skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's not the way to build an inclusive community

I'm genuinely curious where the fetishization of inclusion has come from. Everywhere I look it's is relatively homogenous groups, irrespective of the generalized identity of those groups, that actually start something and grow it to significance.

For small contrived tasks that will required minimal time to complete, I can see diversity and inclusion being more effective, but when a task is daunting, stressful, challenging, etc. the benefits of a strong in-group with a similar identity provides a foundation for sticking together through trying/difficult times that you would not find in a diverse group with few social ties around identity. Inclusion is valuable, but only when it can be achieved while also mitigating the group from becoming its own worst enemy when diversity of individual interests compete against shared interests.

Linus imparts a very very strong and visceral distaste for bad code. These strong opinions attract those that agree and repel those that don't agree. It's decidedly not inclusion of people who would be tolerant of mediocre code and that is generally a good thing for a critical codebase that is the foundation of so much other code in the world. A group of people that place quality of code at a greater importance over pleasant human interactions is going to produce quality code and sometimes create shitty human interactions. The don't package up and ship the shitty human interactions, but they do package up an ship the codebase. Feels like appropriate prioritization to me.

Anyways, I'm not saying inclusion is bad. I'm just saying that inclusion like exclusion has both positive and negative side effects there is no silver bullet when it comes to the makeup of a group that has come together to solve a problem.

relevant reading:

https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2015/05/14/the-bunny-theory-o...

http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enem...
Are humans still evolving?
Have you ever stood next to giant wind turbines? While driving through an area with hundreds of 100 meter wind turbines, I stopped to take a closer look at them. They are genuinely fear inducing, and feel alien. I could not stay close to one for more than a few minutes before I was overcome with dread.
This is why I chose to switch to SMSSecure. I've encountered a "bug" where I can be autoconnected to a known wi-fi (at say the library or a coffee shop) that requires authentication. Since my phone sees me as connected to wi-fi, it tries to send my messages via that channel instead of 4G data. Since I haven't authenticated to the wifi (phone never left my pocket), I don't receive any messages.

When I arrive home a few hours later, my phone blows up with a bunch of missed messages.
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Agreed - that's the same theme I was trying to get at in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10501963).
Improving YouTube thumbnails can be a huge usability win
Consider a series of lectures or DIY videos with a common setting. Pulling out a frame that captures something unique about the video (be it the DIY item being worked on in close-up or an important theorem on a title slide or blackboard) makes it easier for users to separate content and find specific items.
Nobody wants to live by garbage dumps either, but I'm not aware of that ever being a problem. I mean, the fallout radius of a garbage dump is smaller but it seems like that's basically a non-issue with modern reactors as well.

I feel like the crux of the problem, as usual, is education (and likely trust). If you're not aware of modern reactor tech, or you don't believe those telling you, then you're probably just expecting an inevitable Chernobyl.
I use evernote's web clipper for that purpose, works pretty well for what I need it to do.
Considering all the delays involved in getting up new plants (both technical and political) we're looking at what, a decade out for something with a break-even point of several decades? How far will renewables be then? There might be some logic to further invest in renewables instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a stop-gap solution that's guaranteed to just take us to peak uranium sooner than later. That said, we shouldn't be decommissioning existing plants for political reasons like the Germans are.

From a personal perspective I think I'm using less electricity than ever. I only have CFL/LED bulbs, flat screen TV's use less power than old tubes, every appliance I own is tons more efficient than the stuff just a generation ago, etc. Heck, even my powerful desktop PC uses a lot less power than before.
When I was in college I dated a girl whose parents were from Hong Kong and whose father was by far the most overbearing human being I have ever met. His determination that every one of his four children be successful drove them into an insane flurry of work that has lasted for each of their 25 years - until they each had their masters degree in biomedical engineering, as he demanded.

I, on the other hand, grew up in a family of academics and was able to express myself and make mistakes from time to time. Sometimes I wish I had been pushed harder as a kid, but I think I turned out all right.

When I met the father he remarked at how well-spoken I was and lamented that none of his children communicated as well as I did - the kind of skill that cannot arise when your childhood and adolescence is confined to an intellectually rigid model.

Creativity cannot be dictated.
No apologies necessary and no awkwardness implied--it was merely a surprise. A bit like being far from home and hearing someone shout my name.
I go to Wharton, and can weigh in from an inside perspective. There's a lot of interest for tech generally, and PM role is probably the most coveted one. This is because most companies favor people with a background in technology (or at the very least a passion for technology). You might be able to get a job/internship in a tech company in Ops, BizDev, Corporate Strategy or Finance with a whole lot of background in tech, but PM roles definitely require one.
Yes because a recession looks like 3% growth...
> software is part science, part art and part prayer

I've never heard that phrase before—is it yours? I really like it.
I would live next to a warehouse full of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synroc
> “As yet, no biomass stove in the world is clean enough to be truly health protective in household use,” says Kirk Smith, a professor of global environmental health at the University of California at Berkeley and the leading health researcher on cookstoves.

