skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Policies (also known as strategies) aren't altogether different from Validators, though they're a bit more flexible. The real difference is that validation doesn't belong on your database interface, and its the chief reason why AR can only be used for domain driven design in the most basic of circumstances (NB: this isn't the same as saying that database constraints are a bad thing.) Validators are hardcoded into models; in that regard, they're only slightly more flexible than using validations directly on the model. Like Rails' notion of concerns, they're really about code geography, not architecture or design.

Policies, on the other hand, are far more flexible (assuming your application interface supports them, or they're used to wrap a block, or some other gatekeeping mechanism) because they can be swapped out. Imagine a circumstance in which you want one set of validations for creation by a normal user, and another set of validations when the creation of an instance occurs through a privileged API; yet another set of rules for creation by an admin, and so on...

You could implement those as a series of validators with an :if option on the validates call, and if you want to stick with Rails' canon, go right ahead. But in my opinion (and having made this mistake before) you're simply staving off an inevitable point at which your dependence on Rails has hamstrung your ability to iterate code.
Clicking the "Feedback" button in the app directs you to their contact page:

https://dragdis.com/contact
Microsoft has stores? I honestly didn't know that. Did know of Apple stores, but they also sell hardware instead of just Microchip Software.
All men, of course.
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Here's another one that will incite HN:

Personal ambition is overrated, and we're actually just buying into the lies of Western culture that we have to become the Ubermensch to be happy.

I struggle with this.
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Can someone at least style the dashboard?

Does the Mayor really only care about street lights, pot holes, and graffiti?

I wonder if my city has something like that. Oh wait the past Mayors of Atlanta have been corrupt like Bill Campbell who took all the money.
Depends on the size and nature of the company. If they have fewer than 15 employees or qualify as a religious organization (may be profit or non-profit) they are exempted from the applicable federal law. See http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/qanda_religion.html

State laws may still apply though.

Edit: yes it was a typo, thanks.

Edit2: based on the link below it appears the company is Crossways. From their about page:

Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian ministry that exists to proclaim the gospel through publishing in order to, by God's grace:

Assist individual Christians and the church in growing in knowledge and understanding of the Christian life;
Bear witness to God's truth, beauty and holiness, and to the Lordship of Christ in every area of life;
Help bring men, women, and children to Christ as their Lord and Savior;
Glorify our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in every way.
Any surplus which may arise is used solely to further the publishing ministry of Crossway.

While the legal test involved is complicated, I'm fairly confident this organization would qualify as a religious organization.
http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/threshold.html#2-III-B-4-b-i
Perhaps because woman are the fastest "big" gain they can do? There are lots of woman in the world (far more than any minority group), yet very few doing startups.

It's the biggest market inefficiency.

edit: You could also argue that the diversity in thinking and approach you'll get from woman could be very high. So perhaps they'll be more likely to start new kinds of companies in untapped markets.
Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told.

The other alternative would be that you independently considered every question and came up with the exact same answers that are now considered acceptable. That seems unlikely, because you'd also have to make the same mistakes. Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps so they can tell when someone copies them. If another map has the same mistake, that's very convincing evidence.

Is it a possibility that someone has controversial opinions but could be unafraid of expressing them to a group of peers?
Nobody would even attempt to run a company like that. You wouldn't give a checkout assistant the same say in a company as the CEO. Why do we suppose it's a good idea to run a country like that?
There was plenty of gun control enacted in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was targeted toward black southerners, however, and AFAIK rarely made it to the US Supreme Court. The laws were usually ruled more-or-less constitutional.

Here are 5 decisions: http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndcourt/state/18st.htm
http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndcourt/state/23st.htm
http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=25
http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndcourt/state/154st.htm
http://www.guncite.com/court/state/31ar455.html
JS pointers, globals, and garbage... gotchas.
Correcting biases is actually the opposite of discrimination.
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We did (see above). Both of my children (13 and 18) also have a solid grasp on reality and firm bullshit detectors. I suspect belief in Santa, as a child, has little to do with it.
This happens here too. The downvote is a pretty big deal for such a tiny button. I'll admit to writing comments I never posted because I knew people would eviscerate me for going against the groupthink. It doesn't change my thoughts... I just don't say them "out loud".
It's difficult to overstate the power of propaganda. I think an apt comparison here is the public's opinion of the Iraq war during the build up. The media told people what to think, and, by and large, they thought what they were told, or were cowed into silence. Not that it mattered-- millions protested anyway, and were ignored.

