skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to make music with Reason, originally purely for the music itself but later on for video games. You can listen to it here (http://nil.cjb.net/music/), some of the later tracks are actually present in video game competition entries. Occasionally I tried Ableton Live but the interface really bothered me and I could never get anything of the same quality out of it. I lost motivation/time to create more music at about the time I was trying to transition from randomly banging stuff out into imagining a song and then actually trying to make it. The random process was easy but ultimately frustrating, as it yielded something good only about 1 session out of 5.

I have zero music education, and I can't play an actual physical instrument. When I was a kid, I hated most music and complained that rock/rap/etc all sounded the same. I only really enjoyed classical music or music from videogames, both of which were entirely instrumental. I can't understand lyrics in songs 80% of the time. I am tone deaf (probably not medically) and had to learn scales because I couldn't tell that what I was making was horribly out of key until other people told me.

I get really annoyed if the stuff I make isn't mixed/mastered to sound vaguely professional, and get quite a bit of enjoyment adding and tweaking effects on synthesizers. When I listen to music, I can't help imagining how they created the sounds they did (usually when synthesizers are involved).
I've also used an OS tool called Dictator in the past, until it stopped working on my computer. I read Brother's Karamozov at 2500 wpm! It was something about Russia...
If you are not yet familiar with EvE Online - http://www.eveonline.com/ - I now disclaim all responsibility for your imminent loss of productivity.

Quite aside of the game itself (which I finally managed to wean myself off), it's a very interesting project for everything from the server-side code being implemented in Stackless Python to the fact that they employ an economist.
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Here's a Ruby style guide by Chris Neukirchen (Rack author): http://github.com/chneukirchen/styleguide/blob/master/RUBY-S... . My fork: http://github.com/Pistos/styleguide/blob/master/RUBY-STYLE
I also use FL Studio. http://vezquex.com/#music
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I do not normally submit YouTube videos, however this one caused a lump to be stuck in my throat. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOhf3OvRXKg
Yeah, they're all pretty early adopter, although worth it if you're feeling enough pain from data size and/or volume. A couple recent articles on Cassandra:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813528
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813919

(I work for Rackspace on the Cassandra project, and we are in the early stages of deploying Cassandra internally too.)
Among other abilities, dogs can use "fast-mapping" to learn new words. They are very well adapted to learning commands from humans.

https://ideotrope.org/index.pl?node_id=36839
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The article seems to suggest that understanding pointing is genetically tied to being friendly. This, if true, is incredibly bizarre, isn't it?
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This is a link to a Word document. WTF? Do people still write those things?
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I use FL Studio. I'm a total amateur. A lot of it is pretty bad, but it's fun to write. http://johnfn.newgrounds.com/audio/
is it me or has the history channel gotten more and more out there with their definition of "history"?

i personally found the "holy grail in america" show to be just a bunch of sensationalist conspiracy theory talk.. 15 minutes of wikipedia-ing shows how out implausible most of the theory that they mentioned is
> unless you have enough failover that it is unthinkable that you could have cassandra lose data

That's pretty much the idea. Cassandra makes replication + failover totally seamless, so there's no excuses in that respect. :) Cassandra also supports replicating across multiple data centers.
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I have no idea what wave is. I keep hearing about it and follow up by purposefully avoiding learning anything about it.

I figure if its really really good, it will simply work it's way into my life somehow without any effort on my part.
According to the "Richest man in Babylon" its very relevant to have experience on any field before starting up a business
Anyone with commercial success?
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You provide all your banking information to mint and they give you one credit/debit card and this card works with all your accounts. Based on the type of expense you can set rules on the server which actual account to use.
This is more of a feature request
I quit my last job because of pair programming. I absolutely cannot think with another person sitting next to me at a desk. It's the absolute worst experience I've ever had as a developer.
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On flights from LA to Mumbai and back, I read this new book that uses the Natural Language ToolKit (NLTK). NLTK is written in Python and interfaces with the Python programming language. I was so impressed with the book as an accessible and enjoyable introduction to the subject matter that I made a podcast detailing my review of the book. The podcast can be found at href="http://www.awaretek.com/python"
seconded, its the kind of truth that hurts
Oak Island is not that far from where I live, it's been pretty much stripped clean. This has been going on for decades.

Farther north east over in Newfoundland is where the Vikings had a settlement and there are some clues up north; Labrador and Nunavut, in the form of stone carvings of hooded monks with Celtic cross symbols.

