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>He had been sitting on the river bank across from his house, just at the spot where a favourite cousin of his had died years before, accidentally electrocuted when illegally electrofishing in the river.

That sounds like something out of Borat.
Is there a link between the changing socio-economic makeup of our nation's elite college student bodies and these phenomena?
I'm 25, and I've lived in two cultures and racially I'm not white. I do not, however, understand this fear of offensive speech. Moreover, I cannot ignore the coincidence of the rise of this hypersensitivity and the rise of helicopter parenting and the general hand holding that has become more common for the last few years. Could these two things be related?

When I was a kid (<5, so in the early 90's), my parents didn't let me leave the neighborhood, and probably rightfully so as I didn't live in a "safe" area. However, my elementary school didn't even let us walk freely on the same block as our school. I then moved to Palau, where my parents were from, in which the local kids make their own firecrackers with kerosene and mountain dew cans. To go from such a protected environment to a less protected one got me to see two different worlds...and may be "balanced" me out.

Either way, when I returned to the US a few years ago, and I've begun to see this protectiveness intensify. Just today, I saw kids walking on the street lead by an adult with their hands holding onto a string. When I was a kid, I perhaps walked holding hands with a partner in line, but a string? I've even seen children on a leash...

I understand, we should look to protect vulnerable children and teens from bad situations, but after a while, should we let people who are, as the article says, old enough to drive, marry, own guns, and some old enough to smoke and drink alcohol, make decisions and perhaps face the consequences of those decisions? This makes them more receptive to situations were they might be hurt or feel offense, and given that they are bound to face this, it will just make them better people and better adults.
Hypothetical:

If the situation was the reverse of now and the majority was openly racist and found anti-racism costumes offensive [say, Martin Luther King Jr costumes] ... would you still favor banning "offensive" costumes?

I guess I just feel we don't have the luxury of determining what speech should be allowed because sometimes the majority is in the wrong.
Downvoting should be reserved for posts that do not contribute to the discussion, not used to express disagreement. The purpose of votes isn't to win a battle of beliefs, but to promote insightful discussion.

Honestly I think HN would be better without downvoting at all.
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There's a difference between participating in a culture and crudely caricaturing it.
Since backing off the war completely wasn't a realistic option, they basically had a choice between nuking Japan until it surrenders, or prolonging the war on land and sea, and the latter was estimated to take much more lives on both sides.

I'm not saying that the US chose to go with the first option out of altruistic reasons, but dropping the atomic bombs wasn't an atrocity compared with the usual firebombing, and saved a lot of lives that would be lost if the war continued.
I agree with much of what you said, but do you have a link to a video containing those quotes? Because I watched the videos from the impromptu conversation with some students[1] and at no point does anyone say anything like what you quoted.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoxJKmuoBmE&list=PLvIqJIL2kO...
Kind of, but also "hovering" nearby to prevent every scraped knee and to step in whenever the child faces any difficulty.
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> A basic method for thwarting some email trackers involves disabling emails from automatically loading images, including invisible tracking pixels. But that doesn’t defeat all trackers, which are also hiding in other places like fonts and web links.

Anyone know what the author was referring to here when saying "fonts"? My impression was disabling images and not clicking links made it impossible to track the opening of an email.
I didn't say denying him the right to speech, I said it was equivalent to trying to shout him out of the discussion.

There are other ways to express your opinion of the value of said speech without trying to remove someone's ability to participate in the discussion.
My take is this - to maintain height he would have to switch sides on the upswing. If he's attached to the side of a building he would hit that building first before achieving any upswing.

(Unless of course the web is pulling him in. Possibly it contracts after it hits the buildings, or it reels in somedow)
Shouting fire in a crowded theater is not covered by free speech. An email explaining an idea about halloween costumes and culture is.
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This is the result of a privileged class (if you're going to college, any college, in America, you're doing better than the vast majority of the world) wanting to be part of what it perceives as the revolution of our time. Whether or not this was based on legitimate claims or not, this has devolved into a completely arbitrary "revolution for revolution's sake" morass of nonsense. It's shameful thinking that this is how my generation is going to be perceived in years to come.
When I was about 13 my grandfather died in Jacksonville Florida. He lived in the same house for maybe 50 years and the racial makeup of the neighborhood changed during the time he was there. I remember walking out of the funeral home and down the street for a soda only to be taunted and called names by a group of blacks out of a window. And yes, my skin color was mentioned. Anyone who has spent any time in the ghetto, in the projects, in whatever you want to call it has witnessed some pretty bad behavior. Racist behavior. It sucks. I imagine it sucks for blacks as well.

