skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose I just disagree with you, then. From the Inclusivity Working Group Github:

"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. Their tactics may be petty or ineffective (removing Crockford is a pretty bold step), but that's different the strategy.

Do you believe that that goal is not worthwhile? If it's not, why?
Well I think PHP has fallen out of favor for Node among the "I wanna program" crowd. Of course this whole "social justice" shit-show is a more recent thing so all the heat is in that community, leaving PHP out of the festivities.
Click on the little "web" link at the top of this page (it's on the same line that says "96 points by prostoalex"). Then open Google's link to the article in an incognito window.

That works every time for me.
These are not mildly negative health effects. There has been an enormous rise in diabetes and obesity, including in children. Large numbers of people are dead because of these side effects and there are enormous costs imposed on the health system.
I don't think there's necessarily cognitive dissonance, here. This reading seems internally consistent: While banning certain types of speech may be a necessary part of creating an inclusive environment, it is not the primary motivation of inclusion, nor always necessary, and thus, inclusion is not about restricting speech.
Yes, one of life's harsher lessons is just how vicious Unitarians can be.
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No. It has to do with the desire for a single, simple guideline that stands in for a bunch of different factors. It's right there in the article:

“Children who eat foods loaded with added sugars tend to eat fewer healthy foods, such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy products that are good for their heart health,” Dr. Vos said.

“If your child is eating the right amount of calories to achieve or maintain a healthy body weight, there isn’t much room in their food ‘budget’ for low-value junk foods, which is where most added sugars are found,” Dr. Vos said.

This recommendation is coming from the American Heart Association. Diabetes is related to heart health, but they aren't making this recommendation based on an argument about sugar metabolism.
Ask HN: What has been the effect of wage transparency in Scandinavian countries?
inspired by this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12423891

I'm curious what has resulted from this transparency?

I'm sure many of the effects can be coupled to the societal benefits I hear Scandinavian governments provide. But can anything be objectively stated due exclusively to wages being public knowledge?

Have salaries increased? Such as they have for executive pay when made public.
http://freakonomics.com/2009/05/14/ceo-pay-blame-it-on-the-next-guy/
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/2009/05/comparison_shopping.html

and if so, have they or will they stabilize?

How has this affected company profits?

Are there less full-time jobs?

Has the cost of living increased overall?
I know that Scandinavian countries are typically more expensive to visit (for holiday) than their EU counterparts.

Do people find it difficult to survive? or save/invest for the future?

What are some of the other societal impacts?
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Just noting that if accessibility was front and center, the tablet wouldn't be priced exorbitantly. Let's take this for what it is, good PR
It is generally used that way. But it's also sometimes used in the gender-specific manner, and so some people will take offense over it.
I think we are on a different planets.

I just told you parent is not even allowed to talk to a lawyer, if such thing happens and escalates.
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I've always felt that YAML was incomplete.
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I think we're conflating all kinds of stuff here.

In small social groups, the group norms around certain behaviors. That's normal. It's also normal that different small social groups will have different norms.

As a personal matter, don't be an asshole. You shouldn't say things to others to deliberately hurt them. The principle of charity is valid here as well, by the way. Sometimes people are hurt because even though you mean well, they take things the wrong way.

In larger groups, probably somewhere around Dunbar's Number, it becomes inevitable that norming will not work -- nor should it work. That's because larger groups of people naturally become echo chambers full of groupthink. It's imperative to have voices and opinions that some find harsh. c.f. On Liberty

These are three separate issues. They are related, yes, but one doesn't trump the others. Society needs all of this to function well.

ADD: One of the interesting things that happened with the invention of the television was that there was no more adult talk anymore. Adults said that in the past, there was plenty of time when the kids ran off and the grown-ups talked about more mature topics.

The TV took every kind of conversation and threw it into the middle of the living room with your 4-year-old. (Or 15-year-old, for that matter). Adult talk radically changed.

Perhaps the net is doing the same thing with small social groups -- eliminating them as a place where local norms can be far outside what most people would find polite. Everything now is just in one big bucket. If so, it promises a more radical change to human society than anything we've seen so far.
> prices should be stated with taxes included or not

In the US, sales tax differs wildly from state to state, and even from city to city. If you always had to include tax, you couldn't have any TV commercials where a company boasts about their price on something they sell, because it would be impossible to know how high the sales tax would be for every person watching.

