skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what you mean by checking for inconsistencies, but a good statistical package would be able to handle this pretty well -- You could use Stata, or R with R studio (free)
> I am equally disappointed in Mozillians and in demagogues who didn't see the irony in hounding someone for their private opinion because of "intolerance."

His opinion is no longer private. Once you vote with your dollars you have publicly acknowledged your opinion.

I don't know if I really support what happened to Eich, but this whole event opens your eyes to the hypocrisy of the tech community. If some person not well known to the loudest voices of the community says something insensitive they will have their lives ruined. Someone like Eich does something similar and all of a sudden it is, "whoa, now, let's not overreact."
Different generations also have access to different opportunities.
Yeah no kidding. I remember dem friends ardently trying to convince me that it was pro gay to be anti-gay marriage and pro-civil union. No, you're not pro gay, you're just trotting out talking points so you can appear to have to both way, ala Bill Clinton's Dont Ask Don't Tell. Separate but Equal.

I'm so tired of the double talk. Look, if you truly believe in human rights, then you have to respect people's choices of what to do with their bodies. If you can't don't that, then you think you know better and want to tell people what to do with their bodies. I just can't get behind that. I'm not perfect, so who am I to tell someone else to do with their body if it's not hurting them?

Meh, politicians.
I had my DNA analyzed, and all I got was this lousy story
That's totally a fair argument. I'm only as okay as I am with the donation because it's not large with respect to Branden Eich's net worth (which I don't know, but I assume an engineer of his calibre and seniority makes a very comfortably six-figure salary, even working for a non-profit), and thus seems to be an act of roughly the same order of magnitude as his vote on the issue.

There is some point (I don't know where - $5k, $10k?) where I'd stop being okay with it.
No evidence was necessary, because it doesn't matter.

Truly the words of a fair, rational, and tolerant stance.
Japanese (and increasingly Korean) toilets are amazing. I love visiting my in-laws and just using their toilets and feeling unbelievably civilized.

My wife, refuses to get one, or even the fancy seat attachments because...tbh...they're freaking expensive. I can basically refit all the toilets in my house for less than the discount price for a single seat...and that's not including the cost of the electrician to put a power source near just one of my toilets.

There's also lots of research in her home country that women shouldn't use the bidets in these toilets for various reasons particular to their anatomy.

To compare, a Glacier Bay 2-piece high efficiency dual flush elongated toilet is <$100 at my local home depot.

Toto Washlet S350e seat with heated seat and warm water bidet is $1,700. I frequently see cheaper Korean versions at my local Asian Market for $800-1200. I saw one at Costco for $650 the other day.

If they want to penetrate the market, they need to drop the price significantly, corner the market, then start cranking the price up faster than inflation.
That simply doesn't work in practice.
Right. And he donated to help eliminate gay marriage in California; to me, that counts as persecution.
I think that this may be mostly an American thing. This is why in Europe we have better social systems (national health, etc): generally, we don't think the poor are people who fucked their lives up, we think that they're mostly unlucky and we should help them. This may, or may not, be one of the causes of social mobility being greater here (http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595437-america...).

I've always disliked the American rhetoric (I'm sometimes tempted to use the word "propaganda") of being a self-made man, precisely because of this corollary.
The Wave feature was remotely disabled by Nest.

"Within 24 hours, Nest Wave will be automatically disabled. You don’t need to do anything and even with this feature disabled, our smoke alarm will continue to work very effectively, monitoring for increased levels of smoke and CO in the home. "

https://nest.com/letter-from-the-ceo/

It's just too risky for them to leave the feature on considering the product is a general public safety device. One death with Nest Protects would be disastrous for the product and the brand.

It's also important for home automation in general to prevent loss of life in these early products. Look at what happened to Tesla and the fires, the media makes small issues with new technology appear to outweigh all of the benefits. The media isn't running a story every hour on the new 1/2 inch plate of titanium which, to me, is extremely awesome, but that's just how press coverage goes right now.
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You're not going to find ~1000 people who "collectively", without dissenters, support anything unless you picked those people on the basis of their support for that one thing.

The public info I see has several employees not supporting Brendan as CEO, a few more not supporting the bad PR having Brendan as CEO will produce, and some more supporting him being CEO, with the vast majority of employees keeping quiet. Not least because for those of them who are not gay they have no sane way of expressing support without being accused of just agreeing with Brendan's views.

What really happened here was a combination of public opinion and the press picking up things and running with them (including the false reports about the reasons for board member resignations), which further fanned public opinion, which further fanned press about the issue. No one was much listening to what employees had to say except as it suited their preconceived stories; note that the mainstream press did not report on the employees who came out publicly in support of Brendan staying as CEO.

