skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will the units be available for retail to third parties?

I have some projects where something like this would be a pretty nice fit.
That's a fun quick brainteaser! Reminds me of those old puzzles where you'd have a list of facts -- like there are 7 houses in a row, all different colors and with different species of pets in the yard, the blue house is next to the orange house, the green house has a pet with 2 legs, etc. etc., and they provide just enough info that you can logically chain together the order of colors and pets.

They're a bit like the word-problem version of working out sudoku (vs. guessing at it, which is a different game).
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> Men and women, on average, differ significantly

The linked article explicitly does not take any stance on that. What the article points out is that males are more extreme in their traits, eg. exceptionally tall or exceptionally short, which in no way means that there are average differences. Even if the deviation is different, the mean may be the same.

Not that I'm saying that those differences are or are not there, but to say that the current differences are entirely due to biological differences would seem a bit naive to me.
I thought the 'there is no differences' thing was debunked completely?

There will always be warriors against everything who will claim gender is just conditioning or whatever and probsly get eyeballs and publishing as a result. Happily you can completely ignore all that and lead a happy and productive life knowing the gender you were born with has a big factor in determining what you choose to do in your life.
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>While most human drivers have a hard time avoiding rear-end collisions in which they are the victim
This happens every day.
-car A comes to a sudden stop for a less than legitimate reason (e.g "I need to be in that stopped left turn lane, not this moving through lane but I was too busy being distracted")
-car B (behind A) begins to come to a stop as fast as possible
-car B sees car C in rear-view
-car B moves right one lane
-car C manages to avoid rear ending A by less than the length of B
Obviously this is set off by A having jack shit for situational awareness and B picks up the slack
The ticket is open so long because a workaround exists: close this tab and never open this web site again.
So it says that there are no external dependencies yet the package has third party dependencies, what's the deal?
Building model airplanes and drones is certainly popular.
This article claims,

> Last time we discovered that the brain of a woman is composed of two different types of cells.

but if you actually read the last article, it has this example of mixed types of cells:

> Surprisingly, there are some human females who also show a rather similar calico pattern ... for a very small number of women, if you were to look closely on a hot day, you would see a calico pattern appear on their skin.

The "very small number of women" gets quickly forgotten, suddenly it is all cells in all females:

> Females, both in their bodies, and their brains, are a patchwork of two different types of cells

and the "very small number" caveat is completely forgotten by the second article.
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Why would you even give websites that info?
I really don't get that logic.

To me what you're saying is equivalent to saying that we should never discuss anything.

Something's wrong with the society? If you don't like it, you can just move to a different country.

How can we possibly improve anything with that mindset?

I know that I'm overreacting here, but I would genuenly like to here comments about that.
It doesn't. Knowing the answer means you can't solve it without being influenced of other people's answers/thoughts.
The weak point in all of this is the definition of IQ - since there is no obvious one the motivated researchers can manipulate it to have more or less difference in both value and variation between the sexes (or other groups).
Google’s algorithm shows prestigious job ads to men, but not to women
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Why do you believe people providing domestic labor lack equal dignity? And what type of equality are you referring to?

Note that I've never been to Bangladesh, so my only point of reference is domestic labor in India. I never felt that my maid lacked dignity.

I'm pretty sure it's not income equality you are talking about, since India (33.6) and Bangladesh (32.1) have lower inequality than the US (41.1) or UK (38.8). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

Somehow I'm just not understanding your post at all - I think I'm missing a premise or core definition. Maybe if you could back up to first principles I'd be able to follow?
You guys know that PDFs can load web assets right? They can de-anonymize you just by opening them right?

Don't trust it if you don't trust the host.
This really comes down to if you are small try to find a market you can actually serve well. The only difficulty here is you can become trapped as you build a product too closely fit for one small market and will find it impossible to expand.
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Your analogy with not discussing anything is incorrect.

IMHO the web sites trying to abuse their visitors by showing animated favicons should be banned from Internet. And of course I am not going to visit such a web site myself.
From TFA: "Although supplies will initially be limited to the schoolchildren qualifying for a free Micro Bit in late October, the BBC has confirmed that the computers will go on sale to others in the UK and overseas before the end of the year."
Very timely as I am just about to build a copy of Sophie's design for the Acorn System 1 (1979).

http://speleotrove.com/acorn/acornPictures.html

[Edit: That's not my Web site BTW]

Here's a pic of me testing the sophisticated visual output system: http://i.imgur.com/O8czwKo.jpg
Forth is as lispy as stack langs get. Though nowadays, Factor is the new Forth.
Why they did that? Poor countries should not buy brand new German subs. Where are the subs now? As far as I now they are deployed in Greek Navy and like any sub are quite expensive to operate. Did Greece spend all borrowed money on German weapons?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18037011
Rather they try to mimic wiser people. This behaviour is attributed to Albert
Einstein wearing same-looking suits every day.
More extremes in males is true, but height was exactly one problem where the mean really deviates and the curve is pretty much the same. IQ was one where males have way more extremes than women.
- Steve Jobs' biographer wrote a book last year called "Innovators" which I found to be one of the best works I have read: http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Hackers-Geniuses-Created-Re...

