skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except if who they love is a child, or a relative, or an animal, or not their spouse, or a member of another race, or an abused wife, or ... I'm 90% agreeing with you, but most people who claim to agree with you are actually only including a very narrow set of people and still want to treat other groups worse just because of who they love. It should really be based on whether they do harm to others or not. Anything else is simply prejudice.
Are you using elastic net or other things to handle sparsity? Lots of Bayesian priors?
Ditto. Even though I'm renting I have two runners so that I can absolutely cover the floor from the door to the coat closet. The boots (and shoes) don't leave the rug.

One of my friends has such high carpet and a close to the floor door that they can't have a rug immediately inside their unit. They contrived a mini parkour course to safely enter. You'd have to hop from the common hallway to a rug 2ft in and then to another one 2ft further, all in the name of etiquette and not wearing shoes "inside".
Ups, wrong link, it was meant to be: http://www.wired.com/2012/06/famous-persecuted-scientists/
Wow, you know that the times are a'changing when something like this happens. Ex-chairman Steve Ballmer used to call linux a cancer and MS had nothing but disdain for open source software. Open source really has made a difference, and Microsoft is reacting in a big way.
It's essentially a mob of hysteria - using pitchforks, torches and the protection of the mob to uphold standards they would be unwilling to stand up for directly - by making a bunch of noise online, they can assuage their individual guilt for their inaction elsewhere.
Why You Should Uninstall Firefox and do Some Soul Searching
For those who supported this, I am curious for your answers to these questions:

1) Should Mozilla deny employment to programmers who are against gay marriage? Like your average programmer from Arab and Muslim countries.

2) If said programmer is allowed to be employed by Mozilla, are they also allowed to be promoted sometime after being hired?

3) If they are allowed to be promoted, what level should be the limit of promotion? Since obviously you disagree with them being CEO.
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This is a solution for a private bathroom, not a public one. Most public toilets in Japan are not these models.
> by spreading FUD

Refers to this, if anyone was not aware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents
The water is sprayed from a wand. The wand automatically retracts into itself when not in use. When retracting and/or expanding, it washes itself. You never touch the want, and it's not expanded when you're doing your business, only afterwards when you turn on the spray.
Give Mono 1st class support and you have me willingly locked in into MS.
Immediately thought of Mr Rogers[0][1].

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Rogers%27_Neighborhood...

[1] http://photomatt7.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/mr-rogers-was-a-g...
Just a quick bone to pick with your article: "In Denmark, a poor child has twice as much chance of making it to the top quintile as in America"

This is a pretty bad abuse of statistics (drawing a conclusion that isn't supported).

The reason why mobility looks lower is because you're measuring it in a relative way. Wealth distribution has a larger range in the US than Europe.

If the top quintile in the US is $200K and in Europe it is $150K, that means someone in the US, who moves from $40K to $190K doesn't have the same mobility as a European who moves from $40K to $160K, even though the absolute gain is higher for the American.

Added: Jesus Christ, I just noticed that stat is referring to the likelihood of reaching the top quintile by the time your 26. Really? 26? You're what? 8 years into a career?
How "painfully" self-centered. It's not about whether you consider it to be enjoyable or easy. It's about what Colin is likely to experience. And given his past reluctance to listen to similar Tarsnap related business advice thrown his way numerous times over the years, one conclusion we can draw is that he fully understands what the options are and he simply doesn't believe he would enjoy the change. There are other possibilities for his lack of change, but I didn't hear you suggest any.
Like this guy[1], who posted a sign on the window of his restaurant calling concealed carry holders 'douchebags'. Overnight, he went from a 3.5 star rating to a 1 star rating, with many of the reviewers referencing the sign, and others fabricating (I assume at least) that they saw roaches, fingernails in the food, that sort of thing.

The owner has since, it seems, deleted his restaurant's Yelp profile altogether, undoubtedly because no Yelp presence is likely better than tens of thousands of 1-star reviews.

http://twitchy.com/2014/03/18/backstreets-backlash-sc-bars-s...
You will probably hate me for giving some graphic details but I had never used Toilet paper for the first 21 years of my life.(I am 22 BTW). I didn't even use a bidet. Just my left hand and water. I know this might be considered very disgusting but it is very common from where I am.
Ask HN: What is happening to HN?
Right now this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7526254) thread have comments expressing their opinion in a respectful manner and trying to support their points of view, nevertheless they (us?) get downvote to oblivion. Is this another effect of the popularization of HN? Or does the religion subject always bring so many downvotes to non-religious views?
'My 7-Step Plan to Destroy America'
Well, then, you are a fucking asshole.

