skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a messy and poorly constructed argument. In the abstract, sure the author's not wrong that the academy lacks conservative voices, but what concretely are we missing? In economics, the contributions of conservative thinkers is clear. What's the equivalent for conservative voices in sociology? That in fact, blacks are poor because of their culture and not ongoing structural racism? I honestly feel that any worthwhile conservative arguments are being made by center-left thinkers.

This particularly is incredibly disingenuous:

> I suspect many liberals disdain evangelicals in part because they don’t have any evangelical friends.

The comparison to Muslims is an awful false equivalence. First of all, discriminating against someone because they hold intolerant beliefs is categorically different from discriminating against someone based on their religion (and let's be honest, given that Sikhs and other South Asians get targeted, it's really a racial issue). Second, he's postulating this without any evidence. Lots of academics grew up in the South or the Midwest, and a lot of great universities are in those areas as well. Thirdly, even if someone doesn't know an evangelical personally, they are exposed to Jerry Falwell, the Bush administration, Fox News, Kim Davis, etc.

If Kristoff wants to make the claim that individual conservatives shouldn't be judged based on the plethora of conservative thought leaders that represent them in the media, he needs to provide an actual argument for that distinction. If he doesn't want racists, homophobes, misogynists, etc. in the academy, he needs to provide examples of the useful discourse we are missing out on.

Frankly, the center-left vs hard-left feel like the debates we should be having as a society, e.g. how do we reconcile the racist history of our most esteemed institutions with our modern values, or how do we deal with the consequences of tech rapidly eliminating the livelihoods of millions of working class citizens.
Cheaper areas are usually cheaper because the economy isn't doing so well.

If you can work at all (eg no medical problems keeping you unemployed), you should probably move to Munich to get a job.

Lots of East Germans migrated to the more expensive west, and are still doing that. For the jobs.
No direct value, but he may otherwise share their stories and "upvote" them.
Yup, been looking into it the last couple of days because Slack is devilishly slow in China, and it seems to cover most of the stuff you'd want from slack plus the things GP mentioned. Really cool stuff.
Maybe a noob observation, but can anyone explain why the Lock Coarsening example is valid? Seems to me that locks on A with a lock on B in between is not equivalent to 2 locks on A and then one on B... Unless the programmer made a cognitive error the cases seem incomparable, unlike the other examples.
Right, as I says it's augmented reality but what he sees (other than his hands and wheels) is right.

Another without that: https://youtu.be/7R5swCafrOs
Yeah I agree except for the immigration thing. That is an international affair and a matter of sovereignty and has nothing to do with personal freedoms.

Leftism currently is driving the hardest for authoritarianism. I expect we'll see something similar on the right in about a decade though I'm curious to see what it'll look like considering that it seems like religiousness is on the permanent decline in America.
Except when RT (Russia Today) appears on reddit.
> (solely) by Google

I didn't say anything about other players in the "chat" market.

> Google at some point monopolized the "instant messenger"

No, the have dominance in the email market (I mentioned gmail). They used the position of power in the email market to limit XMPP and support their new Hangouts service.

Just like Microsoft used to do, Google broke their support of the protocol. While most of the protocol still worked, they started dropping auth requests on the floor. This wasn't an error message or missing feature; their S2S protocol simply dropped auth requests so it looked from the outside that the request was delivered, but the person on the other end never responded. Outgoing (from gmail) auth requests were removed entirely. From the perspective of gmail users, XMPP popularity simply faded and Hangouts took over as a replacement.

Using one market (gmail) as leverage in another market (chat) is basically the definition of monopolization. Note that this doesn't require a perfect monopoly in the first market; ability to force/manipulate the market is sufficient. Additionally, the Sherman Antitrust Act also criminalizes the attempt to monopolize.

> Not to mention that XMPP is a standard

Obviously. I've been following the development from the beginning (before it was called "jabber"; the name "XMPP" happened many years later).

> not a competitor.

An open (federated) protocol is the most dangerous kind of competitor to a big company like Google. Deals/contracts can can be made with a company, but a federated protocol by definition cannot be controlled by a single entity.

> This is like saying that modern companies are monopolizing against SOAP or YAML.

I think you need to re-read what I said. Or maybe read more about how antitrust law works.
To be fair, here's the caption of the video: Raw footage at Mavericks on November 21, 2001 "100 foot Wednesday"

So it's not the headline writers coming up with the hyperbole.
> That can happen with any level of generosity in benefits.

Yes, the effective marginal tax rate is important here. (And another argument in favour of giving anyone a universal basic income, and just using the normal tax system to claw back benefits from people who earn enough.)

