skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me try.

I frankly find it bizarre that so many things -- colors, clothes, toys, certain behaviors -- that should have nothing to do with gender are associated with gender. Why are toy isles even gendered? Why does everything for girls have to be pink? The kids wouldn't care if the adults hadn't already hoisted the distinction on them.

I feel like, if we got rid of all these false associations, the difference between genders would be minimal, and that would make the sorts of problems discussed in the article a lot more manageable.

Or are all of these just distractions, and am I missing the point entirely?
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The title is a little confusing but it's clarified in an article linked in the post. Apparently on the subject of MacBook/iPad lines converging Tim Cook said "You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but you know those things are not going to be probably be pleasing to the user"
Not sure about the "fans",
but us mere mortals are quite ok with the quality.
TRAI favours net neutrality – Facebook disappointed
I wish some company, that could make a difference, pushed for a paper-like ad service -- no tracking, no sounds&video, no JS, just an old school text and picture ad. Such service I would gladly whitelist, but at the current state of advertisement industry whitelisting any site is a no-no.
Are people doing HFT or some latency arbitrage on bitcoins?
What am I looking at here?
Debt, in and of itself is not necesserily a bad thing, at least at the micro level. If that debt is at a low interest rate, and used to finance something that stimulates economic growth then that is a net positive.

One problem with debt is the long-term effects caused by the method in which much modern debt is created: I.e the bank creates capital out of 'thin air' and it costs them nothing other than some liability for the value of that debt, and conversely when money is paid back to the bank, that money (minus a small cut) is effectively destroyed. Usually you can only pay back that money by receiving money from someone else who has gone into debt in order to raise that capital.

At the macro level, this means that effectively all money is debt. It is very hard (some would say impossible) to make any sizable reduction in levels of debt without causing a recession.

The pessimist in me has some sympathy for the viewpoint that bailing out the banks in 2008-2009 only served to delay an inevitable and long overdue correction in the global economy.
If you can't extract more that $1.50 a month from a 1000 active users then you should probably pack it in and try something else.
"I suspect that puberty and its associated natural hormones is a big part of what allows a teen to feel comfortable"

Sorry but I couldn't help laughing out loud. I do not share your suspicion. You probably meant that the hormones makes you feel more comfortable with your gender identity (is there research on this?), but it looks like a general comment about how comfortable teens are with their raging hormones.
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What is also not on the news (yet it does happen fairly often) are prevented accidents: train passes signal at danger due to driver error, all affected traffic stops immediately and automatically, some delays and a mountain of paperwork appears.

That is an example of the safety system working as designed. No property damage, no injuries, no loss of life - not newsworthy.
Mind elaborating on the differences please? They just look like two different addons from different developers to me.
Yes, the problem according to the FBI indeed seems to be more about the unauthorized breach than the information actually contained:

> “This unauthorized access is still under investigation; however, there is no indication at this time that there is any breach of sensitive personally identifiable information,” DOJ spokesperson Peter Carr said in a statement.
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Other way round: taking the investment is the reason to make an app like this.
If you are a cop then you should have no expectation of privacy. That is the tradeoff for getting to walk around with a gun and the authority of state sanctioned killing. If you dont like it, dont be a cop. There can be no middle ground.
Globally a very large percentage of construction materials, vehicle parts, and plastics are currently produced from petrolium sources because of rules and regulations which restrict our civilization from utilizing the sun optimally via nature's most highly optimized solar fiber/oil generation system also known as industrial hemp.

Although it's possible to obtain hemp fiber and oil now it's price is artifically high because hemp farming is restricted on most of the surface area of earth. This artifically high price pevents this plant from being used in building construction and consumer plastics which keeps us locked into a petrol economy.

In addition there is a vast amount of rough terrain in US and elsewhere which is suitable for hemp production but not for agricultural crops. This land currently sits unused which it could be absorbing co2 at a high rate while contributing to the global economy. Also a reduction in the price of hemp would cause it be used more as the world's primary source of cellulose which would help neturalize the wholesale destruction of biodiversity in both the rainforests and marine environments.
> extracted from my address book

This is why nothing like linked-in gets anywhere near my address book, and therefore nowhere near my portable devices because the only way to install the phone app is to agree to that permission and the site itself is terrible on mobile.

If you let an app install that asks for permission to read your address book assume it will one day it will spam everyone in it and if someone in your address book also uses the app assume that the linking information will be used for profiling purposes (which means more advertising by one of many means).

