skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an absolutely knee jerk reaction. Just the way I stand for a gay couple's right to remain together I also support Eich's right to oppose a government policy which he believes is not right. I do not think anyone should boycott Eich or his organization because of the opinions which he holds about an issue that has nothing to do with his organization.

Also please do not paint the Gay marriages as some kind of black & white issue. There are plenty of subtle differences here. Traditional marriage laws which gives so many benefits to couples were designed with an assumption that marriages are only between man and woman. We can not mindlessly extend them to all kind of marriages.

Just the way I support gay marriages, I also support man-woman-woman or man-woman-man or [man|woman|] relationships also. Does that mean if an American man marries 3 Arab women all of them should get a green card ? Should a person with two wives be given more tax benefits ? What happens to parent's property distribution when brother marries his sister ?

The only moral position I feel worth taking is that government should protect individual liberties which involves getting into any kind of partnership among consenting adults. Beyond that everything has shades of grey.
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In short, I strongly believe that you're incorrect. (Note: I'm talking about general/recreational aviation here). dchichkov mentioned the Antares, which is a high-performance electric self-launch sailplane. In this category, there's also the Pipistrel Taurus G4. Lots of other electrically-powered light aircraft exist, and they are all held back by battery weight, volume and cost.

There is a large number of advantages to electric propulsion vs. combustion engines in aircraft: Much lower maintenance costs, simpler maintenance, higher reliability (in gliders, replacing two-stroke engines with electric motors yields a huge safety advantage), lower fuel cost, simpler operation (less possibility for human error), less noise, lower weight (ex batteries), smaller volume per unit power, higher efficiency, lower purchase cost. The only real disadvantages are low energy density and charging time/infrastructure. At some point in the medium-term future (~5 years) we will hit a point where the benefits obviously outweigh the disadvantages for many use cases. In fact, I think the inflection point has already been hit wrt. the battery tech, it's just that it isn't obvious to anyone who isn't intimately familiar with the progress in battery pack cost development. Give it a couple of years.

Even this list of advantages disregards the fact that the mechanical simplicity of electric motors enable aircraft configurations that haven't been tried at scale, for instance gimballed/swerving variable-geometry ducted-fan propellers, etc. Electric motors are also not dependent on high air pressure to get enough oxygen for efficient combustion. There's just a huge new design space that opens up when you have sufficiently powerful battery storage. Super exciting.

Pay attention to the drone aircraft companies, they are the ones in a position to drive this shift.
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There's absolutely no basis for defaming Brendan Eich like that.
Another cause for concern is that this is a company whose only staff seem to be two engineers and a designer.[1] Do any of these guys have any experience in running a financial services business? Do they know how to comply with legal and regulatory requirements? Do they have enough capital in reserve to satisfy their financial obligations under a worst-case scenario, or will their customers be left holding the bag? The web site doesn't even state in which country this business is located.

[1] https://derivabit.com/about
I think that people in tech should obviously be able to support whatever political causes they want, but I would bet that Mozilla will have a harder time recruiting LGBTQ employees with a public homophobe as their CEO, and I think it behooves anyone with such a high position in a company to realize that their personal stands still reflect on their company (even if the company culture is actually fine and Mozilla does a good job protecting their LGBTQ employees from discrimination).
When asked about it in 2012, he did not retract it or change his views publicly: https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/
I would say that this is a false dichotomy. If said organizations are bigoted but legal 1) and 2) can co-exist peacefully if the app/service makes their value statement very clear from the outset about what sort of organizations they want to serve. It is the sudden suspension of an app or service based on personal decisions that I think is unprofessional.

To give a better example of why this would affect you as a third-party user not directly involved in the debate -- imagine you use a Mint-like personal finance app on your Android phone on a day-to-day basis. Now suppose Brendan Eich becomes CEO of Google, and the app writers pull their app from the Play store, and revoke API access for all Android devices. Would you be okay with that?
>Will self signed certs be good enough?

For public consumption, no. For anything internal, yes.
None of it is new (some are over a decade old), but it's a nice resource for CSS/HTML noobs who learnt their craft in Google Chrome and never had to memorize the horrors at http://www.positioniseverything.net
I've used Hired in the past and it was an unbelievably good experience. A few hours after filling out a profile offers started to come in from companies ranging in size from 5-200 employees with salaries ranging from 90% to 170% of my current. My 'Talent Advocate' helped arrange interviews, bought my plane ticket, and showed me around the city. I wish these guys the best!
One cool way to make a maze is how the old Windows OpenGL maze screensaver did it, starting with every square having full walls, starting somewhere, and making sure every room has at least one broken wall and they're all connected, traversing it. I forget how exactly it picked the end point. I used that when I wrote a Javascript game about that maze but it was hosted on nyhacker and it's gone now. Might still have it around somewhere on a hard drive though.
Design Is Important
Have you played a flash game lately? The initial program begins running really quickly, where it then downloads assets using a separate loader while a splash screen displays. Sony also ran into this problem with the massive files (20 - 40 GB) for their disc-based games that are also available for download, but somehow (in many cases) the games can be played while the download is happening, as the most critical parts are downloaded first.

