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Absolutely. Would definitely be interested in hearing more about it.

This is the documentation for the development version of IPython. I don't think they care that they're "missing out on installs" by releasing documentation about what's changed in version 1.0

However, if you'd like to try out IPython 1.0, it's an open source project. You can checkout the latest code at https://github.com/ipython/ipython

I think the closest I've seen to something like that is https://workflowy.com/ or Emacs' Org mode

That sounds really interesting. Could you describe how you do that a bit more?

So who else got a ticket, but then timed out at the payment screen?

I managed to find 3 academic tickets, and all of those timed out when I tried to pay for them.

What would you recommend?

Just a heads up: this isn't the latest template according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4953872

If you're looking to do a LxTHW, you should contact Zed to get the latest base structure.

Edit: Also, if you want to write a Learn X The Hard Way you should read this post about how to do it (http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1288945508.html)

As others have stated, this probably isn't the best way to do a survey. At the very least, you're going to have some bias from posting this on HN late at night (in the US).

If you want a more representative answer to the question "How do companies hire?", I'd recommend using Google Consumer Surveys (http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home)

You'll be able to survey a much larger audience, get more responses, and have statistically significant results. In addition, Google has a nice dashboard which lets you compare answers according to various demographic information such as gender, age, location, income, etc.

Then you should check out http://try.github.com/

My experience with LabVIEW, for the brief amount of time I worked with it for our high school robotics team, was slightly frustrating. I liked the dataflow paradigm, and to some degree the dashboard system, but connecting and managing the "wires" was a pain. Especially since I'm more comfortable/faster with a keyboard than I am with a mouse.

It also seemed to be harder to read and understand the flow of the code, which made debugging a pain sometimes. I remember struggling to figure out why my code wasn't working, only to find out I had used 1 instead 1.0 as a constant. The only indicator of the data type was a thin colored border around the box.

LabVIEW seems to do a great job as a kind of Visual Basic for scientists and engineers, but I'd probably find it frustrating to spend any substantial amount of time programming with it.

  "When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs
   are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, ‘C-h for help’ and 
   ‘“foo” File is read only’. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.

   Ed, man!  !man ed"

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

It's on hold. I got the email an hour ago:

  Thank you for your interest in Machine Learning. A launch date for this course
  is currently on hold. I am excited to offer our material online for free. We
  apologize for the delay and will be sure to let you know when we confirm a date
  for this course to go live. In the meanwhile, you might check out the five free
  online Stanford courses that will go-live on March 12 and March 19 at www.coursera.org.

  Thank you for your interest.

  Andrew Ng
  Machine Learning

I remembering reading somewhere that they might actually test this like they did with Chromebooks (Cr-48) and distribute them to people to get feedback.

For those thinking about changing their DNS servers, you might want to take a look at http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

It benchmarks global (like Google Public DNS and OpenDNS) and regional DNS providers to show which DNS servers would be fastest for you.

It should be going live soon. I got an email about the Model Thinking class which launched a preview at http://www.coursera.org/modelthinking/lecture/preview

Hopefully that means they're getting ready for the other classes to go live as well.

What a well thought out proposal. Adding emotions to TCP packets, which are becoming increasingly important in our interconnected global world, could truly revolution the internet as we know it. The Emotional Web is the clear successor to the Semantic Web and the Social Web. It has tremendous possibilities for innovation and new startups. Note this statement by the author:

   This document does not seek to build a sentient network stack.
   However, this framework could be used to express the emotions of a
   sentient stack.  If that were to happen, a new technical job class of
   network psychologists could be created.

The idea of a sentient, emotional network stack being created may seem frightening to some people, but as the author notes:

   Some organizations are prohibited from using [the evil] mood by mission statement.

which should help alleviate some of the fears people may have of evil sentient networks.

Plus, by adding emotions to packets, we're a step closer to finally solving one of the most persistent problems in online text-based communication: determining if a message is meant seriously or sarcastically/facetiously.

Every now and then the possibilities of a new technology truly amazes me. This is one of those times.

I firmly believe that the Emotional Web is the future of the web as we know it.

It seems the website is having trouble loading, so here's the bookmarklet for those who can't load the page:

https://gist.github.com/1701741

Please do blog about the different aspects of implementation. Or at least post the link to the Github repo. This seems very interesting, and I'd love to hear more about how you did it.

Their full response to the petition is here:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition-tool/response/combating...

Take a look at http://cryopid.berlios.de/

I've never used it before, but it seems to do what you want.

Edit: You might also want to take a look at http://checkpointing.org/ as well.

Any of these:

  * Python
  * Java (Android)
  * HTML/CSS/JS

If a different language works better, feel free to use that instead. Thanks.

Would you mind expanding on the MVC framework and scripts that you use to initialize an entire project?

It sounds like that setup would really cut down on the mental overhead need to start a new project, and also cut down on obvious errors (typos, forgetting to add something, etc).

  Do it now! Modify /etc/ssh/ssh_config.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't it be:

  Do it now! Modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

They're part of http://www.themonsterengine.com/ which asks children to draw a monster. The artist has an interview with the child about their drawing, and paints the child's drawing.

If I was near Germany at all I'd go to the workshop. I'm building my first Prusa with some friends this weekend. Hopefully everything will go well with our build. Best of luck with your workshop :).

From the article: "Most software is not sold in boxes, available on the Internet, or downloaded from the App Store."

   all you need to do is make awesome apps.

Oh, is that all? </sarcasm>

The fact is that it's hard to make awesome apps or awesome anything that also makes people enough money to go entirely independent. Especially if you have a family that you need to support.

And even if you do decide to be an independent mobile app developer, parts of this article still apply to you. Your job isn't to make apps.

For example: "Engineers are hired to create business value, not to program things."

Your job is to save people time/money, entertain them, or make their lives easier by making apps.

This reminds me of "Launch an App Month" last November (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398).

Here's the Facebook group that was formed for those who are interested: https://www.facebook.com/groups/launchinnov/

http://subtlepatterns.com/ is a great site for website backgrounds. I've been finding myself using them a lot recently.

This strikes me as an unwise move on Spotify's part. Allowing integration with Facebook as they had before was fine. But forcing people to sign up with a Facebook account? Not only are they eliminating a large group of people who would like to sign up and don't have a Facebook account, but they're also tying their fate as a company to a third-party.

I have a feeling that this was a condition that Facebook insisted on in return for Spotify being used for Facebook Music. I hope the deal turns out to be worth it.

I seem to recall a post where they said that people who linked their Facebook accounts bought and share more music. And as a result of the deep integration with Facebook, they'll probably have a sharp increase in their growth.

I just hope that this is a temporary condition and that they eventually allow other methods of signing up. Otherwise, they might as well just be acquired by Facebook.

I'd also recommend Programming Collective Intelligence (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529321.do) which is filled with lots of python code showing how different algorithms and techniques can be used.