skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the bank underground? Is the movement underground? So many questions.

After reading, it seems like the movement is underground, the water banks are above ground.
Communism, as presented and as applied, was and is nothing but a social issue.
Government and corporations are essentially the norm, we have gotten used to them though they are admittedly much worse: a student culture that is focused on faux-victimization and hate and abuse and refusing to even acknowledge the existence of much less an attempt to understand the opinions of others is something that is altogether new. The future leaders of the country thinking in lockstep with each other and joining forces to humiliate, demean, silence, and abuse anyone who dares think differently is dangerous as well, but more importantly, it is new.
I think the poster may have a point. Student activity is an indicator of where society in general is going. If students are so easily swayed by their definition of intolerance, it can have serious ramifications throughout society.

Those students become the next consumers, neighbors, managers, politicians, lawyers, judges, and, indeed, activists. Their power is not in angry protests, it manifests slowly, in the kinds of products people sell or buy, or laws we promote or demonize.

The reason I suspect student intolerance is perceived as a big problem is that for whatever nasty things THE SYSTEM is up to today, those students represent who will run it tomorrow.
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It doesn't really work that way with responsibility. Whether or not the number is 50 is moot, it could be 1 it could be 500. The fact is that driving causes deaths, directly and indirectly and that we as a society have placed a cap on the number of deaths that we find acceptable. The total number of deaths we're ok with is staggeringly high, those 50 are a statistic derived with some math that I'm not comfortable with based on assumptions that I'm even less comfortable with.

If you want to have that discussion you'd have to look at the bigger picture of the toll of traffic in general. Because if it was ok for VW to kill let's say 50000 people per year but not 50050 then I'm not sure what the fuss is about but if the alternative is 0 or 50 then you may have a point depending on how solid those numbers really are.

As it is that number is very handwavy.
Related Technology Review article: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540926/3-d-printing-bre...
What I find baffling is the lack of adult conversations about such issues.

The writing I saw attributed to Erika Christakis was thoughtful, constructive, and polite. It didn't attack anybody, but promoted a viewpoint that talked about inclusion and the difficultly that can be experienced when attempting to understand the viewpoints of other groups. It's not at all combative.

I guess it just seems plainly self-evident to me that sensible discussion would be far more constructive towards solving the issues at hand. Harassment achieves almost nothing.
This seems overly broad. Red Hat has done a lot of very good things since going public and I'm sure if you sat down and looked at a lot of public companies shoes software you use it's likely they have done good things.
Can you imagine how hard it was to write a browser addon that allows collapsing a specific subthread of comments?

I have to calculate the indent of a comment based on the width of an image in the table layout!

Instead of nested tags for comments like

<comment>
<text>
<list-of-comment>
<comment>
...
</comment>
<comment>
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</comment>
</list-of-comment>
</comment>

these people have all comments on main level, just indented with image width!

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SPLK is up about 60% since their debut in 2012 after gaining more than 150% and then coming back to reality where it is today - up 60%. Wouldn't call it sideways.

HDP on the other hand is pretty much where it started.
> The resources used to make those arrests could have been used instead to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators identified by those rape kits.

In theory, yes. In practice, no, they couldn't, because police officers aren't generally qualified to be processing and/or investigating rape kits.

We can't even say that they should have hired fewer officers and spent the money on people qualified to investigate these cases instead, because the LEO unions ensure that those cops stay employed (and also explicitly lobby for drug criminalization so that those officers have work to do).

EDIT clarified "criminalization" wording
Thanks so much - we're going to be talking about this much more in the future
Can you translate these basic French words?
OK, you used the word "illiberalism". It's a good word, and perfectly expresses your point. It has a nice, clear meaning.

But "liberal" has two meanings: It means the opposite of "illiberal", that is, in favor of human freedom. It also means "to the left on the political spectrum", which is a completely orthogonal meaning. (The political left can be as anti-freedom as the political right, and historically, I'm not sure which side has been "better".)

Whether or not you like it, both definitions of "liberal" are in common usage. If anything, the political usage is more common than the not-illiberal usage.

That means regarding it as "culture war" to call the college students "liberal" is... swimming against the tide? Trying to fight an unwinnable war? Not a good occasion for getting up in arms, at any rate.
If I were to say that I don't think gay people should be allowed to get married I would be called intolerant. If I were to say that I think islam is dangerous for democracy I would be called intolerant. But I would just be challenging someone's ideas.
Anyone who says "apologize to me" is a schoolyard bully imagining themselves as Rosa Parks.
Of course it doesn't bind people who haven't ratified it yet. Rather, that clause is to make clear that the agreement will become binding for those who have ratified it once 85% have ratified (preventing a holdout from slowing down the majority).

