skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am absolutely 100% intolerant of anyone opposed to gay marriage

Is what I responded to. If you choose to argue against a strawman, that's your business but I won't have anything to do with the perversion of others' arguments for the sake of making a point.
Disjoint sets.

1) Each cell in the maze is a set.
2) Randomize walls. Check if wall to be removed are already in the same set. Merge the set if wall is removed.
3) Repeat until entire maze is in one set.

DFS seems a bit odd for generation. For generating a solution, it would be what I would do.
I love Stripe, I love the continuous improvements, but since Stripe also accepts different currencies, I'm still waiting for a way to localize all that standard stuff Stripe comes with, e. g. "Stripe checkout". Can't use it, since labels are not in German and not all of my users speak English and not all labels can be customized/translated yet.
This seems great, but I'm having some trouble thinking of a particular example where I'd want to use it.

Can you give a brief example of a (real or imaginary) app that would run on Sandstorm and how I would benefit from the Sandstorm model in this case? I'm a programmer but I'd appreciate a "layman's terms" explanation if possible.
It bums me out this isn't an actual option for the vote, I thought the same thing as soon as I saw it and got very excited to place my vote, only to find it wasn't an actual option.
Former volatility market maker here. Interesting concept, one I have considered playing with myself. Issues I see so far:

(1) Not compliant. No SIPC coverage for customer funds and no SEC registration. This is a bigger problem for Derivabit than Mt Gox. First, it appears they are U.S.-based. Second, derivatives are closer to the U.S. definition of securities than crypto-currencies.

(2) Underlying price determination. I see the current spot price as $587. Where is this coming from? American options are continuous-time derivatives. These are sensitive to price information disruptions. Perhaps consider European or binary options?

(3) No rates or collateral markets. Options market makers need rates and collateral markets to provide liquidity and correct market aberrations through arbitrage. Rates markets are venues where one can borrow and lend capital, in BTC or U.S. dollars, to conduct Bitcoin market activity. Collateral markets are venues where one can borrow and lend Bitcoins. Non-linear derivatives market participates need collateral markets to manage their risks. Without collateral markets, volatilises for puts and calls will diverge and the market's robustness will suffer. The lack of rates and collateral markets also makes this market vulnerable to some well-known predatory trading tactics.

(4) Counterparty risk. U.S. exchange-traded equity options are centrally cleared through the Options Clearing Corporation (the "OCC"). Whether the writer of a contact pays up is irrelevant to the buyer - the OCC always pays everyone. Several layers of reserves and guarantees enhance the creditworthiness of the OCC. Counterparty credit is likely a greater risk than volatility for a Derivabit contract.
A conversation like that means there are other options:

<Gbatteries> Our patented technology extends the charge-cycle life of standard lithium-ion batteries by at least 200%, and we can prove it.
<Investor> Great, we will invest, get a product to market and you can IPO in 2 years.

It's why saying "yes" to an acquisition is so hard. There are always other options.
Unlike actual witch hunts - which were notoriously short on evidence - this episode has an actual smoking gun. Or more precisely, a smoking checkbook.
For the past few years we've had it had beaten into us that a start-up is an organization searching for a scalable (and implicitly, profitable) business model.

Some businesses are always going to need a ton of capital up front: space travel, medical, semiconductors, etc. Also, social networks for obvious reasons, twitter doesn't counter this argument. There isn't a huge amount of utility gained by you when the company your friend works for is using Box.

I see Box need would need some capital, but I can't remotely put it in the capital intensive category.

Which leaves me thinking that Box simply hasn't yet found a scalable and profitable business model, it's a large company to still be in the search stage.

I get the argument that Enterprise sales is a long process and there's a race against the likes of Dropbox.

Let's say the sales cycle is 2 years. If I have 500 sales people in year 4 and 800 in year 6, I expect those original 500 to be earning twice their wages, at a minimum, at year 6. If they're not doing that after 2 years, why do I keep recruiting at such a rate? I also expect some proportional contribution from sales after 3-4 months, up to 2 years.

Let's call that roughly 600 people-worth of sales, that's a minimum of 1,200 salaries of income. Looking at their numbers they'd have to have gone from (normalise this to their actual numbers) 500 to 1,700 sales people in 2 years (or 250 to 850, etc). In that actually the case?
To his credit, it looks like he was there from the beginning as a co-founder. Being a sub 30 CFO seems to be the exception rather than the norm. I, too, am jealous though.
Another weakness not mentioned is document similarity search. You have one document and you want to find the N most similar in your collection to offer suggestions like Amazon does. You can do it with fts in pg, but it is way to slow to be practical. Custom fts engines are much better at that task.
Irrespective of the proposition in question, Mr Eich debited $1000 to the influence of politics. His financial position gives him more political leverage than myself.

