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For contrast, look how Pax Dickinson was fired from the CTO role at Business Insider for his joking tweets that were perceived as anti-black racist. Such tweets were on a personal account, unrelated to work matters, and obviously ironic jokes about news items. (The context was ignored in order to paint a picture of Dickinson as a bigot.)

Here, @_danilo is also on a personal account, and tweeting specifically about work matters. The difference? His tweets were anti-white rather than anti-black. Given the prevailing SJW agenda infesting Silicon Valley his job should be safe for now. But activists should keep our eyes on him.
I think I missed the point, but was spot on with the summary.
Not sure what you are talking about. Visual Studio Express allows Windows phone development for free. Of course, for releasing they charge money (much lesser than what Apple charges).
Nice motte and bailey. Congresspeople should pay attention to all their constituents, not auction off their attention to the highest or slickest bidder.
> basically internet but the wrong way and centralized

Actually, Teletel/Minitel wasn't completely centralised. A lot of services ran from their own servers on an X.25 network....

The UK's inferior Prestel service was completely centralised (well, there was more than one server, but the servers were identical).

However....

> The phone company directly handled payment so there was no friction or paywall.

That idea certainly worked well at the time. Today, you might want to subscribe to a "content server" accessed via a VPN.
I'm a regular poster on HN. I have decided not to use my usual account, because this topic is toxic and breeds hatred.

I am now in my forties, married with children. I am now coming slowly to accept that I am trans. It is a hard and troubling realisation. It is (without doubt) a curse in today's (western) society.

I'm also starting to realise that there are different kinds of transgendered people [1]. I have also come to realise that gender is not necessarily fixed, and it spans a range.

It is not a surprise that our society struggles to accept this, since people only outwardly see two fixed biological sexes from birth. Deviations from the norm are always the subject of derision in society.

Brain gender and physical sex do not always match. Gender and sexuality are also different. Many people confuse these two.

I like the existing methods for dealing with gender-dysphoric children. Delay puberty because it is extremely traumatic (from personal experience). Then wait and see which gender starts to settle. We don't want our children to make mistakes they regret, nor end up forced into a gender that ends up damaging their entire lives.

However, it is incredibly important that children are not forced to be cisgender when they are not, no more than cisgendered children who have a fleeting period of trans-esque feelings be forced into being trans for the rest of their lives.

We need to get it right, otherwise you end up with secretly trans people in their forties with children and a partners who have their lives turned upside down, because something that should have been dealt with 25 years ago was brushed under the carpet.

My gut feeling is that there are a lot more transgendered people out there than we realise. Many of them sit in their "assigned at birth genders", having their souls ripped in two, because they are forced to live with a shameful secret.

[1] http://www.avitale.com/developmentalreview.htm
Late reply, but ran into another plotting library, also from dvdt.

https://github.com/dvdt/gyptis

It is a nice wrapper around vega. Using that now.
>Credit reporting ... exist primarily to help lenders fuck the consumer out of money.

You could always just not borrow money.
My old Chrome version actually renders the penis (the text, I mean) for a split second and then it disappears.
a) Arguably Epic Games or even Unity did this earlier

b) it is not open source

c) it is not open source

d) they are forcing you to use AWS for multiplayer servers and that kind of stuff, which makes sense because otherwise they would not make money
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Pointless until you start dealing with macros. It can be important in some cases to know whether the closure "code" has been evaluated at that point or not.
CRT is a "theory" in the sense of "literary theory", not in the sense of "theory of electrodynamics".

It is far, far away from science or empiricism, and yet it is used to inform law and policy. Insanity
logging is basic instrumentation, also used by telemetry, why would it not work?
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Same here. They probably have an index on the txn ID, search is pretty quick that way, but on the new interface where they force you to search within a time span, it takes forever when its more than a few days. So the decision to force people to pick a time span is probably hurting their DB select as much as it is hurting the user experience.
They're not talking to you or me. If they were, this article would have been "How Wired Is Going to Handle Tracking and Web Cruft" and address the underlying problem causing people to install ad blockers.

I want people to get paid--really I do--but I'm not stepping barefoot into a cesspool of web cruft to do it. Blockers are like putting boots on so you can wade through it safely. Clean up your mess and I don't mind going barefoot.
Join me in the joy of misinterpreting the sarcasm. /sarcasm

Edit: GP, please, learn that being clear is important, especially considering how many people are non-native speakers of your language.
Would you like to elaborate about "somewhat wrong", with quotations from Principles of Mathematics, for example?

