skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my point of view, it's down to a combination of good marketing and 'right place at the right time'.

I've never heard of twisted - but I feel like I'm getting in on the ground floor with node. Additionally, I was positively salivating to learn a new language when it started 'emerging'.

I think part of it comes down to the fact that I was already very comfortable with Javascript, so I started with node.js knowing that I at least knew some of the basics ... and thank got I did, because programming in node is very different from what I'm used to.

It's sometimes difficult to know which lines of code are blocking and which aren't.
> Can one change history simply by deciding to view it differently, somehow?

It's often the case that history is not repeated as a mere sequence of events, but also as an interpretation as to _why_ those events occurred, and how factors at the time contributed to their occurrence.

Maybe we can admit that their is then also an element of conditioning to history as well as one of 'fact'?
"There's a board, there's rules, and it plays. However ask any serious player about the game, and you'll discover very quickly that there is far more to the game then just the board and how the pieces move."

If by "far more", you mean "following these rules can result in any one of a large combination of outcomes, and at any given point it's nearly impossible to keep them all in your head", I agree.

If you're talking about the thrill of it, that's external to the game: it's human feelings and human interactions. Which is exactly what a materialistic view of the universe would dismiss as illusory.
James Gleick's The Information has a good description of those people, and is a great read otherwise as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/03...
I've worked as a contractor at apple and that interior courtyard can't be reached without having a working badge. Outsiders have to get a temp badge and be escorted.

When you're inside, everyone you encounter will be an Apple employee or contractor and not random people off the street. Which could be a problem for Apple, because there are tons of tourists that come by to have their picture taken. You really don't want these people bugging your employees.

And the cafe is completely open to the courtyard with no badging. You can't have an open campus and have the cafe open to the outside without a controlled outdoor space.

And it adds to the whole idea that this is an exclusive group of people. Which I always felt working there as a contractor. You're in but you're not as in as other people. I'm sure this is a very deliberate thing and it does work on many people.

Anyway, I've always wanted a house where you be in nature but be just as secure as you are in your house. I was in one house where the interior courtyard had trees and all the walls were glass inside. It was awesome. Sleeping outside would be just as safe as sleeping inside, except for the stray ninja attacks, of course.
The idea is that there are always too many facts and data, and it's a history textbook's job to present a curated set of information that forms an easy to understand narrative.

This often means that perspectives from less influential / marginalized groups are downplayed or even ignored.

Much of postmodernist history is about recognizing that this always happens and that there are always multiple perspectives to a historical event.
First a question:
Do you also think to categorize/tag the posts (give user the opportunity to choose the tags) (eg: the Q&A section in linkedin)?

Use case:
If there are categories, you can (optionally) show user's strengths in the profile page. (eg: user has posts under "DIY stuff", "cooking", "gadgets", "coding" ....)

With that profile, I also would like to see the average thank-rate of the user, and see his other most thanked posts that might interest me.

Ranking:
I'm not sure about the ranking, but you may consider to provide also "top" lists for the categories, so I can also the most appreciated posts of a domain/category of my interest

Finally:
If there would be a way to see the "top" lists, there also should be a way to prevent abuses by bots/automation etc

There are many other ideas that might be linked to yours, it's worth to give it a try :)
So many places hire an office manager before they hire a permanent designer. It's a twisted perpective for businesses that should be focused on customers.
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Why does a corporation I have no stock in making more money than another corporation I have no stock in make the platform superior?
I love these real scenario articles. It would be interesting to know if this panned out for them. Solutions were provided but I wasn't sure whether they worked.

With the 30 day free trial, I noticed they didn't ask for a credit card. It would definitely help with sign up, but does it help with conversions? Anyone have any experience with that?
You may want to investigate what the halo effect is about. It's not very rational to judge a man as a whole from just one trait.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
Philosophically, I think I prefer this approach to resetting everything.

I'm not sure, however, I'm on board with the idea that you tweak this for every project you work. That would make merging future evolutions of these styles (e.g. when new browser versions are released) a real pain.

It's also a bit disconcerting that the project authors went their separate ways and there are now two projects? Hm.
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It's even harder when you're given a biased view of the facts and don't realize there might be more.

The fact that he doesn't provide -everything- has a plus side in my book: It forces them to seek out more information if they want to have an opinion.
A city where the weather has historically been a major force preventing invasion does not bode well for agriculture!

Oh my God, you are wrong on the INTERNET! I must attempt to help you!

