skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is likely an artifact of working in a color model which badly describes the relation between lightness and chroma or lightness and saturation.

If you manipulated colors in a more reasonable color space (this is the fault of tool designers, not users) then you wouldn’t have to spend extra steps of indirection to change the (visually relevant) parameters you care about.

(Edit: and to be clear, my frustration is completely directed at all the software that uses HSL, not at its users.)
> Isn't this over reacting a little?

It probably is, as I acknowledged in my original post. Then again, it's also a matter of principle, and as I also noted in my original post, it's a kind of behaviour that has been widely abused in the past.

> Do you have a problem with all the HN mashups out there from mobile apps and twitter bot to search sites?

I think you have to look at each on its own merits. Clearly we're all happy to volunteer our posts on HN, so while I can't speak for others, I personally have no problem with someone writing, say, a non-commercial app that makes HN more readable on a mobile device. It's still clearly linked to the original site, and is unlikely to harm anyone or compromise the integrity of the posts. I just don't think the same applies to a complete data dump of the entire site, distributed independently and with no inherent link back to the original source.
That's exactly what I was thinking of; I figured the reference would be obvious to those who'd read the book and useless to those who hadn't though.
I fly SYD - LAX at least once a year. A few years ago, it was no bottles, shoes off, grope from local version of TSA at SYD. In my recent flight, no bottle restriction, no shoes off, no groping. A couple of small signs talking about liquid amounts but no sign of enforcement. I suspect that periodically the TSA tries to force higher screening on other countries, but for the most part the airlines/airports want to skip the cost (and aggravation for it's customers), and so get lax about it. Someone has to pay for extra floorspace for extra screening on US flights, as well as extra staff, facilities, equipment. When airlines will drop one meal in a flight to drive down costs, adding costs like this to flying has to hurt someone, somewhere, whether it's the airline or the airport. I'm guessing they don't forward the invoices to the TSA.

When you think about it, it's a net losing situation for the USA, because they can't possibly force every single country every single day to keep up the standards. And without a blanket coverage on the standards, the cause is hopeless because any wrongdoer is just going to pick an international flight to do the business.
Preserving science: what data do we keep? What do we discard?
You could make reasonably-sized miniature zeppelin drones, which can be made quiet and stealthy, but I'm not sure how maneuverable they'd be in a stiff breeze.
From replication of the experiment the figure's more like just 30% refusing after a certain point. In any case, being happy about 30% or 50% is a weird way to see things. "Sure, at least three billion humans are willing to follow insane orders from an authoritative figure they only know by authority (not by actually liking them a-la Hitler or fearing them), but the rest of us aren't quite as susceptible under these exact conditions!" It's like being happy that only 40% of Delaware voters voted for O'Donnell.

Also, does anyone else feel like the subject's (Man Two's) lines were scripted, or did people talk that way often back then?

Edit: replier is right, 'most insane' does not fit here.
Learning computer science is not about learning version control systems, or even programming. Computer science educations should focus on the theoretics and math behind all of that.

Teaching version control to computer science students is like teaching calculators to mathematics majors.
Stuff I like to Read to Kush: Kush's Blog
According to Qantas CEO Alan Joyce the engines are not maintained by Qantas.

"This is an engine issue and the engines have been maintained by Rolls-Royce since they were installed on the aircraft..."[1]

[1] http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/plane-reportedly-qantas-sheds-...
Hi!
Thanks for reading my suggested approach. I can understand how Map-reduce can be used to process the things faster (by processing them in parallel and later using reduce to aggregate the results??)

But can't imagine how reduce (of map-reduce) can help in dropping of word-pairs (i.e. in Step 3)
Good point, I haven't used emacs in 8 years, but I know a couple of developers who use it with a lot of passion, even though I imagine its hard for non developers to use it.

Well, don't be afraid! I'm not a "developer," and I do 99% of my work in Emacs. (I am a philosophy student, though I do write programs from time to time.) It takes time to learn, but so do all worthwhile things.

