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Are they banned as visitors or as attractions?
> I don't think it's entirely unfounded.

What don't you think is entirely unfounded? Russia/Assange connections, or anti-Russia stories in the media?

While I agree with your characterisation of Russia and Putin, it doesn't offer any support ("founding"?) for either of these, other than as an ad hominem which can be applied to lots of countries/heads-of-state.
> Simple: A person's gender is a part of their personal identity.

That's an opinion.
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It's so stupid that you can downvote someone when you disagree with him/her on HN. Totally makes the whole website an echo chamber.
So is antisocial personality disorder.
Unfortunately, many of the people that need convincing with regards to net neutrality and online rights also view her as a traitor with mental problems and thus "normal, patriotic Americans" should not worry about these things, except to prevent "liberals" from creating more "regulations" for companies and putting up barriers to keep our law enforcement from finding the "terrorists'" plans.
Gee, with attitudes like that, I wonder why trans folks often have to resort to jobs on the fringes of society with little safety, security, or legal protection?
Soda, is just short for soda pop, which is the sweetened, carbonated water beverage. So soda without the carbonation is just sweetened water. Flat soda is a fairly common term to describe soda that has lots its carbonation.
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Your country is not the only one on the globe. You can only tax so much before the thing being taxed starts to move elsewhere. Capital is more mobile than labor.
Some might say that the album cover is just as much a piece of art as the actual music. Would it be okay to put a parental advisory sticker on any other piece of art?
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So if I told you to address me as a King, you'd do that too?
source on that?
I suppose you could let people buy monthly tickets the same way they do for public transit, and handle the rest the same way automated ticketing of speeding is handled.
You can discuss your own observations without ever referring to your conversation with the housekeeper, or even admitting that a conversation happened.
Extratorrent.cc shut down
Looks like they shut down just now.

"ExtraTorrent has shut down permanently

ExtraTorrent with all mirrors goes offline.. We permanently erase all data.
Stay away from fake ExtraTorrent websites and clones.

Thx to all ET supporters and torrent community.
ET was a place to be....

May 17, 2017"
Don't play much of a role. In the South Dacota case, for one, add "alcohol" and you'd be much closer.
Um, do you know any of the people making the decision you're voicing an opinion on? I ask because when I've heard thoughts on this subject the thinking was nothing to do with the commercial product being "superior". Rather it was much more convenient, and also "good enough" to overcome any concerns about baby health and development.
https://www.ovc.gov/pubs/forge/sexual_numbers.html

first that came up when searching for it.
https://www.ovc.gov/pubs/forge/sexual_numbers.html

> Statistics documenting transgender people's experience of sexual violence indicate shockingly high levels of sexual abuse and assault. One in two transgender individuals are sexually abused or assaulted at some point in their lives. Some reports estimate that transgender survivors may experience rates of sexual assault up to 66 percent, often coupled with physical assaults or abuse. This indicates that the majority of transgender individuals are living with the aftermath of trauma and the fear of possible repeat victimization.
That's actually a fact.

Gender is defined as: the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones).

For most people, your gender and your sex are congruent. For others, it isn't.

Even if you don't agree: Why do you care?
My main point was that 2000 hrs sounds quite short, at least to me, but 100K miles sounds considerably longer. I suppose that if a manufacturer's goal is that all their vehicles last at least that long, and they can reach that goal then most will last much longer, especially with some TLC.
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There's been a lot of public outcry because coastal sanctuaries seem like the only place you can give these animals close to what they need "artificially". What it really boils down to is if you love someone, let them free, especially if you can't take proper care of them. You omitted also that recently the park killed two cetaceans:

> Michael Wiebe, chair of the Vancouver Park Board, said that after two belugas died within days of one another at the aquarium last fall, the board decided they needed to look into whether it was right to keep bringing in more.

The truth is people can't really build a tank large enough to take care of these creatures, or offer them the proper conditions. Killer whales can travel up to 100 miles a day, and dolphins sure do a lot of traveling as well. How do you offer that or allow for the group social dynamics in a cage?

I'm not even sure how good the education value of seeing a dolphin locked up in a tank is. Anecdotally, I went to the zoo a lot as a kid but all I remember doing is gawking. Watching documentaries as a kid I actually heard about their social interactions and natural behaviors. Many of those behaviors don't come up surrounded by people in enclosures.

If we want to "understand and appreciate" a creature it should be on their terms. For dolphins documentaries or visiting them in their habitat seems like the best way, not some aquarium where the parking lot for visitors is larger than their tanks.
So naive. That's not how you get support in this day and age. You get support by kicking up a storm on social media.

