skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the problem is that the client is what Google marketed.

The client should have been nothing but a tech demo. The potential power of Wave was in that it could move totally arbitrary data between independently federated servers, and had support for robots that could manipulate that data in arbitrary ways.

It could have been a Facebook/Twitter/Flicker/Whatever killer, but Google got tied down with working on the bloated UI rather than building out the platform and letting others handle the frontend of it.
The practical purpose of marriage is to give protections to the woman who bears a greater liability in childbearing.

That is maybe one practical purpose of marriage, but it's not the legal basis, and there's a lot more to it from a societal perspective.

I think the lawyer/client and doctor/patient argument is interesting, but feels a little hollow, because people are in a position to choose to become doctors, lawyers, clients, and patients freely. There is no inherent discrimination in those relationships. Would you expect a special class of legal relationships between a black man and a white woman? I wouldn't.
Marriage has evolved over time. If it didn't, then it probably wouldn't be around any more.

Examples:
-Inter-racial marriage was once illegal in the US. Now it's not.

-Marriage was used as a tool to forge alliances between royal families in Europe. Now it's not.

-In Europe, it was once common for a bride's family to pay a dowry as a part of the marriage agreement. Now it's not.

My point is that elements of our collective cultures evolve all the time. The concept of marriage exists to serve culture that it's a part of, not the other way around.
Am I mistaken or do these look like fractals?
I guess my new wave client is even more dead. http://micro-wave.appspot.com
If that's the case, why not just pay him $100 million directly and cut out the middlemen?
I guess my new wave client http://micro-wave.appspot.com is a little more dead.
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-1 Horses can't give meaningful consent, silly.

+1 You spelled bestiality correctly.
i wonder if the mormons try to get polygamy going amidst all that gay marriage talk

that would be interesting.
Survey finds significant number of iPhone users want handwriting recognition
> Statistically speaking, somewhere between 4% and 8% of the HN population will be very interested in this news

If you're using the stats I think you are, you probably mean "directly affected by" the news. As a California resident, I am very interested in this story but I don't need to see it at the top of HN.
I did this for a little while when it first came out and actually ranked pretty well, however the novelty wore off quickly. You basically just fold it into the basic shape, attach bands in a certain places and then have it attempt to optimize it. Then you shake it and let it optimize again hoping to get it out of a local max. Repeat, a lot. Not much fun or much of a game compared to other such applications i've seen (there was a google techtalk on using human computation via games for object detection in photos and other things).
Be Inspired (By Everything) 07
This it the seventh edition of Be Inspired and it’s certainly a mixture this week, we’ve got posters, adverts, typography, stop motion, print, illustration, packaging and plenty more. Hope you enjoy this week’s collection.
There might be gay marriage activists that are all about the subsidies, but this really isn't what the pro gay marriage movement is about. I understand that you see these subsidies as grossly unfair, but given that not everybody agrees, or even considers the subsidies to be the primary motivation for supporting gay marriage, calling supporters jerks as though they were all intentionally pushing for increased unfairness is kind of a dick move.
... I have to go return some video-tapes.
Check out the literal web log:

http://literally.barelyfitz.com/

Sadly, it seems to be dormant.
That’s why there is Congress. That’s why there is a Supreme Court. That’s why there are independent state and local governments. That’s why there are term limits.
No, the protocol and a basic server implementation are still open source. You will need a new provider I guess. Keep it alive!
Then I'm sorry but you clearly don't understand Constitutional law. One of the first lines in the article is the proposal that this proposition be rendered as applicable to homosexuals as a suspect class, meaning that the law should be rendered as a judgement under strict scrutiny. The circumstances and testimony clearly supported overturning the law on the basis of strict scrutiny.
That looks like some pretty dubious use of a microeconomic framework which would be better explained using the standard idea of marketing leads to an increase in demand, conventionally represented by an outward shift in the demand curve.

Formally, the demand curve represents the (individual or collective) budget constraint - the maximum people are willing and able to purchase at any given price. Telling an individual/group that to get a particular "special price" they need to [collectively] spend more than the total amount they're willing to spend doesn't work; for [some of] the consumer[s] the reduced rate is still too high to induce them to buy the full minimum quota.

Unless, as in the case of Groupon, the group considering making the purchase expands beyond the existing market for those products. It's straightforward marketing, given a bit of a viral push as the consumer has an incentive to raise awareness of the deal in order to guarantee getting it. More people interested in a product means a greater level of demand at any price point; there's nothing magic about that.
Without the subsidies, marriage would be nothing but a default contract. So in that case, I'd favor making the contract more general and including gays.

