skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to change it, feel free.

Men can’t change that, only women can.

As a male, I can refrain from taking the first step, and in theory, I will have created a revolution. In practice it just means girls will think I’m not interested in them.

I also have zero hope that the great feminists of our time will change it. They’re campaigning for more power and perks for women, not less. Right now, men buy dinners, gifts, and have to beg for sex even after they’ve been married. Why give that up?
Right, and the Prop 8 decision was procedural rather than ideological. They essentially ruled (for the first and only time) that a private party (here, the Prop 8 proponents) is not allowed to defend the constitutionality of a law--the State is required to make that argument.

Since the state declined to defend the law at lower courts, SCOTUS sent it back to that court with directions to dismiss it.

From Amy Howe at the SCOTUS Blog:

"Here's a Plain English take on Hollingsworth v. Perry, the challenge to the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage: After the two same-sex couples filed their challenge to Proposition 8 in federal court in California, the California government officials who would normally have defended the law in court, declined to do so. So the proponents of Proposition 8 stepped in to defend the law, and the California Supreme Court (in response to a request by the lower court) ruled that they could do so under state law. But today the Supreme Court held that the proponents do not have the legal right to defend the law in court. As a result, it held, the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the intermediate appellate court, has no legal force, and it sent the case back to that court with instructions for it to dismiss the case."

And since it was just posted, here is the same type of explanation for the DOMA ruling:

"Here's a Plain English take on United States v. Windsor, the DOMA case: The federal Defense of Marriage Act defines "marriage," for purposes of over a thousand federal laws and programs, as a union between a man and a woman only. Today the Court ruled, by a vote of five to four, in an opinion by Justice Kennedy, that the law is unconstitutional. The Court explained that the states have long had the responsibility of regulating and defining marriage, and some states have opted to allow same-sex couples to marry to give them the protection and dignity associated with marriage. By denying recognition to same-sex couples who are legally married, federal law discriminates against them to express disapproval of state-sanctioned same-sex marriage. This decision means that same-sex couples who are legally married must now be treated the same under federal law as married opposite-sex couples."
I believe the distance is not taken into account on this visualization. The same distance would simply make planets collide.
Actually it looks bold on Linux too.
An alternate way is to let people declare bankruptcy to get out of student debt.

I agree schools only let students get $100,000 into debt because someone will lend the money. However, if the markets for loaning money to students dried up, schools would finally face some price pressures.
I think Adblock is a reasonable choice as I woulda rather have micropayments for content vs advertising. However, I mostly browse on an iPad which does not seem to have any add block options.
Google for "gay rights"
There's a bit of debate [1] about this quote on Mr. Keynes's Wikiquotes page. Still, a good and valid point regardless of who said it first.

[1] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:John_Maynard_Keynes#.22Whe...
We all have our blind spots :-)
At the risk of making your very real journey seem trivial, I'll go ahead and say it: I'm hooked.

Just do me a favor-

don't A Million Little Pieces me, bro.
Supreme Court Strikes Down DOMA; Paves Way for California Gay Marriage
I love the not-so-veiled threats to send bouncers knocking on their door and rip them to pieces with their bare (bear?) hands!
> One in every six American women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime. I bet you don’t think you know any rapists, but consider the sheer number of rapes that must occur.

Speechless.

For similarly delusional writing, I suggest:
http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction
You realize this post will, or already has, gotten back to j--nb---h people, right? Seems a bit disingenuous to post this and name them. You may want to edit your comment.

Now, it puts you on the spot so it doesn't appear that you are taking "it's the thought that counts" approach to getting hired.
I don't see anything wrong with this - they are scanning public activity - that's fair game as far as I am concerned, it's fishing through and storing the private stuff that bothers me.

Infact, the more I think about this topic the more I realise it's not the monitoring that bothers me - it's the storage element and the fact they could go back through in years to come and paint whatever picture they can about a person.

Disclosure: I'm British
I have been freelancing for four years. I am graduated from business school (not the kind of place where learn to build websites) and learnt web dev by myself I can say this is the best piece of advice. I would just complete the golden rule : Do things, tell people and train your skills
er, no... /shifty_eyes

I'm being melodramatic is all. The Selenium FF driver lags a little behind Firefox releases (totally understandable).

Not a problem on my actual test boxes as I control the FF version on those, but it will lead to a week or so of devs (with FF auto-update set) complaining that tests are breaking locally. (Despite the fact that this situation and its remedy has been explained to them repeatedly.)

It is possible that S2.33 will work fine with FF22, making all this moot. And it's just a passing annoyance. I have nothing but love for both applications.
The Constitution doesn't GRANT the Feds any power to decide who is married or not. They have to respect whatever status the STATES designate. So to unilaterally deny one type of marriage versus another that is sanctioned by a state is illegal.

