skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But in the United States that I'm living in, saying anything bad about "all Christians" is a consistent political death sentence.

It is in some places but not others.

And, the last I looked, not being electable isn't a huge burden. There are lots of things that make one unelectable in one jurisdiction or another.

Do you really think that that's comparable?
Very good Mac keyboard remapper: http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele
Before I reply, I'd like to find out what you mean by that statement.

Do you mean, "Let us be willfully blind and refuse to engage our senses, not recognizing any differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals despite large behavioral differences (beyond sexual preference) which do exist."

Or do you mean, "Despite your arguments, I categorically state that no differences between these groups exist (beyond the sexual preference of each). I state this without any argument of my own, please accept it for no reason that I care to state."
Charlie Rose and guests on Goldman Sachs Lawsuit
Ask HN: Could you please help me appreciate OS X more?
The Q&D version:

I'm a PHP and MySQL start up employee and run Gnome and Ubuntu at work and home for the last 6 years or so. Gnome is not pretty but its keybindings are consistent and simple. Debian package management is awesome for evaluating possible platform additions in a relatively native environment (lots of rpm boxes).

However, I bought a Macbook Pro to smooth over Linux's rough home-use areas like phone syncing and media use, and because it had been so highly recommended as a development platform (after you got used to it, which is way less time than I have used it).

It looked promising and the hardware is way better, but what am I missing? TextMate? That package is pretty great but don't grok it yet.

Thanks.
...you have to make a case for choosing a segment of our population (homosexuals) that is more likely to do drugs, have psychiatric problems, etc., etc., and singling them out to allow adoption

We are not singling them out to allow adoption, unless by "singling out" you mean "including in the same privileged class as straight housewives, baristas, scientists, garbage collectors, members of the armed service, naturalists, and, depending on the state, convicted felons."

Seriously. Parents come in all shapes and sizes--surprisingly few restrictions are placed. Why are gay people barred from adopting when longitudinal studies show their parenting outcomes are basically indistinguishable from "normal" families?
Hey, I've built an entire career on decommissioning Lotus Notes platforms. It is a lovely niche...
I suppose. I just don't like the fact that the article exists solely based on the premise that a nonhomosexual has to justify speaking up for a homosexual.

It's that precise dichotomy and separation that we need to be moving away from, not framing entire blog posts about.
In paypal did you use a credit card? Or did you pay with pay pal credits?

If you paid with your credit card, call the credit card company.

I would alert the scams section of craigslist, just for the sake of alerting them.

I would pay straight cash next time.
1 parent is still better than 0.
I've always thought that [gay | labor | women's | black's | etc] rights all collapse to merely human rights, and find it curious that we see the need to carve it up in a whole bunch of special cases.
As a gay geek, I found myself drawn to Turing's story - a tragic story of (probably) unrequited love as a schoolboy, a heroic story of a great thinker and war hero, and a heart-wrenching story of humiliating rejection by the same country he served.

I'm surprised JGC was assumed to be gay for standing up for Alan Turing, but proud that he handled the assumptions well. From our perspective, Turing's story is so much bigger than his sexuality. But to the common person, who likely knows little to nothing about Turing beyond what the news says - that he was convicted of homosexuality by his country - this advocacy appears to be one for gay people.

Thank you, Mr. Graham-Cumming, not just for standing up for Turing, but for simply explaining you are not gay without getting defensive. Too often, straight men handle being assumed as gay as a terrible and dehumanizing accusation.
When I first found HN I would eat up every design and technical story. I was all "w00t new knowledge!". Now I look at half the stories and go "bah, I bet that guy just discovered closures" or whatever. Amusingly, at that time I had been looking for a new "way technical" community to learn from, and now I'm here going "man, either HN sucks or i need to level-up". Looking at the 3 years ago page, I realized I need to go level-up.

tl;dr -- anecdotal evidence of iamwill's point.
No, the Church didn't do that--the state (Emperor) sentenced him thusly. Read the article more carefully.
The upside is that working for TechCrunch can get you networked into the right group of self-righteous windbags in case you want one of your ideas to get hyped up one day.

The downside is that Arrington has a history of making emotional business decisions, attacking people in a public forum, and throwing his own men to the wolves to boost his self image.
I love these things, as a gay coder I get to feel special and like I'm representing my kind with my views. ;) In my experience, it's not geeks specifically that are more accepting, but educated people in general. It seems obvious but I think that's all it is.
This is the most mind blowing thing I've seen done in Javascript yet. Yes, I realize Google's NaCl and V8 are far more mind blowing on a technical level, but this impresses from the user point of view—it doesn't look anything like "the web" but
it is all web. Great magic trick!

Can anyone think of a more disgusting, perverted use of the web stack than this? There's a reason nobody uses html and Javascript to represent an MMO game engine. But they did it and it look incredible!

