skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly don't care what it's called, as long as there's something that confers those rights.

That said, I do object to the oft-stated remark that marriage has historically been a civil rather than religious institution, primarily because historically that's been a distinction without a difference. Such remarks tend to take a separation of church and state for granted when, in reality, both those things were very frequently conflated until maybe the last few centuries, and even then it was a very gradual shift in practice.

Hell, church and state are still one and the same in much of the modern world (see also: significant portions of the Middle East, the United Kingdom, various others). Implying that this was any less prevalent historically is, well, silly.
False. A Hacker is by definition someone who writes good/smart/clever/expert code. I would expect the same from a professional.
I'd speak to the last person who worked on it face to face with a whiteboard and a marker handy. Get a brain dump ASAP. Even if the person no longer works there, you can take some time to contact them for a lunch. Most people would not say no to this type of request (especially if you're buying). Just make sure you have questions ready so you don't waste their time.
But that's a silly and dishonest argument because there are plenty of areligious hetero marriages. If separation of church and state is anything more than lip service, statutory marriage isn't an explicitly religious institution. Not to mention that religions exist that have no problem with gay marriage.
That really depends how far back you go and where you look. I'm sure I could find as many counter-examples as examples.
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Yes, but the VM clock guaranteed more, every time you access the clock using erlang:now() you would get a monotonically increasing value. Practical to be sure, but not scalable.
or telemetry.
What would this look like? My wife has no income because she is raising our children. Should she be eligible for welfare? Do I owe gift tax if she orders a pizza from our joint checking account?
By whose definition?
I wish they would add an option to start the y axis at zero, to depict the asset's volatility.
[213 points] Sleeping considered harmful - Why I stopped sleeping

I liked this one.
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We've had these types of threads posted several times before and they've always been fun, though it seems like /g/ are really struggling for material this time around.

That said:

> [600 points] Why only web development matters (http :// nautil.us medium wordpress theverge gawker .com)
I believe "You cant ell" was meant to be "You can tell", not "You can't tell", and that you agree with each other.
I didn't misinterpret your question at all, I just chose to equivocate rather than answer you directly. ;)

What you are asking is a question of gays or lesbians living and surviving in a place that has something like institutional racism or segregation setup against them and where services are denied to them. Does such a place exist in the states today?
Mobile basestations in developing markets are badass. Grid doesnt work 24 hours. Small diesel power generator is used as backup. Backup usage ranges from 3 hours a day in good electricity areas to 21-22 is worst.

Although mobile device market is certainly better target as a market.
That seems like an uncommon scenario for the kinds of things NACL gets used for. These are intrinsically server-controlled applications, when they're applications at all (my real sense of what NACL is about is "another tool to migrate away from things like Flash and plugins; ie: a platform for video codecs).

I see your point. I guess you're saying, there could be a photo editing app in which Alice can send pictures to Bob, and Mallory might send a malicious picture to Alice that coerces her client into betraying all its photos.
Who are any of us to judge what a life well lived is to anyone else?
False. "Hacker" has been co-opted by startup culture, so being a professional is an accepted term in the definition.

Also, given those terms, anyone not a professional and also having nothing to do with programming would be a hacker, which is absurd given most accepted definitions.

QED. Cogito Ergo Sum. Ipso Facto and Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati.
At the moment of death you're having your last memories, so dying alone is like going into the abyss alone forever. Dying with people is like going into the abyss with that company forever. Or something like that. It could be even more subtle than this. I'm speaking psychologically of course. Replace the abyss with whatever.

This may seem odd in logical terms but it seems to be a common understanding, and it's found in movies, books, etc.

[edit]It might be analagous to children who don't want to fall asleep without an adult with them. They are scared by the darkness and don't want to go through something scary alone.
AWS margin is only relevant if you can be as Efficent as Amazon if you don't have 24/7 need for 100% of your servers then Amazon is likely to be more Efficent internally. It's also highly negotiable at scale. Do 10k per month and you get standard rates, do 200k and you get a little leverage. Do 2M per month and it can be a level playing field.
Lithium, as medication, has been a benchmark of my life, though in a different way than portrayed in the nicely written article.

When I was in school back in the 60's, I had the chance to see the healing effects of lithium before it was approved here in the US in 1970. I saw a man in a florid manic state dramatically improve in two week's time, kind of magical and it left a lasting impression on me.

A few years later I happened to be walking in town, and a man stopped me. "I know you. You were one of those students there when I was in the hospital." Only then did I know who he was. I asked how he was doing. He said "I'm doing quite well. Lithium saved my life and I'm still taking it."

Since then I've had the responsibility of treating many people with mood disorders, and I didn't forget what I'd learned. Anyway, lithium is still a godsend for many people, but of course it really isn't a magic bullet, nothing is.

