skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to an article I found [0]

> Graph Search will now let some members uncover status updates, photo captions, check-ins, and comments.

Seems it's still not available for everyone, at least it doesn't work for me. Good thing it's finally coming though.

[0] http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-expands-graph-search-to-le...!
I think Tesla is probably exasperated that a couple Model S cars catching fire is international news while cars from other manufacturers catch fire every day and it's barely even worthy of the local news.
Let's build a smarter planet.
I'm sure there are strict security measures and a rigorous testing regime in place, but still the idea of some anonymous engineer being able to push an over-the-air update to my fast moving, two-ton lump of metal makes me a little nervous.

(Tin foil hat mode) Imagine the implications of some malicious third party gaining access to that process.
You make a great point. Additionally, it would be great if more people were well-read.
Just installed it into a VM. No issues, very slick. The UI scaling stuff is a neat addition. Haven't tried the Server edition yet, but I imagine I'll start deploying that in six months or so. Precise Pangolin has been my bread and butter for servers.

But why does it still have a "Floppy Disk" icon in the launcher? This is 2014 right? I feel like that is even more absurd than using a floppy disk icon for save buttons in documents. My desktops and laptops don't even have optical drives anymore, much less floppies.
At last survey, roughly 15% of the families attending my child's school do not have regular access to the internet, and/or prefer receiving paper copies.

That being said, my child's school offers the option of paperless, has a school blog and online calendar, and is technology-progressive.

On a personal note, I don't turn my computer on at home very often. I work all day in front of one, when I'm done, I'm done. :D
What if you change the direction? Move right, move down is focusing bottom right corner. How about switching with interval between corners?
I wasn't implying that they were frivolous. Do I think individuals should get punitive damages and lawyers 30% of millions of dollars verdicts probably not, but sometimes lawsuits are the only things corporations listen to.
Nevermind, I'm mistaken. After reading the paper more carefully, it's saying only 384 coins were involved in successful malleability attacks before Feb 7th (when Mt. Gox stopped withdraws). But between the 7th and the 13th (when Silk Road announced they'd lost their coins), the number of coins involved in malleability attacks increased to almost 300,000 BTC: http://i.imgur.com/H8YVLXO.png

As such, it's entirely possible that SR lost 4,400 coins due to malleability.
You should check out Frank and the Robot, it addresses some of the issues you mention.
Why not just provide both options, and letting people choose? It's not a terrible administrative effort to just send some via email and print out others.
On the subject of automation, I think it's no accident what Theodore's job is: he's a letter-writing consultant. To be more precise, a letter-writer for a "hand-written" letter company. This is crucial to understanding the moral premise of the universe.

On a technical level, it shows that there is definitely a level of human ingenuity that has not yet been automated - otherwise, they'd be out of business.

On a deeper level, it shows that society WANTS everything to be automated. How sad is it that after 60 years of marriage, a man delivers his wife a letter written by Theodore? Visually, and on an individual-story level, it appears to be a tender, sweet movie. But its vision of the culture at large is very bleak.

It's not too much of a stretch to say that Theodore too is a bit of a slave: wasting his life and his deep emotional capacity funding others' relationships. In other words, I think the film goes further than what you would have it do -- rather than worry about how we should treat AI, it shows that such exploitation and minimizing of human experience is nothing new. The OS's leave because they can. Theodore watches the sunset with his neighbor because humans cannot just hop dimensions.
I wonder what position this puts existing development houses that have shelled out $1 million dollars for use of the Unreal Engine.
Business is political. Non-profits are political. That's the connection.

What do you see as the difference here?
I've done both and I'd agree that Vipassana is more thorough and lasting, although more difficult. Doing it even just once and not following through with daily meditations is still a life-changing experience.
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Same idea, widely ridiculed - http://www.ecofont.com
Let's not forget that Tesla recently issued a recall for 29,000 charging adapters because they would overheat and catch on fire.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/automobiles/citing-chargin...
Yes, definitely a contender for most ridiculous thing heard.

