skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marriage has always been a government institution. Religion co-opted it for themselves at a later time. This "leave marriage to the churches where they belong" cry is disingenuous. Marriage is about a contract between individuals. It provides government granted privileges in regards to taxes, healthcare, inheritance, court testimony and child custody. It has nothing to do with religion. If you want to have a religious ceremony to celebrate and "sanctify" your government granted marriage, so be it. But don't pretend this is a religious tradition meddled with by government. It is a government institution that has been meddled with by religion since before religion and government were separate.
> Asking gay people to wait for a unicorn is bullshit. Please don't be That Guy. Ideological purity is so often the enemy of making the world better.

But, why not?

I'm a male. And I'm bisexual and polyamorus. I understand, and accept if a family wants to have 3 adults. Or 4 adults. I'm even OK if children are raised in that atmosphere.

Right now, there are rules and restrictions on polygamy (which is a subset of polyamory) mainly created for the Mormons in the 18 and early 1900s.

Doing as the GP said would have these archaic rules also overturned.
To play devil's advocate here:

If the white male religious nut case can provide and care for the woman and any resulting offspring and the woman are willing and knowing participants in the harem.

What's the problem? That you don't like it? That seems rather bigoted.
> The Catholic Church is still free to only marry Catholics and ignore the rest. That doesn't change.

The next round of lawsuits will see if you're right. There is some real risk you are mistaken. If not with regard to the Catholic Church, then with regard to private organizations recognizing or participating in marriage ceremonies.
Reflecting on Slack's Valuation
I see a lot of comments talking about code that is in a repository. And that is great, if you have it available. There have been many, many times where our team is handed an application that is broken (or has a bug) and asked to fix it. In many, many of those cases we don't have access to the original repository, or there wasn't one.

We generally approach it with heavy customer/owner involvement at first. We need to know what the application's intended purpose is. It is sort of like a lightening BA session. We get what the application should do, and what it isn't doing properly out of this session (and more importantly, what it should be doing instead).

Our first step: get it into a repo.

Now that we have an understanding of what the application's intended purpose is, we can dive into the code. We don't have any analysis tools (but if there are some that people could recommend, I'm all ears) outside of our IDE (Visual Studio). We generally look for the last-modified date as an indicator of what needed work most recently. Of course, we don't have file history so we don't know exactly what changed, but it gives us a rough idea of what was worked on and when.

Next we usually try and use the application in our development environment. We chase each action a user takes in the code to determine what is the core/central part of the application. After that, we try to determine the cause of the problem (and while we are at it, we generally do a security review of the code).

It takes time, and is painstakingly nuanced and very boring. But I'm not sure what other options we have in such cases. As I said, I'm all ears as to what other might do in these situations.
There are pregnant mothers who sneak to America to birth their child on American soil.

There are green card marriages.

In the case of the first, we have decided that we will still give the kid citizenship. In the case of the second, we don't allow it (if we catch it).

I'm pretty sure you can marry without a marriage license. You just aren't legally married, i.e. you don't get all the legal benefits.
I think that's a flawed assertion. Civil marriage has been around forever, and is nearly universal in western society.

Civil Union / domestic partnership is a compromise solution that addresses the realities of modern society. You get the benefits of partnership without involving assets. Marriage has always been a more binding thing, and for good reason.
Of course it was, but it was extremely unreliable. That's what led to the founding of Uber in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_%28company%29#Founding

From the Wikipedia writeup, it could very well be that they just didn't know the rules, but the experience in SF is the same: you can call a cab, but it's hit-or-miss.
Are there plans to make coffeescript ES6 compatible?
Hi Kevin and Sam,

I am the creator of https://www.spqrs.com

The goal of Spqrs is to have a platform for the debate of ideas. As Sam noted in https://twitter.com/sama/status/610494268151431168 most smart people are wary about commenting on sensitive issues.

This is unfortunate as the Internet is a great place to discuss issues with people who may have a vastly different view, and in the process really examine why you think the way you do.

Spqrs provides a service similar to Twitter but allows you to follow hashtags as well as people and has a 1000 character limit instead of 140 better allowing you to make a point. The defining feature is that all usernames are pseudonyms so you can avoid threats to yourself or your livelihood based on what you say.

Right now this is a pay service. I am planning on charging $9/year. My biggest problem right now is finding subscribers. Any feedback and suggestions would be appreciated.
git clone git@github.com:foo/bar.git
# fix locally
git commit
git push # creates pull request

THAT ... would increase git user engagement by a factor of x>>0
I'm not ML expert (especially in the natural language space), but I can't help thinking something is missing here. I know a ship 'is-a' boat. Cats and dogs are unrelated animals etc. Maybe the colocated words are a very good approximation of a dictionary or real meaning?
If I'm leasing out my car and I'm not going to be in it, I'm going to care a lot more about passenger vetting than the passengers are going to care about vetting me.
Thanks for the response. Just trying to expand my brain here =), so I have a followup question.

