skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi,

Office Our provides a portal for investors to interact with their top 5 potential investments. "Separate the wheat from the chaff."©

At Office Our an investor creates a post (or "bulletin") inviting the community to pitch their startup. Users vote on the "wheat" and the top 5 earn the right to receive a response. The investors can then manage their bulletin and follow-up outside of our platform.

For this we charge a simple, flat $5 fee to each investor per potential investment per month on an annualized basis in the form of credits which are distributed by each of the user's votes in batches of baker's dozens. "Investing - simplified"©

I look forward to your feedback.
Stealth mode side project is software for creating data entry forms for clinical medicine and research. I have, uniquely, solved the discrete data with ontology problem in healthcare and healthcare analytics. The question I would like to discuss is what is my point of entry into the market; what kind of customers would be best targets as early adopters?
For those not involved in the Haskell community, Simon Marlow worked full time on the GHC compiler and specifically run-time system for many years. Along with Simon Peyton-Jones, he's huge in the Haskell world. Marlow also wrote the very excellent "Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell" book.

Facebook also employs Bryan O'Sullivan, an epic Haskell library writer (Aeson, Attoparsec, Text, Vector, and on and on http://hackage.haskell.org/user/BryanOSullivan). Bryan also co-authored the "Real World Haskell" book.

So Facebook has hired two prolific Haskellers and probably others I don't know about.
Legally, you are right. Morally and practically, I'm not so sure. Few hearts and minds are changed as a result of the supreme court's rulings, just the code powering the justice system. Convincing 5 of the top judges is easy compared to convincing the populace, and the latter is more important for the long term goals of equality.

Federally legislated social change pushes back the more important goals of social equality and cultural integration. These are arguably more important, as our interactions with marriage laws are a relatively minor part of our lives when compared to our interactions with other people.

The historical precedent here is clear, of course - there are no and have been no segregation laws in America for decades as a result of federal action, but you'd be silly to say that segregation does not exist in America.
Where "no evidence" means "lots of evidence".

http://www.genetics.edu.au/Publications-and-Resources/Geneti...

Etc.
Also brothers, sisters, mom and daughter, nephew and uncle
Sure, delete it! The pull request contains all the information needed about the actual change.
>And finally, the obligatory "Free Speech" xkcd:

Which could be translated as:

"Nice free speech you got there. Shame if there were any 'consequences'..."

True, one of the necessary conditions for free speech is that the government does not punish unpopular views, but another, even more important and vitally necessary condition underlying free speech is the tradition of respectful disagreement. This tradition is one of the prime values of the enlightenment, and it was hard won, emerging as it did from the repressive regimes and brutal religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries where people believed that they were under a divine imperative to eliminate all dissent.

The idea being propounded by the xkcd comic, that it is justifiable to mob, harass, shout down, and punish people you disagree with is deeply incompatible with enlightenment values, and represents a step backwards into barbarism.
The way it was explained to me was that drivers have a harder time estimating the speed of fast-moving objects that are differently sized than an automobile, such as bicycles and trains.

Meanwhile, bicycles that go with traffic will (relatively) approach the driver at a much slower speed, giving the driver more response time.
>As an aside, my girlfriend just pointed out to me that it is hard to justify laws against incest (two adult relatives). Maybe we shouldn't have such laws.

I don't think we should have them. We only have them because its "eeeewwwww." Social taboo. Cousin marriage is legal in most of the east coast, including in my state and cousin marriage wasn't taboo historically.

In non-cousin marriage states it would be hard to enforce such a ban anyways. Do you have to prove you aren't related when you get your license? Who is going to find out? Who is going to care? Is the IRS going to challenge you? Is your employer going to find out your spouse is actually your cousin, know that is illegal in the state you got married in, and then deny your spouse benefits because your marriage wasn't technically legal? Probably not.

"Genetic problems" is compelling in some ways (but probably overblown) but you can have sex without marriage and marriage without sex and have sex without children (especially in the case of same-sex sex, post menopause sex, sex with someone who had their gonads removed, sex with inter-sexed persons... I can go on...)

I would also say it is your choice to have children with genetic problems - I mean we don't actually outlaw it. If two people were carriers of a terrible disease we don't punish the parents for knowingly taking that risk. We don't punish parents who have children much later in life (children born to parents of advanced age have a higher chance of a few diseases such as Down's Syndrome.)

The reason we have these laws is nobody has challenged them in court yet and is not likely to because not to many people want to marry their sister enough to file a federal lawsuit and I'm not aware of too many people who were arrested for incest (regardless if they were practicing it or not).