Everyone betting long html5 right now is going to win in the end, because the browser will eventual become the universal UI and slurp in all other "micro-platforms". Yes Apple, this means Cocoa Touch too...

If the folks making Aves wanted to really blow everyone's minds, they would make Aves output Objective-C code. Then you write your iPhone/iPad game in html/javascript, port it to Objective-C, and you're done. Since Apple has publicly blessed PhoneGap, we know html/javascript will never fall under the exclusionary rule 3.1.1. This means Apple just setup html/javascript to be the victor on mobile and gaming platforms.
> I think the most pertinent point is that the U.S. has in fact acted in an imperialist way over the past half century or so, and has killed a very large number of people in the process, many of which happen to be Muslim.

I'm not seeing the relevance.

Precisely how does what the US has done explain threatening the South Park guys?
Run Windows for a few weeks ;)
Cool. Interesting to contrast this attitude with the approach behind (the failure of) Xanadu: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html
Why? they had their chance! It was a hetero couple that created & ditched the kid in the first place+. Every couple has their own yin-yang dynamic, and it has very little to do with whether they're an innie or an outy.

+ Ignoring tragedies, of course.

Edit: footnote symbol caused formatting changes.
All of this for a damn phone.
Sure, I agree with that, but it is nice to show the world that "non-members of group X" can stand up for group X anyway. This is still a bit of a tricky thing. See non-members sticking up for a group can imply weakness, and goes against certain empowerment based philosophies. Think how many times you've seen the equivalent of "I don't need you to fight my battles" in some "X movement" themed movie.
I donno about you, but I never thought the author was. I wonder how many people here did.
> I have never encountered a rational argument for homophobia.

A gay friend told me about the theory that homophobia is misogyny e.g. some people are homophobic because they don't like men acting like women (mannerisms, dress, voice pitch, sensitivity) because they dislike women.
I fight the Internet with Internet memes. In this case, "pics or it didn't happen".
I'm not so sure about labor rights... More info needed.
That's just the thing. If we could realize that it's the same issue over and over again, perhaps it would become less of an issue. If only.

In US-parlance, all men are created equal.

We said that right off the bat. Once we decided that by men, we meant people, what further argument is there to have? All means all.
Yep. Lot of shitty employers out there.
CSIRO megatrends report
The five interrelated megatrends identified in the report are:

1. More from less. This relates to the world’s depleting natural resources and increasing demand for those resources through economic and population growth. Coming decades will see a focus on resource use efficiency.
2. A personal touch. Growth of the services sector of western economies is being followed by a second wave of innovation aimed at tailoring and targeting services.
3. Divergent demographics. The populations of OECD countries are ageing and experiencing lifestyle and diet related health problems. At the same time there are high fertility rates and problems of not enough food for millions in poor countries.
4. On the move. People are changing jobs and careers more often, moving house more often, commuting further to work and travelling around the world more often.
5. i World. Everything in the natural world will have a digital counterpart. Computing power and memory storage are improving rapidly. Many more devices are getting connected to the internet.
The five interrelated megatrends identified in the report are:

1. More from less. This relates to the world’s depleting natural resources and increasing demand for those resources through economic and population growth. Coming decades will see a focus on resource use efficiency.
2. A personal touch. Growth of the services sector of western economies is being followed by a second wave of innovation aimed at tailoring and targeting services.
3. Divergent demographics. The populations of OECD countries are ageing and experiencing lifestyle and diet related health problems. At the same time there are high fertility rates and problems of not enough food for millions in poor countries.
4. On the move. People are changing jobs and careers more often, moving house more often, commuting further to work and travelling around the world more often.
5. i World. Everything in the natural world will have a digital counterpart. Computing power and memory storage are improving rapidly. Many more devices are getting connected to the internet.
It has bash but with a lot of good software and hardware makers support it. Use mac ports. There are a lot of reasons to stick with ubuntu, just depends on how well you know linux, and how much time you want to spend on things when they don't work on linux. Otherwise you just have to stick with what apple allows, and but be happy with the stability.
“I loved my time in the Marines, and the U.S. is still a great country,” she said. “But having lived here 20 years and having to pay and file while seeing other countries’ nationals not having to do that, I just think it’s grossly unfair.”

“It’s taxation without representation,” she added.

I wish people would stop misusing that phrase.
Will Foursquare Badges Really Help Newspapers?
Okay, this type of reasoning really is starting to get to me. You aren't the first to mention it in this thread, but it is wrong. Let me ask you this: if you are designing a phone, how else would you test it?

You have to take it out into the real world and test it in real world situations. They gave it to a trusted employee and disguised it as much as they could. And the guy lost it. It's a known risk and it happens.

The choice then became to either activate the GPS and track the phone (potentially making the leak worse) or wipe it. Apple chose to remotely wiped it as soon as they could.

