skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what to call the ones we can easily display on the screen

Things like RGB and CMYK, or even Pantone, are much less ambiguous than any names than Crayola or Benjamin Moore comes up with. If the spectrum of color is ordered in any given way, any point on it is uniquely and unambiguously identifiable.

But you're still left with differences in perception (I actually perceive the same object as slightly different colors in the same light with each of my eyes, an optometrist told me this was common).
How are they dealing with Google AppEngine's support for 2.5 when Django reaches 1.4? Or is AppEngine also expected to upgrade to 2.6 (or higher) anytime soon?
free and open to all developers making a maximum of 2000 requests per month for non-commercial usage.

Doesn't sound very free and open.
Why not? I mean, you don't go to elite college to learn stuff anyway.
Having not thought deeply about big-O runtimes since Freshman year, are set operations usually harder to evaluate? Half of them don't have "wort-case" times, and Symmetric Difference just has a "?" for the average case.
Ugh, typical poor science journalism strikes again. Quantum entanglement can absolutely not be used to transfer information. Two problems are you can't travel faster than light, information included, and second is measuring the spin of an entangled particle only works if you know the state of the other one.

So no, you cannot transmit encyclopedias of data using quantum entanglement.

As for the rest of the story, it sounds like entanglement can work across time. Flipping the state in the past instantly flips it in the future. However, in either direction of time the observer already knows the state so no info transfer, no causality breakage.
Telling the difference between cloud and smoke
These modules are very resource intensive and they become a bottleneck if you are scraping at high volume. I had to stop using these modules in one of my tools because of that reason. However, for smaller jobs they are awesome and much easier to use and understand.
hey guys..

yep, this is anonymous survey

I created different options for bootstrapping to see the participants behavior, remember this is a general survey to see general responses

everyones approaches are different, the order is different depending on the person
You could easily write reviews and post them on an ad supported site that makes just enough to support your habit.
Apple didn't open source LLVM. It started independently of Apple. Same with WebKit; it was KHTML.
My goal is to lose 100lbs in 60 days
Another study out of the University of Oregon last year used MRI to show similar results, but in as little as 6 hours of training:

"The changes were strongest in connections involving the anterior cingulate, a brain area related to the ability to regulate emotions and behavior. The changes were observed only in those who practiced meditation and not in the control group. The changes in connectivity began after six hours of training and became clear by 11 hours of practice. The researchers said it is possible the changes resulted from a reorganization of white-matter tracts or by an increase of myelin that surrounds the connections."

http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2010/8/chines...

While the meditation protocol was not published (MBSR used in the main post has been well documented), I actually interviewed one of the lead investigators for the book I'm working on now and he shared that the U of O protocol was a hybrid that combined elements of mindfulness and some more basic physical relaxation techniques.
They still maintain the old versions too. Last security update featured new point releases of 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 beta. So you can just use the old version until Google get their act together.
Ah, good catch sparky, you're right. The way I wrote that made no sense. Here's what I meant to say:

"Entrepreneurs are risk-takers that try new things. The successful ones minimize risk by making calculated decisions that make sense."
Colleges are selling degrees, not courses. Putting “I watched a lecture on OCW” in your CV won’t get you anywhere [0], that’s why colleges are not the least bit threatened by it. (Those videos could be a source of additional income but colleges luckily decided against that, probably because the market for course videos with a price but without a degree is rather small.)

[0] Even if watching the lecture online would have the same effect as attending it in person it still wouldn’t get you anywhere. Anybody can (and indeed should) claim they watched an online lecture, it’s simple game theory. Degrees provide verifiable proof, at least to some extent.

Edit: Oh, by the way, a startup could start administering tests and awarding degrees based on free online course material. It could theoretically provide similar proof like a real degree at a much lower price. That could be a threatening scenario for colleges but it is also unlikely because the barriers are enormous. Degrees are worthless without reputation (and the startup would have no reputation), there are probably considerable legal problems with this idea and colleges would probably start pulling their free videos pretty quickly.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's also loading the google analytics script. Disabling and reporting! Any idea what it's doing?
There are ads on StackOverflow?
They would when YouTube adds paid for content.
The Benefits of Videogames
Just this morning I had the idea that since so many books are appearing in electronic format it won't be long before lots of the text has been tagged. I'm reading an enjoyable book about sleep right now. In many places the author goes into personal stories that led to a particular discovery. I thought 'wouldn't it be nice to be able to have those parts filtered for me by my Kindle software?'.

I could see things getting to the point to where you could have the option to generate an executive summary from any popular book that tries to hit the main points. Then you drill down as you want more information. Books could function almost like mini-wikis at that point but with a narrative or order that you use to drive through it.
I generally use the ad-based version of an app (if available) for a week or so, then if I find myself using it regularly, I buy the "donation" (aka ad-free) version.

