skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Takes about 5 minutes to train the model using some simple expressions. Deals with detailed facial expressions, eyelid movement and iris tracking (the eye stuff is 'OK' - this is where the newer high resolution kinect should help, if supported).
To add to this article, I've written a lot on this topic and its relation to startups:

* Types of Graduate Degree Programs, http://notonlyluck.com/2013/06/23/types-of-degree-programs/

* When to Drop Out of School?, http://notonlyluck.com/2013/01/31/when-to-drop-out-of-school...

* Lifelong Learning as a Substitute for School, http://notonlyluck.com/2013/02/01/lifelong-learning-as-a-sub...
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completely agree - that's what made me finally happy with the reasoning, even though I'd done the math by hand. It does get more subtle though if you have a million doors, and the host opens one, should you switch? The answer is still yes, but the margin is tiny.
3 words: massive celebrity adoption.
To clarify this, (1) means the empty door, as revealed, was not picked from a random set of doors with anything or nothing behind them. Rather, (1) and the link, both refer to a case where the game show host picks a random door only from doors known to be empty, presumably to raise the tension in the show. (Opening the door with something behind it would eliminate the tension, after all.)

I also like the answers later in the HN comments where someone mentions the host opening a bunch of empty doors, leaving one closed, then asking if you'd like to switch to the door he or she conveniently left closed.
It's not a problem for Wolfram|Alpha. (-:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6+AM+Iceland+in+San+Fra...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=7%3A30+PM+MST+in+Arizon...
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If you're just popping off a queue, using something like POSIX Message Queues of SysV IPC might be nice to avoid depending on Redis on every single app server.
Yes, the common notion of "responsibility" you criticize is what I was responding to and talking about: the rule-based, considered-in-advance, "responsible choice" idea that having children in certain situations is "irresponsible". You are saying that that definition isn't really responsibility at all, and while I'd have to think about it some more to be sure, I think I agree.

Many people use the term in the prescriptivist fashion you critize, which makes it hard to respond to those ideas without using the term. I'm not sure what else one could call it. Prescribed responsibility? Whatever you call it, it's really easy for those with many resources to make rules of "responsibility" that make little sense to those who have no resources, and then to criticize those without the resources for being "irresponsible". That was what I meant with my original comment--it's easy to be "responsible" in the making-sure-things-go-well sense when you have enough resources to pay your way out of bad choices. Responsibility in the sense of accepting-the-consequences-of-your-actions-and-moving-on-from-there certainly has a different formulation that isn't dependent on having resources.

Thanks for your comments--I think there really are two separate ideas of "responsibility" being discussed, which I'd never really thought about much before. The two shouldn't be conflated, but I think they are all the time. When I first wrote my original comment, I wasn't quite convinced about the idea myself, but I thought it was interesting enough to put forward as an idea. You've helped me unravel which part of it doesn't quite seem right and which part rings true.
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What is the legal authority by which the NSA masquerades as a major internet service?

I think that you're asking that question very clearly and simply. I also think it needs a clear and simple answer, but I doubt we'll see one. The USA's legal environment allows what we in the Real World call "hair splitting", and further, redefines everyday terms, and allows the use of the redefined term in a deceptive manner.

Not to justify the NSA in any way (I think the NSA should be abolished) but I imagine they do have some legal justification. They won't be forthcoming about it, and if you read it, you'd be amazed at the interpretation the NSA would have to do to allow itself to do MITM attacks. That's just a cynical guess on my part, not a defense of the action.
I actually do this, and it's a great lunatic detector.

My grandparents taught me to use "Oxford commas" and double spaces after sentences when I was very young. To me, it looks better on paper that way. I never thought about it until I had a psychotic teacher who actually deducted points for my writing "1, 2, and 3" instead of "1, 2 and 3".

It inspired me to make it a point to include these more archaic practices in my more formal writing. And doing so always flushes out a few grammar lunatics.
Even Spiegel has apparently requested his talk not be broadcasted.
There are people still pirating on physical media !?

I think it is ok to go after the sharks but where do you draw the line, 10 copies, a 100?
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Princeton U. Releases Digitized Manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1st Novel
Would you please stop forking my universe
Like many other HNers, I like to dabble a little in physics. For the last few months I have been thinking about the Copenhagen interpretation and the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum physics. I think I have finally decided that I like the Many Worlds interpretation better - it fits so nicely with what we would expect to see if we are living in the Matrix. Does anyone want to argue the case for the Copenhagen interpretation?
The logical waste, to me, is that after I've forced something to uppercase, I probably don't care about the non-transformed version anymore. Making use of it is as likely to be a mistake as otherwise. Consider all of the times you see people modify a list in LISP and accidentally continue to use the previous version.

