skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i got one of the easier ones and was confused about why this would be difficult for machines to beat.

http://random.irb.hr/latexrender/pictures/bba40bf17043b0ced7...
> Android is selling more than the IPhone.

I'm pretty sure they aren't selling anything. Ask Detroit about making up for no profit on volume. Android is being propped up by Google search revenue.
Have you seen the level of commentary around the 'Net? I agree that Reddit's fallen down a bit, but it's way better than any other free and generalist site on the web. Heck, it's better than most soft-specialist sites. Reddit is in the same class of website as Digg, major newspapers, and YouTube - have you been to those sites and read their comments sections? Don't, if you want to keep any faith in humanity. By contrast, Reddit is almost reasonable. It's below HackerNews/Groklaw quality, and probably even below ArsTechnica quality, but it's still above average overall, especially among non-specializing and free sites.
Where are the nameservers for .ly? Will bit.ly be affected?
"you can email photos of your receipts (or e-receipts) to receipts@paperphobic.com. "

Here's a big tip that will unconfuse many of your visitors: PUT THAT SENTENCE ON YOUR HOMEPAGE.

I sat there for a 30-40 seconds trying to figure exactly how you'd get the expenses. I saw that you weren't scanning them, but didn't see exactly how you would get them from me. I formulated a couple theories about how you worked, including snail mail. Maybe it's because its too early and my brain isn't yet charged I didn't get to photo emailing.
What on earth is this? Nothing you said follows from, or was implied by, anything in the post you're responding to. The whole thing is a big non-sequiter.
Wow, that's flat!

But, perhaps they haven't turned it off: "Data after this point are still being finalized. Interpret them with caution."

We will have to wait and see.
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2237865
Then I think you responded to the wrong post because your reply talks to neither his facts nor his point.
Yeah, you blend your maps data with a bunch of sensors together and you have a self driving car. It's just a matter of speed and the other drivers + knowing where your going.
Making wordpress shine with Varnish caching system: Part 1
Which is irrelevant because when the iPad came out there are more than 3,000 dedicated apps, many of them from household brands, and there was no competition.

I'm not saying the Android tablets aren't competitive with how the iPad was at launch. I'm asking why a regular consumer would choose an unproven tablet with a tiny number of apps over a proven tablet with 65,000 apps today.
As a self-identifying "coder who can't design", I'm willing to offer a few explanations (though not necessarily excuses) for some of the behaviors the OP describes, at least as far as my experience goes--if only to explain where I'm coming from when I do things that are obviously wrong to people with more designer experience. :) I'll take them one by one.

> Need a Photoshop mockup for every single screen, including the "I forgot my password" dialog and the Terms of Use page

Designers, in my experience, like to keep a design consistent--just as we coders like to keep the code organized and generalized with as few special cases as possible. If and when I would do something like this--which I've never done for things as obvious as these examples--it's because I'm not sure if the designer would want me to change it later because whatever I came up with wouldn't look good in context. If I have some obvious model to work from, however (like, for example, a login page for a forgot password page), I would base it on that--after all, isn't that what stylesheets are meant to simplify in the first place?

> Assign different values at random to every margins and paddings

In my experience, this can happen because margin and padding--and indeed, many other concepts in CSS--are rather opaque if you're not familiar with how print design works. I know when I work with CSS, it involves a lot of trial and error to puzzle out exactly how to implement something, not helped by the fact that different kinds of elements are affected by margin/padding in different, non-trivial ways.

> Think 11px is the perfect size for body copy (and 14px is great for headlines)

This is a bit of an extreme example, but similar problems I encounter work like this: I try it in 11px, realize it looks awful, and then don't know how to make it better. In the case of something as obvious as text size, I'd experimentally make it larger and see if that improves it. But in less obvious cases, I often do find myself thinking "this is ugly but I don't know how to improve it", and then show it to a designer, get a better mockup back and implement that.

> Ask you to export a background image even for a 1px black line

I've never done this one, I know about border: 1px solid black. :) If I were newer to CSS, I might Google CSS rules to figure out how to do it.

> Do not understand the concept of aligning things together

I'm willing to bet that this often happens because many things that seem like they should be simple alignment-wise in CSS is a bitch, and falling back to tables feels dirty. (Most engineers I know, in the absence of knowledge otherwise, would assume that a rule named "vertical-align" would do what it says in more cases than it does.)

I admit without reservation that these are all things I should understand better, and I'm constantly learning new patterns for improving designs as I work. However, they don't come naturally to me, so they're things I have to learn with the guidance of someone to whom it does.
Perhaps ironically, the page is served from a Drupal site.
Regarding "I'm going to user group meetings".

