skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with your overall post except for this point:

> Inclusivity is not hard, but it starts with avoiding conflict.

I think inclusivity is hard -- for all the reasons you mention in the following sentence, e.g. having the strength to let things go, and the open-mindedness to love someone despite their purported flaws. Not only is inclusivity hard, but it is important to recognize how hard it is to achieve and maintain. Because otherwise it becomes easy to trivialize people who genuinely fight for it but fail to achieve it.
It depends on the season. Prices of natural peanut butter (by natural peanut butter I mean the only ingredients are peanuts and salt) are really cheap right now in September ($3.60 for me). But by February they can get up to $8.00 a jar.
Jacob Appelbaum, the guy they kicked out, was already more a talker than a technologist.
Exactly right. These non-programmers and non-engineers simply search github for potentially offensive words in comments.
Messing with our heads
Somewhat mis-leading graphs since higher-quality zlib compression levels weren't evaluated. Zstd is DOA thanks to Facebook's patent poison pill.
Charles Koch, Vocational Education, and the Prison Industrial Complex
Tesla does this with "Valet Mode": http://www.teslarati.com/depth-look-valet-mode-tesla-model-s...

However, the problem still remains for their loan fleet. I often get vehicles with a few different phones synced and several months worth of navigation history. I clear it all out when I get the car, but they should institute a policy to wipe out any saved data when getting a loaner back.
What we define as "teach" in the west is specifically designed to produce and select interchangeable factory drones with no social skills or creativity. Consider the K12 stereotype of filling out arithmetic worksheets or conjugation of foreign language verbs. Then we stack rank the kids by obedience to authority which usually anti-correlates with creativity and social skills to determine their educational path, and eventually give the "winners" jobs where their management are confused why they have no social skills and no creativity.

Imagine a classroom of employees head down silently circling multiple choice worksheets "circle the correct two characteristics of creativity in each set". That's how we'd "teach". Even worse, we'd probably pick the class teachers by who did the best on the last generation of social skills worksheets.

Meanwhile the creative or socially skilled are going to tend to not have corporate jobs. Or they'll demand more than minimal money.
What if the host is a homeless person, and calling them a host bring all the feelings about how they can't actually host anyone at their own place?

Better use "presenter" just to be safe.
This is a straw man. No one is going to call you our for using a piece of code because it lacks "inclusive" language, unless you decide to use a library with a name like `libniggerjew`. Or something that maybe includes variable names like "theHolocaustIsALie". At some point, you would have the blame the author of the software for injecting politics into their software.

That said, open source has been shaped by the people behind it. Entire forks have been created over nothing but internal politics regardless of "inclusivity." Large projects have rejected major features just because the maintainer didn't want it even though others did. Just because you have been insulated from this doesn't mean it isn't there.
Sounds like the plot to a scifi novel: Scientists discover that so-called junk DNA contains physics equations, along with what appears to be coordinates to a distant star system with an Earthlike planet.
I have a different understanding, it's not resistance for resistance sake, it's the willingness to dissent when you disagree. The first thing that pop to my mind is a book by Christopher Hitchens called "Letters to a Young Contrarian". While he enjoyed arguments he did not argue for argument sake for a position he did not hold.
The author's argument that the Tor Project is throwing its users under a bus isn't convincing. The Tor tools and the reasons to use them haven't changed with the introduction of the Tor Project's new mission statement and social contract. The profile of a Tor user hasn't changed and nor has the meaning of Tor's traffic on the network. A Tor user confronted by the Authorities is still able to give "privacy" as their reason for its use. An at risk Tor user is still at risk and it is far from clear that the Tor Project's stated mission increases their risk.

I think the author conflates the risk to Tor users with the risk to Tor Project members and volunteers. It may well be true that the latter groups are at greater risk.
I agree that being able to search effectively for information is an important skill - I do it quite a bit. But if someone doesn't really know how to code anything, doesn't that imply that they don't really understand how anything really works? And if you don't understand how something works, how can you fix it when something inevitably goes wrong?
I discovered this the first time I had to rent a car from my dealer. There were about 12 other phones connected in, and my phone would have ended up with all of their contacts if I hadn't thought to disable contact sharing. (Fortunately the Mazda UI asks before doing that.)

I went through that list and un-paired every phone, and cleared out the contacts list in the entertainment center. I also informed my dealer of the issue, and I hope they are a bit more mindful of it going forward. Cars are basically designed to only ever be used by one or two people at a time, so this isn't a huge risk for most owners, but for rentals it's kind of a privacy risk.
Tolerance and Diversity when it tips the scale toward their agenda, Shaming, Boycotts, Twitter smear campaigns, and threats to employers when it doesn't.
I'm in process of doing the same calculation, but without the cost of gas [I never tracked that metric].
> how much data the federal, state, local, etc. governments leak on the average person; for example, federal citizen identifiers reused as consumer identifiers, that is SSN numbers.

