skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we do have the model of culture, which is a trivial set when thinking about groups of people, but refined when grouped by values and concepts. They define groups of people and impact power distribution, but is distinct in its aspect to be supported and enforced both by those with power and those without.

To take a few examples, female and male identity is defined by the same culture. A man will apply male identity as defined by culture, but also be expected (and enforced) to do so by both men and women in that culture. When we look at groups and define men as having more power as a group, it doesn't address if they have more power to change the cultural rules. The power a man has to voluntarily wear women clothing should be a hint towards that aspect, and if they have more power to do so than a woman wearing men clothing.

Similar, in the caste system, people from all castes shared and enforced the culture. People of high caste supported it, and people of low caste supported it as that meant that they themselves were not at fault. In the end it took a common effort to remove it from law in places like India, but as a cultural values it is yet to fully be eradicated.

> In the US, blacks are more likely to be incarcerated than whites of even much higher economic status:

Well, I did ask this before. Is "acted on", even if beneficial, a power? A lot of feminism theory when looking at movies and story telling criticize that being "acted on" diminish a person identity and power. Even if its a beneficial outcome in the case of incarceration, the person involved can't affect it or control it.

Looking at it from a cultural (and using the trivial set), we can easily see how such outcome can happen. I recall a test where actors, a white man, a white woman, a black man, and a black woman acted as if they stole a bike in broad daylight. The outcome matches perfectly the cultural expectation, with only the men drawing negative attention. The black man got the worst, while the white women got positive attention in that bystanders went and actually helped her to cut the protective chain of the bike. From a cultural perspective, society collectively define thieves as white women < black women < white men < black men, as least to most likely.

If we tried to predict this result using perceived power of each group, we would get something like W/M < W/F < B/M < B/F, with the potential to switch W/F and B/M depending if we regard race or gender as the more powerful sub group. Regardless, neither provide an accurate prediction, as white males end up second to worst when looking at the actual result.

From a cultural perspective, where we define it as controlling what power each group has, it does make sense that not all groups have the same power in all situations. It also make sense to define that the group that culture defines as having power, are themselves not able to control culture. At most, the group can proportionally affect culture, similar to that of a large sub group of citizens can affect the election result without the group having a majority.
My interpretation of his comment was that he's just poking fun at the title.

An alternative title might have been: "alien life might be found in observations physicists struggle today to explain."
Well hey, you could always get the best of both worlds and use "display: table" and friends. :)
I really like machines with lots of battery life. I do lots of data work/compiling code and if something advertises 10hrs of battery life, this means it will definitely get at least three under heavy workloads, so its something that will work for me.

I realise that I'm probably an outlier though.
naw, it's a 3-book long novel and none of the story would make sense without the first 2. The first 2 are good too
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It is not a good idea to restore attacker-owned applications to a "known good" state before you have done at least a cursory post mortem. Not only do are the security holes intact but since the attacker now knows they been found out, you can invite more serious damage.

The article tries to pitch read only Docker images some kind of solution, but running your applications read only (and what other permissions you grant your application) has nothing to do with Docker images. Using file system and process namespaces for application isolation is a good idea.

But lately it seems to be getting more popular to drop untrusted applications in containers (possibly even under outside control and full of who-knows-what) as if that somehow solves "security". The thing is, you still need to be able to reason about what permissions your respective application requires, there's no getting away from that.
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The upsides of a hexayurt are many. Done well, they're possibly the best housing on playa - definitely competitive with RVs, if you bring your own AC. Mine's lasted five years, and all I've had to do was replace the door panel (a door to the floor - resulting in a U shaped panel - is not the best plan).

But! These are, in my experience, the hard parts and downsides - not that they're insurmountable, or even all that difficult, but worth mentioning:

1) Doors are hard. No, really.

2) Storage & Transportation. (8ft by 4ft+ by 8in+)

3) Can't lean on the walls

4) Short doors get annoying, fast.

Anecdotally, I'm definitely seeing more hexayurts out there each year, particularly the small stretch designs (which are fantastic, btdubs)
> This person isn't actually a troll. He's not doing it to mess with you. He really does believe what he's saying, and you cannot convince him otherwise until he relinquishes the core idea that led to it, which in this case is his religion.

What you are really saying is that is his/her core idea is wrong and this leads to behaviour that clothes itself as trolling ("cannot convince him otherwise until he relinquishes the core idea that led to it, which in this case is his religion").

He/she could easily say the same thing about your core idea, so I fail to see how this adds to the discussion.
it is already the case with windiws 10 /s
The article talks about the interesting apparent coincidence of timing b/w the formation of earth and the increased acceleration of the universe.

