skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These things get carried forward culturally. The modern Jewish experience is very much rooted in the Holocaust, and the fear that it might happen again at any time. The Holocaust was not the first, or even the largest such pogrom -- note that there is a word coined precisely to describe genocide events targeting jews -- it was just the closest to the current generation of jews in western countries. It's hard to explain politics regarding present-day Israel without this context, for example. So yes, many Jews can relate with growing up being told that there were exterminators around every corner and that does have consequences..

Likewise, although I have less personal experience here, even if lynchings were not everyday events or impacted every black American family, the cultural impact carried forward can still be profound.

And yes, I am taking a devil's advocate position. In many cases such as those described in the OP and other comments here political correctness has been taken way, way to far. There is a difference between incitement and a listener's general uncomfort with subject matter. Especially in the context of a university there must be a free exchange of ideas and the ability to have discourse on any subject matter without fear of academic retribution or censorship.
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Dennett definitely has some experience with criticism and his opinion is worthwhile to listen to, so I agree with your addendum. Thanks for the link, I did not know this. However, Dennett and Rapoport list three further steps after re-expression.

2. You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).

3. You should mention anything you have learned from your target.

4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

(I tried to follow the rules with my comment)
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See my reply to EthanHeilman. Specifically, are you claiming the DOJ stats cited by this source are false, or that they made an arithmetic error when multiplying (# victims by race x) x (% of offenders of race Y)?

As for my father's feelings, it's really not cool to suggest he's bigoted. He's not - he's the epitome of a NY liberal and far more left wing than I am. E.g., he mostly accepts the tribalist fascism of the modern left, in comparison to my individualism. He's just unable to rationally assess the risk of low probability events that get lots of media coverage.

(He's hardly the only one. See, for example, this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10655349 )
> until the DOJ requested documents that violated his own political leanings, he was compliant with other DOJ requests.

And that's his mistake. He should not have cared at all about which users the DOJ wanted info about, he should have realized that if he was capable of complying with their demands at all that his system should be fixed rather than kept that way.

I can see how this happens though. Imagine your average TOR exit node operator. This person may have noble intentions and dreams about supporting dissidents. Then finds out the exit node is used to peddle all kinds of gore. The temptation to become involved in determining what is and what is not supported use of 'your' exit node must be tremendously strong. Especially if some of that traffic is personally revolting, offensive or in some other way against your own personal philosophies.

So Levison may have thought that doing his bit, aiding the DOJ and purposefully having these holes was a net positive for society. But looking back I think he'd be the first to agree that that was a very bad mistake.
You should post a source for the quote.
Could be that one is more common than the other, therefore not as newsworthy. It's a sad state of affairs, but it seems most news is about sensationalism for purposes of generating revenue.
A good friend of mine has a saying on this topic: "Avoid the fallacy of confusing the majority with the majority voice. The majority voice is controlled by people who have the time and energy to make their voice heard; a lot of people are too busy working on their passions to bother to join the discussion."
That's plausible, except when you do it that way there's a really great chance you'll be screwed over. Airbnb can protect its users to some degree, it's up to you whether you want to use it or not.
That's true. E.g., this is my Eclipse setup: http://i.imgur.com/SP6o1W2.png
Interesting that according to that NYTimes link, offensive speech is considered protected "free speech," while people objecting to offensive speech does not qualify. I have just as much a right to tell you you're an asshole and not welcome near me as you do to say offensive things to me.
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So much for organic chemistry and the multitudinous industries thereby spawned then!
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From your link:

>These data cover all violent crimes except murder, but the number of murders is tiny compared to other violent crimes.

So, we've started by cherry picking our data, a really strong start.

Next we go on by comparing apples and oranges. You've reached the conclusion that as a white male you should be afraid of black people, but the data you linked shows otherwise.

While 13.7% of violent crimes against white people were committed by black people, 56% of violent crimes against white people were committed by other white people.

You are 4 times more likely to be violently attacked by a white person than a black person, if you are a white person. So if you are afraid of being attacked by a black person, you must be 4 times more afraid everytime you see a white person (that is, if you are being logically consistent, rather than using confirmation bias to support a worldview of racial superiority, though your link suggests otherwise)

In this light, it is completely irrational to have anywhere near the fear of black people (or any other race) than you do for white people.

