skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To characterize this as "the regressive left" is really dead-on. My view is that this is inevitable in a culture where no real progress is made on big problems—attention naturally turns to ever-smaller slights, and those begin to carry the weight of the big, unsolved problems. The next step is nihilism and reactionary tendencies. I wouldn't be surprised if the counterparts of today's "regressive left" in 20 years are brown-shirt fascists.

As Eric Hoffer has said, these kind of people don't hold real convictions beyond an unquenchable lust for redemption for what they perceive as the injustice of the empty, ruined landscape of themselves.
Interesting. Good info, thanks.
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Ask HN: What must I know about options before accepting a startup offer?
Some quick info:

The company is in the "late stages" of a startup - they've raised a sizable series D. I'm not too concerned about their staying power and I believe in the product. What I want to know:

1. How do I value my options? I have a sliding scale of more money-less options. What questions should I ask to get a better understanding of this value? All they've told me is I'd get N options.

2. A more broad question, but what's it like working at a later stage startup?
If it depends on context then perhaps it shouldn't be so widely stated. My university when I was in school had pro life people invited who put huge pictures of gore up on the student union so that no one could get food on campus without seeing the images. They also brought a truck with more gore pictures that drove around campus. Is it censorship when a huge portion of the student body made it very clear that wasn't welcome via counter protests and the creation of a tunneled off space where people could enter the student union without seeing anything?

I agree that shutting out certain polticial views is bad, but I also don't feel anyone should be forced to platform or shoved into politics when they really don't want to deal with that. I mean, then it just becomes a case of forcing people to listen to you and that's not free speech at all.
I get that, but the personal attack is still there. The comment just also says that we shouldn't let personal character affect the argument, which I agree with. I just found the structure of the argument where the commenter basically ends by arguing that they themselves have engaged in "an act of dissociation or insansity" quite amusing.
> I fail to see how letting Bindel spin ... would do anything to stop this

But that's the thing though. By not letting her speak this turned from an issue on trans-gender rights, for which Bindel is extreme in a way that doesn't endear her to anyone much, to an issue of freedom of expression.

Now, not coincidentally, freedom of expression is a subject that an awful lot of media editors are going to give an awful lot of air time to. And they're all going to be on her side. And they're all going to avoid going into detail on what she was banned for because it detracts from their argument.

Saying that they explained their reasoning is a bit like yelling over your shoulder why the goal should have been disallowed as you take your ball home. It might make you feel more justified but it'll hardly improve the perception of maturity.
What I would find more useful is a way to do something like:

$ apt-get upgrade --security-only

on a normal ubuntu distribution. The key thing for me is to have as little change as possible from the time the machine is initially provisioned.
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> The number of male teachers has dwindled rapidly over the decades.

Citation? World Bank disagrees with you but has only data going back to 1996 (then: 86% female, now: 87% female).

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.TCHR.FE.ZS/countr...

You know who has the highest percentages of teachers being female? Eastern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and that region. Just for a point of comparison.
As you implied, we're gonna see a bunch of scammer...
I hope that they will not deteriorate the VR / AR image
I know you are trolling. But to still give an honest reply: think more along the lines of the outrage about lambdaconf and Mencius Moldbug's alter ego speaking there.
So "light field" here is a marketing term, right? From the physics and computing side, does anyone know what they are really doing to measure depth fields?
Why would I use this over Cling?
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Fry won't be hosting QI anymore, he's passed that torch on.
It's also interesting because some neuroscientists believe that we literally do live in our own simulations of reality. This is because our consciousness has a time lag which our mental simulations trick us into believing aren't there.

The most obvious way of verifying how we create our own simulations mentally is by thinking about the blind spot in our eyes. If you hold your thumbs up at arms length in front of you and gradually move them apart, your thumbs disappear from view at some point. They are in your blind spot. However, you don't have large black holes in your field of vision, so your mind interpolates the data that it expects should be there.
> Why would I want to use it over Gnome 2.x?

GTK+ 3.0 with all the things it brings with it nowadays, eg. wayland support, opengl rendering, css-based themes...
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Maybe as a percentage of total population it would be true?
Agreed... I'm surprised that nobody linked http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html yet.
The weight of history..
Censorship. I don't want any ISP to filter my files because "they are harmfull". Or someone can think that a good Coke is bad for your health, and filter their ads? Or that masturbation is bad, and filter all XXX images?
These examples highlight the importance of tact. Communities are well within their rights to set proceedures for addressing sensitive issues, eg the spoiler alert. Problems arise when these efforts stop being precise tools to facilitate discussion and become broad tools for suppression.
The backlash will likely take this form. Then there will be two polar ends of the spectrum and it will turn into another "A vs B" with both ideologies slowly pushing to the extremes. Meanwhile the majority of us will be somewhere in the middle begging for nuance in the discussions and some level of compromise as the loudest voices dominate the conversation.
Absolutely awesome! Add tab completion and maybe syntax highlighting and it sounds pretty powerful...