I'm not a huge app person, and the only apps I can think of that I've purchased so far are Launcher Pro, GPS Status & Toolbox, and Clockworkmod's ROM Manager. In all three cases, I used the free version for a while then purchased the "donation" version.

Edit: I would _gladly_ pay for an ad-free version of Angry Birds.
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I wonder if there is an API for sending mail somewhere out there?
After I posted this comment, the New Yorker came out with an article quoting an insider who agrees with me. It's a pretty straightforward thing... happens all the time.
My theory is upvotes are all about the title. People vote things up on the mainpage without looking at the actual article, or the comment section. "Swarm Intelligence" gets voted up because hey, who doesn't like swarm intelligence? If you had called it "Swarm Intelligence Wikipedia Article" I'm willing to wager it would have received less upvotes.

EDIT: This is probably a theory that is somewhat open to testing. Hmm...
The roadmap doesn't need to be modified. The roadmap has always been "the transition will take five years."
Preventing CSRF Attacks with AJAX and HTTP Headers
Your latter question has always fascinated me as well. How do I know my 'red' is your 'red'. My father was colour blind and I used to enjoy trying to explain the missing colours to him and for him to explain what things looked like. I quickly learned it's hard to describe colours someone else can't see.

I read an interesting article on colour perception once and about how the physiology makes it pretty likely we all perceive 'red' to be 'red'. I will have to try to find it.
I'll buy apps, but at a much lower rate than I do on iOS. I've owned a Nexus One for about 6 months and have spent ~$25 in that time on 4 apps (Advanced Task Killer, Locale, SlideScreenPro, and WeatherBugElite). I have not run across any other non-free apps that I have any interest in.

I owned an iPhone for 2 years and easily spent an order of magnitude more on apps in the same initial time period, which continued throughout the length of time I owned it (and still continues with my iPad).

So, I'd be willing to spend $ on android apps, but it'd have to be a very useful app for me to notice it. I'm just not as conditioned to browse and find android apps as I was on iOS.

I haven't seen any statistics on it, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that my experience is pretty normal for iOS vs Android users.

EDIT: Just checked iTunes and I've purchased 163 non-free iOS apps in 2.5 years, or ~33 apps every 6 months, so it is close to an order of magnitude more for me (though the plural of anecdote isn't data and all that).
Any chance you could put an ebook up for sale? Your book hasn't been released in Europe yet, and the import charges when buying from Amazon.com are pretty bad (~200% increase in price). :-/
Curious as to why more people have selected "Yes", instead of "Not yet, but I would pay for a worthy app". Is this because Android Apps tend to be good in general, or something else? (I don't own an Android.)
"Have you" and "Would you" are very different questions.
python-spikermonkey: Execute JavaScript from within Python with SpiderMonkey
What I find quite ironic is that traffic lights happen to lie right in the centre of the most common form of color blindness: red-green color blindness.
You'd be doing yourself a favor if you try your hand at Play! in scala. I believe they support scalate which, in my experience in scalatra, has you in the markup trenches a lot less than groovy templating. Specifically, Scaml w/ Jade syntax is pretty impressive. It's analog in rails would be slim-lang.
Android marketplace has some good paid apps - but they are not as easy to find as iOS app store. I answered yes because it simply means there is at least one app worthy of being paid for.

Some of the best apps are free (Googles suite for example).
At Toronto's Human Library You Check Out People, Not Books
Wow. 15 years. Congrats!
Should have said he was going to Facebook, they'd have given him a billion.
Have any of you looked at the changes in how super works from python 2.5 to 2.6 and how it changes for 3.0? This has bitten me for a library I was using with Django...
Non-trimmed article links:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-21/google-said-to-gran...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/01/google-er...
Executive business:  The worst of this week's Apple coverage
Anyone who has studied a non-European language will be familiar with this concept. Color names is strongly linked to culture. I'm Cambodian and the colors "green" and "blue" are the exact same word. Context decides which hue one actually means, for example a blue sky versus a green apple. Japanese also has a similar conundrum with blue and green.

When a foreign color is introduced, often times the physical object most associated with that color is used as the color word. Purple in Cambodian is the fruit "plum", and pink translates to literally "pig color". In Japanese, pink is literally "peach color". Even in English there is an example of this phenomenon. Which came first? The color orange or the discovery fruit orange?

