skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can help with that. I, like you, also thought that there would be no reason to, so why would they do it... But then I went and watched the actual Q&A recording that all of the "Trump wants to put all the Muslims into a database" claims came from and find that the claim is quite false. He never says it. He says something that when taken entirely out of context can be interpreted by someone with preconceived notions as meaning it, except that in context it is actually very clear that he's talking about something else. I don't like Trump, and I don't want him to be our President, but the amount of seemingly fabricated stories about him are upsetting.
Am I the only one surprised, and disgusted, about the .google TLD?
Wow I looked at this between Korean and English -- it's very impressive. Amazing, in fact, b/c Korean and Japanese seem to be the hardest to get right(?). There were inaccuracies but in the past even getting the gist of something was difficult. I then tried translating newspaper text from Korean to French, but that was making far more mistakes... Also, going from English to Korean is better but, for example, "I'll go nuts" turns into "I'll bear fruit" (나는 열매 맺을거야) and so on. And of course the social / honorific stuff can't be conveyed yet. But it's head and shoulders over the previous versions. Amazing. A bit frightening.

Just reading Korean is really hard for me b/c I'm not Korean... so this should help. It might not help my Korean language skill, though... or will it? Of course it also tends to devalue my skill of reading in Korean... or does it?
I met my wife through ICQ. Life changing tech. :)
It's no more of a risk really with TeamViewer installed. An attacker can use gotomypc or similar or just send a TeamViewer invite binary (or link to download it and give the attacker access).
...because it's not all that clever. Clever, sure. But not profoundly so.

It is simply a manner of triangulation.

Sine, cosine, tangent. Basic trig.

Once they knew the optimal altitude, they probably whipped the rest up in 5 minutes with a slide rule back then. Put some lights here, set the angle. Whamola.
No, but you can use Chrome Store Foxified to install most Chrome extensions in Firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...
Seems like a good time to re-read Ray Bradbury's "The Happiness Machine"

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/sateve...
Researchers solve mystery of historic 1952 London fog and current Chinese haze
Wasn't there some story a few months back about TeamViewer accounts being hacked in some unknown way and their access used to infect machines? Was that ever clearly resolved? (I remember speculation of TeamViewer themselves being compromised, or just a massive password-reuse attack, or ...)
MSNm was very Canadian. AOL was never huge in Canada, maybe that is why?
Thank you, I'm glad you like it!
Over the long run for me, it's "$activity with friends"

Building that mobile app - with friends.

Flying quadcopters - with friends.

Building robots - with friends.

Riding motorcycles - with friends.

Seeing live music - with friends.

Sitting round a fire on a beach - with friends.

Cheering at roller derby matches - with friends.

Sitting in a park reading - with friends (OK, there's only one friend I do this with mostly...)

They're different groups of friends (and reading over what I just wrote, some interesting intersections of groups of friends that I should probably pay more attention to).
Thank you, I'm a novice so I'm kind of insecure about them, so your kind words mean a lot to me.
Mysterious Winds Cause Rapid Melting of Antarctic Ice
If you keep doing what you're doing you'll keep getting what you're getting.

As a dev, I obviously made an acronym for it: ykdykg
"I returned my U.S. citizenship"

Did the author return his citizenship because of FACTA regulations? FACTA has made it very difficult for Americans living overseas.

EDIT: the US has made it very expensive to renounce your citizenship (which many are doing because of FACTA). I wonder if the author has thought about the cost.
This data breach nonsense with slaps on the wrist is very easy to fix. Just have the government assign a dollar value to each piece of private information and allow for class action lawsuits for data breaches.

For example

Social security number $5000

Credit card number $1000

Address $500

Telephone $200

Email $100
This is not a smart thing to say if you hope to continue to sell to progressive political campaigns. Door-to-door canvassing is the most effective organizing medium [0]; by disparaging it, you come across as completely out of touch with the field Hustle is entering.

[0] http://isps.yale.edu/node/16698
With an aggressively "encouraged" monthly version treadmill, it's less impressive than it might look. If Linux used the same type of software force-feeding, it would be well past version 200 by now.
I'd argue this (performance/cost) is exactly the right metric to measure. One of the biggest benefits of the cloud is elasticity. In on-premise world, one would have to provision based on peak demand, and most of the time the cluster utilization rate is pretty low.
I'd draw a line between the good scifi and the good theatre movies. There is some great scifi out there that isn't for general consumption in theatres. I'd call Akira (1988) one of the greats, but not the sort of thing I would see in a theater with a mixed group of friends.

