skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not abstract. Look what happens in campuses.

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

There aren't that many arguments which are not defensible, at least to some measure. And even with them, if they are so weak, you can easily defeat them - with your superior argument. That's not what happens in the current left culture. The focus is not on presenting superior argument, but on excluding the possibility of the supposedly inferior one from being voiced, and if it is voiced - on hounding the offended out of the position in which they would be able to present any argument at all, usually by authoritarian means (firing them, cutting off their access to publishing, depriving them of means to publish their opinion, etc.).

> That women shouldn't have access to reproductive health services?

Note how you frame the argument in terms that suit you. Would a conservative really think that women should not have access to health services? Or maybe - consider it for a minute - they do not see e.g. abortion as a "health service", but instead some of them see it, for example, as a murder? Now, you may disagree with them - that's completely fine - but if you want to argue with their position, would it be useful to argue with their actual position instead of one invented for them?

Now that question above is not rhetorical, and the answer to it is not obvious. Because that depends on your goal. If you want to construct superior argument which would be rationally convincing - the answer is yes, understanding the actual opposing argument is vital.

However, if you want to paint your opponent as an idiot, bigot or caveman - in order, for example, to convince an authority that they should not be considered rational beings and thus their concerns can be dismissed and it is morally permissible to subjugate their will to yours, as a superior being - then understanding their argument and even admitting a possibility that their argument can be understood and is not just an incomprehensible blathering only superficially resembling human speech - is of course a wrong tactics which would do absolutely no good.

Again, your actions here depend on your goal. And my claim is the left right now is virtually 100% invested in the second goal and behaves accordingly. I can understand why it is - the road of forcing your opponent to do what you like seems easier - I just think it's both morally wrong and disastrous in the long term, as as soon as two sides start playing this game - and they certainly already started - the possibility of having rational discourse which can discover the truth or at least get us closer to it is lost, and what we get is a series of shouting matches, in which truth doesn't matter and isn't even part of the calculus anymore.
>What's next, comparing the Holocaust to fish farms?

Way ahead of you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights_and_the_Holocaus...

Several writers, including Jewish Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, and animal rights groups have drawn a comparison between the treatment of animals and the Holocaust
Relevant reading:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapo...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bric...

There are wrong things that most conservatives believe, and wrong things that some loud conservatives believe, but that doesn't get you anywhere near the point where all conservatives are wrong about everything.
But the person "selling" the link is not the same as the person posting it. If I link to something on reddit, I get paid $0 either way, so there's no reason for me to choose an affiliated merchant over a non-affilated one. In fact, I won't even know which ones are or aren't participating.
Probably a lot to do with getting telemetry from the cars back to their servers for real time analysis.
I remember Gchat as a constant struggle to try and turn off unwanted functionality in Gmail.

I also remember Gchat as being one of a a number of a number of instant messaging options from Google that had very unclear market position and operability (I honestly didn't know that gChat was talking with Google Talk, I thought those where different)

At least now, it is only Hangouts I can't log out of, and at least it doesn't show up in gmail.
I would generally agree with the need for safe spaces - defined as groups of people of a certain characteristic coming together to rant a bit about their problems without fear of retaliation, and the ability to be heard without being spoken over by people trying to be "helpful" but generally not understanding - though permanent segregated physical spaces is utterly ridiculous.

Luckily, my particular communities don't put me in contact with people arguing for segregation very often. A quick poll of mine suggests that all who responded would strongly disagree with the idea of "optional" segregation (as it very rarely actually turns out to be optional due to the power structures involved). And we're radical anarcho-socialists to a large extent.
But Jabber was XML based. Matrix is JSON Based!

If only we would've chosen the right technology, people would've used it.

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0295.html
Another thinkfluencing-piece about why it is nice to live in white countries without explaining why it is nice to live in white countries (hint: it's the people).
It's an interesting thought experiment.

I agree that GPL doesn't get it's "teeth" unless linking creates a derivative work. The FSF (and Linus) for that matter have Opinions about what does,though, so I'm curious how and whether this ruling changes those.

I don't know whether to be thankful or not that there's still a circuit split in the US over what constitutes a derivative work in the software realm.
> Then you have to decide whether to remain civil

That's why I loathe telemarketers. Their tactics have made impossible to have a civil conversation because that's how they screw you over.
Nonsense; we're talking about natural monopolies here. Of course the government can't make a better grocery store. There is relatively little barrier to entry for that market.

Infrastructure has massive capital costs. If roads were owned by car dealerships and only permitted cars of their associated brands to drive on them that would be somewhat analogous to having multiple communication providers lay duplicate fiber (and just as wasteful).