The title of the article is a misnomer. Other cultures see colors just fine. They just don't have a name for it.
Keep in mind Eric has been taking a $1/year salary since joining Google. Not that he has suffered financially at all due to his equity holding in the company, but I doubt anyone would argue this is well deserved.
interesting to note that these are also some generally
ugly themes.
I have actually paid for the occasional app if I think it is worthwhile. Sometimes I've upgraded to the paid version if I've liked an app and want to support the developer (even if the free version is enough for me). But, it seems that many of the apps for Android are ad supported. While there is free data, that works fine, but when/if Verizon starts charging for data...
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Poverty goes straight to the brain.
Clojure machine learning lib - bradford/infer
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The examinations are what you're really paying for. You can sit through as many hours of lectures as you like, but you can't prove to others or yourself that you actually understand it until you've sat and passed a set of examinations on the material.

I'd be interested to know whether there's anyone out there successfully teaching themselves stuff from these online lectures. I've tried watching a few on various occasions, but all I learned was something I used to know as an undergrad but have forgotten: lectures are generally pretty damn boring.

I wonder whether a recorded lecture is actually a better way to learn something than a book. I suspect that the best possible lecture is better than the best possible book, but the average book is better than the average lecture.
I just got my first android phone a few weeks ago and have paid for one or two. The pay version of Poweramp is the only one I recall off the top of my head but I think there were one or two more.

Of course, I've downloaded over 50 free ones...
This post makes me feel dumb. :(
"Poor man's copyright" myth, busted
HTML - 5 throws out the DTD. What you validate against becomes arbitrary: could be the same tomorrow, but maybe not.

A versioned standard does not have this problem.

I realize that the response is: "validation doesn't matter". I disagree.

This is not merely about developing to the existing browser ecology. We all do that of necessity. But there has always been a somewhat-pliable boundary with versioned specs that lets you know the state of the ecology that you developed against.

That goes out the window with a living document. Many sites, such as HN and Google abandoned the DTD long ago. I do not object to this. However, I would argue that the fact that sites can choose to abandon the DTD is only enabled by the existence of a set of standards to which they choose not to bind themselves.

Abandoning a clear target is obviously not a problem today. But I am more concerned with the future: What standard are we choosing NOT to follow? I do not want to return to the chaos of the early web where we developed against browsers instead of standards. Again, I know the objections: We develop against browsers today. No, not really. You develop against browsers that have agreed to a contract of sorts to follow a coherent standard. Thus if you develop to said standard, the work required to make your site work with the current ecology is minimized. Will a "living document" lead us back to the wild west? I am not a prophet, but I am uneasy nevertheless.
but there any many inefficiencies.
Some. You get fewer ads if you have at least 200 reputation:

http://stackoverflow.com/privileges/reduced-ads

(Red boxes disappear, grey ones do not.)
Would not have imagined that one day the website will become mainstream. Congrats!
Another factor that led to the original hypothesis of color deficienty, disappointingly unaddressed here, is that the Greeks had habits of making color comparisons that moderns would find quite loose indeed—for instance, the sea was the color of wine, and sheep the color of bronze.
It is a popular predication that Apple might try to push their "normal" computers into the same direction as iOS.

I'll grant it's a popular prediction. But it's not a plausible one. It's plausible that the Mac would be neglected, perhaps, but not crippled outright. The whole point of iOS devices is to sell a product that's differentiated from traditional personal computers.

Now, if it was a matter of not being in control of one's phone, that would be a reasonable discussion.
What I find quite ironic is that the UK's effort to combat this problem, by adding a blue tint to their green lights, actually makes it more dangerous for people with my form of colour blindness (protan, which is not the commonest form of red-green blindness but is still significantly represented (2% of males according to Wikipedia)).

That's because having little red vision, at night I mistake cyan ("green") go lights for white street lights. Having street lights suddenly turn to yellow stop lights is unnerving, to say the least.
A popular Soviet SF writer Sever Gansovsky in his short story "The Host of Bay" (1962) described a sea monster consisting of microscopical particles which can self-organize themselves into a unity for hunt.

There's a sea colony animal--siphonophore--that can change shape from a broad, amorphous colony mass into a streamlined compact cylinder, for swimming. The colony members are not free-living; the colony develops by budding. If the members were separate and assembled later on, science fiction would have been beaten again by a living organism. Does anyone know of an example of a species in which separated individuals assemble into a colony? There are descriptions of sponges, where dissociating the sponge cells, passing them through a sieve, and then letting it sit for a bit results in the cells reassembling. But the sponge doesn't look menacing neither predates.
The article talks about the cultural differences between colour names, not the ability to see colours themselves. According the article, what we call "Phoenician purple", the ancient Greeks probably called "Phoenician red".
'It's complicated' status more prevalent now
I didn't notice the date until I posted, but it seems to correlate succinctly with this recent post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129707
Why You Need to go to PyCon
I'm an iOS user, but I support a lot of people on both platforms.

