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> It's simply objectively true that students at elite are on average much smarter than students at other schools, and more ambitious. They're much more likely to have a viable YC application.
In fact, students who get into elite schools but don't attend them still far out-perform students who never got into one.

No no no...

First, your "objectivity" is not objective, at best it is a common assumption.

Second, nobody stumbles into Harvard and the like. That tier of school is an aim for both the child and parent from birth (probably before birth for the parents). Acceptance into these schools is the product of hard work (that I am not trying to detract from) and a financial investment (on behalf of the parent). Sure, there are some very intelligent people who take up residence in these schools, but for the VAST majority it was the hard work that got them there, not brilliant work. So yes, students who get in but don't attend can go on to be successful. However, that is a reflection of their work ethic more than their intelligence.

SO being at that tier of school doesn't guarantee intelligence, just being outside of the tier doesn't exclude intelligence. At best it shows that you can work hard and probably had a bankroll of some sort.
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So's speeding. This isn't a particularly controversial reading of history, most historians acknowledge a lot of same-sex encounters between people who considered themselves heterosexual.
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That's a good point but there is lots of evidence indicating the prevalence and acceptance of marijuana in spite of its illegality. Where is the evidence that make homosexuality was largely considered acceptable or normal by before the early 1950s?

Again, this just feels like historical revisionism. As if gay male sex was totally acceptable until a ~50 year period starting in 1950. Meanwhile this whole article is about a family of gay people who (at least the males) couldn't or didn't engage in this supposedly accepted behavior.
https://github.com/blog/2309-introducing-topics here's the release notes
This is not a cuddly new Microsoft. First comes the embrace (look at all this stuff on our github!), then comes the extend (run your Linux stack on Windows and never have to give up Visual Studio!), I'm sure you know what comes next. Hint: PC manufacturers no longer have to give you the option to disable Secure Boot.
The problem with this argument is that everybody can be called a Nazi. The only people who're using the word "Nazi" to describe "Breitbart" seriously are those who completely disrespect the millions of actual victims of the Nazi regime.
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For that matter, adulterous heterosexual sex, and in some cases even premarital sex, was strictly speaking illegal in many jurisdictions in the same timeframe (amazingly, pre-marital sex is still theoretically illegal in a few states in the US, though the laws are likely unenforceable), and no-one thought of that as abnormal either.
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Can you explain to me the benefits of this like I'm 5 years old? Thanks, and sorry I have technical debt.
Looks awesome, congratulations on the release!
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Click on the domain to see all previous posts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=david.li

The most recent was missing the word "Simulation", so clicking on the "past" link does not show it since that is a search by all words in the title.
No but I don't think they should be legally required to process payments if they don't want to. I found other payment methods where I could though and did what little I could to oppose that decision.
Every company goes through rough patches, specially one that is growing as fast as they are doing. Very few companies are as open as transparent as they are, even in the fuckups. That is really hard to do and kudos to them
I like Discord a lot, it's far and away better than TeamSpeak and Vent. It's also better than Slack for private group conversations. But it is still a closed system owned by a for profit company.
The "trigger" of the failure (accidentally deleting the wrong database) is bad luck that happens, but the lack of preparedness for it isn't. If I understood the document right even if the regular backups would have worked, they only happened every 24 hours (same as the staging replicas they recovered from, except one was manually created out of schedule that day).

Maybe being fully remote helps to let stuff like this "slip through the cracks". (Not great phrasing, but I don't think anyone made a conscious decision "loosing X hours of data is ok", and nobody questioned what goal the current practices could (not) achieve.) I don't know, but it seems at least a question one might ask.
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Interesting, I'd love to hear more. Can you recommend any books or papers exploring this topic?
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I have a mutt and a purebreed (Anatolian Shepherd).

The Shepherd isn't even a year old yet and she looks like she has trouble standing up when she's been laying down a while. Maybe her legs just fell asleep, I don't know.

She was free. Some family has them to keep with the livestock, and they bred them--I took the runt.

The mutt looks mostly boxer to me, the pound said boxer/shepherd mix. She's beautiful, very smart, and loyal, and just incredibly quick outdoors--best dog I've ever met.

Anyway, just my one data point.
I think the real issue here is that yes, people are probably born into some kind of sexuality, but the standard binary distinction of gay and straight (or even bi) doesn't really work that well.

People can be more or less attracted to one gender than the other. For some this shows up as 100-0 or 50-50 others it's 70-30. To put it crass, someone could be a really slutty straight person but also a very picky gay person.

