skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Imagine a few very fast automated shotgun turrets with birdshot."

Mounted on a smaller, lighter, much shorter range defensive quadcopter. Don't even need the fancy weapons, just collide with the larger, long range, very expensive attacking quadcopter.

Nothing is ever really new, and a lot of the "drones will solve everything" talk sounds exactly like "missiles will eliminate guns in military aircraft" from the 50s/early 60s. That didn't turn out very well, and if you ignore the details that don't matter, drones are tactically merely very slow, short range, traditionally cheaper, missiles. Yeah yeah the electronic speed controllers are infinitely interesting to a EE but to a grunt a drone weapon system is tactically a lame cheap missile. So your attack helicopter of the future will have drone wingmen, but it'll also have guns. Or some infantry platoons might carry a couple anti-armor drone weapons instead of a couple AT-4 or LAW rockets, but they'll still dig trenches and carry some kind of M16 variant.
> They actually are racist and nasty people and we shouldn't group them together with other conservative/right/trump voters.

This sounds like stereotyping to me.
As an able bodied straight male working in tech, I don't understand how any man can be offended by the killallmen hashtag. I don't feel threatened. They can't even hurt my feelings. Offended men must be very soft and have small dongles.
In other words, Twitter gives the Information They Don't Want You To Know badge to a group that already thrives on such framing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12961185
> It wasn't clear how exactly this balance was measured, but the net effect can be positive.

That can certainly be the case; of course, once we develop websites with the purpose of having as many people as possible take those drugs, their likelihood of being harmed grows and their likelihood of recover go down.
yes, but the same could be done by simply booting from USB stick. How does this vulnerability makes it worse? (unless one has BIOS password and strong physical security)
The article says

"The social network has not given an explanation for its actions."

Banning is fine, but it would be nice if they can actually say in writing, citing reasons and evidence, why they banned them (even if lots of evidence exists elsewhere).

Banning without any explanation isn't of any use to anyone
Speaking of male tears...
Hi Clarity team,

What would you say the primary motivation in switching from material2 or ng2-bootstrap to clarity would be? At my work we have an Angular 2 app still in development and have been rather dissatisfied with the available component libraries so far. We're at a point where it wouldn't be unreasonable to switch UI frameworks.

Additionally it looks like you have only implemented some of the material design spec. What was the reason for this / why not go full material?
Yeah, you just didn't provide the full quote. Be ashamed for trying to BS our readers.
Why not start with people begin able to submit national referendums and vote on national referendums. Maybe with 60% to pass.
I agree 100%. We need exchange, dilution, exposure therapy, to become familiar with each others' ways and ultimately realize we're not a danger to one another if we're all working, well-fed, raising our children in peace.

The counterargument I see people making is that "hating $group is not an opinion." They see opinions as matters of taste, like twitter should just be about discussing flavors of ice cream, while racism is purely a crime and has to be punished. My response to that is words from the tip of the iceberg. We must discuss what's under the ocean's surface. NIMBY'ing assholes spoils that conversation space.
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I'm not a motorcyclist, but there's no way I'd do it now. People pay so little attention to what they do. And people get in their cars and they think they're the only ones in existence (except who they're texting); not courtesy at all.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop

I actually used it for a couple of weeks back then.
Another great example! Good job demonstrating!
That would be a great feature. You could spend 500 shapes on the background and 500 on the foreground, instead of needing 3000 to get high detail everywhere.

It would be possible to do that in the app if you could restrict new shapes to a specified region.
Just so long as they don't post anything supporting Trump.
Eh? Can you please explain the difference... it's 140 characters of text FFS.
Mind sharing an example/hypothetical of it being relative?
/r/AskHistorians bans people who post jokes, I don't know if that qualifies as "dissent". It seems in line with the purpose of the sub.
Having shared a twin bed before, I can believe the accuracy of the 50 number.
For anyone not getting the joke, see http://bash.org/?244321
>that could be solved automatically by hand.

looks like you should have had a merge conflict in that sentence /s
A litany? Seems an opportunity missed not to produce it rather than resort to mere assertion. If you want to persuade others of your view, that is.
Hi wiradikusuma, for now maybe but when building Clarity we considered a future where we can have ClarityNG/ClarityReact/etc. However, for now, we're focusing most of our energy on ClarityNG to make sure we can deliver the next set of components to complete the library.
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Because /r/The_Donald is a community, they don't give out bans for the entire Reddit website, only from their own community.

