skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> could potentially be used to save a lot of lives then we would have that debate

One can conduct various hypothetical experiments of course. Rape is used in uncivilized societies or parts of societies as punishment (by village elders), it is used by brutal violent and primitives countries as a condoned acceptable spoil of war that commanders would turn their eyes away from, or just build a comfortable quarters for it and supply a steady stream of victims (like Japanese did during WWII in China), it increases fear and makes it easier to control people (just like torture) and so on.

What would you think of a society that does it and then also starts discussion the merits of that in a scientific journal.

Instead of treating like a topic for lunatics and crazy people we are treating it like we are discussing the results of a chemical reaction, that is what I am talking about, sane people finding excuses and studying torture as a valid topic.
There was an updated version of Space Cadet on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Drop I got as a kid. (I somehow played that before I found the standard windows version, so I might be a bit biased. ;) ) The Marble Drop version is way more polished windows version, everything 'just works' a little better. Shots line up better, graphics are better... it feels like a really solid patch. Plus, two new tables, "pirates" and "dragons"!
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It might be worth trying to get in touch with Balsillie - he may be willing to spend a couple of dollars to get something like you describe up & running - if he hasn't already started on it.
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> 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.

Therefore it's her fault? That's like saying "if you complain about sexual harrasment and get fired it's your fault, you shouldn't have poked the bear".

I hope you see how ignorant that is.
Torture is harming with intent. Collateral damage is hurting by neglect. People pay attention to intent when judging.
I'm sure Russian trolls exist. I would guess pro-US trolls exist as well. That said, not everyone who disagrees with some aspects of US foreign policy is Russian troll. Some people in forums seem to get confused on this point.

I've been accused of being a Russian troll simply because I don't support US attempts to overturn the current Syrian government and didn't care for US involvement in overturning the Ukrainian government. And I don't support Putin or Russian expansion. I just don't believe US policy is wise nor humane on these matters.
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> America and North Korea have both been doing it successfully for years.

Much is lost in this comparison. The American media landscape is pluralistic. Take for example our most popular news network: Fox News. Do they kowtow to the federal government? Russia + NK however, rely repressing dissent internally to retain legitimacy.
Perhaps you confused "prayer" with "meditation" or something else?
Ah, here it is! https://tcrf.net/Full_Tilt!_Pinball
My intent wasn't to "shame" him -- but if he understood the consequences of his actions (and to collect the data point).

With AirBnB when people are waving around fairly ludicrous threats of fines and liens on your property, who'd admit to anything when they know the other side is just looking for a scapegoat?

I'm not sure what threats you're referring to. The collateral damage (to property owners, neighbors ... and as we have seen from the other article posted today[1], to customers who fall on the wrong side of Airbnb's liability coverage) are very real -- so I don't see the concerns people are raising about it as "scapegoating."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531229
This article more or less describes what a police state would look like if the Church of England designed it. A controlled, plasticised, corporate Little England, where fun is monitored and must be of an approved nature, freedom of expression is allowed as long as you don't express anything disagreeable, and the public have no democratic rights at all.

Yet another small, sad indicator that control over the lives of Londoners and the spaces they live in is for sale to anyone with the money to buy it. “A private place operating as a public space” is not what I want to have on London's limited real estate.
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Exactly. To put it another way, I would rather live in a civilized society that doesn't torture or considers it a valid topic for debate, than in a democracy.
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Yeah, I figured from the article that it was existing program. Doesn't make it any less worrying, though.
This is wrong on so many levels I cant even count! This is probably one of the main reasons that traditional teaching/learning is going away and I'm very happy to see it gone ASAP.
Is it a paradox? It makes sense if you think about it. If you are in a city that is very good for moving up, then you will make more money. Then homeowners can sell their houses for more money and property owners can charge higher rent. If you are in a city with little opportunity for moving up, then you won't be able to afford to pay higher prices for housing, so homeowners and property owners will be forced to lower their prices to make a sale or land a tenant.
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http://www.amazon.com/Red-Rising-The-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B...
Granted we talk for the same country, I hardly can call that a winning.
There are stupid and mentally challenged people everywhere and they are easy to manipulate. There always be people from ex-Soviet satellites who still think USSR is the best thing the world has seen, so they just want to be fed such information, regardless is it Putin or someone else.

