skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
O’Nolan, a former WordPress project lead himself , opines
that WordPress has grown up and is no longer really about
blogs anymore. It’s become a full-fledged content
management system, burdened with a lot of unnecessary
complexity for those that are just looking to manage a
blog.

WP is nothing close to a full-fledged content management system, and if it's burdened by anything, it's all the leftover cruft from the days when it was just about blogging.

I use WP every day and I'm really grateful it exists. But from my perspective, the problem is not "WP is so great at content management we need to develop something just about blogging". The problem is "Lots of people have cleverly managed to hack WP into running as a general purpose CMS because there's such a wealth of support, knowledge and extensability surrounding it".

I'be be much more interested in a new modern, flexible CMS built for that purpose from the ground up than I am about a new blogging software.
They could also be facing "way that looks promising right now" both when calling and when traveling, without planning.

I don't envy these researchers, having to eliminate all the "stupid" ways to achieve something in order to figure out how much high-level planning animals do.
At What Point Will the Next Generation Kill the Copyright Monopoly Altogether?
What’s wrong with RTL (hardware design)?
I'd consider it if the arrow key / edit block hadn't been destroyed.

I do a lot of editing with the arrow keys + insert / delete / home / end / page up / page down block. Generally, all cuts, pastes, block moves etc. are done with those, especially since Ctrl-{C,X,V} are not convenient with a Dvorak layout.

For similar reasons I've never gotten a keyboard that mucked around with the 6 keys above the arrow keys.
Our economy will remain the world's largest and (for its size) the most open, which means pretty much everyone else's economies depend substantially on ours. Our military - even when limited to conventional arms - will remain the world's largest and most lethal. Our insanely advantageous geography (major oceans to the east and west, and our biggest trading partners to the north and south) won't shift an inch.

We are safe. Very safe. We don't need nukes.
Hi. I mean no offense. I should have explained my thoughts better. I am not calling everyone a monkey, I am saying the behavior is a primate behavior that we share.

Discovery/learning is a completely different desire than the need to compete.
A gret book on that is Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn[1].

Having that said, there has been a lot of controversy on the value of estimates recently:

Estimation is Evil[2]

Purpose of Estimation[3]

I believe their TL;DR comes from the second one:

For me, estimation is valuable when it helps you make a significant decision

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Estimating-Planning-Mike-Cohn/dp...

[2] http://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-02/estimation-is-evil

[3] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PurposeOfEstimation.html
Revamped Fermilab neutrino beam offers hope for new physics
Maybe it is Derrida's third generation citers who don't know the Heidegger connection, but I heard a lot about D. and none about H.
Kent M. Pitman Answers On Lisp And Much More (2001)
What about Movable Type?
You think programming is unrelated to philosophy? If it was any good, you hopefully spent a lot of time learning how to break arguments into their constituent parts and follow them to their logical conclusions. You learned how to read closely, and how to write. In other words, you learned how to think.

I don't know why Americans seem so confused about the purpose of education, as if you're a failure if you don't leave school and proceed to do exactly what you were doing in school, except getting paid for it. The purpose of school is to is to turn people into intellectually nimble citizens of a democracy. Whatever you then go on to get paid to do, your education was only useless if it failed at that.
Me too, could never go back.
Why does Node.js make a good platform for blog software? I thought the point of Node.js was to build systems that handle lots of atomic events efficiently. Blogging would seem like the exact opposite of that situation.
I wouldn't go as far as to call me an asshole, and I definitely didn't <blame> anyone. But to each their own.

Full-disclosure: I admitted that I panicked, and that I was unable to complete the interview. I'm pretty candid about things, and in our first interview (which was with our CEO), I told him that I was naturally nervous, and was the captain of my team in a battle vs lifelong anxiety.

To me, though, being employed is to be part of a team. Sometimes, you have to pick up your teammates. Everyone commits an error from time to time, nobody's perfect. You're not expected to bat 1.000. It's not about that you bat .250 coming into the season, but where you end up as a team and individually at the end of it. To this day, and 9 months into employment, I'd like to think that I've offered a lot of value despite my shortcomings. I'm confident that anyone on my team would say the same, too. Which, to me, is what matters.
> I didn't get anything like this out of Heidegger that I didn't get out of Wittgenstein,

I think that is an important point, actually. Both f'ing brilliant.
that was one explanation we were told. another one was some tourists stepped on a landmine. when there is too many rumors I call BS, especially when officials are all anal about it anyway.
some snippets I found in the T&C's linked from Windows 8.1 RTM (even the the document still says preview)

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/windows-8-1-pri...

Windows Search also sends an identifier to provide personalized search results based on your interactions withBing and other Microsoft products and services.

