skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish that someone who is really opposed to salary-transparency would do a comprehensive pro- vs con- analysis of the issue, displaying that they truly understand all the arguments for. A lot of the opposition seems so glib and content with the status quo, showing very little charity to the idea, often based on very contrived scenarios, or on the failure of isolated one-off efforts (one factory switched, this happened...).

Yes, it's true, you lose some privacy and there's weird stalking scenarios that could occur. However, on a social level, the positive mass externalities seem huge:

- Fundamentally hardcore pro-market: More information makes for better economic agents. Full stop.

- Undermine the status arms-race to display wealth.

- Immediate career education for all kids everywhere. No more "wow I didn't know x job paid y", it's all out there in the open.

- Easier to negotiate against big entities like HR as a "little guy" because you have similar info to them (which they pay for).

- Less race/sex/etc based discrimination.

- Bosses cannot ask workers to tighten their belts without also tightening their own.

- Allow people to tie vague concepts ("how are teachers valued by society?") to real, meaningful personal experiences ("George is a great teacher and making a pittance compared to Greg the salesman!")

I don't know. I'm totally into the idea. It seems like a thing that both hardcore free-market libertarians and left-wing people pining for the proletariat or w/e could both readily agree upon and promote together. The bulk of the opposition seems to be a fear of what could be done with the information, but the information is basically all out there already, in the hands of the people who already have a lot of power. Your boss drives a nicer car than you, and his boss an even nicer one. This would just let you actually do math with the numbers and calculate whether you want to shop around for jobs, rather than stay stuck with a vague impression.
I never got the point of those anyways as youtube is sufficient.
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-July...

This attitude from someone representing the Tor project is, to put it mildly, terrifying.

But I guess fundraising matters more than lives of actual real human beings.[1]

[1] I'm inclined to believe the author slightly exaggerates the risk, but the reply completely neglects to address that issue. Trying to shift blame on local governments is hardly an option when those are the ones you're trying to defy.
It's the authoritarian left. There's nothing liberal about those people.
I've heard people compare EE to building up tolerance in an addiction. As you gain experience, the thrills of discovery and problem solving end up being higher peaks, but the high is shorter and less frequent.
In the article it mentioned 70% of blind people are unemployed. That seems like a big problem.
The problem is the costs of those actions are usually externalized to everyone else.
You can read all about the subject here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_Uni...

TLDR: responses vary widely depending on the survey method used. IMO, the higher numbers are more believable because there are subjectively tons of skittish gay dudes.
Do I view this sat pic correctly and see that those are nested roundabouts ?

Is that a thing ? Is this the only example of such a thing, or do they exist elsewhere ?
Good point & makes much of the post outdated - however the author has also posted in September 2016 about Haiku features, so they seem to have kept using it during the past 3.5 years.
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I have read your posting and want to surprise you with my

weekend-remix of "my-hour-on-HN"-yesterday...

(1st picture)

"Ultimative, a machine which fulfills your wishes just before you have thought about them."

"But then, why live ?"

(2nd picture)

"2012: "Wow! the TV-set has every app that you can wish for!

"2015: But netflix saves your children 150 hours of ads!"

"Netflix is at least important 'like a good breakfast to start the day'"

"You sure need your glass of milk to grow strong bones and muscle "

(3rd picture)

"2016: Hey the ads aren't gone - it is all full of promoted shows and product placement!"

"But as long as it's profitable..."

(4th picture)

"2016: Heck! All the app's on the TV-set are not working anymore..."

"And the customer-service says: Go and buy a new..."

(5th picture)

"When with TPP's 'harmonization of standards' is understood in ways that streaming services manipulate

video-streams in 'realtime' to present local-products via
product-placements...

- For better customer-identification/-loyality"

[weekendmodus:off] (-;
fruits have fiber and vitamins and other redeeming qualities.

maybe you're one of those people who think fiber and vitamins are useless and that 1000 calories of chocolate cake is identical to 1000 calories of chicken and broccoli, maybe not, but that's the reason.

also, do you know anyone who overeats bananas, or other fruit? now, do you know anyone who overeats foods with added sugar? one of these is common, one is not, and probably never will be.
Maybe for a flyby topology, but I mostly work with point-to-point topologies. That's basically an exercise in good impedance control.
Inclusivity is an attempt to ban certain kind of speech. I have found that these people are downright religious in their zeal.
Example: https://github.com/nodejs/inclusivity/issues/9

I'm not even going to comment further on this, I have found that arguments, sanity and reason do nothing here.
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Around 30% by using AWS Lambda, despite a 42% increase in portal users
Have you noticed that the price of natural peanut butter is almost 2 times that of the sugar-adulterated peanut butter?
You thought it was dead...

You thought it would never return...

YOU THOUGHT WRONG!