There's PLENTY of agriculture on the same latitude as Moscow, in fact there's plenty of agriculture in and around Moscow. There's no oranges or bananas but wheat and potatoes do just fine in the surprisingly long and hot summers. Just because the winter is also long and bitterly cold, does not automatically imply summer must be short and cold.

Climates are not that simple.
Because pretty much all historical retellings are biased by the author/storyteller. There's both unintentional bias, and intentional bias in how historic events were portrayed.

Here's an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Bloodbath#Christian_t...
A visit to the wikipedia entry on the National Association of Scholars may help you understand the author's perspective.

The first half of this article makes a reasonably convincing case that Mr. Khan is a much worse history teacher than math tutor. The second half of the article makes a totally convincing case that the author understands the Internet worse than Khan understands anything.

I guess in his nightmare scenario the "algorithms of the Internet" will one day cause everyone's web-browsers to redirect every request to one of Mr. Khan's fizzy history lectures where he just glosses right over the moral infallibility of the US, the inherent superiority of western culture, and the fact that Jesus died for your sins. The same algorithms will doubtless prevent the author from creating his own history videos clarifying those topics for people. After all, Mr. Khan appeared on Charlie Rose!
I understand. I used to dual-book my MacBooks because I like the keyboard and trackpad better. I stopped dual booting when Homebrew got good enough for installing lots of open source software on OS X. Also, I have enough Linux servers at hand, that I just use SSH, Emacs, etc. and can really do what I need on Linux from the command line.

Except for rarely booting my Windows 7 laptop, life is simpler using my Mac just with OS X and relying on Linux servers.
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This is very common. By law, a bank is not responsible for theft from commercial bank accounts. Personal accounts however, are protected.

From what I've seen based on other cases:

#1. Never use a small/local bank. These guys are the worst and have generally pathetic or rarely enforced security policies in place.

#2. Do your banking off a boot disk if your not certain about your system's integrity. (Why are you using a questionable machine in the first place is a whole other story.)

#3. Try to avoid letting your business checking account get unnecessarily fat.

The fact is banks lose money. Going back to #1, most of the at risk banks in the United States are the small local ones (The FDIC is still regularly seizing banks.) Forget hackers, you could very well have $300k "stolen" out of your bank account if the FDIC shuts your bank down one Friday afternoon.

If you want to read more about this, I'd recommend krebsonsecurity.com. Brian Krebs has done a great job of covering this issue for quite some time -- in fact he has his own opinion of this court case written up now.
Programmers don't have to code all the time. They could also do product design if so inclined.
> I've got a PHP project at http://fstr.net and its pageloads take about 4 to 5 seconds under normal load.

Whatever language you are using, if loading a page takes >1 second, you are doing something very wrong.

I have built web apps out of shell scripts that perform hundreds of forks and open dozens of files per request, and still easily managed <200ms response times while running on a crappy xen server.
There's safety in small numbers
Alfred Remote iPhone app concept
Even if you are working in a compiled language, you still can't always rely on the compiler.
The compiler will not stop a programmer from writing invalid code, without any tests, and checking it into a repository, where it silently waits for an unsuspecting programmer to discover it months later....

"How do I do what I want here? Aha, someone already wrote ExactlyWhatIWantHere.... WTF, it doesn't even compile? But how is anyone using it? Oh, it's not being used anywhere? How the heck did it get here? Ugh..."
Lulzsec 'wins' hacking challenge. Declines $10k reward
"Needs" to be appreciated why? If appreciation is merely brain chemistry, it's no different from hunger or hate, none of which have any moral value at all, because there is none to be had. Murder and charity and the blowing of the wind: all are meaningless accidents in a purely material universe.

And your description of an afterlife is not at all how I think of it; it sounds quite mercenary. It's more like "spend your time painting as if someone will see it, not as if you will burn it immediately upon finishing."
The iPhone developers, the good ones (e.g. have been Featured in App Store) that I am fortunate to know personally, they're not even touching Android.

Reasons: Unfamiliarity and leaving the comfort zone.

iOS development is comfortable. When you do Android dev, you give up a lot of comfort for raw, unfettered access. It is a rule of thumb when you develop for Android that when you release you will get ANR (Application Not Responding) simply because of the fact that you can't test on more than a few actual devices. I get crash reports from the market site that I can't fathom how they even can happen (stuff like libraries that are statically linked not being found)

And, as an primarily Android dev now, can you imagine giving up Core Data (for all its faults, the latest iOS 5 [redacted] makes it better), Interface Builder (ADT 11 is getting closer but still not close) and even stuff like Objective-C Categories?
I don't see a lot of merit to the "sharing code" idea as the purpose of server side code and client side code are completely different. There are 2 possible exceptions where I can see some use:

1) Utility libraries. I have a clone method I use a lot, an would work equally well in both environments. I'm sure math libraries would be the same way.