And any who gives a web app their email address & password to access their mail account to look for contacts (seriously, I know people who have done this and damn well should know better) they need a good smack up the back of the head with the security clue stick.
> right from the start

Why would thousands of entrepreneurs open GM, Ford, and Chrysler dealerships when the manufacturers could just open a store and undercut them? These laws were a promise to protect that business model.

That doesn't mean that such laws are a great fit for our current economy, but it started out innocent enough.
Tried to buy a Visual Studio license for porting our game to Windows Phone last year.
Ended up paying $2K for a version that was able to build WP apps, but not allowed to release them.

VS + VA used to be fantastic, today it's just a piece of ... overpriced crap.

But maybe expecting more from $2K+ software (VS) than from FREE software (xcode) is wrong.
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Note: This isn't Open Source, though the source code is available.

> Q. Is Lumberyard “open source”?

> No. We make the source code available to enable you to fully customize your game, but your rights are limited by the Lumberyard Service Terms. For example, you may not publicly release the Lumberyard engine source code, or use it to release your own game engine.

What's really interesting is that you can't use Lumberyard to communicate with game servers if they are hosted on a competing cloud platform; only AWS or server hardware you own:

> Q. Can my game use an alternate web service instead of AWS?

> No. If your game servers use a non-AWS alternate web service, we obviously don’t make any money, and it’s more difficult for us to support future development of Lumberyard. By “alternate web service” we mean any non-AWS web service that is similar to or can act as a replacement for Amazon EC2, Amazon Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EC2 Container Service, or Amazon GameLift. You can use hardware you own and operate for your game servers.
This seems like the kind of thing that might draw more interest via Patreon than purchases, especially with the promise of semi-regular updates to keep some buzz going around about "the Excel XCOM guy".
There was a story on the BBC podcast Analysis, about a UK politician who while helping a transgendered teen, tried to get reassignment treatment funded through NHS.

The LGBT group protested. Apparently according to their research the majority of children who feel they are transgender realise they are actually gay.
Ask HN: What are PHP's equivalents to Python's top tools?
I have been a happy Python user for years and super thankful for the plethora of good tools in the Python environment. However I sometimes have to use some PHP and still feel like I'm in the 90ies when it comes to the tools I use. I skimmed through Josh Lockhart's Modern PHP, but still I have not found many alternatives to the tools I love.

I'm sure, however, that these exist. So, what are the closest best practice equivalents, for...

- Creating separate dev environments using `Virtualenv`?
- Installing packages in these envs using `pip`? How can I use composer in that workflow?
- Enabling persistence in a super simple way using `dataset`?
- Handling requests using `requests`?
- Creating beautiful command line interfaces using `click`?
- Getting an overview of good practices via http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/?

Probably you can come up with even more great workflow tools in Python and their equivalent in PHP.
Teen “hacker” held in France over school bomb hoaxes
Because there are people out there who got priorities where other just do opportunism.
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Here's another: Trying to browse slideshare while you are cookied on linkedin.com will create a public slideshare profile in your name without you ever signing on for that, and with no UI to remove the profile. I had to mail customer support (which got back to me a few days later and removed the unwanted auto-profile).
lets pump your 10 year old full of hormones so you can signal how liberal and tolerant you are on facebook.

this all makes me incredibly sad.
Laws need to evolve with society. Often, that means that they are challenged due to a edge case in a changing society.
What is this??? In the first <blockquote> of the article:

<p>
20,000 FBI EMPLOYEES NAMES, TITLES, PHONE NUMBERS, EMAILS, COUNTRY
<a href="</p">penis </a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/DotGovs/statuses/696796442850156545">Feb... 8, 2016</a>
</p>

Notice the weird <a> tag in the middle.
Yeah, I couldn't believe how bad it was, especially since Sydney has been fine for years. Apparently the root of this was their transit agency's longtime refusal to open up their data: http://m.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/melbourne-pub...

Some data was finally released last April (promised as part of an election reform campaign), but as of October there were still GMaps integration issues: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/victorian-g...

I was involved in a lot of (too many) geo/transit/open data conversations in the late 2000s, and sadly, this kind of short-sighted/nonsensical thinking was all too common, and I'm sure persists in many of the places where people lay the blame on GMaps, when it's actually due to stonewalling bureaucrats.
And Travis at Uber? Also "proving people wrong", because of a chip on his shoulder? Did Uber flaunt the law? Or did they end up changing the laws because people like Uber so much? I'm pretty sure this is how every big disruption goes. It's messy. People get super pissed. And it comes down to political views on were the regluations even needed in the first place.
As pointed out elsewhere it's not open source.
what leaves me skeptic about these kind of alternative services like GNUSocial and Diaspora is not much when, if ever, or how they will be able to attract the necessary critical mass of users that makes them relevant. Instead, it what would happen after that. The main two questions I would be interested in would be:

(1) do they scale to the size of, say, Twitter (~400M Daily Active Users, Facebook ~1B DAU)?
(2) what would be their business model?

