skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making assumptions based on ambiguous statements is dangerous. He does not use the words "mass deportation" he does not even say explicitly that he disagrees with Trump. Instead of agreeing he nuances his position first, noting the percentages (which I agree sound a bit far from reality) that cause him to not flat out agree.

The furthest you can take his words is that he is of the opinion that the government should do something about there being a disproportionate amount of non-American born in SV power. There are lots of ways he might think that might be corrected, some of which are not even unfair or racist. To assume the very worst is not constructive.
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This reminds me of an old russian anecdote of the cold war period.

USA dropped a nuclear bomb on the USSR. 5 million people died, panic in the media, outcry from the whole world community, etc.

Couple days later another sensation: USSR dropped a rubber bomb on the USA. 50 million people died, counting: the bomb continues to bounce!
I am using this https://www.amazon.com/Qotom-Q190G4-Celeron-Processor-Barebo... machine as a Linux router and also as a media player. It's astonishingly cheap for what it is and is not an Atom which CPUs I really dislike because of their incredibly slow single thread performance. This is not fast either but it's about on par with a i3-4020Y so don't be put off by the "Celeron" marking. It's very similar to the Shuttle @dpfu mentions in this thread except a little different in ports and appearance and 20% cheaper. The Shuttle one has two DIMM slots while this only has one.
> Joel really did knock it out of the park -- remember expertsexchange? His goal was to get rid of that and it worked.

You left out the other co-founder: codinghorror [1]!

FTFY:

Joel [and Jeff Atwood] really did knock it out of the park -- remember expertsexchange? [Their] goal was to get rid of that and it worked.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=codinghorror
Hi, native German speaker here. Quite a few things in your letter do not make any sense whatsoever, I suspect that is due to the transcription from the handwriting. I don't think dialects have much to do with it. E.g. I don't think "ankem" is dialect, I think that is just a transcription error. "a" and "e" can look very similar in handwriting.

German hasn't changed that much since the 1940s, however, there are dialects from the East (Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia) that are dead today. But as far as I know, they were not that different from today's High German.

Here is what I can guess from your original text. I'll expand the abbreviations I understand and correct the spelling. The translation is rather free, I'm trying to catch the sentiment so that the text makes sense to you.

---

Meine lieben Kinder! Sveben (?, if that's a name I have never heard it) brachte Fräulein Moldelen die Karte von Herrn Thomas mit der schönen Nachricht, dass R. doch endlich gut in Br. ankam. Was bin ich froh darüber! Und nun hoffe ich doch sehr, dass Rosi Samstag Mittag in R. ankam, sich schrubben und ausschlafen konnte. Dickes, hast Du Dir nichts geholt bei der ... (no idea here)? Mittwoch ging ich nach Tisch zur Stadt, besorgte einiges und wollte im Hansabad in der Wilhelmstraße baden. Musste aber 2 1/2 Stunden warten, dann war es aber sehr schön. Ich machte dann das Abendessen und erst um 8 Uhr ging ich rauf ins Zimmer zum Tisch decken, da find ich den Zettel von Fräulein B. mit Fräulein Moldelens Grüßen von Dir! Meinen Schrecken könnt ihr euch denken.

My dear children! Sveben brought Ms. Moldelen the postcard from Mr. Thomas with the happy news that R. has arrived well in Br. after all. Imagine my relief! And now I'm hoping very much that Rosi has arrived Saturday noon in R., and that she was able to clean herself and have a good sleep. Sweety, didn't you get anything from ...? Wednesday I went into town after the meal, made some errands and wanted to take a swim in the Hansabad at Wilhelmstraße. Had to wait for 2.5 hours, but then I had a great time. I then made dinner, and only at 8 o'clock I went upstairs in the room to set the table, that was when I found the note from Miss B. with Ms. Moldelen's greetings from you. You can imagine my shock!