Browser gaming may or may not take off, but I really don't see asset-size being the rope with which it hangs itself.
Their actions seem perfectly reasonable considering they are a gay, married couple in California. And they are just announcing why they are breaking off their association with Mozilla. As far as I can tell they aren't making a "with us or against us" stand against anybody else not following suit, so I can hardly begrudge them this.
Let’s Bring Etiquette to User Testing
OK, first off, when Loving v. Virginia made mixed-race marriages legal across the United States, only 20% of Americans supported mixed race marriages[1].

Secondly (and note that I'm switching off RV numbers from California and onto nationwide numbers without any reference to voter registration), 52% of Americans nationwide supported the legalization of gay marriage last year[2].

[A] large chunk of one of the most progressive states
in the U.S.

What percentage of Californians do you think should support it before it's made legal? A supermajority? Why?

Maybe they're both unpleasant experiences, but
they're different both in kind and degree.

Please explain the credentials or personal knowledge that help you properly categorize the severity of one wrong vs. another.

Furthermore, there's no analog to "race mixing"
(the real "crime" in interracial marriage) in
the debate about gay marriage.

Patently false. Google 'regnerus' and 'michigan'.

Lumping current proponents of traditional marriage in
with the likes of George Wallace is akin to breaking
Godwin's Law and only serves to inhibit understanding,
not promote it. This only undermines the inclusive
ideals that gay marriage supporters claim to advocate.

Wait, let me get this straight. Are you implying that it is bad for me to claim this is discriminatory behavior because it undermines inclusiveness? That's an utterly absurd argument.

You still haven't explained why you think gay marriage is bad.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-wh...

[2] http://www.gallup.com/poll/163730/back-law-legalize-gay-marr...
On the scale of techies trying to ruin people's lives, I'd put the level of these donations pretty low down the list of concerns myself, even if I don't love them (Peter Thiel's right-wing donations worry me more, for example, because they are much, much larger).
As much as I dislike what Russia is doing removing the pretty much last serious chance for diplomacy looks like an extremely dumb move.
Why don't designers take Android seriously?
What I'd like to know is whether there's the potential to have their UN security council seat revoked. I don't know if there's even a contingency in place for that (if not, that was a foolish omission), but if there is, Russia is certainly moving in the right direction to hit it based on their current popularity deficit.
Is this how you want to raise your children? "And remember, do not be too specific in the mail or on the phone..."

This is madness! The right answer is to fight this and not to go along with it by promoting some circumventions.

At least this crap of "academic experiment" is only starred by 3 people on github.
thanks for the shout-out :)
Thanks for the suggestions, the guide has been updated.

Regarding your other concerns, we'll address those with more complicated margin requirements for new contracts and multi-sig Bitcoin transactions. For now, you can just set an extremely high price limit for buying puts in exchange for the tail risk you're taking on.

Edit: buying, not selling
Bingo. There's nothing complicated about this. Moreover, it's idiotic and / or ignorant to suggest otherwise.

Assuring basic equality under the law was the whole point of the 14th Amendment. And on this point, the law is absolutely, perfectly clear. People treat it in black and white terms because those are the terms that actually apply.

Indeed, it's no more complicated than "Should black people be allowed to vote?" or "Can we buy and sell women like slaves?"
Where is "here" specifically?
How exactly did I misrepresent the view?

Have not the Koch brothers been slandered in the media and in fact on the floor of the Senate? Have they not been made into the Great Conservative Boogeyman?

As for "homophobic": the first post in the thread contains the following phrase: "I guess 2 years is long enough for most people to have forgotten the brief storm about his homophobic political activities."

Do you mean to tell me that nobody would ever take such a position as I stated?
I'm not appealing to the court's authority. So that you and others can see the reasoning, I'm pointing you at a carefully-considered legal opinion by a federal judge. One similar to others on the topic, like Judge Walker's decision on Prop 8. Hand-wave it away if you like, but the rational-basis standard [1] is a key legal concept here.

