skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two of my roommates are non-gendered (they don't identify as either gender), and use the pronouns they/them instead of she/he or his/hers. At first it was really difficult to not misgender them and I would often use the pronouns that describe their sex designation. However, now that I have gotten used to it, it has opened up a whole new way of interacting with and categorizing people. Some interesting instances are when I try to make a joke about some attribute that is usually attributed to a certain sex (e.g. males are more into video games), I have to break down the link that I have made between a trait and a gender identity, and actually figure out what the actual connection is too. Turns out it's usually independent of gender expression and actually some more specific trait.

Of course, this is just one specific category that we have to taught to recognize. I think it is incredibly valuable when dealing with humans to be able to unlearn the generalizations that we have been brought up to understand intuitively, and learn to treat people independently of the characterizations that society has incedentally bestowed on them.

There are other instances where language affects how people spend money[1], or how characterizing argument with war metaphors causes it to be more combative [citation lost to memory]. My partner is a linguist and is always talking to me about how much the language we use affects the way we think about things. It's fascinating, and its power is something we all should be made aware of.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/keith_chen_could_your_language_affe...
I'll stick my neck out on this and say, the author is right and these are the people who are ruining Silicon Valley. Take a look around at the big named "innovators" and you'll notice that they're really "iterators". People building a "business" around a small, incremental improvement in an previously existing process. I refer to this as the HFT, hedgefund incremental approach. Let's pick up nickels in front of bulldozers while the getting is good(1). Get enough money before the bulldozer hits you. This seems like the premise behind AirBnB, Uber, Square, and every other unicorn. Can't wait 3 minutes to order your food at the cafe? Billion dollar business! Can't wait 4 minutes and chat with your companion while you wait for your dinner check to arrive? Billion dollar business! Creating electricity from small, safe, pollution-free hydrogen power cells? Eh, maybe a few hundred milli tops. Not worth it.

It's this kind of quick buck thinking around simple, non-inventive iterations on existing models that are actually killing the Valley. The Valley should be for big ideas and wild bets. Not bets on people to do your laundry for you.

These Wall Street/finance people need to pack up and go back east.

(1) This was the idea behind Long Term Capital Management (LTCM). We all know how well that worked out.
I completely agree and want these features, but I think Bethesda is faced with the issue of overcomplicating the UI for a more mainstream audience which they're obviously hoping to attract. The UI is probably already completely overwhelming for a lot of mainstream users. At some point, I'm sure adding more options, buttons, commands, and screens might make a lot of people really uncomfortable.

Obviously though there's a balancing act at play. The flip side to not having these features is that some of the inventory management stuff is a bit inconvenient and boring and cumbersome. But people tolerate that to an extent if the rest of the experience is worthwhile.
I never play with tor node.
Big data learning. They're (probably) inferring how you do stuff based also on how other people do. In fact, there's no way to recommend apps not already installed on your phone without consulting a server.
I love it! This is going to be my goto library for lightweight ui from now on. https://github.com/marksteve/todo-simulacra
Why are people investing in Social Media Advertising blindly?
Remember at the beginning of Internet Advertising, when we were buying tons of CPM banners and never knew where our money went? Then the CPC came, and said it was better. At last Performance arrived, and we could finally really know our ROI.

Well, when talking about Instagram and Social Media in general, we are back to the stone age – marketing speaking. Companies and Marketing Managers are paying Social Media Stars basing their fees on the number of followers (the CPM of Social Networks) without having a real metric able to measure the engagement of the stars’ audience. Yes, you can monitor your organic traffic growth. Yes, you can check if you got any more sales. But can you do anything before running the campaign?

Through daily monitoring most of the Instagram accounts out there, at Popular Chips we created advanced metrics like FPL and FPC (how many followers are required to generate a like or a Comment) and two quality scores, by which we rank Instagram influencers.

The Overall Score (or Absolute Score) indicates how wide the audience of the stars is and the level of this audience’s engagement. This means that we are looking at a combination of how many followers they have, how many comments and likes they receive. There is no surprise that the top positions of this ranking are real-life celebrities like Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift and Kendall Jenner.

The Relative Score indicates how strong the bond between social influencers and their audience is, independently of the audience’s size. This gives you an idea of the audience’s quality. In this case, minor celebrities run the show; as we could expect, bigger celebrities have weaker bonds with their audience than smaller influencers.

Have a look for example at the top Instagram stars:
http://popularchips.com/top-instagram-influencers

Kinda different from just thinking about followers, right?

What you think? Useful or not?
pkg_add jdk? 1.8 is available.
The worrisome thing here is that batman outfits and swords are used as proof of the "boy" identity and pink princess stuff as proof of the "girl" identity. This is complete crap - gender roles are not dictated by which aisle of Toys 'R' Us you favor.