I would love to flesh out the core elements (the model in the MVC sense) required that defines a task and its context. The format itself could be exportable as XML, JSON or Org-Mode consumable files.

Well, as far as Org is concerned, the core elements that define a task are:

1) Title

2) Todo state (user configurable: mine goes TODO -> INPROGRESS -> [possibly] WAITING -> DONE)

With the following optionally present (I'm sure I'm missing some; this is off the top of my head):

- Priority (also user configurable)

- Description/free-form notes

- Deadline timestamp (may be recurring)

- Timestamp indicating when task is scheduled

- Timestamp indicating when task was finished

- running tally of time spent so far

- a list of arbitrary tags

- a list of arbitrary properties (key/value pairs)

- a parent task

- a list of sub-tasks

- a property indicating whether sub-tasks must be completed in order

This is all I need in a task model, and then some. You would probably also need a model to represent more global context (like the todo state-flow graph).

Of course, Org also comes with a rich set of tools at the "view" layer, too, which I recommend looking into.

Sorry about your issue with Disqus, I actually recently installed it because it allowed me to connect with the commentors even more since they signed in with Twitter etc.

No worries; it comes with the territory when you're a paranoid NoScript user. (That said, I wasn't even able to post the comment after allowing all scripts on the page, so a fallback is probably in order.)
Some of these are just silly. E.g.

WHERE column IN ('1, 2, 3')

How can this ever be expected to work, unless, of course your column is literally '1, 2, 3'? Seems strange to blame MySQL for it. ("MySQL is buggy because it cannot infer meaning from my arbitrary string literals!")
That's how I read it too. Wishful thinking, I suppose. :(
"the most insane of orders"? I'm sure there's more insane than painful or dangerous electric shock.

In regards to his lines, I'm pretty sure the abundance of "um"'s in speech is a recent phenomenon
In case anyone is wondering, it's not like you can get a $0 bill for a whole year.

Micro instances are only available using AMI's using EBS. A Lucid Lynx AMI alone is already 15 GiB, and the free offer only provides 10 GB. Essentially, it's like a temporary price reduction per month.
I am mostly doing programming in languages with GC, which in this case is fine because it's OK for it to go, you know, kind of slow.
To be honest (and I mean no offense), a lot of that material is somewhat misleading. For example, this statement,

> “At the heart of basic color theory lie the three Primary colors: red, yellow, and blue,”

comes straight out of the 19th century (or the 17th) – for coverage of primary colors see http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color6.html – and this:

> “Intensity: Also known as saturation or chromaticity”

is not the way those terms are used today by people trying to use precise terminology. Intensity is reserved for counts of photons, chromaticity encompasses two dimensions, and as you describe it what you’re really talking about is chroma, not saturation.

All the stuff about triadic and tetradic and alternate complementary schemes, while it seems to be popular among some “color theorists” (whatever that means) is pseudoscientific creation of jargon divorced from any evidence-based underlying structure.

Edit: definitely take a look at the Maureen Stone SIGGRAPH course notes for something pretty accessible and good, http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs448b-02-spring/04cdro...
That's funny. I read the first one, then all I did was look at the photos. I understand that I'm just me but this article was more set up as a number of photos with some unrelated SQL tips around it. I think the poster over did it. I think the Social Media 101 is more referring to how Joel used to add a bit of flair to his articles.
Indeed, but this is the way it is now. Halliburton fails to do their job right in the Gulf of Mexico, blame the Brits. Quantas fails to maintain its engines, blame the Brits. I don't really care when it's just Hollywood, but Obama brought it into the real world.
I don't know about that. The person who flies once or twice a year probably don't care that much and appreciate the security theatre- all part of the drama of flying. Definitely those that never fly would support unlimited security restriction - like those who don't work support higher taxes.

