skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would start blogging about what you know (if you don't do so already). Focus on explaining how to do X. Then write about your opinions. It can be as short as a paragraph, or as long as a novel. In terms of writing intelligently the key is to learn about new things. If you desire to write intelligently about software, then by all means study software from the bottom up. As you study and learn new things try and explain them in your own words. How you understood it. The more you explain and the more you write the better your ability do so will.

I'm horrible with English. But that did not stop me from getting published in a recognized tech magazine. If I can do it, you can definitely can too.
Practice, practice, practice.

English is my third language, so I always make tons of mistakes and am trying to improve. Learning to think and write better is kind of a secondary reason I participate in HN discussions.

Maybe that's the key, write something you are passionate about (programming, startups, literature) and in the process you'll notice you got better?
But even the U.S. justice system is (ostensibly) geared toward "it's better to let 100 guilty men go free than convict 1 innocent man" with the presumption of innocence and all. While the justice system is hardly the paragon of impartiality, it's at least on paper just. I'm just astounded so many places aren't so.

Preemptive denial of privileges in anticipation of abuse is very wrong and I'm not entirely convinced these policies were enacted post abuse in many workplaces.
No idea at all.

But even if it is, this is more in the line of mitigating current CO2 increases than "taking CO2 out of the atmosphere." And if you grow the market for carbonated beverages by having cheaper CO2, that market growth will be CO2-positive, not CO2-reducing.
If an idea consistently creates abusive groups and people, should that not be viewed as a reflection upon the idea?
The New Glenn Beck
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Well that's what Microsoft said about Android in 2008. No wonder that Firefox is loosing popularity, when they refuse to innovate.
The thing that's changed recently is the theory about which part of the airplane the patch might have been applied to.

From http://tighar.org/wiki/2-2-V-1 (http://tighar.org/aw/mediawiki/index.php?title=2-2-V-1&oldid... if the wiki page gets edited):

> "All aspects of the artifact, including the rivet pattern, fit closely with a section of the belly on the right hand side of the aircraft between stations 269 5/8ths and 293 5/8ths..."

My recollection is that they ultimately decided that the patch did not match the section of the belly described in the quote. It's only been in the last couple of months that they started thinking that the patch might have been one that covered the window.
Sooo much good advice here! Thanks to everyone who has responded. This is very useful for me and hopefully for other readers as well.
I found his "Who am I?" page interesting:

http://davidpratt.info/cv.htm
Still, there are laws on the books in a majority of states that allow employers to fire people based solely on their sexual orientation.

That includes Alabama where Tim Cook was born and attended university.
Maybe he means that MS has made an attractive device that supports its competitor's (more popular) platforms?
One thing that wakes me up every morning is not drinking any caffein on regular basis. No coffee, energy drinks, tea, or soda.
I'm Proud Catholic. Now let's see how many down votes I will get. Probably voted by the same people who apparently don't care about your sex orientation. Or religion...

Most gays hate Catholic Church. Do they believe in freedoms that they demand then?
> I'd instead make damn sure I didn't carry any Apple products in public for fear of some stranger connecting the dots and bullying me.

This makes little sense in a world where every second device you see is an iDevice.
Look at his sources. This is where he is drawing evidence for his claims. This is why it is important for people with credentials to vouch for each other. It is a web of trust. One can sound reasonable while spouting lunacy if the broader population doesn't have the specific knowledge to assess their claims.
Penguins might get a leg up on the information, but they won't be able to reach New Your Stock Exchange before those who live right next to it, so it all evens out.

The only creatures who are disadvantaged by this scheme are polar bears and others living way north of the stock exchange - they also get their data late, but can't compensate by shorter distance to exchange.
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Using mailgun now for incoming email, have it set to POST emails to my http endpoint which saves them to database and send a copy to another address.
I think the proponents of same sex marriage would respond that what they are trying to do is not prevent the government from regulating behavior (which, as you say, is the essence of lawmaking), but prevent the government from treating persons in same sex relationships differently from persons in opposite sex relationships. The key question is whether the government can discriminate based on sexual orientation.

In the U.S., the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment prohibits a state from denying any person "the equal protection of the laws." This would appear to forbid discrimination based on any characteristic at all. Of course, governments make distinctions based on people's characteristics all the time. These range from the mundane (persons with poor vision can be required to wear corrective lenses while driving) to the highly consequential (American citizens of Japanese ancestry can be interred during a war against Japan).

The history of the Equal Protection Clause, then, is a long and messy process of sorting out what kinds of discrimination are permissible and what aren't. And there has been a lot of movement, especially during last few decades. Consider that during the lifetime of George Takei, the EPC was interpreted to permit the internment of his family (Korematsu v. United States, 1944) and giving him the right (in California) to marry his husband of the same sex (Hollingsworth v. Perry, 2013).

