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> Even for searching for your own kids gender categories are useful thing.

I dunno, when I've searched for gifts for children I know (and, really, the same thing goes for adults), I've usually had some idea of what I was looking for which was more useful than a gender category.
Would it be prudent for Amazon to also remove or hide the gender categories for clothing?
You must be the worst shopper. It is not that hard.
Of course there are individual differences in toy preferences, but why not simply let people voice them themselves, rather than shoehorn them into a straightjacket?

It's not about enforcing a culture of uniformity, it's about fighting it. It's about making all toys accessible to everybody.
> There is no gender equality when it comes to what a child needs. A child needs the smile of a mother as much as they need the smile of a father. And one can not replace the other. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6003444]

At least you're consistent in your beliefs but I still disagree with you.
Talk to your children?
As crazy as it sounds, who is to say that it is not true? You would have been laughed at once-upon-a-time if you told people you believed the US government was listening in on phone calls, reading email, weakening encryption and spying on its own citizens and those abroad in a massive surveillance program... until Edward Snowden revealed that is what was happening at the NSA for a long time. If there is one thing I have learned it is to trust your gut instinct and not believe in everything you're told.

While things have undoubtedly changed and are definitely different post-Snowden, I feel as though we have all been primed to think people are crazy for not trusting their government. The tide is changing, people are worried if their own government is fine spying on them, what else are they okay with?

I don't understand in this situation what the advantage of a false flag on Texas would achieve, why Texas? I do not think there is anything here other than an entertaining story, but if it is enough to spook Texas citizens enough to ask for action, then maybe there is merit here. Who can say for certain this is nothing more than a massive training exercise? Observing the training exercise does no harm, so we'll see.
"For instance, Secret’s failure to quickly address the bullying on its network eventually led to its downfall." - this is pure conjecture being presented as fact...
If you're counting tokens, you should count all of them: all symbols and punctuation, as well as any whitespace outside of a string literal that cannot be replaced by a single space character without affecting the syntax.
> should

Amazons categorization probably does not imply a normative belief. I doubt Amazon cares if you order an Iron Man toy for a female.
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These plots are very difficult for me to read. I'm not sure why the color maps span 90F+ when discussing nighttime radiative cooling on the order of 12F. I'm also not sure how a regression line with a negative slope constitutes a "weak" temperature inversion -- it's not an inversion at all.

It would be interesting to see the station data integrated with an urban land cover map. Surface air temperature is sensitive to the locations of buildings, roads, soil type/water/ground cover, etc., not just elevation.
If you had said, "I don't understand this point, could you say more" I would have happily answered. But instead you give a lot of drama in reply, which makes me think there isn't much point in taking the time. But suffice it to say I thought about it for more than one second in writing it, and did so again just now. I still believe it to have meaning.
In theory it should be possible to run Erlang applications on OSv as well [0]. I saw some discussions around this earlier, but I am not sure what the current status is.

[0] https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv-apps/tree/master/erl...
By searching for something they like, rather than merely trusting blindly in labels and their cultural expectations.
Also relevant: http://openmirage.org

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYQ_lq5dcvM
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A lot of sites have moved to non-binary gender representations. Some do it because they see heteronormativity as a close-but-not-quite-close-enough false dichotomy that leaves too many people out in the cold. I’m not sure if that’s why Amazon did this, but they certainly wouldn’t be the first ones to do it.

FWIW, I tend to agree with this recent perspective. In the endless debate over nature-vs-nurture, why should we insist on nurturing this dichotomy? We’re no worse off for not reenforcing that which marginalizes/disenfranchises so many. Are we?
"When you step back and think about the use cases for TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt, it kinda makes sense. People go to TechCrunch to read news. People go to Product Hunt to discover (and try) new products."

Or perhaps it highlights just how far the mighty have fallen (TechCrunch). The site has never been the same since Arrington left, while I do not doubt they get a heap of traffic still, Product Hunt for me is the place to go to find awesome new startups. Once-upon-a-time I used to go to TechCrunch to find new startups to try. I love Product Hunt, great site.
I've long felt that a proper structured editor would work somewhat like a tree editor[1]. Code is trees, right?

