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Do you mean you'd like more info on the pad, or you'd like to give me more info on your (ideal) pad?

If the first, we have a tech for printing with good quality on aluminum. Typical application is industrial, but prices are good enough for making consumer products, so we thought to start w/ mouse pads. In principle we can personalize every print, but we'll prob do that in phase two. Now we're focused on the details of the pad.

If it was the second, please go ahead and flood me with details (feel free to email me too)
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The point is not the comparison, it's that the article's argument is totally independent of politic. Why should we find it incredible that students might object to a speaker, regardless of who they are?
Oh yes. Two years ago, I had to work on an in-house IaaS written as a Rails app, where the models were particularly fat, with Instance#after_save hooks putting jobs in the worker queue to reflect the state into the hypervisor, e.g. starting a newly-saved instance or stopping/restarting an existing one. Trying to follow that code flow along was an excruciating experience.
The whole point is to allow any site to access any other site, just like plain TCP sockets, without stealing your cookies.

If the site wants to access google.com with its own cookies, fine, why not?
I would find it incredible if these students then went around assaulting people who attended these events with baseball bats, yes.
There are no places where social status does not make it easier to make money.
It barely registered for me at the time that Python had changed. But using it back then, it felt quite a bit similar between late 1.x and early 2.x, just with creature comforts gradually appearing and bulking up the language:

No decorators

Old-style classes(a distinction that makes almost no difference if you are using the class as a simple container with no inherited methods).

List comprehensions appeared in 2.0 and I struggled to grasp them for a little while.

The runtime might not have supported any cyclical reference collection(or I was just unaware at that point, being a student).

No iterators (2.1) or generators (2.2)

Python 1 to 2 was a simple transition, as it didn't do much to reassess the language's basics.
It's a moot point. Very few professional web application developers would disagree with you. The problem is this is the world we live in and if you don't develop web applications in the consumer space you'll get eaten alive by your competitors who will.
I wonder: did you spend much of this time on math formulas, or on "regular" typography like lists & headings?
TeX math notation is the pretty much only game in town, and worth learning, but there are many ways to skip/ease the rest, might help your learning curve:

- WYSIWYG with TeX math: Dropbox paper lets you press $$, type formula, press Enter; and I shudder to suggest it but I hear modern Word more or lets you type TeX math [https://superuser.com/a/509805/33415].

- WYSIWYM: Lyx, https://www.fiduswriter.org/, http://www.texts.io/

- Markdown with TeX math: there is alas no single standard syntax but tons of tools do support it: https://github.com/cben/mathdown/wiki/math-in-markdown
For conversion Pandoc is king, infinitely flexible, and can render through LaTeX, HTML or many other ways.

* Markdown is unbtrusive enough that styling it in-place gives you a form of WYSIWYG. Several editors doing this (plus rendering formulas in-place): StackEdit, Typora, https://www.gitbook.com/editor, Atom with https://atom.io/packages/preview-inline (see also https://discuss.atom.io/t/19222), http://markdownnotes.com/, and my own https://mathdown.net

- https://overleaf.com similarly has "rich text mode" that styles LaTeX source and renders formulas in-place. [https://www.overleaf.com/blog/81]

- Other lightweights markups: there are too many, notably reStructuredText, asciidoc are popular and powerful. But I'd start with Markdown.

I'm genuinely interested to hear your experiences if you try any of these...
Why would you need to imagine it's Hitler giving a speech on a campus? How could that possibly be worthwhile, useful, or relevant? [Though it is telling that you used it as an example.]

If the speaker was invited by students/faculty to speak to interested parties, they shouldn't require police escorts. Period.
Gosh I'd love to talk to this psychoanalyst. I can say as a non-adopter of Facebook (and before that MySpace) from the beginning (despite some immense social pressure) it has simply always been about "privacy" and the desire to stay out of touch.

Not that I'm actually very great at staying private online. It started as avoidance of other people and now I avoid it simply because it's just another data silo to me. I already give Google my life story, why add Facebook?

So. How can Facebook give me what I most want now from the platform? The ability to both stay in touch and stay invisible -- seems improbable.
I'd be curious what the HN community thinks of a text editor plugin I've been considering. This wouldn't necessarily solve the problem described, but would mitigate it to some degree I think.

The idea is to write code in blocks. So you have a raw file with and the following operations:

INSERT (create a new block of text, either top-level or nested inside another)

DELETE (Selected block or all nested blocks)

UPDATE

Each block would effectively be a node consisting of its text, optionally split into a LEFT block of text and a RIGHT block. Each line would be stored along with a line number. Then when an insert or update occurred, all line numbers would be updated based on which lines were already to the left and right of the insert, at which point the file would re-render.

