skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a student at Brown University, and these issues have been at the front of campus-related tensions for the last 2 years (perhaps longer, but I wasn't aware of them then). Your post reflects the most vocal attitude on campus at the moment (the "free-speech" faction is shrewdly keeping silent). I'm up-voting your post because you echo the perspective of many of my peers who I respect, and I want to give others on HN the opportunity to respond to your post without it being hidden.

I do not know of any black people at my school who openly criticize this recent string of college protests (the debate seems to be predominantly centered around blacks in these incidents). Surely, if this pain is something only black people can understand and they are so united in this movement, then it suggests that their grievances ARE legitimate.

... and yet, something feels wrong here. Something feels wrong when I see hyperbolic signs like "our culture is not a costume" or retroactive counterarguments like "it's not only about the Halloween Costumes". Something feels wrong when I see people sharing FB statuses with #concernedstudent1950 when it implies they support the demands made by the student group [1]. Something feels wrong when my peers believe that whites cannot be the victims of racism, due to their racial privilege. I don't have a good response to your points, but I'm interested to see others' replies to your comment.

At any rate, all I'm sure of is that the political climate has dramatically changed in the last 2 years.

[1] http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/columbiatribune....
I'm reminded of this piece from a year ago. Called "Everything is problematic" it's written from the perspective of someone heavily involved with the radical left/queer scene and how they increasingly noticed a certain brand of anti-intellectualism that has taken hold. somewhat long, but well written
http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2014/11/everything-problematic/
Fair enough but read-only in the event of a network partition is a viable real world use case.
For a few truly bad DMCA takedowns, YouTube offers to cover legal costs
All of those are features that have been supported with various file transfer tools. In the end, you're still opening a TCP socket, doing some management to request the file, and transferring that relevant data. There are numerous ways to accomplish this, but it's still a variation of (request file, receive data).

"Streaming" isn't a technical feature. It's a fiction designed to fool non-technical people (often in management, marketing, or legal). Usually this used as a euphemism for a broken client that doesn't have a "save" button.
I realize the statement was ambiguous between "prevent some attacks" or "prevent all attacks." It was an attempt to state one position taken by those actively involved in the debate: multiple terrorist attacks have still occurred (Paris, Boston marathon, etc), despite massive growth of the national security complex. Which makes discussion of the efficacy of intelligence agencies relevant to current events - my response to the comment I was replying to.

But to answer your question, to the best of my knowledge, it's widely reported that there is no evidence of terrorist attacks that have been prevented. NSA claims of 54 terrorist attacks being prevented are widely reported as false[1], mass surveillance and security theater is considered by (at least some) experts an ineffective way to stop terrorists[2], and most of the people arrested for terrorism seem to be mentally ill individuals entrapped by law enforcement[3], as well as a whole host of other sources effectively implying "none" that I don't think are worth taking the time to exhaustively cite. You can always search for "terrorist attacks prevented by NSA." If there are any examples, I'd be interested in knowing.

Alternatively, it could be that efforts of law enforcement raise barriers to terrorism such that much is prevented indirectly, but that would be a speculative conclusion until there's some evidence it's actually the case. Successful terrorists able to plan and communicate in plaintext using SMS and discussing their goals in their English-language propaganda (Dabiq) doesn't really lend credence to the preventative costs argument, either.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/claim-on-attacks-thwarted...

[2] https://digg.com/2015/why-mass-surveillance-cant-wont-and-ne...

[3] https://www.ted.com/talks/trevor_aaronson_how_this_fbi_strat...
The parent has put forward a polite and reasoned post with links to back up his point of view.

I disagree with the point being made that not alienating students (and minority students in particular) is more important than free speech, but...

if you are downvoting because you don't like what is being said then that speaks volumes for what you really think about the importance of free speech, and your actions are essentially the same as the students trying to shout down the professor.

x0x0, I disagree with you, and think that free speech is more important, but have my upvote.
I consider myself a pretty green person, but I have use the same language as the parent. The reason is because it prevents somebody from jumping to the anti green approach and calling or assuming you're a tree hugger. This way when you state that you aren't a tree hugger but still support a particular argument, it makes them weigh the argument in a reasonable way instead of going on the defensive right away. So it changes the logic from "I'm not a tree hugger, screw your point and ideals" to "I'm not a tree hugger but neither is this guy so his point may be reasonable, let me actually listen to this argument and see". It's a smoke rewording to get a person to be more receptive. (Typed on phone, hope it made sense)
Ask HN: Grant family stock?
I've read a few successful startup founders say they wish they had granted their family some stock in the startup when they were just getting started. This seems to make sense for tax reasons. (Does it?)

