skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That should be specific to a dark brown Chinese person; not to an African American. Since we know the average Chinese person does not have dark brown skin, seeing such a person would make you wonder why that is. e.g., we know dirt/mud is brown and generally shouldn't pick up a hand-full off the ground and eat it... but people still like the image of chocolate deserts. The color red represents danger is an almost universal way(assuming it's because seeing blood is usually a bad sign for all humans and animals)... but people don't look at a red rose that way.

>>This is not true

You can't really claim that America's history & media has nothing to do it. You can debate to what degree, but to dismiss it completely is impossible.
"Is this what passes for clever?"

Swedish humor is no laughing matter.
In 2016, the must-have feature of a drone will be anti-anti-drone.
Looking at Grandparent's link, they also execute drug traffickers, which is kind of excessive, IMO.

And "better society" isn't the only reason to believe in "free speech". Another reason is the moral principle that one should not be imprisoned for a political opinion.
The more I think about it, the more I realize that Perl 6 was misnamed. It should have been treated as a new language with some Perl heritage, not just a new version of Perl.

The Perl 5 diehards aren't going to switch, and people who aren't already Perl hackers are going to think it's the same old Perl that scared them off ages ago.

It's a shame, because Perl 6 is a great language (and I say this as somebody who was put off by Perl 5), and the Parrot VM is particularly awesome.

It also has some of the best error reporting I've seen: it offers a number of possible solutions, and if you try to use a Perl 5-ism that's not supported anymore, it'll tell you what the Perl 6 equivalent is.
remember -around here(Norway, next to Sweden) taxes on gas and gas cars make Tesla prices look very reasonable.

A brand new Tesla is about half the price of a similar (>400hp) car I guess.
Don't let it - he understands exactly how the types are being converted in order to make it appear that true == false.

This sort of thing happens in type conversion languages. You can either use === to stop conversion or you can understand how conversion works.

I'm not sure how the order of conversions is decided by PHP, but here's a brief explanation:

Compare "foo" to true. Convert the string "foo" to a boolean value. As it is desirable that a non-empty string evaluate to true, we will say they are "equal."

Compare "foo" to 0. Convert the string "foo" to a numeric value. As "foo" does not start with 0x it cannot be hex, and as it does not start with 0 it cannot be octal, so evaluate it as decimal - there are no numbers before the first letter so the string foo, when numerical, is 0.

Evaluate 0 to false. Well, that's just binary now isn't it? Of course false and 0 are equal!

The moral of the story, == is not "exactly equal" it is "relatively equal."
A point I can't even begin to argue - I used to work there when I was 16.
I used average time for multiple runs, both GPU and CPU benchmarks ran from memory.
Are you old enough to remember dial-up internet?

My first modem was 2400 bps.

I used to pay $100/month for ISDN that was approximately 1/10 the speed of the internet connection about which you are now complaining.

1.2 Mbps for a reasonable price was amazing when it became available.

You, sir or madame, need a little perspective.
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I stumbled on this looking for a cat api, the only downside is that it doesnt support CORS or jsonp, so I wrote a little wrapper that returns a single random cat:

https://exhibitionnest.com/cat
I'm honestly not trolling. Hell, I'm using my own name to post this all under. I'm genuinely interested in if you compile the rom yourself and every app you use or do you trust in the people behind the rom/app store?
Can any of the 20-some candidates for 2016 code? (Not that it is important.)
...and extinguish the original platforms it's embracing.
Presumably you want to draw an inference of some sort from the data. Otherwise what's the point of even looking at it?
Medicare is among the best at keeping prices low, but none of this is even relevant to the article, if you'd read it.
Well done !
A simple and efective landing page:
http://carlyfiorina.org

Still scrolling...
US will not fund research for modifying embryo DNA
The programming aspect of this story is barely relevant here. A basic sudoku solver by itself isn't HN material. The reason why this story is interesting is because it involves a high ranking politician.
I'm not sure of the exact details. I've only done a couple untangle boxes (using NexGen appliances). 6-8 months ago colleagues that do a lot more of them were still seeing a much higher failure rate across all SSDs than with spinning disks in Untangle boxes. Although I see now that NexGen offers a SSD Option on their boxes now. so things might have improved.
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The current world is medicine is kind of frightening. How many of us would just dig into writing a program after a 15-minute conversation with a client?
> Do you sell veggie burgers?

> No, we don't currently sell veggie burgers. Although, we are always looking to evolve our menu.

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/your_questions/our_food/do-yo...
That's an absolutely ridiculous statement. As a Canadian myself, we are constantly seeing the struggle to reduce the cost of providing health care as a proportion of the taxes we pay.

I don't know where this myth comes from -- is it just a misunderstanding of how public health care works, assuming that it's an infinite money pit?
As others have pointed out though... they really aren't that cheap.