One thing I'm missing in interactive interpreters is a way to save code to a file on the fly - testing things and preparing the output file in one go. Does anybody know a solution to this for, say, Python?
I have also experiments about Bloom Filter in python https://github.com/erenyagdiran/BloomFilter
it felt similar to those computer vision machine learning videos from google

Very, very interesting observation.
Mind the "instead" carefully positioned in that phrase.
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> Shrug At some point how do you know you aren't sensitive enough?

When one bans raising a hand or shaking a head at a discussion.

It's not such a hard question.
It's almost ironic to spin a quote in such a way to attract clicks on an article about how the media put junk in front of their consumers.
Wonderful implementation. Especially impressive is the popoout windows, and the implementation of the cross-window communication hub. Kudos!
It's Sam here...there are 2 main types of wtb post:

1. Items you cant find anywhere - they may be rare or in limited quantities such as a pair of Nike Air Mag sneakers. In this case you'll be better placed to find your ideal product.

2. When you don't know exactly what product you want - people create 'want to buys' for generic items e.g. 'a black trucker hat'. This way, wtb posts can actually aid product discovery and make the whole shopping experience easier and less effort since sellers are coming to you and not the other way round!

Thanks!
You should give these headsets a shot and try them out. Also I'm not sure you know how the real world works... Gamers alone will wear these headsets for extended periods of time.
CE as in "China Export"? http://siloscordoba.com/2013/07/09/china-export-is-not-ce-a-...
That was expected, right? These social sites have at most a decade or so in them, then they become stale and people leave for a new shiny thing. It happened to so many others, it will happen to Facebook.
Never heard of this before.

It sounds somewhat like what many people report having experienced during their trip proper. But extended well beyond that time.

I wonder whether people with DePersonalisation Disorder had somehow held on at a time when most would have just let go.

Disorder is another word for chaos, which has, of necessity, been embraced by many.
Interesting! Is there a brain region related to telling apart results of imagination and our actual perception that would work as a fail-safe mechanism?
This is exactly the problem with free speech restrictions. They inevitably are used by the powerful against the less powerful. Why many minority (power) groups can claim they are oppressed by those in power, yet push to give those same people more power over them always baffles me.
You have to go back further: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/sunday-review/why-dont-mor...
There was even a worse one in this very century: Second Congo War (1998-2003). Estimated 5.4 million deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War
If there are words that "trigger" someone, it's a clear indication that inner work must be done (i.e. meditation, therapy). Unfortunately, it seems many people are unwilling to do that. Instead, they want the world to accommodate their pain, which only makes it worse.

That said, I believe trigger warnings are essential because even when the inner work is being done, healing takes time. Even a lifetime. We need to be cognizant and empathetic of this.
I'm not sure how legal it is to set up a service in the UK that only serves trans people - the legal exemption in question is at least partly one-way. It's definitely not legal to prefer to hire trans women on the basis that other trans women are more likely to be comfortable speaking to them, because the exemption allowing rape counseling services to only hire cis women for the same reason very definitely and specifically does not apply in the other direction. (Requiring that they at least think of trans women as women is probably legal and hopefully wouldn't fall foul of the indirect discrimination provision, maybe.)

Also, that Code of Practice is the result of a change of government and a fairly intensive lobbying campaign by trans activists to reduce the damage done by the exemption. It was originally intended to be much broader in application. From the original explanatory notes:

"A group counselling session is provided for female victims of sexual assault. The organisers do not allow transsexual people to attend as they judge that the clients who attend the group session are unlikely to do so if a male-to-female transsexual person was also there. This would be lawful."

That is, originally it was intended to allow rape and domestic violence services to exclude all trans women as a class because they believe that some cis women wouldn't want to attend if they were there. This is a common belief amongst a certain group of vocal feminist activists who think trans women are men and run government-funded services. Note that there's no requirement that clients are actually unwilling to attend, just that the organizers think they would be. I think they also intended this to apply this to one-on-one counseling on the basis that women would have to share a waiting room. This was also a rollback in protection for some trans women, because the law on Gender Recognition Certificates didn't permit this. Any future Governemnt can trivially change the Code of Practice back too; don't think it'd even require a vote in Parliament.