The whole "born this way" issue I think stems from semantics of "you can be anything you want". I think a lot less people fall into the 100-0 category then they let on but because of societal pressures they don't chose to express or explore a different side (historically this also seems to be reflected). Saying someone can be what they want in that context means that they should feel free to express/explore those curiosities not that they are not innate to them as a person.

And some people just say what they feel is the best thing, not giving it much rational thought, too.
Doing research in an open way with mind maps
Discovering this really changed Vim for me. That and remapping j and k to move over visual lines instead of logical lines.
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It's not really just Derrida, is it?

I find the most powerful anecdote of the whole bunch is that of Wittgenstein. The article mentions him -- Outside France, the dominant philosophical school was analytic philosophy. A broad church, its foundations had initially been articulated by, among others, Bertrand Russell, GE Moore and the early works of Wittgenstein. -- but just mentioning "the early works" offhand is misleading, since it goes a lot deeper than that.

Wittgenstein wasn't just "a part of the church". After the Tractatus, he was hailed by many of them, especially among the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle that most closely resemble "skeptics" and techie-technocrats today, as their Jesus. And with Philosophical Investigations, later on, he criticized the climax of his earlier work, and became an apostate of sorts.

Everyone with a passing interest in this topic should check out Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein, "Duty of Genius". It's very well told.
I recently had an idea of sharing various mind maps that I have made and put it all under one big 'research' mind map to share with the world. That way I can do research in a more transparent way and share my knowledge with the world in a format that both I and other people can use.

I only started with this idea and currently I mostly have an outline of what I want to learn and I slowly add more and more things to the mind map. It would be interesting to see what will come of it in a few years time but for now I hope some of you will find the idea interesting.

Perhaps you too use mind maps for your note taking. I would love to hear what your approach to note taking is.
Can someone explain the pricing page? How do i get unlimited servers for $99?
Since nobody is obligated to care for a dog of any sort, the bar is somewhat high for the claim that owning breeds with genetic defects is unethical. If you can support with evidence the claim that no matter how carefully the dog is kept, its existence will be defined by suffering that overwhelms all the benefits to its existence, then you've made a powerful argument against those breeds. Otherwise, you probably haven't.
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The primary reason would probably be that Azure was the unproven new kid [1] on the block at the time these decisions were made at Snap.

--

[1] Yes Google Compute Engine (GCE) is even newer than Azure, but Snapchat used (and probably still uses?) Google App Engine not GCE, which didn't even exist when Snapchat started.
If the point is just to announce, then why change what you did before? Announce it through the normal channels and be done with it.
Dogsled racing is a working area that has seen trend away from pure huskies. There are still plenty of huskies in the sport, but mixed teams are very common in the Iditarod now. In 2000 there were only three all-husky teams in the whole race. The racers are crossing with other breeds and bringing in new dogs that are more optimized for the race. There's a danger that in the long run they could end up with something extreme, like what greyhounds are for racing, but right now it's full of healthy, diverse dogs.
System 5 rc (rc, not init, note) didn't have such a concept. Even the original van Smoorenburg clone of rc didn't have this.

The LSB headers came along some years later. They are one of two different header styles that systemd's conversion tool understands, in addition to supporting the case where there are no headers at all. There are multiple extensions to van Smoorenburg rc. The LSB headers are just one such extension, understood by toolsets on some operating systems and not others.

* http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/233581/5132
Because facts are racist: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/swedish-polic...
> Where is the evidence that make homosexuality was largely considered acceptable or normal by before the early 1950s?

To be clear, the article's not saying that male homosexuality was largely considered normal. It's saying that having sex with men was not considered abnormal, which is a bit different. I think this is probably a bit of an oversimplification, but certainly, men who had sex with men would have been less inclined to think of themselves as different at the time than now.
By comparing Breitbart with Nazi you're being incredibly disrespectful to the actual Nazi victims.
It's unfair to characterize the entire organization by one failure, but their data loss issue is not attributable to some obscure, convoluted technical issue or freak accident. The simple fact is that they didn't verify that their backup and recovery infrastructure was working correctly. Moreover, they didn't have any automated monitoring confirming that the backups even appeared to be working. Those are things that every moderately-experienced IT person knows needs to be in place and occurring routinely.

If you look up the doc, they have like 6 different places where they looked for backups and each point is like "We should have these backups, checking for them now... woops, it hasn't been working."

The only reason GitLab's data loss wasn't even more disastrous is that an employee just so happened to take a manual snapshot 6 hours before the incident occurred.

