skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, in the case where you have a 2 students with perfect 4.0 (or better) GPA's, both got perfect SAT scores, etc- i.e., match eachother blow for blow, the only way groupthink people have thought of to get ahead is to have extracurriculars.

Ideally GPA and SAT scores would make the distinction for us. The top X% of students would range from 3.5-4 in their GPA, or something like that. Unfortunately, grade inflation and test coaching is compacting an increasing percentage of the 'top' students into the tiny tiny bracket around 4.0 and 2400 (SAT). Greater-than-4.0 GPA's attempted to extend the headroom, but much like raising the level cap in WoW this didn't help much.
I have a hypothesis that one way to drastically reduce the amount of volunteering going on is to not consider it in college/MBA admissions.

Every one of my friends who has volunteered has coincidentally highlighted that experience in some admissions essay two years later.
What about this makes you think it was a joke?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Android team wanted to destroy iPhone, it's definitely the haves and the have nots (I mean, people use and like Android phones (myself included), but the iPhone is and always has been something of a phenomenon). However, I don't think the Android team (having been absorbed in an acquisition) is necessarily representative of all of Google. The only point of data I have there is their receptiveness to outside contributors (the 'we're students looking to contribute' email got 10 response on chromium-dev and didn't even make it past the android-kernel-dev moderators).

I think Google's interest in android is more along the lines of ensuring that there is an open internet-enabled phone for regular people. I'd guess that Google makes more money off of iphone users use of its services than it does off of anything Android related at all.
But how large an area would you have to cover with bubbles to get the 3 degree change he suggests?
The most intelligent persons are often the best at fooling and deluding themselves.

Once a path has been taken, it is very hard for an intelligent person to admit it might have been a mistake, it is too easy to rationalize and justify why you are right than to admit you might have been wrong.
When they tell you that failing in business isn't all it's cracked up to be, you might wonder why they needed to point that out—after all, who thinks failing is something to be proud of? Welcome to Silicon Valley.

Nonsense. Nobody in Silicon Valley thinks failing in business is something to be proud of. People here tend to think that trying to start a business is something to be proud of, and that failing isn't (usually) something to be ashamed of. That's completely different.
Likewise, I find the dialogue in many of his films really
stilted...
It's a pity that Slovenia doesn't have a well established "brand" as a nation in the US; if so, you wouldn't necessarily have to set up an US subsidiarity (since those who know about Slovenia by and large think well of it).

Anyway, however you get set up, I wish you luck!
i sometimes browse this site: asknature.org

it is often a very strange approach and cannot be replicated by humans, but i like the ideology.
Infilling tools have been around since 2003 (e.g., see Microsoft's "Smart Erase" in Digital Image Pro, http://www.microsoft.com/athome/morefun/photoedit.mspx). Nice to have it built in, though. (And it keeps getting faster and better, of course.)
Not nearly as good as what the photoshop demo did. In particular, the photoshop demo had examples of content aware fill with shadows moving through the object to be removed. In this example you can see the line/shadow of the overhang being eliminated with the purse. Maybe the photoshop fill would have done the same and they just cherry-picked some examples, but right now I'm thinking it's just better.
The Masculine Mystique
It's done by the guys at Parallax and the Propeller powers it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller
What if Obama's approach to the ACTA is a sneaky way of appearing to support the agreement, while provoking Congress (on totally understandable grounds) to step in and strike it down out of principal? Thus, Obama is seen to support IP law, but in the end it doesn't actually do anything ;)

I like to think our President is exceedingly clever, regardless whether it has a chance of being true. (though not in a, 'I'm going to fool the public' sort of way)
I've never seen Eric Schmidt as being particularly loyal to the Google cause. Not like Jobs is to Apple, anyway.

My imagination writes their dialogue as "Sure, we'll kill Android. If it makes someone mad, maybe we shouldn't be doing it."

But I am just a little cynical...
I take it you have eyesight that's near 20/20.

Mine's roughly that; the orange background is only a bit eye-straining for me.

For a lot of people with weaker sight, or outright visual disabilities that fall short of blindness, this would be entirely unreadable without Readability or similar tools.

Something that stops people from getting to content is noteworthy.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1222313
So do passengers, except on Southwest. If you fly American, you will become very familiar with ORD or DFW. If you fly Delta, you will become very familiar with ATL. If you fly USAir, you will become very familiar with PHX or CLT. Etc.

Even Southwest tends to try to funnel passengers through focus cities like MDW, but their network is largely point-to-point.

If hub-and-spoke is what would make baggage distribution efficient, WN should be the least efficient.
"Use of C. The way we have to fake objects" - explain?
Eric Raymond comes off patronizing with his "listen to grandpa" bit. He shrouds his argument in a weird "Unix tradition" argument, and appeals to heritage, culture and other nonsense as if computing was his village and he the elder.
http://o3.tumblr.com/post/470608946/photoshops-caf-content-a...