The thing is.. hypothetically GNUSocial is very nice. It's free software, it's an open protocol, you are supposedly in perfect control of your personal data. In theory, there's no reason not to prefer it to the current state of things (if only you could make it appealing to your grandma or 14 years-old cousin).

However, when, for instance, the Justin Biebers, the Lady Gagas, the Obamas join it together with their hundreds of millions of followers, or simply when the tweets per minute reach hundreds of thousand or even millions, can the GNUSocial protocol ensure a reliable and responsive (~ real time) service? And if it does, what's the maintenance and hardware cost for the confederations? And how are they supposed to financially cover for it?

Sure, there are services based on open protocols that have been extremely successful at scaling (e.g., email, or bittorrent), still, they have different requirements than a social network. Can we make an open social network of independent confederations scale? Probably yes, but whether GNUSocial is ready for it or not is an open question (as far as I know..).

In any case, take the example of the email. The protocol is open, there's a "confederation" of independent providers taking part to it. It handles a massive amount of data every day. You don't even have necessarily to store your data on a cloud server. That's great.

Still, at the end of the day everyone uses free mail services (GMail, Yahoo, you name it), heavily maintained by hundreds/thousands of dedicated (and skilled, and expensive) engineers, storing gigabytes of your data (backed up and redundantly replicated over different geographical areas), and financing themselves using targeted advertising. Sure, you can pay your own, trusted, mail provider an annual fee and have (apparently?) complete control over your data. But how many people actually use these services outside of the work environment (where your employer actually covers the cost)? And I'm not talking about the community of hackernews readers. I'm talking about your non-techy friends, your relatives, the random guy/gal you meet at the pub, that is, the people that ultimately are necessary for your service to reach a critical mass.
> Cheap enough for the 60% of rural Indians who live on less than 35 Rs/day [1]?

Perhaps not; but I was including only people who can afford the phone.

> The vast majority of mobile phones in India are feature phones which are considerably cheaper than smartphones

They're still ~Rs 1k (you can get cheaper ones, but I don't think even proxied sites will work well on these). Monthly data plans are less than a tenth of this.

IIRC Free Basics' Facebook still needed a good phone (higher end feature phone or a smartphone), but I can't verify that right now.

And that really brings us back to the question; how is this bringing people to the Internet? Even if Facebook worked well on a Rs 400 phone, only the Free Basics sites would work well there. This just underlines that Facebook is trying to give people Free Facebook, nothing more. People who cannot afford these phones would not become "Digital Indians" by using Free Basics, they would use Facebook and only Facebook.
Wow, thanks everyone! I'm thrilled to be working with Jon and Kari and to be helping with Sublime Text.
11 year olds 100 years ago, maybe. Nowadays they are children in slightly larger bodies.
Internal Amazon stuff, including the customer service tools that can be used to access anyones account, change their passwords etc...
> monopoly the SEC (federal gov't) gave the Big Three (Moody's, S&P, Fitch)

But wasn't part of the problem that there was competition among them? They were handing out favorable(fraudulent) ratings becuase they were trying to poach customers from the others?
The JavaScript framework situation is getting out of hand
There are aspects of the Firaxis versions that could be accurately described as dumbed down (mostly the unrealistic LoF, resulting in all-or-nothing cover mechanic and no FF or multiple enemy hits possible). But IMO, the new turn system is an improvement over the original, it's a good balance between tactics options and accessibility.
the only way out is to get quality content out as much as possible. "portals" like yahoo have tons more of access than weird. they can easily dilute the ad blockers, pay the content creators a cut, and everybody ends up happy
Looks like the embedded tweet has the twitter handle's 'name', which is penis.
In this context, "component" means an agency that's part of the DOJ. The FBI, for example, is a component of the DOJ. They're simply stating that Main Justice wasn't hacked.
Reminds me a little of plurk.
Hmm, that's an interesting question - if you're unable to be fired, do you still have a moral obligation to do your job?

Well, I'd say yes.
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> slow ads

heck i block ads as a side effect of blocking things like Google analytics.
"So what are Docker containers? Docker containers are a piece of software that wraps around code, system tools, system libraries, and anything else you can install on a server. Using docker containers you can essentially run WordPress like an operating system, and deploy it like an application."

