skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just could never get into the Pebble's look. Knowing I can get a classic watch and turn it into the things I'd use an Apple Watch for is pretty appealing to me.
> According to that, all parliamentary debates should be secret, too.

Not as unreasonable as it sounds. The parliamentary system was devised when hardly anyone could read, and they certainly couldn't see debates on the TV.
Does anyone remember Night Mission pinball for the C64 and early PC? Is Space Cadet related to Night Mission at all?

http://thehouseofgames.org/index.php?t=10&id=358

And a video of game play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ttoAfg7Ehc
How does TensorFlow compare to Torch7 (http://torch.ch)? They look very similar to me.
It's not like this is a Medium post or something, it's on the company blog.
GPU support, woohoo!
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I was just at the Legacy of the Void launch event at the Coex in Seoul. There was one developer on hand who took questions from the crowd and tried to answer them without giving away any spoilers. There were also a few show matches between popular players, and a wedding for a former Broodwar pro player; it was quite the event.

Even though other genres are a lot more popular than RTS is now, the packed venue makes me optimistic about the future of the Starcraft franchise.
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This does seem worrying, particularly the private citizens being given some limited subset of police power, to issue fines and confiscate items.

> The Garden Bridge Trust said the planning documents detailed theoretical maximum powers that were extremely unlikely to be used

It might be intended that way, but realistially, it seems that the exercise of power is invariably pushed to the theoretical maximum (and often beyond).
I visited a few years ago and found the whole state of California was like this. "Shoo shoo dirty tourist, move along!". Locals upset and frustrated at tourists. Paris is like this too. I moved out of downtown Toronto for this reason; people coming and going with no respect for the locals who call it their home.
Russia faces world athletics expulsion when doping report is published
Beloved by Toni Morisson. Such beautiful prose.
well she personally harassed the poor russians internet trolls due to their profession as well. what makes it more moral? are you discriminating them because of their jobs? that is not really PC
That is not what I'm saying at all. What I am saying is that compared to collateral damage the discussion about torture is completely out of proportion. Of course the concept of innocence comes into play. I'm not talking about war. I'm talking about drone strikes against terrorists which also kill their wives and children vs torturing a terrorist. The drone strikes are an almost unimaginably greater evil, and yet time and time again you have people taking a hard line stance against torture yet are willing to make a cost-benefit analysis in the case of drone strikes or special forces operations.

Note that I am not taking any pro or contra torture position. I'm merely pointing out the moral inconsistency.
> We do tend to have this unexamined assumption that the individual is a huge fucking deal. Because it feels to use that we are. Because our neurological equipment seems to demonstrate to each of us that we are quite obviously the exact center of the universe.

Taking time to practise stepping outside one's own POV and attempting to measure your life objectively against whatever scale of value you hold is one of the most worthwhile and fulfilling disciplines I know.

It is exactly what 'prayer' is, though that word comes with the baggage of traditional religion which may be offputting.

But in reality you don't have to be religious to pray.
Also there are some live discussions going at the moment:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2015/nov/09/athletics-...
Agreed. Traveling internationally has been an eye opener for me, although it also confirmed many of my deeply held biases about my own country.

Americans will be shocked to learn that people in other countries don't walk around thinking about America or wondering what "the Americans" are going to do about stuff.
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In my opinion people do this because they don't know what else to fill their lives with, so they fill it with work.
Funny, I just wrote one of these for the web. I don't oversample at 3.5MHz though. http://www.a1k0n.net/2015/11/09/javascript-ft2-player.html
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True, but it's regulated in many western countries. I think it's regulated in the UK, much of the US (including I think California where many of these companies are), Canada, and apparently France.

A self-taught developer might apply for a software engineering job, but they won't be able to apply for a mechanical or electrical engineering job. My degree isn't meaningless. It's just annoying because people refer to hiring engineers when they're looking for "software engineers". I have training over and above simple technical skills that a developer wouldn't normally have (e.g., ethics and law).
For some interesting insight into why trade agreements are negotiated in secret, listen to this planet money episode: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/26/417851577/episo....

