skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implication is that humans are just statistical algorithms. We have so far not found any evidence to the contrary.
The comment was most likely deleted by the person who posted it, right?
Not really. I have some integrists (Catholics) in my family, and they took the trouble to forward e-mails explaining that they didn't really like Charlie Hebdo, because it wasn't respectful towards any religion. In fact, they don't think much of press freedom:

«freedom of expression and freedom of the press don't extend to insulting, showing contempt, blaspheming, trampling, mocking the faith or values of co-citizens». The justification: «insult is violence».

Possibly they are afraid of being mocked. Realizing that people didn't have to take (the idea of) god seriously was transformative for me.

Their email forward about Charlie Hebdo described a cartoon of pope benedict xvi «taking position on pedophilia» (sodomizing children), here's the drawing: http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/tendances/evenements/dessi... . The cartoon is not actually related to Charlie Hebdo, which goes to show they don't read it. That said, here's a drawing that's really be Charlie, lampooning the catholics for a hush-hush attitude to pedophilia: http://stripsjournal.canalblog.com/archives/2010/03/31/27376... . It's accurate: those well-to-do catholics I've talked to, including priests, reacted to the scandals strictly by being preoccupied with perception of the catholic church.
I haven't read your thesis but does it take things like exponential progress, deep learning and higher and higher privileges and control over infrastructure into account?

It doesn't have to be conscious to be dangerous.
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> If there's a largish number of people for whom ... make life less stressful...

This kind of thinking, that society should accommodate a populations likes and dislikes, is why we get groups that want to forbid Mohammad cartoons and others in the same country that want to forbid religious clothes like Burqa. No matter the combination, forbid one, forbid both or neither, you will always end up with one or both groups being offended and wanting government to intervene.

The alternative as I see it is to not acknowledge the problem, making it a point that what ever people like or dislike is their own problem.
Why does the bar need raised? It's not a competition
to see who can piss off religious people the most.

Let's say in the future some other group gets upset at what journalists are saying. Maybe it's the scientologists, or KKK members, or animal rights activists, or hells angels, or anonymous.

They will ask themselves "What have people tried in the past in order to silence journalists, did it work, and can we do it ourselves?"

Then they will say "In the past people have firebombed offices and attacked journalists. Can we do that? Yes we can. Did it work?"

Society and journalists have to decide whether upset groups will say "Yes, it was effective at silencing journalists" or if they'll say "No, it was ineffective, in fact it made the situation worse".
That's a fair point, the article I quoted does not mention if these people were on the 'right' or not. However, by saying "far right", I was trying to imply that extremists from that side would carry out acts on Muslims, much like extremist Muslims attacking the Hebdo.

I assumed these attacks would come from the right because of a culture of Islamophobia that I've seen on places like Fox news, which I consider to be a far right media outlet. For example:

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/12/7533159/fox-news-pirro-rant
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslims-are...
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/20/foxs_andrea_tantaros_you_sol...
It is not just social acceptance, though. It is also the problem that one's livelihood is closely tied to one's employment.

With both these things, the question is how the social acceptance and the detachment of livelihood from employment comes about. Will it require revolutions and civil war with accompanying bloodshed when the downtrodden unemployed rise up? Or will we be collectively smart enough to reform our economic systems before the rift through society becomes too deep?
I love how the author found consumer components and put them together to build the handheld. Looks really good!

There are a lot of inspiring projects over the web, but very often they require tools that aren't available to everybody or they're not cheap for one-off projects (laser cutter, 3D printers, etc).
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You don't have to explain your reasoning. My point is predicated on my understanding your reasoning perfectly.

And, based on those same estimates of probabilities, none of us should be here, given what we know so far.

It just strikes me as profoundly short-sighted (and unwitting self-parody) for people to claim such assuredness of the falseness of others' beliefs when we all know so very little. In truth, neither of us can prove what we know or don't know in many regards.

It matters because it also smacks of the same moral/intellectual high-ground staking that serves to dismiss entire groups of people. Sure, we can claim tolerance, but is real tolerance (i.e. seeing others as equals, respecting their beliefs vs. just allowing that they have them, etc.) truly compatible with one group believing that another is actually insane?

The approach you take is materially no different than that taken by those whom attacked Hebdo. And, you both believe your positions to be evidence-based.
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> if the acquirer picks up the top employees and ruins the last bit of hope the company has then the non "rockstar" employees would all be out of jobs

Sounds like a merit-based scenario to me.

Simply reading through HN for several years, it seems pretty obvious to me that many startups view employees and "theirs". There is no scenario where I would hurt my future opportunities simply so I don't hurt my (sinking) company's.

