skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think the federal govt should pay for it."

Please have the decency to be explicit about what you are saying. No government, federal or otherwise, has any means to pay for anything. All money comes from taxes. All taxes come from individuals. What you are really saying is "I think all of the taxpaying individuals in the United States should pay for women's maternity leave."

Once you recognize that, I can do no better than quote P.J. O'Rourke:
"...remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head.

Not paying taxes is against the law.
If you don't pay taxes, you'll be fined.
If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed.
If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot.

Thus I -- in my role as citizen and voter -- am going to shoot you -- in your role as taxpayer and ripe suck -- if you don't pay your fair share of the national tab.

Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, "Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?"

So, would you kill your mother to pay for someone else's maternity leave?
It does and I really like that feature, well worth the money. It's kind of sad if you see the stats on how many of your bookmarked sites are not available any more after a few years.
Your point about genius and success is well-taken, but the reality is even more complicated. There is a strong feedback loop between people believing you're a genius and success, not just one-way causation.

Convince a few influential people you're a genius and the odds of your success goes up. Then as you become more successful, the threshold for convincing people you are a genius goes down.

It can even happen posthumously: Herman Melville was a nobody loser when he died. A few decades later his work was "discovered" and he became a genius overnight.

Bootstrapping this process is an unsolved problem, although the kind of blatant self-marketing that characterizes Jobs or Edison certainly helps (although self-marketing still has to be backed with actual capabilities, as it was in those cases.)
ELL [+] is perhaps a better fit for this question?

[+] http://ell.stackexchange.com/

"English Language Learners Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for speakers of other languages learning English."
It runs unless NDEBUG is defined, which the author did not do according to his methodology. Anyway I looked at the assembly output and strlen() is optimized away.
I'm surprised to see no mention of Ruby on Truffle/Graal, which has the potential to give much higher performance than the standard Ruby interpreter.
https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle
I think the crux of your problem is to express ideas and not really English per se.

The best way to convey ideas is ... to practice conveying them. This might sound a bit cliché but bear with me for a moment. You can certainly read books but please practice the books and see what is good for you.

The next question is - where will you practice? Participate in good online forums and offline discussions. Reddit, Stackoverflow and HN are great online forums.

How does practice help? It will give you active feedback if your thoughts are being conveyed. It will give you a real-time personal assessment of your expression.

PS - Please take my assumption and advice with a pinch of salt!
Now that's saying something.
You're right, and I always make this mistake for the reason that AOT/JIT look the same from the outside.
Since you linked xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1431/ It's easy to look down on interracial marriage bans from our oh-so-enlightened modern view, but it took a long time to even get there. You have to look at these ideologies in the context that they were formed in. If the graph is correct, then when Eich donated, same-sex marriage didn't have majority support. (Setting aside what California's specific numbers were.) This isn't to say that "might makes right", but that Eich expressed his vision for how society should be, and it's only fair to also consider how the rest of the society felt about it.

In other words, how do you know views you hold today won't be considered the vilest bigotry in 30 years? Is your moral compass so special, that you would have fought for interracial marriage, even if you were born a white in the southern US in the 1800's?
>it sets out to do what it wants and it does so spectacularly.

That sounds post hoc. It, of course, is what it is and does what it does, but do you have any evidence that this result was well-calculated or planned?
This "provably fair" concept is quite common in the Bitcoin gaming world.

Not sure who was the first, probably https://satoshidice.com

Bitino.com has a nice page explaining the concept, including an example validation script in Python http://bitino.com/provably-fair-gaming/
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So because your mobile phone provider is incompetent twitter is a bad platform?

Who is your provider btw? That sort of bad acting should be named and shamed (on a platform like twitter perhaps?)
Pride is the opposite of shame. Its about not being ashamed to be who you are.
The Hacker News ranking algorithm tends to penalize stories that address social issues.

The Hacker News ranking algorithm does not penalize stories that address social issues. It doesn't consider social issues at all, apart from a couple of special cases that we turn off once a major wave subsides [1]. The effects the OP is observing are mostly caused by user flags and the voting ring detector.

1. The intention there is to prevent copycat and follow-up stories from clogging up the front page. For example, NSA stories used to be weakly penalized, but no longer are, and I think there's still a similar penalty on ebola stories.
Sorry, I wasn't clear.

Cook is clearly a prime decision maker in where Apple operate but the poor situation for Chinese workers can't reasonably be laid at his door.

The wages are controlled by market forces, even if the market is being manipulated by the Chinese government.

But Cook isn't responsible for Chinese economic or fiscal policy and pulling Apple out if China would hurt the workers who may have shitty jobs but at least have jobs.

