skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People seem to miss something from this whole "free speech" thing. Feel free to speak your mind, but that will always invite other people judging you and their interactions with you based on what you say (which is of course perfectly sane).

I'll happily defend your right to anonymously spout homophobic nonsense on 4chan, but as soon as you attach your name (and a thousand bucks) to discriminating people based on their sexual orientation, I'll exercise my right to shun you for it.
Better question: Why should your relationship status give you better tax benefits than being single?
How does this "smack of the thought police"? OKCupid is not a government organization. At worst, they are expressing their own political belief. If you are considering the situation outside of the context of OKCupid, then I do not understand the relevance of the comment. And outside of the context of OKCupid, again, no authority is 'policing' Eich's thoughts. He donated money and this is information which is known publicly; there is no reason that he should be immune from critique. Given that he has offered several thousand dollars in support of legislative measures which would seek to actively discriminate against citizens, his employees among them, I believe that any and all scrutiny is necessary.
Web API and ASP.NET MVC complement each other. Web API is a framework for building RESTful web services. You can host Web API on multiple ways, even without the need of IIS. Also, you can add the Web API libraries to an ASP.NET MVC project to facilitate the implementation of a RESTful API attached to your web application. ASP.NET MVC doesn't need to be RESTful, and it was never intended. Also, I am currently building a online application with AngularJS and Web API, and there isn't a need for ASP.NET MVC for example.
Now this is definitely a blast from the past. I had almost completely forgotten about Homestar Runner.
And what a difference that 18-months makes in the line of computing, right?

Lets take a look at the Macbook Pro of 2010.
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Z3770-vs-Intel-Core2-Duo-P8600

Either way, progress marches forward rather significantly.
Team Behind Tinder Launches App to Help You Find Your Long Lost Twin
To the best of my knowledge one has never been able to downvote replies to one's own submissions or comments.
The resemblance is so minimal that if you didn't specifically mention the similarity I couldn't tell they look a like...
Thanks for all your work on LibSass!
Grid for photos as main content, lists for texts...
Just in case, I agree with gay marriage, women suffrage and I’m against slavery. But I think that the people that disagree with my opinion have the right to have a different opinion. Are you sure that all your other opinions are also correct?

It’s interesting to read again http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html .
That is probably the most important point - the reason startups go from a "team room" to massive open plan is because when it all began there were only 5 of them so open plan equaled sane. Add 20 more people and it's not sane anymore.

the reason startups do open plan offices is because no one is concentrating on managing the culture of the startup as it grows. Open plan is then I suspect both cause and symptom.

A campaign for team rooms is needed
You are entitled to your opinions, but you have no say in when people are legally able to protest, regardless of how much you disagree with their right to do so. They can protest any time they want.
Its really telling of the greater divide in the republican party. In the past fox used to play up some of the more crazy beliefs from "that" segment of the party. It was useful to them, and didn't really alienate the other half. However they lost control, and its hurting their image. So now I believe the more traditional components of the party are attempting to return to a moderate position.

That in combination with the fact that global warming is real, with a certainty of something like 95%, and is costing the insurance companies (major contributors) big money.
More readable:

my $host = "http://2048.semantics3.com/hi/";
my $cmd = "curl --silent -L $host"."start";
my $output = `$cmd`;
my $session_id = $output;

$session_id =~ s/.*?ID:\s(\w+).*/$1/si;
my %keyMap = ( 'w' => 0, 'd' => 1, 's' => 2, 'a' => 3);
print STDERR $output, "\n";

while(1) {
print STDERR "Input (w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down):\n";
my $userInput = <STDIN>;
chomp ($userInput);

if(defined($keyMap{$userInput})) {
$userInput = $keyMap{$userInput};
}
else {
print STDERR "Invalid move.. w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down\n";
next;
}

my $cmd = "curl --silent $host"."state/$session_id/move/$userInput";
my $output = `$cmd`;
print STDERR "\n$output\n";

if($output=~/Message:/si) {
exit(0);
}
}
Integer overflow into XSS and other fun stuff – a case study of a bug bounty
I get that this is a joke, but I do think a really cool concept for a game would be one where there is just an API for the "state" and that is responsible for the mechanics and rules of the game, but that you would build your own custom client for the UI. For example, some kind of spaceship battle game where you create your own interface for controlling the ship... it would be kind of a meta-game where creating the interface a certain way might give you advantages in terms of efficiency versus others.
I think it's the fact that he is in a position of some power within our industry that makes his personal and political viewpoints relevant to the rest of us. What kind of message does it send to your employees when you support a view that is rejected by (what I'm guessing is) a vast majority of the people in your industry?

The fact is, we can pull our support from people who we think are shitty if we want to in order to push progress forward to the kind of society we want to live it, specifically one where all Americans are treated equally under the law.

If it were up to me, I would completely eradicate the idea of marriage as a government institution, it doesn't belong in their hands in the first place. But I'm very much in the minority on that one.
There are too common arguments:

One is religious, and I doubt you’d sympathise with that; let’s just say an easy way out of that one would be to defining all civil unions as such, but it actually would miss some point.

