skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I edited my post within 15 minutes of posting, because I re-read it and realized that it came across that I was challenging the assertion that our eyes are less sensitive to blue. A fact I wasn't sure of either way (but have since learned the facts about). See tensor's and corysama's excellent posts below that contains some great links.

I said plainly in my edit, "My main point is that his argument is flawed, not his assertion." No need to get snarky.
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The answer you think you have to this it outside the bounds of the question you gave. Re-phrase the question honestly. The answer is .5^100. I am sorry, you will have to allow more power on the prisoners parts, perhaps the ability to label things.
Yeah, I had to read it a few times to realise it wasn't auto-generated content or some other type of spam. But I think the recipients probably knew the sender.
Fedora 14 uses it and they could have delayed the release.
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Funnily enough, one of my few complaints about Chrome is that the location bar doesn't seem as good as the one in Firefox. I tend to use the location bar more often for accessing sites I've been to before, rather than searching for new sites.

Chrome doesn't appear to have a particularly good history search, so I have to type quite a lot before it figures out where I want to go. Conversely, Firefox seems to get it right more often, and with a lot less typing. For example, in Firefox, if I type in "y" in the location bar, it instantly suggests "news.ycombinator.com", which is by far my most frequently visited site with a "y" in it. Chrome suggests "yardoc.org", which I've only visited once or twice several weeks back.

Chrome seems to place a lot more emphasis on matching the address bar in order; so it assumes that if I wanted "news.ycombinator.com", I'd begin with "n". It also seems to rate sites based on how recently I visited them, rather than how often I visit them.

All this means that whilst the Firefox location bar seems to read my mind, the Chrome location bar hardly ever produces relevant results.
Why not just submit it to HN or Reddit Programming. I'm sure you'd get more than enough help making it better!

I think you've introduced too many barriers to helping you. The first rule of getting help is to make it easy for someone to help you.
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You got lucky. Mine turned out like this:

http://i.imgur.com/PvjWf.jpg (Sorry, I uploaded PNG, Imgur munged it.)

Had to start in Safe Mode, resetting toolbars and themes didn't fix. Resetting all User Preferences did fix the appearance, but broke 1Password. Reinstalling 1Password (which supports Firefox 4 betas) didn't fix. (Adblock+ and Xmarks worked okay.)

TimeMachine backup from 2 hours ago to the rescue: App, Profile, and Prefs, all's good.
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And you can use it to walk at twice the speed of the wind into the wind. Believe it or not.
"The costs of switching from established languages will continue to be high" - this is why the recent set of new JVM and CLR languages are so wonderful. If I'm experienced with one CLR-based language, I can experiment with another one without leaving behind my nice familiar libraries and tools.

I started learning F# and Haskell around the same time, and although I still prefer Haskell from a pure language point of view, I'm far more productive on F#.
"For some, being rejected at all is a huge blow to ego, confidence, and self-esteem, which can have serious effects on mood and productivity, for instance.
For these people, getting rejected more often means that each rejection is less significant and reinforces the knowledge that rejection happens."

Yes, but this sort of "therapy" only works if you have the right thought patterns to go with the rejection (i.e. not taking it too personally, realizing it's not that big of a deal, etc). It may not work so well if you (were raised to) believe that you have to please others in order to feel good about yourself. In that case, each rejection is just more evidence that "you suck", and you enter a downward spiral.
The senz° storm umbrella will withstand 100 km/h winds, or 70 mph if you like

I hope that's a typo. It's one thing to round up 69mph to 70, but quite another to round up 62 to 70. For starters, that gives you over 110kph!
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1890758 although no comments there.
[caveat: I am a numpy/scipy developer]

The idea of rewriting a large body of code in a different language does not make much sense.

Also, being a niche language has some nice consequences:

* R has been there for a long time through its predecessor S
* R is a specialized language: little chance to see it being screwed up by some library which wants to change everything, as it happens too often in python
* Because it is a niche language, its behavior is consistent across platforms (it is just easier to do with R than with python, or other "real" languages).

Note how being a "real" language goes against those advantages. Also, most researchers are very lousy programmers. Often, their software is super smart, but the code quality is awful and write-only. A less powerful language may mitigate those issues
The sole purpose of this design is to avoid "the inverted" umbrella problem. But how much a problem is this? I have never seen this happen in real life.
Flash runs in its own process named "plugin-container", so if Flash crashes it won't take down the rest of the browser. I'm pretty sure that if flash were eating CPU, it would be attributed to the "plugin-container" process and not the "firefox" process.
For a long and thoughtful read on this subject, see: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/
do we actually need millions of apps if people don't use them[?]

