skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR

A Chicago startup called Narrative Science makes scripts that turn raw data feeds such as seismological data or website analytics into accessible natural language reports. Some news outlets are already using them to get out earthquake and Little Leagues baseball reports quickly and cheaply.

The founder, Kristian Hammond, has big ideas. "Pulitzer Prize by 2017." "90% of news written by bots in 2030."

This TL;DR was written by a human. Just saying.
Taking this one step further: Why aren't "factual" news sites a thing, where news are computer readable (think JSON), and you can filter for the information you want?

Not all news can be made computer readable easily, but there are several classes of news that can be that way, or at least have rich, computer readable meta data (sports results, releases of software, new music albums, movies, upcoming events, announcement of road maintenance, ...).

Update: Is anybody interested in working on such a system with me? If yes, drop me an email (moritz@faui2k3.org)!
It's from private research, but there seems to be some public on the same subject and my numbers (roughly) agree with it:
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Pawn+Advantage,+Win+...

ELO, Material Difference and Winning percentage are directly correlated.

You can't quantify it like that

Of course you can. A material advantage increases the average winning probability, and does so in a way that corresponds reasonably close to the ELO formulas. No more and no less.

Strong chess player is going to win with bishop odds vs any entity on the other side: 2500GM, elite GM or Houdini on 32 cores. It's just a win starting from certain level and "150ELO" doesn't convey it.

You have no argument to support this, and there's evidence to the contrary. (See the above study). "Strong chess player" is totally meaningless, ELO is a relative scale. A 2500 player loses just as hard against a 2850 one as a 1600 does to an 1950. That's the definition of ELO.

I'm sorry but you're just not going to beat Magnus Carlsen in a long match even if he gives you bishop odds. That's exactly what him being 2880 ELO means. You would beat Karpov (!) though.
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I was about to post exactly this. +1
Don't Quit Drinking.
After reading this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485673), I have some thoughts.

I'm all for taking control of your own destiny but the language often used to describe overcoming bad habits and addictions denotes an attitude of detachment from the core of the problem: yourself.

Alcohol does not make you into a problem. You make yourself into a problem. It's like being stuck in traffic; you're not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.

Whether it's alcohol, tobacco, porn, reading Mills and Boon novels, playing 2048, or watching daytime TV - you shouldn't blame your habits on anything or anyone but yourself.

You don't have a drinking problem. You are a drinking problem.

Grow up. Be accountable to yourself. Don't externalise blame.
I understand how HTTP works so I know how to scale it, but unfortunately I don't have the knowledge to scale DB infrastructure.

Anything I say would be a shot in the dark, but I'm interested on your point of view about this one. Caching? Write on two servers? In the second case do you setup a cluster or you just load balance it with a third device/service?
Slightly unfortunate name clash here, since there's also a Haskell HTML templating system called Blaze: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/blaze-html
More thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7486096
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some ppas are not updated, so if you rely on them you should wait.
I'm an escapist. Whether it's movies, youtube, video games, literally anything that is unproductive, I'll spend an inordinate time doing. Luckily, I don't drink or do any drugs, but I might as well since I'm pissing my life away. It is as if I'm stuck in neutral. However, I do make just enough money to get by.

The odd thing is that I can't pinpoint why I'm this way. It wasn't always like this. I guess reason doesn't matter at this point.

Anyway, I don't think my post adds anything useful to this discussion, but good luck.
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Solar achieves price parity in Europe
I think the point is that if we can replace credit cards with a no-fee payment method, merchants will save 3% on every transaction. Of course, it has to be as easy for the consumer as credit cards (which I think Bitcoin can become).
If only google would learn this too and checked their new guis on smaller screens once in a while.
how to fix every problem ever:

1) grow up

2) ???

3) problem solved

But seriously, people suffering from addiction or other "only in the mind" problems are told this all the time. We wish we could just "grow up" but for some reason we fail again and again.

At this point, we have a choice: do we look at our history of past failings and realize that "grow up" is not an effective (or particularly actionable) strategy, or do we continue to beat this dead horse until it magically works?
I would use this magnificent milestone to raise my hand and ask...

Nvidia, where are my native Linux Optimus drivers?
WHO officially declares India ‘polio-free'
How is OP externalizing blame? He's just identifying a problem he has.

I'm downvoting your post for the completely unnecessary hostile language and unfair accusation. OP did nothing to warrant it.
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The CCC backside attack is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtviiOJ-2hI

It contains lots of info and technical details.

Another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVmpBPbGPsQ

This is what an actual ROM looks like:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18IGx18NQY_Q1PJVZ-bHywao9...

