skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite understand why you're demanding this. As I see it, Watson is still pretty experimental and we're probably still learning what kind of stuff it's good or bad at. Why not build a few apps, throw it at hospitals or schools or other use cases, and see whether it actually helps anyone?

Basically, I feel like you're asking for peer-reviewed papers that show that Dropbox is a good way to share files. Nobody would write a paper about that. They would just try Dropbox.
That is simply awesome, maybe there's some good left in Google after all.
Sadly ZEVO looks to be in trouble, if not dead [1]. Even Don Brady (the lead engineer behind ZEVO) has reluctantly returned to HFS+ on 10.9 [2].

[1] http://jollyjinx.tumblr.com/post/64863395820/time-to-say-goo...

[2] https://twitter.com/DonJBrady/status/393028766554812416
Feather doesn't have the "large" video size, only standard and fullscreen. Which makes it less than ideal
It's not voodoo, please stop spreading FUD. The name -- lie detector -- is complete horseshit because it doesn't detect lies, but that doesn't detract from its effectiveness as a low-level torture device.

The physiological measurements may be inadmissible to the courts, but if you happen to confess to a crime during the (thoroughly unpleasant) interrogation then that is perfectly admissible. This key point here is why LEOs are so adamant about subjecting their prisoners to polygraph examinations.

Over 95% of Federal court cases end as a result of a plea bargain, despite the plea bargain being offered under threat of lifetime imprisonment and death.
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Ah, but why must a physical law be deterministic?

The problem here is that we're all human and thus certain things are probably unknowable. You have disdain for someone who makes something up to fill that void, but I have disdain for someone who creates axioms in order to affirm their faith in science as the arbiter of truth. I am agnostic in the viewpoint that philosophy has a lot more to say on the subject than the either the worshiper of religious gods or the worshiper of science.
Has per capita BitTorrent use declined, or just its relative share as streaming services have grown?
"It's a Unix system! I know this."
What's really sad about this is that all of these federal agencies, the journalists reporting on them, and the public at large, continue to take it as a given that the polygraph is a useful and reliable tool that does what it says on the tin. Yet there remains precious little credible science to support that.

It's downright absurd that people are having their info passed around these agencies, and being treated as inherently suspect, simply for investigating methods of 'fooling' what is ultimately a glorified stage prop.
There was some crazy man/scammer building a manned flying thing with six snowmobile engines powering six rotors. I remember this because I was working for Ray Ozzie at the time and he was telling people in the office about it because he had invested in it.
FWIW I don't think that G+ is a bad system, or even beyond succeeding. I just think the majority of content posted is mindless.
Poked around the word cloud, but the output of the clustering doesn't seem to many any sense to me.

"boat" is by "scarecrow", "adopted", and "feelings"

"window" is by "insulted", "prize" and "arson"

Rotating around the word-in-question didn't pop up any more similar words.

t-SNE is known for producing immediately interpretable clusterings, but this seems a bit obscure.
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Elance.com freelancer.com and odesk.com are currently the top three freelancing websites. I have personally used elance and freelancer and have had decent success finding freelancers there.
Not to mention turbulence, which can pick you up, bang your stupid head on the luggage bin so that it cracks and then throw you back in a seat. This seat might not even be yours and you injure other people with your stupidity. See

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/05/travel/sg-airlines-turbule...

or

http://avherald.com/h?article=45946d01
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The newer models had display drivers.
You could write write small graphical programs for them,
like an animated version of the Towers of Hanoi:
http://www.kernelthread.com/projects/hanoi/html/macprom-gfx....
I remember running that that on my iBook.
Oddly, I tend to use Bing video search to browse youtube and watch videos now. The experience is better.
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Discussion is sometimes helpful, I've found. It can add depth to the presentation. The uploader or the content creator can answer questions. I think comments can be extremely useful. It's a shame that Google is trying to force the G+ identity merger on Youtube users right now; every few times I use youtube, I have to answer a nagging pop-up with "Ask me later" (no way to disable the feature).

Because I have a young child who is now getting into watching animal shows and children's cartoons on Youtube, I've had to enable the safety feature, which hides all comments behind a link. It's a pain, but it's the only way to avoid her seeing some appalling crap at the bottom of a perfectly innocent video. I'm sure she'll see it all when she's a teen, but I'd prefer her not to see it at age 8.

