skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be surprised to learn that Colin asked him to write this post.
Employees who are members of the LGBT community or allies can now feel comfortable working at Mozilla. I think that is a positive effect.
There is absolutely nothing in Eich's record which would indicate what you're saying is true. If he had actually had a "direct effect on the standard of living" of any employee, that should have been resolved through an internal review process of his actual behavior, not a public lynching of a man based on a political issue (that was, let's not forget, endorsed by a majority of California voters).
The problem with the word "homophobia" is that it tells us almost nothing about a person. Not only does it include people who have negative attitudes toward the people, it also includes people who have a negative attitude towards homosexuality. There is a major difference here: a person and lifestyle are NOT the same thing.

Someone who does not like homosexuality can have a positive attitude toward homosexuals. The Wikipedia definition of "homophobia" is just a straw man fallacy waiting to happen.
> There are a number of experiments (eg. across Africa) where a BI-like model made relatively desolate towns flourish.

Can you provide citations? I've suggested this kind of experiment as a proof-of-concept for BI, but I've never actually heard of it being done except for That One Neighborhood In Montreal or wherever it was.
We did look into them, but they don't meet our privacy needs.
Free speech doesn't mean no consequences for your speech -- it means the government cannot interfere with your speech (within reason).

When you make political speech it is necessarily public not a privately held opinion. He made a political donation showing that he supported a law that curtailed a group of people's natural Right. That donation was used to try and affect public policy. That is not some theory he holds for himself, that is action that directly affects others.

Just because people hold opinions doesn't mean you have to tolerate them.
It's arbitrary when we create a system out of thin air -- given different axioms (and findings over time) "math" would be extremely different.

Think about it this way -- there's no particular reason computers HAVE to be on a binary system. It's convenient for many a reasons, but there was an era where computers were analog and continuous, and it's feasible to engineer systems using a higher base and be discreet (and many have researched exactly this.) Quantum computers work even more differently too.
Out of interest, had the language been "only marriage between a man and a woman of the same color is valid or recognized in California", would you have said supporters of it were racists?
"for his political views"

In this case, you cannot speak generally like this. In this case, it really matters exactly what those political views are, not just that they are "political". And that's why there was such an uproar, and why he's stepping down.

People seem to be willfully misunderstanding this. It's not like, "Whoa! Guys! We can persecute people for their ''''political'''' views now? What's up with that?" No, it's more like we're sick of having to liberate all the people that some people find too 'othery', one group at a time. We've seen this before. We know how it goes. We know how it ends, and we're less inclined than ever to play nice with the oppressing side.

And it really does not take a genius, or an orator, to see which side is the oppressing one.
> just under 12% of the cost (6% of the sale price) went to the people who made the yarn, cut the cloth, and sewed it all together.

And what about the people who took the completed T-shirts and moved them to where they were wanted? That somehow has no value? People who ordered the T-shirts didn't order T-shirts sitting piled up in a factory; they ordered them so they could wear them. That means making the product is only the first step: then you have to move the product to the end user (shipping and handling), but before you can do that you have to figure out where the end user is and make sure he has paid for the product (order fulfillment).

For those three activities (production, order fulfillment, and shipping/handling), I get, respectively, $2.00, $1.79, and $2.36 (note that I've included both stages of shipping in the shipping/handling cost)--i.e., all roughly equal. That seems fair to me. In fact, if we include "printing" in production (which seems reasonable--people ordered a T-shirt with a design printed on it, not a plain one), that cost goes up to $2.90, more than the total shipping/handling cost. (Note, btw, that graphic design was only $0.12 per shirt, basically negligible.)

The real message of the cost breakdown, to me, is how much overhead there is: $1.21 per shirt in Kickstarter fees, $1.04 per shirt in Amazon payment fees, $0.33 per shirt in tariff, and $2.67 per shirt in "jockey costs" (presumably meaning company overhead for Jockey itself). That adds up to $5.25 per shirt in overhead, or about 42% of the cost.
Yes, even though their employees have contributed far more.

http://pastebin.com/ekaFQXbE
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You are allowed to make breaking changes at any time if your major version is zero.
wow first time I have heard real sense on this topic from a SV VC. the other option beyond remote work is to physically locate your company out of SF and near the engineers (like we did!)
ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms are licensed Apache 2.0, as id the Entity Framework. I don't think ADO.NET, WinForms, or WPF will go the same route, and I also don't think they need to.
The only people who can combine being anti gay marriage and integrity are those who are willing to openly admit they hate gay people.

Anybody with an ounce of integrity couldn't claim with straight face that gay marriage negatively affects their personal or religious beliefs and freedoms.

