skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just as I wouldn't rewrite Hamlet as a girl for my daughter

Are you aware that Hamlet is a rewriting of an earlier play for a political purpose?
"poulet et riz" meant nothing to me until I read your post in chinese... [touche! =P]

雞肉和米飯 is a really odd way of saying chicken and rice... if you google the phrase, the search results don't come up as good as the way native speakers would expect:

google 雞肉和米飯:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E9%9B%9E%E8%82%89%E5%92%8C%...

google 雞肉飯 (the more normal way in chinese "chicken meat, rice"):
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E9%9B%9E%E8%82%89%E9%A3%AF&...

google "poulet et riz"
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&rlz=1C1CHF...

Hmm... they are all chicken, but still pretty different from each other, especially if talking to a foodie!

Maybe give M$ another 15 years, but for now, the best way to learn a language is to do it through the social method.
There is substantial and consistent reporting that Tuesday night's results were a surprise/shock to many Republican candidates and the associated outside groups. We know that they did a lot of number crunching themselves, so the implication is that the quality of Obama's data operation was superior--in that their predictions more closely resembled the actual results.
Well, Hitler was inspired by the american concentration camps for native americans to build his own concentration camps for Jews:

“Hitler’s concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild west; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination – by starvation and uneven combat – of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.” (“Adolph Hitler” by John Toland, p 202)

Plus, there were two to three times more native americans that were killed by European invaders in the US region, than Jews that died in the holocaust.

So, the US already has HAD a holocaust problem in the past.

(One would call dropping two bombs to 250,000 civilians and evaporating them, a holocaust itself, by the very definition of the term)
I really wonder how competitive Google Ventures is when it comes to valuation. Seed round they put in $250k, though how much do they expect equity wise? Anyone know what those deals look like?
>I took blood pressure medication for awhile and, with my doctor's help, eventually got off of it.

Can you share how exactly you got off the blood pressure medication? I know it is possible with appropriate diet and lifestyle changes - but would love to hear how you did it. Specifically, how high was your blood pressure and what changes made the most difference. I have been on daily medication for over 5 years now, and would love to try a natural drug-free approach to bringing it back to normal.
Fun thing to do: you can turn on transcribe audio on Youtube and directly compare how Google's speech recognition tech stacks up against Microsoft's.
Eat breakfast.
The way the explosion works isn't exactly a single, expanding nucleus of hot material. It's pretty complicated, but what's going on at this point is that the bomb is giving off x-ray radiation, which is absorbed the air, heating it up. As a consequence of air absorbing the radiation, air further from the bomb is shielded from the radiation. The sphere that you see is, approximately, the air close enough (un-blocked enough) to absorb enough heat to glow in the visible spectrum.

The upshot of this is that the entire sphere that you see comes into existence in a roughly simultaneous fashion, not in an expanding fashion. If you watch slow-motion videos, you will see that sphere stay at the same size and transition from dark to light, rather than start light and transitioning from small to large.

The explosion itself comes later, as that air (which is around 9000F) obeys basic gas laws, and tries to expand.
It's interesting, considering they will provide round-trip flights and list the London to NY flight(s) as a separate item, which would make me think the data is there.
see below for some translation links, but google translate is pretty bad compared to bing translator in Chinese.
I think what he was trying to say is that this is affirmative action for gentiles. In other words, Russia made it easier for non-Jews by virtue of giving them easier entrance exams.

I still think "affirmative action" is a clumsy and not entirely correct way of describing what he's trying to articulate. But he's not trying to be as provocative as he comes across. At least I don't think (?) he is?
Following a little of what nathannecro said, I think that the real consequence of this technology is that it makes language more useful, more important as a conceptual tool than ever before. Studying language in within an environmental model is an amazing tool for understanding how languages were formed, but if the previous barriers for communication are shattered then it seems to me language itself won't be at such a loss, rather the linguists of the future will have to expand their models to see what happened once everyone got sms/twitter/skype with PerfectTranslator or whatever it becomes. Language allows you to do more than just communicate with others, it allows you to conceptualize. Cue obvious comparisons to programming, where the product is often bound to the process of its creation. We identify the paradigms and then work them to our advantage. If we continue to promote language learning and develop newer, better systems for facilitating that task I think it would be greatly beneficial, basically as long as we humans still exist and aren't delegating everything beyond our beating hearts to a digital circuit.
I don't think there will be much of an impact on the interpreter industry until the machine translations are significantly better than human translations.

