skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all if you didn't read the whole paper, this picture is really interesting and a good summary: https://i.imgur.com/zs8RWIz.png

As for the debate over whether this research is ethical, consider this. If someone actually uses this to discriminate against homosexuals, they must accept that the thing actually works. Which means that homosexuality is determined by biological features beyond anyone's control, which would contradict their own ideology.

And that is the most interesting part of this work, not whether this tool is very accurate or not. This pretty solidly proves that physical features correlate well with sexual orientation, which is strong evidence for the biological theory of sexual orientation. Which has always been one of the biggest arguments for gay rights, that it's not a choice and can't be changed.

On the usefulness of this test to actually classify gay people:

They claim 91% accuracy on a balanced dataset. E.g. where there the ratio of gays to straights is 50:50. To get a ratio of correct:incorrect of 91:9 on such a dataset, their test must increase or decrease the odds a person is gay by 10.

Now in the general population, the ratio of gays to straights is about 16 to 984 (1.6%). So if their test gives someone a positive reading, that increases the odds to 162 to 984, or 14%. So you can't use this test to accurately guess someone's sexual orientation. Simply because gay people are so rare that even a few percent of straight people misclassified will overwhelm the number of actual gay people.

But still that's a lot more accurate than human guessing or the base rate, and it's scientifically interesting that this is even possible. It's a proof of concept that higher accuracy may be possible with better methods and more data.

Another article claims this:

>when asked to pick out the ten faces it was most confident about, nine of the chosen were in fact gay. If the goal is to pick a small number of people who are very likely to be gay out of a large group, the system appears able to do so.

The test gives varying degrees of confidence, it gives much higher confidence to some people than others. There are some individuals that it can tell are definitely gay or straight. But for most it is more uncertain.

Also note that the estimates for the percentage of gay people vary a lot. Which could make the true accuracy as high as 42%. Also some people believe sexuality is more of a spectrum than a binary straight/gay. If so the straight people it misclassifies might lean more on the gay/bisexual spectrum than normal and the errors wouldn't seem so unreasonable.

Lastly all these "phrenology" references are silly. If you have methodological problem with this research I'd love to hear it. But I see people discarding the research simply because they don't like the conclusions. For this study and other facial correlations based research.

This isn't new at all, there's tons of scientific research about digit ratios and all kinds of correlations they have with different things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio). Why wouldn't we expect even better correlations from all facial features?
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If the paper does what it says it's telling user reported labels.

The problem isn't the presence of software producing likelihoods of someone being gay. The problem is people interpreting the results in a reductionist way and reducing people into labels. And another problem is you just don't like seeing what you don't like. There are companies out there profiting from the same stuff. They just don't talk about it in this way.
But if a newspaper reported that Alice was a murderer because her stolen car was involved in a hit and run, that would be libelous.
Actually, all these features are being standardized into the IRC protocol. That's the good part.

And we've got all the developers of all the major IRCds and cloents together, working on these things. In contrast to XMPP, where support for an XEP between clients is spotty, and in contrast to Matrix, where a single dev team runs the server with ~50% of global users, builds the clients, and servers.

I agree that XMPP is a better protocol, but with the people we have, we can, long term, change the IRC protocol, too.
Yeah, especially if you had the "Interested in..." field.

Just wait until somebody publishes a "terrorist facial classifier" with "99% accuracy". That's when I'll be scared.
All the objections to creating national ID seem like ridiculous anachronisms given every other privacy-compromising measure that's been shoved down our throats.
Or: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” [1]

I'm not strongly for/against either position: both can be true in different contexts.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4324-shoot-for-the-moon-eve...
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Quite. This technology will terrify them.
Sent an email, no reply yet, I guess you're flooded with applications.
Actually, their work seems to be focused on dispelling the common disbelief in these kind of applications for technology.

From the abstract: "Additionally, given that companies and governments are increasingly using computer vision algorithms to detect people’s intimate traits, our findings expose a threat to the privacy and safety of gay men and women."

Acknowledging that data analysis can create obstacles to freedom or serious social problems is a necessary step to preventing or addressing these issues, but public opinion is far from being there yet...
>relatively steady for a big chunk of human history/prehistory

Please refer to the linked graph again. Homo sapiens evolved around 200k years ago. You can see endless spikes during and before that time. Climate has been relatively "steady" for ~10k years after it recovered from an ice age. If the latest is due to "human activities", what about all the countless spikes which have occurred forever?
Do they refuse you rental?

