skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They want to make abortion illegal, a major point of most GOP platforms. So I guess they do believe they have the authority to have a certain amount of control of women's bodies. Certainly it is also a simple view to assume just because something is legal, there is no aspect of control. Funding, access, privacy, there are tons things to consider outside of just if it is legal.

I never said GOP = patriarchy. Just that there is a "systematic, coordinated campaign against women's reproductive rights" and that certainly isn't a fringe statement. This campaign is indicative of one of the OP's definitions: "interwoven social structures that promulgate certain ideologies, doctrines, and social customs."
> Right, but this is another sexist positive

Also, I don't get why pointing out and celebrating the differences in genders (i.e. being sexist) is inherently bad.

My wife is pregnant, and it's super apparent that if Men were the ones that had babies, there would be no humans left, because as soon as the first guy popped out a kid, they would tell the others how terrible it was, and we'd figure out some way to make babies without having carry them inside us.

I get that pregnancy, partum and post-partum creates some sort of dream haze, so that women seem to forget the trauma of pregnancy & child birth. It seems pretty common that despite the "discomfort" regarding pregnancy and newborn care, women fantasize and choose to have multiple children, even those who had "rough" pregnancies.
Dask: Python parallel computing through task scheduling and blocked algorithms
Perhaps, but I also see it as a visualization of a future where the masses cannot afford a nice home, and spend the majority of their time in a VR world where they can imagine they live in a nice home.
Looks like a good set of changes.

A question for the more switched-on among us: has there been any word on when Swift 2 will be open-sourced?
Dude, it's been 41 years since the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which guaranteed that women could have equal access to credit cards in the US. My mom would not have been admitted to Caltech when she applied for colleges because of her gender, no matter how much money she or her family would have had. My mom is not that old. I appreciate the attempt to bring class consciousness to the discussion but just 41 years ago restricted access to basic banking and (non-basic) higher education was based on your genitals and your skin color, as well as how much money you had.
>It is usually the vagina that men are after, not the womb.

This is true, but until recently("recent" in evolutionary time), the two were one and the same as far as cause and effect went.
Thanks for writing this!

> [..] It handles hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections [..]

Is it a single process application, or you use a few OS processes behind some load balancer?
Come on, EFF, please develop an ad blocker
You can take a look at one of the possible reasons in a short piece I wrote about Facebook Paper, and especially screenshots :-)

http://www.koszek.com/blog/2015/09/08/copyright-screen-of-fa...
pvg pointed[0] me to Safari Blocker[1] which had some issues at first (I got a couple freezes when I installed it) but since then has worked well. It is free and allows you to make your own filters as well.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10232639

[1]: Safari Blocker by Luke Li
https://appsto.re/us/Y5pt8.i
This assumes no advances in medicine though...correct?
it reminds me of Aech's basement chatroom from Ready player one
I assume this would simply be a dark empty room.
>The same also applies, by the way, to Windows and also to Linux if you trust remote code repositories

Curiously, Google/Android has developers sign the app, and that exact signed package is what's distributed, so at least the app developer can verify that the distributed app is identical to the one shipped to the store.

On the other hand, Amazon/Android signs apps with their own keys, so they suffer from the same issue as Apple.
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Based on his response[1] to a question here 220 days ago, sounds like it does require an internet connection...

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9055330
Leadership change is the fundamental basis of our societies, from the central tenets of democracy, to the structure of our economies where positions of responsibility require competence, at the risk of rapid replacement. It is, on the contrary, very productive to make a case in a public forum (this one) for an ineffective leadership to be changed, if it will help to alter the course of an endeavour which has lost its way, an endeavour, by the way, on which millions of programmers' livelihoods depend.

With due and high respect for the people who work hard on Python, I am happy to contribute, but I am not happy serving the leadership of the project as it currently stands. Python 3.x is a net value-destroying proposition, but the current leadership has spent so much energy exhorting the community to move, without success, that it has no choice now than to stand down.
I know it's not exactly what you're asking for (it's non-mobile and it's not exactly an ad blocker), but this seems like a good opportunity to plug the EFF's Privacy Badger.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Most women need to stop asking for a certain position at work. Instead ask about what is the work that is available to do.
Lets get this straight there is no such thing as equality. Men and women are different. There are things women cannot do that men can do and vice versa. If you think this is wrong then why there are not many women lifting rocks/manual work at a construction site or just construction work in general compared to men. And when it comes to software companies I've been through 10 different startups and big companies and I haven't seen many woman (almost zero) fixing code late nights when there are production issues that are crucial for business or just any important issue for that matter even though I have seen significant women engineers at certain companies. And some women do agree that they need some man to do that kind of Job. I don't think companies are stupid enough to give them a higher position because they are women. When women talk about a position or a salary raise ask them to justify the work. And if they do it "hell yes" pay the equal salary.
Does anyone know if it's worth switching back from uBlock for?
I'm glad I was not the only one wondering at the value of this. It struck me as a lot of very impressive technical effort to achieve something nearly as good as I can achieve by propping a $200 Android tablet on my knee. And well under what I get with the projector on my coffee table.