I'm not a Ruby user, as I work primarily with statistical computing and machine learning, but Ruby has a really impressive set of regional user groups. Except for R, there aren't really any other languages which have a significant number of well organized regional user groups. It's great for users of a language to get together and share info and provide guidance to new users.
Android is a copycat, I don't deny that, but it has important differences that make it better than the iPhone in certain cases and viceversa. You can hate iPhone because you can't install apps outside the AppStore for instance and that's not even related to the hardware.

That being said, I don't think that touchscreens should win against keyboard phones, both have certain advantages. A stylus is not necessarily a bad thing either. e.g: drawing, using the phone with gloves on, etc.
Astronomy is one of those things where the current theory explains what you see it until it doesn't.
... at least they don't think it's secure because I used drag and drop?

People who don't understand security: stop pretending you understand security.

The reason captchas look stupid is so OCR can't run on them.

The reason captcha's aren't math is because computers are far better at math than humans.
I found the book underwhelming after all the praise I had read of it, because it seemed little more than a collection of common knowledge - I didn't get much out of it. On the other hand, for people very new to the craft, it may be more valuable for precisely the same reason.
Apple working on unlimited downloads of purchased iTunes music
Star Wars in 3D Gets an Official Release Date
The latter-- non-tech questions that reveal a lot about your candidate.
I can't tell if it is on purpose or not, but the way that page renders (in Chrome at least) is perfect for the subject.
Thanks for the feedback. It posts once a week now.Do you think daily would be better?
Sure, they've had an important contribution, but there's a difference between recognition and adulation.

I recognize that Apple have left their fingerprint on computing. So have MS, Linux, IBM, the Osborne, etc.
GAE (Google App Engine)+Spring MVC:how to solve the slow load jsp time issue
You don't.

You start with a free t1.micro instance on Amazon and you measure empirically.
In addition, it's PI day in 10 days (3/14).
The hardest captcha I've come across is the audio one used by Google on https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount. Click the little wheelchair icon to hear it.

It's so hard to decipher, it almost comes across as a cruel joke at the expense of blind people.

These are much easier, in that I can actually understand them.
Why is this here? This is easy to a)break b)solve IF you a)finished high school maths(australia) b) know about pythons ocr libraries.
Hi Jason,

Benjamin here from the Aloha Editor Team. You are completely right that Aloha Editor is pretty big right now; as Bergie as mentioned this is due it's ExtJS dependency. The Aloha Team has now partnered with the jQuery UI team and development is underway to shed this dependency and use the much lighter jQuery UI framework as the default.

You can follow the status here http://aloha-editor.org/wiki/Roadmap and we're totally open to as much feedback you'd like to throw at us :-) We're here to help!

Cheers,
- Benjamin (Aloha Editor Team Member)
"...instead of sitting around browsing hacker news like I do."

I think I'll redefine my definition of success to include this. :)
Google Docs loves Microsoft Office now...
> It becomes possible to run millions of threads (either full NPTL threads or co-routines) in a 32-bit address space

If the minimal "reserved stack space" per thread is 4K, than a million threads would consume about 4GB of memory. That's not quite feasible in a 32-bit address-space. Would most threads run with even less than 4K of reserved stack space?
Stack Overflow should use a tougher version of it. Will weed out some noise.
His (co-authored) book "A=B" is also very good.
How does a major fan of Seth Godin go to a talk of Seth Godin and expect any actionable work?

Seth is inspiring but don't look to him to tell you what to do.
The other thing I've noticed is that when running on a treadmill, it may seem like your legs are making roughly the same motion as real running, but you're not pushing yourself forward, just upward. Your legs definitely don't have to work as hard pushing your body around.
That guy has a name Bergie! Hehehe.

It's me btw :)
Looks like the patient is dead. Maybe someone cut some cables, or perhaps some critical infrastructure was destroyed in the fighting.
I will say... "additional plugins required". If your blind you will miss that.
Interesting, there is still some very low level gmail activity. I wonder why?
After a few reloads, I got this captcha:

- 2 + 1 - 0 + 0 * 0 + 3 - 3 = ?
I strongly disagree about the "stretching is bad for you" part... but I guess he did say "without your body warmed up"... you always want to stretch before working out but get your body warmed up first by jogging in place or doing jumping jacks or something for a few minutes. You want ballistic stretching and static stretching. It has without a doubt helped with my overall fitness while reducing soreness.
Great feedback, thanks. We're struggling with trying to cram too much info onto one page. Will try to focus on a simple, single statement like that above all else.
I agree with you if we area talking about Hollywood movie prisoners. If you truly want to get fit, commit a felony.
1. I already solved C1M problem, so C10K and C100K looks like a non-problem to me.

EDIT: metabrew has very good tutorial - which should be a starting point for everybody new to this space!

2. The problem is, that Amazon EC2 doesn't support multiple IP aliases per instance. To generate 1M connections, I had to launch a cluster of 17 instances to generate 1M clients. On physical server with a lot of RAM, you can just create 17 IP aliases.

