skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the size of the company totally matters. The smaller the company the more likely that contacting the hiring manager is a good idea.
> I don't want the government in marriage AT ALL. Making the laws "more neutral" means getting gender out of the laws.

Why stop there? Take marriage out of the laws completely.

If your religious institutions marries men to men, women to women, or hell, men to goats or chairs, I don't see why the government should stick its nose in it.
That's a very compact rebuttal! I hope I can one day express myself so efficiently. Impressive.

There was a time when I didn't know how useful "being yourself" was. I don't believe I'm the only one. For instance, people substitute defining themselves by a contrarian viewpoint relative to others, until they work out who they really are. Case in point: the petulant teenager.

And when you don't know you don't know, the questions you ask and actions you take don't display an understanding of that -- so it works to address the non literal if you want to contribute to helping people with those requests.

I hope this helps ! :)
Only negativity in this thread. You're being offered a desktop environment for free, and all you can do is point out its problems.

I think it looks pretty slick, and will give it a try, why are people so nitpicky here?
Agreed. I'm interested in hearing how this plays out. I hope they can prove chain of custody of the phone and determine if the video was deleted at all, and if it was, if it was deleted when in the hands of an officer. Right now we just have it from the driver that the file was deleted. But this was the same driver that said "I wouldn't allow marijuana in my car", and the guy in the back seat ended up being busted for possession and intent to sell marijuana based off of that stop. I hope there is good evidence one way or the other if the file was deleted, and the officer is punished if it was in fact deleted while in an officers custody.

I'm leaning towards the fact that it was not deleted while in the officers custody, but I'd love to see the forensic evidence. My reasons:

1) The driver already was caught lying

2) It's convenient that the driver had the technical know how to get undeleted files off of her device

3) The officer was already recording the entire course of events on his body cam.
For Java specifically, this is a concise summary of the issues: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurre...
I have no problem with duplicates. I do have a problem with the wildly overstated, linkbaity "every programmer needs to know about" meme.
People are giving surprising answers here. But it is really quite simple:

- do you think the company did something wrong?

- do you want to help discourage other companies from doing the same thing in the future?

If the answer is yes to both, then you should testify.

The truth is, no one here has a crystal ball that will tell them the impact of testifying on your future. In life, you sometimes have to just go with what you think it right.
Well we are able to send robot on Mars, miss the sun seems quite an huge error for me...

You make me laugh tough :)
VC's are big picture people. Asking about an internet strategy was a good move- they largely predicted the EMR record systems in place today. Doesn't mean you have to change your immediate focus, they just wanted to make sure you were thinking about it.
Ask HN: What are you using for cross platform games?
I've been making games for iOS for about a year and my current client wants their game on iOS and Android. I have never made anything for Android.

What are the most popular solutions for cross platform game development right now?

Are there any easy ways to port this game to Android without learning this whole other platform?
”Mankind thinks in the language and the particular language determines the way we think"
>> The crux of the debate is when does does a fetus become a person.

The core of the debate should be human life is not terminable based on convenience.

Anyone who argues that it is, personage, would have no way to argue against any war, past, present or future.
> banning abortion means forcing a mother to feed and care for another person (even if you consider a fetus a person).

There's a difference between murdering a person and being forced to feed him. So assuming for this argument that a fetus is a person, an abortion would be akin to murder. Being forced to care for the person would be akin to being forced to raise him. Libertarians who believe fetuses are persons are arguing you can't abort the baby, but you can have the baby adopted.

> Can you explain how a governmental (even at the state level) distinction between marriage types is consistent with libertarian philosophy?

I might not understand the question, but many libertarians want the government out of the business of defining marriage at all except where it relates to interacting with the government. Paul seems to have dithered on this issue quite a bit, but this quote of his to National Review in 2013 seems fairly libertarian: "I'm an old-fashioned traditionalist. I believe in the historic and religious definition of marriage...That being said, I'm not for eliminating contracts between adults. I think there are ways to make the tax code more neutral, so it doesn't mention marriage. Then we don't have to redefine what marriage is; we just don't have marriage in the tax code."
In 2001 I built a data center in Reno thinking it was inevitably going to see an economic boom. Well, to be more specific, I purchased a half-completed data center abandoned by Adelphia after they went bust and completed it. Long story short, I lost my shirt and sold it two years later. I've lived in Reno on-and-off ever since, including a three year stint in the Bay Area startup scene. I'm still waiting for that economic boom. I've also lived in the Sacramento area and seen similar economic issues to Reno, only on a larger scale. If Sacramento can't make the proximity to the Bay Area work -- there's little hope for Reno. Hope I'm wrong about that.
Yes. You don't know so choose on your values. It's a fallacy to judge choices by their results anyway. You sound like a prosecutor, capable of convincing people to testify! :)
> open replacement for Windows and OS X

