skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good question -- and there are at least two dimensions: (1) using traditional publication coverage to evaluate 'notability'; and (2) using traditional publications as sources of information.

I personally would jettison 'notability' for 'usefulness', and improve the procedures for allowing 'self-published' material -- even up to original research and the testimony of primary sources -- to provide Wikipedia content, as long as it's true.

Yes, that's harder than just deferring to traditional high-reputation news and academic publishers. But those publishers are retreating, while the need for reference information is growing, and this problem needs the boldness of the wiki-model, even as Wikipedia has become squeamish about such experimentalism.
PLT scheme comes with an implementation of currying built-in:

(define add2 (curry + 2))

(add2 5) --> 7
By listing multiple versions of the truth, with some sort of measure of reliability by each one.

For example the article on UFO's (or Cold Fusion) can have a section by proponents, and a section by dis-ponents (if that's a word).

The section by proponents can say: This section was written by people who believe foo bar.

The other section can say: This was written by people who believe that foo bar is not true.

How do you know which to believe? Well you don't. All you know is the source. And that, I think, is enough. Each reader can attempt to authenticate the source on his own (perhaps by perusing articles about the source).

There are many topics where it's not possible to get full sites for them.

But I'm not actually expecting wikipedia to change - I gave up on them about a year ago.
In Konsole you can split the window a là Emacs or Vim buffers, which is pretty handy always. The special keys works, not like F1 in gnome-terminal which opens the help.

How many times do you switch between terminals because you need to copy something or whatever? That's over with Konsole
You can use Powershell as a tabbed terminal too.
Poderosa. Tabbed terminal for Windows. Has some bugs, but much more reliable than PuttyCM (the tabbed Putty wrapper).
Memory efficient or time efficient?
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Oh, sorry about that. I really thought they changed the logo.
There's a massive difference between the emigration of a very smart, talented person who is eager to assimilate and contribute to society, and immigration involving large numbers of people who are unskilled and have no intention of becoming part of mainstream society in your country. (And I say this as an immigrant)
'Text as the universal interface' clashes quite badly with separating content from presentation. This means you're forever relying on regex's to rip data out of other applications, and relying on those other applications not to change their output.

Compare finding processes starting within the last hour on Unix and Windows:

ps | grep 'regex representing the current amount of columns output by ps where start time is less than 2 hours'

Windows (ps is an alias for get-process):

ps | where COLUMN <= value

The latter is much more robust. As Powershell gets more cmdlets it's going to become increasingly useful. That said, I prefer Unix for other reasons.
Three thoughts:

First, what really fascinated me about the article was how it highlighted a number of things so obvious about how we design things - with a focus on the center and craftsmanship, for instance - that I'd never thought of quite that way before. That was fantastic.

Second, I thought it was interesting that they were imagining apocalyptic-type scenarios where all knowledge of the inscribed written languages are lost. I suppose that's sensible if you're looking at a 10,000 year time horizon.

Third, while I learned a lot and was generally really impressed with this piece, this line turned me off a lot:

> We can never know if we indeed have successfully communicated with our descendants 400 generations removed, but we can, in any case, perhaps convey an important message to ourselves.

That line came after talking about how the project is six times larger in scale than the Pyramids were to build, and how to "to ensure the probability of success, the WIPP marker undertaking will have to be one of the greatest public works ventures in history."

And therein lies the problem - buried in a couple quick lines is a very powerful secondary motivation of the authors of the spec. The go on for pages with concrete details and supporting theory as if they're just trying to meet requirements, only barely acknowledging that, "and hey, it might not work, but we'll have done something impressive and made a statement in our own day and age." This seems like the stuff that boondoggles are made of - propose a seemingly functional process, while sneaking in, "...and regardless of if it meets its goals, it'll sure be impressive and send a message."
That's a great article, injecting some badly needed sense into the debate. Let's hope that it gets a wide enough reading to make a difference.
GConf is just text files. Open your .gconf folder.
Your friends hate to see you disillusioned, so they let you perpetuate the self-illusion that what you're proposing in your project will work.
You best friends are the ones who disillusion you.
Knuth's opinion on Knuth's opinion was reverted from Wikipedia as uncited
Facebook is not about friendship, but networking. It is just a way of communication or time wasting.
Assuming you meant US government: since most internet traffic is outside the US, not as much as you'd think.
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Looking at DropBox, paid users get more megabytes, from my understanding the original commenter was suggesting free features, then additional paid features that compliment the free ones or extend upon them, in a freemium fashion.
Yes, but it usually lags a bit behind the current versions (as all operating-system packages do). So I end up building a more recent one from MacPorts anyway.
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I hate to say it, but an IP is not as authoritative as a quote. I dunno what to say.
Wikipedia's policy is to not allow original ideas or opinions, even if it's from the subject of the article. This is fairly uncontroversial compared to some of the other things, like restricting edits to logged-in users.
I miss some discussion of human curiosity. Isn't a large part of contemporary culture structured around stories of going past ominuous warnings to find the arc of covenant/holy grail/amulet of yendor?