(The reason trans people got added to anti-discrimination law at all is because the European Court of Human Rights ruled they had to be. There was some pretty impressive foot-dragging on implementing that too.)
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I think safe spaces are good. They keep people in their cages.
I think that was a pun
Does it work with disassembly-flavor att ?
To me, its all about 'control'. 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 - aside from the 'yelling fire' example.

So in the US, I am free to call anyone any name I so choose. the control aspect comes where a group of people are looking to be offended, if not by language, then by something else more innocuous (i.e. dreadlocks, etc...). It is a butt-hurt-culture that feeds on itself. If one of their own says something not in-line with the party, they turn on that person - and this in turn keeps people in line. the EXACT opposite of liberty.

The ONE group where its okay to willfully attack is the "straight, white male". (lets see how that statement is received). People don't want equality, they want to feel like a special snowflake who is above everyone else. Just don't dare to say or think anything that's outside the 'party line'.

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it..." ~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall

"... unless you say something i don't agree with, then you're a racist, bigoted monster and must be destroyed." ~ every SJW ever.
I know you're being sarcastic, but I DID mean to include those.

The right is just as guilty of this outrage game as the left; in some areas the coalitions are such that they gain power from it. In more left-leaning situations, the outrage power swings left.

I detest both. I want people to be able to say things without constantly being threatened with firings, no-platformings, and blacklists.
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Stephen Fry is right wing now? Things sure have changed.
Do you mean like Jupyter notebooks?

http://jupyter.org/
my brother works for a startup that was acquired by Ford, for what it's worth, Ford is letting them work as they were with little intervention
Although counterfeiters aren't above putting it on unsafe products - e.g. http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-te...

"The photo below shows the safety certifications that the charger claims to have. Again, it looks genuine, with no typos or ugly fonts."

Or http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pr...

"The counterfeit charger displays a bunch of certifications (such as UL) that it doesn't actually have. As you will see below, there is no way it could pass safety testing."
Awesome, too bad that it's still in beta. I saw the screen cap and was instantly looking for the repo on their website.

Can't wait until this is finished given certain tendencies to use C++ as a scripting language...
It's funny, when digital cameras first appeared I considered them somewhat magic, a brave new world of technology replacing the outmoded analogue.
But recently, my kids went round to a relative's house, where they had an old polaroid camera. The sight of this ancient artifact spewing out a self-appearing physical picture blew their minds far more than digital ever blew mine! They had no frame of reference for such a device.
I look forward to showing them cassettes and vinyl!
I'm not dismissing a quantified claim without evidence, so why would I provide data?

Interestingly, after the phrase you quoted out of context, they don't mention race again. Also they clearly aimed to discuss the claims made against Hollywood in a quantified manner. You are clearly just assuming that they had an agenda.

Could you provide any quantifiable analysis for your claim: "What matters is that all demographics get to see the films they like. It doesn't hurt one demographic if another demographic has more films made for."

Unfortunately you seem blinded by a high opinion of your own opinions. I trust the article more than I trust your armchair assumptions.
> University professors routinely have to censor material that is 'triggering' merely because of the ideas it presents.

Source? Is there a wide academic study on this? I know current college kids who sre studying genocide in literature class and rape in societal context. Most of the studies academia has on rape and microagression and so on are from professors on college campuses who presumably teach similar stuff. I find it highly improbable that this safe space issue in universities just sprung out of an aether of the internet into unsuspecting professors. Especially when, as I understand it, it started in universities.

To be fair, these are also young adults floundering about with these new ideas. Presumably there's always been kids who complained about the professor in one way or another. Is the 'too hard' criticism of the modern ratemyprofessor.com any different than another young person complaining about a useless perceived microaggression? They're both probably going to be ignored in the greater context of things.
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Unlike phones, cars' price prohibits most people from paying grossly more for a slighly better car (it's say $40k extra for a car vs $400 for a phone). Plus, there are already "iPhones" on the market (Mercedes, BMW etc.).
But you dont see into my head and can not say if I have a PTSD or not. It is like saying what form of suffering is worse, or what religion is right.

Anyway I believe that it is already covered well. There is anti harassment law. And treating rape victim badly is fast way to loose friends.

We are not talking about tiny fraction of people, but majority of population has some skeleton in the closet. Stats says that up to 25% women are rape victims, should all of them get a safe space?

