skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that there are several logical problems with a jump from 'earthquake report' to 'news leak' or 'declaration of war'. Using only fifty words for an earthquake report implies that there was no explanation or analysis to be made of its effects. Most leaks and war declarations tend to require much more information to be covered completely, and I would not expect to find any that are fifty words or less.

For a sense of scale, your comment was 188 words. My comment is 88 words.
I think I saw that, actually. Really great hack - did you post the 3D model anywhere? Would love to evolve my duct tape/cardboard into a 3D print at some point.
I really enjoyed reading this article. I will however point out one of the difficulties that arises when you try to implement this 'threshold'. For one thing, the scale that you measure over is often not as constrained and clear as in the cancer case (for example). What is considered 0 and 100 by some body of people could very easily be just 25 to 75 on another scale, or absolutely beyond the pale of another group's scale of thinking. And it's not always easy to spot when things like this happen. Often the issue is that when you have different groups with different conceptions of what this scale entails, that is when you have hilariously "bad" interactions, and can result in ridiculous drives to the extremes of the "platonic" scale.

Another common pitfall (I think anyways) is that some of these drives to extremes are driven at least partly out of a sense of the current 'threshold' being placed far too far away from where they 'should' be. Large disparities create large pressures. Coupled with wanting to see things change soon (obviously), and that people have an intuitive motion that if you try to push against something to reach X, you'll probably end up with X-1 or something, you can at least kind of understand some of the drive to extremes.
If they're claiming 30 days of battery life, inductive might not be a design choice.
I just ordered a Hario

http://www.hario.jp/coffee/grinder.html
I've used mtpaint before, it works well for what it's for.
Other responders answered well enough, but I'll add some additional info.

Tesla just started pushing out OTA updates to firmware 5.9 this week. One of the big improvements in it is bringing back the option to select a low height mode. When the problems mentioned in the article happened, they pushed out a rapid update that disabled the automatic low suspension setting entirely. Frankly, this upset a few of the vocal owners on the teslamotorsclub.com forums because they understood the risk and felt it was slight enough they preferred it versus the reduced handling and performance at a higher ride height.

The re-introduced low height is enhanced to allow the driver to set the speed at which it will change height. This is satisfying most if not all of those owners.

Driving a car that gets better as you own it instead of worse is a game changing model in my opinion.
I think "the Afghanistan of topics" is a great metaphor, but no reason to avoid the subject.

Here I'm talking not to you specifically, but the generic vocal male "you":

If you have a strong urge to share your opinion, consider where that impulse is coming from. Pause and absorb what's actually being said. Mull it over. It might sting a little bit, but you might also gain a new perspective.

If you're male and privileged, it's hard to think about what it's really like to be not male or not privileged. You can try, but you can't know.

If you've ever observed the dynamic of conversation, it can be uncomfortable to see how men and women are (typically) socialized to interact together.

I have rarely seen women talk over men in the same way as the reverse.

[And yes, I realize that I am not taking my own advice here]
True. And I wonder how computers/bots might assist journalists in the other aspects of journalism - investigation, interviews, and trend spotting, etc?

I'm not sure I hope for the day that computers replace the human analysis, emotion, or opinion in news, but I do believe they could help journalists better spot leads and dig into stories. This would free journalists up to do less leg work and more thinking about the content in front of them.

That said, the process of investigation, etc. does contribute to the experience a journalist brings to the table, so the question then is, does cutting out the legwork undermine a journalists ability to deeply understand and analyze a given story?
I agree. More importantly, this opens it up a new approach that can be used in lots of places. Perhaps development of fonts that require less resources when printed. While printing government forms may seem like a waste to us, there are lots and lots of places where paper is still the cheapest and best solution: name tags, business cards, flyers, posters, billboards, random one off signup forms, booklets with info (think of populations without access to the web that need to be educated about things like STD's, etc.), instruction manuals, product packaging, official documents (passports, etc.), paper money.

I am all for going paperless as much as possible, but think of the back of your toothpaste container and the warnings printed there. Could there be both a savings and an environmental impact in using a better font?
been using 14.04 for about 2 months now. if you're reliant on open drivers (Radeon, Nouveau), and use HDMI output, understand that Kernels 3.13.x and 3.14.x are going to be miserable for you, and you'll be limited to sub-720p resolutions due to regressions in the drivers. 3D has much improved, but the lack of 1080p makes this a dealbreaker for me right now.
> GIMP is great for editing photos, but a poor choice for creating bitmap (non vector) graphics. It's a big hassle even just to draw a straight line in GIMP. MS Paint is the reverse - easy for graphics, ill-suited for photos.

What? Photos are bitmap graphics and Gimp has nothing to do with vector graphics. You're really confusing a lot.

To draw a straight line in Gimp you just hold shift.
| She's a director, and by definition totally in bed with the leadership.

