Hacker News: ygmelnikova

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?"

ygmelnikova — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 07:36:40 +0000

The Deer Hunter

New comment by ygmelnikova in "How do you prove that Earth is older than 10,000 years?"

ygmelnikova — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:17:55 +0000

This argument stems from the interpretation of a single Hebrew word found in the old testament... יום (yom). The definition of yom is 'a defined period of time'. Whereas the common use of yom is 'day', it could also be translated as 'epoch', 'age', 'year' etc.

Genesis reads that God created the heavens and the earth in 'six defined periods of time'. It's unfortunate that the original translators back in the 1600s used the word 'day', and even more unfortunate that so many cling so strongly to what was probably a single person's translation.

New comment by ygmelnikova in "The vanishing civility: The game of jerks, bozos and assholes"

ygmelnikova — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 21:45:11 +0000

Yeah, same thought while reading this. I come from a generation where bagging your friends was common and played a large role in building character. Now if you honk at somebody to prevent an accident, you're flipped the bird. Even mild constructive criticism comes across as a massive assault against one's pride.

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Bots Are Hot (1996)"

ygmelnikova — Thu, 19 May 2016 06:37:58 +0000

Spent a few years developing a bot with similar features to Alexa, called LFReD back in 1998. Was possible to carry on a conversation with LFReD via cordless phone, control lights, look up wikipedia articles etc.

Idealabs approach me at one point offering to buy my botsinc.com dom.

Two things killed development. The first was the quality of the speech recognition. 85% accuracy sounds impressive, but in real life, it's terrible, especially combined with background noise. (I had a love bird that would squawk every time i tried to train the recognizer :) The SR has only recently caught up enough to be acceptable (just). The other was the AI. Every 'rule' had to be hand coded. eg: "if SR = 'hello world' then tts 'hello'". I don't think they'll get past that last issue anytime soon, and I believe the Loebner prize is still very safe.

New comment by ygmelnikova in "1,284 Newly Validated Kepler Planets"

ygmelnikova — Tue, 10 May 2016 20:59:53 +0000

Let's see. Using current tech to get to our closest neighbour, Alpha Centauri, if you leave this afternoon, you should be arriving sometime in the year 102,016.

How about we skip this dream, along with world peace, and make baby steps, like everybody using their indicators while driving?

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Google's Nest is disabling some of its customers' old smart-home devices"

ygmelnikova — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 02:17:57 +0000

I cancelled the plan as well, but ended up getting charged at renewal time. The effort required on my part to fix that mistake was unacceptable (submitting screen shots of my Nest account details, required to send photo of the serial number on the camera, weeks of communication delays), and they STILL owe me some money, and have ignored further requests.

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Mediterranean Sea filled in less than two years: study"

ygmelnikova — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 23:56:19 +0000

A common myth. The bible doesn't say the world was created in 6 days, but in 6 'yoms'. A yom in Hebrew means 'a defined period of time'. Like an epoch, or a year, a day or a minute etc.

The bible was translated into English in the middle ages.

Wikipedia has a definition as 'A long, but finite span of time', among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom

Bill Gates: Keep up the momentum against child mortality

ygmelnikova — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 08:22:21 +0000

Article URL: http://qz.com/416975/bill-gates-keep-up-the-momentum-against-child-mortality/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9658009

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband"

ygmelnikova — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 07:18:36 +0000

Guinae after ebola: 1 point

Why murder rates matter to humanitarians: 1 point

Rohingya screen light portraits (Internet huts used by refugees): 1 point

Etc.

Thanks for the validation.

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison"

ygmelnikova — Sat, 30 May 2015 16:38:25 +0000

Its astounding that anybody here would defend this guy. Are Hacker News readers left leaning in general, or just is it just a handful of loud anarchists?

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison"

ygmelnikova — Sat, 30 May 2015 03:28:46 +0000

The silent majority agrees with this sentence.

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts"

ygmelnikova — Sat, 16 May 2015 02:39:35 +0000

As mentioned above, the article is referring to those 'under 18'. Does your 'state' not restrict access to porn magazines for those under 18 now?

In Florida it's a felony. Florida Statute 847.012 - Max 5 years.

Why? Because it's degenerate, and your state agrees.

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts"

ygmelnikova — Sat, 16 May 2015 02:17:17 +0000

"the country's telecoms regulator ordered monitoring applications be installed on the smartphones of Koreans aged 18 and below"

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts"

ygmelnikova — Fri, 15 May 2015 19:02:14 +0000

What kind of degenerate society likens the restriction of teenager's ability to view porn to Fascism?

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Lily – Drone camera"

ygmelnikova — Tue, 12 May 2015 17:13:17 +0000

"The new introspectiveness announced the demise of an established set of traditional faiths centred on work and the postponement of gratification, and the emergence of a consumption-oriented lifestyle ethic centred on lived experience and the immediacy of daily lifestyle choices."

If my generation was called the "me" generation, how would you describe this generation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Nature Ontologies"

ygmelnikova — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 19:27:23 +0000

"He (Tim Berners-Lee)expressed the belief that Semantic Web technology will advance the information revolution he began with the World Wide Web, changing everything from how users set up their online address books to how they pay their taxes."

The semantic web is underrated.

http://goo.gl/YCc1Ly

New comment by ygmelnikova in "New DNA construct can set off a “mutagenic chain reaction”"

ygmelnikova — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:31:09 +0000

Death due to honeybees mutated with Box Jellyfish venom.

"the venom causes cells to become porous enough to allow potassium leakage, causing hyperkalemia which can lead to cardiovascular collapse and death as quickly as within two to five minutes"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chironex_fleckeri

New comment by ygmelnikova in "New DNA construct can set off a “mutagenic chain reaction”"

ygmelnikova — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:12:16 +0000

"Immortality within our grasp"?

The world is fundamentally evil. 160 million dead via war in the 20th century alone.

Optimism in this matter is incredibly naive.

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Make School a Democracy"

ygmelnikova — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 03:09:20 +0000

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill

New comment by ygmelnikova in "Why reading a book 100 times is a great idea"

ygmelnikova — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:13:58 +0000

So much negativity on this comment. It's a statement. This is the generation of tl;dr. SAT scores are down, IQs are down since the Victorian age by 10 points. What percentage of the population would read the entirety of that article, let alone a single book 100 times? That comment is both sarcastic and ironic. Perfect.