skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> or the same reason that slavery couldn't be resolved by the states. For the same reason that racism can't be resolved by the states. Because these things haven't gotten resolved by states.

I'm not so sure that the states would not have resolved it (Edit: gay marriage, not slavery).

13 years ago, there were 0 US states with legal gay marriage.

6 years ago it was 3.

2 years ago it was 12.

Yesterday, it was 36 states (plus DC, Guam, and a whole bunch of native american tribes). 70% of the US population lived in areas with legal gay marriage.

You might argue that a few states abolished slavery, too, but that was not going to lead to nationwide abolition without war. I think gay marriage would have been difference, because

1. We have much more interstate trade interdependence now, and

2. We have much more personal mobility.

More and more large national companies are including support for same sex couples in their benefits, and when opening new facilities will take into account if the location is friendly to all their employees, including the LGBT ones. I think as soon as one or two of the hold out states lost some big project that would have brought a lot of jobs and money, and the awarding company cited as a reason for picking a neighboring state was that the winning state is more friendly to their LGBT employees, you'd see a lot of the hold out states changing their tune.
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Manlifts.[1] Those are more dangerous than a paternoster. They're essentially a powered ladder. The biggest hazard is failing to get off at the top, because the belt just goes over a pulley and back down, which would throw the rider down the shaft head first. OSHA: At the top floor an illuminated sign shall be displayed bearing the following wording: "TOP FLOOR - GET OFF" ... a red warning light of not less than 40-watt rating shall be provided immediately below the upper landing terminal and so located as to shine in the passenger's face. ... Two separate automatic stop devices shall be provided to cut off the power and apply the brake when a loaded step passes the upper terminal landing."

[1] https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_tab...
Let's see. because they can afford to? Also perhaps because they are Facebook, not your average company?

Who should they hire instead? Given the opportunity and the means, wouldn't you hire someone of that caliber for your preferred language/environment?
Can you also point to the particular version of SBCL that fixed for long-running compilation? We have recently upgraded to one of the latest version, but I think I've missed this change - I'm interested to check it in more detail.
I'm sure this breaks some HN rule, but consider visiting this discussion:

The Nigerian Teenagers Who Built Crocodile Browser
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9787010

One of the teens found his/her way to HN, but all that's in the thread is nitpicking about their website. It would be great if he/she got some engagement and encouragement.
The amount of hate in this thread is unbelievable. Why do people nitpick on the author's background, when there are many interesting aspects of the technology to be discussed? OTOH, I don't want to take away from the coolness factor here, and I hate to be that guy, but theses resources ought to be put to better use. People forget that developers aren't fungible resources, and it's just sad to see the problem being swept under the rug like this.

Which brings me to the question : why is this even on the front page? It's not even remotely news. It's a linkbaity title that leads to a paywalled, ad-ridden, overloaded page. The scrolling is broken and the font is illegible on my screen. It requires javascript and the irony is that it's not even HTTPS.

The article has been posted innumerable times before [0] [1] [2], and the shady author makes a series of misleading, biased, unverified claims. Literally every logical fallacy is on display here, and it doesn't provide any references.

EDIT: This new title is even worse. Mods, what's up with the ridiculous title edits lately?

EDIT: Why all the downvotes? I'm trying to provide constructive criticism here, but I guess this place isn't the bastion of civilized discussion that it used to be.
I have seen a few companies that do custom apps for events.

Could you maybe partner with them? They include it in their app as an addon and you have a rev split? Win win on all sides.

I know one of the co-founders at: https://www.hellocrowd.net/

Mail me if you want an intro.
I thought this was going to be about batteries.
There still is one in the Attenborough Tower at the University of Leicester! Great fun, but it has CCTV and they call you out via speaker if it becomes obvious that you're just messing about.
UK bans teaching of creationism in any school that receives public funding
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
Part of the appeal of a product on kickstarter is the marketing which has way more appeal than just the actual product does itself.

It's the "trust us" attitude and the generally soft spoken videos and collateral doing exactly what marketing is supposed to do. In other words it all seems so genuine, possible and down to earth in tone and builds up a trust factor. Even though the people behind the product are complete unknowns. Take away those videos and there would be a drastic drop in funding and not just because the videos explain features or benefits either or can go viral.
You'll need to define "conscious" first before the discussion can even begin.
Biased as I work at Tilt, but I can tell you that we are PCI level 1 and take security really seriously.

