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Someone at twitter ..

Dumping projects to the Apache F. is the new convenient way to abandon projects while saying "look, it's a good thing!"
For me, as a brazilian computer engineering student, I think these classes are amazing. Although I study in one of the best computer schools in brazil ( www.cin.ufpe.br), my classes tend to be bad and boring. My teachers have Phd's and all those letters, but cant teach in a good and engaging way.
And my classes have old subjects, because they made the curriculum 10 years ago.

Thank you so much, Stanford, the teachers for the modern and brave choice to teach people all around the world, thanks for all the students engaged in making the classes available for everybody. and thanks hn buddies for always giving the good news.

Will enroll to SaaS and hci or nlp.
I can only speak from my very limited context, which is "big banks, and payment processing". This won't dent that realm in the least, at least not anytime soon. The tech I'm using is 5-8 years old (J2EE, some even in Java 1.4 still), and the banks have no desire to move off of it.

A few "renegades" are using JBoss for some small one-offs, but nothing in their main processing stacks. With open source, there's no one to sue, no one to hold to the fire, and "only hippies write systems with it"(a paraphrase, obviously).

It crushes my soul. (But pays my mortgage.) I'm really conflicted as to my future, honestly.

Again, this is a very narrow view of a very limited scope, so I'd be anxious to hear other people's experience.
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I'm using Viewtext mainly to get the full posts from RSS-feeds into my reader, and it is excellent for that! It does not work on all the feeds I want to follow, but the majority is covered.

Maybe this is something you could focus more on if you feel that the Instapaper/readability-functionality is already too crowded?
Not to "rain" on their parade (heh), but the ability to pass water vapor effectively while also remaining hydrophobic for water droplets, and doing that for a long time on surfaces that are exposed to constant wear, is sort of the holy grail of the outdoor gear industry.

The company's page for their product (http://www.neverwet.com/product-characteristics.php) doesn't mention breathability. Considering that breathability would be a feature that would make them the next Gore-Tex, I'd expect them to trumpet it pretty loudly.

There are already pretty decent spray-on coatings for outerwear, they just don't last very long in the fabric and have to be re-applied after a few uses.

I used to work for Northern Mountain Supply back when they were a sort-of big deal.
Its parody right? The author is actually demonstrating the point by being the "fucking Joker" himself?

I thought this with absolute certainty through the first 3/4 of the post. What a strange feeling as it dawns that this guy is serious.

This made my morning much more surreal. Its like long-form xkcd.
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Good points. And the connector chaos is a thick thorn in the eye of Apple simplicity.

The thing is, design is always a question of compromise. In order to make something truly simple and minimal, you have to sacrifice some affordances. And in order to make something truly easy to use, you have to sacrifice minimalism (think of children's toys). It's a balancing act. If you get it right, people will love your products. If you tip just a little too much to the wrong side you fall, and you end up with Vista security prompts or Apple Keyboard USB extension nonsense.

JGC uses the example of the DVD-drive and the serial number as problem cases. But I'd argue that only the DVD-drive suffers. The serial number will not be relevant in 99,9% of daily computing for normal people. Non-hackers don't care about serial numbers. If something goes wrong they call Apple support (or do the Google routine). Of course it's a matter of focus. Do you want people to easily find the serial number, then by all means, make it easier to spot. Clearly Apple don't. The drawback is not just aesthetics but continuos reminding people that a serial number is important (which it isn't in normal use).

The DVD-drive, however, could be better. But think of your hard drives or SD-cards. None of my 5 USB hard drives have physical buttons to eject them. I still need to 'eject' it, which means I'll have to drag it to the bin! How's that for an affordance. It's a legacy UI behavior which is hopelessly misconstrued. Putting things in the bin DELETES them - that's the behavior we've taught generations of users. It's even worse than clicking "Start" to turn off your computer on Windows. If you have a HD full of pictures of your loved ones would you risk putting them in the bin if you didn't know any better...? Probably not.

