skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 32 states it is legal to fire a person for being transgender. In practice people get fired illegally for attempting to unionize the workforce. Or for complaining about violations of labor laws. Or for being gay. Or for having the wrong political views. People get fired for expressing themselves all the time. And since business leans conservative right people on the left face the brunt of this discrimination. Free expression has never been without consequence in the United States or anywhere else.

Any serious talk about free speech should focus on the core issue: people in power abuse their power to punish the powerless when they express themselves in the wrong way. Students have practically no power or influence in society. So even if these "SJWs" are entirely unjustified in their actions the impact on society is utterly negligible. This is why the panicky reaction in the linked article about student activists repressing free speech is so comical. If anything, the student activists increase free speech by giving a platform to those people who would otherwise go unheard.
See also how brain connectivity gets changed by psilocybin (magic mushrooms): http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2014/12/psilocybin-changes-b... (and the actual paper: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/11/101/201408...).

In short: you get more long-range correlations, so the perceived synesthesia may have very "hardware" basis.
I do wonder what options for 'nudging' people away from these comments there are.

For example, warning people their comment looks abusive, and pointing out what a large fraction of people comment appropriately.

If a comment looks uncivil, you could show the author how generic and meaningless prejudice comments often are, giving other examples of prejudice comments that have been deleted.
I agree with maehwasu. These are all manifestations of a similar phenomenon i.e. what appears to be an increasing tendency for some groups to aggressively defend their "right" to not have to listen to people who disagree with them.

As a tactic it seems to have been quite successful so it's not surprising that disparate groups are using it.
Isn't that what they're trying to do?
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Ford, of course.

Given how many engineers I know of whom have left traditional car companies to go work for automotive 'startups' it seems that they have a real problem holding on to talent despite the advantages you mentioned.
> I believe trigger warnings are essential

I kind of agree but there is a practical problem...

I know several persons who were killed in motorcycle accidents. Their relatives still grieve years and decades after the events. Should every article or TV show contain a trigger warning "This movie contains action involving motorcycles"?

I know a couple whose young daughter drowned in a swimming pool. They haven't recovered from this a decade later and they are quite sensitive when it comes to swimming and swimming pools. Should every movie and book have a trigger warning in front "Warning, somebody drowns in this movie"?

I know a couple who divorced and she is still crushed by this and she hates when somebody talks about mariage and get anxiety attacks. Should every movie contain a message "Warning, this movie contains at least one wedding"?

The house of a close friend of mine burned down and because of this she has severe anxiety about big and open fires. Should every movie contain a warning about fires?

Is it save to talk about pregnancy? There are tons of people who had several miscarriages or they are physically unable to even get pregnant.

Can I talk about my (almost) perfect childhood? There are more than enough kids who grew up in toxic and abusive environments.

The point is that people get scared and scarred by literally everything. It's not just rape, violence and war but also dogs, alcohol, shouting, snakes, loud music, ... Almost everything justifies a trigger warning for some people so the question is: What is worthy of a trigger warning and what is not?
Just like Pattern Recognition.
Isn't it essentially possible for anyone with the equivalent of shell access on a remote machine to implement a system like Rob Pike's Sam editor? You can roll your own economical protocol, which could include mobile code fragments (regexps sent to remote process for execution, for starters). I'm not sure why you think we're stuck with the browser for this, or if that's a bad thing for most applications that don't involve something bandwidth-intensive like realtime 3D.

"Sam is implemented as two processes connected by a low-bandwidth stream, one process handling the display and the other the editing algorithms. Therefore it can run with the display process in a bitmap terminal and the editor on a local host, with both processes on a bitmap-equipped host, or with the display process in the terminal and the editor in a remote host. By suppressing the display process, it can even run without a bitmap terminal."

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/
As I said before, it's about the cultural norms, which is exactly what you've just described.