Presenting:
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It's also worth noting that the blind spots in cars are getting bigger. Stricter rollover crash tests require large pillars to support the roof; many modern cars feature curtain airbags, further widening the pillars.

This is a particular problem with the A-pillars at the front of the car, which are often large enough to completely obscure a motorcycle or bicycle at a junction.

Alongside saccades, A-pillar blind spots are a leading cause of the accidents that British bikers call SMIDSYs - "Sorry Mate, I Didn't See You".
He didn't say 'whore', though, that's the point. This person inferred 'whore' from 'promiscuous'.
Why would you need the fringe sciences to support the current scientific consensus on something? It's like you're asking for crazy physicists to prove that a feather and hammer will fall at the same speed in a vacuum. Everybody knows that.
Some people hear someone say X, put the most sickening meaning into it, get offended, cry on twitter. Pretty sure "saying X" is not the problem here.
I bumped into an acquaintance a few days ago who reminded me that he was still using a project I'd written a while ago: A language reinforcement app. I had occasional ideas to revive and monetize it, but haven't yet.

[About Glowso](http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/about)

[GlowSo Web App](http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/home)

[A talk I'd done for GDG Tunisia about how I developed it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBwOuK9x5VQ)
> Is this a typical performance profile for doing ray tracing in OpenGL? I expected tens of times faster than a CPU on commodity hardware.

SIMD instructions on modern CPUs are getting really good, within the ballpark of GPU speed in some cases. Here's the classic paper [1] on this, and the results have gotten even better since then with AVX2, etc.

[1]: http://sbel.wisc.edu/Courses/ME964/Literature/LeeDebunkGPU20...
Laziness - though of course when hiring you would bill it as efficiency or "expertise in software automation". A PhD taught me that often the best way to do things is the way that lets you press one button and have everything else happen automatically.

Mostly it's to make life easier, particularly when 2 months down the line you need to make a subtle code change and reprocess huge volumes of data. Being able to start a script and go to bed, rather than continually change the inputs, is a godsend.

I think this is likely a side effect of the "smart but lazy" geek trope, except actually taking advantage of it rather than procrastinating.
College has been oversold (2011)
Making House: Notes on Domesticity
Good job, you're really convincing people.
Mainly, the desire for easy instructions.

There is also the idea that there aren't that many people getting overweight by just eating bananas. In general, I think the belief is that nature has to add sugar with other things, so that the net is a benefit. When you add sugar, you can just add sugar. (Or, do you really think that dried sweetened cranberries have as many nutrients as two bananas?)
How come this story and the previous one have been penalized on HN despite the high number of upvotes?

This story was published to HN only an hour ago but has gathered over 115 points, yet it has been relegated to page 2.

The previous story [1] was published 14 hours ago and has over 540 points, yet is now to be found on page 4.

If the algorithm was operating as usual then both stories would still be in the top half of the front page.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422420
DNAse contamination would be a big problem too. It would also be a relatively easy way to "securely" erase your data.
Who are these bullies?
Great dissection. Thanks Paul
I think it's also worth noting that the word 'promiscuous' already has a history in computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous_mode

And this version exactly fits what he was trying to get across.
Ask HN: What is your preferred method of personal password storage?
Tell me you use a password manager.. if so which is your go-to and why? A proficient look at which is the best under the hood could be interesting in regards to user's security.

If you don't use a password manager.. it's 2016 how do you do it with presumably hundreds of online accounts, don't tell me you've got the same password..
I admire Musk as much as the next guy but SpaceX has always seemed fraught in the QA department[1]. I'd be surprised if they can survive long enough to accomplish their Mars mission if they keep screwing up this often.

[1] Which also seems to be a problem at Tesla as of late.
It seems like those calling for removing speakers are often trying to set identity contingencies. That is, a rule like, "if you are Douglas Crockford, then you can't speak at a conference". However, like identity contingencies against people based on gender, race, etc.. this kind of rule is disappointing because it assumes there is something inherently limited or bad about being Douglas Crockford.

What seems better to me would be asking for an explicit behavioral contingency on being a conference speaker. For example, "if you are going to make sexist remarks, then you cannot speak at the conference".

This makes clear that if you think Douglas Crockford is not fundamentally broken as a human, but could learn and become better at following the contingencies set by the conference, then he is fine to speak. It also opens room to work with Crockford to create a plan for him to speak at the conference, such as going over his speech beforehand, or sitting down with him afterward to discuss ways in which he may have violated the conference's standards.

He can't stop being Douglas Crockford, but I don't think that means he can't stop producing behaviors conference organizers find offensive or harmful (if he wants to).

