skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disallowing people from having/expressing an opinion as to how helpful/thoughtful a piece is -- particularly a positive opinion -- seems as problematic as disallowing some pieces.

Maybe it's better to just let people express it when something resonates with them.

(And while any judgment on how thoughtful a piece is probably subjective, it seems unlikely that every piece is equivalent in how broadly it leads people think about issues in a helpful way.)
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=danny+lewin#!/story/forever/0/dann...
>we are not talking about vaccination; I think that is a completely different thing

Why is it so different? They both contribute to societal health, and personal hygiene is much less painful than getting your complete battery of vaccines.
My only questions is why we're making bullying a gender issue. Bullying affects boys and girls from childhood, and learning how to deal with bullies seems like a gender agnostic issue. But maybe that's my privilege speaking..

Edit: Maybe I seem dismissive of the issue, but I'm really not. I just feel like there's a core problem here that has been incubating since the recess playground. I don't think people turn into bullies over night, rather they've grown to accept their role as aggressors due to never being confronted, and consequently grow even more empowered.

What we're witnessing as adults is what we see on the school yard. Everyone can see that the bully is a jerk, but everyone passively goes along with the flow. Why? Fear of retaliation and ostracization. Maybe everyone will think you're a looser for sticking up for the other looser. You want to be in the cool club so keep your mouth shut. Anyways, that's my two cents.
Even folk on 4chan have commented that hacker-news is a bit unreasonable to women.
This is the submitter's second attempt at submitting this. Can he be penalized for resubmitting a story that was killed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867864
"A regime of concentrated AO+ caused a hundredfold decrease of Propionibacterium acnes"

The way I see it, both methods (using detergents or probiotics) are achieving the same effect: a decrease in harmful bacteria. The only difference is when probiotics are used, there is a lessened chance of a harmful microbe overgrowth.
It's disappointing that they had to do that at all. Equality can be achieved without bashing anyone.
I must say that I feel bad discussing this with you, I do not enjoy trying to be objective when discussing with someone stricken by cancer like you. You have obviously been through a trauma and you are still living it. If I were religious I would pray for your recovery, but since I am not I will just say that I do hope that you live and prosper.

I am not convinced that an increased use of soap and shampoo would lead to a healthier society overall, much like an increased use of antibiotics does not seem to make a healthier society overall.
>> I'm just worried that the pen (N-Trig this time instead of industry standard Wacom) won't be good enough for serious art creation.

No matter what pen tech is being used, there are going to be compromises. I calibrated my Surface's Wacom pen with over 100 points (as opposed to the default 4), and you still get really weird detection points at the edges.

And because there's sensitivity issues with the angle you're holding a Wacom pen, the pointer isn't always where the pen tip is. This is especially problematic if you like switching between portrait and landscape mode.

Wacom may be the standard, but it's far from perfect.
Why it's not about containers "winning" or "losing"
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> Finally you can apply the rule like so:

iptables -A INPUT \
-p udp --dport 53 \
-m bpf --bytecode "14,0 0 0 20,177 0 0 0,12 0 0 0,7 0 0 0,64 0 0 0,21 0 7 124090465,64 0 0 4,21 0 5 1836084325,64 0 0 8,21 0 3 56848237,80 0 0 12,21 0 1 0,6 0 0 1,6 0 0 0," \
-j DROP

--

Writing raw opcodes to execute in the kernel context on each packet received? Yes, please! :)
Woman developer here. That's the one piece of advice I give to men who ask what they can do to help. I've had way more men come to me privately after an incident to apologize for being a witness and saying nothing than have actively stepped in to stop what was going on. I wish it were the other way around.
> Your question reads thus: 'I can't believe this if I only hear it from a woman-- is there a man in the audience who can confirm this?'

I think it's more like "I would find it odd, though not impossible, for only women to have observed these things."
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Unfortunately it is feminism that tells us this through their rhetoric that demonizes men and their actions of lobbying for legislation that subjugates men.
You must be unfamiliar with the states where there are popular voter initiatives and with how much money can be spent on them.

