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>There are better civil leaders to look up to -- some don't even require you to skim past their evil past.

>He's was never an angel, he just improved with age.

This is actually precisely what I find interesting and relevant about Malcolm X. I read his story not just as a man that people followed, but also as a man continuously undergoing a transformation. By virtue of his intellectual integrity in the face of his life experiences "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz" manages to appear as a completely different person than "Malcolm Little". I am in agreement with you that the much of the activities of the NOI, and even things that Malcolm X was involved with on behalf of them, are absolutely not things to look up to. But again, that is why I think his story affects me, in that I see a man who has attained a degree of enlightenment by inspection of his own self. I find it easier to follow such a person than a saint.
Why “Can’t Make Ends Meet” Trumps “Poverty”
That's a very cool library. I may just have to pick it up myself. Thanks for sharing.
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just as in <subject> use imperative, present tense: “change” not “changed” nor “changes”

Is it me or is this directly contradicted by the examples at the end? Which, by the way, seem much more natural than they would be if they obeyed this convention.
Nice quote! That's what the hero of The Stranger, thinks just before being executed.
I agree it can be amusing.

I try to never conflate the meaning of the words "illegal" and "wrong", as they are rather orthogonal, even if many people do not realize this.

And I think it's wrong (unethical) to do so for a multitude of reasons. Two main ones are because it's misleading to people reading/interpreting the results, and that it's actively trying to sabotage the intent of whoever set up the poll.

Don't get me wrong though, if we're talking about a stupid or silly poll, on a stupid or silly site, or if it's in the context of a really good prank, etc, it can be a forgiveable type of "wrong". In fact in certain circumstances one could even argue that it's not actually completely wrong, simply because I wouldn't want to live with a system of ethics where pranks are never right. That's a tricky one (as is often the case with discussions about ethics).

However, that's not really the type of manipulating of polls we were discussing here.
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Perhaps non-mathematical usage of "equation" in phrases like "entered the equation" and "wasn't part of the equation" has been increasing?

I certainly hear it in conversation often enough, but I've never taken note of how frequently it's written.
Malcolm X was one of the very rare individuals who charted his own course through life. Most deviate only the tiniest fraction from what is dictated by their background and mentors. Not Malcolm X. At the same time, he seemed to tragically lurch from one master to the next, although always seeking a more benign one. I like to think he would have rebelled against organized religion next, if he'd had time to do so. Many would disagree with me on that last point though, with good cause.

As an agnostic "white devil", I doubt Malcolm X and I would have been able to tolerate each other, even very late in his life. However, I'm still fascinated by the story of a man who continually and successfully struggled to grow beyond his influences. He had a great mind. It's interesting to ponder what he could have done had he come from a different background.

Even if you have no patience for reading his autobiography, at least watch the Spike Lee flick based on it. It's a great watch.
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So is this wrapper over cookie and localStorage that takes care of browser differences and idiosyncrasies for you? Or is it more than that?
>We are fairly quick to erase, forget or forgive the racism of white leaders

You are in no position to assume what oldmanjay has forgotten and forgiven. You are basically implying that all white people think and act the same. Either that or you are simply saying that oldmanjay is personally responsible for what other people think.

Personally, I despise racism no matter who the perpetrator may be. However, even racist people are capable of having a significant and positive impact on the world. Malcolm X was a racist at one point in time. I have no idea if he actually changed his mind or if he simply chose to keep his views to himself. What I do know is that through his efforts America became a better place.
> What does he mean by "special"

I think he means that the universe does not gain meaning by our existence. The universe will (or will not) be there regardless of whether we happen to exist or not, because our existence is just a fortunate combination of physical laws. Given a slightly different combination (the Sun being slightly further away from this planet, for example), you/we wouldn't exist at all, but the universe would still be there. Other forms of intelligent life may or may not exist elsewhere, but this still does not mean that the universe exist in order to have intelligent life. The universe will or will not exist because of the laws of physic; everything else will be subject to these laws, and so it will never be "special".
Hi Matthjis, thanks for your questions!

The EU's data sovereignty laws present a special set of restrictions, and specific countries like the Netherlands add more. But challenging problems can be valuable problems to solve, so yes, the Dutch are on our list.

At the moment, however, our entire focus is on HIPAA compliance. I tell people this: I am a lawyer, but I am not your lawyer and this is not legal advice. You would certainly want to consult a US attorney, and perhaps form a US subsidiary, but it is possible for a foreign organization to do business in healthcare in the United States. The example at the front of my mind is Royal Phillips and their new partnership with Salesforce[0].

Feel free to email me if you'd like to chat more!