At one point the whole FB/Twitter agenda is made to spread news and events from "reliable" sources ( See how FB is used in USA's pee-presidential elections and its propaganda ). Russians, and not only them, the "creators" of social media exploit that opportunity for their gains. On one hand, Russia is trolling people, on the other, FB/Google/etc are forcing people to do stuff ( mainly to click on ads for revenue ) so can't blame one side or another for exploiting the system. Yes, one might say those are two different things, but at the end, the ordinary person is fed with a specific information, usually not wanted by him/her.
What are your thoughts on burning money for changing behavior?
I'm afraid I don't have any videos. If you get the APM Mustang, it boots into UEFI.
More generally I think we should campaign to get most McAfee stuff classified as some kind of badware: scareware, bloatware, nagware etc.

I do very little computer support (only friends and family and the occational coworker) and still I have solved a number of cases lately just by uninstalling anything McAfee related I could find.

Between drive by downloads and blocking internet access if you don't pay for protection it easily gets a place on my badware list at least.
I'm on holiday visiting family, and travelling back home at the moment. I need something to do for the 9 hours or so in travelling for, and work emails are one of the things I use to kill the time.
SpaceX have landed their rockets.

Just not ... in one piece.
Not if you're Hornby compliant
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I'm not sure what you mean but anyone can create a Slack "team" and while the free tier has limitations, number of members is not one of them. I'm on one with over 5,500 members and dozens of channels. If you wanted the non-free features, someone would have to pay Slack and arrange some way of collecting "dues" from each member.

https://slack.com/pricing
I mean, clearly copying and reference in art and culture is somewhat different from product development - art and culture is competitive in a different way from product development.

But one of the things that I've thought of is that copying with understanding greatly increases your 'success rate'. I think you can find that in the heart of the standard quote "Good artists copy; great artists steal". Great artists can copy with understanding and in doing so make it their own - thus steal. They now have a possession of sorts over whatever they took.

Blindly copying in the extreme case results in the literal cargo-cults. Copying with too much effort and you lose your advantage (the whole point of copying to is save effort).

Still doesn't give you a nice happy equation (or whatever) to figure out what to copy - but I think it lays down a rule of thumb that if you don't know why something works, copying it probably won't be great.
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Have you looked at who is going to benefit from the TPP?

The legislators are forcing this pact specifically because it promotes certain interests of various corporations. The group that will end up getting pissed off is the public at large when their quality of living is reduced. Novartis et al will get their rapacious drug profiteering enforced onto countries that currently aren't under their dominion, and the people who live in those countries will suffer through high prices for medicine because their politicians got a fat kickback.

Special interest groups are driving this entire partnership from start to finish.
That's why Richard Stallman correctly described mobile phones as tracking and surveillance devices:

> https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html

"Cell phones are tracking and surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be remotely converted into listening devices."
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The reason why it was negotiated in secret was primarily to avoid public opposition to parts of it that will hurt the public.

It wasn't secret to the entities benefiting from it, only to the entities being hurt by it.
I actually rent a house with intent to buy soon. If someone did block my driveway, and I needed to get somewhere I would politely ask them to move because that's how human interaction should work. I'm not trolling, I'm making a general plea for more cool headed reasonable human interaction.

If there were an emergency and my driveway was blocked I would probably drive through the grass as it is just grass and I have my priorities straight.

Having your driveway blocked for a couple minutes isn't the end of the world. If you don't have a couple minutes to spare in your day for something that may go wrong you're headed for trouble. Things go wrong constantly, that's life. You can either laugh or get worked up into a froth. You'll live longer doing the prior.

As for crimes, I would say victimless ones such as this should go unpunished. Costing someone hundreds of dollars to get their car back because they mildly inconvenienced you? You're doing far more harm to them than they did to you. That kind of enforcement just makes the world a much more unfriendly place, and does not serve the common good.
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Giant railguns. That is all.
Welcome to the future your cavalier "It's OK when I do it" attitudes towards mass surveillance... er... I'm sorry... I mean "telemetry" are producing.
Reddit/r/India is bribed and operating on agenda to MANIPULATE
Isn't "we can't negotiate in public because the public won't agree to this" pretty much the most anti-democratic thing the USA[?] could push on the rest of the world.

Land of the Free ...

How about instead saying: we believe in open democracy and so despite it slightly weakening our position we'll require negotiations to be open and require those ratifying the treaty to first have a free vote in their parliamentary houses [wherein one option will be to ratify following a referendum].

Now that would be spreading democracy.

A cynic might think that this was the first best option to secure the world against change following the 1%-protests to ensure rich capitalists maintain their position of power because "oh we can't tax this damaging activity because it makes these people poorer and they made us sign a treaty".
It is so wrong. The author alludes to the way the system is set up as the main reason why it is so dysfunctional:

>The Nash equilibrium is to let the students cheat and “perform well”; in exchange, I get back great evaluations.