---

Admittedly the last sentence does not make too much sense. Perhaps I guessed wrong from your transcription, hard to say.
It seems like you can draw garbage (e.g. faces/text/swastikas) on the picture in the moments after it correctly identifies the object and before it starts the next object, and it seems to "save" it (though I am not sure if it is persisting it in their training data).
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If you say the same thing about blacks ("there's not enough black programmers/entrepreneurs") or women ("there should be more women in Silicon Valley"), you're a champion of social justice. But if you say this about whites ("white people are underrepresented"), all of a sudden you're Hitler.

I guess the hardest thing is being aware of your own bias.
Hardly. State of the art missiles have been sold to countries that don't have nukes.
I imagine that's for use with POS terminals (ie cash registers). A lot of those still have serial-port barcode scanners or serial-port printers.
the underlying model (which I agree is very elegant) counts more than the user interface?

It does not. But git exposes this all the time, so committed git users feel that's a good thing, because understanding it makes helps them to make sense of some of the worst parts of the UX.
It wouldn't really change anything.

Just look at printers: They all speak PostScript/PCL or GDI, and haven't seen a single innovation in at least 15 years. Yet somehow, printer drivers are still the single worst piece of software you're likely going to see.
I think there is more to it than just seeding the RNG consistently.

For example: what if you have a minor change in the area of the screen that got the first primitive (and hence used the first few RNG numbers)? Then all the remaining primitives will use different RNG numbers.

I think the problem becomes more difficult: you want to find the primitives that result in the minimal change wrt the previous frame.
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A simple journal app for Windows.
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The interface for git is a bit of a mess, but the simplicity of the model (I tend to think of it as "a DAG of commits", YMMV), and the wizardry that makes that model consistent with the underlying nastiness of files and merging and whatnot, more than make up for the interface badness IMO. It almost always does exactly what I want it to do, or halts in a state I can easily move forward from, which is more than I can say for other VCSs I've used (mostly subversion) in all but the simplest use cases.

Without the right mental model, I expect git would be very difficult to use. I might not recommend it for a team I didn't think could grasp the concept of a DAG. Then again, such a team will basically be cargo culting every moderately complex technology they use, so what does it matter if their "committing_notes.txt" file contains git commands or something else?
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If you like those you might also like the star ship Enterprise idling, for 24hrs... for a more futuristic spin (haha!) on things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPoqNeR3_UA
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It can go both ways.

One reason that GSM took over the world was because the initial standard defined not just the over the air interface, but the interfaces between all the individual components in the ground network. The point being so you could mix Ericsson base stations with a Nokia controller, and in that way it increased competition between the equipment manufacturers since they had no lock-in.
Wasn't there more places at some point? or planned others at least? I think I heard/read something about Ivry.

Yes I know the neighborhood unfortunately...
The extraterritorial EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets fines of up to 4% of global annual revenue for companies not sufficiently protecting the personal data of EU citizens from May 2018 and onwards (with a cap of 20 million EUR).

The requirements for compliance are absolutely non-trivial, so I suggest that startups (and older companies) start designing compliance and privacy into their business processes and systems already today.
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I would like to mention I have used a similar service by Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/computer-...

Would be interesting to for example submit the same blurry image with text to both services and see which one has the best algorithm to extract text.
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> Doesn't that heavily depend on usage? At least I've never had a laptop which wouldn't turn into a noise generator once you start compiling, computing or heavy imaging/editing.

Exactly. For the past decade I've built desktop computers that are silent no matter the load (I don't do any GPU heavy work). I really cannot say that for my work laptops.
On the other hand, there are no fans pushing dust inside that PC(in fact, the whole inside of this thing can be sealed airtight) and the amount of dust that naturally settles on the radiators outside should be much smaller than on any active-cooled PC.
Well phrase "hard rock fan" depends on a context, in some context you might actually mean ventilator.
That's what I do, with GitLab. I chose GitLab because it allows you to use true/full https with custom domains thanks to letting you upload your own certificates.