That's the price of social media, I suppose; you have to take the good with the bad.
What's there to stop people from creating a Google+ account with a fake name?
Why don't more maker spaces and co-working spaces combine like this? It seems like a natural meshing of cultures. In DC we have co-working spaces, and a maker space (coming soon) but they are roughly 30 minutes apart.
I picture it now. Terrorists boarding flight after flight with their mobiles on thinking, this time it will work.
Title is just incorrect: She isn't leaving. She is only "maybe" turning off comments and moving discussion to Reddit.
Note that the treaties themselves are not secret (as strongly implied by the EFF), but the negotiation process is. The EFF has always been a fundamentalist organization, but shame on them for resorting to such blatant misinformation to make their case.

These secret negotiations very much resemble the frank, closed door negotiations between, say, members of Congress and the White House, where deals wouldn't be made if they had to be made in public. Politicians can't be seen giving concessions to the other side, nor do they want sound bites used against them in the next election.

It also appears that these negotiations are extremely slow, which is likely why only the executive branch is involved. It's hard to negotiate when there are 100 factious parties involved instead of just the President. I suppose that's the entire reason we have an executive branch.
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That's silly and untrue.

EDIT: Mmh. Humor on the internet?!
Except that really serious people have given arguments and proofs for the existence of God. Try attacking Godel's ontological argument without contradicting yourself. (This would require a year or more of study of formal logic culminating in quantified modal logic. Sadly, formal logic is something most scientists don't learn.)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/scientists-use-c...

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/248548/godels-ontolo...
I'm just saying that all loans (given to the public) have a tendency to become unsunstainable.
Before this becomes another Google bashing session, I'd like to point out that this is one person's opinion, a respectable opinion from an intelligent person but still it's very subjective and a mainly a reactive judgment (see the post's date).

I am subscribed to a number of channels, mainly edu/pop science stuff. I took note to scroll through the comment sections during the change and from what I saw the quality generally improved. I was also pleasantly surprised to see better discourse under some of the more popular entertainment videos although in the first couple of days there was the occasional protest comment. It’s the gaming videos that attract the largest amount of trolling and ASCII art comments.

Ironically those protesting the comments are the ones producing the spam, seemingly just to prove a point. The main complaints: lack of character limit, users can reply to their own comments, and the order of the comments.
This isn't unfixable, they'll have to study the new comment corpus and tweak accordingly, there is no one size solution to trolls/spam, just data. And I hope Vi takes that into consideration. The new comment system might need a short while to mature, the fact that it wasn't perfect out of the gate doesn't mean it's a bad concept.

I remember similar amount of displeasure on display when YouTube changed the rating system from 5 stars to thumbs up/down, and there was always the smaller retaliations following each redesign (youtubers hated the new unified channel design at first and produced the mandatory protest videos) there is also residual anger because YouTube nixed video responses late last month due to low usage.

It’s mainly aversion to change, this time the change is bigger and is noticeable not just to those that make the videos.
I miss it too, but maybe it could be added with a userscript?
Last time I had an EMG involved 45 minutes of a doctor poking needles into me to measure current. Moderately uncomfortable, and does not seem feasible to do on oneself. I assume this one just involves an electrode on the skin? Is that even going to do anything?
It's true, I've noticed this too.

I trained word2vec on wikipedia and trained a bunch of different models w/ TSNE for between 800 and 1500 iterations. In 2d, the results actually appear fine (similar to your graphics + others that have been demonstrated). Unfortunately, at least for me, this doesn't seem to be translating to 3d.

It's either a mix of the quality of the vectors (maybe I need to try some other word vectors) and/or T-SNE needs to be optimized a bit better (and/or there's a bug). It's not quite where I want it to be yet, so consider this a "cool tech demo we're still working on" kind of thing.
It most certainly is not an accurate reading of physics. What is simultaneous in relation to deep space objects is just a function of their distance from us. Any movement we make is completely negligible, because at those scales the Earth and the far away object are for all purposes point particles.
> File-sharing through sites such as BitTorrent

Yeah, I don't think the know what BitTorrent is...

> Streaming video tends to take up less bandwidth, since people only download as much as they watch rather than downloading the whole thing only to stop in the middle.

How large is the percentage of people stopping in the middle?
Also: How do the video bitrates from netflix/hulu compare to the pirated content?
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Somebody has created a bot to put script lyrics in the spreadsheet ._.
Someone had to try it. That's how the world works, someone thinks it up, it's stupid, they make no money, people don't do it again. Honestly I am shocked it took so long.
Still not sure about that. If you have to pay tax for it it's just another currency. A currency with cool features! But I'm not sure if this is the end. I think something better will come after bitcoin.
Javascript. jQuery is a good onboarding spot, or jQueryUI. After that, teach him how to modify jQuery itself, thus learning Javascript.
Good maths proofs proceed step by step, with intermediate goals written in clear English (or French, for me). And to go from step to step, you don't need explicitly long names, just like you don't name your index loops "index_over_collection" but just i. Because your function will only be a few lines long.

