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How seriously are we meant to take an article on Trumpist racism that includes:

"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

Note how totally non-racist this statement is. I’m serious. It’s anti-illegal-immigrant. But in terms of race, it’s saying Latinos (like every race) include both good and bad people, and the bad people are the ones coming over here. It suggests a picture of Mexicans as including some of the best people – but those generally aren’t the ones who are coming illegally.

It's not just that Alexander chooses as the first words following Trump's most famous racist quote "note how totally non-racist this statement is", but also the degree to which his logic insults the reader's intelligence. Mexicans "include some of the best people" (note that Trump didn't say that --- he said that their best people don't come here), just not the ones who come here illegally (note that Trump didn't say that --- he's talking about all Mexican immigrants). Alexander's own paragraph isn't even coherent on this point!
Thanks for your answer. What about DKIM? Are you forgoing it, or do your clients have support for signing the emails?
Micro-aggression, safe spaces, trigger words - all things that have good intentions

Regardless of intent, they are ultimately part of the problem, not the solution. I understand that the latter are responses to the first, but they all serve to paint every member of society with an us-vs-them brush.

In the end, dialogue is a necessity to reform your broken society. Segregating off each subgroup into their own community, whether by choice or government policy, only increases distance and polarization and makes it harder for everyone to engage with other parts of society.
What would the impact of this be on the average power user? i.e. not someone managing a fleet of devices, but someone who needs to install and use a bunch of low-level tools to get stuff done.

If there comes a time when I can't just "brew install" the stuff I need, the Mac becomes useless (to me) as a development platform. If I were simply forced to install stuff in my home directory, I guess that would be okay.

I wonder what the story would be for things that (currently) need root or kernel access, though, like FUSE or VMware.

I agree with other comments that this particular article seems a bit speculative and overblown, but the Mac has been increasingly locked down for several years now so it's worth thinking about.
I move quite often between different offices and it's quite a hassle to always ask the ICT departments for VPN access (It takes a very long time). And it is especially annoying when IP addresses change dynamically and the DNS is not working properly. Since I use ondevice I have always access to all my machines. They only need web access. Very convenient.
I'm surprised that Twitter hasn't added a cost for verification, considering these accounts have functionality that many of us don't have (i.e. ability to filter interactions, etc). Sure, people can opt to not pay for verification, but considering the value that top end users get from a presence on Twitter, it almost seems to be a no-brainer to add a verification charge.

My only worry for going ad-free for a fee is that it provides an argument for adverts to become even more of an inconvenience. If I could pay $5 a month to skip adverts, then what is to stop Twitter from throwing a ton of ads on their platform and then saying "if you don't like it, pay us".
Are you seriously saying a modern full sized automatic sedan is more efficient than a modern compact car? Or are you actually comparing a modern sedan to an old compact?

Those turbocharged <1L little hatchbacks would absolutely trounce your big car for efficiency. And for a lot of people, whose primary use of a car is taking themselves to work, it makes an awful lot of sense.
If you're serious, why not launch an 'awareness' campaign about it?
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Can you explain the problem with Trump's comment with the judge for me please? Assuming that Trump thinks/ knows he's being offensive to Mexican at large, wouldn't the idea of a judge, even an American one, with some relations to Mexico might not be impartial toward him be a reasonable idea?

Is it the notion of a judge being unprofessional to the point of biased an unacceptable thing to imply?
Rather weird name. Would 'Firefox Fokus' have caused conflicts as well?
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Sure we do. Every living person is here because someone learned from their past mistakes at some point.

Implying that "we" don't learn from our mistakes is suggesting that we are all complicit when in reality I'm not sure most Americans even support programs like registering people based upon their religion. You could argue that every vote for Trump was condoning this policy but I think that is too simplistic.

The real issue is that we still don't have an effective means to resist the stranglehold that certain interests have on those in power and we have a shortage of inspirational leaders willing to tell the truth rather than whatever the crowd wants to hear.
Wikipedia still shows the old 0-60 time for the P100D. At 2.4 seconds, it will be ahead of the Veyron, even with the LaFerrari, and behind the 918.

And Tesla only compares with cars currently in production. The LaFerrari and 918 are not.

Definitely some definitional tweaking to get the "right answer," but not quite a tautology.
That is an interesting framing of the question. Who is to say that "the Internet's democracy" disagrees with plain old democracy on this issue?

