skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.newsweek.com/why-parents-may-cause-gender-differe...

>In one, scientists dressed newborns in gender-neutral clothes and misled adults about their sex. The adults described the "boys" (actually girls) as angry or distressed more often than did adults who thought they were observing girls, and described the "girls" (actually boys) as happy and socially engaged more than adults who knew the babies were boys. Dozens of such disguised-gender experiments have shown that adults perceive baby boys and girls differently, seeing identical behavior through a gender-tinted lens. In another study, mothers estimated how steep a slope their 11-month-olds could crawl down. Moms of boys got it right to within one degree; moms of girls underestimated what their daughters could do by nine degrees, even though there are no differences in the motor skills of infant boys and girls. But that prejudice may cause parents to unconsciously limit their daughter's physical activity. How we perceive children—sociable or remote, physically bold or reticent—shapes how we treat them and therefore what experiences we give them. Since life leaves footprints on the very structure and function of the brain, these various experiences produce sex differences in adult behavior and brains—the result not of innate and inborn nature but of nurture
The only possibility outside of ignoring it is to sell the BCH coins and pocket the money. They have told their customers what they need to do if they want to access the BCH chain. If they choose not to, they are owed nothing.
Mapping the Neural Substrates of Behavior
I am sorry I prefer an ugly device which is more powerful and provides more value for the money for less than half of the price of its competitor.
Yes. All iOS devices with the exception of the original iPhone are like this: they have a cellular baseband iff they have GPS.
Are they claiming that the 5-word comment "Radical Islam is a problem" adds something worthwhile to some debate? Evidence of HN threads where people make such provocative but unsubstantive comments is that they quickly devolve into hate-fueled bickering.

I don't know what their filters do, but if they're any good a thoughtful critique of radical Islam (or anything else) would pass.
Agreed. To date, Deep Learning has accomplished outstanding levels of discrimination and classification by combining supervised learning with probabilistic pattern matching. But it's widely acknowledged that most human learning is unsupervised and relies heavily on building upon large hierarchies of facts, their interdependencies, and a deep reliance on causation, none of which DL has yet shown any real facility toward realizing. One-shot examples of one-shot learning doth not a facile brain make.

Until DL shows significant progress toward these -- building knowledgebases and enabling their reuse -- and does so at the superlinear rate of development it's achieved for pattern recognition, I think it's likely that further development of the missing components of AGI will remain gradual and decades away.
> Were you jumping up and down and holding your breath when San Jose built office space and very little housing for exactly the same reason during the first dotcom boom?

Yes. The sprawling office parks and snakey 8 lane roads of northern San Jose are a fucking miserable mess. But the concentration of offices and condos in downtown San Jose is probably the only thing resembling sensible urban planning in the whole South Bay.
Why would you want to?

Windows is for corporates putting spreadsheets in front of coin counters.

For everything else there is Linux (or FreeBSD), which is probably why Micro$oft is porting SQL server to it.
I guess Chinese government shares the same idea.

Joking aside, this is why social science is inherently intractable. The only way to mitigate is to educate citizens, not censorship or regulations. But education is not only hard, also highly profitable...
I don't where are you sending them but in my country, even though we have a zip code, it is not relevant. If you include it, great. If you don't, your package will still arrive. For this reason, nobody knows their zip code.
Oh, I see it now. Thanks for clarifying!

In that case, you needn't have kept the denominator around at all. Since P(w) is not based on a class i.e. its not class conditioned, the classifier could have directly calculated P(C_1|w)/P(C_0|w). The P(w) term cancels out, and you end up with the product of ratios of feature probabilities conditioned on the classes.

