skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a short-term change that could be detrimental to a child's development (socially, academically, etc)?

Why should letting a child explore their gender identity be any more detrimental to their development than letting them explore their sexuality?

It'd be far worse to tell them to repress it and not let them come to understand themselves.
I always like to frame this kind of thing using the term "appropriateness."

We can imagine an amoeba having a rudimentary ability to detect whether its surroundings are hostile or not and employ an instinctual response to evade it. It's not much of a leap from there to say humans have a social instinct, and that our ability to evade hostility has become strongly correlated with our ability to identify behaviors that are appropriate in context.

And language is, in an abstract sense, just this: choosing appropriate actions. Maybe they're words. Maybe they're intonations. Or other social norms. Nobody learns 'just' language as a child, they learn a whole way of life. They learn "swearing is wrong," not simply "this is the proper syntax for swearing." And they feel its wrongness when they swear. You can't know what swear words mean if you can't feel that, and you probably won't be able to survive very well as a human if you can't determine what behavior is appropriate or not in your situation.
Both my experiences with startups were the same. Big egos, no management skills, mediocre technical skills. Immature brats who think they're hot because somebody gave them money and a foosball table. Pretty sure I'll never work for a startup again unless it's my own.

I worked for a startup in River North for a year or so. My manager (later VP) insisted we use his custom ORM. Fine. I needed to join two tables. I ran out of memory trying to process the result sets in memory. I needed a database join. Every morning's stand-up, same story "I'm blocked until the ORM implements joins. Want me to implement them?" "No, I don't want you touching that code." So him & his minion would pace around and scribble on a white board all day, then go out for drinks. Next morning, same thing. So after two weeks of surfing the web because I'm blocked on everything I'm supposed to be working on, I just write a SQL query with a join and finish my damn component. He sees my commit, makes everybody stop working while he chews me out in front of everyone for not using the ORM. "Does it do joins yet?" "No, BUT IT'S GOING TO!".

It's so much easier to berate your employees than have a solid architecture, use existing libraries, write unit tests, or have any sort of plan. Say you "move fast and break things" to the press, then scream at someone that "this isn't a game" when things break.

I'm a manager myself now, and I make it a point to have the kind of environment where failures become learning experiences and the first place I put blame is on our process. I've seen average developers become stars by being honest about how they screwed up, then sending them down the right path. But I'm in my late thirties now. My management style comes from studying leadership and almost two decades of development experience under good & bad managers. These startup managers were all in their mid-twenties. I wonder what training, what mentoring they had. I sometimes think they were just copying every stereotypical boss they saw on TV.
You say that like it's a bad thing.

Fact is: a great many parents DO want the Oath's inclusion of "a Scout is...clean and...reverent" to mean something in opposition to enforced normalizing of anal sex and atheism. If that means some will construe traditional American values and "non denominational" Christianity as "right wing evangelical" (expressed as a pejorative at that) then so be it.
> When the United States wielded power over corporations in the postwar era, our overarching goal was — with some notable exceptions — stability, peace, and prosperity. When China wields its power over foreign corporations, the ultimate goal is — always — command and control.

What a load of propagandistic garbage. Stability, peace, and prosperity for everyone the US government liked at the terrible, terrible expense of everyone else. It's insulting to my sensibilities. I honestly cannot figure out where to start in dismantling this pile of garbage.

How about all of the coups sponsored by the United States to remove threats to the hegemony of U.S. corporations? It's a fun exercise to count them.
Kudos to them for their 12 month sunset period, that's better than most shutdown announcements give their users...

(I suspect there are users who'll be disappointed with only 1 weeks notice of no longer being able to order new font licenses though...)
It's Not a Phone, It's a Galaxy. Samsung VR
Looks simple, but can this compare to the Hololens?
Yes, I am familiar with the general concept of wage slavery. How does it apply to software engineers without applying to...basically anyone whose main income is not investment?
A Gut Wound That Changed the History of Medicine
As long as you can read ISIS's Dabiq on line [1], censorship isn't working.

As long as you can read Stormfront's White Pride World Wide [2], censorship isn't working.

Facebook is not the Internet, even if Zuckerberg would like it to be.

[1] http://www.clarionproject.org/docs/islamic-state-isis-isil-d...
[2] https://www.stormfront.org
OpenBSD's leadership focuses on clean and correct code, not necessarily on security. Of course, that leads to security though.
We built a real SaaS company and you won't believe what happened next
This is what happens to your brain when you give up sugar
Thanks as always :)

Do you plan to add beamsearch?
“I was wearing my Spiderman costume,” Tom, now five, remembers.