Not standing up for their beliefs but surreptitiously acting on them anyway is exactly what people like Eich do.
Full disclosure, I run product at http://airbrake.io.

We've always had high demand for Javascript error reporting. We've been slowly building out a new notifier which address the importance of page load and capturing errors without blocking the page load. https://github.com/airbrake/airbrake-js

One of the main problems is clients / IE, not only on how they throw errors but also standards of source-map support and standardisation of how errors should be handled.

I welcome trackjs and all over javascript errors to come together to help make it better for all developers. I'm not sure on actions yet but NewRelic has started to do great work in the Node space already.

@ToddGardner! We wish you the best of luck, the app looks great.
I'm not really interested in IE news unless it's "IE will use webkit rendering engine from now on."
Sorry, you're just wrong. There is no language in prop 8 that has to do with the concept of civil unions. All it DID do was define marriage as being between a man and a woman.

Any debate about marriage and a government's role in it is sidestepping the issue. It's a civil rights issue, and he chose to put money in an attempt to create discrimination for a certain kind of people.

There's no excuse, he doesn't deserve death threats, but he deserves everyone talking about it and making it a big deal.
That is the case in an ideal world, where we receive some blessed words inscribed upon our souls and also a way to read them.

Since we don't live in that ideal world, our only option is to designate some body to decide what are rights and what are not. Whether that body is a king or a judge or a council of judges or a legislative body or the full populace (or some combination of the above) is an important and worthwhile discussion, but in the end we do need to designate some entity to decide what the rights are.
AFAIK, Chrome/Windows does not do font antialiasing/smoothing, which it does do on Linux and OSX.
Twitter Bootstrap is absolutely a skill.

Knowing the ins and outs of how the grid works, where to pad, how to effectively use the javascript components, etc. all involve experience and programming ability. Far beyond unzipping a flipping file, as the author suggests.

Claiming Bootstrap as evidence that you "know" development is like claiming that changing your oil means you "know" automotive engineering

No, it's like claiming "familiar with the SBC engine", which is a very useful skill to have if someone is hiring an employee to work on chevys, isn't it?
I'll take a stab at this one.

The CIA/NSA/Government is setting up Javascript for failure (to save all of us sane programmers). Eich is just the next in their list to discredit and undermine Javascript's leadership.
Reddit has never been above the fray. Look into their terrible record of admins censoring content and the violentacrez fiasco.
In your original flawed analogy the seller of the house has every right to reject my +500 bid in order to wait for a better deal if they think one is coming along.

In your current flawed analogy you are assuming that there is a fixed price for the things you are buying when there aren't.

Let me offer my own flawed analogy to explain what is actually happening in the latency/venue arbitrage case.

You are a real estate developer who wants to redevelop a block. On that block are 10 relatively equal properties owned by 10 different people. On day 1 you go to the first owner on the block and offer 100K for his shop, he says yes. On day 2 you go to the second owner and offer the same 100k. Again a deal. On day 3 you go to the third but they won't sell for less than 200k because they've been talking with their neighbors and know that someone really wants these properties. On and on until you get to the last owner who won't take anything less than 900K which you pay. Now you can say that you are being taken advantage of but I'd argue that it is just as morally questionable for you to low ball those original property owners when you know their property is worth more than what you bought it for. Conversely, let's say you balk at that 900K and walk away from the deal. Is that last owner "out" 900k? Are they out 100k?

Now lets introduce these nefarious third parties. Let's say I notice that you are buying those properties and while you are negotiating with the third property owner, I offer 200k to all of the remaining owners at once. If they agree and I offer them to you for 300k, I make profit on the deal, you still get what you want (at a cheaper overall price) and the original owners are all paid a consistent amount for equivalent properties. Also, if half way through you decide that this deal is no longer for you and stop buying up properties, I am "stuck" with those properties that are now not worth as much as I paid for them.
Except all of those people affected by Prop 8, but, you know aside from those, right?
By "negative attitude towards homosexuality" are you talking specifically about the sexual act? Because, if so, I don't see anyone arguing that heterosexual couples who engage in anal sex should not be allowed to marry.
Fortunately, that entity sits above California's voters.
You could also, as an employer, supply a pre-built development environment appliance for VirtualBox that already has your source and everything set up. Then a person just has to install VirtualBox, add the appliance, and boot it. I think there is even a way to get it where the person doesn't even have to install VirtualBox.

As an employer you could also allow access to a remote instance of a machine that is already set up and configured and the person can SSH/RDP into the box and do development there.

I'm thinking that there probably isn't going to be a clear cut, one size fits all answer to this, but I do think there are some good options in any case.
> on one extreme are the bigots who hate homosexuals and on the other there are people who simply have hangups about the word "marriage" vs "civil unions."

