skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yay! Glad you like it.

As mentioned in the setup guide, you can build unminifed by setting the DEBUG environment variable to 1:

zmusic-ng $ make clean
zmusic-ng $ DEBUG=1 make

But, for changing the default search terms, just change the config in frontend/js/app.js _before_ running make. I could add some fancy frontend configuration system, but as there is only that one thing to configure at the moment, this is easy enough.

For more details, all of this is in the README linked above.

Let me know if you have any other questions or feedback. I'm thrilled someone is already making use of the project.
Show HN: Droptunes for put.io
Operations noob here. Honest question: How do I apply the patch file?

I've never seen one before, and I've managed to gather, via Google and Stack Overflow, how to use a git .patch (I think anyway), but I deploy on Heroku and can't directly access the source of my gems.

I already have the workarounds in place for now, but I'm very bothered that "use the patch" is a meaningless phrase to me. It seems like a useful thing to know for future scenarios.
These issues with teachers are largely in school districts in poor areas. The wealthy suburban school district I attended had no issues with teacher quality, and friends I made in college from all over the country confirmed this to be true on the national level.

Since school districts are primarily funded by local taxes, poor children end up with bad teachers. I believe this is what NCLB was created to fix, but that wasn't successful for a variety of reasons, the most prominent of which was probably the tying of funding to continual yearly improvement in standardized test scores.
You are right that I used linear where I should have used quadratic.

However consider this. To go from 95% to 99% confidence takes 73% more data collection. So for 73% more data, you get 5x fewer mistakes.

To go from 95% to 99.9% confidence takes 182% more data. So for less than 3x the data, you get 50 times the confidence.

My point remains. Confidence improves very, very rapidly.
Their official policy for all iOS devices is to always replace them, one dead pixel and up.

It is unrelated to their policy for their Macs and displays.
Every article about how terrible the U.S. education system is is more or less bunk. Judge Posner on such comparisons: http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/01/the-pisa-rankings-...

More numbers: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...

The solution is not to pay teachers more or have better teachers. I'm not convinced test scores are even all that sensitive to teacher quality within a wide range. The solution is to figure out a way to deal with inner city Chicago and places like it. The legacy of slavery, segregation, and white flight. A place where kids come from generations of uneducated parents and go to school fearing for their physical safety in the face of gangs, drugs, etc.
I think it would be interesting to see this implemented at a state level, where it belongs, rather than trying to accomplish this at the Federal level.

On one side, teachers do suffer from excess bureaucracy, underappreciation and (sometimes) lack of skills. On the other, mandatory guilds/bars are not usually something I'm a fan of, on principle.
http://easyendorse.com - solo developed, launched recently. Looking through my commit history, I definitely have a few "quiet" months that would have benefited from someone giving me a kick in the ass.
Our very own pg's On Lisp is great.

I personally advise against Clojure, but that's a mistake I'll let you make if you want.
>and also a community which has already poured thousands of man-years of effort into making stuff you can use for web applications

I would wager a goodly amount that you've hit the nail on the head here.

It seemed at first as though bundling all of the unix environment together and abandoning "The Unix Way" was a triumph of advertising and people's laziness. Thinking further, it's pretty clear that mobilizing a community around a varied basket of tools would have been nigh impossible.

It's pretty interesting how important this developer/social aspect has been to the development of the web. Larry Wall has certainly been in on the joke all along.
I think it's because of the transition happening too quickly. If the transition took an hour, it would be great :).

edit: You CAN make it take an hour! Just installed again!
Hmm, I'm not sure you could say it has "the same vulnerability".

It has the same vulnerability if you pass untrusted input to it, okay.

But the point of the Rails vulnerabilty is that every Rails app, by default, was set up to accept external user input and run it through an XML parser. Even if you didn't realize it.

If you are using MultiXml, you may or may not be passing untrusted user input to it, depends on what you did with it.

Right?
The article addresses this. Do you have an argument to make?
I could have easily written this comment! My favourite programming memory of all time was finally succeeding in turning the pseudo-code at the back of a book[1] that my mom had bought me into a Turbo Pascal program that would generate a Mandlebrot set. It was exhilarating!

[1] http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0671742175/tag=canaamp-20
I found this episode of This American Life a pretty thought provoking discussion on the same subject, and definitely worth a listen.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/474/t...
In most linuxes, you can ask for vertical subpixel hinting, at the very least from the command line.

