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One humorous side-effect of having all that code viewable (and searchable!) by everyone was that the codebase will contain whatever typo, error, or mistake you can think of (and convert into a regular expression).

I remember seeing an internal page with dozens of links for humorous searches like "interger", "funciton", or "([A-Z][a-z]+){7,} lang:java"...
Your missing the point. They can spend their money where you would be mad. So if they go to a school where history is through the lens of white supremacy and teach that science is evil because it contradicts their narrow version of the Bible and that God created black people because of the curse on Noah's son for having homosexual sin with Noah your fine? By the way a LOT of people believe this especially in the south. (Also BTW Noah's son Cush who did this "looking on his father naked" the scriptures say they went to Persia and NOT to Africa but that is another matter of facts getting way to their fictionalized bibles)

Also show one example where vouchers BETTERED students education? It didn't in Switzerland it actually made their scores worse since 1992.
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> to replace the money destroyed by the principal payments

The money isn't destroyed. It's back in the hands of the lender, available to do whatever they'd like with it. Perhaps they'd invest it into a factory or a business that they own, instead of just loaning it out. That would mean it'd be spent on real things in the real world, thus meeting the criteria of not being destroyed and being spent.
>all of the time is "white male time"

Like black churches and communities, professional women's societies, women's shelters, scholarships for women, women's clubs at schools, and so on? In elementary schools, where >90% of teachers are female? Among psychology majors, with 60-70% women? Do you really suggest that it is always "white male time" everywhere?

Go ask a white kid growing up in a mostly black, poor neighborhood whether he feels like it's "his time."

Initiatives like this should be based on socioeconomics, not race.
Shouldn't there be an aspect of "what is right?" Just because taxes are more or less, revenues increase or decrease, we were putting a huge financial burden and physical burden on a drug that is no worse than alcohol. I think that is the top consideration, what is right, not which way is more financially helpful.

(Not trying to be argumentative here, sorry if it sounds that way. It feels like this point is heavily missed)
You would think all the efforts towards social outreach would focus on poverty as their #1 criteria - the most direct and obvious criteria of people in need - but they almost never do. The problem is these programs are created by upper-class people in their media-social bubble, cobbled together from the arbitrary championings within that bubble. Unfortunately poverty doesn't have a strong, dedicated representative in these upper class circles, because only a tiny number of people born poor ever make it into the media or valley cocktail parties. Black, Hispanic, Women, Veterans - all have members both in needy classes and in upper classes to champion their own cause. But using this represented-in-the-bubble approach results in an arbitrary mix of random criteria that only half serves the purpose. There are certainly many Black/Hispanic/Women/Veterans in need and deserving of help, but there's also plenty who are trust fund babies who don't need it. Meanwhile, there are a lot of obvious groups left out of this list - Native Americans, poor Appalachian whites, etc. It seems ridiculous to explicitly help Blacks and Hispanics, but not Native Americans. We could go on and list a dozen more needy groups left out, but why bother when the correct criteria should just be poverty.
Android has had apps for that since the dark ages.
As an Asian man in the US, I have to say, it ain't so bad getting the "worst" of being a minority.
It's fine to react drastically when you don't know what you are dealing with. Their first react was correct. Everything after it was confirmed that it was an innocent clock was wrong. That is the part where I think racism is playing it role.
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Can you expand on why Cassandra is not good for analytics? Is that because you have to think of the queries before designing the data model? Or perhaps there are other issues?
How much structural discrimination is there in Portuguese society?
I've always assumed that the randomness of the markets was self-healing: if the markets exhibit non-randomness (and thus become predictable) some arbitrageur will step in and correct it and then some trader will figure out a way to make money against the arbitrage. The best analogy I know of is Rock-Paper-Scissors. The commonly accepted optimal strategy is random, but against a random strategy always choosing rock works exactly as well. It is only if your opponent recognizes the lack of randomness and breaks their own randomness that they can capitalize, at which point you can counter.
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Looks like someone's going to have to update this: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million...
Well, at this point, if the Fed is not forced to raise their rates, then you might as well kiss the global economy goodbye.

Downvote me if you want, but what I said needs to have been said, no matter if you personally agree with it or not.
You think Black and East-Asian teachers are immune from racially profiling a student?

How does their non-whiteness protect them from seeing Brown men and boys, or just Muslims in general, as potential threats?
Detroit decriminalized possession (up to 1 oz.) in 2012 to reduce police work.