As the last image shows, the ROM table values are extracted by graphics processing the photo.

It's also possible to dump the ROM by reading it byte by byte, but this depends on the architecture (not always possible) and is typically done for mask ROMs that contain data.
Handling billions of requests everyday is hard. Scaling storage for millions of images is hard. Rolling out updates to a live platform twice a day is hard.

Lots of software development is hard. Whilst maintaining one interface is easier, they already serve and maintain different interfaces (Android, iPhone and web). What's another subset or two for the web? Responsiveness can only do so much. The article makes out as though the majority of users are using 'legacy' hardware... even if that were the case, there's still hundreds of millions of people that are using decent screens, peripherals etc, which they're not doing "whatever's best for the people" for.
Accountability? Really? You haven't seen the problem first hand, have you? Alcoholics can be extremely depressed people, clearly aware of the fact that they are doing it to themselves.

The question you have to ask is what if you cant control? In normal circumstances, all is good - you go home after a happy night. But what if you cant stop after 2 or 3 drinks, everyday. What if alcohol is your recourse when life hits you with a brick. Yes, I hear your speeches about self discipline etc., but they dont make sense anymore. If at all anything it makes you all the more sad.

Its almost a coin flip. Some times, the right stimulus from loved ones comes in. Something more interesting captures your imagination. But may times, it doesn't. It feels like a cruel joke by the almighty or a nasty bug in the mind that takes you down the path of self destruction into oblivion.

I think the OP is if you want to err, do it on the abstinence side.
> However, last I checked the solutions produced by VPR aren't as good as the commercial tools.

Well, that's no surprise: FPGA vendors spend a lot of manpower on improving their Place&Route software. If you wanted to build something competitive, you'd need a lot of money plus access to proprietary, non-public, information.
Is there a short summary of changes since 13.04? The blueprints list is quite extensive.
And do you currently smoke?
Out of interest (genuinely) do you also think people suffering from depression should just pull themselves together?
As old journalism models die, billionaires grab ...
This reasoning may feel satisfying, but it is very far from sound scientific reasoning.

> You start with caffeine, a known hunger suppressant

And yet, most of the western world, including most obese people, drinks coffee. So apparently, the "hunger suppression effects" are not relevant, or they would be relevant to everyone.

> internal knowledge that you're attempting to lose weight and may therefore conciously attempt to eat less, should result in you eating less than you otherwise would.

That would also be true for ... just about every person who is trying to lose weight. And the vast majority of them fail spectacularly. So this can't be a reason either.

> Yet you purposely eat high fat and low nutrition foods such as butter

What does "low nutrition" mean, and why would you think butter is not nutritious? "Butter" is not one thing, much like "Meat" is not one thing. European style and US style butters have different nutrient contents. Butter from well treated, grass fed cows contains a lot more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butyric_acid than grain fed cows that are not treated well (The taste is also different - after I got used to the former, which I can eat by the stick, the latter is disgusting in any form or amount). Butyric acid is seriously good for you (see e.g. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/12/butyric-acid-a... )

> would you be still losing as much weight and also overall having a healthier body (which is less likely to lead to problems later in life?)

Why would you believe that? That it causes problem, or that you would lose as much weight? Calorie in - calorie out is a theory that was never scientifically proved, and was scientifically disproved numerous times.
Only 23% are frustrated with ads inside apps?
Nice to see this here, have been using it for several years. Saves a ton of time and money compared to alternatives and always retrieves the latest versions of the software in question.
Of course, when you are dumb as a brick, you will not finish PhD. However, finishing PhD will not make you "more intelligent". It will make you more knowledgeable in whatever you finished PhD in and it will make you prepared for doing science.

And if society needs 5 new highly knowledgeable scientists a year, then producing 100 new PhD holders a year is over-producing them.
Threes is ridiculously heavyweight. It takes half a minute to load which is funny considering it's graphics. And sometimes it's muted so i have to restart it...
What do you mean exactly by "graceless" here?
> there is a lot of parallelism involved in synthesising logic.

But not the kind of parallelism that's fast on an FPGA.
Yes, but I would either use Software Updater (update manager) or "sudo apt-get update" followed by "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" (not upgrade as suggested above). Just a minor nitpick.
Thanks, I don't use this phrase, so it was confusing.
> Bitcoin will have to provide the same level of consumer comfort and safety to have wider adoption.

I think I know what you mean by that statement, but I want to make claer that Bitcoin (the protocol) should never provide this. This is like wanting to build guarantee-of-delivery into the IP protocol. It's completely unnecessary and counter-productive.

