skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm a 'fan' of silence, but a Silencio ATX case is <100 and I never notice my computer, ever.

Sounds like you have a pretty high "silence" threshold. I have a Define R4 with undervolted front fans, and while it's good enough when awake I couldn't sleep next to it.
Uhhh, they often make money simply by how many clicks they get though...
Mods: there's a wonky "smart quote" in the title, that would be great to fix.
This is the best "visualization" / "explanation" of the possibilities and limits of AI that I've seen.

I can show this to someone and say:

1. The software can recognize a feather, as long as it looks similar to what it thinks a feather looks like.

2. The software can't recognize a feather if it's never seen a feather like that. It's not a sentient being.

This is good, because most examples focus on point #1 and -- if enough marketing is involved -- don't go enough into point #2.

People read news articles like "X can recognize cats in a picture with Y certainty!" and are quick to assume that this "AI" can make sense of a picture and understand it, when all it does is apply certain methods for a certain use case.

This does a much better job by letting people write (or draw) their own test cases and figure out the limits intuitively.
The search and hide/unhide function seemed interesting to me, but in my opinion the Tree Style Tab add-on is superior. Perhaps that is because TabCenter is aimed at a less technical audience [1].
Hierarchical tab structures are more valuable in my opinion, because it implicitly groups related tabs together. The structure in which tabs are opened reflects my workflow while opening them and allows me to e.g. close all tabs that were related to a certain problem. It does however lack a search function and some sort of versioning, as I find my tab-bar clutter over time. Perhaps a aging approach could be helpful for me, but I have yet to come across something better than Tree Style Tab.

[1] https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter/issues/498#issuecomment...
Those UI animations are all fine and dandy until you log in via remote desktop or similar, over VPN on a not-so-fast network. Then you learn to hate it.

Is there an easy way to disable such animations in the browser, e.g. via Firefox extension?
...but only with a prefix, and only the most recent versions, and it doesn't have much market share. "Effectively nothing supports it", if you'd rather.
I would have preferred an iphone dock where the touchpad resides, just replace the supplied touch pad with your iphone and you get and additional screen.

but they gave us this useless touch screen.
I thought your "frying pan" was Roobarb out of Roobarb and Custard (http://comicvine.gamespot.com/roobarb/4005-86519/). How impressed would I have been if the 'net had guessed that ?!
Fake news is just a nicer word for propaganda. Maybe what we saw happen on Facebook was a reflection of our society and the US political system? Even if Facebook changes something, 4 years from now we are still facing a 2-party oligarchy with a strong grip on control. I had hopes for a better 3rd party showing with all of the negative campaigning, but it turns out that America can't get enough of the major party candidates. It's like a reality TV show played out on social media. Life imitating art?

I deleted (vs deactivated) my personal facebook account in the run-up to the election. The cost/benefit math wasn't worth it anymore. Too much wasted time and energy with little room for critical thinking or diversity of opinions. I doubt I'll rejoin anytime in the foreseeable future. No judgement to folks who are still on it, it's just not for me.

I feel much less anxious and more at peace without facebook than I ever did with it. I'm encouraged to make more time for face-to-face and phone conversations.

If someday I am responsible for marketing or customer service, I would consider using facebook for business purposes to communicate with customers. But I'd let someone else manage it who enjoys social media.

I am left wondering if facebook just had its myspace moment? Was that peak facebook? If so, what's next in line?
Didn't recognize lollipop that I drew. It was pretty classic but not in direction it expected (from bottom left to upper right). I added more lines, confusing it even further. You'd think image recognition should work independently of rotation.
Three Myths Debunked About Open Source Software Security
Seriously, why has it taken so long for me to be able to get a steak in the shape of the US?
How Much Does It Cost to Build an Online Marketplace?
Obamacare was signed in 2010 and affected the 2010 election even though its implementation was delayed for years.

