skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer is that when you see the word "bigot" here, it actually means:

* this person has a different model of the structure of the world than we do

* we do not wish to recognize (or are not capable of recognizing, or have not been informed) that it is possible or intellectually valid to use a different model of the structure of the world than we do

* assuming that you use the same model as we do, it is impossible to support Prop 8 unless you also think that gay people don't deserve to be treated as people

* therefore he must not think they should be treated as people, and is bad. we should call him names and try to impugn his ability to empathize and/or be intellectually consistent.

Any relation of this to the dictionary definition is coincidental.

For your personal edification: the real question about gay marriage is a what marriage is (and what the government should recognize), not about whether gay people are people. If you believe that marriage is primarily about an emotional commitment between two arbitrary people, then the only logical conclusion is to support gay marriage. If you're old-school and think in the general case that it has something more to do with children and families and sexual reproduction (notwithstanding current practices to the contrary), then you may support measures like Prop 8 or Amendment 1. It is this difference in attitudes which drives the issue and drives enough voter turnout to pass measures like Prop 8 -- not bigotry and hatred, but defending something that these people care about, Marriage and Family. This is also why it's called the "Defense of Marriage Act"; it's a defense.

These supporters of gay marriage long ago internalized the notion of marriage as an emotional commitment between.... well, let's say N arbitrary people, not always 2.
Ah, thanks for that clarification. I do think that people need to be unafraid to express their opinions, if for no other reason than the slightly cynical one of knowing who you're really dealing with. Sure, it's lousy that there is a figurative lynch mob for Eich. But I do think that that particular position is inconsistent with Mozilla's tenets.

In other words, I don't think that Eich fits very well as a guiding light for mozilla, a position which might very well be embodied by a CEO. He probably shouldn't have become CEO of Mozilla in the first place. I'm fairly certain there are plenty of corporations more aligned with his goals that he can work for, so it's not like he'll be out a job for long. Just wish it could have been handled better, that there had not been a virtual lynch mob, and the inevitable turning of Eich into a martyr for free speech, all the while ignoring that the repercussions for supporting discrimination aren't nearly as bad as some people are making them out to be.
This is nothing new; letting an optimizing compiler do the heavy lifting has been the general-case recommendation for a long time now.

But there are still circumstances where it's necessary to write assembly, particularly in things like real-time programming. Doesn't matter how good a job the compiler did on the overall program, if you can afford 16 cycles on an inner loop and the compiler spits out 24 then you've gotta hand-tune it.
#102 now.

Do you think an HN algo is demoting it, or do you think people are using "flag" as a proxy for "disagree"?
It does seem like it would be useful to project management and team cases.
Another interesting article on that topic:

"Enter The Blockchain: How Bitcoin Can Turn The Cloud Inside Out"

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/22/enter-the-blockchain-how-bi...

What I'm interested in the most would be a new way to do Email. P2P and secure. I can't believe that most of us are still sending Email unencrypted but then again can you really blame us? PGP has failed not only in its main use case (trust in people, really?) but most of all in terms of usablity.
Thanks for the comments and your feedback. I'm Oren, the author of the book. I completely agree that there should be a better way for you to enjoy the entire experience.

Would you consider buying the book and "upgrade" to a better package (say the Videos package) afterwards?
I recently started using trello for RP group discussion notes stuff. It's amazing for this, and has well polished apps for phones and tablets too, so you can pull up your notes on an ipad in the middle of a session if need be.
Yes, sports is exactly what is keeping customers.

Right now, the comcast packages look like this:

1. Internet only ~$50/month

2. Internet + really basic cable ~$50/month (for me it was actually less to have both, they made me get a cable box to get $10 less, it makes no sense except for the fact that they want to up sell me later.

3. Internet plus sports ~$100/month (plus you get lots of other garbage)

4. Internet plus HBO ~$100/month (plus you get lots of other garbage)

5. Internet plus HBO plus sports ~$110/month

6. Internet plus everything including a phone $180/month

Sports and/or HBO are about half the revenue which is exactly why the cable companies want to make them bundled.

The only way out I can think of to get out of this bundling is to legislate no exclusivity for content, or at least live content. That would be major blow to the revenue streams of college teams & the NFL.
Facebook open sources code for managing A/B tests
What if his belief was something that you agreed with, and he got fired for it? Would have you the same opinion then? Would there be any discussion?
Getting started with Django, Pipeline, and S3
I live in Columbus, OH, and I do far less than what some of these posts do, but haven't seen anyone else from Ohio so I thought I would post.

