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I'm not experienced much on implementation differences between compilers and interpreters, but Coursera seems like a compilers course versus Udacity's interpreter.

I personally much prefer Udacity's format--short videos (30 seconds to ~7 minutes) with a question after most of them, and then an explanation video. The Coursera courses I've seen have 15 minute videos/1 question, so I don't find myself retaining the material as well.

Moreover, Udacity (atleast for CS373) asks programming questions as quizzes, so you have more exposure to the programming rather than just the theory.

I don't know if this will be as bad for a compilers class, but CS373 definitely let a lot of the math be magic versus Coursera's Machine Learning class.
What Amazon's ebook strategy really means
You bring up an important point, I think, unintentionally. Kids may be able to 'screw up and fix' the software components, but it would be very cool to also allow the same interaction with the hardware.

I feel like maybe a version of the RaspberryPi that ships assembled on a breadboard with replacement parts - more expensive, of course, to cover the increased manufacturing costs and extra parts - would be extremely useful to anyone interested in hardware design. (Of course there are other kits that do this, but I think that there would be some benefit to RaspberryPi offering it as well.)
Interesting piece, one part struck at me as a bit ironic, and overly lawyerly.

On one hand the author says:

"The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth."

and

"Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating....It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence."

On the other hand he says:

"Every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.
...
It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions."

There is great contradiction in these two opposing statements.

First of all - the example that he cites, Jesus being nailed to the cross, is a fallacy. Jesus was killed as a direct result of his truth telling at all times, convenient and not - and his sticking to his convictions.

Second - I wonder if greatness, or love or hatred for that matter is worth achieving if you not been honest in attaining it. If you withhold the truth you feel in your heart, feel comfort in silence and make sure not to step on any toes - the recognition that you receive must also be a false one.

Greatness made by silencing the truth follows "be loved"

Both require "much compromise. If one changes one’s looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone."
Hacktivism, From Here to There [Yale Law School presentation from 2004]
market absolutely, look at the amount of scene stuff on the web.

I think your question is, will someone pay money for a pure off the wall demo - short answer is no.

long answer is they kinda have for a while, futuremark was the classic commercialized demo. difference tho is, it had a utility besides the eye candy.
I will also add that if you're finding scheduling conflicts to be a problem with finishing homework, Udacity is offering CS101 and CS373 without homework deadlines.
http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs373/questions/34839/we-are-l...
Apologies, I falsely assumed 'socialize purposefully' meant to socialise with successful people in aid of personal success.
The OP says that Objective C was "originally designed at NextStep". That's probably not literally true. According to Wikipedia, its design began 4 years before the founding of NextStep at ITT Corporation's Programming Technology Center. It was licensed to NextStep, Inc, 7 years later.
I'm gona file this under "tools I didn't know I needed until I saw it". Great job!
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Erm - petitioning the executive branch for the legislative branch to do something is not how the government works. If you want congressional hearings, contact the members of the appropriate committee (particularly if one of them represents you). If you want an agency investigation, then the WH can direct that. But this is sort of like a kid asking his mom to make his dad do something.
Google "Terrorfakt Responds To Nazi Allegations". You'll notice it comes up repeatedly - someone posts this exact message wherever they see her pseudonyms. That's pretty stalky.

I'm reasonably sure I wouldn't ever want to deal with her [1], but someone is very keen on badmouthing her at every possible opportunity.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3840747 - makes me think she is one of those 'trouble follows me everywhere' people.
Very nice, my cat especially likes paint for cats. Here she is playing: http://i.imgur.com/uudTY.jpg
Good job! I really like the domain name.

Here a some ideas for improvements:

- It might be a good idea if you'd make subsections for different hiphop genres, for example one for zimbabwean hiphop (e.g. mixdem.com/zimbabwe). People can find you on Google this way if they can search for this hip hop from zimbabwe and you might become the go to place for this specific genre.

- Think about using more hiphop (ghetto) language.

- Make a logo. It helps for people to recognize/remember your site. It would already help if you just write the name of your site in a cool type face.

- It did not see a lot of comments on your site (none actually). This is very important for a community (look at Hacker News for example). Experiment with different ways to get more comments. For example you could put a text box on every page for people to leave a comment, even if they are not logged in. If they try to post a comment you could make them log in or register to post it.

- It might be better to embed the videos in the video section directly into your page instead of linking to a page which does. This way people stay on your site, instead of going elsewhere (same of the downloads if it is possible).