[0] http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/...
At my current place we use Asana and it's 1000x jankier and harder to use than Trello. This stuff really doesn't need to be that complicated.
For those who (like me), don't like watching long videos, I made summary notes on all the talks here: http://theinflexion.com/blog/2014/07/26/notes-from-startup-s...
We changed the headline along with the url.
Thanks. We changed to that from http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/07/25/mysterious-signa....
>He could be called a 'reactionary racist' because his racism was not entirely fueled by sociocultural norms, but rather as a reaction to the hatred that he experienced from living near racism which was fueled socioculturally.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=define%3Areactionary

the term 'reactionary' has a specific meaning that is distinct from 'reactive'. its origins are the french revolution, where it was used to describe counterrevolutionary conservatives. it is always used to describe extreme conservativism, and is antonymous to radicalism
I know I will probably be sorry for asking this... but... wouldn't that be kind of the point ?

If you learn about Korean Comfort Women from Japanese text books... do you really have enough information to form an opinion ? I mean... shouldn't you ask ... say ... some of the actual Korean Women about their experiences ???
Argh, I say. As if Ebola isn't bad enough, pile on a fearful and uneducated public making the situation worse. My sympathies and admiration to the people trying to get a handle on the situation over there. Public education seems to be half the battle.
Agreed. Someone asked once how to you simulate load like that to test and he answered "we can't" we try to do gradual deployment and rolling upgrades.
Yes, that seems possible.

The Google Books Ngram Viewer doesn't have any hits for "enter the equation". However, the word "equation" and "equations" have the opposite trend from NYT.[1] But to emphasize again, the hits are less than .01% which is potentially abusing the word "trend".

[1]https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=equation%2Cequ...
I have to say we are thinking of different definitions of religious.
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Looks really cool and well done, though I'm failing to see the value this adds vs using standard user access controls and a regular old terminal multiplexer like tmux or screen.

You can even get the same usage model very easy by doing what a lot of companies do by throwing up a 'jumpbox' that all users log in to. They then log into whichever server they need from that session. You can do both PAM based, and network based ACL's and it's fairly easy to manage through sudo etc.
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> Being specifically church software, it might not find much of an audience here on HN

After a huge pile of upvotes and comments, do you still want to believe that HN has some kind of anti-Christian bias?
The "Scripting Bridge" is a way to tie any language in to the Apple Event messaging architecture. I guess you can think of it as bridging Lua to Objc, but it is much more language agnostic than that. This is how you can have automation scripts on OS X writing in Ruby/Python/JavaScript/etc.

I get that your bridging is manual, but if you built on top of the scripting bridge you'd have something much more general, and your "manual" bridging could just be pure Lua code.
>>> practiced at the state of the art, improved the state of the art, and taught others how to improve their skills.

Succinct and elegant - a wonderful definition.
All the best and hope this product works. I am still wondering how you manage to give those discounts in a place where people don't really understand what are the tests recommended by doctors. And doctors referring to certain labs and with their hand-writing that is hard to read (many do it for commission - some don't). And how would you manage the scenario where (few) doctors "reject" the reports from the labs that are not the ones they referred.

Scarily, NABL website has a meta description set to "Joomla! blah blah blah..." that shows up on Google search results.
I live in a neighborhood that has lots of crows and lots of walnut trees and not much car traffic. The neighborhood crows have figured out that dropping the walnuts in the intersections increases the chances of them getting crushed.

I'm running my own little social experiment: whenever I'm walking in the 'hood and I see a crow drop a walnut, I walk over and crush it. So far the crows have not started dropping nuts near me when they see me, but I have hopes :-)

Related, crow vending machine: http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of...
Ah, the standard bullshit apologetics of "the bad things they do don't count because they are an oppressed minority". Why do you think they can't be held up to the same ethical standards as the majority? Are you implying they are to incompetent to think?
I love the idea of a free-as-in-beer country.
Just pick up a nation state with the shopping and hand it to my chauffeur.
3) 2014 Lassa fever to Minnesota: http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0404-lassa-fever.htm...
I think you make a good point. Racism is prejudice and power. Power to institutionally marginalize a racial group. It is meaningless to call racist an oppressed racial group that is institutionally powerless. Some reactionary people like to confuse the issue with calls of reverse racism by oppressed nation people.
Was conking necessary to succeed, or was it done because many blacks preferred the appearance of straight hair?

Sidney Poitier played a doctor in No Way Out in 1950, and his hair doesn't appear to have been straightened.
>churches operate as businesses

In truth this seems to be the US mega-churches. Round here the pastors live a decent but modest life. Enough to raise a family not enough to buy a flashy car.
Then what exactly is your definition of religious? Does it somehow exclude the hundreds of millions of Christians who believe in the rapture (41% of all Americans, 52% of Americans in the South)? If so, then that's some creative gerrymandering and I'd love to see your rationalization and sources!

http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/jesus-christs-return...

