skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it also depends on what you're looking for. My friend was working on libertines in the XVII century, so probably documents the church is not especially proud of now.

It did not help that one of her advisors had published a paper on homosexual marriage in a roman church in the late XVI century [0, 1]

[0] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesa_di_San_Giovanni_a_Porta...

[1] http://books.google.it/books?id=tOANjJswdRQC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA2...
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Well, I would not assume to guess what Colin would enjoy, or how he would enjoy it.

However I agree, it does depend on Colin's motivations. If Colin doesn't want more users, and doesn't want more money (for even the same amount of work), then your viewpoint is possibly accurate and has merit.

Other possibilities for his lack of change are clear - we do not always act in our best interests for a garden variety of reasons(negative mindsets, backgrounds, etc etc). This can be very frustrating to our friends, who might have experience and insight into our situation, and want the best for us.
So they provide implementations on all targets supported by Go compilers for the features required outside stdlib?
I find the whole idea of dealing with this scenario in absolutes as iffy because you can almost always find a grey area.

e.g. Bob has created a vaccine which, he has discovered accidentally, will prevent millions of people dying of X every year in Africa. He has also decided not to share how he made it because he hates black people.

In this situation should humanity just accept his decision? Would force (or threat of) be justified on the basis that the end good outweighs the methods.

Tricky, and I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be a moral absolute.
I like your approach for a few reasons.

1. Its realistic. It has a customer and it has needs.
2. You're prepared with the resources needed. [You've thought about this before]
3. You're willing to put your money where your mouth is. I get the feeling that many of the lengthy coding tests or auditions are nothing but timewasters for punishing a new applicant.
4. It sounds like a weekend project/take home exercise.
I imagine if it becomes public Google would be shamed into doing something. It wouldn't make them look very good.
Facebook Leads In App Usage As 86% Of U.S. Users Spend Time On Apps [Report]
I actually have that in my apartment in SF. It may be because it's a three bedroom place with only one bath though. It's nice because someone can use the toilet while the shower is in use, but then you have to walk to the kitchen to wash your hands....wish someone had the foresight to add the faucet-top toilet ;)
The good thing about R is that it has forced me to learn statistics. Python has never done that for me. Use R where it works, don't use R where it doesn't. Call R from python or python from R, see if I care, as one would go to C or Fortran anyway. And why bother with python when you have Julia?

So what is all the guff is about? It does remind me of the ongoing religious war between frequentists and Bayesians ...
For an argument that relies so much on the word "fair," you should really start by defining it. Does "fair" mean equal? Equality of opportunity? Equality of results?
> I honestly do not believe we will make it more than 1 or 2 more generations without complete social collapse

Our economic house of cards will be crashing down within ten years. You should probably worry about that first.

Besides, over- or under-population being a problem is related to the economy too. It's all about having enough resources and jobs for everyone, right? The best possible thing any government can do for an economy is to keep its hands off of it and let people produce and accumulate wealth.

Then there's the US police state, which probably won't take long to complete. That's another much more pressing concern than whatever might happen with regard to the population.
> given the frequency of rock transfer between planets

What is this frequency, exactly? My impression was that all planets are constantly bombarded with rocks from space (not from other planets), but that it would be extremely surprising for a rock to e.g. leave Earth and end up on Mercury.
>I challenge you or anyone else who feels up to it to present a logical, non-religious argument that illustrates why homosexuality is immoral. I'm pretty sure it can't be done.

See above.

>Its perfectly accepted among the overwhelming majority of Christians and non-Christians alike for a sexually active couple to refrain from having children, so it can't reasonably be considered an issue of morality.

It's actually not perfectly accepted among religious communities. Many believers have chosen to discard their religion's guidance on this topic, but most religions do not look kindly on contraception. The opinions typically range from "no, it's never ok to do that" to "you should think REALLY hard before you do that, and make sure you have a good excuse to present when God asks you about it later".

Fertility is never guaranteed in heterosexual unions, but infertile heterosexual unions are allowed and blessed anyway for a few major reasons. First, a happily married heterosexual couple supports and promotes marriage as the bedrock of social cohesion and encourages others to get married by example, whether children can be produced or not. Second, you never know when infertility will go away, and if the potential is there because the partners are heterosexual, it's worth it to wait and see. Third, the male-female sexual duality is still ideal for child-rearing and the stable married couple may be able to adopt an unwanted child and provide him with a normal and healthy upbringing where both sexes are represented and where marital protections are in place to safeguard the domicile.
Mozilla and leadership
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> The problem is that people then fail to realize that B is also false.

Indeed. Interestingly, the term meritocracy also had a negative meaning when it was coined in the 1950s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology

That meritocracy is interpreted in a positive way is a relativly recent phenomenon.
Microsofts decision to opensource is not suddenly.

