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I admit I enjoy inciting things on here sometimes, especially in the face of groupthink, perhaps so I can self-righteously claim that the groupthink exists without giving time to fully think through the opposing side.

It can come off as aggressive, for sure. I do think a healthy community needs skepticism and introspection to remain that way.

But I do think people unintentionally reinforce the notion of the status quo needs to be reinforced/destroyed, which can affect the types of thoughts you'd think about sharing with a group.
I think the counter argument to that argument was always "can we actually do that as humans?"

The push towards diversity is a straight forward reaction in an attempt to prove "yes we can" by moving the numbers as much as possible as quickly as possible. I'd guess that eventually the pendulum will swing back again. The reason the diversity tactic is used so much is because it's the only tactic that seems to actually produce results, artificial or not.
one would hope that granting an upvote/plus vs a downvote/minus would be objective. It is obviously not, and you're exactly right, it rewards group think.
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Exposing a container would not to exposing potential exploits of Docker. Docker is not running in the container (and doesn't know anything about Docker).

Exposing a container is a hell of a lot safer than exposing a service on the host OS.

Also not sure I follow you how a consumer would know you are using docker or not.
MRAs == Men's Rights Activists.

I'm probably not the only one who had to look this up :)
Yes, we've heard you say this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7327294

The correct default assumption is that any two individuals are similarly capable. The burden of proof is on the person asserting that they're not. The presence of physical differences between men and women is no evidence that they're differently capable in terms of founding a startup. You would need specific data to that effect that accounted for the confounding factor of relatively low female participation in the startup scene.

And look, in the very article you're commenting on, the people best able to to analyze that have decided that women founders are worth pursuing. I'm guessing they know a bit more about it than you do.
No such thing as a neutral position. Journalism editorialises by definition.
so new language built by mega corp on top of debated language hasn't garnered enough trust and buy-in to facilitate mainstream use?

Seems fair - I do like the static typing of hack though. Weak typing has its place but it can become a real PITA (looking at you javascript).
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"We want to fund more women" because "we want to fund the most successful startups, and many of those are going to be founded by women."

How is this statement supposed to be read? Probably not like this

"We are going to fund people we otherwise wouldn't because they happen to be women and many successful startups are going to be funded by women."

Also, probably not like this

"We want to have 'more than a thousand dollars' because we want to have 'more than a million dollars' and many times 'more than a thousand' is 'more than a million.'"

If that's the case then it would be much better to simply say

"We want to fund the most successful startups and it would not be in our best interest to differentiate founders based on gender."
It's a great vibe and an easy way to catch up if you don't get to read HN every day. (I may be biased however, I was in the audience one day)
Another message was that we should do more to make women feel welcome.

As we do more events, we'll continue to reach out to women.

This sort of thing really, seriously annoys me. HN is a funnel for applying to YC. You do not need to "reach out to women." You need to stop shutting out the ones who are ALREADY here and trying like hell to participate in spite of frequently being stonewalled, being unable to get anyone to hold a private conversation with them, etc ad nauseum.

In some sense, I will probably rant a bit more about this on my personal blog today because I was already steaming mad about this before I logged in to HN to read this article showing how badly the people at the top are simply blind.
He literately can't say anything of substance on a topic like this or else his words will show up all over the news as an attack by YC on some party or other.
I don't think that's the "only" solution. I think another solution would be getting more data less frequently... A weekly report of everything instead of an instantaneous report of 10% of things...

I'm really just thinking out loud here. Not criticizing this at all. I think it's better to have some data than no data, as you pointed out.
Nice, seems like this would fit well for cryptocurrencies.
The lights can be turned off.
"Replicating the neocortex, the part of the brain that sees, controls the body, understands language and does math. Translate the neocortex into computer code and 'you have a computer that thinks like a person,” says Vicarious co-founder Scott Phoenix.'"

Do you? Other than the language part it sounds like you may instead have an electronic lizard or cow. Add language and you might have an electronic parrot or dolphin(they can do some language processing).

Something's missing - the ability to reason: deduction, induction and abduction. The ability to set goals and to find a path to those goals. These are the magic that everyone has been seeking and not finding for a long time.

The pieces the Vicarious found speaks of are available today. We have exquisite computer vision, pretty good language understanding and fair robots but no strong AI and certainly no embodied AI. The promises above are hollow. But it will make some people a lot of money.
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He does his best to ruin people's lives and to destroy their spirits for fun.

he's not just disagreeable, he's a shitty human being who is exactly where he belongs.

He's just there for the wrong reasons.

