skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You write as if there's a shadow conspiracy to keep females from playing masculine roles. Have you ever thought that the reason most soldiers are men, that generals are men, and governments and corporations are headed by mostly men, that the parent that stays home to take care of the kid is usually a woman, is because men are more inclined to play masculine roles, and women are more inclined to play feminine roles, out of their own natural preferences, due to the way their bodies are built, and the way hormones in said bodies are emitted? It's undeniable that there are physical differences between men and women, and it would be a gross denial of reality to suggest physical differences' effects on society could be rendered meaningless simply because people agree they can be.

Confucius once said “Let the ruler be a ruler, the subject a subject, the father a father, the son a son.” "Truly if the ruler be not a ruler, the subject not a subject, the father not a father, the son not a son, then even if there be grain, would I get to eat it?” (Analects 12:11)

And I'll add to it "Let men be men, and women be women. If the men are not men and women are not women, then all you'd have are a bunch of androgynous adults.".

It's possible for men and women to have equal status, but it is lunacy to suggest that men and women are equal, because they absolutely are not and cannot be. It makes as much sense to suggest dogs can be equal to cats, that apples can be equal to oranges.
That is simply not true. A company behind a few leading cancer treatment drugs that are in use today is Novartis - and that's a Swiss company:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novartis
French care for mothers giving birth could be better. My wife had to pay for a private midwife because the standard French treatment is to drug up the mothers as a matter of course and perform c-sections something like 10 times as often as necessary. Maternity wards are basically treated like baby drive-thrus. In and out as quickly as possible.

Which isn't to contradict that French health care is good; just pointing out an area in need of improvement.
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Microsoft doesn't release documentation on their specifications and constantly adds new ones, which are even harder to understand.

Format specifications are the reason microsoft is where it is today. It is the single business asset that gave them much needed leverage during the 90ties and earlier 2000s to dominate the enterprise market.

Microsoft defended and developed that asset extremely aggressively throughout the years and this policy lead to perceiving MS/Bill Gates as cut-throat businessman.
It works better for the corporations who benefit from the system with billions of revenues and who can afford to bribe (sorry, 'lobby') US politicians to perform as they please.
No; races are pseudoscience.
> The contents and tone of the article are awful and an affront to science and assume everything will result in Nazi eugenics programmes.

Because also the nazi program started by saying "If it's a fact, it's not racism".
Reminds me of Leiningen Versus the Ants
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html
Please try contacting them directly and simply asking to stop before doing this!
"There is a wide consensus that the racial categories that are common in everyday usage are socially constructed, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined."[1]

From a genetic perspective there is basically no basis for the traditional categorization of race. Two people of the same skin color, from the same country, who would be considered by traditional definitions to be the same race, can have completely different genetic lineages. There is a National Geographic documentary that discusses this called "The Human Family Tree" that is available on Netflix.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28human_classification%2...
Is there any info on what Webkit's plans for the shadow DOM are or might be?
In fact, it can actually help killing nationalism as it shows that most cultural nations have a very diverse ancestry and thus are purely cultural phenomena.
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No clue how it actually works, but just as a software engineer I can think of plenty of ways to do it. So base case you have is just the equivalent of a table scan - go through each row and decrypt it and check if it matches. But then after that you can do a lot to speed it up. Like you could keep an accessed timestamp on the records and then search most recent ones first so after the first search for a patient on a day they have an appointment everything else will be fast that day. Lots of other speed ups possible, like checking who is searching and checking only their patients first, which may be possible to store as an unencrypted relationship that tells you which encrypted records to check.

Or heck, if you have enough memory, keep your indexes in memory where they aren't required to be encrypted. Or if you don't have enough then cache according to some algorithm that works good for the use cases.
I come from Poland,where the minimum wage is ~$1.8 and I know a lot of people who earn it. Now from what I've heard, the Chinese workers at Foxconn work for $15 a day, and everyone calls it exploitation. Yet the Polish workers work for not much more if not for less after paying their taxes, and I've never heard anyone in the Western countries calling Polish workers "exploited". I also don't know anyone working under "slightly above gunpoint" conditions. The wages are just what they are, for many many different reasons. But just because someone is not getting paid what a person doing the same job in the UK or US or Germany would get paid doesn't automatically mean that they are exploited.
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I'm not an expert on this at all, but I think that unless an ISP's customer is allowed to run a public facing router it would be trivial for the ISP to determine that. There simply cannot be any legit packets with a source address from outside its address range arriving at inward facing network interfaces. Maybe I'm not getting something here...
But streaming services are so much handier, thanks to their large catalogs. I use Google Play Music and used the free matching/upload functionality to upload my Beatles, De La Soul, and John Zorn collection :).
> So nowadays to Apple innovation means to increase fps from 59 to 60?

