skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like we had similar experiences. I had no model of "gay" that resembled me, and almost everyone around me was aggressively straight. Even considering the idea of being gay made me uncomfortable. So much changed in the last year that I felt safe thinking about it, and it was obvious in retrospect.
Ah sorry I was unclear - I was referring to an actual thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8526805
Except a bug in production software can disclose that same thing, except on a much more massive scale than a human? Almost any mistake a human can make can be translated into software and expanded by many magnitudes with a software bug.
>>> it didn't trigger anything in my brain that thought it mattered either way

This. It doesn't matter at all. Its great that people are embracing their sexuality, but there was no need to come out to the press about it. It doesn't change the way I see Apple as a company or even Tim Cook. He is still the same person before and after this article.
Or maybe that one day it will no longer be necessary to follow "I'm gay" or "the earth revolves around the sun" with "...but don't worry, there exists an interpretation of your ancient books according to which I would still be compliant with the commands of your God!"
Yes Drupal waiting too long to send out this public notice, yes it seems there were exploits written very quickly. The thing is, no one can manually exploit nearly every Drupal site out there without assistance of search engines. It's my opinion that search engines are the primary tool in a mass malicious exploit attempt such as this.

If search engines had restrictions in place for this obvious type of malicious search activity, we'd be much better off and would see a massive reduction in the huge number of infected/exploited sites/apps. They are using them as a database of targets and must be stopped.

I feel this is a wake up call to petition search engine providers to implement and restrict these types of queries that are obviously malicious. We can't prevent direct attacks but these robots that farm search engines for mass infection, something can be done.

The other item is these software vendors need to restrict and minimize anything that puts a giant flag up saying "Look at me, I'm a Drupal site!" EG: CHANGELOG.txt shouldn't be in www root, etc. Even some simple htaccess rules can provide a mountain of help.
I had three phone interviews with AWS, then they flew me to Seattle for 7 more interviews in one day.

I didn't get an offer.

There is a large randomness factor in interviews. You could have come in second to somebody who is basically your equal, but happens to have the same undergrad school as the hiring manager. You just don't know, and you never will.
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I don't really mind people not realizing they are idiots, if they could at least stop trying to be in power and stop ruling over others. Most of our leaders/rulers are complete idiots without realizing it, that's the worse problem on this planet; if you try to convince them of their ignorance, they react with power, insolvable..
I completely agree. I think unless your startup or core competency is something like that, why shard your core product's development/IT/whatever work to support an in-house product that's bound to have bugs(tm) right out of the gate? There very much should be a cost/risk analysis but there's an awful lot of NiH that honestly should be avoided if you can genuinely help it. You're still more than welcome to roll your own everything but you're just delaying your core competency to maintain something you could offload to someone that specializes in X, Y, or Z.

I would also suggest if you do go that route, have accurate metrics on everything. How much time are you spending maintaining what essentially is a separate product? How much is it taking from your MVP or is it part of it? If you can translate that to cost then you can judge how much offloading that service would be to someone that specializes in it.
A nice follow-up and details digging into yesterday's "This is why I can't have conversations using Twitter" post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8526208
Maybe. If they were already including a photocell, it might have been more or less free to use one that enabled this feature.

UV levels can also be counter-intuitive, where the type/amount of cloud plays into how much is blocked, or where a partly cloudy sky actually increases UV levels. Or where, using my dumb experience as an example, you forget to consider that the spring sun in Florida is more powerful than the summer sun in the north.
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I've thought about implementing something like this to convert a hook-based API into a streaming one. The use case being that there are things I want to build that don't need a public address. So, very nice!
(This is from my understanding of this, which is pretty limited)

I think this is an important point about Christianity and homosexuality. While the bible states homosexuality is a sin, it says a lot of things are sins. But it doesn't have some scale of REALLY BAD sins vs tiny sins. Sins are sins when it comes to Christianity. And the only way to salvation is through Jesus.

A church that would reject members based on sinful behavior would have no members. Where I think it gets tricky is that being a good Christian means that you try to overcome your sins as best as you can (you will never be sin-free), so embracing a sin (such as homosexuality) isn't considered being a good Christian.
I'd really like to know what the mail server software was that failed this way.
At least in the US, discussing coffee date etiquette usually carries the context of meeting a potential partner. Not so much regarding a relationship establishment for a job. Not to say that this would be frowned-upon, just unusual.

I think that if the two parties are in very near vicinity of each other, meeting over coffee could be a nice replacement for the typical first phone interview (finding out the prospect's experience/aspirations/etc.). I also feel like one would get more responses to these inquiries in Silicon Valley as opposed to, say, the Northeast.
I think like everyone is kind of saying here, the key is an introduction/intermediary to get your foot in the door. Even if it's just a friend of a friend. Otherwise, you can always try to e-mail out of the blue but calling is probably a little bit too aggressive. The worst thing that could happen is that someone doesn't reply to your e-mail.

