skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked you if you were equating Eich with homophobic bigots, and you confirmed that you did.

And no, I wouldn't feel the same way. As I said in that post, there's no biological basis or objective fact for refusing to accept interracial marriages. They're only justified by racism. There is however, a biological reason that Eich and others might not accept same-sex marriages.

It's a rational, yet very ignorant view. The point is that opposing same-sex marriage is definitely not the same when you do a direct comparison to interracial marriage bans.

Either way: the damage is done, the bridges were burned, and it's clear that you're among those who just want to be outraged about this group of people's ignorance instead of reaching out to them and striving for dialog, so there's no point in having this conversation.
Had similar confusion. "remote key access" and "keep using your car" don't seem compatible.
> Because you're confident that with that system and its incentives this drug would have been invented?

No way to guarantee this drug would have been invented. However,

> As well as the ones which haven't been invented yet?

I'm absolutely confident that we will work on curing disease until we no longer have to.
The startup community cares more about potential imaginary metrics than actual metrics that show a business is profitable now.
On the Quest of recoding malloc
Do you plan to have a listing page for the cars with a email service which intimates me when a car I am interested in (e.g., brand, price range etc) is now available through you.
Do you mind linking that post here?
Download and view it locally with the player of your choice: mplayer, xine, vlc, etc.

I can seek fine in mplayer.
Hi deegles,

Thanks for the feedback. We have added this to our todo list. We are still in the process of finalizing the flow of the site.
True, but a) Mozilla had benefits equality all along anyway, and b) California moved to equalize benefits way before prop 8 was overturned, see my link above or look it up - for almost all matters except calling it "marriage", domestic partnerships in California have the same meaning as "marriage" for about a decade now. The whole hoopla seems to be exclusively about calling it "marriage", not about any benefits or any economic or legal matters.
How about interracial marriage instead?
Double standards are appaling in this case.
I've just read Marco's http://www.marco.org/2014/04/04/political-views and I think he hits the nail on the head.
This is great service! I think you can simplify the process further for buyers. Maybe you can schedule group of car viewings on weekend, say in parking lots of local mechanics (autozone, etc etc) . This way buyers won't have to schedule multiple views and sellers will have to part their cars only on weekends (similar to house viewings). Buyers then, if they choose too, can get the cars evaluated by local car mechanics.
Personally I don't believe in marriage at all, at least from a government perspective.
Civil unions for all I say... let customary "marriage" take place in your church or synagogue or wooded grove or whatever and have no bearing on anyone else.
By now it seems pretty obvious that committed people should be entitled to the same legal protections regardless of sexual orientation...

That being said... not believing gay marriage is appropriate is NOT the same as believing similarly about inter-racial marriage. Some people (and I am not among these) feel marriage is a venue for biological reproduction and raising of children. And no matter how many rights gay people have, until our technology advances a bit further this is not something they are able to do. An inter-racial couple on the other hand can.

So please... stop with the "This is just like banning inter-racial marriage!" nonsense. In many peoples minds (again, not mine) it isn't.

And yes Eich was done badly. And OKCupid are bad actors in my opinion and should be called out on their nonsense. Particularly in view of threatening an open source browser.
I really appreciate all of the replies. My main concern lies not at all in the gay marriage debate. It lies in the increased bullying for views that aren't aligned with what individuals believe is right. For example : http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5506&app=cro

BTW I have no affiliation to campus reform nor do I know what it is.

And for the guy calling the campaign a "hate group".. You should look up SPLC's hate group map, you would love it. And just so you know, that map has allowed "activists" to target institutions for shootings, just look up the Family Research Council.

Once again, I do not affiliate with any of these organizations nor would I because I believe in true love. I believe every human has the right to be loved and listened to in our democracy.

It is when activism becomes violent justice that upsets me.
facebook december 2005 (~2 years after launching):

100s of machines

400million pageviews a day

50 employees
I'm hardly an MS fanboy, and I'm not sure what announcements you're referring to, but it's hard for me to see a downside to this.
Vexing People Problems? Quantify the $ costs with new calculator
Closing in on 200 users in less than three weeks! I'm hoping we are on to something. Time will tell. Have you tried it for your team? http://resologics.com/cc
He supported a campaign that was supported by over half the voters in CA.

By definition, if over half the people supported the position, it's "reasonable".
That might say more about you than about the world's developers.

