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Thanks for this comment, the lack of rationality in this comment thread is astounding.
HN, my congratulations! You managed to destroy a talented person for having a view different from yours. All under the flag of tolerance. Next destination: Gulag. You are almost there.
Why is it OK for him to be CTO if he is a people's enemy? Nor can he go to any other place, regardless of position other than a janitor, and even that I'm not sure.
"10 years of corrective labor without the right of correspondence" - does it say something to you?
What does it being popular have to do with anything? Popular bigotry is still bigotry. A donation in support of that bigotry is tantamount to bigotry.

Finally, personal political views absolutely enter in to public debate when the views are held by a public figurehead that is in place to represent the ideals of an organization. This is how you change public opinion, by making it dangerous to hold these views and still be supported or taken seriously.

People didn't just suddenly decide not to be racist. It took endless shaming of the people that hold those views until those views are no longer the norm, then the next generation grows up in an environment where that kind of bigotry is considered reprehensible and instead of just hiding their bigotry due to shame, they actually find it reprehensible.

This is social change in action. Personal views aren't sacrosanct, and simply believing in something and having the right to say it doesn't entitle you to be tolerated or respected by those who hear it.

Free speech isn't a license to say or do whatever the fuck you want without consequence. It simply protects you from government censorship or physical violence.
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It is actually a really strange thing. There seems to be pockets of people in various countries that either wear shoes inside or not but can't imagine doing the opposite and assumes everybody in their city/state/country is like them.

Interesting point: You also never see people on TV shows and movies taking their shoes off when they go to a house but I imagine this might be mainly due to the show not wanting to break up the action.
The bible also says "Turn the other cheek", meaning that you should give people a second chance, and to treat them kindly despite their actions.

Yes, people have asked him nicely and politely to resign rather than threatening or berating him.

I think it's sort of telling the way ideas like "freedom of speech" or "turn the other cheek" get abused in this particular instance. "Freedom of speech" says the state won't abuse someone for expressing their views. It doesn't mean people can't judge each other for their view - otherwise, we couldn't vote for the politicians of our choice. "Turn the other cheek" means be ready to forgive. But it doesn't say actions should have no consequences. Moreover, "I'm sorry sorry for the pain" is the standard "non-apology apology". A "I wish I hadn't done that and I won't do it again" statement would have been a prelude to a request for forgiveness, in which circumstance your plea would make sense - unlike now.
Good test!
After experiencing an electronic bidet in Japan for the first time during a holiday, I returned home wondering how on earth did I manage without it. I was sold. I bought a YoYo 770 for 800$ as soon as it appeared in Europe.
This is an interesting idea, but what exactly do you mean by "summary"? Do you want an app to detect the most important parts of the text, and give you just those parts? Or are you interested in an app that detects what it is you would like summarized, and then find summaries on external sites like SparkNotes?
That's neither here nor there. I was responding to a comment which claimed that the CEO's views were not in line with the board's, you know, the board that made him CEO, and implied that it had something to do with the CEO stepping down. As you say, I'm sure they didn't see an uproar this large coming, but that has nothing to do with my comment.
I actually know several people that have gotten funding after age 50. Just one example, but the first startup I worked at had a CEO who was around 50 years old, and it was the best place I've ever worked.
I would like an OCR app that, when launched, just OCR's the latest photo i've taken and put the resulting text in the clipboard.

Example use case: You're in a hotel and want to connect to the WiFi so instead of looking at their sign and typing in the password by hand, you just take a photo and launch the app and then paste the password where needed.

Would also be good for power users with apps like Launch Center and pythonista.
I think it's worth the attention because Mozilla is a huge part of our life as hackers, and their mismanagement of the controversy could be a big case study for the rest of us.

Would things have changed if he made a big direct apology instead of mumbling something about "causing pain" buried in some blog post? Could Mozilla have done X or tried Y instead? I think we're going to be dissecting this for a while.
Indeed, in the no-privacy Facebook era, we all look forward to fully vetting the personal lives of our business leaders and employees.

With this inspiring precedent, we can have confidence that the next CEO of Mozilla --and every other company, we hope-- will be well vetted to hold the correct behaviors -- the only, obviously morally correct behaviors-- toward the great challenges of our time: women's abortion rights (or is it fetuses' birth rights?), animal abuse rights (factory farm supporters are unfit to lead), gentrification (wealthy SF residents displace evicted tenants, ruining their lives, so they are not leadership material), ...
All traffic through Yahoo data centers will be encrypted by default. They will be implementing security measures like HSTS and Certificate Transparency + support for TLS 1.2, 2048-bit RSA keys and Perfect Forward Secrecy.
I think once the legal implications are removed, churches would lose their control over the word by default. It doesn't have meaning outside of the church at that point, and the government "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" So if gay people wanted to get married, no one could stop them.