It is a joke at Blink removing CSS Regions' 10k LOC for mobile performance.

> Shadow DOM might be really, really useful for millions of developers building ordinary business web apps.

Current implementation of Shadow DOM has little to do with future implementation of Web Component's Shadow DOM (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243328). It was already removed 9 months ago after the Blink fork due to its experimental nature and lack of maintainer (http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/150070). This commit only removing the remaining parts of it.
I'm no flag-waver, but I think it's important to point out that for 40+ years after WW2, it was an extensive (and expensive) US military budget which countered Soviet aggression. So when you talk about all these great social services, you have them in part because of a very expensive investment we made in the defense of western Europe, which freed you to spend money on these things.
It was never said that all humans where alike and to be handled the same way. You won't give the same birth control methods to male and female individual for instance. When speaking of equality, I think it is implied equality before society: equal rights, same laws, no irrelevant discrimination (I don't know how it works but I guess sellers are partially chosen depending on how they look and how attractive they are). It would not mean that you mean to be blind to factual and neutral evidence which leads to technical efficiency. From the original article:

> Published research has shown that blacks are more likely than whites to have a blood type that causes sickle cell disease and can protect against malaria, and are more likely to have a certain gene called APOL1, which protects against a parasite that causes sleeping sickness.

It is quite a good example of information that could help put a diagnosis on a person taking into account racial aspects. And I doubt it would count as racist in any way. Because not everything is black or white, they is a grey area:

> She cited new research urging that children be identified based on their genetically predetermined educational abilities and then put in separate schools that could be used to foster different kinds of learning.

This is a border line case: technically, it might mean more proficient teaching using adapted methods for both groups. However, this is also segregation. A way to draw some line would be to avoid discriminating social interactions: in this case, X kids are only interacting with X kids, which make a bias on the population distribution.

tl;dr: calling "racism" on non-biased factual evidence is quite harsh, but we need to be cautious when using such facts

Note: "non-biased" because Nazis did pretend to have factual evidence against Jews, but it was only pseudo-science propaganda (and, well, they only used it to justify arbitrary discrimination)
This. Time and effort that you make someone else spend on your words is time and effort they no longer have to spend on your message/meaning.

When you're in a situation when your message is competing with others, the clearer wording will out-compete muddled wording. That could be in advertising, recruiting, pitching, evangelizing, or any number of places where you want to influence the reader in some way. Every Joule they waste puzzling out your words is one they won't use being influenced (positively) by your message.

How often do you see you're/your confused in professional advertising or press releases? Very rarely.
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>I use troll as a synonym for bully

You shouldn't.

"In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a forum, chat room, or blog), either accidentally or with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

"Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying
Uhm, are you really claiming those two countries weren't corrupt before the EU?! Afaik, both are classic cases of the Mediterranean client-patron culture? (At least the south of Italy.)

My original point was that to make a country a nice place today is not rocket science, the failures either seems to be an ongoing conflict -- or corruption.

Afaik the methods to stop corruption isn't that hard to design, the hard part is to get a political class to implement them. To do it from outside is impossible without an invasion, you have to get the population to pressure the criminal thieves (a.k.a. politicians).

(I guess 'fulafel' is a naive Swede who grew up believing his own media, like I did. That is why I bother with this.)

Disclaimer: No political science education, just a hobby to read to try to understand the world,
>it is thanks to your inability to use the software correctly

I disagree, but have you said it is down to my inability to explain what the problem is, then I agree.

I'm aware of the DNS leaks, and obviously wasn't clear enough and failed to explain what the problem was.

The leak only happens when you run the tor proxy daemon, and your own browser with the appropriate proxy settings.

It's down to the way Firefox, uses the defined proxy for the initial DNS and HTTP requests, but then bypasses it when doing DNS lookups for JS within the initial page loaded.

