skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if this unspecified data debunks certain models for differentiating learning styles, that certainly does not imply that no such differences exist, just that the correct model has not yet been identified, or at least not widely accepted.

Personal observation of myself and those who were educated along side me prevents me from even considering the possibility that everyone learns in the same way. That there are differences is blatantly obvious, though I can't claim to completely and precisely understand the nature of those differences.

However, I do strongly suspect that catering to certain common learning styles would severely disrupt the status quo in today's school system, and that research which recognizes those styles is not received with enthusiasm.
"Pokemon provide fulfillment to every human being's basic desire to have an army of monsters."

alright then...
I read a great post by Kevin Kelly on the history of Moore's law that contradicts this opinion. The standards hardware engineers worked towards were based on assumptions of a new transistor density, and the assumptions invariably became self predicting prophecies. Achievements of anything less than Moore's law improvement weren't acceptable! I'll dig up the link if you can't find it.
I'm not the one to be raising a stink about this usually, but this is way off topic.
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AJAX and Network-side Scripting
The other option is to fail-safe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-safe
How best do you think this can be leveraged by folks that are interested in associating commonality within text (clustering by topic)?
From wikipedia:

"The technology is well-suited to LCDs and other technologies where each logical pixel corresponds directly to three independent colored sub-pixels, but less so for CRTs. In a CRT the light from the pixel components often spread across pixels, and the outputs of adjacent pixels are not perfectly independent. If a designer knew precisely a great deal about the display's electron beams and aperture grille, subpixel rendering might have some advantage. But the properties of the CRT components, coupled with the alignment variations that are part of the production process, make subpixel rendering less effective for these displays."

Depends on your screen, but mine has the colors in a triangle. This means that the same colors are not always on the same side of the pixel, so you can't use sub-pixel rendering (see the picture in the article, basically the green is first on the left, then on the right, and back and forth). If you have a Trinitron monitor it could work though.
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Clickable link: http://www.quarkbase.com

I really like it. One of the best of this style of services that I have seen. One issue: it seems to use Compete to measure traffic - I think compete only looks at US traffic.
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no

have you read the china study yet? if you haven't, please restrain from commenting, thx
I was in the same boat until I finally read this (chapter 8):

http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/

Scheme may be simple, but scheme macros are not. They go way overboard in trying to protect you from yourself. I'm glad to see Arc moving back in the direction of CL macros, which I think makes it a very interesting alternative to Scheme.
You should check this article: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/24418

Apparently IPREDator is just Relakks (the pirate bay's previous VPN service) rebranded, which itself is (was?) a PPTPD service.
I think it won't be long before Facebook enables people sell stuff from their facebook page. Like posting custom design t-shirt designs etc.
Why Learn New Languages? Being Outlived by C++
I disagree with Linus Torvalds about C++
Cool, thanks. Look forward to trying it.
I've long thought of Ultima Online (early MMO with a great deal of flexibility for "antisocial" play) as an absolutely crucial component of my moral and social education.

Kids can safely experiment with "right" and "wrong" (stealing, murdering, protecting, sacrifice) without permanent marks. You are damaging someone and suffering loss, but you've all opted in. I once leapt into combat to help someone fleeing from a murderer. As soon as I approached, the "victim" drew his weapon. They killed me and divided up my belongings. Real life doesn't offer many chances to try different options in that scenario.

Also, the typical authority structure of growing up (which is age-centric) is reversed. Younger people have less obligations, so generally play more, become more powerful, and end up in the leadership roles. As a 14 year old guild leader you're directing a group of 12 to 50 year olds. I don't know exactly what that does to a person, but my feeling is that it's beneficial.

I haven't really played MMOs in years. I keep an eye on them, and I've been disappointed by the shift to remove antisocial play by adding new game rules and protecting players from loss. It's messing up the risk-reward ratio and removes the chance for social and moral experimentation that was so valuable to me.
If it's really over, I'd bet on real estate vs. stocks.
Architecture and Design, and how I learned what I know about both
I did a 1-pixel-wide font some year ago. It's not that hard, for instance look at the 'i':

*

*
*
*

Other chars are similar to this.
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Ask HN: How much do you spend on Hosting?
How much do you spend on Hosting per month for you personal OR part-time OR startup project?
There was a UK TV show (The Real Hustle) which demonstrated Passport skimming at in one episode. They had a scanner in the bag and just hung around and airport bumping into people till they got lucky.