Add to that the Clovis culture in the eastern USA and I'd say people have been in eastern US/Canada many times over the last few thousand years, before the native people arrived.
First of all, I just gave your tracks a listen. I think they are fantastic.

Second, t61 changed the song upload rules a few weeks ago. You can upload one new song a day regardless of your level.

I think the best way to increase your listener and heart count is to be as engaged as possible.

- Create a listener account.

- Join a group. The Electro Freaks would appreciate what you are offering http://www.thesixtyone.com/group/Electro+Freaks/

- Add constructive comments on lots of songs.
before the native people arrived.

I home you meant after the native people arrived.
There are a couple linear-time selection algorithms, some randomized and some not. An example of the latter is described here ( http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/161/960130.html ). The constant factor is non-trivial here (<= 24n comparisons for this one) but for large datasets it will eventually be faster than sorting.
Ok, it really is a good book, accessible to any programmer, even if you don't already know Python. I find natural language to be fascinating and this book is thought provoking. It covers symbolic logic, the lambda calculus, statistical techniques of speech recognition, and offers very practical and clear Python code snippets to show how to use the NLTK. I was too lazy to write a review but I did record my thoughts in the podcast at href="http://www.awaretek.com/python
I hope you meant HOPE not HOME. ;)
There isn't a project page I can point you at yet, but I'll submit it here soon. Feel free to email me if you think you missed the post.
That seems like pretty heavy engineering for a pirate crew.
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Is Meebo really "the jackpot"? Their service which seems, at best, marginally useful, and I despise the name. How on Earth they spent $38 million re-inventing the web-based chat wheel is a mystery to me.
Uhh.. RK.. hormesis isn't just about radiation.. it's about all kinds of toxic substances.
Sometimes we forget that art is a medium for changing the world. Technology that helps build and spread art, like YouTube, should be embraced.
is it me or has the history channel gotten more and more out there with their definition of "history"?

Sadly, it seems to be the norm these days: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NetworkDecay
What's up with the disclaimer?

"stuckk.net is a blog by Andrew Wansley and Joe Huston. We are contractually required to post 750 words a week."

Anyone ever see that on a blog before?
This is by far the most amazing story telling I have ever came across.
The Law of VIM
The Law of VIM:

For each member b of the possible behaviour space B of program P, there exists a finite time t before which at least one user u in the total user space U of program P will request b becomes a member of the allowed behaviour space B' ( B' <= B). -- Negri

Came across at http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/quotes.html
How do you make pre-commit vetting of code quality scale, especially on a low headcount, high velocity team?

Make sure to hire only top notch. Vetting goes faster when everybody knows what they are doing (yes, this is sort of a "duh!").

Without impacting the weekly velocity numbers that people not involved in said code reviews are used to seeing?

No idea what "weekly velocity" is or who is making that number up in your company but I suggest to start measuring in months and quarters for a tangible idea of effectiveness. Forest, Trees.
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I'd disagree with this, but I do think it's important to understand the limitation of what you can learn in a corporate environment.

My path was the opposite of many people: I worked for 2 startups, founded one, am now working for a big company, and hope there's another startup in my future. Google was the first company I've worked where I didn't have to set up the build system. And naturally, Google's build system is better than anything I've ever set up.

When you work for a big company, you get to draw on the accumulated wisdom of thousands of people that have come before you. A lot of things that seem obvious once you've looked at them - like how to organize your code, or how to design C++ programs with clear object ownership, or how to unit test libraries with lots of dependencies - require lots of laborious trial and error to get right before yourself. Many startups are filled with people that are fairly new to programming (because that's all they can get) and don't have that experience. You can easily go through several jobs thinking that SourceSafe and zip files count as a version control system, it's normal for functions to be 400 lines long, and deployment consists of FTPing a JARfile to the production servers.

The weakness in big companies is that you don't see all the false steps that led to these "best practices" being instituted. So you might leave and found a startup thinking that you absolutely must have 100% unit test coverage for everything, because that's the way things were in your 100+ person division in the old company. Or you might go too far in the other direction, and think that you don't have time to setup a decent build system. It takes experience - in both environments that have them and those that don't - to understand the particular circumstances where "best practices" are really best practices.