[1] https://pcmonk.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/why-dont-we-have-a-g...

If you had a really good, intuitive tree editor, I would imagine it would be easily adaptable to all kinds of interfaces and scenarios. Mobile, web, VR...
The full costs and income of a £1M indie film
Lately I've been figuring out how to apply this kind of structured version control to a relational language - http://incidentalcomplexity.com/2015/04/22/version-control/

Most programmers have violent allergic reactions to the idea of storing code in anything but raw text, but would have similarly violent allergic reactions to the idea of replacing their database with a series of text files and a merge program. We spend huge amounts of effort on this raw text, restructuring and annotating it in IDEs, trying to retroactively guess at the intent of changes in VCSs, guessing at changes in incremental compilers, parsing errors messages out of console logs to find the location in the editor etc. All of the tools we use day to day are in constant communication with each other but they are limited to a single terrible API.

The counter-argument is that at least they all use the same terrible API. Somehow I don't find that very comforting.
Super fun - but frustrating to get it started - however having as many as 30 players in the room is fun!
That should be a toggle option.
> How can you call your app anonymous and require my identity and contents of my device?

The way these anonymous social media apps work is that they distinguish anonymity from traceability. Since you are traceable (or identifiable via your mobile device), you are NOT anonymous in the eyes of the social media service (in this case Yik Yak). It however, provides you anonymity against the users of the social media. For many Internet users, this is sufficient.

Recently, we did some analysis (sensitivity, type, potential audience and linguistic characterists) on the content posted on anonymous social media like Whisper [0]. One of the things we found is that not all content is equally sensitive in terms of anonymity.

[0] http://socialnetworks.mpi-sws.org/papers/anonymity_shades.pd...
Uh... what other definition is there for thinking something is wrong? I've written DSLs, and code generation hacks, and used the preprocessor, and lisp macros extensively to do it (not templates so much, to be fair). I know the problem area, I know what I like, and I don't like this.

It seems that your position is "well, you won't get it so shut up about it". That seems rather uncompelling too. :)
If you're big enough to require something like Aerospike, you're rich enough to build something like F1.
Compression is one simple answer. Another is that any server in a datacenter is going to have much better routing and connectivity than a residential connection. If you have good (uncongested) routing to one VPN server, you can use it as alternative to your ISP's network.

Some gamers use OpenVPN, with encryption and compression disabled, which functions as a very low latency UDP tunnel.

Home -> Good ISP routing -> VPN server -> Game server (20ms RTT)

Home -> Bad ISP routing -> Game server (60ms RTT)
IANAL. You're using Stripe Connect (and assuming you're doing this the old connect way), its your user's Stripe account that is processing the charge and receiving the money. Your Stripe account isn't processing the charge and nor sending them money hence you're not transmitting anything. Stripe would be the MSB.
Have 2-second pause of the movement of my guy as a power up that can be executed by the space bar
That's unusual but it's also incredibly sleazy on their part. I've seen a lot of evil and cagey shit and even I'm surprised by that move.
Obviously being a comedy TV show, there are certain elements of fiction to make it entertaining. However, the show in many ways actually does highlight the state of Silicon Valley or any startup tech mecha area like San Francisco. It is a perfect parody of the current state of startup culture and tech investment. After a recent stint with a large startup in Seattle, I can honestly say there are a heap of elements from the show that mimic real life (from incubators to work until you pass out culture).
Many places don't even have sidewalks.

The USA would be a much nicer place if no new residential development could be built without sidewalks. It would only require a little vision on the part of planning & zoning boards, with perhaps a little empathy for children, the elderly, and others who can't drive.
You're right, point 2 alone would be enough to correct this.

> 1) If they are making it up themselves, they can be sued.

Sued by who, and with what evidence for wrongdoing? I don't see that being likely.
Blindly relying on gender can lead to terrible presents. Plenty of girls do not like pink princesses, and plenty of boys do not like aggressive-looking action figures.

