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>Lots of things are obvious to lots of people and most of those things turn out to be false. Only rigorous justification advances our knowledge.

In hard sciences it does. There, there's no problem with "rigorous justification".

But overdoing "rigorous justification" can take our knowledge back instead of advancing it, in non hard science domains.

What I argue for here is the so-called European way of thinking about humanities and soft sciences, as opposed to the Anglo-Saxon model of quantification, hard proofs, reductionism and such. Letting "rigorous justification" overtake humanities and soft sciences can be detrimental to society, thinking and freedom. Moreover, despite pretending to be "objective", the Anglo-Saxon way takes for granted a whole ideological apparatus of its own (only except of being self-reflective, like the European, it naively assumes it is inevitable and natural).

>You would know all of this if you weren't a complete ignoramus.

Thanks for the personal insult. Am I to presume it reflects your deep studies and personal cultivation?
I did go back, and checked my email account. No, its only me who is reading my emails, its a corporate espionage problem, corporations have to deal with it. Normal people don't have anything of interest for state sponsored intrusions, thus are not targeted. Please dear journalists, don't drag me in this war, I know someone is pissed here and there on both side, and both have armies like muscles, too tempting for both side to flex, but seriously, this is not diplomacy! We as people, should root out both govt democratically if they even dare to wage a open cyber war.

If my govt would do that, I would seriously vote against any war, no matter how just it may sound. Americans have a life, Chinese people also have a life. I don't see the problem in common people's life.
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And how much to build it to mil. spec? Probably x10 that number at a minimum. Sure, it's not a military establishment, but I am sure their security and 50 year event survivability is higher than any commercial DC facility.

Add to that the fact that utilization in most DCs is terrible. A super computer will throw out significantly more heat than your "traditional" DC.

Let's not even consider the op. ex. of moving the staff working who would work on the new facilities.

Edit: And LOL at those figures being accurate. That's just the building. What about the costs for the fibre, all that copper, power infrastructure, cooling, false floors, air filtering, special construction needs such as sunken well floors (to contain any leaks from the cooling systems, for example).
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Maybe its the LLVM of the web?
>Living by myself allows me to precisely meter how much time I spend with others and how much time I spend alone. If I want some human contact at the moment, then I go out and get some. If I don't, then I go home.

Err, we are not taking about 20-somethings enjoying the xbox, pizza etc nights alone.

We are talking about older people, devoid of social contact. People that cannot just "go out and get some".

Think of that Eleanor Rigby lady.
> What she found was that the course was way more difficult than the description suggested, and proved to be well above what she could understand with her current background. She watched the first video and found that it was going to take way more time than the course description predicted, because she would have to try to fill in a tremendous amount of background knowledge that the teachers presumed.

It's quite possible that this is a function of having so little open content out there right now. I can imagine a future where the background your wife needed would be easy to get from the platform itself, so that the profs' demanding teaching could serve audiences both with and without that background. Right now many of these courses must feel like skyhooks but once they're embedded in a web of knowledge (an earlier commenter called these 'nodes') they'll be more accessible i think.

There's still a huge problem of collecting and sequencing these nodes and I think many students will need direct contact with instructors of some sort to do this.
You are more than right.

To the other readers: Whenever you can read the kind of articles like the TFA you can be certain of only one thing: some propaganda office somewhere either wrote it or motivated somebody to write it that way. The military people have zero interest to present such details to the public, the propaganda people do but only if the purpose is "to prepare the opinion at home" (the pretext) for something that is going to follow. So just remeber this for now, I'm sure you'll see something will happen soon but not initiated from the other side. It's not a tinfoil-hat-imagined conspiracy but how "the machinery" of structures with different interests imperfect as it is "shines" to the outer world. For examples of similar actions from not so long ago:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/avrticle/0,9171,994414,00....

Unless you're one of those on the payroll, don't happy, be worry.
How I reached 2 million downloads on the app store
Last week I crossed the two million total downloads mark with my apps.

The apps are all build with a cross-translator called Monkey (http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz), but I'm currently switching to cocos2d-x.

I'm happy to answer any questions you all have.

Feel free to read my blog post about it:

http://intermediaware.com/blog/how-i-reached-2000000-downloads-on-the-app-store
It was just supposed to be monitoring for some scammy companies and she got overzealous and sent a letter to Backupify (they are awesome and definitely not scammy). The lawyer said the best way to stop scammy companies would be to trademark it, I'm just a college student so I (unwisely) let them take care of it. Plus it was just an unnecessarily scary letter-not an legal action.