Here in UK they verify address via utility bills, cross-check with drivers license (verified by gov agency, DVLA). They maybe only take card payments too, no cash?

I'd expect that to be enough, given they force you to take out expensive insurance, that must cover them, surely. What's the credit report going to get them at that point?

(It may be even stricter now, don't know.)
No, an "ICO" is not a legal term. Filecoin, however, is one of the few folks that tried to comply with US law. They limited their sale to accredited investors and user a new legal document referred to as a SAFT (Simple Agreement for Future Token), analogous to the SAFE documents popular in startup land.

Most ICOs are unregistered securities offering that are violating US law by going public without an effective registration statement in place with the SEC, or an exemption therefrom.

Some ICOs may be legal to the extent they are not 'securities', I.e. the argument that you are buying a useful network token, not a security. In my opinion, this argument is BS for the majority of ICOs.
You can definitely get a 3 course lunch for €8, which is less than £8. Not in highly touristic places or in the center of Madrid or Barcelona, but I live in a 250K city and there are many places offering simple 3-course meals (salad or entrée + fish or meat + dessert) with that price. And if you go to €9 you can get fancy meals and all.

The beer analogy may have been misleading, though. You can indeed get 4 beers for €8, but the standard size of a beer here is 300 ml, which is much less than a pint (568 ml I think).
In practice it is not solely used for that.
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They received most of the money in the first hour. Like $175mm plus.
Procrastinators will feel vindicated by this.
It's not some ironclad law of the universe that we have to make so that Vietnamese factories and American ones compete on equal footing. That's a choice our leaders have made.
They address overfitting, presentation and context in the paper. Their DNN was using facial features that had been extracted by VGG-Face, which is a widely used thing that reduces a face to a vector of scores that are meant to be independent of transient features such as facial expression, background, orientation, lighting, contrast, and similar.

By having their DNN train on faces that have been processed by VGG-Face, they greatly reduce the risk of overfitting or relying on things that would be present in dating site pictures but not in pictures of the same people in other contexts.
Thanks! That bitcoin-dice.html link is awesome. It links to a rather short bash script that seems to do the key to public address conversion. That is exactly what is needed.
If you don't save any money as a developer, even outside SV, you're doing something wrong. At least if we're talking the US or Europe.

You might not be as highly paid, but pretty much anyone should be able to save 20-30% of their salary. Which is enough to start a company as a developer after 2 years, because all you need is a laptop, an internet connection, a suit and maybe some dev tools and some money to live without a salary for a bit.

That doesn't mean that starting a company is easy, or that your idea is great, or that the time investment can be combined with say, having a family.
Or perhaps one of those "profit sharing" deals where the costs mysteriously increase to the point where there aren't any profits to share... (AKA "Hollywood Accounting").
I agree with you, but Filecoin was one of the only legally compliant offerings. They only sold to accredited investors.
You can read the source code.

Which code? Any link to that 30 lines of C code?
I suppose the rest of the monies should be spend on advertising the service. At least, if you want to avoid people calling it a scam, Ponzi or pyramid scheme.

also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15198854
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This is MUCH bigger deal than most understand. This will cost less than $10 to build and their is no hardware solution on phones or Alexia.

Phreaking is back.
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I presume that the idea is for specific cinema chains to strike such deals that would make the price/experience with them better than with the competitors.
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One side if the tectonic plate at Japan and indonesia have had movement, now the otherside at mexico, so North Western America must be under more and more strain.
Postgres or cassandra depending on scale and use case.
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I found that confusing, too. I guess that's the best you can expect if you train your model in such an unrealistically balanced dataset. Put it differently. If I had 100% accuracy at detecting depression in a dataset of depressed people, how well will run this "detector" at detecting depression in the real world? Well, being 'd' the incidence of depression:

P(being depressed | trivial detector said so) = d * 1.0 / 1.0 = d
The potential for abuse is enormous, even if the results aren't 100% accurate (which they cannot ever be). And not just in the obvious ways. Will they be able to detect pedophilia with any accuracy? Good luck getting a job when employers covertly figure out your score is more than 50%. Good luck becoming a public figure when a large portion of the population take statistics at face value. Good luck having a life once the mob (aka. SJW) hears about it.
If they said they had received word that the car was registered to Alice, that wouldn't be libelous. If they said she was the driver, that would be libelous. If she was charged with murder and they said she was an alleged murderer, that wouldn't be libelous.
So? Its still not a great product. People use it because they don't know better. Those that know better dont use mongo.
Google stands to lose nothing of value whatsoever from pissing off the Android handset makers. Especially since they've made no bones at all about pissing off Google the second they could gain even the slightest sliver of a competitive or revenue advantage from doing so. Frankly Google owes them zilch. In fact having a viable handset business of their own might even give Google more leverage on the licensees. Want these premium features for your phones too? Talk to us, what do you have to offer?
how do you get past the practical hurdles of recruiters
and "X years work experience reqd" & background &
credentials?