I am willing to grant that the children profiled in the article aren't just in it for the toys, but the author is encouraging this perception, and I have seen more than a couple Bay Area parents buying into this, and rushing to call their kid gender-fluid as soon as they put on a dress.
The logo draws its origins from mathematics :)
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Implies.html
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes

Yep - and the ability to run just one per node is coming "soon" (ideally by next milestone). It's something we wanted to get in, but just didn't have the time by 1.1.

My #1 recommendation is to do whatever you do today. If you mount an NFS mount into your VM to store your MySQL data, that's what you should do again. The speed at restarting a pod is very low - but you do need to do the (small) hack today if you want to be absolutely sure you don't have multiple pods with on the same node.

To be clear, the ugly-ness is one line in your config file:

nodePort: <some arbitrary number >1024 & <65536>
For a layman's introduction to how (pardon the hyperbole) soul-crushingly difficult this problem is, have a look at this amateur attempt to process language inputted by players into a video game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff6V1yFafW4
Can't harp on fundamentals enough. The thing to realize is that everything you do in an automated fashion can also be done manually. If you haven't worked out how to do it manually, then when your automated solution fails to work, it's going to be much easier to troubleshoot if you know the basics.

Hence why I prefer things like OOCSS over Bootstrap, Capistrano over Docker. Bootstrap forces your markup to conform to your framework, drowning you in incoherent class names that are going to flee your mind the second you have to remember why you put them there. OOCSS makes you treat your markup and CSS holistically, so that when it comes time to troubleshoot a browser bug, you can easily apprehend what your markup was supposed to do and why you did it that way.

Docker automates things that don't really need to be automated, unless you've got the kind of problem that really could make use of Docker's abstractions. People think they need Docker when they don't, then get surprised when Docker doesn't magically solve the problem they were hoping it would solve.

Make things work in the simple case, and then iterate towards the complex. If you ignore this, then you will eventually find yourself in the situation where you have a deadline to meet that you simply won't be able to meet because you're writing technical checks that your skills won't be able to cash.
> are those types of models the only finite universe models currently considered?

Yes.

> What about just bog standard "surface of a circle", aka. space in a sphere?

Such a model would not be spatially homogeneous or isotropic; the "radial" direction (toward or away from the center of the sphere) would be different from the tangential directions. But all of our observations indicate that our universe is spatially homogeneous and isotropic.
Spain is a net exporter of electricity; its net exports were 3406 GWh in 2014 (vs. total consumption of 243,530 GWh). It imported 5963 GWh from France and sent 2395 GWh back; For Portugal it was 6345 GWh imported vs. 7247 exported, and there was an exportation of 5839 GWh to Morroco (vs. 3 GWh of importation).

Exports and Imports vary depending on the season. From January to April, when the most hydro power is produced, Spain is a net exporter to France and a net importer from Portugal. The rest of the year, the balance is mostly reversed. The export to Morroco is roughly stable all year.

In 2014, Spain's nuclear power plants produced 57,376 GWh. Assuming all energy imported from France (5963 GWh) was from nuclear plants, that would add 10.4% to nuclear-source electricity, for a total of 63,339 GWh, or 26% of consumption (vs. 23.6% if you don't count French imports).

Edit: source for all that: http://www.ree.es/es/publicaciones/sistema-electrico-espanol...
Like pretty much every question asked on hn the answer is "it depends".

At what point do you consider p/m fit achieved?

How many developers are working on the software?

What makes you think features are important?

How mature is your market?

What's your value proposition? Etc etc etc.

If you are entering an established market then code-quality can be your biggest competitive advantage.
Paul Graham says this often, and I am paraphrasing here:

They did a study at harvard, and they figured out that MBA's flock to the wrong industry right before it dies. It was bonds, equities and then silicon valley in the 90s.

It was an interesting anecdote which I have heard often, but now am certainly curious enough to try and dig up that article/study.

edit: The author seems like an accomplished person, and I don't want to paint in the tech v. finance differences, but to highlight what camp she is from, take a look at the first sentence describing Mor Assia:

Mor advised Israel’s global telecommunications billing giant, Amdocs, to choose the right verticals for diversification in their technology acquisitions and launched offerings like Billing for Dynamic Pricing to create new growth opportunities.[0]

I mean, sure, I parse JSON data to codify the new web standard leveraging agile tooling like visual basic to fast-follow with a GUI interface which is deployed into our cloud based infrastructure to track the IP address, but I wouldn't write that down in the 2nd sentence of my biography.

