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> [...] the belief that race exists. (Which it manifestly does, as a cultural construct.)

That's like saying that aliens exist as a cultural construct. Let's not mix reality and widely shared fantasies.

How would you call the unscientific belief that races exist in the human species, if not "racism"?

> a lot of time "racism" is used broadly to refer to bigotry based on race, ethnicity, or nationality

True, just like "vagina" is used to refer to the vulva. Errors need to be pointed out, not accepted in silence, even if the hoi polloi will make you pay for it.
> If you hire a hitman to kill your spouse, both you and the hitman are guilty of murder.

That's generally because of laws which explicitly make procuring, soliciting, etc., a crime that is actually committed an offense for which the perpetrator can be punished as a principal of the solicited, procured, etc., offense; that is, the law recognizes that the acts involved is meaningfully distinct, but assigns the same culpability to those distinct acts.

So, the analogy to law sort of undermines the idea posited upthread that it doesn't make sense to distinguish the act of authorizing from the act of performing what has been authorized.
Just try not to get fired.
> few users have screens that accurately reproduce 100% of sRGB.

All currently selling Apple computers (at least phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops, I’m not sure about the watches) are extremely close to sRGB. So that’s a considerable proportion of computer/mobile device users.

Other vendors’ devices have a much spottier record, but matching sRGB is by no means an impossible goal.

More generally, screens can be precisely characterized (either at the factory or by end users) and color management software can pipe pixel colors through a lookup table on their way to the display, so that at least in-gamut colors appear correctly.

Sadly Windows and Linux didn’t support proper color management at an OS level for many years, so lots of software on those platforms still doesn’t do it correctly. And web browsers on all platforms punt on correctly doing color management for CSS colors, with the excuse of matching non-color-managed Flash.

Even more unfortunately, neither iOS nor Android has any color management whatsoever. iOS gets around this by making sure all the displays have nearly identical color (at least on recent machines), but on Android getting accurate color is a crapshoot.

Then there are televisions, for most of which color is a complete joke.
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I have the data api and need someone to help code and build an algorithm. Let me know if you have any questions. Will need an NDA if we decide to move forward.
That seems more of a reason to upgrade your tools, rather than adding a new tool. Granted, that may be easier said than done, as broken compilers may accept broken code that needs to be fixed.
"Hint, a subtly flavored brand of bottled water that seems to flow as freely in San Francisco as the tears of the people who were evicted to make room for the incoming software engineers"
Nobody mentioned laws or curtailing their rights. Not everything is reduced to whether an action is legal or not.

We can and should discuss whether something is ethical, and we can and should advocate for legal ways of opposing such things, like publicly criticizing it, boycotting the show, etc.
And yet you made your argument with a false equivalence. The street in Lebanon (Hamra Street) that was depicted as a hotbed of terrorist activity is a cosmopolitan, liberal road.

In case you can't see the issue: the series treats all Arabs and Muslims as dangerous terrorists willing to kill any "infidel" at the drop of a hat. And yet that is because of extremists, which exist everywhere - like, for example, Terry Jones.

It's false to say that EVERY Muslim will kill someone who criticises their religion.
The coverage seems to be only line-based. I don't know if it's relevant for Go, but you might want to see how the coverage looks like for branch-based analysis (if Go has software for that).

Otherwise, nice to see someone take quality serious. :)
Not sure what you're referring to, are you thinking of HHVM? FPM is part of the standard PHP implementation and uses the Zend engine.
If this were Slashdot(Well, the late 90s Slashdot that I knew, loved and dearly miss), there'd be people talking about Petrified Natalie Portman, Hot Grits and a Beowulf cluster of Octogenarian Alcatraz escapees.

I get your point and I don't disagree. Until there is more compelling proof, one way or the other, this story kind of comes across as premature. There is another motivation behind releasing the story now. The word getting out that these guys may have lived could be enough to spark someone's memory. As an example, someone who just assumed that those guys died in the bay might not have paid a second thought to the two hitchhikers s/he encountered around the time it happened.

Fundamentally, it's a mystery story. Just relax and try to enjoy it.
Yup, that's my point :-)
> Rice is a terrible human being and a seasoned deceiver of the public.

This is a pretty callous thing to say, even for HN. I think there's a real discussion to be had here about data privacy and the power of law enforcement agencies, but demonizing Condoleezza feels like creating a straw man. She's just a board member-- it's not like she's VP of Product or CEO or something.