Also, I'd be prepared for this meeting to be not just about you getting a job. Come with a lot of interesting questions to ask the person and make it about them and their company. When they ask about you, casually drop that you're looking for a new gig but don't make a big deal about it at all.
https://github.com/shish/pgosquery/blob/master/pgosquery/__i...

Wow. That does look easy.
I signed a mutual NDA the other day that wasn't too bad. It exposes both parties to the same risk and was consequently very reasonable in its demands.

Ask them if they would be willing to sign a an NDA that precluded them from using "your" ideas [anything you tell them during the first meeting] in their web site? That might make them think about what they are asking.

That said, they sound completely clueless and I would pass if they insist on the crazy NDA. As a general rule, clients that start out unreasonable or cheap do not get better.
Um. Women can be CEOs too.
I'm not sure I understand the "three phases of technology deployment" slide. Specifically, I can't think of a good example of a company that writes a check to buy technology (or the analogy to a plant on the following slide). Are these three types of companies distinct?
Am I alone in that whenever I see a TL;DR at the top of something, I immediately lose interest because it appears to want to appeal to the idiocracy.

Ironic, I know.
You seem to be assuming the actual existence of a "thread of consciousness" or a "conscious strain", when it could be an illusion.

When you wake up after a dreamless sleep, are you the same person, the same conscious entity, as went to bed the night before? Or is that entity now "dead", and "you" are a new entity that has just inherited its memories (most of which it in turn inherited from its predecessors)? How could you ever tell? In fact, are you the same conscious entity from moment to moment, or at least from thought to thought?

More "making a copy" thought experiments, none terribly original:

- If you're disintegrated and immediately reassembled, are you still you?

- Does using different atoms make a difference?

- Does leaving a gap between disintegration and reassembly make a difference? If so, how long a gap? What if you're resurrected at the Omega Point by sufficiently advanced aliens/post-humans?

- If you're split in two (sagitally, coronally, or however), and each half is immediately reconstructed into a whole human, each identical to you before the split, which is you? Which pair of eyes would you find yourself looking out of? Both? Neither?

- If the two "yous" exchange atoms, such that one ends up with the entire complement of atoms that made up you before the split and the other ends up with none, does that affect the claims of either to be the "real" you?
The sad thing is that it doesn't run on GNU/Linux natively, but runs via Wine.
Regarding the need to do a GET when not connected: How would a native app solve this problem any better? Presumably, there's live data that sometimes needs to be fetched. If you're not connected you're not going to get that data whether you're in a browser or an app.
Has seccomp enabled by default!
- The Enchihirdion by Epictetus

- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

- Letters of a Stoic by Seneca

- Dhammapada (various translations)

- Bhagavad Gita (various translations)
I'm actually an everything-developer and some of the wording of this particular document isn't clear on how anyone would prove whether or not I had access to the non-UI parts of the project, so how would I even go do non-UI work for someone else and still be in compliance?

One point I saw expressed in the past on NDAs is that, if you don't know anything about the project before signing, how do you know you don't already have a conflict of interest?

I'd be fine if the NDA covered a much more limited scope (say, it covered only official trade secrets and patents) and it came as part of an actual work contract. But to start a discussion with an NDA...

Is this just to be expected, that there is a high degree of amateur-hour shenanigans like this and I just have to slog through them? I'm fine with slogging, but I can see my wife getting anxious if I'm turning down most projects that come my way.
Reasons why people love to stay anonymous
1. You can be yourself and don't have to pretend to get people's aproval.

2.It opens more doors to the Internet.

3.It's more fun to know you can do whatever you like.

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Indeed. Oh, he's gay, we all knew that. Wait, the CEO of Apple is a Christian? That I did not know. Judging by the comment thread here, it seems to be new to a lot of people. It's not a big deal, but it did surprise me. It's easy to assume that a gay man living in the Bay Area is going to be an atheist.
My only beef with these "fitness bands" is their lack of being able to tell you how accurately you sleep at night. Without a heart rate monitor, there's really no way to be accurate other than to say you were restless versus laying still.

AFAIK the only product that does this is Polar's fitness band. And only because you can link their heart rate monitor to it to give you additional fitness information. I could be wrong to think they're the only one combining the two.
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That's the first thought that springs to mind, but not necessarily the case.

Aircraft from that era were quite solid and they did not have a pressurized hull. The Lockheed Electra and other similar aircraft from the same era flew in wartime operations and regularly came back full of holes.