I didn't see the stats, but most developers I know use Windows. Like, 60% or so. Different area, different industry?
Served with wrong mime type: application/octet-stream,
needs to be video/webm to play inside the browser.
Weekend Wear 101
Here is another viewpoint:

A lot of people oppose gay marriage, because of the kids that the couples would undoubtedly have/adopt. We all agree that homosexuality is not a choice, right? Most people are heterosexual - I dug around for the exact percentage of gay people and most sources cite between 2% and 5% - and this means most kids born will be hetero. It's not an unpopular opinion to say that a heterosexual kid needs a role model(parent) from the same gender and with the same sexual orientation in order to develop a healthy and balanced personality.
It's geep, with hard 'g' as in 'go'
Voluntourism Revisited
Ask HN: How to ensure reasonable entropy in Linux?
So today I am trying to install FreeIPA in a VM on Proxmox VE. Neither the hypervisor nor the guest seem to have sufficient entropy to complete the install, per the developers. On advice from IRC, I found out how to check entropy using 'cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail'.

Results:

- desktop: 1456

- hypervisor: 262

- guest: 94

Suggestions I've seen so far are:

1. Implement VirtIO-RNG for my VM. This would share and throttle the hypervisor's /dev/random with the guest. This does little good IMHO, if even the hypervisor is starved of entropy. http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features-Done/VirtIORNG

2. haveged - "A simple entropy daemon"; Any thoughts on this? http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/

I would enjoy having a hardware RNG, but I wonder what software can do to solve this issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hardware_random_number_generators

I seem to remember the random numbers as a service post about the NIST recently. Is that worth looking into for this?
Another example of poor reporting of a poorly designed study. People will read this and come away thinking a vegetarian diet was shown to be less healthy. Yet the exact same study and data could have been written up as "People with health issues more likely to choose a vegetarian diet" which would invert the implied causal relationship.
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I see a lot of frontend and backend developers. Node, Ruby, Java, general Frontend, Clojure, JS and not a single windows user.
It is so utterly disappointing that the voodoo of Catholicism felt the need to destroy the Mayan books as voodoo. My voodoo is better than yours, but just in case.
ThePentagon.com
R/commandline
How about showing all three?

Dealership pays you: $5,000
InstaMotor pays you: $5,500
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You get paid an extra: $500
I particularly love how you can get Server-Sent Events out of a CouchDB database changes feed. This is such a powerful and extremely easy way of sending real-time updates to a web client.
I was on the other side of this debate (ie against prop 8, pro gay marriage), and we donated and engaged in some advocacy in support of that view. I strongly believe in the idea of marriage as a civil rights issue which should be available to any pair of consenting adults (and perhaps configurations other than pairs, if I'm going to be intellectually consistent about it).

On the other hand, I also strongly believe in people's right to hold other points of view. I would certainly want no truck, as an individual or as a customer of a business, with someone who made a habit of expressing the differing opinion in hateful terms or by actions designed to injure the subjects of that opinion (eg firing gay employees or refusing to grant benefits to same-sex spouses or domestic partners), but on the other hand I don't really have a problem with someone who treats everyone consistently and with respect, although that person might have quite different beliefs from me about how things should be.

The thing is, there might be a wide range of things motivating that belief, from some deep pragmatic, religious, or moral conviction to simple antipathy. Unless the person acts or speaks to signal what those motivations are, I don't see any point in trying to make judgments about them or by extension of the person, for the same reason I wouldn't want people making extrapolations about my character from a single data point. This hasn't stopped a lot of other people from demonizing Eich on the basis of his donation, without giving any apparent weight to his behavior at Mozilla or the experience of LGBT people who work with him there (several of whom have blogged in support of his appointment notwithstanding their disagreement with his support of prop 8). Not being gay it's easy for me not to take the issue personally, but I'm inclined to give a lot of weight to people who are gay and deal with him on a regular basis.

The whole business has an unsavory air of internet bullying to it, to be frank. I'm not thinking of people like Catlin Hampton who went public about their discomfort with Eich's appointment so much as the large number of tweets, comments and so on that adopted a confrontational stance and made it into a zero-sum binary issue, eg people calling him 'Eich(mann)' and equating him with the late and largely unlamented Fred Phelps. Characterizations of this sort don't seem any better to me than characterizations of gay people as perverts or suchlike. Bandwagon behavior seems to bring out the worst in people and reminds me of why I generally dislike being in groups.
I don't believe we'll see 'embrace and extend' being applied to Node and Python, which are the two ecosystems I'd be concerned about.

