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It is my observation that there are, broadly speaking, 2 definitions of "racism" floating around in the USA these days.

The first is mostly used by people who have lived in a fairly homogeneous environment (ie mostly people of their race & cultural background, which in the USA happens to be white and christian), and it is a very strict one. Murdering a black person while shouting "all black people must die!" would undeniably be "racist" under that definition, and so would a law that says there must be separate facilities for white people and people of other races. However, that definition does not encompass much in the way of acts that do not blatantly qualify as racist.

The second definition, used mostly (but not only) by people who are not of the dominant racial or cultural background, defines racism as a broader system of interconnected pieces (some historical, some cultural, some legal, etc.); some of them which might not appear strictly racist at first, but when observed within the broader scope of the system they function within, contribute to a general systematic alienation of the population based on racial or cultural features, or in other words, "racism".

People who function with the second definition might find the linked article "racist" in that sense, because while it is a well documented article, it presents a picture of the US that is lacking many speakers of American-English, the vast majority of them non-white. Of course, that map is a flawed representation in the first place - dialects are not distributed neatly along smooth lines as depicted. But it is flawed in a way that totally erases the existence of many speakers of American-English (unless one wants to make the argument that these communities do not speak American-English, which I think most HN readers can see as absolutely silly). The map, like any other map, is a flawed representation; but it is one that, under this definition, could be said to be flawed in a racist way. This does not mean that the author is racist; merely that the work was produced within a dominant homogeneous socio-cultural context, that many take issue with.

The USA is currently undergoing a deep identity crisis, where the hegemony of the cultural majority is being challenged by people who identities have been ignored over the centuries (some due to genocide, some due to slavery, some because they were just poor immigrants at the bottom of the totem pole, but whose descendants are very much native to the USA and are confined to ghettos, etc), and who are now able to express themselves due to the new forms of media that have emerged. Many people living outside of the US (and many within) do not have much of an understanding of this situation, either because they have not been exposed to it sufficiently, or because they outright deny it (for one extreme of it, see Steve Bannon's reaction when an interviewer says that all Americans except for Native Americans are immigrants [0]).

A similar phenomenon is also happening with the notion of "sexism".

[0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/bannon-rose-60-minutes-interv...
Aren't you afraid of the black hole on your resume?
One reason so many people take plea bargains is they've waited so long in pretrial detention they just want time served, a problem you're proposing making much worse. I recommend this article, although it doesn't touch on places like Louisiana where the public defender system is woefully underfunded in the first place. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/innocen...
To be fair, AT&T has been losing subscribers for a while, and Verizon has finally started experiencing some net losses as well, while TMobile gained enough to surpass Sprint as the number three carrier. TMobile has shaken up the market with being transparent with phone pricing and payments, eliminating contracts, pushing new plans and aggressive pricing. Sprint suffered from that (and their own horrible service) and then AT&T and Verizon got nervous and started competing too. It's still an oligopoly but I think it IS legitimately arguable that it's more competitive than it was 6 years ago.
If it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the drive contains CP, then why don't they just go to trial?

It seems to me that they've intentionally chosen a morally-objectionable individual upon which to build a legal precedent, as anyone who speaks in his defense can have his crime thrown back in their face.

We've heard a lot about these so-called "hashes" that prove the presence of CP. It's also pretty easy to make a probabilistic proof about the likelihood of a hash collision between two non-identical files. I would venture that if you can show mathematically that you're 99.9999999% certain that the files are CP, that would qualify for "beyond a reasonable doubt".

It's incontrovertible that if he's committed the crime for which he's been accused, he should be jailed. If they've already proven that crime, then why isn't he already serving his sentence? Or does the prosecution's case rest upon this one piece of evidence, and if so, is he therefore required to testify against himself in order to avoid indefinite detention?
The reality is that Apple can't fit all the features (e.g. bright colour screen) in a watch AND have a battery big enough for 7 days of juice. It's just not physically possible. They could make the watch super chunky but then almost nobody would buy it.

Everyone wants long battery life but it's not that simple. If the tradeoff is having a huge, ugly watch then most people opt to simply charge daily like we already do for our phones.
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The author suggests tiers of security, where the biometrics would only unlock the first tier. Isn't that how it already works? If I'm not mistaken, certain operations like changing the Touch ID fingerprint or passcode require you to enter the passcode first. And changing the iCloud information requires the iCloud credentials. Isn't that exactly what the author is asking for?
Not sure why I was down-voted, from what you've said and from personal experience (working on support systems for patients of strokes), it seems as though there's reason to believe cause and effect.

