skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be difficult to implement in javascript, I think. Once you zoom in far enough using a float/double doesn't give you enough precision to calculate each pixel accurately. The typical solution is to switch to some sort of bignum library. That's going to be really slow in javascript.

In general though, infinite zoom mandelbrot programs do exist (don't know of any off the top of my head though), they're just trickier to implement.
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If anyone can tell me how to have a proper Debug/Release App.Config for an Azure Worker Role? I've tried all sorts of voodoo magic and hand editting ccproj files. It's a joke.
Solution: C#
Another interesting social project from the same person http://candychang.com/post-it-notes-for-neighbors-2/
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Because piracy doesn't start with "Pil".
I spent a few years working for BigCo, and the one thing I learned there was an appreciation for rollback scripts.

every single change had to be accompanied by a full and tested rollback script, and given often the deployment was messy (lots of integration/hardware mixes/etc) writing these was difficult and time consuming. ... but, they saved my arse on more than on occasion.

moral of the story: always have a backout plan. Stuff goes wrong. not often, and if you're good, then rarely, but when it does you need a way out.
If you don't understand what's wrong, you've never seen/used/experienced the beauty that is capistrano deployment.
Gravity is not a force; gravity is a hoax. I am glad that physics establishment finally is realizing this: http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/dear-physicist/
Most of the companies you cite make on the order of dollars per transaction. It's easy to build out infrastructure to handle that volume when you're making that kind of money.
Can someone here confirm this is actually working for them? (Paste an image from the clipboard, send the email, check that the inline image was actually attached)

It appears to me that FF4 is merely displaying the clipboard image in the rteditor in draft mode, but it is not actually attached to the email when sent.
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This is the least scary way you could write "Die" on a wall 81 times.
Eric Evans' "Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software" blew my mind. Domain modeling gets to the heart of object-oriented programming. The book is a bit academic and long-winded, but very deep and complete. This is an immediate classic and required reading for any serious engineer.
Because more programmers != more productivity. Brook's Law, etc.
Interesting question. I think it should be the company that use it, but Amazon can collect those taxes with its fees and pass them on, like with sales tax.
UpOut: Discover and share awesome things to do. Discover, post and follow stuff to do in your city.

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hrm, site and shirts have been pulled down...
Groupon Started as ThePoint-- for anyone who wanted to do a tipping point style campaign for anything.

Focus and then expand-- don't try to boil the ocean. Think Amazon (books first), Craigslist (SF first), Facebook (college kids first). How you position at first doesn't lock you down.
I didn't for me. Looking in my sent box the message had an inline stream rather than an attachment:

<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/7QAcUGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNBAQAAAAAAAD/2wBDAAMCAgICAgMCAgIDAwMDBAcEBAQEBAgGBgUHCgkKCg...
Read the paper in full -- it doesn't say anything that supports the article's conclusion. It studies a small population of kids at one school, and finds a very slight average improvement on some test scores. That's it.

The Science article is fine for what it is, but it's hardly the evidence that Montessori schools produce disproportionate numbers of billionaires. Based on the data provided, you can't even rule out the possibility that the teachers at the one school in question were just better than average.
Ok, but something doesn't jive here. When people complain that it's hard to retain/find talent, are they seriously complaining about how hard it is to find developers who've been hacking since single-digit age?
I'd write the code in Python (or indeed any sensible modern language).

foo = {}
Poll: Did you get into YC for S11?
Please only respond if you applied so that we can get as much of an accurate count as possible.

Also if you want to share your start-up and why you think you did/did not make it that would be quite useful too.
Yes. And no.

1) is pretty straightforward, and I think you understand it correctly.

Obviously, we're not currently serving ads, and it's not even on the "to do" list at the moment. Should we decide to put it on the list, there's about 79 different ways we could do it; it would presumably be in our interest to choose an approach that works well for our developer partners.

With respect to (2), your description is incomplete; perhaps you missed the key phrase that demonstrates our real intent. That phrase, at the beginning of the term you're referencing, says "In cases where the (video chat service) is the primary basis of the advertising sale..."; only in those cases are we interested in compensation.

You summarized this as "I have to share an unknown portion of the app revenue with tokbox". That is untrue. We make no claim whatsoever to "app revenues" (which could presumably include things like premium service subscription fees, membership fees, usage fees, etc.).

With respect to ad revenues, we are only interested in ads where the video chat is the primary basis of the sale.

For instance, if you build a dating site, or a gaming site, or a recruiting site that includes video chat as a face-to-face communication channel that augments the underlying activity, and the underlying activity is the basis for the advertising, we're not interested.