- Even though it's annoying, you could also put a frame on top of the page, when people click a link to another site. In this frame people could vote up the site or go back to your site to leave a comment.

- Maybe add a share on twitter / facebook for specific news items or videos, which people want to share with their friends.

- When I am on the page for a specific item I was expecting that clicking on the title would make me go to the site. It took me a second to see that there is actually a button "go to site".

I hope you find some of those suggestions useful. It is not meant as criticism.
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This seems a massive overstatement of the powers of the TSA. They pat you down for weapons before getting on a plane. While it may not be justified or to your agreement, I just don't see how this undermines fundamental freedoms in the US and sets us up for tyranny. I worry about court hearing free forfeitures and surveillance. The TSA pat downs of children? Don't give a shit. Fight a battle worth fighting. Body scans at airport entrances are not part of an inevitable road to tyranny.
Actually, they aren't that much more powerful (although it depends exactly how you measure).
> Either she is a victim or she made up the entire story along with emails.

There are other possibilities as well. It's not so black and white.

> Your other posts about italic text honestly come across to me as a strawman.

Oh, evidence was presented? You know, using the word strawman doesn't mean it is, nor does it change what has, or has not, been presented. You can dismiss my arguments and believe what you want, however. At least I'm not out to take advantage of your gullibility.
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Did you try using the Basic plugin? Worked for me with little customization.

I almost didn't use the plugin until I found out I didn't need bootstrap and an entire user interface.
The OLPC has a battery, case, power supply, storage, keyboard, track pad, screen. It also releases source code to the OS binaries they ship. The raspberrypi needs a £150 TV, plus lots of other accessories to do anything.

It's nice to see another player in the educational computer market though. I don't think it's fair to compare to OLPC yet, because the raspberrypi has not finished their educational version.
But isn't this how schience is supposed to work? You ivent or pick a theory and then gather evidence to find out if it's true or not.
It's not her fault there was no negative evidence piling up.
Ray-tracing seems reasonable, and not a lot of code.
This is a fantastic idea. I signed up for Ycombinator and since I'm moving from Ohio, wasn't sure where I would be able to find housing. This solves that problem. Im not sure how competitive it will be able to get into the "house", but hopefully not that competitive.
Shameless plug but here is something similar I am currently working on: http://coursebacon.com/
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Not my petition.

Still, if you read through the WH petitions site there are a lot of them asking for Congress to become involved. I would imagine that, at some level, this is probably a way to raise awareness. That said, they all talk to each other to think otherwise is probably a little naive.
curious, will you be funding this out of pocket with the rent from the people living there used to reimburse yourself, or will you be using the rent paid by the people living there to pay the rent? I assume the former but I thought it might be worth you clarifying. Great idea, good luck!
I don't understand what's up with all the tea party political activism on HN today.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
OT: Can anyone give me a reason why this question has been downvoted? This seems like a valid, honest question.
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Fair enough, perhaps it's not quite a troll. And I am not trying to devalue the post or discussion.

But I'm finding that in this whole SQL vs. NoSQL debate, everyone is desperately seeking the "one database to store everything" -- rather than carefully evaluating trade-offs of systems before putting them into production.

The conclusion of the article suggests that new projects start with "PostgreSQL (or some traditional RDBMS) first", and then only switch to other systems "when you find them necessary". Wrong conclusion. Think about what you're building, and pick the right data store for your data.
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You're spending so much effort to distance yourself from javascript, when javascript isn't difficult, and coffeescript doesn't solve many problems while introducing its own problems. You must be a masochist if you support coffeescript so much and just refuse to code javascript. It's just such a backwards way to develop. Coffeescript is not becoming "widespread", and it doesn't require a "hacker mentality", it is simply a syntax fetish that dithers modern web development. It is a "made-up" language that has been way over-hyped to the point that people start believing that it's a good thing to stick yet another abstraction layer between the DOM and the code. Updates to coffeescript have broken existing code, how is this a good thing? Good luck with that.
I'm 22 and that's pretty much what I do. In Denmark you get payed to go to the university. I spend maybe 10 hours a week on it, and the rest is for making music and socializing.