Use this code: hello20 and you can get $20 off your first tilt :) Much love HN.
Its a just marriage. But the noise created by politicians and media is out of proportion. Now that we have a verdict, hope all the noise goes away.
I've seen both, but I haven't spent a lot of time looking at their documentation to start making comparisons.

At the moment, I only have a vague idea of what I want Orange to be. The development has mostly been driven with what I thought at the time. It's been a bad approach, and I plan to fix it before I continue developing.

I'm going to work on figuring out Orange's specific goals and points where it differs from new languages like these. Saying I'll have this ready by the end of the weekend might be a stretch, but I will get back to you soon.
It doesn't look like a substitute for an elevator. More like a substitute for an escalator. Those aren't accessible either.

Using it looks to require a skill set similar to that for riding an escalator. There's potential for mishap with either device. I wonder how safe the paternoster would be if it had modern safety devices, like a switch to shut it down if someone gets stuck in the parts? But one problem is that then everyone is stuck inside. You can just walk on an escalator when it's off.
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In the United States, the government -- at all levels, federal, state and local -- is allowed to discriminate against or in favor of particular groups of people. The government just has to show that the discrimination serves some permitted purpose, and depending on the groups involved may have to clear a high bar of proof that the alleged purpose is the real purpose (since some groups have historically been discriminated against for bad reasons, we have higher suspicion of new discrimination against those groups).

For example, state governments can require a person to have a driver's license before driving a car. This discriminates against people who don't have a license, but the support for it is rooted in a good reason: safety. Requiring people to pass a brief examination to show their knowledge of traffic laws and possession of the basic skills of driving is quite reasonable, and so driver's licenses are a permitted form of discrimination.

Similarly, people under a certain age typically cannot enter into contracts on their own. The support for this comes from the fact that younger people are less likely to be mature and knowledgeable and understand what they're getting into, so restricting it to a particular age (typically, the age at which one graduates from the public school system) and requiring the advice and consent of someone over that age for a minor to enter a contract is reasonable, and is permitted.

Over the past few years we've seen multiple alleged justifications for banning same-sex marriage asserted in courts, and each time they've been knocked down as nonsensical or even as contradicting the other policies of the state which advanced those arguments.

For example, we've seen an argument advanced that states have an interest in ensuring the production and safe rearing of future generations, that marriage is provided for the sole purpose of advancing that interest, and so a same-sex couple (who cannot procreate) should be excluded from marriage. Except this argument falls apart if you so much as breathe lightly on it: states which make this argument do not require any sort of commitment to have children from a heterosexual couple, and in fact will grant marriage licenses to couples known to be sterile, and many of them allow same-sex couples to adopt and raise children.

The result of this process has been that there really is no alleged justification or purpose left, other than "we don't like same-sex couples, largely for religious reasons". And that's not something our country allows as a justification for a law ("we don't like that kind of people" stopped being allowed about a half-century ago).
I personally know many people who have similar profile as you. They are all very smart and absolutely worth interviewing but when you are designing a probabilistic system to classify something at scale (think 1000+ resumes flowing in every week), things needs to be automated, fast and there are going to be false negatives. You should always make data driven decision for your scenario, for example, collect resumes of all people who are working out great for your company and extract patterns from their resumes.

However there is another more stronger counterpoint that I've argued with people around me. As developera pretty much all of us have used StackOverflow to get answers, used someone's blog to learn something or looked in to GitHub repo for some code. It just feels natural and ethically responsible to me that we also return back something to the community from which we consuming so much. People who are sweating out these content without any expectations of financial gains or even fame are obviously sacrificing their free time to help others. Why can't you return the favor? The lack of any evidence of your contribution to community may not reflect deficiency in your skill set but it does put a question mark on self-initiatives that you might take in your job or your willingness to help your colleagues even if it doesn't benefit you or your drive to make others become better from your learnings. After certain stage in career, skill sets are given and what matters is your ability to multiply your impact by leveraging and empowering others. Your participation and contributions to community are good indicators in this area, however false negatives and edge cases always exists.
The one at the university of Leicester has trip lines that will trigger an emergency stop near the top of each "door". A foot or rom would certainly trigger that.
Archive link in case someone is reading this in the future: https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S48696148

Also, there have been a bunch of threads like these. I believe this was the first one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373
Why racket?
There is not a single example three-world-address on the entire front page.