Unless brain damage was done, it's quite likely you can train yourself out of this habit by the way. One method I heard that works is to wear an elastic band, whenever you do it twang yourself on the wrist.
If a study could reliably demonstrate that autonomous vehicles have fewer collisions it would strongly hint that fatalities are also fewer.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Greed is what corporations are for. Greed--and nothing else--drives businesses to provide things that their customers value.
> They can do it, but I don't have to like it.

While correct currently, that isn't going to continue much longer. These abusive tech giants are about to start getting regulated left and right. You can practically hear the political machine awakening. Google's ability to freely control what is or isn't allowed on their platforms, will be replaced by government determined rules. That process has already started, it's a constant discussion in DC now on both sides of the political aisle. The Democrats and Republicans are both increasingly interested in regulating Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. Within the next few years they'll also pass laws governing tighter advertising rules for the platforms (or all sites in general); which is what the Russia-Facebook headline propaganda is all about delivering.

There's no scenario where these companies make it another five years without government regulators beginning the process of restraining their behavior.

Ten years ago I would have been upset about the government proceeding toward regulation of companies like Google. Now I can't help but think no other company deserves it more, given the increasing abuse of monopoly power that Google is guilty of. Their hubris has become extreme. They better double down on their buying of politicians in DC, I mean, lobbying.
wtf?! thats a joke right?
I mean we're at the point now that they wouldn't be throwing anything at the wall - they would be doing what they always do, like you point out, which is why it makes sense.

Hololens, all the Daqri products, Meta are all in the HMD space with products that are selling. The AR HMD space is WAY PAST where the mouse and GUI were when they introduced it on the Macintosh. They could even buy Magic Leap if they wanted but could probably do better themselves. I mean I live this stuff. If Apple wanted to do AR glasses right, they could.
But then you'd never be able to look at your notifications without "unlocking" the phone. That doesn't seem too useful.
This is my feeling as well. I hated autosave until I switched from Subversion to git and suddenly branches were a nimble and powerful tool.

Honestly, I don't even remember why it was so important to control when my code changes were written to the filesystem. I just remember it used to be extremely important to me, and then I quickly stopped caring when I started using git and GitHub.
We junkies have a worse PR department than nuclear energy. We're addicts, we're supposed to be degenerate perverts that live under bridges, beat our spouses, and leave our children.

It couldn't be further from the truth, in many instances. Having to hide it, or hang out with those who are more criminally minded as being your junkie peers, probably stems from the illegal nature of the beast.

I'm pretty sure legalization is a good idea. Let's face it, if you want to try drugs then you can get drugs. Drugs are plentiful, that's why we have drug users. Making them legal seems unlikely to create more users. "Hey, heroin is legal! I'm going to try it!" Said nobody, ever.

Actually, now that weed is legal, it's not nearly as much fun growing it.

So, yeah, there could be healthy societal norms, but not while it's illegal.

Related: I'm still not sure why coke users always seem to end up in the bathroom. It can be in a house in the middle of nowhere, but they'll still congregate in the bathroom. I don't mind coke, but crowding into a bathroom always seemed strange.
>* being more polite and kind after you found yourself few times in the middle of "hot" conversation simply because you misread something at the start.

For sure, although being passionate about a topic doesn't seem to hold me back :)

>I don't think it is much dyslexia, because this happened to me while in rush to think and make a point instead of reading it and think. I also tend to skip paragraphs or entire pages while reading books, if my mind is busy enough thinking of the last read sentence.

For me, this happens regardless. Admittedly not all the time, but often enough that people have come to expect it of me.

>Try to raise hands and look at fingers in your dream :)

That sounds like something someone in the Matrix would say ;)
It would probably run Xubuntu 16.04 just as well too :) My Dell desktop form the same year does.
I had face unlock maybe 2 Androids ago and it was disallowed by corporate IT policy. PINs only or you couldn't get company email.
I don't have an identical twin, but I also don't know which hypothetical genetic sex so... male or female, depends on you.
I like being able to glance at my wrist when a text or an email comes in. But what I LOVE is the way it does driving directions.
So is Chapstick and others. You use context clues. If someone asks for a coke, they get a Coca-Cola (or are queried for an alternative if not available). But if one drank a Sprite in the morning and was asked what they drank, they might say coke.
I do too. But what really gets me with Apple is that they're unwilling to grant even freedom 0 - you can buy a copy of OSX - but you're not allowed to run it on non-appearance hw. So you can't legally run a gnu/Linux desktop on a lenovo laptop and run OSX in a vm. But you can run Linux and Windows on a macbook.
Its Also for students in debt and the "middle class".
agreed. I always liked the old slashdot system. I could decide how many points a "funny" or "interesting" post got. I would always give "funny" posts negative points because they were usually not at all funny.
And of course, preference for people over things would be a very useful (some might even say essential) trait to have among some members of a software engineering team.
TFA actually does break down the deets on the technology reasonably clearly. I find your comment mischaracterises it significantly.
It's not the just the watch. All my devices will connect to a new wifi if one does.
It wasn't too long ago that we had the McCarthy era, where speech professing communism was effectively targeted by what were basically thought police.