Part of the problem of any trade deal is that you'll end up pissing off one group at home to make another one more happy. Trade negotiators argue they need to have the deals be negotiated in secret or special interest groups will cause too much noise and trade deals will never get done.
Agree. "Creative," may be a misleading term if interpreted literally and nothing tangible has been created, but colloquially, I think we use the term more to refer to patterns of thought and behavior that derail the self or others from their normal patterns.
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What kind of tool can be used to create that animated illustration? Looks really neat.
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The Prora museum on the island of Rügen (the Kraft durch Freude Hotels) is worth visiting in that regard. It illustrates war planning (tactical and strategic nuclear strikes) in the case of a soviet attack and the projected civilian losses.
> I didn't see the author list on the white paper.

http://download.tensorflow.org/paper/whitepaper2015.pdf

starts with the Author list.
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Ask HN: OCR Solutions
Does anyone have a recommendation for an OCR solution that can take in bank accounts and extract the data from it reliably? Ideally as SASS.

Tesseract OCR(backed by Google) is not accurate enough for my needs.

I looked into outsourcing it via Mechanical Turk and http://arcgate.com/services/

Best solution so far seems to upload the doc to Google Drive and download the extracted text; http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-ocr-documents-for-free-in-google-drive--cms-20460
I'd love to see the TPP text annotated on Genius (or a similar site). Is that a thing?
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The problem with shorting anything right now is that the Fed can keep things going higher with zero interest rates and you can get squeezed out of that. You might be able to see trouble spots in the market, but you can't even make an educated guess on when a few people with various political and financial incentives will quit flip flopping and make a decision.
Somewhat interesting, but kind of content free - there's no real discussion of what they did to rid themselves of Russian Web Traffic Spammers.

What's really weird about this article (and the whole blog, really), is that they abbreviate "MalleableBytes" as MB(TM), with a "TM" superscript, every single time it appears. I personally find that kind of weird, or at least pretentious, and very disruptive to reading.

Why do people "TM" and "R" and "C" superscript everything they possibly can?
Much as I love to cheer for British engineering, I don't understand the logic here. A rocket would require an expensive inspection before reuse but a spaceplane wouldn't? Why?

Also not one SABRE engine has even been built yet, whereas SpaceX has got very close to landing their rockets.
Keep it really high level and use the same language as the audience.

If you can fit everything on one page, do it. If not, put the most important material on the first few pages.

Since it's an angel round, you'll want to focus on your team, market size and opportunity, and especially traction. Depending on who you're speaking with, traction could mean different things to different people. But you will definitely to show that there's a hint of interest from the market.

Talking to users is great but are they committed to buying? An investor is looking to put money in and get more money out in the most blunt case. You could also sell them on the idea and make them believe in your dream. But at the end of the day, you're also trying to build a business and in business, you have to make money to survive. (Although, these days, I feel like that's not true. Seems like you can keep selling to the next fool who believes)

Good luck!
About 10 minutes :)
Take a look at webfaction. They support apache+php as well as a host of other languages and frameworks (python+django, ruby+rails) by treating them as separate webapp (e.g. each php websites run their own apache instance under local linux user) and uses nginx as reverse proxy in front of those webapps.
> The rest of your comment is a strawman

Tell me the logical fallacy for misattributing a logical fallacy to dismiss a comment.

I'll create one: "reductio ad latinam." The rest of your comment is a reductio ad latinam. A reduction to a latin phrase.

From parent, whose context you've neglected in your dismissal:

>ousta 34 minutes ago

>every newspaper on earth is a propaganda newspaper.

Also, this "harassment" is to be expected from boots-on-the-ground paid Russian trolls. Complaining about it is poking a bear in the nose with a stick and not expecting it to react.
Indeed. Facebook is great, but I highly doubt a P/E ratio of 107 is warranted. Growth is sort of slowing, and monetization is good but not amazing. People are spending more and more time on mobile, which generally is harder to monetize than the web.

It's a good company (and I've owned the stock before), but I wouldn't mind seeing the P/E ratio come down a bit, to the 30-50 level.

Edit: Don't trust analysts, they get it wrong plenty. Try to understand the catalysts that drive the long term stock price of a company.
The reason why professional certification is needed for the visa is because the title of engineer is regulated in Canada.
Saramo is not a paid troll (at least not directly). You could call him captured pawn for troll army. Saramo is member of Finnish-Russian (Friendship) Society and very sympathetic to Russian point of view.
She says that Peter Saramo has been affected by pro-russian propaganda, not that he would be directly involved in producing it. Saramo is of the opinion that Russian trolling does not exist, and that Aro is spreading unsubstantiated lies.

