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That is the exact opposite of the black lives matter a goals. They are a black exclusive space because of a history of white people commandeering and steering social movements away from the specific struggles of black people. See: "white feminism" or the treatment of MLK's legacy in the united States

Edit for the downvoting: how many of you know the goals of BLM? And am I wrong or does this not fit your narrative of the scary black rioters trying to take away your free speech?
I went to a very small state school, and I made my way to Silicon Valley. It's not impossible.
One thing I've wondered (and I hope this isn't an inflammatory question) is if a breed in dogs is analogous to race in humans? If that's wrong, does the idea of breed have any human equivalent? Does race have any equivalent in dogs?
That is a very long-winded and opinionated article just to make the point that "ape" is not a taxonomic term, and it's not used completely consistently.

In any case, please don't promote anti-science articles (this one begins by complaining about "those who accept and promote evolution").
If it's a business use case severe enough that you can't trust AWS, you aren't going to wast time scraping together a cheap $1K or even $10K build while your $1K-$10K/day team is idle. You'll go looking for accessible powerful systems, and be willing to replace hardware as needed.
My mistake, must have missed that. I found out through our school's entrepreneurship program.
Well, I don't see anything about race discrimination in the language, and it seems to be about whether zoning should be done on a local level rather than by the federal government.
How the hell is breitbart even remotely comparable to nazis ?
What makes delivering payloads to orbit qualitatively better than sending pictures to friends?
This is great I just got into a long conversation about this with a friend, because of comments in another recent post about "Mapping Mathematics." A specific comment had refereed to the information in the video about Godel as being false. Specifically they did not like the video claiming that Godel's incompleteness had impacted the way in which we view maths 'usefulness' all be it an over-simplification Godel's work definitely had a vast impact on the philosophical way that we view information, math, and science and does certainly beg some questions about the limits of mathematics).

Being as I am currently in the middle of reading 'Meta Math' by Chaitin, (because of his recommendations in that book) 'NKS' by Wolfram, and 'Number: The Language of Science' by Datzig. I am glad to see this on the front page in an era where we have so many 'science loving philosophy deniers' out there. I'm assuming this being here at all is not a coincidence and that OP was maybe thinking something similar, but I could be wrong.
As a comment on the post notes, Shopify already "censors" certain viewpoints. From their TOS:

"We may, but have no obligation to, remove Store Content and Accounts containing content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party’s intellectual property or these Terms of Service."

So they're actually saying "We don't find Breitbart violating the moral code as set in our TOS". This is not about free speech.
Through need based financial aid, these schools are very affordable for many of those students.
The only people who would ever subscribe to the notion that we're in a post-racism society are those who stand to benefit from that nonsense.
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In my experience, Azure is a complete pain in the ass. It's just always something with them.

Yesterday for instance we finally got to the bottom of a slow page problem. The issue? Azure CDN was stalling up to 2 seconds at times. Creating a new CDN profile fixed it.

They're expensive, way more than GCP. It's slow - everything is just slow.

I know several companies that chose to pay GCP vs use free Azure credits because it's just "problematic".

And I say this as a fairly big supporter of MS overall, and I really really wanted to like Azure.

GCP just blows everything out of the water. Though it would be nice if they had a Aurora or Postgres RDS equivalent. Automatic DNS integration with GCE would be handy, too.
HN news mods are slowly becoming Slashdot mods with stories like this.
What do people think about banks refusing to service marijuana or adult industry customers?
Shopify somehow arbitrarily intermingles an "objective" point of view (deferring the moral judgment to the law) and a "normative" point of view ("We need to protect the free speech"). I think the very statement and conduct of Spotify in fact demonstrates the hypocrisy (i.e. performative contradiction): "We are liberals who do not think it is okay what Breitbart does." vs. "It is okay what they do since it is within the bounds of law"
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Not the sharpest comparison since the LGBT community at large has never called for any ethnic cleansings as far as I'm aware
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"on community racial disparities"

Would this not defund access to census data? As census data shows disparities in race?

Edit: OK, after having talked to a buddy about this, it looks like this is address directly at HUD, and would not affect census data as that is under commerce.
OK, so ContentChanged is new since the last time I looked - thanks for that! However, IPC via files is still a PITA in general compared to something easy like sockets.