Ask about their interests, or get something generic enough that it's going to be fun for everybody.
Most, not all... The real problem is vetting the "how" and dissemination of information. A non-academic might have no idea how to present their findings through journals or conferences, even if their ideas are well-formed and valid. I imagine there would also be strong push-back from academics averse to outside contributors (at least for big changes). What if known benchmarks are insufficient? How will the outsider convince the professionals? There's also a problem of access to literature... journals can be expensive if you aren't getting them for free at a university. There are a lot of free journals online nowadays but they don't always cover everything you might need. It's hard to tell a crank from a genius, but that doesn't mean there are no geniuses hidden away out there.
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This is pretty amazing. I really like to idea of using more Erlang for my projects and this would make the deployment to EC2 easier.
Surprised does not come close - the list of deeply connected investors is long (AndresseenHorowitz, GoogleVentures) and yet the phrase "MoneyServiceBusiness" did not cross anyone's mind?

Is this CEO ignoring good advice or fire and forget investors ? Or perhaps even more worryingly, a disconnect between Silicon Valley investors and the FinTech regulators in the East Coast - those three thousand miles will take a lot of bridging.

A bit of history on this ruling will be interesting.
Homelessness in America is our biggest problem. It's just going to get worse. I don't know why politicians/people are in such denial?

I don't have any sure fire answers, but right now every county should have a piece of land reserved for homeless individuals. Just a place you can pitch a tent, access to out house, and portable washing facilities.

Right now most counties/town will ticket you for living in you car, and campgrounds are not available, nor cost effective.(Where are they suspose to go?)

Every county that does not comply will forfeit all funds from the federal government--period. That is if we can get a president/congress really interested in solving the problem?

As to the fear of crime and drug use in these designated areas--if there's a problem police can always be called. I'm sure they can be dragged away from revenue collection?

To the person I am replying to--apply to section 8 housing. It will be awhile, but get on the list if it's even open? Hang in there. We do care! I think most of us are in a state of denial? I do know this--I know too many homeless former Programmers? This community should be discussing the problem?
The customization people actually want is met by the software layer. With a responsive touch screen and apps, you can satisfactorily reproduce physical interfaces, and more importantly, their functions.
When you search for baby toys you often have no idea what to look for. Gender categories are useful for that.
"The VC's who bought the $6M worth of stocks knew what they were signing up for."

Definitely agree. I was pointing out how this move is just one in a series of many that doomed Secret. When you're trying to gain traction and get users, you don't take money for personal gain. Who knows if that six million dollars might have helped Secret ride out the storm and still be around today, who knows. I think the VC's are too blame as much as the founders of Secret are.
I dunno, there are ad-tech companies with less than 20 engineers who're processing millions of events per minute on their endpoints, and trying to do various things with that data. This from personal experience.

Of course, I would love if someone gave me the mandate to go out and build something like F1...
If the names are similar and they are in the same industry/sector -- so that the typical consumer might confuse them -- then yes that absolutely can and does get attacked as a trademark infringement.

See Facebook versus Teachbook cough I mean Teachquest.

Or Microsoft versus Lindows cough I mean Linspire.
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front controller pattern?
Ask HN: What do you think while developing?
I recently perused an article on HN stating many programmers don't think. I found this intriguing and began to ask around. From the small sample, it appears true in some regard. There are many related concepts such as flow and familiarity in the vein of muscle memory. I'm interested in feedback and discussion.

Do you think when you program/code/design? Please elaborate.

Do you maintain a dialogue in your head? or perhaps you are coding while pondering the far reaching ramifications of what you're currently typing?

Try it and see. Is not thinking a good state? is thinking about something else more beneficial? is deliberate, mindful programming better for you? Perhaps one method contributes more cognitive dissonance, leading to burnout easier?
I'm getting too much latency. I'll start moving left then suddenly it shows me going right.
> You must be the worst shopper.

You must really be an arse hole to feel the need to belittle people just because they disagree with you.
Natural Selection however is the process that chooses one random mutation to succeed over the existing line, or another slightly less advantageous random mutation.
The test is whether or not the use of Pal is likely to cause confusion for the goods and services that the trademark was registered for. If this was a service to help you adopt a new puppy, there's little likelihood of confusion. However, if your company has "Pal" in the name and the explicit intent of the company is to provide financial services just like PayPal does, then yeah... you're going to get hammered. It's basically raising a giant middle finger towards both Stripe and PayPal.
The floating point bug prevented that project from succeeding.
I think the numbers just don't work out to any sort of practicality even though the generalities of what you are saying are true (and much more apt than most). You say bitcoin is expensive by design, although I think it simply has a cost by design, which is fine, and has proper incentives while still having a huge advantage over what is in use now.