I just didn't want people to mess up their computer because they downloaded something that seemed to be endorsed us (fyi, we don't endorse anyone). That's all.
Didn't seem to work for me.
Seems like it is implemented using Flash (right click on the street view image and you'll see the Flash context menu)
Yeah I chose that because I2P uses it. The devs are already discussing upgrading, and once they do I will upgrade it in Nightweb as well.
A couple of clarifications:

* Dart compiles to JavaScript, Silverlight did not.
* Dart is actively being developed, Silverlight is not.
* Dart does not require any plugins, Silverlight did.
* Dart natively supports the DOM, Silverlight did not.

[disclaimer: I work on the Dart team]
I'm interested to hear you say that your blog got you measurably more freelance work.

I can't speak to programming specifically, but I'm a consultant and contribute to my company's blog, Grant Writing Confidential (http://blog.seliger.com). For us, the most useful part of the blog from a marketing standpoint is search engine traffic.

We're not exactly Perez Hilton—I'm sure people posting celebrity nudes get a lot more hits—but people searching for terms specific to our work often find us, which they seldom do through generic searches ("grant writer" or "grant writing.")

The secondary benefit is that we demonstrate that we know what we're talking about; if you think we're full of shit, you can read as much of the blog as you want, and decide for yourself whether we are.
I bought it last week. This has replaced Minecraft for me. It is magnificent fun, even in its current alpha state. Then again, so was minecraft back in the day.
Ask HN: What should I learn if i want to manage and parse lots of data?
I have some large csv files that I'd like to parse for information, sort, and just figure interesting things out. I don't really know how to code, but I'd like to be able to create a searchable web interface for this data. What are the best programming languages or frameworks I should learn to accomplish this?
I actually read a paper a while back describing how to do trees in an RDBMS by encoding the parent hierarchy of a row in a string primary key or something like that. To get everything in a subtree, just check for keys with a certain prefix. I can't seem to find it now, though.

EDIT: should have gone to HNSearch first. Here's the comment where I found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4921541 . Specifically, http://www.tetilab.com/roberto/pgsql/postgres-trees.pdf

EDIT 2: tetilab link seems broken. Try this: http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/MyToL/www/downloads/t...
That seems like an odd prediction to make for an expressive, dynamic, C-like language. It's nice to have other options, but I suspect that large amounts of vanilla Javascript will be written for many years to come.
Wow, this is great! I got to see a block completed and see a 3392.80 BTC transaction go by - both got me excited enough to be amusing to those around me!
Right. I'd also add that many of my own blog posts start from e-mails or random conversations. In the case of e-mail, it's often a fairly straightforward transition to a post.
This is an interesting approach. I think if they paid more attention to where and when exactly people would engage with content they could increase retention. I also have more time for audio than video and would love lectures of some sort delivered to my mobile. This could create a sort of immersion experience when combined with video and exercises.
Same here. While the wine approach worked, this seems to run just a bit smoother.
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Consider a service powering a right click context menu. REST's HATEOAS constraint is a generalization of this idea - decoupling the API from the client.

A lot of popular web APIs, e.g. Twitter, do not embrace HATEOAS, which is why API changes break clients. Which isn't really a big deal if you control all the clients.
A certain other Canadian bank only allows passwords with a length of 6, no more, no less. This bugs me to no end with how insecure it is. I believe their excuse is because the same password is used for your phone banking password and that one must be 6 characters.
Are you talking about the speed of the compiler itself, or the speed of the code produced by the compiler? If you're talking about the speed of produced code, then I think the compiler is actually fairly decent, since they rely LLVM to optimize the code. Maybe not performance equivalent to C, but still very decent performance.
Then you are bound to fail.
The $120m is sunk costs from a previous building budget, it's not relevant. The more relevant piece is more recent supercomputer (with architectures which are not dead ends) being 4 times as power efficient.
Today maybe not. But back before the internets, writers sure had read most of those. Except if you mean pulp writers -- there I can't tell.

Still, I follow the literary world in 2-3 countries quite closely, and all those are old staples. Your average writer with literary aspirations have read all or most of them and tons of others. There was no published poet a few decades ago that hadn't read Elliot and Pound.

Heck, even university students in most fields had read those authors back in the day. It was just something you did. Even rock musicians. You can find references to Elliot for example in the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and lots of other bands.