To be blunt, the majority of people didn't even have the capacity to say "but this is wrong!" whether behind closed doors, in their mind, or in public.

They have no agency.

I think a good rule is that people who are handed their worldview from the mainstream media are going to be gullible/misguided by default. It's harsh, but I haven't found any examples to the contrary yet.
There are plenty of other categories of people who don't apply as well. What percentage of female applicants implies no prejudice? Where is this even coming from?

I question the assumption that the perceived low female application numbers are due to prejudice. It could be due to differences in the predispositions to excel at different types of work between the sexes. Men and women are different.
Why are so many professional basket ball players black? Racism?
There is an implicit assumption in this and its validity is assumed. It is not being questioned.
I'm thinking about using ZFS on my data drives and HFS on the backup drives, in case of trouble. Perhaps this is flawed thinking.
Imagine if companies were run that way:

Shop floor assistant at an Apple store gets the same say as the VP legal, about whether or not to sue someone for trademark infringement? One person one vote! yay democracy.

> If enough people think it's important - then it is important by definition.

Your logic is bad. If enough people think that vacinations cause autism, does that make it true? The majority is often wrong.
"Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?"

I think this test is fascinating when applied to the Musk vs. Gates debate from yesterday.

How taboo is it to say forget charity? I know I feel uncomfortable with saying: 'forget the poor, we can fix them after we've figured out how to create a sustainable form of first world living' and yet that seems like a far more rational strategy to act upon.
I suspect you'll get a two-fer: Asian, Hispanic and Black female founders.
>it just so happens that the best people are overwhelmingly white and male.

No, I don't believe that is the argument.

The argument is "Let's not over-compensate for historical institutional racism/sexism, and, going forward, select the best candidates based on merit, regardless of gender or colour."

You can't eliminate these issues overnight, with a rule or two.
Just do:

monotype.save(editor);

Then perform your manipulation, when done call:

monotype.restore();

Tim Down! Thank you so much for your rangy library, it is a noble library, and I respect all your hard work trying to normalize the Range API. Monotype is similar to your new Text module but behaves a bit differently, please email me so we can talk more! mark at accelsor.com
Sun is less energetic (per volume) than compost
Deleting comments that disagree with the YC mods' opinions on gender-targeted recruitment?
He is a volunteer and not an employee.

And I wouldn't consider this an abusive internship situation.

What he's officially doing is getting some real-world experience which he actually needs and we've gone through the volunteer process here at my day job (a community college) to provide him with that volunteer coverage and he's coming 3 days a week and helping me out with little projects that I've been backlogged on and he's been having a good time doing that.

That is a volunteer situation and not an abusive internship at all.

However, we cannot hire him here at my day job (since we're a public institution, there's a lengthy hiring process even if we had a position available, which has it's own length budgeting and creation process). If he were taking 6 units or more, we could potentially hire him as a student worker, but since he finished his degree he's not looking to take any additional classes right now. And having unpaid volunteers is not unprecedented.

The money I paid to him as a thank you before was out of my own pocket for the volunteer work he had been doing for us here at the college since he wasn't getting paid for that work and I appreciate the assistance he's able to provide.

As I mentioned previously though, I'd like to do more for him so I'm exploring this option of possibly doing some sort of hiring if it's possible in my software business, and have him help out with those separate projects (outside of his normal volunteer role), since I cannot do anything more for him except have him volunteer at the moment. Primarily because I do want him to be paid and start building a career for himself.

However, I feel like you may think I'm taking advantage of a situation in a negative way and that's not how it is at all, in fact quite the opposite.
Sam's post very clearly presumes that YC isn't already funding the best startups. If they were, they wouldn't need to change anything.

He explicitly states they believe they're missing out on some of the best startups by not funding more women founders.
"So then why not also include some initiatives to encourage more Asian, Hispanic, and Black men?"

Honestly I think because the women's issue has been more front and center in attention as well as blog posts. So it's more "de la journée".
I think it starts with you telling us which OS. While the basic concepts are the same regardless of the OS, there are targeted sites/books/videos for each that can shorten your specific learning curve.
I think sama is arguing for b.) better selection metrics.

Here's another model of startup success:

1.) Part of your success is due to innate factors in your team: who you are as a person, how well you process information, how much relevant experience you have, how well you get along with teammates, etc.