That's my complaint. I don't mind subpar food once in a great while. But I went there for lunch a few weeks ago and it was over $8 and I felt nasty and was hungry a couple of hours later. I could have gone to the grocery store deli and gotten a hot lunch combo for $6. Or a tasty burrito from the local Mexican place for $3.50 and an iced tea from the convenience store for $1.

In short, it's not just that their food isn't that great (it's not)... it's that it's too expensive to be that bad.
How low have we, the whites, fallen! First we let all our jobs be outsourced to the Chinese and now we work as performing monkeys for them.
I think you'll find "please donate to give free internet access to poor people in India" will be met with harsh, harsh feedback from the general public.

Unless you've got a rabbit in your hat, I don't see any way you're going to give people complete privacy while still providing free internet access. If there were a solution, don't you think we'd already have it in one of the western nations as an alternative to paid internet access?
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I actually agree with you partly, but why rule out all GMO? It's an extremely broad category with some good things and some bad things. Why not evaluate it more on a case by case basis?
Just because you're using statistics it doesn't mean that you are a statistician. For example, most of particle physics is based on statistics, but this is not enough to motivate them to rename the field. Whole fields of engineering use statistics every day, machine learning is just another.
Oh man what a cool manual. The hand combat style looks a bit like Wing Chun, anybody else see the resemblance ? :)
I don't understand how a lack of documented experience correlates with the quality of this handbook. In fact, you might as well assume that W person needs X degree over Y years to become an expert in the field of Z...

Not everyone documents how long they have been in the field publicly, and for all you know (or don't know...), some of the contributors (that I personally know myself), have been immersed in the field for years.

Also, from a more credible standpoint, majority of the book has direct Q&A + perspectives of some of the best data scientists...
Except people in Singapore stated they like it there.

And I considered moving to Singapore a couple times, if I get ever invited for a job there, I would promptly accept.

I don't agree with lots of their laws, but I must recognize that it works. (Singapore is clean, safe, has good business freedom, the government does not tolerate racism and religious hate, and the city has a very interesting functional design).
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You can buy a 2013 used Nissan Leafs with under 10k miles for under $12k. That is comparable to a gas car. The low range on the Leaf really affects their value.
More like, > We’re building a platform to open up your privacy... and decide which app is good for you.
This sounds awfully similar to Chromecast.
Exactly, but now it is integrated in nginx. So this could be an alternative for proprietary software, or Squid.
Jonathan Schwartz of Sun has many blog posts about Microsoft using patent trolling as a licensing negotiation tactic.

Also, SCO vs. IBM (which Microsoft helped bankroll).
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Consumed fast food this weekend (the specific chain shall remain nameless) and while I was able to deal with the low food quality (just barely), the cleanliness of the restaurant, and poor management (no management?) of the staff made the experience much worse.
It seems like a nerd version of Putin riding a bear or whatever. "Look, I'm one of the people."
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You'd have to update that manually, which, in case of emergency operation, will quite sure be forgotten.
This has nothing to do with proper alerting.
If this were still May Day I would think that sending our seven year olds off to the mill would be a more obvious troll, but as things stand I'm not so sure.
OMFG... Skynet. :-)

Jokes aside: This is amazing. I guess finding the logo is easy compared to say a human face, but still. Thanks for the great article!
> Is this what passes for clever? It's hardly a "tech" article, that's for sure.

I read it with a smirk, I thought it was a nicely done parody. In a few decades when your average 25 year old has never known a petrol driven car (yes yes this might not happen) it is a believable experience.
SMS version 2.0.8 Released
So someone bought a sign with the name "carlyfiorina" on it and is trying to gather opinion against that person. This is apparently a failure.

The root domain contains 810 top-level domains, which in theory means 810 possible places where one could register a carlyfiorina.sometld. no mater how aggressive a person is trying to own that specific 12 letter word, its a futile attempt, especially if we also include the 1-2 letter sub domains of tld's. As such, not registering this name is as big failure as not buying up all the signs that exist in stores.
Show HN: Every possible way to draw a Logo with modern front end techniques
Not only do they execute drug traffickers, they have a very loose definition of what "trafficking" means.

If you are in possession of at least 500g of marijuana, you are BY DEFINITION considered to be trafficking it, regardless of intent. This has a mandatory death sentence. And here's the best part: the definition of possession is:

any person who is proved to have had in his possession or custody or under his control —
(a) anything containing a controlled drug;
(b) the keys of anything containing a controlled drug;
(c) the keys of any place or premises or any part thereof in which a controlled drug is found; or
(d) a document of title relating to a controlled drug or any other document intended for the delivery of a controlled drug,
shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to have had that drug in his possession.

