skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is interesting to me that so many people seem to believe that it's difficult to distinguish between different cola products. I'm a programmer at a game studio and when I randomly asserted that I could distinguish between Coke and Pepsi they immediately scoffed and said that I could take the test, but no one passes the test. Blind test results? 100% correct (the test only had Coke and Pepsi proper, no random RC cola.)

I don't think I'm a freak; can the average Joe not distinguish between the taste of Coke and Pepsi?
Bootstrapping Innovation: Leveraging the IQ
Circuli: A game like ambient music generator
Entrepreneur on Shark Tank Last Night Now on QVC Today
I highly suggest taking a few basic color theory, or just design 101 classes, at your local community college or art school. It's cheap, and it'll cover the basics, which is really all you need to get started on learning the rest yourself!
It's not killed, it's called Windows Phone 7 now.
Two things that transcend trends. White space + good typography. Colors are an accent.
Nice! Really though, good call.
Sounds like lore. Won't let them fly on a plane together? I hope they don't ride in the same car to the airport since that's even more dangerous. (see my point?)

It's possible only 2 people know it since 3 can't keep a secret. More likely anyone that knows it has signed NDAs on top of which they each know two versions of the same recipe with an indistinguishable flavoring difference due to a minor quantity differences. Either recipe were to get out it's obvious who leaked because the master copy is in the vault. The exact quantities are like a watermark that gives away the leaker. At any rate, if you have golden handcuffs you don't leak due to self preservation anyhow.
Traditional way of teaching linear algebra is very abstract. But that's ok, or at least we use linear algebra in our CS programme as a way to teach abstract thinking, which is important for this subject.

I would suggest that someone who has trouble (serious trouble that is) with linear algebra might have also trouble with other abstract things in computer science, like automata theory or grammars and compilers.
Bloemen: rozen snoeien in het voorjaar
Not a security flaw, you just synced his browser settings with your account.
The proper way to log into another person's Chrome is by adding a new user in the "Personal Stuff" area first.
I tried that - just end up sleeping more. Somehow, when I reach the point where I go to sleep at 12pm, it just resets :-).

By the way, this schedule only starts happening when I don't have anything to do during the day - if I have anything scheduled, I'd stay awake (although feel quite tired sometimes)...
I think the hashetable package has a bit of a different performance / use case profile than the functional hash map data structure. Also I believe you need to spend more effort tuning which type of hashtable and your choice of hash function based upon your use case/ blend of operations. Some of the hashtable options regress to linear time insertions and lookups under certain use cases and load factors
There is an underlying grid. The typography has a consistent visual flow. The elements form the structure on the "page/screen" instead of creating containers to hold the elements. Not to sound pompous, but there is clarity. You may want to look into swiss design for influences.

If you wanna talk to someone who went to art school with more specific questions, feel free to email me. My email is in my profile. :)
How do you think "New Coke" happened? Malcolm Gladwell has the details in one of his books. You remember back when Pepsi used to do those taste test ads saying more people preferred Pepsi? Coke repeated the tests internally and found they were right (barely).

So Coke decided to reformulate. Pepsi is sweeter than Coke, so that is what Coke did. They repeated their taste tests, got good results and told the whole world.

Where they had screwed up is that they used small containers for their latter taste tests. People are quite happy for sweetness in small quantities, but as the volume of drink gets larger they prefer less sweetness "density". Naturally the new Coke was far too sweet and there was the resultant backlash.

TL/DR: A major contributor to Coke messing up "New" Coke was using too small testing cups.
In my free time I produce electronic music. I was just browsing DJ Lucky Date's YouTube channel and thinking "man he has put in a lot time". In the last six months or so he has blown up, but the work is there for all to see.

Edit: the link for those interested http://www.youtube.com/user/luckydatevideos
The colors (foreground & background) and font size are completly customizable in both the Interpreter and Script Editor tabs.
I think the security flaw here is that google is keeping your password unhashed somewhere on their servers.
Maybe my statement needs to be modified a bit, but the general idea still holds. DRM needs to work to prevent (a) and (b) for everybody, whereas if just one person can break the DRM with high-quality results during the new-release window, they lose.
Yeah, it would be really nice to see some Linux themes inspired more by the core ideas of Metro and less by Apple's software design (which I find lacking).

Also, I can't help thinking that this sort of design is very good for tiling window managers :).
Unfortunately, Apple rejected my last update because I had added the ability to import .py files from other Apps. If/When Apple changes their policy on this I will submit an update the next day.
The double request on IE only happens on stylesheets, all other requests (including javascript) are fine.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but if not, why then would they regard their formula as such a secret that the only two people allowed to know it may not fly together in case the plane should go down? As a diversion form their business practices?
I think you might be more successful in spreading this view if you take the time to write a good comment instead of consciously writing a shitty one.
Though I'm not a Windows user (and won't be in the foreseeable future), but I really liked it. This one was particularly nice and novel: http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4174/explorer3.jpg
chrome://settings/syncSetup

Passwords are encrypted by default, the other option is to encrypt all synced data.

