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Holy cow. Excellent work.

Pretty cool, thanks!

Out of curiosity, what sort of setup do you use to develop Go? Do you catch mistakes like typos, etc at compile time, or do you use an IDE that would catch those beforehand?

[facepalm]

no http://www.celeryproject.org/?

Good answer! Also, I love your work.

Congrats, Peter and team! :)

I actually thought this post was about pressureNET at first :)

On Food and Cooking is a fantastic book.

Appreciate your honesty. :)

I live here because I was born here. :) Always thought I'd move somewhere else, but now I can't imagine myself doing it.

pasting my comment on the article itself. admittedly this only addresses one of the author's points: On any Jellybean device, if you go to Settings > System > Developer options, and check "Show touches" to do just that, it goes a huge way towards reducing confusion when you're tapping things. Having that visual feedback means you never have to wonder if you tapped something, or what you tapped on. It's hard for me to use an Android device without it now.

"most of what constitutes being a hacker (in the HN sense) doesn't even approach illegality"

I wouldn't say that. As an example, many companies in the (very crowded) data-storage or file-sharing space spend a lot of money on legal fees to cover their asses (or do damage control) in case of copyright violation when someone decides to share the latest DVD rip using their service. There are many other examples like this. People in our field are constantly exploring the limits of what we can and can't do with technology in the context of laws that were created without these uses in mind. True, it has never been a better time to be a hacker, but I think when/if we have all these issues sorted out it will be even better.

Not sure if I would read too much into it, though. One of my friends is a WebKit contributor, and apparently people at Apple regularly get their code reviewed and approved by Google employees and vice versa (as well as people outside both companies, since they're all just contributors to the WebKit project).

something something Chrome

Wow, I read about HavenCo in my high school economics textbook. Kind of surreal to see you here now. Best of luck on your new venture!

hi yuri! :)

meh, forget the haters. congrats on your bugfix, I'd be pretty excited about contributing to CPython, too!

Google Chrome implements a similar thing for picking colors to go with the thumbnails of your most visited websites: http://www.quora.com/Google-Chrome/How-does-Chrome-pick-the-...

Too, too sexy.

I agree that the name should be changed. If someone said they built their product "using Spark", it would be fairly ambiguous as to which one they meant, especially if their product has a data mining component.

[http://www.spark-project.org/]

Meteor Spark looks pretty nice though; look forward to trying it out.

Not mine, but there's http://discoveryengine.com

Same :(

I'm not sure if you're joking, but you should know that I had a good laugh at this comment. :) In case you are indeed wondering, gravity has no effect on cell growth, or indeed on any of the cell's vital functions. More than anything, cellular processes rely on chemical diffusion, which at that scale is more strongly affected by temperature than by gravity.

Also, gravity is almost constant everywhere on the earth's surface.

What if I have that knowledge (in addition to software engineering) and would like to contribute in some sort of open-source capacity? Know of any other projects I could look into? :)

Yeah, this seems likely. Here's how I'd do it: create a webapp similar to this one to show to your Turkers. The difference would be that it would show an image at random, and the Turker would decide whether or not someone is pointing in the image, and if so they would click where the person was pointing. For each image, take the mean position of mouseclicks. This becomes a seed for the Voronoi diagram.

You can tell he/she "cheated" a bit for some the parts of the canvas that didn't get many seeds. For example, if you move your mouse within one of the large cells in the bottom left, the image just moves to keep up with the pointer. :P

Seems to be a spreading practice for services with huge userbases; Facebook does it: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-passwords-are-no...

I was totally surprised to see that on there too! I love the creator's webcomics too, in high school they were my first introduction to several science/math concepts (the square-cube law and cryptography to name a few).

http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/

Well, I stuck with it, and got 46/50. Thanks, that was fun.

Worth noting that Google Chrome also uses K-Means to select the color of the stripe below a website thumbnail: http://www.quora.com/Google-Chrome/How-does-Chrome-pick-the-...