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While great points, I think it might then go beyond the "Simple" in the S3 name itself. Wasn't the original purpose of the service to have it as a dumb storage, and you'll layer metadata as required? I.e. storing indices separately with whatever functionality is needed (be it date/path filtering).

It should be fairly easily doable with Gordon (https://github.com/jorgebastida/gordon), and scheduling via CloudWatch Events. Or Airflow.

Seeing as you're heavily using Spark, have you had a look at Apache Zeppelin (site: https://zeppelin.apache.org, demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Ei1RMG5Xo)? Seems like a more powerful notebook approach, plus better architecture for using embedded d3.js viz. Also painless templated SQL -> published dashboard looks great for getting data visible early on.

This looks pretty awesome! It is also worth mentioning Django SQL Explorer (https://github.com/epantry/django-sql-explorer), which has all of the presented features, as well as handy schema definition by the side. It also allows for parameters in the queries, which is very useful (e.g. leaving the timeframe customisable before running a query). With Django 1.8 now being easier to install/deploy to wherever, this is a great plugin to allow more people data access!

Have you tried LyX (http://www.lyx.org)? It's a WYSIWYM (your first point) graphical editor for LaTeX and as far as I remember shows you a pretty good preview of your document as you're typing (your second point).

First example that comes to mind is SQL inside Python (I'm actually doing this right now). Say, you've got a raw SQL query in your Django app. To a standard editor, the query is a simple string, however it's absolutely great to be able to mark this string as SQL, getting all the correct syntax highlighting and linting etc. PyCharm already does this, even going a step further, validating the DB schema along the way. Super useful!

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> I'm going to be typesetting it myself with lots of love using InDesign.

Have you perhaps considered LaTeX/XeTeX? Would get you incredibly beautiful typeset foundations, then you can customise it a lot further.

If you're mentioning open source game assets (and your site looks really good - bookmarked, too), it's also worth mentioning http://opengameart.org. Tons of good stuff there that can come in handy!

I wonder if perhaps a similar thing is going to happen to the meal replacement products, such as Soylent and Ambro and others. Maybe in their attempt to "hack" human nutrition they, too, will rediscover why human nutrition research exists. Except perhaps with more serious consequences involving health issues.

It's an absolutely great resource, but the videos are still broken if you're using HTTPS Everywhere.

Link for the impatient https://www.coursera.org/course/ml Looks great indeed!

I am aware of that, but I still consider it one of my favorite libraries, and thought it would be useful to mention that it's not yet py3k-ready. I can imagine quite a few people might depend on it. What are you using instead?

Well, apart from Fabric.

There's http://pineapple.io/tags/ruby-on-rails which is getting updated quite regularly!

This thread turned out to be a great source of information right when I needed it! Thanks, everyone!

However, I'm just starting to work on a webapp for a client (learning from scratch, this is my first big project in Rails), and I was wondering which version to start with. Since I'm starting with no pre-existing codebase, it's very tempting to go with Rails 4.0 as opposed to 3.2, but I'm afraid not all essential gems support it yet. Also, there probably isn't as much information for bugs and problems etc.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Correct me if I'm missing something, but why exactly are you using 2.0.0-rc2, when there is 2.0.0-p247 available?

I'd suggest doing

    rbenv install 2.0.0-p247

    rbenv global 2.0.0-p247

Also, it's openssl, not open-ssl, (just in case someone couldn't complete the step) i.e.

    brew install openssl

> I worry that as the job of programming matures, we are losing track of that fundamental insight.

Reminds me of the intro to SICP:

“I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.” — Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990)

squidsoup replied earlier (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4294369) with this EPUB repo: https://github.com/ieure/sicp