2.) Part of your success is due to how people react to you, which includes both 2.a) how well they consciously perceive the qualities in #1 and 2.b) how they unconsciously attribute qualities of other people to you, based on categories or groups you may belong to (like woman, black, old, big-company employee, Java programmer, Lisp programmer, Ivy League grad, etc.)

Everybody does #2.b - it's part of our brain's short-circuit judgment wiring, and we couldn't function if we didn't. In psychology, the effect is called "transference". However, sama's saying that they want to investigate ways that #2.b may be conflating the accuracy of #2.a, and the fact that an applicant is a woman may make them inaccurately perceive the innate qualities that she brings to the table.

If you don't believe that unconscious factors may alter how well you process information about how successful a person is, I highly suggest you take an IAT here:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html

The results were incredibly eye-opening for me, and oftentimes have been very eye-opening for many other people in positions of power.
Did I miss something? The only thing he states he's actually learned from female founders so far is that women and men express confidence differently. I was hoping for more substance.
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This article and others about Weev seem convinced that his sentence is attributable to his unpleasant personality and his previous malice on the net.

In the absence of evidence that this was part of the judge's sentence, this seems like speculation. Which leaves the one real question: whether the sentence is fair independent of Weev's character.

The sentence strikes me as certainly on the heavy end of the spectrum, but not so outside the bounds of what's just that I feel some grave injustice has been visited upon him.
That is a fair line of reasoning, but it's not what I got from the article at all. What I got from the article is "How can we incentivize people who otherwise wouldn't found startups to found startups?", which is distinctly different from lowering barrier to entry.
Why the original JSON license is not free
I don't consider myself especially smart. But giving everyone an equal say in the running of a country is pure madness.
The better alternative is a friendly dictator, or a good monarchy.

My original comment was to point out that "Democracy" is not some perfect utopia that every country should strive for.
What I find scary is the amount of datacenters being built by US companies abroad.

For example Equinix is building large datacenter all over Switzerland. Swiss companies are blindly trusting them with their equipment. Equinix controls the keys and access to you racks and cages. They can get to your hardware with ease and surely will when is US government asks no matter what Swiss laws may say.

What I also find suspect is the amount of investment banks (never heard of any of them before) in these datacenters with large cages of machines. Are they really investment banks or a cover for machines where the NSA stores data. If they can monitor an entire nation for a month they have to store that data somewhere close when dealing with such huge data volumes.
Even if the branches aren't distinct legal entities? IANAL, but according to Microsoft Deputy Counsel John Frank, "Courts do not issue orders authorizing someone to search themselves" [1].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/arrest-of-secret-...
Disagree with them!
As a side note, I'd be down implementing that feature myself if you need someone to do it. Just to show how much I want it ;)
Facebook Introduces ‘Hack,’ a Programming Language
So McDonalds is ok because it is at least somewhat restrained by the need to offer a useful good (food) but the financial industry is parasitical and evil and offers nothing of use? Seriously?
In many cases, IBM will sell you hardware and software. They will help you install and set it up, but at the end of the process you own your data. It's not on some 'cloud' controlled by IBM, it's on a rack of IBM-branded servers in your own datacenter or server closet. The software is almost invariably some version of Linux, so you can audit it for security.

Your question is like asking, "How can I trust that Western Digital won't turn over the data on my hard drive they sold me?"

I suppose it's possible future revelations will show that all major software and hardware packages supported by US firms contain legally-mandated secret backdoors, but we're not that far down the rabbit hole yet.
Were you already going to purchase a new windows PC? Is your time worth so little that you would look for an XP license and install it to something and drag it into a b&m store to save $100 on a windows PC from the microsoft store?
Interesting switch tactic, possibly could be expanded into MS Store discounts for showing Android, iOS, and Mac OS.

Apple stores will transfer your PC docs to a Mac, I think for free via Personal Setup. Will MS stores do this too?
Personal ambition can be redirected into an ambition to improve the world around you, which is pretty healthy and utility-promoting on balance.
> Most markets aren't like this and can remain competitive without regulation.

It's clear that some markets are like this, and some aren't. It's not at all clear to me that most markets aren't. In fact, i believe the opposite - most markets are like this. I believe that in most markets, economies of scale, cost of entry, and the coercive power of large participants outweigh the incremental efficiencies of new innovators.

