skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah well; thank you for your contribution. Enjoy it here; I have feeling you'll fit right in by now.

I'll just retreat to my old-man cave to contemplate a time when the internets had this quaint little place where conversation was civil, the news was enlightening and everyone was striving to break free from the status quo by going at it alone, forging our own path.

It was fun while it lasted...
Perhaps you could come up with a logical reason why someone would vote for a staunch "pro-family-rights", "pro-bible", "pro-USAPATRIOT Act", anti-gay-marriage conservative if they didn't agree with him.

Perhaps you could also come up with a logical reason why incumbents that supported the USAPATRIOT Act are still being elected by people that don't necessarily support that stance. I'm having difficulty with that one myself.
You're demonstrating the exact problem the person to whom you were responding was discussing.

You can take a "damn them all and defeat them at all costs" stance if you want to. There's always something that "the other side" did at some point that you can avoid looking past or working with.

Grind that axe forever, I guess... but as the previous poster said, that level of intransigence is disheartening.
What an arbitrary career choice.

If you'd avoid a job due to politics, you'd probably leave a job due to politics. Maybe you think you're rising above public opinion concerns to polish some kind of sycophantic business mindset, but you're acting just as emotionally as the board of Mozilla.

More so, because they have consumer pressure concerns.

Maybe your canceled lunch will appear as sober apolitical moves to ... someone. In my opinion you just flushed your credibility down the toilet.
It's not just a performance optimization. It's a cleaner architecture that's easier to test.
Truth and Reconciliation was about truth, and not punishment. It did not demand that former supporters renounce their heresy or be punished, just that a historical accounting was made, the facts were laid down.

Brendan Eich said the following in a blog post(https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/) after making a statement that he fully intended to continue the LGBT-inclusive policies at Mozilla:

"I know some will be skeptical about this, and that words alone will not change anything. I can only ask for your support to have the time to “show, not tell”; and in the meantime express my sorrow at having caused pain."
is that all you use?
how did you hear about it ?
Let's look at Venezuela to see how that is implemented. Centralized power is too toxic to be able to distribute anything "fairly".
There's an enormous false equivalency here:

Prop 8 groups are single issue donations. A donation means exactly and only that you agree with the cause of anti-gay marriage.

Politicians are many-thousand issue donations. I know of exactly zero people who I agree with on everything. A donation to a politician can have thousands of motives, and even be done in staunch disagreement about certain issues (especially in the case where their opponent is the same on the issue you disagree with and worse on everything else)

On net I'm conflicted about the whole thing. But I do think that people who value tolerance should be intolerant of the intolerant.
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I messed around in high school and didn't apply to the right schools and scholarships, so I ended up having to pick a reputed private school. In order to make up for it, I did my BS in math in 5 semesters by taking 23 to 27 credits per semester. The extra credits were free since I maintained a very high GPA.

I saved a ton of money on tuition, but if you factor in the opportunity cost of also earning money and experience, shaving a year off of college is easily worth $100k+ if you have to pay anywhere close to sticker price at a private college.

If you have the ability to do it, I highly suggesting graduating as soon as possible. I think England has a better system than America, with the 3 year degree in relevant course material. If I had to do it again, I would get the scholarship, do my Bachelors and do a Masters or maybe even a PhD. With the rising costs, I don't see how 4 year makes sense anymore.
Some syntactic sugar is sweet; others, just another bitter aftertaste of saccharine.

Enabling interrupts before initializing the stack pointer does just about the same thing on a 2014 processor as on a late 70s processor, just maybe a little bit quicker. And a bazillion other bugs I've seen before.

There's a negative sense of programming as an activity, programming is the art of not creating bugs, and that certainly gets a lot easier with age. Or rephrased is the young guy hasn't made and learned from his stupid mistakes yet. I still have dumb mistakes left to make, just a lot fewer of them.
Yes and no. The real error here would be to realloc without any geometric progression IMHO - ie. reallocating one more byte each time, which would behave well on Linux (except the libc call cost of course) but not on other implementations (such as some Microsoft's MSVCRT versions). Assuming realloc has no catastrophic performance impact is not something too daring.
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Up until 2 months ago, it was DownrightSimple.com. But I'm now using that for my iOS Development Company. The other one I really like is KeystrokeOfGenius.com, which I haven't found a use for yet. There's also CSLounge.com, which was going to be some sort of Computer Science social network that I never got around to working on.
Jesus, "hunt a man down" and "ruin a man's (otherwise impeccable) professional life"?

You have a really low bar for using these phrases and it makes your argument that much more ridiculous (and false).

None of these things happened and you miss half the context in which similar but less hyperbolic things happened.
heh. i was actually looking for something like this.

I'm working on an article about how a declarative language (see: a DSL) is just less expressive than an imperative one.

