skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> And Skype, I don't know. I use it in a daily basis. It doesn't seem to be that bad.

Likewise. I know they neglected the Linux client (which I used to use) for years and then replaced it with some new browser based thing. This 'ruined Skype' claim has been made several times with each Microsoft buys GitHub story. What exactly do people have in mind when they claim Skype was ruined?
When he was ten years old he would write letters to his favorite game developers and publishers describing his love for their games and seeking advice on how to become a game maker.

Yea I did that too.

I fondly remember one such response from Seth Robinson, the creator of the Dink Smallwood PC RPG. I was asking him how to get into making RPGs and if I could help him on some project in the future maybe. I believe I was 14 at the time and had done some mods to MCM, Carmageddon and was working on a space shooter with the 3DRAD and the just unveiled Unreal engine.

His curt response was that he wouldn't start talking with me for less than $100,000.

Always a great way to interact with kids who are trying to get into your industry.
Yes. That's part of what makes that surgeon a professional - that they ignore their bias and do their job. If they cannot provide that standard of conduct they are unfit to be a surgeon.
I don't think any editions of Visual Studio are available as Open Source software. The Community thingie is gratis but doesn't come with source code.

There's VSCode (is that OSS?) but that's not an edition of VS but rather a whole different product.
VsCode is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
A pretty resounding victory for the baker, with 7-2 vote siding with him, but also a very narrow ruling. I’m curious what will happen the next time this happens in a more controlled situation, without the gotchas of this trial.
I think it would be wise for doctors to do this. Does your family physician administrate chemotherapy drugs? No, he refers you to a specialist. It would be wise for any doctor to do the same when he's unfamiliar with the patients uniqueness.
They're present even in Enterprise versions. The worst part? Every time you upgrade you get all the garbage back: games, ads, etc.

I was stupid when testing W10 and didn't backup W7 so I was left with W10. My solution? Bought MBP's for my whole team, and buying more as we grow. I've been MS since ms-dos and walked thru all the versions since 95 (excluding Vista), but now I'm happy Apple guy. All it took was Win 10. :/ I'm kinda missing Win UI but OMG how much I hated W10...I felt so betreyed :(
This argument is a lot like saying "Let God decide" when in reality it is people doing the deciding.
Changing the guard
Inadequate clothing is not a protected class under the Civil Rights Act. Hence there are major legal differences between refusing to serve a person because they are black, and refusing to serve a person because they are shirtless.
> they are a different company now

To name a some of their recent misbehavior: Windows 10 ads and telemetry, Skype, GPL license violation (ie still actively working against FOSS)

To me MS keeps proving they are still exactly the same company they've always been. They tend to be better at hiding it from public, I have to give them that.
I can’t believe there are comments here supporting the “baker’s right” to refuse service on these grounds.

>The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that Mr. Phillips’s free speech rights had not been violated, noting that the couple had not discussed the cake’s design before Mr. Phillips turned them down.

This is a public business refusing service to a person(s) because of their sexual orentiation.

This is no different than refusing service to an interracial couple because you dont believe in race-mixing.

Yes, they could have gone to another bakery but that isn’t the point. Do you understand why anti-discriminatory laws exist? Step out of your privileged bubble and read some fucking civil rights and LGBT history.
Well, I'm generally for gay rights, but I think the decision was correct, not only on the narrow grounds it was actually decided on.

As far as I know, the baker did not refuse to sell the gay couple a wedding cake.

He refused to put the inscription on top himself. He offered the couple to either buy a pre-made cake with a standard inscription or – if they didn't want that (because it's obviously lower quality than a 100% hand-made cake) – to go to another bakery he recommended.

Presumably (but I don't know if he actually offered this) he would have been okay with selling his cake and the gay couple having someone else inscribe the cake.

Although the blogs loved to depict the case as "gay-hater refusing service to gays", it was really a case of "religious baker doesn't want to personally write on top, because he felt in this way he was giving his blessing".
No they can't. Exposing your ass and being shirtless aren't protected classes. You can't refuse service because someone is black, because it is a protected class.
"We don't serve whites here"

"We don't serve women here"

"We don't serve Chinese here"

"We don't serve emacs users here"

"We don't serve zerg rushers here"

"We don't serve pubg players here"

"We don't serve Ayn Rand fans here"

"We don't serve sex offenders here"

"We don't serve bearded fellows here"

"We don't serve tank top wearers here"

"we don't serve smokers here"

"We don't serve short people here"

"We don't serve underhand servers here"

"We don't serve pedophobes here"

"We don't serve <subset of humans> here"

It doesn't matter. It is his choice and his business.
The markets didn’t decide to only allow bakers that served all races to stay in business - the federal government passed a law that required bakers to serve all races and the market complied.