They did what they could to adequately test the new phone and protect it at the same time.
I don't think that convicted felons, baristi, or garbage men are great choices for adoption either. The first, obviously, the second two because we can afford to have high standards. We can afford to insist on college degrees and middle-class incomes. High standards.

Now, the problem that gay men seem to have with sexual abuse (while Catholic) wasn't enough to give you pause? It gives me pause. I'm even worried about allowing men (gay or straight) to be baby sitters. Because sexual abuse is an out-sized male thing. Does it bother me that men would be harmed by this restriction? No. Identity politics disgust me, even white male identity politics.

On to your argument. Why have high standards for adoption? Because there are too many people who want to adopt (white kids), and too few (white) kids to go around. Hence, we can be demanding.

Arguments to be "fair" don't go far with me.
Angel is a legally meaningless term. Some investors provide benefits beyond cash in certain cases while others don't.

> What's the legal reason behind having "accredited investor" status - what can an accredited investor invest into that a civilian cannot?

Those are two separate questions.

The reason is to "protect" investors.

Companies can accept investment from accredited investors in certain situations but not from unaccredited ones. These situations involve registration, disclosure, and other things.
i have absolutely no clue. i was browsing hn as normal and saw my name on the front page, so I did a double take thinking i was on a comment/threads page.
I remapped my keyboard so I can press CTRL with my thumb (it's where ALT conventionnaly is). No need to use pinkies and alternate between left and right CTRL!
I really feel like there should be some type of online hall of shame where really shitty employers like this can be named
Ironically enough, a homophobic friend told me about the theory that homosexuality is misogyny e.g. some men are homosexual because they dislike women and don't want to associate with them.

Interestingly enough, I'm pretty sure my comment will shock more people than your comment--even though both comments posit some sort of handwavy unsubstantiated psychological theory nakedly constructed to fit some sort of political bias, yours sounds better because it fits the political bias most of us--myself included--agree with.

Or--to put it a more direct way--speculating about the psychology of people who disagree with you is an especially useless type of ad hominem.
If windows ever got proper shell support and no windows power shell is nowhere close. Haven't used windows in over 3 years, and tried it recently. I think there filesystem and, there user permissions are not implemented well.
Interesting coincidence... I just went to a talk by MIT professor Sherry Turkle where she mentioned that publishers were questioning if the 'longform' of her book (~17,000 words I think) could actually sell. Her answer was that the only way to adequately deal with the complex issues she addressed was in this format.
"but that discussion is customary"

Perhaps, but I've never seen anyone I respect advise doing exit interviews of any sort. While this article is HR department centric, it covers the issues very well: http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/haexit.htm
Ask HN: Best Ruby News Sites?
Which Ruby news sites do you use? For example, http://planetrubyonrails.com and http://rubyflow.com.
I installed macports and emacs and kept using OSX like any other unix-like terminal. But in all honesty I prefer my freebsd box for dev over my osx laptop. Using standard unix foo on OSX isn't quite as clean as it is on bsd.

Except for the nice iphoto,safari,mail experiences where it's better to treat it like a nice GUI, they've done a pretty good job. If you're not happy with it, just go back to linux for dev and keep on with osx for your phone sync and media. Why make life hard for yourself?
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
I say less PowerPoint, more Latex.
We’re looking for a Relentlessly Resourceful hacker

Why would someone fitting that description want to work at TC?
Legal issues aside, I would have been cool with it if they'd taken their scoop then made an attempt to return the phone. Instead they kept it and screwed over the poor guy who lost it.

Funny how I have no sympathy for them whatsoever now.
Yeah, for my personal website I'm about to try out node.JS with MongoDB -- I think it will be an exciting experiment. As more frameworks grow up around technologies like these, I really think server-side JavaScript makes a ton of sense -- most importantly, it can lead to a lot more sharing of application logic between the static and client-side JS parts of a site.
Odd, I made no assumptions about jgc's sexuality. I guess I assumed he was straight if anything. Just one geek rising in defense of another.
Just what I needed to complement my OpenBSD learning (right now I have OpenBSD installed in my only computer). There is also an entry at the OpenBSD Journal.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2010042621303...
I work in construction and I work with guys who haven't graduated high school, but they can easily perform the basic arithmetic required for the latter of the tasks, and they're frequently doing the former when discussing everything from radio stations to movies and video games.

