skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard people say something like "it's far too soon to tell what impact if any this rather dramatic change to the traditional definition of marriage will have on society, so perhaps we should take things slow and not rush to implement it everywhere simultaneously."

This seems like a reasonable enough position to me -- although I don't share it because I think the injustice to the individuals affected outweighs any potential drawbacks I can come up with, sometimes the law of unexpected consequences surprises us in interesting ways.

I've also heard people say "judge-made law causes resentment and entrenchment in a minority of the populace and leads to long-term conflicts (see, for instance, Roe vs. Wade). Therefore, while it'd be nice to have gay marriage everywhere simultaneously, we should wait to introduce it in a jurisdiction until we have an electoral majority there."

Again, this seems like a reasonable enough position to me, although not one I personally share.

Brendan Eich would be just fine as CEO in a more civil society where people are capable of separating personal opinions and professional actions. My personal dislike of his 'resignation' comes from a desire to have that (sadly imaginary) society instead of the one we've got. If I can work peaceably with a bunch of left-wing people, y'all should be able to work just fine with Brendan.
Kinesis was released in mid-November 2013 so this team's effort predates that service.

I think Kinesis could replace the first three boxes in their diagram, and do it in real-time. (I haven't used kinesis so I could be wrong.)

It's amazing how fast big data infrastructure is evolving. For anybody looking to build something it seems your chosen solution will be obsolete by the time you release.
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I wonder why internet companies don't just do the right thing and use good hashes (or better methods like SRP, but that requires client updates) so that none of this would even mater
You can't be serious? What about that moderator who was recently censoring every single post about Tesla off of /r/technology? Then he posted "this website is for insulting people and cat pictures" or something similar in his comments.

Moderator actions like that are unacceptable, there is no oversight, and the admins are way too lax about letting mods get away with blatantly being so user-hostile. And let's not forget that companies are figuring out that bribing moderators + paying for votes is one of the best ways to get their content featured.
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Here's the full list of the issues, for those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_and_responsibilities_of...
A few weeks ago I purchased a Leap Motion Controller: one of those devices that tracks your finger movements and translates them into actions on your laptop screen. I was pretty impressed with the device's accuracy, but I ended up returning it because I didn't see how it had practical applications for my own work. After the initial excitement of moving windows with your hands (pretending you're in a sci-fi movie) fades off, the old-fashioned method of clicking is simply easier and more convenient.

Viewing this "Night Walk" demonstration, I felt an inkling of regret about returning Leap Motion. As others have noted, the experience is very immersive and exciting. The only thing holding it back, in my opinion, is the medium of mouse and keyboard. I wanted to move fluidly through Marseille instead of incrementally, through clicking and jerky motions of the mouse. If this kind of 3D / WebGL / geospatial content becomes more prevalent on the web, I can see a stronger practical use case for everyone owning Leap, or something like it.
MM all promoted by sales men who want to sell you something.

Video conferencing is never as good as face to face and I have used pro level video conferencing gear at BT not some 20$ webcam and crap mic.

Its a bit like thin client computing which is one idea that keep coming around and around.
I think Josh is trying to point out that comparing your price to a dealer trade-in price is a bit of a joke since trade-in price is always a 'low ball' based on market value.

I actually came in the thread to post the same thing because I saw that on your web site and chuckled.

It would also help to list prices you guys sold cars at, not just 'X' over 'trade-in' price.

The way numbers are presented and compared makes you look a bit sketchy to somebody who knows a thing or two about vehicles.
Does anyone else get the impression that MS shifted a lot of its attention to web developers?

There is an incredible amount of web technologies and dev tools coming from ms that are being presented at Build 2014. In fact so many that I'm having a hard time keeping up...
+1, SSE is great. We (Twitch) use it between systems in a few key cases since it is really easy to make a client for it if you find yourself in a language that doesn't already have it baked into their HTTP client offering.

When it comes to browsers we've still not found a solution that is as solid as Flash sockets; though that could also be a bit of a hangover for us given our reliance on Flash and the subsequent tooling that we have around it.
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Humans and gorillas? What about our ancestors and those of pigs? I found this hypothesis fascinating:

"A chimp-pig hybrid origin for humans?"

http://phys.org/news/2013-07-chimp-pig-hybrid-humans.html

from the article:

" I asked McCarthy if he could give a date estimate for the hybridization event, he said that there are a couple broad possibilities: (1) It might be that hybridization between pigs and apes produced the earliest hominids millions of years ago and that subsequent mating within this hybrid swarm eventually led to the various hominid types and to modern humans; (2) separate crosses between pigs and apes could have produced separate hominids (and there's even a creepy possibility that hybridization might even still be occurring in regions where Sus and Pan still seem to come into contact, like Southern Sudan)."
Should offer to detail the car as well (for a price), that can drastically increase the sale price. Perhaps you could find some mobile detail guys that you could contract out. Make it the gold package or something.
Layoffs at Microsoft Studios
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Today, if somebody does not support interracial marriage, they are considered as racists. Is that wrong? If somebody does not support gay marriage - do they hate gays? Why do they want to disallow marriage benefits to these people?

