skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read it and here's what I would like to know. When they used human gaydar (which they carefully said this was not...) to create the statistics to compare against the AI sexual orientation detector, what was the best human gaydar and the worst human gaydar (were there any humans actually better than the algorithm)? Why didn't they increase the number of faces available to the human gaydar or did they do that and it didn't make a difference? Also, if they are letting the machine learning algorithm learn, shouldn't they have done it in a way that let the humans learn for a comparison?
Are you seriously arguing that people switching from driving to cycling increases congestion? In the face of every bit of research, ever?

Although, once I got past face-palming, I could read your comment as charitably as possible and interpret that what you're saying is "bicyclists who do things like run red lights seem to increase congestion [over bicyclists who don't.]", but I think that's a stretch.

I did find one counter-point, this study [0], but it's key to note that it's a simulation for a non-existent scenario, and IMHO it would be stupid to have a 10% proportion of bicycles and not have appropriate infrastructure.

[0]: http://peopleforbikes.org/blog/real-talk-bikes-cant-reduce-c...
Took a look and still prefer to use Github Trending: https://github.com/trending/javascript?since=weekly

I have a lot of JS blogs/twitters/subscriptions that I use to keep up-to-date, and generally most of the articles I read will appear in the first couple of pages of the trending repositories.
Robust trade, or spoils of conquest/pillaging. In either case, it's not totally surprising that good from half a world away would end up in some viking longhouse.
You can maybe add a glitch repo to make it easier to get started.
AI Sumo Wrestlers Could Make Future Robots More Nimble
I can't really agree with this, there are definitely lots of negative avenues from exercise if not done right.

Generally, hopefully, most people will do exercise more or less "right", but this is not a safe assumption.
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They didn't just rape and pillage, as is popularly assumed; they settled and traded as well. It's not improbable that they'd buy exotic clothing, especially the ornate kind worn for various events or ceremonies.
Gaydar is a gaida performer, and gaida means bagpipe in Bulgarian (other languages?)

My family name on mother's side was Gaydarovi (-ovi)

Just a fun fact!
Very interesting, thanks!

It's funny, part of what drew me to electronics and circuitry as a hobby was how predictable it is, compared to how sloppy chemistry and biology are. But when you get into high frequencies and EMI and wireless signals...woof.

It's really amazing how much work goes into making that sort of thing work like, at all. I have enough trouble getting a simple bit-banged serial or parallel interface to work without having to worry about occult ley lines.
Vladimir Voevodsky died of aneurysm
House intel plans to release Russian-bought Facebook ads to the public
"Note also the claim that there is no warranty, which in this case presumably means that if the program actually does something, you can't sue them."

I love this.
This seems like a plausible theory, especially since the article notes that online dating is overwhelmingly popular among homosexual couples, but doesn't that theory start to fall apart when a couple is going out together? Unless their relationship is entirely secret I'd imagine they'd be seen in public eventually (especially at a school) and they'd probably still experience hostility for it (and probably worse than just flirting).

I feel like this is still related to what the authors were claiming, that people previously only dated within their social connections. The schools I've been to were never overtly racist, but friend groups still seemed to contain mostly people of the same race/class. You'd have very few chances to meet someone outside your social group if your connections only consisted of your social group.
North Korean hackers steal South Korean war plans to wipe out NK leadership
For me, the third repo they suggest is:

csurfer/gitsuggest
A tool to suggest github repositories based on the
repositories you have shown interest in.

So meta.
I don't think it's appropriate to post this, frankly, but some distasteful speculation was initially made here about suicide when Voevodksy passed. I wanted to set the record straight.
As a counterpoint to your low effort dismissal, "yes really". As a man of color, I could not talk to white girls at the primarily white public schools I attended without significant social pushback.

Even today, in 2017, I still have to watch my back if I'm seen walking with a white woman. And I live in one of the most liberal states in the US.

Just because it never happened to you, or you never witnessed it personally, doesn't mean it can't happen.

This response seriously disappointed me. Not only did you not provide data or citations of any kind, your tone comes off as morally superior/holier-than-thou. So I'll give some back to you, Canada sure seems like a swell place to live if it contains people like you.
Humans are literally hardwired to view their mates as sex objects. There is nothing wrong about it as long as that viewpoint doesn't extend to professional settings.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15446206
I think Baden Powell would be proud.
If you follow the OP, he is talking about the concept of forging Wills (in fact he is making a bad joke about doing this to his own Grandpa) not the specific facts of this case.

