skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But nobody has said that evangelical Christians have to tolerate the presence of homosexuals?

Laws exist saying that public businesses must serve all customers without discrimination, there has been a lot of controversy over, for example, a baker refusing to make a cake for a gay couples wedding.

This is an example where government enforced capitalism has been enshrined in law and it is a good thing. Discrimination distorts the market in horrible ways, American history has plenty of examples of stores discriminating meaning other stores pop up providing substandard non-competitive service to a population.
Apple holding $181B in profit offshore, study says
I agree, but I must point out that in some cases the alternative to the "time and effort" involved in the exec playing around with a particular end-user report tool is the time and effort involved in a series of meetings attended by the exec and everyone on the chain between the exec and whoever is actually building the reports.

If "not able to specify a report format to a software service, even with assistance-as-needed from more technical users" disqualified one from executive employment, would any firm actually be hurt by that?
> I really don't believe in sanitizing reality. I don't believe in intolerance for the intolerant. It's a nice, easy, euthanistic way to make our own little pure vision of the world.

And most people don't believe in hanging out with people they don't like.

You seem to be implying that it's more important for Reddit to represent unsavory people than it is for Reddit to hold onto a larger audience. I think that's ridiculous, because Reddit's purpose is not to be a safe haven for unsavory people, even if they "represent" reality. That might be an admirable goal for sociologists, but it doesn't have to be the goal of any website.
Teslas Hit by 180% Danish Tax on Cars as Green Goals Ditched
It already makes sense in the 3rd world where rolling blackouts and unplanned blackouts are quite common.
Why should they return promises?
Half of it is Pandora stock, according to http://press.pandora.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=251764&p=irol-newsA....
Hm, thanks for the advice, all.

It hadn't occurred to me that she might have an account, and subscriptions are choices.
> The Pandora app is the single most-used mobile app in the world

Can this possibly be true? More used than Apple/Google/Spotify music apps maybe, but Facebook? Google search seems hard to believe too?

I mean 80m users, "many on their phone" when Facebook have put up 1b users in the same day and I'm pretty sure surpassed 50%+ mobile usage?
I saw this today: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/06/disney-artists-ipad-pro-...

"In the Periscope, Ranjo was impressed with the grip of the iPad Pro's screen when used with the Pencil, and he also was a fan of the palm rejection features. When drawing on an iPad Pro, the palm of a hand can be rested on the screen, but it's still responsive to zoom gestures."
As I see it, the issues are mainly caused by SRS being allowed to police the site. Not only closing "venting chambers" but also causing a lot of backlash and increasingly severe behaviour due to their harassment. Harassment on the level of harassing or threatening family, friends, and co-workers of their target.
I'm not sure about that because they say that SPICE is an in-memory query engine unlike BigQuery which is a distributed query engine that fetches data from a persistent distributed file-system. It seems to me more like Spark in-memory RDDs that caches data fetched from external data sources.

They also support incremental loading similar to Periscope.io which is actually quite cool. I would be great if they could give more information (syntax etc.) about SPICE.
Google shut down the PageSpeed Service on 2015-08-03:

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service/Deprec...
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
Tolerance of everything is impossible. You have to be intolerant of certain beliefs or practices in order to tolerate others. What you choose to tolerate come down to little more then your personal beliefs. Saying something is intolerant is ultimately an empty statement.

>Speaking out against gay-marriage is [against my] beliefs

>Promoting gay marriage is intolerant [to Christian beliefs]

Allowing gays to marry - regardless if Christians have to be around these gays or not is against their beliefs. Not being respective of their beliefs is intolerant (this is a must, and intolerance is not necessarily a bad thing any more than tolerance is a good thing)

I tried to be as succinct as possible.

E:

I feel this is a necessary disclaimer after re-reading this response, lest I offend any Christians who are tolerant of homosexuals... Not all Christians...there are too many branches and sub-branches with different opinions, I use it as a blanket term for the specific (and known to exist) branches that are intolerant of homosexuals and hope it is taken as such for the sake of communication.
Cisco sells security products and services to enterprise customers; this is essentially marketing.
Fukuyama's 25-year retrospective on his essay: http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-the-end-of-history-still-stan...
"turns me off" is a negative emotion. Does the realization that we're not all financially equal feel worse than the fact he's donating $10m to this cause?
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That was happening long before any type of this subreddit "crisis" and overreacting drama.
What about Venus? It rotates really slowly compared to Earth.
I read that with an implied "most used mobile [music] app" but it is a genuinely confusing sentence.
I'm definitely using it as you intended.