I can't easily find what the false information is that Aro claims Saramo has been spreading about her.
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> It is exactly what 'prayer' is

Huh? Using what definition?
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Kibana 3 and earlier was a plugin for Elasticsearch. However, Kibana 4 is a stand alone application. Also, Kibana 4 uses Elasticsearch aggregations instead of Lucene Facets.
Any reason you wrote the Python wrapper in SWIG instead of Cython?

The nice thing about Cython is that you can wire up two C extensions to talk to each other directly, without going through Python. Cython also gives you 2/3 compatibility out of the box.
Was it really needed to send that email at that time, or it was something that could have been sent first time in the morning?* And, where you already committed to work on something else next morning so the only/most-convenient time slot available was late the night before?

I don't know you, so I cannot in good faith accuse you of anything. But maybe if you reflected on your ambivalence towards work-life balance, you'd find the kernels for personal growth in there. Let me explain myself.

Speaking in general terms, there is a psychological phenomenon called the double-bind. It happens when a parent or authority figure states some expectation verbally but then subtly undermine it with his/her actions. i.e. I can chastise my kids for spending "too much time in front of screens", but then never have time to take them to play outdoors, or come back home and either keep working or root myself in front of TV, or buy them a video-game to reward some special achievement.

The root cause of the problem in this case would be my own unresolved feelings towards electronic entertainment, which I enjoy a little too much and I am aware to be not quite healthy. But from the point of view of my children's psyche, the situation is much more destructive: each of them can either embrace the label of "coach potato", absorb all the guilt from my chastising, but keep enjoying screens as a hidden pleasure; or they can try to live up to the impossible ideals I've set up for them and embrace the label of "troublemaker", because enjoying some healthy outdoors activity inside the house will invariably end up causing a bunch of disruption, nuisance and the occasional accident.

What they cannot ever dare is to say: "Hey Dad, you always say we should play more outdoors. Turn that gadget off and take us to the park", because if they do I will burst in anger. We all face some of this while growing up, and most of us learn to turn a blind eye to some intractable problems. In the most pathological cases, though, the children can grow up with a shattered sense of reality and develop serious psychiatric problems when they face the correct triggers in their adult lives (I have read, though I have not the reference now, that the double bind was fist discovered by the military while investigating the clinic histories of veterans who had gone into full-fledged schizophrenia instead of the more common PTSD).

What I am trying to say while I have read about this phenomenon from the point of view of development psychology, I have observed the same patterns of interaction in the workplace a few times. In those cases, we are all adults, so there is probably no risk of anyone's mental health; but lot's of needless stress comes from the unspeakable hot buttons, the packs of elephants that dwell in corporate rooms all over the world.
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Hmmm, the video appears to only be 2:17 long now...
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Let me start by saying I understand what you're saying. I understand why what you're saying is true. However, many people see (and consequently think) this:

"Short version: Python 2.x is legacy, Python 3.x is the present and future of the language"

... which was lifted from https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3. It follows that some people would think something along the lines of "...so this library was built for legacy Python?"
Of all the books mentioned, I have only read "The Forever War" and have to say the presentation in this post is just based on lies.

There are highly ranked female officers in the book, the main protagonist for a while serve under the orders of a woman. The promiscuity between soldiers is enforced for both sexes. I actually think this book is heavily equalist. Men and women are conscripted regardless of sexes (needless to say, it's not the case today in the real world).
Very cool idea.

One thing I think is often overlooked in comparing brains with computers is that while they may be ahead on efficiency and density, computers win on many other metrics eg. They are easy to reprogram, they don't need sleep, etc.

And I'm curious how exactly brains are measured for operations per unit <blank>
This is true of legislation in general. Any significant bill brought to the floor of a legislature for a vote has already been negotiated by the bill sponsors and leadership, and usually they even have a good idea of how many votes it's going to get.

It's true of business deals too. Typically the managers will negotiate the deal in private, and then present it their board and/or shareholders to be ratified.

