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Interesting! I started a service with a similar idea in mind, but still have a smaller userbase (~>2000 members and growing every day!). Nice to see there is a real demand for it though. Congratulations to Kyle!

(If anybody is interested, check it out at http://gun.io /shameless.)
You're free to blackout your own website for as long as you want. No one is going to stop you. Good luck with your regular traffic/visitors disappearing though.
There really is no good news in this type of situation, but only the data items mentioned by Tony in the email above were compromised.
Given the fantastic response levels to this I'd hope to see more information about the group, the charities, and more extensive financial disclosure. It's all too easy to claim great utilization rates and great recipients. That said, it seems a very worthy cause and you seem to have picked a good place to promote it.
So is this not "true" P2P because a node.js server sits in the middle?
In this picture as well as many other such collections, one thing that stands out to me is the fact that no one has any food. The idea put forth here is to keep in ones life only "absolutely necessary" things, ostensibly as a reaction to consumerism, but when creating lists of absolute necessities, somehow food and shelter do not make the cut. How is this possible?

My view is that this "reaction to consumerism" is actually a celebration of consumerism; consumerism boiled down to a pure extract. "Don't do anything for yourself, don't make anything for yourself, don't clean up for yourself: Buy and Throw Away Everything."

Some critics have described this lifestyle as parasitic, but I might also suggest "infantile." Someone who lives this way becomes less and less able to care for themself until... well, until they don't know how to make a cup of coffee! That's not extreme minimalism, it's extreme dependence.
I agree, would love to have a little play. even if it is very much a prototype
Look for a palette you like here:

http://www.colourlovers.com/
I'm aware of what color schemes do for businesses, I just don't think the way she presents these is valuable. I also don't doubt she's popular on pinterest. Websites like that and tumblr revolve around anyone who can provide aesthetic beauty because their traffic consists mostly of bored people clicking through pages and pages of stuff they won't remember tomorrow. I do it myself, but I have to disagree that this sort of content is valuable to a designer. It skips past the thinking and facilitates the clicking.
Hi Danny:

Unfortunately not yet, they will be released but I am not sure when.
One thing they might do: offer better feedback on an error by treating the input as a 'spelling correction' problem (like http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html). A useful implementation can be pretty naive when inputs are short -- e.g. my old numerical-expressions parser https://github.com/darius/expr/blob/master/expr/Parser.java)
I do agree with your point that this isn't literate programming. The org-babel homepage has more references to use cases which would be considered actual literate programming, and are quite interesting if you are interested in the topic. This post is more of an attempt to show how you can organize your .emacs file into manageable pieces in org-mode, rather than an attempt at literate programming.
This being on itunes, i bet it's a pilot to a paid version later, differently from mit, Stanford, et al.
Appreciate that! I couldn't think of a better service to take the wheel than these guys. It just came down to not having enough time/momentum to really make sure that great projects were coming in consistently. I'm happy to report that that won't be an issue any longer.
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I used to work in academia, including a pretty well known university. As much as I like to be cynical at times, I sincerely believe there are lot of good professors at these institutions who sincerely believe that education should be free. Take for example MIT's push to have all their publications made open access, this was driven (in it's early stages) largely by Hal Abelson and a few other dedicated faculty/staff.

Top professors at top universities have a lot of clout, and despite the many issues there are with the current system of higher ed, I do believe that a lot of this work is sincerely driven by the ideals of good professors. Look at the interviews with Sebastian Thrun regarding the AI course, he clearly believes in finding a models of maximizing the quality to cost ratio for education.

Culturally I think places like Stanford, Harvard and MIT know well that many times you don't find your business model until you experiment, and if you want to be in charge of the future you have to be the one doing the experimenting. I think the angle that sells this to admins is that if you're a leading university you want to be pushing these boundaries, and if you want to be a head of the curve you need to be.
Previous discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3458679
Open source contributions is one of many things we look at to decide acceptance. You don't need to have any open source contributions but it does help us gauge you as a developer. It mostly comes down to what you've built in the past (open source or not).
Thanks for the tip bad_user. I hadn't actually thought about trying to figure out "customers that viewed this item also viewed".

I could very easily create something that takes every visit, MapReduce it, and then track the entropy between potential matches to provide the "best" match based on user visits of that property also.

