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idk, this seems fair.

It goes both ways though; if I ask a gay baker to make clitoris cakes I don't think he should have to do that either, we all have the right to refuse to work on things we oppose; surely.

There is such a thing as decency, I wouldn't expect my local baker to make sexually suggestive cookies for me, she would not be comfortable making them and it would be arrogant of me to force her.

EDIT: for those likening the service to race, it's not quite the same, unless you were talking about a white person being unable to buy a racist cake from a black baker. Which I'm sure we all agree is a fair thing to refuse service for. We have control of what we put into the world. Tolerance means being tolerant, it does not extend so far as to deny my right to refuse to create something I do not support (matter of what you should support or not is not the topic here), otherwise anyone can ask anyone to make racist/sexist shit and they have no recourse.
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Every nth time I recharge I see a NGINX error template. It looks as there are some problems with high volume. Anyone else experiencing it? I'm in Spain/EU FYI.
> Skype was pure garbage before MS acquired it.

You have a weird memory. Skype was a very nice thing back in ~2009-2010.
> The approach in taking to self hosted services is that if it's down for an hour or even a couple of days it's fine since I'm the main user.

Well, maybe, depends on what you're depending on that service for. However, we were talking about large scale centralization v decentralization. If you took everything currently on GitHub and moved it to a bunch of different self-hosted servers, you would have a problem. Many _do_ depend on what's there on GH.

Even if it's not critical, it really sucks to want something and not be able to get it for 2 days because Jim went on vacation and his server crashed.

> For disaster recovery, I put everything in ansible playbooks and roles. The role also takes care of setting up hourly backups (with Borg) and will import the latest backup when setting up the service. Because backups are separate, I can delete the last couple of backups if they've been compromised.

> It's obviously not as resilient as using the centralized equivalent, but it feels like a decent trade off.

The issue isn't that it cannot be done, it's that centralized services mean _I_ don't have to worry about it. I don't want to be a server admin; I just want to store my code in source control.
not even remotely close to true.
You can if they're providing a service for the public. Wtf are you talking about?
What's wrong with being 'a for-profit company that needs to continue to make a profit'? Should they run their business at a loss?
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The "extend" has already been done, by GitHub.

Git doesn't support issue tracking and pull requests.
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The problem with sovereign debt is that it is likely to be inflated away instead of getting restructured. As a result, all lenders lose, borrowers win, all holders of risky assets lose as risk premiums go up. To make things worse, inflation makes its way through the economy unevenly, distorting prices and leading to misallocations of resources.

As a result, real wealth is destroyed.
You could always put them somewhere like under a trash can and post a "free" listing on craigslist, or something like that. I do that occasionally with things I don't want to deal with, but don't want to throw away. Eventually they'll make their way back into useful circulation.
So I guess discrimination lives on as something folks can legally do.

What's to stop me from refusing to work with someone of a different race or gender because I believe in some religion that says those other people aren't people and are evil?

Setting precedence to allow people to fuck over other people and hide behind a religion, which can proclaim just about any arbitrary non-violent thing and be 'protected', seems very very wrong.

Also, SCOTUS, where's your commerce clause now? Why does this not apply?
Well, then post that link. :)
Correct, it's not a human rights violation, it's a cake. The baker is an asshole, but they don't have to sell to anyone.
Try opening a bakery with a sign that says "Cakes for Whites only".
At best you can say that people become interested in the same sort of circumstances they're they're interested in conducting transactions in foreign reserve currencies rather than their own.
> Facebook gave some device makers special APIs to access authorized data. This is literally no different than a web API or scraping facebook HTML, just more streamlined.

If I found out that Google was using Chrome during my authenticated Facebook web sessions to scrape my Facebook data, and my friends' Facebook data, I'd be pretty upset too.
This is patently false per the Civil Rights Act of 1964
I haven't heard anyone say anything bad about Azure that can't be said about AWS, GCP, or whatever IBM calls their cloud hosting service.

That is exactly the kind of feature I think they will implement. They will probably add more support in Visual Studio and VSCode for GitHub as well, although their support is already pretty good as far as I know.