"the day-to-day experience of most people in this country" is nothing like any of the things Altman, PG, Livingston etc... experience on a daily basis.
Perhaps it's usage by time? i.e. Pandora left on in the background.
Again it's Chrome only so not a general Desktop API
>These subreddits are big enough that their userbases are converging toward a statistically-normal sampling of the world population.

Do you really think the makeup of a large subreddit mirrors the real world? I would be my life savings that they are still predominantly white men on these subreddits.
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Some things are social problems that can't be resolved with technology but I don't think reddit's casual racism and sexism is one of them. Borrow from HN: Add site-wide flags for content you consider unacceptable that only users with $x comment karma can use. Borrow from Dota 2: If a user is flagged enough don't shadow ban them, just make their comments invisible to everyone except those who are also flagged. They can make their terrible comments to and with each other.
And your QA facility will not have every possible on-ramp, off-ramp, or other.

My point is that these things have already been tested on a much larger scale than this QA (I actually think it was billed as Research) facility would seem to provide.
Oh, that's even better. Is there an around/after equivalent or are those still best implemented with Steve's thing?
imo, the chat application mentioned in the article is available here: https://imo.im/

I was a heavy user of imo because it was a generic xmpp client, and used it mainly for google chat, along with federated facebook chat etc. It was a really good interface for handling multiple chats at the same time (This is before slack). However, google's move to move away from federated xmpp cost them a lot as they lost a lot of customers, iirc.

Nice to see that they are still doing good.
Between NextBigSound and this, Pandora's making some big moves. Wasn't sure if they'd become a dinosaur, but it'll be interesting how they tie all these capabilities together.
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This is a good talk on the why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVvHPPcl2TM
No javascript, so no d3 on the page or any interactive graphics that can't be stuffed into an iframe.

>One thing we realized early on is that many performance issues are caused by the integration of multiple JavaScript libraries, tools, embeds, etc. into a page. This isn’t saying that JavaScript immediately leads to bad performance, but once arbitrary JavaScript is in play, most bets are off because anything could happen at any time and it is hard to make any type of performance guarantee. With this in mind we made the tough decision that AMP HTML documents would not include any author-written JavaScript, nor any third-party scripts.

https://www.ampproject.org/how-it-works/

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/10/get-ampd-heres-what-publish...
Since 2010, Excel has had a native add-in called Power Pivot which can handle 100M+ row fact tables and provides a full dimensional modeling experience.

"Too big for Excel" is, quite literally, a problem of the last decade.

Edit: typo small != big
And Perl6 has now invented its own word, "twigil"? Sigil was already a bad enough word. I used Per5 for a ton of production code years ago, and I've met Larry Wall and he is a brilliant and friendly person, but I am sad to say there is absolutely zero chance of Perl6 being adopted for a serious production software project, probably ever. It doesn't bring new capabilities, it's just different, and in a mostly-worse way.
>I usually find such articles stereotype men in a negative way (ie. The people who use this term are often hypocritical).

Or maybe it is accurate, but is hard for men to accept that. The world operates generally in a misogynistic way. Is it really hard to believe Reddit, who's userbase is predominantly men, act this way as well?

Source: Man who used to frequent Reddit for years.
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The "default" subreddit issue needs to be resolved first. You shouldn't automatically be enrolled in any subreddit.
That Arab Spring is sure doing well, isn't it!?
They are pretty up there, but no, not the top, which is Facebook as you would expect.

http://qz.com/481245/these-are-the-25-most-popular-2015-mobi...
This is a charitable cause. My guess is that YCR-sponsored organizations will be involved in the kinds of projects that might affect world hunger, etc.
I think they mean by time spent using the app. Pandora is used a lot in the background.
What's the difference between a data analyst and a data scientist?
You can request multiple devices at once. I didn't include that screen in the blog post.
Data scientists have better hipster beards in my experience.
"heretical" "dangerous" "free to everyone"

Strong language. Especially coming from an organization that generally touts "ideas as useless." Well here's a model based exponentially upon the promise of "ideas." I sincerely hope you disrupt the current models, which have been severely hijacked by interest groups, short-term thinking, and governance.

So yes Sam, you have some bold ideas (you're not yet sharing). Put $10m down to validate them and bring them to the world. You've earned the chance. And if you succeed, you'll create a new model that touts the power of ideas, takes responsibility for them, but does not own them.

