skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular algorithm is being talked about heavily in the gayer parts of the internet, and I keep telling everyone precisely this. This is interesting in as far as it shows that, in the context of trying to attract a partner, gay and straight people present themselves in quantifiably different ways, which I suspect most people sufficiently familiar with app dating culture would have already known.
FBI gets Sputnik emails, critics see 'red line for media' crossed
Price of healthcare is driven by a luck of supply (medical professionals, hospitals, affordable drugs) and supply is limited by regulation (expensive and ridiculously long educational process for physicians, huge liability and regulatory burden for practitioners and hospitals, very long and expensive approval process for moving a new drug through FDA, plus again liability cost) .

Regulation in turn is driven by lobbying efforts of large professional groups (trial lawyers, AMA, large pharma etc).

In another word it is a corrupted system that manages stay afloat as people in power legally able to get their cut through lobbying.
I'll give to this one in particular, but blogs have had the same effect. It's bizarre when commodity hardware is so powerful these days.
"RDF" != "Semantic Web". It's certainly one vision but it's not the vision. And the Google example is relevant because the primary reason it became so useful was that the semantics of the anchor tag lent themselves well PageRank, which was useful well before they had a "whackload of machine learning and language analysis" in play.

It's probably fair to say the semantic web is about trying to make your data accessible. It includes considering that you don't know what the user agent is going to be, what degree of separation there is between that user agent and the user, how the people behind it might find whatever data you're presenting to be useful, what the capabilities of the user themselves is. So you make some effort to produce a resource that's legible to person or machine guided with reasonable direction. If you know there's an existing convention for expressing semantics that overlap with your domain, sure, use that, but if not, any thoughtful reflection of the underlying data will probably be useful.

This does take some effort, and there's the question of whether or not it's worth it, particularly in a business context, because the unexpected uses of your data are often opportunities for others to not only add value but capture it. The Google example is relevant here.

But the other thing is, in my experience, it's useful to you. There's a dictum attributed to Torvalds: "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." I've observed that when a web application project is oriented around thinking about relevant data and its semantically-accessible representation (that "R" in URL), the overall legibility of the project improves from an engineering perspective.

Right now, with the approach of treating the browser as The VM That Lived™, it seems to me the gestalt is very much about worrying about the code.

None of this is to say, though, that CSS is THE way to style documents. There's nothing about semantic resource oriented thinking that precludes using JavaScript or something else to control visual presentation. There's a lot of ways to use JS to do things worse than CSS, and CSS despite some serious warts does have a couple of decades of good thinking put into it as well, but I think there's a case to be made for examining approaches from JavaScript or another DSL (or DSSSL, heh).
Well I guess I don't... they could be just plain anti-Hillary/bernie/dems ads. But the point is that the ads supposedly helped Trump.
All these remote working tips are like the same points just reworded and shuffled around.
What if the future of public transit is autonomous cars? Why do you need buses or trains when you could have machines that can take you from anywhere, to anywhere, on demand, for less than the cost of current public transit fare?
This is a step backward from my current workflow which uses vector graphics.
Trespassing is an "implicit threat" that justifies initiation of violence to you?

You're dodging the central issue: that it was the miners' act of trespass that, in itself, constituted the "initiation of violence" in this case.

But once they do, retaliation is fair game as well.

Sorry, but there's a very clear moral gradient at play here.
It seems like you're trying to suggest there's at least some rough equivalence between the actions of the two parties. But if so, then I just don't buy that argument, at all.
The more I get into cars the more I find 0-60 to be a poor metric for performance because it comes down to all wheel drive, traction (good OEM tires are a must) and short gearing. Power is important, but less so than the others. For evidence of this compare the extra long geared GT4 with the Carrera S, both of which have the same 3.8 flat-6 and more or less the same power output.

What most people want to compare (but don't know it) are torque curves and power bands. I.e. how does the engine make its power and where is it in the rev range. We know that EVs provide constant torque, hence max power is available at all times (provided there is sufficient traction). When it comes to ICEs the situation much more complex. NAs tend to make all their power at the top of the rev range and torque peaks at around 3,000/4,000RPM. Turbo engines tend to make their power around 1,000RPM below redline and provide peak torque between 1600/3000RPM (the min can be higher for lower-displacement engines or engines with big turbos). However, off-boost, there is a noticeable absence of power, but this diminishes as displacement increases.