Yeah, the focus object, to me, follows naturally with the way we do imperatives in natural language. Though, I guess there we have prepositions and such, too. (Are there programming languages with prepositions? I've seen creative use of them in testing libraries.)

And, ultimately, what I want is a system where a reference essentially tracks the state of what it references? Functions on objects, then, would be tracked not just in terms of input/output, but whether they affect the item the are operated on? (This make sense?)

That is, few people would expect the following "program" to work:

rocket = new rocket()
rocket.launch()
rocket.addFuel(fuel)

I have seen fancy usage of generics to have it such that launch could not be called on a Rocket<NoFuel> instance. This makes it possible to possibly do chained calls that would work as expected, but chaining quickly gets cumbersome. Especially if you want to do some things unrelated to the state of the rocket in there at some point.

Do you know of any such systems?

Also, apologies or not addressing the QS stuff. Wrote all of the above and realized I didn't touch it. :( I simply meant that most "cute" QS implementations you see in functional languages (and, hence, readable) are actually not the same algorithm, since they require a ton more memory.

And, yes, all of this is a shared state problem. Though, again, I think if objects had ways of indicating what functions change state and what "state" is required of an object, much of that confusion would go away.

Consider, if you have a team of cooks working, there is no confusion about when the "onion" that must have been diced is added to the pot. Pretty much any assembly line working area with many workers. A worker can do a spot check that the item they have is in the appropriate state for them to do their job.

(Apologies, I would like to clean up this post, but know I will have a hard time getting back to it. Hopefully it is at least mostly intelligible.)
I may have already missed the window where people will read this reply, but let me tell you the basic error in your thinking. Yes it's true that Old MacDonald actually does exist. He may be your neighbor. He's certainly my father's neighbor, out in the country, in Michigan. And you can buy eggs. And a few other people, too.

But guess what. Well into the 90s percent of people don't do that. Probably high 90s percent. And they never could either, because as soon as they tried, you'd see it can't scale up. The only thing that can scale up is the rotten situation we currently have--the one that produces that 90s percentage of the eggs and milk (and meat, which you didn't mention, but it's likewise a parallel here for people who believe in "humane" meat).
Ah, thank you. So it was a mistake to not initially honor the EXIF data, but it's so ingrained now that fixing it might 'break' existing images on the web.

It's a shame backward compatibility has to be so rigid. It's hard to imagine there being that many sites out there using manually rotated (or transform: rotated) images with EXIF data that would cause a double rotation. But at least I understand the rationale behind the tag now. Of course, the unfortunate irony is that with so little browser support, this CSS rule is likely to end up causing incompatibility between browsers anyway, at least for the next few years.
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They wait until almost the end to tell us why this isn't really such a great idea:

Mars cautions that a system like Jigsaw dispenses with a layer of abstraction between chip hardware and the software running on it. “Companies like Intel, once they expose the microarchitectural configurations through the software layer, they have to keep that interface over future generations of the processor,” Mars says. “So if Intel wanted to do something audacious with the microarchitecture to make a big change, they’ll have to keep that legacy support around, which can limit the design options they can explore.”
I think they used to be on books.google.com, but here are some issues of Popular Mechanics that can be browsed:

http://books.google.com/books?id=xNwDAAAAMBAJ
Thinnest glass ever is just two atoms thick. Does it shatter?
"Free" Parking Spaces Subsidized by Regulations Aren't Free
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You can't stop/reverse something that's not happening, that's not even coherent.
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No need to get hostile. I was referring to two possible outcomes: (1) global warming was never occurring (2) global warming was happening, but for what ever reason stopped or even reversed.

Make sense now?
One of the mysteries of HN and how stories do and don't make it to the top. It seems to me there is more attention to tabloid type stories lately.
Hyperlink vs an actual button is not a good comparison. You don't have a mouse on iOS to hover over things to see if they're 'touchable' or not. Bad design is still bad design even if the cool kids are doing it.

You should note that on the web many have abandoned the hyperlink for graphics that represent buttons: http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#examples
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Great stuff. Really useful service.
While you are absolutely correct, no one is regression testing the updates potentially coming into their project box/gameserver/etc, even if they perform the apt-get upgrade manually.

Might as well set it automatically and stay protected <shrugs>
> If you sample on the interval 1990 to the present, crime appears to have gone down. If you sample from 1960 or any longer intervals to the present, per capita crime has certainly increased.

How about instead of SAMPLING, and without performing any sort of "moving average", you just SHOW the homicide rate, and do so over a range wide enough to INCLUDE 1932. Can you do that?

