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>So basically, only thing wrong with Jim Crow is that it is now unpopular? And if it becomes popular again, we should bring it back?

Why, has there been another measure of good in human history? (If one doesn't believe in any divine being handing down laws that is).

And I don't get the "moral high ground in hindsight" thing. If you lived in 1890, statistics say you'd most probably be all for Jim Crow too.

>Democracy is a pretty scary moral philosophy.

Better than the capitalism, which has no morals at all outside what society enforces upon it. If it could sell crack to small children or use people as slaves it would (and it does).

Where the main justification is the BS fabrication that "egotism works for the good of all in the end".
Ah, cool. That does make a difference.
This bothered me a lot:

> I seem to have a knack for trying to write things in Rust that rely on intertangled references and mutability: first a game, then a UI library…

First of all, a UI library is EXACTLY the kind of thing I want you running through Rust and having a long, drawn out fight over mutability. Every UI we currently have absolutely sucks in a multi-threaded context. I want the compiler to make you think long and hard that maybe, just maybe your ideas about how to architect a GUI library are very broken and that you have to restart from a clean slate.

As for a game, do you really have that much mutable state, or are you just conditioned to use mutable state by default? Games do have lots of mutable state, but games also have lots of bugs due to multi-threading that being forced to analyze mutable state exposes.
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Wow. That movie is so violent I wish I hadn't seen it. I won't watch Sin City 2. I can't imagine how I would have felt watching it at that age.
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Are people who do not attend multicult schools really at a disadvantage in life? Who says Harvard and other elite schools have any interest in "diversity" in "many other ways" than racially? Do their admissions policies include quotas for different religions, political ideologies, professional interests, extracurricular interests, etc.? No, their interest in "diversity" ends at skin color.
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What is the difference between a file system and a database? From my point of view a file system is just a specific kind of database (Hierarchical key value).

Then we put other kinds of databases on top of the file system database. Funny isn't it?

If the file system where a complete enough database we might not need things like SQLite which purports itself as a replacement for fopen, hmm, full circle.

Of course we have barely figured out how to encode text, maybe one day we will know how to store and retrieve data flexibly and consistently, one day long from now.

I personally like the relational model the best, it would be interesting to see a OS and files system based on the relational model rather than the hierarchical, but what do I know.
Sorry about being pedantic.

PEPpy Python should have four spaces at each level of indentation...not two.

Now I feel better
BIT Poised to Become Publicly Traded Bitcoin Fund
Pseudo-Mathematics and Financial Charlatanism: Backtest Overfitting [pdf]
Ripley would have just ran sideways.
Amazon is already working on the services. My Kindle Fire got a maps app (powered by Nokia Here) in one of the newer updates.
Ugh, take a hike GS.
We are certainly living in the most peaceful period since the start of the 20th century. For example, look what was happening exactly 100 years ago today: http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/firstworldwar/index...

When was the last time there was a battle with thousands of causalities anywhere on earth? War hasn't gone away, but it has definitely declined. Surely it would be better if it were gone completely, but things are moving in the right direction.
Summary of this article:

1) Barry Silbert's BIT has beat the Winklevoss' (or Winklevii) bitcoin fund to market by using a backdoor listing technique.

2) Finra granted its request for a permanent ticker symbol, GBTC, and that “is expected to be effective shortly.”

3) Each share of BIT is worth approximately one-tenth of a bitcoin. As of Friday, the trust’s net asset value stood at $24.43 per share.
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Skepticism is required. The doctors that used to diagnose people with chronic fatigue syndrome have moved on and now are diagnosing people with 'chronic' Lyme disease. These are known scammers.

This article reports on doctors still diagnosing people with chronic fatigue syndrome and backs up their study with actual research. But this huffington article gives no real information - it just states that the study had a control group of 358 and a test group of 298. It doesn't give any numbers other than that.

