skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An absurd ammount of flare... but the camera looks awesome with the Frankenstein in front of it. As a side note: I use a lens from the early 50's in my Pentax DSLR - without hacks - and it produces beautiful portraits. Amazing how optics were already damn good back then.
Strongly agree, Memepool was a great well-curated archive of stuff I typically didn't see anywhere else. I <3ed it.
No, I don't think it was supposed to free us from wysiwyg the way you mean. The real purpose of Markdown was creating a markup language that can be easily read and understood by humans and rendered like HTML. It's an HTML replacement for some use cases. When it's been parsed and rendered its easy to read and when you look at it as plain text it's still easy to read (not to mention write) even by people not familiar with code whatsoever.

Imagine you build a simple website for someone and allow them to edit it. You could give them a WYSIWYG editor with formatting buttons but those editors usually override some of your styles and produce messy code. Or you can give them this Markdown WYSIWYG editor and in most cases it's easier to be sure it won't override your styles and keeps the focus on content. I love that idea. I've had lots of success with teaching very non-tech savvy people markdown in 5 minutes flat. And since most markdown converters I know produce very minimal clean HTML i can be sure my styles won't be overridden. Compare that to something like Wordpress' editor which produces all sorts of sloppy, obsolete code riddled with spans and stuff that overrides my CSS and this is awesome!

So what I'm saying is that Markdown isn't just for text editors. It's for anything that requires the final product to be nicely formatted and the raw code to still he human readable. One of my current hobby projects is an online notes app that automatically converts your writing to Markdown if you use it and I love it. (https://writeapp.me - shameless plug for sure)
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The book Succeed covers the topic of what kinds of optimism and pessimism help you achieve your goals pretty thoroughly (http://www.amazon.com/Succeed-How-Can-Reach-Goals/dp/0452297...). Two big takeaways:

1. Be optimistic when setting high level, year-long goals. But be pessimistic when drawing out all the implementation details of what you'll actually have to do to achieve those goals.

2. Be pessimistic about the difficulty of anything you want to achieve, but optimistic about your ability to conquer those difficulties.
In general, python is a more "regular" language with less unusual cases - so it tends to show up a bit more often in traditional programming 101 courses. It also promotes readability by making indentation a part of the language syntax.

That said, Javascript is readily available (a runtime in your browser), so no additional installation steps are necessarily required to start. Javascript also follows C syntax patterns which also appear in a number of other languages whereas python is a bit unusual in the way it distinguishes code blocks (using indentation).

Either will work, I think that python is a bit more straightforward for your first few programs.
Still learning Chinese.

The best tips for beating the language-learning speed limit are from Benny : http://www.fluentin3months.com/about/
I have:

two solar panels of about 70-100Wt (self made from ebay elements)

a bundle of two 200Ah 12V AGM accumulators

a cheap ($30) Chinese charge controller

a cheap Chinese invertor it writes on it 1500Wt but it sometimes stops on some 800Wt hardware (may be starting currents are too big)

I'm using the invertor for notebooks, water pump, blender, even when it doesn't have load it consumes about 0.4A/hour so we're turning it off, especially during winter.
We're trying to use as much car chargers as possible also our led light is 12V linked directly to accumulators.
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Great resource, thanks for compiling. FYI the list of articles doesn't render in Safari on the iPad.
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That scenario isn't a problem - if everyone quit after achieving fame, they'd lose one user per day.
gives social proof making it "more acceptable" to target that group for both crimes and less than crimes.

I think you need data to support this assertion. Following the Skokie march was there more violence against Jews in Chicagoland?

As far as terrorizing the subgroup, I guess that depends. As a Jew I don't feel terrorized by Neo-nazi mailing lists, despite many of them being public. Moreover, even if I felt uncomfortable, I don't believe that my feeling overrides their right to express themselves in methods which don't constitute harassment.
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Honestly, I don't believe it. I know nothing about music, but at least in my field of study (computer science) I doubt this can apply.

There is a limit and it is very plain: time. You can only soak in so much knowledge at a time, and knowing in theory is very different from knowing in practice (but you definitely need both). Practice takes time, especially if you practice to understand theory. You have to make mistakes, they are the single most important thing to understand something in my experience. You need the "haha" moment when you understand why something doesn't work and how it has driven theory/research in the field.

You can go maybe go faster than the computer science program at X. Maybe twice or thrice as fast, if you're gifted. But you cannot go as fast as you want, that is just wishful thinking.
Hi Loic, thanks for the note and it's cool to follow your work from afar. It looks like we get excited about the same stuff :) Disclaimer: I co-founded dotCloud and have the distinctive honor of being the least knowledgeable about zeromq in the entire team.

