skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've mistaken discussion in general—which encompasses a fairly broad range of exchanges—with a particularly narrow subset that is characterized by clearly defined and opposing positions, along with acceptance of adversarial engagement from "both sides" of the issue.

There's a time and a place for that, to be sure, but there are many more cases in which the forceful imposition of a binary outlook has effects that are socially inhibiting, making it a serious impediment to free discussion and open development of ideas.

If a person cannot (or will not) recognize when taking a narrow and combative approach just makes them an asshole, then the "logical" response is to keep them far enough away to prevent their noxious manner from derailing otherwise productive exchanges.
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I don't know if the govt. is massaging numbers, but the very first 'problem with GDP' in the list makes no sense. GDP is calculated on net exports (exports - imports). So to evaluate the increase or decrease in GDP you need to know what happened on the imports side. India is massive energy and commodity importer, and energy has more than halved in price over last year. Without knowing how much the imports have fallen how can you assert its impact on GDP. Given india imports commodities and exports finished products it would not be surprising if the actual GDP rose (net exports).
> a simple XSLT transformation.

You don't see those words together too often.
We disagree, for whatever it's worth. To me, his mistake was in attempting to provide government-proof email without taking the time to build the expertise required to do so.

The Internet is littered with broken attempts at providing government-resistant messaging systems. They're a plague. There experts trying to deliver the same systems, but securely; they get drowned out because their UX isn't as smooth as that of Lavabit's --- which took full advantage of the UX benefits of total insecurity to get more users.
> Separately, please note that "freedom of speech" is a term which refers specifically to the government using force to prevent or compel speech from private citizens.

There's a whole world outside US: http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
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Thanks for highlighting the repo!

I too had heard development had stopped and misconstrued that to mean all development.

Now I'm wondering if there are any issues I might be able to help fix. I still use Thunderbird so if I can help keep it alive, I'd like to.

As parent pointed out, most of the alternatives are worse.
Could someone with the time and resource at hand independently decompile and verify the veracity of the code?

It looks a bit fishy as it reads like an actual code as opposed to one outputted from a decompiler.
The difference is that Google and Facebook have always been commercial entities with a profit motive, they are not public utilities. Exactly because Mozilla is (supposed to be) something else, it's held to a higher standard by its users and donors.

> We could talk about [...] how Apple and Microsoft are blocking alternative browser engines

But we do. In a way, Mozilla is what it is because a lot of people were pissed off at MS.
This is really it. It's so painful to use. Slow, buggy, and unreliable.
A curious omission in this is Robert Moses [0], who is almost single-handedly responsible for the creation of the South Bronx with his Cross Bronx Expressway [1]. Although waning in power by the mid-1960s, Moses began (and ensured the completion) of a number of public construction projects with disproportionate impacts on poor (and usually non-white) communities.

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro is one of the best political histories of New York, which I recommend if you're interested in exactly why the city's infrastructure (and lack thereof) is the way it is.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Bronx_Expressway
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Kontena 0.10 released: improved scheduler, daemon strategy
Are you Indian? The new government has started imposing new levies and commodities are at an all time high. The CoL is getting ridiculously expensive and one could live comfortably in a few western countries at this rate.

Greed and corruption are pulling India further down than portrayed. Farmer suicides are alarmingly high. IT companies are losing lucrative overseas projects as well.

The need of the hour is to be economically mindful and invest in holistic education and hope not to fall into a corrupt/beauracatic trap.
There are multiple postings for `Cloudera`, could you consolidate?
"Consider: open tooling drives user device adoption"

Citation needed. Given that most of the device adoption that's already taken place was with seriously-expensive closed-source tools that aren't exactly paragons of UX quality, I think this is assuming a LOT.

My guess is that the quality of the tools (and I'm handwaving "open" into "higher quality" which is not guaranteed) is a distant concern compared to lots of things: device capabilities, power envelope, $/10k, IP library, and many more take precedence.
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It's worth pointing out that for a couple of years Mozilla has been building a replacement for their rendering engine (Servo), so I imagine that to some extent deprecating XUL now is preparation for not having to re-implement it for Servo. Just speculation.
I've found Go programs to be pretty concise, in the general case. Low on boilerplate code and high in readability (in the sense that you can see what something does relatively quickly because there is very little standard boilerplate around the functionally relevant code).

