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> The fact that they can come out and say this demonstrates that these employees, the people best able to assess this, don't believe that Eich will retaliate. That Mozilla is and remains a place where any employee can express their views on political issues, even if they know they're contrary to the CEO's. And that destroys any argument for Eich's role as CEO creating a conflict with Mozilla's ability to welcome LGBTQ employees and community members.

Or these employees have consciously chosen that they'd rather the knife come, if it's going to come, sooner than later.
No, it really doesn't.

There are sensible people on this thread trying to argue that Brendan Eich shouldn't be forced to resign because of his private political views, and there are idiots like you using words like 'witch-hunt' and talking about the 'gay agenda' (what, you think they have a committee somewhere drawing up a hit-list?). I sincerely doubt that you are trying constructively to help here.
No bitcoin will fix that because you can't reverse the charges. So there is no risk in shipping because you are 100% positive that you have the money you expect you have.
Does Eich refuse to work with gay people? Is he suddenly firing people because of their sexual orientation or political beliefs? No. So who is the fascist? Looks like the mob who demand he resign or be fired because they don't like his views.

BTW:

Marriage equality? So why doesn't the campaign include polygamous families? They exist, they have kids, they even have TV shows, and there has been a cultural history of polygamy around the world for thousands of years until modern times.

The campaign for gay marriage is exactly that, gay marriage, but it is not a campaign for civil rights for everyone, because if it were, it would support the right for polygamous marriages to be recognized.
> Mozilla, much more than most is a political organisation (about freedom and openness) not just a commercial one.

What about the freedom to have personal beliefs, and do what you want with your own money and time?

If anything the people criticizing Brendan Eich are trying to take away his freedom...
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A complete dental exam should be done at least twice a year. With this we will discover in time the dental diseases. Thus they will be more easily treated. Visits to the dentist should be made ever since we are children.
A few years is an eternity, its not like they have to keep burning through $100m a year until they either "win" or run out of cash, they could easily scale back on their customer acquisition spend and extend their timeline.

I think their strategy is very aggressive but far from all-in
Forms for Rails made better.
Vitalik Buterin: Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency
One of the best presentations on cryptocurrency ever. Full notes here [1].

[1]:https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Problems
Is a starting price of $7/mo that egregious? That's around what I pay for my minimal Github account.

If you really use Office every day during the workday, it's worth the money. The $15/m that my company pays per user for our 365 account is well worth the money.
I don't share his views or anything but I don't see why "not liking the blacks" or whatever should have any influence on whether or not he's suitable to run a tech company. It's not a political office.
I guess I might be weird, but I love playing with HA distributed-failover tech for its own sake. fleetd means never having to say "oops, it crashed."

I almost think it's worth it to switch the Chaos Monkey's toggle around: disabled in dev, but enabled in test and prod, to ensure you're using http://12factor.net/ principles in your Docker containers. (I think Heroku does something similar by spontaneously killing containers every once in a while.)
I asserted nothing of the sort.
Is San Francisco trying to help the homeless – or drive them away?
This is in a perverse way a Great test for Mozilla's stated commitment to inclusiveness.
Will they buckle under this pressure to have one of their Employees (CEO) leave because of a Personal Stated opinion, (Barring any evidence to the contrary) solely because of persecution for those views?

Watching this with great interest - how will it play out?
Will Brendan Succumb to the pressure and quit to avoid this issue becoming a distraction?

Will he ride it out? Provide clear guidance that it was a personal issue and emphasize personally that this does not reflect Mozilla policy?
Something else..?
It's not out of line of their current rate. In 2013 they had 56 new deals and 81 total investments[1]. Over a few years that could cover 1.5B.

[1]http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/02/04/500-startups-...
To be fair, the difference between ü and ii in cursive is tiny.
One of the best presentations on cryptocurrency ever.

Full notes here: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Problems
Brown is another strange color.
Seems to be cookies, private browsing mode works to get around them too.
tl;dr:

No 1. via Bluetooth

No 2. via RDP (Remote Desktop) RemoteFX
How much money (as a private citizen) has he spent on anti-gay causes?

How much money has he spent (as CEO) {i'm having trouble with wording here} keeping Mozilla a safe play for LGBTQ staff?
The comparison between the CEO (and therefore the public face) of a non-profit organization and Mary the office manager is so absurd it's ridiculous. When your actions impact more people, you get put under a harsher spotlight. I'm not sure why that's a difficult concept to grasp.
Philosophically what's the difference between financially supporting a political cause and voting for leaders which support that cause?
Ah. Well I hadn't checked the spec; I just meant that in my 5 minute testing it appeared that chrome set border-collapse to separate by default, which would explain why the parent commenter didn't ever have to set it to see table styles.
If Eich had given 1000 bucks to stopping the abilities of lets say hispanics to marry. He would have never been allowed to be CEO; because we do not accept that type of bigotry. Sadly however bigotry against LGBTQ is still allowed.

