skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could if all their hosts had a net worth of 1 million. The arbitrary number set by the state to see if a person is 'smart' or not.
I lived in Japan for two years, and studied the language, and it was amazing how that sentence always brought any discussion to a conclusion.

Grammatically, its negation would be "Shikata ga aru", but I never heard this said once.
Thanks.

I am guessing lots of people have cycles. I feel I do to some extent, especially when it comes to creativity and insightfulness. Those cycles might actually be a good thing as long as they don't swing wildly.

I was thinking it would be nice to pin the needle slightly on the creative/active side of the equation but it seems lithium doesn't do that. Getting sun and being active probably makes more sense. Time to put the computer away and spend the rest of my day bike riding :-)
Ok, let's put it on a test …

YOU: Tell me the definition of morality.

ELIZA: That is interesting. Please continue.

YOU: Look, I need help; I need to know more about morality…

ELIZA: Suppose you got help soon.

YOU: Okay, I need to know how I should behave morally…

ELIZA: What would it mean to you if you got to know how you should behave morally… ?

YOU: Is morality and ethics the same?

ELIZA: What other connections do you see ?

YOU: What are the things that I do to be immoral?

ELIZA: Are they always the things that you do to be immoral ?

YOU: Give me some examples of moral actions…

ELIZA: What does that suggest to you ?

YOU: Alright, morality?

ELIZA: Does talking about this bother you ?

YOU: What is integrity?

ELIZA: Why do you ask ?

YOU: Be moral!

ELIZA: Please go on.

YOU: I really like our discussion on morality and ethics…

ELIZA: Can you elaborate on that ?

YOU: What do you like to talk about?

ELIZA: You're not really talking about me -- are you ?

http://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/

[Edit: formatting]
Yes, we want separation of church and state. But this decision says nothing about church. It affects only the state's role in marriage.

Here's a concrete example. Two people of the same sex want to marry. They get a marriage license. They find someone who's qualified and willing to marry them. They submit paperwork to the state, proving that they're married, and they become legally married.

The Supreme Court ruling doesn't require someone who's qualified to marry them, unless that qualified person is a state official. It doesn't, for example, require a Catholic priest to marry them. The Catholic church can still prohibit marriages between people of the same sex.

However, for purposes of employment, or involving government contracts, the Catholic church must recognize all legal marriages, including those between people of the same sex. But how much of a change does that actually represent? Before this decision, the Catholic church had to recognize legal non-Catholic marriages of all sorts for those purposes.
> If two people agree to marry, isn't that indisputable fact?

Why just two? Why people?

And what exactly is the reason for the State to recognise that two folks like to bump uglies? At lease in the case of traditional marriage, there's the creation of children to contend with.
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I wonder too !

HN community VS 4chan community ? Really ? What if we'd stop pretending for just 1 sec, and just admit that many, many people are just the same here and there ?
Where does this lead ? As many here pretend to play the game, and play hardly, because they're aware of the rules, at least a small part of them, deep in their brain, also hate it. The feeling that most of time, crazy VC and tech race just lead nowhere is real. The worm is in the fruit already, and really, I'm pleased to record so.
Turns out the JOBS Act specifically exempts employee stock plan recipients from the 500 (or 2000) shareholder count.
> This isn't how investing works.

You're no authority on "how investing works", so consider expressing your personal opinions in a less arrogant way.

It's hard to imagine why you think VCs not understanding Airbnb's potential means that the actual users of Airbnb didn't understand it. I absolutely believe many of the early hosts would have elected to have 5% or 10% of their earnings turned into stock certificates. And of course, I'm talking about future companies that fit the Airbnb profile.

Users will be wrong and lose money, but you're wrong if you think regular people can't predict successful companies earlier and better than VCs. They're the ones that actually pick who wins in the market after all.
>While this is excellent news for my gay and lesbian friends, I see no progress on polygamy.

Isn't this literally the slippery slope that conservatives "warned" against?

