skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly suspect that the real historic reason for taboos against homosexuality boiled down to two concerns in roughly this order:

(1) Keeping birth rates up in order to raise armies and work forces. Agrarian civilizations derived power largely from their demographic vitality. There are actual references to this in the Bible if I recall correctly -- about your children being as arrows in a quiver, etc. Opting out of fertility was to those civilizations akin to draft dodging or not paying taxes.

(2) Somewhat legitimate sanitation and health concerns before the advent of antibiotics, condoms, etc. -- since some homosexual behaviors are higher risk in this regard. Keep in mind that what today would be a minor infection might be a death sentence back them.

#1 is obsolete. Industrial and post-industrial civilizations derive power from brains and infrastructure, not raw population.

#2 is obsolete if you have an educated population with access to condoms and health care.

If "dysgenics" ever becomes an actual problem we can just fix it with genetic engineering... which of course would require confronting both the left and the right. The left would oppose it because it's not "natural" (no GMO!), while the right would consider it "playing God."
How bizarre. Brand new M16 lowers are like $75 retail. I can't imagine the motive for making them, unless they're just hobbyists who happen to be drug lords.
How does something like this make it to the front page of HN?
> My family, my friends, and my community. I coached HS and club swimming and water polo during college and it was so goddamned rewarding. I'd teach if it paid well. I don't have any outlet to give back to the community right now :(

This is what my gut is telling me. I feel sorely underdeveloped in my love life, and I'd like to start putting more of my time and energy into that.

Funny that you mention community--I do want to prepare some technical talks on this break. For me, that would scratch a community participation itch, though I didn't think about it in those terms before your comment.

Thanks for your reply and perspective!
I am reading The Circle right now and this reminds me of that.
Eclipse-based Android Developer tools will be out of service this year
Surely the times are interesting[0][1].

[0] http://i.imgur.com/C77vR9t.png

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...
2.5 metre vortex in Lake Texoma
But the hard part is knowing where the rocket is, right?
GCP seems much less expensive. Compared to Azure, for instance, I've found VM to cost from 50% to 10%. (Not to mention the SSD options aren't idiotically lame.) The GCP portal and speed also totally obliterates Azure.

AWS had more complicated pricing via that weird reservation system and "reselling" marketplace. But GCP, as far as I could tell, was still a bit less expensive.
Why should the government stop defining marriage? what is wrong with this?
Github & StackOverflow are too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9787599
Now Bitbucket joins the party. https://imgur.com/e0kOgQN
That post is probably what I'm remembering. Apologies for the misattribution.
Three things to keep in mind here:

1. Perl is MUCH more concise than C, since we have institutionalized code sharing (see CPAN), whereas most C devs i know (and maybe i don't know too good ones) seem to at most reuse code others wrote by way of ctrl+c/ctrl+v.

2. Perl's reformatting tools are automatic. I just have a little config file that says how long my lines are supposed to be and where i'd like the spaces on my parens (inside, between the parens and arguments) and then i hit ctrl+e and boom it's done. If i need to do it to many files, find + perltidy. In your case i would've just taken his new version, automatically formatted everything in less than 5 minutes, and merged on top of that.

3. When i do this, i'm doing it with team lead consent and team concensus, in an authority position, not with random code maintained by people i never even talked to. :)
> "but that's a pretty resolved question at this point, and would require overruling about 200 years of precedent on the issue "

So, I assume you're leaving Loving v. Virginia out of that figure? [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
Correct me if I'm misunderstanding things, but your comment suggests that you think marriage started as a religious thing and then later became a legal matter.

This is not the case, at least in western/european culture. In fact, the reverse is true. Marriage was not thought of as a religious institution until pretty late in the game -- certainly not until after 1000. (For example, marriage was not declared a sacrament until the Council of Trent in the 1500s.)
Even so, nobody kicks to the full 15m in the 50 free (the shortest, fastest event in swimming).
IMHO, absolutely. There are many wins, but the 2 biggest for us have been:

1. Clojure's tools for making abstractions are orders of magnitude better than Java's, so our codebase is significantly smaller and simpler than what it'd look like in Java.

2. Clojure lends itself very well to a REPL-oriented kind of iterative development that speeds up writing and testing code tremendously, compared to the typical Java workflow.
He said, not she. It is a guy complaining his wife can't change her user id.

"He told me that my wife was out of luck."
That's true, but couples were still required to either live in or travel to a state where same-sex marriages were able to be legally performed.
it's not.
Most people forgetting maintenance costs. They are raising much higher in non Cloud environments.
Instead of tracking just your load and buying servers you need to track EVERYTHING.
Hardware failure, replace it, etc.
Also networking, it's really really really hard to run a Big network. AWS VPC is easy, AWS VPC is predictable. A normal network is not predictable.
People forget about a lot of things, especially that it isn't that easy to buy hardware and put it into a datacenter.
Also renting the datacenter or buying it? What about the clima? Do you need special coolers etc? What about raising electricity cost?
Or higher network costs to your t2, t1 provider?
On AWS a box costs x Cent per Hour and most likely these prices will fall. You only need to pay that.

