skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI

Watson is not AI. It can't reason. It's a very big, very fast search engine with access to a ton of documents. It's not based on any theoretical breakthroughs, just the natural advancements in computing power. It's very useful, but something that can't reason isn't going to create the sea-change people think will come out of AI, and Watson doesn't get us any closer to that goal than we were decades ago.

I'll give an example. Google's search engine has been a hugely successful application of certain AI concepts. But it is not AI. It can use the link structure of the web to help you find documents, but it could not, for example, recreate the link structure between a set of documents.
‘Girls Gone Wild’ Files Bankruptcy
Code Typos Got You Down? Stop Worrying with close_enough
You can actually download Skitch 1.XX here: http://update.skitch.com/skitch.html I have been using it since they completely messed up Skitch with the 2.XX update. It requires absolutely no connection to evernote and works great.
Excellent (and depressing) article. I didn’t think there was much else I could learn about hospital “overbilling”; I was wrong. For example: I had assumed that very specialized hospitals such as MD Anderson placed “extraordinary” profit margins only on very specialized medications and medical services, e.g., cancer medications and oncologists’ services – not on more standard medical services and commodities. Another example: I knew that “non-profit” hospitals were non-profit in only the loosest sense. This article really re-defines non-profit hospital.
Google obviously puts high trust in this domain as it has many high trust links, typical for .gov domains. In this case this seems to have been enough for the algo to assume, that doioig.gov is the more important domain and should replace StackOverflow.
A decade ago a consideration that a computer can diagnose a patiant better than doctor was a joke. Now check out this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZsPc0h_mtM
The charging may be free, but they definitely have a cost to Tesla. I wonder by what margin the electrical cost savings will offset the investment and expenses associated with the charging stations?
What Games Are: Real-Money Gaming Is Really Boring
tldr; teach kids that they can't have it all; happiness is #1 in importance but money is a VERY close #2.

I'm a young Asian guy with very white-washed parents. Many statements below are generalizations.

Two lessons from my parents: (1) money is very important and (2) you must be excellent in your career (in that order).

Chinese, specifically, are all about wishing wealth onto one another. Although too much focus on wealth accumulation can be a bad thing, it is at least a "good problem". Many of my peers have the intelligence and ambition but villainize the concept of doing something for the money. The article itself implies that these 20somethings are the victims to their wealth-accumulating bosses (who, from the description of it, are entrepreneurs who run very high risk operations). Too many upper-middle children brought up in the early 90s have seen money's ugly side: divorce, Wall-Street, Jim Carrey's Liar Liar etc. These 90s kids are brought up by overworked parents, anti-money tenured teachers and non-profit workers. The media and the occupy movement have made it worse by victimizing these 20somethings encouraging more people to villainize wealth.

It's also important to note that the parents are out of touch with today's job market. Parents of today's 20-somethings feel like it was ONLY their hard work that got them there and consequently that their children are entitled to pursue their dreams. They forget that their generation had unions, pensions, government jobs, low interest rates and most importantly the creation of dual income. Today's 20somethings face those debts, specialized jobs, dying industries, outsourcing and lots of competition.

That being said, I think parenting for the next generation (or even re-educating 20somethings now) it's all about a balance. I don't think you have to push your daughter to be a physician necessarily. Young people just have to understand and appreciate the value of money which means teaching them about taxes, the value of health benefits, financing, leasing and investing. With that in mind, they can find a good solution or at least a compromise.

EXAMPLE USING ABOVE RANT:
Daughter wants to be a ballerina. Explain to her that the prima ballerina (#1 dancer) earns less than $140,000 per year and that her career is very short. The expected pay for a ballerina falls short of $10,000/yr. If she wants to do ballet, she can find her another career that has better earning potential and dance as a hobby.
Urinalysis by your smartphone
Watson goes to college: How world’s smartest PC will revolutionize AI
Inspect the console on SoundCloud (easter egg)
It may also be a result of greater stiffness required for the captive pop-tab opener to work properly.

There's an interesting Slate article[1] about the complexity of what appears to be a such a simple feature; in order to achieve the force necessary to rupture the can opening, the tab pivot transitions between a first and second class lever. There's a good video somewhere showing the principles, but I can't seem to find it.

Returning to the 'pressure' argument, recall that most drinks cans have a domed bottom which provides comparatively greater strength than the flatter top.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/life/design/2012/09/can_tabs_h...
I could not find him comapring solar and wind, either.

On the risk that you already considered all of these, here are some reasons I can think of:

http://www.withouthotair.com/c4/page_32.shtml gives 2W/m^2 for wind and http://www.withouthotair.com/c6/page_39.shtml gives 22W/m^2 for photovoltaic.

