skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the FMLA IS government regulation, and it isn't working so well.

Besides, plenty of other governments regulate this, and they do things differently. Government regulation vs no regulation doesn't really weigh in here.
Another vote for Zoho, should really be your first option as it's free.
Don't forget about Presto
Isn't GWT doing a similar task.
getStyle().set....
> We know that homosexuality is a destructive force in society.

> It's yet another small victory for the evil one

For your own good, please, please, please, please try to reconcile your religion with reality. There's a whole load of stuff in the Bible that isn't meant to be taken literally. The current Pope has been very forward-thinking (in Catholic church scales) in 'relaxing' views about contraception, homosexuality, etc.

But even if that weren't so, how can you call yourself an intelligent Human Being and believe that homosexuality is destructive and evil?

Do you believe it is a choice? Do you accept that it isn't a choice, but still think it is a sin? I'm genuinely curious.

> But it's my duty to speak the truth even when it's uncomfortable or inconvenient. At the end of my life, at least I'll be able to say that I acted with integrity.

If only Integrity were a Singleton. You may think you're acting nobly according to your instanceof Integrity, but you certainly aren't by mine.
Wrong. Disability will make up for some lost wages, but does not replace medical insurance.
> My methodology for posting comments on HN or any social news site is based on my values. I value production over consumption, and so to curb my consumption and increase my production I created a rule for myself: If I read a post on social media(HN, reddit, etc), I have to leave a comment on it. No ifs ands or buts. I almost never actually want to comment, but by the time I'm done commenting I'm always glad I did.

This is an awesome advice. Thanks!
I didn't miss those disclosures. None of them contradict my first paragraph.
Apple reportedly reverses decision on rejecting iOS 8 calculator widgets
The tools for twiddling the bits of hex bytes are not always as readily available as those for Phillips or flathead bytes. Torx bytes are rarer still, and should be avoided.
A few thoughts:

1) Your English seems fine! I see little difference between your writing and others' here.

2) The writing on Hacker News isn't especially good. I would aim much higher; study writing as a craft and skill (I'll add suggestions below). I even wonder if your post is a troll, flattering HN posters!

> I wonder how people get to express their ideas in such a clear and persuasive way, many times they seem to be very intelligent and informed.

3) I wouldn't assume that those appearances match reality. Unfortunately there is little relationship between writing persuasively and presenting accurate information, and between appearing informed and actually being informed. Throughout history, many misinformed or deceitful people have persuaded others to follow them into catastrophe.

4) Suggestions for studying writing:

* Write. There is no substitute. Set aside regular time every day to write essays, fiction, poetry -- anything expressive and carefully thought through.

* You must think clearly to write clearly. If you don't understand your thoughts well, how can you express them to others? Get your thoughts in order and understand your feelings before you write.

* Take classes in composition; online classes are fine. Also here are two short books I (and many others) highly recommend: The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, and Style by Joseph Williams.

* As much as you can, read only the best; you will learn from what you read, so don't learn mediocrity. I mean great craftsmen of language such as Hemingway, Nabokov, or Martin Amis; there are many others and generally you can find them among the authors of what is considered great "literature".[1]

[1] I know some here will feel that's snobbish, but great skill with language is essentially a requirement of literature and not of other genres, which have their own strengths.
It is telling that the poster who confused admired with admirable linked to a list which placed amazon at #2, and included coca-cola, disney, nike, and the like.
Isn't that a fascinating graph? What can one make of it? Maybe that although racial prejudice was common throughout the 20th century and is not gone today, there was always a sense of its wrongness that was evident to legislators and judges. In contrast, homophobia is still a very acceptable prejudice to a lot of people.

I think one can also see in this graph the effects of the determined efforts by the American right, over the last few decades, to influence the makeup of the judiciary.
Lenovo's smartphones are basically unknown in the west but they recently surpassed LG as the third-biggest seller globally, behind Samsung and Apple.

There could be bright future ahead for Motorola in that company.

Edit: actually per Q3 2014 shipments it looks like the two companies are swapping places, it is very close

http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/article/2078/global-smartphon...
Filial obligations to elderly parents: a duty to care?
You are correct, but if you control the environment enough to be doing this at all, then you control the environment enough to get the serialization consistent: either by having ordered dictionaries in the language a la Python and PHP, or implementing your own, or by sorting the keys lexicographically a la bencode.

That is, `diff(sorted_json_stringify(json_parse(p)))` will be adequate if `diff(p)` is not.
I don't love the idea of policing "legitimate" illness vs "mental health day" vs vacation.
> Are there any reasons besides being new and not-so-popular for that?

It has a level of flux that is astonishing (even compared to other pre-1.0 languages)... now, it could be argued that this is how a pre-1.0 should be, but it makes it very hard to build any serious project around it (note: a few companies have).
Zoe Quinn: GamerGate must be condemned
"Zero paid leave" is not quite true, it's left to the individual States to decide that. CA, DC, NJ, HI, NY and PR each have paid family leave. If your state isn't in that list, complain to your state government.