We run on AWS and especially due to the networking we pay less than we would pay in a normal datacenter.
Mostly cause of the fact that they want money for everything. Even in the small scale, just buying 3-4 AWS instances upfront is really really cheap.
I don't know if it is typical or not, but at least some of them have that. I saw one in Prague, Czech Republic (there was an ACM contest hosted on Czech Technical University).

When you look at the frame, where you enter the elevator ("door", "door frame" or however it should be called):

- a part of the floor is on hinges, so if you had your foot stuck between an oncoming floor board and cabin floor while traveling up, it would "open" and trip the safety,

- upper part is actually a freely hanging piece of wood, so if you had your head or limbs sticking out while traveling up, you would lift the piece of wood and trip the safety.

No idea about the actual cabins -- for example if you kept hanging on the floor while the cabin travels down onto you -- but I suspect that the top of the cabin works similarly to the top of the "door frame". If my memory is correct, the cabins also had hinges near the edge of their floorboards (e.g., foot between the floor and the cabin traveling down), but no idea if these also stop the entire system.

Only the visible chain mechanism when overriding top or bottom looked unsafe to me, because I stick my hands everywhere :)
Thanks for the links! I'll try to look at those when I have some time. On a quick glance, it looks like most of those systems are ground based and pretty large (which works great for launch footage), the video posted appears to be looking down on the landing pad at the end, which leads me to believe the camera is located on a helicopter.

Could a radar based camera be mounted on a helicopter, or could land-based tracking devices work in conjunction with a helicopter mounted camera to achieve the tracking?
1) It's totally on topic, I don't see how you could argue otherwise.

2) As a person from a Nigerian family myself, I happen to like seeing people of my heritage being seen in a different light rather than the same old scam-email-Nigerian-prince thing that's always being presented.

Unless I'm missing something, this browser isn't opensource which is kind of a shame. But solid effort nonetheless. I kinda wish a company equiv of YCombinator could show up in Lagos, Nigeria to give hopefully developers a better chance out there.
There is a company like this: https://www.crowdsupply.com

Disclaimer: I'm the CEO/co-founder of Crowd Supply. Happy to answer any questions.
We have four paternosters in our office here in cologne and I'm using them every day. It's really cool, because you have mostly no wait time to get into it.

Two of them are out of order at the moment. I heard, that fixing one would cost about 900k €.
Sites like Hacker News?
> I am not deciding that a child can't consent, I am merely describing social issues that are studied by people who know more than I do.

So the people "who know more than you do" get to decide if a child can consent to have sex with an adult? And what if they change their mind, does that then make it acceptable and healthy?

My point is that when we say that there is no objective standard of right and wrong then we don't get to arbitrarily stop the sexual "civil rights" train after we get what we individually want or what we find acceptable.

There are plenty more people who have not yet been granted the freedom to express their desires by marrying the individual(s) they "love". And who are you to say that their desires aren't valid and healthy? And by what standard?
Hi. I live in a dangerous city. What if I lost my phone?
The difference between programming the 20% finishing and machining the whole part is not that large. Moreover, the finishing would require manual set up and zeroing out each semi-finished piece.

Aluminium is cheap material and machines really well, there's not much downside to machining the whole piece. Plus, you save the expense of buying hundreds of pre-fab LR blanks.
I do Devops/Infrastructure for a living, I've shown the math to both my day gig and numerous consulting clients that AWS is 30-40% more expensive, even when taking into account reserved instance pricing. External networking expecially is super expensive compared to traditional transit pricing.

They're absolutely wonderful for bursty or async workloads, but if you know your load, you're better off on your own gear.

EDIT: Source added.

https://blog.serverdensity.com/saving-500k-per-month-buying-...

"Saving $500k per month buying your own hardware – cloud vs colocation"

The article mentions SoftLayer, but its just as relevant for AWS.
Re your deleted comment:

> I guess everyone and every group finds certain truths uncomfortable. It's especially sad that the theory of evolution seems to make literally everyone uncomfortable.

In context, this is a claim that race and IQ is a consequence of the theory of evolution. If you don't see this, then you don't understand communication with humans, or are being disingenuous.
Wow that's a pretty bold and interesting method. Have you ever tried simply cold emailing? That seems like it could work as well if this works.
Well, having gone to a top-15 bschool, I'd expect that if it were really so prevalent, that it would have come up, at least once. Especially from the prof whose class was interrupted by reporters for the local news companies. (This was 2009...)

