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I'm not sure about the rest of Europe, but in the UK most credit cards don't cost money.

Unless you don't pay your bills, of course. But direct debit takes care of that.
I have a feeling you already know about it, but for others that really enjoy reading these kinds of exploits, the "underhanded C contest"[0] is fantastic reading material that will give you very similar feelings.

It's terrifying how even simple code can hide extremely bad exploits. Many of the entries even follow every linter/compiler warning/best practice out there.

[0] http://www.underhanded-c.org/
I'm pretty surprised Airbnb has done this. This move will draw further attention to their lack of adherence to "common carrier" laws, which prevent hotels (and some other types of businesses) from treating customers in this way. It may be that Airbnb is not subject to these laws as written, but by taking stands like this it becomes more likely that the laws will be amended to force them to comply.

Taking a stand like this will also make Airbnb less popular in some circles. I would guess that this won't just be among white nationalists, but also in conservative circles more generally.

Grounding this decision in the commitment to "accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age" will lead many conservatives - and even some moderates - to wonder what group or behavior will be banned next. Can someone be booted for having tweeted something that is racist, ageist, or sexist? What about statements that are grounded in religious beliefs, but which violate one of the other protected classes, such as sexual orientation?

The Airbnb community statement is very broad, and it is now clear that if Airbnb determines that you have violated it, they are willing to take far-reaching actions against you. For some potential customers - and also for voters who are asked to consider "Airbnb taxes" - this revelation will raise a red flag.

EDIT: man, this post dropped like a rock from the front page. I'd be curious to know why - perhaps too high of a comment / point ratio?

I thought HN was especially careful with news that is negative/controversial about YC companies, to avoid the perception of partiality.
Only in software development are we expected to go out of our way to support people who don't know what they're doing. Imagine a medical student complaining the professor that the scalpel doesn't cut on the dull end or a would-be airline pilot upside down in their seat complaining he can't reach the controls.

And your comment about never breaking existing userbase code is as ridiculous as it is unreasonable. This would only be a reasonable expectation if only correct code were possible to run. Since it's possible to run broken code (as this anecdote demonstrates) then it must be possible to fix the system even if that breaks some poorly written, but popular systems.

Does anyone want a world of e.g. Windows where decades old bugs have to be replicated because we can't dare break programs so old all the authors are retired or dead? I don't. Backwards compatibility has a cost and I'm not willing to pay it unconditionally.
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I wonder what software did the layout for the article. I hope it was not LaTeX. That first blockquote is really bizarre.
Either this guy was phenomenally stupid, or he's angling to become some kind of fringe reporter "personality". After this petition, Kickstarter for starting an online publication about "real diversity", culminating in him accepting a writer's position at some existing fringe blog.
* Google clearly doesn't believe or intend for its diversity programs to negatively pervert its hiring standards. And while correcting historical imbalance isn't inherently profitable, building a more diverse workforce is potentially profitable in the long term as it provides broader perspective and empathy, a valuable thing for a company with a diverse user-base. The positive PR doesn't hurt either.

* This isn't a competition. It seems that the Jewish people have collectively been more resilient to persecution and therefore need no assistance, but so what? Good for them, but it doesn't diminish the fact that other minority groups still wear old wounds that hurt them today. Are you seriously suggesting that we shouldn't help disadvantaged black Americans simply because disadvantaged Jewish Americans didn't need it?

* Millions of white people across the Midwest are in bad shape, you're right about that. I support programs and practices that will help them out. I also support programs and practices that support other disadvantaged race and gender groups. So I don't know what to make of the question "what about them?". I'd have to hand the question back to you: what about them?

* The government is definitely necessary to address much of this, but it's ridiculous to ignore the role of corporations as the backbone of our capitalist society. The private sector is responsible for the majority of economic activity and employment in many countries; they exist at the heart of the problem. Not to mention that some corporate diversity initiatives are actually attempts to comply with government policy. The wider context to this memo is Google's gender pay gap lawsuit filed by the US Department of Labor.
If you're in the US, your debit card is likely a Visa or Mastercard debit card.
> "Can you type the language we're using, and can you answer questions pertaining to the job at hand?"

Genuine question: are all of your co-workers who are best to work with, those that provide most value to yourself and the company, those with the greatest technical proficiency for the job in hand?