The article discusses a possible connection b/w life and expansion, but maybe it's more simple: perhaps it's only possible we can ask this question because had it not been for the accelerated expansion of the universe, we'd would have had neighbours close enough that they might not be too happy we popped in and were working on our own ideas about what to do in the neighbourhood.
>i'm totally willing to believe that russia obtained the emails and gave them to wikileaks -- it's far from proven, at least on the public side of discourse, but it makes sense and doesn't seem impossible or bullshitty to me

Yet we've seen zero evidence for it. Blaming Russia is convenient for DNC since it shifts the dialogue from the emails to "evil empire" that's supposedly behind it. First, they attempted to claim that emails have been tampered with and then when DKIM signatures proved that hypothesis wrong, they shifted their tactics.

Funniest part of that whole election was the claim by Dems that Trump has some kind of a secret server that communicates with Russians. Laughable. It's all just a misdirection.
The funny thing is that the cost to the individual is negligible and the cost to government (and business) is low compared to the benefits. Less fraud, efficient identification processes etc.
I am talking about pedestrian crossing traffic lights, that can be called by pedestrians to turn green. Appears that these are indeed called beg buttons.
There's no particular benefit derived by the "gun lobby" from less surveillance and registrations, though. So long as guns remain legal, they will sell. If some category becomes illegal, the gun manufacturers won't be able to sell them anyway; whether the government could also go after any existing owners of those guns or not is not particularly relevant.
oh how i wish Microsoft didnt 1] have a patent on color barcodes 2] choose to do nothing with it

Still, perhaps we could get a decent barcode format with some of its ideas, idk if they are all patented. It uses triangles which can be packed a lot more densely than squares, and has four- and eight-color modes. The density is nuts. You could theoretically download a decent size book via color barcodes in a couple seconds. It could revolutionize all kinds of things, being able to have large amounts of data in a barcode, rather than just a URL.
> The other reason it sucks is that it confuses bulk mail with spam. This is a very common confusion. Lots of companies send vast amounts of mail that users want to receive. Think Facebook, for example.

I challenge this. In 2016 I think most companies don't need to rely on massive bulk mails anymore.

But then I always hated all forms of marketing...
I think you’ve nailed it - this is a branding problem more than anything else. They have tried merging the Macbook Air and the Pro into one computer and its just pissed off both fanbases.

If they had just called these the Macbook 13” and 15” everybody would have been impressed.

Three laptops - Macbook 12”, Macbook 13” and Macbook 15” feels more Apple to me than this current frankenstein of brand names “Macbook, Macbook Pro, Macbook Pro w/ Touch Bar”
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Should probably just tiger-tree-hash your containers. If they deviate you give them a copy of your database, but it's a "virtual" shadow copy. No writes to it reflect on the real database.
TL;DNR how it differs from usual performance optimization?
Strongly thought about downvoting it, because it basically says "what I care about is important, what you care about is not". It sounds good, but it is certainly not a definition. (and this text is not meant as harsh as it sounds)
All kinds of things can go wrong when the lanes are too wide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwinnODU0yo
The post toilets in Germany typically have somebody sitting there, constantly cleaning the toilets.
But they also tried marketing to women/girls in the 80s. Buy a PC as the "family computer":

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f7/63/7c/f7637cf9f...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f7/63/7c/f7637cf9f...
I'm all for simple and readable, but this article's layout was frustrating. On My phone the left side had images while the right side had text in small font. I could zoom into the text to compensate, but then completely forgot about the images unless they were mentioned in the text.
I think the toilet business is only a good one on a large scale anyway: mostly due to fixed costs for paying the cleaning staff no matter if you operate a restroom with 1 or 20 seats.

BTW: I'm not sure about the neighbor. As I would only ask for a voluntary 50 Ct. there's no reason to prefer the other guys toilet. I assume my toilet would be preferred because it's cleaner (cause I'd pay more to my cleaning staff).
I'm almost certain that I can't see around corners though.
One of the issues mentioned is that bulk mail and spam are not necessarily the same thing. However, bulk mail much less use for e2e than directed mail.

Personalized bulk mail (e.g. bulk mail with a small personalized offer) is an issue here. For that, partial encryption seems like a nice solution. As the template remains plaintext, reputation can include the template. As such, you could levy a lower 'tax' on such email as opposed to fully confidential email.
They have a huge army of (mainly old people) cleaning them, so I think it's a sort of public works program to keep people employed -- and one I approve of.
Octave can do this too [1,2]. The 'parallel' package is quite easy to set up and integrate. 'mpi' doesn't work with new octave versions (yet?).

