skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google software could use their 99% successful algorithm to filter potential captchas. Then show the 1% they can't crack to humans.

Now the race becomes who can write the better captcha solver, Google or the spammers? As spammers learn to identify things in the 1%, Google will hopefully improve faster and continue to narrow the "hard to solve" band.
Talk: Prototying and Unity3D
because unless you work in a startup you have to support legacy, which involves recompiling python(or anything else for that matter) because someone previous did something stupid....
> variation of dice from one combination to the next is the arrow of time

How can a sequence of random numbers introduce a preferred direction? Randomness has the same properties backwards and forwards, and random numbers are not dependent on one another.

You are presupposing the arrow of time to explain the arrow of time. You say you roll the dice every tick of time, but what makes the tick? Why does it tick in the direction it does? The dice do not explain such things.
I'm the same - I'm currently trying to use DuckDuckGo and familiarising myself to it, but it's driving me nuts as it reflows the results as it loads elements. I'll go to click on something only to have it move away as another element is loaded.
Goes a bit beyond that, especially in the kablang navigation and sworfing but yes ... it definitely gets closer than the current one-way linking model of html.
I prefer Webix
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> Most of my client side code is pretty much jquery (that I try to keep organized), and it works most of the time. Then I see people referring to that practice as "jquery soup" and I'm starting to think I'm doing it wrong.

Possibly the biggest advantage of Angular is what it does for code organization. With JQuery, you've got to organize it yourself, and while some things are easily organized, others can easily turn into a big mess.

Angular is very big on separation of concerns, modules, dependency injection, etc. Basically, what Angular does, is provide a lot of mature code organization concepts that have been common place on the server-side for ages, to browser-side code. Javascript has long been the domain of little ad-hoc scripts. Stuff like JQuery makes it easier to work with fairly standalone libraries, whereas Angular does for the browser what frameworks like Spring and Wicket did for the server.

Is it what you need? Depends on whether Spring and Wicket are what you need.
Am I missing a joke here?
Soon! :)
I'm told that in my state (Victoria) prenuptial agreements carry no legal weight. There are laws to divide up the estate in the case of a divorce, and private contracts cannot override laws. A prenup can of course be voluntarily honoured, just not legally enforced.
As Mathworks customer, I've come to hate this, since this involves talking to clueless people with superficial information. Every question that involves something slightly more complex is dispatched to deeper support levels and regurgitated in a more or less screwed up way to me by the tier one guy/gal.
Maatkit is great for profiling your MySql queries in production.
http://www.maatkit.org/
I don't think Apple would willingly switch from Google, but they need an alternative in the back pocket so they can't be held hostage if Google starts to make onerous demands (like quit the patent warring against Android) as conditions to renew the deal.
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(You say the 'naive' way; how can it be compressed better?)
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Three other common jokes contrasting mathematicians with other people:

A mathematician meets one of his colleagues riding a superb bike. "Where did you get that?", he asks. The other explains: "Well, there was this beautiful girl riding the bike. When she saw me, she put the bike down, she got naked, and told me to take whatever I wanted." The first one thinks, and says: "You chose wisely: her clothes would probably not have fitted you."

A mathematician attends a conference about string theory, and seems to be enjoying a demonstration involving thirteen dimensions. The physicist sitting next to him asks: "How do you manage to follow all that?", and the mathematician retorts: "I can easily visualize it in my head." Impressed, the physicist says: "Wow, you can really visualize it in thirteen dimensions?", but the mathematician replies: "Of course not, but I just visualize in N dimensions, and then take N=13."

A physicist comes up with a new equation that seems to fit his theory, and asks his mathematician friend to check it. A while later, the mathematician answers that the equation is false. In the meantime, the physicist used the equation to predict the outcome of a new experiment, and the results were excellent, so he tells his friend to check again. Moments later, the mathematician admits that the equation can be true, but "only in the trivial case of positive real numbers."
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Wish granted:
http://wikiballoons.tomodo.me/wiki/Main_Page

I also made a (by no means complete) POC more simmiliar to your animation which you're welcome to fork and improve:
http://en.wikimore.tomodo.me/wiki/Main_Page

In general, whenever you want to improve a website - Tomodo is the place to go (http://tomodo.com/)
Don't forget that Cakewalk includes CAL - the Cakewalk Application Language, which is a bit Lisp'y, I have to say, as well as being a bit C'ish, to boot. ;)
Accessing the DepthMap from Google's Lens Blur
> Java and Python are not the same language. AngularJS and Backbone are both Javascript frameworks.