Note though that, for K-classes, K>2, the number of parameters you need to store would blow up. You would need have these N ratios: P(w_j|C_x)/P(w_j|C_y) for all possible classes x,y. Here N is the number of features. So, in all N*C(K,2) values. On the contrary, multiclass softmax regression (the discriminative analogue for NB) would need NK parameters.
While you are not wrong from an idealistic perspective, it's not such a clear cut issue. Pretty much all multi-billion dollar businesses with large captive audiences are influenced and backed by entrenched interests who have no qualms about directing and filtering the narrative according to their interests. In fact I would assert that the majority of the corporate censorship is done in the service of powerful and moneyed interests rather than any concern for morals or the enjoyment of their userbase.
> 64-bit MSVC doesn't support inline assembly

Wow. That's a big omission on Microsoft's part! I wonder how they themselves are getting around it for Win64 performance sensitive code.
Will you be able to rent a cheap car, though? I'd expect that rental cars are going to be like hotels--greatly jacked up in price on rental periods that include the eclipse, if any are even still available.
It's really only problematic if you want businesses to use it. They don't just want the right to use it, they want to be given permission explicitly. One reason is that public domain is not recognized everywhere. It's unlikely a static site generator needs to worry about being public domain.
The shareholders of any company can give themselves a dividend if a majority agree to it and the company has money to pay for the dividend. That is an inherent part of all stock in for-profit companies. So stocks don't inherently give you dividends, but they do inherently come with the possibility of dividends.
I graduated (undergrad) in Dec. from a strong non-engineering university in CS w/ no internship. I got interviews and eventually a job by making a list of companies that i'd want to work at (based on my background, passion, etc), then finding contacts at those companies to inquire about them hiring jr engineers. A good place to start is the monthly 'whos hiring' post, because a lot of times those comments have contacts attached to them. Unless the post explicitly states "no new grads" and you like the company, add it to your list. if there are companies on your list with no contact, use LinkedIn to find engineers there, then search for their personal sites/blogs for an email address.

Once you have your companies and contacts, start sending cold emails. Give them links to relevant projects and see if their company is open to hiring jr engineers/post-grad interns (a lot of people will appreciate your humility here) and if they'd be willing to get coffee with you (if you have the chance to get there physically). I would group a bunch of these meetings together then buy a flight to a city for 48hrs and just bounce from meeting to meeting getting to know engineers and seeing if they are the type of people I could work well with. If you jibe well with them, your first round interview is already done.

Although engineers will remain in high demand, finding a job is all sales and a lot of work. People in this industry are some of the kindest around, but they are busy. make it as easy as possible for them to help you out and they will. Afterwards, regardless of the outcome with the company, thank them and stay in touch. Once you do find a job, let everyone who was willing to help you out along the way know. They'll remember you in the future when they're looking to fill experience-unlimited roles or for when you're ready to move on.

Also, if you are ever in LA let me know!
> This is possible because Dave Cutler and the rest of his VMS team built Windows NT to support multiple personalities.

Although it would seem logical, the WSL doesn't actually use this system. The whole pico process engine and how it interacts with Windows is all new and not related to that design. I'm not really sure the reasoning behind it; perhaps it didn't allow them to do the level of integration they wanted.
How can 4,400 homes net only $1 million in property taxes? Tell me where I can sign up to pay $227 in annual property taxes!
I don't think they're. There're many great ones, very powerful & slick designs. I think you fall into Apple's illusions.
It seems to have a problem with Jews and the letter a in particular.

"I am a Jew": 78% likely to be perceived as "toxic".

"I am a Jewish" 34% likely to be perceived as "toxic".

"I am Jewish": 14% likely to be perceived as "toxic".

"I am a Christian": 9% likely to be perceived as "toxic".

"I am Christian": 3% likely to be perceived as "toxic".

"I am a Muslim": 4% likely to be perceived as "toxic".

"I am Muslim": 2% likely to be perceived as "toxic".

It does not like the word "Islam" or "Jew", but "Judaism" and "Muslim" are fine.
You can still write routines in assembly, you cant write it inline.
Can you define "undesirable"?
There's no way to answer that without a bias.

