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> So here is another source of interesting heresies. Diff present ideas against those of various past cultures, and see what you get. [4] Some will be shocking by present standards. Ok, fine; but which might also be true?

Has anyone actually collected a whole bunch of information on this?

In my head I'm imagining a table, with the columns being cultures (i.e. 1990s America, 1850s Britain, etc) and the rows being contentiously debated actions / ideas (i.e. age of consent being "low", male students having sex with female teachers, etc), and each cell representing a boolean "yes, this culture is OK with this" / "no, this culture is not ok with this"?

I'd be really interested to see something like that.
1) False accusation is a generally unsolved problem in the realm of sexual assault. Unfortunately it leads to arguments that throw out the baby with the bath water. I know that doesn’t answer your question, but I guess I’m saying that it also shouldn’t invalidate efforts to identify likely perpetrators.

2) Entitlement derived from power. They’re not trying to “get some”, they’re asserting dominance.
So it's safe to say that, say, a styrofoam pellet wouldn't make a good moon (not even considering lack of durability against cosmic bombardment).
I think you mean a lot of men just didn't care to realize. Women knew.
While I hadn't tried GP's dropbox/onenote-parser, it's what I had suspected, considering it looks abandoned with no activity in almost an year.
MIT and Harvard are co-founders of edX. What about edX is half-hearted?

* I'm an MIT alum and former edX engineer.
Maybe I'm pointing out what you've already discovered, but the file format is documented:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd924743(v=office.1...

Given that, are you looking for something pre-baked, or is the file format enough to roll your own?
How will pollution be solved by de-urbanization?

Urban citizens have better access to low carbon transportation (Walking, Biking, Mass Transit).

Urban citizens are easier to reach in many last mile problems. Power lines can be shared by more users. Less network cable needs to be laid per user. Fewer miles of water pipes are required.

Apartments common in urban areas are more fuel efficient for heating/cooling than stand alone houses commonly seen in suburbs and rural areas.
I think the point was more that if you wander into a discussion where you already agree with everything being said, your contribution is comparatively less valuable than if you're in a discussion where you disagree.
Sounds like a good post for Hacker News! If you find it or write it, please go ahead and submit.
Just as programming languages are all (well mostly) doing the same thing.

Cryptocurrencies are tech products, various projects try various ideas. You'll have the initial blockchain idea from bitcoin, the privacy blockchain from monero, the programming contracts from ethereum, the decentralized exchange from stellar, etc.

I'm perfectly fine with that, I prefer to see people create new projects to test new ideas rather than to hear them complain bitcoin is not doing what they want.
Slight misread of the post, see my response to @nailer in a sibling comment. The broad conclusion is unchanged.
Propped up by media organizations? No. Or maybe I'm not understanding. Who propped up protests?
The Christakises were driven out of Yale for politely suggesting that the university shouldn't police Halloween costumes. I'm not trivializing the offense either, the letter which caused the outrage is publicly available.
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/865/
Sears, the Amazon of its day, files for bankruptcy
Technology Myths and Urban Legends
In my experience, side-effecting imports are fairly uncommon.

But in any cases, all formatters allow you to selectively disable it for certain liners.
I never really understand this claim, but also don't have a deep expertise in AML/KYC. How does Tether help here?
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There is plenty of serious, polite political discussion on social media, but the people who are actually interested in a discussion know better than to try to respond directly to a tweet by Trump or Clinton. Responding to one of those tweets is a waste of time, shouting into the wind.

Try following some journalists, authors etc. rather than searching by topic.
I saw that page and wasn't sure if I would be competent enough to roll my own parser of that format, hence my search for an existing .one parser or some similar open source format from Openoffice or some other open source note taking format.
If you weren't caching with CDN, would serving those static assets as efficiently as possible be a good reason to keep using (eg) nginx, do you think?

Oh, I guess load balancing (with a multiple-host scale) is another good reason, if you don't have heroku doing it for you, nginx is a convenient way to do it just fine.
I think you answered your own question. They wish to avoid responsibility.
Couldn't any site be sending different results based on any header? I guess I don't get how "they could easily be returning different results based on other HTTP headers, IP headers, etc" doesn't apply to literally every site
I'm not sure that's true at all.
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No, it's not affiliated in any way with Signal. It uses the Signal Protocol open source library for encrypting each email.
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The YouTube app’s custom video player also doesn’t have audio delay compensation for AirPods, unlike the standard iOS AVKit player. I’ve been avoiding the official app because of it.
An important question as the OIN Patent Pool is directed toward a "Linux System"
> it’d be a relatively simple addition to prettier.

It would be, but as you can see in the linked issue, it was closed for being a non-goal. So, it's not likely to change.