Capitalism actially straight up sometimes requires regulation. Sorry.
You're right, Monday morning. :)
False analogy: Christianity is a common religion. The baker was a believer. What part of it mentions African Americans?
Compared to not being treated at all? I might very well be willing to take my chances.

Also, the market's capacity to support surgeons is limited; not everyone who wants to can be a surgeon. And you get better at what you do with experience/practice and with employment in a place where you learn from other qualified folks. Laws that make life hard for surgeons who hate some of their patients have the effect of opening up positions for potential surgeons who wouldn't hate some of their patients.

There is a question of just how fair this is to the surgeon / whether it violates some fundamental rights (which is what SCOTUS was addressing here), but there is absolutely a benefit to society in legislating hateful surgeons out of their jobs.
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These laws exist because the market doesn't work the way we want them to. If discriminatory businesses failed because they were discriminatory, we wouldn't need such laws.
What about a house? Is it OK to deny a gay couple the "privilege" of home ownership? 'cause that's where this is really going,

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/gop-congressman...
These Supreme Court cases are rarely “one guy wants this and is astonished to find that this other guy won’t sell to him.” Both parties are acting in full knowledge and desirous of a Supreme Court case.
This is probably the most important reason. Microsoft is doubling down on cloud, and they are willing to do anything to get ahead in this game. This is the sole reason why stocks are going up for Microsoft.
We can re-evaluate our stance on their policy then.
So a sign that says "No black people here" is totally fine?
Empowered as such business owners may be, remember that they are not free from the consequences of their discrimination.
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I look forward to reading the full ruling, but this seems a little ahistorical to me. If you look at the civil war era, there were plenty of people with "sincere religious beliefs that motivated" their enslavement of black people. And those religious beliefs continued to motivate "separate but equal" schools, segregated restaurants, and the like.

We're currently seeing a rise in white supremacist thinking, so much so that people are calling it a second Nadir. [1] And the religious motivations for gender bias are even more blatant. I don't think it'll be too many more years before we see a case where somebody refuses to serve black people or unaccompanied women and claims a religious motivation. I'm sure the Supreme Court won't accept that, but I don't know how they'll justify one sort of "sincere religious" bigotry but not the other.

[1] The first being the late 1800s through the early 1900s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_of_American_race_relatio...
That's super cheap! Who do you use?
Because Github wouldn't have been able to do the extinguish phase. Microsoft can, and will.
I love the logo. Beware those platforms might go after you for trademark violation.

(I'd personally argue you're making a joke and it should be protected under parody, but no one ever actually wants to go on a legal fight over a logo).

Really good concept though. Good work.
You are replying to the new CEO that bought sourceforge in 2016 and stopped the shady behavior and terrible practices.
I'd encourage you to provide some detail so people don't downvote you. Here's some links that I found from Google:

Judge: Doctors Have “Religious Freedom” to Refuse to Treat Trans Patients, Women Who’ve Had Abortions http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/01/03/doctors_may_re...

When doctors refuse to see transgender patients, the consequences can be dire https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/when-...

Will Health and Human Services Allow Doctors Refuse to Treat LGBTQ Patients? (Rating: True) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hhs-allow-doctors-to-refus...

Doctors Refuse to Treat Trans Patients More Often Than You Think https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5vwgg/doctors-refuse-to-...
And when it's ER staff that provide negligent care?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyra_Hunter
The literal definition of an analogy is that it uses a different scenario. That's not what false analogy means.
The ruling has a narrow scope (it was based on the way the lower court deliberated, not so much the substance of the issue).
You can look at all of the false precedents that are being extrapolated below to see how few of us read or understood this case well (I’m guilty here!)

What’s scary is how many of us are repeating arguments that the media narrativized this case with as a way of raising the stakes. So many “common sense” yet wrong arguments and conclusions being trotted out.
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The act say race,color, etc because this law is specific.

If we think this law is outdated and need to be expanded, there are due process to change the law.
We don't extend law just because we feel right.
Wasn't the original case here something along the lines of refusing to bake a cake with homosexual imagery on it, not necessarily because the customers were a homosexual couple?