There is not even a single example on the examples page (which is more like "Uses").

Seriously, there should be a bunch of static Google Maps images of famous locations labelled with their three-word-addresses, something clear and simple like that. I shouldn't have to click to the live map or watch a video to find an actual example.
The opening quote:

What is it like to be a young software engineer in Nigeria?

How could something like this not make it to the front page of HN?
I don't know why, but this was extremely satisfying. At least the graffiti artist got the owner (presumably the municipality) to beautify the building. Win-win?
Get out of beta. You're artificially constraining growth.

For example, I wanted to try it out. Couldn't. 1 user lost. You will struggle your entire startup's life trying to get as many people to use you as possible. It's not like you don't have bugs after you launch. If you're a decent startup, you will be agile and you will change and fix things as they come in.

Since this is a news recommendation engine, no one is going to die or lose a ton of money if your app isn't perfect out of the gate. So make it easy for people to try it out, recommend it to others, and get as much feedback as possible so you can make it better.

If you're worried about growing too fast...well, you should consider that winning the startup lottery. Chances are that's not going to happen and you should be so lucky.

Good luck launching!
'[I]f the analysis was done overnight and you only made a few changes, there shouldn't be much to do to "repair" the analysis according to your changes.'

I would be tremendously surprised if that proved to be true in the general case, but it might well be true enough in common cases to be practical. Very interesting notion...
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This is nothing more than flagrant public vandalism. The author made a poor maintenance worker paint and pressure wash a wall a dozen times.
You may also be interested in this post[1] by nrc for a couple of strategies for implementing graphs. And this companion[2] by Niko Matsakis.

[1] https://github.com/nrc/r4cppp/blob/master/graphs/README.md
[2] http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/04/06/mode...
There are a fair number of legal M16 and full auto AR-15s in civilian hands, it wasn't until 1986 that civilian sales of newly manufactured full auto firearms was banned, resulting in an inventory estimated at 200,000.

Here are 18 for sale: http://www.gunbroker.com/Machine-Guns/BI.aspx?Sort=5 (on the first page), ranging in price from $10K to $35K for an unfired Colt AR-15. Plus of course the $200 Federal transfer "tax".

Scare quotes because when it was established in 1934, per the BLS it was a prohibitive $3.7K, or if you don't trust the government's inflation statistics (I don't) 6 oz of gold, which is currently $7.5K.

BTW, if you think government-citizen relations are bad today, well, 15 months before the National Firearms Act was passed, FDR signed an executive order confiscating the gold held by us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 And it was bought at $20.67/oz, and quickly repriced at $35/oz.
"side projects as marketing" has a rather unfortunate acronym (:
Another one https://www.rcdevs.com/products/tiqr/
https://tiqr.org/archives/353/

http://www.reddit.com/r/2fa
You might want to do some googling about it, but I also seem to remember that SBCL might decide to use large or small MMU page granularity depending on the size of the heap. That might be the watershed trigger for performance. (or just some random mis-remembered nonsense)
This is too simple to be of interest. Only a few companies can have side projects like that, and with that amount of success.

Honestly, HN sometimes (but not always) feels like it is made up of a bunch of gold-diggers, clinging to the hope of one day making a big breakthrough, without proportional effort. It has a very shallow feel to it.
They have them in the Czech Republic, too. I've been on one in Prague.
> I doubt you could buy M16 anywhere in the US sans the black market.

You can, but they're NFA weapons, and require the tax stamp, extra background check, and all that. They're also rather expensive ($15,000ish or more depending on the vintage)--pocket change for cartels, of course, but when you're looking at the limited quantity/availability and high price, it's more cost-effective to make, buy, or steal something sourced cheaper. Plus, nearly all are presently owned by collectors who aren't as likely to let them go except to other collectors unless it goes to auction for whatever reason.
I think it was back in the 0.54-0.59 version range.
Very true. There's a lot that legal marriage provides which can't be found in a corporation. The idea is that incorporating would provide some benefits and protections that the poly family wouldn't have otherwise.
Unfortunately, the southern states were going the opposite direction. There were states that strongly abolished gay marriage. Even after today's ruling, Texas is making passive-aggressive moves to make it difficult by encouraging county employees to use the "personal objection" reason to not issue licenses.
"Poor maintenance workers" are probably paid by the hour, and do this kind of work regularly.