They can also throw paid GitHub features in with their Office 365 package, like they currently do with Skype. That would further consolidate companies on the Microsoft platform by ensuring that they don't have to leave it for code hosting.
/me moves to gitlab
Empowering developers to move to gitlab, apparently.
the worst decision Microsoft has made since they hoovered up Minecraft for six billion dollars only to be left to watch PUBG and fortnight run miles past it

How is Minecraft in the same bucket as PUBG or Fortnite? Also, Microsoft bought Minecraft some 3 years before PUBG even launched. It has sold about 144 million copies and has 75 million monthly users. It's the second best-selling video game of all time behind Tetris. How is that a "worst decision"?
they are not forced too, it's their business
Hi Nancy,

Any chance you've got material covering motor systems instead of the visual sensory systems?
Baking isn't a public service.
JetBrains products aren't Open Source. So how is embracing a closed source for-profit company anything to do with embracing Open Source?
They need to rebrand. Saying "download my new project from sourceforge" is an easy way to get cheap laughs from developers. I'm not saying this to dunk on sourceforge, but to make a point that the brand has so much ill will, broken trust and baggage associated with it that the first step should be a rename.
A business has the right to refuse service to anyone.

I genuinely thought this ruling would go the other way, but I can appreciate why it didn’t. The demarcation of rights is fraught with complexity.
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No. I was overwhelmed by the whole situation and public hospitals here are kind of crazy. On the positive side they're public and if anyone (citizen or not) needs medical aid it's free up to a certain point (they're not going to give you a peacemaker for free but the surgery is free).
For me it definitely does not meet the bar. It might be because I work as a systems/software engineer for too long and I have extremely low tolerance to have a subpar solution running in "production". It is ok if you just open a Outlook client and mostly use Excel + Word + PowerPoint, this covers huge amount of the user base.
Likewise, there are other public bakeries more than willing to take cash. Let the market do its thing.
This is going to be a shitshow soon, so here's a terrible comment to kick things off:

Will surgeons soon be able to refuse to operate on patients because they're gay? After all, it's a service in an open market.

edit: it has been legal and common practice for doctors to refuse service to gay and trans people for at least two years. see thread below
No, but it empowers thousands of hateful business owners to discriminate against gay people in a multitude of ways that while may not be permitted directly by this ruling, will still make life harder for gay people all over the country, and in the BEST case tie up the court system frivolously, and in the worst just remind said gay people that they are second class citizens.
I agree, however my point is, that this is potentially just a disagreement over definitions, not a disagreement over reality.
I tend to agree at a high level, but what if the baker refused to bake for black people? Is that still ok? What if it wasn’t a baker, but a grocer or a pharmacist? What if it’s the only baker in town? Where should the line be drawn, and why there?
If they lost it all "a long time ago" is there a new cohort of developers who just weren't around to see it happen. Most of the references on that page are from ~2002, so kids who were six then are out of college now.
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cat 2.k

/k3 (amateur level)
/usage: g=f k 2 where f is list of hostnames, e.g. all hostnames referenced in a page of html
/usage example: g=1.txt k 2|exec openssl s_client -tls1_2 -no_ssl2 -no_ssl3 -ign_eof -no_ticket -connect cloudflare-dns.com:443 -tlsextdebug -verify 9 > 1.json
a:"GET /dns-query?ct=application/dns-json&name=";b:0:_getenv "g";cde:"&type=1 HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: cloudflare-dns.com\r\nConnection: ";f:"keep-alive";g:"close";h:"\r\n\r\n"; i:(#b)-1;`0:{,/$(a,b[x],cde,f,h)}'!i;`0:,/$(a,b[i],cde,g,h)
Well what are the properties of config_options or app_user or objects like these? Is it even documented, or am I forced to scan the entire method trying to figure out?
I'm not a fan of central banks, but I understand why this exists constantly in the world.

Government seems to be the group that controls the military.

In desperate times, the government will print more money to pay for the military.

If they lose the war/freedom, the new government will erase the value of the old money and write their own.

Government printing money seems to be necessary for the own survival, good or bad.
That is the point. There is no good or bad in this competition. Everybody is in it for itself/themselves. We should think about our strategies.

>And they have data centers in China that are run by Chinese state run companies.

BTW, tbh I don't trust data centers in USA any more than data centers in China.
Page 12 I think is where the money is. "Any decision in favor of the baker would have to be sufficiently constrained, lest all purveyors of goods and services who object to gay marriages for moral and religious reasons in effect be allowed to put up signs saying 'no goods or services will be sold if they will be used for gay marriages,' something that would impose a serious stigma on gay persons."

In effect, the ruling comes down in favor of the baker because it finds fault with the Colorado commission's deliberative process, not actually with CADA, nor does it say that religion must take precedence, merely that it must be considered. Both sides are going to pull pieces from this for future cases. I applaud Kennedy for trying to address the complexity of the issues here but it doesn't settle much.

