skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your statement of agency, but the problem the article was pointing to was the view of the veil as an oppressive device. Despite claiming to be a freedom-loving country, France (Liberté, Equalité, Fraternité) did no better by its Muslim women by removing their agency.

> I see how it can be liberating in that way for a woman whose religious beliefs make separation and protection a moral mandate.

Huh? I think you're mixing up religious beliefs with social ones. This mandate is not unique to Islam and can be found all over the world in societies of varying development and even Christian ones. In fact, you should look at pictures of pre-revolution Iran [0] as proof that Islam itself is not incompatible with women mingling with men or not being veiled.

> This is the most ridiculous argument. Of the many many women of the free countries that purposely dress against the norm, none are sent to jail, stoned to death, or whatever.

Oh really? Men have been beat for wearing drag or for dressing effeminately. (or if you care specifically about women, see: transgender women) Gang members kill people over the color of their shirt or shoes. It's still illegal in most states for women to go topless. Just because you're not forced to wear a veil, doesn't mean you aren't oppressed by society's fashion.

> Is the whole essay like this?

It's not really a long essay, see for yourself.

[0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-before-the-revolution-in...
It's not a big deal. USB-based adapters usually don't need drivers and are $5 to $15, so cheap enough to just put on every desk you usually sit.

I've got office space as well as a desk at a regular client. On both desks, there's a USB hub with an ethernet adapter hooked up. I plunk down my laptop, connect to the hub and I'm done.
The fix would have been to create better mass transit.
I'm confident that it's the opposite of dangerous advice.
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1. Open Photos.

2. Select Photo.

3. Edit Menu -> Copy.

4. Open TextEdit.

5. Edit Menu -> Paste.

It is ridiculous. Ridiculously simple.
There are many reasons but a few from the top of my head are:

1) The whole system is running on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk (via Docker). Beanstalk provisions 3 instances for every site (1 Web, 1 Worker/cron, and 1 RDS) for every app with ELB on front.

2) It makes installing updates easy and automatic using deployment scripts which we have on every site.

3) Everything (web/cron/database) is configured to scale up and down automatically, i.e. new servers start as per demand. This may not be possible otherwise.
My experience as well. I often use the super inexpensive OVH VPSs and I have never had any problems. The price is amazing.
SREs only have a supporting role to play in change rollback. They maintain the tools/services used by SWEs, DBAs, etc to follow the rollback procedure documented in Change Management.

Rollback is often a suitable first response because the rollback is not a button, it is a procedure, and it can be practiced in a test environment and on a small subset of production without significant customer impact.

Like the other commenter suggested, gradual rollout is a great way to spot bugs or customer feedback. You can accomplish this by building deployment tools that allow for targeted deployment, and by maintaining services that can be targeted by release. For example, you can use your Configuration Management engine to snapshot a DB, deploy schema changes to it and then your code to the app servers using only that DB. If there's a problem you can roll back the code, the data, the schema, whatever changed at that release version, and reload all the services. For things that affect customer assets you'll need extra procedures to work around potential failures there, but that's not complicated (usually).
"can generate a magnetic dipole field at a level of perhaps 1 or 2 Tesla (or 10,000 to 20,000 Gauss)"

I'm just amused by this conversion. Who is this for? Are there people who know one unit of magnetic flux and not the other?
"win 7 and older"? There are still plenty of configuration dialogues that have only seen the slightest of changes since Windows NT 4.0; I'm not exaggregating.

Windows is easily the most visually inconsistent OS out there -- even in comparison to a Linux desktop. That has it reasons of course, many features are in there that didn't need any kind of update in the last 15+ years, therefore their UI was never updated to conform to updated guidelines and so on.
>As a Linux/Windows developer

As a Linux/Windows developer you are not the target audience (which I already addressed).

Besides, just because you can't use it, it doesn't make it a toy language, just a language that doesn't have support (or full support) for Linux.

A toy language has a specific meaning, it's not a generic work for "language I can't use professionally on my platform/industry".

I can't use Forth to make web apps either, which is were I make all of my money, but it's not a toy language by any means.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RybNI0KB1bg
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"All psychological differences between the sexes are cultural, not biological" is obviously not a reasonable view. The view you need to address is that current, rigorous psychology has yet to advance to the point where it can quantify the innate psychological differences between the sexes; further, culture is a highly confounding factor that we don't yet know how to isolate in regards to sexuality.
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I really like Nautilus too! However, sometimes, they have been known to include articles that aren't very accurate. It's more of a lie of omission, in the manner of Scientific American: trying to dumb down complicated ideas sometimes makes them untrue.
The very first link for more information about the first experiment is dead
http://luxdarkmatter.org/
Instead of terraforming, would it be possible to build a giant glass ceiling over most of the surface? Humans don't really need an entire atmosphere, just a few hundred feet of it.