I get your point, but calling her a "terrible human being" is kind of extreme, don't you think? Not sure that statement adds to a well-reasoned argument. I personally don't agree with all her politics or behavior, but I don't think she ranks up there with the truly "terrible" humans. She was a professor at Stanford, is an accomplished musician, has done a lot for international US diplomacy, was the first woman in many of her roles, etc. etc.
I too believe that all people should be free of any consequences of their actions.
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Found a video of the button connected to a LiFX bulb here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1FIHRnco7Y

Looks cool!
What if the block wasn't based on crypto, but on verifiable human attention?
Great info, thanks. That's a 4-6x size improvement from what I'm seeing now, so that'd be very helpful. Probably actually cheaper to buy this than just get a larger HDD.

I'd looked at options that would auto-transcode recordings on disk, but they generally changed enough things that it wouldn't maintain the metadata and/or otherwise treated them as individual videos and not episodic content.

One last question, do you happen to have any extenders? I'm using an xbox 360 as an extender and I wonder if it can play the h.264 encoded video.
A good tech lead in my mind is someone with a strong technical vision who has the backbone to see their vision through, but is also very adept at ironing out the myriad issues that fracture teams. It means being an advocate for the best technical solution but compromising with the other teams in the org to meet their needs. It also means being very unpopular as a good technical lead will give commandments from on high even when they're not popular or well liked opinions.

Basically your job will be reducing friction by pissing everyone off. So it's even worse than "if you've done it right, no one will know."
>And watching the TV show is optional.

We're not talking about the viewers of the show, we're talking about the people (Muslims, Arabs, etc) who are affected by the people who choose to watch the show -- that is, the impact on the culture that racism has.

>Would you propose to curtail the right to free speech?

We already do. The FCC does this. But I'm not suggesting that there be a law against it -- though other countries have gone this route -- I'm critizing the production of the television show. For being racist.

>It's a TV show, not real life.

Ah, but here we are: it is real life for millions of Muslims. Remember after 9/11 when Sikhs got beat up because people thought they were Muslims? Remember in the 60s when a black man couldn't get a hotel room in Atlanta?

We know that television and media have an impact on people, their opinions, and how they treat others. The people who broadcast that content have a moral responsibility to use that power in a way that does not negatively impact a single group.

Edit: since we reached our limit here:

>So one of the solutions to solving fundamental societal problems is to criticize a TV show?

Sure has worked for gay people. The public opinion turnaround time for gay marriage has been astoundingly fast. Television featuring strong portrayals of gay people certainly helped.
So I dunno if you've read Daniel Gilbert's (only) book - but he does kinda say (to paraphrase) that people get tougher when you bang them around.

The only danger is that some people don't. My school got the reputation of the suicide school of the north east because the nature of the school was so darned tough. Couple that with the unbelievably dull and cold winters and you had a situation where they had to put up fences over the bridges (making it even more depressing). Even the weak anti-suicide program they had was laughable.

This sweeping 'coddling' that schools are doing for their students can be put down to a lazy libertarian psychology or looked at for what it really is: that schools would rather have 16,000 wimps than have the stain of a kid take his own life
As someone who's primarily worked in ops engineering I've mostly worked with scripting languages and DSLs (bash, puppet, etc) and cobbled together ruby/Python as required but my strength has never been in programming. I picked up someone's tutorial on Elixir thinking it would be as mind bendingly mathematical as when I looked at Haskell but I was quite taken back - it seemed to make sense to my fickle mind and I found I could quite enjoyably read most basic examples / tutorials with no experience or documentation (also within reason). For me it had the humanised beauty(?) of ruby and logical power of Python without as many 'wtf does that do?' moments. I don't have a lot of use for Elixir in my job (yet), but I am tempted to learn a little.

Am I ignorant because I don't have a programming mindset or 'real' language experience?
So turning bitcoin farming from wasting electricity back to human slavery? seems like were going backwards...
Of course there is some twisted logic in actually killing people in war as it removes the possibility of an enemy fighting again. If everyone just surrenders at the first sign of a drone, or else is intent on suicide it just becomes a form of policing rather than war.
Did they give Macs to everybody, or just to one department? I think that's pretty important.
On a particular occasion, PG said that people are better when they have 10 years of experience in programming. He created a few workarounds so that people from one minority and suitable experience get favourable exposure, but to my knowledge he didn't come back on the "requirement". Does it do well to tie 12-18 years olds into a formatted scheme?
Very interesting. Any chance you'll be attending the Ruxcon security conference in Melbourne?
Beautiful! So much more readable than the other Arabic fonts I've seen in the past.