* Read - Much like the others I'm constantly reading something, not usually programming related

* Learn - Also like others, I'm always teaching myself something new. Cooking something new, knitting, organic chemistry, I'm kind of all over the map

* Archery - http://www.velocityarcheryrange.com/ Sorry for their awful website (not my code, just to throw that out there* but I go out every now and again and shoot a bow and arrow for something physical to do that's eccentric and difficult enough to keep me interested

May update if I think of more things that I do, or if I remember Columbus-based things if people are interested!
I spent a lot of time in Vancouver, BC; Canada is a wonderful place and I can't wait until we expand there. We'll try to tackle the San Francisco Bay Area first :)
Side note: Where I live, holocaust denial is a crime (considered to be hate speech). I was a little surprised to read that it's actually legal in the US.
Please refrain from posting intellectually dishonest nonsense then. When this kind of thing gets posted it deserves to be called out for what it is.
More detail please.
See this Ars Technica article,

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/report-after-pate...
On which instruments are flash orders still operational?
Bicycle courier/delivery is very common in many parts of the world.
At my undergrad institution, we have a class that does a project very similar to this. I recently completed the class and project and have a bit of advice for anyone looking to take up this challenge on their own.

First off, a small note: our project used C to implement Scheme (a lisp dialect), so it's similar but not exactly the same as this.

I'd recommend starting off with reading about the principles and coming up with a solution to each of the problems on your own instead of following a specific pattern as outlined in the book. For example, in our project, we decided to learn about the C basics, then just figure out how to make it 'act' like Scheme if given an input. Eventually, we thought of doing everything in a linked-list style to make organization and recursion easier and more natural, but coming to this conclusion on our own was very helpful.

Another thing is valgrind. As far as I could find, the text only mentions valgrind in one paragraph, but it's an excellent tool to check for memory leaks and errors.

Also, as mentioned in the book, a bonus is adding in GC. This turns out to be a pretty easy and a fun exploration of the different techniques available if you try a couple out for performance.

Our code in case you're interested: https://bitbucket.org/adamcanady/cs251_interpreter/src
How Will Search and Rescue Work If A Plane Goes Down in the Arctic?
I wish there was more ability to specify the paths I really care about being low latency (even at the expense of throughput) and the like. As it is, it's rare that I drop below C, but more common that my C winds up restructured for what it happens to do to the output code.
I always enjoy a Torvalds smackdown. He does it right, crisply and has earned to right to be a d*&$ more than anyone in this industry.

I also like seeing minor-league catfights like Katz/Holowaychuk but his are just brutal and his opponents usually shrink away to make him stop. A not-so-benevolent dictator, but great to watch in action.
How Do I Lick A Plane?
Let's not pretend emacs/vim are perfect; there are certainly situations where they slow down. I certainly have files where the syntax highlighting isn't so speedy or where it's temporarily broken.

I'm just trying to point out that attempting to compare applications from a certain period in computer history to modern applications is doomed to fail.

While I certainly believe optimisation work would help some modern editors, it would be silly to attempt to blame that all on optimisation work instead of recognising that the world is different now.
That post is neither an apology nor a recant. He does not acknowledge that what he did was wrong. It is nothing more than a tone-deaf defense of himself.
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea during college, while I was my fittest. Running every day, lifting weights, etc. I felt great, besides the fact that I couldn't get myself out of bed.

I still haven't started using a CPAP machine, as I have developed other coping methods (sleeping on one side helps dramatically). I have considered doing another sleep study though, to get some more information and start with a CPAP machine for backup.
I don't know if I'll ever understand how people reason that using one right to deny a right to another person should be immune to criticism.
Do those two drugs achieve the same effect in the same patients? There are plenty of treatments with opposite effects that achieve the same qualitative result, in different patients with different conditions that merit different treatments. Could that simply be the case here, or do both kinds of drugs typically work in the same people?
I've thought about this a lot before, and there definitely is some merit to it.

I worked retail as a teenager, and the managers would give more hours to an older employee because she needed them (I was told this explicitly). I was fine with it at the time, because yeah, I was still mostly living on my parents' dime. Working in a corporate setting now, if I was told someone else at my company was getting a big raise only because they just had another kid or bought a new house, and not due to the quality of his or her work, I'm not sure how I would feel. I guess it just breaks down to whether you think like a capitalist or a communist.
Haha, my car isn't worth enough for you to sell it. :|
I changed the title to "Can [it be done]" because the article's title states it as fact even though its effectiveness is questioned. I'm aware that this deviates from HN guidelines but I don't want to submit clickbait.
Thanks for that paper, I'm currently designing a language and I'm wondering if I should use static or gradual typing. I'm currently doing static, but I want to investigate gradual. Anyway thanks! And I'll check out your code too...
Surfing the Plan
Oh Microsoft... 5 year old hacker.
You're not a bad person. Actually, I like that you question your decision, though that's probably confirmation bias because I use the exact opposite of your heuristic.