Your comment might have been true 18 months ago - when we first started using zerorpc in production at dotCloud. Since then, we have deployed and scaled hundreds of thousands of applications and I shudder just to imagine how many billions of zeromq messages we have emitted and processed. Believe me we have been through the zeromq guide many times and have experimented with - and abused - many patterns (including majordomo which, as you fail to mention, is not supported out of the box by zeromq and requires a fair amount of custom code of its own).

I'm sure zerorpc has many flaws and I know the team looks forward to many constructive debates and - hopefully - patches. But lack of understanding of the zeromq fundamentals, or lack of real-world usage, are 2 things you definitely don't need to worry about :)
This seems like an exceptionally cynical perspective. While I don't suggest we should ever stop questioning things or explore what possible motivations could be involved, I'd love to see less of this automatically accusing people of having perceptually negative motivations that don't have any empirical evidence to support them.

He seems to be pretty clear that he heavily debated the idea with himself and ultimately realized that his long term beef with the way he understands Zynga to operate doesn't work for him. The rejection of his addendum seemed like it was just icing on the cake. He deserves the praise he's getting for being honest with himself and the reader, not accused of making a "power play" just because you, or anyone else, can't rationalize the decision any other way. This is the kind of reaction that keeps us from having nice things.
I get what you are saying, one has to read between the lines a little, but if you read carefully I think that is what is implied:

"Albert Einstein called her the most “significant” and “creative” female mathematician of all time, and others of her contemporaries were inclined to drop the modification by sex."

If you drop the female from that sentence then it reads "most significant and creative mathematician of all time."

Another point that, which I think you pointed out as well, was that this is a misquote of Einstein. The original statement included the clause 'since the education of women...' which would make the dropping of gender much more reasonable.
You mean, like Gmail?
True -- but what about mailing lists which can be publicly accessed? There's no "broadcast", but there's no protection either.
They didn't kill it, they just stopped supporting and developing it. I spoke to them at Clojure/West about luwak and they said that Riak-CS is the better alternative; they wrote Riak-CS to replace luwak.
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This Quora answer by Nabeel Hyatt goes into more depth on the actual game mechanics involved:

http://www.quora.com/Draw-Something/What-did-Draw-Something-...
No, that's flatly incorrect. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States for more references than either of us can reasonably read in the time alloted to this silly flame war. Hate speech is "legal" in the US.

And even if it were not, and this was an edge case where the first amendment might not apply: there is no way a US court would order an extradition to a another country and let a foreign court (!) interpret the US constitution. None.
After getting cut off (and testing my brakes; they work nicely) this morning by two idiots on cellphones at the same time, I wish everyone would use sonalight (the voice SMS thing). It probably has te highest external benefit of a large group of startups, even bigger than the personal beefit to a user.
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Apple is a content provider. They get a cut of iTunes downloads. So they aren't a pure hardware manufacturer. Samsung frankly doesn't care if you root their phones once they leave the factory, but Apple loses money when you jailbreak an iPhone and start dropping torrent-sourced videos on it.
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But to the non-technically inclined (people who don't read reviews of file-syncing services), they'll be wondering "why do I need this when I already have something that does the same thing?"
What's that? You just started what would be a great blog post with this comment?

Related: thanks for your writing Derek, it's inspirational.
> What you are doing, is searching for an environment for a person unfamiliar with computers

Where did I say she is unfamiliar with computers? Her and her younger sister already use an almost dead family laptop for Skype, creating documents and playing games. They were figuring out how to search for Dora games before they could spell (use phonetics). They are far more proficient at Angry Birds than you will ever be and not too bad at Desktop Tower Defence. Homework essays are compiled via online research and includes lots of pictures and nice layout.

Human beings are not as fragile as your response implies.
Sad times when Atwood is giving coding advice ...
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Cool, idea, but I think it'd work better with longer time periods, like one drawing per week. Once it loses it's novelty, nobody is going to be gunning to get the title of "295th play-fame.com winner".

Plus, accumulating a weeks worth of followers seems to be (more than linearly) a better prize.
The consensus among all the devs I've talked to is that this feature will magically appear the next time Apple does a significant update to one of it's bigger ticket apps... Final Cut, Aperture, Logic, etc.

I can't see any way they can get around this problem without adding paid updates.

Until then 3rd party developers are high and dry.
If any of your apps has registered a custom URL scheme, and many do, any other app on your phone can easily check to see whether it's installed. That's by design.