When court after court finds that there is no rational basis to these laws after carefully examining every rationale offered by proponents, I think it's reasonable for gay people to conclude that promoters of those laws are irrationally biased against them. Especially those promoters unwilling to offer any other explanation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_basis_review
I've recently been thinking about the same problem and here's what I came up with: a bootstrap javascript script which takes the user's password and decrypts another javascript file with it and runs that. That javascript file then proceeds to decrypt other files and build an interface with them. This way, the server could not change files without your consent. You could maybe even use the Application Cache [1] to notify the user when the server changes the bootstrap file, or some kind of mechanism where the browser, instead of a bootstrap file, takes the user's password and decrypts the first file (something like [2], perhaps).

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/HTML/Using_the_applicatio...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLS-SRP
We use Chartio for all our long-lived reporting but we use custom charts for A/B test reporting since we need to combine data from several sources in one chart e.g. Twilio, Mixpanel, GA, local DB.
None of the PIIGS were extremely socialist.

Please note that I never suggested they were. My intended point was only that generally socialist-leaning countries usually need to have something to balance that inclination or over time things tend to start going wrong.

In successful examples, such as we see in Scandinavia, competent government and generally good public services appear to be sufficient. People see a decent return on the relatively high levels of taxation they pay. Also, while the overall tax burden is relatively high, most of these countries tend to have a relatively soft touch with businesses that makes them nevertheless a reasonably attractive place to operate.

In less successful examples, such as we saw in Greece, the same sentiment is present, but the government failed to actually collect the taxes and provide effective public services. Black markets and corruption were everywhere, and a vicious cycle set in, leading to excessive borrowing by the government and the end result we're all familiar with. I'd suggest that similar factors were at work in Italy, with so much corruption and general incompetence in the government that they essentially gave up on democracy and wound up with an appointed technocrat at the helm. Portugal, also, had some very dubious financial management at government level, much of it based on excessive employment in the public sector and dubious arrangements based on public-private partnerships, and of course the problems with the banks that led up to their economic crisis.

I concede that perhaps it wasn't correct to identify the PIIGS as a group in this context, because not all of their recent economic troubles started the same way. Even so, several of them have shared striking similarities, both in being generally over-reliant on an inefficient public sector before the crisis and in being relatively difficult places to try and start a new business since then.
I like the concept, and event want to use this, but maybe you can have more thought put in to the example friends. I do not categorize my friends as Mr. Example, Miss Hotty, and Best Buddy....especially as a woman. The Miss Hotty is especially creepy - you want guys to send pings to just hot girls? This feels like harassment.
No, unfortunately front ends still need to be aware of some of the ABI details of the target to produce the IR for it.
Nothing to counter. Putting words into a comment does not make it valid. Review your history.

p.s. Feel free suggest the same thing about my comment. I know you want to.
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Reasonable?

Isn't this the guy whose ego is so great he crapped all over Douglas Crockford when that man so generously spent time trying to help improve Twitter Bootstrap? The very same Douglas Crockford who has contributed so much to building the JS/frontend community to what it is today.
In defense of frameworks
It's a rotating slideshow, which picture are you talking about?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7431835
Does it matter?

Apparently it does matter to quite a few people here. If the community represents society as a whole, then it is a serious issue. If the community does not, then this is a tempest in a teapot.
Sure, but the point is that it did not have enough precision for both a large absolute value, and small time measurements, when based on time since boot.
Easy, the dude openly and activly opposes the basic legal equality of gay people. Given that he runs the place, that creates a hostile working for gay people. End of story.
IIRC PayPal was very similar - it was sold for $1.5B, but Max Levchin's share was only about $30M, and Elon Musk's was only about $100M. By comparison, many early Web 2.0 darlings (Del.icio.us, Blogger, Flickr) sold for only $20-40M, but their founders had only taken small seed rounds, and so the vast majority of the purchase price went to the founders. 75% of a $40M acquisition = 3% of a $1B acquisition.

Something for founders to think about when they're taking funding. If you look at the gigantic tech fortunes - Gates, Page/Brin, Omidyar, Bezos, Zuckerburg, Hewlett/Packard - they usually came from having a company that was already profitable or was already well down the hockey-stick user growth curve and had a clear path to monetization by the time they sought investment. Companies that fight tooth & nail for customers and need lots of outside capital to do it usually have much worse financial outcomes.
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You can't use JSON for "Evil software"
The year 2000 saw me in my early going on mid-thirties, and I was the youngest person in the room.

Then I went to work for a pretty cloistered company for the next eight years. One closed local office and one declined offer to move to HQ later, I started looking around. And suddenly found myself the oldest person in the room.

