skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://m.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/th...

Can we please get back to discussing the stuff that really matters, like Lisp vs Erlang? (a: neither, I'm a pragmatist and work with Obj-C and Ruby)

In all seriousness, though, I used to enjoy reading HN because it was the one place where I could avoid this sort of stuff. (Article flagged.)
Interesting, but I would have to disagree with 'creating the concept of God', there was an (apparent) external influence in most (all?) cases, whereas a computer was all internally conceived.
The fallout from this will be interesting to watch. If there are other employees of Mozilla that supported Prop. 8 or are otherwise opposed to gay marriage, do they now fear for their jobs?

I keep seeing the argument that it's only because he became CEO, which is completely different than CTO. While there is some truth to that, it mostly comes across as post witch-hunt rationalization to me.

Maybe witch-hunt is a little strong, but the level of vitriol in OKCupid's message directed towards Eich (and effectively at anyone who shares that opinion) felt genuinely disturbing to me.

Maybe I'm just not cut out for these Internets.
I'm going to take a different stand than the one a lot of people seem to keep echoing here. I think it was the right thing for Eich to step down.

This isn't about free speech, it's about basic human rights.

Let me try to re-frame it this way; had Eich been a white supremacist and had contributed money to the KKK, do you still think he would have been fit to lead Mozilla? The same arguments being bandied around here apply.

Whether people want to admit it or not, this guy is (was) the public face of the organization. Despite being an avid user of Firefox, I definitely would hesitate to donate money with him as the CEO. And, were I an employee of Mozilla, I'd probably consider leaving. I'm also sure that I'm not alone in this. If Mozilla is shedding employees and losing donations as a result of him being at the head, he clearly isn't the right person to be the leader.

As for free speech, I love the first amendment. Eich certainly has the right to express his (completely ridiculous and hateful) opinion. Everyone else also has the right to pressure him to not be the head of a charitable organization which promotes tolerance.
That does not appear to be a list of scientists.
Fundamentally, law/politics are addressing an empirical question: how do we maximize the well-being of the population. I understand that this is a much more fuzzy and difficult question than those addressed by the hard sciences, but it is empirical, and we do see progress.

Would anyone seriously argue that our political system, despite all its flaws, is not better now than when we had slavery, only white male landowners voting, regularly massacred Native Americans and invaded neighbors, and had no union rights or worker protection laws? Would any nitpicker say that because we cannot precisely quantify the degree of betterness that it isn't better?

Every one of those progressive ideas started out as a niche, minority opinion, and many of them were repressed, not by the government, but by social mores. Liberals who seek to repress the opinions of social conservatives -- who, by the way, have lost the war, long-term -- are being profoundly shortsighted, not to say hypocritical.

Finally, I'm not saying that individuals should suspend their judgement. You should feel absolutely safe to speak publicly in favor of gay rights, and, say, donate $1000 to your favorite gay rights organization without the fear of losing your job. But you cross a line when you seek to repress other viewpoints.
Will there be any impact on Rust due to Brendan Eich quitting Mozilla?

How much involvement did he have on the project?
This is great. I do the same thing without cards, I just 'pick one' basically. It's useful in managing a large amount of unrelated hobbies.
Indeed, what is better for children is a factual question, and the answer is not surprising at all. Of course gay parents don't matter, because parents don't matter. If you do literature search on the matter you will find long term effect of parenting to children outcome is (not statistically distinct from) zero when you substract genetic component.
This is the fallacy that maintains the system you complain about. Voting for a 3rd party supports that party and gains them publicity. Just because they don't win (this time) doesn't mean it's wasted. By your reasoning, any vote for a losing party is wasted, so you should only vote according to the latest poll figures. However all options are guaranteed to produce many of the results you want. The greater of two evils still outlaws murder and theft and still enforces contracts, and all sorts of useful laws, just like the lesser of two evils does.
It almost sounds to me like they're seizing a collection that was probably bought and paid for by this man. If that's the case, and the only thing illegal he's done is break some 'you can't have that' laws, I'd say this is almost outright theft. I can understand restricting private ownership of items that could cause massive physical harm to others (nerve gas, pathogens, etc.), but restricting ownership of something because it's a 'cultural treasure'? Sounds awfully authoritarian to me. Hopefully there's more to this and the article simply left it out.
How about this document
http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepape...
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Yes, you do. It would be weird enough not to that it would jar the suspension of disbelief.
I find health faucets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet_shower quite effective, except that one time it went terribly wrong.

These are essentially telephone showers installed next to the toilet. You switch them on using a valve/trigger and then manually direct the fire. Simple, cheap and no fuss.

