skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's to prevent two people who've met in person from agreeing to be "married" for tax purposes?

Marriage fraud is marriage fraud--an application for marriage doesn't prevent that even presenting themselves before court officers.

However, there's a whole discussion on how tax benefits for married couples is in violation of the equal protection clause...
> Should be, but isn't. Gay couples have been having expensive lawyers write these contracts for twenty years or so and when push comes to shove, they often don't mean shit. That's why we have been pushing for marriage rights.

Yes. It's a shortcut, and I completely understand why people want to take it.
I think one of the challenges is that there is usually extra capacity to the ISS, and so you at least initially you need to compete on convenience not money (by the way, I should note that we funded Bagaveev in the last YC batch).

The most convincing thing to investors will be an order book--ie, go convince people in that backlog to say they will pay you a certain amount for future launches if you can build a reliable rocket. If you have that plus credible initial technical development you can probably raise some money.
The figure almost doubled in 2 months, then contracted 20%. If your stock is that volatile then 20% is not really newsworthy.
Was Trello written in Wasabi, though?
Previously in paternosters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9642158 (includes link to the discussion before that - note that these aren't all referring to the same link, but the careful reader may spot a theme)
> before it reached our drone ship, “Just Read the Instructions”

Glad to see the Iain M Banks inspiration here.
Neat project!

Last christmas in SF I wanted to create a "winter vibe" as we were celebrating with the family, and I was looking for videos showing cozy snowfall and winter landscapes. It was surprisingly hard to find something really good. I think it'd be cool if you could select what kind of "window" you want and had a few presets like "Tropical", "Winter landscape", etc.

I personally found the mix of soothing slow music and hyper lapse videos to not be relaxing, I think I'd prefer if the videos were running at normal speed or maybe even in slow motion depending on the video.
Should we legalize and support through marriage all naturally occurring sexual desires and acts?

I think that questions almost answers itself, but you never know after a ruling like this.
The graph is quite misleading by not being logarithmic - it makes the gain seem smaller than it really is, and the loss larger.

A logarithmic graph will show that this drop is minor compared to the rise before it.
> I think they should stay out of marriage since it's almost entirely a religious construct.

You can have two atheists go before another atheist, who won't invoke any deity, and marry them based on the rules of the state.

That religious people get involved in marriage no more makes it "almost entirely a religious construct" than anything else religious people do.

Why concede to religion that which it has not earned and to which it has no special right?
The Future of Algorithmic Personalization
Hey guys, good to hear from you again!

Why do think your company is a B2C company? You're selling the software to politicians / political organizations. The consumer awareness part of this will be handled by your customers if this is part of a greater trend of voters wanting more transparency and accountability of their representatives.

Of course, candidates will adopt this only if they find out they can win elections by adopting this software/philosophy. So part of your job will be to do everything you can to help your candidates win. Basically, if you do this right, you could turn the US into a three party system.

So the education you're going to do should be the talking points and marketing materials needed by their candidates to convince voters. Think of your first candidates like a beta test of a new sales force. You'll learn from them after this upcoming elections what worked and didn't work with constituents and you'll amplify on the next election cycle.

But that to me, isn't the most important thing you should be focused on. If it were me, I'd try to get as many candidates using your software on the ballot as possible.

Do you know the best conditions are the best for a candidate running the placeavote platform? eg. does this work best for a candidate in a heavily contested race?
It has nothing to do with China being autocratic or not, it's simply a very volatile market. The Chinese stock market is still UP for the year, and 20% is just correction territory, it's not close to a "disastrous" thing considering how quickly and how much it has gained recently. In fact, one may even argue it's healthy.
Found Mozilla's version https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Guidelines/OpenSSH#Multi-F...
You could apply that to a lot of other situations. What about the right to own slaves? Southern states certainly preferred if that was handled at the state and not federal level.

Sure, marriage is a "license" but you could make "negro ownership" a license thing and it wouldn't change things.
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No way. As a member of the majority that disagrees with said majority on many issues, I'd like to keep my Bill of Rights please.
Unbelievably, the only quote I could find even vaguely related to actual statistics was, "And yet, TÜV chief engineer Reimo Simon says he can’t recall a fatal incident in Germany in the past 15 years. Official statistics don’t differentiate between elevator and paternoster accidents."

Come on, WSJ.
These amendments were added via a process built into the Constitution to allow changes to be made, because the folks writing it knew they couldn't account for everything.