From my experience, when you do what you love the power is completely on your side. Not on the side of recruiters and employers.

Companies have been hunting me down and trying to convince me to work for them for years now. Every company craves people who build great stuff and are passionate about what they do.

Shift your focus from what you get to what you give. And everything will fall in place over time.
Surely. I also believe we need some training. If you give up at the first mental shortcoming you will take a lot of time. Making a habit of having thinking runs of 30min or a long enough period.

Also, I believe there's another factor at play in crisis, you don't hesitate. Any option will do as long as it's not too absurd. Your brain is full on, but your mind is also more open.
But communication overhead and a wage that attracts talented programmers in India, will make development there just as costly as if you do it locally. So your manager outsources to cheap Indian shops, and then always gets frustrated with the quality.
Acting on material, non-public information is considered insider trading by most definitions, no need to get lawyers involved.

However, whether these managers broke the law and if and how they should be punished is a legal question most people here should probably shut up about.
This will be fixed with a simple software update that ignores all sounds at inaudible frequencies.
What is your point though? Who cares how it does it? The fact that it can tell gay from straight will have privacy implications for both. Not to mention that it is not revealed in the study how much of the feature set was based on grooming. This is pure speculation. Clearly these trigger points mean more minuses for me and a lack of any sensible discussion of the actual point of the study.
> I do. But I also have to admit that the general public not always shows the best reasoning :P

Nor the worst.

> From an hygienic point of view at least, I'd find it possible to argue that hugging is less "intimate" than a handshake.

> Most people's subjective perception might be different of course.

Yes it is different and I'll explain why: if a male and female hug each other, her breast will touch (via clothes) his chest. Especially if she has large breast. This can regularly lead to her getting hard nipples, and it might cause a chain reaction (ie. she figures she fancies him or might fancy him). Males know this (tho very young males might not). How's that not more intimate than shaking hands?

Another reason why hugging is intimate is that whilst hugging (feeling each other's body) you don't see each other at that point, and you don't see each other's arms or hands.

Yet another reason is, its traditionally part of foreplay for sex.

The problem of hygiene as you mentioned is partially solved by washing your hands before dinner.

As for hygiene, as a general note, you might wanna check your keyboard and touchscreens for bacteria. Tho neither existed in the Victorian era.
>> especially among the millenials who think they can outsmart everything and everyone and feel entitled so

While I agree with your comment mostly this bit seems ridiculous. When it comes to going to the cinema in particular I find (anecdotally obviously) that it is the older generation unwilling to pay for snacks. I've lost count of how many times people of my parents generation have asked me to fill my pockets with all kinds of stuff when I, the broke millennial, am happy to pay for a drink/snack. I think the last time my friends or I tried to sneak in food/drink was when we were young teenagers below working age.
The Managing Partners are fantastic. The group has an impressive portfolio. Merely have a look at CrunchBase and Angel.com as it appears they have 39 investments and some look to be up and coming Unicorns. Ex Harvard and Insead. The website points to some impressive European start-ups and 100m of capital raised. The website does not mention such advisors? Where is this information available?
Seems right for the wrong reason. Not because of the education, but the types of people who would be very enthusiastic about getting into SpaceX would be a different kind than for Tesla. I did meet a couple of early Tesla folks and they did seem to work insane hours for lower rates due to the company name.
Stupid question: what about flying above the hurricane on the way back ? Possible ?
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Never mind reeducation camps what about people trying to sell you loafers...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15191640
Except the inaudible sounds are used for marketing purposes. Most companies aren't going to want to just close that door.
Even if the commands are not inaudible it's a security issue if the device performs a dangerous action because someone in the neighborhood said something.

The feature is presented as if it only responds to the owner but realistically that distinction doesn't work at all.