This is still infeasible now, but it seems much easier than terraforming. With robotic labor and automation, it may not even be that expensive.
I'm not sure what that would look like.
The faster you roll back, the less complications there are to deal with. Just think about all the damage that's accumulating if you've got millions of users hitting the site while you're figuring out a way forward. So, as they say, you roll stuff out very slowly and roll it back quickly. Turning off feature flags as the article suggests is IMO just a different implementation of rolling back. Now you run the old code again and have all the same risks as an actual rollback (just more self-contained).

Edit: note that you also have to take into account how long it takes to notice the problem. If you're rolling out and notice something bad when you hit 1% or 10% of users, it's one thing, but if you hit 100% rollout and notice bad things happening a week later it's a different situation. For one thing, hopefully this indicates the problem is not spectacularly fatal, and for another you've already got users used to the new behaviors and who knows how much accumulated damage. So then it's worthwhile to step back a bit and figure out how to recover.
Normally people would own gold and keep it in a nice safe deposit box, but times are never normal, and the government does not have dozens of programs focused on public-private partnerships to make more gold, government backed loans to buy gold, and define percentage of goldowners as a bean counting metric goal which somehow implies success.

Something to think about is all countries sell citizenship rights some more explicitly than others, but all do it, and going rate in the 1st world is about a half million on the balance sheet of a new company, and all you need to do is form a SMLLC and have it purchase the million dollar condo, then you're in on an investment visa and its pretty easy to prove your corporation has an asset of a million bucks, its right there in the tax records. Now the government hopes that people who come in on an entrepreneur VISA actually open a real business, but its hard to prove who's a real businessman vs an incompetent businessman, so anyone going thru the documented motions gets in. Anyway at least some million dollar empty condos are the visual manifestation of the weirdest naturalization ritual in the history of humanity. All countries have wide open visa policies if you're a businessmen willing to invest a large enough amount of money, all of them.
> If a unit is vacant for one month per year that would be an 8.3% vacancy rate.

Generally most of the local governments in the data sets used only consider homes vacant if it's not considered someone's primary address. It's normal to have some vacancies (especially in a global city), but usually not that many. To contrast what a normal-ish number is, Paris has half as many vacant units as all of England. New York City has more than all of England.

A large part of New York City's vacancies has to do with the last real estate crash there. I literally know people that can't remember where their place in New York City is, because they purchased it 15 years ago and didn't want to lose money. Now it just sits as a line item in their assets.

Note: I wrote the article, so I'm bias in defense here.
>What problem does this solve?

It prevents them from being bought by speculative investors and taken off the market. An alternative solution to the same problem is an empty-home tax, which is being rolled out in Vancouver.

> What is this supposed to do?

Its pretty obvious isn't it? It increases the supply of viable housing options for families.

I'm not trying to say this is the silver bullet - Its just some ideas.

My honest opinion is that Canadian housing should only be able to be owned by Canadian citizens, but that ship sailed long ago.
Which, again, is besides the point. The parent was mocking the idea that just because a language doesn't support a platform it can be called a "toy language".

C# that he mentioned wouldn't be toy languages even if there were 0 Apple and Android C# apps. It would just be a totally professional Windows language with no Android/iOS support.

C# was professional even when it only supported Windows (and partially FreeBSD), before Mono came along...
I constantly hear this argument, but I've never seen any evidence.

There's been a simultaneous skyrocketing housing costs in disparate parts of the world in the last 20 years - I find it implausible that they got NIMBYed to the tune of tripling the price of real estate all at roughly the same time.
I would recommend reading the book "Your money or your life"
I am curious, under what circumstances would cause you to be stuck with companies that accept paypal?
> For example, this quote from the article: "A substantial number go on to have children with a second partner, or even a third, creating complex and unstable family lives that are not good for children."

> Says who? Human beings have pretty much always lived in extended clans with "complex family lives". The nuclear family is a pretty recent invention in the history of homo sapiens.

