January 2012
79 posts
“We recommend that materials and data be shared under the least restrictive terms...”
– Post-publication sharing of data and tools : Article : Nature
Jan 1st
December 2011
55 posts
The X-Frame-Options response header - MDN →
Dec 31st
“It boils down to this: GitHub is a warzone. We are constantly overloaded and...”
– Introducing Resque - GitHub
Dec 30th
1 note
2 tags
“the significance calculation makes a critical assumption that you have probably...”
– How Not To Run An A/B Test /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3403819 /previously http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277004 this comment lays out a way to do Bayesian A/B http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3404740
Dec 29th
8 notes
2 tags
“define your own debug() function. to disable debug, simply bind a null function...”
– idiom for debug code? | Python | Python continuing, Kjetil Torgrim Homme, says “avoid code like: “debug("Mother's smell is %s, number of taunts %d" % (fruit, count)) “since Python won’t be smart enough to skip the string interpolation. instead, write it as ...
Dec 29th
14 notes
“A header that takes up less vertical space means less chrome and a better user...”
– Skinny Header - GitHub “The new header is skinnier than skinny jeans.”
Dec 29th
1 note
“I realized that engineering activities would not allow me to get as close to the...”
– Eloi Baudoux quoted in a Businessweek profile Designer? Engineer? He’s Both 2007-10-04
Dec 29th
Automatic greeting of sample files (greeker.py) →
usage: greeker.py [-h] [--piglatin] [infile] [outfile] Create greeked text for XML testing. positional arguments: infile input XML (or standard input) outfile output greeked XML (or standard out) optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --piglatin replace using pig latin rather than more random "words" scrambles nouns in an XML document to produce a...
Dec 27th
sausage.js →
Sausage is a jQuery UI widget for contextual pagination. It complements long or infinite-scrolling pages by keeping the user informed of her location within the document. The best way to understand how Sausage works is to view some examples.
Dec 27th
Python Regex Tool →
Dec 27th
“Anyone can delegate stuff they don’t like doing. What’s hard is delegating...”
– (Robert Laing, myGengo) /via http://500.co/2010/11/04/harsh-realities-from-500-startups-founders/
Dec 26th
Fire in the Library - Technology Review →
story about the [web] Archive Team /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3381524
Dec 22nd
Sites that pushed JavaScript to the limit | Hacker... →
Dec 22nd
IndexTank is now open source! | LinkedIn... →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3379859 see also http://indextank.com/
Dec 22nd
Dec 21st
“After closing a memory-hog program that was causing swapping, sometimes I just...”
– 2.6 swapping behavior [LWN.net]
Dec 21st
Latest SNAC graphML and RDF →
Dec 21st
3 tags
Configuring Joseki + Pellet + TDB - Semantic... →
Dec 21st
myNoSQL: Attacking NoSQL and Node.js: Server-Side... →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3369876
Dec 19th
18 notes
DevOps Django - Part 3 - The Heroku Way - Randall... →
look like a small application could live on here for free /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3370483
Dec 19th
2 tags
TDB/Joseki Integration - Jena Wiki →
A simple example that publishes one TDB-backed dataset at a SPARQL end-point:
Dec 18th
“$> tdbloader2 --loc ./tdb ./source/*.nt”
– import - How to load large nt/rdf dump into a Jena/postgresql model (TDB/RDB?) - Stack Overflow
Dec 18th
3 tags
Installing, creating and populating triple stores... →
Dec 18th
“Rasqal is a free software / Open Source C library that handles Resource...”
– Rasqal RDF Query Library
Dec 18th
“Raptor is a free software / Open Source C library that provides a set of parsers...”
– Raptor RDF Syntax Library
Dec 18th
MapReduce for the Masses: Zero to Hadoop in Five... →
“Common Crawl aims to change the big data game with our repository of over 40 terabytes of high-quality web crawl information into the Amazon cloud, the net total of 5 billion crawled pages. In this blog post, we’ll show you how you can harness the power of MapReduce data analysis against the Common Crawl dataset with nothing more than five minutes of your time, a bit of local configuration,...
Dec 17th
How to Use BrowserID on Your Site - GitHub →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3359302
Dec 16th
How big are PHP arrays (and values) really? (Hint:... →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3359433
Dec 16th
JSON-LD - JSON for Linking Data →
Dec 16th
Insidious Bug or Comedy of Errors? - edw519 →
good bug story /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3356829
Dec 16th
2 tags
“When you have a signed letter from the engineers responsible for creating the...”
– The nightmarish SOPA hearings - ComPost - The Washington Post
Dec 16th
13 notes
jadell/neo4jphp - GitHub →
PHP wrapper of the Neo4j REST interface /via [XML4LIB]
Dec 16th
Developer Certificate Of Origin - eLinux.org →
Dec 15th
Controlled Terms or Free Terms? A JavaScript... →
Dec 15th
Bootstrap, from Twitter →
Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more. on github
Dec 15th
What’s new in PHP 5.4? A huge list of major... →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3351670
Dec 14th
Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly... →
free ebook /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3352154
Dec 14th
1 note
(Python) Generator Tricks For Systems Programmer... →
Dec 14th
neo4django 0.1.5 Release →
A django that work with neo4j /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3350811
Dec 14th
1 tag
Don't put BASIC code in your emails - Pastebin.com →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3350286
Dec 14th
Dec 13th
Generating pseudo random text with Markov chains... →
Dec 13th
emberjs/ember.js - GitHub →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3344765 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3345159 see also http://yehudakatz.com/2011/12/12/amber-js-formerly-sproutcore-2-0-is-now-ember-js/ see also http://www.emberjs.com/
Dec 13th
Create — A new kind of web editing interface →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3344412
Dec 12th
“The WebSocket Protocol enables two-way communication between a client running...”
– RFC 6455 on The WebSocket Protocol /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3341483
Dec 12th
"Elm is a type-safe functional language that...
http://elm-lang.org/ says Evan Czaplicki, “It is also my senior thesis. “My goal is to make web development easier and more pleasant, and I decided to start from scratch. I hope that we will someday think of HTML/CSS/JS the same way we currently think of assembly (i.e. not for people). “Elm’s major distinguishing features are support for reactive programming and its...
Dec 11th
1 note
“Context-Free Grep and Hierarchical Diff, will provide the ability to parse...”
– Usenix: Dartmouth expanding diff, grep Unix tools | ITworld /via http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/185217/researchers-expanding-diff-grep-unix-tools
Dec 9th
“jquery.acewidget.js is a jQuery plugin for acewidget. AceWidget is a widget...”
– jquery.acewidget - a jQuery plugin to easily embed ace on Jerome Etienne blog
Dec 8th
“Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) is a modeling technique that uses Boolean...”
– http://evanw.github.com/csg.js/ /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3320089
Dec 7th
ACE - Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor →
“Ace is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. Our goal is to create a web based code editor that matches and extends the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse. It can be easily embedded in any web page and JavaScript application. Ace is developed as the primary editor for Cloud9 IDE and the successor of the Mozilla Skywriter...
Dec 6th