skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically all colleges and populations in the US have a strong subset of anti-free speech feeling, with an equal amount between conservatives and liberals on campus: https://kf-site-production.s3.amazonaws.com/publications/pdf...

Some questions the poll asked and the responses
Do you think colleges should or should not be able to establish policies that restrict each of the following types of speech or expression on campus? How about ... ? Expressing political views that are upsetting or offensive to certain groups

Results:
% Should be able to restrict: Democrats: 26% Independents: 27% Republicans 25%

% Should not be able to: Democrats: 72% Independents: 73% Republicans 75%

If you had to choose, do you think it is more important for colleges to [ create a positive learning environment for all students by prohibiting certain speech or expression of viewpoints that are offensive or biased against certain groups of people, (or to) create an open learning environment where students are exposed to all types of speech and viewpoints, even if it means allowing speech that is offensive or biased against certain groups of people]?

Results:
% Open environment/Allow offensive speech: Democrats: 66% Independents: 70% Republicans 66%

% Positive environment/Prohibit certain speech: Democrats: 30% Independents: 24% Republicans 29%

As you may know, student protesters on some campuses attempted to prevent members of the media from reporting on their protest. Do you think students should or should not be able to prevent reporters from covering protests held on college campuses?

Results:
% Yes, should: Democrats: 29% Independents: 29% Republicans 25%

% No, should not: Democrats: 69% Independents: 70% Republicans 74%
The caveat to your argument is that the government cannot be responsible for the consequences by a very liberal reading for free speech.
Drugs are probably a big share of all btc value and maybe it's "gold standard" since it's one thing you can find people wanting to trade stuff for it anywhere in the world. The rest of the illegal activity would probably need to be calculated separatedly because I'm almost sure drugs would dwarf them.
> Elon Musk’s new video of his underground tunnel project will make you nauseated

> ‘Warning, this may cause motion sickness or seizures’

People are getting sick just watching a video of the thing, and Musk's plan is to strap them all onto it. Brilliant.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to D3.js
Looks fun. Congrats on learning React. I haven't wrapped my head around it yet. (But then again, I avoid front-end like the plague...)

I found an "undefined" thing: http://d.pr/i/Dd2eA

Also, the steps aren't really clear. I got "tener - to have" and "Yo", and I put in "tengo" and hit Enter, and it took me back to the main page, where I had to hit "Play" again. I would have expected it to give me another tense or another verb, but that's not what happened.

I tried again by hitting the envelope arrow, but it basically did the same thing.

It's a neat concept (and reminded me that I need to retake Spanish 101) but it could probably use some more documentation and testing. Hope that was helpful!
Governance on AWS with Smart Tagging for Cost Savings- Free Guide
What about my list example?
Article Performance Leaderboard
How many people actually used horses though? A good portion of the trips done by car today simply would have been on foot with towns built accordingly, and in larger cities, trams and streetcars were popular. Complaints about horses probably would have revolved around their upkeep, and maybe their endurance rather than their speed.

Though driving can be fun, I’ve much preferred commuting in the subway to having to drive to and from work every day. I think there is some snob element in different impressions of public transportation. People go to coffee shops when they have coffee machines at home and in their office, because they enjoy the social aspect. Perceptions of public transportation are influenced by wait times and how they are treated by transportation employees, but probably more importantly by whether the other riders look like their coworkers and peers.
Absolutely we need to decrease the attack surface. We can't expect for each of those doctors to make sure they always have the latest version of Windows, etc. I'd also go so far as saying that we can't even trust IT to always update the systems because large corporates loose track of boxes all the time.
So normal people, don't spend their free time spreading hatred like this...

Normal people spend their time trying to improve the quality life for all.

The New York Times shares that there are now over 1.4 Million transgender Americans (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/health/transgender-popula...)

That number would be even higher if we weren't bringing children up in a world that trained them being themselves was wrong and ultimately lead to high suicide rates for these innocent kids.

You need to focus on identifying the problem space, which is clearly "allowing human beings to use the restroom safely". If you want to contribute to the conversation (meaningfully) then please suggest a way that works for everyone.

A common suggestion is to completely rid our society of the concept of "2 gender bathrooms for men and women".

Would that put your concerns as a narrow minded asshat at mind?

No.

Because you aren't here to solve problems, you are here to bitch.

I know plenty of transgender men who are wiser, and more manly than you will ever be.

