skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem. If you are serious about going down the road of a designer, you will have to get comfortable with telling clients what I told you above and moving them away from subpar ideas. Most of the time, when things are pointed out in the right way – they will most likely agree with you. Because half the time it's common sense. Good luck with all dear friend :)
It appears that what's actually been dropped is the filters from nav, since they still have the boys-toys girls-toys categories. This seems like a reasonable compromise for people want to shop that way, versus just choosing a kind of toy they think the child they are shopping for would like.
May it be that iOS quietly gives everything else to the app?
If we go with the idea some other commenter proposed of buying up a bunch of foreclosed properties in Detroit, at least some of that initial up-front capital and effort would be offset. You'd then just need to turn some abandoned factory or warehouse into a makeshift greenhouse.
As these virtual currencies become more practical as currencies, there will be less transactions between them and the banking system

Um... Just because they're virtual doesn't mean there's not a banking system and aren't subject to banking laws. Virtual currencies are well on the radar and being regulated just like non-virtual currencies.
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> If you are shopping for someone else's kids, how hard is it to talk
> (/text/email/etc.) to the parents about the kids interests?

Or even talk to the kids about the kids' interests (with written permission from the parents and social services and in the presence of at least three independent board-certified chaperons, of course).
I'm not sure I understand what "outgrown the usefulness" means. Does that mean you have so many custom styles on top of Bootstrap that the underlying framework isn't doing very much? If so, and you're using LESS, then it shouldn't be adding much overhead.

Another source of annoyance might be a large number of unused rules. I believe you can just remove the individual LESS files that Bootstrap provides that you don't want. I personally use about 4 of the 10+ LESS files that Bootstrap offers (at least for a vanilla project).
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Snappy Ubuntu Core takes off in a quadcopter
Do you have a source for heli-carrier being deployed in Ukraine?
That's what they borrow at, but presumably they're doing so because they can invest it at a higher return. It's the opportunity cost that we care about.
Got it. Hyperbole and unfounded fearmongering. Thanks for clarifying.
Except you would be an idiot who is clearly trying to get around the rules, and would be rightfully shut down.
As said by Aphyr this product is ideal in the ad-tech

No, Aphyr said the data loss is ok for ad tracking and analytics because it doesn't matter. That's very different.

And if that's the case, then why make those claims.. they could just as easily give accurate info to their customers, and the customer could decide if that fits their case. Instead they claim something very difficult (if not impossible), and let their customers find out it's not true (possibly after it's too late, and they've already lost valuable data).
I wonder if Amazon actually A/B tested this, or just dropped it because of pressure from activists. If they did A/B test it, and found it increased sales or search efficiency, they should tout the finding.

But part of me wonders if they didn't just end up making their website worse for people actually trying to search for a present.
I wonder if this is how AppEngine was built.
All of which is separate from "what kind of toys do you like to play with".
I'm having a hard time understanding your objection. The nearest I can parse from all of your posts is "you aren't doing things the way I like therefore you are wrong" which isn't a very compelling argument to me.
Seems Uber being blocked out of various states and countries is becoming a regular occurence. Given the massive amounts of capital that Uber have taken, they're in a tricky spot. They're not this little San Francisco tech startup anymore, they're a real and quite big business operating in a heap of countries and different US states. What will Uber do going forward? They need to change the tide, perhaps even start lobbying to get bills approved to legalise their ride sharing service (similar to how taxi lobbyists are doing the opposite). Even here in Australia there is a big anti-Uber campaign going on as well.
I currently work for a company that uses Aerospike quite heavily. In the past couple weeks, we have begun to notice data inconsistencies in our counters. We are seeing fluctuations in the data, despite having no decrement operations.

We have the enterprise edition of Aerospike, allowing us to be in constant contact with their support team and developers. A couple weeks later, and we still have no idea why this is happening. When dealing with monetary values, these fluctuations are very bad for us. Needless to say, we have begun migrating away from Aerospike.
I don't understand how that would make me a worse, less happy or less useful member of our society.
Point taken, but reference material can cover a lot more than API docs. Changes in dependencies, dependencies of dependencies, and their change in source over time are often critical pieces of information. Further, it's difficult to cover all possible material for dependencies that have been taken for granted; OS, HTTP server, drivers, and unexpected complications like OEM-level defects in specific revisions of hardware models are difficult to account for.
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Oh fuck!, this is the WRONG kind of publicity.
This is not Grooveshark...
> Matthew Dillon doesn't need to work but keeps working on DragonFlyBSD.

Source?
>[Considers status of the Atlantic slave trade, position of women in society, etc., in 1776] Um, no. Just no.

There existed societies without slaves, and multi-cultural cities were everybody got along, milenia before the "Atlantic slave trade".