By the year 2050, 41% of Americans believe that Jesus Christ definitely (23%) or probably (18%) will have returned to earth.

http://magazine.good.is/articles/more-than-40-percent-of-ame...

More Than 40 Percent of Americans Believe the Rapture Is Coming

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/01/christ-second-comin...

How Many U.S. Christians Believe Christ's 'Second Coming' Will Happen Soon? More Than You May Think (SURVEY)

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/05/world-ending-...

Hurry Up And Wait for the Rapture

In the South, a full 52 percent of those polled predicted that JC's return is imminent. Those figures come from a June 2010 poll from the Pew Research Center for People & the Press.

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/think_only_a_few...

Think Only a Few Fools Believe in the Rapture? Think Again.

In other words, a substantial portion of the American public—more than 4 out of 10—disagrees with the May 21 Rapture freaks only with respect to the date and some of the details of Jesus’ return. Think of that stat the next time you’re assured by some liberal theologian that the arguments of contemporary atheists are directed against targets that no longer exist.
I love how strikingly editorial changes show up:

"Theater" vs. "Theatre": http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=theater.theatre

As well as how quickly culturally accepted terms are replaced:

"Mrs." vs. "Ms.": http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=mrs..ms.
You can't observe everything yourself. You have to seek out sources with minimal bias or understood bias and place some amount of trust in them, or you'll be paralyzed.

And it's not like autobiographies in general are to be trusted either.
Even before the NSA scandal, it struck me as surprising that you don't see Linux distributions actively marketing "open, auditable, buildable" and the related services of training for software auditing.
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actually, both "equation" and "equations" trend up, just not at the same rate. Look at them independently.
I love how "Netscape", "Loudcloud", and "Opsware" were mere flickering events for the NYT, but "Andreessen" got traction and has been on an upwards trend for the last ten years. Also - a unique spelling, while probably annoying when he was growing up, certainly makes it easier to track his presence in media.
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Ask HN: Any expats with preexisting medical condition?
Hello HN,

are there any expats here who migrated to another country with a severe preexisting medical condition? Where did you migrate to? Could you share your experience? I'm particularly interested in migrating to USA and within Europe.

I'm a 26 years old web dev, EU national, currently living in France. I have a severe medical condition (Crohn's disease). I'm currently treated with a pretty expensive treatment (~25k € per year) which is fully paid by the French public health system. I'm wondering about moving to some other country, but continuing the treatment is crucial for me. However it's hard to get reliable data on this, that's why I'm asking HNers for help.

So far I found out that Australia is out of scope for me, since there's a medical examination of visa applicants, and if a migrant could be a burden to the state (i.e. treatment cost over 'significant cost threshold' which is now AUD$35k over 5 years) then the visa application will likely be rejected.

I'm wondering about the USA: how hard is it for a non-American to get a health insurance with preexisting medical condition (and how much it costs)? If I managed to get a good job in an American company which offers private medical insurance, would I need to worry about my preexisting medical condition? I've read also that things vary by state, so it's pretty complex.

I think I probably have the biggest chance of continuing the treatment within the affluent EU's countries (due to certain UE non-discriminatory agreements etc.), but still I'd be great to know some first-hand cases. In my country of origin (less affluent EU member), from what I've read on patient forums, the treatment is only given to the most seriously sick people, and only for short time spans, that's why I'd love to know details per country.

Thank you in advance for all your input.
If nothing else, the new elite also supports the dk2, although we may not see the full experience until Monday.
Here's code I have for a quadratic spline. It loops through each x-axis value and stores y-values in an array. There are three inputs assumed to be given, points: (x0,y0) (x1,y1) (x2,y2). I license this snippet as Public Domain.

double a = (x0 * (y1 - y2) + y0 * (x2 - x1) + (x1 * y2) - (x2 * y1)) / ((x1 - x0) * (x2 - x0) * (x2 - x1));
double b = ((y2 - y0) / (x2 - x0)) - (x2 + x0) * a;
double c = y0 - (a * (x0 * x0)) - b * x0;
for (int xCount = (int) Math.rint(x0); xCount < (int) Math.rint(x2); xCount++) {
wave[xCount] = (a * (xCount * xCount) + b * xCount + c);
}
> but every 10 million years or so things align juuuuust right and some major shift suddenly happens.

I haven't thought deeply, but a quick check of the Sun-Moon-Earth system seems to disagree with this.
Novacole is not saying violence and hatred toward white people is okay. The poster is distinguishing between prejudice and the term racism. Racism has a power component. Powerless people cannot make another race face racism as a group because they do not have the societal power to effect laws, police, institutional behavior.
Yes, readability. It's only half the story if you can be more productive when writing programs. Readability is probably more important because SW needs maintenance. And readability is not only about how fast YOU can read and understand Haskel. It's more about how fast other programmers can. Imagine all scientific papers were written in Latin.

