skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be helpful to see more validation examples like the photograph of the former New Scientist reporter shown with the article. I wonder how we would judge the resemblance if the photographs hadn't shown the additional gray outline (complete with earring in the same design!) with the computer-generated images.

I know plenty of examples of people from the same family lineage (siblings or first cousins) who grew up in different countries, and there is considerable influence of diet and other factors of childhood environment on people's appearance. For the computer-generated images, presumably the image-generating software is choosing a central-tendency value for the facial features predicted by the genetic samples, but for forensic purposes it would be important to know the "reaction range" for each gene assembly, as that reaction range may be quite large. For example, my two American nieces who are monozygotic twins were brought up in the same household by the same parents, but they do not look indistinguishably "identical," but rather can be told apart readily by their parents and other close relatives and told apart with careful thought by other people who know them. Genes have never been the whole story about how people look.

German monozygotic twins Otto and Ewald, who pursued two different sports and ended up with very different physiques,[1] are a classic example in genetics classes of how genes are not completely destiny for personal appearance.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Otto+Ewald

http://thesameffect.com/check-out-identical-twins-otto-and-e...
So if you are a mustang nerd I have a question for you. Your choice of any mustang, year/color/trim/engine etc. Which one do you pick and why?
The adverts show too long to make this a great pick up and play game like Flappy Bird, and disabling the back button means I can't back out of a game when my stop comes.

Fun, and pretty tricky, be nice with more visual polish.
There's an API from which, as far as I can tell, it is easy to make the dump. The data also seems to be on GitHub: https://github.com/bikeindex/bikebook/tree/master/bike_data
As for me: MS has discredited itself with this behavior.

How can I know, that MS will not open my Word or Excel documents that I have in the Online-Office system, because it may contain information of value to its business -- or it may infringe on patents MS holds?

So, neither MS online mail products, nor online office systems can be trusted any more! Any business owner should know this and withdraw from usage of any MS owned online systems.
A good idea, especially with its open API, but I can't see any reviews or how to add them. Am I missing something?
SkyDNS looks interesting, but it doesn't appear to do any heath checks on the endpoint. I don't want clients to receive an answer to an A record query that contains the IP address of an endpoint that is down.

Am I mistaken?
I'm happy you did include 3. While I can normally discuss absolutely anything with my girlfriend, my opinion on this matter is one of the very few things she refuses to discuss with me.
There are better ways to teach that than by showing them you're a liar.

Why? There were going to find out anyway.
So as I said above, there's a certain degree of actual feedback in terms of your body "Wanting" foods that contain proper nutrients, and while with a combination of multiple types of beans, supplements, and other foods you can approximate some of the proteins you'd be missing out on by not eating meat, it's both far more complicated (and until recently in my life, expensive), and as my initial statement about a lack of "True Understanding"(tm) of necessary nutrition tried to state, has potential long term effects. (and I mean biologically long term, multiple generations. If there are meaningful long term studies on what various exclusionary diets do across generation I'd like to see them, but my understanding was that our data was currently very insufficient.) So I'd respond, there are some constraints that don't say I _have_ to eat meat, but certainly shift the cost/benefit analysis more in its favor.
It would be fine to use antique computers, if they just weren't networked. Like the old 486sx running DOS in the labs at my alma mater.

Although the air gap was a pain in the butt. Who ever thought I would be buying floppies in 2011.
Causing suffering is neither unique to Islam nor the intent of the majority of its adherents. Being intolerant of the factions of Islam (and other religions/sects/movements) that do cause suffering is not problematic, but generalizing that intolerance to the rest of the faith is.
Ideally, I'd like to see a situation where you (1) have a contract protecting user data which is reasonably enforceable given the power dynamics which exist between the two parties, and (2) it's required for a judge to arbitrate whether a given situation provides justification to breach that contract.

Where "judge" is proxy for a nominally impartial third party who nominally has the experience to make an informed decision which reasonably protects the interests of both parties, the public interest, and our stated commitments to civil liberties. And we already make routine use of judges for this function in cases where the data or other artifacts are not possessed by the party who wants extraordinary permission to access them.
Ask HN: Sales guy compensation
I have a small SASS business.

My friend called me the other day and said that he found a client for me. It is a 30 people company, so I'm going to make about $300 / month, which is more than I have from all the other clients (I only got started, okay?)

The thing is that he wants a 20% cut from the profits. And I don't have to worry about a thing — he will negotiate and he will handle the documents and all that.

