skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't strike me as a reasonable analogy.

1) Microchips don't grow autonomously in the first place, unlike organisms.

2) The article's point is that not only do humans have the "mask artwork and silicon wafers", but also the genes that other organisms use to regenerate portions of their body. A closer equivalence would be "the instructions on how to rebuild the missing half of the microchip from what remains".
The average front page Reddit post is thought to require about 323,500 views says... the internet.

Trump got about 13,000,000 votes in the primary election, which is relevant because its though primary voters are more active in the political participation.

The point being, I'm not sure given current headlines and the recency of the US election, that the front page stats are out of line.
Correct.

"Free speech" as enshrined in the US Constitution is designed to prevent the government from making laws against free expression. Any interpretation applying "free speech protections" to private entities hosting other private entities on their private property is either ideological, or an intense misunderstanding of the law.
I meant things that pertain to longevity - like jellyfish that don't die but simply "restart" their lives, or regeneration. If you look at tardigrades, there is a lot that is possible that we cannot yet do. But yeah, I understand where you're going.
You're being sloppy with terms. In the US, obscenity isn't protected by free speech, but non-obscene profanity is. Hate speech? Threats of violence aren't free speech, but a lot of odious hate speech is. Court cases about bullying frequently fail.

Of course Reddit, being private, has the right to do whatever it wants. But it's important to realize where the lines are drawn for public discourse.
your ISP knows everything anyway. I'm afraid that they will blackmail us in the future since most porn sites don't use https.
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"One wonders if these people are people at all, or instead soulless golem"[1]

The rise of neonazism in the US is real. To claim otherwise, to imply that it is an "arrant falsehood," is to be purposefully ignorant.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq-LnO2DOGE
Yeah, I couldn't help but think there's probably a reason no normal car or truck on the road has completely flat sides.
Don't think that just because natural selection tended to favor a particular thing that it's necessarily a good thing.

Some sheep have the most ridiculous horns because of how they compete for mates. If, in some alternate world, those sheep became intelligent and lived in a civilized society where such a thing was no longer relevant the horns themselves might have little worth other than prestige. They serve no functional purpose.

Humans have survived in spite of our relative weaknesses. We've got a seriously screwed up head, nothing in there is oriented correctly, and parts of our body are on the verge of self-destructing even at the best of times. We were never intended by nature to live more than twenty years, everything past that is actually quite unnatural, as everything in your body starts falling apart at that point because from the perspective of natural selection taking place fifty thousand years ago you've either bred and done your duty, or you're dead weight.

There's a lot of mistakes in our DNA that time will correct, but we can always jump start that process by making a few tweaks today.
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>This is why to me the electoral college is the weak point of the US political system. Twice in recent memory, the majority winner was not put in office.

When the pedants tell you the US isn't a democracy, but rather a republic... well, they're right. The electoral college is working as intended.

As to the "point" of the popular vote: there isn't one. The national popular vote plays no role whatsoever in the US federal system. It's just a set of numbers to fill time during election coverage.
No, swap caps lock and control, it's much more useful.

Actually, maybe not that useful on a mac, but still more useful than the esc key. I've remapped esc to jj in vim, and it works beautifully (I very rarely actually need to type jj, so it works well).
I don't think harassment via private messages counts as public discourse
No it was not, it was a home-rolled solution. Nerves is pretty neat but at the time I wrote our solution it wasn't as mature as it is these days. I rolled our own buildroot + erlang release + "firmware" deployment system (including the cloud infrastructure and software). Very fun project.
It's hard to be a fair judge when you disagree with someone so deeply. Rather than take the risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, it might be prudent to turn this into a teaching moment instead.

Teach our side of the isle.. don't engage with idiots.. engage only with well formed arguments. We could learn something and become better people rather than becoming reactionary because we're unequipped to deal with alternate views. In the end, it's really not that hard to ignore the worst of it on Reddit, it would be even easier if people on our side didn't freak out about every tidbit.
That's correct. Currently both Android and iOS provide better security features than SailfishOS. The only security "advantage" that SailfishOS currently has, is obscurity.

I use SailfishOS because:

1) I prefer programming for GNU/Linux over Android or iOS

2) I prefer a decentralised development model (SailfishOS is made up of software by Red Hat, Intel, Mozilla, etc.)

3) I prefer the tight-knit, open, hacker community around SailfishOS/Maemo/Meego
Hosters and DNS providers can kick you out. This doesn't happen often, but occasionally it does, without court order, when a customer becomes too inconvenient. Some don't even want to deal with DMCA notices, so even when they get fake ones they kick you out after a few.
The main reason for the difference in millions isn't even electoral college per se, it's the fact that most (all but 2) states allocate all their electors to whoever gets more votes in that state. In essence, every state throws all its minority votes away. If you think of it in terms of vote suppression (which, frankly, it is), it's one of such epic proportions that it dwarfs everything else, including redistricting, voter ID laws etc.

