skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Affirmative action is not a civil right. Equality is. Affirmative action is a method to tip the scales to achieve a goal, and it may or may not be effective. It's not the same as gay marriage. Not even close, IMHO -- and I'm a pretty big advocate of affirmative action in the US.

Interracial marriage is probably the closest "recent" legislation I could think of.
"So in fact you do need instantaneous nonlocal interaction to explain the real world." Do you just mean quantum entanglement, or some other "spooky action"? (love that quote btw -- like many)
There are also cheaper compromises that only replace the toilet lid instead of the entire toilet and without requiring a hot water line. I bought this version last year for $250 but it's $350 now:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005XNW1Q0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
And then there's situations like this: https://www.secret.ly/p/feexnrnpunzjadkhinaegigziy

(HN auto-kills secret.ly submissions, but I'm willing to bet this will be a top story next week when verifiable details emerge.)
Image hosts start out well and go bad once they've run out of money.

kth.cx aka imageshack aka yfrog was just as good once, but now see where they are, covered in ads. Of course, they had to pivot after getting banned from SA.

Imgur and tumblr have so much money they can continue pointlessly providing a free service for at least a little longer.
That influx is already happening and has been happening for a while now, that's why all those 3-month coding boot camps are popping up everywhere, selling shovels in a gold rush.
No, the many worlds interpretations of quantum mechanics, those that I am familiar with, do not contain any randomness.
In the spirit of too much information that is this thread. I was given a lavette bottle after giving birth, and I've continued using it quite often.

http://www.amazon.com/Lavette-Bottle-Perineal-Irrigation-DYN...

It's an even cheaper alternative to the cold water attachment, it's portable, and you can fill it with warm water.
85% of Americans are self-made - see the book "The Millionaire Next Door."
That is amazing to me. In Minneapolis, everyone requires you to remove shoes before entering the house proper. Maybe it's the snow ... of which we are currently in the process of getting about 12" tonight :-/
If you look at what I actually said, I was expressing some skepticism with regards the payoff from investing time on very low level optimizations on conventional RDBMS for most workloads versus sharding the database and/or migrating to other storage models. That's a tangible line of thinking to consider. Note that I did not at any point say "someone's PhD asserts...", talk in absolutes, or slam RDBMS as a potentially viable or proven option.
What happened to the thing?

The one that was a thing?

Well that's easy: it was a thing

- put some fucking effort in, jesus
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The nice thing about being open-source is that you can self-host if you're getting worried.
Keep in mind that a ban on gay marriage does not kill, physically injure, blacklist, or run anyone out of town either. If we can ascribe such importance to gay marriage despite all that, why should we be so willing to downplay the impact of ousting a man who has devoted years of his life to Mozilla from a leadership position there?
Dan, what's your startup? ping me brian @ refreshmiami.com would love to hear more about it.
Let your customers do the selling
Yeah, courts are subject to popular opinion in a way. I suspect many gay couples wanted to get married, but were denied in lower courts and appeals denied after. It's finally reached the popular critical mass to make it to the Federal level and that's why it's suddenly an issue.

But more importantly, when you actually read the arguments put forward in the cases, it takes the courts a very big legal stretch to side with the non-gay-marriage arguments, as they're almost uniformly non-legal and unconstitutional religious and traditionalist arguments.
> With determinism free will is ruled out.

This is a popular statement but I've never thought that to be the case. Imagine you're creating a movie. You can pick the actors, the characters, the plot, etc. When you play the movie, the playback is completely deterministic. But that doesn't mean free will didn't design the film.

I could see something similar applying to reality. Your actions may be predetermined, but that doesn't specify exactly how they were determined.
MS Office for MAC received retina support in one of the last updates. Try updating your suite.
Grooveshark is based out of gainesville, fl (north central) near university of florida. Its about 5 hours drive north of Miami.
Homosexual behavior doesn't only occur in the privacy of a home, and if kept truly private, it'd be impossible to arrest anyone for engaging in the activity. I'm more concerned about public homosexual behavior and the message that tolerance of this behavior broadcasts, which is that a) we no longer understand or value the pre-eminent importance of the male-female sexual partnership, which is the only way children can be conceived and the preferred way for children to be raised, providing in the child's upbringing proper balance of inherent masculine and feminine traits that cannot be sufficiently replicated by same-sex parentage, and b) that we tolerate incursions that threaten the establishment of that sexual partnership as the fundamental unit of social cohesion or that indicate alternative sexual behaviors are acceptable.