The current standard is that that you can discriminate on a basis other than certain "suspect" classifications if the discrimination is reasonably related to a legitimate government interest.

In the recent Windsor case, the Supreme Court concluded that the federal Defense of Marriage Act failed to meet even that minimal standard. Many lower courts have invalidated state same sex marriage bans on the same basis.

You can argue that it is the place of the legislature to decide what classifications it can use in lawmaking, but that raises two problems. First, the clause is part of the Constitution and it must impose some limit on the power of state legislatures, and there needs to be a process for interpreting what that limit is. Second, history has shown that the political process doesn't always protect unpopular minorities (though there are also good arguments that courts are not that much better).
> In metros you would find gay pubs and bars, open kissing on the streets among gay partners with no one bothered a bit

I really doubt this. Kissing in public is highly frowned upon for heterosexuals only and there will be a shitstorm if gay couple found openly kissing. Take this incident, happened in September 2014 in Mumbai/Bombay, two couples were harassed by police just because they hugged publicly[0]. Police harass couples all the time if they found indulging in PDA. Read this BBC news report for instance[1].

Wiki [2] says: "Public display of affection is regarded as unacceptable in India. Kissing and hugging are taboo."

[0] - http://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-couple-harassed-fined...

[1] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7871304.stm

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_display_of_affection#Ind...
In addition to all these very useful answers above I would like to recommend the following approach:

1) Write an article
2) Do not hesitate to make any kinds of mistakes
3) Give it to a proofreader/editor
4) Compare your version versus edited one
5) Learn
6) Repeat form #1

P.S. for proofreading i would recommend oDesk, 300Editors or Wordy.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/09/twain-speech/
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We're geoengineering no matter what we do. Might as well geoengineer in a way that we think has a possibility of success.
Monsters and Thieves
> Is this not the case?

It should be the case. In practice, it is often not the case. If you doubt this, search 'feminist' on youtube, watch a dozen random videos, and try to identify the issues and beliefs which the speaker sees as intrinsically 'feminist' ones, and ask yourself whether those issues and beliefs are really in support of equality. Its a bit of a mixed bag.

I'm not trying to attack feminism, as I strongly believe in equality and we have a lot of work to do. And obviously there are anti-feminists who have always tried to distort the messages of feminists, and fabricate their own. But these days, those manipulators don't have to try very hard.

I don't see how we can fix this, though. The commercial approach to a similar problem would be absurd in this case: creating centralized certification body regulating which 'feminist goals/speakers/blogs/books/lines-of-argument/etc' are deemed 'truly feminist'.
I'm confused then. Why would one wear this and a watch?
What does being openly gay mean exactly? And how do you know there aren't others on the list?

About 2% of people self-identify as gay. So 10 people on that 500 list are likely to be gay, give or take.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014...

Is your theory that the remaining nine should issue press releases? How do you know others aren't openly gay with the only people that matter: friends, family, loved ones; as opposed to feeling the need to broadcast it to the media.

Straight people don't go around declaring their sexuality, nor ever feel the need to. Gay people shouldn't feel the need to either. That is a critical hallmark of equality.

Do I have to email the press to declare that I'm openly gay and running a Fortune 500 company?

Should I declare that I'm openly straight and running a Fortune 500 company?

It's an absurd premise, and it presumes that we all need to be declaring our sexuality. That another person has a right to know my sexual orientation. It's not only false but disgusting.
I wouldn't say DOA (which is final). As the comment there says, it doesn't make sense currently. But that could change.
Depends on the method, but you can be sure that you're losing at least 10% to inductive/RF losses, and more typically 20%.

Reasonable for a phone, batshit insane for EV charging, which is why Magne Charge never took off. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magne_Charge) 20% of 6 kW for every car, times millions of cars...
Indeed, without resorting to metaphysics, I don't know whether any other beings besides myself are self-aware or just pretending. I have good reasons to believe other humans are self-aware, but I can't prove it scientifically. It's too bad that scientists tend to be so dismissive of philosophy; I think some rigorous metaphysics would really help in this field.
I double-checked just to make sure, but even via the API, you don't get your minute-level data, only consolidated information. Fitbit of course collects and stores this information, and makes it available as a "partner feature", they just don't make accessible to you - apparently you don't have any claim to your biometric data in their view of the world. Honestly, that's rather galling and makes me hope they burn in a fire.
There's several kernel projects already, you'd have a small community to talk to :) #rust-osdev on Mozilla's IRC is where they hang out.
Rackspace's hosted mail services are very good. I've used the hosted Exchange ($10/mailbox/month) and they have a lower-end service for $2/mailbox/month.