In other words, if somebody is advocating that certain benefits should not be given to certain group of people (and they are part of that group not by own choice), the first question should be: Who is going to get harmed if we give that benefit to that group of people? If there is no answer on that question... then...
People argue against creating a profit motive
by saying "it's medicine, not a trivial app,"

What in the world does that have to do with advertising?

There are literally two countries in the world that permit direct-to-consumer advertising. It is strictly and explicitly banned by the European Union. Somehow I don't think it's harmed the profit motive at Bayer, Roche (who were profitable enough to buy one of the most profitable US pharmaceutical companies), GSK, Novartis, Sanofi, etc. etc.

The point isn't that drug companies shouldn't make money, they clearly should. At one point, 97% of the people on earth receiving treatment for AIDS were taking drugs developed by the Chief Scientist that also developed this Hepatitis breakthrough. He deserves to be a billionaire dozens of times over. The point is that it's disingenuous to try to justify the high costs to consumers by blaming R&D spending when the R&D budgets are smaller than their advertising budgets.

Pharma advertising is indefensible in nearly all cases. We have actual scientific and cost data that shows, for instance, that before Lipitor was generic, Crestor was more effective at treating high LDLs for a lower cost.[2] No amount of Pfizer sponsorship will change this fact. Allowing them to blanket the air waves and bribe doctors to get Lipitor on the formulary instead of Crestor is an ethical failing we are all responsible for. If Pfizer wants to change people's minds about Lipitor, their advertising should take the form of a sponsored independent study that shows better outcomes for patients on Lipitor. Or they could compete on price. This is how a sensible pharma market would operate.

[1] - http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/other/l21143_en.htm
[2] - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18489494
> Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

Actually, it means exactly that. In the United States, however, only the Congress and state legislatures are required to respect it.
Perhaps I'm paranoid but I'm seeing a lot of tentacles extending around a few ecosystems from Microsoft. I see lots of praise but some rational analysis and caution might be worth considering.

For ref, I deal with Microsoft a lot and wrote a ton of c# over the least decade (more than anything else probably) so I'm not biased against necessarily but all-encompassing announcements like the ones over the last couple of weeks make me suspicious.

Edit: to extend my thoughts on this some more:

I don't think we're seeing embrace and extend. I think we're seeing "go on - use our tooling". Once you're in a tool ecosystem it's hard to get out of. I mean really hard. Same goes with cloud ecosystems which neatly integrate with their tooling. Their offering is to host all of your stuff (Azure) and mediate between you and what you're working on (Office/VS/Xamarin potentially).

A fully heterogenous system with a sole vendor mediating your access becomes an interesting situation when for political, financial or legal reasons you want or need to leave.
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The participation of white men in the political process is especially suspect. No bias there.
https://code.google.com/p/wave-client-for-emacs/

A client written for emacs in emacs lisp. I haven't looked at it in detail and it doesn't look like it's been touched in a while, but it may be a good place to start. I don't know if this was the same client, but during the initial Google I/O demo they had an example that I believe was using emacs. Timeline would fit with both when this was made and who made it.
Let me make this explicit: I am not trying to address whether Snowden is lawful, chaotic, good, bad, or neutral. That is left as an excercise to the reader, though I guess I've proposed some of my ideas above, since that's apparently what you think I want to talk about.

I am talking of Greenwald's argument. His argument, again, is as follows: once Snowden handed off the documents, he was absolved of moral responsibility in the matter because he gave the authority to release information to [a list of publications apparently excluding the NYT, but not in such a way as to prevent the NYT from collaborating with the institutions]. This argument seems willfully off-base, because without his participation - or, actually, his instigation - the journalists wouldn't have papers to release at all. He is obviously, then, the prime mover, and so trying to pretend that he doesn't exist as a moral agent is an exercise in willful ignorance.
>On-Topic[1]: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I certainly found it interesting that this sort of thing is possible in nature. Other's mileage may vary but that's what the voting process is for, no?

