skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a single piece of data pointing at some aspect of his beliefs is sufficient grounds to brand him an asshole, something like 90% of the earth's population are assholes.

Start with all the catholics and other people from faiths that are anti-LGBTQ, regardless of their personal beliefs. Add in pretty much everyone from the bible belt and other anti-LGBTQ areas, even if in reality they just keep quiet to avoid attracting attention in a hostile environment.

Keep going as long as you like.

As far as I'm concerned, the key fact is this: His professional conduct and personal life are separate, unless his personal life contains conduct that is so completely unacceptable (i.e. felonies, abuse, etc) that it indicates an inability to perform in his professional capacity. None of this is true. He happens to be a technology professional with beliefs I disagree with; I've worked with plenty and will no doubt work with more of them.

True equality in this case protects everyone, when applied correctly: He doesn't consider my beliefs in the workplace and I don't consider his. We're both safe and free to do whatever we wish (aside from the impact of political lobbying, which is of course not a workplace matter)
I'm taking a Coursera class on discrete optimization where the grading feedback depends on your implementation of canonical problems. Optimizing your problems with better heuristics get you a better score.

Simply matching up like tiles in 2048 gets you further than only randomly moving. Then trying to put the largest sums in sorted order along one edge gets you further, but very rarely results in winning. Then by developing strategies about when to move the mass of tiles toward a single tile and when to move a single tile toward a mass, or setting up paths that are longer than the 4 tile length edge, I can win about half the time (or maybe a quarter).

Complexity that arises from simple rules is may he easier to program than the complex behavior directly, but I think you're on to something about those games being popular with people who program.

(Also, since I'm suspicious about the placement of stories about games going viral, I kind of enjoy the conceit of a narrative that the virality of these games is less organic. Is it really because they are derivative, or because trusted sources are saying they are knockoffs rather than, "You should try this!")
Idea is abysmal at editing ruby/node, even with the plugins for those environments. He could grab webstorm and ruby mine? but that would be quite an investment.
Apple said to be developing a thinner-than-Air 12in Macbook
I think that'd be a good move, but it wouldn't address some of the violent offenders, and currently our mental health network isn't at the scale it should be to handle the problem. We absolutely should do that over the long term, but it requires a fundamental policy shift, and a willingness for governments to spend money on a group of people who basically have no political voice out of the recognition that it's the right thing to do.

It's not the only component of the problem of prison population control, but deinstitutionalization under Reagan absolutely punted the mental health issue to the prison system.

I worked in the criminal justice system in an inner city for a medium sized metro area. We'd have cases where a guy would repeatedly break into a business, not to steal anything of value, he was just schizophrenic and felt he needed to be in there some nights. Turning him back on the street perpetually screws over the business owner, incarceration without treatment risks ruining his already fragile life. There weren't an abundance of good options, and everyone in the courtroom, prosecution, judge, public defender, they all recognized it.

This was an extreme example, but mental health issues weren't atypical. It wasn't the majority, but a substantial fraction (guessing here, maybe 10-20%?) of the cases I saw involved some underlying mental health issues.

The criminal justice system is just at its worst with these defendants too. For serious crimes, juries just never find them sympathetic, even if their mental health issue is not sociopathy, but something like down's syndrome, it's basically impossible to get a sympathetic jury, despite the fact that it's supposed to be a "jury of peers."

We really need mental health courts. We need to recognize, like we did with drug courts, that some of these cases just aren't a normal criminal justice issue. They have their own special issues that require a special set of expertise and special policy options. We also need mental health facilities or in home monitoring to handle the problem.

That all means massive amounts of money, but it would be money well spent on social justice, and some costs would even be recouped by lowering the burden on the rest of the system, which is an ill fit for this social problem.

On the other hand, there's only so far you can go with this. The Supreme Court has found that prisoners have a right to refuse treatment (with certain exceptions), and many do. Other violent offenders don't have any particular mental illness, just take every opportunity to defy prison rules. Some prison rules are arbitrary, but some aren't.

I still think guards need a robust range of tools at their disposal to control behavior, but I'd be all for much greater oversight and access to appellate review of disciplinary decisions. I'm glad cops in California are experimenting with body cameras, maybe guards will start being required to wear them too. Less wrongful liability for the prison, less behind the scenes violence against inmates, maybe everyone wins.
It's different in that you get to choose your host and your apps separately. If you want to use some particular app, but you don't trust that developer, you can run it on a different host that you do trust. If you don't trust the Sandstorm team to host your server, then by all means, don't get hosting from us. You can run your own (the code is all open source), or get your friend whom you trust to share the instance they set up, or perhaps there will even be competing paid hosts some day.
Not only that, people ask very pointed and potentially embarrassing questions at company meetings. Everything is in the open at Mozilla.
After spending more than a decade and a half in corporate America, it's very, very refreshing.
if execution is king, then marketing is a dark prince at least!
We have answers for everything.
I know CSS pretty well and I have no idea how to make this work.