And I think "novelty" is the magic word here. Stereoscopic 3D has had several waves of popular enthusiasm, including 1850s stereoscopes, the ViewMaster in the 1940s, 3D movies in the 1950s, VR in the 1990s, and 3D movies again recently. Every time it has been an amazing thing that will change the world right up until the time the bubble pops and it is recognized as a cute novelty.

It'll be very interesting to see if this wave makes it past the novelty stage. But so far I've seen nothing to make me think it will.
[PDF is a bitmap scan, I transcribed a couple of phrases that interested me.]

"""

Across the map of Europe, only two regions even approach the ideal of a centralized nation state united in language, religion and collective cultural identity: France and Portugal. With regard to France, however, it is questionable whether the unity of elite and national culture truly held. [...]

In short, a tour of Europe ca. 1700 reveals only one society that is oriented to a national centralized state, harmonized culturally and linguistically with its people, and that is Portugal (although even that somewhat diluted by the size and wealth of its Brazilian colony). [...]

"""
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Slavery still exists though, even though it is illegal (not saying anything about western patriarchy).
Contrast watching Netflix by holding a tablet in front of your face for 2 hours. Tends to get awkward, tedious, even painful, and limited to wherever you can prop it up sort of comfortably.

Having tried it, nicer to have the screen attached to your head. At least until the doorbell rings.
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I don't understand what you mean by "biologically inherent" - I never claimed that biology forces us to react in such and such a way to mothers.

The only thing you need to assume to understand the modern situation of men vs women is that women can give birth and men can't. That is a purely functional thing, no "biological programming" necessary. I am not making any claims about biological programming.

Are you saying plausibly women could be seized by the government and distributed to men to create children? I think this actually happens in some societies/cults, or it even was the norm in the past (and in the third world, where arranged marriages are the norm). But we are talking about western society here.

Still, it might not be that easy to distribute wombs - women can perhaps secretly abort pregnancies or use contraceptives, or make themselves infertile.

Again, if you have witnessed your wife giving birth, I think the idea to take the children away from her becomes quite absurd. There is a reason it is usually not randomly determined who gets to stay home to look after the offspring. (Historically presumably other factors, too, such as pregnant women and women after birth not being able to do hard manual work which was necessary for survival - so the division of work was a no-brainer).
Starfish DCS demo of UI: A different way to view HN conversations
> ...makes me wonder about the future, since the trend for pretty much every category of device is towards "cheaper/integrated products". You mention that some SoCs blur the lines already.

Yes, that's a legitimate concern, but there's a small consolation that this is a problem only for existing SoC architectures doing 5GHz. The new regs don't rule out new SoC architectures which would implement the enforced separation in silicon somehow. Although you're still stuck not having access to modular transmitter rules but that was the case already.

> To make sure I understand, this would be an incentive for mobile phone manufacturers (for example) to continue to have separate radio firmware, even if they move to cheaper SoC designs, correct?

Indeed, although I have oversimplified somewhat - some basebands do run on the same CPU as the OS, but something resembling a secure hypervisor (with secured boot, among other things) is used to enforce isolation between the baseband and OS (see OKL4).
First, almost all open source software runs on Microsoft Windows. As such, it provides and curates the biggest market for open source PC software, and I'd guess that Windows generates the majority of the money earned by the developers of open source applications (ie not the OS).

You can see that in action at Steam, which is fuelled by Windows users (over 90% of the user base), and from which Linux gamers (less than 1%) derive huge benefits.

Second, Microsoft created a compatible x86-based PC market, which created high volume sales, which drove down prices. This is exactly the market on which and for which Linux was originally developed. The people who run free software have saved far more money through Microsoft-driven economies of scale than they would ever have paid for Windows.

Third, Microsoft is a major contributor to open source, including the Linux kernel, and it has a large number of projects on both Github and Codeplex. Sure, it's self-interested, but it's no more self-interested than IBM, Google, Red Hat, and dozens of other companies that make money from software.

Why do you think Microsoft is the enemy? (I'm old enough to remember when Microsoft was a spunky young bunch of freedom fighters, pioneering desktop Unix, among other things.)
* Software Engineering Radio

* Hanselminutes

* The Changelog

* Talk Python to Me

* PBS NewsHour
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Are you suggesting those people will literally forget they are living in the real world? I don't see this happening, since they will have to occasionally take the headset off to work, eat, use toilet.