But still, I think that 20% is too much. I'm wondering though, how to determine what is the right amount? Is there any best practices on how you come up with such number?

I mean, he is a good guy and I think he could find some more clients like this, he's capable. Plus he's a friend, I want to keep the trust between us.
No, normal online providers will have terms that they don't infringe into your privacy rights.
IF they can
AND are polite
AND wish to include English speakers.
Don't sweat it, learn Hindi fast if you really want your head filling with TV trivia etc etc etc etc etc etc
"“Whenever you bootstrap a business revenue becomes that much more important,” says Sherman. “You become very business model focused, very sensitive to cost structures and it really does force you into a kind of diligence with regards to financial performance and managing your costs.”"

That is the key, staying focused. Seed or no seed round it doesn't matter, if you raise too much it is very common to lose focus. I once explained it so someone that its like going into the grocery store with a limited amount of money to buy enough groceries for the week, and going into a grocery with enough money to buy everything in the store. The first person gets in, gets what they need, optimizes for cost effectiveness and gets out. The other person wanders the aisles imagining all of the different meals they could make, without actually deciding on a single meal to make.
Yes, that's what I meant: stealing them would have been a good reason to lie but covering up a form of negligence (media failure) with another form of negligence (transaction malleability), which was the theory I was trying to refute, doesn't seem especially useful (hence the "no good reason to lie").
So the only way to contribute more information is via pull request? That requirement excludes the vast majority of the kinds of people who would be willing to contribute more bike information (namely, people who ride bikes, work in bike shops, etc.)
I really enjoy this. It's a simple concept but we'll executed and quite addicive. The main thing I'd suggest is to increase the resolution of the assets . The jaggy lines are quite glaring on a 1080p screen like the Nexus 5. Also I would use text instead of an image for the countdown on the advert, as you very rarely see jaggy text in an app. Otherwise, good work.
Agreed -- based on MS's statement they went through a fairly rigorous internal procedure (of course, they could be lying, but it seems fairly unlikely particularly given the regulatory attention MS generally has on it). I don't fully understand what people think they "should" have done to access the emails -- waste a court's time on a meaningless judgement?
Finance gets capital in the right place, at the right time. That provides value.
Microsoft might have the ASP programming language.. the ASP, the combination of three letters has nothing to do with Microsoft!
3. Nope. So completely and utterly wrong.

Why?
A bank also has no right to search a locker that you have rented from them. The bank has to have a warrant against you to search it.
You know, I've only ever seen one Apple store, and it was tiny and sad and empty (that was probably bad timing). I thought it was strange since it was in the same town Jobs lived in.
Django-speedbar
Because, unless you're using a specially crafted definition of the term, diseases are all bad.
Twitter experimenting with showing how many people saw your tweets
How to imessage without an apple device?
Does anyone know how to use imessage from a PC or Android 'phone? Thanks
In the future, people will not be measured by how productive they are. They will see that human organizations greater than 150 people are divorced from reality. Productivity will be considered a shared delusion held during the Age of Work.

Managers often ask me how they can make their workers more productive. What I cannot say is, "There is no productivity."

There is a book that goes into deconstructing productivity. It's called "How to Survive in an Organization" by James Heaphey. It's based on a generation's worth of study on organizations like corporations.
That's what javadoc is for. You get a lot more out of browsing through that, than header files.
> But why would one expect any of that to transfer to AI? What do the internal dynamics of a Board of Directors have to do with, say, the Code Red worm? What lessons can we extract from 501(c)3 nonprofits which will tell us anything about deep-learning-based architectures? Do CEO salaries really inform our understanding of Moore's Law? Or can study of Congressional lobbying seriously help us better understand progress on brain scanning and connectomes? Do Marxian dialectics truly help us improve forecasts for when feasible investments in neuromorphic chips will match human brains?

Studying human systems is one of the best ways of studying complex systems and systems engineering, which are already crucial for complex engineering projects, like developing a complex AI. Before we can even talk about our future binary overlords being hostile or friendly, we will have to study how basic, but constantly developing, AI integrates and plays off of human social systems. We have to gather quantified data about how two distinct forms of intelligence interact and what, if any, conclusions can be generalized to a future where humans are no longer the species with the highest intelligence.