Chronic fatigue syndrome and, now, chronic Lyme disease are probably more related to depression than to any external biological agent like a virus or bacterium.
I'm pretty sure that's wrong on both counts. Android has the NDK and iOS apps can be written in straight C/C++.
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>If some minorities (and let's not dance around the issue; we mean black people) are underrepresented at these institutions, that is a wake up call. It means that the public school system in our country has, in aggregate, failed black children and that decades of racial injustice have forced black people into self-perpetuating cycles of generational poverty.

This is only true if it is reasonable to expect similar performance and outcomes between different population groups. Is it? Why should we expect blacks to perform as well academically as Ashkenazim and east asians, two population groups with notably high average IQ?
vdev removal is in the canonical source of illumos at this point: http://blog.delphix.com/alex/2015/01/15/openzfs-device-remov...
Other than IDE plugins for other IDE's, I think Racket has most of this covered.

I don't however think that's what was desired.
Is the GPL compatible with distribution on the (Apple) app store these days? I remember that back in 2010 it wasn't, and Apple removed GNU Go from the app store after this was pointed out by the FSF.
10mph over to even trigger the thing? That's a cool 150$ in the Netherlands. 20 over and you possibly won't be driving for a while.
Rated R is 17.
It is clear from the article that I acknowledge this fact but it is a more convoluted, less flexible solution that wastes space. BTRFS shows how it can and should be done.
Experimental Chrome Extension: Emulated Device Lab
I am not autistic but fuck you for asking.
Hilarious when people still write articles declaiming postmodernism when it has been dead in continental philosophy for at least 15 years.
Got to try a Firefox OS phone (or three) last week at a short hackathon in Telefonica Digital's offices in London.

The first device I tried (and apparently the one with the beefiest hardware) was an Alcatel One Touch Fire. My enthusiasm took a sharp turn downward from the moment I unlocked the device; accomplished by sliding the screen left to right, the animation was jerky, did not track my finger accurately, and skipped to the end when I let go of the screen halfway through the width of the screen.

One of the hosts was quick to point out that the lock screen interaction was actually custom programmed by Alcatel, and so is the rest of the user interface, at which point he pointed to try a different device running something closer to "stock Firefox OS."

I'm enthralled by the promise of helping the web win by creating a device category where the web is a first-class citizen, but I'm doubtful it will happen if manufacturers outsource their tasteless UI customizations to web dev interns.

Sunspider came out at roughly 1600ms, which places the mid-2013 Alcatel somewhere in the performance bracket of an iPhone 4 (mid-2010, flagship device). Despite the rough benchmarks, I ran some Famo.us demos and they were surprisingly usable, and I could easily get a physics-backed drag interaction to run smoothly inside the browser.

I'm waiting to try out a Firefox OS phone with cutting edge hardware.
I'm in the same spot with my app (digitaldetachapp.com).

I found an awesome developer overseas, but I'm at a point where I'm not sure how much money I want to put into it. I've decided to slowly keep improving based on customer feedback (I'm self-funding this). It's a great learning experience at the very least.

Here's what I suggest:

1) Fix the bugs and 2.) Consider charging more (I'd probably triple the price if I was you)

It seems like you're delivering quite a bit of value. Don't be afraid to charge more.
Isn't it funny then that BTRFS supports growing and shrinking? Sounds like it's not such an edge case at all. BTRFS is also focussed on the enterprise, yet it is implemented.
You have to follow up with Norvegian Wood.
Interesting, the analysis of NewsWeek story is pretty much what I was anticipating. It seems the Genius ecosystem has grown a fair amount since last I looked at it. I'd definitely like an account. Messaged you on Genius.
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The fact that they don't want to tell you where the speed cameras are tells me that this is a kickback scheme.