This is a little far fetched, but I think is a huge win for society. Better Arabic fonts = easier Arabic-only speakers to do work online = more opportunity for a huge portion of the world.
Ah, thanks! I didn't realise that was a thing...
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I'm sorry, but watching an ad isn't just a payment like you do with money. It's a rape of your mind. It needs your personal data, to rape your brain deeper. So i block ads, not to see content, but because ads don't deserve to exist.
AutoDock Smina is referenced in the paper, and its source is available under GPLv2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smina/

If you're interested in open source for deep learning, there are a number of toolkits here: http://deeplearning.net/software_links/
Yes, but none of this is really specific to web development. It's just the nature of being a technologist.

It's really a balancing act of picking the latest and greatest vs. picking the tried and tested. No one wants to learn something that'll be useless in a year. Alternatively if you forego learning anything new then you'll miss out on technologies that can actually help you.

For me, I don't really view learning things as wasted time. Even if I don't use some technology I learned a year or two ago, there's plenty of valuable lessons that can be learned from why things didn't work out.

It would get frustrating if I were learning all the wrong things all the time. So, I focus on the things that genuinely get me excited followed shortly by new technology that isn't completely fresh.
With your experience you will likely know the right course of action to take immediately, but will still have to reach consensus with the team to keep them engaged as solving the problem is the fun part.

Get good a steering the conversation to your solution vs. just handing it down. You know the whole making it seem like it was their idea thing.

If your team perceives you as an authoritarian, they will be afraid to make any decisions on their own and you will become a constant roadblock.
You're missing the larger point.

If someone fails to distinguish between reality and fiction, that may be their fault.

But if you know that many people are unable to properly distinguish the two, and you do something that you know may lead those to hurt innocent bystanders, don't you have some responsibility if the expected happens?
Why not go earlier and just steal babies from parents, figure out which ones are Destined For Greatness, then throw away the rest? After all, you've either got it or you don't. (Imagine if you could genetically test people for Founder Greatness. But then you'd have to take them away from home at a young age so they don't see their mother sold into slavery. Otherwise they'll return 10 years later for revenge, fully succumbing to the dark side.)

At some point life experience has to happen outside of YC VC invest startup win exit pivot iterate mvp lean partner found excellence smartest-founders-under-8-years-old bubble land.

There's also the risk of "startup dynasty" — like how mark's sister became an associate parter at a VC firm and his other sister turned into a "self-made" social phenom of blandness-by-association. meritocracy for all, but meritocracy more for the friends and family of the already successful.
I hired Jose in 2007 when he was an unknown college student and have since watched his career unfold. José's productivity borders on the supernatural. On top of that, he's very humble, gracious and helpful. Betting Elixir is betting on José. That's good bet.
no wonder, they have the tech lead skills :)
So comparing a terrible mistake in an active war zone to a purposeful killing of civilians is..what exactly?
But it also reinforces the idea that this, tragedy included, is the new normal.

Showing the desperation of the victims, might also reassure you of the fact that you care about them (while in reality things like these happen every day without you even reading it in the news).

Finally, when you register that the ugly sides are taken in consideration, as you just did:

> In the same episode, a drone strike kills tens of innocent people. If you think that is "propaganda", you obviously weren't paying any attention.

your trust in the rest of the details of the episode and the series is enhanced. While they could be totally random, you have no clue about that.
Out of curiosity, what text editors work well with Arabic these days? A few years back, when Textmate was still very popular, I had to sometimes do i18n work. I had a coworker for a different department who was a native Arabic speaker, who would help me out, but together we still struggled. We'd put the cursor where an edit needed to be made, and changes would appear elsewhere. It took lots of trial-and-error to get the work done. Are things better these days?
I see the issue, and I understand what the artists gripes are. They're valid.

I'm simply pointing out that subversive demonstration is a basic right under many standard western doctrines.

It certainly is not under many interpretations of Islam.

This is all generalized of course, as there are people in the US who believe US Flag Burning should be illegal, and Muslims artists that are against strict interpretations of Sharia law.
Well, #ff0000 is the definition of "red" within the RGB colorspace, corresponding to the full brightness of the "red" (only) pixel components, constrained by your monitor's limited reproduction gamut.

So yeah, it's "red". But it's not the color of anything that has ever been viewed by humans in real life (except itself). There are few pure colors in nature anyway, but you can talk about "red" being wavelength of the center of the "reddish" range of the visible light spectrum.

Of course, names for colors are always subjective. Crayola might be the best universal reference. Crayola red bears little resemblance to #ff0000, even discounting the pigment vs. light mixing and perception differences.