It doesn't leak DNS lookups made by JS scripts if you use the tor version that includes a mod-Firefox browser.
For ARIN (where most of us will be getting our IPs) projected runout (assuming no "bank run") is closer to a year out[1]

Now, people /have/ been predicting some crazy run on IPv4 for some time now, I was pretty certain it was going to happen in 2011 and while a run is still quite possible, it hasn't happened yet, and there are a bunch of outstanding /8s that could very well be returned; the DoD has been returning blocks, and they still have a bunch more they could return. Based on my own previous expectation that runout was going to occur in 2011, I'd be surprised if we run out before 2015.

Now, if you are dealing with network admins and infrastructure types? IPv6 is very important. I give my customers an IPv6 address by default, and will give a /64 upon request. It's pretty important for the sort of people I have as customers.

You see, we're the ones who have to deal with this 'nat hell' - and make no mistake about it, it will be hellish.

However, from a business perspective? If you are going after business types? The internet is still entirely IPv4.

[1]http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html
Whoa. Your "tens of millions of users" sounds very intriguing (and the 'tens of' part is interesting, as if 'millions of users' isn't enough - seems like a very conscious choice of words).

Is the name of the site a secret? How many sites have this many users (I understand you talk about registered users, since we're talking profiles/login issues here)?
You might find this interesting : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewontin%27s_fallacy
Nice work. I did encounter a double space "bug" when editing existing content. Visually the double space won't appear in the HTML output, but you do notice it while editing and is slightly annoying.

Perhaps a "write to PDF" feature could be a nice addition?
It's not the case that americans would stop spending on health care if they went social. They'll spend a bit less, but I don't think it would make an impact on research. They will still look to the american market to cover their costs because it's the biggest market. It doesn't matter if it's the taxpayer's pocket or the private insurance paying out.
> basically no basis

what's "basically no basis"?

> can have completely different genetic lineages

yeah so what? that does not really prove that the concept of race does not exist.
Amusing that it misses the wont in :

Also, errors are something that Proofread Bot wont put up with.
Yeah, but their last album dropped 10 years ago (and my favorite, Stakes is High, will be old enough to vote this year). Great way to get out there agian.
I thought you were trolling when you cited parecon as an example of heterodox economics that was actually good. "Democratically" achieved job rotation to ensure everyone does an equal share of "empowering" and "disempowering" work? Really?
It really depends on where you get treatment. Healthcare in Paris is excellent (but you might get unlucky, sure), in smaller cities it might be harder to get an appointment with specialists.
I don't see why you shouldn't let people add a small amount of personal data to their personas at their own option. I'd like to see public key/profile picture/blog url.
A completely free market in healthcare will absolutely not work. Insurance companies will drop everyone who has shown any form of uncommon illness - this is their natural incentive in the absence of regulation. Many serious and expensive illnesses are so rare that most insurance companies would severely curtail support towards these illnesses, with cheaper premiums and more customers as a result.

Libertarians are suffering from the same delusion that the communists did: In a world where humans are perfectly ethical towards each other and always put the public good ahead of their own interests, it will work perfectly. In the real world, it won't.
I don't think you get to guilt trip the French in this respect.

'Force de Frappe'
Which was entirely out of the goodness of their hearts. Certainly not out of self-interest, no no no.
During my now aborted Ph.D, I had Dr. Law as one of my thesis advisers.

I can confirm that to the best of my knowledge, he's not a Burmese drug trafficker but a mild-mannered philosophy professor in London. :)
It is no secret that I run Cydia (and if someone didn't know that, or didn't check, I did mention "Cydia" in one of the comments of this thread ;P). Also, you make a very important point: I normally am just talking about "users" (and so motor-memory my way through "tens of millions"), but not all of those users log in (you only have to log in to buy something, not to download things for free; the vast majority of my users simply use the service for free--that said, some users have multiple accounts, potentially simply having logged in with both Facebook and Google on various occasions, so the numbers maybe aren't as low as one might then expect), so I only have 7.5 million federated accounts registered (just checked the database), fairly equally split between Facebook and Google (Google has the edge, partly because it handles more demographics and in particular more countries). I am sorry about the confusion (although the resulting number is still high enough that I don't think it wears down the impact sufficiently to be a concern ;P).
Just like chomsky said it in the corporation documentary, some institutions do a much effective job if they operate at a loss. For the simple reason that those insitution makes sure the whole country benefits from them. Often profit will bring more destruction.

Profit driven economy is important for competition, it applies for many market, like luxury, automobile, housing, furniture, etc, and it's also important when the government need to make expenses: they will buy from the company who offer a good service at a fair price.