You should clear your friend's sync data from your dashboard BTW:
https://www.google.com/dashboard/
Go for a walk, always eat outside, visit some random place (art gallery, martial arts dojo, etc.) - that fixed it for me...
Yeah, I've lived in the US my entire life and I'm often more scared of the police when I'm walking or driving down the street than any potential mugger. I feel completely safe walking in the Seattle area, but when I see the police the cynical part of me gets immediately suspicious that they're not going to like the way I look, etc., and they're going to turn something into a problem.
Swiping between tabs is an interesting idea. I'll see if there is a good way to implement this. Thanks for the suggestion!
The funny thing is we do this everywhere. The most important thing I learned durning my time at art school was that the art world (And the world by extension) moves in cycles. Everything is a reaction to what was prior.
I'm an artist. Most of my methods have clear analogs in what's already been mentioned. But here's something I've done that nobody else has mentioned:

I constructed an imaginary goddess and offered my skills to her.

A couple weeks later, I found myself drawing a Tarot deck completely out of the blue, spent a year on it, and was able to find a publisher for it who's distributed it internationally. I basically consider it my masterpiece (in the old sense of "this is the piece of work during which my skill went from 'journeywoman' to 'master'", not the modern sense of "a totally awesome pinnacle of the art that will survive for the ages").

Another artist friend of mine did a comic that was in part an offering to Ganesh - a statue of that diety figures prominently in the plot. It helped her work get noticed, an agent just sort of appeared in her life and now she's amidst a multi-book publishing deal with a major publishing house.

So, yeah, I know this is kind of wild for the technical atheistic crowd here. But... pray. Maybe to a well-known diety. Maybe one you made up yourself. It doesn't matter who as long as you can whole-heartedly believe in him/her/it/them for the duration of the ritual where you offer yourself and your skills up to Do Whatever. (I would however advise putting some care into your choice as this may result in a long-term working relationship.)

Then pretty much forget about it, just go about your business. You'll find a major project manifesting itself shortly. Consider it carefully as you do the initial doodles; ask yourself "do I want to spend the next year on this?" And if the answer is yes, then DO IT. You will no doubt gain a level in your primary skill and pick up some secondary ones as well.

(I don't know what happens if you turn down the first idea - I didn't.)

NOTE: This is NOT, IMHO, a route for the total novice. You HAVE to have pro-quality in at least one arena, because you need to be able to just crank on the core work of whatever the project is. Success is not guaranteed but it will be really interesting.

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Less esoterically, I will just repeat what others are saying: keep notebooks where you record every halfway-interesting idea you have, broaden your input to include fiction (how much of the modern age is inspired by sci-fi?) and technical work outside your field (like an artist reading HN!), help out on brainstorming other people's projects.
I'm sorry but this is just ridiculous. Just because it looks like Lisp (i.e., the syntax is s-exprs) doesn't make it Lisp.

Let's count important features of Lisp beyond the fact that it's functional:

- Dynamically typed

- Unsafe

- Eagerly evaluated

- Syntax is s-expr AST

Important features of Hasp/Liskell:

- Statically typed

- Type classes

- Side effects enforced by monads

- Lazy evaluated

- Syntax is s-expr AST

Congratulations, they have one major similarity. If anything Haskell is a dialect of ML, not LISP. I know no one who isn't a PL grad student (guilty) has ever even heard of ML, but it's helpful to look into the history of PL before you start making uninformed statements which basically amount to, "all functional languages are LISP."

P.S.

All functional languages are syntactic suger on λ-calculus.
You’re a human, typing in a natural language, on a computer powered by the electrical infrastructure provided by his government. That computer only exists because of the manufacturing capabilities we gained during the industrial revolution 200 years ago, which, in addition to being the source of the modern economy, could not have happened if it weren’t for the rise of totalitarian agriculturalism 10,000 years ago. That 10,000 years is a pittance compared to the millions of years of human history spent focused more on hunting, gathering, and herding than on cultivating crops. The origin of language in humans is hazy, but we’ve only been around in our various forms for a few million out of the billions of years of Earth’s history.

How could all of these brand new things possibly be outdated? ;)
You can export script files and interpreter sessions (via email), but unfortunately, importing from outside the App is prohibited by Apple.
I guess it's ok. But they should make it more obvious when you first log into chrome.
I can understand feeling frustrated, but it's a little unfair on yourself. Most designers hone their ability through constant application of their skill, not to mention very often years of expensive schooling. Nobody does it overnight. Although it's certainly possible to do without the expensive formal schooling.