If you shout 'hey Siri' into the microphone at a large event, a lot of phones are going to respond.
One only have to unearth a small connection between two entities to drown them both (and take the chair).
A friend of mine worked for United as a mechanic in Boston until they decided to cut costs and get rid of their hanger. My buddy got to work outside on planes in the middle of winter. The guy who came up with the idea probably got a bonus.
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Better: distribute to the instance with the lowest % CPU by default, ala the Google Cloud NLB.
If you were to read the article you'd see this isn't how it works. They're inducing harmonic signals within the speech passband.
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I think what I implied was it will be done by entities without moral considerations, such as capitals and governments. In this sense it's not very productive to censor individual researchers from publicizing these kind of findings. Technology will evolve. The question to ask is who will control the technology. By censoring you're just blinding yourself from what's coming. And my second point was the imbalance of power started when individual control of intelligence capabilities was no longer possible after the field moved to "data driven" and "deep learning" paradigms.
That's revenue though. If you look at the income statement, films have about a 50% profit margin while refreshments have about an 85% profit margin. If you allocate all other expenses evenly, that makes it about 50-50 between film and refreshments. That may or may not be appropriate cost accounting (there's another big chunk of operating expense that isn't under G&A or rent) and I just took a quick glance. More of their profit comes from film than I thought--or at least used to be the case--but refreshments still makes a good 50%.
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About your usage of Discord, do you miss the following features ?

- replies/threads (where you can reply to a specific message)

- star/flag messages (to retrieve them later)

- unable to set font size in the mobile app (the font size is too small for most people)
Which is why jQuery throws (and handles) exceptions every single time I run it under a debugger. Ugh.
The post specifically addresses why it's not that simple - they're taking advantage of harmonics to generate signal in the audible frequencies on the microphone itself.
I like this idea.

I don't have Netflix subscription. Because where I live Netflix catalogue is laughable - this is one of the reasons. Anyway, that's another matter.

I really like watching films in theatres and prices are going sky high. Some of the films turn out to be really bad and I would rather like to leave in the middle (of course not walking out abruptly blocking others' views). Something like MoviePass could be very handy to me.
I don't think you need to dismiss it as a factor. I think there are quite a lot of people who can get into a new language in a matter of weeks. That's really not the issue, you just have to find out if he's motivated to get into it. Because motivation is key. If your PHP developer is excited about becoming a Java developer he'll do fine. If he wants to stay in his comfort zone it's not.
If I understand this correctly, the phone cannot tell if the audio is outside of human hearing range. The point of the LPF is to filter out all audio that is outside of that range.

The attack they are using is transmitting the audio at a high frequency, that when detected by the microphone generates harmonics that are within the normal range and can pass through the filter. By the time the audio signal gets to the processor, it is within audible range.
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> This is MUCH bigger deal than most understand.

>> This will be fixed with a simple software update that ignores all sounds at inaudible frequencies.

In the most helpful and constructive way I can possibly say this directly: the group of individuals not understanding may include you, rachitgupta.

According to my very limited understanding, the attack occurs in hardware prior to digitization. See yesterday's discussion for more details.
Do you actually believe that false equivalence? It's like saying your two-person startup is basically the same as IBM because they're both companies.
Many people here in Turkey will think solar eclipse triggered this. Strong 1999 earthquake in Turkey also happened just some weeks after the full solar eclipse. I think it is just a coincidence though.

Edit: wording.
I dispute that there's no damage. The visual amenity of the wall/building/area has altered (possibly for the good IMO), returning it to the unaltered state has costs, leaving the visual amenity in the altered state can produce a deficit for businesses and residents (or the contrary). It's definitely an alteration, if the alteration is unwanted it seems reasonable to describe it as damage.

Should we let people graffiti other's property without any hindrance?

If you make something illegal, you have to allow police to intervene. If you allow police to intervene some people will run. Police are worthless, as are the laws they seek to enforce, if they don't have legal powers to physically stop people who flee from them, using appropriate force. Thus situations where people come to physical harm that outweighs the gravity of their (known) suspected crimes are inevitable so long as people choose to flee when confronted by police.

Point out the holes there for me?
Maybe VHDL if it's running on f1 instances?
The height limitations are a good point and also they probably wouldn't get the tax incentives they're looking for in DC, but Nova a possibility.

I'd be surprised by Baltimore because it would probably be difficult to attract top talent there in large numbers.
Yeah, those parts are easily available on Aliexpress in droves. Imagine this in the crowded subway.

"hey siri"
"show me pictures of CENSORED"
"send the first picture to mom"
"yes, send it"

:S
32 Kilometers is not very far in earthquake terms. Machines all over the world can feel small earthquakes no matter where they happen, and this is a very big earthquake.