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The fact that you're being down voted means you're absolutely correct about two things: that 1) this is a very emotionally charged story and emotionally charged pieces are hard to discuss civilly, and 2) we as commenter cannot truly judge the situation, especially with only one side speaking out. The rest I don't know about - it seems definitely possible that the professor could be a racist, I don't know why you would say it is 'incredibly unlikely'.

I'd say the professor was wrong in this situation no matter what happened for publicly humiliating a student and also thinking one suspicious word warrants an accusation of plagiarism. However there is nothing in the article that indicates that the professor was specifically targeting her for her race, other than 'I deal with racism every day'. Without knowing more about the situation it's hard to say more. Despite this, there's quite a few comments in this thread already that seem emotionally loaded.

Think about it this way: A while ago an article was posted about discrimination against conservative Christians in academia, and some of the discussion here was appallingly hypocritical; the same kinds of people advocating diversity in race, culture, and thought were openly admitting that they don't think Christians, as a group, should be allowed in decision-making processes, because they're obviously all gullible idiots. Does that mean when I go for my PhD I would be justified in writing my own teary blog post should someone act condescending and rude to me? Would I be justified regardless of whether the discrimination was real or perceived? Would such a post be received with positive feedback? Would I be allowed to call academia 'completely broken'?
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12824767 and marked it off-topic.
This is terrible, but blaming WhatsApp seems like a weird leap of logic. If someone harassed you over the phone, you wouldn't blame the telecom company. If someone sent you a death threat in the mail, you wouldn't sue the postal service. If someone hit you with their car, you wouldn't retaliate against the automaker.

It seems like the BBC is just bringing up the name of the popular chat app as a way of generating more clicks. If their goal is raise awareness for the woman who died and people like her, that's noble but a bit misguided. If their goal is simply to generate more viewership and revenue for their website (which it seems like it is), it's deplorable.
Actually I have seen presentations that mentioned Graal is much better at it than Hotspot.
> The NFL is the largest professional sports league on the planet.

True, but only just. By media income, the Premier League is projected to surpass the NFL in 2017.
Some societies are worse than others, but if even in the self-proclaimed modern civilization of the western world professionals in the adult entertainment or sex/erotic services industry are treated like 2nd class citizens, there's a need for a more substantial shift in perception and treatment of something that's as natural as eating and sleeping. It's unnatural that many societies have created ways to suppress human nature in many ways they deem morally incorrect, and it's very wrong that laws reflect the moral world views of some.

I won't go into how there used to be societies which in some regards were more open and safer than today's, or how the treatment by a part of some religious communities goes against those religions' core beliefs.

Empowering people to defend themselves and deal with abuse in a dignified way is very important, and we first need to stop blaming victims as "promiscuous" or "having asked for it". This isn't very different from how we treat people who went to prison.

EDIT: We also need to find a good way to investigate accusations without automatically assuming that, for instance, alleged male perpetrators are by default considered (not found, to be clear) guilty, or that wives do not abuse their husbands. The described societal defects are partly to blame, as are underequipped/unskilled law enforcement or judicial departments. If someone can lose their job and family because anybody merely publicly accuses them of a sex crime or adultery, then it's clear we have a problem on the other end of the spectrum. To me, both are caused by related societal flaws and will take a long time to correct. Another way this surfaces is that people tend to worry more about a government official's personal life than their positive/negative acts in office.
can it be forked or the license is too restrictive?
I have an Echo and it is a life changer for a blind person. I've written a few trivial skills for it, but definitely would like to do more.
I have not seen a display or beamer that will accept DisplayPort input.

Both my Dell U2412m at home and whatever Fujitsu I have at work have a Displayport connector. The Dell is at least 4 or 5 years old.

It's kinda handy, I plug in my MacBook 12" with a hub and HMDI-DVI cable. My wife uses a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort to connect her Air to the same screen.
And still paying a premium price for a 3 year-old specs laptop. If money wasn't an issue people would just but the 4300$ mbp
It's not the anti-racism, it's the incessant lecturing.

As an example, if Trump wins in a few weeks it won't be because half the country are racists it will be because they are tired of being lectured to as if they were.
define:irony - a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.

example: This is a minimalistic and straight to the point guide to assembling a JavaScript stack.