I know you can get what looks like https with Cloudflare, custom domain and GitHub but it's not full end-to-end.

GitLab also has built in CI (rather than something external like Travis with GitHub) so you can simply push a commit and have a free 'runner' (really a Digital Ocean instance) spin up, run a build script then deploy to GitLab Pages, all for free. It's pretty amazing what you can do there to be honest.

I'm using it with Hugo but there are 'runners' for just about any SSG. I think many people have switched to using it for the ability to use Jekyll plugins unlike over at GitHub.

From the connection times I'm guessing the the servers are somewhere on the East Coast of the US (maybe they're still on Azure?) so I can hit sub second loads in Europe, the US and just about get under 1.5 secs in Australia/Asia.

It's impressive for the grand old price of 'free'!
I think it is inspired by industrial drawing/design where real perspective is not taken into account.
What they're actually objecting to of the idea of not having a human in the loop. I suspect if you pitched these smart merge algorithms from the "click to accept auto merge" angle, they wouldn't have much of a problem. Instead they seem to be pushed as a way of avoiding interaction.
"Boom" was a bad imagery perhaps given the prevalence of nuclear weapons in the common thought, but not misplaced given the generality of the discussion - in this instance, I meant an interesting event consisting at least of a sudden spike in neutron flux and heat production.

A "reactor" in this instance referred to an assemblage of nuclear material and neutron moderator to create sustainable chain reaction. Without the cooling tanks and pumps required for power generation, or the compression mechanism required for a fission bomb.

If you assemble a particular configuration of nuclear material it will go super critical

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident

What happens when the neutron flux increases depends on the circumstances.

As another commenter pointed out, even this can be lethal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
I am surprised by few things after newest rMBP teardowns

- Battery takes less space, than I thought, just eyeballing it but it seems that in (classic)rMBP battery takes more volume percent-wise.

- Battery is smaller by ~10% than non touch bar model (49.2 Wh vs 54.5 Wh) and significantly smaller than the classic rmbps.

- Two fans, classics had 1.

- Touchbar has speakers speakers under palm rest, and not under grills, thus it has slits on the bottom whereas the non-touchbar has not.

- Visually speakers are bigger in the non touch bar version

- Touchbar has ssd soldered and non-touch bar - removable ssd

- Touchbar has more gaps and unused volume - mainly in battery area.

Maybe there will be major reconstruction inside rMBP13 next year? Just like 2012 vs 2013 rMBP13? 2012 model was a mess (by Apple standards) inside.

Like the comment in iFixit, maybe rMBP13 was not designed for touchbar in the first place? It was decided later to make it?
Um, even if you subscribe to agw, shouldn't we be at least a little bit skeptical of estimates of ocean temperature before WWII? I mean that article has a chart of global temperatures going back to 1850. How the frog do they know what global average ocean temperatures were 35 years before the automobile was invented?

So I think that the guy mentioned in the article, Peter Thorne, is the main person responsible for assertions about ocean surface temperatures pre-WWII. I read one of his older papers (I'm having trouble finding it right now), where he describes how he estimates the ocean surface temperatures from way back then. You have to admire his confidence/optimism in making those estimates, but to me the paper was not completely distinguishable from an Onion[1] article. Apparently back then seafaring ships used to measure ocean temperature[2] by lowering a bucket tied to a rope over the side, pulling it back up and then sticking a thermometer in the bucket (full of ocean water). Iirc, the water in the bucket could have cooled or heated by up to something like 5 degrees by the time a temperature reading was taken. He then proceeds to estimate(/guess) the amount of cooling/heating by factoring in the average elevation of a ship's deck (as a function of date) and how long it would take an average person to pull the bucket back onto the deck. He also factors in things like the typical material a bucket would be made of (also as a function of date).

