skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hmmm... interesting.

It looks like you can only get info for in-progress projects though. Really she wants a public version of the projects page to show off to family/friends/non-ravelrers and ravelry is a much better interface for building this content than her current Wordpress solution.

Edit: ok, I've checked out the raw JSON data and looks quite possible. Thanks!
With most other search engines, you really need to add a "+" in front of every word in order to ensure that it's actually in the result.

How funny that Google has come full circle and now requires that too. I'm sick of Google assuming I mean one thing when I mean another, but putting + in front of words ensures they are actually in the results.
Probably not much. The disk IO of this system is probably pretty bad. It might not be able to saturate a single GigE connection. Additionally the data is going mostly to consumer residential internet users. It's doubtful they need more than one GigE connection per box.
Keep in mind that "pretty" has multiple meanings.
When it's cold I sleep in my bathrobe (we call it a "dressing gown" which is a particularly poor name for it as one wears it when not getting dressed!). It has long sleeves, is below the knee in length and snug - very comfortable.
That made me think of MAID (and COPAN), which is decent approach.

http://www.copansystems.com/
Also see: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/09/app-engine-sdk-1...
Flex is aware of browser resizing.

You can also handle right click/context menus.
Considering that you can't downvote articles, I think you are imagining the downvoting of your articles.
I don't think their market moves that much, slippers might be OTT.
further invalidates my degree for which I actually had to do a lot of very difficult actual work

If your degree is all you've got going for you, you're already in trouble. A degree should be viewed as a means to get your foot in the door for your first real job. From then on, it's all on you. (Admittedly, there is research that shows that the higher up the totem pole you start your career the better you'll do for the rest of your career, so Ivy League is still a good deal for many people.)
Did he have a salary or associated pay for any of the work? Have you sat down and explained things to him yet (ie, how he is performing compared to what you were expecting)? If you haven't told him, he may have just misunderstood the primary focus. If he's been working for potential of equity only, let him retain that potential based on work already completed, or give him a reasonable payment of having worked for several months for free. I know I would not be willing to ever be in any sort of business arrangement with someone ever again after them getting months of free work from me and then going "oh, hey, nah, not working out, sorry we didn't tell you so you could correct it, and no you don't get to keep anything you've been working on, good luck!"
This was a pretty good article. It's long, but if you read the whole thing, you'll see that the biggest challenge these newer institutions face is the accreditation problem.

The hack they used to get around that was clever, but as we could've guessed, it didn't last forever. I believe the only long-term solution to this is to encourage people to bypass accreditation entirely. Yes, many jobs still have legal barriers (i.e., you can't be hired unless you have a government-approved credential), but for those that don't, the barriers are only psychological. I am working now to help eradicate these barriers. But whatever I do personally, I am confident that the situation will change in the future.

(Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=645523)
Ask HN:  Has anyone tried the p90x exercise program?
The youtube makeovers look great but I'm not sure how many of those were staged by the company or how difficult or time consuming the program actually is.
My wife knew about this site, and she tells me that for a long time growth was somewhat hampered by their inability to scale. They had to manually allow users into the site in chunks

It wouldn't surprise me if that "whoa, it's so busy that we have to queue to get in" factor actually contributed to its final success. I've seen it before with other apps. The "it's not really a big secret but it sorta is" beta of Stack Overflow was a little like that too. People wanna get into things they "can't" get into.
He's got comments on his blog, why don't you tell him instead of us, you lazy, ineffectual lout.
Your assumption is that he is looking for smart women.
It's true that "many people" may indeed like to start off slower but those data show clearly that for male initiated communication longer messages have increased probability of reply. The recommendation for short messages is intended to maximize replies per unit time not the reply of any given message.

I don't think there is a problem with either approach. Each strategy probably appeals to a different type of recipient. So the chosen strategy can be thought to partition the potential recipients into the different types. (If you send 'A' a long message and A replies A is of the type who likes long messages. 'A' very well might ignore all short messages. B might have the exact opposite preferences of A.)

