skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
``Nowadays, if you bump into someone you haven’t seen in a while and their behaviour is weird, you say hello, depart and think, “Well, they seemed a bit medsy, didn’t they?” And then you move on.''

What?

``Throw in Ritalin and concentration drugs such as Adderall and moods quickly become very, very niche: Wellbutrin + online binge shopping; Effexor + Facebook + three scotches; Adderall plus Celexa and sitting at your desk dispiritedly checking for new emails every two-and-a-half minutes. These all sound beyond mundane'' (italics mine)

What??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYWrSCZDroM
Send out and email to the entire office listing the people you still need money from. Then send another one the next week with the one or two stragglers listed. Social pressure and implied shame work great.
I upvoted you for being good a butterfly.

Edit: It's a hypothesis you muscle head.
They 'manage' a massive fleet of vehicles in that I can ask uber to send me a vehicle, to my specifications, and they will do so.

The clever part is that, yes, they don't own them. That was my point. Like, my entire point.
When people begin to argue over PC speech they fail to realize that nearly everything they do, everything they do, will offend someone or something.

Trying to please everyone is the suremost way to fail.
Always do separate tickets for food. This prevents a Tragedy of the Commons, especially with large groups of people whom you do not know well, where there is a real possibility that their Wall Street d-bag friends order the lobster bisque, filet mignon and champagne and expect everyone else ordering a side salad to subsidize their stockbroker-but-has-a-subzero-balancesheet "lifestyle." Don't be a sucker.
As a lawyer, could you explain how denying over 1,000 federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples would be offering them equal protection under the law?
I understand that laws need definition, but why does a definition need governmental approval? Do we apply for a permit before we want to give birth to a child? Shouldn't it be the same basis as having a kid--that is, if you're going to marry, you are marrying, and no one is to have a say in that except realize that is fact?

Last time I checked, there is no application to have a kid, and kids are defined in law for governmental institutions like negligence of a child, etc.
I know it's been days, do you have a source on that? It radically changes the situation and my opinion.
Oh yes, I wouldn't question the math -- it's well beyond my expertise, and I've heard of way too many implementations of the theory to refute it at a theoretical level.
> Historically it's been used in a way that's profoundly imbalanced towards women (i.e. almost exclusively polygyny)

Any biologists care to chime in on this? It cuts both ways, and is more complicated than that.

I don't understand how polygamy is imbalanced toward woman. They get a stake of the alpha's attention and him providing for them. In the current system, it's AFBB. The beta male foots the bill for alpha seed.
How does that article not mention Gass's The Tunnel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(novel)
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Sure, but that strikes me as the exception that proves the rule. JS succeeded not because of language merits, but because it had strong distribution. JS was basically held in contempt for a decade until the platforms and the language matured enough to make it useful for something more than button rollovers and form validation.
One of the cases we found while performance profiling was a tradeoff between memory usage and computation completion. On certain requests FXL would use too much memory and be halted by the equivalent to AllocationLimits, while Haxl would happily plow on using less memory and complete the request. When looking at many of those requests in aggregate, the end result would have more successfully completed requests but with longer response times mixed in. Completing more requests was seen as a win over the apparent decrease in throughput.
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On this note, is anyone aware of a good source of non-DRMed ebooks? Not just a place selling from little indie publishers; when a friend recommends a popular book to me I'd expect to be able to find it in the catalog.

Does such a place exist, or do I have to go back to paper?
Awesome work. Can you share the tech stack you used?
Shameless people will make a vine selfie to point out the passive-aggressive loser out some coin.
Tax, immigration/emigration, and will/inheritance reasons. For one thing, the government gives you a tax break if you marry; this was particularly useful because, in the old days, women didn't work so it made sense to not tax the man (who did work) because he was effectively making money for two (and possibly more if they had children). Similarly, getting married changes your defaults if you die intestate (that is, you didn't draw up a will giving all your money to some slap-up blond or something), then your spouse (as oppose to your next-in-line) gets your $$. As for the immigration reason, if you're an US citizen but your wife (or hubby) is another nationality, you can get him or her over here and move onto getting him/her a resident alien card much more easily than through other methods of immigration (presumably this is so that families can be together, which is nice).

If you don't care about any of that and love another person, place, thing, or idea, you can just announce you're married to him/her/it without recognition from the government and just sort of be together.
All of that pales in comparison to the fact that google has a direct line to more users. They can auto update their apps and allow people to book a driverless car.
> Logically, you'd think that science and information sharing would make us all more liberal and taboo-proof, but I'm not sure that is happening.