But furthermore, the specific wording of the constitution may actually have been intentional insofar that Jefferson may have wanted it to be clear that all people have equal rights. He obviously couldn't singlehandedly change the minds of everyone at the time, but the idea that he intentionally left the wording vague enough to include everyone is a valid idea, I think.
The article cites no statistics on actual injuries. Neither do the politicians wanting to ban them out of safety concerns. For something around for this long, you'd think they'd be able to at least give an example of someone getting hurt.
> Why is it not "registration of a marriage" as opposed to "application for marriage"?

Because you cannot be married to two different people at the same time. Marriage is not an event that happens, it's a legal contract that cannot be in conflict with an existing legal contract. A new marriage does not immediately nullify the existing contract, so an application must be processed to verify this.

There are also other things that need to be verified like age.
So I've been using Rails in production for a few years now, and its pretty good. I'm sure there are better options for a number of specific domains. I also use Dropwizard(because I need to use a few java only libraries) and dropwizard is in no way better than rails, except in the number of requests per second it can handle. It is a pain to set up compared to rails, the docs are terrible, it forces you to use maven and they refuse to help you with gradle. There are very few Stack Overflow answers, and thats a problem, because Dropwizard offers few sensible defaults, its configuration all the way down. And generally, the lack of livereload makes web development a pain in java.

Can't speak to Play though.
In regards to your software development comparison, that happens all the time. Someone decides, this system is already so complicated it would be a mistake to try to bake in all this additional complexity. A more sensical solution would be to design a different system for handling these or deal with them in one-off cases if they are infrequent enough.

Vague metaphors aside, this happens occasionally in the industry I'm in (finance) when we trade small lots of non-traditional products. These products don't follow many of the rules that all of our other traded products do. Instead of re-writing our systems to deal with these(totally impractical), we manually shimmy these in to the database until they expire or are traded away, at which point we can forget about them.
Even though getting married is relatively easy compared to being divorced, we essentially sue the other party and let a supposedly neutral party decide :)

Divorce is pretty easy compared to marriage. Like you said, it's just figuring out who gets what...
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"Red lights: cyclists should stop for all red lights"
"Crosswalks: cyclists should slow down for crosswalks."
"Not signalling turning: cyclists should signal all turns"
"Not using bike lane"

Hm, I rarely have a bike ride where I do not break all four of these at some time, and regularly break all four in one go. If you approach a crossing where you want to make a left turn (riding on the right side of the road), have a clear view of traffic, and the road is free, it IMO is perfectly natural to leave the bike lane for the middle of the road (one could call that a way of indicating direction), and then diagonally cross the crossing instead of following the bike lane, which would have make me a very sharp turn. Doesn't feel dangerous, either, but maybe that's because I live in a country (probably the country) where about as many people on bicycles as people in cars were killed in traffic in 2014.
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Thank you for this post: I've been feeling especially down on myself today since I've a lot of learning to do when it comes to marketing and managing side projects, but the ideas in the post were gold. Kudos!
> that disagrees with said majority

We typically call a person who disagrees with the majority a member of the minority.

> the majority

What majority? There are lots of majorities and lots of minorities -- one for each issue put forward to a group of citizens, and then a bunch of other cultural ones.

I doubt anyone is a member of each of those majorities. So yes, everyone needs these individual rights. But the rights were designed to protect individuals when they find themselves in the minority. So saying that the issue is individual rather than minority rights is disingenuous, confusing, and massively ahistorical. Again, many of these rights were explicitly designed to prevent violent mob rule. This issue is not up for debate. It is an historical fact. Go read what the founding fathers wrote about the Bill of rights.
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Good points. "Few hearts and minds" is more accurate.

> Some argue that desegregation alienated more hearts and minds than it helped, but I've yet to see any evidence.

It's a question that isn't easy to answer empirically, but it's not outside of the realm of possibility that we would today have a less segregated of a society if segregation had come been eradicated in each community separately and via local and state laws rather than federal action.

All that aside, I think legal equality is a worthy cause and a great victory on its own. I hope we do not forget about social equality and cultural integration as worthy causes, as well.
quoting from the readme:

Caveat: Running this code against extremely large projects with very long histories (e.g. Rails) might be very slow.
2115? Something tells me it won't be nearly that long.
Well you have the legal/civil marriage and the religious marriage.

You can call it "civil union" or whatever you want, but the important thing are the rights attached and that's what this ruling is about. Nothing to do with church, just the civil part.
If we are to use the biblical sense of marriage, the Old Testament has a few incidents where a man was married to multiple wives[1]. Then if we are to be traditional, can a marriage not be among multiple people?

