skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wearing sunglasses makes us look difficult-to-recognize to humans, because we tend to focus on the eyes, and recognize people by their eyes more than other parts of their face (relatively speaking). However, these algorithms have no such biases. It's more difficult because there's less information to work with, sure, but they can identify you just as easily by the shape of your nose, mouth, and the distance between reference points on the lower half of your face, as the top half of your face. You might as well be covering your mouth and chin and nothing else, for all it matters.
Hi there, I feel you :)

The way I've coped with this so far is to embrace it and just work through the given task - less warm-fuzzy-feeling and more "manual work" and time needed for sure but it wasn't that big a deal once I just let "go"...

Not having list comprehensions definitely is one of those things which makes me feel more like a "stupid coding monkey" but again you can be productive with less elegant tooling as well...
I'm unreasonably excited about `do` `dop`'s order being changed. I didn't realize that's what had happened in an earlier release, and writing blocks in Ruby has just been ever so slightly annoying.
> The correct way is to have end users drive your UI changes. And till users aren't satisfied you are not done, even if the code is perfect.

Yes! If we make an app for other people, we must actually make it for other people.
> [Tyrion is] not so significant

He was essentially responsible for the successful defense of King's Landing at the Battle of the Blackwater. If he hadn't been there, Stannis would be on the Iron Throne -- I'd call that high-impact.

I agree that Littlefinger's impact is under-represented by this measure, though. And obviously Arya has had no impact on anything important at all ti date...
My personal opinion is that their technology was too disruptive and would have ultimately undermined too much money making in the industry so it had to be stopped. The whole things smacks too much like a witch hunt. Including the fact that whenever I mention my opinion is gets down voted to oblivion.
I agree, fortunately nearly everyone now socialises on the internet (Facebook etc) so hanging out in forums is no longer a strange and sad thing. But I'd argue that it's still not enough, even if we prefer it (I'm also mildly autistic). I found it the hard way when I couldn't express the most basic thoughts in a group project (for example) and it really affected my self-esteem and my work, and I've no doubt that there are many stories like that. I think it's important to acknowledge the fact that we also live in the real world, and that we need to try and learn how to 'blend' in the best we could without sacrificing our own 'quirkiness'. Otherwise our options range from hermit to (if you're lucky) lone genius! And learning how to blend in is no mean feat, so having peer support throughout that journey as I suggested earlier could be really helpful.
But I guess there will be some arbitrariness involved anyway, even when mathematicians look at the problem. E.g. why would one measure be better than another?
What distinction is it that you're trying to make? Crawling into a building through an open window is no less of a crime than picking the locks. In fact: it's exactly the same crime.
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Conversational UI: The Future of Digital Customer Engagement
This has been a fantastic series of articles! I absolutely love this. Evan Ratliff is simply a superb writer in long form journalism.
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He is being called asshole and worse innumerable times. The only difference is that Twitter commenters and Corporate HRs do not control his livelihood in ways it does to most professionals so he is free to say things the way he feels.
> I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. At that time, I was designing the first comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language (ALGOL W). My goal was to ensure that all use of references should be absolutely safe, with checking performed automatically by the compiler. But I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#Apologies_and_retra...
That's a fair point. Obama is in the anti-encryption camp too, after all.
From the screenshot, it appears they're running npm in a docker container inside the EC2 instance. It's curious that they did not use Container Sevice. I would have expected node to be running directly on the VM.
> I just mean it is silly.

What's your point in bringing up combinatorics then?

> Imagine that you need to pick out your particular family emoji each time from all the possible combinations.

Imagine using the most trivial kind of UI (literally a LRU cache would do the job) so that emoji you use more often are presented first. In fact, you don't even need to imagine, because this is how they already work on Android.

I have to wonder why you are dedicating so much energy to problematizing uses of emoji that you disapprove of without really seeming to know much of them. If they don't work for you maybe just don't use them?

I'm going to leave this link in the rather forlorn hope that something about it might take root:

https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_kimmel_why_gender_equality...
Slight digression, but does that mean owning assault weapons is a ok again in the US? Just curious.
>May I ask where you live?

In Germany. In Baden-Württemberg to be exact. And by "countryside" I mean 10-30km.