The general rule of thumb that I've sen is that there's a percentage of people who never buy anything on their devices, but this percentage is bigger on Android than on iOS, just because people are accustomed to the iTunes interface and buying stuff already. It's also easier to find things in it than in the Android market, which has some fairly substantial usability issues. I'd say this percentage is 15-20% on iOS, and closer to 30-40% on Android.

In terms of free apps, if you've downloaded only one thing from the store, it's probably a free app. I don't know of people who only have paid apps, just because of things like Amazon's Kindle app or Facebook/Twitter/etc and if you're downloading something already, you might as well. Some people only download free stuff, especially kids in a family situation. I'd say that "Free Only" is probably 30-40% of iOS users, and 50-60% of Android users

Now, paid apps. I'd guess that 40-50% of iOS users have purchased a paid app, compared to 10-20% of Android users, and that the average iOS user has purchased 4-8 times the number of paid apps. There are outliers of course - I know people who have >100 apps on each platform.

I hardly ever see paid Android apps other than the ones on the small list in the parent post (ATK and Launcher Pro especially). I'm guessing that very few high profile apps make good money, but the "tail" of the Android marketplace is not a lucrative place to be, whereas the iOS "tail" is somewhat more successful.
awesome. the best would be if you could go in the opposite direction. like if you could create regular expressions in the image view and have it output the text version.

this would probably help a lot of people who aren't 'ninjas' like you and me ;?j
Twtquiz - Twitter Quizzing
This is a project created that will allow people on Twitter to get quizzy, so check it out if you're a frequent Twitter user.
Or, as this article in Wired states: "To learn best, write an essay" (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/learning-methods/)
Does Google do "research"?
This is a bit pedantic, but true: I didn't state that I "can't", I stated that it was "difficult." Now that that's out of the way, I was referring to customers of AdWords and Google Apps, not users of the search product.
It would be interesting to analyze whether the code was actually malicious (or could be used for malicious things) or spammy but benign.
you're talking about qualia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia#The_inverted_spectrum_ar...
Nobody reads your Terms of Service
To http://www.symbolics-dks.com/
Yes, because the Chinese are way to smart to pay for the crap that Microsoft produces.
I think that the college experience includes a lot of interaction and feedback that you can't get by reading lecture notes or watching videos online. You do problem sets and write research papers and then get back comments on your individual performance. You take tests and can see what you got right and what you got wrong. You do lab experiments using equipment that's not available to you at home. If you study a foreign language, you get critiqued on your pronunciation.

I think online courseware is a fantastic resource, and I'm very happy it's out there, but using it is nowhere near the same as attending a university in real life.
There is no substitute for just doing it. This is true for so many different types of endeavors!
1. Get out your kindle

2. buy a copy of Neuromancer

3. search for the part where Case tells his Ono-Sendai to "sift this shit. 2 minute precis"

4. Be amazed once again that a guy with a typewriter predicted what you're doing.
http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Swarm-Understanding-Colonies-Com...

Great book on animal/insect swarms and how we can learn from them.
w3c does a better job at standards than marketing.
"Why not?" - because we only have so much time to make use of. If you'd prefer to live as ignorance is bliss ("the woods") - that's a valid choice, but valid doesn't mean it's consistent with the truth (a.k.a. what science is trying to get close to). To find fault with the mind - one must constantly question their assumptions - in this article: religion.
Despite what my degree says, I'm a horrible computer scientist. But would this be a bit like solving the halting problem? squint
Actually I registered a virtual credit card (don't own one, don't care about them..) for android/checkout. And a game..

I recommend checking out http://www.spectrekking.com/ (not affiliated, but on topic: Make me smile and I'll pay up)
How would Quora be different if it prioritzed diversity?
Sure but I think gp's point is that we'd like a group that we'd test against. If things are as you believe, the contrast should only be more pronounced.
The major price is that you had to install Wordpress. Now you're stuck with massaging that fat, slow sucker into shape.

I predict that Matt Mullenweg will be here within minutes to be all cheerful and helpful. Hello Matt!

edit: I realise it's a snide remark, but I've been running Wordpress sites since 2005 and I have an excellent storehouse of corrosive hatred built up at this point.
Interesting point, actually.

I'd like to see that same analysis now that you've brought it up just for the sake of pure curiosity. WP powers a good chunk of the blogosphere (including The New York Times website) out there now, and this kind of data could get some very good discussion going.
Man, this is so old school.
http://storage-news.com/
http://highscalability.com/
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/

Those are three that handle some of your latter concerns.
> max out your real cash to accumulate positions (do not go on margin)

Options can't be bought on margin. They lose value over time and thus can't be used as any form of collateral.
...And degrees are essentially ways of reducing the responsibility of a manager to make a hiring decision. It's the same concept as the CIO who chooses IBM because he can't get fired for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YawagQ6lLrA