Using an external IP address is a terrible solution for communicating with another process on the same machine. As soon as you disconnect from the network, it will stop working.
I don't understand this argument. Elixir is still its own distinct thing, the fact that it compiles to BEAM byte code is secondary in assessing whether it is currently in a hype cycle or not. Just like Clojure, Eta, Scala, jErlang or the myriad of other languages that run on top of the JVM can be hyped independently of the JVM or Java.

Erlang did get the same amount of hype, probably multiple times in the past 20 years. So did many, if not most reasonably well-known languages, programming paradigms, architectural solutions, databases, frameworks and so on.

I do not make any judgement about the merits or maturity of Elixir itself. Elixir is perfectly fine.

As developers we should have a healthy dose of skepticism when it comes to blog posts that claim 10x speed improvements with technology X. Was it just the rewrite? Does your use case match mine? And so on... In short: Everything is a trade off, and there is no silver-bullet.
Yeah, but that's always been true. So why was the emphasis on immutability for a long while?
No, I'm not. I'm making two different statements about related aspects of the same act. I'm surprised, but shouldn't be by the down votes in this thread and the disturbing responses. You guys do in fact proudly believe it is right to steal someone else's work product
I don't think that all the computing power is just for powering their app. They're probably going to extract valuable information out of the vast amount of visual data that is streamed to their servers 24/7.
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I live in a neighborhood and several of my neighbors have greyhounds that they've adopted who were former race dogs.

Probably the most docile, loving, affectionate dogs. And absolutely gorgeous animals.
Genetic clearances are much more common in the world of working breeds, since there is a market pressure to have dogs that can actually function in their job. Demand for working titles (search/rescue, agility, hunting championships, etc) also selects for more physically capable animals.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13606987 and marked it off-topic.
https://xkcd.com/1357/ makes it seem like it'll be your peers that get your message silenced, but what if it's some board of directors for a conglomerate, that dislikes any attention to the environmental impact of their industrial pig farms/how much they profited from post-war contracts after the most recent invasion/their push for privatization of water sources?

Almost all public speaking these days is done on private platforms, with ever fewer companies controlling them. Without them, almost no-one will hear you. The 1st amendment is just a legal codification of the broader goal of the free exchange of ideas. This goal is harmed by private censorship as well, even if it doesn't break the 1st amendment.
It's always interesting to see what tools people are using, but to be honest I was a little disappointed that everything on the list is a well-established, already popular app. I was hoping to see more in the way of new and up-and-coming stuff. In other words, I don't gain anything if a website tells me GitHub, Slack, and Sketch are popular.

That said, I think the overall problem of productivity/business software discovery is one that will grow in the coming years as we see a shift away from traditional enterprise dev and sales and towards a more consumer-like model. And Siftery is smart to try to build buyer trust and own the buyer side of the equation. We may well see a lead gen industry emerge in b2b software that looks a lot like the lead gen industry for consumer products like, say credit cards.
Top schools attract a disproportionate of intelligent young people. Ignoring that would be stupid.
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Yes sort of like how Patreon crowdfunds independent youtube channels to create the content the backers want to see.

I just figured out what BDFL meant :)
> The payment part is unnecessarily slow at these things. We should be able to wave something at the device and walk out the door by now.

Been using this for years in Canada. Most well known as PayPass (MasterCard) but also PayWave (Visa) and Contactless Payments (American Express). By far it's the fastest and easiest way to pay (including vs cash), and I use it whenever I have a choice. I'd say it takes me well under 10 seconds which includes taking out and putting away my card.

I've noticed the newest terminals in sit-down restaurants are even working with it now, by moving the prompt for the tip to the start of the process (before you tap or put your card in) instead of the end.
>"I don't like bitcoin...hashing power for the bitcoin network would essentially leave China and be split between the remaining connected exchanges"