Cable and ILECs are acting perfectly rationally by not competing with each other; there is little to gain when you can just squeeze your captive customer base for more money.

Fiber is fiber. The government could setup a public benefit corporation tasked with delivering fiber broadband last-mile infrastructure and keeping up with the latest innovations. If they fail to follow through, the courts can force them to follow the PBC charter.

If you want to leave maximum room for innovation (with resulting higher costs) the PBC could only be responsible for terminating fiber on both ends and any ISP who wants to compete would have to install an ONT on the customer site and light the fiber at the exchange. Then the ISP can replace equipment to wring faster and faster speeds out of the fiber if they want.

You can go the other way and task the PBC with lighting the fiber and delivering packets. It makes the process of starting an ISP much easier but you're reliant on the PBC to keep up with potential 10GB upgrades in the future. That sure would be a nice problem to have though...
NYT certainly has a known political bias, and that's no secret to anyone paying attention. Trump highlighting this bias and addressing it would not be a problem. Trump hinting at using state coercion to influence the content of NYT reporting is a huge problem and runs directly contrary to the 1st amendment (not that his presumptive opponent doesn't have her own huge flaws in that department) and US free speech culture.
The android client is very annoying to use as it doesn't follow the standard android UI guide lines. Can't swipe in the menu etc.
Or use the reader view.
I was wondering when these things would pop back up. I got to use one exactly once and it blew my young mind.
I think Slack works best for closed project workgroups, whereas IRC is best for open and persistent communities.
It has a runtime comparable to C. Back in those days, it had a much larger one.
That discussion (exclusionism vs inclusionism, i.e. making more decisions to exclude stuff that is below a threshold (as in space-limited traditional encyclopedias) vs letting as much in as people care about) is probably also as old as Wikipedia. The German Wikipedia tends to be relatively exclusionist, while I always found the English one more inclusionist. I almost completely abandoned using the German one for this reason and usually go straight to the English version of articles.

I also don't want to spend time arguing with the bureaucratic caste what belongs there and what not, I'm happy to find more content in the English version.
It's called Arbeitslosengeld II and I'm getting rent paid + 404€ for my life per month.
Which is why I said that if this is the argument Kristoff wanted to make, he has to make that argument. The equivalence you're trying to draw is a very poor parallel, and needs a lot of work to turn into a coherent argument:

1. The elected officials and thought leaders of a group are much more representative of a group's beliefs than rogue actors.

2. The point you're trying to make is that evangelicals may not be a monolith. That's a completely fair argument abstractly - but what does it mean concretely? After all, Evangelical is much more specific than Muslim. Specifically, in the context of the last 30 years of American politics, Evangelicals have been a socially conservative movement, often standing in the way of gay rights & women's rights. "Muslim" is just a much broader term, and doesn't carry that political weight.

If your argument is that there are evangelicals outside of that movement that aren't bigoted that deserve to be heard, well you have to explain what that group looks like. Also, you have to change your thesis to "We need more moderately right leaning people in the academy" which as you can see is a much less bold and interesting claim, and is one about goal posts, not the intolerance of the left.

3. Internal politics are more reliable. The average American can understand more of the nuance of what's happening in their country because it's reported & discussed more, and competing sources are more readily available.

4. Let's be honest, it's not like the academy is swimming in Muslims either.

Kristoff agrees that blatant homophobes, racists, misogynists, etc don't deserve to be hired.
Debt: The First 5000 Years
> On a side note Oculus and WhatsApp seem to be some of the dumbest expenditures Facebook could have ever made. 13 billion dollars for a messaging app.

Since being acquired by Facebook WhatsApp has doubled its active user base to over a billion users. If it was in the hands of Google right now it would be considered a very real threat to Facebook. I'd call preventing that one of the smartest expenditures Facebook has made.
I don't really think they will be self-sustainable, even on a small scale, but I think they can (and will) do much more than they are doing now with high-rise factory farming. Detroit, for example, has some empty places to start with. Also, these sorts of things can be done right outside of a city using smaller amounts of land - until we have more ecological transportation, that's a good start.

Once we are able to grow the protein (cuts of beef, chicken, etc) in labs, it wil get much closer. Hopefully that is better for the environment than live animals.