How would you go about putting this on paper? I'm thinking a YC SAFE with a nominal cap sufficient to achieve the desired grant would be a pretty simple way to do it. Any other simple methods that wouldn't require paying a lawyer?

Edit: on second thought, I'm thinking a YC SAFE may be counterproductive in this case, because it won't provide for LT capital gains treatment in the (unlikely) event of an acquisition prior to conversion ...
Ugh! I'm so sick of seeing the media flip out over.. all of this.

Did I miss something, or is this piece not attributed? If the author is not an educator than I'm not gonna trust their opinion on what's good for education. If they're not a minority I'm not gonna trust their opinion on safe spaces. Just a matter of having the right qualifications.

The title statement claims to have some insider knowledge as to what's a "worthwhile" protest, while at the same time dismissing concerns for space space as worthless. What in the ever living hell.

> The University of Missouri episode shows how damaging this confusion can be: some activists tried to prevent the college’s own newspaper from covering their demonstration, claiming that to do so would have endangered their safe space, thereby rendering a reasonable protest absurd.

That's "damaging" only to the media wanting to tear into the story so quickly. CRY ME A RIVER.
Cloud Pub/Sub engineer here. You can create as many consumers as you want. You can create them offline and bring them up and down whenever you want. Each consumer will receive a full copy of the stream, starting with its sync point (subscriber creation). Each message is delivered, and redelivered, to each consumer until that consumer acks that message.

If I understand your point correctly, the only expectation we haven't matched is the ability to "go back and start again". We hear you.
I like how the article start with making fun of ancient body measures, but then uses feet to compare.
Good read - thanks for sharing. I quite liked this:

'Padmasambhava said that when a stick is thrown to a dog, the dog will chase the stick. A dog’s gaze follows the object, the stick. The lion gazes steadily at the source, the thrower. We need to look at our mind, the source of the emotion. An emotion like anger is the stick. The source hurling that emotion is our mind. It is the mind that projects. The source of our experience is our own mind.

Dzogchen [Buddhism] turns our gaze inward toward the source of experience, which is mind. Pristine mind is our lion's gaze.'
What's wrong with treating someone's culture as a costume?

If I find Mexican clothing nice, let's say, and I wear it to a "let's celebrate Mexico" party, how on earth is that offensive? Is it also offensive when the people of some other country wear American clothing and use red solo cups at their parties?
> Is this where we pretend that there's no history of racial grievances at Yale (or Mizzou), and that history started afresh the minute before this confrontation? An honest accounting of what happened starts with the fact that there is a long history that had people simmering. Free speech is a wonderful principle, but it conflicts with making students, particularly minority students, not feel alienated.

For someone who drags up history, are you really going to pretend that Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Assembly aren't the reason we can protest in the first place?

https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/rights-protesters

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/civil-rights-first-amend...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v._Des_Moines_Independe...

etc.
> Adults don't need institutions to protect them from name calling and hurtful words. Children do.

Conversely, adults don't need assistance to empathise with other people. Children do.
I think it would give me a good perspective on the comment author's mindset, which is why I am curious.

But do you, vacri, see a huge gap between completely destroying a professor's life, i.e. forcing them to resign their position, give up their salary, tenure, and reputation (which is what these students were asking), and going to prison? Going to prison implies all of the former, it's just an extra debasement on the other penalties, although an extreme one.
I'm very happy that they include WGA registration as a part of the FAQ.
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Looks to me like academia his now facing the consequences of the ideology many individuals in it push.
Thank you for your post. I'm definitely going to keep the Serenity Prayer in mind, that's really powerful.
He is largely being down voted for simultaneously invoking history while ignoring the right to protest exists only because of free speech and the right to assemble.

The ability to have protests like we've seen on campuses and elsewhere are defended entirely on 1st amendment grounds. Watering that down to push an agenda, no matter how righteous, is the kind of idea only those truly ignorant of history would propose.

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/civil-rights-first-amend...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v._Des_Moines_Independe...

etc.
I have had the experience of being taken into inpatient psychiatric care against my will. I fit the profile of someone that needed inpatient psychiatric help, but it would only be given to me if I was deemed a threat to myself or others. The doctors spoke with my family about possible things I had done that would fit that description, but I hadn't done anything to imply that. Finally, the doctors recommended to my family that they accuse me of danger to self or others anyway so I could get the "help I needed." They did and I was admitted.

