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If Antifa in the US is the similar to the ones in Sweden they will be initiating violence at protests like this. They are usually very prepared and have a lot of experience how to do it. Using violence to fight fascism is what they do even though they usually use non lethal methods.

In Sweden they consist of small autonomous groups that harass nazi sympathizer by vandalizing their homes, putting their address on the internet and calling relatives, neighbors and their work etc. Sometimes they have also physically assaulted nazis. In protests they usually throw stones, pepper spray, smoke bombs, urine etc and sometimes try and brawl with their opponents using clubs etc.

But I don't know at all what happened at this rally in the US but I would be incredibly surprised if you had one of the biggest white supremacy rally is in a long time in the US and Antifa did NOT try and physically stop it.
At this point, the media companies would've gone through the courts to either have the .io registrars take away their domain name - like they've done repeatedly with various torrent sites - or have ISPs in many countries block the domain by name. Whether they're based in Russia is irrelevant to that.
Indeed, it is very frightening what the companies can do with user's data. While in U.S, the data of a user may reside in the cloud of multiple companies and needs to be aggregated to be useful, in China, companies like Tencent knows about almost everything about every user: your IM messages, your purchases, the movies/music you like, the news you read, your geolocation. I cannot imagine what they are capable of with all those data. Think black mirror.
I wasn't really proposing to change how visibility information is maintained, my grasp on the internals is far to weak for that :). I just tried to make sure I understood your comment, which I think I do now. So thanks again for another insightful reply :)
> A white supremacist killed someone at the weekend for protesting.

Well, yeah, there's been an awful lot of death and injury at protests of late. Charlottesville is easily the worst, but isn't where it started, and it's not where it's going to finish. There were thugs at UC Berkeley smashing property, lighting bonfires, and putting pepper spray in protestors' faces.

Now, I wouldn't want to bring that up first thing like I'm some sort of spineless "both sides!!" equivocator (coughdonaldtrump) after some fucking Nazi runs people down, because it's obviously materially worse than any previous incident to date. But hey, if you we want to articulate a policy of ad-hoc censorship of speech because it reduces the free space to express opinions, let's go there! Why aren't you calling for content providers to root and and destroy all the publications telling us that "speech is violence" and should be met with violence? Where's the pressure for Reddit to drop /r/antifa? Can I get a statement condemning the shenanigans at Evergreen State College, where a professor got death threats for saying he was uncomfortable with a proposed "Day of Absence" which would see him excluded from the campus on account of the colour of his skin? Can we see Huffington Post's cloud service suspended for defending the student protestors who did so?

I can't say I like Berkeley's leftist thugs much more than I like Charlottesville's Nazis, but I'm damn uncomfortable with censorship that targets either. (And yes, it's censorship, even if it's not government censorship.)

But yea, you're right about one thing, it's a sucky time all around if you care about free speech.

> You can't use a civilised person's inevitable experience of "well, I didn't want to cause offense" to justify Nazis.

Well no, you don't justify Nazis period. You use them as the legal equivalent of a meat shield.

> Fundamentalist free speech advocates make an implicit assumption: that a race of billions of social animals can completely avoid situations where one group makes another even feeling uncomfortable.

"Completely avoiding situations where one group makes another feel uncomfortable" sounds more like a conservative caricature of political correctness than any component of fundamentalist free speech advocacy.
We have regulations about ISP filtering (you know, net neutrality?) but they certainly don’t apply to Cloudflare!
Everybody always thinks they are the good guys - that's what ideologies are for.
So a baker could refuse to make a cake for homosexuals then ?
Right wing extremists are responsible for more terrorist attacks on US soil than any other group.
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Do you have examples of right wing violence at modern day right wing protests that don't have counter protesters?
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By this argument Gmail shouldn’t be allowed to run spam filters.
Google uses a hierarchical system for quarterly and annual goals called OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) that tries to align goals for the company, orgs, teams, and individuals.

http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-ranking-system-okr-20...
Islamist terrorism is much more prevalent than far-right terrorism http://henryjacksonsociety.org/2017/03/05/islamist-terrorism...
You might be right. It seems like everyone else at my office needs coffee all the time.
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Thanks for this! You just reignited my interest in ML, months after dipping my toes at the end of EDx's Intro to Computational Thinking and Data Science.
That looks on the face of it nice and worthy but it's rather be meaningless because those are not actual goals. Those words are way too loose for that. The other thing about it is it smells like a marketing phrase rather than anything truthful
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I am not doing any of that. I'm just pointing out that this is a very real case of "crying the wolf" effect working it's voodoo, and that maybe, in the future, something could be learned from all this.