An even better system is to just tax land. There are no disincentives with that at all: the supply is fixed.
Precisely, and for the governments with the robots, this will make the prospect of going to war even more attractive.
Nope, totally wrong. Slack moved in at the exact right time for Slack to have moved in. The world needed a chat app that was easy to jump into and could be separate from their private world. Gchat was not and could never be that, because Gchat was associated with personal accounts.

It's been a while since we've had a decent chat client that we could use for work (no, you would not get designers, marketing and sales to use IRC), and Slack came up at just the right moment to make the rounds, and they know it. You can see it in the enormous marketing push they're making. They want to seal the deal and seal it quick, because, damn, it's not that hard to replicate that platform.

No, Gchat was not Slack before Slack. It was just another chat client that was limited by its auth scope.
I think 3D television was a mere incremental improvement whereas the immersion of VR is the next stepping stone of entertainment. Though, I think the full-room experiences are a bit of fad as seated experiences are more comfortable and relatable to how we've always consumed various forms of relaxing entertainment. Instead of the simplistic interactions, I honestly wouldn't mind it if I used a keyboard and mouse interface but wore a VR helmet at my desk, since I never look down anyway. And I'm also betting that VR porn has the potential to be hugely addictive. The reviews of initial explorations are fairly lukewarm but it's still way too early to discount that effort.
"the promise is to teach it all in one day".. really? Do you have any proof of "your way of teaching" could do that OR is this just a old fashioned promise? If just a promise then $99 is way too much considering enormous amount of free learning content available on internet.
Well... I was an early adopter for the Amazon Echo. Initially it was about the same, novelty but practically useless, until new integrations were added and now I make extensive use of it.
The political terms left, right, conservative, liberal, have a different and often opposite meaning in the US than most of the rest of the world.
I don't know about IkmoIkmo, but I think there are some cases where it's hard to get for some silly reasons.
Bit of a nitpick about an otherwise compelling piece, but both Rothman and the protagonist of "Elizabeth Costello" somewhat misrepresent Nagel's wonderful "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" (http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf), an article that is not intended to discourage sympathy with other creatures, but rather is intended as a criticism of certain forms of materialism. It's certainly worth a read itself -- particularly if you're of the reductionist bent that so many of us who read HN are, in which case it's likely to, at the very least, present an interesting intellectual challenge.
The problem with this is summed up with the phrase "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."

Sometimes that's just the time, expense, job and reputation loss, etc. of the arrest, but sometimes (e.g. Freddie Gray) the ride is a'rough ride' and you can't beat that either.
But the headsets are not going to get any lighter with time unless you buy new ones.
I'm going to throw in my recommendation for this HRM: http://www.scosche.com/rhythm+

Works with Ant+ or Bluetooth. As accurate as the chest band, but much easier to put on. No CR2032 batteries to deal with.
It's not that expensive. Rent a van, get a bunch of friends to help you.

If you have lots of stuff, sell some of it.
completely agree. unfortunately dnsmasq, firewalls, running your own bind, or PF, table, or the other solutions you mention -- these all require a level of technical expertise far, far beyond the norm, or even 2 standard deviations above the norm of Internet users' technical ability (for some of them, including me). I had maintained the Facebook blocklist for hosts files because it was super simple for me to use, and to share with others.

definitely not ideal, not even complete, and requires work - BUT, nearly any Internet user can implement the solution done this way.

It would be really interesting to autogenerate the domain lists by running background scripts on AS numbers, polling DNS for every IP in the range, and cataloging the domains by script - say, daily, and then printing the list into a 0.0.0.0 prefixed hosts list. Thank you!

disclaimer: github user maintaining linked resource
IRC was the future of messaging but until Slack came up with a different experience, people didn't know.
It's too late for leftists.

The leftist narrative lost with Gamergate.

All the domains used to crumble in face of the leftists. They went after individuals and tried to get them fired. They virtue-signaled even in Github repos. https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015

Everyone who wasn't inclusive enough got attacked. You career was in jeopardy if you ever dared to think something a little outside the norm.

Politics, scifi, comedy, STEMs... Every and all domain fell.

Except gamers. Gamergate was when everything changed. This is when being more-progressive-than-thou stopped working.

The pendulum stopped moving left.

To anyone who's been paying attention (and old enough to understand), this was a major event.

Everything since then was just going through the motion. An immense building crumbling down while everyone inside it is trying to get to the top. "I'm more tolerant than you; I accept trans in my bathroom!"

If you are even slightly interested in history and sociology, you should be very attentive to the next few months/years.

As a more libertarian/right-wing individual, it is a glorious thing to see.

I just hope that the leftist didn't push the pendulum so far that it's going to come back with a vengeance and destroy everything it its path.
Summary; VR is a great novelty but it wears out and then you're just left with sub-par looking games lacking replay value and quality. It's super expensive and the games aren't very engaging (no killer app yet). The competitor landscape is also confusing and there's a lot of innovation still left to be done by industry heavyweights (namely Google and Apple).