^^you might want to delete this
Interesting, not what I expected to read judging from the title and recent events.
Currently wrong-doing? No sir, I try to not affiliate myself with wrong-doers.
Ask HN: SharePoint Bundle/Suite
SharePoint has been around for a long time now. There must be suites that come pre-packed and bundled up nice that you can put over a blank SharePoint that give lots of common intranet functionality that is not provided by default.

Like this:
http://sharepointimplemented.com/

But there must be more?

thanks
I've neutralized the errant downvote.
I agree with you. I just think we shouldn't judge people for their sexual activities no matter how perverted they might seem to us. Instead we should consider if they're harmful to others. Insulting people for having sexual activity with animals is the exact same bigotry as insulting people for homosexual activity. By the way sex with close relatives is still illegal in most of the western world. I know it's a wrong law but almost everyone implicitly supports it.
Again, views of an individual don't necessarily have to match the view of an organization. That's why they have a separate mission statement for an organization. Otherwise you'd just pick up the mission of any one of the employees. This is ridiculous to force him to step down by causing public humiliation.
>The problem is that support for Prop 8 has been misrepresented as "hate" of gays.

I agree that many of the Christians that support Prop 8 don't know that they hate homosexuals, but the act of supporting Prop 8 is a hateful act. Whether they realize it or not, they are actively attempting to prevent their fellow Americans from being able to live as equals in our society.

>If "gay rights" are really so self-evident, let's confront the haters and explain in a clear, concise manner why their beliefs are invalid.

When it comes to deep-rooted beliefs, whether they are religious or not, most people aren't going to change their minds. Yes, reasonable people do disagree with one another, but not every disagreement involves two reasonable people.

I've nearly always been an atheist, but when I was younger I was highly opposed to the concept of homosexuality. However, when I actually started to think about it, I couldn't find a single, reasonable argument for homosexuality being immoral. I challenge you or anyone else who feels up to it to present a logical, non-religious argument that illustrates why homosexuality is immoral. I'm pretty sure it can't be done.

Just to clarify, no reasonable person would consider the lack of child-producing capabilities as a valid argument. Its perfectly accepted among the overwhelming majority of Christians and non-Christians alike for a sexually active couple to refrain from having children, so it can't reasonably be considered an issue of morality.
So you don't shower then? Just hand-washing?
Even better - auto summary of everything you see through Google Glass.
Is everything about an exit strategy these days?
I asked someone today who happens to work for a well-known VC firm to give me their input on my app. I really just wanted to know what they thought of it. Within just a few minutes of chatting the conversation shifted to thinking about how to exit.

Truthfully, it's the last thing on my mind right now. This is my first app and I simply want to build my company and see where it goes from there. Everything so far has been bootstrapped.

Is this how everyone is thinking these days? Is it all about the exit?
Correct, I see this everywhere. Apparently religion on the internets does not belong. My guess is because most tech-savvy people are of the pure scientific mind set or whatever. Disclaimer: I have not read that thread, opinion based on parents description.
If you care to download the app, here's the link (iPhone only)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tech-block/id842961705?mt=8

It's bare bones, but the foundation is there.
U.S. States Investigating Breach at Experian
Proposition 8 took away my right to marry. It's a pretty shitty thing to find out that the majority of voters in your home state believe it's OK to treat you as a second class citizen. When Brendan Eich sent in that check for $1,000 in support of Proposition 8, he was making the statement that I should not continue to have the right to marry the person I love and that explicit discrimination against gay people should be enshrined in California's constitution. It left a lot of people very upset. I don't agree with with lashing out at Eich, but I understand it.
I'm not defending or attacking any position on this comment. Just genuinely curious about this. And the question is not just for the OP.

How do you think you would you feel if you were into a same-sex relationship and working for Mozilla? What about if you were a Mozilla user?

The line between professional conduct and personal beliefs seems to be quite fuzzy to me when around human rights issues. Especially in the CEO case, that is the face of a company.
ChrisNorstrom is on the right track.

There's a small cluster of people who seem to think that, every time religion is mentioned, it's important to jump in and make negative comments no matter what the original topic is (and, on some sites, a small cluster of people who seem to think it's a good time to try to convert people.) The thing is, those comments (on both sides) are generally boring and unenlightening, two things we don't like to see on Hacker News.

The idea that a group is digitizing a whole bunch of ancient documents is interesting and has potentially deep intellectual consequences for people interested in researching the topics covered in the ancient documents as well as for those interested in other ancient documents that might be digitized using the knowledge gained from this project.

Kvetching about how harmful religion X is or was in the past is boring. Nobody in this thread has said anything genuinely new or insightful; you can hear these exact sentiments just by making a religious comment in a semi-public way (with a large group of friends, on FaceBook, etc.) On other sites they might provoke a flamewar, but here on HN we prefer comments to be thought-provoking. We downvote flamebait. Consider it a signal from the HN community: make more thoughtful and worthwhile contributions.
I run a large community. Here are my opinions:

1) The easiest thing you can do is have a friendly reminder about what is and what is not acceptable to post right next to the comment textbox. When I was in grad school they used to remind students of the honor code before each and every test, and apparently it reduced problematic behavior.