Personally, I'm not even from the US, and find many of the policies of the Republicans almost absurd. Where I'm from, your run-of-the-mill republican would be considered so deep into the right wing as to be completely niche. Almost alt-right, if you wish.

Look, I see where you're coming from. But is it so hard to see that waving the nazi stamp around willy-nilly really will dilute the meaning and connotations of the term, no matter how much you think it was justified. Nazi's are probably the Satan of modern times, literally the thing people use to mean "the worst there can ever be". However Republican policies seem baffling to me, I see no reasonable way to stamp them with that kind of stamp. They're 50% responsible for running your country, for God's sake :)
i am not using facebook actively, but still have my account. have been so much happier since i started doing this.
> As someone who cherishes the rule of law over the rule of man, not aiding and these illiberal parties is the minimum.

That's good. But the rule of law should apply over "not aiding" those people.

In the private sector, there have been a number of cases where companies (a) don't apply their ToS to people they agree with, and (b) over-apply their ToS to people they disagree with.

See Vidcon && Sargon for the most recent example.

i.e. When given the choice, the groups that value "inclusiveness" and "tolerance" and "due process" violate all of that...
I've always liked how the Yale professor put it when confronted by a student in that controversy over censoring Halloween constumes:

"I stand behind free speech, yes I do."

"Even when it's offensive?"

"Even when it's offensive -- ESPECIALLY when it's offensive."
Hitting people in the head with bike locks is not speech either.
>You guys seem to be ok with this very slippery slope being assessed by random private companies accountable to who knows.

To me its strange someone would consider closing down /pol/ a "slippery slope". I am amazed that someone would consider 4chan a moral compass for the type of things their admins should put up with. moot has closed down /pol/ for this very reason in the past with even less "political" awareness than the CEO of cloudflare.

4Chan is "free-speech" not through effort but through negligence & apathy. moot shut down /pol/ (aka /n/) before, twice, on a whim because he didn't like the content. It's not the first time it has devolved into nazi-fetishism. While 4chan has the reputation for being a seedy place, moot has taken stands and banned people and conversions from 4chan (for example most recently gamergate on /v/) for reasons that can be boiled down to that he didn't like it (mods of 4chan have done this as well, such as no Naruto on /a/). The current iteration of /pol/ has likely been allowed to live through negligence - moot is no longer involved with 4chan, and the new owner hiroyuki has been as absent as moot during his VC startup days. Simply put 4chan never had any moderator accountability (see Rule 9 of the internet).

In conclusion, the notion that this is a "slippery slope" is nonsense. "Free speech" on the internet never really existed, the current view points that exist only exist because their operators have never bothered to flex their muscles - and the reason they haven't has rarely been because of some moral high ground. At the end of the day there is plenty of "reasonable" content YouTube won't host for you, and that Facebook will kick you for. If you are concerned about being silenced by a corporate vendor, then choose your partners wisely. If none will support you - then self fund. Free Speech doesn't mean the NYT is obligated to print your content, only that the government wont stop circulation of your newspaper. If you can't acquire the resources to start your own print, then tough luck.
And the hate group would be defined as such by whom?
I often find Quora answers to be thinly veiled marketing by "growth hackers". They are getting paid indirectly and it lowers answer standards.
I think it has been quite obvious for very long time that in general there is no market for micropayments/microtransactions. I don't see why on earth someone would be willing to make small transactions all the time. Normal people prefer doing less transactions than more. That's why subscription services are popular.
It seems people have no idea that Nazis are actually extremely violent people. I'm not talking about your average racist, but people that identify with the Nazi party. Violence is central to their philosophy. If you actually met any modern-day Nazis, you would know this. It took me about two days of hanging out with Nazis before they literally tried to blow me up.

This isn't some free-speech issue where you debate politely and sip iced water and other frippery.. this is actual people killing other people. This is how the the real world actually operates, instead of libertarian-nerd theory world.

And you know Nazis would be extremely violent people because no rational person would self identify with that group, so already they're batshit insane, which means they're likely to be extremely violent. And sure enough, when hundreds of Nazis gathered this weekend in Charlottesville, you actually ended up with an event measured in terms of "death toll".

We have to treat these people like armed and dangerous criminals, like you would ISIS or any active shooter.

And we all need to understand that government limits speech in many, many ways, not just the "fire in the theatre" example, but with things like sedition and other criminal conspiracies to more mundane things like copyrights and libel.

People forget that we went to war against these people and used to kill Nazis wholesale less than 80 years ago, because the Nazi party went to war against America. Identifying with them means you've actually declared war against the US. Not sure how much clearer you could be in declaring yourself to be a violent and dangerous criminal than that.