To me, he seems to give off a vibe of being really proud of his "rube-goldbergian" estimates, but personally, I'm not as confident as he (and apparently everybody else) is in those estimates. And since ships only traversed a small portion of the oceans in those days (the trade routes, generally), there is a lot of extrapolation involved. And assumptions about the correspondence of ocean temperatures and nearby land temperature readings.

Imo, the accuracy, or lack thereof, of pre-WWII ocean surface temperature estimates is not super relevant to the task of constructing predictive climate models. But it does seem to me to be perhaps an indication of an insufficiency of healthy self-skepticism in the climate science community.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion

[2] This is actually because Benjamin Franklin did it and discovered the Gulf Stream, which is pretty cool.
When I try, "１０３万円以下" on its own translates to "below 103 million yen", and when it's part of the whole passage it's "under 1,300,000 yen".

In either case it's wrong.
Broadcom's documentation sucked and will continue to suck because of their customer strategy. As a company their goal has always been to focus on high volume customers. I don't have a problem with that, except that they were also trying to cross-sell to the lower volume market but didn't have the mindset to support that market. Mind you this isn't just the Hobby market like RaspberryPi but smaller customers who were willing to pay. By smaller I mean companies who would buy 100,000 a year but not 1 Million+ a year. So it's not small change. Yet Broadcom just didn't have the support infrastructure or interest in supporting such customers while they develop products.

Just to see an scant datasheet for their old BLE chip one needed to the following.

1. Contact a Broadcom Sales rep. Ask if they are willing to sell to you.
2. Sales Rep then comes to your office with a PPT and makes a presentation clearly aimed at Management. Sales rep tries to understand your business and volume. If you pass a magic test, then you are now qualified to buy their product.
3. Sales Rep then asks who in your team will work on BLE. Takes their email addresses, phone numbers.
4. Sales Rep enables doc access. The team member gets an email and then can access datasheet for exactly that one single part. Plus that datasheet is watermarked that it's to be read by only that specific team member.

And no, this isn't 1995. Plus, if you want to change parts or explore a different part, you can't. Before Cypress bought BRCM's IoT business, if you had a problem with anything, the standard answer was - use WICED. BRCM's docs sucked so bad that they even hid information about UART and I2C. Think about it for a moment. Imagine buying a chip and you don't get programming information about UART and I2C. Instead you have to believe that WICED magically solves every problem.

Cypress buying and opening up BRCM's documentation is the best thing that's happened to documenting those parts and supporting customers who are small, medium volume.
Actually I still think Google is pretty bad at going between all Portuguese variants.

It puts them all in the same bag, resulting in very strange translations when using it as target language.

Going the other way around, I am yet to properly translate any of the variants into a way that all verbs and articles keep their sense across languages.

For example, translating você to either Du or Sie in German, depending on the Portuguese variant being used.
It reminds me of what google did to improve their search for images: https://crowdsource.google.com/imagelabeler/category

The things you draw here is new input for their model.
Probably going to get downvoted for the unpopular opinion but community curated news sites ala. Reddit/HN are way better at this than private communication channels like emails.
If this thing can dissipate 200W of heat, that I must say it's truly impressive. I cannot say I want to buy one (I'm not that sensitive about noise), but from technical point of view it seems like a little marvel.
Besides, Karl lagerfeld is a famous fashion designer (couturier) that happens to take photos, not a photographer.
Looks like "backdrop-filter: blur(<length>)" would be the way to achieve the effect shown... but it's not supported by anything yet:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/backdrop-fi...

But if you want to blur a whole element (eg, your main page content while a modal is open) instead of just the part behind another one, that would be "filter: blur(<length>)" - and works in all modern browsers except IE (even my Android Firefox displays the demos on this page correctly):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/filter#blur()_...

And IIRC there's some non-standard way to achieve the same effect in IE.
I can tell you guys one thing, the training data most certainly didn't include any pictures unsafe for work.
Thanks a lot for the resource, I'll have a close look at the whole http://www.btselem.org/ site.
Ask HN: How do we create AI that's accountable?
I suspect that the way is through Natural Language and Machine Learning algorithms.