As someone who is entirely unconvinced about the need for the government to recognise any kind of marriage at all, my view could also be characterised as anti-gay marriage, but without the context to do so would be misleading.
Actually, with respect to civil rights, acts of omission matter >= acts of commission.

Therefore the POTUS withholding support is a far, far greater impact than some dude contributing $1000.

Yet I imagine a super-majority of the people pitchforking Eich also voted for Obama. Whatever justifications they had -- "lesser of two evils", "he's right about most other things" -- should apply to both people.

But of course they don't, because some people apparently need a monthly Paula Deen or Kony or #CancelColbert controversy to serve as their moral compass.

By the way, I fully support marriage equality. But it feels wrong that I even need to state that like it's some sort of Pledge of Allegiance litmus test.
... with all this BS, I wonder what the new Javascript will be! But in all seriousness, I wonder what his coworkers thought of him, if he was parading around his views or would focus more on work (bc that's what's important after all), any blog links for me to discover more?
I assume you refer to all the seemingly nitty problems with the pipeline above (from what I can see, there is no way to verify that the archive wasn't tampered with).

Would you say the same about a solution that signs and encrypts the archive with gpg (signs with a machine's key and encrypts it to the owner's key). If so, can you elaborate on some examples of security problems that solution could have?
They cracked it.

It's about presence. The iWatch.

Enter your room, lights go on, leave, lights off. Get on your car, maps automatically on, iPhone goes hands free. Siri will be with you at all times, no need to take her out of your pocket.

But most importantly...

Payments, small purchases, worldwide. From gas stations, grocery shops, fast-food chains. One billion iWatches will be used for payments in the next five years.

Apple is betting the house on it.

How do I know it? The competition is ramping up their job listings for e-commerce specialists. Exactly where the money is, a strong competitor in the monopoly arena of credit cards.

I, for one, welcome our new payment overlords.

In my wrist.
Just wanted to put myself on record as thinking what happened to Brendan Eich as being something that is totally shameful. Nerd/geek/tech culture totally intolerant of anyone outside of exactly a certain mold.

People should be able to donate to what they want to, and one 'misdeed' (which is arguable) should not undo every good deed. Amazing someone doesn't 'deserve to keep their job' for donating to just about anything, let alone for a prop that actually passed in a popular vote!

So guess the lesson is that according to 'gay rights' over half the voting population in CA shouldn't have a job. Right on.
I was under the impression that a sizeable amount of people are against gay marriage for purely symbolic reasons and that they would be fine with civil unions, which would grant all the same legal benefits of marriage. Under this scenario opposition to gay marriage seems more like a political/religious belief rather than a civil rights issue.
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Where have you been living the past, I don't know, all your life. Many socio-political views are untenable and would affect your livelihood negatively if they are known publicly. The only thing that changed is that being against gay-marriage specifically, and gay-rights generally, is now seen in the same light(at least in certain parts of the country). Brendan Eich found himself on the wrong side of history before he even realized this. Too many trips to Indonesia maybe?
It's also important to remember that freedom of speech is only protected from the government (which is why your East Germany example is nonsensical). The first admendment says you can stand on a public street corner and yell "God hates Fags" however, if you do so on my property I will remove you.

Mozilla is not a governmental body and (so long as it doesn't violate the protected classes as codified by law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class) can hire and fire people to project whatever image they see fit.
Old people only know gay people as Elton John and Freddie Mercury. Younger people know normal people as gay, so it's no wonder.
No, it doesn't: Californians passed a proposition that violated people's rights. The courts, playing their proper role in our system, said, "Nope, you can't do that." That's what happened; that's reality.
I think the big takeaway from all this will be an increase in anonymous contributions in politics. We've seen this already at the SuperPAC level (where the goal is mainly to contribute huge amounts of money, more so than anonymity), but this might bring it down to the grassroots contributor.

I'm pretty open about RKBA/2A issues, and donate a small amount of money to things like SAF, but that's not a hugely controversial issue.

Pro-MAPS/LEAP/etc. (ending the drug war) could be controversial, but much less so from the "the drug war is racist and ineffective and should be replaced with harm reduction" perspective, vs. "drugs are great!"

If I were anti-abortion in Silicon Valley, or anti-gay, or anti-immigration, or anything else which were deeply unpopular in the majority of the community, there's no way I'd want any record of my contributions now. In other communities, the inverse views would be criticized.

