skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Eich said he supported equality.

His actions show otherwise.

I've said this before here, but I have much less problem with the (small) donation (to a failed cause) than I do his subsequent behavior.

His subsequent hypocrisy proves beyond any reasonable doubt that those views are still very personal and very real to him, regardless of what comes out of his mouth.

One does not abdicate a CEO position, something of great prestige, power, and compensation, on a lark. He was asked, multiple times by multiple people what his true thoughts were and declined to elaborate. He could have just (heartfeltly) apologized. He could have just thrown another $1000 at GLAAD/HRC/etc.

>You are conflating the state not recognizing gay marriage with a human rights issue. Not everyone agrees.

The same could be said of women's suffrage or the equlaity of blacks. The fact that it's a state issue does not preclude it being a human rights issue.

I have skin in this game. I see the behavior of people like Eich as a personal affront to me and people close to me. A proclamation that people like me should remain second class citizens because of some outmoded religious belief.

> However, ostracizing supports makes the ostracizers act like bullies.

Again, how is this any different from publicly announcing your support of some other anti-equality group? How well do you think a CEO would do if it came out that they were donators to Stormfront? I keep hearing this "bullies" line but it doesn't add up.
The stock info is purely recorded voice files by a voice actor to secure high quality.

The business logic was voiceXML+javascript that parsed the stockinfo that it recieved in json format from a backend and chained together the correct voice files and handled authentication using another webservice call.
You can't. Not without banning those responsible for that kind of behavior or severely dis-incentivizing them somehow from coming to the community.

I think more generally, if I understand what you mean correctly, that that is really nothing more than water-cooler talk. Talk meant to be pleasant rather than investigative.

I also think with that said, it's really only a property of small communities because once it reaches a certain size, the amount of substantive things to discuss and hash out doesn't scale with the number of users.
An idea originally by sdrothrock which I've been thinking about for the past few days: An app which can be trained to recognize certain sounds. You record a few examples of that sound and then it listens and gives an alert when it hears it.

Another idea, allow deaf people to "visualize" sounds. Just displaying the raw sound wave is too redundant and difficult to interpret. But what if you could display a higher level representation, perhaps obtained by unsupervised learning.

Even cooler if you can attach rough labels to the sound like is done by some object recognition systems (example: http://i.imgur.com/anp7RY9.png).

The second idea is probably unrealistic but the first is possible.
I use HostAdmin:

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hostadmin/
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hostadmin/oklkidkf...
What a fantastic strawman you've constructed! Give me a minute to marvel at it. You do excellent work.

Okay, now that the dazzle has worn off, perhaps you could tell me when I said that Anti-gay activists donating money to fund constitutional amendments would be a good thing? because I really don't remember saying that.

However, I agree with your second paragraph. You can't be a good citizen for equality while donating money to a cause that is anti-equality. I appreciate your condemnation of Sam Yagan for doing exactly that.
Really I just want github to implement that functionality, rather than make an entire new site.
The monthly "who's hiring" guy should post "which open source project need help" as well.
This adresses a pain that I suffer:

An app to easily compare SQL execution plans.

I believe the better way would be graphical. I have needed this on MS SQL Server, SQL Sentry Plan Explorer has helped but lacks this comparison. Today I do it by diffin execution plans on XML format.

On my wildest dreams I would have a REPL accepting a DSL that would allow me to query the different DMV's (those are SQL Server data management views which give you insight on the inner state of SQL Server, Red Gate has a nice site on them http://sqlmonitormetrics.red-gate.com).

If it already exist is some form or platform please share.
Absolutely. However, Eich's behavior after the donation came out revealed a crucial flaw in his ability to handle public relations. Even if this kerfluffle had been about something that isn't so contentious, it's been proven that he cannot handle criticism - something a CEO, the public face of a company, has as one of their primary job duties.

It also reveals a pretty massive conflict of interest wrt. his personal views on equality and Mozilla's views on equality. If it were any other corporation it may be different, but Mozilla's kind of famous for this.
How about a program that watches for certain input patterns, takes calendar, location and maybe camera data to determine the best times to deliver push and email notifications without interrupting.

Maybe one could figure out moments at which the user would be interrupted the most, for example shortly after opening a new window or tab, or shortly after switching programs, since these moments are risky for forgetting things (if the same psychology applies): http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470218.2011.571...

It would probably make sense to prohibit interruptions during intense writing. I also thought about an option to blacklist certain apps or websites like Skype, Facetime etc. and to whitelist activities that don’t require focus like browsing news websites or playing a game.
Thanks for explaining that.

So maybe a feature-request for hackerone would be, don't auto-disclose on Fridays; instead bump to Monday. :)
Microsoft says that OS X looks more like a pc because they revealed the return of the start menu?

