skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is also true, and don't forget the planning of something which has never been build before, not even as test or experiment. Even for the German Transrapid there was a test track long before the first commercial route was build in China.
Well, your point is actually a logical inequality - apartheid was against the idea of interracial relationships, married or not.

It's not exactly like these interracial couples were offered a "union" which conferred the same rights, but don't call it a marriage.

But even if they were, it's still not close to the current battle over gay "marriage".

For most of recorded human history, the concept of marriage was very much tied to the idea of family.

For example, Susan Treggiari, a professor of Roman history writes "Matrimonium is an institution involving a mother, mater. The idea implicit in the word is that a man takes a woman in marriage, in matrimonium ducere, so that he may have children by her".

Homosexual relationships cannot by definition create a family - they are not a procreative relationship.

I'm not saying they're wrong because of this - this is simply a biological fact.

This is what a lot of gay marriage activists seem to miss - it's not opposition to the idea of them together. If they want to be together, they will be together.

It's simply that they wish to come along and redefine an existing word, to fit a new definition of what a family is.

Perhaps as a society, we will agree - and we will allow "marriage" between any two humans, and gender will become irrelevant.

However, to simply come along and assume, oh, a man and woman get it, so a man and man should get it automatically is either being intentionally blind, or very presumptuous.

A man and woman family is different to one composed of a man and a man - not because one is more valuable or not valuable - but simply because of their roles.

It's like saying, oh, a woman gets pregnant, so she must be more valuable than the man in a marriage. Well no, they are different - they play different parts, and we call them different things.
Sure,

If you're writing Python, write Python not Haskell. C#, don't try to do Erlang. Basically, write to the language you're working in and not to something you're not.

Also, if you think a deep domain based algorithm is wrong, making it so that you can remove pieces of it piecemeal is the wrong choice. Point out the flaw, bring it to the people in charge and let them handle it.
Mozilla CEO: Gay-marriage firestorm could hurt Firefox
I've dug a little more, and while it was possible to delete emails, you couldn't delete a whole folder at once. Looking back at comment threads from 2004, I can see a lot of people asking for a delete button and the option to delete everything in a label at once.

Also, my mistake.. the "trash" folder is renamed "bin" according to your English language setting (British vs US).
> Is this a joke?
>
> If you mean the 6,000 lines of working code, then no, I poured hundreds upon hundreds of very serious hours into that. But if you're referring to the fact it's woefully underdocumented, adds considerable overhead to an already slow host platform, and ultimately unlikely to gain any traction, then yeah, probably.

This is the best sort of April 1 announcement - something ridiculously ironic and playful, yet incredibly useful long term. Thanks so much for creating this, along with all of your plugins.
It's not celebrated in Asia, Africa, South America, and in most European countries. Probably your propagandized media and education system lead you to think that everyone celebrates American holidays.
Why would you even entertain signing it? Just say "no".

If you wrote this app without an agreement, it is yours and she'll have to negotiate with you. Tell her she can sign your license agreement. Unless you want to just be nice or whatever.
This would be wonderful. Certainly a prerequisite for any serious programming.
Translation: Minorities make me uncomfortable, so I'm for the police keeping them in their place.
They came in my daughters window. It may have been unlocked or they popped off the latch.
Given the competition between SVN and Git, this would be a very poor choice for an April fool's joke. You don't put out false information that makes you look like you're ceding to your chief competitor, when you're in the weaker position.
Thought experiment: what if Eich were a Muslim who had donated to his local mosque? Would the pitchforks be out then?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam

Clarification: I'm an atheist who is completely supportive of gay marriage. I also think that some religions and philosophies get a free pass for bigotry, and others don't. That makes me sad, angry, or resigned depending upon my mood at the time.
For me it was the 15' haswell rMBP's that did it. Quad core i7, pciX ssd, that screen, amazing battery life. Literally the best laptop ever made.

I just wait for nothing now. CS and Xcode were super annoying on my old machine
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The biggest difference I see between the original plot and the xkcd() one is labels! In your article, there are no labels on the axes. Thus the numbers are context-less -- providing labels (and perhaps adding text at particularly important points) is more important the actual style.
I completely glossed over your comment because I thought it was just a snarky post advocating no transfers. Clearly I misinterpreted it, so I'll take a closer look.

From this comment it sounds along the lines of classic "man marries his maid" macro critiques.

The only thing I strongly advocate is actually thinking things through numerically rather than tribally. If you have some alternate accounting scheme I'd love to hear it. The only thing I object strongly to is the anti-rationalist "accounting is impossible, yay/nay basic income" types.
Not just "no."

But "No and go fuck yourself."
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Speaking of which, I'm waiting for someone to create a good mindmapping app using D3.js =]
> It's why you infrequently see people using fullscreen mode in their browser unless they're watching videos.