To take the example, it would be really great to also know that people from Germany aren't interested in the slightest in our Italian properties based on trends of their national behaviour.
Does this work? My search for my new recipe site noshpoop.com turned up 1000 variations but noshpoop.com was not one of them. It is clearly available though - though I am sure hacker grabbed it by now ;) Seriously though, the results didn't show my request as the 1st option.
Thanks a bunch. Love what you're doing with Gun.io. For me, just came down to not having the time to really devote to Tinyproj. Glad it's found a good home though.
Yup! Ploversteno = Mirabai Knight, cofounder of the Plover Project, professional stenographer and novice Python coder.
Out of curiosity, would you call imgur a feature or a company?
Sorry to hear about your bad experience so far. This would usually be the case due to different configurations between the sites, but if they are all the same uniform configuration we'd be happy to take a look for you. Please let me know if you have a support request open already. Finally, what in particular have you found horrible, and what would you like to see us fix the most?
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We have recently launched an improved version of short surveys for websites called WebEngage. WebEngage surveys are displayed on a users website via a light-weight JS widget. There are some advanced survey features inside WebEngage -

a. Ability to add multiple questions to a single survey (it is shown as one question at a time to the user).

b. Ability to target these surveys on advanced parameters, like -

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For "first time visitors only" targeting etc.

c. The aggregate response to each survey displays visual charts on survey performance, answers to the survey, user demography etc - these stats are comparable to best survey tools out there.

Do give it a try - http://webengage.com. Look forward to your feedback.
As a website operator, you should not use domain names that are that long. And the search results don't render well :)
I don't have a complaint against Padrino. I'm not out to replace it or anything, I've just been having a good time writing apps this way.

If Padrino encourages not developing plugins, then yes, that would be a big difference.

By Sinatra plugins, I'm guessing you're talking about extensions (http://www.sinatrarb.com/extensions-wild.html)? If so, how are they not compatible with Vesper?
Just a quick correction to your comment - they are CodeCademy www.codecademy.com, not Code Academy www.codeacademy.org
I really like the concept. I often have files i want to share with peers, and they're often in weird places on my desktop, not to mention are often quite large, and i often dont want to have to manage sharing, or move them into my public folder on my Dropbox so a solution like this would be pretty good. That said, i quite like the server in the middle model, since it could probably be tweaked to host the chunks of data if my PC goes offline?
You make my point well for me, this stuff isn't an art to be cherished.
When I see "I do not want to sell this company" in bold - that means to me - I really want to sell this company asap.

Do we really need another site covering startups?
I feel the same. Here's what the circles should like: http://jsfiddle.net/vjeux/DSp2m/1/

Also, showing benchmark for only one test doesn't follow the scientific approach.

I left a comment on the page with these two points and it has vanished...
OP here.

I don't see your point but feel all your anger. Not sure if I'm just catching it from another project, but it is odd to me that you default from a guy owning a few shirts to causing major economic injustices.

I don't own much physically. I spend my days volunteering and traveling living a pretty simple life. I write posts and sometimes people like and share them. This post was written in May of last year and reached HN today. I'm not trying to promote this much, I'm just doing something for me and sharing it on a bloggity.

The assumption that I'm just snapping my fingers to have an immigrant army at my beck and call is laughable. I couchsurf most nights. I've slept under overpasses. Not just swiping my credit card.

I flew more miles in 2010 than humanity did ~300 years ago. Times are a changing. I could fly around the world for the equivalent to a mortgage payment. What is excessive there? Do you default to negativity for anything related to what is possible?

I'm living a different life that almost everyone I know. Nothing jaw dropping or amazing here, just different, and treat it as such.

Hello from Colorado (this week).
Good design manages to both showcase the best of engineering efforts while simultaneously hiding them from the user.

This reminds me of the documentary, "Objectified": there is a complex relationship between "how it looks" with "how it works" for any given product.

(Seemingly, there has been more interest on "design"-focused start-ups, such as: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664034/a-new-vc-model-that-turn...)
Clickable - http://webengage.com
Nor is text and a background
What political speech exactly is censored in the US today?
IMO GoDaddy is not evil enough to warrant removing it.