It is clumsy at some stuff, and doesn't do some kinds of abstraction, so you might have to repeat yourself some, but comparing it to Java? That's not something I've seen anyone who's worked in both do, I don't think.
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You are being hyperbolic to a silly degree. The story in the article appears to be about a private conversation between two individuals. Nobody is pulling any fire alarms, metaphorically or otherwise.
I'm surprised that you've been downvoted for this. You're absolutely correct - without a proper and internally logical definition (beyond the literal dictionary meaning of the words themselves), a term like "safe space" is useless for discussion.

newspace = makeSafe(space);

Is it wrong to ask what the value of newspace is?

How would we test that this function is performing correctly?
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For this I'd like citations.

I'd point out, though, that even if a handful of people have been using the idea of "safe spaces" wrongly, that doesn't delegitimize the concept itself. If a few students are doing wrong in the name of "safe spaces," the answer is to argue against those particular students, not against other, unrelated safe spaces.
We believe that certain symmetries apply to the laws of physics. For example, we believe that the laws of physics are independent of the observer's position. I mean, look (visualize me stepping sideways here). So we can demonstrate that one pretty easily. And they're independent of rotation. Again, look (visualize me turning 90 degrees here). And exchanging left and right. I mean, look... (visualize me pausing with a confused look on my face as I try to figure out how to exchange left and right).

I can't actually do that experiment. And it turns out, when we got deep enough, we found out that things actually behaved differently (parity non-conservation).

When it comes to time reversal, we can't actually do the experiment, either, so we don't really know whether physics behaves the same when time is reversed. We expect, philosophically, that it will, but we don't know. But it seems to me, given how relativity mixes time and space, if physics is not the same with left and right reversed, then it can't be the same with time reversed either.
How is terra's performance? You sort of compared it to C++, can it actually be compared with C++ in terms of latency performance?
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Even when India achieves a level of development comparable to the US, Europe, and increasingly China, it will likely still have a lower household CO2 footprint, just because it is a much warmer place, with higher population density.

The farther north you are and as long as the primary fuel is carbon-based (NG, Electricity from NG or Coal), you'll need more of it to survive.

Transportation CO2 in India will likely grow, as it is a function of travel frequency and distances for people/goods, and it takes basically the same amount of energy per mile everywhere.

What's really striking to me is that the US per capita CO2 emission probably isn't twice as high as China because of our high industrial output, but rather because of our widespread use of carbon-intensive heating and propulsion tech coupled with huge houses and vehicles, and low density cities.

All of these CO2 emissions can be turned around by really disruptive low/zero CO2 energy generation, both variable renewables and stable baseline to replace coal. For that we either need mass cheap energy storage, or invest seriously in safe (non-fissile?) nuclear energy, preferably both.
A "safe space" is a place where you know you aren't going to be singled out and harmed (verbally or physically) by someone telling you that you're a queer faggot and deserve to die.

FWIW, this concept of safe space isn't quite what I had in mind. I think, perhaps, what I failed to articulate is that the safe space concept that grinds my gears is the kind that is an expectation carried around by people who really do just want to shut other up. Professor said something they didn't like? "Waaah...this classroom isn't a safe space". Group-I'm-not-a-part-of says something they don't like? "Waaah...they're making my school a not-safe place".

I have no problem with the idea of a physically-located place with heightened expectations of civility.
TL;DR: If a student can't be openly and actively gay at your university, then you're running an indoctrination camp, not a "place to learn".

> There's a stark difference between a free and voluntary association of like-minded people and a so-called "safe space"

No, there defintionally is not... perhaps there seems to be a confusion over definitions.

The fact that people want to expand the rules governing a particular safe space into a large sphere doesn't change the definition of a safe space.

You can take offense with someone wanting to make a classroom into a safe space, but I really don't get why any non-authoritarian person would insist on not allowing safe spaces at all.