Physical affordances have their place. Especially in a world of touch interfaces a button becomes a powerful switch (think the silent ringer on the iPhone). But they are like Tabasco sauces - add a little and it can make the dish, add a lot and it ruins it. It's a never-ending struggle.
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That menu doesn't play well with text zoom, I think.
Dribbble and PatternTap are my goto's for inspiration. I pretty much browse Dribbble everyday. Basically, a beautiful UI comes from iteration in my opinion. I feel it's counter-productive to immediately strive for a beautiful interface. Rather, start with something plain and grayscale and you'll soon discover ways to slowly make it more beautiful and usable just based on interfaces you encounter on a day-to-day basis.
Cute, and they have 54 cards, so I assume there are two Jokers (as a Canasta player, that's important!)

$10 for a deck of cards (+$6 for shipping) is kinda expensive, though, particularly since I'd need two.
And yet they're still used in Manchester and probably other airports as well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-15766544

> A spokesperson for Manchester Airport said: "Extensive tests by the UK Health Protection Agency and the US health authorities have already confirmed that back scatter body scanners pose a negligible risk to human health. It is irresponsible to suggest that because Europe has yet to complete its own health study, our passengers should be concerned."
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Mark Pilgrim, the celebrated author of Dive Into HTML5, Dive Into Python and other programming books disappeared from the internet about a month ago [1]. I'm just wondering if anyone knows what happened to him.

[1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/10/04/searching-for-mark-pilgrim/
I love the design on these, but on a practical level it looks to me that you might be able to glean some information on what's on the face side of the card by looking at the edges, since the designs are full-bleed.
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I would even go far enough to suggest that sex-thoughts lead to mental retardation.

Also, child rearing is the greatest learning experience on earth.
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The demos were a lot of fun to play with. Especially the living.forms one under FORMS + CONTROLS. It's just a shame I can't seem to link to the individual pages!
WTF is all that stuff about S3 doing in the middle there? Setting up S3 takes about 10 seconds. Hardly worth invoking Hannibal.

Sebastian: please seek professional help before you hurt yourself or someone else.
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Exactly.
If we give authors publishing right for 14+ years, then they don't have incentive to write another book for ... 14 years.

And I think that 14 years might be OK, but currently it's more like 70 years. Even AFTER the author is dead, which is ridiculous.
I have a masters in CS, and I am taking the online ML class. I highly appreciate how well organized the class is. Thankyou.

I have a question though, is there a way these classes can be made to be taken anytime a student wants?

The problem I am facing is that since I am also working fulltime, I just in time manage to submit the homework, and as a result, I can not take more than one classes at the same time, like the DB and AI classes in this case.
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This isn't a replacement of existing DNS with some arbitrary JSON protocol, this is a P2P DNS called Namecoin which happens to use JSON. Arguably, the flexibility offered by JSON can allow for sophisticated technologies to emerge which can take advantage of this naming system.

It's clear from the very article of this submission that this is the case. For instance, the I2P fields are combined in a structure that best represents the resource on the I2P network. A different structure is necessary to represent a Tor or freenet resource identifier.

If Internet naming is going to be fragmented, I'd rather it not be wasted on Alternative DNS roots, which fall privy to the same fundamental problems as our current domain name system. A Namecoin system cannot be so easily censored.
This has to be one of the worst analogies on the subject I've ever seen. To fix it we would have to invent a device that can scan something the plumber has done and then recreate it on demand.

At that point, after years and years of studying to be the best plumber he can be, Joe Plumber goes out and does a job only to have some joker come up, scan his work and then provide his own plumbing service for 1/4th the price. How is Joe Plumber to compete? He could try dropping his prices to 1/4th but then the joker will just drop his again (since he has nothing invested he can do this). At some point, no one would be stupid enough to invest in learning to be a plumber ever again. Everyone would just get this magical copy device. Of course, the problem is that when that finally happened we would be locked into whatever we had when the last plumber stopped producing.
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"Seems like someone at Apple missed something!"