- Robert X. Cringely's book "Accidential Empires" is definitely dated but you can read most of the chapters on his blog here: http://www.cringely.com/tag/accidental-empires/

- Cringely also did a three part special back in the 90s that I like revisiting every once in a while. Again, pretty dated but entertaining nevertheless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBXbvl1Sg4

- Skip the newer Steve Jobs movies and watch the history of Apple and Microsoft with Pirates of Silicon Valley. It's said to be mostly accurate: http://www.veoh.com/watch/v46093745wbEGkakh

- Kind of random but if you want a look back at what the 90s tech bubble was like then watch Startup.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibuiUXOTE4M
Some that I liked:

- Hackers : http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Anniversar...

- The Soul of a New Machine: http://www.amazon.com/The-Soul-A-New-Machine/dp/0316491977

- Show Stopper! : http://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Generation-Micr...

- Dealers of Lightning: http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/...

- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/06848326...
I should look at this study more carefully before commenting, but I would assume there are genetic as well as cultural differences in those 5 countries with no statistical male/female IQ difference.
> Incentivize people to admit they have erred - a public record of you apologizing shows you try to right your wrongs

But, in any objective discussion, it should not matter who is saying something, nor should his/her reputation matter. We should stick to the facts and leave "ad hominem" out of this.
Or rather, a userscript/plugin?
So you're basically putting on a show for people who are spectacularly wrong about the obvious and loud about it?

Don't feed the trolls. That includes the people who think anyone who disagrees with them is a .ist, .phobic troll.
The file explicitly said "evidence" in the first line. It's deleted now.
Oh I'm sorry that we can't all live in the programmers' utopia that you apparently inhabit where the pay is a thousand dollars per keystroke. Be thankful you have a fucking job!

I would work for $10, not per hour just ten dollars, because it would be more than the zero I earn right now.
what plugin?
I will, I will!

I want to read your story to my eldest, 16 years old, who says he is struggling to find what he really wants to do with his life (career choices etc). He is a good kid. The truth is, I am going to read that story again mostly for me too.

I didn't know at 16 what I wanted from my life either ... but I spent a good decade in my 20s "going with the flow", rudderless. I wish I had been more awake to my possibilities then. I don't regret those years completely, I became a father when I had him in those years. But ... it would have been nice to be told that your brain's plasticity is more forgiving earlier than later. :-)

You keep painting. And loving it.
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If anyone is interested in learning more, I've found a free online-course called "Programming a Robotic Car" (https://www.udacity.com/course/artificial-intelligence-for-r...)

The lecturer is the same guy behind the Stanley car that won the DARPA challenge a few years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge)
I'll second Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution, I found that a really fascinating book.
I would like to see a study where one would give the same project with a solid deadline to three different teams of 3, 15, 30 engineers and see how long it takes each them to finish it.
So how does open demo-ing a concrete building work then? Last I heard reinforced concrete was harder than ice. Not that I want to see public funds spent on breaking it up, when the sun will do the job for free if we wait, but this isn't something that construction equipment couldn't handle.
This sounds like an over simplification for something that requires minimal effort. I wake up, shower, grab a pair of shorts off the top shelf, grab a polo / printed t-shirt off the shelf just below it. Yesterday I wore a light blue t-shirt with a multi color (but mostly blue) pair of shorts; today I have a black t-shirt with orange shorts. The decisions took me 10 seconds to make, most of which was multitasking color choice while putting on a watch and deodorant.

Your appearance says volumes about you - some of us may take it further; i'll match the color on my Apple Watch face to the majority clothing color I'm wearing (so orange today) but again, takes seconds to do and doesn't require much thought, if any.

Once upon a time, this society didn't leave the house without a suit or a dress on; now your lucky if most people are wearing clean clothes I guess.
Trashkrete

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete
Reading the supplementary material (since that isn't paywalled) I not that these are not IQ tests, but results from mathematics and reading comprehension tests.