I hope he grows up and changes, but all currently available evidence is that he'll never grow up. So fuck him. And fuck people like you who mischaracterize his malicious campaigns as merely being 'disagreeable'.

I hope that he targets the people you love next time he gets out. Then maybe you'll realize what an utterly worthless sack of shit you're supporting.
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Exactly. Even in Paul Graham's own essay, some things are always forgotten. He's smart enough to question why the Church/Italian state attacked Galileo for repeating Copernicus' ideas, who was a celebrated hero of the church.

And nobody ever realizes that Galileo was not at all interested in the scientific facts (well he was, up to the point he went insane and became a political agitator and generally a lunatic, read his letters, you'll see that I'm actually quite polite here). Rather he was organizing demonstrations and violence because the church owed him a different kind of state (needless to say, with him on top) because the earth rotated around the sun (amongst many other "reasons", most of them quite insane). This case was then dug up later to justify ripping the catholic church out of Germany. That failed, but the story about Galileo stuck.

Some of our historical heroes ... aren't heroes. Socrates is a similar situation. Celebrated philosopher. Speaker at nearly every forum (meaning the weekly meeting where their direct democracy happened). He was an advocate, a statesman, a philosopher.

And then they execute him. Wait. What ? Nobody ever seems to think that they've probably skipped over small part of the story here.

An inaccurate summary was that Socrates' students were involved TWICE with actions that led to the military sacking of Athens, with very strong suspicions of him having ordered them to do so. This "just happened" to occur right after one of the first times he didn't get his way in the forum. The first time he got off with a stern warning, execution of every one of his students involved that sided with the occupying force, and a promise not to have any students for 2 years, which he promptly ignored. Then it very nearly happened again, and again his students were helping the enemy army. Then he was executed together with his students.

There is at least a decent case to be made that Galileo was executed for organizing violent protests against the state (using, amongst many other things, the idea that the earth rotated around the sun as a rallying idea).

Likewise, Socrates was likely killed for organizing the military conquest of Athens when he couldn't democratically get his way in parliament twice (and for having a habit of sleeping with the wives of other Atheneans). Not because Atheneans were afraid of science.

Neither of them were very nice people. Not that horrible people can't be important forces of good in history, but you should at least note that this is so. E.g. Kemal Ataturk, an early 20th century figure that a lot more genocidal than Hitler. He also ended the 1.5 millenia long war of muslims against the west and the east, and frankly without him we would not have a modern time. He ended it because he thought it was a waste of money, effort and most of all, lives, not because he was against war. He just didn't believe the objective was worth the cost. Still, his importance in making our current mostly democratic world possible is at least on par with Churchill. But he is a monster, personally responsible for several ethnic extermination campaigns, no doubt about that.
No, its not the word "lesbian." Its the implication that a) you have a need to know whether she's lesbian or not; and b) that her status as lesbian or otherwise is relevant to the real issue, which is her status as a target of harassment.

I get that you're not trying to be offensive. What I don't get the sense you understand is that you don't have an inherent right to know things like her sexual orientation, history, background, favorite color, or anything else she doesn't volunteer.
Really? I find that philosophy and the God question, faith etc is really the opposite to a taboo - it's what we mostly seem to end up discussing in the pub after the tech talk has died down. But we are British techs, which may make a difference.

It's all logic at the end of the day - or at least that's the path we take in talking about it.
I think you misunderstand. The author is saying that all corporations are "parasitical" and even "evil", for humans that is.

McDonalds would do anything to squeeze more money out of its customers. Like most corporations, they profit from manipulating the human masses.
Given the widespread use of PHP for web programming, it seems obvious that in the domain of web programming, developers have voted with their feet for PHP.
I started giggling with the first numberwang. As it kept happening, the giggle escalated into full out laughter that just kept getting stronger. I am sure I've seen the numberwang sketch, but don't remember it, so reference was wonderfully subliminal and all the more absurd. Anyway, I love this. Laughter is glorious.
Hyperbole and a Half has a interesting monologue on this sort of superpower:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-par...
I have a somewhat off topic question about airplane companies' attitude towards engines. As a private pilot who flies Cirruses, it's always baffled me that a FADEC is not standard equipment. For non-pilots, starting a plane requires priming the engine by injecting fuel into the lines, and fiddling with the fuel/air mixture until the engine fires. Totally different from a modern car where a computer electronically controls the injection to get the engine started almost immediately. Is the attitude in the industry still that FADECs are dangerous because of bugs/malfunctions? Or is it more of a certification issue?
How would you say this assessment is wrong?
You conveniently leave out that "identity fraud" was setting his browser User Agent string to say "iPad". Which Safari does, via the "Develop" menu, right out of the box. This distinction is meaningless and laughable.
As a female founder I hope these types of thoughts are promoted but the resulting actions are not obvious. I wouldn't want to be a female founder accepted into ycombinator and then have myself or others wonder if I am part of some kind of quota. I really want my acceptance to be based on my merits.
> Nobody would even attempt to run a company like that.