I think you're right - but i also think you're underestimating the lack of science minded individuals in the ones who are less liberal (such as in the US).

Education is becoming a big problem, in general.
> The proper position is: if I want to be straight or gay, it is my choice, period. If I'm born gay, that's fine; if I'm born gay and want to be straight, that's fine; if I'm born gay and only want to be gay, that's fine. And so on.

I agree completely. I always thought that the biological argument was a red herring meant mostly to sway those that couldn't be swayed anyways (those that thought gay impulses were aberrant). The moral argument remains the same whether someone is born gay or choses to become gay.
I was disappointed (particularly given the title) not to see a comparison against freestyle swim times. The other strokes are essentially handicapped events - they measure how fast you can go given certain specific restrictions on what you can do. In some cases, those restrictions didn't anticipate underwater swimming, so that loophole was exploited (particularly in back stroke and breast stroke, where the rules resulted in slower times than free and fly). But for freestyle, where there are (almost) no restrictions on the style of stroke, does this fish-style of underwater swimming provide any advantage?
I am curious if anyone is aware of a comparison.
This website does the worst job explaining what it's even here for. I have to spend ten minutes reading obfuscated to text to understand that the font shows different glyphs when I type a "dangerous" word? Why do this in a font? Why don't you build a spellcheck dictionary and misuse that technology instead of this one that's in front of me all day?
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Hey fellas,

ACe here from Painless1099 (www.painless1099.com). We automate tax withholding/filing for anyone earning 1099 income (think: freelancers and Uber drivers.)

We're thinking through growth specifically right now and are chewing on whether to go the B2B route or the B2C route. Different implications for both regarding scale and revenue obviously. We'd be stoked on a bit of help figuring out which to tackle first and how to make headway!
wow, very impressive for just "learning" how to code. Great work man, I like the design a lot.
If you ride on the wrong side so you can jump out of the way in front of a car to survive, some drivers will expect you to do exactly that. This is a game much more dangerous than vehicular cycling.

Edit: also, don't expect other cyclists to endanger themselves by swerving into overtaking cars for an against the flow rider. They might even consciously chose a good head-butt with the other rider over ending under a car. In other words: you should be _really_ ready to jump.
This sounds like some part of an H.P. Lovecraft story.
6-9 months and $<5 million in capital. Redbull optional.

There is nothing special about Uber's backend or mobile apps that couldn't be replicated by another tech team, and we'll find out how easy it is as self driving cars get here.
Not a very helpful link.

Yes, just because it is hosted on github does not mean it is required to be open-source, but the documentation doesn't include any information about the licensing terms, so it is a valid question (that is as yet unanswered in public).
That's true, but it doesn't mean what you think it means. In context (both textual and historical) it means "well-functioning", not "constrained." i.e. it means "In order to have a well-function militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." And the Supreme Court has (correctly IMHO) upheld this interpretation.

I'm all for repealing the Second Amendment. I am vehemently opposed to trying to do end-runs around it.
This sounds exactly like regulatory capture. The taxi and limo commissions are doing exactly this.

Uber is taking advantage of a market that has been completely stifled by regulatory capture, allowing the incumbents to catastrophically under invest in personnel, systems and vehicles. These companies pillaged the industry with terrible services. Competition is going to bring them back to the table with far better service and pricing.

Probably with new owners post bankruptcy.
Tax, inheritance, and immigration laws don't require you to apply for a permit though to have your kids recognized so long as there is a registered birth certificate. My problem is the "application for marriage" process. A marriage should be recognized in the same manner that we issue a birth certificate; something that is issued as a matter of fact, not as a result of application awaiting approval or denial. Why is it not "registration of a marriage" as opposed to "application for marriage"? I think the semantics are important, since "application" implies we are ceding power to the government.

Isn't your body your body as opposed to requesting the government permission to marry?

I understand that it's required for recognition, but isn't it time we at least imply marriage is just a matter of recording instead of a formal permitting process?
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I am building youtube for content where users get paid for sharing their content.

One of the problem I am facing is how to pay them back? And how to checkout if the view was genuine or was done by some bot?
Rails continues to include things that most developers need when building a web application or api.

While most people are arguing about web framework speeds Rails has been putting in features that are useful, like mail previews, strong params, async emailing, Russian doll fragment caching(nice if your still doing traditional templates, can be used with JSON rendering too). The community also has very nice and mature libraries for doing authentication, authorization, audit trail, and uploading.