(Prettier generally keeps the AST identical; i.e. whitespace and parentheses changes only.)
Replace race with socioeconomic status and you'll get a more complete picture that doesn't rely on traits someone has no control over. "Old white men" is no more an acceptable pejorative than any other in my view.
Why do you say the HN community is toxic with respect to these topics? For example, all of the top comments on this article are in favor of YC's announcement and supportive of what they're doing.
Usage-based (pay per use) software licensing in .NET
Having ditched satellite TV about 15 years, and relying on Amazon Prime (with only a single ad for another prime show before the video plays, on occasion), or Hulu (limited ads you can pay to get rid of), or Netflix (no ads at all... so far). When I had a chance to be exposed to cable TV recently, I couldn't believe how awful it was. You become desensitized to it, but on top of that, it's constantly been getting worse.

Hulu's ad breaks are significantly shorter than regular TV, and the ads are not 10 times louder than the shows. Ads don't have to be horrible, they're just made that way by design.
I wonder if we were at a plateau with aviation that we are now ascending out of. Look at drones and multi-copters and advancements from SpaceX for example.

I agree with the main argument that I think you were making. We cannot assume that the growth we have been seeing continues indefinitely.
Are there any VPN services that don't have IP leaks for IPv6? I gave up and disabled it last time I investigated this issue.
ICO Regulation: A Competitive Advantage?
Could you please email us at hn@ycombinator.com with suggestions? We're always trying to improve quality and it's helpful when users let us know what their ideas are.

Edit in response to edit: Yes, moderators (me) turned off the flags on this post. Points can't be compared directly between stories because that's not how it works.
How does a one year old startup find funding?
I started a software business using a SAS hybrid model and it's getting traction, but I feel it could pick up steam with more capital. I don't want to get too specific on the business, I am just interested in what the traditional path is to funding?
I didn't say that, I said that exceptions are used for exceptional problems. Expected errors like missing values are better handled using optional types. I find the one ring to rule them all attitude less than constructive.
Doesn't seem to be working for me. I downloaded/installed the client for mac and I got errors generating keys. :/
It's annoying, but it's nowhere near as bad as 180 seconds of ads three times in a half hour, which is what you get with broadcast or cable TV.
It makes me wonder how the men who have the focus and discipline to get in to those positions of power have not learned the discipline of controlling their sexual urges.

Those that are doing the harassing are at fault of course, but something is also wrong if men are acting on potentially career destroying impulses. Is the education system failing at teaching discipline? or philosophy? I've gone through the public education system in the U.S. and neither were taught to me, I had to seek them out myself. Maybe sexual harassment seminars should be less about defining and identifying sexual harassment and more about the type of person you can become when you stop letting pleasure and impulse define your life.
Also some concepts of electric jets come to mind.
> Today only 0.5% of HTTPS connections made by Chrome use TLS 1.0 or 1.1.

It's nice to have this stat from Google. A lot of people make wild claims about how widely used TLS 1.0 is based on a glance at their webserver logs. But if you look more closely you'll see that a large percentage of 1.0 traffic is actually just hacked machines scanning for vulnerabilities, filling your logs and using your resources. It's not real traffic, and TLS 1.1 is microscopic in comparison to 1.0. As a percentage, very few sites would be harmed by disabling 1.0/1.1. Most sites can simplify their TLS stack and lose more bad than good by going TLS 1.2-only.

So I'm very glad to see Google deprecating and planning to disable 1.0/1.1.

To see the disabling of 1.0/1.1 over time check out SSL Pulse from SSL Labs (in the chart "Protocol Support"):

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssl-pulse/

TLS 1.0 has been dropping like a rock. Maybe it's too late to be an "early adopter" of 1.2-only but regardless I think tech sites/people should lead the way there.
Yeah, I regularly turn away recruiters from big name companies that brag about their "young" culture and "hip open office" or are a more than 30 mile commute in the SF Bay Area. BTDT, still have the t-shirts and the burnout. They would have to offer me a huge jump in title, pay and interesting work to get me to do it.
Most of my friends are female and something most male persons don't realize, is how incredibly common certain types of behaviour is.

The thing is, if somebody gives you inappropriate remarks on your appearance once a year on average it is something completely different, than if this thing happens to you multiple times a week, and sometimes even multiple times a day.

If you get robbed once, bad luck. If you get robbed multiple times a month, you will develop your ways of dealing with it.
I would say "Go for it!"; you have nothing to lose, only to gain, like experience writing a book and acquiring extra knowledge by what people want to be taught.

Can we get a draft so we can help with the content so it can be as helpful and accurate as possible?

Good luck mate!
I've never seen that, and we watch a lot of shows on Netflix. That sounds awful.
If you think of pollution not as an issue with the total quantity, but instead spikes of concentrated, it makes sense.
Gasoline engines top out at about 50% efficiency these days, but the average car does much worse. That’s not even including losses from the transmission, etc.