Citizens of a country run by representative democracy are like equal-equity shareholders in a corporation.

> You wouldn't give a checkout assistant the same say in a company as the CEO.

You would in things done by vote of the shareholders if they were each equal in that regard. Of course, those kind of things are mostly (1) ratifying or rejecting certain major decisions proposed by other equal members or by management (like the initiative/referendum process in many US states and some national governments) and (2) choosing the board of director and certain officers (like the proces of normal elections in most representative governments.)

Which covers, pretty much, the things done by elections in most representative governments. So, no, I don't think the difference you claim is at all valid.
Navy database tracks civilian parking tickets, fender-benders, etc
"What is your unfair advantage in the marketplace for .gov-funded work?"

"We're a female minority-owned small business, so we get preferential treatment in bidding."
If AI succeeds, then none of those other things will matter at all.
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That probably just reflects the racial demographics of SF independent of gender:

390,387 Whites (48.1%)
267,915 Asians (33.3%)
48,870 African Americans (6.1%)
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Bad URL.
That's actually not true at this time.
When you turn a directory into a volume, Docker will copy whatever the contents of that directory into the volume directory... But you need to make the volume after the directory is populated.
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I like to look at it this way. Y-Combinator is only getting bigger because startups are the future. Accepting more women does not mean accepting less men. Wealth and opportunity are not finite. The faster Y-Combinator can grow the more likely it is I might get in (I am also greedy in a good way). Bringing in more talented women can make Y-Combinator a more dominant force; I say great.
If true he's probably guiding them how he was going to guide PayPal before they sold.
Same here. Someday when I have a HN Karma score in the bazillions I will feel free to say what I really think. Until then I feel compelled to largely hew to the HN party line.
It's possible, yeah, but you have to be particularly insensitive to both verbal and nonverbal rejection cues in order to be willing to do it more than once.

Ever pitched a controversial opinion to a group of peers? You'll find that a lot of people look down at their hands, or away from you, or at each other with a blank/expectant/fearful face.
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>"yes we can" by moving the numbers as much as possible as quickly as possible.

(This is a touchy subject. I'm not implying this initiative takes it "too far" or anything of the like...)

I agree, the problem is that over-compensation (pendulum swinging too far) inevitably leads to another party being alienated. Sometimes the people at the margins most affected are relatively powerful and aren't happy with the results. An example being anti-affirmative-action sentiment among white blue-collar workers. This can diminish the effectiveness of the diversity push.

I'm not saying the sentiment is justified; I'm saying it inevitably happens. It's a tough balance. We know that SV and the tech scene is a very male oriented culture. What happens with as that changes? There are bound to be losers.
Is this an attempt to standardize the grid layouts that everyone has to either build themselves or use a framework like bootstrap for?
Ive yet to hear a reasonable rational response and I'll no doubt say it again when the opportunity presents itself until I do.
http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRefererModule
Some good news for a change.
Yep, exactly. Furthermore, SparkFun gets dubious "privilege" of being a Fluke distributor for a day.

"Don't worry SparkFun. We'll let you give out some of _our_ product as compensation. Oh, that doesn't really help _your_ business in the long run? Jeeze, sorry I guess..."

I'm a little disappointed in the Hacker News crowd on this one. It doesn't seem like anyone's thinking this through.
Why does he need to be in prison for something that he didn't do at all, exactly?
> I admit I enjoy inciting things on here sometimes

Yes... there are times I do just say fuck it and post it anyway. HNKarma is pretty worthless after all. :)
As others have said, it would be a good idea to speak to a lawyer.
I know that the taxes and fees associated with becoming an LLC or corporation can seem steep, but if you plan to hire employees, it is an absolutely vital step. You said your business is a sole proprietorship, and that opens you, personally, up to all of the liability that your business incurs. In other words, if something goes awry and your business is sued, your home is on the line. And your risk for being sued increases as you take on employees/volunteers/interns/etc.

Look for a business law clinic at a local law school - they might charge a small fee but there's a good chance they will work for free. Your issues likely have a simple solution, and there's no reason to pay a lot in legal fees for that.