In essence, reading other writers (and a lot of times, criticizing them, often in literary magazines) is what writers did/do.
I think this is very good advice, and I will remember that in the future, even as I wish that in classes I had sat near the front.

Regardless, I think we need to admit that Adria Richards has one of the best conference hacks of all time! One of the best conference hacks of all time!
What disappointed me about this article was the total lack of accountability for those local to the writer.

If the writer's parents, extended-family, and school faculty were all unable to provide any insight for the writer then they were willfully ignorant. People do have a responsibility to educate themselves. Especially when they are in a position of responsibility.

The writer self-filtered himself from the opportunities available by not seeking out opportunities. Universities two thousand miles away should (and do) try to make themselves known to students. But that doesn't relieve a person of responsibility. If you don't have the motivation to find out about them, then you probably wouldn't succeed at the school anyway.
I've bookmarked this interesting analysis to add the link to my personal website. I especially like the comparisons among differing brands of online courses.

Before I read the fine article (which I recommend you read too), I was going to react just to the headline. And that reaction is still there. The reason we (correctly) criticize lack of retention in online education is that online education makes apparent metrics that show the lack of retention. But I would suggest, for learned discussion by all the participants here, that most forms of classroom learning, and especially compulsory secondary schooling in most of the developed world, suffers from a very bad lack of engagement on the part of the students. (Some of the comments posted here before this comment tell stories about that.) A high school student may attend classes often enough to avoid being expelled and gain a diploma, but the student may operate in "regurgitate and forget" mode the whole time he is in high school, not really remembering anything he supposedly was taught. The one kind of deep learning many high school students engage in is learning how to pretend to be studying. If online education develops better demonstrations of learner acquisition of knowledge and skill than mere seat time in a classroom, it may be a powerful force for exposing the dirty secret of classroom education.
The original post said that they contacted you through the site you put up, and that you requested sponsorship ranging between $40k and $400k to be associated with this "holiday". That doesn't sound like you were just trying to protect public interest (which is not clear why you would think it is you who should say who can use that name or not).
What's the relationship between a sound (pitch, note, etc) and a transaction value?
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My friend Daniel says the same thing, he started with Codecademy and moved to Learn Python the Hard Way, and he definitely says they both had their merits but Learn Python the Hard Way got him to actually being able to code.

However, LPTHW wouldn't have made sense to him if he hadn't already done CA, so he liked having done them both.
this, the notion that CoffeeScript generated code resembles some kind of arcane binary like output is wrong. As knowing the basics of JavaScript is pretty much a requirement for working with CoffeScript I never ever encountered any problems when debugging generated code because is not obfuscated and easy to read and the compiler doesn't do anything you didn't specifically write in your CoffeeScript. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that I think compiled CoffeeScript is easier to read then most peoples hand written JS. What makes code unreadable is the Closure compiler which is completely different beast.
Did you take the PSAT, and if so, how did you get it arranged?
Seems a bit early to optimize for retention. Or to have dirty secrets. Or real suffer almost any kind of analysis at all.
Some of what you are saying is the way to solve some of the problems I mentioned, e.g., poor video and sound quality.

Some more of what you are saying, e.g., about marketing, design, and e-mails to students, definitely would help. However, I assumed that such things were asking too much of poor schools and that, really, the HN readers who dug through K&R, etc. on their own with no marketing, design, encouraging e-mails, etc. didn't really need such nice hand holding.

But I will say, at some crucial points for me, some teachers did play a crucial role: The college I graduated from then had a quite good math department, and some of the teaching aimed at me personally in some of the courses was just excellent and got me going so that I could continue on to 'the next level' in math via independent work. Then for on-line learning, as progress is made on the first, and easiest work, many of the students will need some 'personalized TLC' or risk getting off track, slowing down, and stopping.

Part of such TLC will be overviews: That is, it needs to be more clear to students what the value, purpose, or promise is of various parts of the course.

Another part of TLC is that students need to write some things, e.g., homework exercises, term papers, something like lab reports, and have their work read by an expert and 'corrected'. E.g., a place to learn nicely polished skills in writing about functions, maps, mappings, relations, etc. is in a theorem proving course in abstract algebra where a good professor actually corrects some student homework. Then when work with functions, maps, ..., in computing, will get the notation and terminology right; without such TLC, often won't get those things right. E.g., earlier today I read a little about hashing passwords, and the material mentioned a function "between the hashes and
passwords". No, "between" is not appropriate. The usual description, and appropriate, is a function f from the set of hashes to the set of passwords. To be clear and not just picky, function f may not define a function g from the set of passwords to the set of hashes because there may be a password p such that there is no hash h so that f(h) = p. That is, the function f may not be 'onto', i.e., 'surjective' as at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surjective_function

The level of clarity and precision available, useful, and often important is high, but students commonly need some in-person, TLC teaching in such things.