I find it's these figures that need to be compared as the are much more indicative about acceleration in gear, smoothness and where the engine and gearing needs to be to make power.
Honestly, I just go to Reuters now. It's better than most major news outlets, and certainly better than Google's aggregator.
The Red Cross doesn’t do rescues. They come in after the fact generally to both help people and plan their next fundraiser. It still takes time to deploy people.
And advances get funded in the long term through sales.
I'd assume that Comodo wrote the code, tested the code, deployed the code, and forgot to flip the switch to actually enable it in production.
Uber and Taxify Drivers in Kenya go on strike over remuneration
Also, here's the blog post announcing it: https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/356
yes. these background check companies suck. I almost didn't get a job because the company doing the background check couldn't be bothered to get off their ass and deal with a company that went bust in the dot com crash. They just said i was lying rather than actually taking the time to do research and see that the company didn't exist anymore for a good reason.

I documented my BS experience here
http://weblog.masukomi.org/2007/06/22/the-trials-and-tribula...
thanks for the hope because I can completely relate.

So glad I asked this question here, I have no reason to feel like a fuck up because there is still time to change. I am 27 and improving each day/week/month, I just get hung up on 'what if' sometimes.

this whole thread is helping me a lot
It's a social construct because those differences only remain because those populations still tend to only (for the most part) breed within their own group. If all "races" indiscriminately bred across racial lines those "races" would vanish. Of course there's an identifiable genetic difference in populations that tend to not interbreed. The question is whether it matters worth a damn, and it generally does not.
That's mostly an argument about semantics. I avoided it by using the more precise notion of "grouping people by geographic origin". And even that's wrong, because all you can really group are a bunch of gene variants. Real people intermarry.

The law you cite argues against defining "race" as an actual group of real people (which is wrong, for all sorts of reasons that I assume you don't want to argue here) and not just a statistical model of gene variants (which has support and is broadly uncontroversial even among commies like me).
>But tesla probably already beat you to it?

Tesla hasn't beat anybody to anything. AP2 is still behind Ap1, which uses a single camera and mobileye's comparitavely tiny Eyeq3 chip.
To answer your first question: Correlation could exist, but the idea that they are correlated implies that my physical features will change when my sexual preference changes. Ponder that for a minute.

Sexuality is not a boolean value, it's not a yes or no, it's not a this or that, even for people who are attracted to females they are not attracted to every female, and people who are attracted to males are not attracted to every male. It's such a silly thing to try and hone in on, because it removes the primary deciding component of human sexuality from the study: personal, intimate, real human preference. It's like attempting to discover one's favorite flavor of bagel shmear based on high school portraits.

You may find some surprising results, realize neural nets are trainable phenomena, and then run around giving everyone plastic surgery because more pronounced cheek bones tend to prefer Strawberry Shmear, and if peoples' cheek bones were adjusted their flavor preference would change.
Testifying before a congressional committee does not mean one is involved with a crime - it may be, but not necessarily so. Congressional committees hold hearings to investigate things, and they ask people to testify about those things to learn what is going on.
Do you believe these findings though?

(original article: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_3/10796.full )

To me there are a few things worth highlighting, that are at least tangentially relevant:

1. This article was a PNAS Direct Submission. PNAS Direct Submission, a privilege typically reserved for members of the National Academy of Sciences, is like using trump-card to basically skip peer review. Since NAS members are usually great scientists with a track-record of publishing in high-impact peer reviewed journals, PNAS Direct Submissions are usually saved for pet-projects where the underlying science is... mmmm... of dubious quality. This is not always the case, but when all-star scientists opt for PNAS DS, it's certainly a reason to be speculative.

2. Nick Christakis and James Fowler have teamed up for a number of fancy-ass studies (the type that ensure people will want to write wikipedia pages about them, and lead to TED talk invites); some suggesting personal attributes like obesity, smoking, and happiness arise via 'social contagion', that is, behavioral propensities are transmitted over social networks. And studies like this one, where they find friendship affinities embedded in the genome.

3. I recently read a genome-wide association study (GWAS) with over 400 authors (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28714976). I think 400 authors is way above median, but even relatively tame GWAS typically require a group effort just for data QC. Here, somehow these two guys did it all themselves.

4. Not only did they find that some SNPs were positively correlated, they also found some that were negatively correlated... "Across the whole genome, friends’ genotypes at the single nucleotide polymorphism level tend to be positively correlated (homophilic). In fact, the increase in similarity relative to strangers is at the level of fourth cousins. However, certain genotypes are also negatively correlated (heterophilic) in friends. And the degree of correlation in genotypes can be used to create a “friendship score” that predicts the existence of friendship ties in a hold-out sample." So the HN/Nature title might as well be: "Friends are Genetically similar, and Genetically Different".
"It is not a slippery slope if you set clear boundaries."

