skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to know that you play Ultimate or Soccer on Fridays, but a more relevant information would be your location and/or if you accept remote applicants.
Statistical analysis of voting irregularities in Turkey
Why xkcd-style graphs are important
Name.com does. It uses Symantec's VIP Access app.
Nope.

That's a Core 2 at 1.86 GHz in a MacBook Air which is technically pants.

My 2011 2.7GHz i7-2620M MBP would destroy that in a second.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Z3770-vs-Intel-Core-i7-2620M
Navalny is a Russian opposition leader. The founder of VKontakte is Pavel.
Keep it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7504296
While I believe OkCupid's intentions are true, the parent company IAC tries to cover all bases.

Looking at their "Personals" portfolio[1] only, already gives a list of the following companies and brands:

match.com
chemistry.com
meetic
twoo
tinder
peoplemedia[2] including
OurTime.com
LDSplanet.com
catholicpeoplemeet.com
republicanpeoplemeet.com
marriagemindedpeoplemeet.com

I mean, I would wonder more if actually committed staff/management of some of those peoplemedia sites wouldn't donate to prop 8, Mitt Romney (R/LDS) and the like.

That's capitalism at work.
Much like Axe/Lynx and Dove seem to sell different agendas yet still both add to Unilever's revenue.

[1] http://iac.com/brands?field_category__tid=22

[2] http://iac.com/brand/peoplemedia
This. I also would rather just grab it in the browser instead of having to run a server or something else.
> The only reason why Brendan Eich's contribution should be an issue is because he's now the CEO of Mozilla and people are afraid that his personal beliefs on the matter will affect Mozilla.

What proof do we have that his personal beliefs will affect Mozilla? Guilty until proven innocent I see.
How do I think in AngularJS if I have a jQuery background? (2013)
This is the next 2048 for me at least. Simple, fun, addicting. Achieved a highscore of 41 before my wrist caved in.
What if he, instead, had donated to writing race-based discrimination into the state constitution? Not a rhetorical question. For some, including me, that's the fair comparison. Not gun laws or other types of legislation.

If you don't think mine is the right comparison, that's fine, but if you're interested in understanding the other point of view as I assume you are, there it is.
> Then why does that not follow to followers of Christianity or Judaism for instance, given that both religions do not tolerate homosexuality?

"Christianity" and "Judaism" are not monolithic institutions and substantial subsets of both tolerate (or actually accept, which isn't the same thing) homosexuality.
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>No, because no one see those causes as being founded in fear and hate.

There is a serious lack of empathy in the viewpoint the parent describes. The premise that "anyone who disagrees with x is motivated by fear and hate" is a very dangerous one.
It would be nice if the world were that black-and-white, but it's not. Plenty of Republicans etc. also believe that abortion, or even contraception provided by your health plan, is "absolutely unacceptable", "flat out wrong" and a "backwards mentality".

But we live in a democracy, where we need to get along. Black-and-white absolutist thinking doesn't really help anyone. You may not think it's "simply a political view" in 2014, but many other people do. Fortunately, we live in a pluralistic society with freedom of expression where we're all allowed to have and share our views, which is the whole basis of democracy.

And this is very different from women's suffrage, because nobody's right to vote, or their participation in the democratic process, is being legally affected here. Other things are being affected, but not people's representation as citizens in a democracy.
Steve Carlip used to be my advisor in grad school and his style of writing shows his beautiful way of explaining (and thinking about) deep questions in physics.

One think that I believe is important to point out is that this short essay is focusing on the experimental aspect of the measurement of the speed of gravity. It gives an explanation on why this is even an intelligent question to answer and why the answer we commonly accept is that gravity moves at the speed of light. I will never have better words than him so I won't add anything to what he said.

What I would like to point out, is that this essay is not talking about whether or not theoretically would be possible to have a speed of gravity faster than the speed of light. General relativity and special relativity have been tested on several aspects, and they pretty much are in agreement with all experimental constraint. There is no other theory that can explain everything we see (some theories tend to explain a few things, but not all of them, or they are too vague).

A theory in which the speed of gravity is faster than the speed of light isn't unconceivable per se, but no one has been able to write a completely consistent one yet, mostly because it would have large consequences on what special and general relativity imply for cosmology and particle physics (and causality). If gravity moved faster than the speed of light then we'd have to 'fix' a lot of problems coming down to paradoxes and stuff like that.

So take this essay as a way to appreciate how elegant and fine some experimental questions on gravity (and physics) are.
Interesting! I honestly only used erf because that shape felt good to me. It looks like that logistic function is much simpler, and should give me pretty much the same result.

