skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, if you follow your link, you don't see any comment from Eich--just a bunch of angry attacks on him and others (including ESR, fair or not).

The linked HN discussion from that link in turn has two top comments basically saying "This doesn't matter (as a Mozilla employee" and "This doesn't matter--his technical work is separate from his private life."

So, while it is quite the little tempest in a teapot you're kicking up, I'd like to leave you with a question:

What have you done that puts you in a position to justify your criticism?

As far as the public image of Mozilla, I personally think it is one of being the last free-ish hackers working on the 'Net, and an appointment of the creator of Javascript is directly in line with that.

(Why don't you limit yourself to attacks on the man's work instead of the man? After all, there are parts of JavaScript that can be found to be pretty gay, in any particular meaning of the word you choose. I, for example, find myself giddy every time I get to use functions as arguments to other functions and doing manual application and currying.)
I for one am totally fine with it being an opinion to discuss on hacker news.

However, I have significant doubts about the power of constant berration to actually change someones mind - or even make them give up the overt facets of their opinion. Don't you think?
It certainly took away from Ford as a basically decent human being, and call me crazy but I kind of value human decency over business savvy, you know? This isn't an attack on you, so please don't mistake it as such, but the celebration of business amorality leads to this sort of calculus and the desire to put that optimal effectiveness above human decency--and that disturbs me deeply. People matter more.
Court after court has found that there is no rational basis for preventing gay marriage. Most recently, one in Michigan: http://www.freep.com/assets/freep/pdf/C4220110321.PDF

The parallels you offer are missing the point, because none of them suggest a CEO has an irrational bias against a significant fraction of his employees. This donation, though, does. Unless Eich has convincingly apologized and demonstrated different views, you have to bet that a lot of people in the San Francisco office and elsewhere are wondering, "Given that my new boss may have an irrational bias against me, is this going to affect my benefits, my chance at promotion, or my working climate?"

That's entirely material to his position as CEO. Mozilla is competing with the world's top tech companies for talent, and their main advantage is a clear belief that they're doing good. Anything that taints that could make hiring harder.
I mention elsewhere that at the start there will still be drivers in the cars. Semis will happen after commuters.

But yeah, long hauls were made for robots. iRobot's slogan was "dull dirty or dangerous". Dull counts for a lot to replace a human!
You really need to follow Dr. Keith Smith - he has been writing about this topic for a long time. There is actually quite an interesting movement towards price transparency gaining traction in recent months, checkout for instance http://www.pricepain.com/why with a detailed reference list to articles/discussion on this topic from recent months
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I'd love to have this in Europe/Germany...
but, JRandomStartup and PO will both draw from the same pool of people willing to do a shit job for low pay. In that pool the number of people willing to open a Xmas card for the cash inside is x%. The same x% chance must apply whomever opens your mail.
One more data point:

I'm using an X220 with Ubuntu. I suspend/resume at least once per day, and I've had two suspend/resume glitches in over two years. As far as I'm concerned, it works perfectly. My X60 before this worked about 90% of the time.
This should really be higher up in the comments. Considering all the anonymous ad hominem against this guy, letting him respond in his own words is essential.
Most of the service industry would disapear over nigiht. you think if you paid people more than they make now that they show up for a fex bucks more: dlivery drivers, wait staff, hotel cleaning people, gas station service personel, grocery stores.
It's a polarizing and emotive issue that social conservatives lose their minds over. So it's a fair comparison on that basis.
Serious question: how can you possibly fairly characterize any action to restrict a phenomenon as being anything by 'anti' that phenomenon?
Go for it, tiger :)
I missed that bit of news. It's been 6 years since Prop 8, I'm curious to hear what his reasons were and what his position is today - usually a person's ethics and moral views evolve with time.
Have you tried automatic programming? For one heuristic optimization project, I automatically derived arithmetic expressions to match an unknown function, using a wide variety of methods including hill-climbing. Many methods started out more efficient than genetic algorithms - at one hundred thousand evaluations or so, simulated annealing was doing best. But by one million, all other contenders had levelled out, while the genetic algorithm was still doggedly finding better answers. The fact that it maintains a population and exchanges working code between its members turns out to be extremely effective for hard problems.
Haskell was designed by a committee, so it's going to be difficult to find ages for all of them, but Simon Peyton Jones, the best known of the creators, is 56.
For the record, Mozilla does provide employee benefits that cover same-sex domestic partners, and I would be shocked if any CEO attempted to change this. (I am a Mozilla employee.)

The Mozilla community is governed by participation guidelines that state: "support for exclusionary practices must not be carried into Mozilla activities," and "support for exclusionary practices in non-Mozilla activities should not be expressed in Mozilla spaces."