[0]https://www.iangels.co/team/mor-assia/

edit: I can not find the video clip. My memory is that the study was done by Harvard Business School, and it found that MBAs were categorically picking the wrong industry. The examples cited by the speaker, I am 90+% confident it was pg restating it, were going to wall street to trade bonds with Michael Milliken right before he went to jail, Silicon Valley right before the bubble burst and one other which I would guess to be real estate or M & A post KKR, but that is just complete conjecture. Don't take my word for it, and I don't want to misquote PG quoting some study, but I am fairly confident for what it is worth.
Believe it or not, people actually travel half the world to experience genuine eating out.
Example: Argentinean steaks.

Anyway, you can fit a lot of diverse restaurants into 5 miles radius. The mainstream music selection is much narrower.
> The concept of wage slavery is a tad insulting to those stuck in real slavery.

Most of the talk around "wage slavery" is about people who're going to spend the rest of their lives working hard for all their day on stuff that they don't like, for so little money that it barely allows them to stay fed and healthy. It's a different thing that the "real slavery"[0], but there are some important similarities - namely, people using up their whole lives to enrich somewhere else, with no capacity to opt out.

The reason it's being brought up so often now is that in the past, "wage slavery" seemed a necessary component of survival of a society. People simply had to work. But today the necessary work is increasingly being automated, while we compensate with inventing new make-believe jobs living in closed loops that together have no useful output. So it's about time we should start aiming for freeing people from the need to work.

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I agree though that saying programmers are wage slaves is... weird. I suspect 'obrero meant something about lack of agency - as a programmer, you're to implement whatever stupid shit your boss envisions, and you have no say about it, even if it damages the environment you're working in. We may be getting paid more than a janitor, but that doesn't mean we have anything more to say about company's business than a janitor does.

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[0] - by "real slavery" we mostly think about a particularly brutal and dehumanizing enslavement of plantation workers in the United States; slavery in the past was often not unlike employment today.
Hi Evan, the user groups (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/druid-user) are very active and if you post your issue there, I"m sure someone could help.
Expose Services on Private Networks to Public Internet
Sex/gender together cover, as I see it, three main areas; all of which are complicated, but misery of which haven't been recognized as such (or even recognized at all) until fairly recently.

The first is biological (usually called "sex"), chromosomes and various traits. This is often percieved as being strictly binary, but it's not: the genetic traits and other features typical of one sex or the other don't always spread together, and often the most superficially obvious ones don't match the ones that have broader impact. So that's complicated in ways that are often not recognized.

Then there is socially ascribed roles (this is ones of the things usually labeled "gender"); these are the expectations put on someone by society related to masculinity or femininity.

The there is one's own perception of one's own masculinity or femininity (this is sometimes also referred to as "gender", but often, and more clearly, "gender identity").

This is complicated, because it shaped by lots of things, including social gender stereotypes, and whether they align our conflict with ones current socially ascribed gender.
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We _LOVE_ what Helm is doing, and are actively helping. Please dive in! :)
> Think 100 zaps a second.

At very low power, not enough power to kill a plant that has lots of water in it.
Sounds like the economic hitman (a book by some US dude who went around the world lending money to countries in order to do the same sort of thing you're describing)
'Spying' on Islamic State instead of hacking them
There are so many things to know nowadays.
Backend: Sql, NoSql, NewSql, etc.
Middlware: Django, NodeJs, Spring, Groovy, RoR, Symfony, etc.
Client: Angular, Ember, React, Jquery, etc.
I haven't even mentioned hardware, security, servers/cloud, and api.

Now you also need to know about theory, UI/UX, git, deploying servers, HTTP, scrum, software development process, testing.

Then you have to keep up to date with all of the trends and know which framework to use in which scenario.

So, I wrote all of that in a minute. You can just imagine how frustrating it is to learn all of that and be expected not to look at any help or reference. You have to be crazy to have expectations that high in expecting programmers not to use stack overflow.

You burn soo much cognitive resource if you don't use stack overflow. Also, it helps you learn soo much faster. If I go to AWS there is so much jargon in that documentation, which could literally be explained in a simple sentence. Oh and guess what, that simple explanation is in Stack Overflow.
I'm in the position of trying to push towards changes just like these- introducing better issue management, team communication. Anyone aware of useful resources on rolling out institutional changes like that?
Perhaps such networks already exist? Should I be checking out I2P?

I can't be the only one hating how our Internet "town squares" and public spaces have all become commercially owned, centralized, sanitized and surveilled, but where did the old‐guard go? SMTP mailing lists, IRC and Usenet have the decentralization down, but are beyond dated, and not a good way to interact.

Anyone know where cypherpunks hang out now? Perhaps they found a place, or made one.
Apple on Encryption: “You Can't Have a Back Door That's Only for the Good Guys”
I think I misunderstood their app's description. I thought it was about recommending things to launch out of the things you have installed.