For an example showing that money and cultural norms are not necessarily linked, take a look at Ikaria:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-...
With a median yearly household income of $51,939, that's up to $779,085 you only get if you're rich.
Hah, my bad, I worded that poorly. I didn't mean an entire calculus book per day. That would be absolute madness (well, at least if you calculate along with all the proofs). I mean a few pages of a calculus book every day instead of a few pages of newspaper ;)

And I read hackernews not because of the news articles but because of the value of the hackernews comments, though I agree, it is somewhat hypocritical, I also read the news sometimes.
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Maybe there was a custom where all blood was extracted from victims' bodies and spread over the ground? Only that would make it most bloody.
"Low-income residents in wealthy areas, such as New York City and San Francisco, have life expectancies significantly longer than those in poorer regions."

That's somewhat surprising. I wonder if the reverse holds - do rich people in poorer regions have shorter life expectancies than in richer regions?
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> I suppose you primarily talk about USB power packs

No, somehow we have to charge all those batteries ;) A lot of people use Anker products for this as well.
No, I mean I use gmail and that's apparently all the emails that have been caught by the filter in the past 30 days. That's why I'm so surprised.

Unless Google is automatically deleting stuff it's really sure about straight away?
That tells me why I would go with GTK+ 3.0 though... I was more thinking - what features does GNOME bring to the table?
A credit line of up to $9 billion (which no bank would have ever gave them), additional legislation (Ford was the second most profiteure of the cash-for-clunkers program) and 5$ billion from the DOE loan program does sound like a kind of bailout for me.
I found this interesting too. I'm thinking that is where the Norse Gods separated from the rest of the Eukaryotes.
Any chance I could buy an epub? I'm not sure whether I want to subscribe yet, but I can't read fiction on a computer screen.

(I'll just download and convert if necessary, but it'd be nicer to pay you for it.)
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Correct...totally different way of looking at the problem.
In my case, the thesis proposal was at the beginning of an open ended and fairly long term project. You were supposed to conduct a literature review, show that the project had a good chance of working, and that you had a good enough grasp of the subject matter to handle the work. It was also a point where you could opt to finish with a Master's instead, having completed your coursework.

There was high attrition in between this step and getting the PhD.

The other end, where the student is basically done except for the writing, is less risky. One reason is that professors are strongly discouraged from letting a student fail a thesis. When I was ready to defend my thesis, I had to get permission from my committee to do so, and their signature indicated that they considered my work to be defensible. So the defense was in fact a formality. Failures at that point, that I know about, had to do with students getting caught fudging their work.
You should assume Tor exit nodes to be hostile. There have been exit nodes that injected malicious code into binaries downloaded through them, and running an exit node is an obvious choice for an attacker, hoping for people running unencrypted traffic through them.
Whilst we're on the subject of language it would be a little enlightening if you'd tell me the meaning of "woo".

It is not a word I see often, but whenever I have seen it (never yet heard) it seems like someone wishes to push ideas they cannot or will not grasp into an objective category such as "things I and other straight thinking individuals like Feynmann know to be empirically bullshit".

Was this the way you intended to used term "woo" here?
Looks very good, one issue though:

After maximising, I expected the "restore" like icon to get back to the state I was previously, but it seemed to pop-out instead which was very unexpected.

It seems I should have chosen "minimize" looking icon instead, which doesn't minimize but instead puts back to tiled size.

Also, when closing a pop-out I would expect it to re-integrate rather than closing completely, but perhaps I'm unusual in my expectations.
My wife looks over my shoulder and refactors my code.
Could be. Richer regions would have better health care, emergency services, sanitation, etc
I really think the answer is to switch to wood fuled biomass generators for electricity. It would be an incentive to plant more trees, and the charcoal waste could be burried as fertilizer, placing excess carbon back in the ground.
I think the 1st does, if you're willing to entertain the idea that it's not just the old joke about Emacs. The 2nd one actually explains it quite well.

In any case, I think that downvoting without a comment crosses that line too. Sadly, the only guy who was willing to explain his disagreement with my original comment got downvoted too.
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Even more lucrative (per client) when you apply it to "which tail numbers should fly which routes" for an airline.
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> 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 fail to see the relevance of safe spaces and trigger warnings to what you wrote. Large portions of the student body hated the anti-abortion stuff and you protested against it and worked around it. Go you. That's how things should be done.