I couldn't read past this. No... he doesn't remember that.
OMG. Definitely didn't think of that.
> <x apps installed, y location, z time of day>

This is exactly the kind of data that should not fly over the wire unless it's absolutely necessary, which in this case I believe it isn't.

I can't imagine what kind of machine learning they'd have to be using to make it not work on a phone. It doesn't take much computing power to do a decent predictor. I'm going to assume process laziness here - being used to the idea that if everything is running on your server, you can tweak stuff there and have it immediately working on everyone's (Internet-connected) endpoints. It makes sense for websites, but IMO it's a wrong approach for devices.
Cool hack. Another way to solve the mystery is to read the book: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Transfer-Protoc...
Even if you work for yourself, you're still working for someone else.

An employee has 1 boss. An entrepreneur has a thousand, a million, whatever the number is.

Working for cash means exchanging value with someone who gives you the cash.

The concept of wage slavery is a tad insulting to those stuck in real slavery.
No, because V8 has no interpreter (although they are working on one: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4280), only JIT, and JIT doesn't run inside asm.js.

asm.js-compiled JavaScript engine has been done already: https://github.com/jterrace/js.js.
I wonder if this modifications increased the brain volume, and if this was a motivation.
Perhaps you have missed the point of the article? It is not arguing that there haven't been great benefits to trade, nor is it arguing for strong protectionism.

Instead it is arguing that the strategy of easing up trade rules so US corps could go into China, which it was thought would ultimately tame China into becoming a more free and open society, has backfired both figuratively and literally (as was shown with US entertainment). China is now exerting political and cultural control over the US via its corporations, which at least from the perspective of the US, is not a desirable outcome.

You can argue that lots of jobs and economic prosperity has been created and this is a fair trade for some independence lost, but most of the benefits have gone to China rather than the US.
It appears they're only releasing the theory, that the implementation is up to us.

Which, given the time they've put into this paper, is not an unreasonable thing.

Edit: just noticed their email addresses are of the http://www.digitalreasoning.com/ domain. Seems they're not in the business of releasing open source versions, so to speak.

OS versions of similar tech exist, but this is new.
They are relevant to the comment I replied to. If you think that scientific progress is not a valid technique to improve the standing of one's nation or religion, then I think you've got it wrong.
"People are sick and tired of crappy software."

Hallelujah.
Censorship isn't about total, fool-proof access limits. It's about trivial inconveniences[0].

"The human longing for freedom of information is a terrible and wonderful thing. It delineates a pivotal difference between mental emancipation and slavery. It has launched protests, rebellions, and revolutions. Thousands have devoted their lives to it, thousands of others have even died for it. And it can be stopped dead in its tracks by requiring people to search for "how to set up proxy" before viewing their anti-government website."

As long as media won't talk about the topic, and the main avenues of discovery - Google, Facebook - won't show it to you, censorship works as intended: it removes a topic from the social conversation.

[0] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/f1/beware_trivial_inconveniences/
Your reasoning seems to be based entirely on the assumption that there "being a chemical component involved that acts on several neurotransmitter systems" translates to not being healthy. I am not sure that that follows.
Likewise when they start heading to Silicon Valley in droves... Last time around was 2000 -- 'nuff said.
I generally agree with you, though I don’t think “bodily integrity” is nebulous at all. I don’t only worry about the physical—I just didn’t mention the mental because the article is about body modification.
They also stop erosion, provide habitat for insects and animals and are pleasing to walk on.

I get having a lawn in a desert is a poor use of water, but for many houses and recreational areas, it's an excellent way to cover ground.
Why would you compare a decision on a favourite colour to an innate feeling surrounding identity? It feels like you didn't really think about this at all.
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Note that the OP said "COULD be detrimental" while you shoot from the hip with a definitive "It WOULD be far worse [otherwise]".

"Why should letting a child explore their gender identity be any more detrimental to their development than letting them explore their sexuality?"

Because some kids, sometimes, make stupid decisions. Also, what 3-year-old (from the original article) needs to "explore their sexuality"?
Gender is - or was - convenient. With binary genders you have a convenient model to categorize people into different groups, in the same way that you can categorize by age, skin color, language, homeland, or religion. Politically, categories are mostly used to drive up the "us vs. them" tension factor that unifies groups, and pushing for harder-edged definitions of gender and gender roles is a convenient way to politicize just about everything in a human life. Further, it naturally works out that your voting bloc floats at around 50% when you appeal to the gender binary, which helps sustain the division in a way that you can't get with things like "race" or "religion".