I had done contract work for many of these companies prior to 2000, often for the very same departments or groups. The irony of the situation is the lead and management positions which had been filled by guys in their late 30s, 40s and 50s, were "now" filled by guys in their late-20s and very early 30s. And the difference showed.

This is in the Midwest, so ageism isn't just a SV thing.
Sorry about that, we'll get these documentation pages finished today!

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For what its worth I understood.
How does this help? If it's running on the server, you just insert a breakpoint right after the decrypt function call, put whatever code you want, then continue running.
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This is really nice, but Russia is pretty important to Europe, thus any response is limited to token actions only. Russia supplied 32.6% of oil and 38.7% of gas used by EU in 2007. I would love to see some of more recent data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_s...
I'm pretty sure the 5 permanent members are 'made men' and can't be revoked, but even if there were a mechanism, you can bet that China would veto it.

The UN isn't NATO -- the whole point of it is to have a common forum for countries that aren't military allies and have conflicting interests.
And Federico Faggin who headed the development team for the 4004 was 30 at the time. William Kahan who was instrumental in the Intel 8087 was about 45. I can go on.

So, basically what you're saying is that young people can churn out software where you can undo your huge screwup, but if you have to get it right the first time like hardware, then you need some experience.
Oh, I see. I didn't realize those line-items were clickable. For the interface of the order book you should really check out how it's displayed on a trading system or something (with bids and asks in separate columns), although it's impossible for me to know how your system would look with more orders attached.
Yawn. This is not a big deal.

There's no China, India or Brazil in the G8 (now G7) so it doesn't exactly represent the biggest economies in the world.

What the G7 does represent however are some of the most debt ridden countries in the world!
I'm super bummed the first image on the page is "Buzz Lightyear" themed, and then not an option for the actual vote. I want to live in a world where Buzz Lightyear looking spacemen are a real thing.
Uh, no. Political views are - presumably - matters of choice. Also, they're prone to regular change. In both regards, they are categorically different from distinctions of gender, race, orientation, etc.
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American and Russian submarines are renowned for their sonar equipment. If they were to navigate to the southern Indian Ocean, could they detect the transmissions from the black box?
She's on the Board...but doesn't own any shares to speak of. Line tracking issue.
>Let's play an intellectual game. Is it possible to imagine a sensible reason for Eich to hold the view he and others hold? If you are unable to imagine such a reason, it is because you are misunderstanding that position.

Why is it that we have to imagine their reasons, when they cannot bother to imagine our reasons?

*I can actually "imagine" some of their reasons, my dad is a rabid fundamentalist and is very anti-gay, I just don't propose they are valid reasons.
We only support Bitcoin derivative instruments, which we believe to be under the CFTC's jurisdiction (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/7/2).
He has always very actively supported ASM.js. He's also stepping away from involvement in JavaScript standardization efforts so he can focus on his new position, so this will actually decrease his involvement in those specific areas. None of that probably helps native Dart support at all – there's probably close to zero champions for that sort of thing at Mozilla regardless of Brendan.
Well that is my personal blog (catonmat.net), where I post updates about my company.
Definitely agree on getting rid of the countdown feature. It's definitely bad as a first user experience; almost certain the first picture anyone takes will be bad and they may not see the "Slide down to retake" text.

Also, I like to be able to send text with the picture too, just to give a bit of context. I really imagine using this as a reverse Snapchat that let's me get pictures instead of sending them. Being able to give context to the picture is great. On a related note. I like being able to see comments on a picture when scrolling through the feed. Making the comment viewing section a separate screen in the app makes it less useful.

Also as a comparison to Snapchat. How long do the pictures stay around. Forever?
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What the countries allied against Russia's moves into crimea don't seem to realise is that Russia literally doesn't give a shit:

Lavrov added that Russia was "not attached to this format and we don't see a great misfortune if it will not gather. Maybe, for a year or two, it will be an experiment for us to see how we live without it."
Android has a standardised API for BLE as of 4.3, so you can target that instead of HTC and Samsung's proprietary APIs. But that only covers 12% of Android devices, which is really pretty awful given iOS basically has support across the board since 2011.
Absolutely not, and it's by design, not foolish omission. The point of the permanent Security Council seats isn't to reward states for good behavior, but rather to recognize the reality that when a great power like Russia or the US or China feels that UN institutions are acting against its core interests, it can tear the whole structure down. So yeah, the veto-wielding members can veto any attempt to take that power away.

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.
Quite. The man may yet change his stance on gay marriage, but we cannot now uninvent Javascript...