What they will do is ignore the state they live in, and that is already happening today, mostly along with prescription pills, hard drugs and video games. This is what VR is capable of doing, nothing worst that we already have. Therefore VR is not a concern by itself.
Really? Numbers please. Btw I read an interesting thought on that from Nassim Taleb: that this was one of the greatest achievement of the church to give almost everybody access to a womb (by enforcing monogamy), thereby eliminating a lot of cause for conflict. In some societies rich/powerful men can have several women, and accordingly the poorer men get none.
Genetics apparently also show that historically it was twice as likely for women to procreate as for men (meaning most of the time a lot of men never had kids, but most women had kids).
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I was hoping it would say what their dev stack is.
SuperChief: From Apache Storm to In-House Distributed Stream Processing
How is this significantly different from shipping java/dalvik/whatever bytecode?
Yeah, I was reading this and thinking "This seems reasonable", until I saw Taboola mentioned. Taboola and "One weird trick" ads are the primary reason I want to run an ad blocker in the first place.
If you're referring to SQLa Core, it's still SQL. The AST is the same, but by building the SQL AST explicitly you prevent injection and get a degree of composability (with subqueries). IMHO it's the more maintainable way of writing SQL.
Google has way more applications than just Gmail and YouTube.

Basically, if someone breaks into Gmail, you're already in deep trouble. You're not significantly better off because they didn't break into Hangouts. Same in the other direction. So you can run those on the same hardware.

If you think YouTube is less sensitive than Gmail (I don't know if Google actually does), you can separate those, sure. But there are enough applications that are no worse to break into than YouTube, like Photos. You can run those on the same hardware.

At Google's scale it's not too hard to say, this is the stuff we're ridiculously paranoid about and this is everything else, and get 80% CPU utilization on both infrastructures.
I would really love to be able to watch a movie and look around the scene. Even if the camera was at a stationary point.

Imagine watching Batman while perched up on a ledge in Gotham... when the Joker comes flying down the street to the right and you look right to watch, while someone else viewing the movie looks left to see Batman flying down.

Awesome.
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Very interesting. I assume that he is doing that in order to collect up-to-date search result data. Or is he actually attempting to manipulate search results (or AdWords ratings) in some way?
I'd consider the original comment a positive contribution. Just because it can be seen as having a negative tone, this one of caution, it is backed up with a heft of substance explaining the thought process behind it. It also resulted in another informative response from the founder. That's a good thing we should encourage.

A negative comment is one that doesn't contribute anything. A negative generalization about a community that doesn't provide an explanation could be seen as an example of a negative comment.
The last place I worked at I had to take a lot of calls, mostly pointless, internally. I also got a huge amount of emails about things like the dishwasher not being emptied or the state of the kitchen in another office, and mixed in with that would be the occasional email from someone who would be very annoyed if I didn't reply, even to just acknowledge that I'd seen their email.

The current place at is a lot smaller and more chilled out and it seems to really make a difference. I don't have a phone because everyone I would talk to is in the same room with me, and I've received 6 emails so far this year for the same reason. Anything work related goes into chat so we can check back on it later, things that are more permanent go in jira/confluence, and that's that.

The amount extra work I get done is insane. I could probably do 2 hours at this job to every 8 at the last place.
On one hand I want it to succeed because it seems kinda cool, on the other hand it could be another Google Glass. At least you tend not to wear these in public, so it's got that advantage.
The line that stood out for me from the article:

All through the night -- and let me emphasize
that you just can't make this stuff up -- the
coral seems to have exuded some sort of
creeping death mist.

O_O

Please, someone, tell me that the author is exaggerating at least a little...
Actually, some of those features are still buggy when operating to Obj-C land :)

//Warning if you don't use let :-)
let array = NSMutableArray(capacity: 50)
array.addObject(notification)

I am aware that the let essentially means I can't reassign the variable, and does not have anything to do with the mutability of the class. Since it's a class and not a struct.

However, what I am saying is that Apple needs to somehow add the keywords to the container classes imported from Cocoa, this is manually I guess.

I wonder if adding a mutating keyword on the declaration would help

public mutable func addObject(anObject: AnyObject) mutable

That way that should throw a warning on a let usage.
But that keyword only exists on Swift.
They would have to go through all of them like they did with nullable keyword.

If you're wondering why I am using CFArray -> performance.
Structs are pretty slow since you'd have to copy it from the dictionary to mutate and then insert into the dictionary again.

Though, those numbers were with Swift 1. Will try with Swift 2 again, but given the nature of immutability, I suspect it will still be slower.