If you do that, I think you will find that you are wrong about this - the homicide rate today is lower than it was in 1932. Because there was a huge peak around the 1930s PRIOR TO the relatively low point in the 1950s. I don't see much point in applying "a reasonable moving average" since the underlying trend is pretty smooth, but if you did, say, a 5-year moving average it would STILL be lower today than in 1932.
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So much for "entirely on a computer screen" being unique.
That is already how voice recognition, translation, etc services work on smartphones today. At least in Google and Windows/Bing systems, that is done in the cloud and sent back to your phone. They have simpler, less powerful versions entirely on the phone that are used as a fallback (one explicitly warned by the vendor to be inferior, mind you) for when the device cannot connect to the big iron in the sky.
Impressive presentation, if you're trying to show off. Terrible otherwise, and the content is just dumb. David Kushner has always struck me as one of those superficial tech journalists who writes about it all the time, but largely avoids attempting to explain the important technical details to the audience well. He's either dumbing it down on purpose because he thinks his audience will be easily confused, or he really has a meager understanding himself. Regardless, I don't think he's doing his audience a service when he puts this 'Hackerz-are-l33t' theme on this article like he's submitting a screenplay to Hollywood.

He's basically like the 'Smykowski' character from Office Space; trying to justify his job ("I talk to the engineers so you don't have to!"), but in the end, he's not really doing anything.

This is an important topic and it deserves to be treated much more seriously. I feel embarrassed for Rolling Stone here. It's style over content and the fancy animations are just compensating for an otherwise shallow article.
I chose the wrong option when installing a grub update yesterday. Repairing from a live cd didn't seem to work. So I'm currently backing up my data and will install from scratch. Something I've been planning on doing eventually since this was a system upgraded from 11.10.

I also run 30ish VMs with it at work. Only real issue I've ever run into is how the /boot partition fills up with old kernels...

So, I have yet to see any proof that Debian is less stable than RedHat. Or the other way around. Heck, how would you even measure that?
I never understood the "humans are an invasive species". If a beaver builds a dam and floods a habitat forcing out the native species thats "natural".

Humans do the same thing and it's "invasive".

I take the view that humans are as natural as any other animal on the planet. We obviously have a goal to sustain the ecosystems we value, but we're just as much a part of the ecosystem as any other animal.
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Don't beat yourself up, but also try to be aware. There are places where people are abused to produce coffee too ... you wouldn't buy blood diamonds, so try to buy fair-trade coffees.
It lagged on my maxed out, 2013 Macbook air. If I can't run it smoothly on this machine, the world isn't ready for it.
Not really. As ~btilly suggested in another post, perl really doesn't have anything like it. The closest thing that exists is using a code reference.

sub new_iter {
my $i = 0;
return sub {$i++}
}

my $iter = new_iter();

while(my $number = $iter->()) {
say $number;
}

This is of course a trivial example, but it does give a bit of an idea of the only way Perl has to be able to implement them, essentially anonymous functions and closures. This is useful, but it doesn't make it easy to take say a red-black tree, and iterate over the entire set of values in it (though with higher level languages like perl, you probably wouldn't implement much with a red-black tree, maybe a k-tree would be better?)
That comment is very misleading. The subsidy being talked about is not research subsidies, which pay lab costs and grad student stipends, not professors. Instead it's about tuition assistance in the form of student loans and grants. That's the subsidy that actually pays humanities profs.
You have a point. In the grand scheme of life, you are right. While I do volunteer to help others, I also like to occasionally do things for myself. That is what I was asking about.

Interesting article too, thank you for sharing.
You can DOS your own IP from being allowed in..... But not mine.
I doubt there's suddenly much appetite for the NSA-authored security guides anymore.
From what I've learned of hardware engineering (basically by colocation osmosis here at a large Finnish handset maker), it's that the needs of RF performance alone make this thing a near impossibility, at least unless the radio and antenna portions of the phone are considered to be "off limits" for modularizing.

Every piece of hardware added to the phone affects RF performance by virtue of its being made of matter (that isn't RF-transparent) and being in close proximity. If it starts emitting or being affected by electromagnetic waves, well that's a whole new layer of pain to deal with...

Maybe...maybe...if you wanted to consider the radio and antenna fixed, and bring back the old external antenna that would be forever unobstructed by new bloks...
Lumia 820 anyone? Selling close to just 200 EUR, replaceable battery, SD-card slot and a replaceable cover with optional wireless charging as a bonus. It's still a WP but it's doable.
I prefer to be actively administrating my server, so that I know if something does go awry. If I'm asleep, it may be a few hours before I realize that an update broke something. On top of that, I clone my servers and test upgrades in a development environment as much as possible, before allowing an update to go live. As long as you're on top of the updates, a few days between automatic and manual shouldn't have much effect.
Check out:

http://www.conversationagent.com/2008/01/readers-digest.html

They would basically re-write/condense articles and stories to an 8th grade reading level, but had a unique way of doing it so that it wasn't patronizing or content free.