I recently was at a conference, and was pulling my old laptop from my bag. I joked to some people standing around that I use my old laptop in case the TSA decide they like it more than I do. One person looked at me seriously and said 'why would they do that'. I responded with 'well, it's not like anything they do makes any sense at all'. Most people laughed at my joke but that one person looked offended.

I'm guessing that person was the visible representative of a population who thinks the TSA is doing important work and actually improving things.

I don't know what the answer is. Everyone is painted into a corner by this : any politician that mentions disbanding the TSA is going to be slammed by opponents for being soft on terrorism. Soon enough the TSA employees will have a srong union and lobby against any changes and actually ask for more. The only way around would be an eventual change in technology that busts the old paradigm apart - like a new way of getting onto planes, or a whole new transport system. If you look at shipping, there are practices and laws which date back 400 years. I don't think all this cruft being attached to air travel is ever going away. Maybe with another big war when there is not enough resources or something. 'TSA abandoned for war effort' - that type of thing.
TomfTTB, I think you missed some of my points in the post. Let's see if I can clarify:

1) Codes of conduct - I'm talking about community covenants that come from the community and that have real teeth enforced by the community. This is not about whether an action is illegal and enforceable in court, it's about a community setting standards of behavior for its members and taking real action against people who violate them. I can think of numerous unethical or abusive actions that, while not illegal, could (and should) be included in a community code of conduct as worthy of censure.

2) Training - I'm not talking about some quick and shallow two hour seminar with a cheezy twenty minute "this is sexual harassment" video. Those are nearly worthless. I'm talking about the much longer intensive trainings offered for and by domestic violence/sexual assault service agencies. Trainings where we learn to see the culture of oppression and violence through the eyes of the people who have survived it. We're talking about changing a culture and its underlying frame of reference, not simply pointing at something and saying, "don't do that, it's bad."

3) Speaking out - my point was that we need to be better at speaking out for exactly the reason you described. We need to do more than just shout incoherently into the void. We need to be more deliberate regarding how we speak out. A quiet, one-on-one "dude, you can't say crap like that" to a peer or an "I'm sorry, but our community does not allow its members to behave in that manner. Please leave now," is more valuable and effective than a thousand blog comments. It's not a question of whether we speak out, but how we speak out.

Lastly, I'm not trying to make this into a "micro issue". I'm pointing out that the tech community is particularly hostile to women. Compared with the other communities I've worked with (primarily in the non-profit and education sectors), the tech community is shockingly bad.
Stupid Cupid - Play Stupid Cupid online at Y3 Games
Shoot your love arrows at the bad guys floating above you. Watch out for bombs and shoot hearts.
For $500 I will seed the web about your accomplishments in nursing baby kittens back to health, your support for the disabled, and how green you are in your buying goats to mow your lawn instead of a gas mower.

The part were you are an arsonist, run a medicare fraud ring, and have stolen millions from investors will be so far back in the Google results it will be like it never happened.
I guess your satisfaction with this result depends on your prediction.

Also, judging by the comments section on that site, presenting the result this way ("50% refused" instead of "50% complied") has a significant impact on how people respond to the result.
Narrative Essay Writing and Ideas
Narrative essays can be written in many ways. Understanding the many ways of writing this essay will enable students to obtain good grades. Therefore, this article will educate students on the various methods of narrative essay writing, which will prepare them for the task ahead.
Maybe they use a bloom filter to store who voted per comment, that would be an efficient way to prevent upvotes without needing to store much data.
Excellent market segmentation though: this is useless for academics, who normally subscribe to these journals, so they will continue to pay through the nose but it could be very useful for the theoretically oriented computer programmer who likes to check up on what is new in his field, but who isn't likely to subscribe to these journals, unless you can get him hocked.

The fact that they sell other peoples work, paid for by government and other public founds, is just even more brilliant.
The book Obedience to Authority: http://www.amazon.com/Obedience-Authority-Stanley-Milgram/dp...

