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>If your moral code says that you should kill witches, that does not justify anything at all.

Although I agree, I think it's worth asking "why not?" to introspect our own position. I'll take a stab at it from my perspective.

We might say it doesn't justify anything because we have some moral code that we think everyone should abide by, and part of that might be "Don't go around killing people". Some people turn some parts of the collective moral code into laws so they can be tangibly enforced.

But at a level above law, what is the authority that determines that killing people is absolutely wrong and not just personally repugnant to the majority of the world's population? In other places and times laws might say, for instance, that to combat overpopulation we need to euthanize those under a certain threshold of contribution.

To fight this, we either need to come to terms with the idea that morals and laws are just a matter of personal taste, in which case there's nothing really justifying our own position either and we're just fighting for our personal preference, or we need some higher authority beyond ourselves/consensus/law that justifies our "don't kill people" position and condemns their "euthanize the parasites" position.

To me, morality seems to fall prey to Tarski's undefinability theorem. There can be no definition of moral truth within the system of morality. We need some external system to define moral truth.
This might have been a reasonable stance a year ago, but they just publicly committed to making new Mac Pros and monitors, plus they have already announced a $5k iMac Pro.

Tim Cook is no Steve Job, but Steve Jobs was no Tim Cook. They’re good at different thing, but Tim Cook will probably go down in history as one of the greatest CEOs of all time.
Not all lock free maps work the same. The ones I've written didn't use pointers.

Even an allocator with a thread local cache will still have to lock to map in more memory. This might be unavoidable all together, but allocating memory from a heap and using the pointer not only is inefficient because of the allocation itself as well as the huge increase in the number of times a system call has to be made, but also due to the fact that access now means you have to jump around in memory to find anything.

Resizing contiguous memory is a separate problem, not a show stopper. Multiple buffers with an atomic switch is one way to confront it. Having all writes go to a new buffer while reads try the new buffer first but try the old buffer second if they can't find anything is one way to ensure that all reads stay lock free.
You don't need to prevent tracking completely. You just need to make it enough of a hassle so that it becomes too impractical or too expensive to do at scale.
"Outside of academia, almost everyone assumes that the money I get in my pay-packet before the deduction of taxes is, in some morally significant sense, ‘mine’."

Oh so you mean like, in the real world?
I've heard similar reports, second-hand, from a teacher in the UAE: the current generation of young men anticipate a life of effortless luxury, and so don't see the point in working hard in school. They point out that this is also why there's a high level of childhood obesity:

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/news/uae-health/posh-lifestyle-...
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I think this sentence is quite telling: "The separation of students, teachers, and administrators into single-sex public schools may serve cultural and religious purposes, but it seems to create an unintentional ghetto for boys...."

I think single-sex education is the answer here because for girls, it allows them to flourish and grow without the male-dominated Middle Eastern oppression. Girls can grow and learn in an environment that is more free, and open for them. I would be curious to see if this is true in other parts of the world that allow for single-sex education.
Perhaps this is why they changed OS X to macOS. They wanted the X for the iPhone.
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Ask HN: Machine learning to classify tweets into topics – Where to start?
I want to build something that can classify tweets (from my timeline or lists) by topic. I can of course provide a dataset of tweets pre-classified for each variant, but then the software should be able to learn from that and apply that logic to new, future tweets.

Variant A)
Take all tweets of a timeline and decide if one was "relevant" or "irrelevant".

Variant B)
Decide which of x topics a tweet belongs to.

Variant C)
Group similar tweets together that are related.

Where to start?
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What libraries or software should I look at?

(I am most comfortable with JS and PHP, but of course this is only semi relevant.)
Now I definitely want to see that map, just for kicks.
The example you give doesn't have boilerplate so macro can't do more.

Macro can help for two things:

- reduce boilerplate

- add new function to your language (often specific and limited in context of use [racket's macro a suposedly composable]). Example: racket match, clojure.async.
There's a huge difference between allocated and committed memory.
I skimmed through the post but couldn't find how the author arrived at the numbers.

Because of that the comparison may not be entirely correct.
No. And when data is send to Apple, they go to great lengths to A) anonymize it, and B) not store it.
The more things you do that aren't like what everyone else does, the easier it is to single you out from the combination of those choices.
I would like to see Thiel involved in government more, but where, and doing what I am not sure. I think his talents would be useful. The question remains, however, if the President's ego will let him.
Decentralized DNS, because centralization is a weakness that makes the internet vulnerable to censorship, etc.
And DNS is a major weakness in my eyes.

