jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> if you have a young female relative, watch how many times toys are oriented towards looking good vs. doing anything constructive

It's what sells. It sells because it's what the children want. The idea that gender is a societal construct is nonsense.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13596-male-monkeys-pre...

Make monkeys prefer toy trucks. Female monkeys prefer dolls.

The doctor behind the "gender is a social construct" based it on David Reimer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

He wasn't entirely truthful. David knew from the beginning he was a boy, despite enormous pressure to believe otherwise. He ended up committing suicide.

This kind of gender nonsense kills people. I find it difficult to express just how morally bankrupt it is to deny human nature.

> someone reading for comprehension would have realized that the entire article was an extended version of “I should have listened to my teachers rather than the people who convinced me science wasn't for women”

I'm happy to note that you don't dispute that she did not accept responsibility for her actions. "I should have listened to them" is a far cry from "I made a bad decision".

I'm also happy to note that you also don't dispute she shows bigotry against STEM fields.

I'm someone who did a STEM degree because I thought it would pay the bills. Most of my friends didn't. So... I made new friends in the STEM fields. And I didn't do it by putting down arts people as "artsy-fartsy potheads".
But despite appearing primarily in popular culture as extremely small robots, nanotechnology simply refers to the scale of the technology, so actually, this is by definition, nanotechnology. It is actually the popular representation of nanotechnology which has always been too specific.
I see consumer self-driving cars being introduced in three stages.

Stage 1. Limited self-parking cars. These will only be self-driving in large parking lots that have been designated as allowing self-parking. These parking lots will be at shopping malls, stadiums, concert halls, large grocery stores, home improvement stores, and the like.

When shopping at a place with a designated self-parking lot, you manually drive to the front of the store, get out, and your car drives to a parking spot at the far end of the lot (leaving the spots closer to the door for people who do not have self-parking cars). When you are done shopping, you summon your car via your smartphone, and it comes pick you up.

With a little planning, such as a little separation between where people enter/exit their self-driving cars and where manually parking people will walk, it should be possible to arrange it so that people who are skittish about self-driving cars don't come to close to them.

Stage 2. Limited street access for self-parking cars. Some parking lots and garages in cities will be designated as allowing self-parking, and some street routes leading to those lots will be designated as allowing self-driving cars to travel between designated points and the parking lots.

Essentially these designated spots will be like bus stops, except for self-driving cars. You manually drive to one, get out, and your car self-drives to a nearby parking lot. When you want your car, you go to one of these designated spots and summon it.

The participating lots, the drop-off/pickup spots, and the routes between the former and the latter would be chosen to keep the self-driving confined to a few well labeled streets, so that people who do not yet trust self-driving cars can be extra alert on those streets or avoid them.

Also there would be freeway access for self-driving cars during stage 2.

Stage 3. Expansion of stage 2. Designated routes expand, and when there are enough of them we flip to allowing all routes except designated forbidden routes. Drop-off/pickup can happen anywhere near a designated route (and later, anywhere that doesn't require using a prohibited route). Parking flips from only allowed at designated lots to allowed anywhere except designated forbidden lots.

The focus in stage 1 and stage 2 is use in limited areas at low speed, while the public gets accustomed to the presence of self-driving cars. The reason for the emphasis on parking is that for most suburban or city driving (outside of rush hour commuting) the driving to your destination is usually not overly annoying. It's dealing with parking, or carrying your purchases a long distance to your car, that is the most annoying part.

In stage 3, the network of available routes has expanded enough to span from your home to your destination, so you can let the car self-drive the whole trip.
uBlock can block scripts, but that doesn't make it a replacement for NoScript, which has quite a few features beyond simple script blocking.
There's a popular notion that we will experience mass unemployment resulting from people whose jobs are replaced with software.

This is false. With any revolutionary change in technology, jobs lost in one field will be jobs gained in another.

The agricultural revolution didn't drive mass unemployment when farmers were replaced. The industrial revolution didn't drive mass unemployment when small merchants were replaced. The software revolution won't either.
Having just tried uBlock, the defaults do allow both Youtube and Facebook to work out of the box (and exactly the same as with adblock, as far as I can tell). I think the poster must've had some other problem. (or maybe some of the filter lists changed in between his problem and my trying it, which is equally possible)

EDIT: ( Chrome 39.0.2171.95 (64-bit), linux )
I've been toying with the idea of creating a non-profit "social-responsibility" fund. A startup at inception would donate some fixed percentage of their stock to the fund, and the fund will later use dividends or sales proceeds to pay for retraining or retirement of those displaced by the startup.

The trouble is, the idea being so novel, I don't think I could convince any investors to get on board with it. It requires broad awareness and years of propaganda to make it a commonly accepted practice.

