skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The views of someone in leadership in a company matter, and even if they're "personal", they will inevitably be taken up by others.

So even if it is not directly creating a hostile work environment, it does seems to be encouraging one.
-Cease copying Chrome's UI

As long as they keep the search field separate I'll be happy, but it would be nice if they brought back the status bar.
I'm not anti-gay, I just want gay people to be second-class citizens!
It's just the same situation for Lua; they're using repeated concatenation instead of a table and `table.concat`.
This technology, if legit, is I think a very good example of where software patents can add value. The future of this technology isn't a little $139 backup battery for Macbooks. Rather, its licensing the charging algorithms to every battery charging controller manufacturer on the planet. One can imagine that over time it might be a good idea for a company like this to vertically integrate and start producing its own batteries, but it's going to be a long time before they have the capital to take on the Korean/Japanese companies currently playing in that space. The alternative might be to angle to get bought by an Apple or Samsung, but that's probably not what's best for the industry. There's a lot of value to R&D companies like this that can focus on a specific niche without having to rely on some vertically-integrated conglomerate to get anything done.
"...and potentially lose all of your data, if you haven't been planning ahead"
Ripeness for Refactoring
There's literally no daylight between those stances and claims to the contrary are disingenuous.

Worse yet, there isn't even a good reason to hold such a stance.
Looking forward to learning his opinion of "user-enhancing" advertising as part of the Firefox application.
So scripted ;)
Like supporting racial segregation was not a big deal in the south until the civil right act.
Don't be misleading. Mozilla employees have the freedom to do whatever they want with their money.
Pastor Fred Phelps: 'An angry, bigoted man who thrived on conflict'
I like that this both starts a conversation and provides a conversation topic in the form of an appealing picture. Definitely would use this if it was in my area.
Not at all. Getters and setters are a nasty code smell that generally arises when the author does not really understand OOP. You delegate to objects (tell, don't ask). Delegate to objects generally means person.goToWork() and not person.setIsAtWork(true). If your code is full of getters/setters you can probably refactor it to be far clearer.

A more non-conventional Java (but very far from crazy) is to use property accessors (person.name) instead of methods (person.getName()) for "data objects" (structs, really). Some people are very much against it as they believe it stops you being able to modify your object later, but I'd say modifying the access behavior of a struct (eg, O(1) to O(n) access) is even worse than forcing users to update their use of the object.

Anyway it's a far deeper topic than just "crazy java".
This might be a good thread to turn on the new commenting feature.
I am really excited about the future possibilities of this platform. I've been playing with the alpha server this weekend, and Kenton is basically working on the future I've been picturing, the next iteration of web services.
My Linux boxen always "just work". Then again I use Slackware without a DE. I think a lot of people mean by "just work", "just works" and looks pretty and is approachable by my mom. Well, you can't get that under Linux, and as long as the Linux software stack is developed by different groups working at different organizations without a Gates or Jobs to crack the whip, you may never be able to. But I didn't put Linux on my machine to have an off-brand Mac, I put Linux on my machine because it's more robust and functional and stays out of my way when I need it to.
A great deal of consumers are behind NAT, and punching through that is a huge pain. UPnP is sketchy, STUN is difficult, and custom schemes like uTP are undocumented. You'll get the occasional consumer who is willing to forward a port just to connect to your service, but not very often.
Who should you sell your home with?
Each person who has ever gone through the experience of selling a home has a different story to tell. This video goes out to anyone who has ever wondered about who they should trust with their most important asset.
New carbon fiber reinforced polymers to 3D print ultra-strong parts
His position as CEO (as opposed to CTO or whatever it was before) changes things. Many companies, for example, offer spousal benefits to their LGBT employees' partners even in states where gay marriage isn't legal and they're not required to so by law. That the CEO doesn't believe LGBT people are entitled to the equal benefits as compared to straight people may predict the likelihood of such an organization to take enact such policies, or maintain them if they already exist. It also may not, but as a gay person, were I a current or prospective employee of Mozilla, this would give me pause. Even leaving aside whether "hate," "homophobic," etc., are appropriate here, there are potential practical implications here, and the insistence that this is a private political matter that has no impact on his professional life is problematic.
Did you read or think about the comment you are responding to?

It's a battery technology company. This is their first product.
How ZappyLab is supercharging scientific research – with Lenny Teytelman
Good news is you can change hosts file
I still remember this. I haven't forgotten. I do my very best not using Mozilla products as far as I can.
Not using Firefox nor recommending it to anyone as well when they ask for browser.
Is "they don't deserve the rights I enjoy" anything but homophobia?