This is so obviously the way it is set up, but few professors and higher-ups in college and university are willing to admit it.
The intent of e.g. a drone strike is to kill the target. So even in terms of intent that is worse. The thing is that nobody even cares about that: arguments against drone strikes are virtually always about collateral damage of innocent people. Compare and contrast with the discussion about torture where people are not even willing to make a cost benefit analysis.
His complaint was that Wikipedia's definition of "notability" is arbitrary, dogmatic, and inconsistently applied. Explicating the dogma doesn't convince many people that the dogma is correct.
The banking system handles millions of times more transactions than Bitcoin. The entire Bitcoin network has less transaction throughput than a raspberry pi in a shoebox.
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Why switch? I use Ruby, when I can and Python when I can't.

Would really love to see ruby forks of popular ml libs.

Or is it because Python is better perfomance-wise?
As someone who is trying to convince my girlfriend about why living outside the south for at least a few years is necessary to get a good career start, this article is invaluable. I wish it were the case, but the good jobs (particularly technology-related jobs) unfortunately don't happen to be evenly spread over the United States.
Yes, there are two types of parallelism: model and data. Data parallelism is simply training the the model on multiple computers with different minibatches, and aggregating the gradients. Model parallelism is hosting different parts of the model on different computers. Of course, these two parallelisms can be combined. A good explanation is the One Weird Trick paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5997
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>"By phonemic transformation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds"

-McLuhan
one trouble with game stories is that 99.999% of the time you know exactly where they're going because you're the protagonist and you will win or die.

the second problem is that there are only a few good writers of the correct style out there and they're all in television. (total hyperbole but the point should be evident)

the third problem is that video game makers refuse to accept their actual demographics and they keep aiming the story at 14 year old boys, who have awful taste, frankly.

edit: accidental word
They just renamed it "Microsoft Design Language" and is still very much around with their Windows 10 Platform:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stories/design/

http://www.neowin.net/news/from-metro-to-microsoft-design-la...
Instead of waiting for society to understand and comprehend the medium, those who craft video games work to make their medium more like film or novels or music or other "high" artforms.

Yeah, seriously. For hardcore StarCraft fans, the narratives they REALLY care about involve characters such as Greg Fields, Lim Yo Hwan, Lee Young Ho, and Lee Jae Dong; not Jim Raynor and Kerrigan.
It really depends on how structured and diverse your input images/documents are.

I've worked with just about all the tools out there and my conclusion is:

OCR engines by themselves don't differ much in accuracy. The vast majority of my tests involving tesseract, ABBYY's Cloud OCR API, Microsoft's Cloud OCR third party API, etc., have all produced nearly identical results.

If you're extracting data from predictable, structured or semi-structured input images/documents, the best approach by far is to use data extraction software with zonal or relational OCR capabilities, like ABBYY FlexiCapture or Nuance Omnipage. Neither offer cloud API's but they do sell SDK's if you want to build something out yourself. They are expensive, however. I believe the majority of, say, automatic invoice recognition systems use these or something like them on the back-end. ABBYY is very lenient with the duration of trial licenses. You can purchase a license to FlexiCapture's standalone product and automate around it, which I've done successfully, but it processes everything sequentially and can't multiprocess (you need the SDK for that). OmniPage is much cheaper but they are way less lenient about extending the trial license.

The technically correct explanation for why is frankly above my head, but I'll represent that adding zonal/relational OCR into the mix dramatically increases accuracy in almost very application. The difference between it and programatically parsing the text or hOCR output from a given engine is night and day.

Unfortunately, the above tools are all tethered to Windows VM's. If you need to run on Linux you could try to build something with OpenKM (Java) or OCRopus (multiple language bindings). For my own uses, the build/buy analysis seemed to always favor buying, even something turnkey.

I would consider a BPO solution (human workers on the back-end) to be a last resort. When I ran a battery of tests with Mechanical Turk, I found the response times too variable and long to work well in any situation where you need to reliably get the data quickly.

Let me know if you want to talk further and I'll shoot you an email.
Does anyone have any figures on using coal to generate electricity to power a car for a day verse a days use of gasoline in terms of pollution? It's always been a wonder for me. Now given the idea of electric cars in china it seems more relevant.
To some extent I think that the writing became weaker as the story became more explicit. In Starcraft, you were a character as well --- people advised you and argued with you. Ultimately, although you take orders you were free to interpret the characters and events on your own.

