skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For comparison, a typical Kickstart project for Bicycle manufactured playing cards is $5 w/ free shipping.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onefreehour/revision-1-d...
So why the 100mb?
Any small improvement helps even a little towards:

1. Battery life.

2. More RAM for the applications you want to run - an OS should be as unnoticeable as possible, including when it comes to resource consumption.
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Here is mine:

https://github.com/lbolla/dotfiles/blob/master/githooks/pre-...

It PEP8-fies and pyflakes .py files and gjslint-ifies .js files.
Other actions can be easily added!
As complex as this might be to actually measure, here is a stab at it - the Big Mac index seems to disagree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index#Figures
> regardless of how the original author may feel about his works being shared without his consent.

If diveintomark.org was still up, I'd be able to link to Pilgrim's amazing "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you" essay, which defended his decision to licence his books under the GNU Free Documentation License. Here's the HN discussion on that piece:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=891726
I really like this framework it brings a nice clean implementation of the sinatrarb to scala. Creating REST services or web apps is a breeze.
I'm also not sure why a "top designer" wouldn't have his own office space.
This is awesome! I'm scheduling my spring classes around these classes.
100mb combined with "data:text/html;".
Ask HN: Need temp/freelance work thru holidays
I need temporary work through the holidays.

I'm good at:

Research - current/new markets, commercialization, business strategy/planning, etc.

Writing (have written scientific, technical & business docs) - exec summary, PR, theses, etc.

I also have:
Some offline sales & entrepreneurial experience.

Some experience in offline tech, product development, strategy consulting type projects.

Good design sense - fashion, print, art/decor products, etc.

Multilingual

If you have finite work that needs to be done asap, preferably remotely, let me know. I can start immediately and work through the holidays until after New Year's. Please contact me via the email in my profile.
And on gold-digging women: they should be sufficiently easy to spot...

I don't think so. In general, women are masters of deception (by male geek standards) and you shouldn't expect to beat them at their own game.

In my experience, the only reliable way to spot a golddigger is to reveal that you are broke and have no desire to change this.
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We're using Scalatra for our company's http service, and it's been great. Simple, good documentation, works exactly as promised, and the irc room (thanks Ross Baker!) has been extremely helpful.

If you use Scalatra for a major project, though, be ready to learn at least a bit about Jetty (or Tomcat or...). Scalatra is a great tool for writing Java servlets, but you're ultimately running those servlets in a much more complicated servlet container.
Now there's a crashblossom-friendly company name.
I'm not able to watch this while sitting at work, but... did they really make the argument that not having SOPA would put soldiers at risk? I don't see how that... I... what?
To be fair, it crashed my Google Chrome 15.0.874.120 on a MacBook Pro. So it's not Apple iOS device specific. It's probably WebKit browser specific or even far more out reaching.
Could you elaborate on why they were inconvenient?
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This problem is only a small subset of the problems inherent with essentialism, which in turn is only a small subset of the problems inherent in allopathy. There are dozens of epistemological and practical problems with modern medicine that run all the way up and down the abstraction layers. There is a good book called The Cult Of Pharmacology that discusses some of these:

http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=269

edit: This article completely misses out on some of the most interesting problems inherent in the mouse model. For example, the efficacy of drugs is very closely tied to cultural context, so you have all sorts of researchers trying to create cultural experiences for their mice in order to get better results. And because of course their papers won't get published if they include this information even though it's essential that they do these things, it means that none of these experiments are reproducible, i.e. they are no longer within the realm of science. Nor does the author really explain how the market-driven model for drug research is responsible for these distortions, nor does he fully discuss the fact that there are an enormous number of drugs that have been washed out that may actually be effective in humans, etc. I just saw a really good talk on this a few weeks ago, I'll submit it in a couple months when it's posted online.
Good design starts with good usability. There are no tech shortcuts (bootstrap or otherwise) to this. Your application's interactions are probably unique. There may be some design patterns (God, I hate the abuse of that phrase) that apply.

Bootstrap, etc are simply tools used to implement interfaces. They are not magic bullets. Design, like programming, takes time. It's not about gradients or drop shadows, but those are tools used in design.

It's often an iterative and collaborative process. It is not, however, "Agile". You can't design the interaction for a piece without looking at the whole.

Find someone who cares about interface, interaction, and usability. Ideally they can do graphics, html, and css. Ideally they've done some user testing before or are just really good at getting users. If you find someone like that, be prepared to pay. The good ones are few and far between and all that I know are gainfully employed or have hourly rates exceeding $200USD/hr.