I actually really like mathematical notation. Once you get used to it, the terseness can make things a lot clearer than natural language.

(If you've ever tried to read old mathematical articles / books that are a few centuries old, you'll understand the power of mathematical notation. Check out "God Created The Integers" or "On the Shoulders Of Giants" by Stephen Hawking if you're curious: these are two books that provide excerpts of highly influential works from earlier mathematicians and physicists, respectively)
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oh thank god someone said it - YouTube is effectively unusable, it stinks. It's like visiting the X factor shopping mall, with bikinis. (Possibly I have a YouTube bubble I should not admit to but I am assuming that's the default)

I just cannot imagine staying on the front page for any more than 3 seconds.
Interestingly, instagram has taken on a new life for preteens who can't convince their parents to allow a chat app. The kids are using the posting function as a pseudo-chat feature.
More or less like Adobe cloud?
Sure, they may be absurd, but the safety record of commercial air transport is absurd as well. (If you don't want or appreciate that safety level, light, ultralight or experimental aircraft are good options that allow for different risk tradeoffs).
How is something dead when you just compare percentages?

I guess 60% 10 years ago was in absolute numbers tiny compared to 10% of today.
I would've voted this up, but I'll let someone else do it
If you're wondering, this makes use of the fact that Javascript treats HTML comments as just another node, giving you the ability to manipulate it. This gives you the ability to hide/show certain content on various breakpoints and other possibilities. Cool!
I would propose that common sense rather than a deep understanding of quantum mechanics is sufficient to answer this question.

If we can agree that if a two systems are in the exact same state then they will continue to be in the same state in future, then we can say deduce that the universe is deterministic.

If a player hits a snooker ball exactly the same way two times, and all other balls are in the same position, the temperature is the same, humidity is the same, rotation of the earth is the same, rotation of electrons and unknown state of quarks are the same -- everything is the same -- then the result will be the same. To have a different outcome from the same inputs in a closed system is not possible.

The same goes for human thought. If your brain is in the same state twice, all neuro chemicals are in the same state and all external forces are the same, and you are posed with a problem twice, you will make the same decision twice. There is no other possible outcome, for if there were another outcome it would be due to a differing influence. Thus your decisions are effectually predetermined.

This the universe in its current state can only move forward in one way -- effectually predetermined.

If anyone can come up with a case that two closed systems that are in the same state can diverge, I'd love to hear it.
I make that drive at least six times a year. Still stinks to high heaven. It's about the only thing that makes my kids look up from their iPads. With the stockyards closed, perhaps it's a longterm residual smell, or processing plants that are still around?

On a side note, I wonder how many head of cattle were slaughtered there over time.
It looks like this is a lease, but instead of using an expensive repo. man to haul away the car when you can't pay your bill, the car stops charging instead. When your account becomes current, the battery unlocks. Progress marches on! The Boing Boing and EFF "articles" here are only so much outrage porn.

Note that you really do not want to buy an electric car at this point; leasing is really the only option. Technology is changing so fast that if you should buy an EV you risk holding the bag should it become radically obsolete in the next three to five years. There's also a chance the battery will degrade faster than anticipated.
The best answer we have to date is "Nobody knows," to which I would add, "nor do we know how to find out." I see no shame in that answer. I'm surprised nobody suggested that answer so far, unless I missed it.

Well, it's stack exchange. You can't answer in a way that implies you don't know. They force answerers to act like everything is known, and that they personally know everything. Example: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/65768/how-can-i-d...
Have a <video>? No flash here.

edit:
found one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wq9wfh8VBU
looks cool!
Holy crap. That's terrifying - where were you when it blew out? How did the staff (pilots and stewards/stewardesses) behave - I've always wondered how well anyone, no matter how much they were trained, would cope in a real [potential] emergency on an aircraft?
"looks good enough" for your MVP is not bothering with a logo and just getting the damn thing out there in front of people. Seriously, at this stage the logo is wholly unimportant - smashing down every barrier to feedback is critical.

Just move forward without a logo and stop wasting time.
This is blogspam.

Original content: http://vihart.com/google-youtube-integration-kind-of-like-tw...
And ironically lacking free will they are incapable of believing anything else . . .