Legislatures can pass any laws they want. It can only be challenged by judicial review after said law is passed.
Further, form that article:

"Our car did exactly what it was supposed to," she wrote. "Our car saw the Google car move into the same lane as our car was planning to move into, but upon detecting that the lane was no longer open it decided to terminate the move and wait until it was clear again."
> That's the essence of democracy; the Constitution and country are now ours

But isn’t that exactly the point? As I understand the various previous posters, the main argument is not whether the constitution should ensure a right to marry for everyone, but whether it does give out this right.

Further (again my interpretation), it seems that the issue is that the previous interpretation of the constitution did not allow for homosexuals to marry – otherwise it would have been allowed before. ‘The People’ now want to give out this right, but: should it be granted by a court deciding “This sentence, which previously was interpreted as X, now means Y” or should it be done by a change of the actual constitution?

Additionally, does this ruling imply that homosexuals were always allowed to marry (i.e. the constitution/law always allowed it, it was just misinterpreted by the courts) or does it mean that the law has now suddenly changed? Then, should such a change of law be implemented by a court or via the usual democratic process?

(I don’t understand the common law system and the US enough to give any answers to these questions, but they do seem interesting.)
Maybe desegregation should have been handled at the state level. It's easy to say "of course the federal government should overrule the states" in cases where the states are obviously wrong, but what about the cases where it's the federal government that's in the wrong? Would standing up for the principle, even in repellent cases like segregation, do more good overall?
One reason may be that cetaceans evolved from land mammals that had evolved spine-flexing in the vertical plane as part of a galloping gait.
If you stretch the definition of type a bit, any expressible property of your program (such as "this function sorts list") is a type and anything that allows you to automatically prove those properties is a type checker.

OK, actually a lot!
Right - it's another manifestation of the subtle and pervasive racism in our society. It/we conceptualize and talk about whites as the "normal" ones, the default, and everyone else as not-normal.
People aren't buying things and leaving them empty.

Yes they are. I'm not going to do your google searching for you.

So, I see no evidence that the city is being harmed. It's thriving.

You have made a fundamental logical error. Your error is that you equate "thriving" with "not being damaged". This is incorrect. It is possible to have something that is thriving and would be thriving even more if only it were not being damaged in some way.

You've also taken what you see and decided that that's all there is, without bothering to look further. Your laziness is common but no less sickening.

Don't bother answering to explain to me how you actually don't even need to look at google because you know everything, or how actually London is currently the best possible London it could possibly be; I'm too old to try to explain things to you more than once. If you think I'm being dismissive and not very nice, you're right. Fortunately, I'm just a line of text on a screen, so if this makes you feel bad, or angry, or frustrated, why not take a look at yourself in the mirror and wonder just how you've reached the point where a line of text on a screen can do that do you.
Not necessarily. For instance, my colleagues work with a fairly large codebase in java which runs on top of a framework written in scala. When they tried to hook up a debugger it drilled the whole stack top to the bottom, naturally and showed them whole lot of scala code. Problem is, these guys don't now scala, only java.
Isn't Better Call Saul from AMC?
Hi,
We are developing a self-checkout mobile application that allows consumers to scan items in a store and then pay with just their phone. Our app will use geolocation to identify which store the consumer is in and then automatically connect with the store’s point of sale system to ensure payment.

We built a prototype last week and went to stores and a retail conference this week. We are having problems convincing stores to adopt out product as they are very concerned with shoplifting.

Thanks,
Rohan
A Passion for Users: An interview with Lever (YC S12) CTO, Nate Smith
I always read the tests first. (If there are no tests, I don't take the job. Life is too short.)
The risk to offspring is definitely higher with certain genetic diseases than with relatives.

The case against incest can be made on that base when eugenics are re-established and codified into law. As-is the only argument that holds water is "yuck" - one that same sex marriage proponents should be vaguely familiar with.
GP did specify "the developed world". It is a very fuzzy criteria, but however you slice it it's a far cry from 195 countries. The IMF identifies 37 advanced economies and the World Bank lists 31 "high-income OECD members" and 28 Development Assistance Committee members.
That seems like a pretty huge and likely misinformed generalization. But feel free to back it up and prove me wrong.
Now you can marry someone overseas and as long as you are a US Citizen you can give them citizenship too :-) lets goooooo!
Any chance you could expand on some of those pains? Is the problem with simply sharing the data itself or with being able to slice/dice/query/do smth with the shared data? I'm sure there are a bunch of people around here who'd love to hear some user pains/stories to improve their apps.
> I fundamentally don't believe that information can be violent in any way.

Then congrats on never suffering verbal abuse. Words can hurt and information in itself can do a lot of things in a right(or wrong) context.

