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I’ve never met anyone who claims racism doesn’t exist. Perhaps I haven’t met the right troll?

The odd thing about racism is that we typically see it in the US as a asian/black/white/hispanic issue where historically race was finer grained, especially when talking about a much more homogeneous population.

Historically Brits would consider the French, Irish, or Italians as a different race, and, yes, have racist views about those people.

What I learn from that is, even if the US was 100% “white”, racism would still exist as we would find increasingly small differences to categorize people into races and then discriminate.

The problem is that discrimination based on categorization is how the human brain works.
Funny how none of the news mention that pro-black groups started the vote manipulation, which resulted in trolls escalating the manipulation.
> Even if it was a case of affirmative action, their work still gets the chance to get criticized and touch people’s eyes. Arguably with no action it could have rotten in some binder in a desk, so isn’t “something” still better than nothing ?

To be clear: I'm NOT saying this was a case of affirmative action.

You pointed a positive consequence of affirmative action. I agree it exists and that it's positive.

My observation was just that in my opinion it has a much much larger negative consequence. It gets neutral people like me, for whom race has always been a non-issue, to now wonder "is this a real achievement, or is it just affirmative action?" This is a real effect, I just caught myself doing it.
Facebook doesn’t pay. They hacked around ABP and blocked THEM from working on Facebook.com.
It always bothers me when there are complaints of treating someone differently while also describing those persons as "hyphenated Americans". I don't think those, in this article, described themselves as such but you can't be the same and different at the same time.
It’s been time to do that for a while. The problem is without a good system for measurable diagnosis among physiology or symtoms, it’s complicated.

This is also one of the biggest reasons that control groups to test anything around autism are such a challenge and why there’s such a vacuum around treatments that leaves parents researching and searching for their own.
Yep, and if you practice reading a lot, you’ll get much faster and get better comprehension.

Just try to avoid the styles of “quantity oriented” reading practice taught in e.g. law school. Nothing is more guaranteed to make books unappealing as a pleasure activity. People with learning disabilities and reading-oriented jobs may have different experiences with those techniques, though.
It's like where I live a woman at a sports match threw a banana at an indigenous person, completely ignorant to any race issue.

Unfortunately, that's one of those symbols that people recognize as being a racist attack. I may get mad at my local church, but where I live I can't burn a cross in my yard to show that anger.

I once picked up my child from a new day care. We are white and the woman in charge is black. I picked up my son and said to him, "there's my little monkey" (he was my "boat monkey") and the woman was taken aback. A moment later she realized what I had said, but just using the term "monkey" in front of her set off some sort of warning apparently.
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Adzerk. Reddit used them for many year before rolling their own.
In my experience, those errors are easy to resolve: just assign the new object to something, so it isn't immediately deleted. A little awkward, maybe, and it shouldn't happen, but if that's the worst quirk of PyQT/PySide, I can deal.
This collision was avoidable with good and attentive driver. Notice dangerous situation on opposite lane @2 seconds into the video and starts paying careful attention, @4 seconds its obvious whats going to happen, slam the brakes/speed up/change to right lane. From watching enough dashcams on YT you could probably estimate 1/100 of similar situations ends in lucky dodge. AI has a chance of turning that ratio closer to 90/100.
Old buildings that were built before we had a clue about lead plumbing and lead paint.

In school districts that don't have the money to do much about it
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Seems like a standard news day to me. Why let all the facts get in the way of good clickbait?
It's mindblowing that we can now directly image these vesicles https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448148/
> NASA made the claim about vote rigging. You really think they would lie just to get some free PR ?

Well, I thought journalists were supposed to do investigative work and not just publish a PR statement, but so is today's media.

> And the "clock kid" incident wasn't a stunt.

There sure were a lot of folks there saying he was pretending it was, and jokingly or not that's going to get you a real bad response in this day and age.

But since it "validates" a lot of folks' views on how the world is, of course they want to believe and parade it around.
There's plenty of room for consequences that don't rise anywhere near the level of a harassment campaign.
There’s a big difference between lending a hand to lift someone up and using a boot to stomp them down.
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> I’ve never met anyone who claims racism doesn’t exist. Perhaps I haven’t met the right troll?

I think you haven't met the right troll.

If you ask "are you saying that racism doesn't exist?", the sophisticated troll will not give you a yes or no answer. If he said yes he would lose because there are so many examples that it exists and he would be unmasked as an obvious troll, if he said no he would lose because then you would have some justification in whatever your claim was.

> The problem is that discrimination based on categorization is how the human brain works.