Actually, you can't be unfamiliar with Brendan Eich story if you read HN. He was ousted as Mozilla CEO because he contributed money to support Prop 8 campaign in California. Check out what Prop 8 is, check out what California props are in general, then check out how much money is spent on them. It's exactly the opposite of "money in politics dies". Spending would explode, as instead of one decision (elect X vs Y to the Senate) you need to influence 100s of decisions (for each publicly voted proposal) and political campaigns can influence minds. Which means people interested in the outcome will pay for these campaigns. Unless, of course, you propose to ban political speech altogether except by specially designated government officials.
I've been working on something similar with Github integration at https://shrinkray.io

Instead of compressing a single file at a time, or using a CLI / api, you can get one-click optimization for all of the images in your repo.

I'm hoping to add automatic image optimization when new images are committed at some point, but it's a side project, so a little slow going.
Read from https://twitter.com/joatca/status/469505689052667906
I have fallen asleep on the District line meaning to change at Embankment, and woken up in Essex, this has happened around 4 or 5 times (usually after a couple of beers) and it costs around £120 (~$200) from Dagenham East to Camden – a private hire would be much cheaper – and I'd welcome it.

Though there is something a little more special about the black cab and knowing what the driver has gone through to earn it, compared to any old numpty with a SatNav, it's just not worth the massive difference.
"promptly exited the conversation without addressing X's comments to me."

I understand that it can be difficult, but we all need to speak up in circumstances like these.
How is it winning on price vs. the Air? The 11" Air starts at 899 vs. the Surface 3 with similar Core i5, 4GB memory, and 128GB SSD hardware that starts at 999. Add the $100+ keyboard cover to the Surface and it's an worse comparison. The 13" Air is 999 and again comes with the keyboard of course.
> Do you see what you're doing here? Do you even realize? Your comment reads: "THESE women are actually thoughtful, not like those bra-burning man-hating diatribes that I've come across from those crazy women in tech. If only all women were this calm and docile when talking about this subject." Maybe that wasn't the precise thoughts behind it, but it comes off as that condescending to everyone (particularly the women) who don't fit to your standards. You are saying "if you're going to talk about gender in tech, or even gender at all, be like these women or I don't care/you're crazy."

You're completely projecting here. Parent's post really doesn't read like that. You even quote words it doesn't have (unless it has been edited) like "reasonable" when it says "thoughtful", which is really not the same thing at all.
Sometimes I feel like there are people that confuse just being a jerk in general, with being a jerk specifically to women.

In this industry I've met a lot of really great people, and unfortunately a ton of arrogant, egotistical, pretentious and aggressive jerks. I've felt like crap being around those people tons of times.

Sometimes they say mean things about women, sometimes about liberals or republicans or people from India or making fun of someone's Github pull request to an open source project. I've heard things that smell of Social Darwinism. All kinds of junk. But all of it seems to come from the same jerks. It doesn't seem like there is like the "I hate women" jerk and the "Stupid people deserve poverty" etc. It seems like most hateful jerks just hate everyone.