Now, I'm sure we've all been in situations like that. I don't think it necessarily reflects on the individual technical employees of GitLab. I think it says more about the organizational and management resources at the top. It was their job to ensure that the appropriate resources were committed to data integrity, and they failed to do so.

90% of us probably work at places with similar problems, but publishing "the secret to [managing technical employees]" fresh on the heels of such a spectacular organizational failure is probably unwise.
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I wanna say he's actually talking about you when he talks mentions developers who over complicate tjings
And it is much more limiting to move fiat around than it is to move bitcoin.

If they stoped fiat withdrawal and kept bitcoin withdrawals it would be mostly fine. You would just move the bitcoin to another exchange outside China and do as you please with it.

So it is actually a much bigger deal if a Chinese exchange stops users from moving their bitcoin around. Specially when you are in Europe since you actually stop having any easy means to recover the assets you have there.

Some of us that are in bitcoin for a while still remember how in the end the MtGox bitcoin withdrawals stopped for a week, than that week became a month and then that month became an eternity and the bitcoins deposited there where lost forever to their rightful owners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox
> (vi) Trump openly used white supremacist imagery and symbolism ("88 generals, fourteen three-star or higher") throughout his campaign. [4][5][6] Noted white-supremacist website Stormfront celebrated the release of his September 6th, 2016 press release depicting multiple white-supermacist symbols.

White supremacist with a Jewish son in law and adviser. I'm sorry, now you're just being ridiculous.
Exactly, less than 125k in assets is absolutely nothing. The reality is that a married couple consisting of two working professionals will not qualify for any of these reduced tuition schemes.
I used to use MacVim all the time, and have a healthy respect for the project. Might I also recommend a NeoVim/tmux combination? Personally, I can't think of a better development environment (unless you're coding in Java, but then you have bigger, sadder problems to deal with :) ).
In an environment where no one recognizes the legitimacy of homosexuality, everyone is de facto "heterosexual" even if they engage in gay sex. The question is whether gay sex was considered normal or if it's something that was kept hidden.
The people who get hired then laid off.
Not that this excuses anything, but maybe it'll help explain it: This interview was recorded a little while before the incident when we were unaware of some of the issues we have in process. Now that we're aware, we are working on correcting these things.

But you're right, the timing of this piece was probably not ideal.
Google core business is not food whereas Evernote's core one is indeed cloud storage.
That is kind of a bizarre thing to be tucked away in settings =| Noted, though
> I prefer automated checkouts out of respect to humans - how terrible job that is!

I prefer automated checkout too - but I'm curious as to why you think the job is "terrible"?

Before my first software development gig, I worked for 6 months as a cashier. I won't say it was all rainbows and roses, but it wasn't "terrible". Hard on the feet (standing), but I was young at the time so it wasn't too big of a deal. Dealing with irate customers could be interesting at time (pass 'em to a manager if you couldn't calm 'em down). Occasionally you'd get someone trying to return an item bought 20 years ago (actually had this happen to me).

But there were also the "regulars": The 70 year old lady who came in every Wednesday to purchase a bunch of liquor - who'd then walk out, and hop into her brand new Vette. The weird cat dude, who always smelled, but was friendly - purchasing a cart full of cat food, and another of rubbing alcohol and swabs (poor cats). The guy you always carded for beer, because he looked underage - and even though you know he wasn't, you did it anyhow, and he complained - but corporate policy, ya know?

Then a break - go face the aisles, or stock new stuff, or pull the old stuff. Have some lunch or some dinner. Eventually close the store, sweep the aisles, clean up, shut down, and go home.

For me, it was an "after school" kind of deal - not a career. But it wasn't a terrible job. Just difficult on the mind and body (it was a bit boring at times). My fellow employees were all friendly, and management was nice and helpful. I always got paid on time, meager as it was.

It gave me a better perspective and understanding for those working behind the counter, because I know what they're going thru. Plus, it also taught me how to properly scan items quickly (though when I started, the place I worked at didn't have scanners - they didn't get those until a couple of months later). Even so, when an item doesn't scan, I find it a bit frustrating, but most systems have a way still to enter the UPC number...

