skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Words cannot hold guns, knives, or other weapons. Yes, they can be unpleasant. Yes, they can be upsetting. Yes, people who have been abused can be triggered.

He is from a country with a history where minorities such as Alevis and Armenians are commonly (and increasing) subjected to non-physical intimidation techniques, such as having red X arrows drawn on their doors or being tagged as "minority" in public sphere (i.e. government) communiques.

I am going to go so far as suggesting that he either knew what he was doing or should have understood the reaction he was getting once it started pouring down from the students. Intimidation is a fucked up thing to experience for those who have a history of experiencing that intimidation followed by a massacre soon thereafter.

The administrators, bah. Those exist to prevent lawsuits, not to protect the students, as they have demonstrated time and again, so what they did is besides the point.

But I do have higher standards for faculty.
I love the linked picture:
http://i.imgur.com/3uyRWGJ.jpg
Good, short article. Now, remove the need for me to sign in via some third-party identification service before I can post a comment.
I agree and think you did an excellent job here. Distilling down such critical information shows how much time and thought you put into it.

It's easy to ramble on for 100 pages, but capturing the essence of your values in a few slides with a couple of tidy examples each is really hard.
I'm surprised that the Economist didn't include a picture of the effigy. Here's an article with a partial picture:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/university-of-iowa-pulls-cont...

I think the Economist article is a bit one-sided. Is it really fair to blame students for being scared when an effigy in the style of those displayed by a group that is known for advocating and sometimes conducting violence against a certain racial group, is displayed on campus? As far as I can tell, this particular effigy wasn't clearly distinguished from one that might actually be displayed by the KKK.

Sure, people have the right to display things that make other people uncomfortable, but there must be a line somewhere, and this seems perilously close to it.
I think the users always had the same choice, don't visit sites where you don't like the experience. Sure adblockers are finally pushing for better sites and ads but the blunt force approach of just blocking all ad scripts is actually causing more harm then good.

Nowadays, hosting is so cheap that independent blogging is not really at risk, everyone can publish anything anytime. The risk is really with top and mid-tier publishers who produce content for money. These guys will be squeezed and what we're headed towards is both paywalls everywhere and a walled-garden approach where Facebook or other big central apps/sites will control access to everything else. Not sure either is a great option for the future.

Note: Yes micropayments/universal "internet" subscriptions might work but this is a far greater problem than people make it out to be. Any company attempting to do this will need massive scale, perfect tracking (again privacy issues here), secure access to billing and identity and ease of use for users. They will possibly help from either ISPs or some other infrastructure layer to actually make this work and even Google is having trouble with their 2nd try at a micropayments model in their new Contributor program. It's just not an easy thing to solve, definitely not as easy as just putting up a few ads and making the content free.
I've been exposed to asian style lined notebooks while in Japan and can't go back. I use the Kokuyo or Mauruman loose-leaf paper in a binder and it has little marks on the rules to help you line up your characters. Of course for me this makes perfect writing/graphing paper, since the regular marks stand in for a grid in a pinch. Also the paper quality is much smoother then mead/staples whatever. Some may like that, some may not. I do.
I just compile my native code to OpenGL ES and add HTML WebView on top - mobile has a fine app delivery system - desktop not so much and it can handle the performance dip.

It also makes the GUI development faster because most of the UI is simple enough and lets the artists prototype stuff easily with tools they know how to use (CSS&HTML)
http://wordlink.com/monthly
http://wordlink.com/monthly/startup
http://wordlink.com/weekly
(Front page is daily)
Bookmarked. This is a great website, simple design well executed, but I'll give you my gripes, too.

First thing I'd do? Get rid of the blurred background for readability's sake, it makes me feel like I've got glaucoma.

Also, I whitelist scripts and I'm oddly outraged when I land on a page which hardly functions without. At least tell me I have to enable JS. It's a minor thing but first impressions and all.

I'm intrinsically uncomfortable with websites moving without my say so but it may grow on me in this case (just don't over do it ;).

The only other thing that's grinding my gears is more general and counterintuitive. Namely, news being weighted toward what people want to read, rather than need to read.

However, I'm probably just being an idealist... after all, who doesn't need to see a raccoon riding an alligator?

Edit: Just found the pause button, it's a good compromise.
And Jonah Lehrer has magically regained credibility how?
The burden should be on the person getting offended. If you are offended, walk away. If you're at a comedy show, and you find a joke offensive, leave. The burden shouldn't rest on everyone else. I know personally I've had to start self censoring in fear of being labelled a misogynist or racist from saying things that are neither. People are capable of incredible mental gymnastics.
There's definitely something going on, although I think this article in particular makes a weak case.