Since we have denied same-sex marriage on religious or moral grounds, are we saying we should deny the right for a man to marry multiple men or women or a woman to marry multiple men or women because of our beliefs? Isn't that the same reason that we're denying same-sex marriage(s)?

Age verification is OK, since minors aren't recognized to be capable of forming contracts.

[1] Jacob was married to multiple wives.
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What are the best books/tutorials to learn C.
I have serious ADHD therefore I learn better doing, but it seems that all online tutorials are no good.

What does HN think ?
I don't think you're saying anything that disagrees with what I was trying to say. Slavery was most or all the cause of secession. However, after finding they couldn't take their toys and go home the southern slave holding states had another reason to be upset.

It's a bit of a tautology really, but there isn't a conflict between State and Federal powers until there is a specific disagreement. The document you linked says as much:

We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.
I'm certainly not suggesting its some great depression, but clearly its note and newsworthy and this article reflects that. Why the protesting about the article? What exactly is the problem? In autocratic regimes state media's job is rally stocks and, yes, the lack of which is very telling, which is what this article is about.

Again, what exactly is the problem here? If this was any Western economy, HN'ers wouldn't be falling over themsleves trying to dismiss it as sensationalist, especially when you consider the endless parade of anti-US sensationalism that often dominates this site and its collective narrative.
I can't be the only one who pronounced this in my head as "hyper laxative".
GPU Accelerators Radically Boost SQL Queries
> “The paternoster is the VW-beetle of elevators. Not many people use it, but many love it,” Ms. Nahles wrote in a Facebook post.

Oh come on, VW is the largest car company in the world...
Pretty cool, nice work. I've done traditional regex for so long that reading the regex version of the url example was faster for me than reading the Xeger code. But, I know regex gives a lot of people trouble, and this provides a great alternative.

Even though I'm comfortable with regex, I actually like this method. Seems like it would be less prone to errors when creating a complex regex.
The author is refreshingly straightforward about what they are doing: "The key insight, made at the beginning of the information age, is to replace word meaning with something that machines can actually measure."

Of course, if you do too much of this sort of meddling with usage, it will really mess with the machines' method for finding 'meaning' in the language. I expect humans would cope with such meddling much better, because they have the advantage of natural understanding.
So a straight person who is denied purchase of a gay marriage cake has no legal standing, but a gay person being denied purchase of a gay marriage cake does have legal standing? It all hinges on what the customer declares themselves to be, the slip-and-fall lawyers must love this kind of thing.

I know this is a silly premise, but it sounds like unequal treatment.
Air traffic control around major incidents is covered in [1]. The FAA issues a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) which all Flight Service Stations receive, indicating an incident area, which is usually a lat/long point and a radius. There's a designated incident commander who has control of that airspace, and a way to contact them. Any aircraft not in contact with the incident commander must stay out of the area.

Pilots check NOTAMs before takeoff to see if there's anything going on they need to know about. There's an FAA search engine for NOTAMS [2], and it will accept lat/long coordinates. This is the sort of thing that the basic training and exam for drone operators must cover - check the NOTAMs before flight.

For the San Bernandio Mountains fire, there's a NOTAM:

ZLA LOS ANGELES (ARTCC)PALMDALE, CA.
!FDC 5/6263 ZLA CA..
AIRSPACE SAN BERNARDINO, CA..
TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS WITHIN AREA DEFINED AS 3 NM RADIUS
OF 340927N/1171437W (PARADISE VORTAC PDZ030020.2) SFC-6000FT. TO
PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR FIRE FIGHTING. PURSUANT TO 14 CFR
SECTION 91.137(A)(2) TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS ARE IN EFFECT.
USFS TELEPHONE 909-383-5651 OR FREQ 123.775/STERLING FIRE IS IN
CHARGE OF THE OPERATION.
LOS ANGELES /ZLA/ ARTCC TELEPHONE 661-265-8205 IS THE FAA
COORDINATION FACILITY.
EFFECTIVE 1506260700-1507010700

This is the aerial equivalent of traffic cones set out around a trouble spot.

For a pilot, "busting a TFR" (entering an area with restrictions like that) usually means a 30-90 day grounding. For something like actual interference with aerial firefighting, the penalties would be much higher.

There's an app for this.[3] Small drone operators might use a dumbed-down version which just gives you anything applicable to low-altitude operations near your current location.

The sky has many users and traffic rules. Drone operators have to be very aware of this.

[1] http://www.nifc.gov/nicc/logistics/references/Airspace_Guide...
[2] https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/PilotWeb/
[3] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notams/id354048843
I love chess but stopped playing around the age of 20.