That said, you may be very surprised at what fraudsters do in practice. Accessing bank accounts of elderly parents with or without their knowledge, accessing their electronic devices, or even creating actual forged Wills (complete with signature and notarized) is not exactly unheard of in law. Even murders made to look like suicide specifically to claim inheritance isn't just the stuff of fantasy and movies, same goes for murders made to look like accidents to claim life insurance. In fact very often it is actually a parent who murders a child for insurance money.

Here is a link that includes 21 such cases: https://www.jrcinsurancegroup.com/murder-for-life-insurance-...
Is it inevitable? What if the bird knew it was being monitored? Impossible probably, but a human could definitely think about that, and even try to foil detection. I’m not convinced that metacognition doesn’t add a non-trivial degree of difficulty to the whole endeavor.
I returned my Apple Watch 3 cellular (update)
Walnuts are superfood. Rich in omega 3s.
Does it count if it doesn't FEEEEL like work???

I started an escape room business for fun, and have been enjoying the heck out of writing custom software for the rooms. Both in-room and for administration.

My favorite is a javascript "OS" that I use to put imaginary windowed environments in the room, but the players never actually leave a full-screen browser.

It does full window management and all the regular UI stuff so it feels super normal to the players. My favorite part is that I don't use jQuery. That was just a little challenge I created for myself for fun.

Now my rooms have a login prompt of any kind, and I can then create windows with any kind of HTML/JS/CSS content for solving puzzles, extra clues, etc. I can use an RPi and control maglocks from the computer, light up LED's, or even communicate with wireless props.

I run a kiosk add-on for the browser and physically hack the keyboards so certain keys don't even work in the rooms. No F11 or Ctrl-Alt-Del without access to the netbooks or RPi's locked away in hidden compartments.

I also created a lot of room management software for timers, sending hints into the rooms on tablets, etc.
This is an amazing resource, thank you!
Article is dated Monday, August 21, 2017.
The eclipse was extensively discussed back then.
Wow, talk about conjecture! If they found these artifacts in their graves, the closes thing to truth is that they were Muslims, nothing else.
That's precisely the problem, design trends don't really matter, especially for a productive app like Github (vs something like a marketing site).

Look at how information dense Excel can be with a typical spreadsheet, and the vast majority of users have no problem with it - yet when it comes to a basic page listing a few items, there's 50px of padding around each item in 12px font. Suggestions: remove the padding, group actions by the same person or same repo to remove repeated clutter, add descriptions of the repos in the front page so it doesnt require a click to see more, etc...
And apparently your experience in one part of the world is completely universal and applies everywhere. You're sure reading a lot into my reply.
are you associated at all with Nest? also, this is really cool. good tutorial model for automated growing perhaps.
A Tour of Google's Moonshot Factory
It's doubtful they were especially more keen on raiding and pillaging than other cultures of the time. They were some of the last pagans of Europe and they didn't shy away from raiding churches and monasteries. Monks were almost the only people who could write about it, and their bias influences their accounts.

It's not that vikings were especially nice and peaceable people but neither was anyone then.
Poetry for the Seasonally Depressed
It's like homeopathic copying: A zero byte string can contain trace amounts of the original.
China Rises
TensorFlow Lattice ensures your machine learning models follow global trends
China Rises 2
It baffles me why software companies spend so much money on leasing prime real estate in one of the most expensive markets, v.s. pursuing a more remote workforce strategy.
Psychiatrists Can’t Stop Mass Killers
They were probably more civilized than we think; I mean, the level of trade with the rest of the world is certainly the biggest proof we have.
Trump threatens to shut down NBC and other TV news networks that criticise him
I'm not so sure; I'd imagine that a human mind is a massively parallel process, and singling out individual trains of thoughts or decisions will be hard. It's probably fairly easy to tell what a large wildcat is thinking about when it's time for a meal, but an average person? How often has someone advised you to 'sleep on' a difficult problem? How often have you discovered a solution to something after spending awhile doing totally unrelated things?

It will probably take a lot of doing to decrypt that mess reliably across a broad population. And think of the impact that culture and language will have! Surely people brought up in different systems of belief will think in different ways, their development having been shaped by different memetics and core ideals.

Maybe that's the sort of problem that deep learning and AI could help sift through. But I'm not sure that I'd want to train a nascent AI on the human subconscious. Didn't Poe address this sort of thing? "The Imp Of The Perverse?"
Hey, totally unrelated, does anyone have HBO's number? I think I got a pitch.