This little guy, however, turned out to be a closet fire hose. It pretty much went from 0 to 1000 gallons per sec in an instant and just wouldn't let up, the valve was stuck. The extension cord was twisting and coiling around like crazy with the released pressure, the shower head was going at full blast in my hand, initially directed at my rear, it was continuously pushing my hand away from anything that I was trying to point it to, it give me a visceral understanding of how jet engines work.

Working out a sequence of operations in my head to get out of such a situation while caught in a compromised and inflexible position, with only one hand free, was quite a challenge. I am not quite sure if I should be thankful that it wasnt autonomously powered and directed.

My first Japanese toilet experience happened @ Google (I was interning there at that time). When the water touched the derriere, it made me flinch and jump with surprise, as I wasnt quite sure what to expect, this was several years ago and Japanese toilets were still an unfamiliar opbject to me. And it really tickles the shit out of you ! (no pun intended) I guess there are ways to choose between a laminar and degrees of non laminar flow (all those controls must be for something), I would expect the former to be somewhat less flinch inducing.
1 - by their fruits ye shall know them

2 - because i'm not deliberately obtuse or stupid
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> Does the tank on the B100 always have enough hot water for you?

Yup, it was enough for my pregnant wife when she was staying at home.
>There will be an absolute landslide victory for UKIP in the may elections, and the government will have to take note. If around 80% want to withdraw from Europe, you're going to have to do what they want at some point.

Current opinion polls would beg to differ. Labour is polling first and UKIP and the Conservatives are vying for 2nd place.

And as for a referendum, ~43% want to remain in the EU with ~36% wanting to leave.
>my radical cause of trying to improve the quality of video game emulators.

God's work. Thank you for this.
I don't agree with his (apparent) personal views. But he has made an expression of sorrow for hurt (it's still an apology, though it might not be as strong as you want), and he has clearly stated that the position of Mozilla won't change. Folks like wpietri ignore these things and keep on stating that one event of six years ago is all we need to know of the man. I think Eich's (apparent) position is wrong, but I also can't condone the strawman that's been built up around him, which is being used as a proxy for a witchhunt.

Basically I'm saying: it's fine if you judge the man on his merits. It's not fine if you turn who he is into a strawman, and then treat him as if he is that strawman.

Re: the bible stuff, I'm just saying that just pulling a slogan from the bible is pointless, because you can always find a counter from the same. Also, 'forgiveness' does mean no consequences (or significantly reduced consequences). That's the whole point of forgiveness. If you make someone suffer consequences, you haven't actually forgiven them. These are not orthogonal concepts.
Death threats are terrible, frankly, but I've received death threats on the Internet for saying things about a video game. I hope he reports these incidents to the police because they are serious and the people involved should learn that threatening people with death is not something we allow in a civilized society. Perhaps I should have done the same. It has become far too acceptable to threaten people with death.

Also, your link does not say that Mr. Eich received death threats, though other Mozilla employees do report receiving such threats.
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scikits.learn is quite good.
It's hard to take this seriously when the headline accuses everyone who disagrees with you as being a "collectivist"
You've used correct logic but you missed the point OP was trying to convey.
Here's the reason it sounds weird to those (like me) that haven't tried: your hands don't have a source of, er, soil, tucked into them in a crevice. So getting them as wet as you like doesn't have any downside.
> Actually, it's called "science". Science isn't about descriptions, it's about explanations. If we knew why ketamine worked, we would have finally crossed the threshold of science.

But you said that if we knew why it worked, it would have become science. You also said that it's about explanations, not about descriptions.

General relativity may describe gravity, but it doesn't explain it. According to your previous post, this excludes gravity from science. I was just pointing out the flaw in your reasoning.

Consider this a final response - I see you will keep any argument going for the sake of arguing throughout this post. It's clear you have some sort of agenda or preconceived notion to defend, and I'll leave you to that.
>And you're pinning this on Christians, which is also idiotic.

I'm not placing the blame on all Christians, just the ones that happen to be opposed to gay marriage in general, or opposed to calling gay unions 'marriage.' I said as much in my previous statement.

>First, I could introduce you to more than a handful of non-Christians that do not support gay marriage.

This is actually very interesting to me. What are their reasons for holding such a view? Perhaps there is a good reason that I haven't considered. I'd love to hear it.

>Second, take a look at other countries, specially theocracies, see how they treat gays.

This isn't really a productive thing to say. Right now there are anti-Christian genocides going on in some parts of the world. Using your own logic, I could simply respond to every single grievance that Christians might have with life in the United States by saying "Christians don't have it that bad. Look at how they are treated in some other countries!"
If it's stolen property, it's a tough situation. What should happen if someone steals the art and sells it through a fencer? Should that customer get to keep it? If not, should it be taken from that customer and returned to its owner?