I think you make a valid point. Many comparisons of Programming Languages productivity only try to measure how fast you can code a new application in them, but not how fast you can modify an existing application to do something else - ASSUMING you are not the author of the original version.
The trends of "teenager" and "teen" was suprising:

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=teenager.teen.adolesce...
People give such speeches today in mainstream right-wing rallies and are not criticized for it at all, let alone as harshly as Malcolm X is criticized. That's apples to apples since it's still the time of newspapers and television.
"and opposition to the mediocrity principle is one of the major linchpins of religion and creationism and jingoism and failed social policies."
You must be sure that you are measuring the same mix of virus strains, that the patients are receiving the same medical care and food, that the hygienic conditions are the same (the patient was going to survive, but a diarrhea just killed him), room conditions (is the room temperature important?).

You must be sure that you are using the same criteria to count the patients. Are you going to count the almost dead patients as a drug failure, or drop it from the list? Are you going to give the drug to suspected cases or only to confirmed cases? Do you count small children (they usually have a smaller survival rate)?

Are you counting the people that die before going to the hospital? Are you counting the (few) people that survive without going to the hospital?

If you get a 30% cure rate, (and suppose that the standard cure rate is 20%), it's very difficult to be sure that the improvement is in the mew drug and not in a change in all the other factors or some unwanted statistical trick.

Most of the rules for double blind studies are there because in the past there have been many "successful" test of new drugs, that were later retracted. It's very easy to measure incorrectly, especially when you really want the experiment to be a success.

(Another rules are there to prevent the consequences of previous "unsuccessful" test, were the "cure" was much worse than the illness.)
I would recommend Mozilla's localforage https://github.com/mozilla/localForage. Basil.js takes care of abstracting cookie, session, memory, and localstorage storage options, but localforage provides an abstraction for localStorage, WebSQL, or IndexedDB. With modern applications I find that I often want more storage available. Cookie storage is limited at 4Kb, localStorage (5Mb), sessionStorage (same as localStorage), IndexedDB (50Mb), and WebSQL (50Mb). Localforage will automatically select the best available storage system for the browser. While WebSQL and IndexedDB allow for advanced queries, localforage must cater to the lowest common denominator, localStorage key value pairs. While being restricted to key value pair storage, this is often not a big concern considering how different the WebSQL and IndexedDB APIs are.
Yes, the other affected countries also took proactive quarantine measures. And that's the reason why a hundred million people are alive instead of dead today. Seriously: SARS was deadlier than the 1918 flu, which killed several tens of millions. That's the fate that was avoided. Quarantine works.
> Black people can't be racist in any way that really counts

Rolls eyes..

Tell that to this guy that it doesn't really matter:

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/04/04/white-man-beaten-by-m...
Forgot to add, and I can't edit now: I'm doing kind of okay now, but it's due to months of treatment. I'm fully able to work, the biggest concern are the costs of the treatment.
You gave an extremely narrow example. There are a multitude of resources on virtually any subject. Would I expect a textbook on African American history to cover Malcolm X with enough depth to be considered a definitive source? Of course not, but that doesn't make the textbook useless. We don't have to limit ourselves to a single source of information, so why would we? The original post I was replying to said "How could you have formed an opinion if you haven't read the book." As if reading that particular book is the only way to learn anything about the man. Malcom X's biography is probably a great book, and I hope to find the time to read it soon, but that doesn't mean the statement wasn't absurd.
Hi anupshinde. We already have processes which deal with these issues. And if we get any complaints about report quality, we give a 100% refund.
So if we have a pair of keys, can a message be decrypted with one key if encrypted by the other? And then we just designate 1 as public and the other as private?
Empirically, the world in 2002 successfully dealt with exactly that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndro...
"There would be few fossil traces of these lost siblings of the Earth."

Our moon is a pretty obvious reminder of Earth's lost sibling Theia.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/06/new-isotopic-evidence-...
One of the things that has caught me is syntax checking. I use the syntastic plugin, set to check syntax on write, and I apparently save my changes pretty frequently. Some files can take 2-3 seconds to run an external syntax checker, during which time I can't edit the file.

I guess the real problem is me saving too often. Others may be trying to run a long make from vim and wanting to continue editing or looking through files.
"I" gets ~79% in 1869.
same here growing up in rural virginia
Your definition of racism is at odds with common dictionary definitions of the word. Leftist academics have tried to redefine the word.
Thank you for breaking it down like this. I never saw it layed out ~specifically like this.
you can try
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even though they are not fully stable yet, their product seems very promising!
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