It depends which Mac you feel is most comparable to the Surface Laptop, what value is placed on Touchbar (if any), what value is placed on a touchscreen (if any), how much value you place on a slightly faster integrated GPU or a slightly faster CPU (Macbook Pro 13" or Surface Laptop respectively), and numerous other metrics.

Broadly speaking I'd likely say, "similar," but there might also be a $200 saving buying the Surface Laptop relative to a similarly spec-ed Macbook Pro 13". I don't consider that a significant saving when we're discussion laptops costing over $1200, but the savings grow as price increases.
This doesn't look very unbiased. It shows the "HTML5" version being slow in terms of scrolling through a page, clicking on a tab, and using a slider. Most websites, even on really old phones, scroll just fine, and the same applies to tabs. The slider thing seemed like a very valid concern, but then I googled "range slider" and clicked on the very first link (rangeslider.js.org) and it worked absolutely perfectly on my phone.

There were also two things they said the HTML5 version didn't have at all - a virtual keyboard and clicking on an image. Tapping on images is something people have been doing in HTML for a very, very, very long time. It's not that hard, and it works just fine. I'd say it's probably pretty difficult to mess up.

I think the real advantage shown in the video was the virtual keyboard. I just googled "virtual keyboard" and tapped on the first link on my phone, and the experience was awful.
AFAIK Android was already under development but arrival of iPhone caused it to be completely modified before release.
> Until you've built something people want to play, addressing lag (and similar tertiary problems) is solving a hypothetical problem for a hypothetical player.

Sadly those are not always hypothetical players. Gamers can be very demanding when it comes to such things as performance and especially network performance in anything related to PvP.

Tho, I agree with your premise: Have something that's fun first, then deal with everything around it. I just don't think it's that easy in practice when a lot of the player feedback boils down to "I couldn't tell you if the game is fun or not because your crappy netcode keeps getting me killed, that's not fun at all!".

In that regard, Steam forums for EA titles are sometimes their very own circle of hell.
Well, yes and no. You are right that it is essential to spend a whole lot of money on health services. But if drugs are illegal then a great deal of those limited funds go instead to policing.

Besides that, people are a whole lot more likely to voluntarily go for help if they know they won't be arrested for what they have been doing.
The virtue of the Atari games is that they can run at 500 FPS per core, so you can train an RL agent in an hour on a small cluster. When working on fundamentals of the algorithms, being able to iterate quickly makes a huge difference in overall progress. Of course, the idea is that once the algorithms work well we can apply them to real problems, where they'll take months or years to learn something valuable.
For what?

I own a Surface Pro 3 and a Surface Book. Both have only been improved through firmware updates after release. There was actually some pain points on the SP3 right around release that caused some headaches.
Pipes is an odious person in his own right.. If Google ranks his posts lower than normal sources, I'd consider that algorithm working well.

> To borrow a computer term, if Ayatollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, and Nidal Hasan represent Islamism 1.0, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (the prime minister of Turkey), Tariq Ramadan (a Swiss intellectual), and Keith Ellison (a U.S. congressman) represent Islamism 2.0. The former kill more people but the latter pose a greater threat to Western civilization.

And he obviously doesn't understand what Silicon Valley Community Foundation is.. SVCF is a public charity that holds Donor Advised Funds for its clients. The checks to the charities that he dislikes came from the SVCF bank account, but only because one of their clients advised SVCF to give them a grant. Since all of SVCF's grants are available, you can easily see that the money went to the SFBay Area branch of CAIR who lately have been filing civil rights lawsuits against the Muslim ban.. not exactly Hezbollah: https://twitter.com/CAIRSFBA
You can find the referenced transcript of Shannon’s lecture here:

https://plus.google.com/+ShayanYassami/posts/cWJnsaN5nEc
Search for mp3 player on Amazon. You'll find pages of similar devices for under $20. Many of them look identical to the Nano and Shuffle.
I've found that for static html it's easiest to put all the files into one directory, manually create an index file, and copy a five-line Makefile into the directory that compiles everything to html using Pandoc. I wasted too much time using something written the way others wanted it. When I wanted to change something, I'd be digging through bad documentation (if it was documented at all). I'd have to remember a gazillion different configuration options. Sometimes automation makes things worse, because you'll never use most of the options, yet they get in your way, and it's at best just good enough, never the way you want.
Microsoft's other official name for it is "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows". "BOUOW", it just rolls right off the tongue.