Also, I'd be surprised if OKWU faculty/students/alumni don't try doing the exact same thing (expanding the boundaries of their safe space) by voting for fundamentalist christian politicians who enforce christian morality on women who use birth control, homosexuals, people who consume alcohol, etc.

> ...which uses a pretext of "victimization" to capriciously thought control others who simply committed the offense of disagreeing or criticizing.

What, like kicking someone out of a university when they realize half way through a difficult-to-transfer course of study that they're gay? Or that they enjoy square dancing?

The harm that fundie universities like OKWU have done to students who disagree ever so slightly with their idiotic version of religion is demonstrable and significant. Your argument that students somehow "should have known better" is, IMO, fundamentally misinformed.

> And this is evidence of what, exactly?

That OKWU is a safe space and that safe spaces have always existed, but they usually function to shelter people who are aligned with popular opinion / cultural norms. You know, like social norms (e.g., not employing publicly out gay people, looking the other way when transvestites are assaulted, etc.) protecting homophobes from having to knowingly interact with the icky gay people.

OKWU is a safe space for people who don't want to have to interact with anyone who does not subscribe to their particular brand of nutty American puritan christianity. It's a place where people can be openly homophobic and openly judge other people's sexual morality without being socially ostracized like they would be in the real world.

Just in case my opinion isn't clear by now: Everett Piper is a massive hypocrite who runs a religious commune with strict codes of conduct while also appealing to liberal values. He doesn't actually give a shit about free speech or dissenting opinions. It's impossible to take someone seriously when they claim universities aren't safe spaces while also expelling people for disagreeing with a very particular and very whacky form of christianity.
Loving it.
I always appreciate warnings that let me be ready to read or hear about the few things that still bug me (nothing as rough as your b). Way more effective than the "tough love" so many advocate.
> The new data set released on Tuesday, which is made available only by making an appointment to visit Airbnb’s New York City office.

Grr. Not what I expected when I read the headline.

I wanted to make pretty charts. :(
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No. This is inside the handleIntent() method which is like a main entry-point inside that Activity. And the intent being handled here is the ACTION_SEND. In simple words, when a message is being sent:

Intent.ACTION_SEND.equals(intent.getAction()))

And no, it isn't just removing "Sent from Whatsapp", it is setting the sendingText variable to null, which will result in:

1. The message not being delivered.

2. The exception block being fired where this toast message will be displayed to the user: "Unsupported content"
The OPAL standard has that cryptographic erase function. I've used it before, but did not deeply verify if any data was recoverable. At least the partition table was gone. In theory, the command destroys the old key and creates a new one that the drive uses to read and write data. A different key means everything is noise. You do need access to the printed label on the drive itself to do it (for the PSID).

https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/blob/master/...
Doesn't that redundancy kinda suggest that there are two orthogonal things going on here?

ie,

block | inline
---------
flex | inline-flex

What could you label the axes here? Or is this not a valid way to frame the relationship between these things?
Sure - and al'qaeda "central" kicked them out because they believed ISIS was too extreme and violent. Since then they have worked with groups as diverse as the FBI[0] to oppose the goals of ISIS. The whole interaction makes believe all the more that 'Islamic Extremism' is far too general a term. When dealing with groups that self-identify as islamic extremists, it's vital to understand what they mean by that, but it's insufficient to understand the entire picture.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/dec/18/-sp-the-race-to-...
Postbox is pretty good, and would have been the solution to my mail client woes, except that:

* even after you've paid for the product, the only way to get support is to pay $10 for every question you want to ask, however basic or advanced it is - and you'll need support, because...

* there's erratic unpredictable behaviour at many places; is it some subtle bug in the software? or is it some weird about:config option that you have to set to get things working as expected? Who knows! If you're lucky, you'll find a solution in the Thunderbird forums that works. Often though, that dialog option has been removed from Postbox or that about:config option no longer does anything, and...

* the documentation is no help. It's no worse than the average startup's help pages, except in this case, as mentioned above, there's no support - so you'd expect that to be compensated with exhaustive documentation, but no such luck. The docs cover just the most basic cases and leave all the complex interactions of emailing to your own guesswork. Also...