So simply having the keys to an apartment that contains 500g of weed is enough to get you executed in Singapore, theoretically.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore...)
Gnome 3.17.1 released
It comes from motivated reasoning.
It is probably the unpopular position but I'd like to point out that it is sometimes needed to lay off employees because otherwise a company wont survive.

Sometimes this must be done rather quick.

I don't know the exact reasons why she had to lay off 30.000 employees but it would look less like a public smearing if the creator of this page gave us some insight into the details and nature of her decision.

I just doubt that she is plain evil and laughing at the pain she has caused with this decision.
> One of my Singapore female friends pointed out you have a far lower chance of being raped or mugged if you walk around in Singapore than in most other countries and she considered that a more important than the ability to insult the government without them trying to sue you.

But when you put it this way, it sounds like there's a link between these two properties. I don't see how restricting free speech improves the safety of women.
Beijing here. No stares anymore, not for a long time.
This happened to me as well when I was arrested for running a red light on my bike.

I had to walk from downtown Brooklyn back to the precinct that had my stuff because I didn't have any money or keys into my apartment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7233730
Two reasons are generally put forward.

The argument put forward by Lee Kuan Yew (RIP) for exiling communists was that Maoist China was aggressively attempting to expand into the region. For example, see the Hong Kong bombing campaign of 1967 [1]. According to, amongst others, "The Singapore Story" [2], he was initially contacted by the Communists to represent them as a "moderate" leftist. His manoeuvering to win the 1959 election (scaring many businesses away to KL, thinking communism had won) and kick them out relatively bloodlessly thereafter has become legendary in Singapore, and is I think unparalleled anywhere else in the world. Part of winning included controlling the press and winning the PR battle. Whether it was justified depends on your stance on communism (and therefore if you consider the country to have been at war, suspending individual rights).

The second is that the island is racially very diverse, with a majority Chinese when both neighbours - who were also aggressive at the time - were of a different race and religion. Independence came a couple years too early due to Malaysian worries that LKY was not cooperating with their policies (Singapore was openly advocating racial equality amongst other things, against the pro-Malay discriminative policies from KL). Still in the 1960s, there was an explosion of anti-Chinese minority riots in neighbouring countries which involved some lynchings, and some Chinese had the idea of doing the same to Malays in Singapore (e.g. [3]). LKY's response was prompt: he pushed for the Chinese rioters to be made an example of. Restrictions on hate speech grew from a need to quell these tensions. There were no more race riots until the recent incident where a drunk construction worker was run over by a bus and the mob got angry.

It's important to view his actions not as if you lived in the prosperous United States, surrounded by a large ocean and coming out victorious from the largest war known to mankind but as the leader of a tiny island surrounded by enemies big and small, open and insidious. I ask his critics what they would have done differently; I personally agree with those who consider LKY one of the greatest politicians that ever lived, and I admire the Singaporeans for electing him year after year.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_1967_Leftist_riots: "Bomb disposal experts from the police and the British military defused as many as 8,000 home-made bombs. Statistics showed that one in every eight bombs was genuine."

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Singapore-Story-Memoirs-Kuan/dp/01... - a worthy read if you love history, but if you are short on time, read "From Third World to First" instead.

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_race_riots_in_Singapore
It's also about what you get for the price.
In Sweden, a McDonalds burger menu cost about 70 SEK.

If you go to the burger chain Max instead, the price is +- 10 SEK, but the meat is organic, the bun is of high quality corn and the vegetables are always fresh. Plus, they don't store the burgers but make them at request. And they have won taste awards many times.

No wonder McDonalds is struggling when they are no where near the quality of other chains such as Max. And they should be worried, Max is going international.
I can't wrap my head around the fact that I actually believe this is a reasonable way to visualize the data.
Are you trying to say it isn't abhorrent to people who are not in their 20s or living in urban areas? I don't think that's an accurate statement.
Prime Minister of Singapore shares source code for his Sudoku game
We are not a rails shop but moving to 1.9 was almost entirely painless. I think that is because Ruby never did any release which broke everything. 1.9 did not break that much.
They should just re-import Maccas from Australia back to McDonalds in the US. Our menu is really quite good and the food is consistently fresh and high quality within the scope of a hamburger fast food store.

I've visited many countries including the US, UK, France, Norway[0] and Singapore and I never fail to try out the local offering. But I've always[1] found the product inferior to the offering we get in Australia.

Look at their latest idea -- https://mcdonalds.com.au/create-your-taste -- and tell me that's not awesome.

[0] Curiously the poorest eating experience was in Norway despite topping the Big Mac Index[2]. I had a beef burger that was dripping with grease and a chicken burger that tasted like an oversized rubbery chicken nugget in a bun.

