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> 1: By what mechanism do white supremacist elements impose American black culture on the American black community today?

> 2: For example, how is white supremacy responsible for single-parent families in the American black community? Allegedly single-parent rates have skyrocketed since the Civil Rights Movement.

Chomsky:

> Racism is quite extreme today, and by many measures increasing. I don’t know what cocoon you live in.

> Perhaps you are completely unfamiliar with racism and its impact, in particular, the extreme racism experienced constantly by African-Americans. If so, I would suggest that you learn something about the world, and then you will understand the mechanisms very well. If you don’t want to have direct experience – which is not that hard –then at least look at the literature.

> Again, try following your own logic. It’s not genes, so it is circumstances. Do you perceive any circumstances beyond the extreme white racism that it takes real effort to be oblivious to?
working anything with loops and conditionals, Vue is way nicer than JSX all the way around, especially the more complex it gets with *-level nested json data trying to mix in with conditional portions of the view, and even saving reactive data back the scope of the loop, etc. i'm not sure why you'd think otherwise. JSX code with many loops and conditionals can start look incredibly ugly pretty fast. if you can provide an example, we can compare between the two to see which is nicer.
Yes, because making something illegal puts an immediate stop to it. And 18 years is a "century".
It works well if both devices are on the same LAN. Like inside a corporate office.

What organization has multiple XBOs, though? Game dev studios? Hospitals? It must be much rarer than the Win10 case.
The Serverless Inc project helps you deploy to closed-source cloud vendor function products using YAML. OpenFaaS is an open-source Serverless framework to do largely the same thing, but you can use cloud servers or your own on-prem equipment. Checkout the intro for more comparisons to other projects https://blog.alexellis.io/introducing-functions-as-a-service...
Right now, lack of choices. But I think when we see Musk's satellite internet service, it'll be a completely different story.
My experience in Germany was the same - nudity isn't uncomfortable & strange unless you interpret it that way. Women would bare their breasts at the schwimmbad (public pool), and there would be a distinct lack of the double-takes and cat calling you'd expect in Anytown, America. On that same note, which of us males haven't been exposed to a half dozen old man dicks in a YMCA locker room? Nudity just doesn't matter unless we decide it does, and rebellious exposition in America isn't going to solve it.
You'll find many of those higher class seats are filled by frequent flyers on upgrades. Business is almost always full because there are more frequent flyers who bought economy who are eligible for upgrades (or want to use their own mileage to upgrade) than there are left over business class seats.
My house.
Yes, there is a project called react-templates by Wix that does that.

We used it, but once you start using libraries like that one or MobX, why even use React at all?
At last, something that could potentially challenge Facebook's world domination. Somebody gets a federated social network running with a substantial user base, and it runs into this.

The US position on child pornography comes from the Meese Report during the Reagan administration.[1] The Reagan administration wanted to crack down on pornography in general to cater to the religious base. But they'd run into First Amendment problems and the courts wouldn't go along. So child pornography, which barely existed at the time, was made the justification for a crackdown. By creating ambiguous laws with severe penalties for child pornography and complex recordkeeping requirements, the plan was to make it too dangerous for adult pornography to be made commercially. But the industry adapted, filling out and filing the "2257 paperwork" as required.[2] After much litigation, things settled down, porn producers kept the required records, and DoJ stopped hassling them about this.

So that's how the US got here. That's why it's such a big deal legally in the US, rather than being a branch of child labor law. Japan doesn't have the same political history.

Federated systems are stuck with the basic problem of distributed online social systems:
anonymity plus wide distribution empowers assholes. That's why Facebook has a "real name" policy - it keeps the jerk level down.

[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015058809065;vi...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Protection_and_Obscenity...
Indeed, I would say that capability-safety is the next plateau after memory-safety, but most languages are only barely glimpsing the capability horizon.
Is this really that hard to understand? Docker has marketing and developer evangelists etc. LXD is making software, Docker is selling a product.
The essay is using a very narrow definition of "nice," which is used to differentiate them from the greedy, and is essentially an business economics essay. This is to say, we don't "believe" it, it's just the way the essay is written.

Uber has gotten a lot of criticism for surge pricing.
Thanks for pointing that out: that at least gives me an idea of what this thing is, beyond the marketing fluff.

Now, what kind of email servers/hosts do they support? Exchange? Only Gmail? Any Imap? Pop3? Do they have a policy on tls support?