If you want to learn more about this, there's a library of stuff out there. But just reading a bunch of books won't suddenly make your UIs prettier. But if you implement what you learn, it may improve their functionality. And that's far more important.
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Worrying about RAM consumption is important when your OS is going to run on devices other desktop and notebook computers, such as tablets.
Slick- I like it.
I think the key lesson from history is that there are a number of factors that have to align for a paradigm shift to take place, but that from time to time they do happen.

There are tons of examples from history of things that people thought would never change or technologies that were thought to be dead in the water that ended up completely displacing previous alternatives.
Pretty much every technological communication technology falls into that category.

Adoption will be incredibly slow or won't happen at all up until a certain point, where the tail of exponential growth kicks in and suddenly, it's everywhere. Look at mobile phones: it took years after the introduction of mobile phones for them to become ubiquitous. I doubt anyone could have predicted that there would be more mobile phones than people in the world within ten years.

I'm not saying that namecoin will take over. I do think it is possible, depending on what happens with the regular DNS system. At the moment, the need for an alternative is just not there for most people. That may not be true forever.

Look at IPv6: from the current state of IPv6 adoption, it would be possible to throw up your hands and declare it a failure, and say that it will never happen. I think that there will come a point where the price of IPv4 addresses is high enough to push widespread adoption, and at that point, everyone will be using it at once. And afterwards, people will look back and wonder why it took so long and how things could change over night. That's just the way things work.
That's actually not an 'A', but a 'Д': letter phonetically similar to 'D'.
How to Secure Your Life. It would cover everything from your physical wallet to your smartphone to public networks to your home network. End-to-end best practices for securing your life.
Have any examples of languages that implement this?
Suffers from a lot of UI problems. Seems like they fired all the UI people and hired a bunch of artists instead.

Ars had a half-good coverage on it, but its interesting how badly it goes wrong. Some of the problems are bugs, some are not bugs but flaws.

You have two hands, two independent hands. Every object in each hand has a different effect on the overall combination. Two spells = double cast? Or perhaps cast a shield and an offence. Spell + weapon = attack and cast, but no block. Weapon + shield or 1 weapon = block enabled.

There is no way to hotkey combinations (1 = sword + shield, 2 = bow, 3 = double fire, 4 = shield + heal spell, etc)

Furthermore not all abilities are hand abilities, some are "Z" abilities (shouts, powers) which are independent but each "Z" ability is used in combination with hand combos. You may want diff Z abilities at diff times.

So instead of a two-mode choice where one selection is about hands, and the 2nd is about Z you have 1-8 keys, which pressing 2x means different things depending on what you have bound to it. And no combinations. Basically they solved for the most uncommon use case, leaving the most common use case as... bleh.

Not to mention inventory management being gawd awful. And the most time-annoying thing: Selling 10 items 1 at a time = more speech gain than selling 10 items 10 at a time. That's just BS as it means I have to chose between wasting time and leveling up OR just getting shit done and continuing playing. While achieving the exact same goal. Its like exploiting.

Basically one of the most critical aspects of the video game - the interaction - has been highly overlooked and underthought.
As far as I know, this particular trend was started by Phillip Greenspun back in 1994:

http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/

I recall many people accussed him of hypocrisy, since, in the mid 90s, he was a big advocate of graphically simple web pages, pages that could easily go over a modem and a phone line, yet he bloated his pages with images that had nothing to do with the content of the page.
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Did you even sleep last night? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3245238
Firefox Nightly on Linux lags, but it works.
Join all the ones you're interested in then drop the least interesting classes. I joined the ML and AI class this year then focused on the ML class because the octave exercises are a great way to learn.

The probabilistic graphical models looks like it may have a similar format as the introductory video mentions automatically graded programming exercises.
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Do you have a reference for that about the ongoing courses? I tried to find something about it a while ago and couldn't. It would be awesome if they plan to just leave the whole web app with quizzes etc up and open for people to use at their own pace.
This guy sounds like an utter penis.

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/about
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I'm more of an older Vette fan. If I were to get a new sports car today I'd go for a Porsche 911 (991). I just really like the design and look, and always have.
Because a resource is plentify does not mean it should be used wastfully. It means that you should adjust your priorities when optimizing for that resource. Conflating non-optimization with wastful practices is an error.
I was firmly on Readability's side on that, but don't lose site of the fact that Readability set their own business model. They're willing to cut their take to 0% now, they just weren't willing to do it then. The difference being before content creators would have gotten 70%. Now they get 0. (For the general, publicized case).

