skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I have stuff like that, I often add a date to the comment. If its not been used in 6 months and i see it again, I'll usually delete.
> Of course, you may note this is exactly the same issue in question with the Citizen's United decision. I think this larger question, is money speech or action, will be one of the most important questions of our time...

I think this is a fundamentally different issue than the Citizen's United decision. Here, it's a person's speech/action. I firmly believe that people should be allowed to express whatever opinion through words and/or actions, even if it is donating money to a cause, or choosing not to associate with certain people (e.g. gays/Jews/insert favourite -ism). However, I strongly oppose awarding the same rights to political/commercial/non-profit organizations - I don't think a company should be able to donate money to political parties, nor fire an employee because of his/her skin color, sexual orientation, or political beliefs.
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So is religion.
Brendan Eich is very intelligent. He just happens to be wrong on this issue, in my opinion.

I self pick based on my own assessment of intellectual honesty and rigor. I have no doubt that our society will be considered similarly unenlightened a hundred years from now -- all we can hope for is some sympathy points for integrity and progress.
This is just an app, it doesn't indicate what networking capabilities are built into the OS.
subscribe to lwn.net - lots of good articles about new stuff in the kernel.
People would be concerned about privacy. One solution would be to encrypt it and then use the internet connection to send decryption codes. And really you don't even need to do that - it's not like pirated copies of the movies don't already exist.
New Android 4.4.3 Builds Spotted on Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 (2013)
Opinionated lisp ~noob here.

I tend to see sexps as a general tree and emacs+paredit[1] as a general tree editor, and even though I completely agree about your point on 'if you need folding maybe your design is wrong hence no need for tree structures'. I really feel limited whenever I use a non sexp based language. It's like having you're own little private refactorer at your fingertips. And even for small code it's a noted pleasure.

[1] emacs or whatever program you use, as long as it give you tree walking keybindings.
Hardly. Many of those intelligent people were slaves.
If they hold beliefs, which from the perspective of those who don't share that belief set, are incorrect, then yes.

See also: Overton Window, moral relativism, Presentism, the Historian's Fallacy, and Chronological Snobbery.

Morals and ethics are not immutable.
pip install ipython[notebook]
I'm not that things were worse & this isn't important. That's not what the parent commenter said or what I was refuting. He compared it directly to slavery & that comparison / analogy is a poor one.
Sweet. I remember writing an implementation in TurboPascal in the nineties. This is... refreshing :-)
As I said, you may disagree with the claim. I wasn't even personally supporting the claim in that comment, merely pointing out that it's possible for a.) the claim to be true and b.) Eich is intelligent - they aren't mutually exclusive based on his claim.
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Perhaps contact the MPAA or RIAA? They provide this kind of stuff to Youtube, Dropbox and other large providers.
TL;DR: Of he can be (and IMHO should be) criticized, he is on the wrong side of history. He made a public statement (money as speech), and now the community can (and will) hold him accountable for it.

The bottom line is -- being homophobic is starting to reach the same point in popular culture as racism and sexism. Our society as a whole is becoming far less tolerant of such nonsense, being against gay marriage is treated like being against interracial marriage. Even 61% of young Republican leaning 18-29 year olds are in favor of marriage equality.

It follows a similar trend to interracial marriage (slow start, then a rapid increase in acceptance). In 1986, less than 35% of American's "approved" of interracial marriage. A mere 5 years later, the number was about 50% .. and 20 years later that vast majority approve of interracial marriage, with more than 30% having a family member involved in an interracial relationship.

That is when it hits home for people, when a friend of family member comes out (today, being in love with the same sex... in the 80s, being in love with another race) -- it becomes personal, and when it becomes personal, you can no longer abstract 'those' people -- now it is your friend, your sister, your cousin, the best man at your wedding, etc.

You can rail against marriage being crap (it is, I agree) -- but that isn't the point. If you are against marriage, I am with you 100% -- lets get rid of it as a government regulated institution! But, if it is around, it has to be an option for all. I think it is far too close to religion to be certified by government, but that ship has sailed long ago... gotta work within reality.

Also, undemocratic to demonize one side of the vote, are you kidding? That is the oldest democratic tradition!

As for why it gets more "marketing" than the death penalty and gun control. It gets more "marketing" than the death penalty because it touches more peoples lives. It gets FAR less "marketing" than gun control, gun control just has lots of marketing on both sides, a massive constitutional question, and is not trending towards consensus... marriage equality unequivocally is trending towards consensus... it will be a decided issue before it ever has the "marketing" of gun control.

While I am freaking ranting... this quote is idiocy "Beliefs that are protected, that include political and religious speech, are generally not something that can be held against even a CEO." -- NO. Just NO. If you believe something that society finds laughable or horrible (Lizard people run the world, X race is superior, Z are bad at math, the Holocaust didn't happen, etc)... and you support it out loud, with money, in public. Of COURSE it can be held against you -- you don't have a goddamn right to that job, and part of your job is to be the face of the company.