I'm on the current version of Chrome and it's throwing a load of JavaScript errors in the console so maybe that's got something to do with it.
Hey, have you got a link to the part in the privacy laws that stops 'remember me' being displayed? I've never run into that before on Australian sites.
Google partners with Luxottica Group for Glass design and distribution
Real-time monitoring of ZFS IOPS/ARC/L2ARC statistics on Linux
You typically need leverage to do this too. Zuckerburg was famous for popularizing the practice, but he could only do it because Facebook was taking off like a rocket ship and everybody wanted in. It's very rare that a startup without traction could successfully negotiate founder cash-outs.
Add to this list - good window docking system, and by good I mean Visual Studio, because what's built-in Qt is not enough, and while QT Creator is great, and it's very well suited for laptop use, I can't use all my monitors at work as much as I want to.
Not an IDE but a great programming tool on the mac:
Dash:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/dash-docs-snippets/id4580348...
If you took a salary cut for the last couple of years to work there then $200k doesn't seem like a lot. That's probably a top engineers sign on bonus at Google.
Hmm, yeah. Maybe they erroneously used gross profit (which is useless here). I cede the point.
I strongly disagree with this, and I've played a lot of both Threes and 2048. The only serious mechanical difference is starting off with 1s and 2s instead of 2s and 4s -- everything else is exactly the same (from a gameplay perspective: Threes of course has way more polish). I think it's incredibly disingenuous to say that the similarities are superficial.

I mean, hell, 1024's marketing copy literally says "no need to pay for ThreesGames." https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224
No problemo, thanks for editing. I am equally as cynical. I would've called me an idiot for not using the debugger also...but alas it was busticated.
Actually, Sublime Text 3 [0] (although in Beta) is quite stable and already has massive support within the community. I was lucky enough to get started with ST in my early days (not too long ago, tbh) and I haven't felt the need for a full-fledged IDE yet and I whole-heartedly recommend it for someone looking to move from (IMHO) bulky IDEs like Eclipse to a more minimalistic editor.

ST3 + SublimeIntel + SublimeLinter and suddenly, I feel like a keyboard ninja. Believe me, for a newbie, that is a massive boost of confidence! :D

[0]: http://www.sublimetext.com/3
It would be an investment, but for a software developer these are professional tools. The problem, though, is that free alternatives exist for those who don't mind a learning curve.
As in the VC purchases shares directly from a founder, as opposed to from the company.
I'm told DFS tends to produce easier mazes in the sense that after you've made a bit of progress, false paths typically end more and more quickly.
But we generally choose them from a surprisingly small set, so YMMV.
Well...you get what you pay for.
I'm agnostic in that regard. Some very smart people (notably, Elon Musk) have said that electric propulsion is the future also for passenger aircraft in the more distant future, but I have not seen any detailed reasoning or numbers to indicate how this would work.

Presumably, there would have to be huge efficiency gains over combustion jet propulsion since the energy density of batteries would in any concievable circumstance be much smaller than hydrocarbon fuels. One possibility would be to fly higher, utilizing the smaller air resistance and the fact that battery-electric propulsion does not have the oxygen limitation with altitude that combustion processes have, but I haven't seen a detailed argument regarding how plausible this is.

If we ever build a "flying car", it will have to be electric and use fixed wings in addition to propellers since this is required for generating energy-efficient lift. In the "short-hop"/low-speed/personal transport category, there will definitely be possibilities.
What keeps you going?
That's also because they mark as much of it as possible as "expense", so that they have to pay as little as possible to those who were promised a percentage of profit.
I know of Chi-square and Bayesian methods for A/B testing, but what's "survival" as a method? Sounds very interesting...
I clarified in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7461745

But to succinctly answer your question; no I don't think it is unequivocally libertarian. But it depends on who you talk to.

> I've noticed that libertarians and leftists both tend toward a passionate hatred of compromise and "half-measures," and this reasoning strikes me as one of those cases.

You mean compromise with respect to the expansion of the State. This is usually the distinction between a moderate and a radical.

> I'm dubious that it's a very good basis for opposing gay marriage rights.

Here's the problem: you're presupposing that marriage is a right.

I appreciate that marriage (along with a myriad of other things) is listed as a right in the UDHR, but that really isn't why gays---or others like polyamorous cohabitants---want marriage in the first place. They want it because of State granted privileges bestowed upon married couples. Those aren't rights.

Unfortunately, some of those privileges restrict the rights of all unmarried persons. Particularly with respect to hospital visitation. Everyone---including unmarried people---should be allowed to control such things about their lives.

Other privileges include tax breaks and the like. I won't go down that road...