For me it is clear and simple. He can not say he will be inclusive if he at a low level doesn't believe in it. In his blog post he only apologized he hurt anyone.. not that his views are outdated, and has changed his mind on the topic.
I think that there's a real difference between types of behavior in this category. For example, if the same employees were calling him at night to yell the same message at him, I'm sure you'd agree that would be a terrible reaction. There are some pretty rude acts like that which are legal, but probably bad; e.g. the employees could go stand outside protesting loudly at his hypothetical kids' kindergarten, or spam all the Mozilla repositories with fake issues.

However, the specific behavior in the article does not seem like that. It is employees making tweets like "I love @mozilla but I'm disappointed this week" and "I'm an employee of @mozilla and cannot reconcile having @BrendanEich as CEO with our org's culture & mission. Brendan, please step down." That doesn't seem to be harassing or threatening or a witch hunt to me; it's individuals doing an honest job of saying their opinion.

Time will tell whether people start behaving worse than that, but I feel that so far this is an OK model of something you can do in a society when you feel strongly like someone has wronged you (but have no direct recourse.)
You can't do any of that with cash either...
Freedom of speech is for both sides, for CEOs who are anti-gay and for any employee who ask him to leave for being so.
tl;dr: we re-implemented imagemaps.
'The mob' actually works on a variety of strange cognitive biases specific to group thinking. Part of it is who you are, part of it is who's leading the group and under what banner, if there's a perceived threat, and of course if there's some moral high ground that can be achieved. In general though, morality and critical thinking go out the window when large groups start agreeing with each other.
From my understanding, you cannot deploy OverFeat in production because its license is only for research and evaluation purposes.

You still need TITAN for any reasonable custom datasets (with non-trivial data). The current CPU implementation doesn't support Dropout, therefore, you can only play it with CIFAR-10 (./bin/cifar-10.c) dataset if you don't have a GPU.

This is an preliminary implementation, I do plan to finish up CPU training part to be on-par with GPU in subsequent releases.
I just can't imagine going back to Java. The cumbersome object definitions. The endless type declarations. The lack of case classes (algebraic types). The lack of pattern matching. The lack of named arguments. The difficulty in creating immutable objects.
Even implicits; they can be overused but in my mind they're just a better way of dealing with contextual information than stateful objects like ThreadLocal.
Do you support employees being fired for supporting gay marriage then?

I don't see any difference in the two positions (both are using their paychecks to advanced a political cause), except that you personally agree with one position and not the other.
I may be remembering wrong, but isn't the fact that Office existed on the Mac for so long also a result of the deal that Microsoft and Apple struck back in the 90's? Microsoft would keep making Office for the Mac and in exchange Apple would drop it's patent suit against them.
The hullabaloo 50 years ago about interracial marriage followed a very similar course to what's happening today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia

For a long time, everybody was opposed, but now it's just fine with most people:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-wh...

Hardcore racists now know that talking about "miscegenation" will get them ostracized. So yeah, the KKK is a pretty reasonable parallel here.
"What abuse?"

-> Demanding that he resign and step down and/or pressuring people to force him to resign? If that comes to pass, that he is forced out of his position against his will, then that isn't free speech at work, it's tyranny of the majority. He will have been effectively fired for his religious beliefs.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Section 703(a)(1) and (2)

"(a) Employer practices

It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer -

(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or

(2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."

What the hell else do you (rhetorical you) need? Why is anyone suggesting that he should be forced out of his position and that he "should have known that there would be ramifications". Perhaps a shitstorm, but never unemployment. This violates the law.

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/titlevii.cfm
The Catholic Church works very hard to supress gay marriage everywhere in the world, and has done a lot more harm to our society than Prop 8 ever would have. The Catholic Church is supported by tithes from their members, which are generally required.

By this same logic, should they not be arguing for the firing of every Catholic employee, who ostensibly spend 10% of their income received from the company to the same end?
It did sound like a comparision, my bad.
Saying "Godwin's Law" is not an argument, FFS
I'm needing a ELI5 for this..
It is equally cute to believe that someone will not lie to you just because you made him promise not to. The actual threat is that if you lie in court, and get caught, you will be thrown in a cage by men with guns.

An oath is not necessary for that. It suffices to say, "If you misrepresent the facts here, we will punish you for it in addition to whatever may be decided in this case. Do you understand?" and for the witness to say "Yes".