A couple other articles in a similar vein;

"I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me" - https://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afrai... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9654710)

"My Title IX Inquisition" - http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/06/my-title-ix-...
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626970)
You can visualize trends at
http://analytics.wordlink.com/monthly

Or use any url from main page but replace the subdomain.
What is the source? At what event did Tesla release these photos and specs?
> or is it that only certain political views get the privilege to be "triggering?

Yes. Above and beyond things that are horrifically traumatic, those groups who have been marginalized in society ought have that privilege. When you spend decades or centuries having the deck stacked against you, it is a completely appropriate approach to attempt to swing the balance back in the other direction.

> I (seriously) get triggered when i read arguments like yours.

My apologies. It's my mistake, as I forgot who the _real_ marginalized people are in society - Hacker News posters. Please forgive me.
Yes, he had his American Dream. Conquering Europe and eventually Russia. Went in with 600.000 men and returned with 26.000.

By the way it's funny how western media writes fluff pieces about mass murdering barbarians like Napoleon who were as popular as Adolf Hitler back then and especially in the aftermath for many decades.

I guess we'll see in 50 years from now articles about the unfulfilled American Dream of Adolf Hitler and everybody in the West will be clapping.
volatile's designed purpose is for memory-mapped things, not hardware registers.
Ubisoft developers read mean tweets about them
What's your point? We can link statistics and specific cases all day back and forth and neither of us would make it out on top. Shitty things happen to everyone. Doesn't mean I can't say something about it / joke about it.
The author should prepare to catch some hell for advocating 'ForwardAgent=yes' in ssh configs.
There's not much difference between government power and mob power. The end result is the same.

You'll be disappointed if you hold the general public to a higher intellectual standard.
You understand that all the passwords/data are encrypted client side and only the encrypted blob is stored in the cloud?

This is exactly what users of Keepass et al espouse when they talk of having their 'locally encrypted database' and syncing it over dropbox etc.

You, at least, are identifying the benefit of physical security, but if we are to place any trust at all in encryption then we must accept such a scheme (local encryption, cloud sync) as being robust, if correctly implemented.

Under this scheme, obtaining the encrypted blob (which hasn't happened in this case) would still not be a cause for alarm, if we are to trust the strength of the encryption scheme.

There comes a point that you must trust 'something'. That choice for me is in encryption.
It's worth noting that "too difficult" is a very high bar for a distro that to this day has yet to implement things like PAM; if you want an authentication system more advanced than /etc/{password,shadow}, you'll need to compile PAM from source and install it manually (there might be a Slackbuild for it nowadays; I don't really remember).
Eich leaving Mozilla was absolutely not voluntary and I wish people would stop saying it was.

He "voluntarily" resigned in response to coercive threats against the company he founded and spent 15 years building.
First, this is extremely high for LEO, ~1200km. Drag is negligible, decay will take thousands of years.

At around ~800km, solar sails start to become practical because aerodynamic drag drops below photon pressure.

Ion thrusters and photovoltaics are COTS techs which are vastly more powerful than solar sails, which exist only at the prototype/demo stage.

Ion thrusters are practical to fight drag down to around ~200km given the right design, or are perfectly happy at 300-350 given a typical suboptimal design. GOCE managed it down to ~230km, after performing a multiyear mission at ~260km: http://www.spaceflight101.com/goce-re-entry.html
I never saw it in mine either and it had been fully updated. Maybe it was only on a certain OS?
Do you have any information that shows the effectiveness of helmet use in crashes that don't involve cars? I've read that approximately half of all bike crashes do not involve cars. [ looking for a citation ]
Given also that systemd is Linux-only due to its reliance on cgroups: yes.
Docker support is a new feature to enable more complex jobs where you need to control the entire stack, for instance, maybe you need imagemagick installed on the core machine, or ghostscript. IronWorker can support that. It also allows you to test your workers locally before uploading: http://blog.iron.io/2015/03/the-new-ironworker-development-w....

That said, you don't need to think about Docker if you don't want to and an IronWorker can be a few lines of code too, for example:

https://github.com/iron-io/dockerworker/blob/master/ruby/hel...

Or node: https://github.com/iron-io/dockerworker/blob/master/node/hel...
That seems incredibly dismissive of all the content out there. Just because something is "shallow" to you does not mean others don't enjoy it.

There is no such thing as "quality", its all subjective and the reason why there's so much gossip news and stuff is because so many people like to read it. BuzzFeed didnt get this big because nobody comes back to read their articles. That's the simple truth.

And nobody wants to pay for content when it's so easy to get things for free. Micropayments are not some easy answer (very hard to pull off) and they are no less private, in fact they will require even more tracking and even more data, down to your real identity and billing details.
Show HN: Slam poetry supporting causes and charities
I'm now too paranoid for lastpass ever again.