Exchanges aren't necessarily the miners. Your first phrase suggests you may not know much about bitcoin, but maybe you have info I am missing. Are all the big exchanges also miners now?
On November 8th, the day of the US election, the whole world got more black and white.
People in the center have been called upon to choose sides. In a way, my position
is an appeal to preserve some of the gray in the world. All solutions necessarily
have to come from the middle ground. No progress happens when ideas are censored
and everyone sorts into one of two camps. The world is a nuanced and complicated
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The Nazis are the folks calling for censorship. The Ctrl-left folks better do some introspection or they will be next.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/317248-dnc-boots-candid...
I consider throwing bricks as speaking through action: http://www.npr.org/2016/07/11/485593473/black-lives-matter-p...
Its a more approachable and ethical version of the Standford Prison Experiment [0]. Also the game has different endings depending on the choices you make. :)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
It's nice that you can spell and all, but bitbucket is also free and we don't see this type of issue there. Or github, or gmail, or google analytics, or...well, you get the point I hope. Free is not a synonym for unreliable, so if a company wants me to sign up to their product and doesn't tell me it's unstable, I'm not going to be terribly impressed if it fails. A clear notice on the homepage would sort this out. Heck, they can even link over to the enterprise edition for anyone who doesn't want to take the risk.
Being liberal does not require accepting Nazis. I will defend their right to hold their views and say what they want, but they have no right to do business with a particular e-commerce site.
writing things down is not the problem... failing to read the things they write down is the problem.

they probably don't have time to read, because they are too busy always writing. they can't find what they need to read in the sea of endless wasteful and pointless drivel that never should have been written down in the first place.

you're all idiots.
Hey! This really looks tantalizing tbh.. Also love the demo app as start off.. how do you guys plan to monetize this? Pricing plans? Any Robustness metrics? I saw a reqs/sec meter there so I'm curious..
I find myself dreaming in code far more frequently if I've left a problem unresolved. I never end up finding resolution in sleep though, and the problem I'm dreaming isn't usually related to what I'm actually working on. It's more like an exercise in working out the logic behind some kind of dream action, like walking or turning a door handle. I'll get stuck in a loop and go over it all night long trying to understand why is this not working!
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The "bad" part is that the raw materials for innovation aren't as easily source-able here in the States.

While it can still be found to an extent, the abundance of surplus electronics is nowhere near what it used to be; things started to go downhill fast after about the mid-1990s - but it really started much earlier.

Today, you can get cheap new electronics (and other parts) from China and other sources, and there is still some surplus available - but no one can deny that it is anything like it was (and for Chinese sourced components, you may have to wait a while to get them - heck, I just recently received some parts I ordered on AliExpress back in December - and it wasn't the vendor's fault - it was stuck in customs in China for some reason).

It's frustrating from the standpoint of innovation and experimentation (not to mention learning on a budget), but there isn't anything that can be done about it (and maybe we shouldn't do anything about it, either)...
This game really captures the feel of what it's like to be in one of those Soviet republics, and to some extent, what it's like to be on the other side, trying to come in. Given how often I sent an innocent person to a gulag (even after I got good and did it much less), the person on the other side must have had their heart racing. And yet, many of the people were so desperate to get in that, nevertheless, they persisted.

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This is fascinating. Do you have any sources to I can read further into this?
Seems like a fair question. Dogs seem very versatile. Dogs are apparently like neonatal wolves, can we breed neonatal humans?
Ah yes, the old, "my one counterexample totally refutes your hyperbolic generalization response". I'll try to remember to include a paragraph full of statistical disclaimers the next time I contribute a generalization to an internet discussion
How do you "run genetic clearance"? It sounds quite ominous - do you kill the offspring that does not pass the clearance?
When YC posts about visiting the top-tier schools, it gives the impression that they are the only schools that matter.

And I have to ask: If the Ivies/MIT/Stanford aren't the only schools that matter, why call them out in a post that's distinct from the winter tour post?
Not really germane to the topic. This type of op fuck-up happens everywhere. It's hard to build solid process, particularly in growth phases.

Unless there are 2x a year restore tests, I personally assume a 60% backup fail rate.
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User growth is flat though. That would concern me in regards to how much more they can accelerate their revenue in comparison to costs.
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Any tips on low-bandwidth login pages for GMail?

Sometimes I can't even get to the HTML view because of the login process!
Powerful+incompetent = dangerous, just in a different way than powerful+competent
Well there are families that inherit hereditary disease, and inbreeding has been a problem in some communities in some eras, but it's always been far, far more localised than any culture or 'race'.
Breed in dogs is a product of selection by humans on dogs.