It seems unlikely that's what's happening here, though. But it's an interesting question. I don't know how law enforcement usually handles that situation.
Another thing that gets overlooked is the built-in faucet at the top to rinse off hands such that every tank of water gets used twice:

http://demenglog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/toilet-seat-...
That was decidedly not the case when I first visited Japan in 2001. The jet of water that hit the door to the bathroom was quite wet by the time I figured out how to shut the toilet off.
This is bad. Not just for Mozilla and tech community but also for LGBT community.

LGBT community's witch hunt reflects less on Eich but more on the LGBR community who will now be viewed as "risky recruits".
Often that's just drywall - very cheap and easy to replace.
I don't think very many folks realise just how much of the look & feel of the early Macs either came from Susan Kare or was inspired by her (in my estimation: almost all of it). She had a real gift for using the limitations of small icons and no colour to produce amazing and evocative art.

In a lot of ways, I miss those old days of large B&W pixels. Kinda like the rules of a sonnet, they enabled artists like Kare to create beauty.
If you remove your shoes outside and walk barefoot, you're just sharing the sweat, dirt & germs of your foot with everyone else at home & guests. You'll probably take that to bed with you and sometimes sleep on it. If you must leave your shoes outside, wear an 'inside-only' slippers.
Agreed. But what an audition tells me about the company is that everybody there was willing to put up with it. Anybody who has lots of options probably didn't end up there. So maybe the company is so awesome that good people were willing to jump through hoops to get hired there, but even so it's a pretty safe bet that they don't have the the best and brightest working for them.
15-year-olds in Asia are better problem solvers than in the U.S.
I like this setup guide for a rails dev environment: https://github.com/red-green-refactor/osx-fresh-install
At my last job, I was usually the one that cleaned up old or unused code after we had gone through a design change or such. It was always very satisfying. Not so much, though, for the poor chap whose code was usually the target of deletion (through no fault of his own).
So if I support Gun ownership and my CEO has supported some Gun Ban movement should I leave the organization or should I demand that the CEO step down ?

I wish Mozilla showed some balls here.
It is worse. If you try to run an online IM aggregator like the Meebo of old, Microsoft (Skype) will block your IPs and Blizzard (BNet chat) or Facebook (WhatsApp) will sue you off the face of the earth.

What's more, many services in this category have recently gone from trying to make the world better to trying to make it worse. eBuddy and imo.im shut down their IM aggregators entirely to build their own private IM networks, which, of course, are interoperable with nothing.

Disclaimer: I worked at imo.im
The expression 52x/x has a restricted domain as well (x /= 0). But that's normally not what you mean when you write it. It isn't often you really care about expressions like 52x/x; they are generally just intermediate steps in getting to a real solution.

For example: I have done a lot of work on some equation that is interesting to me, and finally I have reduced it to 5+yx=52x+5. Now obviously the rules of algebra let me subtract 5 from each side and be left with yx=52x, and this subtraction also has no effect on the domains for which our variables may be defined. All is well.

But dividing out the x is what we are concerned with now. Surely y=52 is a solution to the equation - why can this not be true for all values of x?

Well, for nonzero x we have y=52 and nobody will complain. For x=0, though, solving for y is problematic. Note that if x=0, y could be 1, or 33, or any number. If there is some function f such that y=f(x), then it follows that f(x) holds a unique value y for each input of x/=0, but for x=0 we cannot know what y might be; this is what we mean by undefined. Thus we say the domain of f(x) is the set of all real numbers x, such that x is not equal to zero.

If you have been told otherwise, or even gotten away with doing algebra or calculus under the assumption that the domain of our function f may include zero, you are taking a mathematical shortcut rather than performing formal analysis. It is not calculus nor algebra that is broken by saying f is undefined for x=0, but rather your (albeit practically useful) misconception of these systems.

I'll finish with some formal rules of algebra, to hammer this in:

- [P6] Existence of a multiplicative identity: a * 1 = 1 * a = a ; 1 /= 0.

- [P7] Existence of multiplicative inverses: a * a^(-1) = a^(-1) * a = 1, for a /= 0.

These are taken from page 9 of Spivak's Calculus, 3rd edition. He goes on to build the foundations of all of calculus from rules like these. Surely he would not present this as a fundamental axiom of his system, only to immediately (and silently) reject it and build a flawed calculus instead!

Indeed, on pg. 41, when defining functions, Spivak later writes (emphasis his):

> It is usually understood that a definition such as "k(x) = (1/x) + 1/(x-1), x /= 0, 1" can be shortened to "k(x) = (1/x) + 1/(x-1)"; in other words, unless the domain is explicitly restricted further, it is understood to consist of all numbers for which the definition makes any sense at all.
To clarify, one of the panelists on Stump the Experts said they have (just Dogcow? I don't remember) in their garage, which they used to answer a question about how many pixels are on one of the statues.
A specific data point: the (pretty good) Japanese toilet I have retails for about $2,600.00 US.