What did Apple miss?
(in other words: how could they avoid this, assuming they wanted to avoid such crack)
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Namecoin is already established, and although there could be better P2P naming systems, I'm happy they're trying to snag .bit. I had a similar thought just earlier this week; Namecoin could work seamlessly alongside our current naming system as long as .bit is endorced for that use.
>or asking for donations after the fact.

Right, so if you provide a service you can charge what the market will bear but if you provide an art that happens to be convertible to digital form you need to get on your knees with your hat outstretched and beg for your income.

Do you people actually think about what you're saying?
The hourlypuppy concept is so freaking good I couldn't pass up the challenge so have set to work on hourlycat ..
Next line: "I mean, I don't see any other solution to begin the fair transition into opening name services that keeps them in line with their stated goals." Perhaps a dose of pragmatism would be good at this point.
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Italy just installed a technocratic government. If they manage to save Italy from completely imploding (which is the course it's democratic government set it on), then you may have reconsider your stance on this.

That they needed to (begrudgingly) install a technocrat at the 11th hour simply to stave off total and utter destruction of their economy (and the wider EU economy) is, in my opinion, proof enough that Technocratic governments are the way to go.

Democracy is the tyranny of the majority. When the majority are idiots, you have a real problem that will always lead to catastrophic results.

I see idiots as a threat against my freedom. And considering their inability to think strategically or consider long term scenarios, I think the civil war war between the intellectuals and the morons you predict would be over very quickly.
Wow, I never new the creator of ViewText was on HN! You have NO IDEA how much your site has helped me, particularly on my crappy BlackBerry browser.

Thank you.
A representative democracy. There's a reason the public generally doesn't vote on the budget and in places where they do (California) it has not gone well.
"dont cut their websites, cut their food supply"

sound better to me, but not good. i don't think its normal to cut ANY such service without a prior trial.

Be it your bank account or website. What about just expulsion from your own house? coming next, maybe.
Welcome to the world where corporations control every bit, and where you don't own anything, you're merely licensed to use it, be it software of physical items (so again, house, or anything else)
Also curious about this, i loved both of those works and was sad to see them disappear.

I know the HTML5 one has been re-hosted in a few places, not sure about the Python one... regardless of how the original author may feel about his works being shared without his consent.
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Personally, I find pre-commit hooks to be a throw-back to older RCSes. For modern systems like Git I would prefer to have a pre-merge hook. That is to say, commit any old crap you want to your local branch but you're not merging with the main development branch until your code is proven to pass the test suite. And only code that is in the mainline dev branch can be merged to main, etc.
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One thing I learned a long time ago about really smart people: study, read, or listen to the things that they think are great. It’s a shortcut to greatness.

No. No. No. No. A million time NO. Granted, at least it's better advice to study the things great people study, rather than study great people themselves.

By obsessing over what successful people do, we forget to study what the vast majority of people who did not become great did. For the six lessons listed, you can trivially find businesses who did that and failed. I sure you can find businesses for whom that is straight forward bad advice. And finally, you can find businesses who did not do it, and who still succeeded.

Those six things was probably the right thing to do for Amazon, at the time Amazon did them. Except abstracted beyond recognition, they are not generally applicable.
The point with the cable is that extension cables aren't allowed by the USB standard, so Apple created a cable that would only work with their specific device for which they guarantee that it works. I've tried the extension cable with other devices (it works just fine if you insert the plug at an angle), and have had mixed results.

I think Apple did exactly the right thing here and did it to avoid other problems ("I plugged in my iPad through the extension cable to my macbook and now it won't charge").
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Adobe should have done this before the negative news (them announcing that flash on mobile is not going to be supported).
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Yes, once they decided to refocus on html 5 it would have been a whole lot better for them to just dump flex and leave all its users without any support whatsoever, especially since the apache fundation is forced to accept to take charge of such projects even if they don't want to.