Support and reliability have been exceptional.
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I am not commenting here to feel good about myself or to spread my moral views. I am attempting to appeal to his personal and our collective self-interest.
> But for now the evidence appears consistent with my innate prejudice - the Hacker News ranking algorithm tends to penalise stories that address social issues.

My innate prejudice says something worse: that many stories that have to do with social justice but are oblivious to their potentially adverse effect (intentionally or not) are not penalized and are rather handsomely rewarded. These are stories that seem to be about "innovation", but are really about a power struggle (e.g. stories about companies providing marketplace services in the "sharing economy"), with the sole exception of privacy (which fits with the techno-libertarian bias).

It is often said that discussion here shouldn't be about politics, but the worst kind of politics is that which you don't even notice (or choose not to notice).

And once something of substance does come up, it's so frustrating to see it quickly drop in rank because it's automatically tagged as controversial. So a story about a company offering cheap food delivery can stay at the top for a while, but a discussion about a workers' strike against Uber quickly disappears from the front page.
> I really doubt this.

You have not been frequenting the right places then. Come to Bombay, come to Delhi, its a frequent sight outside the gay bars, more so in Bombay than Delhi. Have to admit that the first time I saw it I was indeed caught by surprise.

In some places you might get beaten up (yeah even possibly by the cops), or have acid thrown at your face (this punishment is reserved exclusive for women and applied mainly when they cut across caste or religious boundaries). According to many in the the current ruling political party, such acts of violence are eminently condonable and justified.

As I said, it is very high variance place, I am firmly in my thirties now and yet I never stop learning / experiencing something new about my country as I travel. The key is to cut across those invisible boundaries. Come to the North East its a whole different country, different value system different culture.

Given that you posted about Bangalore current events, I am sure you know of that sri ram sene idiot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Ram_Sena http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pramod_Muthalik

EDIT: Yep!! some downvotes on all of my comments on this thread. Those took a while to come, I am expecting more. The belief system that I am complaining about does have their champions, and at politically significant levels.
He doesn't want to selectively sync only certain files with his phone. He wants to browse the available files and then on demand download that file. This is a common use case for me also and something that dropbox supports pretty well.
I'm taking my crayons and going home!
I find it useful to not think of the brain as what's in my cranium, but rather my brain is my entire neural network.

I feel not entirely convinced that I'm a Harvard architecture. A von Neumann architecture seems more plausible... long story short because humans have huge problems learning to walk on two legs.

Evolutionary neuroscience might provide the answer we seek, through the normal technique of belief propagation.
The usual solution to abuse of sick pay, mentioned in the UK link above, is to require a doctor's certification for any leave > X days (7 in the UK according to the link, I know it's 3 in Switzerland).
I tried to mention that, but he did explicitly say "eugenics" and it wasn't 100% clear that it was metaphorical.
Well if we want to get technical that's how every compiler works, except the stenographer is writing 0s and 1s instead of JS. Writing C saves you time over writing machine code, that's what a programming language is supposed to do. They make it easier for a human to give instructions to a computer.
Let me add a refrain to your hyperbole by saying that I too am shocked that Christians do not practice Old Testament Jewish customs.
Apple will go to great lengths to steal Microsoft's thunder.

I jest. This is a momentous announcement. But, I look forward to the day when being a gay CEO (politician, sports figure, etc.) is not newsworthy.
I realise HN doesn't like people saying 'thanks, me too'... however... in this particular case I just wanted to say "Thanks!!!" ... I'd not realised you could do this and I'm now 5 minutes into migrating a few domains across. Brilliant.
Oh I saw it. That's exactly what I'm talking about.

The United States constantly labels itself the best country in the world, the pinnacle of democracy and freedom, etc. when unfortunately the reality for millions of people is not so good.
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Even if this fails commercially (as most out of the blue innovations do) its good for HP and people will reference it for years.

So in the long run its a good move for them.
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I appreciate that autovectorization is hard to do well. However, I think the world of JS is different from the world of C/C++. JS optimization is already pretty unpredictable, since the language is dynamic (both in terms of typing and e.g. object memory layout, with the exception of typed arrays); JS primitives are farther from the metal; the optimizations that JS engines perform are implementation-specific, rarely well-documented and always in flux; and it's difficult to see what machine code actually runs for a given JS function. SIMD instructions may make some sense for JS as a compiler target, but they seem to make less sense for JS as a language that doesn't have integers or 32-bit floating point numbers. On top of that, most users of vectorization are targeting a specific architecture or even CPU, whereas JS code is meant to run anywhere. It doesn't seem like there's been much work to alter the language or tools to make it easier for programmers to reason about other sources of unpredictability, so why so much emphasis on SIMD?