I think if you added tagging and selection / editing by tagging you'd get the benefits of something structured without getting down to the AST level or breaking all of the other useful add-ins built on the assumption that code will be text.
Only if you simplistically ignore that social status and wealth are also heritable and make it much easier to make money regardless of intelligence.
Sometimes it says that, other times it says that its not that many at all.
There's an app for that (no-joke) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/24/spreadsheet...
> And then imagine Hitler writing a post on Medium talking about how terrible it was that he couldn't explain how important genocide was.

Tough. If someone is incapable of dealing with dissenting opinions, even terrible ones... they should crawl into a padded "safe space" with similar infants.

If people protest speakers who have dissenting opinions, the protestors should obey the law. They should restrict their protest to the same medium used by the speaker: speech. If the protestors get violent, they should get arrested and charged. The universities should ban the violent criminals from campus.

That's my $0.02 at least.

The reality is that the universities seem to tolerate violent protests, so long as the protestors have the "right opinions". Instead of the violent criminals being arrested, the peaceful speakers are charged for police protection.

In the interests of "safety", of course.
It is very improbably named then, since a) the top 5 letters found in Welsh placenames are N, L, A, E, and R, and b) there is no 'X' in Welsh.
It can get even more "fun" with Java. Your code can start running through an interpreter, then after a while suddenly be transformed by a JIT engine. The interpreter and the JIT engines (there's more than one JIT engine) have different bugs. The optimizations made by the JIT engine can depend on the data which went through your method before the JVM decided to optimize it.

I'm not finding it right now, but I recall seeing a few weeks ago a presentation with several of these sorts of bugs in a recent version of Java (all reported and fixed): after a number of iterations, it suddenly starts returning wrong results.
Or Thunderf00t's deconstruction at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MPzQnokMU
I don't care what race you are (I'm about 3, near as I can tell), but if you think you can control what the women in your life dress like, whether they drive, or if they can live with a man before having some religious ceremony, I'm going to have a cultural problem with inculcation.
No, a majority are distinctly private- CMC, Middlebury, and Dartmouth. The UC schools are the only public schools with high profile deplatforming debates recently.

Let's be real, a very large portion of the conservatives in this debate wish to squeeze their ideology into private universities where the majority of faculty and students don't want a thing to do with it.
Well...

There is this thing called "hate speech", you know... And at least here in Canada, it is totally illegal. No freedom there at all.

Is hate speech allowed in the US, in the name of "freedom" and "amendments"? I hope not.
We'll all have gigabit connections by then. So even though it'll be 100 mb of bloat, it will still load the same as today ;)
If the author of Handbrake is one of them, that can hardly be construed as the users' fault.

Run some Google ads or something.
The FBI should investigate. The dealer probably bribed the DA to jail the witness to intimidate him.
What I find most interesting about the article is the complete lack of concern if the anti-corruption efforts have had an effect on absolute performance. It is though what is important is the pass rate on the exams, not the learning the material tested.
Thank you for sharing that. It seems that the 'test score' was more important than actually educating the student. My assumption was that if the education was effective then the student would have no difficultly passing the test.

So I wonder a bit at what makes education ineffective. I coached at risk latino high school students briefly while attending college and for them it was pretty clear that they needed to work to help support the family so they had fewer hours to devote to study. I suggested to the program that paying these kids minimum wage to spend time with a tutor would pay for itself in reduced social services costs and police costs down the road but they were not interested in hearing about that.
"Time spent thinking" counts for Ngrok too: comparing alternatives is a pragmatic thing to do, before pulling a trigger on something. Not to mention that this is all part of reading Hacker News (I found frp through some previous thread).

Setting up a VPS with frp on it would take 30 minutes tops (assuming that I don't already have one and that I'm in no hurry). Even if I was some big shot, doing $120 an hour, that's just 60 / (10 - 3) = 8.5 months of Ngrok. These $60 would be a good investment by my book.

But I'm not counting pennies here, I'm merely pointing out that the pricing is unreasonable. I can afford it, but its usefulness per dollar is disappointing.

For example, compose.com can host a Pg database for $17, one master and one slave, with automatic backups, a rich control panel, competent customer support, batteries included. It's maybe only twice as expensive as replicating the setup on your own (which would take literally weeks for a single person), and brings almost as much value as hiring a sysadmin. And then there's Ngrok, 3-4 times as expensive as DIY, while saving you a total of 30-60 minutes of one-time effort. And costs more than a half of a pretty great Pg server. Ridiculous.