Also, anti trust/monopoly moves preventing content providers from owning or attempting to control what should be dumb public pipes ala public roads.
Would women's significantly superior graduation rates to men's in NCAA basketball qualify as 'toxic masculinity'? Or benign disinterest? Not that disinterest can't be toxic...

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I'm rather disappointed to see the Lena image still being used as a demonstration for image processing techniques (regardless of its historical context).

At best, it's crass and tasteless. At worst, it's openly disrespectful and hostile to women. There are millions (billions) of images on the Internet that are available for use under a permissive license - it doesn't take a lot of effort to use something else.
girls seem out perform boys in usa, there is no sex segregation in usa , afaik.

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/girls-grades....
Single Sex education was introduced in India by various Church run schools and from my own personal experience over couple of generations the model is totally frowned upon by most people.

Girls who work in that environment grow up without great interaction with boys and face a lot of trouble in future. However this is India where women can work etc. In Islamic oppressive countries however things might be different.
So what happens if it runs in something like jupyter notebook mixed with runtime code?
I am afraid that people like you and I are the minority!

It seems that corporations have decided to pursue DRM, and people are either knowingly or unknowingly accepting it. The cars are still selling- and I don't see many people at the junkyard with me pulling motors out of cars from 1993.

People like us are pretty much being forced to DIY everythig from whatever parts we can find. If I wanted the look of a Tesla, I would find a body only tesla (somehow), and then stick a 95 toyota camry's motor and trans in it.

Everyone else will just continue spending all of their money on a car whose utility drops more and more every day.
apple doesn't just buy panels off samsung's shelves. they have samsung produce according to apple's specs and samsung is, by contract, prevented from using apple's tech.

thinking they just put galaxy displays into iphones is just bonkers.
Since most jobs will do a basic credit check, including government jobs if I remember correctly, shouldn't we consider making an official governmental credit-reporting agency? It seems weird that we've decided we should put all of our financial future in the hands of three large corporations.
Not really.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/
Facial recognition data doesn't leave the phone and isn't even accessible outside the enclave chip, same as TouchID.

> Apple has stated that facial recognition information is stored locally in a secure enclave on the Apple A11 Bionic chip and is not stored in the cloud.
> In order to avoid all-female cohorts of students, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman’s only public university, now has two sets of admission criteria: one lower bar for men and one higher bar for women. ... Osman disagrees with this quota system. “It helps to solve a temporary problem, but it has an impact in the long term on students’ confidence and on equality,” he says. “They should have found another way to boost the abilities of boys.”

How is this any different than the increasing discrimination experienced by Asians in Ivy League admissions? I would say that the administrators are just following what the top universities in the world are doing to keep demographics as they would like them.
It is possible to enroll hardware tokens, but I believe SMS is a prerequisite.

It's also allegedly possible to deactivate in a bunch of other ways, e.g. by adding a new credit card.

https://github.com/dlenski/python-vipaccess
Python has asynchronous coroutines (the async/await thing) so you don't really need to do callbacks as far as I know. I personally find that syntax much easier to follow than callbacks.
Don't think there is any reason for than.

Xiaomi Notebook Air 12.5 has two M.2 slots. But still a soldered RAM.
For 7 years I've been turning Wifi Off using Control Centre, and now I have to un-learn that behaviour, or modify my own needs to have Wifi 'disabled but not off'.

I don't think this is as positive as some people think. I'll "turn off Wifi", but packets can still flow. The device can still be observed remotely.
Meh, how about the variance in purchasing power and cost of living among all the places that use just one currency? You'll find differences even greater than $8.

Prices are arbitrary. Locking USD = EUR makes you superficially feel like you're getting ripped off but it's still arbitrary. You're also paying the same as someone making $100k/year more or less than you.
>Maybe it’s a good time to talk about the fact that school is largely a waste of time.

I strongly disagree, but I'm willing to hear a viable alternative that covers millions of children/families (eg. no private tutoring or homeschooling). Let's not forget that school also helps children socialize and parents focus on their work.
Well, Apple has done a lot of it with Swift. Language evolution discussions and the code itself is on GH.
The only person that would write something like this is a university professor whose income solely depends on the taxation of others.
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So its probably really hot there now. One thing you could do if space allows it, is to plant the right type of trees in a formation like this https://goo.gl/nChH4r in the east-west direction. This way, only the mid-day sun will directly hit your house. This reduces load on your HVAC system from unnecessarily being used.