It teaches you how to set up ES6, Babel, Gulp, ESLint, React, Redux, Webpack, Immutable, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and Flow. It
Well it worked for the color of the ports up until USB3.
I believe Apple never used the blue convention on their MacBook Pros. I think they even mocked the competitors for uglifying their devices this way. Hell, I’m writing this on an rMBP with USB 3 and it uses a white plastic bit.
Go chose to rely heavily on nil pointers, which is a design mistake (see Tony Hoare's apology for inventing it). The resultant tension between interfaces and nils is, in my opinion, an absurd side effect that cannot be explained away as anything except an ugly wart. We should have something better than this in 2016.

I say this as someone who uses Go daily for my work and mostly likes it (despite the many warts).
My run-of-the-mill Dell monitors at work don't have USB ports.
These particular questions aren't a law game. They are straightforward outputs of good engineering practice.

There is some gap between just wanting to create things and to create things that impact personal body integrity. It is of some concern that in today's software engineering environment that this is even a question.
Life is like a big computer. You never know when a bad update is going to ruin your Day.
What's wrong with that? 70% of NFL players are African Americans who by and large, for whatever reason, think Trump is a racist.
We've banned this account for posting only uncivil comments.
I would like to get an introduction to the main ideas in current causality research. Is Pearl's book still the best introduction, or would you recommend something else instead?
If my understanding is correct, the perturbations are inherent in the model, not the data. It's a vulnerability in the high dimensional decision boundary of n nets.
Some people believe central banks are essentially printing money right now (since 2008, so for nearly a decade). Why has inflation not picked up?
Compelling counter-evidence to Picketty's C21:

https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/a-26-year-old-mit-gra...
I'm pretty sure the scientific consensus is still out on how much of discrimination stems from innate tendencies. If you have any reputable sources that say otherwise, it would be interesting to see them. My hunch is that the dynamics are far too complex amorphous for us to definitively pin down the causes any time soon.

Nonetheless, I don't think this is important for your main point. We have been working around our suboptimal innate tendencies for millennia.
Different grade of shielding/what kind of bandwidth you can achieve over those cables.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12817789 and marked it off-topic.
There's no physical reason that power and signal can't share lines. Any particular device or protocol might fail to implement that, but PLC and even POTS show that it's possible and not even new.
FYI: Wix open-sourced a ton of react-native stuff built internally to write the app in question: https://github.com/wix?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=react-native
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I can second this book: written in 1939, but it hasn't dated at all.

Apart from being hilarious and great fun, it's also a suprisingly serious study of just how much technology, and I'm not talking about the modern stuff, is based on a huge pyramid of other skills and technologies which you simply can't leapfrog.

Mild spoilers follow:

Our hero, after being flung back in time to Rome in the year 535, is trying to prevent the fall of the late Roman Empire when it gets conquered by the Byzantines (actually the story's a lot more complex than that, so that's simplified). He tries to reinvent all sort of different pieces of military technology, and fails utterly --- turns out reliable gunpowder is really hard to make. His clocks won't keep time, his lenses aren't round, and he doesn't even both with electricity.

The innovations he eventually ends up successfully introducing? Distilled spirits (a great money-maker!), Arabic notation, double-entry notekeeping, and semaphores.
The new 5k monitor display[1] not only connects with a USB-C but it also provides charging power (85W) to the Macbook at the same time.

Plus, it has an additional 3 USB-C ports, meaning you plug one cable in to your Macbook Pro, and you are left with a total of 6 USB-C slots free, which you don't need because power is provided over the same cable anyway...

[1] http://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKN62LL/A/lg-ultrafine-5k-...
Your update is funny because you got intelligent responses to your unintelligent post
> However there is nothing in the article that indicates that the professor was specifically targeting her for her race, other than 'I deal with racism every day'. Without knowing more about the situation it's hard to say more. Despite this, there's quite a few comments in this thread already that seem emotionally loaded.

It seemed pretty clear that the author is drawing an inference that "not your language" means "you don't speak English well enough to use this word or write like this," and therefore, that the author was cheating. I think that is a reasonable inference given the context provided, assuming it's all truthful.
Atlanta, where cars are king, considers a new transit future
Maybe the professor pulls that stuff on people without conscious regard to gender, socioeconomic status, or ethnicity, but in the context of longstanding explicit and implicit discrimination, I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt that all of his students are equally likely to get called out. Ask your brown friends if they've ever been pulled out for a "random" screening by the TSA.
Yes, except for HDMI alt-mode. The problem is they tend to be expensive/stiff cables because of the need to support Thunderbolt 3.