This is my rationale. Perhaps you don't agree that male-female sexual union is ideal or important. Perhaps you don't think society needs to prioritize or promote opposite-sex unions. That doesn't make my rationale invalid, it doesn't mean I hate everyone (or anyone in particular), and it doesn't mean I'm a bigot. It just means we don't agree. I would suggest that some people no longer recognize male-female sexuality as preferential despite biological imperatives that mandate this as a necessity for continued national, cultural, and indeed basic human survival, indicates that, to a large extent, our society is already extremely ill and probably terminal. The mere fact that homosexual marriage can be a controversial issue shows that.

If anyone doubts that acceptance of homosexuality destroys the place of heterosexual marriage and child-bearing, just look at the discussions that occur now which would've been considered plainly ridiculous by societies more in touch with reality (like ourselves, 50 years ago). The fact that persons can propose with a straight face that marriage be done away altogether is a literal fulfillment of the prediction that gay marriage destroys and impacts marriage as a whole (of which straight marriage is the only acceptable form).
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The difficulty with mathematical randomness (versus unpredictability) in physics is that you would not expect the Laws of Thermodynamics to exist in a universe governed by the former. Some literature on algorithmic information theory touches on this.

Consequently, if local determinism is not plausible (Bell) and randomness is not plausible (Kolmogorov et al), that leaves non-local determinism as the most sensible assumption. It does lend some credence to the idea that we perceive a low dimensionality projection of a higher dimensionality space.
The interview process is short and straightforward, or at least it was in my case, but the indexing system is a nightmare and a patchwork of centuries of amateur and professional librarians cobbling together catalogs. Some of the collections can only be referenced using catalogs that are 250+ years old--literally. I don't mean copies or modern printings of the catalogs. I mean literally some dude wrote on the pages in front of you 250 years ago and that is the tool that you are supposed to use to find your sources. Yes, very low quality facsimiles are tucked away in a corner of the reading room, but you need to figure out which catalog they're in to find them...

One definitely wonders at some point whether the whole thing is organized as a conspiracy to confuse new Ph.D. students!
My opinion is irrelevant. And if your point had any validity, it would transfer right across.

You're changing the topic - you know I'm right. Take it to heart, please. These things are important.
There's a list with all of the names inside Russel's Teapot.
Make sure you flush before you hit the "blow hot air" button. :/
consider moving it the current rule of thumb is 19 feet to reduce/eliminate a nuisance alarm
There's a github repo for this list! https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup
Amen to that. I think it's a real shame, too. I'm really pissed about it in the sense that here we are in an era where you are not allowed to have your opinions on anything anymore.

You are anti-gay ? You're a homophobic biggot and you should die. That's the gist of the message this sends. What if he is homophobic ? Who cares and what does that have anything to do with Mozilla ?

People demanding his head with the argument that it's intolerable not to tolerate difference don't know the disservice they did to their movements, because after all, they were intolerant for his difference too.

Now, you are not allowed to be "anti-gay". You are not even allowed not to be "pro-gay". You're not pro-gay ? What an ignorant biggot.

You're not even allowed to be without an opinion and not give a fuck about what people do with their bodies. Nooo ! You have to agree, or else you're homophobic.

Is this freedom of expression ? Is this the liberty these people are calling for ?

And this climate pushes you to say things like what you said, as a disclaimer, that you have gay friends, that you're not against it. It tells you a lot about the violence of their opinion.

What did he do that was illegal ? There was a project that some people supported and some were against. The pro-gay marriage lobbied and the anti-gay lobbied, or don't they have that right ?

Pro-gay donated money, too, and shook hands, and pulled strings, etc.

This is akin to (an online debate isn't one until Hitler is brought up) ban Mein Kampf under the argument that Hitler did what he did. What if I fucking want to read it ? Am I a Nazi for that ? What if I like his paintings ? Are we not allowed to think on our own, or are people shareholders of our very own, deepest beliefs ?

It's sad.

That's also like that Abercrombie and Fitch CEO who was attacked for what he did and say. What if I'm the CEO of a clothes company and I don't fat people to wear my shoes ? What the do you care ! Don't buy my clothes and case closed ! And the only reason you'd be pissed off is if you were fat, in which case you wouldn't be able to buy the frigging clothes in the first place, and you wouldn't buy them if they issued fat sized clothes anyway, so why the fuss.

It's a really pathetic moment, people.
Well, maybe CS people realize most of the good questions in life simply cannot be answered by philosophers. They're just ill-equipped. It's really up to the physicists.
It's also about his ability to be a leader, if people lost the ability to respect him then he looses the ability to lead. That happened, he had to go.
My observation is that low quality discussions correlate with high rates of commenting - more than about 50 an hour and there is likely to be a lack of self control regardless of topic. Shared tragedy is perhaps an exception, but only perhaps.

Thinking about the threads as bandwidth and too many posts as congestion, then the solution would be some form of rate limiting. Maybe weighted maybe not.
I think this article is side-stepping an important philosophical point as to what randomness is.