2) Posters in heated conversations care more about advancing their view than keeping HN civil. You can't rely on the downvote system, because mean comments that advance the "right" view will be upvoted regardless. You can't call them out, because your thread will be one of many, and the damage is already done by the time the comment is read.

They simply need to be deleted, and I don't see much deletion on HN.

3) there is a 99.9% chance a post is spam if it broadly criticizes the behavior of HN as opposed to the person they are replying to. These posts should also be removed.

4) For every topic of political contention, there is a group of people that ONLY post about that topic. These people should be monitored closely. I don't consider these posters to be participating in good faith--this is (or should be) a community of tech people that occasionally talks politics. So if you only post about a particular political issue, and never about any technology-related topics, one wonders if you are there just to advance your political viewpoint. As an aside, these posters mostly come out of the woodwork for gender-related topics, which I think are consistently the worst category on HN in terms of comment quality.

5) we need a clearer idea of what is and what is not acceptable on HN. Honestly I want to flag most of the political stories. I hate them. But I don't, because I am afraid of losing the feature.

6) ignore people who whine about censorship. There are a ton of other forums they can post on.

7) a more radical idea that I am less sure about: remove all political stories, and make politics.ycombinator.com. The twist: make membership invite-only. If someone is uncivil then it reflects poorly on the person who invited them. This is, as far as I can tell, the only effective solution to stopping uncivil discourse. When tensions are high, any amount of incivility can trigger another user. The only way to stop this problem generally is to stop it completely, there is no half way.

EDIT: to be completely clear: this advice really only applies to topics where the posters on each side have what can only be described as religious devotion to their point of view. Civil discussion requires humility, and there is rarely humility in political discussions.
I had no idea that Ubuntu made firefox an integral part of Ubuntu and that you couldn't remove it. Or other browsers wouldn't run as well as firefox on ubuntu. Geez, maybe Ubuntu really is like Microsoft! Huh, thanks for that.
Societies have a right to regulate the private behaviors of their citizens

Societies are not set in stone.
Hat tip for the suggestions. I was expecting to have to install a Japanese system + rewire.
U.S. lawmakers ask Gilead to justify hepatitis C drug's $84,000 price
And their realistic screensavers.
Water consumption by agriculture and industry dwarfs that for personal use. Stats for Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_...
I'm stupid, so I must ask:

What does this mean for the future of C# on Linux?
I was under the impression that the Nest did work the way you would like— you tell it a temperature and thats it. The only "learning" involved was noticing you were gone and letting the temperature change a bit more, and when you come home it goes back to what you set. (There's also some bit about reducing the temperature a bit during peak load).

As with a smoke detector, I would never expect it to disable its smoke detecting function unless I pressed some button.
jackgolding@live.com.au
From what I can tell, he seems very clear that in Mozilla he wants to foster a open and friendly environment.

As someone who is close to being a full on libertarian living in Australia, I am almost always working for someone who believes I should have less rights than I believe I should have. It doesn't bother me.
On the contrary, we have had a great experience with remote working teams. We are a young startup, and we started out wanting to hire the best local folks (that is clearly preferred, if you can do that in a reasonable time). But that was taking a lot of time and/or money (both we couldn't afford to lose much of), and we started working with remote team-members on fixed-term assignments - they got us started quick. After working with them for several months, I can say they are contributions have been invaluable. I'd happily hire them as full-time remote workers. The key, of course, is to find people who are good with the extra communication that remote working typically needs.
... other than giving $1,000 to support Prop 8 and denying people the right to get married.
It is. I wondered the same thing.
I'm not sure if being forced out is not the right option here.

For me there is a clear (somewhat) difference between a 'personal political opinion' and a personal opinion that directly touches human rights issues.

Taking it to a more extreme case just to illustrate. Would it be OK for a CEO to be forced out if he/she had clear racist opinions? I personally think so.
Maybe nothing. I didn't look into other options because Tarsnap is already cheaper than a cup of coffee per month and it's run by someone I trust and want to support.
What sort of challenges have you had with OCR? I'm working on an easy to use OCR sdk (iOS), we're going to start beta in a few weeks.
I don't think it is, honestly. Nothing about his desire to suppress gay marriage speaks to how to treats people and individuals, nor how Mozilla would - look at Bill Marriott he also contributed to Prop 8, and Marriott is very well regarded for benefits to gays and lesbians (100% score as of 2014 for Marriott International) - in short, just because your personal views are X doesn't mean that X is the view your business will take.

