skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, there is a way to decide if something is scientifically better. All you have to show is that your construct is competitive within the ecosystem of constructs. You can weakly improve upon an existing model by adding tons of domain-specific complications, which is what should've happened. But instead of saying that there are two predominant sexes, along with many abnormal and discrete bins, they propose a "continuum".

The researchers found that, in the most inclusive definitions, 1% of the population isn't sufficiently accounted for by traditional constructs.

But there's no new theory here. How do I predict complications based on what factors? What's the new model? The "spectrum"? A spectrum is a scale with escalating and deescalating values as you travel up and down, where jumps in the spectrum are connected to jumps in prediction. As for abnormal and discrete bins, well, the scientific community already has that. What's new to the table? A reformation of language so that we avoid the word "abnormal"? But where's the improved model?

Also note that you propose that there's no way to think about scientific or construct "betterness". Yes there is. You can measure by complexity, prediction, explanation, or generalizability. These are just a few ways. But you waved away scientific discussion, and instead choose only to use the moral lens, and bring up sociopathy.

Also, the reason I am talking about human limitations in processing large numbers is because I am accusing the opposition of abuse. I am not saying you should believe me because of X, I'm saying beware of opposition arguments because they are abusive to human minds.

And on the matter of using percentages to interpret numbers, I return to my example of state budgets, because that is a place where politicians often abuse psychology by stating what appears to be extravagant numbers. By extending your statements, I might say that not only is $70B a lot of money, but so is $7B. But then what if you told me that $70B is less than 1% of the state budget? What did you just do to that number?

Honestly, 10,000 people dying is a lot. Therefore, let's not talk about construct validity?
What a fantastic tinker tool! You're clearly using a lot of different sensors for a lot of goofy reasons, but that is the very basis for curiosity!

Well done and thanks for sharing your code!
Firefox 38 notifies you about add-ons that slow-down the browser
>>The document noted that many SIM card manufacturers transferred the encryption keys to wireless network providers “by email or FTP with simple encryption methods that can be broken … or occasionally with no encryption at all.”

If that's true, then NSA/GCHQ aren't the only people who could have grabbed a big pile of keys.
I liked the system in New Zealand, in the US it's still the 1970's for payments.
This has not improved. However, instead of using screen in a terminal to do a long create table query, I'll now just kick it off in pgAdmin and yank my ethernet. This causes the query to just hang out there indefinitely until it's done. Stupid, yes. But it's kinda fun.
Considering we cannot find a modern airliner that crashed into the sea I really doubt submarines will be all that threatened until a means to see through the atmosphere and sea is derived for satellites.

The real means to obsoleting boomers and other weaponized menaces is to create a world where the consumerism dominates any nation with sufficient means to go to war. Simply put, their population will demand everything but war.

The only threat to that is sliding backwards from a consumer driven economy to a state driven one like Russia is experiencing.
Just messing with you. :) Your assumption is wrong.
> There's much risk involved as well for the tiny little "cuteness" of the fact that the videos were recorded for specific life events. I for one wouldn't want to listen to a deceased parent go on about how proud they were I found a husband on my wedding day to my new wife for example. Or have to spend my whole life staring at a tape marked "for your wedding" and never watching it.

Expanding on this, I'm transgender, and I really wouldn't want to be repeatedly deadnamed on my birthday.
I'm lost. How does it have all the benefits of a database, without any persistence? That doesn't sound like a database at all.
Now are they? I sometimes wonder about leaflets (and some form of Internet marketing) that maybe it doesn't really work, but it's so hard to tell that they just keep throwing money at it because everyone else does.
Aren't those even easier to wiretap?

I believe (maybe I'm wrong here) that the word wiretap comes precisely because people could literally "tap" into the wire and listen everything.

Or did I miss the sarcasm?
More like private curriers with type written notes.
I had been trying to find a decent developer's laptop for some time, and it led me to the xps 13 "developer edition" (the predecessor to this one). Keep in mind that I really wanted to like that laptop.

However, in the end, I went back to my macbook air. There were just too many small headaches to deal with. I'll list them here. I'd like to know if there are any improvements this time around. I'd be curious to know if they're going to do another "developer edition" for this new model.

1) The touchpad sensitivity was way off in ubuntu, and I couldn't use normal configs to tune it properly. Sounds like they fixed it.

2) The wifi range was very poor compared to mba.

3) Battery life was not as good as mba.

4) Ubuntu wasn't very good at scaling high dpi resolutions on smaller displays. The mba I have doesn't have a high dpi, and I don't need it for my work. FWIW, the retina class displays in the mbp all are perfect.

5) The mba are better balanced. The xps13 was a little wobbly since the weight was not well distributed. It was also slightly harder to open and close.