Like all medications it can produce bad effects. I've seen that happen too. Renal failure is a risk as the article points out. Careful monitoring can prevent some bad outcomes, though not all. Doing whats best requires utmost dedication by patient and doctor to the cause of stability and quality of life.

In the words of Spinoza, "all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare." Success is possible, we just have to find the courage and strive to get there.
You're not wrong, but I find it I still find it hilarious. It's a good thread for a Friday afternoon laugh.
What should happen is the government should stop defining marriage of any form (leave that to religion or personal tradition), and simply define all these rights under civil union (or a similar phrase with no significant religious/cultural attachment).

The state that I live in passed a constitutional amendment specifically prohibiting civil unions. The only remaining recourse was the supreme court.
Oh no, the horror of job offers! You can always forward them to me. I could do with more employment opportunities.
Oh cool! so from the server you stop the image that's running on the server, then restart the CCL image, and then load in the source (like starting a repl on the server and doing a "load ./start-file.lisp")? (ps sorry for the rookie questions am quite new to this and very interested).
>We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

...or...

>For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone.
I don't know if this was meant to be a joke but it's rather preposterous. Justices do not make laws, they interpret and apply them, and must do so while being rationally bound and yes accountable to laws and precedent under the framework of common law. Judicial activism is a pejorative term for good reason: they're not there to create or destroy laws. If they did start abusing their power to interpret laws they would be impeached: they actually ARE accountable to congress same as the president.

Also, if the equal protection clause was misinterpreted by the judicial branch, the legislative bodies of the federal and state governments have the power to revise and make it clear that the law was never to be interpreted that way.
Try https://www.freebase.com/sports
The global symbol registry sounds intriguing but dangerous. Does it now provide a mechanism for client side cross domain communication? The browser spends most of its time isolating different domains, but in this instance the feature seems to be explicitly added to allow for some kind of cross domain interaction. In turn however that would seem to bring with it all the security problems of allowing it - phishing sites can frame your web site and then farm all the information out of the global symbols. Which means any use of them would have to be very careful.

Does anybody have any insight on whether my interpretation here is correct?
Sure, but I don't hear anyone -- not even the open carry folks -- calling for the legalization of personal nukes.
An overview of s6
I've been running linux mint , an ubuntu derivative, for over 3 years and never had that happen to me.

furthermore, the linux OS's don't have 370 billion dollars backing them up. their limitations are truly techinical, not greed.
There is some inspired content in that link. My personal fave:

We're disrupting the 1gorillion dollar [insert industry] sign up for our beta to check it out[0].

[0]We just need your name, address, credit card, and birth date. To verify your a human.[1]

[1] and we store all of this in clear text files on our server.[2]

[2] which was written using [insert new hipster language] by some guy who's been programming for 3 weeks.[3]

[3] but we promise not use your data to mine the shit out of you and sell it to advertisers.[4]

[4] jk
Holy shit snacks - great answer!
I bet he's a real hoot at parties...

"Hi, Richard."

"Hello, how are things?"

"Great! I'm pretty happy that..."

"Oh, you're not actually happy. You've been indoctrinated to think you need to obtain an artificial mental state labeled 'happiness' by others. What you are really experiencing is resentment for others success and you are projecting your mediocrity as positive achievements."

I found Inside Out wildly entertaining. As did my children and parents. Pixar's storytelling and record of engaging multiple generations is unmatched. They are altogether tragic, dramatic, funny, personal, and universal.

I find nothing wrong with simplifying the rules of a film's universe and requiring filmgoers to suspend disbelief in order to tell a story. Why? Because good films are a catalyst for discussion. As a result, whereas the author is critical of the film itself as damaging for being simplistic, rather, it can be the very context to launch the necessary discussions with children to navigate their myriad of emotions.

Ironically, Pixar's very own Anton Ego of Ratatouille critiques the critics... "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so."
TL:DR Chesky reads a lot, talks to smart people
You mostly didn't ask questions, though. Of the three possibilities you gave, the only one you expressed in the form of a question was the balloon one.

I get it, you were just idly speculating and wondering about possibilities. But surely you see why people are reacting badly to it given that you did not just ask questions.
Well obviously the y-range is different! That's the whole point! The data is identical though.

A logarithmic graphs show differences (i.e. growth or decline) between values, while a linear graph shows absolute values (i.e. what fraction out of a whole).

You do not need multiple orders of magnitude to make logarithmic worthwhile. What matters is the kind of data (change in value, or absolute portion of a whole), not the range.
Yes, it's arguably perjury. And for something as obvious as this, it would be hard to claim that it's just a difference of opinion.