If it's about public safety, you WANT people to know that the cameras are there.
It is interesting that nudity is considered so bad, as it is part of healthy and normal relationships between adults. Whilst violence isn't. I think I'd rather have young adults be tolerant about nudity than violence.
Instead of building schools in Africa, why not look towards my current heroes, "one billion" who are building school apps and distributing them in Malawai (just google university Nottingham trial too)

Not to put you off your dream, but it does strike me that buildings is doable - really good teachers are much harder to source.
Clang 3.5 compiles that for me without warnings even with -Weverything. String literals in C (but not C++) aren't const for legacy reasons despite not being modifiable.
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Controlling pain by optogenetic stimulation of the brain’s pain center
Just grab two bags. One for items and one for garbage.
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Okay, I'm probably going to get marked down for this, but... with that whole "the dress" thing, am I wrong to think it's not just Photoshop and/or the dress coming out different colours in the image depending on the light?

Take this example...
http://assets-s3.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/articles/8371...

Now does everyone seeing that see bronze and light blue on the left, and dark blue and black on the right?

Supposedly these are images of the same dress. If anyone suggests they're seeing the colours differently on this example, I'll be genuinely surprised, but at the moment I find that unlikely.

EDIT: ...and the downvotes have started. How predictable.
The last 20 minutes of it are realistically violent. I cringed watching some of the scenes as an adult. I don't think kids would appreciate the build-up to it, either, the fact it's boring is what makes it so damned good when it finally releases the tension it's built to that point.
> Meh. I've had nightmares from a movie once in my life.

Some of us weren't so lucky.
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Shrinking the filesystem is something I have never needed to do since becoming interested in computers in 1992. The only times I have really read about it is when people want to make room for a second OS.

To me, this doesn't seem like a big deal.
"- I'm using a multicore job queuing system (like most AAA games do nowadays) and almost all game assets can be accessed from any thread."

Almost all AAA games use C++, and live with the 'joys' of manual memory management. Nim provides that as well, from what I've read. I've not yet taken the Nim plunge, but I'm looking forward to it.
It's also worth raising an eyeball over (but probably not dropping a monocle over) Mozilla being one of the strongest proponents of strong (e.g., Title II) network neutrality regulation, and Verizon being probably the telecoms most opposed, and like the one that will put the most effort into lobbying and using to overturn net neutrality.
Yea, I went to two public high schools and a private catholic high school in four years in the same county. Parents thought their kids were sheltered from drugs and whatnot at the catholic private school, but it was the exact opposite?
It was almost like the kids at the private school thought they were missing out on something, and went buck wild?
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But surely a diminishing returns Pareto?
I'm somewhat biased, but you should consider using a crash monitoring tool like Bugsnag (https://bugsnag.com) to help you find and fix the bugs :)

Have you spent any time working out the total market size for your app? Doing some basic modeling might help you make your decision!
What do you have against Nim exactly?
> and yet they produce one of the least educated students in OECD nations. Why is this the case? If funding is the problem as "experts" say it is, why is it that countries that spend fractions of what US spends yield better students?

No problem. Start "tracking" like many of those countries. Flunk a test at age 12 and no college for you. Easy. Now we don't have to bother with all those "useless" students.

Hope your kid passes.
This story is accurate to a fault.
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What's the latest in continental philosophy?
Getting a technical co-founder might be a really good idea! That co-founder may be able to start sooner than you can. But you should definitely think about cutting bait on work and side project soon if you want to double down.

The fact that you already have market validation is huge! Many startups burn ask their energy and money just getting there.
I worked as a mechanical engineer at a company that had 3x as many engineers as that number in one building. We all did a lot of calculations involving explosions, designing systems to survive explosions, etc. I bet if you polled every single one of them, it would be a unanimous agreement that airplanes caused the damage on 9/11.

Also note, architects are not the right people to be quoting for this. When we hired architects, they did lots of design work, but never ended up on the calculation side of the process. Explosive loads are completely different from static loads, and architects don't learn that stuff. So I imagine you have a lot of architects that don't know what they are talking about in that 2330.

If you are arguing that it was a false flag operation that flew the planes, good luck with that, but it has nothing to do with science or engineering.
Surely this is tongue in cheek. It substitutes "that's lovely" and "lol" for "work" in different places, producing nonsense.
How you carry and present yourself does matter in life, regardless of whether or not think it should. It says something about you, and people infer things about you based upon it. If you don't come to terms with that early on then you're holding yourself back for no reason.
On the other hand, can't you still say most of new art around us is post-modern?