Twitter is not a community, it's a website akin to Reddit which contains communities.
Doubtful. Only white people are the devil.
alt-right by definition is racist and sexist. that is the definition of the alt-right platform.
I think what happened with Chatroulette would be the first example of why video commenting is a terrible idea. Designed to allow people to video chat with random strangers, within days became a venue for showing your penis to random strangers.
here is input from my pharmacist friend on this article:

"Just saw this study come out a few days ago and it kind of is no news. The harm of nsaids has been known and the warnings are out there. I tell patients everyday not to take advil/naproxen if they are older than 40/50 because of the heart and stomach issues.

Will be interesting once they release celebrex as over the counter, this latest study will definitely catapult that process exponentially.

In the mean time, only take nsaids if u really need to, with food and i tell patients to eat frequently and not too much salt to combat the water retention which causes the heart issues."
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I was planning on reading Flash Boys at some point but if this is your overall description of the book my enthusiasm has been tempered.

Have you read, and if so, would you recommend I read Flash Boys: Not So Fast by Peter Kovac for a more balanced/informed perspective on the subject? Should I read both? Keep in mind my knowledge of HFT is extremely limited.
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It depends. There are two angles to this that I can see:

A) Twitter has a bad reputation for bullying and harassment; almost any financial analysis I read about Twitter has this as a strong negative. If Twitter is cracking down on this finally, this would help this reputation and potentially it's profit.

(Note that I'm assuming here that Twitter actually is suspending these accounts not because they are alt-right, but because they are bullying or trolling. I know the alt-right has a bad reputation in some sources for engaging in trolling behavior; I do not know whether this applies to the individual accounts in question.)

B) Being a haven for extremely divisive speech tends not to be the type of place that attracts advertising from companies with large amounts of capital; companies like these (larger ones) tend to default to inclusive for obvious reasons (it's better to have a potential customer base of everyone).

I don't like the idea of banning alt-right accounts for the sake of them being alt-right, but I can easily see justifying bans if either a small population harasses a larger portion of the users, or if significant advertising dollars are at sake. Twitter is a business.
Sounds like a good PhD project.
I think the musician Jarvis Cocker explained this best in his song, "Running the World." Particularly the lines, "In theory, I respect your right to exist, I will kill you if you move in next to me."

People love to free speech, except when it involves supporting all the things they don't like. For the record, I don't love any extremes and certainly not the alt-right, but censorship is worse. It is never justified, under any circumstances.

If you don't like something, don't listen. People are and can be protected plenty of other ways, for example by laws against murder. The law anywhere isn't perfect, but censorship is even less so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRGGbyZzuTg
Nairobi funnily enough. The best hosting provider I've found so far has been truehost.co.ke. Many places claim to be in Kenya then are actually just reselling hosting in Europe.

My info's in my profile, I always love to meet tech folk working in Nairobi.
Do they call themselves alt-right?

edit: honest question
You aren't serious are you? The "alt-right" movement has put out several videos in recent days that shows just that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXpi3F0E5ro
You're right...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_govern...
I remember the die techie scum protests. Vomiting on busses, throwing rocks at bus windows etc. It was very threatening.
Is this a direct response to Google Data Studio [1] ?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897415
Really?! Is this among the elderly who already have lots of little aches here and there or the general population? When I broke my arm I took 400mg about six or seven times over three days and for a cold I tend to take one or two paracetamol, but taking pain killers regularly sounds very absurd to me and I don’t know of anyone who takes anything stronger than coffee regularly and more than once a month.
Can you provide proof to backup that claim? Seems like a serious appeal to emotion with no actual substance.
There was more to the Trump campaign than just misinformation on social media. Without wanting to rehash old discussions I think it's fair to say that most of the people who voted for Trump acknowledged his flaws but ultimately found Hillary Clinton less palatable.

Personally I don't think there was a single good candidate on the ballot.
> Twitter is a mandatory medium for public communication.

That's the precise difference.

There are two solutions I envisage for Twitter's behaviour. One is a market solution of people moving away from it (e.g. towards Gab). This might be infeasible due to network effects.

The other is regulation: communication services above a certain size be required to be an open platform. This would still allow twitter to ban people, but anyone would be allowed to re-used Twitter's data feed making it much easier to set up a competitor.

> censorship on Twitter is worse than in a subreddit

Not least because anyone can set up their own subreddit with their own moderation rules.
You really just aren't looking:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UofT/comments/4rr3ga/blm_toronto_wh...

That's Facebook but you can find blatantly racist, sexist, etc stuff from people on the left of the political spectrum on every major social network these days.
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As long as it is applied consistently. Are they also banning those spewing hate for Trump or the police?