They are, but one of the things that makes Angular so powerful is that it kinda defines its own DSL. Most of your work may not even be in javascript, but in the enhanced HTML that Angular defines for you (and which you can expand by making more directives).
>CAPTCHA images correctly solved by the algorithm

well, isnt that great? Because I, HUMAN, can maybe solve _one_ of those (lower right one).

I frickin HATE google Captchas and simply close the page if it wants me to solve one, they are too hard for me.
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Just a note on the zlib optimization patches. The blog post is linking to an old version, there's a newer one from a month ago. Also, the patch still appears to be a bit buggy (e.g. corrupt output being generated by the new deflate strategy), so don't plan on actually deploying it.
The OP's design for it is much nicer.

Navigation popups have been around since 2005, and while in some ways better than the OP's design (pictures!) this is useful enough to test it as default behavior.

Hover doesn't work on mobile, so perhaps they should appear if you click and hold for a few seconds.
Modules within the Python standard library are very well written. The source code also provides very good examples of decent unit tests.
The sources to Lua are pretty darn great:

http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/
What's in it for Epicurious and Allrecipes, considering they currently own the data and competing just on features probably means they lose market power?
Chrome only so can't see the site but curious what feature of Chrome you're using that isn't available in Firefox? Is it NaCl?
I had a read through the PCSX2 emulator recently, that was quite interesting: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2 it's a complex project in what was surprisingly readable C++ code.
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Agree with all four; I prefer inline expansion to popups as well. Especially 2/ - multiple popups can quickly lead to a mess on screen, just like on the Wikipedia's Navigation Popups screenshot, where it does not only look ugly, but the popups also obscure each other as well as the original text.
HTML out of the Browser
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7599941
People seem to hold very strong opinions on factual issues, which always strikes me as odd, because the funny thing about facts is that they stay the same despite your opinion.

A lot of people I know believe that marijuana is seriously damaging to the brain. I also know a lot of people who believe it isn't dangerous one bit. And I've also noticed that online (being a much more liberal environment generally speaking), any study showing that marijuana could be a potentially damaging substance is immediately discredited somehow (and always by people who aren't experts in the field).

The fact is, the laws of physics have and always will continue to operate the same way regardless of your opinion on how they should work, so it's wise to keep an open mind toward all studies and consider the evidence yourself before immediately embracing or discrediting an idea with little thought into why you're doing so.
<input type="color">
This is just a little weekend project, and I wanted to use as much standard stuff as possible. I believe the color input type is coming to firefox soon though.
Actually, I don't think it says anything about their products, or General Mills' confidence in the same, except that those products are so common that they grow lawsuits the same way bread grows mold. Being afraid of lawsuits isn't necessarily related to believing that anyone anywhere might have any reasonable grounds to sue you; crazy nutcases won't make you whole after you defend yourself and win.
I made this tool: http://codingstyleguide.com to improve the way I code for different languages and not get lost with too much programming information and it's helping me a lot.
Well,

Information is produced in the course of a system evolving and information is destroyed (the past is forgotten).

The tendency of a system to move towards greater entropy could be said to give an explanation for the difference between past and future. But how does that work in an open system like the planet earth, where entropy hasn't increased, where the system has self-organized over time.

The ability of a system to store information in only one direction of movement could be the explanation - if we could define that more exactly. But since information is constantly being "created", destroyed and transformed, defining this is a difficult task.

Which is to say the problem as a whole is hard.
Ironic how the HTTPS version force-redirects you to HTTP. (Amazon.co.uk started doing this a few days before and it's pissing me off no end.)
Try Gossamer Threads (https://gt.net/). What are your reasons for not using Linode or DIgitalOcean anyway -- do you work for a university library or other public institution?
Why? It seems pretty useful e.g. for writing shellcode.
It seems strange to me that a hillside covered in a grass monoculture, lacking its natural vegetation cover should be considered suitable for such a prominent image. A lot of the hillsides around the bay area are like that - low diversity weedy short vegetation with a few scattered tree lupins. That sort of vegetation cover makes me sad rather than appreciative.
I've been trying out Bing for a month now and it's pretty much equivalent to Google for me. I search less and less on search engines already and what I do search for, Bing has been able to deliver. The only thing that made the transition difficult at first was the UI of the search pages on desktop. For mobile that won't really be an issue and I think Apple could easily default to Bing.

Losing iOS users to Bing/Yahoo would be terrible for Google just because of the demographics of iOS users. The Oracle trial revealed how much more Google earned from iOS than Android, and that probably hasn't changed much. Google is already experiencing margin compression because of the broader shift to computing on mobile devices, losing the most valuable users would only accelerate that.
Personally I prefer Bandcamp's approach to volume control:

http://bandcamp.com/help/audio_basics#volume
My favorite example would have to be CLOS the Common Lisp object system. Although it's a bit hairy in certain places, it essentially transforms a procedural/functional language into on of the most powerful object oriented languages around. Macros play a small, but crucial part of it, subverting the rules of lisp in order to add another dimension to the language.