You have no data about how real AI's would behave in our society except for fiction, which contains no more guidance now than the Bible did for 16th century astrophysics. We have no consistent models that explain our own intelligence, let alone an artificial one that has yet to exist. You can pontificate about Plato's ideal Terminator but it won't make a bit of difference until we get our telescope.
Didn't expect that from you, patio11...take a "peak"?!
Eh yeah. Exactly what I said then reading the Android reviews then? Works on some devices, terrible on most; getting that JS/HTML/CSS to work well on 'most Android devices' is infinitely more difficult than doing it native. Is that worth it? I still want to bet I could've written both apps native in a shorter time with much better results. You can take me up on that any time.
No, not waste!

When you act rightfully, it is never wasting time of the legal system!

Because I can do something (without asking anybody else) it needs not to be right!
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I am not at all an economist, but I wonder: if everyone had the same amount of fixed income (in addition to whatever else they made from their jobs), wouldn't there be continual inflation, rendering that money worthless? Wouldn't the fixed income become the new zero income?

Also: How does Macdonalds work in this situation, if the fixed income "replaces" minimum wage. Does Macdonalds pay on top of this wage? Do they double it? Do they pay zero? If they pay zero, what incentives workers to work at Macdonalds?
I'm so sorry... I have seriously not often in my 30 years of being a coder seen something so promising turn out so bad. It doesn't even get the 'hello world' right. Why have you been working for it for the past year?
I ask myself, why the rights of the (big) owners of "Intellectual Property" are strengthened all the time, but the rights of the small owners of Private information are reduced and reduced.

Something I just can't comprehend.
I am always wary of supporting a basic income guarantee. Although it sounds much better than the current welfare mess we have, the actual implementation will probably be an addition rather than a replacement.
Go should be in an excellent position to have Refactoring Editors. Smalltalk had a Refactoring Browser that worked well enough that it changed the economics/trade offs around refactoring. (Literally an order of magnitude easier refactoring combined with immediate/really fast responsiveness.)

Such tools, positioned such that they are defacto standards can cause qualitative changes in how programming happens in a language.
> But can Microsoft really go to a court and say "hey judge, we're Microsoft, we want a warrant for Microsoft to provide this"?

Yes. They want people to use their products, don't they? I'm not going to spend money on a product that gives me zero assurance that I have control of my information.
It replaces minimum wage in that McDonalds is welcome to offer a job flipping burgers for $1 an hour if they want. However, because no one _needs_ a job to live (because they can just live on the basic income) someone would only take that job if it was worth it/fulfilling to them.
Sociopaths can be motivated to behave.

I believe most sociopaths don't commit major crimes (maybe they could but benefits are none or don't outweight consequences). There are some people who are sociopaths and can't control themself but they are a minority of a minority. Most crimes have a motive, don't they?
I think you and the other replies are missing the point. This is by far the most prosperous time in human history. It's not like we are living in some dystopia caused by corporations. It's certainly not anything compared to unfriendly AI.
This is equivalent to USPS opening your mail because they were tipped off of wrongdoing against their company, with no evidence whatsoever. Do you have a problem with that? Well too bad, its "their" mail.

Randian utopia at its finest.
What's the visa/immigration situation like?
One reason the current welfare system is so broken relates to your point about McDonald's. Oftentimes someone on welfare can lose money by getting a job.
Tom Streithorsts excellent piece also was published yesterday:

http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/road-to-recovery
> Eff is almost like a troll sometimes

It's almost like they're trying to free email from being a corporate black hole.
Oh, so you mean unlike Microsoft they pretend they don't infringe on your rights. :)
Minimum income is enough for a room and some food. If you want anything better such work either full or part time.

There are a lot of things people could do without: car, cell phone, internet, restaurants...
There's too much to say, so I'll just pick one thing that's not often talked about.

While AIs will eventually get clever, the early versions will be dull conversationalists. We'll go through a phase where people spend a lot of time interacting with dull AIs. People tend to become like the people they interact with, so it will cause a cultural downswing. You can already see it among people who spend more time interacting with video game NPCs than their peers. Their conversation is full of repetitive gaming memes rather than novel insights.
See: mainframe operators.
I was going to respond with Germany. Specifically, the East German state did not own up to it like the West despite it being great propaganda for the founding of a communist state.

A government does not gain from showing its society a proper mirror. It runs the risk of losing ground by having "insulted" the guilty older generation and national identity, and simultaneously plants the distrust for itself (it mostly is that older generation) to form a youth revolt (the RAF supposedly formed from this distrust in West Germany.)
To make things simple let's assume a flat tax of 20% pays a 10k per year basic income.

