skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I try to push Mumble over Skype, the main issue with Mumble is that it's not as easy to get into. You spend too much time configuring your client, finding a server, etc. Things that should be fairly trivial. Then you may spend more time figuring out why you're not being heard, or why nobody's hearing you. Mumble is great but there's too much friction involved. I prefer Discord[0] because it's so easy to use by comparison, to test it you don't even need an account, you just run it from your browser. I just wish Discord had a Linux Client.

[0]: https://discordapp.com/
Smart is orthogonal to this issue, unless you consider it a synonym for wise (and few young smart people are also wise, something that's been notes for millennia).

Educated or knowledgeable is all you need, those who know about the history of confiscations and often genocides following gun registration are of course afraid to let the government know.

Or let me ask you, how do you know the government will stay as minimally benevolent as it already is? Especially with it's trending not so benevolent in the last few decades, as, for example, peace officers morphed into warrior cops? The War on (Some) Drugs, anyone?? What else might dissuade you of this notion you implicitly admit to?

Weird? Disappointed? We're out-grouped? Maybe so, but that doesn't mean we're actually wrong, you know.
I've found this approach -- to console and back -- useful for clearing other things, e.g. a custom pointer image in Firefox "sticking" upon some combinations viewing/activity.
I don't think that's completely accurate. While Boeing is not going to do an in-flight abort test, they will be doing a pad abort test in October 2017. A technical demonstration of the abort system was one of the requirements of the requirements of the Commercial Crew Transport program.
Merit raises are an effect of recognition. The fact everyone got the same raise meant there was no recognition for hard work. It's the wrong job for someone who wants to do better than bare minimum. I'll speculate and suggest that the department is doing good enough and they're not paying attention to performance metrics.
I am very much a message board nerd; it has never been my intent in invoking that term to set myself apart from other people. You can verify that for yourself with the search bar at the bottom of the page: I'm usually pretty careful to include the words "like us". I wasn't this time, but now you know, and we don't need to litigate that point anymore.

Your latter point is pure relativism. What can't you say that about? People make important business connections by going to bars together, by asking their friends for favors, by selecting cofounders, by playing in the same video game leagues.

The argument about the Hollywood blacklist would be biting if I hadn't foreclosed on it in the comment you responded to without reading very carefully. Perhaps you thought that point was crafty or subtle, but it is in fact banal, lumbering, noisome; you can see it coming on the horizon from the first words typed on a thread like this. You might as well invoke Nazism.

My argument is simple, and you'll need to address it head on. The people suggesting that excluding any speaker ever is some kind of Pandora's Box that opens every event up to trolling and zealotry are making two untenable arguments:

* That there is a set of principles about exclusion OR inclusion that is somehow immune to gaming and manipulation by bad faith participants. No, any set of principles you conjure will be gamed if you don't use judgement.

* That there even exists some simple set of rules we can all follow, something that fits in 80 columns to match our source code style guide, that will resolve all these problems. No, these problems are complicated.

You want this problem to be so simple that you can beat people over the head with the obvious right answer. It's not simple. It's complicated, multi-segmented, floppy, unwieldy. You swing it through the air at people's heads, but it curls up on itself as you do, and the only thing that hits your opponents argument is a bit more air.
Nope. Django communities have been infected with this as well.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692
Almost 20x the amount of psychology majors than chemical engineering.
>More likely they are invoking their famous card. The minority card had no advantages.

I think if you're famous/succesful, the minority/victim card can be played to your advantage too.

If you're a poor/unknown minority, nobody gives a fuck.

The same way few care or write indignant posts for sex trafficking victims or exploited immigrant people, but if some minority member at some $1000/person conference hears something they that hurts their feelings, it warrants a small media/social-media storm.

It's the upper middle class minority version of "white people's problems".
Inclusivity is a attempt to be included in the exercise of power, dressed up in language to make it seem less like a power grab and more like a moral imperative. The goal itself is laudable and the usual tactics "toward" that goal are lamentable.
Yes, it's the same fallacy just in a different context.

I feel like mankind is having final exams and although we were given all the answers, none of us have studied very much. Whether it's the efficient allocation of resources, the nature of public versus private discourse, the necessity of reproducibility in science, or the overuse of aggregate data and correlation as a proxy for causation -- there are a bunch of fundamental topics we all need to be on the same page about. This is because they're all converging together as we as a species converge together online.
drone : service-economy :: pickaxe : gold-rush
The main reason children in the UK are hospitalised is to remove organs - their teeth.

This is entirely preventable with better oral hygiene and reduced sugar intake.

Plenty of parents give their children undiluted fruit juice in the mistaken belief it's healthy. Worse, they often do so in bottles with teats or sippy cups.