No offence, but end-users just want the start menu back. That has nothing todo with OS X.
Kevin Rose is a parasite (according to protesters)
It seems quite similar to gmail in it's overall design. With a bit of css handycraft, I'm sure it could be made to look reasonably pretty?
WebM FAQ

Encoding WebM videos seems really slow. What are you doing about that?

Today, encoding VP8 in “best quality” mode is the slowest configuration. Using “good quality” mode with the speed parameter set between 0 and 5 will provide a range of speeds.
For me, I can't get Google now to do anything..

It doesn't seem to have any useful options and no way to show me anything other than the weather.

How can I make it show me something else?
Click settings, then choose Inline Expansion or Image Hover.
One of my friends is "one of the techs" in that article when the dude has the seizure. He doesn't like talking about his adventure to Portugal with the insane mad scientist surgeon.
IIRC Android matches on the file extension in the URL...
It has nothing to do both "separate but equal" if the only difference is the legal term used ("marriage" for heterosexual couple, "civil union" for homosexual couple) and not the rights associated with it.

Separate but equal was about physical segregation of minorities, not just about using different legal terms for the same thing. And, by the way, something that a ton of people don't know about the separate but equal doctrine (because it doesn't appear to be taught in American public schools): It actually refers to the government's legal authority to mandate that privately owned businesses provide separate nut equal facilities for blacks. That's a lot different than the usual portrayal of Brown vs. BoE, as the government stepping in an conquering private racism.
Yes, the article did say that and I found it a bit odd. While they probably have been working on the power unit for two years, the split turbocharger was first seen at the first race.

Of course, my knowledge is based on media reports, it is possible that none of the media have seen it in Jerez and Bahrain tests but it was first reported by Craig Scarborough during the Australian GP weekend.
What you describe sounds like the existing Communities feature, but until there is code block formatting in posts it'll still be a pain to read code in G+
I really like this circuit concept for async programming.
Did you come up with the model yourself is or is it an implementation of a wider pattern?
Hmmm, this was an idea my friends and I tried to nail down, but eventually gave up.

This site's demo video shows they got it working?

Though it's not open to the public; errr, I want to see how they did it!
A search engine for knowledge and facts.

I think there's huge value in a search engine of knowledge and facts, where all sources are verified. A search engine that is objective and contains no opinions, crappy blogs or tweets, content farms. A search engine where you can't game your rankings through SEO techniques or through higher add spend.

Google is amazing. Google Search is going to be here for a long time. I doubt anyone will be able to come up with a solid replacement. But one of the current problems with Google is that they have too much information.

So far, i've put together a tiny version of this concept, which i've found very useful when i'm trying to learn new things or do some research. I would love to see some smarter people turn it into something more.
A solution for the "too many tabs open" problem. Need a way to save my history in an organized and interactive manner, with a nice looking UI. Sort of like the old WebMynd (http://webmynd.com). I find that most of my tabs are open as a form of reminder. If I close it, I'll forget it and might as well not have seen it. Same if I hide it away in some kind of bookmarking app. I think it would be best to apply a UI layer over my entire history in a way that makes it easy to search and recall things that I found interesting int he past.

Need to store all data locally for privacy reasons, and have a way to logically group urls by content and bring them back to the front occasionally (maybe with some kind of gamification?) so they don't disappear.
A way to submit any legal document, and for a fee have it returned but explained in plain english.

What do you guys think about this? And what do you think are the most common use cases/legal documents?
Please don't be MongoDB, please don't be MongoDB

...

Sigh

> a failure of distributed systems academics to educate developers and to equip them with clear-thinking frameworks.

Here is the thing, distributed systems are not standard academic courses. Just like networking they are often optional. That is really sad and it needs to change.

The CAP theorem is not something fringe and exotic anymore it should be standard taught to everyone.

MongoDB has really messed up. They promoted and marketed a shitty product wrapped in nice marketing. It created 2 things -- low barrier to entry and a trap. Both wrapped in one nice shiny package. "You should have read the docs to enable actually writing data disk when the user asks them to" doesn't jive with me. A really shitty default setup for something calling itself a database.

Oh well, they reaped the benefits of their strategy, both the short term (success) and long term (failure) - it became the butt of jokes and ridicule.
I dont think they are going against listed giants. Giants offer too much. Im still losing myself in amazon's services and pricing model, they are difficult to understand and entrance level is relatively high..
DO - fixed price, minimalistic newbie-type interface where you can relax and just do your things with ease.
Is it really so hard for you to imagine that not everyone comes from the same background and upbringing? Moreover, is it so hard to believe that not everyone who supported prop8 was a gay-hating bigot who wants to see them all burn in hell or whatever?