In the end, as far as I can tell, it wasn't the board asking Brendan to resign; it was him deciding to resign because he felt that the way the press was presenting the story (falsehoods and all) was too damaging to Mozilla as an organization.
With respect, isn't the process funding a law to make gay marriage illegal actively discriminating against said same people? It seems fair, I think, to call someone out for something like that. What if his religion called for outlawing marriage between some other group of consenting adults? Perhaps I'm just less willing to make the free speech street one: he can express his opinion, but we shouldn't express our opposition to his opinion. Seems reasonable that it should flow both ways, if that's what you're saying. I may have misconstrued your point, if I did, meaculpa.
No. Think about why.
The fact that they can do it remotely is not as creepy as how they've worded it and seemingly provided no instruction on how you can do it yourself.
The question is: do you often see people taking their shoes off when they go to a house on Japanese TV shows and movies?
I always get voted down for this, but I still feel that typescript is an answer to a question that nobody is asking. (I'm also very suspect of all of the positive comments. Is HN really this pro-MS for JavaScript?) In my company, we literally have a typescript counterpart team doing the same projects. Our code is cleaner, better architected, and our team is able to consistently produce 2 to 3 times more features. In my experience, the teams that choose typescript are usually windows devs that cannot wean themselves off of visual studio due to their dependence upon auto completion and IDE tools. I'm not hating, I just don't understand why any js dev would add code to their code.
In case anyone was curious, ビデ is read as "bidet" (i.e. squirt water up your ass).

This among the many reasons why it's helpful to at least learn to read kana before visiting, as it makes a lot of things easier--there are an awful lot of English words written in kana that you can decipher (well, French in this particular case, but you get the point I hope).
If Mozilla would have stood by Brendan Eich, it would have blown over and been forgotten. Seriously, choice of a piece of software no one pays for and a donation someone made in a personal capacity 6 years ago -- this is not a subject worthy of this amount of noise.
Same guy who responded to Ted Lemon (an IETF engineer) rudely a couple days ago: https://plus.google.com/+TomGundersen/posts/eztZWbwmxM8
Just curious- would you have to do HIPAA courses, or get any other certifications for medical transcription? It seems like it would be a long hiring process.
Why do I care if my position on marriage promotes or discourages the creation of new humans? I guess you haven't noticed, but we have enough.

What is the ideal balance of masculine and feminine traits in a person's upbringing, how did you deduce this ideal balance, and how does a heterosexual union achieve this balance? Can you point out why a homosexual union does not achieve this balance? Shall we also ban divorce?

Since when is sexual partnership the fundamental unit of social cohesion? I thought it was mostly hunter-gatherer units, which in prehistoric days would have been same-sex groups for both the hunting and the gathering. The analogue in modern man would be the people we work with, I guess, which admittedly is mixed gender - but generally not sexual. Furthermore, I suggest that intolerance of different sexual preferences threatens social cohesion a lot more than the preferences themselves.

Consider that you might actually be a reprehensible bigot after all. I'm not saying this as a judgement of you personally, or to shame you or call you out or whatever, but rather as a motivation for a bit more introspection and maybe some personal growth. I hope it works out.
While I agree with Paul Graham about a lot of things, its worth pointing out that the man's wikipedia page says he was born (in the US, sorry, in the UK, my bad), went to Cornell where he graduated at 22, then practically straight on to Harvard to do masters, and then a PhD, and is primarily noted for being rich because he was bought out by Yahoo. Something that cannot happen for the majority of people, merit or no, and if that black swan didn't happen for him, i imagine we'd have a significantly different opinion of him. Indeed, who is to say that Yahoo didn't make a complete mistake? We'll never know i guess because we can never see the opportunity costs of alternate futures we haven't experienced.

While its possible to end up being rich if you didn't win the birth lottery, its pretty obvious Paul Graham did win it, and you'd have to be numerically or statistically illiterate to not realize that where you start the game is basically the most powerful predictor of both riches and poverty...

Frankly, i wish we could just get over this nonsense of equating extremes of wealth and merit, since there seems to be such little empirical evidence of how to equate the two, or agreement on what merit even is...

One thing that does seem empirically obvious though. Rich people aren't "individually responsible" for wealth themselves. No one has walked out of the amazon forest in a loin cloth and already been a billionaire because of how much wealth they were able to create while there by themselves...