With that said, you're basically telling me that I oppose something that I don't think even exists in the first place. To me, rights are much more fundamental than constructs like marriage.

The problem is that the debate is framed in terms of gay marriage. One's position against marriage in general can subsume one's position on gay marriage. But the lynch mob lacks perspective and can only imagine that being against gay marriage means being against gays.

Once you finally recognize that, "oh gee whiz, yeah, being against marriage in general is cool, but still, you aren't pragmatic enough for me."

OK. Now we're done. Before I was a bigot. But now I'm just not being pragmatic. That isn't a lynchable offense. So, we good now? (Not talking to you specifically, but in general.)

Disclaimer: I don't vote and don't contribute to any political causes/campaigns because there are none that exclusively support voluntary interaction. If someone put a gun to my head and told me to vote, I'd vote in favor of more egalitarian laws every time.

Sorry for being a windbag, but in this kind of topic, it's just way too easy to take short responses that aren't precise in bad faith.
Bitcoin institutions and proof of solvency
I hope you wouldn't be surprised that there is some group of people that feel this way over almost any political issue. Legalization is one thing, but some people really do feel that taxation is fundamentally theft.

Abortion is another big one, of course. I'm surprised many conservatives can live in a civil society at all when from their perspective abortion is state-sanctioned mass murder. In that case, I could certainly see people calling someone so morally bankrupt as to donate to Planned Parenthood unfit to be the "public persona" of Mozilla, and I would imagine the tide on HN would be going the other way, that a donation like that shouldn't have any bearing on his performance in his role as CEO.

How about instead of guessing at how he might treat people from a single data point, we treat it as only that, a single data point, and given the evidence seen in places like this submission, see how it actually works in practice? Brendan Eich has obviously been involved in Mozilla and the web community since the beginning, and he's committed himself to things like the code of conduct, which already exists to allow people with different ideas of what constitutes "a problem" to live and work together. I think it's likely that, with vigilance, things will continue to work at Mozilla.
jedits nice and has lots of plugins available through the preferences - http://www.jedit.org/
2048 took off because it was open source and people could easily change a couple of things like the tiles and create stuff like the Doctor Who Edition.

When you choose to do closed source software that's the trade-off you're making.
That's not even a mechanical difference, the additive nature of the two is still the same. The biggest mechanical difference is Threes moves tiles one space at a time, while 2048 moves tiles as far as they can go.
I'm glad you pointed out that you don't live in California. If you did, and had seen the actual campaign, you would know that it was one of the shrillest, most dishonest, most deceitful political campaigns in living memory (which is saying a lot). Indeed, it was the absolute epitome of bad faith, and that would be true regardless of the subject.

When Judge Vaughn heard the subsequent legal case against Prop. 8 he invited the supporters to submit any of the "facts" about the "dangers" of gay unions that they'd cited in their media campaign to his court for consideration. That catch was that they'd have to do so under oath, meaning that any known falsehoods presented as truth could lead to charges of perjury.

The supporters ended up saying nothing. So while it turned out that these supposedly religious people had no real concern about bearing false witness in the eyes of God (who is, perhaps, more forgiving) they were a lot more circumspect about doing so before the State of California.

In terms of lingering ill-will, it's not just the cause people are upset about. It's the extraordinary divisiveness and dishonesty with which it was advanced. And the worst part is that now, after taking such an unambiguous stand against the values of moderation, diversity, and tolerance, Brendan is appealing to those exact values when defending himself against the backlash.

Most reasonable people know that tolerance cannot extend to intolerance, and that preserving a society that is generally inclusive and respectful means getting pretty intolerant with those who attack its ground rules. That's what happened here. And the guy who did the attacking seems entirely remorseless.
It depends on if you're buying the biggest house you can afford, or are simply trading your rent for a mortgage payment of the same amount.
Not dead at all. I just saw Disqus using them a few days ago for realtime votes updates.
Basecamp Becomes Latest Victim Of DDoS Attackers Attempting To Extort Money
I am not seeing that many comments in the vein of "unfit to be CEO." To the contrary, I've seen a lot of comments (especially high-voted ones) saying "I disagree, but that's his right."

I am seeing quite a few in the vein of "I disagree strongly enough that I will actively lessen my support of Mozilla." These comments are not expressing the opinion that he is unfit as CEO... but if this issue causes enough people to stop supporting Mozilla, that would actually make him unfit to be CEO.
Yes, I use it daily. What are your issues with it?
Hey guys, don't worry! The mods have safely moved this thread off the front page, so we don't have to discuss this anymore.
How I Found a Technical Co-Founder by Learning to Code
Vim user, but in general: the advantage of text-configurable editors is that you can carry your configs around with you.