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/parti...

UPDATE: In a meeting with Mozilla staff this morning, Brendan reiterated that he was involved in the creation of that code of conduct, and supports it 100%. He also specifically said that he should be held accountable to it, and that it's important for those in positions of power to be accountable to those with less power.
I'm guessing that his non-straight-people-shouldn't-have-the-same-rights-as-me side is sufficiently outnumbered within Mozilla that he won't rescind any of the equal opportunity/friendliness stuff the organization provides.
Which issues would remain private political matters?

If he feels the climate change is a real danger to humanity, won't he make Mozilla more environmentally friendly?

If he feels health care should be a basic right, won't he improve health benefits at Mozilla?

If he feels marijuana should be legal, won't he be less likely to do drug tests for employees?

Every big political issue affects real lives. Why is no one asking how Brendan Eich feels about climate change, health care and marijuana before deciding if he is fit for the job?

I'm not trying to support either side on homosexual marriage. I just think we need to ask the question: Why is someone an extreme, irrational, homophobic bigot (all quotes from this HN thread) if they give money to a political cause opposing it but we don't even care how they feel about health care, or climate change, or marijuana, or abortion, or really just about any other political issue that affects people's lives?
I do wonder if you'd react the same way if he wanted to recriminalize interracial marriage.
Do you guys think Kobe Bryant would make a good entrepreneur?
Give your thoughts below!
Would this be useful for Tesla?
I misread "suppressing" as "supporting". Oops.
I found it a bit of a restriction, but ideally I'm not shipping code with unused variables, so why put them in. In the worst case I'd viciously comment things out, then uncomment them and add them back where I'd deleted once I figured out what the problem was.
It's not ironic to not be tolerant of intolerance.
I could post more, but why bother?

The krebs story was interesting thanks, the forum posts less so. I understand why cloudflare are reluctant to start rejecting customers based on content, but surely it's illegal to sell DDOS services? Perhaps they should change their TOS to exclude any sites which sell attack tools/services, because it looks really bad for them to be protecting sites that promote DDOS, which then provides them with repeat business.

Are there still sites up protected by cloudflare which promote this sort of activity?
13 years ago today, Apple began shipping OS X 10.0
This is about treating people the same.

Gays and straights are treated the same - both are free to marry people of the opposite sex. Gays may prefer not to do that, but they do have the legal right.

As for finding your preferences are not legally favored, that happens to lots of people. I prefer to have no fixed address, which is NOT a legally favorable preference to have (try opening a bank account, etc). I prefer not to buy insurance covering procedures I will never need [1].

Are laws preventing me from satisfying my preferences on these matters all unacceptable? If Eich favored Obamacare or "Know Your Customer" banking laws, would that also be unacceptable?

[1] Supposing that I lived in the US.
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I really like this concept. This actually sounds like a photo app I would use, not just browse occasionally.
Definitely a good "disruption" to all the noise that is broadcast on twitter + instagram by all those that you follow. I think they also nail it pretty much with their tagline: Play photo ping and stay in touch with friends

If the founders are reading this, was this the original idea ? If not, I'd love to know what did you all start with, and how you all pivoted to this particular idea? (Crunchbase says: founded in October 2012)
NSURL / NSURLComponents
I like this, I can see it being popular.
Which startup robotic company are you talking about in the end of the post?
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Is that really the right way to go about things though?
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That's a patent application, yes. Are you aware that the USPTO gets so many applications for perpetual motion patents that they have regulations forbidding them? Patent application does not in any way indicate feasibility.
for an approach using neo4j, check out cadet! (my project)
cadet is more just a jruby wrapper around neo4j, but one can use it to interact with neo4j (and thus come up with recommendations without touching a line of java, or even cypher )

still in progress, and id love any input!
http://github.com/karabijavad/cadet

http://github.com/karabijavad/congress-graph
We'll definitely be trying to do this in a few months, when we get an idea for what kind of general bump we saw in trials / signups. But a larger part of this endeavor was beyond direct sales.

Personally, I met a NYT reporter who's prepping a story on small-business CRM, I met the person in charge of CRM for Sony Music, and . Several of our larger customers stopped by and saw us as the mature, growing company that we are.

We had a great conversation with the CTO of one of our competitors at a meetup of The Small Business Web.

We're prepping to launch a rebooted Zendesk integration, and we bumped into their sales team at a bar one night.

It'll be several months before we can put a harder figure on those interactions, but we'd never be able to buy them on Adwords.