It's "somewhat wrong" because in some cases it is possible to derive causation using statistical methods.

Have you read the linked book? It should answer your questions. If not I'll point you to Michael Nielsen's post[1], where he explain[s] how the causal calculus can sometimes (but not always!) be used to infer causation from a set of data, even when a randomized controlled experiment is not possible. Also in the post, I’ll describe some of the limits of the causal calculus

It's a pretty long post, but the gist of it is that in some circumstances it's possible to build a world model of an imaginary controlled, randomized experiment and then see if non-controlled, real world data matches those expectations.

What that gives you is a distribution of the probabilities of causality.

[1] http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-impl...
Isn't this what the tent.io guys set out to do? Is that still an active project?
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False and false.

"Everyone already knows that."

I had to click the link to find out. Also, why are you confident the submitter knew that? If the submitter knew it was a paywall, why did he submit it and not another non-paywall link with the same info?

"That's why the 'web' link is under the title."

Unless the status quo has changed since this post[1], the "web" link's purpose is to "[find] better sources and catching spam," not to encourage paywall sites with a handicap allowance.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645
Also https://cloudfleet.io [Disclaimer I'm one of the founders]
It's not open source, but games tend not to be anyway. It's certainly a very impressive development as Amazon are the most trusted "PaaS" vendor even if they're not the cheapest.

(have Amazon ever shut down any of the AWS services?)
I'm pretty wowed.The quality of code that's being opensourced lately really seems to be ticking up. I didn't take the time to play with it so I'll be interested to hear the first reactions but it certainly looks pretty good in the screenshots. And integration directly into AWS could really streamline a lot of the difficulty of making online multiplayer games. I suspect this will put a new class of games in reach for indie development which is going to be really cool.
Digging into the details, it seems this is largely a fork or adaption of the CryEngine, with all the advantages and disadvantages that brings.

As I said about Autodesk's offering, Stingray, I think that even a giant like Amazon is going to have an uphill battle bringing a new game engine into mass use. Having been testing game engines just this week, I'm reminded just how much of an ecosystem has built up around Unity in particular - displacing an engine with that is like displacing Wordpress as the dominant blogging engine.

It's early days yet but they've got some serious catching up to do. For example, it appears that 3D assets can only currently be created in Max and Maya (no Blender, no Cinema4d), as rather than using FBX or similar as an interchange format they're using their own custom formats with an exporter. Most other game engines stopped doing that a while ago, for good reason.

Likewise, the level editor is either underdocumented or feature-light. The docs currently just cover creating terrain and vegetation. I assume that the engine has the capability to handle non-outdoor scenes too, but it's not explicitly documented anywhere I can find in a quick look.

There's also no documentation on non-sky lighting, lighting builds, light types, or similar that I can find. There's one mention that the engine supports Global Illumination, but no details as to whether it's realtime or requires a bake process. Searching for "lighting", "lights", or "light" in the documentation returns no results!

Interestingly, there's a full-featured cinematics system, which means it's of considerable interest to me, but that's very much a minority thing.

I wish them luck and I'll certainly be checking it out, having said all that. Another fully open-source 3D engine is no bad thing.
I've recently been making some debian packages for GNU Social, if anyone wants to try them out.

https://git.gnu.io/bashrc/gnusocial-debian
https://git.gnu.io/bashrc/gnusocial-qvitter-debian

In particular it's the qvitter plugin which makes this system really usable, both on desktop and mobile.
$3100 for the "CPU+motherboard+heatsink/fan" combo is very steep. I would seriously consider it at a third of the price.
Congrats Will! I'm really excited to see what you'll be bringing to Sublime!

I wish you all the best!
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I'm using this on my Windows PC:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

Disabled all ad-blockers and still don't get ads, and the whole experience seems faster. Presumably it takes longer for JavaScript-based utilities to block ads compared to just blackholing them in the hosts file? Anyway, might get a Raspberry Pi or just use an old small form-factor PC with it's own DNS server running the same list.
You shouldn't judge the progress on Sublime Text based on when the last "stable version" was released. They seem to be way too perfectionistic in deeming version 3 stable - the developer versions have all been more stable for me than any version of Atom ever has been. The Sublime Text 3 betas are production ready.

It's true that the development progress has been really slow/halted this last year, but it seems to have gotten back on track in the last month.
Like others, I used to use StatusNet back when it powered identi.ca, and abandoned it when they switched to pump.io and everything broke.