[1] Honorable mention goes to McDonald's in Hong Kong which had a Wasabi Filet-o-Fish limited time menu item. Seriously kick ass.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
.org is a pretty big sign, though.
Actually, finding human faces is a little bit easier (or at least comparable) to finding logos in images. The human face has a standard shape, whereas logos can be quite different shapes, sizes, and styles. The standard approaches to human face detection include Haar cascades, HOG + Linear SVM, and now we're even using deep learning. These techniques could also be applied to the drone video as well.
I do agree with your point, however when writing quick code on windows and unix I think perl really does the job. It is just the matter of using the languages available and that you are most fluent in.
Cisco Names New CEO to Replace John Chambers
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Glad to see technology used to enhance education. I like their approach and hope they succeed (with Peter Thiel on their side, it should almost be a guarantee).
I'm skeptical of the 8x speedup for several reasons, the main one being that this particular problem does not fit the paradigm of problems that work well on the GPU; the GPU cache is not used at all, and there are also many branches. You need to be able to use the cache of the GPU in your application, otherwise your performance is guaranteed to be memory-bound. The reason you want to avoid branches is that there is only one control unit per a number of cores on the GPU, which means that if some threads follow one branch they will have to stall until the other threads complete. Generally the only code that maps well to the GPU is that which contains large for loops and has good spacial locality (e.g. matrix multiplication).

The author is comparing a GPU to a CPU, yet the CPU is only running a single thread (supposedly, the author did not provide the CPU code used in the comparison). For a true comparison the full capability of the CPU should be exposed by means of a multithreaded application (and, as someone else has already mentioned, vector instructions such as SSE). Think performance per socket, not performance per thread.
I am from Brazil, and although I am against the drug war, I do believe that the sort of drug traffickers they execute, are not really a problem in being executed.

For example Indonesia recently executed two brazillians, and although our president keeps complaining, cut relations with Indonesia, and whatnot, the population is HAPPY they executed those two scumbags, we just wish more scumbags would make the same mistake and get executed too.

You might wonder, why is that? It is because in Brazil we have a full blown civil war going because of drug traffickers, the drug traffickers here frequently have very heavy weapons (rocket launchers, grenade launchers, mortars, anti-material fixed machineguns and rifles, they even tried to buy some small missiles once in the international black market), and are perfectly willing to use it (so our government must hand our cops military gear, literally, to handle, war-style combat, with armoured vehicles, helicopters and infantary trading heavy fire is not uncommon, and in some cities we have more absolute deaths by gunfire than the whole Iraq summed per day).
> And you're saying you think this is just fine?

Not sure where you read this. I didn't provide any judgement of the situation.

Strawman arguments like this should have no place on HN.
We went through a round of this in the 1980s. The first commercial graphics workstations happened to be LISP machines. So management confused non-numeric code with A.I. There was demand for workstation experts. Not to loang after this UNIX graphics workstations like Sun, Apollo and MicroVAX came out and the market switch to UNIX/Linux.

Second was the expert systems boom in the mid-1980s. This was fanned by Stanford professor Fegeinbaum who wrote the infamous book The 5th Generation about expert system computers being the future and Japan was building the best ones. These would either be LISP machines or an interesting French niche language called prologic. Prologic basically traversed a databse "if-then" rules (modus pons). These machines went nowhere and Japan economy tanked in the early 90s. Lot of Silicon Valley VCs lost big on this.

Prof Feigenbaum may still be correct, but 40 years early. However the new A.I. is driven by massive database matching possible in modern peta-level computers and not so much logical computing.
Mine is through Pyramid (www.pyramid.de) who resell some Lanner stuff. Don't know if they'll sell outside Europe, and can't guarantee they're interested in selling single units to new customers. (We've had some previous business with them).
What part of this sentence do you fail to grasp?

The problem is that her performance (value) busted the curve and quickly out-paced the percentage-based raise system.

I figure it was implied that either no one noticed or had the willingness to take any personal risks to circumvent the system to fix her salary.
GoFundMe Site for Six Charged Baltimore Officers Taken Down After 41 Minutes
I noticed that too, I wanted to see if he had marked-uped 30k unsmiles or if it was a script that printed them.
You are repeating the same mistake as before. The difference is significant between admitting we don't know what those lines are and claiming that they don't exist.
The dollar menu is cheap... everything else is just low-quality food at unimpressive prices.
Yes, exactly. But that's not the way the market works these days. I want a TV-quality display (which means large, but otherwise having lower specs than the monitor on my desk), with no tuner, no speakers, just a remote control receiver and a few HDMI ports.

For some reason they keep adding stuff that I don't want to the device. And "smartness" is the worst of it. I plan to keep the display far longer than the Roku box (or whatever).

Consider: is your TV going to be able to play H.265 content when it become available? Chances are your manufacturer won't even upgrade your software - they've got a dismal record for this. But even if they do, you probably don't have the CPU power to handle it. To avoid replacing the display, you'll wind up buying a Roku or Chromecast, and (as was said up-thread) fighting the TV's UI to get to your new box.