But modelling it as a real scene sounds awesome, I'll experiment.
But that implies that, as employees rise through the ranks, there must come a point at which their political stance starts to matter.

We had such an arrangement here in Germany (then West-Germany) a few years back: When you wanted to become a civil servant beyond a certain pay-grade (if I remember correctly, it was the first "advanced" pay grade for schoolteachers) in the 70s, you could not be a member of certain political parties (KPD, the communist party for instance).
I actually like the carousel on the mobile app if that's what you're talking about. I know it's the top stories, but yeah it hides the other stories if you didn't know about swiping.
Religions change over time. Traditional Judaism and early Christianity both allowed slavery and had laws governing it. Today they completely abhor the notion of slavery. The current pope is backing off on Catholicism's stance on homosexuality.
And where are the unit tests?!?!
The problem with using UDP is that many ISPs block UDP packets because it doesn't have features like congestion control. So using it for an internet game is out of the question, because there's a chance that a bunch of your users won't be able to play online.
On the performance front, I would not expect TimL compiled down to VimL to be as performant as native VimL, even when done as a preprocessor instead of at runtime. One reason is because, as stated in the README:

> TimL functions are actually VimL dictionaries (objects) containing a dictionary function (method) and a reference to the enclosing scope.

So calling TimL functions have overhead that calling VimL functions don't. I don't know if there are other performance quirks too, but I would not expect this to produce the most optimal VimL code.

That said, code that exists always performs better than code that was never written in the first place, so if this causes plugins to be written that otherwise would not, then that's a net win. It's also entirely possible that the performance concerns end up not being an issue.

Personally, I've never written a VimL plugin, and I've never had a reason to use Clojure, but now I'm tempted to try both.
Like a stylist to a rockstar
I've always thought "anti-gay marriage = anti-gay" as being a false equivocation. Can someone convince me otherwise?

Heck, at the very least there are people who are anti-marriage (from a political POV), for whom it would be discriminatory to exclude gay marriage from that position.

You cite slavery. Was every single person who was against emancipation "pro-slavery"? Was there no room for nuance? I mean maybe some people really didn't like slavery, but hated the prospect of civil war even more.
High School Entrepreneurs Raise 30k
If you're the Ryan I know, hello! You should definitely add a contact email or the company site to your HN profile so people can contact you. No google results for that company.
Show HN: Sorting search results using flexbox
Demo using flexbox order to reorder a list.
Source code: https://github.com/cvan/flexbox-sort/
"But really, you need to treat what OkCupid is doing as some pretty clever marketing that's gotten it lots of free advertising, and not some kind of moral statement."

If that is true, then that is as morally bankrupt as a company can get and I starting to believe I know who Bill Hicks was talking about.
One aspect I found puzzling about Gandi is that until recently they published your "handle" in the WHOIS information, which in effect gave away your username. Now, some may tell me hiding that is security through obscurity or some such, but in my mind it adds another protection layer.
Do you smell it?

They believe it's not a risk to their users (never minds those users who are now targeted via e-mail leak because they have BitCoins).

"You’ll also find many leading payment services allow user enumeration"

They also do pattern monitoring and rate limiting. And instead of saying 'but they do it!' they should be saying 'they do it too, but we think this is a valid privacy issue that we need to fix'.

This is more or less 'If you don't get privacy implications , we will bullshit you so you don't panic and go elsewhere with your money. Everything is fine!'
moniker is not the domain registrar you want:

http://www.dnforum.com/f208/warning-privacy-whois-issues-fai...
"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."

- Sir Charles Napier
I'm one of the guys who helped isolate the problem that led to this bug report, and here's my take:

I agree, this is not a vulnerability; it prevents legitimate connections rather than allowing illicit ones.

Your "3rd party" remark doesn't make sense to me; In our case, we control the entire PKI, so both the client and server certificates are issued by our own "1st party".

And it's definitely a bug - no quotes. The client is _not_ the party canceling the connection; it's failing to send a necessary signature verification message to the server during handshaking, which causes well-behaved _servers_ to send a fatal alert to the _client_. On the SecureTransport side, the library then downgrades the SSL version and tries to connect again.

Note that I'm not suggesting the root bug is "implement ECC"; the root bug is the fact that NSURLCredential and/or NSURLConnection accept identities with invalid keys. The failure shouldn't be occurring 3/4 of the way through TLS handshaking, but at a much higher level where the next guy to run afoul of this won't lose a week to trying to figure out what they did wrong, when the real answer is (most likely) "You're using an unsupported key type".