Some people are assholes. Some assholes are white and some aren't. We can't rid the world of assholes but it would sure be nice if they reformed themselves. In the meantime, there are no safe spaces in the real world. We should ask people to be polite where we can but that's as far as it goes.
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> it's revolting to me how much chewing I would have to do

I have heard that argument several times when Soylent is mentioned. Don't dentists ever bring up the importance of chewing for gum and teeth health? I thought it's common knowledge.
If someone lets a piece of ISP-provided hardware sit on the trusted side of their network then either they don't care or they're an idiot.

Would you take a laptop from a stranger, plug it into your home network, and just let it sit there running?
That's not really an argument because you don't define any selection criteria, which is what the whole issue is about. Would you say that it's acceptable to have a neonazi speak, who charged $10000 per minute?
I believe that many people genuinely feel unsafe when in the presence of someone whose political beliefs offend them. The problem arises when that person, or those beliefs, do not in fact represent a threat. In such a case, feeling unsafe is delusional. Indulging this delusion just invites more delusion, which predictably spirals out of control.

The solution is to explain that feeling unsafe is unjustified when there is no credible threat. This strategy is not presently a reliable route to political power, which is why it's not being pursued. On the contrary, every concession to the delusion—e.g., the creation of "safe spaces" to protect people from largely imaginary threats—is testament to the present power of complaint. As long as there are special "protected" classes under the law (in the name, of course, of equality), we can expect more of the same.
Students would put those "problems" all aside, if the speakers had ideologies more in line with theirs.
Like the Asian student at Claremont who at first was supported by the movement then disenfranchised when her narrative diverged from theirs when she recounted experiencing racism from the protesters' own ethnicity. In other words they wanted a very simplistic narrative, not one muddled with the nuances of real life.
That's the thing, it's part of the DOCSIS standard so if you buy your own modem that the ISP never touches they can still change its firmware.
If you ask me, it's more of a diversionary revolution to distract from the current corporate power grab and disappearing civil liberties. Controlled opposition, if you will.

Major political donors will tend to lean toward candidates that support these social justice policies rather than ones which might endanger their position of power. When that happens, the ideology of an entire political platform, and that of everyone associated with it, is up for grabs. It may not be intentional, but these are the results that we're left with.
There's an excellent Radiolab Podcast that covers the same study, I'd highly recommend listening to it:

* http://www.radiolab.org/story/169879-patient-zero/
At least in chicago it just means you have to work for a living, in contrast to people who are wealthy enough that work is optional.
Sorry, I wasn't clear, I put $1000/month into a savings tagged as "maintenance", and as maintenance tasks have come up I've deducted from that account to pay for them. Yes, you'll go months where you put money in, and then you have to re-roof and it costs you $7,500. And then a lull and then maybe you need to paint the house or replace the rain gutters, etc. In my budget I put the "expected" cost of maintenance to be about $5/square foot per year. And then divided that number by the number of pay periods to get a contribution into that account per paycheck. Since actual maintenance costs turned out to be less than that my maintenance account was running a surplus and growing so I reduced the amount I was contributing.

This is a very common way to annualize a very volatile cost, but what it means in practice is you find yourself putting money into the maintenance account when no maintenance needs to be done that month, with the understanding that eventually in the future you're going to have a cost which you can then pay out of that account. You don't go into debt that way to cover random maintenance expenses, because if you did it right there is always enough money in the account to cover your costs.

Granted a string of costs all at once will bite you, but statistically that is not likely to happen.

The goal though is to never use credit card debt to finance anything because you pay so much interest on that debt if you can't pay it off at the end of the month. And in practice it means putting what seems like all your money into weird "future" accounts (maintenance, food, insurance, taxes, etc) but it also means than when you pay to those expected bills you already have the money to pay them and don't have to borrow. You are mailing yourself the funds in the future to cover that cost.
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Thanks for sharing that. I think you summed it up nicely. Physicians do have a need for information about new drugs. They simply don't have the time to do the research themselves. That said, the crux of the argument is around how that information is transmitted. DTC seems less than ideal which I can understand.
Is there a way to participate in a culture that does not open one up immediately to the charge of caricaturing it?
What are your thoughts on each listed aggression anecdote and their efficacy in communicating the student group's thesis?
> I've even seen children on a leash...