/rant
Whether Eich stays or goes, every person who values their career will hesitate in future to donate to, or publicly support, anti-LGBT causes. I don't know if that is an intentional goal of his public pillorying, but it will certainly be its most effective outcome.
How does Tarsnap compare to Arq when using a Mac? Both do local encryption and incremental backups with deduplication. However, I pay $0.03 per GB-month on S3 with Arq and $0.25 on Tarsnap, almost an order of magnitude more expensive. And yet I constantly hear people saying that Tarsnap should be more expensive when I simply compare it to Arq and think that it already is very expensive.
Marriage is a special interest class (A). The debate is whether or not to expand special interest class (A) to include other special interst classes (Z) (ie, make it larger A'=A+Z). Merely voting to include yourself in the privledge class does not make you some sort of prophet of truth and justice.
Nothing against the OP submission per se, but these frequent BBC stories titled "Is X the new SV" (and the corresponding posts to HN) are getting pretty tiring.

There are interesting points made about the different places and it would be nice if they at least could give each an actual different focus. I'm not sure it even works as click-bait anymore. :-/

Other very recent ones:
Could Berlin be the next Silicon Valley - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26790422
Is Cambridge's start-up scene rivalling Silicon Valley? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-26683055
Can Tokyo ever rival Silicon Valley? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-26580038

If someone wrote a meta story contrasting all of them, that'd be interesting.
No. I mean the startup in question went on to be worth about a billion dollars (last I checked), but the stock I bought from them was turned into wastepaper through some mechanism that I don't understand. Might have been a rescue job of some kind. Maybe they're lying and owe me a bunch of money. I don't know.
I understand that reality is more complex than this, but

git bisect

That should identify the/your commit in (usually) < 10 tests. At which point the previous code is still intact.

Or

git blame

and look at the problematic lines, see who changed it and when. Now look at the git log (filtered just for this file if you want) and identify the last changes to this part of code that way.

More complex than just

// timestamp, initials: Changed foo, commenting the following 100 lines out

maybe, but makes the day to day code so much more readable.
"Is the the best possible use of our time, collectively, and/or of each of us, individually, for the organization and our collective goals?"

I suspect you'll find that more effective people tend to recognize when they're in a meeting they 1) don't need to be in and 2) which is keeping them from doing something more important.

Socializing, strengthening group cohesion, and other organizational (as opposed to individualistic) objectives may mean that even if you personally perceive greater benefit at being elsewhere, the organizational / collective goal may still trump, which is why that's included in the metric.

The concern isn't to do a thorough evaluation where that's not itself cost-effective, but to use the correct basis for measurement. Deciding on imperfect information is perfectly acceptable. Deciding on the wrong basis should really be avoided where possible.
Then the issue is: Federal law needs to recognise civil unions.
Step 1: Either add more info to this HN post through the comment section provided below the title, or make your submitted post a link to your home page. You are asking people to copy paste here.

I suggest you open up your platform when you advertise on HN. There is no need to lock it up behind a beta invite while soliciting people's help here.
It's not possible to compress more than a certain amount. E.g. you can't store every possible combination of 12 bits with only 8 bits. It's trivial to expand 8 bits into 20 bits following some procedure, but it's literally impossible to do the reverse.
> "Your test suite consists of neatly arranged files containing fully independent functions"

They're not independent. They depend on the code being tested.

This isn't a problem for well chosen & well made tests (i.e. testing precisely interfaces and behavior that are intended to remain the same from release to release).

But due to various religious practices, most of the tests I've seen aren't like that. Instead, they're tightly coupled to the implementation of an app, which makes refactoring harder, not easier.
I'm not very into this discussion, but I don't get how this has turned into something so big.

Has California divided into two tribes (from the relatively evenly split referendum) where everyone in one tribe is calling the other tribe bigots? And is that a reasonable way to view the world (now multiple years afterwards)?

Edit: I forgot, of course, the big group that didn't vote at all.
Or use duplicity. It even directly supports many cloud-services as backend, including Google Drive ($2 for 100GB, $10 for 1TB) Dropbox, Onedrive, etc. It encrypts, deduplicates, stores old versions, etc.
> Well, Indonesians do too. Do they, as a society have that right?

They have a right to their opinions and personal beliefs. They do not have a moral right to enforce discrimination against consenting adults that are doing no harm to others. They enforce their position through the force of state, like Iran does when they execute their gays, but that does not make it right.

I'd rather our government wasn't in the business of granting special rights to couples that decide to cohabitate. But since they are, I expect it to be equally available to all couples, regardless of their sexual orientation.