I'm agreeing with you, they should (I'd rather it be statewide). I'm just offering clarification, it wouldn't be a large spending decrease in terms of enforcement.
The explicit nature of identifying these groups by race is off-putting, mostly because it is short-sighted. Racial identification can't be the solution if the ultimate goal is to end racial disparity. This obviously isn't the first or last program YC implements, but as some point the message has got to become more sophisticated to accomplish the core goal.

YC is a numbers game. This simply encourages stereotypically atypical founders to succeed, skewing the numbers in their benefit for future investors. It also creates role models for potential founders, showing that this is not an industry dominated by just white guys.

From the perspective a middle class white male, I do worry you might be making the problem worse by reinforcing and/or encouraging elitism on both sides.
Geo-replicated log sounds like a very ambitious and impressive project. As what blog says, the DistributedLog just customizes data placement policy to support geo-replication. Does that mean it runs same stack within datacenter vs across multiple datacenters? What kind of performance it could achieve? I am hoping twitter could disclose more details on that, such as concerns and experiences on geo-replication log, comparison with spanner and CockroachDB.
Speaking only for myself, in Phoenix we barely ever turn on heat, even in winter, whereas the AC is currently running and will be for another month or two yet.
Great app. Would be cool if it could be installed via homebrew and use an existing node installation.

Anyway, keep up the good work ;)
Sorry - yes military veterans
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In Berlin? Impossible, it's European startup hub! /s
That 10% reserve number is interesting. I learned about the 10% reserve ratio in macroeconomics class, where I also learned that there's this thing called the money multiplier. See, if banks are required to hold a fraction r (10%) of their deposits in reserve, then obviously they'll lend out the rest, which will in turn be held or spent by the borrower, and one way or another it'll end up back in a bank. So a (1-r) fraction of the actual cash and Fed-issued money ends up lent out and redeposited. But the banks can loan out a (1-r) fraction of /that/, ad infinitum. So the total amount of deposited money is 1 + (1-r) + (1-r)^2 + ... = 1/r of whatever money (cash and things actually deposited at the Fed) the Fed created in the first place. Since r = 10%, the multiplier is 10.

The official page AFAICT is here:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

The effective ratio is actually under 10% these days.

Edit: Fixed an inconsequential typo.
> You planning to open up such a thing for the handicapped as well?

This is part of the problem with things like this - while good intentioned, it inevitably alienates another equally oppressed group.

Why can't we just have "Office Hours" and make it absolutely clear it's for anyone -- and actually follow through with the intent.

It just seems silly to says "these here are for only this one small group - and that's how we're going to help combat bigotry".
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> Go ask a white kid growing up in a mostly black, poor neighborhood whether he feels like it's "his time."

Yo Eminem, what do you think?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem#1972.E2.80.9391:_Early_...
> as long as they [...] get users to agree not to act illegally

Is forcing everyone to set up captive portal pages just so people can check a stupid box on a form going to make anyone's life better? Is it going to benefit anyone in any way? I can't understand how anyone could possibly think that this requirement is a good idea.
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He should run for President of the United States, he's already ahead of most of the Republican nominees.
Can you share where you work? :)
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Not trying to be too snarky, but yeah, I know. There are so many support networks for youth and adults in respective communities that once you put the word out, I bet responses will come pouring in. It's a good compliment to trying to raise your outreach profile with the under-represented communities overall - lots of overlap and progress you can help be a part of making!
Your above example assumes one cannot quantify the adverse effects of modern American racism.
> And who "invents" a clock anyway? It's sort of already-done.

Clocks use a variety of circuit blocks - you need something to keep time; you need something to display that time; you can add other features.

With just "keep time" and "display time" you still have a variety of different methods. You can count mains frequency; you can use crystals and dividers. Displays can be 7 segment LEDs or LCDs or binary or analogue motors. Each require different approaches.

Even if it's just a shop-bought off the shelf kit the student learns a bit of component identification and handling and some soldering skills.
> Obviously Windows has a similar implementation, but the unfortunate truth is that the Windows tablet market is almost non-existent at this point outside of the Surface lineup.

This struck me as an odd comment. Because the iOS tablet market is non-existent outside of the iPad lineup.
It's not really a great move, because anyone left who is decent is probably going to jump ship due to uncertainty in how the company is going. Simply keeping tabs on the people in the first place, and firing the non-performing ones is a much better way to go.