For anyone who graduated college and can't accomplish these thoughtless tasks, all I can say is that they wasted way too much money to essentially get dumber than your average high school dropout. Similar procedures can be performed for a much more reasonable price and involves taking a hammer to the flattest part of a persons skull . . . although I'm unsure even a major concussion and amnesia could make someone dumb enough to forgot how to do 1 + 1 + 1
Cool project i like it a lot...i always make 3 columns on a legal pad so this is perfect! Definitely would love to save the completed lists - for V2 it would be very cool to have them pulled up from a calendar format so you could see what you TODO list looked like at the end of each day
Mint’s Founder on Blippy: I Don’t Get It
Is mezzanine capital the current answer for entrepreneurs?
Authentic Sales
"I don’t care if you are going to get the VP of product on the line to reiterate what you just said.
I don’t care if you tell me how much you love my product, especially when you don’t use it
Not only do I not care but these “big company” things but they make me kinda worried you are not the right fit for my company."
Summer Reading List: The B-School Edition
Wtf... What's the point of using Node.js if you don't use it as an event based HTTP server.
After the economic crisis, reviving the old debate: Shareholders v stakeholders
Devils advocate: a child raised by the gay couple might be stigmatized by its peers, so in the best interest of the child it might be better for the child to be raised in traditional nuclear family. If you look at it that way it is also a chicken and egg problem.
He's a bit delusional...

I agree that Yahoo is the C-list, but Mahalo is the bigger resume stain, unless you're making a career in spam.
Sadly, it has no direct CLI equivalent. You may find http://p4delta.sourceforge.net/ useful, however; it's like `svn up` for Perforce.
heh I have never heard of gnomes keybindings being called "consistent", they dont even have a consistent shortcut to close the window, let alone things like preferences.

that being said I work on osx and ubuntu most days and much prefer ubuntu, the osx window manager is pretty funky and underpowered compared to gnomes and theres a lot of annoyances to get around, the dock thats impossible to get rid of, having to change keyboard layouts etc etc.

I have been using the mac close to a year now and still seem to be in a fairly similiar situation of not being comfortable with it, I am just waiting for someone to make some nice hardware thats fully supported with ubuntu.
Pyevolve 0.6rc1 released
Agreed, they haven't even entered my mind in over a decade. It's long enough to declare a person legally dead, so I guess it's about time that the floppy has been declared legally dead.

RIP my old friend, I once remember installing windows off of 30-something of you.
Sorry, but I'm not sure why I wouldn't just use KeePass? KeePass is both free and open source:
http://keepass.info/
Sure, there are certain differences in the median characteristics of different demographic groups. The median teenager is a less safe driver than the median 30-something (as reflected in insurance costs). The median man is, likely, more promiscuous than the median woman. And so on.

Nonetheless, it's a tenet of polite, modern society that slight demographic variations are not turned into generalizations over entire demographic groups.

Not allowing gay people to adopt because they're "more likely" to commit abuses is discrimination, whether or not you have the data to prove the logical statement.
If it's Vista, I'd agree, but Windows 7 is quite stellar.

The question that no one has been able to answer is: why is this Mac:
http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC372LL/A?mco=MTc0Njg1OD...
selling for $1999

and this PC:
http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/notebooks/inspiron-1564/pd.as...
selling for $829

Both have a 15 inch display, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, and an Intel Core i5 processor. Is having OS X worth more than double the price? If I go with the PC, for $1999 I could buy one for home (running Windows 7) and one for the office (running Ubuntu), and still have money for a printer and digital camera.
I have the same problem, although for a different language, and solved it by using a shortcut (alt-ctrl-k) to switch between layouts (en-us,etc). I do it both on KDE and fluxbox, which are fairly easy to configure and the "mental" switch is not problematic.
By that logic, we shouldn't allow ugly couples to adopt either. WAY too stigmatizing. :-)
Are you saying being raised in a foster home makes for a better childhood than having two loving (same sex) parents?
As amusing as this kind of stuff is in a Schadenfreude kind of way, can't we relegate it to ValleyWag where it belongs?
Just for my information, what do you mean by parenting outcomes? How is that defined?
Another promising Gen Y-er leaves after one year and a couple of days, shockingly right on time to vest their first cliff of stock options (25%).
...
I know it's unprofessional to leave after 12 months

Really?! Sounds reasonable to me. It also sounds like their compensation might be setup to encourage the exact thing he's complaining about.

The most frustrating part is not losing a great person--which happens--but rather watching someone with promise set their career back five years in order to have their salary jump ahead by three years.

Trading massive advancement to pop your salary, is a career move I could never understand.

When I read the resignation email it sounded like the guy was looking forward to some new technical opportunities. I suspect Jason may have misunderstood some people's motivations and what their idea of "massive advancement" is. Given that he didn't try and get a pay rise, I don't think this was about popping his salary.
Android Fencing ScoreKeeper
I mean, I don't like it either, but it's not at all uncommon for straight men to avoid standing up for gay men for fear of being perceived as gay.

I don't see the article as a defense of JGC's sexuality in any way, but as a challenge to stand up for justice even of those who are different from us.
It's amazing what people can overcome by simply being truthful and logical.
nope… you're right. I mistyped that.