I even just saw a politico article today saying basically the same thing:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/gay-marriage-...

I'm all for polygamy but I think it's just funny to see this called for as the next step, literally the same day that gay marriage was passed.
Probably the best bit (I feel) from the top post:

The wealthiest person I have spent time with makes about $400mm/year. i couldn't get my mind around that until I did this: OK--let's compare it with someone who makes $40,000/year. It is 10,000x more. Now let's look at prices the way he might. A new Lambo--$235,000 becaome $23.50. First class ticket internationally? $10,000 becomes $1. A full time executive level helper? $8,000/month becomes $0.80/month. A $10mm piece of art you love? $1000. Expensive, so you have to plan a bit. A suite at the best hotel in NYC $10,000/night is $1/night. A $50million home in the Hamptons? $5,000.
> Gay people do not have to be born gay, even if the radical majority tend to be.

I thought about noting that "most" gay people are born gay, but I didn't. It doesn't really matter for my argument, provided that at least some gay people are born gay. The point is that you can't equate polygamy and gay marriage because polygamists make a conscious choice to be polygamists, they aren't born that way.

I would actually be fine with polygamy (I think the correct term is actually polyamory), but it is a commonly used argument against gay marriage because most people are against it or find it uncomfortable, and it has a pretty ugly history in some areas. I was trying to refute the "slippery slope" class of arguments against gay marriage, so I gave a refutation for that one.
Just wanted to point out that certain counties in Alabama have announced that they are getting out of the marriage license business. To avoid sanctioning sanctioning same-sex unions and avoid legal trouble, they won't issue licenses to any couples. That way they can't be accused of discrimination.
"I'm disinclined to celebrate an expansion of rights of a group that mostly relies on a "gotta get mine" mindset than one of true principles of liberty."

That's absolute bullshit. That's "those people" kind of talk, lumping everyone who shares one characteristic into one group and dismissing their rights as meaningless because they aren't fighting for your preferred cause.

Among the most intersectional activists I know are queer people of color. They're the folks standing up for immigrant families in detention (which is a quite lonely activist area) at a much higher percentage than the population at large, for example. It's certainly not an issue I see white straight male libertarians get up about (I fit that description in many regards, but I'm frequently embarrassed by how self-involved and self-serving the so-called "liberty" movement is).
Well, sure, there is that. But there's another effect going on here. If I eat a fistful of cashews I'm going to feel full for a good long while, and if I eat the equivalent calories in bread I'm going to still feel like eating more.
Your edit: You can avoid registration through a variety of exemptions of the 1933 Act. One of those is the Rule 701 exemption at the federal level; it carves out exemptions specifically for employee compensation plans. It makes sense. The 1933 act is to primarily protect against fraudulent companies selling 'stock' and came about from the massive crash of 1929. It wasn't to protect against an employer voluntarily giving up a percentage of their equity ownership to employees in exchange for service.

There are limitations on this exemption to make sure companies are not using it to actually solicit stock.

So long as the grant was under the exemption, if they exercise their grant, it should not count toward the shareholder limit.
> Marriage is a legal contract. 12 year olds can't enter into legal contracts (alone). Therefore, 12 year olds can't get married.

Marriage is a formal relationship between two people of the opposite sex. Two men or two women are of the same sex. Therefore two men or two woman cannot marry.

