skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The opening paragraph in that page literally says:

"[...] It is a machine learning based approach where a cascade function is trained from a lot of positive and negative images. [...]"
Easily. Terrorists are mostly incompotent. Im always surprised at how low the injuries are when a bombing happens. Most terrorists attacks fail to kill a single person. The internet helps a bit, letting terrorists look up how to make bombs a bit better. But they still suck.
More than anything, I would say that what "went wrong" is simply that the wind changed. Tech is driven by fashion more than anything else, something becomes "cool" and everyone scrambles to re-write perfectly good software in a new language for no particular reason (other than keeping their CVs up to date). Tcl is a powerful language that you can use to create complex systems with simple code, the holy grail. But instead the industry took a massive step backwards and said "event driven programming? let's use Javascript!"
The irony is that one of the touted business case reasons for diversity is that it gives a diversity of perspectives and ideas, which can be useful to solving a problem. I agree with this analysis. If we listen to Yontan though, any team that has a member with a different perspective will be punched in the face. That's a very clear argument for homogenous teams, at least as long as you don't want a workplace with constant fistfights.
Most lcd screens today use non-square pixels, OLED displays use non-equal sizes for different colors and o don't see anyone complaining about sharpness.
Aren't creature body sizes a function of some combination of food size and quantity? If so, what this hypothetical creature would eat?
This is AF training exercise Mobility Guardian. Nothing to see here.
Genetic algorithms and the like are still useful for various combinatorial search problems. Not everything can be mapped to a smooth function, and so there will always be (in my opinion at least) room for metaheuristics.
You've provided a well-thought-out, evidence-based response, but it seems people are disagreeing with the content.

I too agree that there are businesses out there that offload costs onto society. Some people use these services responsibly, enjoy a cost-savings, and will usually ardently defend the merits of the company that provides it.

Some number of other people do not use the service responsibly, and through their behavior, can cause serious harm, annoyance, and time/financial costs to random members of society.

Where Airbnb differs from casinos, breweries, tobacco companies, oxycotton manufacturers, payday loan brokers, fireworks manufacturers, bomb manufacturers...

is that Airbnb is a tech company, I guess.
> it's zoning, which forbids market-clearing prices and a sufficient number of units to satisfy demand for living in and visiting the city.

lol tourists and rich investors/other rich undesirables are ALWAYS going to outprice the lower and middle tiers, you need massive amounts of regulation to prevent rich-people-only city areas.
Since it's still very illegal at the federal level, the pot industry is generally very investment-averse. Financial companies don't want to get involved (already subject to plenty of federal regulation) and the risk of suddenly having to shut down overnight after trying something big and entirely new is another issue. Cannabis-based businesses tend to be pretty modest cash-only ventures that have learned from previous mistakes. A ghost-town-turned-themed-resort is asking for a lot of very negative attention with a business model that hasn't had to work out all the kinks of avoiding the DEA.
I spent a lot of time with Tcl, first at company some friends and I started in the late '90s, and then at Arbor Networks, where I dragged it into their service provider product.

In a Lisp, code is trivially parsed because everything is a tree of conses, and the language derives tremendous power from that.

In Tcl, code is trivially parsed because everything is a string, and the language is hamstrung by it; it's a little like trying to code a major project in Bourne shell.

For a time, Tcl had the best C integration story of the scripting languages, with a thoughtfully designed extension interface that was easy to use. But every major scripting language has that now.

Tcl was early to what I guess I'll call mainstream metaprogramming (obviously, Lisp got there first) with "upvar" and "uplevel" and [incr tcl]. But Ruby --- which bears a lot of similarities to Tcl --- did all that stuff much better and more cleanly.
One of the first products made in Nipton will be hemp water

They've gone too far...

Huge amounts of hemp must be processed in order to draw a small amount of CBD

OK, I guess it's just CBD, as opposed to THC which would be a potent bottle of water... Antianxiety aqua seems less extreme.
It's a basic fuzzy search, are you looking for a more cognitive search where it tries to find the meaning of entitled and returns a response?
For some context, this is a very old stackoverflow answer. At the time there was a bit of a meme on SO that any question about regex and HTML would be answered with "you can't parse HTML with regex" which of course is true, but was probably applied a bit overzealously as while you can't parse the full HTML language with a reg ex, you can extract data in limited scenarios or subsets.

This post was the culmination of that meme.
In the near future - if not already - people will call writing JS without a framework "bare metal".
The "Eye in the Sky" episode of Radiolab is definitely worth a listen.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/
I can't for the life of me understand why you're being downvoted. Other than your clear opinions, your analysis is spot on. This sums it up:

> It's an approach used by a lot of companies that I've started to think of as "societal strip mining". AirBnB is making it's money by offloading costs of business that it should rightfully pay itself to random other people around it, and pocketing the difference.

