For the yesgraph link I had to disable ad-blocking and uBlock Origin and still only got a static image with a Twitter advertisement pasted over the image.
The graphistry link is similarly useless just showing a few sentences on a few pages ending in a "request demo" button.
This reminds me of a quote by Renier Knizia, the boardgame designer, about playing boardgames: "When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning".
There would not be a problem with a "White History Museum" if there was enough of an historical presence of white people in that place to support it. I don't know enough about the history of African countries to know if there is one that meets this criteria. The same could be said for any "non-default" minority "type" anywhere.
You don't see a White People Museum because, in the US and Europe anyway, that is the default: they are all white people museums unless otherwise stated.
Not really no. You increase the chance that you'll kill yourself and someone else. Ride in the lanes and with traffic. Everyone is safer when everyone can anticipate what's going to happen. This is especially true in the chaos of NYC traffic.
Some bike lanes in NYC have two lanes as well. I don't believe 1st Ave does though.
edit: I misunderstood. Yes, if the bike lane is contraflow of course use it that way. Everyone expects bikes from the "wrong way" in that situation. It's all about minimizing surprises to anyone in or near the street.
Biking against traffic (even in a bike lane) is a bad idea. It forces someone into traffic, either the guy going the wrong way or a bicyclist going the correct way. It surprises pedestrians jaywalking and it surprises cars pulling out of parking spots both of whom assume they only need to look one way. It's just a bad idea all around.
It minimizes left-hand turns across oncoming traffic that has a green light. i.e. it minimizes human judgement. If everyone stops at red lights (and people are very good at that), then there are fewer or no places where traffic crosses paths at the same time.
Linked In spammed me once when they reached some sort of milestone. The email had no remove-me-from-this-list link or way to tell Linked In that I didn't want to receive emails. I found the CEO's email address and forwarded it to him, asking him to remove me from the mailing list. He sent back a nasty email and deleted my account.
I've not looked back and my life is exactly as it was, minus a few unwanted emails.
The NYT title, "Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools", is more accurate than the HN title. China has not "compromised" TOR and VPNs, they've circumvented them. They remain intact and working as designed. "Compromosed" is the wrong word here. "Circumvent" is the correct word.
Is there a place where we can actually read the article? That site is very broken in my browser. I cannot scroll past the first few lines - the articles don't scroll independently.