So what is the convincing argument that a huge designed structure will not trigger exactly the behaviour it is supposed to discourage? And even if the political elites of a 10000AD culture believe the warnings they read in the accepted translations of the inscriptions, who is going to stop a well equipped fringe scientist of trying to prove these boring, timid bureaucrats wrong?
As much as everyone hates PHP, this would've been some two lines in it, using strtotime()

It's really one of the best functions in the language.
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
This is fine. I can make my reverse DNS be knuth.standford.edu also.

All Knuth needs to do is to publicly write about his opinion (perhaps on his website). Someone will read it, someone will add that to Wikipedia with a link, and everything will be perfect. It's less effort on his part, and it ensures that Wikipedia maintains some level of accuracy.
My thoughts exactly... even if it's him, it's still both uncited and "original research". If Knuth put up a page on his website, he could then link to it on Wikipedia and the edit would stick.
Technically, you cannot make knuth-pbdsl5.Stanford.EDU resolve back to your address. But that is not about the technology. The point is Wikipedia does not have its own fact-extracting workflow, so they are piggybacking on whatever is available, e.g. the press.
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"All Knuth needs to do is to publicly write about his opinion (perhaps on his website)."

Bzzt. Wrong.

Knuth needs to write his opinion on his web site, and then a mainstream media source needs to report that Knuth wrote his opinion on his web site. If a mainstream media source reports something that contradicts Knuth's word, then that report, and not what Knuth himself wrote, will be considered "correct" for Wikipedia.
This isn’t about that. I link to Apple’s documents in my blog posts, manual, mailing list replies, tickets, etc.

It is extremely frustrating that these links break with time, not made any better when then users write me to tell that my links are broken.
I believe human curiosity is taken as a given. I hope it will lead them to look at the information given. The trick will be making them believe it.

This is a hard problem. I wish it were a problem we didn't have.
Fail. Most people in SF don't drive.
Yeah, I've spent 20min trying think of a way to elaborate without much luck...

People rarely view things from any perspective other than their own. It annoys me.

jodrellblank isn't correct btw. I'm not envious. I'm very cognizant and thankful for everything. Cause despite how shitty and hard I may think my life is I know it's comparatively "charmed". People are starving to DEATH in refugee camps cause some fuckheads were trying to genocide them. I can't even comprehend there being so little food that people die from lack.
Memory of course. I don't think there's much of a difference in runtime (ignoring cache misses, etc.)
Yes, except poor job hiding the default no-svg-support message (hint: with Safari 4, Zoom out).
Perhaps edits could be signed with a person's public key (verifying that it was them posting), thus making that edit, in and of itself, the primary source that the [following] edit can cite? It makes sense to rely on our IRL trust network to verify claims inserted by anonymous IP addresses, but when an actual, verifiable identity comes into the mix, that process should be short-circuited.
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Ask HN: Rate my Product : QueryCell
Hi,

I've saved up 6 months worth of money and am taking time off to try and start a software company.

I have just released a new version of my app QueryCell and would love any feedback people have.

QueryCell is an add-in for Microsoft Excel that allows you to query Excel data using SQL, Generate SQL Insert statements, generate test data and mark rows.

http://www.querycell.com/
http://www.querycell.com/welcome.html
(welcome is going to be the landing page for ads)

Thanks
Knuth needs to write his opinion on his web site, and then a mainstream media source needs to report that Knuth wrote his opinion on his web site.

I believe wikipedia policy says that self-published sources can be accepted if there is nothing better.

If a mainstream media source reports something that contradicts Knuth's word, then that report, and not what Knuth himself wrote, will be considered "correct" for Wikipedia.

Yes and no. Biographies of living people have a special caveat that editors should err on the side of removing disputed material.
Bzzt. Wrong.

Since when are we on a game show here?

Knuth needs to write his opinion on his web site, and then a mainstream media source needs to report that Knuth wrote his opinion on his web site. If a mainstream media source reports something that contradicts Knuth's word, then that report, and not what Knuth himself wrote, will be considered "correct" for Wikipedia.

If the WSJ had an article that reads "Knuth says Wikipedia is junk", well that would be a problem. But in the absence of such an article, his personal web site would suffice as a source.
There is not that much overhead. If you are writing an event-based network server, you have to allocate one structure of some type per connection, this is going to use memory regardless of whether it's a coroutine, or just a closure or instance of a class. If your coroutine implementation is good, these representations will be exactly equivalent. (In the real world, it is not as good of course, but it is theoretically possible to make coroutines as space efficient as hand-crafted state machines.)