How can anyone disagree with that? That paragraph is pretty obviously true _regardless_ of whether you like or dislike Airbnb. They are quite obviously taking advantage of the economic conditions (and lack of enforcement of many laws) and engaging in a form of indirect arbitrage of the housing stock. It makes perfect business sense and you may even think it's good, but doesn't make the quoted paragraph and less true.

I'm not sure exactly where I stand with this in the big picture, but quotes like "You're simply demonstrating NIMBYism." are as overly simplistic. You could just as easily say the users of Airbnb are "simply demonstrating selfishness" in their taking advantage of places _not_ meant to be hotels.
Diversity based on grouping people together has several drawbacks, among others that "us and them" is strongly connected to hostility and dehumanization. Discrimination is only possible when people are sorted into distinct groups rather than embracing that all humans have some uniformable traits that define everyone as human.

A "us and them" thinking is directly linked to our emotional reaction to security. Many (majority?) feel more insecure when isolated and surrounded by people they associated as "them", with the opposite feeling when surrounded by "us". "us and them" is involved in practically every war ever fought, and many conflict is resolved by having the distinction of "us and them" being erased, rather then embrace how different "them" are and later embrace it.

I would like to think that society can truely embrace how similar people are and start to perceive everyone as belong to "us".
Take a look at sparrow - https://sparrowhub.org , this is framework to make it easy to develop and distribute command line utilities written on various languages - Perl, Bash, Python and Ruby. Many features included so don't have to spend your time on things you usually do when develop cli tools.
Marketing yourself as a designer
http://absolutelyfabulous.wikia.com/wiki/Patsy_Stone
Perhaps... Until it happens again next week.
If we're purely focused on economics, without any moral judegements or other human values inserted, then the answer is the typical answer for negative externalities. The companies that are exerting economic losses on others via pollution and loss of use of land and loss of health, etc. must pay for those losses in order for a free market to properly price the economic benefit of producing those chemicals. When local politicians say that they're not going to do that in order to attract these businesses, they are explicitly optimizing for worse economic outcomes.

Of course, taking a purely economic view is fairly cold and uncaring. The other issues should also be at play. But I don't think they offer anything more generous to these companies
The police and the community seems to be more respectful of each other. The serving of warrant and how they arrested him would be the total opposite in our current society.

The only thing that has not changed is the ruthless corporations treatment of their employees.
Can I help implement a full text search?
While I get that you could argue that 'pregnancy is the worst std' with 18+ years-long untreatable consequences, I don't really see the appeal for something that just targets pregnancy.

As a gay male, I would tend to favor condoms and other things that have a chance of reducing std transmission. If anything, the AIDS epidemic taught us that STDs are just as serious as pregnancies.

Ultimately it comes down to not fucking complete strangers and using protection when you do. For long term relationships, there are so many options: pills, IUDs, condoms, plan b, and even abortion.

I'm much more interested in research into how to make condoms more effective and better treatments for unsolved problems, like herpes, HIV, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, etc. (antibiotic resistance is still a thing btw).
Nor will your own storage lock you out because you've annoyed a state actor, while a cloud provider will roll over.
Remove Bias Out of Job Interviews
Well, the original article was about urban environments - not single family homes.
Looks like a lot of hard work went into this, nice job. However, the app simply doesn't work. Clicking login did nothing, then a minute later the screen said I need to be "logged in to post", routing not working as expected and many links to the external original story are your github.io site with undefined as part of the path.
Why would stating that, on average, a certain group has certain characteristics make those that are further from the mean, or even complete outliers, feel shitty?

For example pointing out that people with darker skin, which strongly correlated with certain ethnic groups, are more protected from UV radiation shouldn't make someone from that same ethnic group feel shitty if they happen to have lighter skin.

I suppose I would agree that terms masculine and feminine are pretty subjective and more culturally defined so one could more easily take offense.
That sounds terrible, but would it be less terrible if your loud and obnoxious neighbors were long term renters?

My vacation rentals have rules, especially about noise. If you break the rules I can literally force you to leave right then, as in, collect your stuff and go right now. You have no recourse. The police will help me toss you if you don't go willingly.