So it's not a great example of something that "got better as things progressed".

>Western civilization isn't on any trend to disintegration

That's like, em, your opinion man. Lots of people think otherwise -- so it's not that clear cut.
It depends. What parts of Bootstrap are you using for the site? If you're just using the grid system, there are plenty of drop-in replacements that work similarly. If you're using form styling, typography styles and other Bootstrap helper styling, then it gets a little more tricky.

Approach it like you would any rewrite, tackle each part of your application as a separate modular component. Do the homepage, then static pages and so on until you have moved every page over from Bootstrap.
(Note: the deleted parent comment was to the Wikipedia page on gender equality)

Sure ... but are you saying that this is politically prudent and financially irrelevant?

Unisex things like diet soda are engendered (Diet Coke vs Coke Zero) because market differentiation and segmentation works.

Were consumers unable to find products because their assumption of a girl's toy was different from the manufacturer's assignment of the toy's gender?

Were manufacturers gaming the system by marking toys unisex to increase sales?

Was there a lower convergence rate when the consumers filtered by gender?

Were consumers offended by the category and complained?

Was gender the least used classifier and Amazon was simply tidying up the interface?

I don't know the answer. There's many options. Filters are on the left hand and near the top. That means they are important.

I think Amazon knew the financial hazards or benefits and then made the decision primarily based on that.
There is significant scientific evidence for differences between men and women, both psychologically and physiologically. For one, if I may, mental illness strikes differently in men and women. In other news, it seems that women have been overmadicated for a long time because medical studies have ignored differences, for different reasons, one being the fear of sexism accusations.

And while it's silly to be offered only pink dolls, I do think that little girls and little boys have different preferences which are not instilled by their parents, but rather emerge from their own psychology. I find it very hard to believe that all of our passions and preferences have a source in somebody telling us that we should be this or that way. Like me starting to play guitar, mathematics, physics or now being a programmer and entrepreneur. It's things I just happened to like to do. There's been little encourgements.

I think there's a danger in fighting an wheel mill by enforcing a culture of uniformity because "girls need to learn about science too". I hate it when the world is accused of pushing pink on girls while everyday, on the streets, girls and women dress nicely in hundreds of colours and variations while men just wear t-shirts. I think that girls and women can manage this, and they're not as easilly to manipulate as some might think.
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I suggest hanging out on AskUbuntu and trying to help people. It's far more informative than a sample of size 1.

There are various visible differences (http://askubuntu.com/a/613814/43344), and quite a lot of recurrent problems with outdated instructions from third parties (http://askubuntu.com/a/617822/43344), the "official" packages being behind the Ubuntu-supplied packages (http://askubuntu.com/a/617869/43344 http://askubuntu.com/a/617773/43344), assumptions of upstart breaking things (http://askubuntu.com/a/618138/43344 http://askubuntu.com/a/613785/43344), interactions with binary drivers (http://askubuntu.com/a/613773/43344), plexmediaserver (http://askubuntu.com/questions/601226/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/600026/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/617575/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/618275/), NetworkManager (http://askubuntu.com/questions/615006/), and X display manager logon (http://askubuntu.com/questions/614128/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/614013/).

Then there's the really popular "starting version 219" question (http://askubuntu.com/questions/618668/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/613776/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/617593/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/616426/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/613627/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/613969/).
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Even for searching for your own kids gender categories are useful thing. Not everybody subscribes to the idea of ungendered toys and cloths.
I should have been more specific. The ZK plugin fixes the issues related to network split-brains and other nasty partition conditions.

The newly discovered translog issue is also a problem and is not solved by ZK but is also a lot less scary.
> That said, one weird thing I've heard about Hack Reactor is that they purposely will hold back students they feel aren't 100% where they want them to be and keep them from graduating.

2013 Hack Reactor grad here. I had actually heard this about Dev Bootcamp before applying to HR, so I asked the HR founders during my interviews if they did this and they emphatically said no. Their genuine emphasis on supporting students -- including intensive interventions when they detect students might be falling behind -- was the main reason I decided to fork over $17k to a couple of strangers and move across the country to San Francisco.

And they didn't disappoint me. Our cohort of 26 had two drop-outs: one guy on the second day (he was from Atlanta, felt a little out of place and wanted to go home, so he became the first person to take HR up on their "full refund if for any reason you want to quit during the first week" offer) and a girl almost midway through the course (she got intensive support, we were all really rallying for her, but she didn't want to keep going). Everyone else pulled together, worked long hours, built some incredible projects, and landed jobs at lots of Companies You've Heard Of. But don't take my word for it... check out the [Hack Reactor alumni page](http://www.hackreactor.com/students/) and see for yourself.