(Unless this is a dictionary attack where you're over-parsing "homophobic" as something other than "anti-gay" in some odd quest to prove a meaningless point, in which case, get on with your pedant self.)
This is unacceptable.

C'mon. In 2004 and 2008, with this very much a live issue, something north of 90% of American voters voted for a presidential candidate who professed to be against gay marriage. You are getting and will continue to get the social change you want, but it's crazy to ostracize someone for having the same political view as 2008 candidate Barack Obama. Try to be graceful and persuasive.
Come have a beer with Chute (YC12) in SF or NYC
The Turkish economy isn't going to remain strong if they keep doing stupid things like this. The free flow of information is vital to the growth and sustaining of an economy.
It could be done by software (not an IAAS); because is likely that the criminals are not going to sue.
OneTask V2: Really Focus on One Task at a Time (Mac Software)
"Not Knowing Scala Will Make You Less Productive", is the more appropriate title.

Scala is not, in my experience, a hit the ground running type language. You have to learn the ropes, discover the various gotchas (of which there are many), etc. before you begin to blow away your former self in terms of productivity.
Top Inventions at Browserling
One reason to use https://etalio.com instead of Mozilla Persona is that Ericsson CEO is not a homophobe.
Saturation of .ly domains with English adverbs
Ask HN: What are some good Golang repositories to read?
Playing around with the language as a web development tool, please feel free provide advice and point me to some repositories that embody best practices.

Many thanks!!
I think, one should at least read the paper before sharing.

Just to add another perspective to whom read yours comment:

-So called "Armenian Genocide" is not acclaimed by Turkey and the allegations imply the predecessor of Turkey, the Ottoman Empire.

Only then, even if you accept this as a genocide, you should at least consider removal of Germany as a member from EU.
Quote from the link you provided: "and it is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust"

Holocaust (which is definitely not just an allegation): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
Thanks - that's a great reply.
There are lots of horrible code smells common in java like 'Impl' for names.
Interesting rebuttle - nice one.
How big a donation would cross the line for you? $10? $100k? mil?

For many who are opposed to prop 8 1c crosses the line.
Yeah but MemSQL can do this a bajizillion times faster!
>we can't agree to leave passionate debates like these in the political sphere.

Wave the "straight privilege" flag, wave it proud.
Bigoted ...was the word he was looking for.
No one ever changed their opinion on account of being subjected to a lynch mob or encountering a glass ceiling imposed as a result of it.

If you disagree with B.E. then be an example to him of what you hope to achieve: mutual tolerance. Hounding does not achieve anything except increasing animosity all round.
But what if it's an awesome shiny new hammer based on the latest impulse-delivery fads? Plus, screwdrivers are boring.
Democracy is not pluralism but people with enough money/connections can keep abusing the ignorance of the masses on any subject to gain so much power that they stop caring about the minorities. My political knowledge is very limited so I wonder what kind of measures exist in modern democracies to fight that? Is it just a matter of education? And, what happens when education becomes just another tool for propaganda?
Don't get me wrong, it's cool technology but there's quite a delay between the tap and the xylophone playing. The twinkle-twinkle video demo cleverly gets around this by playing the tune at a tempo that matches the delay. Sneaky.
If you define on-premise as being accessed over a private network (which seems to be the idea here), then it is not directly vulnerable to DDoS at all, because it isn't reachable from the public internet.
I don't think they care, their target is not the consumer.

I suspect most of their business will be via referral, which is often in writing.
A thought on "pending comments". Use this mechanism as a way to community-moderate [dead] posts. This may reduce or eliminate the need for a permanent hellban on individuals. For instance, someone who posted something that got them banned a year back, but has consistently posted good quality posts since, could have their posts un-deaded by individuals with sufficiently high karma, bringing them back into the conversation. If a sufficient number of their posts are resuscitated, then remove the auto-dead from their future posts (or queue them for review by moderators).
Using and Abusing Macros
Per The Aviation Herald they used new or at least additional sort of unrelated data as well http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b&opt=0 :

"Shortly after the PM's press conference of Mar 24th 2014 Inmarsat reported that the new analysis of their satellite data used to identify the corridor and final location was based on the Doppler effects modifying radio waves and frequencies depending on speed and direction of travel of the aircraft, these data were compared to other flights. The computations are not precise enough to give the accurate position, however, made it possible to identify the general location. The new modelling and comparism were developed after the first discovery of the data on Mar 11th 2014, the work is still in progress."
I wonder if there are going to be local areas where robotic cars will work first, e.g. local areas like the Bay Area. It's hard to imagine lawmakers in 50 states getting to some kind of agreement. On the other hand, the interstate system might go first since it's already more unified.