My understanding is that rocket stoves[1] are extremely efficient and non-polluting. Is that incorrect, or are rocket stoves not profitable for the concerns promoting this sort of effort?

> “With their system of government, they can kind of dictate what happens,” notes Jim Jetter, a senior research engineer who tests cookstoves for the EPA.

Well, yes, it helps if one can sentence holdouts to the laogai.

> much like some American cooks like the flavor of meat grilled over charcoal.

Only some? I'm pretty sure that everyone prefers the flavour of food cooked over good lump charcoal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove
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>You have a group of 19-36 students at home, and the skills to teach positive group dynamics?

No, but I had friends and social interaction when I was a child, and this social interaction also taught me empathy. It helped to have good, empathetic role models at home too.
Or inverted: There are very good reasons why it is difficult for builders/architects to build physical things the way developers write programs.
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Chernobyl was in the middle of nowhere, too— the meltdown destroyed some of the best farmland in eastern Europe.
Your ideas strongly relate to the message of the late Buckminster Fuller, former president of the Mensa Society and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just a couple quotes that your post made me think of:

>Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. We are moving away from a rooted life-style with a 95-percent rate of illiteracy. We are almost unconsciously drifting away from selfidentity with our ages-long, physically-remote-from-one-another existence as 150 separate, sovereign nations. Now the uprooted humans of all nations are spontaneously deploying into their physically integrated highways and airways and satellite-relayed telephone speakways, into a big-city way-stationed, world-around living system. We may soon be atom-bombed into extinction by the preemptive folly of the political puppet administrators fronting for the exclusively-for-money-making, supranational corporations' weaponry industry of the now hopelessly bankrupt greatest-weapons-manufacturing nation (the U.S.A.). If not bomb-terminated, we are on our ever swifter way to becoming an omni-integrated, majorly literate, unified Spaceship Earth society. The new human networks' emergence represents the natural evolutionary expansion into the just completed, thirty-years-in - its-buildings world-embracing, physical communications network. The new reorienting of human networking constitutes the heart-and-mind-pumped flow of life and intellect into the world arteries.

-Grunch of Giants (1982)

>I'm going to give you an important kind of a picture. I hear a lot of people say "I don't like machinery and technology it's making a lot of trouble", so were going to take all the machinery away from all the countries of the world, all machinery, all the tracks and the wires, and the works and were going to dump it all in the ocean. And you discover that within 6 months, 2 billion people will die of starvation having gone through great pain. So we say "that's not a very good idea lets put all the machinery back where it was." Then, were going to take all the politicians from all the countries around the world and we're going to send them on a trip around the sun, and you'll find we keep right on eating. And the political barriers now... scientists say very clear you could make the world work and take care of 100% of the people at a higher standard of living that anyone has ever known despite the increasing population, but you cant do it with the barriers, any more than you can try run a human organism with a wall between the ear the eye and the stomach. It is an organic whole, it is total industrialization.
I regret to inform you that actually it isn't really about the algorithms, it's really about the scale. A lot of these algorithms have been sitting on the shelf for many years because they are "that's neat but you'd need an insane amount of power to do that in practice" algorithms. Google connects these otherwise-useless algorithms with insane amounts of power.
I don't like the iphone 6 line. They are too big. I bike and run with my phone all the time and don't like having a clunker strapped to my arm. I got rid of the 6 and got a 5c and I like it way more. Just as fast as an iphone6 and 1/3 the price. By just as fast, I mean for normal use - not playing games and using crazy apps (which I don't do)
So if one of the kids walks around and wipes boogers on the other kids, the teacher should say nothing, because it's up to the parents to teach them not to do it?

Yes, it is the job of the school to require empathy and kindness of students. Whether or not that is what they learn at home, the kids have to act properly in school, and it's up to the school to make sure that happens.
> I'm not sure how it is "undeveloped" countries but around here is quite illegal to make your own fuel in this way however...