It has actively been pushed by some of Microsoft's evangelists (Phil Haack (ex employee, works at github now i think) and Scott Hansselman to say the more popular names).

I believe they got some playfield to do things and now the community has more and more impact (eg. Nuget and software like myget which is based on Nuget (Nuget for Enterprise))

Also, the CEO isn't Balmer anymore, that probably helps to.
from a quick glance at the linked GitHub repo, seems like your buddy seems to have much more data!
I'm curious: Did you first try using toilet paper in another country/region, or it something that has recently been introduced to where you grew up?
That's an interesting assertion, please elaborate: Why not? The government already forces you to do a lot of things for the greater good of the community. You're forced to pay taxes, you're forced to send your kids to school, you're forced to obey laws, in some countries you're forced to either join the army or do some sort of civil service. You're forced not to share your stash of heroin or your new production method of meth. You're forced not to spread your knowledge of building nuclear weapons.

All of this already exists and is commonly accepted to be a net positive thing. So why can't a government force a company to cut the price of a drug that the company wants to sell. It's not like the company doesn't want to share the drug - they're just aware that this is effectively a monopoly since not other comparable treatment exists. People will pay any price they can afford. This is damaging society since it draws resources from the society to private investors. I don't think it's wrong that the government is asking for a justification - the drug might be extraordinarily expensive to produce, the pill is lined in gold and platinum and has hand-carved inscriptions on it, tailored to the patients need, ... You could also argue that it's good when the company gets to squeeze the market dry since that will encourage others to compete, but how would that benefit society if there's a lot of drugs that nobody can afford.

Just as a thought experiment: What if Fleming, Chain and Florey kept the knowledge about penicillin and charged as much money as they could? Millions of people would have died.
I'd say Eich's deposition affects a lot of people ... the users of all Mozilla software. We've discarded the technical brilliance and direction of this man because a few noisy people disagreed with his political beliefs, which he expressed politely and quietly, never intentionally inflaming anyone. He was "exposed" by witch hunters for supporting a very mainstream and normal political position. If we're going to throw away the technical expertise of anyone who disagrees with us, we're going to have a bad time.
How does selling on your own site compare to selling on Leanpub and KDP?
Do you know of any better approaches?
What did I miss? OP is arguing that we should wash our behinds for the same reason that we wash our hands. Yet the reason we wash our hands is to reduce a threat that does not exist (at least, not as readily) for our behinds.

And now semantic satiation has kicked in for "behind."
Siri's Psychological Effects on Children
I take my shoes off right after I walk in the door of my apartment. It's not for cleanliness or anything as much as it is just I like fuzzy squishy slippers compared to whatever shoes I may have been wearing that day that need to be aired or dried out or whatever they need.

Barefoot or not your feet are dirty, the shoes are a different kind of dirty, and there's other stuff on the floor too (like in my instance, I really need to get a roomba because my cat sheds all over the place). So whatever.

I'm pretty amazed guests will take their shoes off because everyone that lives here does, like this is what happened when a whole bunch of people came over to my place after my wedding: https://www.flickr.com/photos/chix0r/13618218504/
And perhaps being the inventor of Javascript and CTO of Mozilla helped it go 'unnoticed' or unchallenged.
Yelp doesn't know if a review is truly legitimate or not but they employ algorithms to detect potentially fake reviews and the ones they flag as potentially fake are not factored into the score and hidden at the bottom of the reviews panel. Common triggers include brand new accounts with a single review and no other activity (friends, check-ins, etc.).

In the hotel industry, Tripadvisor has had to deal with the same issue with fraudulent reviews so other competitors have tried to enter the space with the concept of "verified reviews" only from folks who they know have stayed at the hotel. This is similar to Amazon's verified reviews since they tie back to purchase history.
Current state of anonymous email usability
AFAIK, there will be no changes due to Eich leaving Mozilla w.r.t Rust. If he had any involvement, it was minor.
If by 'rewarding "unlucky" gametes' you mean helping out the less bright and similar, we do it because it's nice and most people prefer it that way. An alternative of weeding out the unlucky gametes was tried by Hitler but proved unpopular.
Or maybe he didn't support gay marriage then and doesn't support it now, but is scared of a ravenously malicious committee of self-appointed witch hunters who are out to destroy anyone who dares to disagree with them on their pet cause. Or maybe he just did it because certain organizations or people would give him more money for his presidential library, and he still privately disagrees with it.

I'm not sure why we assume that he's not just doing this for political expediency now if we accept that he may have held the previous position for political expediency as well.
Similar idea:

In the board game Evo, your odds of success in combat are determined by comparing the number of horns your species has to the number the other species has.