Props to the people behind Ngrok, if they're in the black with this pricing. Good strategy/marketing.
> who decides who is "hitler" in this scenario?

Everyone decides for themselves.

> who is the ultimate arbiter of acceptable speech?

Ultimate arbiter? Nobody. Please tell me, who do you think is the ultimate arbiter? Do you think one individual in the crowd was the ultimate arbiter? What is their name?

> you might agree with them today but you should be incredibly wary of ceding the power to regulate speech to them lest you disagree with them tomorrow

If a crowd of people were that crazy about getting me to not speak at their college, I would happily leave and find another place, and write a Medium post about my views, not crying that people don't like me and don't want to hear them.

> why is the preference of the protestors more important than the civil rights of the speaker and those who invited them?

Why are the preferences of the speaker and those who invited them more important than those of the protestor? Do you think whoever is called a "speaker" should become "the ultimate arbiter of acceptable speech"? Because I don't. I don't like putting power in one person's hands.
Interesting. So perhaps tales of shortages are bullshit?
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I don't believe the argument is that people are convinced by power, but rather that people who agree with the speaker will be encouraged to be more vocal and confident in expressing and acting on views that the protestors oppose.

>What on earth does it means to "validate" or "normalize" someone?

To make their views appear valid, and to make it appear more normal to hold them, respectively. I really disagree that this is vague language.
> Is hate speech allowed in the US, in the name of "freedom" and "amendments"? I hope not.

Yes, it is, and not by accident.
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In my experience the Ruby community is all about LOC arguments. So many blog articles I read about Ruby stuff is just "look what I can do in one line", and I'm like "maybe you shouldn't?". For example: https://twitter.com/stefanmajewsky/status/643380134037323776
You would find it incredible if students on a university campus were to assault Hitler with baseball bats?
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If you leave out _new_, as the OP did, there's at least one example: Microsoft.
So what? Do you get to stand on the desk at the DMV and yell at minorities because it's your right to free-speech? The reason that conservative ideas aren't well represented in universities is because universities are places of higher thinking. The reason conservatives are attacking it is not because they care about free-speech, it's because they care about their speech. If the tables were turned you can bet on their silence.
Looking at the comments you've posted recently, a couple of them have been flagged, and a couple others have been downvoted (based on seeing that they're various shades of gray).

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=blackflame7000

They're all under this same submission, which is quite politically charged, which increases the likelihood that comments will be downvoted or flagged by HN members. I doubt you were moderated in the sense that the mods ('dang and 'sctb) did anything. I suspect it's all user action. Members downvote for all kinds of reasons (and vindictiveness can unfortunately be one of them).

If you're concerned about downvotes, I recommend steering clear of politics on HN. While HN can be a great place for constructive discussion, some topics can be very difficult to discuss constructively and civilly.

I hope this isn't not too discouraging. When I'm downvoted, I step back and try to determine why, keeping in mind the context and forum. Could I have phrased things better? Was I on-topic? Did I add meaningfully to the discussion? Was I writing from a position of trying to understand and be understood? Was I giving others in the discussion the benefit of the most charitable reading of their comments? If I honestly feel I did everything I could, then I chalk it up to someone downvoting for reasons I couldn't do anything about other than not commenting at all, and let it be.
There were monetary bribes being given to the test proctors. Usually when bribery takes place, it benefits the rich who have money to pay the bribes. Clamping down on bribery would in that case hurt the rich.
> It seems just another way to not understand "everything is hard to read until one learns to read it".

So everything is equally difficult to read and understand? There are articles that say "great software is like Shakespeare" and others that say "great software is like Hemmingway". Which one of those authors is easier to read and understand, as someone who speaks English natively?

As someone who has inherited just two code bases, I know first-hand that there can be massive differences in how easy something is to read and understand. One of my companies had a code base that non-technical people could read and even send PRs for. Another of the code bases took months of ramp-up time.
Collective volunteer labor worked fine before ads came along. Content was better, too.
Many of these speakers are actually invited by students. So I don't think it can easily be concluded that the majority of students don't want a thing to do with them. The majority of students are not involved in these violent protests.
I think zyxzevn is being unfaily treated for this one statement:

You would experience it as a some kind of problem.