Yes, there are places where you can get much more energy from wind per m^2, but you can get that photovoltaic output almost everywhere.

It also is easier to start a solar business than one based on wind power. With solar, you can start small and scale up. With wind, you almost have to start with huge structures, as they have better ROI (higher = faster wind = way more energy). Building such larger structures means that you no longer operate in the B2C market. He may not like that.

Also, he may not like having to spend effort and time getting building permission for those structures.

He may also think photovoltaics will get cheaper faster than wind.

Finally, it might be just a personal preference. To me, wind has more of a blue collar feel than photovoltaics (someone will get his hands greasy operating a wind farm). That does not make me dislike it, but might have swung the choice for him.
Do the videos work? Did you follow the 'special' instructions to install the 'special' version of Flash that will work with Steam? Because I sure didn't, and so no videos in the Steam client play. Though that's probably even worse than being 32-bit specific.
I think the main reason CLI remains popular is because it has a property that it remains usable both by humans and computers.

GUIs, on the other hand, can be used well by humans but poorly by computers.

Why would you want the interface to be usable by computers? So that people can easily delegate common tasks to the computer (i.e. automate things). Once you realize you do something often, automate it and will be trivial to do it again. Once it's automated, you can build even more powerful things on top of those automations, and achieve even more with less effort.
Expert systems of this kind have existed for decades now, and what Watson does could have been done, on a smaller scale commensurate with CPU/memory power of the time, in the 1990's.
> the second model will be a sporty four door family car at roughly half the $89k price point of the Tesla Roadster and the third model will be even more affordable

Tesla cars so far have definitely been luxury cars. If they keep going downmarket into the mainstream, I wonder if they'll want to create a separate brand for their mainstream stuff, a la acura/honda, toyota/lexus, and infiniti/nissan.

If they do, the low-end brand should be "Edison".
I very strongly advise to NOT ever use a case-sensitive file system. While in this case we have an example of software the NEEDS case sensitivity, a lot of applications folks use will BREAK (or would historically) when installed on a case sensitive file system.

Examples include: Dropbox, Steam, Photoshop.
I'm sure more recent versions of these software tools can handle case sensitive file systems (one hopes), but I can say with certainty that there is plenty of other software in the wild, especially if its origins date back using FAT or NTFS on WIN32.

In an ideal world, software would be written in a way that works fine on both Case and Case-Insensitive file systems, but we live in a world were software engineering is rarely so disciplined.

point being: if you want to use any interesting desktop software that at some point may have been targeted in part at WIN32 systems in some past era, please make sure you stay with a case INsensitive file system

that was my PSA for the day/week/month
I think that was unintentional. What a I read from DanBC's comment was that it was referring to the fact you stated the court found that it was for breaking the DVD, not for playing it back.. Just because the court said that the problem was something else, and not the playback, does not make the playback legal.
Originally was going to chastise you for typing your actual passwords into a random demo version that could have been modified in whatever way. But since it's all js I guess it's a simple matter to verify it's not transmitting anything. Although I guess it could be some really devious thing where it saves the info in a cookie to be snagged later or some such. Did you check the JS code? ;)
By that logic, candy is pointless and we should get rid of it?
It is annoying that when I zoom this site only line-spacing changes and not text size.
Look at yourself - you belong to the elite of our species. You are educated enough to know how to read and write. You are fortunate enough to have a computer,and be connected to the internet. You are fortunate enough to speak one of the most widely used languages in the world. This all implies that you are at the top of our evolutionary ladder.

And yet with all this power in your hands, and with the limited time we have in our lives, you decide to go on Hacker News and comment how other people are not doing useful things? Even though for many people the process of making coke is literally the only way they can survive, and yet, they are the ones not doing anything useful?
I think you are being naively idealistic at the very best, and just a hypocrite at the worst.
>You might think it's OK in some twisted way, but it's probably worse than calling random things "gay" even though they have nothing to do with homosexuality.

I never said it was OK - I simply asked how does anyone know which definition an algorithm selected and does it matter? I thought you gave an insightful answer noting intent matters, but in this case you feel it does not because either use is offensive.

I did give the examples of how I have heard rape used in non-sexual contexts, and I am sorry if you were offended - but more importantly it is you who personally gets offensive by saying I am OK with that usage in some "twisted way". Did I ever say I was OK with it? No. In fact I go out of my way to explain that is how I have heard it used, but that is not enough you go on to say my being OK with using the word rape in a non-sexual context (which I don't) is worse than some form of homophobia where one calls things "gay".

Please do not make up behvior I do NOT engage in and then compare it to other forms of behavior I do not engage in.