Not to mention that, when it comes to layoffs like this, it's not always performance that gets looked at. It's just as likely that people making a lot of money, deserved or not, will be laid off, and someone who is less talented or hard working, but cheaper to the company, will be kept.
They can't raise the rate because of structural flaws in the fractional reserve banking system. It might actually break this time.
By your logic, there are no social disadvantages for blacks either, because Jay-Z. Which is clearly false.
Asian men are not underrepresented in the tech industry.
They mean military veterans.
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Well done, YC. I believe we need more of these types of actions to act as a shot in the arm for diversity in the industry (and other industries, too).
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> I mean, I don't think it's great, and I pretty much avoid it.

If you have that opinion after trying to use it, chances are that a lot of other people think the same.

My company also supposedly uses Yammer, yet no one really seems to use it.
What do you use for your address book? I just use mutt's alias so have tab-completion out of the box.
You may want to explain more about why you feel that way for people who don't have insights into your personal viewpoint or the broad arguments for that matter :)
Note to reader: Generally you want to replace "A lot of Americans" with "I" in statements like this.
Here in Ukraine almost everyone hates black and brown people.

I knew some Ukrainian girls over the years and they seemed to me like good people with no racial prejudices towards people of other ethnicities and they blended very well with non Caucasian people.

Maybe you're hanging out with neo Nazis and ultra nationalist nutjobs and then extrapolating this to all Ukrainians?
Exactly this. By announcing separate open hours for groups B and C, don't they deliberately make their normal hours even more A?
Started with a project that used the Ambient Orb to show test status, they were expensive which led to a contest to make the cheapest one, basically an ATTiny with a software USB hid stack tied to an RGB LED. Henner Zeller won that contest and I think maybe 5000 gOrbs were built.
Of the hotels I've viewed, it appears the images are hosted on TravelNow, which (I believe) is owned by Expedia. If that is the case, they are probably using EAN's API for part or all of it.

http://developer.ean.com/
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Recent take from Reid Hoffman:

>Many parts of the world now have the necessary ingredients to create start-ups. There are brilliant technical graduates everywhere. Venture capital has gone global.

>Why does Silicon Valley continue to produce a disproportionate share of industry-transforming companies like Google, Facebook and LinkedIn? Or the next generation of companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, and Uber? The answer, which has been hiding in plain sight, is Silicon Valley’s ability to support scale-ups.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/39001312-4836-11e5-af2f-4d6e0e5eda...
Almost certainly because your landlord is in their 70s and doesn't trust all this newfangled computers stuff.

I have one of those.
They aren't "combating bigotry". They've observed the obvious demographic gaps, and they're doing targeted outreach to try to close that gap.

Combating bigotry is a worthy cause, but it is not the only worthy cause, and evaluating unrelated outreach programs by their impact on bigotry is a sort of rhetorical sleight of hand.

I think this is worth pointing out: there is probably no criticism anyone is going to have of this program that the YC partners have not already considered. It's 2015, and they're not dumb.
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We've heard this one before. "We need you to have zero rights in case there is a criminal later on that would be protected by said rights.. it's totally worth it."

It bothers me immensely that "law enforcement"'s knee jerk reaction to anything good for citizens is "that might be good for criminals so you shouldn't have it."
Whenever you are confused about our culture, just try following the money... problem + buzz + market = opportunity. These are good capitalist VC's acting normally, nothing unusual about it. And if I didn't miss it already, I wouldn't be surprised at a diversity-focused startup fund announcement some time very soon. In this light, this announcement is probably a test/market research for that fund.
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Yeah, military veteran is the correct reading.

I guess if you really stretch the idea, they count as minorities.
But Windows can run on more than just Surfaces.
I see you have no counter evidence.
Discrimination on the basis of superficial factors exists. Positive discrimination on the basis of similar factors is inefficient for exactly the reasons you describe, but a) it's a lot cheaper and simpler than means-testing people to find out whether they're actually poor or just pretending to be and b) people often rely on superficial characteristics when choosing role models, which is natural because you want a model who's substantially ahead of you (otherwise you don't have much to aspire to) but the greater the gap you wish to close the lower the probability that you can establish personal contact with all the extra nuance and information involved.
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned why whatsapp started with Erlang in the first place. They started out with an open source xmpp package. The most popular one at the time happened to be written in Erlang (ejabberd). There was no masterplan to scale to close to a billion accounts.

As it happens, Erlang is an excellent platform upon which to build a message exchange service. Also, the article doesn't mention their completely non-traditional approach to ops. Despite the conventional wisdom in the valley, they run their own servers. And squeeze an enormous amount of value from a small number of servers. Their unique ops strategy is probably as much a part of their success as simply using Erlang.

http://www.erlang-factory.com/static/upload/media/1394350183...
Nah, that could've been a solution had they developed a good business model around it. Mainframes come to mind: leased instead of sold. Great margins. HP might have made a really good leasing model that got users continuous improvements on regular refresh cycles with same quality to justify profit margin. Just a thought.

