skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real benefit for male contraceptive is to prevent pregnancy in couples. Not all women react well to the pill, IUDs require a doctor to install/remove, plan B isn't reliable and abortion is morally troublesome for many (even if people are pro-choice, they may not want to get an abortion for themselves).

But yes, it's not a replacement for condoms as the article suggests.
I'd be surprised if anyone is willing to travel to Mojave for a "vacation" when you can get these products in just about every major city.
Having read the full manifesto, I find myself agreeing with the author's thought process for a bunch of his points and clearly disagreeing with others. He presented them well, not offensive at all, and if I had a discussion with him I'm sure he seems open to change certain beliefs if presented with ample evidence. I would generally love talking to this guy. Instead everyone shames him, tells him his mostly very valid thought process is sexist and his career is done. This guy woukd never discuss this with anyone and things will go on as they do today or worse he'll ostracize the left completely and will go in his own bubble and no positive change. This is what happened with Trump, an acquaintance posted on Facebook how the gender wage gap was almost nonexistent at the same job, industry and role but how we should instead work towards empowering women to better deal with promotions and re entering work force after pregnancy and unanimously got destroyed by maybe a hundred fb friends. He removed most of them and started jut posting pro trump stuff and I don't blame him
Hey, same school! Congrats on making it out.

I stayed after Katrina because I was all romantic on helping New Orleans recover. I have been so much happier since I left a few years ago. I love my friends in New Orleans, but I'm never moving back.
It's not NIMBYism because it sounds like that poster is generally against intermixing residential housing with hotels. Favoring separation of residential zones from commercial hotels is "not in anyone's backyard"...

Raising height limits and rezoning tourist areas for mixed-use is a better approach anyway - as a tourist, I use AirBNB because I can't afford the high priced hotels in popular NYC areas. I would vastly prefer staying in a proper hotel in the city, but it's too expensive (presumably because of limited supply)... the only happy person is the land lord who gets hotel revenue without hotel regulations.
I hear what you're saying here, but just taking what the article was saying, that shouldn't be much of an issue.

Then one of the participants drank some contraband Scotch and became
unusually, violently ill. He confessed his transgression to the
researchers, and follow-up studies confirmed his account: WIN 18,446
didn’t mix well with booze.

I suspect this inmate was more than a little liquored up. Just a guess. But more importantly this part:

WIN’s side effects sounded familiar to Amory. In his clinical practice,
he’d occasionally prescribed Antabuse (disulfiram) to patients who
struggled with alcohol addiction. The drug blocks a form of the enzyme
acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), which helps the body metabolize
alcohol;

which means it's effects are used in practice to combat alcoholism.

Can't be that bad. Though, that still means that there could be other interactions not described?
A squatter pays his/her share of taxes: VAT on everything he/she buys, income tax on any kind of employment or other income sources.

The only tax that a squatter does not pay in contrast to an owner or renter (indirect there) is "ground tax", which is a negligible amount anyway.
>That sounds terrible, but would it be less terrible if your loud and obnoxious neighbors were long term renters?

The rate of loud and obnoxious long term renters is lower, due to the risk of people going to your landlord and forcing your eviction.

This can only be done if your behavior is chronic and long standing as an individual. There is no local law I am aware of allowing action against a cycle of short term tenants.

>My vacation rentals have rules, especially about noise. If you break the rules I can literally force you to leave right then, as in, collect your stuff and go right now.

A landlord who does this will get negative reviews, which will directly lower their income. AirBnB landlords are literally paid to ignore complaints.
If "male visuospatial advantage" isn't being replicated when stereotype threat is taken into account, and stereotype threat isn't being replicated when other experimental variables are taken into account, I don't think that necessarily proves or disproves male visuospatial advantage or that it can or can't be explained by stereotype threat.

I think we need some meta-analyses here.
Sometimes it seems as if every project is either a) everyone's first in a brand new language or b) maintaining a project that was everyone's first in a brand new language. How can we actually make progress like this?
Not OP, but the wiki entry on cognitive differences in the sexes does a good job listing many of them and is well cited:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_cognition
They already have some up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-military-airships-g...

https://youtu.be/WShv8ckdgE4?t=80
> It simply dismisses with a wink and a nod the idea that there might be one single counterexample out there for one single exponent (or, a finite number of counterexamples for a finite number of exponents). In other words, it does nothing to argue against the set of counterexamples being of measure 0.

