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> I have no idea what it “feels like” to be a woman—and I am one.

The crux of her argument seems to be that because she can't imagine feeling like she has the wrong sex, nobody actually feels like they have the wrong sex, and it's all about identifying (or not) with cultural expectations of femininity or masculinity. But,

> the statistical rarity of true gender dysphoria

So she doesn't actually dispute that gender dysphoria exists.

She asserts that claimed gender dysphoria is more common nowadays and most such claims are not genuine gender dysphoria, presumably because she doesn't believe that sociological changes could influence the prevalence of psychological conditions, and/or people's ability and willingness to identify as having the condition.

> the whole trans movement does seem to have awfully [much] to do with clothes

Clothes are one of the ways people in our culture signal their gender. It shouldn't be surprising if people who believe they are female want to wear clothes which are culturally associated with females. But, if you don't believe that (most) trans people have gender dysphoria then, sure, all you see is people worrying about clothes.

> But I hate to break it to the converts to my sex: women who were born women schlep around most of the time in jeans and trainers. The version of femininity offered up by Caitlyn Jenner is foreign to me—exaggeratedly coiffed, buffed and corseted

But you've heard of the Kardashians, right? It isn't as though almost always looking glamorous when in public is a trans trait. It's a trait that some people have.
That Google link on top came out of nowhere and doesn't work. Here's the actual link to the great write-up on MOP and philosophy:

http://download.imatix.com/mop/introduction.html
A lot of animals have brains that are cheaper than human brains, in terms of size and food. But usually when we're talking about what's better, we exclude budget. By those terms, the human brain is vastly superior to almost all others. Just like an i7 crushes every little embedded processor out there.

Being superior and being more optimized for a niche are not the same thing.
Billions on Showtime is kind of like that.
Its a question of false positives, and also the chilling effect. If we're all under a microscope that changes society fundamentally.

Kids talk about lots of things, in jest or half serious. All the time. Getting paranoid about it would be a worse problem.

As I heard Hodge say on Criminal Minds, "All teenaged boys profile as sociopaths"
Not sure about that with the HN audience. I have only the most passing interest in biology and aging research but I automatically made the association.
How U.S. intervention in Afghanistan changed that country
I don't know. The DREAM act, the changes to the healthcare laws, stimulus-oriented recession recovery, the sequestration, digital surveillance, and the TPP are all very important and very much results of decisions of the President.
Well, I have to say I disagree that a voting system always harms discussion. I mean, Invision Power Board, XenForo and Burning Board forums all have a built in likes system (and commonly used plugins to extend it). I haven't noticed forums running those scripts being less civil or having worse quality. Or the various vBulletin forums switching to XenForo losing their existing community feel and atmosphere.

Of course, there is a difference here when compared to platforms like Reddit and Hacker News though. Namely, the likes don't affect how comments or discussions are shown. There's a number of likes and dislikes under the post, and maybe a small icon on the topic list, but a heavily disliked post doesn't get hidden or removed for it.

It's also been a thing long before that, with various add ons. For example, vBulletin had a post thanks system mod which worked like likes/upvotes:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=122944

And phpBB had 'karma' mods back in the early 00s.

Did quality get hit on sites with those mods? I didn't really notice it.

On another note, it does make me want to see a study in regards to what sort of like/reputation system keeps a forum or social network a more civil place.

Does only upvotes/likes work better than having downvotes/dislikes?

How about the inverse, where you can only dislike content rather than like it?

How about a private reputation system, where only the user giving the reputation and receiving it knows they've done so? That's how vBulletin's version used to work.

Does having more possibilities for votes help more than just like/dislike? How does Facebook Reactions or XenForo Post Ratings compare to Reddit up/downvotes?
It seems this article badly needs to be updated in light of Ubuntu on Windows. Here's a link from 2016 instead of 2010. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the...
As a whole it comes down to narcissism and desire to feel 'special'. Sexuality is a spectrum with nearly infinite points and we're all fluid on the spectrum. Labeling a select hundreds of points on the spectrum is needles. Being happy doesn't require a label. It requires the acceptance of your peers, and I don't think insistence on corrrect labels or new pronoun's help with that.
Really nice article here, btw: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aams/hd_aams.htm
Check your options before quitting. Go to a few interviews. Tell friends you might be free for offers. Stop ignoring recruiters on linkedin.
Make an educated decision between real options, not between a real option and a hypothetical option.

Fixing bugs is part of the job anywhere. Sure, starting something new is fun - but getting something to be scalable and reliable is just as challenging.