Whatever we can do to help.
"Relative to" seems plenty precise to me. If you're dividing $2M by X and getting 20%, X = $10M, which would be "post-money".
Agreed but on the communism based dictatorship point. Elites seem equally business friendly in China, Latin America, and to a lesser degree Russia. Maybe stateism would be more appropriate? >> "You are free to pursue your pig-capitalist thing as long as you fork us our due share."
No, there won't be EOLs for the foreseeable future. For all purposes, you can imagine Perl 6 being called language XYZ. Even though 15 years ago, Perl 6 was envisioned as the next version of Perl 5, that is no longer the case. Perl 5 and Perl 6 are both actively-developed, modern languages—different languages, in the same family. Perl 5's latest release was just about 47 days ago and Perl 6's first release will be on Christmas.
Please don't take HN threads on off-topic flamewar tangents.
Good question. Here's one benefit. With Kinesis you can batch a bunch of writes to S3 that would have otherwise resulted in many small files in S3.

In other words, you can make small writes to Kinesis and then read out in larger amounts and write larger files to S3. This is a huge optimization for any job that runs across the data in S3. Many small files can really undermine performance in something like Hadoop MapReduce because of the additional request overhead.
There was already a service where you could mail AWS removable hard disks and have them load it into S3 for you.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/send-us-that-data/
> "recreate"

Other companies have had the 15% / 20% culture, etc. long before Google. Example, http://archive.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1998/01/9858
>And most people don't believe in hanging out with people they don't like.

Isn't that one of the problems we find with lots of people we don't like. They are bigots! They don't like anyone who isn't like them.

Yes, reddit surely may do as it pleases. That's their call to make. I'm simply voicing my preference with reason behind it. Facebook could lock out all selfidentifying males living in new York or all selfidentifying females in Uganda, that's their call. I'd be against it, but that's their call to make, sure.

Also, 2channel is at least one site which finds it important to allow unsavory communication large degrees of expression.
The NeXT introduction was classic Steve.

I had a post-graduate Stanford job 11 years later. And had been a certified Mac Developer using ObjectPascal and all that stuff in the meantime.

Steve was targeting the NeXT for the academic world, so I got an invite. Steve rented the fanciest auditorium in San Francisco- Symphony Hall (though NeXT was just off the Stanford campus). No one had seen the NeXT computer yet. Most PCs up until then were some kind of off-white plastic slabs. When the NeXT was unveiled it was a dark-gray magnesium cube. (The Borg were still three years in the future.) The presentation began in a darkened auditorium. Then a computer screen started talking. It displayed something that looked like a Mac screen. PC multi-media was still crude then, so audience erupted at the high quality computer speech. The speech said something about how the new NeXT woud supercede all previous PCs. Then the light came on with NeXT cube unveiled and Steve launching into a product speech. Besides the high multimedia capabilities of the NeXT hardware, Steve also promoted the NeXTSTeP operating system and software-development kit. It was object-oriented top to bottom, pretty rare then, save for a few things at Xerox. This was supposed to make writing educational applications a "piece of cake".

The NeXT never really panned out at universities becasue it was expensive and slow. I became a certified Objectve-C developer for them too. I remember the first models taking forever to compile code, because it swapped files onto a an optical disk. The NeXT became a hit a financial services firms due its advanced software. Eventually the hardware itself was discontinued and they just sold the OS and SDKs, which Apple purchases to get into the 32-bit world.
Just a general tip on improving in chess; Always evaluate the material situation by looking at what's on the board, never by what's off it. This extends naturally to properly evaluating exchanges. Ignore the relative merits of the pieces being captured and focus on the relative merits of the pieces left on the board. I agree that if there's a feature that displays the captured pieces it should work properly (even though I think it's a useless feature).
> Having not been released yet, Perl 6 has zero history on backwards compatibility, so there's no way to assess whether it's relatively better or worse than Perl 5.

Well, uh, it's not backwards-compatible with Perl 5. Yes, yes, I know, "It's a different language." So why is it called "Perl 6?" The name is very much designed to tell us "this is the one after Perl 5." Insisting that everyone evaluate it as a greenfield language is an incredible insistence upon cognitive dissonance.
> Some users seem to feel like they are the true owners of the site, and that the corporation exists to serve them and fulfill their needs

So you think that reddit has any value at all after you remove the top 20% of users that generate 80% of the content? I think those users you speak about are fairly accurate in their assessment.
I guess the total potential score available on the board from the remaining pieces against the current score of each player would show the winner before a stalemate situation came about.
Perhaps they define usage based on time?

It seems reasonable that users would spend 1b/80m = 13 times the amount of time listening to music than they do interacting with Facebook.
"The rats have since been preserved and are lodged in a museum in Indonesia."

