skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bringing in "children can't marry" is quite the misdirection on your part, since they're universally seen as not having enough maturity for a host of things, not just marriage.

Edit responding to your new last paragragh:
Regarding the parents of the child identifying as transsexual, why specify that they're adoptive lesbians? You're already stacking the deck. Lesbians can have natural children, and straight people can (and do) encourage transexualism in their child. And I don't mean 'can' in terms of finding an outlier and pointing to it as representative.

I am the natural child of a lesbian (born in wedlock to a man), I have helped adult transexuals come out at their own pace, and only two months ago I was arguing against a friend who was glorifying a straight couple in the news who were encouraging transexualism in their six-year-old daughter. I am straight myself, as was my friend I was arguing against, just like the parents we were arguing about.

So it drives me nuts when folks make an argument like you have: oh, it's not enough to decry the action on its own merits, I also have to demonise the people around the action in a way that reinforces inaccurate negative stereotypes. "The people who are fucking our kids up are these 'really weird' couples". Bullshit.
"there is life beyond that", yeah and i would love to live it with the same rights as you. Cheers
Sure, but when discussing morality, the current legality is irrelevant.
If you have omnibox predictions turned on, every keystroke is logged.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/180655?hl=en
A lot of people are against same sex marriage for various reasons but aren't necessarily against homosexuality or LGBT.

More specifically, Brendan has publicly indicated that he intends to actively pursue equality throughout the organization[1].

So people seem to be calling him a liar with no evidence.
And they're also bullying him solely based on his beliefs, rather than his actions.

[1]https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/
Yes. As long as "they" do things that are wrong, it's okay for us to do them.
You are correct, although I disagree(d) strongly with Proposition 8....
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The marriage issue is complicated by many factors, one of which is religion. It doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't believe in equality.
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What you describe is not stifled creativity but a hurt self-esteem.

There are lots of people in the world smarter then you (and me). This might be humbling, but this can also be used to your advantage.

Instead of being sad about someone having had already invented what you thought about, build upon it! It's magic: you just thought about it, and it already exists, often ready to be used. Use it and build the next level. Pick the ready-made wheels, steel beams, a motor, and build something new, say, a car.
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No, if you're suicidal, call the National Suicide Hotline at 1-800-273-8255. There is someone there who will talk to you and will listen.
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What a company is buying in an acqui-hire is not just individual capability, but also team chemistry and cohesion. The team has proven that it can work together effectively to ship a great product. They're acquired (and given appropriate salaries + retention packages) to do the same for the acquirer.
> Being a libertarian is a very different thing from donating $1000 to an anti-equal rights campaign.

If you mean that people should be able to think whatever thoughts they want without me conducting paparazzi-style investigations to find out what they think, sure: I'm not advocating a campaign to find everyone who owns a copy of F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom and ostracize them (in fact, I own one!). But how about donating $1000 to Rand Paul's campaign? I would consider that equally odious, and yet it is (unfortunately) not that uncommon in the tech community, even among fairly high-profile people with board positions. In my opinion, the right of people with congenital heart diseases to receive medical treatment is of a similar level of importance as the right of gay people to have their marriages recognized by the state—if anything, actually somewhat more urgent in its importance—but a certain sort of "yuppie liberalism", which I think exists more or less only in Silicon Valley, takes the opposite view.
> Lastly, equality isn't an unmitigated good. We treat different people differently depending on the circumstances, and for good reason. For example, you probably don't believe that children should be able to marry, or more than two people. "Equality" isn't a magic word that wins all arguments.

I wouldn't let children drink alcohol. Should we ban gays from pubs? Children can't vote. Should we etc etc etc.
They might not be "against homosexuality", but their reasons are usually still homophobic.
What about a relatively small donation to the KKK or a neo-Nazi party? The issue isn't the size of the donation but taking a public stance in support of bigotry.
Please don't use caps meaninglessly. This blog is awfully hard to read.
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There is just too much noise in search results and general information is not optimized for technical blogs anyway. I'll be going through lot of these myself but wanted to know if community here has some strong preferences or glowing revs for any options.
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Many assemblers have the option to use the c preprocessor.
Ask HN: Which WP theme, code snippet and Math eq plugins you use?
There is just too much noise in search results and general information is not optimized for technical blogs anyway. I'll be going through lot of these myself but wanted to know if community here has some strong preferences or glowing revs for any options.
Can someone with more knowledge of the (outdated) franchise law explain why Tesla can't/hasn't created their own dealerships (that officially aren't Tesla owned), but sell only Teslas?
How is requiring a car dealer to sell through a dealership beneficial to anyone besides the dealership lobby which spent millions of dollars in getting that law in place? This is why I freely support any company attempting to disrupt any industry that uses the US gov't to create laws limiting direct competition (Healthcare for example).