The other thing I'm hoping for is that people realize that once they hand over the control to a robot they might as well give up individual transportation altogether and board a local robot minibus or whatever system ends up being most efficient.
You got the Basic Income concept wrong.

If someone takes a job, they get the income from that job IN ADDITION to the Basic Income.

Basic Income is paid out unconditionally - i.e. no means testing. Rich or poor, employed or unemployed: you get the money.

This is similar to what:

1. Alaska does with its oil tax revenue.

2. U.S. and some states do with the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Why have Basic Income?

It would replace:

1. Food stamps.

2. Unemployment insurance

3. WIC

4. Section 8.

... and related bureaucracies because the money is unconditional, no government agency is needed to "validate" the person is poor enough to get the money.

There would be no stigma attached to receiving the money, no requirements on how the money was being spent. Just like Alaskans can spend their oil money how they want and people getting the fully-refundable EITC can spend that money how they want.
Yikes, thanks. I was seriously concerned about the future of the world with my previous misconception.
if you read the article, you'd see they're working on OEM deals to get the tech into batteries across the board. The Box is just a nice consumer demo so people can get their hands on it now. Actually a pretty smart PR move.

Also, the patent: https://www.google.com/patents/WO2013142964A1
Interestingly enough, it seems like he doubts support from Safari and IE sooner than Firefox: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/what-java...
why not automate semi-trucks?
I think your best bet is to treat him as someone who is ignorant and afraid.

I moved to MA a decade ago. I wasn't sure what to expect with the legalization of gay marriage. (I support gay rights, voted in favor of gay marriage, have gay friends and family, etc., just like everybody else. The only reason I thought about it was because I had young children.) Answer: not much changed. No big deal. I didn't have to explain anything to my young children- turns out the kids worked it out for themselves.
Quite possibly but if that's your only experience with them as a consumer, that's your (my) impression when evaluating them.

So maybe they'll gain customers that have had positive experiences with their paid services?

Plus, in my mind, I see Google with this huge AppEngine that's shared. Other services allow you a lot more flexibility to build your solution. Is this accurate? Not sure, but sometimes perception is reality in marketing.
> But someone who goes so far as to say no to gay marriage is basically saying they view that group of people as less than another group of people and should have less rights

Or they just think the practice of government marriage-sanctioning should be scrapped altogether, rather than extending the privilege to one more politically-popular group and pretending that you're ending discrimination.
The weekly public Mozilla Project meeting has some discussion from the executive team about the change and will have Q/A later on: https://air.mozilla.org/the-monday-meeting-20140324/
Civil society is in real trouble if we continue to consider these subjects "political" in nature.
I don't understand the need for snark. It's a valid point. The main selling-point of their first product is that it can power MacBooks but if Apple cracks down on them for using the MagSafe adapter then this product will no longer be useful for its intended purposes.
Yes, but you don't have to repeat it five times; it seems that you are pushing the thing
And the selling point of their first product is a non starter, unless apple changed their MagSafe policies.
Hahaha, nice!

I'm getting a linter.
Maybe this feature was a bit underreported: the current line of Lenovo's Ultrabooks, the ThinkPad X240/T440s allows for hot swapping the battery pack while running on a secondary built in battery. Adding up to 23.5 Whr built in plus up to 72Whr per battery pack.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t440s...
All of Europe (under the ECHR)[1]. Worth pointing out though that this doesn’t cover gay marriage yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...
Henry Ford published a series of anti-semitic pamphlets, but that didn't take away from his prowess as a founder/CEO.

I don't agree with Eich's views, but simply focusing on that aspect of him isn't the strongest of bases upon which to judge him.
Its not fair to compare this with abortion. If you cut out the hyperbole and willful ignorance, both sides of the abortion debate still have compelling arguments.
UN Human-Rights Declaration, Article 16

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a16
At the start, there will be drivers that are handing control to the system. So expect self driving cars on the road well before you get a bus without a driver.

The key thing about the interstates are their regularity. Small street roads are much harder. There are more spurious obstacles, including foot traffic, and perception is harder.

Even things like the ease of viewing lane lines matters. This is why solving a sub problem is so essential. If you wait to launch to be able to take on cobblestone streets of old london, a product that only works on interstate 101 and 280 in the bay area is going to launch first. They'll accumulate more data, and they'll win.
Firefox is the only completely free libre web browser that is also mainstream enough to be successful (no Chrome is not completely free software). So you're recommending that people give up their freedom to make a political point? That seems stupid.
Given the amount of specializes stock that Larry and Sergey hold (over the other shareholders, essentially giving them the reigns for the time being), it's a futile effort.
They call that out as taking half as long. My guess is they calculated the charge time using 1A but the voltage from the output (17v?)
Brendan was very involved with the decision to mothball Persona, so you can be pretty sure this won't change that decision.
I was curious myself, and found this. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

Article 16.