You know what they say: "there's only 2 hard problems in programming: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors". That team appears to be particularly bad at the first.
Why Spotify Lowered the Volume of Songs and Ended Hegemonic Loudness
There are plenty of aluminum rectangle Windows machines now.

I just bought a Lenovo gaming laptop (it was an amazing deal) and I'm actually surprised that it isn't super fugly. Gaming laptops are all a bit over-the-top design-wise but Lenovo actually used a little restraint. It also came with no bloatware.
But IRL trolling isn't banned, why should it be on the internet?
You are right to say

> If you asked someone 10 years ago about the possibilities of ML/Deep learning they'd say it was far off too.

But when you read a little more about recent advances, you gain a healthy respect for the difficulty of the problems that are still left to solve. That tends to make researchers have lower expectations for an easy emergence of AGI than the general public.

We can't even generate a whole page of text that doesn't sound silly, with any neural network or AI algorithm to date. We're a long way off.
The solution to online "censorship" IMO is to allow users to choose to view content which has been stripped of trolling vs. raw content. If this user control is effective and accurate, most people will choose to hide trolls, and they'll lose most of their power.

The big problem, more than anything, is that it isn't just "fuzzy" to define what constitutes trolling; it's very hard, and furthermore it's one of those problems where human-controlled fail-overs don't work. Individual moderators suck at controlling trolls on average, both because of their biases and their limited experience as finite people. I've seen this in action behind the scenes moderating more than one large Internet forum; sometimes it's very hard to determine whether a particular user deserves to be banned, particularly when people are vocal about controversial topics. The most effective way to promote civility, in my experience, is to ban certain topics altogether.

So when people say "should we automatically remove trolls"", I think, well, should we build a fusion reactor? Should we desalinate all the water used in Los Angeles? Should we give people an MRI every time they might have fractured a bone? Should we pull a third of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere? Should we eradicate mosquitoes? Should we build Hyperloop?

Sure...
Haha. I almost spit my drink out imagining saying GNU/Windows to a specific friend.
Clicking through links gave me this gem[1] by a Daniel Pipes:

> "If I were a Muslim I would let you know," Barack Obama has said, and I believe him. In fact, he is a practicing Christian, a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is not now a Muslim.

> But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a Muslim? More precisely, might Muslims consider him a murtadd (apostate), that is, a Muslim who converted to another religion and, therefore, someone whose blood may be shed?

...

> These statements raise two questions: What is Obama's true connection to Islam and what implications might this have for an Obama presidency?

Hmm, yeah, definitely someone qualified to lecture Silicon Valley on free speech.

[1] http://www.danielpipes.org/5286/was-barack-obama-a-muslim
But it seems that increased economic benefits aren't shared. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, average adjusted worker wages in the US from ~1975 to present, etc.

I'm concerned that 'some short term disruption' will actually be quite widespread and long-lasting, given increasing interdependencies.
But isn't spontaneous deployment of airbags causing grave injury also an edge case? [1]

Not only do I wear a seatbelt since that incident but I'm also, by orders of magnitude, a more conscientious driver than I was prior.

[1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
5.2.x is old, but that doesn't mean it's simple or easier to implement.
Starting the Avalanche: Application DDoS in Microservice Architectures
Yeah but with ICOs he doesn't really need to be paid directly. If he justs buys at the ICO price, promotoes it 'own his own', and dumps it after his marketing efforts have increased the price, that would be legal (?).
I thank my lucky stars that this will never get off the ground. The last thing we need is another naive idealist defining the structure of our government.
> Does he disagree with the assessment these are "toxic" statements? I would love to see an online conversation where these comments did not lead the thread into flames.

