skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Deep neural networks more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation
Sooooo your source is gamergate/redpill bullshit propaganda. Okay. Have fun with that.
"Another potential complication for the company is that public filings show that three senior executives, including chief financial officer John Gamble, sold shares worth almost $1.8m in the days after the attack was detected."

quote from FT.com
If there's a gold rush, sell shovels. I can see no other viable reason for Google to buy HTC. They surely don't want to manufacture phones. I can't think of any major patents HTC holds on the mobile arena, can you? There was a recent article about their phone division having financial trouble.
This is part of the standard FDA procedure. It starts with a formal warning letter (they send out many of those each year, for varying degrees of severity), and give the company a chance to address the non-conformities and violations. If a company fails to address the issues found, further action is taken, as evidenced by this bit from the end of the letter:

"Correct the violations cited in this letter promptly. Failure to promptly correct these violations may result in legal action without further notice including, without limitation, seizure and injunction. Unresolved violations in this warning letter may also prevent other Federal agencies from awarding contracts."

I've recently browsed through these warning letters for educational purposes (they're all publicly published on the FDA website), and this is by far the sternest letter I've seen.
I am not concerned about job safety as a parent as yes there are plenty of opportunities. And I'm not even in the US where it's even better from what I gather.

What is important is being paid well and in Sydney that requires being paid pretty much the top advertised rates. It's still not enough to support a family and live a middle class lifestyle, so partner needs to work.

Requiring good pay generally means taking more demanding jobs which then can be tiring when dealing with family life. This is something I'm trying to figure out how to solve or at least adjust to.
Block it for a month as an experiment.
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But that's moving the goal posts...? It's significantly easier to launch a website from scratch today, there are even more frameworks with very easy to follow tutorials and hello world-examples to extend to also make it look good. One simple one-liner copy for eg bootstrap.

What's changed is that it is today even _possible_ "for a 10 year old in the 2010s to grab terabytes of data and process it". Wait a little while for the "easy" part :)
What I don't understand about this situation, is that the EpiPen is not covered by patents. It's been off patent for a long time. Why aren't other companies stepping in and making a competing product? If it's off patent and they can make the same product for cheaper, then the branded EpiPen sales will decline which will force them to lower their price.

There is definitely a market failure here, but it's not clear why.
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Beej's guides are the best way to get started quickly (i.e. in the time frame of a university course). For a more thorough introduction, one should probably read "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" and "UNIX Network Programming", both from Richard Stevens.

Jens Gustedt has also written a rather nice ebook on how to program in modern C: https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/modern-c-is-now-fea...
Pretty incredible that a self-proclaimed IOTA adviser thought it prudent to attack the author in public[0].

[0] - https://medium.com/@jer979/disclosure-im-an-advisor-to-iota-...
If you're asking the question then the answer is probably yes. You're asking this question for a reason.

Be 100% honest with yourself and ask "what would the optimal version of me be doing instead of reading HN".

If you're doing all these things and being the best version of yourself you won't feel bad going on HN 100 times a day.
The "president of U.S. information solutions" had no knowledge of a massive information breach. Sure...
I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to by macros. A container for boilerplate code to avoid repetition, as in templating languages? If so, the React solution would probably be extracting a simple component which just provides markup.
Programming doesn't necessarily have to be job training. It can be useful, and even joyous, outside of a the modern office setting.
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The title is click-bait and also somewhat wrong since the vulnerabilities discovered are curl-specific not IOTA in general and also they no longer exist since IOTA has moved to Keccak.
This is more like the storm blaming the weatherman for the storm. They're blaming people for noticing they're making shitty movies.
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A Node.js opensource lib to send transactional notifications, what next?
Hi, I developed this SDK to help save time when integrating transactional notifications. I'm looking for other ideas to work on as opensource projects.

What else do you think would be useful for your projects?

- Perfect deliverability?

- Cost reduction?

- Template definition?

- Devtools?

- Other?
If only... It still works more often that it should. A huge number of productions of bad acting, terrible writing and copy/pasta all over the place. But they still score good.

I've yet to understand how something like transformers have so good ratings. Even as action movies they are terrible.

As long as customers still vote with their money for piles of garbages, they will release more garbage.
If that was the intention from the beginning they would have divested the smartphone business immediately rather than doing it 2.5 years later.