Shout far and wide (twitter, facebook, reddit, etc) that [Big corporation] is screwing you. If you can give it some sort of spin - like racism or gender equality - all the better. Just kick up as much of a storm as you can.

I guarantee that [Big corporation] will be forced to respond.

(I say this semi-jokingly, but it is sad that this a) works, and b) that sometimes it is the only way to get their attention)
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> there is definitely a lot that is inappropriate whether it is sex, language or violence

I always had a problem with this (very American, in my view) concept of "appropriate". What does it mean exactly? It seems to be hiding stuff that is either ill-defined or unlikely to withstand deep scrutiny.

I have no problem believing that depictions of sex and violence might be bad for young children in some way, but I would argue that there is a burden on people who claim this to spell out out the bad consequences could be.

Is it that it affects children psychologically? If that is the claim, in what way? And is there any research that shows this to be the case?

Or is it that they could say something that would create social embarrassment for the parents? If that is the case, one has to ask: does it make sense to place such a burden on free culture for this rather minor reason? And doesn't it just perpetuate useless social norms?

In the end, I suspect this is (at least partially) good old-fashioned puritanism. I am willing to accept that I am wrong, but I think I am right in reacting with scepticism towards vague moral proclamations such as "it is inappropriate!"
This is a tough decision, but you're absolutely not alone.

I've dealt with this in founding a company with my closest friends. I didn't agree with many aspects of how the company was being run and simply picked up and left. I also owned a significant portion of the company in my departure.

In my opinion, you keep the shares that have vested to you, not the shares you are entitled to. I left 2.5 years after signing my stock purchase agreement, so a large percentage of shares were already allocated to me. They tried to get me to give back some of my shares, but I worked extremely hard and sacrificed a lot over the 2.5 years (including working for free), so the shares were the only feasible form of compensation I could argue for.

Eventually what happened was the company issued more shares, effectively diluting my holdings to nothing.

They're still puttering along, doing the whole "I'm the CEO, bitch" thing, we're all still close friends, and I honestly don't regret a single thing about my decision because I was miserable working on it and fighting with my best friends every day.

Do what you feel is right and what will make you happy. In the end, that's what's important. Keep your shares. The chances of them being worth a significant amount are low, but in the event they're worth anything, you've earned that payout.
After working with React/Inferno and some of the other virtual dom frameworks, I simply can never go back to templating languages baked into HTML. While this seems like a nice idea, I don't think I could use it for that reason. It's incredibly limiting to try to write your code into HTML with a small programming language built in. You spend more time fighting the embedded language then making content.
'fostering' is exactly what the Vancouver aquarium has been doing for years. We see news stories all the time about them releasing rescued marine animals. The ones that they had been keeping long-term were the ones they determined were not able to survive in the wild.

I agree that the 'feel good' politics get in the way of sound decisions by professionals who really do have the best interest of the animals at heart. I really dislike when bystanders reading the daily headlines question the motivations of people who have dedicated their whole lives to understanding and improving the lives of the animals in their care.

That's not to say that how things are done should never change and we should never question the professionals or those in authority. But decisions like this really seem like they do more harm than good. Politics and science don't mix well but I guess we don't get much of one without the other, as that's how the bulk of science funding is done...
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That's a bit of a false equivalence, really. There's no good reason why someone should call you King, but Chelsea Manning's gender identity is female, so it makes sense to refer to her as female.
Effecting change still takes time and effort. That requires people putting the time in, regardless if they themselves aren't a persuasive spokesperson with a mainstream audience. There's much work to be done to push the ideas out to a wider audience.

For one thing she is certainly more credible not being in prison.
> The author talks about using their own infrastructure and open source alternatives but that's a revisionist fantasy. They would have never gotten off the ground as a start up by buying a bunch of servers and spending time spinning up infrastructure.

"We went from a Skype group of 10 beta testers to hundreds of active users, then thousands in only a few short months."

Getting off the ground required supporting thousands of users. That doesn't require buying a bunch of servers. Rent one basic physical machine from Hetzner or whoever, spend an afternoon setting up PostgreSQL, and you're done. Reactionary, perhaps, but hardly revisionist.
and yet would continue to support an industry and enjoy the result of torture.
No, because being a King would be inaccurate. It is a position with political and social power, which you don't have.
Vancouver aquarium has not had animals doing "tricks" that were not wild behaviours for decades. As a sibling comment mentioned, the training and shows that did occur were as much about animal enrichment as they were about educating the public.
And fellow police members will sweep another police member planting evidence or torturing a suspect under the rug. Doesn't make it any more right. Just highlights that the whole organization is rotten.
>as an opportunity to tell people they need to update their software.

