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"This year, my New Year’s Resolution is this: I am going (finally) to learn how to code. It’s been on my agenda since June 2009"

Hopefully this will be seen as constructive/motivational by the author... but why if you've wanted to learn something in 2009 have you not done it. And why wait even until new years... why don't you just start today? You can go to code academy or the other myriad of online resources for learning right now.

The reason why I say this is that "coding" is not something just learned and then moved on from. Its a lot like a language. Becoming proficient is a lifelong and typically never ending journey. Its great if you genuinely enjoy it - completely miserable if you don't. If its something you think you might truly enjoy - start now. If its not, be honest with yourself and focus on other things you like. I hope this is not seen as mean-hearted in that one of the skills its taken me a long time to get even semi-skilled at is identifying what it truly is that I want to spend time on and eliminating all the stuff I actually don't want to do even when I think I do.
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Massive sheet of melomine, whiteboard material.(Lowes Home Depot carry it for $20-30)
Basecamp-collaboration or Google Docs (Free)
They should care about security updates, for one.
Floats are printed without rounding

Isn't that a good thing? I like knowing the real value I'm passing around. It does round...eventually (at 14 decimal places or so).

You can write x = foo unless foo but not x = foo if ! foo

This is incorrect.
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There is a lot that bothers me about this post. First, that a library contains many different algorithms in a single framework is not a negative, nor bloat. Second, there is nothing about random forest or neural nets that are any more practical than maximum entropy or any other learning algorithm.

The main researchers are both doing university research work, not building products. I'm not sure where the practical/teaching arguments come in, Weka is used in many different scenarios, including commercial systems.

A brief look at the documentation suggests that this package is not nearly as extensive as Weka. Startups might care about the licence being LGPL instead of GPL. I can't comment on convenience and performance without using it a bit, but I've found that other command line driven packages are very easy to use for exploratory type research work.
Great job guys. Will be looking to implement this as soon as possible.
Who is this "society" you speak of? Am I society? Can I tell businesses what I want them to do?
November might have been mentioned as a possibility, but end of the year or December has afaik always been the stated target. I'd hardly say delays so far are 'considerable'.
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That comment was directed to the person who said the idea of drug tourism was "absurd."
Awesome! At Fileboard we use lots of third party tools (Mixpanel/KISSMetrics) to keep track of user metrics and stuff but there are always things where these tools just can't provide us with answers. Especially since we are an ipad app and most of these things are designed for web app usage.

I didn't want to roll my own solution for keeping track of the "extra" stuff but having seen this I am definatly going to give it a spin and see wether it helps us get more grip on user behavior.

Thanks for sharing!
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This is what a 5MB hard drives  looked like in 1956 (note: required a forklift)
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What is a write-down that is being referred to in this article?
At the first glance: This could be complimentary tool to WEKA. It has some features that WEKA does not have. To name one: non-linear feature selection (e.g., Manifold Sculpting). It has extensive visualization libraries (2D and 3D). It can store sparse representation of data which is a huge memory saver for text mining (NLP). The biggest complaint would be that I don't see how this tool could do feature selection INSIDE cross-validation loop. It seems that authors are unaware that feature selection on the whole data set is prone to overfitting.

Note to self: It has mean margin trees but no SVM? Thread safe? Portable to R? C++ codebase. Why SHA?
Whenever I think about Ramanujan, I cannot help but wonder how many Ramanujans are out there that are just not visible and struggling with poverty.
Let's build a product out of it. Marketo e.g. is a horrible piece of software + way to expensive for startups.
Sigh. Yes, attitudes toward violence have changed. We don't have duels any more, and if we did, the winner would go to jail. Fine.

What's interesting about the duel isn't that Burr killed Hamilton, it's that he took the risk of getting killed himself. The duel could easily have turned out the other way. Who would risk his life to protect his reputation today? Certainly not Dick Cheney.
He also isn't quite up to speed with Fortran overloading. It is fairly easy to define interfaces that can call different functions based on input type, but it still isn't as nice as C++.