It's just really hard to make significant decisions in a large group of people. Anyone who has been in a huge meeting, or on a big committee, will understand that.
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The Python Software Foundation has stated explicitly that Python 2.7 will EOL in 2020...
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Actually, this looks much more like Theano to me. It's all symbolic, it has symbolic differentiation, it's Python and it even seems to have a similar API like Theano.

In the Whitepaper (http://download.tensorflow.org/paper/whitepaper2015.pdf), it's compared to Theano, Torch and others.
I personally think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Citizen#Star_Marine is a massive leap from "A rich universe focused on epic space adventure, trading and dogfighting in first person."

It's about having realistic goals. I would love to see another good space sim in the same vein as X3.

For my part I am not actually all that interested in a FPS component. But in trying to produce both at the same time SC may deliver for neither of us.

And people complain all the time about late games. But one of big differences for Blizzard is that they have nothing to prove, they have delivered big experiences and successful products quite consistently.
Ottawa has a large tech scene too.
TensorFlow seems to emphasise the distributed computing aspects a lot more compared to Torch7. Also, TensorFlow is made for deploying machine learning pipelines in general, whereas Torch7 focuses on deep neural networks specifically.
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I reread this a few times and I'm not really sure what it has to do with what I wrote.
haha, thanks :D

The question, I ask myself, is: What is worth copying and what not?

I could imagine, that most of this success is simply luck. Everyone copies a different part of an already existing entity and those who hit the right one win.

I mean, even successful companies like Google and Apple throw stuff on the wall an see what keeps sticking and they got some of the most intelligent people around.
Wow. And here I thought they were going to discuss vectorization of the English language, akin to how Word2Vec does it.

Instead it's first grader style writing with fake subtraction of letters such. That's a tremendous let down.
>> What you may consider trolling, may be the other idiot's actual views.

It seems to me this statement is quite unfair. Does it mean that if I think you're trolling it also means I can label you as an idiot? It's not just that you disagree with them, you get to label them with whatever derogatory term you want as well?

>> such trolls (and people who actually believe what they say) are really really threatening to the internet

No, they don't. What's threatening the internet as a bastion of free speech are people who don't understand the consequences of free speech and believe everything that they see on the internet. Then they feel the need to tell other people what they may or may not say based on their misguided notions of what free speech is.

>> suggesting that any removal of extremely offensive content is tantamount to utter censorship

It is censorship. It's almost literally the definition of censorship. I'm not saying censorship doesn't have it's place, but you are being misleading by suggesting that removing a person's comment is not censorship.

As for coordinated trolls attempting to remove a site from discussion; you are absolutely correct. It is a problem. But I don't understand how the solution to that problem is to discuss removing people's rights of free expression. If a site wants to remove people's comments, so be it, but your type of rhetoric eventually leads to people demanding laws. Those laws almost always turn out bad for everyone, people are just too short-sighted to see it.

Also, who are you to define the "least correct response" to anything when hardly anyone knows the other people here? I disagree with that statement, but I don't feel I have the right to tell them they can't make it.
Russian trolls are fascinating. The trolls' messages are low class, hateful, incoherent and always grammatically incorrect, yet they seem to be able to infiltrate discussions on cnn, bloomberg, reddit, zerohedge (which is an anti-western site anyways), and sometimes hacker news, and seem to have some influences amongst uninformed and angry netizens. Case in point, a random stock broker at my brokerage mentions to me that he read on zerohedge that US is about to collapse, and is no match for Russia's might. Which is hilarious because Russia's economy is tiny compared to US (and Russia's GDP fell 1/3 this year), and US army is at least 2 generations ahead of Russia (and China).

The Russian government is fascinating. It's a totalitarian government, and yet, because of it's paid propagandas, it has instilled some ideas amongst the educated that Putin is a great leader. A dictator that hoarded all the oil and gas riches for him and his cronies during Russia's more vibrant economy, invaded crimea and ukraine, and seeks to impose its military on the world, despite a tiny flailing economy and aged military. With only some power because it's backed by another totalitarian government, China, which itself is starting to be more aggressive in south east Asia.

In any case, it seems to be that the threat to democracy will come from these paid trolls that seek to influence the minds of the western citizens.
And by everyone of course you mean first world and developing countries.