Specifically, the following circumstances are considered:

- Each species has the same number of horns as the other

- One species has one more horn than the other

- One species has two or more more horns than the other

It's always fun to explain that part.

In the current context, "weakerer" isn't a word, but it would be quite normal to say "even weaker".
Phillip Wadler: LINQ a la Haskell Presentation
"Nobody is driven to game development, it's an individual choice" > Acknowledge this

"there are more pressing problems is an illusion" > disagree. As some on another comment pointed out that around the world enough and more people do not have access to food, shelter, healthcare, education, energy etc. You could also refer to Maslow's priority of needs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs). Entertainement can't fit anywhere other than right at the top of the pyramid.

And yes, everyone has individual needs and those are the most pressing for them. I was talking more from a society perspective.
Healthcare always has this double-headed character of "Extortion" vs "Saving the World".

Developing these medicines is incredibly risky and incredibly valueable for society. Therefore it is very hard to argue with high prices when society is indeed making a profit (in its utility curve, not neccessarily in linear currency). The drug saves lives, and we would be willing to pay this price.

But healthcare also is a responsibility for society, which means we do have to regulate prices to avoid the extortion character. Otherwise, in a hundred years, health care will "extort" 90% of the profit the rest of the economy makes, because almost every human prefers to live rather than die.
>They'll literally kill people, for profit and profit alone.

And how many people would they be "killing" if they had decided to not develop the drug at all because there is no chance of making money? Should they have done it out of the kindness of their heart? It may be disgusting to you that that is the truth, and then perhaps you should be petitioning your government to replace the industry with public institutions, but that is the current reality.
One possibility is that you and your coworkers are creating multiple google accounts which are being used from the same IP (your work's IP) simultaneously, and since there isn't any history (like email, search, etc) on those accounts then you're setting off Google's spam detector.

Not a good situation. I agree that it sucks. But... well, honestly and unfortunately, your best bet is to write a blog post about the injustice and hope HN picks it up.
Running Presto over Apache Twill
Can I read this article? No, I'm on a smartphone :) (no mobile version of the site)
Cyber "News and Alerts": Yahoo Encrypts Users Data to Protect from NSA
The City of Albuquerque Still Investigates Anonymous Cyber Attack
I would guess the proportion of non-tech family that equate firefox/'The Internet' with this set of circumstances approaches zero.
U.S. warns China not to attempt Crimea-style action in Asia
Who said it was the wrong thing to do? You wrote:

"He made a very public post saying, I'm happy to discuss my views - reach out to me and I'm happy to do it in private."

That is a severe mis-characterization of what he said, and I pointed out your error.

I agree that him debating pseudonymous internet commentators, or even engaging in private email threads with interested but unknown people, would be counterproductive. Given his seeming unwillingness to change his views, there's nothing better he could have done.

--

I'll note that the tone of what he wrote (e.g. saying "if you have good-faith assumptions" as if most people who disagree with him wouldn't) comes off to me as a one-sided offer. It reads like "if you want me to explain my beliefs and let me try to change your mind about why they're so bad, then let's talk". There's no willingness to accept that he might be wrong, no "I'd like to give you an opportunity to change my mind". Perhaps that's reading into it slightly, though.
That is a myth put about by pharmaceutical company interest groups.

http://www.citizen.org/publications/publicationredirect.cfm?...
None, if any. None that can be discerned from emails.
An excellent analysis of the biggest problem in crypto currency adoption.

I made a similar service last month called Email Tip Bot – it lets you send bitcoin to anyone’s email address: http://emailtipbot.com

Dogecoin support coming soon!
Keyword arguments for JavaScript. Similar to python's kwargs
What I really want to know is, if the conspiracy about Yelp taking down reviews based on whether you pay for its premium services. I imagine this is most of the fight with FTC complaints. I've seen so many accusations, but no actual proof of a page losing its reviews, or even a recorded phone call with a rep (legal in most states, one of the exceptions being CA), just stories. I believe most negative reviews are legit and many businesses that complain about getting them are in denial.

Aside about reviews: Everyone loves to hate on how Yelp is biased and reviewed by idiots, but for me it's been better than the alternatives, and the star ratings generally reflect quality (especially for places with 100+ reviews). I usually don't have the same tastes as professional critics, since they often have a far higher price range and pay attention to the professionality of a restaurant, and have their own biases away from the "plebeian" tastes. The sample size of a lot of Yelpers is usually pretty effective in finding good food. ZAGAT et al often also don't review small tea shops, food trucks, etc.
Again Crypto I with no Crypto II in sight... :-(
I am against gay marriage and in favor of polygyny. I do not believe that we should get the state out of marriage. Marriage is nothing without effective legal protections and backing. Your position is the literal fulfillment of all those people who said that gay marriage would destroy real marriage. That is precisely what you are claiming should happen -- marriage should stop being a real thing, and if you feel like saying you're married, then go ahead and do it. I just wanted to point this out since many people say it's ridiculous that gay marriage would destroy straight marriage. You are explicitly endorsing said destruction.
Google-owned Nest halts sales of its Protect fire alarm
Run rate and valuation are not always directly tied. In all of these cases--Twitter, Instagram, Imgur, Reddit, 9GAG--it's about the community.