But for expert opinions that involve substantial interpretation of evidence, it's hard enough to exclude under the Daubert standard, let alone to make a case for perjury.
So says the President who made a career off dividing us on racial and social lines.
Haha I know it sounds impossible but I think it is actually feasible. I beleive a game can grow like a typical startup product, you can start with a hundred players interested in a game with a handful of units and grow from there.

Here is a video of the product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNIFd6jxQbY
> His epiphany came when his current partner told him how she had lost her grandmother. Unlike Koremura’s loss, her grandmother had died alone—a kodokushi. It was seeing the deep regret in her, and accepting his own ennui, that made Koremura finally take action. He left his job as a stockbroker and set up his own removal company dedicated to the cleanup of kodokushi victims. He wanted to give something back to the generation of his grandmother, and he also wanted to change who he was. “I was ready for the prospect of change, but looking back, perhaps I wasn’t quite so ready for how different my life was to become,” he remembers.

It's odd that Toru Koremura's reaction to lonely elderly deaths was to go into the corpse-cleaning-up business, rather than starting a social outreach program for the lonely elderly. I understand there's dignity in how we treat the dead, but it doesn't solve the problem at all.
> What you're saying about delivery makes sense, thanks for explaining.

My pleasure.

> Issue 1 is just Issue 2 in my mind with X filled in. These kinds of inconsistencies bother me.

But they are completely different. In case #2 we're talking about two different products. In case #1 we're talking about two different customers. That's the difference.
send it to an assay lab ?
Vandenberg. But seeing anything might be a challenge. They don't let anybody near there during launches.

http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbview.htm
Looks like I missed the newsbit in January when Musk did that to honor Banks: http://www.tor.com/2015/01/23/elon-musk-iain-m-banks-just-re...
> No amount of pedantic quibbling will allow you to escape the fact that poly-marriage is defined by the TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE in the marriage

Obviously.

> it doesn't matter how many partners an individual prefers, the only question is the number of people, not WHO THEY ARE.

I should think that peoples' preferences and drives for partnering and sex does in part define who they are.

> it's akin to saying "speeding laws target people who like to speed" which is obviously true but misses the point that the law is based on your actual speed not on your personal predilection for speeding; it's not discrimination because it's not about you.

It's a prohibition against specific conduct, much like the now defunct prohibition against homosexual sex. One should not stop at the law itself; one must examine the law's effect on those negatively impacted vs everyone else.
Uniformity in tech article headlines
Why is it the vast majority of tech articles - easily more then half of them, have titles like "Why/how (subject matter)"?

I understand this is a bit of a nitpick, but it always kinda bugged me. People have experimented with robots writing articles, but that doesn't mean we have to act like them.
Well... this is kind of a selling point of AWS... isn't it? So it's not just "nuance," it's actually a feature.
Yes, exactly. (And no worries about rookie questions. That's how people become non-rookies.)

In my case, I run the REPL using screen so I can go back to it for debugging if I need to. But you can also run "headless", without a REPL at all if you want.
And, so, until we correct the misunderstanding gay people should be excluded from being able to share custody of their children, be beneficiaries of social security, medicare, insurance, retirement plans, and visitation of the partners when in the hospital, etc., all things that heterosexual married couples currently enjoy under the law?

That's the wrong direction, and it is unconstitutional. The reality is that the world just got nicer for a lot of people. The theoretical "reinforced" root problem effects literally no one. Before today, that root problem existed. It still exists today. There is no scenario today for real people that is worse than yesterday.

I'm not willing to throw gay couples under the bus because it doesn't suit me that the government has a role in marriage. It has had a role in marriage for longer than you or I have been on this earth. This doesn't strengthen that notion in any way. The government has been granted no new power over your relationships than it had yesterday (just because you or I don't like that it has any say in relationships is not what is up for discussion), and it is disingenuous, or at least misdirection, to suggest otherwise.
Ask HN: Undo save comment
I'm new to HN, and still navigating the UI. I accidentally 'saved' a comment, and would like to unsave it. I found a thread from a few years ago suggesting that this is not possible. Is that still the case?

Evidently HN users gain the ability to downvote when they reach 500 karma. Does downvoting a previously upvoted comment essentially unsave it?
Are you saying of something major broke at 2AM on Sunday you where the only person who would be available to show up and fix it? If so, your adding a lot of risk for major downtime ex: Your hit by a bus. If not, then you did not manage 5500 servers by yourself.