> what are the ingredients

The ingredients (AKA the elements and principles of design): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_elements_and_principles

If you're not going to quit your job to go to SVA or RISD, I'd say the best place to start is to pick up a few books and do exercises. Give yourself time, don't get frustrated, and work at it. There are a lot of good resources in print out there. You could do worse than Alan Pipes's Foundations of Art and Design

http://www.laurenceking.com/product/Foundations+of+Art+---+D...

I'm not aware of anything really fantastic available for free online.
Thanks staunch, I wasn't aware of the essay. Not sure sure how I missed it.
I don't see the difference, though - when I had people living in other rooms of the same apartment, they could've just as well been in my room - I couldn't focus because I'd always imagine someone interrupting me :-)...
Thanks itsprofitbaron, those really help.
off toppic.

basically people installed solar panels, which require proper authorization, which they didn't have, so authorities are going to dismantle it. how this is news? just because it is in israel? so what? couldn't care less, this would happen in any part of the world, whatever. then article goes on talking about politics.

why this was even posted on hacker news?
Sorry Roderik, I am beginning to think that you are part of a new Turing test.
I am sorry but that doing experiments like this on a living, breathing primate is sick. Surely there is somebody working on a way to develop mind-computer interfaces that doesn't rely on inflicting this kind of suffering on intelligent social animals?
What a lousy title! CERN never claimed that the speed of light was broken, and hence never cried wolf.
Vitamin C is a bug that needs to be patched
I lived alone for a very long time after roommates became too much of a stressor, and it was pretty cool. Nowadays I live with my girlfriend, and it's quite similar to how you describe it. We end up developing shared quirks or quirky ways of communicating.

Living with someone has weird effects though. I've forgotten how to get or prepare only enough food for one person at a time.
It is my understanding that this is only true in certain states; that in some states corporate lawyers can absolutely argue the proceedings.
Agree with other's comments. Looks a ton like new Google. And why all the backlash against structure? People like structure.
I feel badly for this guy but drinking on a public street is a no-no in most places in North America. There is something to be said for understanding the local rules, regardless of how stupid they may be.
For the curious (who want all the details) it appears his friends were held - and he was cited - for a drinking violation of some sort. His ticket, which he scanned, shows:

Violation: Section 10 Subsection 1252b (Admin code is checked)

Description: difficult to read, looks like "Open Alcohol Container"

Zip code: 12133

Can anyone get the name of the officer from the citation? I can't.
How do you know that? Programs in statically typed languages can still have bugs reconstituting objects serialized over a network.
Google is "wanting to move away from explicit box structures and to use type and spacing more to indicate structure."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGIU2JX1U5Y
The only time I've had a sink full of dirty dishes complete with rotting food and flies is when I was spitefully waiting for my roommate to clean them up because it was "his turn".
Looks like Windows with a thick layer of gmail paint.
This is typical bullying by cop that you see frequently in the media. It's bad, but in other countries you could end up missing or taken hostage. There are parts of the middle east and africa that I'd be very hesitant to travel to.

I think the expectation is that the U.S.A. is a safer and more reasonable place than that. And perhaps it is, but it feels like the gap is shrinking. There are definitely some parts of the U.S.A. that I'd be hesitant to travel to as well.
So don't vote it up!

I find it funny to read this comment while the number 1 post on HN is about a magician and his tricks...hehe. I really enjoyed both articles though.

Just vote for what you like and don't click on things you don't care about.
Kosher Coca Cola may only be available around Passover, but Pepsi Throwback is now available all year round.
According to the story, he was not drinking in public, although his friends were.
Graphemica - for lovers of characters and symbols
Or you could buy a vps in UK (e.g. Linode London) and proxy through it.
Practice copying other's work. If you know the mechanics of Illustrator or Photoshop, challenge yourself to reproduce something you admire (from Dribbble?) pixel for pixel from scratch.

Take a particular area of the screen and without using an eyedropper tool, try to select the exact color of each detailed element yourself from the color picker tool. So for example when you see subtle lines or gradients, how does that color vary from the base color? Is it simply darker? Or does it change hue or saturation?

These exercises will train your eyes to have a good feel for how the colors blend and flow together on screen. With lots of practice, you'll develop your own style and your stuff will stop looking like crap.
This report[1], from 2003, shows some unpleasant behaviour from Coca-Cola. (This was stopped by local officials)

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3096893.stm)

> Waste product from a Coca-Cola plant in India which the company provides as fertiliser for local farmers contains toxic chemicals, a BBC study has found.
Dangerous levels of the known carcinogen cadmium have been found in the sludge produced from the plant in the southern state of Kerala

The photographer Sharad Haksar had some trouble from Coca-Cola after using their brandname in some of his art.

