skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone from the south east, it is no boogeyman. But I do agree that we are much better off than many of the country examples from that article.

In my experience in the SE, most individuals themselves aren't directly racist to any other given individual of color (aside from very specific stereotypes), but they propagate racism through their actions/policies they support/group think with others who feel similarly.
It's not clear what you're trying to say here, but it doesn't count as civil and substantive discussion. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am not so sure that what we have right now for tuition is as bad as it seems.

Because people are paying for it, we are getting much higher quality than we would if it was completely government funded. Also, it's still being paid by people who want it rather than it just being a tax.

Because it's expected a lot of people are getting an education that wouldn't be educated otherwise. This is improving our overall productivity.

The rising cost of an education right now is an issue, and we can do a combination of letting it self-correct (many businesses and students are realizing they really don't need a BS to do a good job) as well as adding public schools so more people can get the AS to get a good education.

I don't see any reason to expect that this solution is less optimal than any of the other ones you have mentioned, and it seems much cheaper than revamping the entire system.

To me the root cause of rising health insurance costs is the rising cost of all the lawsuits that doctors and hospitals deal with. When we were just paying for the doctor's education it was a little expensive, but nothing like what we are paying now. You're really just padding the budget to deal with legal fees. A more moderate court system (that awards smaller payouts) would knock this out easily.

I am not familiar with the housing issue, I would have to learn more about it to make a comment.

But I really do think the issues you bring up are best solved with a moderate solution.
That self destructive lack of forethought though was clearly there for him, as evinced by his avoidable death.
For those who don't want to read the article, "What happened when I challenged the PC campus culture at NYU" really means
"What happened when I tweeted a bunch of right-wing garbage and associated it with my employer, by name":

> What if Trump triggers a few hundred thousand liberal totalitarians to jump out of their dorm windows? one can only hope. #TriggerWarning
https://twitter.com/antipcnyuprof/status/780573017382481920

The answer is that you're asked to take a leave of absence because you're embarrassing everyone.

Shed no tears though, I'm sure Professor Edgelord will do just fine in the conservative talk circuit for years to come.
When you say "ISRO doesn't appear to pay competitive salaries for engineers" who are you comparing with? SpaceX/NASA?

ISRO pays competitive salaries for engineers. At least as per Indian pay scale. Most ISRO scientists/engineers lead a comfortable life. You can't compare the pay scale of a SpaceX/NASA employee with that of ISRO employee because the economies of both countries are vastly different. Also, SpaceX/NASA wouldn't hire Indian scientists/engineers in bulk to make it competitive anyways. So where is the question of competitive salaries?

"It will be interesting to see what ISRO's costs look like when increased salaries ripple through their workforce."

It won't make any difference. ISRO is a completely profitable enterprise for the Indian government. So even if the salaries are increased it won't make any impact on profits.

"BTW there are several startups targeting small satellites. One is the Electron rocket from Rocket Labs. There's also the European Vega rocket, and Japan's Epsilon rocket. SpaceX has already had one launch purchased by a company that groups together small satellites to launch together.[1]"

Yeah but these companies don't have the same track record as ISRO does. I checked the companies you mentioned and the launches range from 1-15 in the past decade with quite a few failed attempts. ISRO on the other hand has had 56 launches with only 8 failed launches. I'm only talking about launches from "Satish Dhawan Space Centre" and not even considering ISRO and Arianespace collaboration which launched heavy payloads.

"All in all, small launches are a very active market."

ISRO is not just focusing on small launches. It recently tested a Reusable Launch System: RLV-TD. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzxe6q60R70 Of course there is no brouhaha or chest thumping involved as the ISRO team is pretty modest about whatever progress it makes. Hence you won't find this featuring on your Western news channels. This reusable shuttle will be used for sending a manned mission to Moon.
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That doesn't answer my question, at all. What is it about capitalism that makes the strategy you describe a) inevitable, and b) worthy of regulation (since you brought that up)?

Also, I disagree that the modern economy is unregulated. Quite the contrary, in fact. And it's regulation, bailouts and crony capitalism that protect companies who make awful products.
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Sure, if I can short it

When's the IPO, know anybody in Congress to trade the enforcement actions in advance on my behalf?
My first uneducated guess is RF interference. Thinking back to even my first iBook my mac laptops always seemed to have worse wifi reception than my windows laptops.
I think in all pieces for or against an -ism the author should first define what that term means to them. People usually don't agree on some crucial aspect of the term or will interpret and label a given example differently. So one should also provide a few examples and explain why the given definition applies.
Or your name is "Olivia Gray". (True story, corporate mail filter blocked all that person's email)
I think in all pieces for or against an -ism the author should first define what that term means to them. People usually don't agree on some crucial aspect of the term or will interpret and label a given example differently. So one should also provide a few examples and explain why the given definition applies.