It's likely and possible that the patents were the primary purpose for the acquisition. But they put too much money & effort into the handset business to suggest that they never intended to make a go of it.
> it was once an obviously stupid idea to believe the earth wasn't flat, or that the sun didn't revolve around it.

When, though? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth it's been considered spherical since at least the 6th century BC (first documented mention) and Aristarchus had a heliocentric model in ~250BC.
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Hi guys, I am planning to rewrite some of the traditional ASP.NET application with Angular 4. There are about 20+ such applications. Some will be built using NodeJS as server side application based on the complexity.

Once i have developed all the applications, i was thinking bringing them together in an electron application by making it a navigation board for all these applications.Then i can share this desktop app which they can use to access the Angular web apps.The electron app will act as a browser for the 20+ applications.

I was thinking that since i will accessing those website only through my electron app, i will not face any cross browser compatibility issues.

Please share your inputs
From the perspective of these workers, I suspect many presume it is better to live off welfare than attempt to rely on unreliable work.
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In cultures where homosexuals are persecuted, a tool like this could be devastating.
Hyperscript markup looks like a nice replacement for JSX. The source for hyperscript-react is 50 lines of code, including comments and empty lines, so it's fairly easy to learn:

https://github.com/mlmorg/react-hyperscript/blob/master/inde...
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> If I can't live with that thought, then it has to be done concurrently.

What does it mean to say that you "can't live with" that thought? If in fact having that thought would cause your death, then I recommend avoiding death. However, if you are saying that figuratively, consider the possibility that you might be taking a less effective action simply due to your discomfort with the reality that we have limited time on this earth. Consider the possibility that you might be better off tolerating that discomfort and narrowing your focus to a few things rather than a dozen.

(Or maybe you're just designing a well-balanced week that is made up of tango lessons, a side-project, and your job. I dunno. You're an autonomous agent.)
As of now, we are funding the payouts ourselves. Not scalable for sure so when it starts pinching the pocket, we'll have to figure out how to continue paying content creators.
This is very likely the same as detecting women by "they have long hair" - it's not finding intrinsic characteristics, but social ones.
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That's not correct. If a brand name is listed, a generic can (and usually is) substituted. They (the pharmacists) only don't if "DAW" (Dispense As Written) is written as well.

Here is a state-by-state guide on how to write a prescription to ensure the brand name drug is not substituted.[1]

This is all not relevant though, as EpiPen is not considered to have a (non-Mylan) generic equivalent available.

[1] http://beta.aan.com/globals/axon/assets/4698.pdf
Possibly a more uniform treatment of components versus "literal elements", but yeah the value proposition becomes very low.

In fact I'd argue the value proposition of JSX is already relatively low when you factor in hyperscript in regular javascript (and yes there are component-compatible hyperscript helpers for React).
Jain religion as well as certain offshoots of Hinduism itself.

Onions and garlic are thought to promote carnal thoughts and violate the "sattvik" food lifestyle.

Very interestingly, Kashmiri Hindus eat meat, but are forbidden onions or garlic.
The strict FDA requirements are there to make sure only safe and effective products come onto the market. That's a good thing. What's bad is that some can use this system to their advantage to create artificial monopolies.

If you're the only maker of a drug, and even if it's not covered by any patents, you know it'll still take months or perhaps years for a competitor to get FDA approval and compete with you. You can jack up your prices until competitors go through the approval, and you can signal to the market that you will quickly drop the prices if another competitor comes onto the market. This discourages the competitors from even spending the time and money on FDA approval.

Two possible solution to this: (1) reduce the cost of FDA approval for companies that want to make generic copies; or (2) impose taxes or price caps on FDA products that have no competition and command market power.

This all assumes patents are not involved (as is the case here), but both solutions would reduce the intensive for companies to game a system that is intended to make sure only safe products make it onto the market.
There were a couple of good videos of the Earthquake Lights from that quake too. This one is really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVm7g3QgOA

The look is very similar to the videos of the ones in Mexico, and very different to the long-lasting beam of light from the ground that seems to come from generator explosions.
Both for the true positives and the false positives.
Is this serious?
thanks for this info! saved me a lot of time hunting these links down myself
They mention this in the article.

