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On this issue he is. People outside of TV pundits usually aren't just one place on the spectrum on all issues. On some issues someone might be progressive while being totally regressive on another.
It gets even more complicated, because of clouds..
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Urban Myths about SQL (2015)
Coeffects: Theory of context aware programming languages as an interactive essay
He's condescending and dismissive of the entire concept because actual PTSD triggers are not the point of trigger warnings. They're barely even marginal examples of trigger warnings. Trigger warnings are about suppression of speech.

Religious students don't get trigger warnings for courses that treat their views as anywhere between foolish and evil. Classical liberals don't get trigger warnings for their sociology, cultural anthropology or social psychology courses, despite the fact that all those disciplines have faculty that are overwhelmingly leftist. There's a great deal of diversity of opinion in those departments but it's diversity of leftist opinion.

People aren't stupid. Trigger warnings aren't used in a way that has any correspondence to PTSD triggers. They're used as a stick to beat political opinions of the losing faction with, currently the right.
> I don't want to appeal to gender stereotypes

That's what you seem to be doing, though.

By that logic, if we had increased the number of male teachers people would be breaking out in violent fights instead?
This article is by a couple authoritarians extolling the virtues of cowed compliance, if terrorism, based on the argument that Apple's opposition to the order delays fixing the vulnerability. There is no basis for that argument. There is no reason to think the vendor that sold this vuln would have acted responsibly. Rather, it just exposes how ugly and dangerous is the business of stockpiling and selling zero-days. It is like stockpiling infectious disease microbes and auctioning them off. Everyone would agree that a business that enables bidding for bioterrorism materials should get droned off the face of the planet. The same should go for data security.
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Exactly. When array is passed into function, you lose length information and array construct is reduced to pointer. Array syntax is just synthetic sugar for dereferencing pointer with offset.
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I don't believe you adressed my point within the context of my point in response to a facetious caricature of trigger warning as an extreme response to the concept of having trigger warnings.
The buffalos themselves might have kept the trees at bay by eating young shoots. (Grass is one of the most hardy things to survive grazing. Most other plant species can't stand it in the long run.)
A lot of the buyers believe Warren will keep doing well. Holder since '96. Though you can buy to flip if you want.
1. You should probably know what the job is.

2. Is the job legal?

In all seriousness, your question is too broad. It would be better to state what you know about a particular aspect of the job, and then ask what you might be missing. But to simply make a vague question does not allow anyone to give you a good answer.
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The only movement that got me hung up was taking the very top standalone tab (Fnts 100), going to move it, and then trying to return it to the top as a standalone tab. The way I discovered to do it was a series of additional moves.

Obviously this is very slick and looks great, though.
It looks like your original post doesn't actually say any of those things. There's a line between subtle and uncommunicative.
Try https://github.com/Keno/Cxx.jl (or Cling, as someone else mentioned).
A lot of instances of "no platforming" is just someone refusing to participate in an event if someone else is present

This implies that some other instances are not, but then you dismiss them all as if they all were just refusals, which makes your post seem self-contradictory.
Brady violations are taken very seriously:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/opinion/sunday/rampant-pro...

http://www.prosecutorintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/Epidem...
> But they're not triggers because you're not actually triggered by them, as opposed to a person who was raped not appreciating rape jokes because it makes their PTSD real bad.

But this is the point -- how prevalent are actual psychological triggers and PTSD, compared to the price of "safe spaces" etc? The examples given are not all that contrived compared to the ones people successfully use to silence each other, regardless of how scientifically accurate they may not be. Do we rely on mental health professionals to give certificates of trigger, or do we err on the side of bowing to every claim of offense and trauma? The GP demonstrated the absurdity of the latter, and I think the former is untenable too. The middle ground is "Try to be nice and have a thick skin", I guess.
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- https://www.thefire.org/laura-kipniss-title-ix-inquisition-r...

- http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trouble-teaching-rap...

- http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid

- http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-codd...
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Varcrypt is under development. Interested to know about new VR gadgets,

When will it be available?
You said "But I would mind having to pre-emptively self-censor because someone might take offence at something that is not intended to offend." which I took to mean that you weren't wilfully intending to offend. Did I read that wrong?

> and were to feel forced to not express my opinion because someone might take offence, I would be largely unable to express my political views, for example.