It seems in tech, people's positions in companies are very much based on a particular skill or having a bunch of money. And very little to do with whether or not they are a jerk. So maybe this is just that we end up with a higher concentration of general jerks? Also, right now this industry is where the money is, and that always has a tendency to up the jerk ratio as well.
Ahh, so all of those racist Aryan Nation members are just parodies, since the marketing slogan of the Aryan Nation claims their ideology to be one of "love and pride".
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Sub-10 min settlement times for what sorts of messages? You're seeing 220s land in that amount of time?
I tend to think that skepticism is a good thing.
Square Cash is a consumer product. Stripe and Balanced are offering that functionality as an API.
Getting into Harvard.
Oxbridge still has gender segregated colleges, though (I think) they are a minority of colleges now.
My only experiences with normal taxis have all been ones where (a) nobody at the dispatch offices of any of the major taxi companies in my area ever actually picked up, (b) the driver didn't actually speak enough English to be comprehensible, or (c) the driver had no idea where I wanted to go despite referencing local landmarks. Uber and similar services aren't available in my area, but if they were I would use them in a heartbeat, given that their methodology contains reasonably good answers to all three problems.
The reason tablets appeal to me is that a large part of my time is spent on reading technical books and documents, and in those times I really want the keyboard to just go away. The Surface Pro 3 has the screen size I was dreaming about on a tablet and it seems like a tablet you can use for work, and not just for play.
The one thing that disappointed me was 8GB upper bound on RAM. These things should really start at 8GB and go up to 16GB nowdays.
I second this. I used to fight the dandruff with shampoo, and then one day I just stopped, and used only water. There was a period where my hair got greasier, but then it changed and now it feels as nice and soft as it ever did with shampoo.
There are countries that lack property taxes, but they tend to be communist (china) and you are only buying a 99 year lease. Also, the lack of property taxes doesn't work very well, as it encourages speculation and then sitting on then property doing much with it waiting for values to rise. Property taxes enforces mandatory deprecation (you have to make it productive enough to at least pay the tax) and also funds things like roads, infrastructure and schools without shady corrupt deals.
I remember reading about one Arizona neighborhood which had restrictions on having a desert style front yard landscape and had an implicit mandate on having a front lawn and a specific kind of front door. The implicitness was the difficulty in getting a fair refinancing deal from the bank, and a devaluation of the home for not being in sync with the neighborhood's uniform appearance.
So sure of what?
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IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now
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Ok, we changed it back.
Thanks! It was a great learning experience. A Twitter bot is about the right size to learn a few parts of the language, how to work with gems, and access API's. The BikeIndex API sends nice clean JSON in logical (and well documented) structure, so it's quite easy to work with in Ruby.
Forgive Me, Scientists, for I Have Sinned
Yow, the electric unicycle cited in the article is over $600! The Torker is $90.

Maybe it's possible to build an electric one cheaply? I wonder how much tlb's cost...

EDIT: http://tlb.org/#eunicycle "All together the components, in single unit retail quantities, cost about $1500." I wonder how expensive it would be today?
Don't the touchscreen, pressure senstive stylus, screen resolution (1366x768 on the MB Air 11) count for anything?
Can anyone else verify the existence of a truly homomorphic encryption scheme?

This would be great for an encrypted file synchronization project I am working on; being able to diff an encrypted file would be amazing.
On a tangent: why does the wrong way cost less money than the right way? Is this a form of price fixing by the credit card companies? I'd imagine Visa could offer these at less money (or free) than MC but it sounds like that's not the case.
Some people say "oh you can always rent the house out!" but they often forget that once they move away and have to hire a property management firm, the fees that they'll have to pay will erode the rent revenue below breakeven with the mortgage payments (without such a manager, you can frequently break even or better vs mortgage)
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The Yoga line is quite nice, and Lenovo seems to have wised up and simplified their SKUs (IIRC there used to be over 5 lines of laptops called "Yoga").

I have a Yoga 2 Pro, I love this high DPI 3200x1600 screen. It is amazing to read on, to the point I am willing to put up with a million other small compromises.

But I'd really love it if it had a TPM chip (it has Pro in its name, it should!) or a real digitizer. A Wacom Digitizer on a 3200x1600 screen? Drawing would be beautiful.

The Yoga 2 Pro was 999 when I bought it, although the price seems to have gone up by a fair bit. Also they had supply issues (now apparently resolved, Orange was on a month back order when I was looking to buy!)

The Surface 3 is actually almost a perfect replacement for this machine. The resolution isn't quite as nice, but it is thinner and almost as powerful. (The 4GB of RAM thing is not good, 8GB is almost a minimum just for heavy web browsing these days...)

