skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem I have with Polygamy is that I have never seen a 1-woman, multi-husband community. Sure, I've seen a few relationships in which this was the case, but when you look at the historic aspects in the US, it seems a very rare thing. That makes me wonder if there is a severe power imbalance in the relationships and what is truly occurring.

It's well known that in some modern US polygamy situations, there is a great deal of abuse of power, both in terms of controlling the wives, as well as controlling and abusing the young men who will not be allowed to have a wife. This further increases the societal costs and leads to more abuse of power, which is not what we need.

edit: I should add: It's a numbers game. Given that on average, there tends to be just slightly more women born than men, what happens with all the extra unmarried men (or women, though this is rarer)?
I downvoted because you're a troll.
Aphorisms Are Essays
In France, rioting is the fourth branch of government.
Incest - maybe. There's a clear harm involved there (inbreeding depression) that's much more substantive than anything used to argue against gay marriage.

Polygamy - We probably will revisit our stance on polygamy in decades to come. Historically it's been used in a way that's profoundly imbalanced towards women (i.e. almost exclusively polygyny), but it's not hard to imagine a future where that's not the case.
http://codebugapp.com is a fantastic front-end for Xdebug. I get a lot of mileage out of this, not least because I only had to set it up once and now it works with whichever editor I'm trying out this week.
> Emacs has the benefit of decades of Huffman coding for its keystrokes, and I appreciate that.

Huffman coding, emacs, keystrokes, ...

what?
I'm not sure what to think. Oscar Wilde was, as I understand it, exceptionally well known, the superstar of his day. He might not have had TV to broadcast him, but celebrity existed before TV. Also, there long were celebrities who were black, especially in music and sports (e.g., back in the 1930s, Louis Amrstrong, Duke Ellington, and Joe Louis), and yet racism persisted. Also, everyone knows gay people.

On the other hand, I recently saw a survey of Americans that tried to determine how their personal relationships with gay people affected their views of gay marriage. IIRC, around 30% responded they didn't know anyone who is gay. That said it all! (EDIT: I should be clear: My point is that there is no way 30% don't know a gay person; I doubt that's true of 1%. They are just in denial.)
Welcome to marriage. Fish and chips on the right, taxes all the way down
What makes you think that people have not been and do not continue to fight for those issues at the same time as they have been fighting for this issue? There is not one "leftist" who can only address one issue at a time and there are lots of other people besides that "leftist" who are pushing for progressive change.

I wonder why this bothers you so much and why you seem so dismissive of the issue.
The Confederacy never stood for state's rights. That's part of the Lost Cause historical revisionism. In reality, the Confederacy used both state and federal legislature in attempts to keep slavery legal when necessary.
It is not statically linked but loaded dynamically at runtime (see my comment above). And I think the .so is not bundled by UPX/shipped with the binary either. I believe this usecase is explicitly allowed by the GPL, but IANAL, so happy to be corrected.

EDIT: Looks like I stand corrected and this is NOT the case even if you are just dynamically linking a GPLed .so; check parent's links/ask a proper lawyer/please don't sue me ;)
I'm a big fan of "Folks". It's not too informal and not too dressed up. It's 100% inclusive and it doesn't make you sound like a redneck.
I think he meant to add print statements locally. You remove them before committing the code.
I think the "making law" thing is reference to creating novel kinds of unconstitutionality that often contradict older notions.
Does this formally mean that gay marriage has been legal in the US since the 18th century, but no one noticed until recently? (half-serious question)

Congratulations to Americans and to gays worldwide for this great step forward.
> I've found that some people's greatest accomplishments are trade secrets that they can't show you.

My greatest accomplishments in the domain I want to work in are trade secrets of the US Government. :) I can talk at length about my current domain, though, which I want to get out of. :P
It supports connecting to PostgreSQL and MSSQL currently. When you connect to an external engine it opens up a connection, and copies selected Excel tables as temp tables to the destination DB. This makes it easy to combine excel data with existing db data in your queries, and also to move data in easily in either direction.

It uses low level bulk copy operations when importing excel data so it's pretty fast. I did not yet implement support for Oracle because it doesn't have session level temp tables, only global temp tables... I'll see what I can do there.

I haven't used the MySQL Excel plugin so I can't comment on its features...
This seems to be very similar to the dating problem. Instead of asking students to give preference on college/course combination, maybe they should be asked about what matters most to them. Are they looking for a college close to their home, are they looking for a course that has many career options or are they looking for something they are passionate about, etc., Colleges could go through a similar set of questions and then you can build a machine learning algorithm that uses this information to match a college and student. It may not be straightforward but a few iterations of questions (or features in ML terms) can build a pretty robust model.
Woosh Krieger. Cheap [relative to e-bikes] and cheerful. http://www.wooshbikes.co.uk/?krieger

Edit: OK I see you're talking about e-(motor)bikes vs electric bicycles (pedelecs).
Barcelona has a population of about 1.6million. London has a population of about 8.5 million.