* the devs avoid users like the plague. The only-paid-support thing is (explicitly stated as) a consequence of this, but this even extends to bug reports and feature requests - which are free of cost to submit, but the two bug reports (and one or two feature reqs) I submitted were met with only gaping silence. The interaction on Facebook and Twitter too seems limited to version announcements and rare one sentence replies.

I really wanted to like Postbox, for it to be the solution, because it was quite a good product with advanced capabilities and a quite reasonable cost. But it didn't seem like a reliable option for the long run given these limitations.
A heads up, the source code analysis link is broken.
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I'm 50 and have no close friends. I haven't for at least a decade. I am married so I'm not a recluse but I don't have a buddy.
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Wasn't this possible in every release since Vista?
Fed ends 'too big to fail' lending to collapsing banks
Fascinating. I wonder if their meditation practice enabled them to live on such a restricted diet. Surviving a year eating only bark and pine needles does not seem possible...
Although I am happy that apps are moving out of the MAS (it is slow, updates are slow, no possibility to offer upgrade licenses), as a user, Sandboxing is something that I want for every possible application. The model where an app can e.g. touch your whole home directory should go.
You can actually load whatever you want into a UIWebView. You could do the request, manipulate the response and display your modified HTML.

Adblocking is of course now integrated into the OS.
For anyone here who doesn't know who the author is, Phil Rogaway is one of the most important academic cryptographers; he's responsible for OAEP, PSS, OCB, UMAC, FPE, and the constructions behind XTS, the universal standard for disk encryption.

The meat of the paper is in Sections 2 (where the unintended power dynamics of some modern academic crypto research projects is discussed) and 4 (where he provides suggestions for important practical projects academic cryptographers should tackle). Sections 1 and 3 are written for an audience of academics who might be less familiar with the political implications of crypto than the typical HN reader.

Essentially, Rogaway is trying to convince mathematicians to embrace the practical and political impact of their work.

Colin Percival gets a nice mention towards the end of the paper. I'd be over the moon if I were him. Congrats, Colin!
Missing Spotify is killer for me, it's actually tempting me to try Apple Music since I anticipate having an Apple TV connected to my other TVs in the house sooner or later. It doesn't even seem to be an issue of Apple blocking Spotify to try and steer users to AM, Spotify just hasn't created an app yet (no idea if it would get approved though). Seems like a strategic mistake on Spotify's part.
I should point out that I recently read that the newest version of mysql is getting json support.
Some people, when they have a problem finding good games, think "I know, I'll find a curator." Now they have two problems.
Main Android app is built by iOS developer. It is have very low quality.
Yes, even if you send a high quality PNG image to facebook, they will convert it to a low quality JPG. This is especially bad for things with text. See: http://lbrandy.com/blog/2008/10/my-first-and-last-webcomic/
When busyness is our key social currency, our lives become poorer
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The suits have been trying to ditch the email client since I worked at Netscape (nearly 20 years). I remember sitting in a meeting with someone asking "What's the email client for our mail server supposed to be -- Outlook??". My hunch is the same thing will happen this time -- it will endure. Perhaps this is a play to get some of the big businesses that depend on having a viable non-Microsoft/works-on-Linux email client to pony up some cash?
On the front page? Thanks, just fixed that. It was working in the navigation bar, just didn't have the most recent link in that section. I appreciate the heads up :)
Yes. This is spam.
Well that was kind of horrifying.
Why wouldn't I want to hear that?
> What happened to just treating others as you wish to be treated in return?

Ironically (in the context of the paragraph preceding that quote), that is a characteristically Christian notion.
One neighboring family (with whom you've had conflicts serious enough to require LEO intervention) is standing in for Christians you've never met on the other side of the world? How is that not prejudice?
I'm stunned he got any purchases at all. Who would pay for an app to roll dice on your TV set? The purchases were probably accidental.

Aside: I always get a kick out of how these posts have to mention the very small number of hours that were spent making the simple app. I bet it was actually more.