I don't know a single student who has been held back, although I graduated nearly two years ago and my experience may be outdated.
Sometimes you don't know a kid's interests, and their gender is the best heuristic available (and a pretty good one at that). Obviously if it's e.g. my daughter and I know she likes trains she's going to get trains, but not everyone buying a toy for a kid has that much information.
>...this seems like self-selection bias, similar to I don't know anyone who voted for "X" in the last election. I'd present the country and western music genre as a counter-point, where there is a preference for non-urban living.

Not many teenagers listen to "country and western"...
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I get what you're saying, but there is a vast gulf between:

- gender is not just a social construct, men and women in aggregate don't have the exact same strengths, and that diversity is beautiful rather than something we need to suppress

and

- boys should play football and girls should play with dolls and wear frilly dresses

I think people who agree with the former, but not the latter, should overall feel good about Amazon not gratuitously dividing all sorts of categories of toys into "his" and "hers."
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I think the biggest WTF in this whole situation is the two founders took six million dollars off the table and put it into their own accounts. When you're running a pre-revenue startup, you don't remove anything from the business. Seems it was greed that killed Secret, taking money out of the business and asking for too much, too soon.

I think the biggest lesson here is: just because a startup is being run by ex-Google employees does not mean it is going to succeed or be successful in the long run. Great for getting on Techcrunch and having the media talk about you, but once those 15 minutes are up, you're a real business and it becomes less about who you are and more about how you are going to make money and grow your business.
> There existed societies without slaves, and multi-cultural cities were everybody got along, milenia before the "Atlantic slave trade".

The first part is true, but irrelevant. 1776 is the point that was proposed in the post I was responding to as the peak of Western civilization.

(Whether "multicultural cities where everyone got along" can be anything but hyperbole for anything that has ever existed is another question, but also irrelevant.)

> So it's not a great example of something that "got better as things progressed".

It wasn't offered for that purpose. It was offered -- as the direct quoting of the claim about the 1776 peak that preceded it should have suggested -- to counter the idea that 1776 was the high point of Western civilization.
Yeah, it's the classic tension between anonymity (also, security) and utility...this morning, a prominent part of Stanford's campus was closed off due to a memorial service for Dave Goldberg. Someone asked what was going on and someone attempted to reply...I don't know what the replier posted, only that it apparently got deleted, so the replier just settled for posting "whatever, just google surveymonkey"

I figure there's some kind of NLP entity recognition for names/proper nouns...and perhaps the mechanism/policy is set to be more safe-than-sorry (in favor of deleting content). I just can't see how this will translate into a valuable community, though. I go to YikYak whenever I want to know the kind of things that are going on but aren't covered in a news source, but factual/substantive discussion is effectively discouraged by the content policy. How long until the general userbase just gets bored of seeing ripped-off memes and shower thoughts?

(on the other hand, maybe it doesn't need to depend on a userbase that's not in college...every year, YikYak can count on getting a fresh userbase to replace the graduating seniors who end up quitting the app)
Yikes. What made you choose Aerospike in the first place?
A lot of interests are tied to gender, probably more so than not. I'm more amazed that you're amazed that it should be the other way around. Even more amazing if the story is true that Amazon would try to change the core of human nature with a web site.
Love the idea but feel uncomfortable giving such a young company the ability to read all my email and also send messages on my behalf.

Would much prefer if they supported the option to forward relevant messages to them, TripIt style. One can always create auto-forwarding filters for, say, all Amazon order confirmations.
a bit harder than just having the filters.
Actually Linus Torvalds isn't that rich according to his post from Google+ [1]:

> Linus Torvalds: 3840x2160 resolution - it's the Dell 28" UHD panel - for $299 thanks to Microsoft's black Friday deal. Thanks MS!

> Vladimir Odessit: At a net-worth of $150M I wouldn't think that you would care for black friday deals :)﻿

> Linus Torvalds: +Vladimir Odessit I wish. Not even close. My net worth means that I can happily avoid Walmart and feel good about myself, but it's nowhere near the number you seem to think it is.﻿

[1]: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/4MwQKZhGkEr
Never used original, but this does not bode well for security:
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> So much food is wasted here, it's a serious problem.

it's because restaurant portions are huge. i always eat everything i cook at home.
Can you add any detail to this anecdote? It's interesting and important, but detail might help steer others appropriately. What kind of inconsistency? What kind of fluctuation?
You might as well use the POSIX shell to write your code:

cat <<END
$(for x in A B C; do
echo "proc $x() = echo \"$x\"";
done)

proc execute(order: seq[int], callbacks: seq[proc]) =
for i in items(order):
callbacks[i]()

execute(@[0,0,1,2,1,2], @[A, B, C])
END
Did Cleveland State make improvements to justify a tripling of tuition or did something else happen?
I doubt most parents force anything on kids these days least likely gender specific stuff. It's human nature, girls generally like girly stuff and boys like guy stuff and that's human nature and it is not ever going to change over the course of human history.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/30/the-secret-about-rich-found...