If you sign in to Windows with aMicrosoft account, the identifier will be associated with your Microsoft account.

If you allow Windows Search to use your location, the physical location of your device as provided by the Windows Location Platform will be sent to Microsoft as a part of each search request. Alternatively, we may attempt to derive your approximate physical location based on your IP address.

If you choose to use Windows Search to get web search results, we use the search term you have provided, your local and online search history, information associated with yourMicrosoft account, and the location of your device to provide relevant search suggestions, personalized search results, and personalized experiences in other Microsoft products and services

You can also clear your search history and turn off personalized search results for WindowsSearch in Search in Search & apps in PC settings. This clears your local search history and instructs Microsoft not to use any previously collected search history stored byBing that’s used to personalize your WindowsSearch experience. It does not delete information that is used by Microsoft in aggregate to improve search results and otherMicrosoft experiences. That information is retained and anonymized
I went to one of the schools mentioned, and am active in alumni affairs in my city. I also have a liberal arts degree.

I don't think these numbers work. And I see it in the fact that alumni affairs is beefing up its career services portion of its events. There is a recognition that if donations are to continue, then understanding that the careers they were sending kids off to based on prestige are slowly disappearing, and that the adults that had those careers are starting to transition into something else.

I'm also not 100% convinced that career offices at liberal arts schools are prepared for this. While I'm actually fairly happy with what I learned (because I can see it taught me to both think analytically about various subjects and communicate what I thought), I also can see that the traditional preparation has absolutely nothing to do with the well paying jobs out there. Further, when I finally figured out some ideas of what I was interested in late in college, my career office actually had no idea how these positions work or what they are like in real life.

I'm not sure they still do either, based on other times I've interacted with graduates. Many of them fell into what they did based on their connections (which all the schools mentioned provide, no doubt), including myself, at times. Based off resumes I've seen, particularly for technical marketing type roles (which I've seen more of, so I can comment about that), the internships don't seem to fully provide a good glimpse of what they know (and can vary hugely), or if they fully understand what goes on in these positions. Further, internships up until recently mattered very little - as the school could provide connections.

Weirdly, I don't blame the school at all. I'm more appalled that they admitted to me at graduation that I should take an unpaid internship (height of the recession) because they figured that most students could afford to effectively work their first jobs unpaid to get skills for jobs they don't know how to connect people to. This is not going to change until they get more alumni with a wider range skills, so, hence, above.

TL:DR Schools are doing this because up until now they could send their kids into jobs. Now well-paid careers are shifting, and they can't. This matches up with the rise of internships and stories like these. Meh.
Imagine someone walking up to Maya Angelou, handing her a white eraser marker, and asking her to write you a poem on a white board. She's obviously not going to immediately write you a poem, at least not one thats any good. Is it fair to judge her poem writing abilities by this off the cuff creation?Creators can only do their best creation when they are in their comfortable space. Asking a programmer to write code over the phone will result in substandard quality no matter what.
Show HN: Web-controlled Christmas Lights with Node.js, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi
This is a good article, deductions and informed speculation from John Gilmore, an intelligent guy.

Best quote: "When you start from a severely false premise, you can go a long way into the wilderness before you notice your error."

Best observation: The section beginning with 'Their "need to know" culture'. It describes the effects of the compartmentalized security - both responsibility and knowledge are boxed up in such a way that nobody and everybody is equally responsible, and that nobody has an overall view, so that particular classes of mistakes are almost guaranteed to occur.
Funny. I'm also a programmer and I hate L-Enters because the backslash and vertical bar is in the wrong place.

It also means that either the backspace or the left shift is smaller, and I hate that too.
Only using science though. and Hans Blick, the UN weapons inspector, was able to determine that Saddam had no WMD capability. sadly we did not believe science, and I expect, in the afterglow of a nuclear explosion, that we shall not believe the tales told by isotopes either

we are a dumb species
It put a man on the moon, etc, etc. But it also can trip us up sometimes...
Not really. OTC derivatives greatly contributed to what happened because it obscured who your counterparty was in a transaction. This is really important because as the world falls apart around you, you don't know if your OTC derivatives happen to be based indirectly and at least in part on some other failing financial institution. Multiply this by everyone you do business with and you have a complete dissolution of trust and ability to properly assess risk. Those institutions that failed and only had vanilla home mortgage loans failed because they themselves were the ones responsible for the irresponsible lending or because they got caught up by it at the end of the unraveling that destroyed enormous amounts of value.

There is no way that the markets would have fallen that far and that fast if most participants, and the rating agencies, had the capacity to accurately and directly determine how much risk they and their counterparties had.