It sounds like promising a lot. So after confirming the suspicion of it not being something that would actually allow to run some essential software we still don't have replacements for (AutoCad, Native Instruments stuff, Ableton Live, etc.), but simply yet another Linux distro with custom DE I wonder if this lack of information on the website is on purpose.
Yes! I looked at it, like, "Is this elementary the linux distribution that I have at least heard of by name or is this some completely different thing?" That's a serious failure on their part.
Really? I'm no expert on this, but it seems like the Guardian game journalists have been pretty transparent they don't like the GamerGate movement.
Just noticed that Elementary OS iso doesn't download using HTTPS because they use sourceforge:

https://imgur.com/ZsnQI6e
It's definitely a major factor. But the community has also a large effect. At least for me.

I greatly prefer rpm-based package management, buy I greatly prefer Debian as it allows me to avoid interacting with the egomaniacs that offer 'support' on freenode and the forums.
Right. The issue here is that there's a difference between a software engineer and a programmer. A programmer is measured by years of experiences with particular technologies. Programmers are unfortunately replaceable commodities as a result. Software engineers are measured by their ability to work within constraints to use ANY tools available to them to solve the problem on time and in such a way that it'll scale to load.

If you're in a workplace full of programmers, consider moving onto to a firm that hires software engineers. You may have to move out of state unfortunately since the culture doesn't exist everywhere.
Even over the candidate who promises to end the 2-party system? In other words, make real and lasting overall change, instead of just a single issue.
Some of the best software engineers that I know are 40. Thanks for the advice, but it seems to generalize.
Which also reminded me that it probably didn't help that UNIX workstation vendors often replaced 68K with their own RISC architecture. MIPS was a attempt at a standard, but...
Some googling shows this to be, at best, partially true. While marriage license requirements were used to prevent miscegenation, they were not invented for that purpose and they have been used for other purposes.

>Not until the 16th century did European states begin to require that marriages be performed under legal auspices. In part, this was an attempt to prevent unions between young adults whose parents opposed their match.

>The American colonies officially required marriages to be registered, but until the mid-19th century, state supreme courts routinely ruled that public cohabitation was sufficient evidence of a valid marriage. By the later part of that century, however, the United States began to nullify common-law marriages and exert more control over who was allowed to marry.

>By the 1920s, 38 states prohibited whites from marrying blacks, “mulattos,” Japanese, Chinese, Indians, “Mongolians,” “Malays” or Filipinos. Twelve states would not issue a marriage license if one partner was a drunk, an addict or a “mental defect.” Eighteen states set barriers to remarriage after divorce.

>In the mid-20th century, governments began to get out of the business of deciding which couples were “fit” to marry. Courts invalidated laws against interracial marriage, struck down other barriers and even extended marriage rights to prisoners.

>But governments began relying on marriage licenses for a new purpose: as a way of distributing resources to dependents. The Social Security Act provided survivors’ benefits with proof of marriage. Employers used marital status to determine whether they would provide health insurance or pension benefits to employees’ dependents. Courts and hospitals required a marriage license before granting couples the privilege of inheriting from each other or receiving medical information.
Source: [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/opinion/26coontz.html]
but that something is nothing of value to the economic elite of the world

It has absolutely nothing to do with any "elite". It has to do with being economically visible.

If the government pays 300M citizens each $25k annually, that's $7.5T that has to come from somewhere.

If you play videogames all day, or turn your back yard into a decorative garden, or anything else you don't get paid for, then you are not contributing to that $7.5T.

Which can kinda be a problem if too many people do that and there's nowhere for it to come from.
You're clearly a better cook than Alice :)
he already lost the Election with this Statement.
It's things like [1] that really irk me.
Yes, they're working 'hard', yes they deserve compensation, no, there isn't any license conflicts (that I'm aware of) that would make selling eOS illegal, it's the fact that they wrote this justification to make you feel like a thief.

Really, it's just an ubuntu clone with a pretty osx-like gui. This isn't really anything amazing or new, and it makes it seem like they're trying to tap into the elitist osx market. If that is indeed what they want, they should really check out [2]

So it's not really the software that's bad, really it's all what you can get on any other distro with a little work, it's their attitude about it.

[1] http://blog.elementary.io/post/110645528530/payments
[2] http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/
> Being forced to care for the person would be akin to being forced to raise him.

Until the baby is born, it does depend entirely on the mother's resources. It literally pulls energy out of her blood stream.