Is it really the government doing this? It seems to me that it's businesses, not the government, that insist on using SSNs as consumer identifiers. While this drives me crazy, I'm not sure that it's reasonable to pin it on the government (which, essentially by definition, is the party that is intended to use them as identifiers).

EDIT: What delinka (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12425976) said.
Is it possible that there have been harassment allegations against Crockford that have not come to light? I think it is completely acceptable for people who have been harassed by prominent individuals to not want to come forward publicly with their stories for a host of obvious reasons.
"Safe" and "friendly" are so vague as to be useless. I feel "unsafe" around social justice warriors because I have to watch every trivial word I say, or they'll dial things up to 11 and go after my career, and listening to PC talk "triggers" me.
The profile of Tor demands that the developers stay anonymous, so that they cannot be targeted in any way.

They already need to have policies/processes to vet code coming over the internet, so there's no need to know contributors in person. It's better to not know anyone in person, in order to not compromise the goals in any way or challenge someone's safety.

Also, if Tor devs would never have interacted in person, then the alleged sexual offenses wouldn't have happened during Tor meets but some other event the accused was present at, keeping Tor free of such non-technical events.

Just like reverse engineers, emulator devs, un-free codec devs are smart to operate anonymously, so should Tor devs, and it would force them to adopt needed policies for vetting random contributions properly.
I don't want to close it, just pass it on. I use it myself but neglect the maintenance of it.
"these people"

Refers to a long list of attempts by social justice warriors to join projects and organisations with the intent to subvert the organisation into a platform for there social activism. Which includes introducing extremely vague codes of conduct and then trying to use these vague guidelines to purge the organization of whomever they see as an obstacle of consolidating power and subverting resources.
I am not going to drag in a bunch of links because anyone who has been observing this for the past few years has seen these people attempt this trojan horse tactic multiple times in multiple communities.

One of the most awful episodes was when the gnome foundation was essentially bankrupted by having there entire budget for developer outreach subverted to 'Outreach Program for Women' which essentially entailed giving checks for 5,000 to any women to wanted the money regardless of there qualifications talent or history in open source. Needless to say the director was forced to resign.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/gnome-bled-dry-by-outreach-prog...
Or don't have a phone at all with you.
LastPass. It's good enough and worth the US$12/pa.

Syncs with Linux & Android. Lets me easily share passwords where needed. Has 2FA.

Literally renewed today. I did take a look at LessPass [sic] and a few others - I'd prefer an open-source and self hosted solution, but LastPass is cheap enough and convenient not to make it a priority.

That said, I do have a few sites which I use my own self generated password - makes logging in on, say, smart TVs a bit easier. I use the same "algorithm" for each - for example, for Twitter, TWpass321.

The other line of defence is a unique email address for each service. Using a catch-all email means I can be twit@example.com, bing@example.com, etc.

If one if those services are compromised, I know exactly who has leaked my details - and they can't use those credentials to log into another service.
I've never seen this in the Verilog or CUDA/C++ communities.
It forecasts your spending easier than mint, and it was developed back when mint was only open to US and Canada, not sure if it still is.
I second movement being the most effective. When motorcycling at night one of the biggest dangers is cars making left turns across your lane. It's really hard to judge how far away and how fast a motorcycle is moving because there's only one headlight, with cars you can extrapolate based on how far away the headlights are from one another and how much that distance is widening.

The most effective strategy I've found is to do a little waggle if you see a car ahead lining up to turn. The movement catches their attention and makes them realize you're not a car that's really far away
> I don't find the proof aspect that relevant to programming

By Curry-Howard isomorphism proofs in some particular proof system are equivalent to computer programs.
I've taken cocaine exactly one time in my life. That being said, I would never touch meth, heroin or crack even once.

People will do drugs, I accept that. I just want them to know the actual risks of what they are doing. I can't stop adults choosing to take drugs but maybe I can remind a few people to be a lot more careful and to be less trusting of their suppliers.
> Advertisers know every last intimate detail about a Facebook user’s life and can thus market to him or her with extreme precision based upon the social graph Facebook has generated.

> …

> Your friends see that you support their message, but what neither of you see is what happens with the data generated with each and every Like—data that are captured, dissected, and sold to marketers and data brokers around the world.