I'd love to hear from our peers on the value they're able to gain from this kind of thing!
Suits should be personalizable, and vivid for search-and-rescue situations. These grey camo styles are inappropriate. How do I vote 'none of the above'?
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It's a software company. Please give them the leeway to be agnostic toward non-technical social issues. Not everyone needs to express an opinion on every matter, regardless of whether they agree with you.
Embracing Generalism.
That depends on what you view as important. I believe that treating people as equals and granting everyone basic human rights is one of the most fundamental goals we should have as a society. Using a "free libre web browser" or any other free software is trivial in comparison.

As such, I believe that making a person who has contributed to fight against these goals the leader of your corporation is a terrible decision that will lead me to no longer recommend any of your products, even if that means recommending non-free software. You're welcome to disagree with that view, but I don't see how it's stupid.
A URL bar that doesn't feed every website you type out to Google or whoever your autocomplete provider is.

Mozilla is staunch about seperating the Awesome Bar (which autocompletes locally) and the Search Bar.
It's just a misguided benchmark. It contains statements such as "Java applications cannot match a fraction of other language's performance." That's in contrast with the experience of companies such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Yammer.
Those are almost cases of illegal content being blocked or removed. Classified information, copyright violations. No one is having opinions or new repressed. Turkey is proactively silencing dissent that has no other channel. PM Erdogan was caught red-handed taking bribes and it seems the Turkish MSM is already intimidated into quiescence and now they try to block whole sections of the internet to hide the truth.
- Reconsider investing more efforts and funds into Persona.

"Leaving it up to the community" - we all know what that means. Even if it doesn't mean it though, what image does that leave? Sure, they use it as their internal auth system, but nobody outside mozilla cares about their internal auth.

Mozilla is in favour of the open web. An open web needs properly open third party authentication. They obviously know that since Persona does things right. It seems like, since it didn't gain the traction they wanted it (in my opinion due to bad marketing and bad prioritizing than anything else), they're just giving up.
I get that. My point is the service industry disappears. retail clerks, wait staff, gas station attendants, cleaners. Nobody does that work because they like it. Most of the people in the service industry work to get by. By choice or because they have to.
Of course there is. Being against State privileged marriage automatically makes you against State privilege gay marriage.

I don't know if that's the case for Eich, but it is at least a counter-example to your claim.
We've had issues with saturated upstreams and then been negotiating new ISP connections. All the ISPs I've asked (Level3, NLayer, Cogent) won't put an active restriction to only CDN blocks upstream.

The ISPs will help during a DDOS but response times are slow and we haven't tried getting them to put this type of block in place yet.
Marc Andreessen's Twitter Takeover
How about:

The sun's burning down. You sit behind a table in the market, your guide dog at your feet, lapping up water from its bowl.

You're selling cool drinks of lemonade to passers by. You have a glass on the edge of the table, above your dog. For £1, you let customers pour lemonade into the glass and take a drink.

Then along comes Mrs Peabody, who hates your dog. She pays you £1 and pours lemonade into your cup. But she keeps on pouring. Because you're blind, you don't see the cup overflowing and the lemonade pouring into your dog's bowl.

After Mrs Peabody goes away, the dog laps up the lemonade and feels sick. You don't know why.

If only you could see enough to make people put the right amount of lemonade in the glass, you'd have been fine.
I'm kind of a battery nut. I've been building various pulse chargers and capacitive current limiting chargers for years. Without fail all of my most promising pulse charge/bleed schemes that yielded faster charges and greater runtimes have done so at the expense of cycle numbers. Usually by a factor of 10 or more. I hope they've outsmarted this, but I have my doubts.
Internet access is a privilege, not a right, just like driving a car /s
Our pediatrician asked us not to bring in our infant on a day when she was treating a lot of flu patients a few years ago, her office has sick and well areas, but it is hard for her to manage.

Also please, no stooping to name calling (intellectually dishonest), I know you feel strongly about this, I do too. The wild response to the HIV/Aids epidemic of course made no rational sense at all, even given the little they knew then. I think that you might be setting up an argument that I'm not making, that we should not be treating these patients. I think all patients should be treated, but for highly transmissive diseases with bad consequences then perhaps we should be doing it more carefully than is done at your local pediatrician's office. If you make the choice to go unvaccinated, and thus increasing the risk for others, then you should expect to be handled differently.
I'm always taking a photo of my screen. I need blur functionality, because I don't want people to read my code. I solve this now by shaking the phone, but since I did this 500+ times already, you might consider a feature.
Worst case for you maybe, but it could set back the industry pretty significantly.
I use macros in Racket, and generally the idea is that they mix with the language until its not clear which are the language constructions and which are the user defined macros.