This is what's wrong with society today. Assumptions that are both wrong and sexist. Good job sir.
TFL's comment on this - "To make it easier to use Oyster on your smartphone we will be launching a mobile-friendly version later this year."

http://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2014/03/12/why-a-new-website-but-no-a...
In that case it's: solve an easy problem, forget the hard ones.

Whatever is the gain of solving each problem, is not relevant.
I don't think this is great advice for a person struggling with addiction. I'm not saying you can't have multiple partners and an active sex lifestyle but I would suggest finding, being, and giving love in a committed relationship as a much healthier goal.
Just for giggles, could it be that adding a heavier material such as steel would have a more significant impact on range due to the additional weight? Part of the upgrade pitch is that users only see a 1% decrease in range. With steel, perhaps you see a 3-5% decrease, and range has been the key argument for Tesla against other competitors.
Great work, thanks for building useful, friendly government services. More of this please!
Tell me about it. I have been hauled into a project, where we are reimplementing a relational database using NoSQL. No idea why, other than the fact that they want to use NoSQL.
I agree with this, it more than likely started to suppress or replace something and then became an addiction.

I would also strongly advise you go to a doctor before trying to stop. If you have been a heavy drinker for a long time, you will have physical withdraw effects. Doctors can prescribe a short run of Diazepam which will help with the physical effects and also sedate your addiction a little. Don't take it for more than a week though, or it will become your new addiction.

I didn't take this advice and stopped overnight which could have been incredibly dangerous. I risked fits, seizures and all sorts.
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Back in the 70s, my father ran a state government agency staffed primarily by economists, statisticians and modelers. One economist was a woman who was very highly credentialed -- multiple Ivy Leagues, quant-heavy background, extremely knowledgeable in her particular field. He tendered her an offer, expecting her to take over a fairly critical position within a week.

He immediately got a memo from the governor's office tersely informing him that he would need to submit to them her husband's notarized approval in writing before they would allow him to hire a woman.

To contextualize, this was a few years after a flurry of state ratifications of the Equal Rights Amendment. A kind of proto-"Mens' Rights Movement" had, by the mid-1970s, coalesced against the ERA and legal protections for women in the workplace.

In this state, a fairly prominent state politician had publicly taken the lead in trying to roll back protections for women (in part by arguing that the ERA would require public swimming pools to be topless!), and the liberal(ish) governor was fighting a conservative cultural backlash from constituents. As a result, political agencies were deluged with a series of ad hoc restrictions that basically made it impossible to hire or promote women unless they were in "traditional" roles such as the typing pool. (To his credit, my father fought through the strictures, using the same kind of cussedness that led him to take long road trips with African-American fellow military officers through the Deep South of the 1960s, in which they found out that, black or white, a military uniform didn't protect you from redneck sheriffs.)

If you think about the sweep of history, four or five decades ago is a very short time, and even though gains for women and minorities have been very real and tangible, it's all too easy to see how fragile they are. Today, racism and sexism are generally more tacit than explicit (and often supported by decent people who simply aren't aware of, but can be educated about, the superstructural biases of their organizations), but the results are just as pernicious for those operating on life's higher difficulty settings.
I am on Kubuntu 12.04. There is a small problem with baloo indexer in kmail, otherwise it works great.
Neither of those give you access to the source code of the engine.
Xubuntu is definitely my favourite of the bunch. I find it's the only *buntu the looks of which I don't find jarring.
Blaze will support server-side rendering.
Entirely our fault. But if you still feel guilty, the best thing you can do is try recreating lineTime in famo.us. I think you'll find it a pleasure :-)
GIMP is not for creating Vector graphics, though you can have vector elements through bezier curves. Inkscape, however is created for this exact purpose.
Adblock (https://getadblock.com/pay/) is another such case I believe.

Wholeheartedly agreed about Paint.NET's usefulness!
His best bet for making wide scale change is to have Microsoft change the default font on Microsoft Word. Probably the most cost-efficient change.
Is it OK to sell for cheaper than a friend? Is it OK to use a vendor who won't give your friend the price that he wants? Ultimately, is it OK to compete with a friend?

Maybe they should just rename anti-trust law into anti-friend law, the bitter killjoys.
You're thinking like a computer scientist, with infinite precision. "twice" is only one significant figure; 38 * 2 = 80; round 75 to one significant figure to compare, and you've got 80 = 80.

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Computational power is necessary but not sufficient.

The difficult part of the building a human-level AI would be the software and learning set rather than a hardware one.

Consider that the basic structure of our brains is the product of countless generations of iterative selection.

This is analogous to AI software.

Further are also the products of a rich, and complex culture that has been emergent over time to suit our faculties. Without this societal support our growth as individuals is stunted.

This is analogous to a training set.

