skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they certainly are repping the more Asian traits as they do not resemble the traditional Western style of masculinity.

I wouldn't say that's true. Rain is a (famous) exception in this regard, but most Korean entertainers get blepharoplasty[0], a surgery that makes Asian eyes look more Western.

Moreover, why is it that Korean popular culture has succeeded in such a big way in the West when Japan did not in the 70s/80s, when it was a rising economic star? Well, Japan is a much bigger country and so the entertainment industry is more than content to appeal to only domestic tastes, since they can make a decent living off of that. Even the most rabid Koreaboo would not go for popular Japanese styles in men, such as this[1].

Korea, OTOH, has strived to display more internationally appealing (read: Western) characteristics in their entertainers, because they're a smaller country and the rate of IP infringement is much higher (OTOH, Japan has one of the lowest rates in the world). They need foreign interest in their entertainment industry to turn a decent profit. They initially aimed to have pan-Asian appeal, but that has (luckily, but unintentionally for them) morphed into global appeal.

You're absolutely right that Hollywood actors do not represent the average white guy. But I've been to Japan and seen white guys who look nothing like Clooney or Pitt, guys who are total geeks ("Charisma Men"), get treated like royalty by the local women.

Could you ever see the reverse happening in the West? No, all those Koreaboos are rudely awakened when they find out that most Asian guys don't look like their favorite Korean drama actor. And the statistics back this up.

The export of culture from the West to Asia definitely plays a role in all this, and could very well be the primary reason for this phenomenon. Western views of masculinity and femininity are exported to the rest of the world and shape Asian views of what is attractive in men and women.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_blepharoplasty

1: http://i.imgur.com/9Trha.jpg
I love how HTML5 let's my code work almost everywhere. Thanks for the story.
I totally agree. And there is also the fact that in a competitive environment, competiton is human. You can not folllow a strict procedure on paper, when the competition adapts, copies and even improves. Unfortunately the procedure is also the justification for any action, and it is easier to create metrics on how good the procedure was followed than creating metrics for the results of their actions.
Just what the world needs: a way for people to turn their friends into sex objects.

Do your friends know you're the sort of person to perve over photos of them in their swimsuits?
Having read the article, I'm not sure if this summary is satirical or not. On the one hand, it sounds like it could be a relevant summary of his point, on the other hand it sounds like you're saying the author has no grasp of the legal issues involved.

Can you clarify?
It seems a little misleading to have a graph with log-y values suggesting that growth has stopped because it's reaching some kind of peak. log(number of articles) looking like log(t) means it might still be growing pretty linearly.
So they're going to cause Zynga employees problems (who, after all, will have to deal with the fallout) in an effort to protest the fact that problems have been caused for Zynga employees?
The market in NYC pays $4-5k/month for interns, from what I've seen and heard. That's just a bit below the $35-40/hour number you list above.

It's arguably justified, since companies expect interns to ship production-level code, but that's another conversation!
You are only filtering content already available on Facebook, there are many apps that do something similar. As far as the black bar on the screenshots, I actually got everyone on the preview pictures to agree to be on the App Store and website, they are all people I know and actual results from a search using the app.
I see the post has now been re-titled.
http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38331.html
Ask HN: Startup with minimal programming knowledge
I have this idea I plan on implementing in the form of an website/app combination that requires some serious programming to implement correctly and to my vision. My question is can I do this with barely enough programming skills to maybe look over the program written. I am more of a CFO kind of guy. What are the options for a startup whose founder isn't a true hacker and how could one do this while still being frugal on the capital side.
I wonder if you can scale this down to be scientifically accurate for Sandy from Spongebob, one tree per squirrel seems like it would be alright.
It is my understanding the chance of complications is lower on a 64 bit system. But it is very likely, that well crafted requests can make any server application written in Go, trigger this complication, and essentially result in a DOS attack.
Nice one. I bet you could put the price tag up a bit. Sex is something people are always willing to pay for ;-).
Well I'm hoping I'm not the only user, and yes all my friends know I'm working on this. And have been for a while. It's not about perving your friends' pictures or turning people into sex objects. These pictures are already up on Facebook, Badabing is just a filter. We will be adding a feature to nominate your friends to a contest, as long as they accept to be in it.
We're keeping everyone updated of our progress via our mailing list. You can sign up for notifications at http://famo.us/
Thanks, we're trying to get some people to test it, we will keep it at $1.99 for now.
Numbers corresponding to obscenity depends entirely on the software that interprets and renders them, doesn't it? If I write software that translates the number 5 into obscenity, would 5 become illegal?
Even though I own a Kindle I really like to browse and read through print copies of technical books. Not quite able to pin what exactly I like about it.
His comment isn't wholly unjustified. If you take a photograph of helicopters in a military base, it is plausible (possibly even likely) that someone familiar with the area could figure out their location purely by looking at the photo - based on the background content of the photograph.