Now, I don't think fetuses are people, but if you believe they are then you have to admit that for the duration of the pregnancy the mother is compelled to feed and provide for that "person."
RAID 1 is a very poor backup, for several reasons. For starters, anything bad that happens to one copy is likely to compromise the other copy. Deleted or corrupted the file? Oops, it was mirrored to both disks. PC stolen? Oops. Water damage in the office? Oops. Raid controller died? Oops.
> Marriage certificates were invented by the government originally to prevent white and black people from marrying. Their only purpose seems to be to oppress.

This is a remarkable claim. Do you have a source backing it up?

Bear in mind that marriage certificates exist in many countries which, historically and today, do not have very many black citizens or white citizens.
Algolia might work?
> In his best performance in 2012, Ron Paul only won the primary in the US Virgin Islands.

In the popular vote, true, but in number of delegates, once the counts were tallied, Ron Paul won Iowa, Maine, Minnesota and Louisiana.

Ron Paul also had a solid financial campaign in 2012, not the largest fund, but likely the best managed. his performance was in large part diminished by media bashing on the eve of any primary elections in which polls were in his favor. For example, see CNN's Gloria Borger interview cut, which was quite outrageous.
If most Finns group up bilingual then maybe that's their advantage (or an additional advantage). Studies link growing up bilingual to improved cognitive abilities[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_advantages_of_bilingu...
There is a large difference between doing nothing, and doing nothing of value to society.

For example, I love to learn. I could spend ages reading books and learning as much as possible for my meager brain to understand about physics and it would be very fulfilling.

But unless I apply that knowledge, it really wasn't of much value to anyone (even myself, depending on how you look at it).

So why do I deserve to take advantage of all society would provide with basic income (food, shelter, safety, etc..) if I provided nothing in return?
This is the single most important issue of the internet era. The current policy will erase the concept of privacy altogether. It is hardly "just a single issue".
Given that the NSA mass surveillance of American citizens have proven of little value in the fight against terrorism, I am surprised that you imply that this cannot be changed.

A reasonable proposal is for ALL candidates to say that these programs are expensive, not useful and should be ended. (One might also say they are a blatant example of government overreach - but that is just my opinion and you are free to disagree.) It is not misguided to say that a bad program should be ended.
thats handled by stripe..
Another straw-man argument against mandatory vaccination.

Mandatory also means you might be subject to fines or denied access to government social programs.
Ron Paul tried to effectively reverse that, three times, by introducing legislation that prohibited the Supreme Court and any other Federal court from hearing cases involving it and the laws, policies, or regulations of any state.

That would work because aside from a small number of case types the Constitution explicitly says the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction over, it is Congress that decides the bounds of Federal jurisdiction.

Here was one of Ron Paul's bills on this: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.958.IH:/
Why not offset?

Instead of doing the world a service by testifying, you could do the world a service by not buying t-shirts made in sweatshops, or something like that.

The moralising in this thread is too much.
False title. The Tetris is not written in basic. It's written in Assembler, and then basic is used to load the binary into memory.
Corporations are just individuals who pool their resources for a common endeavor. Usually this is for profit but sometimes it is a charity. Either way, why should individuals lose rights when they operate as a group? Preventing people from pooling resources shifts the balance of power towards rich individuals who don't need extra outside resources to further their political goals.
I've always thought of marketing as an expense you pay for having a boring product. CPG companies have boring products, so in turn marketing expenses outpace COGS.

That being said, there is so much noise in the marketplace that the best piece of software may not ever be discovered if it cannot convey why it is better than the alternatives. Engineers may be looking for a technical specification checklist, while a manager may be looking for a case study tailored to their own needs. A great product that no one knows about is pointless.

Marketing is creating a wedge between perceived value and intrinsic value. If your product saves $X per quarter, your price should be as close to $X as possible. If it will increase sales $Y, the same strategy applies. If it does neither, then tell the consumer it will improve the opposite sex's opinion of them, and charge as much as possible.
I'm not a fan of this plan B stuff when you're 40.

Where is the plan B for doctors? Where is the plan B for Lawyers? Why do these other professionals have respect in the their old age and not us software engineers/programmers?

How depressing.

> The half-life of an engineer, software or hardware, is only a few years.

And I still don't get this. Move out of software and you'll find loads of over 40's and over 50's engineers. Here in Perth I know loads of older engineers, that are given dignity and respect along with their peers in Medicine and Law.

This plan B stuff is because of the culture that surrounds programmers. If there is any plan B, it is to maybe start admitting that older programmers might actually be useful and worthwhile for employment, much like every other white collar profession.

It's true that a 40 year old might not be able to work as many hours as a 20 year old, but that doesn't mean each hour is worth the same. At 40, you'd hope that the older programmers hours put in are more considered with all their experience and are most certainly worth it.