It's still complicated though. I took paternity leave last year in CA and it was like this: there's a 7-day waiting period, so the first week was straight PTO. Then PFL pays 55% of salary up to I think $1k/week, so you make up the difference with partial PTO. That can go on for up to 6 weeks; if memory serves I took 4 weeks total off.

All in all not terrible. I realize I'm fortunate to live in CA where there is a PFL policy, and to work for a company that's with-it enough to process these claims quickly and competently. I truly feel for others like the woman in the article.
Congrats you just argued for a social welfare system. This is what modern societies do. Yet, for some reason in the US it's branded as socialism which is viewed as equal to communism which is evil and therefore never enters the debate.
> Of course, that was 6 years ago... so why should Brendan Eich be ostracised in 2014 for donating money to a campaign which was quite popular back then?

It's wrong regardless of when it occurred.

> At what point did Mozilla's mission for a free and open internet turn into one about social justice and identity politics?

This lame attempt to dismiss equality won't fly.
How a simple focus group transformed our product
How is this different from stackoverflow?
Then that's a horrible, shitty fucking trade.
Here's What I Did the Day AFTER Launching My Startup
The COBOL of 2050?

I can imagine some poor sap who has not yet been born getting his first job in programming around that time. "Yeah, we don't actually do VR code modelling here, so you have to type. Fortunately there's not a lot of typing for this particular job. Your task is to maintain these assembly scripts. They generate a really complicated old text document format, which is then fed to a big old server in our original data center, which is now completely dark apart from this one machine... It's running something called AIX. Nobody knows what that shit is, so don't execute any commands that are not on the safe list."
Microsoft ended free custom domain support earlier this year [0]. To use custom domains with Outlook.com, you either have to have already configured Outlook to use a domain name or pay $5/user/month for Office 365 [1].

0: http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-ends-custom-domain-suppo...

1: http://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-office-365...
Supersonic Laser Rockets Are One Step Closer to Reality
It pays awesome and is easy work. If the handbook prohibited saying the word "zucchini" under penalty of dismissal I'd happily strike the word from my vocabulary.
Pants to replace diaper bag for dads on kickstarter
My problem is that if it's also a sleep tracker. When are you supposed to charge these things?
It crashed my Firefox a few times, randomly, apparently. I managed to play a few rounds, but for no apparent reason it just crashed without any error being displayed. On FF 33 on Linux.

EDIT: it stopped crashing when I disabled sounds and other people's ships.
natural
ˈnatʃ(ə)r(ə)l/Submit
adjective
1.
existing in or derived from nature; not made or caused by humankind.

2.
in accordance with the nature of, or circumstances surrounding, someone or something.

---

The existence of millions of homosexual humans in nature invalidates your point.
Here is an article discussing the utilization of this technique specifically for CHICKEN scheme.

http://www.more-magic.net/posts/internals-gc.html
Autovectorization has been an area of intense compiler effort for a decade or more and by and large the primary customers of it (games, video codecs, etc.) prefer the intrinsics. It's perceived as too unreliable and brittle to be relied upon, and it's easy to see why: given a choice between having to think about what the compiler's alias analysis, overflow analysis, loop trip count analysis, etc. will do and just writing an intrinsic and calling it a day, programmers will choose the latter.

This applies regardless of how good the autovectorization really is: it's in a weird catch-22 kind of space where adding more and more features to your autovectorizer can actually reduce its perceived reliability, by making the answer to "will this vectorize?" harder and harder for a programmer to answer at a glance. <xmmintrin.h> has a lot of problems, but it's reliable, and at the end of the day that's what history has shown that game devs and video codec authors want.
CDO: Newest Seat in the C-Suite
Myself and all the feminists I know are definitely in favor of paternity leave. I'm having a hard time imagining an argument against it.
NTIS expands free access to federal technical reports
> "Dropping sympathy" for the feminist movement as a response a few bad feminists that you've encountered is not really justified, or rational.

When you are made to feel unwanted, excluded, and otherwise not welcome it is natural to go elsewhere in search of inclusiveness. This is a far more common reaction than that of adopting sympathy for those excluding you. No aspect of this should be surprising to a feminist.
Am I the only one that feels like insisting that every occupation has 50/50 gender representation is an odd policy goal? Can't there be things that women prefer and things that men prefer and that be okay?
BITalino’s Next-Gen Sensors Squeeze the Costs of Building Connected Health Apps
RESTful API for processing emails (inline CSS etc)
Reading [1], I was absolutely disgusted not only by the facts of the case, but the tone of the reporting.
I think I'd take this with a couple of bags of salt without some sign of peer review.