What's really funny is that all these arguments were used buy the "Bible Belt" to KEEP slavery, owning people, on the books for just about as long as we have been discussing gay rights. The Feds could not end slaves as property without an amendment. Various states banned slavery, but the Feds ruled that slaves Owned in one state had to be respected as property rights during travel or if they escaped, even in states where slavery was illegal.

Of course many states treated interracial marriages the same way as gay marriage, well into the 1900's.. Until they were forcibly stopped during the Civil Rights movement. They all know the law and precedent, they don't like it so they want to ignore it.
What a classy way to slap someone in the face. Full marks!
The Lua VM benchmark seems to be compiled to asm.js though, how does chrome fare when not targeting asmjs?
The footnote also is disparaging of gay men, since it implies they are not nice.
>You are a threat, remember? You are Schrödinger’s Rapist.

Aaannd scene...
The idea that a university education is only for job training is poisonous. The humanities teach critical thinking and broaden students' perspectives in a way that STEM programs, in general, completely fail to do.

If we were to convert to a STEM-only curriculum, I would be gravely concerned for our future.
I am a big, blonde, bearded man from Northern Europe. I have pretty much only experience interacting with women who absolutely are not afraid of me. Maybe those ladies would not manage well in New York City streets, but that's how they, and me, were brought up in this country.

Going to a date with a girl who'd suspect me to be a potential rapist would be uncomfortable, and somewhat insulting. Realizing to be in that kind of a situation I probably wouldn't even dare to try talk about it, would just try to leave the situation.
Replacing the title with "Come back! We miss you!" when you leave the tab is cute but it makes finding the article in a sea of tabs difficult.
I liked this. A lot. I don't necessarily agree with it, but it brings up some great "deep thinking" conversations. Excellent HN fodder.

It's ironic that this would be on the front page as the same time as "HTML 5 genetic cars" because the two are so related. I think an extended analogy is in order.

Gray's first mistake is to do exactly what he accuses others of doing -- making a value statement about whether one society later in history is better than another, or whether there is some "direction of progress". Gray thinks there is not. Others think there is.

What I've learned from political and systems theory is that small, self-optimizing systems always outperform other systems, because they are able to adapt better.

Does evolution produce "better", "smarter", or "more perfect" creatures? No. It produces creatures better adapted to current conditions.

So when you look at civilizations, you should think about those little cars. Sometimes early adaptations lead to performance problems later on. Many times there is no universal car. Different adaptations work at different times. The best we can hope for is a system where the cars adapt as they move along.

Likewise, human systems will not get "better" -- that's a value judgment, akin to "I like chocolate ice cream". Such statements are impossible to argue one way or another. Human systems will always adapt. The key, critical question here is this: are we encouraging systems of humans in which small units adapt and self-optimize? Or are we trying to create universal rules for all humans, thereby decreasing our ability to adapt to what lies ahead of us?

Moving farther to the right on the HTML5 cars app is not necessarily better or worse than spinning in place. But it does take us to places we haven't seen before. And that's pretty cool.
If you're old enough to remember the start of cable TV, one of the promises was that it would have few/no commercials, because you're paying for it.

I'd trust very few web sites to stay ad-free if they switched to a pay model. The money is just too good for them.
If anything, I'd say it actually improves my respect for him. 4 years ago it seems he was an idealistic employee working for the secret services to fight the good fight.

Fast forward to today and the realities of what is actually being done in the name of "security" have turned his idealism in to alarm.

Fortunately for us, he had the self-awareness, conscience and bravery to take the blinkers off, question what is happening and try and do something about it.
I used your seed and my cars have fallen off the track...
This is a great release! I wonder about this, though:

> The stack trace is now shown as a breadcrumb near the top

Who thought this was a good idea? This leaves room for about 3 items, whereas most stacks nowadays are much larger. A normal vertical list makes much more sense than a horizontal breadcrumb, IMHO.
Once you get a group of customers who have been told and internalized "price doesn't matter," then you will only see one response from the producers.