I imagine that the complicitness of the rating agencies in the whole thing never would have even gotten so egregious if most institutions had vanilla instruments on their books that were straight forward to value. OTC derivatives made it very easy to hide finagling and create an environment where rating agencies feel comfortable playing the tit-for-tat game with banks because they thought no one would notice ethical transgressions among all the indirection of derivatives.
You're implying that low level CS knowledge plain isn't important in a developer role. Perhaps in some cases it isn't, but lacking low level CS knowledge is very limiting in a technical role and there are valid reasons employers might emphasize technical chops.

There exist very good developers with drive and vision who have a strong grasp of technical fundamentals and can still manage to pass technical interviews. Why wouldn't you want to hire them? No one expects interview code to be "perfect", especially not for your first answer. Thinking about it aloud and going down a false path or two rather than trying to write a perfectly optimized solution first time is what you're supposed to do and a good interviewer will encourage that. On the other hand, you should also be able to get onto a fruitful path rather quickly, or at least when you get there, you should be able to follow it easily.
When I visited, it was freezing cold outside, and half the people in my group were drunk. We were really just trying to get from one party to another, which is why we decided to take a cab, because it would require minimal effort.

Anyway, my point was that when you have a limit of about $30 per week for groceries, you probably can't afford to take a cab there and back.
It's great to see quality content from Brazil. Thank you.
In the end, who cares. I'm intrigued by Ghost. I signed up for access ... but I have also been intrigued by the many alternatives to WP out there - Octopress, Squarespace, Kirby, on and on. That's because I'm a hacker. But ... in the end WP is to this space as Excel is the spreadsheets. Its just too good. Has so much to offer. As long as we're talking about presenting html/css/js in a browser for non-dynamic sites, WP pretty much does everything. Its just lost its shiny|new status. Bloat? An easy and convenient insult. Truth is Excel has capabilities I will never use ... but it pleases me to know they are there if/when I need them. What gets lost in the argument that WP is so big, so capable that its not a blog engine anymore but rather a cms, is that it is entirely capable of powering just your blog with a whole bunch of features you won't use. But when you decide to do "X", you can pretty much guarantee you'll find a quality option/extension to handle it.
Its interesting to the likes of folks on HN (and I count myself among this crowd) to find new and exciting ways to do things, but if the outcome is the same ... IOW - what is truly different. It can't just be "how", but "why" and "what".
I'm pointing out that if the authors wrote an article titled "Male humans plan their travel route up to one day in advance and communicate it to other members of their species," the authors would be called out in the comments on how human females are just as capable of doing so and how their paper is incredibly derogatory to women. Comments like that are notably missing from this thread even though humans and orangutans are closely related and would share similar low-level social structures.
i really love that this is one of those topics that
draws scads of comments no matter where it appears.

as if it is important, and everybody's behavior must
be rigidly enforced so we'll have complete conformity.

-bowerbird
Closer to home:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo
What would a proper CMS have in your opinion that Wordpress lacks?
Admittedly with a European viewpoint, either common law based (UK) or administrative law based (France, Belgium), there have been cases where commercial was held to mean has the company benefited in a tangible way from its use of such licenced software.

Although if you speak to a lawyer I'm sure their training would immediately start highlighting this as a concern I don't believe it should be in the vast majority of cases. Wasn't there an article on HN a few days ago basically summarising this type of concern under "so sue me" (minus expletives)
The 'toilet paper orientation' article is still there, with over 100 notes/references.
Yup--that's a great one. And it too is by Brian Westley...
If a modern day Leonardo da Vinci materialized today, would he have a voice despite his lack of modern pedigree?

Is this supposed to be controversial? Smart, self-aware people know that pedigree is somewhat related to, but is not the same thing as ability. After all, the great thinkers of history all predated the Ivy Leagues, and an extremely small % of all students, let alone Ivy Leaguers belong to the former group.

The problem is, people, even smart people, are too lazy to think for themselves all the time. They either do not want to be tasked with, or are incapable of determining the worth of other people, so they use proxies like pedigree. It's a heuristic, and I'd go as far as to say it's embedded into human nature, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. One thing is for sure -- this problem is not local to Silicon Valley. It is a human problem.

This becomes a "bubble" when people become so absorbed in pedigree that they begin to selectively ignore that which pedigree is supposed to proxy.
Assuming the public, politicians, and other leaders give the technicians + scientists enough time to perform the analysis.
Yup, for my Master's. :-)
> If Deconstruction were a meaningful thing

Deconstruction is not a "thing". Neither is "empiricism". They are modes of enquiry. Both position you in a certain mode towards your surrounding environment, be it political, social or scientific. They both open certain modes of enquiry while excluding others. One conclusion that one can draw from deconstruction (if we "apply" it onto itself) is that no answer one can ever give will be without bias or will completely exclude any other option.