Finally, you may have unknowingly brought up real insight to who you are, because even if I or others were to call something "gay" who is not to say it is being done using the traditional definition of gay meaning "happy or joyous"? Are you offended the same way when people use "gay" to describe something as "happy or joyous" having nothing to do with homosexuality, the same way you get offended when others use "rape" in a non-sexual context?
I've never understood this line of thinking. In fact, it feels a bit arbitrary, because your line of thinking can apply to literally anything -- there's no clear cut off point for "useful." By your logic, should we also hold chefs in a low regard. When has their food ever done anything other than make us fat? What about art? Pretty useless. Those people should become engineers and actually contribute something?

you personally don't find a coke to be useful. However, it is a product that brings many people happiness. That actuall seems pretty useful to me.

Further, you completely missed all of the engineering. the modern soda can, the aluminum milling processes, all the high tech tool chains, those happened as a side effect of the mass production of the product you dislike.
I think it's more likely that Linux will end up having a small performance benefit over Windows all other things being equal.
The "cooler" a field is, the more unbalanced it is from a supply/demand point of view for labor and the more you're going to have to bust your ass to get anywhere in it. People need to understand this.

It's even true within fields. You can usually find 40/hr week jobs in software that pay a good or even great wage, but they're usually doing boring stuff: business apps, IT support, financial stuff, etc. But in sexy areas like game development you're into crazy 60-80 hour work week for no pay territory again.
Curious as to why there's no mention of the secret formula, since the author is wrong about kola nut being an ingredient of the syrup: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr2001447 (from the Coca-Cola wiki page), which interestingly is a component in many purported recipes.

It's also interesting to see a picture of a glass bottle coke when the American product rarely exists in such form. I've sworn off the HFCS version after discovering the Mexican recipe with cane sugar - it tastes so much better and comes in a glass bottle. When I was in Tijuana for a Startup Weekend, that's all they served.
My HN cookie is scheduled to expire in 2038.

I'm comfortable with that level of forced inconvenience.
Just for disclosure, before doing the "startup thing", I worked for several years in the finance/investment/"vampire-squid" industry, so I've seen both side of the table (as a qualified investor). I've spent endless amounts of time in several non-tech IPOs, and public-to-private transactions. I can safely say that "I know how the investment industry works".

(i) price != value. For argument sake, lets say you go off to an pay $1 million for a 500 sqft in Portola. Is the price of the house $1 million, yes, you paid for it. Is it worth it, no. Investors are specialist at making both terms look the same.

(ii) Groupon is Groupon. Groupon is not Silicon Valley, Groupon is not Amazon, Groupon does not represent any other company/industry other than itself. Do not go the Amazon, Webvan, etc. route, because mixing stories does not make the story any more right. Groupon's fundamentals: revenue growth, customer-acquisition-cost, customer lifetime value, gross margins, working capital needs and cash flow generation were "not there". They never were. The IPO value could not be justified with even the most basic arithmetic. To justify the +$13bn valuation Groupon, well read this from 465 days ago (pre Groupon IPO comments) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3270349

(iii) How could of this be prevented? The SEC could of asked (and should ask) 1,2,3,4,5, etc independent companies (be it McKinsey, an auditor such as KPMG or any corporate finance boutique) to provide a Fairness Opinion on the valuation (the right incentives should be put in place to avoid any conflict of interest in the future from potential revenues/business arising from the company one is analysing). If there is a large discrepancy between the Fairness Opinion and IPO price the IPO should be cancelled and any share trade should only be between qualified investors (but not in the stock exchange). If I were an investor, I would strongly vote against this... but now that I'm not, I can say this is an effective way of avoiding this pump and dump schemes.
That's kind of scary. The original iPhone was a pretty awful phone by any objective measure (speaking as someone who has owned one of every model and seen them improve steadily over the years.)
Keep calm and don't buy their merchandise if you're offended. Telling the world about this company and trying to crucify them for it is the wrong way of going after them. The shit storm that followed the 2 minutes the shirt was for sale is probably the best publicity the company could have ever asked for.

I for one am glad amazon is not in the business of censoring what's for sale or not. Their company provides an online market place to sell goods, period. Blaming amazon for something that 1) offended you and 2) was a mistake is incredibly short sighted.

Ever make a mistake in your life? They did, it happened, they apologized.
That was I think one of the greatest videos I have seen in the last 5 years, despite it capturing Wire in their ill-advised Public Image Limited phase.
The difference, of course, is that Amazon takes a cut when any of these "Keep calm and rape her" t-shirts gets sold. Twitter doesn't.
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss
It was way off for me, after a minute of attempts I couldn't get it to understand árbol (spanish vocab)
This is exactly what I mean. Thanks.
Wow that's awesome. We live in a society where one person takes credit for something and in this case a Coke can is comprised of many inventions as are many things. You never hear about the guy who helped shape the process of creating the bottom of soda cans or the tab on them. I wonder who invented that piece of plastic that holds store bought bread together?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering
I only play one or two games from most of the bundles, though every bundle I've gotten has had one or two that made it worth it. And like most other Linux users I've usually paid around $10. But I haven't bought any bundle that didn't have at least a game or two that I knew I'd actually play a bit.
I'm suspiciously seeing, "2,643 people +1'd this."

