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The aggressive tone is off-putting, the formatting is distracting and the target of criticism seems to be Wikipedia, as well as Node. Talk about concurrency.
http://laurencejarvikonline.blogspot.com.es/2007/09/putins-n...
Talking about Erlang without reading Armstrong's thesis is stupid.

Talking about Erlang after reading the thesis is useless.)

http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
The sweet irony of this is that the Japanese will have flying toilets before the U.S.A. has flying cars.
The Mayan's what? Also, NYC is not the entire world (strange as it may seem to its inhabitants). RL generally doesn't look like a Hollywood movie - keep calm and carry on.
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It doesn't look like a lot has changed in this release, but just a reminder for those who can't upgrade right away: I'm hosting all the old docs at http://bootstrapdocs.com
I'm the founder of Ark that that's totally false.
I tried to use Evernote, many times. I tried hard. But I just can't — there are seemingly minor problems with the Mac app and the iOS app that just make it unpleasant and annoying to use it on a daily basis.

I now keep my PDFs in Yep, other notes in Yojimbo, and suffer those apps' limitations — I still prefer them over Evernote.

Also, my trust in the company did not improve after I saw what they did to Skitch. A great app was basically ruined. So, until they hire a decent usability & UI design expert and start seriously improving the usability of their apps — I'll wait.
Puppet or Chef?
They went behind CloudFlare because of DDoS attacks. That is why you are seeing captchas.
https://twitter.com/placeholdit/status/256201151266045952
They need to work more on their browser. They are using the same webkit core as iOS, right? Reality is, every time I used the browser on Nexus 7, I want to throw it out of window.
? It's true that there is a low quality dump of FB data from years ago, but it's totally useless in terms of our faceted search and we never use these kinds of sources.
I don't think people share smartphones as they do tablets, so I can't see this being a massive issue. That said, if Google just make it pretty easy to hack it on (some conf file flag somewhere), would they technically still be infringing?
Serious Sam: BFE's "Warfighter-fighter" program gives out XBLA codes
Probably a European thing because Belgians don't like pushy sales staff either.
> High quality board-game apps seem to be the biggest gap on android tablets.

Probably because Android has traditionally focused on 7" tablets. Board games are the one area where I wish my iPad 3 was bigger. :(
There wouldn't be too many people who would be confident they could pick winner better than Jobs.
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Oharo, I'm curious why your only comments on HN are two slanders against Ark, on exactly the same day you first registered on HN?
As a PhD student, I use it to organize my research. Instead of having physical notebooks, I have virtual notebooks that I use to note and track the evolution of my ideas over time or when I need to write a report, because it syncs between my lab computer, my phone and my laptop. I also use the web clipper when I want to download and annotate a web page. I know that I could use a combination of free tools to do the same thing but I like having all of it bundled in the same package. The only big drawback is that they take my data hostage - I can't access it using a third party client (at least to my knowledge).
> I see developers swear by it like a religion regularly.

To me, that signals there is at least something fishy about the technology.

I'm not saying Node is bad, but I sincerely have the impression that a large majority of developers who like Node.js are mainly using it because it's 'hot technology' right now, not because it fits their technology problem so well. Event-based asynchronous servers are nice for some things, but definitely not for everything. If that were the case, Twistd and Tornado would have been much more popular before Node.js even existed. My perception is that Node.js is primarily popular because it attracted hordes of client-side developers to server programming, something that used to be too inaccessible before. Hard to dislike something that instantly gives you the impression you can write your own servers.
You are saying that if you have better teachers who know how to teach, then standardized testing doesn't matter - it doesn't have to be about drills.

That's essentially waving a magic wand. You are super privileging teacher training as some sort of silver bullet solution, but missing the larger system that works actively against the outcome. You are undervaluing the various pressures which get applied to education, one important one being parent desires to see their kid succeed.

It doesn't matter if the kid understands or not. It doesn't matter if he can answer more important questions but isn't able to perfectly prove a theorem.

No amount of teacher training can stand in the face of a single determined parent who wants their kid to ace that test.

Heck a more trivial point which is still important? - teacher empowerment must come hand in hand with training, because each student is vastly different even from him or herself depending on what time of the day/month or year it is. Teachers must be able to make graded and customized judgement constantly. Tests don't allow for that.

Moving the power for measurement into the hands of the test dis-empowers teachers. The test becomes/IS all that matters here, not the education.

And Tests only roughly measure learning. They MOST strongly measure whether you could answer that particular test.