Anecdotal, but in every place I've worked or been with people running Windows, most people run everything maximized and switch between applications. MS probably just took the hint that people don't like fiddling with lots of half expanded windows and designed the OS around it. Unfortunately, they did it all wrong for the Desktop.

It's never really been a good experience in OS X so it's just never become part of the cultural workflow. Full-screen mode in OS X (and well, also Windows) is also not the same as maximize on Windows and until pretty recently (Mavericks) was quite broken anyways.
this data was made available through some other combination of services that exposed it, not Coinbase

That assumes the acknowledgement of whether a given email address is a member or not is not data in itself. That is arguable. For example, I know that in healthcare, merely confirming whether someone is a patient of yours is a violation.

But I agree with the larger point that the original disclosure is overblown.
Do not sign. If she is not going to pay you or give you equity or a percent of app sales, that is a big red flag. Do not submit it to the app store either.

I would in fact talk it over with the Professor running the class or a student association lawyer. It looks like she is trying to gather evidence to suggest that you are not a cofounder after the fact. So you should assert your intellectual property rights for the code you created. In fact, not having a contracting agreement, or an employment agreement makes it more difficult for your cofounder to assert ownership anyway since there is nothing legally binding you together.
We all know Tim Sweeney as a god in game development these days, but he is also a very accomplished language designer.
A brand new kia or scion is gonna be faster out the gate and cheaper than a 4 year old cadillac.

But the cadillac wins on looks, power, durability, safety, fuel, utility, terrain/environmental performance, can hold more people and those new cars won't have interiors half as nice on their new models 4 years from now as today's 4 year old cadillac model does.

Oh and if the race is longer than 30-40 yards that caddie will catch up and smoke those cars with it's V8.

tl;dr apples to oranges and all that shit
He has no idea that his team is a bunch of lazy outsourcers. He knows, he is just confused.
I was talking about their statements, not information buried in a report the public won't read. You think people would approve of this rule if the NHTSA had of worked, "Based on the aforementioned revised estimates for costs and benefits, the net cost per equivalent
life saved for rear visibility systems meeting the requirements of today’s final rule ranges from
$15.9 to $26.3 million.", into their public statement?

If you actually read the report it is clear this has nothing to do with rear-vision camera systems being cost effective and is just about the NHTSA doing what they are told by congress.

>"Throughout this rulemaking process, the agency has been sensitive to the costs of today’s rule and has sought to ensure that the requirements adopted impose the least amount of regulatory burden on the economy while still achieving Congress’ goal of reducing fatalities and
injuries resulting from backover crashes."

And hyperion2010 was right, having a rear-vision system doesn't mean you will use it (where I live it is illegal to use them when actually reversing). The solution to these accidents is education.

Technology is often the answer to human stupidity, but not at $15.9 to $26.3 million per life saved.
I was just about to write that...
I barely know it but it seems it can be summed up as a hybrid of mind mapping [1] and literate programming [2], with a graph data model [3].

[1] http://leoeditor.com/tutorial-basics.html#selecting-and-movi...
[2] http://leoeditor.com/tutorial-programming.html
[3] http://leoeditor.com/tutorial-pim.html#clones

It's status somewhat resembles Org Mode: it has its own format (which hasn't caught on as interchange format) but has sufficient manipulation and export power to allow some people to spend their life inside it.

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The second thing that spings to mind is YAML which is usually used for trees but the actual data model allows graphs.
Is there any structured YAML editor (a-la paredit)?
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I actually quite like OS X fullscreening on my 15" rMBP. I usually keyboard back and forth between apps instead...I can never quite get the three finger swipes working reliably. It even works pretty well with multiple desktops.

But until Mavericks, it was horribly horribly broken and useless on multi-monitor setups and even now isn't all that great.
They are all fine, but if I wanted to do startups, I'd probably go for Stanford due to location and networking. (I am a MIT dropout and know lots of people from all 3).
Yeah, the newest games are now on the wiki page linked to. I've thought about doing NBA games slightly differently -- it would be cool to see how teams change throughout the season. So order the rows chronologically (first games at the top, end of season at the bottom) and look for patterns that way (when did a team peak? did they start strong but fall off later?). Unfortunately, that loses any notion of the quality of the opponent (the "RankDiff" shown in the NCAA plot). I'd also love to incorporate individual players -- it wouldn't be too tough to include which players score (i.e. have a row for each player), or some variation like that.
I'm partial to the "t33nz 1o1 \o/" cipher.

input: correcthorsebatterystaple
output: ~~krct^hrs333bttstpl$$:)

input: password
output: lulz!isma:PASSWORD#sorrynotsorry
No one wants to use a website
Eh. I think a lot of this is in your head and can be got over. It sounds nothing at all like my experience.
Which school? Harvard claims to be cheaper than state schools for 90% of Americans, although I don't know how typical they are among the ivies.

https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works/fact...

