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Tech firms are departing from their see-no-evil stance on society and politics
Nobody knows about what I have. It's not public, and the product never went out of private beta.
It's a bad idea in the US, too. people just buy buildings (which they then own), call them business investments, and they can come live in the us.
We could do it by 2025 if we really wanted to. It would take multiple launches and a separate lander, but we could do it if we were willing to spend the money.
> One person cannot pervert the system.

How many people were required to institute Executive Order 12333? How about NSPD 51?
Jury awards ZeniMax $500M in Oculus VR lawsuit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13544871
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Look, I have no great love for the moderations policies of HN. The people who are mods are just people, and a lot of the things they do seem, and maybe are, whimsical and biased.

That said.

You posted a single (1) word reply to a submission--and it wasn't even a link you posted. You've got a lot of short, snippy comments on your record, and while I don't blame you for the tone in a lot of them, the fact is that if the mods say "hey, you aren't elevating the discussion here" they kinda have a point.
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It was an issue, part of the reason that a tired person was working trying to reduce it.
I can understand it for drug trials. If men are more "homogeneous" and don't create additional parameters with which you have to consider, then for trialing it would make sense.

Race wouldn't really play a part here I don't think unless a medicine happened to effect a race differently (e.g. African people often have sickle-cell anemia, so you do have to consider race sometimes as well).

But the user above actually said something differently, in that people are treated differently. Like I said, doctors are trained to treat everybody regardless of race/ gender. Clinical trials based on variables of participants, and the general treatment of individuals is completely different.
A new CryptoShield Ransomware being distributed via EITest campaign
Please make sure the new one works well with mobile devices. I tried the current dashboard but only works in the desktop, looks really nice though even if a bit cluttered. But otherwise keep up the good work.
Great work. The name looks to be Brazilian PT for "already ready," aka now!
You may not consider 232 (CLINTON) -– 306 (TRUMP) a landslide but I certainly do.
The violation there seems to have been posting a substance-free "good" as the whole text of a comment, not "supporting Trump".

Just like the current guideline violation is a glaring violation of the "don't comment about downvotes" rule , not "supporting Trump".

EDIT: Actually, the current violation is of the rule: "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com."

This is distinct from the "don't comment about downvotes" rule, though (as I see it) an expression of the same underlying principle.
1) No, that's silly
2) No, the florist would not be in violation of anti-discrimination
3) No, if he didn't already sell pork he wouldn't be forced to

The last point, fair. No one said the cake had to be good :P It's just their professional reputation on the line.

The protected populations are rather limited "race, sex, marital status or sexual orientation", there may be additional protections in your jurisdiction + it has to be a product/service you already provide.

If you bake cakes, you can't refuse a cake to a gay couple; you could refuse on any number of other grounds though. If you don't sell pork, you can't be forced to. But breaking our laws because you like a book (legally speaking) is not allowed.

* FYI I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, if you're refusing service to anyone for anything other than business reasons you should double check with your counsel. You could be violating feduciary duty, etc.
The CL package system allows local aliases. How do you think you can be in the default cl-user package yet refer to cl:cons as just cons?

Firstly, the exported symbols in one package can be made visible in another package through package use. Secondly, a symbol from package A can actually be made present in package B via import: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_import.htm
Apple Said to Work on Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role
> aggressively rewriting Java applications to Go and saw a notable difference in the number of machines we needed to run in AWS.

This is the easy trap to fall into though. What if you aggressively rewrote the Java apps from crappy legacy frameworks to well developed Java apps?

A rewrite ALMOST always is faster. So the new language seems faster. Except if you would then rewrite the rewrite back in the original language... you could even still be faster.

Very hard to split apart what is faster because the rewrite got rid of lots of bloat, and what is faster because it is legit faster. Java is legit fast when it is written well. Also very easy to make a bloat fest.
The overwhelming majority of the terrorist attacks committed on US soil since 9/11 have been by white dudes who are Christian (or sometimes atheist). Should we ban them?
Matches up with my expectations (very low rates regionally here). Is the underlying source data publicly available?

Also, note that the OpenCycleMap tiles you are using request specific attribution: http://www.thunderforest.com/terms/
> I'm just not sure what you would like them to do about it right now.

The point is that when the contractor asked for changes, he got told to go stuff himself. It's only when there's larger publicity that they suggested the contract can change.

And, TBH, it's ridiculous to construe my argument as they have to change right now.

They were asked to change, and they refused. That's a problem. What part of that do you not understand?
At the source, you do need some form of verification, similar to "trusted certificates." For example, there could be a database of known mappings, such that apple.com and subdomains are authorized to make statements cited as press releases about Apple, Inc. A link would have to be intelligently interpreted as a citation, perhaps involving a search for similar stories (or it just results in 'unable to find link to primary source' even when it's legitimate, i.e. false positives). Subjectiveness is another area that's quite difficult, but would likely result in percentage of 'unique claims' that the AI was not able to derive from the source material.