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/sumailab/ces9896px/?scid=af_pc_etc...
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- Plus squatting is a better posture for properly emptying yourself.

Although sitting for longer than 5 minutes is painful and gets worse with age.
>had Eich been a white supremacist

In this first part, you equate white supremacists with what I assume would be "homophobic bigots," implying that there's concrete evidence of Eich being such a "homophobic bigot." When there's not.
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If you're just talking about generic Lisp then it doesn't really hold a candle to Erlang in terms of concurrency primitives. However Racket supports a lot of the same things Erlang does like asynchronous channels, mailboxes, lightweight threads, etc... I really encourage you to check it out :)
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I've yet to visit a house in India where people have separate slippers for washroom & house. Strange.
Canadians don't wear their shoes indoors either. Because of tracking melting snow indoors (so the habit sticks any other time), or the less comfortable shoes due to such weather, and probably because homes in colder climates are heated a little better, so shoes get uncomfortably hot.

But it just makes sense, even in dry summer weather. Or is it blasting AC that makes shoes necessary?
I ran moderation at Quora, the interaction was definitely different but comment interactions were a really important thing to deal with. I'll drop you an email with some ideas if you want.
Virtioso 7 by openlinksw is a GPL columnar sql (and sparql) RDBMS
Prop 8 didn't criminalise any behaviour.

What rational reason do you have for misrepresenting the positions of others, publicly and when Wikipedia is mere clicks away?
Procrastinating? Why your own excuses are what’s really holding you back.
I'm not sure that punishing is the right word here. people who did what they did, whether it be his board leaving, or people uninstalling firefox,or op-ed letters or forum comments. All that is not punishment, that is nobody was deprived of anything. Negative public sentiment is a tough thing. But I think that it actually represents democracy quite well. Democracy can do the morally wrong thing, it can keep a minority enslaved for example.
If Brendan Eich is restored as CEO, I will donate $100 dollars to Mozilla.
I am a gay marriage supporter, but I think that pushing a capable CEO out because of their personal beliefs(not their professional conduct) is short-sighted and wrong.

Limiting CEO choices to only those who appear to conform with community beliefs will likely result in a less capable CEO, and/or a CEO who keeps their less agreeable beliefs private.

I'm not the most eloquent arguer, so I will link to some other comments that express my reasoning better than I could myself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7528773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7482099

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7482932

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/451925194290896897
https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/451926526968098817 (there's a whole string of tweets from pmarca)

And a quote from Eich:

“I don’t think it’s good for my integrity or Mozilla’s integrity to be pressured into changing a position,’’ Mr Eich said. “If Mozilla became more exclusive and required more litmus tests, I think that would be a mistake that would lead to a much smaller Mozilla, a much more fragmented Mozilla.’’

At another point, Mr Eich said that attacks on his beliefs represented a threat to Mozilla’s survival. “If Mozilla cannot continue to operate according to its principles of inclusiveness, where you can work on the mission no matter what your background or other beliefs, I think we’ll probably fail,’’ he said.

EDIT: Item 15 before suddenly dropping dead. Come on mods. This was a perfectly reasonable discussion. Oh well...
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It's pretty easy to understand and it's not a slippery slope; what is slippery is bringing in tools and libraries that have nothing to do with Javascript.

Also, this whole argument has gone on far more than I intended - simply pointing out that the title was misleading and the reason why I thought it was misleading has suddenly turned into a holy jihad (proof given by the downvoters) to defend MongoDB's inclusion in the list (which is sad because MongoDB isn't a great DB either but that's not part of this argument).

I hold on to the fact, though, that it was indeed misleading and my desire for clarity is important to me and meaningful writing; when people criticize my writing for the smallest or the largest of reasons I want to hear it. Misleading title? Okay, why and what would you suggest?
I think this is usefulish as an idea, but much of the utility of voice interfaces comes from when you aren't looking at the device (eg, driving).

I'd like to see similar technology being applied to hand gestures, though.
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Yes let's clear this up.

1. ~52% of Californians voted for Prop 8. True. But Prop 8 was also confusing to votes as to what "Yes" or "No" meant. Supporters of gay marriage were worried that people would believe Yes meant support of gay marriage and vice-versa.

2. The point about Prop 8 wasn't "marriage." The underlying reason gays wanted to marry is for tax breaks and legal privileges. If you cannot be in a "marriage" you are essentially being taxed more and afforded unequal rights to people who can be in a marriage.
Vectors vs scalars is a different issue than boxed/primitive types.

Of course you want to be working with vectors for these kinds of problems. But the ability to work with vectors of primitives rather than vectors of boxed types is about enormous gains in efficiency and memory usage. This is one of the reasons that R is so slow compared to other tools.
Pretty sure you weren't under any obligation to remove the review, so long as it was honest, but you should have offered to at least trade the deletion for a copy of your X-rays.