P.s. check out the book Whistling Vivaldi for an interesting introduction to some potentially harmful (or beneficial) effects of identity contingencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Magic_roundabout
first one, some additional info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
“Why Should I Trust You?” Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier [pdf]
You are seriously mistaken. At abient temperature, DNA is very stable. Even in an active environment as a human, it keeps quite stable for about 100 years. Isolated for multiple millenia. It is the reason we can sequence neanderthals etc nowadays. It wont be stable for millions of years but with some redundancy you could easily make it to 100.000
Apple's accessibility features even useful as workarounds for hardware failure. If one of the buttons fails, turning on the accessibility features to: on/off, screen-lock, volume, etc.
Yeah. Even with a 100 megabit internet connection the size does not matter at all. The playing starts instantly when you push the play button and it still uses less bandwidth than a normal youtube video.
You can't just leave us hanging!
I just found the SPoC readme in the boot image. Aparnetly some people are having trouble with ALT as the CODE key, I'm looking for ways to change it.

For now this is a fascinating document: https://github.com/robertely/SPOC-VirtualBox/blob/master/REA...
working in 50.0a2 / win10
If you want to try the Android screen reader, turn on accessibility with Settings -> Accessibility, TalkBack On. Then, tap a control once to hear what it is, then double tap to activate. (This is very important to know, or else you won't be able to turn TalkBack off again.)

Tip: don't try TalkBack in your office, or you will rapidly drive your officemates crazy.
Anecdotally, this seems to be a stronger thing in Node.js community than others. I recall on occasion on the Node channel on Freenode when I got chewed out by the ops+ for not being inclusive enough with a casual "later, guys" (or "later, dudes").

(+ bona fide opped ops, notwithstanding the Freenode "low channel temperature" guidelines)
It doesn't have to be a child in the sense of being young. No parent should have to outlive their offspring, especially when they are very close daily. I witnessed the effect on a 90+ year old mother of the sudden unexpected death during sleep (natural causes) of her daughter who was almost 60 but very vibrant.

It was crushing. The mother never recovered any of her joy in her own life and only lived another 2 years.
The part of this article that highlights what Douglas Crockford did to get him removed from Nodevember is fine. A bit boring, but fine.

The part of this article that generally hand-waves towards "inclusivity" as a movement and dismisses them as people with "unicorn-colored hair" is frustrating. There's little here that actually discusses the issue. It points out a couple of things that Douglas said, trivializes the issues that the inclusivity group cares about, and seems to make its primary point by arguing semantics (oh, look, the inclusivity group excludes people, har har).

I get that its an opinion piece, but there's nothing of substance here that I could possibly disagree with, because it's not defined. If you want to get a bunch of people agree with you and give you internet points, it's spot on. But there's not a lot here that's interesting if you're not already on board with this point of view.
Right, the current proposal tries to implement that referendum in a "light" way. The regional unemployment office measure would be step 2, and only in step 3 might the actual quotas come up, with explicit approval by the EU only.

https://www.parlament.ch/en/services/news/Pages/sda-spk-n-20...
See also:

"In defence of Douglas Crockford" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422420

"Crockford" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12425061
Fat has actually been reduced rather significantly in ready made foods.

That said, you are almost certainly right that we have reduced the model below the complexity of reality. However, just as in machine learning, a simpler model often performs better on new data than a complicated one. Learning From Data (link: http://amlbook.com/), actually has a very good section explaining this.
No, it's not.

This Manichaean view of intolerance to overt racism, sexism, classism, whatever --- it's bogus, and deserves to be challenged. When spelled out: "opposition at private events to (say) racism requires that event to make common cause with the evil, gathering forces of political repression", it doesn't even sound credible.

But that view in fact appeals superficially to message board nerds because it triggers the circuit in our brain that wants social problems to be solvable with simple boolean logic, and that recoils from subjective, contextual, or situational judgement calls. It's easy to invoke it and conjure an argument that will garner upvotes and spproval.

The real world is usually not describable in an if statement that fits neatly into 80 columns. Some judgements even require iteration! That's what "judgement" is about.

Schools. Hospitals. Academic conferences. Political office. Probably even jobs. These are places where the bar for exclusion is much harder to clear. If Curtis Yarvin gets accepted to a postdoc program at Berkeley and leftist programmers picket, I'll be right there with you. But events like Nodevember, Strange Loop, and Lambdaconf are not academic conferences, they're not a serious part of the citation record for their field, they're put on by private citizens with their own objectives, they're fundamentally about entertainment, and they can make whatever calls they want.

From what I can tell, it looks like Strange Loop handled their problem pretty OK, that LambdaConf probably made a mistake, and that this Node.js conference in Tennessee is also probably making a mistake.

But, again, we don't know all the details here. We knew a lot more in the previous two conference cases.
I disagree. I can only read it that way if I make bad assumptions about him, which is circular reasoning.