Voters react to laws that are passed, not only to their effects.
I look forward to a future in which we are all wearing ridiculously walled-garden tech on our faces

I'm already experiencing this in the small with people who are glued to the Apple ecosystem (I'm a Mac user, I just don't use an iPhone or Facetime, etc). Some people are so into iMessage and not on WhatsApp/Snapchat/whatever, that it actually impedes communication with them.
You can also create the illusion of 3d from a moving display panel, and adjusting the image according to the position of the viewer. Can't find an example now.
Indeed, some people twitted "What use is it to seen a carrier to help with the Indonesian tsunami?", and this was pointed out, plus its fleet of helicopters which can be used to deliver the water and whatever food stores were on the ship that could be spared for this.

And in terms of pure survival, depending on how hot it was and the resulting sweating, 400,000 gallons of water could save many, many people (the problem would be delivery, they've got only so many helicopters).
Orenburg-Made Furry Leggings Go Viral
If you think that link is about hairdryers, I really suggest you do some shopping.

You'll find less smoldering, better smell, and less pain if you use an actual hair dryer to dry your hair (rather than a heat gun, which the page is about).
Why didn't you use one of the existing sketch datasets? Was it because of license issues?
Do you think that the accuracy would be the same if you had a bigger dataset?
Yeah, it's definitely fair to point out when he's factually wrong. But you also did much more than just that.
> 200 W pcu with 80% efficiency: 160 W. PCU with 95% efficiency: 190 W

That's not how efficiency is computed (in general, but especially in PSU).

The power rating (200W in your example) is what the PSU can provide to the system as DC power, the efficiency is the difference between AC input (wall-draw) and DC output.

An 80%-efficient 200W PSU will provide 200W internally but draw 250W from the wall-plug (and waste the extra 50W as heat).

If your 200W PSU maxes out at 160W it's not because it has 80% efficiency it's because it's a worthless piece of shit. You should throw it away as there's significant risk it will blow up (figuratively or literally) and/or catch on fire. Here's an article (in french but you can look at the pictures) checking out garbage PSU exhibiting that sort of behaviour: http://www.x86-secret.com/dossier-36-3000-Alimentation_Nonam... spoiler: shitty components, detonations and burnt smells.
Np. That was just the first thing I found on Google; b'tselem does not have a neutral point of view. But the fact is that the wall is being built mostly on the West Bank side of the pre-1967 borders.

You might also be interested in this talk, which if memory serves discusses the wall's impact on the community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSkevV-CoO4
Hmm... guess I was downvoted for "mandatory by law".

I am not in favor of using law here either, that was more a cry of the heart -- I've been spending what seems like entire life on driver development, which is no rocket science in itself but made complex by hardware vendors concealing unimportant information (often for not good reasons, like corporate culture), for so long time that product makers have learned to not even look for it anymore.

I really wish we had that process fixed.
> What bugs me is that since the element is moving closer, shouldn't the element itself grow bigger

Depends. If they used parallel projection, then not. See [1]. This corresponds to an infinite focal length.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_projection
Please for the love of god do not listen to Neil Patel, his advice is generally horrible.
There is zero useful content in this Medium post.
Not going to happen. They're too small to expand much.

Aluminium is 22 microstrain per degree apparently. Say it raises to 60C and is 30cm long, that gives you're looking at 0.26 mm. Easily accommodated by flex in the mountings.
Merry Christmas (HD) – Soulful Music – Nursery Rhyme – Popular Kids Song
The TV show the Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin did that on Swanage beach.
Smartphone Asus Zenfone 3 com tela de 5,2 e de 5.5 polegadas
I have code I'm ashamed of as well. I was very young, and told the app was for a fairly innocent cause. After the fact, it became apparent the company was also selling it to a fairly controversial foreign government entity.

I think it's worth standing up to this sort of thing, but good luck getting that new job if you stipulate they inform you before hand who they're going to sell your code to. I'm not sure what the solution is if you don't have a ton of leverage (and if you choose to turn down the job, someone will gladly take your place in this economy).

