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The gist for those wondering if they should watch this half an hour long talk: it's meant to be funny. You'll probably learn nothing about Clojure or any other technology.

Repeatedly hit the Tab key. It's likely you'll see 'o' link getting outlined.

Ugh! This is getting tiresome. Yes, NY Times hates Facebook. I get it. Can we please stop posting story after story about that here?

Learn from Kernighan. Most tutorials are dry and teach "follow these steps". The better ones explain the "why" of the feature. Kernighan comes up with fun examples to keep the reader engaged.

I don't like the "gotcha, Dawkins" stance of the article, but apart from that, it looks like they were doing their best to fill in the gaps that Venter left. If memory serves me right, this discussion panel met shortly after Venter's group announced the creation of a life form with a completely synthetic genome. Venter had adequately proven his credentials by that point, and so the panel deferred to his expertise.

Given that the likes of Dawkins could not follow along, Venter certainly did a poor job of communicating the ideas.

Definitely not agreeing with GP. Progressives are not economic liberals. But you're right, the article has it backwards too. The phrase "staunchly conservative on regulation" seems to have a special meaning in the US that's not applicable elsewhere. In India and Pakistan, for example, "conservative" just means holding on to traditional religious values.

The locations seem like gimmicks to me quite a lot of times, and I don't mean ICLR conferences specifically. This time it happens to be politically motivated. At other times, it seems like they are picking exotic locations (Hawaii, Bahamas, etc.) because they know their university or company is going to fund it.

If we're talking about single-celled organisms, it's quite possible that there are hundreds of "kingdoms" living among us. The trend to abandon the Linnaean classificaton is quite prominent among those analyzing macroscopic organisms. But among those working with microscopic organisms, I've come across some of them abandoning the tree of life itself. My mind was blown when I watched the discussion between Dawkins and Venter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)#Summary

https://evolutionnews.org/2011/03/venter_vs_dawkins_on_the_t...

You have it backwards. Liberal economics means fewer regulations, less federal planning, etc. In their more "socialist" phases, China and India had the government in control of a lot of manufacturing, trade, etc. After their economies were liberalized, private companies had a greater say in their own affairs (they got "liberated"). In India, the government started selling off its factories to private owners under a liberal economic regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism

I guess it's a reference to George Orwell's "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".

I don't work in this field, but I would like to know out of lay interest. Are there translators that to convert proofs in one system to another? Such a translator would prove (pardon!) to be useful to collaborating researchers.

I know that these systems each have unique features, so I don't mean a 100% translation. For the purposes of this question, translating proofs for the intersection of features would suffice.

But still centuries behind liturgical music. Sing "Kyrie eleison" in this manner for 5 minutes, and then sing "Kyrie eleison" in a different manner for 10 minutes. Sing "Christe eleison" in between for a few minutes. Let's end the day singing "Osanna in excelsis" in a couple of different ways, for a few minutes each.

You're using the emacs definition of major modes. "Modal editor" has a different meaning. Vim has three modes [1]. Emacs is not considered a modal editor, but some of its features are similar to Vim's last-line mode.

[1] https://alvinalexander.com/linux/vim-vi-mode-editor-command-...

Does the text-to-speech feature not work on desktops? I'm using Chromium on Linux, and I don't hear anything when I click on sentences. TTS works on Android though.

I was hoping for an article on nuclear physicists, and how working with radioactive materials when it was still not well understood has left some residual radioactivity detectable in their hair to this day, long after their deaths.

I was disappointed.

I agree completely. Copyright is badly broken, and it's broken in favour of the big players. Independent classical musicians are the most severely affected by it. A few of my favourite classical players have received copyright strikes by the likes of Sony, BMG, WB, etc. for their own live performances. And then there are cases such as the video of a guy strolling through a forest, which received copyright claims from the big bullies because of the live bird calls.

EU's proposal would only end up making the already flawed ContentID system more aggressive. Heck, I'd go in the opposite direction. I would be in favour of penalizing those who falsely claim copyright for works that they don't own the rights to.

> there is still the other side that subsidizes all that

Connect the dots for me. How is the existence of crazy people uploading videos to YouTube subsidizing educational content? Advertising is subsidizing educational content because that's how the money flows.

If you were to put everyone literally in a straitjacket, you'd cut down on the number of crazy people shooting up random strangers too. If you want to build such a society, I will help you build it, and help you move there. I'm staying out. I think freedom is a societal net good.

I don't watch children's videos, so I'll leave that factor aside. All your citations are to opinion pieces written by people with an agenda to push, i.e. not fact, not by a long shot. I watch YouTube for education and entertainment. The loss of all the educational content, by itself, would be a massive loss to humanity. If YouTube were to go down, some educators will re-upload their content to other places. Moreover, radical activists would be the among the first to adopt YouTube's replacements, thereby solving nothing.