In my experience, you should always give people the benefit of the doubt in such things. I've honestly thought otherwise in many other occasions, only to be proven wrong.
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>Anecdotally, this seems to be a stronger thing in Node.js community than others.

I have seen people speculate that this is due to the lower barrier of entry in the JS community (as a whole), although I'm not certain how true this would be.
> Surveying the field, real time garbage collection is not a pipe dream. It's a delivered and purchasable reality. Propagating the myth that only direct memory management can possibly deliver good results is ignoring the last 15 years of hard work on the subject, as well as products in the field.

Hardcoding the optimal resource reclamation strategy into your program will always be more efficient at runtime than not doing so. What “real-time” garbage collection gives you is only freedom from arbitrarily long pauses, not closeness to the optimal strategy. Furthermore, it doesn't come for free: it imposes some memory usage overhead. Finally, garbage collection simply can't handle resources that need to be reclaimed in a deterministic fashion, like file handles, GUI objects and network connections.
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Was just talking about this yesterday with my newly blind friend.

The unemployment rate among the blind is at least 63% right now. It's remarkable.
Curious regarding what problem[s] such changes are intended to solve.
> But creating a community that is comfortable for everyone is an inherently valuable goal.

Well, I can never be comfortable in a community where I might have my reputation and/or career destroyed over a reference to testicles that some might deem inappropriate.

The people doing this are vicious and hateful, and they need to be given a taste of their own medicine.
This is a gold mine.

> problematic language

> [a word] is very difficult for many others to stumble across in the codebase

> a word choice can be problematic/distracting/triggering/offensive

This isn't even something that might reasonably be considered "triggering" material, like a story that might plausibly give someone a PTSD flashback. If someone is so mentally unstable that just seeing a word in an API screws with their head, their problem is sufficiently serious that they ought to seek immediate psychological help.
For home use, I use Diptrace. Bad name, maybe, but excellent software and the price is right.
No, inclusivity is not about banning speech, it is about making sure that people can feel comfortable in an environment.

Sometimes that means enforcing certain standards of speech and behavior. Which you already agree with, if you are at all functional in society.

The question in this case is not whether inclusivity is a good thing, it's whether Crockford's speech/actions were "bad enough" in the context of a conference. I don't know (and don't care to know) about that, but it's vitally important not to throw the inclusivity baby out with the bathwater.
There may be good arguments why not to use Tor, but this doesn't seem to be one of them.
We can very well blame those deaths on MDMA, because the causality is clear.

If you take six pills of anything that exists in pill form and you die, then assuming one pill is something of a standard dose, that means that chemical has a low therapeutic index and is therefore dangerous.
Assistive tech is still really in the niche of cottage industry. Here you are relying on the individual competencies of well intentioned specialists.

I remember a poingant article by Melanie Reid of The Times (UK) who broke her back horse riding. Melanie vividly described an assistive device trade show with every type of small manufacturer featuring their kit
Absolutely. It's great that societal norms of what is acceptable in speech are progressing to be considerate of more and more out-groups. But we need to be mindful that news of these new norms do not reach everyone simultaneously, and we should not tar and feather people for not independently coming upon the insight that a certain element of speech can be hurtful. While we should all seek to understand and empathize with the rest of the world, it's a vast, complex world beyond any one person's direct experience. If someone gratuitously drops the N-word, ostracise them; but if there is good reason to believe the speaker is well-intentioned but perhaps ignorant on some point of concern, the proper response is to discreetly engage in a respectful, open dialogue, not to publicly shame anyone. If the speech is hurtful and dialogue fruitless, direct action may be required, but not before.
I wonder if this is purely price discrimination or if requiring more peanuts means the cost is actually higher (relative to using HFCS).
> No, inclusivity is not about banning speech

> Sometimes that means enforcing certain standards of speech

Do you hear yourself? The cognitive dissonance is incredible.
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Ha. That just reminded me of how I'm on a Texas gov page titled "Sex Offender Registry Export" because I once requested their sex offender database for academic research: https://records.txdps.state.tx.us/SexOffender/PublicSite/App...

I don't mind since my name is so common, but I emailed the Texas agency that they should put a noindex tag to prevent the page from being used against people with less common names (you can register for the registry via what appears to be a system lacking verification).
there's a pretty low barrier to entry in the PHP world, and I don't think we've seen anywhere near the same level of scrutiny.
KeePass, secured with password + private key. The private key is not synced to the cloud, but the KeePass database is synced with SpiderOak. OwnCloud would be better for that, though.

I will never touch anything like LastPass, Dashlane, etc., where you have no idea how secure anything is.
I don't think the USG will allow SpaceX to be acquired by a Chinese company.
So much cringe, especially the identity politics and weakness of character. It's disappointing to witness this kind of behavior in any community.