I owe nothing more than the agreed-upon work for money to my current company, and watching out for #1 is what has been so successful for me these past several years.

A smart developer would stay at current company if she truly believed there was a successful acquisition on the horizon. If she leaves with someone else, that's just the free market talking.
Perhaps the dev phone has a slightly different situation? I know someone with a 1st generation HTC Wildfire (formerly) for testing and when you the market throws a connection error and refuses to go any further. I've seen the same thing on other Android phones from that era.
I wouldn't consider France the vanguard of free Speech - For example holocaust denial is a punishable offense there.

So free speech hasn't taken precedence over political correctness. It's just that criticizing or offending muslims is considered politically correct.
I can't down vote this particular comment of yours as it is a reply to me, but wouldn't if I could. But I've no problem if others wish to. Or if they want to up vote you, also fine by me.

Other than caring about other users' scores, which I don't, I see no reason a user's view of "this comment is too high" is any less valid than the opposite.

And bringing in the concept of "groupthink".. Surely showing us the up vote has the exact same affect in that regard?
> To create Prison Map, Begley coded a script that plugged the known coordinates of prisons and jails nationwide into the Google Maps API. When he ran the script, it snapped a photo of every county jail, state prison (...)

I'm familiar with the GMaps API, but not with how one would do that? Is this run inside a browser/PhantomJS?

Does anyone has an idea how to do this as simply and "cleanly" as possible?
Yes; and "terminalIDE" includes busybox to fill in the missing commands, vim, tmux, git, javac and gcc. It's fun, usable, but limited: you have to work around a few things.

Wintel is making a push, with extra cheap quad-core Atoms and Windows 8. I wonder if this might be easier to get full linux on?

BTW: The big problem with proper linux distributions on ARM/Atom is not not getting them to run, but power management.
The official response by the LDS church to the Book of Mormon was this: "The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people's lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ." [1]

Not exactly what you would call "backlash." Then the church took out an ad in the playbill. [2]

[1] http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/church-statement-regar...
[2] http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/06/entertainment/la-et-...
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In a world where unemployment was more pervasive and expected it likely wouldn't be that way.
For these kinds of situations, power banks are great. I get the impression that they're not very popular in North America (dunno, haven't lived there for a while), but they are everywhere in Asia. I just bought a new one that gives me over 10k mAh. Enough to charge quite a bit of both my phone and iPad (and it comes with both USB and Lightning connectors to boot). For a long weekend or vacation, it's well worth packing these things, it's not like they're cumbersome or heavy either. About the same size and thickness as my phone for 10k more mAh.
Indeed! But, a broken one does not :)
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Thank you for your reply. I'll definitely check out your product then.
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I liked "mindset" but I don't remember getting any actionable parenting advice from it. Can you tell us how it affected your parenting?
Also for periods of heavy battery use. My iPhone 6 gets roughly 3-4 hours of playtime on games (most recently Knights of the Old Republic). I'm not complaining because that's great for a phone today; but 8-10 hours of playtime would be nice a few years from now. I take a lot of long flights and it's nice not to have to carry a spare battery or plug into my laptop.
Your proposition makes no sense, simple warning someone would offend them that way.

I relate to the OP that trigger warnings are an insult to my intelligence. If such a thing offends me, I should be able to judge it by myself or stop reading. The title is explicit enough to assume the "triggering" content is present.
I really would like to know when that happened.
>Nearly zero content

>They may have decided to preface their article with this message because they feared retaliation by zealous Muslims who would not otherwise expect to see a depiction of Muhammad in the Guardian.

Seems like content to me.
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I don't really promote this at all, but I wrote a free regex tool that wasn't listed.

http://www.regexpixie.com/

Key Features:

* Real Time Highlighting

* Solid Support for Named Groups

* Easily extract just the match or replacement text to clipboard

* write replacement logic with C#

It is free but only works on windows (built on .net).
I'm just curios, how would you imagine the dev environment for C4 would look like?
Sure, I could extend my statement to all major religions. Why does religious belief get an exception from scrutiny and mockery?
You've obviously never read the Qur'an. There are pages and pages of material condoning and inciting people to violence. Sam Harris printed pages of quotes from a translation of the Qur'an in The End of Faith, it was an eye-opening read for me. I often hear liberals repeating that it's not really a violent text, without knowing anything about it, they just want to believe it, maybe because it fits with the liberal philosophy of tolerance. The old testament also has some of that, but I think Islam easily wins as the most violent mainstream religion, both in reality and in their holy texts.
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My grandfather had the same problem, now with Ubuntu he is happy :-)
Many forms of Islam has e-fuses that can brick you if you try to change the firmware:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam
The one religion that has led to more countries with a state religion than any others is Christianity. It's true that mamy of those governments with state religions have since been abandoned them or been forcibly replaced or had the state religion become a vestigial relic with little substance in the same way many monarchies in the same countries have, but that's more due to social developments resulting from economic developments in those countries (in many cases including the social development of declining Christianity in the populace) -- and exhaustion and disdolutionment resulting from centuries of war under the banner of Christianism, including much between various Christianizes with slightly different views of Christianity and what it demanded of civil government -- than a result of mildness in the writings of Christianity vs those of Islam.

I don't disagree that violent Islamism is a particular problem in the world today, probably moreso than violent extremism leveraging any other religion; where I disagree is with your claim in the previous post that this is due to a fundamental difference between Islam and other religions rather than a difference in present circumstances. And I think that distinction is important because confusing the need to fight Islamism with a need to fight Islam changes fighting violentrepressive religious extremism to using repressive religious extremism as an excuse for violent repressive extremism on the basis of religion.
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Or you could read the following chapter from The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. It is quite entertaining.

http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume2/chap50.htm
First of all, this is a "no true Scotsman" fallacy. Islam, after Christianity, has the bloodiest history we know. The only reason it is the second biggest religion is because it expanded by violent conquers. Even in the off chance that the host is being decent, they imposed so much regulations on non-Muslims that they would end up converting. So this is exactly what Islam is.

>> Let me put it this way. There are only a couple of hundred thousand/million of people who follow Bahai Religion. Can they have the bloodiest history? Both Christianity and Islam, are among top 3 in terms of people who follow a religion. Of course with nearly half the planet following Islam and Christianity, if people stand up for the right things, they will end up with a bloody history. (In no way I support violence, but what I say is for the sake of the argument).

No one who has laid their eyes on Qur'an can say that. It is very explicit about how you need to treat non-Muslims. I don't know where the entire notion of "personal affair" came from.

>> And I agree with you, Islam specifically says that Non-Muslims are to be treated with respect and dignity. As you say, no man who has laid eyes on Quran can claim that such terrorism is justified.

Who says so? Who is the divine power that decides on what satire is too much in the absolute scare?

>> Who says it is too little? Which Divine power will decide it is too much or too little?

It is free in the Western world for women not to wear head scarves, drive and have sex with whoever they want, by extension of this logic would it be okay for woman to go to Saudi Arabia and do any of these things?

>> Is this in someway becoming, tell me what Islam is? If you have questions, about "What Islam actually says", then go read a genuine English Translation of Quran.

No, you don't get it. Objectively France is the better society here. I am half-french and I can criticise France on various issues for many hours but it is insulting to do a comparison between France and a "serious" Muslim country.

>> You seem to have a delusion about "Serious" Muslim Country. No one can clearly say which country is better. Isn't it peaceful to say all religions are good, all countries are good? Which side are you really on? Of a peaceful mindset or I want to work out my issues about Islam on HN?
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See also the "maybe it's not the programmers who are being stupid, it's the language that is in need of change" proposal at http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1180 with discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8233484
It's the "but" part which makes me think you really don't.
It was a two line "me too" when I posted that reply.
We are now entering a new age where our current form of capitalism will not work. You see, when there was enough demand on the workforce (as in, there was as much or more work to do than there were workers), things worked reasonably well. Now we are entering an era where there is much less demand for workers, yet we are not yet productive enough to just sit back, relax, and let machines handle 99.9%+ of the work.

Think about it: 50% unemployment is terrible. 100% unemployment is not unemployment. It means there are enough resources to go around that nobody has to work. There is so much food, shelter, and entertainment that we don't need to get up in the morning and go to work.

Obviously, 100% unemployment cannot happen. In all likelyhood, we'll still need doctors, chefs, artists, etc. But that the direction we are going in, and we better figure out how to set up a new economy to adapt to the new realities.