Politicians who stand up for this kind of nonsense should be ashamed.
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Ask HN: WordPress theme, code and Math eq plugins
Which WordPress theme, code snippet and Math equation plugins do you use in your personal blog?

There is just too much noise in search results and general information is not optimized for technical blogs anyway. I'll be going through lot of these myself but wanted to know if community here has some strong preferences or glowing revs for any options.
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Yeah, if a user is completely lost to the point of giving up on your site despite having a genuine interest in it, acting like he's wrong or stupid is completely missing the point. The Ramen.is folks seem to have done a good job of taking the feedback to heart rather than getting defensive.

Look at it this way: if you're trying to get a user to use your site, what difference does it make whether the problem is due to bad design on your part or him supposedly being a bit dense? Your goal is to get him to use the site, so you take the usability failure and figure out how to make it harder for him to fail.
This isn't that.
Some caution about throwing out the moral foundations of our culture that have served for 1,800 years is not unreasonable. The assumption that Christianity, monogamy, or even the nuclear family can be removed with no negative consequences is full of reckless hubris
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That is actually what Elon Musk has explicitly said: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-p...

"1. Build sports car

2. Use that money to build an affordable car

3. Use that money to build an even more affordable car"
I mean, I do too, but they take even longer with gcc. I can remember when compiling could take a full day. These metrics mean nothing without comparison. Clang is hands down the fastest c/++ compiler I've ever used.
Recognition algorithm is provided by ocrad.js which is a JavaScript version of the OCRAD project ( http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ ). It's not perfect, but IMO it's very good - just make sure to use huge, printed, black-on-white text.
The IRS just ruled that Bitcoins are property, not currency, and are subject to capital gains taxes when they are spent. IOW, you have to keep track of your basis every time you buy and spend Bitcoins, just like stock.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-25/bitcoin-is-property...
So you mean, being wrong is unforgiveable, and admitting your wrong and taking corrective action is meaningless?
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Objective-c introduced `#import`, which guards from double including by default. I would suspect and performance gains are tempered with a "pure" objc project.
Why can't the printer detect areas likely to be distorted, and apply the transformation itself?

Then, you send the printer what you actually want it to look like, which makes more sense to me.
A big one for me:

What does your product look like?
after spending nights awake I found this closest to my liking and I will give it a try
https://www.arangodb.org/foxx
That's true now, but it doesn't seem have been a big deal at all last week when these 3 board members decided to leave.
So is the Rift
You've misspelt "notifiactions" on your main page.
> Being a libertarian is a very different thing from donating $1000 to an anti-equal rights campaign.

Why?

Are we talking about degrees here? About the skin in the game? -- If so, I agree.

If it is about free speech, I disagree.

For example, what if he had given $10? Same amount of vitriol, or a little less?
Like I said in my original comment: there is a crucial difference between thinking harmful things, and acting on them.

Actions matter. Thoughts that you keep to yourself? I don't care. Go nuts with that.

(also I'm not a fan of the libertarianism in tech/SV, but that's a whole different discussion)
Could you substantiate this claim? I don't necessarily not believe you, but it's an easy claim to make without any quantifiable argument. It's also hard to test against eg clang, where preprocessing is performed in the same process as the compiler and assembler, and the performance of a preprocessor is really less interesting than total compile time.
Go ahead and poke the beast.

You'll be hard pressed to find anyone who knows more about the rot-gut work of displaying 3d spaces in realtime on cheap hardware.
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> Don't be mad cause I'm doing me better than you doing you
Any tips how to teach people OOP?

I tried it with the codecademy stuff and everything worked fine, but when I tried a simple project the students didn't understand the difference between a method and a function (where does "this" come from? etc.)

Most people are rather fast in doing procedural stuff. Using APIs to load and save stuff. Reading inputs, writing outputs etc. Most of the functional things they get right pretty quick. But the more abstract things, like objects, encapsulation don't come to them easy.
Your evidence that the firefox brand is 'becoming toxic' consists of a gay charity in the state of Victoria in Australia....
This reminds me of how Clinton was impeached for lying about getting a blowjob, but Bush wasn't anywhere close to being impeached over misleading us into war. Supporting Prop 8 is Eich's personal Lewinski; let's save our vitriol for something important. Eich's made it clear that his professional stance supports total equality in the workplace, so unless he starts firing gay people, let's give him a shot. As for the board members resigning, it's not a good sign to see an internal rift like this, but really, only insiders really know what's going on. Speculation isn't helping.
> I can't see any big tech co now bringing in a "grown up" a la early Apple or even Eric Schmidt at Google.