The OP's point should be revised: It's the bakers right to bake cakes however they want. And that's mostly true. If a KKK member came in and asked for a cake with lynching imagery on it, its their right to refuse service. Everything more morally noble than that is just shades of gray, and you do not want the courts and law getting involved in that kind of shades of gray. Leave it to the markets.

I'm increasingly convinced that the left is moving us toward a 1984-era world of pushing every little offense into the courts and law. They don't understand how important these fundamental liberties are, which doesn't mean they can't be tempered with things like the Civil Rights Act, but the spirit is still important. When the 2A goes, that's when its all over.
This seems like an odd statement because the bakers refused service only because the content of what they were creating was not in line with whatever morals they had.

It would be _more_ like a doctor not performing a transgender operation.
That's pretty much what I was wanting to know. I figure since most web apps aren't doing a whole lot, there wouldn't be call for it for awhile. But once word finally gets around to the followers, there might be a bunch of need for it.

I guess I'm trying to figure out if I need to learn something like Rust in order to keep up with what's coming down the road. I've spent so many years doing client side, I don't have as much experience with lower level languages.

I've read that some benchmarks have shown it to be light weight, but there's a lot about it that is still just out of my experience. I do find it exciting because of how powerful it is potentially. I just don't want to invest to much into it if it's not going anywhere besides a few big companies I'll never work for. I do a lot of work for companies that build actual apps, not just user friendly sites. So it seems reasonable that they could be interested in it.
If it genuinely was a minority, infrequently held view it wouldn't be a big problem. This is why "people with red hair" isn't a protected class despite occasionally getting abuse on that basis. But unless there's some legal pressure you'd get whole counties or even states where it would be extremely hard for some people to get any kind of service at all.

"Equal marriage in this state is legal, but none of the registrars or venues are willing to have you" would be a pretty poor implementation of equal marriage.
That would have nothing to do with characteristics of their marriage, that'd be simple racial discrimination. The marriage would be an arbitrary detail in that scenario. I don't hold the same position as him, but if the guy genuinely believes he'd be punished in the afterlife for celebrating a same-sex marriage, then leave him alone. A wedding cake is not a basic human right.
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No, I wrote that comment because you are an abrasive member of the community who is writing direct insults to other members, calling them deranged, etc, and doing other things that are against the rules of the site. You are breaking the conversation here. You are distracting. You are lying. You are being abrasive and causing fights. You are calling people names and causing a big scene.

You ignored my entire post, and instead chose to post an off-topic question, further distracting and hurting the conversation. That is also against the rules. I'm responding to you so that others are more aware of the damage you are causing.

We are not "deranged" people for our thoughts on Facebook. Stop it.
I think this every time I hear Geiko ads.
How I wear my clothes, is a part of who I am correct? What if baggy pants is part of my religion?
If enough businesses reject gay customers, it imposes a financial and emotional cost on being gay. Large numbers of people don't think that's acceptable behavior from commercial entities.
There's two things called civil law:

1. The legal system [1], based on Roman law, that is common in former French colonies across the world (e.g. Quebec, Louisiana, France).

2. In common law legal systems, the branch of the law that deal with non-criminal matters [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(common_law)
I wonder if it’s possible to automaticaly have a mirror of my GitHub repositories to GitLab, or GitBucket.
Thanks for the context.
Plenty of engineers hit their cap at L5 or thereabouts (I'm sure if you look at the distribution of levels at your local bigco you'll see there's a sharp decline in numbers at some point), and not everyone is going to be part of a DINK engineering power couple.
It was released less than twelve months later.
FluidDATA definitely has a different model than PodScript.

FluidDATA doesn't expose the entire transcript. It currently only exposes the ability to search the transcripts of millions of podcasts.

For example, you can find podcasts that talk about SpeechBoard and Craig by searching: "speech board" + "craig canon"

https://fluiddata.com/search?term=%22speech%20board%22%20%2B...
Proprietary software used to be Microsoft's cash cow. That it is turning to different cash cows is actually a good thing for open source.

Companies have to make money, and originally, Microsoft made money just by selling proprietary software licenses. In these conditions, open source is their enemy, and they have to fight it. Now they do a bit of spying, a bit of cloud, a bit of hardware, etc... which mean they can cut open source some slack and focus on other evils.
Have you looked at blazor?
https://blazor.net/
A fairly similar case in the UK where a hotel owner refused a room to a gay couple, came down in favour of the couple.