Since I assume that the new administration will be biased in favor of free enterprise, the answer to how you can keep Net Neutrality seems obvious: get together with like-minded people and string up your own wires.
> Slow times are for experimenting with things

You've led a charmed life. In my 25 years in this business, I've found that very little induces the same level of panic in management as "experimenting" with something, especially something that you can't put a solid "business case" behind and "estimate" down to the nearest half hour.
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Note to media companies (and everyone else) talking about security: You have to put security elements in context to say anything reasonable

That means both: 1) Consider your audience, and 2) Do a 'risk analysis' (Meaning figure out where the security issue starts to outweigh the convenience and describe the actual impact of the issue.)

This article (and the Intercept's) are both severely damaged by a failure to do either. Without stating the contexts where this call logging is a problem, and who it is likely to affect you end up writing alarmist nonsense- especially when the audience is the general public.
I also remember that talk. I haven't verified by watching again, but if anyone's interested I suspect this is the one: https://youtu.be/eNliOm9NtCM
Pish, it will surely be unlocked when maintaining exactly 88mph for a certain time :)
I'll fix it tonight after work with LetsEncrypt most probably. The blog is hosted on medium.com so they provided the ssl termination. But there should be no excuse for not having https on a website in 2016.
I'm not sure I get your point.
Well, of course it does. The question is - why?
> I have seen lots of people share this sort of thing e.g 'He's not X but others near him are X so I imply you shouldn't support him'.

"Show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are"

It's absolutely pertinent to the discussion what kind of people Trump willingly choses to put into positions of influence.

As for why people are responding... I don't understand. The premise of the article is Trump's attitudes (and therefore possible actions) towards people of other races. If we disagree with the article, isn't this the place to discuss it?
> Operator overloading is probably the worst feature ever invented

A seemingly common sentiment, but one rarely backed by any meaningful data.
I tend to agree that it's not about having problematic passengers. The routing of service food, consuming food, clearing up helps break down long journeys.

I personally haven't experienced bad airline food. I'm not fussy and quite enjoy the experience.
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I feel like you either didn't read the article or completely missed its point.

But to answer your four questions, none of those things are racist. Two of them are discriminatory, one is addressed directly in the article and the last one is plain and simply concerning, but it's not racist.

Again, not defending them, just recontextualizing. You're doing exactly what the OP is calling out: Painting everything as racist rather than attack the actual issues. This is how we got in this mess.
You're treating this as if blacks and whites are somehow symmetrical in the context of American society. No serious social scientist would treat the two expressed views as equivalent.
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I think Google's contributor program strikes an equitable balance. Twitter could probably take the same approach.
But if Microsoft does this Everyone loses their minds.
Which is actually a pretty big win. After all you could also say this:

1. The person can recognize a feather as long as it looks similar to what the other people who contributed to it's learning think a feather looks like.
It says we look forward to your feedback - anyone know where I should send feedback?

They the button in the bottom right opens the current URL immediately in Firefox (separate app) without a prompt or warning seems against the private browsing expectation I have.

Edit: also it appears swiping doesn't go "back" :/
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For the same reason we don't say that a black judge is unqualified to judge on issues regarding race.

Do you agree that such a suggestion in that case would be out of line?
That is my experience as well. I have to do my personal development on my own time, buy my own books and pay for my own subscriptions. The other 8 hours if I am not writing code or behaving like I am, things go south pretty quickly.
I expected that, but that's an unfortunate side effect of coupling the new browser app with the previous content blocker app.

(Just found out that it's not compatible with my iPad 4)
Do you work as a sysadmin? If so, how many times did you recover from a broken tty at work? (I mean, is it a number bigger than zero?)

I've been one for a short while, and get to play devops from time to time. When I see a machine so broken that it can't give me a tty, it's time for a reboot (if last command caused it - actually don't remember it ever happening), full reinstall, or trash. I won't lose any time recovering it. If there's some important log on the disks or anything, mount the disk on another machine.

Now, I've recovered a broken machine plenty of times at home. I've edited files with sed and pipes because I broke every other editor available. I have never actually edited the memory with sed, but I could if I had to. But all that is at home, where it's fun to create a crazy configuration, and totally not fun to throw things away. It's fun, but completely unproductive.
"If you classify people into ethnic groups, you're a racist" is waaaay too powerful to use to prove "Trump is a racist". Unless you're willing to accept that pretty much everyone is a racist. Which perhaps some people are ready to accept, but it's not a very useful classification at that point.
Here is an implementation of RaptorQ (a fountain code). It is in alpha and actively developed: https://github.com/LucaFulchir/libRaptorQ

The standard: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6330
This is not the direction that AI is heading, though. It was possible with symbolic AI - expert systems were able to justify their reasoning (Mycin) or critique a user's approach (Attending - abstract at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303587198_Teaching_...), but neural networks are quite opaque and there's no obvious big data approach which would enable them to become good at teaching.

