skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a conservativeish person on HN, I have to say that pushing to deny a legal arrangement to gay couples is different than being skeptical about their impact on society.

Rant: Also, I'm irritated that this is the "conservative" position. Our culture is doing away with the institution of marriage, and its to the detriment of our children and our families. In the face of that, conservatives should not be in the business of discouraging people who want to build families.
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I think the piece you are missing is that someone could reasonably apply the same logic you are to your politics. If I feel that taxation is theft or that bombing Pakistan with drones is grossly immoral I could ostracize anyone who holds those beliefs under this logic. Maybe even target supporters of those arranging such activities like say anyone who gave money to Obama. You can either deal with opinions you don't like or you can freak out try to target those who hold them. It's your life.
Well obviously Giz.mo giz's your mo's. Update 3.1.5 is going to completely upend the status quo, it is so disruptive & social.

Edit: The downvotes are making me giggle like a small child. Do I have a problem?
I never considered that perspective, that the difficulty (and dare I say, ugliness) of the language might've discouraged me early on. A prior job in Cambridge, MA paid for me to take any course I wanted at Harvard Extension School (a branch of the esteemed Harvard school) and I picked an intro C programming class. I learned a lot, but mostly I learned how challenging it was and how annoying programming in C could get (i.e., how easily I could become discouraged).

I've always assumed that my difficulty becoming proficient with C/C++ was due to the fact that my brain started learning on BASIC, which wasn't nearly as "close to the machine" as C is. What I loved about that C programming class was how much I was learning about how the physical hardware worked (e.g., pointers; most people in the class seemed to hate pointers but I loved them).
I would be interested in seeing you take a larger chunk of code and convert it to a more symbol-rich representation. Showing a single card, especially a very large one, isn't a good representation of the idea. I would also appreciate a description of how exactly I inserted these symbols into the editor.

I will spot you that I won't natively know the language in question. In turn, I warn you that the most likely criticism I will make is that you've greatly increased the cognitive load of what I have to understand to understand your code without a corresponding payoff, even accounting for fluency in the vocabulary. (I say this not to be a jerk, but precisely to issue fair warning so you can head it off at the pass.) I will also spot fluency in your paradigm of choice... while I hope that the result is not a superficial syntax gloss on top of fold & map, I am happy to accept that I would need to know what those things are.

(I've come to start issuing the same challenge to anyone who thinks a visual programming language is the answer to our programming complexity problems, for instance. Don't draw me three boxes and two lines showing a simple map transform. Draw me something not huge, but nontrivial, say, the A-star algorithm. Then tell me it's better. Maybe it is, if you work on it enough, but don't scribble out the equivalent of "map (+1) [1, 2, 3]" and tell me you've "fixed" programming. Trivial's trivial in any representation.)
OK, you don't need to convince me! I've been saying for years that the central problem is coordinating state updates, and have been proposing that languages should automatically manage time for us like the way they automatically manage memory. Sean McDirmid and I have submitted a paper on it to Onward.

But as to graphs vs trees I don't think it is so clear-cut. Good arguments on both sides of that issue.
Done, in the form of a reusable rails template. :)

https://github.com/steakknife/rails41rc_plus_hacks_and_threa...

Feedback requested in the issue tracker. Anything that seems out of place.
But if manufacturers have no competition for dealerships (because they own them all), what would keep them from jacking up the prices?
> You people are vicious.

We respond to systematic oppression with angry words, and we're the vicious ones?

Look, I'm sorry you feel hard done by. The folks down in Birmingham felt hard done by, too, when they were told they had to put up with black people dirtying up their lunch counters. These next few decades are going to stress you out just as much as the last few did them. I truly, honestly hope that you'll eventually be able to find another way of looking at things.
- #2 might not be testament to their abilities rather because English is not their first language. Nonetheless, they should hire a professional.

- #5 Not ~100k devs. Google and Apple both have >40k employees. Does your point still hold? MSFT interviews for the most part are still good.

I personally don't even know them and agree with the rest of what you say.
http://informion.com is what I assumed their service is. I apologize if this is not the service they discuss (this is what appears on the author's bio line at the bottom).

When I wrote my comment it was really coming from a place of honest criticism. It wasn't cautionary, as I don't expect most HN-ers to go dropping $599 on their recommended plan.
As a founder myself, I felt I had to give them my opinion of how this looks from the outside. Yes they had spelling errors as other posters politely noted but this is just going around the edges of the core issue here.
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A bigot is a person with a bigoted opinion.
"Do not have network intros to YC-Partners" that got me thinking what are my odds of getting in. pg once said "your chances are either very high or very low". No intros. Haven't co-founder a successful startup in the past. Haven't worked for FB. I'm from "middle of nowhere".
You could take a look at https://github.com/andreypopp/sweet-jsx which fences the JSX syntax inside tagged template literal.
Every Ruby developer on the planet thanks you for this. Lengthy `gem install` cycles are one of the less fun things about the Ruby ecosystem.
I'm out of the closet already, thanks.