We want to preserve the ability to send funds to people where chargebacks aren't required, just as we want to be able to send data to people where guarantee-of-delivery isn't required.

Stripe, BitPay, Coinbase, PayPal etc. should be the ones who choose to provide chargeback services.
My apologies for my harshness, but wow, those links were horrible. The non-video links are really the most vapid kind of argument-free partisan blogspam, filled with guilt-by-association logic, and overstating their conclusions.

However, by walking the link-graph for a while from one of your links, I found this, which seems to contain some useful detail, and seems to agree with the bias of the articles you linked: http://www.morerevealed.com/library/coc/chapter7.htm It claims that the evidence is pretty terrible overall, but there is some evidence that AA is worse than no treatment. Hmn.

I wasn't able to bring myself to read the terribly-presented websites of the suggested non-religious alternatives. Ugh. Since you claim there are "more effective, non-religious, evidence-based" alternatives, could you point to some evidence? In particular, evidence of "more-effective" and "evidence-based"? That'd be super super useful to people!

And the P&T bit is almost entirely rhetorical dirty tricks. You can pick any minute of it where Penn is speaking, and find several logical fallacies and rhetorical innuendo. (The interviews vary greatly in logical clarity.) Though I agree with one thing Penn is ranting about: courts (or employers) mandating AA attendance is highly objectionable, on several levels.

I'm very interested in this subject for two reasons; I'm a devout atheist, and I've seen an enormous improvement in the life of a loved one directly chronologically following that person's involvement with AA. It's just a single anecdote, and anyway perhaps there was no causation in this correlation, but it has definitely piqued my interest in whether AA can work, and how, and why, and what it has to do with religion.

I've found that when one attends an AA meeting, one meets a lot of people who claim to have been profoundly improved by AA... but I realize that maybe that's just because the success stories stick around and populate meetings for 4 or 40 years. Maybe it works really well for some, but maybe the success rate is terrible.

Successes notwithstanding, even if they might be rare (or common! I dunno!), I would agree there are many valid criticisms about AA. As one of P&T's interviewees points out, they resist change, and have no feedback mechanism to improve themselves. There are advantages to dogmatism, but disadvantages too. But I will say that, at least in the lefty-leaning SF Bay area, it is quite possible to be an atheist at AA. But it's still America, so if you randomly sample the population, you're gonna find a lot of professed Christians, and so an atheist at AA is going to need to have considerable tolerance of other people's (crazy wrongheaded) opinions. I would say that it's not a religion, but it is a club full of religious people, talking about things that they think are related to their religion. Maybe the SFBA is atypical.

I haven't experienced chemical addition personally, and I don't know anything about the effectiveness of other programs, but if there are atheists out there avoiding AA-like programs for religious reasons and would like to talk about reconciling those things, my email is in my profile.
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"If a writer never had to compose a fifty word earthquake report again—few would complain. Better to leave the short, dry, purely informational articles to the bots."

The logical extension of this software is to replace the phrase 'earthquake report'.

"If a writer never had to compose a fifty word Presidential press brief again—few would complain."

"If a writer never had to compose a fifty word news leak again—few would complain."

"If a writer never had to compose a fifty word announcement of a declaration of war again—few would complain."

Let the machine do the writing to expedite publishing, because the accuracy of the source is assumed before the information is even shared publicly, provided the source submits releases in a formulaic manner.

This removes the agency of humans that might ask complicated questions (journalists) – so I don't believe it qualifies as news or journalism, at all. This just helps move the words of the source to the front page of a news agency.

Why dress up the release as unique content at all? Just print the damn press release word for word and cite the source.
> an honest opinion about their work

How do you know? She's a director, and by definition totally in bed with the leadership. Would she publicly admit to decisions made in favor of ad revenue and against what's best for the user? Why didn't she, as Product Design Director, or anyone else at Facebook argue for defaulting to stronger rather than weaker privacy settings, or object to the undermining or even ignoring of previously made privacy choices under the guise of new feature releases? And if she or anyone did, and they were shot down, would she tell us?

So many people trusted Colin Powell, including much of the world after his U.N. testimony. Look where that got us. (What Colin Powell Knew and What He Said: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-schwarz/colin-powell-...) [And no, waterlesscloud, I'm not comparing "the design of the Facebook newsfeed to the Iraq War," I'm making a point about trusting people with a conflict of interest and/or loyal to the party under question.]
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"an accident or bad weather."

A car somehow alleviates those concerns?

There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.

--

"You're talking about people who"

I was saying that when I choose between car or bike, it is most often going to be bike.