I've used logarithmic graphs heavily in server and system analysis. Sometimes it's incredibly useful, and sometimes it's completely worthless. It's not like one is more useful than the other, each show the data differently, and each view has its uses.
Yes, that's currently the plan!

More than that: when end-user is SMB but paying customer is a B2B cloud software vendor, needs are often the same as for startups.
I've thought that Office Suite software has basically been a "baked" product since about 2007. I doubt 99% of MS Word users are going to need a feature that isn't already in the software. I mean, if that's what you're getting at.

Hell, you could almost make the case that the Windows operating system became a "baked" product when Windows XP came out and you no longer had to reboot your computer on an almost daily basis. I mean, that's why you'll hear howls and yelps from grandma and grandpa when some virus eventually comes to polish off Windows XP. Until then, you'll only get it from their cold, dead hands (sorry grandma).

But the concept of computing isn't going away for a long, long time. What's changing is the machinery being managed by code. First tablets and cell phones, and soon the Internet of Things (stupidest name evar). But even if we run out of wires and electricity, I suspect some day we'll be creating living things (tissues at first) that can perform a computation. So yeah, computerize ALL THE THINGS!
Somehow it's still kind of fascinating.
How to install PSVita package files on Firmware 3.20 and up
> It's the job of the legislature to change the laws, not the courts.

Not according to our system of laws.

The courts are empowered to change laws that conflict with others, particularly with laws superior to the one in question; in this case the laws in the Constitution overrule state laws.

Also, the courts are responsible for interpreting laws, and therefore can change them in that way too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation

I don't disagree with your point, but I don't think selling most of the daylight hours of your youth is great either.
They're kids. Give them a break. Would you like to show us the website you had when you were 16?
How is that irrelevant when you ask

> Why so? That's pretty much what the state does, it provides advantages for situations it wants to see happen more (tax breaks for instance, dispensations or fast tracks, direct monetary grants) and disadvantages for those it doesn't (fines and privation of liberty, mostly). Would you find replacing "the state" by "society" more palatable?
Using Nested Selects for Performance in Rails
Web performance: Cache efficiency exercise
That's what SafeStack (and IA-64) do.
It's amazing to me that anyone still tries to run mysql with the glibc allocator. That allocator is not suitable for any kind of multithreaded workload. Use tcmalloc or jemalloc for everything.
mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9lmo3WI...

Edit: now it's back up online.

Any examples of using symbols for variants or flyweights ?
I want to try decorators but I really dislike javascript classes.
Yeah, I understand your point. I think I'm communicating why someone has a personal incentive to run for congress under our system since they won't be receiving lobbying money. I'm hoping the electorate isn't under the belief that congressional salaries are negotiable. I don't see why people can't feel passionate about this project and also be compensated for improving a system that is rife with inefficiencies.
This is just such an incredible gem. Certainly required reading for everyone on HN. The original, that is.
Early Reviewers: Free advance copies of books
There are several in Bremen and most are accessible to the public. There is a set of them in the Finanzamt (tax office) so any tax abiding or non-abiding citizen can go ride it!
Public menace.
You've answered your own question: "consensual, non-coercive"
I almost always play several things at once. The standard is to have Twitch or Netflix/HBO on one monitor and a game on the other. Without specific volume controls it would be a disaster.
Thanks. Is this because it's mostly programs that live in executable space on a well-maintained machine or because gadgets can be precomputed (at least in parts) which makes compilation easier? (Not that that is mutually exclusive!)
My main programming activity these days is working on my chess GUI. Working on problems like; How can I quickly search 10,000,000 games for a given position without creating a fully indexed multi-gigabyte database? Etc. Sometimes it bothers me. Am I wasting my life?
The sliding effect and animations are cool at least.

You should have seen my first webpage. Animated rainbow gifs, crazy backgrounds on crazier font-colors. Their site is much better. Mine looked like those Myspace pages from back in the day. autoplaying midi music included.
I see it more as either end (no government involvement, marriage is religious only or no church involvement, marriage is civil only) would satisfy the OP. The middle-ground is the actual opposite to both ends, in that marriage isn't secular or optional.

I have no need to redefine people's religion if they willingly separate it from the state.
4. Sometimes writing UML diagrams works

I found myself doing this more often and find it very useful.
I've been using Freemind and it seems to do the trick.
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> I doubt 99% of MS Word users are going to need a feature that isn't already in the software.

This was literally the reason for the design change in 2007 - they abandoned the toolbar system for the ribbon system exactly because 95% of all feature requests were for features that were already included in the product. People just couldn't find these features.

And so they reworked the UI, now users can find the features they want to use. And it generated so much bad publicity that they re-added the toolbar system to Office 2010.
+1 on not restricting immigration; if you've ever worked in Silicon Valley, you know how much of the work here gets done by immigrants.