[1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/mpi/
[2] http://octave.sourceforge.net/parallel/
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Newcastle Upon Tyne is also doing something similar.

[0] https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/environment-and-waste/street-ca...

[1] https://www.getintonewcastle.co.uk/city-info/use-our-loos
Dude, are you seriously suggesting a laptop marketed for developers not be used by people writing and compiling code?

I know right - it's like everyone has forgotten that Pro means "for professionals". And also forgot that the booming sales of the iPhone and iPad owe everything to the ecosystem of apps and content created on Macs.

People doing 3D, engineering simulations, computational bio and chem, financial modelling, yadda yadda, there are loads of people who can make use of every byte of RAM and every core for Real Work. So some guy can make websites adequately on a smaller machine - he or she needs to look up and realize that that's a tiny corner of what computing is about...
This may be the result of translation, right? Who says the translator has really thought if indifference is the right word in this sentence.
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I think they are falling in the "pumping specs" too, just not the same specs the vocal geeks want: they are pumping "thinner", "lighter" for no other reason than vanity?
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Berlin licenses all its advertising space to private companies and lets them build and maintain public toilets as part of the deal. The toilets are usually barrier free and fully automated, i.e. they do a full cleaning after every use. They are in fairly good conditions and I thought this was a great idea, but the senate has issued a request for tender in 2018 so the future is a bit unclear at the moment.

http://img.morgenpost.de/img/berlin/crop207814885/0722602716...
Flexbox solves many of my css layout woes, but is still not as convenient as it could be (and is still "container" based as the article puts it).

I wish I could use something like QML for layout (anchors that connect elements to each other, grids for when you need lists/tables/columns/grids).
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My entire multiple desktop setup relies on function keys :(
> Gun ownership and lobbying for same began immediately after the civil rights movement and all language around it until recently was about protecting the white race (with an occasional sprinkling of 'self defense' rhetoric sprinkled in)

That is actually revisionist itself.

Just to give a simple example, immediately after the Civil Rights Movement, Texas of all states - the stereotypical place of "crazy rednecks with guns" - prohibited both open and concealed carry of firearms until 1995.

Of course, it wasn't a new policy, either. The law in question was originally enacted in 1871. Now, if you know your history, that date might look curious, because this is shortly after the Civil War, and at the peak of the Reconstruction. So you might have a hunch that it might just have something to do with all the black slaves who suddenly became freemen, with all the civil rights of citizens - including the right to keep and bear arms (and use it to, say, defend themselves against any white lynch mobs).

Which would be broadly correct. Especially when you remember that laws can (and were, in the South) selectively enforced; and that criminal prosecution requires trial by jury, and an all-white jury could always (and did) acquit a white guy with no explanation if some overzealous prosecutor decided to press charges. This is a very convenient arrangement that 70 years later was concisely described by Getúlio Vargas, the dictator of Brazil, as "For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law."

This had also proven quite handy during the Civil Rights era against "agitators" (i.e. activists coming from other states to help Blacks register to vote, document cases of illegal hurdles etc). Much easier to assemble a mob if you know the target will fight back with fists at most.

Same thing happened in most other Southern states. If you look at when their gun restrictions went into effect, it was usually either in the last years of the Reconstruction, or during the Jim Crow era.

Another interesting example is California. It's well known for its restrictive gun laws today, but few remember that the guy who started that ball rolling was governor Ronald Reagan, and the reason why he did it was this action by the Black Panthers on the steps of the California Capitol:
https://www.thetrace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/B3E067E0...

And newspapers described it thus:
http://thepriceofsafety.weebly.com/uploads/2/7/5/6/27566015/...

The law itself - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act - dates to 1967, so basically immediately after the Civil Rights Acts.

It wasn't until late 70s that American conservatives have actually started embracing gun rights. And I won't dispute that part of it was a reaction [of fear] to CRA and such, once it became clear that the whole "states rights" thing wasn't going to work. But it's worth remembering that, for the most part, the laws that they were repealing left and right were enacted for similar reasons in the first place.
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My 2012 thinkpad w530 already had 32GB. And it's usually fairly full.

windows vm + browser + a few JVMs + office + analyzing memory dumps... and you want some spare capacity for the disk cache. Some occasional photoshop too. Analyzing memory dumps probably is the most demanding thing I do regularly. But all those pieces add up either way.
They are called like that because they don't actually do anything. They are there just to calm down impatient pederastians by giving them illusion of control ;)
That's the only thing I can see that explains the data. It's not that women (as a statistical group) can't code; it's that they don't want to, and when they feel financially secure they don't.
Yeah, I've totally had these thoughts before too. The interesting part would be proving any of them :)
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it's pretty hard to diff filesystems that aren't designed for it. Either you need to lock the whole filesystem somehow - e.g. by taking it offline - or you have to deal with the fact that other processes are reading/writing as you scan the filesystem, which is rather difficult to reason about.

