skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my world their opinions get no respect at all.

You should try separating the opinion from the man and analyze the former without taking the shortcut of appealing to the authority of the latter.
If by "enterprise-ready" you mean "slow, bloated, and byzantine", then yes, it fits that ecosystem perfectly.

But despite being a single-threaded, half-XML-half-C cancerous pile of dirty hacks, Thunderbird is still faster and more stable – not to mention more extensible – than Evolution could ever hope to be.
For some reason it is not letting me reply to the answer. Anyway:

Definition of the strawman argument:

"A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument which was not advanced by that opponent." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man)

The original article is put in a very specific context: a sermon about a very specific scripture on a theological university. It is not about Yale, it is not about free-speech. It is about the reaction of a self-centered student and how out of place he is; which I understand it is the point of lagadu, and it is why lagadu's comment is not a straw men argument.

The fact that the Yale argument is true has no relevance with the context of the original discussion.
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I doubt they've removed it unless they're splitting animation off into a separate product.

A big push in the last year was the create custom export plugins to expand Flash's interactivity base from just SWF files. For instance, you can use Haxe+OpenFL[1] with Flash CC now, and thus maintain an ActionScript-y programming model, but also export your projects (with full swf support) to C++ and HTML5:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhE07Y9TUJU

[1](http://www.openfl.org)
I think you are usin the 3.x branch. We didn't expect to get HN or Scobled so early.

Would you do a couple things:
1. Check out the 4.0 branch.
2. Go into assembly-sdk
3. mvn clean instal.

Now run the next generation version. We are a few months away from having it fully stabilized, but many of the experiences you are seeking are in this branch.

We are running the JDT underneath inside of your workspace machine, and we have refactoring, debugging, find usages, etc in there.
Yeah I agree. Now, in my opinion, a student who goes to a strongly evangelical school and expects to not get bombarded with sermons saying they aren't being Christian enough really has no one but themselves to blame.

However, you can can bet Piper's teachers would have their worldview being very challenged if an atheist or agnostic student started long discussions about the nature of their mission (http://www.okwu.edu/about/).
I'm using TB since two years, when Apple Mail failed to load after an OSX upgrade. I wanted to move, preparing for moving to Linux later on. I have several family members using TB on Windows. My mother used Eudora for years, I believe seven years after development stopped. It never had a problem. I could copy it to Windows 7, just copying the folder with the program files in it, and it all worked.

How big is the risk if TB development stops altogether? What security risks are there when you keep using it?

My mother cannot handle changing to something new anymore. So I guess I have to take the risk.
If the tax is restricted to "high sugar soft drinks"[0] do you still think that there wouldn't be alternatives for a struggling family to purchase?

0 - https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
See "Household food expenditure and consumption and nutrient intake – 1974-2000" on the following page:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130103014432/htt...
But this explanation does not seem to match the facts. For example, many law professors are having to stop teaching rape law, because so many students say it makes them uncomfortable[1].

Surely college students are capable of distinguishing between the threat of rape, and the discussion of relevant law in a classroom environment? So what is the safety issue here? Indeed, the end result will likely be a net lowering of safety in society as a whole, as a lack of expertise in rape law will make it harder to enforce and successfully prosecute.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trouble-teaching-rap...
Not sure what you're implying. Mozilla stopped developing Thunderbird since 2012. I would also be curios in what corporation (singular) is developing Linux.
No. As has been repeatedly pointed out: HTTP is positively loaded with much longer runs of known plaintext.
I like it, similar to what they do in some pre-marital or marriage counseling sessions. One side lists a grievance, then before the other side responds they have to repeat what they heard and get confirmation before responding. "So if I'm hearing you right, you don't like it when I... Did I understand correctly?"

It feels ridiculous when you do it at first but it becomes an incredibly helpful tool.
The contradictions in that statement are very funny.
It is a shame... But I am much more irritated, lacking a better term, with the chronicall lacking of a proper mail client for Linux. Thunderbird is the best as far as I used them, but I am not satisfied with the performance, UK and features, especially considering Windows only counterparts.
The President of Wesleyan University in Connecticut had a nice response to this kind of nannyish article.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/11/...
There's nothing wrong with starch (a complex carbohydrate of plant origin), nor its metabolization into sugar in the body. After all - sugar is the body's preferred energy source. A plain baked or boiled potato, especially sweet potato, is actually quite a healthful food. Just ask the traditional Okinawans, the longest living cohort documented.