Can you improve your work conditions at your current job?
Can you initiate new and exciting tasks?
Can you identify problems your company is dealing with? can you come up with unique ways to solve them?

Be proactive with your career, or you'll always find yourself ending up depressed with the job. Early stage, late stage or corporate.
Looking through your comments, the only prior example you give is of lengthy discussions of punctuation at the village pump. That isn't exactly my definition of "awful behaviour".

You also mention about male editors replace "rape scene" with "sex scene" in articles, but I can't find where that actually happened (and it seems like a pretty clear case of seeing what the sources say).
While I agree with this and hope this is ultimately where we are headed, I think the world has to go through this phase to get to the one where people finally honestly don't care or hold bias
This brouhaha about gender identity requires some 'fixed points' about gender that I thought we progressives had all already agreed were nonexistent!

But I don't think the point about the author's personal experience of not "feeling like a girl" proves anything - see "cis by default", or http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/02/18/typical-mind-and-gender.... It's possible that there are people who do feel strongly that their body doesn't match what their mind is telling them, and it's a cause of suffering. As I understand it, it really is all about sex in this case (which makes the author's quip about her "true self not having arthritic knees" irrelevant).
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That's an opinion that is perfectly valid for an individual to have.

However, when you express this opinion in an expressly negative way, it makes it sound like you are attempting to invalidate the opinions of people who might hold contrasting beliefs. And history has shown this to be one of the top 10 causes for conflict and wars.

Perhaps you might find a more positive way to express your personal beliefs? Perhaps you could say, "I wish we lived in a world without pain or terminal illness, so nobody would have to make the choice between pointless suffering and death".

If you find some way to contribute to the conversation without calling a man dying of cancer "revolting", you would have a better chance of finding common ground and reaching consensus.
Both Windows and Linux are distinguished for their pathological conviction to never break userspace. Linux has its warts because of this, but since it's 10 years younger than DOS and since, as a Unix kernel, it was always very clear what the kernel should and should not do, it doesn't have quite the trail of hacks seen in Windows.

Windows has broken legacy programs though. In Windows 7 a lot of old programs stopped working in the consumer editions of the OS. I don't know if they've continued making their "professional" editions that provide comparability. I suppose that's a reasonable strategy to encourage developers to update their software without killing user productivity, which could workout for the best in the long run.
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I see it more as social capital and power
You seem to be implying that transgender people are that way out of choice. If so, how do you reconcile this statement:

> Girls often don't want to be
treated "like a girl" either - girls rebel too. The way society treats and socializes girls and women is very proscriptive and often sucks.

with the fact that there are many more transwomen (who do want to be treated like a girl) than transmen (who don't want to be treated like a girl)?
You don't have to go any further than the US of A for that.

If you accept that there is anything "real" about the $10 a GB that Verizon and AT&T charge for LTE data, zero rating doesn't make sense at all. That is, there are very few services that make anywhere near $10 a GB. For instance, it costs maybe $10 of mobile data to watch one movie on Netflix and that is what a monthly subscription costs.

In particular, if you add up all the money spent on advertising it is a fraction of what the customer pays for mobile data (less than 5%) and if the carriers just rebated 5% of the data charges to the web sites they'd be doing much better than they do now.
I usually learn what I need for my job.
Is he lying about doing drug research? He says no one else was doing anything for this disease as it is so rare. Seeing how old the drug is and no one else is even making it seems to prove that part of the claim.

Are there proofs of the availability program but working outside this video? Seems like news people should document such cases and bring them up. Even better if they'd do so live on his webcam.
Except this is an article about Interix. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Microsoft seems to have discarded this particular technology entirely and started over fresh with Ubuntu on Windows.
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IIUC the new Ubuntu-on-Windows stuff is a different take, reusing some of Interix but diverging substantially from the old implementation.

EDIT Source[1]: "Over time these [Interix] subsystems were retired. However, since the Windows NT Kernel was architected to allow new subsystem environments, we were able to use the initial investments made in this area and broaden them to develop the Windows Subsystem for Linux."

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs...
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I visited the London Bus Museum (not the Transport Museum in Covent garden) http://www.londonbusmuseum.com/ There Bus pre-first world war with the 164 (my local route) still with the exact same stops.
I think "big" data is being confused with "ubiquitous" data in this article. Larger datasets will always lead to more statistical confidence in a conclusion you make from the data. The article does a great job of explaining the caveats to this (data skews, misuse of stats, external factors), but those issues exist with small data too. In other words, this isn't about the volume of data. I think there are two real and different issues at play here, and both come instead from the ubiquitousness of data nowadays:

1. It's become easier to do more experiments, so even experts are more likely to produce some bad conclusions.

2. Data has become much more accessible, so people without rigorous stats backgrounds have an easier time abusing the hell out of stats on datasets.
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No argument that starts with "sample size: 1" is ever a convincing one.
Two thoughts ..