Even so, it is disheartening. It appears we're so fascinated by all the avenues tools like deep learning could open up, to ask more basic questions like the implications of pursuing such research.
Buddhists. Some choose to not consume the five pungent plants. Why? Because they believe they stink.
I would really hope that they don't publish more information and keep algorithms as secret as possible. Algorithms like this can have huge implications in countries where homosexuality is banned. If this really works, people could end up in jail just because a neural network determines that they look gay. And even if it doesn't work, some governments or local communities could still use it to ban people because of the chance that they're gay.

While I'm not a fan of censoring research, I think this is a case where the research community should refrain from publishing results that could help replicating such algorithms.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I don't say that this study makes sense or works. But there are areas where large parts of the population really hate homosexuality. Just thinking this could work can make them use such a system. Especially in situations where you can afford false positives. So next time you want to travel to a country it could happen that they don't let you in because the algorithm says that you're likely gay.
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Jainism is one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism#Food_and_fasting
I actually used Python commercially in 1999.

The "killer app" then was an app server + document store called Zope.

Things were smaller than today, but Python was already gaining popularity for scripting. Circa 2001 or so it also had good Gtk and Qt bindings -- there were even some KDE-inspired satellite commercial companies catering to Python/QT.

The discussions in Python land then were about the mythical Python 3000 -- the next, re-imagined version of Python that would fix issues, etc. That was eventually Python 3.

Perl was still king for scripting/admin stuff but losing momentum, and Ruby was mentioned as a nice alternative to Python, but with much smaller use at the time (and even today I think).
With Facebook profile photos you could detect sexual orientation with 81% probability for man and 74% for women... Hmmm... And with 91% / 83% probability when using 5 photos/person in the learning process...
Not sure what you mean. If no one sets themselves up for payments, we don't lose any money while also continuing to block ads.

Maybe I'm being dense but I don't see the chicken/egg issue.
Doesn't htc make the vive too? Perhaps they want a bigger hand into vr?
'breaking news: neural network speeds up personal intepretations of scientist a bit'
I wonder where on the Hype Cycle[1] cryptocurrencies (and blockchain technology in general) currently are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
And you agree with everything else they stand for, or only care about this single issue. In reality it's nowhere near as simple as that.
The FDA's approval process is to ensure only safe and effective products make it to the market. This is unquestionably good. The problem is that companies can take advantage of the inherent delays in this process to obtain undue market power, and impose monopoly pricing.

The FDA should not reduce it's standards, but it should recognize that the expensive and drawn-out approval process creates large inefficiencies in that market, and they should at least strive to minimize those effects.
Research around this existed for years, it could be shown that gays can more easily detect the sexual orientation of others. One explanation could be that since homosexuality was/is banned in many cultures, this helped to survive.

A reason why we didn't read much about it is that most researchers know that you shouldn't publish about this. Otherwise you can quickly end up with blood on your hands.
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Page 22 of the report has an image of average faces for men and women and gay / straight (bisexuality doesn't seem to be covered).

> The results show that the faces of gay men were more feminine and the faces of lesbians were more masculine than those of their respective heterosexual counterpart

It looks to me you're gay if you are a man wearing glasses and straight if you have a beard and rounder face. It would be interesting to see what it made of the stereotypical "bear". If you're a brunette and have a slightly thinner face then you're probably, 58%, a lesbian ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

> lesbians tended to wear baseball caps

I'm really not sure what to make of this.
> A lisp macro see a code block as a tree of symbols/primitives. It can do anything.

No, a regular macro still needs to be syntactically sensible. To handle arbitrary non-lisp syntax you need your lisp to support arbitrary reader macros (as in Common Lisp or — I believe — Racket) and that gets significantly more complex and involved and requires extensible/pluggable parsing.

Scheme does not have that for instance, SFRI-10 reader macros need to be wrapped in `#,()`, you can't just dump JSX or XML in Scheme source and expect it to work.
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Indicting a corporation (which is rare) is considered a "death sentence". Most other companies will not sign contracts with another company that has been Indicted (even if not convicted).

http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2014/04/what-happens-when-a...

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-fraud/l...

Civil or SEC prosecutions are totally different, of course.
For what it's worth, I could not be more excited about Siacoin. I think both it and Filecoin are, along with the nascent self-sovereign identity providers, the most important projects in the tech industry right now.
yep. This is phrenology. Bias laundering at best.
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Hey HN,

Little Warden is a tool that my wife and I have been building in our spare time.

We constantly see people who lose domains due to expiration or forget about an SSL certificate renewal so we started building some software for that then it expanded more and more and now it performs loads of the checks you tend to forget about once a site is launched.