Good luck!
> Shop floor assistant at an Apple store gets the same say as the VP legal

In a representative democracy, a clerk in the social security office doesn't have the same authority and scope of power in the day to day operation of government as the Attorney-General. They both have the same say in, say, electing a member of Congress, just as shop floor assistant and a corporate VP who both had equal holdings in the relevant company's stock on things that go to votes of the shareholders.

> > 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?

Your logic is bad. You draw a false equivalence between a matter of objective fact (causality) and a matter of subjective preference (importance). The two are not parallel.
Are we overplaying the 'unicorn' game?
Why does the order of magnitude/size of transaction matter in terms of knowing if a transaction is safe? Do larger transactions take more time to verify?

Thanks for answering, appreciate it - stuff like this is surprisingly difficult to google for.
That seems about right yeah, the difficulty is half the fun.
"Controversial" really is the favorite weasel word of that brand of journalism. Sometimes there's an actual debate, but more often than not, one side or the other is just factually wrong.
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This should work but double check it:

location / {
valid_referers none blocked *.semalt.com semalt.com;

if ($invalid_referer) {
return 403; }
}
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Two reason that I can guess (before reading any comments or the article).

1. More energy is lost the wider the loop is. This is because on a truly round loop, the cars would be pushing hard against the widest part of the circle as the cars change from going from right to left (or vise-verse). By not going out as far, you don't have to come as far back to get to the top of the loop.

2. The geometry of the loop is tuned partially based on the number of cars. Most roller coasters have between 6 and 10 cars. You want the first one to be starting on the way down way before the last one all the way to the apex. This uses gravity to help with overall velocity. The easiest way to achieve this is by distributing the sharpest part of the angular transition at the top of the loop.

Perhaps I should not post a comment before reading, but I am curious to know what others think (off the cuff).
I like how their contact form has a captcha.
I'm using Jitsi for ZRTP voice/video calls, but only because there isn't a better client. It is sadly not behaving very well on OS X (and according to the other end, not on Windows either).
Companies also answer to their customers.
The jab at the financial industry is unnecessary, but the actual point is very interesting.

I first heard of this as the 'Santa Claus' argument on a forum thread. Short version: just because you can't point at a single person and say 'he is Santa', doesn't mean that Santa doesn't exist. Despite living solely as a meme in people's heads, he has desires (make kids happy on Christmas, make kids behave), and can act on them (put presents under the tree).

Those who supported this position used Microsoft as an example. 'Microsoft', like every company, is at its core an idea or a meme that everyone just accepts exists. Parts of it get written down, of course, and various people hold different parts of it in their head. Nevertheless, the company is its own entity, with its own goals and means of achieving them, yet exists only in people's heads.
> as opposed to somewhere else, like the wonderfully law-free nation of Somalia.

Ahh yes, the false dichotomy. Structure your argument to exclude all but two options, one of which is chosen to be extremely unpalatable.

Thanks for a textbook example.
I assume you meant "under-promise, over-deliver".
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The city site isn't bad either - http://www.somervillema.gov/

Yeah, 20 years ago I wouldn't have considered a move here. Been here since August last year and we really love it. The city "works" with effective city services (call 311 for anything) an open planning process, social media communication channels, and a coherent vision for future development. If the city has a major challenge right now it's gentrification. The city has become almost too popular - and the influx has been driving up housing costs dramatically. The typical home purchase is a brutal bidding war. But for those of us already here, it's great.
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I'm surprised at the mentioning of nuclear power plants. As an insider looking out, is it really that taboo to discuss? As an aside, I feel like the few conversations I've seen on HN surrounding it are well-informed and generally a technical discussion compared to the degenerate mud-slinging that can occur when discussing other topics.

Then again, I'm only exposed to the "Nuclear Power Policy" dialogue occurring in the United States.

Edited for clarity.
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There have been a couple of threads on keyboards recently, so I figured HN might want to know when the ErgoDox was available for purchase again.

https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ergodox

I did a write-up about why you might want one: http://jjt.io/2013/11/25/why-any-developer-should-check-out-the-ergodox-keyboard/

I have no affiliation with MassDrop other than as a customer.
I agree that the products themselves (movies, music, books, etc.) have not lost any value. That isn't what record companies are selling, although it appears so. What one mainly pays for is distribution, advertising, and marketing. In that, there is little to no value left. See the artists' cut vs. the actual price of physical goods (or even digital ones).
yeah, crawlers don't work like that or rather, ethical companies don't release crawlers that don't follow robot.txt instructions

semalt can not fix this by offering an 'opt-out' while ignoring robot.txt

very stupid of them because they are shooting themselves in the foot by this very simple but MASSIVE breach of standards of conduct