I also found this little thing that implies that the score distributions aren't symmetric (I think):

"There is no clear pattern in the male to female ratios at the bottom 5% of the math distribution. This ratio is different from one in only 15 countries but in some countries it is larger than one and in others smaller. On the other hand, at the top 5% the ratio of boys to girls is larger than one in 35 countries with the highest estimated ratio in Korea (2.55). In these 35 countries, boys are clearly over-represented at the top end of the math distribution. The quantile differences at 5th and 95th quantiles confirm the same finding, with no clear pattern at the 5th quantile but positive and significant differences in all but five countries at the 95th quantile. "

Doing a quick test, I took some random normal numbers with variance ratio 1.4, and found that the variance ratio is not very sensitive to if I calculate it using the full sample, the bottom half or the top half. In other words, for a normal distribution the reported ratios for the 5th and 95th quantile should be the same within the errors, but this is never the case for mathematics so the scores simply aren't normal.
I started Steven Levy's Hackers and I'm really enjoying it.
http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers

Seeing as he wrote Crypto and Insanely Great too, it seems to be his kind of thing.

Also folklore.org is a nice collection of fables on how the sausage got made.

Charles Petzold's Code is interspersed with enjoyable historical perspective too.

http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/
My thoughts are that both views are valid. I don't think it'd be difficult to look back and discover that some of the great artists were tortured with what they did. My somewhat cynical view is that anything significant requires great sacrifice and no matter what positive spin you put on it, few great artists got there with an abound of positive emotions.

Getting good sucks. It sucks, a lot.

An anecdote I remember reading of the lives of famous musicians:

"[A fan] once came up to Fritz Kreisler after one of his concerts and said to him, “I’d give my life to play as beautifully as you do.” To which Kreisler replied, “I did.”

Positive spin might feel nice to read in a blog post, but I don't think it reflect the reality of the endeavor.

Also I agree with you, just replying here for, whatever.
> Personally I find this really unsettling for non-technical users.

There is of course the counter argument, that if you're non-technical, you probably shouldn't be trying to implement a cryptographic layer-3 network for any reason other than "the lols".
If you want a very detailed account of the super early history of electronic computing, George Dyson's "Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe."

http://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Univ...

Other great titles I'd recommend is Steven Levy's "Hackers" http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Heroes-Computer-Revolution-Ann... and Phil Lapsley's "Exploding the Phone" http://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Untold-Teenagers-Outla...

Hope you enjoy!
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> Another interpretation is that since variability difference is not universal (in 5 countries it is not statistically significant), variability difference is cultural. The later interpretation is argued in PNAS paper cited below.

How do they reach this conclusion? 36 for, 5 against at 95% significance level would expected given random variation, no?
The "very small number" applies to having visible calico skin pattern, not having two X chromosomes, a random one disabled in each cell.
Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker?
I'm hearing about Docker every other day, but when I look into it, I don't understand the purpose of it.

I run many websites/applications that need isolation from each other on a single server, but I just use the pretty-standard OpenVZ containers to deal with that (yes I know I could use KVM servers instead, but I haven't ran into any issues with VZ so far).

What's the difference between Docker and normal virtualization technology (OpenVZ/KVM)? Are there any good examples of when and where to use Docker over something like OpenVZ?
As a general rule, I feel that technologists routinely underestimate the ability of people to acclimate to new technology. This is an insightful post.
Female cells have just one X chromosome? That's totally new to me and sounds kind of strange.

Also socieconomic status shows higher variability under men than women. This is also a really heavy factor for intelligence and one of the reason why for instance ethnical minorities often perform worse in intelligence tests.
You managed to misquote BADLY the article to support your point.

The article opens stating that there are TWO types of gender differences, one, like Height (that you quoted wrongly) is when the mean changes.

The other (like IQ) the distribution changes.

Then the article focus on theorizing why that second type happens, and don't discuss the first (wisely for the author, the same website used to have other authors on the subject, and they were all fired after public outcry after focusing on the first type of differences).
Sub-pixel rendering on a pattern like that must be complicated?
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"Why use Facebook? Just get better at using the CC: field in email"

:)
It's a great way to keep our community unique and worth visiting. The world is full of vapid joke comments (anyone can make them).
hence, if you sample either tail of the distribution you get on the average more men than women. and sampling one of the tails is exactly what selective schools/companies/sports clubs/etc tend to do.
Ask HN: Recommend service/firm to file provisionary patent?
I have a basic description of an idea and looking for the least expensive way (excluding of doing it myself) to file provisional patent.

I do not need to do any patent search or any extras, basically just want someone to take my description and take care of paperwork in a least expensive way.

Suggestions welcome.
I suspect this is not unusual. I was asked to be a sperm donor at a party by a lesbian couple I'd never met before. They were completely serious, but the catch was no contact with the child.