The test is all that matters.

As a result, the kind of teaching you value, becomes deprecated. Its just not economically competitive. As the original article posits. You don't need teachers to pass the test. You need drill Sergeants.

Teachers who are good at that are the ones who will come to the fore, other teachers don't matter.

You could love your subject and instill it in students. But that doesn't guarantee a good grade. Loving a subject, being
involved in it, and testing well in it are different. Especially if you don't "think the test".

This is the final pressure - loving a subject or enjoying it is irrelevant. Students care even less, they know that as long as that they get the test - its all good. "I'm getting good marks In a stupid subject like chemistry, who cares?".

Do you want those people becoming your computer science engineers?

The system you are setting up is concerning, and no amount of teacher training will solve it.

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Further I think you are talking about standardized tests America had 30 or so years ago. Speaking on behalf of student body of India - we would have loved to have tests like that.

At least in America you had the option of making a life if you had some gumption even if you didn't ace those tests. You were a person as opposed to a Frankenstinian mental athlete.

Our tests were/are compulsory, for many people not in their first language, and they determined everything from your social standing to your marriage prospects. You started studying for your tenth standard exam 2 years before they started, you had no vacation and you had no spare time.

Then 2 years later you would do it for your ISC or IIT or CAT.
Y Combinator Of Education Imagine K12 Launches Its 3rd Cohort
I think of the MediaWiki wikitext specification and how that started as a simplification of HTML and was incrementally extended into a barely-computable disaster that, quite literally, put back a Wikipedia visual editor about six years.
Why Jeff and Gruber? Popularity and Politics.

Jeff is already called the initiator of the specification although he just reacted to an email of David Greenspan. [0]

Without Gruber giving at least a nod of approval it will always have an "unofficial" feel.

[0] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markd...
The formatting and the delivery on that site are confusing; both feel somewhat aggressive. It could just be a chinese / cultural / marketing thing we're not used to, or maybe the author's a little too confident.

Based on a quick google, it does appear GWAN is massively fast at serving static files, and it does appear to be gaining traction for script-based use-cases.

I'd be interested in seeing more real-world benchmarks.
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I can only answer how I use it, but here it is.

I take notes. Those notes sync to my work and home PC's my phone, my iPad and are available in a web app.

Those note can contain images and rich formatting such as tables.

I also keep my todo list in it, as notes can contain check boxes.

I keep my notes in hierarchical "Notebooks" (folders).

Finally I can search through all my notes.

All of the above make it a really excellent note app, not quite as good as OneNote but the syncing in Evernote is vastly better then OneNote's.

I know that other people scan documents into it, and that Evernote will OCR hand writing and make it searchable but that isn't my use case. You can also send emails, PDFs etc to it but once more I don't use this.
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Did everyone forget about RST? That said, RST is a bit complicated seeming.
In the windows version at least you can export your notes as html files.
Well, that's a damn entertaining blog post, and interesting too. Do you know whether the screencast is online?
What's Behind The Public Shaming of Reddit's King Troll Violentacrez?
Signal processing immediately comes to mind, and that is the use I am planning to put the chip towards. An associate of mine has developed a new method for signal decomposition on non-linear signals which FFT is not suitable for, and which is able to split the processing into parallel streams of processing.
Because the chip consume so little power, you will be able to build high performance processing into a small portable box that can run on batteries or USB (depending on how power efficient the final chip is, but they are currently talking about 2 watts).
The guy is from Switzerland: http://gwan.ch/about

Is anybody actually using G-WAN in production?
Targeted attacks against Mac users continue to climb
If Markdown had continued to be robustly maintained by Gruber then I would give that thought more credence. As it is now it's barely just one notch shy of abandonware, I think that transfers Gruber's feelings from the realm of reasonable criticism to the land of butthurt.
Managed to get throught the odd formatting, and I don't think the article's worth it.
That's too bad, 'cause the idea looked interesting: it's true that parts of developers' community are subject to the "go onto hype" phenomenon, and I'd have read with pleasure a serious analysis of that, which could open a constructive debate.
But here it's only a big rant mixed with conspiracy theory, about "why does everybody speaks about anything but g-wan", made up by somebody who obviously wants to get some buzz for his product.
nothing really.

ITs ok, this types of train wrecks have their own logic - after a while people will cotton onto this part, and then there will be spot checks to ensure that students aren't being given the question paper.

After that they will realize that all tests should come from one standardized system, lets say Pearsons.