But why on earth would you live hundreds of miles away from where you work? First thing I did when I started going to university in Baden-Württemberg was move there.

As for when I visit my parents or siblings (about 600km away), I take the train.
> Including the fact that whenever I mention my opinion is gets down voted to oblivion.

Because its just conjecture has no proof behind it? HN isn't the place for conspiracy theories.
"IMO The Theranos basic concept is viable, but their implementation is flawed."

Can you point to any sources indicating that the basic concept is viable?
Having lived and worked in France, the UK, the USA and Canada (mostly in large cities) I have heard people's excuses for why they do not cycle ad nauseam. All in places where I do cycle. Usually there is a way. Usually people are looking for an excuse not to find it.

That's not to deny that your particular situation is indeed impossible, but the idea that you need bike lanes and your mantra of being in danger strikes me as not reflecting the actual safety, convenience and abve all _enjoyment_.

Cycling has overall better life expectancy outcomes than driving and is pretty safe.

You may want to consider a pedelec/electric-assist bicycle (I recommend recent models using the bottom bracket motors from either Bosch or Shimano) if your trip is too long.
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I have yet to see a pro-government take on this issue in HN.
The postmortem used the word "quirk." They might consider drilling down on the specifics there. Especially if that is the heart of the bug/accident.
The story of PSD Box: how it turned from a hobby to a full time project
I don't think the intention for Kotlin is to have feature parity with Scala.

I feel that part of Scala's problem in every project I've been involved with is that it has too many features which means if you're not incredibly careful about specifying exactly what features should be used you end up with an unmaintainable mess.
Metastatic tumors seeded not by single cells but by clusters of cancer cells
This felt a bit unlikely, but what really convinced me it was a troll was a follow-up comment where he said he accidentally switched "if" and "of" in a dd command.
Works in Chrome. Really nice!
It's still happening to this day: http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-agriculture/2016/0...

But I suppose more as a rearguard action, you're correct that it's not as bad as it once was.
To play devil's advocate - if you have shitty neighbors, it's much better to be renting than owning because it's easier to let your lease expire and find a new place to rent rather than having to consider selling your house.
Humans as an open system: the modular body
I'm going to guess that these big name investors have liquidation preferences of at least 2x, meaning that her stake will probably be worth nothing once this all blows up even if the company maintains any value (and it probably won't anyways)
Hi everyone, we couldn't be more excited to tell you about Kite and get your feedback!

We think connecting programming environments to a smart backend will improve programming in a lot of ways, and this is just the first step. We'd love to hear your thoughts on where we should go from here!
Same here. I was able to learn social skills in my late teens and through my twenties.

It wasn't exactly a fun process though. I'd try to "act normal" and then get feedback that taught me I was breaking a social norm. Feedback = kids making fun of me or cringing out of pity and embarrassment for me. And I wasn't very sensitive to the feedback so it took a lot of feedback to learn.

Now I seem normal-ish and life is peachy and my different ways of thinking feel like a superpower rather than a handicap. But man, teenage life was hard.

Disclaimer: I was never actually diagnosed with ASD (I was just called "weird" and "nerdy" and other things), but I have no doubt I would be diagnosed ASD if I ever got diagnosed.
This. The cuttlefish (a relative) changes the color of it's skin and texture to hide from hunters/prey. If you have not seen this video, prepare to be amazed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDTtkZlMwM

Also, the cuttlefish: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/camo/anat-nf.html
Not to mention his kidnapping was responsible for the war that broke out in the first book and set the stage for every major event in the series. He also put a cross bow bolt through the gut of the guy who had been running the 7 kingdoms.
You mean like https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
We need to stop seeing different types of personalities as diseases.
Eh...Not really. Have you ever opened an Adobe application up on your machine? The next time you do be sure to fire up Activity Monitor and see your CPU light up. I wouldn't touch another Adobe app with a 10ft pole so long as it requires any interaction with CC, and I know many designers in the same boat.
Well I already do that pretty much. I would not recommend it. Social interaction can be very rewarding, sometimes.

I don't agree with your spock like view of emotions. As if they were the enemy of the rational. You can be rational and emotional. They are orthogonal.