Now, this is definitely not a recommendation to eat McShit's, but your fear should be directed at the oil (fat) the fries are coated in, as well as the added salt, added sugar, and deep frying method of cooking.
If nothing else, it sounds like it's definitely a safe space for mythology.
I'm not responding to the point in the article, I'm responding to lagadu's point about people invoking a "right not to be offended."
I drink 32 oz of water in the morning and 40 oz of tea before lunch.
I still use Thunderbird on a Linux laptop, will continue to do so, but think that this is a good decision.

I donate a bit of money to Mozilla occasionally and I would like to see their effort go to working on privacy and Firefox.
I'm wondering if there's a way to automate this kind of analysis to give you condensed, interesting points of a system performance status. À la powertop for power management.
If you are in college, you are no longer a kid.

From 1 Corinthians 13:

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
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This seems to be thrusting in two directions. One about trigger warnings and safe spaces and so on, and one about sermons and guilt.

One common narrative re safe spaces seems to be: "if something makes you uncomfortable, you should suck it up instead of trying to force everyone else to accommodate you". I think this is somewhat missing the point, but I can relate to it. I feel like this is the dominant narrative in this thread.

But the narrative in the article seems to be: "if something makes you uncomfortable, good! It's because you're a bad person. You should be a better person instead of asking us to tell you you're not bad".

And I pretty strongly disagree with that.

For example, if the sermon was all about how gay people are going to hell, and that made a student uncomfortable, that's not because the student is a bad person. That's because it was a terrible sermon.

From the description, this sermon was not obviously terrible. But that still doesn't make the student a bad person. Not everyone experiences or expresses emotions in the same ways. That's fine. When people start speaking about experiences as if they're human universals, and if you don't share those experiences, that can make you uncomfortable. That's fine too. It doesn't make the speaker a bad person, but it doesn't make you a bad person either.
Fair enough. I find it a godsend. Nothing wrong with copy paste if it brings you forward faster and you take time to understand why it works. For architecture etc it's pretty useless but for the rest it is a very helpful tool.
> execution is weighted higher than idea

What does "weight" means in a multiplicative combination?

(3a) b = a * (3b) = 3 a * b
The opposite of "safe" is "risky". If we're responsible, we do a risk assessment. So, if a place is not safe, what sort of risks does it contain, who is exposed to them, and what mitigation can be put in place.
An idea is just an impulse to do something in some way. "A social network" is an idea. But then you have to come up with decisions about how exactly it will work. Will people have their own backgrounds and widgets? Or will we just give everyone the same style? Let's add a poke counter. That's an idea, too. Let's add a positive and negative counter. Even more ideas.

When people say ideas are cheap, they mean cheap in relation to execution. For each idea you have, you need some way to decide whether to continue coming up with related ideas. And that almost always involves getting feedback from the universe about what you've already considered. And that takes effort. Finding out whether someone will fund your idea requires you to make a presentation. Finding out whether someone will sign up to your social network will require software and hardware.

Dreaming about what might happen if someone gives you money and a bunch of people sign up to your network IS cheap. You will inevitably have more possibilities than you can actually test in the market.

I'm partly biased due to a bad experience with an old partner about this. I'd spent most of a year building a prototype, and he sat down next to me and said "that thing about letting the customers do so-and-so was my idea, and I want acknowledgement for it." He wasn't the guy who actually built the thing, found the customer, and got the customer to say they wanted it.
Found myself a better website finally. Thanks!
Oh man, the amount of times I told students that maybe they don't belong in university is quite high. I used to teach (alongside a prof) Physics for Biologists. Constantly I'd get remarks like: "But what are we supposed to do all these hours between class and homework guidance hours?" (What am I, your entertainer??), "Why can't I use my graphical calculator, this is bull shit!", This is not why I choose biology!", and my favorite "Why won't you just let me fill in the formulas and work with the intermittent numbers?"

I'd tell them: You are an electron in it lowest possible energy and you want get to your highest excited state without adding energy. That simply does not work. If you can't handle it, perhaps you do not belong here where you are actually challenged and are required to meet that challenge.

It was also crazy how often they complained but turned out not to have even tried the homework on their own.
For one of my company's web apps (that customers use), for internal development, if too many errors occur within 1 second, it shows a "You're in deep shit :O!" dialog and starts pulsing the page background red. It brings some humor to an absolutely terrible situation.

But the build strips it for production during minification along with a bunch of other development-only code that will never make it in.

Just be careful, and have fun. It's what hacking's all about. :)
> You and me could find crazy that people would openly choose to use IDEs built on HTML/CSS/JS, but that's what a lot of young folks are doing (Atom, VSCode etc etc). That's their world, that's what they like. An entire generation now exists, who learnt to code from web scripting rather than C or BASIC. They have taken over. It's just how it is.