If there is any logic or data which supports the contrary position, i would be interested to hear it.
The doge version is by far the best of all the iterations.
FWIW, living in SF, I've met more Asian female founders (including those who went through YC) than male black founders (one maybe?).
I'm guessing you're asking about Linux sysadmin and not Windows sysadmin, but correct me if I'm wrong.

What sort of Linux experience do you have already? Are you looking to spend money on resources or free stuff only? Also, are you looking for generic "sysadmin" concepts, or for how to implement on a particular operating system like CentOS or Ubuntu?

Someone else on HackerNews just open sourced his tutorials: https://github.com/snori74/ebook1. They're written for someone new to Linux but has some Windows background.
Being a good person who makes a difference seems like a worthwhile goal. Fixating on how you're remembered is often quite a bit darker and I wouldn't want to make it a life goal.
replace the certificate auth

From what your saying that SSL layer was not secure on it's own. Which is a valid concern, but not what I am talking about.
Your second paragraph said it. The brilliant men don't slave for others, they have their own thing to find or follow.
Well it is incredibly dangerous, but if we did make safe, super intelligent AI, it would definitely be a much greater investment than directly working on those problems.

To put it lightly, it would automate and massively bring down the cost/increase the speed of research and engineering. Sure enough money, spent on enough humans, given enough time, could eventually find a cure for any disease. But why do that when you can just ask the AI and have a cure overnight?

Of course it's not clear how safe such an AI would be (such a being could easily outsmart us and get what it wants, whatever that even is), nor how difficult it will be to create one.
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This one doesn't spawn the 4's (lightest blue) 10% of the time. I think that that makes it much easier.
How about porting it to LUA and embed directly in nginx?
Generally agree except this:

>> other VCs compete for the best male-run startups

is possibly more accurately this:

>> other VCs compete for the best white male-run startups based within 100 miles of San Francisco
Check out https://jitsi.org/ too...
I Must be invisible...no one ever responds to my posts any more...I'm typing with my hands...HHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDDDDSSSSSSSS...CAN YOU SEE ME? HELLO?
Most geeks have one tech-toy they're contemplating buying at any given moment. If a $100 discount is enough to push them over? It's absolutely worth 20 minutes to rummage through your bin and find that old box you kept for spare parts. My time ain't free, but it's sure worth $100 for 20 minutes of rummaging.
There should be. A related question: is it easier to fix systemic biases against women than for racial minorities?
Re: gun control, depends where you live. I grew up in a rural area where you'd still be laughed out of the room for suggesting that gun control was a good idea.
Am I visible to other users?
How very 1984!
Additionally, while you may think that "growing my business" at the least possible cost, eking out a bunch of "volunteer" hours from my past student is my goal, that is not the case either (and would certainly qualify as an abusive internship/volunteer situation to me).

I'm exploring the hiring and gathering feedback here because I'd like to do it right, but I'd also like to be able to afford it too.

If that's not realistic, which I'll determine from the responses I'm getting here, then I'd rather do the work for my software business myself and keep things simple (I like simple) and keep him out of that stuff and just focus on getting him hired at the local web development firm that could pay him a salary or encouraging him to branch out and try to find work elsewhere.
"We funded a guy once who looked like Mark but ended up doing badly, and when PG was asked by a reporter how to fool him, he said that apparently this was one way. His real point was that looking like Zuckerberg means nothing--that you can look remarkably like him and still fail miserably. "

To me the entire "look like Zuck" is more than the physical look. It's the harvard attendance, of a certain age, and having certain interests and mannerisms as well as background.

Truth is if you go to an Ivy or top school and view the student body you will see a certain look and feel. Doesn't mean that people with the same look don't attend a state school or community college, doesn't mean there aren't exceptions at the Ivy, but the look and feel is definitely there. Perhaps they end up looking that way after the first week as they get assimilated.

There is no doubt that people respond to visual cues and assign halo to them rightly or wrongly. Or stereotypes whatever you want to call it.

Go ahead in and try to pitch YC looking like a guy who runs a wholesale company and is 58 from the lower east side in NYC and doesn't look the part. It would almost certainly be, for lack of a super clear winning idea, an uphill battle.
Nothing about this case has anything to do with exploit development.
Require click-to-play on video with audio is a good idea.

https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/544
Facebook doesn't use web servers or operating systems written in PHP either, right? So if the language that web applications are written in isn't very important to the overall dependability of web applications, then it stands to reason that Facebook's choice of PHP for their web applications shouldn't be a problem either, right?

What point are you trying to make?