I always thought of memoization as storing the parameters to, and result of, a function call in a memotable. Doing some quick research, I came across this definition of memoization from NIST that sounds more general "Save (memoize) a computed answer for possible later reuse, rather than recomputing the answer." What I understand from what you said is that when a request is processed, it produces a map that is passed around for the duration of the request.

Something like:

Request -> (some processes) -> memoized map -> Policy Filters

How is the memoized map reused?
Very informative. Thank you.

Anyone here has any experience with the GCs of Allegro or LispWorks or any other commercial Lisp implementations?
skrill braintree and stripe are good.

maybe a indonesian processor, like doku?

best to get a real job for day and sell software as a side job. maybe something where you can get tips from tourists like taxi driver, tourguide, bar tender, resturant server (not sure if they tip there), or something like that.
Sony Pictures: Inside the Hack of the Century
There is one other school of thought:

3) Stop motorists running people over

Strict liability and improvements to the construction of and training of drivers for lorries are ideas that stem from this school.

For all other kinds of potentially lethal machines, the law and public opinion are in consensus that it is the operator's responsibility not to kill people with them. Motor vehicles somehow became an exception to that.
Grab Lunch at 23andme
Venmo is notoriously insecure. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/safety_net/2015/02/...
I wonder if the vortices from the fish kick would interfere with the swimming of the competitor the next lane over.
This is what a crazy kid can do to this country.
The Continuous Evolution of the Top 30 E-commerce Stores (Part 1)
If the project does not have circular dependency, it can be automatically drawn from the code like this:

http://lonnie.io/gostd/dagvis/

or this:

http://8k.lonnie.io/
Making sure you know what you are doing won't save you either.
Most racing pools are deep enough that you can do it vertically and not have to worry excessively about either the surface of the water or the pool bottom.

Plus, if you tried to do this in a race horizontally, you'd be fighting against the vortexes of your competitors, which would make the attempt even more rough and inefficient (for the leader as well).
Hi Kevin and Sam,

I'm thinking about starting a company that extends the open-source concepts to the biology/pharmaceutical sphere. The concept is to make a modular, drug-producing microbial strain, and release that to researchers/industry under a permissive licence (e.g. bio equivalent of GPL). Monetization comes about by offering manufacturing services which cut the pain of 1) scaling and 2) getting "good manufacturing practice" regulatory clearance for clinical testing, and ultimately full consumer product.

Do you think there's VC interest in funding these sorts of ideas that have a somewhat riskier business model that also ultimately will extract a lower margin, but has a chance of changing the "way things are done"?
I mostly agree with you, but I'm unclear on:

> A marriage should be recognized in the same manner that we issue a birth certificate

In the case of a birth there is a clear indisputable fact: a child is born, therefore a new human being that must be taken care of and have rights as a citizen is added to the world.

That's a pretty clear event to which a birth certificate can be attached. Is there such an equivalent for marriage?
It existed in SF, but (at least at the time) the cab would only show up maybe 10% of the time.
You asserted that unsafe anal sex is a problem. You're okay with safe anal sex then.
You could ask Eion about making his SkypeWeb Pidgin plugin for Adium, or look into it yourself. Here's the plugin I'm talking about by the way: https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypewe...
I sometimes put both, but never the full switch like that. I'm too paranoid that I'll come across someone who does balk at the slight difference.
The woman in the photos is wearing swim fins, which makes an enormous difference.

Give a freestyle swimmer the same fins and (s)he'll blow the underwater swimmer away.
If everyone lived in an ‘ecovillage’, the Earth would still be in trouble
Happstack, Snap, and Yesod are popular. I'm partial to Happstack because it doesn't use any wonky extensions like template Haskell. It's just a very straightforward, very fast webserver. It's also very agnostic of how you actually render your HTML, whether it's static serving or dynamic generation with Blaze-builder or something.
Edible Impacts Cooks Up Blueprint for Eating Organic on $6 a Day
Yup, like birds (or planes) in formation fighting against the wingtip vortexes.
Right. So we need permission from the government to marry with a "marriage license"? Why not just record the marriage? License implies a privilege not a right. I'm OK with "Certificate of Marriage." My issue lies with the "Application for Marriage" that implies marriage awaits an approval or denial decision from government. What's next? Do we need to take a marriage test, like we do with driving?