I think the article is saying complex AND unstable, not complex THEREFORE unstable. The assumption being instability is bad, complexity alone isn't bad, but both together can be worse than instability alone.

> "This creates challenges for the people (usually women) who have to raise a child without the economic or social support of a partner. Their struggles are why the authors see such an uptick in children living in poverty in the aftermath of a decline in manufacturing employment."

> This is just terrible writing. Women raising children without support of a partner would, by definition, not be affected by the decline in jobs for men.

I think the assumption there is that before these women would have a partner with a full time job, but instead they have no partner and have to work + raise a child. This isn't saying that women who didn't have a partner before are worse of now, it is talking about a demographic shift from having a partner to not.
Personally, I wouldn't want to edit my posts on a regular basis. I consider them too verbose, but I struggle to condense them.
Yeah, docs is a good one.

Starting out a lot of people dump info in a wiki, but as they get bigger, proper docs (with actual doc writers) is a must.
I think point 5 is likely important to recognize. The CAD to USD ratio has dropped dramatically (Currently 1 USD = 1.33 CAD). If you picked the exchange from 5 years ago you see it was 1 USD = 1 CAD, if you do 10 years it was 1 USD = 1.07 CAD.

I'd argue that at least 20% of the price increase we're dealing with today is related to inflation.
In macOS, generally:

Back when I used it, 5 years ago, it was a solid mess IMO:

Jump one word forward or backwards?

Windows/Linux: ctrl + arrow

Mac: depends on which program you are currently using

IIRC our resident Mac enthusiast explained that it was because some was written in carbon and some in cocoa or something but I don't care.

Opening a file upload dialog box in one browser window would block other windows from the same browser forcing me to use two different browsers: one for docs and one for the task at hand.

This went on for 3 years and in the end I looked as much forward to leave as I had once looked forward to get a Mac.

To each their own but Mac users talking about consistency and ease of use still baffles me.
Are you referring to something like SRP+DSS|RSA? Not widely supported but I've used it via gnutls as a custom auth proxy layer for various things. 1password uses something like this iirc.

A really simple TFA pattern with SSL enabling is requiring a signed client cert with additional directory services auth (or even basic auth).
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We cover Vancouver extensively, it's our most written about market. Two of our writers focus exclusively on the situation there, since it's the global real estate bubble on steroids.
https://archive.is/JiJXh

for those not being able to access it like myself.
>Blizzard doesn't keep driver's licenses on file before hand, but they use it to prove identity.

My point was mostly that this is silly.

I reset my battle.net account with a fake that took less than 15 minutes to make.
Did you try to offer that condo to your friends or relatives, so they can use it sometimes, too?

My wife's relatives in the Philippines have the key, and they stay there occasionally to use the resort-style pool and cabanas, and a few friends from the UK or Australia who visited the Philippines stayed there. We could make money through AirBnB or longer-term rentals, and in fact the condo management company facilitates that with concierge, checkin/checkout, cleaning, airport transer services, etc, but the rent we would get (~$300-600 after expenses) isn't enough to justify the extra wear and tear on the condo.
Currently there are several libraries, models and datasets available for Computer Vision research. However its still difficult to apply a model to your own dataset without writing a non trivial amount of glue code. There is a need for a drop-in solution that comes with UI, algorithms and pre-indexed dataset ready to use out of the box. Deep Video Analytics aims to be the platform to enable this. Using Deep Video Analytics you can quickly index images, videos for visual search, detect objects, and soon recognize faces and incorporate large pre-indexed datasets via fast approximate nearest neighbors.
> There are not many people rich enough not to care about foregoing that much money every month.

However, the few people who are that rich hold a wildly disproportionate share of total real estate. I don't remember the exact numbers and am having trouble finding a decent reference, but it's something like 10% of real estate being held by the top 0.01%.
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SPF and DKIM can be applied just fine to subdomains, I don't understand the suggestions made for email, yet there are good reasons to have a few extra domains, none which are actually mentioned: accidental cookie leakage and redundancy being obvious ones. The implication made for the API domain was that it should not be protected by SPF and DKIM

I stopped reading there
These are the things that bug me the most about macOS. See also: page up / page down, home / end. For an OS that seems to want to care about consistency, to have pretty much every app interpreting the most common keyboard navigation differently is incredibly annoying.
I just asked and it was indeed a Tungsten C (the Tungsten C was a pretty l33t beast for a handheld in that era, I had one too and loved it a lot), but I got the story wrong - the wifi wasn't secured at all. Let me remind you again that they'd replaced their wired network with this unsecured wifi network. Their business was online marketing for companies even more clueless about technology than they were. (Replacing the unsecured wifi with wired was indeed the first job.)
'"The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay," said Trump in a statement last spring. "I will end forever the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program."'
I got a bomb on my 2nd random click.
Usually this happens when the system crashes/otherwise terminates during system upgrades. Kinda hard to boot if /sbin/init is a link to an empty file.
I'm the same way with my solitaire game!

https://solitaire.gg

We should build a collection of web remakes of the built-in OS games.
> We were just fine without an app store

You were just fine. Don't speak for everyone.

