jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Up front - I don't think that the concept of "gender identity" is required in order to have basic courtesy and respect toward people, which is what this discussion about TikTok is about.

However, I'm not at all convinced by the concept of "gender identity" and I think it warrants open debate. Unfortunately, voicing such an opinion is liable to get one lumped in with the more loudmouth transphobic crowd, and so it makes such discussion very difficult. I know from private conversations that many people you would not expect have their doubts as well, but they keep it to themselves. I think it's therefore all the more important for people who aren't loudmouth transphobes to weigh in on it.

My issue with it is this: is the concept of "gender identity" separable from gender stereotypes? What does it mean to "identify" with this or that? If men and women are both permitted to wear whatever they like, date whoever they like, arrange flowers or race dirtbikes as they see fit - then what does "identity" capture? Doesn't it privilege some kind of essentialist view - that there is some fundamental, immutable characteristic that is not captured by personality or preference, that girls are girls and boys are boys regardless of how tomboyish or flamboyant they are? Isn't this basically self-contradictory, or at the very least regressive?

This isn't neccesarily to say that "gender identity", as a preference, isn't real in some sense - we should always be careful to distinguish the inconvenient from the untrue, and some people (certainly not everyone) feels a powerful sense of "gender identity". But it may simply describe a strong preference for how society views you, given the stereotypes that society has, rather than any kind of essential characteristic. And perhaps - just perhaps - we shouldn't be regarding it as a reflection of a healthy and accepting society, but as a hint that society still discriminates heavily on the basis of sex.
I too would be extremely interested to know this. The sibling comment referring to NFC looks interesting, but I can't help but think there's an extra dimension or two.

I thought most bank cards used RFID per se as opposed to full NFC.

Plus (and much more significantly) there's the fact that the phone is doing the magic voodoo sekret handshake thing that has been the stomping ground of credit card terminals for only the past two decades or so.

My understanding was that Apple Pay stuck Apple in the middle as an intermediary to the payment, which was internally settled via backend servers. I *think*. I don't think the phones behave as credit cards in the strictest sense - my (pulled out of thin air) guesstimate is that it emulates a credit card to the extent that it make the payment terminal happy, but in such a way that the actual payment settlement is done out of band. Or... something.

Hmmmm, maybe something similar is going on here, where the phone talks the protocol but not strictly exactly the way a payment terminal would, such that Apple ultimately intermediates the final settlement of the transaction.

I feel super dumb here, mostly because this whole world is (sigh very understandably) clandestine. I would be very interested to learn about any high-level "oh okay!" type info on the subject that might be out there!
That doesn't help if you don't save the time zone rules that were in effect when you converted the original timestamp to UTC. The problem is that you've already converted to UTC using the wrong rules, so to make things right you need to unconvert then reconvert again. But there's no way to know which timestamps need correcting and which ones don't.

The databases keep track of the zone changes so you can use the proper rules for conversions in the past. They don't protect you from changes in the future.
"Gestapo me", "BS" - you seem pretty decisive. are you basing your comments on actual knowledge of the process or anecdotal evidence?

My personal impression from countless times of passing via TLV is that the profiling is mostly itinerary based. That is, Israeli citizen going off to a 3 day business trip to Europe is less suspect than an American tourist with a very short length of stay.

I know a middle aged WASP lady (pasty white, dignified, looks like someone who might be related to the Kennedys) who had to endure questioning because she fit the latter profile. Not really "gestapo", though - from what she told me it sounded better than the normal treatment non-US citizens get at Newark. Many of my Israeli family & friends are dark skinned, never had any trouble.

I'm not saying I know better, just that my anecdotal evidence doesn't match yours.

In any case, this isn't really applicable for the US. TLV gets much fewer visitors than JFK, and they tend to fit certain trip profiles - few people just go for a weekend in Tel Aviv, for example. Also, many in Israel itself are unhappy with the breach of their privacy, and my impression is that security procedure are actually moving to more reliance on machines than humans.
The comments in that TechCrunch thread are why I don't read TechCrunch anymore. Mike Arrington really needs to mod the trolls.
The money would probably be better spent speeding up ADS-B transmitter installations, as well as incentive payments to Iridium to get their new satellites with ADS-B receivers into orbit. No point in reinventing the wheel.
In the same line of thinking: Plane travel got slower over the past years.

http://slice.mit.edu/2014/03/19/airtravel/
Keeping the name succinctly describes how 1.x will stop adding new features and the team behind it is building 2.0. It's a good move if the community stays with them.
I use this HDMI audio extractor to turn a Chromecast into what you describe:
http://www.amazon.com/J-Tech-Digital-Premium-Extractor-Conve...
Some of the headlines are hilarious. This one detailing a convenience store robbery in particular: http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/05/06/saitama-man-robs-7-ele...
It's strange this modern affinity for "honesty", as if admitting being a jerk somehow makes you less of a jerk.