PS - The same issue is verified to exist in OS X as well as iOS.
Thanks for the comprehensive overview! Sounds about right to me. I hadn't heard about the 'pirate website' law though. Do you have some more info on that?

Also, just to be clear, I wasn't arguing that the Ukraine conflict caused his departure. Just that it was at least a contributing factor and at worst the straw that broke the camel's back.
That much may be true, but I'd consider that an inherent risk associated with using Bitcoin without using a pseudonym. Maybe I'm naïve but I have to assume people who care about such things are already tracking IP addresses directly from the Bitcoin network swarm itself for later investigation...
As someone who develops some plugins this looks freaking awesome. Think I'm past thinking this is a April fools joke, knowing his sense of humor, the number of lines of code and the commit history.
I am waiting for the vegan people to protest against all those CEOs that eat meat.
I just picked the first couple controversial topics that came to mind. Not implying anything.
I don't know about Judaism, but homosexuality is not something that is explicity banned in Christianity. Yeah there are some bible passages against it, but there are also bible passages condoning slavery, polygamy, forced marriage etc. If one were to be a strict adherent to the bible one would have to take some far-out stances on some issues.

Truth is that just because there are some parts of a religion that may support discrimination or other negative behavior, doesn't mean followers of that religion have to agree with that. Many people ignore the parts they don't agree with.
Not sure if you are being a troll. Do you think it's unacceptable to deny people the right to beat their spouses or do you not understand how double negative works?
"anti-gay" is an oversimplification. Eich gave money to a campaign opposing the legalization of same sex marriage. That's a far cry from anti-gay. He may very well be anti-gay, whatever it is that means, but this particular donation does not equate to that sentiment.
Speaking for the rare minority of folks who care about coding on Apple's other OS - this issue is trivially reproducible in OS X Mavericks with identical behavior. It's not just for iOS devs!
US stock market is rigged by high-speed traders: Michael Lewis
At first I started reading and I was skeptical, there are so many abandoned/unused lisp dialects out there nowadays.. Then I checked the size of the project and at the first mention of actual clojure datatypes I was pleasantly surprised.

Kudos tpope, this is freaking awesome!
Open Internet Telegraph
That's not it. Being anti-gay is perfectly acceptable. Passing laws that create official discrimination is not ok.
I am all for gay marriage and I have a deep dislike of homophobia. But I am concerned about some of the reactions to Mozilla because of Brendan Eich's position. I totally disagree with him but surely he is entitled to have his view and to donate accordingly. He was donating as a private person not as a representative of Mozilla. Furthermore, there is nothing about Mozilla as an organization that particularly 'stands for' gay rights. It is not as if he is working for a gay rights group and then donating to oppose the group he is working for. This smacks of the thought police to me.
Will you have people working in the Bay Area?
Do the same attack against those vendors and report back.
Payscale did a survey at the mid-career point

http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014/best-scho...
The US didn't kill Lavabit, so much as Lavabit decided to start an untenable business: one in which they vouchsafed secrecy to their customers but retained the ability to compromise that secrecy.

To understand how dumb that is, consider that AOL(!) runs a popular messaging service on which thousands of people exchange secure messages using OTR-enabled clients, and AOL could not be "killed" the way Lavabit was: the DOJ can't coerce AOL into betraying OTR-protected users, because AOL simply doesn't have that ability.

The reason Lavabit did have that ability is that getting users to install software is inconvenient and drastically harms adoption. Lavabit took a shortcut, and their users shared the resulting pain.

If you review the list of countries preceding the US on the Forbes list posted upthread, you won't find too many that wouldn't have left Lavabit similarly exposed.
Can't downvote replies to my comments, is that new?
I just wanted to downvote someone who replied to my comment, just press the downvote button real hard for a good feel. But the descendants of my comments don't have downvote buttons. Is that a recent change? If so, what's the thinking behind it?
Look, I'm as much for gay rights as the next dude, but what kind of world are you trying to create by cornering people who hold opinions different than yours? Not cool.

Reading your comment, the word 'witch hunt' comes to mind. Just because they wronged you doesn't mean you wrong them too.
What danielweber said, the listed real name with Coinbase. I'm not so sold that it's a Big Deal™, but it's certainly not completely leakproof with regard to user data either.
Just you can't just look at how many people someone have killed, you also have to look at how many children they have had? It is a zero sum game, after all.
OpenText seeks to shut Box down, demands $268 million in damages
Was it a political view in 2008?
The conclusion alluded to one of the most interesting parts of how Jaguar may age -- summarized horribly -- we've never had a SOC shared between consoles (XB1/PS4), desktops, laptops and tablets so closely that as the SOC shrinks and the software on it is optimized further and further, you could imagine a future in short-order (3-4 years?) where you might be able to buy a much-shrunk Jaguar-based tablet that plays PS4 games at full fidelity.