Incidentally, gay marriage activists also favor discrimination against the single. I didn't want to start a fight pitting one unfavored group against another, the gay marriage activists did. Now that the fight is on, I'm obviously going to support my team. But I'd much rather join with gays and fight for fairness rather than against additional discrimination.
I agree. We use Wave for all kinds of communication in our startup, and it's just an amazing tool for small workgroup communications and document drafting.

I'm actually rather peeved it's going away, because (1) I don't want to waste a bunch of time trying to migrate data out of Wave, and (2) there really isn't much out there that can replace Wave in our workflow. We use Wave as a GUI-editable wiki where documents gracefully age out of view, and it's just great for that. I'm really going to miss it.
Yea I just recently got into using it heavily with my remote devs and it has rocked my world.

Really bummed out about this. But then again when Google "kills" something they rarely pull the plug completely.. it either stays in limbo indefinitely or evolves into something else
Thank you for sharing this. I will definitely need to do more market research. As you said, right now this is just a hobby project. Hopefully, it will catch on in some niche. If not, at least I learned a lot from creating it.
How about a dolphin. They're pretty intelligent.
> I'll draw an analogy to the civil rights [...]

Who are you in this analogy? The only thing I can come up with is not flattering.
That's from the same guy who says Facebook is worth $100b
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2008/01/vc-sees-2b-ipo/
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Sorry about that. You must have caught me in the middle of a deploy. Should be all set now.
The problem with your argument is that you can join the "favored class" at any time so one could find that only gay singe people eventually subsidize all heterosexual marriages. So why not let gay people get married and if it gets to the point that the subsidies are so onerous then one would think single people - gay or straight - would be coming out of the woodwork to change that particular part of the law. You can't change everything at once and I think this is much more important from a non-religious ethical standpoint than any economic reason.
I think 1 is not a loophole because ultimately the reason you invest is so that you can consume more down the line, and that ultimate consumption should be taxed.

I also don't see problems with 3 or 4. 3 maybe if you get a "poor" person to buy something where they'll get reimbursed and then sell it back to you, but couldn't that be fixed by limiting the amount of reimbursement they get to their total income or some fraction of it?

2 does seem like a real potential problem. Maybe businesses would also have to pay the fair tax on their purchases of capital goods, but they can offset those taxes with credits from taxes they collect further down the line? So if a farmer spends 100k on a tractor and never sells anything, then he has to pay taxes on that tractor. If he later sells 100k worth of goods, he can cancel out the taxes he had to pay on the tractor. In theory, that 100k tractor should let him collect more than 100k additional revenue overall, so this should work out.
in two words : It was a good idea, but badly implemented. I'm not telling I would have done a better job than their engineers, but just have a look at the slow interface they made, and you will get my point..
Ick. I'm not sure I'd like to live in a giant cinderblock, especially not one with tiny windows spread all over the walls. It looks so disorienting, I don't think I'd ever feel comfortable in a room like that.
They should have added a small but visible "new blip" icon to Gmail. That would have gone a long way, and nobody would have complained about spamming.
The best solution I see to the "no IE9 for windows xp" problem if were not counting on Microsoft to do something is Chrome frame; but I think some big player (youtube, facebook etc..) would have to almost force it on users for it to cut down on those big percentages

http://www.google.com/chromeframe
If I could upvote this 100 times, I would. Well put.
Thanks. You just made my day!
To make an analogy: if there was law against selling alcohol to asians, I could use your reasoning to support that. I would say:

"I'm against selling alcohol to asians, because people who drink cause harm to themselves and to the society, for which I, as a non drinker, have to pay with my taxes. Reforming alcohol laws - that I'll get behind. Selling alcohol to asians, no. Asians are not ignorant. They have thought things through, recognize that it's unfair and still favor an unfair system. Why should I support them?"

In that hypothetical scenario I would be missing the same big point that you're missing: equality is much more important. Equality is about treating everybody (be it a good or bad treatment) the same. The opposite is discrimination. Your dislike of marriage in general does not justify in any way discriminating against gays by denying them marriage.
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Yikes! You are right.. what was I thinking adding the @font-face.

However, the rest of the css is used in all the tests as a base. I don't see how that would affect the test considering it's on all scenarios (except the no css scenario)

I use the javascript-based date as I found it to be quite accurate at in giving me the time difference from the time css is loaded until it's done. Thanks for the reminder.. I need to credit the testing JS to Steve Souders.. found in his article here:
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/03/10/performance-impa...
Exactly. This would be one of main arguments against the typical "it's a consensual adult thing, what is it to you!" argument for gay marriage. In fact, to many people, a polygamous relationship between a man and many wives would be more "natural"than gay marriage (e.g. some Muslim countries, where gayness may be punishable by death by Sharia law allows more than one wife).