Just ban them. Arrest their members. Don't be the socially inept libertarian nerd that thinks only in terms of theory without any real-world experience. It's perfectly fine to limit rights and freedoms in the real world. You can do it!
> A -> B does not imply !B -> !A

A -> B does imply !B -> !A. The error in reasoning here seems to be that attitude towards a website is assumed to be a binary "like/not like" variable, while in reality one can also neither like nor dislike something.
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We think altruism isn't a good model -- people aren't willing to pay for things which have already been delivered (e.g. content). This is why we're starting with bounties.

The title of this submission is a little misleading - when you upvote an answer on Cent, you're effectively allocating a portion of the bounty to that answer.

re: Ethereum. We definitely think there is huge potential for decentralized apps (dapps) and that Ethereum is at the forefront of making them happen. One HUGE barrier to adoption is that, aside from maybe having a gpu that can mine a tiny bit, your only gateway to getting Ether is by buying it, e.g. through Coinbase. Without Ether, you can't use any of the dapps, and if it's just a bunch of speculators holding Ether, the dapps may never gain traction. Fundamentally, we believe that currencies are meant to be earned, and we want to be a mechanism for people new to the decentralized world to get involved by earning them.
To understand this, you need to read Andy Grove, especially "Only the Paranoid Survive". It's fascinating: basically everything I, as a user, see as a boon, he perceives as a threat. From his point of view, everything that allows people to buy cheap machines, run fast software etc. is negative and needs to be dealt with. Intel basically didn't change over the years, with the recent x86/ARM fuss showing just that.
On the other end of the spectrum are companies exploiting the existing possibilities - for a long time it was Microsoft, making each version of their flagship products more and more resource hungry, so the users were forced to upgrade ("What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away"). What is happening now is the extension of the same story - "Memory is cheap? Let's use all of it!".

As a developer, you rarely care about memory usage; as a web developer, you have limited influence on CPU usage. And since most managers care only about getting the project done on time and within the budget, this is what most developers concentrate on.
I would never shut down such websites. Not due to Freedom of speech, but because now they will hide better. Most of these people login with their Facebook accounts to post hateful comments etc. I mean, seriously, all it takes for any law enforcement is to keep these people under control and that's it and sue them if it's the case. On the other hand, now we risk to create more and more parallel societies and secret groups. I understand that a private company can decide to terminate any user's account just "because they can". Completely fine with that.

They could have played this card better I think.
I can highly recommend "Don’t Make Me Think!" to all software engineers regardless of their specialization.
> A white supremacist killed someone at the weekend for protesting. If their free speech gives you supreme confidence, then you are simply wrong.

The GP said no such thing. He talked about speech, and you changed the subject to violence.

If the white supremacists limited themselves to speech, then yes... their free speech should be protected. And, it serves as an indicator that we truly have free speech.

The whole point of free speech is to give freedom to views you disagree with. The alternative is the Soviet Union / North Korea bullshit of "everyone has free speach, but only one viewpoint is allowed".
It's pretty interesting, really. Mammals in general have a strong instinct to recognize and protect the traits that characterize infants (disproportionately large head/eyes, high-pitched vocalization, etc), which is where we get our concept of "cute", and why cats and dogs will sometimes be extremely tolerant and protective of human children who are much bigger than they are. Occasionally, the instinct is a little too strong and overrides survival traits like "eat that delicious baby." It happens often enough to be well-documented, but it's really not the norm.
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Why would you want white supremacist rallies to not be counter-protested? If there's a white supremacist rally going without protest anywhere in this country, I will be horribly disappointed in my fellow Americans.

Nazis must be protested, everywhere they show their angry entitled faces. Sometimes they become violent when criticized. Violence is core to Nazi beliefs, so it's not surprising when they become violent. Antifa is a defensive tool against that violence, to make it safer for others to protest against Nazis.

Sometimes, antifa goes too far, perhaps. But, you're never going to make me feel sympathy for people who literally actively seek the death and degradation of millions of Americans.
I'm curious about how bot learn to creep block?

How does the bot understand the value of long-term strategy?
CloudFare served DailyStormer for years.

Then DailyStormer says CloudFare are secretly nazis.

Then CloudFare say "no we don't, goodbye".

If DailyStormer hadn't been so stupid, and had never claimed CloudFare was anything other than neutral, then they would still be served?

Stupid own goal DailyStormer.

The censorship and 'line' seems to be not what you say or incite against others, but what you say about CloudFare.
* firefighting instead of building resilience

* fear of senior devs/architects, not holding them responsible for keeping stuff in order

* playing blame game instead of looking for structural solutions

* information compartmentalization to keep leverage, like we're running a spy cell and not a dev team
I can vouch for the mystery language assignments at least -- we worked through several at this year's Racket summer school (https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/), and they were interesting and very engaging. (Hi Justin!)
Do /pol/ actually sympathise with the Nazis or are they just trying and getting a rise out of people ?
There is always a line. Nearly everyone, every company, has a line.