PS: I could see a team of 10 people handling 55,000 servers though. But that's serious scale and fairly lean.
If someone had peered upon the person pooping, the proprietor would presumably not have proceeded to procure the DNA to try to pinpoint the perpetrator. They could have prevailed upon the peeper to peg the punk.
You didn't address any of the specifics in my comment.
You're not actually advocating for artificial introduction into the water supplies are you?
Unless you were born in a vat, you probably didn't enter the world alone.
Obviously highly dependent on context, but keep in mind a lot of technical articles that follow these basic patterns are really just press releases, native advertising or war stories from startups, companies or individuals from their engineering blogs. They're going to naturally be self-promoting. Tech articles extend far beyond those confines, though.
That one seems to recommend the OATH-toolkit, I tried it once and the documentation wasn't impressive (shocker!) and I was concerned about the security aspect as well. I wonder if anyone has audited that code properly?

Google Authenticator PAM module seems to be the other option that is widely used and it's much easier to find information on it.
Kimble V. Marvel Entertainment, LLC [pdf]
Not surprising given the amount of lobbying that recording heavyweights conduct. You can search the public records at https://ocl-cal.gc.ca/app/secure/orl/lrrs/do/clntSmmrySrch?l....
Yes, I get it. Joel is gay. I started reading his blog back in 2000 when it first started and he would constantly mention his boyfriend(s) in his articles.

This is irrelevant to technology. I see it the same as constantly preaching my religious views. If I did, it would turn lots of people off.

The only reason biased political commentary is accepted is because many in the community agree with it.
> Then you have government blessing certain types of unions for specific purposes.

Not for most things. You just make a contract with someone, and the government can (if necessary, through the courts) enforce that contract. That works fine for hospital visitation and medical decision making (the government can step in if a hospital refuses to respect a contract) and wills. For things like tax exceptions, well, that's all the government's doing anyway. How about just give everyone the tax benefit if it's really so complicated to figure out.
I think some people have this fantasy, that they are on their death bed and there is 3 generations weeping around them. Sorry, but is this even true any more?

Well, at least here in my Southern European country, it sure is. While there are many more elderly people dying alone than a couple of decades ago, I'd say most people I know still keep in close contact with their parents and grandparents, and they spend their last days (usually in the hospital) with them.

In fact, that's one thing I always found disconcerting in online conversations with US Americans - the willingness to just move hundreds of miles from their parents and grandparents. I've never considered myself a family-oriented person -I've always disliked family reunions and the "you have to go visit your great-uncle"- but the idea of leaving now, when my grandmothers probably just have a few more years to live, just sounds so ungrateful and selfish :|
To be honest, I always end up coming back to Bootstrap for when I need a grid system. It's not amazing or the best, but it's really consistent and easy to use, and it makes sense.

I'm interested in seeing what other people have to say because I'm not opposed to trying something new.
For all its immaturity, 4chan can be surprisingly clever. A lot of the commenters on that thread were complaining about having had accounts banned here, though.
Somehow I don't think that's what anyone is doing here.
I have a Skype subscription and I consistently receive complaints on the other end of the line. Skype worked well from 2007-2010 on Nokia N8x0 devices and Windows.

It's been god-awful since then. I think I've had one acceptable call. As for my point, eBay and Microsoft truly slaughtered Skype.
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Here's the first one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373

Some really good ones in there.
> Fellow programmers, how exactly do you unit test a method / function which draws something on the canvas for example?

We don't. Canvas drawing routines are hopefully unit-tested already by their authors. We do write unit tests for calculations and logic to make sure that the values passed to some canvas function are as expected.
Oh, I think you're right. Never mind, then :)
Any other favorite examples of disorders whose names get misused as metaphors? (I guess "OCD" is a common one -- and indeed "depressed" and "schizophrenic" too.)
Something I need to get around to doing is playing with Docker and SBCL - it gives you daemonization out of the box. Have you tried that?
Absolutely not. I just let google spam handle it. This does need to stop though, have thought about this problem before...its just how do you make money (as kevin oleary would say).
A VPN will allow you to tunnel all of your traffic over a secure connection.

In SSH, you can tunnel ports, but that only secures traffic at that port.
You can use a SOCKS proxy, but that only secures traffic configured to go through it.
You can use the -w option and use IP forwarding, but then you're running TCP/IP over the SSH protocol which is bad. This is the closest you'll get to emulating what a VPN provides.
I see I was silenced once again. No worries. I will just continue to pass the love so to speak until this sort of behavior stops and our communities become more accepting.

When you get fired from your job for just a tweet or a belief, you will know where I'm coming from. It's not something I enjoy, I feel it's my duty.
Cost savings start (moving to your own hardware) at $50K/month spend with AWS. I'd imagine the cost savings are enormous at $2MM/month, although I'll need to dig my spreadsheet out to know for sure.
Overwrite functions in dynamic languages (like JavaScript) with some "dump all arguments code" and call/return the original function, to get a quick glimpse in the code. Though this doesn't work with closures without some extra eval tricks.