So no, no real analogy.
Once you get in. Unfortunately, it's often extremely expensive to build the resume required for getting into these schools in the first place.
Thanks for the guidance, I changed the title to comply. I'm looking forward to a bill that would dismantle support for federally maintaining climate data visualizations -- likely to be titled the "Climate Monitoring Protection Act of 2017" ;)
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For everyone on this thread saying "They should have done this years ago", they tried to. As early as 2010 some in the company knew that BBM could be huge as an independent. Then CEO Jim Balsilie spent 2011 trying to bring Mike Lazaridis (co-CEO; good decision!) and his team around the to idea of a cross-platform BBM, but they were dealing with the fallout from the BB Playbook failure around that time as well as significant PR issues due to BES server outages and public disclosure about providing the Indian and UAE governments access to BBM logs (or something like that).

Lazaridis primarily didn't want to separate hardware and software, so he focused on building BB10 to compete with iOS/Android. Ballsilie resigned from the company in 2012 after the new CEO Thorsten Heins dumped the x-platform BBM and put all their energies into the launch of the already-doomed BB10 phones in 2013.

More here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-inside...

A good book about the history of BB is "Losing the Signal". Covers the company up to around 2013.
Folks might enjoy reading The Dog Wars:

https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Wars-Border-Battled-American/dp/0...

Border collies were extremely functional dogs, and a subset of border collie owners did not at all want their dog breed to be part of the American Kennel Club, lest they start being bred for appearance or some other random irrelevant attribute.
Depends heavily on your data access patterns. If you need eg recursive queries or pattern matching, you might be better served by a graph database.
Eh - quality of education and research aside, and it's fine in that regard, it still doesn't have the same prestige as the other two by a long shot.
The marketing departments at these schools have done wonders. People whose families have modest incomes of 100-150k annually are going to pay a very large sum of money to attend these schools. It is only the very poor and very wealthy who do not have issues funding their education at one of these schools.
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Slightly related, I've always wondered when I look at various dogs when I am out and people are walking theirs, why some people would want a dog that is clearly struggling just to live. For instance, dachshunds, I look at them and think, running can't be easy for them. It just looks painful to be a dachshund. And there are many breeds we see each day I think something is really wrong with them.
Arbitrary deadlines like this are heuristics that we give to systems or people who don't have realtime access to the full picture so they can make decisions that are probably, on average, more likely right than wrong. The human checkin clerk can, at their discretion, call the gate and see if boarding is delayed, or find out how the security lines look, gathering additional information to make a decision, but the one hour deadline is a rule of thumb that they can use to make an initial call. But even with the additional discretion they have, they are still guessing whether the rules are worth bending for this passenger, what the real value to the airline is of getting that customer on this flight or bumping them to a later one.

A computer replacement that doesn't have any additional data, and isn't programmed with the discretion to make those calls to find out additional information, is going to just make the call that checkin is closed. It is probably an inferior solution to the human.

A computer replacement that has information about current security wait times, gate status, as well as information about all other flights, the location of the inbound plane, the estimated lifetime value of the customer standing in front of the kiosk, what competing airlines are doing, and the exact current company financials, can put all that data together to make far better decisions than the human checkin clerk could, in the best interests of the airline, and it doesn't need to be given arbitrary rules like 'turn people away if they show up 59 minutes before scheduled departure'.
Submissions are by HN members. The guidelines clearly state that the title should not be modified unless clearly link bait:

[P]lease use the original title, unless it is misleading or link bait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

When the mods are aware that a title has been unnecessarily editorialized, from what I've observed they always update the title, either back to the original or to something conforming to the guidelines in the case of egregiously bad original titles.

If you see a title that's been editorialized, make a comment (as others have done here), and if it's something you feel particularly strongly about, contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer.
Google runs its own CDN.
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Hmm. We're "Great Apes" (hominids), but not "Apes"? That seems to violate common sense, in my opinion.
Right - the DSS isn't the oldest document, but it is among the oldest surviving documents.

This is what the article claimed: the DSS are "some of the oldest surviving documents on earth."
Humans are neonatal humans. But also we cross-breed a lot. The exception would be certain royal families in centuries past and we all know how that ended up. Human races are a result of a process similar to dog breeds, but the differentiation is nowhere near the same.
It might not be the best place, but an easy entry is Welcome to the Monkey House. It's a collection of 25 short stories that were published in magazines in the '50s and '60s.
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Yes, until you remove 50 and realize they aren't so good at enforcing security policy