That would be problematic for you (and I fully agree that it can be effectively used to silence political dissent) but you don't have an automatic right to express those views wherever, whenever, and to whomever you wish anyway.
That's because in other places that's not even a thing. Nothing to complain about. Therefore it is an US thing (and less so UK).
People aren't belittling students for being offended, they are belittling them for feeling so entitled that they would suggest to "take it down" as a response. It's incredibly selfish to feel that anything that hurts your feelings should be censored out of your environment.

The equivalent would be if we all just flagged every post we disagreed with and it was removed by mods as long as you we include text saying that it triggered us.
Yes - the smallest change to C that I'd make is to make it strongly typed. The implicit coercions seem so at odds with the rest of the design of C (where everything is explicit).
I wonder whether they accounted for suicide. I'd expect the rates to be higher in the rust belt.
> even though manufacturers lie and put standards compliance numbers on them

The CE marking in Europe is the same (in most cases). It just means that the manufacturer declares it is compliant, not that it has been approved and tested by anyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking
Or, perhaps, people who have health issues make less money?

Correlation is not causation.
Are they going to pay you in money = cash = real dollars, or only in equity?

(Assume that that the equity value is $0, but grab a little just in case it's really the new Google.)
Cool! Is the code available anywhere? There's a couple of projects doing this and it would be good to share code. I assume this is using Clang? Do you have a list of things you'd like to see in upstream Clang? I'd imagine such a list of things would overlap quite a bit with what I or the cling folks need. If there's enough of a support base we might just be able to have upstream implement it.
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> const != immutable so 'const' is relegated to being a keyword for generating compiler warning

I'm not sure what you mean here. On embedded targets, static data declared 'const' will be put in with the program memory, and so will be definitely read-only. Casting the pointer and writing to it will cause a hard fault (or segfault, or whatever the equivalent is on your platform).
it's already happening in some form already in the memenet: https://i.imgur.com/Lo40E5D.png

the problem is mixed in there there are reactionaries which took the opposite extreme stance and are poisoning the ground for constructive criticism
So the article says that there are currently about 3 trillion trees, down from about 6 trillion when humans started with agriculture, and then cites an ecologist about how insane this is. But, if you go back even further, wouldn't there be less trees again? I watched the documentary "The Green Planet" a while ago. If I remember correctly, it said that before humans greatly reduced the number of grazing animals in Europe by hunting, the forests in Europe were not dense like today. They were more like parks, with many grassy fields, since obviously many trees did not get the chance to grow tall before being eaten by those grazing animals.
You're right, I should modify my statement: there are free/cheap conferences that are organised by some for-profit organisations - and they're mostly pitches.
On the other hand, there are lots of meetups, confs, tech talks organised by non-profits, student groups, enthusiast, etc. which are really worth attending.
SEC filing in re: Texas AG defrauding investors as part of a new venture [pdf]
If that was all there was to the discussion, it wouldn't be so explosive in places like HN. GP tries to phrase it as a "why now?" phenomenon, with a heavy dose of conservatism about the old days, when the idea of people feigning outrage for power has been going on forever (see: right-wing panics about race mixing, women voting, etc.).

I guess I'm in a relatively rare position around these parts of usually agreeing with the radical students' aims (demolishing certain kinds of speech, like "race realism" and "sex realism", taking down statues honoring unworthy figures from the past) and not their methods (legalizing em out of sight and squashing dissent vs taking them down via argument).

>>> I think that safe spaces / micro-aggressions may come from the perfect storm of a) a generation that was conceived after a period of widespread crime and social uncertainty, leading parents to coddle them and try to protect them from the world [see 'helicopter' parenting'], b) the self-esteem movement [everyone wins prize], and c) increasingly feminized primary and secondary education. The number of male teachers has dwindled rapidly over the decades.

> People aren't belittling students for being offended

As you can see, there is a strong identity component here.
Funny. Against any other demographic this would be seen as an ageist, racist, and sexist comment. Do you feel good about it?
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technically yes.. but it is not enforced
Correlation doesn't equal causation. I'd bet that an alcoholic millionaire would have a shorter life expectancy than a healthy street sweeper. It isn't money that matters, it's the cultural norms.
> Is it not confronting to refuse it in your presence because you find the behavior unacceptable? What would you prefer the confrontation to be like?

I would prefer it violent. I would prefer the illiberal left exposed as bullies than universities just caving. The more people see that they're currently the fiercest opponents of a free society the better. I would prefer universities not caving and the no platformers shouting people down, rioting and assaulting people.