PS: This is me in the article.
Another way to eliminate the problems you had with public transit would have been to move to Japan.

Well, you would probably have to switch trains/buses to go to a rural area, but those rural areas are very well served so you wouldn't mind.
They are two different axis. One can imagine intolerant Christian majorities just as much as tolerant Muslim majorities. One described the cultural practices and laws of the county and the other the religion of the majority of the country.
Ah the halcyon days of September last year when I made nearly $40.

Still, it's free beer money, and a good enough way to distribute work to the public domain.

It feels good as a designer who's not able to easily contribute to the open source community.
Yeah, it's click-bait. There are also lots of non Microsoft systems in use in Europe. It's just as complex of an environment as anywhere else in the world.

This was an article for Microsoft haters to upvote each other for saying the same thing they have been saying for years.
The UC College Republicans?
He's being down-voted because he's wrong; the US is a democracy, and a republic, and it has a constitution. Each of these things means something different but they are all true.

> A republic doesn't just mean no monarch.

Yes it does.

> A republic is different from a pure democracy because it explicitly protects the rights of minorities through a constitution.

Not true; a constitutional system does that, but that has nothing to do with being a republic. Many republics have no such protections. You're conflating a constitutional government with a republic. Republic means nothing more than no monarchy. There are lots of republics in the world, they don't all protect minorities through a constitution or even have a constitution because that's not what the word republic means.
There's a distinction between the everyday students, who might not want Coulter on their campus (who would?) but aren't going to do anything about it, and the violent anarchists who come in to cause trouble.

The latter group very much wants Coulter to be there.
Using npm alone is like using bundler without a Gemfile.lock. If one person does `npm install` today, and a new teammate does `npm install` in a month, the new teammate will install different versions. With yarn, there is a yarn.lock to make sure everyone gets the same versions when they run `yarn install`.

Also, yarn is way faster.
Ask HN: How many people here actually invest in cryptocurrencies and why?
Good point, I should have been more careful characterizing to broadly.

Of course, a counter-protest is just a type of speech that should be protected.

It's tough to say what percent of the counter protestors thought that Milo/Coulter/Murray/etc shouldn't have been allowed on campus, and what percent just wanted to voice their displeasure and disagreement. That said, it does seem like a large number of those in the crowd actually didn't want the speakers to voice their opinions at all.
I don't think Liberty University would riot and literally try to kill the people from Planned Parenthood. They might stand outside with signs and protest. What we are seeing in Berkeley is a much bigger issue. They are literally trying to harm and silence anyone who doesn't get in line or speaks out against their agenda.
Is trump reading reddit? No.

Is someone with access to Trump's twitter account reposting shit from reddit? yes
There's a big difference between being anti-free speech and just not wanting someone to speak on your campus

Technically true. But it's not hard to see that the motivations of the people hostile to these speakers are completely antithetical to free speech. Whether they are conscious of this or not is less clear. In most cases, I suspect it's more a case that their ideology has so dominated their thinking that free speech just isn't something they think about. I will note that I have seen slogans that directly attack free speech, however ("No Free speech for hate speech" or something like that)
Clickbait-y or not, it sums up the feelings of a lot of developers. I don't understand it myself, but it seems a lot of developers want to reinvent the database to create something "better" or just find some way to never have to use SQL.
Hate speech has a pretty strict definition that goes far beyond "unpopular".
I had the same experience, including the 'enter somehow takes me back' bug, as well as the undefined thing

That said, I really like the visual design, and I would absolutely find it handy if I could figure out how to play!
With all due respect, there already is a flexible platform where people can send whatever they want; it's called a road. The problem is that single-occupancy vehicles take up lots of road space and degrade bus service.

Today, when buses get their own lane, service reliability increases for the buses. What you could say is that the current system of roads benefits single-occupancy vehicles and that this, as a private solution, would force people to pay the true costs. But quite frankly there will likely be subsidies for this, especially because Elon Musk seems to view this as a way to reduce car travel times for himself, which leaves us with the same problem as we had before.
No one claimed it was. It's not easy to prove you were raped either and the majority of people don't seem to have any problem with that. We have work to do, but the problem doesn't seem to be the law itself.
Most high-level goals that I've seen people have amount to what I call "winning the gauntlet". Making a lot of money, founding a big company, achieving fame, finding a high-profile SO, etc. Statistically, those goals will not be achieved by a given person, and not only that, but they effectively amount to "have it better than someone else", i.e., they're zero-sum.

