sirdogealot

From the first example:

generating, using a processor = calculating

a plurality of images = images

clusters = groups

It's more of a translation software than machine learning.

Perhaps the translation software could suggest 3-4 variations of the legalese sentence and allow users to vote for the best translation?

I seem to notice them everywhere these days.

And verified by google trends, they are certainly on the uptick: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=beard%2C%20beards

Personally, I do it for convenience. It's nice having that extra 10 minutes every morning, and not possibly cutting my neck or face before I've had my first cup of coffee. That, and it looks badass. Almost every man throughout history I admire has had a beard, so why stop now?!

I bought a cheap Phillips $30 beard trimmer a few years ago (that's equivalent to about a month's worth of gillette razors for myself) and I have been loving my beard ever since.

>The true culprit behind our housing problems: let us deflect blame to Mountain View’s burrowing owl!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreline_Park,_Mountain_View

>City of Mountain View evicted a pair of burrowing owls so that it could sell a parcel of land to Google to build a hotel at Shoreline Boulevard and Charleston Road.

...wtf?

Cool!

This type of tax-code-manipulation must certainly have been happening since the dawn of time. That, or it was written to confuse the public on purpose.

Finding, reading, learning and understanding the tax code is no mean feat for a layman that was told nothing of it in school (none of us Canadians were taught taxes in public school). And this is coming from a relatively smart person who willingly reads cryptography papers and learns new programming languages for fun.

How much more difficult does TurboTax propose that the IRS make filing? Should we get individually filed returns notarized by our deceased relatives as well?

It usually takes me about 12-24 straight hours of work, and this is for a simple sole-proprietorship that just tallies up income and deducts expenses.

I manage to get it done properly and on time every year, but realizing so many schortcuts along the way that "they" could be making for us yet fail to year after year... it's really quite infuriating.

That, and the fact that I have to do the work to figure out how much I owe them. :/

I am proud to have completed my taxes myself and will strongly urge everybody I know not to vote for TurboTax with their wallets and why.

My advice from launching and failing at my own HN clone is to make the false upvotes look more realistic. Don't be afraid of making them in the 20-40 votes range. A lot of people liked HN better back when it had a smaller userbase.

Thanks for the entertaining story! And sorry to hear of your mental anguish.

>It has been found that suicide makes up for about 30% of deaths of women living in rural China.

Wow... that must be pretty bad for them living out there. Can you imagine living in a place where there was a 1 in 3 chance you'd off yourself before dying naturally? Wow... just wow.

He wasn't very good at aiming, apparently. When he shot the bullet into his head, probably in a drunken stupor, he missed his brain and lived... probably still wanting to shoot himself and succeed, but being physically unable to do so at this point he just lay there until someone found him.

By the time he recovered in hospital from the wound, he wanted to live! Albeit with a very disfigured face, which I thought would be a hinderence to an already depressed individual, but he sees it differently and we're all glad for it!

Cannot connect to the real revoked.grc.com

Something is currently interfering with your secure connection to revoked.grc.com.

Try to reload this page in a few minutes or after switching to a new network. If you have recently connected to a new Wi-Fi network, finish logging in before reloading.

If you were to visit revoked.grc.com right now, you might share private information with an attacker. To protect your privacy, Chrome will not load the page until it can establish a secure connection to the real revoked.grc.com.

I pressed reload a few times after a few minutes and still see the same page. Am I doing it right or what?

When I open the same URL in chromium however, everything works perfectly.

Just my 2 cents.

I believe that all problems in this world are caused by a simple lack of education.

Digitalocean stands to make ~$10,000 monthly of of a "$1,000 server" because it is somewhat managed, and thus has the responsability of informing the 100 or 1,000 odd customers affected because of their mistake imho.

Good eye.

If all department stores adopted automated cashiers, the cashier as a retail option as we know it is dead. Killed.

If all farms adopt tractors and automatic harvesting machines, the crop picker option as we know it is dead. Killed.

Etc. Etc.

There will come a time when we can conceive of a new task to be completed, while simultaneously sketching up the automatic machine to complete the task.

In fact, this job-killing-automation already exists in the form of the latest and greatest production lines. They were not built to be filled with workers, only product.

I'm sure when xbmc was first released it would have had it's fair share of coverage on HN back in 2002.

"...in 2002 the composer Mike Batt made a six-figure, out-of-court settlement for infringing on John Cage’s 1952 work, 4’33″

http://classicalconvert.com/2007/07/the-stupidest-music-laws...

Moderately popular TV shows that aired last year are fairly difficult to find a complete season of via torrent for example.