For the right type of trees (grows fast, doesn't shed too much and doesn't fall over in a strong breeze etc), ask advice from a landscaper in yelp/craigslist. The garden section at some Home Depots might help you out.

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Unless you visit only Google, I think your point's not as strong as you think.

Yeah sure maybe Google doesn't fingerprint users but there's nothing stopping other sites from doing it. Perhaps, for example, the site you're viewing in an incognito session. Advertisers, for example, would have quite an interest in associating incognito sessions with normal sessions.
Given the title, I was quite to read some kind of article explaining why perfectionism might kill my startup.
wrong. Yours is just an add.
why not just sending us straight to your site ?

So bad for your "Minimum Viable Product" which makes me click one time more than I should
> Kudos to you for being a self-starter, but that barely described me. I have the ability to learn on my own, but if I didn't have an instructor yammering at me, then I was much more likely to spend the time in an unproductive manner.

You need to go deeper. You didn't care about the subjects because you just didn't care. Nothing to beat yourself up over. It's more of a problem with the school than you. Kids start out super curious, that energy needs to be amplified, not wasted. But it really does feel like school is more about obedience than learning.

> I do think that the US education system needs a bit of an overhaul.

It really does. For one thing, too much emphasis is placed on "education" and not enough is placed on "skill". E.g. US has no vocational schools that exist in Europe e.g. for nursing or even programming. There are high schools where students are getting prepared for a particular job since the age of 14. In the US, to be a nurse, you need a bachelor's degree and a nursing degree. In many European countries, you need the high school and an associates degree.
If one wants to see the merits or at least the experiences of a major language from a commercial entity going open source on GitHub, where all discussions, language features, issues, and code itself is in that one place, take a look at Apple's Swift.

Edit: Looks like Swift doesn't use GH for issues any more.
Right, give them a desk and a book.

> Let's not forget that school also helps children socialize

Yeah don't force me to socialize pls.

Also how much time is really given in school for socialization?
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If you booked with booking.com and the reservation was lost your pretty much SOL as well.
Apparently you can get output in csv (natively) and json (python one liner) without too much assle (http://swick.2flub.org/recutils_JSON_output.html) which suddently makes it even more interesting.
Why is it crass and tasteless? And why is it openly hostile and disrespectful to women?
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Except for when you want to search within a different branch.
It was the final nail in the coffin. Linalg was a limit cas of something that was "hard", foreign and serious. The book itself was not all, that would be dishonest, I must say that reading FP for years also brought my mind up. It took me off the material side of things, no more thinking about setting memory with bits, and looking at abstractions instead (doesn't really matter how functions and types are done below, the semantics and algebra is the focus). That said the difference in mindset and perspective in that book (Gareth Williams Linalg 5th edition) told me that a topic can be approached in many different ways. What group A say about a domain may not speak to your brain, while group B perspective will fed your brain just the right way. What is hard is mostly "impedance mismatch", not a limit in the reader.
If you wanna use something for three states, boolean is not the right choice in my opinion.
What exclusive IP?
What's being discussed is "non-exclusive access" to IP.
Meaning that Google/Alphabet can make use of that IP and HTC can still use it or license it to other companies.
This is a great step forward. Compiling with clang will allow kernel developers to run code checks and analysis unavailable to gcc.

This will definitely have a positive effect on code quality.

Not even mentioning it should be a little bit easier to configure IDEs like CLion for working with Linux source tree.
"Remember 1999? Yeah, those companies were 'bad companies'. And the banks that brought them to IPO are 'bad people'. They knowingly peddled their stock to the public market. Grandma lost her 401k because of them.

But you see us? We're 'good people'. Our companies are 'good companies'. We 'generate wealth'.

And an ICO is a great way to facilitate sales of stock a large, global, but ahem 'private' market."
I wish that there would be an option to say how I want my taxes spent. For example, give 10 categories, like education, military, health, infrastructure, government etc. Require a minimum for each, say 2%. Then its up to me to allot the rest of my taxes. So if I am a hawk, I can dump 80% of it in the military. Or education if I have kids.

I think technically this could be done, but it would be interesting to see what the result would be, and if a country could run on this principle.
Something I've been thinking lately and may as well ask here: is there a resource for finding tech positions exclusively with socially/morally net positive organizations?