(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

It seems the UN is against gay marriage so that's where the next witch hunt should go
They claim that their 50 Whr battery can power a MacBook Pro for 6 hours, a MacBook Air for 12 hrs. By my math, that would mean that the MacBook Pro would only be consuming an average of around 8.3 watts an hour, the air only around 4.2 watts an hour.

That seems absurd to me, considering the power supplies that ship with the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air are 85-watt and 45-watt respectively. They are assuming that each only draws about 10% of the power that the official power supplies are rated at. Anyone have a Kill-A-Watt to see the actual draw of their device?
Sigh: The process cannot access the file 'D:\JSCFeatures\z2\Default.aspx' because it is being used by another process.
The problem with blacklisting someone for a political view is that it can always be done. Right now, it's popular to call people who oppose gay marriage laws 'homophobes' and throw them under the bus. (In this thread, a lot of people seem to imply that Eich should have some sort of repercussions for his donation such as not getting this job.) Let's take a look at some other similar parallels:

- Saying people in favor of abortion are for legalized murder, and not hiring them because of that

- Saying people opposed to abortion oppress women, and not hiring them because of that

- Saying people who support raising taxes are for legalized robbery, and not hiring them because of that

- Saying people who oppose more relaxed immigration laws are racist, and not hiring them because of that

The list could go on, but the point stands. You can always characterize your political opponent as some sort of monster. But you never should.
True, Age 40 and above are protected.
From the pictures, it looks like the strategy is to use a MagSafe-to-MagSafe2 adapter.
Virtual Functions in C
Yes because we all know statements made on the campaign trail meant to appeal to both sides are a 100% accurate portrayal of the candidate's actual position.
I liked this article, and this is only a small point in the context of how interesting the rest of it is, but it would be reckless to say that you need to exceed only 1M driving hours accident free to be better than humans. Of course this would lead to a lower empirical accidents:mile ratio for your new tech, but you still wouldn't have enough data to be confident that your accidents:mile ratio fairly represents the chances of the new tech causing crashes. I'm not well read enough on p-values/confidence intervals/chi-squared tests to explain why, so maybe someone who is can explain this if there's enough interest. Basically someone needs to get all Evan Miller on this (e.g. http://www.evanmiller.org/tesla-fires.html )
But they used recycled connectors as a way of using the legal argument their product was a "customer modification" of a licensed and paid for product. You sent them YOUR charger and they modified it to work with their device.

They STILL got shut down by Apple because the Mag Safe also used circuitry inside the brick that they "hacked" to make their brick work like.. Basically DRM and DMCA for power bricks shut them down.
Time is definitely a factor. Most of the Likes are made within 24 hours, but then they taper off. I'll look more into that for a future blog post.

(Out of curiosity, I did rerun all the charts in the post with the most-recent photos removed. The resulting charts were relatively unchanged.)
How would you know your technology worked? Maybe a good test would be to build a plastic box for mac users.
Who will you choose to sell your home?
Each person who has ever gone through the experience of selling a home has a different story to tell. This video goes out to anyone who has ever wondered about who they should trust with their most important asset.
No one is saying he shouldn't have been allowed to donate money to prop 8. Freedom of speech means you are allowed to say whatever you want (i.e. saying something should not be a crime punishable by the government).

That does not mean that everything you say should be void of consequence in the realm of public opinion. I for one am glad that Brendan Eich was allowed to make this donation. Now I know that he stands for a position I view as indefensible, and I can choose to remain far away from him and the company he now leads.
We need a correct, expressive language that easily lets you makes use of all those cheap cores. Sort of like Erlang.
It turns out that even the most amazing technologies don't just automatically get you huge checks overnight. You have to build a business, starting with a first product, and grow from there.
Didn't Outbox try this and shut down a couple of months ago?
One thing I'd say that's missing is the rough amount of time it takes to ship. I was looking at getting one of these for my GF for her birthday (she has a box full of used up notebooks in her garage, so this sounds perfect for her), but without knowing whether or not it would arrive on time, it made me hesitant to get one for her.

That said, love the idea and execution otherwise. It's great to get some insight into the beginnings of a product/startup. Even for those of us with experience in earlier-stage companies, unless you've founded it yourself, you don't usually see the beginnings like you've been presenting on your blog.
Why do you think Android is the wrong target? Mobile is in much greater of a need for browser disruption than is desktop, where competition is fierce and led to many wonderful innovations.