As for market/product/niche - I actually think carving a thin slice out of the business market is a great idea. You could probably get target/interested businesses to pay a pretty premium for a "good email solution", whatever that means for any particular business. I don't think neither exchange nor Gmail would be particularly hard to compete with as a product. Much like some will pay a pretty premium for an ide that boost productivity and/or happiness...

That said, I'm now pretty sure I'm not a target customer for superhuman. But that's fine, I whish them best of luck.
The Solar Eclipse Could Become a Massive Test Case for Grid Storage
We spoke about this at the CNCF serverless WG session a couple of days ago. I think there was consensus that the term Serverless applies to an architectural pattern and is not meant to be taken literally (as with so many other design patterns - bridge, factory, facade etc). Serverless also refers to the experience the developer gets of "packaging and deploying" the application without worrying about scale.
I love single file components. I used Polymer before React and that is the thing I miss the most. I've also been using CSS-in-JS for the same reason. I landed on JSS for now, but I'm hoping we'll see a solid scoped CSS solution soon.
I sensed that something felt wrong with the phone->human relationship about a year ago and stopped using it completely. Never looked back.
I had a phone screen with a YC company this week and left with the opposite conclusion.
Any time I board a plane I get the distinct sense that the cabin air contains toxins of some kind, as it consistently smells like exhaust air.
Not everyone writes exclusively for the HN audience.
I had a superior who quit and got treatment. After that he became a forest ranger.

I think your choice of words "spectacular" & "crawl back to reality" shows that our society is still not ready to fully accept mental diseases. This is not personal but why would you think they have to crawl back to reality? I don't think they ever left.
I've been working on a large web app (SaaS, so you won't have heard of it and can't try it out) for the past 5 years, and it's one continuous history codebase using Backbone for UI. It's not going to get rewritten any time soon. I'd expect it to still be using Backbone or something very similar (perhaps switching out some rendering subtrees for Vue or React) in another 5 years.
I'm not satisfied to define creativity as simply having "unusual ideas" as the article says in the opening paragraphs. The study focuses on cognitive flexibility, what I understand to be out-of-the-box thinking.

Other research that composes creativity as a mixture of empathy, pattern-matching, and seeing the big picture suggests that creative ability can be refined with age.
Stripe is hiring front end engineers
It would have to be 2pm on the "same day", unless the plane is so fast that it goes backwards in time.
Why is data stored on a NAND chip irretrievable if cracked?
This got bumped off the front page rather quickly...
A supersonic jet is almost certainly going to be (much) smaller than a widebody subsonic passenger aircraft. Furthermore, you probably wouldn't need to make the seating super-luxurious but people paying premium prices are still going to expect at least the level of seating and service you get in domestic US business.
Is there some study you could link to? I would think that IF there is any harm (and I doubt this since porn is very historically normal and even in classical art) it would be not significantly worse than the generic case for any such porn.
> Yes, I meant it's not like Apple is forcing it on external developers though, like e.g. they "force" Swift.

Sure, but at the same time it creates awareness in other companies that Go is a good bet that they might adopt as well.

> Google could do that (if they adopted Go on Android), but I think they went with Dart instead IIRC.

They went with Kotlin.

Dart is still looking for a killer application beyond supporting AdWords, lets see how far they go with Flutter or Fuchsia.
I will turn 45 this year. One of my principles for healthy aging is to make sure I'm learning something new and challenging every year or two.

I live in a fishing town in southeast Alaska, and I bought my first boat about three years ago. I bought a 16-foot boat with an open cabin, and it was an absolutely humbling experience. It feels like everyone here knows how to drive a boat, and sputtering through a harbor trying not to take out a row of motors was a really interesting learning experience. It forced me to be open to any and all feedback from all kinds of people. It forced me to seek out advice and assistance from people outside of my everyday circle of friends and co-workers. It made me pay attention to tides and weather in ways I hadn't needed to before. In short, it made me feel like I was looking at the world with new eyes again.

That experience made me look for experiences every few years that are new enough that I have to see the world as a kid does again. Not in the wide-eyed wonder way, but in a way where I have to learn a whole new skill set. This year it's been learning how to drive a truck with a boat trailer. I thought I knew it intellectually, and I knew what I needed to make the trailer do, but I couldn't figure out how to make the back of the truck go where I needed it to. My neighbor was cracking up as he was helping me, and I think it was bringing him back into the mindset of looking at this kind of task from a beginner's perspective as well.