I have never been happier.
I find this probably invalid, attractive though it may be. There are many "high art" forms that do not convey the massive effort put in to creating an image, yet it is this effort that makes the pieces desirable (lithography is one, but actually most art takes a lot more than the layperson realizes). Most examples of this came out of necessity but moved to an art form once the necessity was gone (though this was a very slow process). I think demos just haven't been around long enough for a larger artistic culture to build around them. Either art collectors will need to decide that demos are art, or the demo-scene itself needs to produce collectors. I think it's more likely that demos will become a small subculture within "programs as art", where art games will probably lead, since they are doing a better job of promotion and marketing outside their base.

The other thing demos are missing is an idea. Most media go through a phase where technique is paramount (in music, the virtuosos, in most visual art, loosely the "realists"), but the majority of fine art must address an important theme outside of the work itself to be interesting. Demos exist for themselves, they don't have any higher purpose. Games, in a small way, do, which may also account for their success so far.
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Your Contact page has a Help link at the bottom that isn't a link - doesn't do anything. That link doesn't appear on the other pages. Help would be a useful page.
"What's really nice about the compiler being in JavaScript is that you can run JavaScript anywhere: in the browser, on any OS, embedded in any major web framework. If the compiler were written in any other language, you'd have to worry about dependencies."

You really can't see the irony of this statement, can you.
Wow, great history! Thanks for sharing that.
Are you looking for a project to do?
Yes, there is, but the way to break in is to start with things incorporating programs in small ways within a larger piece, call it experimental, and slowly make the composition more computer-centric.
Another thing to keep in mind is to avoid "over registering" by trying to do too many courses - some courses are rather intensive/ time consuming.
If you had a generic implementation of all the libraries, you could probably do this automatically, but having the game source code and doing some tuning produces much better results.
Right, and that's the last release series that will support 1.8.7. Thus, you'll want Ruby 1.9 eventually. Besides Rails compatibility, 1.9 is faster, includes lots of nice new syntaxes and methods for doing things, better encoding support, etc.
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Hmm there was this a couple of weeks ago: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp?ref=...

I guess you don't need $44,219 to make "rails simple again".
Wow, congrats! Thats a crazy struggle you have to go through- surely must pay off- just keep at it!
The unlock link opens a popup, so that probably got blocked by your browser.
Show HN: Video platform prototype
Hi Everyone,

So I’ve been messing around with the idea of building a video platform for some time now and decided to put together a prototype. I also applied to YC S12 for it too.

So this is a video content network where people can create pages and showcase their videos as if they were building a dedicated website for it. Currently the videos are synched with the users YouTube account for convenience.

I’ve been working at it for about a week now and am pleased with the way it’s turned out. Obviously it’s very early stages and there’s a lot more to be developed for it, but as the saying goes- ‘stay focused, keep shipping’.

Here’s an example page – http://www.corsvi.com/digitaltakestudios

I don’t know how many visitor of HN are content creators in the sense of having uploaded videos to some network, but if you are or know someone who is, I’d greatly appreciate if you could test it out / share it and provide feedback.

Thanks

http://www.corsvi.com
> Why aren't both of those ok?

That's a fair question. I'll explain, but first, you should explain this:

Jason,

Sorry about my comment. You are absolutely right. I cannot admit to being wrong in public, however. I'm, in fact, the poster of the original blog post, and it is all made up.

Sincerely,

amirmc

Now you are required to answer this accusation. And everyone attacking KickStarter and assuming guilt should not attack you for making up the post.

I'm sure you understand exactly what I mean, and what I'm saying (and in case someone else misses the point, the above email is not in fact an email).

When I say nothing has been offered up, I mean beyond the blog post (obviously). My issue with this is it places the burden on KickStarter to prove their innocence. And this, I firmly believe, is wrong.

> Your issue isn't really with the post but how folks here seem to be reacting to it.

Exactly. =)

> I get that, but isn't it always going to be the case with David/Goliath-type stories?

Doesn't make it right. I don't believe that the little guy is always in the right. And I'd like to think we strive to rise above this. Tis better to be calm and rational about situations like this then break out the pitchforks and torches.

Yes, some people want to believe everything they read on the internet. That doesn't make it right.
Love it. Ideas like this make the first step that much more welcoming.
I haven't fully decided--it's not going to be free, for sure. Probably, people will pay me and I will pay the landlord, since that seems more convenient, but I could easily be convinced to just have people pay directly instead.