Why do we let the government deny our marriages in the first place? The law should be changed so that we record and acknowledge marriages, not have a bureau officer approve or deny it.
To echo SilasX, there was (and in most places) no way to ensure that your taxi will acctually arrive if dispatched.

Sometimes while en route to you, they'd pick up another passenger or the wrong cab would pick you up which would frustrate many of the drivers.
So far no one has complained, and if they did, I would give it consideration. It's just common courtesy.
> This act is a capitalist abomination of much more well thought-out socialist single-payer plans.

It was what was possible - it barely passed as-is, and only via some technical processes that let it slip through Congress - and I think history'll show it to be a first big step towards single-payer.

> Now that health insurance companies have a state granted monopoly, there's no reason to bring prices down or change anything.

How so? Before the ACA, there were a number of insurance companies that had to compete between each other. After the ACA, there are a number of insurance companies that have to compete between each other. ACA just removed the "I won't buy any and use the ER when I get cancer" option.
You're actually waving the tyranny-of-the-majority flag, in favor of equal protection for minorities. I'm not even honestly sure what to call that.
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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They didn't have to include the postscript. It came off poorly. I'm not posting this to social media trying to get OP fired, but I will call out when people include contentless swipes at other peoples' legitimate posts.
Obergefell v. Hodges – the Supreme Court same-sex ruling
IME, it's just part of the rhetorical toolbox of the 'outraged conservative' (I'm not criticizing all conservatives, just those who get carried away with this talk radio / Fox News rhetoric). Outrage, persecution complex ... you can see it in some of today's dissents: Alito protesting that people opposing gay rights will be criticized (is this an issue for the Supreme Court?), and, you won't believe it, but Scalia was outraged. Why should Friday be any different than Thursday?
> Doing as the GP said would have these archaic rules also overturned.

But at the expense of meaning that some couples wouldn't be able to marry, for, what - the next decade? Fifty years? And it's not as if a broader change to the meaning of marriage is off of the cards as a result of this - let's take the wins as they come.
When adding support for small new features or fixing bugs on large codebases the answer is: you don't [1].

You do not need to familiarize yourself with the full codebase at the start. It's too time-consuming and mostly not worth the effort. Set up an objective and go for it slashing your coding axe around until it works.

[1]: Unless you have an special interest or you are assumed to familiarize with the codebase.
>The legal framework of consenting age

Should be "Current western and developed/modern civilization's legal framework of consenting age"...
They even have a hard time selling reasonable bike lights, because people feel safe enough with tiny little occasionally blinking magnet/coil contraptions that are giving the absolute creeps to any cyclist that has grown up breaking German StVZO all the time. (StVZO: technical regulations for anything on the road, the bicycle part is like JavaScript: lots of cruft, but a few really good parts)
FWIW The Hurt Report[1] didn't find any link between motorcycle colours and crash numbers. I'd say that doubly applies to bicycles when you consider that even a small motorbike still has a fairly significant showing of coloured fairings. Reflective jackets on the other hand...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MOTORCYCLE_ACCIDENT_...
Golden Speak (http://www.goldenspeak.com) helps you speak better by analyzing your voice for pitch, rhythm, vocab, fillers, and clarity. We'd like to talk about launching minimum features quickly vs. high user expectations that people have from apps like facebook, etc. Does it make sense to focus more on polish instead of launching within an almost embarrassing feature set?
Why did nobody mention Square Cash?
How does polygamy benefit the state? It's a serious question.

With regular two-people marriage, you're roughly giving almost everyone a shot at finding a partner for marriage. This means you don't get large roaming populations of one sex or the other without any hope of finding a partner, and all the problems that can bring (see China). Those people will not be able to participate in the state-approved stability that marriage can bring.

Gay marriage is actually positive for the state in these respects, since it expands the number of people who can participate in the current framework. Polygamy is much more complicated at scale, and I think you'd need to find solutions to many other potential problems before you could convince the state to accept it.
i was riding my bike today and wondered about a future where combustion engines are outlawed and the streets were all electric

then i wondered how hot that world would be

our electronics pump out a lot of heat, and there are more electronics today then yesterday and this trend will seemingly continue ad infinitum

i wondered if some of the planetary warming could be from all of the cycles
Streak - (https://goo.gl/VvgCnv)

We made a trivia gameshow for mobile devices. Everyone plays simultaneously once-a-day at 11AM PT / 2PM ET. Players see the exact same questions, so it's like a live, multiplayer, interactive version of traditional gameshows on TV.

We have ~300 MAUs and ~50 DAUs and solid retention, but to get that up to 1,000 DAUs should we be more focused on trying to trigger organic sharing within the app or top line from press, blogs, reddit, Facebook ads, etc? Is our user base too small to even know whether our organic sharing is really working?
Aaand it's back from the dead.
> bar mitzvahs

The government does recognize a legal "coming of age" in several cases (at least in the U.S.).