Basically, VR is here but the experience isn't sticky enough due to lack of great software. Sound familiar?
You can be for gun control without taking your argument to people who don't share your opinion. By definition, an evangelist cannot do this - it involves bothering people outside the group.
Actually, it seems to me that everyone who is active in the community is already on Python 3 and is heavily in favor of upgrading.

The people who are still using Python 2 are the 'lazy' ones, who don't really care about the community at all; the ones who keep making comments like 'I just use whatever the `python` command starts.' I'm pretty sure these people couldn't maintain Python 2 by themselves.
I wouldn't hire a religious person as a faculty member because to be religious today you have to make so many failures of basic reasoning that you are unsuited for the position.
>Won't NATO honor its obligations

sure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
> It's intolerance against disagreement

When you dress it up abstractly, sure. When you realize the arguments we're intolerant of are actually probably aren't that defensible, it doesn't.

What ideas are we intolerant of that you think is so bad? That being gay is immoral? That women shouldn't have access to reproductive health services?
What Google failed to realize is that people want chat that's connected to other services they frequently use. I'm already browsing FB so it's easy to chat with my FB friends using Messenger rather than both pop over to another service. The same reason why MSFT has tried (much less successfully) to incorporate its chat offerings into Office365 and the reason it bought Skype.

Google was in a position to capture the chat market by tying it to an email service that everyone was using - GMail. But it had two problems: 1. Email is an open service that doesn't lock users in meaning people using Yahoo Mail can still communicate with people using GMail (unlike Facebook where the only place to interact with FB users in is FB). 2. Google didn't lock its users in with GChat, so users could drift away to other services while still communicating with GChat users if need be.

Due to its very nature, FB was destined to win the messenger wars; if all your friends are already on FB then most people will default to what's easiest--the chat functionality that's already there and all your contacts are connected to.
But since FB tends to be your personal circle rather than work circle, this left the work circle open, which Google could have captured if it hadn't screwed up on Hangouts leaving the door open for Slack.
My understanding is that bridges are implemented via application services (the Matrix term for privileged plugins that extend the capability of the server,) so a user's ability to communicate over non-Matrix protocols is dependent on the homeserver where their user account is based. The best known example of this is that the public matrix.org homeserver is bridged to the Freenode IRC network, and certain channels are synced to each other, e.g. (#matrix on Freenode is the same thing as #matrix:matrix.org on matrix.org.)

I'm not sure how this works for non-public communication, like private messages on IRC or services like Facebook where it wouldn't be safe for the Matrix homeserver to have access to a user's Facebook account.

At this point I'm not super well-versed on the details of application services so hopefully one of the Matrix team members will reply to you directly.
I don't think anybody has ever claimed that anyone surfed a 100 foot wave on "100 foot Wednesday", only that some people believe the waves got that big. In the linked story, the claim is that that the waves got so big that even the hard core tow-in surfers had quit.

The last two people on jet-skis were about to come in and got caught by two very large waves in succession that were much larger than anybody had surfed that day. They think the waves -- especially the second one -- may have been 100 feet.

The writer hedges his bets however:

Some doubt that the waves Alladio and Cahill surmounted did indeed reach a height of 100 feet. Wave expert Sponsler cautiously allows that "theoretically, it's possible."

Washburn says he took film footage of gigantic swells nearby later that afternoon. When he shows them to other hydrology experts now, they say the waves seem to be at least that tall.
How does removing support for XMPP alleviate the issue?
Why not both? And are the scare quotes suggesting that intelligence isn't heritable?
generally you move your whole body, at least a little bit, when you move your head, though.
> Thirdly, even if someone doesn't know an evangelical personally, they are exposed to Jerry Falwell, the Bush administration, Fox News, Kim Davis, etc.

Even if someone doesn't know a Muslim personally, they are exposed to Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi regime, ISIS, Hezbollah, etc.
Entirely agree with the article. There is a quote by Clemenceau: "the best time in love is when I walk up the stairs". I'd say by best time with VR is the time between ordering and receiving it...
I think what captures the imagination is that, fundamentally, AI is about understanding ourselves, what makes us tick. If we can reproduce the human mind, we can understand the human mind.

Up for debate which will come first. I think this is what drives people though, even though they may not have thought about it that way or tried to articulate it that way in the thinking.
Clearly a lot of people agree with you!

I certainly don't claim to make the right call every time.
indeed its better than atlas at standing in place wearing uniform, or waving a hand to the camera
They hardly have a monopoly. Trump's stated positions on weakening and attacking the press when it suits him are from the same playbook.
Is anyone working on it that I could help?
> I suppose theres not a good way to share the local loops in cable plant as they are mostly fiber now

Well, here in Canada they're mostly fiber also -- but it still works. See, for example, https://www.teksavvy.com/ and https://www.start.ca/ ... "TPIA" is what they're called.