It seems most of the tech job ads I browse through seem to be mostly companies chasing the money rather than focusing on trying to make a net positive social impact.
I wonder if some sort of global NGO would work? Maybe an offshoot of the UN? At least initially, it will get lots of blowback in the US - if it is a requirement to get services. So, maybe they can incentivize it? Total adoption may take quite a while, perhaps even a full generation, though maybe more.

We could start by making it optional and using it to expedite some services. We could also start initiating it at birth, to go along with the SSN. Maybe we could even make the SSN card a plastic card with a magnetic strip and a chip in it, for the NFR functionality, as well as making inexpensive USB devices for online authentication?

I'm not an authority on this, or anything. I'm just speculating as to how it might work and how it might be possible to get it adopted. There will still be people against it, thinking it is something like trying to force a single world government, but it should be okay so long as it isn't a strict requirement to access services. Of course, accessing those services might be more difficult and that'd give incentive to use it.

It'd have to be no-direct cost, and replaceable if lost or stolen. Maybe allow a free replacement every two years, or similar. Then, maybe a few bucks to replace it otherwise. There should probably be a hardship clause.

The card could have many other uses, as well. Maybe people could opt to use the same card for banking, for library loans, for welfare benefits, and things like that?

It seems doable, tech-wise. Politically, it's much more difficult. Even the new(ish) enhanced ID requirements went over poorly. My State fought that for years by using the excuse that it was an unfunded law. Yup, Maine fought against the enhanced ID that lets us cross the border into Canada without a passport. The excuse was funding, but it was really about not wanting to be told we needed a federal ID.

It's a potentially tough nut to crack.
> (Since I had to clarify this last time: the term refers to expressions or expectations of masculinity and masculine behaviour that are toxic, not a claim that masculinity is toxic in and of itself.)

I'd suggest that the term itself is toxic (and/or sexist). If you think otherwise, can you suggest examples of (stereotypically) masculine behaviours that aren't considered toxic, but positive by the mainstream public/media? Also, can you give any examples of "toxic femininity" behaviours?

If either of these is "no/none", then I'd prefer if you (and everybody else) avoided using this term.
Why do they need to be on a blockchain?
Just because they have the same parent company doesn't make them the same company imho. Pretty much like how the Ritz Carlton is not the Four Points, although they are both Marriott companies.
If I need to explain to you why using a nude image of a model (taken from a pornography magazine, no less) is hostile and disrespectful, then I suspect you are part of the problem.
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I'm more interested in what is actually being used right now, e.g. if I am deploying to a bunch of Skylake processors, what has changed?
> Macro can help for two things

I know what macros are and what macros can do. The parent poster made a comment that somehow macros can help overcome non-existence of wrappers in Racket. We both agree that macros won't help in this case, and my personal opinion is macros are a meme. They help some in very limited circumstances yet they are touted as a productivity multiplier. A pattern match over if-else doesn't really buy much. It's nicer, sure, but not by much.
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At least they've stopped running "rm -rf /" on user machines
(https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671). So it's a step in the right direction.
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Its cool, and I can see the usefulness. After I used it for 5 mins I started thinking "hey I really could care less which direction I need to travel for lunch anyways", so its doing its stated goal there.

My only issue is that they define it as a "map". Its, well, its not. Its a useful tool, but a map tells you how to go there, and this is not that (until you click on something, so that second piece is a map fine). I can concede its a map in the sense that multiple places plotted are still direction-ally related to each other, but that's counter to going ahead and throwing out the map-streets in the first place.
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Second this. I'm from Turkey, we don't have gender separation in education, but your quotes hold. Also, being geeky at school is mostly a feminine thing, and not caring about school is way cooler. The result being girls usually do better in most circumstances.
> Most people that say Taxation is theft aren't literally calling for zero taxes though. It's just a saying, and definitely a hyperbole.

Then the best thing would be to just stop saying it, and discuss the substantive issues instead. The real issues of what functions need funding, by how much, and how, is a never-ending debate that isn't helped by trite aphorisms, even if, superficially, they seem to cut the Gordian knot.
> Unfortunately the epic comment thread, very talky, none of the key stack holders involved, largely irrelevant chatter... Is a case in point of why github isn't the answer for everything.

Many of the important stakeholders, both those employed by Google and those who are not, are weighing in on the topic.

And the comment thread looks fairly similar to the mailing list discussion of any moderately controversial issue, which is not unique to Github (or even the Go project).
Here is nice presentation about hacking intel ME in older processors

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