Absolutely. Would definitely be interested in hearing more about it.

This is the documentation for the development version of IPython. I don't think they care that they're "missing out on installs" by releasing documentation about what's changed in version 1.0

However, if you'd like to try out IPython 1.0, it's an open source project. You can checkout the latest code at https://github.com/ipython/ipython

I think the closest I've seen to something like that is https://workflowy.com/ or Emacs' Org mode

That sounds really interesting. Could you describe how you do that a bit more?

Sure. The simplest approach is to use a naive Bayesian classifier (you can find a bunch of open source implementations).

In my app, I actually track client-side actions -- essentially, clicks, but with more context. Anyway, you can treat a single user session like you would the text of an email, where the "actions" are the words.

From there, all you need to do is capture a bunch of sessions and tell the classifier which users are not strong computer users and which know what they're doing, passing the corresponding "documents".

Now you can feed in new documents and determine which of your users know what they're doing, and which aren't really computer users.

(It my experience, people fall into one of those two camps.)

I have done something similar before but also measured which content was being consumed. Are they readers, listeners, or watchers?

Eventually, you can pretty easily detect the best way to approach each potential client from a marketing perspective.

We've been thinking about a lot of the same things you mention here. Send us an email at team@heapanalytics.com, I'd love to chat some time.

So who else got a ticket, but then timed out at the payment screen?

I managed to find 3 academic tickets, and all of those timed out when I tried to pay for them.

one of my co-workers did. He ended up closing the google Wallet popup 4 times and re-trying the payment and was able to get through.

I had this as well, but the payment was ultimately declined.

What would you recommend?

Just a heads up: this isn't the latest template according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4953872

If you're looking to do a LxTHW, you should contact Zed to get the latest base structure.

Edit: Also, if you want to write a Learn X The Hard Way you should read this post about how to do it (http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1288945508.html)

No, this is now the latest template. That's what I'm using in all my books now, and it's coming from a more advanced project for writing music books http://orkestrix.org/

My goal was, if I could write about code and music at the same time, then making a build system for books would be easy. The above is the end result of that work. Enjoy.

Orkestrix is nice.

I understand you don't want to use LilyPond because it is too complex, but you may want to know that LilyPond comes with a tool to convert from ABC to LilyPond (abc2ly). One could use it to write the music examples in ABC and have LilyPond typeset them. I'd consider using a setup like this to typeset the "final" version since LilyPond's typography is so nice.

As others have stated, this probably isn't the best way to do a survey. At the very least, you're going to have some bias from posting this on HN late at night (in the US).

If you want a more representative answer to the question "How do companies hire?", I'd recommend using Google Consumer Surveys (http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home)

You'll be able to survey a much larger audience, get more responses, and have statistically significant results. In addition, Google has a nice dashboard which lets you compare answers according to various demographic information such as gender, age, location, income, etc.

Then you should check out http://try.github.com/

My experience with LabVIEW, for the brief amount of time I worked with it for our high school robotics team, was slightly frustrating. I liked the dataflow paradigm, and to some degree the dashboard system, but connecting and managing the "wires" was a pain. Especially since I'm more comfortable/faster with a keyboard than I am with a mouse.

It also seemed to be harder to read and understand the flow of the code, which made debugging a pain sometimes. I remember struggling to figure out why my code wasn't working, only to find out I had used 1 instead 1.0 as a constant. The only indicator of the data type was a thin colored border around the box.

LabVIEW seems to do a great job as a kind of Visual Basic for scientists and engineers, but I'd probably find it frustrating to spend any substantial amount of time programming with it.

I understand the frustration. I've run into from a few of my students on the FTC teams that I mentor in my neighborhood. I think that this can be attributed to a lack of really great educational material (there is good stuff out there, but it can be hard to find when the build season really picks up), but on the flip side, I've seen kids in elementary school pick up the basics of dataflow programming, especially when working with the NXT-G software that comes with the Mindstorms NXT.

It's definitely a tool and one should always use the best tool for the job. Sometimes the best tool is not necessarily the one with the most suited features, but the one that you're most adept at using. Either way, thanks for the input, really. It helps a lot to understand what people walk away with when they use a product you've been a part of, and I love that HN users are honest and gracious in their feedback. Cheers.