> I don't agree with the extreme measures often taken by university kids but I also think criticism of it should be accurate to its state. That is, it is a form of confronting the idea of a social issue by creating a space where certain behaviors are unacceptable to facilitate more productive conversation without someone's ignorance shouting it down, taken too far with too many subjects because it's practiced mostly among young college kids who are really not experienced at all.

Fine. A university is not a safe space. The public square is not a safe space. Let them have their safe spaces where they organise them. Their own clubs and societies for example.
The Guardian wants to engage with readers, but how we do it needs to evolve
Show HN: Quotationr – A Chrome extension for quickly saving quotes and bookmarks
Modern Europeans share about 2% of their alleles with Neanderthals might be a more correct way to put it. But to understand that sentence, you have to understand what's an allele (and I'm not completely sure I'm using the term correctly).
Can Metascores Predict Box Office Performance?
I made edit and added first paragraph, just after this was submitted.

I believe my response covers it. It is very expensive or impossible to provide safe space for everyone in its current form.

And if we provide safe spaces, we should probably start at prisons, which have much harsher conditions than universities.
Even if Amazon.com uses AWS (the extent of which seems it may be a mixture of marketing hype and urban legend), there are many ways AWS could fail that affects customers but leaves Amazon.com unaffected.
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Hello, there is a link in the story to another story about an incident at a university where a complaint was made about a young woman raising her hand in a debate. She was subjected to a vote of exclusion as a result of the debate but the vote failed as the majority didn't agree with the complaint. Later in the same meeting she was subjected to a complaint that she had shaken her head during a discussion because she disagreed with a point someone had made.

Is this the incident that you are referring to? It didn't seem to feature old white men to me - but I may have misread it or misunderstood, could you help?
Indirect causation is still causation.

Two people have heart-attacks in middle age after eating cheeseburgers their whole lives. One of them doesn't have health-insurance, and dies, perhaps having never even received good health advice from a yearly check-up. The other is well-off, and so gets stabilized in the hospital and eventually provided with heart surgery (and a whole load of admonishments regarding lifestyle).
Call me a heretic, but a 10-15 years discrepancy at a baseline of 70+ years life expectancy does not sound that scary or problematic to me.
Maybe they are already looking for crewing up Ark Fleet Ship B. The rest of us will come along shortly...
It makes sense actually. The imaginary world in the matrix trilogy is inspired from the unix hacker folklore [1]. So if you're a hacker, it's not surprising that what's on your screen looks like what's on the screens in the Matrix.

[1] as shown here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PxTAn4g20U
yes but it's art. most people would use something that's technically better, but some would prefer to experiment and use older, more unique technology and tools. not saying it's better, but some do prefer polaroids and celluloid films over digital sensor. I for example still use 35mm films for my photos, and there is quite a large number of user and labs around the world to use them properly.
see http://bloomberg.github.io/bucklescript/#README#A-naive-benc...
I had to really search on Wikipedia to understand this.

In case anyone else was just as confused as I was, have a read of:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy_(biology)#Kingdoms_an...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_(biology)

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)

Humans are part of the Eukaryote domain [a], in the Animalia kingdom. [b]

In terms of taxonomy, we are Verterbrates [c] of the Synapsid clade (branch) [d] of Chordates. [e] Within this we are mammalian [f] haplorhini [g] primates [h]. Within the primate order we are of the homonid family [i] and are classified as the species homo sapiens. [j]

a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote

b. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal

c. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate

d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsid

e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate

f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal

g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplorhini

h. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate

i. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae

j https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens
The issue here - as whinging butthurt far-left-winger - is that these people also want to monopolize control of a space that hosts diverse populations including a lot of people not sharing their views, and where these strategies are also frequently used to shut up debate over what views are acceptable to express.

Their views are deeply offensive to me, and would have been back when I was a student too. I get sick to my stomach at the kind of attitude it demonstrates.

If they genuinely want to provide a "safe space" then they need to shut the hell up about these policies too, as they too are likely to cause offence. Otherwise it is simply hypocritical attempts to stifle the speech of just the people they disagree with.
Not a 'Show HN' but an (important) news item, should be re-titled
CPUs have been stagnant for a while

Performance pr. core has been pretty stagnant, but performance pr watt has been improving. With the current consumer focus being so heavily on various battery powered 'computers', this seems like a reasonable trade off.
As an expert, how do you view FPGA vs GPU acceleration for databases ?
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hmm... hail you mighty big creators of the simulation I live in - please provide me with some cheat codes so i can get some more money, women and toys - also to unleash the wrath of gozilla on a random city of sim earth :D Sounds like a fine religion to me :)
> My vote is to get rid of the curly braces. All of us have suffered from bugs and compiler complaints from deeply-nested blocks of code where we get mixed up about how many closing braces are needed, and where they should be placed.