The point you could make is that if you're worried about people figuring out where you are, you probably shouldn't publish photos of your location on the internet.
Show HN : YCrejects.org
YCrejects.org is made of 12 completely fake steps to recovery, specially tailored to help the startup founders currently suffering a YC rejection.
I use the XVim plugin: https://github.com/JugglerShu/XVim

It's not perfect, but it's mostly pretty good.
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Well, this is insanely creepy, but at least it shows a bit of entrepreneurial spirit. Rather than focus on the somewhat questionable ethics, how about we talk about how it actually accomplishes this?

1) What features of OpenCV are you using, what sort of shapes are you looking for in images?

2) What's the true positive rate on test sets? And importantly, what's the false negative rate?
Realtime comms data for the The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
Here's another discussion from a couple days ago about these DMCA exemption rulings: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4700010
I think Facebook strips EXIF metadata from uploaded photos, so unless you deliberately add a location tag, it shouldn't really be possible to retrieve a location given a photo.
I think as soon as this gets on apple's radar it will be removed from the app store. Applications have been removed for less, sorry.
The author of that article specifically made a point of not calling either side "right" or "wrong"; the article just exists to help both sides understand the worldview of the other. Whichever mindset you hold, understanding the other mindset will help you make more effective arguments that don't sound inherently insane.
Agreed. I think the community could grow if this functionality was done properly. I believe the care exists and good moderators would be found / come into being.
Here's the project on Github: https://github.com/lusob/f1mapp
Woah, obviously something needs to be done. My iPad has been getting so slow recently..
Android's smartphone OS upgrade issues need more than a quick fix
I'm aware, but the grandparent wrote a "summary" that could be read as either:

His point, worded a little oddly.

"The author got the law side wrong, and is yet another stupid nerd who doesn't get it."
The numbers in this story do not add up. For a connection to be made within 3ms, there needs to be a round-trip within that time, which reduces the maximum possible radius by half.
Ahh then the privacy stuff is ok. Thanks.

But when Apple take a closer look at it they might take it off since they removed other apps for a lot less.
French labour laws aren’t so bad
HappyEdit: A Vim-inspired, modern, open source text editor
I did too, but it was pretty quick to work out what was going on when I clicked it the first time. Not "intuitive", but nicely "discoverable" behaviour.
We’re creating a culture of distraction
Basically, it's pointless to get upset at a number that goes up or down when someone you will never know presses an arrow that goes up or down. Treat it like a natural random process rather than an intentionally malevolent one.
The first thing that comes to mind when looking at the flag are Windows 8 theme colors.
What I Learned Building LittleIpsum
Participate to events like startupweekend.org. Pitch your idea and get a team of developers/designers.
same behavior on firefox 16.0.2 on windows xp.
I have been a Wikipedian with a registered account for a few years, and I have reflected on these issues. The article asks, "But what if the decline in engagement has little to do with culture or the design of the site? What if, instead, it's that there's just less for new Wikipedians to do?"

It's the culture. There is plenty to do. Indeed, every time I read a Wikipedia article, I find something in every article that turns on my inner editor mode. But my log-in information is only stored on my office computer, not on my wife's computer or my children's computer, so when I am reading along in Wikipedia with my family and I see a mistake, I usually grumble rather than Wikignome and fix the problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOFIXIT

I do Wikignome regularly when I'm reading Wikipedia for one reason or another on my office computer. That gives me solely the satisfaction of fixing a problem, and no satisfaction at all of supposing that that builds up my reputation among other Wikipedians or that the fixes will even persist in further updates to the pages.

Quite apart from the articles that have jump-right-out-at-you errors, convenient to fix for anyone who knows grammar, spelling, or basic facts of the world, there are many, many articles that are readily apparent examples of factual mistakes from more subtle causes such as edit wars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

that often persist even after action of the Arbitration Committee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/...

A user who is knowledgeable about SOURCES and who has professional editing experience and academic editing experience (as I have) is hardly likely to find Wikipedia welcoming. Wikipedia's culture was set in the days when it was the "encyclopedia anyone can edit," that is, the encyclopedia where anyone can make something up, and then as Wikipedia grew an administrative apparatus, administering was used more for turf battles and point-of-view pushing than it was used for editing to encyclopedic quality or fact-checking.