Can't sell heirlooms for commodity prices in a commodity market and do good long-term business. ;)
Fair enough, but the squeaky wheel gets the grease. If nobody cared about what YCombinator does, or what potential affect it can have on a career path, then it'd fall by the wayside. It's one of the fine lines good businesses have to straddle - once in a position of leadership, gradually society looks toward the business and wants to know how they intend to use that position of status.

I don't see this being much different than what being featured on Oprah's Book Club could do - sometimes things are overlooked, and using personal currency to bring attention to such things makes sense.
I think also couching legalization in term of economics might be setting things up for failure and it might make better sense to say it's just philosophically the right thing to do(??)

Policies like this are almost always better-off as economic rather than moral proposals.

It's hard to get people to agree to what's right, whereas it is distressingly easy to get people to agree to what's profitable.
If you tax it too much, I'd imagine that'd increase viability for a black market.
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Racism is a pretty heavily charged accusation to make, and you made it very casually. I believe you weren't trying to troll, but rather than repeatedly saying "I don't mean to be a troll", you might have better luck by being more careful about how you phrase your concerns. That's all.
> The explicit nature of identifying these groups by race is off-putting

They're also targeting Female, Veterans and international founders. All of which YC has identified as underrepresented in SV startups.
Do you have access to a great deal more evidence on the subject than I do? Nothing I've seen makes a compelling case that the particular people involved were motivated by racial animus. At most, I've seen data showing that police as a group across the US act in detectably racist ways, but that's not the same thing...
"Asian" is not a race.
Yes, CO has a tax free day on cannabis only. My understanding is they reaped too much in taxes and their laws are such that they have to give the overage back. The tax-free day is a way to do that.
Not for me. I propose a hypothetical test.

In this test, the subject to be tested is socializing with his or her normal social circle. During this activity, a potential romantic interest interrupts, and proposes that they go out on a date with the subject, immediately.

Responses are classified as follows. A: the subject leaves the gathering for the date. B: the subject declines the date. C: the subject counter-offers that the romantic interest join the existing social gathering in lieu of a date.

I propose that a true nerd's nerd would never choose response A. Geek Night is sacrosanct. And if you bring a date, they had better bring their own deck/controller/dice/pawn.

I think Jobs would have failed that test. It's not just about hanging out with nerds, but actually preferring their company to non-nerds. How many of the people in that photo did Jobs stay in contact with after he became Mr. Big? How many did he materially share his success with?
Many at Cisco do:) But they are managing people, mananging some cost centers, etc. They are contributing in a way, but not for the next $X Billion innovation.
Good job cutting right to the heart of the language. As written, it sounds like the answer would be 'it depends…'. I'm curious whether I'm reading that accurately, though.
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Or their marijuana tax is too high (as it were).
I think this is a good move, and glad to see YC doing it. And this is coming from somebody who is neither black nor hispanic.

I mean, I get the whole "isn't this just affirmative action and isn't AA bad?" thing, I really do. But this is a private business, not a government agency, and they are free to try and address issues of equality and what-not in whichever way they see fit. And when you're part of a group that is (or is seen as) disadvantaged, it can only help to have some very specific support thrown your way.

If this does even a small bit of good in terms of creating more successful companies founded by black or hispanic founders, I will benefit us all in the long run.
I think it's a comparison of popularity. The iPad market is larger than the Windows tablet market as a whole (which is mostly driven by Surface alone). More hands will see iOS implementations than Windows tablet implementations.

Developers making tablet apps will most likely see more profits from their iPad versions than their Windows tablet versions, so iOS takes priority due to the sheer number of users in the market, not variety of devices in market. And so on.
Hand-holding minorities label them even more as a group that needs to be helped. They should be encouraged to be successful in the "same" environment as others and treated the same. The moment you do something "for" them is the moment you label them as that group that needs hand-holding even more. I don't think they need special treatment this way. It is done by good intention, but it does not need saying, you're black, let me help you. I would just do it without naming it.
Earlier post (theguardian.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10228050
I'm a fan, let's be clear on what we're talking about 'short sessions to brainstorm, get advice, network and bounce around ideas' etc for those who are underrepresented. Knowledge transfer and capacity building like this is one of the best ways to help along minority groups in a manner that is deemed fair by most and, importantly, upholds the dignity of the individuals who get help.
Is this open to Indigenous (i.e. Native American, First Nations, Inuit, Métis, etc) founders?
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