Back in February they could have easily revised their own plan, to take 70% of net rather than gross, say.
I definitely agree with you on the "huge difference between low-quality video/audio recording of a prof mumbling for an hour and post-processed, perfected snippets of videos presented in a coherent fashion, and most importantly with supplementary materials that encourage people to actually apply their knowledge and get feedback" part.

I started the site noexcuselist.com as a page to direct people to the best places to learn on the web. In doing so, I had to go through tons of web pages claiming that they taught things for free. The sites that I was really excited for like the Open Courseware sites were a bit of a disappointment for me. It'd be pretty hard for someone to learn a entire topic using it due to the incomplete lectures, some classes that weren't available, and the lack of lecture notes and homework that went with it.

I'm pretty excited to see the development of this one that you're working on though. Good luck and keep us posted!
"What about just expulsion from your own house?"

Americans are being foreclosed on in mass, and in some instances they've been forced out of their homes wrongly by a corporation who made a mistake (here's looking at you, BoA).

But with 50% of the mortgages in the country underwater, corporations taking houses is much more real than we want to admit.
I think he's referring the the "dot-bit.org" domain, not the the "*.bit" domains. The .org is still registered normally and vulnerable to SOPA.
IIRC, INTERCAL does implement it.
I've been running a sort of startup (a zero-budget print/online magazine) for 2 years and I whole-heartedly agree with this.

I would add to this:

8. Open-ended work

You can improvise any way you want and pull from any toolbox you want. You can take the work in unexpected directions on a whim.

9. Platform for meeting interesting people

If you put out something of genuine value, you can use it as a kind of leverage to get in touch with interesting people. It also becomes a form of social honeypot (ie I get e-mails from interesting people from time to time because of the magazine I run).

10. Levels you up like crazy

You have to learn a bunch of stuff. My ability to execute a project and "git r done" comes directly from Interesting Times Magazine.

11. Gives you a sense of genuine achievement

Self-explanatory.

12. Allows you to scratch the itch you get from reading business/selfhelp materials

When I was only reading about stuff I was always going like "arrgghgh I need to actually be doing this". Scratching that itch feels GOOD.
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I'd agree with this completely.

I work in a fairly large company (hundreds of thousands) and there is none of this paperwork culture at all. The fast-paced environment is exactly what I work in, time to market is everything and we sit opposite our users. The work is fascinating, I regularly chat with the global head of my dept (my boss' boss' boss) about details of something I'm working on.

There's lots of incentive to do well, and to have your own side projects, which can turn into big projects with budgets and people behind them.

Not saying the article is wrong, but there are many different styles of working across business sizes, and I'm not so sure that start ups are predisposed to not have any of the issues mentioned.
> "will instead foist their pre-conceived ideas on students
and insist that their view of sexual life, however either
perverted or abnormally repressive it may be, is the way
to go"

And he's not? Or is it that you agree with his moral stance that you see it that way?

This particular instructor is an advocate for his standards, whether he intends to or not. He's gay, and according to the article approves of pretty much everyone being sexually active at 17 if they wish.

There are moral and emotional reasons to disagree with these, and I'm disappointed that the article doesn't highlight or speak approvingly of "waiting" or abstinence. To even suggest such things in this context makes one a pariah.

Yes, I agree abstinence-only education in public schools doesn't seem as effective as other curricular plans, particularly as it's usually not complemented by abstinence-only reinforcement at home. I'm pleased that he can discuss relationships, communication, and encourages students to think both long term and of those other than themselves. But all of that doesn't mean he's not advocating some moral stance.
I have a feeling they'll all be copying the format/software of the ML class, at least based on the introductory videos.
Cool, thanks for taking the time to go a bit more in depth on this. This is a topic I'm particularly interested in, so I'm looking forward to the follow-up.
Flex isn't THAT bad. It's actually pretty nice when combined with an MVC framework like Mate (SCREW Cairngorm) for developing desktop apps with AIR.