(http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2005/1077.html)

Be cautious when importing foodstuffs. Sometimes they're not produced to the high standards you'd like. I'm not sure how reliable this source is (seems a bit flame-baity) but it suggests that Indian versions of some soft drinks (not just Coca-Cola) are high in pesticides.

(http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2006/cokepoisoni...)

> In blatant disregard for lives in India, the Coca-Cola company continues to sell products in India with high levels of pesticides even today. Coca-Cola maintains that its products in India are completely safe, and that it has one global standard for all its products.

> The reality, however, is very different. On at least 10 occasions since January 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration has rejected the shipment of Coca-Cola products made in India coming into the US, on the grounds that they do not conform to US laws and that they are unsafe for the US public.

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[1] It is frustrating when the BBC uses their news programmes and websites to promote their other programmes. "Face the Facts" is a reasonable investigative programme. Here's the website for it:

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007tmlp)
Perhaps you're a supertaster. I think I am; I find many green vegetables taste absolutely disgusting, which is a common problem among supertasters as they can taste certain substances normals can't.
The author offers his own comparison with Liskell:

http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~anc505/code/hasp/hasp.html...
It's a marketing tactic.
Maybe I've been watching too much Breaking Bad but there's a great opportunity here for someone to "acquire" the pre-processed shipments in Maywood NJ. Who wants to be my co-founder on this project? There's gotta be Pinkman out there to my Walter. C'mon!!!
Brand mystique?
In Derren Brown's excellent Tricks of the Mind[1], he mentions the lengths that audiences are willing to go. In one example, he says something about "this coin in my hand" while holding his hand up near his face for a moment, index finger and thumb spaced to the approximate distance of a coin, yet there's not actually a coin there, just empty space! Afterward, people will swear that there was a coin in his hand, going so far as to describe what sort of coin it was.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Mind-DERREN-BROWN/dp/1905026358...
It depends how you do the tests. People in the US tend to have drinks very cold, which makes it harder to tell the difference. Doing "sip" tests makes a difference too.

I've seen (uncontrolled not-scientific just-for-fun) tests where blindfolded volunteers could not tell the difference between coke and 7up / sprite.

For sure I agree with you; I think that I'd easily be able to tell the difference between pepsi and coke. But I've never tested myself.
The Shy Connector
InterviewStreet systems programming challenge: now going
Some of the icons do not have 2x versions; can you fix that?
Just out of sheer curiosity, what regexp tutorial would YOU recommend?
I am sorry this happened to you. By and large, the United States is a great place to live with lots of friendly people (and friendly cops) with whom to share your life with. It would be easy to paint all of America with a broad brush, but I assure you that you've experience an _exception_ to the rule.
What methodology and tools are you using? Kanban, Scrum, Jira, Pivotal,?
Curious to hear what other small startups are using on here. I know this comes down to personal preference, but working on setting up a strong process for team.

Team of 5 people.

2 marketing guys, 2 devs, and 1 designer

Any insight is appreciated
Because Israel limits the amount of power going into Gaza purposely.

Not only are they refusing to provide them with power (they're obviously paying for it, not "taking" it from Israel), but they're also preventing them from generating their own electricity as well. Depending on where you are in Gaza, you have anywhere from four to eighteen hours of power a day under normal circumstances. When the tensions rise, you'll be lucky to have two hours of power a day.
Having to Start Over, Mentally Exhausted, App Store Rejection, 2.0 Launch
Might not necessarily be relevant to Hacker News under pg's charter but I would suggest reading why these people can't get permits for their solar panels.

"basically people installed solar panels, which require proper authorization, which they didn't have"
Also, according to Wikipedia[1] Coca Sek, a coca leaves based soda is still sold in Colombia, even though is was removed from super markets shelves.

I was living in Colombia when it was launched. It had a big media coverage, so I tried it once just out of curiosity. It tasted really really bad and I didn't notice any side effects after managing to drink just half bottle.

It never took off.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_Sek
This article is about the West Bank, not Gaza.
Yeah.

I understand it is a bad situation and everything, but as you said, that's just the way it works here.

In fact, he got off pretty light talking to the cops like that in NYC. You should thank your lucky stars that you were not...say...black American...you would have had a WHOLE lot harder time.

I guess what I am trying to say is that, unless you left something out, it sounds like you were treated a good deal better than most NYC residents would have been treated under similar conditions.

Now that IS a bad thing...I realize...but...you know...

I'm just sayin'...it's not like they will single out foreigners.
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