EDIT: And I'd pay for a launcher that learns from my interactions with it off-line, and recommends me apps based on context such as location, time of day, previously launched apps, etc. Such a thing does not need "big data learning". It's an undergrad-level machine learning exercise.
I remember being carried as a two year old up and down the long driveway at my parents' place so they could deposit poopy diapers in the trash bin.(Trash service was only available for a few years out there.)

We all remember moments from our early lives that seem odd.
It was 22 at the time, so about 5 years ago. As far as my mental state, it's hard to say what was from what, since I consumed a lot of marijuana and cocaine at the time too, but I did have psychedelic-like visual distortions that persisted for many months after. Tryptamine tolerance builds very quickly so by the end I was taking a lot.

It was not the happiest time of my life, but not the worst either. I became pretty reclusive, and spent of lot of late, late nights walking around Minneapolis, sitting on the Stone Arch Bridge[1], watching insane late-night American TV / infomercials / televangelists, playing the guitar, and reading Hacker News. I maintained or even strengthened my interests in technology, but probably absorbed very little concrete knowledge at the time.

By less able to function, I mean I would've been utterly useless to an employer, or as a student, etc. I wouldn't have had the focus to complete any sort of complex project, software or otherwise. I did, however, manage to make some money ;)

So while I was not terribly productive, it did (I think) make me a more empathetic, positive, and less materialistic person and pushed me to make decisions that were ultimately very positive, like selling most of my stuff and moving to Cambodia! Still, I wouldn't recommend it and no doubt some of my behaviour could have incurred terrible legal consequences. My parents were definitely worried too.

[1] http://www.waynemoran.com/blog2/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/s...
I've noticed within my circle of colleagues some people who found the idea of changing pronouns personally offensive, and refused to call people by their chosen titles.

Interestingly enough, when they met transgender or non-gendered people and actually worked with them their attitudes changed dramatically and they suddenly got it.

I think for a lot of people, the abstract ideas don't click until they're tangible and 'in the flesh' so to speak.
How can this not mention the Gyro-X [0]??

I remember reading about it as a kid in the late 1960s. I still remember it saying that the owner could play with other motorists' heads by leaning the car out in turns.

[0] http://www.gizmag.com/gyro-x-gyroscopic-car-restoration/2642...
Alright, I think we have reached agreement.

Software that is "smaller" than Microsoft Windows.

It exists.

I prefer such "smaller" software and use it every day.

For me, it is "practically useful". I regularly see others stating it is useful for them, too.

Have no idea what "secure" means in the abstract, but maybe smaller software and the way it is used can be "more secure" (or less secure) than Windows.

"Fully understand" is a very high watermark to reach with any system. But given the choice between a larger system that is opaque and one that is smaller and open source I believe I can (partially) understand the smaller one better.
I mainly care about bodily integrity because I want very much for people to have the freedom of self-determination. Fostering that freedom seems like an instance of good parenting.

> 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?

They are different degrees of severity of doing something to a person’s body that they can’t understand or consent to. With circumcision, there’s rarely a medical reason to do it, and it can have negative effects on sexual function, so I assess it as a net negative.
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Conversely, had I grown up when it was more accepted, I wouldn't have ended up having to fight against internal self-hatred to see who I needed to be, would have transitioned much sooner, would have consequently had a much easier re-integration into society, and wouldn't have been scarred by abuse, discrimination, and frequent thoughts of suicide.

You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to...
If you don't mind me asking, where did your grandfather grow up that that was a thing?
I find this to be a pervasive problem with Bethesda games starting a few years after The Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind was released. They pack an insane amount of complexity into their games then provide utterly feeble tools to manage it or refuse to invest time into them as that complexity grows from game to game (especially their inventory system which hasn't changed much since Oblivion). Nothing demonstrates this better than Fallout 4's base building mechanic which is leagues better (and more complicated) than in any other game I've played. You can literally build a downtown Sanctuary with a dozen 10 story tall skyscrapers with farmland and electrical infrastructure but doing so using the Workshop as it is now (months before the release of the official game editor) is absolutely maddening and down right impractical. No 2d map or overhead camera, no alignment with complex terrain like building foundations, no templating, zero interface to manage the settlers (the current community concensus is to give each settler a different hat or outfit for each available job!), and it's just down right Unintuitive in every way. The mechanic overall feels like it was part of the game design from day 1 but the interface they give you to use it was made in a weekend.

Bethesda knows their games are bought for replayability and community mods so it seems that they make a lot of sacrifices no other gaming company would, knowing that the more annoying it is the faster some modder will totally replace it with far superior execution. To be fair though, no other company cranks out fantastic open world games that are as good as Bethesda's on such a regular basis. All of this pays off when a five year old game has graphics as good as a newly released one except with half a decade of damn near professional effort by thousands of modders.