For example. You arrive in a communist hating community (let's pretend it's during the Red scare). Someone accuses you of being a communist. Witch hunt ensues.
If you follow the original link, it turns out Reuters fabricated the whole thing and still hasn't updated their article to retract it. Here's the update:

> A Delphi spokesperson emailed Fortune with the following statement: “During a demo drive of our automated vehicle, our expert used the interaction with the Google car as an example of the types of scenarios that the car can encounter in real-world driving. It was an anecdote of an interaction, not a ‘near miss’. Reuters completely misrepresented the facts.”
A guy I work with also always says "The boys" or "The guys" when referring to his co-workers.

It just feels strange to me, even if they are all guys.

In German we have "Leute" which means "People" but doesn't have a singular.
President Obama: "Today is a big step in our march toward equality."
A sweeping statement such as this is almost certainly false. Of course, some labor laws are perfectly moral, but some are immoral as well.

In general terms, labor laws such as wage prohibitions and occupational licensing tend to give relatively economically advantaged workers artificial advantages over lower skilled workers. In this respect, they serve as upwards redistribution of wealth and opportunity. At the same time, they restrict consumer sovereignty and the ability for people to freely engage in commerce. Of course, there are counter arguments to these as well. My intent here is not to make any overly simplistic sweeping claims, but to point out that there are some thoughtful and powerful lines of reasoning that call into question the morality of many existing labor regulations.
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We ar in Eastern European Time Zone
The Supreme Court is a literal oligarchy - it's 9 people who are accountable to no-one. The Senate is a more democratic body, since they can be held to account by voters.
When you say "it is unique over a system instances lifetime"? Do you mean an erlang node running on 1 machine?

So every node has its own generation. Every generation starts at 1, and every time it restarts, you read the current generation and increment it?

The `unique_integer` must be strictly monotonic when given the monotonic option right? When there's no monotonic, that just means the subsequent id can be higher or lower, but not the same.

Given the triple {ID, Generation, Node}, is the Node id unique & different across restarts or the same?
So the car that got the brick dropped on it is at fault, rather than the guy dropping the brick?
I launched Tech Talks and Books (www.ttbooks.io) about three weeks and just got my first 600 subscribers. It's similar to product hunt but for book and videos about tech and the community of submitters is more restricted than PH.

I'd like to discuss two things:

1- Signal vs Noise in online communities: Since you've been heavily involved in Reddit (Sam), I'd like to know how what your opinion in curating content vs. having an algorithm sift through the noise. We see companies like netflix and ph (allegedly?) combining big data with human curation and having a lot of success, so my question is: Should online communities invest in curation or big data? Is there a trend towards one or the other?

2- Monetisation: I'm having a hard time monetising this community. Since I'm looking to bootstrap it, its crucial that I get monetisation right so I was wondering if you had any tips on monetising communities?
The most critical step is to get the lib in your workflow , preferably with (build-introspect-debug) capabilities. This increases the upfront time to start, but leads to much quicker "code understanding in my opinion.

TL;DR; Start with the minimum exposed surface area of the project (API), dig through these functions first.
Definitely know the initialization sequences the library needs.

This is my approach concerning JS projects or for dealing with other peoples code in general.

First, I make a mental model of what I want to do. !important.
Then I write the smallest wrapper needed to start fledging out points where "separation-of-concern" happens.

At this point I should have an idea of what the other persons libraries expose as API.
I also should have an idea of what can be done with a unmodified library, and what would need patching.

Then comes monkey-patching the lib at individual function levels with a healthy dose of TODO markers and NotImplemented Method signatures.

By this point I should have a good picture of what goes on in the library apart from what gets exposed and would probably have forked a branch by now.

This strategy has been useful not just for JS projects but bigger codebases of java/scala libraries like Lucene Core/Solr or Play framework, Django in the python realm and to limited success with Research code releases like Stanford Core NLP.
Google's goals, at least, are for 100% driver-free cars. Not something where you can take your hands off the wheel for 10 minutes, but one where there is no steering wheel at all. I'll let the company speak for how close they are to that, when they choose to.
Interesting. You still use this feature? I always thought YouTube and the like still included it on their sites as a throwback to an earlier time, or something. I always use the software on the playback device itself to control the speakers.
likely Uber needed some favorable press and getting into a headline alongside Tesla was a cheap way of doing so, committing to a non existent product is about as cheap as you can get
I personally find that brass knuckles are really effective in situations like this but if you have brittle hands, pistol-whipping might be more to your liking.
There's nothing wrong with porting something to another language so your project Stack is all in 1 language. Nuts to having a million languages and cryptic dependencies. More singular platforms are easier to maintain for sysadmins and developers alike.