Edit: look at his sources.
Implementing Load Balancer on Go
Separating the library does not remove dependency because library version change affects both primary components so the change requires coordination. This is really fundamental in large systems and I was hit by it many times.

Copy & paste sounds bad but what it really says is: let's make that piece an invariant and don't import the library if you only need one short function.

So I would say the trade off boils down to "simplicity vs flexibility"
scheduled emails to check in with our users.

That's not "transactional email". That's spam.

You're a spammer. Die.
Amusing to see this on the same day that Tim Cook shocks no one by coming out publicly but making headline news everywhere.

For all of the tremendous focus on so-called family values in the United States, it seems that what is usually meant has something to do with sex. If only all of that energy could be focused on serious policy problems like this one.
How does it compare to ClojureScript?
Supporting a cause that limit someone right based on their sexual orientation is hurting people. The fact that 52% support it doesn't change the fact that you limit someone right. Even if 99% people believe that brown hair people shouldn't have the right to take the bus, it wouldn't be less wrong. It's not magically right to limit rights because the majority agree.

I never said that what people did to Eich is right, I currently don't have an opinion on that because I doesn't know enough.
Or "wrong" because I just didn't use enough words. COBRA was passed in 1986, so given reasonable DI, medical coverage could be maintained.

ACA makes it that much more likely that coverage could be maintained.

I don't see how it is unreasonable to expect DI to cover a planned expense like medical insurance, but I agree that I didn't spell all that out in painful detail.
The handoff of the market data feed is over multicast but the connection at L3 to the exchange is BGP.

Since everyone has the same latency from the feed, the goal is to take the feed in and fanout to host as fast as possible. So ideally one port on this switch is to the exchange and the others direct to servers or if you need more scale to another lay of low latency switches that the server farms connect to. For all the money spent on this it is really pretty simple from a networking point of view.
Do you mean millions of Christians don't take the Bible as the word of god? Because "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death" (Leviticus 20:13) doesn't seem to leave the place for a non-literal interpretation which would not condemn gay sex (without some serious mind bending).
If a company is required to provide paid leave, then that means they are required to pay a person money and aren't getting anything in return for that money. In other words, you're paying a person not to work. It essentially acts the same way as a tax.
Yawning is designed to wake you up. Yawn's apparently provide a boost of O2. We yawn when we're tired because we're trying to stay awake/alert and yawning enables that; if someone yawns when you're talking then they're actually trying to concentrate - that's a good thing.

I'm pretty good at fighting the panic response when holding my breath - lots of underwater swimming bravado as a child - at what point do you breath?!? Leave it too long and you'll just pass out at the wheel. I'd imagine for me this would be too distracting and make me more likely to crash.

A research contender though.
Several statements he made in this post seemed weirdly manipulative to me, and that was one of them.

I mean, its great that he chooses and advocates the view that homosexuality can be a 'gift'. That it can be a positive thing! Props for that!

But the phrasing...does he really believe that the imaginary being he worships chose for him to be gay? Like the creator of the universe is really sitting there saying "oh, I'll make this one straight! and this one bi! and this one gay!"
That sounds kind of like what I mean. I consider it having a runtime if anything that can be used without importing the standard library won't work out of the box when you boot a machine to it.
with alot of these services you can actually watch on a google maps app as customers open your emails.
This space need to be filled. Best of luck MovingWorlds!
We still have hope then, thanks!
Like people said, it is practice.

Stackoverflow worked wonders for me. Of course at first I sounded like Tarzan, but after some time I started to get comments like this: "+1 for sense of humor and for the fact the post is written in normal English, not geek English".
Thanks for the link! I tried going through the issues (randomly clicking) but I am not seeing use cases.
https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd/issues/89
https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd/issues/85
https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd/issues/84

They are good technical discussions. What I am looking for is use cases for people to use in websites.
For large companies the minimum number of sick days should be the number of days for which a doctor verifies you are unfit to work through illness. Such companies who also have morals will make allowances for a certain number of uncertified days of illness (you don't get a doctor's note for flu, going in to work when you're too weak to stand up and can barely concentrate long enough to take meds; or going to work and spending the whole day on the toilet, again, same). They should also, as a minimum show of humanity, allow leave for funerals of family and close friends.

The USA looks less and less like a democracy _for_ the people the more I learn about it.
Neat! Is anyone playing with js crypto and this new stuff?
I tend think it's systemic of tech's new culture that's stuck in a feedback loop with itself. The recent tech culture seems to stem some huge fallacies about what it takes to be a "good" programmer and the agenda is pushed by all the tech companies and charters.

For example, participating in hack-a-thons, commiting to open source, blogging, tweeting, working on personal projects during the weekend, updating your linkedin profile, participating in hacker news, etc...

Moderation is key and life is a trade off. So the extra time spent working is your life slowly being wasted away for some other persons benefit for free.