Producers who tried to avoid the game got left behind. When the students don't care about the cost, then it becomes a losing proposition to skip out on (say) the $10 million expense that only provides $1 million of value to your students.
The Klout score is a joke. My score never falls below 56, which I hear is pretty good, and I am in no way influential. I hardly ever tweet and have maybe 12 followers.
Yup, Firefox is on a 6-week release cycle so it should be in the first week of August. (Right now 22 is "release", 23 is "beta", 24 is "aurora" and 25 is "nightly".)
Because they most likely already have it?
Over the long term it's more or less kept up with inflation, however there have been a few big bumps such as Carter raising it from 2.30 to 3.35 in 1981. Which in inflation adjusted terms was 5.72 to 8.33 in 2012 dollars. Aka well below current to slightly above current minimum wage.
There were rumors about third-party cookies being disabled by default in v22. I downloaded it and found this not to be true. Can anyone shed some light on when Mozilla plans on doing this? http://www.pcworld.com/article/2038956/mozilla-postpones-def...
You're equivocating merit of a college program with employability.
This reads more as an article about how the author believes that all men who approach her are potential rapists. Hitting the feminist fallacy of "All men are evil" square out of the park. This turns away most male readers, exclusive of the most valorous of white knights.
(Source: "I will begin to evaluate the possibility you will do me harm. That possibility is never 0%.")

There is also no real "guy's guide" here, there are a few pointers but they're wrapped in a "You're a rapist, Harry" hearsay stories.

Perhaps the author could have either focused more to enlightened male readers on acceptable ways to approach women (top ten lists are still popular on blogs right?), or better yet disclose where she is meeting these guys so other females can avoid encountering such douchebags.

And for those who can't find the points in the article:

* Respect women
* Dress nice
* Take subtle clues
* Don't Rape (you don't say?)
I agree, but at the same time these journalists should be defended - sadly, I think only by us, because most of the media won't defend their own in this case, and they'd rather side with the government.
I suspect I am too much of a victim to the old saying; do not explain with malice what can adequately be explained with stupidity.

But maybe there can't be that many stupid people in the US media?
Ars doesn't log IRC chats on their server. All this was collected from other users' chat logs.
Very interesting. I figured someone must have tried it but hadn't found examples. Kachingle looks like a deeply flawed implementation of it.

What were the others?
I had some problems with loading times/pipelining in Opera (12.x) and Privoxy and hence changed to AdBlock (which appears to be the same as AdBlock Chrome referred to above). Browsing became much smoother afterwards.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court did not strike down DOMA. Section 2 of the Act, which lets states refuse to recognize same-sex marriages established by other states, remains intact.
Porting Udacity CS253 to Go (part 1)
FSB, er KGB Jr quite able to add dozens of cameras in any room he may stay, or maybe they can tell by the sound the keys he presses, analyze the light the monitor releases or who the hell knows.

Of course they may briefly arrest him to check his status, and Igor on the other room is cloning his hard drives. Last resort they may blackmail him, go to hell /a USA prison or tell us the password.
The expectation of this release has been a fun ride for me. We were using long-live HTTP requests in our product for pushing data to the browser, a very elegant method but only implemented by Mozilla. Now were transitioning to websockets which aren't nearly as nice for this use, but I'm enjoying putting the newer, better-supported method in place on front- and back-ends.
Oh weird. I remember trying out FlexBox three years ago and having it work in FF. Does this just mean they dropped the -moz- prefix requirement?
Correct. Adblock is supported by donations only.

https://chromeadblock.com/pay/
Mill: A Simple Persistence System for Ada
Does anyone know why the cost of the universities have skyrocketed?

Because for a generation the customers didn't care about the cost. And since they saw cost as positively correlated with quality, any college that attempted cost control was shooting itself in the foot.

(I'm not saying the generation that didn't care about price was stupid; they were responding mostly rationally to other perverse incentives.)
This discusses two rulings. DOMA and Proposition 8. I like the DOMA decision. I like the specific result of the Proposition 8 ruling, but do not like the way they got there.

The issue with proposition 8 is that California lost, and then chose not to appeal. Lawyers for the group that passed proposition 8 then stepped in and took the case. Their argument basically was that if they were not allowed to do this, then any proposition passed by Californians that the government did not like the government could unpass by posting a lackluster defense and then not appealing it.

The 9th circuit did not know whether they should grant standing. They remanded it to the California Supreme Court to decide that. The California Supreme Court said that under California law they did have standing. The 9th heard it. The Supreme Court has now disagreed.

But I agree with that argument from the supporters of proposition 8. California gives voters the power to pass proposition that the state does not like. The state has now been handed a legal tool which undermines that in federal court. (I do not understand precedent well enough to know whether state courts will look to the Supreme Court or the California Supreme Court on this.)
"Both sides"? What about Rashomon? Please don't fall in the bipolar disease typical of modern politics. All sides in a story should be covered.

Still, you have to agree that the MSM way too often derails the conversation towards personalism and unrelated issues and away from actual policy topics, usually following this or that agenda, just because novels sell better than political essays. This should be taught in journalism school, nowadays, but it's clearly not the case.
A million times this. Additionally, if you say to a woman "don't go into a dark alley with a strange man", you'll probably also say "you shouldn't have been in a dark alley with a strange man". That is, you're already blaming the victim, before any crime has even occurred.
You're a good writer, your posts on this topic have been compelling, and I believe you are quite sincere in your desire to do right by what remains of your startup and your team.