Human translators are so expensive today that they are only used in situations where the translation has to be correct -- diplomacy, courtrooms, books, etc. Until a machine is much better than a human, these use cases won't switch to machine translation (similarly, self-driving cars won't be allowed until they are proven to be much safer than human drivers).

On the other hand, there's a large casual market for machine translations today for situations like reading foreign Web sites, chatting with people in different countries, reading Tweets in a different language, etc.
I love my naga, but dear god almighty I experienced the same thing when I plugged it in. Frankly anyone who thinks it is a good idea is fucking idiot.
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congrats Jonathan!
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Adioso was adding a lot of budget airlines up until recently. It's worth checking out.
That doesn't stop most parents from doing Santa Claus and the tooth fairy though.
Bugs and "known issues" become personal flaws. How well the user accomplishes his or her goals become a personal reflection of the creators.

It's a dangerous idea for performers to hang their ego on a performance. Just because you played a crap guitar solo one night does not mean you're a bad person. It's all part of a process - you can learn from what didn't work and try something different tomorrow night. The more time you're in the process, the better your performance gets.

A great performance is about making the audience feel something. Sometimes you can feel like it was your worst solo every, but the audience loved it because you really took a chance and went for something and they were with you for the adventure. It's not as entertaining to watch you play it safe even if it's technically more refined.

To stick with the guitar example, compare Kurt Cobain's guitar solos to those of Django Reinhardt - both made for a great performance, but they are on different planets in terms of complexity and sophistication. My significant other and I have been playing Draw Something and I find it ugly and ad-ridden, yet I love playing the game because we have fun and enjoy the challenge.

He will never accept anything less than perfection because it would be a personal reflection of himself; he loves what he does and it shows through his work.

The best artists I've learned from didn't reach high levels because of ego or a desire to appear perfect. They were able to put unfathomable amounts of energy into honing their craft because they were that passionate about it. The love of the process is what enables the quality of the finished product. Jony Ive strikes me as this kind of artist. His obsession with the process is clear - his love of materials, creativity in inventing new methods of machining...everything right up until when you're holding the device in your hand as the user feeling something.
$300 million a year isn't much for a company worth so much, and where in a space that costs to develop are relatively low; Costs are with expansion and breaking into competitive markets, and also physical technology they've also been investing in.
No you don't, I still don't know who he is and I read it as a joke.
I guess you are asking the wrong question here. Instead asking how much you should ask who will mentor me? It is more important to find a person who is ready to devote his/her time to mentor new programmers. I wish I would be as lucky as Brian. I am also looking for someone to mentor me. At times hundreds of choices confuses the new learner and all of a sudden the interest to learn fades. This is the best part of this article and so so very True - "There are dozens or sometimes hundreds of ways to accomplish the same task in computer programming; this multitude of choices can be paralyzing for beginners."
Speed does not obstruct good code
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And still exists today, to a very large extent.
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hm. In that case, modify my feedback to say 'make the hints more obvious' - I didn't see them even when I looked for some. Where are they?
Once I've reeled it back in, how am I going to manage 100' of wire? Remember... I'm wearing bulky gloves, and I'm doing everything by feel.
>Revenue also increased from the previous year, coming in at $35 billion. However, analysts expected much more for the quarter, estimating EPS of $10.35, and revenue of $37.2 billion.

So,let me get this straight:

1) Apple consistently gains more revenue and profit, and even beating it's own estimations.

2) The only ones who get it wrong are BS "analysts", with their over the top estimations.

As a crude example:

Apple earned say 10B in 2011,
prdicts it will earn 15B in 2012
and ends up earning 17B.

Now, just because some idiot analysts expected earnings of 25B, Apple is somehow "failing"?

All the while, with Google and Facebook that make money with far less diversification, far less revenue, and far less profit than Apple being overvalued as hell?

Right...
Great idea - is it open for anyone in the world, or is it geographically restricted?
Obama won the popular vote, so what are you talking about?
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We're open to anyone, anywhere in the world. :)
First of all, all respect to Peter Thiel. Everyone I know who has worked with him has had nothing but good things to say about him.