Notably, a similar protocol was used for the adoption of the US Constitution (see Article VII).
Wow, I never saw it quite so clearly like that. You are right. The SJW angle really is the "logically" equivalent doctrine of religious dogma.
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It did the same dashed gray path when you asked it to route across oceans. The flights feature has removed that "feature," along with their quips about paddling across the Pacific in a canoe, if I recall their joking text correctly.
From what I have experienced in college so far is that either a student has experienced something or not, and the students who have not experienced something are the ones to protest. Students who have not experienced racism or Genocide-from the article- only know it from what they learned in school, online, or some other medium. So when they think they hear something that is about those "things" they jump up and go crazy. The last part of the article is what I am mostly talking about.

I could also talk about the first part too, like the video of the girl yelling at Nicholas is so interesting. You want to stand up for something, yet you cannot have a conversation about it and just yell at the man?
I would say genetics have larger role in this, you can have good diet and still have cavities.

Just example, a person with hyperthyroidism will have much more issues with teeth than someone who doesn't.
But cars don't work in many dense cities like in Europe and in NYC. You need cycles or scooters.
Lets talk about our Nitrogen Footprint
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Note also that many people (me, for example, and most folks over 40 in general) can't hear a -42dB white noise layered on top of an audible signal at all. The pipes just don't pick it up over the general noise in the receiver "circuit".
I mean, sure. Calling astrologers idiots and asking Yale not to hire them is intolerance towards astrologers qua astrologers.

The professors didn't call for any students expressing different opinions to be expelled.
The trigger for lights in the states is electromagnetic. A lot of bikes don't produce enough to trigger so placing a magnet on the frame below the bike helps get you through the lights quicker.
>The code of conduct doesn't say it (though at least one version did) but the atmosphere currently is that it's impossible for a woman or ethnic minority to be the perpetrator.

It's funny you mention that - the code of conduct Github tried to adopt actually did specifically say it through their 'reverse racism/sexism' clause, aka It doesn't count as racism or sexism if your target is a straight white guy.

https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/issues/84
The problem with new techniques is that, being new, they are (1) hard to find and (2) more expensive. Combine that with miserly dental insurance and it's hard for advances to get traction.

I actually have an example of this from my own life. I grind my teeth while I sleep, apparently, and since none of the dentists I saw during the first 30 years of my life ever figured that out (grr) my teeth are pretty ground down. These days I wear a dental appliance while I sleep to reduce the damage, but it is only a case of "reduce", not "prevent." The teeth are still getting worse, just not quite so fast.

The word I'd gotten from several dentists was that this was as good a solution as I could realistically hope for. But last year I switched to a new dentist, and when I was telling him all this his eyes got all big, like I was telling him that the plan had been to drill a hole in my head to let out the Evil Spirits. Modern dentistry, he told me, actually had a way to stop the grinding altogether using a course of mild, painless electrical stimuli. Do a few rounds of that, he said, and it'd be problem solved.

Which sounded great! Except that my dental insurance refused to cover even one dollar of such a procedure, which meant it would have cost me about as much out of pocket as a small car. And I, being a layman, have no way to tell if this one dentist is really right, or if all the other ones were and this one is peddling snake oil. So I ended up not doing it, out of fear of a worst case scenario where I went broke paying for treatments that didn't actually do anything.

This outcome is sub-optimal for everybody -- even the health insurance company, since the more I grind my teeth down the more often they'll end up having to pay for extractions, root canals and the like as the teeth crack and fail. But combine lack of information with high costs and change-averse insurance, and it's difficult to see how you get to any other outcome.
There's a middle ground between victimhood and equality.

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete." - Epictetus
How does this not apply to article and most of the comments to this page? The way to differentiate an unfounded opinion from a qualified one is to examine it's arguments. That requires a level of quality that neither the article, which is nearly incoherent, nor most of the comments do.
In a case like that, why not test the kit anyway just to be sure? If it matches the suspect, then you can rest even easier knowing you got the right person. If it doesn't, then you've avoided imprisoning an innocent.