If I rented to you long term, I don't have that luxury. I'd have to evict you over months of court precedings and you'd have plenty of time to vindictively trash my property. In fact, this is one of the main reasons I don't do long term rentals.
Even if I personally know that by happenstance, I'm not allowed to use it? Laws that try to regulate my private thoughts are much scarier than surveillance.
Also it should be mentioned that female contraceptive is also advertised for beneficial side effects, like reducing the symptoms of PMS. While there are surely hormonal cycles that men experience, there really is no regular, painful, recurring symptom to be relieved.
If they were searching for a male CEO it would be sexist. If they are searching for a female CEO, it's great!
First, I agree that non-hormonal contraception decreases a lot of the risk associated with hormonal contraception (almost tautological, but worth stating).

Second, there is no increase in mortality between women who use oral contraceptive pills and women who do not (with the exception of women over 35 who smoke; OCPs are contra-indicated in this group).

For any OCP-users who might read this, there is no overall increase in cancer associated with OCPs, though some cancers are more likely with OCPs and others are less likely with OCPs.

Many of the side effects you're mentioning are either rare (hypertension, stroke/blood clots) benign (maybe you mean hepatic adenoma when you say liver disease?) or things I have not heard of (would appreciate scholarly references; gall bladder disease, heart disease[not sure what you mean here]).

> Taking pills to inferfere with your normal hormonal and bodily functions is not a great idea, when there are other options with fewer or no side-effects

In general, all medications have risks and benefits. A blanket statement such as this one ignores the risk-benefit calculation that each patient and her physician must assess in picking a medication.
The ocean is mostly water, so hypothesizing the size of a whale is not the best idea for long term thinking.
Being a sensitive man, an ambitious/aggressive woman, etc. is not and should not be treated like obesity. Expecting conformity to these norms causes a great deal of real-world harm (for starters: repressed emotions creating mental health crises in manly men, timidity leading to poor career outcomes for feminine women), and it is right and proper that we ostracize and exclude people who are looking to do so.

We should celebrate people displaying traits that are well-adapted to the situation at hand, not the traits they "should" have based on some immutable identity bit.
This topic has obviously become highly socio-political. The current fashion is that there are basically NO biological sex-type differences; that any sex-type differences are socially imposed and generally disadvantageous to women. I think a meta-study style article like this useful to show all the rich and varied science on the matter and to help spark a dialogue around "what if?". If we assume even half of the implications of the cited studies here are true, then that is plenty of sex-type difference to recon with. The citings show as many differences favoring women as they do men. They are just that -- differences, each with their requisite pros and cons. It just makes sense that an intelligent evolutionary process would have lead to the sexes as being best as partners with a division of complimentary abilities and preferences. I can't see us making much progress on the societal equalization across sexes if we don't embrace and harness the very real differences that exist between them.
One of the main things these aircraft do is to record video over long periods of time. It could follow vehicles from known work sites back to their origin, pinpointing the homes of day laborers. That's one thing I can think of, there are probably a lot more. Like sigint on certain types of mobile phones calling internationally etc.
I don't get that war - configure your editor to convert your tabs to spaces. Precision.
I and many others use Airbnb for business travel (sole proprietorship or small non-profit in my case), because only by being able to cook my own food I can afford to make a week-long trip that may or may not pay off later. Comments like yours (and there are many in this thread, not to single you out) are a bit rude and ignore that many travelers are there for economic survival, not to blow money shopping and puke on the steps.
Comment 1: > It's not great, but the idea that attacking people verbally is somehow "better" than attacking them physically is wrong.

Comment 2: > Solving disagreements through discussion is better than solving them through violence

lol, always amusing when I assume both intelligence and good faith when discussing things on the internet.

You think I'd learn.
"But what these businesses have turned into are marketplaces for exactly what they were trying to replace"
I suggest you actually go and talk to a few Uber/Lyft drivers. Most of the ones I talked to are not your usual taxi drivers. Many of them do it part time for the flexibility and have other interesting activities while not driving.
Thank you for writing this. I can't help but notice that your story works on a much larger scale as well, unfortunately there is no 'California' to run to on that scale.
>To use single differences to claim men are better at software like the Google guy did is just stupid

No. The google author never claims anything of this sort. In one of his minor points, he argues that why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech may be explained through biological causes, backed by statistical studies. He never claims men are better at software, that's something you made up.

His core point, is actually he wants to promote diversity, as in the author believes certain viewpoints (specifically conservative ones) are suppressed at google which prevents honest discussion. He argues this suppression is causing an ideological echo chamber.

To me it seems like you responding to what you think his point is, not his actual point. The original document has now been leaked, the author's views are clearly explained in the tl;dr section http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-div...
Are you referring to this talk?

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Because, like Uber, for customers it is a massive improvement over the alternative. ... The level of myopia here is staggering.

It is indeed. You, the host, and AirBnB are splitting the gains from ignoring laws designed to internalize externalities. Instead you celebrate privatizing benefits and pushing costs onto others. Yes, it benefits you in the short run. Most anti-social behavior does.