Specifically,

> parents making less than $65,000 are expected to contribute $0

> Families with incomes between $65,000 and $150,000 will contribute from 0-10% of their income
I think that Harvard has (and will continue to have) the most cachet as a degree. Unless you plan to drop out, Harvard is the clear choice.
It sounds like your "co-creator" is asking for a gift.

Cynical me thinks your colleague isn't asking for a gift but rather doing business as usual because "[the course] is taken primarily by business students who have had professional experience". Standard operating practice in business, your partner has learned, is to ask for the moon with cheese on top, and if that's too much it gets knocked down to proper size during negotiations or in the courts, if necessity demands. Besides, you are inexperienced, and your partner is not.

This is not a viable long-term strategy, and it's really dubious ethics, but since it's just an MBA class, and you won't have business dealings again, it's at least a rational strategy. What I'm saying is that the "rational economic actor" is a deeply amoral being, if not an immoral being, and it isn't worth dealing with such a thing.
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Like others said, you can't go wrong.

Visit all three, talk to students and faculty, and decide with your gut.
I got into all three as well, 4 years ago. I chose Harvard. I would choose Harvard again.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-13-Inch-Macbook-Pro-2009-4GB-2...

You're right. Macbook Pros depreciate down to $400, (if you have $100 office tacked on). I guess its closer to $2000->$300 in 5 years.

Without Office... it looks like the Macbook Pro depreciates to $175.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-MacBook-Pro-13-3-Laptop-MB990L...

Not looking good for a laptop that 5-years ago costed $2000.

Realistically, I'm seeing $500 on certain EBay deals, but really its anywhere between $175 to $500.
Choosing a school doesn't make a difference. although If you're looking for a home away from home, I'd suggest Harvard.
The place will give you everything you'd want in your life. It will give you new friends, new dreams, and the finest* cuisine. haha (past experiences)

*fake westernized cuisine
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I think the graph has opposite effects to avid xkcd fanboys.
They used to be. Mostly machines with dedicated monitors. Nice, beautiful square screens with gorgeous square pixels.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=298
In some ways, that's a good filter. If a company is going to let "policies" stand in the way of the best choices, maybe they won't be a great place to work anyway.
Let me get back to you on this... :)
This is really cool but it actually brings up a question I've had for a while: Is Firefox super slow with graphics? This was incredibly jittery on Firefox for me (my main browser), so I downloaded Chrome quickly to test there... and it ran super smooth. It also ran smooth on my iPad 2.

I'm asking this because I was getting into HTML5 canvas recently, and noticed on Firefox that even a very simple canvas animation is laggy. What's the deal?
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You can represent trees with matrices. You can also represent trees with bits. What we want is a representation that is both easy to read and easy to write.
Isn't the "45 day trial" just a disclosure of a reality that is always the case? Unless you're going to get an actual contract, which as far as I know is rare for this kind of work, you're always technically on a "trial," even after years at the company.
Go to Harvard. If you're smart enough to get into all three, you're not going to school for the knowledge. You can learn that on your own. You're going to school to build a network, which is the most difficult and most important part of any successful venture.

Having friends who are worth billions of dollars will come in handy much more so than a slightly better calculus course.

There are millions of extremely brilliant people who end up nowhere. Their wasted potential is not a result of their lack of knowledge or technical ability, but their failure to establish a powerful personal network.

P.S. Elon Musk is a perfect example. He initially went to Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (I'll bet your future net worth you've never heard of this place). Then, he transferred to UPenn because he realized he needed to establish a network in the way only an Ivy League school can.

What did he study at Queen's and UPenn? Economics, and later finished a dual degree in Physics. What did he do upon graduation? Dropped out of a Stanford PhD program in material science, started two successive software companies, an electric car company, and a rocket company.

Critical thinking is something you develop on your own through practice, and can be applied to any sphere of understanding once your mind is accustomed to it. Additionally, knowledge outside of basic fundamentals is irrelevant until you select a domain to specialize in. Finally, this knowledge is freely available on the internet (mostly from MIT, no less).
Yeah, I guess that's essentially the ideal.
SVN was designed as an API that could support multiple backends (they've already moved from one based on BerkeleyDB to the current ad-hoc one). Git was designed as a backend for a version control system that was supposed to get a cleaner frontend API but never did. Set aside the trollish April 1 announcement - a Git-based SVN could actually work.
I have 2 24" monitors and almost always maximize everything to full screen or snap windows side-by-side (Win-Left / Win-Right).

You don't need a large screen if you're going to leave all that space unused.
Scary stuff. Personally my wife and I have decided it's time to get serious about creating a disaster kit. The "big one" could hit any time.