I have a 6 year old son, and I love sharing these learning experiences with him. I want him to know that adults don't know everything, and that you really can spend your whole life learning new skills.
So of course, going by the logic of linking that article, we're all wasting our time and should just be using PHP?
I have slow downloads too (with google DNS), but I would think this wouldn't impact it much. It's not like it's performing a DNS lookup for each chunk, right?
> However, I think his current impact on the field is probably negative.

This is obvious if you look at other field "champions" such as Claude Lévi-Strauss in cultural anthropology. His admittedly invaluable contributions were followed by 50 years of stagnation. Granted I only studied it for a year but it was one of my reasons for not sticking with it.
Bitcoin cash mining profits jump
i get what your saying, but want to add some precision:

1) using the term "sunk cost" is not quite correct here - sunk cost implies that the future value doesn't justify continued investment. in this case, it's likely that further investment (in time and cost of this court case) results in billions of dollars in value to one or both of the litigants. it's in fact very rational to pursue this litigation because there is real monetary gain at stake (and not simply the face-saving variety).

2) there's a fairness issue at play: "i did the work so i should get the reward.", or "i provided the money, so i should get the reward." you have to balance these two impulses fairly, not just for this case, but for future iterations of the game (in the game theory sense). for future iterations, it is "worth" applying a punishment now (in the form of an expensive court case) so that future rewards are meted out fairly as well.
You probably don't see them because complex web UIs aren't always consumer-facing. The ones you're familiar with are probably maintained by large corporations rather than specialist companies, and can more easily afford rewrites.
Yeah, but ... isn't the article saying that you'll make more money if you're long-term greedy instead of short-term greedy? Is "nice" a term of art in business writing to mean short-term greed?
This looks like a lot of fun, but would it really hurt to link to the actual video, rather than a rabbit hole of links and blog in another language?

It feels like "we did this cool thing and took some photographs, but couldn't be bothered to actually write it up"
I don't know how mentally sharp you get to be called after endorsing Hugo Chavez despite a history of similar politicians with similar policies plunging otherwise strong countries into eternal, unhealing chaos.

I know he has lots of clout, and tremendous work ethic, but I really wouldn't say he's very sharp. If he is sharp, he doesn't seem all that wise; and if he is wise, he would be very cruel.
REL has been developing Skylon since the 1990s, and has done nothing but suck up research dollars ever since. It hasn't ever created a testable engine, let alone a testable plane. The whole idea is a set of nearly insurmountable problems.

For just one example, they claim that it will be an enormous plane filled with hydrogen, so on re-entry it will have a large cross section but low mass so it will be slowed by atmospheric friction more rapidly than the shuttle. But it's also going to have wings and turbulent air flow, it's a bad shape for atmospheric re-entry. This is project killer if they can't handle re-entry, and they are no where near a physical test of it.
See Architectural Mismatch or, Why it's hard to build systems out of existing parts

If you want to study that, look at ROS, the Robot Operating System. ROS is a piece of middleware for interprocess communication on Linux, plus a huge collection of existing robotics, image processing, and machine learning tools which have been hammered into using that middleware. The dents show. There's so much dependency and version pinning that just installing it without breaking a Ubuntu distribution is tough. It does sort of work, and it's used by many academic projects.

In a more general sense, we don't have a good handle on "big objects". Examples of "big objects" are a spreadsheet embedded in a word processor document or a SSL/TLS system. Big objects have things of their own to do and may have internal threads of their own. We don't even have a good name for these. Microsoft has Object Linking and Embedding and the Common Object Model, which date from the early 1990s and live on in .NET and the newer Windows Runtime. These are usually implemented, somewhat painfully, through the DLL mechanism, shared memory, and through inter-process communication. All this is somewhat alien to the Unix/Linux world, which never really had things like that except as emulations of what Microsoft did.

"Big object" concepts barely exist at the language level. Maybe they should.
Flights in the 8 hour range, sure. But Air Canada's ~15 hour Vancouver-Australia flights are notorious for never having any upgrade space available.

I'm guessing that new supersonic jets will be taking the (formerly) 16 hour routes first.
If a plane of this design ever flies, I will purchase a stout fedora and eat it one sitting.