Honestly, all of these things add up. Darwin isn't a "true" *nix, but it's close enough for me. If I'm off the mark on these issues these days, let me know.
I think an acceptable level of error in approximation in legal and scientific terms would be one where the error is not likely to affect people negatively according to shared values (a shared value might be: people shouldn't get beaten to death or commit suicide--both problems among atypically sexed people). That number is difficult to come up with: it would have to look at impact analysis to see whether programs can effectively help people. And as technology, social programs, and medicine become better, the margin of error would likely go down. I can't come up with that number exactly, but given that we've seen significant benefits from social programs for atypically sexed people in the last few decades, I think it's pretty clear that we can still provide more benefit.
Apparently, "The FOMC got a new Secretary, who apparently is a windbag. That might explain the verbosity."[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/RyanJNaughton/status/568512541518753795
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There is no shock and surprise. Historically, not all communication has been compromised, because it takes physical effort and risk of detection to open every letter. Secure communication (in the sense of the contemporary normal means of communication) has not been a historically hard-to-get commodity.
Indeed. Well, my mother doesn't make anywhere near that amount so it's worth the savings for her - the shops are just counting that people earning more won't bother shopping around.
Code is not the only sort of thing with an optimal chunk size. Languages and APIs (such as sets of library or system calls) run up against the same sorts of human cognitive constraints that produce Hatton's U-curve.

Accordingly, Unix programmers have learned to think very hard about two other properties when designing APIs, command sets, protocols, and other ways to make computers do tricks: compactness and orthogonality.

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch04s02.html
Example (with made up numbers):

0.1% of people fart right before falling asleep. 0.1% of people will commit murder in the next week. Now change the numbers to 20%.

In once case it matters a lot, another case it doesn't. Context matters when discussing populations also..
http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...
Not my problem. I'm only pointing out that the parent comment asked a question that implied a misunderstanding of GP.
From a Private School in Cairo to ISIS Killing Fields in Syria
I guess this depends on where you are, USA I assume?

Certainly in Europe changing providers and moving your number around is a commonplace activity.
centered 'stuff' is not evil. Centered blocks of paragraphs are not as pleasing to look at and are harder to work around with the rest of your content elements making up the design. But he's talking about centering it from top to bottom: vertically centered. Which is not evil but would be a very easy thing for CSS to just do in all browsers. yet it can't seem to accomplpish it. Every 'rule' can be broken when done effectively. another expert will tell you that only a minority reads our paragraphs of text anyway. And another expert will tell you that the harder it is to read something the better the comprehension will be.

If clean lines really solved the worlds problems, we'd be in much better shape by now.
Personally, the biggest take away to this is the invasive targeting of completely innocent and ordinary people simply as a means to get access to things the NSA needed (sim Card keys). We have concrete evidence they nailed peoples personal email accounts and social networks merely as a means to an get crypto keys in mass. Sure, the potential mass surveillance is exceedingly problematic, but thats mainly problematic because of the potential for abuse. Abuse that we either assumed would happen or already had, but as far as I know there was little direct evidence of.

The absolute lowest bar for surveillance seems to be that a government doesn't use it to intentionally target innocent people/ those not in the game (hell, lets lower it even further to be only people the government themselves believe are innocent).[0]

That potentially allows dragnet collection of data if no one looks at it. It might allow hacking just a company's servers to get access to third party data. It probably allows you to spy on foreign heads of state (even if it's a boneheaded move). But it damn well doesn't allow you to go through the personal communications of people who you know have done nothing wrong and aren't even working for someone who has.

[0] This is precisely the woefully low bar Obama has been espousing : “The bottom line is that people around the world, regardless of their nationality, should know that the United States is not spying on ordinary people who don’t threaten our national security and that we take their privacy concerns into account in our policies and procedures,”
Given a free and unlimited choice, I'd happily bet the vast majority of this 1% would happily and wholeheartedly select either "male" or "female".

Moreover they'd probably be quite offended if you suggested they didn't belong in those categories, even if the wonders of medical science revealed they had certain abnormalities they might not even have been aware of or otherwise might have attempted to surgically "correct". Men with low sperm counts, men that discover they have a womb in their late seventies after fathering several children and even intersex people who had an operation a very long time ago are probably happier being bracketed as "men" than "somewhere fairly close to male on the gender spectrum", and the same goes for the women not wanting to be considered "further away from female on the gender spectrum" than their sisters because of polycystic ovaries. From this perspective we don't want to redefine gender as a spectrum so much as to accept that our definitions of "male" and "female" need to be sufficiently broad to encompass small quantities of genetic material transferred across umbilical cords and even the odd phenotypical abnormality.

Frankly, arguments against the gender binary are much better rooted in cultural phenomenon like South East Asian Katoeeys and Samoan Fa'afafine who openly define themselves as a third gender rather than medical abnormalities which for the most part people prefer to overlook or even medically "correct" to align themselves with a binary gender identity they feel mentally comfortable with.
>> No. Network level security, if correctly installed, cannot be avoided by just running some code on your local workstation.