Some people do care about riding and archery, and are right to do so. I even care about and practise foraging for food, lighting fires for cooking on, and navigating using astronomy or compass. It's important to be able to fall back on low technology in case your high technology fails.
Apologies. Wasn't intended to sound sarcastic. I genuinely do believe that HN is the perfect place to find great people but it's still incredibly difficult and if you're hiring at scale it can be super tough to engage enough people on a place like this.

Places like HN and relevant IRC channels are great if you're hiring for one or two roles but beyond that then it's a bit of a lottery.
Yes, I too prefer subtle chinese malware.
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No, there's nothing weird about it, but the stories about why they are better are pretty much entirely down to "well I like it better." Okay, that's fine.

But statistically, CAFE standards aren't being met by manuals, but by automatics and other advanced drivetrains. People can yell "but physics!" all they want, but the aggregate data is showing clearly that manual drivetrains are not the path towards increased efficiency. So clearly physics are favoring non-manuals.
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"Klar" in German translates to "Clear" in English. Sounds like a good name to me. Maybe even better than Focus.
So I've checked and I agree that the numbers of mutilations that apparently happen in the UK is quite shocking. But I don't see how medical inspections in schools are the answer to be honest.
It kinda makes sense in German, probably meant to refer to something like "klarer Blick auf die Dinge". But yeah, it's still slightly odd. Then again, naming things is really hard :)
Exactly. On some other forums people complain like someone is forcing them to use it! I don't understand it at all. How does it affect their life in any way?

Don't like it? Don't need it? Move on with your life...
Does it still use the Safari engine, or is it allowed to use a different one?
Funny how this argument only shows up when it affects right-wingers. And it's a false equivalence anyway.
The fact is anything below 5 seconds 0-60 is a damned speedy car that you really won't get to push in day to day driving... As it is, I've been in a few Model S's and they are fun. I'll keep my Scat Pack Challenger though, far less expensive, only a second lower, and a higher top speed. Not to mention looking quite a bit cooler imho.
An app that tells you what position to take on issues seems a little lacking, but the idea here is solid. What I would like to see is the non-partisan version that's dismissed here, a platform for people to objectively highlight what's being debated, which representatives lean to which side, what lobbying groups support them, and links for further reading. Tags like "progressive" and "conservative" could help people filter down to the positions they're interested in, but it's important that people actually know why they're supporting a position.

If this took off in the form suggested, it would be just like Internet Explorer's default DNT tag or template email, ignored because it doesn't send a strong enough signal.
Switched from maintaining my own server to mail-in-a-box a year ago. Being able to collaborate with others saves a lot of admin time.
Only the name, the idea not at all. Formal Epistemology is actually a blooming subfield, Bayesian epistemology being a prominent example.
Apple has been taking the good bits from iOS and moving them to macOS. Deprecating software update in favour of the App Store and changing how the OS is downloaded seems to be one of these cases.

I personally see that as a bad change for macOS -- the app store is really not very good, and it's very slow and clunky at downloading and installing system updates. The old built-in Software Update was much more reliable.

By "slow and clunky" I mean it'll tell you it has an update, but opening the app first shows you a page of ads for the latest apps that you don't need right now. Then when you click on the "updates" tab, you get the old spinning beach ball for an inordinate amount of time before it finally tells you what updates are available. Often it'll just be a massive iTunes update that requires you to quit Safari(!?!) before installing.

iOS doesn't use the app store for system updates (did it ever?) -- it's in Settings, which I think makes sense. It would be a good course correction if macOS were to do the same.

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Agreed. And while using the sequential shifter or paddles is engaging for performance driving or screwing around, I've also found that modern TCUs are scary efficient even in automatic mode, able to respond appropriately (fuel-saving in eco mode for example) to hill grade, corner exits, overtakes, red-light crawls from what I'm guessing are the use of accelerometers on top of existing drivetrain telemetry and just some good heuristics.
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I also disagree with that section but why do you feel it affects the article as a whole? For that matter, I disagree that the article is about "trumpist racism"; that's just a symptom of what it talks about.
I joined a bunch of technical groups on linkedin and have found them to be absolutely useless.
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Thanks for the info, didn't know that one, will check it out.
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Not a python developer so I was surprised when the built-in json library has a flag allow_nan which is True by default.

Also, not invalid, but surprising / annoying (a while to debug). An empty lua table is the same as an empty lua array: {}. This causes ambiguity.