IANAL. (edited for typo)
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Which big corporate's is? If Microsoft can't be trusted neither Google, Facebook,IBM or
Oracle for that matter. They could ruin or shut it down if it's not aligning with their goal which is to make money.
You actually can’t turn it off, and they still refuse to publish the complete list of what is collected. You need an enterprise version to disable as much as they will let you, and even then, they still force quite a bit of collection.
> it was almost impossible to find a non-.NET developer job.

Mostly agree with the points, but I think it was always just as easy (if not easier) to find an enterprise Java based job than it was a .NET developer job.
They were buying a wedding cake, and were denied before any design was discussed.
I know, which is why I wanted to clarify precisely what Microsoft is being accused of (I may have worded it poorly). The tone I was getting from OP (the Twitter discussion) was that the code taken was something Microsoft did not have any right to use in the way they did, not something that could be solved by attribution. "stole my code" may be strictly accurate (as if you don't follow the licence, you don't have a licence to use), but I feel like it doesn't clearly communicate the problem, especially with comments such as "If they are going to steal code without crediting the original author" which, to me, initially read as saying it's still stealing even if it was credited.

To be clear, I'm not saying using MIT-licensed code without attribution is acceptable, but I feel that there is a qualitative difference between this and using code you couldn't use under any circumstances, or silently incorporating MIT code in a commercial product.
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This is very different than scraping html. Facebook has obviously been lying about 3ed party data access.

This comment is incoherent, at
best, and it says a lot about how far the HN community has sunk that it is the top comment. "------ derangement" syndrome is a common phrase used on lots of political blogs that also specialize in nonsensical arguments and don't seem to care that entities in power lie through their teeth.
As much as I might personally believe this baker to be a sanctimonious jerk, I believe in people's right to be a sanctimonious, prejudiced, awful jerk with their own stuff (just not other people's). For the same reason, I support a media company cancelling a TV show for racist tweets, or a sports association fining players for a particular action (even if I agree with the action).

We don't make people less awful by forcing them to use their own stuff in the way we would like them to use it.
By way of context, human transcriptions cost about $1 to $1.50 per [EDIT: minute] --which is what I use for my podcasts. Accuracy is extremely good, especially if you flag obscure terms when you submit.
Let the market decide which bakers stay in business.
The cake was meant to be a celebration of the gay marriage; the two are directly related. It's not the same as all of the racial segregation comparisons people are so quick spew on here.
> You can't force someone to do something.

From a legal perspective you absolutely can. That is the purpose of having a legal system after all. If someone behaves otherwise then that's where the justice system comes in.
The politics of this discussion is amazing in the sense that we can have a non-political discussion of if bacteria born on earth and growing on mars are earth life or mars life or is it morally right or wrong to transport life or "contaminate" existing cultures. However the analogy is nearly perfect if we're debating if someone born in Syria and living in England is a Syrian-lifeform or a English-lifeform and is it morally or ethically OK to "contaminate" cultures. Its interesting in that without political agitation this relatively calm and straightforward discussion is what immigration debate would look like, but we're not allowed not to be politically agitated to a certain outcome, for some reason. Or, with a hundred years of political "progress" and parallel technological advance, immigration to Mars will have a political dimension such that sterilizing in satellite-grade clean rooms and talking about contamination fears will sound like pro-nazi death camp talk to future politically active young multicultural people living on Mars and the legacy Earth.
This is completely false. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, “prohibits discrimination by privately owned places of public accommodation on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin.”

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/the-right-to-refuse-servi...
That's not how the law treats, say, selling houses: it's not a homeowner's right to sell their house to whomever they feel like selling for and not whomever they don't, if that feeling involves discrimination on race.

I think this discussion is likely to be more productive if folks who hold the belief you're holding also state what their agreement is with existing laws restricting how people can participate in the market: if you also disagree with housing anti-discrimination laws, that's fine, but it'll be easier to understand your position if you say you're advocating for those being unjust too. If you don't, I'm curious where you draw the distinction.
Bankers do not intend to increase risk without safety backups. In the financial crisis banks were incompetent just as much as unethical -- they had risk models that told them they had a safety net, but their models were wrong

They also generally don't operate like a casino. They have customers, and sell products. The securitized RMBS products at least in theory offered social benefit: decreasing cost of housing without increasing risk. The idea was that by pooling mortgages you could reduce risk through diversification. Risk reduction through diversification is a very well established phenomenon. So buying mortgages, bundling them to reduce risk and selling them in theory (and in practice, til the bust) enabled more people to get mortgages and own homes

The bad stuff happened 1) when realty diverged from their models and 2) the market evolved into a complex beast with a massive snowball of people doing unethical stuff (inside and outside of banks).