I mean, think about it. In California, 33% of residents voted for Trump this year - and those votes didn't count in any sensible way. In Texas, 43% of residents voted for Clinton this year - and those votes didn't count, either!
This is why I love hacker news.
Historically speaking, moral righteousness has always been the primary argument for curtailing free speech.
"Hate speech" is a bit of an Orwellian term. It includes things that aren't really hateful. For instance, if somebody had the belief that all members of a certain race should be sterilized for their own good, I would guess it would be considered hate speech, despite that it is rooted in a sickly paternalistic sort of sympathy. That's just a specific example. My point is that the vagueness of the term leaves it open to interpretation, which I think many would agree causes problems.
When working with functional languages (my current choice is Scala), I do feel that they require a level of mastery that "traditional" imperative languages do not. I also feel that if computer science/software engineering is ever going to gain any sort of repeatability it will be through functional design.

That said, functional programming is incredibly difficult to do well without years of practice and the languages still suffer from limitations with performance that are hard to debug. While I still feel that functional programming is the "future" of software engineering, I feel it is quite a ways in the future.
>They're commercially available

At absurd prices though. It isn't just the shipping, small scale farm/market garden stuff is priced ridiculously high.
Depends on what the project is. Use the best language for the job and make sure you're aware of the languages strengths and weaknesses. Utilize the strengths and develop tools/procedures to mitigate the weaknesses.
I like to use "Tokyo" in kanji, since I can remember what the characters look like: 東京

Is that a good test?
Agree completely. Where I have a problem with r/The_Donald is more than any one post, there are patterns that have emerged over time. Hence others calling out "coded hate speech", a concept which I am even more uncomfortable with than "borderline" hate speech.

That said, the very colloquialism they use to refer to the opposition ("cuck") is merely a shortened form of a term ("cuckold") with a very long history of being a base insult with rather heavy connotations of misogyny.

(i.e. Being "cuckolded", a man whose female partner has exhibited infidelity, is taken as a sign of weakness whereas being a woman whose male partner sleeps around is just de rigueur to the point there's not even a special term for it.)
To be fair that accusation is also mentioned in the article.
I'm no lawyer either, but I think you are likely to have a very hard time finding someone who is, yet imagines "hate speech" to be a concept with any existence in the law of the United States.

Of all the principles we've ever espoused in this country, we have perhaps been most consistent in our national conviction that the answer to wrong speech is right speech - not less speech but more speech.

That is, until recently. We've lately seen the rise of a strain of thought in which not only is it acceptable to answer mere words - however cruel - with the full and mighty force of law, but to suggest such a course might reasonably inspire trepidation is itself worthy at best of contempt, and the many examples in history of why such trepidation might be justified are ignored in unseemly haste to crush those who speak in a fashion deemed insufficiently satisfactory.

In such a strain of thought, the problem with McCarthyism is not McCarthyism in its own right, but rather that the direction in which it was pointed was wrong - the weapon should not be put down and never picked up again, but merely wielded against a different target than last time.

Is that really the lesson to draw from such an unsavory example? Is there really any practical benefit in such a lesson for the causes such a strain of thought claims so loudly to espouse? The left has fought to silence its opponents for decades, more or less by whatever means fell to hand. The result thus produced, this very month, is remarkable, but not for its loveliness. It will not grow more lovely with time. Does it really seem likely that the tactics which have brought us to such a strait are blameless, and that only more energy is required?
Good points. I'll admit the distinction isn't completely black and white to me. I do think that there is a distinction between NGOs and commercial entities. One intuition for that is that we've got words to distinguish between the two. And as you note, its the purpose of the NGO to pursue its agenda. For the commercial entity, the science in these cases is often accidental to their main purpose, which is to sell some other product.

Are you aware of NGO-funded science on the level of industry-funded science?

I don't think this NGO/industry distinction is the strongest argument in showing the statement isn't "picking horses". If the scientists were being political in, say, treating GMO separately, or creating FUD around GMO, I think it's likely they would have specifically included GMO in their statement, as if they were against GMO, it would align very well with the climate change and endocrine disruptor positions they take.

Edit to add: I'll also come clean on my motivation for posting. There are so many accusations of bias that I'm trying to examine statements as honestly as I can, avoiding knee-jerk reactions as much as possible. For example, it would be unfair of me to assume that because you bring up GMO that you're a "climate change denier" or some other unfounded accusation. I see way too much of that type of behavior, and it does nothing but deepen the divisions between people. That's not useful if I actually want you to, in turn, treat me charitably. After all, we're in a discussion forum, right? :)
Your having a website assumes common carrier and net neutrality protections.
Like this?