3. Tsung is a great tool - but hard to control and has it's own limits. So if you need to do large scale loadtesting - better write your own tool.
It'd be sort of nice if they did go down. Then maybe people would think twice before doing business with brutal dictatorships in the future.
It opens in my office (Bangalore, India).
This was a good read.
Until the supremes work out and declare that (soft) money is not protected speech, America will be an absolute, undemocratic plutocracy.

Sigh.

I can use my money for political speech as I see fit. You and I could pool our money for political speech as we jointly see fit. At what point do you advocate that we should lose our right to cooperate, pooling our money to reach more of the electorate?

Sure, it's a cliche by now, but America isn't designed to be a democracy[1]. It's overarching architecture is that of a constitutional republic, only granting limited powers to the government. It just uses democracy to fill in the details.

The problem is that the people have complacently ceded to the government too much power (and you're advocating that we cede even more![2]). The government now has the power to determine who is going to succeed, who is going to get rich, and who is going to be destroyed.

But, as I've said elsewhere, the problem is with public choice economics, and rationally-irrational voters.

Because we've allowed the government's power to grow so greatly, it now wields sufficient power that it's (very) cost effective to woo the legislators for special privileges and rent seeking.

On the other hand, while voters collectively could wield power to counter this, it's diffuse, and any one particular voter has approximately zero influence, and thus has little incentive to make the significant investment in educating himself about what's going on. Thus, the electorate is generally ignorant (and rationally so), and does not know about (most of) the shenanigans going on with their government.

[1] There are 3 equal branches to the US federal government. The SCOTUS is appointed, not democratically elected, so that's 1/3. The President is elected by the electoral college, not the populace, that's another 1/3. The legislature is made up of two houses. The Representatives are elected democratically, but until the 17th Amendment, the Senate was appointed by the State legislatures -- not democratic. So that's another 1/6.

Thus, 5/6ths of the US government's power was determined non-democratically as designed at the time the Constitution was ratified. Only 1/6 was democratic. So it's tough to say that we're supposed to be a democracy.

[2] Indeed, you seem to be trying to give the government more power, not keep it for the liberty of the people. In (1a) you advocate controlling speech, which obviously entails having the goverment decide whose speech is legal and whose isn't. And in (2) you further advocate prior restraint on speech, deciding in advance that someone seems to have the intent to say something bad. It looks to me like you're trying to build a "democracy" with absolute control over us. (I'll leave the ultimate invocation of Godwin to the reader)
Show HN: Common Three, find out what your friends think you have in common
http://commonthree.com

Hey there, I've always had a problem with finishing side projects and actually releasing them. This is my first step in rectifying that problem.

Common Three is a threewords.me clone with a twist - your friends send you 3 things they have most in common with you, then you do the same for them and compare answers.

You can signup with or without a Facebook account, and either way should be pretty easy. All feedback is welcome, especially on whether you like the concept, and how effective the design of the site is (I don't usually do design, so I kept it sparse). Thanks!
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Yes, Jobs took a lot of jabs at the competition. Here in America we call that "selling". The purpose of a product announcement is to sell said product. I think the bottom line for the author is that he hates that Jobs has done such an outstanding job of selling Apple products.
Employers Win Workers With Perks, Not Raises
I just use http://www.random.org/ instead and do not have to go through all that hassle.
The Michael Pollan quote is actually:

"Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. (Sorry, but at this point Moms are as confused as the rest of us, which is why we have to go back a couple of generations, to a time before the advent of modern food products.) There are a great many foodlike items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food (Go-Gurt? Breakfast-cereal bars? Nondairy creamer?); stay away from these."

All those foods that you mentioned, a 19th century mom would recognize as food. Just not her kind of food.

From here: http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/unhappy-meals/ (and his books of course)
I liked the idea. One thing to think about is that these days, any receipt that is important enough for me, I am getting that in email anyways and some stores have started sending email receipts for instore purchases (eg Apple). However, the app will prove useful for people who have to file reimbursements and have to track each receipt.
A Reason Against the White iPad 2
Crimebook: criminal equivalent of Facebook
done-diddly, thx. http://serverfault.com/questions/243245/how-do-you-pick-what...
Move.me brings PlayStation Move development to your PC this Spring
More Icons for Iphone and Android Apps
Ok, what happens when I send an email with a photo of a receipt to that email address?

As a side node I find these green bubbles irritating that popped up while I moved my mouse over the page; then I moved them over some of these list items, expecting to get an explanation... no green bubbles. If you must include such a gimmic, please make sure it's easy to grasp how they are triggered, so that one can actually use (or avoid) them.
Easing Ronald McDonald Out of a Job
Daemon Manager: A new way to manage FastCGI and other non-privileged daemons
That isn't evolution, it is a diversification of our genetics. There are lots of things that many humans are intolerant to which would have probably been a really big weakness in the past.