If a fact as stated in a deposition is discovered to actually be false, the armed men and iron bars do come into play. Don't make the mistake that just because they are not physically present and visible at the time that the threat of them is not important while someone is being deposed.

I can't tell if you are an apologist for the system, eliding over its obvious flaws, or someone genuinely clueless about theories of trust.

Either way, some cross-disciplinary study of the development of moral behavior in primates may be useful. Imagine asking young children of varying ages whether they took the cookie from the table in the room with the hidden camera, and asking the follow-up question about whether they were lying or not.

After having done so, you may realize that most court procedures operate on the principle that people make moral choices based upon fear of retribution after getting caught. This is entirely unsuitable for people at different stages of moral development from the median, such as children, retarded adults, sociopaths, geniuses, sociologists, atheists,
autistics, and philosophers. The implied courtroom intimidation tactics just don't work.

There are several reasons why. Telling the truth as you know it is not an absolute defense against being punished anyway. The only information the court may have about something may be what you tell them. The measure for credibility is not how true something is, but how believable it is. The punishment for lying may be less than the punishment for telling the truth. My cartel enforcer can punish me to a greater extent than the court's enforcers. Etcetera.
Haskell: Fold as a chain of endomorphisms
You must be talking about RethinkDB then, that's their selling point!
"Sharing economy" should share its wealth
This is a bad idea. Your personal views - religious, political, whatever - should have nothing to do with your job as long as you don't bring them to work. If it is acceptable to demote or fire someone because of their political views or activity outside of work, we are opening a huge can of worms. I hope everyone can understand this.
It seems like there'd be a selection bias, and our cultural attitudes toward outsiders have shifted various directions over time - we're currently pretty accepting of the Irish.
The amazing thing about this whole kerfuffle is that, apparently, LITERALLY NO-ONE AT MOZILLA realised that this would be THE STORY. They appointed Brendan Eich CEO and LITERALLY DIDN'T ACCOUNT FOR THIS IN ANY WAY.

If they had the slightest awareness of their environment, they would have started the softening-up PR months ago, when he started moving toward the CEO role. They could have had everything nicely calm. But no ...
I don't accept this as "redefining marriage." For one thing, the definition has changed throughout history. "Redefining" is a talking point engineered by bigots when the fact is that gay marriage affects straight marriage not a whit. It's orthogonal.

Straight folks just want an exclusive right to define it, and on that basis deny that right to other people. Well, sorry, but nobody ought to have that exclusive right, especially when it's little more than a fig leaf to deny privileges to a group of people. We all know the real reason. It's religious, which just doesn't hold any water, and everybody knows that.

And your remedy is "separate but equal." Non-starter.
Or maybe these employees have cynically protected themselves from layoffs... because they could claim the CEO targeted them due to a difference in opinion!
> Look, did you vote for Obama or Bush?

He lives in the UK, so I doubt it.

Also: when there are only two candidates with any real chance of winning, voting for the one who (personally and party-affiliation-wise) has a more liberal attitude to gay rights is obviously not actively vilifying gay people and acting to take away their rights.
Exhibition of old computers
TL;DR: For those asking, "WHY?" : It's about control.

Background: Every time there's a new forum site, people often ask, "why not just create a subreddit or facebook group, etc". That would save much code, debugging, & traffic/marketing.

However, the reason people still create 3rd party forum sites is not out of foolishness. Rather, they are trying to control the community, & harvest the benefits of the community over time (by either influencing the community, or selling to the community, or both or more).

I like HN because it's better quality. The harvesting/controlling forces are very benign, & the community here is great at keeping things relevant.

It is a huge challenge, though, to build up a quality community anywhere.
No, they're not. Freedom has to do with what the government is allowed to punish you for. No one is saying he shouldn't have been allowed to donate money in support of Prop 8. But actions have consequences outside of what the government can do.
The score of a game is very much dependent on luck, though.. I've made an AI bot (https://github.com/helgefmi/c2048) that averages on ~50k score, but its highscore is ~220k. Sometimes it gets 13k. So to get a good score (or your best score) on hackerrank.com, you'd need to resubmit 500 times. At least with the algorithms that I use.
WebRTC torrent (work in progress, not mine.) https://github.com/feross/webtorrent
Trading freedoms for employment is quite normal (my speech was constrained while employed - mostly about my company and it's products) but anyway Eich used his freedom which he is welcome to. However, having done that and expressed his political views (money is speech etc.) it should not be surprising that his political views are relevant to his ability in a political leadership role. If he can't take the community with him he is the wrong man for that role.
Experts Find Mt.Gox Only Lost 386 Bitcoins Due To Transaction Malleability
I think companies have been forced to turn to subscriptions. People aren't willing to pay $150 for office anymore. They probably wouldn't be willing to pay $40 on iPad. Software prices have been forced so low that subscriptions are the only way out.
In my opinion, subscriptions are a net win for everyone. For the following reasons:

1. They allow easy access to upgrades, and make it far easier to make sure everyone is on the latest and greatest (you aren't paying for every upgrade, so there is little incentive to hold out.)