Don't you have to intercept/reject TLS to make that workable? Otherwise the user (or malware) can upload or download anything and all you see at the network level is a destination IP address. If a user has admin rights (which is common in corporate environments) then they can install software which can mimic a browser using HTTPS.

At the network level it is difficult to identify what program generated a request and which user was running that program. I am very sceptical of the heuristic approaches that try and solve this problem (Palo Alto App-ID for example) that display quite shocking emergent properties.

Surely it is technically preferable to track network requests within the OS and browser where you can actually get at information reliably without any hocus pocus. If a user can avoid it by just "shutting it down" then they can also remove the AV, connect to a proxy and spend the afternoon uploading client lists to a porn site.
I use a scanner.

Sometimes, just a cell-phone camera.

Most e-commerce stores have access to a printer.
I see ultrabooks more as secondary devices. You really run VMs on a 13.3" display? I can't see any portable PC totally replacing my desktop PC.
Molecules in air do not exist on a spectrum from Nitrogen to Oxygen.
Great question, I'm going to C&P a reply I did previously:

1. In memory in the browser tab's process.

2. If available, in the browser's localstorage or fallback.

3. In the server process's memory.

4. If available, on disk in the server.

5. If in a multi-machine setup, any other connected server that is subscribed to that data set, being in memory (3) or in disk (4) if available.

6. If configured, in a machine log on S3.

7. Persisted to S3, which replicates and shards it for you internally.

8. If configured, in a revision file on S3.

9. If configured, in a multi-region S3 setup, redundantly in many places.

(2) is not cleared till an acknowledgment that (7) is confirmed. (1) is not cleared until an acknowledgement that (7) is confirmed or if the tab is exited. In the case of (7) it is no longer the delta/diff, but a snapshot of that current data set with that delta/diff's update. Retries from (1) ~ (5) will happen at various events, if the confirmations are not satisfied. If a conflict has already occurred by (3) the acknowledgement from (5) will include a notification that the value has already been updated, along with the standard delta/diff of that conflicting update being sent down. Meaning (5) does not guarantee that your delta/diff has "won", only that it has been saved or is already outdated.

Worst case condition is that (2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9) are turned off, in which your user's data is as volatile as them preemptively leaving the page (although I suppose you could use an onbeforeunload to warn them) - however this behavior is the current norm for most http post based forms and apps. Actually, pardon me, worst case condition is that everything is offline simultaneously, however this is not really interesting because then users won't even be able to access your app in the first place.
Do they sell in USA? Are their products even legal??
If a merchant gives me 1% off to use Bitcoin so they don't have to pay the transaction fees... I'm not going to take it. Even at 5%.

I'd rather have the ability to do chargebacks if something goes wrong.
Use a sensible default for "score". Using "any" there is so much noise that it's discouraging.

The bottom page is somehow broken in the latest Firefox, the paragraph exits from the gray box.

I don't want to register to receive the updates, do you have other ideas about the notifications?

If you like your product, don't give up.
Lenovo isn't a "bargin PC laptop maker"... the Thinkpad series are some of the most highly regarded laptops in the industry...

And to that extent, just because you paid more for an aluminum case with exactly the same internal components doesn't somehow make it seriously better... Macbook Air's for example have notorious overheating issues that kill the laptop...
I have an apple desktop, however laptops are not viable for many because they are not business friendly nor is OS X. Between large phones, tablets, and great desktops, I find the need for a laptop is far less than before. Work issues laptops (all Dells / Windows) because we have to have remote ability in case of disaster as well as a guaranteed safe system to connect from (no non company connections, laptops are encrypted too)

What did drive me off Apple laptops was more wallet oriented, keeping the best features for only the top configurations priced them beyond what I was willing to give.
No ABM system has demonstrated success against either MIRVs or deployed PENAIDS (much less 53T6), but more to the point BM's of any sort are not a first strike weapon (given US and RF radar nets, 24/7 US launch detection capability, and part-of-the-day RF launch detection capability).

If the US has a first strike weapon, it's a fleet of nuclear-capable stealth bombers employing GPS-guided laydown-capable munitions, coupled with a pretty nasty set of eyes in the sky to find mobile launchers. F-35 is also stealth and MAY get a B61 interface to replace NATO Tornados and F-16s, etc.
Seller of financial services software for large wealth managers here. Checks or wires, annually or quarterly in advance. 3 year contracts with a minimum of $10k in annual revenue.
I got an 840 Pro two years ago, and its pretty close to full now (~20GB left). And I only put Arch and program binaries and data on it, ie, my documents, movies music, source code, my pacman database, etc are all on my mechanical drive.