Interested in hearing other people's suggestions.
I wish that too. In particular, I'd like to wipe Mass Effect trilogy from my memories, at least temporarily. It had huge emotional impact on me, and I would love to relive it all again - unfortunately, I still pretty much remember the entire plot after the years (and though ME has some interesting degree of non-linearity based on your in-game decision, there's still too much of the plot that's constant to really enjoy a replay without a memory wipe).
An awkward situation, for sure. However, after a lady in my community killed herself (she was on some prescribed drug), a friend of mine in the industry explained his view.

Apparently, these drugs can cause some people to kill themselves. But they also cause some users to recover, meaning they're less likely to commit suicide. It wasn't clear how exactly this balance was measured, but the net effect can be positive.

Still raises some hard questions along the lines of the trolley experiment. Who gets to live, and who gets to die? And what about the fact that we don't even know who it is that will get better or worse?

Regarding coding, the coder is only really able to quit because the market is good. Plenty of people along the same economic chain that led to this are in more precarious job circumstances.
>but if this is the only solution, why not?

It's not the only solution, and government didn't create it. People are causing global warming, not government. It's people who decide to use cars and get stuck in traffic instead taking a bus, bus will go that route anyway, people in cars will cause more traffic and generate more pollution.

People who don't turn off lights (also TVs, computers) at their homes over night. I met a lot of them, one of the dumbest excuse was... light bulbs break if we turn on and off the lights frequently, so they were leaving 3x 100W lightbulbs overnight, irony, they were working as council of Greenest Capital of Europe :)))

People who burn coal and wood to heat homes, burn coal = more CO2, burn wood = less forests.

People who don't recycle stuff - I'll just throw away that TV on a street or drop from 2nd flow window for fun! Ha! People who buy new phones and computers because that's a new fashion.

People who eat food that was grown in places were 10years ago we could see amazon rainforests.

People are too lazy and it's too hard for masses to leave their comfort zones.
They're nice for kernel debugging. Also it's nice to be able to headlessly control a machine without ssh & the entire network stack.
This is something I've wondered about.

What do you do if your boss asks you to do something which you believe to be legally questionable or unethical? For example, if you're asked to do something which you thought might be illegal, but you don't know for certain, would the best course of action be to hire a lawyer? Based on what I saw from the recent Volkswagen fiasco, it seems like the developer himself can be held liable. Is this correct?
I was going to link the book because I thought it was on the Public Domain, but apparently not in every country [1]. Also, the site you reference seems to be purposely misguiding visitors by omission about the book's licensing status [2].

[1] http://www.communia-association.org/2015/01/23/the-little-pr...

[2] http://www.thelittleprince.com/licensing/
An augmented reality app that changes other people's appearances on the fly.

Actually, anything AR. I'm fascinated by it and I can see a ton of possibilities for it, I just can't afford to invest the time and money.
Google Cloud is launching GPU-backed VM instances early in 2017
Aren't you assuming that only one of these missiles hitting it would "destroy" it?

They're rather big, and we gained a lot of experience in WWII in making fleet carriers fairly survivable in the face of big hits. And those carried fuel oil for their boilers and gasoline for their planes, naval jet fuel isn't quite so volatile as the later.
如何做一个简单的纸枪 – Make Paper Gun
Cancer: Analysing diagnosis and survival
So if you have every intention of maintaining air superiority, they're not obsolete at all.
It's people who rape people, murder people, poison people... oh wait, they're all illegal too.
The merge algorithm http://wiki.monotone.ca/MarkMerge/ used by Monotone has a well defined user model for conflicts, with similarity to Codeville's merge algorithm iirc. I'm not sure if any later VCS used it, looks like perhaps not.
> The transcription is just really bad

I was afraid of that. It's because:

1. it's in a mix of cursive Suetterlin script and more modern forms. Many letters can only be distinguished if you know the context.

2. my German is limited to a few hundred words.