IMO, they are evil enough to warrant removal.
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True, sadly, but it's also unfortunately true that a lot of people in steno schools arguably shouldn't be there, because they don't have the technical or language processing skills that stenographers need to do their jobs. Virtually all those skills are possessed by coders -- especially the ones who play video games and have honed their hand-eye coordination -- so I anticipate a much better success rate among geeks than you can find among steno students, many of whom have an unrealistic idea that steno is a low-skill, well-paying clerical profession.
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"fully ready to use in production", with absolutely no unit tests, and when the question comes up it's immediately dismissed: https://github.com/appMobi/jQ.Mobi/issues/2

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what licence is this under?
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Ultimately, someone needs to have the keys, and they do, which is why they go through additional screening. Since there's a whole team, they would either have to collude or cover their tracks very well. Considering a major part of their job is keeping our data and our users' data safe, a breach like that would not be taken lightly.

So ultimately, it may be possible for one to snoop on our users, but it's much easier to trust (and keep tabs on) a small, well screened team than the entire company.

Speaking personally, I can say that I would (and do) absolutely trust my own data to our sys admins.
It's barbaric and vile because it's too inconsiderate of the children, or another reason? I'm curious to know why it's perpetuated if it's so bad. I just assumed the postmodern parenting methods were global and not just US-centric.
"up to you to generate the quality content that only you can generate"

Surely there's a more elegant way to state that. One that doesn't use the words "generate" and "content".
I've gotten pretty good at data scraping websites over the years and no matter how the data is arranged on the page, I've been able to reliable retrieve the data.

You might be able to prevent it if you had ids and class names that randomly changed on a daily basis or really malformed html, but I wouldn't bother.

Another option is to limit concurrent connections to your server based on IP (Some of the financial websites do this). This would make it so it took much longer to get your data. But again, if someone really wants to get your data, they will.

I don't worry about it. Just make you website/app is better than your competition. Even if someone copies all of your data, they won't have the web presence. It will just be a cheap imitation.
You can do the initial search in the zone file and then if it doesn't appear there you hit the Verisign registry whois (for .com and .net). The amount of times the domain doesn't appear in the zone file is nominal.
Awesome. Bookmarked.
Lab Project: "Infinite" scroll domain suggestions. What do you guys think?
Agree with you about Codecademy's assumption/expectation of a layperson's understanding is ambitious but your expectation of what needs to be explained kinda deviates from their aim. Yes, they should've expanded on some concepts but Codecademy should really concentrate on the 'what' and not the 'why' as that can be developed afterwards. Spending most teaching on the 'why' (like most adult learners would do) early on will put off some users off as they do not feel they are 'doing' much and quit/move onto something else.

It is obvious the users' background covers a wide spectrum so Codecademy would have to draw a line somewhere and say here's the pre-requisites prior to starting the intro coding course. They may need to provide this background knowledge via a pre-sessional/foundation/principles course (or pintpoint users where to go if they don't) covering the barebone basics of computer science and computing as a task.

Whether 'the hard way' is the best is really up to the learner - people learn in different styles so whatever gets their attention really. As a suggestion , Codecademy should provide a list of additional resources for eager learners who wants to understand the underlying concepts and/or provide links to other courses if this particular course is not useful for them.
tl;dr -

I think I fixed this problem in my app (iheartpy.com) using AIML. Caution: Still a work in progress.

The whoe thing -

I am a self-taught programmer. And I had been an extensive user of codeacademy myself. I realized this rather serious design flaw early on and tried to do something about it.

Initially, I tried to right my own engine based on JSON but midway I discovered AIML. It suited the task perfectly. So I downloaded pyAIML library [1]. It is surprisingly simple to get started with. I hacked around a bit and got a workable python app.

Finally using pyAIML + regexp, I ended up with a crude engine that takes something like this (in Python):

def foo(param1, param2)

and spits out:

FUNCTION foo PARAMS param1 param2

which can be easily manipulated and replied to by the pyAIML parser. It worked flawlessly. And moreover, designing lessons is as simple as creating an XML file.

Then I threw together a minimal UI and got it up and running on App Engine here:

iheartpy.com

I used CodeMirror [2] for the editor. The focus of the UI was to be extremely minimal ( = blazing fast) and delightfully non-distracting ( = no post-to-facebook rubbish). This being a side-project, I thought I could easily get away with that. :)

Honestly, this is my first project and looks more like the work of a script-junkie at this point of time. The lessons are not done yet. I wasted a lot of time in trying to optimize my app for App Engine. And now I'm an 18 year-old who has a LOT of exams on his head and this unfinished project. It is kinda disheartening.

Anyway here's the github repo [3]. It is not very neat. Psst.. I added some LOLPython magic as well [4]!

Finally, I made something that is essentially an MVP. I'm new to both design and coding. Plus, I don't think I'm proficient enough in Python to teach people.