At this level of abstraction there's not a wrong answer to the question. By that I mean that the details and content of a message whether long or short are probably more important than the length for any given case. But if you're someone who prefers to act in an open, earnest manner it's probably best to go with that and partition out people who are mistrustful, cynical or otherwise turned-off by open, earnest action and communication styles. An analogous statement holds for those who prefer to act more closeted, subtle and aloof.
The general theory as I've heard it is iPhone users are far more likely to actually use their phone's features which puts a heavier load on networks that are over subscribed based on a usage model of less data per device. I tend to believe this is true because on my last phone, which I know DID support MMS, I never saw a GUI option for it.
"Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been associated with long delays." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Of course I meant a justification for the mixed up ordering as being of greater utility (more easily parsed, understood, less confused, more easily read, better sorted, more standardised with other users) than the other common orderings.

Let the word go forth ... your logical justification please?
See, if you'd just messaged that to me on OKCupid, I would be amused and totally reply.
e.g. "You look pretty awful"
Measuring the Height of a Building Using a Barometer
Measuring the height of a building using a barometer:

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometer.asp
As a friend of mine says "OKCupid is not there to get you a date, OKCupid is there to teach you about math".
Same here. I'm only roughly 30 quarter units from my CS degree ... but I don't live near my old school nor do I have much desire to be on campus a lot.
Haven't tried it, but I have a NIB Bowflex if you want to get in shape ;)
1 - This is a completely valid point. There are tradeoffs in build a site in Flash. You have to put extra work into being crawler friendly - something you get out of the box with HTML/CSS.

2 - Depends on what you're doing. Animations definitely run smoother and with less resources in Flash than they do in HTML/CSS.

3 - A lot of Flex's layout capabilites "just work" out of the box. You don't have to figure out the complexities of the box model and you don't have to know the intricacies of floats. You just say "I want a container that positions things horizontally and I want them to be aligned on the top of the box" and it does it.

Flex's components I have found are incredibly hard to precisely skin. Then again, so is HTML if you don't have experience in it.
The Bowflex scares me. I think I'll pull one of those levers the wrong way somehow, let go and it'll smack me in the face.
I met my wife on okcupid. I think my message was over 700 words.
Thats:
%d - 2 digit day number by month;
%b - 3 letter month name;
%Y - 4 digit year CE;
for those who don't recall so well.
This article doesn't give too many details. What type of construction will they be using? Will it be LEED certified?
Time Machine?
also, you're all gay
Don't invoke mxmlc every time -- that has to start up Java, and that's what's slow. There's a compile "shell" named fcsh that comes with the Flex toolkit that starts up a JVM once and lets you recompile without having to relload all the libraries.
I wish it wasn't so hard to find lower cost laptops with SSD. It seems like they are all over $1500 still.
"Low-level"? More like scam. The "College Algebra" [1] covers what high-school curriculum covered in either sophomore or junior year (depending on whether they were in the "AP track"). Claiming that "learning to graph linear, quadratic, absolute value, and piecewise-defined functions, and solve and graph exponential and logarithmic equations" is "college math" is plain false.

So not only are the classes "low-level" (because, at least in my Math courses, we didn't get very far before high-bandwidth back-and-forth interaction with the professor becomes essential to the process), but it completely misses the point of college for most people who attend it. No online course could have replaced the socratic questioning my PolySci professor gave us (he told us he modeled the teaching after his professor who would use it to make students cry, but toned it down a bit), or the vigorous debate with a Elizabethan poetry professor about whether the themes in Shakespeare were comprable to modern soap operas, or the engagement in political and academic groups.

Sure, it might replace crappy community colleges or degrees for middle aged people seeking to improve their career, but it won't do much for the 17 year olds who are looking to form an identity and foothold in the world.