I'm pretty sure that Windows has a setting for it too buried in the graphics card display settings somewhere.
[best test takers] is unlikely to be strongly correlated with [best teachers].
it's pretty neat -- with some nice styling and sort options, there's a lot of potential. but it's a great base. maybe i'll send you a pull request sometime -- edit to say running this on ec2 server with a shared dropbox as the music folder could lead to a whole lot of awesome
My wife and I both have been in multiple courses where either the professor or another at the university wrote the text book. Some weren't so great, but more than a few were outstanding.
what are your plans for dress.me?
Education policy is the issue that drew me to participate on Hacker News,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4728123

and I'm glad to see that so many participants, from the founder on to the newest member, enjoy thinking about and checking facts on education issues.

I'm not convinced test scores are even all that sensitive to teacher quality within a wide range.

Eric Hanushek has produced many peer-reviewed papers on the importance of teacher quality,

http://hanushek.stanford.edu/publications/teacher-quality

and I encourage participants on Hacker News who like to discuss education policy to read them thoughtfully. Better-quality teachers matter, both for test scores in the short term and for outcomes that matter a lot more in the long term.

Every article about how terrible the U.S. education system is is more or less bunk.

"Every" such article? How many have you actually read? Have you lived in another country for any length of time, as I have?

Quite a few authors have devoted more time and effort to careful international comparisons of education than the two bloggers you recommended to back up your opinion.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts...

http://educationnext.org/is-the-us-catching-up/

http://educationnext.org/teaching-math-to-the-talented/

Content analysis of the textbooks (for people who can read Japanese or Korean or Chinese or Russian--but how many Americans is that?) makes the point very clear. See

http://www.de.ufpe.br/~toom/travel/sweden05/WP-SWEDEN-NEW.pd...

(a LONG but worthwhile read I learned about from another Hacker News participant) for more about what's really missing in United States education.

See also

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/08/29/lo...

from a professor of mathematics at Princeton about which students come to Princeton well prepared for the courses there.
You do not need a patch file

All you need to do is:

update your Gemfile to the correct version of Rails
run **bundle update rails** in the root of your directory
then **git commit -am "update rails"** to save the files
then **git push heroku** to update on Heroic

The Heroku email has the information for all the Rails versions - if you are running 3.1.4, then you need to update to 3.1.10, if 3.2.X then 3.2.11 is your new version - this should be a safe update. Just pick the latest number for the X.Y version that you currently have in your Gemfile.
I've volunteered in inner city Chicago schools. I coached a middle school debate team there. There were times when I believe I was the only non-black person in the building. This made the debate topic of racial profiling even more difficult to discuss, but the kids managed it really well. A paraphrased quotation from one student: "On the one hand I don't like racial profiling because the white police come by every half-hour, but on the other hand there are gunshots every two hours." It doesn't even matter how accurate she was, that was her perception of the current state of her life.

I thought this article was interesting, because if teaching at a nice "white" school in the suburbs isn't considered super prestigious, what will make inner-city Chicago teaching prestigious in the long term? I've heard Teach for America suggested, and I've had friends who've done it. But TFA teachers are often not in it for "the long haul" because for the "best and brightest" to stay teaching in the inner city isn't prestigious enough to counter the frustration.

So while many articles about the US education system are bunk, and this one doesn't seem to focus on the inner city, I think the principles might still apply.

EDIT: Please, I don't want anyone to get the impression I think I understand everything about the problems South Side Chicago students face. I did have the privilege of observing some of the challenges they face first-hand, but I still have very little knowledge of the actual state of mind growing up in such places really consists of.
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That's funny - I was just thinking that we need to remove all of the current certification-based requirements for teachers. This seems to go the other way.

Education needs to change drastically. It needs to be nimble. It needs to start providing value in a post-industrial economy -- i.e, it needs to train kids to do knowledge work. You'll know it's making progress when graduating from High School starts to mean something again.

No one knows what that transition will look like, or what it will take. Most people agree it'll be disruptive and messy, and the teaching profession is already being disrupted (Coursera, Codecademy, etc).

It seems as though raising the barriers to entry for teaching as a profession, by adding yet another layer of certification, is a protectionist move that could get in the way of 'good disruption.'
A Spring-like dependency injection container for Objective-C
The KHTML library (as wrapped by KFM) was surprisingly usable back in the day on Linux. But who'da thunk it'd turn into one of the most important pieces of code in the world? Congrats to all involved.
Does anyone know anything that can do the same thing for movies? Specifically the transcoding part. I use plex, but i hate the fact that they add in GA tracking.
In scheme, argument evaluation order is not specified. So, (pretending that set! returns the assigned value),
(f (set! x (+ 1 x)) (set! x (+ 1 x)) ) is undefined and unpredictable as well. I don't think anyone would claim Scheme isn't high level.
I think most people in favor of improving our education system would assert that it's one approach of dealing with "inner city Chicago and places like it". It's also worth noting that it can be a valuable part of the solution even it's not wholly sufficient.
Yes, the prices are definitely higher than they were at that time. The deal a few months back was too good to be true. It has to be. I keep waiting for the FSM-270YG I bought for $350 to catch fire and burn down my house, but it hasn't happened yet...
Lego is ABS which is relitively expensive while most competing bricks are made from polystyrene.