Places where tax always has to be included usually has a national sales tax or similar, making it possible to advertise prices with tax included.
I don't see why hypocrisy really matters in something as elevated and high-stakes as national policy. Rectifying the moral shame of hypocrisy should be like item #300 on a very long list of priorities.

Japan is making a cold policy argument about factors to business decisions, an argument for the factors that made the UK attractive.

Hypocrisy is a distraction focused on who is saying it rather than what is being said. If another country non-hypocritically repeated the same argument, does it make a difference? To you it does.
Would getting flagged bump it down? It's a shame people don't think this is a worthwhile conversation to be having.
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Uber/Lyft, aircraft, and walking for short distances, yes. I realize now that I live in very walkable areas, so I have a little more variety available than people in the suburbs.

That said, this post was intended to encourage people to think about the future of transportation, not saying that everyone should immediately switch to Lyft/Uber.

Car/bike ownership will certainly make sense for some people for quite some time, even after we have fully autonomous vehicles. But I maintain that cycling is more recreation than an effective method of everyday transportation, and it is frustrating to see the biking contingent pushing it as a transportation option to encourage public expenditure on their recreational needs.
Yes, exactly this. With the fruit comes fiber. Natural sugars, as long as they are consumed with their naturally occurring fiber, are fine. You can try to over-consume, but you'll have a bad time.
You might be interested in a Libertarian take on some of the same history:

http://reason.com/archives/2016/09/04/where-did-trump-come-f...
Yeah, Czech, Slovak, Lithuanian governments all got diplomatically involved for conspiracy theory.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-norway-accused-of-unfairly...
"stop being so defensive" is another one.
Aww you could have made that sarcastic e.g. with

"Sarcasm. Just great."
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Sounds like a stupid asshole.
Shouldn't you report actual crimes? What kind of society do we get when everyone seemingly secretly or publicly hates each other so much that you'll report "potential crimes" in advance?
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> On the other hand, figuring out how to game a personality test is, in a sense, a test of critical thinking

Rather not applying at companies that use scientifically-unfounded personality tests is a test of critical thinking.
That's an extremely cynical take.
Quick review of weaknesses listed on the Wikipedia page for Tor make it pretty obvious that Tor is a threat to majority of users that if discovered be face serious, if not life threatening, responses.

Why do people continue to use it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
The second half of this paper describe a system for monitoring distributed evolutionary computation using music instead of sound by altering existing ones or generating new music depending of the state of the system.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pierre_Parrend2/publica...

(Full disclosure: I'm one of the co-author)
> Is that how Europe is governed? [...] I prefer staying in
> Europe, but if the majority of my fellows prefer the opposite,
> then it's democracy.

It's democracy in action in the UK & EU that you can leave.

How does democracy have anything to do with the UK then getting some
sort of preferential treatment for trade once they're out?

That would not be in the democratic interests of the remaining EU
citizens who don't want to see the EU crumble any further.
If you know of a better way to check the growing power of these vicious hateful busybodies, I'd like to hear it.

They're like Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority when it was at the peak of its power, probably back in the 1980's. But they're more frightening, because they're able to accomplish with a few tweets and blog posts what took them many millions of dollars and a membership-based organization.
If this is true, it is both ridiculous and terrible.
AFAIK, this only affects the JavaScript-based communities.

I sincerely doubt one would find anything remotely similar in C++, Linux (C lang), or Assembly-programming communities.

The "harder" the language the less non-coding politics around.
Welp, time to boot up the old BeBox and be sure it still works ..
> " found characteristic burn marks on the ground which told him an accelerant had pooled there."

I thought that was one of the debunked myths of forensics. Quoting http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20121006-innocence... :

> For example, “pour patterns” — discolorations or deep burns once believed to be irrefutable proof that an accelerant had been poured on a floor — were found to be common to accidental fires, too.

More at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/forensic-tools-wha... :

> In fact, as FRONTLINE reported in the 2010 film Death by Fire, many of the supposed telltale signs of arson – the remnants of accelerant pour patterns, for example – can actually be caused by natural phenomena during accidental fires.
There's no such thing as a criminal gang selling bootleg liquor without a government prohibition.
"What I obviously meant..."

Apparently it was not obvious. Rhetorical trick much?

Enforcing civility should be a tactic used for individuals, not language. For instance, insults to friends/acquaintances are fine, insults to strangers are not.

You need to enforce this at a user level, not a language/speech/code level. There are plenty of things that change in acceptability level based on context.
There are a number of objective measures of cyclomatic complexity in software. These metrics show that the higher the complexity, the lower the cohesion of the code[1].