#1 No details of the "gene therapy". Did they paste telomerase genes into a virus, infect white blood cells and re-inject them?

#2 Telomeric lengthening can be a double edge sword. You don't want all your cells to live forever ... particularly in things like cancer cells.
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Metacademy has been made just for something like this.

https://metacademy.org/
Curious how exactly this generates truly random numbers (and didn't see an explanation in the link). Can anyone explain this in technically-inclined laymen's terms?

fwiw, I'm a programmer but don't know anything about random number generation (other than I'm not supposed to rely on the built-in random functions of most languages/libraries for security purposes because they're not truly random).
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Made through about two paragraphs. The writing was so biased I couldn't make it further.
In big companies, the most successful Staff Engineers forge a symbiotic relationship with a manager at the equivalent level.

The two build trust where the Staff Engineer makes tech decisions and sets direction for the manager's teams in exchange for not having to deal with people or personnel issues as a titled manager. Much of the power without the direct accountability.

The manager, on the other hand, gets the awesome power of the Staff Engineer to deliver projects and handle the technical challenges while reaping most of the credit and rewards, in exchange for being held directly accountable for the teams.

Without this relationship, both halves are fairly useless. So my advice is to forge a relationship with a manager peer until you are ready to move on.
a) please don't editorialize titles

b) duplicate, please check before submitting (this is already on the front page!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559616
I've got a TODO list of things I want to learn that's populated enough to keep me busy for years to come. I just wish I had more time to act on it.

The items on my list are half concrete tasks and half topics to learn. The subjects are very diverse, I have a broad range of interests.

Here's a few from the top:

1. Learn enough classical mechanics to do a stable n body simulation
2. Build a piece of furniture with mortise and tenon joinery
3. Implement a prototype compiler for that GPGPU/shader programming language I've been dreaming about for years
4. Get an Indian fighter kite and learn to fly it
5. Implement a multiple revolution Lambert problem solver to plan the badassest Kerbal Space Program mission ever
6. Write a simulator for gyroscopic motion and compare the results with my toy gyroscopes.

That's enough to occupy my Saturdays for the next five years. Both, the sunny and the rainy ones.
If it is true what is written in this pr articel, she is an even bigger lunatic then previously thought. You do not treat someone with two experimental treatments at the same time, that is unscientific to the power of five. How would you determine which treatment was successfull and which was not (well, Phase I is about side effects, but you still need to distinguish)? Highly controversal.
> There was successful attempt to generate simple HTTP parsers using Ragel, but the parsers are limited in functionality.

They are not limited in any way. You are free to combine as many state machines as you want with as convoluted logic as you want. But it takes some time to learn Ragel.
Cybercrime as a service is booming is it that easy?
See the FAQ, what you did is a capital offence :)
This is basically how R&D works these days. The government (very frequently the military) assumes the risk of very high risk research and farms that work out to national labs, government research institutions, large research universities, then the most promising looking avenues are trickled down to industry, lower tier research universities, industrial research labs, etc.

At some point, all the science will get done and the work will slide over to more engineering type work and we'll end up with a neat plane/gun/database/internet/drug/medical test/etc.
Probably more like, "Imagine if your wallpaper could listen to you"

Even the name of the device, Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform, sounds rather creepy.
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>surprised that no one has been developing (or I haven't heard of) fully autonomous airplane pilot systems

Facebook seems to be http://www.komando.com/happening-now/319972/facebook-is-buil...
Seems like monitoring the scroll position would have the same (or better) effect.
OK sure this is twitter's fault, but is there really no room for some cleverness by popular apps? E.g. write a different app that no one will ever use because it's intentionally crap and unmarketed, and then "borrow" its token? Ideally a month or so before this happens?
Having your RSS feeds built into the browser was elegant. It makes the internet feel alive in a way that I haven't been able to match since.

Getting news from Twitter, Flipboard etc. either has too much Personality and Brand attached to it, or is too curated. External RSS feed readers are removed from the browsing experience.

I'm not saying that it was especially practical, but it's similar to keeping htop visible even when I'm not actively monitoring processes. It makes me /feel/ closer to my computer just like the Rockmelt newsfeed made me /feel/ closer to the internet.
A very nice improvement over the old boarding pass. The information is laid out much more clearly and seems more easy to scan.