How are defining update? I don't think anyone has issues with security updates but being force-fed a new version of Windows10 every 6 months is questionable especially when its a true re-imaging of the PC and a migration of apps and data, often screwing up in some way mostly with putting in older or buggy drivers that the end user has replaced with newer ones on the previous version. Every update has broke my trackpad on my laptop and badly hurt my gaming performance on my desktop until I could find the proper nvidia drivers. On top of having to deal with all the UI changes and other changes, none of which seem documented in a easy end-user digestible way. Also some of which have to be discovered by sysadmins like Win10 Pro now ignoring GPOs to block the store, for example.

I think MS is going to use anything to justify an evergreen Windows 10. I'm not sure that's a good thing. I'm not more secure with the current version with this issue patched compared to the previous version with this issue patched. Its the same level of security. I dislike it when companies disingenuously conflate feature updates with security updates. These are two entirely different things.

I think is Win10 moved at a much slower pace for feature upgrades, say every 12-18 months, people wouldn't be so wary of it. Instead, MS is forcing things down the throats of customers that are not desired or asked for. Worse, it validates a "ship and fix later" approach that will always lead to poor quality software.

Lastly, MS is just being downright dishonest. Most of the infected weren't Win10 or 8/7 users too lazy to update, but old copies of XP still in use. Those XP users have auto-update running, but MS has chosen EOL it. Fine, but don't browbeat Win10 users sick of endless and buggy feature updates because of it. The two have nothing in common.
I did that. It took me two years to move everything over (email took the longest time), but it's been totally worth it. I still have my @gmail address, but it's only there to forward email to my real address, and I never log in or send email. Besides junk mail and spam, I am now at a point where I get maybe 1-2 real emails on my @gmail account, and then I tell the sender to use my new address.

My google usage is now

1. Occasionally watching Youtube videos in an incognito window

2. Very rarely using !g to search Google via DDG

3. Using Gmaps in an incognito window a couple times a month

and that's it. I don't find that I miss it at all. If I had to stop using Youtube and Gmaps, I won't miss 'em.
> I think the point is about how data manipulation is about 80% of machine learning work. If an algorithm is giving you crap results for some data set, once you've fiddled with its hyperparameters through cv and so on there's not much you can do besides data manipulations like PCA, ICA and the like, to try and get a better result.

Data manipulation is different from data transformation. Manipulation changes the nature of data, transformation does not change the nature of data. PCA is data transformation, not data manipulation.
No, since that implies a certain amount of respect and deference to you over other people that I don't have. But if Tom told me to call him John instead I certainly would...
> Then they turned around and surreptitiously passed a law allowing foreign funding for political parties

Can you point me to a source where I can read more about it?
Or perhaps we just live in a crass, violent, rude culture, and like all of the other stupid things adults do to tell themselves children don't marinate in it, it simply doesn't work.

"Sorry, Becky, but President-talk is just too grown up for your pretty little head! Just go read your abstinence lessons. You can learn about civics when you're 18."

Reality: you're soaking in it. So are your kids. Slapping stickers on things just serves to make selecting the "good" stuff easier for those seeking it.

Reference: I was 16 when Tipper Gore threw her clown show, and remember our reactions. We mocked it - I co-sponsored a Model U.N. resolution demanding warning labels for politicians' speech due to the harms to human rights, and (in violation of protocol) played part of "Sex Junkie" by the Plasmatics[1] at the end of my presentation.

[1] Wendy O'Williams was a lesser-known speaker at the PMRC show trial, but for my money the most eloquent. Plus I just really liked her - teenage crush. She is missed.
The dolphins at the Vancouver aquarium are deemed not releasable by the federal government due to injury or lack of ability to survive in the wild (e.g. Chester, the aquariums false killer whale was found at 2 months old and was not properly socialised).

The aquarium is not a jail.
Uh huh.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/16/media/seth-rich-family-respo...
>local news comment sections

Not exactly a diverse sample of the population.
I've seen a lot of these systems up-front. The reality is that most of them are RPA (Robotic Process Automation) tools. Vendors like BluePrism, Arago, and Automation Anywhere are some examples.

Longer term, they are trying to incorporate some learning algorithms to define a finite number of predetermined outcomes when those systems above spit out errors. A lot of this ultimately leverages error log analysis, known error databases, integrations to ServiceNow, and some scripts to take corrective action.
FastMail and you know it's not worth my time to take them to court for $15.

Besides FastMail is in Australia, my father is in the UK and I am in Japan ...

Also, would the court order FastMail to continue to offer service to my father, which is what I want. I very much doubt that. FastMail would just be allowed to make the offer of the $15 plus some half-price deal on another plan, which they have done already.