(OTOH, the undergrad CS program at Rutgers could mostly have been replaced with online or self-study. I think that's because the undergrad CS program is so pressured into training tech workers that they can't be nearly as selective as the Math dept).

1. http://www.straighterline.com/courses/descriptions/algebra/
YouTube - Shouting in the Datacenter, disk latency and vibration
I've been using Komodo Edit a lot lately. The nice thing is that I get the same editor in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. And the snippets are nice, similar to TextMate.
Or "I have a split personality so really you are getting two people for the price of one"
Let's drop the absolutes, shall we?

1) Google can index it. I wasn't aware of other search engines that are relevant. I'm willing to concede that you -should- do extra work to make sure you are search engine friendly, but that doesn't rule Flash out completely.

2) Yes, text is copy/pastable. No, the experience isn't nearly as good. Yes, it's a really big deal that copy/paste sucks for Flash.

3) No, Flash markup isn't semantic because Flash markup isn't public. Then again, how much information does <DIV> imply?

4) Yes. Flex is open source and can be developed for free (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/). I do all my Flex development with simply mxmlc and fdb, I don't use Flex Builder at all.
"how did so many people get the idea that this article about a specific solution to a specific problem was actually some sort of general purpose solution attacking all the big name people?"

Backblaze did it, They did it when they decided to put this graph in the article:

http://blog.backblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cost-of...

It's an apples to oranges comparison.
Setting up F# for TDD with xUnit
I spin electrons into a shimmering digital tapestry of logic.

I build stories of circumstances and choreograph virtual states.

I contrast cohesion and coupling against a binary backdrop.

I weave algorithms into patterns of recursive fancy.

I am a programmer, I am an artist. I create.

So... What do you do?
Some useful data in that article, thanks!
I have a number of friends who have tried the program and rave about it. One of them lost around 15 lbs over the summer.
I've never understood the fascination with all the high tech machines. They're more expensive and more complicated than something everyone already knows works the best: picking heavy things up and putting them down again.
You were one of 5 or 10 people who used the phrase "I think in pseudo-code", so it definitely wasn't targeting you specifically!
Given proper redundancy and a adequately read/write unbalance, it's safe to power-down drives during read-heavy cycles and only power them up when you have some redundant data to write.

But you will have to manage the cycles for redundancy, lifetime and power savings. The software to do it must be really clever.
Systemic Overload
Seo tools, image library software
BAPLA response to cuts in publishing rates

London, UK, Feb. 09, 2009. Following wide consultation with its members in response to proposed cuts in publishing rates by...
wow this community is friendly. i'll keep my opinions to myself from now on. peace.
I am an atheist on most days. and I am not a materialist. If I have to self-classify, I am an idealist.

for tdoggette, you are wrong. There are many things that exist that are not part of material reality. My personal favorites are numbers. Particularly, the number two.

I used to think that letters also were not material, but then I saw a capital "I" on Sesame Street...
Difficult to pick up heavy things with certain muscles, like the triceps, without a pulley system.

Anyway, I do think p90x basically consists of listing heavy things.
There's nothing unique about jQuery in that regard. GWT would solve the same issue.
Constructive comments and criticism, please. You are welcome to have and share opinions, but please back them up with reasoning.
the last time i looked at this issue, writing flash applets with mxmlc meant that you can't use flash GUI controls. is that still true?
Why Apple Nixed My iPhone App
Step one: Be provocatively insulting. Use gay slurs if possible.

Step two: Complain of victimization.