Not to mention, testing is in out of the box.
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I don't think that same-sex marriage rights were encoded in the Constitution or thought of as being rights by its drafters, but that doesn't matter -- the same was true of the interracial marriage rights granted as a result of Loving v Virginia. Your method of narrowly interpreting the Constitution is not shared by the court.
My best response is, because currently one of the parties (the state) to the original agreement doesn't want to nor currently agree to allow that? So I suppose if the state changed their laws and allowed it then it would be possible. My assumption is that the first state that is party to the first marriage would, in its best interests, require that all subsequent additions to the marriage be under that state and only that state.

ADD: Adding a joint tenant to an agreement can get complicated. Some current joint tenants (the state?) might not wish to dilute their rights?

ADD: More thoughts. The ADD above is poor reasoning. You can currently setup an organization with many people as you describe above. With marriage, what's different about a marriage than a company or business? Perhaps the state doesn't care to get involved in trying to determine paternity for children when/if things dissolve. To prevent potential future complexities the state opts to avoid them.?
It was not a Confederate fort to begin with. It was a Federal fort, though construction hadn't yet finished on it at the time of that SC tried to secede. I'm not hiding any facts, you just had a bad middle school history teacher.
Should probably have (2014) in title, this is 7 months old.
I have a question about this. I'm not saying I feel this way, but does this mean that religions that are opposed to gay marriage have to perform marriages for people who are gay? I.E. Catholics?

The only reason I ask is because many Catholics I know say this is basically her argument against gay marriage. They don't always care about civil unions (some do) as long as it doesn't affect their church.
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So is working on cars, or caring for horses, or gardening.
Thanks - that must be new, as the last beta I can remember (within the last week or so) didn't crash, but tossed up a dialog saying it had a hard-limit. Now it just gives the the warning that it'll be unresponsive.

Opening up a decent sized development.log did cause it to throw random errors however.
In freestyle some part of the swimmer must still break the surface by the 15m mark. Otherwise, people would probably go farther for shorter distance events (50 and 100).
Use CoffeeScript.

Even after all the work that TC39 put into ES6/ES2015, it's still not nearly as well done or helpful as CoffeeScript is. You'll be going against all of the "cool kids" by rejecting ES6, but you'll also be much more productive and happier.
> There has been basically nothing, in the history of our country, considered more of a state right than defining marriage.

Care to explain Loving v Virginia?
Read the parent post again. I think you will find that you are actually in agreement with it. You're just using the word "manage" differently. (For the record I think your usage is more correct)
That works only when you've got consistent participation in the group. It's a pain to track when people drop in or out.

Just as fair is to randomly decide who pays for the entire thing - perhaps weighted based on what portion of the check they're responsible for.
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> One of the problems with polygamy/andry is that we could hollow out the lower social classes of mating opportunities

Let's not bring up the argument of legislating for maximal gene propagation, unless you're willing to ban all forms of marriage that don't serve maximal gene propagation. Fertility tests before marriage! No marriage among the elderly, because what's the point! Let's set up a new 3-letter agency for matchmaking!

Marriage is not a government mechanism to encourage mating. Stop trying to put government in the business of animal husbandry. We're not animals.
On what basis would you argue it's defensible, when child custody isn't premised on marriage (or the lack thereof) to begin with?

I don't see what would change such that it would introduce any new complexity on that side of things.

The exact same complexity already exists today: step-parents. It's mostly a non-issue and is well defined. Step parents acquire no custody rights over the child inherently. If my wife remarries, and we had a child together, the parental rights are retained in myself and her. The same would be the case in a three-way break away on that ten person marriage; there would be (in this scenario) a two person custody of the child, eg the biological parents.
Uber's big advantage is that they aren't taxis. They don't pick people up off the side of the road who are holding their hands up, or go in taxi queues at the airport.

There are good reasons for those services to be regulated the way they are; the consumer has much less choice and power.

Uber is in the car service model, where you call someone to come get you. (Taxis have been very big players in this market, so it's confusing, but their displacement here is very real and also very fair.)

Uber has gotten good enough that people very rarely need that first protected-and-regulated market any more.
Wait, I'm confused...

So taxi services had no phone dispatch over there? Like, you couldn't ring the taxi booking, and they would route a taxi to you?

This has been a thing in Sydney for as long as I've been alive --- it probably started up in the 70s. It wasn't great, and sometimes the taxi wouldn't show. But it existed.