[1]http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
ios has interface builder.
You can say whatever you want about it ,it's vastly superior than any gui tool for android. I really think there is a market for android better gui tools,and even a better android IDE. Android studio ,while better than eclipse is not there yet.
Very neat. I was there for the shipyards, too.
You got turned down for college. That does not count as "such a failure".

These things happen. A kid in my neighborhood ended up sitting out a year. I would suggest that you go to the local community college. You might want to go part time and work, to have something else to think about besides school.

If you feel as if you need some space from your parents, you could join the Navy. They aren't going to stick you on a firebase in Afghanistan, they will clothe and feed and train you. The tech blogger Steve Yegge was in the Navy before he went to college, and I have relatives that did so.
If you don't care for the article but would rather see the site, it's here: http://www.jgrams.com/
A lot of times TiB is spelled 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 or 1 << 40, relying on compile-time constant folding to compute the final value. I usually find that a lot more readable than remembering the actual number.
Well yeah, but they arguably should be part of the valuation model. I realize there's a lot of speculation, past investment history, etc. involved in the valuation, but at some point how much money a company is making and can realistically make should be part of the figuring.
It's not the first startup splash page to have the GGB on it. I don't even notice anymore.
Placing my bet that "extra cheddar" wins your series of A/B test here.
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"We charge <5% of your vehicles sales price"
"Simple 5% commission."

As an engineer, that really bothers me.
I completely support the right of people to gather statistics like this and make informed decisions about their consumer habits. I also support the right of Mozilla to make employment decisions based upon this.

Next up. Anyone who has ever supported abortion rights suddenly can't buy a house or gain employment anywhere in the state of Texas.
I saw it mentioned that Eich should step down, because if he didn't, people might not want to work there. But personally, after this, I wouldn't want to work for Mozilla, knowing that a sizeable portion of employees were unwilling to work for someone that had a different viewpoint than their own on a single topic. Just imagine if people treated each other this way within the company. It just seems petty to me.
How long have you been running this service?
I recall about 3 months ago, a post on HN where someone posted a bunch of idea's they had but didn't have time to execute. This was one of them. Did instamotor flow from that?
Is Slack comparable to HipChat? Seems like it has more robust document sharing.
Assuming things work the way you describe (they don't, but I'll play along) if there is no HFT involved how would you propose that this situation be resolved?

There is $.10 of surplus here. Who (if anyone) should get it, how, and why?
So, I've got a pitchfork with Intel's name on it.
Need someone with a torch, similarly labeled. Preferably dozens.
Anyone with me?

(crickets...)

OkStupid, I can count on you, right?
Surely you can tell AMD vs. Intel inside with your cool-o web tech, data analysis, ...

(yeah, go ahead and down vote me, doesn't make me wrong).
IF <-- bold) this is a bubble, you will find that companies that had solid earnings had no earnings at all. There is a lot of spit swapping going on where many companies with no way to make revenues are using cheap investment money to advertise thus making other companies seem much more profitable than they really are. You'd also find that companies were using accounting tricks to cook the books.

lastly, earnings may 'look' great, but when they have to spend ever increasing billions of dollars to buy out their competitors to remain a viable business, you'd have to back out those purchases (which people usually dont) from their bottom line.

example: facebook pretty much had to spend nearly 20 billion in capital to remain relevant. they did so by diluting their existing shareholder's value of the company by about 20%, which is not a sustainable thing to do.
I have worked for Accenture & Deloitte as a consultant and for many years and have implemented software used for internal teams.

It surprisngly works very similar to any other industry company. The software to be used internally comes from the top of the food chain and then pushed on to projects below it.

The goal is standardization across projects, so I think it would be extremely tough to use an "un-tested" or un-authorized tool at a project level without it coming from the top of the chain first.

Especially McKinsey where the process & methodologies are very defined. It would start from the top and then maybe use a "pilot" project for a small engagement.

They are often forward looking for their clients, but not forward looking internally if that makes sense.

Usually there is a "Tools & Methodology" team that is an internal team and that is who you should be selling to. This is the team that defines the tools that are used for projects.

I hope that helps.
Hey Noel,

I was in charge of the math here - I really appreciate your feedback. You seem really knowledgeable in this area and I would love to improve this A/B testing library.

If you have some time to chat, email me at jessica@sendwithus.com
That doesn't really happen — I deliver before most everyone else is awake and I rarely have strict deadlines where adding an extra hour (most of which I would already have to do to get to work) would matter.