> How about things that other societies have abolished already, like the death penalty or the world's biggest incarceration rate (predominantly on blacks)?

I'm against both of those things as well. I'm also against the drug war, the massive income inequality gap, software patents, trade law that is allowed when it benefits corporations (outsourcing) and artificially restricted (via DMCA) when it doesn't (importing and region coding), and many, many other things.

I personally feel more strongly about the rights of same-sex couples to marry than I do about not executing a convicted murderer (especially once you adjust for how many are affected by each issue), but I would certainly consider it a negative if Eich were to come out in support of capital punishment.

I think a whole lot more people would be upset if Eich donated to maintaining the disproportionate incarceration rate in place on African Americans.

...

Does everything have to devolve into slippery slopes? Taking away marriage rights from same-sex couples is fundamentally and unequivocally wrong. Eich is legally allowed to discriminate against them through law, for now. Just as we are legally allowed to protest his appointment to CEO of Mozilla.
A better story from Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/china-to-get-xbox-one-in-late-2014-says-so...

And a recent one from Chine: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/851724.shtml#.UzvrZ_mSxpu
It did not go wrong which just made this link confusing and not funny.
A group of 3,000 citizens is making better forecasts than CIA analysts
I'm writing one. Inspiration from http://www.treepad.com/
I use Treepad for notes heavily. Now I want to be able to manipulate the tree programmatically.

Also it will serve for a html/js workshop for kids. They have a hard time setting up and working with regular editors and the file system.

The program is general purpose (different kind of node can be handled with plugged-in "drivers").

If you're interested, drop me a mail.
100% agree, I would love to read that.
Though there's considerable competition for the spot, I'm coming to the conclusion that wishful thinking (of the utterly unjustified sort) is quite probably humanity's most crushing weakness.
Webdevs need a napkin bootstrap theme for their MVP. Wondering how hard it would be. One would have to use CSS3 transform I guess.
> Well, knowing what we know about working conditions at FoxConn and so forth, I don't see huge amounts of developers boycotting iOS.

As if every other phone on the market are made by affluent white English-speaking college graduates.

Oh, and remember that FoxConn make other things too -- for example, the PS3, PS4, 360, XBone, Wii and WiiU. We'll have to boycott those platforms too.
The fact that a few gay people support something doesn't make it any less offensive, homophobic, or idiotic.
I believe that a fresh set of eyes help, so this is my first impression from the landing page:

Wow, nice design...

Hey, that huge gray block is probably supposed to hold a flash plugin, too bad I (and many people) disable automatic execution...

Let's check the headline: "Web Automation That Just Works,
No Code! Nothing to Install! No Virtual Machines!"

Web automation of what? Is it something like Windows Azure WebJobs?

Let's check the bullet points... Oh, it seems to be about TEST automation. Test of what? Web applications, I suppose.

There's some nice feature information on the page. Interesting, let's click on the blue links to find out more. Oops, they're not links.

I hope this helps. Congratulations and good luck!
Speaking as someone who stumbled into marketing and lead-gen skills by way of something video-based, online, and not particularly lucrative (Machinima), I thoroughly and enthusiastically second patio11's "Bonus Points" section.

If you can build up a living wage from streaming games, you can make large sums of money in comparatively short order by applying those skills to areas where the value per customer is rather higher.

I've done reasonably well doing exactly that whilst also pursuing my passion (filmmaking), and I know people who have focused solely on the moneymaking side from a similar background, and have done extremely well out of it.
This is one way to use Haste but you can also use it similar to how you are using Fay. It does not yet have plugins like Yesod and Snap do for Fay.
I'd love a drop-down filter mechanism on pandas similar to the one Excel has. That's the one thing that makes me open Excel when I'm working on a new dataset on python. It's just so much easier to inspect data that way....
Thank you for the suggestion. This seems to be a paying option. I am not sure I can afford it at the moment (Locking in through local banks where I live.)
Good points. I also noticed the 'this' issue Jeff had and ended up turning it into a blogpost as I don't think the instance methods / lambda notation approach is as well known as I'd hope. It's here if you're interested:

http://icanmakethiswork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/typescript-in...
In the grand scheme of things, our evidence that Brendan Eich is a raging homophobe comes down to one 6 year old donation of $1000. Not a pattern of actions at work, but one political action.

I support gay marriage today, but a decade ago, I didn't. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that. It took a lot of time and a lot of incremental phases for me to come around from someone who was openly opposed, to someone who tolerated, and finally fairly recently to someone who actively supports gay relationships and marriage. I'm still working on trying to bring my parents around to my point of view. They espouse viewpoints I frankly find offensive today and I can nearly guarantee that in the past they've donated more than $1000 to organizations that oppose gay marriage. But I by no means think they're "bad people". Eich is of my parents' generation, and I believe that empathy will eventually win most of them over, not ultimatums.