They could still be doing it wrong.
Between the dinky laser and the STP, this reminds me of the magic radios from A Fire Upon The Deep -- the idea of a technology that could be built by a (moderately) low-tech civilization, but not designed or invented by them.
let's be concrete about what we're talking about

------------------

from your link:

"A fraternity brother who was at the party gave an entirely different account than Petros-Gouin. Speaking on condition that his name not be used because chapter rules discourage speaking to the media, he said members of the house always ask for Yale IDs and let everyone in until a party gets crowded. After that, a line forms.

That night, no one with a Yale ID was turned away before 11:15 p.m., the member said. Yale and New Haven police had responded to noise complaints at the party, and brothers were told not to let anyone else in, to avoid crowding. He said numerous students have said a woman who was denied entrance angrily challenged the man who stopped her, screaming: “It’s because I’m black, isn’t it?”

It was uncomfortable, he said, in part because that brother is African American and others working the door at the time are Portuguese and Costa Rican; he described the chapter as racially diverse. He said some in Yale’s black community have called black SAE members “Uncle Tom” on Monday, making them feel like they are being forced to choose between siding with the fraternity or others of their race.

“It has become incredibly hostile,” he said.

He and another student who attended the party said the crowd inside was representative of the student body at Yale."

--------------------

I see an incident of undetermined "real"(ness)
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Better:

cat ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.dmg | sudo tee /dev/sda1
What features are you missing from Thunderbird?
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There is a lot of press about this "Yale problem" type of stories but I live in Europe where I find kids fearless and aggressive. I find this type of reasoning very hard to relate to.

Do you feel this type of behaviour is affecting a majority of NA youth ? Or is it more media looking at what could be the very beggining of a trend ?
Indeed. Either the complainant is a troll, or doesn't exist.

No normal person would attend a sermon at the chapel of a given faith, and complain that the sermon victimises them for being a poor practitioner of that faith. This is doubly true when its about something universal like love, rather than how well you practice some specific ritual.
¿El Kremlin y la Casa Blanca se han puesto de acuerdo?
One takes offence, one does not give it. It's an idiopathic condition.

I'm a white male, but I grew up being called Gwailo, Gaijin, Auslander, and when I finally returned to the anglosphere in my early teens, I was still an outsider as I spoke with a weird accent and was by that point a through-and-through third culture kid. I got the crap bullied out of me, and eventually figured out that it only hurt if I took it to heart. I learned to pity those whose worlds were so small that they could only take satisfaction from being cruel to me. It was their problem, not mine.

Folks need to have thicker skin, and realise that not everything is about them. In fact, very little is ever about you, most of what people say and do are manifestations of their own thoughts and emotional issues. Physical violence is of course something that needs to be fought against (and this is why we have criminal justice systems which typically take this sort of thing perfectly seriously), but you can only be the victim of "verbal violence" if you choose to take the position of victim.
How big and powerful would a catapult have to be to shoot several tons into orbit?

A catapult might be a more compact solution :)
Bell labs was funded by one of the biggest monopolies ever. I find it hard to believe the new bell labs will have that kind of resources.
You articulated your argument well (upvote!) and I don't disagree with a lot of it, but here is where we differ: why is it that this particular "mind-virus" is so much more transmittable than others? This is where I believe the other factors come into play. You basically agree with me when you start listing potential solutions to defeating the "mind-virus" in your last paragraph. The things you list are addressing the "other" factors. Education and support, for example, are things that help to close the inequality gap.
This is just a rant. I would expect more from a University president.
> But hey, donate to Mozilla! $5, $15, $25,

Ah yes, thank you for the reminder!

http://imgur.com/hLZp8SG

Now that I actually have a career and money I have no problem giving back. I'm glad I can donate to Ubuntu and Wikipedia nowadays. I am grateful for everything Firefox has given me for well over 10 years...

I really don't know what XUL is (intermediate language between HTML and FF UI?), but I guess I do feel sorry for people who have been using Thunderbird. I hope it's significant enough a property that people will want to continue, write it in Rust?
Stick around for another 25 like I have...the fun is just starting!
Why has all the hyper-sensitivity only come to the forefront over the past few years then?
The other option is written picture descriptions, which could easily go more than a thousand words trying to capture all of the information discussed in an art criticism class. Things like the composition of elements.

It's more typical these days for students who are blind to be in a class with sighted students. You don't want to have to exclude them from the discussion if possible.

Ultimately these are just fancy tactile graphics. Sure, it's different, but tactile graphics are well established in math and science education. And 3D printing has real potential here, since tactile graphics can be expensive to produce and distribute for this low-incidence population.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZREwnV_XRsA
Yes ...