Just as then you don't have to advocate free speech because you are a communist, now you don't have to advocate it because you are a Nazi. You advocate it to protect against authoritarianism.
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton to leave company
My impression was most of the cell towers were owned by either AT&T or Verizon - how can TMobile and others be competitive? I had assumed they were buying to use the networks of the existing 2? I know I'm uninformed, I'm asking for more info on territory.
As someone of skill in both topics, I was similarly confused but my misapprehension remained for a few seconds more. As luck would have it, the first sentence my eyes alighted on was Trees and Concrete Data.
15 years and Linux still has barely improved the usability for the average user.
Ask HN: Idea golf
Propose your best idea, and maybe find someone crazy enough to try to built it with you?

Alternatively, propose an idea and post a bounty on it?
Correct. In a sense:

group of people : bunch of people :: y'all : all y'all

The former being an associated collective.
I recall Janet Yellen mentioning in a speech earlier this year that shrinking cell phone bills were applying noticeable deflationary pressure on the economy. After I read her remarks I logged in to Verizon and poked around - I was grandfathered in on some older (more expensive) plan, and in about 2 minutes had switched to a better plan for about $500 less per year.
Lubuntu is even lighter.

I have modern hardware but still use Lubuntu.
By how has the performance improved? The last I checked Atom was way too slow as compared to other editors even VSCode.
> I often use HN to practice writing. ...

> The next most common source of down votes (for me) is being argumentative.

Interesting. The main thing that motivates me to comment here - other than when someone touches the surface of a topic that piques my curiosity - is when I see something that is either blatantly wrong, or seems to be missing an obvious piece of clarifying information.

(Examples of wrongness: C# is the best language one can learn, any random non-MBA-holder can be given a loan and expected to make a successful business of it, random 6-year-olds can understand CS, one person without political office can make a difference among our population of 300 million, etc.)
>As a child I had a pretty severe stutter which is not as pronounced now, and the feeling I got from that is the same feeling I get now as an adult with my reading.

I had a pretty bad stutter at one point, not mid-words but just repeating a word out of order over and over. For example, when trying to say "today", I used to say "Day day day today". People would find it funny, but actually I had no control at all. It took years to train myself out of this habit.

>I've not experienced the dream one, at least in any way that I can remember. I tend not to dream in general however.

The dream was a joke :) It's about telling whether you are dreaming or not, the joke being that because of the way I read sentences I couldn't tell anyway.

>And just like your second bullet point, on several occasions I've approved written material that was quite poor because my brain filled in the blanks with what I thought sounded nice :)

This sometimes works in my favour, I'm able to bridge gaps when people don't write enough information. Equally, sometimes when dictating my own ideas I sometimes miss words or entire sentences despite actually thinking them up and going to type them.
It seems that their goal is to help sites move away from 3rd-party comment management services such as Facebook and Disqus. Based on this discussion, I think federated (not site-owned) comments are the way to go long-term. Maybe Talk can eventually be adapted to help with decentralized comment moderation.
More like a Swedish prison, less like Holman Correctional.
It will tell you the IP address of the default route, and most routers have their web interface on the same IP, but there's no magic requirement that says that the two have to be the same.
It's turtles all the way down at this point. The reality is that you can't get content on the internet without the approval of at least a few entities.

If/Until the culture changes the best practical advice is to make sure that those few entities are distanced from your message that they won't be pressured to take it down.
Did I miss something? Is there any value at all in this post?
Wait until google bans your domain. I’ve recently found out how much of the internet’s mail is hosted on gmail because of one very problematic user.
What country are you in? In most Western countries, embryos are pretty much fair game.
I've tried all the editors, when it comes down to it I always end up going back to some combination of Sublime + Vim. I prefer to do most things on the command line rather than set up IDE configurations, so a plain text editor suits me just right.

I like the customization of Sublime, and I've got it setup just how I like. In a way, Vim is similar... once you get it customized perfectly, there isn't going to be another text editor that beats it.