Step three: Profit?
And using Netscape Navigator. Remember that one?
jQuery is unique in that he wouldn't have to change backends to use it. Similar to Prototype/scriptaculous or Mootools. GWT requires a Java backend - it's a non-trivial effort to move to.
http://www.google.co.uk/trends?q=(ckeditor|fckeditor)%2Ctiny...
Conducting Data-Rich Surveys Just Got Easier With Forms In Google Docs
Nowhere close, since the quotient you linked to is based on the processing speed and mass of the processing unit. The wikipedia articles uses 0.1 ugrams as the average weight of a neuron - this device, of purported similar processing speed, sits on a small pcb. Even if you threw out everything but the FPGA silicon, it's going to weigh a great deal more.
The reaction you'll get is, "He's really slick at promoting himself." Most women will speak this sentence with a curled lip and a tone of disdain, but if you're looking for women who like a guy with an elevator pitch, this just might work.
I think that's unlikely, but it would be an interesting experiment to find out for sure.
Thanks, that helps. Do you know if they spent a lot of time on it each day?
Why not HTML/CSS/JS?

You can use it for web, widgets, iPhone/Android Apps. It's free, has a low barrier to entry, is easy to update, and has extensive documentation, both free and commercial.

I'm not saying that Flex doesn't have it merits, but as a long time web/flash developer, I'm finding myself using Flash/Flex type stuff less and less (Thank You, JQuery!)
Completely agree. I really wish there was a way to turn off the presumptions. Usually when I carefully craft a very specific query, I get back a bunch of generic results unless I put in those pluses.

Actually, now that I think about it, this might be something not particularly difficult to solve with greasemonkey...

Edit: Here's my attempt: http://github.com/paulbaumgart/GreasemonkeyScripts/blob/d88d...

Install by clicking the 'raw' link in the top right corner of the script.

Edit 2: Any thoughts on how to make the script run earlier, to avoid making two requests? It seems Greasemonkey doesn't actually support this, so it might have to be its own extension...
"Unlike Linux, which is a clone of Unix,"

False.
a. Machines are easier.

b. Machines develop muscles to show at the expense of muscles for function.

Human nature.
Please oreilly, do some research. The Snuggie wasn't untested; they ripped off the already somewhat successful Slanket and did a muc
Meet Wired.com’s Terminal Man
Essentially allows the browser to talk to RabbitMQ (for example) directly I assume? Is this the first amqp implementation in JavaScript?
Do you recommend this over js.io or Orbited + STOMP AMQP adaptor?
This is a basic "elevator pitch" problem. Distill the core of what you find exciting in what you do down to a one or two line explanation that others can relate to.

If you can't do that, perhaps question whether you're really all that excited about what you're doing? :)
On that note, everyone here should read the Frequently Asked-For Answers About Questions (http://okcupid.com/faaaq). I had to re-implement the algorithm, and along the way decided it's not nearly as BS'y math as you would assume for a generic dating site.
Coming soon: PCBs made of neurons.
Share idea: YouTube search-pain pill
I finally was able to define the pain with YouTube I've been facing all the time. Say, I wanted to watch some "piano jazz" music on YouTube, but simply searching by these keywords only gives me videos that have them in their title - which is really wrong. Because Oscar Peterson would definitely match, but most of his videos wouldn't be found like that. Tags would partially solve the issue, but hey: I never noticed it before - I can't see any tags on YouTube, where are they? (probably there are tags there, but I couldn't find them). Also, I would probably want to be subscribed to the channel I like, but what channels are on YouTube? It's basically a single user's video blog. Wouldn't it be nice to have a multiuser blog dedicated to "piano jazz"?

So here's a 3 steps idea:

1. Implement a search for channels on YouTube, indexing their descriptions.
2. Implement tags for YouTube and search for them.
3. Create a multiuser blog platform for videos from YouTube (and, of course, search in those blogs as well).