As I view it, any project has finite resources. You can spend them on your presentation or you can spend them on the product. Every hour that you're spending fixing typos on the website is an hour that you're not patching bugs in the code. Thus, when I encounter a beautiful, well written, well designed site, I mentally note that they've taken a lot of resources away from the product and caution myself accordingly.

Obviously my heuristic has a significant flaw - it assume that all projects have equal resources. A project with less resources can have lousy presentation and lousy code while a project with abundant resources can be exemplary in both categories. That's why I don't use it as my ONLY method of advising decisions.

However, your method also has a fatal flaw. Imagine that you're right and that the source base is an incoherent mess. It's pretty cheap to hire a couple of grad students to clean up the text on the page. They haven't done a damn thing to fix the mess in the code, but your heuristic now gives them an all clear.
anti-Eich articles were upvoted all over the place

Well, there must have been on the order of 30 submissions of the anti-Eich articles that got no votes, but got flagged early.
Then research any startup incubators. There are ones specifically in Toronto, for example, that server to pair teams with their missing link whether that is design, programming a backend, or building a MVP, or brainstorming ideas. Placing yourself in situations like this will not guarantee success but will increase the associated probabilities.
BDNF will affect neuronal proliferation, but won't affect how you feel (mood) in the short term.
DeviceHive Hardware Discovery Platforms
Apple vs. Android: Developers see a socioeconomic divide
Lots of items about it have been moderated off the front page in the last couple weeks, taking various viewpoints on the issue. You aren't being silenced, HN mods seem to think this is either not worth talking about or outside HN's scope for some reason.
Well, Googling for research around latency arbitrage lends me to believe the opposite.
It might make sense for insurance companies to pay people travel to and stay in Egypt for the course of the treatment.
I don't really understand this comment. No one was advocating vandalizing Mozilla property or physically assaulting Eich. Political pressure in the form of protest or boycotts are part of the right to free speech and are vital to the functioning of a free society.
It's more like taking a peek at the other players' cards, when only you have the ability to do that.

Yes and no. To continue the analogy, if your counterparty checks his cards every few minutes, while you are sitting at the table and monitoring continuously, is that your fault that your decision making strategy has a much tighter feedback loop than his?

In a lot of ways, the HFT practitioners and the portfolio managers (or other active, but infrequent, trader) are playing complementary, but very different games. The portfolio manager wants to move large blocks of stock, and pays for liquidity. The market maker facilitates the motion of large blocks of stock, and charges a premium for assuming the risk of adverse, short-term market movements.
Welcome to science.

At best you have a 2-3 month wait. At worst, years.
> Girls born since 2000 in the developed world are more likely than not to reach the age of 100, with boys likely to enjoy lifespans almost as long. The article "The Biodemography of Human Ageing" by James Vaupel,[2] originally published in the journal Nature in 2010, is a good current reference on the subject.

You or someone else presented this highly speculative claim as fact a long time ago on HN. I've tried to find the comment link, but I can't.

In any case, the support for this supposed fact is very dubious. You link to one article by Vaupel in Nature who, in making this claim, cites only this paper

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810516/

by Christensen et al. The paper says, in the abstract,

> If the pace of increase in life expectancy in developed countries over the past two centuries continues through the 21st century, most babies born since 2000 in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, the USA, Canada, Japan, and other countries with long life expectancies will celebrate their 100th birthdays.

Very few medical researchers are likely to find that "if" statement at all plausible, so this claim about most newborn girls living to 100 is bogus. If you have a better source for this claim, please present it. Otherwise, stop posting it.
Given how these threads tend to go, I can't really fault the mods for wanting it off the front page.
Well, she's god.
They're charging much more than the cost to develop the drug, because they need to pay for all of their failed attempts (and at this point, the only constraint is when the insurance companies will balk). And if they're able to charge this indefinitely, then they're effectively just extracting rent regardless of how much goes into further research (which you can say that they've earned the right to do this, but that's still what they're doing).

I'm certainly not saying they shouldn't be compensated, but taking issue with they way they're compensated. As I said, the problem is that it's an extreme gamble, and the only thing this is conducive to is business gamers and the overhead and blindspots they bring. Since the current reimbursement mechanism completely relies on the utterly artificial construction of the patent system, it's reasonable to believe that the entire model could be redesigned.
No problem, thanks for the kudos! :)
1. Yep- you guys handle getting my car sold. Seems pretty straightforward.

2. Yes, definitely. When I moved to SF, I drove here from the east coast. After realizing that I didn't need my car and it was expensive to keep, I looked into getting rid of it. It was a 93 ford taurus, and from what I could tell, not worth too much more than the cost of getting it registered in CA and in shape to sell. I ended up donating it because I just wanted to get rid of it. Having someone sell it for me would definitely have been worth it.