I'm probably going to use gulp vs grunt as the example and use the AST to unravel equivalent config files into pseudocode that represents what they actually 'mean'.

This will probably make that a bit easier to work my way though, thanks.
The way I understand it, CEGEP is not held on the same campuses as universities and the teachers are not professors (usually not PhD graduates either). Think of it as doing college 100-level courses in a high school setting with high school teachers. I believe we can agree that faffing about in high school has a lower cost than faffing about in college?
I wrote closed source software in the past
Wow. I was wrong. this changes everything.

And now, the only answer I have for "why does everything post-Justice suck so much?" is "Bob Rock" and "Rick Rubin".
Would anyone like to comment on what they don't agree with here? I don't mind downvotes, but I would like to hear what you don't agree with.
Except if the act of adjusting that distribution causes economic harm you end up with a more equal society where the poor are poorer.
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You sound terribly un-empathetic and it ruins any point you're trying to make.
>Religion does not hold a monopoly of any kind on the concept of matrimony.

Neither does government, so why does it matter what government calls it?
I do agree and I think it's really swell that you appreciate my agreement.
It's worth pointing out here that having it be a unified institution means the way it works in the one case and the other case are tied together (unless you introduce an explicit distinction). Having them under two separate umbrellas potentially allows them to drift apart or (more easily compared to the one-umbrella case) simply be changed to be different at a later date.
Prediction: those who insisted that political actions and professional life should be one and the same will respond with "meh," completing the ouroboros of hypocrisy.
How do you tell apart the app loaded in several tabs and and an attacker?
I feel it's more a question of why should such a small handful of people control such a massive proportion of the world's wealth and power. Especially if it's some form of dynastic wealth.

And then there is such a huge, sickening disparity between how the poorest populations of the world live - well over a billion people do not have even their basic needs met - and the excesses of the ultra-rich.

I don't have a solution, but it's galling nonetheless.
He is not the CEO of Javascript.

He has no brand or direct authority over javascript engines.

It's perfectly fine to boycott Firefox and not boycott Javascript.
You used to hear this sort of thing about UAW employees all the time, but it was always exaggerated. The corporate PR people would extrapolate a week of exceptional overtime pay to a whole year, and/or they'd include benefits and payroll taxes in the dollar figures, for example.

So I have no facts to add but I'm skeptical anyway.

I mean, sign me up, I'll do your laundry for A$324,000, OK? No? Yeah, didn't think so.
The engine and turbo compress and heat the air charge immensely. Others have mentioned air density, but while dense air is nice, the increased temperature is the important part when it comes to high performance turbo applications. Everyone knows that overheating an engine is bad, but what actually happens when you push things too far?

If your combustion chamber grows too hot, you can suffer from pre-ignition, where your fuel-air mixture ignites sooner than it should. This results in wasted power and increased temps as the engine has to compress the now-expanding combustion charge.

What often follows pre-ignition (provided nothing has melted or blown up yet) is detonation. In normal combustion, you have a flame front that expands smoothly from the ignition spark and causes a smooth increase in pressure. It occurs quickly, but it's not an explosion. Detonation is the opposite. Pockets of fuel-air mixture in any part of the combustion chamber ignite explosively, sending out sharp shockwaves that are too fast to be absorbed by the rotating mass of the engine. If the detonations are too powerful or too frequent, they can cause catastrophic damage.

There's plenty more that can be explained on the subject and I'm sure somebody can find something to correct, but that's the gist of it. The engine is already hot enough, higher intake temps make things worse, go too far and you get abnormal combustion which results in spontaneous disassembly.
I'm not sure Eich fully understands the hurt and abuse he committed, which makes owning up to it somewhat difficult. My understanding of truth and reconciliation was that the process was intended to educate those responsible for apartheid just how truly awful it was, not just demand an apology. Thousands of people demanding for resignation over the Internet seems more likely to reinforce his current views than help him truly understand.
The reaction to Eich is best seen through a lens of human group power dynamics, as it isn't logically consistent with some supposed ideals (civil discourse, etc.). Geeks have a harder time understanding this social acceptability aspect, especially within a given group or tribe. For this particular political question, a "no gay marriage" opinion has passed into the socially unacceptable in the Bay Area tech crowd.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong to react or ostracize like this, it's just the way crowds of people tend to work. And when tides shift in one direction, a desire by the winning side to celebrate, express power, and pick on the losing happens.

In 2008 it may have been a serious political question in California and the United States as a whole - and we totally can judge based on popular opinion - the difference is supporters narrow the judgment of social acceptability to Eich's narrower group of Bay Area techies. That's why saying it's "obviously wrong" or "there are no rational arguments" is a cop out - and the same denying civil rights argument can be applied to say abortion (denying women's right to choose! Murdering unborn infants!) or opposing affirmative action (racist against minorities! discrimination!).