I did an experiment; I created 100,000 coroutines in Perl (with the Coro module) each implementing a simple network protocol (echo). This used about 14k of RAM per "connection".

So sure, you could do it with less, but I know a lot of people who are happy with using 1.4G of RAM handling three concurrent requests -- this handles 100 thousand. (Right now, my web browser is using half that amount of memory so I can type this post.)

And BTW, this is also not too expensive CPU-wise; under the hood it uses epoll on my machine, which scales linearly over the active connections. With most of the connections idle, this results in very good performance.

Edit: I did the same thing with GHC and Control.Concurrent's forkIO; the overhead is about 3k per thread. Very reasonable.
Clickable Links

http://www.querycell.com/welcome.html

http://www.querycell.com
The shittiness of a social news site has nothing to do with the any sort of enforcement or criteria for a topic, or even having a topic at all. Rather, things go to shit on a social news site when the community is composed of people who can't (roughly) agree on what they like to read.

To regurgitate an old adage I heard from a Dungeon Master: "It's not the game that's fun, it's the players." We're here to share links and talk about stuff, not to "post" and "comment", blind and deaf, into the void. As long as we all like one another, the site is good. When we attract a group of people we don't like as much, and those people attract people we don't like at all, then the site will suck, because those people won't be sharing and talking about the same things we want to share and talk about.
iTerm for OS X is fantastic. I like the custom keyboard profiles, full screen mode and appearance niceties (like tab styles and being able to hide the scrollbar). An especially great feature is the multiple tab input mode. Not too long ago I ssh'd into 3 new servers for three separate clients and did essentially the same setup and security updates for about an hour. At the end, I was able to bill for 3 hours.

http://iterm.sourceforge.net/

I also use Visor, a handy utility written by Nicholas Jitkoff (the creator of Quicksilver). It extends Apple's Terminal by giving it a heads-up display, making a terminal available in any program by simply hitting a keystroke. It doesn't work with Snow Leopard, though, and when I first upgraded I actually felt like one of my limbs was always asleep. Fortunately, there's a way to make it work:

http://metaskills.net/2009/8/18/visor-terminal-on-snow-leopard

For one-off commands where I don't need to see any output (like killing or renicing processes), I use Quicksilver in command mode and use the "run command in shell" action. The latest version of Quicksilver works with Snow Leopard with very minor problems:

http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list
My favourite one is Lookeen! Lookout is old and cannot search for and in docx..xobni is a matter of tase, nothing for me!
"Biographies of living people have a special caveat that editors should err on the side of removing disputed material."

Oh, there are plenty of policies. Just try getting them enforced when a couple admins decide that they want an article to be a particular way (as has been known to happen with such articles).
Well, I can't parse the first one, so I'm happy to let that one slip.
This still has the weakness of asserting the candidates rhetoric skills, as much as her technical skills. That said, almost any interviewing situation would.
How about using the money from its donation drives to hire its own professional journalists? They'll have to go somewhere once the newspapers stop paying ;)
Putty mostly. Dated? though TeraTerm has/had good out of the box DEC, HP, IBM terminal emulation; customer engagements.
Yeah, I got that. What I meant was that although that makes them useless for my project, I love them for it at the same time.
A person's opinion is not really one of the things I'd trust them with. Think about a politician's official opinion on X vs his actions.

Not to mention this could well have been one of Knuth's students or acquaintances. Like others pointed out, the same opinion posted on his website would have had much heavier weight. "Citation needed" was by far the correct reaction.
he starts out saying "stay the fuck away from this stuff" then goes on to talk lovingly of the tech. WTF? Where's the explanation of why it didn't work as a business?

I think the OP is a bit too in love with the technology, that's probably why he got burnt.
I definitely feel performance increases all over the place in 10.6. Particularly in Terminal.app... it's super snappy! Directory listings are instantaneous whereas before there seemed to be a slight little lag.

Note: I am using zsh with my term declared as xterm.
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I don't use windows or excel but if i did, i would be getting interested in QueryCell. I am going to pass the url along to people I know who do.

Does QueryCell work when excel is being run on a non-windows OS via wine? ( I assume not, but if it does, I know more people who might be interested ).

--

Also, the video cut off for me in mid-sentence. I think you are missing the end. For me, it ended at with "if you would like to try query cell for free, feel free to download".
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> ... about how I set a boiling pan of water alight

I demand an explanation!
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Doesn't build for me either right now (NativeRect array problem in nsterm.m), but I'm guessing it doesn't for him either since there hasn't been a build for 2 days.