If something has been perverted from it's stated goal, nothing is gained from perverting the goal statement. In fact, I'd argue that much would be lost, as you'd get people saying (correctly) "the system works as intended".

Losing a good statement of purpose is always a great loss. It's much harder to make people aware of an error of omission than an error of inconsistency. When we find a good statement of purpose, we should cherish it, defend it, and fight until our systems embody it!
Came here to say this. I'm rather annoyed at the bait-and-switch here.
Ouch. I'm a little drunk and wiriting with the iPhone keyboard on a cta blue line train, but Xach's suggested fix (sha1(k, msg)) has a horrible vulnerability in it.
> Didn't the person writing this need to know about MyIntHolder?

Yes, but they wrote it much later. The library writer only wrote the protocol and coded to the protocol. Your function method is not extensible unless you totally re-implement this mechanism (effectively re-implementing single dispatch). If your question is, "Why can't I get this effect in Python?" then of course you can, but you're basically implementing this feature, and all that entails.

The reason I mentioned monkey patching is to point out how powerful and seductive mechanisms that allow for unforeseen modifications to existing behaviors can be. Clojure provides a fast, well-designed system right out of the box for handling these situations succinctly. Unlike existing methods which are error prone or tedious (monkey patching and retooling dispatch every time, as in your approach), this is elegant and trivial.

> I understand that Clojure does this under the covers with great speed, but is that the only benefit?

Clojure provides one mechanism that can work two ways. Firstly it can provide flexible specifications where code can interface in a functional way, even across library and time boundaries. Secondly it can induct pre-existing types into a behavior pattern without causing a (potentially destructive) ripple effect in existing code.

> But what is "x" there? I'm probably reading it too literally, but I see that MyIntHolder takes 1 value (of type int). I don't see any name associated with it, is the "x" just an unrelated example?

Ahh, it was meant to be ".data". Sorry, there was a version mismatch between two iterations of the code when I was posting. Thank you for catching it, it has been corrected.
That seems to be about comments, not submissions. Am I missing something?
Students and engineers really should be options.
The fact that you couldn't easily tell whether the company fits your criteria shows that your criteria are pretty much meaningless. Is there a reason for all this, besides to glorify your own company, which fits the criteria? "Ideology" is the word that comes to mind. You create arbitrary divisions, and then drum up emotions to make it seem like people on the other side of the imaginary fence are different and unworthy.
Any chance of sharing some screen shots or code on how one actually awards accomplishments? Is it like a badge system where there are a set number of achievements, or is it something like a "free form" achievement where one states how it can be solved and a way for the system to know when it has been solved? Is it something like: "Fix bug #30 and get $10"? Or is it something like: "Solve 20 bugs in one week and get $10?"

I'm just thinking of doing something similar for my own little shop too...
great, count me in!
Read on to the other tests...
> I certainly feel like I benefit from understanding how the typical algorithms used to solve those problems scale with the size of their inputs.

Spot on. Not only that, having that kind of understanding has prevented me from making some really stupid programming mistakes in the past.

One may not need that to write a CRUD (or let your framework of choice do it for you) but if one goes beyond the trivial, it's good to know where one is going.

Having said that, the specific enchantments, peculiarities, poor decisions and sadistic, inconsistent choices of the different tools I use for my work take up much more time and brain power than complexity theory. The inherently complex stuff is relatively rare. What's left is the stuff that's complicated for no good reason.
Elon, just install a bunch[1] of superchargers on I-10.

[1] And I do mean a bunch.

EDIT: I just noticed. This is an old press release. The lege' is out of session. Be sure and pester representatives if another special session is called.
> ActiveX is not the best technology, but it paved the way for the AJAX programming that everyone does today.

You can safely add AJAX to the list, XMLHttpRequest is from Microsoft as well.

I never had much symphathy for Microsoft, but I can't help but respect some of the things they've done, both in the Gates and Ballmer eras. They used to really care about developers.
I want to see something like "The people responsible for this utter incompetence have been sacked. And the people responsible for sacking those people responsible for this utter incompetence have also been sacked."
Well, Walmart's parking is a private space, so they could ask you to leave. But maybe they won't as it would attract people to come and see it - and buy something in WalMart along the way.

As for public spaces, I don't know about US, but in my country it's regulated by the law where you can park Buses and Trucks overnight.
> I honestly don't see any advantage to those "thread readers"

Do you typically read Twitter in an app or via the web?

I find it annoying enough to read Twitter on the web - that I don't. Part of that is the fact that Twitter spends sizeable screenspace nagging me to log in - which presumably isn't a problem if you have an account.
Maybe he can make an account on hacker news.
Wow. that rate of descent, and so shortly after takeoff (no time/altutude for hypoxia, etc) points strongly to a major structural failure or at least a catastrophic failure of flight control systems.