In contrast, Starcraft 2 has you play as established characters. From the promotional material[0]:

> You are Jim Raynor, a marshal-turned-rebel on a vigilante crusade to bring down the Dominion and its nefarious leader, Arcturus Mengsk. Haunted by betrayal and remorse, some believe you may have given up the fight.

This writing task is much harder --- they need you to have a matching experience with the character they are portraying and yet still force you into what their predetermined plot points are.

Consider the case of Raynor rescuing Kerrigan at the end of Starcraft 2, after swearing eternal vengeance against her in Brood War. If the player were another participant in the world it might be reasonable to watch Raynor evolve to that position. However, because I as the player explicitly am Raynor and his choices are mine, Blizzard needed to convince me that saving Kerrigan made sense --- which they did not even come close to doing.

A similar thing happened in the shift from Warcraft II to Warcraft III --- you went from being a character/commander on your own to explicitly controlling another hero.

[0]: http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/sc2/
Hmmm, I wonder if under TPP this Supreme Court ruling would be overruled?
I'm not trying to minimize the excesses taken by some Allied troops but the big difference was that these excesses were just that, excesses and not policy as in the case of the Japanese forcing women into sexual slavery or giving children candy laced with Anthrax spores.
Capital-intensive things which age well, like buildings, are very stale in a way that is shocking when you are used to thinking about nearly anything else, but especially electronics. It was a startling realization for me as well.
If there is randomness in some part of the training process (and most surely there will be), then it makes sense. Different trainings may end up in different local minimums/maximums, so there is value in running multiple trainings simultaneously in different machines.
you are probably in unique position to at least try to educate your father that just because there is keyword "free" in name of the server, it's nothing more than usual pro-russian propaganda. Not an easy task, depends on your father's mentality (if he was happy during russian occupation of czechoslovakia and after revolution all went south for him, that would be a hard nut to crack).

I have generally only few rules for news from east - 1) never trust russians in politics, they have crude ways, and their goal is ultimately good old soviet days when their voice mattered more, with little care of anybody non-russian. 2) never trust russians in politics...
Fantastic - I really like this kind of documentary.
I think the era we are born into define us way more than we'd like to admit and it includes our feeling of being at home in the architectural environment we grew up into.

There is something along that line in Rice's vampire chronicles where she states vampires tend to prefer and retain the taste for what was considered beautiful or worthwhile when they were humane.
How is that different than a tourist office providing you with addresses for nearby bed-and-breakfasts?
You're not paranoid enough. How can you possibly know if the person you're conversing with online is genuine or paid to say what they say? You have undoubtably read something at some point that was planted to influence you. Call it advertising, trolling, or propaganda. Our opinions are being shaped by what we read online.
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Doesn't surprise me. I certainly did not disclose my son's health issue when I was looking for a second job. Must say that when asked why I was looking for a second job I just stated our current situation needs me to have a second job and not my wife has to be with our son as he fights for his life and he is in remission but 99% chance of it coming back int he next 6-12 months.

When my son's cancer did come back the second job (And my main job) were both outstanding and really gave me flexibility and understanding, but I doubt I would have gotten the job the first place. It is hard to figure out what to disclose and what not to disclose for simple jobs like retail.
> When the project comes crashing down

Almost guaranteed at the current trajectory, however I still think that there's time to save it: even with the current $94 million (massive scope re-adjustment). Also in truth nobody, myself included, knows what's going on internally at CIG (part of the reason for this drama wave) - I could be very wrong either way.
Most of the west support the corrupted politicians over the straight ones on Africa, just because a corrupted one is willing to give you advantages on his land over a straight one. So change isn't easy on Africa.
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I remember watching a video of some SC2 panel at Blizcon from 5-ish years ago, where they were talking about how flexible the engine and editor was. They showed some third person shooter level built in the stock SC2 editor, and it looked interesting enough. I bet that Overwatch's code is closely related to their other games, rather than something from scratch.
Almost every framework - Bootstrap, Foundation, Semantic UI, Skeleton and Gumby (which is dead now) all continue to use rounded corners in their buttons.
Thanks for the link. One of the examples is the 'e' in 'like'. In this case, though it is silent, it affects the pronunciation of the word - of the 'i', specifically.
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>why shared hosting is often PHP/MySQL only

PHP was designed from the ground up to work well on shared hosting with things like restrictions on CPU and memory use so one user wouldn't bring down the others. Here's PHP's inventor explaining:

https://youtu.be/6uodrhwUXFM?t=10m48s