When you do this you'll find that there will be two ends of the spectrum where people agree, a la https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox and then you can start to think how consensus can be built. For example, age of consent: Pretty much all normal people would agree that, say, 10 is too young and 20 is too old. The value to be used is this bracketed.

Note that there may be problematic issues where perhaps this is not easily done, e.g. gun rights. Everybody would agree on the "too much", for example carrying RPGs on you. But what constitutes "too little"? For many, this value is zero, guns shouldn't be allowed in public, period, while others disagree.
Right, thanks. I actually use CrashPlan myself and still missed that!
Play the lottery, but accept that you could do so for thousands of lifetimes before you win, and unfortunately, you only get the one lifetime.
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The problem is that younger devs/owners are much less likely to have ever experienced any significant outage, so it's a non-issue for them. They can't see why they should pay good money to prevent it.

We've had much better results with slightly older and more experienced people, who realize that our service is an absolute bargain compared to the cost and risk of attempting to run continuous backups, etc. themselves.
Slavery in the US was not a liberal conspiracy. People from the South were ready to die for essentially a racist system. They were not liberals. Jim Crow laws were not passed by liberals. Voting restrictions (e.g. fake literacy tests and jellybean guessing) was not a conspiracy either. Discrimination on AirBnB and Uber exists. Liberals aren't making that up. Bogeymen - now they aren't real. Racism - that shit's real bro.
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Don't worry, they can appeal to the European courts.
When you've had to deal with the hours-of-video problem, you learn to be much more selective for when to start recording, and for how long to record. But even with that, and end even when you've learned the tricks of your editing software, and when you have given up the inner perfectionist, in my experience each minute of the final (amateur!) production still takes 10-100x more time to put together.

Automated editing solutions would help, but compared to editing by hand, I'd say they would compare same way as Instagram filters compare to a photographer/retoucher working in Lightroom/Photoshop.
So... the noble mission of Wikileaks is to slightly inconvenience people in power?

How noble.
For people wondering, Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash. No evidence of it being anything other than an accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wellstone#Death
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This is a completely unrealistic view of how designers work.

I've yet to meet a web designer who would have the first clue what to do with hot metal. There are some old guys who remember physical typesetting for print, but design has been primarily electronic for around twenty years now.

The history of the web started after most print had already moved to digital fonts and layout with Pagemaker, then Quark Xpress.

It's one of the tragedies of browser development that it took the web 15 years to start to catch up with industry standard page layout possibilities, and another 5 years to start dealing with fonts intelligently.

And the web - frankly - still sucks for this kind of work. It's not that responsive design is harder than print, it's more that from a designer's POV CSS has been a train wreck for most of its history.

I understand some people here want their own font stylings, and that's fine. But designers use fonts for a reason, and "Not invented here because I don't like this" isn't a good enough reason to make it impossible for them to do that.
All of these things are incredibly relevant. Over the years, US-Russian relations have fluctuated between begrudging tolerance, open contempt, proxy wars, and even nuclear brinksmanship.

While the odds of nuclear conflict between them may be lower then the odds of one between India and Pakistan (And this is an arguable point), it will be incredibly more devastating.

As such, it's incredibly disingenuous to claim that New Delhi has it's thumb on the doomsday button, but that Moscow or Washington don't.
I think the answer lies much deeper than that.

There is plenty of literature on this idea:

Racism is the modern manifestation of very primal instincts and behaviors which are an integral part of human groups and societies.

To work well as a society, you need to have an identity, a sense of self, of cohesion. For that, you need some contrast, an opposite. Other religions, other countries, other skin colors. They all provide a convenient object for differentiation.

In addition, it wasn't long ago that hunting, aggression, violence was an essential part of survival, and we all still have those instincts. This aggression is mostly under wraps and deeply hidden in modern society, but it's present. And it needs to be directed somewhere, outside of the group.

The more presence a different group gets within your own, the more differentiation and multitude of variety, the more prevalent racism becomes. So the more international and diverse we become, the bigger the problems with racism.