I've always build mine with:

./configure --with-ns
make -j 4 bootstrap

(I only rebuild every few months or so, so a bootstrap is safer)
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Brilliant idea. There have been so many times where I've been in Excel thinking "if only I could run SQL on this."

Only thing to concern yourself with now is how long before Microsoft implements this in Excel?

P.S. Great to hear an Aussie accent in a demo video!
Wikipedia generally discourages edits by the subject of the article anyway. This policy is designed less for the likes of Donald Knuth and more for the likes of the borderline-notable people of the world who might be tempted to use wikipedia as their own CV.
A similar story about Betrand Meyer:

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?BertrandMeyerAndWikipedia

Personally, I think Wikipedia (if you can refer to such a collection of volunteers as if it had one mind) is in the right in both these situations.

One thing I think people forget, is that if you make a rule it has to apply to everyone, not just the people you (dis)like.
There are 2 ways it is different:

1) It is a self contained .app file and generally goes in your /Applications folder which means you have to go out of your way to get it to launch from the terminal by simply typing "emacs". I put this little sh script in my path somewhere:

#!/bin/sh
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs "$@"

2) Since it isn't a text only Emacs, launching it from the command line still creates a bouncy Emacs icon on your dock and gives it its own window and menu bar. "emacs -nw", as usual, takes you straight to text mode without leaving the terminal.
At present, though, the bar for wikipedia notability is still set a lot lower than the bar for showing up in a newspaper -- not everything in the newspaper is worth recording for all time in wikipedia. Until that happens you're dealing with a fairly theoretical problem of how to cover notable things which never show up in a reputable source.
There's a big, big difference between HTML Sitemaps and XML Sitemaps

What's the difference, practically speak? (Not doubting, just curious. It's a field I know nothing about.)
Judging by how nice most of these sites look, I think this was more of a web design contest than a programming contest. Let's see the code.
There have been so many times where I've been in Excel thinking "if only I could run SQL on this.

There is a Perl DBD for this. It doesn't run in Excel, but you can run SQL queries on spreadsheet files.
Yes, my script got the NativeRect error tonight. Last night I was offline reconstructing my disk after I botched some code in a home made gpt partitioning tool (it made a full recovery--phew).

I think I'm going to have to figure out how to build with -m32 so that it works on versions before 10.6. I haven't looked into it but I suspect you can "lipo" the 32 and the 64 bit executables together like you can with PowerPC and Intel and so that might be an option too.
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Boiling point
That is a pretty awesome idea. GitHub/Launchpadish but the actual repositories are hosted externally? Hell yeah. Has someone tried this already?
and I see the "I have updated..." way down in the comments section--it doesn't count.
This is nice, but their whole "Darwinian evolution" concept is flawed. Evolution works by finding the most stable configuration relative to environmental constraints. The constraints they are imposing here are fake.

In other words, they need to put "The Market" into their iterative cycle.
It seems odd to contrast 37signals against open source. They don't release all their software as open source, but they do a fair bit and seem to have generated a lot of PR out of it.

If anything they're poster-boys for building both a business and a community by open sourcing elements further down their stack.
I don't know why this got downmodded. It's a good point. Headlines should not be editorialised like that, in general.

In this specific case, I agree with the new headline, but then I agreed with the topic too, so I'm probably biased.
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Hell, the way things work these days, he could leave a comment on a popular news aggregator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_(programming_language)#c...

or even just a post on twitter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_This_Town#cite_note-1
Nice,
However, a question raised in my mind.
Are you targeting Excel's power users, such as analysts and accountants or software developers?

Since "standard" users are not going to learn SQL your market is narrowed to developers only.

You may add a GUI based Query-Builder such as can be found in MS Acess and MSSqlServer and other DB systems and by these you can gain more market share.

Build an easy to use wizard and let the end user choose between SQL mode and GUI mode.
And I believe they've published the data as to why it matters to them. Basically, every delay loses them customers.

Bing and Google engineers gave a joint talk about it:

Bing and Google Agree: Slow Pages Lose Users

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/bing-and-google-agree-slow-...
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That's a great question. Up to this point we've really assumed that most people come to the table with a team or potential teammates already in mind. One thing we could certainly do better in the future is providing mechanisms through which teams can find collaborators (they don't need to be in their area though, of course, since the competition is completely virtual).

If you check the discussion list and do some Twitter searches you'll find that many teams advertised that they were looking for collaborators that way. Still, probably not the best mechanism for that.
XML Sitemaps are specifically designed to be a machine-readable list all of the individual pages on a site, when they were last updated, how frequently they're usually updated, and how important a page is to your site.

HTML Sitemaps are the user-friendly (YMMV), human-readable equivalent.