Someone making 0k ends up with .8 * 0k + 10k = 10k.
Someone making 10k ends up with .8 * 10k + 10k = 18k.
Someone making 50k ends up with .8 * 50k + 10k = 50k.
Someone making 100k ends up with .8 * 100k + 10k = 90k.
Someone making 200k ends up with .8 * 200k + 10k = 170k.

Thus the only people that get the full amount are those who would otherwise get zero income. It has little effect on someone making around the median income and it's paid for by the top of the scale.

Note: The government still needs to do other stuff so actual taxes would end up being higher. The assumption is because you have lower administrative costs than SS, unemployment, and other social programs the net effect is a smaller government and possibly lower taxes. (EX: Social Security is 12.4% for someone making 50k where basic income is 0 the disability and retirement payment can be much higher than 10k/year.)
He only means it effectively replaces minimum wage, in that we no longer have to require a minimum wage in order to ensure that people have enough money to eat (setting aside the question of whether that actually works).

McDonald's would obviously have to pay something in order to get people to work there. It could certainly get away with paying less if there were no minimum wage and people had a basic income.
As a security researcher, this approach just confounds me.

I've never had an update break my system, and if someone pushed updates that were broken, I wouldn't trust any old versions of their software any more than the current one.

And we keep finding that people don't update and miss critical vulnerabilities. There may be some admins out there that can independently track and patch every known vulnerability... but that seems like an impossible task for a box with any nontrivial amount of software on it.

And a lot of vulnerabilities aren't widely released. Updates sometimes coincidentally break zero days that were never publicly revealed.

I remember the world where everyone stubbornly refused to leave early versions of IE. Massive problem for security. The Chrome team looked at that and made the call to move to automatic updates. I'm still pretty convinced that's a better world.

You want to run a small box that barely faces the internet where you constantly write your own patches in parallel with the primary software developers, while also researching and patching new vulnerabilities before they are deployed, go for it... but when that becomes the industry norm, I consider it extremely harmful.

Maybe you can pull that off, but most people are not nearly that cool.
Define "special". I don't want to be killed to make way for more paperclips.
>When you act rightfully, it is never wasting time of the legal system!

In this case, it really would be a waste of time. Microsoft wouldn't be seeking a subpoena, nor are they a government seeking a warrant. Microsoft would just be asking the court for permission to do something the court cannot grant.

There's no legal question, unless say, someone were to sue Microsoft for accessing their data.
It says right there that the purpose of a mug shot is also to identify a suspect. Even when the police gets a hold of someone and can take a photo there is no reason to think that identification is no longer necessary. Identification is probably what most criminal cases are about and being able to get to know someone’s name and to make a photo of them is not the actual relevant part of the identification for solving a crime.

Conceptually I would agree that this is more similar to facial composites (it’s a recreation of the suspect’s face not directly via a photograph but via some other means, either memory or, in this case, DNA) but comparing it to mug shots is not absurd or even weird. There is even a good argument one could make that this is conceptually more similar to mug shots than facial composites: both photos and DNA don’t rely on someone else via memory but directly on the suspect.

Since mug shots are well known making the comparison for the sake of a headline makes perfect sense. The term facial composite is much less well known. The conceptual similarity is there either way.

I think the comparison very clearly communicates why this new way of creating mug shots is very useful and as such there is nothing wrong with it.
All basic income does is create a floor. Depending on flavors of basic income, some have suggested lowering or entirely abolishing the minimum wage. This way, labor would be done at the true (or closer to true) market value. If you're not willing to work at Mickey D's for a dollar an hour, you would have a basic income to fall back on.

I don't think that inflation would be a huge problem, since this is wealth redistribution, likely through taxes, rather than printing money and giving it to people. However, I'm no economist either, so I may be far off base in regards to inflation.
If there is a sadder moral standard than "might makes right", I am unable to bring it to mind.
> primarily a legal outfit

I think I would prefer an ethical one. Most interesting problems are not legal—the law simply reflects the solution. I think the EFF correctly identified this as a problem, even if they aren't going to be fined by the government.
I was thinking about this the other day. I'm not trained in economics or anything, but since UBI is universal, and amount of money in people's checkbooks is simultaneously and predictably increased, the inflation wouldn't have any of the consequences of usual inflation (For citizens).
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And a landlord has no right to come into your apartment without warning, even if they think you stole something from them.