Because else what would it be? Have we got anything after postmodernism?

This is what makes article hilarious. It is a post-modern piece bashing what it claims to be postmodernism.

UPD: In that respect, saying "I don't like postmodernism" looks as "I don't like air"
That's what you've got. For today.
Ask HN: Will you build apps for Firefox OS to support an open alternative?
When you are not sure about the adoption, what takes priority - benevolence or business decision?
If by "adult" you mean horror/grotesque movies, then yes. I watched them from a young age with (I have no idea how) my parents blessing.

To this day, I struggle being alone at night. I'm jumpy, imagine all sorts of weird and nasties creeping and crawling around the dark recesses of whatever room I'm in. It's not debilitating, as I've learned to consciously reason out of my fear of irrational things, but it still pops up in my head. Still makes me jumpy. Still makes my heart-race, and still pisses me off that my mind would do that to me.

Needless to say, I'm not showing any such movies to my kids until they're at-least mid-teens.
aha! That makes some sense, thanks.
I think this article has it backwards. I think that the default state for a startup is to fail. That even if you do almost everything right, you still have a high probability of failing. And that there should be a list of all the things that need to be done right in order to succeed, rather than listing all the reasons for failure. For example:

1) make a product that people want (vs. no market need)
2) attract investors (vs. ran out of cash)
3) media virality (vs. poor marketing)
4) perfect timing (vs. product mis-timed)
5) have clear distribution to market
6) lots of luck

#6 is not mentioned at all in the article and is probably one of the biggest factors.
Have an upvote. :-) That might actually work for other people. (It won't work for me. My circunstances are unusual.)
>make it possible to run Firefox OS applications on Android

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/06/firefox-os-apps-run-on-and...
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His name would be written as "神田". Those two symbols are refereed to as kanji. The reading of a kanji depends on what word it is used in.

Kamita is literally the combined readings of the words "神"(god-kami) and "田"(field-ta), not their readings for when used in a name, or when combined with other kanji. Additionally, the "t" sound at the beginning of a kanji often becomes a "d" when it is placed in the middle of a word (although it is hit or miss for when this happens).

Out of curiosity, I looked up "神田", and it turns out that it is an (archaic) word, pronounced kamita, meaning "field affiliated with a shrine (the tax-exempt proceeds of its harvest going to pay for shrine operations)" [1]

[1]http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E7%A5%9E%E7%94%B0&eng=&dict=edic...
Net Neutrality and Startups: Talking with the FCC About an Open Internet
Fix whatever bugs you can now. To make lots of downloads sustainable you have to be able to hold whatever rankings you achieve. Otherwise this will be a peak and you will be trying to fix the fall while you try to do anything else.
from the other view, you get to remove a div as how the browser understands it, as opposed to some non-matching XML/HTML library

and then, you are still parsing and loading that part of the page, just in a different program.
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He ordered the killing of humans because of an assumption? What the shit. Just walk over there and ask the bloke what he's doing, or investigate after they left, or throw in a flash grenade and disable, shoot the legs not the heads. Anything but kill. What are they thinking? That their chances of survival are higher if they kill the enemy combatants before they can kill them? Is this really what it boils down to? This sort of behavior is not acceptable for a human being, heck its not acceptable for an animal being or a plant. Amazing how these "soldiers" are multiple magnitudes less civilized than any insect I can think of right now.

What kind of demented questions is "can we shoot them?" anyways. Don't shoot unless shot upon. No you can never just shoot somebody.

And that he has the balls to try to justify his mass murders after the fact is way beyond me.

Edit: Deleting my sub comments because the discussion has gone completely off topic. Guys write your own top level comment and describe your view in one coherent piece. This piecemeal snowball-fight leads nowhere and nobody can be asked to get into a pitiful mud fight with 100 different people at the same time. I realize its my own mistake I should never have replied to any of them, especially the sub-thread about cats. Seriously guys?