On the other hand, companies do seem to rather dislike bad publicity. So when they try and back-out of past agreements and contacts that no longer suit them, it is far more effective to call them out publicly on forums like this one.
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Hi, author here. Indeed I try really hard to see it from the recruiter's point of view, which is what the article is about. And I don't think other devs have any problems to see it from the recruiter's point of view either.

Of course it's a sales job. Of course it involves calling/mailing a lot of people and getting a lot of "no"s. Of course the developers are not the customers in this relationship.

What does that have to do with the IT competency of the recruiter though?

I don't buy the "it's a sales job so it's ok if they do it quick and dirty and don't take the time to educate themselves". In my opinion, the opposite is true - recruiters would be much better salespeople with a higher success rate if they showed more competency in the field they work in, both to their customers/clients and to the candidates.
To add to this and respond to sibling commenters (though the GP has withdrawn their comment):

I would really love to live in a world where Chelsea Manning's transgender identity and her very public transition would not affect how much some people might vilify her. But there are many people that are still very uncomfortable -- violently uncomfortable at times -- with transgender people (and generally people with non-binary/fluid gender identities).

Further, Manning's transition was very public, and her transition was likely for many people the first time we/they read a newspaper article or heard a news report that used a different pronoun for someone than they had previously. For people new and resistant to the idea, that might breed resentment.

Manning is not merely a transgender person, but a very high-profile transgender person. I think that this, by itself, and separate from her still-hotly-debated role in leaking classified material, articulates significant dangers that she faces in returning to civilian life.
Do you have some evidence that any of that can harm children?
IIRC Clapper (NSA) was asked a question by Wyden (D-OR) about a classified program in an open hearing. Wyden knew the real answer from a previous classified briefing, and forced Clapper to either lie or violate secrecy in public. So Clapper lied.
If "Silicon Valley" is of any relevance, buying a $150k Corvette seems to be a good start :)
So what's your explanation? That Snowden could have found a way to raise issues through legal channels, could have found a way to overcome internal traction against his whistleblowing, but instead chose to undertake a dangerous and clandestine international chase for the sake of excitement?
> If I told you to call me a King, would you do that?

These other replies miss the mark. It's not that, "calling a commoner a king is inaccurate, whereas a biological male could accurately be called female". Because that just brings you full circle back to arguing over whether biological gender and gender "identity" can be separated.

The more practical answer is that it doesn't hurt anything, and being a dick about it just makes you a dick. If you told me to address you as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, then I might privately harbor some doubts about your mental health. But I'd likely do it just to make you go away, m'lord.

I would not, however, feel bound by any commands to defend The Wall or anything.
Even from a self-interest standpoint though it's probably not wise of him to keep the full share, since it is a red flag to investors and decreases the pool of equity available to people who are working at the company.
What's creepy here is the raging fashion of postmodernish, unanchored, up-for-grabs neo-reality. It really is about as Newspeak as it can get.

There's no effing subjectivity about male and female. I checked with my cats. They agree.
For those wondering, WikiLeaks claimed[0] that they'll agree to Assange being extradited to the US if Obama grants clemency to Manning, but later on Assange's lawyers said[1] that this was only applicable if Manning gets released immediately, and that the deal Obama gave was still not enough for Assange to agree to be extradited.

[0] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/819630102787059713

[1] http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/314783-assange-lawye...
Or use postgres for $0 and hire a database expert for 2-3 years.
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> They have no phone number to contact, no way to dispute this other than email — which they have ignored us for over a month now without replying to our continued requests. Trapped. Doomed. We have no further options.

Usually getting to the front page of Hacker News is the only way to get support from Google. Hope it works this time.
Let's clarify: "perceived self interest". You can only act on what you think at the time is right. You may be right or wrong, only the future shows. That's​ true for everyone, corporations, psychopaths and anybody else
I use my own default CSS, so it's pretty nice to read for me. It's sad that most browsers have crappy default CSS.

It really shines in text-mode browsers, though.
After being on FM for the past year or so, I am now moving back to Gsuite. I have been on FM on and off pretty much since they started, but their service is slow, and the spam filtering is poor.
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It's actually "Got a long list of ex-lovers." First time I heard it I was sure I was hearing "Got a lonely Starbucks lovers" or "Got a lovely Starbucks lovers" which didn't even make sense!
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Doesn't it also assume you'll have access to the correct answer in production as well? Is X the observation and Y the correct answer, as often indicated by that notation?
Well, I specifically called out typical western nations and not just the US. I see a lot of soda drinking in the US and never saw very much in Europe. I don't think American soda consumption is actually typical (or healthy).
Bradly - or Chelsea - Manning's gender identity is male, male, male.

Or did they rebuild him?