Now that I think about it. I might make my own generic structs that uses NSArray/NSDictionary internally. Though I wonder if you can pass structs by reference instead of copy, that would be more useful.
an adversary could find a vulnerability in the LLVM backend to obtain remote code execution on Apple’s Bitcode compilation infrastructure to inject a compiler trojan that would affect every single app on the App Store that was submitted with Bitcode

I'm not clear on how Bitcode changes this, apart from expanding the already huge attack surface of the app store. Code execution inside app store servers is already game over for end-user privacy, isn't it?

The bit about how Bitcode makes backdoor injection harder is also very hand-wavy, since backdoor injection into fully compiled binaries is a teenaged pastime going back to the late 1980s. About the most you can say here is that Bitcode makes a trivial task trivial-er.

The concern about introducing side-channels into crypto apps seems legitimate (though: if you believe this is a real issue, and I do too, you're also saying "I will never trust Javascript cryptography"). I wouldn't want Signal submitting Bitcode.
Just procreating once or twice is enough to already cost you several years of your career. And as you say it's expensive - for two children, you can already get a house, a car, nice clothes and regular yoga sessions.

Also yes you can bargain away your sexual attractiveness, but sexual attractiveness of women only exists because of wombs. Think a bit more general.
Given that the title of the project is called Shiny, I wish it had some screenshots of the look and feel of the web-based UI. Seems like that could be a selling point.
$954 shipping cost to UK. Isn't it a bit high?

Also UK regulations says I need to be supervised to use a class 4 laser since I can point it to somewhere I shouldn't. I wonder if that's still valid for an enclosed product.
Uber's website is down?
The op said "cabal of men". The GOP is presumably 50/50 male/female.

You're really stretching the original comment to try to make it less extreme.
Do you have any documentation on this? It's something I've been interested in setting up.
App hopes to bring back neighbourly traditions with task sharing
There is nothing that the LLVM ARM backend is going to emit that Apple, or most security consultancies, can't trivially reverse engineer.
The problem is that most techies who move up to management don't have Carmack's brain. This guy is a machine! For a normal person, it is almost impossible to get a workload done that's comparable to Carmack's.
Yeah, the UNIX-Haters(tm) view of Docker is something like, this is what you get when you give up on static linking, give up on a UNIX spec, and make the mistake of telling people that chroots exist. We could have avoided all of this, and normal application deployment would have just worked with all the benefits Docker gives.
Your example is trivially parallelized with some decorators from the dask library.

Example here: http://dask.pydata.org/en/latest/imperative.html
Re poverty: The last statistics I saw, about half of American children are growing up in poverty. The divorce rate is also around 50%. I know a lot more stats than that, but I am time pressured today.

I am well aware that nature makes sex desirable in order to encourage procreation. As you said, "that's nature's trick." That doesn't mean men actually desire to procreate. From what I have seen, a lot of men want fun without consequences and children are consequences many of them have no desire to deal with.

Suffice it to say, I don't agree with you. But you already knew that.
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This is not necessarily bad by default. There do exist inherently good things that do not have public support or the support is muted until there is a crisis. For those items, a crisis is an opportunity to come out ahead at least as it relates to those good things which now have support.
> Obviously all other avenues of resolution have been exhausted.

could you elaborate? it's not clear to me what other avenues of resolution were attempted.
As a consumer I can relate to this. I subscribe to many monthly magazines including GQ and Esquire. I enjoy the publication as it is meant to be viewed, ads and all. Of course, now they're piled up and so I want to switch to digital. Sounds like a great solution.

GQ has a digital app or I can use iOS news stand. This was not a great experience as each issue took at least 20 minutes to download a gig of content. Of course, once the content is there the experience is rich and fantastic.

Based off my experiences, I really think a mobile web experience is best for reading magazines. Only the page I'm interested in would load and I shouldn't have to take up a whole gig of precious space to read an issue.

Just my two cents.
As someone who runs an Epilog laser and had never come across this — Thank You!

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I don't remember offhand when her air group size increased. I think it was after this point in the war, though. She got Avengers and Martlets in December of 1942, but I don't think the size of the air group was increased at that point.
I can honestly say it is not even close: access to health care via ACA saves more lives every year than the population of Gitmo by nearly two orders of magnitude.[1]

And it's not clear at all that Obama could have successfully closed Gitmo even had it been a higher priority of his. It is clear that he immediately ended interrogative torture [2] and made efforts to close it. There's still force feeding but that's also an issue in us prisons so closing gitmo and sending the detainees to other prisons is not necessarily solving anything there.

[1] one early study here: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-obamacare-w...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13491
Why would a making a wallet require "half a cow" ?

Is making a leather wallet as nearly-impossible as he claims? http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-leather-wallet...

The video feels like infomercial schtick.