But HDMI alt-mode is a cluster anyway, because it takes over the conductors used for powering the device, so hopefully it will just go away and be replaced by the (imo) superior DisplayPort.
But if you have an infinite series of maps (e.g. google maps) then using a projection that takes advantage of that is indeed useful.
At the risk of contributing to the madness... It just baffles my mind how the right continues to insist that accepting people is a political issue, and that it is perfectly legitimate to take the for or against side on it. And all in the name of Jesus! (who spent his entire life accepting marginalized people).
A meta comment. There are many other threads lamenting that this is not a "Pro" machine, but all this cable discussion is not foreign to audio, video and IT professionals and prosumers. If you want to get the max of your pro computer's IO you will need to learn your cable specs and protocols.

It does look that the future will require some rebuilding of our cabling. I have a thunderbolt hub that connects to my screen, my external thunderbolt drive, and a plethora of USB devices. I only use a single Thunderbolt port on my laptop. I like this Future. With these bandwidths I can see us connecting more interesting devices to our laptops
Ask HN: What site or app have you made that incorporates Accessibility features?
Good to know. However I don't see any issues for this in the jpeg-js Github.[1]

The decoder.js script in jpeg-js is < 1000 loc, so I suspect this can be addressed if someone comes up with a reproducible case?

Edit: I'll happily try to do it if this isn't resolved by the time I get around to needing to use jimp / jpeg-js.

[1] https://github.com/eugeneware/jpeg-js/issues
Nice, I'm going to keep an eye on this, but I guess it will not be a huge problem because it will run single-user in a desktop machine.
Don't be too elitist. How many who posted a comment on HN right now actually have the education to comprehend the book? I'm pretty sure it's no higher percentage than that of the general population and yet here you all are commenting on it as if you know what you're talking about.
Rather, don't you want to know if that great dessert you ate, that took half an hour to prepare for 3 people, will be possible to make in an hour for a seating of 250 people? Because if it can't be done in an hour, you might have to pick something else to serve as dessert...

(And we could probably turn this into a question about caching, by allowing you to prepare some of it a day early...)
With all this confusion, has anyone figured out the best scenario for 1 cable to dock for work/home? Are there any good ones made yet? Lot of the third party docks have different watts and other issues. Plus, with TB3/USB-C (getting that right is a headache) what are people doing? Just have a million adapters? I was hoping this would make life more portable not less. I currently have a MBP 13-inch 2011 that I've upgraded RAM to 16GB and a SSD. Was waiting for this announcement for a long time and feeling kinda eh.

Thinking ethernet, charge iPhone, external HD, and connect to external monitor HDMI/DisplayPort?
At my work we use Rethink changefeeds to accomplish literally the same task. We use changefeeds to filter and pipe data to Algolia and numerous other services. Works like a breeze and takes surprisingly little code to get up and running.
>It's not the anti-racism, it's the incessant lecturing. Get it?

Since when is "linking to another site" some kind of "incessant lecturing"? If you don't want to read stories on theundefeated.com, don't click the links.
If he had a case, he wouldn't be giving interviews about it. He'd be suing them. And he'd be right to do so.

The fact that he's slinging accusations in print rather than using the legal system to settle a legal dispute suggests to me that he does not, in fact, have any evidence Wix is doing anything untoward beyond "this smells kinda fishy to me."
That's a problem that can be solved instantly with a visual inspection. Not necessarily the same for a protocol mismatch.
Back when blogging was just starting out, MovableType was the most popular platform. Written by Ben and Mena Trott, it was open source and written in perl.

It was awesome, super popular and could have been WordPress today.

They raised funding. Possibly under VC pressure, they made the license terms more closed source and restrictive.

Meanwhile, Matt Mullenweg had forked b2 and created WordPress under GPL.

When MovableType went closed source/more restrictive, their users fled to WordPress. The rest is pretty much history.

So what this historical context helps us understand is that firstly, WordPress/Automattic is very careful about ever going closed source with anything because they learned their lessons thanks to MovableType and what happened to them.

So WP has chosen to be open source, stay open source and defend open source because history has shown that is what the market wants and if you don't do that, they'll divorce you.

Living in that world as a multi-million (billion?) dollar company is a tough gig because, as Matt himself did with B2, anyone can fork your code and run with it.

But the one thing that WP/Automattic can count on is the GPL. If someone does fork the code, they are forever bound by the same competitive constraints that Automattic/WP is bound by. In other words: someone else can fork their code and so on in perpetuity.

So as long as WP enforces the GPL over WordPress, they will never have a competitor stronger than they are who can develop proprietary IP off their platform and gain a competitive advantage. The GPL ensures that anything created out of WordPress is always available to all competitors. And the competitor with the greatest head-start wins and that's WordPress.