You can do anything, if you redefine the meaning of everything.
HN is a link aggregator with comments. It's difficult for the format to be used any other way.
Due to restrictions on maximum number of shareholders while private to avoid SEC filing requirements, Airbnb can't issue equity to all their hosts. But there is no reason, they can't do the same if and when they IPO to go public. Last December, Lending Club did this, LC allowed purchase of up to 250 shares at IPO price to each of its retail lenders.
Are the perspectives of racists not welcome here? No interest in the thoughts of Lee Kwan Yew and Nelson Mandela? I respect these schools of thought.
I believe there are simply 2 submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9787986
With C ABI compatibility (without name mangling and such), and with a much more streamlined feature set...
Gurgaon, India: iPhone 6 ‘explodes’ in middle of call
You might look at Peter Thiel's presentations on radical philanthropy or venture philanthropy for a similar view on how philanthropy at the institutional level might be changed. He's been arguing for years that the balance of risk and how money is put to use in the philanthropic world is well out of line with the goal of achieving meaningful results, changing the world rather than just propping up present situations, and rather than the very conservative way it runs now it should look a lot more like venture funding:

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_16792615

So that view seems to be spreading, which I think is a good thing in the long run.

Of course as I've argued in the past, I think that the best thing everyone could do with excess money is to donate to some form of SENS-like rejuvenation research to accelerate progress towards an end to degenerative aging. 100,000 lives are lost every day in really very horrible ways, the slow crumbling to a painful death, until we stop it from happening. It's just another medical condition, and the only think stopping the research community from producing therapies is money and the will to use it.
>Society has been trending towards "arbitrary personal preference" in many areas lately

Yeah, or degenerating, one could say. It also happened in the last days of Rome...

>Conversely, society has condoned and even encouraged things that are horribly unfair.

Well, it's a balancing act. Society doesn't mean people get a free pass to abandon personal judgement. That said, all those "horribly unfair" things seem horribly unfair to us, from a distance. To their own society they looked perfectly normal.
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"Edit: why all these downvotes?"
Didn't Bill Gates set the model here for everyone to follow? This reads like an exercise in how many times he can use the word "hack" in an article.
I ended up writing my own for the bespoke language my company uses internally. The lack of tools like java findbugs had been annoying me.

Luckily the server side 'workflow' language, and the client side templates are all written in xml, so its trivial to parse.

The first version was painfully slow. The second version tracked the range of possible states as it did a depth first search of the AST, and then stored the requirements of each node of the tree before it moved on to the nodes next sibling or parent.
That way if another part of the software later called into an equivalent subtree, I could compare the current range of possible states to the requirements of the first node in the subtree and record any mismatches, then move on.
It went from taking over a minute to evaluate a fairly trivial app, to parsing the biggest apps my company has ever shipped in 1-2 seconds.

I'm sure the technique is quite common. I wish I could remember if I read about it, or applied it from a different context. In any case the exercise was more useful for learning than as a finished product.
How I blog: One year of posts in a single org file
If you distribute a program based on GPL sources you have modified, you have to also distribute that source code. That is, unless the original authors gave you the sources under a different license.
Given how gigantic this market is, that's a pretty common occurance (i.e., starting a property/vacation rental/related site).

There's already plenty of other big players like HA, VRBO, FK, TA, rent and countless others. There's even giants that doing this that are not fully devoted to short-term rentals and vacation stuff like CL.

That doen't even touch on the devoted timeshare and timeshare-related stuff. Or, how many convenient insurance companies can you think of that will underwrite policies for these shot-term renters?

There's just so much opportunity in this field....
"feminist shilling"

no, those aren't my legitimate opinions. i'm a brainwashed shill. you've got me.
I was going to comment that you'd have language issues but then I realised, most people who want to vent don't actually need to be understood they just need to get it out.

Good idea!
>HN can potentially learn from this.

Learn what? The whole thread is basically a fond pop at HN, with the usual 4chan dribble thrown in (like the faggot/nigger shock commentary).

I'm not sure how the vein of commentary about the headlines being business/startup oriented is a negative criticism, since that's the point of HN - and if anything, the business side of the forum has been dying off for quite a while.
Effective+Ukrainian+Typing+Tutor+Exercises+:+blog.Mova.Club
What kind of mental gymnastics are involved in portraying the people who aren't sinking $200K into a child as decadent?
Macs gets malware too.
> JS has [...] tail call elimination now.

In a very narrow hay of "has", as in "ES2015 the spec has it, but no JS runtime implements it yet": http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/#proper_tail_calls_...