I considered running my own StatusNet/GNUSocial/pump.io instance, or even writing an OStatus plugin for the CMS I used to run my site on, but have come to the realisation that such software isn't the right path for federation.

If I were running a popular site with many users, e.g. a forum, then such features might be nice to add. But hosting my own multi-user, dynamic, OAuth-based Web app just for myself is crazy; especially when the only other thing my server hosts is a static HTML site (I had the same realisation that a multi-user, dynamic CMS Web app was also insecure overkill). In fact, I never used to use the identi.ca Web site anyway; I used the XMPP bot until it got turned off, then switched to RSS feeds and a custom posting command ( http://chriswarbo.net/git/warbo-utilities/branches/master/we... )

Unfortunately I've not seen a simple, single-user, no-authentication-required, non-Web-app (preferably commandline) implementation of these protocols (OStatus, Salmon, webmention, etc.) which I could use alongside a standalone, untrusted API endpoint on my server.

I spotted some IndieWeb links on HN a few weeks ago and some of what they say resonates with me, e.g. https://indiewebcamp.com/monoculture Unfortunately, some of their technology seems heavily focused on non-federated, non-FOSS walled gardens which I don't want to be part of (e.g. IndieAuth can use a Google account, a GitHub account, a Twitter account, etc. It claims to support email, but that seems to have died since Mozilla Persona shut down)
Very amazing news! I loved sublime text and kept holding onto it while everyone else was switching.

At some point I got really frustrated with the plugin API. Stuff like only 1 thing can write into the gutter at a time and that relative line numbers is close to impossible to implement (the package that exists is garbage) is just ridiculous.

That was the moment when I switched to atom and ported my sublimious plugin to atom (proton). I've since been using atom and am quite happy with it but now and then look back at the ST3 days and the incredible performance that ST3 offers.

I hope with Will on board, development will finally pick up again. ST3 needs excited developers that want to push it further and Will seems like that kind of person. I'd love to grab my old license out of the cellar and give it another spin.
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I thought they already had a whitelist?! Or was this AdBlock (without the plus)?

Well, I don't used it anymore, switched to µBlock Origin. Brave seems to be a nice alternative too. I read it is much snappier and has adblocking built in.
GNU Social is on the road map for FreedomBox and that's why I've recently been making debian packages for it.
There are plenty of record of numerous games where the same events occurred, and there are non-Christian records of Christians being persecuted. The balance of the evidence seems to be mostly that it did occur - they were pretty brutal times, and we should probably be more surprised if they hadn't.
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I think what's useful here are the numbers around PPC. I think many people have totally unrealistic expectations about CAC through these channels.

I'd be interested how they would now perform if they returned to PPC...
They arent responsible, subcontractor is. As I posted some time ago:

"The very first thing University of Washington Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (accredited by U.S. Department of Homeland Security, whatever that means) teaches you about becoming a CIO is precisely delegating responsibility :)"

http://depts.washington.edu/ciac/
Weird that it doesn't propagate the constant such that both functions are closed - maybe with a higher optimisation level.
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> Companies trying to sell subscriptions have never understood how to set prices.

It's a dead-wood mindset, I think. Sure, I like to read a Wired article now and again. But I don't regularly hit their site. I go there based on search results, links, and so on. There are too many sites at that level for me to bother following. Let alone subscribing.

I get that $52 isn't very much. Not for me, that is. But it is for many readers. And so it's not a good choice for a basic subscription. If they don't want to bother with per page pricing, they could at least offer multiple subscription levels.
I just use FlashBlock and a Chrome extension that stops html5 vids from autoplaying (and disconnect to limit tracking). Can't say I've even really thought about the ads that do appear.
I run a system called Freedombone, and maintenance of GNU Social is not really an issue. If I'm not actively working on it there is no maintenance involved.
Note that it's "free, including all source code", but definitively not open source. https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/faq/#Licensing
I wonder when the moment comes where really secret personal/information is going to appear only on paper again.

I wouldn't want this happening to me.
How to investors make money on unicorns if there is no liquidity event?
> Peer attempted old style (potentially vulnerable) handshake. (Error code: ssl_error_unsafe_negotiation)

I'm unable to connect there from mobile and desktop Firefox.
I think they just don't want to see ads as intrusive as the ones found these days. Neither do I.
While my main concerns are performance, bandwidth, security and privacy, I don't think that simple static image ads would have led to the widespread adoption of ad blockers we're currently seeing.