The cost of the test is about the same as a few days of imprisoning the accused, who will probably be put away for many years, so there's no sense trying to trim costs there.
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You can certainly have both types, but it's annoying and sad that the people whose jobs are to write about video games can't tell the difference between the two, and routinely write articles judging mechanically innovate games by their fluff.
Here, that’s what I see: http://i.imgur.com/cwx6Wyk.png

And sometimes it just doesn’t limit the size at all, and I can scroll 5 screen widths for every single sentence back and forth.
I may get criticism from some, but sometimes I wish we did get other languages supported by most browsers such as maybe Lua, of course Python, as well as maybe a few others as an alternative to the JS. It would be useful for those whose workflow doesn't fully involve JS.
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Do you mean lobby for drug criminalization?
> Welcome to the New McCarthyism.

Students getting rid of their own obnoxious house "Masters" is McCarthyism? Is getting rid of racist police is a "lynching" too? Fighting misogynist twitter death threats is a "witch hunt"? People always trot out these ridiculous metaphors to posture as the attacked ones.

People on this right-wing forum don't bat an eyelid when those in power fire subordinates. They recommend it all the time. But the other way around? Horrors!

Of course, Yale did get rid of the now well-known Occupy activist and anthropolist David Graeber, who possibly got blacklisted in the US. He could get zillions of jobs outside the US (he's now at London School of Economics), but not even on the long-list when applying in the US. (http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/05/13/without-cause-yale-fi...)

But that's punching down, which is the mainstream order of things. Punching up is taboo.
Right, but almost all cancers depend on this pathway. GLUT receptor mega overexpression is a milestone in cancer evolution and vitamin C in its oxidized form competes with glucose which is in cancer cells almost exclusive energy source.
I mean, if I stretch the definition far enough, Ghandi's nonviolent protests were actually a (nonphysical) violent assault on the East India Company. So it's a question of where you want to draw a line.

Wikipedia talks about nonphysical violence in the context of a "power relationship," where someone with a significant amount of power/control over the victim is the instigator. Things like emotionally abusive relationships. A bunch of people with no direct authority over you trying to get someone fired for inappropriate behavior doesn't fit that narrative.

If you told me people were violently going after someone's job, 100% my assumption is going to be "so they burned his garage down and threatened that his house is next unless he quits?" (or something along those lines). Calling phone calls and #FireBob tweets coming from people of no authority "violent" is an attempt at grabbing all the emotional baggage that comes with the word and attaching it somewhere that it doesn't belong.
Does this also include the compiler and versions of the compiler used, assuming that build and compiler options are identical?
All dictionaries are circular. Though it would be possible to learn the relationships between words, and perhaps decipher it that way.
Alan Turing, moralist
Universities are dead a source of innovation and critical thinking. They'll probably lumber along for another century or so from pure inertia, but the people with really new, radical ideas are going to go elsewhere.

Between the censorship, "safe spaces" where people refuse to even think about an idea they find offensive, the decline of academia as a viable career path, and the overwhelming tuition costs, I think talented and ambitious people are going to be spending as little time as possible at universities in the future.
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Pretty interesting that the daily post volume has plateaued.

Personally, I'm glad the growth has been curbed. Too bad we can go back to the good ol' days.
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I think it is a tiny minority of students but the weapon these students are using (public humiliation, being abusive and hateful after trying very hard to establish a position of weakness) doesn't discriminate and I think the silence from the rest of the student body and administrators is primarily out of fear. This weapon can destroy anyone no matter how careful or respectful or noble so the simple fear of it is what keeps the administrators and other students silent.
Seems like that's the reverse of what you'd want.
Reading some of these makes me grateful to have gone to an oral surgeon to have all four wisdom teeth removed at once while under general anesthesia.
That's actually the part I don't understand. This professor was actually complaining that the institution should stop treating them like babies and trust them to do the right thing. How can these students get offended by that?
There are situations where the only way to create progress is for the perpetrator to realize that what they did was wrong, why it was wrong, and try to fix things (as much as possible). It's not a totally wrong concept.

The way it's being applied on college campuses is insane.
Ask HN: Did Firefox change font rendering on Macs recently?
I just woke up this morning to notice that the Skia font on http://alicorn.elcenia.com/ is suddenly ultrabold. Does anyone else have this problem?
Make online friends. See if they will talk with you via an existing service, such as Skype.

I have had lots of online friends over the years and talked by phone, met in person, done video chats and other kinds of chat. "No masturbation" is more about the social connections you make, not the platform you use per se.
Unums could be interesting, more of a GPU answer than a CPU answer though

https://github.com/tbreloff/Unums.jl/wiki/Unum-Summary-(in-p...
Yes, a lot of software is just written. Somehow. So what?

