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Readit Newsnthcolumn commented on Other ways to read Hacker News hackerbits.com/uncategori... · Posted by u/rullopat
nthcolumn commented on Twitter Suspends 300k Accounts Tied to Terrorism in 2017 bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/rayuela
Yes, I believe even terrorists should be able to say whatever they want.
I'd actually prefer them shitposting on twitter rather than killing people.
You think that if they can tweet they won't have to go out and murder. Let off a little steam on facebook??? Really???
Really??? Obviously they are doing both and by 'shitposting' you mean posting videos glorifying their victims being beheaded and burnt alive. I suppose you think pedophiles should be able to publish their rape vids too? Anything goes right? No rights more important than the precious!
nthcolumn commented on Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? a16z.com/2017/09/11/sales... · Posted by u/runesoerensen
As an engineer, the way you get paid for the value you create is by starting a company. In fact, that's the way you do it in pretty much every profession.
The only difference between the guy who owns a successful Veterinary practice and the guy working as an underpaid veterinarian is that one of them went out and leased some office space.
Glad you know that most vets are underpaid. Entry costs are massive - you can't just rent some office space and you cannot really do it alone, there are some single vet practices, they don't make much.
If you think some of the equipment is 100k, x-ray 30k per plate. You also need a territory before you start. It is too easy for bigger practices to starve you out to just pile in 250k and hope for the best.
You have to join a small practice, crawl up through the ranks, getting paid next to nothing, somehow kill your colleagues before they make partner and then you might be in a position to jump ship stealing customers as you go or organize a coup take over the practice by joining with another bigger practice nearby and buying out the seniors.
If you had said lawyer now... I don't know maybe - but I got your american dream point.
Gay men and women have blended in undetected for thousands of years all over the world. They've only been able to really come out in the last few decades. If this miserable distopia of automatic homosexual detection came to pass, they would simply go back to blending in again. A miserable existence, but pretty sure they'd be able to fool the robot overlords.
80% of times according to this research the robot overlords will not be fooled. Of course, the success rate is little consolation. The fact that it will be applied at all is the problem. People who expect gay people to go back into hiding are the past.
I'd bet you'd get a lot higher accuracy from scanning a facebook profile's metadata than from their image.
That said, the concern of this is the potential to do this on at scale in a horrible distopia. Cameras in airports and on sidewalks automatically scan people for "undesirable" features and they end up in reeducation camps or just simply disappearing.
Never mind reeducation camps what about people trying to sell you loafers...
I don't know about you, but when trying to figure out if someone is female by sight alone, long hair is a big clue, after clothing and before facial characteristics. Visual analysis can only reveal surface characteristics that are subject to manipulation (up to and including hormone therapy and plastic surgery), not "intrinsic", whatever that means.
What is your point though? Who cares how it does it? The fact that it can tell gay from straight will have privacy implications for both. Not to mention that it is not revealed in the study how much of the feature set was based on grooming. This is pure speculation. Clearly these trigger points mean more minuses for me and a lack of any sensible discussion of the actual point of the study.
Homosexual men will have to start wearing ill-fitting suits and dirty gym shorts to avoid being caught by the algorithm.
Totally agree! Heterosexual women will have to wear makeup and grow their hair long to avoid being misidentified as lesbians. Personally I think it is wishful thinking on the part of people who think that you aren't born gay. This algorithm will out even the most repressed homosexual as it is not entirely based on 'social characteristics'. Science doesn't care what you think.
This is very likely the same as detecting women by "they have long hair" - it's not finding intrinsic characteristics, but social ones.
And in the context of privacy with regard to public surveillance systems with facial recognition capability your point is exactly what?
nthcolumn commented on Show HN: Make your web page dance with Rythm.js okazari.github.io/Rythm.j... · Posted by u/Okazari
You're right :), Rhythm.js were taken and Rythm is close to the initial french spelling.
Sorry my bad didn't google it properly first, not a spelling nazi - it just makes my brain hurt to look at it.
js library names has become like domains now - everything already taken, boing.js, bounce.js, pulse.js, throb.js, even wubwub.js - hey how about palp.js? meh...no rythm.js is better :) there were too many haches in that word anyway.
Turkey is not part of the EU yet. I don't see how exactly the power "sits with Erdoğan".
Not part or ever will be it seems. Their application officially just recently being moved to the out tray.