In my opinion it's due to the fact that ads became very intrusive lately - video, audio, flash, popups, fullscreen overlays, endless scripts, you name it.
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I think he means that lucky strikes can be longer than the career span of many managers. You never see them losing because they don't live long enough to have a devastating return to the average.
the latest version which just came out last week is very good. While the two turn system still exist there are many modifiers which can alter how that plays out. Characters have special abilities and such that can make some shots not impact moving or be impacted by use of moves.

throw in a fully procedural environment, as in levels are generated and not just canned, new mobs with all sorts of interesting powers, and its a good "reimaging", very similar to how Terror from the Deep expanded and energized the franchise
You don't want that. Because a script kid will change some of the info subtly instead of destroying it. Lets say alter randomly patients conditions and allergies. The results could be unpleasant.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10835544

As far as the app, been sporting it for a while now and I really like it. Github is active as well.

I'm a big fan of menulets and scripting so this is great for me. Currently tracking sales. I use it with Bartender, so that it hides when the sales are not happening and pop up when something changes.
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I think they meant geographically
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I have spent almost one year coding it as a side project. I like programming and the idea so I first started the project, implemented a ridiculous amount of features and then decided it is not suitable as a startup-for-profit project.
> To what degree gender is a social construct vs actually having non-minimal differences in the brain depending on your chromosomes is largely settled (IMO)

I don't actually think this is true. Disclaimer: a close friend of mine studies this academically, so i'm probably incorrectly passing along a vague version of what i've been told, plus i have a certain level of personal investment in the issue. Anyhow, there's rather a difference of opinion in the schools of thought of queer theory (roughly: it's all a social construct) versus sexual difference theory (roughly: no, the physical body is important in the equation) -- if i understand correctly, this is far from a settled question.

I don't want to attack you personally, because i believe you are commenting in good faith (as am i), but this sentence:

> I don't have a strong opinion in the matter other than I know non-passable trans people creep me out on a sub-rational level (so I just avoid them, like spiders).

Comes across as rather hurtful. I hope that sometime in the near future (like, 10–20 years? one can dream), this sentence will be seen as equally dubious as someone saying something like "black people creep me out, i don't know why but i try to avoid them".

I really don't mean to be mean about it, i'm just pointing out that this attitude won't help any early-stage transpeople feel welcome or comfortable. We as the grass-roots society should probably do our bit to make everyone feel accepted and welcome, especially if they do not conform to our (gender expression, as well as other) expectations. I mention the bottom-up point-of-view in contrast to your "Supreme Court" / institutional answer to the issue.

Respectfully.
Christians weren't exactly saints if we take an overall look of events.

But I guess that's besides the point.
Although I dislike capitalism in general I think that message should be changed to something more neutral. Maybe some capitalists might want to have their own GNU Social site where they can boast about swindling, exploitation and their beloved centralization of everything.

In my debian package for the qvitter plugin that message already gets replaced, but I can also submit a patch upstream.
We had whale regularly when I was a kid in Norway in the early 80's. Once a week maybe. It was basically used as a cheap beef substitute, exactly because there was always that extra taste to it that while it wasn't bad, wasn't exactly something you'd seek out. It was also tough and required a lot of extra work to tenderize it.

I think that at least in Norway whaling would have diminished further by now if the anti-whaling campaigns hadn't been so totally unsympathetic that it basically became a matter of national pride to keep it going - whale meat became less and less common to eat as the Norwegian economy grew and most people would just opt for beef anyway. Gently pushing for ever smaller quotas and stricter regulations instead would have suffocated the remaining industry quietly without most people even noticing.
If you enjoy reading about human biases coming from non-statistical point of view then check out "Thinking fast and slow" by Kahneman. Great read.
So this was the secret deal which, according to rumors, saved Crytek. This is the second fork of the CryEngine that I know of (other is the Farcry fork of Ubisoft), and I find it interesting that they keep forking it instead of offering a library designed to work with it. I wonder if it says something about the codebase.
> where it accepted for young children to be attracted or even in love with other children of the same sex.

That's sexual orientation, not gender identity, no? One of the salient points in the original article is precisely the distinction between gender identity (which the GIC sees as flexible, but their critics see as immutable) and sexual orientation (which both appear to view as immutable):

> GIC clinicians view this as a conceptual error: The critics are conflating sexual orientation — which can’t be changed, which is part of the reason we view attempts to mess with it it as unethical — and gender identity, which they say isn’t some hardwired thing
Which will be far more than $1.50/month to support that many users. I guess.