The couple times that I have had to back out, I either got my roommate (and co-founder) to take my spot or my employers have been understanding.
I wonder how many weren't in SV, though looking at their list of offices in CA, most of them seem to be in liberal parts of the state. Maybe the whole Irvine office was the 60%. ;-)
Totally piggy backing on this comment. Don't usually make me too comments but this was something that had me scratching my head for a second. Otherwise looks great!
Oh, it would be, only Mozilla already has equal benefits. So they can't adjust something they've been doing all along.
I would like to second the suggestion. More people live outside the Bay Area than you might think. :-)

Edit: Great idea, by the way. I would love to use this service here in Phoenix.
"are personally against gay marriage"

"homosexuality is wrong"

"homosexuality will degrade the morality of society"

Maybe I'm really, really, thick, but how is this not hateful?

The obvious exercise would be to replace homosexuality with being black or Jewish. I'm not saying this to score cheap points, but to illustrate how I personally read this.

I'm very sorry, and I respect the fact that we're talking about people who are very dear to you, but cannot read those phrases as anything other than expressions of hatred.
I was curious on how the test drive scheduling worked. It says "schedule flexible test-drives with remote key access." It sounded a bit unclear to me, and I'm not sure how that works.

I think the idea is excellent and would use it when I decide to sell my car.
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All fields are populated with multiple experts. The opinion of those experts on some issues will be broadly in agreement, and on other issues they will have a wide range.

Finding one expert who presents the conditional claim of another expert as unconditional, and (you) then asserting this claim as accepted fact is highly misleading. This is especially true when that unconditional claim is almost certain to be disputed by the majority of experts. Giving your citations reduces the friction necessary for people to identify how you are being misleading, but it's not a blanket pass to mislead.

Furthermore, it won't always be the case that there will be a nerd like me willing to dive into your citations to show why they don't support your claim. In this case, the veneer of authority that comes with listing many citations can easily overwhelm the benefit they provide, leading to more misinformation than if your speculative claim had been uncited and therefore ignored.

> How would one prove this claim wrong?

You would ask a few of experts if they think it's plausible that life expediencies would follow the same trajectory in developed countries this century as they have the past century. I conjecture that almost all those experts would reply "no", probabaly citing (1) the fact that the mortality rates at elderly ages has leveled off for many decades in developing countries and (2) that almost all the increases in life expectancy comes from reducing infant mortality and the spread of infectious diseases.

Indeed, the soft ceiling on human longevity has not budged much since Psalms 90:10 was written about 3 millennia ago:

> The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
It's an attempt to bring back developer to windows platform. I personally don't know a single serious web developer using windows unless they are coding in .NET.
> I am fairly certain that 95%+ of people on both sides of the issue are actually very caring, intelligent people

I would be very surprised if on this, or any other, divisive political issue, 95% of the people on any side (much less both sides) were "very caring, intelligent people", or even "above average" in either (much less both) the "caring" or "intelligent" domains.

That's almost as ridiculous and cartoonish a characterization is saying that they are all hateful and mindless.
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I can tell you the position of some of the churches that funded Prop 8[1]. It has very little to do with the rights of others. It is basically the fear of the chain that goes from: suing a wedding photographer and cake designer who did not want to be involved in a wedding that violated their religious beliefs[2]. The attack on Catholic Family Services and other churches providing adoption services. Next, Catholic Nuns and other church organizations being forced to buy healthcare that provides for abortions. With the thought it will lead to a church being sued to allow a marriage that does not meet their doctrine.

The churches have learned a great deal from the ACLU given its constant suing of any religious display. They know you fight every inch of the way and don't compromise, since your opponents won't. They are fearful of the state forcing doctrine on them. The 1st amendment is very fragile given what has happened to the 4th, 5th

1) once again, I don't believe in state sponsored marriage of any type beyond basic contractual law between 2+ people meeting certain biological conditions (no possible inbreeding). I also have some problems about lack of consideration for the situation of conjoined twins and current rules given our ability to allow them a healthy life will exceed our ability to separate them in vitro.

2) an artist is a different discussion then a restaurant, motel, hospital, etc.
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A couple of ways.

1. 90% of questions asked about a car are standard (e.g. what's the history, what's the mechanical, is it a clean carfax). We can pre-empt this by having the answer ready.

2. For answers we don't have, it's the standard "let me get back to you" and ask the seller.
Their new OS in a sense is Azure, they want developers of all platforms to run on their cloud. All of these tools have an easy tie to Azure which isn't bad, but the lock-in is happening farther up at the service level now. Web developers are huge in that area.