One of the key objectives that we are exploring with Eclipse Che is the idea of workspace portability. The workspace itself is composed of two things:
1. The projects (and their source bindings), and:
2. Their environments, which are the stack of tools and runtimes that you need to perform work on the code such as refactoring, debugging, compiling.

We have created an abstraction of the worksapce to the environment that it is bound to. And then this entire definition is exportable and movable between Che instances or to a cloud that is supporting Che, such as what Codenvy will run.

Because the workspace definition defines its machines in the workspace object, then we can recreate the exact machine you need to do the same work on another node.

We use docker to implement this behavior.

We are not fully done with all of this work, but we have a lot of prototypes that prove this can do well.

There are some challenges - if you want to "save" your workspace, do we snapshot the machines every time, or only sometime? Do we force a remote commit & push? it'll be up to the user. But once all of the commits are done, then we have to push the images into a shared registry and ensure that everything is remotely accessible.

Once all of this is done then any other machine can reproduce an identical workspace.
I truly loved Flash for it's amazing animation possibilities. And I still love it for that.
Exactly. Definitely not enough research taking a harm reduction approach. There's quite a bit of short term research on a lot of things that give some basic insights, but don't add additional variables that are useful even if adding them isn't particularly difficult. Long term studies are obviously harder, but for prescription amphetamines which have been around for a while, you'd think we'd have some decent research on the long term effects on cognition. But nope, there's way more research on long term cognitive effects of cocaine than amphetamines. And even that research doesn't seem to focus on harm reduction and best practices.
Correct. In these kinds of situations I usually do

sudo sh -c 'blah blah blah >> file'

but I don't like it when I have to do that.
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Here is a list of space launcher design :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch#Project...
I do find it a pity that people on both sides feel that their points are so "common sense" correct that they have no reason to educate, and that people who disagree are being somehow deliberately obtuse. I think sometimes they feel it justifies to people the use of strawmen, because it's almost not worth their time dealing with such obviousness.

The whole idea of "being yourself" has a lot of nuance that has been left unaddressed. Where do we draw the line between things that we should be expected to change, vs what the world must learn to accept? How much obligation does the world have on accepting us for who we are, and how much pressure are they allowed to put on us to change? Is "being yourself" even an ideal state vs chasing ones potential? How do you avoid crippling guilt if you're always chasing an elusive ideal? How do you learn to like yourself if you're never what you should be? If you aren't chasing improvement in yourself does it just end up turning into decay?

I think it's a really difficult subject while both sides are screaming "DUH!" at each other.
When I develop a tolerance? Considering I can and sometimes do finish an entire pot after 10pm, especially if I'm going out on the weekend. Yet afterwards I can still shut my eyes and fall asleep within half an hour.

So your worries are well founded as drinking so much has given me the powers to turn Coffee into Water
It's actually 'copy and convert' but 'cc' was taken.
I'm implying that "open source-ness" is not necessarily _the_ ingredient that will save a massive abandoned project.
You need also 'drive' - and good hackers are put of by massive corporate projects. They have better things to do than clean up corporate mess.
Fun! Thanks for the share.
Dude, you're likely typing on the "wrong" keyboard layout and use a "wrong" calendar... convention trumps correctness pretty much all the time. What matters is that enough people are doing it to make it "the way". I fully expect that we will eventually see a Javascript OS, because "it's so much easier to maintain".
Are you suggesting people should not learn to cope with uncomfortable ideas? This is a pretty ridiculous comment you're making here. Freedom of speech and expression has, is, and always will be more important than one's personal comfort.

That said, these people are just as free to voice these small minded, selfish complaints as I am to ignore them.
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Have you ever met a team that wants to support two things instead of one? :) No one wants to support the old stuff, especially when no one's paying for it. If they make staying with the old too convenient, people won't convert to the crappy new, and their adoption graphs will suck! Can't have cannibalism!
"Having spent far more than my fair share of time around University students (11 years), I can assure you that the complaint is likely what the student said. It smells very much like what students today are saying."

I guess I have different students because I've been teaching college since 2000 and have never had any complaints like this and neither have any of my friends.
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Press shift + reply / forward in thunderbird. Is that what you want?
Well we stand on opposite sides of that war, now find something else to fear monger
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Why rewrite it in another language? It isn't currently broken.

Things that are not broken do not need rewriting.
Agreed. I have been using Wave for 1.5 years of freelancing. It's free, but not open-source.
You must register with ARM in order to get it (it's free, AFAIR).

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....