Back when I was keeping up, it was also possible to read the mobile installation cache and get access to all of your installed applications, which is what some 'app recommender' applications did. That was an exploit which violated App Store policies - no idea if it still works.
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And the predicted argument about "does the UK have free speech?" has begun. I didn't say there is no guarantee to free speech in British law. I said the UK doesn't have a guarantee of the same form of the first amendment, as witnessed by the linked article where someone went to jail for tweets.
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Hmm, there seems no way to add hyperlinks to the WYSIWYG portion and if I enter one in the Markdown field, I just get bold text…
Wow, now THAT resonates with me. Big Time.

You're right, and I know it, scary though it may be. It shall be Path B.

Thanks, Derek!
I like this quote:

"Compiler as service is the new black."

Himera can take ClojureScript and return AST in the form of embedded Clojure maps, which is very cool!
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The Dragon book is obligatory course material at several universities (at least here in Uruguay, and Argentina too), so I have a hard time believing only "a handful" have read it (ok, most might have only skimmed it, but that's in the order of hundreds of thousands of students right there).

Ironically, I didn't take the course that required it, and remain ignorant about compilers to this day.
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Who opens m-w.com to check what something means? You just google it, Everyone googles it.
even better would be to add a few libs to the classpath ;)

Then you could have enfocus, jayq, crate ...

https://github.com/ckirkendall/enfocus

https://github.com/ibdknox/jayq

https://github.com/ibdknox/crate
It's a deliberate trade-off. ØMQ itself doesn't handle HA automatically. As a client, you can create a REQ socket and connect it to multiple redundant devices. But if a device goes down, you will have to handle timeouts and repeat requests yourself. Additionally, ØMQ will not "kick out" the dead endpoint, so you will end up with 1 out of N requests timing out. So you have to add a decent amount of code in your RPC layer to make everything work properly. And you need to run ZMQ devices anyway. Running a local HAProxy with a 5 lines configuration is, IMHO, simpler than running an extra device somewhere + having to add a lot of HA-related code in the RPC layer. Of course, in the long run, it's more elegant to use XREQ + heartbeat to connect to multiple endpoints and send requests only to those which are alive. But in the short run, the HAProxy broker is dead simple and works very well :-)
I didn't mean you had to use lightbulbs, I just wondered whether the difference between using a notebook and a netbook was actually significant. Do you by any chance know how much of a difference it makes (in energy)? I would be interested in knowing. :)
So I've been thinking about systems like this for a bit.

How is this different than Client-side certs, except it requires an addon?

How do you sync keys between machines?

If I'm going to have to deal with syncing and installing a plugin, why not just install 1Password, and have it automatically generate unique-passwords for each site..?
Need a API for craigslist?
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http://uwdda.org has an api for craigslist, you just have to signup, it was kinda of hidden on how to login but just click the logo
The scrolling was jerky for me on my newish desktop PC. There doesn't seem to be any new "technology" here, just some slow wrappers around stuff that was around years ago. If this is being touted as "the future" then programming is really going down the toilet.
I think the actual fun in the game will be watching people freak out when they win. I don't really care if I win, but I will enjoy watching random people do unusual things with their fame
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I think it depends on individual preferences. I don't have any problems with slides. In fact i loved all your slides. It has actually inspired me to make my own slides. Its a good break from reading regular blog posts.

I think its nice of you to make a pdf available as well. This way everyone should be happy.
What a lot of apps really need is for Apple to provide a UDID replacement that gives a different ID per app, but is consistent if the app is deleted and re-installed on the same device. SecureUDID is still based on CFUUID which is not consistent across re-installs.
BTW, the continuation of working on such an editor/environment, based on the live game editor [1] fogus talks about in his post, is a potential Google Summer of Code project [2] :)

[1] http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/02/26/connecting-to-your-c...

[2] http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Google+Summer+of+Co...
Please, stop doing things like this. You people are destroying programming! Why does everything have to be so complicated? Because people keep fucking everything up with stupidity, that's why!
The wealth of information here is staggering. Excellent job, thought I'd prefer something a bit more digestible. These would make excellent flash cards to hold up during a debate whenever one of the speakers starts with the rhetorical.
Ever hear of the "Overton Window" concept? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

Demonizing an outgroup to turn them into acceptable targets is exactly what this law is to prevent (and there is something to prevent: see the British National Party).
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500 Startups streams there entire demo day. Ycombinator doesn't for some reason ... why?
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I'm not a mathematician by any stretch, but am a reasonably well-qualified geek. I've run across Sirpinski, Voronoy, Hilbert, Nash, and quite a few other mathematicians in my day (mostly on account of being a bit of a Mandelbrot groupie as a teenager -- I met him once after a lecture, and he seemed baffled by the existence of teenaged groupies...) -- but I've never run across Noether before. She sounds pretty incredible, and I'm grateful to have read this article.