Then pearson will conduct tests for all 10th graders and then all high schoolers and so on.

Kids will start spending time coming up with creative ways to cheat and beat the system.

Its happened before in other countries and will happen again.

At the end of this, expect people to enter the test center after going through a metal detector and removing any metallic object.
> Sales might be the single exception.

Except it's not: http://blog.fogcreek.com/why-do-we-pay-sales-commissions/
"iTunes-exclusive content" just means "pirate it", to me.
Well just announced yet: http://www.meethue.com/en-US/developers
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Steal my idea, Google: hot-swappable batteries please.
I see most new developments in web technologies as layers upon layers of frameworks designed to make it easier to create ever more complex web-based applications that will ultimately become irrelevant when people realize that the complexity and the scaling requirements of the applications being created are much better served by normal non-web focused programming languages.

With the success of the app store on iOS, vendors are realizing the value of eliminating the friction involved in installing native 'apps'. The sooner this happens the better, since it will mean much better software overall. Mail clients, word processors and mapping applications should not be written in javascript.

It's a damn shame that the OS vendors refuse to work together to make easily cross-platform native applications a reality. Thankfully though, if they create frictionless ways to use native code, frameworks and what not should be able to bridge the gap between OS specific API's and the hardware without performance issues. Moore's law will never make javascript word-processors good.

Javascript on the back-end just makes no sense to me whatsoever. Why not pick a programming language that was designed for the job, not something that was hacked together so it's somewhat passable at the job?

(by native i'm referring to languages traditionally used to bulid complex software, not just c/c++)
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At first I thought he used some kind of text-generator, where you just have to fill in some blanks with buzzwords.
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This submission was originally called "Node.js is all just hype"!

Apparently after 10 comments, the submitter renamed it to "What makes something notable?". At http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4113514 I read that:

"Pierre (the sole G-WAN author) says some funny things. He
also defends G-WAN using dummy accounts all over the internet
(StackOverflow, Reddit, Wikipedia, etc)."

The submitter, lehgo, happens to be created a week ago, and his only submissions have been about G-WAN. Coincidence?
Man who claimed half of Facebook charged with fraud
You're making something up as well if you assume Atwood intentionally did not contact Gruber beforehand. That is most definitely NOT interpreting the story at face value.
What Microsoft should deliver at its BUILD developer conference
That's more or less already the case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty_...
I love my surface, and I have no slowdown in Word and OneNote after installing the 600MB or so update. I have a touch keyboard.

What I'm disappointed about is that the bottom edge of the glass is not completely flat. This shows poor build quality, and I expected at least Apple quality from this device. I also tried a second one, and it also has non flat glass on the bottom edge. All the demo units had this problem too. Try reflecting a straight line on that part of the screen and you will know what I mean. It does bug me a bit because I expect a high standard for a $600 ARM tablet.
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> You've also invented a false trichotomy. Those aren't Jeff's only three choices. The fourth one you left out is "make something new without shitting all over Markdown".

And then everyone would criticize him for NIH syndrome and needlessly fragmenting the markup landscape further. And they would be right.
I actually like a lot of apple's skeuomorphism. I think it makes digital interfaces more natural. I think at least some of the iPhones success can be attributed to the fact that less savvy people find the skeuomorphisms easy to relate to everyday things and helps bridge the gap between, for example, using a real reel-to-reel vs. using a digital representation thereof. Although I agree that the podcast app is too much, I would really miss the leather textures and whatnot of other iOS apps.
If I remember right, this joke is also told in the Hollywood drug-flick "Traffic", from 2000 or so. In the movie, the burnt-out drug czar of the old US administration mentions this joke to his ambitious successor, played by Michael Douglas.
The privacy policy is empty.

considering the nature of the site, that may want to be filled in with all the appropriate notifications of complying with all EU regulations.

This includes the cookies legislation.
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I really don't understand most people. Why would you ever DDoS a CSS library's website?
"Anti-woman" - that's quite an accusation but that accusation is based on Tso's discussing a hypothetical situation where specifically no gender distinction is made and a male can end up being a victim (or a "victim", dependent on one's views).
Geez, I hate Google localisation. It NEVER works. It is always off.

I'm sitting in Germany, all my Chrome settings are set to English. Go to the main Nexus blogspot website and its in English. Great. (despite being blogspot.de)

Click on Nexus 10. Its in german. Understandable as I'm Germany. But please respect the browser settings.

Go back and click on Nexus 7, and its in English.