VScode is nice, but I don't really see any pros to it that would make me switch from Sublime, other than the Debugger maybe (which I never use).
I probably don't understand what I'm looking at. I would like sendFile/sendFileSync - which would abstract over TransferFile on Windows.
It seems that getting a libertarian to explain the fundamental differences between libertarianism and ordinary western-liberal-ish democracy is like squeezing a balloon. You get the same feeling from listening to the candidates of the official US libertarian party. Of course, that hardly makes it unique in politics.
Ask HN: What to listen to while drugged?
I had surgery and I am on some strong pain meds. Their effect are very interesting. I find that i am totally engrossed into the audiobook i am listening to and I am more creative.

I was wondering if there are interesting books I could listen to while in that state of mind that could inspire, motivate or just have a positive effect on my mind and my creativity.

Thanks.
Right, I believe this. But I also know that Tim Cook's job is to sell as many phones as he can. He doesn't care if you need to take out a loan to do it. Nicely played Mr. Cook. Steve would be proud.
Free in the most obvious sense, but they still profit off of you.
yes I put the link first before the quote
https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc...
Which might be a Scheme CPU formally derived and verified via LISP-based tech:

https://www.cs.indiana.edu/pub/techreports/TR413.pdf

Or recently this way:

http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/05-saint-mleux.pdf

Interesting enough, the primitive versions of LISP that aren't high-performance (i.e. advanced compilers) could probably be done by hand in hardware where the whole thing was bootstrapped up with LISP-only tech. The LISP would start/stop at the abstract, state machines or RTL of the bootstrapped version.

EDIT: Good luck on making it through the hurricane. Feel for yall out there.
This raises a major question though - what's the use case and threat model for facial recognition? If you're remotely concerned about security, clearly you're not going to use it. If you only care about preventing the casual attacker, either option seems good enough.

I just don't see a security model in which Apple has substantially improved it. The security of it is terrible in either case - all Apple did was make it more expensive.
You are comparing a postal service (1:1) with a broadcasting service (1:many). ISPs should be neutral carriers, but websites should be free to offer whatever services and terms they like. Given equal services, supply and demand should kill the ones with the most unfair ToS. The question of liability is more difficult, it might help if users had to register as real persons or companies (i.e. providing ID).
Why would the users of their libraries sue Facebook for patent infringement? I don't get it.
Oddly, it hasn't affected my ability to code; I can "see" code just fine.

Given the representation, I'm not surprised --- a lot of people, including those non-dyslexic, read code very differently from how they read prose: by focusing on tiny sections at a time. I'd guess that if you tried to read code the way you read prose, by trying to see big chunks of it at a time, you'd quickly experience the same feeling.
Moral of the story, people are bad so don't store anything sensitive on a tiny little device that can be easily taken from you and broken into 100 different ways.

If you insist on storing your leaked NSA documents or whatever on your phone, then you just have to accept that you're exposing yourself to a lot more risk (real or imagined) than you would have if you didn't store that stuff on your phone.
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I have been misreading that word for a few months now. I didnt catch that people were using the root pseudonym.

I didnt even know that pseudonymous was a word until today, thank you.
Rounded Corners, Rounded Corners Everywhere!

Let's watch Spider-Man with a rounded screen
"Coke" as a general term is popular here in the Atlanta area; where the actual Coke HQ is located.
> The differences in means is what the Google Memo seems to focus on

No it doesn't. "Mean" isn't used in this way even once in the whole memo. The only indirect reference to means differences are two sample graphs that Damore only uses to explicitly label judgement based on means as fundamentally incorrect because it ignores significant overlap between groups. The greater male variability hypothesis is the only correct way to interpret the memo.

Further, this article's conclusion doesn't follow from the facts as presented. It's literally asserting, "I can't fathom the existence a gender-specific difference of 4SD, therefore it doesn't exist and so such a difference can't explain our observations". Didn't you miss a step where you have to actually demonstrate that this difference actually doesn't exist before you can dismiss it?

Certainly we can debate how reasonable such a distribution might be given what we know about gender-specific variability of other traits, but we absolutely can't dismiss it out of hand.

Consider, for instance, that "hiring at Google" isn't the first time this variability comes into play, but instead the Nth time, where N is fairly large. If people tend to pursue things they're naturally good at, and such variability will obviously influence what genders will be naturally inclined to pursue, on average, then this acts as a compounding filter over a decade where students are first exposed to computer science.

Consider the distribution characterizing "people's net worth". The variability in people's ability to make and save money isn't that broad, but including compounding effects of interest on debt and investments, even these small differences will yield huge variability in your net worth on your death bed.
To ultra-pedant it up, generally only odd prefix digits indicate a spur (only connects to the prefixed highway in one spot), where even numbers indicate a bypass or beltway (which intersect the main highway multiple times).