Scary stuff.
Colleges triggering eating disorders?
Zoom is not a W3C standard though ...
Pretty much everything personal (aroundf 10 sites) is thrown on a £70/year shared hosting package - which works just fine.
What Sort of Exercise Can Make You Smarter?
The other iPhone lie: VPN policy support
nobody ever thought ringtones could be so profitable.

Of course it's profitable. It's fraudulent. Telecoms deliberately crippled technology and deceived consumers into thinking that downloading and uploading ringtones to your phone wasn't trivially easy.
Joe Marshall's essay is very good, but if you want to start
from something simpler consider
http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/scheme/TheAdventuresofa...
Most clients don't want to pay you to create an IE only CSS file, takes minutes I agree but if they won't pay a few quid extra then why should I do it.

TBH I usually do this sort of thing (add an ie6.css file instead of a hack) as I tend to over-engineer rather than keeping to the agreed spec and work schedule.
In that case you might also want to consider having a way such that when your users get an achievement or something in the game, their profile on the site gets automatically updated. Then, they could publish these achievements to their Facebook or Twitter streams. This will increase the virality of your game.
An interesting post, though it is worth mentioning that there are more fully featured ADCs for doing this sort of thing.

The guys at Zeus have a software traffic manager that you can write rules in Java, Scala and Jython...probably other JVM languages by the look of it. A lot less pain than iRules.

There is an article talking about the way they have written an application that runs on their traffic manager that integrates with the Twilio telephony API.

http://knowledgehub.zeus.com/articles/2009/08/19/hello_this_...

They also have a nice article about putting watermarks on PDFs which has much more coolness.

http://knowledgehub.zeus.com/articles/2009/03/20/watermarkin...
Which is why no other browser does anything with it, which is why it works so nicely.

The only drawback is that it doesn't validate. You can either wrap it in a conditional comment or incur the wrath of the standardistas and leave it be.
It is going to be on Kindle. It's in Amazon's hands now--they have the files and its up to them to put it up. Unfortunately, according to my publisher, they sometimes take a long time--measured in months--to do their part. So maybe click the "I want this on my Kindle" link?
I spend $80/Month I have 3 different accounts with different hosts which are good for different things. I'm going to be consolidating soon though..hopefully
I have tried using twisted in pretty much the same way. Actually I tried it 3 times and eventually just gave up. With no schooling in the terminology and ideas it's just like a whole other language :D

Tornado does look nicer and I have to admit purely from the documentation. I read through it for about 10 minutes just now and I can for the first time actually see how it would work within the realms of our project.

With that said it might be a useful way to figure out what Twisted is all about too....
Making Versus Planning
True. However, I don't have 10 thousand friends so I am not positive how shear size is all that important.
Actually that's the only choice. I'm not sure why Amazon lists it as hardcover. Presumably they'll get that straightened out one of these days.
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For my toy stuff, about £30 for a smallish VPS in the UK, $20 a month for the smallest slicehost in the US, and I also have dreamhost (about $120/pa) that I use to host screencasts and things. I'd never put anything critical on there, though.
Drinking age of 21 doesn't work
That's interesting - I find myself using music to 'regulate' myself a lot. Usually I'm able to let it exist in the background, but when I start paying attention to the lyrics, I switch to Bach, or Mozart. Rachmaninoff is a nice blend of keeping me awake, but without lyrics I end up listening to.

I've actually never been medicated, but I've always had problems with tasks that I wasn't intensely interested in. Always been a daydreamer. I don't think I've ever read an entire textbook, for instance. I'll force myself to concentrate and slog through a paragraph, just to find my mind is in some other world by the end of it and have to reread it. I don't have this problem at all with fiction, I've finished 700 page novels in a few days.

Thanks for the advice, I'll definitely bring this up in my next visit to the doctor.
There are two very broad classes of learning style theory; the article addresses one. Variants of this theory are basically a distillation of the near-obvious: Our brain gets information from our five senses, so use the five senses for inputs. Makes sense, but I was underwhelmed when I was first introduced to learning styles as a pedagogical tool.

But there is a second type, a more cognitive approach, that is very interesting. This approach deals with the way the information is organized in our brains. As an example of a contrast between these two styles, for the first type "reading" is a visual activity, whereas for the second type it is a "verbal" activity. The second set of theories also differ between those that learn in a linear fashion (sequentially) and those that need to see the organizational structure of a large part of a subject before they can make sense of it (global learners).

Here is a very good site about the second type of theory (my favorite of all I've seen, actually).
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILS...