Since the idea is about 1 hour old I don't know how one can make money on it. I also don't know if it's worth trying to implement it (too heavy?). What do you think about it? See any value in it?
Since it starts with rule 0 it's actually 13 rules.
So the rationale is, if an opinion isn't thoroughly explained, it's better that nobody hear it, regardless of whether or not the opinion is valid or makes sense?
This is true, you don't have direct access to flash GUI controls from vanilla Flex. That being said, I have found it rare that I find a Flash control that hasn't been ported to Flex.
Are you working on #1a? And yeah "gay" sure is a gay slur.
Thanks for sharing this - you just sped up my Flex development workflow by a huge factor.
If you haven't already read it Neal Stephenson's Cryptinomicon explains a great deal about the physics of organ pipes since one of the main Characters (Waterhouse) spends a lot of time fixing and playing organs.

Great book too.
Norm Brodsky: Selling My Company Again
No Firebug, no life...
I really don't buy the user-hostile argument. You write your code and you get a SWF. Youtube has SWFs. Newgrounds has SWFs. DeviantArt has SWFs.

Normally the thought of whether something is running in a sandbox is not a concern if I'm using any of these sites. The only times I would get annoyed by load speed issues had nothing to do with the SWF format, it would usually be of the magnitude of the whole site being overloaded.

I could say Meebo doesn't feel native to the browser either, but I think we're way too much into the opinion territory to be saying that, generically speaking, x or y technology is hostile to all users (especially without knowing what the app is to begin with).
First off, flex is not flash. Do not confuse the two. Flex is the fast, just works, flash is the pretty.

Secondly, the reason webby people don't like it is that they can't scrape it, tie it in seamlessly, etc. The reason it may be a good idea for your business is that it is 1000x easier to whip out a consistent, good flex website then the equivalent in cross browser complaint javascript/jquery/whatever
Not true. Wenceslao Casares a very successful entrepreneur, says luck is essential in being successful. He is also known for having said that whenever he interviews people for a job, he asks them if they think they've been lucky in their lives, if they say no, he doesn't hire them.
Abrasive words require support to back them up. Otherwise you're just calling names.
And you almost have to out of fear of hitting a dodgy site. I don't think it's as much about "before google" and "after google" as it is about how much the landscape has changed in terms of safe browsing. I remember surfing astalavista.box.sk without a care in the world and now I would never risk it (assuming it even still exists).
not quite teh same
Parallel programming in Haskell: a reading list
Use a good enough mix of similar markets and you'll get not-entirely bogus results. The problem you're talking about had occurred to me too, actually, since markets vary widely in climate. Market it in Alaska and people never, not even in the summer, get used to light clothing for long enough to prefer blankets over heavy clothes when on the couch anyway. Market it in Florida and it never gets cold enough to use a blanket. You'd have to control for climate and culture, which across the US would be challenging (to say nothing of the world).

There are ways to do this in the same market though. Something like Vibram FiveFingers is viral enough that you could probably seed like five Vibram wearers in a single market and have each of them refer to the product under a different name. Then track your incoming search queries or orders and match them by market. If more people order "FiveFingers" than "Toe Shoes" than "Foot Gloves" you have yourself a product name.

Well, until someone clever on the internet exposes you. Then you get free publicity as that company that sells the weird shoes and can't decide what to call them.
You sir, just showed me a buffet. Gotta start devouring these.
"polishing a turd" is an expression. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=turd+polishin...

also, why is there no reply link under your comment?
How to leverage your luck, based on Marc Andreessen's blog:

http://gigaom.com/2007/12/13/roadmap-to-getting-luck-on-your...
Well first, you're writing a chat app.

In this case Flex might be the right solution for you. Heavy back and forth, it dosn't really need to be indexed by browsers.

You likely want some sort of combo with Flex and HTML.

The border issue is kind of a non-starter and not really relevant for a broader discussion (BTW I just use the new CSS rules and let new browsers have rounded edges and the rest get squared - easy enough)
i like this option b/c appeases the people just making small talk but still leaves an opening for tech types to ask for more details
Yep, I've gone through a couple cycles of it -- it's pretty solid. It's going to take ~1hr of your day for those 90 days, but it's well worth the effort.

You don't need any fancy equipment. A few dumbbells and the corner of a room will do just fine.