Is an excellent piece of work, and shows how much work really needs to be done to try and do social science.

Here's the actual table of results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment#Summary_of_v...

As you can see, by varying the way responsibility was assigned and the role the subject had they could get to the point where only 8% refused to got the 450V.
Rolls-Royce has also recommended "basic precautionary checks" be carried out on all Trent 900 engines (i.e. the model that failed)[2]

[2] http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/05/3057785.htm
Poll: What level of education have you reached
Homeschooled
Dropped out of highschool
Currently in highschool
Graduated Highschool
Studying at university
Dropped out of uni
Graduated uni
Just make sure that you don't get one that is too small - I borrowed an iRex iLiad [1] from the library at the university, and I found that the 8.1-inch (21 cm) display meant constant "scrolling" with the touch-pen, which was rather annoying due to the high response-time of the system.

The only book that I finished reading on it, was Mercurial: The Definitive Guide by Bryan O'Sullivan [2]. The reason that I could read this book, was that it was released for free online by the author with all source files so that I could compile it in a smaller page-format with bigger fonts (the figures did not scale automatically, but IMHO, they weren't crucial to understanding the content of the book).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILiad

[2]: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/
You really have to remember it’s a demo – it’s not something that Adobe sells to publishers, today; it’s supposed to have the “wow” factor.

Incidentally, that article in the demo includes Adobe’s own glyph shaping&rendering solution, with things like stem darkening, subpixel rendering, linear blending of text. If you show it side-by-side with the “webkit rendering”, it’s relatively obvious that our text looks better. But guess what…. from all the people who see the demo live (because you can’t see this kind of text improvements on youtube) – nobody notices if we don’t explicitly show side-by-side text comparison. And even then, it’s a “meh, yeah, you’re right, it does look slightly better”.

Same for good justification – it’s computationally expensive. If we put better justification in a demo (we tried), the animation doesn’t look “cool”, it’s slower and the picture lags behind your finger. Maybe it wouldn’t matter in real-life because you don’t need to reflow text 10 times/second… but it makes a huge difference in a demo.

FWIW - my personal opinion is that it was a mistake to shoot the demo video on a mobile phone, the screen space is simply too small to render this kind of layouts. It should've been shown on a Galaxy Tab, it looks much better.
(oh, and AFAIK the demo does have hyphenation; it's just that the rendering space is so small, that hyphenation alone cannot solve the layout problems).
Created a Poll
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881630
The results are a bit more involved than that:

* 65% administered the (maximum) 450 volt shock

* All participants questioned the experiment at one point

* None of them backed out until the 300 volt level (over halfway), when the learner started to bang on the wall.
As I am currently working on an education-genre startup, I can't wait to see the results of this poll :)
High school drop out. Did pretty well in school, but fucking hated it. Don't regret dropping out for a second. I learned more during that time than I probably ever will again.

Previous salaries in the last five years $120 - $200K. Currently founder of a startup with $1.25 million funding.

Do not recommend anyone drop out of high school though. That it worked out okay for me is probably the exception rather than the rule.
Yeah, but hijacking is not some movie fantasy. It happens.
For a team of 28 people (see team photo on http://www.rockmelt.com/thanks.html) I was kinda expecting more than what I downloaded, especially as this is just a skin on top of Chromium.

All of the heavy lifting in terms of the browser itself has been done for them by Google.
How do you prevent the pilot from hijacking his own plane and flying it into the one that his accomplice was going to box-cutter-and-toothpaste?
I flew through Heathrow post-Lockerbie and was running late for my fight. I kept glancing at my watch and getting pretty nervous at possibly missing the boarding window.

A guard nearby saw my body language and pulled me aside instantly. There was a table set up right next to the counter where they did an immediate search of my luggage, asked questions, where was I, etc etc. Nothing harsh, very polite, and I'm sure my reactions and body language were being watched the whole time. Afterward I was given my place back in line with a thanks.