Also, FYI, trying to insult gay-rights fans with "you're gay" doesn't really work.
The Doctor Who reboot: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0436992

Overall kinda consistent, but very scattered if you look at the episodes individually.
I'm using Angular and I'd like to try react. Is it easy to transform an angular project to backbone + react? Do you have to use Marionette?
I guess I should also note, I hadn't meant "salesman" to be derogatory...
Suffice to say, my eyeballs literally do not process the footer unless:

1) I am looking for "Contact Us"

2) I need some piece of information so badly I am willing to dig around the website for 10+ minutes, after which I will start looking at the footer, at the HTML (in case there are collapsed menus), searching Google with "site:www.thesite.com"... This level of dedication is reserved for financial institutions, and government.
Quotes Twitter App
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
It's working perfectly.
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

Check your internet connection, or try another way to get to the front page.

Cheers.
If Tesla want to increase the price of Tesla cars for end customers, why would they need a dealer monopoly?
Why would an independent service shop care if it is [local moderately wealthy businessman with contracts with wealthy corporation] or [wealthy corporation] who owns the dealership? Either way they have the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act so either way car owners can choose to either take their car to an independent shop or to a dealer shop.

Lingering concerns could be cleared up by lobbying for some Right to Repair laws: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-repair_act
I love seeing the challenges of programming analyzed from this high-level perspective, and I love Chris's vision.

I thought the `person.walk()` example, however, was misplaced. The whole point of encapsulation is to avoid thinking about internal details, so if you are criticizing encapsulation for hiding internal details you are saying that encapsulation never has any legitimate use.

I was left wondering if that was Chris's position, but convinced it couldn't be.
I must say that we really didn't plan it this way we wrote this yesterday given we felt strongly about it.

The intent was not necessarily to talk about YC but to:

1.	Spell out the framework we used to evaluate accelerators so others could use it as appropriate
For us it came to two things:
a.	Did we FEEL that the guys running the accelerator cared
b.	Had we developed respect for their OPINIONS
As I said we found 3 fitting our criteria and YC was one among those – it depends on what pre-access founders get to these guys/their thoughts – being in Seattle guys @ 9 mile have helped us out from even before we left our day jobs, similarly Andy and Techstars alum has been nothing but vested.
Thought this will be helpful for others deciding on accelerators.

2.	Using YCs app as a tool for improving sales/pitches
We found YCs application & what they expect to have most resonance with what customers asked and expected – I would concur that almost all applications have these questions in one form of the other but PG has done well to express what they expect in his essay – we found him echoing what our customers expected but never demanded – so the app could be a tool one could use to refine the sales call/pitch.
"The witch hunt is coming"?

You must not have been paying attention over the last couple of days. The bonfire has been stoked, the rope is ready, the judges have made their decision, and the ducks are ready to be weighed.

Eich has been found guilty, guilty, guilty in the court of public opinion: his offense is having the same opinion as 52.2% of Californian voters in 2008 and donating to that cause.

No apology is apparently sufficient, so he must be destroyed.

At least, that's sure what it looks like online.
Well, as is often the case, they got theirs. They cleared the hurdle, now barriers to entry help instead of hurt them.
I think it is just that. I live in Melbourne myself, and while I'm not involved in the gay scene, I'm also not that far removed from it. What you've got here is a bland statement saying "we're boycotting this product" without actually stating any changes made. Does the council even use Mozilla's stuff? If they do, what changes are they making?

How effective have previous campaigns of theirs been? (Like I say, I'm admittedly not involved in the scene, but I haven't actually heard the name of the aids council for literally years). How much political reach do they have to make people actually change the web browser they're using? Few people use thunderbird or firefox OS or Mozilla's other subsidiary products.

And what is the basis of their claim? A single sizeable donation from six years ago. What more recent evidence do we have that he's still acting this way? People can and do change over the course of years.

This announcement is merely jumping on a political bandwagon, and the suggested boycott has no teeth in it. It's a robotic response, and smacks of the usual way these things are written: responding to the hot gossip with no further investigation. Fine, boycott away if they want to, I'm just saying that press releases like this - giving little insight, having no real teeth, no course of action, and which can be written in 10 minutes - don't require much to trigger them. It doesn't even mention that Mozilla's primary product is Firefox and you can start off by using something else!
Seems like 30 year old engineers from Microsoft/Amazon would pretty much fit in perfectly to an ideal YC founding team.
You kind of answer your own question here. Putting money behind an issue amplifies both your voice and the cause's well above and beyond the one-person-one-vote voice everyone gets (or is supposed to get). Everyone does not have an equal ability to contribute to political causes, so those with more ability have more power than those who don't.