But at the other extreme, if you take OpenTok, slap a logo and 18 lines of JavaScript around the service in order to build a vanilla video chat service, and then sell advertising on top of that, then yes, we may want to talk about that.

Bottom line: we're not in the business of trying to trap you or trick you. Frankly, it's not a business model that scales, and it never has been.

We're doing our best to make something pretty cool available to you, at a pretty darned aggressive price point (ie. free), in the hopes that you will build pretty cool apps and together we can change the web.

We're interested in seeing as many cool apps out there as we possibly can. And yes, we're also protecting ourselves from being someone's patsy. You would too, were you in our shoes.
This has been a Gmail Labs for a long while... I have it enabled for all 3 of my gmail accounts for a while now.
This is a big step forward for Gmail. Now if they could just add some simple mail merge functionality, that would be another super-useful feature.
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It would be interesting to know what they plan to do. It's easy to speculate l. It would be much more interesting to see ocaml on the jvm
Actually, it covers all implementors (the community promise does, that is).
"Hence, if someone intercepted my hash, it's the same situation as if they looked in /etc/passwd on a multi-user Unix system."

Except that now the hash is your password, as far as the system is concerned. If someone intercepted your hash they could just pass the hash off to the site and they have full access. This isn't quite as bad as accessing the plain-text password (which potentially is shared across multiple sites) but it's still bad.

Also, there's an easy workaround for this problem, using SSL for login.
Or without the redirect callback: http://cloudharmony.com/mydns
Yeah I'm aware of that. Above I pointed out that the XX was possibly coming and would have Saturn V level payload capability. The Saturn V is a giant rocket and needed to be that big to ship a bunch of stuff in one launch in order to beat the Russians rather than longer term plans involving using smaller rockets with smaller payloads and assembling things in orbit. Right now there is less point to going to the moon again rather than Mars but there is still the issue of assemble a big payload in orbit from small parts sent in modest ships or send a medium payload in one big giant freaking rocket. The Mars rovers and such were very tiny lightweight payloads compared to sending a human contingent to Mars, and even with the XX's payload, it is still barely enough to send a Mars crew and ship. So the issue remains. I only mentioned "without a space station stop" because I thought that people were going to otherwise jump on me with commentary about "yes but what about a space station stop then you can have smaller rockets". By mentioning "without" I had hoped to avoid needed to have that debate. I was not expecting to have the opposite debate and sorely wish I had said nothing at all and kept the link to the XX to myself now.

But now that we are having to have this talk, personally I think multiple ships assembled are still the way to go. A one-shot XX launch means not enough weight for proper radiation shielding, and enough food and spare parts to make it all the way there is a problem, and enough space to prevent the astronauts from killing each other is also an issue. We still have to have enough fuel to get there and land even if there is a bunch of fuel on site waiting in pods both in orbit and on the surface. The Dragon capsule is not really big enough to prevent mission failure from mass homicide en route, something considerable larger, and larger than the XX can lift in one go with fuel and food and water is needed to avoid this.

The space assembly step doesn't have to be something done in a giant station over a period of months. It can be send 4 modules up one after another, dock them together and go. We assembled two space ships together en route to Luna using this method on the Apollo mission. Adding a few more modules isn't a big deal, if we could assemble (not build from scratch) stuff in space 40 years ago, we can do it again now.
Works fine here on both chrome 12 and ff4 on ubuntu.
Whenever a company incurs a material event, it must be publicly reported in fairly short order in SEC filings. A $150 million outlay? That would seem material even for Google.

No it's not - employee compensation is an ongoing expense. You don't see Goldman Sachs doing disclosure everytime someone gets a bonus!

Anyway, Google discloses stock grants every quarter.

Stock-Based Compensation (SBC) – In the fourth quarter of 2010, the total charge related to SBC was $396 million, compared to $276 million in the fourth quarter of 2009.

We currently estimate SBC charges for grants to employees prior to January 1, 2011 to be approximately $1.6 billion for 2011. This estimate does not include expenses to be recognized related to employee stock awards that are granted after December 31, 2010 or non-employee stock awards that have been or may be granted.

http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q4_google_earnings....
Snipping tool (Vista/7) has similar functionality, I keep it pinned to start menu, though more often than now I use Alt + PrintScrn to just copy the active window to clipboard.
Yeah, you're right about Fortran, my mistake. I actually skipped that chapter because I've never written Fortran. I did read the other chapters, paying particular attention to languages I've used at least a bit (Haskell, Java, C++ from that list.)

