skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm operating under the assumption that the "civil union" would be a separate legal construct, distinct from marriage, that defined its own rights for managing property, etc. Sure, it would be trivial to just say "gays can go down to the court house and get a civil union, and all civil unions should be treated exactly like marriages for the purpose of the law." But then civil unions are exactly the same thing as marriages.
That's pretty much the best one.
Yes it won't, but when you have to introduce the concept of multiple files could point to the exactly same data on the hard drive and no, it's not a "copy" of that file, it's rather mind-blowing.
Ask HN: Has anyone on HN been hired through InterviewStreet?
Just curious. Could you tell us about your experience?
Honest question: is anyone here using onlive? How is the gaming experience? Are the visuals, performance and latency acceptable? How are they doing in terms of their sales/subscribers?

I remember reading about it a long time ago thinking that it would be a sign of the future and something I would definitely want to try. It seems to have fallen off of my radar and I don't know anyone who uses their service, and I would consider myself and my friends "hardcore" gamers.
Marco's follow-up post is only technically correct because he uses words like "most", "many", "probably", and "nearly". In fact, do a Google search for "most many probably nearly" and his post is #6!

He should have just stood by his words. From his follow-up post (quotes from original post):

I’ve gotten a lot of feedback on my Mac App Store post this morning, and I’d like to clarify some points and respond. I did not say or intend to suggest any of these:

1. I will not buy anything from the Mac App Store again.

"But now, I’ve lost all confidence that the apps I buy in the App Store today will still be there next month or next year. The advantages of buying from the App Store are mostly gone now. My confidence in the App Store, as a customer, has evaporated.

Next time I buy an app that’s available both in and out of the Store, I’ll probably choose to buy it directly from the vendor."

2. Most Mac users will stop shopping in the Mac App Store.

"And nearly everyone who’s been burned by sandboxing exclusions — not just the affected apps’ developers, but all of their customers — will make the same choice with their future purchases. To most of these customers, the App Store is no longer a reliable place to buy software."

3. Most developers will stop putting apps in the Mac App Store.

"And with reduced buyer confidence, fewer developers can afford to make their software App Store-only.
This even may reduce the long-term success of iCloud and the platform lock-in it could bring for Apple. Only App Store apps can use iCloud, but many Mac developers can’t or won’t use it because of the App Store’s political instability."
What if you have the incorrect social views, as determined by the society at large?

Let's say you were in 1880's Deep South and thought black should vote. Do you think there's no problem if people in town refuse to sell you goods for that? Is a Hollywood blacklist just something to shrug off.

Obviously you should not be forced, as an individual, to purchase goods or services from someone else you don't like. Going any further than that and society can strangle minority viewpoints almost as oppressively as government. If I refuse to deal with you, or anyone who deals with you, or anyone who deals with anyone who deals with you, than we move away from a pluralistic society towards one where the group most in charge at a given moment wins.
> Culturally we make no distinction between religious marriage and civil marriage. The majority of people aren't even really aware of the difference.

Yet there it is, in black and white, in every statutory code in the country.
Yes, but our unions are particularly good at not working towards the overall benefit of the ecosystem. All they want to do is take-take-take and screw everyone else. Just look at the number of cities in Californian that are caving-in under the pressure of the ridiculous pensions unions have managed to extort out of the idiots running the show.
>"You appear to be in denial about whats really been going on in finance."

Nope, I have a pretty solid understanding of what's "really going on" in finance. In fact, part of my job involves me entering contracts based on LIBOR. How has the LIBOR "scandal" affected you?

You talk about not knowing what's going on, but then point to a documentary (albeit a good one) as evidence for your conspiracy theory about Facebook: it's not just a mediocre business that's incredibly overpriced for the value it offers. Rather, it's a large scale conspiracy by the evil bankers to screw over Saint Zuckerberg and make a couple million dollars extra!

Come on. Occam's Razor. This stuff isn't as complicated as you think.
Sparrow made downloadable to conform to LGPL
In my early 20's, when I was still trying to land my first "office job" out of college, I was working construction. The work was physically demanding, and no matter how much I ate, I always felt hungry and sore. Tons of tofu, tempeh, beans, it didn't matter. My buddy brought over a ton of venison which I put in the freezer. I had enough for two months of meals. I started eating it every day, and within 48 hours I noticed a huge difference. My weight went up to 195 (i'm 6'2, and it had dropped to 175) which was a much healthier weight, and most importantly, my depression (which i really didn't know i had, went away)and i just felt better, more motivated, happier, you name it.

I'm sure many, many vegetarians live great, happy lives on their diet. I'm not one of them. Years of farting all the time from soy (beano didn't do it for me), never gaining muscle, not being able to socialize with my male buddies since 90% of the vegetarians i encountered were females..... the list goes on.
> " But then civil unions are exactly the same thing as marriages.