I'm sure you're correct that mathematicians will never be truly "famous" amongst the general public, except to the extent that they're played by Russel Crowe. But my own experience would suggest that Noether could use a bit more exposure within the non-mathematician general-purpose geek populace.
Not trying to bully you, but what part of this is impressive? There doesn't seem to be anything here that wasn't done better decades ago. Why does everything become impressive once it appears in the browser?
Some of the companies have not publicly launched yet. I understand that the event is invite only, and mainly for investors.
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I finally hit the space limit on Gmail and upgraded my storage, and I couldn't believe how cheap it was. $5 for an additional 20GB -- that's practically nothing.
1. One difference is that a different key pair is used for every domain so you don't have to worry about your public key being used to uniquely identify you. Also, I think this is easier for novice users than creating a cert.

2. I plan on adding in an import/export feature for the next release.

3. This should be more secure than passwords because the only information that the server gets is your public key, which of course is assumed to be public knowledge. No more wondering if the website you're using is properly storing passwords.

Thanks for the questions.
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I always figured the head-tingling sensation while getting a hair cut was a hold over from our ancestral primates who needed to be groomed by one another and thus needed some pleasant sensory feedback to encourage seeking it out.
Btw, there's an OctoCat NPC in game that tells you the github url :)
Weren't a couple of British tourists hauled in and deported because they tweeted something inappropriate (according to TSA standards) a few weeks back?

Happens everywhere.
Geeze, I offer a little advice to anyone considering a rewrite and now I'm a professional failure.
Shucks. They will just have to sell another version of the App (Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio) for full price.
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I'm calculating much higher Google Storage prices (similar to yours, but per month).
They should play the joke for all it's worth and release it on April Fools' Day.
Really nifty idea. What I'd like to see is an option to not automatically unfollow the person after the day that you can set on this site - maybe the person who won that day is really interesting!
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Oftentimes, I send complaints out into the twitterverse and nothing ever comes of it. So, my weekend projects turns complaint tweets into ways for users to check companies social customer service records, as well as companies a way to see what their customers think.

There are a lot more features in the queue, but I wanted to see what you all thought of the idea.

failrecovery.com

Let me know. Thx
Google has always been an evolutionary company. They are obviously working towards a single store that supports music, movies, books, Android apps, Google TV apps, and soon Chrome apps. I'm not sure why the should the Play Store back into "beta" mode just because it was rebranded and support for all the devices has not been launched yet.

If you expand the compatibility box does it list your tablet?
Sockets are not a new technology. Wrapping sockets in a bunch of overhead and taking away UDP isn't new technology. No smooth scrolling on a PC with a graphics card an inch thick strikes me as a very poor job. But it will be hailed as a "step forwward" because it's in the browser space (which has no standards).
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To a certain extent I do feel that it crosse a line in that it makes speech itself criminal. All US speech laws (except for obscenity, but I don't agree that obscenity should be illegal) deal with an inseparable conjunction of speech and action/effect. "Fighting words" and "incitement to riot" both cause an immediate act of physical harm. Defamation requires a demonstration of harm and even then is very plaintiff-unfriendly.

In the US you can never be jailed just for speech, you must be jailed for speech in conjunction with physical harm or targeted harassment.
I have been using Microsoft LiveMesh/skydrive recently alongside dropbox and it has been working flawlessly.
What I like about is the huge space compared to dropbox and that you can sync multiple folders without plug-ins or anything hacky.
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Yes, it's the first clause of the US Bill Of Rights. So? Still a clause in law.

And that's the point; the gp was, I _believe_, complaining about the perceived lack of equity in a relationship that has the US extraditing citizens of the UK for actions that are crimes in their jurisdiction but not in the UK, when it would never be considered to be allowed the other way.
Well, then I hope this guide is useful! Send it out to your team, have them take a look at it.

I enjoy the disorganized nature of GitHub, but there are some serious faults. I think they can probably be overcome by rationality and standard practice (clear communication, being polite, documentation, etc). Politically, I see myself as a 'vulcan anarchist' so it's fun to see GitHub as a little microcosm of intelligent anarchy.

From order, chaos. From chaos, order.
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Are they coming out with an iPhone version anytime soon? This seems useful.