If you buy into the 80-20 rule, then yes, probably we do. Much of the software the interviewees use is stuff I use too, but where we don't overlap is where it gets interesting.
It's going to be easier to get a iPad programmer than a Joojoo programmer

Think hardware rather than software. If you're some obscure industry and need a small number of tablets that fulfill some obscure hardware requirements do you really think Apple is going to help you? Their best bet at this point is probably to take a good look at companies like Psion. Leave the mass market behind I focus on niche hardware for niche markets. There is still a very good chance that they will fail, but it is probably the only realistic chance they have.
I've seen it happen. Usually it takes ~40kmph for this to happen, and usually with the cheaper umbrellas (duh) first.
I always hated the fact that normal umbrellas have their handles in the middle, especially when I'm sharing an umbrella with someone else.

This umbrella solved two problems for me! I'm seriously thinking about ordering one. My only concern is that would one side of the umbrella be significantly heavier than the other side? That'd be a pain to hold it up all the time.
You mean besides the fact that it's really stretching the truth in calling them launches?
LLVM is not skewed that way.
It's also slowly getting a foot hold in Pharma. I think the large Pharma companies would love to get out from under the expensive SAS licenses.
In that sense, Intel is just making CPUs on top of x86 bytecode that runs natively. I wonder if a little extra firmware can eliminate the need for an OS altogether.
How do you get it properly sandboxed, while still able to interact with the browser document model?
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According to the article, Google is not recognizing a list as a breadcrumb trail, which is a shame, because that is the Semantically Correct way to list breadcrumbs.

I suppose the next best thing would be to have a CSS rule

.breadcrumb-marker { speak: none; }

but it appears, based on a little Googling, that hardly any of the aural browsers support aural CSS rules.
I wanted to show off duckduckgo's bang syntax.

I set it as my default search engine in Chrome, and it first I kept going to Google manually for specific searches where duckduckgo isn't good enough, yet. But after I learned that "!g <search>" would do that for me with less hassle, I grew much happier with duckduckgo.

By the way, a prefix of !hn defers to searchyc.com. There's a list at http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
In downtown Boston it's a big problem. You either dress like a fisherman or carry an umbrella with two hands. Mangled, discarded umbrellas are a common sight.
My last umbrella lasted 20 seconds (Halifax, NS). I just wear a full rain suit now.
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Go! Go is the cool lang for NaCl!
Read this in the New Yorker a while back, sounds like a similar design:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/11/080211fa_fact_...
There have been several JVM (without the "V") created[1]. None of them really caught on other than the ARM Jazelle[2], which isn't really a JM, it is more of a JVM accelerator: it has support for direct execution of many of the JVM opcodes.

After investing lots of time and money into creating a JM, the companies were chagrined to find a general purpose processor with a good JVM (especially with JIT) could run circles around a direct-execution processor.

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
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Limiting the translation and also through binary inspection. That's kinda the whole point of NaCl!
Rather than doing all that, for Linux why not just switch to the terminal with ctrl-alt F1 and running vim from the console?

Even better still, run it through screen, then you can use console mode for full screen and use screen -x to simultaneously attach from X terminals. We use screen -x over SSH to provide multi-user scratchpads during on-site jobs.
Firefox Leechbock add-on does that at the browser level.
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I "really edit" photos on the iPhone 4. The 5 megapixel camera is good enough, and these two tools are good enough:

Photogene: http://www.i-photogene.com/photogene/main.html

Tiffen Photo fx: http://www.tiffen.com/photofx_homepage.html

The first is a quick crop, gamma, color balance editor. The second is an amazingly complete set of professional photo filters, based on their Photoshop filter suite. The Tiffen suite of filters support layering and masking.

Toy apps like Camera Bag, Hipstamatic, and Instagram are cute but don't allow a photographer any artistic latitude. All photos end up looking like the same half dozen built-in lomo-esque effects.
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http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/data/site/pnacl.pdf

^ Overview of the LLVM-based Portable Native Client (PNaCl) architecture.
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Performance may be god-awful

Why, after decades of JIT bytecode VMs, do we still have this misconception? Many of the widespread JVM implementations are faster than V8. LuaJIT and C# Mono are also VM implementations that JIT bytecode and are faster than V8! Is this a troll?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang...
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It's a topic near and dear to my heart. Not just doing a lot more stuff, but shipping it out the door.