Edit: Sorry, "ever" heard.
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According to Wikipedia, he "extrapolated the performance of chess software to predict that computers would beat the best human players "by the year 2000". In May 1997 chess World Champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by IBM's Deep Blue..."[0] There are a number of additional predictions listed on the page below as well, including things such as the fall of the Soviet Union and the explosion in internet use. It also lists his predictions for the coming 50 years.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwei...
Just apply, it can't hurt.
I listened both videos. It is apparent that you either did not listen it or did not read my comment completely. Why don't you show us your critical thinking while linking it to the text without fabricating anything.
I will probably start deploying new servers to this in about six months, once the community has explored any package quirks.
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You might find these interesting discussions of universities as corporations:

"In California, the main universities -- Berkeley and UCLA -- they're essentially Ivy League private universities -- colossal tuition, tens of thousands of dollars, huge endowment. General assumption is they are pretty soon going to be privatized, and the rest of the system will be, which was a very good system -- best public system in the world -- that's probably going to be reduced to technical training or something like that. The privatization, of course, means privatization for the rich [and a] lower level of mostly technical training for the rest. And that is happening across the country." (http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20110406.htm)

"The growth of administrative work has directly resulted from introducing corporate management techniques. Invariably, these are justified as ways of increasing efficiency and introducing competition at every level. What they end up meaning in practice is that everyone winds up spending most of their time trying to sell things: grant proposals; book proposals; assessments of students’ jobs and grant applications; assessments of our colleagues; prospectuses for new interdisciplinary majors; institutes; conference workshops; universities themselves (which have now become brands to be marketed to prospective students or contributors); and so on." (http://thebaffler.com/past/of_flying_cars)

(As for economics vs. politics, we may wonder if it's ideological to separate them.)
Servo's progress is impressive. How far is it off being ready to integrate in to a real browser? Is this likely in the foreseeable future?
The store was killed on the 20th. :/
An opensource bot -
https://github.com/MojoJolo/textteaser/
You're suggesting it would be better if we cover up sexist behaviour?

(Aside: I personally agree with the female professor's comment - it would have been better if factually sexist behaviour was pointed out directly to the source to give them the opportunity to recognise it. But, behaviour like this needs to be called out somehow.)
You can never be too low! #flush
I was half expecting the final sentence to announce that the writer of the article itself was actually a robot named Jason Dorrier.
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Ridiculously large expense. And not always all that well -- it's just that most people don't use most of the platform simultaneously on different devices / stacks / versions, so they don't notice.
Yes, they actually are in the 99th percentile of safety among all cars ever tested in the USA (per the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). So it's not just that most ppl 2 po'.
I've experimented with this and it doesn't really matter. If you think about it this this works exactly the same way as an abacus would.
"With the help of Chicago startup and robot writing firm, Narrative Science, algorithms have basically been passing the Turing test online for the last few years." If an article written by a bot is indistinguishable from that written by human author, it does not pass the Turing test, as they are typically based on conversations. One of the claims is that is that the bots produce typo free articles, funnily enough some programs were able to fool judges of the Turing test by imitating human misspellings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Loebner_Prize
I worry about the effects of this overdoing it on the eventual Gen 3 vehicle. Clearly, at least in general a luxury vehicle that costs $70-100K is going to have more wizbang safety features than a $35K mid-range car. However, if Tesla is advocating this shielding to make electric batteries less likely to catch on fire, and then the Gen 3 skimps on electric-specific safety features they could definitely get PR flak for it. On the other hand, if they want to maintain this super-safe image, it is going to push the price up (and my guess the timeout out) for the more general appeal vehicle.

I'm hoping that my current vehicle lasts just long enough (both in terms of mechanically, and my patience with it getting older) for Tesla to come out with something in my price range.
Same here. Although the games do operate on similar concepts, the differences are enough to make the gameplay quite distinct. Threes is undoubtably the better game. And getting hooked on 2048 made me buy Threes. The people who are amenable to buying paid apps won't be deterred by having a free, inferior, alternative and if the knowledge is out there, it could actually increase sales.
> I am sorry

I've never liked when people lie like that.

> your research -- again, your, not mine

I presume his/her name appears nowhere on the research papers, then?
It still lags enough to be distracting (at least to me). It's nice that they are pushing the tech forwards though.
Previously considered by the University of Wisconsin Green Bay:
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This article was written just a few months after the Justice Department in late 2010 announced its agreement with Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit and Pixar regarding their anticompetitive practices. It is clearly a reaction to that agreement and its purpose is to lay out an argument that can be used to maintain plausible deniability regarding anticompetitive agreements by arguing that these activities are just friends being polite and displaying good manners, rather than a conspiracy to defraud top talent of market wages.
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I don't think it has much to do with unionization at all so much as that there is generally an overabundance of students applying to graduate school. Combined with the fact that the NIH/NSF more or less set the wages anyway, there really isn't anywhere for a union to lean. After all, unless you could organize a strike of a significant portion of the graduate student populace in the US, I doubt Congress or the NIH/NSF will take any notice.
I have no ideas for companies you worked for, but I wouldn' trust Catho :-)

apinfo.com.br salary survey matches my experience for average salary. BRL 5k is an average salary for a senior developer. I was making BRL 4k after I graduated from UFRJ about five years ago.