Have a look at the sugar content of drinks aimed at younger children, it's pretty bad.

Increasing the price of those sugary drinks would give parents a clear and useful signal.
A old, but good piece on the culture war from 16 years ago is John Fonte's "Why There is a Culture War" (http://www.hoover.org/research/why-there-culture-war). First published in Policy Review, put out by that often marginalized bastion of Silicon Valley conservative thought, Stanford's Hoover Institute.

I didn't get the whole PC crowd until I read this article. The obvious contradictions in the PC movement can't really be ascribed to any other reasoning then Antonio Gramsci's counter-hegemonic culture war strategy that Fonte chronicles the history of in this article. The strategy seeks to join together all coalitions of those who oppose "hegemonic" values such as meritocracy and other "common sense" in order to seek its overthrow and to pave the way for a utopian revolution.

Edit: I left out any examples of PC contradictions because anyone with critical thinking skills can identify many easily and I wanted to be kind and not inflict hurtful cognitive dissonance on those who are still PC true believers.
Everything is unhealthy above some threshold. Sugar too, problem is, it's everywhere in disguise and it alters your sense of taste. Tax could reduce its presence. I just threw this out btw.
Admittedly, I was being a little terse.

I've read his reference before and my reaction to his reply to me was "Yeah, that's right, too."
Ask HN: Random email generator?
I love the random password generator from LastPass, but I still consider emails to be an unsolved problem for registering on websites. Do you know of any extension or similar to generate a random email? Ideally, those would be redirected to my @gmail.com or my @francisco.io emails without revealing it to the sender. User case:

1. New dubious register form that I think will send me SPAM.

2. I click the "Email Generator" and it generates a random f43g4g54@mailinator.com (or my own domain).

4. I use that email. They send a confirmation email.

5. This confirmation email gets redirected to Inbox ( http://inbox.google.com/ ), Gmail, Hotmail or any other I set up previously.

6. I just click the link to validate the account.

7. They send me SPAM. I nuke that email address and know who did it (if I want to).

Right now I am using a combination of low-value private email address and mailinator to achieve something similar. I consider Gmail's "+" totally insufficient since my original, good email can be extracted from there.

Extra: the same thing with phone numbers would be awesome, but I understand that would be a lot more costly and difficult that it exists
Lol what do you think they're speaking from?
Of course it is not forbidden, but is not in 'best interest of child'. It will take a bit longer if lawyer is involved and reduces your chances.

Here is a czech case, women loses parental rights because she published her case. She still works in Norway kindergarten...

She has long history with lawyers, her original lawyer was removed from case (against her will), second lawyer was not even allowed on hearing...

http://zpravy.idnes.cz/norsko-michalakova-soud-0w5-/domaci.a...

Anyway, I do not live in norway, good luck.
I am extremely uninformed about Brexit (because I live in the US and don't have any connection to the UK or EU and don't care to read possibly false information regarding it.) So, in my simplistic and limited view on Brexit, I support it as it looks to be more freeing than being a part of the EU.
((Also, I tend to find that those currently in control of the US want to limit personal freedoms and grow government.))
That's not the point. But then again people go to great lengths, and twist through mental obstacles just to defend their silly dogmas.

It's OK. Willful ignorance is only arrogance, and that never lead to any kind of good result.
25 grams of sugar is about 5 teaspoons.

How the fuck does a peanut butter sandwich end up with that much sugar?
>I think part of the problems is people don't realize how much sugar is in non sweet food.

Or rather that non-sweet food is actually hella sweet -- it's just not labelled "candy" but e.g. pasta sauce.
Neural mechanisms for lexical processing in dogs
Discord is just another centralized, closed platform.
I'll go ahead and jump down your throat for saying something really stupid. For one thing, no speech is banned. Wild hyperbole doesn't help your argument. Crockford can say whatever the fuck he wants. He has no inalienable right to be invited to private conferences. Secondly, this was just a poor attempt at placating people against some seemingly misplaced umbrage. This was a mistake. If you think this somehow sinks the entire mission of treating people fairly, you are simply wrong. Inclusivity and diversity are great. Treating people with respect is great. Respecting complaints of abusive behavior is great. Placating whiners is not. Striking the balance is not easy and some attempts will miss the mark. That doesn't mean you give up.
I confirm that I feel myself tired when listening low-quality audio even when I cannot spot any audible problems with audio. It's bland.

I.e. I will definitely fail ABX test, but I still feel difference.
IMHO, ABX tests are wrong tests for that problem.
I'm going to have to disagree with this quite a lot, your cousin's child is using I control tech running on Windows, not built into Windows.

That I control tech exists for every platform, but there is only OS X that you can take out of the box as a quadriplegic and with minimal help from a Designated Pair of Hands™ be up and running and independently messing around on HN.