/no offense intended to Paul Graham, he was just used in the example, but from reading his essays I'm guessing he's not terribly insecure :P
Rollbar.com works very well with minified JS from closure compiler. I have that setup in production. Also I find Rollbar does a better job of lumping errors together so that you can more easily scan for new errors. There is a lot of noise in JS errors and the grouping algo is just as important as each error's actual report.
People keep bringing up interracial marriage, but really it's a red herring. Interracial marriage does not involve a fundamental change to the way marriage works. Furthermore, in practice it is not enforceable, since you would have to know someone's entire ancestry to know whether they were eligible to marry another person.

Anyway, to answer your question: If I found out that my CEO had donated to an anti-interracial-marriage campaign, but had never discriminated against or otherwise treated people in such relationships differently, I wouldn't particularly care.
This has absolutely fuck-all to do with free speech; the government is not involved in this issue at all.

People really need to have a better understanding of constitutional issues and applicability before they start running their mouth about it.
Nice list, I've used most of those tools at the previous startup I worked at. Shameless plug: You might find this tool I wrote useful in plenty of situations: https://github.com/SGrondin/bottleneck
Better voice commands using head-tracking and proximity sensing [video]
Your stamina on this topic is impressive kasey_junk. I've enjoyed reading your comments in the face of confusion.
A wrinkle that I think is often missed in discussion on the information economy is the transition from "service economy" to self-service economy. Not only is the traditional paradigm of selling labour under downward pressure, as per Wenger's article, but there's increasingly nowhere left to run. i.e.: what does a factory worker retrain for when local economies have been husked by technology?

The joke used to be: we all can't deliver pizzas to each other. Soon, drones will probably deliver the pizzas, and were going to have to change it to "we all can't sell heirloom tomatoes to each other at the farmers market" or something.
> Meritocracies reward those with good health, good luck, good parents who are encouraging, and the lucky gamete club who have high intelligence or exceptional physical skills.

I wonder what's the good luck doing in the middle of your argument... but it's plain not true. I know a ton of smart people who didn't end up becoming widely successful nor rich once they entered the job market (or tried to create something on their own). If at all, who YOU KNOW and relate to is more important than your own skills, that's why even dumbasses from university were able to get great jobs, because they were great at socializing and making the network work for them, while their own skills at doing anything were actually very poor.

And that's fair. Even people who are not highly intelligent can make it to the top of society (look at politicians, hehe). Look at all the immigrants from different countries who actually ended up being successful after starting lower than anyone else in society.

And I'm not sure what is your definition of fair. There are some people who assume stuff is not fair when they don't get their share of the cake at every party. That's not what fair means in a broad sense.
Isn't the wave the main selling point?
Instead of welcoming free debate, we engage in character assassination
It's odd that, despite there being an open protocol for realtime chat that is over 25 years old, older than HTTP or HTML, I would guess that the majority of the population hasn't heard of or used it. On the other hand, almost everyone has heard of and uses email, which also dates from around the same time period.

> A unified communication service would not only allow me to communicate easily on any device it makes sense to, it would also unify the 3 main communication formats into one platform: voice, video, and messaging.

The closest to that seems to be SIP and its related protocols, but they don't seem all that popular for some reason.
Flag button? Make it a flag pin!
Also, easier restore and snapshot deletion.

Consider how you would restore using incremental ZFS snapshots. You'd have to pull all the snaphots, unpack the base snapshot and then sequentially unpack each incremental snapshot.

In tarsnap, the server will compute the 'snapshot' you want for you, and will only send you the data blocks that belong to that snapshot.

In tarsnap, you can also delete any snapshot you want, and only blocks belonging exclusively to that snapshot will be deleted. In your system, deleting a snapshot means you lose all snapshots from that one until the next full snapshot.

Also, in ZFS you're limited to backing up complete datasets, but with tarsnap you can backup any set of files you want.
This is not a free speech issue. I wish people would stop making that mistake. A private company can fire anyone they want in California for whatever reason they want.
If there is anything this world does not currently have a problem with, it is forgetting how to pop out more babies.

How does permitting people who are homosexual to express their relationship publicly in any way prevent men and women from fucking each other?
I know exactly what you mean with this comment, but the idea that anyone can "opt out" of the current markets is ludicrous.

I wouldn't attempt to sell titanium to the Amish for the same reason that no rationale investor attempts to sell stocks without the existing market maker system.
You may want to consider using R (RHIPE for large datasets - R with Hadoop MapReduce) for analysis and visualization. R/RHIPE can easily handle 5 million observations. I have used RHIPE with 500GB dataset. I am currently trying to setup a multi-node RHIPE cluster to handle larger datasets for my personal project.

You may be able to use Tableau Public, but your dataset may exceed the storage limits on Public free account.