Furthermore, there was really no reason it ever had to be washed or painted.
Public culture.
I used to be mid-GM in EU, I didn't play that much.
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> I imagine the "old" Skype was just as easily gamed.

Most European police forces would disagree. For years, they simply would not shut up about how Skype was such a pain in the neck to deal with. There were constant streams of interviews and talks about the need for, basically, either a Skype ban or some other form of pressure over the company. Skype alone was painted as the clear cause of pedophilia, drug and human trafficking, illegal arm trading, the works. This from people with little scruples in terms of enforcement -- French and Italian police are fond of seizing whole server farms when they need to check a few emails from "subversives", so they would have happily nuked Skype from orbit if given half the chance.

As soon as Microsoft "rearchitected" the protocol, poof! All lamentations stopped.
Not just from the legal system, but what about software systems out there?

How many Human-to-human systems out there have invariants coded in for gender/sex settings? It might make for some interesting scenes of discriminatory software in court for businesses that utilize them.
A study in Japan has shown a sample population to be less likely to commit suicide after drinking tap water containing lithium.

Notably, there is enough lithium in the groundwater in certain areas of the US that this "study" has been happening for a long time. El Paso, Texas has high naturally occuring lithium in the groundwater, and is widely reputed to have less violence than comparable cities with less lithium in their water. I haven't read the whole thing, but remarkably, a recent paper seems to have shown this to be true, at least for suicide mortality.

Lithium in the public water supply and suicide mortality in Texas (Blüml et al, 2013)

￼￼￼There is increasing evidence from ecological studies that
lithium levels in drinking water are inversely associated
with suicide mortality. Previous studies of this
association were criticized for using inadequate
statistical methods and neglecting socioeconomic
confounders. This study evaluated the association between
lithium levels in the public water supply and county-based
suicide rates in Texas. A state-wide sample of 3123 lithium
measurements in the public water supply was examined
relative to suicide rates in 226 Texas counties. Linear and
Poisson regression models were adjusted for socioeconomic
factors in estimating the association. Lithium levels in
the public water supply were negatively associated with
suicide rates in most statistical analyses. The findings
provide confirmatory evidence that higher lithium levels in
the public drinking water are associated with lower suicide
rates.

https://www.gwern.net/docs/lithium/2013-bluml.pdf

Edit: I just realized that the Op Ed linked from the main article mentions the same evidence, although without reference to that particular paper: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/should-we-a...
I got the same feeling; I'm not sure what movie the reviewer thought he was going into, but it feels like he was expecting a David Lynch film or something similar, not a simple kid's movie.
Whether it's 0.1% or 50% of the population doesn't matter, the point is it's offensive to some people, and it takes no effort to stop using it.
Well, your account is > 1 year old but this applies, IMO:

"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

taken from: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
that's much older than what we used recently, so it should be a different thing
Samsung creates “transparent” truck
Because Western economies have been in dire straits for over a decade. A drop like that would be significant and unlikely to reverse. The West has no economic growth engine to fall back on.

China has had so much astronomical growth that this drop doesn't undo all of that overnight.

If it continues, and it may very well, then you have a story.

Also, it's not good to create fear in the general public which is another reason to downplay this. If it's met with hysterical headlines, then the event of a crash in the global markets will be a self fulfilling prophecy. Markets react to group psychology and FUD in the general public.
The quality argument in your link is all I needed to read to know that it was written by a charlatan.

A Rolex is not higher quality than $20 Casio, full stop. It does not keep time better, is not more water resistant, is not more shock resistant, ad infinitum. The Casio wins in every regard (except perhaps use as a display of conspicuous consumption) by virtue of using a Quartz oscillator.

You are correct that the bum doesn't have the same watch as the president. He has a better watch.
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You've only seen polygamist relationships like that because that's what you've been fed by society to make you believe that it's wrong and can't work.
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I grew up next the beach. Every once in awhile a tourist will dig a tunnel in the sand and it collapses and kills them. Don't do this.
Right I am just talking numbers here. I'm sure we're all aware of how vaguely economic number relate to the human experience.
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No, your original comment was clearly about the Falcon 9, what with referring to "they" (i.e. SpaceX) and talking about a specific feature of that one rocket (i.e. the landing legs).

You talked about recovering the Falcon 9 with a helicopter. When I pointed out that this wouldn't work, you then say I shouldn't assume either Falcon 9 nor helicopter??!??!??!?!?!?