2) Models. Maybe. Personally, my server side models contain get and save methods which make database calls. I don't want or need those on the client side. If for no reason other than wasted bandwidth.

* note: I'm a node user, but I don't share any code between server and browser.
How is Saving Private Ryan different from the US schools interpretation of 2nd World War?

How is Call of Duty different than a soldiers account of how a battlefield looked like? They are after all consulting soldiers.

I am not talking about learning historical facts but about growing up in a culture that has a memory of a past. Things that naturally flows between people.

I knew of 2nd world war before I had history, I knew of JFK before I had history. And I am Danish.
I think they changed the policy at some point but it's been that way for at least a year. In my experience with them, they've been quite helpful.
For example.

Also during dinners at family table, chit-chats, watching TV news, reading newspapers, magazines, visiting museums, etc.
"It's hard to imagine that those 'educated' by Khan can take up this work, or if they do, that by the time they become competent, they will regard his videos as anything other than inconsequential in their effort."

It's a starting point. A good starting point is more important than is usually realized. The start Khan gives, you can now do in-depth research into the history to flesh it out. Without a good overview to start with, you can quickly get bogged down in the details and lose all interest.

Lord knows that's how history classes were for me. They'd pick 1 tiny piece of it and give you way too much information to process and remember, then move on to the next and ignore the previous info completely... Until the test.

A good overview would have let things settle a bit before getting into the details.
Looks nice and clean but is github needed for a 3k text file?

(plain text) https://raw.github.com/necolas/normalize.css/master/normaliz...
Clearly the bank's customer has some responsibility here.

But it's not clear that the bank gave its customers the backup they needed in the event that an account is compromised. And accounts will be compromised.

Only the bank can improve the security of large electronic transactions. And if the bank is not held responsible, they have no incentive to do so.
Use Twitter, Chatter or Facebook to manage your enterprise network
Yeah, sorry, obviously I can't read. I would like to downvote myself right now.
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The spaces are shown in the results, but you still have to search without them. "1546g" works. "1546 g" is interpreted as just "1546". Either one should work for searching.
Thanks! More interested in the scraper.. is it open-source? If yes, where can we download it? If not, can you write about your experience in building it?
>entirely self-educated beyond that

This is why he's brilliant.

I myself am a college dropout.

I don't believe in credentialism, but someone foolish enough to think ITT Tech make them useful or proficient has another thing coming.

It demonstrates a lack of judgment more than anything.

The rest of his...material speaks for itself.
There is no shortage of human milk. For every mother that can't produce enough there's a mother dumping extra down the drain. Back when we had functional communities these problems sorted themselves out.
Quantum Physics and Life After Death
I don't think they are the same thing at all. I've been practicing literate programming for a decade now, but my brain still has to switch gears when I go from writing up the English-language description of an algorithm to writing the algorithm. A good description of what an algorithm does (e.g. "This function finds the largest subset of edges in the graph which could be removed without disconnecting the graph") is very very different from the code which does that, and requires very very different kinds of thought.
We both collaborate on this repo and much of it was pulled into Jonathan's original repo (which also contains some of his personal preferences and an additional metrics file).
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I always admire rich men who do not live lavishly. There are more important things than shiny things, and it is heartening to see people who know that, regardless of which culture they come from.
If you actually RTFA, it was the client that was hacked, not the bank. The client's passwords were compromised, and then the bank's services were accessed normally with the compromised passwords.

The client's logic is that the bank should take the loss for this. I know we all hate the banks but seriously? You get hacked and suddenly the service I provide to you being compromised is my fault?

Sorry, the judge is right here.
CSS gets re-written anyway along the way. Resets gives you a leg up in the beginning for a consistent look across browsers so you can focus on other pieces of a project -- at least that's how I use it.
Interesting. Do you now see yourself as deeply engrossed in history and doing the real work necessary to become a competent historian? If so, then your example is a counterpoint to my argument. If not, then we're talking about two different things :)
Beware the Giant Footsteps
I definitely am in the same camp on the "sharing code" argument, but could see careful structuring make models sort-of work. Obviously the basic persistence behavior needs to change, but if you reduce validation and some of the business logic to something more composable/interchangeable you could share it between the two.