That's why I feel compelled to ask: have you consulted your team before embarking on this blogging adventure? There's more than a hint of the macabre in the posts (hashtags such as "delusion" being a good example). Do your team members share your assessment? Do they know you're blogging about this stuff? You are inadvertently speaking for them when you speak about these things. I would just urge you to make sure this is not a vanity exercise. Your team members might be very disheartened to learn that their founder is blogging, in dark and occasionally bitter tone, about their impending doom.

In my history of reading these sorts of post mortems, I've noticed that the best of them attempt to draw lessons from failure. At the very least, mine your experience for wisdom and insight. I realize you're doing this in real time, so to speak, and that's part of the exercise. Even still, I would humbly suggest deeper introspection and less melancholy. I know it's ridiculously hard to do that -- but your team (and your readers) will be experientially richer for it. (The first installment in this series, for example, though controversial, was a lot more incisive).

You are off to a very compelling start here, and I don't want to deemphasize that. I feel for you (and your team) in a very real way, and I wish you the best in drawing meaning from what is to come in the next 30 days.
I think that depends a little on what you're writing:

"Oh no! The flight system on this rocket ship is going haywire!"

"Ok, ok, but at least it's not the plumbing!"
No, not unless you initiate a paste operation manually (literally, as in by hitting ctrl-v or etc.)

This is one of the ways that pasting images from your clipboard into, say, an image hosting site can work.

I had a difficult time finding fuller explanations of the capabilities - mostly because there isn't a standard API across browsers yet - but here[1] are the relevant Safari docs.

There's also a working draft[2] from the W3C for a standardized API.

[1] http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/AppleAp...

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/
You never know unless you doublecheck it. But yeah, with tens of thousands working with NSA /CIA odds are that Russia and China both know a lot
Well, you are on Arch, so that is the default version you should use. :-D
I thought that the Supreme Court's mandate was to decide whether a law violates the Constitution and little more.

This is... I don't even know where to begin on how fundamentally wrong this is.

The Supreme Court is established by Article III of the Constitution. It's the end of the line for any legal question that falls under the jurisdiction outlined by Article III, which consists of far, far, far more than "whether a law violates the Constitution and little more".

As for this opinion, the Court explains very clearly the Constitutional issue: DOMA violates the Fifth Amendment. DOMA also has federalism issues, and so in theory a Tenth Amendment problem, but that's not actually necessary in order to strike it down.
Brute force doesn't necessarily mean testing in a dumb way (testing all options).

If you try to crack a password with a wordlist, would you do it randomly, or would you order by word frequency? The later is smarter, but it's still brute forcing (resource/time intensive).
>Recently there was a story about Ghostery reselling user data to advertisers [3]. How much can you really trust these basically unaccountable groups (in comparison)?

Except all the data collected and sold was opt-in and they told you it was anonymized and sold on the page next to the opt-in checkbox
> So can a website read a users clipboard

Yes and no, the website can access clipboard data specifically when you're pasting as a user-triggered operation (C-v/M-v or "Paste" from a contextual menu) (that is the clipboard data is only accessible from the `paste` event).

This allows an application to access alternative representations (the clipboard can store multiple representations of the same data e.g. text and html and image and whatever, and the application can then pick the most appropriate — or all of them) and to pre-process clipboard data before inserting it programmatically. Very useful with e.g. RTE. Arbitrary clipboard access most definitely isn't allowed.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#pasting-html-and-multi-... for security and privacy considerations.

> if yes, how can we disable this "feature"?

In firefox, probably by going to about:config and setting `dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled` to `false`. In webkit and MSIE (which have had the feature for ages) I have no idea.
Actually, it's not all that great. That score doesn't suck, but it'd be nothing to brag about (among those for whom Klout scores are any kind of bragging).
> In practice it just means girls will think I’m not interested in them.

My point exactly. Railing against the system as it exists is counterproductive unless you have a viable alternative.
With this second installment, I'm pretty sure this is fiction. Kudos on the concept, though.

The posts are both very well written and have dramatic twists right on schedule. But s/he's using web marketing writing, with bolded thematic sentences alternating with short paragraphs.

We've seen posts from foundering founders on HN before, and it's usually more like a wall of text. This time, note how this author leaves us on a cliffhanger. Someone in their position should be trying to show they're still in control. So they'd explain more about their plan.

So I think we're dealing with someone who knows startups, who also is an experienced writer, and wants to subvert the business blogging form.
I'm dying to know what your startup does (or did)