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Ooh good point, --

Update: Added!

I recently made an ASCII art web app:

https://textmode.cadencecode.com/

... I occasionally make dos games as a hobby, and I wanted to be able to draw some ASCII on my iPad. Kinda a niche thing but open to feedback if anyone tries it.

Note that some classes exist (even if not in Spring, at least in base Java) http://imgur.com/sNk4mE2

The key thing to keep in mind with generative models based on real data is that just because results were based on random generation doesn't mean they can't match something real.

Ugh I hate it when people make this claim or link this article. If you follow one more article link deep, they say implemented some of the earlier code that came out of it, code that provided the real business value consistently.

Do you know what caused a team to win?

They Realized (1) people rate movies higher on specific days ( why would you want to implement that into your estimator? And (2) they realized that all the movies that Netflix was asking about we're movies the user was willing to rate, and because users tended to rate movies they like, this biased the results, so basically, they didn't implement the hacking the test

Ehhh the public user base perhaps isn't really so important in foss fps games because these games are most often used as LAN games when not everyone owns the same collection of games. Before tf2, Warsow was pretty much the only good fps LAN parties could use legally.

There are plenty of realistic applications for this! For example, controlling the reticle vs aim of a fps character, selecting units easily in an rts, selecting spells while looking around in an mmo, simulating multitouch, simulating button clicks to reduce cts symptoms ( so one hand draws, the other hand decides if you Re drawing and to what intensity by moving in and out of an intensity circle. )

To stick with good first step approaches, look at ngrams and nwords.

Basically, you need a reasonable feature to match similarity on. N-words are pretty easy to construct, a 2-gram would be every pair of words used in a document.

Tf-idf is a good metric with that kind of feature, because it handles well the bias of frequent words like "the"

This is a bit of an oversimplification of data mining to the point where I am not sure it is useful. Most interesting data exists in only a subset of a large feature set, where most items are irrelevant to the similarity metric. Take movies for example, if you tried to find similar movies using all features, key grip names and minor actors would unrealistically mess up your similarity score. This relates to the "curse of dimensionality".

Many data mining approaches first use a feature selection or feature extraction approach. That is, an approach which finds the relevant feature subsets, or discovers the underlying features of the data set.

Inverse Image search and the solution to the Netflix prize both used feature extraction approaches.

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/08/19

Does the kindle support custom fonts? It would be cool if one could experiment with this and other modern fonts focusing on readibility

I've been working on a plugin using the new sidebar extensions api, and I'm pretty sure this update broke the api :( Planning to file a ticket in the chromium bug tracker soon.

Yup, less is more. Especially on an application main page. If you explain it somewhere else, just put a huge pretty button to click to find that guide, and don't give them directions anywhere else except the FAQ/Documentation page you have.

Instead of:

"Get addicted to MindWallet in 10 steps: blahblahblah"

Make this be a direct link that says: (Get started with mind wallet.)

Then, this link opens a view to facebook connect.

When the user completes that, show them an automatically-created first task list.

For the first time creating a task list, show them guide indication arrows to important CRUD operations (e.g., "Create your first goal =>)

Think of this like a videogame tutorial, you have to show them by making them do it. Continue down your list, implementing each task as a tutorial step that you hold their hand through. As an anecdote, my grandmother recently couldn't figure out how to click a recipe link on my facebook news feed. I said "Cool recipe" and had the link posted. She couldn't figure out that blue text was a link. You have to really help nontechnical users.

Here's some concrete suggestions:

Instead of :

" What is MindWallet? blahblahblah "

Maybe something like:

With MindWallet, you can socially or privately organize your plans and goals. Simplify problems by breaking them up into subtasks and coordinate with friends to complete tasks on-the-fly. MindWallet enables you to manage your to-do list instead of having it manage you.

MindWallet:

* Displays your current tasks and lets you break them into subtasks

* Communicates with friends within your to-do list

* Integrates with social networks

* etc...etc...etc...

(Edit for the HN readers: This comment and following comments were posted in response to an earlier frontpage design.)

I posted this on shacknews but to duplicate the discussion over here on hackernews, here's my feedback:

The frontpage splash for this is really hard to read. It's obtusely written. It focuses on features, not the narrative. It focuses on buzzwords, not what it does. I kind of get it from your long video, but I doubt anyone has the patience to learn about this. There are a lot of social tree-based todolist applications out there, so to win in this space you have to be really really really focused on UX over functionality.

Best of luck though, I think you have some interesting ideas!

I don't like the naming choice, too close to Google Chrome Browser + WebKit

Ah, I'll bet you 10 dollars that we will!

I feel that it would be useful if browsers supported 3d image formats by displaying them in this manner to most monitors, and supported monitors would allow better 3d images:

http://linearlyindependent.com/post/472949731/a-call-for-a-b...

check archive.org

You should look into h-pylori stool tests. My doctor didn't catch my problems until I had a stool test done. It could be a stomach bacteria.

"This page is secure"?

This comment is complementing American Express.

Although it was perhaps understandable, your cognitive bias has led you to avoid a useful modern programming language. C# works in Linux with Mono, and so although Microsoft controls the language, you can reap the benefits on a platform without the Microsoft stack of technologies, if desirable. Personally, I love C#, and use it at home for hobby programming, but not professionally.

Did you know that the algorithm to generate photo-mosaics is patented?

My biggest annoyance about the apple store is when an application is updated and adds advertisements or removes features, there is no way to revert the application or know that the update is bad. Apple provides no path to complain about this, either.

Actually, that gives me a sort of unique idea: An online, wikipedia like proof database with understandable informal proofs with click-to-expand (inline) annotated sections, if you click them, they would expand into proof of less formal claims.

The idea would be that we generally share understanding of obvious axioms (and thus, allow them to be request-able assumptions), and so can enhance readability.

Well, focus on writing code that maps to the english or pseudocode definition, and attempt to make the pseudocode definition as high level as possible, if your goal is to minimize maintenance costs.

This idiom obfuscates, as you state yourself, because people who aren't comfortable with the language will find it jarring at first. I understand where you are coming from: If everyone knew it, it wouldn't be obfuscating. But I argue that people forget idioms or never learn idioms that don't map to our human explanations rather quickly, so it increases maintenance costs.

I argue that in this case, it obfuscates simply because bitwise or'ing data is too low level and doesn't have a lot to do with rounding down without understanding the internal representation of the number.

Maintenance costs are one of the highest costs of software engineering, so when the idioms are very diverse, and you are presented with a new idiom, the best choice is to minimize idioms by only using behaviors which are expectable.

If performance is an issue, then use these obfuscating idioms, but only if you are able to abstract them well and maintain performance (as you suggest), or document them completely and concisely.

I-am-a .... Ask Me Anything, this is a subreddit for community interviews with the person who is whatever they are claiming (the star means verified)

I definitely agree, the article uses some messy statistics.

An additional concern is that if your argument is that 10 investments reduce variance, you want to keep in mind correlation effects. The probability of one investment failing is likely to be dependent on other investments from the same domain, due to the nature of booms and busts.

Does Adobe Flash support exporting to SVG? Adobe should capitalize on all this SVG hype and make an advanced animated SVG / javascript editor, because there aren't any right now AFAIK.