Bang on, you read my mind.
Wow, so every CEO should be be asked to state their position on social issues?

What are staff going to do if they don't like the answers? Quit? Strike?
> Would you argue with every idiot who presented an objection?

They don't even have to argue. Just ask questions. Questions that are meaningless. Or pose hypotheticals. Or pick at that one sentence and one word in that sentence that can be interpreted in multiple ways.

Or they'll just reply with your question with a lie...

> Would you argue with every idiot who presented an objection?

Why of course I would. Because I am right, because by answering this question in the affirmative, I've proven you wrong, which makes me right.
Right, with the caveat that it would be turned on per-thread, as needed.
Night Vision Contact Lens made with Graphene
It appears they use ACH for payments, but not debits (credit card only it appears). We run a marketplace with 5-6 figure transactions and use Balanced Payments. Their documentation is fairly terrible, but they cap ACH fees at $5, which is key, because we are passing the money through and would go out of business if we had to give 3% or whatever to a 3rd party.
Ahh, I hadn't read that part. I thought it was just disabled for the time being. Thanks. =)
There was also a brief comment from pc about this a couple of weeks ago that might be worth linking to here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7400884
If that were true, no congressperson could ever staff an office. Or a campaign.
This is a little more difficult when knowledge moves faster than product delivery. "Snake oil salesmen" did their thing because they could move from community to community and stay ahead of the news about a fraud coming through.

I have no idea if this battery thingy is all it's cracked up to be, but the group won't last that long if they don't deliver.
The title is somewhat misleading, Russia's membership was suspended and considering Russia never was a full member this is hardly more than symbolic. The G7 were always a club of US friendly 'capitalist' states and are in no way comparable to the UN.
removing the pretty much last serious chance for diplomacy

I don't think that the G8 framework is/was the last serious chance for diplomacy. There are still multiple channels open for diplomatic negotiations, be it bilateral or within EU/Russia negotiations i.e.

IMO it all comes down to domestic pressure: how much is the Russian economy going to suffer, and how are the major economic figures within Russia are going to act? Are they going to put pressure on the Putin administration not to further pursue the path of direct conflict?

Putin essentially missed to advance the Russian economy aside the natural ressources sector during his long reign. And the loss of foreign investment and efflux of domestic money is already posing a big risk to the Russian economy.
That seems a weird claim to make. What is problematic about freedom of speech in Europe?
It's marketing. Trying to be edgy will get more social media shares. Wouldn't be as popular titled "A List of Things That Frustrate HTML/CSS Developers, and How to Fix Them"

Can't blame him.
I was in the Air Force in Riyadh during the Gulf War - living in "Eskan Village" - south west of town, and just north of a Patriot missle battery. Many US servicemen (including myself) went up on the roofs of their housing units to watch the Scud/Patriot fireworks every night -- I don't think anybody had any illusions that we were "protected" by the Scuds -- everybody knew the shrapnel would land somewhere, even if in slightly smaller bits -- people felt "safe" just because of the math of probability - the risk of you being hit by anything falling from the sky was quite low, given the size of Riyadh!

You could stand on the water tower on your roof and see lit cigarettes for blocks around (other guys up on their roofs watching the show). Ahh! Good times...
The founders coded the MVP...
Ah, sorry, reading comprehension fail on this part: "use of property inconsistent with someone else's property rights".

In that case, preponderance seems reasonable.
That's great! Our analysis last month predicted a $70M valuation:

http://www.telegraphresearch.com/hired
> thinking in such a black and white manner isn't beneficial to decent conversation.

Should having "decent conversation" be the goal?

Because I prioritise not being discriminated against by my government because of my sexual orientation slightly higher than having a decent conversation.
Are you contending that the EU did not have a huge positive influence on the Spanish economy from the time it joined the EU until the economic crisis? The fact that the Spanish government, much like the Irish, let a bubble form, isn't, as far as I know, the fault of the EU. I agree that the current policy of austerity is an extremely bitter pill to swallow, but seeing the influence of the EU on the southernmost member states only in light of recent events is mistaken.

Of course, it is possible that you simply dislike market economy, but that's a very different debate.
Many opponents of miscegenation are revolted by the "mutts" produced by interracial couples and believe that they will pollute the "pure" races. This is very much the same fear: "If I allow these couples to have children, they will produce children who reflect the coupling."
I've added copy to the guide and the deposit modal making that more clear.
JavaScript inventor to become Mozilla CEO
No it's not. Indeed, you run a legal risk in NOT firing such a person given that keeping them around (especially in a senior position) creates a demonstrably hostile work environment.
This just forces complexity onto the caller - it's not unreasonable to expect the DB to "pseudo-schematize" as most keys will be repeated.
I see it that they've either 1) exhausted venture money, aren't an acquisition target, and see the public offering as funding of last resort because they're nowhere close to being profitable