I'm not trying to be a contrarian. It's just that i see lots of JS developers excited about superfluous things like class syntax or symbols, whereas real game changing additions like proper tail calls seem to pass by unnoticed, and unimplemented by JS runtimes :(
For when Greece goes back to the Drachma? Greece is about to become a good investment. After the severe post euro-exit correction, of course...
People should be allowed to make any sort of private contract they want (as long as they don't hurt anyone else). Why are marriage contracts any of the government's business?
Or every other HN comment?
To the best of my knowledge, there has never been an example of Mac malware in the wild.
Confirmed. If you just lie in a tent couple months during cold season you lose weight significantly. Reasons are plenty, but one is quite obvious: going to toilet is such a drag.
Yeah, totalitarians make the best programmers - always thinking of other people.
That comment was about how HN could learn from 4chan's layout. For example, I think comment trees are way harder to read than a linear stream.
"Unfortunately I can't seem to find any detailed information about it"

Listen to the talk. All the good questions are asked & answered.
On the other hand, I have seen chrome malware on a mac. But as usual, you have to willingly install it.
Scalia is the same clown who opinionated that corporations are people and politicians can accept all the money lobby throws at them anonymously. When he gave this ruling, he never thought his Court was a threat to the democracy or he grossly misinterpreted constitution or completely disregarded founders original intent or violated deeply held belief of most Americans. But apparently gay marriage does all of that for him. His other dissents includes things ranging from teaching creationism in schools (yes, he supported that) to environmental law cases. In all of those dissents he openly accused his colleges for relying on their "private" opinion instead of actually adhering to their job of interpreting constitution. If you look at how he himself did his job so well to interpret constitution so that corporations have same rights as people even years before gay people can dream of, you see how his twisted view of the world is.

Overall, I would expect justices in supreme court have display some level of courtesy, dignity and respect to their own colleges on the same bench. Accusing them as being unprofessional, incompetent and even intentionally so malign to declare them threat to nation every time they disagree with him - all these is clear indicator that Scalia is not fit for the bench. Unfortunately people have to suffer through him because of the rule that he can't be replaced til life.
Anyone who actually believes there isn't a significant overlap between the communities of 4chan, Reddit and Hacker News just isn't paying attention.
Learn not to take yourself too seriously, which plenty of folks around here do.
Replying as breadcrumbs to a fantastic tutorial.
True laziness is building your own linux kernel because the length of your command line flags overran the limit allowed by the OS.
I tried to create an infinite loop in Firefox and got a "InternalError: too much recursion". Then when I tried it in Chrome I got "Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded".

function x() { return x(); }
The issue is preventing pointers to the real stack on the real stack. I'm pretty sure you can't do that reliably at the LLVM IR level, since as I said such pointers can be introduced during code generation. In fact, I just looked at the source to the merged pass, and it doesn't even try - it only checks if stack pointers are passed to calls, but e.g.

int *p = cond ? &a : &b;

...later enough that this isn't trivially optimized into two stores...

*p = 1;

will probably not be flagged (it depends on what optimization passes have run before the SafeStack pass), but will put the pointer in the stack or a register that may be saved.
I've found the phrase "long-term lazy" is the quickest way to describe the first virtue: someone who's willing to work hard today so they can be lazy (or have more time for other things) later on.
The horizontal correction at the end was part of the plan. I suspect the purpose is to come in at an angle so that the direction of the final correction is approximately known, and they can correct only by varying the amount of thrust, not the direction of the thrust (which is presumably slower).