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
it's not free speech if you restrict thoughts and ideas. I am not saying reddit is required to be a free speech site, it's not, but you can't be free speech and still censor.

Regardless, reddit claims to be about free speech and still censors. So... irony?
I worked at a gas station for a year after college, and it was awful, but I am definitely more thoughtful about how I treat service workers since then.
I agree. I wasn't talking about private messages in my comment. One nice thing about public discourse is that it's public, i.e., it's easy for everyone to debate how odious it is. Private messages are very different, and should be filtered quite differently.

From a sunlight point of view, being able to make private messages public is quite effective, albeit a feature which should be disclosed in advance.
But if the host traffic is compromised you can serve malicious payment gateways/forms.
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You're not restricting thoughts or ideas you are simply not agreeing to promote it.

Reddit stopped claiming to be about free speech years ago.
The guy that sets up your laptop is an IT tech, not an SA. The SA is the hardcore linux admin who can code. From my perspective, and SRE is a SE that focuses entirely on back end performance and reliability, in order to support the SAs. DevOps is a term used by management to justify cost-savings by avoiding hiring someone to ensure system reliability, consistency, safety, and integrity.
There was an interesting Science Friday segment on this topic back in August 2016:

http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/a-hand-a-fin-a-gene/

A couple of comments made by the guests during the discussion (from memory):

* there is a theory that humans/vertebrates actively repress regenerative abilities,

* children under the age of about five have the ability to regrow cut-off fingertips,

* the genetic instructions for growing a hand (or fin) consist of the thumb and little finger, and the rest get interpolated.
No one is talking about curtailing free speech they are talking about a private platform not wanting to promote that speech anymore.
That is sufficiently interesting to make me wish I could upvote it twice. But. What I really want to hear about is the opposite experiment. Take something that has ARF, and see what happens if you take it out.
It depends on the item. China is known for low quality goods because companies outsource to China to save money. They are telling the companies in China to make cheap crap. The manufacturers are perfectly capable and more than happy to make high quality items, it just isn't requested of them very often. It is always "use the thinnest possible" not "make it twice as thick as it really needs to be".
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I think reasonable people can agree that technology has paved the way for few exceptions which require special protections to free speech; i.e. Google should not be permitted by law to filter and censor search results for speech, no matter how disagreeable it is to you or the Google CEOs. Edit: In other words, no matter whether I like or dislike the 4chan community, an entire community of various forums such as that should not be filtered by Google.
Do you know cancer? The cancer is the ability of regenerate from the very begin in human's history. But we lost the ability of control cancel cells and it became an illness.
Easy, back then: heavy back-braking vastly underpaid agricultural jobs with inconsistent hours were replaced on a voluntary basis by offering people higher pay in factories. Aside from agricultural employers, no complaints.

Now: we'll take that $30 per hour job you've been doing for 15-20 years thank you. Oh you need a job ? How about this 10$ per hour (with unpaid overtime and a horrible boss) burger flipping job ? No ? How about these 3 part time $8.75 per hour jobs that will require you to commute between them, at least once per day, cannot be done without a car (that your employer is not paying for) ... Better job ? You do have a masters or phd, right ? No ? Well don't expect them to even call back.

There is no romancing of manufacturing jobs, I believe that's a misunderstanding. There is a romancing of reliable, long-term, well-paying jobs. Once you get that, it's very easy to understand.

If the service economy cannot provide that, it's just not a replacement of the manufacturing jobs. The leftist/democrat point of view used to be that if the "new economic reality" can't provide that, it needs to be legislated out of existence, attacked and opposed at every turn. Now Trump is the one providing that viewpoint on the republican side.

I seem to remember that in the late 80s we had a similar push. Everyone pushed to be "little entrepreneurs" (ha!). Doing package delivery. Cold calling sales. Pyramid schemes. It was legislated out of existence, rightfully.

And yes, I get it. This is hacker news. "Legislated out of existence, attacked and opposed at every turn", we're taking about airbnb, uber, sprig, delivery hero, ... and by extension about google, yahoo, facebook, etc ... You really don't want those companies opposed, or god help us, destroyed, for obvious reasons. You don't get why that people feel that needs to happen, because none of your friends are confronted with reality like this, and there aren't any family members providing a perspective of what manufacturing brings. I just hope I can bring some more viewpoints in the picture here.
I once had a moment of panic after coming up with and shipping a custom scheme along these lines, when I realized there was a decent probability of generating accidental profanity. Afterwards I came up with a filter, and we spent a fun day filling it with every nasty word we could think of.
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It's been getting progressively worse, especially with these fake IDN domains pretending to be major sites (Google, LifeHacker, etc). Today, it's my top referral source. I'm certainly not alone in getting hit with this stuff. It's been going on for years and getting progressively worse. But I've seen zero attempt on Google's end to try to fight it.

