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I find it interesting that if you have odd/unusual sexual preferences, then you are often considered mentally ill, but if you have some odd/unusual preferences for other things (like operating systems, for example), then that is in most cases not considered a mental problem.

What's so special about sex? I guess psychiatry basically took over and continued the old Christian religious prejudices.
>> It is much easier to turn on Quill 18 playing xcom, and enjoy the game and his commentary, while working, then it is to try and fit playing xcom into my daily life.

You can always buy the game to support the devs and make sure that there's an xcom 2 (and now, 3) for Quill to play and you to listen to.

Nobody's forcing you to also play the game, is what I'm saying.
It's a nice thought. But this talk of "legitimate", "legally protected" and "wrongful" strikes me as just so much wishful thinking. To be reliably available, stuff must be posted in ways that can't be taken down. It's rather the same distinction as with encryption, isn't it?
Except in the many many cases where companies are shut down despite not violating the TOS.
I thought this was a pretty common thing.

It's a bit of of a movie/TV trope, especially after a character dies--the widow would try to preserve the scent of their spouse/lover via clothing, pillow, etc.
This overlooks an opportunity: We need a new disorder. Call it Control-seeking Disorder, or CSD. Cop gets in your face? Diagnose him with CSD and require treatment that lowers aggression. TSA bumming you out? Make sure they screen out CSD sufferers. Get them in treatment.
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Here is an oversimplified model to illustrate my basic point:

A dependency introduces some constant amount of risk (d) that does not vary with the size of the dependency. Every line of code you write yourself also introduces a much smaller constant amount of risk (y).

If you introduce a separate dependency for every line of code in a 1000-line project, your risk is 1000d.

If you can pull in someone else's code for the whole thing and don't need to write any code yourself, your risk is d.

If 200 lines of your code can be replaced with an external library, your risk is d + 800y.

I think the real disagreement here is over the value of d. My experience leads me to put the value of d pretty high relative to y, so to me 1000d is the worst possible case. If someone sees d as equal to y, then they'd see dependencies as no problem whatsoever.

(Obviously in reality the risk of a dependency is not really constant - it's probably more like d + 0.1y or d + 0.01y or whatever, since a 10-line dependency is less risky than a 1000-line dependency. Hopefully my point still stands.)
Bluntly, I assume a woman will be far more involved in childcare than a man. This is backed up by the fact that it's often true, and is a reasonable prior. A male ceo -- and I've worked for several of these -- can / often does have a housewife, and is able to dump virtually all childcare off onto her. Crucially including getting up all night to breastfeed. Women often don't have that and/or don't want that. Not to mention pregnancy can cause severe medical complications (physical injury, post partum depression, etc). I've also seen several ambitious women in my personal life have a baby then decide to transition to a more relaxed career track to focus on the child / have more children.

If I were working for any ceo who decided to have a baby, but particularly a woman, I'd want to know about his or her commitment to the business that I'm investing my time, life, and money into. Being a ceo is generally not a 9-5 M-F job, so explaining how you're going to juggle that with the demands of childcare, breastfeeding should you chose to do so, business travel, business needs, etc is fair game when my personal financial results are entangled with the business outcome.

If you're planning on doing what Marissa did and installing a nanny next to your office, great. If you're planning on taking 4 months off for your personal project, I'm going to re-evaluate my dedication to the business if the ceo isn't more dedicated than me.

NB: I currently work for a female ceo; she and her partner have an au pair but he has damaged his career to provide more childcare than her.
FYI, your Contrast Ratio is 2.8:1. Aim for 4.5:1

Try using #4c4c4c

You can use this tool to test. http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

A bad contrast ratio will always look very bad on older screen, making text hard to read. It is also hard to read by people with eyes issues.

"WCAG 2.0 level AA requires a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text (14 point and bold or larger, or 18 point or larger). Level AAA requires a contrast ratio of 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text."
I remember how much I detested being told to be "creative" in school, and how many of my peers seemed to have no problem with it. I enjoyed learning, even if I was sometimes bored by routine in school, but "creativity" was an unpleasant requirement.

Don't think that it's so easy to find an alternative version of school that won't be a pain for some students.
Welcome to the Catch-22 of the-political-is-personal!

Excusing Yarvin's thoughtcrime as mere "politics" is indeed inflammatory, if you think everyone needs to share the same religion.

If you accept that reasonable people can disagree politically, then the title ("Typelevel boycotts LambdaConf over politics") succinctly describes the situation.
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> Pregnancy is one of the protected classes.

AFAIK protected classes don't apply to investors.
How did CEO Marissa Mayer pull all nighters,130-hour work weeks while at Google?
"We're going to take our ball and go home; we don't want to play with you!"