Like I said also, I agree with a lot of the premises. I just think the essay is overly positioned as "C is the best hammer" when a better essay might be "Use the right tool, C is a powerful tool. Here is how to use C like a craftsman, here are some good ways to use C you might not have thought of."

It's definitely not a piece for beginners

Who is it for? (I mean this in the most respectful way possible, I'm actually not sure.)
My experience covers parents who make an active choice about where their kids go to school versus those who don't. Both my parents were teachers and youth group leaders. We therefore interacted with more parent/kid combos than most people do.

Pick a sizable group of kids selected to indicate strong parental interest in how the children learn. For example, kids whose parents at any point considered homeschooling them. You'll see above average scores, even if, in fact, the child in question ended up never being home schooled. The selected trait seems to be simply parental interest in the child's learning.

Curiously, the Wikipedia article on Montessori claims among randomly selected/rejected applicants, the selectees performed better. That would seem to eliminate other variables. But it also says any difference was gone again by age 12, quite a few years before the successes cited in the link.

I suspect that given the right home environment, it's not that Montessori makes your kid smarter, but that generic grade schools make your kid dumber until the age children manifest individuality. Also see "Outliers" for thoughts on how arbitrary performance and learning measurements seem in grade school as a function of birth month versus school year.
Killer Innovations - a pretty good listen for ways to look at problems and keep innovating

Automate my Small Business - to hear interesting ways to put parts of your bis on auto pilot

Manager Tools - to learn how to manage the team you are building

NPR Planet Money - to know what is happening in the economy and how it might affect me and my bis
Has it? I've specifically checked for it on a number of occasions. I've seen the ability to drag and drop images there, but not paste a screenshot from clipboard.
That's how RSU's work, though. AFAIK. grellas is right that there's a difference between restricted stock and restricted stock units (which in practise have a tiny, fractional price of the actual market value).
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Native e-mail clients still have the advantage of working with any e-mail server, including those that don't serve ads based on analyzing my e-mails.

The whole local e-mail folder can be backed up to your favourite online backup if you feel that it's not safe to keep just a local copy.
Also, I didn't mean to suggest the author is necessarily a myopic programmer who believes that now he or she knows C... - just that the way this essay is positioned, I see it as appealing strongly but superficially to such programmers.
Researching and playing with different crowd sourcing options like Mechanical Turk to see what all I can use them for school, work and life.
Would love your comments and thoughts!
Can you verify it actually works on the recipient side? I actually just tried send it out and found that the email actually ate up the image and it was not showing up.

I may have jumped the gun here...
And you were right.
Is not working for me. I also use Google for my domain, if that matters.
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Wish we had this in our city pluse I like the idea the othe guy said about having a time lapse that would be really neat great work.
Lot of people in my height weight range probably. I already see all the cells in and around that range filled.
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I'm not sure if that's true. Many of their use case examples seem to display the data from user's streams, meaning that it's not just analysis.
I've used NAnt to build/deploy happily for years. I suppose it depends on each project or application's particular context.

I will say this: If there's some kind of requirement where Dev1 will overwrite Dev2's changes on the target server, especially if we're talking about production, then you're probably doing it wrong. We never deploy from a developer's box or ad-hoc copying of files. Anything that needs to be deployed needs to be in source control, and needs to be deployed from the build box. I don't care if someone forgot an ASCX template and it takes a half hour to redo the whole thing.
Any of the books by the IDEO folks is great.

Masters of Innovation
The Art of Innovation

I find also though that books are harder to fit in lately and podcasts work better.
1) they can be listened to on the commute to work, at the gym, etc
2) they are more incremental
3) they keep going - so when you find one that is good you can take a really deep dive with it for a while
Startup job with no previous experience or developer background
Please help
Disappointed by the lack of demo.
Nope I haven't. Guess I'll just keep pressing my one step VS.Net publish button in blissful ignorance :).
Minimalism in what sense?
Cloud Haskell: Erlang inspired concurrency library from MS Research
See http://candychang.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/before... - it clearly reads "PIRACEY"...
I am with you. I've just written powershell scripts that work in the following manner.

1. Make a dated folder and copy the new build to the folder on all servers.
2. Point IIS to the folder on all servers.

Just in case a backup powershell script is kept. It works by just pointing to the previous dated folder of the build.

Not sure why this is such an issue. Solutions can get complicated and I don't think any tool can work properly in all scenarios especially when downtime is a concern. Thats why scripts exist.