The London underground does have some problems - confusing fare structure; confusing Oyster cards; high levels of fake coins in the ticket machines; old tunnels and trains; very busy at some times, etc.

But it does pretty well considering.

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/what-we-do/london-und...

> Annual passenger numbers: 1.265 billion
The revisionism happened almost immediately after war ended. Basically, the South felt bad they lost a war over a really evil cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
Boy am I the wrong person to attack on this. I'm absolutely with you on the idea that we should be working harder on preserving, restoring, and - where possible - functionally reconstituting viable brains (of people who wish it).

As a tangent, because the context applies: I would be totally fine, in fact I would prefer it, to wake up one day having changed substrate from biological matter to living in silico. However, most people would absolutely not be. I know for a fact that my mother and grandmother would have been horrified by the mere suggestion. It's not for everybody, but at the same time I believe it's exceptionally important to have that option as an individual.
I remember around the time of the article unplugging a USB key from my iMac without ejecting would crash the whole machine.
One of these days, I'll earn the right to downvote a hateful comment. Seriously, any analogy of gay marriage and marrying animals is outright hateful.
I'm wondering when this nonsense will stop.

This game is a history lesson for kids. You can't rewrite history, even if you don't agree with what happened. This is the equivalent of digital book burning.

Apple isn't removing all of the World War 2 games that contain Nazi symbols. I'm sure there are games that offend Native Americans and other minorities, but those aren't removed. Why?

In a related note, this just happened:
http://news.yahoo.com/vandals-target-confederate-monuments-h...

"The graffiti reflects the racial tension that permeates post-Ferguson America"

...And it's excused. The reason I can't stand behind any of these latest protests is because it excuses criminal, savage, and animalistic behavior and this graffiti incident is just another example of it.

I suspect in 10 years, our racial problems will not be any better. Mostly because the media and politicians continue to create a divide for their gain and people that question the reality, like me, are silenced long enough that they just stop participating.
What makes a city such as London valuable is the high density of people (or rather, the high density of opportunity created by having so many people in a suitable regulatory environment; the regulatory environment is essential but fixed - the population density changes). It lowers the costs of a great many things (including more nebulous things like simply meeting people and interacting with them) and increases opportunities for creation enormously.

There is a negative feedback loop in action as increased population causes the price of things we cannot simply create as much as we like of (such as places to live) to increase, reducing the attractiveness of the city. Actions that jack up prices push people away, reducing the value of the city. Buying property as a capital park and leaving it empty is one such action.
On the other hand, we know that just a few minutes of hypoxia produces irreversible brain damage. The brain is a delicate organ and begins decaying immediately at the point of death, with massive loss of information.
I've been in these situations and I really don't feel excluded at all by casual language. I'm sure I could, if I wanted to find cause, but I don't because I understand the subsurface meaning of what people are saying.
If anyone is interested in the "mole man" from London that the article references:

Since the early 1960s, the man who owns and lives inside the £1m Victorian property has been digging. No one knows how far the the network of burrows underneath 75-year-old William Lyttle's house stretch. But according to the council, which used ultrasound scanners to ascertain the extent of the problem, almost half a century of nibbling dirt with a shovel and homemade pulley has hollowed out a web of tunnels and caverns, some 8m (26ft) deep, spreading up to 20m in every direction from his house. Their surveyors estimate that the resident known locally as the Mole Man has scooped 100 cubic metres of earth from beneath the roads and houses that surround his 20-room property.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/aug/08/communities.u...
I think the difference is that many people laughed with and applauded Dave Chappelle at the time while few (if anyone?) applauded Michael Richards.

Chappelle was commenting on a widely held belief. Richards, not so much.
You are very welcome!:)
Which ObjC syntax do you find tricky? The message sending syntax may be weird at first, but I wouldn't call it tricky.
It actually does support multiplayer, using websockets. You have to enter the IP address. Instructions are on the WebQuake github page.
The US has been (literally) years ahead of the EU in legalizing same sex marriage.
Oh god. So much this. Author is a ding-bat for pulling that terrible argument out. It makes it very hard to take the rest of the argument seriously when poorly thought out garbage like that is introduced. "I don't notice or feel the oppression, therefore it must not exist. Sample size of N=1 is good enough for me". Thick.
Ask Small Businesses/Startups: Questions about getting hacked
Calling Small business and startup; input:
1) How does your startup, or business detect Web App (WA) attacks? Please explain.

2) How well do you feel the current WA solutions address your needs ? Please explain.

