skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"pay taxes ... just like everyone else" is a little bit misleading. Organizations pay taxes if they operate for-profit, and don't if they operate not-for-profit.

We don't allow for-profit, tax-paying corporations to discriminate. Why, then, do we think the appropriate response to a religious organization being discriminatory is to treat them as a for-profit organization? It seems to me that tax law isn't the right tool to be wielding; it's very philosophically inconsistent.

More than that, it seems to me that the government's responsibility should be to allow for maximum diversity of opinion and practice. The government has a compelling interest in stopping systematic violence (whether motivated by race, gender, sexuality, or any other factor.) The government has a compelling interest in stopping systematic economic discrimination. But I don't see a compelling interest in eliminating all forms of discrimination everywhere. I think it's a Good Thing (TM) that religious organizations can decide who is and isn't a part of them. Even if that means some religious organizations are racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. they should have that right within their own doors. (Some religious groups have even more extreme requirements for marriage. Because Mormons believe in eternal marriage, they won't "seal" a divorced or widowed woman who has already been "sealed" before. It's discriminatory, but well within their rights as an organization.)
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I recommend Zoho. Been using it for a while now, no regrets.
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You can use outlook from microsoft for free...

http://www.process.st/2014/04/small-business-in-the-cloud-go...
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That's better than my old "increasingly harder slaps to the face" trick.
Indeed. Remember this when you go to vote next month.
Practice, Improvise, Fake it till you make it.
>> it's unlikely to harm me

It's unlikely to harm you if you sign it, and it's unlikely to harm the business if you don't. Why should you be the one to give in and not them? I refuse to sign documents when I don't accept the terms, and I refuse to sign documents when I'm asked to sign them without enough time to read them. I use this as a filter for people I don't want to do business with. I don't like doing business with people who I don't trust and who don't trust me. I'm happy to sign an NDA if the person wants me to, but if it's obvious they had a lawyer write it carefully, I want time to have a lawyer read it carefully.
I tried this with sqlite and the apsw python library. A quick example is at https://github.com/johnteslade/pysqliteosquery

The interface is not quite as nice as Multicorn's but certainly nicer than the C/C++ SQLlite interface. But you could probably create a wrapper around apsw so it looked similar to Multicorn.
Why the downvotes? If this is a sockpuppet account, it's sure playing a long game:

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As someone who's actually used Biztalk quite extensively: You wish Biztalk was that straightforward.
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Yes, that's the obvious downside of concentrators. Which has been discussed to boredom in the tech literature. You can basically do any one of the following:

- passive, non concentrated

- ordinary panels but tracking the sun in either 1 or 2 axis

- trough (sp?) concentrators to a cylindrical collector, tracking in one axis (no significant gain from tracking the other axis)

- parabolic concentrators to a collector moving with the parabola, tracking in two axis

- parabolic concentrators to a stationary collector (I built a prototype like this) tracking in two axis

The latter can come in two variations, one where the collector is placed on a post or one where it is placed close to the ground. These require different degrees of complexity and freedom of movement for the trackers.

So yes, any kind of concentrator will be associated with some kind of tracking.
That's table stakes at this point. Arista has had a programmable FPGA for years.
Disability insurance is meant to kick in there.

(I'm not arguing that this actually works for everyone, just that there is a mechanism for dealing with inability to work)
Eich didn't just "have an unpopular opinion", he actively contributed against civil rights for LGBT people. He is part of a dying breed, and he cannot possibly fade into obscurity quickly enough.
Ah, got it -- that clears everything up. Thanks!
This is reminding me of my first intern job, when I'd gotten an email about "donating vacation days" to someone with an extended illness who'd used up theirs. I didn't have any vacation days anyway because I was hourly, but I was kind of confused why taking sick time when you're sick required having coworkers "donate" it, so I asked a coworker why donating vacation days was even a thing. Coworker seemed a little dismayed, thought I was saying that it didn't make sense for people to help out a sick coworker. I had just assumed that the company wouldn't give people a hard time about having cancer.
I've been using "Atmail Cloud" for about 18 months now and have had no issues, I've got about 20 domains using the service.
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Doesn't work on FF 33.0 Ubuntu x86_64. It just hangs when it's almost finished with the loading bar.
Use zoho for several clients for under 10 for free, but looking for the next level up to 25 as well. Must be something other than fast mail and Google
Same here. I'm also looking forward to asm.js being a target for JVM, CLR and other garbage collected languages through Typed Objects.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Javascript:SpiderMonkey:OdinMonkey#...