Reddit may certainly be worth $1B+, but no acquirer wants to buy them and lose money keeping the site up.
It doesn't sound like he won the birth lottery, except insofar as being born to parents whose primary language was English (his essays are what made him famous, so this extra few years of practicing English was important) and living in a situation where he could attend Cornell. Being accepted into Cornell probably took a lot of hard work. Getting into Harvard after attending Cornell also took hard work.

The most convincing argument that pg won any birth lottery that I can think of is that his parents were able to instill a desire into him at a young age to attend an elite university. My parents often spoke of the benefits, but they weren't able to get through to me about the reasons why it's important.
Plain and simple "hate"?
Have you considered the idea that they are trying to defend what they consider a social institution as important -to them- as "property" is for you? Or "money"?

Because it may be so and not hate.
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Well obviously you can eventually run the code on any platform that supports the CLR. At present only Windows and Azure support the CLR but the rest of the world has to depend on Mono.

I suspect that Microsoft is trying to fight their way into the Server space where Linux installations are prevalent by offering services via Azure.

So, for example, you have an extensive Linux environment running critical back-end services. You can have a BASH script which generates C# code, compiles it and eventually deploys it to Azure. This is I think a fantasy scenario that Microsoft is envisioning.
FFTW
Marriage is not a civil right. It is a pact between two people, rooted in long-standing tradition, to which the state associates a number of privileges.

Right off the bat, if we consider any of these privileges a matter of equality before the law, then it is the institution of marriage itself that is discriminatory. Why should an unmarried person pay more taxes than a married person for the same income? Why cannot they name a friend instead of a spouse as a dependent for health insurance? Etc.

But traditionally, these have not been seen as rights, but as privileges that the state grants, at a cost for the community, because these is believed to be a public interest in the promotion of marriage. If that is the case, it is entirely legitimate to debate whether this public interest exists both in the case of heterosexual and homosexual couples, and furthermore, whether it even still applies in modern society. A lot of the traditional justifications for public support of marriage were based on strongly differentiated gender roles, and it should be clear that they are no longer applicable.

As for new rationales of public interest, none have been advanced, other than "discrimination" - which, again, would be an argument for abolishing marriage, not for extending it.

In any case, this is a matter on which there is ample room for debate amongst well-intentioned and rational people. I am appalled by the fact that so many people seek to nip any discussion on the subject in the bud when it's obvious that the have given the matter hardly any serious thought themselves.
> Well, I'd like to see Visual Studio for Linux with support for Java, Scala, Clojure, Haskell and other non-Microsoft technologies.

Which is exactly what you can now create using the Roslyn technology that is now open sourced. Add these languages and they will get all the fancy support that Visual Studio provides, like (remote) debugging and code completion.
> because the cost of closing your borders is way, way higher than embracing global trade and benefiting from commodities

You can keep your borders open while still maintaining some essential capacities...like GROWING FOOD. Sure, you can import, but its up there with weapon/defense production in what you probably shouldn't outsource completely to your potential enemies or allies who are further away than your enemies (China...cough...).
Anything not on Imgur usually loads really slow, especially gifs.
To be fair, it's occurred to me that part of the issue is that Brendan will not retract his support or change his mind on this issue. So, you can take a position now, and retract it later, for less blowback. You may still be judged for ever taking it, or if your apology isn't "sincere enough", etc.
The hypotheticals in the article sound fanciful but I believe we'll be confronting them sooner than we think. Unwillingness to acknowledge computer sentience will become a major fault line in society within 25 years.
Dancing for a product release
Don't use assembly unless you're an expert
It's obvious to me that they see their future as providing an integrated toolset between development and the cloud. They want to build tools that let you push code direct to Azure, and they're becoming more agnostic about whether or not that is a microsoft stack code or other code.

They renamed it from Windows Azure to Microsoft Azure to remove the windows connotaiton - specifically mentioning that 15% of all Azure deployments are Linux OS. So I would say that this is where they see the future, although there are still some very byzantine sales processes to go through to buy enterprise azure, because of the existence of the partner network. In that sense, they're almost like the car manufacturers forcing you to buy through a dealer for their direct-to-consumer products.