Alternatively, I imagine the disrupted themselves should have a pension fund or a trade union seeking out disruptive innovations and investing in them ahead of time. But in practice they don't, so that where it ends.
Isn't there a way for adblock+ to insert just the right set of css rules based on the page it is inserted to? It's not like every site displays ads from every possible ad network. I don't know the internals of AB+ so correct me if this is impossible for some reason.
I just bought a £100 (not on contract) Android that blows away my iPhone 3G.

I wasn't really expecting it to, I bought it as a stop-gap while I waited for the Nexus S and heard it was a good developer friendly device for the price but it's surpassed my expectations greatly.

Related to the grandparent, this phone (Orange San Francisco) was made by ZTE, the Chinese telecoms giant who I've heard were originally blackballed from the Open Handset Alliance because HTC etc. were worried that they would provide too much price competition.
The most straightforward reading of this, which is that they had her contact information but spoke to family members anyway, is a pretty clear violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Leaving twenty messages per day is also a violation, though debtors have been known to ahem exaggerate that one.

That they used Facebook is irrelevant -- calling the sister, emailing the sister, or sending the sister messages via carrier pigeons are all equally illegal. And if they were stupid enough to post a message on her wall about it, which I doubt, statutory damages would hit six figures very, very quickly. ($1,000 for every Facebook friend who is not your spouse.)
They've previously done that with Opera alphas and betas. I don't know if they're doing it consistently, though.
In the energetic efficiency meaning of the word.

The energy consumption of the brain is around 20W in an adult human.

Compare that to the multi hundred Watt consumption of the meager machine you're reading this on...
This is not about a new tool called Fallout if the headline made you believe so (I did). This is just an article summing up Firesheep.

I found it very hard to read and there was nothing new in it. So unless you lived under a rock the past weeks, you can safely skip this.
It was 800000$ that Franken got from media companies, so not even one single billion. What are you implying!

Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N0002...
via: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/e8bh8/guys_this_...
> A year ago I wrote an article trying to round up new languages since year 2000 and what I think of them by just… glancing at them, or otherwise playing with them. I ended up sifting out the 5 most interesting in my not so humble opinion - Go, Rust, Dart and Julia. Now a year has passed and…

> I discover that I missed Nim!

> Nim was born somewhere around 2006-ish and is clearly a very serious language to consider, but is going suspiciously under the radar. Having reviewed this language more closely (and still doing so) I can safely say that for me it actually easily tops this list.

http://goran.krampe.se/2014/10/20/i-missed-nim/
I have to say, I was hopeful up until he mentioned the hunger bit. The delayed sleep phase disorder sounds exactly like me, and I already eat a strict low carb diet, but that fact means that I'm never really hungry. In fact, I believe many people who eat low carb experience the same reprieve from the constant cycle of hungry-satiated-hungry as their blood sugar and energy levels remain constant.

Maybe it's just because I'm not a breakfast eater. Oh well!
The failure mode isn't getting stuck, it's failing to notice that there's actual work to do. The way you get this one wrong is a thought process like this: "Well, obviously we only know about the first and third links in the chain, and we aren't told anything about the second one. So of course we can't tell whether there's a married person looking at an unmarried one because we have no information about any two directly 'connected' people." (But less explicit -- if you think about it in that much detail you're likely to think of brute-forcing the possibilities.) Or like this: "Well, let's see: A looks at B looks at C, A is married, C not. Does A->B have to be married->unmarried? No; B could be married. Does B->C have to be married->unmarried? No; B could be unmarried. So we're done."

Once it occurs to you that you could just kind of brute force all the possibilities, you're going to get it right. The problem comes when you short-circuit the process.

(And the reason why doing so isn't just stupid is that often this sort of "pruning" of mental effort is key to working things out efficiently. It just happens that in this case the prunability is illusory.)
I say don't give too much thought to people complaining about the non-anonymous login, these are not the users you should be marketing to and they are not the users Bitcoin needs right now. Bitcoin is anonymous/pseudonymous but it doesn't mean every service built on it has to be.

PS: I believe Paypal and Coinbase both forbid gambling websites in their ToS. I suggest you have the code ready to switch to accepting BTC by yourself because you will most likely get your accounts disabled.
I know MET is mission elapsed time, but does anyone know what GET is? (It's pretty much impossible to google, even trying to force google to include it capitalised doesn't help.)

Edit: Somehow missed the glossary on page 3, all in there. :)
>Pretty thorough document for a basement hoax.

Buzz Aldrin will punch you in the nose. ;-)
You are absolutely correct, it is not just about quantity, but the quality of the witnesses as well. How trustworthy are they? How good is their memory? Do they have any biases? Etc.
Nothing, in theory. In reality, women are the ones who have to worry about change room cameras. There is definitely a disconnect there.
Along with every US customer of 'broadband' paying $50-$75 per month for 5-15mbps fixed non-broadband.
Thanks Stegosaurus, for articulating so well what I have also been strongly feeling about work.

