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Really? The article's suggestion that a good-looking woman should consider her looks her most employable asset sure set off alarm bells for me.

In this case "than" seems correct because it's short for "affect boys differently than [it affects] girls", right?

In order to re-order that to use "from" you'd have to do something like "... the effect of which upon boys has been found to be different from that upon girls."

Many of us believe that killing is never justice, whether it's committed by the state or not.

Sure, or you can tax people that have money and spend that to invest in infrastructure, education, health care, etc., which also creates jobs.

So what does that leave? Do you need the licence to mine?

People should get outraged when presented with outrageous information.

Still, this would probably be more appropriate for HN if it showed interesting statistical information like police violence per capita, violence against minorities normalized by population, etc., and presented it with a flashy interactive javascript chart library.

Here's a similar method using a piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4

On the other hand, the name "Intermediate Python" is so generic that whoever wrote the book shouldn't be surprised there are other documents using the same name.

PlayStation Portable, the predecessor to the PS Vita.

Also watched the video, that description is not accurate.

The officer attempts to open the driver's door. The driver holds onto the door with his left hand to keep it shut while starting the ignition with his right. The officer yells "stop", leans into the car to grab the driver by the shirt / seatbelt with his left hand and immediately shoots the driver with his right hand.

The whole escalation is very fast. It's less than three seconds between the driver starting the ignition and the officer firing. Based on where the officer is standing there's no way he could have been injured by the car.

You're not wrong, and I think we're coming at this from a very similar place. I hope I'm not coming off as divisive.

There is a fundamental difference between the experience of being prejudged against when you're a member of a powerful group in society vs. a member of an oppressed group. The difference is difficult for a member of a dominant group to fully understand, partly because they don't have to be aware of their position in a dominant group every single day, whereas members of oppressed groups are constantly reminded of their position.

This isn't to say that men don't have their own issues that they need support with -- issues like (I think) higher rates of unemployment, depression, suicide, drug abuse, imprisonment, lower graduation rates, problems with custody and child support payments, etc. Some people do go too far in saying that if you're a member of a dominant group then you cannot claim to suffer from discrimination in any way, and that's not what I'm trying to say.

I totally agree that the long-term goal should be to make e.g. women in CS programs unexceptional -- and to get there we need to recognize the ways that we make it harder for those women who are in CS programs today to stick it out.

I don't think anyone is saying that we can completely eliminate the gut reactions we collectively have -- but it's precisely because they are so pervasive that it's important to talk about them and be aware of their existence and implications so that we can take actions to reduce and mitigate them.

At the root of the whole problem is that we collectively have an idea in our heads about what a "computer science nerd" looks like, and then we make judgements about people based on whether or not they fit that image. In cases like this the overwhelming factors are being black and being a woman -- if she were a white man who cared about her appearance she wouldn't face the same difficulties.

That is some amazing info!

I found this video where you can see the effects of the sub-pixel vertex precision issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrFcYbwz_ws

People have been meditating for at least 3,500 years, I wouldn't call it a fad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_meditation

Better trumpets are actually often more difficult to play because of extra weight and wider bore. Depends on the model of course, and in other ways they'll be easier to play, like for intonation, smoother valves, etc. A player might also choose to use a mouthpiece with a deeper cup, which gives a warmer / bigger sound but makes it more tiring to play, especially in the upper range.

That said, I'm sure Pops could handle just about any trumpet you threw at him!

It's said that Charlie Parker played a plastic saxophone at times because he would pawn anything he owned of value to buy heroin. Bet he still sounded great!

I'm not sure how this applies to AAA game dev, though... maybe something like, every new performance venue built is larger than the last, which results in bands getting more members, longer arrangements, lighting and set design, signers, dancers, etc.

1) Sounds produced by analog equipment cannot be reproduced exactly in software. You can get very close but so far nobody has gotten it 100% right.

2) The physical controls on hardware make the process of creating music more tactile / intuitive / emotional. It's faster to reach and turn a knob than to click on the knob and drag it -- maybe only by a little but when you do that thousands of times it adds up.

3) The constraints of using hardware can be a useful artistic limitation, that actually increases creative output.

Consider reading the rest of the piece, there is some good content past where you stopped.

I think you understand what the author was trying to get at with the "White" comment, even if you weren't happy with how they phrased it. I think the author was trying to make a legitimate point about privilege and perspective, but since racial privilege wasn't the main point of the piece they touched it only briefly.

> "internet in the system"

I don't know if that's a typo but I really like it.

Do you drink coffee? Wine? Smoke cigarettes? Take Aspirin? Are those immoral? Sure, some drugs are worse for the user than other drugs, but you could make the same argument for eating sugary foods or not exercising enough. A bad idea, probably, but not immoral.

I don't totally understand the math, but davmre is suggesting calling randn(), not rand() -- so sampling from a normal distribution instead of a uniform distribution.

I grew up in Ann Arbor and remember when this rally happened. I wasn't at the event but I remember a lot of people being really angry that the Klan was speaking. I also remember there was a group of people that took non-violence training and attended the rally with the intention of preventing violence. If I'm remembering right my parents took my and my brothers to a counter-protest about a mile from the main protest downtown.

At the time the Klan was mostly a historical organization that you learned about along with the civil rights era in school -- they weren't an especially powerful organization in 1996. But that was 19 years ago, and so the history was 19 years more recent than it is today. And there were rumors of KKK activity happening in nearby Howell, so the protest wasn't purely symbolic -- it felt closer to home than that.

Ann Arbor has a habit of taking to the streets. When we went to war with Iraq in 2003 almost my entire high school skipped class to protest downtown. When I visited over Thanksgiving I caught this one going down the street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2MN6G0m8is

That's a cool-looking video. It looks like it isn't AR though -- it looks like they're taking the real-world position of the phones and using that to drive the positions of the players in the game. They've modeled the game so the level looks the same as the office they're playing it in.

Sorry for mixing things up with a ninja edit!

The article says:

> This is the video of a real-world, first-person shooting game that Magic Leap says it was going to show at TED this week.

At first I parsed that as saying Magic Leap was going to show the game at TED, but what I've seen other articles say is that they were going to show this video at TED.

There is no way this is in-engine AR. This has to be a concept video for a prototype they're working on.

For them to say they're playing this around the office isn't exactly a lie -- they may very well be working on a prototype that has similar mechanics -- but it's bending the truth.

If that footage is in-engine I'll eat my hat.

> The island, about 65 kilometres south-west of the main island of Tongatapu and the nation's capital, Nuku'alofa, started forming in January after a volcano began erupting.

> btw: feed EMI Beethoven, and "she" produces Mozart. i.e., when probabilistically combining several key-signature-normalized Beethoven snippets, some of the results were identical to larger snippets of Mozart (who was, as you may have guessed, a big Beethoven fan).

I think you may mean the other way around; Mozart war 15 years older than Beethoven, and died before Beethoven's career took off.

> Mulhern had taken guitar lessons from Martino and often, to Martino’s aggravation, had played a major seventh chord when Martino wanted a minor ninth.

This is an instance of the Picardy Third, a trick that sounds really hilarious when you insert it into a piece where it doesn't belong.

While a belief that everything will be okay can be an important tool to help an individual lead a happy life, we have to be careful not to let acceptance become complacency. The precariousness of health insurance in the United States is unjust, and we should be frustrated and angry about it, and channel that frustration into action.

More in-depth article at http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/katinka-kleijn-daniel-d...

The unit they're using is the EPOC Neuroheadset.