skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did manage to get 2048 the first time through, but I made several mistakes thinking I'd be able to merge a couple of purples that weren't really the same. It's less of a problem when they're right next to each other, but when you're thinking ahead, it's easy to get a little lost on the spectrum.
Cryptocurrency Exchanges: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
I'm a fan of baroque and early (pre-1800) music, and the "Barock Music" stream is very calming and restful: http://barock-music.playtheradio.com/
Looks like someone got this working using various smartphones http://vimeo.com/71647538

FM radios though just might sound better.
CLR semantics are frozen as far as C# is concerned.
It may be that for some younger kids, the idea of the computer "doing" something seems more meaningful if the computer is doing something physical.
Yes! Thought of this as well. To add what I would love to see is:

So starting out with this comic: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

I think a open education platform where it kind of plots out the things like in comic. So you could navigate around this circle and see where your knowledge is at for certain subjects (closer to edge of the circle is getting to phd knowledge).

What you could also do is show interconnected things. Say you are trying to learn some math subjects but you know very advanced music theory (or whatever). Knowing how to explain certain topics to someone that has other knowledge, or even showing other topics and how they make use of the math/whatever subjects you are studying.

I started on something like this, basically just going through a bunch of schools curriculum and putting it together with classes / books I could find. But I would love to explore this further.

Feel free to message me: jordan@howlett.io
If you're interested in this type of thing, I highly recommend "Code Optimization: Effective Memory Usage" by Kris Kaspersky:

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Optimization-Effective-Memory-Usa...
Dibs! Melanoma runs in my family; it never occurred to me to build something like this, but I can certainly see the benefit. Thanks for the idea!
8 years counting HTML/CSS, though, I'm not sure I consider HTML/CSS programming, so 4 to 5.
Aesthetics is another (arguably more marketable) aspect of car sound.

Have you seen The Dilemma? About two guys (tech founder and business founder) working on a system for giving traditional muscle car sound to electric cars. (And some romantic comedy type stuff too.) When I saw it I thought - that idea would really fly. Whilst silent cars may be great for the majority (especially those living near busy roads), there is still a sizeable group that will pay extra for a great engine/exhaust note combo. See also recent criticism about the sound of the new hybrid Formula 1 engines, including from world champ Sebastian Vettel "sound like sh*t". There's a definite market there, but obviously depends on the electric car market itself.
can you give a hint? i think i understand the article (well, i haven't read it, but i sometimes need to tailor code to work better with the cache on a cpu), but i don't know what you're referring to.
Okay, I updated the colors so the dark green is darker.
I suspect the locals would happily trade emotional trauma for being surrounded by dead bodies of loved ones. I suspect their goal is to try to get them to hesitate to pull the trigger. Supposedly, Mata Hari was only hit by two or three of the bullets of the 10 or 12 shot at her for her execution.* So sometimes you can get to the people pulling the trigger.

My dad fought in the front lines of two wars. He suffered PTSD. I am sympathetic to the trauma suffered by the soldiers. But I am also sympathetic to the civilians who would like very much to not be bombed.

* http://eyewitnesstohistory.com/matahari.htm (Does not address the point I make but is an interesting read.)
LICEcap [1] does this beautifully.

> LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF.

[1] http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
You say it's been a year or two since you tried Xamarin Studio + F# -- I urge you to give it a try again, using up-to-date versions of both (and Mono too). There has been a significant amount of effort put forth by the F# community in the past year to improve the F# + Mono + Xamarin Studio stack; in fact, Xamarin hired one of the best F# developers/consultants in the community (@7sharp9) specifically to improve F# support in Mono and Xamarin Studio.

If you have any questions, or you try F# + XS + OSX again and still run into issues, post something to the fsharp-opensource list (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fsharp-opensource), or ask on StackOverflow.
I'd be interested to see some more examples you come up with if you continue to teach your kids.

I'm re-learning basic trig right now for drawing OpenGL stuff, and I was trying to think what I could have told younger-me on why I should be paying attention in high school for this topic.

When I was in high school, it would have made me more attentive if people said, "Hey, this stuff that finds circle arcs and radius, you can use this in real life if you decide to get into gaming, graphics, .. (and other cool topics that would excite me)."
The Execution of Mata Hari, 1917
Recently came across Noon Pacific that does exactly this. Loving the service:
http://noonpacific.com/
It could be negative height which would work very well and not obstruct any view.
Yup, as I said, the problem is crash dumps. If this only affected debugging it would be a minor annoyance, but it destroys information in client crash dumps which get delivered by Watson, effectively making dumps useless.