I'd have to agree with that decision. If you want to run a business, you shouldn't be allowed to refuse people service based on their sexual orientation, race, level of education, sex, religion, etc.
Also import was the time and legal setting in which this occurred. From the judgment[1]:

> His dilemma was understandable in 2012, which was before Colorado recognized the validity of gay marriages performed in the State and before this Court issued United States v. Windsor, 570 U. S. 744, or Obergefell. Given the State’s position at the time, there is some force to Phillips’ argument that he was not unreasonable in deeming his decision lawful. State law at the time also afforded storekeepers some latitude to decline to create specific messages they considered offensive.

[1]https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf
Personally, I think that their evidence of prejudicial behavior was pretty weak, which is the stance that Ginsburg and Sotomayor took as well.

It will be interesting to see what happens the next time a case like this makes it to the Supreme Court. I was hoping we would get a decision that would set more precedent about this kind of "freedom of expression vs freedom of religion vs civil rights law" debate.
This is simply Facebook functionality being integrated into parts of the OS chrome.

We trust our devices not to exfiltrate our data every second we are typing on them. Tightly integrating social features into a mobile OS is not third party access unless the device maker in exfiltrating the data for any purpose other than encrypted cloud backup.
>>Ahead in what sense?

Refusing to move on to Android?

There was no real chance Symbian had in the post iPhone world.

Nokia forgot its USP, which was basically durable rugged hardware. Instead they tried to compete with the iPhone in the software department, it didn't work out too well.

Motorola is doing quite good with Android.
Setting aside the moral question for a moment, this seems like a terrible idea from a business perspective. Say nothing of the potential revenue they're turning away over their (bigoted) political views, they'll also lose business from bad PR.
No, actually it does because we have laws that says it does. The hell is with all the trolls coming in like the Civil Rights Act doesn't exist.
I don't understand why everyone is so against this, this means Github is going to become more useful and tools will be extended. Microsoft knows developers better than many of the other companies. Perhaps it would have made more sense to be a joint venture company between Google/Microsoft/Apple/Linux Foundation? I don't know? I think this is the second best alternative to that.
Please see the sibling comment for recent news stories and a Snopes link.
Without making a statement either way in regards to the ruling, one of the most critical issues in this case is whether or not writing a message on the cake is expressive.

Which is to say, that freedom of speech (or to not make speech) is at the center of this case. There is quite a bit of debate on whether or not decorating the cake is expressive conduct.

I can't see any way in which a surgeon operating on a patient is expressive, and therefore freedom of speech wouldn't come into it. Which means--even if the baker had won on expressive grounds (he didn't)--that the surgeon would still have no grounds for refusing the operate.
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I saw someone from DeepMind mention using RL for Recommender Systems at Google at their ICML 2016 presentation, but they were very tight lipped when I asked for more details.

Bandit algorithms are pretty popular in the ads world, and there is probably some use in extending that to the full RL setup.
You haven’t been using GitHub for open source then.

The best part of GitHub is the social part and that’s not currently replaceable. Also good luck migrating issues and their history of comments and PRs.
To be clear, doing something while disregarding a high chance of a side-effect is not the same as intentionally doing something. The reality is bad enough, no need to misrepresent it.
Wandering through linear types, capabilities and regions (2007) [pdf]
Sorry, I did not cover the motor system in the course.
Except the surgeon has no reason to care about the sexual orientation of their patient. In the baker's defense, the couple's sexuality influences the end result of the cake that will then be put on display. Baking, in that regard, is an art form and it'd be silly to force the man to work on a piece of art that he cannot pour all of his soul into. Be it for lack of experience or religious conviction, forcing people is disgusting.

On the premise that it affects the decisions necessary for him to complete his work, I think it's reasonable for him to decide whether or not he wants to work on it. I see nothing discriminatory here.
From the abstract at that link:

"The results indicated that effect sizes significantly favored conditional spanking over 10 of 13 alternative disciplinary tactics for reducing child noncompliance or antisocial behavior. Customary physical punishment yielded effect sizes equal to alternative tactics, except for one large study favoring physical punishment. Only overly severe or predominant use of physical punishment compared unfavorably with alternative disciplinary tactics."

In short:

conditional spanking - more effective that 10/13 other disciplining methods

customary spanking - no more or less effective than other disciplining methods

severe / predominant use of spanking - worse than other methods

The rest of the material available without access to the full paper just seems to back the assertion that data is poor on this topic, and there are methodological issues that make it hard to assess different levels of physical punishment seperately.
But the business owner in this case is specifically offering to provide the service (baking a cake to your requirements) already. Unless they aren't, and they just offer a number of predesigned, off-the-shelf cakes, but it doesn't sound like that's the case here.