I wasn't making any broad prescriptions for society, but if I were to...
I beg to differ.

Is it a org-wide policy at Facebook that the relevant product / operations head respond to criticism leveled at Facebook in private forums?

Are employees required to proactively defend their decisions, on private / public forums?

Is this the raison d'être for PMs at Facebook?

The reason I'm curious is that I have never seen a Facebook employee ever admit a flub here on HN. They mostly surface here to reaffirm the company position.

I don't know if the employees realize it or not but for the most part, this kind of spineless defending - and I have observed it on more than one occasion - appears to outsiders as virtue-less boot-licking.

I hope that the Facebook employees know that they are allowed to have differing and contrasting opinions.

Just because their founder doles out hundreds of millions of dollars to nameless causes and charities with unaccountable outcomes, does not mean that his every strategic move is unimpeachably virtuous, made with the best intentions of the user-base in mind.

Forsaking their reputation to salvage their founder's self-serving acquisitions might seem great now.

But these kinds of self-inflicted character-assassinations are bound to haunt the careers of the employees, in the long run.

I would advise Ms.Zhuo to think twice before coming to the defense of her founder especially in such nakedly crony-corporate-land-grab decisions, especially when she knows full well this kind of thing is indefensible and not in the interest of the public.
Spanish and Arabic speaking users pay more attention on screenshots instead of reviews.Interesting!
"And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation."
Yeah, I've been running it for some weeks on my laptop and desktop. It's been pretty robust (Intel video driver issues aside) for me.
As someone who is currently working on a project it is something at the back of your mind.

That being said I think if you have done the research and know there is a market you should have no reason not to have users.
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There: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw
You're not alone. I live in a world of perpetual insane stress, and continuously self medicate through the not-so-winning triangle of cigarettes, coffee, and weed, in quantities that'd make a mobster blush. I've had my fair share of victory, and I feel more than my fair share of loss, but don't we all.

I've tried stopping my various vices, but without treating the stimulus loop, it's nigh on impossible. When I step off the grid and go travelling for a month... I suddenly no longer feel the need for any of them. This is a huge relief to me, as it means I realise that this behaviour isn't something endemic to myself, rather a habituation as a result of the feedback loop I allowed to grow.

Step out. Do something totally different. My promise to myself that I will do this, and soon, is the only thing keeping me remotely sane. At the very least, hit the road for a month and see somewhere new, meet someone new, and see if you're the same person. You might be surprised.
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They're already doing it with their numerous Facebook apps for different platforms.
A $2000 tilt-shift or perspective control lens would be inexpensive according to some architectural, or otherwise technical, photographers.
Probably not widespread knowledge, but here you go:

http://www.heise.de/tp/news/Vorratsdatenspeicherung-zur-Terr...
Personal view: because CS programs are highly variable (which, to be fair, is unsurprising in such a young field). Someone with a master's in CS might be great, or might have a lot of theoretical knowledge but be unable to apply it in practice, or have a deep understanding of the state of the art as it was at the time which is nevertheless borderline-irrelevant now. So we look to other filters.
What a bizarre kind of possessiveness. Companies don't own their employees. Slavery is supposed to have ended quite some time ago (yes, I know it still exists).

If you want to hire someone, hire them. If an employee leaves, let them leave. No hard feelings. If you really don't want them to leave, offer them more. Preferably do that before they think about leaving. This sort of unfair limitations on employee's employability is or should be illegal.
Intrigued by FPGA's capabilities, when checking out my classmate's profile http://orangesorter.com/, I started looking into some development kits to learn.

I found great documentation and economical boards starting at $55 available here: http://www.xess.com/store/fpga-boards/

BTW, I also found Scala based hardware construction language Chisel very interesting https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/.
You're right that programming isn't science, but parts of it are complicated in a way similar to math, with many intricate components that interact in complex ways. People with only a BS (or no degree) regularly get jobs writing this complex code. I'm thinking of things like browsers, databases, and video codecs.
The JavaScriptCore API is private on iOS,
which means you're not allowed to link to it.
Ejecta therefore comes bundled with its
own version of the library to circumvent these
restrictions.

So you are basically using another VM(a second javascript core) in an IOS app. Isnt it forbidden to do so,running VMs in IOS apps?

A better approach would be to do like TITANIUM ,except that you expose a CANVAS like API,so that your javascript canvas framework is compatible with it => less work,and no trick that would make your app kicked out of the store once the scheme is busted.
Not at all. You can take Ritalin and Adderall, but that will give you the personality of an accountant and take away your creative problem solving skills.