Finding applications on the internet is a dangerous endeavour if you are inexperienced. Many people get tricked by popups suggesting their computer is broken and they need to download a "cleaner app". Many people get tricked by the fake Download buttons. Many people just use whatever the first link on Google.

And then once they are tricked they then proliferate their passwords, email addresses, credit cards etc all over the internet.

App Stores IMHO are a must have for most people.
There's no reason a printed house you couldn't get wiring, plumbing etc. just as with normal construction. Maybe even easier since you can preset positions of sockets and openings in the house model.

Wasteful land use? Why that, because of the unusual form of the house? That was probably just to reduce movement of the printing head and fit production within the 24h deadline. They seem to be able to build rectangular structures just as well.

"The occupant of this house will indirectly demand roads, power..." etc. - just like the occupant of a usually constructed house. I don't see how it is an argument.

This is definitely useful for building of special forms which are hard, expensive or not possible to build otherwise.
In no particular order:

1. Historically low mortgage rates and weak rules on who can access government-insured high-leverage mortgages

2. Softness in the other, non-Toronto, engine of the Canadian economy - the Alberta oil industry. Lots of people who left the GTA to work out west are migrating back now

3. Redirection of foreign capital from Vancouver after growing public outrage and many disturbing investigative reports on fraud, money laundering and tax evasion in the Vancouver market - this probably accounts for a lot of the change from 2015 to 2016/2017

4. Positive feedback effect as boomers sitting on $1M+ houses sell them, downsize, but give much of the proceeds to their kids to buy back into the market at even higher prices

5. Weak CAD amplifying the effect of (3)
I'm on Mac now, but I'm pretty sure my next PC will be Windows-based.

I run both Mac OS (natively) and virtualized Windows (via VMware). The Mac OS side is more polished in terms of drivers/hardware integration. I'm a huge fan of that. Mac OS also handles website browsing and media entertainment. I like the way Bluetooth speakers just work when I power them on, BUT the overall media experience went downhill with recent Mac OS releases. Sudden disconnects from AirPlay without my consent, flacky mess between system / iTunes target audio devices. It gets worse with every release. Dubious improvements in macOS audio subsystem introduce more evil than good to the end consumer. That's why I'm pretty sure macOS won't last in the long run. The countdown had started when Steve P Jobs passed away.

The Windows part of my system is used during day to day business and I mostly do all my developments there (with a tiny bit of help from macOS / Homebrew / Unix utilities like curl).

To sum this up, to me Apple is like Titan who is destined to decay. At the same time, Windows and PC are the results of best efforts from thousands of companies. That's why PC has much more inertia and better long-term stability. In other words, PC has natural status quo while macOS is living in a bubble of a single company, so the end is nigh.

It looks like my next computer will be PC. It's so hard to leave the polished Mac's hardware but I won't have a choice presumably.
I think they want to to disclose. I think prosecutors expected that they would be allowed to do so by now. They probably assumed the exploit would have been patched away, or that some better tool would have come allong by this point in time. Id bet good money that this tool is still in active use by some three-letter agency. Should it be discovered or patched before the SOL, its intel value will drop and prosecutions will begin again.
2005ish, when WEP was frequently all that wifi points did.

I got the story wrong (just checked) - the wifi wasn't secured at all. :-O
macOS Finder, for me, has always been one of the worst parts of of macOS btw.
Try navigating to a different drive or to enter a path directly (without knowing the keyboard shortcut) or openeing a shell window at a location or doing anything useful...
Explorer is so good at what it does. Maybe it's less pretty, form follows function?
> Toronto produces 30% of Canada's economic output

Out of interest, who tracks economic output? It seems Statscan does not. Although it is worth mentioning that Toronto CMA is home to around 18% of the population, and represents about the same percentage of the nation's GDP.