Goals like these seem reasonable to people when they surround themselves with "haves", so they are not exposed to the serious problem of the "have-nots" that have to exist for the "haves" to exist. One can be reasonably happy in this state as long as they dodge the cognitive dissonance, or if they just think this is a good model.

This works neither for people who care about the world nor those who are "have-nots". Which is most people. So most people end up unhappy while reading self-books (if they even have enough agency for that) from the "haves" and trying to figure out what's going on. But nothing is going on, the situation is zero-sum, so there will always be someone in a bad state in the current system. The only thing that changes is who.

The gauntlet cannot be completely ignored because it is necessary for basic agency. But in some cases, the agency is already there, and the person can begin defining their own vision, but they still continue chasing the zero-sum goals due to pressure.

Even if you try to develop your own vision things can get strange.

> our limited and unknown budget of time is constantly burning away.

Well, there are 6+ billion people in the world, and, on average, they have a similar budget. Why the sense of urgency? What is it that is so important that only you personally can do it? It would be very strange if the world was filled with these super important goals for each person that were conveniently person-lifetime sized, but it often feels to me like that's the perception. This often ends up back at the zero-sum issue, in the sense of "lots of people can do this, but I need to be the one to do it". It's thinly veiled status-seeking all over again, which is why it fits so well since in a competitive environment, the goal IS person-lifetime sized.

A broad non-status goal wouldn't fit that paradigm. It is likely to be overwhelming and require a lot of people, or, on the other hand, be fairly straightforward and missed because it's not prestigious. But people find themselves in these insurmountable goals and feel like they need to do so much work, that brings other questions. Why them? What is everyone else doing?

On a certain level, I think most people seek vision that fulfills subconscious nags they may have, and that's the primary reason they seek it. Things in the region of "am I doing something with my life" or "am I a good person". There isn't an actual vision higher level than that, so once those nags are satisfied, the person will stop asking. But this is just chasing the gauntlet in another way.
There's an easy way to get rid of suburbia:

Stop forced integration in cities.

As soon as you eliminate housing projects, housing wavers, rent control, etc., and allow the market to deal with housing naturally, suburbs become obsolete.

However, so long as governments provide cheap or free housing to criminals, dropouts, homeless, and those who in an earlier age we would have sent to sanitariums and rest homes, people are going to flee to safer areas; thus, suburbs.

I suppose you could also keep existing housing policies in place, but step the police presence WAY, WAY up, and get significantly harsher on criminals committing even minor offenses. Rudy Giuliani did this in NYC, and New York was able to be wildly diverse, yet also very low crime and a nice place to live. But I'm not sure the will is there in L.A. for a "tough on crime" approach.
I'd rather have to push a button on the key-fob then on the car...
Not what I want. No syntax highlighting, and annoying when I don't need it. Plus I always read the migration file for the db/schema diff anyway. Also, sometimes I want one place to quickly hop around in to remind myself how one area of the codebase snaps together. I never intentionally write code that is harder to read to produce readable diffs, and I don't know why generating schema.rb should be any different.
If someone is yelling "Kill all $racialslur" are they practicing hate speech yet?
They are most certainly openly advocating violence against a specific group not just "being mean"
Hate speech can indeed be quantified. Though definitions will vary (as with anything.)
I want to highlight something that the article touched on, which for me, was a big source of burnout.

"Breakdown of community"

This can happen if you work remotely, or work in-office with a team that isn't collaborating effectively. If the work you do is isolating and you rarely collaborate with others, you may suffer burnout.

At our core we all want to feel like we're part of something bigger than ourselves. Being part of a team, even if it's as contrived as an office team is, can still be surprisingly important for ones mental health.

If you're feeling burned out consider if a lack of engagement with your peers could be a contributor.

That's my 0.02 at least.
I once made a bet that payed 7 to 1. Ecuador vs Portugal. Ecuador won, but bewin closed my account without notice the day after.

I would advise against betting on that platform.
Your reading comprehension fails you. The article refers specifically to Jakarta, which 1) is majority-Muslim and 2) has at least a regional reputation for tolerance and pluralism. It says nothing about Islam itself.