Another one is biologic: heterosexual couples are expected to have children. Of course, that should mean that couples without shouldn’t benefit, but they might be considered saving money while planning, and there is the embarrassing debate about what to do with people marrying in their 40s… That goes against the increasingly visible case of gay couples adopting, or using donations/surrogates. But the idea is: that tax benefit and public recognition is a natalist argument.
So they're homophobes because they donated to Republican candidates? Are we seriously doing this now? Just because you donate to a political candidate doesn't mean you agree with his/her positions on everything. I doubt many of these candidates even feel that strongly about gay marriage and are not just pandering to the Republican base.
A jorb well done.
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Or they're a tiny company trying to push in all areas at the same time, and they have to prioritize, and sometimes things they'd want to do fall through the cracks or they just haven't had a chance to do them yet. If you've ever been at a small company, you know that this is the much more likely scenario. Requiring them to have already implemented all of the security measures of Paypal, which has been around for more than a decade and is orders of magnitude larger than them, is sort of ridiculous.

If you don't trust them to hold on to your coins, use them purely an exchange and then pull them off onto an offline wallet.
Surely there are difficulties in expecting data providers to produce their data in standard formats across industries and countries? I am naive as to how much and what data is available but that seems a stretch
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I really wish that the Fitbit Flex was more hackable -- if I could get a low-power bluetooth fob that could vibrate and display a few lights embedded in my watchband, that would really be all the smartwatch I need.
It reminds me of the days when the internet was something I loved, rather than something I just use.
Ask HN: Best way to get a remote job as a (non US) frontend dev?
I work at a web dev agency and I feel my skills are stagnating due to the repetitive nature of what we do. Opportunities around here are limited so remote jobs look very attractive to me but I haven't had much luck.

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To address your first point – that's fair, I didn't really dive into the statistics in detail (since it wasn't really the point of the post). If variance of a distribution is finite then the central limit theorem applies, and given a sufficient number of trials, the distribution will begin to approach a normal distribution. However some data sets have infinite variance and may (under some conditions) begin to approach a power law distribution; or, they have finite but extremely large variance, in which case the number of trials it will take to begin to look like a normal distribution is very, very large.

For your second point – there are legitimate uses for other summary statistics (mode, median), but they can still be very misleading. For example, you mention using the mode of the distribution as a predictor of what the next customer will pay – this definitely wouldn't work for a company with a metered pricing plan, for example. Distributions are often not well characterized by singular summary statistics, Anscombe's Quartet (mentioned elsewhere in this comments section) is a good example of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe's_quartet
Funny selfie parody
I remember a story here a few months ago about a person who had deposited tens of thousands of dollars with Coinbase, and they refused to give the customer his coins. That was a clear sign that the systems and processes at Coinbase were broken.

The fact that they didn't help the customer until they took their grievances public indicated to me that either Coinbase don't care about their customers, or they were too busy trying to balance their books because of some proprietary trading gone wrong.

Thus I think it was foolish of Coinbase to release the letter condemning MtGox. Now anything that happens to Coinbase makes them look like total hypocrites. People, glass houses, stones etc.

It's one thing for a magic card trading company to morph into a Bitcoin exchange and have problems... but for a hot-shot start-up in San Francisco with self-proclaimed tech superstars at the helm and millions in the bank to screw up royally, well, it's just embarrassing.
What if Uber’s Biggest Problem Is Sexual Harassment by Drivers?
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Something else that is interesting is that the big companies have already figured out that it's simply better business to support LGBT rights. I have absolutely no reason to believe that guys like Blankfein actually give two shits about the gays, but they will be the ones to push us forward. If only to make more money.

Case in point: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/goldman-sachs-ceo-lloyd-blankfei...
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> I'll exercise my right to shun you for it.

That right is, presumably, something you revoke when joining a ‘open-minded and tolerant’ community -- something that both Mozilla and OkCupid asked their employees to do.

That’s why, to justify shunning from someone within that group, you need to qualify supporting Prop 8 as abhorrent: something outside of Free speech.

I’ve posted a few comments already, so I feel the need to clarify my position: I have an opinion; I never shared it with anyone, ever. What I know however, from knowing many people on any sides of however you want to split this, is best said here:

http://imgur.com/r/AdviceAnimals/YstKo08
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That sounds like some huge operations research problems, I imagine you guys have some serious linear programming expertise.
You can do better than that for April Fools, Tinder team.
A lot of psudeo arguments against this in this thread. I don't think there is any problem with using the "platform" in this way its pretty much a newsletter or a mailing list which is very standard.

I'm interested in seeing what you can really do with email looking at it as a platform with 2.0 eyes in mind.

One other thing. I think call intent will be what sets you apart and if that's the case why does the platform matter, why can't you have email, RSS, and a web app?

I get you want to focus on doing something new with something old. That's cool. Just dont cut potential power readers off because you use the wrong platform. Be email first RSS second if it helps you think about it. (No reason you can't pivot other platforms later)
Humans aren't good judges of how often they dream. You have REM sleep several times a night and generally if you're woken up during REM sleep you will say that you were dreaming.