Exception filters run before the stack is unrolled, so if you crash your process in an exception filter the stack is preserved.
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With web programming, a lot of the initial hassle and set up is gone, and visual learning/iteration by hitting refresh is very easy. So I would say, almost as young as they can play around with a web browser, and type on a computer. You can immediately start seeing results by typing in the Chrome inspector console. I think even a 4-year-old would be able to understand an if/else, but I'm not behavioral psychologist.
Well, let me confirm to you that the desire exists; I have a quarter of a basement full of stuff I want to park in a locker somewhere, but haven't found the time to pick a locker and then rent the truck I'll need to cart it off to there.
Definitely, however this is a situation caused by a lack of teaching talent. Teachers are simply not skilled enough to create a programming curriculum that could be considered rigorous.
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I don't think it does exactly what you want but it somewhat useful: GatesGuru (by tripadvisor). Can see a map of the airport and what they have to eat etc.
who does this website belong to? c2.com? really cool domain name, mustve been an early adopter?
This article is comparing a complex SMS/MMS app with custom popup window functionality on Android to a relatively simple standalone IM client on iPhone (no popup windows nor SMS/MMS integration since neither are supported on iOS) and drawing conclusions from the experience. If they built the same standalone IM client with no popup windows on Android, I'd wager their experience would be quite different.
Anyone else get motion sickness while playing? :/
Here's a good Board game that has the concept of instructions and executing them: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18/roborally
Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer
LISP 1.5 manual (MITPress)
Have you looked at the new SHA-3 for this? Seems like you're looking for something like a sponge function. (It's obviously fine as-is, I was just curious)
haha that's awesome, I had no idea about a lot of stuff when learning but that's the amazing thing, you don't need to know everything to get started and start building things, and that's what scares people off, they think they have to get a math or comp sci degree to code something basic
You're assuming that my comment was based on this incident alone.
It's an Xserver that runs inside Wayland. Wayland is a new graphics server (made for Linux), that replaces X. But most applications will still need X. So you run a small X server inside Wayland so you can still use those applications.

(N.B graphics are run as a server in Linux, you send requests to the server and it places you graphics on the screen (if applicable))
Related: I wanted to make a highlighter that would be able to read what it highlights and then digitise it and send it to my computer.
yeah that's a good point; I really wonder about conditional statements though, I think control flow should be straight forward, but I would think you might need to start off with variables and primitives at least.. what do you think?
If less than $120/month would actually bankrupt you, then yes, you have to go for the absolute cheapest option available. Sure, your particular use case very much favours DO's pricing, but if that kind of money would bankrupt you, then you have such little money that it's irrelevant what anyone but the cheapest provider costs.
Guess the nerds aren't allowed to get a break from the bullying as adults either huh.
yeah, one of those (thanks). edit - knowing it was a watch i've found this - http://www.sleeptracker.com/ but if you have something simpler / less expensive / more attractive to my partner (less nerdy looking) i'd be interested. edi2 - ah, also http://www.axbo.com/pages/shop

so i guess to correct my original post - something more like a simple, traditional alarm clock. with less obvious tech. but that somehow works this same way. basically just a clock display and some buttons to set the alarm time, and i guess some kind of wearable sensor.
Could these features be added to Github via browser plugin? (I really don't know)
Making this visual does wonders for kids. I think that's why Alan Kay went with Scratch the way it is.
my bathtub is like 1" lower than the rim of my toilet
http://www.getferro.com/

or

http://vimium.github.io/
On a related note...

"This is the story of every known drone strike in Pakistan."

http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/
yeah I wondered about string myself, I don't see how a child could get "strings". I think they would get "letters" or "words" or even "text". That's why I just didn't get into strings, I just let them type stuff and see the result of what they were typing in the simulator which was thrilling. And when it came to teaching variables I went with int's. Even that was a long shot. I just went with "it's just a number" and I think that should be sufficient for lesson #1 :)
http://learnyouahaskell.com/

https://github.com/NICTA/course/

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/

http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/06/you-could-have-invented...

http://www.amazon.com/How-Prove-Structured-Daniel-Velleman/d...
It is a major fear for religious groups that belong to a religion that won't recognize/perform same-sex marriages.

But it won't likely happen (or won't be upheld on challenges up to SCOTUS if it does happen at a local level). Religious freedom includes religions that sometimes hold beliefs that may not be popular.

For example, most Zoroastrian organizations forbid conversion to Zoroastrianism and won't permit marriages to outsiders. However, it's highly unlikely a law would be passed stopping this kind of ethnic discrimination. Many Christian preachers go on about the evils of paganism, but outlawing speech against Wicca or Hinduism or whatever is unlikely to happen as would a law forcing believers in those religions to convert to an acceptable non-Pagan religion.

