multi-screen websites. You can create website in 2 minutes and you can keep the website fresh and up-to-date by automatically synchronizing content from your Facebook business page.
Try holding an iPad with one hand for an extended period and then we'll talk. It's not possible and I always finding myself propping it up against something. The iPad is not a e-reader. Too heavy.
I think you mean a college dropout from a CS degree program.
Can you explain how this is different from using any other domain registration service? It's not clear what the problem is, aside from not being GoDaddy et al, and how you are fixing it, as there are a number of reputable registrars available. Having said that, congrats on the launch.
I cannot read this because the writing is soooo bad. If this is your job application, I will not consider hiring you.
I once very briefly considered taking a job in DC (I live in south central Pennsylvania).

It would have been a 2 hour drive not accounting for traffic, then a 30-minute metro ride into the city. Accounting for traffic I'd likely have to be out the door between 4 and 4:30 just to make it into the office by 8.
I prefer Yahoo! YSlow Smush.it [1] which does this for you online.

[1] http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/
It should be said that the actual page's headline includes the qualifier, 'yet'.
My understanding was that iOS did not have BridgeSupport. Am I mistaken?
I think his point is all these ebooks are pointless WTR content and you might as well read your bus pass to learn anything useful
Have to say, the most intriguing ideas I saw in the concept were the two "split view" concepts - one for managing blog posts, and one for writing posts.

Has any blogging platform implemented anything like that? I know there are Markdown editors with a split view, but I don't know of any that are web-based, nor any that are integrated into existing blogging platforms. And I've definitely never seen any "manage/edit old posts" system as clean and simple as the one in the concept.

Oh, and btw, a brilliant concept that's super easy to miss - being able to type "(image)" in the editor pane and seeing an image upload placeholder in the preview pane. It's a small thing, but one of those things that seems way more obvious than it actually is.
Given the current political climate, there's no way I can make a comment like this without it sounding political, but here it goes...

It seems a shame to me that technology like this is not available to all amputees. I can only imagine the frustration I'd feel if I lost an arm or a leg and couldn't afford this, and had to settle for a "dumb" prosthesis instead. And I can only imagine this problem getting worse in the future, because this type of thing will never be able to reach the economies of scale to make it available to "ordinary" people on their own.

In my own country, to my knowledge, this isn't yet an issue, but as technology progresses and with budgets getting tighter it wouldn't surprise me if it becomes one in future.
Well, I consider myself a 'normal' consumer and I was waiting for an ipad mini and I think you consider that a proof (of sorts). I don't think its much of a leap in logic to work out that a lot (hundreds of thousands...millions even) were waiting off for something like a smaller ipad. I mean it was in practically every technology blog prior to announcement.
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Chrome renders fonts differently than other browsers in Windows 7. Possibly for speed reasons? Both the latest FF and IE9 look decent.
You could say exactly the same about Stripe.
Yep, that's called "fixed point arithmetic". The multiplier is called a "scaling factor". You typically have to "rescale" after each multiply operation by dividing the result by the scaling factor, but you've done that implicitly by not scaling integer values like 7.
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"fancy radio buttons" doesn't slide off the tongue quite as well though.
Oh yeah, I remember all those articles from people who said that the iPad market is exactly like the iPod market. But I knew then too that it was not true. Two things are different which change the game entirely.

First, when the iPod appeared, the whole ecosystem wasn't really about the "OS" of the device, and now iOS has a real competitor in Android, that a lot of other manufacturers can use, while back then there was no such unification from the other manufacturers. This matters because the iPod was a single-task product, while tablets are not.

Second, they said that Apple has its own stores, while the others do not. But we're living in a global market now, and Apple's stores are virtually non-existent outside of US. Having 1 or 5 stores in a whole country doesn't make much of a difference. So even if Android tablets completely fail in US, there's a huge market out there for them, outside of US, which is bound to become bigger than the whole "iPad market".
> Less Options ... there are still too many options, too many settings, too many things which you have an unnecessary level of control over in the administrative user interface ... Things that many people have never even used. Ghost would get rid of all that.

And you hope to captivate the hearts and minds of the open-source developer community? Haven't you seen what happened with earlier versions of GNOME 3 and Unity? We love options. We love settings. We don't want them gone, we just want them neatly organized and tucked away in an inconspicuous corner so that we can tweak them at lunchtime.

You yourself might have never used an obscure feature, such as posting by e-mail, but other people do use it every day, and will never switch unless they can keep using it. In fact, there exists an entire blogging platform (Posterous) that is based on the premise of posting by e-mail. Even my grandfather, who is utterly lost when it comes to regular blogging, can use Posterous because he knows how to send e-mail. Since Posterous is now on life support, I've been considering migrating him to one or another WordPress platform, precisely because WordPress supports posting by e-mail. If your fork removes this feature, it will fall right off my radar. I'm sure that somebody else will be able to tell a similar story regarding any WordPress feature that you think is unnecessary or unrelated to blogging. For example, "No Comments": excellent, now I need to send all my visitors to a third party who specializes in tracking them across the world wide web. Someone who had a blog about online privacy might consider it a case of hypocrisy.

It's easy to drop options and features that you don't see yourself using as part of "blogging". Anyone can do it, and each person who tries will get a product that fits his or her definition of "blogging". Such products, however, won't gain widespread use like WordPress has. A much more difficult but potentially rewarding task is to reorganize options and features so that casual users get sane defaults and power users can tweak to their heart's content. It takes a lot of careful thinking, planning, asking around, and UX experience to get this right, but once you do get it right, the difference can be stunning. As the saying goes, 80% of people only use 20% of features, but each person uses a different 20%.

One solution would be to organize these "extra" features into easily installable plugins, and to have those plugins ready before you sign off on your first official release. That would prevent the kind of negative publicity that surrounded the premature releases of some Linux interfaces. But another section of your write-up gives the impression that you don't want that many plugins, either.

PS: But you should definitely kill the ability to edit themes using the web interface. It's a security nightmare, leaving so many critical files writable by the web server. Also, the split view looks wonderful.
(100% totally non sarcastic here)

This is what I love about PHP devs. Imagine how much effort it was to write that. The author may not have have the chops to refactor that into something elegant, but he wanted it done and was perfectly willing to just do it the hard way and FUCKING SHIP IT, warts and all. Its easy to laugh at code after the fact, but you can't argue that a ton of people aren't finding the author's work valuable.
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You are proposing a Borda system. The problem with Borda is the effect of "tactical voting" which would encourage people to not vote how they truly feel, in order to obtain their desired outcome. A better method would be a selection method where a voter can select multiple candidates (one or many).
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what does it say? (CodeIgniter says database down)
Even MRI 1.9 does not support parallel execution of Ruby code. JRuby and MacRuby do, however.
In my blog post (http://blog.nameterrific.com/2012/11/the-fix/) I have listed a few problems.

Basically the domain name industry wasn't being actively developed in the last few years. A lot of effort was spent on the business side, especially how to use domains to boost parking, hosting and SEO services revenue. I think geeks deserve a professional platform that only deals with domain names.

It's a billion industry, and it's a shame that there're few startups focusing on this business. NameTerrific was meant to fill this gap.
I'd like to see a fork Ghost as a Rails app. Anyone game?