Another option may be to use Hadoop-as-a-Service (no visualization) such as Quoble or TreasureData. I recently tried out TreasureData, a decent service if your data has timestamps. You can run HIVE queries to filter and narrow your data and then export out results to use in Visualization softwares.
The mob on the internet got it this time due to some rather specific circumstances. There are plenty of companies out there that Brendan Eich could have been promoted to CEO of, which wouldn't have cared nearly as much about this level of controversy.

It basically comes down to this - if Mozilla cares this much about what the internet thinks of it this strongly, then why didn't they pick someone else to begin with?
That's pretty impressive performance given the hash size and speed. Thanks for sharing!
Being against gay marriage is not free speech, it's plain and simple hate, don't try to flip the table like that.
>I'm not sure random will is equivalent to free will.
It's not per se, but it's kind of an analogue -- in that both are escapes from determinism.

Something random can be seen as an event that has no causual expanation (and thus cannot be predicted by studying the previous state of the system). But there still must be an agent, bringing the random outcome into the universe. In the same manner, free will too can be thought of as a event that has no causual explanation.

In this case, the difficult question is how a "free will" based decision relates to the person making it (if it's a product of his memories then it's deterministic, and thus not free).

One way to solve this might be to think of the persons' decision making process as a "random number generator". So, the output is deterministic (the same for the same state of memories, like with a programmatic RNG), but with a unique seed for this person (the state of memories itself), and a unique RNG algorithm (the wiring of his brain).

In this case, unlike calculating a dice result given dimensions, weight, power of throw, wind conditions, etc, nothing can produce the same output as the free will person without going through the whole process (a total simulation).
Well, in that case: marriage is absolutely a polygamous institution; if a virgin is raped she must marry her rapist; a husband owns his wife's property; a wife may not assume any sort of authority over her husband, etc.
Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich Steps Down
World's most articulate caveman
I'll protect my family from undue risk by not having smoke detectors that can be remotely disabled.
You should be more direct in your support for incestuous sex and bestiality. Those people are more seriously hurt by bigots since they have a much weaker voice. If you only support popularly-acceptable sexual activity, then you shouldn't misuse the emphasized "any".
Sorry, this is simply false. The only reason the poor value the physical work is that, often, it's the only immediate source of income they have (and they're much more desperate for an immediate source of income). As much as we like to believe otherwise, getting a degree on a "marketable" field (something which is less and less possible for poor people every year) does not automatically mean that many more doors are open to you. And spending the evenings studying, learning programming or whatever on your own is not possible when you have to work insane hours.

It's a vicious circle for the poor and a virtuous one for the rich. The latter have the time (and the means, when they need it) to maximize the mental work, while the former don't.
And the people describing his actions to help get gay marriage banned in California as merely "an opinion" that should be respected and treated as "free speech" are just laughably wrong.
The mobile team is actually run by @orta of CocoaPods fame. We're definitely excited to have Ash join. We also have two beginner iOS devs (@1aurabrown and I) and we need some experienced guidance!
Already discussion on that happening here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7526682
The link between any particular issue and what Eich's day-to-day responsibility would have been can be made as tenuously as we want. I could argue six-degrees-of-separation-style that every belief he held is relevant to his position. The basic point remains: we shouldn't be punishing people for holding beliefs that we disagree with, or coerce them into renouncing their disagreement in order to remain in our good graces. That's not democracy and it's not how you win a policy argument. No matter how right or wrong the belief in question is, such policing creates a hostile environment where people are afraid to argue, debate, and say what they really think.
Well they're either hypocrites, or (ahem...) they learned.
They have to be vegan too. Protect the animals!
A whole second every 300 million years? So about 3.33 (repeating of course) nanoseconds a year. Seems like a lot, is this the most accurate created so far?
You're an idiot or incredibly naive if you don't think this is a free speech issue. A guy was forced to resign because he has a different opinion than some group of people. It's bullshit.
What? No one is talking about any restrictions of free speech. Nor any statements you've mentioned.

You're allowed to take any of those stances. Equally as you're allowed to bitch on the internet regarding the fact that he paid to revoke the rights of others. (And yes, they were deemed "constitutional rights" before being revoked.)

Unfortunately for Eich, his opinions currently seem to be on the wrong side of history.
Randomizing inputs is not "unit testing". Unit testing is deterministic.

Similarly, type checking does not eliminate the need for unit testing.

What worries me is that between type checking and thinking QuickCheck is some kind of magical logic checker (it is not), Haskell people will generally be more discouraged from writing good, valid unit tests, vs. for example Ruby people.

We don't want this endgame.