So in theory and in reality before the bust, rmbs provided a benefit to investors who got products that provided them a good financial return and lowered the cost of owning a home. Greed played a role in popping the bubble but so did incompetence

Not sure what your investing situation is but your second to last paragraph isn't true. The rise of ETFs has enabled average investors to invest with very low fees and many banks offer commission free trades. If you're the "best investor today" you probably have a lot of money and thus get decent deals from banks. If you are losing money it's bc too much competition from other investors due to easy money rather than banks squeezing you
The counter argument being: what if instead of gay these people were African American? Could you refuse service then? Suppose it wasn’t cakes but a restaurant? In both instances, a minority is being refused service because of their specific minority status.
> leaders of the world do little about it

Well... what would you have them do? Air conditioning is (ironically) the biggest contributor to climate change. Should it be outlawed?
There is no issue of informed consent here. When you upload data, you consent to your allowed friends being able to view that data in whatever manner they see fit. These device specific interfaces to facebook is just an example of this. FB themselves took reasonable steps to ensure the device manufacturers adhered to the consent that users give when adding data to the site (i.e. only use the data in service to displaying it).

>The objection is that, once again, powerful information is being traded and used as leverage to drive profit

There's no evidence of any of this.
This is very cool. If you start to hit API rate limits for these services, you can try using the Sourcegraph API (email me sqs@sourcegraph.com and I can make sure your API key isn't rate-limited). Sourcegraph indexes all of these Git platforms and has a search API: https://about.sourcegraph.com/docs/features/api.
> Move fast and break things means don't be afraid to try things that might fail, but it doesn't mean ethics don't matter.

Sure it does. Move fast and break things means don't be afraid to try new things, but the line isn't "ethical concerns" but rather "legality". There's a whole gray area between what is ethically acceptable and what is legally acceptable, and FB profits in that gray area that other companies are afraid to try because of their corporate values or personal misgivings.
>Hypotheticals don't work in law. You don't punish someone who hasn't committed a crime.thats common law.

As much as I don't agree with it in certain cases hypothetical very much apply. All sort so things that have a small but nonzero chance of a bad outcome are violations of civil and or criminal law (e.g a speeding ticket).
>more and more convinced that we are just utterly screwed

Some arguments to chill out:

CO2 was 10x higher in the past. Life bloomed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...

Renewables are getting cheaper exponentially, fossil fuels are not. The cross over is about now https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2018/01/13/renewa...

Climate change and sea level change happen all the time - the sea is 120m higher than 16,000 years ago and no one noticed pretty much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise

Anyway we'll probably be immortal cyborgs by the time it kicks off ;)
You can find the judgement at: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf

It's clear from the text that the lower court's ruling was thrown out because of prejudicial behavior by Colorado's Civil Rights Commission during the hearing about this matter.

The Supreme Court didn't decide anything about the baker's actions, only that he wasn't given a fair process by the state.
Sorry to fact check here but on my Rails app I am getting 200ms return times. This is running a web application and a few hybrid mobile applications. Are you saying that basically out of the box with Elixir/Phoenix I would get 20ms return times? That would be amazing but I find that highly unlikely.
As odd as it is that people can use religion as their motivation for refusing to do something (refusing to sell alcohol/pork to a customer as a store checker because it is against their religion to consume those things), the free market in the US will probably weed those people out. If you generate bad publicity and turn away money enough, you will find yourself out of business in a capitalist society.
When I was at school (in Germany) the Nazi topic was ubiquitous at the loss of other historic topics. After hearing the same things again and again year after year I became very uninterested with history lessons. Maybe it was the fault of my school or my teachers but I gathered that this is a common thing in German schools. In hindsight I have to say that I really didn't learn much about German history besides the 1st and especially 2nd world war time.

While I absolutely agree that this topic has to be part of the curriculum it should not be so dominant. Who produced Zyklon-B is in my opinion a detail. There are other things in history that I am more interested in and that are more important. I understand you didn't want to attack anyone and I'm just telling you my opinion, no offense.

p.s. I knew about IG Farben but I don't know where I gained that knowledge.. maybe it was school, maybe my parents or maybe because I studied at Goethe Uni for some time.
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You're totally off your rocker. They undeniably obliterated Skype in every possible way. Literally, it is an absolute abortion. Look on ANY community site about Skype, you will see its 95% livid rage to this sorry excuse of an app (including me, I actually used Skype for everything, now I'm forced to use the old version which hopefully isn't deprecated). https://www.reddit.com/r/skype/search?q=new+skype&restrict_s...
Except if the reason they are refusing them service is because they are a member of a protected class. This was a core issue of the civil rights movement.