> David Byttow and Chrys Bader-Wechseler, had previously received $3 million dollars apiece through a mechanism known as a secondary sale in their $25 million Series B fundraise last July.

> Secondary sales are pretty simple to understand. When a company raises funding, that funding goes directly to the company as cash on the balance sheet, which is why it is known as primary. Secondary is when a founder or even other employees sell part of their personal shares in the company at the price of the round. That money doesn’t go to the company but into the seller’s pockets.

The VC's who bought the $6M worth of stocks knew what they were signing up for.
If you use GitHub, then ZenHub is a great option. It is a Chrome extension which adds project management functionality inside the GitHub interface.

Disclosure: I work at ZenHub - the favourite feedback I get is how much it cuts down on context switching between where developers want to live - GitHub, and where Project Managers want to live Jira/Trello/etc, as everyone can work directly from GitHub Issues.

https://www.zenhub.io/
> a bit harder than just having the filters.

But, given that kids that don't conform to gender stereotypes of interests exist, probably infinitely more useful.

Heck, even for kids that conform to gender stereotypes to the extent that all of their interests are within the scope expected for their gender, its still vastly more useful to get direct information from them or their parents about their interests, because its very rare that any kid's interests will be cover all of what is within the gender stereotype even if it is contained within the gender stereotype.
Sorry I am missing something. Multi currency transactions between wow currency and Starcraft currency? So I want to buy a spaceship using my guild gold?

But that implies some sort of exchange ? You could make a peer to peer thing for the actual transaction but the bid/ask must be public surely?

Throw in Walmart gift cards - aha do I see it now - all these things are convertible from dollars and so can be used to launder money ...

If so then I guess I don't care about an open exchange - I am going to own both sides of the exchange as a drug lord anyway.

But I presume this is less exciting as a money laundering setup as it is all traceable?

Is that it?
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So how do I find toys for my son and toys for my daughter on Amazon now?
I would focus on one even-simpler thing:

Power structure.

Religion usually has a built-in power structure that nothing else has been able to replicate.
Agreed. However, there is most probably going to be a group of well educated generalist who tie it all together. The problem with the new paradigms that lie ahead is that they are begging us to tie a considerable number of things together. Yet, there are a limited number of institutional or company bodies that invest in or even see the value in a generalist. How are you to create something that is generalized when your core foundation is specialization? Given that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, you better believe you are going to have a hard time incrementing your way to it. I use the term 'basement dweller' loosely to describe someone thinking outside of the box. The term was loosely used by the original commenter to essentially demarcate those in spotlight and those who aren't. So, I decided to play off of it. You have PHD holders outside of the box. The key difference is their mindset. They think different and beyond the box.

There are many contributors to science who go unmentioned. There are many back-stories which, due to not conforming with dominant ideologies, go untold.

http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-r...

Best of luck to everyone in pursuit of AGI. The core of creation is elusive for a reason. Many will miss it not due to their education but their mindset.
Even if men and women are different, I'm not certain that prescribed gender categories for toys is really aiding that anyway. Isn't it more convenient for both genders to not miss or avoid a toy because someone has labeled it as not belonging to their gender?
It's still amazing how much we determine maturity by numerical age and not maturity or experience.

Point being, pretending to be off put by a reasonable and logical thing doesn't make you correct.
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Maybe strip it down to just two colors: green for you, red for all enemies.
Not related to this service but for VPN in general, it does this by preventing your ISP from throttling specific sets of your traffic. If they know you're downloading a torrent, they'll lower the speed. They don't know what you're doing via VPN because it's all encrypted. For an example, Verizon would limit Netflix streams at SD rate but if you watch Netflix via VPN, you would see SuperHD or 1080 rates because Verizon doesn't know what you're doing via VPN.

Of course, if you're using an ISP that doesn't throttle and follows network neutrality properly, than VPN won't increase the speed for you.
Hey i can do that in $php too!

function execute($order, $callbacks){
foreach($order as $i){
$callbacks[$i]();
}
}

function abcProcs(){
foreach(func_get_args() as $f){
eval("function $f() { echo '$f'; };");
}
}

abcProcs("A","B","C");
execute([0,0,1,2,1,2], ['A','B','C']);

edit:

you don't have to quote the function names (just to show they are really functions and not closures):

execute([0,0,1,2,1,2], [A,B,C]);