As it is Apple face higher scrutiny than most of their competitor in the same situation and as a result actually behave marginally better when it comes to worker treatment.

It's not something to be particularly proud of but the overall plight of Chinese workers, even those at Foxcon, is not a situation for which Cook can realistically be held significantly responsible or categorised as nasty (nasty being the original characterisation I was refuting).

It's the consequence of a capitalist economy which Cook may be a small part of but is neither the creator nor the controller.
The U.S. is losing the battle to predict the next Hurricane Sandy
Stanford system combines software with human intelligence to improve translation
Those, I've seen. But saying you wouldn't vote for a presidential candidate who is atheist is a lot different than saying that it's "unforgivable" to be atheist, or that atheists are worse than blacks, gays, and women.

Maybe I'm just being pedantic but I don't think a poll about how people would vote for the president is a good indicator of how people feel about atheists in comparison to other groups of people. I don't even think the latter is quantifiable.
"Bookmarks seems like an outdated technology."
Sorry, I disagree. I use this all the time on my phone. Bookmarks allow me to quickly access pages without a lot of typing on my phone.
Cool, I got inspired by this system too -- the aspw library and examples made it extremely easy to get started. I happen to have a lot of non-relational yet tabular data sitting around and the interface to read it is Python. It took a short time before I could join up several of my proprietary databases to do queries on them.

One thing I am planning on doing is to let the user mix in just about any data source: any list of objects with properties/values can be used really. So you can take your database (in proprietary format) and join it up with a text file (quite a useful thing for me). But you could also mix in an API call (again done using your identity). I've been thinking about how many REST APIs suport a subset of SQL via letting you seletct what fields to output, how to order things etc. -- if you instead allow the user to process it via SQL/sqlite you will allow the user quite powerful remixing/aggregation facilities.
I'm curious, why would you assume that?

The primary benefit and cost, depending on your point of view, of clojure is that it runs on the JVM. I don't see how that would be a strong argument for or against using this tooling for any problem domain unless you were already committed to or against the JVM for other reasons.
Yeah, and all those things exist for Python, yet you don't see people using Pyjamas everywhere instead of javascript... people are not going to switch to ruby to do front end work that will work fine in javascript, especially when you have all these plugins in javascript that are great.
Every decent behavior anybody has in public can be explained by 'holding a gun to their head' by the same chain of logic. You spit on the sidewalk, you get fined. And so on.

This holds the average citizen in contempt, and I reject the whole sophomoric chain of 'causation'. People behave because they're civilized and orderly and want their community to thrive.

So lets get the conversation back to, how do we want to maintain a standard of living that benefits us all. Through taxes and rules and institutions, like we have always done.
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Because realistically I'm unusual for using it, and I used it for only one of my three kids.

In my progressive, bleeding-heart-liberal family? The man still represented only 7 months of leave time, while the woman represented 29. The "leave cost" whatever it may be was 4X higher for my wife.

From a policy perspective, it's roughly egalitarian... but you can't ignore the cultural difference that means 100% maternal leave is the default assumption.
Nobody kicked him out of the country. He was "forced" by the community that thought his views intolerable out of a company that is community driven.
I always thought of twitter as a news filtering service. At least, that's how I use it. I follow people who tweet about things that I'm interested in. Journalism is about 'broadcast', not 'communities'. Should it go away, too?
At my startup I've decided to have a "take what you want when you want it" vacation and sick day policy. I care about results against goals, not how many hours you work or when they are. Abusing the policy in a way that affects morale (e.g., deciding only to never show up in the office and spend a year working from your batcave) would be grounds for a warning/replacement. So far it has worked well, but with only a handful on the team. Not sure how it will scale to a team of 100 or 1,000 or more.
He also clearly doesn't understand how to use lists to create his own communities. I have lists for devs, friends, funnies, etc. With a little effort you can have these communities on tap in columns. Hey, if you're lazy, you can even subscribe to other's lists and put them in a column too.

Twitter is not hard for conversation, so long as you can put together concise thoughts. I'll agree it does become a pain when you need to explain a lot, but that's why we have links and a multitude of platforms to record our thoughts.
Yes, I think that's right. And some unmoderated mailing lists and newsgroups have also favored that approach (with killfiles), but even there there is potentially a stronger threshold for joining (you have to deliberately subscribe to the list or group) and stronger recourse for extreme misbehavior (at least on mailing lists, where someone can be banned from the list).
>It's fundamentally impossible to create a safe space with a public account

Right, so use something else for that.

Twitter grew because it's open. I interpret posts like this as an attempt to lobby for the creation of a caste within Twitter with the ability to censor. I've abandoned other large sites because of unreasonable censorship.