I played a lot in school and was captain of my school team. I played in league and cup matches for 2 years and every day I practised on fellow students in the sixth form prefects room. There was nothing quite as nerve wracking as sitting opposite your opponent in an important match and shaking hands and the first moves. On the other hand there was the excitment of knowing when you had beaten your opponent and just had to finish him off. I remember going to a tight end game with a top table opponent and had just Queened a pawn with another one 2 moves away. The referee gave me the Queen and said "Shall I leave another Queen here?" I replied "no thanks I just need the one" and grinned at my opponent. It's been said chess is more brutal than war.

I had to give it up as I began obsessing about the game. It was driving me slowly mad. I was having nightmares about being chased around a large chess board by the pieces. I haven't played a game since.
What practical application is your chip best for? What can we do with your chip that we won't be able to do with the current line of chips coming in the next few years if they stay on the current path?

The biggest problem for hard technical problems is the storytelling. I went through your site and I couldn't find the sentences I would need to make someone else excited about what you're making in a conversational way. It should feel like you're making something science fiction a reality through your technology alone. That storytelling is what you'll need to convince/inspire customers, investors and future employees.
No need to leave swimming: Butterfly was invented as a way of going faster in Breaststroke:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_stroke#History
My thinking is that the hardware and software will be open source, but not the data. Also, the OS license would allow modifications for the customer, but not for resale. Since the biggest part of the cost will be the "dumb" hardware (the containers and structure make up ~70% of the cost), it should be straightforward to sell the product at a profit.

Another point of monopoly would be to keep up a pace of innovation that is faster than the competitors.

I am offering the first customers a sale price of just the material costs. Also, they would get 24/7 support, and the CEO's (i.e. my) cell phone number.

Currently, similar products cost $1500+. My costs are $1000 (in quantities of one), and that price will come down 10-fold once I can manufacture 10k units per year.

At the current costs ($1500), the payback time is 1-2 years. Once purchased, the cost to operate is negligible (tens of dollars yearly). So they save $1-2k in groceries annually, depending on the length of the growing season.
So maybe Fog Creek was correct to take whichever path cost the fewest resources. If it took fewer hours to write and maintain a small transpiler than to re-write the entire application, then that would help profit margins on a product that is not taking over the world anyway.
Many of the statewide same sex marriage bans also prohibited civil unions. Virginia went so far to prohibit contracts that between same sex partners that established defacto civil unions.
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I can't agree. The word "marriage" in particular makes people irrationally excited and start thinking about their church's definition of marriage. So politically, it is a line in the sand. "Defense of civil unions act" doesn't have the same ring and wouldn't get Republicans out to the polls the same way. If, in an alternate history, this could have been made a matter of the government meddling in the issue of marriage as big brother, then we would have seen more input from at least the libertarian side of the right wing if not also the mainstream. As it is, I'm glad about the outcome but now we have another irreconcilable front in the culture war alongside abortion.
These Chipotle paper cups just got into Yale
The push notifications and tap to accept (no transcribing 6 digit codes!) is game changing. +1 for Duo!
how are the rights of 8 year olds protected that they can't go to a gunshop unattended and buy a gun? or a convicted felon? how can something be a "right" if it's revocable? how is the word "arms" defined? Why can't I purchase a grenade launcher (after all, if you really want to build a "militia" capable of defending against the British re-invading, you're going to need them)? The 2nd amendment in practice is subject to tremendous levels of regulation. The kinds of regulations most Americans want, e.g. simple waiting periods to allow background checks, are a tiny frill of a regulation compared to how heavily regulated "the right to bear arms" already is.
There's controversy at the state level over whether religious photographers, DJs, bakers, florists, and wedding planners should be forced to participate equally in all weddings regardless of their religious belief. That's going to be the next big fight.
Without trace statements, how do you diagnose issues that don't occur locally and only appear in the production environment.
We normally used

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw60/LW/html/lw-712.h...

with the full set to nil.
It is done btw: http://stackoverflow.com
But post build and commissioning you don't need most of those full time. And given the way google run the dc the workload is a lot less than say an big IBM sysplex.

I bet you could run a Google style DC in normal ops with 3 or 4 people per shift plus security guards.

That's assuming they even bother with a 356/24h shift

You just fly in the specialized teams and new hardware already racked up when you need to.
As the case shows, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever that a company should be allowed to compel an employee to surrender their genetic material.
Sure, but divorce is something that hasn't been available for same sex couples. Everyone jokes about it "ha ha, next it'll be gay divorce", but actually being able to have someone divide up one's assets in a courtroom is preferable to having no proper legal recourse at all.
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