That's right. Proponents of civil union say that everyone (including heterosexuals) should be granted civil union, and somewhere in the anals of law it should say "civil union is legally equivalent to marriage".
Why did you accuse me of being disingenuous? I used an Array (life-array.hs), if Haskell implements Arrays as a linked list... well, that's a problem.
I wonder if the guy that made the Windows version will release his...
Free speech entitles you to speak your mind. It doesn't entitle you to be free from dislike and rebuke for the things you say.
I don't like these sort of hand wavy "I'm just saying..." implied conspiracy theories.

What specifically are you suggesting?
Meet new people, learn how to work on a team, learn how to refine an idea and learn new technologies.

Just avoid people who are looking for free labor, find other people that are there for the same reasons and you'll enjoy yourself.
A company like Google could make a better ISP, but to cheer a growing internet monopoly just seems ridiculous.

> Free internet at today's average speeds

> $300 construction fee (one time or 12 monthly payments of $25) + taxes and fees

Google is going full circle. I wonder if the cost for Google to give internet to people who didn't otherwise have it (and at no charge to them) actually paid dividends very soon because that person is going to immediately generate new revenue for google from the inevitable use of Google/adwords. I think John D. Rockefeller would tip his hat, tbh.
Ask HN: How do you automate your iOS and Android tests?
I'm curious to find out how widespread automation is within the iOS and Android Dev/QA communities, and what tools are being used. After trying many different tools, I chose Calabash: http://www.moncefbelyamani.com/ios-automated-testing-with-calabash-cucumber-ruby/

What are you using for both native apps and mobile web apps?
WHY have we not reformed our patent system yet? Is it purely because of the sway lawyers have over our legal system and regulatory system (and the inherent conflict of interest that results)?
"Some of the most awe-inspiring discoveries in the 20th century are about the limits of thought, and about rigorous ways to think about thinking. Gödel was central to these results [...]"

I am not aware of any "awe-inspiring discoveries" about "the limits of thought" made by Gödel. Personally, I (and maybe other mathematicians) find his incompleteness theorems awe-inspiring, but they are in no way about the limits of "thought". Those theorems are precise statements concerning some formal axiomatic systems. They have great significance in mathematical logic, a little bit less so for other branches of mathematics, and virtually no philosophical meaning at all.
I wish more people would embrace what Dave Winer is saying here and run with the ball. The current web as we know it has benefited from an open ecosystem: everything from the servers running Apache to web pages serving up HTML. I see a real long term danger in closed walled gardens like Facebook and Twitter, they're just not healthy.
I'm more questioning the article than the program. I know we're not exactly living in a golden age of journalism, but this struck me as a puff piece.

That said, I'm also very skeptical of the program. I'm having a hard time thinking of a profession where programs like this wouldn't be entirely suspicious. E.g., "Become a veterinarian in just 12 weeks!"

I think somebody who wants to be seen as a journalist would ask some some questions about the apparent disparity. Or would at least refrain from endorsing something without demonstrating a little critical thinking.
I question how good they can be given their donations to anti-gay groups. It's one thing to disagree morally with someone's stance on something like gay marriage. It's something else entirely to fund campaigns to take away other peoples' rights. That's a morally bad act.

Nobody is mad at Chick-fil-A for being bigoted in the privacy of their own home. They're mad at Chick-fil-A for their actions and for how they spend their money on bigoted campaigns.
Motorola Android devices banned in Germany for infringing Microsoft's patent
I live in Canada so I can't compare directly to a USDA Organic chicken. However, based on a chicken one could get from Whole Foods, for example, our bird has a much richer flavour and a firmer, less rubbery texture. This part is very subjective, of course, but in a side-by-side comparison you would definitely be able to taste and feel the difference.

We also raise our birds to be much heavier than a store bought bird - on average about six pounds after processing vs three-ish pounds in the store. I'd wager that your meat-to-carcase ratio is probably higher for one of our birds, giving a better value. (Actually, it's better value regardless - we sell our birds for $4/lb vs $5/lb for the broiler barn organic birds in the store.)

Environmentally, there's less concentration of pollutants. All of the chicken manure goes straight on the grass and is a primo source of nutrients for subsequent hay crops. For me it's a win - I don't have to apply fertilizer nor clean out chicken barns.

Coming from an animal welfare standpoint, just because you're buying "organic" chicken in the store, doesn't mean they've been raised in a humane fashion. I carry no guilt in eating our chickens. They're not overcrowded, debeaked or in a dusty, foul smelling environment. They live as well as I can provide up until the day they go for slaughter.
Moral Hazard in Venture Capital
Um, it's closed source with an API, and you get to pay for it to the tune of $50/yr assuring it's continued development...or something like that.
Quick guide: How to Burn AVI to DVD.
I've heard this said often enough, but most of the homeschoolers I actually know or know of indirectly are pretty lefty or libertarian. Most Christian extremists go to little private schools which are scattered all over the place.
Not sure why the trunk mount is relevant for interfacing with the car. The brake switch signal activates your brake lights, those are typically at the rear of the car :)

Admittedly, for a universal application you want to interface with as little of the car as possible.