I'd suggest that for most jobs the ability to work well with other people in a team to approach the problem is as, if not more important, than the technical proficiencies of the individuals involved. The inter-personal stuff is really, really important.
Are companies more interested in messing with minorities than they are in maximizing profits? Someone should tell the shareholders.
I am sure there are some sub-specialities that are in demand (I am not sure if equine vets are one), but the selection is not at the the speciality level, but at the general level where there is a massive oversupply.
No, gender and sexual orientation are typically protected classes, ideology is not.
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Interesting read of comments.

A head of R&D at Advertising Agency decided that he couldn't take any more of the lying and corruption that occurred in the advertising industry. so he went to work in R&D in the Medical Technology Industries Arena.

Six months later he was back as head of R&D at the advertising agency. When asked why he had come back since advertising was so corrupt, he told them that the advertising industry were little children compared to the standard corrupt practises occurring in every area in the medical arena.

He had delight in telling me the reaction of the advertising agency staff at his return.
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I feel like "choosing to go into it" is maybe the wrong model. Like, as far as I can recall I didn't choose to go into programming, computers were just there and I could write programs for them.

Like, I didn't choose to go into software development and so learnt to code, I chose to go into software development because I could code.

Maybe it's different for "career programmers," if such a thing even exists.
Completely unnecessary hostility. Either offer advice and constructive criticism or don't offer anything.

If you care so much, rewrite it or make pull requests. Don't sit on your high horse and berate someone for trying to offer something useful to others.
"those who are members of the Airbnb community accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age"

Not - it may be noted - regardless of their political stance.
It is pretty amusing to see the script flipped here. The very same people saying the baker shouldn't have to bake the cake are now saying the rental service should be FORCED to allow them to stay.

Good luck with that.
I had a whole thing written out here, but I don't really think you'll understand it. summed up, this isn't an academic debate about logic and evidence. this conversation has real world consequences for real people. if you want to discuss biology there's forums for that. what this was, was not an evidence based debate. it was an employee sabotaging his employer, sobataging his colleagues, and utterly failing to understand the consequences of his actions.

there are places to discuss the sometimes uncomfortable facts an earnest pursuit of the truth may sometimes unearth. a circulated memo about how unfair you think your company's employment policies are is not the proper forum.
> You are assuming that women are choosing their college degrees in a vacuum. They don't. They ask: can I see myself doing this job? Is this a worthwhile investment? And when they cannot see themselves working in tech, because they see no-one like themselves in IT, they choose other fields

I have a hunch you graduated a relatively long time ago and do not socialize with people who are currently in school. People do not have to declare major for two first years in school. Outside those doing pre-med or pharmacy students do not need to take any hard science/math/cs classes ( the later in a lot of schools taught in math departments ) for years. Early juniors are the first ones who need to decide on a major and boy is CS low on that list ( why would one want to spend next two years cramming math, CS, and physics into the schedule class after class when one can take a few creative courses and graduate with liberal arts degree? ).

> What specific mistakes can you point to? What particular solutions are within reach of the government? Because right now it just looks like you're shifting responsibility onto the state.

Allowing Jack and Suzy to take $100k loans to for a degree in operating a coffee machine.
>Is there any way to discuss generalized differences that won't be perceived as absolute and insulting?

Whatever it is, I don't want to hear it in an internal memo, I don't want to hear anyone's opinions in a memo unless it's about the product.

Honestly, in a workplace, if I didn't ask for your opinion on something and we're no talking about it in person, I don't care.
From what you've said it is obvious that there is some disadvantage to being a women. There is no such thing as the mythical better qualified man. ALL the people interviewed are qualified, they can ALL do the job. Progressive companies do not want the same old same old weird white male dominated culture. They want to attract people with different life experiences, different perspectives, they need diversity. Not a nice to have, need. If they want to attract the best engineer in the world ever and she looks into their office and sees a whole load of middle aged white men she will think 'Nope I don't fit in here'. She was more important for innovative, disruptive company than all those dudes she spied and we lost her because we couldn't manage our hiring process properly. Ugh, what is so hard to understand here??? Diverse is better. There is no lowering of the bar, get over yourselves!
what kind of cultural heritage would be threatened by foreign support for liberal democracy (demanding e.g journalists are not jailed without trial in return for aid or other support)?

Romania should stop treating minorities badly or the EU should withold funds, as a concrete example.