Sandberg? Costolo?
I believe the answer is, because they don't want to do that.
Bigotry is always toxic.
Jumping the shark seems to be more perception than reality: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0070992
Apple defined those APIs because they were first, sure. But from that point on mobile apps have been defined in spite of Apple, dealing with the roadblocks they put up to push everyone into native.
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>he doesn't believe in equality

what you mean is "he does'nt believe in the definition of equality as you believe it to be".

I believe that he should be penalized if he has demonstrated any hatred towards people in the workplace.
I believe that a man is free to exercise his right to free speech in his private life, and this is what I deem it to be.

There is a reasonable fear that the gay employees may find themselves cornered under his leadership, and this was addressed in his letter and in the steps Mozilla took to assuage those fears.

Anything after this is a witch hunt, and folks taking up the pitchforks are the ones who have been affected the most. Its sad, but happens all the time.
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Just out of curiousity would you say that voting for Prop 8 would have been equally politically toxic? Since that would eliminate 52% of Californian voters from 2008. I recognize that a donation is different than a vote, but I want to understand the mindset here.

Can you really say that a political opinion that was apparently held by over half of the states voters at the time can disqualify someone from leading a company? Especially since there appears to not be a single other piece of evidence against his character? (seems it would have popped up by now)
Sounds so philosophical ... almost sounds like something to do with how to get strong A.I and expecting some sort of universal answer ... such as 42.
and this is excellent example of tolerance you desire :)
Half the board is resigning
Many comments here can be summed to “I am frustrated because Android is fragmented and I may not be able to target all one+ billion android devices if I code for a week”.

No problem here though, if you think 1+ billion users don't deserve a few dev hours, you may as well code for another platform. Same goes if you think targeting anything less that 1+ billion users is problematic.
We started in Backbone, then migrated to Angular to mitigate nested view chaos. Latest rewrite drops Angular in favor of React and a bit of Backbone, mostly to reduce the learning curve for new devs. Using React for views is the simplest/most robust stack we've experienced. Easier to share/reuse code, easier to debug.

React with Coffeescript has been super great - dropping JSX lowers the learning curve even more, especially since we already use and love slim, and Coffee/React sort of resembles slim.
What's your particular Sony beef? I've found their products rock solid, on the whole. Rootkit and Sony Network otoh are the negatives I can think of. I'm typing this on the Xperia Z, I've got a S1 tablet, an Prs -101 e-reader, two mp3 players - and I'd recommend every single one.

My video edit suite was all Sony gear (camera, firmware deck, amp & speakers), never a problem - not so with the Sanyo, Panasonic or Philips stuff I've seen.

$1100 is a crazy price for this, then again I'd probably fall for it once in hand.
>Original HN headline: Microsoft changes privacy policy to defer to law enforcement

>What MS actually said they'd do is refer the matter to law enforcement rather than investigate it themselves. This is a good thing because criminal investigations come with all sorts of protections for citizen rights and privacy.

Isn't what the headline says? The link's original headline "We’re listening: Additional steps to protect your privacy" is much worse:

Who's listening? technet.com may not obviously be Microsoft

What are the additional steps? Actually it seems like it's only one step: to refer the case to law enforcement, or in other words to defer to law enforcement
And: How much does it cost?
I wonder how big of an effect getting on the front page of HN has on your YC application. I can't imagine it being that much, but this won't be the first time someone has tried (and succeeded).
Another interesting one is Two And a Half Men. You can clearly see when things changed. And it's building back: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0369179
Because, under the same state laws, that's illegal as well.

"It shall be unlawful for any franchisor to ... acquire any interest in any motor vehicle dealer in this state ... or to use any subsidiary corporation, affiliated corporation, captive finance source or any other controlled corporation, partnership, association or person to accomplish what would otherwise be unlawful conduct under this article"

-- NY Vehicle and Traffic Laws, Article 17A, Franchised Motor Vehicle Dealer Act, S 463 Unfair Business Practices by Franchisors

There'd be little point to having the rest of the law on the books if it were so easy to work around.