Further, if you are of a race other than black or hispanic, you are more than twice as likely to be violently attacked by a white person (40.3%) than a black person (19.3%).

The only thing damning against black people these statistics show, is that black people are vastly more likely to be violently attacked by other black people than by any other race. This is the same case for all the other races included. People of any given race are much more likely to have a crime committed against them by someone of their own race, than by someone of any other race.
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I graduated last year, and I can assure you that I never heard anything remotely similar to this during my 4 years in an undergrad business program.

I discussed this exact topic with my close high school friends while we were home over Thanksgiving weekend, so I also got perspectives from recently-graduated students in the liberal arts and business at Columbia, WashU, Vanderbilt, and Cornell to fill out my sample.

None of them had ever directly heard or seen any comparable behavior during their time in school. We had all heard of isolated incidents of intolerance in the news, and had the sense that such sheltered students could be found on campus, but we didn't personally know or associate with anyone who could be so extreme or intolerant in their beliefs. Which caused us to ask: how does a student like this get a spot at a decent university? Who raises their child to be so intolerant?

So I have to disagree with your claim that such intolerant and childish comments "[smell] very much like what students today are saying." There is a vocal minority of students who say and do things that do not represent the larger body of students as a whole. There always will be. The average college student is still too busy meeting people, playing sports, dating, drinking, traveling, doing internships, interviewing for jobs, and (occasionally) going to lectures to make a big fuss out of anything that might offend him/her.
This is, eh hem, maybe, not a story you should tell people anymore.
Or, https://youtu.be/yRujuE-GIY4
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`pv` (pipeviewer) is usually very useful for tracking progress.

dd if=/dev/zero count=10 bs=1M | pv > file.bin

The other way to see progress on `dd` is to issue a signal 3 (USR1, iirc) to the dd process. kill -3 <dd pid>
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Yes! JS, Python and Ruby are just "dead simple" "scripting" languages that only serve to "make a shitload of money" and aren't "real programming".

Real programmers (like me) use C.

Seriously, no. Just no.

And if I wanted to prevent people from writing "the most disastrous code in the whole universe", teaching C instead of JS would be much, much lower in the list than teaching how to split code into modules/libraries, write testable code, etc.
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> why can't we try to reform your aggressors in the first place?

Because "we" are not special. "We" are not better than anyone else. It's none of our business to try and change how other people are.
And then the person who forked it gets to maintain it!

Lucky them.
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Lately it's occurred to me that I may never experience that type of work environment again, and this makes me sad. Has anyone else experienced this? How did you cope?
Vue and Redux and Redux-devtools
JavaScript programmers are truly delusional sometimes.
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Doesn't matter. There's an anecdote about a student being a crybaby and that's the biggest threat facing humanity today. Get with the program. We can deal with the Christians once we sort out the safe spacers.
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I use this all the time.

"You want to add feature X because ..."

... and then, once we've clarified what the request is all about, and I'm sure about what's going on, only then can you move in to help, offer advice, or crush their souls with a series of devastating blows.

No, don't do the latter. Show your side of the story and get them to say it out loud. "Okay, you're right, putting a Perl 6 interpreter in the interrupt handlers of the network stack does sound kind of crazy now."

Doing this makes you a lot easier to work with, or at least that is the perception. :-)
Thank you, guys! I really appreciate your feedback.
>the idea that we should renounce freedom of speech in order to prevent hurt feelings

Who is saying this?
> Being nonstandard is completely irrelevant here.

It's relevant in that much of the work has to be duplicated (documentation but also layout implementation & the like) and none of the new and improved web development tools can be used for XUL.
They turned away people from a party. From a PARTY. Not a job interview, not a restaurant, not a mortgage lender, not social services. A party.

Social discrimination happens all the time. As a nerd, I've been (back in a time when nerds were shunned) uninvited or turned away from parties plenty of times. Nobody protested on my behalf.