The same goes for older Lawyers and older doctors, they might not be as energetic as 20 year olds, but with all that experience to make that much more of an informed decision, it certainly means the older generation can compete.

This is a culture issue.

> Software engineering reliably undergoes a major technology shift at least every 10 years.

I doubt any shift invalidates real fundamental knowledge.
Sure if your entire career has only been a couple of languages with very little algorithm theory, then true, but that's because you never studied the subject, on your own or formally, that isn't because you're 40.

For example, Doctors and Lawyers have to have the fundamentals down, it's very important. I guess it's true that not enough programmers have the fundamentals down and that is an issue.

But if you're 40 and have training in the fundamentals such as algorithms and design before even hitting the code, you should easily be able to adapt.

> The more irrelevant experience a candidate has, the more lopsided the utility/value equation becomes

Again this is a HR issue. A software engineer/programmer that starts their work from the design and algorithm level should be able to pick up a new language in a couple of weeks. This issue is mainly with the way we hire programmers not with the programmers themselves.

It's like the job ad for 10 years experience in Node.js when Node.js was 3 years old. Just because HR are clueless doesn't mean we need to all start changing our careers.

If you want my advice, it's learn that knowing people is as important (or more!) than what you know.

If you build up your career around being an expert and networking, you will be in a better position than the expert who knows no one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws_in_the_...

The context here is United States. I don't know anything about European marriage nor is it relevant to this conversation.
It's not just apple. Microsoft Licensing is in Reno for a reason. They have an actual building and employees unlike Apple but they have the same intent. Halliburton is another name everyone would recognize that has a shell here. There are tens of thousands of business registrations in Nevada to take advantage of the business friendly tax laws.
Bitcoin dips to 238 time to revisit Coindesk's report
My favorite 68k machine is the 3b1. It had a windowing system with mouse, but never any apps that would be interesting for the desktop user. Funny that Apple switched to UNIX fifteen years later. If they had started with it, instead of that stupid system where half the OS was in ROM, it would have been so far ahead.
I've never seen making Slackware look nice as a burden. Especially since I can generally just copy over config files.

I love Slackware for the simplicity and that's why I use it. So many of these feature filled pretty systems work nice.. until they don't. Unneeded features are just more stuff to learn and more stuff to break in my opinion. Slackware is a rock solid work horse and I know right where everything is and can change it if I need to.

But to tell the truth, just give me a nice Unix terminal and a web browser and I don't really care that much what it's sitting on.
> So after confirming the suspicion of it not being something that would actually allow to run some essential software we still don't have replacements for (AutoCad, Native Instruments stuff, Ableton Live, etc.), but simply yet another Linux distro with custom DE

What? You actually expected somebody to come up with a whole new OS that runs software written for another proprietary, closed source OS?

eOS is a replacement for those users who want to browse the web, read email, watch videos and look at photographs. These people are its target demographic, not professionals who rely on specialized software to do their job.
It doesn't matter who it's handled by, the fact is that credit card numbers are being transferred over regular, non-encrypted HTTP.
> But FED was instrumental in making USD the most stable currency in the last 100 years.

That's complete bullcrap. The most stable for the last 100 years (1915 - present) is the Swiss Franc.
> Let people have controls over their data back again...

I think you're confused about iCloud. People do have controls over their data, and no rights are denigrated. Perhaps you are mistaking it for Google, or Facebook where there is no desktop equivalent.
According to Unity Technologies (the makers of Unity), who say they're quoting an unreleased McKinsey report, "Worldwide, Unity takes a plus 45% share of the full feature game engine market, approximately three times that of our closest competitor."

From: http://unity3d.com/public-relations

To get a sense of all the options for developing games that run on both iOS and Android, see:

http://www.mobilechameleon.com/
Or plan C. For younger engineers start thinking about financial independence. Software Engineers enjoy a high starting salary and an even higher mid career salary so it is entirely possible to achieve financial independence in your 30s-40s with a frugal lifestyle and smart investing.
> tap into the elitist osx market

I think it would be more accurate to say that they are trying to expand the Linux market by wooing those whose main barrier to using Linux is the UI/UX. Whether or not you find the endeavor to be "noble", the attempt is worth something to the Linux landscape even if your takeaway is "don't run it quite like them".
Notable ones that come to my mind are eBay, Balasmiq, Khan Academy, Amazon but there are definitely more stories out there.
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Just because no one can do it right doesn't mean people should give up. It's just not time yet... the people that can do it haven't come along yet.
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Thanks!
There's also something called Libertarian Socialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism). As a concept, it defies the strict ordering of the left-right spectrum.

Libertarianism is probably best not defined as a noun but as an adjective.