There's an old lesson in 'education': Get the student able to continue on in learning on their own. For that, usually some 'personalized TLC' is needed at a few crucial points in a student's development. To be really successful, the on-line approach will have to include some of that TLC also.
There needs to be a way to close the YouTube player, not just hide it. I keep getting "video player is too small" errors after hiding the player so I can scroll down and select another song.

Incidentally, if the songs you want are available on the iTunes Store, http://preview.fm/ is a lot cleaner and easier to deal with, at least if 30-90 second samples will suffice.
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from the sound of it, it is over, gone in the past. Mistakes happen, lets not publicly rip his clothes (lol). Sounds like he is sorry and its over. I hope so at least.
Check bottom left corner. I guess mtgox and blockchain streaming api.
Treehouse is awesome, it's just expensive. I recommend Treehouse very strongly if you want to build a career-level skill out of programming. Treehouse fucking rules.

I do ALWAYS recommend starting to Codecademy just to see if programming itself gets you off and to get your feet wet. Even now I still use it for that.

Incidentally, I still don't know how to use Ruby or Python functionally, so that's a pretty big failing of my learning so far. Like, I can write Python and Ruby scripts way better than Php, but Php is always installed and configured on every server and I know exactly how to use it in my dev environment, so I always default to that.

I'm making a Twitter App right now, and for speed I'm using a PHP API wrapper that is way worse than just writing the requests in Ruby. But. I don't know how to actually USE Ruby.

That felt good to say out loud, er, on the Internet.
It's still a bad analogy since more devices probably understand JavaScript than understand x86 nowadays.
Mind revealing to us how you made it so fast? Your site feels faster than even YouTube search...
The issue is only you know when you are enabled.

>Better for them to disappear and then automatically reappear

No amount of technology will do this magic.
Second the motion for a desktop client

I _have_ an Android, but I dislike typing on it. For me, it's a phone, period.
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I ran an intrusion detection and firewall appliance during my stay in China and the attempts were relentless. Tl;dr Got data you care about? Bring a throwaway laptop and cellphone on arrival. Rotate passwords.
Ideally, it's done via Link Relations: http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relation...

The specific ones are first, last, next, and prev/previous. As long the name doesn't change, the URI behind the scenes should be able to change however you need.

We do this in the Twilio API though we don't use the suggested Link Relations to describe the URIs:
https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/call#list-get-example-1
better algorithm and no parodies/remixes/wrong titles?
It's a pity that bubble size is unrelated to the amount of Bitcoins in transaction. Or is it related to the transaction size?
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Is it like this?

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/nerd_sniping.png
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Like jospehpmay mentioned, it really depends on what you're building. Usually I find good design to be an absolute must when breaking into a crowded space (like social networks, email clients, etc). If you're innovating, I think most people will usually care more about the functionality and what problem you're trying to solve rather than how it looks.
> as well as a dry (empty) 1 liter bottle?

Actually, you're not allowed to bring such a bottle as I understand things. I didn't really bother scrutinizing, but the impression I got from a few years back was that even if you emptied out an over-sized container, you still wouldn't be allowed to pass it through.

Now that I think about it, I think this impression is from the fact that you can't bring a half-empty bottle (with only 100ml of liquid or whatever the amount is).
Why canvas and not SVG? The code is gross, I know you mention it in the comments. It definitely affects who will use your library. If someone is sane about a consistent clean codebase, they would never use this lib. Cool idea and execution though, not trying to knock you.
Hmm, can it be faster, if suppose you reduce the size of cover art below the player? Plus, when I switched from spotify to youtube, it gave me a 'player is too small' error. Also, you can't switch to a new link, until you hide the player again.
Strangely relaxing to listen to money being moved around.
oh i don't mean a marketing person who "spins" the course. but rather somebody who understands what messages to deliver to which students when. for example, if I haven't done any of the assignments in 3 weeks, telling me about admin for the upcoming exam is worthless. a designer and a content specialist understand this deeply and can help make the professor's communications more effective. "spinning" them would be worse...
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The prices are generally higher back there, for what I hope are obvious reasons.