Oh, and you can't mention Mind-Machine Interfaces without the quote from Alpha Centauri :)

"I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine - just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness. Dark. Rigid. Cold. Alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen."
main(argc, argv)
char **argv;
{
for (;;)
printf("%s\n", argc>1? argv[1]: "y");
}

Is beautiful, readable, and minimal. The "optimized" Rust version is complicated and over 50 lines of code. At what point does performance optimization go too far?
but doesn't that theory start to fall apart when a couple is going out together?

No. That is like saying "Don't babies spontaneously abort once your pregnancy starts to show if judgy people so much as look at your belly?"

You need certain conditions conducive to establishing an initial connection. Once that connection is established, it takes more than a withering glance to kill it. It can still be killed by social disapproval, but not so effortlessly and casually.
Another Canadian here. Can confirm, white people dating people of other colors does not inspire any particular comment, in school or elsewhere.
On my Macbook with way too much running, I get about 800MiB/s in Python2 with your script, but 1.12GiB/s with this Python3 script:

import sys

s = b'y\n' * 1024

write = sys.stdout.buffer.write
while True:
write(s)

# 1.12GiB/s

Plain old yes comes in at 22Mib/s.

The Python3 docs say to "use the underlying binary buffer object" when reading or writing binary data.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html
Almost every King Kyiv/ Kyiv Rus was a Viking. The last Viking King of Norway was also the last King of Kyiv from what I understand.

They fought with the Turks for 100's of years. It wouldn't surprise me if this clothing was not just something they came across on a raid or purchased.
On the flip side, online dating allows people to be more racist with who they date. In real life, people give others of all races a chance to be 'charmed' through personality. It would be rude to shut down someone completely or not even entertain a conversation. With online dating, people discriminate solely based on a picture.
Just for posterity, you asked for:

> A feature that'd let me browse by "topic" (e.g systems programming) regardless of language would be welcome as well.

Topics are exactly what you initially described. Perhaps you didn't do a very good job describing what you'd like.

Also, they're called topics. Not tags. It's in the documentation.

> Such feature would require Github to do the appropriate groundwork to become great at technology-discovery, namely

They did a bunch of work to automatically add topics for many repositories to solve for this: https://githubengineering.com/topics/
Why do I have a feeling that "superfood" is a marketing scam?
Most greens (spinach, kale, swiss chard, beets) seem to do pretty ok. Green and pole beans do quite well. Broccoli did alright, at least the plants, though I had a pack of baby rabbits that savaged it when it was small, and it never headed up after that.

Very mediocre results with my tomatoes and cucumbers this year, but it was very, very dry.

Oh, and zucchini. But you can almost plant zucchini on asphalt and it would find a way to produce bushels of the stuff...
LOL a group of UC Berkeley students made “the sexiest app ever”
Save CSS, Images and Render Slide Notes When Converting Presentation to HTML
You're probably right. Looks like the article mentions it fills in the structure, not setting the pointer to NULL (which as you point out would be impossible because it's not a pointer to a pointer).
* -5: Bad (or no) use of white space

* -60: Serif font on screen

* -40: Sharp, plain, distracting boxes instead of whitespace

* -80: Huge margins on a desktop site

* -8816: Loaded with Javascript

Yes, that's under -9000!
Marijn has worked hard on the 2nd edition. In my opinion, it is a must read for any new Javascript developer.
...if you are creepy enough.
This looks to be intentional. I hope those vandals get caught.
I'm sure you can buy an over priced condo anywhere, but are there 30,000+ units available in those markets, which in my estimation is the point of the article vis-a-vis a housing market that can support 50,000 Amazonians.

And I'm not going to knock Seattle, there is nothing wrong with cold, wet, dark and depressing...but there is something to be said about the year round Tropical weather Miami has to offer. Its why Miami has snowbirds and our number 1 industry is tourism (discounting Medicare/insurance fraud).
As ‘Unicorns’ Emerge, Utah Makes a Case for Tech Entrepreneurs
It's pretty straightforward:

parallel -- yes yes yes yes >/dev/null

If you've more processors than that, add on extra yesses.
threads with comments can't even be deleted, and it is still there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15452656
Or maybe the Canadians are just saying that this is the internet and not everyone here is American? It may be generally true across the US. That doesn't make it automatically true "anywhere."
I missed your distinction of “pure” capitalism. Thanks for reinforcing/clarifying that.
Laugh. Out. Loud! XD
He's a physiologist, who moved to other disciplines, with a touch of anthropology. There are no experts-on-everything-human, of course, so that'll probably have to do for now. One can imagine better combinations for such a synthetic interdisciplinary topic, I agree - but there weren't a lot of other volunteers. Academia likes narrow specialists. No need to falsely disparage him as a self-appointed writer whose only credential is popularity, it isn't true.