The tolerence is the key thing though - we've got a reasonable selection of lego here as well as a few sets of Mega Blocks, Kreo and the odd chinese brand, and there's a huge difference in fit between brands with none coming close to Lego. Try watching your kid build something only to be unable to play with it because it keeps falling apart because the brick fit is sloppy
Try buying them in Australia where the RRP is almost exactly 2x the US RRP for most models :(
Drop-out from high school, or university/college? I'm part of the latter group & hire people from that pool frequently.
A very good post but I don't understand your dissing of ET. Where does he separate the mind into "observer mind". He certainly does say "observer" or maybe even observing consciousness.

| I could write a whole blog post on the problems I have with it, but it boils down to one fact: our mind, ego, thoughts and feelings are inseparable from each other.

Who said they were separate ?

I agree that sometimes Tolle does use terms which may not be real such as "pain body" ( I also did not like it when I first read Power of Now) but I understand that he creates these terms more to help understand something.

| he is imprecise with language

I don't think you can be precise in this particular case. When you speak of something which is actually the subject, and not an object, where there is no subject-object separation, then it is very difficult to be precise.

Let me give you an example from your own post:

| There is one consciousness, and my goal in meditation is to focus my consciousness on my consciousness

Who is this "my" who has a goal in meditation and even more importantly when you say "my consciousness" then whose consciousness is this you speak of. Are you some other entity who has a consciousness ?

Let me clarify that I am _not_ a Tolle follower, I follow self-enquiry, but I have found Tolle's PON to be a great book that I been able to appreciate _after_ having reached some measure of "presence".
You can't change the situation in the south side of Chicago with some teachers. It is, unfortunately, a much deeper rooted and more systematic problem.

I'm Asian, and one of the things Asian parents tell their kids is: choose your friends very carefully. You will become the kind of person you surround yourself with. So what of a kid on the south side? Surrounded by kids with no fathers, from families with no education or belief in education? Surrounded by drug dealers and gang bangers?

These communities will never improve so long as they remain so completely segregated, economically and racially. That's the tough issue nobody wants to address.
For you not to run away with the idea and greedily patent it, I'd just tell you to ride on the bittorrent protocol.
Wikipedia says:

> The Metasploit Project is also well known for anti-forensic and evasion tools, some of which are built into the Metasploit Framework.

If so, how are such functions valuable for a pentest/audit?
Web scale is a bizdev marketing term.

Cloud means stored online instead of locally.
I've followed this a bit by googling, reading posts and checking slickdeals and it doesn't output the 2560 resolution on anything but dual-link dvi and display port.
Crazy? What is apple's approach?

Windows' approach is by just upscaling each window, which makes things blurry.

Linux' approach is by letting you set the DPI in dozens of config files (eg one for GTK+, one for QT, ...), but at least the end result looks "reasonably" what you want.
We have a good supply of both Lego and K'Nex here. I agree with your comment on K'Nex manufacturing but add that it doesn't really matter. K'Nex seem designed to connect well and holdtogether well despite this (I'm talking about the rods/joiners, not their stupid Lego-like bits which are just horrid)

K'Nex and Lego are different and my kids play wth both about equally I'd say. They get used to build different stuff and they're both awesome :)
This is dumb. States already require teachers to pass standardized tests to demonstrate content mastery and pedagogical skill, and there is zero reason to think that it does anything to improve teacher quality, let alone to think that implementing it on the federal level would improve teacher quality.

And there is tons of evidence showing that merit pay not only doesn't improve teaching quality, but actually makes it worse.

The idea that the reason why Finland's kids do better on some random test is because we don't have standardized testing and merit pay for teachers is absurd. This is just another attempt at the privatization of schooling so that capitalists can gut the school system and monetize children.
I have to say that site looks pretty good! I didn't really read it or get into it (other than what you've stated here) but at first glance it looks really well designed.
Right. I understand that much, but entire swaths of our application become unusable when I upgrade. Chalk it up to "legacy" code from when I was first learning Rails.

Since that is fundamentally my own problem, and I have to deal with it over time and within my team's constraints, I didn't want to bore anyone with the details of why I don't just update the gem.

Thank you for the reply/help, but my question remains: Is it possible to use the these kinds of patch files on Heroku, and if so, how?