If we don't defend the rights for free speech any of us could run the risk of being on the wrong end of that knife in the future.
Don't support welfare? You're against poor people. Support welfare? You're against the working man. You're pro-choice? You're against babies. You're pro-life? You're against women

your black or white stance is a logical fallacy.
I took a quick look, and you yourself did more than anyone to derail that thread into an off-topic religious flamewar.

The topic is the Vatican library's plans to digitize a priceless collection of ancient manuscripts. The topic is not "is religion evil" or "why do my enemies downvote me".

I will take a closer look at the derailing comments later.

This post, too, was not appropriate. The phrase "concern troll" comes to mind. Please address any legitimate concerns about HN moderation to hn@ycombinator.com, and please don't try to stir up drama on the site again.

Now I am going to kill this post.
Yeah yeah, but I just want to build apps that people will use. I'm not particularly interested in getting bogged down in what I see as only being a pissing match between hardcore CS people :)
The reason might be same as in the case of Japanese culture. Though its standard practice to excuse yourself, while entering a room or leaving it. You would meet a lot of people who just don't follow that.

Besides, you never know what you will learn next. Stay hungry :)
Comments that are off-topic and clearly have a political agenda get downvoted here.

Maybe one side of the argument is getting downvoted more than the other in that thread, but the point is that the post is about one thing and the battle raging in the thread is about something else entirely.
If you ask one of these people you're talking about how they would feel if their daughter or son turned out to be gay, how many of them do you think would say, "I would love them just as much, but I don't think they should be allowed to get married"? I think a much more likely response is denial of the very possibility, combined with anger that you would suggest it. Doesn't that seem a more likely response to you? And what do you think that denial and anger would be rooted in? Does it really make sense that it's just about the definition of "marriage"?

I certainly have not mastered the art of getting through to gay marriage opponents. Have you actually had any success at it? (Not, I assume, by calling their beliefs "fucking stupid" :-)
I see most of the OP's replies down-voted maybe its not a HN thing, but a specific situation.
Most bathrooms do have electrical outlets though - for shavers and things. Conduit is fairly low profile - and if you have a false ceiling then its very easy.
> Did you write qplot? (rhetorical question)

Not sure what you're getting at.

> A lot of these "quirks" of R are nice for end users when they're implemented well, but are unintuitive to program

It's not a quirk, it's a core feature. It's used consistently and to great effect. Notice how the "subset" function takes advantage of the same flexibility. I'm about 95% sure neither the subset function nor the other standard library functions that use this "trick" were written by Hadley. The "trick" was expected to make expressions significantly easier to read and easier to write from the very beginning.

It might surprise a few people who come from another language and think they've seen it all, but once they figure out what's going on (which should happen on the first tutorial or 2nd or 3rd copypaste) it'll be a pleasant surprise. Unless they kneejerk and hate on it because it's unusual among languages.
Actually bidet button is usually for women, I wouldn't advise pressing it unless you are one, or you will get a blast of water significantly forward of the desired target. おしり(oshiri) is the button thats useful to both sexes.
Source? Wikipedia summary on credit card fraud puts it at just 0.07% [1] The "2%" figure is more what average card processing fees are. But most of that is passed back to the consumer in the form of rewards and benefits. Part of the reason it's hard for cash to compete for significant purchases, or anywhere cards are accepted.

As for the idea that merchants will do differentiated pricing for cards... couple problems with that.

First, it's historically a really tough case. It's generally not worth the risk of losing a sale. But let's put that aside.

Second, you've got the competitive landscape wrong. The Durbin amendment changed everything. Did you know that debit card interchange is now regulated down to 21 cents + 0.05%? And they come with some consumer protections and are "built in" to most bank accounts and all the infrastructure's in place. That's what Bitcoin or any new method that competes on price is competing with. So that narrows the opportunity to almost nothing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud
Non starter.

What if you were a devout _insert religion_ and worked for a homosexual?

Same thing.
I have been looking for a way to show my support for Brendan since I first read of his standing down this morning and I think your proposal is the best way to show that support; therefore I too will donate $100 to Mozilla if they reinstate Brendan as CEO.

Though I wouldn't be surprised if he no longer wishes to take on the role given what has transpired.
That actually sounds like the most reasonable thing I've heard out of this entire fiasco.
I would wager that plenty of those opposing Eich don't actually use Mozilla products.

but their relatives might use Firefox, and these relatives might listen those who oppose Eich because they are family...that's called social effect.
Yeah, that drawback can be seen as a JUST motivation for not taking your time in the toilet always. Even 5 minutes saved one time, is equal to 10-15 minutes everyday. 70-100 minutes a week and around 60-90 hours a year to put that into perspective.
Incidentally, YoYo are now called Quoss for anyone shopping for them. Exact same products, just a different name (also have come down in price by about $200).