If the porting language isn't as expressive as the original source -- oh well thats a price i'm willing to pay.
All rental companies keep their cars for one or maybr two years and then get rid of them. Nobody wants old cars in their fleet and I suspect uber will be similar.
> "lose a morning" applying security patches and rebooting "

I was applying a security patch and give me something like this (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1416849)

And was literally a morning... not a 5 min update and reboot.

>doesn't invest that money in making a secure OS.

All OSs need to do regular securities updates, even "secure" OSs (remember Heartbleed?, CVE-2015-0235(Ghost) ?)
Indeed. Maybe most of their hunting ability relies on their intelligence and not speed so they didn't need to develop past their current abilities. Or maybe it has to do with their need to breath. It certainly would be interesting to find out.
http://rt.com/news/185256-us-unicef-children-homicide/

> The US leads Western nations in child homicide rates, while millions of children around the world are threatened with physical, sexual and emotional abuse, including murder, rape and bullying, a new UNICEF report revealed

I dunno, sounds pretty brutal to me.
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Ask HN: Why do we still need the HTTP-User-Agent-Header?
All I know is that it's bad for privacy. Are there any useful things that can be done with it?
Splitwise works especially well for groups that share bills regularly, e.g. roommates. Recurring bills and email reminders are especially helpful to make the monthly shakedown unnecessary. My favourite feature is the option to simplify debts, minimizing the number of payments that need to be made between people to settle up (their example: if you owe Anna $10 and Anna owes Bob $10, Splitwise tells you to pay Bob $10 directly so that there's only one transaction instead of two).

It's a great example of a "small" piece of software that does one thing and does it well.
I'm failing to understand how a lesbian queen and a queen giving birth through artificial insemination is even related. That's just weird. Was the guy suggesting if a queen married to a man, say with sperm issues, who chose to use artificial insemination would somehow produce a child that wouldn't be considered royalty? Even despite being born of the queen? What an idiotic comparison.

Although, I like the father/son marriage thing. That's an interesting thought exercise concerning modern laws. Kind of silly, but interesting nonetheless.
I don't think I did anything - I hardly interacted with the page at all, except from skipping a Soundcloud track once and possibly resizing the page.

At one point, it switched from "world view" to "US continental view" to show a hyperlapse from Miami, and then got stuck there in perpetuity.

Edit — or maybe I had a blackout and this is resize-related as well. It would make sense if I shrank the window, so half of the map got stuck outside the window. Never mind then :)
Good questions. Essentially, I think the idea is that meanings change with context, but at the same time words don't allow just any interpretation.
I really have no idea -- but I imagine the cost of adding a component/chip (any chip) would be higher than the price of the chip itself.

Layout changes, testing, assembly (even if automated) etc?
>Google will be able to do likewise for NaCL apps.

No they won't, because NaCl is native x86. Unless you mean PNaCl, which is a different technology with much less adoption than NaCl.
Totally agree with the point of pen/paper.

Something that compliments that approach is in-code annotation. Recently, I've recently been trying out https://github.com/bastibe/annotate.el which is pretty sweet. Check it out!
Nobody expects the Inqu^H^H^H^H PC brigade! It is probably better not to catch their attention anyway.
Is there no procedure to get it expunged?
You'd willfully do something that's objectively worse so people could maintain their jobs?
Cash in hand before ordering. No money, no food. If it were an order of less than $50 total, then no problem. But more than that and you have to be strict. It might be that they see it as only being $5-$20 each, but they are not taking into account the total. Let them know that. Mind you, this is not a problem you fix with code. This is something that you learn from. Don't pay for everybody. You are opening yourself up for stupid office problems.
5-10%? Are you saying that every 10th person is gay in America?
> "For most Christians (more specifically, Catholics and several other groups), the laws in the Old Testament ceased to be valid when Jesus proclaimed the way into Heaven."

Those Christians may have a bit of a quarrel with Jesus himself:

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Matthew 5:17-18

One of the most important verses in the bible. It holds the tension between the judgement brought by the Old Covenant on the one hand, and our salvation and freedom in Christ on the other. Although its complexities are rightly subject to debate, there's simply no room to claim that the entire Old Convenant is invalid in Christian theology.

> "appealing to biblical authority is fraught with oppositions that focus on the numerous inconsistencies in the bible."

Amen to that.
We want to bring real time and accurate air pollution data to people on their mobile phones, using a network of low cost, solar powered sensors deployed at key road locations. Our sensor network will be more accurate and cost less than the EPA monitoring stations.

Help needed - We think that either the government or certain enterprises will pay for this data (since they already are spending money on such technology). What is the best way to validate these channels?
Infrastructure Trench Tales, Part 1