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Side note, California had (and still does, as far as I'm aware) domestic partnerships. From the wiki page one it:

It affords the couple "the same rights, protections, and benefits, and... the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law..." as married spouses
Agreed. And this way we are surely not helping him change his views. Or be more inclusive.
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> I am a strong supporter of gay marriage

I'm sorry, but this simply isn't true. I would argue the very first criteria for someone who "strong[ly]" supports gay marriage would be that they consider it a civil rights issue and not a political one.

Bigotry isn't a sacrosanct opinion, and just because politicians have debated about it doesn't make an issue solely political.
KHTML was licensed under LGPL. Releasing the code was not a choice, but an obligation.
I'm struggling to understand the distinction between randomness and unpredictability. The many worlds interpretation still implies unpredictability, doesn't it?
Instagram has sort of killed the concept of colour fidelity.
I would like to begin by stating that I, personally, support gay marriage - if the government is willing to offer tax benefits, next-of-kin status, etc. to married and common-law couples based on committed, long-term relationships, it seems hypocritical, cruel, and unfair to deny those same rights to homosexual couples with similar relationships.

That said, I think it is ridiculous that this is a scandal, and worse that it ended with Brendan Eich being forced out of his job. He made a really quite modest personal political donation on one side of an issue the state of California had deemed contentious enough to hold a referendum. It seems unfair that backing the wrong side in that referendum apparently disqualifies half of California from being Mozilla CEO. Whether you agree with his views or not (and I and most of the Internet seem not to), they have nothing to do with building an accessible Internet for everyone, and as long as those views don't affect his managerial choices, I don't see how they're relevant to his job (Mozilla HR could answer the question about professionalism, but I don't think the rest of us have the necessary data).
The most important thing to make Japanese office life happy is to provide a latest Japanese toilets.
They do care about it a lot!
Question for you: is there anyway for you to continue using them and keep this feature on? Or does it only work if you have it connected, and if you have it connected Nest can push updates to it?
Strongly disagree. Yes, there will be competitors, and there will be competitors that cost less than you. However, if you're targeting business customers they won't care about the difference between $500/month and $400/month, or even $500/month and $25/month, so long as they are happy with the product and level of service they are receiving.
Did you write qplot? (rhetorical question) A lot of these "quirks" of R are nice for end users when they're implemented well, but are unintuitive to program and, as a consequence, are inconsistently implemented across packages.

Hadley doesn't write everything, you know.
Wasn't there a fable posted to HN which continued this story -- about how the businessman found the fisherman's neighbour to serve the market?
Well I believe it was just under 2 years ago, May 2012, that Obama first said that he personally approved of it -- but still thought it should be left up to the states. Text and video: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/dissecting-president-oba...

Even if he also said Prop 8 is bad (?), I think overall he has withheld far more than $1000 worth of support for marriage equality.

I don't understand people who are willing to overlook that in Obama's case, but not Eich's. Not only is that inconsistent, it's even more confusing when you consider that Obama was elected to represent people's views on political matters, but Eich was not.

I voted for Obama. I deeply support marriage equality. I don't know Eich well at all, but if the Mozilla board thought he was qualified to lead the organization I think he should get more than 2 weeks to demonstrate that. (Also at this point some board members ought to resign, because they've demonstrated they can't handle one of their few non-trivial responsibilities.)
> Part of democracy and free society is that we need to get past those differences.

Nobody's saying he can't believe what he wants to believe. Nobody. But he is not allowed to hurt people because he doesn't like that some dudes like other dudes, do you get me? Are you reading me, Major Tom? Hurtful jerks don't get to run nonprofits dedicated to being good to everybody and if they're appointed to do so in what we view as contravention of the organization's core principles we are totally free to refuse to do business with them. If Eich doesn't like that, all he had to do was not be an hurtful jerk. Or, that being in the past, apologize for being wrong. If he can't do that, if he thinks hurting people is OK and that he was justified, then yes, it is entirely cromulent to use our freedom of association to have nothing to do with his--because it is his--organization.

You can complain about slippery slopes all you want, but from where I sit the calculus is not hard: you don't get to hurt people who aren't hurting you. Punching downward is disgusting and Eich did to do that. Eich chose to do it publicly, too. And Eich is reaping his very just rewards for his behavior. Nobody's telling you that you can't have your religious beliefs but the day you start hurting people who've done nothing to you based on your religious beliefs you have crossed a line. I don't do business with most businesses with leaders whose behavior I find repugnant, and the few I do I do because I have no other choice.