Same pictures as the Video. Gimp actually does better here.
Hmm this is confusing your before park bench picture has all the items removed by PS. So the before and after picture are the exact same?
It's my understanding that the majors make a ton of revenue off the checked-bag fees. That's why they do it; even though it encourages people to carry-on, and that decreases plane utilization (longer turn times), it still makes them money.

(It also encourages airline loyalty. Fly 25k miles on one of the legacies, and now checked bags are free. I stick with the legacies because of the great loyalty programs and the ability to use the same airline domestically and internationally. It is also nice to have an assigned seat.)
Not really. WN does not charge any fees, other than perhaps change fees on deep-discount fares. What you pay is what the trip costs; there are no hidden costs.

This is probably why most people like WN a lot -- their soft product is awesome. (Their hard product -- the planes, not so much.)
It's hard to tell, because unless you had access to a different video than I did you can't really see what Photoshop did, even after bumping it up to 480p. In this case I think we have the raw files, so you have the chance to examine the results up close and personal. It's not a direct comparison.
I guess you're technically correct, though the two peaks are almost narrow enough to be binary. :-)
Yeah, it amused and educated me when I first read about it. Not my term: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rubber+duck+program...
The entire text of http://www.plt-racket.org/:

Expected release date: Summer 2010

Ummm...?
If you are using Ubuntu (or Debian), installing this is even easier. Just install gimp-resynthesizer using aptitude or Ubuntu software centre
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There is also an experimental version of datalist in Opera (and possibly other browsers). Demo at http://html5.org/demos/dev.opera.com/article-examples.html (only the first one seems to work in latest Opera).

Full article at http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/an-html5-style-google-sug...
Except those aren't actually the original picture. That's the picture with the trash already removed.

Not that I'm saying Gimp can't do as good of a job. It's exactly the same technology based on the same research. But I am saying that blog post is a tad dishonest.
Quantum mind–body problem
See "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer" by Eric Mazur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI

(on HN a few months ago).
Yes, Ryanair are very strict with size and number of items. You are only allowed one bag. That includes handbag. Many times I've seen women not allowed on until they get their handbag in their normal bag and both have to fit within the size.
Article authors seem to be confused by the phrase: "Pass quarterly remove vulnerability scans". From what I know about PCI compliance, this is probably just a mistype and not indicative of anything actually meaningful. PCI compliance usually requires a quarterly security scan from a certified vendor. (The "Hacker Proof" "Hacker Safe" and similar badges are from these same services or similar.) These scans check your server(s) from the outside against a large panel of known-vulnerable software versions and common dangerous practices. They're useful tools, but no one should be misled into thinking they actually demonstrate security. The scans are typically passive only and don't do anything that could actually exploit a vulnerability or that require interacting with your site in any interesting way (such as logging in).

And it's not (as the article authors supposed) about removing vulnerabilities found in previous scans--you get the same (though updated) set of tests each scan and either pass or fail each time. Should you happen to fail, though, you can just upgrade, protect, or remove the problematic software (or make it hide its version number) and get scanned again until you pass.
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It looks like it doesn't really have a UI -- is there a version factored out of GIMP that just takes the source image and a mask image as arguments?

For the art producers the Photoshop version would me massively superior just for integrating with the UI, but for our purposes a version of this as a standalone utility or baked into PIL or ImageMagick would be fucking awesome.
I would guess that the empty hold space is left empty. If it's empty they don't use as much fuel.
I know this is vaguely relevant to people interested in the gathering hostilities between Google and Apple; yet I can't help but see this as tabloid material, in the style of "Brad and Angelina Spotted Together Again".
That's quite a compliment - thank you. I'm very much a programmer, not a designer - what do you dislike about the stuff up top? What could I do better?
fork() isn't that great for a lot of situations. If you are thinking of taking advantage of your operating system's copy-on-write paging by loading a large chunk of data to be used read-only, forking a bunch of processes, processing the data each processes, and finally, 'reducing' the results of all of the forks into some sort of output, don't bother.

What happens is when you read an object in one process, python increments the reference count, thus touching the memory page, thus copying it, thus screwing you.

(however, compacting garbage collection turns out to have more or less the same problem)
I wonder for a long time now what Southwest is going to do when they will have to replace 737s finally. At some time at the future they will have depart from old and uneconomical (by future standards) design and at this instant they would have second incompatible plane operating in parallel and dramatic cost increase.
Although you chances of exiting the aircraft in 90secs if it crashed in the middle of the Atlantic in the middle of the night are pretty small - the FAA has to pretend it's possible.