> which would (I assume) apply to churches being used for ceremonies.

Churches or other houses of worship have a special protected status different from that of businesses. They're kind of like a private club. They aren't free from all laws, human sacrifice is not permitted for example.

More importantly, people are free to leave and join other religions as they see fit (or no religion), or spin out their own sect that allows for whatever they want as they wish.

This was seen as important enough that it's actually the first part of the first amendment, before speech, press and assembly.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It'd be very hard to pass such a law and not have it run afoul of this.
If they really felt so bad, maybe they would stop what they're doing.
LinkedIn invite from non-members?
My mom has no LinkedIn account and neither do I and I still got a LinkedIn request (sent like it's from her email!) from her to join "her professional network"!

I already got repeating requests from other LinkedIn members but this is the first time that they send me one from a non-member. They even attached the town where my mom lives as a "bio"

WTF? Why is that? Did anybody experience this before?
In the past few weeks, we have been porting WebSharper IDE support (project templates, build, deploy and run) to MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio, and apart from a couple smaller glitches this work is now done, and you should be seeing WebSharper for MD and XS released in the coming days.
(Until then, you can manually invoke WebSharper if you are careful with the command line options and don't mind scripting the process.)

We have not yet succeeded, though, in making CloudSharper Local run on mono due to some unimplemented methods in the mono stack. Once these are addressed, you can also develop mono/Linux F# web apps in CloudSharper, and should hopefully find that experience a lot less daunting than using the conventional IDEs.
Few of us have written one os, but he has written or been the main force behind THREE.
This extends to regular quality programming as well.

Sometimes I spend 30 minutes looking for a good movie before giving up and watching The Bourne Supremacy again because at least I know I won't regret the 2 hours I invest in it.

I would pay $1 bounty every time someone just recommended a good movie that I end up liking.
Well they always had a recourse. Get married someplace else. Go to a different church, or if your sect forbids it, get to a different sect, and if your religion forbids it, make your own sect, and if that's too much work, just get a civil marriage.

I know it's not quite that simple, people get very hung up on where they spend their Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays, but people usually have options of some sort.
Something maybe related to this that I think would be cool would be something like fiverr but much more structured / open.

So people could like something like I will do x for you for $y amount, all I need is you to fill out this template / give me this info.

So automate it as much as possible, and know how much it would cost. Break big tasks down into small ones.

For example, someone may offer to find you the cheapest place to buy tires in your area. All they need is <city>, <any necessary details on tires>.

Something like that.
Buy a punny shirt, teach kids to code (CodeNow)
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The key is a "hook," a goal, a source motivation. Seeing how a particular technology enables new capabilities and applications is a powerful encouragement to learning it, even for professional adult hackers.

"Make your own computer games" is a hook with many kids (not all). I suggest writing your own implementation of a few very simple games (Hangman, Yahtzee, Boggle, ...) as "lesson prep," this way you're familiar with the strategy and can identify stumbling blocks, needed libraries, etc. I suggest sticking with print / terminal at first (GUI / web stuff introduces a lot of baggage since the model is more complicated).

Then sit next to your daughter and tell her what to type. Of course you should explain what your code does as you go along, and you should ideally do this without looking at your earlier implementation. This helps emphasize the thought process -- you're not just copying magic words from somewhere else, you're using your mind to figure out the right magic words for what you want to do. You should also use an iterative development method -- frequently run it and see the product slowly taking shape.

The initial lessons are more about driving home the fact "You can type in these magic words and make the computer do anything you want" than about the precise details of what the magic words for your particular programming language are, or what they represent. Once the kids realize what sorts of things magic words can do, they are then motivated to learn the particular details. This makes it way easier to teach them, and also encourages them to seek resources on your own.

Source: This was how my dad introduced me to programming at age 5-6. It worked :)

Also, buy the book at http://www.laurenipsum.org/ -- it makes a great bedtime story. Hackers of any age will really enjoy it.
I don't know if this already exists or not, but I'd like an app for iOs/droid that shows all of my installed apps and what permissions they need -- in a comparison/grid format. It's easy to agree to all kinds of stupid permissions when you're first looking at an app, but later on, having dogFood 3.0 phone home all the time when it's never used is not-so-good. I'd like to go back periodically and look at all of my apps, at one time, from a permissions standpoint.
Update. Not sure why it's not letting me edit the post?

The site is running now. Here is an example of a clip I made with the tool from Netflix. All the clips on the site feature Ted Mosby.

Example: http://cuts.io/c/gJl6x_L2o
Thanks, and I completely agree with you.

It wasn't clear from my post, but patents are obviously important, just not to protect everybody's random ideas.