And of course there's the fact that in modern democracy your vote is considered a part of your private life. Everyone has the right to keep that basic contribution to civic life out of their personal and business lives. But not for going above and beyond.

So it's really not that he held this political opinion, it is that he used his money to support it, almost certainly in full knowledge that it would be public information that he did so. And now, no matter how many times he says he believes in diversity without really explaining why he supported that cause if so, every gay person he works with knows that he spent $1000 supporting the cause to prevent them from getting married to someone they love. It would be kind of ridiculous if this did not cause friction. It's very difficult to "live and let live" when it's your life people are mucking with.
Black boxing is very, very important and necessary if we're ever going to build a complex system, BUT my point is that you should be able to see what it does if you need to. So I don't think we're at odds in our thinking.
It's a tough choice for me between this and Currently (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently/ojhmphdk...) which shows the time and the weather with each tab.
Manufacturers set the prices they sell their vehicles to the dealerships for, don't they? Unless the dealerships are going to start taking a loss on every sale, they aren't providing any restraint on manufacturer pricing. What keeps Ford from jacking up its prices is the Nissan lot next door, the year older Ford on the used lot, and the regional rail station down the street.
in case you are serious: the full quote was 'shitty "poor people" screens' which parses not to 'shitty poor people' but to 'shitty screens for poor people' and is not really offensive.
You've nailed it for me, too. "About Us" and analogues for contact information, or true desperation :)
The root cause is: "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."

You can be against gay marriage because you don't like and don't want others to do it. But at the government level that also means denying gay couples those 1,138 benefits, rights and privileges. It means making them less equal. People are upset about someone who believes that and donated money to continue it.

Another comment from me with link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7490855
i've used backbone on the server for years. rendering too.

it's why i prefer backbone to angular.
I have an appstore?
Competition with other manufacturers?
> when you can read and write Japanese on it the deal is basically made

Why is this the deal maker? I do not read/write japanese so maybe I am missing something obvious.[^1] Is writing/reading japanese with pen/pencil and paper difficult? Is there something that differentiates Japanese reading/writing from Korean? Have there been other tablets that worked with western scripts but not Japanese?

[^1]: I am assuming we are not talking about handwriting recognition.
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Yeah, it's all the media's fault! There aren't real people affected by these things, obviously. Just cartoon characters in our daily dose of Media Party Propaganda.

Snark aside, this analogy will work when Brendan Eich changes his mind as Obama did. No one is saying he's forever doomed by his position in 2008, but if he still believes it people still have every right to disagree with him as vocally as they want.
Uh, I can think of useful data analysis to run on that.

Both to characterize the feelings associated with relationships (which is data that Facebook would like to know), and sentiment analysis for various adverts or other things.

For example, Facebook could use a virtual room for people looking to interact, and then place ad objects within the room - and rate your responses to them, in order to profile you for advertisers, and figure out what kind of placements generate the least interruption or most positive association.

Further, you're only talking about the current gen Oculus technology, and not anything about what Facebook might (speculatively) deveop going forward.

The obvious path (seeing other virtual worlds) is to generate some method of putting realistic gestures in to the experience, which I highly doubt they'll never attempt to do.

I'm much more okay with a stand-alone thing doing that, than anything tied to Facebook's environment, because I believe Facebook is a fundamentally exploitative company.
I am also for freedom of speech, but part of that is freedom to meet speech with speech of my own (and for others to do the same with regard to my speech).
Characterize relationships, track response to various types of advertising.

The standard things Facebook does with their data.
These laws are crazy. They work for Tesla currently, but what about the future and future direct-to-customer sales models by other companies?

When Tesla grows, they will need more than 5 dealerships in order to reach more of the population.

When a new competitor tries to sell direct, these rules will make it impossible for them to compete on an even playing field with Tesla and therefore have to revert to the old dealership model. Win for Tesla, loss for free markets and competition.
Their games may have been "panned" (I don't know...I don't follow the gaming press) but clearly bazillions of people found them enjoyable enough to cough up the cash (the only "review" that really matters).

I mean, Carmack was rich enough to fund his own space program.
Once everybody was in favor of slavery, too. That people now have it right doesn't mean that the previous position was less wrong.