What? This requirement is actually quite important. Take a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_358

I followed a few links and skimmed the full report, but couldn't find the time it took to evacuate. But it was under 90 seconds, even with several exits not usable. Since the aircraft was already burning before it came to a stop, any time savings was critical to ensuring survival. And everyone did survive.

So I think this regulation is important. If there was just one exit, and it was blocked, there would have been 300 people dead in a fire instead of 0.
Go to the nearby Lowe's and ask for Tile Board. You get a 4' x 8' for $13-and-change. Just glue it to your wall. I have it at my home (in fact, I got them cut in smaller sizes so my three year old can put one on the floor and draw on it).
When I read this first I thought Viggo http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001557/ was joining RIM and then I.....
are you a troll? honestly i can't even begin to fathom this comment is serious
http://www.blendogames.com/flotilla/
I think you're talking about using your home as a home office, that's different. I'm talking about when you're working in a location away from your main residence for the purpose of business you can typically claim rental (if it's less than a hotel would cost) for up-to two years even if you do no work at all in the residence.
In the third picture, if you look in the bottom left and right corners, you can see a sudden colour change along the lines where the original picture's content ended. On the right, for example, the original cloud is sort of yellowish, then it suddenly becomes a more neutral grey along a diagonal line.

In the sky it's harder to tell, but it's still there too.
This is a response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215756
You can see the ryanair full ticket price at the first or second step. It would be impossible to buy a ticket without knowing the price.

I suspect the reason ryanair don't like 3rd party sites is because ryanair like pitching hotels and car hire after you buy a ticket.
Why not Ratchet instead of Racket. Then you could rename DrScheme to NurseRatchet... :)
The article makes the mistake of confusing "surprising" for "impressive".

Steve's accomplishments are surprising. I wouldn't have the slightest idea how he went about them; I'd have to ask to get the full story. (The article names this the "failed simulation effect".) I totally agree with you that it sounds like fluff, but it's unusual fluff.

David's accomplishments are unsurprising. I know exactly how one gets to be the captain of a varsity sports team while keeping up an interesting hobby outside of school. Impressive, concrete, but doesn't provoke any further questioning from me.

I wouldn't pick either of them just from a few sentences. I'd want to see the full essays.
This is all correct except for your last point. As we already discussed this in a previous thread, neither you nor I nor anyone knows whether the Dodd bill would sharply reduce the pool or not.
Gimp has a batch mode that lets you run commands without loading the UI. That would probably achieve the same thing, although it might be a little much if you're sure that all you want is resynthesizer.
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Sometimes, as an effort to read someone else's code, I'll actually refactor and reformat it in an effort to understand it better.
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Secondary data reuse/analytics requires more like "MapReduce" functionality rather than "NoSQL" stuff.
I ran into an issue in 2006 because a coworker was clever and used a "date" input for a date. Most browsers just ignored it, but I was using Opera which implemented Web Forms 2.0. While I got a better experience (with a nice pop-up date picker), the form put the date in using the wrong format and his code couldn't read it.
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It's just a spectrum. At one end, where all we do is write, we use log files. At the other end, where all we do is read, we cache static content at network hubs. There's a lot in between. An RDBMS is one tradeoff, 'NoSQL' represents another. They simply imply different types of read/write tradoffs.
Again, it is not true that you cannot back your friend. Investing in a friend's business is most certainly a private offering, so that it is probably exempt under 4.2 as grellas explained above.

However, if the relationship becomes more tenuous, and he is not really your friend but a friend of a friend or a random acquaintance, then it might be judged to be a public offering.
Indeed, if there ever was a problem with true verification, it is the requirement that you have to do it yourself without anyone involved in the steps.
On Ubuntu 9.10, the packages you need to install are:

gimp-plugin-registry (it contains the smart-remove filter)

gimp-resynthesizer
Why do people have to post links to BusinessInsider? They are a garbage site that does nothing other than to take other people's work and repackage it on their site (often slideshow form so they get more pageviews). They leech off the production of real journalists and contribute nothing of value. I never had any sympathy for media outlets wanting to close off their site to aggregators until I started reading BusinessInsider for a while. At least they actually got permission from the original author this time; usually, they just include a link, which apparently makes it okay to copy other articles in their entirety.

Here's the link to the original source: http://how2startup.com/
You also need gimp-plugin-registry if it's not installed. It contains the smart-remove filter.
The general point that sooner or later raw ability won't carry someone is worthwhile.

I am curious whether splitting drivers early is a symptom of this.

I've personally seen too much code sharing as a more symptom of hubris than too little code sharing.
1st the G7 then BRIC now N-11. Goldman research on next emerging economies.
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But that reply actually doesn't sound at all like someone blinded by their own ability but rather someone thinking very keenly about where the problems are likely to be.