> 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.

You may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you. You can't shut out politics because politics is what happens when three or more humans get together. That's what entryism is about. One would not think hobbies as marginal as atheist organisations, SF con goers and computer gaming would be worth infiltrating and taking over but they've all become vastly more political recently.

No one's forcing you to attend the Marxist/Nazi/Libertarian/Socialist speaker's talk. They're objecting to the attempt to prevent them speaking at all.
This concept is really solid. There’s a massive gap in the market to help standardise the 'want to buy' posts. I'm constantly manually searching across multiple selling platforms when i want to pick an item up for that best possible price - usually just scrolling away..! That and checking prices for items i already own & could be tempted to sell, I even got pm'd with a ridiculous offer on some old beaters i posted on a group as a joke!

Price is really key! For myself, a lot of the time i tend to try and avoid the hype / overlook resellers looking a mad price for highly in demand shoes or products. These posts and groups stand out for me within the second hand market. Individuals looking to trade/sell the items they own second hand with around (8/10) wear & a dropped price in mind. Someone buys, doesn't wear as much as they thought they would, sees something they might wear more?, sells on to someone else on a budget they can afford.

Everyones fashion taste is evolving and this idea of the 'two lunch tables' working together, buying, wearing, selling on, especially with high end products is enabling more and more people to get into the GAME! Focusing on this second hand market would be ridiculously useful and really pushing for an organised 'want to buy' community would be a game changer. Just got to have an influx of sellers onboard who aren't looking to resell for retail (or higher)
For me, this is the most important aspect of this paper:

"People say, ‘Americans are living longer, so we ought to delay the age of retirement,’ but … it’s a little bit unfair to say to low-income people that they’re going to get Social Security and Medicare for fewer years because investment bankers are living longer.”"

As the divide between the rich and poor keeps growing [1], we need to start doing something about it in all areas, and this seems like a really important finding for that.

[1]http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/employment/in-it-together-why-l...
What I want to know is where are the University leaders in all this? the board of guverners or exec committee or whoever who should speak up and tell these pathetic, entitled little shits to grow the fuck up and learn to deal with people with different opinions.
> 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?

I don't generally intend to offend. But I often intentionally state my opinions of things knowing it might offend someone. E.g., if at a political debate, I won't avoid stating my view just because someone might take offence. The intent isn't to cause offence, and I will respect it if I know there are people present that find a specific subject particularly difficult, but I don't believe we should accept that people have a right to not be offended if they choose to participate in a meeting knowing certain subjects will come up.

> but you don't have an automatic right to express those views wherever, whenever, and to whomever you wish anyway.

I have not suggested I do. But that does not mean I should not take severe offence if e.g. an organization like a student union effectively shuts down meetings where views the majority doesn't like, but that some students want, are likely to come up by insisting on "safe spaces".

I have yet to be at any political meeting that would be a "safe space" if you insist on offending no-one, for example. But these means of censorship are unsurprisingly being applied in exceedingly one sided ways. Incidentally a lot of the people that regularly gets a platform at many of these places are people whose views I find deeply offensive.
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I just don't get it why anyone would try a second or third time after you already had 3-4 months of depression and anxiety after the first trip?

For me that would mean the end of my business and on top of that it would certainly hurt my relationships with other people.

No way I'd ever do such a gamble.
.. until you pass them as a function argument. And strlen() only works if your null terminator is valid, and doesn't tell you anything about available space in the string buffer for adding to the string.

This kind of thing keeps coming up in vulnerability reports.
MGR was very good and very Unix-y, multiplexing windows over ptys and presenting a pretty standard terminal abstraction to the rest of the system. It also ran on OS/9 and some other odd things. It's very lightweight; a nice options for embedded systems.
One thing OCaml does have, however, that I often miss in other languages, is polymorphic variants. Sometimes you want a function to only work on a subset of a variant, without having to write silly handlers for things that the computer ought to be able to check never happen.
Two wrongs don't make a right. If there's anything to be learned in school, that's it.
This is an excellent article on the subject: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/chinas-rich-kid...
> I would prefer it violent.

