skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why with the thin skin ? This particular problem isn't about "men's fault", it's primarily about bias.

To make a very blunt argument: If you were to write an AI to reason about menstruation, and let a group of women train it then you would get a particularity different outcome than if a group of only men did it.

This argument extends to many other topics on different levels of subtlety.

... there are of course complex reasons why "women don't take their time to contribute", and to just dismiss that as "This PC thing" is a little short-sighted.
In either case there are very specific reasons for their respective success: Oil and foreign money, respectively. None of that is down to them not being part of the EU

The UK isn't even remotely comparable to either of those countries. Besides, both Switzerland and Norway have trade agreements with the EU. If the UK wants similar agreements it'll have to accept similar conditions including freedom of movement, which in turn will make this whole Brexit affair rather pointless: The UK will effectively have to accept the same conditions it has right now without any ability to influence or veto EU regulations anymore.
The catastrophe that people are mostly worried about is the impact of Britain leaving on the EU, not just to Britain. It is a key member of the EU and it's exit could be very destabilising for trade and investment throughout the region. On the global scale, not too many people will benefit in the next 5-10 years, maybe Britain will though (who knows for sure).
"Earlier this month, it released data showing that since it began it has collected $85m in tax revenue for cities worldwide."

That's not a very impressive figure. That's for a global company with massive revenue, now in it's eight year?

“If it becomes law, this legislation would threaten thousands of low- and middle-income New Yorkers with fines of up to $7,500 simply for listing that they would like to share their homes,” Airbnb fumed.

Uhm no, lower class New Yorkers don't own they rent and this is the point - the property is not theirs to profit from. Most middle class New Yorkers don't own their own homes either and if they do its likely a one bedroom or a studio. A two bedroom in New York is well out of reach of whatever is left of the middle class there. People that can afford two bedrooms in New York are generally not the "lets make a few extra dollars from this sharing economy" types.

I know that in New Orleans the hotel industry has felt the pinch of Airbnb. Even during big weekend like Jazz Fest, you could still get a room last minute this year, something that used to be unheard of. While its great that tourist dollars still enter the local economy, the hotels employ a lot of people. This is significant in an economy that is almost solely based around hospitality and tourism.
All this is just old wives politics. "Did you see the look on BoJo's face?" "OMG why is he so subdued now that he won? Quick, reach for an explanation!".

That's all any of these analyses have to go on. A look on BoJo's face. Keep that in mind when you waste your time with all this.
2017 will be filled more votes on the EU
> Amidst claims of regret and being duped the UK population is rocked by the impact of what they’ve done, but even if everybody that wanted to would be allowed to ‘switch sides’ and vote again the ‘leave’ camp would still win, but by a smaller margin.

I could well imagine that many "remain" non-voters would actually vote at a second referendum, tipping the scales.

But of course that is pretty much speculation, as seems to be Jacques' point. (or is there any data to back up that claim?)
It's sad that people are often confronted by violent criminals. If this time were to come, should we just hope that police and/or bystanders will protect us? Criminals seek situations where neither is readily available.
Corbyn has been spectacularly underwhelming. His getting the boot doesn't feel like self-destruction to me.
Switzerland has ~10% GDP coming from banking, roughly the same as the UK. Also, Switzerland is part of the single market.

The thing is, most of the "big banking" in the UK is already planning for its own leave to Frankfurt and Paris. And the EU seems pretty clear into not having the UK in the single market.
I was wondering why fonts were going to be affected:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_(typography)
> My siblings do this in a car for cheap

Ryanair and other low cost flights are cheap. And gas is expensive in Europe

Some do travel, but I guess they enjoy it less. Because they, for the most part, only speak English

> On top of that is that the UK has had a different currency

Which they chose not to change when the Euro came (and I'm actually with them here, and it's really not a big deal, especially with debit and credit cards of today)
Possibly he was using this poll data: https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/746810127584464896

...but I don't know what the primary source of that is.

Edit: Sorry about multiple broken links, I was klutz-editing this on my phone.
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> Computers analyzed more than 30,000 different risk factors, including traditional ones like age and mental-health history. But some surprising issues—such as gastrointestinal problems, infections and injuries like rib fractures—were tied to increased risk.

> Dr. Nock says that some of these may be self-inflicted or related to impulsive behavior. Using the historical data, the approach was able to detect 45% of suicidal acts an average of about three years before the event.

> A study using similar methods looking at suicide risk among U.S. Army soldiers in the year after hospitalization for psychiatric issues was published in 2015 in JAMA Psychiatry. The algorithm was able to predict about 53% of the suicides in that high-risk period.

I wonder what the false positive rates on these are.
I'm not sure what kind of city services I'm missing that I'm suddenly not using as a tourist but am as a resident?