A single window broken cover should not bring an otherwise sound 1930s era aircraft down.
I am not saying that I am of that opinion, but it seems valid to me to be of the opinion that marriage should be for the protection of families with the potential to have children (for example). It's just an opinion - isn't that what democracies are for?

Marriage comes with specific rights and obligations (like, presumably most controversial, adoption and "importing" spouses into the country). Somehow society makes rules for who gets those rights and obligations. Would you say for example everybody should have the right to import people into the country? For example why don't I get the right to bestow citizenship onto people whom I really like - do I need to fuck them to prove I love them? Isn't that discriminatory? Or why stop at gay marriage - what about polyarmory?

I am not against polyarmory, but suppose I have 100 lovers all over the world and I want them all to become US citizens? Why can't I just marry them all?

Maybe it would be fair if every citizen would get the license to bring n people into the country, no matter if married or not?

Again, I am not against gay marriage, I just want to demonstrate that there can be aspects that can be argued about.

I don't know enough about adoption to comment. Can everybody adopt children? Or do you have to prove you are a healthy couple, or wealthy enough, or whatever? Personally I think once you argue homosexuals are not fit to adopt, you would have to consider all other sorts of criterions as well (for example surely many heterosexual couples are not fit to have children, or less so than some homosexual couples). Adoption is complex, though.
I just like thinking about things out of my depth, so take my non-expert rantings with a grain of salt:

I actually have a personal theory similar to this, but instead of multiple parallel universes, just one other universe. Dual Universes.

I came up with this idea when thinking about dark matter and antimatter. I seem to understand that dark matter is more plentiful away from planetary bodies. When thinking about the big bang, the mathematics/physics that governed the forming of galaxies, stars, planets, black holes, etc, seem to indicate a desire of a certain "order".

What if another universe somehow broke into this one, and all the matter in it spewed forth as a different type of matter into ours? Perhaps that matter seeks to find it's original origin, perhaps in the form of a black hole back into that other universe. (discounting the blackhole/whitehole theory), but since black holes are fairly rare, in the mean-time, that matter seeks to gather until it can pass that point of no return to become a black hole.

In essence my idea is that gravity is a byproduct of matter seeking to return to it's antimatter state in another universe.

Lots of unfounded hypothesis there, so forgive me if I've gone off the deep end with that one. I'm just a curious george.
The purpose of a coffee date is to weed out people who don't drink coffee. You wouldn't want to work with such a freak of nature!
Just like I switched off Opera when it became a webkit fork, I do not see any reason in installing another one.

From my experience, Yandex is only good for one thing: Russian maps. Their accuracy and features are still unparalleled on Russian territory.

When it comes to browser though, I would still use Chrome if I wanted WebKit, FireFox if I wanted features and Opera 12 if I wanted great user experience.
It is inherently discriminatory. But people will go out of their way to rationalize their position, whatever it takes. If one is convinced that gay marriage is bad and that discrimination against gay people is also bad, one will come up with some way to explain how the two are not in conflict.
> How is enforcing legal restrictions against a minority class of people not inherently discriminatory?

That's begging the question: you're assuming that failure to recognise a homosexual relationship is a legal restriction, which really doesn't make sense. I can declare myself King of England, no-one in America will recognise me as such, but that doesn't impose any legal restriction on me.

There's the side issue of all the other things which 'marriage' acts as a legal shorthand for, but that is a side issue.

You're also assuming that discrimination is an inherently bad thing; it is, of course, not. Discriminating between a green and a red light is a pretty useful survival skill whilst driving, for example. Discriminating between reproductive and non-reproductive relationships is also useful; there's a difference.

My own personal view is that marriage is a religious matter, and that the State should no longer recognise it at all. If two men want to say that they're married, that's their right, just as it is mine to declare myself Grand Vizier of the Martian Republic—and no-one should be compelled by violence (which is what the law ultimately is) to heed either them or me.
I don't make any assumption about what you believe. When ever I say "you" in the text above you could replace it by "religious people" and this is the intended reading (if you believe X you are doing Y). Of course I accept what others choose to believe, how could I not. I have to hold people to their word. But of course this is not what you are really saying, you are really saying why don't you stop criticizing what people believe, because their irrationality and superstition is just as good as your reason. Of course everyone is free to believe what they want to, but we are also free to criticize them and ridicule stupid beliefs.