Also, am hoping 'JavaScript Shared Memory, Atomics, and Locks' gets accepted by TC-39.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NDGA_gZJ7M7w1Bh8S0AoDyEq...
This is true, I was going to post a similar comment. So one thing to consider is that the way we incorporate solar and other alternatives into our society and economy is incorrect. We should be adding it to all new construction, as it would not significantly increase costs like retrofits do.

Also simple design decisions like giving a building the proper orientation with the sun, choosing deeper crawlspaces, using white roofs, using dual pane windows, choosing swamp coolers or ground loop heat pumps over air conditioning, and going with ductless/non-centralized climate control can eliminate the majority of utility costs. Amortized, these initial costs appear as savings because the payback is only a couple of years today. The only truly expensive components (windows and heat pumps) would be readily affordable with subsidies, because the government is in it for the long haul. Homes are being built in Germany that are completely off the grid. They only have small wall units in each room for emergency heating, but are otherwise insulated well enough that the home is room temperature year-round.

In fact, to get to the point of all this, alternative energy and wisdom in construction is already significantly cheaper in the long term than the status quo. But incentives and building code regulation is being blocked at every turn by the fossil fuel industry, and by libertarians who unwittingly support it by taking the short view on spending and ignoring amortization or return on investment, offsetting the opportunity cost of inaction onto the public and environment. There is an argument for freedom here (that we should be able to build however we want), and I sympathize with that as a resident of the red state of Idaho, but there is no economic one. We passed that point about 10 years ago when wind and solar installs started going up exponentially around the world, but we chose to have a military presence in oil-rich countries instead.
I have no problem with a subset of doctors choosing to price themselves above the point where I should be forced to pay for someone else's use of them -- differentiating on ease of scheduling, etc.

I'm just annoyed when this is a majority.

A lot of the "ACA individual plans" are even WORSE than my company-provided plan for coverage.
This is probably said pretty rarely on the internet as a whole (and even more rarely here), but way to go microsoft for knocking it out of the park and creating a great product.

Bravo for committing to cross-platform support also, thanks for putting user value above locking people in (in hopes they'll buy other MS things)
Also a EU court decided that you get sick days even if you are on holiday: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18534028
Excellent news. I am from India where being gay is a crime in this country. Leaders of this country believe that being gay is a disease and it can be 'cured'[0]. According to Indian Penal Code 377[1], if you are gay you can be imprisoned for life. I had a friend and two years ago he committed suicide because he was gay. In India it's not easy to be gay. Parents and societal pressures can make anyones life living hell. His parents made his life horrible, as if he had committed some crime and they never accepted him. Everyone around him were mocking. After his suicide also, his parents behave as if it was good riddance for them and they don't miss him at all. And rather they are happy because now they don't have to answer society.

Just today morning I read a news[2] that a software engineer working in Infosys was booked for Sec 377 and put in jail. In June 2014, seven people were booked under Section 377 by the Bangalore Police [3]. So far 200 people have been prosecuted under this law [4].

That's the reason I don't see any famous Indian, those who work in movies or HNI, coming out and accepting they are gay. I really hope people in other countries also encourage actions of Tim Cook so that people have freedom to express their wishes and sexuality.

[0] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/05/india-health-minist...

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_377_of_the_Indian_Penal...

[2] - http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/cover-story/Sec-377...

[3] - http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/cover-story/Six-mon...

[4] - http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/imgs1.aspx?filename=41070
No because it concentrates the burden onto the employer and creates very real economic incentives to avoid hiring women from certain age ranges depending on the industry.

It's like telling corporations they can't buy insurance for a semi-common event since they should 'shoulder SOME of this "burden"' and just self insure. The entire point of their taxes/insurance should be distributing the cost of something like this. They shoulder the burden through their taxes, and it keeps it fair.
This case is different. The police apparently had the hotel's permission to shut off the internet. Same thing as if you went to my ISP and asked them to shut off my internet and they said "yes". That's not illegal.
> This is the trade off we pay for lower taxes.

Why would mandating that companies provide meaningful maternity or paternity leave require higher taxes? This topic doesn't have much to do with fiscal policy.
>> The last two Disney movies I watched (Frozen and Maleficent) both were resolved not by romantic love of a man and woman, but with the the love between two women.

Have not see Maleficent, but I have heard nuts claiming Frozen was some kind of pro-gay film. It is resolved by (non-romantic) love between family members. I saw the movie twice in theater with my kid and couldn't find ANY indication of gay-ness. Anna ends up going after a man. The main plot is about self acceptance and embracing who you really are. While that metaphor can easily be applied to being gay (in todays world), I suspect the only people who instinctively made the connection are either gay or terribly anti-gay.