That's what an IPO was originally supposed to be for, right? Raising capitol, rather than cashing out?
I was quite intrigued at first by this concept, but was a little turned off by the fact that the Sandstorm crew offers to "Use Our Servers..." to run Sandstorm itself. IMHO, this offering basically reverses any of the real benefits of Sandstorm. I'd encourage its authors to perhaps discourage the use of their "managed instances" so as to actually convince people to stop doing exactly that with other external software services.
Aw, man! :(
I spent 6 yrs bootstrapping a sales & services startup to $12M rev / 7-fig net. I watched every $ and plowed My Own Profit back into growth.
How easy it must be to get huge VC checks & spend more on sales than company top-line! And all we've heard in the ecosystem is how brilliant Levie is.....
LUUV – Camera stabilizer for GoPro / smartphones
Sales, Marketing, Operations, Technology, Finance, HR. Did I miss any?
If I was going to enter with a strategy to go against the existing players, and I wanted to be more aggressive, I think I'd go with an fully unmanned autonomous vehicle with deliveries in mind, and design the vehicle to be as un-dangerous to bystanders as possible. You could limit delivery routes to only go in areas you feel confident about, you could do extreme breaking without any annoyance to passengers (who will be awfully annoyed if the car screeches to a halt because of overly conservative danger detection), you can change the form factor of the vehicle to do whatever is best for outward safety.

The downside is that you might not be able to piggyback on existing car regulations. And that could be a big downside.
Yep, just like I suspected. Been on there for 10 minutes, and already getting friend requests from creepy guys I've never heard of. I would only use this with close friends.
They did however release a software patch within about 2 weeks of getting the report from Israel, but it took 10 days to make it to Saudi Arabia, one day late.
The set of states with vetos may be a little out of date - it's basically the major powers left standing after WWII - but the principle is still useful.

I'd call that a contradiction. The principle can't possibly be that useful if, a few decades later, the result of its application is deadlock.

Anyway, I'm not suggesting they should. It just crossed my mind as something they might look at after this.
According to my understanding of your materials, one isn't taking on tail-risk if one is writing puts on your site. In actuality, the price you require to write puts should be lower than if you were writing real puts, not higher.
Email, IM, blogging, microblogging, any kind of file/document/media sharing/collaboration, etc.
Ask HN: Chrome browser extension or a stand-alone executable?
If you are building a new tool, what would have a better chance of user engagement? Does lowering the resistance (chrome extension available right in your browser) favor over having to download, install and run a software on one's computer (binary file)?
Business Associate Agreement-

It's a HIPPA requirement.
Boycotting over this issue is reasonable. However, I hope that the author also understands that different people can have freedom to express differing views, in a private capacity.

In my experience, anyone expressing any viewpoints other than a pro-LGBT one are vociferously attacked, which again would be fine if the tone was more reasonable. People who fight for LGBT rights were once treated with extreme disrespect and abuse. It sadly still occurs. But now the shoe is on the other foot: I think it's odd that those who were previously mistreated start mistreating others when they gain acceptance.
That's well and good in theory. In practice, it's an excruciatingly long process (unless you at a massive scale already) and you're only likely to achieve local maxima. Whereas big sweeping changes, which might change more than a single feature but the whole message, are more likely to give you a conversion boost.

Once you find out what works and produces a big win, then you optimize more gradually and try to figure out what in particular it is. But it's usually not that important at that stage. Your big changes will reveal the stuff that's important to your customers.
> Those who really cared about security didn't even use MS to begin with anyway.

I don't know enough about this field to comment definitively, but I have to imagine that if one industry cares about security very, very deeply, it's the one that makes machines that give away money when you have a card with a magnetized strip and you push the right buttons. I'm willing to bet that the Windows XP that lives inside an ATM is not the same one that you buy from New Egg to play Half-Life.
Based on their revenues, it looks like they need to start charging more if that sort of head count is required.
Disney to buy YouTube video producer Maker Studios for $500 Million
Getting a sex change operation is a matter of choice, too.
This goes to 2010 http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....

[edit] this might explain part of the data as far as Canada http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2014/0204...
I'm in the same boat as you. Mail on my phone hardly even shows up at this point...
Dropbox is actually > 600 now.

(Source: dropbox.com/about)
Yup. There will be a few iterations of the S-1.
Most of the encryption done on the PS3 is actually performed in software on an isolated SPU core. The crypto code has been dumped and the algorithms reversed. This emulator leverages naehrwert's excellent scetool to decrypt the SELF files.
I don't expect there to be much debate about conditions like "they gave you their email address on your website and your email has an unsubscribe link."

It obviously wouldn't be a perfect system, but neither is any reputation formula. And the consequences of being wrongfully blacklisted are incredibly mild: I'd just skip our follow-up emails, or maybe require blacklisted users to double opt-in.
Russia supplied 32.6% of oil and 38.7% of gas used by EU in 2007.