Sandstorm made setting up a private gitlab about a 5 second thing. I'll just checkin gpg encrypted textfiles once more.

There's a bunch of shell scripts called pass http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/ which know about gpg, git and this format of text files.
There's browser and android plugin as well. Amusingly it has basic import/export from every other password manager.
I exported from lastpass and now all I have to do is switch to a new gpg key and buy all new hardware
I was hired into 18F last year. I work out of San Francisco, where we have a team of about 15 working in the center of the city (UN Plaza). It's the second-largest office; the largest is DC, but we have smaller offices in Chicago and NYC, as well as many people working remotely in other parts of the country.

I have 20 years of software engineering experience, and the salary I get is competitive with similar salaries in SF. The benefits are decent, plus you get loads of discounts of things just for being a Federal employee.

There were several reasons I joined, but patriotism isn't one of them: I'm actually a British citizen who relocated to the USA almost a decade ago. Having kept in touch with friends back in London, I'm amazed and inspired by what GDS has achieved: they are, quite literally, setting the high water mark for user-centered design and research. Then I looked around the state of US government websites, and I felt what is one of the most common motivations for an engineer: seeing something broken that you know how to fix.

Not only are the people here fantastic, but we're getting to use better tools and services than I have previously. We started deploying using AWS and all its associated services, but have recently set up Cloud Foundry, and that's made fast development and deployment so much easier. (Yay, that wonderful feeling of deleting huge swathes of configuration you just don't need any more.) The project I'm on uses Mandrill and Twilio, plus Snap CI for testing & deployment. (Other projects may use different tools. Not much is mandated.) We all work on MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt Displays. (Some of us run Linux on those MacBooks.)

Part of what makes this work so well is that, while 18F does bill clients for our time, our primary motivator is quality rather than profit. We get to do the right thing because it's the right thing. If we find a better way to build, we switch to that. I've worked with plenty of startups but I've rarely worked with any team that was able to improve its working methods so quickly.

Everything we build is open source by default, available on Github. Plus, we contribute to other FOSS projects (such as the aforementioned Cloud Foundry). I've ended up making PRs back to plenty of libraries and other projects while working on this one to fix minor bugs or add useful features.

No, my day job here is not totally free of strange and frustrating bureaucracy, but there's far less than you'd guess, and plenty of freedoms that make up for that. I could bang on about my beliefs about the role of government and politics and how all this should work, and that is all important to me, but it's less relevant to the day-to-day work. And so far, that work is immensely satisfying.
Trends that start in academia sooner or later leak into daily life. This one is particularly troubling - i 've never heard academics before defending the abolition of a fundamental human right. Who knows, maybe soon karma arrows will be replaced with safety kill-switches.
So he was really just trying to build democracy and meritocracy, but the primitive population didn't get his "pitch"?

I think I've already heard something similar a million dead Iraqis ago.
Not really. He just says if the compiler can optimize away prior to it being declared volatile.
> Should you lose your job and have to go into hiding and start a new life because you make a joke in poor taste to your 50 twitter followers?

Should you lose your job? Depends on what your job is, and what the impact on your employers business is, I suppose.

Should your employer be prohibited from taking your job as a result of that, regardless of what your job is and what the impact of that act on their business is?

> Should you lose your job and get death threats because you take a disrespectful photo at a grave site and share it with 5 friends on facebook?

I think most people would agree that death threats are generally undesirable and even the kind of thing that should generally be restricted by law and punished, almost independently of the motivation.

> They're not First Amendment issues, but they are free speech issues.

And free association issues. As in, are people free not to choose to associate with you based on your speech.
How does one person manage to be so productive?
It's called paywalls. Adblock will not get you around that.
PlexConnect with an AppleTV here, works pretty well:

https://blog.plex.tv/2013/06/04/introducing-plexconnect-an-a...
I'm aware and that was what I was referencing/hinting at (poorly it seems). Using it himself at the end is an allusion to his quoted material. The purpose is a reiteration for emphasis of the concept inspired from the quote.

The way he used it was still meant to be in a quote-like context. Context tends to get ignored when people take offense or issue with statements.

See: "Chinks in armor"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/01/30/...
Uhh... this article is kind of awful. It consistently confuses hits with pageviews. There's no mention of the most popular early open source (Analog) or closed source (Webtrends) analytics tools. And how can you spend multiple paragraphs telling the story of how GA came to be the most popular analytics platform without mentioning that it's a freebie? GA is an add-on to Adwords, whereas New Relic costs hundreds per month, and Webtrends/Omniture cost thousands. And why say "New Relic is its nearest competitor..." when New Relic doesn't even compete with GA? This article is just a shambles.