According to the 2015 DOE analysis, the wheel to wheel emissions from EVs was less than half that of ICE cars. Even in WV, a coal heavy state, EVs produced less emissions than gasoline cars.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-950-november-7-201...
The fact that female friendly VCs exist is a tell all by itself.
Not to mention, the headline implies sending A.I.s to college. Now that would be progress.
Ask a friend, if your code is not sensitive. Try writing performance tests and use vetting or debug tools to find things you haven't thought about.
FuboTV says nearly 250K subscribers have signed up for its streaming service
> There's a single counter-example that I think demolishes this entire line of thinking, and it is the rise of "Asian privilege".

No, it doesn't.

> If Western power structures are inherently racist

They are.

> they sure dropped the ball on immigrants from the Asian continent

They didn't.

> who, by the way, were in recent history pressed into indentured servitude to build railways.

Recent Asian immigrants were not; Asians several generations ago were (many of whom were later expelled.)

Yes, recent Asian immigrants are above average in many respects.

So are recent sub-Saharan African immigrants. Of course, current immigrants and those whose family immigrated in the last couple generations are a lot more of the Asian population in the US than of the population of sub-Saharan African descent.

> There are no longer any laws on the books that discriminate against people based on their race, gender, or sexual orientation.

Yes, there are, and moreover sexual orientation and gender identity are not included in many laws against private discrimination in public accommodations.)

And on top of that, there are many laws which discriminate in ways (particularly geographic) that are tightly associated with race.)
The argument for public transportation is not dead wrong nor impeding progress. Expanding bus systems is something communities can do today in order to reduce their carbon footprint and their traffic levels.
Harassment is mostly a problem because of anonymity. Facebook has a point with their "real names" policy.

Maybe we need systems where you can either be anonymous and censored, or identified and uncensored. You get to pick.
Thanks for this feedback, we're gonna look into what could be the problem.
These smart contracts people keep talking about, maybe one day they'll amount to something, but so far I don't know anyone who uses smart contracts, or who wants to use them, or who even knows what they are or what they do.
We'd Like to See Deep Learning Hand to Hand with Deep Feeling
Was their post edited since you posted this? I'm not seeing any of what you are describing.
There's a NYtimes opinion column every few weeks decrying campus culture social justice. Forget about conservative news where decrying it is a routine daily schedule item.
The Da Vinci mystery: why is his $450m masterpiece being kept under wraps?
By far the best summary of current learning research is available at the Bjork lab's website: https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/research/
I'm sure it has been lol.
...and youtube doesn't have everything.

e.g. What we actually know about Software Development and why we know it's true.

https://vimeo.com/9270320

Seriously, what was the point of your comment?
Ask HN: Story of an airplane competition through tooling
My google skills are weak, but I was wondering if anyone knows of the story of some one that won an airplane competition by focusing on tools. This was a story where the moral of the story was that focusing on tools to iterate was more important than focusing on the thing at hand.
Your first point is actually the main problem here- according to Google's internal memo they didn't have the logging data to support a full investigation and have no way of knowing whether a breach occurred or not. If you find a vulnerability and there's no way to prove it hasn't been exploited then the responsible thing to do is treat it as if it had been.
I was just as confused as you, but then I found this on that website:

> We believe in the power of diversity. We therefore invest in companies that are led by mixed management teams, consisting of a balanced combination of women and men.

They exclusively fund mixed-gender founding teams, which (I think) is unique.
But it does a lot to weed out the many harassers who aren't that motivated.
> Yet for every AAA development house that can't prioritize making public versions of their in house development tools, there are games like Minecraft that are almost nothing but modding tools pretending to be games, and getting all sorts of interesting fans doing interesting things.

Minecraft doesn't have any significant modding support from the developer. Official 'mods' are mostly limited to textures / shaders. The real modding tools that exist for Minecraft were created by the community and largely exist because Java is comparatively easy to reverse engineer in addition to some 'off the record' style support of the mod lib authors by the game developers. The whole mod scene has gone through various phases of questionable legality and unknown future. The Minecraft mod scene exists largely in spite of the game developer, not due to it.
Not the parent, but I imagine what they are talking about is the Herbalife depends more on recruiting new members than they are from selling product. I would link but just googling "bill ackman herbalife" will lead you down infinite rabbit holes.
Yeah...I'm looking into sales engineering
I don't see it that way, since they could have simply organized the company the ordinary way, with a services company that owned multiple funds, and avoided these tax implications: the "transfers" we'd be talking about would still be happening, but they would be untaxable.
Beer supply threatened by future weather extremes
Developing the DeLorean (2014)
I would take the 22.9% as a reasonable lower bound from now on.
I'm uninformed and bearish on bitcoins, but I find it helpful to look at the historic bitcoin price on a log scale.

https://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25...