Yeah, this particular thing isn't terribly new. This was around in the 1990's, and quite possibly even earlier than that.
> If you're curious about Yale, imagine, for starters, how living in, say, Calhoun hall would feel if you're black

Repackaging a Reddit comment I wrote:

Actually, let's back up a bit and talk about Elihu Yale, the namesake of the university, who was a slave trader[0]. Anyone who is oppressed by living in a Calhoun building, should have first thought about how they'd feel about spending years on a campus named after a slave trader, putting his name on their résumés and personal history for the rest of their lives, giving money to such an institution (either now, or later as alumni donations), building a career on the name of a man who enslaved their people. Yale has also been funded by slavery[1]. To be honest I had no idea this was the case, but I had a feeling if you dig deep enough, pretty much everything has a past that is looked down upon from the modern view.

Bottom line is that if you're looking for offense, you'll find it everywhere. You can decide to either reboot the entire society because it's all irrevocably tainted by people with some negative elements of their legacies, you can choose not to go to Yale because it's named after a slaver, or you can accept that it's just a name after all and doesn't have any actual oppressive effects on your life.

[0] http://digitalhistories.yctl.org/2014/11/01/elihu-yale-was-a...
[1] http://www.yaleslavery.org/Endowments/e2schol.html
Well, it is also the world of professors, grad students, administrators, etc.

I know American culture is in love with undergrads and their "college experience", but I don't see why they are such key stakeholders that they should be allowed to demand that members of those other groups be fired and otherwise make their lives and work difficult.

Customers usually don't have any mechanism for getting the CEO fired other than not buying the product.
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Still way better than relying on fossil.
I'm no fan of Nuclear but I am a fan of our biosphere. Coal is the absolute most poisonous, most dangerous, and most environmentally destructive source of energy we have.

Replacing coal with any-of-the-above is a net win.
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Yeah, we used to get chicken livers at Kentucky Fried Chicken. Funny, I'd forgotten about that until now.
Who you flying? AA typically has power outlets under most of their upgraded planes these days.
There's a fairly good documentary about the sudbury school somewhere, I'll come back and edit this post if I can find it.

But the premise is largely one of giving students greater agency to pursue their education.

Frankly, even as someone who finds them fascinating I reject any notion that they would be successful outside of affluent communities. There is just no way that kids would learn without a very strong family based push behind them. It's kind of an interesting approach, but I really do believe that they can work, but only in a subset of situations.
> our current factory style of education is a relatively recent development... Newer is not necessarily better.

That may well be, but the breadth and depth of what there is to learn, the sheer number of people being educated, and the communities, societies and professional lives that education is intended to prepare people for, have grown and evolved so much over the past few hundred years, particularly so as we look ever more recently, that I'm not sure there's much meaning in comparing older styles with new and saying what's a better or worse method, without taking it in context.

The current system may not seem better but perhaps it's just that we've had to adjust things for the worse in order to scale, so that now children are learning 10x less effectively, but have access to let's call it a 'potential' education which is 1000x greater than what existed 100 years ago. I.e they're getting a smaller slice of the potential pie, but the potential pie is massively bigger and growing all the time, so they're all actually doing better on an absolute scale, even though it seems on the surface like the educational experience is worse.
It depends on if these are paying users or not. I'm assuming yes so the answer is simple, the ones that will pay for it.

I heard a great analogy recently that a startup is basically like consulting for a very specific use case of customers in the early days. One of the trickiest thing in building a product users love is figuring out what feedback is fluff and what is real. The best way to determine this is to first see if there are common patterns in the feedback your are getting. If yes, that's a good sign. Next is to see if you can get a few of these users to pay for it.

If they'll pay for it before it's even built, you know it's a real problem. If it's something they will commit to pay for (on paper) once it's built, that's still good but be more cautious. If you get excuses or any other non-comital response, then it's more than likely not something worth building right now.

One cautionary note here is to be careful not to go down a rabbit hole for one customer. You don't want to start building features that are just applicable to one specific customer early on unless they are paying you a significant amount of money. The ideal scenario for building a software product is to leverage feature requests that multiple users/customer have toward the long-term objectives of the product.
This has been discussed before it looks like[0], but at least pg[1] has stated that he sees downvoting for expressing disagreement is acceptable.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760275
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
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Sounds like a gradeless, structureless, new age feelgoodery!

http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Openings

IN all seriousness - the concept is appealing, but I have trouble "trusting" it. Most of the evidence "for" sudbury schools seems to be anecdotal:

https://skeptoid.com/blog/2014/02/16/sudbury-schools/

Not inherently bad, but I guess I'd like more quantified outcomes before choosing such a path for my own kids.
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Given that the business is merely renting the modem/router/AP device from the ISP, the only theoretical downside to the business is the extra electricity used by that functionality. And for quite a few businesses, the zero-effort zero-liability hotspot for customers is a pretty big upside.