Companies like Facebook (and Google), prominent and huge in online advertising, do not help "Advertisers know every last intimate detail about a Facebook user’s life". These companies guard their users' data and keep it close to themselves so that they have the advantage of tracking, building profiles through other websites (with like buttons and commenting) and their own properties, and targeting the users with ads that the users are more likely to engage with (and thus make more money). They may share information with the ones paying to advertise on these platforms, but that's only in aggregate and does not include personal information of users. This may change in the future (more so with the changes in WhatsApp's policy).

Facebook has a help page titled "Common Myths About Facebook" [1] that states that advertisers do not have access to personal information (unless the user permits it) and that it does not sell users' information to anyone. Similar and longer explanations are on a note titled "Ad Targeting and Your Privacy: Keeping you informed on ad targeting updates" [2]
and Facebook's Data Policy. [3] (In all these pages, do a 'find on page' or use Ctrl+F or Cmd+F to look for 'advertisers' to reach the relevant points quicker)

Either Facebook is blatantly lying (which is a possibility I would seriously consider) or the author of this book has misunderstood things…or it's a mix of these two.

I do not like online tracking and the collection of personal and behavioral information online (with the resulting targeted ads). I do not like companies that engage in these. However, for now, leave aside unethical behavior by their employees or the possibility of being hacked and having information stolen. With that context, can anyone with more knowledge clarify why people keep saying that personal information is shared with advertisers (or worse, sold to them) by these companies? I can understand that personal information may be shared with various governments or government organizations.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/help/369078253152594/

[2]: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-and-privacy/ad-targe... (Dated February 27, 2013)

[3]: https://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy (Dated January 30, 2015)
Agreed, with the caveat that you can make more reliable rocket _components_ that way, and you can use those components to assemble a more reliable system from them.

No matter how reliable your individual components are, the added complexity from using many of them together in an already complex system is an area of concern.

As a small example: the Falcon 9 has 9 Merlin 1-D engines pulling from shared RP-1/LOx on the first stage. Combustion instability in any one of the engines can induce a 'pogo oscillation' in the fuel lines that can stress the structure of the spacecraft. More engines means a higher risk of instability inducing such an event and damaging the spacecraft.

Afaik, no one really has a generalized solution for dealing with pogo oscillations but many (including SpaceX) have ad-hoc solutions for specific rocket designs.

The wrinkle here is that the Falcon Heavy is going to not only have 3 Falcon 9 cores, these cores will also be cross-supplying fuel/oxidizer to each other (i.e. the left and right cores will feed the center engines before separating).

Even small changes in rocket design can bring underlying issues to light [0], and ad-hoc solutions, by definition, shouldn't be expected to solve them across the board.

[0] Anecdotal again, I know, but: I was speaking with a solid rocket engineer a little while back who had helped diagnose a combustion instability. The root cause ended up being that the aluminum pellets embedded into the oxidizer were shaped such that they could clump together and create small bursts of excess thrust under certain conditions. This excess thrust had happened in just such a way that it created a standing wave inside the combustion chamber which vibrated the entire structure during flight.

Other designs didn't have this problem (e.g. slightly different lengths of the combustion chamber, slightly different ratios of fuel/oxidizer).
That used to be the case in the Washington, DC area, back when almost everybody was a GS-graded government employee. There was a wallet card with the GS levels and number of years in grade, showing the salary levels. That told you what someone made.
I have always wondered how that store on University can draw enough sales to have such prime real estate, figured it was a front for something else.
I don't really like politics, but 10,000 years ago people in mud brick huts where taking politics and today people in mud brick huts are still talking politics. If nothing else politics works and ignoring things that work just make your life harder. Also of note, mud brick huts have been around for a really long time.
Just to keep it open, and keep basic usage free.
That concept won't work for these people. Making rules like "don't be sexist" means that to prevent someone coming, you have to show that the person was in fact being sexist.

The homepage for Nodevember has a big "code of conduct" section. No idea if it's new or not, but one bit is:

> Do not insult or put down other attendees.

Insult is taken, not given. You can't decide what insults me, the same as I can't decide what insults you. By that token, anyone can claim that anything anyone says is insulting to them.

I find plenty of common nodejs community 'norms' to be insulting to my eyes to read, never mind to my brain having to deal with the mental shenanigans required to try to make sense of the decisions made.