Those "other words" are substantially weaker than the statement before them. If x^n + y^n equaled z^n for every integer x, y, z, and n, the set of counterexamples to Fermat's last theorem would still be of measure 0. Nothing can argue against the set of counterexamples being of measure 0, because the entire problem space itself has measure 0, and the set of counterexamples is necessarily a subset of the problem space.
Right. Firing at-will is legal. Firing on the basis of a protected class, such as race or gender, is grounds for a lawsuit.
And an international bro-themed VC party, currently in the phase where you're already throwing up, but still buzzed enough to kinda enjoy it–if only you didn't know from experience that you'll soon be suffering a terrible headache, will have to deal with the fallout of some rather bad decisions you made, and will generally swear to yourself and your spouse that you'll never do it again.
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Sure, but Airbnb is (from one angle) just a weird and hacky way of adding more hotel rooms to a city's supply. Zoning that permitted more and taller hotels could meet demand with fewer negative externalities.

Similarly, relaxed zoning for residential buildings could lower the size of the effect on the housing market when a unit is converted to Airbnb use.
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But as a host, you want the 5 star rating for fear of being delisted. If you throw someone out, goodbye to your lucrative vacation rental.

Noise complaints from other tenants often fall on deaf ears.
Much of CS is more similar to economics, accounting, statistics etc. than engineering. Making a statistical model is generally much closer to CS than making the hull for a boat.
I feel like the transliteration issues may be pretty complex! Someone using the site might choose to search for any of

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य (in Unicode)

yadā-yadā hi dharmasya

yadā yadā hi dharmasya

yadaa yadaa hi dhamasya

yada yada hi dharmasya

If you want to allow search using transliteration, there are a number of interesting algorithmic and non-algorithmic questions about the range of different transliteration mechanisms that people may use.

Also, for a reason that I don't quite understand, people transliterating Sanskrit can be very inconsistent about where they do and don't transcribe spaces. Are the spaces perhaps not present in the original? For example ग्लानिर्भवति might be transcribed as "glānir bhavati" or "glānirbhavati", which may also be treated differently for search purposes.

(I don't actually know any Sanskrit; I'm just interested in linguistics and writing systems.)
You're right, but you're arguing against a strawman here. The people you think you're addressing aren't making those arguments.
Sorry, but I still don't see it. One of your links is to an EPA web site where the number "826" does not appear, and the other is to a local Fox News affiliate (not the most reliable source for environmental reporting IMHO) talking about "total cancer risk", whatever the hell that might mean.

Even if we take this 826 number at face value (and I don't see that number anywhere on the EPA page) then for that to be 800 times higher than the national average, then the national average would have to be 1 in a million -- over what time period? Annually? Life time? This whole discussion is a hopeless mess. But again, I can't think of any interpretation under which one in a million is a reasonable measure of anything. There are only 300 million people in the U.S. One in a million means there are 300 people who are affected. Three times that many people are diagnosed with cancer every day in the U.S.
Can someone point out to me an example of someone arguing there is no difference between men and women? I regularly see people arguing against this viewpoint, but I am not sure I have ever seen the viewpoint itself.
Ask HN: Web developer and looking for a career change, what are my options?
After a year at my job it seems like I'm no longer interested in programming - I am no longer excited about new frameworks, etc and I feel like my skillset (Python and Django) is slowly fading into irrelevance (everyone seems to be about machine learning and data science nowadays), and I don't feel interested in learning those fields (ML looks like magic to me and involves lots of math, which I suck at). I also would like more interaction with people instead of spending my days in front of a monitor. Note that I am only 20 so I don't have that much experience either, and finding a good developer's job seems hard given the competition for all the good startups.

Anyone else feels that way? How did you solve this issue in the end, and if you did switch careers, what job are you doing now?
If you want to reduce white supremacy to basic statistics, you can do that, but as intellectual three-card Monte games go, this isn't a very good one: it's pretty easy to see the trick.

If you believe that, in the aggregate, "white" people are intellectually superior to any other race of people, you're a white supremacist. That's not a value judgement; it's literally what it means to be a white supremacist. I guess you could be a mild, benevolent white supremacist? I can grant you that all white supremacists do not wear hoods and burn crosses?
To summarize, Puerto Rico's murder rate is higher than the murder rate of the USA and Mexico but no place in Puerto Rico is as deadly as the deadliest places in the USA and Mexico. Allow me to explain.

Using statistics from 2014 (because that's when I last did the research) San Juan's murder rate was lower than the murder rate of Detroit, New Orleans, St. Louis, Baltimore, Newark, and Oakland. It was a tad worse than Chicago. It's also important to keep in mind that most murders in Puerto Rico are the result of gang on gang warfare and just like everywhere else there are some good neighborhoods and some bad neighborhoods. Compared to Mexico San Juan's murder rate is a fraction of the murder rate of cities like Acapulco and lower than infamous border cities like Tijuana.