I just haven't seen anything to indicate that a feasible attack on bitcoin would actually have a reasonable cost or a reasonable payoff.

If you throw more crypto currencies into the mix an attack is even more isolated.

When thinking about the efficiency of bitcoin it has to be realized that the current financial is also unbelievably, comically terrible. Bitcoin isn't competing against a miracle of elegant genius engineering.

I think the future will likely be a combination of multiple crypto currencies, sub channels within the major currencies, and the public/private key 'banking' that you described.
Slice (https://www.slice.com/) is a more mature startup that does the same thing. It was recently acquired by Rakuten.
> One thing I've observed many times over the years is that the government likes to have its cake and eat it too

Just like the Bitcoin community, who to this day insist that Bitcoin is a legitimate alternative to 'cash money', then crow that they aren't subject to any of the existing laws governing 'cash money'?
TempleOS has binary sprite graphics links and colors in source code.

http://www.templeos.org

I wrote a compiler, editor, grep, all tools that handle binary graphics.
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my experience so far : https://github.com/WhenAppleBites/iBugs/issues/1
I can't remember where I read this but it reminds me of the quote "You've only ever experienced on thing; your own mind".
We are now in a "post-Uber" world where regulatory arbitrage is considered just another business strategy.
Yes, there is an automated system in YikYak that artificially applies downvotes on a timer if you make a post with an anglophone name in it, faking natural downvotes.

I admit there's a tension there, but a large part of my complaint is that it's intentionally opaque to the point of actively trying to hide itself. Ethical, human-friendly moderation systems have at least some degree of transparency.
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It's easy to make something that's fast and doesn't always work. Give a coder a day and they can make a high speed, replicated, key-value store that loses a little bit of data during partitions. Heck, that could be a single homework assignment in an algorithm or distributed system class.
FYI they switched from btrfs a while back. I think you need to reinstall with a newer version to get it though, it won't change on upgrade.
I'm current working in AdTech. We are using counters to keep track of a lot of things that are important to us (e.g., reasons for not bidding on a given campaign, money spent within a given transaction, number of bid requests we get by exchange, etc). I personally have found two different, yet very similar, data fluctuations.

The first I found when debugging an issue. I noticed the counters going up, dip down, then continuing up. Rinse repeat. (e.g., 158 -> 160 -> 158 -> 170 -> 175 -> 173 -> 180)

The second I found was when trying to debugging the previous issue. I noticed the counters were essentially cycling. (e.g., 158 -> 160 -> 170 -> 158 -> 160 -> 170). This just repeated for the duration we watched the counters (approximately five minutes).

Please note that I used small numbers here. The counters I was monitoring were in the hundred millions, and I saw decrements in average between 2-3k.
I don't know if you'd consider it harm, but I can guarantee that when nothing untoward happens, the conspiracy proponents will proudly proclaim "That's only because we were watching!" Perhaps not harmful, but terribly irritating, and possibly opening the door for more of the same.
Thanks for the pointer. Project sites include:

http://named-data.net & http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking

PARC: http://www.ccnx.org & http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_centric_networking

NSF Future Internet Architecture: http://www.nets-fia.net
You can also simply iterate through permutations in lexicographic order, again taking O(n) time for each iteration. Specifically, given a_1, ..., a_n as the current permutation, to generate the next one, find the largest i for which a_i < a_{i + 1}. Then, find the largest j > i such that a_j > a_i. Swap the elements at indices i and j, then reverse the sub-array of elements at indices (i, n]. (The initial permutation should be the one with a_1, ..., a_n is ascending order, and the final permutation will have them in descending order (the case in which no i as described can be found))
I've been hearing this sort of thing for years (decades?), but I have yet to see someone put a toolchain together that works well using these concepts. It would be interesting to see someone try it instead of just talking about how it would be a good thing.