How could those boundaries ever be clear if they aren't near absolute? Definitions, interpretations, and the cultural mindset change constantly. Prejudice today is different than yesterday, and will change again tomorrow.

I see a remarkable tendency of people to assume that liberal / progressive ideas will always remain free to express, so there's no need to protect all speech. I don't see how this is true.
The vast majority of people who have the luxury and time to comment on an internet message board on a discussion about the size of binaries are not having to worry about that.
That doesn't scale well beyond doing a handful of them, I would think.
Fair enough, I'm speaking based on my experiences and that of people I've known.
How about http://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convince... ?
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How good is that corpus of data? Does it show the removed comments of users? (As a non-mod you cannot see the comments that were removed in a sub) Mods use automod to automatically remove posts based on keywords.
Venmo is offering users an physical debit card
I really disagree with your take on this for a simple obvious reason: disabling scripts means the page does not work anymore while disabling css means the page looks plain and basic but it retains functionality.
Yes but if evolution provided you with a 70-80% accurate way of deciding which berries were poisonous, or which potential mates were going to kill you instead of procreate with you, the neural net would be of rather negligible benefit.
> Who do you imagine they verified was Person X?

The legitimate owner of that domain or operator of the website. That's what certificates are supposed to attest to.

Malware authors might be bad people, but they're definitely people who exist in real life and have an identity that can be attested to.
Why do you still work there?
Always interesting to see free speech libertarians defending aggressive social conformism ...
To piggyback off of this comment; in bleeding-edge research, one needs a degree of creativity in order to (a) try new things, and (b) have a greater willingness to roll with failure. For me personally, knowing I that "great men" constantly make simple mistakes, have bias and egos that they need to keep in check, and are struggling with other scientist, lifts weight off of my chest.
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I was in a similar situation a couple of years ago with a large company. They wanted 1099's as I had been an independent contractor for years -- I refused to provide any tax info on principle; however, my skill-set is in high demand, and I had other competing offers.

The hiring manager really wanted me, so he argued with HR until they waived the requirement for me. I think it was kind of a pain in the ass for him, so I think it comes down to how much the manager is willing to fight for you.

Edit: I always refuse to allow employers:

- financial/credit checks

- drug testing / medical information

- salary verification

I always explain this to recruiters - I can pass any of these checks, but I think they are immoral; since my skills are in high demand, I try to fight the battle for those who don't have as much negotiation strength. I don't believe that any of this information is relevant for employment, and these types of checks tend to hold back people who are already struggling.
Anonymous strangers successfully handled the crowdfunding: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/fans-...
Thanks for providing real world insight into this marketing puffery. Would love to hear your thoughts on Tesla's maturity...
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We moved on from witchery and heresy by establishing objective criteria for determining witches and heretics?

(I know you didn't claim we did, just pointing out that your examples don't seem to support your argument.)
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Even if it isn't, I don't think there is much meaningful distinction left among Americans of English and French ancestry. How many people would even notice?
Electron within electron.
"Just doing my job" is the same as "I was just following orders".
I am not a lawyer.

With that out of the way, you have already completed the negotiation phase of the process. They can't reopen the salary question without rescinding the offer completely. Why would they do that? They've already invested heavily in recruiting you and have offered a salary they must be comfortable with. To squeeze you now would make no sense. If they did that, you wouldn't want to work there anyway.

The third party is certainly some 'bcheck' company that services many clients that do require salary info as part of their negotiation process. They don't have a custom process for BigCo, so you got the generic form everyone gets, regardless of employer. They run a series of standard online checks, maybe call past employers and get only dates and title (no employer gives out salary data when asked), and forward the whole mess to BigCo HR. The bcheck company has no opinion in the matter. I'm guessing the only use for past salary data they might have is to judge how they are doing versus the market.
Interested in your book because I too think social media is bullshit.

thanks for the hope! I feel major momentum shift coming in my life, building up a lot of good habits right now and letting go of the past little by little
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> Just like cars that we drive, self driving cars enable sprawl.

A self-driving car increases the radius of effect of things like mass transit stations. That can be a useful intermediate step before another transit stop gets built.
This was the largest disaster in US history and it changed rapidly over the course of 72 hours. In instances like this the ability to tap into the resiliency and adaptability of ordinary citizens is a great advantage. I would like to see more done by the government to enable and support (perhaps even professionalize) the spontaneous engagement of ordinary citizens in emergency situations rather than staffing excess disaster management capacity only to be used once every 5 years.