What gives?
I think the reason why you're getting negative reactions is that you're talking very broadly as if your personal experience is representative for everyone in the field. Rather than asserting that the real problems which neves mentioned don't exist, try describing how the specific products you've used were designed to avoid them.
I don't know what "an informed electorate" means.

Even "educated" people here debate climate science with absolutely ridiculous claims. This is as good as it gets. That's the painful truth I've been trying to swallow.
> If you're not confronted with the best arguments of your adversaries, you won't understand, learn, or prevail.

That's a very strange defense of a subreddit that had an explicit policy of banning any and all dissenting opinion. Or the vote brigading. Or doxxing, death threats, vandalism, or assault.

T_D was the very antithesis of what you're advocating for throughout this whole thread.
Right. I thought it might be 5v tolerant on the RX pin but maybe not.. easy enough to just use a resistor and a diode to the 3.3v supply to level shift there, and the 3.3v TX should be fine for a 5v logic input.
I think a lot of people are happy to engage with well formed arguments. And the people that want to make them will continue to not associate themselves with the worst elements of their side of the political spectrum. There are lots of people on the left I refuse to support because of their ideas and comments. So I go out of my way to avoid associating myself with them. If you play in the muck though you're going to get dirty.
Blackmailed for porn by your ISP?

Aren't they the one forwarding it to you?

Why not write a script to pull down tons of stuff?
With what? The fact that you watch porn? Jeez what a sin.
I'm on the left, and I disagree with your argument - but then again, I disagree with hate speech laws in general.

Then again, why is burning the flag necessarily "hate speech". I would dare say that it's perfectly legitimate way to protest any abuses that are carried out presumably in the name of that flag - like, say, Gitmo or Patriot Act.
Firefox 0day in the wild is being used to attack Tor users
For what it's worth, from a quick Google search they make occasional jokes about Chris Christie despite him being on the right team. I can only imagine they would give him similar treatment to the ladies if he were on the wrong side.
One way to solve that problem is to reduce the series with min(). Ex http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/alerting-flappy?panelId...

This means that the lowest value for the last 5min of the serie have to be above 80% before the alert triggers.
Your comment was either flagged or downvoted in to oblivion... I have vouched for it as I can't see any reason for either...
You create a website and post your thoughts on it.
In that case, the entire organism is forming. It can use techniques like forming the general structure before filling in the details. It could be that forming the general structure is carefully scripted by chemistry, while the details are mostly position-independent.

Bones can have their lengths determined by biological clocks that operate over years. Examples of clocks are hormone release cycles, which the rest of the body uses for signaling. But, a new leg wouldn't have access to the global clock, since it would've shut off if the affected parts are fully-developed.

Bones and muscles might have their final shapes partially determined by outside forces. The biggest one is gravity. It may be that people develop longer legs in space, or their spines don't develop correctly. A leg intended to be regrown on an adult might not have time to be shaped in this manner.
> bad culture fit

I have never been able to figure out exactly what this is supposed to mean. Best I can tell, it means "You're fully qualified for this position, but I don't like you for reasons I can't or won't articulate."
Profession is not a "protected group" (those are traditionally race, gender, age, religion, disability, and depending on the jurisdiction, sexual orientation).
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With time travel debuggers being the notable exception, where FP is enabling much better debugging.

http://debug.elm-lang.org/ as one example.
Honest question: why? This is a lot of trouble to potentially hide the fact that you sometimes watch porn.
"If"? Are there any Tor users who don't need to worry about leaking their IP address? Then why do they use Tor in the first place?

The Tor project itself seems to promote Tails much more than Whonix, which seems very odd to me.
When people in the West talk about "democracy", what they usually really mean is "liberal democracy".
It's no secret that there is a lot of exploitation happening in the industry. I'm not sure how you need it elaborated?

If you think that everyone in the porn industry wants to be there and loves their job then you're missing the wood for the trees...
I think what Amazon is doing, and many other "startups" like Uber are doing is some form of dumping. They accumulate massive amounts of capital and then basically hand it to consumers to kill all competition while losing money. Clearly when Amazon flies toilet paper or laundry detergent to me, and has a man ring my doorbell and hand it to me, with a massive amount of packaging around it, for cheaper than going to get it myself at Walgreens, something is not right. They can be the only retailer left and that's still a big loss of money.
By the way, npm uses Hapi: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/88024339405/nearing-practical-mai...