If you find you've got customizations you don't need, organizing them so that they relate to specific functionality which you can activate / deactivate as needed is a Good Thing.

The advantage of vi/vim or emacs over other alternatives is that you very nearly always have them available. A significant downside of any given IDE is when it's not there for you.
IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge
I'd love to see these guys start using Docker. Not only would it be easier for developers to containerize their apps to fit this platform, but it would be quite a boost to the eco-system -- pushing development of Docker to (potentially) giving Sandstorm the "fine grain" controls they're looking for.

Either way, cool idea! I definitely see web apps moving in this direction.
Not yet, it's on the roadmap. Contact info in my profile.
Funny you should ask, we actually have a Lunar module studying this question right now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Atmosphere_and_Dust_Envir...

The NASA dust lab slides claimed it levitated right after noting that the dust particles had "charges approaching 10^4" (no units or context provided). I assumed that was related. In hindsight, maybe it isn't?

Apparently, and I'm just learning all this right now, some scientists argue the dust is primarily ejected from the surface during meteor events.

The earliest observations of "levitating" dust were from astronauts who noticed rays of light during/after the lunar sunset, suggesting the sunlight was bouncing off of something in the lunar "atmosphere."
Aha! Your clarification makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
Perhaps, but there are plenty of barely original or language-specific IDEs out there, so it's fairly possible the author was being direct.
There's a meetup in the SF bayarea on May 21 also:
http://www.meetup.com/IBM-Watson-and-Cognitive-Computing/eve...
http://www.meetup.com/IBM-Watson-and-Cognitive-Computing/eve...
Box is growing fast but losing money as it files to go public
It is unfortunate to see Google partnering with this customer hostile monopolist...
4) I expect events to be run. I think it is a big part of creating the community feeling in the coworking space. And that community feel is what is one of the ways cowering differs from traditional shared space like a Regis office.

5) Not expected.

6) Definitely. Especially if #4 is present.
So how's your version better? Any new ideas to implement cross-over or make solutions more robust? Being open source is certainly an advance if you're mainly interested in the technical underpinnings...
The 360 emulator (Xenia) dev seems to think so.
Wal-Mart might be the most extreme example of this, though their IPO was many moons ago. I can't find a solid number for what percentage Walton owned at the time of IPO (in 1970), but his heirs, 44 years later, still own a combined ~50% of the company. Unless nobody has sold anything in the decades since, I would guess he must've owned in the 70+% range at the IPO.

edit to add: This is an interesting equation though,

> 75% of a $40M acquisition = 3% of a $1B acquisition.

In a strict sense yes, but they differ in some interesting ways. In favor of the $1B acquisition is that it's typically a much bigger deal: in terms of PR and what you're credited for, you get a lot more of it for being the founder of a $1B company than for founding a $40M company, even if your takeaway is the same in both cases. On the other hand, in the 75%-of-$40M case you are usually in a better position to control the disposition of the company, which may be important if you care about it & its product, and want to keep working on it (whereas in the 3%-of-$1B case, you generally will have to be satisfied with the cash, and wash your hands of the company). And the $40M case also probably has better odds of success.
Probably Atom, Nitrous, Light Table, and all the other Web IDEs being created in recent years.
It sounds like your stat-fu is way better than mine. :-) Is there a layman-friendly article you can point to that explains what you're talking about in more detail?
Didn't downvote, but if you write something like that, provide examples. It doesn't really address the parent comment, either. If they're both dirty jungles, what does that say about whether Istanbul is more or less European than Athens? Wouldn't the culture have something to do with that, also?
(1) As Bitcoin has yet to be recognised/classified as a currency or security, one could argue that derivatives based on the price of a Bitcoin are more akin to bets than financial derivatives. It'll be interesting to see if the CFTC will object.

(2) They're apparently using the Coinbase price (which appears to be based on the Bitstamp price). It's not clear how they're settling the options so I can't determine whether it actually matters whether there's an uninterrupted price feed or not.

(3) This is an inherent "feature" of an immature market such as this. Bitcoin seems to have skipped a step (futures). Besides, there's nothing to stop me from borrowing USD and converting it to Bitcoin in order to play around in the Bitcoin options market.

(4) Oh yes.
> That's a really difficult problem.

Yup.
I thought it was a quiz game before noticing the explanation on the right. I guess to teach kids CSS basics this would be great, quite engaging.
Or farms?
I'm not sure it would have (without trying it), but it certainly would have kept you in the game for a bit longer since I'm a-OK with EMR jobs for my analysis (or presumably being able to download those files and load them into my own Hadoop cluster).
I don't know all of the history, but I was under the impression that this was a relatively recent phenomenon. Does any one have any examples prior to Rose?
Remind me again why entrepreneurs invite VC's in?
I'd agree with that. ST seems to strike an almost perfect balance between flexibility and pragmatism.