Was this not available in SF? Elsewhere in the US...?
I'm a bit more optimistic. It's true that there are some segments (mostly Hollywood, which continues to distance itself from reality) which are insisting on stronger and stronger DRM. For example, new Hollywood 4K DRM requirements include hardware decoding and decryption, mandatory internet access for playback, and HDCP 2.2 which sets limits on cable length, TV size, and projector brightness.

On the other hand, there has been a huge growth in non-DRM markets. Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Youtube (and Apple of course) for music, GoG and Humble Bundle for games. I would even count Steam in this as many games ship without DRM. You can use Kindle Cloud Reader without binary plugins.
I'm not sure what the key characteristics of a great automated car network will be, but I think there will some differentiation in a way where the difference can't be made up by spending, even on the scale of which tech giants are capable. Probably some combination of price, availability, and infrastructure. Maybe a similar customer relationship to what the telcos have right now.

For example, what if Uber "builds" (finances and badges) their own car, and you really like it (no reason it can't still have a steering wheel). What if they are willing to enter a one year agreement where it is cleaned and parked in your driveway at 4AM every Mon-Fri morning to take you to work when you're ready. Or if they have a parking lot near your office with 100 cars where you can just walk up to any car, open the door, and go. Or if they have an automated electric vehicle charging network over the whole country. It will take a while to discover what really matters for a AI-car network.
Live Dota - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teamtol.li...

About a year ago I created an eSports app that lets fans of the game DotA follow and watch their favorite teams live and on the go. It's been super fun seeing my side project grow and have users in the community volunteer to help with designs and language translations.

The biggest tournament of the year (http://www.dota2.com/international/announcement/) is coming in a few months and I would love to talk about different ways to capitalize on this.
To me digging always gets less fun as soon as moving material out of the hole becomes the primary obstacle, rather than breaking new soil.

Same reason why pickaxes are more fun than shovels. All breaking soil, no earthmoving.
If anything, riding against traffic in the lane of traffic freaks out drivers and their reactions to it aren't always good (there are bunch of contra flow dedicated bike lanes in DC, so I'm not talking about those). I find the drivers are actually worse at gauging distance on drivers side of the car and will drive past you dangerously close. It may also be illegal outside of dedicated lanes (not to say that I don't regularly ride one-ways the wrong way, but that takes a different level of awareness).

The other issue with it is that it severely reduces your options. When riding with traffic, you can take the entire lane if necessary, something I have to do several times on my commute because the traffic flow around me is dangerous if I don't. Riding against traffic means you're stuck riding the gutter, somewhere I actively avoid on city streets if only to save my tires.

I don't ride with headphones, and shoulder check constantly to maintain awareness of what is behind me. My hearing has saved my ass several times (nothing quite gets your adrenaline going like hearing the roar of cabbie flooring his Crown Vic behind you in an attempt run your ass over).

Bicycling, like motorcycling, requires constant vigilance and awareness, it's naive to believe otherwise. It's tough to do and lapses happen all the time, but on a bicycle you don't have 5,000 lbs of metal and electronic nannies, just your wits and senses. And a U-Lock if it comes to it ;)
Are you kidding around at this point? On average, people who are married are going to have sex with a smaller number of distinct partners than people who aren’t married. Gay marriage, if it has a significant effect on gay sexual behavior at all, will clearly reduce the risk of HIV transmission.

With regard to sibling marriage, the issue isn't sex per se but children. Although I am not myself deeply opposed to sibling marriage, there are many couples who strongly prefer not to have children outside of marriage, so it is quite reasonable to assume that banning sibling marriage will reduce the number of children of siblings. In contrast, it would simply be laughable to suggest that any significant fraction of gay people who have unprotected sex reserve unprotected sex for marriage. If that were so, HIV would not be a problem in the gay community!

So, no, there is obviously no reasonable comparison between your two cases, as a few moments of thought would make clear.
Because marijuana bans apply to everyone equally.
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This reminds me of something my girlfriend wrote. https://abbey.silvrback.com/why-we-should-never-take-it-in-t...
Honestly, ES6 offers many of the advantages of Coffeescript (arrow functions, destructuring, etc.) and has the advantage of being a standard that will soon be natively understood by browsers, is fully backwards-compatible with ES5 (and therefore widely understood by developers), and also has a lot of IDE support and tooling available.
"third-party Skype client (e.g. to have support in Pidgin)"
Funny because recently the old Skype plugin for Pidgin was re-written to utilize the new HTTP Skype. So now you have a nice client-less Skype chat in Pidgin. I'm certain someone could study it to write their own client.