Note that "franchisor" as defined in that law includes all manufacturers, whether they sell franchises or not. IANAL.
Yes. And I miss them.
I imagine it's not just dealerships that oppose Tesla. It's nearly everyone involved in the automotive industry, from independent service shops to part suppliers to oil companies to the other American manufacturers.
Given that such a donation would change the matter entirely your point isn't relevant. There is a massive number of people in this country that support his position (note: I'm not one of them). Calling them all bigots is a cheap way out of having actual conversations.
So what IDE to guys at facebook use for HACK? My favourite editor PHP Storm doesn't support it, yet.
In this case, yes. I would argue that any political action that has caused this much fallout can be classified as "toxic". Whether or not said political action actually deserves to be toxic is a separate topic.
Good point and well 30 yo's applying to YC was funny .. Fixed it in the original post.
I think the service looks very, very interesting. A potential conversion game changer.

There's actually not a single link to the website in the post, I'm pretty certain they've not even got an MVP yet, or if they do it'll just be string and duct tape. He talks about phone interviews, they're still in customer exploration.

I think it entirely depends on the light you look at it in. Turn to the left slightly, and it suddenly looks like the beginnings of something that just needs a bit of tiller correcting, a bit more businessman, a bit less engineer.

That style of writing on the blog and on the website, to me, is very Indian. I think it's just a cultural difference, try re-reading it.

And in the end if all they get out of the application is a clearer vision, they still got something out of it.

OTOH I'm not sure why he thinks YC doesn't accept 30 year olds with solid engineering backgrounds...
That's how you end a series: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0165598 huge bump for the series finale
If you are into this kind of stuff do check out the following if you haven't already:
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http://www.atomontage.com/
Wow so this seems actually worse than outlawing Tesla because what they are doing is giving Tesla major privileges over any future competition. Seems very monopolistic.
Key word: usually. If there is a reasonable way to reconcile opposition to gay marriage with acceptance of gays, then we ought to give the opponents the benefit of the doubt before ostracizing them. And I'm pretty sure there is such a way.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/25/politics/supreme-court-preview...

President Barack Obama once believed marriage only was for one man and one woman.

Was Obama once a supporter of the KKK? Do you people seriously not realize that gay "marriage" has been concocted into a moral imperative only very recently by the media? And that just a few years ago, not only was opposing it not bigotry, but being in support of it was completely loony tunes?
Yeah, I actually ran into the exact same problem earlier today when I was looking at the Ramen site. It sounded interesting, and I was considering submitting my site to it, but I wasn't (and still am not) clear on how it actually works. Is it for fundraising like Kickstarter, or can I use it to promote an existing site? I went as far as creating an account, but I gave up when it required me to use my Linkedin account (even after I signed up with an email address).
Anything that uses a standard C preprocessor could use it, because it's a standard C preprocessor.

I've written a couple of macro processing programs, including a make, so I know this kind of program can work with that.
Maybe they would prefer to kill dealerships (saving customers $2,225 average per new car according to a 2000 report). Lord knows, I've never had a good experience with a dealership, let 'em die!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-lane-tesla-ta...
"According to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), there are 1,138 statutory provisions in which marital status is a factor in determining benefits, rights, and privileges."[1] He donated money to a cause to prevent those 1,138 benefits, rights and privileges being available to gay couples. He hasn't changed his mind, explained himself etc. He has issued a statement saying Mozilla employees will get benefits, rights and privileges within the company equally. But those same employees (not to mention Mozilla's customer base) also have lives outside of the company. It is very easy to see how that can be considered "toxic political action" as well as calling into doubt his suitably going forward.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_and_responsibilities_of...
I enjoy seeing academic pursuits of bitcoin :)
What is unhealthy about shared components? Should we insist that browsers also be built with different languages or compilers or it is unhealthy? We are not talking about a proprietary component here.

There may be reasons to prefer Firefox not to use blink, but "detriment to the health of the web" is a really vague and pointless argument. What do you really mean by that, if not just that Chromium/Chrome are somehow bad for the web?
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The problem is the hardware AND software targets for mobile devices is still growing and evolving rapidly.

Rapid, very different hardware variants- Screen size, cpu power, GPU power, storage mechanisms. Software: 3d Apis, third party Apis, if you want to take advantage of a new framework you may not be able to because of people either unwilling to, or not able to upgrade.

It's completely different from the PC world.
> Our culture is in middle of making unprecedented changes to a core social institution that goes back into prehistory.

The history of human’s relations is much more complicated, and it changed a lot even in the historic time. There is nothing new under the sun.

Monogamy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy

Poligyny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny

Polyandry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyandry

...

Homosexuality in Greece: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greece

Homosexuality in Rome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome

...

There are much more articles, but I don’t want to link to the whole Wikipedia.