Seeing that the Russian state is nearly exclusively financed by selling Russian natural ressources, this also poses a big risk to Russia: they can't just switch to sell their oil and gas to someone else (i.e. China, as the infrastructure to just shift the flow of oil and gas to the East is not present). Both the EU and Russia are tied together.
Point out that it is a fashion isn't to undermine the weight of the issue.

Rather, to call this issue a moral fashion rightly describes its fluctuation over the course of human history. If we are honest, tolerance of homosexuality to varying degrees has fluctuated as much as the age of consent. Greece once tolerated homosexuality, especially when practiced through pederasty, for instance. And that culture likewise thought it was the most advanced society ever to have existed, and, like many in this thread, could never imagine society moving in the opposite direction.

Eich has the misfortune of taking the side that has grown to be labeled heresy, and he is being ostracized for it. This is exactly the sort of idea Paul Graham spoke about in his modern heresies essay.
If an employee pulls in one direction, and the CEO pulls in the other, the employee loses. Period.

(If the majority of employees pull in that direction, then the CEO needs to rethink. But we're talking about individuals).

"In short, a CEO is just an employee, often getting paid more than the average employee, and often having more influence than the average employee, but not always."

Yes always. Your supposed company where the average employee out-influences the CEO simply does not exist.
Why are you even wasting electrons typing this stuff?

Unless you have a supporting argument or counterargument, you have no valid contribution.
I don't see what's wrong with JavaScript?
I was wondering this too. Is there an ETA on Orange/Black if they are not available now?
China is drowning in debt and is one of the most debt ridden nations. In the last five years since the global recession, their economy has acquired more debt than any other country in world history in such a short span of time. At the rate they're accumulating debt, they're likely to become the most indebted nation, as their fake growth requires ever more credit per dollar of growth they're able to generate. They can either keep faking growth with debt, or they can crash.

Both their muni debt and their corporate debt are the highest in the world on a GDP basis. The two of those together are at least $15 trillion right now (and that's if you believe their numbers, it could be far worse).

Adding China would just drastically increase the amount of debt in the GX group.
Jon, the sentiment makes a lot of sense. And anyone reading HN should know the importance of having a backup/archive system setup before it's needed. I guess that really is the ease of mind that I would consider buying.

Between writing my earlier message and reading your response here, I think the idea of having a strategy less dependent on myself is in fact compelling.

Well, shoot. Now it looks as though I am of the mindset that I will buy one just to give it a fair trial. Thank you again for another quality and personal response.
IE 11 calculates font size wrong when setting body's font-size in relative units
Smart move. :)
He didn't say that at all. You are reading a whole lot into a simple transfer of money about which Eich has said hardly a word. You have taken something that is barely an identifiable stance — and certainly not a public one — and turned it into a declaration of extremism.

An equally plausible read would be "Eich belongs to a religion that holds marriage as a core tenet and was encouraged by his pastor to donate along with the rest of the congregation. He actually wants gays to have equal rights and believes treating gays well is the right course for any business entity, but his personal religious beliefs — which he keeps strictly separate from his official duties — have certain hooks in the word 'marriage'."

Fun fact: Many churches were actually telling their congregants that without Prop. 8, the state would require their church to perform gay marriages, and that they should vote for Prop. 8 if they wanted their church's religious freedom to remain intact.
2x faster than Facebook's HHVM on a suite of php benchmarks
This startup helps people of countries their government censors the Internet
There is no "except for gays" part in the TOS or anything, but they decide to go full "except for Mozillians" over one person's acts, who acted not as a will-be-CEO, or as a Mozilla member, but as a single civilian individual.
Technically, they are doing against Mozilla what they think Mozilla could be doing against them, but it doesn't.

As Uncel Dolan once said:
Okei, bai
It isn't about Firefox needing to have its own distinct appearance, and it isn't about "ugliness". It's about usability, plain and simple.

Chrome-style UIs are quite dumbed down and non-standard. Now, this might actually work tolerably for average or casual web users, or those with very tiny screens. But for other users, especially those who expect a lot from their browser and push it hard, this approach is just plain ineffective.

Chrome's single menu, for instance, is a total mess. A traditional menu bar and menu hierarchy is a much saner way of organizing functionality. Best of all, there's a lot of similarity between applications, which in turn makes them all easier to use.

Firefox used to have a UI that offered a good balance between not wasting space, while still making important functionality quick and easy to use. As they've copied Chrome's UI more and more the past few years, Firefox has become decreasingly useful for a lot of users.

Having to remedy these deficiencies using more and more add-ons with each release is getting increasingly tedious. The worst part, however, is that all of the major browser vendors have fallen into this let's-imitate-Chrome trap, so it's not like there's a viable alternative to switch to.