I agree that this change has been unusually swift compared with, say, the shift on interracial marriage from "loony tunes" to unremarkable. But I think that's mainly because there isn't a ton of gay/straight segregation, not like racial segregation. Now that being in the closet isn't nearly as common, it's hard for people to take an abstract anti-gay position without facing the fact that it will hurt somebody's family member.

But the legitimate question for any Mozilla employee or partner is: will I face discrimination from Mozilla's new CEO? Sure, Eich has promised to behave at work, but he hasn't apologized, and hasn't done anything to demonstrate that his opinions have changed.

Personally, Eich's weird avoidance of the topic makes me question his fitness to lead a major non-profit. His handling of this in the media has been less than adroit. CEO is a public-facing role, and so far he doesn't seem to be very good at it.
@gavanwoolery -- what kind of Hardware is the demo running on?
This is flat-out fascinating. Thanks.
Very Aggressive Chess Openings
This 6th Grader Stood Up To Government To Tell Them Something... And I Think The Results Were Amazing.
Perhaps Tesla is not playing nice with independent service shops. You might be allowed to get your Tesla serviced at an independent shop, but fat load of good that does you if Tesla won't release service manuals (for example)

Or, if I am allowed to speculate even more wildly, dealerships have to profit on sale & maintenance because they make nothing on the car itself (as they buy them whole from Ford etc). So if a dealer-owned shop comes to town, it can run the shop on lower profit margins thanks to the profits of the parent company, making things harder for independent shops.
If only the author of 2048 had used a thinner font, think of all the electrons that could've been saved
This is probably the easiest, most intuitive proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. Euclid's proof, by contrast, is a bit of a slog.
Tesla cars are so mechanically alien that I don't really know how an independent shop might be able to do something with it, unless it's a simple tire change or bodywork.
I initially read this as "Michael Arrington, Oculus Chief Scientist". That was an amusing double take.
I came in here post this point. I recognize HN isn't a single human, but the popular positions are somewhat incoherent.

It is exactly this that the patent system is designed to solve. You spend all your hard work, time, and money developing something, and somebody swoops in and appropriates it. If you don't want to be able to protect ideas, this sort of thing is going to happen. It's a tradeoff.
Regarding the "what has he done lately" question, he basically dodged the question in 2012: https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/

As far as I've seen, he's said nothing else on this topic. This could lead any Mozilla employee to wonder: does he still believe gay people don't deserve the same civil rights straight people get?
I knew that some nitpicker would discuss exactly this phrase ;) It's the appstore that "you are using", or the appstore that is "installed on your phone", in case you don't know what I'm referring to, otherwise.
Let me clarify—could you substantiate the performance claims? I have no doubt it's a correct preprocessor, but I do have doubts about performance claims in the context of the compilation of a project. cpp (and the rest of the gnu compiler toolchain) itself is a pretty terrible example of a well-written program, but clang is a well-written, holistic, performance-centered program, and it would strike me as difficult for an isolated preprocessor to improve significantly on it compared to the built in one.

Or another way of putting this is—you speak compellingly about both the algorithm side and the constant side (no tokenizing), but you don't speak about "real world" performance when interacting with many levels of caches, processes, and filesystems. Could you speak to this at all?
What is keeping computer (or any other good) manufacturers from doing that?
That's fine,but all electric vehicles require a tiny fraction of the maintenance that petrol powered, oil lubricated ones do. This is a problem for the future of maintenance shops.
For math equations, WordPress.com now supports LaTeX by default:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/
React is the next jQuery, it has a solid chance of becoming similarly uniquitous. It's a paradigm shift, Angular and Ember are basically obsoleted.
> “Can anyone guess what number he keeps on his parking spot at Fort Meade?” Dempsey said. “007.”

I'm reminded of Trevor Paglen's documentation of the military departmental patches. It's as though they are all boys clubs with secret hand-shakes. And here we have another member of one such boys club leaving. -- these institutions need an upgrade in the general level of competence.
Candy crush saga run via Facebook seems to really hit the processor hard. It seems to me that we could save half the artic if we could ban it.
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This American Life did a great story on car dealerships[0]. Basically, dealers have a number they have to hit every month, and they're basically incentivized to sell cars and be willing to take thousands of dollars loss to hit the number because if they get below the number they don't receive any bonuses, and the bonuses are the principal form of cashflow to both the dealers and salesmen.

[0]http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/1...
Isn't that simply a logical consequence of the GP comment? Presumably the downvotes indicate a dislike of the state of affairs.
Depending on the circumstances, it could be called "DOT". It could be called "EPA". It could be called "CARB" (California Air Resources Board). There are a lot of actually-pretty-reasonable reasons cars are not allowed to be sold.

(This is of course none of those, but you were being very general)