I am excited by the trends in medical brain imaging to see if these differences (the second class) will be able to be detected, but (somewhat sadly) I have to agree with the author that the evidence is still lacking.

I'm not, however, ready to throw it out yet.
"As soon as I approached, the "victim" drew his weapon."

Yeah, that's why it is a shame that most newer MMORPGs seem to have opted for the "no PKilling allowed" approach. I also thought UO offered some nice learning experiences.
this is already possible via shopit and other similar gadgets
And still no full release version for Mac / Linux. I find this particularly interesting considering the Google "Operating System" is going to be a custom interface on top of a Linux kernel.
Will browser companies skip version 6? In the same way hotels skip the 13th floor?
You could probably build a hover train on that scale. But, even classic model trains don't have IC engines so it's a reasonable compromise for most people. The goal is to look like a tiny train / world. Which this does fairly well.
I like Chrome, and the new version does a feel a tad quicker, but goddammit already how much longer until extensions are in the official releases?
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I actually really like what Khoi did - remember, it's more about information design than visual identity that defines Craigslist- Khoi opened it up, added lines (helps the eyes deal with the immense amount of text) and called out important stuff.

Dropping the list of cities is a massive improvement too.
Hopefully browser companies will be more rigorous about migrating their users to newer versions so that we avoid the issues IE6 has presented by still having a large install base even after two subsequent versions have been released.
But I'm able to use anecdotes because I'm not a MD/PhD writing an article in a major US publication
hopefully the back button will work more consistently now
Governing from the cloud
"Chrome includes video codecs that allow you to embed videos without using slow and unreliable plug-ins like Adobe Flash."

Compared to quicktime/media player and the slew of plugins from the previous generation, flash is much much more reliable.
Playing Risk (ok-a-board-game-but-still) told me early on that everything happens on several levels (strategic, tactic, emotional ect) and you have to keep an eye on all of them (if you want to win).
I just had a daughter born yesterday morning, so this article made me very happy to think that one day I can hone her gaming instincts into a formidable weapon.
Here's a better link:
http://dtwuva.googlepages.com/home
Py3k(python3) more than one year on - 0.96 % packages supporting py3k.
Even though ...?
this is a nice joke.
wondering why do hackers vote that down
Google releases SDK for Android "Donut"
Yet, it is just nice seeing how tornado can be re-used outside the core web development.
I have used this book. It's a good introduction but uses a rather non-*nix sysAPI. I have found Minix to be a better way to get started and it too has a great book as well as significant number of sites that have excellent additional material. Haiku is a very cool OS that is very clean and in early stages of development. Plan9, Inferno and L4 (Pistachio) have their strengths.

If your goal is to learn about OS design, etc then you might want to look at some CS texts that go into lots of detail. The key thing to remember is that most OS concepts (but not the implementations) have matured.

You'd probably learn more by implementing some missing functionality in an existing OSS OS.

Regardless of what you decide to do, I do recommend using QEMU as your development environment rather than running development versions on bare hardware. What I like about QEMU is that it supports ARM, etc. So as other respondents have pointed out, you would be targeting a far cleaner platform than your PC based system with three decades of backward compatability crud.
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They were recently enabled by default in the Chromium builds. Lots of features are still missing (all of the interface/toolbar stuff only works in Windows right now, for example, and installed extensions are purged with every restart of the browser on OS X/Linux). The extension API is lightweight and fantastic though, so I'm with you in hoping that they get make it into Chrome sooner rather than later.
Ask HN: Financial data and rounding
I made a proposal to a client on how they should store and work with finaicnal data that has the potential to involve minute fractions of a dollar. (e.g. Pay contractor B 13.31% of the $55.53 billed)

I proposed that they keep financial values in as accurate a form as possible (to the ten-thousandths, because they use the T-SQL smallmoney type), use bankers' rounding and round at the last possible moment.

This proposal was rejected and I was told that they wanted to round to the hundredth, use "round half up" rounding and perform the rounding before any calculations were performed with the financial data.

I feel that their decisions are wrong, but they are adamant and this edict came from their financial department.

Am I worrying too much, or does it seem like this is a large potential problem?
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreeding_depression
You can try it live here: http://demo.opera-mini.net/demo.html

(make sure you have java enabled in your browser)

Sadly it does not seem to render exactly like Opera 9 or 10.
I don't have much respect for the author since he gets in a tizzy about the phrase "free cash flow positive" and seems confused about what it means.
Most Schemes give you define-macro (and gensym), which is the same as CL macros. Bigloo, Chicken, and some others even have hygienic macros off by default due to the overhead, and recommend that you use define-macro whenever possible.