What a bunch of children. They don't agree with a person's personal views, which are totally tangental to the subject of the conference, so they pick up their ball and go home?

Since when did everyone become such cowarda towards people with different ideas? Why not show up with a diverse group of kick ass programmers, and show him he's not so great?

No, we'll run and cry, and make blog posts about it. Stay strong. /s
One of the interesting side-effects here is that while it encourages you to write very small packages, it also strictly caps the maximum number of packages which you can add as dependencies of your own package. There's only so many `require` calls you can fit in a Tweet.
So, we might have President Snowden to look forward to? Has a decent ring to it.
Seems relevant, Cron supports using 0 or 7 to refer to Sunday.
> If your capital losses exceed your capital gains, the excess can be deducted on your tax return and used to reduce other income, such as wages, up to an annual limit of $3,000, or $1,500 if you are married filing separately.

https://www.irs.gov/uac/Ten-Important-Facts-About-Capital-Ga...
Microsoft told potential Yahoo buyers it might back bids
Thank you for the link. That's good to know, however, as you alluded to sometimes it's not possible to alert users.

In that vein, end-to-end would protect those users even if you can not alert them. Your hands are tied with something like PGP because you couldn't access it even if you wanted to. Someone mentioned your end-to-end extension. Will you be releasing end-to-end to the Web Store soon? Or some other killer end-to-end solution?
Nobody says you have to. I am proposing an alternate value system that says we don't need to claim these things are always absolutely mutually exclusive. I think it depends on the company, the parent(s), the child, the culture, the legal framework around parenting and work, and a zillion other things. Maybe you live with your extended family and it's understood that a grandparent will take on a lot of the work. Or an uncle. Or maybe your government provides extensive day care and education options. Or maybe you have an office where a child can be present.
>>> Is it common and expected ...

In Japan, yes. Unpaid overtime is still normal, though the government is trying to cut back on it via laws, etc.
As far as the other questions go, idk.

But you hear about things like negative population growth, husbands who never talk to their kids, wives who are basically house servants, shut-ins, etc. Though nothing can be called THE reason for any of this, all of this stuff is connected through culture.
Well, the idea is that you can check networks against your own set of organised data — if adding network X reduces the overall effectivity, you just stop using network X and X's score is reduced.

EDIT: As HN prevents me from adding new comments right now (Seriously, HN, allow us to post more than 3 comments per hour, it’s seriously hard to hold a conversation like this), I’ll answer your comment here:

Users would train networks locally based on their own decisions. Those networks would then be submitted to a repo, and you’d get other networks in return. If a network sorts badly (aka, you always undo its sorts manually), you will not get networks with similar sorting capabilities next time.

The concept would automatically prevent people from adding malicious networks – as they’d end up in the local blacklist of users.

Obviously you wouldn’t blacklist the network itself, but a representation of its concept of sorting.
How are the 10 samples they send out selected?
In a room where he expected ~40 participants for the tour he had ~6 hands raised, which caused the core dump.
You misread it.

They have EM bugs placed close to target sites. But these bugs have to be powered/recharged, so the NSA use focused radar to power the bug itself. Information is then sent back down the radar signal by modulating it.

EM spying is very real[0] and documented. "The Thing"[1] from 1945 actually uses some of the principles they're discussing here, they're just combining it with Tempest. Nothing they're describing is science fiction, it is very possible.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
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Yes, I quoted her verbatim. I was quite surprised myself. It was my first time seeing a psychiatrist.
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Can someone give an idea how to connect to their system via API?
Because their system is not trendy, my googling ability couldnt help me.

What kind of protocols they are using? RFC, docs, books will be helpful.

Couldn't even find web widget for integrating to website
The trick with UCP is to roll around in the dirt and the lighter colors will blend in perfectly with your area and the darker shades will provide darker shades in your area. While this doesnt really work with sand it works perfectly with more traditional soils.
On Android most well-architected applications will persist almost everything to disk before showing it to the user. Network directly to UI is too unstable.