I liked this part especially: "For me it's not so much the absolute requirements (i.e. 8 hours a day, these specific hours, can't do anything else within that time) but rather the subordinate aspect of having no control over that."

I would restate that in my own way as follows:

I consider myself thirsty for life, thirsty and desirous of enjoying my life experiences. Once someone has put me under contractual obligation to 'just do x' for a significant slice of my life, its really set into motion the pendulum's swing in the other direction: How can I not, almost immediately, begin to subconsciously yearn for the day when I can live differently? Whatever it is, whether its an office commute or even a lax remote job (hard to admit in the latter case), whether I'm building widgets or contributing to a huge multi-application 'Widgetron', confine me and you all but guarantee that one day I will seek release from you. It may take years, but thats life for me.

I don't think our society has achieved ethics yet, hasn't yet demonstrably earned ethical values for itself. And freedom is a value that is even higher or more rarified than ethics or the golden rule. In place of that we have a rampant survival ethos, with bits of social status signaling / prestige-mongering thrown in. Asking for self-determination in this environment can appear at times like walking into a soup kitchen and requesting their finest tiramisu. How dare you be so bold, slave?

And yet, nothing can stop me from trying.
Yes, the communication aspect of it is huge as well. You might well be posed vaguely defined questions all the time in your work. If you get upset and/or are unable to start picking out the most important aspects of a question, that's a problem.
Also, what happens if/when the NSA is forces your theoretically-only-domestic packets to take a small detour out of the country?

Or equally likely, they have an agreement with a foreign power that they each spy on one-another's citizens and share findings.
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8898046
That spatial canvas organization is the closest thing I've ever seen to my dream coding space.
The 1-dimensionality of a linear string of code always seemed like it ignored so much of the brain's processing abilities. I first noticed this when playing real time strategy games – I would always have a 2D mental model of where all my infrastructure was, my troops, various battles, etc. It was easy to keep track of, despite the complexity.

I suspect many (most) programmers also have a rich mental model of their codebase, instantiated by reading and jumping around these mostly linear streams of text (our brains "fold" linear code like amino-acid sequences fold into 3d protein shapes). Mapping between mind-space and editor-space takes a lot of work, and is the source of many many bugs.

Being able to map my higher dimensional space to a richer coding space – to group related functions and objects together, and maybe draw some boxes around them, or toggle various layers of meta-information (such as connections, code paths, etc.) would be amazing.

Please keep doing this.
I saw plenty of pictures shared by families meeting in London on Christmas Day so perhaps the OP should have put “this is a consequence of people breaking the restrictions on Christmas Day” caused by wilfully ignoring the rules or confusion.
HTTPs works with email, email works over data networks.

I get social inertia is a thing.

Somehow I’ve blown it off and life still works.

Summarizing it as “life begins and ends with WhatsApp” seems just as ridiculous to me.

Acquiesce and nothing changes.

Turn and face the strange.
Intentional. Trump should have left twitter months ago and went to parler instead
Anyone with a brain knew this was coming.

Honestly it's shocking how many on HN try to defend it. This isn't a republican or democrat issue anymore after what Pence and McConnell said today.

The man is a tyrant, and we should all be thankful it is not far, far worse than this.
> BLM they had military out in full force, even though BLM was non-violent protests.

The military only became involved after local governments gave "protesters" space over multiple days and emboldened the idiots to the point local police were overwhelmed.
What exercise? The upgrade guide tells you exactly how to remove what leftover files. You could copy and paste the rm commands mindlessly, not that I would suggest doing anything mindlessly.

If you're using the official OpenBSD packages, they would be linked to the correct libraries for that release, so there's no need to worry about linking to the wrong libraries. If you're compiling your own packages, you should be aware of anything you've done with any libraries that would require you pay any particular attention necessary to files being removed. Otherwise, it's not anything you would need be concerned about as a user.

Where do you get the idea that a clean install is the correct way to upgrade? Considering how conservative OpenBSD is, it would not provide an upgrade process if it wasn't something that was very well supported.
I am utterly confused why any regular person needs this or is the infrastructure in the US and Canada so bad that your phone won't work in every day life?

If you go hiking or heli-skiing you usually have alternative methods of contact which is part of your equipment such as an avalanche kit etc. Sure it might be nice to have this in your every day device but it's absolute unnecessary for anyone else.
Actually, your source is farther away from a billion than his was. :-)
Interesting. But it really annoys me when people use "begs the question" incorrectly. Look it up!
Ahh, hehe, never thought about it like that :) I see what you mean.