EDIT: Gaynor thinks people shouldn't use HN too. Quel surprise. https://twitter.com/alex_gaynor/status/259803468838080512
Skinning hasn't been done on the CPU for about a decade now. GPUs are much better at it.
This seems an odd one to be "downvoted", enough so I'm curious why. I wouldn't have noticed except it changes the font color.
FYI, you can use ":memory:" as the sqlite data source, instead of having to conditionally drop the tables (unless you actually do want to store some persistent data on disk).
I strongly agree. Its interesting how the US chooses policies some times. The culture here is very different from most other civilized countries.

Countries with no national paid maternity leave policy: US, Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and Liberia [1]

Countries who have executed people in the past 25 years who were under 18 at the time of their crimes: The People's Republic of China (PRC), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the United States and Yemen. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave (also noted elsewhere in the comments)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment#Juvenile_off... Admittedly this fact is cherry picked. The US has since changed the policy
I think this is truly sagely advice.

My grand takeaway from Aphyr's Jepsen series (http://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen) is that the more sophisticated software becomes in the never-ending quest for features and performance, the more likely the fundamentals underlying it have been overlooked, glossed over, or ignored completely.
> That's not true. You're stretching a line between two distant things in hopes of having a nice neat world of bigots on one side, and everyone else on the other. "You're either with us, or you're with the bigots".

I'm not, I assure you. Especially when your subsequent example is:

> In your world, I'm a bigot because I HATE that overly-camp, sledge-hammer decorative approach with men in g-strings running around in heels and pink fluffy decorations everywhere and don't forget the awful gay dance music. That's what it is to be gay? I don't think so. The mardi gras (at least the one where I live) needs to die. But I can't say that because I'll be "anti-gay". I'm not anti-gay, I just hate the annual celebration of the "gay community" by erecting giant penises on floats and broadcasting it all on live TV.

You're entitled to that belief. It doesn't (necessarily) make you a bigot. Lots of people hate annoying parades - I myself found myself trapped a few months back trying to get across 5th avenue while the gay pride parade was going on and was incredibly annoyed.

So there we go - we share a common ground of annoyance towards loud, over-the-top parades.

But I presume that if another group had a similar parade, you'd be equally annoyed - that it's not the fact that it's gay people having the parade, it's the fact the parade is loud, decadent, over the top, with awful dance music (and giant penises on floats).

That's what makes it different than the example I gave. Your example (annoying, over the top parades with penis floats) is more akin to people who are against marriage entirely - they don't want anyone to get married, gay, straight, black, white, whoever. That's a position I can respect, even if I don't agree with it, because it's at least equally applied.

Gay marriage, though, is a situation where you have one group of people having a bigger, broader set of rights than the other group of people. That's a bigoted view of the world - for some reason these people over here can get married, but these other people over here can't.

If we were to apply it to your example, if you were only annoyed at the mardi gras because there were gay people involved - if straight people, puerto ricans, professional basketball players, whoever, threw the exact same parade and you were fine with it, then you'd be bigoted.

I'm all about a level playing field. Either everyone gets to get married, or no one does. Either everyone gets to have a loud, annoying parade with giant penis floats, or no one should.

Your example just doesn't apply here. I'm not dividing the world into neat examples of bigots and not, because people can have a broad range of emotions about a wide variety of things. And certainly, you can dislike aspects of gay culture without being bigoted as long as you'd dislike those aspects if they were present in other cultures. But when you single out one specific group as having diminished rights compared to the others, that's some level of bigotry for sure.
Okay, I'll get more explicit.

> I think Twitter is defined by the fact that it's about broadcast.

Writing on a blog with comments off is 100% broadcast with no built-in solution for conversations to form. Twitter has a (flawed) way, so twitter is actually LESS about broadcast than this blog.

> Communities are, above all else, defined by membership, the ability for people to identify as a part of one, and to participate in activities, and share things and experiences with the group.

How does a reader proclaim membership in this blog. Sign up for comments? Post comments? Nope. How does a reader participate? How does a reader share their experiences with the group? Far easier on Twitter than here.

> Every user floats by themselves, interacting with who they please.

Every reader of the blog floats by themselves, interacting with nobody.

> Try following a multi-party conversation using any of the official clients;

How is THIS possible on the blog? You can email the author, sure, but you aren't going to see or be able to reply to anyone else that emailed him.

There's also the widely-repeated quote of "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." Length is not necessarily indicative of amount of thought.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
It is a good site, you have a lot of competition. At least a dozen of these on Show: HN in the last 1 year.

Just an FYI, the search term: "stock photo websites in one place" has over 7000 results.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22stock+photo+websites...