Puerto Rico as a whole has a higher murder rate than the USA and Mexico because of its ridiculously high population density. It's a small island (roughly the size of Connecticut) but it has one of the highest population densities in the states. Even in rural areas you're only a stone's throws away from your neighbor. In the USA and Mexico, however, you average the murder rate of thousands of safe and quiet towns with the murder rate of a few bad cities so you end up with relatively good numbers.

To give you some perspective, if you were to choose between Mexico and Puerto Rico without intimate knowledge of the two places you would probably choose Mexico because it has a lower murder rate than Puerto Rico. But if you were to choose between Acapulco and San Juan you would definitely choose San Juan because its murder rate is less than a third than the murder rate of Acapulco even though San Juan is Puerto Rico's deadliest city.
The top post is just a nonsense meme, and also completely ignores the question, which is about finding tags of a particular kind. In many html parsers, information like if a tag is self-closed isn't easy to find (or may even not be stored), so they could at least show how to do what the questioner asks, rather than just mock them.
> but provides no links

The Gizmodo foreward say they have removed several links and a couple of graphs. I think I also recall googlers saying that the manifesto had links to various papers etc.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Here's roughly how it works, if I understand correctly. First, a normal male endocrine system looks roughly like this:

1. The hypothalamus produces GnRH.
2. In response to stimulation by GnRH, the pituitary produces LH and
FSH.
3. In response to FSH and LH, the testes produce sperm and
testosterone, respectively.
4. Testosterone inhibits the production of GnRH by the hypothalamus (a
negative feedback mechanism). This effectively keeps testosterone
levels regulated.

When external testosterone is introduced, here's what happens:

1. The increased testosterone inhibits the production of GnRH by the
hypothalamus.
2. In absence of GnRH, the pituitary produces less FSH and LH.
3. In absence of FSH, the testes produce less sperm (this is the
contraceptive effect). In absence of LH, the testes produce less
testosterone.

The net effect is less sperm and the body produces less testosterone on its own.

This makes me wonder: would this lead to testicular atrophy? That happens with steroidal antiandrogens and GnRH agonists/antagonists, both of which have the effect of decreasing LH and FSH. Also, I think there are cardiovascular risks associated with high testosterone.
The externalities are... what exactly? Too much foot traffic to your door? That's hardly analogous to toxic waste dumping.

(Assuming you are talking about single room rather than whole home rentals. Whole home rentals certainly do have the toxic effect of lowering housing supply in cities starved for rentals).
As a long-time Tcl/Tk user it seems where some might think Tcl went "wrong" was combining its Lisp-like semantics with C-style syntax. The "hybrid" was confusing to many programmers, especially those coming from C and similar tools.

The article mainly examines the corporate and marketing aspects of Tcl's history, and not so much the technical merits of the language. True enough, Tcl lost out to Java and other languages on that account but as the article acknowledges Tcl still has quite a large community keeping it going.

On the technical side, the commentary about "everything is a string" has been extensive discussed and IMO has been shown to be more than not a red herring. In any case many of the "warts" that were prominent in 2010 have been at least partially addressed. Notably in recent years Tcl as acquired many Scheme-like features, an official OOP facility, and coroutines among other "modern" features.

Tcl remains incredibly flexible and adaptable to diverse problem domains. I wouldn't try to write a hardware driver in Tcl, but for many problems it's the most productive tool in the toolbox.
Ask HN: Know of any non-digital toys/games that teach, for 6-10 year olds?
Teach anything - math, literature, problem solving etc. As long as it isn't digital. Something like card games, board games, simple DIY toys etc?
Customs officials are well known for their senses of humor.
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What I like about fuzzy search is that if I search something like 'Constant Remembrance' which is a spiritual concept but it doesn't exist in those exact words in the Gita, fuzzy search comes up with a quote quite close to the concept simply because it is fuzzy. How would full text search work? Would it come up with zero results if the search was not precise?
I wanna switch to Go(from python, considrting what disastrous move 2->3 has been in python community so far), but not having backward compatibility is what really scares me.

I am more comfortable with the pace C/C++ is going. Slew and steady. I truly don't think languags are softwares like others which should get updated that often(clearly i am not talking about big fixes).
The author completely ignores the accusation that Google silences people with non-conforming ideologies, then suggests that the author of the manifesto should be punished. Almost seems he accepts that there is an echo chamber, and approves of it?
Scope creep is a very valid concern, but the vitriol against the mere possibility of generics being added to the language deeply confuses me.
You're fleeing to abstraction. I'm making a simple point, derived from the specific complaint that my NYC friends have about Airbnb: there is no plausible change to hotel regulation that would ever allow people to open up single-room hotels in apartment and condo buildings.
I don't think evolution would necessarily favor specialization between the sexes.