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Russ Cox (Plan9, RE2, Google Code Search, Go) wrote a really good article on implementing regular expressions: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
There's a subcontext here that is separate from the appalling notion of being not interested in what your husband/wife works on. Consider the statement: "My husband's specialty is comparative literature and I don't know what that means" or "My wife is an art historian and I don't know what that means". If I heard one of these statements I would think (to myself) "what an ignoramus!". Well, if it's not OK for those, why is it OK for engineering or science? This brings us to the classic the two cultures debate, articulated simplistically by C. P. Snow but echoed by many, many other scientists. I think the gap has widened in the past decades.
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You're right, Namecheap is an accredited registrar on its own, not a reseller anymore.

http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/domai...
> On October 18, the U.S. government was asked to impose tariffs on imports of Chinese solar cells and modules, based on the argument that China-based producers have been heavily subsidized and are selling solar products at unfairly low prices.

So the Chinese government wants to sell us renewable energy infrastructure below cost. Sounds great to me.
As an exercise, and if you really had to, how would one monetize something like this?
Great Article, but I think it also should mention the Global Scale stuff (D2Plug, DreamPlug, etc.) (http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-2-globalscale-techn...) They have an identically layout, are a little bit more expensive but they ship at least!
Would you consider adding a country chooser? Non-US netflix users have different content available.
By "our society", American society is meant, and what was said is true. It would be ignorant of history to say that this country's laws and founding documents did not draw much inspiration from the Bible.
I like what you did to the Twitter Bootstrap buttons by adding the arrow → and guillemet » symbols. It makes the buttons look more interactive.

I'm afraid you do need to add some additional tunes to bootstrap the site and get others to add new tunes.

Nice Xmas project!
>We are all running computers that are finite-state machines

The amount of storage of a computer is not fixed, and is easily extendable, and extending memory fits simply in the Turing Model, and does not affect the internal states of the Turing Machine. In contrast, any time a new source of memory is introduced (say, a new hard drive or aws cluster), you'd have to change your DFA, which breaks your statement 'a computer is a DFA'.

I really don't see how calling computers DFA's can in anyway be considered 'practical'.
Thank you for explaining. I had thought of type errors as different representations of numbers, for example.
Exactly, perhaps a little bit of history, Bastiat's essay:

A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting.

http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
I learned to program on my TI-82 calculator because I couldn't pay attention in my Engrish class. Learning to program allowed me to actually understand the math I was studying and put it into a practical framework. Especially since I was replicating a lot of games that I couldn't afford. It was great.. I was learning and becoming more popular by distributing these games to my classmates.

I played your app with a kid I mentor (he is 7) and he got bored of it very quickly. I think the main problem is that it does not have a clear objective. I can make a dinosaur move, but OK... I get bored super quick. Now. Old school games like the incredible machine... that's an awesome game because its colorful, the objective is clear, there are tons of flexible solutions per stage and it causes him to think with the tools he has in hand.

If you add in a mission based structure, I think that will help in the use and addictive-ness of the application. A thought to consider!
I'm pretty sure this uses the map reduce API which has a lot of overhead in the datastore. In principle map reduce is nice because it could make very large jobs fast. But since Google engineers don't pay for anything, they optimized for time, not cost.

And with regards to your script, you can't just delete 3k keys in one request. If you want I'll send you the script I've adapted for jobs that make large changes to the datastore.
Can anyone who's successfully transferred a .COM domain to Namecheap verify which registrar appears on the new WHOIS, Namecheap or eNom? I'm still planning my own move and where to go is a tough move -- I think it's between namecheap and name.com now, and I don't want to move if namecheap is still reselling .COM through eNom.

Interestingly, I looked up all the recent YC-funded companies I could think of and 99% were still at GoDaddy. I was hoping to see some pattern in who they chose to move to, but they haven't moved (yet).
Beautiful! Precisely I was talking today with a friend about the need of a tool like this one.
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From the title I'd thought this would be about practical uses of this hardware. They sound really cool but I haven't seen the big "need" that they're fulfilling.
Thank you for standing for what is upright. We need to speak the truth concerning what is right and what is not right.
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An R4i 3ds card which is the wittiest preference of playing games, the boot up era for the R4i DS SDHC is still pretty fast. The R4i SDHC is the primary DSi card released for the R4 brand.
I don't think kids will make such a big jump. :) But I agree in a point you made... you can't expect a "learning tool" to be created with just a few cute graphics. I would argue that this sort of tool would be super valuable once you add in the element of "infinite possibilities" of things to do. It's not quite there yet... but could be if adding in some elements such as a mission based structure with increased complexity.
Apparently there is an Android app[1] that will let you upload gps tracks and do other editing. I haven't really played with it yet, but I'm also in Atlanta so if OSM is really that bad here I might start helping.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/osmeditor4android/ or Vespucci in the Android Market
Well known YC companies using GoDaddy
I just noticed that some big name YC companies are still using GoDaddy. Some of them might have already started transfer process. If you work at one of these companies, make the change happen faster.