For me, I consider snarky smugness to be evidence of free will.
And how right you were to stick with COBOL; even the Ruby community are re-inventing it now: http://cukes.info/
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Not sure what the big advantage of using Dropbox is when you are working with lots of confidential data or stuff that is competitive in nature. Better to host on-premises using FileCloud, OwnCloud etc. I wouldn't want to run a mission critical business relying on Dropbox.
I wonder if they open this for applications that help software developers and engineers or leave it closed because of their main consulting business?

But anyways, it could be really useful in consumer healthcare, especially considering the low usage of consumer healthcare among older people[1].

[1]Only 30% of 50+ people and 13% of 65+ people, use internet to help in medical diagnosis
So you have gas money but not battery money? Huh?
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I'm intrigued: what's the other side of the "Take Action" link? Not curious enough to try to trigger the suspension, though.

Back to the topic at hand: writing "appears to impersonate" wouldn't have been so much extra effort, would it?
> Renault wants to 'sell' a product to a consumer that he will never truly own.

So exactly like when you purchase an ebook from Amazon, a game from Steam, or dozens other services where you think you own something but in reality you don't. I'm not saying it's good, but why do people get angry when it's more "real"? And at the same time are OK with it when it's something virtual?
They talk 'developer'. That's not screwing around of facebook.
Flash? I thought most people have moved on from Flash.
Last time I used it (2011) the JavaScript was generated on the server side by a servlet. Has it changed?
Created an account to test it out. Looks good. But I wasn't able to find Reactive Programming[0] class but I assume new classes are still being loaded and added.

A suggested feature, and one I've considered doing myself, is to have a sort of timeline of classes. So that if I sign up for a class from November to January, and one from December to February, it would show that they overlap during December and January. One of the biggest problems I have is biting off more then I can chew, and what I like to do is visualize each class as a per week load and stack them on top of each other. That way I can find bottle necks where several classes might overlap in the final and beginning weeks leaving me with an expected work load of 30+ hours.

All and all it looks great.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/course/reactive
I didn't know about that, can't thank you enough!
If you think NK lacks the capabilities to affect the US, you're misguided. Or you don't care about US troops stationed in South Korea, Okinawa, etc. Same with Iran. It doesn't take much to cause trouble. Ask the dead Marines killed by Iranian backed terror groups in Lebanon in the 1980's.
Saying there's a lot of hype around something is very interesting to me.

The hype cycle has well-known biases. Knowing when a product is peaking is helpful to me, in that I can basically ignore 95% of the noise about it.

This post is a fine example. He could have written exactly the same post about C, because he's basically saying "compiled binaries are easier to distribute". He's been blogging about Go for an entire two weeks. The only potentially new information here is "Go produces a binary."

That's not to say he shouldn't have written the post. He learned something and he shared it, which is great. It's just that nobody would be talking about the C version of the post, because that's not the hyped technology.
Google's revenue is structured like this: search, peering agreements and whatnot, and way, way down the ledger: "other". Most of the products that google makes are just toys. The pressure is off because nobody at google expects anything in the "other" category to earn company-affecting levels of revenue. As a consequence google has spent years and years being in huge businesses that it barely understands and barely cares about. Youtube being a prime example of that.

Youtube has lots of problems, but it has lots of amazingly wonderful aspects as well. It is rapidly becoming a very important part of the way people communicate in the 21st century. Yet google is so ham fisted in their handling of youtube they have no idea what to do with it other than use it as a lever to compete against facebook. Google should be coddling the creators on youtube, these are people who have acquired very enthusiastic and very large fanbases through the medium of youtube. Some folks make their living entirely off of youtube. Others use youtube as a critical part of their brand and their business. Many musicians have kickstarted their careers through youtube, for example.

Google should be understanding the way these people use youtube, and improving the tools they have available to make their lives easier. To help them connect even better with their audiences and fan bases. Instead google treats content creators little better than any other average user of youtube.

Google didn't switch the youtube comment system to g+ for any benevolent reasons, those were just excuses and justifications for them to try to roll out the g+ empire far enough for it to actually get traction.

Meanwhile they are pissing off the people who add the greatest value to youtube. The trolls and spammers don't give a shit. Even in the worst case scenario for them where they are completely and utterly silenced it's not a big deal, they'll just find some other outlet. Meanwhile everyone else pays the price.

The saddest part is that google doesn't even realize the value of what they have, and because they are so inept at monetizing anything other than slapping ads on it they may never realize until they've destroyed it or driven everyone elsewhere.
That is some distracting ad placement, particularly given the content of the blog post. I spent a good couple of minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with the copy on the "Heart Internet" ad before I realized that it had nothing to do with the blog post.
I was expecting a complaint about a difficult-to-debug DBUS message.