In looking them up, I stumbled on mailing lists for TPIAs hosted by Torix. Realised at that point that TPIAs have a lot in common with Canadian IXPs -- both put pressure on prices from Canadian ISPs, TIPAs by consumers and IXPs from businesses/services aghast at how much certain folks charge. See https://cira.ca/sites/default/files/cira-ixp-overview-web.pd... for more on IXPs. I wonder if there's a book on this somewhere, or what ISPs think. Rogers Cable peers with Torix, so it's not exclusively smaller players, in fact I'd say it's the everybody-but-telcos club but I'm sure telcos and US players are welcome if they cared to... (let's pretend they simply are unaware of the ahem, savings...)
TFA claims that as the waves got bigger and bigger, the surfers pulled out, and that the last wave surfed that day was measured at 68ft. The claimed 100ft waves were encountered by a pair of rescue/support personnel on jet skis.
Not OP but this is what I could find:

"Universities UK" said gender segregation at lectures on Islam was ok (but withdrew their recommendation after criticism):

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/13/universitie...

I couldn't find anything on Missou. But UConn is building black-only housing:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/02/uconn-building-black-on...
On immigration, it kind of depends on how far you take it. Banning all immigration would definitely create a lot of issues for US economy that can be considered bothering people affected.

> Leftism currently is driving the hardest for authoritarianism

True for now, but one must not confuse difference in degree with difference in kind. It is true that implementing the left agenda probably requires more "bothering", at least taking current status of affairs as a starting point, than the right's agenda. But it's a difference in degree, not in kind, and also a function of the current status, not the principal differences. The right has no problem with authority bothering people when it fits its agenda the same way as the left.

That's actually what I see as one of the major deficiencies of the current US political system. Both the left and the right try to use the state to advance their agenda, but the result is mostly the state is getting bigger and bigger, and still nobody's happy.
Oh, I think BD could move into the limb replacement realm as a civilian application.
To me, the most exciting thing about VR (particularly on the Vive) is not anything gaming related but the possibilities around creation and collaboration that are opened up by being able to program in "the real world." If you've played with Tiltbrush at all you can see a glimpse of this. Your brain's implicit understanding of your presence in 3D space is incredibly vital to understanding the shapes and structure that you see with your eyes. You can imagine many design fields: fashion, furniture, architecture, etc can all have a dramatically reduced leap between conceptualization and realization.

A lot of people are quick to dismiss VR and present AR as the future, but I think a more constructive way to think about it is that VR is AR without the walls punched out (yet). Realistically, we all spend the majority of our lives in a couple rooms (an office and a bedroom), so by moving to AR the largest benefit is going to be comfort. So many potential new interactions are ripe for exploring today, even in VR (not to mention the Vive has a front-facing camera anyway, although the latency can be a bit nauseating).
I think the problem isn't so much that the tech isn't ready, it's simply that the software is immature. Everyone has been rushing hard to get this tech out the door, but software developers haven't really had time to produce much beyond "app-store" quality content which tends to lack lasting replay value. We all know it takes a lot of time to produce high quality software and there is still a lot of experimentation that needs to happen before developers lock onto the techniques that provide the optimal experience.

People aren't going to keep putting on their headset just to look at tech demos, they're going to keep coming back to experience the well designed, super fun, highly addictive title that they've been playing obsessively, just like on every other platform.
"African-Americans" as a group doesn't actually include those Africans who never ended up in the US, so your response seems kind of irrelevant.
It's a cable hauled shuttle train. It is integrated with the rest of the BART system, but you do have to switch to a completely separate train that uses separate tech, so it's fair to call it a shuttle.

But you're totally right that it's not a shuttle bus anymore, those are gone now. :)
The problem is Whatsapp is actively hostile to any kind of attempts to creating 3rd party clients or APIs.
No, LGDT is actually an instruction (like MOV or ADD). You'll be hard-pressed to get a C compiler to emit that without using inline assembly.

http://x86.renejeschke.de/html/file_module_x86_id_156.html
Technically Mattermost is very interesting. Unfortunately I cannot figure out their licensing scheme and business model. The license file mentions several licenses: AGPL, Apache 2, and the MIT license. They seem to apply separate licenses to binaries that they publish vs the open source repository. Is there an implied open core business model somewhere? How do I know when Mattermost Inc will show up and demand money for a proprietary license because I've misinterpreted what parts of the mattermost software is AGPL licensed?

https://github.com/mattermost/platform/blob/4ae72ad1a878fdf1...
Was the editor wrong? The page on Chocolatey seems fine as a section on NuGet.

Wikipedia is not a wiki specialised in software, so it seems reasonable enough that notability is considered in general terms.