Having said that, it is worth noting that for all his dedication to the idea of inventing disruptive technologies that has not been his own path to success. Paypal is a pretty boring financial transaction processor, he ran a hedge fund for a while (yawn!), his investment in Facebook paid off big. Where is the disruption there? Facebook is great, but it wasn't even the first social network. A quick glance at the companies in which he personally has invested reveals lots of good investments - in fairly typical incrementalist companies!

I know FF has invested in SpaceX which has a legitimate claim to being the kind of company he wants to see more of, but that isn't how he made his money in the first place.

My problem with the substance of the article is that it takes for granted that we can always invent wholly new things in every possible category or industry. Let's take transport as an example. Did people stop innovating in transportation because it wasn't profitable, because they were afraid? Nonsense.

First of all, they didn't stop innovating. There weren't 350 kph trains in 1940 and any car made more than 30 years ago is a comically underpowered death-trap compared to an entry level car today.

Second, there are physical laws that simply constrain the phase space of possible solutions. Every new discovery can change those boundaries somewhat and every now and then someone will bring new ideas together to simply invent a brand new transport modality. However, fundamentally the densities and coefficients of friction of solid surfaces, air, and water drive the kinds of transport we can can come up with.
When linking to arXiv, please link to the abstract, not directly to the PDF.
I think this 'critique' is actually not well stated. confusing for example innovation (0,1) with scaled deployment (1 to N). Also, self driving cars are not impressive: go to LA. LA has been a disaster since the 1930s. Part of the problem is that what has been done to LA cannot ever be reversed, from the perspective of environmental damage, sociology, or sheer economics. The world has made choices with a certain element of path-dependency: yesterdays technology holding back future progress. Its not about the Jestson's per-se; its about being stuck with boat-anchor technology from the point of the development of actual human interaction. Do you really want to be stuck in a self-driving car in the 405 at rush hour? Or would you rather be walking to work, or taking a skateboard across a perfectly smooth elevated sidewalk on a clear night in Santa Monica (made up example, but feasible and likely more pleasant). Making faster, more powerful cars and bigger freeways did not eliminate traffic. Just the opposite. Self driving cars will have to overcome the social problem, but for this you likely need actual or orthogonal innovation. Not just more of the same, easier, less work, etc.
They are only matters of public record if the total donation amount exceeds a limit, I think $200.
FYI - you can access most of ITA's routing language on Hipmunk, if you type :: after an airport code. The advantage of using us is we can make you a booking link to actually purchase the itinerary.
This is because space programs are a great tool of presidential politics, which operates on 4-year cycles that are completely useless for long-term space policy.

Perhaps a solution is to have NASA administered by a board that's appointed for life similar to the Supreme Court -- its total budget will still be subject to the vagaries of political squabbling but at least its ability to allocate budget to programs will be unencumbered.
No, that's just wrong. Most "public polls" (rather: the median pollster -- obviously there were outliers in both directions) supported an Obama victory and a demographic and partisan makeup of the electorate that matched closely what was observed in the election. To claim otherwise is just silly, and perpetuating the "unskewing" nonsense that was proven incorrect.

If you're saying that the Romney campaign had "reasonable" justifications for disbelieving the data they saw, then I agree. If you're claiming that they actually had data the supported that position, then you're wrong.
What tech excludes IE10? Or is it just untested?
Old data reveals Super-Earth lurking in a nearby star’s habitable zone
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Nice! It works great and seems fun! Congrats :)
Hipmunk does have EasyJet, in fact.

For example: http://www.hipmunk.com/flights/BCN-to-CDG#!dates=Dec31
Just untested. It may work in IE9 and IE10.
If you read something and find it compelling, submit it as a new story rather than tacking it on to an unrelated comment thread.
Can't make it since I'm 9.8k km away, but still I take the occasion to thank you for sharing so much relevant stuff on your svbtle blog !

Enjoy SF
Poor Dustin - he has such a hard life. Don't let the bastards get you down...

... about your taste in cutlery.
Yes, I call cannibalistic tribes murderers (provided any still exist, hopefully not). But my point is to not rush to make simplistic categories. My attitude on these and related issues is that it is enough work, more than enough work, for me to figure out how to live my own life ethically, without spending energies casting judgements upon others. Personally, I would never hunt dolphins or whales - I don't like hunting anyway and would not do that, heck, I take insects outside when I find them inside rather than stepping on them, lol - more seriously, yes, I find this research very compelling and for these reasons the concept of harming sentient beings is very troubling to me, and would not want to hunt a dolphin or a whale any more than, say, a visitor from another planet. That said, these are still complex issues which science can inform upon, but we need also to understand that in nature, in biology, one's own species is the priority, and so the "better angels of our nature" may and hopefully do go towards wanting humane treatment for more sentient creatures, but also let's not get on a bully pulpit on sensitive and complex matters. Again, I have found it is hard enough to try and be an ethical person for oneself, without trying to be judge and jury over others. That is my only point with the Eskimo tribe reference. :-)
> To a project manager, the programmer who hits every deadline (regardless of quality) is a good programmer.