Also does this cover men? Prison rape jokes are quite popular on mainstream TV. And it is still socially acceptable to say that 12 year old boy "got lucky" with older lady.

And how about war veterans with PTSD?
More like extreme left. But, someone described the political left and right as a horseshoe-shape instead of linear opposites; that is, extreme-left goes #KillAllMen, extreme-right goes #BuildThatWall.
There are a number of Chinese civil wars or rebellions that would have a better claim than the American Civil War. The Taiping Rebellion is one, the An Lushan Rebellion is another.

The Russian Revolution is also nearly double the death toll.

One could also throw in the Wars of Religion and the 30 Years War as well.
This is 100% true for anyone in IT could ruin anyone they want to. I am shocked the number of people caught doing this is so low but few people realize the power an IT person has.
"epistemology" -- every time I see this word (normally in @nntaleb's tweets) I look up google for meaning of this word, get a sense, and then soon forget :-)
Maybe a more familiar term would be "political correctness".
Also this is a problem when it is held in a public place. A student walking from his dorm to his class should not be compelled to speak in a manner that you deem acceptable.
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> Just because -you- don't mean it to offend or -you- don't believe it's offensive doesn't mean it isn't -to someone else-.

I haven't claimed otherwise.

> Don't you do that anyway? I do that every day - at work, to my nephews, to my parents, to strangers. What's the big deal?

The big deal is not self censoring, which yes, we all do out of politeness and respect. The big deal is being forced to self censor things we consider appropriate to talk about in context out of the concern that someone present might possibly find it offensive, rather than being able to rely on anyone present who finds offensive to be able to speak up or leave.

If I'm having a political discussion, 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. If everyone were to avoid saying things about politics I find offensive, I could effectively shut up debate by entering pretty much any political debate.
A lot of people that are triggered (aka have PTSD) already have had it; for truly traumatized people, e.g. war veterans andsoforth, no amount of therapy will cure PTSD. It's more of a thing someone has to learn to live with.
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it has additional features like:

- thread support
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In the near future it will have:

- coroutine support
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Things we currently explore:

- modules and package managment
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No-platforming someone is exactly the same as not inviting them into your space. That's what it means -- not giving them a platform to speak. They can still exercise their free speech rights on their own time and their own space.

Inasmuch as there is a real point of debate here, and not just the whinging of butthurt right-wingers who are used to having a platform given to them whenever they ask, the question is whether students have a right to control who the university gives a platform to. This is an area of legitimate struggle (students say yes, administrations say no), but it's overshadowed by the bogus argument that this is actually about censorship.
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You know, singling out "white male" as a group that has some kind of agenda is already "US/UK thing".
No syntax highlighting for AT&T syntax atm. It still displays it, just not highlighted. Feel free to add a Pygments lexer for it and send me a PR :) I'll probably get to it some time, but there's other stuff ahead of it in the queue.
I think even in the Mail that stuff gets modded or heavily downvoted.
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I wonder how many of the 18 also disagree with her views on Israel (and how many of the 33, in the interests of curiosity).
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We mostly care about carbon accessible to the atmosphere.

That's carbon directly in the atmosphere, soil and upper layers of the ocean.

The depths of the ocean can take basically arbitrary amounts of extra carbon-dioxide, and if we stopped producing CO_2 now, in about two thousand years (if I remember right) the oceans would have absorbed and `buried' the extra carbon released by human activity.

Of course, during the process the upper layers of the ocean acidify for a while. That's bad, too.
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Give me a break. The people complaining about SJWs, safe spaces, etc. are 99% white males. I am a white male myself.
Look up the field of transpersonal psychology. Ken Wilbur is one name that comes to mind. It is sort of the scientific study of spirituality - I don't have a degree, only a well read layman and can make heads and tails of what the research involves (as well as a informed amateur in religious studies, etc). To the HN crowd, it will seem like New Age woo-woo, but one has to really experience trance states in a Vodoun ceremony (Umbanda specifically) to grok the scientific materialism point of view is overlooking some components of consciousness.

The OP sounds like a hard line anti-science type. Merging the two points of view is the best idea. He is somewhat correct, but to say science will never have anything useful to add is shortsighted
Well, the initial article speaks about an incident in a university, and it's not surprising that "safe spaces" would be popular there.

University councils are infamous for being dominated by old white men who are used to shout in meetings. People will find a balance eventually, but having this old white guy telling people to "grow up" really isn't helping.