// will print {}
print(cjson.encode(cjson.decode('[]')))
Thanks all for the feedback.
Any reason why this is incompatible with the iPhone 5c?
Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
Thinking Through Hypermedia API Design
Since this user's response to their own comment was killed (not sure why) I'll repeat: this is incorrect. Domains are chosen from a hard-coded list:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus/blob/master/Blockzil...
Yes, and I actually provided the economy figures in my comment. It's crazy, but modern drivetrains in big cars can make the big cars more efficient than small hatchbacks.
This is much closer to Luxi (especially the monospace font) than to Lucida.
AVR back end has been merged into LLVM
Baidu's Autonomous Driving division is in California.
the biggest headache with the c# implementation was the threading. A lot of the out-of-the-box threading structures (pools, etc...) have limitations you might not think about checking for; e.g. you can't set the number of threads lower than the CPU count on the machine with some of the official .net threadPool helpers; you can try, but it will just silently ignore you.

There is some super useful stuff too though that made it easy to write a generic extensible crawler. My implementation ended up supporting separately compiled plugins you could just dump in a 'plugins\' directory, which responded to events and had full ability to manipulate the output pipeline. Do-able in lots of languages, but c# has some formalized helpers around it that make it super easy.
How do you know it wasn't done by US intelligence? You don't. My guess is the best leaks came from people inside the US govt. who couldn't stomach the Clintons back in power.
The doctrine of first sale is dead. It died to the copyright cartels. You own nothing where a copyright is involved. The copyright maintains ownership of the device, not you.

The courts may have once done something about books with shrinkwrap agreements forbidding sale, but the same does not apply to software or things containing software.
Or rather, in macOS it looks normal and in Linux it looks too thin.
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But where are those Irish who lived under Curley now? Have they not integrated?

In America, manifestations of the Curley Effect are far more likely to come from class warfare or political ideology (such as abortion, LBGTQ rights, etc) than from ethnic diversity.

I agree that white use of identity politics does concern the Left... because identity politics developed to promote minorities and underrepresented communities. That whites feel the need to act like a minority group is disturbing considering the economic and political power that we obviously weld.

Identity politics, by its very nature, promotes a "my group first" mentality. The Left justifies its use by underrepresented minorities as a way to promote their interests and improve their quality of life. It's why blacks in the 1960 were demanding the right to vote, rather than protesting for or against the Vietnam War. The idea is that this will eventually lead to a more level economic and political playing field. However, if even the most privileged demographic groups engage in identity politics, then economic and political inequality will likely either be maintained or be exacerbated through tyranny of the majority.
Nowadays you can do it with drone, camera and facial recognition software. If president Le Pen needs the info she could get in 2 days.
The car sales environment makes it particularly hard to buy a manual car these days. Even for cars which are still made in manual like the BMW 340i and the Nissan Juke, it is impossible to find a manual version on a dealership lot. I don't know if it's because they acknowledge they're harder to sell, or because they don't like people test driving manuals, but either way you will be ordering your car if you want it as a stick. That generally corresponds to a 6-10 week wait for your car, which doesn't align well with an American public who want their car today.
Apple's response in the article explains it - so the user of multiple devices has the call log on all of them, so he can respond to calls on any device. Also, this helps when you set up a new phone.
I think the P90D/P100D buyers are not the types to necessarily by a Charger or Challenger. They're fun cars but a bit louder... just got a 2016 392 Scat Pack Shaker Challenger a few months ago, very fun car... but not in any way similar to any Tesla. It's just a different feel.

That said, most aren't in a position to really push their cars, and they don't... It's mostly bragging and any car with a 0-60 under 5 seconds will give a lot of that fun.
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I gave it a go just for the immigration figures[0]. Though I stripped it back to mostly plain data and nothing as extensive as this post.

I did this because a lively discussion sharing all sorts of random data was taking place between my friends, most of whom were simply pushing a biased narrative for once side of the other.

I parsed some of the plain data from the ONS and all it lead to was killing the debate dead. Literally no one wanted to continue when faced with actual data to work from.

That point has sort of turned my opinion on these events really. It's not about facts, it's about emotional viewpoints and personal world views and facts be damned. There seems to be so little actual reasonable debate seemingly because so few people actually want that.

Both sides of the Brexit campaign peddled absolute horseshit and people lapped it up to validate their preexisting views. And that worries me because the destination at the end of that particular road is blind extremism.

[0] https://josharcher.uk/blog/brexit-eu-referendum-uk-immigrati...