>"If you think Americans are xenophobic now, just wait to see their attitudes if basic income ever passes."
I unfortunately agree with this.
I know. I was agreeing and elaborating a bit more on it.

"Offence is rarely given - only taken." sums it up nicely.
I think often you'd rather throw money at the problem, and have your engineering talent working on new features. This is one the of the nice things about AWS - oftentimes for the cost of a few hours of engineering time (what you might spend on a meeting to discuss optimisations) you could run a faster machine(s) for a few weeks.
I'm picturing footage of early NASA rocket failures if the internet had existed with real time feeds. NASA would have been portrayed as an agency that couldn't accomplish anything.

Such portrayals were present in old media, and this is way far off from anything I'm trying to express.
This is a particularly insightful (if snarky) comment.

The project I just had to refactor had a DSL that was completely unnecessary and had a ton of business logic tangled up within the domain language itself. I ended up being able to remove the DSL and parser completely in lieu of using simple config files and extracting the business logic into middleware.

The DSL was probably originally created due to some Slideshare presentation that had just hit the top of HackerNews 3 years ago. The original devs molded the problem to fit the ability to use a DSL and cool parsing library rather than figure out what the most suitable design for the problem was.
>>> For most of human history, and without having to get into more specific details, a man and woman living together for more than a short time usually resulted in children. The institution was enacted to encourage such couples to avoid getting into such a situation unless they agreed to stay together, ensuring the likely offspring would be raised by their own parents (generally the best possible conditions).

Ridiculous concept. Most of human history was based on a gift economy, in small groups not couples, partly because it was unlikely to know for certain that one specific kid was yours. It's only later on that humans lived in smaller and smaller groups. The concept of a nuclear family is relatively new, in fact many societies still have the entire first degree family living together (India).

And besides, we're all tired of the argument, marriage today has little resemblance to its old form.

You know why you ask the girl's father's permission when asking her hand in marriage? Because traditionally, girls were the property of their fathers and it was literally a transfer of goods. So I don't really care what happened for "millions of years".

>>> There's no point in formal social recognition of a union if there's no chance of reproductive consequences thereof.

I beg to differ. There are many many many legal reasons one would want to get married to your loved one, I won't bother explaining them to you, as I'm sure you know them.

You can redefine the purpose of marriage however you want, but at the end of the day, legally there is no mention of procreation when you sign a marriage certificate. Unless you are seriously suggesting we should verify the fertility of couples before they get married?

The real reason for official recognition of unions is that, as a married man/woman, you are less likely to create damage to society, you are seen more stable, it has nothing to do with your ability to procreate.
Encrypt it? Don't store credentials on it unless you really need to? Make rotating keys and passwords easy in the event of losing it?
Just a clarification for people reading this who might be unfamiliar with legal details. What you meant was probably AR15 lowers, not M16. I doubt you could buy M16 anywhere in the US sans the black market. You could make one out of an AR15 lower but that would be illegal.
The true insult is "May you live in boring times."
You may be interested in "On Constitutional Disobedience" by Louis Michael Seidman (http://www.amazon.com/On-Constitutional-Disobedience-Inalien...). He wrote a NY Times piece which is the short version of his argument around when the book came out, "Let's Give Up on the Constitution": http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/opinion/lets-give-up-on-th...

Seidman is a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown.
Corporations can't have custody of children.

Corporations can't issue medical directives for an incapacitated person.

Corporate shareholders don't get hospital visitation rights or medical insurance via someone's job, et c.
SafeStack is essentially an IA-64/SPARC-style two-stack model - there are no pointers to the %rsp stack.
Nextdoor for nonprofits – starting with churches
Not by default. But because there are possible overlaps in keys represented as strings it probably wouldnt be too helpful. Otherwise you could write your own .toJSON method to iterate over the symbol set if you really wanted to.
Hacker News is harsh to people suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect, and doubly harsh for those critical of SpaceX.

The 1st doesn't apply, and the last one is only in the imaginations of knee-jerkers.

That said, your first comment really comes across about as aloof

Again, this has everything to do with some "tone" in your imagination.
Wow, talking about controlling the narrative. They forgot one possible answer
"He loved Big Brother."
> you clearly don't understand why some people do not think gay marriage is a good thing for the country

I've been studying this issue (and writing about it) for twelve years. I doubt very much there is an argument on either side I haven't heard.

But this is a red herring. It doesn't matter whether gay marriage is or is not a good thing for the country. (I think it is, but that's irrelevant too.) What matters is if it's protected by the Constitution.

So here's the test: do you think that states can Constitutionally ban interracial marriage? If so, then we'll just have to agree to disagree. But if not, then I submit that you cannot oppose same-sex marriage without being a hypocrite. There is no argument against gay marriage that cannot be applied just as well to interracial marriage.

If you think there is such an argument, I'm listening.