When the donations aren't tax-deductible, or where the deduction isn't significant, I guess I can see people moving to fully anonymous contributions. Making viral content, anonymous financial contributions, advertising purchases online in small enough amounts that they can be made with throwaway payment instruments and nothing really linking them, etc. Anonymously funding things like an iOS game which happens to include a political message -- is that advertising? etc.
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I also thought this.
A CEO should be a woman.
So there's no view a Democrat could express that wouldn't disqualify him in left-leaning folks' minds? That would be depressing. Winning isn't everything.
Your previous post claims that guaranteed minimum income may cause inflation. I replied with a quote that inflation is always and everywhere caused by monetary changes.

My point thus being that a guaranteed minimum income would not cause inflation.

Prices change in response to market forces, yes.

But micro price changes are not inflation.

Inflation is a macro level phenomenon, caused "always and everywhere" by monetary changes (debasement etc).
Should we have been tolerant of racist people in the 50s and 60s? Was being in favor of segregation a viewpoint people should have respected?
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thing then for a man to think that to be ill which is good, as the
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that it is good (as Thy creatures be pleasing unto many, because
they be good, whom yet Thou pleasest not in them, when they prefer
to enjoy them, to Thee); and another, that when a man sees a thing
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So the majority can't discriminate against a minority?

And those in other minority groups cannot discriminate against a minority?

Is that your argument?
Aha! is a tool for product managers to plan a roadmap, so keywords were related to "product management", "visual roadmap", etc. I am not sure how keywords match a game like Solitaire but my guess is that the game somehow contains a dictionary that they pass to google when ads are being chosen. Or perhaps the description of the game is keyword stuffed?
> I have high hopes that we'll knock out depression within our generation.

Maybe, but depression is like cancer--a general classification with many many underlying causes. The fact that SSRIs, MAOIs and other medications reliable treat many people, and provide zero benefit to other chronic sufferers, suggest many root causes, and no single answer. I'm sure in the years ahead progress will be made, but I'm pessimistic having tried just about everything for the last 30 years with never a positive effect. I'm 45 and have never _not_ suffered from depression.
Okay fair enough. If your point is that it can be used to argue for more character flaws or whatever then yes, I agree, it can.
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imgur is not almost as bad as conventional image hosts. I guess you haven't used any conventional ones lately that block the image after bandwidth exceeded? Also, most of the other ones are even more spammy than imgur. Imgur still allows direct linking of the image and has less ads than most of the competition.
We are going to commit to backwards compatibility at 1.0, but many (not all) libraries will be unstable, and we can always add stuff to the language as long as it doesn't compromise backwards compatibility for existing code. All 1.0 means is "we're going to stop breaking your code, and we have a reasonable, stable platform on which a lot of useful software can be written".
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Brazil and Indonesia both have very large populations.

List of World Countries by Population

1. China
2. India
3. US
4. Indonesia
5. Brazil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...

So the real question is why China and India don't have more Twitter users. China I understand because Sina Weibo is more popular there. I don't know about India. Is there an Indian social network that is more popular? I suppose part of it might be that Portuguese and Indonesian use the Latin alphabet whereas Chinese and Hindi do not.
OK, let me make a real world comparison. Imagine the market for collectibles in the pre eBay world. The market was much less efficient. It was much harder to match buyers with sellers. If you had a Ken Griffey baseball card to sell you probably couldn't get a great price because matching up with a buyer was harder. At the same time if you wanted to buy one you probably had to pay a higher price because you had to go to a special baseball card dealer. Spreads between what you could sell for and what you had to pay to buy were very large.

Then eBay comes along and the market is way more efficient. You can buy and sell with anyone in the world and it's (relatively) fast and easy! Bids go up, asks go down and spreads decrease! It's a win for everyone other than the middle men (baseball care dealers).

The faster and easier it is to trade, the smaller spreads are, the better pricing is, the less middle men make.

Your proposal would move the system back in the other direction because you're making trading slower & harding and impeding information flow between everyone. There is no market in which secrecy or slowness benefits the actual customer and not the middle men.
The switch was inspired by this mailing list thread back in November: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.rust.devel/6479
It seems like a semantic belief in that case, which doesn't seem to be worth spending $1,000 on, let alone the rest. Unfortunately, I don't share your optimism: I suspect that many of those objecting have a pathological dislike of gay people.
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I think the people wishing he had changed his mind would have liked it to be because of some dialogue or epiphany he had, rather than just conforming so he can get an impressive title. That's absurd, though. Amidst this PR crisis there's no way he could have changed his opinion in earnest. He could have changed his mind before all this, but if that were the case he should have blogged about it or something long ago.

So I think I agree with you. If he had come out and said he had changed his mind, it would have been a small victory for gay rights at the expense of his own integrity.