So there are apparently ways to work around it if you really want someone to be an inpatient. Perhaps sometimes that's a good thing since wanting to kill people isn't the only prereq for needing help. Unfortunately I am now labeled as someone who needed to be locked up as a danger to self or others when I wasn't.
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It makes a little more sense once you look at the infrastructure that it's running on. You and ~500 of your neighbors are all on one local node that shares bandwidth between everyone. The way it works for upload is that your cable modem sends a request for an upload timeslot on a shared upload channel, then the CMTS which serves thousands upon thousands of people sends back your time slot when your modem is clear to use the upload channel. If anything goes screwy on your node such as significant interference or if your cable modem somehow hung up and was constantly sending on the upload channel outside of its time slot this means that absolutely everyone on the same node looses service. Not only can it affect a ton of customers all at once, your ISP doesn't have a good way of tracking down interference at a finer granularity than the node level which isn't a lot to go off of. They literally have to do a binary search by disconnecting sections of the local node and seeing what segment the interference is coming from. I've heard horror stories about interference coming from things like washing machines, treadmills, etc and being very intermittent and nearly impossible to find because of it. For the treadmill story, a whole node of customers would loose service for 15 minutes every couple of nights and whenever the ISP would get a technician out to start trying to isolate it, they'd already be off the treadmill and the problem would be over. Supposedly it took a while of having a tech in the area around when it normally started to track down which house it was coming from.

So yeah, it's your modem, but they won't let you use their network unless you're using one of their approved modems that they know are reliable and that they can manage updates on because just one person can unknowingly screw it over for a large chunk of people.
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The Economist has its quirks, one of which is to never assign attribution. The newspaper itself stands behind everything printed. If you disagree with the article, you disagree with the institution's opinion.
The free-speech argument is a weak one at best. Just because they're a screaming professor doesn't mean they're correct.
Skiing. The world needs more skiers.
An FBI Informant Seduced Eric M. Into a Bomb Plot.Then the Gov't. Lied About It
I think this is hosted off someone's home net connection, I'm working on a torrent mirror just in case.
Your username checks out, so take my upvote. That said, the debate has moved past centering on First Amendment Rights as the point of contention; rather, the issue is whether students should dress in "offensive" Halloween Costumes even if they are legally allowed to.
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Quality of life should be considered as well.
I may be splitting hairs here, but Muslimism is not a race. Muslimism is the belief in the philosophy of Islam.
Ask HN: When iterating, how do you decide which user subset to gravitate toward?
Hi HN,

Let's say you've got a minimum viable product that you've released into the wild, and after a few months you see that two very different groups of people are using it regularly. As you iterate quickly and respond to user feedback from these differing groups with differing needs, you realize that given your limited time and resources, you need to focus on one group in order to create a well-aligned product that users in a niche market will find invaluable.

How would you recommend deciding which group to focus on?

(Real-world examples from experience would be great, but all thoughts are welcome. We hear a lot about iterating towards 'product-market fit' at a high level, but down in the mud, things aren't always so clear!)

Thanks!
Mike
The parabola is the equilibrium shape of a cable which is supporting an even load per unit horizontal distance. The catenary is the same for an even load per unit cable length.

As for why, it's been a few years since I had to derive this, but it goes something like this:

* The horizontal component of the force in the cable doesn't change along its length

* This leads to the fact that the extra vertical load picked up in the cable, per unit horizontal length as you approach the support, is proportional to the change in slope of the cable per unit length

* The change in slope is the second derivative of the cable height, and since it is a constant the cable shape is parabolic

Fun extra fact - the parabola is the equilibrium shape because the cable can resist tension but not bending. If you reverse the sign on all the equations then they still work, but your parabola is pointing away from the direction of gravity and you have only compression, no bending, in the material. That's why arch bridges are shaped like a parabola too.
Good points however 2008 broke the model of perpetual home appreciation. That's not to say your math doesn't work, I would just question the core assumption that makes it hold.

I'm deflecting though. Historically what you say holds up.
Except down voting isn't denying the right to speech. It's simply expressing _your_ opinion of the value of said speech.
Hey, that's awesome that you didn't let that negative experience colour your life! I'm really happy that you were able to let it roll off your back.

How many times did it happen? Once? Twice? A few? A few thousand?

How many years did it go on? One? Two? A decade, at least?

How many people? Just that girl? Just the kids in your class? Random people walking down the street, or sitting next to you in public?
That's the best example of all, pal.