LW monitors everything and once a day sends you an email with a summary.
Sony and LG are well-known brands, though, even to the most backwards people.
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I only partly agree. We create jobs for both, high value added and low value added. The low value added still increase productivity (Amazon warehouse workers serve more clients than retail cashiers) but most focus will be on high value-added.

What disappears is the middle. This means we have to ensure that as many people as possible can get an education preparing them for higher value-added jobs. More diverse university courses and free education could help with that, vocational training can do the same.
Looking at the Heterodox Academy's blog history, they seem mostly to be interested in advocating for a conservative viewpoint than anything else. To say that they're trying to 'break orthodoxy' comes across as ridiculous when they're based in a country where the current president and congress are the most right wing they've been for decades. The whole narrative of 'free speech' being under attack in academia has just been from right-wingers who really want nothing like free speech - they just want the ability to be racist and bigoted with impunity while shutting down speech in favour of equality.
I'm not against personally prosecuting those in charge, but it's often extremely difficult to prove that specific individuals are responsible.

There is a simpler solution. Impose bigger fines. Much much bigger fines. Make the cost/benefit calculus for breaking rules so unattractive that the prudent business decision is to not break them.

Right now, when these companies are caught, they have to pay back what they stole, and sometimes get hit with a not so bad punitive damage. They should instead be hit with damages so hard that it kills their stock price, and does serious damage to the company itself. It will make the people in charge more careful.
I can't seem to load the page, but I'd imagine this is "declared sexual orientation" rather than actual, which makes this a poor tool for discrimination
Or anything else that someone might label deviant.
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Well, I am not sure this is the case.. The metric seems to be
the ability to tell apart pairs of straight and gay people.

>Among men, the classification accuracy equaled AUC = .81 when provided with one image per person. This means that in 81% of randomly selected pairs—composed of one gay and one heterosexual man—gay men were correctly ranked as more likely to be gay.

Pretty different from predicting one's sexual orientation.
The title is surprisingly not too clickbaity, although it's not as clear-cut: in order to reduce false positives (increase precision), they need to limit the number of positives (reduce recall). On 1000 samples containing 70 gay people, they were able to get a 10% false positive rate on their positive results, which were 10 people (meaning 12% of the total gay sample). The sample is a bit biased too because they pulled it from explicitly gay-oriented public social network pages (but I don't fault them for that, it would be quite hard to find a better sample).

It is still an impressive result, and one that might be misused badly, despite the numerous warnings used in the paper.
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Serious question by someone who's not into this kind of stats too much:

What would happen if you took a big set of Facebook profiles and train some (the same if you wanna) CNN to classify picture->f for each f in profile features. Sure, for some features, your model should be able to deliver decent precision.

Does this mean that you quickly found out what features can be predicted from pictures & how well your CNN performs on that? Or is it possible that you just train models from picture->X where X is basically meaningless but significantly correlated with some feature because of the effect portrait in xkcd's "Significant" (Scientists investigate!) [1]

[1]: https://xkcd.com/882/
Our team moved from hyperscript to JSX as well.

Personally, I find JSX much more readable, and there was little love for hyperscript on the team.
The are a subset of the expected functionality in modern email systems.

The list leaves out all of the other features that we expect in a modern email system meant for non-technical users, like a GUI interface including drag&drop attachments, spell-checking as you type, and rich text.

Where do you draw the line? Which UX features are critical before saying something is "email", and which are non-essential? The thesis, which I strongly disagree with, is that all of those features are required to have email.

Once you weaken those hyper-specific requirements somewhat, he is no longer the inventor of email.

While if you strengthen those requirements, email didn't happen until a decade or more later.

You write: "And the fact that he (supposedly) implemented them ahead of even the systems you were using in the 80s is worth note."

No, it it not worth a note. It means I was a student with only access to crappy systems. I was asking why I was wrong to say that I was using email on such a crappy system that did not implement all of the required points of Table 1.

That SIGCIS link you pointed to shows a 1 minute ad about Laurel, from Xerox PARC. It's a mouse-driven email system with, among other things, group support ("everyone on the routing list should see this"), local message sorting, and WYSIWIG output to a laser printer. In 1978.

That's what's of note. The flip side to my question is, why wasn't Laurel or other systems from 1978 also email?
Yes, that page caught my eye, too. My conclusion is that gay people are better-looking.