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That looks like Tony Stark's interface, except this is in 2D.

What about the feasibility, commercially?

Oh well, without all those projects IIT is not just IIT. There is no lack of projects at IITs. It is the passion and research attitude that is lacking. Most (not all) students involve and finish those projects, essentially to get their CVs pretty. In my BTP presentations half of the Physics Panel sleeps in the presentations! The way of teaching is so narrow, it is about exams, CGP. The professor's towards teaching is so materialistic. There are exceptions. We have only 3 professors who makes subject exciting of around 30 professors.

>>but I think it is unfair to expect a lot from UG students

Each year almost 7000 teenagers are filtered out in India to be sent to IIT, the best place of all in India. At least 10% of these are supposed (or 'have the potential') to drive scientific, technical innovation in India. The present conditions at IIT are not at all encouraging in Research except Computer Science and Electrical mostly. The problems are many fold. One important problem is the faculty, except that of CS, lack a vision and passion for research. While CS, Elec profs have undergrad experience at IITs, it is not at all true for other departments like Physics. [Yup, I am from EP]. The profs are ones who had a B.Sc at some regional university and MTech and Phd at IIT. And I say CS students are not the ones who can contribute to the core Scientific Research. They drive Technological Innovations. But the research in CS is very 'volatile'. There is no sharing of Ideas in other departments as in CS. Ideas quickly spread in CS and give rise to better solutions to problems. But not so in medicine or physics. India already has a great 'research' contributions in CS. I myself has lost all the passion taking Physics as my professional career after coming here, and I am pursuing CS (which I was naturally able to connect, given it's mathematical nature, the first fav subj for any IITian). And I regret for loosing Physics. And there are so many friends in Physics, BioTech who had taken the dept in spite of good chances in other departments. And it is very essential to make use of these bright students for research. The IIT is the only bet for good research. Even if research is not directly produced at IIT, at least the conditions should be encouraging to instill the passion in students, before pumping money.

I was just going to write similar thing. This shows that there is a significant percentage of HN users, who haven't had formal introduction to basic CS concepts.

While that is a smart hack, user should be informed of what is going on. I don't think that is a good design decision. Danger of disconnection in bandwidth limited networks!

Yes, Professor Widom was incredible in terms of teaching concepts clearly. But it's very difficult for anyone to produce such an enthusiasm to a passive camera as one would in a live classroom full of students. What I am complaining is not about the quality of the knowledge they impart, but about the passion and enthusiasm that they just can't impart to a student viewing these videos.

But again, there are professors in these courses (In this particular course the Prof. teaches as if someone is listening to him http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs262/CourseRev/apr20...) who put a lot of effort, to produce an awe of surprise for instance when they arrive at something imp, like in a class-room. But this is an exception and can't be applied to every professor.

So I think there should be an improvement someway in this regard.

Well I had taken db-class as a supplement to actual course at my College. It was just the professor speaking into the camera. While the courses like CS50, were so exciting.

I guess it's a personal problem then!

It's great MIT and Harvard are combining forces. It completely makes sense. Offering similar courses individually to the same Internet Audience is waste of resources.

By the way, all of these courses from Udacity, Coursera, MITx lack one unique thing. These videos can't reproduce the passion of the teacher in a live class-room. In that respect they are little boring. While they are excellent resources, kind of manuals to learn stuff, to actually 'improve the experience' they need to pump passion into video lectures. More than these video lectures I like the actual recorded class room lectures that are kept online for public. Like cs50.net and Tom Mitchel's Machine Learning.

Does anyone else feel this 'passion deficiency' in these courses, like me?

Wow I previously searched for such emulation, for sharing files over sftp/ssh. But I had done using ssh keys. Here is the HN Submission http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554318

While there is the same origin policy, there is mechanism to share some resources as Matthew pointed out. Even if you host a site on domain ex1, you can still access resource at google maps through API.

I would just point the script tag to the raw file address on github (eg. https://raw.github.com/sravfeyn/SparkDC/master/.download.py), than using github pages!

Github already hosts lot of code and allows free downloads. By hosting a static site, we essentially are hosting an HTML file which can be downloaded. Unless the site is of very High traffic, it is already sustainable for Github.Consider for example the amount of users who download Bootstrap from Github everyday.

Thank You.

I have a question that suits the context.

How can I get syntax highlighting on Bash while in interactive mode of interpreted languages like Python. Also applies to Standard-ML prompt.

But, Google already does the same thing on the devices using Chrome browser. Isn't it?

If you train the predictor with URLs that user has browsed(from browser history) even if they are not originated from HN, would improve the predicting model. Because, user's browser history would reflect his interests.

Wow. Something I am looking ahead to try to implement after my AI course.

It's too uncommon to find this kind of article(rants) on Technology Review.

Ah, I should change it!

Yeah the server here actually stores the file :), albeit temporarily.

None can actually access other's files directly, since they are on their local machines, not on server. One (User A) can only put a small request token (a request file with the File_Name they want and their home folder address) in the source(User B) folder. Since User B is listening to requests. It will upload the file to User A's folder.

I want to make it general-purpose, depending on your suggestions.

I actually went on to implement an automated file sharing service over SSH using these tricks in our college when they blocked normal protocols. You can see the software on github tailored for my college https://github.com/sravfeyn/SparkDC

Irony is that the video is hosted on Google's service.

Wow It's awesome. One small thing I would point out is to please set cursor to pointer on the color scheme selector.

http://instamovi.com

I guess that's the only kind of feedback on the page telling the user how many images are remaining, albeit wrong.

http://instamovi.com

Please drop in your suggestions here. This was my last weekend project.

Hope this might help. http://lifehacker.com/398229/five-best-windows-backup-tools

Sravan http://www.instamovi.com

Please tell us your views and suggestions here. And Please Please upvote it if you find interesting. I don't have any HN Friends to upvote this :(