There aren't candidates of arguably the most powerful nation in the world getting airtime to millions to holler about deporting your kind just because you're Mexican

To elaborate: It's cherry-picking. Why should people pick fun/cute/cool parts of a culture without considering the utter bullshit hurled at that culture for it existing?
Whoops, viewing from a mobile app so didn't realize it was a link to the AMA. Ignore me :)
Also, the entire leftist movement uses a homophobic slur to refer to members of the Tea Party: "Teabaggers". I guess they don't care when they're mad about republicans that they show their true feelings about gay people.
I keep wondering why we don't mine garbage landfills. Surely somewhere the technology exists to turn all that waste into raw materials again.
My knowledge on this topic is limited to only the video I saw of a group of students arguing with a professor.

The students were arguing about the FUNDAMENTAL criteria of what should be allowed to be expressed. If something offends people, that's not acceptable. So, this criteria is not limited to only "new ideas like blackface and rape jokes"- it's anything that is considered offensive, and that's why it may discourage experimentation.
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That's probably outweighed by the exaltation for white people found all over society.
I get what you're saying. If everything arou.d me has gotten more expensive and assuming my wages keep up with inflation, the interest cost is cheaper in later years relative to the earlier years. Makes sense but hasn't wage and inflation growth diverged in the last couple of decades making that assumption a questionable one?
> What does it even mean to be an adult?

I think the easiest to define mark of adulthood come when you're attempting to provide for yourself (and perhaps others). For many, college is essentially four years of an all-expenses paid vacation. This is hardly a time of maturity. It's fun as anything for sure, but at this point most people are consuming from the world and contributing little back.

Kids who have to work (for more than just spending money) or who have to play a large part in taking care of their siblings seem to grow up faster.

This is admittedly a somewhat boring answer to the question, if anyone thinks they have a better version of what adulthood is, I'm interested in hearing it.
Thanks for the thoughtful contribution. I suspect the term 'safe space' has at least partially gone the way of 'hacker' in popular consciousness - but that doesn't have to stop anyone from using it.
Question: You don't think the behavior of minorities (groups of blacks in this case) sometimes makes white people feel alienated?

You know what.... all races behave badly sometimes and make others feel bad. It's not a white phenomenon. People should be more sensitive towards others. But others should also be less quick to take offense at every perceived or imagined slight. That's just how it's gotta be for this all to work out. Otherwise it's a cycle of negativity with no forgiveness and no progress towards an integrated society.
> Abusive is when that conversation turns into name calling.

I don't think so; it depends on context. If someone calls you names in context of you doing something stupid, then it's not abuse, it's just being abrasive. Abuse would be had he done it without you giving a reason. And I think we should save the word abuse for the latter (and also perhaps for something where is a profit motive).

I mean, every post from Linus where he uses harsh words has some context like that. He just doesn't randomly throws insults to his colleagues. You can read the insults as an abuse or you can read them as a big yellow warning signs - your choice.

> When those complaints let fly to other ears, they should be phrased a little better.

Here the "should" is a cultural choice. It's a universal, safe option. It's like being polite to people you don't know, or being diplomatic in diplomacy.

But in the cultural context of kernel development, you're already part of the in-group. And in that particular in-group, being called names is normal and accepted by the insiders. That it happens on the Internet, for the outsiders to see, doesn't change the fact that the cultural choice was made freely by insiders.

And people who prefer the former to the latter (as per my previous post) probably don't care to much about being called names when they do stupid thing (being abused, as you call it, but they actually don't want to be really abused or tolerate it either) - because with that mentality, it's results or your own improvement that matters, not so much who is polite. I think Linus would be OK if other people called him names when he does something stupid, however it doesn't happen mostly because people respect him and he doesn't do stupid things very often.
Frequent trips to the third world. Let your child not be so coddled that he/she thinks the greatest misfortune that can befall a person is seeing an offensive costume.
Thanks for that clarification. That is perfectly ok with me.
An email about costumes and culture vs. hundreds of 4channers threatening physical violence and assault are entirely different things.

So some words actually could have an impact then, despite being "just words"?
I don't understand your point. Can you rephrase it? Are you saying that just because people say bad things about Mexican culture no one should be allowed to participate in it?
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Yeah.. but all the correctness in the world wont protect you from bitrot.

I think it's interesting, and would be great if something like this were applied to ZFS.
I think the real lesson here is that if your application is dependent on the exact behavior of an undefined algorithm, you probably should fix your application.
Is there a mirror of this anywhere?
Housing cost is non discretionary but that's not to say you don't have a choice in how you spend those dollars. All I'm saying is there may be qualitative reasons for buying but financially you are better off renting than buying a home using a mortgage. The whole equation changes if you can buy outright or pay it off in a manner which keeps the total interest paid to something reasonable like 10 or 20%.