At that, like 125GB is steam games.

I would definitely need a terabyte SSD to try to consolidate a system all on one disk. My notebook right now is a 256GB SSD + 1TB mechanical that works well.
There are a few reasons we don't offer that payment structure.

- It would be hard to monitor.
- We want people to free to host even their smallest repositories.
- Stripe doesn't allow it.

Thanks for your feedback.
It took me no less than one hour to pay for a flight the other day, because of various cc-related problems, not the least of which being the train wreck that is Verified by Visa. I so, so wished for a Bitcoin option...
So what is the truth?
In the US, at least, you must have "standing" to sue someone. That means that you have to demonstrate damages.

Those damages may be minor -- you don't have to have killed anyone -- but they have to exist.

If, in your example, GM only installed the worn out brakes on that one car, and the worn-out brakes never caused any damages, then no, GM cannot be sued for it.

Note that "I had to pay a mechanic to replace the brakes" is damages.

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, I may be wrong, etc.
Definitely, but no way Lenovo can even get close to the same sort of justification. It's reasonable that my workplace monitor and manage how their network bandwidth is being used. It's not reasonable that Lenovo gets to spy on my specifically encrypted traffic just because I bought a computer from them for personal use.
@btilly

Won't let me reply next-in-thread. I never said that what you describe wasn't possible, and I'm indeed aware of those instances you bring up. What I'm saying is that that is out of scope of this argument. EFF is talking about collection capabilities. Immediately jumping to the 1984 senarios hurt the overall grounding of the argument.
Is anyone besides Facebook using Hack? My limited searching revealed little but side projects.
Very interesting... So your saying that GitHub enterprise does not make up the lion's share of yearly revenue? I'm almost certain I heard Tom Preston-Werner say this as well.
Should Redis and Memcache be restricted to localhost access by default?
It's pretty similar.

Psequel doesn't currently offer anything for schema editing, so you have to write your own queries for ALTER, CREATE INDEX, etc.

PSequel also doesn't show you the execution time of a query, which seems minor, and yes I know you can use EXPLAIN ANALYZE, but it bugs me pretty much every time I use it.

Neither one provides any way to add, view, or remove indexes
FTA: "At this point, I'm saving and loading levels via .NET's XML serialization. Apparently XML is still a good idea in 2010. The voxel format is simply a 3D array represented as an XML string of ASCII 1s and 0s. Every time I load a level, I have to re-optimize the entire scene. I solve this by storing the boxes themselves in the level data as a base64 encoded int array. Much better."

Sarcasm...please tell me this is Sarcasm!
Given soft timber, I don't know that you'd want to.
The double-negation holds in propositional logic (law of the excluded middle) but definitely not in constructive logic: You don't get that for free, you need a path from ~A to ~~A to A.

(And, refining the logical system to include bounds due to computational complexity, you need a path that is realistic in finite time.)

It also doesn't apply in Hegelian logic: ~A is literally everything that isn't A - and negating is likely undefined, since there is nothing in the universe that makes it necessary (regardless of sufficiency) for ~EverythingElse to necessarily mean that anything is left over, let along something as specific as A.

Unless A is somehow unspecific, in which case even ~A is likely defined and potentially meaningless.

I think the two worst intellectual holdovers in Western thought are Aristotelianism - and especially the law of the excluded middle - and Descartes' broader thinking - and especially his duality and "Cogito Ergo Sum": Both were really useful as developments in epistemology and logic, but both have outlived their then-value. We have moved on.

They are not even particularly useful as logical pablum for children, because it is too easy to assume forever that they are 100% reliable and valid - they are useful rules of thumb, they apply in many common, real world cases, but they are, logically, nothing more than extremely useful heuristics.

One can build vast systems with them, but one eventually hits Gödel and Aaronson, e.g., and one realizes the systems are built on less than sand.

Once one gets past them, one can begin to grok where mathematics and physics are now. But they are hard to break away from.
We should not use science to justify intolerance of minority sexual identities. But we should also not use it to justify intolerance of people who express things in terms of the normal (in the statistical sense) gender distribution of male and female.

For example, this criticism of a woman expressing thoughts on her own experiences: http://jezebel.com/kirsten-dunst-thinks-ladies-in-relationsh...
On the other hand, unscrupulous employers tend to exploit younger employees by giving them more hours, for a few reasons (fortunately, I've never worked at a company like this, but I know I dodged a bullet).

"You don't have a family to go home to, so of course you won't object to working until 9pm every day."

"There are a gazillion fresh-out-of-college people with your exact skillset I can hire to replace you in a heartbeat, and you don't yet have the professional reputation to easily find another job."

"You don't have a nest egg built up yet, so if you quit on me or I fire you, enjoy defaulting on your lease and couch surfing until you find something else."