Go back and click on Nexus 4, and its in FRENCH!! Why?!

Click on the expanded memory option on the French page and it goes to the English version of the Nexus 4 page.

This infuriates me no end. This is the single reason why I will not use Google Play. I know that if I buy a book or a movie, the chances of it being in the language I set for the device will be slim. I have no desire to through money away like that.
Anatomy of the Linux virtual file system switch
I will encourage people to build their own online fame, then the daily work they do, they are not only doing it for the company, but also for their personal honor, thus they will be more willing to produce good work even maybe that means some extra work.

I see a far better society where individuals are respected more.
Was wondering when this one would show up!
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Currently features the sky, the ground, and a tree.

Happy little clouds are in progress.
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Accidental DDoS? For fun (a la 4chan etc.) etc.
But yeah I understand what you mean.
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Bit weird linking to a zip of master, but nevermind.
There are a number of good arguments.

Where does the scope of Wikipedia end? Should there be an article about "saurik"?

How do you actively police articles for e.g. defamation (note, we already struggle to handle this problem and it is getting worse)?

How do you stop spam?

I like to come at this argument from the opposite direction: what need is there for Wikipedia to give an article to every single trivial thing. Is what the president had for breakfast in 2011 sufficiently interesting to the reader?

Wikipedia is not a dump of knowledge, it is supposed to be a curated summary of the sum of human knowledge. And as with an article where you make editorial decisions about the level of detail to go into, so the entire Wiki is scoped to a reasonable level of detail.
I understand. I also prefer the UI of Yep or Yojimbo (or any of a bunch of other programs).

However, the cloud-tastic fact that all my notes are available everywhere outweighs the interface problems for me. (Even though I desperately would like a better UI.)

The thing about apps with UI problems like this is that users can overlook the flaws at first, if the app is really useful. But with time, if the program is something you use every day, one comes to develop a deep-seated dislike, almost a hatred. Or at least I do.

Therefore, I am inclined to try out every single would-be Evernote competitor, where if their software didn't have such sharp, sucky edges, I would not have time to do that. This is why I think making shoddy software can be really harmful to a company in the long term, even if it is presently popular and successful. If something else came along with the key features of Evernote wrapped in a less sucky package, I would jump ship instantly.

However, for me those key features are a.) one-step scanning paper to the cloud, b.) one-step print anything as PDF to the cloud, c.) API to get data out so I'm not locked in, d.) reasonably fast and robust search across hundreds of thousands of documents, and e.) Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and web apps to interface.

So far at least, there's nothing else.
As a counterpoint, I want none of those things.
Good thing I didn't go to an English high school.
I'd package them like Matryoshka dolls, to explicitly force ordering, since it seems it is relevant in messages.
I do not think his comment was an "asshole comment". He made a pretty great argument why he opposes shifting the deadline. It was presented in a very respectful manner*

You could have countered it without declaring him an asshole.

*I want to assume we are seeing the same comment so I am replicating it below.

"The hurricane wasn't a surprise... the effects shouldn't have been a surprise.

If you're going to run a startup, this is a good test of being prepared for a (known, impending, likely) shit tsunami, and being agile, and resourceful, and flexible, and, well, you get the idea.

If pg wants to appear compassionate about changing the date, that's fine, but this isn't like a tornado (no warning), or Katrina (total destruction of an entire city).

If people were going to apply at the very last second, guess what - moving the date forward by N days just means they have N more days before applying at the very last second.
If out of compassion pg wants to move the date, or more likely to avoid potential criticism of keeping the original date, then fine. But would this make a real difference, I doubt it.

Besides moving the date back might actually prevent some great company from getting in who are right now, demonstrating extraordinary resourcefulness at finishing the application (typing away on an iphone), getting it in on time, and providing a really cool story of how they did it."
What makes something "notable"?
A Linus Torvalds quote from a slightly different context:

> ethics are to me something private. Whenever you use it as an argument for why somebody_else should do something, you're no longer being ethical, you're just being a sanctimonious dick-head.

http://linuxfr.org/nodes/85904/comments/1230981
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I worked on a app to let you keep your bookmarks searchable from any browser and share them with others at same time.

http://www.microki.com/
RequestPolicy also protects against this by asking the user for confirmation before visiting any new domain unless the request was initiated by the user. In this case, RequestPolicy would detect that the request for a URL on a new domain was generated by JavaScript.

So even if you enable JavaScript on a site, RequestPolicy is a good second line of defence.