Would it be better to quadruple the size of FEMA or train more Americans in CPR, hypothermia, how to react in a flood, how to prioritize casualties, how to interact with others and coordinate, etc...
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Hm. http://archive.is/VhWor
Usually, as I've said much the same before, I get down votes and then someone comes along and actually reads what I wrote, as opposed to knee jerking to the idea that I support Nazis. In fact, I support basic human rights for everyone. Some people are uncomfortable with that idea. It's okay, I have karma to spare.

I'm not in it for the points. I'm in it to express the idea of liberty. Many people only want liberty for themselves and those they approve of, or so it seems.

Edited to add: See? It's back in the positives. It will bounce around a bit, but liberty is still popular. I think some people don't read what I wrote, so much as they insert ideas about what they think I wrote. Another post in this thread suffers similarly. It's all good.
Man, that website is insane.

Some dude's diary is front page news there:
https://spectator.org/as-im-being-audited/
I'm always extremely skeptical when someone suggests that oral traditions could possibly have survived for long periods of time. That's twelve hundred generations! Given what we know about the speed at which Chinese Whispers tend to drift, the idea that any story can last 1200 generations is an extraordinary claim that demands extraordinary proof.

Hundreds of Aboriginal tribes had hundreds of contradictory myths on hundreds of subjects. Most of them are verifiably false (e.g. those rocks over there are not, in fact, the remains of three young women who got turned into stone for disobeying their father). Some of them are probably correct by complete accident.

As for gigantic animals... well, they're a pretty common motif in myths and stories all around the world. Maybe it's some distant memory our cultures all have of the larger animals that used to live around here... or maybe it's just because giant animals are cool. In Aboriginal myths, giant animals are often really really giant, because they're used as explanations for geographic features -- e.g. rivers are caused by the meanderings of a giant snake.
Buses are slowly turning electric, which makes them better (for example quieter, faster acceleration).

Automation also seems more economically feasible for more expensive vehicles.
People keep saying this, but as another HN pointed out:

The paper states that they used an existing net, VGG-Face, to exact facial features: https://osf.io/fk3xr/ (page 13)
>VGG-Face aims at representing a given face as a vector of scores that are as unaffected as possible by facial expression, background, lighting, head orientation, image properties such as brightness or contrast, and other factors that can vary across different images of the same person.
All the heavy lifting for this paper by was done logistic regression on the facial features reported by VGG-Face, they didn't train a DNN specifically for identifying sexuality. The algo wouldn't have seen clothing at all.

It's pretty disturbing how quick people are to dismiss papers that make them uncomfortable, latching onto the first excuse to dismiss it without even confirming if the excuse is valid or not. Clear Cognitive Dissonance in action.
silver lining: you're getting an $80k salary for a few years while you build your next project
Adultery and murder have happened in just about every human society in the history of time but nobody thinks we shouldn't bother trying to suppress those impulses.
Yeah, no.

Autonomous vehicles exist since quite a while now...

An Italian university tested an autonomous vehicle from Italy to China in 2010: the car was independent the 90% of the time, and semi-autonomous in case of lack of maps or other special conditions: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-softwa...
Because I like to be skeptical both ways, do you have any way to establish your bona fides as a Cruise employee while still being anonymous?

Also, that sounds terrible. What's keeping you (or anyone else) there?
There was a good documentary on the overall Nigerian preacher scene a few years ago, by Channel 4. In Australia I think it was broadcast on the ABC as a Foreign Correspondent episode.

“Nigeria’s Millionaire Preachers” with Seyi Rhodes

https://vimeo.com/31656466

It doesn't talk about this particular group & only briefly touches on the wider phenomenon - there's one scene where they're denied access to a church because not only is it private property, but all the streets and community around it are owned by the church too.

The documentary focuses mainly on one preacher, Sign Fireman, who drives multiple yellow Hummers and records pop albums. The snake oil is his promise of performing miracles live on stage (including raising people back to life) in return for people donating 10% of their income to him.
Solar is not practical in all places. I'm assuming you are talking about in general going to solar as a society, since I doubt many people are building their own nuclear batteries.
I don't know why you were downvoted. This was a great comment.
Why the change of heart on the comment? I read it, logged in to upvote and it was gone...
I guess the hedge-word there is "demonstrated". I'm not sure if Waymo et al have ever demonstrated their most advanced software to the public.
Depends. If the message was like "yeah, don't break the law -- nudge nudge, wink wink -- and remember, we'll fire you if you don't approve enough applications", then yes, absolutely you're liable.
Agree an allowance would be a sensible way to go about this. But given that, as far as I can tell, most of the motivation for an LVT in the UK is some variant of "stick it to small private landlords", I think it's unlikely.