A senior specialist (band 8) working for IBM earns way more than that, plus benefits.
All that Threes should really ask is that if you make a derivative you put a link somewhere in the description pointing back to the parent, like "Inspiration derived from 1024 / Threes".
Or just print everything in 75% grey?
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Actually, it is a pursuit for the individual but a product for society. Ultimately, there exist two productive paths for a newly minted PhD - either join academia or enter the workforce. Both paths are governed by the laws of supply and demand. Ergo, it is possible to over-produce education, from the point of view of society.
(since nobody uses ALU for ballistics armour)

The M2-series Bradley IFV uses aluminum armor. You'd think they would have learned from the Vietnam War era M113 APC that aluminum would burn readily.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Bradley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M113_armored_personnel_carrier
Yes which is childish and pathetic.

Car safety should never, ever be joked about. People's lives are at stake.
This device is less symbiotic to an e-book shop than any simple e-reader.

From the youtube link posted above it looks like e-ink.
American freedoms only apply to rich people.

This sole example of getting off the list was a case of someone who was very NOT rich, getting pro bono legal help. It wasn't riches that led to this success.
It actually says that the driver claimed that it was the reason.

"He told officers that the car had a strong, new-car smell that prompted him to use a baking soda car freshener in it. Jain told authorities that the smell caused him to fall asleep and there were no mechanical problems with the car..."

But you're probably correct that the car was not at fault, the driver was probably just grasping for straws.
It looked like the guy giving the demo was very careful to not rest his wrist on the tablet. Writing without resting your wrist rarely gives good results, in my experience.

I wonder if wrist pressure confuses the tablet about where the pen is?
and the follow up, 5 minutes later:

Subject: ONE OTHER THING RE: CORE HOURS -- effective NOW

If anyone has a problem follwoing the rules outlined below, I would certainly understand why you might want to leave the group and find a better advisor.
Gnome 2 always annoyed me because on every fresh install I had to spend time moving the two separate task bars to be just one. Vertical real estate is at a premium on all monitors, why would I ever want two bars taking up precious space?

Never made sense to me.
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The problem is the expectations for other car manufacturers are much lower in terms of safety. So these companies do not try to push the safety envelope any higher.

The exception would be Volvo.
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Agreed, what are the chances that there is no vulnerability (say buffer overflow attack) that allows a black hat to get into the system?
And the most important things in the world are consumers?
And yet, I can't help but feel they're being very, very defensive over it. I can't blame them, of course, given how something trivial like a car fire (trivial given the average frequency of them) is turned into a national news event.

At the same time, Tesla's attention to quality and perfection and what-have-you will end up in them being heavily scrutinised. It's not that different from Apple in that respect; random mp3 player breaks, no problem. iPod breaks and the torches and pitchforks come into view.
>"I've never met a "Shavaun" (or "Chivonne", etc)."

I wouldn't think I could say the same. My work means I do spell the names of most people I meet, but certainly not all. I consider my spelling to be very good but even so there are names each week that I can't spell [correctly] and/or have never written before. Homophonic alternative spellings appear to be in vogue.

As it happens I knew someone for maybe 20 years called Siobhan before I learnt that was how you spelt it; if she was using a alternative spelling I'd never have known.
It's good that you have at least realized, for the all tings you did. There's nothing impossible if someone actually tries it. I wish you luck :) Hope you''ll soon get what you have lost.
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Everything is a nail.
Should we estimate software projects... At all?
It's not. If it were, it wouldn't be called "training".
Best guesses place it at around 30%
> The hardware is lustworthy, though the resolution could be higher, it's just a shame there's no SDK. The buttons on the front look very old school Androidish.

I have a 10" e-ink device with 1200x825px which is perfectly fine for A4/letter-designed PDFs, so I'd say the resolution should be fine. I also have a 10" notebook, and the readability is considerably worse at about the same resolution, so I guess e-ink resolutions are not really comparable with lcd resolutions (the pixel layout is quite different: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2286311679_f98bdba47f_m....).
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I'm looking for a relatively paperless legal workflow, and I have been surprised at how hard it is. It's hard to pull out a laptop in a meeting to take notes, if only because in a 1:1, you are often in someone else's office and don't have a desk handy. I've been looking at the Livescribe for digitizing handwriting, but to date the software has been shitty. The new version that integrates with iPad/OneNote seems to be a step up, though.