Additionally, a lot of start ups believe will change the world, they won't. Your tee shirt or food delivery business aren't going to change anything, but for someone reason, they sell to their employees these lines and they believe it.

The pressure to confirm and turn yourself into a model programmer seems more toxic then anything else.
I'm sure it goes against the grain if you're used to being the one everyone depends on, but please just never feel like you really can't talk to anyone. By all means keep focusing on the positive as long as that's working for you, but if you feel like you need more than you have to give, it can be as simple as just stating facts like you've done here. Having trouble sleeping? Bad dreams? Keep having negative thoughts? Just say so. You don't have to open up all your emotions for someone to see you need a bit of support.
Came in here to post the same thing. As another Lisp to JavaScript transpiler and the popularity and support for ClojureScript already I think there needs to be some pretty compelling differences.
Yes, but I don't like using Google authoritative DNS. Also, I'm not sure if they make DKIM accessible.
Wal-Mart Tests Matching Prices with Online Rivals
I hate to "me too" this comment, but I agree. I don't even tell people I'm an atheist anymore so as not to be associated.

Someone in the thread actually claimed this:

> I am also an atheist which, today, in the US, is worst than being gay in some circles.

They're not even remotely close in terms of persecution. And I use that word lightly when referring to the modern atheist.
EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Filming Yoga Class
I don't think nuclear, solar, wind or hydro plants produce much CO2.
Having worked in restaurants, I wonder whether this would actually make more than a marginal impact on the number of food workers coming in sick. If I'm a cook and I am told I get 40 hours per year (so 3-6 shifts, depending on your hours) to get paid to stay home 'sick', there's a pretty good chance I'm going to come in anyway with a cold, so that I can take off for more important reasons, like family occasions or a court date. Since I don't get paid vacation days for these things, I'm going to call my boss, cough a few times, and use a paid sick day.

Note: I'm not against the idea, just think it's too little to meet it's stated purpose.
Well said. This is the end result of letting developers perform system administration tasks. I doubt that they were able to Google the root cause on Stack Overflow. :)
ohhhh. Now that's good to know! Thnaks. I'll be doing that right now.
5 big lessons learned from our first GSoC
Please don't do that. Posting personal information about people who did not wish to have it public is super uncool. I'm sure if she wanted to name the university she would have.
You've read it in a nonsense way. Prior to iOS 8, only certain data was encrypted on the device. Apple did not have the keys to decrypt that data, nor did law enforcement. After iOS 8, they implemented full disk encryption like Android and continued to not have the keys to decrypt encrypted data.

CALEA does not apply.
My 2-minute take is that SO is optimized for Q&A - Q: "I have this problem", A: "Here's my suggestion..", whereas CodeHive seems to be optimized for "Here's a neat little trick I discovered" w/ associated comments.

i.e.: https://www.codehive.io/boards/ExyI5yQ
Apologize if this is a dumb question but is the point here to make a language that's somewhat analogous to a stenographer typewriter or a Dvorak keyboard or something? In other words, you can write out new code in Jisp, then hit the compile button and it compiles to JS and you paste that into Sublime Text and you have thereby saved time?
New EU Digital Chief Floats Tough Anti-Google Regulations
Wow, that's a really interesting way to set the payment level.
Because the list evidences that Tim Cook is the ONLY openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company (and he happens to be at the head of #5).
You don't need to be proud of being straight because being straight is the default - and society doesn't give you any shit for being straight.

Pride - in race, in sexuality, in gender, in whatever else - comes from ostracism and marginalization. You band together, develop a group identity, form communities, etc, because the world treats you poorly. Gay Pride is a development out of necessity, not just for parade floats.

This goes beyond sexuality - there is a massive "geek" community out there that gathers for conventions, concerts, and whatever else you can think of. Much of this community formed as a result of ostracism, both real and perceived.

Ditto race. Blacks, Asians, and Latinos band together - both formally in organizations, or informally in communities - to combat the racism its members experience, and support its victims.

When you find any description of people marginalized, odds are you will find communities and organizations that have formed around it. Pride is a natural response - a collective "there is nothing wrong with being us!" is a natural response to a society that tells you that what you are is wrong.

Now, to address your context of your comment - you're incredibly lucky if you don't "get" gay pride. I think most marginalized people would like to live like you - never having to belong to a collective to defend your being, or having society treat you like an individual instead of a constant outsider. To be in a position where this marginalization is invisible to you is a fortunate circumstance indeed.

So it's particularly annoying to those of us who are still marginalized in society - in whatever ways - that you've turned this around to play the victim. You live an enviable life, where you don't need to band together with other marginalized people out of desperation or necessity, yet you have the gall to turn it around as if you're being punished for it.
Are you really asking just about iPhones or should the title be changed to "old Smartphone"?

Anyway, yeah - I use my old phone as a stop-watch for short coding sprints.