It's more difficult than just blindly blocking any stories that aren't covered on 'major, trusted sources', and probably only a couple of organizations could implement anything close to this right now, but it's the best we can strive for. All the other 'solutions' I've heard involve censorship of unpopular opinions.

Edit: But yes, to the point, my envisioned implementation would not find any referenced sources in your article or through a search, and if it did, those sources would not be authorized to make the claims about the Whitehouse reptiles, so it would get the notation that indicates 'could not verify.'

At first, most real news stories would be unable to be verified, but over the time, there would be fewer false negatives. The important thing to recognize, though, is that the notation just means the reader has to make his own judgment; it does not state whether or not it's fake.

And "real stories" should also probably have a notation with a direct link to what the algorithm thinks is the base source.
Then the USA should pull his citizenship. From the US State Department:

"However, a person who acquires a foreign nationality by applying for it may lose U.S. nationality. In order to lose U.S. nationality, the law requires that the person must apply for the foreign nationality voluntarily, by free choice, and with the intention to give up U.S. nationality.
Intent can be shown by the person's statements or conduct."

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal-considerati...

From other articles around the web, Thiel has no stated plans to be a permanent resident of NZ, unless the USA undergoes some change that forces him to leave and seek refuge in NZ. His intent is to have a country to flee to.
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That sounds like a very selectively enforced guideline otherwise bans would be given out like trophy's at a tee-ball game.
How about Fox News reporting that the Canadian mosque shooter was a Moroccan Muslim who chanted allah Akbar while murdering people at the mosque? In fact he was a white Canadian citizen self described trump supporter.

To my understanding they didn't retract their erroneous position for more than 24 hours after accurate details were known. Many of their listeners still believe the shooter was a Muslim immigrant. Trump's press secretary, knowing this falsehood is widespread, has cited this incident as a reason to support the travel ban. The level of disinformation that comes from Fox News approaches that of Russian state run media.
Research, more than "search". I'm doing higher quality with a low price point to get started and validate the product. If it's impossible to maintain the high quality and low pricing I'll deal with that when I cross that bridge! Thanks fro the feedback though.
There is no way your comment could be concieved as a violation of HN guidelines. You didn't submit the article and you didn't violate anything on the HN guideline list.

Humans are driven by emotions and we are no where near as rational as we'd like to think, but when it comes to politics this becomes especially pronounced. Dang just made a mistake here I'm sure he'll admit it.
I wouldn't call it strong continuing support. F#'s been a second class citizen both in resources given and marketing support. Community effort is great, but as long as MS pushes C# as the flagship language instead of giving it the equal-or-lesser footing it deserves, F# can't truly pull ahead.

It's good to see C# catching up with the past decades of language research. Maybe it's MS's DNA - they're still heavily pushing C++.

Tooling is the only real reason to ever use C# over F# - C# just doesn't do much (anything?) better. That, and legacy/enterprisey dev.

Heck, C# 7's tuple support is exactly what F# used to do, but then capitulated to MS's idea of making System.Tuple, a reference (heap allocated) type. Now in C# 7 since they finally got around to being a bit serious, they implement a new value-type tuple.

I guess we should be happy for any F# support we get. And indeed, tooling for functional languages is poor in general, so F# certainly leads...
Go fast enough and you can live longer than everyone else in earth years. Watch those financial investments pay off.
> but the appearance/practice of being impartial increased sales opportunities.

Is this based on any real data? Have there been any credible studies that show unbiased reporting = higher sales?
I assume that comment was NOT edited afterwards and just said "good" from the start. (just mentioning because people do things like write offensive post, get complaints, edit to something trivial, then blame moderation just to start a flamewar) 1. It doesn't add anything to the discussion (just upvote the submission) 2. It's a flamebait comment.

I don't think you'd get any moderator complaints if you wrote some actual content (why it's good? why do you think the process worked correctly? what's the current process of who can double check who? etc.)
in the wake of public outrage in that country shows that
Thiel would have been denied citizenship on the self-
admitted fact that he has never lived in the country and
has no plans to do so

pieter theil bought himself a novelty post-appocalypse passport for $700m.
Study: Social Media Making People Anti-Social, Jealous
The last time I used ECS for a production deploy, you could group containers together (just as you can on compose). However, there were no easy way to do service discovery. This made wiring containers together difficult. If I wanted one container to talk to another, I had to group them and deploy them as one unit.

That meant I could not horizontally scale one container more than the other. I can scale the whole group, but there is a lot of wasted resources at that point.

Kubernetes pods group containers together under a single IP address. Containers from one pod (one IP address) can talk to any other pod. Docker did not even have this functionality until 1.12, and that is too little, too late. (And I am not sure this is something ECS supports right now). Combined with label selectors, long-running services (which binds a DNS name to the set selected by the label selectors), I can horizontally-scale pods and still maintain service discoverability. Using DNS makes service discovery stupid-easy. This means I can scale Kubernetes pods independently from each other.

Another consequence of using Service objects to select a set based on label selectors is routing can now be dynamic. Pods that need to talk to another pod goes through the service. I can then scale the dependency up and down, and it doesn't really affect the pod that requires that service. I can do rolling upgrades to the dependency, and it works because Service abstracts that through label selectors.