That said, in the US all cars made after 1995 comply with certain On-Board Diagnostics protocols (OBD-II) so you can interface with several standard systems.

One such sensor available in OBDII is the VSS or the Vehicle Speed Sensor. Check out a device like the Scan-Gauge[1] to get an idea of other sensor that can be interfaced with universally. It would be trivial to run some wire under the carpet and plug into the OBDII port to give the hybrid system access to all kinds of engine & sensor info.

[1] http://www.scangauge.com/products/scangaugeii/
Was this it?

https://github.com/ddarren/jQuery-Live-Form-Validation-For-T...
Ask HN: (how) do you early reject candidates during onsite interviews?
I've known two people who were told "we can't find your final interviewer" while doing on-site interviews at Twitter. They were then escorted out and told they'll be in contact soon to follow up. At which point they were rejected. The first time, I thought.. "that's kinda strange", but the second time I heard about it I said to myself - "oh, is that their early reject policy??" I was wondering if anyone have a similar experience?

I know how difficult it is to walk a candidate out early; I've had to do it myself before. I'm curious to know from the rest of HN:

Does your company have an official process for ending onsite interviews early, and under what circumstances (if any) is that okay?
Apparently, what prompted this decision was their use of Tokyo Cabinet and Tokyo Dystopia.
A big part of a child's success in school has to do with parental involvement. Home schooled children, almost by definition, have highly involved parents. It would be interesting to compare home schooled children with regular children whose parents are actively involved in their education to see how that matched up.
Heartening to read your comments and others who agree. I find GNOME 3 preferable to Unity. It's the most "Mac-like" of all the Linux desktop environments which is meant as a compliment. I recommend it to everyone also. (vs. Unity)
By current SCOTUS precedent, it is. See Loving.
I remember complaints of the form "My iPod really loves Steely Dan." I can't find the original article, but it's excerpted here:

http://gadgetopia.com/post/5580
Google restores major Google Talk server outage
Oh those mean gays, why won't they just leave this poor family alone and let this family continue to pour millions of dollars into keeping them a permanent underclass who will never enjoy the same rights as straight people in peace??

Obviously being a massive funder of a campaign against equal rights for the gay community is totally a neutral position which in no way harms gay people, but pointing out the fact that they've been doing it? Why, that makes gay people big meanies who are attacking this nice family for no reason.
> "Sure Google pursues its own commercial goals but in the end it benefits the customer as well."

Sometimes. And with no guarantee that such interests will align in the future. Their flip on Net Neutrality is all the warning and reminder consumers should need, to temper their optimism with due caution.
Here's the latest example:
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-chick-fil-a-m...
> Not sure why the trunk mount is relevant for interfacing with the car.

I wasn't saying that. Let me rephrase: The way the video describes the controller (the one in the trunk)...
It's either FUD or complete ignorance on the subject.

"by default you must install from MacAppStore."

That's blatantly false. You can install any App that is signed (any developer can release a mac App that is signed, without going through the Mac App Store).

If you want to install non-signed apps (which is a reasonable thing, there are thousands of great apps that are unsigned still) - you just right click on the installer and select open - that's all it takes to convince 10.8 that you accept the software is non-signed.

There is no new filesystem - There is an option to store documents in iCloud. Calling it a filesystem is akin to saying IMAP is a filesystem because the emails are also stored on a server somewhere. If you don't like the iCloud functionality, don't use it.

As for the memory thing - it's not about "it didn't happen to me". It's about it hasn't happened to anyone I've ever spoken to, and the majority of my friends use Macs (most are several years old, but have maxed out ram) and 90% of my colleagues at work (100+ staff around the globe doing development and design).

Regarding your "choose your app provider" line: The App Store isn't a "provider". It's a distribution channel for Developers. One of its features is to protect users from malicious apps.
Despite what people might have you believe, lawyers are almost certainly neutral on this issue. Lawyers get paid either way. The patent system is the way it is because it serves the interest of the real monied interests. Too, there is a legitimate argument that changing something so fundamentally intertwingled with lots and lots and lots of economic activity is not something to be done lightly.

Personally, I don't have a settled opinion on software patents. I'm much more offended by the gruesome metastasis of copyright into an finite but unbounded bludgeon.
So, we write our laws based on reason and justice, unless some religious group threatens to make a really big stink then we just do whatever they want? Is that a reasonable way to run a country?