3. she didn't write very clearly, the last two letters of a word tended to be just a line :-)

But I can get far enough to get the general sense of what the letters were saying. The translations posted here, however, show how limited machine translation still is, and hence how far we still are from the singularity.
The planet is being warmed by rage of people seeing an unlabeled or improperly labelled Y axis on a graph. This article alone cost us this winter's snow.

Edit: Oh! It's apparently labelled correctly...

>The colored temperature lines are the modeled estimates that each climate factor contributes to the overall temperature.

Yeah, nah. I'd prefer hard data, not some unverifiable models.
From the datasheet:

"Two serial ports: Many PCs do not have these legacy ports any longer, since they have been superseded and replaced by USB for most consumer applications, but they are still commonly used for applications such as industrial automation systems, scientific analysis, POS systems and other such fields of application."
Thanks for the story.

I feel this has been an issue for other types of jobs so far, but this example points out how easy is to be borderline with ethics...which may itself be a non-ethical choice IMHO
Paperspace looks pretty awesome. Given the exorbitant expense of the new MacBook Pros, I'm thinking of getting a iPad Pro instead, except that you still can't really do dev work conveniently on an iPad.

This looks like it might be a cool solution to that problem. Use iOS most of the time (I'm a writer) and the Paperspace VM on the iPad for coding (I'm also a wannabe developer).

Only fly in the ointment is that it's not available in Europe, and I'm worried about latency over a 4g connection.
According to people who have worked with him, Bannon is "legitimately sinister." http://www.dailywire.com/news/8441/i-know-trumps-new-campaig...

Of course he will gravitate towards radical "solutions." He wants to do a lot more than force hiring practices on companies.
This is tough to read. I've railed and yelled in meeting about ethics and have ultimately discovered that in nearly every case the money talks louder. I remember this company I worked with that had a sign up with a "add me to the newsletter" check box. When leading a ux review it was decided to switch it off by default. One day a friend of mine buzzed me to say she was annoyed at receiving mail even though she specifically made sure that that box was unchecked when signing up. I assumed it was a dev error and checked with the dev team and was told to go check with the CTO. When I did, the CTO said that it was exactly how he wanted it. I wasnt even manager level but I lost it and yelled at the CTO. I was simply told "we need our email signups and dont dare tell me how to do my job". I tried to look for support elsewhere in the company and all I discovered were at best some hushed mutterings in corners. Even laughs of me being on some kind of moral high horse. It hurt to know that the same people I know who did these things are now working on startups that scoop up massive amounts of people's location data. The same people who wrote tiny scripts to collate customer data to give to the sales teams who would give it to clients as part of a sales package even though the terms specifically said we don't share personal info. It bothers me that I don't even know how to fight it since all it takes is the next dev to come along and say yes to end months of protests against something unethical. I don't want regulation and lobbyists pushing their tech onto me as a solution. If anyone has advice, I think this is a great thread to share thoughts.
For a long time I worked in one of the biggest and most highly respected SEO agencies in the world. I was very very good at it, without sounding like a dick hopefully I want to convey that I do know what I am talking about. The biggest problem you are going to face is ultimately so many different people out there are going to give you conflicting advice and most of it is just plain horrible.

There is a single book that I would recommend on the topic as pretty much the gold standard, if you read and absorbed absolutely nothing else on the topic besides it I would confidently put you in the top 20% of experts globally on the topic.

Spend the $40 get this book https://www.amazon.com/Art-SEO-Mastering-Search-Optimization... and be done with it. The entire topic is much less complicated than it is made out to be and if you have decent technical chops then you are already at a huge advantage over others.
the shadow elevation effect can also been seen as a flat surface lying on top of another flat surface with all dust surrounding it, or as a rectangular hole inside a surface with stains around it
Huh, I had no clue what you meant until I looked at the picture then back at my scribbles and saw the accidental drawing of the face I made.

To me this is another interesting distinction on the NN recognition versus a human recognition - QuickDraw having a limited "vocabulary" to refer to really highlights this, as does my own lack of knowledge of Roobarb. Some of these things can really blindside us, and I suspect that it's going to require a lot of human hand-holding for awhile for the machines to get a strong vocabulary.