--

EDIT: Responding to tomfakes here since HN won't let me:

I am only going from 3.2.2 to 3.2.11. I think the breakage is query-related, and it's actually quite embarrassing how bad so much of my old code is (procedural doesn't even begin to describe it). But this is how one learns, I suppose, and now I'm very incentive to go back and refactor/fix all of it.

I'm just worried about the in-between time, and bothered that this process of "applying a patch" is a mystery to me.
Nice work! I see it supports X-Accel-Redirect. Do you think it could proxy music from a remote HTTP server, i.e., an S3 bucket?

http://kovyrin.net/2010/07/24/nginx-fu-x-accel-redirect-remo...
Nicely done, well explained.

I made a web app recently and tried CORS and Amazon S3 for the first time. Very surprised and pleased with the results. I'm reading and writing JSON files to the bucket, and it must be said - very snappy and responsive! Also it's nice to work with straight JSON rather than messing around with JSONP.

The web app I made is for a company's internal network, so I didn't need to worry about older browsers. That's the only drawback with CORS, older browsers will stumble, and even "modern" browsers may have issues.

I got it working in IE8/9, Firefox, Chrome. But not Safari on Mac. For some reason Safari doesn't like CORS, and threw an error when attempting to read the files from the bucket. I never solved it, but it didn't matter because nobody was accessing the web app with Safari.

Also note that in IE8/9, unless the user has specifically enabled "Access data sources across domains" in their IE custom security settings, CORS will fail. Edit: ignore that previous sentence, CORS does function ok in IE8 regardless of the cross-domain setting mentioned. The problem I was having with IE8 was that "intranet" sites were falling back to "IE7 Document Mode" by default and CORS will definitely fail in that situation.
This is pretty great. Are you going to be @ pycon or anything? I'll buy you a beer.
Ideas aren't as sacred as you'd think. It's the execution of them that generates revenue.
7 social networks to watch in 2013
Slavery at one point was unethical yet legal. Do you consider the people who ran the underground railroad selfish?
Honestly, I down vote on the iPhone all the time, by accident. I'd assume that if I was you...
And here I was, hoping this would be a post with empirical evidence that beard length == intelligence.
Not sure if you've seen any of the stuff by patio11 but he's pretty much bootstrapping his companies (Bingo Card Creator & Appointment Reminder), consulting and info products and he seems to be doing pretty well for himself. He's pretty transparent about his numbers on BCC and has plenty tips for microISV's.

He blogs here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/

*

I've just started to ramp up on doing a SaaS/blogging about the process. It can be pretty overwhelming if its your first go 'round.
This was posted a week ago.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006397

And reposted 2 days ago.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5026440

edit: I'm an idiot, didn't read the post properly.
The USACO site was originally a bash script (dunno what Kolstad uses now)
This is a different post.
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There is a great documentary called "Waiting For Superman" that addresses the inner city school problem and so called achievement gap. It's on NetFlix. If you haven't seen it it is worth the time.
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There is a significant markup though. Cutting out the middleman could make it cheaper.
Thanks for these. It is awesome to see how the sausage is made.
I'm impressed! It loads super fast. Good work.
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The email Don sent to the KDE mailing list at the conference is also very much worth reading:

http://lists.kde.org/?m=104197092318639
If he can learn 37 programming languages, he can learn how to market well enough to bootstrap a company. This is just a long list of excuses not to even get started. There are so many reasons not to get started, so many reasons you will fail, and so many reasons to just go get a real job. If you're listening to any of that you're not really an.d entrepreneur and you probably should just go get a real job.
So was the yelling just out of surprise that it wasnt Gecko? Or was someone pissed off that it was chosen?
Thanks! Doubtful I'll be there, but I'll probably be at Hackito Ergo Sum.
Yeah there's a whole bunch of them, they're different posts. I guess a couple of the Safari team dudes have started blogging recently...
I think first of all I'd like to know why you want to learn meditation, are you expecting something. Although, I myself don't believe in getting lost in books and concepts, however at some stage you may find it motivating or helpful to read a bit of what others who have been down this path have to say.

I've been in this for a decade and here are some helpful works that are easily available online and free. YMMV. In no particular order, works of Nisargadatta Maharaj (esp I am That), Michael Langford (awareness watching awareness), books on mindfulness (already linked below). A very approachable book has been Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

I follow self-enquiry (Sri Ramana Maharshi) but sadly that is 'lost in translation' and wrongly/poorly explained everywhere. I find Langford's online book to be very motivating although my technique varies from his.
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Absolutely. Lots of ways to set things up here. You could build support directly into the app, which isn't very difficult, or even easier, just use s3fs:

https://code.google.com/p/s3fs/wiki/FuseOverAmazon