loopt.com scribd.com disqus.com airbnb.com posterous.com wepay.com carwoo.com optimizely.com greplin.com mailgun.net custora.com nowjs.com hellofax.com grubwithus.com
Wow, that's just silly. I agree - "Delete" is simply not a subset of "Edit"ing an option in a configuration. It may be a subset of editing the entire configuration, but having a two-step process that makes a non-connected action into a child action is mind boggling. People need to learn their CRUD/BREAD better.
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Jpackage.org has been offline for 3 days.
Normally, I'd say it's hard to decide and I would tend to recommend to finish your studies. But in your case it's different: You are studying CS and getting an Software Engineer. You are on a market where the demand is so much higher than the offer, thus there's no need to signal your skills through a degree. Anyway, you'd learn much more and faster when doing a startup. Or in other words: many reference projects and/or a great Github record is more worth than a degree (and most good devs I know havn't a degree).

One thing I'd change: you location, Belgium seems to be nice, but you need lots of peers in physical distance. So change to a city with a vibrant tech community (Berlin).
Well, I remember them mentioning late November as a likely time to start shipping boards. You'll find some references to this on their [FAQ page](http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs). We're in late December and they haven't even sold the beta boards (although that will probably happen soon). Manufacturing and actually shipping the first large series will take some time.

I'll agree that 'considerable' might be a bit too much, but they're late according to the initial schedule.
Drugs use and addiction are mental health issues. People who use drugs often have other problems. Maybe not serious problems, but, who doesn't have some problems that can't get better with some "talking it out"?

How many of us have had a beer or smoked a bowl of marijuana to "chill out" after the stress of work? It's normal to self-medicate in this modern world. We have to work at jobs, and then we take a chemical that used to be a religous sacrament, and use it to get a little numb and giddy.

People who can't handle life in a modern society... some of them become the drug addicts, who self-medicate to create a curtain between themselves and the world.
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can one monetize an extension? i've always thought it would be nearly impossible based on its distribution. in any case.. its a long drawn out process but i think you can monetize through understanding customer taste. preference in movies is valuable because it is an effective consumer targeting mechanism. idk. what do you think? (or worse case, you can put up a ton of amazon dvd affiliate links and pray that someone buys a dvd. :P)
They can be accredited and still resell, which I think they may be doing for some TLDs. For each TLD you want to be a registrar for you have to go through some sort of accreditation process with that TLD, so getting direct access to a large list of TLDs is quite a significant effort. It may just be that they haven't gotten to it yet for all of them.
When in 2050 people will see how big a 1TB HDD is now they'll smile at it. I love progress.
I have used Weka in a commercial setting. Usually it is for data analysis and trying many ML techniques. Once I have my data cleaned up and analyzed, I will go an implement my own algorithm (in C). Thus Weka is immensely valuable as a analysis tool.
It was $70 for a minimum 2 year registration, $35/year, a price they still charge to this day.
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Interesting that you write 'Edit' vs. 'edit'...

Here is another issue I just filed last night:

https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/809

tl;dr: Super minor, but the case of buttons is actually important UX too.

I'm worried about BrowserID UX because we are implementing it on our site as an additional login system along with Facebook Connect. I'd love to see BrowserID become successful since we need an alternative to Facebook and OpenID is a train wreck. But, I worry that with bad UX, it will remain just an unused interesting idea.
Are you looking to turn this into a viable business? It's great you're featured in LifeHacker but I don't see how this app can provide thicker value, alone as it is.. I think just attaining more users won't help you find a business model, so you should perhaps broaden the scope... as it is, it sounds like a cool feature. So my contrarian advice is to focus on making this of thicker value, rather than just leave it alone as it is
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Rich enough to care about UX?
I like reading stories about how careful programmers had to be when writing code so the use of every bit was maximized. Unfortunately, this also lead to the Y2K debacle.
Yeah, I meant things like sample code for plain C frameworks, where the author has just decided "hey, why not do this in Obj-C++ instead of Obj-C." As I recall, many of the AudioToolbox examples are like this.

Didn't mean to imply that there's no place for Obj-C++, just that it's not good style if you don't actually need it (like to wrap a C++ lib).
I hope they'll be doing that towards backblazes myself. Would be far more comparable and I'd love that amount of storage to be "quaint".
There's public rehab in the US. There are also public mental health hospitals, and public hospital emergency rooms. There are also jails and prisons. Drug addicts end up in all these systems all the time, taking up space and resources.