Vs. coming in right on target - you'll still have small corrections to make at the end, but you have to gimbal the thruster in a random direction.
> [dead] I'm Terry Davis and I created TempleOS

How many people know who Terry Davis is?
Rperform: Obtaining quantitative metrics across R package versions
Ah, this must be the Japanese equivalent of the Chinese "mei banfa" (没办法), probably the national slogan. Oh, they are building a dam and you need to move your house twenty metres up the hill? "Mei banfa".
That's interesting. Did you know you can create an infinite loop in C++ using while(true)? You don't even have to exhaust documentation and ask an IRC channel guru.
I agree - the sizes of pages have increased, but it doesn't seem at all like the actual content in them has grown nearly the same amount. If you don't include images, then realise that 1MB is a lot of text.

The first point everyone should know about caching is to keep things as small as possible, and in fact, loading a tiny page over the network could even be faster than a locally cached but huge page that the browser needs to spend time parsing and rendering.
It seems to me that construction workers should have an excellent understanding of pivots.
Your comment makes me wonder how stock ownership is distributed amongst the Chinese population. Are these losses borne mostly by wealthy speculators, or are retirement funds and small investors caught up in this? An index fund is an unsophisticated type of hedge, but it doesn't work very well if there's widespread accounting corruption.
Humour is allowed here. Just not the same humour as you get on reddit, with links to memes, or annoying puns.
I think that people are now using overt racism and sexism as protest against Social Justice. Since a Social Justice Warrior will define anyone who doesn't agree with them as a racist or sexist anyway, people make it as obvious as possible because there is no escape. The only thing left is to piss them off.
Having children is the single most damaging thing to the environment a person will realistically do in their lifetime.

Edit: why all the downvotes?
I started frequenting HN because I kept encountering these kinds of problems everywhere else. Certain subjects just have more gravity as it were, and when present will inevitably take up all the oxygen in a room. The only way I know to manage it is to isolate it in sub-fora, and be very strict about containment.

An important difference between HN and other fourms I frequent(ed) however is that instead of taking offense and going on the defensive when 'attacked' by 4chan, they recognize the joke and find it funny. That alone puts HN lightyears ahead of those other organizations.

And regardless of why, it's exactly this kind of self-awareness and identity that enables people to discuss ideas without feeling threatened by them, something which has held back both social and scientific progress in the past.
https://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/ - Doesn't exactly follow material guidelines out-of-the-box, but super hackable and easy to theme, looks pretty decent by default, and probably the most straightforward js charting library I've ever come across.
I'm unsure why you're sure he's not an authority. This is HN, not some random group of people Seems like he has a decent background to know what he's talking about.
It's not meaningful to talk about absolute returns, what matters is returns/time. It's a 20% drop in less than a month, and that's pretty large.
Technology vs. traction: The two types of startups (2012)
Another vote for ES6 - it covers the most important fixes from coffeescript and is the next standard, so you're not writing in a DSL (don't have to worry about it going out of fashion, wider talent-pool in the future, etc.). And with Babel you can use it now and just transpile back to ES5.
Surely, you can't be serious. Or you are referring to the post OS X Mac and not System 6/7/8, where viruses were pretty common (having worked tech support back then...).
"Now gays get the same treatment."

Actually now ANY TWO people can get the same treatment. Two straight males can get married. If I was single and I had a friend with good benefits, I'd make a case to get married... The savings on insurance and taxes we'd share. Now if millions did this, the cost of those benefits will go up drastically.
Rule of thumb: If you are sure you are going to be living in the same place for more than 7-10 years, buy. Otherwise rent.

Remember that, instead of buying, you can rent and invest the difference. If you made a spreadsheet with all fees and costs, you'll come up with 7-10 years as the breakeven point.
my fav:
J(ew) Combinator
Thanks.

Here are my hand-made tools to generate those stuff:
https://github.com/h8liu/e8tools

Javascript version (I actually wrote this first for go std lib):
https://github.com/h8liu/dagvis
You bring up a good point. There's no qualification test for wisdom. Is someone a bitter dogmatic psycho? Or are they warm and truly emotionally intelligent? No way to know. One problem is that there is no real regard for wisdom in modern American society. We value youth and energy over wisdom and depth. So, why even be bothered to think about such things?