I think of emotions are sort of a utility function. They tell you what you want. Rationality just tells you how to get what you want. They complement each other. Without emotions there'd be no point in doing anything.
As far as I can tell, this is a win for encryption. It says that device manufacturers need to help law enforcement break into a device, but they do not need to create any backdoors. If Apple/Google/etc make it impossible for them to break into their own devices, then there is nothing that they can do. As long as they are not required to include backdoors then encryption wins.
Too a degree yes, it is more case of the ability to process those emotions are slow, so as somebody with aspergers I will days later realise what I missed, sometimes years and other times be completely ignorant of what I missed.

But equally I find it hard to explain emotional states and have a real hangup on fairness to the extent that as people say "I cut my nose of to spite my face".

THink of emotions like book openings in a chess game, normal people know this naturally persay and other have to learn them, yet are able for all intent able to play chess and play well. Yet because they do not do the standard book openings, they end up with a slightly off balanced game with the other person getting upset you did not do a standard move. Not sure if that helps explain it, but for me is a good analogy.

Still emotions and body language is in effect a form of communication that many use to say what they would not say directly and that is not autisims fault for not playing that game and being upfront and direct and honest, however blunt. With that, I console myself that if over 50% of the World was autistic, ther ewould be less liars and normal would be autism with those with emotional hidden communication being the ones deemed too have an issue by society.

Still I do wish I had the skill set to cold-read people, certainly save much time.
Oh, I agree that this is really cool in terms of aesthetics.

I'm pointing out that the grandparent's comment about this being minimalistic, and comparing it to real weather apps as being absurd. If you're building a toy project aimed solely at programmers on desktop, there's a lot of things you don't have to care about. Some of those things are exactly the 'bloat' the grandparent has been complaining about.
There are litterally dozens of millions of doctors.
In France we even have to artificially limit the number of doctors (numerus clausus).
The studies are really long and you have to be hard working but, still, they are easy enough that too many students would succeed without an artificial cap.
Apologies to everyone for the ad-hominem flame-fest I seem to have triggered. I would have preferred this to stay on topic.

jere, you do make a good point that there is more to it than just having free time and energy. e.g. There is also the "systemising" impulse often seen in high-functioning autistic individuals that seems suited to success in modern times.
Sure, if you're hiring for a position where written communication skills are unimportant.
Since I didn't find any links in the article, here's the original post:

http://serverfault.com/questions/769357/recovering-from-a-rm...
Kotlin will be always catching up. Scala is more research oriented, Kotlin is a bit more conservative and pragmatic.
partly, it's that totally open shots (where there wasn't a defender in the area) will tend to be charted as coming from dead-center. So if Kobe gets a steal and has a clear path to the basket, or a defender gets out of position, he's going to get an easy shot which is marked as being taken from the center unless it's obviously taken from waaaaay off to the side.

Relatedly, shots that are marked as being taken from slightly to the side are more likely to be contested, often by a much bigger defender.
It means that every single type in the language has one extra value it may contain, 'nil', and your code will crash or behave erratically if it contains this value and you haven't written code to handle it. This has caused billions of dollars in software errors (null dereferences in C/C++, NullPointerExceptions in Java, etc.). See "Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake" by Tony Hoare, the guy who invented it:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billi...

A better solution is an explicit optional type, like Maybe in Haskell, Option in Rust, or Optional in Swift. Modern Java code also tends to use the NullObject pattern a lot, combined with @NonNull attributes.
Some of the characters who have had the most effect on the events as they are taking place in the books are dead before they start and get very little page time.
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Those keys were those of an ex-employee. When you let a person go or they leave the company those credentials should have been changed.
Wow, the University of California is a top donor, and her husband is the chairman of the UC regents? I smell conflict of interest.
Let's assume a purely materialistic view of reality. In such a system all truths will be defined from nature.

1) Animals in nature kill each other all the time for food and sport.
2) All eating after a certain cell count for a creature requires death in some way.
3) Death is inevitable; life is not.
4) Force is the determinate factor for making something happen.
5) The universe does not care for life or death. It is merely a thing. It too will die taking all life within it with it.

Construct a moral set from those points (add more if necessary). I contend that you can't seat any ethics on it except might makes right. Anything other than that is merely a personal preference with no justification outside of the amount of force one can apply.

As a result I see no distinction between what is food and what is friend. It is merely personal preference. Sentience does not provide any actual force. It might cause your force to act, but it does not, in and of itself, mean anything.