Some addicts are somewhat functional, but not enough to hold down a job. They may steal things. So the cost is borne by the community, who have to deal with stolen car stereos and broken windows.

What seems to work out cheapest is community based group therapy like what you get with Alcoholics Anonymous. You meet a couple times a week, and talk out how shitty your life was, and how shitty you were to other people. Then promise to not be shitty, and not get down. Maybe you get in touch with the fact that you're kind of "off" and need to see a shrink. Yes, it's a little culty, but so is worshipping the bottle :)

AA and NA are dirt cheap.
I'm not so sure about that. The 3.5 inch form factor has been around for more than 30 years, and I don't see it going away anytime soon because it's a "human" size (about the size of a hand). People are not getting smaller.

We'll fit a lot of more data onto them, sure. But the physical size of the largest/most common hard disk available at that time is unlikely to change much.
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I like the map; makes it obvious at a glance that the LA/Hollywood-region is dominated by supporters, with not a single supporter from the Bay Area/Silicon Valley. No surprise there, but even more stark of a contrast than I expected.

Also happy to see that my adopted state (Colorado) has no supporters at all. Which is a mixed blessing, of course...no one to protest to who will pay any attention to me.

Thanks for putting this together, though. Maybe others will discover nearby supporters who they can protest to -- or who maybe have friends who they can convince to write a letter. If anyone knows someone in greater LA, for example, odds are good that they have a rep who's supporting SOPA.
More info: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/how-to-move-your-flickr-p...
Wow, what a disturbing story, and a perfect glimpse into a post-SOPA internet. Why GoDaddy is even policing the content of its registrants is beyond me.
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I love this comment. Totally agree. Some people may view learning to code as a chore and a do it once and check it off sort of thing. It's such a misconception. Just like being a good financial analyst (disclosure: I was one) where you need to read the Economist, NYTimes, WSJ, listen to NPR, play with Bloomberg, etc.. If you truly want to be up to date on coding, you need to get super involved in learning about emerging technologies and be able to think quickly asn ask yourself... is this worth learning and implementing? Learning to code is just a step in this journey...
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Thanks! We definitely need more tunes. Hopefully someone will come along and help add some.
This is a great movie! There is another good one that did local delivery. I think the blew threw 200 million in 6 months.
try starting by learning to think logically! like everything in life, i think people want to rush to the "fun stuff" right away and can get super overwhelmed. Get the logic part down and you'll see emerging patterns over and over again. have fun!
successful founders talking about how they killed themselves to get there

Here's the thing: I'd ask if it was even worth it at that point. Sure, the money is nice and pays off any debt accrued, but everything else is still there: effects of a long period of extreme stress; broken/damaged relationships; the life you missed along the way.

I'd argue (for myself, obviously!) that being stinking rich is simply not worth that.

The reason I hate the phrase "fuck-you money" is that it isn't really an amount of $$$: it's a mental state. It's the ability to say "screw this job; I don't care if I'm poor tomorrow. I'm free to do what I want and I'm adult enough to handle the consequences."
If you are getting a flood of traffic, anything you can do to establish a connection with people is vital. Keep in mind there may be some people who aren't willing to sign up for the service today, but might be willing to subscribe to your blog, sign up for a contest, etc.

Also your site is something that people may be willing to share with their friends more than they are willing to sign up for it themselves. You might consider making the social media buttons a bit more prominent. I might not be willing to login with Facebook, but may be willing to click "share this on Twitter" because my friends will think it is funny. (Obviously you should test this. My assumption may be wrong and the social buttons hurt things.)

You might also consider adding a bit of social proof to the site. A testimonial of a user or something like that. My first reaction is "I don't know if I'm comfortable adding their facebook application." A headshot and "wow this is wonderful" from a user might lessen that feeling.

By the way, you said you got a subscriber. Is this a paid service or are you referring to people to add your facebook application?
Just a technical point here. Most people who get addicted to opiates start with prescription drugs. Heroin is a lot harder to get than Tylenol with codeine or vicodin. Also, the typical opiate abuse is by non addicts who mix alcohol and the opiate.
It's possible (likely?) that 1 TB storage will also be available in much smaller form factors - to fit inside a watch or a keychain, if not smaller.
I bet namecheap's investors are smiling right about now.