> No one is responsible for content, and look what that’s gotten us.

I suspect your views are coloured by the kind of things you watch. YouTube's algorithms have adapted to your viewing profile. Most of my recommendations are for science, math, and music pedagogy. From where I stand, YouTube has gotten us to a great place.

> both a chemistry department and a chemical engineering department. They are different (but related) disciplines

I used to think chemical engineering is about chemistry until I talked to some chemical engineers on the bus I used to commute on. Most of what they study is mechanical engineering, and so, it's better to think of CE as a branch of ME. These people worked in the R&D department of a materials company, so they definitely knew what they were talking about. Their chemistry chops were only marginally better than mine, and I'm an EE.

The Bose-Einstein condensate that the article talks about is one of many low-temperature states. There are a few kinds of high-energy states too... the most famous ones being electron degenerate matter (found in white dwarfs) and neutron degenerate matter (found in neutron stars).

I think a good starting point is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_matter

No, I had looked at those too. Both under Image Search (for Jews, Muslims, and "gril") and under Videos (for Michelle Obama). All the related searches were completely innocuous. The autocomplete suggestions were the least innocuous ones I got. Looking for "gril" got me images of girls, but all completely SFW or child-safe.

That was my first thought too. But then, I live in Bangalore, and my sense of proportion is biased by this. The Jewish population is about the same as my city's.

What? I tried these searches out when the article was just three hours old on HN. I could not reproduce any of these results. Safe Search was set "Moderate", and my results did not change significantly when I switched it to "Off".

The worst it got for me was when I asked for autocomplete suggestions for "muslims are":

    good
    hindu
    worst
    cancer
    killed

Disclosure: I performed these searches from India. I'm open to the possibility that there could be regional factors worsening the search results in the US. Even so, I can't imagine what Indian customizations would make my search suggestions for "Michelle Obama" so innocuous compared to what I see in the article.

> surely this is a dishonest retort to a label that is being applied very specifically to a radical nationalist

It's not dishonest at all. I have noticed this trend in the last couple of years, where the likes of Sam Harris and Douglas Murray are called white-supremacists. Modi has been called a Hindu supremacist. I don't know much about David Duke, so I'll not comment about him.

> if your dispute is that you think there's daylight between an ethno-religious nationalist and an ethno-religious supremacist, fine, make that argument

Why does this case need to be made? There have been plenty of common counterexamples throughout modern history. Just look at the plethora of atheist Jews who are Zionists but don't believe in the concept of the promised land, or look at the formation of Pakistan, or even the split up of Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia, which did not have religious motivations.

It's not like I have no skin in the game. If the likes of Pravin Togadia (actual Hindu supremacist -- I've heard his speeches live) have their way, and India became a Hindu country, I'll be made a refugee. But yes, dishonest characterizations of political opponents and calling them [something]-supremacists is a trend now.

Reading the first paragraph, and the article already seems off to a shaky start.

> The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, cites V. D. Savarkar, a far-right Hindu supremacist who was accused of involvement in Gandhi’s assassination, in 1948, as his ideological mentor.

I am not Hindu, and I can't stand Savarkar. However, I've never heard a justification for calling him a Hindu supremacist. He wanted India to be a Hindu country, not because he thought Hindus were superior, but more as a homeland for what he conceived as Hindu culture. I don't like this recent trend of calling everyone you can't stand a [something]-supremacist.

I wouldn't go as far as to say the company hired people who had no moral values. Just different from that of people who advocate anti-censorship values. Progressive political values are the current mainstream. Liberalism has long been on the decline in the mainstream. Both managers and employees, by and large, subscribe to progressivism. As a clear example of this culture, just look at what kinds of voices have been silenced on social media, and what kinds have been given free reign. I'm not even talking about the content of the employees' speech here.

> Are they "just" sucking up to management or are they maybe the only ones who buy the propaganda?

IMO, neither. I don't like this purported dichotomy between "management" and "colleagues/employees". I have seen several of my former classmates and colleagues transition into management roles. Their ideology hasn't changed much in the last 20 years. For example, in the Indian context, their view of Kashmir and the army's role there is pretty much the same as the government propaganda. "Management" did not convince them when we were all still in college, and did not convince them when we were all low-level employees. The people just happened to grow up in an environment where a certain ideological bent was considered "right", "virtuous", etc.

> "computer software look more like real-world analogues"

Skeuomorphic design. That's the term for it.

I'm not in the western world, but News Republic is on plenty of phones around here, as part of the initial bloatware. I have not used the product myself, so this is not a comment on the quality of the product.

Looks like an interesting talk, but are the slides available online somewhere?

Edit: Never mind. I found the slides he had made for the same talk given elsewhere. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sZciK13LDh4rBFwbRCk0Oylga3...