Mocking is easy, given the alternatives this is a quite a decent outcome.
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> celibacy till marriage

This is like practicing hunger until eating; there's no alternative. As Carlin memorably puts it, the ‘no-nookie clause’, which is what I think you meant, is called chastity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celibacy / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastity / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstinence

Aside from the linguistic nitpicking, anyone who cites all the world's agreement on matters of sex and morality related to marriage hasn't studied any history, or, for that matter, the actual state of the present-day world.
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There's an interesting book about this that came out a few years ago, "A Computer Called Leo". Not available as an ebook, unfortunately, but it's on Amazon.com[1] (for crazy money), or Amazon.co.uk[2] (for a more sensible price). I think Americans can still order from Amazon.co.uk, it just takes longer to arrive.

There's also a not-too-trolly (it's from 2003) Slashdot discussion at http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/05/02/1621204/a-comput... .

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Called-Leo-P-S/dp/1841151866
[2] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Called-LEO-worlds-computer/...
Why not link directly to the original demos/tutorials? Why is the repo actively designed to block me from finding the original authors?

This is quite bizarre. Not even the zip files have attributions... wtf is this?

eg: gloss under effects + UI has absolutely no context and the original can be found here: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/gloss

by someone called Alaa Badran.

Scraped content, stolen link juice and no attribution in the repo zip, instead there's a text file with www.DAVIDHIGGINS.me/repo/ link????

classy
Or could it be that you only expect the "sent!" message because that's been the norm up until now? Would you agree that at the very least a "sending" message should be non-blocking?
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I like simple http://www.ericmmartin.com/projects/simplemodal/ for modal forms as well.
I'd like to see what happens when you flex the material a few dozen times and then reapply water. That shoe demo doesn't mean a thing if you can't walk in the shoe.

These types of coatings also tend to fail miserably under salt water conditions.
I'd love to register a .bit domain just as an experiment/for fun, but I'm a bit wary of the methods for obtaining bitcoins that I've found.. anyone have a good tip for an exchange, or experience with obtaining bitcoins/registering a .bit domain through any other means.. Or, any other related information to share?

I also can't quite figure out if it's worth my time to set one of my computers at mining bitcoins, how long should I expect it to take me to mine enough to register a domain?
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If you're using that "tweet to download" thing or anything remotely similar, please be aware that I will make a point not to use your website/product/whatever.

My social circle is not a free place for you to put ads, if you want me to put a good word for you there you will need to earn it.

Also, none of those scroller plugins seems to handle my mouse wheel correctly in both direction (up and down).
True.

It just seems hypocritical to me to demand that the RIAA and other old guard industries adapt their businesses to new technologies, and then sit here and complain we can't lend or resell digital copies the same way we can with physical ones.

It seems that the only way to enforce fair lending or reselling is with restrictive online DRM, and I'd rather have the technological freedom to use my files where and when I wish in return for a moral and legal obligation to not just hand other people's work out to everyone for free.

I should note that I am NOT one of those people who think that music should be free and artists should make it up with touring or with donations or whatever. Why? Because I like albums, and I don't like concerts that much. So, I'd (selfishly) much prefer a situation where artists are encouraged to record more and tour less, which honestly is not the situation with either the standard music contract NOR the apparent future of the web.

(Just to be clear, I'm not really anti-piracy. I'd probably own zero albums if it wasn't for Napster back in the day which let me try out all sorts of music and find what I like. I don't like the radio. Before Napster, I just didn't listen to music. I'm just not pro-piracy either.)
I'm not sure why someone down-voted you, although I disagree that this was some sort of satire. I hope it was, as it reads like a harsh, chest-thumping, insulting diatribe, like some over enthusiastic high school football coach -- and one that won't accept responsibility and just blame others when they loose.
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Good point, plus the kerning on '10' is way too tight. Great idea though.
And then some young-gun will come along and create Ruby on Rails for the client side and all these frustrations will be abstracted away. Something being hard to do doesn't mean it shouldn't be pursued.