I'll just welcome the added support, and hope that it leads to better acceptance of my prefered tools in more conservative environments.
The fundamental problem that you have here, as I think plays out across previous comments, is that $25-75K is not a large enough stake to both diversify and achieve large, life-changing returns.

If you'd gotten 50K into the first rounds of facebook, zynga, twitter, etc, your returns would be in the millions of dollars. But these are extreme outliers, as you probably know. Even if you could confidently choose, from all the angel opportunities out there, a single winner in order to maximize your investment return as a percentage, in the vast majority of cases in which you were able to do so, you probably wouldn't get back that many times your money. (For a variety of reasons that are too detailed to go into here having to do with the dilution and preferences that most successful companies take on over successive rounds you won't be able to participate in, and for the primary reason that very few companies exit at a valuation greater than $100M.)

The two obvious ways to play it are, 1) as others have suggested, to get into a syndicate of some kind. Beyond angellist syndicates (which I'd second), you could look at becoming an LP in an angel fund or micro-vc fund, assuming you are an accredited investor.

The other way to play it would be to wait for opportunities you truly truly believe in or that you have truly unique access to. (E.g. your best friend and roommate from college who's a genius is doing something amazing, there's a round coming together by the best angels you've ever heard of, and you beg him to let you in.)

In the first case, you would decrease your likelihood of losing all your money, increase your likelihood of participating in a success, but not maximize your return.

In the second, you have a very low chance of getting it right, but if you do, you will have maximized your return.

If you had enough money to put 25-75K into at least 20 different companies, I'd consider a hybrid strategy where you participate in a syndicate to get smart and to get deal flow, and invest additional dollars side by side, or in subsequent rounds, when you see things that could be home runs.
Yeah absolutely right, I'm just using the pipeline for my static files (i.e. styles, images, js) not for data pages. One more caveat I forgot to put in the post but should be mentioned is the collectstatic command. If you have a huge collection of static assets, collectstatic is painfully slow copying its files directly to the S3 bucket. In my case, I don't have a huge number of assets so it's not a big issue, but if anyone has any ideas for making collectstatic faster, I'd love to hear them
As someone who has put in tens of thousands of km's on bicycles over the years, I'm wondering when these alleged downsides are supposed to kick in. According to my own subjective, self-observations, it has done nothing but good for me.
I think you're talking about protected speech.

There are classes of "speech" that aren't protected, such as state secrets, uttering threats, or hate speech (in most democratic countries, at least).
It's a simple game of catch up. These ecosystems popped up and flourished very fast and if anything Microsoft was slow to adapt. They've learned enough hard lessons in their history ignoring emerging technologies and clearly they're not ready to make the same mistake again.

Just like the ASP stack and it's rapid advancements. They know if they don't start innovating fast they'll be finished.
Having to enter a phone number to create an account resulted in a closed browser tab. Might want to consider this factor, can guarantee theres plenty more where I come from.
Arguably the "best" confidence interval for this situation is the Blyth-Still-Casella interval (preferred by StatXact), and the "best" hypothesis test is Barnard's test.

Here is code to calculate both: https://github.com/keithw/biostat

I say "arguably" literally -- there is a huge body of literature on confidence intervals for binary proportions, much of it in disagreement about what is important. The Wilson score interval and Agresti-Caffo and whatever else are fine approximate methods that came of age when ease of calculation was a big concern. But if you have a computer and you're baking one thing into a library, may as well make it the best one you can.

Of course there is also plenty of merit to just picking some prior distribution and integrating over the conditional probability distribution given the data, aka a Bayesian approach.

In practice I don't think this (stats geekery about the merits of different confidence or credible intervals) is the most important part. The numerical results from all these techniques will be pretty similar.

The important part is in the design of the experiment, the interpretation, and playing by the rules. If you want to dynamically tune a Web site to make the most money as more information rolls in, that calls for a different experiment than a standard hypothesis test. (Even if you want to peek early at the results and possibly abort the test as a result, that calls for different tools and different rules.)
Sorry to be another typical HN nitpicker, but one problem I see with many of these approaches is that the significance level (95% in this case) is picked out of thin air. The reality is that even with a single data point, you have information. The information may not be reliable, but it's information nonetheless. The only reason that people don't redesign based on unreliable information is that redesigns have costs: costs for the developer and costs for the users. Given that different sites have different cost functions, they should also have different significance thresholds.