Another great example might be Postmodern and CLSQL, both of which include SQL DSLs, much better than concatinating strings or muddling around with ORMs. CL's loop macro basically ads an algol like language to lisp(if you dislike loop, there exist lispier alternatives like iterate).

Macros take care of the case between writing a function and writing an interpreter, and with judicious use, they can help build much cleaner abstractions that give a qualitative improvement to a code base.
Eating is great when you've got time for it and you've got good food to eat. But quite often it can be a chore. You need to eat something, but you don't have time or energy to prepare a proper meal, so you eat something quick and unhealthy, that makes up for its crappy quality with extra sugar or sodium glutamate. At that point, Soylent is probably a much better idea. It's not meant to replace a quality dinner with friends.
I like food, but sometimes it can be time consuming and I only do it to satisfy my hunger or lack of energy.

If I had energy for everything, I would love to cook and eat, but more often than not, I simply want to prioritise my energy and especially my time, for other.
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I don't know if that's really true. How much can an uncontrolled, unrandomized, unmonitored nutritional experiment really tell us? OK, it can confirm that i) Soylent isn't poisonous, and ii) Soylent isn't the key to everlasting life. But I'm not sure what other data it can yield outside of a clinical trial setting.
1) There's still fairly rampant sexism, we're far from being out of the woods.

2) This whole habit of degenerating into insults just because you feel the other side is wrong or disgusting is really not serving any good purpose. I'd be as civil in the 50s as I am today, when pointing out what I consider to be misbehaviour. The only thing that changes is the level of misbehaviour that needs immediate addressing - obviously the threshold would have to be higher in the 50s because otherwise you'd spend all day telling people off.

There's no excuse for behaving like an uncouth beast - to women, to people you're arguing with, to people you're talking about, or to anyone indeed. As they say, a gentleman is a gentleman even in the gutter.
Meh. This one isn't really worth the bother though.

It's got a very small sample size, no accounting for correlation vs causation. The areas of the brain that are apparently different are involved with reward-seeking behaviour.

It seems perfectly plausible to me that pot causes some changes in the brain as it continues to develop through young adulthood, but it's also perfectly plausible that these differences are pre-existing and encourage drug-seeking behaviour.

What you absolutely cannot say from this study is anything other than 'differences in brain structure have been observed'

In that respect the Time article is almost criminally ignorant from the title onwards - "Recreational Pot Use Harmful to Young People’s Brains"
There's also the question of heating up the coffee. Are you disentangling it from the air and entangling it with the hot particles below? It does not make sense to equate equilibrium with entanglement.

We have two systems that have been isolated from each other. Then they get together and get entangled. The number of states in which they have come to thermal equilibrium while entangled is far greater than the number in which they do not.

They are being entangled, but that is just the process of putting the systems together, a necessary step in removing their isolationist tendencies, I would imagine. So entanglement is part of the process, but the classical notion of the evolution going to "more states" is still there.

But going towards equilibrium is more general than isolationist --> entangled. Whatever your state psi is of the system, it is likely to evolve, if it can, into a state that belongs to a more numerous class.
don't know why you're getting downvoted. I'm glad I saw that link.
>Do not identify yourself as "an X programmer," or as anything else.

Yet every single programming job post these days is basically looking for someone with X years of experience in a long enumeration of specific technologies. The usual reason being "They need to be productive. Now."
The idea of a penalty for offering terms that a reasonable lawyer could have told you ahead of time were unenforceable appeals to me too. I think it could use a little more thought, but frankly I'm surprised it doesn't see broader discussion (if it does, I'm missing it).
My understanding was that Soylent isn't intended to be an exclusive food replacement, rather a food source that is quick and hassle free to prepare and consume. Your concern over micro/phyto nutrients is obviously valid (and would be very interesting to study!) but probably won't be validated as long as Soylenters fulfil their occasional cravings for hamburgers / coffee / micronutrient containing food stuffs.
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Eric S. Raymond wrote a book The Art of Unix Programming [1] that has many "case studies" as well as recommendations of which software/RFCs are particularly worthy of study.

[1] http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/
It's a manual process, so can take a while.
Obvious question: how do they know that those parts of the brain were changed by the drug? Is this yet another correlation with no evidence at all of causation?

