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Absolutely. Would definitely be interested in hearing more about it.
Re:What is new in IPython 1.0 on Sunday July 28, 2013 @05:51PM (#6118219)
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

Re:How to do anything on Thursday March 28, 2013 @06:53PM (#5458193)
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?
Re:Google I/O is sold out on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @11:11AM (#5368984)
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?
Re:Zed Shaw's Template for "Learn X The Hard Way" Books on Sunday December 23, 2012 @09:59PM (#4961661)
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)

Re:Ask HN: Tell us how you hire on Monday December 03, 2012 @01:41AM (#4864248)
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.

Re:Git add -p: a powerful git feature on Monday November 05, 2012 @12:34PM (#4744727)
Then you should check out http://try.github.com/
Re:Light Table - a new IDE concept on Saturday April 14, 2012 @12:36AM (#3839897)
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.

Re:The Command Line Challenge. on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @02:04AM (#3674608)

  "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
Re:NLP Class is live on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @09:08PM (#3673936)
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
Re:Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @07:50PM (#3618743)
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.
Re:Google Public DNS: 70 billion requests a day and counting on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @05:58PM (#3592201)
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.

Re:Machine Learning for Hackers on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @09:51PM (#3564817)
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.

Re:Packets have emotions. on Saturday February 04, 2012 @07:40PM (#3552857)
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.

Re:Simple Responsive Design Test Page - bookmarklet on Sunday January 29, 2012 @08:06PM (#3526979)
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.
Re:Obama administration joins the ranks of SOPA skeptics on Saturday January 14, 2012 @04:07PM (#3465313)
Their full response to the petition is here:

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

Re:How multitasking really works on Android and iOS on Thursday January 05, 2012 @02:44PM (#3430142)
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.

Re:There's no shame in code that is simply "good enough" on Sunday January 01, 2012 @07:05PM (#3414242)
Any of these:

  * Python
  * Java (Android)
  * HTML/CSS/JS
If a different language works better, feel free to use that instead. Thanks.
Re:There's no shame in code that is simply "good enough" on Sunday January 01, 2012 @05:11PM (#3413982)
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).

Re:How to secure an Ubuntu Apache web server on Monday December 26, 2011 @02:19AM (#3392447)

  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.
Re:Poll: HN readers, where's your residence? on Thursday December 01, 2011 @06:10AM (#3299255)
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 :).

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