Tim Cook on the other hand is a Christian of the Southern (Alabama) brand.
I am curious how they generated their cost estimate. Hardware costs have already come down so significantly in the past few years, non-hardware costs (aka soft costs in the solar industry) now represent around 2/3 of the total installed costs. Soft costs include installation and maintenance, which precise tracker systems would increase over the traditional fixed PV array. Hardware cost reductions are probably not hitting the low hanging fruit of solar power costs.

http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2013/5306.html

Another factor to consider with concentrated solar is that it is more likely to be affected by soiling (ie, dust, bird poop and other particulate) issues than traditional PV. This would mean even more cleaning and maintenance adding more to the soft costs. Soiling is a fairly common problem in areas with lots of sun and little rain.

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/pdfs/pvmrw2011_19_cpv_wint...
“SimCity isn’t a sandbox. Its rules reflect the neoliberal common sense”
Malcolm Gladwell on the Trick to Building Self-Confidence as an Entrepreneur
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Agreed.

After I came out, one of the best things was getting an email from an 18-year-old guy who had read my blog saying that he'd never spoken to or read anything from a gay person in technology and it was cool to read something from someone who as a programmer and geek came from the same perspective as him. He then said he'd gotten the courage to tell his parents from that.

Which left me feeling amazing for about a week.

Tim Cook's article will do the same for young gay techies but on a much grander scale. :)
I'd personally prefer a nice personal sounding email than a cold call from someone I don't know, but it's not that big a deal. I've gotten "out of the blue" requests like this before and I usually say yes. If the request came via an employee, I'd definitely say yes.
Is Google Chrome not using Blink yet?
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The main difference is that Swedes spell it Lutfisk and Norwegians Lutefisk. Lutfish is just as traditional and (un)popular in both Norway and Sweden, and as far as I can tell the base recipe is basically the same in both countries. The only difference between the regions are the condiments and side dishes it is served with.
Well, I have a friend who is in contract law and we just so happen to be getting drinks tonight, so I will ask him about the concept.
What "lifestyle" is that, pray tell?
Greatness is not a slave to sexual orientation.
It clicked for me when I saw the example curl request;

`curl --data 'foo=bar&hello=there' http://hook.io/Marak/echo`

But yeah, up till then I felt a bit uncomfortable that the assumption was made that I already knew what it was all about.

Gotta say I really like it, maybe put the example curl request much nearer the top in a big font size?
As someone who has created quite a few of these mailers, the queue getting stuck on a single piece of mail and hanging indefinitely is incredibly common. As time has gone on my solutions have become simpler and more pragmatic, since additional complexity breads additional problems.

For example, if I was going to design an emailer today:

-Grab the email from a database save it to a file (likely one or several XML files) and place it in an "Outgoing" directory (ye olde file system).

- Then have a process which grabs an atomic lock (only one running at a time!), gets the directory listings, and launches the actual "sender" for every file individually (concurrently).

- When the launcher launches the sender it records the PIDs of the process against the actual emails/XML files internally.

- After a set wait period if any processes are still running, the launcher kills them, and moves the email/XML into a "Failed" directory which we monitor independantly.

- Every email which is sent gets moved to an "Archive" directory by the sender process, and we monitor that to see if no emails have been archived for a long time (e.g. 30 minutes).

You can accomplish the same thing using a database (Outgoing, Achive, and Failed tables), but frankly with so many awesome file system tools already around it doesn't make sense to reinvent that wheel. Plus people intuitively understand that if a file is sitting in the "Outgoing" or "Failed" directories then it hasn't been sent yet (just like your client would!).
Well first of all it looks like this may be one of your first major endeavors for providing a web service, for which I applaud you!

I took a brief look and figured I might provide some constructive feedback.

- The first thing I noticed is that the site is not secure. This, unfortunately, is a deal breaker for me as I prefer not to have personal data of any sort, transmitted unencrypted.

- 2nd thing I noticed is the "other apps by this developer" are two very simple basic games. No offense but this looks bad to someone when they're debating whether to trust you with their life contents. Might consider starting a shell developer account, centered around just PhoneOmega and keep the other account for personal projects.

I'm flipping phones and ROMs like crazy, so I'm ALWAYS on the lookout for a good service like this. I literally end up syncing thousands of text messages from phone to phone and it's ridiculously time consuming. Once the app feels secure I'll feel more comfortable giving it a shot but in the mean time I'm not able to.

You should add a mailing list for people to keep up with your progress! Good luck!
Why is forking on xen slow? Most google hits for "xen forking slow" seem to point to some discussions about redis, but I guess other software would suffer from that too.
gay or nay; who cares?! As long as he is not a gay rapist, nobody has a reason to mind at all.

The longer gay and non-gay keep asking for special attention for it, the longer it stays a problem.

Saying god gave you the gift of being gay?! That's just freaky weird imho.
Surely the Born rule is a problem for MWI.
The context of someone saying "homosexual agenda" is generally "they're trying to convert our children!" paranoia, not just general disapproval.