I usually use a mixture of both. define-macro for when I'm just trying to kill some repetition without an obvious functional composition solution, and define-syntax for when I'm laying serious groundwork functionality.
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This isn't the full database as far as I understand which maps postcodes to actual addresses. This leak only deals with coordinates.
working on a product POC, using Rackspace cloud (formerly mosso), paying around USD 11 - 15 per month for a very own instance of Jaunty but limited/shared machine resource with some minimum thresholds guaranteed.
Personally if all of my forecasting, AP and AR are in a hundredths-based system, I'd keep the data stored that way. There will never be a time in which they will cut a check or do forecasting in anything less than hundredths so why worry about storing to the ten-thousandths?

I'm a T-SQL guy myself and many folks do not use SMALLMONEY or MONEY datatypes because they allow thousandths/ten-thousandths. Instead we use DECIMAL so that we can force storage of only hundredths.
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Compared to QuickTime _on Windows_. On Mac it's not so slow and doesn't load CPU that much (compared to Flash/Mac).
You know what's still missing and I'm surprised...

there's no way to see raw headers sent/received in the dev tools!
IPREDator is administrated by the same corporation who run Relakks, but has their own hardware. Relakks is run by "Trygghetsbolaget i Lund AB" (approx. Safeness Corporation in Lund Ltd.) and has no affiliation with TPB. The Pirate Party did promote Relakks when it was first released.

More about Relakks at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/technology/20iht-net21.1.5...
Not hacker news certainly?
I never realized how useful netcat is
Nathan Myrvold has a patent factory project that goes quite a bit further than this. There was an interesting business week article on it a while back:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_27/b3991401....
> Bigloo, Chicken, and some others even have hygienic macros off by default due to the overhead, and recommend that you use define-macro whenever possible.

Not anymore for Chicken! Chicken 4.0 switched to `syntax-rules' and explicit renaming macros.

Edit: those who like traditional macros might also like explicit renaming ones [1,2], since they're very similar.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-sch...

[2] http://chicken.wiki.br/explicit-renaming-macros
Facebook already has a marketplace.
It's funny that you mention Ultima Online. Personally, I had the same sort of experience, but I was the 15-18 year old guild lackey. It certainly breeds an awareness of the importance of teamwork and leadership since not everyone is skilled in everything. The game is built for working together, and going it alone has some serious consequences (read: death/looting) but you get a do-over every time. Giving kids the ability to learn these things with the option to try again is far better than the permanence of reality.
You will find a good introductory book on programming a great deal of help. Try to pick one that has examples of compile commands and makefiles.

Another alternative is to take an OSS project and read, make changes. Typically all the makefiles, etc are correctly setup. There are some excellent videos on-line as well.
This has to be a joke. iPredator? seriously?
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Essentially a dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=824604
It's possibly because I just got out of college, but it really bothers people when you don't drink. A lot. I didn't drink the entire way through, and I got a lot of comments later on. People weren't very forward about it, but after some prodding, they stopped inviting me out because they felt that I was judging them by not drinking, and therefore I was a buzzkill. I didn't draw any attention to it at all, I had a Coke in my hand the entire night, but it still made people upset.

People are silly.
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I've been using the Linux version for several month now and honestly cannot tell the difference between it and the windows version. Just as stable, just as fast, and flash works without any problems. I'm guessing there is a good reason why they're not comfortable releasing it yet, but as an end user I haven't run across that reason.
Check out jchris' toast, which exposes CouchDB directly to the world, and runs a Comet realtime chat/post app.

Example of how he does authentication:
http://github.com/jchris/toast/blob/master/validate_doc_upda...

http auth + document update validation function

It's unintuitive, but this setup actually supports a huge number of connections and runs really fast. Go figure.
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Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN - ScottGu's Blog
It is time for next-gen "no flash" browser games and "no java" web-apps.
That is definitely on the road map, however, right now I am just trying to find a good technology stack =)
The difficulties (or problems) that the 'establishment' has with craigslist are fundamentally philosophical.

To wit, I wonder how that 'watch list' scales under load, and whether in the process of supporting it Craig and co. will need to expand their staff to nytimes proportions, and thus, start wondering about how to make money to feed all the new additions.

The whole beauty of craigslist.org is that it serves a Facebook scale audience without any of the theatrics.