It is probably more likely that you are simply remembering dreams more when you can hear rain on the roof - either by power of suggestion, or because the stimulus of the rain noise is noticeable and memorable in your dreams, or because the rain itself is waking you up.

This isn't to say that you're wrong - there most certainly is an effect - but whether that effect is positive or negative is unclear.
Doesn't bring out the same feeling in me, but that is very well put.
This does impact a person's federal rights in the democracy that they participate in though. Specifically, over 1,100 rights are denied to couples who love each other but happen to be the same gender.

All men are created equal, right?

Gay couples are disadvantaged at a federal level. Being able to vote doesn't change that.
More modern guessing methods might try that one.
Oh boy.

I think you're somewhat over-exaggerating the situation. Yes, Russia has not been the most subtle in taking over Crimea, but I can say without a doubt that any of the major superpowers would do the same if a country nearby were to experience a coup d'etat. Especially if that country was strategically important.

While not technically legal, Crimea really is mostly comprised of Russians and has had a special legal status for ages. A 97% vote does not surprise me. Russians in other eastern european countries also reminisce of the "good old times".

I think much of the backlash is due to Russia being projected as the stereotypical evil commie.

I really don't want to venture into conspiracy theory territory, since that would probably hurt my credibility, but I would not be surprised to see the EU and US behind this as a means of trying to cut Russia off from the outside world(after inviting Ukraine into the EU failed). Don't forget the opposition has strong ties with the U.S.

This might be of interest to you. http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-protests-carefully-orch...

Globalresearch is a credible think tank.
Not so sure about "what kind of world", but these sorts of things, including the infinite extension of "the personal is the political", are setting up the conditions for our cold civil war to get hot. Which will be much worst than things currently are, and will lead a "kind of world" that history tells us will almost certainly be worse than what we had before.
> Was every single person who was against emancipation "pro-slavery"?

Yes! What other position could there be? You either think human beings can be owned as property or you don't.

I guess theoretically you could have favored some sort of gradual emancipation over immediate freedom, and there were some at the time who argued that freed slaves should have been returned to Africa.

But those are still just variations of an anti-slavery position.

You can't be against emancipation without being pro-slavery any more than you can be against animal cruelty but pro-dog fighting.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/152480/python-blogs-that-...

That was "What Python blogs do you regularly follow?"

That's a good question. It wasn't just closed, it was redacted from existence.

Now, I happen to agree that it's not a good Stack Overflow question, but it could easily have been shuffled over to another Stack Exchange.
Well, you can think that averages are meaningless, but they do mean something. If your average sale is $10 and you are spending on average $9 to acquire them, you have a 10% margin on average.

Segmenting is great and can actually move the averages wildly, but that doesn't mean the averages are pointless. It means that averages are just one view of the data.

If I want a really high level view of the data, an average is great. If I want a super low level view of the data, looking at each customer or small groups of customers is great too. It depends on what you want to know and what problem you are trying to solve.

Use the right tool for the job.
Game Guild Wars 2 End Video. Really?
Which city, country?
I live in Seattle and I've not had a visual alarm in either apartment I've lived in, nor do I recall seeing one in any I've visited, generally pre-90s construction. Not saying you're wrong, but the visual thing is far from universal and relying on owners accommodating disabilities can be a problem - my grandma can tell you about that. Ideally what you say would be all we'd need, but in the meantime I will certainly keep this app in mind!

Edit: I didn't meant to imply that I, myself, am deaf, only that the places I've lived didn't have visual alarms.
Not sleeping with one's iPhone is far more common, despite the belovedness of Apple products.

In design terms an alarm strobe has removed everything unnecessary for its purpose and its sole purpose is to save your life on the rare occurrence of fire. It won't be on a charger or in your pants or sitting on the table by the TV or off with your spouse on a business trip.

It will be hanging on the wall, with power or backup power, hardwired to the alarm panel because that's what field experience has shown works.

Don't get me wrong, the sentiment behind the product is admirable. But the alarm industry is already deadly serious and has robust proven solutions based not on theory but on close attention to the causes and consequences of actual fires.

US Fire Administrationhttp://www.usfa.fema.gov/statistics/index.shtm

NFPA: http://www.nfpa.org/

Firehouse.com: http://www.firehouse.com/
I love when people end an argument with "Do not respond to me about <the obviously controversial part of my opinion>".

The fact is, people from all backgrounds and political viewpoints hold opinions which they view as absolute. Whether that's "being anti-gay is equivalent to being pro-slavery" or "abortion is murder", people are going to disagree even if they are both guided by the same fundamentally good goals.
The Employer’s Creed
There was no mention of the IRS and FBI gag orders/data transfer in this post.
One example of an existing use of this sort of thing, is that fire alarm systems commonly notify the building's lift controller, which sends the lift to the ground floor and opens the doors.
Why Don’t We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor?
You need capital to buy the machines to give out and slowly collect $60 on

That is a very generic argument that applies to (against) any leasing business - but clearly many such businesses exist, across many industries.