Yes, I think that is right.
> There's plenty of room for consequences that don't rise anywhere near the level of a harassment campaign.

Care to give some examples?
Whatever. Online polls are always subject to people using their social media influence to push results one way or another.
The point is that if A, B, and C compete and C wins because of affirmitive action alone then you are cheating A.

The argument is society as a whole is worse off when those who work hard are discounted solely because of their color to promote another.

You can’t fix racism with more racism in the opposite direction.
Apologies if I got this from HN, as I can’t remember the source, but the video halfway down this page shows the complexity of viral replication:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/watch-the-...

The article hints at some of the same mechanisms for extracellular vesicles. If that’s the case then maybe they are more closely related than outwardly expressed in the copy.
> You missed the moment when I mentioned the guy has been waiting for reply for 5 years.

As I said you are missing some details, people get a resident visa in 1 year even if they are outside Canada, so either you dont know the full story or your friend is probably misleading you.
What is your proposal for moving the ball forward? How would you deal with groups of racists trying to influence society?
My solution- depersonalize all work. As in no faces, no interviews, no names- just a number and the work.
Take the old web to reality- kick the whole social approach out of it.
If writing styles or location give the work away, jumble and anonymize even that.

There will be no way human reeducation will ever work. There will no new - more human humanity appear by enough reeducation.
So just make it one huge peer reviewed anonymized contest, even distribute some slang into other papers/ works and lets leave this all behind.
Your local chapter of the United States Power Squadrons (now re-branding to America's Boating Club) teaches this.
Learning a C like language - about two weeks. That is my recent experience with Python.

The part that takes awhile is not the language it's the framework. I would say 6 months to a year.
Things like social disengagement stemming from personal observations.

I.e., that person said something incredibly repugnant and clearly meant it, I'm not going to have lunch with them anymore.

And so on.
R7RS large is underway now! CL also has unhygienic macros, non-lispy loop grossness, lots of cruft, lots of poorly named functions that are named two different ways in two different places, and generally reeks of the 70s.

Scheme actually tried to compete with CL once, with a language called T. It had something sorta similar to CLOS and if I recall it was aiming for optimized performance per Sussman and Steele, but it eventually languished.

SBCL is the only thing keeping CL alive and they don't have the wherewithall to begin a modernized spec.

I don't hate CL, but I LOVE scheme. It is much more pleasant to actually work in, and feels cleaner. All the potholes of CL leave me checking under my fingernails for grime.
Electricity consumption is traditionally metered per kilowatt hour, that is the amount of energy used sustained over the course of an hour.

I believe this is what the GP was referring to - the sustained usage of 300-600W over the course of an hour. Thus being very expensive to run for long periods of time.

In my area I’m charged at 16.56 pence per kilowatt hour, meaning at an average consumption rate of 450w - that television would cost me in the region of £13.41 a month to run, assuming 6hours usage per night. Which is quite expensive.
That's entirely fair.
>People seem to get confused though and expect that repugnant speech won't have any consequences.

I only ever see this as justification for vigilante justice. Is this what you're referring to?
> I hope you're fine with the same thing happening to you when someone finds your views repugnant.

This doesn't randomly happen to everyone.
got a paywall
I've used Redshift since I taught astronomy. The mobile app is very good.
Erlang is awesome! This book as well. Learned a ton about ERTS. Must read for everyone who works in erlang.
If the alternative is a bankruptcy in which the investor gets nothing and ill will, the investors can agree to a deal where they get nothing and the entity remains intact.
The link I gave works perfectly well, why do you claim that this one is "more correct"? It's the mods who incorrectly added "[pdf]" to the title.
Exactly why I stopped using google news. Garbage sites started getting thier garbage articles into my feed constantly and it was an annoying battle to keep them out. Seems obvious and easy to fix, but in true google fashion they will probably only make it worse.
$15k for solar up front adds about $75/month to the mortgage. Subtract out the savings on the monthly electric bill, and this should actually come out slightly ahead for most homes. It shouldn't have much affect on house availability.
I'm genuinely not sure at this point, other than killing off social media but I doubt we're going to stuff that back in Pandora's Box anytime soon.

Regardless, vigilantism isn't going to help and will only further worsen.
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You can make Erlang supervise external processes.
"It’s on github! Super cool."
I posted earlier that it only takes me about two weeks to learn a "C-like language". But I never thought that was only the case because I learned C and then C++ first and used them for about 80% of my development for 10 years. If I had started out with C#, Java, or Python and then wanted to learn C or C++ it would have taken me a lot longer.
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As someone who does both (artistic, design type stuff, and also coding), I can confirm that it doesn't work like that for coding. I do draw stuff, arrows, blocks, layers, whatever can help me, but everything pales in comparison to sitting get still, with your eyes closed, and holding all that abstract construction in your head. Especially since I can be imagining days/weeks/months of work in one go. Artists have a huge advantage here.