3) How big of a concern is "getting hacked" to you and your business? Please explain

Thank you!
I'm glad that my LBG friends can now marry anywhere. But damn, Scalia's counter opinion (and Roberts' opinion) strike me as well-considered and well-argued in the 2nd half of http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf . In brief, their view was that resolving this issue in the courts erodes the democratic process.

Can anybody counter Scalia, and say why the issue of gay marriage couldn't wait to be resolved by the states? Why is this class of license inequity different than other classes, where the states' right to license something is not resolved by SCOTUS?
I've known a couple physics phds about whom I have very low opinions re: their mathematical abilities.
I think the real question should be: Why don't more people dig personal tunnels? It's pretty obvious that digging is an intrinsically satisfying activity. Kids are naturally drawn to digging and we see unmotivated digging behaviour in the animal s all the time.

Most of us lose the digging instinct as we graduate into adulthood the same way we lose the drawing instinct or the the sculpting instinct. But, as adults, we do plenty of menial, repetitive tasks as hobbies. Knitting, chopping wood, doodling, spinning pens etc.

I think just not enough people have been exposed to the joys of digging as an adult and thus, have not been converted to digging as a hobby. I'm sure, if it reached some kind of critical tipping point, personal digging would become a mainstream hobby in the same way knitting & crochet did for young women in the 00s.
Hey, if you think that I've advocated censorship or claimed that you shouldn't have the right to say "hey guys" to mixed-gender groups, you've misread my comment.
Could be simply that time uncovers better solutions to the same problems, which triggers the need of porting.
Here's one from my wedding:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DsXCelK18poubuiGCBCoH2k-92...

And the bugtracker for my first app:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gZXKhR_AIm5eN3T9zBc2FqTIfd...

Being Google Drive direct links, these'll probably expire in 24 hours or so.
I believe is a matter of taste.

But while some people have no problem with "adapted references" other people have.

And I disagree with you dismissing it as "just entertainment". It is clearly very important to some people. It should be respected and cared for for the sake of not only the fans but it's creators as well.
You make a really good point. The boss does know how shitty it is for people and he mentioned he hopes things will change by Q1 of next year.

2 mental break downs in 5 months, I don't think I can make it to Q1 of next year. The Principal engineer who left shortly after I joined, said the same thing about 'hoping things would get better'. He was always waiting for it to get less shitty, but that never happened. It feels like a bait and switch, but with a twist of insanity haha
And a proportion of population, same sex marriage has been available to more people in the US than in the EU.
So what happens to clergy who refuse to perform such "weddings" on religious grounds? All major religions have at least a majority, if not uniform, disapproval of "marrying" any other than man & woman. We already have cases of punishing & re-educating bakers for adhering to their religious views on the subject, how much more so those who may face compulsion to perform a union they cannot religiously condone?

ETA: to wit, how to reconcile the court's ruling with the court's claim none will be compelled to facilitate such unions against their faith?
You can do that like this: GROUP BY date_trunc('minute', time)
Note that those dates are somewhat oversimplifying things. For example, in Sweden there was something called "same-sex partnerships" from 1995 which legally was equivalent to marriage.
on 32-bit x86 the RET instructions are 0xC3 and 0xCB. Any other instruction containing these bytes can be subverted into a return if you can make the processor read the preceding instructions from the wrong starting point.
I'm not going to discuss TV movies.

But let's look at the other ones, shall we:

2004's Kinsey. Kinsey's a hero to the social justice movement, also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey#Personal_habits

2009's Creation. Opened on 7 screens in the US. Hardly a cultural phenomenon.

2004's Aviator. Close, big surprise Hollywood chooses to mythologize a legendary director's early life.

Tim's Vermeer. "Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer." Are you intentionally wasting my time?

2011's A Dangerous Method. Look who got first billing and is on the center of the cover. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

2015's Experimenter. Do you not know who Milgram is? From the IMDB page the focus of the movie is his inhumane experiments. Whose case does "look at the horrible things this white guy did to people" help more?

1999's Insider. It's a stretch because it's a movie about a whistleblower who happens to be a scientist, but at least it was a big film with real actors.

2008's The Strangest Dream. A Canadian documentary that nobody's ever heard of. Doesn't even have a cover picture on IMDB or even one vote on Rotten Tomatoes. It's about the one guy who left the Manhattan Project. What are the odds that this is a vehicle to pass judgement on all the other guys who didn't leave the Manhattan Project?

> You for some reason switched to fictional scientists with Gravity (2013) and Interstellar (2014). Why is that? For that matter, you restricted me to scientists and mathematicians, while the protagonists of Gravity are engineers and astronauts - it's poor form to change your metric part-way through.

I hoped you would connect the dots that I was talking about large-scale, big-budget movies.