However we do have evidence that fewer men have reproduced than women. This means men have been under greater selection pressures than women, which would lead to specialization.

I think this is an outcome of the length of time that women are fertile relative to the time required to gestate and ween a child, plus the length of time that a man is virile. This introduces an asymmetry between the number of women who can mate and the number of men who can mate.

Your claim of sexual specialization may stand for more complex organisms which follow the mating pattern above, but I don't think there's necessarily a biological imperative to specialize the sexes, beyond the specialization in their reproductive systems.
Favorite part of SDF was/is TWENEX/Tops-20.

More on TENEX/Tops-20 from author of TECO: http://tenex.opost.com/hbook.html

Decades later, TECO still available for a variety of OS. Compiles cleanly, at least on BSD.

http://github.com/blakemcbride/TECOC

http://web.archive.org/web/20160321191408/http://tilt.twenex...
http://wiki.twenex.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/20161031045254/http://www.twenex....
That's the first I've ever heard anyone say that Stallman had anything to do with Tcl. Do you mean to imply that guile wouldn't exist if Tcl was GPLed? Or something else?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14939770 and marked it off-topic.
Few people travel from Puerto Rico to the DR or even Cuba to get Healthcare.
Do you think the grandparent poster is renting a single room when he takes his family to Atlanta next week? Also, what percentage of AirBnB revenue do you think comes from single room rentals?
Machine learning is automated classification, regression, and decision-making. Genetic algorithms don't tend to perform so well in these areas (just as ML is not so appropriate for combinatorial optimization).

Instead, genetic methods work well for various messy industrial engineering such as strip packaging design or antenna design. One of my favorite recent results solves a structural engineering problem using grammatical evolution [1].

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926580513...
>The difference that remains is just a different allocation along several zero-sum trade-offs.

I have to disagree with that. Perhaps that is likely the case in cities, but more broadly you're wrong. The pie has gotten much, much bigger.

There was no pie where I live and now there is. Across much of the country in smaller cities and towns were you couldn't get a cab, you can now get an uber.
So given that we have to make chemicals somewhere, how do we minimize the externalities? Locate the plant somewhere where nobody lives, and downwind from the plant are hundreds of miles of ocean where nobody lives, etc. This is probably where they would be naturally located if plant owners had to pay for externalities.
So if the word does not exist in the verses, it should show up zero matches instead of something close?
Uh, no, all of the suburban neighborhoods and high-density urban buildings I've lived in have had move-ins and move-outs basically every week of the year. I've never enjoyed, nor felt the need for, low turnover among neighbors.

Possibly there are arguments that this is a right under certain circumstances (HOA, co-op, etc. agreements) but it's not obvious that low turnover among neighbors is a right in general.
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Evicted being the key word. That is a very long process.
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This is only true if the professional has the ability to scale. In other words, if they are selling a product (a place to rent) vs. a service (driving someone somewhere e.g. Uber)
I cringe when someone uses the term Trumpian to describe a tone of voice they disagree with.
I also secretly wish you would punch him in the face.
This reddit thread is completely devoid of content.

We know that Go 2 will have very few new major features[1]:

> To minimize disruption, each change will require careful thought, planning, and tooling, which in turn limits the number of changes we can make. Maybe we can do two or three, certainly not more than five.

So the premise of the author of the reddit post is completely false.

Apart from that, it's the typical reddit thread where people talk past each other without any depth.

[1] https://blog.golang.org/toward-go2
I've linked to the original upload but took the 2nd half of the title from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vrCpWbmDw
I'm not sure what regulations can keep the price down without having lots of weird scenarios and adverse effects. If you can then that's great but I haven't seen it work in practice yet. It makes more sense to me to try to increase the supply of housing
The vast, vast majority of "Marriott's" hotel rooms are actually owned by investment funds, or smaller investors/groups who own 2, 5, 10, 15 hotels. Marriott/Hilton/IHG/Choice/Wyndham are all similar to Airbnb in this aspect, they do not own the real estate, they just provide the platform to the real estate owners to rent the rooms on and provide the branding support in exchange for 7% to 15% royalty fees.
What's your point? Being evicted is a big deal. It's can be difficult to get a next nice apartment if you've been evicted before, especially if you were evicted from your immediate previous apartment.

There is no deterrent whatsoever for Airbnb guests, who have no stake in the lease or the local market.