It's not about intensive reads/writes (dozens of MB) it's about making each individual read or write very fast so you don't drop frames. On Android you have 16ms to draw each frame (60fps). If you have a DB request take 5ms then all of a sudden you're very likely to have jank in your app.
Only 500 errors, no movies.
A disappointing lack of professionalism on Typelevel's part, but fortunately such behavior is also self-limiting.
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I mean after giving birth isn't there a certain amount of time where one can't do much? One doesn't just give birth and hop right back up. For instance in my pilates class a woman who wasn't even visibly pregnant said she had to be careful because previously she had a miscarriage after doing pilates. So if even light exercising such as pilates, I can't imagine what more intense effort such as the stress of running a company would do to some people. But I guess it depends on the individual.
I was really into slashdot for like a year, and then quickly saw the tides turn in favor of trolls for some reason and left.. I mean, it went from being a place I check multiple times per day to now I never go to slashdot unless someone explicitly gives me a link. I think they lost their community somewhere in the multiple buy outs. Their bias supporting Sourceforge during the adware bundling debacle I think was when there was a mass exodus, and now it's pretty much just trolls left.
Thank you for confirming your motives by ignoring the substance of my comments.
I agree, and this was poor wording on my part. I just wanted to point out that this side of piracy ensure that a large part of the population would not benefit much from it because it won't bring them any good (e.g. education, practical knowledge, etc) while providing easy ways to waste away their energy.

The outcome of downloading research papers or educational content is not the same as downloading entertainment.
The reality I see is that I had to select your text to even read it.
Prostitution, in this context, means doing something immoral for money.

I think a better definition would be "giving up something intimate and precious for money" (beyond simply one's time and good humor). Or other words, giving up a significant piece of oneself (beyond simply a smile, or the fake-friendly vibe demanded by many work environments).

Putting a smile on the CTO's face rather than producing something of value is arguably immoral.

And this I disagree with you on also; however it's a purely subjective disagreement. (Arguably making people smile is producing something of value, if it smooths over bumps and helps them get through the day. But that's just how I see things).

BTW, I for one don't see prostitution as immoral (or any more immoral than, say, selling junk food); and it can even be legitimately therapeutic in some cases.
I think they probably do not want to tacitly approve of the use of Wikipedia as a file-sharing service.
I'm using the terms as defined in standard economics. Public = non rivalrous, non-excludible, private = rivalrous and excludible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_good

Suppose we attach the label "public good" to roads or trains. What implications - if any - do you believe follow from this?

Certainly the implication that the government should subsidize it does NOT follow. A good which is rivalrous and excludible is one that the market can provide adequate quantities of, in contrast to goods which are non-rivalrous and non-excludible which will be underprovided by the market.
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Is it already April 1st?
How long is the recovery time usually, I mean typically for the average woman? Also, I mentioned the nursery because in the post it said she would have a nursery at work.
You're less likely to discover compiler bugs, but you can still "beat the odds" if your codebase is big enough. Many of the bugs mentioned in the post were triggered by code not doing anything especially unusual.
Because you're admitting that you were speeding. If you claim ignorance ("Sorry, I was too focused on traffic to glance at the speedometer"), you at least have a chance (depending on the officer's mood) of getting away with a warning.
No, I'm simply saying that pregnancy is a less reliable guide than you might assume if you have a fixed idea of what it means to be a pregnant woman.
So again, is this Hacker News or Karma-Jerkin-Conformist News?

It seems that in order to "earn" that "ability" one has to praise Lisp, Rust and Haskell and publicly hate JS. Isn't that mass conciousness manipulation?

The selected few or a crowd thinking the same thought - what's the actual difference? The only difference is that in the second case all fresh and independent ideas get downvoted much faster.

Any karma-based resource suffers from this plague.

Ochlocracy at its worst.
That does not hold true. People change their behavior based on who they believe is observing them and the ramifications of that observation. You might want to catch up on sociology from 1950 till now.
I actually like Typelevel projects and use a lot of them everyday. Contrary to them, I don't have any problem making a difference between technologies and political views.
Anyone who has taken a psychology course can understand why this is the case: the only people who stay in psych are the ones that actually believe the bullshit that psychology teaches without questioning it. The entire psychology curriculum for years was (and still in many ways) is based on memorizing results from received authority, and not based on method like it is in the real sciences. Even biology, which is heavy on memorization explicitly deals with methods at every turn.
To be more precise, it doesn't *matter" if the Internet Archive is a "library" or not because libraries don't have any special status with respect to copyright law in the US. (Beyond whatever special status publishers may choose to give certain classes of libraries with respect to digital rights.) You or I can choose to setup a lending library tomorrow and we have the same rights to loan out physical books as the New York Public Library does.
CCC has been around for a very long time. That seems very unlikely they 'haven't been caught yet'.
From the perspective of the VC, yeah, it seems unfair to screen based on that - but it also seems unfair to screen based on looks or personality or accent or whatever, all of which is (probably?) happening.

From the perspective of the founder - obviously that's a personal choice. I personally wouldn't be looking to start a new venture and actively seek funding if my wife was pregnant, more than likely waiting it out for a few months won't hurt anything. Even if you are in a situation like you described, being pregnant takes up a lot of time that can't be outsourced, like pre-natal doctor visits. Also in both of my wife's pregnancies so far she's had to be rushed to the hospital during the pregnancy and spend a few days there, and on the last one she had to have a fairly intense emergency surgery. Honestly in my anecdotal experience those situations aren't uncommon.