Asus also makes some really nice hardware. Their ultrabook line is amazing, I am sad that they messed up their marketing of their one ultrabook a couple years back that had a discrete GPU in it. (It was only available through Amazon!!)
You're getting downvoted probably because you're making people uncomfortable. It doesn't fit their world-view, and they will do their best to shut you down so that they don't have to face themselves on their predecided views/opinions.

People refuse knowledge because it means responsibility.
2 weeks in the Lake district camping. Walked just over 80 miles and slept rough. Picked up food at local shops.

Didn't wash once. Stops bothering you after a couple of days.

Haven't used soap since this trip 11 years ago and all skin problems I had (bad Eczema) went away literally within a week.
Wow! Thanks so much for the fabulous insight and papers. I feel like I learn the most about ed tech metrics from the HN community.
I was only able to itemize for the first 5 years. After that, standard deduction ever since.
I edited my post (only to add, not change it.) After reflection, I think it was a little off base, even if well intentioned.
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And if there was such evidence that came to light, would you believe it? Would it change your opinion of Snowden?
I agree that women in the US generally seem to talk more about bad experiences they have in tech than women in Europe. But there are several possible explanations for this observation, and you've picked the laziest one.

For example, consider the possibility that people become more willing to report bad experiences if the people they tell will be willing to acknowledge that the problem is not uncommon, and unlikely to react with disbelief.

That would explain our observation without suggesting that Europe has fewer incidents; in fact it would suggest that it has more, but doesn't have a culture of admitting and dealing with them.
Do people with a normal amount of self-esteem look "entitled" to those who don't possess that?
The withdrawal is painful, but at the end of the day, a regular caffeine habit doesn't really help with wakefulness that much.

If you just use it occasionally when it is really needed you will get a much bigger boost from it.
Thanks, that’s good to hear. There’s always a risk releasing a new version of a popular tool. For those that still want to use the old one I think we’ll find a new home for it, too.
If you don't believe the article deserves the association, please elaborate on why that is the case.

One of the many problems feminism has faced is the lumping in of extremists with more moderates with all sorts of other splinter views; it's to be expected that your work may face the same criticisms.
Mark Cuban: Don't keep stupid people quiet – I want to know who the morons are
I remember reading through that account's tweets when pg was accused of saying teenage girls can't code or something. Thought the author was pretty despicable. No surprise there was no apology or retraction when the full context / truth of that interview was revealed a few days later.
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Or maybe stinks soundly.
I'm not saying "don't allow men to give their opinions on feminism articles," I'm saying that "this feminism article really helped me understand things better/gave me a new perspective" is infinitely more polite and fair than "this article is good, better than those other feminism articles I've read."

You don't have to push other women down to congratulate the ones who speak in the way you like. Feminism, from what I've gathered over the years, involves working to understand the experiences of all women.
It becomes more and more impossible every day.

Last time I tried to acquire a new IPv4, the distributor (my VPS host) required a technical reason for the request. If the request wasn't up to par, you would be denied an IPv4 + given an IPv6.
Refusing to buy more from the company that sold him a pig in a poke is really the only useful recourse he has in our society unless he has an Internet megaphone to fall back on. Money talks and all that.
If OP had just said that, I wouldn't have said anything.
This is NOT a 'murica story. If you look elsewhere in the thread, there are links to this sort of thing happening around the world.

It is a "bystander intervention" and "diffusion of responsibility" human-psychology problem. Both of those are Googleable terms and both have practical solutions in how to bypass them; unfortunately, typically only people who've taken some Psych coursework are aware of them.

Compounding this is the fact that there are MANY crazy homeless people in San Francisco, so you tend to automatically filter unusual behavior out.
I love that feature as well, but I must say that I'm thwarted by faulty email address verification logic at least 75% of the time and end up resorting to my no-frills address.
You can think of it this way: our perception of attractiveness is the product of evolution and is really just the recognition of healthy individuals, and so every beauty product out there is designed to put back what other products take out. You shampoo your hair, and remove the oil, and so to get a nice healthy sheen you use conditioner, mousse, or pomade. It's a silly balancing act.

