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by brlewis 7y ago
This is an interesting example because it demonstrates a way to confuse programmers that wasn't previously possible. Thanks for sharing it; it was a gem on an article otherwise full of confused comments. After sharing it at work, someo
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Context matters. People concerned about gender discrimination aren't usually as concerned about distinctions drawn between genders when the context is ballroom dancing or weddings. They're almost always concerned when the context
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I don't think the dispatcher reacted appropriately, but "how the hell should I know" comes across a lot like "you're stupid to think I could answer that question".
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> The issue is that as a society we've (mostly) decided that unfairly classifying someone based on correlated but non-causal characteristics is wrong, EVEN in the extreme that you're right more often than you're wrong if y
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IIUC the database is intended to identify the actual contents of images, not collect data about stereotypes. Even keeping the categorized face images in a separate database wouldn't be that useful, since turkers are not a random sample
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by brlewis 7y ago
That's the key question here, isn't it? If faces are like other images in the database, then according to this article turkers were presented a word and a group of images, and asked to click all the images that showed said word.
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by brlewis 7y ago
> There's never been a bait and switch. It's always been proprietary. Originally, the iPhone app ecosystem was supposed to be html5-based via Safari and the open web. https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21&#x2
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The article gives specific examples of difficulties using an ORM. It would be nice if people advocating ORMs here gave specific examples of how to overcome them.
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The repo is on gitlab, but I can always make up a noreply address.
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This might have a serious use. I have a private repo that I worked on with my daughter. If I open source it, ideally I'd keep the chronological history but scrub her email address out of it. It's OK that all the commit hashes woul
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I think we can check that one off as done.
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What about non-ASCII? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
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One of the main benefits of releasing free software (and IMHO a glaring omission from the article) is to get bug reports before the bug affects you. If Amazon wants to pay somebody to send you such bug reports, so much the better.
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There's a problem with this perspective. I have an insight that would help you see the picture more accurately. I would share it, but here on HN people from profit-making corporations could also see it and benefit, so just ask me in pe
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by brlewis 7y ago
Yes, it's sad that there are 50 ways to instantly send photos to your friends, but for bringing disparate opinions together it's pretty much just https://www.kialo.com/
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> That's not working well in the current climate where words carry perceived intent. I agree that there's a current climate that's even less amenable to open discussion than at other times. However, I disagree that words c
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I definitely wasn't asking for maximum packet size, which a search feature showed in huge print as the answer to my question. I don't expect the search algorithm to know my precise intent, but I'd like it to weigh the word &q
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I bet googlers on HN who work on ranking would appreciate that. Here's a recent one from me: typical tcp packet size
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>why should they become unpatentable because they're machine-implemented? The machines, computers, are so widespread and accessible that a huge number of people are making such new methods constantly. The patent system hinges on a p
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OK let me see if I understand the chain of inference here. The government has been studying UFOs for 7 decades ==> The government has learned something ==> The government has acquired alien technology I'm mostly with y
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Historians please note: At the time this comment was made, the HN guidelines said, "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
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Twitter still does it, but their implementation is not terrible.
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I think it's to draw the attention of people who want to tell others to do the same thing. E.g. if you're saying the title of this article internally while looking at an infinite-scrolling web site, then the title will get your at
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Yes. FTA, "Website visitors have been taught that a footer is placed at the bottom with information such as contact, about us, privacy policy and so on."
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I'm really curious how many lines of TypeScript are in use at Google. I bet most JS is still Closure.
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It's been a long time since I was acquainted with Uncle Tom's Cabin. I remember clearly how the opening presented an idyllic scene that could have been written by a proponent of slavery, but things went quickly downhill precisely
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Is anything stopping people from going all-in HTML5 and not even worry about having a presence in the app store?
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If you're typing it into google on a desktop browser, open your JS console. As earlier comments pointed out, in JavaScript it's (-80538738812075974n)**3n + 80435758145817515n**3n + 12602123297335631n**3n
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Do you know SQL? Storing it in a local PostgreSQL database and using PostgREST for D3 to access it would let you slice and dice in addition to graphing.
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If I never associated a phone number with my account am I safe, or does it also include phone numbers from contacts lists people let Facebook copy?

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