Currently my solution is on Amazon, and if there was a way I'd integrate the load balancer with the scripts so that when a server is being updated load balancer doesn't send requests to it. However IIS is fast enough so this is just part of a wishlist.
Any especially good ones you care to mention?
Do you mean using the *.config transform system, or something else?
How long 'til someone creates a cool site with this idea? I bet less than a week..
Sinatra gone async with em-fiber_pool and em_mysql2.
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A company hiring H1-B workers must show that they're paying average+ wages for the position [1]. They need not disclose actual salaries paid to individuals, nor are they precluded from paying above market rate.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1b

Employers must attest that wages offered are at least equal to the actual wage paid by the employer to other workers with similar experience and qualifications for the job in question, or alternatively, pay the prevailing wage for the occupation in the area of intended employment, whichever is greater.
It is worth noting that a nickname for "browser stealth mode" is "porn mode".
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Same here. Looking at the email source the MIME looks like it should work, but for some reason clients aren't interpreting it as HTML.

Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd3282edb3e4e04a04d2812

--000e0cd3282edb3e4e04a04d2812
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

--000e0cd3282edb3e4e04a04d2812
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<img src=3D"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABJ8AAAQaCAIAAABik=
k5NAAAgAElEQVR4nOzdd1QbZ77wcZK9e7O7d7PZTbmbZN+N49gG9xLHveACmOYKGIONe6V3MO42=
You need MSIs and PSExec. It's the best deployment system I've used. The MSI configures your server, alerts you to missing dependencies, ngen's your DLLs and loads them into the GAC. If you tag your MSIs with the build number you've also got easy rollback.

There are a couple gotchas that generally require writing an MSI helper DLL but it's no biggie. The only PITA is that if you precompile during the build stage you have to know the path of the application in advance.

Then you just use a little VBScript to let PSExec work it's magic. Maybe I should put together an MSI that installs all the stuff you need to make it work.

Email me if you want some help setting up an MSI / PSExec based deploy system.
Old school energy is doing a lot of hiring in parts of the country at places like Siemens.
Honeycomb is a change in strategy, no matter what Andy Rubin says
I'm in college, 20 years old. I've just started teaching myself ruby and python. Do you think I would be able to develop crude prototypes of apps by the time I graduate college? (in about 2 years?) I've been dedicating around 6-10 hours ever week so far and plan to dedicate more once summer starts.
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What if Amazon is not accounting the emissions while billing them?
I think your solution is the mishmash of products (to paraphrase) that the author of the article describes.

It's absolutely possible to do this, and do it well (the company I worked for previously did it for years before finally moving to capistrano), but the point is, that means every dev team in every company is spending precious time figuring out how to do this, writing the code, testing it, debugging it etc. When the developer who wrote it gets hit by a bus, someone has to go through his/her code and learn it so that it can be maintained.

The alternative would be to have a standardized tool (like capistrano) that is commonly used.
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UI fading into the background. Working things around so that there are fewer User preferences. Default desktop themes which are sober and not overly jazzy.
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I just posted an update with some findings - basically, those "3D" and =\r\n characters that something is adding (somewhere in Gmail) are messing everything up. We're this close to a working version of this...
Gosh that is an extremely nice post. Very rational and puts in words a lot of good points clearly and concisely. Please make more of them, your contributions raise the bar here.
That is actually a correct way of creating an image inline and should work, but Gmail or something in Firefox is adding extra characters into the mix and messing everything up. See the update in the article.
Yes. The existing ones don't work inside of the Azure packaging and upload process. At least not when invoked through Visual Studio.
There is no labs project like that. You're correct - I've been also checking for ages.
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What I have in the room with me:

1. Modern Algebra by John R. Durbin

2. Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser

3. Machine Learning - An Algorithmic Perspective by Stephen Marsland (not quite on the same level as the above two, but still pretty solid)

I think Tanenbaum's Operating System and Appel's Compilers books both go in this category too, they're big but not compared to their subject matter. But, I've seen enough people disappointed in both to think this is more my personal opinion at play.
Right you are, good sir. Right you are.
Back in the day, a company I worked for had a very “manual” deploy process—basically, whoever deployed it (me) had to be sure to follow a 7 step process to the letter, or else Bad Things Would Happen. One time, I accidentally skipped a step or two, and Bad Things were happening, and to make it worse, I couldn't figure out what they were.

There was, however, a working version of the code sitting in the directory alongside this horrifically broken monster. I knew the configs were correct because they had been working not 5 minutes ago, and I hadn't changed them. So I updated a symlink (this was on Linux/Apache, but it would apply on IIS/Windows too), and everything was happy again, though using a slightly older codebase.