While I would be excited to see such enthusiasm relating to a government property, this doesn't smell kosher.
The difference is Bobby Knight is a human, what I am getting at is people are offended by an algorithm that has no intent, and for all anyone knows could have picked the word based on another definition that others are over looking.

I just asked the question (I was not advocating or taking a position)and it is clear from the responses most people want to be the first to cast a stone at the algorithm, irrespective of the intent or definition used, that is fine, I am not here to judge.
I don't know what twitter's business model is anymore, but I assure they have a way to connect "people tweeting stuff and reading tweets" with "profit".
Google offered $6B to buy Groupon. Instead they took a private financing deal which allowed the founders and others to take some money off the table and go for an IPO.

The $6B from Google was real. The risk of proceeding was tempered by the private money. Nothing dishonest happened here. All that happened was a little overexuberance about the scalability of their business model.

While it's true that some people (including me) thought their model non-scalable back at the time, it's also true that a broken (analog) clock is right twice a day.

Everyone made their bets and they're all big boys and girls. That includes the public investors as well as the private ones.
Not sure why they would. They don't have a luxury brand identity to protect, like Mercedes or BMW, and they aren't trying to move upmarket, like Toyota or Honda. As best I can tell, the game plan has always been widespread appeal. "Luxury" was just a segment that made sense to pass through, as they tried to work costs down.
Looks like it's a cut/paste error. If you do wget www.doioig.gov, this is the page you get. Notice the meta refresh that points to stackoverflow.com.

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I've actually got an educational kit floating around somewhere that looks like that, from when my Mom worked at an office supply business. It was called "How a Ticonderoga Pencil is made kit", and has the raw parts from each step of the pencil making process. I'll see if I can dig it up and post pictures.
I think you're asking the wrong question.
Hindsight is 20/20. My first impression, upon beholding an iPhone in summer 2007, was that it had been dropped to us from the heavens by some benevolent, spacefaring race.
This post should be stickied at the top of every Heroku queueing thread. People keep acting like the "intelligent routing" system is trivial to build and has no overhead which are both patently false. It's clear that they can't go back to the old method with their newer (since 2011) architecture so the solution is for apps to fix their own performance issues.
Time Team: the rise and fall of a television phenomenon
> Coke is just addictive sugar water

It would be somewhat healthier if it actually contained sugar (as opposed to high fructose corn syrup).
First it was an interesting article, but the last paragraph made it an amazing article.
Anything looks terrible when you look back from the future a sufficient ways ahead. Holes in the ground with ice cut from frozen lakes was a pretty awful refrigerator, but it was a hell of a lot better than the alternatives available at the time.
Google's algorithm has gotten so big and so complicated over the years, that there are so many cracks and special cases that can cause sites to disappear from or be poorly ranked in search results, unless you're lucky enough to be huge in the tech scene or post here and get your comment seen by a Googler (as I have on occasion).

<plea>Any Googlers reading this, I'm looking into rebuttals of false DMCA requests being ignored by Google for months...</plea>
use this https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer/
Keeping in mind that case-senstivie HFS+ breaks Adobe CS5 & 6, [Unity3D](http://unity3d.com/) and a host of other software that has been poorly tested.
Why do you put the two dots over the 'e'? Don't you know that this is the kind of unnecessary flooflaw that breaks things?

A few years ago I downloaded a tarball of Java source code from somewhere. The author's name in a comment had a vowel with two dots over it, and that was the only non-ASCII character in the files. I could not get those files to compile at all! I was using official JDK and everything. Finally I did a mass search-and-replace to get rid of the funny character and they compiled fine.

Non-ASCII characters in filenames are just as bad as spaces. Why, back in my day, we got by with eight and three! And we didn't even have directories until DOS 2.0! Now get off my lawn.
Or what, exactly? I recently moved to NYC from Iowa and I haven't noticed much of a difference except more aggressive driving.
Some people are.
It's even more difficult if you have kids. Though in some sense they get mad less easily. But a couple of things off the top that have helped me.

1- Have some time with the whole family first thing in the morning. This is basically his four minutes in the morning rule, but the temptation is to think it doesn't matter for the kids or to let them sleep in.

2- Have dinner together as often as possible. Even if you have to go back into work (or back into your home office). Or even if you don't eat much because you have a business dinner later.