When I try to build even very simple artificial neural networks I run into problems with how to structure the network and how to get good training sets.

For these reasons I don't foresee human-level AI happening anytime soon.
Vehicle fires are a potential result of collisions, no? They don't just occur spontaneously.
>More than half the kids who go to the elementary school qualify for free lunches

Fancy school to me. :)

100% of the children in my elementary school got free lunch. We didn't have recess or a playground because we couldn't afford it and there really wasn't a place to put a playground anyway.
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two things:

1. is garamond less legible after photocopying than tnr?

2. why not choose a sans serif font. serifs are wasting ink.
On your unusual first name:

Jimmy Carr:

"I got talking to a girl in the front row; I asked her her name. She said, 'It's Pataka.' I said, 'That's an unusual name. You don't hear that every day.' To which she replied, 'Actually, I do.'
"

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/0miodh/comedy-central-presents...

Joke starts around 1:50.
I can only speak for my lab (an established bioengineering lab) and from what I have seen at a few others, but this strikes me as being atypical. I think there is an assumption that you will work a minimum of 50-60 hours per week in lab (at least in bio) if you want to be successful, but when and if you choose to log those hours is up to you at least in my lab.
Exactly.

"If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away."

- Linus Pauling
https://www.google.com/search?q=red+meat+cancer+%2Bsite:www....

~6600 results; I checked the first three pages of papers. All came to the conclusion that red meat causes a higher incidence of cancer.
That battery life is delicious. That's the first thing I looked for and I'm happy Sony came through!
Nope, Python 2.7.6 is the default.
Big improvements for ibeacons
I've played both games. It's definitely true that 2048 appeared in a world where threes was popular. But it isn't the case that a bunch of effort improved threes over the simpler 2048.

Yes, it is simpler, easier. Sometimes that's exactly why a game is better. I can appreciate that the threes creators spent months working on their game, presentation, etc. To my taste, the result is poorer than 2048.

Another fun factor is that because it's so simple, and open source, 2048 has all these fun variations available. Those explore the game space in a way that a bunch of WIP snapshots from the threes creators just don't. The result is, I think, a more fun, engaging environment.
The problem with Kurzweil is he vastly overestimates the speed at which biotech is evolving. The pace of new medical and drug developments for example is absolutely glacial (see Eroom's law[1]) and has been costing more and more every year. Yes, this is partially a regulation problem. However all the fantasy stuff that he proposes with regard to brain computer integration is not going to happen anytime soon at the pace that things are going. Also, his belief in the feasibility of reversible computing is pretty optimistic.

[1] http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/03/08/erooms_law.p...
What are the characteristics of Titanium regarding corrosion and wear? One thing I have heard from several of the highly technical owners on the forums is that one of the reasons for the design choice of a mostly aluminum body is that there is no structurally weakening corrosion in reasonable use of the vehicle, even in areas that use a lot of salt and such on the roads.
It's entirely possible they know something we don't - like the results of the investigation into the Tesla fires - and are trying to get this story out ahead of something more negative. It'd certainly be a smart move.
I don't think your wife was truly on the no-fly list. It sounds like your wife was flagged for additional screening due to her travel patterns. In the case of Ibrahim she flat out was not allowed to fly to the US.
While their website is an anti-pattern, I do have to applaud one pattern that paint.net was early (if not first) to adopt: Asking you about updates when you exit the program rather than when you first open it.

Contrast this with Notepad++. Every single time I open that app -- which I only do when I have pressing, immediate work to do -- it imperiously demands that it and its plugins be updated for various trivial, if not irrelevant things. I'm sure there is an option I can find someone in the hierarchies of options, but as a default interface behavior that is atrocious.

The only time you should interrupt work -- and app start is a primary indicator that work is afoot -- is if it's a critical security update. Otherwise do something less obnoxious.
This would be a great question to ask on growthhackers.com (started by Sean Ellis - the guy that coined the phrase "growth hacker")
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There's a lot of misconceptions and preconceived notions about what growth hacking and/or a growth hacker actually is - and is something that continues to be a subject of a lot of (healthy) debate.

The growthhackers.com community has some genuine growth hackers on it and I think will be best positioned to give you a really well informed response on what it is to a growth hacker and have it as a career.

Hope that helps.
Reading glasses, intermittently. They're something like +0.5 or +1.0 diopter (I have perfect vision; adjust accordingly); enough to push my monitor toward (but not at) the edge of my focal range. I code for a few hours with them off, then for a few hours with them on. I usually switch when I feel strain setting in.
Of course, that's why I said it was a crude estimate.

