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Exactly this. People are trying to sway the discussion with "single mother" and "mexican" implying that "people of color who make unfortunate choices" should somehow be exempt from the uniform and fair application of laws.

ICIM: I'm a "person of color who's made a lot of unfortunate choices" ;=D

hackaflockaon We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products

> It can also be redundant, since the USDA’s organic label already excludes GMOs

Quick, what's the logical fallacy here?

hackaflockaon Cylance Discloses Voting Machine Vulnerability

Exactly this.

If stuxnet is possible, a voting machine should be a piece of cake.

hackaflockaon A Silent Cause of Bad Business Decisions

> I built and sold tech businesses in the UK, US and Brazil.

It's always intriguing when people write that without mentioning the names of any businesses.

hackaflockaon Twitter Has an Old Media Problem, Here’s a Solution

Yglesias is brown?

hackaflockaon Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich kids who do things wrong

Back a couple of decades ago in India. I was working for an American telecoms co. I grew pally with an HR manager. He showed me the background on a new hire. The new hire was the son of a mid-level government official cum career civil servant in a dept that oversaw the telecoms industry.

I saw the letter Daddy wrote ON HIS OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT LETTERHEAD... addressed to the head of the Indian division of the telcoms co... recommending his own son for a job.

My point? It's not just rich kids. It's also well connected kids. In high-regulation environments, government officials, although they may not be rich, have the highest access.

hackaflockaon Why Women Pretended to Be Rocks and Trees in NYC Parks During WWI

Thanks.

hackaflockaon Blitzted: The Third Reich as a Society on Drugs

Surprised it's that low. I read somewhere that 50% of women are on anti depressants.

hackaflockaon Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid

It's at least usable on desktop. Try going to mobile.twitter.com on a phone... it's shockingly slow.

hackaflockaon Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid

Sadly, their search doesn't work very well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646580

hackaflockaon Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid

I think it used to be impressive when they created Bootstrap.

Twitter's website currently is not Responsive. The web interface looks different on every platform (mobile, tablet, desktop). And on mobile, the website is terribly slow.

hackaflockaon Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid

They said Google won't make a bid. But Alphabet ($GOOG) can absolutely make a bid.

hackaflockaon Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

Paul Buchheit - Startup School Europe 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5w-0H-hq6E

Anjana Vakil: Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript - JSUnconf 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-5obm1G_FY

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

https://vimeo.com/36579366

Philip Roberts: What the heck is the event loop anyway? | JSConf EU 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ

hackaflockaon OpenBSC: 3G Voice Works

Is this potentially an open-source self-hosted alternative to Twilio?

hackaflockaon Ask HN: Pmarca's advice – BitCoin/BlockChain and AI/ML in 2 hours a day

So I've been feverishly researching both topics, and how to learn them. I've decided to take these 2 courses from Coursera (starting soon, in Oct 2016). Both are free, and for the ML course, one can pay after completing it and get a certificate (there's no certificate for the Bitcoin course).

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency#

Hope you too will join these, and post updates on this thread right here.

hackaflockaon Search Ads

RIP Steve.

hackaflockaon Not Just Any Old Geek

Makes sense. An advantage with us Old Geeks is we don't like to re-invent the wheel ;-)

hackaflockaon Our First 50,000 Stars

I initially thought it was an egg being broken because of the reference to "egghead.io".

hackaflockaon Google Allo – First Impression

It lacks integration with SMS though.

GText will integrate SMS and all in-house Google instant-messaging/texting modalities.

hackaflockaon Google Allo – First Impression

For starters, iCloud has a 5GB limit (free tier). And that limit has been used up by lots of other things in addition to iMessages.

iCloud backups are also known to fail. Someone I know just can't get the backup to work on their iPhone.

hackaflockaon Marc Andreessen suddenly deletes all his tweets, goes on Twitter break

This could be a legitimate concern of his. But I would guess that even if he were to delete everything, Twitter would still have permanently archived undeleted copies (Facebook does that apparently).

hackaflockaon Google Allo – First Impression

At this stage, I've given up caring about my privacy :-)

hackaflockaon Google Allo – First Impression

Which is why I wrote "idiot-proof". Things such as "encrypted backup" and "server side" are difficult to parse when I'm under the pressure of changing a phone. Plus, Apple has a bad enough reputation as it is (with cloud / syncing). I want my old texts to reappear magically without having to know these complicated sounding concepts. GMail does that. GText would if Google created it along similar lines.