Schools, welfare and similar social programs, free parking. Pretty sure those cost more than tourist offices.

If you are a single worker without a car, none of that applies to you. If you are a single mother who refuses to work it's a huge benefit.

Turning it around, how do you propose 'tourists' get equal rights?

Government that doesn't engage in economic protectionism.
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There is a bias in AI systems that stems from them being written almost mostly by (white) men.

That just pointing this out, yields this knee-jerk reaction yours is very sad.

There is a an opportunity here to make a global society where computers can serve all of humanity in specific needs of everyone instead of just their creators. Let's not squander it.
That's silly. Prediction markets still gave a ~15% change to "Leave" at their most pessimistic, and no one says the roulette wheel "didn't work" when black comes up three times in a row. The vote outcome was clearly a surprise to the prediction markets, to newspaper, to the pundits, and to the real markets where people lost billions of dollars.

Prediction markets aren't magic, they aggregate views. If they say there's a 15% chance of something happening, by golly, sometimes it will happen. The point is (1) they are self-correcting and (2) they have a much better track record that polls. Not even the "market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" rule applies. With prediction markets, you know exactly when and how the outcome will be settled.
Secrecy is repugnant – JFK
I wonder if a snap election could be called before article 50 is invoked? One of the major parties could campaign on "Remain" and if they won, they'd have a democratic mandate to ignore the referendum.
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I don't believe so, the DMCA prevents circumventing access controls not watermarks.

I am not a lawyer though!
The point is the class made him care about typography and he pushed so Apple computers would have good-looking text.

As opposed to Windows, which did not at the time.

He wasn't claiming he invented decent fonts on a computer.
You can analyse faces all you want, but whoever the next Prime Minister is, they have a tough job that will probably end with them being walloped in a general election or being toppled by their own party. Boris Johnson is just in an even worse position because he was seen as the leader-in-waiting and he actively campaigned for the policy that made everything so complicated.
In fact you could've just used curl
I have the memorable phrase and have to use the HSBC app for my password. Now, the fun thing is that my actual HSBC password is 40 characters randomness, so pretty secure. The mobile password that is used to derive the 2FA key must not be longer than 8 characters. So essentially I traded a long and secure password for an 8 character password.

I really really dislike HSBCs online banking as a whole, the password system plus the constant “We encountered an error, please try again later” messages.
This is what economists do. The problem is non-linear relationships and large error margins in variables make it hard to predict. Think the Butterfly Effect on steroids.
The real question is if the UK can get similar deals as Norway and CH

> They have no oil, just their financial industry.

So, better? Oh and their watches. And pharmaceutical industry.
People seem to think prediction markets not making a specific prediction implies they don't work. That's not even wrong.

Consider a perfect prediction market. This means that if it says "the probability of X is 0.6" 100 times, then approximately 60/100 times X will occur. If you wrongly interpret that to mean "X will occur", a perfect prediction market will be "wrong" 40/100 times.

That's your failure to interpret the market, nothing else.
> I also noticed the grammatical mistake on MU/TH/UR's screen after interrogation: it should have been 'Ensure', not 'Insure'!

"Ensure" and "insure" are both valid words/spellings for this. The use of "insure" is far less common, for this meaning, though. Both include "to make (something) sure, certain, or safe" in their definitions:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ensure

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insure
It's not just pointing it out. "Sea of dudes"? How is that an appropriate and professional way to frame the data?

Swap that out with anything else and you can immediately see the problem. How does "Fashion has a sea of chicks problem" sound?
Sorry to see these thin skinned boys preventing discussion of a legitimate problem.

There's nothing prejudicial about noting a deficiency or proposing a more fully rounded environment.
I think if I had a casual conversation and they started asking what was your pets name, where did you go to school etc I'd think it a bit odd. As an aside I usually have to write down the answers I've given in a word doc and look them up if I need to do that stuff as I can't remember which memorable place it was and the like.
Still, they will end up subject to the same system if they want to maintain free trade and a certain freedom of movement. However, out of the EU they won't have representation and won't have a say in what laws and measures are passed.
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Statistically, it's far more likely that one of your children will kill themselves, or a friend, or each other, with your gun than it is that it will be helpful for self-defense.

That can't be true, for the number of fatal gun "accidents" per year is ~600 (scare quotes because some number of those are whitewashed murders or negligent homicides), the number of non-suicide homicides is ~11,000, and the number of suicides using a gun ~19,000.