I think a philanthropist with a budget the size of Wikipedia's budget over a few years (a large amount of money, but pocket change for a billionaire) could build a Wikipedia competitor that could do quite a lot better. Maybe no one will ever think that that is worthwhile. For sure, many people who are well aware of how incomplete Wikipedia still is regret the off-putting culture of Wikipedia, and will be dissuaded from spending much volunteer time to improve it.

AFTER EDIT: A grandchild comment noted that "One perk of competing with Wikipedia is that you can use Wikipedia articles as a base." And indeed, if a philanthropist's goal for a competing project were improving the quality of online encyclopedias, licensing the competing project's articles in the same way Wikipedia's are licensed would mean that good articles could work their way back into Wikipedia--a very disruptive strategy indeed for improving content.
"startups" are not the economy. A startup is barely a real business, so let's not get to hung up on the effect that labour laws have the questionable benefit startups bring to Real Life (tm).

Now US employment law might help startups grow quickly, but the flip side is uncertainty and insecurity for millions of employees in all walks of life. That's your trade off, and you have to get out of the startup bubble world if you really think it's worth it.

New Zealand and Australia also have relatively strong (compared the the US) labour protection laws, and unemployment remains low. Yes, companies need to be more careful when planning, but they are able to lay off staff when the business is suffering, without compromising the protection of employees to spurious dismissal.
Well, thanks. So:

1) We are using rapid Object Detection by training Haar classifiers of different bikini shapes (top, bottom, strapless bikinis etc). We used opencv_haartraining to get a few XMLs we use for testing each image.

2) The true positive and false positive rates vary depending on the test we are performing (top, bottom...) so we have a formula based on the combination of these and the amount of hits found in each picture by each classifier, where we assign the picture a probability of it containing a bikini (based on a controlled sample of 3000 pictures). As of now we are looking at user feedback to make sure our threshold is where it needs to be so that we provide just the right amount of true/false positives in our results.
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Isn't that static analysis though? That would make it a bit different then.
The Future of Higher Education: Massive Online Open Disruption
It is about turning people into sex objects, also that contest stuff is really creepy. Just make sure you never add sharing features to the app.
As the poster has already pointed out, these are pics that people have already shared via facebook.

Computers sometimes allow us to do things was were already doing, except at a massive scale. Pre-napster, people were already able to share music with their friends via mix tapes, etc. Suddenly they were able to share with millions, without leaving their own home.

Similarly people were already able to scroll through their friends facebook albums for bikini pics. Suddenly they are able to to do it for 5 friends at once, with the click of a button. Changing the difficulty and scale of something can totally alter the dynamics of the situation. It will be interesting to see if services like this alter the behaviour of people 'oversharing' on facebook.
TL;DR is for crappy writers and/or long-winded comments, which is why you see it a lot. It's merciful to the reader to put it up top.

Screw the conventional construction of an article. TL;DR isn't a spoiler either, because most people don't write comments in a coherent linear way like a good story. It takes most people three paragraphs just to get to the meat of what they're trying to say.

If you feel you need to use a TL;DR, you are a crappy writer and/or have written an unnecessarily long-winded comment. Put the TL;DR up top. Either that, or rewrite your comment.
I'm intrigued by how the law would handle one time pad cryptography in such a case. You could produce two numbers of similar length, each on its own bearing no relationship to the 'illegal' number, but which can be combined to give that number. Then post them separately. Could either of them legally be taken down?
Most historians now believe that the population collapse on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) was due to diseases brought in by European sailors and slave raiding by the Peruvians, rather than any ecological collapse.
Show HN: TonePush - set the ringtone on someone else's phone
I've had this concept bashing about in my head for just around a year now. Now - before the haters - ITS NOT FOR SERIOUS PEOPLE. Wear a suit? Don't install it. Present in front of people ? Don't install it. Hate the permissions it needs ? Just don't go there.

However, the feedback I've had so far has been very very positive. I even demo'd at Droidcon 2012 UK on Thursday and it worked ! (Very surprising as all the other network dependant demos failed on their ass). Anyway, would love to get some positive feedback about where to go next.

Oh yes, and as I said, if you don't like the idea or trust the permissions I need, then please, just don't install it. It's for the "crazy frog" crowd.
Hey, I'm sorry for being so negative.

You do make a good point - humour is important. I might not like the stunt, but that means nothing; there are probably lots of people who love it. And at least you're doing something - those people are now engaged and know something of patent trolls.
From the perspective of the law, bits do have color, even though that makes no sense from a technical perspective. So, any given number may or may not qualify as "illegal" depending on how you generated it. That said, I don't think that makes the terms "illegal number" or "illegal prime" nonsensical, depending on context.

In any case, I think the article doesn't deserve the pithy "summary" upthread; the summary provides actively unhelpful information if you haven't read the article.
I don't think the UCI has ever fully explained their reasoning.