(If they show a renewed commitment to their principles--and I have every confidence they will because they have so many good people working for them--I'll go back, because they have a browser I like more and I appreciate their stated goals even if they misstepped here.)
Mark Andreeson's tweets on early Mozilla and Brandon Eich
If you just let people argue in the politics threads, maybe they won't pollute the non-politics threads so much.

Politics posts are non-coercive opt-in hellbans. Everybody wins.
You are not wrong. I have experienced the same thing myself. I'm not saying the audition system is a bad system -- I'm merely pointing out a flaw, that a week-long contract is a lot of time to ask me to work on a project for you if I already have a job.

There are certainly many benefits to the audition system, or Jeff wouldn't have even mentioned it!
Identifying the text isn't that hard, generally 10+ word excerpts pasted into Google will give you a source. The reviews/summaries though... for books you have amazon and good reads, for short stories though I don't know where you would find them. The search: '"no advantages" review alice munro' for instance only turns up material related to the collection that it is a part of, not for the story.

btw, I'm kind of just brainstorming now.
This reminds me of the tips and tricks I've read about when you have customer complaints.

Especially in the early stages, really engage the customer. Get the customer involved in solving their own problem by telling them what the situation looks like from your perspective and if they have other ideas. Then over-deliver. Zappo's once delivered a pizza to a customer that misdialed them.

Those experiences are what convert detractors to promoter-evangelists.
Now with Windows free and many of its work is open-sourced, Microsoft is going to try to make money on services and other software that comes with Windows.
It's a risk, but better than the alternative: watching Android completely takes over the planet.

It's not an advertising company like Google. Google makes money when you use the Internet; Microsoft makes money when you pay for its software.
Public, but not at all connected to his work at Mozilla.
Must be made in Britain. Their fire extinguishers have a tendency to ignite on use. (According to the IT Crowd tv series)
...but they haven't had a fear of discriminatory treatment since he's...a fucking founder of mozilla and worked at the company for 15 years and lead many projects.

If there was a fear of discriminatory treatment, we would've heard about it much sooner.
> One thing’s for sure. If you eat at Chick-Fil-A, your money will support anti-gay causes.

Which is also technically true if you do business with any company that employs any people who oppose gay rights. Or if you do business with any company that itself does business with another company that employs any people who oppose gay rights.
I feel exactly the same way you do, about the prominence this issue has on the front page, the quality of the discussions it's produced, and this particular writeup. I flagged the story; it's not about technology, but, as 'dang would say, about politics using technology as its host organism.
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"I think a reasonable question is why we consider /more/ transactions a good thing, if a large fraction of them are for holding periods in small number of seconds"

I don't want to put words in your mouth, but can we at least say that transaction count is not what we are actually interested in? In a vacuum we (larger society) don't care a whit about the number of transactions that occur?

"It is not clear to me that batching things in 1 sec increments, and randomizing the our ordering would be bad or unfair."

It is clear to me that batching things in 1 sec increments would be as unfair to someone as the current system (I'm sorry to not back this up, but I've been doing a ton of commenting about it in the last few days and don't have the patience I did). It's possible that this unfairness is "better" for society overall. I don't know how to quantify that.

"I also don't see why a modest fee that would make short-hold transactions for tiny gains is a bad thing."

My "expert" opinion on market making strategies is that this would increase the bid/ask spread and volatility in the market. Further my opinion is that this is a bad thing for retail investors and market makers, to the advantage of large institutional investors. I don't have the stamina to prove this assertion.

"Structuring the system to reward HFT latency advantages seems opposed to stability, if one believes that the market is for actual investments."

This is a common simplification that I think deserves a lot of thought. Many folks on Hacker News think that the market is for "investment". Usually they equate this to "bootstrapping enterprises that aren't viable without external money". This is an obvious bias for an internet forum dedicated to startups to have. In reality, the vast majority of market forces are not about that. They are about risk mitigation. So when you say that HFT "dwarfs" legitimate investment, are you saying it doesn't provide a valid mode for bootstraping enterprises, or are you saying it doesn't help with risk mitigation?

Your answer to that question means a lot for how we debate the topic. A similar answer is available for your assertion that HFT is a second order phenomenon.

As for when is there enough liquidity? I'd say when people stop paying for it. Which hasn't happened yet. Paying for liquidity is reaching a saturation point, because it has gotten so cheap. This is most obviously demonstrated by the massive loss in value that HFT groups have had in the last 5 years. If anything we have too much liquidity, and that comes from someone who's paycheck comes from an HFT.
More ironic when you consider: "Obama Says He Is Against Same-Sex Marriage" http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/11/obama-on-mtv-i/
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With 15 years under his belt, someone might have noticed if he had trouble separating work from politics. Perhaps his talent in this area is related to how he earn the CEO job over others who are incapable of conducting civil interactions with people they disagree with on unrelated matters.
Guys winning is relative to the game you play. Do you really think every game is going to be fair?