I'll admit some ignorance here, but it also seems to me that a JIT may also have some advantages WRT autovectorization as compared with a static compiler, since you can collect runtime information about aliasing and loop trip count before choosing to vectorize. But if the point is to make performance easier to reason about, why not start with the rest of the language before worrying about vectorization?
I blame my deep integration with the internet for my belief that I'm actually a cat.
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> Psychopathy, noun
> mental disorder especially when marked by egocentric and antisocial activity [1]

> Antisocial: adjective
> hostile or harmful to organized society; especially : being or marked
> by behavior deviating sharply from the social norm [2]

So if you're more intelligent (deviating sharply from the social norm) and you know you're intelligent (egocentric), you're kind of a psychopath, by definition of the word psychopath. What's the surprise there?

Not being accepted or understood by the society that you excel above would also be expected.

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychopathy

[2] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antisocial
Reminds me of myself a few years back, but it was a different tactic. Ok maybe it was 13 years ago, but still... I was offered $14/hr for some job at a factory as computer support. I had an interview with the customer, and the agency accidentally forwards me what they were making. I asked for $17/hr or no deal. It was a fair deal because I knew how much they were making and their profit was still good. They threatened to get someone else, I hung up, they called back later and accepted the deal. After working there for a while I found the timesheets of the previous person ... at $17/hr. So I was glad that I held out. It was a fine moment of negotiation on my part. I could have asked for more, but I gave them a fair number that I knew they couldn't refuse.
A couple years ago a certain im-too-fucking-important-to-take-sick-time asshole biz-dev exec came to work sick as a dog and had literally 2/3 of employees out sick the next week. And thats at a tech company where we had plenty of sick time.

Now think about people who work in restaurants, fast food, or on an ambulance as emts. Most of them have zero paid sick leave. Hell, when we were discussing Jimmy Johns -- a shitty sub shop -- requiring NDAs, it came out that in order for an employee there to take (unpaid!) sick time, he or she must find a replacement first.

Think about that the next time you buy a sandwich: the person making it will come to work, sick or not. Yummy!
Carbonated beverages are a red herring. This page[1] says a can of soda has 2.2g of CO2. If every single person in the world (population 7.125B) drinks 10 cans of coke every day for a year, we will be using 63 Mt of CO2.

Mankind emitted 33615 Mt of CO2 in 2010[2].

[1] http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/9067/what-is-th...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...

(Edit: sorry I at first miscalculated the result to be 6.3 Mt.)
>I'd add that it's not only paying attention to these things, but questioning them.

Personally, I feel the rebellious aspects of intellectualism are far, far overplayed to the point of absurdity. It leads to buying into marginalized, if not discredited, ideas and not doing a proper investigation into mainstream knowledge. I mean, how many more reddit posts about the "evil" Federal Reserve or how terrible of a person Thomas Edison was do we need? Especially when these opinions are tied to politicized propaganda from the opposition and not remotely tied to a legitimate interest into monetary policy or late 19th century industry.

I don't think young geeky introverts need to be told to be more rebellious, if anything they should learn to conform more, learn better social skills, understand the power of teams and collaboration, etc. I really wish someone told me this when I was younger. These attitudes did me a big disservice in life and I imagine I would have been much more successful otherwise.
no source maps? :( come on!
Why are people still using languages like scheme? I learned that in university and always hated all those parentheses and thought I would never have to use it again.
You speak well enough that most people won't point out problems in your language. That's an issue because you aren't getting enough feedback to make progress.

To wit, I haven't seen anyone given you concrete feedback on your writing.

Your writing is generally good, but you occasionally use words in non-idiomatic ways. The effect is jarring because the rest of the writing seems solid.

For example: "makes me believe that I will be stagnated" You are using the word "stagnate" improperly. One cannot "be stagnated". (It's not a transitive verb). You should write "makes me believe that I will stagnate"

Or, perhaps this is cultural, I couldn't really understand this sentence: 'I find it not justice that "Tim Cook Speaks Up" is eating my cake. What if I am only a heterosexual guy, a troll and my only goal is to get some karma points.' It came across really strangely, and made me feel uncomfortable, like there was some joke I didn't understand.

My main feedback is find a trusted native speaker who will actually point out when you say something in a non-standard way.

You should actively solicit criticism of how you speak, from people that you like and trust. Explain to these people that they won't hurt your feelings, but that they are helping you learn. Encourage them to point out to you when you say something that is understandable but sounds funny.