But then again, I do not believe people actually want self-sustainability with foodstuffs, nor do I think we should be growing everything in a self-contained community. A lot of folks in Western countries eat a wide variety of foods and spices that aren't best grown in their climates and I think it would take much more energy to grow them where they simply don't thrive. If we get far enough with GMO's, this could be solved.
I got my first girl friend, mini project approval in college and many more from that gtalk. I was devastated to know it was discontinued. They could have just named hangouts as gtalk and released it. Which would have been a good effort.
Companies work so hard to create brand value in their products but Google unintentionally creates value and destroys them later on. Phew.
You're right. Different communities will have different views. I'd argue we call it a bubble because we perceive other people's excessive optimism as potentially harmful. Therefore, saying bubble is optimistic for us on HN

If you can't jump through the mental hoops I'm making I don't blame you. This is just what my brain thinks
If an Icelandic couple moves to Africa, learns a Bantu language, and has a child who then also learns the language, is the child then a Bantu?

You can be non-Caucasian and still be German.

A country is the spirit and character of a people. That's what makes a country what it is. Not political boundaries on a map. And groups of people don't just take on a new spirit and character if they move into new political boundaries en masse.

The spirit and character of a people comes from their DNA. And their DNA comes from their environment over many thousands of years.

If the majority of the population in Germany were to be African or Arab, do you really think Germany would retain it's particular character that makes it European and German? No of course not! You would have to be insane to think that it would.

Were that to come to pass, Germany would look a lot more like countries in Africa or the Middle East than a European country.

With the recent migrant madness we are already seeing troubling signs of this, with loads of horrendous crimes hitherto unknown in Europe.

It's not just the excess of crime that doesn't bode well, but that these foreign populations, even into 2nd 3rd generation receive welfare at much higher rates than the general population.

Why would it ever be a good idea to take in loads of immigrants who are a net drain on the economy in multiple ways? Europe can't babysit the world in this way. Not only does make it make no sense, but it is unsustainable, the time at which our welfare states have become totally dismantled from this looting is rapidly approaching.

Many resources are finite. Why should grandparents who spent a life time contributing to the system have their benefits cut, so politicians can try to import future voters in order to extend their reign? It's madness. It is destroying the western world.

So, that's a long-winded way of saying, no a "non-caucasian" or anything else but an ethnic European, ethnic German cannot be a "german." Maybe someone else is a citizen of the Bundesrepublik. But that is just a piece of paper symbolizing an abstract system of agreements. The biological reality of what makes the German people what they are and by extent what Germany is, is another thing entirely.

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I'm sure all of the Germans of Turkish familial origin

Funny you picked the Turks, who are notoriously unintegrated in Germany. Just like all the muslims across Europe of course, but some of the Turks have been here since the 1970s. So it makes people take notice and say, "uh oh!" In fact, this was more or less the reason for Angela Merkel's dictum years back saying "Multiculturalism has failed."
Ray Kurzweil building chatbot for Google
I rely extensively on Gchat via Adium.
The genetic distance between a German and an African is many, many multiples of the genetic distance between a German and a Pole.
That letter spends a large portion on detailing how the gloves are not capable of two way communication but it seems like the path from speaker -> deaf could be tackled using supplementary technology. One such method (ignoring problems with real-time language processing) would be a speech to text displayed on a HUD (think google glass).

Perhaps their criticism against the marketing of the project still stands as it is definitely not a panacea for the problem of communication between ASL and English.

They also bring up the problem of hand motions not being enough to fully express the ASL statement in English, however one could imagine a dialect of ASL that could utilize alternate syntax that would allow for better compatibility with English. As with the other criticism, it seems the gloves are merely the first piece of the puzzle but certainly not the full solution.
This is on a website that blocks adbocker users. He should be more worried about that.
he mentality that AI is going to take over, this time it's different (in aggregate, I'm not saying everyone holds this view

Do you remember the saying that it's very difficult to make someone understand something if their salary depends on NOT understanding it?

"Data Science" is the latest hot industry to be in, if you can keep the hype going, promise some miracles of machine learning then you can score a big payday. That's what's really happening here.
It actually probably won't work.

Because DEP aka W^X will mark the section of memory containing the string as non-executable, so it will segfault when the instruction pointer hits that address. You can disable that security feature though with a compiler option.
> Economic status propagates through generations much more directly

Economic status only lasts on average 3 generations.

> genetic quality like intelligence (which isn't even a quality commanded to a significant degree by genetics)

Actually quite the opposite. Intelligence is almost entirely genetic.