Same logic applies to incestuous marriage, although this would be more extreme since there are very strong taboos against it (not throughout all history, though, e.g. in Ancient Egypt pharaohs mostly married their sisters).
I suspect they stopped teaching calligraphy drills in elementary school.
You don't have to be religious to notice that exclusively vanilla heterosexual marriage has been common to all advanced societies. There are plenty of other models, but any culture that rose to power picked the one.

It seems to me perfectly reasonable to assert that there will be unknown consequences to screwing with a system that has worked reasonably well.

The last time marriage was tinkered with back in the 60s, no fault divorce and alimony as normal were tacked on. Infidelity was also decriminalized. I find it very easy to believe millions of broken homes and fatherless children were a direct consequence. The social consequences in lower socio-economic strata have been severe in a way that educated people generally don't comprehend.

In conclusion, the conservative impulse to "conserve" social institutions that have a long track record of success is not fundamentally religious. It comes from the same place as environmentalism: don't go screwing with complex systems you probably don't fully understand.
that link nails browser back button
I wonder how long they've been planning it. The wave team was still promising API updates a few days ago (to fix some data api bugs with my wave client) http://micro-wave.appspot.com

It's especially odd as they just rewrote the wave API docs 3 days ago.
The people who are actually affected by it won.
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But we did vote on individual freedoms. We voted on every single one in the Constitution and in the Bill of Rights and in all the subsequent amendments. Each and every one required a vote.
I think arguing that it must be called 'marriage' is petty. Redefining that word and stretching it to encompass more things is just stupid and less useful.

Sure, give them the same rights if you like, but just call it a 'civil partnership'.

If it was just about the rights, then I'd expect people to be happy with that. But it seems to be more about forcing an opinion onto others, which I disagree with.
Wave was simply over-developed internally, and by the time it was released it had evolved an esoteric, private feature set and interface that had suited the Google beta testers. I for one was simply bewildered by the interface and found it difficult to incorporate into my workflow.
And the vast majority don't even know that it exists.
Just mind the air flow. If you don't actively bring in clean air from the surface, sleeping in a sub-basement is unhealthy in the long run.
I remember in about '06 there was a really complicated debate I mediated on the civil partnerships page. It basically boiled down to how civil partnerships were viewed; some editors were so dead set against not equating civil partnerships to marriage (in terms of them meaning essentially the same thing, just that marriage has a historical and social aspect to it).

Point is; the argument really did just boil down to your summary - there was no actual argument just lots of folded arms and grumbling.
I bet the Wave and GMail teams have some animosity between them, and neither wants to help the other, even though officially they're "playing for the same team".
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I feel the same way about Twitter, but still it seems like Twitter bashing. You're not proving a point in your first paragraph, merely your opinion. This is especially true with the "leave it for a month and miss nothing important". I'm sure some people (not me) would feel quite differently.
As Mark Twain said: "Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/ambiguity/straw-man/
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Saying that epoll's proponents perpetuate a myth that epoll is always faster than poll is either untrue or based on a biased selection of mistaken, untrustworthy epoll proponents. That's a classic strawman.

blasdel was out of line, but it was just words, it was on topic, and it was buried in a comment thread. By your own standard of "you get what you give", your response was disproportionate.

Anyways, like I've said, I'm looking forward to seeing how your poll/epoll hybrid works out, and to being proven wrong. I'll be glad to offer up any thoughts as you get it working.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've been impressed with Amazon. What eCommerce sites are doing a better job? If you are looking at the US you have Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Target (based on Quantcast traffic). Throw in Overstock and a handful of others, but Amazon still seems to be way ahead of everyone else.
Gays can also join the favored class at any time. As far as I know, there is no law saying a gay man cannot marry a woman.

Gay's don't want to join the favored class and neither do I. The only difference between myself and a gay person is the strength of our desires and the existence of desirable substitutes.
If they can get people via online casual gaming, which seems like their new strategy, they have way more chance.

People were never going to suddenly start using wave en masse. It doesn't solve a problem that they couldn't solve other ways.
You know what the complement of Kill Early/Often is? It's me never letting my shop use a new Google product ever again.

People invest time in adopting these technologies. Sure, with a little startup you take into account the fact that they might not be able to survive, but with Google you think hey, okay, let's use this thing. And you start developing your process around it. And then you get burned when it gets dropped with "Oh well we lost interest, okay we love you, bye bye!".

So today, my guys would have been better off sticking with their lousy wiki that having switched to Wave (despite the fact that they liked it and felt it increased their productivity - personally, I never warmed up to it).