Not sure what you mean by "in this way", but it is quite legal to make ethanol fuel for your own use in the US.
For those wondering:

> What makes the Nike Air Bakin’ such a sizzling story is the controversy that arose from the fiery logo on the heel; it was the word ‘Air’ designed in a fiery motif, but backlash from the Muslim community for its slight resemblance to ‘Allah’ in Arabic text forced Nike to recall the shoes and re-release with a basic Nike Air logo.

http://sneakernews.com/2012/09/28/classics-revisited-nike-ai...
It's got to be cheaper than the USD $246,000 Javalin, which is often used against non-armored targets, like trucks and buildings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin

It's like a miniature version of the "missile in a box" from the future combat system

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/cheap-fast-deadly-the-ne...
That's extremely disappointing. I just started trying it out sync'd with my Google calendar.
Energy policy should not be based on irrational fears.
The only people that think Javascript is appropriate for native development, are frankly, people whose only experience with mobile is writing trivial apps. This was true five years ago and is still true today. The second you need to do anything complex, you'll find yourself doing a lot of bridging back to native code anyways.

And now you have two problems....
Please build one in my backyard. Jobs, cheap power, no guilt over CO2 when I crank my AC. I'm all in.
My son has been attending a progressive school based on the lab school in Chicago for the past two years. Its great in all the ways and for the reasons listed in this article, but there is one major issue we've run into.

Progressive schools also attract a large number of children with behavioral problems that have been forced out of all other schools. Most progressive schools are tolerant to a fault and don't have the budget or people-power to plan and prepare for these students. They need their own IEPs and in many cases a para-professional in the classroom with them but their parents are often LOATHE to cover the cost.

TL;DR progressive schools can be tolerant to a fault. Your kid will get hit and screamed at and if they are more academic they will complain to you constantly that their classroom is chaos.
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Generally speaking what you actually agree to is to attempt to use arbitration before going to the courts.

Of course, please consult professional legal services before signing any agrrement.
in a vacuum, obviously fine, but from a design perspective - too many different fonts being used
When I was studying, we had an active (research) reactor running on the campus under thousands of student dorms. Less than 10km from the center of the capital (Helsinki) too. Most people do not even know it's there. Most people don't know that a lot of hospitals on densely populated areas also house running reactors.

The power plants generally are pretty dull industrial sites. I don't blame for people not wanting them in their back yard. Luckily, one does not need to build them near habitation. There's plenty of space.
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I'd say his opinion about software quality was heard far louder and far clearer here than if he had been polite.

The rants are newsworthy events. A polite message would not have been picked up by the Register and other news sources. His tone helped magnify his message.

The people who hate the tone will self exclude themselves from kernel development. The people indifferent to the tone will focus on the underlying message, and if that underlying message appeals to them, then they will be attracted to kernel development. And those people in turn will defend high quality code commits when they encounter them.
Well, we're definitely making the whole planet unusable just by producing energy the way we are today.
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thank you. people take "rule of law" for granted.
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"Just avoid holding it that way." - Steve Jobs

EDIT: Interesting. Watching the votes go up and then down makes me think that half of the people do not appreciate my comment. In that case, I feel like I should elaborate.

If the phone is in your pocket, then reaching in has two options. One is wrapping your hand around the sides and the other is a pinch on the front + back. With OP's button pressing issue, I think it's more likely to be wrapping.

I personally don't see how it would be a problem even with wrapping, unless you're used to squeezing hard, but it can be remedied easily by putting the phone in so that the home button is oriented top side. That also brings along the benefits of being unable to unlock quickly and allowing you to listen to music without straining your headphone jack as much.

If Apple had kept the home button on the top, there would be more complaints. A top button is hard to reach, especially on the new, taller iPhones. It was already a complaint when the iPhone 5 form factor was released. Having to reach up to lock makes your grip on the phone a bit more tenuous. Combined with exerting a downward force cause you're pressing the home button, dropping an iPhone becomes more likely.

Frankly, this is the first complaint I've seen directed towards a side power button. For right handed users (sorry, lefties), the button is easily accessible to the thumb now. There's less balancing required to lock the phone. I've only seen reviews that were upset at top home buttons on big phones (HTC One series), never ones about side power buttons.
This article is pretty terrible. The bias is just ridiculous. When discussing wind and solar the author constantly makes assumptions that favor worst cases, and makes questionable comparisons. For example; stating that "more Americans" died from installing rooftop solar than have died from construction or use of nuclear power, cherry picking the most dangerous possible activity related to solar power (some guy up on his roof, which is a dangerous activity with or without solar panels) to the least dangerous thing about nuclear energy (professional contractors constructing the plants and the plants running normally.)

He cites figures when they will be favorable for nuclear or impressive for the point he's making, and leaves them out when they would undermine it. He cherry picks American nuclear experience in the examples above because we have so far avoided truly terrible disaster here with regards to nuclear energy. (Three Mile Island wasn't good but it wasn't Chernobyl or Fukushima.)