I cannot remember the last time this happened to me.

> I’d prefer requiring matching begin and end blocks, with the end statement indicating which block is being closed.

So you can close an outer block before closing inner blocks? Or you can omit closing of a block altogether? Why - doesn't this create loads of nasty ambiguity?

> Sure, careful indentation tells us the same thing, but so much code today has been modified by so many people that the original engineer’s careful indenting often becomes hopelessly mangled.

"Often"? Just fix that problem if, indeed, it IS a problem.

> I often put an indication of which brace is closing which block in the comments.

As others have pointed out, if you need to do this, you have bigger problems.

I do actually like Python's approach, although I don't have enough experience with it to judge if it's a big improvement.
> The point is that you can't make changes to the free software and then take away your users freedom.

Still, you cannot exactly explain what the freedom is. Proprietary softwares can copy the ideas without contributing back. I know manpower is important, so another great softwares similar to FFmpeg/VLC/Linux with MIT/BSD/... licenses won't appear very soon.

If your freedom just means

1. Hey, just look at our GPL-licensed softwares, you propietary softwares can't use our code directly without any contribution.

2. Everyone should sell services, not code, for a more open world.

then I've already understood. And I don't believe GPL can do much better than MIT/...
Ugh, give it up already. If you're a white male like me you've almost certainly never been victimized for your gender or skin color.

I face only positive employer, police, etc. biases. Being a minority is actually hard in this country. I have no patience for playing the victim card when you were born on third base.
I wouldn't care about the mainstream's willingness to self-censor if it hadn't spilled over to the academia. There is now a range of studies that are verbotten. Also seems to be an american issue. Please don't export that one :)
I'm an old white man.. and it's punching up, not punching down.
I wasn't suggesting otherwise. I'm simply saying that, if nobody did any work with any 'organisation' that has blown people up, a lot fewer people would be in work right now.
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This is exciting. I'm excited to see keno here too. He has been really helpful in helping get Cxx.jl working. It's awesome. Being able to interactively work on c++ and to load external dynamic libraries is really useful. Thanks for working on this I can't wait to see where this goes.
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Good point, I'll update the description - I really want to know what questions I should be asking with regards to my options in order to assess their value.
Ask HN: How do you 'keep in touch' with new contacts you make?
I meet a lot of people professionally. Interesting people. People can be useful, not immediately, but at some point in future. Some are just good people to have in my network. However, I don't want to contact them only when I need them. You know, sending an email 6 months later to get an introduction to someone. I want to keep in touch, but not to pester. Some are not my age, so we can't necessarily hang out. How do you guys keep in touch?
Curious if how abussive commenters would respond if they weren't blocked, but comments were hidden so only mods & them can see them. Basically, auto-consume as much of the abussive commenter's time as possible; have there pages load slowly, have comments be buggy, give them CAPTCHAs, have auto response comments viewable to only them requesting they be civil/nice, etc.
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In the day-to-day life you experience a boundary between that which we consider 'self' and that which we consider 'other'. That boundary gives the environment shape, defined by what you know to be you.

To say the same thing another way, the boundary is the difference between seeing the color blue, and describing it.

I think I understand (to some degree) what you mean by each of these statements. The first seems to relate to the Buddhist concept of non-self (at least to the degree that you perceive the boundary of self to be relative rather than a well-defined absolute) while the second I think relates to the nama-rupa distinction or in other systems to the notion of qualia as opposed to abstract descriptive knowledge.

However it isn't clear to me that these are the same thing. Could you clarify how you understand the relation between these two notions ?
> "a lot more mature than Funscript (whose repo doesn't seem to suffer from an excess of activity)."

That's because development work has moved to Fable:

https://github.com/fsprojects/Fable
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"Despite what the article says, the UK does NOT have 'free speech' (see 'hate speech' laws). In fact, the only place it does exist is the US"

You mean like how the FCC bans some words on Telly?
Yes that's the incident I was referring to when I said that "people will find a balance eventually", because indeed, it seems to be used in some circumstances to silence people (well, most rules are, but it's particularly ironic in this circumstance).
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