Suppose we lived in a deterministic universe (e.g. one that actually ran on Newtonian mechanics and classic electromagnetism).

If you're of a mildly Bayesian persuasion, you 'believe' in randomness - even in a deterministic universe - because probability represents your knowledge. Sure, all the rules for the universe's evolution over time are deterministic, but you don't know the initial conditions, so you consider some probability distribution over initial conditions. Thus, the results of future events are 'random.'

The counterargument might go something along the lines of "that's not really random the way quantum mechanics is, because Bell's inequality demands violating either hidden-variables or locality and violating locality is worse. Without local variables, you can't meaningfully talk about having a 'underlying' deterministic universe."

Except you (sort of can). Bell's inequality implies that we can't have a theory with local laws of physics for single universe. But we can have a theory with local laws of physics for a multiverse which is the approach many-worlds takes.
So a few recent successes to come out of Miami come to mind:

.co just sold for $109M 35 person company (not billions, but still very respectable)

Healthcare.com is here in Miami, just doubled their revenues

CareCloud is growing like crazy

Open English has raised close to $200M in capital.

Citrix is here, multi-Billion $ in sales enterprise software dev company.
Totally agree. Most of these sites are not going to be helpful for a generic startup launch. I run Leanstack.io which is on the list for some reason, but it's definitely not the place to "submit your launching startup."
Even the bible says, "You will know them by their fruits," meaning that it's reasonable to judge people by what they do.

The bible also says "Turn the other cheek", meaning that you should give people a second chance, and to treat them kindly despite their actions.

The bible has a ton of stuff in it, for example during times of slavery was used as a basis for both pro- and anti- slavery arguments. Drawing on a slogan from the bible to use its name as an authority is rather pointless - as a collection of aphorisms, there's one for every occasion.

Given that Eich has worked against the civil rights of gay people without explanation or apology

Eich expressed sorrow at the pain he caused in an article on his blog. He also stated in several different channels that the culture at Mozilla was going to remain diverse and inclusive. That's something of an explanation.

You seem determined to crucify a person based on one past bad action rather than the larger, more nuanced picture.
Thank you for this explanation, this makes so much more sense now.
Outside of my 9-5 work, I've probably deployed nearly as much C# code (via Mono) under Linux as I have under Windows. In a few ways it's been very nice, in others a bit frustrating. I think that if MS Dev-Div buys out Xamarin, we'll see where things are really headed here. It will either be a new era of OSS tools from MS, or back to the old "kill it for cross platform in v.Next" ...

I'm hoping that the tooling and integration gets a lot better in *nix, but nod sure how the Mono license (MIT iirc) and this new C# license (Apache) will jive together.

Personally, most of my new dev for the past couple years has been in node.js (which has its' own niceties and quirks).
the hold tradition has on some people is just insane.

My quarter-Japanese wife won't let me get one - but of course she was raised in America. And TMI, but I've had a doctor specifically recommend one (or cheap bidet setup) for hemorrhoids.
There are currently two posts on the main page about this. Do we really need a third? Is this really the kind of place where we are going to push a story about Postgres and the Linux kernel off the main page so that we can have another nasty political fight? I guess I'm new here and don't know the community that well, but that seems more than a little sad and absurd.

It is a shame though cause this is kind of a decent write-up.
You use EBITDA or income multiples to value both widget manufacturers and SAAS companies.

Valuations multiples on revenue really only appear for extremely-high-growth companies (read: startups) which are spending an enormous amount on development and/or sales for future revenues. Those high costs render their EBITDA or income a poor indicator of their current success.

(Also, startups tend to have negative income so the earnings would be negative...)
They went after him on the principle of what he did (a principle he probably still stands behind), and would probably go after the Koch brothers if anyone had any leverage on them.
When I first came to Thailand, I was appalled when one of my friends told me the pistol nozzle (like we use in the US for doing dishes) next to every Thai toilet[1] was for spraying yourself after using the bathroom.

This was disgusting to me at first.

Echoing a few other comments, I feel like a bidet is something you have to experience yourself before you trust it. Once you do though, I think you are forever changed.

On my last trip back to the states, I remember feeling perpetually disgusted that all I had to clean myself with was paper. It's disgusting - barbaric even... you're just smearing waste all over yourself.

If you don't feel like spending the money to install a Japanese bidet, a Thai "bum gun" might be a more wallet-friendly option.

[1] - http://thatluckyboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bum_gun_t...
Discrimination isn't subjective, either something is discrimination or it isn't. It would require cognitive dissonance to be someone who is opposed to discrimination while holding a personal belief that supports discrimination.

There is a difference between respecting your freedom of choice and respecting your actual choice. If your belief is repulsive to your peers and discriminatory then you need to realize there are going to be consequences for holding that belief and acting on that belief when it comes time to try to fit in with society. Your freedom of choice does not give you freedom from all consequences of that choice. On the other hand LGBT people are NOT free to choose to marry the person they wish if laws like the one Mr Eich supported exist.