On the other hand, I didn;t like the Matrix movies much but would have to agree that were fun in theatres. Some people found them great, but they haven't aged well imho. I saw the original Jurassic Park probably 10 times in theatres. That was a great scifi theatre movie. If it came out today I would recommend it to my friends.
Hilarious Product Launch Video (Health App)
You might, if the harvested wood were used for permanent structures. The whole operation would be a carbon sink.
...and that lamb is exactly like I imagined. AI has no poetry. https://unsee.cc/notarude/
I had setup OSM for my app "Intouch Messenger" however the whole ordeal is a big pain. You essentially need SSD to serve the maps.

Here is the step by step instructions if you are still interested : https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-til...
Build your own Welcome Mat (Sumome) to increase email signups
I do not understand the value of Snapchat as a social network at all, and I use it on a daily basis.

There's no way to reshare anything, which means the only way you can find people is through other channels external to Snapchat. And they make it really hard to add someone that isn't in your immediate vicinity with their logo ready to snap. This seems ludicrous to me. How can a social networking app not try to capture all of the activity surrounding it? How can a social networking app not do everything it can to encourage people to build their network?
http://timedelta.com/

My wife and I made it so that I could quickly paste timestamps from various log files and see the relative time between then and now. It also allows for a pretty basic relative time entry, like "2 weeks ago", etc...
It is due to the adjustments of the ocean temperature data. The SST data has been adjusted upward. Due to the adjustments the global temperature is estimated to be warmer in the past than the raw data show (http://variable-variability.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/homogeni...)
I'd say it's "guessing" from a predetermined (rather small) bank of answers, since the same guesses appear over and over again.
My dad has the Accurite that's sold at Costco and Amazon. He loves it. It's decently accurate--enough for a home user--and not expensive at all.

He was supposedly going to send me one and I was going to extend gopherwx to support it but he hasn't yet. I can't imagine that the protocol will be difficult. Davis's protocol was designed in the early 90s for serial lines and is binary to optimize for space and speed on early PCs. It was kind of a pain in the ass to implement a driver for it.
And works like a charm
They have the ability to monetize unexplored territory like face recognition and AR in real, meaningful ways. They've built an amazing technical team and are in position to execute on ideas that could have an incredible impact on the way humans interact in real life. They are among a few tech companies whose tech could cause a cultural paradigm shift akin to what we saw with the introduction of the smartphone. This should be an exciting couple of years.
I loved this one as well.
The SST adjustments have a larger impact on global temperatures than the land adjustments. Hence the global temperature has been adjusted higher relative to the raw data for the period before 1940.
> CRISPR requires some manual steps in the lab to make it work well. You can design the protein and guide RNA and spacers until you're blue in the face, but if you can't find a specific enough cutting site on the genome, or one that is close enough to your target, or something like that, you'll wind up with a lack of specificity in that cut, which can lead to unwanted mutations.

I am not a biologist, but nevertheless I found out something interesting today regarding the problem of designing good guide RNA via machine learning.

The work that I learnt about today addresses 2 key questions via machine learning approaches: off-target effects of CRISPR (http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/10/05/078253) and optimization of the guide RNA sequence to maximize on-target activity and minimize off target effects (http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v34/n2/full/nbt.3437.html).

I learnt of this stuff from one of the authors who works at MSR New England (http://nicolofusi.com/).

Also of possible interest is their project page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/crispr/, where they are planning to release a cloud-based service for end-to-end guide design by incorporating the approaches developed in the above work.
So what does this mean for language learning?

In one sense, calculators and computers haven't made learning arithmetic and other math less important. On the contrary.

Maybe in a similar way, by increasing the amount of communication between speakers and writers of different languages, tools like this might actually make language learning _more_ important? Or is that an interesting thought but completely wrong? Perhaps speaking and listening will gain in importance while writing and reading will decrease? Or is it not worth the time and trouble to learn another language anymore?

A penny for your thoughts. (OK, not a real penny ;)
Anti-spam people in general not believing in legitimate mailing lists is a pretty bad misrepresentation IMHO.
I've vim keybindings on my Firefox through a plug-in... I almost forget I have a mouse
Fear the Dolphins – Terror of the Seas, Terror of the World
> Why only mention pro-Trump fake news?

See Ms. Tufekci's previous hard-hitting, facts-be-damned op-ed contribution to the NYT, "WikiLeaks Isn't Whistleblowing" to get your answer.
I'll take squares over emojis any day.
I don't know what the drum machine one is doing, but my computer can't keep up. It can't even keep time because of the lag.
Do people really have that much time to create and view junk? Random photos of whatever? I'm unsure how this is better than SMS/MMS/iMessage, or how it has more value. Twitter with pics and video in private groups?
It's a lot easier to have that opinion when you're wondering if some Japanese guy is gonna try and crawl into your foxhole and slit your throat later tonight.
> VR may be healthier than heavy drinking, heroin, meth, etc.