There are similar examples for Poland with respect to media and division of power (also tenets of liberal democracy).

I don't know exactly what concrete actions could be taken with Venezuela.
... and if she wasn't it would not change anything. There is no category for equine vet assuming this sub-speciality is even in massive demand.
"to start on"?

American corporate morality isn't exactly new. Do you mean that no corporation should have moral standards of any kind?
Except the fact that people who study the field tend to agree with him on most things: http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...
Soldiers often are the suckers in wars. But I guess there's a big difference in defending or go invading
How does a minimum wage argument relate to systemic discrimination? Inject more persons into a workforce increases supply and depresses wages, it doesn't inflate hourly costs.
Tapetail, Bignose and Whalefish turn out to be the same fish
I found this: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/101004/the-axiom-of...
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With a lot of clients you'll end up with bogus files on disk as the neighbours of the file you wanted - the client has to download the whole chunk and has to be able to validate its checksum, so it has to put it on disk somewhere. Not a huge problem, but annoying.
You have to strive for the things you want in live, nothing is easy for anyone.

Do I want a better salary? a better job? yes. But I want a quality of life, I don't want to work long hours. So I wont have something better because I have other preferences in life. And I am ok with it.
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Which is great but it sounds like they need to compromise. Does New York have night busses?
An ally come to help when in needs.

America wedged war for financial gain not for helping anybody. Why its ally would need to help when there is a no real need for the war in the first place.
Isn't this a bit masturbatory? 100 anonymous supporters + a Voltaire quote is basically spam filter fodder.
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I'm not living the 4HWW but that book kickstarted my journey from employee -> full time freelancer -> part time freelancer + working on my own products -> 100% my own products.

I'm currently transitioning into the part time freelancing phase.
Chicken farmers are not in short supply. What is in short supply are people willing to work as chicken farmers for chicken feed (sorry for the pun).
In general, almost useless for online transactions (the whole point of this sub-thread).

Apart from that very low worldwide acceptance, and even when it's accepted in theory, it rarely works in practice in countries not accustomed to them. For example when I go to the US I often see the Maestro logo on various retail shops or PoS machine, but I have never been able to successfully make a transaction, ever. In fact, even ATMs are sometimes hit and miss, though those usually work.

Oh yeah, and they are in general unusable with hotels and car rentals, even in Europe.

It's the same with Amex in Europe. Almost all big supermarkets (Spar, Merkur, etc) display Amex sign on their entrance, but I have never met an employee that knew what to do with Amex cards. At least Amex cards, unlike Maestro cards, have, or can have good benefits like airline miles and whatever. You get nothing with Maestro.
I broadly agree with what you're saying. I think both cases could be argued as constitutional because they both protect sovereignty in different ways: the right to privacy protects you in your own home, the right to gather intelligence protects you in public (or so the argument goes).

I think the larger problem is that the British people either don't care about - or don't understand the implications of - losing encryption. Either they don't believe their privacy will be affected or they don't imagine that they have anything to hide from the 3rd parties, be it the authorities, corporations, or criminals.

I suppose one could argue that the British constitution is working correctly as it is malleable enough to flex with attitudes, but we also know that the attitudes of politicians are diverging quite substantially from the people they claim to represent.

I also wonder if the constitution itself has become increasingly weak and irrelevant, and if it has, is that because the Monarchy, whose sole purpose is to live and breath the constitution, have become increasingly weak and irrelevant.
Just because the individual changes aren't going to be noticeable year over year, doesn't mean the cumulative changes won't hit tipping points for noticeable effects to occur in certain cases.

Just like people won't notice the sea levels changing each year. But at some point, flooding is going to go from a rare occurrence to a regular occurrence once the sea level raises past a certain point.
An interesting question is "What did the traveller agree to?" The ToS legalese which says "We have no responsibility" or the FAQ which says they check & validate that the luggage is safe to take.

It sucks that companies can say one thing in the ToS and that overrides the more prominant FAQ.
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Working link to paper, http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/2/235
He claims the author is ignorant of gender, yet the person has turned out to be a PhD in a Biology related field from Harvard.
I don't know why this is being downvoted when it's the key point: disbelief in climate change is a matter of political allegiance, not "validity" in the normal sense.
> FEATURED COMMUNITY PROJECTS

> Door bell - ESP32, AWS IoT

> Door sensor - ESP32, MC-38, AWS IoT/MQTT, SNS

> Smart heater on AWS IoT

> IoT doorbell that works via MQTT - generic MQTT server, AWS IoT, Google IoT, etc

Why the hell would I want my door bell be controlled via MQTT on AWS?
Don't worry, we can definitely do both of those at the same time.
A little of geographical context could help other understand, Finland situation.

