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Check out Tavis Rudd's Using Python To Code By Voice (from Pycon 2013) for a cool demo (that starts at 9:00): http://pyvideo.org/video/1735/using-python-to-code-by-voice

San Francisco http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Hacker-News-Meetup/ The first meetup a couple of days ago was successful- thanks Dan for organizing it and Coderwall for hosting. …

Nitpick: > Temporary files usually start with a dot or a dollar-sign.. to make sure that Nginx never serves any files starting with either of those characters... > location ~ ~$ { …

Have these disputes changed YC views regarding single founders?[0] I think YC has always favored founding teams with a dominant leader[1], but I wonder if these break-up experience…

Try Segaran's Programming Collective Intelligence.

More details can be found in the ctrl/escape section in: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/

I find it interesting that they awarded the prize to Shapley after Gale's death[0]. I always thought that there was some rule that prevented them from awarding the Physics Nobel Pr…

While I may agree that the US should do more to encourage immigrant entrepreneurs, I do not think that the author chose a good openning example. The author points to statistics abo…

He's just refuting Khosla's agument and pointing out that if VCs were really repelled, then the valuations could not be high (since these are determined by the demand of the market…

Some good points for comparison: http://www.scipy.org/NumPy_for_Matlab_Users IMHO, it's best to prototype in Octave and then build in python. I find that the Matlab/Octave syntax i…

I am not sure that Octave preforms as fast as MatLab; for example, I think MatLab does a better job in parallelizing non-vectorized code.

This reminds me of a nice local quote regarding the conflict of getting stuff done vs. the acceleration of tech addictions to Facebook, WoW, etc. We'll increasingly be defined by w…

A discussion from 2008: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209955 A lot of the current post seems to be taken straight from there. Compare, for example: > in Alzheimer’s patients …

He mentioned Github in the context of getting talent from other parts of the country (#4). Perhaps he edited it based on your comment...

It seems that if you follow the link to Safari Books Online, you get a table of content. Here's a direct link: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9781449323592?portal=oreilly...

Check out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761013

> But then if you think about it for two seconds you have to wonder why we want a good signal of these students’ ability. This is not assessment for accreditation so who cares abou…

I agree. The PGM class is much more challenging than the machine learning and algorithm classes, even though (or perhaps, because) Tim and Andrew are doing such a terrific job with…

There could be other time-based methods to encourage students, rather than hard deadlines. For instance, suppose the class had a bag with unlimited (or large) number of question, a…

Regarding Udacity's business plan: In June Thrun "took the next step: cofounding KnowLabs... He pulled in David Stavens... as CEO… Thrun decides that KnowLabs will build something …