In the games which everyone MUST play - healthcare, food, shelter - there should be a minimum safety net for ALL. This can be achieved using Basic Income.

But fairness? What exactly does that mean? At the end of the day those who do better in the game will get a better reward and maybe do better in the future etc. Is this because they had more "talent"? Or got more lucky? What is fairness here?

At the end of the day, people want to be happy and healthy.
>* Internet Explorer standard compliance : Internet Explorer has introduced an array of proprietary extensions to many of the standards, including HTML, CSS, and the DOM. This has resulted in a number of web pages that appear broken in standards-compliant web browsers and has introduced the need for a "quirks mode" to allow for rendering improper elements meant for Internet Explorer in these other browsers.*

For one, this wikipedia page is incorrect (shocker, I know). The "quirks" mode has little to do with "proprietary extensions" in IE, and more with stuff like incompatibilities due to MSs early adoption of standard syntax that later changed.

Second, all browser vendors have introduced "proprietary extensions". Heck, Javascript itself was a proprietary Netscape extensions, as were tons of other stuff we take for granted now. Oh, and this AJAX thing? It started as a proprietary IE extension. Not to mention the Canvas and CSS animations (which started as proprietary Safari extensions).

2. Seems legit (if another example of "ancient history", that didn't even matter in the end).

3. The consortium that had those patents seems to include all major players (even Apple, Blackberry, Sony et co). So not really singling out MS in this.
I meant drawing skills. I agree with you it's not a fair characterization of art at all, but probably a mistake on my part due to years of "art" class in school which was typically resigned to painting/drawing/crafts none of which I was any good at.
Needs more satire, I almost believed you.
I've got news for you pal: science has made it possible to conceive without a "male-female sexual partnership" for a while now.
I suppose it depends on where you live. If you live in Arizona it might end up being an issue due to the energy cost of processing the water for reuse. However, if you live in Chicago you aren't going to have a shortage of water anytime soon.

I don't really get these water shortage scares people talk about. I can see how it is an issue in remote/poor areas around the world, but a country like the US has nothing to worry about. If fresh water reserves get low we can always desalinate seawater. There are engineering challenges and energy costs to do that, but both are solvable issues. No one is going to die from thirst.
Any positive effect? Of course. It's now far less safe to donate to anti-gay marriage causes while also being a public figure. Public figures shape public opinion and societal norms. Ergo, a net gain for gay marriage and a net loss for public funding of bigotry.

Is it the most monumental gain ever, or the cause for a "different direction" for gay marriage? Of course not, few things are. It's a war made up of small battles, and small victories that add up. That's how societal change works.

Since we're just throwing questions, here is one for you: How exactly do you think most societal change occurs?
Yes, absolutely.

The wave bug isn't an issue for me at all.

The issue is that there is a very slim chance that the alarm will get hushed if people run by the unit repeatedly and the device is mounted in an odd place (like lower on the wall).
and crunchbase 3x ;)
Yeah, agreed - I heard a Roslyn dev saying exactly that in a podcast a couple of months back ... http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=935
For what it's worth, I went to a tiny college in rural Alabama, and I've got a six figure job at a pretty large startup that I'm almost positive you've heard of, if you live in the US. The "top college" thing is bunk, as far as I'm concerned.

I think you're misunderstanding me though. I'm not saying they shouldn't require that you do a work-from home assignment. I'm talking about the fact that most "auditions" I get are far more than a simple homework assignment, and those employers often expect far more time than I have available. Like I said in another comment, they aren't just asking me to solve a to-do item from their to-do list, they're also asking me to install their codebase (and all that entails), learn it enough to isolate the problem and formulate a fix, and THEN and only then do I actually get to implement my fix and submit it.

That's more like contract work and less like an audition.

To make another comparison and riff on the word "audition", as an actor (I am one), when I go audition for a play, I'm not rehearsing with other actors and performing on stage for 1 night (the equivalent of a 1 week contract in web dev). Instead, I'm showing up with a prepared monologue (60-90 seconds) and possibly doing some cold readings (the equivalent of a "homework assignment"). The entire audition lasts an hour, maybe two.

One of those requires far, far, far more work than the other -- and the second one is what an actual audition is.

So what I'm getting at is that the problem isn't a merit-based approach -- the problem is a merit-based approach that doesn't respect my time and energy.

Does that make sense?
In svn "checkout" is a verb.
It's not as simple as that. Religion was part and parcel of those cultures just as it is in many cultures today. It's not just about the one or two overt cases that we know about hundreds of years later, but the fact that for every one of those people there were likely hundreds or thousands more whose voices were never heard, not because they were forgotten by history, but simply because they chose to remain silent.