The main difference? Public opinion rapidly moved against Prop 8 whereas for gun control or abortion it has been far more steady. [Even though over 20% of San Franciscans voted for Prop 8, the number among the educated tech crowd was likely far lower, and same among California as a whole]. Meanwhile, a movement like neo-Nazism is more universally reviled and not socially acceptable in 2014 US, although it may have been mainstream in 1938 Germany, and speaking out against it would leave you ostracized. This is where the "right side of history" aspect becomes interesting. Everything happens within the context of your time and your tribe, and this morality breaks down after these context changes.

Because the opinion on gay marriage is so universal within the tech crowd of the Bay Area, Eich doesn't really have a way out in this. (Look at the contribution numbers for employees of Google, Facebook, etc.) Meanwhile minority opinions on gun control, abortion, etc. are still socially acceptable but will still trigger suspicion. Ditto on economic issues and the entire anti-libertarian techie backlash, even though libertarianism continues to be weaker than liberalism. For another industry and group, look at Whole Foods' CEO writing an anti-Obamacare Op ed which triggered a backlash - the difference is that Eich said nothin, and most definitely continued to adopt gay-friendly policies at his workplace.

In medieval Europe, the adherence to your group (or broader society) was enforced through excommunication, in communist Russia, through purging and re-education camps, in Hollywood during the Red Scare, via McCarthyism and impossibility of finding a job. In Silicon Valley, is it by Internet campaigns and removal from high-ranking positions? What supposed Eich defenders are saying is - let's try not to be like that, no matter how righteous we believe our opinions to be.
That would be a great! A verification algorithm of sources and how objective the information is.

The concept I mentioned relies heavily on Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha. It seems like unfortunately Wikipedia is starting to see it's own share of not so important/factual information.
You seem to have reservations about email in SQL, but the MailDB has been building a usable solution around this for years.

http://maildb.sourceforge.net/
"Family" or "religious" pressure is fucking pathetic.

We're supposed to be talking about adults here, why don't you change his diapers while you're at it?

If family or community is such a strong force in our lives, maybe the systemic criminalization of those concepts for certain people is a bigger tragedy than you admit.
even 0.1% overstates the real number of the ruling class.

google tells me there are some 1600+ billionaires today.

those are the guys (and a few girls) who are really dirty.
you can't get (or stay) that rich without hurting people.
this is the locus of greed that will sacrifice the planet
rather than "give in to someone else having more than me".
these are the high-stakes players, the ones who _really_
pull the strings. everyone else is just their string-puppet.

it's also a small enough number that we can closely examine
every single one of these individuals to solidly _confirm_
that their avarice and power-broking is truly despicable,
so we can confidently brand them as an enemy of the people.
this will put them on notice, and give them an opportunity
to "opt out" of their bad behaviors and gain our reprieve.
let them keep their money and a lavish lifestyle, but only
_if_ they can actually reign in their destructive actions.

recognizing the value of a nice sonorous phrase, i suggest
"the filthy 1500", so we will set our focus appropriately.

and, given that these are world-class competitive bastards,
i'd predict that many will work so they can _make_ the list.

-bowerbird
Never that.
I'm sorry, but Prop 8 passed. By 7 million people.

Boycotting Mozilla? Really? You need to talk about boycotting California. Making a scapegoat out of one single person for what an entire state did is fucking insane.
>I'm not going to delete it, it's there for a reason.

Demonstrating your hypocrisy when you throw around the word "bully", apparently.

> or acknowledging that my proposed solution also does away with the separate but equal bullshit.

That particular argument was debunked both by me up top (what about other states? what about federally? what about non-government entities?) and by other people in this thread. Your proposed solution does nothing of the sort considering that you completely ignore the time issue I've brougnt up twice now.

>You're JUST as bad as the supporters of prop 8, and that's what I'm trying to call out.

More insults?

You have shown beyond any doubt that you are incapable of having a mature discussion without pounding the keyboard like an impudent child ("FUCKHEAD", really?) completely ignoring points that are inconvenient for your argument, and all around going well out of your way to misinterpret what I say and lower the standard of discussion here.
Thanks for reporting in! Yea I'm surprised too. Our school is not known for CS and instead known for <insidejoke>Norman Danner's cats</insidejoke>.
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Hey, the same thing happens with native English speakers. I just heard a radio spot where someone was reprimanded for using the term "pussyfoot" at a meeting.

That's nothing, though, compared to this:
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1999_02_02_newy...
I recommend checking out some of the examples provided by Firebase. In particular, something like angularFire-seed (https://github.com/firebase/angularFire-seed) is a great way to get started. Firebase can handle user authentication and data storage. AngularJS + Firebase is an amazingly productive combo. Set up Bower and use Bootstrap for the user interface, you’re all set.