Jürgen Habermas coined, in his Systemtheorie, the notion of the nth grade observer, where every degree of observer may observe another onlooker and his specific bias and blind spot, yet each degree of observation always introduces its own, new blind spot.

When Derrida talks about archi-écriture, what he says is that if there was ever an all-encompassing entirety of meaning that only had one singly way of interpretation, then this unity is a mythical one which cannot be recovered. Every utterance, every decision has the inherent option of an opposition.

Derrida is Hegel upside down. If Hegel sees Geist as the unity of matter and spirit, then for Derrida, this unity might have existed in an archaic past but has since been lost and cannot be put back together. Hence, whatever we do will not empty out all possible interpretations and views of life, there will be no single answer to the meaning of life or some such. Instead, all that remains is the fundamental idea that every utterance and every positions carries within itself already the means to disprove it.

This is not fundamentally different to the scientific method. The atom was thought to be the smallest, inseperable unit (hence the name) before it could be found. However, in finding the atom, we realised that it is, indeed, made up of smaller parts, which in turn are again made up of smaller parts. What was taken as an absolute minimum was, in fact, only the temporary minimum before we could conceive smaller units. The same, just in reverse, goes for the solar system, galaxies etc.
let's not ignore the fact that USA continues to develop new nukes, designed for deployment, not detterence.
new modern, flexible CMS built for that purpose from the ground up than I am about a new blogging software

I don't understand this.. Basically you're asking for a new codebase full of bugs over a stable codebase?
My biggest complaint about Wordpress when I first had to mess around with the codebase last year is that it is an exercise in masochism. We've moved to much better tools for HTML templating in the last 10 years, yet WordPress in 2013 is stuck with the most awkward approach I've ever dealt with.
Is there a direct link between you using this software under such a licence and then gaining monetary advantage (if not money directly itself)?

Using your process of improvement for me it is quite clear there would be.

[Perhaps the solver could be used to figure the applicability of the licence]
Sorry, if I ask you to write a function that determines whether two given words are anagrams of each other, "I need to get into my comfortable space for my creative process to work" is an evasion. No one's asking for a masterpiece, just a demonstration of basic competence.
Use the pi rule. Multiply the estimated duration by pi. Works for many other things too, besides software.
Caught in the Hipster Trap
A Programmer's Programmable Keyboard
I'm aiming to make it interoperable with other tools as a later step (first I need to launch the basic product). But it won't necessarily be a software project tool that's first off the rank.
> haha..what a loser

Sadly, this is the comment quality I've come to expect from HN at this point.
I'd be all over that if it had some kind of integrated mouse pointer. I loathe moving my entire hand around to mouse. So I stay with the Lenovo Travel Ultranav.
I think this is wishful thinking.

At this point, I believe that governments will use their surveillance systems to enforce copyright strictly.

Enforcment serves two goals:

1. Business. If you've got a monopoly, you can ask, and get, monopoly prices. You also don't have to innovate. This means that lots of money will be behind strict enforcement.

2. Enforces the status quo. If you can watch everybody's communications, you can sort out the disaffected, and the radical readily.

The families and companies in power, stay in power. Dissent gets called "infringement" or "theft" and just disappears, with a legal and technical framework to support it. You don't have to jail dissidents, you just use a DMCA takedown on their works.

Corporations in power get to block any new tech that might disrupt their oligopolies/monopolies.

It fits all, government, the rich, corporations! What could be better?
Without too much effort you can integrate composer, symfony and twig into wordpress to make it more developer friendly. Hell I have all my wordpress installations maintained through a composer script with phing integration so I can maintain my plugins, themes etc... on top of a non-modified wp instance which makes it easy to update.

It's nice for those times where you don't want to reinvent the wheel just get some content up.
Pretty funny to see this, because you've interviewed me before (not super technical, though!). Even more so, I think I got the same question when I interviewed for KA ;) Small world.

Great post, it's really refreshing to see someone with your hacking chops experiencing the same anxieties as a little college student like me.
Simple: The absolute poverty is much worse in Africa than it is here, and the marginal suffering per dollar invested is higher in Africa.

The problems that are here should be discounted, mind you, but we're talking orders of magnitude here.
It has to do with the rising costs of a college education. If you or your parents are going to pay the equivalent of a single family home to a school for a four year degree, you had better have something concrete to point to at the end of it. "Intellectually nimble citizen of a democracy" does not cut it.
I have a philosophy degree and a job in software engineering. I don't think it's like trying to get a job with Leprosy, or anything.
> The point is, you are unable to know the worst possible outcome. Since it will have huge input into your average, your average is therefore useless.

Unbounded worst cases don't happen on every project.