That is why it so important to make the point about the investment. In the pharmaceutical industry (and others) there is upfront cost and that should be encouraged and subsequently protected for some time.

I still have some philosophical reservations about patenting facts i.e. "this gene does that"; yet I think that is not avoidable.

The "Is society as a whole served" question, to me is the paramount criterion. How to establish that for a particular invention, I do not know.
Digital Ocean is absolutely not meant for critical infrastructure, nor is it meant for running a production mail server (there's a good chance the IP has already been flagged somewhere for spam in any shared cloud server IP space). You're paying for a low-budget VPS with no phone support. Yes, they have a 99.9% SLA, but the penalty to them if they exceed that is minimal.
Sure, this is the myth of the sufficiently smart compiler [1]. The problem is that such compilers generate fast code until you hit an edge case and then suddenly they're slow. Today, JavaScript is the canonical example; you never know how fast code will run without benchmarking, and it changes with each browser release. Or take SQL for another extreme example, where performance depends on the index you hit and the query plan the database comes up with.

To counter this, people invent things like the asm.js specification, which tells you exactly what you need to do to make JavaScript fast, and then we're programming in assembly again. (Or perhaps C++.)

So there is still plenty of room for languages that aim for predictable performance. I believe this is where Go and Rust are headed.

[1] http://prog21.dadgum.com/40.html
80kg is an approximation of average human weight.
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Budget VPS is budget VPS, there's nothing unprofessional about it, if you want excellent support you are going to pay for the privilege.
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Because it's so much better to transpile to Javascript
It should be easy enough to install filters to hide such images on the operators screen.
Interesting. I'll definitely look into these. Thanks!
An equality fight is an equality fight. The closest parallel to this one were the early/mid 1900's ban on interracial marriage - in fact aside from the personal characteristics being argued about, the concerns are identical.
This is easily the most interesting version of 2048 I've seen so far. I really like that there are no numbers displayed on the tiles - after a couple minutes of playing, it becomes intuitive which tiles are at which height.
That was totally awesome + cute. I have 5-month old girl and can't wait to teach her to program! :)
Leafo you are like "Tj Holowaychuk" of Lua, but actualy real :D.
Ah yes, the functionalist dream: "Given a sufficiently-advanced compiler, executing arbitrary code with ideal performance is trivial". Sadly, such a compiler has been "about ten years away" since the Lisp Machine days...
Headline is irresponsible.
Is the effect monotonic with dose, from 0? Or is it, like most substances, excessive concentration is harmful?

Are we really meant to believe flouride is harmful like lead, or merely like vitamins in excess?
Luzme.com does similar for ebooks (audiobooks and deadtree books coming soon). Shows availability and prices for ebooks across all major stores in 8 countries; use your existing watch list at Amazon, Goodreads, LibraryThing or setup a new one and we'll email you price drop alerts; register an interest in an author and we'll tell you when they release a new book.
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Rahil, have you thought about extending this idea to a place where you would post a DB schema and SQL queries and let the community optimize it. Companies will use this to tap into the expertise of many database engineers.
Love it! Although the two shades of blue threw me off a couple times, since they're so similar.
Monument Valley reminds me a lot of Fez (not a bad thing) so I for one HAVE seen something like MV before.

That being said, MV, while being - let's say "tight" and not say "short" - IS a very stylish puzzle game experience. If you have an iPad, you should give MV a try.

(Not associated with the developer in any way - just a fan)
You might want to take a look at Smallest Federated Wiki (https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki)

example wikis: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/wi...
You are basically cherry picking things I said out of a larger discussion and taking a premise that was forced into this discussion in order to claim "someone is worse off".

Here is what I wrote:

"...The problem is that the jobs that are left for those without a tech degree of some sort aren't appreciated by the market and is forcing salaries down way below what is possible to live off. Walmart is a much more accurate way to look at what automation does..."

That was then turned into a discussion about the term "possible to live off" which frankly in the context we are talking here is juvenile and unnecessarily pedantic. Do you really believe that I meant will die from?

But sure I am guilty of falling for it given I was assuming at least some intellectual honesty from the person I was discussing with. I now see it was just a way to throw the "someone is worse off" card which is very convenient yet completely besides the point.

I never even made an argument against income inequality so why you judge my posts on that is beyond my understanding.

And unless you or anyone else is talking about a global redistribution of wealth comparing to other countries is not only weak it's a false claim of morality.

Each country should be able to discuss the merits of it's own societies status quo without having to point to people starving to death in Ethiopia.
This is great, but the colours at to similar. Perhaps use some more distinct and vibrant colours? It's difficult to read the board at a quick glance.