It would be a great idea to set up some boilerplates for StaticApps.org showing how easy it is to get started.
I've never had to do that before. That would require a very poorly configured Postgres server.
And that's fair, but when it's inflated into a giant controversy because people stand to profit from the eyes on it (okcupid, anyone?) then I find it very disheartening.

And it is bullying when you personally attack people on either side. Go after prop 8 all you want. Donate all you want to pro-lgbt causes, but don't stoop to the level of a personal attack on another human being because of their beliefs. Being an adult is taking the time to understand someone when they hurt you, instead of trying to hurt them back.

What is not fine is to dump all the hatred and outrage prop-8 has inspired (and to be fair mostly deserved) on one man who happens to be in the media now. You're not arguing anymore about rights, you're actively choosing to persecute someone. That's why I call it bullying.
Because the government definition is tied to various contracts and benefits.
Yeah, just want to say I heard about MailDB (I posted up another thread), but this sounds very interesting. I will definitely check it out.
How about start with this:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2010/10/estate_tax_...

People much wiser than us founded America upon the principle that extreme wealth is incompatible with democracy.

EDIT: For emphasis, "Extreme" wealth is what I'm talking about here. Whatever arbitrary number we are choosing that allows this to happen--our potential future president courting a single citizen's favor:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-29/republican-presiden...
I've only been to one F1 race in person that was 1988 in Montreal and I couldn't believe the noise, vicious! My teeth vibrated, even my bones I couldn't believe I could feel my freaking skeletal bones vibrate. Some friends and I went because the turbos were going to be banned in 1989.

I was 19 years old and the only thing I remember about the trip is 1) the noise! 2) crazy Italians 3) crazy Brazilians 4) strip club under a Burger King
By that logic there are tons of other careers that should involve very high salaries: long haul trucker, anything on a cruise ship, Antarctic researcher, stationed on a military submarine, forest firefighter, commercial fisherman, etc etc etc. By and large oil platform gigs pay a lot because oil companies have an enormous amount of resources and no one wants to do the work because they're passionate or patriotic.
I am not familiar with the asterisk variant: LGBTQ*. Initially I thought it was a italic formatting error but you have used it in a number of places in addition to lgBtq. What does the added asterisk represent? And is there any significance to the capitalization of "lgBtq"?
Link to source code: https://github.com/waltdestler/Threesus
> As long as a more equal distribution of wealth would reduce suffering, we can certainly consider wealth inequality harmful.

First you would need to prove that.

Consider a world with perfect income equality. In such a world, there is no economic incentive to work at all.

Second, how do you plan on equalising the income without committing an act of aggression against innocent people?

> One would have to have rather alien values to think that luxuries for a few are preferable to food and health for all.

That's a false dichotomy. What if, say, everyone gets poorer in the process of making it less desirable to be rich?
there won't be more than 2^64 items.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E64+divided+by+%28p...
General education is absolutely more important than career-specific education. The education that happens outside the classroom is even more important: and general education contributes to this by mixing together folks from different majors and walks of life.

Personal story: I went to high school in France. When it came for me to decide between colleges, I had the choice between a 3 year degree at Cambridge and a 4 year degree at Stanford. The Cambridge program was for "Natural Sciences", Stanford didn't ask me to select a major until 3 years in. I chose Stanford, took a wide variety of classes far outside anything i had been exposed to previously, and ended up with a degree in Economics -- in addition to a BS and an MS in Biology during which I had the opportunity to pursue many courses in CS, statistics, data analysis, etc. It was also fun, so much so that I ended up staying 5 years instead of 4. Today I work in tech. Had I chosen Cambridge my perspective (and my life!) would be very different.
It's also the draw for men to work on the platform. No matter how much money you make, if you're miserable you won't do the job. Great food makes happy stomachs.

I'd bet it's for retention, otherwise guys will do just one tour and leave.
From what I understand, Rick Rubin wanted it mastered that way so it sounded "louder" (yet another casualty of the loudness wars) and the band just went with it. Unfortunately, the average consumer (or band member apparently) couldn't care less about audio quality, so it is no surprise that Lars has no qualms about it.

I cannot find a working link for the original interview, but BlabberMouth has the quote you are referring to: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/metallica-s-lars-ulrich-bre...
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You call it a "tired mantra" and a "meme". If that were the case, then I'd think that you'd destroy my position with data vs a couple of lines of rhetoric.

To what kind of scrutiny are you referring? I'd think that if governments were good at redistributing wealth, one of the many communist countries would have been a resounding success.

Can you point me to one?

I can point you to many information sources that show that economic freedom is closely correlated to average wealth and higher standards of living.
The most scalable way of rendering templates is doing it on the client, since that means users get a dedicated machine for rendering the templates.