For example, instead of

pub static SMITHY: Card = action! { "Smithy" costs 3 and calls do_smithy };

I’d written it as

pub static SMITHY: Card = action! { "Smithy", 3, do_smithy };

Is this possible in Rust, or comas are special?
I followed these rules of thumb for laptops that run Linux well and didn't have any problem 99% of the time:

- no ATI graphics

- low end models that are manufactured and sold in high volumes (so if you encounter a problem you'll find an instant fix by googling for it, or most of the time the problem was already fixed and the fixes are in one of the popular distros), OR

- high end models that are popular among techies and are known to work well with Linux

...and never buy something that has/is:

- ATI hybrid graphics

- mid range models: stick to low end (had good luck even with ultra low end - think Acers with Intel B9xx cpus) or high end

...I don't know why but there's always tons of bugs that crop up on so called "mid range" or "well rounded" systems, not only with Linux, but with ...everything :) I don't have an explanation, but my advice is simple: dirt-cheap and massively sold/produced OR high-end.

Also, openSUSE is known to be kind of quirky and with a smallish user base nowadays. You'll have much better luck with Ubuntu and derivatives, Fedora, Debian (if you have the time to read the manuals or hunt the forums when you have a problem) or Arch if you want to get down-and-gritty.
I wonder, what part of "speaking up against a person who wants your rights taken away" disturbs you? As long as "not tolerating to intolerance" doesn't mean taking away his rights, I don't see the problem.
cereal is a serialization library much like Boost serialization, but written in modern C++ (C++11) with an emphasis on being easy to extend. It currently supports binary, XML, and JSON serialization and works with GCC 4.7.3, clang 3.3, or MSVC 2013 (or newer).

cereal natively supports pretty much everything in the standard library, so getting started with it is fairly easy. If you have been using Boost and want to give it a try, in many cases you can do so by only changing a few lines of code.

The full release notes can be found on GitHub.

https://github.com/USCiLab/cereal/releases/tag/v1.0.0
I love the idea of this.

I currently take all my notes on cheap A4 squared pads, once it's full I tear of each page into a pile and feed them through my scanner and output as a PDF, it takes about 5 minutes to convert an 80 page A4 pad to PDF.

Then I recycle the pad.

Apropos of nothing your video on your home page at video http://modnotebooks.com/ doesn't display on FF27/Linux though the audio plays, while I was noseying as to why (amazing what you learn by wondering why stuff is broken) I noticed you have an unclosed span tag in your dev.l-footer-copyright.
What makes Scala worth using is a good type system, pattern matching, excellent support for concurrency and powerful DSL capabilities. None of these are crazy or require you to write mind-bending code.

Tool support is outstanding with IntelliJ
Like I said, I don't make any claim that it's likely for the numbers given. There're clearly numbers for which it would be a bad, immediate prospect ($100k/yr, $1m/yr, ...). I'm not convinced either way about $20k/yr, though I do think that's a bit high in our present situation.
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Wow, this is an awesome answer! A big thank you for taking time sharing your experience. There are many good points and I will definitely go over this again and again as I work on oDesk.

Regarding my situation with the getting initial works, I think I will do what you said, like doing the tests and adding stuff to profile. May I ask that for the first few contracts, did you apply for them or did the clients discovered you? Did you have to say anything to make them comfortable with the fact that you have zero work done on oDesk before?
X.400 called from the 80's and said "what took you so long :-)"
My point is the service industry disappears. retail clerks, wait staff, gas station attendants, cleaners. Nobody does that work because they like it. Most of the people in the service industry work to get by. By choice or because they have to.
Several major truck/auto manufacturers are working on the semi problem - it is a bigger focus in Europe than in the States right now.

Scania and Volvo both come to mind: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130409-robot-truck-platoon...
You're saying that if I have a religious reason for harming you, then you'll be happy to treat that harm as a good-faith action, and propose "decent conversation" with me?
You seem to be either implying or assuming that not supporting gay marriage necessarily means believing homosexuality is wrong, but in my experience, that is false and only the converse is true. The people I know who don't support gay marriage have no problem with homosexuality or homosexual people (that is, they have no problem with people identifying as gay nor having gay sex), they just believe that allowing gay marriage would be redefining "marriage". (Which I believe is a bigoted opinion, but I am sympathetic to their ignorance and fear.)

I don't believe this is sampling bias on my part; in fact, I thought that was exactly the position on gay marriage taken up by both Obama and McCain in 2008, I specifically remember there was some debate or joint interview or something where Obama opened by strongly asserting that gay people deserve all the same rights, and McCain opened by strongly asserting that he doesn't believe in "redefining marriage", and they proceed to find that they completely agree with each other.