But you have to call it something, right? So #ff0000 is "pure red, RGB, luminous". :)
Just asked our CFO--she thinks we will be at about $8MM for 2015 not counting investments.
I haven't found an official statement, but from the status history (http://status.bitbucket.org/history) it seems like they have major problems with their services 2-3 times a month.
Maybe I have misunderstood your comment, but my understanding is that any flaws that may exist in the market are relatively small problems relative to the issues arising from the increased regulatory requirements (Sarbanes Oxley, etc) for public companies.
In my experience, a good technical lead won't give commandments from on high. A good technical lead will consult and facilitate a discussion and mediate conflict. They will also be directive when the time is right, but only after having listened and weighed the arguments. They will also be able to explain the rationale behind those decisions.
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There is some great advice in this thread. One thing that I've learned is that different organizations have very different cultures and ways of viewing technology (and thus technology leadership).

Some are more deadline oriented, some are more bug/problem oriented, and some are more product oriented, and others care a lot about the price per head of engineers and would prefer to outsource everything to the third world if they could ever manage it. A small number of companies care about open source contribution, attracting top talent, and innovating.

So whoever is hiring you probably has a very clear idea of what they want from the tech lead, so considering that the goals can be very different, you might want to ask this question. In my opinion, it won't seem like a naive question to ask because there are so many facets to people and technology leadership.
This is the problem exactly - it doesn't have anything to do with the language ... too many damn bells and whistles and too many damn analytics / ad libraries. If you're delivering content, you should focus on delivering the content. My computer shouldn't nearly freeze trying to read a recipe, or the weather, or a simple news article, etc ...
Isn't the whole point of utilizing Git as a decentralized SCM so that we don't have to rely on Bitbucket / Github / whoever to have 100% uptime? Sure, I get that you may be utilizing wikis, issues, or some other in-website feature, but for the most part can you not just use Git locally? I'm seeing a couple of issues here that suggest that it being down for more than an hour or two is ruining their work day, or give off the general notion that Bitbucket being down for an hour is seriously disrupting.

I get that maybe you need to clone a repo and you're put off from that for the time being. But for the vast majority, you can still write code, commit code, and use all of Git's great features without needing to be tethered to Bitbucket. Maybe only the negative posters are commenting on this, and the majority of users are going about their day despite this, but I think minor hiccups for a couple hours shouldn't be the worst fate imaginable. I sympathize with their dev / ops team right now, as the issue appears fairly significant (significant enough to take down SSH, HTTPS, the website, and downloads).
For the cost of one to two months of Cable TV you can get all the regular season games online; since I'm a fan of an out-of-market team anyway, it's a no brainer for me.
> That's like saying that aliens exist as a cultural construct.

No, its not. Its more like saying color exists as a product of perception. Races are a categorization, categorizations do not inherently exist at all, they exist as products of mind only.

> How would you call the unscientific belief that races exist in the human species, if not "racism"?

If by that you mean the unscientific belief that the cultural perception of race has a direct correspondence to inherent biological feature of humans, I'd call it something like "the erroneous belief in biological race".

Its pretty much logically orthogonal to racism; racists are probably more likely to believe that biological race is a thing than non-racists, but its quite possible to be a racist without believing in biological race (if it weren't, bigotry against, e.g., nationality -- which doesn't have the problem of people mistaking for an inherent biological trait -- wouldn't be a thing. Heck, bigotry based on sexual orientation seems to be inversely correlated with the belief that it is an inherent biological feature.)

> Errors need to be pointed out, not accepted in silence, even if the hoi polloi will make you pay for it.

Well, yes, that's why I am pointing out the error of your mistaken confusion of the erroneous perception that race is an inherent biological feature with "racism", a term which has always referred to belief in the superiority or inferiority of particular races, not belief in the biological inherency of race.
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OP, I'm sort of curious why they're hiring a tech lead from the outside. Why hasn't someone taken that position from within the organization? Someone who's worked on the project, who understands it, who has the moral and political authority to lead? I worry that your task will be really, really tough. If you can, in the interview, try and understand the situation over there. Why do they need an outside lead?
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You might be thinking of GovTrack: https://www.govtrack.us
No, I think your lack of language experience makes sense. Elixir, being functional as it is doesn't get caught up in the difference between functions/methods, and you don't have the mental overheard of grokking classes (which imo make sense once you get them, but take awhile to really get).

Elixir distils down to pretty basic concepts of functions returning values and pattern matching and processes. If you can wrap your heard around those you've really got the language.
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