Hope nobody was hurt in Chile or South America.
> That means the person that posted it was trying to pad their results

Not necessarily. The duplicates are in exact order(quick check using sublime). Could have just been a double paste, happens very often.

The fear mongering (FBI et al) definitely seems unfounded.

> illustrates that someone is mad at Coinbase and is lashing out

That's an ad hominem attack.

> I don't think it's worthy of all of this negative attention directed specifically at Coinbase either

Agreed Coinbase is the target of a lot of negative attention. That does not discount that enumeration deserves any less attention, it's unnecessary and poses more risks than benefits (again I don't know of a single benefit when requesting funds - when sending funds it is understandable but still problematic).

> We are acting as pawns in someone's revenge scheme against Coinbase

You're giving people too little credit. Coinbase is bad at communicating (timing and message), bad communication pisses people of. They are also in a business that gets more scrutiny than other payment processors.
There are many legal/legalistic-type assurance and regulatory frameworks that can be automated, in significant part. I work in a compliance-as-a-service startup (HIPAA specifically, to start). It's absurd how much mediocre consultants and lawyers make doing work that is mostly boilerplate.
I'm guessing you're probably on OS X where multiple windows per app is normal. But it's odd in Windows and most apps are designed not to have lots of little windows floating all over the place. As a result, most people on Windows maximize their applications.

It's not quite full-screening, and Microsoft made a mistake with that, but it is a notable different in the two environments.
God, please protect them from harm and danger..
You can get the same set of bites faster and more effectively by simply placing both images directly onto the page. This is why Amazon Kindle and Apple product pages tend to be so tall. People can scroll a lot faster than they can wait for a carousel to go through.
Err, couple of corrections.

On a geographical front - the US is a different country to Uganda/Russia/India.

I was speaking on the topic at hand - which is about Brandon Eichs, a US citizen, supporting a US piece of legislation, and about Mozilla, a US organisation who he works for.

Perhaps it's slightly US-centric - but then this is a US-based site. If you want articles about other countries, you're free to submit them.

And secondly, on the religious front - Africa as a whole is not particularly homosexual friendly. I suspect part of this is cultural - they're just very conservative in how they view relationships/marriage.

This isn't about religion, but simply about their society as a whole.

For example, arranged marriages are still common, and they frown very strongly on things like adultery.

So to somehow try to link it to a Californian legislation about legalistic definitions of marriages versus civil unions is a big disingenuous.

Russia and India likewise are two countries that are quite conservative in their values.

It's the same in China -they're most definitely not a Christian society by any stretch (Christianity is basically a punishable offence), but they also don't like LBGT relationships.

The funny thing is - you don't see the same level of noise about this issue in Muslim countries.

I've always wondered why that is.
I don't think that qualifies as "commonly-accepted". It's not a bad format (for trees -- it doesn't look like it generalizes to DAGs or graphs), but a standard format might be helpful.
Any chance you'd be interested to link to your startup in this thread? You've piqued my interest.
In Windows, Alt+F4 is close application and Ctrl+F4 is close tab. It's been that way for decades (granted most users don't know Ctrl+F4, but Alt+F4 is almost as well known as alt+tab).
we'll see how long Mark Penn lasts now the new regime. he just got demoted, so I'd guess not very long.
Here's a site where you can monitor the sea level live:
http://www.ioc-sealevelmonitoring.org/station.php?code=pisa
(as long as the site is up. Multiple measuring stations available there)

For now the highest is 2 meters. If the site is not working, here's a screenshot from right after it began:
https://twitter.com/severestudios/status/451151233739288576
After that it went wildly up and down.

Keep in mind that a tsunami can have wildly different heights and properties in different places.
I think a fair compromise would be to have a setting to adjust the 'wobble'. I like both charts, but it mostly looks like Camillo prefers the font (only speculating).
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God this is an insanely good idea. Not only do you solve a real pain point for startups (the whole 409a eval) but if they sign up and feed you monthly updates on their financial position you could massively front run the market on what startups were going to pop and which were going to expire quietly. Google thinking about acquiring your startup? Lets have a look at the other six companies in your space for which is the right one to grab and for how much. Ka-CHING!
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Do you always remember the name of all your programs so you can type them?
Python, IMHO, has a great collection of modules/frameworks for web application development (WTForms, SQLAlchemy, Jinja2, etc) so I'd prefer to have the "rendering/logic part" of the web application written in it. The performance challenges can be overcome by hooking up Python to "workers" written in Go, for instance, using Zeromq.

However I would have liked to take advantage of Tornado's asynchronous requests handling thus my disappointment with its performance in the said benchmarks. I wanted to avoid using "uwsgi" with Flask because of an already complex technology stack i.e: Nginx + uwsgi + Flask + zeromq + Go + sql/nosql database(s)
US Supreme Court says human DNA cannot be patented (2013)
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