Humans are no longer subject to natural selection. There needs to be significant culling pressure for real evolution to happen.
I understand now but you should have some sources to back that up!
...which sort of defies the reason the CAPTC_H_A was put there in the first place - great!
They’re obvious, but they’re not obviously right. All those assumptions that you mention above have to be tested. And every time you throw in another factor to consider, you need to test on a larger sample size to get a valid and reliable model.

Look, I’ve worked in the search-engine biz for over five years, and while I myself haven’t gone beyond stats 101, some of my co-workers have studied this stuff at the grad-school level, and they are constantly arguing with one another about how to measure the “quality” of a search engine, and then, given that measurement, what particular kind of statistical model to use in order to predict, given a query and a bunch of potential results, which result has the highest “quality”. (Note that in the particular subfield of search that we are working with, spam pages and black-hat SEO are not really concerns.) And we (like Google and everyone else in this industry) have the luxury of trolling through millions of clicks’ worth of log files and we can hire semi-skilled labor to train our statistical models.

And compared with measuring the “quality” of a teacher in a classroom, measuring the “quality” of a search engine is trivially easy.
Why I Stopped Playing The 3DS In 3D
I have no idea how close my interpretation has been as IANAP but:

Take the balloon analogy for the expanding universe. Tape pennies all over an empty balloon. Now inflate it.

Every penny is moving away from every other penny.

Now imagine an ant walking along the balloon as you inflate it. He can get closer to a penny only if he is moving at a rate greater than the speed of expansion. Otherwise even if he's moving in the direction of a penny, it's still moving away from him.

As for your ears, maybe they're moving apart (I guess?) but the size of the universe is so immense that the inconsequential distance between your ears is not noticeable relative to larger distances, like between Earth and the next Galaxy.

OR Sure, your ears are moving apart, but so are the ends of the ruler you'd use to measure.

Or while expansion is happening on a grand scale, there really isn't anything preventing localized eddies of contraction or stability.

And that's how I sleep at night.
Interview with Kostis Sagonas - On Erlang tools, type systems, HiPE vs JIT
How long is your OCR code, or do you use foreign products?
MVP Mantra right there. Don't worry about being perfect just get something out there.
Once at MIT a blind student was showing me his screen reader. I couldn't make sense of the sounds at all, and asked if it was in some special code. He said no, it was normal language, just really fast. He had it read the current line on his terminal (this was late '80s). I could see the words it was supposedly reading, but I still couldn't map them to the brief burst of sound that came from the screen reader.

So maybe if you've been blind a while, the audio captcha isn't so hard to decipher. Keep in mind they have to make it hard for speech recognition software to decipher too.
I run "algorithmist.com" and was getting quite a bit of spam with using only recaptcha. I was looking for something mathy.. I ended up giving mathcaptcha a go first and it seems to work well to stop the spam, but I was ready to create my q/a with algorithm questions, with the benefit that if you can't answer basic algo questions, you shouldn't edit the wiki anyways!
You also have to keep in mind that this book was written 10+ years ago, when most of this was not actually common knowledge. :)
Yes. But never with books that you buy in a respectable bookstore, and pay for. Which was my point.

Also, Amazon is not the police. If they take something you rightfully bought, they are the thieves.
Because it's easy to learn, has good community support, and powerful metaprogramming features. In a nutshell it's easy to think and create in ruby.

Also significant is that the tradeoffs you must live with (speed, lousy debugging/refactoring tools) to get ruby's benefits just don't matter for a huge swath of web projects.

Ruby is optimized for a very common, very pragmatic set of problems.
I understood it exactly as khafra did. I suppose we are confused about this line (which khafra was referring to):

TechMeme’s technology is a natural for filter blogs, so it’s unsurprising that this leads to underrepresentation of women and youth.

This quote makes it sound like women and children write more personal and knowledge stuff, which TechMeme naturally overlooks. Further, it straight up says that this tendency is "unsurprising".

So we are wondering what this has to do with gender bias or why it's surprising that a technology would miss things that it is designed to miss.

But you said he was not reading the summary correctly, so obviously something is not clear here.
Google Adds New Recipe Search Tool
There's nothing wrong with eating that kind of food, in reasonable proportions.
Generally what is meant by "bribe politicians" is twofold. The first aspect is campaign contributions, which help keep the politician in office. But the second one is post-legislature work. A former Senator just got made MPAA head, and similar things happen throughout the business sector - get defeated in the polls (or don't run for reelection) and move over to a cushy job on a corporate board or as figurehead of an industry group, where you get paid a 6-figure sum for easy and part-time work. Both of these are perfectly legal if unseemly.

I agree that it may also be about agents who want to further their careers - because the punishments for copyright violation are so high, it probably looks just as good on the CV as a successful DDOS or spam case, and it's probably markedly easier.