Of course, one of the truisms of data modelling is that it never captures 100% of the system, and it's guided by your expectations of what the system will look like. Our push to digitally model everything exaggerates all the points of breakage. In the same way that you end up with people whose legal name are flagged fake by Facebook, or reverse image searches that think black people are "gorillas", you end up with a lot of data points that are bad fits for a model of binary gender.

This is not a huge surprise when humans are equated with other mammals in all their variety. But we have the problem of being emotional, well-socialized, and biased first, and smart second. So we're probably just going to have an extremely long culture war to rethink this categorization, with specious arguments trotted out at every turn.
What problem does pf have after 1Gbit/s?
The response in the OpenBSD FAQ is that "We use a different mechanism to achieve similar results called Soft Updates. Please read FAQ 14 - Soft Updates to get more details."

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#Journaling

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#SoftUpdates
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"Normally" is the operative word.

I've seen output from compilers to JavaScript that convert huge switches into if cascades which are in fact quite deep: think tens to hundreds of thousands of cases converted to an if cascade.

Or put another way, not all programs are written by programmers.
But they also complain about paying a dollar for an app. They get exactly what they are willing to pay for.
Have you read Simple English?

'Turn' has many meanings because it has been used too often for reducing the number of words in sentences. You only have two choices when you want to do this: invent a new term (and totally confuse everyone) or use a related term (and let tome of the existing meaning bleed through.) Both of which make the language more complex.
Here is the answer -> They have received $35 millions in funding and... the story now looks "familiar". https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/everythingme#/entity
The article describes it as a shotgun wound. The original description by the doctor says it was a musket-shot wound[1]

[1] https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=H6F4_9joRkgC&pg=PA7#v=o...
"Over a decade later, he still has that same fussiness with fabrics. This tells me that some preferences are there from a very young age."

And my 5-year-old used to like raw lemons. This tells me some preferences change from a very young age. What is your point?
It's not just you. The JavaScript is doing something to mess with user initiated scrolling. It's also killing two-finger-left-swipe on my trackpad to go back. Disabling JavaScript makes the site work fine and doesn't seem to take away any obvious functionality.

This kind of thing is very annoying. If you want to present a completely new scrolling experience (like those sites where they are essentially a vertical slideshow and attempting to scroll changes the slide), that's one thing.

On those sites it is quickly apparent that scrolling does not work normally AND it is quickly apparent what the site is doing differently so I can quickly adapt.

Sites like this where the scrolling is just being tweaked instead of being replaced wholesale are much more annoying. Something is wrong but it is not immediately apparent just what is wrong.

Don't do this.
How about the tens of millions killed by the Red Chinese. You sir, do not make lot of sense here.
We don't need them. We have automated, or are in the process of automating most of traditional finance anyway. They can come here, but they won't find jobs unless they are willing to put in the time to learn and be competent technically.

I'm not holding my breath.
At least in terms of the US maintaining its power, that strategy was apparently more effective than the current strategy now.
This is one of my favorite topics because I have cause for hope.

The story of internet centralization is one of network effects. Even though the internet connects every computer on the planet directly, finding people to interact in the ways we want is difficult. We post things to Facebook and Twitter because that's where our friends and like-minded strangers are actually looking for things.

To fight this, we tried federation. We tried building social systems that allowed people to choose their own provider but participate in the same network, but federation hasn't worked since email. If you take a long look at email, you'll see why: federated systems can't keep up with the pace of evolution that we see in successful social systems. The design-test-iterate loop that design thinkers use to build products people want doesn't work when the rest of the federated providers don't keep up, and they never do.

Where federation failed, I believe decentralization will succeed. There is an honest-to-god renaissance happening right now in decentralized systems, and the tools to continue the internet dream are reaching maturity. Core to this renaissance is our new ability to use blockchains to establish universal cryptographic identities with no intermediary—no federated server to hold back the tide of progress. When you want new features, you don't switch servers, you switch clients. They all speak the same peer-to-peer protocol using the same portable, blockchain-based identities. This has a very useful side-effect: systems that don't rely on servers never shut down as long as people keep using them. Decentralized systems are forces of nature.