Kindly recommend your favorite books, blogs, podcasts, and other resources and materials. How-to's and nonfiction are good. Biographies of prolific people are good. Links to blog posts, sites, tools are good.

What say ye, HN, on shipping more?
Contemplating stealing it? Or just contemplating it somewhere quiet all by yourself?
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C# didn't appear until 2001. Perhaps you should clarify 2000-2009 decade?
I would love to see Python become the standard language for scientific computing including statistics but right now R is popular and gets it done. Don't get me wrong, R is excellent for its purpose and I like working with it and its many specialized libraries. However, Python is fun to hack away in and is more of a multipurpose language.

R works for me right now so that's what I'll stick to.
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Ah, you make really good points about non-programming people not thinking about R as a "programming language" and thus approaching it without fear.

I'm familiar with exactly the same phenomemon in the hardware verification world, where new tools and languages keep being invented just so that validation engineers can relax that they're not expected to "program" in a real language.
This was asked 2 weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1842289
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Give the guy a break. He's old. Memory is the first thing to go :)
In all honesty... what's the difference?

Turing complete language ≈ Turing complete language. Just make something to compile your language of choice into JavaScript, or make a new one (CoffeeScript). Bytecode is just a little more dense, little faster executing, far harder to investigate language than JavaScript, which the browser can compile for added speed anyway.

I prefer my language-of-the-web to be readable, thanks. Then I can find out wtf it's doing. And where you really need speed, native client is just about your only option.
I'm wondering if I could get some broad input my site. It's still a work in progress, but it is functional.

It has a few cool features, like the ability to save playlists w/HTML5's localStorage and a discovery/radio mode that builds upon the current playlist.
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It happens a lot to me - well, except that I fold it before the damage is done.

I almost don't use umbrellas, when I get the chance, anymore.
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There are attempts for SISC scheme to work on the android also
http://www.neomantic.com/tutorials/sisc-scheme-on-androids-d...
I think you're thinking of Azul (http://www.azulsystems.com/products/vega/arch).

They've been slowly withering away for the past couple of years (at least judging by the number of cars in their parking lot - I work in the building they are in). They just announced a cloud-based product based on their systems, so maybe there's still some life there.
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the same: "few great minds would be there"
I've never seen one, nor heard of anyone who even considered buying one.
Everything old is new again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
Thanks for creating and putting so many hours into this library. I think this tool more than any other has allowed me to do so much with KVM.
See my answer to a similar question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1893742

Your proposal is valid, but mine is as well. Different tasks need different approaches.

Besides, "all that" implies like 2 minutes of work if you don't count writing a blog post about it(;
Something like that exists for clojure. http://incanter.org/
"Incanter is a Clojure-based, R-like platform for statistical computing and graphics."
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The difference is that Javascript is a crappy language and I resent having to write in it. In addition, it lacks types and is therefore slower and does not execute the same way on all platforms.
Well, Mono supports LLVM, so it sounds feasible.
Since moving to the Boston/Cambridge region, I've never had an umbrella last more than about ten rainy days.

I've been thinking about different ways to solve this exact problem for quite some time. The damage is largely caused by high shearing forces on the spurs that hold the umbrella up, so allowing those forces to be relieved by something in tension (I used 200lb test fishing line) should work pretty well -- but it tends to get in your way.

I'm tempted to order one of these just to see if it stands up to Boston weather. I've tried other commercial "inversion-proof" umbrellas before, and they were... not, but I don't think I've ever seen one that did this using a flexible aerodynamic design.
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To answer both parents, the issue is gusting winds which can suddenly catch the brolly and invert it. This is a real problem, especially for cheap umbrellas.

Clearly if the winds were a steady 60mph or so you'd never bother to open the brolly or if you had it open you'd close it to save struggling against the wind.
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Its design automatically re-orients the umbrella.
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A new wave of umbrella-induced eye poking is coming our way, when these things turn around to follow the wind.
Not the same on all platforms is a wholly legitimate complaint. It's frickin' annoying that browsers don't all implement the same language.

But bytecode won't solve that. IE will still refuse to implement subset-X, WebKit will still prefix their CSS with -webkit, etc. Until everything settles down and decides on one implementation, in which case I'd still prefer to be able to read what the web is sending to me.
The difference is that Javascript is about the worst possible IL for a compiler to compile down to. Yeah you can recover some of the speed by spending man years on making Javascript execute somewhat fast.