And to be blunt, Hacker News is not the place to discuss your religious opinions. Even if the article said what you thought it did - and it does not - it would be inappropriate to argue that part of it here.
Yep. I would actually prefer to just drive on the weekends / to places without trains, hopefully out in the mountains or something. Europe even has trains which go to remote locations. Having to park a car is terrible in cities. Combine this with the social acceptance of alcohol consumption plus the danger (and laws) of driving intoxicated and public transit is fantastic. Public trans like trains also avoid traffic, so they can be significantly faster than driving. Pollution-wise, it's also no contest. Hong Kong has a great subway system and because of it, most people there don't need personal vehicles. Taxis are also cheaper and much better service-wise than in the US. Busses service more remote routes, like to the beach (which is kinda far on HK Island).
You're taking your own definition of 'hate speech' which is irrelevant mostly. The important definition if you have an issue with laws limiting speech (through limits on hate speech) is the definition used by those. In most western democracies speech is only limited to prevent, as the parent said, incitement to violence and even then there should be protections in place to prevent abuse of those laws (and there are).

>> No, it's not. Otherwise, wouldn't that imply we should outlaw being mean altogether?

I don't understand what you're trying to imply here, it doesn't seem to make sense. Being mean could be telling someone they look ugly in those clothes. No incitement to violence. "All minority are evil, kill all *minority" would be an incitement to violence. Pretty clear cut. Being 'mean' has nothing to do with it.

>> Hate speech could be as little as explaining factual reasons you don't like another race.

Citation needed. Where is this law or definition of hate speech?
Its not about software, so no, it does not restricts the rights of the person using the software. It restricts the right of the consumer who are in a consumer-seller relation.

Disclaimers are about what the buyer can except and have a right to after a transaction. The product in question is more or less irrelevant, through some laws in some places do consider a free gift to also be a transaction between consumer and seller but with a price of zero. This makes the law more complicated. For example, if a baker gives out free bread samples but that happens to be bad, the baker can still be held liable. However if I give a friend a home made cookie the law could easily treat the two cases in a very different way. As much with the law it depend on the situation and the details and the expectations of everyone involved.

This is in part why some open source project do not include disclaimers. They don't consider themselves to be in a consumer-seller relation with anyone and thus do not need to disclaim any consumer expectation which could occur if there were such relation. Some lawyers disagree with doing so because of the baker example above, through there is a lot of uncertainty and a lawyers job is to consider all possible bad outcomes even those that are unlikely to happen, or as it is to my knowledge in this case, never have happened to any open source developer in the world.
People wouldn't be able to vent their emotions. Lots of 'fake happiness'. Sounds like torture to me..

Honestly this would make a great movie - a society where being mean is outlawed.
It's genius. The media loves a good pun. You can probably triple your pr and headlines if you make it easy for journalists to feel clever and have a fun headline.
Driving instructions via OTA are fine as long as your in car entertainment system is separate from the cars engine control et al. Which is the air gapped point I was making.

Some cars are built this way too, thankfully.
Most muslim-majority countries are generally oppressive, but are extremely oppressive to non-muslims, ex-muslims, or anti-muslim speech in any form..
> It's legal to make your own Facebook with nipples, four-letter words, blackjack and hookers;

AFAIK it's not - youth protection regulation gone wild is enshrined in law at least for TV stations and I'm sure that if FB wouldn't fear angry mothers with "uuuuuh buuuh my 16-year-old-boy saw a naked boob on FB" they wouldn't give a damn about boobs.
Benchmarking the Throughput of Zookeeper in AWS (Amazon EC2)
Most of us have never been on the receiving end of mass hatred, though. Those laws came on the heels of WWII which was, to put it mildly, terrible to a certain hated group of people.
Yes, there are more than 1 human and even 1 human would struggle to be logically consistent.

I think your analogies aren't going to work out very well if you try to carefully articulate them though.
Vast majority? Does 1/4 not freak you out? Especially for:
Expressing political views that are upsetting or offensive to certain groups
Results: % Should be able to restrict: Democrats: 26% Independents: 27% Republicans 25%

That is actually terrifying, since if this rule ever got passed, the US would essentially become a one party state.
You might as well suggest a sugar pill, then.

There are downsides to LSD. Illegality is probably the biggest. Here's a self-study showing micro-dosing is pointless (for the person) and possibly has harmful trends: https://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing
Protesting hate speech is free speech. You are deliberately conflating protest of free speech with government sanctioned punishment of free speech.

In all honesty I'm don't agree with the violent protests against Ann Coulter and Milo out at Berkeley. But what you are talking about is not blasphemy.