Honestly, I don't see why these activities are mutually exclusive.

I am much more concerned about the kinds of destructive power that people who are heavily-drunk, on heroin, or tweaking on meth, can now have inside of these head-mounted displays.
This is very cool. I had a nearly identical idea a few months ago (and somehow missed your post the first time around) based around feature detection in images, and this is way cooler than what I had envisioned.
Thanks. The tab handling is the only reason I still use chrome.
I know certain people demonize those who accept government money when they can't work. But it's ok.

It is important to know how to accept help when it is on offer from government / friends / family. Sometimes that might be a hard thing to do, but communities are stronger when they look out for people at rock bottom, it makes it a lot easier to get back on your feet. Pride can and does lead to a fall when in this situation and people can be a lot harsher on you when you are at your lowest. But when help is on offer, it's ok to accept it.
"Karmanye vaadikaaraste ma phaleshu kadaa chana"

Sanskrit quote from the Gita, meaning: "Do the right thing, do not worry about results, the fruits / success will come eventually."
The first thing I thought of when I saw the headline: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/ktoast.html
Tech's Giants Keep Devouring the Competition
What really astonishes me though is how you can have these really nice machines and Apple doesn't bother to update the Mac mini.

It would almost have been better if they didn't update it. The 2012 mini was fantastic; you could take it to a quad i7 and 16GB for under $1000 thanks to user-accessible RAM. For most purposes that's much better than the current $1000 mini.
Interesting. Quick Draw is similar to a game I made called Drawception (https://drawception.com). Which is basically the telephone game meets Pictionary with a 10 minute drawing limit that you play with random players.

I've often wondered at what point an AI would be able to play the game in a convincing way. Looks like things are getting closer!
AFAIK, if you physically destroy the contents of a drive with a strong magnetic field, you also destroy the servo tracks, rendering the drive useless. Modern hard drives can't "low-level format" themselves; they're not mechanically precise enough.
The drum machine is awesome. A shame there appears to be no way to share your dope beats...

https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/drum-machine/view/
This has been a long time in the making, https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/expanding-internet-d...
He did not actually renounce his citizenship, that would cost almost $3,000. But I don't want to make that the focus of comments here.
How does China’s first aircraft carrier stack up?
But it's cost for every iteration for cloud vs a once off cost for on premise. It doesn't take very long for on premise to get cheaper.
Pissed off the USA.

He'll, take a look at how Americans treat Cuba.... They pointed some soviet misses at us.... Once.
Ctrl + PgUp , Ctrl + PgDn
There are passages that just make no sense to me in English.

"(...) which is the focus of the tax reform debate focused on in the 2017 tax reform debate I entered the adjustment with the plan."

Where does "I" come from? What's the part of the sentence that follows it supposed to mean?

"If the annual income of each husband exceeds 13.2 million yen"

each husband?

"FY2005"

That one is funny, it translated １７年度 as meaning 平成１７年 (17th year of Heisei era, which is 2005) when what's meant is 2017.
Here: https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard

You only need an Arduino Micro Pro (the 5V/16Mhz variant). The cheap ones on eBay work just fine.
Consider the history of the charge of the electron according to Feynman:

> It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.

http://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/264/timeline-of-measu...
Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps
A few years ago, when FATCA was the only information reporting regime on the block, it definitely drove a wave of expatriations. However, since most of the EU and China have adopted variants of FATCA that require even more information disclosure, I doubt FATCA was the reason he gave up his US citizenship.

FTA, it seems like he was simply disappointed in the US and wants cut all ties as soon as he can.
That example aside, as a native speaker, I've found the English-to-Korean translation to be rather good!
Startups working on this (with credible founders, i.e. inventors of CRISPR) include Editas Medicine, Caribous Biosciences, and CRISPRx. Look out for Doudna, Qi, Charpentier, Elledge, and Church. Also see J. Listgarten for computation approaches to improving CRISPR/CAS9.

This isn't ready for in vivo use yet due to off-target effects (CAS9 is a very permissive protein that often binds to the wrong part of the DNA).

In the US, Carl June's group at U Penn is working on editing adoptive, engineered CAR T cells for cancer therapy, going into clinical trials. They're probably bummed to have been scooped (first to do an adoptive CRISPR engineered T cell transfer), though their work is certainly more clinically relevant than Lu's.
Have you been in a new relationship recently? Anecdotally it's pretty common for a couple to send pictures to one another of their faces through Snapchat - just nice to see each other and see what each other is doing. This is a classic Snapchat use case.
> What we don't understand (unless we decide GCMs are predictive and can be validated) is the impact of a given thermal forcing on planetary temperature. This is the "climate sensitivity." Unfortunately, this is the number we actually care about.