This is really the basis for how multi-billion dollar companies are built out of open source. They count on the GPL to ensure everything they create never becomes a proprietary competitive advantage to a competitor that isn't also available to them.

So Matt M has a strategic imperative to always enforce the GPL on everything open source they do, or else they're building the foundation of the company that will kill them.
I have my MBPr (2013) running fine with a MB 60W Magsafe charger for overnight charging (think it's from my 2008 unibody MB). Been this way for 2 years, no problems.
> You've never been able to though? There is a USB-C to Lightning cable.

I think it was more a complaint about the fact that you'd have to buy an additional adapter to be able to connect the two.
Pretty sure the number of who are showing no interests in any sports (traditional or e-) is higher than displacing.
Also available from plants now.

https://impossiblefoods.com/faq/

>The Impossible Burger is made from simple ingredients found in nature, including wheat, coconut oil and potatoes. We add one more special ingredient, called “heme.” Heme contributes to the characteristic color and taste of meat, and it catalyzes all the other flavors when meat is cooked. Heme is exceptionally abundant in animal muscle -- and it’s a basic building block of life in all organisms, including plants. We discovered how to take heme from plants and produce it using fermentation -- similar to the method that’s been used to make Belgian beer for nearly a thousand years. Adding heme to the Impossible Burger makes it a carnivore’s delight.
The new 5k monitor sold by Apple[1] has display, charge power (back to the Macbook) and a hub for 3 extra ports all off a single cable.

[1] http://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKN62LL/A/lg-ultrafine-5k-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy#Optical_telegraph
These photographs appear in an outstanding book 'Lost London, 1870-1945' by Philip Davies.

I bought a copy the week it came out at RRP of $50 odd. It's since dropped to less than $20 on Amazon US and UK. Well worth it up if you're a fan of this wonderful, old city.
The default condition of cables is that they can conduct much more current than is safe, and it takes extra effort to limit this. (Yes, there's a limit to what you can put through a wire, but it's enough to melt the metal, and you wasn't too avoid softening the plastic around it.) If you put twice the rated current through a cable, the conductors will handle it just fine. However, the resistance of the wires will dissipate 4× the power the insulation is designed for (twice the current times twice the voltage drop), and the inside of the isolation will get somewhat warmer. How much of a problem this is in real life depends on the ambient temperature, the thermal conductivity of the insulation, jacket, and wire, the temp the plastics can withstand, etc.

The safe thing is to use wire from a vendor that rates it honestly to conservatively, and start within the ratings.
I think he means, it doesn't even come in the box. Buy a MacBook Pro, buy an iPhone, and you can't even use one to charge the other without buying a separate cable or an adapter.
60W is fine unless you're pegging your CPU/GPU constantly.
The number of people who use only cash is shrinking, and the number of people who use only Bitcoin is rising, therefore ...
Yeah, that's a good reason to use it, and it makes sense that the tool is there. But there's a big difference between having a CLI tool for digging around when you need it, and having two separate GUI control panels with some settings in one, some in the other, and other settings in both.
Maybe you're being hyperbolic (and maybe I'm being pedantic), but from what I recall Knuth was the first to describe complexity notation in the late-60s or early-70s in The Art of Computer Programming. This definitely predates C++.
This makes my blood boil. This is the kind of thing that makes me surprised there aren't more vigilantes. Not from that dumpster fire village of course, but from some nearby place whose reputation is tarnished by association. I wouldn't condone that but given how furious I am right now I can't imagine being physically and emotionally close to the situation in the first place and there not being someone (perhaps more unstable) that wouldn't just go and take vengeance.

> if by any chance they do lay their hands on a phone or use ear phones to listen to music, then they are branded 'characterless'"

@#$%!
I agree, though guns work better along this mindset because:

1. loud (even if you miss, people know something's up).

2. they don't require much physical strength.

TBH, a loud device will probably do more good for deterrents than attempting to beat attackers with quiet sticks and nails.

Active deterrents help, but limiting the places it can happen will do better than law enforcement ever will. Consider installing more toilets instead of shitting in open fields. Not only does it increase safety but there's a multitude of health benefits.

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/06/09/319529037/i...

http://www.india.com/lifestyle/indias-lack-of-toilets-is-con...
What part of the article did you find was blaming WhatsApp here?
Yeah it's one of the stupidest choices they made. Also, the idea that not all cables must support 100W (20V, 5A) so now the cheap chinese cables are all going to report they can but will catch fire the instant they do.
Yeah that's awesome! I still reference the Angular seed project whenever doing a quick front-end for a prototype.