I envision a shift in the mind set. Personally, if I have more money then I could spend in a lifetime, and choose to work to make myself even richer, I don't care if 10 other families are living off my wealth. People will have a choice: do something productive for society, and live a slightly better lifestyle, or pursue more personal fulfillment. We'll see a lot more artists, and a lot less custodians. In the long run, I believe this shift will be a good thing, but it will require us to stop using terms like "moocher class".
I thought your comment was useful and about learned something new (to me) from it. Have an upvote from me.
I believe that gender diversity contributes so much to a tech company's working environment, that I would prefer taking a female candidate with similar qualifications over any other male candidates.
That being said, she will still need to qualify!
Muslim terrorists in general are also in opposition to mainstream Islam. They are extremists, just as Breivik is an extremist.
Can you back that up with a citation?
People make mistakes. That is all.
Do any of these allow to run offline? i.e local

Edit: Looks like Regexr can be run locally with node https://github.com/gskinner/regexr/
What platform would you be writing on? Unless you're doing HTML cutups or working almost exclusively in WordPress, 70k is a joke.
No it wasn't, that full sentence that was quoted had been there since before the first edit.

You may not like what was said, but please do not engage in dishonesty.
My wife.. she despises computers and only learns stuff that she absolutely has to, even then it is very reluctantly and is intensely stressful for everyone in her vicinity.
I can't speak for the other two, but I believe Chocolatey is being integrated (or vice versa) with OneGet, the built-in package manager for Windows 10.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/chocolatey/a8WdEoF-M...
It's not hard for computer literate people. But there are plenty of people who would think that downloading something from a reputable site wouldn't screw up their computer.

The policy employed by these bloatware installers preys on these unknowing people and cripples their user experience. Criticizing this aspect is a valid 'bashing' of said ecosystem.
Inadvertent bad guys (good intentions with unpredictable errors) can be more damaging than intentional attacks.
Practically speaking, in this case, does this work better? Did the Eurozone cause risks associated with BPA and BPS to be identified faster, or prevent them from being used in consumer products?
Yep, and it's very obvious even in different parts of the city for me. In one office, the phone is still at 60-70% after a day's work, while in another it's usually dead by the end of the work day.
not sure about mobile, but I would think Kerbal Space Program has most of the physics done, as well as an active mod community. I've always thought an accurate solar system mod would be pretty cool
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It's a web site but it has a number of simulations of various astronomy topics and is very well done. It's labeled as being introductory but, depending upon the ages of your children, it might still be too advanced.

http://astro.unl.edu/naap/
A very interesting cover. I was thinking about drawing a cartoon: a bunch of Muslims sitting around saying "I hate freedom soo much!..."

Note this wouldn't be satirizing Muslims, but rather the fact that we rush to draw these comical worldviews even in the face of such tragedies.

Let's just label it Radical Islam & call anyone that doesn't agree with our definition of "values" a Radical. The Islamic world is in deep shit, not necessarily because of the west. Meaningful change often isnt even a remote possibility in many of these places. The "extremists" are just another group vying for power and legitimacy in a dystopian Muslim world & something like Charlie Hebdo is a PR opportunity.

Religious injunctions aside, what makes criticizing Islam is not just the beliefs that some hold. What makes it dangerous is you're likely painting a target on your back. They won't take on the U.S. army, or the seriously oppressive armies of dictatorships. A journalist, celebrity etc is a great opportunity.

It's not fucking about free speech, unless you believe in a comical worldview where you depict what doesn't match your worldview as I did earlier. The cartoons are funny. I'm all for freedom of speech. But our principles don't make ground realties any different. We should think of the fact that at least we have the luxury of having principles.

In principle, nobody should rob me while I'm going walking down the street. But it's a whole different thing if it's in a rough neighborhood & I'm standing out like a sore thumb.

What happenned was wrong, and my heart goes out to all who are directly involved. And I mean that (A close family friend was recently shot by a deranged lunatic on a shooting spree, leaving him permanently disabled). The violence is senseless and irrational.

Let us them not rationalize it away with a little bias thrown the other way. It's not what I expect on HN. Let's not fool ourselves into thinking it was about freedom of speech. Yes, it has caused fear. Which is why I thought the cover was interesting. It's saying to us: we are not afraid & it's not hurling hate back with a message of forgiveness, which is atypical in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.

Surprisingly Charlie Hebdo's cover is more thoughtful & less comical than the inane chatter of people saying "why do they hate us". And that is Brilliant. Alas this attempt at communication is probably lost on a majority of the Muslim world. In truth, everyone wants freedom. Let's take a second to think about what's really at play here.

For the perpetrators of these acts like to win, it requires us to becomes irrational & start becoming hateful and shortsighted. Let's not give in to that
Coming from a formerly communist country, I have a severe distrust towards "great minds" with some radical fix for capitalism.

Actually, we should start treating social fixes like we do technical rollouts. Prove it on a small scale somewhere first, and then carefully expand.

This seems like common sense. Yet for some reason changes in policies tend to be sweeping, national or even international.
Are you going to collect our info? What is your privacy policy?