Language shapes society, it can shape bots too.
Algorithms compute and reach a decision, they can have inference steps that make the decision ready to be questioned. (Read DNC by Deepmind)

What do you guys think?
Adult neural networks cannot understand that.
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Drones of the US Military type fly very high and are thus quite difficult to shoot down, especially if they have anti-missile missiles (I doubt any currently do as they are only used in battlefields where the enemy doesn't have good missiles).

Quadrocopters could certainly be shot down by robots, but probably not by humans once they get fast enough at flipping themselves around and making evasive maneuvers.
> corrected

Your choice of vocabulary says something about your opinions, as well.

Enlighten me. How else would he go about changing the demographic makeup of anything besides ethnic cleansing?
For my L shape, it recognized a leg immediately (which was what I was supposed to draw)
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Yup, the minimalist Picassoesque renditions I was able to do on my laptop trackpad were still recognised as long as I gave a vague impression of the major shapes I figured other people would draw. The result was the kind of image where a human would frown at it until you said “kangaroo”.
> how awful and terrible and threatening to democracy it is when Google and Facebook suddenly made it easy to be exposed to lots of alternative points of view on the same story

You are being sarcastic here but (imho) gossip, fake news, and echo chambers are really threatening democracy.

> I haven't seen much self reflection amongst journalists

The problem is that journalists are getting caught in a vicious circle. Either they present true news and have little viewers, or present gossip or echo what people want to hear and have lots of viewers.
If you look at the facts, white people are not underrepresented at C-level.

Of course, Bannon and the facts do not have a good relationship at all.
Really fun. The algorithm generates new nouns based on my drawing on the fly and add to the original pool. It stops and say 'Oh I know, it is ___', when there exist a guess that is the same as the answer. Might seem like it is really clever, or, it could have like 1000 guesses for every stroke and one of it is the correct answer.

My bathtub looks too ridiculous for it to be able to guess it with confidence.
You will be sorely disappointed if you expect those CPUs to have a 10x difference. First, you have a 2.75x clockspeed difference and then a double core count so 5.5 times is what you could expect if they were the same architecture but the 6Y75 is Skylake (don't be mislead by the "Core M" moniker, these the same architecture as their larger wattage brethen just with a lower TDP, they used to mark them with an Y postfix like i3-4220Y and the Y is still in the moniker) and the 5775C is Broadwell but it has eDRAM so the difference is negligible here http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700.... So in real world, you can expect to see a 3-5x speedup.
They might be useless for you, but some people use them. This design decision might be coherent with their main target audience.
Spoiler: They're talking about the first page of The Little Prince.
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Interesting journey. Here in Australia one particular software package (pracsoft) had ~80% of the market (a decade ago when I last programmed against it) for general practice doctors, backend is MSSQL, and it's easy enough to tap into the calendar table for a service like this.

Also agree with your conclusion that it's dangerous to build a SaaS that relies on platforms that are not open by default and which you have no control over (and especially when the platform provider or solution provider is potentially a direct competitor).

Good lessons learned and interesting read.
In what sense is Hustle 'grassroots'?
> In general, though, I've found Google Translate to fall over and produce gibberish with a single misspelling or grammatical error.

I wonder if one could couple auto-correct and translation in a way where the error rates don't multiply. I.e. only attempt corrections where the translation says it has low confidence.
I just did a test. I took picture of my monitor with this thread open. then sent it to google and microsofts OCR API.

Microsofts won and got far more things right.
here is the output of the ocr scans:
http://pastebin.com/YuRinwN2

here is the sample I submitted:
https://i.imgsafe.org/c3147b06a3.jpg
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I agree the tesla system is pretty bad, but software needs to be updatable. How many exploits do you think your 2005 land rover has?
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Is it learning from our drawings?

I just drew a bunch of dicks.