Heck, this website itself asks that you don't be mean in comments.
He is a human being after all with his ideas and opinions...
Is Jewishness "an inherently violent ideology of ethnic cleansing"?

For that matter, is Communism? Marxist-Leninist governments don't have a great track record, but there are plenty of individual pacifist hippie commies; the ideology of common ownership of production is not inherently violent and racist like Nazism and the Klan are.
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I just tried deactivating, and upon logging in to Messenger (which works) it logged me into Messenger, but not FB.

Sweet!
> The tech industry is doing the same the chinese or russians are doing

The tech industry gladly supplied most of the tech the Chinese and Russians used: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-...
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This is a highly editorialized title that clearly doesn't follow the posting guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out ...

(the original title is the much more sedate "More on DOTA 2"; in case it is changed by moderators, at the time of this comment it says "How We Built the Unbeatable DOTA 2 bot", which is not even a quotation from the article)

The submitted title has certainly shaped the commentary (see people reacting to "unbeatable", and whether it's an impressive achievement, vs reacting to the technical content).

So, in a nutshell, I think we should avoid titles like this, and I believe the guidelines transparently say so as well.
"Provenance" means origin, which in this case is the Ycombinator blog. It's very unlikely that anything from the ycombinator blog would get removed, given that this is itself a ycombinator site.
The best BYTE for me was the one where they published the entire source code of a Pascal compiler, written in Basic. Up till then I was completely mystified how a compiler worked. In figuring out every line of that compiler, I felt like somebody turned the lights on.

Later on, I was using a Pascal compiler on the PDP-11. I'd write bits of code, compile them, and look at the assembler. I was especially impressed with the clever way nested functions worked (the static link pointer). Nested functions in D are implemented the same way :-)
Well, should we be taking down Alqueda websites? There seems to be an implicit assumption in this whole philosophy that if you prevent people from speaking their socially-backward beliefs (online, in person, in websites, in writing) then you'll somehow prevent negative behaviors.

I'm not convinced that's the case. I think progress requires a more nuanced approach than "punish the baddy," but an examination into the psychology and a discourse that shows you understand the frustrations that are being channeled into blind-rage.
Only half of the book is advertising. But I can not deny that it is interesting. Cool
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It consistently astounds me how many companies would rather hire 2-3 average developers (for average or below-average salaries) rather than one great developer for 1.5x the price.

Here in New York, this is especially acute. Many finance companies have thousands and thousands of developers. They'll have a team of developers (costing maybe $500k/yr total) working on a problem which a single excellent developer could easily accomplish (and be happy with $250k/yr).

Tons of companies are penny-wise and pound-foolish, mostly because programming is still considered a low-status profession.

> Until "management" realizes this, the only way that a developer on the upper end of the productivity scale can capture their value is to found their own company. I sometimes wonder what would happen if some company simply offered to pay 3X the market rate and mercilessly filter the results.

There are companies which do this, but they're almost exclusively pure tech companies (ex. Netflix).
Thank you! I was following old tutorials and given up a few months ago.
It was an existential threat to them... wasn't it? Your post came off as as long as the deaths didn't happen here, or wherever it is that you live, they don't matter. If not, explain how ISIS isn't an existential threat, and yet the Daily Stormer is? Because the latter's ideology is associated with that special buzzword, "fascism", is it?
Wonder how much of it is only due to asset. I keep making my colleague notice than a single background image displayed on a high res iphone occupies more ram than the total data of their app by a factor of 100 (at the minimum). Same goes for app size on disk : it's most often mainly assets.

So just loading from disk, decompressing, put on Ram then moving around and applying visual effects is probably half of the reason everything is slow. Those "bloat" graph should also mention screen resolution and color depth.
Just a couple of days ago I was unable to put a Win10 iso on a 4GB usb drive, it was something like 4,5-5GB.
I looked at some of the other articles on that site and would encourage others to do the same, before deciding whether to trust its contents. It appears to be a right wing propaganda rag with a very loose definition of "truth".
i saw it for a second, then it just redirected to the new site.
I loved the quirky illustrations in the early Creative Computing mags.
>If both Nazis and (as an example) Communists have free speech

That's where the argument become null, communists ideas have been banned from the US political landscape for a long time and even mild socialists propositions are a call for arms for many USians.
how about something helpful instead?
It doesn't have to be 10x. I think 2-3x differences are far more common but even they aren't typically compensated at that multiple in the market.