We'll update the front page in a not so long time, and then we'll think more about it. To be honest we think that we need to work on being more to the point. Which is what we're doing now.
I'm not sure London is the best place in the UK for a startup. Office and accomodation rent is among the highest in Europe. And in just about every other respect it's an insanely expensive place to live.

Unless your clientiele requires you to be in London (e.g. you do work for the city, or one of the big media companies) you'd be better off elsewhere in the UK if you want a decent runway.
Wow how could they POSSIBLY think that would be a good idea? Fax?!

Are you trolling? :P
Check out the axioms of Peano Arithmetic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms#Arithmetic

If we use Dedekind's recursive definition of addition, and the definitions 1=S(0) and 2=S(S(0)), then:

S(0) + S(0) = S(S(0)+0)
= S(S(0))

I know the computer proof assistant Isabelle/HOL, inspired by the Principia Mathematica, can prove simple theorems about arithmetic using a "rewrite" system similar to what I've done above.
You would be right if the 23andme tests were accurate, but they really aren't. They only test for the most common mutations for certain genes so they don't replace going to see a clinical geneticist. Also, the vast majority of conditions you could have aren't even tested for at all. A lot of these are the kinds of things where there is only a 1 in 40,000 chance of you having it, but there are so many of them that your chances of having one of those conditions is actually pretty high. But yeah, doctors are terrible at diagnosing chronic illnesses so you really want to figure out what you have on your own and then just go to someone to order the tests for you. But 23andme wouldn't be useful for this unless you get really 'lucky' and have one of the 200 or so things they test for.
Copyright infringement in the US is absolutely a crime, and 4-5 year sentences are not uncommon:

http://www.cybercrime.gov/ip.html
That only works when you have more than 6 hours of sunlight a day (approximately 30 minutes of which is at an intensity that actually helps).
I would like to believe these guys but the figures seem a little low and I couldn't find a citation. What does 'access' mean here? How do they define 'broadband'?
Lack of browser chrome does not a native app killer make.
I got $150 off of a camera bought through eBay b/c of Bing. I can't imagine how they ever thought that made business sense.
I agree. The closest thing that page provided to concete advice was to avoid busy work and talk to your boss.

But that runs into two immediate problems. The first is that unless your boss already thinks you are genuinely overworked, they are not likely to be too sympathetic to you wanting to work less.

Now, if you can identify specific tasks that you think are busy work, you may get your boss to remove those or explain why they are not busy work. Of course, those tasks may then be replaced by others.

And this also brings me to the second point. Busywork should be avoided, but you need to make sure it is busywork. Your boss may very well have a good reason to have given you a task that you just don't see from your point in the organization. It may be worth asking him/her about so you can better understand why you are doing those tasks, but that does not mean you should unilaterly decide they are busy work and stop doing it.

Of course that only addresses work. Outside of work you may have more control, but even there your actions likely impact others and this should be considered when cutting things out. A proverbial soccer-mom may easily free up 3 hours a week by removing her child from soccer, but this will certainly impact the child.
Link for confirming your account via phone:
http://www.facebook.com/confirmphone.php

Also, confirming your account allows you to use site features without having to enter CAPTCHAs and also allows you to upload High Quality video to the site.
There's a firefox plugin. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5392/ It has been a while since I last used it but it generally gave good indications.
That post needs some heavy duty clarification.
Excellent Radio Lab episode on this and other parasites: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2009/09/25
This blog post is short on details, but I assume he's referring to FB's change from a couple days ago that developers have to verify their accounts. And yes, I too had trouble with the SMS verification, but a) that hardly forces me to use FB payments, b) devs are a tiny fraction of their userbase, c) stuff for devs are broken all the time on FB, and d) never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
Perhaps if we redefine language to include data communications protocols, and the only difference is in how the protocols are interpreted by the receiving device, I can agree with you.
There is no real A/B testing for SEO, sorry. As you say, there is only one Google.

You can try to simulate a 'test' with two equal throwaway sites, but this will never give you the same insight as using it on a big site with real content and real visitors. But it can help you find problems in linking structures, tweak the (really small) benefits of using one or another html tag.

The success of SEO can't be isolated. But, increased crawling of the page and disproportionate visitor growth from Google are good signs.
Same, for a contact's number (I'm checking on their behalf). It shows up in the raw dump [1] but not this site.

[1] https://archive.is/MZqak
If anyone from AWS is reading this - is there any way we can get multiple devices for 2FA?
This is excellent. However much effort I've put in I've always found HTML or rather CSS impenetrable. When doing something a little more complex I will often end up with something that works (or breaks) without fully understanding why.

Are there any other good references that give a good underlying understanding of HTML/CSS without just giving examples of the various elements?
This is real cool stuff and was wondering how I missed this.

Do you need someone to write embedded tools? I am getting into FPGA for RISCV with the Arty board and was wondering if you need any help regarding this.