Believe me, if I could buy a cheap laptop running Windows or Linux preferably and get the same user experience I get from OS X I would do it in a heartbeat. But in the past decade of trying, nothing comes close to OS X at the moment and even then OS X has only been this accessible for the past two or three additions.

All Microsoft did in this instance you're talking about is make sure that the drivers worked, and I trackers are essentially just mice as far as the computer is concerned, all of the clever stuff is done inside the eye tracker itself.

Just my two pence worth. But you know, It's 2 pence that I've earned through a decade of being a quadriplegic geek getting very annoyed at not being able to use my computer like everybody else.

I long for the day that I could use voice dictation software on Linux, any Linux distribution would be fine, then I could switch to some nice open source software and I would be a very happy pussycat. But none exists as far as I'm aware.

Edited to add: for clarity and excuse the odd grammatical mistake, Dragon doesn't make spelling mistakes but it does put the wrong word in the wrong place sometimes.
I have a perl script that I type a pass phase into, as well as the domain name of site, and it uses a hash function to create a password.

On average the password is rich in upper case, lower case, symbols, etc. Sometimes though it lacks a number or has a character that is not allowed, and the adaptations to that are another part of the story.

I have thought of making a little JS app that runs on a web browser but haven't done it out of paranoia.
My phone isn't telling my rental car anything. I turned bluetooth off.
The assistive touch widget on my iPhone has meant I can wait a little before replacing it (failed home button).

It gets more extreme here in Thailand though - my sister in law and mother in law, (and I am led to believe, a lot of other people) use the assistive touch widget exclusively, instead of using the working home button, as they don't want the hardware button to break/wear out.

I don't quite understand the logic myself, but its definitely a thing.
> On the other hand, what if the electorate did not vote out of protest, was misinformed by the politicians or media, or simply not educated enough to make the proper choice? Apart from the shocking failure of an established western democracy to make a good economical and political choice, what are the consequences at stake here?

Well, that has always been the risk with democracy. People disagree, one side of a vote wins, the other side loses.

But you can't simply accuse the winning side of being misinformed or uneducated or irrational unless you are willing to accept that they view you in the same light. And making that argument publicly, as the Remain side has very vocally since losing, only hardens the position of those on the other side that you know nothing and are not worth listening to since you obviously don't see the good that will come from their victory.

So all the rest (economic devastation, EU disintegration, counterproductive attitudes) might be exactly what they desire. And they're in the majority, in a democracy. If you dislike that, perhaps democracy isn't really your preferred form of government.
And it captures the feeling of heat putting everyone on a hair trigger very well.
As much as I'd like to think this is true, I don't think it's plausible. It would require a conspiracy of epic proportions.

It's a flaw in human psychology that is related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...

Another aspect is that as that any idealistic movement is prone to being taken over by it's most intractable members. There's a game theoretic spin on it by Nicholas Taleb if I remember correctly: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf

As the emotional tone of a debate is heightened, it's hard to argue for moderation. Anything that pushed emotional buttons forces people to the extremes and those arguing for compromise are often ridiculed by both sides.

Therefore we have the phenomenon that many debates end up being between over-the-top SJWs on one side and crazy racists and Red Pill types on the other.

And back in the real world, there is still indisputable injustice and discrimination that would be eminently tractable if everyone would come back down to earth.

EDIT - I'd like to point out that I'm aware of a major flaw in the above - everyone - myself included regards themselves as a reasonable moderate and others as dangerous extremists. I suppose I'd be quite content to be regarded as a flakey liberal by my friends on the right and a closet imperialist by those on the left. (Except - what happens if the sample of my social group is heavily skewed and my 'left/right' is off the scale? And down the rabbit hole we go...)
my sincerest condolences

thank you for sharing your humanity with everyone who reads and spreads this profound insight

in the absence of undoing i only wish i could offer relief by sharing the burden of experience with you

whatever solace there is to find, i want you to know your strength is affecting
I've often thought that if we ever decide to send nano spaceships filled with engineered DNA to populate other planets like spores we should include human knowledge in the DNA so when the spores turn into an advanced civilization they could read the DNA and learn about their progenitors.
Is that because some "businesses are people" and fifth amendment rights?
Then you should provide a citation. Here's a quote from the Harvard health blog[1]:

"A summary of the committee’s December 2014 meeting says “Cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.” Translation: You don’t need to worry about cholesterol in your food.

"Why not? There’s a growing consensus among nutrition scientists that cholesterol in food has little effect on the amount of cholesterol in the bloodstream. And that’s the cholesterol that matters."