This entire brouhaha over people feeling not-as-popular-as-the-cool-sae-kids is ridiculous. Nobody has a right to social inclusion. The racial angle is a red herring. What happened to these women happens, often worse, to every socially-unpopular person on the planet.
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Well, at least when you program C the community is a lot better. Ruby and JS people can be truly cringey sometimes.
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That is what I use, but now I can't remember/recreate what I didn't like about it.
Freedom of speech is a generic concept.

"The Freedom of Speech," the legal right defined by the constitution only applies to the government because the constitution only applies to the government.
It's rarely that black and white.

Sure, there are things we know we should do - whether because of familial duties, social duties, or as in this case, our belief system, or our religion/creed.

Then there are the things we want to do.

Sure, we may know they're wrong, or know we'll regret them afterwards - but that's not to say we weren't tempted.

And the human mind is wonderful at trying to justify doing "bad" things (where bad is whatever your own faith/belief system is). So I may be like, I'm a awesome Christian, I'm going to attend bible college, then when I get there, I hear a sermon that strikes a nerve and reveals some sin that I'm committing - I may try to justify myself, by saying, well, that doesn't really apply to me because of XYZ, or I may be like, that lecturer has it out for me, why is he targetting me when there's so many other sinners, I'm going to have a word with him! etc.
Reading the site's description of the video, it's more like "how languages like Haskell and Elm are informing the design of Javascript libraries like Redux". So it's not so much Elm and Haskell TEACHING "mainstream" JS (whatever that is) but one library merely taking hints from other programming domains that are relevant to the particular use case it's trying to cover.
Both Thunderbird and XUL are slow, so good riddance. Hopefully, dropping these and 32bit support will allow Mozilla to concentrate on improving Firefox performance. And add Wayland support in Linux as well.
http://www.purescript.org/

Worth mentioning when talking about this topic. Purescript is a Haskell like language that was designed for the frontend. I'm surprised as it seems like the presenter doesn't even know about purescript.
While I tend to agree with you there are a bunch of things that are not being taught because students have said their feelings are important.

Suicide dropped from sociology lessons: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/15/suicide-dro...

(A-level students are 16 to 18 years old)

I agree that teaching suicide to children is going to be difficult, and that most of the reason is about actual harm, not feelings - the increased risk of death or harm to the students from the Wurther Effect or stigmatising views.

But all of that can be worked around. You provide a mix of comprehensive support of different types to students; you promote a culture of inclusion an sharing in that room.

Suicide is really important. It's the leading cause of death of men aged between 15 and 49 in the UK. Rates are increasing. NHS cuts mean it's harder to get good quality support. Appropriately talking about suicide probably doesn't raise risk, and may well lower risk.

So, it's a shame that this topic got cut from the syllabus.

There are other examples in this thread of law students not learning about rape law because it's too distressing to hear.

That shows a misunderstanding of what PTSD survivors want when they talk about trigger warnings. The point is not "I should be able to live my life and avoid every mention of this thing that causes me significant distress", but "I am currently vulnerable, but getting support, and I need a little bit of warning not so I can avoid the subject, but so that I can make sure I have the little bit of extra support I need to keep me safe".

However: the people on the other side are mostly fucking hateful cunts who scream "What about my freedom of speech?" while seeking to silence the people they're screaming at.
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Pi shield has ICs embedded on it. They regulate the logic voltage between sensors and gpio pins.
Can someone explain what they are trying to say with the whole, "room temperature" thing.

>The carbon is then hit with a single laser pulse lasting approximately 200 nanoseconds. During this pulse, the temperature of the carbon is raised to 4,000 Kelvin (or around 3,727 degrees Celsius)

Are they trying to say that they can make diamonds at STP as opposed to creating a controlled environment in a box?
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A product that can be cloned in three weeks is not a great product. I thought the samwer brothers just cloned successful companies that already proven in the market?
You have to build the entire pipeline again. I am not sure if Mozilla is even in the interest of keeping TB build infrastructure around.
It seems there isn't a twitter mob doxing you right now for having this view.
There's probably many reasons, but one is that native controls don't support everything in CSS.
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I prefer `pv` (pipe viewer) for watching dd's progress

http://linux.die.net/man/1/pv