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by lunchbox 16y ago
One interesting thing I've read is that eyebrows may be more important for face recognition (by humans) than the appearance of the eyes themselves. (I suspect this has more to do with the shape of the brow bone than the eyebrow hair.) See t
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by lunchbox 16y ago
What do you mean by "ill-fated"?
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by lunchbox 16y ago
If they spoke out the numbers, wouldn't it be hard to confuse "two hundred" with "twenty"?
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by lunchbox 16y ago
Also worth checking out is Scrapy: http://scrapy.org/ It's a Python scraping framework based on Twisted. It lets you use some of Mechanize's API to describe the scraping jobs.
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by lunchbox 16y ago
One is absolute and one is relative.
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by lunchbox 16y ago
Example: at the beginning of the time period there was 1 Drupal posting, and now there are 3751. Each increase of 1 represents an additional 100% growth over the original, so you have 3750 * 100% = 375,000% growth. A poor way to measure rap
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by lunchbox 16y ago
That trend is relative. Here it is in absolute terms: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby,+java,+python,+perl&#... Ruby started out with hardly any postings, so its relative growth is astronomical.
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by lunchbox 16y ago
Replace "too crowded" with "too popular". Real estate prices will rise and fall to reflect demand. If prices are ridiculously high, that's because lots of people really want to live there. (By the way, I'm not disputing anything you said. p
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by lunchbox 16y ago
Reminds me of Yogi Berra's famous quote: "No one goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
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by lunchbox 16y ago
"Insert > Screenshot" minimizes the Outlook window, lets you select a rectangular area to include in your screenshot (not necessarily the whole screen), and then automatically pastes that screenshot into your message. Also, if you have
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by lunchbox 16y ago
I don't think that addresses the essence of SlackerIII's comment. You still have to go through the tedium of launching an external program to take the screenshot, choosing a filename/save location, and then inserting/pasting into Gmail. Se
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by lunchbox 16y ago
This would be huge. Outlook 2010 has an Insert > Screenshot feature that easily beats Gmail in convenience.
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by lunchbox 16y ago
Could be, but given the Twitter hype last year, 524k seems off by an order of magnitude at least.
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by lunchbox 16y ago
"According to comScore, Twitter.com had 22.3 million unique visitors in March, up from 524,000 a year ago" The 524,000 figure looks fishy. Compete.com puts Twitter's April 2009 unique visitors at 19 million (versus 21 million for April 20
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PyPy can now load and run CPython extension modules natively(morepypy.blogspot.com)
99 points by lunchbox 17y ago|5 comments
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by lunchbox 17y ago
I would add Scrapy ( http://scrapy.org/ ) for web crawling.
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Similar question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=290733 Also, http://lesswrong.com/
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Summary (from the bottom of the page): Sleep is important for learning! Sleep deprivation results in intellectual deprivation! Sleep as much as you feel you need Avoid alarm clocks Forget about trying to fall asleep at pre-planned time! Le
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Thanks Gecko. What about UI? With Silverlight, one would write XAML to define a webapp's UI elements (e.g. forms). Is there a NaCl equivalent? (Please excuse my rudimentary knowledge of how things work under the hood.)
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by lunchbox 17y ago
I've found technical descriptions of NaCl, but still don't get what it would look like in practice. Does NaCl enable languages like OCaml to be used instead of JavaScript to manipulate HTML pages? Or is it like Silverlight, which has its ow
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by lunchbox 17y ago
There is a significant possibility that the improved results of this format are due to the fun and novelty of filling out such a form. If everyone starts copying it, its novelty may wear off and it may lose its effectiveness.
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Reminds me of the infinite Jamba Juice hack: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=875856
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Bingo. I'm surprised nobody else has questioned whether the purported fact in the article is even true. I can't relate at all to not understanding the first few words someone says. (Although I doubt it's an intentional troll.)
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Is there any reason to limit this technology to the rap genre? This site looks technologically superior to http://www.songmeanings.net/ ; maybe they could make a sister site for other genres. Side comment: I think the mocking/ironically p
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Barbara Rechterman (my right hand person to this very day) and I were in my office. Someone said "How about Big Daddy?" A quick check revealed that it was taken. Then I said "How about Go Daddy?" And by golly, the name was available, so we
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by lunchbox 17y ago
In addition to building up the Google brand, this ad introduces many viewers to uses of Google they weren't aware of (finding how-to's and advice, tracking flights, translating phrases, etc). Remember, a large number of people still don't r
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by lunchbox 17y ago
54 articles about the iPad in the last 12 days Reminds me of another website I know :)
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by lunchbox 17y ago
I launched Dragon Naturally Speaking and said, "I ham dict eating too the come pewter write now", which it transcribed as "I am dictating to the computer right now."
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Original: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/ Close-up of NYC area: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/nyc/ This was probably carved out by hand. However, this would be an interesting problem to solve using integer programming,
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Try http://nalandau.com/

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