Can you really run WP like an OS and deploy it like an application, securely with Docker?
Not sure about HFT at bitcoin exchanges but there are definitely a lot of bots trading by arbitrage strategy.
You can feel like that all you want, but the facts are that puberty delaying hormone blockers have a well known safety profile, and that the benefits in reducing emotional and behavioural problems and reducing onset of depression as a result of onset of puberty, amongst others, is well established.
Here's a question to HN: if we were to design an alternative to linkedin (for IT/technical folks), what would be the features you'd want?

I'll start:
1) The ability to go no-opportunities. When you're not looking for work, you turn this on, and you will not turn up on any search result.
2) Simple export API, with a guarantee of you having complete say over your data. You may export as a json anytime, and import into another service.
3) Non-profit is possible. A resume directory can be run by a few people with a small revenue. Trying to make a unicorn is what leads to linked-in level shit.

Others?
If only there were a sarcasm punctuation... Sadly, we only have emoticons. ;)
Nope. I think the theory is much more along the lines that our moral sensibilities will adapt.

Right now the prevailing theory seems to be that we can beat climate change ... without serious economic impact ... without moving cities/populations ... without sea level changes ... without moving around agricultural production ... above all without any compromises anywhere ...

Of course this will fail. This idea of keeping the world constant has failed in every period, climate change or no climate change.

The conspiracy theory is that this is not in fact a surprise to anyone working on climate change, but that the money's good (and the counter is : we're talking academics here ... so let's get real ... the money's ... almost acceptable)
The article contains little more than verbatim quotes from the abstract of the linked report: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285639899_Millennia...

Summary: Millennials claim to like organic, ethnically sourced foods but only 14% buy it.
I had whale meat mainly in Iceland. Minke meat is quite probably the best meat I have ever eaten, it's amazing.
It seems the main thing holding back the world economy is the mistaken assumption that a sliver of the population hoarding all the capital constitutes an economy in the first place. It does not.
Japan is the 10th largest country in the world by population.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...
I wonder if this would be the case for Paypal Subscriptions. I am already using that for a couple of sites, albeit they are with video content. Each is a couple of Euros a month.

So, you wouldn't need to share your payment details with any publisher, but with just one , that distributes it further. This is really similar with the system in place in some countries, when you wanted to get a subscription to a newspaper, a central collecting money company would take your request, invoice you, etc, and distributed the newspaper to your door.

Again, old business, "but on the internet". And if we don't like paypal, we can always build something better, right?
As an Indian I feel a bit sad that a few elitist managed to hijack the entire propaganda and denied access to millions of poor people.

US readers: Please note that T-Mobile Binge on and other similar services would be illegal under new TRAI guidelines in India.
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They might be accepted as helpful in some situations, but many security professionals would weigh the privacy against added help and recommend against them in this context.

Many, hopefully most, security professionals would also disagree with requiring AV on all endpoints.

(Industry practices generally aren't a good guideline, and many IT security professionals are incompetent and/or powerless to do anything besides babysit security products that just create work and increase complexity. Witness the prevalence of large corporate "intranets" with centralised firewalls, and soft chewy insides...)
> as nothing as changed.

It didn't get worse.

> People without full Internet access still don't have it. And so, for what is the post thanking a lot of people?

You can say that about anything. That's not what they're happy about; that wasn't the only issue on the table.
This seems to be a fork of an old version of CryEngine
I'm guessing this is to take on what Microsoft has been doing Azure? https://mva.microsoft.com/en-us/training-courses/microsoft-a... that sort of thing? It's a great idea, because I think there's room for improvement in this space!
@[1] that says more about your wife then about the ThinkPad.
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There's probably some 'selection bias'. I think they might run the bot on every article, but post the summary only if it matches well.
To even start to replace petroleum, hemp oil has to be very cheap. This means using optimal land for growing it - plains, well-lit, well-rained. Where it would compete with wheat and other food grown.

Trying to grow hemp (for hemp oil) on rough terrain won't work - far too expensive given the implications of manual labor.
He was definitely fired. Just look at few factors:

* There is basically 0 credit given to the Conrad (the company's founder) in the memo. That's likely because this was a fight and not a mutual decision.

* He's giving up his board seat. When it's merely a case of needing a new CEO, you don't necessarily lose your board seat.
I'm not sure about that. I'm right there with you, but I'm skeptical whether it's a majority opinion. Does anybody have numbers on that?
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