The only minor change I'd consider is having a black-and-white version of the pass without large solid blocks of colour (for example, by using line icons for graphics instead). This would save a lttle bit on printer ink.
Like every contactless smartcard ever.

For that matter my iMac is a battery-free computer that can be programmed wirelessly.
Clearly they don't reveal what these incidents were about because they're probably reporting students to the police for underage consumption of alcohol or something.
When I first moved to Somerville in 1988, I lived in an apartment with four roommates, so it was sort-of communal, though we did each have our own bedroom. We were paying, as I recall, on the order of $250 each. At that time is was not uncommon to see student ghetto apartments with every room converted to a bedroom, and illegal subdivisions of rooms (our place wasn't that bad; we actually had a living room and a dining room). So they've basically taken the skanky absentee landlord model and put a high-tech veneer on it. (A lot of those apartments got converted to condos during the Great Bubble.)

It should also be noted that while Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville remain among the most densely-populated cities in the country, before WWII they actually had more people living in fewer units of housing--essentially double the number of occupants per unit as we have now. One of the reasons housing costs don't come down as you build more housing, is that people tend to take as much as they can afford, so as more housing becomes available, each person takes more.
This is another reason these text style protocols are poorly designed. In addition to ending up ambiguous in practice, in addition to not being standard because of "liberal implementations", we get this terrible performance to boot.

SIP has the same issue. Though most VoIP companies don't have much bandwidth and you can just saturate them. But if they manage to filter that, overloading the actual system is not a difficult task.
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I just don't give a fuck about the world and other people. In a way that I don't want to know what they do and what they have.

The feedback you got of not being man enough was just compensation for that other person not being human enough.

Screw her and all the other who think of you that way. You are a software engineer. That probably means you are smarter than most people on this world. They respect and are scared of you and your knowledge. That's why some try and put you down.

Go and earn even more money until you can say "Fuck You" to all. Cherry-Pussycat that will praise and adore you will come eventually.

Wish you the best.
A new genre of explicit nerd bashing seems to have emerged from the reactionary left. This piece follows the standard formula. It's quite pretentious and shallow.

The article came across as mocking a dead woman. I've never viewed Alcor as anything more than an eccentric form of burial, but what's wrong with that? If I wanted to be mummified precisely like an ancient Egyptian, that's my choice. If I want my head frozen, that's my choice.

I've read good things on The Baffler, but this was grating. I call it's school the "reactionary left" because works in the genre never propose solutions. They only whine and moan.
> And race too! Stop fighting for equality; know your place.

Comments like this do nothing to generate an intelligent discussion and make one wonder whether you even bothered to read the article.
I would consider getting some sleep.

I agree with your point about the emotional involvement, but honestly, this is an unemployed former car salesman and restaurant manager. For him to think he's legitimately negotiating release of hostages over twitter and skype... sure, maybe, but it falls into the 'requires extraordinary evidence' bucket for me.
Then I'm happy to tell you that all three slots on the linked page (which is a sales page) are sold out now. Last time I checked it was only the first slot.
On #2, they're lengthening telomeres, not disabling the telomere mechanism. I'd think that one of the first mutations a cell needs to undergo on the road to being considered "cancerous" is to completely disable the telomere mechanism so that it will become immortal.
On 64 bit windows, they get 2GB by default but can opt in to 4GB. Nothing is capped at 3GB.
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That's good news for freedom. It seems flag burning was illegal before 1990, and very nearly became illegal again a couple of years ago.

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

It's true most other countries have even less freedom of speech, but my point was that it's not black and white. Each country is different and none are very free at all. It should be called "fairly free political speech as long as you aren't too specific in calling for overthrow of the government" or a briefer form of that.
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How sure are you that these are things he personally pushed through without them being things lobbied for by others? That's what I mean. Trump can talk about a wall he wants the neighbor to pay for, but it won't happen, so who cares.

If anything I'd be more concerned about Hillary, since she is perceived as the good one, but she has ulterior motives, in part of course due to campaign money. In any case, she's not an example of a female leader who looks for peace and happiness, like some female presidents have claimed all females power figures to be in contrast to male leaders.
It doesn't matter how many hypotheses you test at one time, as long as they are all orthogonal. The problem arises when attempting to test multiple hypotheses that have some co-linearity in the solution.
Those are interesting (infuriating?) articles, but it goes back to what I mentioned earlier. One group points to examples of people saying obviously racist/prejudiced/offensive things. The other group points to examples where people over-react in silly ways. You really can't draw any conclusions on the basis of anecdotal evidence unfortunately.
> "The only feedback I've got was not being man enough"

That's just like, her opinion man.