And where is sessionization? Isn't going through a logfile and associating the hits with specific users what made the Webtrends founders rich back in the late 1990s? Nope, it never existed, just like web data warehouses, OLAP, etc. In this alternate reality, web analytics moved directly from "glorified hit counters" to "event tracking".

This is not a history of web analytics, it's marketing material for Amplitude, whoever they are. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that they're an analytics vendor and that event tracking is one of their main features.
You're talking about a different problem now.

But I'm pretty sure you're just aggressively anti-C/C++ so whatever.
He was wronged in that students lied about feeling "afraid" and "terrorized" and "unsafe" instead of simply saying that they were offended. They made these claims because they know that these words put into motion an array of employment-related and/or pseudo-legal threats like Title IX suits. They lied about how they felt, to a third party such as the university administration, instead of responding truthfully to the person they disagreed with. The first problem is that there are structures in place that reward this behavior, and the second is that the current breed of leftists feel absolutely no shame in using them.
High School operates under very different rules. We don't treat our children very well in the cases of free speech.
ROT13 fan?
No, I know, I was just taking a cheap stab.
Where is web-technology headed?
As a ruby developer, who frequently works with the Rails framework/API, and frontend frameworks such as AngularJS, I'd like to stay at the forefront of technology, as I'm sure many of you would like to as well.

What are some new frameworks, programming languages that any serious web-developer should be aware of? And perhaps take up learning all together.

Thanks!
We built this 2 years ago and applied to Ycomb with no luck both years. Everyone we have uses it everyday but it's difficult to penetrate the publishing market. Still we work with large marketing firms to offer intelligence services.
Full text searchable http://wordlink.com and http://analytics.wordlink.com
As mentioned they've had HTML5 playback for browsers that support which is basically Safari, Chrome and even Firefox I think.

Safari was the first browser that got supported and it's been working on Macs for ages without Silverlight installed.
Please... it's so easy to just dismiss these problems as "hey you should find a better business model" when lots of very smart people have been trying for a very long time.

Free + ads vs Paid access are the only viable models today. Anything else is an offshoot of less ads with more donations or merchandise or something else but there's no real 3rd option. If there was, we would have figured it out by now dont you think?
Seems like a good introduction. I'm an amateur who's been using IDEs up until now. I'm just starting to become dimly aware of the power at the command line, and slowly learning in a haphazard way. This could be very helpful.
We all value things differently. I'd rather have more time off than a market salary. I'm not going to lay on my deathbed and wish I had committed extra lines of code.
Some environments support a locale named "C.UTF-8" - with the same familiar sorting and formatting rules as the C locale, but with proper UTF-8 support.
What did the Romans ever do for us?

In all seriousness, though, we tend to ignore how advanced the Roman civilization was compared to the "barbaric" ones outside of its borders.

For example, when the Romans invaded Dacia around year 106 they created a new capital, at Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulpia_Traiana_Sarmizegetusa), which became a proper Roman city, with an amphitheatre, a forum, several temples, Roman-built villas. The Romans evacuated Dacia and its capital around year 270, and then everything collapsed. Around Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa writing just vanished, for the next 800 years or so there are no archaeological finds involving written texts (either in stone or on the buildings' walls). Stone churches started to get built around year 1100-1200, many of them using stone from the Roman ruins. Theater as an art form would only return to the region around year 1600-1700, that's almost 1500 years after the Romans had left.
Most of those would be classified as "social sciences", not humanities. It has to do with the methods and philosophies they use. Grievance studies is my nickname for "_____ studies" where the "_____" is the name of some census checkbox.
Christian Schafmeister and Robert Strandh (creator of work-in-progress SICL, which Christian now uses in Clasp), both took on the multi-year project of creating a new CL implementation; Robert completely from scratch, Christian leveraging the high-level parts of an existing implementation, while completely rewriting the low-level ones.

I have a lot of respect for these guys; I had a few new ideas for ways of implementing Common Lisp, but decided not to when I realized with the amount of free-time I have, it would be about a decade of work.

I've spoken to Robert online, and he mentioned that a lot of people told him a from-scratch implementation was doomed to fail. The only reason those people were wrong was in that they underestimated his tenacity.
Robert Shiller had an interesting analysis of the current stock market's "frothiness": http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-shiller-stock-market-b...

Basically, the stock market is a bit overvalued, and people expect that trend to continue. However, peoples' level of confidence in the stock market pricing is very low. To me, if there's a coming crash, it's going to be because investors are overly anxious rather than because valuations are so stratospheric.
GitHub to Seek $2B Valuation in Latest Funding Round
Perhaps you could benefit from reading what some of the people making these decisions have written on the topic.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=1729;bug=7...

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530
My master password is roughly based on some poorly written english text found in the ROM of an old japanese video game.