"After graduating from Cambridge, Diamond returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow until 1965, and, in 1968, became a professor of physiology at UCLA Medical School. While in his twenties he developed a second, parallel, career in ornithology and ecology, specialising in New Guinea and nearby islands." - Wikipedia
Slack: because it's how we communicate internally and with our big clients.

Atom: I have a setup with a project in each window, but also an attached terminal that's all set to go for compiling and uploading to my test boards. It's the nicest solution I've found, the only downside is the RAM. But you've motivated me to check out some alternatives...
A fun math question (interview?): let's say you want to meet someone and you are in a bar in SF. What are the odds?

1) The population of sf 800,000.

2) Ok, but 1/2 the population isn't into you. (male vs female). 400,000

3) Ok, but people under 20 and people over 30 you aren't interested in. A
10 (ten) year span of average age of 70. But hey we are friends here so lets do 1/5. We are down to 80,000.

4) Ok, but how many people in that time frame are not in a relationship. %10 (pulled from my facebook). Ok, that is down now to 8,000.

5) Ok, but you are into people that are physically fit. That removes %50. You are down to 4,000.

6) Crap. You like college educated people that have a job. Now you are at another %50 loss. 2,000.

7) Ok, but you are in a bar. What percent do not go into bars? %50 loss. 1,000.

8) But you are in a bar @ saturday at 8pm. People go out let's average 1 time a week (thur,fri,sat). That is another %66 loss. Down to 330.

9) You are in a particular bar. There are ~600 bars in sf., with only 330 people in SF that meet your criteria. They will not be wearing a sign.

10) So, there you are, buying $8 beer #4, standing in a bar hoping to meet someone - that statistically isn't there.

=> Online wins.
I haven't downvoted you, but I'm a bit troubled by your unbridled enthusiasm for how amazing previously futuristic technology is without any consideration of the ways in which it can be abused - as historically such knowledge about others has been abused. I invite you to consider the experience of people whose appearance is distinctive enough that complete strangers feel emboldened to just casually attack them in the street without any prior provocation.

Now imagine the ramifications of having an app that can reliably tag people as gay or suchlike. How do you think that's likely to get used in the real world?
Yeah, I rent too. I got a Sesame lock off the Kickstarter but I've been too lazy to install it...
Digging the hole and hiding 80 lbs of silver (what a talent was) would have been more work than just depositing it with the bank. So his aversion to loss caused him to expend more effort for a worse outcome.
This is really interesting. It is kind of nice to hear a perspective that is positive towards millennials instead of critical.

For some reason it's ok to make broad sweeping stereotypes of the millennial generation. This is something I don't understand.
I've lived in mainland China for almost 4 years .. It depends on the area you go to, but I'd say China is fairly safe as long as you behave responsibly (don't leave your laptop alone on the coffee shop etc). I never had any problem in this time (I lived in Shenzhen and Jieyang). But, protect all your communications with SSL or similar, and for gods sake don't use wechat. I uninstalled it recently because of the new privacy announcement. As for privacy and accessing blocked websites, I found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnQDiGBFIXk to be very effective
When we launched FindDate (https://finddate.co) - a chat app network dating platform, I chose to keep it interracial by default; even though geo fencing is just a click away. Some felt it might not work.

I firmly believe that,

We cannot address racism, by hiding races. We need to give a chance to the people to mingle with people of different races to show that they are equal.

We cannot address body shaming, by hiding people of different body sizes.

This was our base principle in FindDate and from the feedback we're receiving; it looks like people are loving it.
Actually I was saying the total opposite of what you inferred. I thought that despite being in Mumbai, IIT-B would have a very diverse spread of folks due to the methods of intake(JEE/ all India recruitment of professors). That means Marathis might not be the language of choice, because it's highly likely that the researcher is Tamil/Telugu. Unlike someplace like, say, VJTI, that's likely to have a large Marathi population.

(I didn't downvote btw.)
What you described sounds susceptible to MITM attacks, no?

Change or short-circuit just enough right before the action to cause a blip in hand-eye coordination, causing the target to topple down the stairs, or "slash wrist" instead of "cut carrot"?
This is great! I’ve been wanting to do this for years. I’m still amazing something everyone should want is so difficult.
I've done it both ways—both are valid approaches.

The nice thing about using Ansible for all the management is consistency (especially in mixed container / not-container environments). The nice thing about templating a compose file is being able to track the latest Docker / Compose versions more easily.