Yes, this seems like the right thing to do upon discovering a new species.
Do what, exactly? Prevent you from getting linked to racist or sexist threads? Because almost certainly the only way you see racist or sexist content on reddit. You will very rarely see it on the logged out front page (the big reddit blowup is obviously a major exception), and probably rarely in any threads on default subs unless you deliberately browse the heavily downvoted comments.
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I went to Green Templeton, an Oxford college with no undergrads. There are 8 Oxford colleges which accept only graduate students:http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/colleges/college-lis...

IIRC, All Souls is a bit different, in that there are no students at all. It's just fellows doing research.
My car doesn't turn off my lighter port when car is turned off and I'm not sure I'll remember to unplug it every time I get out of my car which could result in a dead battery. :/
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Yep, you've got it. Once I realized I had the skill to accomplish a workable version of anything is when I started noticing that there weren't many problems I cared enough about to feel like they were worth my time.

There are things I'm interested in implementing still. I still enjoy working in Ruby, and my Python's gotten rusty, but I actually work mostly in PHP these days (because of WordPress). I keep promising myself to learn Swift, but I lack Swift-type problems to solve that I care about.

The other thing, as one gets older and has a lot more experience: how much of your remaining unknown quantity of time are you willing to spend doing programming vs. some of your other life goals?
Who is in charge of the emotions of an individual?
Lasers make a lot of sense in space, much more so than in the atmosphere.
VW PhpUnit makes your failing tests pass CI tools scrutiny
Maybe that relationship would've been seen as anti-competitive? As in, lots of scrutiny / regulatory hoops. Just a thought.
I wish I wasn't reading this on the ACLU but in the mainstream press.
> But making coverage mandatory also ignores long term second-order effects whereby organization becomes completely disconnected from the people it serves

I don't see how you can argue that it ignores this in the case where people advocating for mandatory fire protection coverage advocate that the agency through which the fire protection is provided be democratically accountable to the people in the covered area, which pretty much excludes anyone advocating public coverage in the modern developed world; addressing that effect is a central purpose of democratic accountability.
Hey there! Can I apply to YC Research for my AGI research project? :)
On some platforms you can render your React components server-side and have the JS take over. ReactJS.net, for example, has this capability.
Lies?

Most people on the receiving reading words on a screen do not react this way. I wonder why? Perhaps Criado-Perez is an exceptionally sensitive individual.

Hm, reading further:

The messages were posted on a number of different sites, and continued after being blocked and or warned.

This goes well beyond "saying mean things on the internet" at that point, and is also well beyond the level of what this conversation is about. The behavior described in your link is nothing short of stalking. Something which is rightly already against the law.

(And I think you know that, and I think your accusation of "lying" is especially troublesome in that regard)

We're not talking about stalking and actively attempting to make someone else afraid for their life.
Well, considering the concept seems to more or less be "create your own community" I'm not sure there's a way to do this kind of tone policing without pretty much doing away with the concept.
It is true! https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3hs3v4/im_ma...
You're already using imagemagick's `convert` in that script - there's also `textcleaner -u`[1] which among other things automatically straightens slightly crooked text in scans (less than 5 degrees).

[1] http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/textcleaner/
The bigger an internet entity is, the harder it is for them to maintain free speech purism. The places with very liberal speech policies are small, niche places, sometimes mostly-abandoned places.
This is the direction most of the major players are trying to go.

I thought the same when I saw some of the visuals as well. I'd say Microsoft has the advantage in the enterprise/corporate space. Everyone uses Office already, and Power BI is included for free as add-ons to Excel since 2010. Power BI collaboration portals are also free for the equivalent of Amazon's $9 tier.

It's cool to see competition in this space. The real power isn't in building a better BI tool for BI professionals - that's pretty much a solved problem.

The problem is capturing and leveraging the business knowledge that lives in Excel spreadsheets or Google spreadsheets on business users' own drives. That's where a lot of this excitement comes in.
If they can destroy Ticketmaster I'll be happy.

Edit: And StubHub for that matter.
If it's any consolation, they were "normal people" before they became insanely wealthy. If anything, that's the point of YC .. to give "normal people" with intellect, determination and good ideas the chance to become "insanely wealthy" while improving the world.
.local is actually reserved for such purpose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
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Wow, I knew things were bad, but the education system must be well and truly broken when the students at one of the world's top research universities are leaving to build startups, and calling it a broken system on their way out. (No sarcasm intended; I couldn't find a way to say this better).
> we necessarily live with people we find tasteless and disgusting.

Sadly, there is a loose but large movement of people who disagree that this is inevitable and tolerable. Lots of people think that human society can and should prevent the distribution of any expression that is considered to exceed some subjective threshold of tastelessness or offensiveness. This movement is, of course, an explicit and unabashed call for rigid suppression of free expression, and is something I oppose wholly.