It does not mean that mission critical software is not engineered by using various carefully selected methods and designs.
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Not only that he stopped more than a year ago so the average was higher while his account was active.
More interesting is Fritz Warren, although the person in question may be his son:

In later life, as a property owner and builder on Wolfback Ridge in Sausalito, he worked to conserve that area in his capacity as Sausalito councilman and mayor in the 1970's and 80's, as an early board member of the Sausalito Historical Society, and as a longtime Rotarian.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/marinij/obituary.aspx?pid=1...

I think a rich ex-councilman and former mayor would have quite a bit of sway if that was the case.
Using the word "liberal" to describe leftist policies is a U.S. invention that emerged out of the New Deal and was later hammered to death by neoconservatives who began abusing it to describe profoundly illiberal ideas, or really anything they disliked.

It wasn't some grassroots movement, it was a conscious propaganda technique. "I never use the words Republicans and Democrats. It's liberals and Americans." - James G. Watt.

It'd be like if one day people started completely uncritically and unironically referring to "libertarians" as "authoritarians". Sure, it's human language and anything goes, but it wouldn't be any less pants-on-head idiotic.

Fun fact: the politically conservative party in Australia is called the Liberal Party.
A user name is enough for me to humanize OP and and conversation partners.

Also, to me, avatars would mar the clean look.

I could even do without the beige and orange page colors and that nice capital Y logo image. Totally B&W HN? Sure, no worries.

The fading away of downvoted comments is nice. So, maybe greyscale in the end.
The first author of the original cited work makes some of the data available on his group's website: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/index.php/data
You're conflating unrelated issues in order to bolster your arguments and justify vigilantism.
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When I was 22, I wrote some advice for me for when I was 40, which I followed (at 43), and it wasn't bad, although he was kind of a jerk about it.
That explains a lot. I had one of these improperly done on a molar about 10 years ago. After the anesthetic wore off from the first visit, the pain slowly grew over the next few days until it was of brilliant, blinding, bang-head-against-hard-object make it STOP!! intensity.

After they took off the temp filling, the smell was nauseating. Apparently it wasn't cleaned very well.

Never went to that guy again.
Python overtakes French as the most popular language in primary schools
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The loud people get the attention. A 'strident voice' who openly wants to kill all men and talks about gay people as a single entity gets more attention and exposure than the more reasonable folks because they're louder, won't stop, will use their followers to attack dissenting viewpoints and because more reasonable people still see them as being on the same 'side'.
The article is about groundwater, which is definitely underground.

The cheapest method of recharge is through spreading basins, which have to be located on relatively coarse-grained soil through which the water can percolate.
The problem is providing better access without limiting access for the police or fire men.

So you need to provide a parking lot and a dedicated trail to make sure people can reach their goal (seeing the sign in person) without going through the neighborhood itself.
> The Christakis family is quite powerful at Yale, certainly in comparison to the students trying to get them replaced.

Will that still be the case, if the students succeed in getting them replaced?

> Yale students do not get to run their own university. So when they want to replace some backwards, incompetent administrators, they must turn to activism.

Should they be able to remove any administrators that they want to? How many students should it take?

> They can't merely decide to hire better ones.

If they could, would they have the ability to judge which ones are better, and which ones are worse?
I have to ask, how is this article "nearly incoherent"? I mean, I would've liked the original letter to be posted in its entirety a bit higher up in the article, but the details on the events and various parties involved came across clearly to me.
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What is interesting is that Ghostery works with the advertising companies. They sell the license to use the AdChoices Icon you see in banner ads.
WebAssembly should be a game-changer for that by removing the current need to compile and actually run JavaScript:

https://github.com/pypyjs/pypyjs/issues/145
Vitamin C doesn't cure common cold, but it sure as hell a) shortens it b) prevents complications (which may rise to be chronic).

What vitamin C does is prevent common cold, if taken the right way.

Pauling cure for common cold was never really tested. All papers on common cold used very small doses, almost all bellow 1g. Paulling advocated 1-2g every hour. I tried it and it works for me, but timing is crucial - it must be taken on first signs of disease, it wont do much if you delay that.
The homeowner likely has liability if the tree was on their property. AirBnB may also have liability.
The idea looks fun to mess around with and I imagine the price is right for playing, it doesn't get much better than free + prizes. This could also be fun in letting out some tendencies to want to play the stock market without actually putting anything on the line.

Just as a separate note, your video and motto sound very reminiscent of gambling or lottery advertisements. I don't necessarily mean to call this a problem, but the juxtaposition of "playing" the stock markets with the same sales pitch as the lottery tickled my funny bone. If you intended that then A+!