For some time I've been pondering how far you could take a machine's tabula rasa learning, for something like language, and how closely it would mimic a child's learning. (Language, color, math, etc).
I'd still take that over meeting in bars and pretending to care for a few hours.
Similar thought: should you have a moral quandry about doing work for a car company, given that 1.25 million people per year are killed in road traffic incidents.
This happens all the time.

We have a vague notion of a thing, so we call it "X". Later, as we learn more, we realize that we can think of X as a category of things, and that one of those things, annoyingly, should probably be called "X". Now we have a problem. Some people will call the thing X and some people will continue to call the category X, because they read our blog posts from five years ago, because they were so popular, because we are so awesome.

This is a sign of a good thing, even though it causes confusion. Now we have to roam the countryside saying "I know we say 'X' to mean this general thing, but we also say 'X' to mean that more specific thing. I'm really sorry. It's my fault. I recommend that you say 'Y' to refer to the category, but be prepared to read 'X' on the web. It is what it is."

It is what it is.
So let's sue government for rapist and murderers to end it?
I kept hoping you guys would be acquired by MS and Office could transition to Python. Alas, it never happened.
I am glad kids are taking action rather than just complaining, however, people can take personal action. The money for any pay out from a suit will most likely come from their future social benefits rather than the industries they are suing.

Some personal choices to take action on:

Buy local produce, and let your local supermarket or grocer know this. Educate others. It saves on all of the transport emissions from air or truck freight of goods.

Cut back on electrical, and gas usage. Most homes I have visited in the US have multiple TVs, each family member has more than two computers, or smartphones and tablets.

Car pool. Buy economy cars, not SUVs. Walk. Run. Cycle to work. Americans can sure use the exercise and diet changes. (DISCLAIMER: I am an American, born and raised). I was working physically 9-11 hours a day in Las Vegas, and cycling 6 miles to and from the construction site each day. Obese co-workers called me crazy. Then before Christmas 2009, I gave CPR to a 35 year old man with two kids and new born baby on the site, but he died before he hit the ground from a massive coronary. He had just arrived to work with Dunkin Donuts coffee and donuts in a bag and dropped. He stopped taking his heart medication his wife said.

After being in SE Asia for 8 years, and returning to the US, my perception of just how obese Americans have become is striking. I have been living in the rice fields of East Java, so it is even more stark.

I am a libertarian and mainly capitalist, so I don't wish any of this forced on anyone through legislation, and people are free to continue in their ways; I am just presenting some perceptions that might make people think twice about their lifestyles. They can choose what they want, but their are consequences locally and globally.

For me, I have not felt healthier, and less stressed, and I will take these tools, perceptions and lifestyle choices back with me to the US. I went vegetarian 3 years ago, haven't drank alcohol in 7 years, and I run and exercise everyday. I know it might be harder when I get back, but I have built a solid foundation to continue there anyways.

Big country-wide, policy changes need to be thought out economically, since we can only throw so much money and manpower at a particular solution. Some of the more rational choices may seem to go against feelings, and unfortunately, those who want the vote, vote for what makes people feel happier, not what's probably best for them and the country as a whole.
Same with Thai-English, curious to see if it is any better now.
Will that new Silk Road be able to deliver iron ore, crude oil, and other bulk cargoes including food ones? And if yes, except maybe for an oil pipeline (which would be relatively easy to take out), sea transport is still going to be a lot cheaper. Plus not everything they import if from Asia+Europe, e.g. iron ore and soybeans from Brazil last time I checked.
I'm not sure about your last question, but regarding if they ask you to do something that may be unethical or illegal:

I'd get advice. It doesn't mean you need to spend money on a lawyer necessarily, you can often write college/uni professors and get decent answers. If not, heck, I'd even ask the relevant Reddit sub-forum. At any rate, the idea is to go ask people who are more likely to objectively answer your concerns as opposed to the employers.