To me, Mozilla has become an unfair target of convenience. A lot of people are understandably still upset about Prop 8 and similar movements. But I think people have chosen to open fire at Mozilla simply because it's a lot harder to try to engage marriage equality opponents directly as people in a public way.

Clearly, it has worked to put the issue out in front, but I don't think it's fair or ultimately productive. What's the endgame here? We can let the siege continue against Mozilla, one of the few major players who really stands behind the user. Maybe Eich will step down, and who knows what happens to Mozilla. Maybe we'll get an insincere change of heart. But that's just a victory for mob intimidation. I suppose maybe just maybe we'll get a sincere reversal from Eich. He certainly seems sensitive to the pain he's caused. But even if this happens, I don't know that the end would justify the means.
> I'm personally an ardent supporter of gay rights issues, but must say that in this case, the collateral damage could well be as bad as in the first cases in the German Pirate Party.

Look on the bright side. I have a secret hope that the shitstorm will keep growing until it attracts the attention of US right-wingers and unleashes a Chick-Fil-A-style backlash of Firefox adoption. ;)
This describes my thoughts very accurately.
Thank you very much for the feedback! Very good and true points indeed!
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Even better, let's not criticise someone for their beliefs about marriage. "Marriage" is not a person, or natural thing. If people think it should be limited then so be it.

Legal rights on the other hand, that's another matter. The problem is that people lump marriage and legal rights in the same boat, then don't hesitate to unleash hell on anyone who thinks marriage should remain traditional and.. "YOU"RE ANTI-GAY"... wait, what? I just think marriage is between a man and... "YOU'RE HOMOPHOBIC".

I'm sick of it. A lot of people are sick of hearing about gay marriage. Sure, let's recognise civil unions and the rights there, but leave marriage out of it.
Thanks! The link is: http://www.browserstage.com
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Marriage defined as a voluntary expression of love and commitment between equals is very, very, very modern.

It wasn't long ago that marriage was also widely accepted as an asset for parents to sell. It was relatively recent that monogamy wasn't assumed, and that the maximum number in such unions was two.
Dang. Narrowed it down to 10 possible suspects. It seems like there should be some way to nail which one it is.
They have a "starving hacker" option for 3.50 a month. I think it is worth it for the high quality of content (without annoying ads). They have some non-subscriber articles you can check out to get an idea of the quality.
The problem is that it's not healthy for Firefox to be seen as pro or anti gay rights, or whatever not-directly-web-related political issue, really. That's the point of the parent post.

What does the fox say about assault rifle ownership?
Wow, Google Maps compared to iconography, that's new. It made me start thinking on how the information that we get online shapes our outlook. Yeah, we don't really search for wells or natural water reservoirs (what if some disaster happens), but mainly for Malls, Starbucks and ATMs, lol. Some countries have to rewrite books on History to let their people see the world as they want them to see, and Google Maps make so for the whole world and we take it for granted. Can Google cartographers pay some attention to water and mineral supplies for example? So we can select which type of online map to see.
Another very April fools this year is the one of the Gallium Inria team (the one behind the OCaml programming language): they released a French version of OCaml.
What's awesome is that the provided source actually compile to the described compiler!

See http://gallium.inria.fr/blog/ocaml-5/
Risky to make jokes with plausible things and especially without a hint.

Stackoverflow did it better in my opinion (lots of hints):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507830
What about a theistic colleague who would fund a campaign against atheistic marriage? (More appropriate analogy would be someone who would fund the goal of establishing a national religion.) Will I refuse to work with such colleagues?

If the position is to be against someone-who-would-fund-blah as a CEO, but okay as a colleague, this doesn't seem to help depriving the campaign blah from being funded (as long as someone didn't plan to increase donation from increased remuneration as a CEO). If the position is to be against someone-who-would-fund-blah both as a CEO and a colleague, I am not sure I support that position.

The main point being, while setting company-wide policy is greatly helped by being CEO, funding campaigns is less so.
Thanks for that, using 'tarsnap' on a FreeBSD and a couple of RPi clients, works great! Always nice to get a price cut!

PS. Is there any future plans to make restore a little bit faster? It's been a while since I restored some files, but the process was so slow that I thought there was a connection problem, then I googled and found out that it's okay to be slow :-)
I just deleted my okcupid account. They provide a form for explaining why. I told them their anti-firefox message was unacceptable, and that I would do my best to urge as many people as possible not to use okcupid.

And I will keep that promise. When dating sites come up in conversation, I won't mention the firefox incident, I will just rubbish okcupid and describe all its flaws - such as them revealing your browsing history to other users until you pay them money. How many online businesses hold new user privacy as ransom for full payment?
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