Do you teach your children that it is okay for a company to dump toxic waste in a river as long as they pass along some of the savings to their customers?
You're talking about stating an observation; parent is talking about celebrating group characteristics.

The main problem here is that when you celebrate stereotypical traits, you ostracize people from the group who don't have the stereotypical traits.
What percentage of programming performance is visualizing rotations of 3d objects in your head?

The parent's post is based on a reasonable heuristic: Programming is an activity with challenges that require a broad set of skills both technical and social. If such work requires a sufficient diversity of skills to be done effectively, differences in individual skills are less important than the proficiency of the group as a whole.

Heuristics are the only thing that can guide here. How many studies are there that bridge the gap between basic cognitive tasks and something as complex as creating software at a company?
Apparently the "shrillest" moment of the "red scare" was correctly convicting two communist spies of treason.
Blame the browser. If Brendan Eich had tried to repurpose an existing language instead of mashing together a new one; or if Microsoft had used their de-facto monopoly in early '00 to push abetter language, JS wouldn't be as big as it is today.
As an Airbnb employee I hope you don't mind feature requests. ;)

I have severe animal allergies, so using Airbnb is quite annoying for me, there's a way to filter for places that allow pets but not the inverse. Every time I try to use Airbnb I have to look at tons of places to find one that doesn't have or allow pets. It would be really awesome to be able to just eliminate pet places from my search.
Any plans on a JavaScript SDK?
There's also this which occurred in NYC in the 70s and remains unsolved:

http://observer.com/2016/01/why-hasnt-washington-explained-t...
Yes, I know that. That analysis was a bit of a straw man. Like I said, the real problem is that I couldn't think of any interpretation under which that claim was plausible. Maybe that's simply due to a lack of imagination on my part, but the way to argue that is to present a plausible interpretation, not to simply proclaim that "that's not how probability works."
Yes, one problem with affirmative action is that accepts some collateral damage in the form of individually unjust outcomes, even if it makes the world as a whole more just.
There is no hotel zoning that any city would come up with that would allow for the creation of one-room hotels in the middle of condo and apartment buildings.
Fortunately, most sites don't do this. I don't understand why it's done in the first place, though.

It's mentally agitating when I go to scroll on a webpage and it doesn't do what I expect.

And what content authors should be most concerned about: it distracts viewers from the site's content, because I'm thinking "what just happened to my mouse". And that reaction is the antithesis of what content creators should want: they should want to engage me, and explore the site more deeply.
I think it is how dangerous the reaction with alcohol is. Most drugs with alcohol make you extra drunk. This one gives you a heart attack.
Scaling MongoDB by Kristina Chodorow. Reading Notes
If you're in a relationship and are both clean, STDs are not an issue. However when only the female takes the pill its efficiency isn't 100%, so there is still a tiny risk of pregnancy. Having the male take a pill or similar contraception will pretty much nullify that risk (both the female and male pill would have to fail in this case)
Contraline, the polymer gel injection covered in the article, is a YC F3 (summer 2016) company. Kevin says he's on the road right now, but he'll be around later to answer any questions.

[0] http://contraline.com
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Stop visiting those sites -> ad revenue dries up -> problem resolves itself. But my approach is woefully idealistic.
I am looking for matches that contain the word "entitled". Nothing else. This search seems way too fuzzy.
I have two questions. First which claim? I think I see at least two separate claims in memkpos post (that cognitive differences exist and that they don't matter). Second, what experiments are you referring to that disprove memkpos claim? I ask only to clarify.
I believe that was the standard at Google for a while?
Yes: you can be evicted over persistent noise complaints.
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html#private-vari...
That trace is not as bad as I remember but if you write that in a nice long multi-line series of if-statements (say) it’ll still print out the whole mess and only tell you one useless line number. If there’s a "proc" it’s a little better but it can only show the bad line number relative to the "proc", requiring you to do some manual work to find the function within the file and then the offending statement line.

Also, I have no problem with the logical "$x" syntax; rather, the fundamental flaw is that the string "x" could be used to change the variable "x" without any clue in the syntax that this may happen (e.g. no "&x" like in C, no "\$x" like in Perl; just "x", or worse "$y" that resolves to "x"). And don’t even get me started on multi-level "upvar". This whole thing is a minefield, especially if people use simple variable names that can’t be searched in a code base. If you’re really unlucky, you accidentally swap the order of parameters and it just so happens that your "$x" value is almost plausible so you never notice the disaster you just created. It’s simply a “write once, modify never” coding style: it saves the programmer 10 seconds and creates the most brittle of code. I would never recommend it to anyone.
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