Dude, why? This comes off to be as a gut based, emotional viewpoint rather than a rational one.
No. The cool thing about MGR was that you programmed it by sending terminal-like control codes to stdout. (I used to run MGR on Minix).
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Having something like this for command line would be nice.
I'm not sure I understand the point you're making.

Trans-people and men have always been excluded from some rape crisis services. This continues to be the case, but recent legislation and clarification to that legislation made it much harder to apply blanket bans.

I disagree about the one-way nature. It would be possible for an organisation offering group counseling to victims of sexual abuse by Catholic church to ban priests and nuns; I believe it's possible for an organisation offering services to trans victims of sexual assault to specify only trans people in some roles.

I think we agree that the UK still needs to do much better to protect trans people from harm and to enforce the rights of trans people.
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1% of 1.357 billion people is about thirteen and a half million people.

Time for me to stop reading headlines literally.
So, could we have the semantics of ADA with a different syntax?
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News flash: the rich are mobile, always have been.

Chinese are singled out by media because it plays on American whites' insecurity.
I don't fully understand the full concept of SPMD, as well as I understood SIMD (from Dart!), but it sounds like you can write one version by just using SPMD vs. explicit coding, since it runs equally optimized on 64-bit wide or 8-bit wide SIMD lanes, no?

From the article:

"SPMD has a serious advantage in that it’s able to target AMD’s massive 64-wide SIMDs just as easily as Intel’s itty-bitty 8-wide ones, at least for simple usage patterns like do this operation on 1 million pixels. For simple stream processing applications, SPMD makes perfect sense, and it’s relatively easy to write one source code that will run close to optimal on all the architectures."
How is it the truth if the author specifically mentions that he his speculating?
Far from it
Will they (and everyone else) ever learn that modal popups cause bounces? I access the page from Europe, and this annoying popup obscures the page and asks me if I'm sure I'm in the right place. Hint taken: hit back.
Oh, by the way, I can highly recommend the channel RubinReport on youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/user/RubinReport )

He has lots of good stuff and that interview with Fry there seemed to be a bit rushed, normally Rubin is calmer and more prepared.
Form my own memories of long-ago courses, the Y chromosome is partially homologous to X and exchanges alleles with it during meiosis.

It has its own, non-homologous region too that doesn't trade DNA.
As long as they pay their taxes, what's the problem?
The article mentioned that the immigrant investor program is defunct, that's not entirely true. Québec still has it but they never stay in Montreal just move to Vancouver.
I apologize.

I asked if there are any widespread studies on professors routinely (I would assume a casual 1 in 4 or 1 in 10 correlation would be routine?) being forced to edit and change their syllabus.
Not even close. The An Lushan rebellion killed several percent of the entire world's population.
Why don't I take military funding? (2004)
> all part from the premise that when a student says "take this down, it offends me", they are actually being honest

As in all things in life there are nuances. This problem isn't even tied to this generation in particular, the only issue to contend today is that in this generation sensationalism breed views and views breed consensus, all in all this situation isn't that much different from people fighting against the N* racial slur in the last century, only the communication channels and consensus rules differ, especially regarding diffusion speed.

This is a part of a bigger problem: modern society ethics diffuse and segregate groups at a pace that has no precedent while not sporting the same mediation and dialectics needed by living in close physical social groups.
I wonder what Ballmer thinks, after all he was the one who called Linux a "cancer".
If they are not welcomed by anyone, a very telling demonstration would be to let them speak to empty rooms.

If these students believed the rooms would be empty, I strongly suspect they wouldn't have a problem with letting them come and be humiliated while their opponents made fun of them outside.

Presumably most of the opposition to these speakers is because they know perfectly well that they will have an audience, who want to hear what they have to say.
You're just reading it wrong. They use it to "process complex queries and display 2D visualizations in 8 seconds".
>Maybe only you and your friends are actually being simulated

Why waste so much resources, when it can be just You being simulated?