> If I expand the list to include engineers, astronauts, and similar occupations, then "Captain Phillips" (2013) concerns the captain of the MV Maersk Alabama, which was hijacked by pirates, "The Wind Rises" (2013) about Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II ... oops ! Sory, not a white man, though he would have been an "honorary white" in apartheid South Africa, " Zvorykin-Muromets" (2010) about the Russian inventor of television, "Flash of Genius" (2008) about the Robert Kearns and his invention of the intermittent windshield wiper,

At this point it appears you're intentionally wasting my time for effect, like maybe you're hoping somebody who glances over your post will assume it's well-researched and well-thought.

Naoki Mori? I was hoping you would notice from context I was referencing male scientists who were publicly disgraced as people, not as fraudulent scientists.

I'm sure you'll understand that I don't have enough time to fact-check your ridiculous list of movies and sift through all of your loaded questions, so I've left them unanswered.

> How do you define 'mythologizing' in such a way that it's at least roughly repeatable?....If you can't do that, then you don't really have a good metric.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mythologize

At least you closed with Deep Web which might be an actual counterpoint.
If you click through, the stats are basically junk. Self-selected survey distributed via Twitter.
The closest thing I have seen is that Denmark apparently forces all church buildings to be available for gay weddings. No priest is forced to officiate, but the local bishop must arrange a willing replacement if necessary.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/denmark/931...
Several traders have been prosecuted for libor-rigging.
And still, no where in there, a single mention of the mental illness these individuals clearly suffer from that is utterly disregarded by society.
I think you've missed the point, entirely.

If the city living, for you, outweighs the cramped conditions, poor air and general crowding, then you go for it you urbanite.

A lot of people realise after a while that what London has to offer doesn't seem like a good value proposition. That's what the article is about.
Ask HN: How do you get people to pay you back? Tools?
Example scenario: Recently a bunch of us at the office were all craving pizza for lunch, and so we decided to put in an order for about 12 or so people, coming to ~$130 total. I organized and paid the bill, and it was delicious.

However, trying to get people to pay back their agreed portion was tough. I’m not a penny-hound so even though there were a few people who didn’t actually pay up I’m alright, but I could imagine in other scenarios where you really would want to make sure everyone contributed. In the end, it was a mix of a few cash payments, some PayPal, and a failed Google Wallet attempt.

Are there tools that you use to split out bills amongst a larger group of people (say 5 or more), that allows people to get you paid back easily? I could easily envision a little web app that would make this exceedingly easy, but was hoping to find something already in existence first.
>Glad this won't be an issue going into the next presidential election.

Has this been an issue presidential elections? I don't remember it being discussed at all.
Question for the Room.
This is a case of states violating the constitution of the united states. It's a pretty clear violation of equal protection. It's not up to the states to decide this.

Rights of a minority should not be left to the democratic process.
In Gujarat,India , we do have mock round before allocating actual admission to an undergraduate student. So student can have rough idea about where s/he can have proper idea about where he may get admission.
After mock round there is seat allocation round; this is final round where all students get seat allocation. Now if a student is unhappy with the admission then s/he can opt for the next round and now the next round will be only for the vacant seat which are available from whoever opted for this round.
This process is usually done for another two rounds after main seat allocation round.
This all things are done through online account.
Show HN: Xeger – A semantic regex builder in JavaScript
>One of the problems with polygamy/andry is that we could hollow out the lower social classes of mating opportunities

And this doesn't already happen? M/Dating does not require marriage.
The point here is, if you voice your opinion, your enemies will use this to voice how their opinion is different. You won't convince people with different opinions than your own to change, but just send them to your enemies.
I mean, Charleston was about race though. He was targeting black people. I don't think it applies, there.
Yes and no. Most hypoxic brain damage occurs in the form of re-perfusion injuries. If that cascade could somehow be halted, prolonged anoxic episodes would not necessarily lead to the cell death landslides we see today after strokes and cardiac arrests. While anoxia most certainly depolarizes the whole structure, leading to the loss of whatever is currently in short term memory, the more permanent structures of the brain should survive episodes of maybe an hour or more, if we could only stop the apoptosis triggers from happening as soon as blood flow is restored.
Part of the problem highlighted here is that it wasn't 'just the way it is' until about 15 years ago. Before that, much of London was relatively affordable to live in, for a couple of middle class professionals. Now, it's not.
> no consenting people need permission from anyone else to call themselves "married."

I agree, but nobody did needed permission to call themselves married before today. If we haven't been referring to gay couples as "married" before today, it has been for political reasons, not legal reasons. To wit,

- Gay couples refused to call themselves "married" because doing so would have detracted from impetus to change the legal situation (which actually does change their real rights), and

- People opposed to gay marriage refused to call gay couples "married" because doing so would confer legitimacy on gay relationships.

The real issue here is about the rights and responsibilities that are associated with marriage, and while I'd like people's legal ability to voluntarily enter into those arrangements expanded, I'm not sure they should be expanded without bound.