Everything else seems like a plausible characterization of facts.
It's not often I can be proud of the US, but this is one of those times I can be.
Will you invite anyone who so wishes to speak at your home? At your school? You have a right to speak, you don't have a right to my megaphone. Use the internet, plenty of megaphones there.

Your freedom of speech does not trump my freedom to not support you. I can't glue your mouth shut, I can't hit you or threaten to do so, but I sure as hell can not give you my microphone.
I'm also in the category of having tried it a couple of times, but never hit the velocity to be able to write anything myself.
Yes, I guess you can, alternatively, still download a
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> turning off adblock after having it on for a significant amount of time(e.g. to denormalize the prevalence of ads) is all the evidence one needs to see how completely messed up digital advertising still is.

I have this experience every time I visit friends who don't have an adblocker. When we watch some videos or stuff, I'm like "Holy shit, this is what your internet looks like!?"
They endanger the people for whom the vaccines are not effective (its not a 100% preventative), or people who have weakened immune systems / a medical condition and thus can't have the vaccine. The non-vaccinated person becomes an extra vector for spreading the disease amongst a population.
you kill the industry. keep the country stealing your high tech consumers as a third world provider of non industrial goods. brazil exports today are still oranges, soy and cattle
We have control over how society's feedback mechanisms are structured

We do. However, that doesn't mean that tweaking knobs won't simply result in a pareto distribution with different winners and losers. At the end of the day, every individual has fitness along a variety of different vectors. You might achieve equality along one or two vectors by tweaking one knob, but then see side effects that result in pareto distributions along different vectors.

Income distribution is a textbook wicked problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

My view is that income equality is the wrong thing to optimize for. Instead, we should optimize for progress and productivity that increases the overall welfare of society fastest, even if some individuals do far better than others. Those individuals capable of contributing the most to meeting the needs and desires of the most individuals deserve the most resources to enable them. Those who have the least to contribute will benefit via surpluses created as a result of productivity gains.
at my home? no, that's private. at a public university? yes.

the constitutionally enshrined right to free speech does in fact trump you arbitrarily enumerated 'right' to not be uncomfortable.
The average American has more wealth than pretty much everyone on Earth. You can't seriously think that it's because Americans are all genetically smarter than everyone else?
Investing time and money in your kids' education is cheating? A curious opinion.
If they assaulted people ATTENDING the events, in the same way that antifa has been doing?

Randos, that may not have ever heard of the speaker, or people who merely support free speech? Yeah, I would find that incredible and insane.
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> Asking the advertising industry to be less manipulative is like asking casinos or supermarkets to stop employing behavioral psychologists to figure out the best ways to get people to spend money.

Interesting parallel. I'd be in favour of regulation of adtech. Probably the gambling industry could do with a little more, too.

But then again, i'm a dirty socialist.
> If a crowd of people were that crazy about getting me to not speak at their college, I would happily leave and find another place, and write a Medium post about my views, not crying that people don't like me and don't want to hear them

And when they violently protest your speeches in other public spaces? Where do you go?

The issue here isn't that you are OK with finding another place to speak. You're free to do whatever makes you happy.

The issue is that the places which should be open to public discourse are not. The places which have rules about acceptable behavior are applying those rules... selectively. The places which are supposed to be bastions of learning and questioning, have instead rigidly enforced "good think" ideas.

That's upsetting to a wide range of the population.
> If racism is bad, stop drawing attention to race.

I understand where you're coming from. Not having to think about race, or gender, or whatever is a great long term goal that we probably share. However, I argue that saying we should stop thinking about it today is premature.

Most discrimination is unconscious, but has a significant cumulative effect. Consider the studies on blind interviews or auditions, showing that interviewers rate women higher when they don't know they're women. Or the studies showing that the same idea can be presented in meetings, more likely to be shot down when it's from a woman and accepted when it's from a man (sometimes even both in the same meeting). You don't need me to look these up for you. There have been many, they're easy to find, and you can even conduct your own experiment if you want. Or ask some women you know whether this has happened to them. Here's the key point:

Discrimination does not require ill intent.

It's highly likely that nobody in these interviews or meetings means to be discriminatory, or recognizes themselves as such, but the outcomes happen anyway. Even if you are the most virtuously fair-minded person ever, that won't undo the effect of other people's unconscious discrimination. The only way to address discrimination is to consciously recognize it in others and in ourselves, and to explicitly address it when it happens. That means paying attention to different outcomes for different groups, which in turn means maintaining an awareness of who's in which group. Leaving our eyes open might be uncomfortable, but closing them simply doesn't work.