He also cites figures for the amount of space needed for solar and wind to replace all current forms of power without sources. Never mind the fact that actually replacing all of our power with renewables is something that will take a century or more, nobody's talking about completely replacing our entire power generation system in the next few decades with renewables or nuclear.

The real question is not "what can replace our whole system today." because the answer to that is nothing. The real question is, as we expand and replace generators that are being decommissioned, what should they be replaced with?

The concerns there people have about nuclear are not about whether it's more cost effective than renewables (if all we cared about was cost we'd keep burning coal, we know we can't do that), or whether it's safer to build, but what is the long term effect and what are the long term dangers. The long term dangers of a solar farm are basically nothing. You cannot get a Fukushima like disaster out of a solar plant.

The pro-nuclear side will tell you "Oh the new reactors are totally safe, you could never have a problem like that." But they've always said that about nuclear plants. "Oh this new design is safe." Then a disaster happens and they say "Oh well that was the old design, the new design is safe."
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I like his first proposal of "Better Discovery Through Decay", not sure about the second one "App Caching and Cache Ejection".

We jump from websites to websites because we consume their content, there's no learning how to use the content.
People don't jump from (web) apps to (web) apps because there's a learning curve each time you do.

I think we don't need that many apps to start with, just a core of apps (about 20 ?) that cover 90% of your needs and the rest is superfluous.

Maybe we will have to accept that unless you come up with something revolutionary it's just not possible to earn money with an "OK" app.
Hah, Lake Wobegone was my old soc teacher's favorite thing to reference when we were learning about middle income parents' attitudes to education. Anyways, I'm very aware of it and that's why I mentioned it is a statistical impossiblity to achieve b) with totally static classes.
True, it's always been BS, but there was a recent prominent article or study calling it out.
1 cm3 of water weighs a lot more than 1 gram ??
From a quick skim through, many of his calcs seem to be based on this i.e. major error.
I don't know anything about nuclear energy, but a friend who works in nuclear tech told me that the reason thorium as an energy source hasn't been embraced is because its byproduct can be used for weapons. That doesn't look to be exactly accurate (based on a few minutes of googling), but there might be some truth to it.

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-thorium-proliferation-nuclear-w...
I'll vouch that Carter is the real deal. If he's offering Haskell jobs in JPM, this would be a good place for people to land.
I'd be happy for it all to be in my backyard.

I don't know how small those Toshiba[1] mini reactors are, but I'd happily have one of those in my garden if it fits.

Or any modern design right next door to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S
> they're both so far ahead of the pack,

As a Xperia Z5 owner, I don't believe you ;)

Seriously, there are more phones with great cameras now. Both Samsung and Apple can get lost in the crowd - see above mentioned Xperia or LG G4.
Yes that is equally true, but with different implications.
Thanks for your comment :)

I agree, there are many other frameworks I should have mentioned. As for high quality rendering with Javascript --> WebGL?
A friend of mine played this piece on two pianos for his senior recital and it was amazing. The only standing ovation for a senior recital at Vanderbilt University for years, maybe ever.
Good JavaScript front end libraries?
I'm interested in finding a way of organizing our frontend code. Right now, it's a C# backend with a jQuery plus view/presenter pattern frontend, and the complexity has sufficiently grown that it's not the way forward.

I'm looking for something to replace our frontend, with one-way data flow (so no Angular/Ember).

Things I'm looking at right now:

- React + Redux: seems to have a lot of traction, an existing ecosystem, and a relatively small surface. Not to impressed over the fact that it looks like very watered-down FRP

- Cycle: looks interesting but seems to have very little mindshare comparatively. Don't know how it behaves without Node
Exactly. Relevant SBMC comic:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2164
The situation is one that you would expect to lead to sour grapes. The criticism of the school is rather nebulous. Can we at least say that sour grapes does appear to be a strong factor?
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My wife is a primary school teacher, and she barely has time to get through the mandated material. There is no time for "parenting" tasks, beyond basic safety and welfare. And even if she did, the child's family's values are often not in alignment with my wife's. More than once, simple discipline tools have been challenged by parent to effectively remove any consequences for ill-behavior by the student.

So while you may view the role of school as an extension of parenting, many parents regularly stick their noses into the school environment to dictate their own norms, and you cannot have one teacher "parenting" 30 different ways.
I am not reflexively anti-nuclear. However, I have never heard a satisfactory answer to the simple question: "How do we store nuclear waste safely?"