That's where capitalism fails. Capitalism doesn't directly make the poor wealthier, but if you make programs that help the poor, it will always have benefits to the rich. That's what I don't understand when the wealthy wants the poor to not be given aid: it might increase the wealthy's relative wealth, but not their absolute wealth.

I think the wealthy don't like socialism not because it doesn't reward their effort or their wealth, but because it gives them less decision power in general. Which is stupid, since wealthy people have a career in business, not in politics. I guess it boils down to an inferiority complex.

Also don't forget france's budget is mostly financed by the valude added tax, which doesn't exist in the US.
It addresses the 'buying support contracts' part.
> retina scanned

He was IRIS scanned. I don't know where this idea that retina scanning is a thing comes from, but there are literally no products that do this. All eye-scanning technology for biometrics are iris recognition systems.
That's why I was suggesting just getting it from elsewhere, without the limit. But if it's "use as you want" then it's fine.
I don't like this article. http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25534 This (especially the end) might be better.

My understanding of the point is that genetics exist, but they rarely map along the lines of what we understand as races. It's an artificial taxonomy which works for a few things (like sickle cell) but from a genetic perspective you could draw the lines many ways.
Inside jokes are good fun at the time. The problem is when you come back to them later and no longer remember the context. I can just imagine a manager coming in a few years' time and drawing a wrong conclusion from those lines and using it as the basis for doing something that dooms the entire company. (Somehow.)

Change "million" to "zillion" and put the words and phrases "synergy", "looking forwards" and "value-add" and no developer would ever have guessed that it was anything other than a joke.

… of course, the manager still might not have ;-)
I recently heard that the French offer relatively few post-natal services in terms of baby care, but do offer vaginal exercise classes for new mothers:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2012/02/postnatal_...

I found that representative of a great healthcare system: they are not just doing the minimum or the obvious or unnecessary 'nannying', but taking a holistic approach to postnatal care.
This is false. Bluebird does not and never will delegate to native promises.
You've solidified my reasoning as to why I find FB Connect useful, despite the privacy implications.

Isn't it weird that email for normal people is more ephemeral than social networking accounts? I wonder what the best way of getting that stickiness would be, without relying on these big third party providers per se. Perhaps Persona, but more towards an ID rather than focusing on an email? I need to do more research on this.
The problem is that the Nazis were not operating with facts. Surely you understand that...
> I was held in solitary confinement for 10 hours.

Is this really a problem? Every time I've been arrested (in the UK) and placed in a holding cell, it's been 'solitary confinement' in the sense that the police cells are single-occupancy rooms. This is the case in every police station in the UK, although my understanding (from film and TV, admittedly) is that in the US shared cells are the norm for post-arrest detention.

Also, 'solitary confinement' for only ten hours is not a huge deal. In general population prisons, the solitary blocks are used to punish people for weeks at a time. Any period less that 24 hours is hardly worth mentioning.
I think that humans are extremely homogenous

http://www.ashg.org/education/pdf/geneticvariation.pdf

That is to say that the differences between me and the most different human (with not chromosomal disaster like Downs) are so small as to make arranging humans into groups according to their genetics meaningless.
Would it be possible for charities to fund the medical costs of people with uncommon illnesses?
Many WebKit developers are very actively commenting on the Web Components family of specs. We don't generally comment specifically on future implementation plans though.
Neat!

While not a fan of the concept I'm happy to see you're actually shipping product. Thanks for your reply.
Why can’t a password hash be reverse engineered?
> can have completely different genetic lineages.

what about people who do have the same lineage?
Peter Griffin is on that list.
This is an area where (I think) it can't hurt to make it free. Simply chuck a license header at the start of each file, put a readme which states "this has been abandoned, but I'll happily link to anyone who wants to make it alive again" and put the whole lot up somewhere (e.g. github).

My suggestion (because it's abandoned) is to use a permissive license.
You can put in an invalid email address and then click through to Mailchimp's signup form, which does respect the + sign.
> It would appear that attacks using spoofed IP addresses need help from a rogue ISP ...

Not a rogue ISP, just one that hasn't implemented BCP38 (which is most of them, unfortunately).
It would be interesting to see where the labs for those companies are, and what's their primary market.

But thanks, i didn't know that. Maybe the british and swiss R&D isn't in such a bad state as France.