It's very easy to see that the number of self-defense incidents using a gun is substantially larger than those numbers, from anecdotes, to the very lowest formal estimate of 108,000 (see the CDC funded 2013 monograph at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/18319/priorities-for-research-to-... pages 15-6). The highest estimates range to 2.5 million, but that was a while ago, and crime rates have continued to decrease.
They also use 2FA i believe.. but then it makes logging in a right pain the ass for customers: 1) track down your massive identity number 2) enter 2nd, 5th, 8th characters of your password 3) locate your 2FA code from the HSBC device they send.
Growing from a very low base of 100, mostly due to human efforts to erradicate them. It's hard to imagine that the effects of human habitation, and the environmental choices of those inhabitans does not impact the bear population. The same reason that deer and coyotes have come back, we limit hunting permits.

http://nj1015.com/510-nj-bears-killed-during-2015-hunt-offic...

Taking protectionism to the other extreme can easily get you to bear town. Monterey, California is infested with the most obnoxious deer population I have ever encountered.

http://www.osidenews.com/2015/03/01/area-attractions-blend-i...
How about you start with not assuming everyone who disagrees with you is male. Then not call grown men "boys". It's super offensive and doesn't help the point you're trying to make.
Fashion has a lot of men involved.

They're trying to be edgy. It's not like they said it's a sausage fest.
There's a certain cognitive dissonance effect that wasn't covered in the list of reasons to leave:

"If we leave, the public will have to suffer under 3.14 boondoggles worth of economic punishment" where boondoggle is an imaginary but comparable measurement of economic mismanagement and suffering.

and then in the next story on the nightly news

"The general public in the EU member country of Greece are suffering under an permanent and unimprovable EU enforced burden of 14152 boondoggles worth of economic punishment and the response from Brussels to the Greek people is F you, you suck and should suffer even more"

Given those two parallel news stories, the best bet to minimize suffering is to get out while you can. Basically the scaremongering about brexit doesn't reach the level of the journalist reports out of Greece and whats happening there today is coming to the UK unless they start running now.

I mean whats happening in Greece right now is awesome if you're a rich shareholder in a German bank. But a majority of UK people know who's going to get screwed and who's going to do the screwing when its time to squeeze the blood from the UK rock once they're done with Greece.

If the EU is so great, why aren't those UK citizens in support of it, emigrating en masse into Greece?
No, they're talking in nominal terms. Your salary will be twice as high in Zurich as it would be in say Munich, but you will also pay about twice as much for most things, be it groceries or rent.
My prediction: politicians and bureaucrats will spend 2 years producing tens of thousands of pages of new laws and new trade agreements and very little will actually change. Except for the tens of thousands of pages of new laws and trade agreements.

EU laws are basically incomprehensible currently, and the U.K. already has special relationships with the rest of the EU, like the separate currency, not being part of Schengen, etc.
And as part of that fight against racism and sexism we need to make sure that the AI's we create aren't biased from being created and trained mostly by one particular subset, the referenced "sea of dudes", because that's a pretty good way to perpetuate racism and sexism by our software.

I don't see what's so hard about that. And really, as a dude, to be offended because she said "sea of dudes" to mean that the field, which will probably impact the global society in a huge way, is dominated by men, and not as you imply diminish their contribution, is pretty thin skinned.
So is giving this power to an elite of politicians or technocrats. They are endowed with power but their personal interests are in conflict with the common good.
It does address the issue of adopted children - we as a culture have a fixed mindset for things like introversion and intelligence, and genetics do strongly influence our default level of both of those. Thus, adoptive parents observe the child and say "you're an introvert" or "you're not clever" and the default pattern is reinforced.

On the other hand, when a child displays an initial dislike for like Taylor Swift, her friends might say "you're crazy, Taylor Swift is awesome."

It's all just neural networks being reinforced or inhibited, the primary contribution of genetics is the default state of the network. In the case "fixed" personality characteristics, our culture is to reinforce the default networks, while for things we view as mutable, we have no qualms about training away default behavior.
Look, forget about any of the major parties (like, the following two, Tories and Labour). They are responsible for this mess, either because they wanted to cause it (that's half of the Tories and a quarter ish of Labour) or because they failed to stop it (three quarters of Labour).

The best chance the UK has to reverse the result of the referendum is Nicola Sturgeon being able to do what she suggested today, blocking the process of the triggering of article 50. If she really has the power to do that, then there's hope still. Otherwise, the UK is screwed.
http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~rhuef/courses/Notes5321-6321/t...

The risk is far greater when there's a gun around, especially for children. Also it's a bit disingenuous to compare death figures with self-defense incidents where the outcome may have been simple property theft. Injury would be more appropriate, and even that fails as a comparison.
Plus, just getting out of the house and walking can change your attitude.
You also need to factor that not everyone wants to relocate just to work in cool technology X as not everyone lives in a SV style technology hub.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Yet there's a whole subthread debating the wisdom of gun ownership because that's a popular axe to grind. Getting at the root of the issue is trickier. Clearly depression and suicide are popular topics on HN. We know that there's some kind of social problems that lead to depression and suicide, but the best some people can come up with is to talk about gun ownership.

Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r..., the US is in a tie for 50th place for suicide rates. So in spite of the fact that the US has a high gun ownership rate, we're not anywhere close to being the top of the suicide rates.

Also, recall the articles around middle aged death rates in the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10499434 One of the takeaways is that people may be committing de-facto suicide by following a pattern of life choices (addiction for example). The "Leaving Las Vegas" effect (if you saw the movie, recall Nicholas Cage's character tried to drink himself to death) is really hard to measure.

Side note: suicide is illegal in Nepal and "attempted suicide is illegal in Nepal and people who attempt suicide when caught are subject to imprisonment, fines or both", yet Nepal is ranked 7th on the list. One might be led to conclude that this law is ineffective, if not counter-productive.
You can't fight sexism and racism by being sexist and racist. It's also not sexist or racist to use the data provided by participants.
I started with their Economics course and I really loved it.

Their ongoing course on Video games...is less stellar than I hoped.
Hurray! We will at last have our crooked cucumbers and carrots, that the EU has for so long cruelly deprived us of!
Left sided traffic is the classic example of something that should be determined by bureaucrats. Whether to let French people vote on laws that directly bind British people is the perfect example of something that should not be determined by bureaucrats.
I have read Paul Ricoeur, and I think it's a better entry point in ethics.
Why cant they just also hash those three letter combinations they ask you? Not nearly as secure but I see many people saying that the plaintext must be stored to achieve this, and all I am thinking is that it would require you to store multiple hashes for each user, each a portion of their password.

Still a lot easier to guess a portion of a password than a password, but it doesnt follow in my mind that it is definitely in plaintext.
The UK will not be fine though. Scotland is all but certain to leave. Northern Ireland is also quite likely to find a way to reunite in part with Ireland. The UK will be dissolved in all but name.

And of course UK will still remain within international groups. But it will no longer be the key entry point for political, commercial and cultural engagement with Europe.

To manage that shift is not going to be easy nor rewarding.
I would be more sympathetic to your point of view, if I wasn't almost certain that many reactions in the vein of "this is so sexist against men" would be the exact same if she had used "There are almost only men" instead of "sea of dudes"
IMO all the drama is not over the significance of the vote itself but rather what it might portend:

* The end of the UK (not all parts voted to leave)

* The end of the EU (starts a domino effect for other withdrawals)

* The rise of the political right in Europe, and what that means for upcoming elections

* The rise of populism worldwide, and what that means for the US election

* Instability in financial markets due to uncertainty
Sure, but doing so without a rational justification is not.
And I thought that only the old fogies were the crazy lot. Pity.
I really don't get this... it seems like simply a way to create an environment where you need to prepend 'mac' to every command.
Remain lost by 1,269,501 votes.

Given that turnout among 16/17 year olds would have been far from 100% and that at least some of them would have voted Leave, it doesn't look like extending the vote to them would have been enough to change the result.
Absolutely, but he's still highly popular with the membership.

If the parliamentary party picked the leader, he never would be within sight of the job. Unfortunately Labour is in the all-to-familiar trap of only wanting purity, feeling that the entire country will surely swing to the far-left any second now. You would think being out of power for 18 years last time would have taught them, but apparently not.

Had they picked David Milliband to be their leader, he would be PM right now. Instead they decided Ed was more left-wing, and went for him instead. When that didn't work they decided "oh, the country won't elect someone that left... lets see if we can find someone WAY farther out there"

Deposing Corbyn would be a start, but unless there is a sudden bust of rationality among the party members it won't mean anything. They'll probably choose Marx's corpse next or something (continuing the recent run of North London leadership, naturally) On a serious note, they'd probably just re-elect Corbyn as leader giving him a fresh mandate within the party.

In the last leadership election Liz Kendall was the only candidate that looked to me like she had a chance to win a general election. She didn't even get 5% of the vote. Right now, Labour considers general-election appeal to be toxic.
Nice move the goalposts, that's for children aged 5–14. And since those ages are completely non-standard in the literature, we can be sure the data set was massaged until they could "prove" their point using just that interval.

Texas is the only state in the nation that allows the use of lethal force to protect property, so your other point fails, while, I grant, it's informally allowed to some extent elsewhere.
Sweden isn't in the Euro. The EU, yes, but they still use Swedish krona. Do you think the Swedes aren't as integrated?
Independece for Britain is a good thing.
People didn't like the rigged trade agreement.
It wasn't benefiting them. It was benefiting the
elite in London. Cheap jobs may be good for the rich, but not for the working folk.

Labor and Conservatives just didn't take the concerns of the majority seriously.
Free speech is only one aspect of freedom, it is possible to have free speech only within a bigger framework enabling the more general freedom.