It is just like everyone who is rioting with slogans like 'not my President.' These same people were giving Trump a hard time when he said the election system was rigged and didn't enthusiastically say he would support the results of the election. The left is doing a good job reenforcing the exact image many people voted against. The elitist attitude of tolerance unless disagreed with.

EDIT

Thanks for the downvotes and further proving my point. I would never vote for Trump, but simply pointing out hypocrisy and double standards does get people upset.
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>They use military police units to bring law and order.

Considering the level of corruption from top to bottom in Rio, do they really bring "law and order"?
Yes they are and yes it is. Marketing is trying to convince you otherwise and I'm a little shocked you swallow it so easily.
Cool.

Does it go by how GitHub tags each repo or by an independent look at the code in each repo? Maybe by file extensions?
Anyone looking for self-hosted data exploration platform (only SQL), Airbnb's Superset[0] (previously Caravel) is good alternative.

[0]: https://github.com/airbnb/superset
There are fanless NUC cases available. I have one from Akasa, it's a beautiful piece of kit. Solid black metal with heatsink ridges on the top, it looks and feels like a hi-fi amplifier.

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/akasa-newton-h-aluminium-fan...
Yes, I understand that this is the logical followup, but there were individuals standing up to orders and being executed, and it didn't make a lick of difference when the problem was systemic.

As I opened with, yes, to some extent we all share the blame, but appealing to everyone to individually make the difference will never work, because it only takes a few to still get the (dirty) job done. If everyone played nice we wouldn't need any laws.
I'd also recommend you to have a look at F#. It's functional language so it might be more intuitive for mathematician to learn. And it can also call R functions, so you can use all the R statistical function + packages.
Someone can say they hate The Jews on Twitter. What they can't do is say they hate a particular Jewish person, and link to that person's account, and encourage their tens of thousands of followers to post anti Semitic hate to that person.
Hi scwoodal, absolutely.

Before deciding to open source, we thought really hard about the long term strategy for Clarity. We did not want to open source the project and not be able to continue to build it. One of the many reasons we felt confident this is going to happen is that in the past year, we've build a very strong Clarity community internally. Over 35 product teams within VMware use Clarity and many more are on the way (many of them have not released yet but they depend on Clarity as a Design System for their future).

The team you see on the community page [0] of Clarity is a 100% dedicated to making Clarity successful. This will become more apparent in the next days and weeks as we continue to push more work into Clarity and continue to have more releases of it!

[0] https://vmware.github.io/clarity/community/
I would be extremely doubtful of that.

IMHO next step for snapchat is somewhere in AR and I bet that they are using data from their users for testing/training their face recognition. Also pictures/videos can be one of their assets for creating other features/products. Snapchat has ads, so data collection for ad targeting is extremely likely.
So... Flappy Bird?
"A cartoon of Pepe the Frog is a commonly used symbol of the alt-right" is the subtitle of the image in the BBC article. Look at it, the drawing innocence is really staggering: I'm wondering what is the link, whether the link is warranted, and whether Twitter used posts of Pepe the Frog to recognize alt-right people. Sounds like a badly AI-generated inference to me.
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There's a difference between mere 'alternate opinions' and hateful, prejudiced opinions.

It's seems disingenuous for you to conflate them.
And people say it snowed in the summer and therefore global warming is false. Is it the scientific community's responsibility to step up every time John Q. Public makes an entirely uninformed and irrelevant statement?
What's the meaning of this?

Are you arguing that the classifications themselves are biased?
Twitter bans them from using Twitter, but the /r/The_Donald echo chamber bans anyone with a counter view to their own.

Twitter is effectively the digital commons, run by a professional organization.

A subreddit is a subsection of a reddit, a website that lets any user roll up with a clowncar of mods and claim some land within their namespace.
People were blindsided because the majority didn't vote for Trump, but the US's backwards system meant that didn't matter.

In a democratic system where everyone's vote was equal, we would not have President-Elect Trump.
> The trending method of improving diversity and inclusivity is through exclusivity.

We should remember the source of this article, the BBC, said not so long ago: Whites Need Not Apply.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/03/bbc-criticised-by...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/695312/BBC-seeking-research...
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The comments here are extremely disheartening. It appears that the HN community values hate speech and harassment over "free speech" on a privately owned platform. I applaud Twitter for making itself a safer space for marginalized groups with this step even if it is very little, very late.

Edit: it is with heavy heart that I must say that I am EXTREMELY depressed by the amount of white racism denial I am seeing in the comments here. The hacker news community is demonstrating to me an extreme aversion to understanding or deconstructing racism in this country and is satisfied with endlessly repeating ancient defenses against racism under the package of feeling oppressed because marginalized groups of people are finally speaking out against their oppression.
Abuse on the platform reportedly lost them a Disney acquisition.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/disney-sa...