There are still some warts related to this setup. Stateful sets still needs a lot of work. I've also found that many applications caches IP addresses (redis sentinel being a notorious example). To work well with Kubernetes, it's better to always query DNS when making a connection. Ruby drivers for Mongodb and Redis, for example, will cache DNS lookup, making failover fragile (if you are running Mongodb and Redis inside Kubernetes; if you're not, you won't have this problem).

I was choosing between Kubernetes and Mesos after ECS, but had not looked into either deeply. It was random chance that took me to Kubernetes instead of Mesos. Kubernetes solved many of the pain points of Docker Compose and ECS.
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I'm sort of surprised that Adobe isn't building these sorts of features into CC and that large corps like Airbnb are having to roll their own! Seems like a big market to ignore.
> was instrumental in allowing it to come into power (in fact, crucially so).

This is vague supposition. No one can quantify how much/how little Thiel had to do with Trump winning. If dollars spent on a campaign = being president, then Trump would not be president. If this election proved one good thing, it's that money can't buy you a general election in the United States.

> It's not because of his "stances", or because they're "unpopular." It's because he's very close to the new administration

It doesn't matter if this scrutiny is because "he's close to the new administration." I don't want to only read about corruption of people "close to X administration that I dislike." I'd like to read about corruption regardless of which narrative, party, worldview, etc the people involved in the corruption subscribe to.

To put it another way, the fact that Thiel likes Trump does not make this valid news.
Do you use a service for this or something of your own?
(I'd encourage a real feed in any case. It's past time to push more information through open channels).
Wait, are you saying that if Thiel had simply done nothing during the campaign that Trump wouldn't have won? I don't see it. All he did was give $1.25M (less than 0.5% of Trump's total war chest) and make some public statements in support. How is that a "crucial" or "instrumental" part of Trump's election?
If you do, you rob "landslide" of any substantive meaning -- virtually every Presidential election is a "landslide" by that standard, and Trump's is the fifth weakest in 100 years.
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To the extent this is true of those media organizations, it is infinitely more true for Fox News.

Who are these people spreading ridiculous propaganda on hacker news?
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Yes, sometimes the media can say something that's not true. But this example was immediately pointed out by, guess who, the rest of the media. And it was a kind of weird thing to be wrong about too, so it seems more likely that the speaker genuinely believed they were telling the truth as opposed to being dishonest (I mean, who does it benefit to be dishonest about that? Nobody). Though that doesn't excuse the fact that they really should have double-checked that before saying it. They absolutely were wrong, and they absolutely deserved to be called out by everyone else.

But even if they were dishonest that one time, one example, no matter how widely-reported, indicates systemic dishonesty.
I disagree with the EO, and reading it fully I think the green card issue was more of a lack of experience on how to govern. It was clearly rushed out with little planning.

The reason I bring this up, is that Trump has plethora of issues that do not need embellishment. Hyperbole will do nothing but make Trump supporters dig further in and reaffirm their beliefs. A woman on my FB feed the other day said that as a woman, she was likely to have her right to vote taken away by the next election. That type of comment does nothing but make people think 'crazy liberal'.
if you had to constantly restart your application like you do everywhere outside Lisp.

This was probably true in the 80s, but hasn't been in a while. Many languages have this, either built-in or as a tool. In the case of the JVM, there's spring-loaded, which works in Java, Groovy, etc.
I like how you phrase it so that it sounds like it's Python's fault that Apple is not supporting an open, cross-platform standard.
From the "Dolphin Progress Report" article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13544514): there were two Disney games that wrote garbage data to a region of memory where important data was stored, but not enough to cause the CPU to flush the cache, and then invalidated the cache, causing the writes to never actually happen on real hardware, but on Dolphin (which didn't actually implement a CPU cache in its emulation layer), it caused the writes to actually happen.
I also want to commend Microsoft for continuing to support VB and not succumbing to the whims of sneering hipster programmers who consider it beneath contempt (see the second comment on that article for a good example, with a classy response from MS). VB is a thing that a lot of people rely on, and some even like, and doesn't deserve to be kicked to the curb.
> The goal of the EO is to mitigate the influx of refugees from states that foment anti-Western ideals. It just happens to be this group are radicalized, and violent Islamic people.

I don't understand this reasoning. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, to take only two examples, are also places where a lot anti-Western activity comes from, both in ideology (via jihadist religious schools), and logistic support. If what you say is true, they should have been included in the ban.

Equally illogical is Trump's argument [1] that they couldn't take the time to consult the relevant parties from Justice, State, and Congress because that would have meant "the "bad" would rush into our country" before the EO's enactment. How does that not apply to the Muslim countries left out, like the two mentioned above, whose citizens have been the source of documented attacks on U.S. interests multiple times in the past (as opposed to the 7 countries included in the order)?

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/82606014382566605...
I'm an educated(M.S.), full time working, CIS, male, hetero, minority. Doesn't my voice contribute to diversity too?