Gotta love Elsa, her and Merida are the best.
"Elements of Style" remains the best single volume guide to writing. Stephen King's "On Writing" is fun and a good follow up. I concur with the read great writing and practice a lot tips. But how to practice? It's old fashioned and slower, but try printing out what you're writing and read it aloud. Make edits in pen on the draft. To force the concision Elements recommends is to get a word count on your first draft and try to cut it down by 33 to 50%. Finally, ask friends for help editing. Keeping asking whoever is toughest on you.

Good luck!
For what it's worth, I'm not trolling. I'm making principled arguments, some of which you disagree with. I appreciate your taking the time to make principled arguments in response, even if you've since deleted them.

The original comment I responded to was someone claiming there's no "pushing" going on. As you clearly demonstrated, you're willing to "pressure" religious groups -- there's nothing wrong with that, but more people should be honest about it. From my perspective, the appropriate types of pressure are internal pressure (ie, members changing the group's ideas) or competitive pressure (other organizations that already are on the opposite side), not tax pressure.
If you don't like gay sex, then don't fuck anyone of your gender. It's that simple.
They must be logically parallel rather than geometrically parallel.
Yes, it would. In that case you are also punting on the job queue responsibilities and using a third party for both email and queueing jobs. That's not necessarily a good thing or a bad thing - it's just a thing.

You'll want to queue those API calls so your queue mechanism returns to the user very quickly, and then the emails can fire out .5-5 second later.
> maybe destruction of properly, maybe fraud, maybe home invasion

In this case, there was no destruction of property, just disconnection of internet service. As for fraud, I'm not aware of any fraud-related laws that apply. And it can't be home invasion if you invite me in.
Turing made great contributions, and had a great mind. But we did not need him, or any other particular individual.

What do you think would have happened if Turing had never been born?

Perhaps we would never have had a single individual who contributed as much, all at once, as Turing did... but the sum total of his contributions WOULD have been made by other people, eventually.
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Disney have been taking a stand for years now. There have been Christian boycotts of Disney for well over a decade, mainly because of their support for same-sex couples.

http://edition.cnn.com/US/9706/18/baptists.disney/

http://www.bpnews.net/11130
Especially with the number of services that offer zero-cost plans at low usage levels! You can rarely even make a fiscal argument for keeping this kind of stuff in-house, much less a skills argument.
It's a big deal because you made a list?
But clearly if an error in it is going to cause 40% of your business to drop off "overnight", you might want to outsource it to someone who can actually maintain it properly.
I used to work for Fulcrum Microsystems. Super fun. Your summary of the market around that is great. Thanks! I had not thought about them in a while.

The technology involved in enabling 64 octet frames to be shoved around in 300ns is fascinating. The software control of these systems was just as fascinating. These chips had a high level of programmability in the frame handler. How to use that programmability was an open question when I left Fulcrum.
Make it something separate from regular PTO that doesn't carry over and can't be accrued.

Maybe something like 16 hours per quarter, that expire at the end of the quarter.
The real "benefit" of the American system is that it keeps everyone eager. It keeps us grateful to have a crappy job at all. It keeps us ready to trade salary for benefits, or vice versa. It keeps us at jobs we don't like for the medical benefits we think they give us and our families. It reduces the bargaining power of labor.

Is this good in the long term? Maybe not, but it is the American aesthetic. It goes hand in hand with the perpetual hope that we will win the lottery/start the next Facebook/work our way up the ladder and then we too can benefit from low taxes. That's why poor Americans defend the privileges of rich Americans to the death: if we ever make it up there we want those privileges to remain!
Right, but if private companies had to pay for parental leave directly rather than through taxes, they would have a huge incentive to avoid hiring people who wanted to start families.

Taxes are the right way to pay for this, just like most things that are for the overall betterment of society.
Somewhat related is the friendship paradox:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
I'm also not so sure about this. I admit to having limited compiler design experience, but the WebKit FTL guys do, and they seem to be saying that many things that can be done with SIMD primitives can be done better with automatic vectorization, since you can specialize code for the specific processor it's being executed on. On top of that, it's easier for the programmer if they can write ordinary code and get SIMD performance.

Are there cases where algorithms simply cannot be expressed in a way that automatic vectorization could transform them into SIMD instructions? Or is this just a way to avoid implementing automatic vectorization in JavaScript engines?
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I don't like what happened to Eich and I am not trying to change anyone's mind about homosexuality being wrong/unhealthy, but here's a few responses.

"that's why there is a word for it"
Well that particular word actually is far younger than thousands of years: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/homosexuality/

Kinda makes you wonder a little bit our current distinctions and their actual relevance to the human condition.