IMHO, the ideal career setup for founding a startup is to intern at startups in high school & college, then work for a fast grower or big company for a couple years afterwards. (And start lots of little companies while you're in classes, of course. ;-)) Startups typically demand more from interns than big companies do, because there's more to do, and you also get to see firsthand all the problems caused by inadequate development practices. And then you can see things done right at a big company, with enough time to actually dive into the meat of it. You still probably won't succeed with your first company (almost nobody does), but at least this'll expose you to what both success and failure looks like.
This is my band: http://www.themintchicks.com/

We're pretty successful in my home country of New Zealand. We've won awards and had a gold record. We're now based in Portland, OR and getting a little bit happening there.

We use Pro-tools mostly, with some Logic for it's bank of sounds and I made the video on that homepage with Toonboom, Photoshop and Motion.
He complained about you?
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Yeah, because the most likely thing for pirates to do when they come into a bundle of loot is sail to the middle of nowhere and spend a few years engineering crafty traps beneath which they will permanently store their cash.

Outside of novels, movies and video games, pirates didn't bury their spoils: They spent it. The only treasure to be found in stories like these comes out of the pockets of the gullible souls who search for it.
a bit expensive, but looks nice
Of course, the "eating" in my analogy isn't the point, which was merely to demonstrate that you're confusing different uses of the word "love."

But, yeah, I obviously should have chosen a different example :)
'weekly velocity' is the Agile expression for the number of high-quality man hours a person or team can be expected to actually produce.
I read it the same way, but thought, "well duh."
I think what you want is someone who can do both the interaction design and the front-end coding - they have skills in making things look pretty, but can also write enough JavaScript/Python/C++/whatever needed to interface with the backend. Someone like Eric Costello of Flickr or Glen Murphy of Google Chrome.

My ideal founding team would have three members: a frontend engineer/designer, a backend engineer, and a business/marketing person. I think this is basically what Seth was saying, and I've also heard the RescueTime founders say that this is a great combination (it's what they have).

I wouldn't really want to go without the business person entirely, simply because somebody has to hold the entire product vision in their head, and the engineers usually have plenty to think about anyway. The tension between "C'mon guys, we can make this better" and "Okay, let's dive in and make this better" seems to be necessary for great creative works. That was really Steve Jobs' role in Apple - as I understand it, he did basically none of the coding. It also helps to have someone take care of all the interruption-driven tasks of running a company - following up on leads, talking to the press, drumming up excitement, getting feedback from potential customers, etc.
Sure looks sweet. I would totally be interested if I had work connections down there. Good luck!
I've got to agree with the 'free exchange' fellows here.

First off, I don't see how I need /more/ advertisements in my life. I guess that we all eventually desensitize to them, but even if advertisements did make it into twitter, everyone uses a client (as far as I can tell, anyway). If the person is using a client, the client can easily filter out any advertisements that are sent. (The clients could make money on advertisements, I don't see how Twitter itself could). I guess the other problem is that it would be kind of creepy if twitter interjected comments into my 140 character text messages.

So, the other thing that they could make money on is the data. But it seems like there are a lot of easy ways to get at the twitter data without paying twitter for it, it is an open system, so all you have to do is write a bot to follow people or use one of their streaming tweets APIs.

It also seems kind of like twitter would be more effective as a peer to peer model (I don't think I'm the first person to note this). The thing that confuses me a lot about some of these web applications is that personal computers are extremely powerful, yet somehow, we are getting closer and closer to using them as dumb terminals. It seems to me like a lot of wasted resources there. (aside from that twitter can just 'go down' under the current model).

It isn't apparent to me that every good idea is necessarily a cash cow.
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And in the good ol' days, Pamela Anderson topped these charts. (At least on Lycos.)
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Maybe they did it as a way to make sure they both contributed to the blog in a regular fashion?
I've gone the other direction. I have the latest Kindle but I don't bother using it - I read all my Kindle purchases on the Iphone. It's always with me and I love the screen. I would sell it but I think I have to have one active to purchase items for my account.
I just started using this service and completely love it.
why? Are there lots of PHP developers that want ruby libraries?
Because you should get to know someone. And people are not defined entirely by what they do. That'll come in time and you'll get to that topic.
I DJ once a week at a club/lounge. Does that count? :)
Motivated, and really pratical. Thanks!
Here are some trax I wrote for a recent laptop battle; in under three minutes they must get you grooving and/or destroy your future ability to hear bass.

http://davepeck.org/battles-of-yore/

Fruity Loops.
Blank page for me
Must be the story behind this book: http://www.prestonchild.com/books/riptide/
Gotta say, thesixtyone.com is my new favourite site! And that's speaking both as a listener and an artist. I've bought 3 albums in the past week from t61 artists.