In that phase of flight, pressurization would be just starting to build, I wonder how many cycles that 26 year old airframe has on it?

Also, is it known if there was anyone of major political or financial consequence on board? Getting to that altitude is also a common trigger for barometric switches.
You want to nationalize social media and smartphone OSes? Fine.

You're over private property? Okay, me too.

But let's handle these requests in the order they arrived, that's fair isn't it? We'll get to social media right after we nationalize health care and energy.
It's easy: this is a Trump phenom, and not an ideological or cultural phenom, mostly.

Trump has no ideology, he used Twitter, FB and mass media to lie to the masses, and a certain group believed him.

Once he has less power, he'll have less influence.

FoxNews commenters became rabidly in favour of he $2K stimulus checks when Trump announced it.

It was pretty funny watching thousands of Fox commenters, normally screaming at the hint of 'Socialism' - backing up Trump's $2K checque claims and how 'people are having a hard time these days, they need the money'.

It's really sad how they will flip ideologies to be consistent with whatever he says.

Once Trump has moved on, then there will be other priorities.
Exactly this. If I start a private enterprise, I'll be damned if somebody dictates that they have a private right to do or say some particular thing on services I pay hosting for.

Corporations are not beholden to pleasing every single individual.
Even then the Independence Day saucers and Borg cubes and spherical ships win out in the cool factor.
meta, what if it was just GPT-3 commenting and there was just leakage from the ML community
Impressive detective work and documentation.
> You don't have to be wealthy to have access to growth in assets

You have to be wealthy to see an appreciable growth in assets. Both the absolute and percentage amounts matter. Yes, anyone can get a 3% return on their investments over time, but that doesn't really matter when you can only invest $1.

Living has a certain minimum set of fixed costs, those with sufficient capital can pay for those fixed costs through the growth of their capital and still see a net increase in wealth . Someone making $30k a year in wages will never achieve that, even if they see some growth in assets.

> You're quoting an average and claiming it is steady but there are periods where your savings would have not seen that growth and even seen negative return.

You are making a pedantic semantic argument. I acknowledged the presence of dips and bubbles. But on "average" you will see a return on capital, especially a diversified market.

That analysis only looked at the S&P 500, which is a tiny share of the economy and not at all representative of the growth of capital over time. What about housing, bonds, precious metals, commodities, short positions, international funds, etc.

Move up one level of abstraction and look at the forest, not the trees.
If you read the news about it, the scams were depressingly basic & the screening failures were rudimentary. It will not cost billions of dollars to rein that number in dramatically.
Is this really synesthesia or just association? Blue is water sounds, yellow is brass instrument, red is slow groove?
Yeah, I'd say that Spring is the Java equivalent of the same problem (over-engineering), just using reflection and runtime bytecode generation instead.

I agree that using Monads, Monoids, etc. isn't necessarily indicative of over engineering in itself. If used well they can make the code clearer/simpler.
Mining participation does not change the issuance of new bitcoin. If there was 1 miner in the entire world the issuance would be the same. Please educate yourself more about crypto in general, understanding the core concepts only takes a few minutes of research.
We don’t need health officials to figure out how to ship things that are really cold really quickly. This could have been managed much better by the federal government overall. It shouldn’t fall to health departments to do this.
“Using their website” to file your taxes
This is concerning and we need to know exactly how Canonical tracked down the customer's details.

I tried looking for a privacy / terms of use for Azure Marketplace specifically but could only find the generic one for Azure which is too long to read through.

FWIW, I spun up dozens of Ubuntu VMs in Azure and no-one contacted me :) but I didn't go to the marketplace, just picked the default Ubuntu image in the dropdown.
Your view must be skewed by privilege of having stable currency. Currency of my country lost 250% of its value over last 7 years. It's not bitcoin-level volatile, but close to it. Thankfully I have an option to use USD to hoard money, but that option is not something that's given, in many countries you just can't exchange for fair price.

I agree that for someone living in US or EU there's no much point using BTC.
Something like MIT + Non-commercial would be interesting.
How is expecting something to be open source an entitlement? I guess in your world view, it's an entitlement to be free and alive.
If it's a PITA to you, let someone else deal with it and reap the benefits. It's not up to you to determine what is best for users. If users are willing to pay for device specific apps then let the market cater to them.

It's your company, you don't need to cater to 'iPhail' users if you don't want to. Let them and their revenue go somewhere else.
Not really.

If you go back and read Habermas, who coined the term "public sphere" (which was what was used in the article), the first public spheres were private salons, coffee houses, and cafes. The discourse of the public sphere was also carried out in the (privately owned) media of the time (newspapers and pamphlets).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sphere#J.C3.BCrgen_Haber...