One size does not fit all.
I'm baffled that no one has realized a simple solution to the "click farms".

Simply exclude the countries that are known to be click farms from seeing your page at all.

On your page settings, you'll see a "Country Restrictions" section.
http://i.imgur.com/snkv77Q.png

When your page is not visible to a certain area, Facebook will not serve ads to people in that country.

Bam?
The downside, in California, is that the DMV still considers you to be the owner even after you sell your car to them. Some woman got a ticket because of this, although it was eventually dropped.

In California, CarMax and other dealers don’t need to register a purchased vehicle in the company name. So even with her release of liability, the DMV considered the former owner to the registered owner of the ticketed vehicle.

http://consumerist.com/2013/04/19/woman-hit-with-traffic-tic...
Most Europeans have Neanderthal genes.

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2014/04/neandertals-gave-europe...
You didn't read the article. The point of the article has little to do with the campaign performance and more to do with the forensics he/she did to show evidence most of the clicks are misclicks on android phones. If this is true it means even "successful" campaigns are paying this tax.
Be careful, forged cashiers checks are a common scam.

As seller to protect yourself you need to e.g. meet the buyer at his bank and get cash or a certified check that the bank prepares at that time. Or use some kind of insured escrow service.
@lacero - you are hell-banned
If you mean front end, yes. The majority of front end devs are working on Macs and pushing to code to Linux servers. But there is still a ton of .Net activity on the backend and big enterprise. They're trying to bridge that gap and increase their share.
> Which is it? The two (not supporting gay marriage, and supporting equality) are mutually incompatible.

He supports equality at a lower resolution (in abstract) than most of us in some areas. We all have moral blind spots. He has his life experience. You can tell that his intent is good by his effort and humility. He also has a reputation of being forthright and not deceptive.

> Do you understand why a lot of people have concerns that this might not be true, whether openly, or indirectly through decisions he might have made?

That is true. He also recognized this bias and promoted a system of oversight to ensure that the culture is inclusive. Everybody has bias. We need to set up our systems to account for that reality.
This is just my personal opinion but I've seen a lot of very nice looking and well designed iOS applications while the Android counter part (from the same company) is awful and almost unusable. It looks and feels like an iOS application but it just doesn't work on Android.

And there are a lot of of those applications on Play Store.

Yeah, there are also a lot of ugly and unusable applications w/o an iOS counter part but well.

I think Android users are not willing to spend money of bad applications and the count of good and well designed applications is higher on iOS also because Apple enforces the design guidelines. Google doesn't do that.
You may be right that supporters of Prop 8 wished to deny those benefits (hospital visit rights, joint custody, tax bracket, community property), but Prop 8 itself did none of the above. Gays (but not straight couples, at least until age 62) could enter into domestic partnerships that provide all the same benefits as far as the state is concerned. Regardless of Prop 8, gay couples wouldn’t get the federal joint filing due to DOMA at the time. Prop 8 was not about those other rights, it was about the words “marriage” and “spouse”.
Lyft raises $250 million. Crazy?
The real divide is when you look globally. Android probably has 90% of the $100-$300 smartphone market and closer to 50% of the $400+ smartphone market.
"facepalm"
This is exactly why I have yet to install the Facebook app. I want some of its features, but not others; if I could reject certain permissions, I'd have installed it by now.
Yes, but via API (or 3rd party using the API) only.
This is great, more developers should think this way. When I worked on Google+ Developer Relations this summer there was no way to do incremental permissions, but it has since been added and makes Sign-In With Google way less scary for a lot of use cases.

Android needs this desperately. One of my apps has ~15% of users never updating because I added an additional permission and when you do that you can't auto-update. I wish I could just ask for it at runtime, since it's a Camera permission and I added picture-taking to my app. I'm sure 100% of users would say yes at that time.
There was a Liger at the local Zoo out here in Utah. It died before I was born, but they had it stuffed and on display for years.

No mystical powers though.
OK but if the HFT traders only hold stocks for say a few seconds (or milliseconds) then that means that there is plenty of real liquidity to be had and thus HFT isn't adding value. It's adding volume, but not value.

If the HFT guys are willing to hold stocks for minutes or hours or days then yeah I might concede that they're adding liquidity. From what I understand that's not HFT anymore. But for a second? I can wait an extra second for an order to get filled.
I recently thought about registering crumbersome.com. Have at it.. I have more where that came from.