"you may have to accept gay marriage, even if it violates what you feel like marriage is"
What you feel like marriage is has nothing to do with what it actually is, which is a very well-defined legal construct outlined by the state. Your feelings are valid in a different context perhaps, but when it comes to the legal definition it's not a compelling part of the argument. In that context, a great many arguments have been heard in court and gay marriage bans have been roundly rejected, many in a bipartisan decision.

"If homosexuality is an unhealthy expression of sexuality, you won't want your kids exposed to that"
Kids are going to be exposed. Gay people exist, and kids will and do meet them. Some 2-6% of the kids in that sex ed class are going to be gay themselves. Not saying parents shouldn't have a voice in this, just pointing out that prohibition is dangerous. You can't hide the word gay from children, and denied knowledge often only serves to generate greater curiosity. I would hope some clinical information about how to be healthy and gay isn't asking too much of these fragile creatures, but perhaps heterosexuality is really hanging from a thread? Somehow I doubt that.
in Leviticus 18:25, Man laying with another Man is an "abomination".

right before that, in Leviticus 18:19, "'Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period."

and right before that, in Leviticus 17:15, "'Anyone, whether native-born or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then they will be clean."

and my Favorite, Leviticus 19:19 (one page after homosexuality): 'Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material."

That Cotton-Polyester blend you're wearing? You might as well be having gay sex, as far as The LORD is concerned. All of the above are hellworthy trespasses.

so with the above in mind, everyone is ignoring the basic tenants of what the bible says. Therefore, using your logic, you must have a hard time viewing just about anyone as Christian.
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I know this is bait, but I'll bite.

> I truly hate the Gay Pride in our country. I think it is pathetic to be proud of your sexual orientation and feeling a need to show that off.

The notion of "Gay Pride" exists to specifically counter the widespread notion that being gay is something to be ashamed of. Countering shame with pride is way more effective than countering it with "meh, it's not relevant to my identity".

There are other, more subtle aspects of identity politics at play too, but I expect those would sail way over your head.
Brilliant, I especially like: "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".

One thing I find myself doing frequently is, I will skip the article and go straight to the comments and look for a summary. Then I determine if I want to read the original material. Often, I simply read the comments, because as OP noted, there are invariably gems of insight and experience to be found for most any subject.

In a way it's kind of sad, I've been doing this for years, and there have been so many gems. I know I haven't remembered them all. They are each reduced to a few moments of satisfactory warmth. I hope they've enriched me as a person, but I'll never know.
The older I get, the more disappointed I tend to become with my country.
If you're interested in learning how to write clearly, check out "The Art of Plain Talk". [1]

It's dated – from the 1950's I think – but shows how to express ideas with clear, direct language. A lot of it has to do with using verbs as much as possible and cutting down on adjectives.

Similarly, Hemingway has always inspired me.

Reading, in general, is very helpful. Read widely, on many subjects. Find authors whose 'voice' you like, and emulate it in your own writing. Stretch yourself with publications like The New Yorker, and Harper's.

1: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Plain-Talk-rudolf-flesch/dp/002046...
I don't sign them anymore either. My explanation is a little simpler. NDA's are contracts. I don't sign contracts without having them reviewed by lawyers. Lawyers cost money. If the contract doesn't come with some kind of payment, I don't sign it. So I don't sign NDA's.
Well if you acknowledge that the names are considered European/Asian as you say yourself, and you switch up names on purpose, is it that strange that people are surprised that the person doesn't match up their name? At least your kids will have less problems with this as they have both "bloods" running through their veins.

I think the problem is with the concept of names itself, if you're aiming for true etno-neutrality.
Tim Cook or Tim Cock?
Doesn't the ACA largely fix that? Isn't losing your job a qualifying life event that allows you to sign up outside of the normal open enrollment period?
I think you're rushing to judgement pretty quickly here. For example,

> 2. Identify proper use cases. The example are quite bogus currently. They show a mandelbrot.

That's just one tiny demo. See the github repo discussions for lots of debate on use cases,

https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd/issues

This has been discussed very intensively, with input from people from Intel, Mozilla, and Google. Feel free to join in as well.

In general, while I sympathize to some extent with you and the Apple position here, you are fighting a strong trend in the industry. C has a SIMD API, C# has SIMD API, Dart has a SIMD API, etc. - all those were created for good reasons. Autovectorization would be great - hopefully Apple can prove it beats the API approach - but no compiler has proven it thus far, hence SIMD APIs in all those languages I mentioned.
Chicken Scheme uses a technique called "Cheney on the M.T.A." to implement it's garbage collection (and entire language, really). It's one of the most mind-bending things I've ever heard of.

Here's the article: http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html
We already have free self-replicating devices that do just that: plants. Just add water.
Seattle? Man, I feel underpaid right NOW.