adelevie

15 ms·

61.
by adelevie 13y ago
At the risk of setting up false dichotomies, I wonder: Will a MOOC instructor answer my emails, take a phone call, or meet with me in person? Will a MOOC instructor help me network with potential employers and internship sponsors? Will a MO
62.
by adelevie 13y ago
Yea, I was off by a pesky decimal place.
63.
by adelevie 13y ago
Interesting. Of I course, I'm not trying to discourage this at all. I really dig this stuff. Just writing my thoughts on another, complimentary approach. I guess this makes sense from the perspective of a hacker who wants to build a cool th
64.
by adelevie 13y ago
Isn't it always going to be more efficient for the producer of said text to produce the summary him/herself? Couldn't resources be better spent trying to influence the production process of various news outlets to provide summaries? In the
65.
If Evgeny Morozov worked in a hospital(garlingfiles.wordpress.com)
1 points by adelevie 13y ago|0 comments
66.
by adelevie 14y ago
If you're wrong, what good is conviction? I'd think that's even more dangerous. It's easy to call out the cynics who misappropriate and obfuscate words for their own gain. It's scarier when people earnestly see nothing wrong with anything
67.
by adelevie 14y ago
It looks like we have a lot of different "Linuxes for online learning." Perhaps we should peg different open source LMSs to particular distros. Since edX and Stanford's system seems to be destined to be the most popular and user-friendly, w
68.
by adelevie 14y ago
I know "X for Y" descriptions can be useful shorthand, but "Linux of online learning"? Really? I know many HNers groaned at yesterday's Morozov essay, but we might do well for ourselves if we take some of the buzzwords back a notch or two.
69.
by adelevie 14y ago
1) There are Access Control Lists which should help with that. Also, note that Parse gives you a Javascript key which is separate from your master key. Though I'm a longtime Parse user, I have not spent much time with the JS SDK on the clie
70.
Kiln(github.com)
233 points by adelevie 14y ago|61 comments
71.
by adelevie 14y ago
Me. See my other comment in this thread. I've recently started exploring the Legal Informatics field. The problems in it are huge and typically involving adding some structure to lots and lots of unstructured text. Also, Peter, if you do en
72.
by adelevie 14y ago
Why this poll? I'm sure there'd be no problem if tomorrow morning we see "I'm #{@name}, founder of #{@awesome_thing}, AMA".
73.
by adelevie 14y ago
This looks great. I'm building http://dokket.aws.af.cm . It's a database filled with documents from the Federal Communications Commission. From day 1, I've been looking for smart ways to make use of the thousands of documents of unstructur
74.
by adelevie 14y ago
adelevie at gmail
75.
by adelevie 14y ago
There are many good paths to take, and I'd avoid discussions about the "right" language to start with. Pick any language and run with it. If, down the road, you need to use a different set of technologies, then that time will come. But righ
76.
by adelevie 14y ago
I emailed you a more complete answer, but while you're here: I'm focusing on building the dataset and alerts system, so it's more of a subscription service--for now at least. Looking ahead, there's a wealth of information buried inside thes
77.
by adelevie 14y ago
I'd rather not waste the YC partners' time :) Maybe in my case, school is a bit less of a zero sum game. I'm working on a legal research tool (prototype: http://dokket.aws.af.cm/about ) that serves an under-addressed market (communications
78.
by adelevie 14y ago
I know YC doesn't like to accept applicants who are still in school (and who aren't dropping out). Makes enough sense, considering students at all levels can expect to spend ~40-60 hours/week on their studies. But what about part-time/eveni
79.
by adelevie 14y ago
Is there anything gem authors should be doing?
80.
Magic Removal(dwillis.net)
1 points by adelevie 14y ago|0 comments
81.
Utopian for Beginners(m.newyorker.com)
1 points by adelevie 14y ago|0 comments
82.
Emscripten: mruby(qiezi.me)
1 points by adelevie 14y ago|0 comments
83.
by adelevie 14y ago
Are there any (dis)advantages between the two?
84.
by adelevie 14y ago
I'd love to try this out with RubyMotion.
85.
by adelevie 14y ago
Do backend-as-a-service databases count?
86.
by adelevie 14y ago
Check out https://github.com/adelevie/parse-ruby-client and https://github.com/adelevie/parse_resource . Also, with properly-configured ACLs, you should be fine using the JS SDK client-side with a Rails backend.
87.
Lawyers on GitHub(lawyersongithub.com)
2 points by adelevie 14y ago|0 comments
88.
by adelevie 14y ago
To any programmers looking to work in Congress, there's a job opening for a "Software Technician" in the Office of Legislative Counsel[0]: MEM-098-12 The House Office of Legislative Counsel is looking for a Software Technician to
89.
LocalVox Buys Postling(techcrunch.com)
3 points by adelevie 14y ago|1 comments
90.
by adelevie 14y ago
This is one of many features requested that Parse has promptly delivered. I (among others), expressed interest in this feature just a matter of weeks ago[0]. Cloud Code opened a floodgate of functionality on the Parse platform, and HTTP req

More ›