If you want thorough control over your network, then of course you won't rent a modem from the ISP and you'll install a separate router of your choice and decide for yourself whether to operate a hotspot. But for the majority of customers, none of that is worth thinking about and the ISPs are actually providing sensible defaults.
I would say yes, so long as the costume wearer does not engage in threatening behavior toward other revelers. It's offensive and in poor taste, but I think people have the right to wear stupid things, even offensive things.

They can wear nun's dresses or vicar's clothes with very inappropriate insinuations, etc. (given the "misconduct" of priests, etc.)

Or banning Nazi, Ghadaffi, Kone, BinLaden, etc. costumes, they are in poor taste, but I don't see the merit in banning them outright. Or doing untoward things to the effigies of unpopular politicians.

It's my opinion, and I imagine others would be offended, and I might be offended by some costumes, maybe even feel uneasy about them, but I still would say people have the right to express themselves, so long as they don't engage in threatening behavior. Some (political) expression will feel very uncomfortable, but that's necessary to have in a free-ish society.
> Setting the rmem sysctl to only 2MiB is not recommended as it could affect the performance of high throughput, high latency connections

So what I took away from this article is that they'd set some absurdly high receive buffer, which predictably caused something to break, and never quite got around to explaining how they arrived at the original number. That buffer is for data the kernel has received but has not yet been read() by userspace. Seriously, 5MB of RAM dedicated to each socket in the kernel?

Assuming these are Nginx proxy connections, why did you choose to tweak a kernel tunable rather than increasing the corresponding userspace application buffer sizes instead?

edit: so the answer seems to be that Nginx is wholly reliant on the kernel to handle buffering, which is completely asinine to me, but perhaps there is good rationale here I've somehow missed. The take home becomes "our app stack is so broken we managed to break additional extreme-battle-tested components in a bid to to get it to function sensibly"
I'm currently working on a (very very basic) knitting app. Proof reading text is awful. Patterns use skeins, yards, metres, mm, cm, inches, gauge (arbitrary units) etc all interchangeably. It is kind of impressive how the units coexists. It pains me.
Kubernetes is supported on AWS by various companies in the industry, including my own, Kismatic (the enterprise Kubernetes company). We have been pushing for the team at ECS to adopt K8S as a standard framework on which to run containerized workloads. As Kubernetes gets adopted as a container cluster management standard for orchestrating and running microservice-oriented apps, all the cloud providers will need to support it based on customer demand, in the same way they are all supporting Docker due to the demand.
I see we've reached the point in the discussion where HN readers demand for human interpersonal relationships to be spelled out with the same rigor as an RFC.
> Honestly I think HN would be better without downvoting at all.

I don't entirely agree with this statement. If you're going to be doing threaded conversations, having a system that can influence the sort order of those conversations isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I've been thinking about HN's downvotes for a while now, and I kinda think -based on my overwhelmingly positive experience with the Pre-SJW Metafilter- that HN should either have strict time-based ordering for threads with up/downvotes only serving to give you Whuffie, or have up/downvotes control sort order, but not grey out comments that are below 1.
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The book "The history of AIDS" was a fascinating and accessible read on the subject of the spread of HIV, from it's origins to today.
everyone agrees jumping from the roof of a 6 story building will hurt - but please go ahead, try your debate theory against it.
It's going to happen eventually. Humans will take over and destroy/transform the sea once we have exhausted the space and resources on land. The best we can do is delay it and try to minimize the impact. We're currently at the hunter/gatherer phase there, but eventually we will mine it more intensively, farm it, 'develop' it and live on/in it. That's why Elon Musk's Mars ambition is so misguided in my view. We'll be living on/in the sea long before settling on Mars becomes feasible.
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Orwell would love the more rustic and humanistic imperial measures over the sterile metric system.

http://orwelltoday.com/metricorwell.shtml
Well, it's good that you're not thex10, and littletimmy still stands a chance at getting an enlightening answer to his question. :)
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