Linus can come off as smart but an asshole in person. But despite this, it seems like his smart extends somewhat into smart insights about human nature.
Agreed -- when the trash is removed in the GIMP plugin, you can see that the line on the wall vanishes too -- the CS5 version seems like it would have extended it.
It's hard to find the right adjective for what's distinct about the relational model.

The relational model is a fantastic model of data independent of application. It can even be a great model for an application using the same data in different ways.

But this approach clearly has a cost. In ways, there's the question - is this an application with a company built around it or a company with a application built around it? Digg and Google are applications with companies built around them. Here the RDMS model doesn't make sense.
I agree, the CS5 version seems to be better.
Bccthis BlackBerry app for hidden email messages
Bccthis gets "Best of" CTIA for BlackBerry app from LAPTOP Mag. CNET says we let you talk behind people's backs. That's cool too.
As far as I know, they're using the same algorithm. If you can find me a high-enough resolution desert picture like the one they used, I'll apply the filter to see...
Edit: From an Economist lexington column: "“How Free?” not only details and condemns the administration's familiar sins, from Guantánamo to extraordinary rendition to warrantless wiretapping. It reminds readers of its aversion to open government. The number of documents classified as secret has jumped from 8.7m in 2001 to 14.2m in 2005—a 60% increase over three years. Decade-old information has been reclassified. Researchers report that it is much more difficult and time-consuming to obtain information under the Freedom of Information Act." The Economist: Lexington: Land of the free? http://www.economist.com/world/united-states/displaystory.cf...

For 2001, about 8 million documents were classified. For 2004, there were 15,5 million documents classified. Just as an example of the trend I meant http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4837061
That 'coincidentally' fits with Executive Order 13292, issued on March 25, increasing Vice President Cheney's classification authority, which he swiftly used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13292

This is the graph from 2005 I originally remembered:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/07/03/politics/03se...
NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/politics/03secrecy.html
It's alright. You can also set up your own file upload handling or even setup a middleware that will push the file in chunks, and allow you to have things like an upload progress meter.
My first attempt. Here's the before:

http://i.imgur.com/LHvih.jpg

Here's the after:

http://i.imgur.com/jSRoy.jpg

Not perfect, but not too bad either, given that it took 30 seconds to do it. I'm sure the size and shape of the selection changes the result, and then the filter has a "radius" parameter which by default is set to 100 and can be changed, and I guess it will change the result.
In a discussion with a student physicist, it was pointed out to me that "observer" in the sense of quantum mechanics does not necessarily hold the same meaning as it would under lay definitions.

The quantum zeno effect, it was told to me, was a matter of photons "observing" radioactive decay via interaction - the act of "measuring" a system necessarily involves the state of the measurement interacting with the "observed" object. "Consciousness" as the layman understand it /does not have an actual effect on quantum states/.

That is, unless we consider consciousness a matter of measurements in aggregate - in which case, there is no difference between a human being "observing" a quantum effect, and two quantum effects "observing" each other through interactions.

Language is such an ineffective medium sometimes.
By definition, every high school with a track team has a captain of the track team;

I agree with your point, but this sentence is not true.
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More consumers are using kayak, bing/travel, and other flight aggregators. Airlines are competing on the price of tickets so they tack on extra charges at checkout. Southwest doesn't play in the aggregation game so they can factor the price of storing luggage into the price of the ticket. Southwest doesn't want to commoditize their product by making their flights available to aggregators and part of that is offering a differentiated consumer experience.

This isn't the point that the author makes but could explain Southwest's strategy with luggage....
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Both Obama and Biden are pro-copyright and for the rights of copyright holders. I wouldn't put much hope into him doing anything that enables or protects copyright infringement, or even maintains the current situation where consequences are hilariously unlikely.
Slovenia is a small country. Even some people much closer than US aren't that aware of us. Zemanta is one of the few startups from here, that is making some news.

I have many projects and I plan to split them to multiple companies. So I would open additional companies anyway. If US option will be accessible, I see it more as another interesting experience than anything else.

Thanks for good wishes, and kudos for knowing where/what Slovenia is :)
Let's not forget that there have been numerous revolutions within American society that made representative government more representative of the actual population of United States citizens.

It's hard to evaluate the progression of democracy over time when comparing such vastly different societies as you have mentioned...also we should not use the U.S. example as some sort of normalized index...

Not saying you were doing that, just throwing it out there.
So what's your analysis of why the external teams are ineffective?
Oh, I know. It's just fun speculation. And you gotta admit, that sure is a move that makes sense if he wants you to think he's pro-copyright... ;) Once again though, just speculation.
The mean age of new Prius buyers is 53, so 60+ is not astonishing.
Is there really nothing else?