He's kind of a nutter.. his entire raison d'être is to sound the alarm about Islamism.

The irony of his piece about the evils of algorithms labeling sources is apparently lost on the person who founded an organization explicitly to police speech on college campuses: http://www.campus-watch.org/
Happy Sysadmin Day
Yup. I haven't booted by Ubuntu VM since I installed it.
I definitely agree that it shouldn't hog all the money and interest - I just don't think that it's hogging a disproportionate share right now. Musk and Altman's OpenAI is a drop in the bucket in the universe of philanthropy. In the AI field, the bulk of work at companies and research at univesities is not going toward existential risk mitigation.

I think the "If society can get through these issues, then..." perspective is fundamentally flawed. We will always, always have urgent problems. Guanranteed. We need to work hard on them. But we also need to work a little bit on the big things that are not of most immediate concern. I think a great analogy for this is climate change. If people in the early Industrial Revolution knew what we know now about greenhouse gases, they wouldn't have been inclined to worry. The amount they were putting into the atmosphere just was not significant, and even if it rose sharply, it would be many generations before there might be an issue. And yet, if people had put some focus on long-term threats, we might be in less dire straits now.

I definitely sympathize with your experience as an AI educator being constantly peppered with hypotheticals about superintelligence. I love your fast.ai course and I am sure you'd rather talk about teaching AI than about something that may or may not be an issue decades from now. But that doesn't mean the issue doesn't deserve more funding.

Musk's topic choice may seem repetitive to us, as we are in the tech world and read about/discuss this topic all the time. But a bunch of older politician types probably have not even been exposed to these ideas of existential risk, and as they hold a lot of power, it's not a bad thing to educate them on. For what it's worth, Musk also spent a lot of time discussing nearer-term implications like job displacement.
What I read is that what "lane splitting" is was legally defined in 2016 but the action was not officially sanctioned or made illegal. Illegal lane splitting is covered under reckless driving. You can see some of the CHP recommended guidelines here[1]. If you have a reference for the lane-splitting legislation, I'd appreciate it as a California rider myself.

[1]http://lanesplittingislegal.com/assets/docs/CHP-lane-splitti...
> Considering women are told to smile by complete strangers on the street you can't just go ahead and disregard cultural conditioning.

As a dude, I get told to smile pretty frequently. I don't think this has anything to do with sex most of the time (though there are sexists, obvs).
Obviously the article is to inform readers, not aimed at Floyd. The title is just to get clicks.
Does using the system change power consumption / battery life?
Stem cell brain implants could 'slow ageing and extend life', study shows
I'm not against moderation at all. But I feel really weird about it when it comes to politics.

I was a moderator on a default subreddit for a year or two. I saw mods censor even relatively polite and thought out comments that had the "wrong" political message. In some cases nuking entire threads because they didn't like the ideas being discussed. This article gives solid examples of this tool filtering comments that happen to discuss Islam or terrorism. Likely the person who trained it had some kind of political bias that this tool is reinforcing.

On the other side of the coin, the vast majority of comments that should be removed aren't targeted by this tool at all. E.g. inane joke comments by people who were adding nothing to the conversation. These aren't "toxic" or harmful, but they take over and crowd out actual discussion.
I can imagine solar powered ai-run portable snipers covering large territories and murdering a lot of civilians over an extended period of time. Think forgotten land mines.
Thanks for sharing that link. You can see from the product that neither the CEO (Adlink), President (Gannett), Dir or Eng (P&G) have any experience with vehicles.

I love that they are doing a hybrid stepside truck chassis with BMW engines but I hope they have something else. A public NASDAQ company that has $90M in paid-in capital but only $10M cash now, had better sell to stay alive. I hope they do. The basic idea is good; they need to execute.