This combination makes network effects a public good. Second place companies in network effect industries today have their own private networks that just aren't as useful. It is in their best interest to make their networks as large as possible, and treating the decentralized network as part or all of their network achieves that. It creates a network used by all the competitors who aren't in first place, even as those competitors die off. I think the immortal network used by competitors will over time become as large as the front-runner's. At equal size, the open network is more valuable than the closed one—the open one can be built wholesale into any other product that benefits from it. If you want, you can use a ride-hailing app that uses your social network connections to share rides with friends of friends instead of complete strangers, and anyone can build that app when the ride-hailing and social networks are decentralized.

When our industry gets great at creating decentralized application protocols, it will no longer be feasible to build a business on privately controlled network effects. It's not a defensible business anymore. Users will be able to choose which clients they use instead of being forced to sacrifice their data to a company to benefit from its network.

The internet dream is back, y'all. If you want to help rebuild it, come join the folks using Ethereum, IPFS, and related protocols to build networks we can't control.
To get "more and more" you have to have a weed that triggers a partial response from the machine.

This works with a chemical - i.e. an accidental low dose, but I don't see how that would happen with this machine.

If, you had a weed that was so close to the crop it was only sometimes recognized then yes, but weeds mostly look nothing at all like the crop.
But also, there aren't many 30 dollars apps worth buying! It's a weird deadlock. Most app are either crap and free with ads, crap and "free" w/ in-app payments, crap and for $1 or crap and terribly overpriced. For some weird reason, there's little of good development going on.
No one is automating M&A work. It'd probably take something close to strong AI to do that.
My point is don't worry about "bodily integrity", worry "are they doing good, bad, or neutral".

Obviously we would see squishing a head as bad, but there are other modifications that are not so cut and dry.

> I find infant circumcision little different from head-binding or foot-binding

Why? Using my principle, circumcision is neutral, it does no harm, and has a slight benefit. But foot-binding does clear harm. How do you justify considering them the same?
I think the article is quite aware of that over analysis - and even mentions that a high amount have been found in some studies to not transition in later life. I guess the question is, what are we more willing to risk? Is it worth risking higher rates of suicide and self harm versus, at least in the case of blockers, a delayed puberty?

Should people get tattoos if they are confident now that they should?
The problem is that the standard American house is modeled after a farmhouse or country house, despite the fact that we all live in cities.

Townhouses don't have lawns:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse
And they're excellent building blocks of walkable neighborhoods.
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes

The number one feature we see people get out of containers (as we did at Google) is flexibility. Bin packing and (some) isolation is important and valuable, but the vast majority is just being able to throw 25k containers at a system (Borg for internal work, now Kubernetes externally) and just say "Go run this somewhere." The system figures it out for you - and you never have to deal with server config. Then if you need to move to a new data center - presto, happens in seconds.
I've been thinking lately that our brains might have evolved for communication using language. The fact that they can also do philosophy, math, science and engineering is just an unintended (yet fortunate) consequence of having enough capability to handle language.

Learning a foreign language can be as challenging as learning to program or building a software system. It takes a lot of dedication and practice. Involves using a lot of memory and pattern recognition, and all the "intellectual" capacities that are needed to handle a large engineering project.
We will be seeing more of this kind of stuff as the world gets more complicated. Obviously, there are not enough people who know how to troubleshoot computer networks, debug poorly written legacy code and simply maintain the complex realtime systems that are used to automate buildings, boats and planes. I can imagine pilots will continue to be required on planes for this reason even though planes largely can fly themselves. Same thing with reading topo maps - a skill that all infantry will continue to need even though they have gps. In a sense, this is insurance needed to protect us from "the ghosts of Luddites'.
You would have only transitioned after lots (maybe years) of sessions with doctors and therapists where they would have made sure that it's really what you need.

As the article mentions, the biggest change right now is delaying puberty for some kids so that if they _are_ trans, they get the chance to transition more easily later in life.

Regardless, I'm glad that you're happy with your body.
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes

Portability, as you mentioned, is huge - but beyond that there is also binpacking benefits. You can basically cut your serving costs by 50% or more by using lots of single process containers instead of poorly utilized VMs.
it's not really a downgrade though, because it used to throw a yellow exclamation warning about not being secure which was problematic.
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes

I'd love to hear more - anything in particular that doesn't feel like a fit?
A dozen top financial people from Wall St. have taken up financial jobs in Silicon Valley, and this is news?
Scientists create quantum entanglement at room temperature