On the other hand if I was already actively working on a startup before the pregnancy and needed to close another round before the baby came, I'd do my best make that happen.
The Apple article linked here is worth reading.
The idea of evidence-based medicine and using the scientific method in medicine came up in the 1960s. It took longer still for it to become widely used and there are still massive problems in that area today, take a look at drug testing as an example. You can't reasonably claim psychiatry to be significantly more or less scientific than medicine.

You're idea that there is an objective consensus on what's harmful and what's not is simply ridiculously wrong. Just look at discussions about making insecticides or pesticides illegal that come up quite regularly.
Would you say it is unnatural to assume that a mother is more likely to be preoccupied with her baby than the father? If the plan is for the father to take over, why not mention it while fundraising?

Even so, there is physical strain that is likely to take a toll on the mother, which might cost a few productive months. Breastfeeding might also be an issue, waking the mother several times per night.
Yeah, I agree that psychiatry's value rests less on its categorization as science or not but rather its ability to reliably reproduce valid and accurate knowledge of use to society and individuals.

I have began to push back against the position that the scientific method is the exclusive measure of valid and valuable knowledge, and I detected a bit of that in your assertion.

Personally I believe that psychiatry can be both a science and not a science, depending on how one practices it. And that some highly valid and valuable knowledge remains outside the reach of science, and always will. And other highly valid and valuable knowledge can only be produced by the scientific method and will remain outside the reach of subjective methods.
Right, condemning a vocal advocate of white supremacy and racial slavery is a slippery slope to WHO KNOWS WHAT DANGERS.
The distinction between an "idea" and an "intellectual product" doesn't seem very satisfying.
You mean destruction of evidence or obstruction of justice. Contempt of court likely doesn't apply unless you were asked to turn the evidence over yourself and destroyed it.

It is likely that you could be. But as with all criminal proceedings they'd need to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. If the KillUSB software itself was unrecoverable it might prove difficult.
When you boycott something at the type level, it's a compiler error to buy something from that firm.
That's not the article's title and the article says nothing about the FBI. The title should be changed.

"NSF funds Indiana University study of social media misinformation" would be good. The actual title, "Five things to know about 'Truthy'", isn't helpful.
Actually, you might want to not choose any database at all, but instead focus on deciding on the data format, such as Parquet (http://parquet.io) or Avro (https://avro.apache.org/), etc. Many of the tools such as Hive, Impala, Spark, etc. support these formats natively.

You will also need to think about the schema, partitioning, compression and other parameters, and those are not trivial decisions.
Analytics 101: Choosing the right database is the wrong first step.

I was excited when I saw 'choosing the right data model' as one of the rules, but they are talking about the data models the DB uses internally. The important data model is choosing how you model the data you have to analyze. I have my biases, but I'd argue that a dimensional model would be a good starting if we're really at a 101 level and extensions to the model are for future classes/development.

Starting with the end in mind is very important. When I look at this, I think in terms of data culture. Who needs to be able to do what in your organization? What types of question will you need to answer most often? What types of questions will you need to support in an ad-hoc manner?

To many organizations "analytics" means arithmetic, but with complex filtering logic and business logic, traditional BI, essentially. To others, "analytics" means R code monkeys. To others it may mean specifically visualizations and the presentation layer. There are many interpretations of the word. Regardless of the interpretation, process and culture are more important to understand before the technology.

For a rough analogy, it's like saying "Software development 101: Choosing the right programming language". Sure it matters, but knowing what your software needs to support and what the primary use cases are are more important to understand.

Ninja edit: Grammar.
My read on it is opposite. They went through a low point, but they now host many more writers with good reputations and have better tools for hosting company blogs, online magazines, etc. I still find no value in idly clicking through the site, but I think you can host there for the idle traffic and the tools without necessarily being associated with the lesser writing.
Dissidents and human right activists were sent for mental institution mostly by diagnosing schizophrenia as a means to discredit them and as message to others. We should applaud those brave souls and not doubt their sanity.
You can't make a Show HN out of something that doesn't exist yet. Please read the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
How about the "read the article" hivemind? There's a bit of a difference between "knowingly violated the terms of service" and "told we were in 100% compliance with the rules".

Also, if you want a dumb crime analogy, imagine a situation where robbers get locked up... but only if they voted for a particular party. Uneven enforcement based on whim is a bad thing. Especially when someone is trying extremely hard to follow the rules.
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