> To a customer, the programmer who solves their problem quickest is a good programmer.

Up until the codebase is such unbelievably appalling shit that you can no longer add new features, solve problems or reliably hit deadlines. I have worked on too many of these projects to be able to easily count them.

Typically, I'll be the one fixing up something after the previous developer has run away or has been sacked. There's often a culture shock when the manager/customer/project manager who is used to calling the shots suddenly finds that their latest idea needs to take a back seat while deeper (often 'invisible') problems get fixed.

Perhaps another take is that a "good programmer" is one who is still around and still adding features after a couple of years.
Christopher Downer about designing Clear
Reminds me of Paul Bakaus' Aves Gaming Engine (also canvas based and isometric view).

He was very active documenting his research on it's performance: http://paulbakaus.com/2010/07/19/why-canvas-is-not-an-obviou...
Nothing fancy, but freshly built:

http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-509c4a7ebd7ef3.90681957.jp...

That's 'efm' on the left and 'terminology' on the right...

I'm not normally a fan of the dark themes, but I figured I'd stick with the default for a bit to see how it felt. It's pretty nice.
Details are scant, but I don't think they're talking of a station at L2. Looks more like a plan to stick an Orion there for a little while. It links to http://www.space.com/14518-nasa-moon-deep-space-station-astr... which mentions an Orion mission to EML2.

The SLS might theoretically be able to put station components at EML2; an ISS or MIR major module is about 20,000kg, almost exactly the same as a full Orion stack.

The cost of supplying such a thing, however, would be horrendous if it is even possible. The payload of a given launcher to geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) is usually about a third of that to low Earth orbit (LEO). Surprisingly, EML2 is actually easier to get to than GEO, but not by a lot. Anyway, you need a lot more rocket to get a given mass there than the ISS.

Looks to me that the Dragon wet mass is greater than or about the same as the Falcon 9 payload to GEO. So, no cargo, if it's even possible. Soyuz is probably in the same category, or worse. So all existing supply systems would be able to deliver almost nothing to an EML2 station, if they could get there at all. The (still largely theoretical) Orion + SLS would be your only (and very expensive) vehicle.

Of course, a Dragon on a (less theoretical, but still unflown) Falcon 9 Heavy would have about the same cargo to GEO as the regular Falcon 9 to LEO, so it would be an option; it would cost 2-3 times as much for launcher than to the ISS. Getting the Dragon back to Earth would require extra fuel, however, which would cut into its cargo capacity, but if you just leave it there you could increase capacity by leaving off all the re-entry stuff. But if you can get a Dragon there, what's the point of the Orion? So probably Dragon wouldn't be allowed. "Not rated for deep space" or something.

Anyway, you're still going to be sending Orions there regularly, on $1B SLS boosters. And there's basically nothing to do there that can't be done at the ISS other than pretend to go somewhere else beyond LEO--so you might as well stay in the Orion. Thus, no space station, and no need for one.
> Donkey Kong Country 3 (Diddy Kong is the main character)

You meant Dixie.
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Designing a product is much different than executing a musical performance because playing guitar on stage contains elements out of your total control like a broken guitar string, amp malfunction etc. Sometimes they miss a note, that's not a mental lapse, it can be a physical disconnect between what their mind is trying to accomplish and what their finger actually does.

A designer has total control over a product before it is released. This article is about the mental pursuit of perfection.
Which was sold to Zynga in 2010 btw: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/24/zynga-continues-internation...
Don't worry about it. Hard advice I know, but google is just as desperate as everyone else for quality candidates. Get some sleep, drink some coffee before your interview, and just talk through the problems as you get to them. If this is your first interview it's likely a phone interview. They usually last about an hour, and they just want to make sure you can think through a problem.

Also, regardless of whether it works or not, don't let it affect you. I know some really brilliant people who couldn't get into google, but are masterful coders.