And with smaller satisfaction/happiness, there is more aggression.

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Sadly, I really don't see a solution in the short term. Our brains are just not wired for the happy, inclusive, diverse, all accepting wonderland lefties aspire to.
That's such a transparent strawman. The point is that a judgement has merit solely based on its justification, not on its syntactic form.

I don't think you can justify prejudice against Jews. People who think they can often use epistemological frameworks I find, to be frank, stupid. At the end of the day, we can judge ideas based on their content, their meaning. The idea that this is equivalent to an irrational judgement, like one based on skin color, is what I am attacking here.
"Do you believe other market participants should be forced to buy your stock while the stock is obviously crashing just so you can get a favorable outcome?"

A free market creates all kinds of poor outcomes for example.

Me:Do you think that American consumers should have to buy their lifesaving drugs at a few thousand percent markup from a company that manipulated the FDA in order to obtain a monopoly on a 100 year old drug?

http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/heres-why-your-a...

Wall Street: Yes, free market.

Later that day...

Me: This stock is falling I want to sell.

Wall Street: Nope. Market protections kicked in you see.
I've been using Windows since 3.1 but I think Windows 7 will be the last version.

What good is a OS that can't be trusted to be available when you need it?
I went with softsynths for a while, and you certainly get a wild variety of sonic possibilities for a lot less money. They are fantastic for sound sculpting. If I was going to do a movie soundtrack, or sound design for games or something, I would likely rely on them almost exclusively.

However I found myself really missing the immediacy of knobs and buttons, especially when I got back into playing my Korg MS-2000 with other people. That's not a true analog synth, but it has a front panel that is comparable to them. I have used MIDI controllers to try to get the same kind of feeling from a softsynth, but there's something to be said for having your control surface's layout match that of your synth--I never had the same kind of intuition about keying in or tweaking a sound via MIDI controller as I do with the Korg.

I dream of an interface that can be physically rearranged so that its knobs and sliders mirror the layout onscreen. Like a tactile touchscreen. A good synth's signal flow can be understood by "reading" its control layout, whether it's hardware or software, and for me at least, there is a huge loss when mentally mapping a well-designed interface to a boring row of eight unlabeled knobs.
What do they do now?
Play the HN Steve Jobs drinking game:

Take a drink if comment claims Tim Cook is no Jobs/visionary.

Take a drink if comment mentions going nuclear on Google.

Take a drink if comment mentions his cancer would have been fine if he didn't follow Eastern/New Age quackery.

Take a drink if comment mentions he wasn't a great philanthropist, make it a double if they go straight to accusing him of being a "sociopath".
Did you see the later training data example? http://imgur.com/DRll02M
You don't know C++ full stack? Who's on the outside now.

You are witnessing the inception of a meme.

honestly, this means to me that the recruiter doesn't know what he's talking about.
What if instead we as a society choose to do better than picking sides, and properly investigate what will benefit us in the grand scheme of things.

> We want everyone to go to college?

Do you think college is the only solution to a more educated and fiscally responsible society? Is there no other solutions to the situation than College? What about education prior to College, is there room for improvement there so we can specialize College and reduce costs in some fashion? Could we streamline education for those who know what they want to be and provide the proper framework for those who do not?

Sometimes it's not about sides, but about asking the proper questions, and questioning the system that exists.
> Holodomor was not a genocide against Ukranians, it was ideologically charged event

This is still a debatable point, with no clear agreed definition.

"The Holodomor genocide question consists of the attempts to determine whether the Holodomor, the catastrophic man-made famine of 1933 that claimed millions of lives in Ukraine, was an ethnic genocide or an unintended result of the "Soviet regime's re-direction of already drought-reduced grain supplies to attain economic and political goals." The event is recognized as a crime against humanity by the European Parliament, and a genocide in Ukraine, while the Russian Federation considers it part of the wider Soviet famine of 1932–33 and corresponding famine relief effort The debate among historians is ongoing and there is no international consensus among scholars or governments on whether the Soviet policies that caused the famine fall under the legal definition of genocide."[1]

However you view it, it was an horrific event where millions died of hunger.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor_genocide_question
More curious to see what happens if the PM makes the call, but the court says it doesn't count. Does the EU decide it counts or not?
So you're blaming Google for a Microsoft issue in failing to update their Amazon app? Maybe you should check your facts next time.
I can't wait to try this out!
It's too bad they didn't capitalize on the opportunities to partner with Facebook for live video. And their API is a joke. If they would open it up, developers might make something that would drive sales.
As a fulltime Magento developer, I have a feeling that Magento's marketshare will drop (sorry Ben). Magento 2.1 is still alpha at best, with tons of (critical) bugs & core concepts still being completely changed (and this at 2.1!!). Please focus on getting the system stable first. I guess I'll just have to edit the core ;) - and hope my pull requests will get accepted.
We are not a country accustomed to, or we'll prepared for, referendums on complex subjects (I don't know of any that are except Switzerland, which is built on them). If the question were posed again tomorrow, the results might be significantly different.