That's why personally I'm a big believer in functional visual/feedback based tools for programming, like touch designer, grasshopper. Strictly for code there's Light table, but it's pretty far off of real visual programming tools.
These help a lot in offloading some of that brittle house of cards construction you have to store in your head.
They all have SaaS. Have done since the 1970s. Meaning they have software licenses with renewing service-level agreements and support contracts.

The difference is the mainframe is now AWS.

They understandably don’t want to host outside their own infrastructure.

Can you host on their infrastructure?

That I find is the biggest hurdle.

Beyond that it is the usual switching cost set of questions. You have to find the problems their current solution offers and sell a unique new value proposition only available on the new platform.
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God I wish. I get most of my work done in the morning and in the evening. If I didn't do client work so much I would very well switch to a schedule like 3 hours in the morning and 3 in the evening.
You can do correlation studies, and try to control for all the factors that distinguish the people who enter college from the people who don't, to distinguish that selection effect from the actual benefit of the education. There are studies like that; but since you can never be sure you've controlled for all factors, they're suspect.

An artificial experiment would be nice, but the cost, ethics, etc. make it not too practical. The best research uses natural experiments, like when some external factor changes the number of university places available, so that people who would have gone to college in the 2017 cohort don't in 2018 (or vice versa). That gives you the answer for the marginal applicant (i.e., the applicant who was just on the edge of qualifying), though, not the average.
Depends on the job, don't think software development can get away with 5hr week. Code needs to be written.
How Docker containers are different from system processes?
Please don't post articles behind a paywall unless there's a way for everyone to read them
It's like you say, and like the qt blog says, "opening to python world"

About your second question (c++ vs python), even I am curious
Large enterprises are mostly concerned about whom to hold responsible and get support when stuffs break. For this reason, they have no problems shelling out big $$$ to buy from big players (even if your SaaS product is better) because they are guaranteed to be around when required.
These people are such brilliant visionaries that they thought they best use of two years of their 20s/30s was to borrow $200k to go to business school and get an MBA.

Wow /s
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I was thinking about this as well, and it doesn't seem like an easy problem to solve.

Subjectively, we know that the reason 2017 processors cost 2x as much as a 2016 processor, is because of improvements in process technology and architectural design. There might be incremental improvements in the manufacturing process, but not enough to say that "manufacturing capabilities have doubled compared to last year".

The obvious solution here would be to compare the price of a 2017 processor in 2017, to the price of a 2016 processor in 2016. But that would give hopelessly cynical answers in other circumstances.

For instance, consider a factory for paperclips that produced 10M units in 2016, and due to various improvements, 20M units in 2017. The paperclips in both years are mostly identical to one another. But for various market reasons, the price of each paperclip has fallen by 50%. Possibly due to the enlarged supply from factories all over the country doubling their production.

In such a situation, if you rated the factory's output using the alternative metric suggested above, you would think that the factory hasn't made any improvements at all in the last year. When in reality, it has doubled its production capabilities and efficiency.

There just doesn't seem to be a purely quantitative to compare the manufacturing capabilities of factories that produce qualitatively different products year over year. This seems to make moot any single metric that rates aggregative manufacturing capabilities across multiple years.
It was time ten years ago.

Autism is one of the most complex moving-parts mental disorders that I know of.

I'm speaking about kids mainly, because that's what I'm familiar with, but some kids have mood swings and some don't, some have cognitive tempo irregularities, some have sensory disruptive effects, some have learning disability effects, some have communication difficulties, some have spatial permanence issues, some have memory issues, there are a million different components to the autism spectrum.

The autism spectrum is often thought of as a number line, but it actually exists in several dozen dimensions, it's a very deep spectrum, with documented cases all over it.

It gets worse now that there's so much medication flowing around, there are kids who don't have attention disorders getting put on attention meds, kids with normal social skills getting out on psychotic stabilizers.

Autism has been affected strongly by how aggressively mobile the psychopharmaceutical industry has become. It's disgusting. It's completely demonic that mental illnesses are graphed and measured and these MEDICINE companies are optimizing for how much orange plastic bottles are being assigned to children!

The article is right, DSM did call for it a few years ago, but it will take time and effort to reeducate doctors, the public, the children... It will take time before parents begin to realize the extent to which they are being manipulated and profiteered upon, and the effects of all these drugs in these kids will be profound.