The problem with arguments from reproductive psychology is that we know very little about reproductive psychology in history.

So modern ideas about female partner choice shaping genetics aren't necessarily a given. It's not unlikely there was plenty of rape, random sex with strangers because why not?, and all kinds of other non-vanilla behaviour.

Edit: And there's another issue - the implication that selecting for male variability is more successful as a species-wide reproductive strategy than selecting for high IQ.

That may be true, but it's a slightly strange place to end up in, because it implies that both ends of the bimodal curve are equally successful, and there's no selection advantage to being at the top of the curve. (If there were the bimodal would collapse to a standard Gaussian.)
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An excellent read is Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about The Emerging Science of Sex Differences.

http://amzn.to/1NKVQ6d
I'm having a hard time imagining any legitimate use cases for this API at all.
So that applications can go light on the battery if needed? For example disabling thumbnails and sound, having longer polling intervals, ...
There can only be one:

http://blog.arbitrary.io/the-arbitrary-logo/
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It may very well be that the algorithm is completely objective, but not necessarily "fair". This is the problem with profiling algorithms.
I didn't read the entire bugreport; did anybody mention non-gif dynamic favicon changes? Like this:

https://gist.githack.com/hraban/e669edce68fbb9cd004b/raw/5f8...

(essentially: $('link[rel=icon]')[0].href='...';)

Because that's kind of useful for a lot of sites. Then again, if you don't remove that, what's the use of banning gifs?
The Googlecar is collecting all this information about the behaviour of the other drivers: number plates, accurate time and location, LIDAR, possibly even video. No idea about the US, but in the UK such driving is itself an offence, you just need a way to prove it.
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For Android engineering :

-you must listen to Android Devs Backstage : http://androidbackstage.blogspot.fr/ It is animated by key members of the Android team at Google, so they offer really good insights on the platform and its internals. Even if you are a senior android engineer, you are going to learn new things. Sadly, that's the only android podcast I can really recommend (if you know any good alternatives, feel free to let me know).

- many engineering blogs : etsy, instagram, square, facebook, ..

-it is a good idea to follow googlers and experienced devs on G+.

-for consumer oriented blogs : http://www.computerworld.com/blog/android-power JR Raphael makes awesome reviews where he spent weeks with a device in order to really know it.
When you look at just the miles driven in June (by comparing the totals with those in the May report), more than two-thirds were driven autonomous this month.
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This to me looks like the "very small number" refers to the ones where this is visible, not to the amount of them that has somewhere mosaic-style cell patterns.

For example it is widely known now that if not most women, all women have mosaic patterns on their retina, this not only explains differences in disabilities (like the ocular albinism in the article, but also daltonism), but in perception:

While men can see 3 primary colours, women can see 6, it is of course 2 kinds of each other, but still 6, this might explain why women treat colour differently than men (example: women are more interested in the colour of home decoration and clothes, they give more names to colours than men do, they can choose between two very similar nail polish colours when most men don't notice the difference, and so on).

Why is that of course veers in the theoretical, the best guess is that while men is better to track motion, probably because they were the primary hunters, women are better in dealing with other types of food (for example colour is important to figure how good to eat vegetables are... there is a reason why farming corporations improve the colour and shape of their fruits, instead of improving the taste).

EDIT: someone posted a video elsewhere on the thread about this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw
I'm just going to leave this here:

https://gist.github.com/lonetwin/9636897
Since the AV would be keeping detailed records of everything, legal remedies are possible. I imagine someone would quickly lose interest in cutting off AVs if after a modest threshold they would start getting a bill every month.
To elaborate on the reasoning behind why it may be necessary to throw the machine out, for the people who aren't familiar:

Given full access to the hardware, it's possible (though I haven't tested it to be certain) to flash the BIOS. The machine could be bricked by a remote exploit.
What are the benefits of developing a new thing like this rather than using something existing, like a raspberry pi? Cost?
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I've seen zero animated favicons. I'm wondering if it's a "feature" that doesn't work on Linux. The URL bar doesn't even display favicons anymore, although they show up without animation in bookmarks.
Ditching my cell phone – Day 1
Probably not for everyone, but I am going to live without a cell phone for the foreseeable future. I'm not talking about just leaving it at home, I'm talking about not having a cell phone at all. I've already noticed a nice work productivity boost. Perhaps one less interruption during my work day is going to pay dividends. I'm not sure how many minutes I am going to gain from this strategy, perhaps 20 minutes or more, but more importantly, I think it reduces the overhead caused by task-switching. I may get a VOIP line for home, not sure right now. Wife and kids have phones, so there's that.
I comercialized a personalized app I wrote for myself. Here's the writeup