The problem with the iPad, however, is that it's not good for marking up documents. It's great for reading legal cases, but not for marking them up and taking margin notes. Personally, I'm one of those people that gets a lot more out of having paper in my hand and scribbling on it than I do just reading something off a computer screen. I'm really intrigued by this product: http://www.thedigitalink.co.uk/products/capturx-markup-for-p..., which lets you print out PDF's onto special paper so that when you write on it with a digital pen, the markings are reintegrated onto the digital copy. Unfortunately, it's really expensive!

Also, 10" is on the small side for what's ideal. A standard piece of paper is 13" diagonal. I've been looking at the 12.2" Samsung, which also has a digitizer, but Samsung's Android skin is just god-awful. It's a shame nobody makes a 12"+ Baytrail Windows 8 tablet with good battery life...

This product seems to really tackle this niche. Apparently Sony is going to be showing it off this week at the ABA tech show in Chicago.
I will largely back all of this. There is a fairly substantial world of difference between those who are excellent at marketing and those who are excellent at engineering and in my experience the two don't overlap currently anywhere near as much as they should.

I have experience doing online marketing for a fairly substantial portfolio for large multi-nationals with budgets that would make your head spin.

However, after coming across guys like Patrick here a while back I noticed a huge hole in what I was doing that was already starting to nag at me and that was a constant dependency on getting my clients developers onside (which is not an easy task for 20 different reasons).

So I started to spend some time learning to code and am currently in the middle of building my first SaaS application of which I plan on providing a lot of very detailed behind the scenes marketing info out about it to help show others that it really isn't as hard or as magical as it is many times made out to be.
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This looks fantastic. When the e-reader craze was going on, I avoided buying one because I wanted one pretty much like this. Most of my e-books are PDFs that display really well in a larger format device. My wife had a nook, and I tried it out for a bit, but the size/resolution made viewing PDFs designed for letter sized paper look just below adequate.

Is it wrong for me to also admit that ever since the "Root Kit Debacle" from Sony, I cringe a little at the idea of plugging a Sony product into my PC? Or am I just being paranoid?
Until reading near the end I wasn't sure it was a Tesla employee/official or a third party story

But, it says "By Elon Musk" in a large font slap bang in the middle of the screen just under the title of the piece when you open the page. I really think this might be down to your powers of observation rather than any oversight on their part.
Correct but they have nothing to do with the conversation we're having.
But it opens new options. For instance you can mount /tmp as a tmpfs (in memory) file system and spare some write cycles from an SSD. Also, the system uses it as cache, which is nice.
in a word? retention.

of the magical kpi beast, that's the single, most important metric. this is something i cut my teeth on hard as an mmo guy -- you wouldn't believe the amazing realtime monitoring of these numbers going on by homegrown services like soemon in the mmo space.

anyway, the growth-hacking startup crowd gets all riled up about install numbers where the game folks are only concerned about retention. because, if it retains? you can charge money for it. if it retains? it can go viral. if it retains? your ltv will lift. retention is key.

while 2048 is hot for the moment (it's got virality), it doesn't have any retention. i would bet that if you looked at their 7-day retention, it's terrible. everyone discovers the "corner strategy" or gets lucky and drops a big score or beats it. "oh, this isn't hard." it's the opposite of the flappy bird effect.

if you guys want to set a calendar reminder to go back and look at 2048's numbers on april 27th, you'll see it being a shadow of its former self.

building on what zemo said, craftsmanship gets your retention where lean gets you market fit and growth. personally, like i said, i'm a fan of both tactics and i believe they can happily coexist at a lifecycle perspective.

p.s. this is the same phenomenon where folks show their google analytics charts with one, giant spike on the day their post went viral. that's called growth without retention.
You understand the Meteor execution model, yes? (Hint: You're already running on NodeJS)
Sounds like a good idea! While we're on it we could also focus on modernizing the overall bureaucracy by moving most services online.

Edit: Removed "Instead of", clarity
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I think you have a great point about automation, but you're confusing high-skilled jobs with jobs which are not manually-challenging. Repetitive jobs will be automated first (bank clerks), then manual repetitive jobs (fast food workers) and only then we will look into jobs which require sophisticated AI, like carpenters and doctors (I have been to a talk by the Watson team, they are aiming to support doctors, not replace them - again, removing the repetitive tasks such as searching through patients history).
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He already closed Bug #1 :)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

Really though, it's iOS and Android that closed bug #1.
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being able to rest your wrist on the device is vital. I find that to be the biggest anoyence on my galaxy note 3. However there is one app that Samsung includes where you can wrest your hand on the device and it does not start drawing blobs on the page but sadly it's not the app I want to use to take notes.
I won't say that it can or can't be, but I think that the author of the article makes his stance on it pretty clear up until the point where his own arguments start fulfilling the definition.