That is how airport security should be. I know Israel takes it even 10 notches higher than this, and it seems to work just fine.
I live under the 61st precinct. WORST precinct ever. Internal affairs should be all over that precinct. They don't give a damn. The best way to keep your crime stats low is to refuse to respond to any calls or file any reports.
I would get one to fly ahead of me when I'm driving and monitor for the road work and traffic congestion. That's until the car native navigation is finally capable of collecting this information on its own. And I want a touch screen with pinch zoom on that damn antiquated piece of hardware already. And a satellite imagery! :)
seems masters, doctorate work should be represented. and homeschooled doesn't necessarily exclude higher education.

edit: ah, you can vote for more than one. wasn't clear.
I find his stuff to be infectiously enthusiastic and inspiring.
According to Qantas CEO Alan Joyce the engines are not maintained

Well, yeah, that's why they blew up!

:)
'Some university' isn't the same as 'Dropped out of university'.
oh, ok then. Give them a little time in the corner. Even that is not life ending. Even Martha bounced back.
Yep, I agree. However the conventional HSL model found in pretty much all graphic software has the problem I described.
True. I was homeschooled, then graduated uni, currently finishing an M.Sc. Do I pick all three options that apply, or just one?
I wonder what your PhD program is?

Well, I haven't got a specific focus or dissertation topic yet. (Not sure how it works in Europe, but here in the U.S., a Ph.D. typically involves doing coursework first, which is where I'm at.) But I will probably do something in philosophy of language and/or philosophical logic.

Like Richard Stallman I see free software as an ethical issue, which is how I rope philosophy into it

Me too. So far, I haven't had a whole lot of luck convincing other philosophers that there is an ethical issue to be examined, though. Mostly, they see me as getting inexplicably cranky due to my esoteric interests...

For my Bachelor's degree I wrote a paper on the philosophy of the infinitesimal calculus and intuitionism! ... Right now what gets me very excited is intuitionistic type theory and the Curry-Howard correspondence

Sounds fascinating. I have been thinking about intuitionism a bit lately too. I'm on the fence: classical logic clearly proves too much; but doesn't intuitionism prove too little? :)
maybe next year, if you keep up the good work, you'll be reading about Appeal to Some Website.
You are absolutely correct about this. People at all ends of the market spectrum have a very strange psychology about hourly rates; for some reason, if you hand them a quote that foresees 10 hours at 175/hr and is expressed that way, that strikes them as an eye-poppingly high number. They start comparing your services to the prices to those of high-end attorneys and accountants and so on, exercising prejudices about how programmers should be paid less than that because they are more like plumbers or electricians than litigators, and general wheel-dealing, bargaining, nickel-and-diming, etc.

In addition to that, the large-scale body shops serving the enterprise market, the ones we all know about that darken the skies with individually-billed people and squeeze as many hours as they can without the impression of efficiency, have left such a bad taste in the mouths of many people who no longer work in enterprise that you invariably have to fight against it every time you sell your services.

But if you hand them a quote for 1750, even with the 10 hour estimate baked in for their mental math to operate on (but especially if it's not, and once you quote an aggregate price itemising the time apart from overall delivery time frames for the most part ceases to be necessary), some switch flips in their brain. I cannot say what it is, or why -- it just does. Somehow, the combination of shifting the risk for overages onto you and the more opaque number causes them to start evaluating the overall sum more in terms of business value and less in terms of whether anyone should be making "that kind of money." It's really odd, but it has been overwhelmingly the norm in my line of consulting trade.
Did you know that Quicksilver development has ceased? I believe the original dev now works on QuickSearchBox at Google.

http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/

In any case, qsb is maintained and has many new features.
Kanye West - Runaway
Interestingly, Trent 895 engines were the cause of the only 777 hull-loss incident.

I'm making a mental note to only fly on planes with GE engines from now on :)