To get out a head of it since it's been bandied about: cannibalism is impractical because it leads to the destruction of society when applied to the general population. I did not say it's wrong, for it is only death, which as we've seen is just part of nature. I say it makes commerce and society difficult if applied internally as well as outwardly. We, as a society, have a preference for this stability. We, as a group of actors, have the ability to force this view by our combined strength such as police and other law enforcement institutions.
Good time to try to push a bill like this thru. News is too obsessed with Trump to try to dive into a critical thinking issue.
Making the CPU consumable is a smart from their PoV since the rapid increase in performance every generation has plateaued.

I still do all my development at home on an i5-2600K and an i5-2430 laptop, neither is noticeably slower than any of the new machines I've used (both have SSD's).

I'll probably run this desktop til it dies as there is no compelling reason to upgrade.
I think you're focused on really superficial stuff that isn't going to do much. "Remove bling"? This isn't a fiscal policy. You just don't like athletics, which I guess is fine, but also not very relevant. I personally am not athletic and so those programs did not appeal to me when I was a student, but collegiate athletics have a long history and serve useful purposes.

For the dorms, I don't know where you went to school, but my dorms were pretty basic. When I visited friends at other universities, their dorms were also pretty basic. When I studied abroad in Germany, the student housing was actually nicer than what we have in the US. Could we spend less on dorms? Probably. Would it make a meaningful change in cost? Probably not.

And again, coming back to the idea of cutting salaries, I don't know why you think there is an endless line of potential professors waiting to take jobs for no money. Good professors are valuable and would command high salaries in industry. If the end result of cutting tuition is that education quality declines proportionally, it's probably not worth it.

I also don't know why you're so hung up on the few people who are extremely highly paid. Bloated salaries or not, that group is not large and it's not a major factor in overall cost. Additionally, very few if any professors are in that group.
Well, frankly speaking, that's a silly remark. If you vote in people you know and trust, it doesn't seem likely that your mates you've gotten to know, placed your confidence in will be corrupted only just as soon as you've voted them in. And if they are, vote them out!

As for the latter remark, the world you're describing, frictionless job movement as a means of changing business practices and business-worker relations, obviously has very little relationship to the world we actually live in, or we'd never have these discussions at all.
This story is super inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing. It made my day!
I'm pretty sure I heard the phrase, "there's no way you can beat Contra without the cheat code" in college as well.
Plus parents occupation.

I can remember on two occasions bosses of mine who helped kids with some form of homework assignment. If your dad (or mum) isn't technical then you are less likely to get an early start.
GRRM said Tyrion is his favorite character so not that surprising.
In 2014 Americans made over a million public comments to the FCC in support of net neutrality. The FCC sided in favor of net neutrality. [1]

In 2011 Americans made over 8 million phone calls to their representatives in opposition to SOPA/PIPA. The bills were defeated. [2]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/05/inside-the-fccs-1-1-million...

[2] http://www.sopastrike.com/numbers
You think Zuck doesn't have this on his phone?
Wow. Us geezers need to bring you whippersnappers up to speed about how this went 20 years ago, because it's your turn to fight this battle again.

Fetch my geritol before you gear up, sonny.
It's a small minority. Even more interesting, while gentrification is arguably the solution/balancing phenomena to this problem, it's generally speaking a term with a negative connotation associated with it.
You know, I think this is the first opportunity for "think of the children!" to be a rally in cry for something meaningful, that actually can affect a large swath of our children.

An excellent point.

However, its power is limited by all the times "think of the children!" has been used as the rallying cry for anti-citizen legislation. So it has to be strengthened. You're on the right track. The cliche turns into a platform when you have concrete examples that are identifiable to the Android/iPhone toting parents. I am willing to guarantee that the "most frequently visited locations" available on both platforms would illuminate a parent's employer, home, maybe the favorite lunch place, and the school(s) of their young children. Possibly even that their kids have medical issues (pediatrician is a frequent stop) or are on the autism spectrum or have some other developmental delays (speech pathologist or occupational therapist or developmental pediatrician is a frequent stop). Or that they're new homeowners (lots of trips to Home Depot and "big box" stores) Possibly (gasp) where they take their lover when they're supposed to be with their spouse.