Finland has a border with Russia and a big history with them.

Lots of Finn I met think Russia could come any day hence the need for a military force ready to fight.
So, Google's snowflakes are trying to place some naive pseudo-scientific and pseudo-philosophical but popular among other snowflakes compilation of current memes and fancy terminology upon objective reality by silencing a naive but not clueless attempt to remind others about some old truths..

Let's put it straight. There are obvious, hardwired evolutionary specialization among sexes of all species. Sexes are evolutionary innovation to achieve better survival rates (achieved by the process of evolurionary trial and error and natural selection) not some stupid religious nonsense. So, there is no equality in principle, by definition, by design. The notion of equal rights is completely different story, it is social realm - few levels up from underlying biology.

There is not a single doubt that biology dominates and partially determines psychology (the nature part of the Nature and Nurture whole). Biology also dominates sociology - most of human traditions and social norms are deeply grounded in biological differences and specialization - there is nothing to talk about. Animal behavioral patterns, which could be called "traditions of species" are, obviously, determined by biology and environmental factors.

At least few stereotypes produced by various human cultures (products of social formations, partially determined by biology) are reflections to various extend of these real, existing, "material" fundamental differences captured in traditions. Dismissal of all the stereotypes as a category is plain stupidity.

Hipsters and snowflakes who are trying to gain attention by "challenging" objective reality with their naive memes (the ridiculous attempts to redefine what sexes are and what it is for with "third sex" nonsense is an obvious example) at very least raise some brows.

Notice that I am not in the least "conservative", I am principal and scientific. There are evolutional and biological reasons why this or that aspect of sex differences emerged and what is for. Whatever is valid for all species applies to humans too, no matter what liberal arts graduates would say about man's superiority.

Nature forms and dominates, Nurture varies and adapts. There is not a single doubt that equal rights must be given to both sexes (there are only two of them) and equal rights must be protected.

This is where the notion of equality ends. Equality of sexes is a hipster's utter nonsense, not because conservatives think so, or some popular religious text says so, but for straightforward scientific reasons, anatomical and neurobiological. This is so-called objective reality, and opinions and memes of current snowflakes are simply non-applicable.
Could you expound a bit on what you mean by immorally gotten?
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Looks like the OSHA personnel weighed in with their votes...
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If women get paid more for the same qualifications because the supply of women is lower and the demand is higher, then market forces will eventually make sure education at all levels gets fixed. There are many ways to solve the same problem. Fixing a government run school directly sounds like one of the harder ways to go about it.
> OK then, but who draws the lines on what's extremism?

They do, considering it's their business.

It's not as abstract as you think it is. This clearly violates their ToS.

"In 2016 we established the Airbnb Community Commitment reflecting our belief that to make good on our mission of belonging, those who are members of the Airbnb community accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age,"

> I have no support at all for white nationalism

But you do when a private company doesn't want to do business with them? I am sure you will try to generalize this incident as giving fuel to potential future oppression against humanitarians, revolutionists and what not... but that is only relevant if they really do that in practice, and they don't.
Paper would be better titled as "Examination of Online News Amplification through Social Bots".

There are no multiple-bullet itemized criteria on what makes "Fake News" in the whitepaper.

Some of the listed websites makes uses of only links to other websites, also of dubious nature. Perhaps, that's the criteria.
The TL;DR of the book is basically "If you want a 4 hour work week, write a book about achieving a 4 hour work week"
This is about a hiring policy at work. It's relevant to work.
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I think there's still potential to steer BT in a more exciting direction if there was the will to from those involved. More quality software projects using it to download by default. Bring the trust back, shake off the reputation for just being trojan-infested cracks.

There's plenty of things besides piracy people could be doing with torrents and related tech and it seems like such a waste of an idea. A Linux package manager, an open-source Acestream alternative, collaborative work on large scales
I agree. I believe It should be left up to the hosts, if anyone, to decide who can stay in a private residence.

Deactivating user profiles based on anything other than a breach of user agreement is ridiculous.