Obviously then you'd need some way of distinguishing validation that is only important to one of the two ends from that which is meaningful to both, but I can see it being possible.

That said, I'm still not convinced it's worth it. Especially when you look at the state of libraries in node compared to something like Python/Ruby.
No, because that makes it harder to understand what it's doing. Remember that programming languages are not learned at a very young age and continuously trained for decades the way natural languages are.
I go about 45 minutes each direction on an average day. Sometimes (rarely) as quickly as 35 minutes, but about once a week it'll take between 90 and 110 minutes in one direction. So a good day means 1.5 hours, and a bad day is double that.
I agree with everything you just wrote, but I think you're missing the point of my post. I was just merely giving reasons as to why people shouldn't dismiss the article.
This isn't a reset
Beautiful Code: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046
Who knows what the internal architecture is but it's possible they have natural lighting columns throughout the building.
Hi Everyone,

This is Sal here. I wanted to respond directly on the author's page, but they seem to be having a problem taking comments.

The reason why I make history videos is that many people I know (many of whom are quite educated) don't even have a basic scaffold of world events in their minds (or the potential causality between events). Most American high school and college students would find it difficult to give even a summary of the Vietnam War or the Cuban Missile Crisis. Many of these people have sat through years of traditional history classes (taught through state-mandated books by "experts"). Even more worrying is many experts who have taken one side or another of a historical issue and view their viewpoints as facts (this is the tone of most history books).

If the author really watched my videos, he would see that I start most of them telling the listener to be skeptical of anything I tell them or anyone tells them; that no matter how footnoted something is, in the end it is dependent on people's accounts--the people who weren't killed--which are subject to bias (no matter how well-intentioned). Very few history books or professors do this. If anything, they create a false sense of certainty.

As for the "one voice" issue, I don't see how a guy making digestible videos that inform and encourage skepticism (on YouTube where anyone else can do the same) are more dangerous than state-mandated text books. I don't see how lectures that are open for the world to scrutinize (and comment about on YouTube and our site) are more dangerous than a lone teacher or professor who can say whatever they like to their classrooms with no one there to correct or dispute them.

Finally, there is nothing I would like to see more than other teachers/professors/experts adding their voice to the mix. Rather than wasting energy commenting on other people's work with pseudo-intellectual babble, why don't they produce their own videos and post them on YouTube? If someone can produce 20 videos that seem decent and want to do more as part of the Khan Academy, we'll point our audience at them. If our students respond, we'll figure out a way that they can potentially make it a career.

regards,
Sal
There are multiple and various reasons for studying history, whether this is articulated clearly in everyone's mind or not. Establish a baseline cultural past, instill moral values (ex. glorifying Person X's accomplishments), predict future results of actions, and entertainment are reasons that also spring to mind just off the top of the mind.
If history is being taught simply to teach decision-making skills, then using a case study format would be one possible way to improve the current teaching methods.
Agreed. And here is an example where, without comment scores, it is impossible to know how many other people feel the same way.
I will blog about how I did it in a few days...
Complex systems have complex interactions. You can't just just hand-wave this away by claiming that the interactions will be identical for all cases without actually demonstrating it.
The article is full of FUD, but Khan himself probably shouldn't be teaching humanities (like history) or social sciences (other than for his own specialization, economics) or the life sciences (and any other discipline he is not too familiar with).
It takes 5 days to clear ACH because "hey we took this money, you have 5 days to let us know if that's okay" is the authentication.
And the sad truth is the majority of "shiny things" are sold to people living vastly beyond their means trying to pretend to live like these wealthy people.
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I disagree so hard. Computer programs should be written primarily for humans to read, and only incidentally to be executed by computers. The connection between writing and programming is vital: they are both the practice of expressing structured ideas. It has nothing to do with the computer. It has nothing to do with the English language, or Vim, or Word. It's about starting with an idea and hacking away at it, removing ambiguities and possibilities, until only something unique remains.
Are mail apps so backwards that fluid layouts are not possible?

Outlook uses Microsoft Word's HTML rendering engine. So, in short, yes.
It looks like it's just a baseline css file. Many resets and CSS frameworks come with those anyway, e.g. Blueprints typography.css:

http://www.blueprintcss.org/tests/parts/elements.html
You ran out of "sorry's" a while back, guys.