3. Not having to spend the time and effort managing the car sale, finding a buyer, figuring out the price, etc.

4. Looks handy. Your recently sold cars are all much newer and nicer than mine was, though, so I'm curious if your service would have worked for my older vehicle.
cron.management, transient.email, proxied.io, and finally spare.io.
It's just a simple projection, it's not meant to be taken so seriously. I expect that it's extremely conservative. We are currently in the dark ages of medicine where we just shoot people up with random chemicals and see what happens. There is a lot of room for improvement. Not to mention the singularity.
This should be marked with a [video] if not [video stream] tag.
This might just work!
How much would it cost you to offer a free car-wash coupon that's redeemable at local full-service car washes?

I would write blog posts on interesting success stories with different types of cars and seller stories -- often cars are hard to sell for various reasons.

Offering to take a professional picture is your ultimate in.
Search mobile CPA networks.
Hey, I'm the author of Confidence.js which was used to power this A/B testing calculator. That sounds really interesting and worth looking into - thanks for the feedback!
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1. yes 2.Yes 3. hassle free 4.good concept .
This post got nailed–hard–by the voting ring detector, but I'm restoring it because we want to see original work on HN.

A "voting ring" is when people get friends to upvote their stuff. This is against the rules. We want stories to be on HN because they're good, not because they were promoted.

It's sadly common for a great Show HN post to get demoted because its creators, eager to get it on the front page, tried to game it. I've noticed a pattern, too: usually their gaming technique is pathetic. Perhaps that's because they're creators, not promoters. Unfortunately, it has the side-effect of making it certain that the ring detector will nail their otherwise good post, while we carry on the real cat-and-mouse game with people pushing crap.

I've got what I believe will be a sweet solution to this problem, but it awaits time for implementation.

Please everybody, don't ring-vote your posts; just take your chances with HN's randomness. If a post is solid and hasn't gotten any attention yet, a couple of reposts is ok. Be careful not to abuse that, though, since we penalize accounts for reposting too much.

I'm going to demote this comment as off-topic so it won't get in the way of the real discussion. Send any moderation questions to hn@ycombinator.com.
Anyone with any sense of taste avoids Lombok. It's a terrible hack. Rather use Scala which gives you far more. Maintaining Lombok + Java is a pain.
I had cancer when I was younger, and the best place to start is to ask yourself: "Do I need to say anything at all?"

Unless you're a close friend (with whom the patient is completely at ease), then you're putting them in a position where they feel like they have to act strong, smile, and thank you for your concern. (For my situation, I got dozens of phone calls from people I hadn't heard from much in years. I had more than enough on my mind than to appease their desire to show their concern.)

Your concern is definitely appreciated, but you need to choose your moments.

As for what to say? I guess that differs culturally and your relationship. I'm Australian, and I was totally okay with a simple "ah, shit mate, that sucks" over a "if you need ANYTHING, call me* (*but don't actually call me)" - I know I can call for help, and dozens of people can help, but all I really wanted was to be treated like a normal human. For instance, I was bald from the chemo and got a multi-colour clown wig as a joke present, which made me smile so much. It was a sense of "everything is normal despite being in the midst of chaos." I could count on my friends to distract me from the horrible reality of the situation when I was stressed/sad/confused.

And that is your job. Be a sincere option for distraction and advice when you're called upon. Trust them to ask for help when they need it..and they're much more likely to ask for it if they know you won't be overbearing/over-worried/judgemental/etc.

I don't know how well this advice applies to depression, but I think it's a good framework for being a good friend through most hardship.

(Sidebar: I'm more than happy to be a sounding board for approaching any cancer related issues you've got. Email's in my profile. I've heard all kinds of things, so don't think any question or issue is too simple or stupid!)
Against Gay Marriage does not equal the ban of marriage to blacks. That is a false comparison.

This is Classic Straw man Logic! Only attack the position not a substitute position!
Xtend seems for me to be like coffeescript. It gives nice syntax like blocks to java.
Great idea! We've started soliciting quotes from out beta customers and have a ton of awesome data on car sales that we can use for blog posts. More coming soon!
Three letters why this won't happen until a deal is cut. N-F-L
Or not being able to pay for it. If it ever happens it will probably be available first for the very rich.
Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7533691

tl;dr: if this is a matter of equality, marriage itself (as a publicly recognized institution with associated privileges) is discriminatory and needs to be disestablished. If not, then it is completely legitimate to debate whether and on what basis those privileges should be granted.

In either case, the idea that it is morally abhorrent to oppose gay marriage is groundless.
Page seems non-functional, wants me to plug in headphones? Chromium Version 33.0.1750.152, linux box.

Edit: reloading made it work.
Yes,these guys are hypocrites, but that's all you'd expect from bigots... they are just "my way or the highway",and see injustice only when it's convenient.
I see a lot of heat generated in this discussion, but I don't see an answer to your second paragraph. That's the answer I want to see.
Haha, We can still help. email me directly at val@instamotor.com.