...still, I wouldn't want to go back to those days.
I disagree. I was raised being told that race doesn't matter, and I don't see it as an issue. Continuing to acknowledge race will just amplify the natural tendency of people to categorize people based on differences.
Not free, but presumably much cheaper than they are currently.
Yes, but a working breed is vastly different to a domestic breed. Working dogs need to be intelligent, obedient, and free from health problems.
Old-school AI maybe, fraud detection, social network analysis, recommendation engines, deanonymization, surveillance and tracking...
Can you point to any examples of hate speech by Breitbart?
My Python 2 scripts on Github start with "#!/usr/bin/python", as do many others. All of these broke for you as an Arch user.

Because Arch did what they did, Python now recommends that Python 2 scripts start "#!/usr/bin/python2" (or the env equivalent).

> Are we to hold back for the lowest common denominator? Do we need every distro to join together and agree to a switchover date?

It's not just other distros; it's the rest of the world, including all of the scripts that people run but distros don't necessarily ship.

The right way to migrate would be to ship and use both /usr/bin/python2 and /usr/bin/python3. Leave /usr/bin/python as a symlink to python2 for a while. Eventually, drop the symlink, but do not replace it with python3. Allow users to opt-in to a compat symlink if they wish. Let stuff catch up. When the expectation that "python" is python2 has faded, then introduce a symlink from python to python3 by default, letting users opt-in earlier if they wish.

> There was official guidance from Python on the switchover, this wasn't some maverick decision.

No, there wasn't, and yes, it was some maverick decision. It was done without consultation with upstream.

(I am a non-Arch distribution developer)
Depression is a funny thing to write about. If someone is depressed reading about someone else's depression is preaching to the choir, but if they aren't or have never experienced it, it's hard to understand what's going on. But for both groups it's kind of crushing because it reminds you that some people just might not ever be happy and it's not really their fault and that's hard in a culture which says "be happy" or "just do X and you'll be happy".

I saw the article mentions Noonday Demon. I've never read it but a book that cites it and I personally found a depression classic is Lincoln's Melancholy. It is remarkable both how miserable he was and how far he drove himself because of or in spite of it. I don't think you can know Lincoln, the Civil War, or his impact on the US without understanding his depression.

Unfortunately it also makes a lot of modern politicians look very superficial and fake in comparison.

https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Melancholy-Depression-Challe...
One answer: destructive to other businesses that can't compete with VC-backed price dumping. A good recent example was wash.io: they undercut and drove out a bunch of laundromats in San Francisco, and then, just to put the cherry on the stupidity cake, they went out of business themselves, so now there are a whole bunch of people in SF that can't do laundry. There was an extensive Twitter debate about this that I would link to, but it appears to have all been deleted.
And, as most things, I'd rather have the choice. If you want to default to auto-configured resolution, that's fine. But give me the choice to override if I want!
Are the values loaded on the fly each time they're read or is the /run/secrets mount statically defined when the container starts up?

If it's static, follow up to that would be, how are changes propagated to already running instances?

Is there a way to restrict access to reading said secrets once the container is running? Say you're running possibly malicious code that has access to the local filesystem (ex: CI test runner) is there a way to restrict a process from reading those files? Can we simply delete them (i.e. "burn after reading") or are they fully virtual?
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I'd like to complement: most _stuff_ is built by total amateurs winging it.
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Responsible owners of pure bred dogs discuss these issues with their veterinarians. We own a rescue mutt and a brachycephalic purebred, and had this discussion with our vet. You're a commenter on a message board projecting authority from a few sentences from an advocacy piece in The Guardian.

I concede that the ethics of purebred ownership remain a live debate after this comment, but hopefully we can eliminate right now the notion you have that you can club down other commenters with the question "are you a vet?".
OK, so I would and have made the argument that brietbart is Nazism rebranded, since identifying as a Nazi is unacceptable these days (but decreasingly so it would seem).

However, there are far more clear examples of Nazis, like Richard Spencer, who writes pieces on the best way to genocide the black race and things like that. You do a disservice to the people they are harming by refusing to acknowledge that actual Nazis exist, are recently emboldened, and are gaining state power in some cases.
You might as well include vi then, which now makes this software product 41 years old.
Bummer, they were on a hiring rampage here in Vancouver last year.
The implication is that the modern identity of "gay" is a recent, politicized, Western (& really more like American) construction. The further implication is that this identity is also deconstructable. Which seemingly refutes the whole idea of "innate gayness" in as much as it amounts to any particular pattern of behavior.
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For those of you who believe it's unethical to own purebred dogs (or perhaps just brachycephalic purebred dogs) because their lives are defined by suffering due to genetic defects inherent in the breed, a question:

Are we as a society ethically obligated to euthanize all these brachycephalic dogs immediately to end that suffering? If not, why not?