With every political standpoint, there is a spectrum of supporters who support the cause - for varying reasons and varying intensity. It's very important to keep this in mind especially with issues like prop8 where the anti-prop8 branded the prop8 supporters as a whole as gay-hating bigots.

Here's the problem: we don't know where Eich fell on the spectrum. We don't know if he hated gays or if he was brought up in a traditional household where marriage is a religious ceremony rather than a love-based ceremony.

Hell, I recall some prop8 supporters whose only problem with gay marriage was that it uses the word "marriage", they were people who wanted civil unions to offer the same legal protections/rules as marriage, but wanted to keep marriage as man+woman so the concept of a marriage ceremony still had the same religious significance as it did before.

My whole point here is that we have no idea why Eich supported prop 8. There's a whole rainbow of possible reasons, many of them which are not quite as damning as people make out. Since we never heard the other side of the story, this whole fiasco looks like nothing more than a huge joke, but is actually a scary reminder of how passionate and defensive people can get over social issues.
I think the issue is that as long as the state endows rights to religious practice (marriage) there is a problem.

If the state only gave rights and taxed civil unions, the churches cannot, by definition, control if other people get married. All they'd need to do is find a church willing to marry them, or start their own.

To quote from another of my posts:
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I think once the legal implications are removed, churches would lose their control over the word by default. It doesn't have meaning outside of the church at that point, and the government "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" So if gay people wanted to get married, no one could stop them.
I don't think RB was nowhere near where Mercedes is this year. They are unbeatable like Brawn GP was on 2008. Others wont catch them this year. But otherwise very interesting season.
Mitaines
Testing an athlete's genes to aid training [video]
Could someone in the know-how explain if this will help those who use X-dependent window managers. Will one be able to run wayland in the future, but yet use (say) fvwm? I've used fvwm for over 10 years and there is really nothing out there that gives its flexibility, so i'm wondering if once wayland is mainstream, the old window managers will become useless.
I like live shows. I would like a website that lists all the live shows in my area. Like "show me all shows at Shoreline". I haven't found a single site that tells me this.
Untangle is a firewall with its own app store, and it works great! It's hard to imagine a firewall app store, but once you start using it, it just makes sense.
That would still be much more than Eich ever gave.
Regarding Firefox Gtk3:

Firefox Bugzilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699

You can install a build on Fedora via this copr (like a PPA for Fedora): http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/stransky/FirefoxGtk3/
Songza is pretty great for this.

http://songza.com/

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/songza/id453111583?mt=8
I clicked through three levels of reference links and I still have no idea what Xwayland is, except that it is some kind of refactoring of the Linux graphics stack. Could someone please explain why people seem so excited about it?
> "you've just thrown out the other advantage of metric: universality"

Nope. I've done the opposite.

Let me explain: when you set up a traffic flow equation (or many other complex equations), you don't write it in terms of meters or feet or any other supposedly universal unit. You write it in terms of whatever the natural scale is -- whatever makes the math simplest. (You might define the average car length as "1", for example.) Then once you've finished solving your equations, you can rescale everything in whatever units are most familiar to the audience you're presenting to.
Just think of Prop 8 as an Apartheid law.
>Marriage has historically been a religious ceremony

This is patently false. Religion does not hold a monopoly of any kind on the concept of matrimony.

There is a massive problem with your view. You think a religious belief holds any legal sway. It does not. Laws based on religious overtones are absolutely forbidden by the supreme law of the land. This might be different in other countries, but here? No law concerning an establishment of religion.

In other words, whether or not a law conflicts with any given religious belief is utterly irrelevant to that law. It should not at any point enter the discussion.

>There seems to be this sect of the American left that prescribes that everyone follow the left-wing cultural viewpoint, while claiming to be inclusive and diverse. The cognitive dissonance is palpable.

Yada yada being intolerant of intolerance is actually intolerance.
Point missing all up in here...

> it's impossible to vote for or contribute to a politician who doesn't have views that some minority will vigorously object to.
Actually, as far as I've read, the minor eye movements happen exactly to enable motion parallax (on the very edges of objects) even while the object is static relating to you - so it's kind of completely opposite what the original article was proposing.
I don't think you can solve it because it's not the platform, it's the userbase. Although voting systems to highly encourage downvoting/upvoting based on whether you agree or not. An idea I've had is to rank all content separately for each user, by predicting what content they will upvote or downvote.