[1] http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/panel-suggests-stop-warni...
There was a man I knew who actually did quit Palantir to work at a literal candy store, actually (Rocket Fizz, which mainly sells soda but also candy). Interesting guy.
I never thought about it, but it would make a lot of sense that since both Android and iOS ask for application permissions, the same would happen for a Bluetooth session.

My guess is that it's not done because receivers were never supposed to handle missing data for something that shows up in device capabilities.
Well, there's also the fact that anaesthesia may be dangerous to babies and young children. [1]

[1] http://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20120820/anesthesia...
> I never understood how people handle their real lives without being able to argue or verbally discuss such issues

My guess is they handle it very well, because they're just using a strategy that works out perfectly for them. This only has to be learned or reinforced once, and it becomes a problem solving strategy for life because it's such an easy exploit to use with our social protocols. It can be used to solve pretty much every issue where they can win by exerting pressure.

Whoever happens to get in their way also often takes permanent damage by being labeled something bad that sticks and this hampers that person's ability to not only resolve the issue at hand but prevents them from being heard in the future as well. Either way, you either acquiesce or you get bulldozed.
Given this is by the a US federal agency, it's interesting to me how the US federal consumer protection agencies never look at 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.
Of course there's a subreddit for these GitHub issues written by SJWs. https://www.reddit.com/r/GitInaction/

I think it's striking how these people seem to be on a crusade, often they don't even seem to be users of the code in question and often barely developers at all.
I hope Tor Project Inc can resolve the issues it faces.

After a bumpy start, Rotorproject[1] is starting to iron out a plan. It's my hope that Rotorproject can help Tor Inc resolve it's issues while simultaneously providing alternatives to the current (technical) monoculture in terms of easily usable anonymity.

I think advancing human rights are a reasonable goal, but when I've seen political activism as a specific project goal, I've yet to see long term success.

[1] - https://phab.rotorproject.org/w/general_project_information/
You seem to be claiming that Taler doesn't work without providing any actual arguments.
He didn't say 'whore', though, that's the point

Sorry to be snippy, but no, that's not the point. That's your point, and one possible counter argument. The worry is that while true, it's weak and specific, and leaves the way open to further attacks. By concentrating on the counterfactual I'm trying to address a broader issue.

This person inferred 'whore' from 'promiscuous'.

Who is "this person"? I don't think anyone inferred this -- it's a counterfactual. In particular, Perch did not use the term 'whore': https://medium.com/@nodebotanist/why-i-won-t-be-speaking-at-...

I think it's also worth noting that the word 'promiscuous' already has a history in computers.

Both I and 'danso' know the meaning of 'promiscuous' with regard to packet snooping. We didn't mention it here because it's amply discussed elsewhere, and because it's not relevant to the discussion we are having. The real question, as with "daemon processes" and "master and slave relationships" is whether this usage is appropriate today, not whether the usage has precedent.
The statement of the organizers doesn't give a very detailed reason why they didn't want him giving a keynote at their conference and it certainly doesn't say it was over a tweet or using the word 'promiscuous'. That part seems to be much-repeated speculation that does nothing but fuel outrage.
At the very least, it's telling them you turn off Bluetooth.
If someone is marching around in jackboots and a swastika armband talking about how we need to invade Poland, then it is indeed appropriate to invoke Nazism. And if someone is advocating that people should be blackballed in an industry purely because of their unpopular but also completely unrelated political views, then it is indeed appropriate to invoke the Hollywood blacklist.

Anyway, we're getting way off my original point, which was that this weapon of yours doesn't care who it's pointed at. Once you've unleashed the blacklisting, it'll get used against people you don't want it to. As has happened here.
> "Increasing inclusivity means making the Node.js project a safe and friendly place for people from diverse backgrounds."
That seems like a solid goal to me.

When you have people who have different opinions of what "safe" is, you can end up having a bit of friction.
fwiw, that fork started specifically because of a group's anger that the Tor organization kicked out a rapist.

https://twitter.com/jmprcx/status/768839381746651136
This one is solved by namespaces.
ABX tests are putting sensors and short-term memory under stress, while users are reporting about their long-term feelings about music. It's like trying to spot difference between fruits of same kind while consumers have problem with lack of a nutrient.
You may be right that the particular slice of people you single out has also had a decrease in wage growth. Do you have any evidence of this? Or are you simply assuming that all unknown facts support your position?

In any case, the specific stats Harford cites are cross sectional. This means the averages include immigrants and fall victim to the exact same Simpson's Paradox issue that I discuss above. To show that immigrants have reduced anyone's wages, you need longitudinal data.

And your question is also malformed, because you don't specify whether you are discussing the children (who may be educated) of uneducated American parents, or the uneducated children of American parents (who may or may not have been uneducated).