Also, even if the drug does change the brain, is this necessarily bad? The implication seems to be that users have narrower horizons and enjoy fewer things. Is this meant to be a measure of quality of life? I know plenty of people whom I consider to have narrow horizons and it would be very easy for my to assume that they have a lower quality of life than me because they don't even derive any pleasure from things that I enjoy. That would be a ridiculous assumption, though.
I did a review of the literature on the harmful or beneficial health effects of marijuana several years ago and didn't find any convincing (non-marginal-result, controlled) studies that showed marijuana had long term negative effects on health. The literature I find is pretty weak. Not only are these studies weak, but there are even mixed results - some (similarly unconvincing) studies suggest marijuana has positive health effects (anticarcinogenic, etc).

This study is in line with what I found. I find it plausible (and rather obvious) that marijuana use causes short-term negative effects. I'm more interested in the long term effects, though. I take it for granted that marijuana use is going to have negative cognitive effects in the short term (e.g. the next week).
It's two different syntaxes. Like the difference between '$VAR' (no expansion, literal string) and "$VAR" (with expansion). See

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/quoting.html

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html
I did follow Sedgewick coursera course on algorithms : https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~211.

It's frankly a good class, which cover a large range of fundamental data structures (first part on lists,arrays and regex; second part on graphs and trees). You can follow the video if you want to refresh your memory on - or learn - some parts of cs theory, or just go to the assignments for hands-on java exercises. However, it's can be a bit challenging if you really want to be thorough.

You can also try to develop an Android app, which is often more useful/fun than an desktop software (I'm currently working on a receipt archiving app for my personal account).
Small bug: it reloads the track when I press the volume up / down keys on my keyboard. Using a samsung 7-series notebook.
For Django, there's django-speedbar: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-speedbar
Link to the study: http://jn.sfn.org/press/April-16-2014-Issue/zns01614005529.p...

20 people in each group (control and MJ), 9 male and 11 female.
It's not just economies of scale, but laws of large numbers.

Existing grids have benefited from the fact that though any given individual demand rate might vary widely, averaged over a large number of consumers, trends are far more predictable.

On the generating side this hasn't typically been as much of an issue, with highly reliable and dispatchable generating plants. With intermittent renewable/sustainable sources, the fact that local variations in solar or wind capacity can be mitigate by transmitting surpluses, or importing necessary capacity, also helps. In an advanced grid with attached storage, again, large-number averaging should, with effective management, help balance supply and demand.

Trying to do this at the scale of individual households means far more variability which must be dealt with on he immediate premises. This is among the reasons I strongly doubt that visions of a "gridless future" will emerge, at least so long as there's not widespread collapse of all social and technical infrastructure.
Regardless of whether this study would claim pot is harmful or harmless, this study can conclude nothing of the sort. They only study correlations, and only among people who had already chosen to smoke or not smoke pot (this is a general limitation that is difficult to avoid, of course). What I found especially annoying is the hand waving assertion about brain "damage", without finding any actual functional differences. In effect they have merely found "differences", and they shouldn't be so eager to attach value judgments to them. Perhaps the paper is more careful than this press release.

The flip side to your comment is that because pot is a politically charged topic, one should be extra critical of any studies, because it becomes more likely that people have a vested interested in certain outcomes. Add to that the fact that law makers can probably put more weight on their side of the story (because money), and you have the reason why liberals may be extra suspicious about studies purporting to show harm.
> The Oracle trial revealed how much more Google earned from iOS than Android

Oracle trial didn't show that, that was made up figures

And, by the way, perhaps Bing is good in USA, but here in Europe is really bad compared to Google search
Because these people do not know that they are experimental volunteers. The product is not being marketed as experimental. It is being sold as a mass market product suitable for anyone. It is being sold as a finished, tested, product.
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Does google aggregate&correlate data in vision algo?

For example for street numbers they not only have picture of a number, they also have knowledge of all the other numbers on that street and guesses for those other numbers. Easy to guesstimate order of a number by checking neighbouring ones.

Same for book words, they have n-gram database.
http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2....

Thats a lot of useful MAP/ML data.

But the example they give for the new captchas all look like random crap, "mhhfereeeem" and the like. Its like they are not interested in structure, just pure geometry of letters/numbers.
I must say, I'm not sure what he even means by this "zero universe" business. Sure, the classical illusion is bust, but the wave function itself, as far as we know, is real, is it not?

While we're at throwing quantum explanation links, here is the Quantum Physics Sequence on Lesswrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/ I'd say the math is even simpler there, yet the explanation go deeper. It's a long read however.
The problem with facts is that we don't often see them for what they really are since our understanding of the world is as precise as the tools we use to probe it (ie: development of physics in the last century).

And the brain is far from being completely understood.