His point is this has the potential of greatly extending the life of the Jaguar SOC just by virtue of die shrinks and power savings and no significant rejiggering of performance through the generations.

I thought that was a good call out... we never had this apples-to-almost-apples comparison before to see this story play out.
I agree. I totally disagree with him but he has a right to hold views that I and others disagree with. And he has a right to donate accordingly. And Mozilla is not an organization whose mission is gay rights. This is politically correct overreach.
Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windows XP still above 27%
But they clearly gave up with x86. I heard only about some ARM parts from Via during last few years.
Yeah looking over it I don't see a single OkC employee, former or current on there.
I work with moonshine, if you have any questions I would be happy to answer them.
Totally agree - well said.
I'd say 3 years at a certain company can gain you loads of experience rather than 8 years at a different one. Context is key here as well.
Mostly: Setting it up was a pain, developers clearly have no intention of really supporting it (they made explicit that their focus is their cloud project and their gamedev projects and that moai SDK is a sort of sideproject), the forum when I was trying to setup Moai was dead, community was overall weak, documentation was wrong and outdated...

I don't doubt Moai technical capabilities, I was very impressed by it, also the fact that it is FOSS is really cool, but the barrier to start using it was too big and insane.
Hi, I'm a Stack Overflow user with close privileges[1]. I've answered a lot of questions. I've also closed a fair number of questions. If you write a good question, it won't be closed.

A lot of questions that I end up closing are questions that don't have enough information to be answered, or that already have answers (i.e. are duplicates). Also, closed questions can be improved by the original poster by editing them, and then they can be re-opened.

Edit:

Regarding migrating questions, I've also wondered why it's not possible to migrate them to the appropriate Stack Exchange site. When you flag a question as being more appropriate for a different site, you're only given a few possible sites to migrate it to (I think it's currently only like 3 or 5 of the other SE sites). It's kind of annoying when you know that a question would be perfect for a different SE site, but you can't migrate it to there through the currently available tools.

I do know, however, that some questions won't be migrated because their quality is not high enough, even on the SE site where they would be a better fit.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/456814/cupcake
Eh, they're no more responsible than the USDA is responsible for unhealthy food or the oil and gas lobby is for pollution or the AMA is for cartel behavior on the supply of doctors.

(and in all of those cases, the death tolls are higher.)

It's easy for people (especially certain middle-to-high income bracket liberal demographics) to give a pass on hating NRA/rednecks/religious folks while at the same time remaining indignant about what is an issue effecting a small subset of the population.

Moreover, while there are very valid arguments to be made in support of gay rights (usually by way of personal liberty, freedom of association, privacy, etc.), you really need to be willing to apply them to folks you don't like.
Today is the first day that H-1B for next October are accepted, and apparently they know for sure that the limit will be reached so soon that "the agency is prepared to use a random selection process to meet the numerical limit" [1], like last year.

[1] http://www.uscis.gov/news/uscis-accept-h-1b-petitions-fiscal...
not so much http://world.time.com/2013/09/25/pope-francis-excommunicates...
What's the reasoning for denying same-sex marriage?

Why are gay citizens equal enough to have equal tax laws but not equal marriage laws?
Visualizing Human Knowledge – A Graphical Exploration of Wikipedia
I have to agree. What I think is a big deal here is for developers with families. 45 days is 45 days without health insurance and other important benefits. There is COBRA, but that's two months of paying that bill. For most family plans that's 3 - 4k in expense.

That said, it really depends how much they are paying the prospective employee while contracting. If it's enough to make up for that then it might be worth the risk to some people.
"GAME_JAM" and the Power of Integrity
Mindless Data Zombies
More importantly IMHO, you could just as logically argue that any CEO who contributed to Republican campaigns is just as guilty as Eich for working to oppose gay marriage

Not really. I don't think there was a single Republican candidate that campaigned on the issue of gay marriage and nothing else. There is also a message of fiscal conservatism, pro-business stances, etc. etc.

Donating money to Prop 8 was a simple and straightforward move to try to block gay marriage, and absolutely nothing else.
Surprised to see such a high-profile rip-off of polygon.com design: ussoccer.com
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