I'm going to get everyone I can hooked on it! :)
It does seem noteworthy that nobody in this story ever finds any actual money in the so-called "money pit", or even a hint that there is money. It's like a 200-year-old game of telephone: "someone said that someone said that there's money at the bottom of the pit!"

Incidentally, and yet again, Wikipedia is a much better source than the original submission:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island

On Wikipedia they tell a really funny story about a stone that was allegedly found in the pit, with "symbols" that turned out to be a "cipher message" that alluded to Tons of Money lying somewhere below. The stone later disappeared, of course. Shucks. Why does that always seem to happen to these mysterious cipher stones that only one person can read? Maybe some angels took the stone up to heaven so that we wouldn't find the Holy Grail. Or something.

Wikipedia also alludes to an important hypothesis, itself dating back to 1911: The "money pit" was a natural sinkhole, the early excavators' discoveries of "man-made platforms" were the product of starry-eyed optimism, and (conveniently!) the site eventually became so torn up by treasure hunters that nobody will ever be able to reconstruct what was originally there. And so the game of telephone will continue into the indefinite future.
http://monorail42.googlepages.com/ made with python ;p
Does this mean my dog is stupid (or reverting back to the wild) because he can't follow a pointed finger? He just does the stare-at-your-finger thing.
apparently mathematicians use them. extremely smart ones.
It certainly has tilted in the direction of entertainment over education. It's unfortunate because I do believe there's an audience for serious content. Like most these things days there are much better resources online. The History Channel (like the Discovery Channel and others) exist for people who are curious but not curious enough to step away from the TV.
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Whoops, sorry about that. I've now calmed down the script and (significantly) limited the number of iterations.

There is a small blinking orange square in the top left-hand corner of the page that should start the cascade if you click or hit any key. May only work in FF atm.
I was raised Christian. Around the end of college, I had a bit of a quarter-life crisis, and I ended up applying reason to my religion in the way talked about in this article. I joined a Christian missionary organization, and was determined to "go therefore in to all the world and preach the gospel to all nations", one of the typically semi-ignored Christian commands.

I was also convinced that it would be a good idea to prove that the key disputed points of Christianity were in fact correct. I went on skepticsannotatedbible.com and the Atheism sub-reddit and compiled a list of arguments to refute. I couldn't refute enough of them, and so found myself in a conundrum. I ended up choosing to live in the real world.

Most of my close friends, however, are still from the Christian communities I used to frequent. I prod and poke them mentally a little bit. Its amazing to me how Christians can justify almost anything, as long as their community mostly agrees with them. I have a group of friends who go to church multiple times per week, and have no problems sleeping with their boy/girlfriends. I have gay Christian friends, Christian friends who are bartenders, etc. My parents would be livid.

Anyhow, I just wanted to point out that when I think back about my life so far, the part of it that scares me, was when I took my religion and decided that I had to take it seriously and do something.
http://www.purevolume.com/drugshit - straight edge/hardcore band I play drums in. Recorded in one take by our friend. Lately I've been recording more life stuff with a zoom h2 and I am really happy with that.
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Or what if the good work you did contributed quite positively to the business, but in a way that wasn't directly connected via the dots back to you. For instance, what if you write a kick-ass piece of software that doubles the sales team's efficiency, but no manager ever gets farther than congratulating the sales team on a miraculous performance because the believe nothing behind the scenes changed. What if they continue to believe this, in spite of your appeals that it was your software that helped the sales force along?

A company managed this way is a company that will have little left but a sales and marketing force eventually, because the executive staff will have pruned everyone else as being redundant. Arguably, this could happen even in a shrinkwrapped software company, where the software isn't just a vital part of the business, it is the only part.

Hire someone incompetent, or see someone incompetent get hired above you, you may find you'll be made "redundant" even if you are the last developer hacking on the product. It is employment at the will of your employer, and nothing says they can't terminate you due to their own incompetence.
In your case would you be willing to pay for a 3G data plan for the Touch (presumably along with a separate plan for your BB?) Probably a really limited market for that type of expense for mobile data. Lots of people have a hard time justifying one $30/month data plan. I think it would make more sense for Apple to offer the iPhone on multiple carriers and carrier competition would take care of the rest. Someone would offer an iPhone with a data-only contract probably with some tie-in on Pay-As-You voice minutes.