On the other hand, since the Tesla S is a quite high performance car, you could expect it to get into more accidents than the average car.
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Anybody tried to pass a ZF2 Certification exam? Who knows some links to material... pdf, manual, tutorial, sample questions?
I know it's not raining.
Upgrading now just to try this! (Now to get past "symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found" on boot... I should have waited for the weekend to update to a beta release!)
The probable killer problem: What is the page switch time? Can I browse pdf manuals on this? (My iPad 3 is a bit too slow imho. Will get an Air)

Speed in general? How is it to write notes on? Linux/wireless support?
Sites like this need to be called-out and shitlisted.

You can complain to Google here about their AdWords policies:

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/176378?hl=en&ref_t...

or use the following command line for expedited service:

>> cat complaint.txt >> /dev/null

As an advertiser, you have very limited options for controlling the ads. If you try to manage them one by one, you'll be playing whackamole for forever. Probably the most effective method is disallowing all ads for software on your pages (via the Ad Review Center interface, handy picture available here: http://www.seobook.com/images/google-get-rich-quick.png), but if you're a software company, that a) denies legitimate advertisers the ability to put ads on your page and b) will result in you making very, very little revenue.
No he doesn't. He does a scattershot of predictions and then never talks about the ones that failed. Just like every other futurist.
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You have a long road to hoe before you claim so emphatically that that's true for the "vast majority" of Photoshop users. Photoshop is the 90/10 app to end all 90/10 apps.

I do very straightforward digital art and manipulation and I'd put my head in an oven before trying to do it in GIMP, and I am not using anything complex.
I like Pixelmator for Mac (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixelmator/id407963104?mt=12). It is in between Paint.NET and Photoshop.

I also use Captur (http://cambhlumbulunk.blogspot.com/p/captur.html) for taking screenshots since I can never remember the obscure OS X shortcuts.
0.1% decrease. Believe it or not, I know several owners who would not be satisfied with even a 1% decrease, especially if it is adding a safety feature that most of them feel is so unlikely to happen, they would have preferred never to have temporarily disabled the low height mode.
Did we read different articles? Because I read multiple, very clear and specific accusations of sexist behaviour from several sources.

There is actually no comment about whether or not her adviser is an asshole: you are drawing that conclusion yourself, presumably from the behaviour described.
DropZap just got four new game types and is free for a limited time.
It also looks a lot cleaner because it only has 10 links on left side. I've got 30 (a few of them I could probably hide, but lots of them I can't).
Very cool. Except the "Click here to be contacted for more information about Digital Paper" leads to a "Contact Us" form. Do I use a "Contact Us" form to ask Sony to "Contact Me" whenever it releases this?
I mean that's sort of what a lot of news is. Just a summarization of a press release, some additional details found on the internet, maybe a few quotes.

It's the summarization and finding additional details that is important, just printing the entire interview or entire press release is too much.
I didn't suggest the signs didn't exist at all, or that there wasn't anti-irish sentiment. I suggested they weren't particularly common in America. Not as much as widely believed.
Facebook already has an inconsistent experience. For instance, I've been viewing Facebook with this new design for a few days now, whereas other people are presumably still on the old one.
Yes! This will finally make it possible to migrate Mercurial (which the Python devs themself use http://hg.python.org/ ) to Python 3!

In fact, I'm pretty sure hg was their biggest reason to accept this PEP.
In other words, entitlements come from somebody else (or many somebodies), not a magical cornucopia called "society".

That quote is an attempt to humanize the source of government resources.
Not so. Expensive - how much it costs to make it. Valuable - how much someone else would pay for it.

So, if I was to spent loads on parts to make a relatively useless widget that fills a particular niche in my daily life, it would be expensive, but I wouldn't view it as valuable. It's only as valuable as it is expensive if there are lots of people who want it, which is not the case for custom work.
Photosynthesis reimagined
More information about 3rd party Oyster apps and TfL's upcoming mobile-friendly Oyster website here: http://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2014/03/12/why-a-new-website-but-no-a...

Edit: ha, beat me to it alex :)
I don't think we need to rework government forms. It could be used for new forms, or when the form gets a revision.
I remember the same things being said about Mozilla/Gecko back in '99. That seemed to turn out pretty well for everyone.
I don't care about the website, it's the application that matters :)
This is really great! So much more useful (and aesthetically pleasing) than their old site!
"In short, if you ever run over a human head the car is designed to complete decimate it and break it into several pieces." Wow that's harsh.
I'm in the same boat. For me it was craft beer and whiskey, so I don't keep them in my house anymore. I found that cutting back on all those empty calories made it really easy to drop weight and left me with more money in my bank account at the end of the month.

Instead of yoga, I took up running. I found that it worked really well to alleviate stress and was a much better coping mechanism than drinking. I feel better, am less irritated, have more energy, and I no longer feel like I need to have a drink. I now get to enjoy my drinks instead of using them as a tool to not care about the things that bother me.
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The question for me is whether the friend is in it for the earning or the learning?

See this for more: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/04/is-it-time-for...