And it's not just about diffing your code with your repo - that only works if the attacker tried to attack your code. What about other running processes? New files on the system containing malicious code, outside of the paths you usually deploy code to? what about new, unexpected cron jobs?

Overall, it could become a pretty complex job. A filesystem with some intrinsic snapshotting makes this a lot easier.
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I dunno, I'd have thought the major difference there is tense. It's an ordeal while it's happening; it's an adventure once it's over.

Not really - it's about mental reframing. I was in the hills yesterday, moving fast with 45lbs on my back. Many people don't like cold, they avoid it and fear it. But in my mind the cold is my friend, it keeps me awake and alert. Many people, even serious runners, hate and avoid uphills, but in my mind they are a gift, sent to make me stronger. Teach yourself to believe these things - actually say them out loud - and your perspective on what is an ordeal will surely change.
Docker is not (designed to be) a security technology. Yes, rolling back servers/VMs/containers to their previous state is a good capability to have (although most of us just use backups for that!), but assuming that an attacker cannot break out of a container is, at least, optimistic.
As for mingling different sorts of traffic - I've heard of several spots here in the Netherlands where they've done just that, and it doesn't always result in lower accident rates. At some point you cross the line between "less of a comfort zone everybody is more aware" and "confusing mess that has so many things going on that nobody is aware of everything".
A narrow road can still be predictable - you'll have to be alert to prevent minor bumps, but there's no surprises that can result in rear-ends because you have to slam on the brakes.

I don't have any studies numbers to back it up atm.
Be that as it may, I'd sacrifice some battery life to have the option of 32GB of RAM.

The moment you need to start running Windows VMs on top of OSX along with Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc., that 16GB limit becomes incredibly aggravating.

Battery life is an especially crappy excuse when you consider that most of the time I'm running on outlet power - it's very rare that I don't have access to a power point for 5 - 6 hours at a time.

And lest we forget, this is a machine called the MacBook Pro. Pro, as in, for the use of professionals. And professionals need more system RAM. Hello Apple, are you getting this?

I'd also like an option for a 2TB SSD and more (not less) ports, particularly USB, because I don't want to have to carry around a pile of dongles everywhere with me that all too easily become lost. Remember: the machine is called the MacBook PRO.
Hate to throw in yet another counter-argument, but here goes:

I'd consider myself one of the main target markets for the MacBook Pro, and have for several years been a faithful consumer of them. I compile multi-gigabyte codebases on a semi-regular basis in addition to database work and number crunching that would put a normal consumer laptop totally out of its depth. Its the combination of the ability to do this easily and with great battery life and general usability that makes my MacBook so nice.

I'm convinced that if you're doing more heavy-hitting work than what I throw at my laptop day in day out then a MacBook or any easily portable device isn't for you, and a 2 inch thick Dell monster with a proper desktop chipset and memory controller is what you're really after, or even a couple of c4.xlarge instances running in AWS with a MacBook as the client. For any load too much for my little notebook its straight into amazon and I go get a coffee.
> As for unalienable, we 'aliened' those rights by limiting who they applied to.

Not quite. The "who" was always citizens. The catch, rather, was limiting whom the restrictions on limiting applied to. Under the original, pre-14th Amendment interepretation of the Bill of Rights, it only placed restrictions on the federal government (indeed, the First makes it explicit, with its "Congress shall make no law").

States could still do whatever they wanted - the check there was supposed to be the corresponding state constitution, and, indeed, most of them had some checks, in many cases with verbiage directly derived from BoR.

As for "states rights", while it is more often a dog whistle for allowing states to infringe on someone's right, this is not necessarily always the case. It can also be about allowing states to protect someone's right against an encroachment by the federal government. "Sanctuary cities" are a canonical example of how some states exercise their states' rights (in this case, the right to not cooperate with the federal government) to protect someone.
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In my country, high traffic moderate speed (90km/h - 56 mph) sometimes go across rural villages where the speed limit is usually half that. Furthermore, drivers here are notorious for not giving a frack about speed limits. So some of those villages have experienced with various ways to narrow the road. Sometimes it plays only with perception, by adding for instance small plastic poles to separate the lanes. Sometimes it's chicanes or bumps.

I can't give figures on the effectiveness of this, but as a driver you instinctively slow down when the road appears narrower. It seems to me more effective than a sign on the side of the road.