There are SO MANY things that can go wrong, esp. at the micro level, which will see the engine turn from a chiller to a block of ice, then melted metal in a fraction of a second. Plus this is being developed in the UK, a country whose aerospace industry lost its entrepreneurial spine when the de Havilland Comets started falling from the sky and never really recovered IMHO.
Or you can just compile any HTML5 mobile app using Cordova and in 99% of the cases your users won't notice any performance difference between native-app and HTML5 app.
college dorms
> "A little duplication is far better than the wrong abstraction."

A little exploration is better than a false dichotomy.
Maybe it is. The odds against a TK comeback to Uber as CEO at this point are very high.
I think the most likely next step is supersonic business jets. That market can afford the cost much easier than commercial airlines, and there appear to be companies who are making significant progress towards building them.

https://boomsupersonic.com
Designer here. This is accurate. The long story is, this site was mocked a bit before all the final technical details were scoped out for the project. It's in need of a visual refresh to more accurately represent the platforms we use.
Yeah, there are definitely other possible reasons. E.g. one workaround I found had Australian users block a specific IP in their firewall. Turns out the DNS configuration was bad, and they were getting an overseas CDN server every now and then. Due to the way the PS4 schedules the downloads (chunks downloaded serially, chunk boundaries at static byte offsets rather than based on time) having even one bad server in the rotation can really ruin performance.

But CDN configuration errors can happen to anyone. I think this client-side mess is a much more creative way to screw up :)
No, being a doctor on the internet changes nothing. Exchanging a few comments online is no substitute for a medical exam, knowing my medical history, etc. Any doctor that imagines they know what is best for me merely because they are a doctor, without taking a medical history, etc, is a quack and a dangerous person.

I have certainly met such people online. You should be a lot more worried about the behavior of those folks online than about my personal health choices.
>As for confidential data, it should be encrypted at rest, so that the decryption key disappears along with the deceased.

> That is not an answer solution to many issues.

What happens to memory in our brain when we die? What about the things that only we know and never tell anyone else?

Isn't that a problem? Should we make an attempt to recover a person's memories from their corpse?

We've been dealing with irrevocable losses upon death ever since humans started doing other things besides eating and reproducing. Our online passwords and porn stashes are, generally, just another item on the list of things that die with us.

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My aunt, who was very much like a foster mother to me, died this year after spending 4 months in a comatose/vegetative state. Before that she had suffered a stroke which rendered her unable to write anything. So for the last couple years of her life, she was unable to leave behind her thoughts (I deeply regret not helping her use her iPad for that), and not even able to tell her family anything in the last few months, despite being able to see us and hear us.

We don't even have any recent pictures of her, let alone videos. I'm thinking of contacting her phone company and requesting if they could provide us with a recording from a random call, just so we can listen to her voice, but I doubt they will oblige.
Senior Engineers? Developers over the age of 30? People with kids? Plenty own property.

This comes across as another form of Zuckerberg-esque ageism.
I remember watching a b-grade Chinese kung-fu film. This side of the river had the master with six sons, that side had the master with six daughters. The second master really wanted a son and was overjoyed when his next child was a son. He was prancing about happily in front of his naked infant son, bent over and lightly flicked the baby's penis, then kissed it like you'd kiss a baby's cheek. It wasn't remotely sexual, fit in with the character, and was just a passing moment, but I remember sitting there and thinking "you'd never see that in a western film..."
Can WeChat Thrive in the United States?
We saw no problems with Mocha & Enzyme, can't comment on Jest.
Data-Driven Advice for Applying Machine Learning
Zstandard relicensed to BSD+GPLv2 dropped the PATENTS clause
He actually outlines a 3 step strategy for regaining control. Also, there's the non-profit he started that aims to make people more mindful on how shitty apps affect our mental states http://www.timewellspent.io/
> with no infrastructure management

I do have doubts on that part. Well, unless you mean physical infrastructure.
iirc it uses native widgets, the problem was that for some time QT used Carbon and stuff like scrollbars looked outdated until they added cocoa support because Apple stopped updating visually carbon
Ask HN: Does anyone find LinkedIn useful?
I have mixed feeling about using LinkedIn.

A few times I was contacted by recruiters from Apple and Google who found my profile, but mostly I just get InMail spam from people trying to sell their consulting services or 3rd party requiters.

I've also had pretty low conversion rate sending inMail to well-targeted people when I was trying to organize a conference?

Personally, I find maintaining a LinkedIn profile to be too much of a hassle with little benefits.

Does anyone have a success story to share?