Code that is complex, and has low cohesion, is harder to understand, and therefore harder to change. It's the elephant you have to push on every time you want your program to do something new[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0

"Dependency hell" might be subjective, but tools that reduce the upfront cost of increased dependencies don't remove the other burdens from you, the developer. In fact they often allow you to produce an impenetrable, unrecoverable tangle more quickly than doing without them.

Edit: Just realized who I responded to... "But, you knew all that."
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I think the takeaway is that when you set up a group within your organisation to promote 'inclusion' or 'diversity' you open the door for entrism by seasoned radical activists who have an agenda. An attempt to include 'marginalized' people by excluding everyone who fails there ideological purity test is simply a witch-hunt tactic to consolidate power and subvert the direction of the organisation.

everyone has to be more diligent to protect there projects and communities form these corrosive people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism
I remember well into the 2000s having it be usual that, while wearing headphones directly connected to the computer's onboard audio, with quiet or no music playing, I could hear characteristic electronic noise for various operations. In particular when printing, before any physical noise from the printer, I could hear long bursts of quiet bleeps and bloops.

I get a little of that with fans these days; I have a processor intensive cron job that I am reminded of when the fan across the room ticks up in speed.
I still don't see how this is a boost to transparency. I tend to think of transparency in terms of the government being transparent, not me being able to get information on random people. How does society as a whole benefit when I can check my neighbor's income?

I'm also slightly uneasy with services like hitta.se, though I am not as paranoid as I used to be. It's possible to see the average income in some residential area as well. So if someone checks that, then checks the people living there individually, and notices that my income is significantly above average for the area, then my place is more attractive as a break-in target.

It would seem more sensible to me if that information were available given a legitimate need, such as planning to make a deal with some person.
I think it's because we seriously aren't made for this environment.

Consider that 100 years ago a picture was a novelty, there was no such thing as perfect recollection.

Today we have a perfect/accurate record of exactly what was said/done on social media; it's led to a culture of virtue signalling and often dishonest but politically correct dialogue.

Don't get me wrong, I love technology and the amazing things it's let us do, but I don't think this aspect is discussed enough.

Our day to day existence as a human being has completely/foundationally/fundamentally changed within the span of a couple generations.
My Chinese in-laws cook some dishes using an insane amount of ketchup, while telling me to eat less sugary foods. They were rather shocked when I pointed out that ketchup is basically sugar syrup with some tomato added.
just to confirm, specifically I can access all files stored in iBook?
Integrals themselves are, except in very special cases (piecewise functions with rational values), only definable as limits - specifically the limit of the Riemann sum. (You can also use measure theory, but measures themselves are only definable on sigma algebras, which in the non-finite case are also not explicitly constructable.)

In what comparable way does truth (e.g. the true process underlying gene expression) have a role in statistics? We neither measure the truth nor model it; it is absent.

I don't quite understand. You are arguing that statistics doesn't care about truth simply because some biologists are using a model they know to be wrong? That doesn't even make sense.

In applied math in general (which includes but is not necessarily limited to statistics), the following equation holds:

error = |true model - actual approximated model|

We can use the triangle inequality to show:

error <= |true model - best model in class X| + |best model in class X - actual approximated model|

Presumably you all have decided that |true - best| is adequately small via scientific investigation. Or maybe not, maybe your workplace just doesn't care, I don't really know.

Various mathematical techniques, or increasing sample size in a statistical scenario, can be used to reduce |best - actual|. Due to the triangle inequality, this brings you closer to truth.

Statistics is also concerned with expanding class X in such a way as to more easily reduce the model error.

I really feel like I'm missing something, because I truly can't comprehend what you are trying to argue.
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I feel it might be helpful to point out that never in the history of anything has starting your comment with "sigh" communicated anything positive about yourself.
Knowing how to use Google really well so I can find answers to bugs, tutorials, code snippets, etc. Learned the importance of this from a wise older Chinese programmer at my first job ever, an internship: "I don't really know how to code anything, I just copy it from Google."
I believe in markets. But in Sweden schools can fix wages by only allowing X amount of people to get a degree per year ... At least for those jobs that require a license.
I disagree about the notion that the attack on Crockford comes from "people with fragile personalities", this look to me more like advanced identity politics manipulated at a high level, definitely would take me 10'000 hours to master.
Audiophiles believe a lot of things with no evidence. How else could you sell them cables costing thousands of dollars? Reminds me of homeopathic medicine. The only reasonable use case for FLAC is archiving music you expect may need to be reencoded later.
Dude, there are lawyers that specialize in this. If it wasn't allowed, they wouldn't be able to advertise and specialise in that field. Here is an example, in norwegian so you might have to use translate: http://osloadvokatene.no/privat/familie-arv-skifte/barn/6-go...
Of course there is. No matter what price alcohol is sold at it will always be cheaper for a criminal gang to sell it cheaper. There's no need for any government intervention for this to be true.
Sad, but true. There couldn't be a better PR plug than this for Apple, as they continue to price their products outside the affordability of the disabled. If 70% of the blind are unemployed, how can they afford an iPad?
From nodevember CoC:

"Be careful in the words that you choose. Remember that sexist, racist, and other exclusionary jokes can be offensive to those around you. Excessive swearing and offensive jokes are not appropriate for Nodevember."

Now... I'm no expert in humor, but aren't nearly all jokes partly "exclusionary" by definition? Maybe not - maybe I'm thinking of just a certain type of 'joke', but almost every sort of humorous observation I can think of could be "exclusionary" at some level, because there's some sort of external 'thing' which is the object of the joke.

But I may be way off base here.
I long for the good old, tech-first days of Tor. This invasion of talkers and lobbyists (even if for the good cause) is ruining it.
It is a species-level critical topic, but I doubt anybody will give it enough attention.

Since recorded history, we've evolved a way of dealing and working with each other that assumes a certain physical world. That world no longer exists.
And some politicians in the US deny evolution and publicly deny climate change.
If you want to use it for complex things, sure, there's no end of potential features. If you need some logic with your data, I like Lua.

But I think most uses of YAML are basically just a much more flexible JSON.
I don't know about other countries, but here in the EU businesses are often required to collect customers' billing address to comply with EU regulation, such as the VAT MOSS.
Just checked the Jif peanut butter in the cupboard. 3g of sugar per serving. But yes with typical supermarket bread and jelly added, a lot more.
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> I sincerely doubt one would find anything remotely similar in a C++, Linux (C lang), or Assembly-programming communities.

The Linux world is full of commotion surrounding (written) language.
I disagree completely. If anything, larger groups need to be more sensitive to context.

I can make "offensive" jokes all day with a couple friends over beers, because nobody is going to actually be offended. If I'm speaking at a large conference, I need to be more careful, make sure I'm not inadvertently hurting people without even thinking about it.
The assumption of manager making the best decision on prioritization is faulty. Priorities change, manager is busy, manager is not the one working on a project so may not be in the position to make the best decisions.
Product always dont come with the brightest ideas. Eng could come up with much better ideas, as it should, and should be in a position to drive that product end to end, when necessary.
For us (Google), I think you're referring to: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16017

which was caused by our own maintenance several weeks apart (the root cause description is really quite good).

I think the distinction people make implicitly is a 25 minute outage versus 8 hours. DDoS attacks suck, but they're just standard these days. As a customer though, any source of (network) outage usually has the same outcome: "my site is unreachable (and I don't care why)".

The reason we (and AWS and others) offer multiple datacenters/zones within a <1ms boundary (a compute "region") is so you can build a highly available app that can fail over with minimal degredation. For customers that were using App Engine Flexible environment with the regional spreading turned on, only some of their instances were affected, but their apps shouldn't have skipped a beat.

Linode is good at what they do, but any customer in Atlanta just had to wait this entire event out.

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.
That may indeed be the public perception of Tor, but the project never publicly aligned itself with the distribution of child porn or illicit drugs. The author's point is that the explicit public alignment with Western notions of human rights is likely to harm the Tor project in countries where "human rights" are perceived as Western imperialism. The extent to which Tor's adoption of the human rights marquee might make a difference in the way these countries treat Tor is unclear, but it is at least a valid concern.

Frankly, there are a lot of better reasons -- mostly technical -- to doubt the efficacy and long-term future of Tor. But the recent politicization and drama certainly doesn't help it.
iOS does not permit another app to access iBooks data. So I would suggest storing the PDFs directly in AirMount app, so you can access them from your Mac.
Blame the FDA. They are the ones who sent everyone into a panic over saturated fat 20 or 30 years ago, resulting in the trans-fat and sugar laden processed foods of today.
Consider self-deprecating humor. Or jokes about the perversity of the universe. Jokes about the weather.

So I don't think that all jokes are exclusionary (with reference to those around us).