If you stand against discrimination and apply social pressure to the people who choose to continue to support discrimination then you are, in fact, on the side AGAINST discrimination.
FWIW this was one of the 'tour questions' on Google which had (at least when I was there) several bathrooms equipped with washlets. It really is a nice thing, and one of the engineers put a WattsUp meter on one to see if it was wasting power (answer quite economical). Of course in California using water to wash yourself in a drought is probably the wrong thing to do ...
The bigots win. I will stop using Firefox now.
What? Just as Eich had a right to dislike homosexuals, everyone in the world has a right to dislike bigots. Unfortunately for bigots, it's a lot harder to defend that position.
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> ...despite the complete lack of evidence or accusations of him using his position at Mozilla to advance those beliefs.

No evidence was necessary, because it doesn't matter. I refuse to buy products from companies owned by the Koch brothers because I think they are disgusting, immoral people. It has nothing to do with the quality of their products, it has everything to do with them. Eich's case is slightly different because Mozilla is non-profit, but the basic principle is the same. See my next point.

> ...he has no right to be a leader in the tech community because of that opinion...

I firmly believe this to be 100% true. Eich is a bigot and bigots have no place in leadership positions as far as I'm concerned, in the tech community or elsewhere. Achievement and brilliance don't give a person license to be a bigot.

> ...Mozilla's public image was attacked in an effort to punish Eich for his opinion.

Mozilla's public image was attacked because they hired a bigot to be CEO. End of story.

Eich has a right to his opinion. I think it is very important to point out that I (and I hope others who share my opinion) would not have supported government intervention to remove him. I don't think he should be forced to believe something he doesn't believe, or to pretend to believe something he doesn't believe. But I also see nothing wrong with expecting our leaders to have moral views we find acceptable, and the CEO of Mozilla is definitely a leader, and being vocal about it when they don't.
With an ISBN it wouldn't be that hard to pull it from amazon.
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> Japanese toilets are simply better. For some bizarre reason we've resisted adopting them here. It boggles the mind.

They are not cheap in Japan, by the way. If you buy a new apartment they are included by default(these companies work like Mafia to secure contracts with new apartment complex builders), but new ones you buy directly from TOTO are like... "what?" when you see their prices.
Well, I guess he's a bad person for his political decisions, so it would be bad if you gave him an ounce of empathy about getting fired from a company he worked hard for for many years and obviously cared about.

And I guess firing people for small donations for political movements is the right thing to do. (Welcome to the American left wing, San Francisco chapter.)

So there you go. No harm or foul.
Seconded. I own this similar Luxe bidet, $35:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KKRCFA/

I'm living in the future. Would recommend one to anyone, zero hesitation.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Eich donated to a cause that believes the word "marriage" has religious connotations that make it incompatible with a union between two people of the same sex.

That argument in and of itself doesn't cause any harm to anyone.

The harm comes when government institutionalizes marriage in a way that gives it greater rights or scope than someone in a civil union would have. In many states, this isn't the case.

Personally, I don't particularly care what the word marriage means, I'm not religious in any meaningful way. But arguing that the simple inability to use the word marriage does harm to a person is a pretty weak argument in my mind.

Further, your analogy is wrong. From his perspective, imagine you always played soccer with a round ball, and couldn't use your hands. Suddenly a group of people show up with oval spheroid and claim you should be able to use your hands. They then say that not letting them call their sport soccer is unfair and harmful. But ya know, we don't call that sport soccer, because it's different, we call it football.

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As an aside, I think the proper way to handle the marriage debate would have been to remove any and all rights associated with the word, and force all couples to get a civil union. Tax that instead. Churches are welcome to marry people all they desire (on both sides, gay or straight as they please according to their beliefs)
One thing I haven't really understood is why exactly is a Indian toilet seat seen as inferior to the English toilet seat.

- True that the English seat occupies less space, but its adoption has not always been based on space savings.

- True that sitting appears more gentleman like, rather than sitting half subtended in air, but hey who is watching?

- True that elderly find the english version easier to use because of the supporting nature of the seat, but its not a hard rule. A hybrid of both (Anglo-Indian) seat is more suited to them, and ailing patients.

- The Indian version is more hygienic, as no part of your body directly touches any part of the seat. Besides superior genital cleanliness over time due to wider leg positions.

- The Indian version is decisively easier to clean/maintain compared to the English version.

- Moreover the Indian version, is more suited to over-weight people than a English version.

- And relatively, due to its production in labor intensive market such as India/China, the Indian version is cost-efficient, suited for developing nations, who still have a fairly large population that needs proper sanitation structures.