- Driving a car (restricted at 15 years and some months, open at 16)

- Entering the Majority (18)

- Can enter the military (18, or 17 with some restrictions)

- Can have Sex (rules vary by state, but is generally 16-18 with various limits)

- Can drink (21)

etc.

It just so happens that these legal coming-of-age points don't specifically align with any religious coming-of-age. The two are divested from each other due to various pre-existing cultural forces. But it's completely conceivable in some alternate universe that the two are conflated and one enters the majority legally at the same time as going through a "traditional" Sacrament of Confirmation.
I suppose you already know this but poetry is not to be taken too seriously. They are far removed (three times) from the truth. This is what Socrates says about them [1]

"I do not mind telling you in confidence that all poetry is an outrage on the understanding, unless the hearers have that balm of knowledge which heals error."

"All poetical imitations are ruinous to the understanding of the hearers, and that the knowledge of their true nature is the only antidote to them"

"Imitation, then, is devoid of knowledge, being only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic and epic poets are imitators in the highest degree."

I'm not saying one shouldn’t enjoy poetry. But like most other literature, in general, they should only offer a perspective. A different point of view. Nothing more. A true poem, as Socrates says, is a lyric of the soul. Something that lifts the fallen spirit and gives hope in defeat.

Romanticism is certainly tender and is good for softening a coarse exterior. But in the end it is just entertainment.

[1]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm#link2H...
Show HN: A distributed web scraper in 10 lines of code
If two people agree to marry, isn't that indisputable fact? What else do we need to require to prove a marriage? A "Registration of Marriage" would be sufficient, not an "Application for Marriage License." Marriage is a right, not a privilege. Or do we need to let the government decide who can marry still and continue with the permitting process?

Edit: I would like to know why you might disagree if you are down voting me. yellowapple and I have similar sentiments, I think.
I asked why they don't include the miles their algorithms have trained on using simulated driving, and one of their safety drivers emailed me back and said they'd consider it.
> What is the software "end game"? There has to a point where there's nothing else worth adding to most commonly used software.

You discontinue any sales of permanent licenses to your software, charge users $50/month to access it, pitch it as "Cloud" because clouds are the cool new thing, and hope people just suck it up and pay because your products are the industry standard and there aren't good alternatives.

But seriously, Adobe and Autodesk are textbook cases of this. People frequently stuck with years old versions of their software because it did everything it needed to. Development of 3ds Max has slowed to an absolute crawl over the last 5-10 years, with speculation that Autodesk is deliberately trying to kill it in favor of Maya.

But if you're stuck using it, you get to pay $185/month to support them not working on any notable improvements. Perpetual licenses to nearly all of Autodesk's products will no longer be sold after January 31st 2016, and Adobe has already made the transition.

http://www.autodesk.com/products/perpetuallicenses

https://creative.adobe.com/plans
Car services have always existed (with a much smaller regulatory burden than taxis), and taxis have always been significant players in the car service industry

Uber just brought it all together and brought enough players into the fold to make "car service" almost strictly superior to "taxi."
We use it in my apartment (we are 4 dudes living together) and it works great. But you can't expect everyone at work to install it.
It's fascinating, and I've always wondered about the emergence of new strokes as we begin to understand bio- and fluid-mechanics better

That said, I can't see myself doing a 2.4km swim using this stroke :-/
No, "minority" is correct here. Individuals who happen to be members of a majority do not need a Bill of Rights. Individuals who are a member of a minority do.

(edit: Holy cow this post got downvotes! If you think this is wrong please go read pretty much literally anything on the topic of the bill of rights by literally any of the founding fathers. Protecting the rights of democratic minorities was a very, very, VERY explicit goal of the bill of rights.)
Product: Marine vector maps (GPU accelerated)

iOS Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/i-boating-gps-nautical-marin...

Website: http://i-boating.com

Our biggest pain point: Distribution
Software Defined Networking (SDN) Will Redefine How We Do Networking
Well argued. I clicked and noticed that you happen to be religious, but I see nothing religious about your message here. Thanks!
First build and run. See what it does. Check what it does and what I think it does, see how they differ.

Start from main() and start from the one click event(or any end-game action). Try to connect the two.
You can't pay with your credit card in NYC? Wow, here in Chicago I think it just happened to me once that I had to pay in cash to get into a gig (bottom lounge), otherwise I would never carry cash.
Ask HN: who's aliased docker-compose to fig already?
You pay the sales tax based on where you live, not where the car is. For small purchases, no one tracks this but for large purchases like cars, you are charged the sales tax based on where you live.