The statistics I was able to Google up show support for gay marriage at 43% of the US and against 47%. So it's not like it's some tiny percentage who are for it, and it's not even a majority who are against it.

Personally, no, I don't want to have this fight. I also don't want to have to fight about evolution being taught in schools. Unfortunately some members of the population render this a necessity.
Call me old-fashioned if you like, or maybe simply insufficiently in tune with the times - but I'd argue that bringing in less money than you spend is the very definition of not making money.
From the "stunningly obvious" department...

Seriously, college is practically useless for what people are using it for today (vocational training.) It was not intended to serve that purpose.

The reason that everyone started going to college was that lazy companies used BA degrees as entrance exams because being able to go to college used to be a proxy for 'good breeding'. Therefore, having a college degree was a sure ticket to get a(n office) job. Therefore, everyone started going to college. Therefore, a college degree became a checkbox requirement for a job, not anything that actually helps you get one.
This is a storm in a tea cup.
Best Buy: Users returned Samsung tablets because they thought were getting iPads
Hacker Spoofs Microsoft Exchange Server, hacks Smartphones
I played through Arkham Asylum on the PC and Arkham City on the OnLive console, and found it ... adequate.

I tried the beta and it didn't even work, but went back when AA was 99 cents and was impressed that they were even able to make a reality. I pre-ordered AC because it came with the console for free, and it was pretty slick.

However, I subscribed to their "channel" and have been pretty disappointed, the games are mostly old or random indie titles that don't always fit the model, and a good number require a mouse/keyboard which you can make work with the console, but is much clunkier than the slick wireless controller (which is _very_ well done).

There are 2 problems:
1) Anything even smelling like a dropped connection boots you entirely out of the game, and can take a few minutes to get back in. This includes just pausing and walking away for 5-10 minutes.

2) The batman games worked because they have a slower, more deliberate input system, and auto-save constantly. Otherwise it just won't be able to keep up.

So, barring licensing, I just don't see it being able to play something that needs a good twitch response time, multi-player, or something that is hard to recover after an immediate drop. So, no diablo, CoD, real-time strategies, or MMOPRGs.

Without those titles, it won't be able to get a lot of traction.

Still, a really awesome technical achievement. The PC executeable is a couple of _megs_ and can then just stream anything, but a lot of gaming needs either fast response time (which you lose with the server round-trip), or the ability to just stop for a few minutes without losing everything you've got.
The whole spec is there on GitHub for your perusal and criticism, though. https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec
I have been part of the United States National Marrow Donor Program

http://marrow.org/Home.aspx

for more than twenty years. Joining the program involves (or used to involve) an initial tissue typing, grouping would-be donors into broad categories of immunologically compatible people. A few years after I joined, when I had moved to another state, I was called up for second-stage testing to see if my antigens were a more specific match for some patient who needed marrow on that occasion. Evidently I was not a close enough match, as I was not asked then to donate marrow. Now my more specific antigen type is on file, and in all the almost two decades since then, I never have any contact with the program except periodic reminders to update the program with my address changes (as I do) and to tell my friends to sign up (as I also do).

http://marrow.org/Join/Join_the_Registry.aspx

What this illustrates is that marrow donations are based on very close antigen matches, and the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing used for those matches

http://marrow.org/Patient/Transplant_Process/Search_Process/...

divides humankind into so many small categories that it is difficult for most patients to find a match when they need bone marrow. That, and the considerable expense of harvesting bone marrow from living donors and administering bone marrow to patients in need, keeps marrow donations from being a miracle cure for most diseases. If you join the donor program, as I encourage you to do, you might reach the age of ineligibility for donation (currently age sixty) without ever being called up to donate. That appears to be more likely than not.

A tiny number of cases of a dread disease having patients who "spontaneously" (that is, through mechanisms not fully understood) go into long-term remission from their disease is a routine part of medical practice. AIDS has been scary in the years since it was discovered precisely because of how infrequently patients go into remission, compared to patients with many other dread diseases. Any unusual case of AIDS becoming less grave in its symptoms in any patient is well worth investigating, but it remains to be seen how well understanding those rare cases will generalize to a cure or preventive treatment for AIDS.

The big surprise about AIDS for people like me who were already reading about medical research before AIDS was discovered is how effective antiviral treatments for AIDS have been. The new approach of "treatment as prevention" looks very promising, and there are patients who knew of HIV-positive status in the early 1990s who are still alive and generally healthy--IF they are consistent in taking their antiviral medications--today in 2012, which was not at all expected by researchers even a few years before the protease inhibitor medications were developed. Antiviral drugs are still rare, and AIDS has been a surprising case of effective drug development on a very short time scale.
Mathalicious is doing this just to get popular, I never knew they exists before this debate. Google might improve page rank of mathalicious.com as well due to back links.