The reason you think economic status propagates is actually that intelligence propagates, and intelligence is strongly correlated with income.
Thanks. That helps with my original question - how portable will this be? If it just needs a very small nuclear reactor with a tiny amount of fuel, then they should be able to have a power source "that generates 25 megawatts" and can "fire 10 times a minute through a barrel capable of lasting 1,000 rounds" on a ship. But what about a truck? Having a weapon with a 125 mile range isn't necessarily all that great if it is too big and heavy to get within 125 miles of most of the things you want to shoot at.
edit: it's a joke. I'm an idiot.
Moving country is difficult. First, I'd need to change nationality, which is neither easy nor fast.

Then I have to see that I get my treatment continued in the other country. Hormones I'm getting paid, hair epilation I'm getting paid to half and my operation I'll get paid in Germany. But going to another country means I need to figure out how stuff goes, possibly get another therapist who knows about the process in that country, get the letters that I have either translated into their language or get new ones... it's not like there's any country that doesn't have a piece of doubt to any trans person unless you have lots of money and be able to pay it all yourself.
If you believe that's the point the OP was making, you did not click the link in the post you're replying to.
When every tiny suburb decides on its own whether it will allow public transport or not, then public transport will be sketchy and useless. Blaming this on individual counties is a waste of time, since counties are abstract entities that cannot feel guilt or remorse.
Reasonable should be regional. Noticed after the edit window, damnit.
> Additionally you could assign bonuses to anyone that friended or foed you.

I just some nostalgia for /. from this comment. People who friended or foed you were "fans" and "freaks", respectively.
Edit: still an idiot.
Never liked Peter Thiel. But now I know why.
I found the results of the study very interesting, but I wonder why it was limited to boys. That seems kind of arbitrary. Why not all children?
> You could also have eugenics designed to increase the number of 'quality' people. Say, for example, giving money to people with an IQ higher than 150 to make more children. Or those with amazing athletics skills, or amazing beauty...

And have a world full of Aspergers and Schizos (correlated with IQ) or some giant mutants unable to survive the next asteroid strike. I hope you get the point - we have no idea what we are doing.
Strangley, the tor site at one point mentions having javascript enabled by default. As far as I know, that is a no no for anonymous browsing using tor. But it also breaks most sites so there are not many times I actually use it. Even with javascript enabled, I'm sure you can still do a fair bit of anonymous browsing but I just don't trust java or the internet.
So why do you still get enough clean water and electricity? Not have brown/black outs and so on?
Street view images are fixed viewpoint and low resolution.
This is not the first comment if this type there.
But reading may have nothing to do with family's wealth. I grew up in really poor family (heck, we still had dirt floor on our kitchen when I was little), but I read a ton.
Why I was able to do it? Public library and school library.
I'm not sure how you'd maintain a breeze across the eye area that wasn't noticeable and distracting, though.
> What evidence do you have to suggest this is the case and that these conservative hypotheses are fairly investigated?

I had a discussion on Reddit about how we could fix the problem with the police and race in America. One thing that came up was that, culturally, "don't be a rat." That is a cultural nuance that stands in the way of resolving the issue.

In terms of wealth, I routinely witness white privilege in South Africa. I pissed about far too much in school, dropped out of university and yet I'm still successful. Contrast this with my Uber drivers: highly motivated blacks who have to work 10 times harder than I ever did. One is on his 2nd degree and is still battling to be successful. I very clearly have an unfair advantage. However, culturally, "you must vote for the ANC." The ANC are responsible for the continuation of inequality in South Africa. I believe that there would be slightly more opportunity (certainly not as much as I have) were it not for that cultural law.
Take a look at Signal be Open Whisper Systems - biggest problem with signal is that in order for you to verify the other parties identity in a fully trustworthy manner, you'd need to verify your keys in person.
Maybe, but at the same time I haven't yet seen a criticism of py3 that wasn't just a litany of complaints about backward compatibility. Even in this thread, I don't see a whole lot of substance behind the discontent.
Back in the day, it was normal for everyone to have some sort of multi-protocol chat client like Trillian or Adium or Pidgin, and everyone had multiple accounts too, MSN, ICQ, AIM etc some people even had Yahoo. You wouldn't care which one one of your contacts was online with, you could just chat. The "stickiness" of an individual chat system was very, very low, and the network effects didn't work like any of those companies expected them to.

You see it today with drivers having both Uber and Lyft apps open.
Please read, comprehend and then post.
From the page you didn't read that was linked in the OP:

> NOTICE: This document is Humorous. It MAY provide amusement but SHOULD NOT be taken seriously.
> it gave me a headache

This is possibly because the interpupillary distance wasn't correctly calibrated for your eyes, which means you didn't get the correct scale and depth of things (hard to notice explicitly except that your brain doesn't like it).