This is false, we do understand this well enough to be sure CO2 is a significant problem for warming, see http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/08/the-co...
Simple Golang HTTP Request Context Example
"A primer on Bezier curves", https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo

It started as a small explanation on the basics of Bezier curves in 2011 and then kept growing until it's basically a full book now, hitting hacker news every year/half year, and getting lots of thanks for having made it by a very diverse crowd - from kids doing homework to engineers at software companies who have a question not covered by the material (yet).

It's been a mostly low effort investment and I could have just as easily not bothered, but just adding small bits at a slow pace parts of on the internet: five years of improvement would not have happened if I'd simply not bothered, and now there is an amazingly popular free resource for this material easily findable online.
It's certainly the former; CRISPR is used to mess with a gene, not kill a population of cells. This isn't what the trial is looking to validate.
> One point that it looks like Curry takes aim with more generally is the degree to which there is a consensus about global warming among scientists. She says that 97% of scientists can't believe in it because they haven't studied it or built their own models, etc -- they have "second order belief"

In the post below, her primary complaint about the 97% stat is that it doesn't specify the amount of climate change that those people attributed to humans: "After discarding the abstracts that were judged to have taken no position, Cook (2013) reported a 97% consensus that anthropogenic GHGs were causing global warming. However, three-fourths of that consensus was judged to be implied and more than 98% of the agreement was expressed non-quantitatively. Consequently, no widespread consensus exists in these abstracts that humans are responsible for most of the global warming; only that humans are responsible for an unspecified amount of global warming."

https://judithcurry.com/2015/12/20/what-is-there-a-97-consen...

I think the 97% stat provides a useful opportunity for those of us who would like to get to truth of the matter but haven't studied climatology and have no interest in spending years studying the subject just to determine the truth of this particular issue. So much of the argument about the subject is "they're wrong, I'm right" followed by technical explanation that you cannot tell who to trust. But you can understand how the 97% claim was reached. It provides a useful opportunity to gauge who to trust on the subject, although admittedly still requires careful consideration and more time that most will commit.

This John Stuart Mill quote seems apt: "People more happily situated, who sometimes hear their opinions disputed, and are not wholly unused to be set right when they are wrong, place the same unbounded reliance only on such of their opinions as are shared by all who surround them, or to whom they habitually defer: for in proportion to a man's want of confidence in his own solitary judgement, does he usually repose, with implicit trust, on the infallibility of "the world" in general. And the world, to each individual, means the part of it with which he comes in contact; his party, his sect, his church, his class of society: the man may be called, by comparison, almost liberal and large-minded to whom it means anything so comprehensive as his own country or his own age. Nor is his faith in his collective authority at all shaken by his being aware that other ages, countries, sects, churches, classes, and parties have thought, and even now think, the exact reverse. He develops upon his own world the responsibility of being in the right against the dissentient worlds of other people; and it never troubles him that mere accident has decided which of these numerous worlds is the object of his reliance, and that the same cause which make him a Churchman in London, would have made him a Buddhist or a Confucian in Pekin."
Another interesting podcast on concrete from "Surprisingly Awesome": https://gimletmedia.com/episode/3-concrete/
> Most people think I’m a Russian terrorist because of my accent.

Really? I've had pretty strong accent when I first came to US, and I'm pretty sure I still have some now, and I never ever heard anybody telling anything about terrorists. Some people do assume I like vodka (which I don't, generally, and don't drink much at all) but terrorists? I don't think "Russian terrorists" are even a thing in public consciousness. Is there some cultural thing I am missing?

> Very hard though, nobody wants to hire a foreigner

In SF???? Is it some kind of alternate-reality goatee-wearing SF that I am unfamiliar with? I never heard anybody in real SF to care about it. I don't know about all the US, it's a big country and a lot of things happens, but I've been to SF. I've been living around SF for more than a decade. Does not compute. Am I living in a bubble of some sort?

I mean I feel sorry for this guy who apparently has it very difficult and I don't mean to dismiss his experience outright, but it's so at odds with anything I've observed so far that I can't but wonder. Anybody has any experiences confirming/disproving such problems exist in SF and Bay Area in general?
Just quoting it for Foxboron, never said I agree with it.
Strangely that is the only long number I could remember ( was never able to remember phone number )
- swing dancing

- country line dancing

- board games and card games

- programming projects/games (tis100 and similar)

- potluck get togethers

- playing music: guitar, bell choir
"Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." - The Catcher In The Rye
It should work in chrome - thats what I've been developing it in. Play button in the top left will make the simulations go.