It was a really interesting company, they basically had capability similar to what you find in modern advertising/CRM systems to target supplemental publications and other items to magazine subscribers -- in the 1960's!

Nowadays it's a bunch of drivel... stories about angels, inspirational stuff, and military themed stories aimed at old people.
I guess my question is this: Are word processing/page layout programs failing to translate a space after a period to the modern 'em quad' equivalent?

I was under the impression that one single spaced between thins because 'smart' features in text software and with variable width fonts knew how to make spacing variable automatically.

I always understood the "don't use two spaces" exhortation as a standard aimed at getting people to let their software take care of things instead of treating Word or In Design like a typewriter.
IM(Paranoid)O, it puts the "inadvertent" collection of SSIDs while driving down every street taking pictures for Google View into a new context. They gave a simply implausible explanation that this data was recorded "inadvertently". (No, fitting all those vehicles with the equipment and software would cost serious money!)

Marry the Geo-location, SSID, phone owner and passwords and you've got real information for the authorities. On Everyone.
I've found CSF is a great tool for securing a server if you aren't an IPTables expert: http://configserver.com/cp/csf.html
The world needs all types of people. Would you really want someone who doesn't care about particulars to be designing a space shuttle?
I'm going to have to disagree with you here and say we shouldn't become more like Soviet Russia.

The goal should be improving our schools for everyone not conceding this is the best we can do and only let in the gifted few who meet our "requirements".

Would Steve Jobs have been allowed to drop in on Calligraphy classes in Soviet Russia? I doubt it.

The point being when you build a great system and give people the ability to explore it you arrive at much more creative outcomes which therefore provide much better growth potential to the overall economy then a "fit into a specific box we already created for you" approach.
It seems as though the problem is more acute in private colleges. Public colleges just don't seem to be growing in price as much as private colleges. It seems like one solution to the issue of rising college costs is for us as a society to place less emphasis on pricey private colleges.
Yep, exactly 10^-6.
Do you use a fabric softener? (or a detergent with one in it?) ... sometimes is can be surprising where you find animal products.
Both limit and spindritf's suggestion will mitigate the attack, but they won't notify you about it. In most circumstances, I'd prefer to skip on the thousands of notifications per day, however I sometimes like to know about every detail on a server, and Fail2ban gives me that level of control, without the need to tail a log file.
Ergo, it is a downside of all unregulated markets.

I would avoid the term "imperfection" for something that is fundamental to markets. The information on conditions of production usually has to come from the seller and there is usually little incentive for them to provide it unless compelled to.
Intrinsically nothing is wrong.

Obviously you appreciate the value of research. It's amazing that people will research the purchase of a new phone more than what they eat?
It's just a bunch of bureaucrats in a room. They've got their Standard Operating Procedures, and react accordingly. They're just cogs, and all the real decisions come from the higher ups. All the hardware in that room is procured and maintained through IT contractors and there is no software on those machines that wasn't listed when they wrote those ~5 year long contracts.
iOS 7 definitely sets the standard for beautiful mobile operating systems. Windows Phone is a close second. Anroid is just garbage though.
He's "raising awareness", of course.
One exception that comes to mind: A cow approaches you and graciously hands you a gallon of milk it excreted from its own udder, expressly as a gift to you.
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This is a good picture that will show you the truth about friends!
There's no mouse to use to hover on mobile or tablet devices on the web, either. I haven't seen any push for change in how hyperlinks work on the web now that mobile/tablet is a common client.

Stretching the concept a little here, but design that hinges on being able to hover the mouse to detect possible interaction reminds me of those dreadful 90's web menus where you had to hover to see the title.

In your linked example, there are as many or more hyperlinks that don't appear as buttons. The button styling in those examples indicates "primary call to action" more than anything. A page that uses button styling for every single hyperlink would be a mess. The iOS 7 styling for "primary call to action" is to make the tinted text bold, rather than giving it a background color, though that's used in some different areas too under different context.

PS, a side note that these are 3rd party examples of iOS 7 UI. Certain things are going to be misused or overused etc.
Instead of buying civet coffee, roast your own beans. I have never tasted coffee as good as the stuff I have roasted myself. All you need is an old popcorn maker. Buy green beans from Sweet Maria's or somewhere else online. It's cheap, easy to do, and the results are amazing.
Increases the complexity immensely. Anyone can do this. Not everyone can use POSIX msg queues or IPC effectively.
I do the same, and have found it works beautifully. You need my master password, SSH Key, and my SSH Key's password before you can log into my server. And if you somehow manage to get all of that, you need my account password in order to modify any non-user files.
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