As a bytecode you wouldn't use a bytecode that is targeted at handling Javascript constructs. You'd use a bytecode that, for example, supports machine integers (unlike Javascript). Something that allows you to allocate objects, rather than string indexed hash tables. Something that allows you to allocate an array of floats, rather than an array of boxed floats.
> I would have thought it was a great way of letting both parties know they have a similar sense of humour

That's assuming that the authors knows that they both actually do appreciate this type of humour. I'd think that if they had that level of familiarity then it would be expected that any email would get reasonable consideration or a phone call would be another possibility.

that was the case one would assume that the author could also have just called on the phone.
In my experience NaCl is not a viable platform at this time.

My friend and I spent a couple weeks just trying to get the developer tools to work. We tried on Ubuntu, OS X, Windows, and Arch Linux. We weren't able to get started on a single platform. In the process we came across bugs that were several months old that haven't been fixed, even on their supported platforms.

Another thing to worry about is whether NaCl will take off. We can't know how committed Google is and how many users will install the plugin. It was supposed to be enabled by default in Chrome 6 (I believe) but it still isn't enabled in 7.

NaCl is still promising (especially Portable Native Client) but Google has to get it working first.
Crappy is subjective. I actually like JavaScript.

JavaScript, although dynamic and loosely typed, does have types: string, number, object (including array, function and date), null and undefined are all JavaScript types.
I hate resumes but people still ask for them. LinkedIn profiles are also in high demand and the last thing I want to do is maintain another profile. I'd rather be coding.
Before speculating too much about "a bytecode standard", etc., it would probably be helpful to understand virtual machines and instruction sets.

I know web programmers generally aren't big on assembly or writing virtual machines, but an instruction set (group of bytecodes) design and implementation predisposes a processor/VM to certain operations. A VM for an OO language is going to have bytecodes (and other infrastructure) for doing fast method lookup, because it will really hurt performance otherwise. A functional or logic language VM will probably have tail-call optimization, perhaps opcodes specific to pattern matching / unification, and a different style of garbage collector.

Compare the JVM to the Lua or Erlang virtual machines; think about the issues people run into when trying to port languages that aren't like Java to the JVM. Unless people are very deliberate about making a really general instruction set, a "bytecode standard" informed by Javascript could be similarly awkward for languages that aren't just incremental improvements on Javascript. Besides, you can't optimize for everything.

There are a LOT of details I'm glossing over (e.g. sandboxing/security concerns, RISC vs. CISC, the DOM), but I've been meaning to point this out since I read someone saying, "Why do people keep writing more VMs? Why don't we just use the JVM for everything and move on?" It's not that easy.
Is it really true that business people use R directly? Being in Forbes is consistent with it...

I recall that SQL was intended to be used by business people... and it probably has been, sometimes; but I don't think it happens much. The days of early adoption might have differed, through appealing to the more adventurous business people (as R might be now).

One thing I know for a fact: business people use spreadsheets. I think making something that easy to get things done in is an incredible achievement. As an example, I think PHP has approached but not attained it.
Was there really a time period where BASIC and QBasic were bread and butter languages? I thought they were toy languages, like Logo.
Why do Americans have such a strong reluctance to travel abroad for work? I've never understood it.

Do Americans have a strong reluctance to travel abroad for work? I haven't noticed one way or the other. When I graduated in 2001, my 'reluctance' was based on broke-ness. The difficulty affording even a $75 fee (for a background check to work for the local school district) meant that the thought of leaving all my connections and going several thousand dollars into debt for overseas relocation didn't even cross my mind.
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I am reminded of an "umbrellas haven't changed in 150 years" conversation in an anime somewhere.
The changing of the Panorama hotkey from ctrl+space to ctrl+e ist slightly annoying. I know that ctrl+k does the same trick and has been there for far more versions, but I've always used ctr+e for the search bar, mainly because that's the one that also works in other browsers. Of course I'm sure it will only take two seconds to find out how to change this back...
Whenever I hear "standardized bytecode", I think of Parrot:

http://www.parrot.org/
It seems when designing pages in Dreamweaver the "Untitled document" defaults in <title> tag. Now Google has found this and altered search result so as not to show the "Untitled document" as a result but something more relevant.