I feel strongly about this, but I'm so disenchanted with how America handles big pharma. It's a complete joke.
Orange plastic and green paper is worth enough to violate the minds of our youth.

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It makes sense two use optical switches for certain specific requirements until they surpass VLSI CMOS in every requirement
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In addition to reduced strain on the enviornment, the rotary sail has a strong financial incentive for. "
This is called "the protein myth". I encourage you to do some research on it.
> I’ve never met anyone who claims racism doesn’t exist.

The anti-affirmative action argument doesn't say that racism doesn't exist. The argument against affirmative action is that society should aim for equal opportunity rather than equal outcome.
You are buying what the racists are selling - the idea that progress for minorities comes at the expense of white people.

Almost all affirmative action is designed to help pushing inclusion and participation, not just pushing the end goal. You set a target for numbers of candidates you interview to be minorities, which helps you get more opportunity to find capable people who happen to be minorities. They still have to be the best candidate at the end of the day.

People acting without any discrimination doesn't magically fix the world - look at Chess. Sure, women could play in tournaments, but they largely didn't. It took the creation of women's only tournaments to grow a community and give role models, and now we have women who are grandmasters and play in normal tournaments very successfully.

Even something as simple as your subconscious bias while hiring, if you see more minority candidates, your mental model of what someone who can do that job looks like will change, and maybe when it's borderline you don't instinctively just go with the white guy because that's what's familiar.

Trying to make a world where all people have equal opportunity is important. Right now, too much of the time the opportunities just aren't there because of history. It's not as easy as saying "you can't discriminate" to someone overtly racist, it's having a classroom and getting one of the girls to try programming - something she might never try (because it's not a "girl thing"), even if it's something she might love doing, if she did.

The defaults and patterns of our society are built on our history, and our history was racist and sexist. Changing that requires active thought and effort, and painting that as just trying to bring the straight white man down is the aim of these kinds of people.
2003[1] by Oechslin[2] (extending Hellman's[3] idea):

We call our chains rainbow chains. They use a successive reduction function for each point in the chain. They start with reduction function 1 and end with reduction function t−1. Thus if two chains collide, they merge only if the collision appears at the same position in both chains. If the collision does not appear at the same position, both chains will continue with a different reduction function and will thus not merge. For chains of length t, if a collision occurs, the chance of it being a merge is thus only 1/t.

If you read these, you may get the idea that what people call Rainbow Tables really aren't Rainbow tables but Hash Lookup Tables. That's the price we unfortunately pay when people use the wrong words over time, like "Magic Tables" to describe data structures.

[1] https://lasec.epfl.ch/~oechslin/publications/crypto03.pdf
[2] https://lasec.epfl.ch/~oechslin/
[3] https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/36.pdf
I dread everytime I accidentally hit the share button on any app, really does need some work.
It's the UK's effective implementation of it.
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And I thought first hashing done at browser level.
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I've met countless people who thought Aikido was (imagine this) a martial art. In a shocking development, this seems to have something to do with being good in a fight. It has certainly been sold to people as a way of making oneself less vulnerable to unsolicited physical aggression (a skill that has a fair bit in common with the ability to fight, even though these skills are not entirely congruent). I've also met a couple people with fairly serious (i.e. permanent life-changing shoulder injuries) as a direct result of Aikido.

No-one has ever claimed basketball, tennis, or golf makes you better at subduing attackers and for a fact, the techniques practiced in said sports don't seem to have anything to do with that. If you want Aikido to be judged against these sports, or, say, dance forms, this seems reasonable. In this case Aikido is a really shitty sport with no rules, no score, and no fun practiced by basically nobody, or a really lame dance that no-one wants to do.
Simple video that shows how the Magnus force works: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JdMSpiIqU
I think this really shows how powerful Web technologies are! Think about it: you get a full-fledged editor, with image embedding, and it only takes 200 bytes. Not kilobytes or megabytes, just bytes. Now check Evernote in the AppStore which weighs in at 111.5 megabytes.

If you’re still writing native apps in 2018, you’re throwing money right out of the window and you deserve bankruptcy.
Guix uses it extensively. I'm away from a computer now but I'm sure there are some gifted minds working on it. Andy Wingo, others.

And anyways, isn't that the case with most software? HN loves APL, but there's only a few implementations around any more, Arc used to be the big topic of HN, it's all but dead, software comes and goes.

Scheme will die someday, or change enough that its something different, but the lessons of programming with linked lists and eval will stick around in those that bother to learn them. Ie, people like you and I.

Maybe you should check the Savannah repo. Maybe they need some work done that you could do!