Fool me once...
But enough of us do to make it relevant.
"I can easily make a case that it is more professional than his current logo"

Please do. It's not obvious to me.
"See my comments in RED" still rocks.
Perspective on why Google Wave died, from an actual user
Design always matters - but good design does not necessarily equate to "pretty"
Christopher Hitchens on the Topic of Cancer
Region locked - You have to have the US version of the game to play against US players and no playing against South Korea.

Removed 'spawn' install - locked down installation so you can play 1 copy on several computers - but only with each other.

The single player campaigns are going to be broken up into 3 $60 games.

There's the Real-id fiasco that they've backed off a little bit on.

User made maps aren't files that can be passed around, they MUST be hosted on bnet's servers, and there's a 25MB limit per-account.

--

However you fall on the question, the real problem is we end up not talking about the various merits of the game and how much we can't wait to play it, but instead dissect the policies surrounding the game.

Also, what happens when battle.net is down?
I'd like to see this money used to establish a scholarship program for struggling countries. The first wave of students is brought to the US, Canada, UK, France, Japan, etc. and taught a range of subjects with a mandatory teaching course added on, the only contingency is that they return to their own (or another underdeveloped country) and remain there for a minimum duration of X years so we're not just adding a new migration path. The second wave (in say 5 years) is an in-country scholarship where this new generation can be taught by the first wave (remember 1 student /= 1 teacher, however you don't need 1 teacher to teach 1 student), those that didn't become teachers will likely be establishing businesses or supporting their local economy.

A significant portion of the scholarships should also be going to fund apprenticeships to get people certified as competent electricians, plumbers, brick layers, mechanics, etc. There's no point putting someone through university if there's going to be no one around to help build a university in their country, or their business office, etc.

One of the struggling points of our own economies is that we're vastly short handed in the skilled trades to the point that many countries (Australia) basically hands out citizenships to people with these skills. It would be asinine to play economics and screw up right off the bat. We need to educate in controlled proportions from the top and to the bottom of our own skill ladders.

I know people who are incredibly smart who can't use a hammer. Who would build their house, repair their roof, reside their property, replace their windows, etc. We're talking about regions with a high proportion of natural disasters, and they'd need a good supply of skilled workers to ensure a tragedy like Haiti doesn't happen because buildings aren't constructed to modern codes.
The rich are a minority group. Regressive taxation seems pretty uncontroversial, though highly discriminatory.
wow. i clicked the link expecting to see how much has changed, but after viewing i've realized how little has changed. #6 (save for the lady walking in the back) looks like it could have been shot yesterday somewhere in NY.
What's cooler:

1) a smallish hunk of cash

2) a thriving enterprise built around your vision for improving how people communicate

The Etherpad sellout was, and is, the most disappointing acquisition I can remember.
Train Laying It's Own Track
Phone your blog on a self-hosted wordpress installation
There's an active "school choice" movement, and they're working for policies which enable choice: e.g. charter schools, voucher programs, and choice open enrollment for public schools, as they do in Seattle.

Cynically, the reason choice is restricted is it's easier to do a bad job and get away with it when you have no competitors to be compared against. Because the public schools get substantial funding from the government, an entrepreneur generally can't compete on equal footing unless they have similar funding of some sort as well. Hence vouchers & charter schools as a mechanism for choice.
Guide to the Philippines Startup Community
In your analogy, the only discrimination is against asians, unless you mean to imply that there are subsidies for drinking (in which case, I'd favor ending both subsidies and anti-asian laws). In the circumstance under discussion, there is discrimination against both gay couples and single people, and I favor eliminating all discrimination rather than moving a small group from the unfavorable to the favorable group.

Suppose I reversed things. I want to allow single people to stop subsidizing married straight couples, but still require gays couples to pay subsidies. Would you favor that? Somehow, I doubt it.
Is buzz doing any better?
Gulf Oil Spill Is Already Half Gone.
Google, Verizon working on net neutrality deal
We wrote this in response to the HN discussion "Ask HN: Best Startup City - Outside the USA?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565375

The blog post is a profile of the Philippines and who you should meet, and what you should do there if you are thinking of moving or visiting the country.
In another variation, the teacher actually had to physically press the (fake) pupil's hands onto the device that gave electric shocks. IIRC, this squicked out a few more people, but quite a large portion still went through with it.
I can attest that it's hard to get into iStock. I've had only had one photo approved from 6 I've submitted and mostly those were photos others thought were pretty good on Flickr. One of the photos rejected had been used in publication before (for free).
The part I've been waiting for years to hear was:

"We recommend sending IE9 the same standards-based markup your site sends other browsers. "