2. The consumer pays far less up front -- for example, Adobe Creative Suite costs $600+ and that is money you have to pay upfront. Or I can pay $30 a month to use all of the software in that suite. In my example, I would never buy Photoshop as I can't justify $600+ in price for my uses. $30 a month I can justify. Basically, as a consumer I get access to software/functionality that I never would have had access to before.

3. I only pay for as long as I need it. If after a 6 monhts, I no longer have a need for the software, I cancel my subscription. As simple as that. I have not wasted a lot of money.

4. Which leads to making the software publishers work harder to put in features that help a larger base of users, not just corporate users. And to provide theses features on a more regular basis to keep me paying the monthly fee.

Sure, you can look at it the way you are suggesting but overall I think it is a win/win scenario.
It is with a certain amount of amusement that I note that this version of office (which looks really cool) is significantly more optimized for touch than the version of office that I have for my MS Surface. That is some what disappointing.
Great suggestion, I'll bring it up with the team and see if we could arrange something.
The Turkish military sees itself as the guardian of the Kemalist constitution and is unhappy with Erdogan.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Rising conflicts between popular groups would, if they seriously undermined Erdogan's claim to be in command of the country, provide a pretext for a coup.
Given the recent guidance from the IRS regarding bitcoin (it's property like stocks or bonds... http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/0325irsbitc...) I wouldn't try to use it as a day-to-day currency. Every single transaction will represent a taxable event, requiring calculating cost-basis and capital gain/loss. If Stripe were announcing today a "pay with MSFT shares" feature, people would ridicule them. That's essentially what bitcoin payment is. (in the US at least)
The intent behind a financial contribution (or any other sort of contribution to a campaign) is to amplify one's vote by getting others to join in.

What makes this case so interesting is that the campaign in question is so specifically wrong. If it were for a candidate or party who has some questionable views, I'd feel inappropriate holding it against someone, but I'm not aware of any saving graces for Prop 8.
Definitely. Or that it's better to stand together than to fall separately. Or that during this moment of transition they're mostly likely to win out. Or that they want to be on record so that if something does happen, they'll have better material for a press push or a lawsuit. Or that they figure they might as well give fixing things a try before they leave Mozilla. Or a bunch of other things.

The notion that them speaking out now proves that they have nothing to worry about is ridiculous. If nobody had spoken out, that would also have been used as proof that everything is fine.
Yeah, something like a webring... shit ok exactly a webring, let's make a .computer webring.
Dropbox Purchases Social Reading App ReadMill For $8 Million
Ask HN: what sample apps I can build while learning a web programming framework?
I'm always get confused with this:

I want to learn some kind of framework, let's say Laravel, but I don't have any idea for app in my mind to work on it while learning the framework!

So, any suggestions on what kind of sample apps I can build while learning a web programming framework?

Ofcourse I don't want the boring blog sample! :)
How AWS Summit surprised us
> Marriage has always been about community and religion, in many countries people never bother registering it with the government.

At least in Europe, that's pretty much backwards -- marriage has always been about property, and, it was fairly late that the Church even got involved at all, and the Church getting deeply involved in governing marriage was largely a trend that happened as the Church deepened its involvement in government more generally.
"Separate but Equal" has been tried before. In Brown v. Board of Education - "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal". Same can be said of marriage, it's impossible to attain equality in a separate "civil union" status. Also - marriage has been been redefined many times, it's certainly hasn't historically been immutable.
I've been busy with bitcoin for the past few days -- I need to crunch some numbers on my AWS bills to see how much money this saves me; it's not as obvious as it sounds once GET/PUT costs and EC2 costs (which are mostly reserved instances, thus not affected by this price cut) are factored in.

But my first guess is that a price cut is very likely to be coming. ;-)
>half of the mice in each group were exposed to a searingly bright light for four hours.

That hits a little to close to home for me. Sure, a monitor isn't searing, but it is still bright.
I am not so sure. Kerry was a terrible candidate, the virtual definition of a limousine liberal. Also as the BBC said, he is a serial message bungler, although Bush was not that much better. Someone like Obama could have won in 2004.
Inkscape is not the same history as GIMP vs Photoshop, Inkscape is actually very very good in what it does, one doesn't even need to compare it to AI.