I don't think we'd necessarily benefit from a massive u-turn, but I think many leave supporters are disgruntled at what it has now been revealed they were convinced to vote for.

So maybe riots, but also quite possibly not, and not necessarily (as it was put elsewhere in the thread) because people are just rolling over and taking it...
To what degree to you think social desirability bias plays a role in the results of this self-report questionnaire study?
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Yeah, Kratom definitely has a lot of potential to do a lot of good for opiate addicts. I disagree with the analogy to e-cigs though. With e-cigs you can put a much stronger concentration of nicotine in each hit depending on the liquid used. It's still exactly the same chemical, ie. nicotine, binding to the exact same receptors in the same way. With Kratom, you are binding to the same receptors as opiates, but it's a different chemical which binds/antagonizes the receptors differently than other opiates. It's this difference which makes tapering Kratom easier than other opiates. This difference does not apply to cigs and e-cigs.
Are web fonts smart enough to download only the symbols that you’re using? With Unicode growing all the time, and fonts supporting significant parts of that total set, it would be insane to have to download hundreds of thousands of symbols when you’re just trying to write a 3-word headline.

Another problem is aggressive filtering, oddly. I once visited China and found my entire web site wouldn’t load; it turned out to be triggered by a font from a Google domain. How silly for content to be thrown out because an optional style element is unavailable. I have since stripped out all my Google dependencies.
I don't think promising a job will make Udacity on par with ITT. I am not qualified to comment on how good they are at placing candidates.

I am currently going through the course for Autonomous Robots on Udacity. I am not in it for a job and I am not even in that domain to begin with. I just want to write code for an autonomous toy car. I find the course very good, particularly for someone without a AI background. Its intuitive and very simply laid out. I really like the small videos and quizzes at the end of each. This is precisely because I have no backgroud in AI, however even I am finding it annoying when I have to review an old lecture. On the whole I really like it though.
I'm all for America having multiple parties. But remember, for any execution to happen, for the Government to function, pass laws and stay adaptable, the multiple parties will have to align and agree. To not go to war, the anti-war economic conservative and the Code Pink socialists would have to agree to come together on the issue. The way America is divided, I don't see how this happens easily.

It is difficult even in politically stable countries (see: Liberals and NDP in Canada). However, it is by and large the primary mode of operation for most democratic countries. The largest democracy, India, has 10's (100's?) of federal parties that organically align and dis-align to gain power on wedge issues.
And most of them do because they've been modified to work without Google services. As for keeping those Amazon versions up to date - that's not Google's problem. It's the developer's / Amazon's problem.
Hot take: If a company can't afford to pay its workers a living wage, it doesn't deserve to be a company anymore.
Variational Inference for Machine Learning [pdf]
I worked with one of the inventors of WiFi and he always cursed Apple's implementation of the spec and how he could get WiFi to fail in specific circumstances with his mac, when other devices where fine.

Of the 3 macs I've owned, I've always had WiFi issues - more so than my other machines.

This 'might' be related to whatever their underlying implementation is - sorry I don't know more details.
Somewhere along the line, being "anti-pc" became synonymous with being deliberately obnoxious and antagonistic.
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Damned if I do, damned if I don't.
Article 50 - i.e. notice to leave - has to be triggered in accordance with constitutional requirements.

The court ruling is clear notice that triggering A50 without parliamentary approval is unconstitutional.

What happens next is debatable, but the whole subject is a mess of pointless suicidal confusion, so it's really a battle between pragmatists and extremist ideologues.
I agree that generally the best position is a moderate one, but I think we achieve that by having two extremes scream at eachother until they're hoarse and fall exhausted into the middle of the aisle.
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A feature-length explanation on how and why Mosul fell to ISIS in 2014
Please, describe how this "mouse" consumes anything other than "cheese" for sustenance.