Another (less readable) book on the subject is Badlands of Modernity, which discusses distinct spaces in which social orders are changed. The Palais-Royale in Paris, the private residence of Louis Philippe II d'Orléans, was one such site in which the ideals of the French Revolution were acted out before the revolution itself.

http://books.google.com/books?id=B0D0EOJoyMsC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais-Royal#The_Palais_Under_t...

Private spaces are just as capable of being inclusive, liberal, open commons as public spaces. Indeed, in times of oppressive government, it is private spaces that become the refuge of the remnants of openness. This is one reason why liberal theorists from the Enlightenment era regarded the ownership of private property as a right essential to the maintenance of liberty.
If this submission were made by someone with lower karma, it would probably have been deleted by now. On its own, without the context of who posted it, I don't see how it meets the guidelines of this side; guidelines which are usually strictly enforced. I'm not trying to be a troll here, but if exceptions are being made for the regulars, how do you expect us new people to respect the rules?
Why does 'the system' seem to make this process so painfully slow and seemingly reject requests for information/appeals arbitrarily? It seems much of the 15 years here was spent playing paperwork games with the legal system.
I'd use the AGPL if I open-sourced a non-trivial webapp most likely, especially if it were a business rather than a side project, but probably not if it were just libraries or something of that sort.

Fair enough. I could see how someone in that position would find the AGPL appealing.
Is there anything like this for Windows? I already installed Prey and LogMeIn, but there's no way to silently execute commands remotely.
Try converting some tutorials as pdf's. I'm learning python. I've been able to convert "Learn python the hard way" and "Invent with Python" into pdf's which I then save on my desktop. Check out this HN member's page http://krainboltgreene.github.com/l/2/ for possible tutorials.
Yeah.
It's yet another newbie script hyped@HN. :-(
The Cr48 example is a bad one - would people have been any less excited if Google had said "we are giving everyone a free laptop"?
Apple makes money selling devices; Google makes money selling targeted ads. Making devices more secure will benefit Apple's business, so is collecting more user data to Google's business.
What's the best free jazz these days and in previous days?
Have you noticed that these ads appear only in the App Store and are not based on invasive tracking across apps and the Internet?
With BLM I found myself thinking a lot about this question. Should we be understanding of slave owners and put them into hisorical context? Is it fair to hold people in the past to the morals of today? Where should the balance be struck?

I think the answer is that both things are true. Killing, abusing and enslaving people was always wrong. But the cognitive basis for those acts can be more mundane than pure evil.

I think as a society we experience a larger version of the free will problem. Our future path is tightly bound to our history and culture. We do not have complete free will. Breaking away an asserting agency can be be both an opportunity and a risk. Nelson Mandela broke with history but so did Hitler and Stalin. We shouldn't assume that we are the former.
If you have a NAS or Fan cooled Server near your living area, put a HEPA filter in front of the Airflow.
Managed to find a fitting size one for my Synology one that can simply be affixed by making an impromptu collar out of half-folded wide duct tape around the front.
PM 2.5 dropped down from 25 to 5. Temperature increase is neglegible and well within safe range.
Plus you get no dust in the device itself, which was my motivation for this in the first place.
Innovation can and usually does mean incremental improvement.
The Amsterdam pianola museum has some Rachmaninov recorded by Rachmaninov. I wrote about it here:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/rachmaninoff-plays-rachmaninoff-...

If you ever visit Amsterdam definitely go see that, it is quite an experience.
I can't help but wonder if instead of confronting the source of our depression, we're simply drugging ourselves to the point we can't feel it anymore--especially that people are now looking to psilocybin as a means of treating depression. Perhaps the depression is a symptom of something bigger, a lack of purpose or meaning in life.

Someone I know was on medication for anxiety, and they remarked how they'd go to see a movie at the theater, and would simply have no emotional reaction to it. A character sacrificing their life for a friend would have the same reaction as tomatoes being sliced for a hamburger.

The medication had an INCREDIBLE affect on them, and it really helped them out of a bad place. But the huge thing is they learned to identify the source of their anxiety and confront it, and no longer depend on the medication.

I just make circuits. Don't take this as medical advice.
One part of it was that times were better when emperors were selected based on ability instead of by heredity.

https://medium.com/@samo.burja/how-roman-emperors-handled-th...

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Five-Good-Emperors
Not if you set the correct requirements.
In general, because they're awesome. In particular, because Google also wanted to be in global-internet-coverage business (see e.g. Project Loon).
Sadly I too am not a Windows developer. That said, I've never before had such a compelling reason to become one.

I do hope that someone more familiar with Windows takes up the torch.
Wow. My battery-powered cellular telephone, requiring a 2-year contract can replace a piece of plastic with a magnetic strip?

What is next? My automobile can be used to replace credit cards, as well.

I can speed past the Starbuck's window and the barista can simply throw the coffee at me as I drive by.