If you just leave it alone (assuming no other serious health problems) it should revert to a naturally attractive state.
Almost as bad as Ontario's eHealth scandal:

> the government spent five years and $647 million on the forerunner of eHealth Ontario: the Smart Systems for Health Agency, which used 15 per cent of its $225-million annual budget on consultants despite employing 166 people with annual salaries exceeding $100,000, before the project was shut down and restarted as eHealth Ontario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHealth_Ontario

Nothing like the massive bureaucracy of government healthcare combined with government run software.
Fecal transplants are typically done with stool either very similar to your own in terms of the microbial makeup (preferably a family member that lives with you) or with synthetic, cultured stool that has been made free of pathogens.

It's still not a fun procedure, and the side effects are unpleasant. They're just less unpleasant than recurrent C. difficile.
Lessons from the eBay cyber attack
When you stop using shampoo your scalp will, over time, slow down its oil production.

I think a similar thing works with anti-perspirant. I switched to deodorant only and after a couple weeks I noticed I sweat less. I now only use deodorant, and my t-shirts and normal shirts last a lot longer before getting nasty looking under the arm pits.
As a halo device for Windows 8, I think the Surface has been pretty successful.

Before the Surface, most of the Windows 8 devices were pretty dismal.

After the Surface, you see a lot of interesting products, especially from Dell (surprisingly) and Lenovo.
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I followed it for a few weeks/months previously. The amount of hate she attempts to stir up is insane. That's exactly why I'm not interested in participating in this discourse 99% of the time.
Would love to see this for lease or buying cars...
I can't reply directly to "rosser" due to max comment depth, but fecal transplants don't generally involve introducing gut bacteria to anywhere other than the gut.
IPv6 is native and default at Linode.
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> …short of reclaiming something drastic like the class A block 10 (you know, a really really bad idea), dang.

10/8 is off limits, but there are a bunch of /8 blocks which could likely be reclaimed if we really needed to, including:

- About half a dozen which were allocated to the US military in the early 1990s, most of which aren't even publicly advertised at all

- 44/8, reserved for amateur radio

- A number of other /8 blocks owned by corporations, which could potentially sell or return chunks of them if properly convinced
Was at Cambridge. There are no male-only colleges and two (iirc) female only colleges. Can't speak for Oxford, but I suspect a similar situation.

That being said, I'm not sure what the gender ratios are at the historically all male colleges. Perhaps they are not close to 50:50 (apparently this is the case with US business schools, where the ratios are often 65:35, and often have a bro/fratty feel to them)
I think your reaction is really interesting and honest. And isn't part of the problem that we can't really solve this problem or come to real understanding by way of open letters and blog posts? Which is not to say that this article or this discussion isn't useful, but I find when you talk in person all the sort of "point-winning" and defensive reactions and misunderstandings get dispensed with extremely quickly.

And that's unfortunate because we're all so plugged in and used to doing great things and solving problems by way of posts, uploads, and comment threads. Just some off-the-cuff thoughts as well.
Well, if that's a hero to some people, they've been watching too many Hollywood movies.

An assassination is an assassination. That in modern western states we have managed to open the Overton Window so wide open that people consider that (and torture) as heroism, is a despicable sign of the times.
I am not too impressed by the XPS 13. But the Thinkpad Yoga and the Yoga 2 Pro are actually amazing machines (the later one has an even higher-than-retina display resolution. But again that is Lenovo and the PC world kinda need another player in the competition.
Ha I ended up in Ipswich once (rather than Stratford).

Don't really care what they've been through when I've been told to fuck off four times when I was in a wheelchair with a broken leg and with my daughter in a buggy.

Just drive in now. An NCP plus the congestion charge is better value and Google Maps navigation hasn't let me down once.
Those actually look great and fun...