Does that mean I have the ability to say "NPM's dependency management is so poor quality it's insulting" and have any talk about NPM banned?
Having read a whole bunch of blog posts from the people involved in that scandal, I'm really curious why you're convinced that it was indeed rape.
Reminds me of physicists leaving academia to join financial companies.
Nerds try to out-nerd each other. Which could be considered helpful since it could motivate people to go way over the top when designing code, perhaps also harmful if that results in over engineered code instead of good code.
Rise of the Nazi-Grave Robbers
Generally, I do agree with you. Voting power, even if it is just one vote, comes with responsibility. And one should respect a vote, and also demand from a voter to behave in a mature, educated and responsible way.

> So all the rest (economic devastation, EU disintegration, counterproductive attitudes) might be exactly [...]

I doubt that one can draw a straight line from the outcome of the referendum to a fatalistic, self destructive attitude of the population of the UK. There are many factors at play here - protest votes against the political establishment, general abstinence, phobia against EU bureaucracy, nationalistic tendencies et cetera. I am not in the picture here, since I have never lived long enough in the UK to understand the tendencies at hand.

> perhaps democracy isn't really your preferred form of government.

I will not comment on that apart from the remark that every form of human government has its suboptimal characteristics. Democracy is not such a bad solution - apart from the fact when it fails.

All in all, again, the EU will survive the BREXIT, albeit it will take damage. The UK might not.
You're asking these activists to practice mercy. That's a big ask for someone who is learning what power feels like.
> ... look at the head of the driver that is approaching or has stopped.

That isn't really that possible these days. Car windshields are steeply inclined for better fuel economy which better reflects light. Smoked windows are now popular so that the interior of the car is relatively dark. If you look at the windshield of an approaching car you usually just see the sky.
My god, according to your website and whois info, you're in the Netherlands.

As I relate in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12425485 in living memory, invaders have used your country's gun registration list to confiscate all the people's firearms, with public execution of whole families as a penalty for not producing a gun on the list.

Oh, and owning a firearm in Europe is most certainly not prohibited, and that's not counting Switzerland, although the reported figures for the Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_c... look close to a total de jure prohibition.

I guess the post-WWII ruling class was satisfied with what the Nazis wrought on its people; you certainly are....
True. I think Kurt Vonnegut had a short story that dealt with that aspect of the plan. A search for "Handicapper General" should dredge it up.
Oh come on, don't let facts and technical terms get in the way of a good witch hunt.
This is a serious transgression of privacy and human rights.

There is utterly no reason why most people should not most other people's income.

Unless they are public reps, or have government dealings - or there is some kind of 'public good' - than this is basically an abuse of human rights.

Why not make people's bank account statements or health records public?
Nope. There are people (I'm one of them) who have sometimes extreme difficulty doing basic arithmetic manually and in the head. In my case it's not the full-blown dyscalculia[1] but to this day I haven't been able to learn full multiplication table for example, so forget about multiplying numbers in my head. I can do it on paper, but the whole process looks like a computer under heavy swapping. I even have hard time adding and subtracting numbers mentally. If I'm expected to produce a numerical result while being watched it all becomes a catastrophe because then I also get substantial anxiety for not being able to do what for most people is a simple thing. There's something about operations with concrete numbers (although I have no problem with numbers themselves) that turns my mind into mush.

OTOH, I have basically little problem with any other branch of mathematics. The more advanced the better, actually. In school it got easier as it got more advanced (although geometry was always easy no matter what level). Getting calculus in high school felt like I could suddenly breathe with full lungs. And I studied theoretical physics later at university. Apart from the basic reality that the math required is hard and needs a lot of work no matter how smart/gifted/whatever you are, I had no substantial problem with most of it. Abstract algebra, group theory, vector spaces and manifolds... oh the joys! Because none of it requires you to do any kind of mental arithmetical computation. This is not a unique experience, I once saw a TV report on a young successful astrophysicist with basically the same problem: Calculus on manifolds, GR field equations? Pfff... All day and every day. But, give her some numbers on a blackboard to multiply and she gets completely lost.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
I'd say it's a bad thing: a lot of consumption is a result of people's desire to show off. When everyone knows who makes what anyway, trying to show off will be stupid, so that activity will stop - severely hitting consumption, business revenues, profits, and the economy in general, probably resulting in a vicious cycle as people's incomes will be hit by bad business.

Scandinavia may be exception from that because showing off isn't in their mentality anyway, so benefits (main of which is that more and more reliable information makes things better for economic agents) outweigh disadvantages. Not going to work well for most other countries.
Random thought: couldn't one start making charging cables that only had power/ground pins present (but were still shaped like the apple/micro usb connectors)?
If you can tell a difference between 320 kbps mp3 and FLAC, then your mp3 encoder has a bug.

I promise you that you can't ABX the two.