> Walt Disney Co. decided not to pursue a bid for Twitter Inc. partly out of concern that bullying and other uncivil forms of communication on the social media site might soil the company’s wholesome family image, according to people familiar with management’s thinking.
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One of the suspended accounts belong to Richard Spencer: " an American white nationalist known for promoting white supremacist views" [1]. The others are the same type of character.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer
No, they are posting anti-white bigotry and threats to kill the President.

Twitters "cultural background training" for its new mods surely contains the progressive stance that you can't be racist against white people.
>saying "adult neural networks" seems to give the intelligence trait to some piece of software

Ignoring the cultural reference everyone here is talking about:

How do you get that perception? We apply the adjective adult to animals to whom we (rightfully or wrongfully) don't attribute intelligence, and even to other lifeforms which we usually categorize as non-sentient (e.g. adult trees).

I think it is perfectly legitimate to assign the adjective adult to a neural network that has either left the training phase, or that is only undergoing marginal changes in further training. This seems to be mostly in line with how the word adult is used in other contexts.

Not that I'm opposed to calling software intelligent, in fact I think it would be weird if we couldn't call something intelligent just because it's silicon-based instead of being based on organic neurons. I just find it odd that you associate "adult" with intelligence at all.
By their opponents anyway.
Citation?

From Wikipedia: "The alt-right has no formal ideology... 'Alt-right' is a recently coined umbrella term, with no clear criteria of membership yet agreed upon."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

Would each of the people being banned agree that they've signed on to an admittedly racist and sexist platform? I doubt it.

EDIT: Let me amend "I doubt it" to "I am not sure and haven't done enough research to have an informed opinion." From the article I can't get the full set of people that are known to have been banned or how many of them are professed white nationalists...
Why not just text them? It works everywhere.
For all the people downvoting, it's true:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/killallmen

About half of the tweets are serious "killallmen" comments. The other half are people complaining about it. And, complaining that twitter won't do anything, despite their terms of service saying such behavior is ban-worthy.

Or look at twitter banning Milo... because other people engaged in harassment. People who had no clear tie to Milo.

At no point could Twitter point to Milo's behavior, and say "this violated our terms of service, so he's banned". They just banned him, despite their terms of service.

I've mentioned this before on HN, and asked "What, exactly, did Milo do? Please point to something he did."

I received no replies, but got plenty of downvotes. Which says to me that the people involved (like the ones downvoting here) know their opinions are contrary to all facts and reason.

So if you're thinking of downvoting, try instead to convince me I'm wrong. Adult discussions are much more productive than naive attempts at censorship.
Yes, it's a very convenient label to throw on people who disagree with the orthodoxy regardless of their actual beliefs.
I gave up when I looked at the procedure.
Should we pay for email? Interesting take on this
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Good.

Twitter has a legal and ethical responsibility to not allow their platform to promote vile racism, sexism, Islamophobia, etc. No one owes anyone a platform to spew their hatred.

If the bigots don't like it no one is stopping them from getting their own websites.
If you bought it with 1TB already in it, you wouldn't have to upgrade anything. ;)

It would be nice to be able to upgrade, but really, it's not a dealbreaker for me. I really enjoy developing on Mac and I needed to upgrade for my AIr, so I bought a new one of these.

Windows is still lacking on the dev side (though I'm hoping it gets there soon), and Linux isn't quite where I need it to be for my personal stuff.
It's always 20 years away.
Sure. Are you agreeing or disagreeing with me? The T_D subreddit explicitly says that dissent is not tolerated, so yes, I suppose it is in line with the purpose of the sub. The problem is with them being upset with twitter for enforcing their purpose: a platform open to everyone to express themselves outside of hate speech/abuse.
I'm all for at as soon as we pass a carbon tax and then use the money to lower middle class income taxes.
The reason there's a white supremecist in the white house is precisely that people silenced white people on places like Twitter when they complained about institutional social injustices against them.

So the white people got together and voted as a minority bloc for a member of their minority that would favor their interests over all others.

Your solution of trying harder to supress them will only get more Donald Trumps elected.
If Linus had insight into issues around merging it's because that's what he does for a living. Every change to the Linux Kernel is ultimately approved/merged by him. Think about that. More than any person on earth, Linus knew what the issues involved with DVCS were and he chose a solution that fit all the use cases he saw on a daily basis.
Could anyone tell me why there is a three-microphone array built in to the touchbar? My privacy-sense is tingeling like crazy over this.