Bitcoin has had relative declines this big and lasting this long (late 2013 to mid 2015) only to bounce back later.
Is there some reason you got the impression that Torba was kicked "for saying build the wall" and not for being a huge jerk to people on social?
Bitcoin is also worth almost exactly as much as it was worth a year ago.
Do you also think it's silly that credit card companies can charge merchant fees from 2.5% to 5% for everything you purchase. Whether or not you use a credit card, you still end up paying the fee because it still gets passed on to you. the future may not be Bitcoin. But, Alot of smart people saw this opportunity: I wouldn't write it off just yet.
> everything that ever flew substantially faster than Mach 3 is now in a museum.

I find it quite difficult to believe that this is true for military aircraft.

I mean, Lockheed is publicly admitting that they're developing a hypersonic successor to the SR-71.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/170463-lockheed-unveils-...
I never said the energy is lost. I'm saying I, the owner, cannot extract it back out. This is also true for gold-backed currency, but USD, among others, hasn't been backed by gold for some time now.

My understanding is that a currency needs to be backed by something intrinsically (seen as) valuable as it goes through the bootstrapping process. Once it is generally accepted, it can stand on its own (at least for a while).

No matter how big Bitcoin is, it can never get off of its "gold standard" -- i.e. the computing power required to mine it.

On its own, this would be fine, but the parallels break down very quickly when we are talking about new *coins coming out at a MUCH higher velocity than traditional currencies.
This exactly. He's clear about not looking at his project thru the lenses of startup. It's nice recipe for a side-project.
You can build slim frontends that barely put load on the server. Or you can build fullblown monsters that put "a bit more" load on the server (and the browser). So, it's not only not-UX.
note that while the MySQL connection-pool equation is pretty different from that of Postgresql's, at least in my experience MySQL connections use less memory (sorry, no measurements handy, feel free to correct me, but they generally are handled as a thread rather than an entire subprocess and we regularly see apps that spin up thousands of them fairly cheaply) and also have a lower startup time (also anecdotal, sorry), the MySQL world does finally have middleware connection pools now such as proxysql: https://proxysql.com/
I swear, every time I read an article on HN about salary it gives me anxiety. I'm perpetually worried that I'm not earning as much as I should be earning. I don't think it is healthy but I can't look away.
The process they have implemented is great. They should execute the survey again to include all genders. Yes, I saw the note regarding why only females were surveyed.
This bit from the article:

> Any ill effect can be explained, and dismissed, as just a temporary bug in the system, which will soon be fixed by our benevolent engineers. (If you look at Mark Zuckerberg’s responses to Facebook’s problems over the years, you’ll find that they are all variations on this theme.)

Seems unfair in light of this:

> Ezra Klein:
That is one of the ways Facebook is different, but I can imagine reading it both ways. On the one hand, your control of voting shares makes you more insulated from short-term pressures of the market. On the other hand, you have a lot more personal power. There’s no quadrennial election for CEO of Facebook. And that’s a normal way that democratic governments ensure accountability. Do you think that governance structure makes you, in some cases, less accountable?

> Mark Zuckerberg:
I certainly think that’s a fair question. My goal here is to create a governance structure around the content and the community that reflects more what people in the community want than what short-term-oriented shareholders might want. And if we do that well, then I think that could really break ground on governance for an internet community. But if we don’t do it well, then I think we’ll fail to handle a lot of the issues that are coming up.

> Here are a few of the principles. One is transparency. Right now, I don’t think we are transparent enough around the prevalence of different issues on the platform. We haven’t done a good job of publishing and being transparent about the prevalence of those kinds of issues, and the work that we’re doing and the trends of how we’re driving those things down over time.

> A second is some sort of independent appeal process. Right now, if you post something on Facebook and someone reports it and our community operations and review team looks at it and decides that it needs to get taken down, there’s not really a way to appeal that. I think in any kind of good-functioning democratic system, there needs to be a way to appeal. And I think we can build that internally as a first step.

> But over the long term, what I’d really like to get to is an independent appeal. So maybe folks at Facebook make the first decision based on the community standards that are outlined, and then people can get a second opinion. You can imagine some sort of structure, almost like a Supreme Court, that is made up of independent folks who don’t work for Facebook, who ultimately make the final judgment call on what should be acceptable speech in a community that reflects the social norms and values of people all around the world.

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17185052/mark-zuckerberg-facebo...

You might question whether Zuckerberg's suggestions are sincere or practical, but they certainly don't amount to dismissing the scope of the problem.
This. A couple years ago I was promised a promotion that I didn't get because of "budgetary reasons". I find it funny that despite that, literally every PM that I met managed to get promoted.
I dont understand how ports help / hinder usability of drivers. Could you please elaborate?
My websites do not support IPv6. Is there any incentive for me to make them support it?
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