Which is the tag line here. I personally have about 10 of these bookmarked, and they are all exactly the same, short of different frameworks etc.
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Imagine the headline:

"A Teenager Gets Grilled by Her Dad About Why She's Not That into Motorcycle Repair"

"A Teenager Gets Grilled by Her Dad About Why She's Not That into Salvage Diving"

"A Teenager Gets Grilled by Her Dad About Why She's Not That into Running A Boutique Charcuterie Supplier"
Start actively looking deeper into yourself to discover your fears. Your mind has built up a bunch of reasons why you can't do something, and you've become so accustomed to them that you don't even think to question their validity. At the core, it is your fears that hold you back, and those "reasons" exist only to mask that fear. You must dig deeper and expose the ugly fear underneath. Then you must face and walk into that fear, alone. You must discover that you are not a victim. A victim has no power over their circumstances. A victor controls their circumstances. This transition is VERY HARD to make, and it's not too uncommon to fail on your first few attempts. Good luck.
Yes, I'm just pointing out that those people (like me) may be wrong.
Yes, exactly. Similarly old people get screwed by the public Education system. And publicly funded universities and colleges.
Any idea what the forwarding plane is made of in these switches?
> though most plants pretty quickly decay and release their CO2 back into the atmosphere, with the exception perhaps of some woods

There are ways to keep a fair amount of the carbon. Old plant material should be composted and thus recycled. An alternative is to create biochar and amend soil with it, which has potential to sequester the carbon for millennia. Some farms use a no-till method to add the organic matter into the soil.

Basically, if the commercial greenhouses do anything with their plant waste apart from putting it in a landfill then it's back in the growth cycle of some other plant.
…and here it is on HN. Oh dear.

I remember there was something similar for I2P back when it was really, really newborn and not ready for a flood of interested people; a "please don't write about this on Slashdot" understanding.
So are you're saying that expressing the Christian view that God intends for men and women to only have sexual relationships within [a heterosexual] marriage, that such marriage should be the basis under which children are raised, that marriage should be a singular unending union, expressing such things won't cause one to be vilified, on HN say?

The evidence seems to be against you.
I guess that helps quite a lot in preventing group conflicts from getting out of hand accidentally. It seems like a weaker control if someone is deliberately trying to get involved in a conversation where other people would see them as unwelcome.
There was actually several of them used by overclockers. I was always a fan of "waterfall". It made a huge difference in the CPU temperature!

http://estu.nit.ac.jp/~e982457/other/cpuidle/idle.htm
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"Go 1.4 can build binaries for ARM processors running the Android operating system. It can also build a .so library that can be loaded by an Android application using the supporting packages in the go.mobile repository."

http://golang.org/s/go14android
That is not necessarily true (and I say this as someone who heavily favors C for parsers). An implementation with a JIT will likely be able to optimize away work by noticing that the table of callbacks is empty.

I would be more impressed if the callback table was not empty (and the callbacks actually did something, like increment an integer) and Lisp was still winning.

EDIT: I see others saying that SBCL is AOT, not JIT. If so I'd be very interested to look at the disassembly side-by-side and see an explanation for why SBCL is winning.
Some people take issue with the word 'pride', because you can't really say 'I'm proud to be straight'. When Tim Cook says, 'I'm proud to be gay' however, what he's really saying is, 'Contrary to what society expects, I am not ashamed of being gay, because there isn't anything shameful about it.'
Absolutely. It's fair to describe his writings as interesting, and for all his cynicism about conventional theories he never actually comes out and says obviously it was the Giant Atlanteans that built it shortly after they'd finished with Ancient Egypt.

But there's also some rather sympathetic treatment given to theories that the world was built by giants during 365 days of darkness, and short shrift given to pretty conventional views that it's pretty normal for a single engineering project to use big rocks for foundations and fortification walls, smaller blocks for fiddly little details like eaves for roofs, and rubble for unimportant or needs-to-be-finished in a hurry structures.

If you actually visit some of the sites in question and consider them as a whole there's a pretty smooth quality gradient between the tightly packed massive stone blocks, the impressively-precisely cut small ashlar blocks and the relatively loose blockwork. Which reminds me that I need to go back to Peru some time...
I think you mean g_try_realloc_n.
>If I understand your position correctly, then if there really was a prop to ban interracial marriage we should all be okay with that?

I would strongly oppose such a measure. But I would certainly respect the rights of others to support the opposing side and vote their conscience, and when the vote was over I would not go scouring donation records to figure out whom I should fire or force out of their jobs.
>SIMD.js is originally derived from the Dart SIMD specification

I am so ungodly sick of Google pushing DART technologies everywhere. I really am starting to think their strategy is embrace, enhance, exterminate.