On page 10 of this PDF [1], they explain that they are responsible for regulating technical innovation, and they talk about some of the advantages of having live GPS data. On-rider cameras are also banned, and the issue of who has rights to the footage is mentioned. Interesting, they say that other live data — speed and heart rate and power etc. — isn't banned, but this only seems to be because it hasn't been submitted to the UCI for approval, which means it's banned anyway.

The first lot of comments on this post from The Inner Ring [2] discuss the issue, and it seems most likely that the UCI doesn't want third parties transmitting anything from races, although this doesn't explain why they're not allowed to transmit data back to the team car. (Perhaps it's got something to do with the ban on race radios?)

1. http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=&...

2. http://inrng.com/2012/09/vuelta-power-analysis/
I'm talking about the dating scene, not the hookup scene - OKCupid's own data bears it out, black males get by far the least interest out of any race group.

East Asians are stereotyped as effeminate and geeky. Blacks are stereotyped as criminals and deadbeats. World of difference really.

They can have the better odds in a club - with my condolences. It's the least they could get for the raw-ass deal they have in every other corner of life.
Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme with Artificial Swarm Intelligence
Selling humans as food would "open up new business that would not exist otherwise", but we're not going to do that, are we? So we might as well have phones that can run free software too. Not everything is about "business opportunities"; human rights come first.
Microsoft's Sinofsky responds to complaint over Office 2013 on Surface RT
> you have no grasp of the legal issues involved

Let's have a thread about it then. What legal issues am I misunderstanding? It seems to me that the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA are rather unprecedented.

Brandenburg v. Ohio demonstrated that free speech protects abstract advocacy of force or law violation. The anti-circumvention provisions criminalize the distribution of not just software that can be directly used, but anything that serves as a tool to violate copyright. That could be a small number, a key, or even a description of how a DRM scheme operates.

I cannot imagine a constitutional basis for those provisions of the DMCA. What say you?
Business Friendly Features In iOS 6: What They Say About New “Surface” Threat
Interesting! The UK site http://www.amazon.co.uk/ has a similar front and centre promo for the Kindle Fire, but without the comparison to / attack on the iPad Mini.
Thanks for the feedback. I respectfully disagree and hope that is not the case. In short, the app is an image recognition search engine for social networks. Beach and pool pics is the first "search keyword" we are using since we assume it is one of the more popular, but there are more to come.
Weather Control Technologies: $6K per hour for sunshine
This is an interesting problem that we, as a society, need to deal with.

HN's readership would be predominantly from a tech background with probably a reasonable basis in mathematics and the sciences. As such we can recognize some of the absurdities of the legal system, like how you can't patent a mathematical formula but you can patent software, which is ultimately indistinguishable from a formula in many (if not all?) cases.

The question is naturally asked: if I make some number produce something illegal is that number then illegal? The engineers among us like absolute rules and certainty as a general rule. I've had a discussion with someone else about how a group of people could route each other's packets and then hypothetically law enforcement couldn't prove who they came from. The same argument comes up with "an IP address is not a person" arguments.

While I sympathize with these arguments, this isn't how the legal system works. The law doesn't work on absolutely provable certainty. It works on reasonable doubt, intent and (hopefully) facts.

So when it comes to numbers, one has to remember that numbers encode information (See [1]). So for a small integer to encode, say, an obscene image or a program that circumvents copy protection, it would require another program that actually does that. So if the number 7 produced a DeCSS circumvention program with a given program A, then program A is the problem, not the number 7.

Now to turn any number into a video or a program or an image requires another program or infrastructure. Even if it's juaw the raw bytes of an i386/ELF program, you still need a kernel and a filesystem to run it. The test here, as I imagine the law would apply (IANAL), is whether the required infrastructure is general purpose or not.

Turning the number 7 into something obscene can't be done with something general purpose. Turning a 1400 digit number into a program can.

I don't like the stance of the US on IP, particularly the Obama administration, which has to be the most pro-IP anti-tech administration in US history (IMHO). I also don't like how selective enforcement is here. Share a few songs on Limewire and you'd up for hundreds of thousands of dollars? Really? At the same time, every city has a place you can go to buy pirate DVDs or counterfeit goods (eg Canal St in NYC). Why is this, which is actual trafficking for profit, ignored while the administration tries to elevate file-sharing to terrorism (the original ACTA draft)?

Anyway, numbers are simply a way to represent information and that information is the problem, not the number.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory
I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough
Valid point, but I think the HN crowd is somewhat their target market. Surely there are benefits to marketing to the HN crowd now that Ycombinator is pretty famous.