At first it sounds like this would exaggerate the echo chamber effect, but I think it would do the exact opposite. There's no reason to downvote or upvote things because you agree or disagree, downvotes only affect what you see in the future and no one else sees them. And instead of different ideologies being pushed away into different communities, they all exist in the same place, occasionally interacting with each other and mixing.
it does if you want to setup the 2nd piece, but I like nginx alot
I respectfully disagree with this. Ignoring return values is _not_ good practice. It is a slippery slope to bad software. By catching these memory errors, a program has the chance to properly teardown and report a message to the user instead of crashing.
This already exists for most browsers. Pressing Ctrl+H should take you right to it.
A website for employees in a company to share SQL queries and their results, like Heroku Dataclips. You can write your query in your browser, the results will be shown, and you can just copy/paste the URL to a coworker for him/her to see the results.

I'm already working on this, contact me if you're interested!
> I'd say a fundamental portion of respect is not encoding your personal beliefs of other people's personal lives into law.

I fully believe that claim, but that's because I'm a crazy anarchist. If you're not a crazy anarchist, then you probably don't fully believe that claim.
Google Project Loon Internet balloon circled the globe in 22 days
Right, so he's claiming that the genes responsible for this really pretty random list of traits ("protruding, cartilaginous mucous noses"? "Prostate encircles urethra"? "Alcoholism"?) were so strongly selected for that they became 100% ubiquitous in the human genome. Meanwhile, every other trace of pig ancestry got diluted away to nothing.

I understand the idea of dilution, I just don't understand why he thinks that so many random things would survive it to become defining features of the human species. Remember, he's not just saying that 2% of living humans carry Genghis Khan's Y-chromosome or have red hair or something, he's saying that all of these traits became completely universal.
> Marriage has historically been a religious ceremony

This depends on where and when you constrain your view. Marriage is a diverse institution with as many manifestations as there are years in the existence of civilization.
>and part of my argument, remove rights from the word marriage.

And as I said before, I'm fine with this, but it's a process that takes longer than fixing the inequality now. You could write a law that says all marriages are now civil unions, but in doing so you've broken the dependency chain to any out-of-state agency that uses "marriage" as anything in particular underpinning any kind of contract.

The simplest, easiest thing to do is to amend the legal (not religious) definition of marriage to fix this problem. The religious definition of marriage is irrelevant to the legal one.

>Instead you continue to argue that codifying your beliefs into law was correct

Yeah, fuck me for wanting equality like blacks and women.

We're done here.
This is a very cool idea - for me the application would be more in research, when quite often I stumble across an idea, or go back to read an open tab, or read my Pocket, and when I want to see how I discovered it, can't figure out how I got there. Just a simple graph of history chains would be great.
Thanks for the feedback! I agree that it is a bit wordy -- we will look into redesigning the landing page.

Lindsay,
Co-Founder @ Pluto Mail
Again, the "deny them their human rights" argument fails to pass the bullshit test.

The had domestic partnerships, they had the full legal rights marriage granted available. Prop 8's entire quibble was over the word marriage, so was the pro-gay rights movement. Both sides are trying to codify belief into law, both are wrong.
We support unsend at anytime. We technically could also support edit at anytime, even after open, but we do not because we believe editing after open serves no legitimate purpose - just manipulation. It doesn’t even seem fun to us. Thanks for commenting.

Lindsay,
Co-Founder @ Pluto Mail
I can only think of one solution: moderation. And that does not scale very well.

The only way out I see is a paid forum, so that the site can hire full time mods. I'd like to build something like this one day, but its such a herculean task that I figured I'd need at least a year of runway to make it work.
We need to wait until we get to Europe, that's when the new parts will start arriving and the other teams have a chance to catch up. Development is going to be key this year.
Your understanding of civil rights and Jim Crow is so wrong it's just astounding. I suggest you start with reading the wikipedia article on Brown v. Board of Education and Jim Crow laws.
This a million times.

Parents all over the world approve this idea.
- When will the next bus/train be at this spot?
- a non-DRM ebook reader with Project Gutenburg installed
- auto convert from client/server to webapp or phoneapp
- grocery delivery for us not in SV,Seattle,etc
- reservation-only restaurants that have tables avail now
- auto turn cell phone to vibrate in certain locations
- auto forward cell phone to close land line (work/home)
- old Google maps
- a no wifi or cell Palm Pilot replacement
- cell phone direct to .txt email for all but certain callers
- mini-blogging platform: 400 chars < every post < 800 chars
- yelp you can actually believe
- forum software that filters trolls
- forum software that filters idiots
- salad bar locator
- buffet locator
- televisionless / audioless restaurant locater
- chess with n moves forward/back what if
- shock nearby driver on cell phone not paying attention
- missing commercial airliner locator
is that the "societal cost" that was asked for?
Have you tried Onetab for Chrome? It has some of the functionality you're looking for in that it pulls all of your open tabs into one tab and vertically orders them on the page for you to go back and access later. Neat tool, I use it quite a bit. http://www.one-tab.com/
Search function for browser tabs. So hard to find pandora in the haystack, and I need a short cut to search through all the interesting things.