In short, I need help. Would be happy enough with some feedback, though. ;)

[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyAIML

[2] http://github.com/marijnh/CodeMirror2

[3] https://github.com/creatorrr/IHeartPy

[4] http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2007/0...
Hey David,

I hear you on the dashboard issues. We're working hard to fix that. In fact, we just rolled out a specialized search backend to deal with the search issues and I think its Insanely Great! (sorry, just reading through the jobs biography and that comes up on every page.)

If you have any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Feel free to ping me on twitter or at oren@wildbit.com

cheers.
This seems to be an issue in every online community, whether news-oriented or not.

I'd like to try an experiment with a less open online geek news community. Social trust-based. Very hard to get an account that can write comments. Must be invited or voted to have that privilege. Very easy to get perma-banned. Though, to avoid appearing as Skull and Bones or some other private club, all comments would still be public. Even as a lurker, the insightful comments are often the most valuable thing on a site like this.

There are successful examples of these communities as simply forums in other fields like video game programming, cars, medicine. I'm a member of one for video game developers and one for car computer tuning. There ought to be a good way to apply it to peer-voted news.
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Is there a link to this Karel the Robot exercise or is it a hand out?

We're in the amidst of creating something complimentary (different too) to Codecademy called http://CodePupil.com. We're eager to see different styles of teaching; especially examples where gaming is used!

As noted in the OP's article creating a new experience and especially one that teaches all the Elizabeth's how to code is a big challenge. We've been asking our friends like Elizabeths to test and then we reiterate. Also we've found Mechanical Turk to be helpful in re: to user testing feedback. There seems to be a lot of Liz's there.
I don't think smart people are ugly. Many just don't concentrate on making themselves look better. Clothes, hairstyle, grooming, etc makes a big difference.
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Wow, sounds like my workplace - pretty much the same story, except the two devs who wrote the 300,000 line monstrosity are already gone (worst page record: a page with one topic and 300 comments generates over 10,000 - yes, ten thousand - calls to MySQL, AFTER caching).

In our case, we're squeezing in a complete rewrite of the codebase around existing client work using the old platform. We're writing it as a few separate services (authorization service, content service, front-end, reporting service, and administration front-end) instead of a huge, monolithic app. To do this in a decent time frame (a few months), we're adding 5 or 6 contractors to a 3-person dev team, leaving 3 other devs able to deal with the existing platform.
I don't think marketing is the answer here. Every musician I know with an iOS device knows about this app. The problem is that the potential audience for something like this is never going to be big enough to make the Angry Birds pricing model work.
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It seems to me this article would be better titled as 'Blogging with Jekyll' as Jekyll seems to be the time it spends most of its time on.
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I dunno. She didn't really follow the instructions. Maybe the error messages should be more helpful. But part of being a programmer is being very precise and having to deal with initially obscure and unexpected errors like that. Its frustrating yes, but if a person's reaction to that tutorial is to give up rather than be intrigued and push harder, I can't imagine them ever having the patience or drive to debug way more complicated systems.
How much of that stuff is locally produced? Your post is admirable but reminds me of someone I know who buys disposable bamboo plates instead of paper plates to be eco-friendly, discounting that they're produced and shipped from halfway across the earth.
Thank you for following up.

What other criteria do you judge candidates by? Do you only look at publicly accessible work? A lot of work that I do is in back-end services...stuff that the public never sees. That has always made it difficult to show in a portfolio.
Wow, this is the most useful startup I've seen in a while. Bookmarking it. The only issue I encountered was that your domain search is not real-time, so some of domains under the 'social' search have already been taken!
I'm pretty sure that this attitude of "I'm the adult, you're the child" is why IT people are disliked by almost everyone. no matter how justified you might think it is, or indeed, it might be, you will not make any friends with people who should be your peers by claiming that you are their father...
It's tactic I approve of because they're introducing violence into what should be a voluntary arrangement. If they didn't get special legal privileges as a union, then I'd be against it Walmart discouraging it. When someone starts unionizing, unfortunately in the US they're inviting the a man with a gun to the negotiating table - it no longer is a voluntary agreement. For instance the government can force companies to deal with union negotiations even if the company doesn't want to; you can't fire people for striking; you can't file trespassing complaints against union members, etc. I don't know about you, but when I'm working with someone - I want it to be amicable and don't want them strong arming me. If I think they will then I'll choose not to work for them, I see no difference here.
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