Of course, it takes quite a while to read through the documentation for the INSANE number of classes in Flex (seriously, the list takes up 3 huge posters of 9pt text), but once you have a pretty good grasp of what it can do it's not so bad to work with.
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This is not PhoneGap 101 ... nor is it an explanation of why mobile apps are still relevant (is that even something people are questioning?). It's essentially a biased hit-job on PhoneGap claiming that it's too difficult to understand in order to promote what I guess is a competitor ... something called Mulberry.
It's probably more fair to say that the HTML spec is getting closer to what is possible with Flex. Browser support is a whole different issue.
Does anyone else think a startup could be built around a software platform that universities could use for releasing their content to the world?

See here: http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-platform-that-universit...

If anyone wants to work on this, contact me :)
Nice catch :-)! Since I closed the project I mentioned in that comment, I wanted to release some parts of the code. The article about Readability reminded me of it, mostly because some of the comments suggested that a lot of people were rewriting Readability using Python and lxml. This part of the code was mostly clean and well tested, so this morning I spent half an hour writing the README and pushed the code to github.
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Care to share numbers?
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Well, Steve Jobs was pretty famous for that too. Don't get me wrong, I'm just as much of a Steve Jobs admirer as the next guy, but from what I've read he did shame a lot of people at Apple.
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For what it's worth, DAU is "Daily Active Users" and MAU is "Monthly Active Users". It'd be nice if the article author took the time to explain acronyms in an interview such as this (which is otherwise quite interesting to me, as a complete outside to the app store, mobile apps and gaming).

Interestingly, the article is in fact the sixth google result (to me) for "DAU mobile advertising" (as I initially thought the term referred to some form of advertising). Two of those remaining 5 results above it are also from the "insideX" network. Obviously those terms have become common within the network, and the article authors have forgotten that most people have no idea what DAU/MAU mean.

Explain your acronyms!
Centuries of everything from sensual, artful to downright obscene and even religious pornography, guidelines, texts and other scriptures, statues, china and other works of art beg to differ.
I written a bit about what namecoin means for the future.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/technological-jailbreak-bi...
It might help HTML5 advance, not only because it's a rival's endorsement, but also because some part of the code could be reused.
They are not genetically wired but definitely inclined.
Comment about effect of heavy gaming on thought process
Greenspun was writing articles specifically for web and photo nerds. Just as the developer-oriented sites were the first to drop support for IE6, I'm sure he felt safe offering less-than-optimal support for AOL users with dialup modems.

I always liked Greenspun's idiosyncratic photos. It was fun to try and spot thematic links between the photos and the text. Usually they were so subtle that you doubted their very existence, but sometimes they were obvious and funny.
What are some more obscure control flow structures? It's easy to think that eg conditionals, loops, goto, function calls are the only ones that exist. But there is also stuff like jump tables and co-routines for instance.
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Interesting, but it's really not that hard to crash Safari in iOS. We've had to redesign our web interfaces a couple of times to avoid endemic crashing.

In general, lots of images + lots of javascript + screen rotation = crash.
> Summer break isn't a period for extended homework - it's
a chance to develop curiosity and self-development.

Yes, but for most socio-economically challenged students, it doesn't work that way. Research out of Johns Hopkins shows "summer learning loss" is greater for certain populations, and over time leads the the "achievement gap" we see in high schools. (To the extent that comparable students after Kindergarten have a one-year learning gap by middle school.)

Schools are disparaged because of a problem that occurs as a consequence of their schedule and students' home lives. IT's natural they'd want to do something about it.

I agree, summer homework may not be the best solution, but it's what they have now; it's the current limit of what we as society allow them.

(No, I might not make my kids do homework over the summer either, as I offer them other learning experiences. But then again, I might.)
I thought silicone in breast implants was discontinued in favor of saline due to the dangers of toxicity with implant leaks.
In part, I agree with you, but I can't help but think of the innovations that were a direct result of the iterative 'Try Harder' approach, not the 'Try Better' one. Watch this to truly get an understanding of the value of trying harder, not better: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
Is Apple playing catch up?
Yes Apple is to be credited with many design firsts and has clearly brought about great inventions, but isnt it true that Apple mostly makes things better rather than producing a first?
It is the same with the "theories" (WTF???) of evolution and IMHO the duty of the government to offer open, proper, modern and beneficial education (based on recent scientific facts) to its citizens should clearly overrule this wish for individual and religious preferences.

"Intelligent" design, creationism and any other religious believes should have nothing to do with governmental education just as much as governmental education should offer the best possible sex ed. If you do not want any of this, opt out of the governmental school system and follow whatever cult and/or religious doctrine you prefer... but this has to be clearly separated from the open education offered by your government to everybody.

Unless, of course, your government is a theocracy.
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