As I said on the page, the goal is not to make money, so any payment will just be to cover costs. I'm not quite wealthy enough to just give away the space for free yet :)
I don't agree with either philosophy, but they definitely aren't the same.
Naivete would be to suggest that this administration could get the House to do anything (partisan politics and all that). I could possibly see a few senators holding a hearing, but again: much easier to approach them directly rather than roundabout. :)
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The first thing that I ever thought when I saw the Raspberry Pi unit was how it would make a great device for MAME on a TV.
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Munyukim, excellent start! Keep building on your initiative, we'll be cheering you on!
I will share the results on a future post. I understand your point, but I think the assignment will enhance their skills related to objects, classes, methods and instantiation.

That's my goal, not teaching about compilers or language structure. About that they will learn empirically.
> And you calling it a marketing stunt is a very different situation because you have a clear motivation of rhetorical device to fake an email and you're not staking your reputation on it.

Whoa. I never said that. I never suggested it, and suggesting I said that is completely dishonest and reprehensible*.

I'm going to assume you misread what I've written. I've said that there are many possibilities that could explain these actions, besides the truth, one of those being a publicity stunt. That, however, is no where near an accusation, merely speculation, and does not represent my believe in any way.

Edit: This sounds like I'm calling you dishonest and reprehensible. That's not accurate. That would be if you were doing it on purpose. I just believe you misread what I wrote. Just being clear.
when can we have it for C++?
If it ends up being really competitive (and we have more people than can fit comfortably in one house), then we can do two or more. I have a number of places that I'm looking at already, so I'm pretty sure we won't end up with a situation where people can't live in any of the available houses*

*excluding rounding (like if there are 8 people and only 7 slots in one house)
What prevents "new" JavaScript from being compiled like CS is being compiled now?
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I'm sorry for making it sound like I think the situation is black and white. What I meant was was that the text of the email is a pretty clear bad policy.

Anyway, on to the main point. You're using an example of how easy it is to throw out words and ignoring the fact that if this blog post is a lie it has serious ramifications on her integrity. So I feel justified calling it a strawman. This isn't quoting a 4chan thread as a resource, this is somebody making a plea to the world under their real name. There is reason to believe the quotes are accurate, even though I'm sure there's bias in the telling.

And I'm not judging kickstarter until I hear what their response is. Even if all they say is 'that email is fake' then I won't think badly of them. I'm not being taken advantage of, because I'm not trusting a lone rant.
Do you really believe that she was more of a political activist for the Tea Party movement than a philosophising fiction-writer?

Not everybody that enjoys Ayn Rand is a Tea Party activist. I am certain that there are many that found the self-confidence to live their lives freely and form their own businesses in her books.

On top of that, her philosophy may be wrong but the conversations it sparks are often gratifying for the intellectually curious.
warning people about her libel and her crimes is _not_ stalking. it is _journalism_ . facts are not 'badmouthing', dude. She is a well known grifter, thief and Unholy Volcano of Libel. She has been called a 'stalker' herself by at least 10 other unrelated individuals and groups. Your comment is bullshit. She took 3k from Kickstarter and did NOTHING WITH IT! People are pissed, they want.their.CD!
This reminds me of a lot of classes where we never touched a computer. Instead we drew our programs on paper and then tried to write the programs to make them on screen.

If it weren't for Logo, I don't know if I'd have ever grown to love programming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
It all amounts to the same thing: no server means putting your trust in the client. Which you should never do. You don't trust who the client says they are (authentication), you don't trust what the client says they can do (authorisation), you don't trust what they're giving you (validation),

It's not something you bolt on later. You have to bake this in from the start, because even the simplest operations depend on it. Posting a comment? Great: are you allowed to post? Who are you posting as? Is there HTML in your post?
Thanks for that, that was a great read.
Isn't Less written in JS now?
“prizes” (or whatever—Kickstarter doesn’t seem to have a term for them)

They call them Rewards: http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/creating%20a%20project#W...
I am sorry. I was unclear there and I think I got things a bit confused as I replied. What I meant to say there is that your italic fake-quote that the blog post was a lie was a very different etc. I think I misremembered there being a mention of it being a stunt inside the fake-quote. Either way, I'm sorry I worded that unclearly. I wasn't talking about your actual opinion there, I was talking about your fake-quote.
Mind your default settings :)
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Exactly. Beyond everyone's need to rationalize why Facebook paid that much for Instagram, it's clear that Instagram is worth $1B to Facebook, because that's what they paid.